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THS Mitt pilSfll, PUBLISHED E YEE Y TUESDAY FORSYTH, - - GEORGIA z. . "" 111 V' ' — 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