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THE MONROE
FORSYTH, GEORGIA.
0PF1CIAL ORGAN OF MONROE COUNTY.
BY McGINTY dt CABANIS8.
!t L now an imperial regulation in
Hraz.il that persons w ho rlie from yellow
fever shall!* cremated, *'c itatcb' ar
nc the expense.
There aie about 300,000 people en¬
gaged in keeping bees in North America,
»ml the honey product is 100,000,000
pounds, valued at $iA,000,0)0.
Thirty thou-nnd forged tickets were
mattered abroad fertile Pope's jubilee
ceremonies at the Vatican. The genuine
‘ickets had to be primed over again.
Uonrge II. Clarkson, who was recent¬
ly robbed by footpads in Kansas City,
Mo., has sued the city, on the theory
that it is hound to protect life and
property._
A monster petition in favor of the abo¬
lition of hull fights is to he presented to
the Mexican Government Many of the
lending journals of tlie country denounce
these spectacles ns barbarous.
The Island of Molakai, Hawaiian re¬
move for lepers, has receive ! 2,500 vic¬
tims of this disease during the last fifteen
yearn, and contains a constant population
of 700 to 800 lepers, with an annual
death rate of 150.
There is great difficulty in obtaining
n satisfactory model for the statue of the
Czar, Alexander II., which is to be
erected at Moscow at a cost of $250,000.
For the third time a prize has been of¬
fered without success.
The United Stales Custom House
authorities collected $82,000 in duties
on a single consignment of opium which
was received by a San Francisco firm
from Hong Kong, a few days ago. There
were 200 cases, weighing 8,200 pounds,
in the consignment.
It is stated that the telegraph com¬
munication between France and Eng¬
land is disgracefully bad. London
merchants send their messages to Havre
by way of New York, and they reach
Havre quicker than if they were sent
from London to Havre direct.
In the library of F. C. Brightly, o
Germantown, Pennsylvania, who dice
recently, were two volumes of old laws,
printed in colonial day*, for which the
Pennsylvania Historical Society re¬
peatedly offered him $1,000 apiece. Mr.
Brightly lived to be eighty years old.
A Roman Catholic priest in Pennsyl
v«um open war on bustles,
lie brands them ns unsightly and a pro¬
duction of wretched vanity. He further
says that unless the w omen of his con¬
gregation, old and young, abandon the
use of the offensive article, he will forbid
(hem the communion.
Humane owners of old dogs and
horses in New York City, fit spectacles to
the eyes of the animals. An old dog, re¬
juvenated by a pair of spectacles, will
show pleasure by unmistakable signs,
nml sometimes, when lie loses his glasses,
will pick them up and carry them to his
master to be read justed.
The queen of the gypsies w-as crowned
* few days ago at Fort George. Dakota,
twenty miles below Pierre, on the Sioux
reservation. Tho queen is Mrs. Douglas
Carlin, tho intelligent Indim princess,
recently married to a white man. The
queen was loaded down with presents,
and looked as pretty aa a picture.
Prominent «tfmcn in Washington so¬
ciety employ private secretaries in tlie
difficult task ol meeting many social
duties. \\ idows in reduced circum¬
stances, lady clerk* who are posted on
matters of etiquette and n ewspaper
writers act in this capacity, and initiate
new comers into the social life of Wash¬
ington.
Queen Victoria’s coming visit to tlie
continent will cost the English tax-pay¬
ers $1,109 a day. The New York World
says the British pay for the luxury of
supporting a Queen, whose only public
duty is to assure her “lords and gentle¬
men'' now and then that her affairs at
home and abroad are in a most satisfac¬
tory condition.
sVnntor Ingalls has received (that is
if tho United States will allow him to
accept) a gavel of inlaid wood from a
Mexican'weteran under tlie impression
that the gJsycl use l by the presiding offi¬
cer of the senate was worn out. L is
a pretty littlcKammer weighing only two
ounces and with 359 different pieces of
"ood in its mosasc sides.
1 he New York Independent says that
Mr. Garter H. Harrison, who filled th -
position ol Mayor of \Thicago not long
before his departure ' for extended
iourneyings in China and Vartary. adds
his testimony to the non\xisrencc of
«ny he * “Great ‘described Chinese and Wall” w\ich l\ used to
drawn eve-w;r
nrsses” in our older traveler’s bdok and
school-geographies.
A "Washington correspondent
who re¬
President's ‘ ‘*{ s: “I near
... , . •»« ««rfog singi”, Mr,
.h.
could hc.ir lierf.ure. I:e.h voice
in every hynm that was su„g. 4e ®
a trained which 1,
soprano, she uses with
out affectation, and apparently with real
*oth;»t enjoyment,uttering each word dvDwaetly '
tb?song becomes a recitai. 1
THE MONROE ADVERTISER: FORSYTH, GA, TUESDAY, MARCH 2 4 1888.—EIGHT PAGES.
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CAPITAL
INTER /, S 7 / NG DOTS ABOUT OUR
UNITED STATES’ OFFICIALS.
i.Atnip about the White House-Army and
Navy .'Waiter*, -Our Relations With other i
Countries „„d Nation,. |
ccunguessionm |
In the Senate, among the bills reported
*rom committees and placet! on the cal- ;
end«r were the following: To encourage
the holding cf a national industrial ex- ;
j osition of the arts, mechanics and pro- i
dm ts (if the (nion '1 race in the United j
v !.it*- in 1888-8.*, and appropriating ,
♦400.000 in its aid. Considerable de
hate took place on Air. Blair's movement |
in behalf of Confederate soldiers, Mr. |
Daniel, of Virginia, appearing to voice .
the feelings of the Southern members |
when he said: “The Confederate soldier ! j
had boldly laid down ,, the gauntlet „ of , ,
war, and when be came out of t le wui
he had contempt for but two classes of ,
men engaged ... it-tir-t, hose who made
apologies; and second, thoie who cb
tcrnnWtr fiTnd of'e reTcMl 8 conff' c“s
never never descended uescenacu to to misonaltie« peisonalities, b out
hiiman°exUten unan txis> tn C e* c. TeleCZbUha Ji haft no loubt tiu
the Senator from New Hampshire had
introduced the bill in a spirit of benevo¬
lence, kindness and generosity, but it had
not been called for by any Confederate,
nor had it grown out of the demands of
public sentiment.” The Senate then
passed bills to provide for the warehous¬
ing of fruit brandy; for the relief of
ironclad builders—the Perinea and the
McKays; touching the grade of com¬
mander in the navy, and to correct an
order in relation to an appointment
therein ftliis was the case of Commauder
Quackenbmch and caused considerable
debate).... In the morning hour,
the House resumed consideration
tion of the resolution assigning two days
for the transaction of business reported
by the committee on labor. Opponents
of the resolution, led by Mr. Rogers, of
Arkansas, proceeded to obstructive
methods to prevent action. Mr. O’Neill,
of Missouri, stated that he was willing
to amend the resolution by striking out
the clause limiting the time of debate on
each measure called up. He would do
ill's, he said, in order to remove the pre¬
text under which the gentlemen were re¬
sorting to filibustering tactics.
"I will toll these gentlemen,” he said,
“that you (indicating Mr. Rogers) have
talked out this morning hour; that you
have accomplished your purpose, and you
have simply been the tool that had been
used for that purpose.” Mr. Rogers de¬
manded that the words be taken
down; which was done, and
they were read at the clerk's desk.
Mr. Cox, New York, move 1 that the gen¬
tlemen from Missouri be allowed to pro¬
ceed in order, and the motion being
agreed to, Mr. O’Nicl resumed the flooi
amid applause. He said that the duties
of members of the committee on labor
were very arduous, and that gentlemen
on that committee were placed in a very
peculiar position, being liable to be de¬
nounced as demagogues and catering tc
the workingmen whenever they brought
in a bill in the interest of labor. As
chairman of that committee, he had been
effort obliged to stand lure for two days iu at
to secure consideration of a num
her of important labor bill, and sec
time frittered away by men who,
leaders of the House, sfcmild' r be first to
respond to the demands of the working
for the right to be heard.
Among bills of a public character that'
were passed by the Senate, were the fol¬
lowing: To construct a road to the Na¬
tional cemetery at Corinth, Miss. To
settle and adjust the claims of any state
for expenses incurred by it in defense of
the United States during the War of Re¬
bellion. Appropriating $100,000 for the
erection in Washington of a monument
to negro soldiers and sailors who gave
their lives for the preservation of the
government. To judiciously determine
the right of the United States in railroad
lands in Florida. There were altogether
fifty-five bills passed, a majority being
pension and private relief bills. Among
the former were during two pensioning volunteer
female nurses the War, at $25 a
month. Mr. Blair, from the committee
on civil service and retrenchment, re¬
ported a bill providing (in appointments
to the civil service in certain cases) for
the preference of persons who were en¬
gaged in the military or naval service of
the so-called Confederate states during
the war of the Rebellion, and who were
disabled therein, and were not dishonor¬
ably discharged therefrom.... lu the
House, on the motion of Mr. Neal, of
Tennessee, a biil was passed authorizing
the construction of a bridge across the
Tennessee River at Chattanooga, Tenn.
Mr. Anderson, of Iowa, offered a resolu¬
tion for the appointment of a special com
mil tee of five members to investigate
railroad strikes and to report what legis
lat.on is necessary to prevent such ob¬
struction to commerce and distur¬
bance of the public peace. The reso¬
lution is accompanied by a long
locomotive preamble reciting that the strike of the
ami engineers on the Chicago,
Burlington Quincy Railroad, results
in an obstruction to interstate commerce
and ptic iu jeopardy public peace. Mr.
H ilkins. of Ohio, under instructions
from the committee on banking and cur
retie - . moved to suspend the rules and
pas- the bill authorizing the issue of frac¬
tional silver certificates. After a great
deal of debate, tho bill passed—yeas 178,
nays 67.
In the Senate, a number of hills were
rejiorted from committees. Among them
were the following: House bill for the
construction of a revenue cutter in
Charleston, South Carolina, in place of
the cutter McCulloch. To authorize the
coustructiou of a bridge across tlie Cane
Fear and other livers in Nor h Carolina.
To formation and admission into the
Union of the states of Washington and
North Dakota (with a minority report i
Further bills were reported from com
inittees and placed on the calendar, in
eluding House biil for the purchase of
the swords of General James Shields.
In the House, Mr. White of New York
offered a resolution lequirinu the Post
mas General to inform ihe House, what
instructions, if any, bv circular to' letter or
otherwise have been <riven subordi
natc officers w ith regard to mail matter
received'from Canada, which are intended
to prohibit American >eeds from usin^
Uniicd States mails on the same trains
with citizens of the dominion of Canada
living in the same vicinage and compet
iug in the same branch of business. In a
decision, which took place about, the pub
lie printing office. Mr. O'Neill, of Mis
Vas declared that if the eight-hour law
not passed, to set a good example that
wtould be followed iu private business, its
passage upo\the was a piece of hyprocrisy to play
working classes. It was passed
in t!ie\hope that thousand* of idle men
w ould be .absorbed in the ranks of indus- ,
- r V- TlnM w.-.s the spirit of the law. The j
public printer violate*! that )aw f and it
w as also violated iu the hurenu of engrav¬
ing and printing.
GOSSIP.
Col. J. II. Baxter, chief medical pur¬
veyor of the army, has been ordered to
A ugru-t Ga.. on temporary service.
Mr. Breekenridge has given notice that
when the proper section is reached, he
"ill move to reconsider the vote by which
W autUd: 1 ci^r^vit^L
»tiag tariff of 1 1-2 cents per yard.
Mr. Norwood, of Georgia, secured
unanimous consent of the House, and
passed the bill to pay the #800 claim of
Morgan Rawls, which has been pending
before Congress for a loug .time. The
claim is for lrs honse destroyed bv l nion
officers immediately after the War.
President Cleveland celebrated his fif
ty-first birthday, and notwithstanding
the published report that a life insurance
comi enjoying any refused to accept him as a risk,
he is ,^ perfect health. Infact.it
is sli(l he s a vouni , er man than he
qjq three rears ago, when inagurated.
j . ^ j ^ ddivemi Ids firet onin
.
;ift , rtll( , ^the Be^S^ Mis
He road the decirion in the
s„uri river packet ‘ company against the
n tht . supreme"urt T oe r-viiro-rel MiLoiri The dir fu
of of
f avor of the railroad was affirmed
The ‘.’i i^i°' t °^ 10C . -
* tiMhi'/tl i f ’ ‘ u T"! lt r
,L
on the i bill l ? ?
t f^ t'cix :
foil - O uiioo* Tha rirpRpnt rap
cents only per pound, while that of Canada is
four cents. The purpose of the bill
is to place American seedsmen on an
equality with the Canadiaus so far as the
«*.* of the United States mails are con
eerned.
Mr. Clements, of Georgia, introduced
the following private bills in the House,
all of which are for property furnished
the Union army iu 18G4-5: To pay to
the heirs of Samuel Hunt. $1,234. To
George W. F. Lamkin, $1,650. To Maj.
Davis, $3,202. To George P. Barnett,
of Floyd county, $25,050. To Prior T.
Toonly $12,970. To the heirs of Levi
Blackman, $2,775. To Lowry Williams,
$6,913. To Peter M. Shabby, $42,000.
Also, a resolution to refer the claims of
Thomas Davis, Francis M. Freeman and
the heirs of Ripley Johnson to the court
of claims.
The United States Supreme Court ren¬
dered a decision, which is the most im¬
portant in connection with telephone af¬
fairs—that Prof. Alexander Graham Bell
b the inventor of the telephone. Chief
Justice Waite delivered the opinion.
The chief justice considered carefully the
alleged antic patiou of Bell’s discovery
by Philip Reis. “Reis,” the chief jus¬
tice said, “discovered how to reproduce
musical tones, but he did no more. He
could Ang through his apparatus, but he
could not talk.and from beginning to end
he has conceded this. No one of the many
writers whose papers are found in the
record, claim more than this for Reis or
his discoveries, although his first paper
was published in 1861, and Bell did not
appear as working in the same field in
scientific research until nearly fifteen
years afterward. No advance had been
made by the use of what he had con¬
trived or of his method toward the great
end to be accomplished.”
UNCLE SAM PETFIFO
v
I! mi of .Hoiorcit
liieiiotiii cipy. ii> su'iiiK Protected.
The situation in Tangier, Morocco, has
become vciy serious for ’the United States.
The Sultan, who is reported to be acting
under the advice of the Spanish envoy,
has decided to defy American authority
and to refuse to release the American
“protected” citizens now- in prison.
Consul General Lewis is in a very preca¬
rious position, and has telegraphed to
Washington that immediate and vigorous
measures are necessary to meet the situa¬
tion. The minister plenipotentiary of
Spain is asserted to have told the Sultan
of Morocco that American w-ar ships
abroad bark but never bite, and that the
United States sfeatni r Enterprise will stay
iu harbor till she rots before she dare
fire a gun, since a single shot would in¬
volve serious complications with all the
powers of Europe. The Sultan told the
United States Consul General that by
imprisonment was the only way he could
collect debts from Moorish citizens
claiming American protection, and that
he should refuse to release the prisoners.
The Sultan has the support of nearly all
the representatives of the European
powers, who are desirous of abolishing
the “protectorate” system. The Mo:-rs
have been rowing out in boats to where
the Enterprise lies at anchor, and have
amused themselves by jeering at the
American sailors. Thus far the presence
of the American man-of-war has been
entire’y ineffectual. The present - diffi¬
culty arises from the arrest some four or
five weeks ago, at Rabat, of a Hebrew
entitled, in accordance with the existing
treaty rights, to protection as a citizen
of the United States, and w-ho, in direct
defiance of these aforesaid rights, was
cast into prison on some frivolous pre¬
text by the native governor of the place.
The United States Consul General lost no
time ft pointing out to the Moorish au¬
thorities that all citizens, proteges of the
various powers, were solely amenable to
the tribunals of their respective consuls,
aud entitled to immunity both iu the
matter of taxation and jurisdiction of
the native authorities. He, therefore, de¬
manded the unconditional release of the
American prisoner in question and due re
pa ration for the infraction of treaty rights
-because 4_eiietaie Bajard was very slow
m action, the Moorish authorities, cm
boldened by the non-arrival of the United
States man-of-war, proceeded to seize an
other native entitled to American protec
turn, at Casablanca, and, after
“ !S "Oiise to the ground, proceeded to
flog him and his family through the pub
lie streets of Die place and to fling them
* nt0 P r i son -
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RAILROAD INDICTED.
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I he L _ rated . States grand
Louis. Mo., returned jury at St
against an indictment
the Illinois Central Railway; S,
MeCounico, general agent, and D. B.
Morey* general freight agent, for viola
?‘ on °\ T be interstate commerce law. This
is the first prosecution in the South under
tlie P rovisions of that !a "- The ludict
mcnt ai ieg« substantially unjust and un
reasonable charges for the transportation ,
cf cotton from Canton and Holly Springs.
Miss., to New Orleans. u..(l also unjust
nation again >t the people an 1
local * f v of tllc e lt v ,,f ^ ew < ’ rlean ? “ fa
- -
, ae A >C> 'l U<J , ami - ° <a „ 11 Lowell,
J Iass • th ■'
lu .e transportation . of
';, cotton i
‘°“ 1 e P°" u - a >0 ' c UK
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LICENSES REFUSED
~ 7
I uiiadeiphia. Pa., license court j
“ P. rese jR engaged in the examination of 1
app.ications for liquor licenses under the
tu ' u he.nsc law. rejected more than fifty
c*ent ot the whole number of petitions, i
DEATH'S EMBRACE
fell to tki lot of a large
RAILROAD PARTY.
While Journeyini Happily Alone, En Rome
to Florida, a fruin IMnngc* Through a
High Trestle.
Train No 2 7iknown as the "West In
, late It wag ruimng in two actions. Sec- j
■
tion No. 1 contained the private car of E.
P. Wilbur, President of the Lehigh Yal- ‘
ley Railway,nwp Pullman sleepers. one ___
first-class car, a iecond-class car and bag
* gage the road car. Ncarffie eigJTfv-six mile post
crosses Hurricane trestle a small
stream. The trerihris fifty feet high and
about one hundred Yards long. The train
i was IS !
1
en gine had nearly crossed the end of it,
" liea Die baggage car left the
j , caused by a broken axle, quickly followed
*A V all the other ears. They fifty plunged
| ^longinto All the the stream below, feet,
! cars were broken into kindling
WOod ’ and d < ad aad ™™ded pass
were buried in the debris. The en
^, ne broke loose, am crossed in safety.
: ihe combraatfcncoach was the first one
: wh: <* “ruck the ground On it fell the
passenger ccial coach, the sleepers aud the j
s P car, fcWwhieh a private party was j
traveling. The lower coaches were j
smashed well nigh to pieces. Fortunate
wore thosc Passengers to whom death
came instantly. Every coach was filled
! somcMimM paSSenger esca P ed WIthout
or ^ v ' ere i •*
and ten 5 f % ' 0l U ude<i
i ! ten lildJf^ThlJS?,. children. The spot is J one mile u east 8 “
of Blackshear^ierce county Ga. The road
there crosses Hurricane river, and beyond
it is a long car'I^t stitch of .rcstle work. “The
baggage which the track on the trestle,
accounts for the accident, ties
them. showing where trucks cut deep into
It was-this car that careened the
rear cars, and by its strain having dragged the
tender down, the engine safely
crossed over. Had it not been for the
presence of mind of Engineer Richard
Welch, a muflimore horrible fate would
have been in store for the wounded.
Hurriedly the dispatching an engine with
fireman for help, he ran ^down to
the wreck, and with the assistance of the
porter of the Pullman car, “Minerva,” ex¬
tinguished the fire which had broken out
in the baggage car. Part of the trestle
which was destroyed is being rebuilt,
and direct connection will be reopened
with Florida. The accident is the first
of the kind that has ever occurred on the
road since it wrs built, thi ty-five years
ago.
SOUTHERN GOSSIP.
BOILED DOWN FACTS AND FAN¬
CIES INTERESTINGLY STATED.
4eciiients on l and and on Sea—New Enter
pri*<e»— Suicides—Religions, Temperance
and !*ocial .Halters.
Indburie?^ One
dowers and fruit tree blossoms.
dav the mercury marked 72 degrees and
‘
next it went down to 34.
Gottmau & Co., bankers, of Aberdeen,
Miss., have failed, It is believed the
failure is for over ♦200,000. Tho failure
affects merchants, farmers, widows, or¬
phans and a few colored people.
News was received at Raleigh, N. C.
»[ Matthew «■» T. N !■« ates, in China. of Kov. He was
ihe oldest of the Baptist missionaries,
hium g , beeu 111 . china 42 , > ears -
Most Point. Ga., had quite afire,
which started in R. NY. Wood’s store,
causing a damage of *20.000. drugs; The losers
are J. J. Crawford, Courser,
tailor: GeorgeX.CTaft. confectioner; I
M. bcott, N\. G. bhaeffer and Miller &
Harris.
Tom Powers, colored, was run over
and killed by the Montgomery & Eufaula
train at Cochran station, Ala., while
walking on the track. In attempting to
cross the cattleguard he fell across the
track, and the train run over his neck,
severing his head from his body.
An epidemic of measles is iagiug at
Buckingham C. H., Ya. Whole families
are down with it. One family consisting
of a man, his wife and fourteen children
arc P rostratcd - « nd «« old couple, aged
respectively 1*1 and 87, are down with
the disease. A great many have died,
An . a lte .. m I )t , made , to , wreck , a
, , lt trai f . the Greenville & Colum
rei « ” ou
bia 1 5 allro ., ad ’ near Bel on, S. C Engm
®® r T vinard 1 ' vas P amfull V wounded about
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hls fa( ' c 111 tempting to jump from Ins
. bevc ‘ altcm ta J>een
en $ ne ; !' a P
“ ade to wreck trains ilt that P oint be ’
olt ‘
There is excitement at Durham, N. C..
growing out of the arrest of a number of
liquor dealers, on the charge of violating
the local option law. A New A’ork de¬
tective went there, and soon got evidence
against a number of them. Arrests fol¬
lowed, and the defendants were required
to give heavy bonds l'or their appearance
at court.
At Wilmington, N. C., S. B. Dudley
aud F. F. Aldrich were tried upon a
charge of publishing a libel upon Judge
O. P. Hears, of New Andover superior
court, in the Weekly Bulletin , their edi¬
torial charging that Judge Mears grossly
discriminated between white and colored
people iu court, and was very abusive in
tone.
Two more of the indicted Bald Kuob
bers, at St. Louis, Mo., have presented
written confessions to the sheriff. Amos
Jones and William Stanley follow John
Mathews in the plea for mercy, and man¬
age to weave a story showing their pres¬
ence had a tendency for a peace gather¬
ing. They accuse with Charles Graves of
being responsible, murders, Bill while Walker, in
the atrocious they used
every endeavor to restore order and pre¬
vent bloodshed.
Judge John P. King died at his resi
,i----- Augusta, G a. John P. King
ivpFTTT ^ i*i yy. IDs *3p^®«aty, “father’s family Kentucky, moved
ui
to Bedford county, Tennessee, when he
was very young. He continued to reside
in Tennessee until he was about fifteen
years old, and then went to Georgia, for
a short in Columbia county, where
he had some relatives, and thence to Au¬
gusta, where he has resided ever since.
He is survived by his wife and two child¬
ren, the Marchioness Anglesey, of Paris,
formerly Hon. Mrs. King, Wadehouse, of Eng¬
land, and Henry B. of Augusta,
KENTUCKY’S TROUBLE.
Her Slate Treasurer is a Half a Million
Defaulter, nail Buns Away.
Governor Buckner, of Kentucky,
pended the treasurer of the state. James
W. Tate, who is charged w-ith defalca¬
tion in his office, and who has fled from
the state. The defaulting official has
been treasurer for twenty-one years. He
was considered the soul of honor, and the
news will prove a tremendous sensation
throughout the state. A later dispatch
from Frankfoit states that an investiga¬
tion immediately instituted on the recom¬
mendation of Governor Buckner dis¬
closed a deficit in Tate’s office of $150,
000, and that the irregularities seem to
run back eleven years. The discovery of
Tate's shortage is a result of an examina¬
tion of his books, by an expert account¬
ant. The Governor has placed the treas¬
urer's office iu charge of Auditor Ilevv
ett and Attorney-General Pardin. In his
message to the legislature, Governor
Buckner says he has reasons for believing
Die deficit is large and that an immediate
investigation be ordered. In the House a
committee was at, once appointed and or
dered to prosecute the investigation in
connection with officers in charge of the
office. Pending the investigation the
office "i-l be closed. Ihe state has
abundant resources at hand. All current
expenses, payments, dues, etc., will be
met without interruption or delay,
Treasurer Tates . bond is for $300,000.
an<4 tb c shortage is we.l covere J.
He was in Louisville recently, w-lien he
vvas obs ryed to be drinking hard, an
unusual thing for him. Since that time
bc bas not been seen aad bls "hereabouts
is unknown. James William Tate was
elected State Treasurer in 186<, having
been nominated by the Democrats. He
has been re-elected continuously at each
election since, making his tenure of
office twenty years on August 31st last,
In the last campaign Tate had no oppo
sition for the nomination. Everybody
laughed at the idea of opposing “Honest
Old Tate.” He received the Democratic
nomination for the tenth consecutive
llme . m s majority has always stood
among the largest on his ticket, and
mer ry, honest, joky “Dick” Tate has
| been one of the most w idely known and
universally liked men in Kentucky. In
addition to being state treasurer, he was
commissioner of the sinking fund, and
was one 0 f those entrusted with the man
a^ement of the state penitentiary. The
exact amount of h s shortage it is not pos
s ible. as vet, to state, but it is anywhere
from $150,000 to $400,000. What has
become of the money do one can tell.
Tate never speculated ncr gambled. He „„
is said to have been an extravagant liver,
but year by year the money has dropped
out, the shortage seeming to run back a
dozen years,
OF COURSE.
The report of the passenger depart¬
ment of the Western & Atlantic Railroad
shows that the second week since the re¬
duction in passenger fares was even more
favorable than the first, aad the
management consider it was the best
thing they ever did, was to make a perma¬
nent reduction in fares,
M following A. is a list of the kil’ed:
Bridgeport, in. Martin,Union News company,
Ohio; W. B. Geiger, of Sa¬
vannah; C. A. Fulton, master of trans¬
portation, Brunswick and Western rail¬
way; T. M. Smith, the Pullman conduc¬
tor; John T. Ray, Blackshear; John II.
Pate, Hawkinsville, Ga.; E. P. Thomp¬
son, latka, NewYprk; Mrs. G. W. Kelly, Pa
Fla.; W. A. McGriff, Columbia;
Mrs. W. A. Shaw aud daughter, Jack¬
sonville, FW; M. A. Wilbur, son of E.
P. Wilbur, of Bethlehem, Pa.; J. II.
Hurlbut, Philadelphia, Pa.; Charles Peai
and Cofleel Williams, Valdosta; Lloyd
Dawson anA^ IAe siir Foster, Waycross;
Mosep-G**-J I^g ss. and fi ve unknown
‘ '1 ; ; ■» ^the ]i t| ' 'Uf
Milton i’l^veuce, Savannah, slightly;
Win, L. Griffin, Savannah, conductor,
dangerously editor wounded; J. A. Thompson,
Charles People's Journal , Jacksonville;
Brown, Savannah, badly hurt; C.
D. Helmbold, traveling agent of Armour
& Co.; Miss Laura Jones, Thomasville,
slightly; George J. Gould and wife, New
York, slightly; Mrs. MeClench, Phila¬
delphia, internally; Miss Alice Simpson,
New' York, internally, badly; Samuel
Ames and wife, Providence, R.
I., badly; Dr. Booth, New r York;
E. P. Wilbur, President Lehigh Valley
railway, Bethlehem, Pa; W. A. Wilbur.
Bethlehem. Pa; R. A. Wilbur. Bethle¬
hem, Pa; Miss Labelle Cox, Bethlehem,
Pa., internally; A. G. Broylc, Bethlehem,
Pa; A. J. Fail-cloth, Warc-sboro, Ga; E.
Butterfield, New York; L. B. Mallard,
Savannah, an arm broken and cuts on the
head; T. B. Thompson and wife, N. O.
Captain O. W. Wallace, traveling agent
of the Louisville & Nashville Railway;
dangerously injured internally; W. D.
McClinch Austin, Savannah; A. C. Hud¬
son, Macon, badly hurt; John Papy, Fer
nandina,Fia.; Gen. G. F.Ferrero and wife,
New York, badly injured; J. S. Pirro,
Newark, N. J.; Walter Goodyear, Savan¬
nah; Sam Allen, Savannah, badly in¬
jured; Fred Maynard, of New York, re¬
ported killed, was from Utica, N. Y.,
was not killed, but is slightly injured.
MORE STRIKES.
A consolidated meeting of the Ohio &
Mississippi Railroad engineers and fire
men was held in Indianapolis, Ind. It
was decided that the engineers at Beards
town and East St, Louis be ordered not
to handle Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
freight, and should the company demand
compliance, ba the Ohio & Mississippi will
tied up. Prominent railroad men say
the plans first adopted, that one road a
lav should be tied up, has been practi
■ably abandoned, and the next move will
be consolidated action, iu which all the
tines handling Burlington freight will be
tied up at one time, at one given signal.
aud this will be done before Thursday
morniu" As fast a« engineers reach Sail
Bemar dino, on the California Central
i oid, they abandon their engines. Three
cirs of excursionists from Los Angeles
f 3r San Die'-o were delayed there, and
, nany re r Urn ed bv the Southern Pacific,
rhere hss been no refusal to take out the
ma il trains. The Santa Fe strike is ended.
_ THEY u _ v nPr DECLlNtU. , 1NJFr .
The engineers the Louisville . . &
on
Nashville Railroad at Decatur, Ala., re
fus< ; d to P ul1 a freight train to which a
"Q car was attached. The car was
then taken out and turned over to the
Memphis & Charleston, whose engineers
a Lo refused to move it. The Illinois
Central engineers at Jackson, Tenn.^, re
fused to pull a train until three Burling
ton cars were cut out and side-tracked,
" as d °«e- At Fulton, Ky., the
company was obliged to refuse several
Burlington cars from the Chesapeake &
for the same reason. It ui generally
understood on the line of the Illinois
C en t^ S ° l *; b thal the engineers Wl11
handle n o -Q . cars.
IMPORTA NT IF TRUE U
It is said that ata secret meetingof the
Atlanta, G3., Brotherhood of Locomo
five Engineers, the question of a strike
had been discussed, and it is believed
that if the order comes through the proper
channels that the Atlanta brotherhood
will strike in support of the engineers on
the Chicago, Burlington <fc Quincy rail
road.
WORLD AT LARGE,
PEN PICTURES PAINTED BY A
IORPS OF ABLE ARTISTS.
N Goins on North, Cnsl "«•*
What a"d fl.e Wutcr-Tbe Coming l u
Acro«s
ropean Storm.
Crown Prince William, of Germany,
is quite sick.
The French government has decided
to cashier Gen. Boulanger.
A banquet to Gen. Bragg, now United
States Minister to Mexico, will be giver
by the American residency.
A special service, commemorative oi
St. Patrick, was held in the church of
Santa Brigida, in the C ity of Mexico.
The sermon was preached in English.
The French Chamber advisability of of Deputies authoriz¬ .is
considering the 340,000,000 francs
ing a lottery loan of
to aid the Panama canal, lu consequence
of this movement, Panama banal shares
jumped up in price.
A collision occurred at Cisco, Cal., be¬
tween two freight trains. Two engines
were attached to the trains, and all foui
of the engines aud a number of cars were
badlv wrecked. Engineer John Pickens
was killed instantly, anfcl several others
injured.
Violent shocks of earthquakes have
continued in the province of Yunnan,
China, during the last three weeks, de¬
stroying many towns and an immense
amount of shipping at Ivien-Chin. The
lowest estimate places the number of per¬
sons killed at 400.
Emperor Frederick sent bis first mes¬
sage to the Prussian Lautag, which was
greeted with cheers, nil uniting in the
erv, “Long live King Frederick!” The
phy-icians advise outdoor exercise at
Wiesbaden. The emperor will probably
depart for that place in a fortnight.
Ex-Gov. Horace Fairbanks, of Ver¬
mont. died at the Fifth Avenue Hotel in
New York, He ventured out in the
blizzard in a close carriage, but, with his
naturally weak lungs, he caught a cold,
which rapidly grew worse,and developed
into pneumonia, from which he died.
Keely’s secret of the manipulations of
bis mysterious motor, which ho has
guarded so securely for many years, in
spite of the efforts for disclosure made by
dissatisfied stockholders of the Motor
Company, is at last to be divulged.
Judge Finletter handed down an opini >n
in Philadelphia, Pa., in the suit brought
by Bennett C. Wilson, who claims to
hold an assignment of Ivecly’s motor in¬
vention, made to hiiu in 1809, which
grants an order for the inspection of all
the motor machines as made by Kcely,
and compels him to explain the theories
of their workings to Wilson and such ex¬
perts as may be.named.
EUROPE’S BLIZZARD.
A heavy blizzard has raged in the
southeast of England. The storm w-as
slight in London, and in Spain Ihe storm
was very heavy, especially in the north.
In the south of Spain, floods are doing an
enormous damage. The rising of the
Tiber, resulting from the recent fall of
snow has flooded the lower quarters of
Rome. Floods are reported in Russia,
caused by the milting of snow; and sec
tions of the Southwestern railway tbi\ at
eu to subside, and trains are compelled
to g o at half speed. A violent snow
i'an.4*,m-ahcc. All com
munication by rail w ith Lille and Havre
w-ns cut off.
FIRE IN FLORIDA.
Hazeltine’s spacious brick block at the
foot of Laura street in Jacksonville, Fla.,
built three years ago at a cost of $40,000,
was destroyed by tire. For three hours
there was great danger of the fire spread¬
ing across Laura street to the Timcs
the Uniou heroic building and north to Bay, but
efforts of the firemen and citi¬
zens checked the flames. Total loss
about $180,000; insurance about $80,000.
JAY GOULD ARRIVES.
The yacht Atalanta, arrived off St.
Augustine, Fla., with Jay Gould and
party. Gould appears in excellent health.
Flic Atalanta came from Gibraltar and
Nassau, stopping at the Canary islands.
ASTONISHED.
Trainmen on the Ohio & Memphis
Railroad recently received an advance
from ten cents to fifty cents per day.
The increase was intended as a pleasant
su- nrise from the management.
It Was All Real to Him,
“No, sir, you can’t possibly realize
the devastation wrought by the rabbits
in my country,” said the man from Aus¬
tralia, as he addressed a group in the
railroad waiting -room, “You would
scarcely believe some things I could tell
you. and what They they will eat nearly everything,
don’t eat they tramp
down and destroy. They find a garden
and leave a desert. There is no cheek¬
ing them—nothing to do but to sit and
see everything you have swept away.
You can know- nothing about it unless
you have lived there. ”
“No, I suppose not,” said the man
with the large ears.
“Must be awful,” suggested the man
with no overcoat.
“I can realize it all, though I never
saw more than a dozen rabbits in ray
life,” said the tall, solem'n-looking man
bitterly.
“You can?” said the man from Aus¬
tralia with a bad gleam in his eye. “Per¬
haps you have had experience with the
grasshopper scourge ?”
“No, sir; never.”
“General failure of crops—famine,
then?”
“No, nothing connected with agricul¬
ture.”
“Then I must say you can have no
conception of the scenes I have told of,
sir.”
“But with I insist dark, I can,” replied the tall
man, “Those a devastation revengeful scowl.
scenes of areas clear
to me as if I lived in their midst. Sir,
I am a Methodist minister, and last
Thursday I finished laying night"the in my stores
for the winter. That very do¬
nation party landed in our parlor and
the clash oi rapine was heard within our
quiet cottage. Hah! wouldst prate to
me of rabbits?” And with a hollow,
mocking laugh he arose and went over
to the ticket office window, and in a
bitter tone aske 1 when the train left for
Oshkosh.— Chicago News.
Rival Painters.
“Talking about quick work,” said the
artist, “I painted a complete landscape
scene in three days recently.”
“That’s nothing,” replies the scrape
grace. 1
who “Nothing.-' I d like to see an artist
can beat it.”
“I have beaten it. I painted a com¬
plete town in one night .”—Lincoln
Journal.
MIRAGE.
Clear shining through the swimming air
Across a stretch of summer seas,
Far. lofty peaks gleam white and fair
The heights of the Hesperidos.
O far-off peaks! O happy isles!
I sail and sail and long for you,
And still th’ enticing vision smiles
To lure mo o’er the waters blue.
Below those fair and gleaming heights,
Ne’er shrouded o’er by drifting snows
Lie gardens filled with rare delights,
And there the golden apple grows.
I sail and sail and long lor you,
But never come to those fair isles;
Still stretches wide the bonnless blue.
Forever still tho scene beguiles.
Unclimbed those lofty mountain heights,
Far off beyond the smiling seas,
Uureached that garden of delights.
Untrodden the Hesperidos.
—EJilk Sessions Tapper.
PITH AND POINT.
A hard case—Schwcizer kase.
A pointer on pork—The pig’s nose.
The path of duty Through the Cus¬
tom-house.
The earliest partnership mentioned in
the Bible is Jerry Co.
The poet who itches for fame should
use a pen that scratches.
“You aro chokin’ my fingers,” com¬
plained a little tot to its mother, who
was holding its hand too tightly.
A New Yorker can go to the Rocky
mountains and tackle bears cheaper than
he can ou Wall street.— Louisville Demo¬
crat.
The philosopher says: 5 Wise men
hesitate.” Perhaps that is why so few
men are in any haste to pay their bil s.
—Boston Post.
A person may take up his residenco
without loss of character, but the shop¬
lifter is universally abhorred.— Boston
Transcript.
It makes a great difference to a young
man who is courting a girl whether she
takes a great interest in his welfare or
his farewell.
“Of what did you say they convicted
the doctor?” “Well, 1 don’t know ex¬
actly, but I suppose it was purgery.”-—
Boston Gazette.
It is said that the man who invented
Vo'apuk got his idea from hearing Hen
Sb.iit, of the Wild West show, try to
speak French.— Tul-Bit*.
The perforations at the stub end of a
check, ray dear boy, indicate precise’y
where the check xvon’t tear when you
pull ou it.— Philadelphia Call.
A Texas woman has invented a pio
safe, but that is not what this country is
aching for. A safe pie is the howling
need of the hour.— Minneapolis Tribune.
Arkansaw swain (calling on his girl)
—“What makes the house shake so,
darling?” Girl—“It’s pop, up stairs.
He’s got the fever ’n ague agin.”—
Epo 'll.
Blobson, who never goes out or comes
in without falling over au antique jar or
pie: o of bronze, persists in calling his
wife’s collection “break-vour-back.”—
Free Press.
The young dude stands for hours be¬
fore a looking-glass, parting his hair in
the middle. The old dude stands as
long, studying how ts cover the bald
parting up.
Nurse (to young husband)—“A beau¬
tiful ten pound baby, sir.” Young hus¬
band getting tilings mixed in his excite¬
ment)—“Glorious! Ami a father or a
mother?”— Siftings.
‘Papa, why do they ahvays call a rail¬
way train ‘she?’” “Because it takes
three or four men to manage her, my
son,” ward replied Mr. Daw-dle, glaring to¬
Iris wife. —Buffalo News.
“Did it rain?” exclaimed the Western
man, in course of a thrilling recital of
border life. “Say, it rained so hard that
afternoon that the water stood three feet
on aslant roof.”— Buffalo Courier.
Minister (dining with the family)—
“You were a nice little boy in church
this morning, Bobby. I noticed you kept
very quiet afraid and still.” Bobby—“Yes, sir;
I w-as of waking pa up.”
“Does your mother wear felt slippers?”
asked an old of a little boy where she
was visiting. “Yes, ma’am, she do.
I’ve felt ’em,” answered the small boy,
significantly.— Detroit Free Press.
“What part of tiie fowl?” said Adolphus Da
“Whatever Vera,
you like—that suits you."
He’d been very attentive to her for a year,
So she gave him a wing—and he flew.
—Tid-Bits.
A suicide who killed himself with a
revolver said in his note: “1 know it is
foolish to commit suicide, but please see
that I get credit with the public for
knowing that it was loaded .”—Baton
Gazette.
It is all very well
For people to tell
Of the land of the lotus and lizzard,
But it shrivels us all
When down from St. Paul
Comes the blast of iis blustering blizzard.
— Buffalo "Express.
A prominent institution of learning
sent, out circulars asking what honors it's
graduates had attained in life. A bright
lady graduate responded: “At gradua¬
tion I received tlie degree A. M.' Since
graduation I have transposed the let¬
ters.”
“Did you ever go tobogganing, Mr.
Winterwheat?” “No,” said the old
man. “but I once stepped into the eleva¬
tor well and fell down four stories in
three-tenths of a second. That is fast
enough for me; I’m getting too old for
much excitement.”
Ihe Deer Range of the Northwest.
The great deer range is in Northern
Wisconsin, across Minnesota to Dakota,
and covers the c ountry adjacent to
Brush City and Lrinceton and to the
north of Brainerd There are very few
deer on the Re 1 Lake reservation, and
very few about Duluth, because the
wolves are so numerous in the counties
adjacent. The wolves drive the deer
out. At the extreme frontier the deer
are found in good condition. They
breed in the timber and remain there
by during the the summer anti are driven out
wolves in the fall. Between the
Indians and the wolves many deer i
wastefully “ill destroyed. It is necessary to
wolves to keep the deer crop,
and the bountj- is doing some good. But
me deer are not getting exterminated,
l ou might the as well talk about extermi
nat.ng ducks, cranes, gulls, peli cans
and all kinds of water-fowl which breed
up in the Peace River country, 1,500
miies northwest of Winnipeg. There
are about 20,000 saddles of venison han
d’ed here a year. Sometimes this amount
- exceeded, as in 1878, when the prairie
res got into jnto the the timber and drove the
iresses eer settlements. One firm here
five or six hundred deerskins a
7year. The deer fur is of no comraer
ual value, but the skin is made into
moccasins and into the buckskin of the
stores .—Pioneer Press,