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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. =* 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. ~ 1 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. • j 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.