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EDITORIAL NOTES.
Bkaslacsh, who has made himself famous
by refusing to take the oath as a member of the
British Parliament, has been re-elected.
In 1880 Tennessee ranked fourteenth in the
list of iron-producing states, Alabama fifteenth,
and Virginia sixteenth. In three years these
three states made a rapid gain, and in 1883,
Tennessee stood ninth, Alabama sixth, and
Virginia seventh.
In this country are only two establishments
at which cannon can be made. One is at South
Bosten, Massachusetts, and the other at West
Point, New York. The Boston works, which
have lain idle for six years, are said to be fit to
compete with foreign foundries.
Between 1595 and 1730 it was customary to
put over the title of periodicals a cross with the
initial letters of the cardinal points of the com¬
press— N. E. W. S., indicating intelligence
from all quarters, and the name newspaper
came to be applied to such periodicals.
The oil business has all grown np within the
past twenty-four years. In 1860 seventy barrels
of oil glutted the market. Now the world uses
about 60,000 barrels a day. The amount of oil
produced seems to be steadily increasing.
Probably the oil supply will never entirely give
out, but it is beginning to be very evident that
nnless new oil fields are speedily discovered the
price of oil will go to a high figure.
Mbs. Farraqut, the widow of Admiral Farrv
gut, reoeives m pension money $5,000 a year.
There are 29 cases where the widov,». of Gen¬
erals receive $50 a month, and 20 widows of
naval oifioers are so rewarded also. Some of
the widows receive as high as $100 a month,
while others are given $30 only. The rate al¬
lowed by the general law is $30, and the 100
oases where pensioners are paid more are cov¬
ered by special legislation.
Accordwq to the census of 1880, the total
number of persons of both sexes reported as
pursuing gainful vocations was 17,892,099, dis¬
tributed among four great classes of occupa¬
tions, as follows:
Male. Female.
Agriculture.............. 7,075,983 594,510
Professional and personal
service s............. 2,712,942 1,361,295
Trade and transportatian. 1,750,892 59,364
Manufacturing, cal mining....... mechani¬ 3.205,124 631,988
and
A professional ventriloquist recently ad¬
mitted to a reporter that ventriloquism was
nothing but a humbug. It is generally thought
that the ventriloquist throws his voice in order
to make it appear to come from different direc¬
tions. This is all an illusion. The only thing
requisite is to deceive the ear. It is well
known that the organ is singularly inaccurate
in determining the direction from which a
sound proceeds. The ventriloquist takes ad¬
vantage of this and by a little jnggerly pro¬
duces the illusion. He gives to his vaice such
intonations as convey to the audience the im¬
pression of sounds heard from some particular
point at a greater distance. He directs at the
same time the attention of his hearers to the
point from which the sound is to come, and
thus controls their imagination.
The different kinds of dye woods UBed in this
country are logwood and fustic, from the West
Indies; lima, from the shores of the Pacific,
and the bar and cam woods from Africa. The
woods mentioned, with the exception of fustic,
which is yellow, are red, but of various shades.
The sapponia wood, which is a delicate pink,
comes from the East Indies. The costs of the
woods in the rough are, according to the Provi¬
dence Journal, as follows : Logwood, from $20
to $25 a ton ; the red woods, from $40 to $70 a
ton, and the cam wood about $150 a ton. The
latter wood comes from the interior of Africa,
costs considerable for transportation and is
becoming scarce. Cam wood is used mostly
by woolen manufacturers in making their dyes.
Ihe wood is drawn to the markets in Africa by
slaves, and very frequently staples and chains
are found attached to the logs when they ar¬
rive in this city, and poisonous insects of that
elime are often found in the hollows of the
wood, which are speedily killed.
Mr. 8. B. CocKRiix, senior vice-president of
the Cotton Planters’ association, has made a
number of interesting suggestions to Director
General Burke, of the New Orleans exposition.
Mr. Cockrill wants a premium of 300 bales of
cotton offered for a cotton picker with iron
fingers, so constructed that human fingers can
be dispensed with. Under the new system, of
the 5,000,000 negroes in the sonth, one-half will
go to work in the cotton mills and the other
half will plant, clear lands and sow grass.
This progressive cotton man concludes by say¬
ing that the basis of a great south is “a cotton
bank in the cotton belt; cotton mills amid cot¬
ton fields ; cotton planters’ motto “The cotton
picker opens the way for the mills.” The
n -„ ui y part of Mr. Cockrill’s letters is his sug
uon that half of the negro population should
be employed in the cotton mills. This is not
likely to come to pass for some time.
The late William Cullen Bryant made a strong
plea a score of years ago for the preservation
of onr forests. The poet called the attention
of his readers and of the government to the
atal results which follow the stripping of a
country of its forests. In all woodlands nature
has provided for retaining the moisture of
rains. The earth under the trees is covered
with a thick carpeting of fallen leaves, which
prevent the water from paseing immediately
int# the streams and hurrying to the sea. Part
of the moisture thus confined makes its way
slowly into the veins of the earth, rises in
springs and runs off in rivulets; part is gradtT
ally drawn np by tbs rootlets of the trees, and
given off to the air from the leaves to form the
vapors which are afterwards condensed into
showers. Thus forests undoubtedly protect a
country against drouth, and keep its streams
constantly flowing and its well constantly fall.
Cut down the trees and the moisture of the
showers passes rapidly off from the surfaoe and
hastens to lakes and ocean.
The great Pnosphate industries of South
Carolina are looming up wonderfully. In elude
phosphates the business in February last at¬
tained unprecedented proportions, the ship¬
ments exceeding 46,000 tons. The quantity of
fertilizers manufactured in 1871 was 22,589
tons, which increased the next year to 87,759
tons, and in 1873 to 56,298. The next year there
was a slight falling off, and the previous figure
was not exceeded until 1879, when the product
reached 60,000 tons. The product aince then
has been as follows: 1880, 80,000 tons: 1881,
102,525 tons ; 1882, 102,490 tons ; 1883, 132,464
tons. For 1884 Maj. Willis estimates the pro¬
duct at 336,000 tons. The product of the mines
from June 1, 1876, to May 31, 1877, was 163,220
tons. The next year it was 120,323 tons, which
was not exceedeo until 1880-81, when it reached
332,077 tone, 1882-83, it was 355,333 Urns. From
June 1,1883, to January 31, 1884, it was 309,888
tons. New fields are being opened and worked,
and the factories in every instance have been
well kept np and are now in first-class order.
Rothschild has sworn at Frankfort
on-the-Main that his income only $4,-
7S8.000. Rothschild is regarded as rich
over in Europe, but he would be mighty
sn. all potatoes in this conntrv. — Phila¬
delphia Newt.
Hamilton Journal.
VOL. XII. NO. 12.
A WEEK'S NEWS.
Eastern and Kiddle States.
The International and Eastern Telegrapn
company, with a capital of $5,000,000, Was
incorporated in Albany, N. Y.
Considerable interest was aroused by
the registration of a ten-million-dollar mort¬
gage in the offices of forty different town
clerks in a direct line across the State of
Connecticut by the Bankers' and Mar chants
Telegraph company.
Mun.cipal elections in Pennsylvania re:
suited in the success of the Republican can¬
didate for mayor in Philadelphia, Harris¬
burg, Pitt burg, Allentown, Lancaster and
didate Allegheny in VriUiamsport, City, and of tne Chester Democratic and Scran¬ can¬
ton. Rea ling elected twenty-eight Demo¬
crats and council. twenty-three Republicans to the
common
Five cases of suicide and several sudden
deaths w ere reported tlie other day in New
York city.
Last year’s coal product, as reported by
dle the district, mine inspector follows: of the Lehigh Pennsylvania Valiev Coal mid¬
was ai
barre company, 64,776,OHHous; 175,116,735 Lehigh and Delaware Wilkes
eomiiany, tons;
and Hudson, 135,781,055 tons; Susquehanna,
111,932,0 5; Wyoming Valley companies,
45,549,600 284,460,661 tons; The miscellaneous number of companies,
tons. persona ao
These tua'ly employed in mining coal was 17,833* than
600,000 figures show an excess 3,000 of more employes
tons and more than
over the previous year.
By an explosion of fire dam--in a mine near
killed, Uniontown, others Penn., nineteen miners from were
and had a narrow escape
mffocati, n.
After being twice buried and fwioe disin¬
terred, and after 11,000 miles of strange wan¬
derings, the bodies of the ten heroes of the lost
Jeannette have once more reached the land
from which they went forth to death.
The steamship Frisia arrived at New York
with the remains of Lieutenant Commander
George W. DeLong; Jerome 3. Dr. Collins, James
meteoro'ogLst M. Ambler, of the expedition Lea, George
surgeon; Walter
Washington Boyd, Henry Hansen Knaack,
Carl Augustus Gortz, Adolf Dressier and
Nelse The Ivorson, seamen, and Ah Sam, Cork, cook.
remains of Collins were sent to
Ireland, those of Boyd to Alexandria, Va.,
and those of Dr. Ambler to Philadelphia. buried
The remains of the others were at
Woodlawn cemetery, near New York.
About 125 gentlemen more or less promi¬
nently connected with the Republican party
in New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland New Jersey,
Massachusetts and met in New
York city for Republican the purpose organization of perfecting an
independent its the nomination presidential having
candidates for object forthcoming of Republican
at the
national convention whose record would
“ warrant entire confidence in their readi¬
ness to defend the advances already made
toward polities.” divorcing the Upon public motion services of from Carl
party Schurz committee appointed to perfect
a was
an organization covering all the States and
to take such other action as may be deemed
expedient.
Thieves entered a jewelry store in Troy,
N. Y.. blew open the safe and carried away
property valued at $45,000.
Vessels arriving at Boston report pass¬
ing immense icebergs and ice packs. Some
icebergs were from a half to nearly three
miles long, and from 100 to 300 feet high.
Washington.
The secretary of war received numerous
telegrams showing most satisfactory prog
r ss in the work of relief to the flood suf¬
ferers along the Ohio river and its tribu¬
taries.
The President nominated C. 8. of Palmer, the of
Vermont, to be associate justice Max Weber, su¬ of
preme court of Dakota;
New York, to be consul of the United States
at Nantes; H. B. Trist, of the District of
Columbia, to be consul of the United States
at Mozambique.
Senator Dawes has been authorized by
the Senate committee on Indian affairs to
favorably report a bill providing for the
punishment of trespassers on Indian lands
by imprisonment for one year or $500 fine,
or both. This is specially intended to keep
Payne and his followers out of the Oklahanta
lands.
Senator Plumb has reiorted conmnitte to the Sen¬
ate an original bill from the i oil
agricu ture, making the department of ag¬
riculture an executive department, whose
cfiief officer shall be the secretary of agricul¬
ture.
The Senate has passed a bill making an
nn .ual appropriation to provide arms for
tlie militia. The bill appropriates $609,000.
The House has passed a joint resolution
appropriating $150,000 to be expended among
the Indians for educational purposes.
Secretary Foloer has issued the 136th
call for bonds. The call is for the redemp¬
tion of $16,000,00 ) in bonds of the three per
cent, loan of 1882.
The agricultural appropriation bill, as
completed by the House committee on agri¬
culture, appropriates $430,590—an increase
of about $M,< 00 over appropriation the last appropriation. of $3,000 fur
The bill makes an
the propagation of the tea plant.
At a meeting of the Democratic National
committee in the Arlington hotel, Washing¬
ton, held for the purpose of naming the
time and place to hold the national conven¬
tion for the nomination of candidates
for President and Vice-President, every
State was represented either by a mem¬
ber of the committee or a proxy.
W. H. Bamum, of Connecticut,presided,an of Massachusetts, 1
Frederic O. Prince, motion adopted that was the
secretary. A was
Democrats of each organized Territory and
of the District of Columbia be invited to
send two delegates to the national conven¬
tion. Upon the third ballot Chicago was se¬
lected as the pla< e to hold the national con¬
vention, tha city receiving twenty-one The date
votes to seventeen for St. Louis.
for the convention convention is July 8. the After committee issuing
the call for the
adiourned to meet next in Chicago on
July 7.
The National Greenback Labor party has
issued a call for a national convention to be
held in Indianapolis, on Wednesday, May 28,
1384. At a State convention of the Indiana
Green backers in Indianapolis a full ticket,
beale 1 by H. R. Leonard for governor, was
nominated, and twenty-three resolutions af¬
firming the principles of the Greenback'
Labor party were adopted as a platform.
South and West.
Reufen Hart and wife (colored), rest
three miles from Crockett, Texas, went
church at night, and left six children athor
asieeri, with the door locked. At 10 o’clr
the house was discovered to be oa fir
It burned so quickly that it was t~
to rave it or the children , every on
was bume i to death. The eldest
thirteen years old.
A freight train left the track
Philadelphia. Ohio, on account t
placed switch, and a second section
tug ran nto its rear, d molishing
two cars and two engines, and kQh.
_
persons.
Heavy snowstorms have prevailed and in Da
kota and Southern Minnesota, the rail¬
roads have been blockaded.
A CYCLONE which struck Amberson’s,
Ala., demo.isbed nearly every house in
town. Fourteen persons were reported killed.
The South has been visited by a tornado
which destroyed of thousands of bouses and
killed hur,d re Is people in Georgia^ A,a
bama. North and South Carolina, Louisiana
and Mississippi.
A hr r. at Jackson, Mich., destroyed the
Union hotel block, occupied by a hotel,
_h-atre. savings bank and other business
houses. One man was burned to death, and
four persons were fatally and one seriously
injured. The pecuniary loss is about $175,
ou.
HAMILTON, GEORGIA. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, 18S4.
W. B. Cash, son of Colonel Cash, the duel
ist who killed Colonel Shannon a few years
ago. entered CheraW, 8. U., and after drink¬
ing heavily got into a difficulty with Town
Marshal Richards, who was roughly handled.
Cash then left town, but returned the follow¬
ing afternoon and approaching Marshal
Richards drew a revolver and rapidly fired
three shots. The fir-t ball struck an inno¬
cent bystander named Cowart and the second
hit Richards, b th shots causing mortal
wounds. Cash then mounted his horse and
rode rapidly away.
The cabin of Beverly Cincinnati, Taylor, a colored
man living near was burned to
the ground at night, and with it was at first
thought that the owner, h,s wife and a
grandchild, had perished in the flames,
liter, however, the liodies of of all Ohio three were
discovered in the building the Medi •
cal college, whither they Ingalls, had been noted carried
for dissection. Allen a negro
body snatcher*'ws* Johnson arrested, had and confessed
that he anil Be a entered the
cabin and killed the three inmates, taken the
bodies to a waiting wagon, driven by R. B.
Dickson, and conveyed them to the Cincin¬
nati medical institution, where they sold the
corpses. Beside the three negroes mentioned,
two others were arrested for complicity in
the terrible crime.
The breaking of a dam on the Los Angeles
river produced the most disastrous flood ever
experienced in California. The lower part
of Is>s Angeles was completely inundated,
and forty buildings were swept away. Hun¬
dreds of families were obl ged to abandon
their homes aud seek shelter on the
hills. The loss amounts to $150,000. From
lavs Angelos to Mo ave, a distance of 100
miles, hardly a mile of the Southern Pacific
track remains in p’ace, and east to 8an
Gorgonio, eighty mi e?, the devastation is
equaly great. The California Southern road
from Colton to all San directions Diego is is also suspended. washed
out. Travel in
It will probable bo two months before com¬
munication can be properly established. Re¬
ports received from towns in the Southern
portion of the San Joaquin valley announced
tlie hi aviest floods ever known.
Two colored me 1 in jail at Lebanon, Kv., by
for assaulting a woman, were taken out
A furious mi b and hanged.
B. F. Barnes, a prominent citizen of
Booche, Wis . killed his wife and cut his own
throat. Prot? acted illness in the family is
assigned as the cause.
fontfa.
A dispatch from Berlin asserts that
naturalized German-American citizens who
ret urn to Germany are again It being rigorously that
subjected to military dutv. says, too,
the German foreign office ignores United
States Minister Sargent, and conducts all
negotiations directly with Washington.
The London Times, in an article on the
Lasker incident, implies that -dislike ot the
country which deprives Germany of thou¬
sands of conscripts is the basis of Bismarck’s
action, and that Mr. Sargent’s resignation
would strain the relations of Germany and
the Unfed States.
After holding out for weeks against the of
attacks of El Mahdi’s forces the town
Tokar surrendered to El Mahdi’s rebels be¬
fore it could be relieved by General Gra¬
ham’s expedition. The news was brought to
Suakim by five soldiers who had escaped
from Tokar. It was stated that only the
soldiers at Tokar who had families had sur¬
rendered, while the others attempted to
reach Suakim. Upon reception ensued of the and news
in Ixtndon great excitement a
special cabinet meeting was called. El
Mahdi appointed his brother, and ordered Ali Yussuf, him
governor of Barfour, to
levy 7,000 men, and march to Kordofan to
reinforce the maiu body of El Mahdi’s
troops.
General Gordon announced that after
restoring order in Khartoum he would pro¬
ceed to Kordofan, to interview the Fiilse
Prophet.
Osman Dioma, the leader of the rebels in
ihe vicinity of Suakim is exciting ids follow
by quoting the Koran, saying that El
Mahdi, requires the False little Prophet, food and is divinely doming. inspired,
and
Nine sailors belonging to the British bark
Ada Barton, from St. John, N. B., abandoned
at sea in a waterlogged condition, were
drowned.
Bismarck’s action in returning the Lasker
Congress resolutions has of sympathy ited much to discussion the American
ex 1 among
the papers of Germany, the government or¬
gans praising and the opposition press con¬
demning the German chanoeilor’s course.
Mr. Sargent, tne American representative at
Berlin, is also bitterly attacked and vehe
mentlv defended by German papers for the
part which he has taken in the mutter.
An association of English authors has been
formed t > aid in securing an English-Ameri
ca i copyright law.
An Indian uprising has occurred in Mani¬
toba, British America, and twelve mounted
police sent to quell the disturbance are re¬
ported to have been massacred.
Sir Hennry Brand, who has resigned the
speakership of the British house of com¬
mons on account of sickness, has declined a
peerage.
The three men who murdered Count Von
Majlath, piresident of the court of cassation
at Ofer, Hungary, last March, have been
hanged In Pezth. A great crowd collected
about the prison and cheered the condemned.
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS,
Only three executions for murder took
place in Fran e during 1833.
Mrs. Esthe i Gantz, of Troy, N. Y., died
while on her kneei at pray -r.
Many Western raff road camps are now for¬
bidding the presence of Chinamen.
The government envelope factory, at s Hart
foi-d, Conn., uses a ton of gum arabi c every
year.
There are three women in New York dime
museums whose combined weight *« 1,965
pxiunds.
California is at
from $18,000,000 •
annually.
A STREE"
has flick'
wa f '
The Cabin
the press in .
office. It is a cnstoi. -a tO
prepare fine steel engravings of each
j p re8 i<j e nt and his Cabinet. These en
gravings are in the highest style of the
art, and are bound in a corresponding portraits
style. The book contains the
of all the Presidents and views of the
White House, Capitol, etc. Only a snf
fleient number of copies are made to
present the President and members of
his Cabinet with one each and retain one
copy at the Bureau of Printing.
SUMMARY OF CONGRESS
Ken ate.
Mr. Morrill,from the co umittee on finance,
reported adversely the bill authorizing the
payment of customs duties in legal tmder
notes, but aske I that in deference to i he
wish of another Sennt >r, p'a"ed. it lie placed Mr. Morn on tha I
calendar. It was so
also reported adverse.' the bll legal providing tender
for the retirement of small
notes; also, adversely, th > bill authorizing final
the secretary of the treasury to make
adjustment of claims of foreign steamship
companies arising from the illegal action of
tonnage dues. The last two bills were in¬
definitely postponed... .Mr. Blair introduced
a bill to amend the pension laws... .Tlie Sen¬
ate further considered the national bill to provide for
the issu“ of circulation to hanks.
The Senate passed the bdl making it a
felony, punishable by tbiec years’ imprison¬
ment anil $1,000 fine, to falsely person ite
government officers or employes with intent in
to defraud.... Most of the ay was spent
debate on Mr. Morgan’s atne .dme.it bonds permit¬ of tin
ting national banks security to deposit circulation,
separate States as for
and finally Mr. Morgan withdrew if, having
introduced the same propositi >n as an origi¬
nal bill....On motion of Mr. Sherman a
joint resolution was passed appropriating
$10,000 to enable the committee on privileges
Slid elections to carry on its investlgationa
House.
Mr. Dorsheimer moved to suspend the
to' rules citizens and make of foreign the bill countries granting a special copyright order
for February 27. Mr. Deuster said tlie effect
of tlie bill would be to make books dear and
to tax our people for the benefit of foreign
authors. It would also throw out of employ
meut men who were engaged in mak¬ Mr.
ing reprints of foreign authors.
right, Cbace but believed opposed in international' to tlie bill copy¬ in its
was
present shape. Mr. Kelley wished to have
the bill fixed for a later date in order to heal
authors, publishers and bookmakers. Mr.
Dorslieimer’s motion was lost... -The bill foi
the retirement of the trade dollar was mads
a special ordsr for March 11. Mr. Town
shend said he was opposed to the bill. The
trade dollar had circulated at par until tha
bankers repudiated it, and the merchants re¬
fused to receive it. It iinmed atelv depre¬ aud
ciated to eighty cents on the dollar,
went into the hands of jobbers in New \ ork,
who now wish to have it exchanged at par. the
....A bill was passed relieving from
charge of desertion soldiers who served
through the war, bub who, being absent from
their command when it was mustered out,
did not receive an honorable discharge....
A bill was passed fixing the postage for four on tran¬
sient newspapers at one cent ounces.
.... The House voted pension to hold night sessions on
Fridays to oonsider bills.
The House spent all night in a filibustering
session. From 5 o’clock at night until
o’clock in the morning there was a deadlock,
owing to the fact that the Republicans de¬
clined to vote on a motion to fix a day Tor
the consideration of the bill to pension Mexi¬
can veterans, and the survivors of some In¬
dian wars. At about 3 o’clock A. m., an ex¬
citing discussion was brought about by a mo¬
tion, made by Mr. Lamb, of Indiana, to fine
Mr. Brumm, of Pennsylvania, five dollars tor
leaving thei House> after the of the
Hiscock Morrison, Tucker, Reed ami Hunt.
At one time Mr. Hiscock was standing full in
front of the Speaker’s desk, where be was sur
rounded by an excited crowd of adherent!
and opponents, aud the services or the ser
left the House until the filibustering wa> Mr
begun. He had left before that time.
Lamb then withdrew his motion, and Mr.
Brumm was excused. At 8:15 a quorum hav
ing been obtained a motiou to make the bill
the special order for the 21st was carried by
175 yeas to 35 nays, and the House then a<i
journed. A communication received . from tha ..
was
\fssisz
ontheGreely relief expedition. The real
ing of Secretary I Velinghuysen’s statement,
at the request of Mr. Randall, disclosed that
in the search for vessels suitable for the ex
pedition now preparing for Greely’s relief,
attention had been directed to the Alert.
and that Minister Lowell had been instructed
to inquire whether she could be spared fly
SEffir’SKr’i&SS.SSJ3
Arctic regions^ 6 disc<cereil "and brought
to this country by American sea
men, purchased from them by the returned Airier
iean government, repaired aud then
to Great Britain; that the British govern
uient, in recognition of this courtesy, hail
now given the Alert to the United States uu
conditionally, with all her equipment; that
in response to this “graceful and opport majesty une
act of courtesy on the part of her »
government,” Secretary Frel.nghuysen hud
telegraphed to Minister Lowell that this
evidence of sympathy “receives tlie highest
appreciation of the President, as it will that
of the people ot the United States, etc.
Mr. Randall asked unanimous consent that
tlie communication lie spread uisin ths
SSSSJS8.VS government. Mr. Finnerty KS ob.ecte 1, aud Mr.
Randall then put hi, revest in the form of
amotion, whicn was agreed to, Messrs. 1 in
nerty, of Illinois, and Robinson, of New
York,voting in the negative.. .The military
academy appropriation with’ bill, and the p'isf
route bill, Senate amendments, we
passed.
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WHIRLED TO DEATH.
A Vivid Tornado Scene—Six Head anti
Three Wounded in One Houne.
A dispatch from Jasper, Ga , describing
the terrible effects of the tornado, says that
it came in sight seven miles to the right of
that town. “lt went over the mountains
aud out of sight eight miles from Jasper. It
was in sight five minutes, The devastated
route was from half a mile to three miles
across. that til
“In its five minutes’ trip over teen
miles strip of country tweuty tornado persons left W'ere in
killed. The scenes that the
its track are beyond description. One needs
to stand in the midst or the demolished
forests and see the destruction of file and
property to form an idea of tlie extent of t lie
damage. Near where the cyclone was first
seen from Jasper three brothers have lived
for years. Their names are John, I’eter and
U'Vi Cogle. They are all prosperous farm¬
ers, owning good lands and running an
extensive government distillery. of They
live within a stone's throw each
other, aud have good, comtortable
houses. Levi Cogle lived in a large two- of
story house, sitting upon the crest
a hill overlooking the valley. Southwest
ward from his house was an opening. No
trees or hills were in the way, and the resi¬
dence stood right in the pathway of the tor¬
nado. In the house were his wife and five
children and three hired men—William Gro¬
ver, William Herron and Alonzo Wright. und
Tlie tornado whisked over the mountain
into tlie valley, whore it paused to whizzed gather its
lorces. Then, settling down,; it to
ward th© house of l^evi Cogle, and literally
tore it into a million pieces. There was a
crash and a clatter, and the air was filled
with flying timbers, pans, furniture, feath¬
ers, corn, wheat, bedding, chickens, held. and, Mr. iu
fact, everything that the place of his brother
Cogle was at the residence
just outside the fury of the storm, and when
he saw the tornado coming ho started to¬
ward his house. Before he reached it he was
forced to cling to the underbrush to keep
from blowing away. As soon as the torna¬
do had gone, he went to where a moment be¬
fore his house stood, and a heartrending
spectacle met his gaze. His wife and two
children were found one hundred varus
away, dead. Further on three other children,
one a baby eighteen months condition, old, were picked Two
up in an almost dying blown three
of them had been about
hundred yards. Scattered
in the woods were the three men—,
Grover. Herren and Wright—all dead, Thus in one
with a huge tree across his hotly. killed a
moment in that house six persons were
and throe others dangerously injured. the midst 1 lie
distressed husband and lather, in
of his demolished home aud dead and dying
family, was wild with grief. The dead
bodies and the injured children were taken
to the house of Mr. Wesley Cogle, and one
messenger went for shrouds for six, and an
other wont for surgeons for three. Such a
visitation rarely falls to the lot of one man.
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIG
^ ,, y V irrH Russell has a now play, cailo l
4.^ (i0 K^itor.’’
( ( ^ fche colored tragedian
started cm his Southern tour.
Mmr. Modieski matin a great hit iu Wail
ii-sda.” brought out in New \ ork.
Sr.vl 3' rv difi'erent operas were given at
thl) Vienna Opera bouse daring 1883.
.sonnlnthal, tlie foremost leading man in
Unn' m " y “ 1,S b66ne,,KaKed f ' ,r “ A, ‘ Ma
Ohaklotte Walker, the soprano, will
organize an Knglish opera company for next
sea on.
Little Eva French, the child actress, A has
been taken from the profession and sent to
school.
Tkneskria Tua, the young violinist, comes
^ Amerit . a |iext October for 100 concerts;
price, $10,000.
w i„ make her appearance
*» <*“• Nuw
Marie Duhand, the American iady
who created such a success abroad in the
opera “Gioeonda,” will soon return home,
During Edwin Booth’s first visit to Hug
j an 4 |, e wa8 supported by a Manchester stock
c .nnpauy, among whom was Henry Irving,
T|;N combinations have gone to piec-s all
nl| ,,n the Western circuit and from
, ()U|lt8 th „ nur „ber will shortly he doubled.
JhwYljfcgr. *— “
PLANquEiTE’H new opera, “NeUGwynne"
has made a great success in Londom it; is
said to belong to the purest school of Frenou
comic o;>era and suggests Autwr.
HARLEY, a tenor of the Royal t ornedy
theatre, dismissed some time ago for singing
ou t of time, has recovered £250 damages
from the director of the theatre,
Pxccolomini, who was an operatic century senta
tion in this country a quarter of a
j() now an woman in very destitute
’ tances. Her condition is attributed
C i re u , ng Italian marquis,
h ,. r bavin" married an
i , jg Btti<1 thttt Mary Anderson will make a
I T the
to r of 0r , at jjHtain next season; and year
, f ghe wi „ follovv Booth s example autumn
fhmUL .n Germany, and in the
V m2, who for
to dramat c authors e>
repre ented are entitled ny »
proportion of the ir
due to the agita i
taken by Bea’
There ar»
isic, incr
teach''
$1.00 A YEAR.
UNUSUALLY OLD PEOPLE
John Riley, of Frederick county, Va., is
107 years old.
W. J. Barlow, of Live Oak, Fla., is 103
years of age.
Ruoda Howard, of OwingavlBe, Ky., is
113 i ears old.
Luther Holden, of Waterford, Conn., is
103 years old.
Amos Dennis died recently at Rldgeville,
S. C., in his 103th year.
Mrs. Martha Crockett, of Liberty, Me.,
recently died ill her Ll)4th year.
Charles Fielder, a farmer, of Clinton, !s.
C., has lived 103 year's. He is a bachelor.
Nicholas Bolby, a pensioner of the war of
1812, died recently at Boone, Ky., in his 100th
year. seventy
A BELLE ill Washington who Iras just years died ago
was Mrs. Jessie McGee, m
Illinois, aged 101.
Every communion Sunday Mrs. Annie
Gordon, Of Blufflon, 8. C., walks four miles
to church Sbe is 1 f f.
Christian Cooper, who lives in the bouse
formerly the residence of Robert Fulton, in
Livingston, N. Y., is 110 years of age.
Mrs. Daniel Buck, of Wethersfield, Vt.
and Mrs. George Travis, of Cauisteo, N. Y„
have celebrated their hundredth birthdays.
After being blind for tvventv years, Mrs.
Josephine Itepatrin died at Watertown, N.
V., aged 104. Her Husband recently died at
the age of 100.
At Blythe wood, eighteen miles from Colum¬
bia, 8. C., Andrew McClellan, aged widow 113, re¬ of
cently married Mal tha Wilson, a
twenty-seven. L,
Miss Sabra Phillips, of Norwood, R.
is UK) years old. Sbe does her own house¬
work, brings her fuel from the woods on her
back anil saws it herself, and reads without
glasses. and Jacob the
Abraham, Isaac ave names
of triplets still living at t ie age of soventy
l.wo years. They are the children of Catha¬
rine Kile, i f Richland township. Penn., who
recently died, aged ninety eight.
JacobMilliken, of Dunstan, Me., on the
nmiiversa’-y of his 100th birthday made a
singular confession: “I voted for Thomas
Jefferson for his second term, although I
lacked two months of inv majority.”
AN OLD SOLDIER'S STORY.
The low seliool-honse stood in a green Wabash
wood,
Lookin’out on long levels of corn like a sea—
A little log-house, hard benches, and we,
Big bare-footed hoys, and rough ’utib, we stood
In lino with the gals, and tried to get ’head
At spellin’ each day when the lessons was
said.
But one, Bully Dean, tall, bony and green
As green corn in the milk, Btood fast at the
foot—
Stood day after day, as if he’d been put
A soldier on guard thore, did poor Bally Dean
And stupid! God made him so stupid I
doubt—
But I guess God who made us knows what
He’s about.
He’d a long way to walk. But he wouldn’t
once talk
Of that, nor the chores for his mother who
»y
A sliakin’ at homo. Still, day after day
II stood at the foot till the class ’gan to mock!
Then to master ho plead, “Oh, I’d like to go
head ”
Now it wasn’t so much, lint the way it was
said.
Then tlio war struck tlie land! Why, that
barefooted hand
It just nailed up that door ; and the very next
day,
With master for Uap’cn, wont marohin’
away;
and Bally tlie butt of tlie whole Wabash band!
But he bore witli it all, yet once firmly said,
“When I got hack home, I’m agoin’ up
head!”
Oil, that school-house that stood in the wild
Wabash wood!
The rank weeds wore growin’ like ghoste
through the floor.
'J lie squirrels hulled nuts on the sill of the
door.
And tlie gals stood in groups scrapin’ lint
where they stood.
And we boys 1 How we sighed ; how we sick
euod and died
For tlie days that had boen, for a place at
their side.
Then one fever-crazed and his belter sense
dazed
And dulled with heart-sickness all duty for¬
got ;
Deserted, was taken, condemned to be shot!
And Bally Dean, gnardiu’ his ’
crazed,
Slow paced up and down while
he lay
T " *ent wait'
THE JOKER’S BUDGET.
WHAT WE FIND TO SMILE OVER
THE HUMOROUS PAPERS.
THE SONO.
A Tribune attache yesterday heard a
skilled vocalist sing "Wait Till the
Clouds Roll By.” She rendered it:
“W»h tah the claw raw baw, Jawyq
Wall tah the olaw raw wah, baw;
Jawy, mi aw traw law
Wah tah the claw raw baw,”
And then she smiled so sweetly applause and
broadly over the well-merited
that the corners of her month held a so¬
ciable on the back of her neck.— Bit'
march Tribune.
BEATS
“Father,” said the youngest sporting
member of the family, "there ain’t
nothin’ can beat Maud S., is they?”
“Oh, yes,” replied Mr. Wigglesworth.
“What?” Wiggles¬
“A tramp,” replied Mr.
worth, with a light and airy touoh of
humor. ‘ ‘A tramp beats everything and
everybody. ”
“i know one thing he don’t beat? re¬
marked Mrs. Wigglesworth. queried her husband
“What's that?”
in mild carpet,” emprise. returned Mrs. Wiggles¬ ,
“A to
worth ; “you can’t ever get a tramp
beat a carpet.”
A DRYGOODS CLERK.
“Yes, papa,” said Beryl, “I am in love
—nay, more than that, I have plighted
my troth.” ?” asked
“How much did yon get on it
the banker. replied
“Yon misunderstand me,” be¬
Beryl. “I have pledged only myself to I
come the bride of the man can
ever love—Arthur Ainsleigh.” banker,
“What I” almost shouted the
“that drygoods clerk ?”
“Yes,” was the reply, in clear, reso¬
nant tones. “I love him, and, despite
your sneers, I shall marry him. It is no
crime for a man to be a drygoods clerk.’’
“No,” said Mr. Setback, thoughtfully,
“but it ought to be .”—Chicago Timet .
NOTHING BUT A CLUB WILD DO Hf.
A big clock hangs above the head of
the ticket agent at the 125th street sta¬
tion of the Third avenue elevated road.
A placard on the pendulum says; "Yes,
sir! I am right..’’ gazed at it yesterday and
A passenger is-?”
started to inquire “What
1 Rut the agent cut him short and
yelled: “That's there to keep people front
asking if that’s the right time. Ques¬
tions used to average from 100 to 600 a
day. Now twice as many ask what the
placard’s for, and the thing’s worse than
ever. Keeps me talking nearly all day.”
—New York Hun.
PLANTATION PHILOSOPHY.
but De wise fools man an’ two de wtae fool doan kam’t quarrel, get
two or men
along so well.
De man what marries a 'oman ’case
she’s got more sense den he has is neber
allowed ter lose sight o’ da fack.
De chile dnt too soon shows signs _ o’
smartness doan turn out ter be de smart¬
est man. De fust cotton dat opens i®
ueberde lies’.
Ebon 'mong de animals ’pearanoea blackbird
makes a difference, fur ef de
had bright feathers in his wing we’d
think dat his song was much sweeter.
Do gigglin’ girl generally laff turns much, out an’ ter
be de woman what, doan
lemme tell yer, marridge an’ a lot o’
chillun will take de chuckle outen de mos’
o’ 'em.
De fox in not only smart, but he is de
mos’ perticulur o' all de animals. He is
mighty playful, but he nebbergetso fur
Ion in de persuito’ his pleasure dat ha
neglecks his business; on’ as soon as ho
stops playin’ he is so mighty cunnin’ dat
3 er would tink dat tie nebber paid any
’teutiou ter froliek. De coon has also
gotsome fun in him, but it is a sort o’
dull an’ oberfed kine o’ sport, fur he
nebber plays till arter he eats an’ arter
begets thro’, w’y lie’s dun eat so much
dat he doan feel much like caperin’
'ro:in \—Arkantat Traveler.
AN EDUCATED GENTLEMAN.
“Dis is de fouf auavers’y o’ my mar¬
riage,” said an old negro.
“How many times is yer been mar¬
ried ?” asked an acquaintance. auavers’y, o’ oo’se
“Ef dis is do font
I’se been married fo’ times, f’se heard
de white fokes sav dat it doan do uo
good ter edycate de nigger, an’ now I
b’ieves it. Heah yer is dun gone ter
school an’ got a good edvcLion an’ doan
nu’erstau’ ’ritbmetic y
o’ yer, sab.”
“Uncle Ben,”
tance, “I neber
an’ I kain’t t
blame ef I ai
matte-* da'
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