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2 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 Jivintr <■' - m> 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.