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The annual average of suicides ♦or
every million people is 17 in Spain, 80 in
(Russia, 87 in Italy. >2 in Hungary, 70 in
.England and Norway, 98 in Sweden, 122
Sn Austria, 127 in Bavaria, ITO in France,
104 in Wurtemb irg, 107 in Meeklenberg,
174 in Prussia, 290 in Denmark, 305 in
Thuringia, and 377 in Saxony. Suicides
re be oming more frequent every year
in highly civilized countries, but espe
cially among the poor German races.
Someone has compiled the followNtig
table, showing the results of the recent
storms in this country :
Killer/. T Vbunded. D&maye
Ohio.. ~.. 48 50 $t.460,000
Missouri 89 37 875,000
Kansas 11 35 710,000
Indiana 9 32 385,000
Illinois 8 0 260,00#
Michigun, Wisconsin
and Pennslyvania. % 8 103,000
Total loss 124 128 f3.300,609
A dollar a month will keep a Bengal
man alive. Here is certainty the spot on
earth where contentment, sufficiency,
paradise should be. A distinguished
Brahmin recently quoted from official
reports the statement that 80,000,600 of
of the Hindus are always in a state of
semi-starvation; that most of the dis
eases are the result of hunger; that
8,000,000, or 4,000,000 dty every elev
enth year of acute famine. Over a large
portion of China famine is chronic. Only
u few years ago 7,000.600 people starved
to death in one visitation.
The erection of an American hospital
In the City of Mexico has now begun in
earnest. * ‘Americans in and out of
Mexico,*’says the Tice? ltcpnblics, “should
make it a point of honor to supply ample
funds for the completion of the enter
prise, which is demanded in the name of
humanity, as well as in the interest of
the good name of the American people.
Contributions may be sent to the Ameri
can Legation in Mexico, whose head is
the President of the American Benevo
lent Society in Mexico, which has under*
taken the building of the hospital.”
The word month is not likely soon to
t>e defined in its statutory use by national
enactment, though a bill with that end
iu view has been introduced by Senator
Platt. In England a legal month is the
lunar month of twenty-eight days. This
was the common law interpretation, but
Georgia is the only State which now ad
heres to that interpretation; all other
States go by the calendar. As the ques
tion lias never been raised iti the courts
the Judiciary Committee concluded that
there was no call for any legislation on
‘tlie subject, and reported the bill ad
versely.
“Sketching by telegraph” is the latest
novelty. An ingenious system of adapt
ing the alphabetical messages of the
electric telegraph, or any other signaling
apparatus, to the reproduction at distant
points of some kinds of drawings has
been contrived by Alexander Glen, of
England. It seems likely to be of much
utility in military operations, as it is es
pe daily suitable for the transmission of
small maps or plans of a locality, and
for indicating the pasition of troops,
batteries, and points of attack. By it,
it is claimed, portraits and sketches can
be re-produced with a fair degree
fidelity.
Balloons as an adjunct of warfare are
attracting much attention in European
military circles, an 1 their possible value
iu time of peace is not entirely over
looked. An English writer remarks that
the recent successful attempts at balloon-
Iteerage iu France have led many
thoughtful persons to believe the day not
to be far distant when we shall see bal
loons plying in well-paying passenger
traffic between England and the conti
nent. Another writer adds that such a
result would be uo more wonderful in its
way than the discovery and development
of the telephone, which, though scarcely
a decade old, is already so familiar to us
that it no longer seems strange.
A City of Mexico letter asserts that “if
llie tourists who leave the Eastern and
Midd’e States dining the bleak winter
months to seek health and pleasure in
milder c’timati s knew Mexico as it is, they
would tloi k here. The country is, and
has been, during my five years’ residence
as safe as the State of New Y'ork. to live
and to travel in. ’llie people are quiet
and as a rule courteous to all strangers.
Violent crime < less in proportion in
Mexican than iu American cities. There
are fairly comfortable hotels in nearly all
the princtj al towns, and many new ones
are bring built and furnuhe 1. The food
furnished i- nutritious and plentiful. The
mode of cookery is generally distasteful
to AuuuL ms. bit the keepers of restau
rant? are a .o; t ag American customs in
many instances t > get tbeir trade. Hotel
and restaurant charges are a little lower
than in the In.: i States. Police service
is as effective in all the larger towns as
iu the l Lited States, ar.d the Mexican
police are more pati nt and courteous then
those of the American cities. Several
tourists, who w. re entirely ignorant of the
language, have told ms of their having
1> eu j kke 1 up, when lost in the city of
Mexico, and eturned promptly and cour
t ecu -.y to th .nr hotels by the police, and
they art ;.s ready to serve the old and ugly
as the more attractive or younger. Of
c urse it i- h .rd to make re-idents of the
Eastern Slates realize that the climate is
such that y -u may dress in light woollen
goods, and. with a light overcoat for
night journeys, be comfortable the year
round: but it is true.”
One would naturally imagine that this
new country was better wooded than the
old and thickly settled nations of Europe,
But. according to a forestry authority,
such is not the fact. In Europe, it is *
claimed, twenty-eight per cent, of the
land remains in timber,while only sixteen
and one half per cent, thus remains in the
United States.
Captain John Miller, of
Chickasaw Nation, was recently on trial
at Fort Smith, Ark., charged with mur
der, This was not a novel experience to
Captain John, for, says the St. Louis
O lobe-Democrat, he h is, according to hit
own account, killed thirty raea durrnf
his life, not counting those he way have
slain ’n the war. Though often tried for
murder, he always, escaped conviction,
and in this isst eivse was released on the
ground that the court ha-1 no jurisdic
tion in the cash. Captain Miller was
born in Choctaw county, Miss., in 1816,
and is now seventy years of age, though
no one would take him for more tha--
fifty.
The de vices for attracting and pleasing
customers in New York stores are various
and ingenious. Ia one store a buffet has
j been opened for free lunching. A neat
; maid serves out tiny sandwiches, cakes
| and coffee. She is an expert, however,
| and puts the dainties where they will do
| the most good to her employers. She
j discriminates between little and big
| buyers intuitively ; she soon spots those
who bring their empty stoma hs too often
lobe filled, and especially is she kind to
the children of liberal purchasers. For
I these youngsters she has a special supply
. of pastry, and with them she opens the
i hearts and purses of the fond mothers,
j Probably this luncheon counter does
not cost, more than $25 ft day, and in
fluences more than enough business to
pay for itself.
An earthen mug, about six inches
! high, with cat-tails painted on the out
| side, that was purchased at the sale of
j Ferdinand Ward’s household effects, lias
; been presented to a lady in New York.
S Accompanying the mug is the following
: “pedigree:” When General Grant was
j traveling along the Lake of Killarney he
j met a little peasant girl, whom he asked
I for a drink of water. The child dipped
j the mug into the lake and handed it to
| him with a pretty little Irish courtesy
that impressed the distinguished trav
i eler. When she learned that it was the
great American soldier and President
who had asked her for the cup of water,
! she begged him to accept the piece of
pottery as a souvenir of the time and
place. This the general gracefully did,
and afterward presented the mug to his
partner.
Both Chicago and Milwaukee are be
wailing the decadence of the grain trade
that has made them great. The loss is
more notable in wheat than in other
cereals, although the receipts of corn have
also greatly declined. Both cities are at
tributing the decrease to what they call
l excessive elevator charges, which in the
; course of a year amount to thirty per
cent, of the present value of wheat and
j more than sixty per cent, of the value of
| corn and oats. Elevator receipts have
' been shown in Chicago on which the
charges exceeded the value of the grain.
: It is argued that such excessive rates are
| strangling the grain trade of the city and
; forcing shipments by way of competing
! routes. Another reason for the decrease
| is probably the fact that there is not as
| much grain shipped as in former years.
I Certainly not much is shipped from the
: AYest to the East, as stock-raising is fast
changing the form in which com is trans
ported to other markets.
The Reckoning of Ships.
There are 360 degrees of longitude in
; the entire circle of the earth. As the
earth turns around on its axis in twenty
four hours, l-24th of 360 degrees, which
equals fifteen degrees, corresponds to a
difference of one hour in time. Now, if
a ship is sailing eastward from London,
when it has reached a point fifteen de
grees east of that place the sun will come
to the noon line (or meridian) one hour
sooner than at London. AYhen it is
thirty degrees east it will be noon on the
ship two hours earlier, at forty-five de
grees three hours earlier, and so on.
When a ship is sailing westward the
noon line is passed one hour later for
each fifteen degrees of longitude. If
two ships meet at a point 180 degrees
from London, the one sailing east and
the other sailing west, the one will have
gained and the other will have lost
twelve hours on London Time. The
rule of navigators is to drop out a day
when a ship crosses the 180th decree
meridian sailing westward (that is, the
180th degree from the observatory of
Greenwich, near London.) and to add a
day when they reach the -ame degree
sailing eastward. In this way the reek
oning of shitis sailing east and west
around the globe is made as nearly uni
form as possible. —later Ocean.
Theatrical Conflagrations.
The number of theatres burned in
creases every year. From 1800 to 1-10
there were seventeen destroyed by fire
throughout the known world. Fio:n 1810
to I'2o t'.e number was eighteen: 1820
to 1830, thirty-two; 1830 to 1840. thir. vl
1840 to 1850, fifty-four; 1850 to iB6O,
seventy-six: 18*0 to 1870, 10 '; 1870 to
1880. 160: 1880 to 1885, 174. The num
ber of victims sometimes attains fright
ful proportions, as will be seen from the
following table:
Killed. In ured
1751—Havre 10
1772—Amsterdam 25
177 —Saragossa 77 52
180'* —London 22
1811—Richmond 72
1829—Philadelphia 97
1836—St. Petersburg S0 >
1845 Canton 1.670
1846 Quebec 200
1847 Carlsruhe 63 203
1853—Whampoa 30
1857 —Livorno 43 134
I s 7—Philadelphia 13 16
1872—Tien-Tsin 600
1876—Brooklyn 283
U'6—San Sacramento 110
1878—Ahmednuggur 40—
Usl— Vienna 7 450
1881—Nice TO
1885—Richmond 100
A mass of lead in an elevated furnace
in Paris was comoletely-dissipate ! bv a
stroke of lightning, no trace of th: metal
teeing foaa 1 afterward.
THE NEWS IN GENERAL,
HAPPENING 6 OF INTEREST
FROM ALL POINTS.
EASTERN AND MIDDLE STATES.
Six of the seventeen Bohemians indicted
in New York for boycotting the bakery of
their country woman, ’Mrs. Landgraf, thereby
destroying her business, were found guilty
and sen tea rod to short terms of imprison
ment.
ThrCK boile/s exploded at tho colliery of
the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company,
near \\ l l kesnarre, Pena., wrecking the build
ing and fatally injuring the engineer and
firomsm.
lirv. Bav Jones, the Southern revivalist,
has been preaching at Chautauqua, N. Y.
Miguel Chacon; a voting Cuban negro,
was hanged on the 9th in the New York
T<rmbs for the murder of Mrs. Maria Wll-
I hums.
v A great fire has been raging in'the White
! .Mountains. Eight houses and a large amount
i of cord woo l ksve been burned. The loss is
estimated at $80,600.
A.venturesome Philadelphian has bean
taking a rade through the whirlpools of
Niagara Falls in a barrel. He made the dan
gerous trip safely.
I!. Porter Lee, serving since 1882 in the
Buffalo Penitentiary on a ten years’ sentence
for emhezzling funds of the First National
Bank of Buffalo, of which he was President,
has been pardoned by President Cleveland’
who was one of the witnesses for the prose
cution.
| Rear Admiral. Reed Werden, who re
tired from active service in the United States
Navy in 1877, died the other day at Newport
| R. 1., in his sixty-eighth year.
Adrian Crucy and his sister Lucie, the
last of a devoted French family that had
lived lor many years in one house on Lex
ington avenue, New Y'ork. were found dead
j in their home a few days since, having com
i niitt-d suicide by shooting themselves,
i Adrian was a commission merchant, fifty
one years old; his sister was fifty-nine. No
reason was assigned for the act.
J. De Rivera & Cos., a large New Y’ork
sugar house, have failed for a heavy
amount.
SOUTH AND WEST.
seven salmon fishermen were drowned bv
the upsetting of their boats during a gale of!
the entrance of the Columbia River, Oregon.
Deming, New Mexico, has lost its princi
pal business houses by fire.
! The Kansas Republicans have renominated
Governor Martin.
Mrs. Theresa Turpin, wife of a farmer
living at Princeton, Ind., in a moment of in
sanity killed her two young children and
herself.
i Drunken desperadoes took possession of a
train at Somerset, Ky., intimidated the pas
sengers and killed the conductor and a col
ored porter.
Forest fires in Northern Wisconsin have
done great damage. The village of Romeo
has been entirely wiped out.
: A recent hurricane at Apalachicola, Fla.,
resulted in the loss of six lives and heavy
damage to shipping and other property.
Paul H. Hayne, the noted Southern poet
died the other day at his home, Copse Hill
Ga. He was a native of South Carolina, and
was fifty-five years old.
“Sam” Archer was hanged at Shoals, Ind.,
for participating in the murder of Samuel
Burch. Four months ago Archer's father
and two brothers were lynched for the same
crime.
More than $63,000,000 was invested in busi
ness enterprises in the Southern States dur
ing the past six month.
A long-continued drought has seriously
injured crops in the West.
Eighty’ convicts at work in a brick vard
! uear Pine Bluff, Ark., made a sudden break
for freedom. The guards fired upon the
fleeing prisoners, killing three and mortally
wounding a fourth. None escaped.
Fifty people in a population of 500, com
prising the village of Waterford, Wis.. are
sick or dying from an epidemic of typhoid
fever. All save the sick and the doctors
have fled from the place.
One man was instantly killed, two fatally
injured and a fourth badly hurt by an ex*
plosion in a coal mine at Buchtei, Ohio.
WASHINGTON.
1 he Senate has rejected the nomination of
Harry Hall to be Postmaster at Catskill, N.Y r .
The Senate Committee on Commerce re
ported adversely on the nomination of Her
bert F. Beecher, a son of Henry Ward
Beecher, to be Collector of Customs at Port
Townsend, Washington Territory.
Congressman AV. N. Cole, of the Third
Maryland District, died on the Sth at his res
idence in Washington, aged forty-eight
years.
Colonel Chaille Long, who was with
General Gordon during the Soudan cam-
PjHg'b has made a written application for
the Persian mission. Two appointees to this
position since Cleveland's election have re
signed.
FORFUiN.
The heat has been so overwhelming in
Madrid that the Spanish Cortes—the national
legislature—was obliged to adjourn.
Asiatic cholera ison the increase through
out Italy.
News has been received of a destructive
tornado on the Island of Jamaica. Low
lauds were iuuudated. great fields of bananas
destroyed, and many ves-els torn from their
moorings. The estimated loss is $500,000.
Ax immense congregation heard Henry-
Ward Beecher preach his second sermon in
the City Temple, London.
A political riot at Cardiff, Wales, war
broken up by the police, who charged the
crowd and wounded over 100 persons, twenty
so badly that they had to be taken to the
hospital.
The Fanama Canal Company has decided
to issue bonds instead of raising a lottery
loan.
Mr. Beecher has been the recipient of a
banquet in London, which was attended by
United States Minister Phelps, Justice Stan
ley Matthews and other notable persons.
Special correspondents in Scotland and
Ireland, summing up the political situation,
coincide in the conclusion that the defeat of
Mr. Gladstone will only temporarily inter
fere with the concession of home rule to Ire
land. They- intimate that the Tories in tho
next Parliament will be forced into an alli
ance with the Parnellites to that end.
The Chinese are very actively engaged
in i ailread building.
Toe Turkish Government has issued orders
to have the army again placed on a peace
footing.
The Senate liaS rejected the nomination of
•- °hn Goode, of \ irginia, to be Solicitor-Gen
eral of the L nite 1 States, by a vote of 28
Republicans to 25 Demcc rats. It has been
the mest important case before the Senate in
executive session, has occupied more time
than any other, aud has been more bitterly
contested.
The President has vetoe 1 the Senate biL
to provide for the erection of a public build
ing in the city of Dayton. Ohio, on the
ground tnat the public business does not re
quire the asked for.
Further nominations by the President:
Edwin D. Bte 1?. of North Carolina, to bo
Pegi-ter of the Laud Office at Evanston. W.
-i : 8. C. Cos m, f California, to be Register
at Humbil-.it, CaL; David W. Hutchinson,
’ yiveria. to l e Receiver at BRm svk,
IcaK.: .-v s. Sm.t i o: Dak ia. t ti-e Receiver
a’ I evil'- Lake, l a L. 10-t r Spencer, of
New Yo k. to be la.Jan Agent for Rosebud
A s-c y. , air.
J. t.E Dili pro-. icPng for a public building at
AsheviJe, N. C., ha; been vetoed bv the
Pro si lout.
TWO SAD ACCIDENTS.
Amos Clark, a well known young man
iving in Dade county. Ga., Saturday
evening playfully pointed lais gun at his
tea-year-old brother. The weapon was
discharged, killing the little fellow in
stantly.
Dave Parks and Granville wells, two
well-known painters, were thrown from
a swinging scaffold Saturday in Chatta
nooga. Teun.. by the rope breaking, and
Parks received internal injuries which
caused his death. Wells was so badly
injured that be will be crippled for life.
BOUND FOR CANADA.
4 XEERASKA 111 YK PH ESI HEM
SHIPS WITH THE FUNDS.
His 'son’s tool .Ynuouncpuienl at liis
Father’s Defalcation.
-h bank president's defalcation that is out
of :h - ordinary run o £ such affairs is re-
PJr ted from Benklemau, Neb. A dispatch
from that place gives the subjoined particu
lars:
Presides’ Beltzer, of the Dundy County
Bank, of this place, started on Monday for
Lincoln as a director of the Nebraska State
Fair Association, to make arrangements for
the annual meet ug of that institution.
He left his bank in charge of his son. who
is in the jewelry business. The young
man conducted the affairs of the bank as
usual for two days, but yesterday he locked
the doors and refused to admit the depos
itors or to see anybody on banking business.
The report that the bank had closed spread
rapidly, and soon there was gathered a large
crowd of frontiersmen, who ordered the
young man to open the doors and explain his
conduct.
“Oh, I ean do that," the voung man coolly
remarked, “and rather easily, too. The old
man is safe in Canada by this tin e, and has
taken with him the money the bank had. I
closed her simply b cause there was no money
to do business on.”
The creditors were astounded at this an
nouncement. and hesitated in accepting it as
true. A committee which was admitted to
the bank was soon convinced that the Presi
dent had taken not only the money, Dut also
the securities that he could readily convert
into cash, Ihe total amount of his larceny
is estimated variously at from $60,000 to
$100,009, and nothing remains.
Dundy is one of the yo ingest counties in
the State and its residents are principally
hard-working pioneers, many of whom have
not yet completely proved their claims. The
town is new and thrifty and the people are
progressive. They had money, as a rule,
and such as was not in use they entrusted
to Beltzer. He opened the bank three
years ago and has conducted its business
in a way to win the absolute confidence of
the people. His reputation for square deal
ing had spread throughout this part of the
State, aud the surplus f uuds of several rauches
not in the immediate neighborhood were
intrusted to him. Until two weeks ago
he was the onlj- banker here; but then
anew institution was started with such
favor that it took from Beltzers bank his
son-in-law, who had been his ca-hier. At tho
time the cashier left the Beltzer Bank, it is
said, its affairs were in good condition and
the cash on hand was about $70,000. The
negotiable securities and private papers on
deposit for safe keeping would easily run the
total up to SIOO,OOO, and all these valuable
are missing.
Beltzer came here from the United States
army, in which he was Second-Lieutenant
He was fifty-four years old, and had a wife
and three children, upon whom he was lavish
with money and abuse. On the day of his
departure he whipped his wife brutally, and
then to atone for his conduct deeded her all
his property, which, however, was not
much. He has left absolutely nothing for
the creditors. Mrs. Beltzer has the confi
dence and sympathy of the deluded people,
and they will not endeavor to disturb her in
the pittance given her by her husband’s last
act The excitement is intense, and were
Beltzer present he would receive rough treat
ment.
EASE BALL BOTES.
Jones, of Cincinnati, has th 9 best home
run record. He made three in four days.
Meister, the able second baseman of the
Hartfords, is looming up as a great batter.
O'Rourke, of the New Yorks, leads all tho
League players in run scoring this season.
The American Association is now the only
prominent baseball organization to play’ Sun
day games.
It is understood that a break may be ex
pected in the American Association before
the end of the season.
Bu 1251,3™.Sutton and Captain Morrill have
play’ed with the Bostons longer than any
three players on any other nine in America.
The St. Louis Browns are said.to regard
the Brooklyns as more dangerous* rivals for
the American Association pennant than
Pittsburg.
Rochester boat Toronto twice in one
day, and everv player of the Rochesters was
presented with a five-dollar note by the
management.
The Detroits have made 20 home runs this
season, as follows: Thompson, 5; Rowe and
Bennett, 2 each: Richardson, 5; Brouthers,4;
Crane and Hanlon, 1 each.
Johnny Ward, a short stop of the New
Y orks, graduated from Columbia College
shortly before starting on the present West
ern trip, and is now an “A. B.”
J. F. Cross, third baseman of the Y r ale
nine, and a member of the senior class of the
Divinity School, will supply a pulpit at
Oxford, Conn., during the summer.
Up to recent date St. Louis had failed to
win a game from New York, Boston from
; Philadelphia, Kansas City from Detroit and
Washington from both New Y'ork and Kan
sas City.
The New England League will put in
force rules in regard to coaching and coach
lines similar to those in the American Asso
ciation, and will require clubs to place a
marble slab in front of the pitcher’s box.
Ferguson, has been Philadelphia’s win
ning pitcher, McCormick for Chicago, Rad
burn for Boston, Baldwin for Detroit, Keefe
vor New York, Shaw for Washington, Wied
man for Kansas City and Boyle for St. Louis.
Taylor, of the Nashvilles, a few days
s.nce was accused of making a balk, and im
mediately- after the batsman knocked a two
bagger. This led Tay-ior to remark to the
umpire “that’s robbery-. Each of the-e words
co-t him $25, as a fine of SSO was inflicted
upon him.
In order to make the number of clubs even
in the Southern League and as the disband
ment of the Augusta Club left only seven,
Chatanooga, the tail-end team, withdraws
for the present season. Anew schedule has
been arranged aud the League has been
thoroughly reorganised.
In the Association the clubs, according to
their batting averages, rank in the following
order: St. Louis, Brooklyn, Bittsburg, Cin
ciunati, Louisville, Athletics, Metropolitans
and Baltimore. As fielders: Cincinnati and
Baltimore lead, followed by St. Louis, Metro
politans, Pittsburg, Louisville, Brooklyn anl
the Athletics.
In a recent game, Cline and Stiicker, of
the Atlantas, were both fined, Cline SIOO aud
Strieker SSO. Cline was running to third
base, and fearing that he would be thrown
out struck the third baseman in the mouth
with his fist aud readied the base in safety-.
Strieker undertook to wipe the grass with the
umpire who called him out on strikes but
was pulled off by the bystanders.
The Washingtons have protested the re
cent eleven-inning game played at Detroit.
Two balls had bteri u etL One ball was
knocked foul over the fence when the- De
troits were at the bat. The other old tall
Pitcher Getzein had in the folds of his shirt
and would not produce it. and anew one was
brought ia This was also knocked over the
fence. The umpire would not allow the eld
ball in till the new one came back.
A HORRIBLE AFFAIR.
A Dying Man Oonfe-t'c* n Crime for Which
A no: li;-r >atl-r-- Death.
At Jacksonville, li!., -otne time last
year, a man named Fred Hollar was ar
rested on the charge of stabbing Mr-.
William McLaughlin and her sistt r so se
verely that they nearly lost their lives.
A party of disguised men broke open the
jail and shot Hollar through the abdomen.
Before Hollar died he insisted that he did
not commit the deed. William McLaugh
lin. who had deserted his wife, died re
cently in a western state, confessing in
his last moments that he was the author
of the crime for which Hollar lost his
life.
KILLED BY LIGHTNING.
During a storm which passed over the
Clovis ranch, twenty miles south of Pana,
Texas, a house in which four women
were sleeping, was struck by lightning,
on Wednesday } and all were instantly .
killed.
IMPROVEMENTS IN GEORGIA.
THE A MOV XT OF GO YE IIS'M EX I
MOSEY EXPENDED.
The Total '•uni Appropriated Since 17851-
for I’ublic Buildings, Rivers, etc.
The following is a complete statement
of the expenditures of the government
for public improvements in the State ot
Georgia siuce 1789. First as to the pub
lic buildings:
The first public building authorized iu-
Georgia was in 1819, when congress made
an appropriation of $29,100 for “erect
ing a customhouse and warehouse iu Sa
vannah.” Since that time the following
allowances have been made:
Atlanta courthouse and P. 0...5275,001
Macon postoffice 125,000
Marietta courthouse 5,000
Savannah customhouse, old 29,100
Savannah customhouse, new’.... 195,55*
The total allowances for public build
ings amounts to $029,556.
River anti harbor improvements iu tht
State commenced in 1826, when an ap
propriation of $50,000 was granted bv
congress “to remove obstructions iu tht
Savannah river, below the city of Savan
nah.” The allowances are as follows:
Altamalia river $ 88,000 Ot
Brunswick harbor 88,000 01
Chattahoochee and Flint
livers 250,000 0C
Coosa river 410,000 0C
Cumberland sound 255,000 Ot
Darien harbor 8,000 Of
Etowa river 10,000 Ot
Flint river 97,000 Of;
Ocmulgee river 57,000 Ot
Oconee river 23,500 Ot
Oostonaula and Coosawattic
rivers 26,000 Ot
St. Augustine creek 5.000 O'
Savannah harbor 982,000 0i
Savannah river 661,096 64
Survey of rivers 10,000 0t
Romley marsh 10,000 Ot
Total $2,919,596 61
There lias been quite a large sum oi
money used iu the light house service ii:
the state. The following are the allow
antes for light stations:
Cumberland Islaud $55,000 00
St. Simons 80,050 Of
Sapelo 63,278 87
Savannah river lights 99,150 Ot
Tybce 112,443 0t
Beacons and buoys 64,814 41
Light vessels 20,000 0C
Total $494,72S 36
The only appropriation for a branch
mint iu Georgia is for Dahlonega, the
amount being $87,870.
The next and last item of expenditure is
for ports and arsenals, which are a*
follows:
Augusta Arsenal $239,750
Fort Jackson 285,000
Fort Pulaski 938,808
Total $1,463,558
The following are the total amounts al
lowed :
Public Buildings $ 629,556 00
Rivers and Harbors 2,919,596 64
Public Roads 5,000 00
Light Stations 494,736 28
Mints 87,870 00
Forts and Arsenals 1,4G3,558 00
Total for Georgia $5,600,316 92
NEWSY GLEANINGS.
California farmers insure their crop.':.
Onions from Egypt are being soli in the
streets of Boston.
An ancient law against public shaving is
being enforced in Boston.
The aggregate population of Brooklyn and
New York is nearly 2,300,000.
Benjamin Zehner, a rich Indiana farmer,
was recently stung to death by his bees.
A man in New’ York committed suicide by
pushing a handkerchief down his throat wit h
a long ruler.
A large number of quails, prairie chick
ens and w’ild turkeys are sent from St. Louis
to England ever}’ season.
A young man at Nevada City undertook
to eat two dozen eggs at one sitting, but gave
up after eating twenty-one.
A Mexican who died recently was fol
lowed to the grave by eighty-seven sons and
daughters, and had buried thirteen.
After September 30, 1880, there will be
but one superintendent of the re ruiting ser
vice of the army, with headquarters iu New
York city.
Somebody has figured out that the South
African diamond crop up to the present time
amounts to six and a hale tons, valued at
$200,090,000,
The census returns for Paris have just been
issued. The population numbers 2,254,805
souls, showing the small increa e of 14,378
since the last census taken five years ago, in
1881.
Citizens of an Illinois town made a kite
seven feet long, and sent it two thousand
feet into the air. A windlass was rigged,
aud it required the power of three men to
drag the kite back to earth again.
It is said that the best strawberry country
in the world is a few miles north of Newark,
N. J. Daring good seasons some of the straw
berries raised in that neighborhood are so
large that it takes only twelve of them to
make a quart.
A DISASTROUS STORM.
Hail. Hurricanes* and Rains Cause Heavy
and Wide-spread Damage.
Reports have been received of wide spread
damage done by great storms of hail and
Wind. At Newark, Ohio, the da-rage to
fruits and growing rroqs is e timated at
$59,000. Tue roofs of several business blocks
were carried away.
The crops on thirty square miles of terri
tory in Champaign and adjoining townships
in central Illinois were damaged to the
amount of SIOO,OOO. Thousands of panes of
window glass were broken.
In Marion, Ind.. hail covered the ground
to a depth of two inches, and in places corn,
oats, and fruits are a total loss. Corn stalks
were strif ed aDd broken. Oats were beaten
fiat on the ground, and fruit was beaten from
trees. Mu; h w heat in the -ho-k was scat
tered through the wools by the wind. One
hundred blindings in the county were un
roofed.
At Port Keoi-n. Mont. thi mercury was
120 degree; in tie shade. No ran has fal en
there for a month. Ti e weat icr was very
h ,t throughout c-ntral and we tern Dakota,
but was a little more favorable in Minnesota.
A terrible rain aud wind storm visite i Bai
tin'ore. It was m s: e.e:e in the western
ration. Many icu es were unroofed on
•Strieker street and Ilarlem avenue. In iiar
ie n Square tec, were torn up by the lo ots
and n any b: an lies were wrung off. On
Fremont a-reuuo nearly ail the h us s were
flooded. Ihe damage will he great.
Ia alities caused by lightning a: e also re
ported from many q, arters, the number of
deaths reaching at least fifteen.
BLOWN I P BY DYNA3I*T£.
A dispatch from Wheeling. W. Ya.,
says: At an early hour Sunday morning
Benze Rurnage, a merchant at Union Coal
works. 11 miles down the river on the
Ohio side, was killed and his store blown
to atom.:* by dynamite deposited beneath
n. Henry Campbell, a former partner of
I’amage. was arrested on suspicion of
ausing the explosion. Lamage was
burned and mangled almost beyond re
cognition.
A CONGRSSIONAL TILT.
NOSE PI NCHING IN THE HOUSE
OF representatives.
Cobb, of Indinnn, ami Laird, ol Nebraska,
Have an Encounter.
Quite a sensation was created in the House
cn the afternoon of the 15th by a peisonal
encounter between Representatives Cobb,
of Indiana, and Laird, of Nebraska, growing
out of the ihaiges made by the former
on the floor of the House to the effect
that the Nebraska member had been
concerned iu a 1m 1 ring, l.ejiese . .
Payroll, of Illinois, a mernler of tho
Public Lands Committee, was
to Representative Gil.il.au the effect ofeer
taiu Senate am ud uents to a b 11
i rote t the rights of h miestea 1 settlers ''hen
Representative LairJ 1 aped from his seat to
ward the party aud aske h .
“IVby do not you fellows (referring to the
Public ' Lands Committee) do something to
break up the land rings in the South instead
of raiding upon the North: .
Mr. Pay son replied that that was what the
committee was endeavoring to do. Mr. lodd
undertook to defend the committee ol "huh
lie was the chairman, and nu angry passage
occurred between him aud Mr. Laird, which
ended bv the latter gentleman calling the
former a liar. Witnesses say that Sir. Cobb
declare! that Mr. Laird did not dare to come
outside and repeat his language.
Mr. Jaird is raid to have rep.ieil
that the gentleman could not get out
soon enough for him. W ith this the lam
started through the lobby ;n'o the basement.
Borne oue called Mr. l avsou’s attention to
their exit, with the statement that they were
going outside to light it out. T.hereupon Mi.
Paysou hurried through the doorway, and
coming up with the woul l-l>a combatants on
the stairway, caught Mr. Cj’ob by the cel.ur
aud remonstratod with him. Hes ic eeled
in getting Mr. Cobb to retrace his step-, as .ai
as the west door of the lobby, Mr. Laird fol
lowing, when the controversy broke out afresh.
Recurring to theebarg s Mr. Cobb had ma le
against him in a spec -h several weeks ago,
Mr. Laird angrilv declared tnat he (Cobb)
was a— liar.” Mr. Cobb rejoined that Mr.
Laird was a “ perjurer, but the words
ha l hardly pasie 1 his lips before Mr. Laird
struck him a heavy blow on the mouth and
nose. A stream of blood trickled down Mr.
Cobb's fare, aud he was thrown backward
against the doorway. A crowd which hid
collected, interposed at this juncture, and the
combatants separated, Mr, laird taking his
seat in th i House an l Mr. Cobb reclining in
an easy chair iu the lobby, where he was
surrounded by friends.
Both of the members concerned are of pow
erful physique and bear the reputation of
men i\ ally at all times to defend themselves.
Mr. Cobb stands six feet an 1 over in his
shoes and is of proportionate breadth. Ke
is fifty-two years old, and is Chairman of the
Public Lands Committee.
Mr. Laird is but thirty-seven years of age,
with a girth of c-hest that would ornament an
athlete. He is also slightly lame, the
result of a fracture of a leg a year or two
ago.
KILLING JUSTIFIED.
A Olid Shout* u Man in Church and is
Tried and Acquitted.
On Monday, afternoon, Miss Emma
Connelly walked into Hunter’s Chapel
church Barnwell county’, S. C., while
Sunday school was in session, with a
cocked revolver in her hand, and passing
into the pew behind John A. Steedley,
she tired her pistol into Stecdley’s back,
lie arose, looked around, tried to get out
ids pistol and at the same time made foi
the dcor. Miss Connelly snapped liei
pistol at him again, but it failed to go off.
Steedley feU at the door of the church
just outside aud died in about three min
utes. Miss Connelly surrendered herself
to the authorities, her only excuse for
murdering Steedley, who w as her second
cousin, was certain defamatory reports
circulated by him about her. and several
obscene letters addressed to her and liei
b:other by him. The grand jury of Barn
well county found an indictment against
her for murder* on Monday. The trial
came off Wednesday and resulted in her
acquittal. Since the commission of the
murder, Miss Connelly has expressed lie
regrets whatever. This is the first case
of this kind ever tried iu South Carolina
courts.
A DESPERATE FIC-HT.
A Preacher nnd His Son Carved With a
Knife by a Farmer.
Nev.'s has reached here of a knife-to
thc-hilt fight between Rev. John Loekey,
aided by his son, Ephraim, and a man
by the name of McClelland, near West
Fork, Ark. Lockev and McClelland dis
agreed as to the locations of the line be
tween their farms, and ended in a furi
ous quarrel. Loekey seized his gun and
attempted to shoot his antagonist, but
the cap snapped. The father and son
again assaulted McClelland, when the lat
ter drew Ixis knife and commenced the
work of destruction. The old man and
the boy were literally cut to pieces, and
there is no hope for the recovery of
either. Mr. Clelland, at his preliminary
trial, was acquitted.
AFIGHT WITH HATCHETS.
Attack Upon N’on-Cnion ineii in Chicago.
Illinois.
Union carpenters still persist in theii
attacks upon non-union men who work
ten hours a day. Last Wednesday about
twenty union men rushed into anew
building at the corner of Campbell and
Oakley avenues, and assaulted the aston
ished workmen with saws, hatchets and
other tools. Four men were severely cut.
The foreman was in the second story at
the tune. Hearing the row, he rushed
to the stairway and fired a shot at one ol
the intimidators. It caused a panic
among them and they fled. Trie foreman
tired several shots at the crowd and they
left. Ihe patrol wagon arrived too late
to capture any of the' assailants.
ANOTHER BANK FAILURE.
Departure of Its President to Canada wilt
th ; Funds.
Dundy County bank, of Benkleman.
-Neb., failed Wednesday. Mr. Belzer,
president, skipped to Canada and took
with him abou', SIOO,OOO in funds and se
curities. Business men and farmers fee
the loss greatly, as manv have lost the
last dollar they had on earth. Several
homesteaders had their little all in the
bank and wore to prove up to-dav. Mam
wili have to abandon their claims. The
greatest eyeitement prevails. Belzer had
transferred his available property to lib
wife before leaving. Many eastern banks
and firms lose heavily.
The bank firm was McCarther & Bel
zer. The firm was quoted in Brud-treet’*
at from $35,000 to $40,000, and their
credit was very good. Benkleman is a
town of about 300 people. It is claimed
that Belzer took with him SIOO,OOO in
funds and securities. It is quite likelv
.hat a large portion of this amount was
entrusted to him by eastern parties to
loan out. Details as to individual loser*
and accounts have not yet been received
here. The bank only claimed a canital
of SIO,OOO, and it is not believed 1 bv
Omaha bankers that Belzer could have
taken SIOO,OOO unless he had some east
ern money loaner’s funds.
lT isn’t always the man who knows
the most that wins, but the man who can
apply what he does know.
PATENTS.
ENTERTAINING TALK \\ . ,
PATENT OFFICE, EM I*l.o' y '
How Money is Made and Los: |„
Patents—Some Patent Law.
yers— Ra i I roads aml 1 n ve.
lions-Queer Patents.
A gentleman standing very hiudrin.i,
Patent Office at Washington said h ih*
; course of a conversation with th- (
land Leader correspondent:
i “The extent of the work of the }■ .
ent Office i< wonderful, and it jn r .
every yea-. There were 8,090 mori',V
cuts granted last year than th<-ie re- c
ten years ago, and the application, j:,q
for patents last year numbered 8r,,:;0y
The Fa ent Office is the only office 'f -’ ue
government, I think, that more
pays its expenses. It lia< a sure .. ..
over $2,009,000 n the Treasure I r*'
meut, and it made clear $140,000 . bin
all of its expenses last year."
“Do inventors generally make in- * v
out of patents f” _
“No, as a rale the money is .
people who buy > r swindle the in .
out of their righ's. Inventors a: e rafiy
always poor men. They wotk heir
brains for their bread and b itter They
are a visionary set of fellows, and i.av'e
not the money making sense. Thcv - e t
in with business men in order to do toon
their patents, and these euchre them out
of the profits. The man who invented
the elevated railroad in New York lied
a poor man, and while he was alive the
people laughed at his idea. It is so with
hundreds of other patents, ami if y OU ,
will look over the history <f the l’ l -nt
Office you will find it is thebusine-s men
who make the money, while the inven
tors do the work. Some patent
lawyers make a great deal of
j money, and there are a number
in Washington who hive .uavn
wealthy in the practice. There is a man
j here named Pollock who has made a
fortune iu tiio patent law. He ha l - me
eting to do with the Goodyear rubber
j intent, and he lias been pros; i ring t ,t
since. He owns a fine mansion on the
i corner of Seventeenth and 1 streets
! and tried the experiment one time of
; making a stable for his lore s in the
j basement. All the modern improve*
i nient-’, however, in the shape of water
would not do away with the sin 11. id
| he finally gave it u > as a bad job. Many
patent lawyers, when they sec tint
man has a good thing, contract v.itkhim
to get out his patent for a certain an. mt
I of money and some shares in the sink
j of the patent. They get paid for their
work with the money and have a fair
chance of making a fortune out of the.
profits of the patent if it turns out e 11.
There are hundreds of patent law vers
in Washington. Many of them arc - mart
fellows and all of them are luffing'
money.”
“I see they talk about having a tide
street railroads here. Is th re mud: ad
vancement in this line of patents: "
“Yes, indeed; there is a great i aL
The cable road is a comparatively re eat
invention, and there are liumiivds of
patents filed for grips and oth r tiling
connected with it. You wou'd 1> mr
prised to know how many patents are ap
plied for for railroad inventions. Ye v
ideas for rails, switches, and tie- are hy
ing put forward every day. The raihoad
tie of the future is yet to be patent- 1. It
requires very’ good hard wood to r kea
tic, and this class of wood is being fast
cut out of the country. Railroad bui ding;
lias reached such a point that there i-not
enough wood to supply th - ti *. ala
new invention has got to b ni .de, i.- re
ar e now somethin? under 300.00-9 miles!
of lailioad in the world, and about 12-*,-
000 miles of these are in the United
States. Ties wear out, and the time
will come when there will 1 c no wood to
replace them. We have already patents
given on glass ties, ties of iron, and tics
made of paper and wood pulp. Another
set of articles that has b.-en patented
largely of late y* ars is fences and fence]
posts. The old wooden fence ins
sen its best days, and tin wir
fence is rapidly taking its place. A
gre t many inventors devote
selves solely to making patents f r ki'ch
en utensils, and others work upon ma
chine j relating entirely to water. A
great many of the railroads .-ind inel.ne
shops and factories of various kinds k<-p
inventors who do nothing eis • but v.urk
upon the specialties of the factories Ui
which they are employed. Women make
a great many patents, but there deal
chiefly with household matters, or with!
th ir own work. There has been a great
deal of electrical invention during' ti
past few years, and it i- perfectly von-i
derful how rapidly the patents come a
after any success in any particular branch
ot invention. A great accident a:ways
brings in patents to prevent its occur
rence in the future, and wiien a big
occurs at any of the big hotels with*
great loss of life the fire escapes roll in
by the hundreds.”
“Have you many patents for p-'.rj-elaJ
motion?”
‘‘Yes, hundreds are applic-1 for. but
they are not granted. I r.-meinb'-r or.ee
a mm walked from Kentucky to Wish
ington to patent a perpetual motion, and
one of your Ohio newspaper m-u.
long ago, telegraphed to the >i-- -*
Press that tho invention of perpetual
tion had at last been
where in Ohio. I shoulflßwm ;
Wadi ington would be a good jLre
an inventor to work. Bv in 2
Patent Office he could see all that Lu®
been done in the line upon which he I
working, and he might sec where t ■
here or a wheel there would perfect
patent which would be worth '' ■
thousands of dollars where it ) ■
worth nothing.” I
The Lion Throne.
Few of our contemporics mad* ■
special reference to tie- throne '■ ty®
which her Majesty was sealed 9
opening of the Colonial e.xh.b ty ' ■
a matter of fact, it wn- none "tr.-.-r L, ‘®®
the royal seat of the Lion of PunjauM
Run Y et Singh himself, the chi 9
trophies sent home from ia - r
the glori ,us c imj area on the i i“' J “ H
er*. 4h it some of th ■ m -nii-u tyi'v®
spoke o. it a-a chair may bo dee ■
fa t that a cushioned linintr- 9
m tide i ::j o : one of the royal en ®
Buckingham Pal .cl Lad bc-.-n 1 9
into the famous throne. L "
ous coincidence that at almost tire
moment the so called "heir” to the re. ‘V
sovereignty should have been - j: ;‘
the sympathy of his compatriots V
Punjaub, while here in London t->6
press of India should have been
upon the veritable lion throne of
once potent nation. — St. Janas -- 1 9
A Change of Opinion. 1
Before the beauteous maid he 't g
While yet his ardent wooing sped, ®
Oft with admiring looks liesaid -
That b aveu was in her eyes an.- * - H
Put new when i remi the lodge he u:e= |B
An 1 fin is ler v.aitiug up. he si?!!* ®
And thinks the light in fare and H
Comes surely from the< t -er p- a ~.
-iW'iw iounei^m