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THE MONROE ADVERTISER.
FORSYTH, GEORGIA.
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF MONROE COUNTY.
BY McGINTY <t CABANI9S.
P. T. Barman), the great showman,
*sy of printer’s ink, aii<l he ought to !
know, that there is no factor iu adver
tising so worthy of patronage or so vain
able as printer’s ink.
The great tower of iron. 1.000 feel
high, which was to have leren the feature
of 'he next World's Fair at Paiis, is tc 1
oe abandoned. It was found impossible ,
:o induce workmen to build it.
According to the Newark Jon.ml, the
smallest working silk loom in the world
on exhibition at the rooms of the Bat
erson (N. J. Board of Educatiofl. r
takes up less space than a type-writer.
Ihe loss of life and property oi the
Great I akes has been greater the past
year than in any year since 1888. Two
hundred and four lives have been lost and
seventy-three vessels of 20,687 registered
tons went down, representing a loss ol
$792,000 on hulls and $408,400 on car
goes. If the minor losses be added the
whole loss wcmld exceed two and a ball
million*,
A correspondent writing from Russia
*ays that in the dining room of one ol
the large cafes of Moscow there is a pool
of fresh water in which fish of various
kinds and sizes swim about. Auy pa
ron of the restaurant who may wish a
course of fish for his dinner goes to the
P')l, picks out the particular fish which
‘trikes his fancy and in a jiffy the waiter
has captured it with a dip net and sent
it out to the chef.
On walking, ,he Buffalo Commercial
Adrer titer remarks: “We have had some
experience, and are firmly of the opinion
that as a rule the individual is the best
judge —all doctors to the contrary not
withstanding. If walking does not over
fatigue—and immoderate walking is cer
tainly not advisable—then it is unques-
Sionably a vigorous and healthy exercise.
As to how far a per ton can walk without
fatigue, why that mud bo decided by
judicious individual experiment.”
At the Comstock silver mines in Vir
ginia < ity mining science has reached
its highest point, according to a San
Francisco newspaper, which suvs that
there they carry water down a vertical
shaft to the depth of 1,700 feet, and
then gear it back to the surface, run
ning the gigantic mills by the !, 700 foot
pressure. W lieu the plan was suggested
to engineers of Europe they laughed at
it; but now it's a proved success, and
furnishes a power iupueasurubly grentei
logigthan. p
*Mre*“d to mining.
Professor Medeleef lias succeeded in
producing petroleum artificially, from
which he argues that the same pto ess
is constantly going on in the earth. He
produced it from minerals and supposes
that in tlie earth water which has found
its way below the crust encounters car
bides of metals, particularly of iron, in
ied hot state Pne water decomposes
into gasses. The oxygen unites with
iron, the hydrogen takes tip carbon and
ascends to a higher region where part of
it is condensed into mineral oil. The
supply of oil on thi* theory would lx
exhaust less.
Pathetic and tragic stories of ] tilt
fishing villages are frequently the subject
of pictures and poems wherein imagina
tive art tries to convey to the world at
idea of the cost in human suffering of th
fish caught at sea to supply with food the
great markets of the world. But neither
poem nor picture can be as impressive as
the simple statistics telling us that last
aeason sixty-nine fishermen belonging to
Trovincetown, Mass.. lost their lives by
being caught in destructive storms along
the coast. These deaths by accident
alone of the strong men of the community
represent a mortality of about fifteen per
thousand of the community—two-thirds
the death rate from all causes in it fairly
healthy town or district of country.
That ship building is becoming a Pa
cific coast industry is pro * and by the work
done at tin t niou Iron Works anil the
Pacific Rolling Mills in this oitv, writes
the San Francisco correspondent of the
New York I'rii >u-. The work of these
two corporations for eleven months of
the present year amounts to $l,B-50,000.
The largest contract is for the cruiser
Charleston, on which $300,000 has
already been paid, while the work on the
new cruiser. No. 5, amounts to $250,-
000. The yards have turned out two
•hips for foreign owners—the Premier,
built for the Puget Sound traffic of the
Canadian Pacific Railway, and the Kuala,
for the Sandwich I-lands. Two thousaud
men are employed and work goes on day
md night.
Ihe National Museum at Washington
contains a set of the pharmacopoeias of
all nations, furnishing a complete list of
the world s standard medicines. From
these a universal pharmacopoeia is to be
compiled. The dej artment of Materia
Medica in the museum iilus'rates the
worlds pa-t and present me ti'al prac
tice. and is designed to include e erv
kind of raw material, preparation, instru
ment and applian re ever used in medi
-me. surgery or hygiene. Several thou
sand specimens have thus far been col
lected, showing the material and pro
cesses of modern pharmacy, together
with such curiosities as alligator oil,
free* toads. tortoise she Ts. umbergris.
cod-filers, pea Is. snails. sna-eand other
odd - bstani es to which healing powers
have i ccn attributed
THE MONROE ADVERTISER: FORSYTH, *GA., TUESDAY. JANUARY 31, 1888.—EIGHT PAGES.
WASHINGTON, D. C.
FACTS AND FANCIES ABOUT
MEN AND THINGS.
What Oar .National Law Matter* are Doing
Departmental (o**ip— Movement ■ rf
President and >lr. Cleveland.
CONGRESSIONAL.
Among the jK-titi-uts and memorials
presented in the Senate were the follow
tug: Asking that goods manufactured
by convict labor shall be so marked: in
favor of a postal telegraph system: for tin
international copyright law: for an
amendment of the'patent laas; for the
adjustment of the tariff so as to prevent
unequal burdens; to develop the material
resources of the country, and at the same
time accord just compensation to labor,
(the latter bein>' tin- action of the Chat
tanooga (hataber of Commerce ■ for
liquor prohibition in the District of Co
lumbia : ond for a constitutional amend
ment prohibiting the liquor traffic.
Iu the House, Mr. Seney. of Ohio, from
the committee on judiciary, reported a
bill to regulate practice iu causes remov
ed from the State courts. Placed on the
calendar. The struggle over the Wilkins
banking bill was resumed. Several pro
positions to compromise failed, ojxjxm
enta of the bill announcing their inten
tion to fight it with uil the weapons that
come to their hands. After recess, in
pursuance of the previous order of the
House, the ceremony of the presentation,
by the State of Massachusetts to the
House, of portraits of Theodore Sedgwick.
Joseph B. Varnum and Den. Nathaniel
P. Banks, distinguished citizens of Mas
sachusetts who have occupied the Speak
er's chair in the national House of Rep
resentatives, was proceeded with. The
portraits, handsomely framed, were rang- j
ed side by side in front of the clerk s
desk, and attracted much attention.
GOSSIP.
A. M. MacMurphcy. of Augusta, Ga.,
has been appointed superintendent of
construction of the public building to b
erected there.
'Hie comptroller of the currency has
authorized the City National bank of
Knoxville, Tenn., to begin business with
a capital of SIOO,OOO.
Sevelon A. Brown, chief clerk of th<
State Department for the last fifteen
years, will retire shortly, and will be suc
ceeded by J. Fenner Lee, of Baltimore,
at present secretary of legation at Vienna.
The Postmaster General has issued a
circular letter to postmasters embodying
the rules and regulations which will here
after govern under the new law relating
to permissible writing and printing on
second, third and fourth-class mail mat
ter. The law has gone into effect.
President Cleveland expresses the wish
that the National Democratic Convention,
which clioses a presidential candidate,
shall meet in New York City, and if
was so stated to the delegates from Cin
cinnati, Ohio, who went, to Washington
to try and get the convention to be Held
in their city.
For several months past frequent report*
have been made to the postoffice depart
ment of the loss of letters mailed in two
large office buildings In the city. Re
cently the complaints have included the
t illing of v es. The other day
-i
years old, as
;prit, and he made a statement ac
knowledging bis guilt as to one of the
robberies.
The National Board of Tfade. in ses
sion. many of its delegates being also
delegates to the shipping league conven
tion, adopted the following: “Resolved,
That we favor the improvement of our
navigable rivers and harbors, by appro
priations for the removal of obstructions
therein, or surveys thereof, with a view
k> and fine the jurisdiction of the United
Ntatt s over them, so that provision may
iu made by law to prevent obstructions
therein."
The judiciary committee agreed to re
port favorably on the bill providing that
arrests under the internal revenue laws
be made on warrants, and the parties ar
ia -ted to lhi tiled in their own counties,
file prosecutor to pay the costs of the
case i it be a fruitless one Under the
present laws there have been, since the
War. forty violators of the internal reve
nue laws sent from Georgia to serve
j terms in the Albany, N. Y., peniten
tiary.
'l'lte seal of secrecy has been removed
front a long list of confirmations by the
Senate. Among the nominations are the
following: P. S. Hunter, collector of
customs, Tappahannock, Va. Pos turns -
I tors—H. A. Pope. Manchester. Va.: H.
;A. Jordan. Fernandina, Fla,; W. G.
j Stone, Charleston. Miss.: J. T. Kiddo,
j Cuthbert, Ga.; John F. Redding,Barnes
j villc. Ga.: W. T. Broyles. Dayton,Tenn.
1 To be pension agent at Knoxville. Tenn
. A. Carpenter.
j Mason’s bill providing for an investi
j gation of trusts and combinations was
> taken up by the House committee on
manufactures and after a short discussion,
- which disclosed the fact that the com
| mittee is unanimous in its support, a
i favorable report was ordered. It is ex-
I ported that this report will be made early
i next w eek and will recommend that the
j judiciary committee be authorized to in
t vt stigate all trusts affecting coal, sugar,
j mining industries and other kindred Mtb
1 jects.
Mr. O’Donnell, of Michigan, has pre
| pared for introduction in the House, a
! bill providing that after July 1, drop) iet
j ter-, where the system of free delivery is
: e-iablished. shall be fixed at the rate of
ore eeut per ounce or fraction thereof.
I He states that there are 189 free deliver}
| offices in the country, employing 5,310
i carriers. Cost of this service last year was
$4,618,692; the revenue derived from
j postage on local matter in 1887. was $6,-
; 691.253. the local mails paying for the
i service and leaving an excess of $2,072 -
561.
The statement cabled from Madrid that
! the United States Government has de
nianded of Spain heavy damages on ac
count of the aliened ill-treatment of Dr
Nadal by the authorities of Potto Rico is
not strictly correct. The Department of
State has taken the diplomatic course
usually adopted in such cases, and ha- in-
I structed our minister to Spain to lav Dr
! Nadal's claim before the Government,
with tie representation that if the alle
gation contained therein are found to be
i true be is entitled to compensation. He
i formerly lived in Porto Rico, and alleges
! that he was arrested on an unfounded
suspicion cf belonging to a society of Au
tonomists or Home Rulers. In order to
extract information from him if possible.
! the governor of Porto Rico caused hts
arms to be pinioned behind him in .\v
extremely painful position for 24 hours.
Mi-s PhcFbe Courin* of 5- r . Louis. has of
fered bers?'f a- an independent Prohibition
candidate tor (Governor o: Msi’Ut..
THE BUSY WORLD
PHOTOGRAPHED BY THE EVER
PRESENT NEWSPAPER AX.4 Y.
Tin* Kutop6a.il Powers Preparing for n
<rei4t struggle —lri*li Affairs —storm*.
Kallrund Accident*. Snicides, etc.
The movements of Russian troops in
Galicia have been suspended, owing to
suow impeding railway traffic.
Father Matthew Ryan, the Limerick
i Ireland) priest who was imprisoned for
a month for inciting the people to illegal
acts, was released.
The socialists attempted to hold a meet
ing iu Trafalgar square, London, Eng
land, but were prevented from doing so
by the police, who arrested two of them.
The Turners of Green Bay, Wis., have
issued a circular letter to societies of the
North America Turnerbund, asking for
the expulsion of anarchist members of the
organization.
In the will of L. J. Curtis, the million
aire manufacturer of Meriden, Conn., he j
left $750,000 to the Curtis Home for Old j
Women and Orphans, which he built and ;
maintained at h ; s own expense.
An immense bob-sled, containing fifty- ,
two persons, collided with another sled j
while descending a hill, Kansas City, and
was overturned. Many of the occupants j
sustained injuries, and three of them will '
die.
Miss Mary A. Brown, a maiden lady I
residing in Norristown, Pa., and possess
ed of considerable property, has been
swindled out of $3,000 by a Philadelphia j
woman who conducted a “ladies’bank.”
An accident occurred on the Air-Line
Railroad between Huntingtonburg and
Jasper, Ind. Two passenger coaches
were tiirown from the track and a num
ber of passengers injured, two of whom
have died.
A committee, representing the Lo
comotive Engineers’ Brotherhood, on the
Peoria company’s lines, called on General
Manager Baldwin, at Pittsburg, Pa., and
presented a petition for an advance in
wages.
The French and Russian ambassadors i
oppose the decision of the porte to em- I
ploy Germans to assist the governors ol !
provinces in developing agriculture and
mining. It is expected that they will
make formal complaint.
r I he Campaguie General Trans Atlan
tique, in Marseilles, France, has dismiss
ed all its foreign workmen. The order is
directed mainly against Italians and Ger-’
mans, and is due to fear of the presence
of spies. Other companies will follow
suit.
The steamer Indiana, from Philadel- j
phia. Pa., which arrived at Queenstown,
England, reports that a fire broke out j
in the cotton in her afterhold, but the |
flames were finally quenched. There was j
great excitement among those on board j
during the fire.
The entire east wing of the Holyoke J
Water Power Company’s mill, in Holy- j
oke, Mass., 220 feet long and 72 feet j
wide, which was occupied by the Holyoke I
Envelope Company, and B. F. Perkins’ j
machine works, was burned, entailing a j
loss of $325,000.
The children of Rev. Win. Miller were j
playing at the house of a nc
Deienar. UP, and a 12 year oIHJEj
r-oitfa; On p; M*l ; v ’ £-
the ball striictilg I '.' sister in
the side, going' clear around her ’ body,
from which she died.
Intelligence from Brownville, Minn.,
says that the people of that valley are in
dire distress. They have had no commu
uicaiioxt with the rest of the world for
over three weeks. There is not a lump of
coal or stick of firewood on the market.
The people have confiscated all the fuel
of the Manitoba company, and torn down
and burned their railroad buildings.
Father S. Wagener, an eminent Catho
j lie priest, of Chicago, 111., has renounced
j Catholicism and nil orthodox faiths, and
i entered the lecture field in co-operation
with Prof. O. H. Harris. He will pro
mulgate anew doctrine and will attempt
to establish anew church, to be known
as “Progressive Christians.” Father
Wagener is about 70 year's old, and for
50 years prior to coming to tins country,
served in many important departments of
the Prussian government.
In retaliation for the hard fight being
made by the temperance people of Leeds
county, Ontario, eleven buildings have
been burned at Irish Creek. A Methodist
j church and tannery have been burned at
; Kemptville and constables have been
stoned and assaulted. I)r. Ferguson, M.
i P . and three others, one of them a min
j ister, were assailed and threatened with
: murder and two deacons of the Baptist
church have loeen warned to dismiss their
minister or have their church burned.
The temperance people are undismayed,
however, and have had forty tavern
keepers fined, have sent three offender
to the penitentiary, an 1 have had tin- as
| sail ants of the constables fined SBOO.
An Apache buck went to Twisxviu
and got on a drunk. He was put in th
guardhouse, and after he had sobered uu
begged to have his wife and child 1 trough
ito hint. The request xvas granted. Som
I time thereafter screams were heard insidi
| the guardhouse, which xvas filled v. irl
| smoke. The Indian came to the doo,
| with a Ing knife in his hand covered wire
‘ fresh blood, yelled out that he wanted to
kill one white man and one Indian scout
| and then he was prepared to die, and Ik
was riddled with bullets. It was fount!
he had cut the throats of his wife am!
j child from ear to ear, placed them on the
bed. anti then set it on fire.
DESPERADOES.
'The police of Montgomery, Ala., at
' tempted to arrest two men supposed to
be James and Reuben Barrow. One of
them was captured, but the other made
his escape, after shooting and fatally
wounding Neil Bray, one of the composi
tors of the Advertiser. Bray was passing
along the street on his way to work, when
the police. Capt. Martin, called to him to
help catch a man who xvas running away.
Bray started to obey, and was heading
Barrow off xvhen shot. The Barrows live
in Lamar county, Alabama, and are ac
cused of train robbery near Texarkana.
Texas. Recently fixre detectives went to
arrest them, but one of them was got at
home, and the other made his escape, al
though the detectives fired fifty shots at
him. The brothers then made their xvav
to Montgomery. Conductor J. 8. Callahan,
of the south bound train, had telegraphed
ahead that these men were suspicious
characters, and the attempt xvas therefor,
made to arrest them on their arrival.
VETERANS ! O MEET.
Survivors of Gen. William H. Jackson's
Confederate cavalry division have decided
r hn'd a preliminary reunion in New Or
ix*' t h . on February th° day be
for- 'tar:; Gt .-. tor permrere-t organiza
tioti i>>r future reunions.
BRiCOF LAWLESSNESS.
DEEDS THAT MAKE PEACEFUL
CITIZENS INDIGNANT.
Horrible Fond* and Butcheries in West Vlt
ginia, Alabama anil .Missouri—Detective
Nbot Doxjn—Train Robbers Fulled.
W. N Baker and Robert Heitt, of Ful
ton county, Ark., were both engaged tc
be married, and they had arranged to
have wedding. Before the
event iSHßfece, however, Baker sug
gested tr J they hfve their farms sur
veved. The idea suited Heitt, and Baker
accordingly went to Conway, a few miles
distant, to secure the services of County
Surveyoi Dickinson. He returned home
in the evening, accompanied by the sur
veyor. Tire next morning Mr. Dickinson
after completing his work found that the
line separating the txvo farms xvas about
200 feet from the place xvhere it xvas sup
posed to Heitt's land. A dispute
having ar<|q° fyetween the fathers of the
two youag men, old man Heitt finally
declared that his son never should marry
Baker’s daughter, nor his daughter Ba
ker's son. At this Baker became furious,
and drawing a knife rushed at Heitt.
The latter also drew a knife, and before
any one could interfere they had stabbed
each other, Heitt may live, but no hope
is entertained for Baker 1 } recovery.
Information comes from Oceana, Wvo
miug county, W. Virginia, that another
bloody chapter in the McCoy-Hatfield
feud xva§ enacted, in which the lives of
five McCoys were sacrificed. The Hat
field gang Wfy a. raid on the house of
Simon MetwCbrother of Randall. The
McCoys were completely surprised.
The Hatfield gang made a raid
on the house of Sim McCoy,
brother of Randall, whose house was
burned and a portion of his family killed
several days ago, and taking Mrs. Ran
dall McCoy to a tree, tied her to it and
then shot hfijto death, together with her
eldest house xvas set on fire
and McCoy and his two youngest children
were burned to death.
After the bloody combat in Stone
county, Missouri, about six weeks ago,
between the Terrys and their Missouri
enemies, retreated to Arkan
sas, and there, reinforced by their clan
nish allies, stubbornly defied the author
ities, preventing any arrests being made.
A xigilance committee has been organ
ized in Stone county to rid the country
of the Terrys and their outlaw adherents.
The committee has been strengthened by
a similar organization in Arkansas, organ
ized in the vicinity of the Terrys’ nexv
stronghold. Some time ago this inter
state vigilance committee ordered the
Terrys and their friends to leave the
county in so many days, specified in the
warning. Instead of leaving, the Terrys,
numbering 35 fighting men, all armed
with Winchester rifles and revolvers, de
fied them, and the vigilants have a war
footing of 105, likewise well equipped
for bloody work.
Detective Hawk Scarborough was shot
and severely wounded, in Birmingham,
Ala., by Tom Ellis, editor of the Hornet.
The detective was employed at the Casinc
theatre as special officer, and during the
evening hizLxpme words xvith Bud Ila-
who xvas raising a dis
on Haley, Ellis and
found Scarbor
i, flaoßid,
knocked They xvore
j rated, and Haley and his friends went
! out on the sidexvalk. Ellis asked Haley
for a pistol, and said ho would go back
| and kill Scarborough. He got a pistol
and the entire party went back. Haley
struck the detective and knocked him up
against a stove. Scarborough drew a
derringer and fired at Haley, missing
him. In the meantime, Ellis had got be
hind Scarborough, and without a word
of xvarning, shot him three times in tho
back. He then threw down the pistol
; and fled, but was captured.
Train robbers were foiled in an attempt
I to rob an express ,train on the Wabash &
| Western road at Cooloy’s Lake, 24 miles
I east of Kansas City, Mo. The county
j officials had been warned of the intended
| robbery, and they sent an armed posse on
a train and had another posse concealed
| in the xvoods close to Cooley’s Lake. The
j robbers’programme was carried out al!
; right up to a certain point- The train xvas
j stopped by a red light, and three men,
j armed with rifles, covered the engineer,
j and ordered him to dismount. He did
I to, and as he reached the ground a part
of the posse collected in the train and
gave the robbers a x r olley. Others on the
train came up, and so did those in the
woods. The robbers returned the fire
from repeating rifles, but did no damage.
They ran for cover, firing when pursuit
became too close. The plot xvas given
axvav lay one of the gang named King, who
told Arnold, the station agent at Missouri
i City, what was going on. Arnold in turn
informed the sheriff, and the latter officer
immediately organized a posse. Arnold
was one of the posse, and it was he who
shot the leader from the cab. King re
mained xvith the men and signaled the
train to stop.
TERRIBLE CREMATIONS
A horrible cremation occurred at the
| poor farm, three miles south of Palestine,
| Texas. The convicts were all at break
i fast, except one infirm colored paupet
, named Betsy Cairo, whose room was some
distance from the dining room. Before
the meal was ox’er the old woman's room
j was discovered to be on fire. Vice-Su
| perintendent Williams immediately rush
! ed to the scene, and on opening the
; door was met by a blinding shoot ol
flames and smoke, so overpowering as to
j render it impossible to enter the place,
and the aged pauper was necessarily left
to her fate. All but the thighs and stom
ach of the woman was burned to cinders.
Not even a sign of the head xvas found.
! She xvas an inmate of the poor house for
, several years, and xvas 70 years old. The
boarding house and saloon of Nelson Rar
naby. at Minneapolis Minn., was
1 burned. It xvas a rickety struct
ure. and burned so rapidly that it wag
j xvith difficulty that any one escaped.
Many of the inmates jumped fiom tipper
stories, but 14 perished in the flames.
Two other boarding houses were burned,
bur the inmates escaped. Pecuniary loss
$12,000. The mercury was 56 below,
and absolutely nothing could be done tc j
extinguish the flames.
INSPECTED THE COFFINS.
Forty undertakers from various section: i
of Georgia, Alabama and the Carolina
were feasted at a nexx- coffin factory in
Atlanta, Ga. It was the time set apart
for opening the factory for the sale f
goods, and a number of invitations were
sent to undertakers in different part' of
the country. After looking over rhe
stock of the factory in every line, fre-m a
tack to a hearse, the visiting undertakers
did full justice to the xiands (including
wines) spread before them. after which,
they left for their homes.
THE GREAT STRIKE*
No of tin Atn:cnb!e Nett< mrnt-lco
Cutlers Threaten to Make Troub e.
The executive committee of the rail
road strikers held a meeting at Reading,
Penn., presided over by Chairman Lee,
who returned from Philadelphia. He
reported receipt of advices from 350 New
York Knights of Labor assemblies not
only endorsing the railroad strike, but
promising substantial aid. National
Master Workman Lewis took his depart
ure for home, discouraged if not dis
gusted xvith the futility of his efforts to
bring President Corbin to his terms. He
now proposes to direct his efforts toward
stimulating the Ohio miners to material
liberal support of the striking Pennsyl
vania brethren. The report that opera
tions at the furnaces of the Pottsxillc
Iron and Steel Company were about to
be resumed, proves to have been un
founded. The fires are banked and the
superintendent declares that they xvill re
main so until mining is resumed. The
Knickerbocker Ice Company, xvhich has
large storage houses at Reading, Penn.,
and every Winter harvests thousands of
tons of ice from the Tumbling Run dams,
just outside the suburbs, put a
large force of men to work cutting ice.
After xx-orking an hour or two. they ascer
tained that the ice was to be shipped via
the Reading Railroad, xvhereupon they
promptly dropped their tools and refused
to work unless they should receive a sat
isfactory assurance that the ice would be
shipped by the Pennsylvania road.
BLOODSHED FEARED,
The C'unitty of Sherman, linn mm, All I'p In
Arms About County Krooni*.
C. O. McDowell, and others, of Eustus,
Sherman county, Kansas, are consulting
xvith the governor and attorney-general,
at Topeka, in reference to the forcible
capture and retention of the county re
cords of that county by an armed mob of
citizens of Goodland, who visited Eustus,
and with threats of burning the town and
killing all who offered resistance, suc
ceeded in obtaining and removing the
records to Goodland, the contestant for
the county seat honors. Mr. McDowell
says that the feeling is very high in Sher
man county, and there is danger of a clash
of arms and bloodshed at any moment.
The Homesteaders’ Union Association, a
secret order among the homesteaders,
have taken sides xvith the Goodland peo
ple, and the latter thus outnumber the
Eustus people. No laxv is recognized in
Sherman county, McDowell says, but the
law of force. Governor Martin refuses,
as yet, to take any action in the matter,
as he has received no official information
regarding the occurrence. He will do
nothing unless the orders of the courts
are interfered with or violated, when,
upon official proofs furnished to the courts
that such has been the case, he will take
such steps as to him seem best, even to
ordering out the militia.
EFFECT OF DIME NOVELS
For several wrecks, complaints have
reached the police of people being garrot
ted and robbed iu Pine street, San Francis
co, Cal., anden officer stationed to look out j
for the foot pads, saw a man come along
soon after midnight, and turn off the gas
in the lamp on the block xvhere the rob
beries have occurred. lie followed the
felloxv, xvho suspected he was being
watched and took a round about course.
’Fi nally, the mTTn~retTnT,g ■< til
jpsd-loitered around in At®, f-vay. Tha
officer • , prW* x and saift® “Throw up,
your hands.” In response the man drew
his hand from his pocket, and xvith it a
K'l, xvhich he fired, the bullet striking
in the thigh. The officer, who liud
his revolver drawn, fired.-and put a ball
through the man’s head, killing film in
stantly. The officer’s' xvounH, though
painful, is not dangerous. At Virst the
police thought the robber xvas ai' ex-con
vict, but later they discovered he was
Albert Peteivon, a young Swede who
came there about four years ago, then dis
appeared and came back only a few
weeks ago. He roomed xvith a fellow
Swede named Imhorst, linhorst said
Peterson had a mania for reading dime
novels and stories about highwaymen.
He spent Ills days in his room devouring
this literature, and xvhen night came he
dressed in rough clothes, ami went out,
saying he had a night job at Menloe
park.
BECAME INSANE.
A remarkable incident developed dur
ing the trial of the Jones poisoning case,
tried before the Jackson county, Illinois,
circuit court. The case was called and
given to the jury. At about 5 o’clock
that afternoon the jury reported to Judge
Harket that there could be no agreement,
and asked to be discharged. The judge
acceded to the request. The jury stood
eleveii for conviction and one for acquit
tal. The obdurate juryman is named
J. N. Crens, hailing from DeSoto town
ship. During his examination there
seemed nothing of a peculiar character
about the man, and he was accepted as a
good average juryman. As the trial pro
ceeded, his actions attracted considerable
attention, and at length he arose in his
place and interrupted one of the attor
neys of the prosecution,xvho xvas address
ing the jury. From that time forward
he seemed to have lost his mental bal
ance. After the case was submitted he
became wild, preaching, exhorting and
prating by turns. He was determined
that no verdict should be reached, and
did all he could to prevent his fellow
jurors from considering the case.
DYN A MITE MONnTE It.
William H. Cramp's Sons, of Philadel
phia. Pa.. have been awarded a contract
by the Italian government for the con
struction of a Zalinski dynamite gun,
which is to be 40 feet long and to be
made in three sections, and designed to
throw a projectile, filled with dynamite,
weighing 200 pounds, a distance of font
miles. _
HK HOT ANORY.
A priest in the Rouen (France) cathe
dral personated God iri a dialogue with
the devil. The congregation became in- i
censed and hissed and sang the Mar
seillaise" and “Reverent Dc La Revue.’
The police made several arrests, but failed
to dear the cathedral.
TKOUBLE IN T ATTLE RAISING.
The chief industry of the territory of
Wyoming, cattle raising, has received
another black eye by the suspension of the
Union Cattle Cosm ’ -my The assets art
$1.500.000. Liabilities. $ ’., 200.000.
DISGRACEFUL. „
The Albany, N. Y., police broke up a
prize fight. Many rr.c-mbtrs of t.e New
York legislate e were y'-sent, b A
allowed re tvspe.
Of twenty-six eases on the crimiua a --:i
iar for the December term of th= s.
“ourt at Madison, Wis., sixteen were r r
selling liquor to Indians, on® for tak ng
whisky in an Indian reservation an ’ on
for selling liquor without licati*®.
SOUTHLAND DOTTINGS.
INTERESTING NEWS ITEMS FOR
BUSY PEOPLE
The Soelal, Rt>Hl<u and Tt-mpcm-***
World— Projected Enterprise* -Mar
rtngfß, Firr. Heath* E,cu
Dr. John Gordon, second cousin of
Lord Byron, the great poet, died at 1 ex
akana, Ark.
A movement is about to take piace,
which will give Opelika. Ala., a cot
factor}-. The enterprise will be ot an
home capital.
The Railroad Commission of Alabama
has ordered and demanded of the rail
roads running through Opelika, Ala.,
build a union depot,
Mack Jones, colored, formerly an em
ploye of the Savannah, Florida & West
ern* Railroad Company, sued the commny
for $5,000. for the loss of a thmnb. lue
jury gave him SIOO.
The Virginia House joint resolution
requesting Congress to provide for the
establishment of an experimental plant at
Alexandria, for the manufacture of sor
ghum sugar, passed, and will go to the
Senate.
Rev. J. M. Hubbert, of Nashville,
Tenn., gave the theater particular fits re
cently at the First Cumberland Presby
terian Church in a sermon one hour and
fifty minutes long. An opportunity was
offered any one xvho xvished to reply, but
no one accepted the offer.
Christopher Williams, colored, of Al
bany, Ga., while walking into toxvn be
side his wagon, fuxv his loaded gun fall
ing out. He tried to grasp it as it fell.
The hammer struck the wheel just ns the
muzzle xvas against his wrist. It went
off, penetrating his wrist, and tearing
away the muscles and flesh from his right
arm.
About five years ago a colored iusur
mice organization, styling itself “The
Mutual Aid Private Banking Department
of the Widows’ and Orphans’ Benefit and
Sick Relief Fund of the Chief Order
Kinghts of Honor of the World,” xvas
brought into something like notoriety by
a charge of cheating anil swindling against
u darkey named Allen, xvho xvas ut that
time a prominent officer in the Atlanta
lodge of the “C. O. K. of L.’\ and he
has been again arrested ut Atlanta, Ga.,
on complaint of Anna Dossey.
William H. Bailey, a member of the
executive board of* the Knights of La
bor, delivered an address to a very small
crowd in Nashville, Tenn., probably fifty
people scattering themselves about in the
Masonic theater. The address xvas com
munistic and intemperate. Among othei
tilings, he asserted that strikes were un
knoxvn here because workingmen were
cowards and afraid to ask for what wae
due them; that they should threaten
their employers and force from them
better pay and more privileges.
A fire was discovered in the millinery
store of E. Nicholson, in Waco, Texas,
and in a fexv minutes the whole building,
xvhich covers one-fourth of a block, xvas
in a blaze. Many of the guests of the
hotel escaped by sliding down the axyn
ing post. One lady got out on an awning
with a clrild in her arms and jumped to
the ground, sustaining very little injury.
Mrs. Lelyuiii'" xvho was proprietress of
aribJT&i had been separated
from iter J about a vear. was
! rootled Im- “dflftding, and
they have agreed to bury their grievances
against each other and live together.
Seven persons were drowned in Sand
Lake, about ten miles cast of Ennis, Tex.
Txvo young women, daughters of William
Williams, a farmer, and a young man
named Babbitt, were skating on the lake,
xvhen the ice gave way, and they sunk
in four and a half feet of water. Miss
Babbitt and two little girls, aged 8 and
4 years, and daughters of William Wil
li/.ns, were on the shore watching the
Sport, were drowned in attempting to
rescue their friends. A very small child
of William Williams, also fell through
the ice, but was saved by one of the
drowning young ladies catching and
throwing it out on the ice.
DEADLY PRIZE FIGHT
A prize fight, which resulted in the
death of one of the principals, took place
at the Live Oak hotel, Fort Hamilton,
| New Ytuk Harbor, kept by one “Nick”
Thompson*. Before midnight a motley
.throDg, consisting of fifty or sixty pat
rons of the “manly art,,” had gotten
about the place to witness a “mill” ar
ranged by one “Ed” McDonald, who
makes such matters his business. The
principals were William C. Dempsey, aged
24, employed in the New York Herald
press room, and a news boy, Simon Bes
ser, age 19, who goes by the name of
“Swipes.” Neither of the men weighed
12Q pounds. George (known as “Dolly”)
Parker, a member of the Bedford athletic
club, of Brooklyn, was chosen referee.
Both principals were dressed in tights
and trunks, but neither wore shoes. One
witness says that “Bwipes” struck Demp
sey twice in the stomach, earning him to
stagger forward. At this moment
“Swipes” dealt Dempsey a staggering
blow on the right temple, knocking him
down. Dempsey fell to the floor froth
ing at the mouth. He did not arise.and
corae to the scratch within the ten sec
onds allowed, and “Bwipes”was declared
the victor, and awarded the gate money.
$27. Dempsey’s seconds soon found that
the roan was dead, and carried him up
into the sitting room of the place, where
they dressed him in his clothes, and
sent • mes ages to his friends.
The men engaged in making up the fight
have industriously circulated the report
that Dempsey’s death was caused bv
heart disease. The coroner has ordered
that an autopsy be made. McDonald,
the man who got up the fight, the referee,
seconds and timekeepers have disap
peared “Swipes,” however, after keep
ing in hiding ail day, gave himself up at
police Brooklyn, where he
was committed to axvait the action of the
coroner.
A GOOD IDP.A
Some ill-advised persons started s
Qosition in Atlanta, Ga., to raise a
for Gen. James Longstreet, but the
gallant old general, though in strait
ened circumstances, declines to accept
money in that shape. Now. another idea
is to put the battle-scarred veteran at the
head of a movement for a Confederate
Soldiers’ Homo, to be built in Atlanta,
and when completed, make him its first
governor.
WHIPPED THE POI.ICE.
The police in the Island of Lewis at
tempted to arrest a number of Scottish
crofters for destroying the fences of sheep
farms. The crofters resisted, and charg
eu the police, finally routing them. A
number of ctoft-rs. who were arrested fot
f'M'wine in riots have j U5 t beer, tried In
lsuinburg and the jury acquitted them.
BITTER MEN.
We pray that the world grow better,
And we say its roads are rough;
We fret over fancied sorrows.
Bnt the world is good enough.
Springs the bright grain if we sow it.
There is work for hand and pen.
Nature ever smiles on effort—
What we want is better men.
By the cloud we know the sunshine.
Smiles are sweetest after tears;
After toiling cometh resting.
And calming of our fears.
Shall we murmur that the snow falls
Doth not Summer come again?
Ah' this might be half an Eden,
If we just had better men.
When the Summer fails to reach iw
And dear love shall lose its power.
When the angel, hope, refuses
To illume the darkened hour.
We may ban the world for coldness.
But our course is clear till then—
Let us face toward its sunshine.
Ami fill it xvith better men!
Better fathers, friends and-brothers—
More its worth to understand ;
Better hearts toward each other, |
And sometimes a helping hand.
Never whimper of decadence
When misfortune meets our ken.
The old world will answer nobly
To the claims of better men.
IFm. Lyle, in Journalist .
PITH AND POINT.
There is a great deal of blow about th*
signal service officers. —Boston Post.
Opportunities are like vacant lots.
They must be improved to be profiit
able.
The camel has four stomachs. The
greedy boy is apt to envy the camel.—
Boston Pns‘.
All heirs are interesting, but the most
interesting is the million heir. —New
Haven Hews.
It is poor consolation for a sick man to
knoxv that better nteu than he have died,
Drake's Maejazine.
It isn’t necessary for a man to know
enough to go in when it rains, if he has
an umbrella.— Life.
A terrible example—the first one iu the
arithmetic that does not have the answer
apjM'ndcd.— lj>trdl Citizi n.
The waves of old ocean are by no
means ready to sleep xvhen they put their
white caps on.— Picayune.
A small Alleghany boy recently de
scribed a cross eyed individual as a “man
with bandy-legged eyes. —Pittsburgh
Chronicle.
“Hello, Brown! Hax’e you any new
factories going up at. Hellebore this fall?”
‘Yes, our powder factory xveut up last
week.”— Burin.gloa Free Press.
The counterfeiter, no matter xvhere ho
goes, is seldom xvell lodged. At least it
is believed that wherever lie is he has
had quarters.— Boston Courier.
“I see the dude has got into the latest
edition of Webster's Dictionary.” “Has
ae? Well, hurry, then, and 6lani the
lover down.” —Cliiceiejo Hies.
Proud Father—“l believe, my
that that baby knoxvi- as much as I do.
Mother (gazing at the infant) —“Yes,
poor little fellow.”—.V, ic Y, rk Sun.
Then it'i ho! tor tlx- muffler and sealskin cap.
And a bruised and bleeding |>ale.
—Chicago Mail.
There is one thing to be said for th®
brass band. It never hangs back, and
blushes and protests incompetcncy when
it is asked to plav. —Bur in /'< Free
Pa*'.
Highwayman—“ Throw up your
bands!” Physician (absently / —“lt's
out of the question, sir. I haven’t an
emetic of any kind with me.”— Nebraska.
S ale Journal
Our esteemed contemporary, Mr. I*.
T. Barnuin, always was a lnckymun. He
found three dollars in the stomach of one
af his recently-destroyed elephants,—
Boston. Courier.
Although the Government complains
that it has too much money, it is weekly
coining more. This shows that the Gov
ernment is not unlike the ordinary in
dividual.—Philadelphia New*.
Alarming Contortions—Passenger (on
street car, alarmed) —-“Madam, do you
feel a tit coming on'” Madam
(haughtily,—“No, sir; I'm trying to find
my pocket.’’ —New York Sun.
•‘A friend in need’s a friend indeed,”
The statement is not trie- said .Jones.
The friends in need are friends that bleed
You, tor they’re always wanting loans.
—Boston Courier.
Mrs. Dumpsey “Our Bessie is the
brightest little child you ever saw! Sh#
picks up everything she hears.” Mrs.
Popinjay - “Something like our Willie.
He picks up everything he sees.”—Bur
lington Free Br *r.
Bride (exchanging bridal costume for
travelling suit) —“Bid 1 appear nervous
it all during the Ceremony, Clara?”
Hridemaid (envious) —“A little at first,
dear, but not after George had said
yes,’ ” — Harjnr'x Bazar.
When blizzards hliz,
An’ coal is riz.
An’ tempests ternp their boldest,
We shivering shiv,
And sear--e can live —
Por street carg are coldest.
—Detroit Free Press.
“Young raijn,” he said, “do you re
member old saying: \Monev is tha
root o; alt evil'?” “y fcS . h ir.” '“Well,
do you know that many of the e old say
ings contain much that is food for serious
thought;” “\es, sir; there is ‘Hoot,
hog, or die,’for instance.”— Drak 's Mag
azinfi.
Italiode 1 ourite—**Fo j-ou will not be
my wife, eli? Do you forget zatl am an
Italian count? ’ Young American—“Oh,
no: I do not forget you are an Italian
count, but Ido know’ jb t t I was never
brought up to make a dozen shirts for
thirty cents and do the washing for a
large family."— J-übjt
A Tendency Toward the Country.
“The tendency of all cities,’ observes
a traveler, ‘ is to grow away from rather
than along the river or coas*. The cir
cumscribed limits of New York compel
this here, but you will find in all ths
cities where there is a chance for expan
sion in the back country the cities grow
away from the river or coast, which is
abandoned to commercial purposes, as in
this city. The riverside, like the Bat
tery. often offers the most pleasant place
for a residence, and it was selected a
*ucb by the original resident*, but in ths
development of the city the march of
progress is into the country. Think over
!1 the cities you have visited, and vouHl
snd this to be the case.’’
Correct Business Principles.
Cnshak-n as the Pyrami 1 that stands
In silent grsndeur on Egyptian sands—
\:' ]m MthetSpißX that o’er the desert vt
Has garM wjjSdtarty centime* ha4\L£L
<* vub of business, g
Whose sWes.,,; Tvads fair and sdvsrtiss