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THE MONROE ADVERTISER.
FORSYTH. GEORGIA.
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF MONROE COUNTY.
BY MoGINTY <t CABANISB.
Mrs. Grant ha so far received from the
publishers of General Grant’s Memoirs
nearly $400,000. The work has a con
stant and large sale.
An Atlanta physician says that all the
generals aDd all the armies the world has
ever seen have not caused as great
destruction of human life as the man who
invented the bolting cloth. The physi
cian says that the bolting process flour is
rendered very unwholesome, and the man
who wants to keep in health should boy
cott fine flour, and trike his wheat in big
ger pieces.
The arrivals of Queenstown emigrants
on their way to the United States arc at
present enormous. The railways are
running special trains to accommodate
this class of travel. The number of emi
grants now awaiting steamers to carry
them to their destinations is already
greater than can be housed in the hotels
and lodging-houses, and many are camp
ing in the streets. Fifteen hundred em
barked in one day recently.
American wheat growers have cause to
feel cheerful over the market prospects.
The present available supply in the Uni
ted States is 179,000,000 bushels us
against 197,000,000 bushels last year at
this time. Of this amount, 120,000,000
bushels will be required for home con
sumption before next harvest, leaving
only 60,000,000 bushels to export. For
the year ending this August, Great
Britain and Ireland will be obliged to im
port 150,000,000 bushels. France has a
short wheat crop and will have to import
25,000,000 to 30,000,000 bushels during
the summer. The only influence that
can keep down prices is the fact of an un
usually large wheat crop in Australia.
The general tendency is toward higher
prices, and no fall is likely to occur dur
ing the next eight months.
The surviving “War Governors” of the
States that did not secede are to hold a
re-union at St. Louis during the grand
army encampment next September.
There are not many of them. The fol
lowing Isa list nearly complete: John
G. Downey, California; Leland Stanford,
California; F. F. Low, California;
Samuel J. Kirkwood, Iowa; William M.
Stone, Iowa; Richard J. Oglesby, Illi
nois; Charles Robinson, Kansas; Thomas
Carney, Samuel J. Crawford,
Kansas; Alexander Ramsey, Minnesota;
Austin Blair, Michigan ; llenry 11. Crapo,
\V /*Tsradford,Mary
land; Alvin Saunders, Nebraska; Na
thaniels. Berry, New Hampshire; Joel
Parker, New Jersey; Andrew J. Curtin,
Pennsylvania; William Sprague, Rhode
Island; James Y. Smith, Rhode Island;
Edward Salmon, Wisconsin; J. T. Lewis,
Wisconsin. The term “War Governor”
as generally used, applies to all who were
the chief executive of a loyal State at any
time between April, IHGI, and April,
1805.
The forthcoming report of the Depart
ment of Agriculture on the English spar
row will be a very interesting document,
says Science. It will contain about 400
printed pages, in which will appear the
experiences of about 3,200 people with
this destructive biped. Dr. Mei riam.the
Ornithologist of the Department, who
has charge of the preparation of the re
port, says that the indictment against
the sparrow is a terrible one, and it has
scarcely a friend in the whole country.
Farmers who devote their time to the
cultivation of grain report that the spat
rows, wherever they are thick, do fright
ful damage to cereals. Market gardeners
and the raisers of small fruit, in the vi
cinity of cities, say that, since sparrows
began to multiply, the profits of market
gardening have almost vanished. The
only known use for the sparrow is as a
substitute for reed birds. One man in
Albany, N. Y., reports that he sells hun
dreds of dozens of sparrows every month
to the restaurants in that city for reed
birds. They make excellent table birds.
The Phoenix (Arizona) Gazette prints
the following report concerning the re
cent earthquake made by Dr. D. E.
Goodfellow, which has been sent to
Washington: “The region shaken by
the earthquake is 1,200 miles long and
600 miles wide. The general direction
of the wave was southwest to northeast.
Its average duration was one and three
quarter minutes. The damage in New
Mexico and Arizona is trifling. In the
Sulphur Springs Valley, within twenty
five miles of Tombstone, fissures were
opened in the bed of an old stream and a
considerable amount of water spurted
out. After three days all these springs
dried up, except two, which are running
a small amount of water of ordinary tem
perature. The first, and most severe
shock, rolled boulders down the moun
tain sides, raised clouds of dust, which,
with the accompanying noise caused
many to think a volcano had broken out,
although there has been no eruption in
any part of the region disturbed. The
railroad tract at the point where it runs
east and west was bent four and a half
inches out of line for a distance of 300
feet the convexity looking south. The
miners working in a 600 feet level, felt
the vibrations severely. Some became
seasick. In Fronteras. Mexico, teu houses
were thrown down, one child killed and
one man fatally injured. In Cumpas.one
mile southeast, four houses were demol
ished.”
THE MONROE ADVERTISER: FORSYTH. GA.. TUESDAY JULY 5, 1887.—EIGHT PAGES.
THE SOUTH.
ITEMS OF INTEREST GARNERED
ALL OVER THE LOT.
Faotx, Fuclm Feruitl Data Briefed
Vow Bur Paaple—A Week’s Dunnur;
af iotarastln* News.
In a collision between trains at Bar
racksville, W. Va., on the Baltimore &
Ohio Railroad, Engineer Jennings was
killed.
August Bernung, of Louisville, Ky.,
only married five months, killed his wife
in a' fit of jealousy and then suicided.
J. W. Erwin, one of the editors of the
Atlanta, Ga., Evening Journal, has been
appointed a U. S. post-office inspector.
Macon, Ga., has started anew crusade
against liquor drinking, in the shape of
an anti-treating society. The society has
a printed pledge card.
Judge Duffy, at Baltimore, Md., sen
tenced Charles L. Owens, Isaiah Waters,
John Brandan, John B. Banner and Wm.
J. Byrne, judges and clerks of election,
to two years each in jail for election
frauds. James H. Hamlin, judge of elec
tion in the 18th ward, was sentenced to
two years in jail, and to pay a fine of
SI,OOO.
Petroleum has been found on the farm
of Mr. Lyons, in Gritfiu, Ga., and now
that town expects a big boom.
Peyton 8. Colos, past grand master and
grand lecturer of Masons, died at the age
of 61 at his home in Albermarle, Va.
The Boone and Banner tobacco houses
In Louisville, Ky., were destroyed by
fire. Loss over $500,000; partially in
sured.
Tho remains of Sculptor Joel T. Ilart,
of Frankfort, Ky., have been brought
home from Italy and buried at the ex
pense of the state of Kentucky in Frank
fort, his native place.
The Grays and the Blues two of the
military companies of Montgomery, Ala.,
who won the first prizes at the Louisville,
Ky., military contest, got a splendid re
ception on their return home.
Rev. J, A. I). Blackwell, D. D., pastor
of the Monumental Church, of Ports
mouth, Va., died, after a brief, illness of
peritonitis. Dr. Blackwell was 66 years
of age, and was a very prominent minis
ter in the Southern Methodist Church.
Rome, Ga., is to have a $200,000 cot
ton factory.
A $250,000 stock company is being
formed at Crowley, La., to erect a rice
mill.
The Henrietta Mills iB the name of a
new cotton mill corporation who are
building at Rutherfordton, N. C.
The Southern Soap Cos., lias been in
corporated at Louisville, Ky., to manu
facture soap. The authorized capital
stock is $50,000.
Damascus is the name of anew town
started in Virginia, 14 miles from Abing
don. Manufacturing enterprises will be
inaugurated at once.
Durham, N.C., is booming with anew
factory, half a dozen storehouses, a
church and new court-house, and anew
female seminary is projected.
Pittman & Baker, of Thomasville,
Ga., have contracted to build bridges
and trestles and furnish cross-ties for the
Georgia Southern & Florida Railroad.
The Atlanta Bfown*%tonU —Cos., ac
Wadesboro, N. C., has been reorganized
as the Wadesboro Brown Stone Cos. The
capital stock has been increased to $250,-
000.
Since October, 1886, there have been
40 business enterprises chartered in At
lanta, Ga., with a capital stock of SB,-
133,000, the limit of rvhose stock aggre
gates $21,465,000. These companies are
all in operation.
Moses Bros., of Montgomery, Ala.,
who purchased 158,000 acres of land at
and near Cullman, to start towns and de
velop the lands, have organized as the
North Alabama Land Immigration Cos.
The capital stock is $2,500,000.
Fred Balcom, of Harrisburg, Pa., and
others interested in the Red River Land
Company, will build a 5-ton icc factory
at Natchitoches, La. Mr. Balcom con
templates erecting factories at other
points in the South.
A construction and improvement com
pany has beeu organized at Bristol,
Tenn., to build furnaces, manufacture
lumber, quarry marble, etc. The capi
tal stock is $4,000,000. F. W. Huide
koper, of Washington, D. C., is presi
dent, and John H. Inman, of New York,
vice president. The company own about
1,200 acres of land at or near Bristol,
beside coal and iron lauds.
The Mobile & Dauphin Island Railroad
& Harbor Cos., Ala., have commenced
work on their railroad, which will be 35
miles long. The Nell McDonald New
Y’ork Railroad Supply Cos. have the con
tract to build the railroad, and the Phoe
nix Bridge Cos. of Piicenixville, Pa., the
contract to build the bridges. Large
cotton warehouses, docks, and a cotton
compress will be built at Dauphin Island.
RIOTOUS WORKINGMEN.
A Strike Occurs In Rochester, N. Y.-The
Police Shoot Several Persons.
The masons, helpers and laborers em
ployed on the sewers and street im
provements in Rochester, N. Y., struck
for $1.75 per day, of nine hours’ work.
The strike was ordered by the local as
sembly. In two or three instances, non
union men employed by the contract ors
on the street works were driven away by
the strikers. The union men comprise
less than one-third of the total number
of laborers. At a sewer on Goodman
street the strikers tried to stop an en
gineer, when a cloud of steam was
thrown on them from the pipe of a
hoisting engine, and after a sharp fight
they were driven off. At another point
a mob of over two hundred strikers as
sembled, and began to intimidate the
men at work there. The mob began
stoning the police officers, who. finding
their clubs useless, opened fire with their
revolvers, finally clearing the street. The
fight lasted only ten minutes, but. dur
ing that time, Policemen Moran, Burns
and Farmer, were severely injured by
stones. Three of the strikers were badly
clubbed and were arrested. Several men
were shot by the officers, but were car
ried home by their friends.
WHIPPED THE MAGISTRATES.
A party of gentlemen and land-owners
and many of them local magistrates be
longing to the County of Westmoreland
in England, while out riding near the
boundary line separating that county
from Yorkshire, offended some Ycrrkshire
men, and were forbidden to cross the
line. They crossed, and a bloody en
counter ensued, in which clubs and fists
were freely used. A number were in
]ured on both sides.
FALL OF STOCKS.
Tlie Itumor of Jut Gould's Death Unsettle*
Wall .Street.
Financial circles in Wall street, New
Y'ork, have not experienced such a
disastrous panic as afflicted it re
cently, in years. The wrecks of May,
1884, and the wretchedness of December,
1886, were not comparable to the wild
excitement aud serious damages. Colos
sal fortunes were swept away in an hour,
and many a man who left home in the
morning with the proud consciousness ot
wealth, returns at night bankrupt and
hopeless. The raid was not on fancy
specialties, as it was last December, but
there seemed to be a sudden and total de
struction of coufider.ee in all values, and
the entire list of stocks, good, bad and
indifferent, went to smash. Alarming
rumors filled the air, and the maddening
scene on the floor of the exchange was
past all description. Manipulators of the
money market helped the collapse on by
calling in loans and forcing lines of long
stock to sale. Money was rapidly bid up
to one hundred per cent, a year. At one
time, Mr. Gould was reported dead, at
another it was said Cyrus Field was
broke, aud still another rumor made
Russell Sage a victim to the widespread
slaughter of the hour. It is a serious
backset to general prosperity, and makes
men timid about all classes of securities,
and suspicious even of legitimate enter
prises, and it is a calamity to the whole
country. The greatest declines, so far
recorded, are Manhattan 40$ per cent, to
116; Missouri Pacific 11 per cent, to 935;
Cotton seed 7 per cent, to 89; Richmond
Terminal 7f percent, to 26; New Eng
land 6 per cent, to 45J, and Lake Erie
& Western 5 per cent, to 535.
A LUNATIC’S WORK.
He Goes To A Field And Kills A Man
At Work.
Neriah P., son of Job Lewis, living
near Franklin, Ky., a young man, 80
years of age, has shown signs of derange
ment for the past four years, though not
thought to be dangerous. Recently, he
mounted his horse and armed with two
Navy pistols, rode into town, remaining
only a short while. He started in the
direction of William Roach’s farm, and
on leaching his field, in which his two
sous were resting under the shade of a
straw stack, he slipped up from behind
and tired, shooting John Roach, a young
man about twenty years of age, in the
back. He jumped and ran a distance of
about one hundred and thirty yards, and
fell dead. Lewis continued to fire on
the fleeting brother, one ball passing
through his clothing. The sheriff was
at once notified, and with a squad of
men, hastened to the scene. In the
meantime, Lewis had repaired to the
home of his father, saying he w r ould not
surrender, aud when the sheriff’s posse
arrived, he opened fire upon them, which
they returned. They were held at bay
some hours before the}' heard a pistol
shot in the house, followed by groans as
coming from a dying man. They entered
and found him lying on the floor shot
through the right side, from which he
died,
STUPENDOUS BANK SWINDLE.
Dlfflclency of Several Mellons of Dollars
Found in a Western Institution-
United States Bank Examiner Powell,
was ordered to inquire into the affairs of
the Fidelity National Bardot ufneinnati,
Ohio, and found that while the figures
showed the bank owed $6,000,000. the
assets looked very small. The deficiency
undoubtedly represents money lost in the
recent wheat speculation. When 51 r.
Powell asked for a sight of the $1,100,-
000 cash represented to be in tlie vaults,
he was amazed to be shown a lead-pencil
memoranda reading, “Wiltshite, Eckert
& Go., $900,000;” “J. W. Wiltshire,
$46,000,” and so on through a long list.
There was no collateral; no security
whatever. It is the belief of some that
Wiltshire succeeded as agent of Harper
in conducting the wheat deal, and was
not really a borrow'd - . Vice-President
Harper, Cashier Baldwin and Assistant
Cashier Hopkins are under arrest on war
rants sworn out by the bank examiners.
Harper’s bail is fixed at $15,000 and the
others at SIO,OOO each. Cashier Bald
win is much dejected. He is naturally
reserved, and as he had before serious
afflictions—one the murder of his son
and another the suicide of a brother—-it
has been suggested that there was danger
that this blow would unsettle his mind.
BOGUS TICKET SWINDLERS.
For the last three years a very modest
barber's shop has been conducted in South
Clark street, ‘Chicago, 111. For a long
time back the railroads have been flooded
with bogus railroad tickets, and finally
the Pennsylvania, one of the victims, put
the matter in the bauds of a detective
agency. Information led them to regard
the barber’s shop with suspicion, and the
place was raided and five men arrested.
In the shop was found the most complete
paraphernalia for raising railroad tickets,
acids, colored pencils, metallic stamp, etc.
Two of the men did the pen work. They
could counterfeit any kind of signature
and by means of their stamps could fill
in the name of any road or make a ticket
good for any destination. They cleared
nearly $200,000.
DECLINE TO PAY TAXES.
United States Marshal Gross visited
Taylor county, Ky., to collect taxes for
the payment of county railroad bonds of
the Cumberland & Ohio Railroad, in ac
cordance with judgments issued by the
United States Circuit Court. He re
ports the citizens of that county in very
bad temper and determined not to pay
the taxes. The threat was made that ti e
mandate of the c urt would be executed
at the loss of many lives. The amount
of taxes involved is SIB,OOO in this par
ticular case,though the total amount due
the bondholders from other counties
amounts to about $250,000. The road
was never built.
BH UNF.D WITH A CLUB.
Keeper William E. Cole, of the Ran
dall Island House of Refuge at New York,
was brained with a baseball bat by
Moses J. Speights, a fifteen year old in
mate, who conspired with five other
boys to escape from the institution.
He did not recover consciousness.
Speights made a full confession to Cor
oner Levy.
810 CHIEFS TO ASSEMBLE.
Chief Joyner of the Atlanta, Ga., fire
department, who has been North to make
arrangements for the convention of the
Chief Engineers of fire departments, re
ports that over 406 will attend the At
ianta Convention, September 20th. An
old-fashioned Georgia barbecue will be
the principal attraction offered the visi
tors.
WASHINGTON NOTES.
GOSSIPY GLEANINGS ABOUT OUR
N 1 TIONAL OFFICIALS.
Someth!** Abaat tha Praaldent’a Move
ment*—Kapor}* from the Deportment*,
I.ltt af Appointment*, Kte., Etc.
CASE* TO BE PUSHED.
"Wm. C. Strawbridge, of Philadelphia,
Pa., special counsel lor the gover: iflent
in the suit against the B 11 Telephone
patent, says: -- Ex Senator McDonald,
who is retained in the Bell interest, D in i
error when he says that a li; al decision I
in this ease cannot be had before the teun |
of the Bell patent has expired. This
suit,” said he, - ‘was brought to be pr. s- j
ecuted, not to be delayed. It is now be
ing pushed forward in the Circuit C. urt j
at Boston, and there i> no reason to doubt
that the decision of that court will be
reached at the fall term. After that, if
an appeal is taken to the Supreme C urt
of the United States, there will be no
avoidable delay there.”
CONSOLIDATING TREASURY DIVISIONS.
The vacancy in the office of Chief of
the Division of Mercantile Marine, Treas
ury Department, caused by the resigna
tion of Mr. Lyman, will not be tilled, as
Secretary Fairchild has decided to con
solidate that division with the Division
of Captured and Abandoned Property,
and to retain David Okie, now chief of
the latter division, as chief of the consol
idated divisions.
POSTAL REVENUES.
A statement prepared at the Post-Office
Department shows that during the month
of May last, the sale of postage stamps,
stamped envelopes and postal cards at the
76 first-class post-offices, aggregates sl,-
733,089, which is an increase over the
same month last year of $155,533, or 9.86
per cent. Fifteen offices, including
Washington, D. C., show a decrease.
TREATY wrm MEXICO.
The Postmaster-General was authorized
by the last Congress to negotiate postal
treaties without the consent of the Sen
ate. Under this act, Postmaster-General
Vilas has concluded a treaty with Mex
ico, w’hich is now in effect. Most of our
domestic rates of postage will be extend
ed to Mexico. A letter can be sent from
the United States to any part of that
country for two cents, and parcels under
four aud a half pounds weight may be
transmitted at the same rate that is
charged in the United States.
COLORED MILITIA.
Nearly all the militia, including the
famous Light Infantry, of Washington,
have been mustered into the National
Guard of the District and now the Wash
ington Cadet Corps (colored) lias been
mustered in by Gen. Ordway. The cer
emony consisted simply of administering
the oath to the individual members of
the corps, but it required considerable
time to accomplish this, as 283 privates
took the oath binding them to the service
of the country. When it was concluded,
Gen. Ordway made a brief address,
complimenting Major Fleetwood on the
excellence of the corps.
MUST USE LAWFUL MEANS.
The Collector of Customs at Key West,
Fla., has reported to the Treasury De
partment, that printed cigar and cigar
ette lubels are being imported at that
evident intention of de
anrl thereby impressing the purchaser
with the idea that the goods so labeled
are “genuine smuggled goods.” He
asked if it is not his duty to destroy
them. Assistant Secretary Maynard has
informed him in reply that there does ■
not appear to be any authority for the j
course suggested, and says further that
such destruction does not seem to be de
manded in the interests of the revenue,
since similar labels produced in the
United States may just as well be used
lor the purpose stated.
OFFICIAL BLUMS.
The retirement of three captains of the
ine of the Armv brings the number of
econd lieutenancies for the graduates
■f the Military Academy up to forty.
'V ith this number of vacancies twenty- j
our of the graduates will be appointed
•s. additional lieutenants. About one
liird of these promotions will come to
Southern youug men.
NOTES.
The street inspectors of tlie District
use tricycles in going their rounds.
Commissioner Sparks, of the General
Land Office, will cancel fifty five desert
land entries in Wyoming Territory, ag
gregating in area about 35,000 acres.
Inspector General Baird and Col. Has
brook, commandant of cadets at West
Point, have been detailed to visit France
in September next, for the purpose of
witnessing the fall maneuvers of the
French army.
Secretary Fairchild has arranged with
Assistant Treasurer Cauda, at New York,
to keep him informed of the condition of
affairs in Wall street. Should a panic
seem imminent, he would authorize the
prepayment of the interest due in July,
which would release about $9,000,000.
A COOL RECEPTION.
Princes Albert Victor and George, sons
of the Prince of Wales, proceeded from
London to Dublin, Ireland to attend the
jubilee exercises, but received rather a
poor reception. The corporate authori
ties of the city did not meet them, but a
military escort and a number of crown
officials aud prominent people went to
Kingstown to await their arrival. Sev
eral steamers went down the bay to meet
and escort the royal boat. The princes
arrived at Kingstown at the appointed
time, and were received with great en
thusiasm. The Marquis of Londonderry,
the Irish viceroy, met them, and the town
commissioners of Kingston, presented
them with an address. The princes then
proceeded to Dublin, and upon their ar
rival they were presented with an ad
dress of welcome by some conservative
citizens.
NU-iPENDED THE ‘MAYOR.
in consequence of the action of thn
Mayor of Cork, Ireland, in hoisting the
black flag on the occasion of the jubilee
and because of his having shown favor to
nationalists, Mr. Plunkett, divisional
magistrate, has superseded him and has
ordered that only a resident paid magis
trate shall try the prisoners.
THE FIGURES.
The Board of Health of Key West,
Fla., announce to the public the follow
ing in regard to the yellow fever cases
to* She middle of June: Total cases to
date 35, convalescent 5, still sick 8,
ui.-churged from hospital 7, total deaths
14, foreign marine cases 3.
YELLOW FEVER.
What the Government t* Doing to Sinmp
Out the Epidemic.
The Marine Hospital Bureau, at Wash
ington, D. C., has made arrangements
for the establishment of a refuge station
on Egmont Key, Fla., for the benefit of
such of the unacclimated residents of Key
West as chose to go there. The station
will be ready inside of a week. Surgeon-
General Hamilton has suggested to the
authorities at Tampa a reduction of their
period of detention of fifteen to ten days,
the latter period to be deemed sufficient
for the purpose. As to the outlook for
the suppression of the epidemic at Key
West, Dr. Hamilton says the disease will
soon disappear if the suggestions of the
health authorities are readily complied
with, but if this is not done, the epi
demic may be prolonged and extend to
other sections. The government, he says,
has now done all in its power to aid the
local authorities in suppressing the epi
demic. Passed Assistant Surgeon John
Guiteras, now stationed at Charleston,
8. C., has been ordered to temporary
duty at Key West, Passed Assistant
Surgeon Glenhnm,stationed at Key West,
reports in regard to the yellow fever epi
demic at that place, saying that cases are
developing on all parts of the island aud
affecting the children of unacclimated
residents, the indications being that the
disease will run its course until all the
susceptible material is exhausted. He
adds that steps are being made to confine
the disease to the island and to prevent
its spread to the mainland. Aid of every
description is being extended to the local
Board of Health at Key West by the Ma
rine Hospital Service, and assistance will
also be rendered toward the isolation of
the unacclimated resident*.
SONS OF AMERICA
Patriotic Order Advocating ‘‘America for
Americana” and Denounces Agitator*
The Patriotic Order of the Sons of
America held a national convention in
Chicago, 111. The most important act
of the convention was passed when the
platform and principles of the order
w T ere read and adopted, as follows: “For
the welfare, prosperity and liberty of all
American citizens and their descendants,
we deure to protect our form of govern
ment and to preserve it from the influ
ence and control of any foreign power.
By a discriminating sentiment of loyalty
and establishing a fraternal feeling among
all Americans, w T e hope to make it im
possible for any one to live under the
protection of the stars and stripes who
does not honor and revere them. We
are opposed to the occupancy of any part
of our country by foreign speculators or
adventurers who do not wish to become
citizens, and we believe that all of tlie
resources and privileges of the country
should be reserved for the exclusive use
and native born naturalized citizens We
are in favor of crushing out that foreign
element which comes here to advocate
communism and nihilism, and which does
not identify itself with our country and
does not respect our flag.”
MILLIONAIRE GOULD’S PRESENT.
The Mt. Vernon estate, where the re
mains of Washington lie entombed, has
been enlarged by the addition of a tract
of 83$ acres on the north side, near the
old Washington mansion. While on his
way up the Potomac from Fortress Mon
Ejjp .recently, in his yacht “Atalanta,”
Jay Gould stopped at Mt. Vernon and
was shown around the grounds. In the
course of conversation, the superintend
ent remarked that the land in question
is much needed to protect the property
from encroachment, Mr. Goulu imme
diately authorized the purchase of the
land at his expense, and it has been
bought and turned over to the Mt. Ver
non regents. The price paid is not
known.
THE RIGHT SORT.
The Society of the Army of the Poto
mac met at Saratoga, N. Y. Several
resolutions were offered on the matter of
the return of the captured flags, but all
were laid on the table. Resolutions were
adopted that the next annual meeting be
held at Gettysburg, July Ist, 2d and 3d,
1888. Several addresses w r cre made,
showing that an extremely kind feeling
existed toward the Confederate survivors,
and resolutions were unanimously adopted
that the survivors of the Army of North
ern Virginia be invited to meet with the
society. These were adopted after a
ringing speech in favor of the last by
Corporal Tanner, who lost two legs in
the war, while serving as a corporal.
LOFTY SITUATION.
The Soldiers’ and Sailors’ monument
erected on the top of East Rock, in East
Rock Park, by the town and city of New
Haven, Conn., in honor of the heroes of
the Revolutionary War, Mexican War,
the war of 1812 and the Civil War, was
dedicated in the presence of a vast con
course of people. The height of East
Rock, where the monument stands, is
405 feet, and the height of monument
110 feet, making a total elevation of 515
feet above the level of tlie sea.
HOUSES CRUSHED.
A violent wind and rain storm broke
over Wilmington, Del., and a big oak
tree was uprooted and fell on a double
frame dwelling, crushing in the roof and
killing three of the occupants, Mrs.
James Noble, Mrs. George Doran and
Mrs. Doran’s little boy. During the
storm at Fair Play. Tex., a tree was
blown down, crushing a house and in
stantly killing Mrs. Albert Tete and her
two children.
BOILER EXPLOSION.
A terrible boiler explosion occurred on
the farm of Andrew Hudson, near Har
mony Grove, Ga. J. A. Segaris engine
and separator were at Mr. Hudson’s
threshing bis w'heat, and G. B.
Whitehead was in charge of both when
the boiler exploded. The force of the
escaping steam blew the engine sixty-five
yards in the air. It was blown over the
separator and one corner of a stable.
WThitehead was killed instantly, and four
others were seriously injured by the ex
plosion.
FEMALE DUEL.
Two colored women fought a duel with
keen edged razors on the public highway
near Woodruff, 8. C. The battle was
hard and skillful, and the combatants
fought until they succumbed from e.x
haustation caused by the loss of blood.
Both were frightfully cut about the face,
arms and breast. The trouble grew out
of a love affair,
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(he Week's Events.
The Archbishop of Cologne, Germany,
has excommunicated Baron Solcmachcr
for challenging Baron Sckorlemer to light
a duel.
Queen Victoria, in commemmoration
of licr Jubilee, gave gold medals to her
loyal visitors, and silver medals to their
at tendants.
In a 50-mile race between the Thistle
and Ircx, from Rothesay, Scotland, the
former won by 12 minutes. She is the
lavorite in Great Britain.
The Russian Nihilists have discovered
an ingenious method of distributing pam
phlets. by introducing them into cigar
ette boxes, which are sold throughout
the country.
It is announced that Ovid’s tomb has
been discovered. The location is at
Anadolkioi, near Kustendami, in Greece.
The stone marking the tomb represents
Ovid’s arrival at the Island of Tami,when
he was banished thither by Augustus, A.
D. 8.
The North Atlantic squadron, com
manded by Admiral Luce, and consisting
of the flagship Richmond and the cor
vettes Ossipee, Galena and Yautic, ar
rived at Newport, R. 1. The Ossipee
sails direct, for the Canadian fishing
banks, and the Galena, Richmond and
Yantic will < uitinue their eastern sum
mer chums, mi as to be in supporting
distance from her.
Gen. James Speed who was a member
of President Lincoln’s cabinet, died re
cently at Louisville, Ky.
Armour’s immense provision packing
house at Chicago, 111., valued at over a
million of dollars was aim st completely
destroyed by fire.
A man supposed to belong to Edge
field, 8. C., hung himself in Jerome,
Park, New York City. In his letter was
found an envelope directed to “M. M. A.
Market.”
The Southern Synod which represents
the Lutherans of the United States, in
session at Chicago, 111., denounced anar
chists, socialists and affiliated workmen
societies.
A man in Racine, Wis., who bought
SSO of sky-rockets and other fire works
and issued 150 invitations to friends
to celebrate the death of his wife, who
died a lew months ago, was arrested as a
lunatic.
Between $2,000,000 and $3,000,000
have been lost in wages by the Chicago,
111., striking bricklayers.
John Bennett, a compositor, carried off
the highest honors at Yale College, New
Haven, Conn., for his composition and
correct pronunciation of an English ora
tion.
The veterans of the Philadelphia brig
ade, of Pennsylvania, that fought Pielc
ett’s division of the Confederate army at
Gettysburg, propose to return to Pick
ett’s men all the flags they captured in
the battle.
Of the persons charged with having
been implicated, at St. Petersburg, in the
murder of Col. Soudekin, chief of the
Russian police, in 1883, seven have been
sentenced to death and fourteen to de
portation to Siberia.
The Royal Lottery at Havana, Cuba,
after the last drawing, was mulcted to
the amount of $85,000 through counter
feit fractional portions of a ticket bear
ing the number drawing the capital
prize. The forgery was not discovered
until after the above amount had been
paid out. Active efforts are being made
to discover the perpetrators of the swin
dle.
If Dr. McGlynn, the suspended New
York priest, does not appear in Rome
early in July, he will be excommunicated
from his church.
Bv the wrecking of a train on the
Hawkesburg railway, at Sydney, N. S.,
seven persons were killed and forty others
injured. The accident was caused by the
failure of brakes to work while the train
was going down an incline.
Matthew Gurnee, of Haverstraw, N.
Y., who was bitten by a dog, with which
he was playing, a month ago, and who
was seized with symptoms of hydro
phobia recently, died after a night of
great agony. He was 60 years old, uu .
married and wealthy.
An explosion occurred in one of the
mines of the Susquehanna Coal Cos., at
Wilkesbarre, Pa. Four men were killed
and four badly hurt. Opinion is ex
pressed by survivors of the accident that
the gas was set on fire by powder explo
sion, as several kegs of powder are miss
ing from the store house.
IMPORTANT I.ANI* DECISION.
In the United States Circuit Court at
Macon, Ga t , in the case of J. K. O Sher
wood against Rebecca Rountree, Judge
Speer rendered a decision in his charge
to the jury which is regarded by leading
members of the bar as one of the most
far-reaching and important in its conse
quences which has been made in this cir
cuit for years. The pendency of an im
mense number of suits against land own
ers in Georgia, in which the principle de
cided is’applicable, gives it this import
ance.
The testimony in the case was that the
agents of the money-lenders d< ducted
twenty per cent, by way of commissions,
and counsel in argument stated tnat in
ail the borrower had paid forty-three per
cent, interest. This, of course, under
the Georgia law, would be usurious, and
the usury would render void any deed or
mortgage made to secure such a debt,
provided that the true lender of the
money had notice of the usury, and the
court decided against the mortgage com
pany of New York, who loaned the
money. The most widespread effect of
the decision will be that such usury
would render void the deeds and mort
gages executed to these usurious loans.
GOING TO CRUSADE.
A meeting has been held in Newark,
N. J., for the purpose of forming a na
tional labor order. The order is to be
known as the Knights of the New Cru
sade. It is intended to further the Henry
George movement. The objects of the
order are: To advocate the land theory
and to secure the election of parties who
are pledged to the principles of the
United Labor party.
NEGRO TEACHERS,
The Atlanta, Ga., Board of Education
has decided that in all colored schools
only colored teachers shall be employed.
DISCARDING STOVES,
Governor Hill, of New York, has
signed the bill regulating the heating of
steam cars. The statute makes it un
lawful for any steam railroad, after May
1, 1888, “to heat its passenger cars on
other than mixed trains by any stove or
furnace kept inside the cars, or suspended
therefrom, except it may be lawful in
case of accident or other emergency to
temporarily use any such stove or furnace
with necessary fuel; provided that in
ears which have been equipped with ap
paratus to heat by steam, hot water, or
hot air from the locomotive, or from a
special car, the present stove may be re
turned, to be used only when the car is
standing still.”
THE PI-UMBERS’ IDEA.
At the National Convention of num
bers held in Chicago, 111., resolutions
were adopted that all manufacturers of
plumbers’ goods who sold to consumers
should be boycotted by the plumbers.
The committee that reported the resolu
tions argued that the adoption of the
resolutions was just the thing for plum
bers. It would do away with the dis
agreeable habit of consunn rs who bought
their pipe from the manufacturer and
afterward hired inexperieuced men to do
their work.
TOO FRESH,
In one of the express trains on tho
Georgia Railroad bound from Atlanta,
Ga., to Augusta, two colored men who
were in the first-class coach were asked to
change their base, but claimed they had
as good a claim to ride in that coach as
white men. At Conyers, tin* train was
boarded by about a dozen young men,
who insisted upon the negroes leaving,
which they were compelled t do. Sev
eral gentlemen on the train tried to in
fluence the negroes to leave before
reaching Conyers, but they were very
iDSoieut and declined.
AIKS. UEEVEEANI* VOTES.
The commencement at Wells college.
Auburn, N. Y., was a brilliant social
affair, the guests attending in full even
ing toilet. Nearly all were presented to
Mrs. Cleveland and received a cordial
greeting. The president and faculty
are well pleased with the : dmission of
women to the board of trustees. Mrs.
Cleveland and Miss Smith attended their
first meeting in time to vote for ad journ
ment. Mrs. Cleveland was met at Cayuga
by Col. Lamont, wlio escorted her to
Washington.
. TiiE PROPER CAPER.
A crusade having been
against the tobacconists of Washington,
I). C., who display in their windows
pictures of actresses in tights, one dealer
has taken a wicked revenge, lie dressed
all his scantily clad works of art in little
skirts of tissue paper. From the smallest
to the largest figure they are all clad in
white and pink and blue skirts of tissue
paper, gathered at the waist, and pasted
over the figure from the bust to tho
ankles.
getting ready.
The rivalry of American capitalists
w-ho desire to monopolize the trade of
the Sandwich Islands will plunge the
kingdom of King Kalakua into civil war.
Clearance papers at the San Francisco
custom-house show that the steamer
Australia, for Honolulu, carried a large
quantity of arms and ammunition, it
comprised eighty cases, in which were
nearly 1,000 Winchester repeating rifles
and 164,000 cartridges. The article a
were consigned to old missionary mer
chants.
DUCKING MARRIED MEN.
Much excitement was caused in Flush
ing, N: Y., by the ducking of Charles
Doscher, a respectable married man, in
t-lie basin of the village fountain by four
men whom he could not recognize in the
• lark, but who are supposed to be mem
bers of a vigilance committee. This or
ganization was formed two years ago and
its object is stated to be the punishment
! >y clucking of any married man found
out after 11 o’clock unaccompanied by his
wife.
The Two Headed Cow.
We prevent a sketch from life of the
two he aled cow that has been exhibited
in this city and elsewhere with one of
the leading circuses. The animal, ex
cept as regard its cranial peculiarity, is
of normal appe trance. It is well kept,
and lias a well developed body. 'I he
left head, the one nearest the front of flic
picture, is, as regards its external func
tion, inferior to the other. It <ats and
urinkswith the right hand mouth, having
fu .l command of its jaw. The jaw of the
other head has hardly any power of mo
tion, as it is embedded in the neck. It
In - three good eyes, and but for an acci
dent, when the vehicle containing it was|
upset by an elephant, would possess four.
The same occurrence broke one of its
central horns. Although the left head is
comparatively passive, vet under certain
circumstances, as when the animal is eat
in??! the mouth belonging to that head
emits saliva. Although it cannot cat,
this mouth can ‘"water,” as the epicures
say. In the center of the forehead of
the right head is a deep depression that
does not appr ar in the left head. This
would seem to indicate a deficiency in
development of the brain on that side.
But naturally all speculation on the inner
structure cannot well pass the limits of
conjecture until a post mortem examina
tion can be had. The bony front in the
region of the bases of the horns is con
tinuous apparently for both sides.—Sci
entific American.
Governor St. John said at the recent Cooper
tastitute 'New York City) meeting that the
. G. T. U. was the greatest organization in
the world.
Dr. Kate C. Bushnell is in New Jersey lec
turing on the White Cross movement, and re
cently addressed a conference in New Yoik
on that subject.
Hiomae H. Thrailkill, of Nashville,
Ala., lost his life in attempting to save
Willie Gerald, a boy, from drowning.