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HAMILTON. GEORGIA.
NEWSY GLEANINGS.
In Havana cigar manufacturers pay their
hands three times a day.
Ten cities do one-third of all the manufac¬
turing in the United States.
The streams of New York State are to be
stocked with Oregon trout.
A California farming company shipped lot
56,500 pounds of mustard seed in one to
New York recently.
The crop of raisins grown in California
has increased from 1,000 boxes nineteen year 3
ago to 400,000 the present season.
Ripe wild strawberries mvy be found at
the present time in Sierra valley, California,
5,000 feet above sea level.
“Uncertainty, wonder and the exercise
of skill,” are said by Sir James Paget to be
the essential elements of healthy recreation.
In tlie twelve cities of Massachusetts the
death rate averages 20.57 per thousand. The
extremes are 20.07 in Boston and 15.05 in
Lynn.
The hot-water cure retains its of popularity
in Hartford, ; where the Times that city
states it is more taken than any other
remedy.
Codfish are swarming in Shasta river,
California, where they were never known be¬
fore. They bear a remarkable resemblance to
salmon.
Dirty streets, unclean water, neglected
sewers, and anti-vaccination ideas are said to
be the causes of the visitation of small-pox in
Montreal.
Twenty years ago $1,000,000 would cover
the amount invested in cattle ranches in this
country. Now that investment is reckoned
at $100,000,000.
It is estimated that with a full house the
Democrats will have a majority whereas of they forty
three in the next Congress, had
Beventy-five in the last.
Chinese fishermen at Santa Barbara,Cal.,
will not use the wharf to land their cargoes,
but get them ashore with a surf-boat, there¬
by saving dray age and wharf fees.
The application of th® white of an egg to a
snake bite wound saved the life of a little
girl in St. John’s county, Fla. She was bit¬
ten twice on the foot by a ground rattlesnake.
The total revenue and expenditure of the
Dominion of Canada during th® year shows a
deficit of $2,857,470. Th® revenue during
the year was $32,970,000. or expenditures 1,101.000 more
than last year, while tue in¬
creased from $30,445,000 to $85,827,000.
Thoman Resign*.
ANOTHER CIVIL SERVICE COMM IS*
SION Ell RETIRES.
Civil Service Commissioner Thoman, in a
letter to the President tendering his resigna¬
tion, says:
“While thus asking release from so honor¬
able a trust, I desire to record my and gratifica¬ remedial
tion of the proved practicability reform procedure. Tried
effectiveness of the
veterans in political warfare view
with amazement the facile, though
radical, departure from the fa¬
miliar methods of the spoils system of
distributing patronage. Strenuous and sin¬
cere argument, and also deliberate different perversion, of
mark tho opposition And yet of it be concluded groups
antagonists. majority of the political must leaders in
that a
either party is in accord with the Pendleton
law, if its original enactment Congress and emphatic
endorsement by a subsequent expressions, were the
honest legislative moral cowardice by popular and not senti¬
coercion of
ment nor partisan of legerdemain. *
Public appreciation trench the fact that this re¬
form does not upon sturdy partisan¬
ship came late. It was sedulously 'maintained
that the civil service was to be composed of
men who should abjure certain rights of citi¬
zenship. With the gradual, but inevitable
refutation of this false view, the outlines of
the reform at last stood forth in clearness.
It is a reform which views the civil service
as h vast business agency; its search is for
the best obtainable merit. In business which
is not political President it replied enforces no follows: tests of party.
The as
Executive Mansion, )
Washington, Oct. 34, 1885. j
Hon. Leroy D. Thoman, Civil Service Com¬
missioner.
y Dear Sir: I tr a%’e received your letter
tehd s UTehlJ
the fmthimn* civil service commission ta
of an inclination inauguration by
you very soon after my
as President. The resignation thus
tendered is hereby accepted, to
fact Member n«t in the “con^atullta^a office which relinquish uSon
that you
you have been able, by sincere and earnest
work, and by a steady devotion to the cause
which you have mclmrge, to do so much in
Grovbb Clevelakd.
A Fata. Exnio.ten.
Ky., By an explosion at Cherry Biirz Valiev itistantfv furnace
lulled, on Thomas Tuesday, Anthony was
William Woodworth, Gibbons, Joa^ph Moffat and
were senouslv ininretl.
The men were st ated in front of the furnace,
and when the “Trogete" blew out, several tons
of melted metal were scattered over them.
Burs was burnt beyond recognition. The
others sustained painful injuries, but will re
cover.
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LATEST NEWS.
BLOWN OUI Of A WELL
A HORRIBLE AfCIDENT DUE TO A
PREHAI'l'RE BLAST.
Two Men Are Thrown Forty Feet into the
Air and Fatally injured.
William ... Kinnebrew . and , Philip ... Phillips ™ were
blown out of a w> 11 thirty feet deep in Atlanta,
Ga., on Wednesday, by the premature die-'
charge of a blast. lives,
Kinnebrew will die, and Phillips, if be
wiU be b.ind for the rest of his days
For some time past the two meri have been
Church street, near Gone. The well is now *
little over thirty feet deep, and for the past
three or four days the men have been working
i be i*v i°L r<>< ^- d , ay , f bl Sn a I2
scattered ilie gunpowder have been thrown
out, but still the d ggei* could find no water.
Wednesdsy they began drilling again, and
about two o’clock completed two deep holes,
emptied into the hole. Then the clay was
pushed down and more powder poured hole, and in.
Again the clay was forced into the
the “tamping rod was inserted, and while
one man held the rod steady the other pounded .amping
upon it with a hammer. Tbid is called
a blast. With layers of powder and clay iorce l
tight upon each other, the holes aie.li led up
untii the charge is wedged in so tightly that u
will break the rock to fragments rathoi t ian
‘ the
In tamping tue blast Kinnebrew sat upon
stone holding the tamping iron, while i hillipe
stood above him with a heavy sledge hammer.
The two men had about completed charging
the hole when the tamping iron cut thy fuse
grain impartedfire to tlie fuse, and while the
men were still wc king above, unmindful of ;
their great danger, the fire was creeping down
then ii/an instant there was a grea?discharge, heavily j
The blast was a powerful one. It was
a P‘] wlien it w ^»t off both rne / w ^/'
SftoflL round 1 welled SoJ^Llupor, ‘
But
ped back into the well.
They found Phillips lying upon the ground
covered with dirt and powder burned. He was
in an insensible condition. The weil was ye;
full of powder smoke, and it was not until after
this smoke cleared away that Kinnebrew was
seen Several persons went down and heipeJ
in lifting him out. The physicians found dial
both men were in an ixtiemcly critical condi
tion. Every rib on Kinnebrew’s left side was
broken. His right hand was torn half tfi. His
face was cut and bruised while lm right eye
was exti^mefy 1 chfhcult of * ami'accompanied the broken ribs. with
great pain on account
The physicians amputated part of the hand,
Phillips had both . ands so badiy mangled that
E ^ g ,h r /r, C B U P t‘«m .mputLef X
der burned his face and eyes terribly. Both
eyes are closed and the physicians say he will
b« blind.
Hie drill was blown out with such force that
“ a S nt .d fl jSn"fbe‘c e ne ta SS^S'JJfS
located
A FATAL ACCIDENT.
Thirteen Cftrs on the East Tennessee Knil
road Piled in a Mass.
A bad wreckoccurred Iue-day night at eight
Georgia“railroot^at SudcSj causad The 4
the collision of two freight trains. regu
lar freight going north was already due at
Alpine, where it lays ov r night, but for some
reason way several hours behind time. A
nine and^eliitemT'it! arrivl?' Nut noticing
that the regular freight had not arrived and
receiving no train orders, the conductor or
dered the engineer to go ahead. A bhoit time
after the two trains met in die hi>llow each
the danger, reversed the levers and blew down
brakes, but too late, the two trains colliding,
It was a most horrib e crash. One fireman was
instantly killed One
cSs DaviJ, if’not and several all injured. other train The men, two are
seriouslv fat v jumped en
gines crashed together, recoiled and
the track. Five or six car loads of coal and
ch.rco.1, wtach caught Are,
dSftShlfa.“fie wrelk Is' said diy. to be the M worst of
that ever occurred on. th.t mon. e.
cotton, coal, merchandise•and general dtbm
are scattered all over tue ioai-e
woods. The loss is probably
Hie Head Cut , Off*
While Andrew Pickens was engaged in cut
ting a band at a shingle machine, Wednesday
morning, in Hastings Va. the table on which
bodv. '
a \oung tndj Burnet to eat .
i Miss Ivatie Tabb, a well known and popular
voung lady of Louisville, Ky., was fatally
burned Tuesday night. She was kneeling lie
fore the grate ‘ saying her prayers, when her
clothing caught fire.
——-~r—7T Progress of the fcoutta II
.
; The only illustrated newspaper m the south
commenced publication last Sunday at Jacx
I eonviile. Fla. It is called “The Democrat,
J muu m pnouskwi »jf W.
!FOR FEMININE READERS.
The Cloak Trade “Form.”
i Every afternoon at 5 o’clock a richly
j attired woman emerges from a down
j town cloak establishment. Her figure is
perfection, her face is beautiful, and her
carriage is graceful.
k 4 Oh! she is our form. ” said one of the
proprietors, „\r when asked about her.
"_ our 10 J m *
with /‘Yes. trade terms. I see you A are form not is acquainted indispen
sable to cloak establishments. The sale
of cloaks depends J on their attractiveness.
Th b . f th f ,, a nd winter
season, has begun, and country mer
chants are in town or are coming to pur
oha°e their stocks We must show
them how the garments look. To dis
P la J the cloaks to the best advantage, we
have a woman to put them on, and thus
buyers view them as they actually appear
when in use j re dummies will not
—■ They have no heads no arms,
feet. They are enveloped m paper
muslin and they cannot move.”
“What can the form do that makes
ber g0 important to vour trade?”
unm. J^ U1 tnm. forn b 3 011 must have noticed is
R shapely woman with handsome fea
tures. You do not often see a more sty
j[isb. appearing woman either in dress or
j n movemen t s> A cheap cloak loses its
cheapness on her. She knows how to
draw the cloak around her to exhioit it
to the best advantage. She knows the
positions to assume and the style in
wb j cb to wa ’k and reveal to the custom
«* «• the.oloak in * favorable W .
Is putting on cloaks and. walking ■
around and posing before custom- '
your
era u U that your form does?”
“Yes, and we are mighty g’ad to get
her without asking anything more of
her.”
What do you have to pay her?”
" e P a ? > ler jP 11 *” a week tne
?«« L ;n 111 e ‘ "etZed from
the seashore , recently. she She is is so so vain valu
able to us that we paid her expenses while
she was awa y, and we also pay for the
d *l essea which wn f" ?he wears in 1 our house '
We do as \\ e.i by oui form v
cern, and we have as good a one as there
jg Kew York .”—New York Sun.
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Fall Fashions for the Ladies.
Extravagance now runs into quantity
I have been lately assured by two Fifth
avenue tailors, one of whom is French,
tr race will depart this season with
the fuU. skirts that will make a total
change m the appearance of women,
There is talent and energy sufficient, in
the brain of the American women with
ou readings j. ca pital to manage their toilettes in
for the emergency The
approaching skirts is about four yards
and a half around. It hangs from the
belt in pleats or gathers. Some of the
latest imported skirts are so arranged
|bat thev are almost entirely made in
tucks and box pleats; there are ten rather
narrow pleats in front, and the sides
in three wide side pleats, all pressed under
very fiat ana caught with tapes
neath. The back is made very full with
gibers, ’ and all around the skirt is set
into ail excellently fitted -yoke. The
welcome and most convenient polonaise
is revived. Made very long and full and
is drawn back sufficiently to allow the
p 0 j n ^ g G f the drapery to fall at the sides
f tlie sk i rt , This costume is made of
I the fashionable woolen fabrics of two
j j styles, but same shades, the skirt plain
an d the polonaise or basque figured, and
. R th j g lieg t b e economy, as plain mate
: Hals are always easily matched. An
other costume has the new plain, round
skirt, embroidered nearly half way up
w ith woolen braid and silk soutache in
i a -„ e £ ora | designs of a darker shade
thac the material, or. in contrast, as dark
i blue on gray, red on dark blue; the latter
, two colors already appear fashionably
. com bmed m acostume of blue wfih red
trimmings. The skirt oi the above
pleated and has a short draped puff be
bia6 k th f a P r0 ” °' rer9kir !i
on t tlie left side. The basque is^ quite
short, opening over a vest that is cov
ere d with braid work. The talent to be
I observed reg arding the gored the skirts material is to
™*h the plain color and
and cover it with pleatmgs in front and
at the sides; the basque and back dra
, r~ • al - e 0 { figured, ? the latter hang
full . without draping. i - rp. The hark- back
J edge Oi the sknt must have a narrow
.
pleated ruffle set on at the sides. These
j examples will be sufficient until the next
bulletin. Some of the new skirts hang
j in in kilts kilts worn worn with witn a a lono- long poionaise. nolonaise The ine
fanc\ .or braid still continues ana ide
passementeries. The very latest surprise
consist? of the novelty of woo den bead
precisely like those worn by nuns,
called ‘‘rosary beads.” These vary in
sizes from a large bead to a small grape,
finely carved, of polished rosewood, oak,
satinwood—the color of sandal wood,
black dull wood—and are woven in braids
of all widths, used on bonnets, dress,
and for wrap trimmings.
The Tricotrine weave, introduced most
favorably last season, appears again all in
all the fashionable shades. This is
silk and an imitation of Jersey cloth and
bears the same wear. Rhademir colors,
the new sapphire blue ranks highest in
this fabric. Satin duchesse, for evening
wear, is seen in all the _ newest shades;
one of these is a beautiful golden brown.
-*-“ e velvets are as rich as those Drcugn*.c
^ rom foreign looms, in three -shades bf
green, three of rich bronze, ex
j^ite sapphire blue and•
* 0lir shades of garnet, and two of cardi
na u ruby, cream color and white. (rood
Nou&ekeejpinQ.
Fashion Notes*
Polonaises are revived.
Tinsel will still be worn.
The fancy for amber is increasing.
Gray greens come to the front again.
Autumn colors will be gay and bright.
Blue and red is still a popular combi¬
nation for country wear.
Small garnets set in masses, with none
of the setting visible, are popular and ef¬
fective.
Velveteen is correctly made up for
street wear, but velvet is relegated to in
door costumes
Scarfs of India silk will supersede the
muslin ones, witli all colors of narrow
stripes for everyday wear. •*"
Tulle is mixed with lace and delicate
gold and silver cords are added to en
twine with these trimmings.
Collars for street dresses remain high
and close, ^mmed in military style, but sleeves
"* tbaa
Black silk dresses are trimmed with
J teel oe / a embroideries embroideries, and and there tl3ere a are e
black net, embroidered with fine steels
m very rich designs. The combination
is particularly odd and lovely.
o Greases rp8g po with w ;th trains trains are are trimmed trimmed with with
flounces on the front breadth, panels at
the sides, and have the back breadths
cu t y erv long and looped at the top ta
simulate drapery, in the style worn ten
or twelve years ago.
Long, flowing sashes are more fash
ionable than ever; their lapels are often.
ornamented with patterns of flowers, em
broidered in natural shades of co,or over
either a light or dark colored ground,
according to the style of toilet. Some
are embroidered with jet or colored
beads, ' others are simply striped or wat*
cred s ilk .
Tornadoes
In 1884 the signal service bureau re¬
corded 172 tornadoes, occurring on fifty -
nine days. Only one month of the year
—January—-was entirely free from these
storms, while they were most frequent in
July, but more severe earlier in the sea
son. Every section of the united
w r as visited except New England and the
region west of the summit of the Rocky
mountains. In sixty-two instances the
width of the tornado path varied from
seventy-five to 5,280 feet, the average
being 1,037 feet; apd in thirty-seven
cases the length varied from two to 130
miles, the average being thirty-six miles.
The storms mo fed forward at an aver
age rate of fortv-two miles an hour, the
rotations of the inevitable funnel-shaped
cloud being accomplished, of course, at
a vastly greater velocity. The direction
of the cyclone’s course is usually north
east. Its time is most frequently rarely from
! 4 to 5:30 o’clock in the afternoon,
! early as 3, although not uncommonly
as
as late'as 7:30 or 8:30 in the evening,
and sometimes even later,
JHs l>a„cr-Weight’ 1 aper-n eigilt.
“That’s a rather unique-looking Alpha, paper- in
' weight there,” said
you have
cu ." , ? us 8 ’ la 5 ed ar ‘i cle ,i?“§
on the table oi his fiiend f Omega. ies ?
g a id the latter, picking up the object
an d evein^ it critically. “You know
| thev have hoofi, be 2 un to teach cooking in the
pu b, ic sc and this is a doughnut
baked by my sister, Cleo, after taking
on lv sixlessons in the domestic. As a
mper-weioffit I regard it an overwhelm-'
-
lng • succe ss.’ y>
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j I The Chinese pheasants turned , , . loose in •
Oregon some time since have interbred
with the native grouse, and a new game
bird, uuu with wit the head of a A. pheasant and
j § f at - th
result.