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THE MONROE ADVERTISER,
PUBLISHED I VIB r TUESDAY.
KOKaYTH. - - GEORGIA
The value <*! the and iamonds in America
V day i estimated i $1,000,000,000.
The most valuable g, m in the country
wa# owned 1J ’ih F. I). Morgan, and
worth $ It weighed twenty
two , rat *. w* v *s
Diamonds arc found in Virginia, North
Carolina. South Carolina and California,
the last s-tate furnishing the fin-t j>cci
anens. Five hundred dollar? has, l*cen
fad for California 'tone in the rough,
•nd a good many have old for SIOO
That the roller-*k at ing mania , run
mg out is shown by the great decline in
*he price of boxwood, of which the *katr
' wheels are made. Last year this wood
commanded from #2O to S4O a ton. but
mow it can be had for $lB, and is likel?
To go lower.
The statement is made that all the
•varied machinery of Great Britain, now
operated by steam-power, is capable of
performing more w ork, and hence of ore j
•ting more products than could be pro
duced by the labor ot 400.<100,000 able
bodied men. a greater number than
The able-bodied men on the earth.
~ =rr <
These arc now twenty-four chaplains
Hn the United States navy. Their salary
vduring the live years after their ap
pointment is $2,500 when at sea and
|f2,otH> when on shore duty. After the
fexpiration of five years the salary is
2 ,800 w hile on sea duty ami $2,300
•while on shore duty. They are ap|>oiuted
8)y the President on recommendation,
A report on the progress of the leper
•ettlement at Molokai, one of the Sand
wich i-lauds, states that the settlement
opened in January, 1800, with 131 lep.
**rs, of w hom lOK were males and thirty*
|ight female*. ("p to November last
Hhere were admitt.-d 1,101 lepers, of
whom 1.08.1 were males and 1,110 fe
-maic*. The largest muster roll from the
'foundation of the settlement was iii
August, 18H4, at which date it stood at
841, comprising 510 males and 321 fe
males. There is a biennial appropriation
>! SIOO,OOO for the maintenance and care
of the sufferers.
Nome interesting tacts were developed
at the recent electrical convention in Bal
timore. Among these was the informa- |
tion that there are about 5,000 arc lights
an New York, and about 3,000 in Boston. !
Over fifty towns in the United States
have each over 100 lumps. Tower light
ing meets with great favor in some parts j
>f the West, as at Detroit, Michigan,and
Klgin, Illinois. Domestic lighting by
cleetrieity has not advanced much so far
on account of the expense, and meets i
with more favor in Europe than in
America. There are now in use iu the '
Ufitted Stabs 95,000 arc lights and 250j
-000 incandescent lights, and the money
invested in the electric light industry
amounts to $70,000,000.
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What may be the secret of many lost
ocean vessels never being heard of is j
given in the following: Some weeks ago, !
in latitude 11.05, longitude 63.02, the
captain of a transatlantic steamer ob-:
served indications of shoal water, and.
upon sounding, found sixty fathoms, the
lead bringing up fragments of shells and
i)( j 'for running nineteen miles an
other sounding w*. Uken - b ‘ ° bot '
tont found at 200 fathoms, vs
bjr 8, IHB.U a soundin- lowing 1/?91
fat Hums was made by the steamer Alba
tross in latitude 41.02.30, which is west
southwest thre'-quarters west and barely
five miles from the spot mentioned. The j
: position of the shoal is directly in the
path of transatlantic steamers during part
of the year.
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The city of Mexico, for a number of
mouths past, lias been afflicted with a
•eourge of mosquitoes. These insects !
prevailed to such an extent that they
have been a constant theme of discussion,
and have, iu a number of instances,
causer! sickness, and, it is said, even
death, by their poisonous bites. Official
bulletins have been issued by the director
ot statistics, Dr. Penafiel, as to their
habits. natural history, etc. Singularly,
•ays S t> mv, the species, which is a large
one, has not been known, or has not at
tracted attention before the past year;
and fears are entertainer! that the pest is
of recent introduction. The varying
abundance of different kinds of insects
during different years renders such a
■view improbable; yet it is significant that
the present species is new to science,
never having been described bv entomo
logists.
Quite a valuable industry is now car
ried on in France, in the utilization of
the various kinds ot feather- formerly
treated as worthless, especially those ob
tained in plucking ducks, chickens, tur
keys. and thtoe of wild fowls and other
birds killed a- game. The plan pursued
consists in trimming these, particularly i
the larger ones. . ff the stump, which may
be thrown away, the plumes being then
made use of in the manufacture of a
feather cloth or blanket which possesses
tire essential quality of being exceeding
ly light and at the same time very warm.
The plumes which are separated from j
the st...k are placed in a bag, closed
tightly, and then subjected to rubbing I
between the hands, as in washing clothes, I
In a few minutes the filters are by this !
means separated from each other, and
form a perfectly homogeneous and very
light down, applicable by simple opera
tion to the production of quite a variety
of coverings and other household objects,
at a reasonable cost.
The ‘-preacher" i* the latest swindling
dodge being worked inCentral lowa. He
calls on his way distributing Bibles, and
often present* the family with a hand
some book. He then asks for dinner or
other meal, and takes a receipt for
twenty-five cent* paid for it. A few
months later the neighboring bank cal la
for the payment of a note for #150.25.
“Mandolins are the latest craze,’’ said
a dealer in music to a New York S„„ rc
porter. “They were brought to public
notice several year* ago by the traveling
company of Spanish *tudeiits, but they
did not beromepopular until this whiter
Pianos arc neglected and banjos are
tossed aside, and young ladies now wear
out their finger* on these 'hrill noted
guitar*. They are more like guitars than
anything else ] know of. The body i*
made of vvood. and is the shape of a
pumpkin “cut in half. • It ha* four
strings, and has fret* like a guitar. The
fret-board is short. A mandolin is played
with a thumb-piece, and is a romantic
and really musical instrument. We are
having a big sale of them. It is easy to
learn to play on them.’’
A London paper prints a very witty
letter from one of its fair readers auent
an unfair discrimination which custom
has decreed against married women and
in favor of their husbands. She aks
very pertinently why, when a woman
marries, *he should be compelled to pub
licly exhibit the badge of servitude
known as “Mrs.’ Blank, while her hus
band is allowed to go scott free as simple
“Mr.,’’without any outward and distin
guishing mark ot his new, and of course,
improved condition. “If it is necessary,”
she says, ‘‘that the wife *hould be label
ed ‘Sold, why should not the husband
also bear the red ticket t” The title of
“Mr. is entirely too comprehensive.
There is no danger-signal in it to catch
the eye of tlic unwary, and a young mar
ried man can do a great deal of mischief
if he be so inclined.
Anderson 11. Jones, a colored man,
who went to Liberia *ix months ago from
Missouri, writes home from Krcwersville,
a village fiiteen miles from Monrovia,
giving some account of the country. lie
says that there are no horses, no mules
and no oxen in the whole settlement. All
the farm work is done with the hoe, the
rake and the axe. He says: “I have
been all over the settlement, and I found
the largest number of people in a suffer
ing condition for something to eat and
lor clothes to wear. There isn’t any
doctor in this settlement—the settlement
is too poor to support one. Calico is
twenty-five cent* per yard. A common
laborer, when lie can get any work to do,
is paid twenty-live cents a day. Pickled
pork is twenty-five cents per pound;
shoulder meat twenty-five cents per
pound. All the flour and meat used here
is imported from England and America.
Corn meal is ten cents per quart. Com
mon flour is sls a barrel. The only way
the settlers have to money here is
by raising and selling coffee. It will
take a newcomer like myself from five to
six years to get a coffee farm in trim for
selling coffee. The public schools are
poor. There is a class of people over here
who do not want the true condition of
things written back home.”
The Aster Estate.
A New York letter to the Utica Herald
says: John Jacob Astor left the bulk of
his property to William in trust, for his
two sons, William and John Jacob, this
being a* extended an entail as our laws
permit. William was a very faithful
trustee, but in addition he accumulated
a half dozen millions of his own. This
he bequeathed to his sons in trust for
’ thus relating his fathers 1
their chimin, - , ,
plan. On VV luia... o sons
made a division of their grandfather’s es
tate, this being the most imoportant act
of partition that ever occurred in Amer
ica. The most curious feature of this af
fair is the secrecy with which it was
done. It was an immense, task to divide
such a vast and varied estate into two
equal parts; but it was effected
iu a manner that must have been
mutually satisfactory. It is sup
posed that the property was carefully in
ventoried by the clerks and then
separated into two portions as equally as
possible and then the choice drawn by
lot. At any rate the Astor house fell to
John Jacob, who is generally thought to
have the best slice. The brothers always
preserved amity, and when the dissolu
tion took place they erected adjoining
offices in Twenty-sixth street. John
Jacob soon afterward placed all his
property in the hands of Waldorf, who
is now the richest man for his age in
America. The advance ou the valuation
may be given as follows: John Jacob
died worth $20,000,000. When William
died (twenty-seven years afterward) the
estate was worth at least thrice that sum,
and its increase since then will make each
of the brothers worth $50,000,000. This
may be considered certainly well to do
in the world.
One reason why the Astor brothers
have adjoining offices is found in the
common ownership of the deeds, maps
and leases belonging to the estate which
cannot be divided. These form a library
iu themselves and are very interesting to
the antiquarian, as showing how New
York was laid out in the olden time. ’A
-till greater curiosity i* the little four
wheeled wooden wagon which i* used
in bringing the old books into the office for
reference. It i* made in the rudest and
cheapest manner, the wheels being sawed
out of a board, but it has served this
purpose for more than half a century,
and old John Jacob loved hi* “book
wagon" more than hi* coach. This col
lection of map* and leases i* of much
value in real estate searches, but only a
favored few are permitted to examine
them.
In the Parlor.
'HE.
Anticipation.
UK.
Exultation.
BOTIT.
Osculation.
FATHER.
Indignation.
HE.
Gyration.
AI.L AROCX'D.
Sensation.
lid- Bits.
THE NEWS IN GENERAL.
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happenings of interest
FROM ALL POINTS.
EASTER'S A S I) >ll DOI.K •‘TATES.
The re- ent unusually severe aud prolonged
rain storm flooded about twenty colieries in
the Schuylkill Penn anthracite coal basin,
and compelled a cessation of work, nearly
6.000 men and boys being temporarily thrown
out < >f employment.
1 s an interview at Scranton. Penn., Gener
al Master Workman Powderlv says that in
' iew of the railroad officials' refusal to sub
mit the difficulties intlie Southw-est to arbi
tration. the Knights of Labor were justified
m continuing th* strike. He was confident
that thjs would lie the last- great railroad
strike in this country, and thought it would
b a-h both sides & useful lesson.
A fire in the Pennsylvania Academy of
l ine Arts at TAilsdelphia destroyed the
uoithern picture gallery and some of the tin
<. *t painting* and -statuary iu the collection.
and illiam H Miller, another of the New
\ ork ex-aldermen charged with bribery,
ha* been arrested. He wt. - found near Fa
iatka. Fla., by two New Yo.-k detectives,
and brought to the metropolis.
Tkv bodies had been recovered from the
railroad wreck, near Deerfield. Mass., on the
Bth. and eve al persons were then still miss
ing. A boa; thirty person* were injured.
Ihe Rhode Island election ha* resulted in
tin- *-. c -ess of Governor Wet more and all the
rest of the Republi -an ticket except- Attor
ney-Genera! Colt The latter was defeated
by Edwin Metcalf, candidate of the Demo
crat* and Prohibitionists. The constitutional
amendment prohibiting the manufacture and
sa.e oi intoxicating liquor.-: was carried.
•*OITH AMI WEST.
M mu; plowing in his field Joe Cough mail
a Newberry (S. (J.) farmer, unearthed a pot
of ancient gold coin worth $12,000. This
lucky find has set half the county to plowing
for treasure pots.
Ihe striking Knights of Labor in the
bwthwest issue j a bitter manifesto against
Jay Gould on the bth. It was addressed to
the ‘Workingmen of the World,” and de
clared tint Gould must be overthrown.
Mr. Arthur, chief of the Brother
hood of Railway Engineers, has been iu St.
ixwis in consultation w ith the Knights. Vice
President Hoxie, of the Missouri Pacific,
claimed to be running trains with considera
ble regularity-. The company has brought
1.200 suits against persons alleged to have in
jured and destroyed its property. Several
towns notified the company that they would
pay ad damages inflicted within their limits ,
Cincinnati's municipal election, just
hekL lie* resulted iu the success of the entire
Republican ticket by majorities ranging
from 4,000 to 7,000.
\ body of 2,000 striking railroad employee
entered the yards of the various companies
at East >St. Louis on the 7th and compelled
the men at w ork to stop and join them. The
sheriff s deputies where hustled aside, but
finally the strikers were halted by a number
of deputies with leveled Win Chester rifles.
Armed men arrived by every train to protect
the railroad companies, and were all sworn
in as deputies.
Crazed with drink, William Ellis, of St.
Francis, Ark., shot his wife and two-year-old
child to death, his arrest following the mad
act.
Mrs. . Lars Gindhal, residing near
Lau Claire. Wis., has just given birth to four
male babiee, weighing altogether twenty
pounds, and all alive and healthy*.
By the capsizing- of the steamer Mountain
Bay at Owensboro, Ky., three men were
drowned.
A pitched battle between members of two
political factions at Laredo, Texas, resulte 1
id the death of five men and the wounding of
several others. Nearly 2,000 men, 200 on
horseback, engaged in the fight.
The Farmers’ Alliance, of Hopkins couutv
Kansas, at a meeting a few days ago, passed
resolutions refusing the invitation of the
Knights of Labor to boycott, and denouncing
boye ittiug as “detrimentil to the financial,
social, moral, and political interests of all
classe:. ”
WASHINGTON.
The iu- are st van Kmjfitts ot Laboi ir Con
gress.
In the lowa contested election case of
Campbell vs. Weaver, the House election
Committee has decided by a party vote in
favor of \\ eaver, the sitting member.
The Senate has confirmed Mr. Trenholm’s
nomination to be comptroller of the currency.
The Mexican pension bill passed by the
House directs the secretary of the interior
to place the names of all the surviving offi
cers, soldiers and sailors who enlisted and
served in the war with Mexico for any period
during the years 1845, 1846, 1847 and 1848,
and were honorably discharged, and their
surviving widows, on the pension roll at the
rate of $8 per month from and after the pas
sage of this act during their lives. Persons
under political disabilities are not included.
Additional nominations by the President:
Job H. Lippincott, to be attorney of the
United States for the district of New Jersey;
C aleb \\ . West, of Kentucky, to be governor
of Utah Territory’-. CSfisnlj-Louis D. Bey
land, of Pennsylvania, at Kingston,
Sf;l AlfiKjnubat BauSaKa-
.og,aie, ot Louisiana, at iiP
pico; Moses H. Sawyer, of Connecti
cut, at Trinidad. Postmasters —Andrew
.Shanahan, at Rockland, Massachusetts;
William Hut trick, at Concordia, Mass. ;Theo :
dore H. Fenu, at Lee, Mass.; Jeremiah Mur
phy, at Beverly, Mass.: Lemuel A. Keith, at
Bridgewater. Mass.: Rollin C. Ward, at
Northfie'd. Mass.; Hartford D. Nelson, at
Oueonta. N. Y.; Benjamin F. Vail, at War
wick. N. : Frederick P. Newkirk, at Ox
ford. N. Y.; Wm. J. Moses, at Auburn, N
Y.; Alice M. Crabtree, at Belmont, N. Y.;
Thomas Hill, at Haddonlield, N. J.; Charles
F. Young, at Columbia, Penn.
The beuate has confirmed the nominations
of John D. Oberly. of Illinois, and Charles
Lyman, of Connecticut, to be civil service
commissioners, and 8. M. Htockslager, of In
diana. to be assistant commissioner of the
general laud office.
A number of nominations for internal
revenue collectors having been reported
favorably’ by the Senate finance committee
upon receiving notice from Secretary Man
ning that no charges against the officials
whose places were filled had been filed, they
were confirmed in executive session. This, it
is stated, is hereafter to be th - policy- of the
Senate majority.
’The President ha* nominated Obadiah
Cutler to be collector of customs for the dis
trict of Niagara, New York; Edward War
field, to be survey-or of customs for the port
of Baltimore, M l.: Thomas G. Hayes, to be
United States attorney for the district of
Maryland: George H. Catmc.% to be Unite!
States jparsbgl for the district; of
Maryland; Cyrus P. Snepard. to
be register of the Janfl office at
Worthington, Miiiii.: Edmund James, to bo
receiver of public money * at Carson City*,
Nev.: Samuel I. Lorab. to be receiver of pub
lic moneys at Central City, Col.: John A.
McClernaud. of llliuoi*, to be a member of
the board of registration and election in the
Territory of Utah.
Secretary Lamar has revoked Land
Comm ssfoner Sparks' order of Inst Apr.l
suspending final act on ou laud entries over
a large section of Nebraska, nearly all of
Colorado, all of Fa-iota, Idaho, Utah. Wash
ington 'territory. New M-xico. Montana.
Wyoming. Nevada and Northern Minnesota.
The decision to revoke the order was made at
a cabinet meeting.
KOKEIG*.
William E. rohater, a member of the
British parliament- and formerly thief -ecre
tary for Ireland, is dead in his sixty-uint j
year.
Tee Canadian government is fitting out.
cruisers for the protection of the fisheries.
The movement i- directed mainly against
American fishermen.
Heavy snowstorms iu Southern Michigan
and Northern Ohio have greatly impeded
travel and traffic.
The Italian mini-try. formed ! June,
I**s. have resigned.
Mahometan fanatics attacked an 1 de
stroyed a mission house and other buildings
in the Phillippine island*. A force was s.nc
to chastise the fa a ties, twelve of whom were
killed and s>veral wounded. Th S; auish
•-aptain in cha- ge of the force and four of
hs men were wounded, and one of the men
was kdied. Three cays a' ter the first out
rage the *;n;e band bur or and the village of
Aniadeo and the uava: ' oal Jop t. The
los es are heavy.
HURLED INTO ETERNITY.
1 FItIGHTFUL RAILRO in nit ECU
IX MASSACHUSETTS.
' Train IMuiier* Down an Kiubanknimi
i(KI Feet High.
A Greenfield (Mass.) dispatch of the 7th
gives the following particulars of the fright
ful railroad disaster which occurred that
uight. midway between Bardweli's ferry and
V\ .-*t Deerfield -tation, the ea*t bound passen
ger train from North Adams, due at Greeu-
Celd at 6:05 p. m. going over aa embankment
-•00 feet in height:
The train a* the Eastern express, and con*
<ist *1 t>f a baggage car. a smoker, a -le ‘ping
car. a mail car. and two ortliuary passenger
i-ar*. 1h - train wa* in charge of Con
ductor Foster, with Herbert Littlejohn a*
engine t. The poibt where th accident oc
urred is the most dangerous on the road.
The tra-k runs on the edge of an embankment
200 feet above Deerfield river. The Lank is
steep anti is covered with huge boulders aud
masses of *'iale ro. -k with which the read-bed
had been filled. When the train arrrived at
ihis |mint the track Began to settle un ler
it for a distance covering its entire length.
The coaches broke from their truck* an 1 went
rolling over and over down the precipice.
The engine broke from the tender, tearing up
the track for twenty feet. Below rolled the
Deerfield river, ou the very edge of which
; -the cars were thrown. As soon as they struck
they caught fire from the stoves. The shrieks
of the wounded and dying filled the air. and
for a time the scene was terrible. The sleep
ing car, occupie 1 by several jiassengers, was
an entire wreck. One little girl was picked
up dead.
As soon as the news reached Greenfields
special train was ma*le up aud sent to the
scene of the disaster, having on board sever
al physicians and section men and a few
citizens. On arriving at the scene
of the wreck a horrible sight was
witnessed. The darkness of night
had settled over the spot. Far down ou the
river bank could be seen the smouldering
’ embers of the tram. Tt was impossible to tefi
who was hurt and who was killed. Stout
hearted trackmen were lowered cautiously
t down the treacherous height- and the work of
rescue began.
Merritt Seely, superintendent of the Na
tional Express company, of Boston, was
found in the wreck and’taken to the relief
tar. He had n wound four inches long aud
half au inch wide over his left temple. His
left thigh was broken, aud also his left leg at
the knee, beside which he sustained fatal
internal injuries.
The Fitchburg coach was the only one t hat
escaped the conflagration Deputy Sheriff
Bryant, of Greenfield, who was in this car,
rescued the bodies of two children from th*s
flames, but one was dead and the other <ly
iug. I). C.Wells, of Andover, had his shoul
tier hurt aud his head cut. The car in which
he was riding was broken in two. and stood
.on end within a few feet of the river bank.
Nicholas Dorgau, of Greenfield, had his left
arm and ankle broken, and was seriously in
jured internally. A little girl who was a
passenger on the train died in his arms from
injuries received. J. E. Priest, of Littleton.
N. H., had his face and head cut. Engineer
Herbert Littlejohn, of North Adams, was
badly scalded, it was believed, fatally. A.
K W arner, chairman of the Greenfield board
of selectmen, was ba lly hurt.
At midnight four more bodies were taken
from the wreck, including that of Brakeinan
Spencer. This made six persons found dead
up to (that time; several were fatally injured,
and many others more or less seriously hurt.
*USICJL AND DRAMATIC.
Mr. Bgucicault’s new play, “The Jilt,"
is a great success.
Verdi is reported to be engaged in the
composition of anew opera.
Camillo Urso, the distinguished violin
ist, has been concerting in the South.
Emma Nevada, the singer, has become the
guest of Mrs. Senator Jones, in Washington.
Miss Anna Dickinson is writing a histori
cal play to show’ up man's inhumanity to
women.
Princess Christian recently played the
piano at a “free at Wind
sor, England.
P. S. Gilmore will lead the band at Man
hattan Beach, Coney Island, this summer, as
he has done for years past.
The roof of the theatre at Huromal, Japan,
gave way not long ago, aud fell upon the
spectators, 150 of whom W’ere killed or seri
ously injured.
Sir Arthur Sullivan is turning his at
tention from light opera and is again es
saying more serious works. He is now en
gaged in composing a cantata.
A musical museum has been organized at
Milan, and is to have an exhibition of antique
and rare musical instruments, accompanied
by a series of so called historical concerts.
Adelina Patti is said to know’ perfectly
forty-seven complete operas, having actually
appeared in public in forty-two, several
of which she bas sung in French as well as
Italian.
Mr. Lawrence Barrett adds to his
repertory next season a five-act tragedy en
titled “Harold, the Last of the Saxons,” j
fr£2 the German of Herr Krn*t von ‘
Wilderbrueb. ...
Mr. B. B. VAIKNTiNE, who originated i
Puck’s “FlLznoodle” papers, in association ;
w jtF Mr. John G. Wilson, the author of I
“Nordeck,” is preparing a comedy in which
Fitznoodle is to be the central figure.
Miss May L. Tifft. the daughter of Hen
ry R. Tifft of New York, who recently made
her debut in the opera of “Lucia” at her
Majesty's in London, is spoken of by a Lon
don paper as the most successful debutante of
the season.
A W’RITER in the St. Paul Pioneer-Press
says that Salviui, the Italian tragedian, can
never remember his lines, and is compelled to
constantly have a prompter in attendance.
He claims that he cannot do a part justice
when he devotes his attention to remember
ing the w’ords.
A VICTIM OF HYDROPHOBIA.
Terrible .Suflerin* anti Death of a Young
Baltimore Physician.
Dr. Brinton PI. Warner, a young physician
of Baltimore, who had established a good
pracli ;e anl wa? making rapid progress in
ais profession, died the other morning of hy
drophobia. Dr. Warner was bitten on
Christmas day. He was passing along the
Greet when he saw a lapdog, which had been
run over by a hoi se car, and h id dragged it
relf. bruised aul bleel ug, over the cobble
stones He was “ery fq-d of an i with
t fondly reeling thought he would convey
the tiny an heal home, nurse it and make
a pet of it Taking out his handkerchief h“
tie 1 it arouu 1 the dog’s neck and trie 1
to induce the animal to follow him
to his home, a block westward, on
Saratoga ft eek He male three at
tempts to in lu -e : h • dog to foil ,w him, when
suddenly it turned it* h *ati aud bit him on
the lack of his right baud Although the
animal exhibited no Symptoms of hv
drophobia. Pr. Warner’ at on e cauterized
Ins w’ounds, three or four teeth mark*, aud a
policeman sx>b afterward shot aid killed
the dog. Dr. Vy; crier was naturally of a
nervous d:s: o iiion, aud often worried
over the bit althougn it gave him no
pain. Thursday he was ta' en slightly ill. but
went to his office as Usual. The next’ day li=*
fell upon tli kitchen fi or, and when picked
up wa* ve: y nervous and excite 1. Saturday
he went to bed and til; delirium began. The
symptoms of rabies had be orfie pronoun -ed
There wa* a will look about the eves. lie
could not swallow water, and in 1 i- delirium
he imagined there were dogs under
the bed. So vividly was this
idea impressed on his mind that be sprang
from h s bed and rushed to another part of
tte room, but the animal* sc-eme 1 to pursue
him wherever he went,-and ho moved rest
lessly abedt from side to s'deof the apart
maac in a vain effort t* e ca->e. A number of
leading phys, .an* were in stt ud.uice; -every
mode oi treatment was trie 1 including the
Russ an bath, but in*tea! of gdtiire
bettor hi grew Worre. At midnight an
Episcopal minister was summoned to his
bed-ide. After the clergyman had departed
another paroxysm seii-d the young man,
and one after another the*e convulsions re
currel until in one <.f them, iu which he
frothed at the mouth during the intensity of
the spasm, he died after suffering the most
ho; r.bie agonies Dr. Warner left-a wife
uud three child! ea.
' A DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.
¥.1.\l HttUSES l\ /.A < It OSS E. II Is.
s ( (CUV II TO nil FLAMES.
One Thousand Men Out of W ork uud (Ot
People (tendered Homele**.
One of the most disa*t o.is conflagration*
that ever visited Wisconsin broke out the
other morning in John Paul's mill at La
crosse and swept southward, destroying the
mill and save; al million feet of lumber be
lougmg to Mr. FauL Tiiencc it swept to the
yards aud mill of C. L. Uolman, destroying
everything to the river and for
iwo blo-ks to the southward. The
flames leaped repidly from one pile to
another despite the exertion* of the entire
fire department. All the steamers were
brought into service and all the power that
could lie obtained from the mill pumps, the
city water works and the local hvdrant*
Hie scene about the conflagration became
thrilling. Thousands of people thronged
the sir. ets. the sidewalks an 1 the
housetops to witues* the confla
gcaton. The fire originated from
a spark from the mill sfa-ks or from
the furnaces. In rtftren minutes the mill was
doomed, and in thirty minutes it fell in ruin*
with all its suleudi i machinery There was
no staying the progress of the flame*, which
lumped to the great pile of- lumber and
m an hour made a seething sea of
flames against the heat of which no
fireman could stand. The wind was blowing
fresh from the north and the flame* moved
steadily southwest All efforts to stop them at
Column s mill proved futile. The immense
structure was soon a mass of fire The plan
mg null adjoining was also caught. The
workmen and thefiredenartinent then turned
then- attention toward Cass street, where a
rerce of men were set to work to tear down
the lumber piles, that the flames might be
stopped there. All hope of saving the im
mediate property was abandone 1 \ train
of eight cars iKdongiug t. the Milwaukee and
uh. raul roail was consumed.
At 2 o’clock it was evident that the lar e
factory of Segelke, Koblurs & Cos. wa?
doomed lhe h aze broke out in the store
house of the sash factory in Second street
mismga flame of fire one blo< k in length.'
Ihe tour-story house and sheds burned with
•lgbtnmg rapidity, aud people east of Second
street began moving out.
the fire was c<>mp!etdv nnde“ control l-e
--fore o oclock. The departments from Wi
nona, Minn., an 1 Sparta, rendered excellent
aid A careful evtimate of the loss pl a -es it
at #1,000,000. of which, as individual heavy
.oseiN. C L Colmau is greatest, liis loss
bemg s4oo,am, with no insurance. John
“aul s loss, null and 5.000,OF) feet of lumber
is estimated at tf150.000. insured for
, ile was te ten blocks, which included
two ot the largest lumber-vanls in Wiscon
sniand some eighty small house*. Fullv
l 000 men are thrown out of employment and
400 persons rendered homeless.
SEWSY GLEANINGS.
Harvard university will be 250 years old
next October.
i . Costly living is given as the cause of the
loss of students at Yale college.
Europe is stated to have an available mili
tary force of 9,000,000 soldiers.
Vermont expects to produce 10.00,0,000
]xunds of maple sugar this year.
A bout GOO,OOO worth of American made
locomotives are sent abroad yearly.
The next general assembly of the Knights
ol Labor will be hold in Richmond, Ya. in
October.
The Indian population of this country is
said to be diminishing at the rate of 5,000 or
0,000 a year.
Four grand hotels are to be ready by the
Ist of July for the a commoiation of visitors
to the Yellowstone park.
One-third of the corn crop of 1885 of
lowa is still in the farmers' hands and unsold
—that is, 80,832,000 bushels.
The value of the liardwa-e produced in the
T nited States eac h year is now about, SOO,-
000,000, and nearly half of it is made in
Connecticut.
The wife of one of the clergyman at Sar
anac, Mich., supplements her husband’s mea
gre salary by driving a wagon and peddling
milk from door to door.
Washington is becoming pre-eminently
the city of palatial residences. Fifteen Sen
ators have erected magnificent domiciles
within the past twelve months.
Certain wine dealers of San Francisco, in
order to bring about wine instead of whisky
drinking,have opened an establishment where
native wine is sold for five cents a glass.
During the war, Mrs. Terry, of North
Adams, Mass., nursed back to life a stranger
who was prostrated with fever. The man,
who was a brother of ex-Governor Leland
Stanford, of California. died re-entlv Hiv
ing her $15,000. '
It is stated that up to the present date 500
persons have been inoculated against hydro
phobia at the Pasteur laboratory in the Rue
and Ulm, four-fifths of whom were bitten by
dogs whose rabid condition was ascertained
by post mortem examinations.
PERSONAL MENTION.
General Logan will address the Grand
Army posts at Grant’s tomb on Decoration
Day.
Postmaster General Vilas will de
liver the Memorial Day oration at the Acad
emy of Music.
Tenxie Claflin, who recently married a
wealthy English nan, has a stepson who is
forty-two years old.
i General William R. Terry has been
chosen superintendent of the Confedera'. j
Soldiers’ Home at Richmand.
The wealthiest resident of Reading, Penn.,
has become insane because six men were
killed in an accident in his mill.
■King Kalakaua has entered the lecture
field. He recently delivered a lecture on the
geologic origin and history of Hawaii.
H. M. H jxie, vice-president of the Mis
souri Pacific railroad, and Jay Gould's West
ern lieutenant, was once a stable boy.
Queen Victoria will visit Liverpool in
May for the first time since 1851, when she
was accompanied by the Prince Consort.
Colonel P. P. G. Hall, paymaster
United States army, is the only living de
scendant of William Penn in this country.
Germany hes eight s bools of forestry,
where five years’ training is required of those
who seek positions under the government.
Miss Mary Lee, the eldest daughter of
Robert E. Lee, is now in Portugal, her sister
Mildred being amoug friends in New Or
ler.ns,
HIS wife is the only nurse Mr. Gladstone
has when his health is broken, an 1 he gives
himself into her bands with the docility of an
infant.
Mrs. Secretary Whitney will give no
more large entertainments this season in con
s quenee of the recent death of her grand
mother.
BASE BALL NOTES.
The American association used up 1,242
base bails during last feason.
The Metropolitans will have the finest
grounds in the world on Staten Island.
The Detroit league club have the strong
est collect! uof batters that was ever known.
The new rule giving credit in the summary
for ba-e, stolen seems to have met with gen
eral approval.
It is estimated both associations will
squander the snug sum of $50,000 for the
piaye:s' railroad .“are this season.
BASEEALLis quite as popular in Canada as
here, and has outstripped” in general favor
the national and beautiful game of ia rosse.
Ft. Louis has no less than seventy-six uni
formed amateur clubs. Philadelphia tops
them with a total of 312 fully e pupped or
ganisations.
Danx. the new cat her of the Yale c liege
team, i also a fine pitcher, but so speedy in
hi- delivery that no one could be four.d in the
college who could hold him.
Each league club saves nearly *SO ) a year
by the rule requir ng plavers t ■ submit to a
reduction from salary of fifty vnts per day
while .. daring the season.
NOTICE TO
FARMERS!
IF YOU WANT TO FU:< HA.SE A
COTTONSEEDOIL
MILL!
A Cotton Gin,
A Cttoon Feeder,
A Cotton Condenser,
A Cotton Press,
SAW MILL,
Pulleys, Shaft in<, Hangers, and
MILL WORK.
Write to us for PRICKS and DISCOUN TS. We oar- make-lit TO
V OUR INTEREST to buy direct* from us.
E. VAN WINKLE & CO.,
MANUFACTURERS.
ATLANTA, - -- - - - GEORGIA,
fee-NOTICE TO THE TEA PE. — We give PLuouo to the trade
FURMAN FARM IMPROVEMENT COf,
ATjAI*rXTU”_A.CTXJiRIEF£,£3 OF 1
FERTILIZERS AND CHEMICALS.
'■° lit, '°l die sole right to inanufacture antUell FAR I si I FFE MAN’S
lOK.MLLA, the great Georgia Farmer s Chemicals tor Compost for Cotton aa
n?ft°''dio y <h v ,rt,C FARiBH V- J TTKMAN ? President of the Ccm.pany at M.e ttt^
1 bis> death. None genuine unless branded “Furman’s Formula. ’
BUFFALO BONE GUANO, a liigb grade Standard Guano.
(ir-nr-.n FURMAN FIIGH GHADFj GUANO, a Special Brand—Hlack.
FIRMAN S FORMULA AMMONIA 1 ED, a complete fertilizer lor ( utton and Wheat.
GOLDEN GRAIN GUANO, OR '‘FURMAN'S FORMULA FOR OATS ” ’
None genuine unless branded
FURMAN FARM IMPROVEMENT CO.
Factory, East Point—Office, 40 Marietta street, Atlanta, Ga. Wide to v. u .,,.u
leis and Certificates.
Jfeir For sale by D. J. PROCTOR, Forsyth, Ga.
THE
FARQUHAR COTTON PLANTER!
THE BEST“?N USE.
L diops the unrolled Seed with jicrlect- regularity and in any desired
amount. Never skips. Opens, drops and covers.
#eT Send for Prices.
A. B. FARQUHAR & CO.,
MACON. GEORGIA.
W. T. MAYNARD & SON, Agents, Forsyth, Ga.
NEW JEWELRY STORE!
IN ByRNESVILLE.
# Alain st AVc are phased to announce that we arc agiiid on
merit of past favors by k.cpn.g in steel; a line
"We\viH handle PIANOS AND ORGAN the best
CLOCKS & WATCHES!
Are first clas and guaranteed with price to compete with any bouse in the South. We
will carry a full line of JULIUS KING’S
SPECTACLES, th f ‘ reputation of which is not
excelled by any. Gold Pens and Pencils a D1 f
specialty. Silver Ware from the best n 1 |
we guarantee all work to be done witn dispatch
and to give satisfactioh. Thanking the public for past favors and most earnestly and
respectfully soliciting a continuance of the fume we are Your ob’t servants,
0. S. HIGGINS & SON Barnesville, Ga.
WALL PAPER
and
WINDOW DRAPERY HOUSE
45 Marietta Street. ATLANTA, GEORGIA
To the people of Monroe I have to say that I am carrying the latest ami most exten
sive line of WALL PAPERS in the city.
Goods all New & Prices Reasonable
1 l,m 4 p c Drai,ery -
Prompt attention given to 11 order*.
i uuc2 JAMES TANARUS, WHITE, Agent
J. J. COOK,
Manufacturer and Dealer In
HARNESS, ETC.,
Corner next to Alexander & Son's Drug Store, FORSYTH G '
Would respectfully inform the citizen, of Monroe nnd adjacent countic, that he U.
opened a first class Harness ettahlisnmcnt where the, can secure anything in line,
or hast it made to order. Special attention oill be given toal] kinds of Repairing. All
WORK WARRANTED
Price rcnsonaU. ard .tUi*,, guaranteed, r,t,onagc solicited. Al! *orh th, bet.