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CURRENT COMMENTS.
The foot and mouth disease, which has be- :
come epidemic among the cattle of the west,
is a heavy affliction to the large stock interest
of that country.
The Manufacturers’ Record publishes a
statement showing that during January and
February the capital invested in Southern
manufacturing and mining enterprises in¬
creased $28,200,000. Kentucky shows the lar¬
gest aggregate, $6,861,000; Alabama second,
with $6,210,000.
The New York Tribune clammors for uni¬
form legislation against the dime novel evil.
It is a lamentable fact that cheap literature is
more of a curse than a blessing. A dime’s
worth of printed filth in the hands of a few
active boys will poison the minds of all the
juveniles in a large circle. If parents or police
cannot or will not turn back this tidal wave of
cheap immorality, our statesmen should turn
their attention to the evil.
Edison, the inventor, indulges in the follow¬
ing predictions: As to changes which will bo
effected by electricity within fifty years in the
city of New York, I would say that I believe
electricity will propel the cars of the street and
elevated railroads, light the city within and
without its buildings, furnish power for all
purposes, work telephones, burglar alarms, de¬
liver the opera, convey parcels, detect and sig¬
nal fires, operate fire engines and possibly dis¬
place animal locomotion for vehicles.
AcoBKEsroNDENT of the New York Times
shows the difference in the prices of clothing
of similar quality and workmanship in New
York and London. A broadcloth dress suit
costing $50 in New York costs but $22 in Lon¬
don; a heavy business suit $30 in New York to
$13 in London; a spring serge overcoat $20 in
New York to $8.50 in London; a winter beaver
overcoat $30 in New York to $14.50 in London;
silk hat $5 in New York, $3 in London. I he
garments costing $218 in New York cost but
$97.75 in London, Difference in Javoroftke
latter city $120.25.
Many people are under the impression that
railroad commissions are very recent innova¬
tions. This is a mistake, Railroad commis¬
sions were established in some of the states
more than twenty-five years ago, but it is only
within the past ten or fifteen years that they
have attracted much attention. At present the
following states have commissions; Georgia,
Onio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Illinois,
California, Connecticut, Iowa, Wisconsin,
Virginia, Vermont, South Carolina, New York
Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Missouri,
Michigan, Minnesota, Massachusetts and
Maine.
The explosive compound called nitro-glycer
ine was discovered by Sobrero, a pupil in the
laboratory of Pelouze, a French chemist, in
1846. So dangerous was the explosive that for
a long time people dreaded to use it for any
purpose. About 1863 mining engineers found
that nitro-glycerme could be safely used as a
blasting agent, when proper caution was taken.
Of all the preparations of this explosive dyna¬
mite is considered the best. Its explosion is
bo rapid and violent that the air above it has
no time t.o move away, but acts like a solid ;
hence it will act downward when placed upon
the surface of a rock. Its uses are probably
aot half understood as yet.
Tiie well-known educator, Dr. A. D Mazo,
In his recent address before the Louisiana Ed¬
ucational society, strongly advocated indus¬
trial education for women. He believed that
the same brain power which enabled southern
women to shine in society, to render efficient
lid in church and school affairs, and to man
tge large plantations, would enable them to
tuccessfully push their way to tho front rank of
mch commercial and industrial occupations as
were suited to them. The tendency of young
men to abandon their home places and seek
remote fields leaves the young women of the
ninth to hear the brunt of existence. Under
nch adveiaecireumstances they need a practi
sal, self-supporting, industrial education.
Gath thus describes scenes at a famous
rtsiry farm in Pennsylvania: “I was interested
in two Lings in this stable. In the first place,
the cream separator, which is ran by a steam
engine, revolves with enormous rapidity, and
tiic cream Hows out of one spigot and the skim¬
med milk out of another. Then I observed
tliz apparatus for cleaning cows, which are
carefully washed and brushed onco or twice a
flay by means of brushes operated by the en
gine. Tile cow, calf or bull is brought forward
ind tied to tho post, and from above these
brushes are brought to her body and carefully
raise every hair. The cattle like it, but their
tails ha ve to be tied up in a bag for not long
*g<> one of the brushes tore out a tail. The
temperature in the barn is kept at 50 degrees
the year round, regulated hv the thermometer,
and the barn is lighted with the Brush light on
every floor, and at midnight is as bright as
day.”
The curious statement is made that within
U»e past ten years the free use of narcotics has
greatly increased not only generally, but
artiong physicians. It is also said that some
doctors use opium who make a specialty of
curing the opium hav>it in others. Possibly
the spread of the opium habit in due to some
extent to the knowledge that it can be cured.
Doubtless the stories about doctors have been
greatly exaggerated, but it must be admitted
that, like other people, Borne of them feel a de¬
sire for stimulants. It will not do for them to
make a practice of drinking whisky, and tkey
therefore resort to narcotics. Between two
evils an opium-eating doctor is preferable to a
whisky-drinking doctor. A doctor’s undue
familiarity with narcotics will not make him
liable to give large doses of those drugs to his
patients, but the use of liquors engenders a
certain recklessness in most men. At least,
this is the view of a New York physician.
Tons of mail matter in the course of a year
fail to reach their destination. Many packages
have no address or one that is illegible. Many
gxings are stopped in the mails because they
are non mailable, for instance, such things as
hair oil, ointments and other liquids, explo¬
sives grease, dead animals, snakes, vegetables,
candy, substances with bad odor, edge tools,
unprotected glass, wedding cake, etc. The
owners of packages of value are promptly noti¬
fied that they had better take their property
*way. Every day wedding cake and candy are
sonfiscated. A box of candy addressed to e
child was found, a short time ago, to contain
$45 in gold, which was restored to the owner.
Among odd things recently found have been a
large cactus weighing one and a half pounds*
a living horned toad, colored matter for adnl
terating beer, artificial eye. and teeth, cigars,
and wine. The postal authorities are untiring
in their efforts to restore articles of value
fonnd in the mails to their proper owners.
Tub Truth.— A truthful remark by
to settle upon his name and character,
and s'curse more fitter than death to
tak* possession of his fond hopes and
bright prospects.” Bovs, this is a nice
thing to paste in your hat where you can
Hamilton Journ a i J «
YOL. XII. NO. 15.
The news.
Eastern and Middle States.
A bill to punish wife beaters by llogjing
passed the Massachusetts hou-e.
Peter Cbusterman, a prominent farmer,
ascertained that his daughter Mary had b >en
seen driving out-of Goid Mine Station.P<3nu.,
with Ezekiel Horry, who bad recently been
warned by Chusterman to discontinue his
attentions. Chu-t' rrrmn, with two friends,
Henry Swope and Israel Moyer, started in
pursuit, ana overtook the couple about teu
miles away. In the c mtroversy which fel
lowed Henry shot all three of his pursuers.
The governor of Delaware, not being em
powered to commute a death sentence, has
done the next best thing in the case of Lewjs
F. List, under sentence to be hanged who for tho
.. of George Taylor. respited List, until is
twenty-five years old, has been
1940.
Lieutenant Danenhower, of the Jean¬
nette expedition, was married the other day
at Oswego, N. x , to a daughter of ex
Speaker Sloan.
William G. Morgan, who had charge at
Hartford. Conn., of the branch house of
Putnam & Earle, New York bankers, and
was recently admitted as a partner, has
proven a defaulter to the extent of $20,000.
A New London (Conn.) whaling firm have
received advices from their brig Lizzie P.
Simmons, to the effect lhat the brig has
captured a whale yielding 168 barrels of oil
and 2,500 pounds of whalebone, and from the
sale of the stuff had realized n irlv $14,000.
This is believed to be the largest wl:ale ever
captured.
J. H. Fullerton, a clerk in Hie employ of
the Manhattan Beach Bailroa i company,
running between New Y r ork and Coney
Island, has been fraudulently the issuing proceeds— stock
of the comnany and Just pocketing before discovery he
about $45,000.
cashed a check of the company’s for $020
and disappeared. Gambling led to his down¬
fall.
Oliver Dyer, Jr., a student at Yale col¬
lege, New Haven, and son of a well-known
New York journalist, died from the effects
of injuries received Robert while B. engaged in a
boxing match with Ga. Williams, a
colored student from Augusta, The two
young men were spariing iu a friendly
match at the college gymnasium. Mr. Dyer
attributes his son’s death to auoplexy, and
not to injuries received while sparring.
At the Women’s thirty-second Medical annual college commencement of Pennsyl¬
of the
vania, held in Philadelphia, twenty-six
young women received diplomas to practice
as physicians.
Witnesses testified in New York city
before the State senate committee on public
health, that the sale of oleomargarine and
bnttorine was killing the butter trade, and
that these articles worked were injurious oleomargarine to health.
A man who had in an
factory testified that his hands became sore
from handling the stuff, his hair dropped
out, his teeth decayed, of the and lungs. the grease
gave him hemorrhage
Speaker Carlisle, of the House of Rep¬
resentatives, United States Senator Vance,
of North Carolina, Congressman Belmont
and others made speeches at the Free sixth an
rn d dinner of the New Y’ork Trade
club.
South and West)
A fire at East houses St. Louis and destroyed a loaded Jarg
elevator, seven ninety-six 800.000 bushels
cars. The elevator contained
of corn, 50,000 bushels of oats and several
thousand bushels of wheat, and the cars were
nearly all loaded with hay and grain. The
estimated total loss is $750,000.
Henry Richardson, one of the leading
members of a Nebraska vigilance committee
which has been waging a vigorous war on
a gang of horse thieves, was himself hanged
by unknown persona It is supposed the
hanging was done by surviving members of
the gang.
Ex-Congressman Rorert Small (col
sred), was renominated by the Republicans
of the Seventh South Caroli: a district to
succeed the late Congressman of Mackey. colored
Owing to the preponderance the
vote Small's nomination was considered
equivalent to an election.
Ray and Anderson, the revenue officers
who recently killed three men in Mitchell
county, N. C., have surrendered. The re¬
ward offered for their capture amounted to
$4,800.
Colonel Edward S. Wheat, ex-United
States marshal for the middle district ot
Tennessee, and one of the most prominent
citizens of the Slate, was shot and killed by
his iather-in-iaw, Colonel William Spence,
who was his predecessor in office. The terri¬
ble trageuy was the result of business trou¬
bles that had existed between the two for
some years, and which, it is understood,
grew out of affairs connected with the mar
shalship.
Thirteen persons lost their lives by a
sudden snowslide at Woodstock, Colorado.
Three persons were rescued alive out of a
party of sixteen.
Fire has almost entirely destroying swept away the
town of Allegan. Mich., twenty
three stores, three newspaper offices and a
hotel, and cansing a total estimated loss of
$500,000. On the same day another Michigan
town—Grand Rapids—also suffered heavily
from a fire, eight mills and factories suc¬
cumbing to the flames, with aggregate losses
of $100,000.
Prentiss Tiller, the Pacific Express com¬
pany’s money clerk at St. Louis, who de
campfsl with nearly Milwaukee, $100,000 a few weeks
ago, was arrested in recovered. and $90,000
of the stolen money was
The Iowa senate agreed to a State woman
mffrage amendment to the constitution by
the close vote of 26 to 24.
The foot and mouth di-ease prevails to an
alarinmg extent in iauuuhb ar
Illinois, and the governor of the former
State ha), called a special session of the leg¬
islature to consider measures whereby the
plague may be kiamped out.
Frederick J. Dietrichs, St. a teller in the
Laclede bank, of ~*juiis, has been ar¬
rested for embezzling $du,l»o Q f t ^e insti¬
tution’s funds.
Frank Slaoel was hanged three at
Kv. ions’w for killing and robbing
ith whom he was getting and o^z
ties in a camp last (colored) August: hr or
day Matt Lewis was
Louis for wife murder.
Three thousand Nashville, people Te: were
their homes at
Such a furious crowd w;
fale of tickets for the appe5
the opera sin. er, in Han >
dows and plants office were Bin. wino
fainted, the box only
and order was restored a.
sons had beer, arrested.
Cattle infected with the foot und
^ igpase in Kansas are being kiT
burned.
Heavy frauds by tobacco dealt
been unearthed in Louisville, : People^ Kjr.
^
~ ^ an4 p eter F. Semonin, president, of
an( j \y q, Semonin, secretary
the mjjtta* Pike fraud, warehouse, to the absconded extent of at * Sflte..
■
Washington!
sites consul at
Wyoming. sena Colonel
e. w-itb
H° hn ^ "l to be chief of engine**?, < ormar.
r k brigadi-r-zen-ra of the
Ku ,.,. u , ^ a -s ciate justice Ida'
court of the Territory o^ ' m( .
HAMILTON, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9, 1884.
Perrv.'Cf New York;‘to be chief justice of
the supreme court Valentine, of the Territory of PenusylAania, Of Wyo
ming; John M. the
to be attorney of the United States for
eastern district of Pennsylvania.
Bnessrctigrani a copyright of eight
granting newspapers Mr. Watterson said that
hours on their news. raisappreheu
there had boon a great deal of
sio i in regard to this bill; that it was not di
rected against the country press at all, but
against dally papers and certain concerns
which appropriate the valuable news of
otiier papers in their vicinity, and by hur
riedlv getting out such new; or furnishing
plates ‘ of the same defeat legitimate enter
^ j se ‘
m rHR ,, House committee on postofflces ordei
adverse reports on the billsi authorizing;pos
tal savings banks and prohibiting the trans
mission in the mails of newspapers contain
ing lottery advertisements.
A resolution has been adopted by the
House committee on postomces. and post
roads declaring the charges against Repre
sentative Ellis iu connection with certain
6tar route oontraots to be utterly groundless.
The Jeannette expedition to the Arctio
regions cost the government, in cue way or
another, about $276,000.
Congressman Hatch, of Missouri, foot and re
ceiveda telegram stating that the
mouth disease had broken out among cattle
in the northeastern part of that State.
Foreign.
Solomon Shapika, wall known in con¬
nection with the recent attempt to sell ill
England a forged manuscript of the Ponta
touch, lias committed suicide at Rotterdam.
Holland.
Osman Digma, the defeated commander of
the False Prophet’s forces, wrote to .Sheik
Morghani declaring that he was determined
to drink the blood of the Turks and their al¬
lies. This savage reply aggravated the fool¬
ing of the British soldiers who, since the bat¬
tle of Teb, ha 1 desired to snare so brave a
foe The reply was signed by twenty-one
Sheiks, representing 10,000 inhabitants.
A NATIVE tribe In forthBurmata revolted,
sacked and burne 1 many villages and corn
pelled American and English missionaries to
flee for their lives.
Advices from Canton report that the Chi¬
nese preparations for war with France are
increasing, and all signs indicate a prolonged
contest.
A Berlin newsDaper attributes the excite¬
ment over the Lasker incident to the corre¬
spondent of the London Times which, it says,
wants to stir up strife between Germany and
America.
Port Spain, Trinidad, has been almost
entirely swept away by fire, The loss is
estimated at more than «40U,000.
Another explosion of dynanjite lias oc¬
curred in Loudon—this time at a. suburban
hotel. One man was blown to pieces.
Bismarck, the German chancellor, and made ap¬
peared iu the reichstag at Berlin
a speech in justification of the course he had
pursued in refusing to transmit tho Lasker
resolution to the reichsta lie aid that iie
had recognized the goo i intentions of the
American Congress, but he was unab e to
harness himself to the car Germauy of the opposition. and
The relations between the
United States had always been pleasant, he
said, and the German government had al¬
ways tried to cultivate them. He declared
that he would have presented the
Lasker resolutions had he not
been prevented by their form. The resolu¬
tions contained a clause directed against the
policy which, in the emperor’s name, he had
been pursuing and which Herr Lasker had
opposed for years. Once Bismarck was
interrupted by cries of “Shame!” from the
opposition members ot the reichstag, and
quite a scene ensued. The appearance of
Prince Bismarck in the reichstag is generally- friend¬
attributed to his desire to maintain
ship with America
Advices from the Congo river, in Africa,
report that Henry M. Stanley has discovered
another affluent of the Congo. The Arabs,
in a recent slave raid, captured 1,800 children.
The natives recently attacked the European
faotories on the Lower Congo, plundered car¬
avans, and killed several Europeans.
Mr. Bradlauoh, while delivering a lec¬
ture at Bridgewater, England, attacked against driven per¬
petual pensions, was and
from tne platform by showers of rotten eggs,
fruit and fireworks. The mob afterward
attacked and wrecked the chairman’s house.
French troops have captured the town of
Bacninh iu Tonquin.
A Berlin dispatch says that trichinosis,
engendered by eating German-bred pork,
and due in no wise to the American product,
is ravaging various parts of Germany.
Great excitement existed at Ottawa, On¬
tario, owing to a report that the government of
had received important information a con
spiracy to blow up public buildings with dy¬
buildings namite. The guard around the parliament speaker of
was increased, and the family, sud¬
the house of commons, with his
denly vacated his apartments in those build¬
ings.
Queen Victoria is said to be in bad health,
suffering continually from fits of depression.
During the second battle between General
Graham’s troop? and Osman Digna’s forces
Adams Fraser, the largest soldier in the
Black Watch regiment, laid twelve Arabs
low with his single bayonet. For this feat
he was cheered by the troops returning to
Suakim
Weston, the American pe lestrian, has ac¬
complished the feat ot walking 5,000 miles in
100 days—doing fifty miles a (lay and lectur
ingin the various cities and towns through
which he passed. Prominent temperance ad¬
vocates took great interert in the feat, as it
was undertaken by Weston with a view to
demonstrating the superiority of tea over
liquor in undertakings requiring physical
mu-luiani'*
NEWSY GLEANP^s.
Thebe are over '
or attempted r
courts.
Thirty t
year in G
count.ry
during th
ratio tha, T ;
•Hffliber 1,®>8,
in the province o. generals
Two of the five Confederate P. G. are T.
still living—Joseph E. Johnson and
Beauregard. The Confederates had twenty
one lieutenant-generals, and of these nine are
stiff living—James Longstreet, Hill. Wade Hamp¬ i-ee
ton. John B. Gordon. I). H. S. D.
A. P. Stewart, Jubal Early, 8. B. Buckner
and Joseph E. Wheeler.
A COMPANY w.tii $2, V>0,000 capital land is Cam¬ pre¬
paring to or il l 1.0 (0,001 acres of in
eron, ''aica-ie-. a d . errn lion, jn the soutn
west corner of Louisiana, and to egncultural make a gulf
front Of one hundred miles of
lands I* 0 ' ween Like < barlei and Sabine
Pa«. Steam p-Jow for the wo: have fifty ar¬
rived from England, capable^ plowing
teres- a day.
SUMMARY OF CONGRESS.
Senate;
. ,
Mr, Miller, of New \oik, to suspend dollars. foi Mr. two
vears the co.nawe of silvrr
Logan introduced a bill deceased to give soldiers, pensions to
de.ieudaut relatives of
Mr. Lmminds introduced a mil to provide
for the establishment at a .oie.t reservation
in Montana... .The committw on education
am 1 labor reported favorably It provides on the Morrill
educational bill. for setting
apart nually the net of proceeds of equal land to sales?, and half an* of
asum m>ney one
the receipts Vacation.... from the Pacific railroads for
{, b , ic Mr. Jackson pro
osed B oons tttutioual amendment
n)a y nst the presidential term six
y sara> and making tho President in
eligible to re-election. Referred to the
cornm ittee on judiciary.... Mr. Miller, of
New York, raid the Senate committee on
agriculture were in favor of passing the
House pleuro-pneurnonia bill, after amend
j n r it s > as to provide that if the authorities
of a State in which di ease exists fail to take
steps to stain]) them out the President shall
prohibit the exporiation of cattle from that
JY tBte Vv' ; Mr ' Sewell spoke in favor of and
Wilson i against the Litz-John Porter
bu ''
^on f aS , anl , Messrs ? RUdS“ Lovan and ^fa¬ Man
de Mr
vor of the bill for the re'ief of General Fitz
John Port r, tho b 11 was read a third time
and passed bv a vote of 8 i yeas to 25 nays.
It was discovered after the announcement of
the vote been that the preamble preamble to the bill had
not passed. The passed. bill authorizes The tho President was then to
appoint Porter to the grade position of colonel in
the army of the same and rank held
by him at the time of General aismisia!, Porter and also in
his discretion to pla-e on the
retired list as of that grade. General Porter,
however, to receive no compensation or al¬
lowance prior to his appointment under the
act.
The Senate had a long discussion over the
bill appropriating $25,000 to stamp cattle out the
foot and mouth disease among in Kan¬
sas. Many Senators opposed the biU on the
ground appropriate that Congress for had such no power
to and money a pur¬
pose, that it had not been shown
that it was beyond the with ability trouble. eff
the State of Kansas to deal the
Mr. Ingalls attacked the State right* doc¬
trine which, he said, had been preaohed
against the bill. No action was taken on tb*
bill.... A bill was introduced to authorize
the secretary of the treasury to establish a
number of additional life-saving station* on
the sea and lake coasts of the United States
....Mr. Bowen introduced a bill to reduce
the postage on second class mail matter. It
provides that after October 1, 1884, the rate
of such postage shall be one oent a pound.
Til is includes sample copies.
IIOUM.
Mr. Morrison, from the committee revising the on tariff. ways
and means, reporied a hill
Mr. McKiDley, from the same committee,
Introduced a minority report The post
office appropriation bill was debated without
action.... A bill was passed admitting under to
American registry foreign vessels cer¬
tain circumstances.
Consideration of the postoffloe appropria- debate
tion bill was resumed. Aftor some
Mr. Horr’s amendment, increasing to $12,-
500,000 the appropriation for the compensa¬
tion of postmasters, was lost On motion
of Mr. Davis, of Illinois, the clauss $4,000, limiting
the salaries of postmasters to was
stricken out. Mr. Holman offered an amend¬
ment, which was lost, fixing the salary of
the postmaster at Now York at $8,000. A
motion by Mr. Horr to increase the appro¬
priation for clerks by $125,000 was lost.
Mr. Harrison, from the committee on Ter¬
ritories, reported favorably and admission had plaoed of
nn the calendar the bill for the
Dakota... .The House resumed the consider¬
ation of the postoffice appropriation bill. In
committee of the whole, Mr. Skinner's amend¬
ment ino: a ing the appropriation for the
payment o! letter carriers from $3,600,000
to $4,010,003, was adopted. pension of $2,500 to
The bill granting a
Septimina RandolphMeiklsham, thesolesur¬
viving grandchild of Thomas Jefferson, was
discussed at great length in the committee
of the whole. Finally on the motion af Mr.
Hewitt, of Alabama, tho enacting olause
was stricken nut by a vole of 129 yeas and
sixty nays. He azreed to the oommitteo re¬
port.... At the evening session twenty-two
pension bills were passed.
PROMINENT PEOPLE,
Alexis.- The Grand Duke AGxis is now
high admiral of the Russian navy.
Miller— Joaquin Miller is au applicant
at Washington for a consulate in some warm
clime.
Arnold.— Matthew Arnold, the English
essayist and poet, alter an extended lecturing
tour in this country, has returned with bis
family to England.
Wood.— Professor J. been G. Wood, lecturing the in Eng¬ this
lish naturalist who has
country on natural history subjects, intends
to settle in Boston.
Dunne. —Pom, I«o ha? conferred upon Ed¬
mund and Dunne, formerly the heal chief of justice the Han of Anto¬ Ari¬
zona, n iw at
nio colony in Florida, the title ot count.
Packer. —It is said that the death of
Harry E. Packer, the late president of the Le¬
high Valley Railroad company, leaves his
sister, Miss Packer, with the largest income
of any unmarried lady in America.
Eads.— Captain James B. Eads, the noted
engineer, having finished his work at the
mouth of the Mississippi, has been invited to
examine the bar anil nel of the Mersey
with reference to iniDrovi tn £
approach to Liverpool.
Huot X
..e L
vVhile hunting, Gnstavt ,
Evansville, Col., stepped into the
a mine shaft which the snow han covered
completely. He was instantly killed.
Charles Downs, of Atlanta, chasvl a
rabbit into a tail stump. While climb ng,
his left arm was caught in a split wear
top, and he hung oy hi? wrist, He opened
his knife with his teeth in order to f*ut off hi*
arm. He maie several gashes, and then
fainted. Thi- caused his i£r«>Uod. rnusc.es to relax,
and he dropoed to the
SfifCE 1 nn Ftttstnjrg has had twenty-three
floods, thirteen of which have occurred in
the winter—three in December, four in J an
uary and six in February. The w >r«t have
come in February.
A DESPERADO’S DEEDS
Some of the Tinny Crimes of Bon
Thomson, of Texas.
A San Antonio (Texan dispatch to the New
York World says: The tragic death of the
famous desperadoes, Ben Thomson, King
Fisher ana Joe Foster, who killed each other
iu the Vaudeville theatre here, was the sol*
topic of conversation. Everybody knew Ben
Thomson, and While the public In general
breathes more freely over Ids death, yet all
feel that the city lias lost one of its most
noted characters. Strangors coming here
were loth to believe that the quiet-spokc'B
gentleman pointed out to them was the no¬
torious lien Thomson. lie looked more like
a sentimental dry-goods boasts clerk than that like he a des¬
perado. One of his was was
the only man in the city who dared wear a
silk hat on all occasions. Slenderly built, in
with carefully curled mustache, natty
dress, always clad in immaculate linen, Ben
was the last man in the world to he taken as
the murderer of a dozen men. He never
could remember all whom ho had wounded
a id not killed, ami it was difficult for him to
recall the names of those who had met death
at his hau is.
Ben was born in Austin, Yorkshire, Texas, England, when in
1844, and came to a
child, with his patents. His mother was
mu rdered by a runaway slave, and Ben,
with his brother Bill, enlisted iu the Confed¬
erate army ar the outbreak of the war. He
was only a hotrheade 1 Hoy at this time and
very soon quarreled with chained his superior officer,
shot him dead, ami was and in the eseai>ed. guard
house, to which lie set lire
Then he enlisted under Maximilian anil spent
tw i years chasing Mexican deserters, most
of whom he shot on the run.
Tired of the army Ben went to Austin
ami o iened a gambling saloon under tho
Austin Statesman. Here ho often amused
amused liimsolf and friends by firing
through the ceiling ‘ ‘just to see the printers
clamber out of the windows." That old of¬
fice is even now considered the best venti¬
lated in Texas. When drunk ho would ride
like mad through the streets, shooting out
the lights. Next day he would call and pay
his fine. llabb
One bright moonlight night lien Captain protrot
came to bis house and asked to
him from five cowboys, lien ran down
from his house bareheaded and in his
shirt-sleeves and was soon anion niong 1 he
cowboys. His first shot killed the
leader, his second a horse, and he actually
chased the fou men put of town, swearing,
taunting anil firing at til an as they continually galloped
away. So this desperado friends. was lnK.au
lighting the battles of his
S’IS his brother Bill wa-» b sieged by the
entire police force in a store. Bon clambered
in to nis assistance. The marshal, an old
friend of Bon, approached to confer with tho
besieged, when Bill shot him dead. Ben
cursed his brother for causing the death of
liis best frh nd. but nevertheless helped Bill
to escape by a rear exit. Both got away,
but Bill was captured, tried and acquitted
two years later.
Christinas night three years ago Ben
slapjied the face of the proprietor of the same
theatre in which he met h is death Wedues
day. The latter ran behind tho bar, oaught
up a double-barreled shot-gun and fired both
barrels. One side of Ben’s trousers, vest and
coat were cut received to pieces, but his only wife slight
wounds wore and soon
patched tho clothes. As tho smoke cleared
away One bullet Ben fired w lit three through times at Ills the brain, proprietor. one
through his heart and the third througli his
arm. The barkeeper meanwhile got out
hi* pistol, but as Ben turned upon
him he dropped behind tho bar.
Tho point of his pistol was alone visible
workof n r ba| by
th u
in the fare, going through his mustache,
Ben believed that tho barkoiq-er died from
tho effoots of the wound, hut lie afterward did not
'lis name was Matthews, and lie Sentinel.
wasooimectedwitntho H t Springs
He then had three bullets in him, one of
which was received from tho mavor of Hot
Springs. He was killed less titan two years
ago iu an affray at the Arlyton house, Hot
Springs. Ben was not strong phy.-h ally. Ho
said that when frolicking witli his wife and
little boy they could always throw him down
and master him. But ho was a dead yards shot,
and could Hit a man every tune 100
away with his pistol, winch was e beautiful
silver-mounted one. His luck was amazing,
and half tho time he did not carry tiis pistol,
If a man wanted to fight he tried to talk
him nut of it. If lie iwn-isted, Ben lot him
fire first. “Then,” raid lie. with a smile,
“I fixed him and worked In the plea of self
defense." One night, Bon and hid brother
were in a gambling naloon in Laredo. A row
started, the lights were put, out and every¬
body went to shooting. Ben and Bill got in
the windows, emptied 1 heir revolvers, sprang olr
out the window, swam the river and got
without 4 frcruLidi.
NATIONAL EDUCATION.
Provisions ot the Ylorrlll Kill, Ite
ported to the NennJe Favorably.
The Morrill Educational hill, reported fav¬
orably to the United States Senate from the
committee on education and labor, pro¬
vides for the setting apart forever of the net
proceeds of the sales of public lands, and
annually of a sum of money equal to one
half of the moneys paid into the tre**nry
In each year by Pacific railroad <
under the Thurman act. for ‘
of the people, to Territ be upper”
eral States and
of Columbia, up"
between the r
as au edr
terest at ,
tereet -
ptllWWA
V ..-uu use*
_
school-houses
children tang*
daily attend'
months in th> .
tamed in each ot
or divisions of sa
trict. and the amo;
legislature, or of trv
purpose of maintaining
public schools.
An Indianapolir
weather con tin"'
gi-henna of »
what is- r
$1.00 A YEAR.
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC
o
BoucicaULt claims to have written over
400 plays.
Strauss is writing a new opera, “The
Gypsy Baron.”
Sims Reeves, the tenor, 19 seriously ill at
his home in England.
Emma Aubott sings in opera on Sunday
evenings in San Francisco.
Henry Irving's gvews rooeipta In this
country will aggregate nearly $400,000.
Sonnenthal, the foremost leading man in
Germany, lias been engaged for an American
tour.
RISTOBI, Salrina and Bernhardt are all
coming back to work still further the miiio
In America.
President ARTnUB gave a dinner recently
at the White house in honor .of Mr. Henry
Irving and Miss Terry:
Miss WniTNEV, tho Boston sonlptor, is en¬
gaged on a bust of Ellen Terry, the English
actress now with Irving's oompany.
Wachtkl, Cotze and B >tol, three cele¬
brated German tenors, will all rival each
other in different theatres in Berlin in May.
An Imperial censor in Rtusia recently ob
jectod to the publication of “Hamlet” aa a
pernicious piece of literature to put in the
Lands of the young.
EdwarD Kino says that “Mr. Wilson
Barrett is becoming a groat man in London,
assuming a social prominence which few
actors in France or America attain.”
Madame Nilsson says she shall retire from
the stage in two years. ‘‘ 1 shall not stAfy- upon Poor
tho stage,” she says. “ to hear it said, * ’
Madame Nilsson' Her voice is all gone
Mahy Anderson rests in Italy after the
close of the season; then travels through
Edinburgh, Glasgow, Mttnoliester, Liverpool,
Dublin and Birmingham, taking her com'
pany and charging double prices.
There is to be a great Handel commemor¬
ation in Germany, <>u the 26tli of May, the
second centennial anniversary of the com-
1 Lold loser’s in death. Westminster The Abbey, first anniversary George ill was and
Queen Charlotte being among the au l It or s.
Miss Helena Fetter, who plays the
heroine of “The Stragglers of Paris," is the
Louisville beauty who made so flattering a
debut two seasons ago. She is said to resem¬
ble Mary Anderson In physique, and to ex¬
cel that favorite in intense emotional on
deavors.
ON the register of the 8t. James hotel, New
York, and within four linos of each other,
one day recently, were to be seen the names
of B. MeAul-iy, New York, and John T.
Macaulay, Louisville, Ky. Tho two men are
brothers; one a woll-known actor, and the
other a prosperous theatre manager. They the
had a dispute some years ago about
theatre; “ Barney " changed the spoiling of
his name, and they have since been strangers
to each other
Charles Halm Eli, one of the best musi¬
cians In the West, and a very able and con
scientious critic, thus tells a report's* the
musical relations between Patti and Gender:
“The style of the art! its is so different that
it is almost impossible to make does a comparison. sbo enacts
Certainly, whatever Gerstor
the character. Mho Is a conscientious art ist,
but she has not the facility that I a’ t.i lias.
She has equally as much exo :utlon,but thero
a is something ill Patti’s voice that is inde¬
scribable. The bmg an 1 short of world. it is that
Patti is the greatest artist in tho
DANGEROUS EXPL0SIVE&
fflm United State ,n Joining in the Cm
«ade Against Dynamite.
Attorney-General Brewster has sent the
f ollowin * f ‘^ *° a " Un,ted Ht * ta8 at '
torneys and mai snais.
By direction of the Presidout I have to in
form you it is reported that certain persons
art aiding in the prosecution of heinous
crimeB by shipping to foreign ports explosives
dangerous No in the proof highest been degree adduced to life that and
property. has
this rumor is founded upon fact, and the
President cannot believe it) truth. Tho
honor of this nation, however, requires that
it should not ho open to the imputation, un
founded though it lie, of the slightest ap
pearance of tolerating such crimes, whether
to he committed against our [jeople or those
of other countries.
Your attention is therefore called to seo
tions 6,353, 5,351, 5,85 ., 4.278 and 4,379 of the
revised statutes of the United Slates, which
regulate the shipment of explosives, and tho
punishment of .hose who infringe their pro
visions, and you ai o instructed to be dlli
gent In vour effort* to provent tho offenses
described anil to dc lent and prosecute those
whihave or may commit them.
A STRANGE CASK
An El*ht-Yc»r.rtld Hoy Who Lives
Olid Dice Holly.
A wonderful case ot susismded animation
Is reisjrtod from Egypt, Penn. The subject
is an eight year-old hoy, who has lived and
died every day during the a .t month. From
sunset to sunrise he enjoys good health, and
ronq*around like all children of his age, but
at dusk he becomes entirely uuc™* -i'—'
and remains so until inornln
sicians are pricked sorely him puzzled with by pH the
said: “I a
it galvanic battery to his i
parts, but without creating
oression. I forciblv — God or
4 it rema ' -hi
THE JOKER’S BUDGET.
A FEW NOTES ACCIDENTALLY OYER*
HEARD BY THE PHILADELPHIA
“EVENING CALI,” HUMORIST.
the oat out again.
Young Alplionzo -“Do you know how
to courtesy ?”
Little NeU—“Yea, I knows.
Young Alphonzo—“Well, now stand
up. I will bow to you and you courtesy
to me. I want to Bee you do it.’'
Little Nell—“But the dancing-master gentle
said we must only courtesy to
m Alplionzo—“Well ?”
Young Nell—“Pa and both told
Little ma
sister you was no gentleman.”
NO DANGER.
Fire Marshal—“I very much fear, sir,
that additional means of egress will have
to be ordered for your church.”
Pastor—“And why so, my dear sir?”
Fire Marshal—“In case of fire it would
be utterly impossible to get the congre¬
gation out alive.”
Pastor—“Oh i You are mistaken
very much mistaken, I could empty this
church in three minutes.”
Fire Marshal —“In three minutes 1
How?” collection.”
Pastor—“By taking up a
A BAD PIECE OP WORK.
“And you were unable to arrest the
man ?” said the Judge to the Sheriff.
“Yes, your Honor, he got away from
mo.”
“Did you follow him and shout, ‘Stop
thief 1’ and oall upon outsiders to help
you ?”
“Yes, your Honor, I did thief everything !’
possible. I yelled ‘Stop if didn’t and
threatened to shoot him he
give himself up, hut he paid no atten¬
tion to me. ”
“fl’m,” growled the Judge. “Oouldn t
even arrest his attention.”
A SENSATION.
Jane—“Just look at this. Here is an
item in tlie paper Baying that a wealthy
Milwaukee man lias created a sensation
by announcing that he is going to marry
his servant girl.” should think it wnd make
Bridget—“I The idee of respectable
a sensation. a
gurrul givin’ np her liberty in that way. ”
Jane—“Yes, and becoming a mere
mistreHR, to take all tho blame and get
no Bridget—“She pay.” ought to be contint ta
stay as she is and drew big wages and
boss the whole house.”
A GREAT DISCOVERY.
Georgo — “Ok 1 I have made the
blesscdest discovery I”
Harry — “Invented a new electric
motor ?”
George—“No; nothing of that kind.
You know that charming Miss Blank
that I am so madly in love with?”
Harry—“Yes; and your affection is
reciprocated, I understand.”
George — “Well, I discovered last
night that her father and her mother
both snore.”
Harry—“Why, what is there particu¬
larly blessed about that ?”
Georgo- -“Wliat could he more so?
There is never any doubt about when
they are asleep.”
A EABTIIONARLE LOCALITY.
“Ypu have plenty of houses to rent, I
seo. ”
“Oh, yes; I am ngent for a great
many properties. What would yon like?”
“A three-Htory brown stone front iu
an unexceptionable locality, I do not
“am much about the house itself, but
wry particular about getting into
a fashionable find rather exclusive neigh.
i, or i„ M .,i ”
•‘I have the very thing for yon. A
rather old but very fine house in St.
Windsor plane.” neighborhood ?”
“How about the
“It is the most highly fashionable and
thoroughly exclusive locality in the
city.” of that?”
“Are you sure
“Dead certain. The families living
there have the malaria all summer and
tho gout all winter.”
A partner needed.
“Yes," said the barber, “business is
improving very fast, and the only trouble
J have is the want of room. Yon see I
can’t extend this place without Tenting
the store next door, and that would take
more money than I can spare. Now, id in
1850, when I first came man
Johnson—you rememboi ’ T ->bn
son, his wife Pm
daughter his mai
name?
PresicD'd's,.