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THE MONROE ADVERTISER. FORSYTH, GEORGIA. OFFICIAL ORGAN OF MONROE COUNTY. BY MrGINTY <f CABANIS3. The gale has l>ecn consummated of Lookout mountain, celebrated as the scene of the battle among the clouds. A company lias been organized to build a broad gunge railroad by July 1, and erect a large hotel on the historic spot. The value of the cotton plant, great a it is acknowledged by all to be, seems to have the possibility of being increased, since it has lately been discovered that the bark of the root contains what prom ises to be an available coloring matter. merchant at Lyons, France, wanted to be “original" in advertising. He therefore advertised: “A stock of $30,- 000 worth of goods at cost.” lie had only $7,000 worth, and the government ar rested him for a swindler and fined him S3OO. The coyote is the enemy of the jack rabbit, and used to keep his numbers down. But some years ago a bounty was put on the coyote in California, and he has since decreased and the jack rabbit increased, until now the latter does great damage to vineyards and orchards. It is, therefore, proposed to take the bounty off of the coyote and put it on the jack rabbit. The development of the bituminous coal lands in Virginia during the last four years has becu so rapid as to excite the wonder of coal producers throughout the country. Up to the beginning of the time mentioned the coal production of Virginia was comparatively inconsider able, but in two years rough estimates place the production all the way from three million to five million dollars. An accident that was reported recently from Junction City, in the vicinity of Fort Keogh, Montana, in which a white woman shot at a dog running along the river bank, just as an Indian lifted his head above the bank, and killed the In dian, ought to teach the red men a needed lesson. That lesson is never to allow even so little of themselves as their heads to remain out of shelter, when a white wo man is shooting at something else. Vivisection is not an issue in this coun try ns in England. Our people take it for granted that scientific men would not torture an animal unnecessarily and un justifiably. But in England there is a society composed of influential persons whose work is to prevent the torturing of animals by scientific investigators. Lead ing journals are antagonizing the estab lishment of an addition to the College of Surgeons lest it be used for experiments in vivisection. The head of one of the great New York dry goods firms was asked the other day if he could give any idea of the yearly aggregates of the bills of his heaviest customers. Twenty-five thousand dol lars, he said, one woman had spent with him within a twelvemonth, and several others had grown poorer to the extent of $20,000 or $15,000. Thirty thousand dollars is not unheard of as the price of the dress and toilet equipments of an ex travagant city’s extravagant dames. Now and then is published a story of a mouse, a dog, a horse, or some other ani mal with “a remarkable ear for music.” The latest comes from Yreka, Cal. A young man riding a gentle, though spirited horse, becoming musically in clined, tied the reins around his wrist and began playing on a mouth organ. It is not stated how well or how ill was the playing, or what was the tune. Anyhow, the horse had an ear for music. He be came excited, began to dance and to “buck,” threw the young man to the ground and dragged him to death. This may or may not prove a sufficient warn ing to prevent the reckless playing of mouth organs in the presence of horses. The new censuses of France and Ger many show a marked falling off in the rate of increase. In the case of France the rate of increase was low enough be fore; now it threatens to stop altogether, and in many departments there has been a considerable decrease. The addition to the population in five years lias only been 218,857. bringing the total up to 37,885,- 805. This is equal to the annual rate of only 1 per cent, per annum. Germany is not quite so bad, but the rate of increase between 1870 and 1880 was abnormally high. Tin* population by the latest re turns is 46.844.026. as compared with 45,284.061 five years before, giving an annual rate of increase of .71 percent, per annum in 1880-85 as compared with t. 14 per cent, per annum in the previous five years. So interesting figures are given bv the St. Louis Glebe-Democrat, showing the comparative production of pig iron in this country and the United Kingdom. The fixtures in tons of 2.000 pounds each United Uuited States. Kingdom. 1870 1,8115,000 6,679,173 1875 2,266.581 7,129,317 1880 4.295.414 8.679,141 1885 4.529.869 5.3G5.52c 1886 6,366,688 7,800,000 The growth of the production in this country has l>eeu rapidly advancing for sixteen years, while in the United King dom the advance lias been slow, and last year the production was less than the for mer year by about 750.000 tons. The United States will lead ihe world in the production of pig iron in a few years, if this rapid increase continues. This country is also second in the production of coal. THE MONROE ADVERTISER: FORSY T TH. GA., TUESDAY. APRIL 12, 1887.—EIGHT PAGES. SOUTHERN PROGRESS. THE IMPROVEMENTS IN VARIOUS SECTIONS OF THE SOUTH. Manufacturing and Other Business liiter eata Boomin*-N>w Railroads, Etr. Knox county Texas will build a $lO,- 000 jail. A brick yard will be started at Monte I zuma, Ga. A hotel will be built at Athens, Ga.. to cost about SIOO,OOO. A large roller flour mill is to be erected at Greenville Texas. It is rumored that a silk factory will be built at "VValdesboio, N. C. A. B. Lovejoy will build a SIO,OOO hotel, at Alexexander City, Ala. There is talk of a cotton factory being ecrected and Slate Springs, Miss. A large brick-yard has been started lately at at Mount Pleasant Texas. A company has been formed to build a hotel, 5 xIOO feet at Benton, Tenn. There are prospects of a large hotel being erected at Morristown, Tenn. Elias Hurley has established a shuttle block factory at Swift Island, N. C. A 200-barrel flour mill will, it is said, soon be built at Santa Anna, Texas. A large 3-story building will be erect ed at Lynchburg, Va., by George Mur rell. Works will be built to manufacture steam engines extensively at Anniston, Ala. Arrangements are being made for the erection of a canning factory at Raleigh, N. C. S. Rosenbaum & Cos., and others will build a furniture factory at Columbus, Miss. A company will be organized soon to erect an electric light plant at Winston, N. C. A canning factory will be started at Blue Ridge Springs, Va., by T. F.Weeks & Son. A stock company has been formed at Goldsboro, N. C., to start a furniture factory. Bishop & Son contemplate erecting a new wagon and carriage factory at Rice ville, Tenn. Macon. Ga., w ill decide by vote April 23rd whether or uot to build a $20,000 market house. Mr. Cook has purchased 13 acres of land and will start large brick works, at Portland, Ky. The Louisville-Kentucky Woolen Mills Cos. will build a brick factory, two stor ies, 65x75 feet. A. Potts, of Danyille, is organizing a stock company to build a roller flour mill at Somerset, Ky. Parties from Iron ton, 0., will erect a wheelbarrow and wood-working factory at Decatur, Ala. sls ,000 have been raised for building a glass factory at Blackwater, Fla. A site has been secured. A. S. Emerson is erecting a corrugated iron building for his steam laundry at Charleston S. C. A company is being organized at Mor ristown, Tenn., to build a-sash, blind and door factory. An SBO,OOO stock company is being formed at Pine Bluff, Ark., to erect a cotton Compress. A company has been organized at Mansfield, Ky., to build a cotton seed oil mill and ice factory. The Newport Tanning Cos., has been chartered at Newport, Ark., and will build works shortly. Efforts are being made to organize a company to build a large cotton factory at Mooresville, N. C. It is reported that G. W. Owens, of 1 Dalton, Ga., is organizing a company to develop a marble quarry. Greensboro N. C., has decided by a popular vote to issue SIOO,OOO on bonds tor public improvements. E. P. Moulton has sold his lead mines ! at White Pine, Tenn., to a company who | will develon them at once. The Wilmore Town Cos., has been or ] ganized at El Paso Texas to build anew town in the Rio Grande Valley. T. J. Mitchell has purchased the Sadler I mill at Sadlersville, Tenn., and will put I in machinery for a woolen mill. 1 P. Schillinger has purchased a 25-ton i ice machine for his brewery, at Birming ham. Ala., at a cost of $13,000. The Woodward Iron Cos., at Wheeling, j Ala., are opening anew mine, and j will build some new coke ovens. A company has been formed to build I au ice factory at Van Buren, Ark., and | will purchase machinery at once. A stock company has been organized to build a cotton compress at Thomaston, Ga., and will begin work at once. W. M. Nixon and others have leased and will develop the Half-Moon Island ore mines near Chattanooga. Tenn. D. J. Chandler has contracted to erect a bank building at South Pittsburg. Ten nessee, to cost not less than SIO,OOO. A company has been organized to erect a large sash, door and blind factory, at Athens, Ga . and have purchased a site. The p id in capital stock is $15,000. The Church of the Advent, at Louis ville, Ky., will erect anew edifice to cost about $20,000. It will be of brick, 60x 104 feet. A canning company, with a capital stock of SIOO,OOO, has been chartered at Fort Smith. Ark., with R. E. Doyle as president. The Columbia A Greenville Railroad Cos. (office, Columbia, 8. C.) will at once extend the Blue Ridge Railroad to Wal halla 8. C. The Florence Compress. Packet and Ferry Cos., with a capital stock of $50,- 0 i0 has been organized at Florence. Ala., for a compress. Surveys are being made for the propos ed St. Johns Riven Lake Weir & Gulf Railroad, to run from Norwalk to Anclote, * la., 120 miles. The cotton mills of the West Point Manufacturing Cos., at West Point, Ga., " rebuilt at once. The loss is re ported to be $250,000. It is reported that plans are being pre pared for the erection of a large ice fac tory aud refrigerating and bottlin® works at Paris Texas. * Ihe Standard Gas Machine Cos., cap itai stock SIOO,OOO, has been organized at Chattanooga. Tenn., with John C. Anderson as president. Robert Houssels of Linden, has sold mineral lands to Memphis parties, who will develop them and build a furnace on the Tennessee river. The Charleston & Savannah Railroad Cos. (office. Charleston) are building a branch railroad from liavenel Station to i oung's Island, miles. The Chattanooga. Cleveland A Duck town Railroad Cos., has been incorporated at Nashville, Tenn.. by J. T. Wilder, of Roan Mountain and others. The Newport News A Mississippi Val ley Railroad Cos., (office, Richmond,) contemplate building a coal pier 275 feet long at Newport News, Va. C. C. Huckabee. owning a cotton seed oil mill in Southern Alabama, has formed a $30,000 stock company to move it to Oxanna, Ala., and enlarge it. The Forestville and Printup City Street Railroad Cos. capital stock $25,- 000, has been formed at Rome, Ga., to build a dummy street railroad. The Newport, Jonesboro A St. Louis Railway Cos., has been incorporated at Newport Ark., to build a 40-mile railroad to Jonesboro. The capital stock is $300.- 000. The Dayton Oil A Gas Cos., capital stock SIOO,OOO, has been organized at Dayton, Tenn. The company are leasing lands and will shortly begin developing them. The Newport News & Mississippi Val ley Railroad Cos., (office Richmond, Va,,) will enlarge their machine shop and build anew paint shop, at Huntington. W. Va. A company has been organized at Selma Ala., to manufacture stoves, also one to establish chain works- The capital stock af each is $25,0J0 and has been sub scribed. A meeting has lately been held at Shreveport, La., for the purpose of or ganizing a stock company to build a cot ton factory to cost from $300,000 to $400,000. The Gerards’ Rectilinear Propellor A Rotary Engine Cos. has been incorporated t New Orleans to manufacture engines, tc. The capital stock authorized is $1,000,000. A bill will be introduced in the legis lature of Virginia to allow Danville to appropriate SIOO,OOO of a certain fund for new r gas works and for improving the streets, etc. A Brick Cos., has been incorporated at Birmingham, Ala., by Mr. M. T. Sum mer and others. The company will build works to manufacture 100,000 bricks daily. A $400,000 stock company will be or ganized at Florence, Ala., to erect a charcoal furnace and chemical plant with W. B. Wood as president. The site has been secured. ihe Memphis. Arkansas and Texas railroad company, capital stock $2,500, 000, has been chartered to build a rail road from Memphis. Tenn., via Mariana and Clarendon, Ark. The Birmingham Street Car Factory Cos., capital stock SIOO,OOO, has been or ganized at Birmingham, Ala., to manu facture street cars aad will s ion begin building their works. The consolidated Coal & Iron Cos., oi Chattanooga, Tenn., have made a propo sition to build the Cincinnati, Huntsville A Birmingham Railroad from Huntsville to the Tennessee river. The Warren County Manufacturing Cos., capital stock SIOO,OOO has been in corporated to manufacture all kinds of goods from cotton, and oil from cottou seed at Vicksburg, Miss. The St. Helen’s Land, Coal and Iron Cos., capital stock $1,000,000, has been incorporated at Frankfort, Ivy., to de velop 12,000 acres of coal and timber lands in Lee county, Ky. The American Wire Hoop Cos., of Jack son, Tenn., has been reorganized, and the capital stock has been increased to $600,000. The company will build tlieii works at West Nashville. The Southern Natural Gas & Oil Cos., of Wheeling, W. Va., have issued $5,- 000,000 of bonds for the purpose of de veloping their mineral, oil and gas lands, embracing nearly 200,000 acres. F. Pence, of Romo, Ga., proposes tc organize a $5,000 chair factory, $5,00C trunk factory and $5,000 broom factory, aud in connection w T ith J. W. ltounsa ville, a $25,000 woodenware factory. The Soddy Coal Cos., of Chatanoogs have sold out their property to parties in C incinnati, 0., who will organize anew company, w r ith a capital stock of $600,- OJO, to develop the property. The ne.r company will build additional coke ovens. The Fort Smith aud Van Buren Street Railway Cos., at. Fort Smith, Ark:, cap i;: t stock $50,000, has been chartered tc build a street railroad to Vau Buren. At -ante place a Belt Railroad company has been incorporated to build a street rail roa I about 8 miles long. A Philapelphia company, (represented by Evans R. Dick, 147 Fourth street,' owning 6,000 acres of iron lauds iu the Cripple Creek region, in Virginia, and 40,000 acres of coal lauds, contemplate mining coal and manufacturing iron and coke on a large scale, but as yet have formed no plans which they care to make public. The Young Men's Christian Association will erect a building at Anniston, Ala. The cost will not be less than SIO,OOO. A. J. Twiggs, of Augusta, Ga., has leased laud and water power and will build a wood pulp mill at Aiken, S. C A $250,000 company has been char tered to build a canal to bring the waters of the Guadalupe river to Cuero. Texas. The Selma Land Cos. will build a large packing-house and refrigerator at Selma, Ala., for Armour A Cos., of Chicago, 111. The Hope Manufacturing Cos., of Mason City, W. Va., will at once re build their large salt works, which were burned. STRIKING CARPENTERS, Six y-five hundred carpenters employ ed by the various contractors and shop owners throughout Chicago and suburbs, will cease work to-morrow morning, and building operations in this county will suspended indefinitely. The leader# of the carpenters who, after a long struggle last summer, failed to carry out their de mands for eight hours and an increase of wages, decided then to renew the con test. and think that now. when building enterprise is reviving and carpenters are wanted, the time has arrived to make the employers yield. The carpenters are ail organized ; scarcely three hundred of their trade ia the county are outside of their ranks. WASHINGTON GOSSIP. ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM OUR NA non A L CA PI TA L . What is Brin* Done by the Head* of Our Government—The Week’* Review. THE NEW SECRETARY AND ASSISTANT. The president signed the commissions of Charles S. Fairchild as secretary of the treasury, and Isaac 11. Maynard as assistant secretary of the treasury Friday. Mr. Fairchild at once entered upon the discharge of his new duties. The officers and many clerks of the department waded on him early and extended their congrat ulations. The crowd became so great that he was compelled to abandon, for a time, all ideas of attending to the cur rent work claiming his attention. He caused a temporary halt by announcing that he would receive, his official friends informally in the afternoon after he had disposed of his mail. He received a profusion of flowers and congratulatory letters and telegrams from all parts of the country. A majority of the telegrams were from bankers and business men. Judge Maynard in accepting his new office will suffer a loss of $5,000 a year in salary. He makes the change at the personal solicitation of the president and Secretary Fairchild, with the latter of whom he enjeys the closest personal re lations. TILE DEBT STATEMENT issued Friday shows the decrease of the public deot during the mouth of March to be $12,808,407,71. The decrease of the debt since June 30, 1886, was $70,- 912,824,79; cash in the treasury, $453,- 117,086.04-, gold certificates out-stand ing, $94,046,015; silver certificates out standing, $131,930,489; certificates of deposit outstanding, $7,135,000; legal tenders outstanding, $346,681,016; frac tional currency, not including amount estimated as lost or destroyed, $6,948,- 497.37. Total interest bearing debt $119,571,112. Total debt, including matured bonds, accrued interest and debt which bears no interest $1,708,207,- 513.04. THE NEW DOCKS. Secretary Whitney has approved the report of the board appointed to select sites for the two new dry docks author ized by the last congress. The docks will be located at the New York and Norfolk navy yards, and will be built by contract on the general plan of the Simp son dry docks. They will be constructed of timber, and the dimensions will be about as follows: Length, 485 feet; width, at top, 125 feet; and the width at the bottom 60 feet. The amount of money available for their construction is $1,100,000. The New Y’ork dock will cost more than the dock at Norfolk, owing to the difficulty of obtaining a good foundation. A good foundation of the blue clay and gravel can be obtained at Norfolk at a depth of 35 feet, while at New York innumerable quick sands and springs are found at a similar depth, ne cessitating heavy piling to obtain a foun dation capable of supporting a vessel of 6,000 to 10,000 tons in weight. The exact location in the yards of the two docks cannot be determined, but borings will be made within a short time to as certain the nature of the foundation. THE COMMISSIONERS MEET. On Thursday all of the interstate com merce commissioners hid arrived in the city. Mr. Bragg, the last cue to arrive, came in on an early morning train. They all met at the white house and were introduced to each other by the president. They were besieged during the day by numerous correspondents, all of whom utterly failed to get any ex pressions from cither of them. At 3 o’clock they called on the secretary of the interior, before whom they took the oath of office and received their commissions. From thence they repaired to rooms pre pared for them on F street, where for some time to come they are to perform the duties of official railroad regulators. Judge Cooley was made chairman of the commission. Further organization will be perfected at once, but nothing will be done before April sth, at which time the law goes into effect. There are no five men in these United States who are attracting the attention of so many people. This little body of men is to hold in its control thousands of millions of property and the rights of sixty million people. NEW POSTAGE STAMPS. Post-office department officials are hav ing prepared a series of new designs of embossed stamps for stamped envelopes of one, tw’o, four and five cent denomi nations. The head of Franklin has teen selected for the one cent stamps, and heads of Washington, Jackson and Grant for the two, four and five cent de nominations, respectively. The general design of the new series is uniform. On the upper side and following the oval shape of the stamp is the legend. “United States Postage,” instead of “U. S. Post age,” as on the stamps now in use. This new series will be ready for use about May 1. The border of the one cent adhesive stamp has been slightly modi fied to conform to the design of the two cent stamp. THE NATIONAL DRILL. The entries for the national drill to be held the last week in May closed Satur day night. A number of entries not yet recorded are on their way, and will be received, having been mailed before the date of closing, 'ihe entries recorded are distributed as follows among the differ ent branches of the service: Regimental drill 4, battalion 5, artillery 7, gatling gun 2, infantry companies 65, school cadet corps 7, zouave 5, individual drill, about, 82, rifle practice, about, 98, mili tary bands and drum corps, about, 22. The Montgomery (Ala.) True Blues,the Atlanta (Ga.) Rifles, the Mobile (Ala.) Lomax Rifles, and one or two other com panies from the south, who had previous ly entered, have announced their un willingness to enter the contest with ne gro companies and have therefore with drawn, This action the part of these companies has caused considerable com ment. THE SNOW DRIFTS OF CANADA. The snow blockade on the inter-Colon ial railroad is unprecedented. One train has been one hundred hours in covering two miles and snow drifts where it now stands completely cover the telegraph poles. The outgoing English mail, which left Friday, is still stuck between Riviere de Loup and Remouski, while the increasing English mail and an emi grant special train are likely to remain over tonight at St. Flave. Every effort is being made to have the line cleared and no expense will be spared. The Canada Pacific railroad cancelled all out going trains Monday and Tuesday. The drifts on the road are very deep. THE TEXAS DROUTH. Much Damage to Crop* and Siiflerin* among Lire Slock. Special telegrams to the Galveston Newß, Houston Post and Fort Worth Gazette during the past week, from near ly every county in Texas, indicate the prevalence of a serious drouth through out the state, affecting in a large measure its agricultural as well as its live stock interests. The drouth may be said to be a continuation of last year's dry spell, as no creneral rains have fallen throughout the interior since last September, while local showers have been few and inade quate during the past six mouths. The drouth now extends over the great cot ton belt, jeopardizing the outlook for the coming crop by retarding and preventing planting, which is usually in full progress at this season, but can scarcely be said to have commenced, except in the coast counties, owing to the extreme dryness of the earth. Along the coast cotton i up, and reports from several points speak of some damage by the frosts of the past few nights. Of the six great district comprising the cotton belt the south western, containing 23 counties, produc ing 200,000 bales, is suffering worst, ac cording to all accounts, and planting is retarded nearly a month, with no present indications of rain. This is the early cotton district of Texas. Winter wheat in central and north Texas is also suffer ing from want of rain, showing poor growth. Similar reports are received re garding oats. White spring wheat is de layed. Corn in the bottom lands along the Brazos, Trinity and Colorado rivers promises a fair average. Complaints from Austin, San Antonio and Waco, in central and southwestern districts, are far more numerous than from the Palestine distiict, and the rain fall at these points January Ist. averages less than two inches, while the mean average rainfall for the same peiiod each year has heretofore been 12.40. The great grazing areas of the west, south west and northwest Texas are suffering even worse than the agricultural sections, as the drouth is nearly a year old in many of these districts. BURNED TO DEATH. The Frightful llentli of Two Itnllroid Men In Tennessee. A special to Atlanta Constitution says: The details of a most terrible wreck on the Memphis and Charleston railroad, w-hich occurred late Fiiday night, has just been learned. Tw-o freights came in collision near Pocahontas, a station near Corinth, owing to a misunderstand ing of orders by Engineer Kohl, of the east bound freight. His orders were to pass the weit bound freight at Winne soga, but not finding the train there he concluded to make Pocahontas, and set off at a wild speed to make that station. He had not gone over one mile when he encountered the Westbound freight, and a frightful wreck was the consequence, On Engineer Kohl’s train was a car loaded with turpentine, and when the cars came together the turpentine was ignited, and the accident having occur red in a remote spot from water, the en tire train was consumed. After the fire had burned out search was made for the unfortunate Kohl and ids fireman, and the charred remains of Kohl, almost en tirely burned to ashes, were found in the debris of the engine, and not a vestige of the fireman could be found, his body having been entirely consumed. No other trainmen were hurt. The wreck was dared and the trains went through Sunday. BUSINESS STATEMENTS. Failures in the Country During the I.net Three Alonllii. Mercantile failures fo three months ending with Thursday, as reported by R. G. Dunn & Cos., are 3,007 in number, against 3,203 for the same quarter of 1886. Liabilities for the first quarter of the present year are $32,161,000, against $29,681,000 for the corresponding quar ter of 1886. The geographical distribu tion of failures is somewhat unusual, the liabilities in the middle states amounting to $12,000,000, showing an increase of $6,000,000 as compared with 188 C, and in New York city the liabilities for the first three months of 1887 were $5,000,- 000 as compared with $2,900,000 in the corresponding quarter of last year. Iu all other sections of the country, except the middle states, the failures are much less in number and amount than the average for the first quarter, and the to tal result is much less than previous years. In Canada the failures for the first quarter of 1887 are 393 in number as against 389 for the corresponding quar ter of last year. Liabilities for the quar ter just closed are $3,602,000 as com pared with $3,442,000 for the same period in 1886. CORRUPTION IN OFFICE. The grand jury ot Chicago investigated a job Tuesday connected with the Luild ug of a sewer from one of the public -ehools and it is said has as good as de cided to indict the two contractors and county commissioner on account of their share in the transaction. The story goes that the commission will be charged with bribery, a penitentiary offense, and pur isbable with greater severity than any of the other charges against the boodlers. Conspiracy will be charged against the contractors and the evidence is repre sented to be conclusive. A common rumor has all along stated there was $5,- 000 involved in the artesian well job at Ravenwood, and that this money was di vided among the commissioners and one warden. The jury gave up part of their time to-day to fiud out the truth of this story. Witnesses are said to have per sonal knowledge of the transaction. RESULT OF A FEUD- A most shocking tragedy took place at Coushitta, La , Sunday, resulting in the death of J. Henry Scheen and A. C. Brown. Mr. Brown had been incensed against M. A. Cockerham, son-in-law of of Scheen, on abcount of some business troubles, and had been seen on the streets inquiring for Cockerham. Finding him at Scheen’s store, pistol were drawn and they began firing upon each other. Scheen received a shot in the mouth, which passed through and broke his neck, causing instant death. Brown re ceived a shot in each arm, and after pro miscuous tiring on both sid's, left the store. Young John H. Scheen, seeing his father shot down, seized a double barrelled shotgun, loaded with duck or turkey shot, and fired upon the retreat ing form of Brown, who ran to the store, about 160 yards distant, and expired. scalded to death. Meagre details have been received of a wreck on the Southern Pacific, 300 miles west of San Antonio, Texas, at Dryden station, in the second division. A west bound engine and caboose smashed full tilt into a freight train coining east. The train men had no time to jump, and the breakage was severe. Engineer McCom less was pinned and scalded to death. AN EX-GOVERNOR SUICIDES. Fx.floTerMr Reynold*, of Mlooourl, Jump* Down >■ Elevator Siafl. lion. Thomas C. Reynolds committed suicide" at the custom house in Bt. Louis Wednesday afternoon by plunging down an elevator shaft from the third floor. He fell the distance of eighty feet and crushed in his skull. The cause of the act was mental derangement superin duced by hallucinations that he was about to become insane. In his pocket book was found a letter to his wife, stat ing that two years ago he contracted malaria at Aspinwall and had failed to recover, the disease settling in his spine. Recently he had been troubled with insomnia ' and frequent nervousness. Visions invited him to join his dead friends, and fearing lest he should be a burden to his wife by becoming a luna tic—having twice before been troubled with dementia, and his estate of $25,000 being in order, unimpaired and product ive, Tie determined to end his life. Governor Reynolds was born in Char leston, 8. C. He studied in the university of Viiginia, and continued his studies in Germany, graduating at Heidelberg in 1842. lie spent one year in the university of Paris; and was admitted to the bar in Virginia in 1844. He was secretary oi the United States legation to Spain in 1846 and 1848. In 1859 I e located at St. Louis. In 1860 he was elected lieutenant governor of Missouri on the same ticket with Governor Caleb Jackson, and in the . ivil war sided with the confederacy. At lie close of the war he went to Mexico. In 1868 he returned to St. Louis, lie ,vas a member of the commission scut to South America abcut two years ago in he interest of commerce with the United Mates. In 1854 he fought adu 1 w ith 5. Gratz Brown, with rifles at thirty jaces, on the islands opposite St. Louis, ver a political discussion. Mr. Brown vas hit in the kuee, but Governoi Rey nolds was not touched. It is believed that Governor Reynolds only intended to maim Mr. Brown. A HORRIBLE MURDER. A Fiend .Murders mill lliru Burns His Wife near Ada, Ala. The particulars of the most horrible crime in the criminal records of Alabama have just come to light. Last Tuesday morning Tarleton Steele, colored, mur dered and then burned his wife, near Ada, in Montgomery county. About two o’clock in the morning they had a quarrel and hot words led to blow’s. Tarleton struck his wife on the head with an axe handle, killing her almost instantly. He then took the body and carried it off to a lonely place in the woods, a mile from home, threw it in a gully, piled trash and straw on it, then poured kerosene oil on the heap and stuck fire to it. He then returned home and left the body to be cremated. The gentleman on whose place he was living missed the woman, but said nothing about it, and the mur derer remained on the place a day and night after the crime was committed. Thursday morning he went back to the woods and found that the body had not been entirely burned up. lie put trash on the remains, but having no match to start the fire again he fled. Suspicion had been aroused, and the neighbors searched the woods and found the remaining portions of the body. The murderer was captured ten miles distant and brought to Montgomery to jail. lie made a full confession of the terrible deed, and says he burned the body to conceal the crime. The murderer is a small black negro about twenty-five years old. EVIDENTLY A CRANK. V .Man Creates a Sensation in Chattanooga, Tenn. A genuine sensation was created in Chattanooga Friday by the arrest of a man who gave his name as Doyle. Doyle took supper at a Restaurant in the city Thursday night, and refused to pay the proprietor, and was in consequence arres ted. In submitting to the arrest he took occasion to lavish epithets ou the propri etor of tlie restaurant, and another war rant for profanity was secured, lie was taxen before a city magistrate and com mitted to the county jail in default of SSOO, and remained in cell all night. Fii day morning, on his agreement, to pay the cost of the arrest and the restaurant man the warrant was withdrawn. After this was done, he having in the meantime taken on a good supply of whiskey, showed to the as tounded officers and bystanders roils of greenbacks that were bestowed in various parts of his person, amounting in all to $19,000. 1 his at once excited surprise, and it was at once set down by the offi cials that Doyle was one of the notorious express robbers about which so much lias recently been said. Deputy United Stales Marshal Hill telegraphed the man’s de scription at once to various places in hopes of identifying the man but received no answer - Doyie, as soon as he gift free, left on the first train for parts unknown. He was evidently “off” in some way, and the officials think they have caught it rich if they can oniy find out who he is. TO BE TURNED OUT. A singular difficulty has arisen in Chat tanooga Tenn., as a result of the real estate boom which has been prevailing for three months. Some time since a syndicate of capitalists purchased a large tract of land almost in the center of the city, called Stone Fort, which, on ac count of its rocks and uneven condition, has been allowed to become occupied by negro tenants, at least two hundred small houses having been put up for their oc cupancy. Over two hundred families occupied these houses, A few days since, the new purchasers notified their tenants to vacate this property at once, and they will have to leave. There is not a va cant house in the city that they can get. and what to do with 200 families who are turned out of house and home is a problem to be solved. The purchasers propose to improve the property, level it off and make it available for business and residences. In several other parts of the city where property has heretofore been occupied by the poor classes, and which property has passed into new hands, the tenants have been ordered off to make room for improvements. RAILROADS AND NEWSPAPERS. Cincinnati newspapers appeared Friday without the customary column giving the time of airival and departure of trains. This is in accordance with the proposition made by the newspapers, jointly, in view of the stoppage of passes to stop the free publication of matter for the benefit of the railroad but but to accept tickets in payment for all advertising. The railroads replied, accepting the proposition for ad vertisements which they should aider, and intimating that the daily publication of time tables should not be regarded as an advertisement. HE SOLD THE RACE. The Captain of the Defeated Yacht, Dnnat less Telle a Tale. A special from London dated Wednes day, says: Yachtmen were astounded to-day to learn that Captain Samuels, captain of the Dauntless had severed all relations with Caldwell H. Colt, the owner of the defeated yacht, and after denouncing ali on board had left the vessel. Soon a dozen or more prominent yachtmen boarded the Dauntless to get further particulars. But little informa tion was volunteered to them by Mr. Colt, who looked upon the sudden de parture of the famous skipper as an out rage. He declined to make a statement beyond the assertion that Captain Samu els' and five of the crew’ had deserted the vessel without satisfactory cause. Cap tain Samuels is particularly bitter against his former employer, and says in a most positive way, that Mr. Colt is responsible far the failure of the Dauntless in the race. He charges that shortly after the yacht lost sight of Fire Island' light, Mr. Colt became abusive. His language was ungentlemanly, and it was only when, Captain Samuels alleges, he was accused of trying to allow the Coronet to obtain an irrecoverable lead, that he refused to listen further to his employer's utter ances. During the passage across, the progress of the yacht was handicapped by her owner. When Captain Samuels saw that Mr. Colt’s ill-advised instruc tions were acting to the detriment of the vessel’s speed, lie determined to fill the place for which he was engaged, or re linquish all responsibility. But Mr. Colt di-regarded his protests entirely and con tinued to give orders to the various men at the wheel, notwithstanding Captain Samuels ordered otherwise. Finally, Captain Samuels says, the control of the vessel devolved upon Mr. Colt, and he, the captain, had only an outside voice. He therefore, attributed the defeat of the vessel to the mismanagement of her owner, and his interference with the standing and well regulated rules of sea. THEY WANT THE OFFICE. Quo-Warranto Suit* Brought in n North Carolina Court. A case of quo wairauto, involving the right to the office of register of deeds of A divide, N. C.,the lees of which amount to about three thousand dollars per an num, has for several months awakened a deep public interest at that place. A democrat, J. R. Patterson, is the present incumbent, and the relator is Robert Cole, a republican, elected at the late election and failed to file a bond on the dav directed by the statute. A learned argument was made by Major W. 11. Malone for the relator, and by Captain M. E. Carter for the defendant. His honor, Judge Graves, decided in favor of the defendant and the relator appealed. A decision w r as also rendered in the similar coupon case of H. A. Carper, jailer of Pulaski county, Va., against Richard L. Fitzgerald. Appeal from the United States circuit court for the east ern district of Virginia. Fitzgerald, the appellee in this case, is a traveling sales man for the firm of Austin, Field & Cos., of Philadelphia. He was arrested in Pulaski county, Va., for doing business without license, after he had made an of fer of tax-receivable coupon in payment for such license. Upon a writ of habeas corpus he was discharged from custody by Judge Bond, of the United States circuit court for the eastern district of Virginia, sitting as circuit judpe, in chambers at Baltimore. The state of Virginia, through its jailer, appealed from Judge Bond’s decision to the court at Asheville. This court holds that the act of March 3, 1885, allows appeals iu habeas corpus cases only from a decision of the circuit court, and that the decision of the circuit judge sitting in chambers is not a decision of the court, even al though 6uch judge may order the papers filed, and his order recorded in the cir cuit court. The appeal is, therefore, dismissed. Opinion by Chief Justice Waite. THE LONGSHOREMEN SUIT. The Caae Against the Longshoremen Stri kers In Court. Louis F. Post filed Monday, with the clerk of the United States ciicuit court of New York, answers to James T. Quinn, Timothy B. Putnam, Patrick Mc- Gartland, John J. McKenna and James McGrath, Knights of Labor, against whom the Old Dominion Steamship com pany brought suit for $20,000 damages, aud who were held in bail for trial. The case grew out of the boycott of freight handled by the company. In their an swers Quinn, Putnam and McGarlland deny all other allegations and claim that the longshoremen were “locked out” by the company because they refused to ac cept a reduction of wages; that employes were paid by the hour ODly, and wer# under no contract for any term of servic# whatever; that the longshoremen met ia a peaceable and orderly manner for the purpose of maintaining the rate of wages of their craft, and that they, the defend ants, only acted as mediators to settle the dispute. McKenna and McGrath admit being officers of the Ocean associ ation of longshoremen, and claim that they were justified in their actions, being under no contract to the Old Dominion company. The defendants ask for judg ment dismissing the case, with costs. FOUR MEN DROWNED. They go Under While Rafting Timber Down the Oconee River. J. M. Smith, of Dublin Ga., started, last Thursday, a large raft of timlier down the Oconee river to Darien, with a crew of four men. He ordered the crew to run night and day. On Friday night, while turning abend in the river, the raft broke to pieces and all of the crew except the pilot were drowned. He saved himself by clinging to the floating timbers until he could reach the bank. It is said that the raft contained eighty-six pieces, which would average 1,000 feet each. The raft, it is said, was poorly put to gether, and one crew refused to go on it, when Smith employed another. Smith was warned by old river men not to at tempt the running of such a raft, as it would be wrecked, but paid no attention to the warning. His timber is a com plete loss. BLOWING CP A CANAL. A few nights ago Cecil aqueduct on the canal at Defiance 0., was blown open. Next night armed men drove away the guards who were watching the reservoir and blew out the banks in two places aud finally dynamite was used to destroy t e locks. It will take half the summer to repair the damage already done. The governor has been asked for instructions. I here was a strong effort made recently to have the legislature vacate the canal at this point.