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THE MONROE ADVERTISER.
FORSYTH, GEORGIA.
OFFICIAL ORGAfi OF MONROE COUNTY.
BY HcGINTY <t CABAN I SB.
The Rev. D. Furoc'i, of Philadelphia,
is eighty-six years of ago, and ptiil a vig
orous and entertaining preacher. He
delivered his first sermon pixtv-tive years
*<>.
There will be plenty of international
txhibl'ions tin year. Among others
will he one re nting to l oi-ir at Bologna,
one at Vienna, rover!ng architecture,
sculpture and painting, and oni at Mel
bourne comprising everything.
During the year ending with the close
of la ! June, we are informed that about
1,700,000,000 cigaretti were -old in this
country—an enormous increase over the
year before. At thi- rate, say the .New
York Star, the small boy will disappear
from history about January 1, /s;ts.
There is such a boom in the Argentine
Republic that Buenos Ayres has become
the deare-t city in the world to live in.
The city is grow ing very fast, and rents
arc up to the ski(o. Provisions of every
description are almost as high as in Eu
rope, and general living expenses have
rapidly increased.
It is said to be a common thing for a
Chinese merchant, when importing and a
monds from Cuba to San Francisco, fo
place the precious stones in his mouth
when the Custom House officials search
him. If the examination chances to be
too rigid, lie quietly swallows the stones
and when released follows them up with
an emetic, which speedily brings them to
light again.
It. is not generally known that Wash
ington is the most southern capital of
the great natioi s of the Northern Ilem
isphere. Madrid, Constantinople and
Rome are even further north, while Paris
is up in the latitude of New Foundland,
and London and Berlin arc on the line
of Labrador. St. Petersburg is on the
samo parallel as Greenland and is 1,400
miles north of Washington.
Bell Telephone stock, with a par value
.if ICO a share, is selling at #390. It
pays 15 per cent, dividends and is
supposed to earn about 30 per cent. The
largest block of the stock is held by the
inventor and his wife. Another large
holder is Forbes, the Boston capitalist,
who has a controlling interest in the
Burlington road and is father-in-law of
Perkins, the road's President.
The New York city police last yeai
arrested 80,990 persons, 10,139 of whom
were females. The station houses shel
tered 71,332 male and 50,378 female
lodgers. The causes of arrest were: In
toxication, 28,594, including 8.432
womeu ; disorderly conduct, 13,532 in
cluding 1,958 women; burglary, 013;
petty larceny, 3,360; picking pockets,
223; violations of the Excise law, 1,701.
Lost children numbered 9 203and found
lings 177.
Mexico is making a high bid for im
migration. Il is reported that the Mex
ican Government has made a concession
to a real estate company, whereby 55,-
000,000 acres of land in eleven different
States is to come into its possession,to be
occupied by immigrants. Settlers on
these tracts are to be exempt from tax
ation on the land, and the Government
guarantees them protection. It is pro
posed to establish agencies in the prin
eipal cities of America and Europe to iu
duce immigration to Mexico.
The whole population of Utah is at
least 200,000: four-fifths of them are
Mormons in religion- faith: the rest art
non-Mormons or what are called there
“Gentiles.” There are or lately were,
about 2,000 heads of polygamous fam
ilies. A cry many of them are old people,
some of them married their plural wives
long before there was any prohibitory
law against such marriages. These
older people and their older wive- are
-now rapidly pasring away. The younger
men of the Mormon faith, of the ages of
40 and under, have not married more
than one wife.
Ihe London 7'- V ;r. nv say-that it is
an “undoubted fact that thousands and
hundreds of thousands of acres of line
farming land in ‘th- British Islands'can
not at present be let to tenants at ten
shillings, or even less per at re. Yet it
thinks that ‘the horizon is brightening
all round for the sorely-tr od agricultural
classes/ and that -better times are in
store for British farmers.’ ” :t believes
the improvement b coming in the
directi -n of stock-raising to supply the
large demand tor beef and mutton,
which has been to so large an extent
supplied from abroad.
The fact that fifteen to twenty-five
steamers a month are now arriving at the
mouth cf the Congo, illustrates the
growth of commerce inth.t region of
Africa since Stanley riiowed the im
portance of the great rive;. On" ocean
steamer ha- already ascended the river
to Bonin, fifty miles from the -ea. and
the best channels are being marked by
buoys, so that dei ■ ?-. - vessels ma*
safely navigate the lower river. Little
hotels for the entertainment of travelers
have been built at Banana and Bom a.
One reason why the whites on the lower
river enjoy far better health than
formerly is said to be became they have
discarded canned meats and now raise
their own beef. Cattle thrive finely at
Boma, and it takes aster every three
days to feed the whites who ate cow
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THE MONROE ADVERTISER: FORSYTH, GA., TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 21, ISSB.—EIGHT PAGES.
WASHINGTON, D, C.
FACTS AMI EASCJES ABOVI
ML. Y AYD Jill SOS.
\\ tint Our National I.ao' MnUrr* arf Doing
Depart utrural <*rnlp—.Movements of
President n Q t) Mrs. Cleveland.
C ON G FI Eft* r OX A L.
A resolution Instructing the Senate
, Committee on commerce (in reporting the
, : ‘ n, l harbor bill) t<> sot out important
! icts bearing on each item, was rmtorted
s ot Nevada, ,nd ,gSedto!
resolution for inquiry into the
c-tu-os of inefficient mail service was taken
Up. SjK-cehes attacking the post-offieJ
1 iu i ?, , ' !n 7 , ,V"T made, AV Messrs. Plumb;
1 ,lU ; n< * -uHiiderson, and Messrs. Reagan
i ’' Sa ’* l ;: l ” I, y championed the depart
-1 ™ resolution went over without
lon - Jl,r ‘ Ihair education bill wa
tlicn taken up as unfinished business, and
' ‘ l Hawley addrese<l the Senate in op
to The bill appropriat,
Subivopi!,, Lpo
sition at Jacksonville. Fla., was passed.
• ■ Among the executive communica
™,,s l Mr *cnted to the House, was one
><jm the Secretary of War, in response to
tne House resolution calling for informa
tion relative to the plan and Sebpe of the
comp] lint ion of official records of the War
and Rebellion deferred. Mr. Richard
son, of North Carolina, from the com
"■•t'b-e on printing, reported the Senate
concurrent resolution for the printing of
~OUU additional copies of executive doc
ument 51, on the subject of dairy pro
ducts 1 l*c Committee on commerce rc
porfed A bill authorizing the removal of
fhc quarantine station from Ship Island,
Miss. Referred to committee of the
whole. The committee on labor reported
adversely the hill to provide for the
licensing of railroad conductors. Mr.
• lemcnts, of Georgia, introduced a bill
ior a public building at Rome’ Ga.
In the Senate, Mr. Riddleberger's fight
against secret, sessions in general, anil
against the British extradition treaty in
particular, was recognized in the shape
<3 a large and very handsome floral harp
placed on his desk one morning bv an
Irish society called Clan-Na-Gael.
Among the petitions anu memorials pre
sented and referred wete the following:
Jo place on the “‘ec list books printed in
any of fhe modern foreign languages,
lo tineud the patent laws in relation to
innocent users of patented articles. For
an international copyright law. Among
the hills reported from committees and
placed on the calendar was eno appropri
ating .fIO,OOO for the Sub-Tropical Ex
position at Jacksonville, Fla. Among
the bills introduced and referred was one
b> Mr. Piatt to pay for the passage of
Yen. Lal'ayette and his family from
1 lance to the I ..mi ted States as guests of
the nation in 1824 In the House Air.
Brower, of North Caroiina, introduced a
resolution instructing the committee on
ways and moans to report what progress
it has made in the consideration of bills
repealing the internal revenue taxes, and
tc state at what time such bills are likely
to be reported to the House.
In case the committee is unable to agree
upon these bills, it is instructed to report
that fact to the House, and bills shall be
placed on the calendar. The first bill
'•idled up was one punishing the adver
tising of lottery tickets in the District of
( olumbia. Bills introduced by Air.
I own-end, permitting farmers and pro
ducers of tobacco to sell leaf tobacco in
any quantity to unlicensed dealers, or to
any person without restriction, and repeal
ing all laws inconsistent therewith. A
number of public buildings bills were in
troduced. among them on*' for Pensacola
Florida.
GOSSIP.
Senator Riddleberger’s desk was again
decorated with flowers, this time the
compliment being a handsome national
flag of flowers.
The President lias nominated Alexan
der AlcCue, of New York, to be assist
ant treasurer of the United States at New
York city, in the place of Charles J.
Panda, resigned.
There is, according to the authority ot
the Treasury Department, a steady in
crease in the number of national banks
in Georgia during the past year, four
ha\ing been established. The number
at present in operation in the state is
twenty one.
President Cleveland has practically de
cided to spend a few days in Florida
during the present month. Representative
Davidson called on him the other day, and
assured him if lie and Airs. Cleveland
would consent to make the trip, a com
mittee would make all arrangements. He
i will probably spend a few hours in
Savannah.
1 he direct tax bill, which was reported
favorably by the judiciary committee, and
will undoubtedly pass, will refund to the
people of Georgia #117,982.80 of taxes
collected on land during the AYar; Ala
bama get- #18.285: Florida, #4.760;
Mississippi, #111,038: North Carolina,
8377.452: South Carolina. #222,376;
lYnnessee, #392,004. The entire amount
to be refuuded is #17.359.685, of which
the South gets #3,69-5,370.
The consul at San Salvador has made
a report to the Department of State in
regard to the railway system of Central
America, in which he urges the great im
portance cf a trans-isthmian railway to
the commerce of the United States.
Puerto Barrios is within fifty hours or
less ot Mobile. Ala., and only six hours
would be required to transfer a traveler
or a bale of goods from Alobilc to the
Pacific coast harbor. La Union.
Air. Carlton, of Georgia, w ill introduce
a bill for a public building at Ath
eus. Ga.. to cost #IOO,OOO. He will also
introduce a bill asking for an appropria
tion MUncient to allow the engineer to
survey and make an estimate of the
amount needed to make the Savannah
river navigable above Augusta a< far uj
a- Audersonville. S. C. He will also ask
the river and harbor committee for an
appropriation sufficient to complete the
\vork on the Oconee river as far mi as
Scull shoal.
Air. Blount, of Georgia, has in charge
nearly a hundred bills authorizing claim
ants against the general government in
Georgia, whose property was taken dur
ing the AVar. to go before the court of
; minis and establish their rights. Among
the claimants are Henry Field, of Savan
nah: AN. H. Parser, of Alonroe; James
A. Garden, of AVhitfield; Asa Braswell,
of DeKalb; J. H. Bray, of Lily Pond:
James Price. Upson county; Nicholas
Rawlings, of Rome: Ben Hay-good, of
Monroe; Peter Lynch, of Fulton county;
Z. ( . Baker, of DeKalb county: L. L.
Malone, of Screven county, and many
others, the most of which are old hi!l
Two villains on? named Hr.go and the
other 1 argn.ss.-. have been s nrenoed ia
Paris, France, to peaal servitude for life and
for twenty years, respectively. They mur
iered a w -nun on a l>et of a cup of coffee.
SOUTHLAND DOTTINGS,
I\TI t(F.STI\G SEWS ITEMS FOR
else people.
The Social, Religion* and Temperance
W orM—Projected Enterprise*— Mar
tingen. Fire*, Death*. Etc.
The Mississippi Legislature has applied
the pruning knife to all appropriations,
and cut off about 25 ]>er cent, on all bills
calling for expenditures of money .
The Memphis A Charleston Railroad
Company lias cut freight rates on grocer
ies and provisions to Sheffield. Ala.,
nearly 4b per cent, in order to meet
competition by the Tennessee River route,
Ground was broken in Decatur, Ala.,
for the grading and excavating fot the
works of the United Btat< s Rolling Stock
Company, that are to be removed from
! ibatina, O. Fifty acres will be graded
for the track- and buildings of this com
pany.
Samuel AYilliams was walking in the
vicinity of the reservoir, at Chattanooga,
Penn., when he got lost in the darkness
and walked off into the water, which was
about 15 feet deep. No one being near
at the time, lie was unable to get out and
was drowned.
Governin' Scales, of South Carolina, on
consideration of the case, commuted the
death sentence of Lucian Rowe, colored,
to imprisonment for ten years in the pen
itentiary at hard labor. Rowe was con
convicted of burglary at the Durham
superior court, and sentenced to be
hanged.
The legislative committee, which has
been investigating the condition of Ken
tucky's famous Rowan county war. re
turned to Frankfort reporting a very de
plorable state of affairs, and it is proba
ble that the county will either be abol
ished or transferred to another judicial
district.
Fayette Alalone, a railroad contractor
at Norris station, Ala., was shot and se
riously- wounded. The shooting was
done by Rev. John SOgarth, a Alcthodis
preacher. AI lone was very drunk and
after abusing Sugar.h drew his pistol,
but the latter who was armed fired two
shots.
A party of eight persons, all colored,
crossed the river from La Reusite planta
tion to Tymond's Fairview place, La., ir
a skiff. The boat was old, and when the
party were returning and were within one
hundred feet of their home landing, the
swells of a passing steamer caused the
skiff to go to pieces, and seven of the
occupants were drowned.
The preliminary trial of Detective A.
J. Sullivan, for the killing of Tom Ellis,
editor of the Hornet , at Birmingham.
Ala., was concluded recently. Six ot
the best attorneys in the city were em
ployed in the case, three on each side,
•but when the evidence was all in, they
agreed to submit the case without argu
ment. The defendant was discharged on
the ground that the killing was in self
defense.
James Ford, who resides near Easta
boga, Ala., was bitten in the hand by his
yard dog. At the same time three of his
cattle were bitten, Since that time two
of the cattle have died, and the other is
w ild with the rabies. Early last week
the first symptoms of hydrophobia made
its appearance with Air. Ford, growing
worse until it was pronounced by
physicians and proved-, a clearly developed
case of by pro phobia.
Brack Cornett, better know as Captain
Dick, the desperado and leader of the
notorious train robbers, was shot and in
stantly killed while resisting arrest, by
Deputy- Sheriff Alice, of Frio county,
Texas. Cornett's gang were the original
Texas train robbers, having had no cou
nection with the Burrow sand Block band
recently broken up, and they were as
successful in their career as the renowned
Frank and Jes-ie James gang which ex
cited such terror in Missouri some years
ago.
Tlic large dry goods general merchan
dise establishment of Thomas O’Connor,
at New Laredo, Alexico, w-as burned,
through the carelessness of a clerk, who
struck a match to light a cigarette while
drawing alcohol from a tank. An ex
plosion of twenty barreles of alcohol fol
lowed. wrecking the building. The total
los3 is #75,000. Alounted policemen,
with drawn swords, forced spectators to
assist iu checking the flames. Two Anter
caus, not understanding Spanish, were
impressed into this service after receiving
several blows from officers.
There w as unearthed recently the great
est combination of burglarizing ever
known to have been perpetuated by one
single family of negroes in Eufaula, Ala.
They have been robbing different citi
zens' h .uses for the last live years, and
have just been caught tip with through
the shrewdness of a fiddler w ho was stop
ping iu a wagon-yard near that city a few
weeks ago, and who had his wagon rob
red of about seventy dozen eggs. He
came up and served out a warrant for the
negroes arrest, and as there had recently
been a great many burglaries committed,
the officers thought, as an experiment,
that they would arm themselves with a
search warrant. Upon searching the
building, they found many things that
had been stolen from different residences
as far back as five years ago. Jeff Ham
mock, and his wife, a daughter and a
son were the alleged burglars.
PREMIUM ON FRAUD.
Ex-Senator Blanche K. Bruce, form
erly- of Alississippi. but who is now a res
ident of Indianapolis. Ind., was asked by
a reporter his opinion of the proposed
negro exodus to South America and Li
beria. The ex-senator replied: ‘ -There
isn't anything in the so-called exodus to
South America or any other foreign land.
The scheme originated with two classes
—one composed of a few honest, simple
minded men without experience, and
without the remotest conception of the
magnitude of the venture; the other com
posed of sharpers who think they see in
the proposed movement an opportuninity
to advance their personal fortune. Some
of the latter class, lam informed, have
recently appeared in Northern commun
ities as agents, soliciting money to hur
ry forward the work. To encourage such
men is to put a premium on fraud, and in
th" estimation of the public do incalcu
lable injury to the colored people of this
country. ”
HEBREW CONTENTION.
Tne Twentieth convention of District
G ar and Lodge No. 5. Independent Ordei
B nai Brith. was held at Baltimore, Aid.,
w th President Henry Morris, of Tarboro,
N C.. in the chair. There were sixtv
n;ne delegates present, representing lodges
in District of Columbia, Virginia, Georgia
and North and South Carolina. The
chief business was the report of board of
control of the orphan asylum fund, which
reported that the building of the asylum
had been begun at Atlanta. Ga.. and it
would probably- be completed before the
close of the year.
FLORIDA HEMS.
Francis J, Aloreno, brother of the Col
lector of Pensacola, will be appointed
marshal of the Southern District of
Florida... .On the grade about ten miles
from St. Augustine a bed of red clay
has been struck. If upon investigation
this will make good brick, another in
dustry w ill he established.... The auction
v ale of orange groves and other property
in DeLand aggregated over #21,000, and
about #30,000 worth of property has also
been sold to parties who failed to secure
what they wanted at auction... .Joseph
A. Horton, of Pensacola, committed
suicide by shooting himself iu the head,
while seated on the steps of his fesidenee.
No rea-on cau be ascertained for the rash
act. except it was attributed to a fit of
despondency occasioned by business
troubles... .The western portion of Ala
rion county is in a flutter over the ror
mantic elopement of Aliss Cora Tlolly and
Eddie Tucker. The young lady let her
self down from a second-story window
at midnight and found Rev. Air. Hall,
w ho served the purpose of their midnight
search, and scut them on their way re
joicing. .. .Stock is now nearly all sub
scribed for the new hotel at Chipley, and
the building will go up at once. The
plans are said to be after the style of the
one in Marianna, now- in course of erec
tion.... At a meeting of the Orange
County Commissioners, the committee on
the poor of that bodv, reported that a
county poor fane wlHild be a good in
vestment for the “county... .At the prize
drill of the Orlando Guards, Burch
Kuhl took the gold medal.
.... The Pensacola Stone and Building Cos.
has received the molds and other machin
ery necessary for the manufacture of
their artificial stone... .The surveyors are
out on the line of railroad to be built
from Naples on the Gulf to Jacksonville.
The survey will run from ten to fifteen
miles east of Fort Alyers, the head of
deep water navigation on the Caloosa
hatchee At a yacht race at Palatka,
the Wanderer beat the Bertha and Alar
tha by ten seconds.... R. AY. Hall, of
Maitland,has a large bearing orange grove
near that place, which is situated upon the
very spot where Gen. Maitland pitched his
tent during his campaign many years ago.
■ • • •AA hat effect will this hotel have on
Florida? It will make St. Augustine the
great AArinter resort of this continent, The
amazement of those who have seen the
Ponce de Leon this season will bring
thousands to see it next season. Alen and
women will cross America to spend a day
or two within its walls. Air. Flagler and
his friends will make St. Augustine
worthy of this hotel. Already the Casa
Monica, another hotel, is finer Ilian any
thingelse in the country, except the Ponce
de Leon. The Alcazar, when finished,
will surpass the wonders of both these
hotels. AVitli one hundred thousand
people collected in St. Augustine every
Winter, and there should be thAs num
ber there next AArinter, Florida will bene
fit immensely.- Correspondent Atlanta , Ga.,
Constitution.... The Indications ate that
the Lake AYcir Chautauqua will iff ergo in
to an old fashioned camp-meeting. Rev.
Sant Jones has been engaged for the first
five days, to be followed by the evange
list, Rev. John B. Culpepper... .The
Jackson\ ill •, Tampa & Key West Rail
road has added another Steamer
to its line by putting on the “Piccolata.”
... .Pensacola wants a floating d0ck.....
Sneak thieves are again troubling the Pa
latkaites Pensacola’s young men pro
pose getting up a gymnasium Plant
City gardeners are slipping large quanti
ties of cabbage The first Spanish
mackerel of the season was caught at Pen
sacola Col. A. AI. Thrasher has been
elected chairman of the Sanford Board of
Aide:men Tlic South Florida railroad
will run special trains during the South
Florida exhibition at Sanford,.... There
will be a larger acreage in all kinds of veg
etables about Lake City this season than
for several past. . The shipment of or
anges from Columbia county, for the sea
son just closing, will amount to some
thing over 200,000 The lanterns for
the beach lights in Pensacola bay are now
ready, and the keepers have been not ified
to report for duty at once S, G.
Bet tes, better known as tlic “Sailor Evan
gelist, ” has pitched his tent iu Palatka.
.... Ihe house of S. #. Gray, Mims, was
struck by lightning the other day. The
building sustained but little damage, but
it gave a shock to a negro who was grind
ing an ax, the electric fluid striking it out
of his hands and sending- it about ten feet
away The plans of DeFuniak's new
AI. E. Church are in the hands of the con
tractors. The building will be 67 feet
deep and 40 feet wide, with class-rooms
on each side 13x28 feet; 39 feet to comb
of roof from bottom of sill.
ABOUT COTTON.
Glenny & Yiolett’s circular of New Or
leans, says: “The market opened with a
better tone in Liverpool and New York,
and our market responded with an ad
vance in the first half hour of five to six
points, a very steady feeling prevailing.
New A'ork declined somewhat, and dur
ing the balance of the day our advance
was lost, but the closing is very steady,
supported by a firm closing in Liverpool
and an active demand for spots here, re
sulting in larger sales than for some
weeks past. The general sentiment
seems favorable to cotton now, and a
healthy tone is the result. The market
closed easy. Alarch, 9.90a9.91; April,
10.00al0.0i; Alay, 10.10al0.ll; June,
10.21a10.22: October. 10.00al0.01; No
vember, 10.39a10.40.
A FATAL. BLUNDER.
A party of young people assembled at
the residence of Air. Shelby, in Olney,
111., to spend the afternoon, and it was
suggested to hunt in the woods. A
musket was procured and the party
started, when Aliss Shelby requested the
privilege of snapping a cap on the gun,
being informed that the weapon was not
loaded. A young man named Ed. Ivey,
aged 18 years, handed Aliss Shelby a cap
and moved away several paces. She
drew up the weapon, aimed at Ivey and
simultaneously with the remark, “we
will play hunt," pulled the trigger and
the weapon was discharged. The entire
contents of the gun struck Ivey in the
forehead, tearing away the crown of his
head and killing him instantly.
A NEW YORK HORROR.
as a Reed avenue street car filled with
passengers was p :ssing under a large
derrick used in erecting the elevated
railroad structure on Broadway, near
Sumner avenue. Brooklyn, N. Y., the
ropes sustaining the derrick gave way,
and the derrick fell on the passing car.
crushing it in like an egg shell. Seven
teen of the passengers in the car were
injured and four people were killed, one
of whom was a driver on the ear. and
another was a boy employed to drive an
extra horse on steep ascents, and ten
persons were injured, three or four of
them very seriously. A car going in the
opposite direction with a much larger
! oad of people stopped just as the girders
fell ‘ u - horses' noses.
THE BUSY WORLD
PHOTOGRAPHED BY THE F.YER
PItESEXT NEWSPAPER MAX.
The European Powers Preparing for n
Great Struggle—lrish Allairs—storms.
Railroad Accidents. Suicides, etc.
The Anti-Poverty society of New York
has tiled application for incorporation.
The directors of the Sandwich, Mass.,
Glass company have voted to close their
works.
The bonds which Frank McNeaiy
stole from the Saco, Me., savings bank,
have been recovered by his brother Har
ry, went to Europe in search of the
fuginve.
David Ik 1 lilt, treasurer of Philadel
phia Lodge Benevolent Protective Order
of Elks, i- said to be about $3,500 short
in his accounts. Mr. Hilt is an insurance
broker, and has been treasurer of the lo
cal lodge of Elks since 1 SSI.
A Knights of Labor miner at Fremont.
Pa., informed the Associated Press rep
resentative that he, and many other rep
resentatives of the order would return to
work, and he declared that the organiza
tion in that section was practically broken
up as a result of the strike.
William Kelly, inventor of the pneu
matic steel process known as Bessemer,
died at Louisville, Ky., aged 78. Besse
mer applied for letters patent on the pro
cess here and in Great Britain at the same
time, but Mr. Kelly was granted the pat
ent on ground of priority.
A pack of caged wolves escaped from
Sanger's circus, in London, Eng The
elephants, camels, horses and other ani
mals became mad with terror and were
liberated with difficulty. The wolves
were trapped ih i stable, where they fit
riously devoured a horse already slain.
Thousands df persons gathered in Tra
falgar square, London, England, to at
tend the meeting announced to be held
there. The meeting was adjourned, how
ever, to the Thames embankment, where
several speeches were made. There was
no disorder, and the police did not inter
fere.
A daughter was born to one of the
Sioux squaws in Buffalo Bill’s camp, in
London, England, and christened Frances
Victoria Alexandra, in honor of Mrs.
Cleveland, Queen Victoria, and the Prin
cess of Wales. This is the first instance
of the birth of an American Indian child
in England.
Two thousand men are still continuing
their efforts to rescue passengers on the
mail train on the Arlborg railway, in the
Austrian Tyrol, which was buried by an
avalanche. An avalanche swept down
upon a cottage built on the side of the
mountain and crushed it to pieces. Its
occupants, a watchman and his wife,
Were killed.
The lockout of shoemakers at Cincin
nati, Ohio, has resolved into a fight be
tween two assemblies, district assembly
No. 48 and national assembly No, 2 1 tf.
The shoe manufacturers favor No. 48,
because it has headquarters there, as well
as because it has ordered an end of the
Idckout. No. 2IG, On the other hand,
tells the men not to go back until the
manufacturers will agree to recognize the
rules adopted in May last.
Stephen Joseph Mcanv,- the well-known
newspaper man and Irish patriot, died at
Waterbury. Conn. He was one of the
famous ’4B men and also an agitator in
later years. He was exiled and became
an American eilizen. When sent to Ire
land for the New York Star in 1881, the
English authorities arre ted him. He
Wa3 released after the American Govern
ment interfered. In 1884 he went to Ire
land for the New York World, and was
so harassed by the British detectives that
he was glad to return to New York.
Among the cases pending in the Kan
sas Supreme Court, is one from Ness
county, entitled the state of Kansas vs.
James M. Bunker, the defendant being
the third son of the Siamese twins, Eng
and Chang. Bunker lived for a number
of years in North Carolina, but since the
death of the twins, about fourteen years
ago, he has lived nearly all the time in
Kansas. The information charging him
with perjury was filed against him on
May 8, 1887. He was tried at the last
term of the District Court of Ness
county, convicted and sent to the peni
tentiary for two years. His counsel ap
pealed to the Supreme Court a few
weeks ago for a writ of habeas corpus,
but it was refused and Bunker had to gc
to the penitentiary.
At Silver Creek, 8 miles south of Hazle
ton, Pa., J. S. Wentz A Cos. operate two
large colleries. A party of Hungarians
went from there to Hazleton to attend the
dedication of anew church, All wife
drunk when they returned hoinfe in the
evening. When they got to the house of
a man named Maulick, they indulged
freely in whisky and beer. Maddened
by drink they engaged in a fierce fight,
and, according to the story of one of the
men, while this fight was in progress a
lighted lamp was overturned and ex
ploded; and in a short while the room
was enveloped in flames, and the clothes of
those present were set on fire. The doors
were found to be locked. In their
drunken condition some of them either
did not know what to do, or were unable
to climb out of the windows, and remain
ing in the room, perished in the flames.
FOUND HIS TONGUE.
0. L. Syriski, alias C. D. Holmes, was
arrested at Nashville, Tenn., recently on
information from Cincinnati. It appears
that Syriski. who is a good geologist and
a fine linguist, speaking three languages
fluently and having considerable knowl
edge of six others, went to the Cincin
nati University and offered to sell some
rare fossils, taking pay in certain books.
The trade was made but not ratified by
the trustees, but Syriski brought away
the books and a microscope which was
to be included. Notwithstanding, he is
charged with the larceny of the articles.
While in Nashville he has been appearing
in the role of a deaf and dumb man and
has sold at least one little silver crucible
as platinum, which is worth sixteen times
as much as the silver one. In one other
case the crucible w as tested and the fraud
discovered. He found his speech when
arrested and has talked freely since.
UP IN THE AIR.
George Fay. of Guanajuata. Mexico,
an English millionaire, has been on
a northern and European trip, where hi3
mission has been one of a remarkable
character. He is now engaged in build
ing in a suburb of Guanajuata. a mag
nificent palace that will not be less than
100 feet high and surrounded bv im
mense gardens which will recall the leg
endary hanging garden of Babylon, aiTd
to which access w ill be gained* by a gi
gantic elevator, and has" been searching
for an architect to draw plans. It is said
that Mr. Fay has drawn all his plans and
calculates to spend $0,000,000 in this
queer freak of his fancy.
STRANGE FIRES.
PECULIAR CASES OF SPONTA
NEOUS COMBUSTION.
Bemarkablc Instances of How This
Mysterious Agency Brings
Fire anil Ruin When
jeast Expected.
The Scientific American says: The f-e
--■juent occurrence of fires from spontauc
3us combustion has led us to mor?
frequently refer to the subject in tln-se
columns than we should, w ere it not im
poitant to everybody to be constantly on
the watch to see that the causes for these
more or less disastrous fires do not exist
ou their premises. A late number of
S'oc and Hard'rare gives a list of fires
which have recently occurred from this
cause.
In a manufactory of plane bits in
Chicago a sponge bail been used to trans
fer the water by capillary attraction
from a water box to an emery wheel, on
which the bits were ground. The
sponge wiped off the fine steel particles
from the wheel, and they were collected
m the cells of the sponge and kept con
stantly wet. The sponge was finally
laid aside, and after a week or ten days
it was discovered that the mass was
spontaneously ignited, and if if had not
been fop its timely discovery atiothei
mysterious lire might have resulted.
In a factory in New Jersey w here oiled
stock for planes was operated on by bor
ing, planing and mortising machines,
causing shavings and line particles of
wood, which were saturated with linse. <1
oil, to collect on the floors, it was noticed
khat a great increase in the temperature
took place when the sweepings —which
had been moistened by sprinkling—were
collected in a pile. On a subsequent
occasion it was found that a barrel of
shavings and chips from the boring and
mortising machines were so hot as to be
almost ready- to ignite. Another barrel
contained shavings made in planing oiled
stocks. On ihese being moistened with
water they soon began to heat, and the
temperature continued to rise until the
next clay, when it was found that the
-eha zings begau to char. The barrel was
covered with a metal plate until the next
day, when, on being disturbed, the mass
burst into flames.
A number of bales of Sea Island cot
ton stored in a warehouse in New Jersey
were found to Le on fire. W hen the fire
was extinguished at one spot it would
start at another. The cotton had been
ginned on a robing gin. which, in crack
ing a portion of the seed, had caused
the oil iu the seed to become mixed with
the cotton, and the result was spontane
ous ignition.
In the manufacture of a cement or
putty composed of whiting and boiled
linseed oil, which, after being ground in
a mill, was put in barrels, a fire was dis
covered under one ot the barrels standing
on end. The floor was partially burned
through wdien the discovery was made.
In grinding the oil the mass became
warm from the friction, and a small
part of the oil had leaked through the
common barrels while in this warm state.
It was discovered in time to prevent
much damage.
An engineer placed a bunch of waste—
which had collected in cleaning up a
mill—in front of a boiler, in order that
the fireman could use it the next morn
ing in starting up a fire. During the
night it-spontaneously ignited, set fire
to the kindlings which had been made
ready for the morning, raised sufficient
steam to blow off and alarm the watch
man.
- Boine years since a gentleman was ex
perimenting in coloring Southern moss
for decorative purposes. In one of his
experiments he used a very thin paint or
varnish, but slightly colered with a
pigment. lie dipped the mos3 in the
mixture and then squeezed out as much
as possible by the hand. The result not
proving satisfactory, he threw the moss
in a box and placed it in the closet. A
few days after, the odor of something
burning led to the discovery that the
moss was charred, and almost ready to
ignite.
Facts About the Bible.
The number of letters in the Bible is
3.53(3,489; words, 773,002; verses, 31,-
173; chapters, 1,189; books, sixty-six.
The longest book in the Old Testament
is Psalms, it having 150 chapters: the
shortest is Obadiah, it having but one
chaper of only twenty-one verses. The
longest books in the New Testament are
Matthew' and the Acts, each of which
consists of t venty-eight chapters, al
though Luke contains more verses and
words. Third John is the shortest,
containing one chapter of fourteen verses
and 295 words. The longest chapter in
the Old Testament is the 119th Psalm,
w-hich contains 170 verses. The shortest
chapter is the 117th Psalm; it contains
but two verses. The longest chapter in
the New Testament is the first chapter
of Luke; it contains eighty verses; the
shortest is 1 John, first chapter; it con
tains ten verses. The longest xerse in
the Old Testament is the ninth verse of
the eighth chapter of Esther, it contains
ninety words, composed of 426 letters;
the shortest verso is the twenty-fifth
verse of the first chapter of 1 Chronicles,
consisting of twelve letters and three
words. The middle verse is the eighth
verse of the 118th Psalm. The nine
teenth chapter of 2 Kings and thirty
seventh chapter of Isaiah read alike.
The Bth. 13th, 21st and 31st verses of
the 105th Psalm are alike. The book
of Job is the oldest book in the Bible,
and the 21st verse of ihe 7th chapter of
Ezra contains all the letters of the al
phabet with the exception of “j.” The
35th verse, 11th chapter, of St. John, is
the shortest in the Bible.— Atlanta! Cja
ctitation.
Ending a Fend in Italy.
East week a s’ngular festival was held
at Bitti, in Sardinia. In the presence ol
the Prefect of the Province, the Arch
bishopof Nuoro, aprovincial deputation,
the Syndic of Sassari and other authori
ties a formal cath was taken by the
members of two families, which had been
at enmity for many years, reciprocally to
pardon ail offenses and to live in peace
and harmony. The number of the mem
bers of the two companies were 070. A
large crowd filled the parish church in
which the ceremony was performed, and
the next day a banquet was given in the
country for which had been ordered ten
oxen, fourteen pigs, sixty sucking pigs.
203-weight of macaroni, 300-weight of
bread and five of fruit, w-ith ten hectoli
tres of wine.— London New*.
Dakota Journalism.
Dakota Editor fto foreman; — ‘Are all
the forms ready ?”
Foreman —“ Yes, sir.”
Editor —“Pistols and bowie knives in
good shape ?”
Foreman —“Yes, sir.”
Editor —“ Gatling gun loaded ?”
Foreman —“Ye3, sir.”
Editor—“Then let the paper go to
press.” —T and B s.
FROM DAY TO DAY\
Only from day to day
We hold our way.
Uncertain ever.
Though hope and gay dos
Touched with their lira
Each fresh endearo;
Only from day to day
We grope our way
Through hurrying hours)
But still our castles fair
Lift to the air
Their glistening towers.
And still from day to day
Along the way
Beckon us ever,
To follow, follow, follow,
O’er hill and hollow
With fresh endeavor.
Sometimes, triumphant, gay,
The bugles play
And trumpets sound
From out those glistening towers,
And rainbow showers
Bedew the ground.
Then “sweet, oh. sweet the way,”
We smiling say.
And forward press
With swirt, impatient feet
And hearts that beat
With eagerness.
Yet still beyond, the gay
Sweet bugles play,
And trumpets blow.
Howe’er we flying ha>te,
Or lagging waste,
The hours that go.
Still far and far away,
Till comes the day,
We gain that p*ak
In Darien; then, blind
No more, we tin 1.
Perchance, what we do see.
—Nora Ferry, in Har/fer's Magazine.
mu anTTpoint;
A signal failure—A futile attempt to
stop a street car.
It requires a clever surgeon to dress a
wounded vanity.— Lij\.
“Put tip and shut up." the stoves
and doors.— Danril'e Bic re.
Nothing so vitally le : i nis us of the
brevity of life as a thirty-day note. —
Drift.
The obscure Arab who invented alco
holic stimulants died m -re than 100 years
ago, but his “spirit” still lives.
What this world is yearning for is a
hammer which a woman can u-e without
smash ng her thumb nail —Fal !.ircr
Advance.
A Dansville man lias a tame rabbit
that has been trained to make not pie.
It has to be killed hist though. —Doit s
cil'e Acars.
A young woman who married a one
legged man says it doesn’t take much to
make her husband “hopping mad.”—
Norristown II raid.
Landlady—“ Jane, pass Mr. Dumley
the salt for his egg.” Dumley—“Thanks,
not any salt, 't his egg is none too fresh
is it is.” —A etc Yak S-it.
If you will notice it, the grandest op
portunities lor making money are always
open to the man who never had a cent
he could call his own. —Boston Train ript.
When we’re getting al -ng in years,
Aiul more of the world we tec,
It almost makes us weep to Ibiuu
How fresh wo used to be!
Jassttmine {Ky.) Jo-.mat.
Michigan makes more shingles lhan
other States in the Union, but, curiously
enough, it has no more than the usual
percentage of good boys. —B cringlon
Free Prc s.
In a school not a thousand miles away
from Augusta an urchin, in answer to the
teacher’s question : “What are the parts
of grammar?” said: “Syntax, etymology
and er-er-er doxology.” —Augusta J>nr
nal.
Gold handled umbrellas are coming
into fashion. The handle is so arranged
that it can be taken off. This is an im
provement on the old style, where the
entire umbrella was taken cfL—States
man*
In Northern Alaska the sun shines
only four hours out of the twenty-four
tn winter, and the Alaskans ought to be
duly thankfnl. Base ball clubs can only
play one game a dav. Norristown
Herald.
Miss Clara —“Why do you speak of
the young men about town, Ethel, as
‘gilded youths?’” Miss Ethel (whoso
fifth season is rapidly slipping by;—
“Because they are largely made of brass,
Clara.”— Epoch.
Visitor (at insane asylum)—“Who is
that poor fellow who jumps and ye. Is so
whenever your door-bell rings:” Keeper
- “Oh, he used to be night clerk in a
drug store. There are lots of those
shaps in here.”— Drift'.
Several diamonds were found in a
meteorite which fell in the town of
Krasnoslobodsk, Russia. They will be
given to the individuals -vho are able to
pronounce the name ot the town. Now
is the time to get up ciubs. —Pittsburg
Post.
Oh. the snow, the blowy snow
Filling the eyes an l the nose below—
Stopping the street cars,
Wetting ycur feet,
Choking the breath of
The people you meet!
Once I could blow jike the blowy old snow.
—Omaha World.
In Turkey, when any man is the author
of notorious falsehoods, they blacken the
whole front of his house. We pre-ume,
however, that the law is off during the
pendency of a heated political campaign;
otherwise the city streets would look
like a procession of hearses.— Boston■
Transcript.
Always Miserable.— Jones “You
seem to be always miserable.’’ Smith —
“So I am. Life has no pleasures for
me.” “What is the matters” “Anxiety
about my future ro* s me of one half of
my present jov, and remorse for my past
life gets away with the other half.”—
Teoas Siftings.
A commercial traveler was bragging
about the magnitude of che firm he rep
resented. “I suppose your house is a
pretty big establishment?” said the cus
tomer. “Big? You can’t have any idea
of its dimensions. Last week we took
an inventory of the employes and found
out for the first time that three cashiers
and four bookkeepers were missing.
That will give you some idea of the
magnitude of our business.”
Sad Ending of a Honeymoon.
Captain Max Drewien was married to
Maria Borella, went on his wedding trip
and on the fourth day of their wedded
life arrived at their home in Homburg,
Germany. The next morning, they did
not get up, and, when the door of their
room was opened, the husband was found
dead in bed and the yonng wife uncon
scious. She was restored to conscious
ness, but died the day following. They
had closed the valve of the stove too
earle. died o/ asphyxiation.