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THE MONROE ADVERTISER.
FORSYTH. GEORGIA.
ePFICIAL ORGAN OP MONROE COIIPTT.
BY McQINTY <t CABANISS.
t A weather re ‘ord kept at Quebec
shows that the climate of Canada has
not altered in the last 200 year-.
There •are more people of foreign birth
in Milwaukee and fewer in Atlanta, in
proportion to the siz of the places,
than in any other cities in the country.
An average ot 1,000 people nr«
drowned through the ice in the Unite 1
States every winter, and an average of
8 ,<*00 are drowned by accident in the
iu turner.
It is proposed to ere t a monument to
Abraham Lincoln at Elizabethtown,
Hardin County, Ky., this being the
village nearest to the log cabin in which
he was born.
C. J. Jones, the Buffalo breeder of
Kansas, recently sold to Austin Corbin,
President of the Reading Railroad, six
head of Buffalo, They will he sent East
and put on Mr. Corbin’s place on Long
Island.
The Mexican Secretary of the Treasury
has given his countrymen a surprise. He
reports that the receipts last year were
the largest ever known, while the Gov¬
ernment expenses fell $100,000 below the
amount appropriated.
, It is said by the New York World that
“fully one-half of the people of Maine are
non-church-goers, and one-third of the
churches in the State are closed because
of lack of support. Out of 1,362 churches
in the State 417 are vacant.”
Tf ten of the richest men in this coun¬
try, says the New York World, should
withdraw their capital from railroads
mines and factories more than 800,000
men would he thrown out of work, aud
by it.
'Lhe desert of Sahara has been largely
reclaimed by French enterprise. Forty
threo oases have been created, having
thirteen thousand and nine hundred in¬
habitants, one hundred and twenty
thousand ferest trees, aud one hundred
thousand fruit trees.
A French writer compares the French
licet with the Italian, and bitterly com
plains that, though spending 200
millions a year on her navy, against 00
millions by the Italians, the latter are
quite as strong numerically and have
more big armored ships,
The Richmond litigious Herald 1ms
raised the inquiry as to what proportion
of the beneficiaries in our Southern Bap¬
tist colleges use tobacco, and what the
indulgence costs. One estimate places
the number at fully one-half, and $15
as the annual expense to each devotee of
the weed.
The immigration into the United
States in the seven months to January 31
was 236,845 persons, against 206,968 in
the same time last year, Here is an ad*
dition to the population in seven months
sufficient to make a city as large as
Buffalo and twice as large as eithe
St. Paul, Minneapolis, r
or Kansas City.
New York city educates about three
hundred thousand (hildren annually, in
one hundred and thirty-four school
buildings, covering an area of thirty-five
acres. These buildings placed side by
ride xvould extend more than two miles.
There are about four thousand teachers,
and the annual expense of these schools
is about four million dollars.
Hie barb-xvire industry . is in a fair
way of being overdone. Nccordin^ to
lhe Iron Age there are forty-four maim
Fauturors in this country who owu2,1!H
mammies. It is estimated that in 200
** ........■* -.S'e t«~. they
"ill make 300,000 tons of barb xvire,
xvliile the consumption ranges from 130,
>00 to 150,000 tons a vear.
Canon Scott Robertson is responsible
‘ >r the statement that the United King
corn of Great Britain and Ireland spends
1,195,714 on foreigu missions, xvhich is
ivided as follows: Church of England,
£430.082; societies which unite Church¬
men and Dissenters, £193,617; Noncon
form ats, £330,128; Scotch and Irish
Presbyterians, £177,184; Roman Catho¬
lics, £8,703.
It would be almost impossible, says
Franklin S. Pope in Scribner's Magizine
,
to catalogue the number and variety of
purposes for which the electric motor is
now in daily use. Some of the most
usual applications are for printing
presses, sewing machines, elevators, ren
tilating fans, and machinist’s lathes. At
the present time every indication un
mistakably points to the probability that
within a very few years nearly all
mechanical work iu large cities, especial¬
ly in cases in which the power required
does not exceed say 50 horse-power,
will be performed by the agency of the
electric motor. It is an ideal motor, ab¬
solutely tree from vibration or noise,
perfectly manageable, entirely safe, and
with the most ordinary care seldom if
ever gets out of order. Indeed there is
no reason o suppose that ,, the ,. ... limit of . 50
liorse-power will not be very largely ex
ceeded within a comparatively short
period, when it is remembered that
.carcely five yers the vroluc.ioa o,
a success ui 10 horse-power motor was
considered quite a noteworthy achieve
tnenL
THE MONROE ADVERTISER: TUESDAY. APRIL 1888.— EIGHT PAGES
NATIONAL CAPITAL
IM'EBESIISU ROTS ABOUT OUR
IMF Elf STATES* OFFICIALS ,
Ationl I he XX hit* lion**—Xnny and
>n»T .Wntfero-Our ItHntioa* W ith Other
< ountr c« nn<t Niiiiois
TCfG HE tOS.VU.
The Benati I ed a tiumhe of bills,
<n< rinding Hou-c bill to i
ords of G«n. J.m Kbit «for the
tri to he memory of
’ en. Jupeph rr n, who fell at Bunker
Hill. for a publ <• buildin at Tallahas
'■e, Fla., (appropriating 75,000): fra
public bui at Birmingham. Ala.,
,,i ting £300,000); appropriating
*•10,000 for a monument to Brig.-Gen.
Vv iliiam L' c Davidson, who fell in the
i attic of Cowan's Fet'd, N. C., in Febru¬
ary, 1781; House bid authorizing the
c onstruct ion ! a bridge across the Ten*
11 ' liver nt Chattanooga; House bill
iippropiating $73,000 for a revenue cutter
l«n ullough. Charleston, S. to replace the Mc
< The bill for the purchase.from
Miss \ iiginia Taylor Lewis, of the sword
< f NV ashington, for $20,1 00, was taken
up and discussed for sonic time. Con¬
siderable opposition was manifested,
based i hiefly upon the amount asked for
til” sword... .The deadlock in the House
siill continues.
In tin- 8cnate, the Hi 11 to remove the
political di.-abilities of John Rutledge, of
South Carolina, was reported fiom the
judiciary committee and passed. On mo*
tion of Mr. Sherman, the Freedmen’s
Bank bill was taken from the calendar
and referred to the committee on finance.
1 he Senate then resumed consideration
of the bill to authorize tlie sale to aliens
of certain mineral lands, the question be
mi thc amendment offered by Mr.
l'aulkncr, repairing a majority of the
stockholders, trustees or directors of the
mining Lnited company to he citizens of the
States. The amendment was re
jected—20 to 31. Alter several amend
meats of the phraseology of the bill it
"as Hou-e passed—yeas 31, nays 13....The
still continues in a deadlock, and
appearances indicate that it will continue
for many dn\ s.
Among the petitions and memorials pre¬
sented m the Senate and referred was
one Lorn t lie publishers and others, of
New York, foi the passage of the House
bill for the issue of fractional paper cur
leney ol the denominations of ten, fif¬
teen and twenty-five cents; and several
in favor of an international copyright
law Iroin typographical unions in various
stuii s. Mr. Bayne, from the committee
on olution foreign relations, reported a joint res¬
Belgian accepting the invitation of the
international government to participate in the
exhibition at Brussels, aud
appropriating Passed.... $30,000 for that purpose.
In the House tiie dead lock
over the direct tax bill still continues.
GOSSIP.
r I he comptroller of the currency has
appointed Clement Dowd, of Charlotte,
N. C., receiver of the State National
Bank of Raleigh.
NN cst NYashiugton (Georgetown) cele¬
brated the completion and opening of
the free bridge built across the Potomac.
Gen.. missioner NY. H. NVheatley F. Lee and District Com¬
made addresses.
The West Point appropriation bill was
reported from the Senate committee on
appropriations without any change in the
amount bill it ($315,000) appropriated by the
as came from the House.
The Secretary of State has received a
cable message from United States Con¬
sul Lewis, at Tangier, saying that the re¬
cent trouble with the Moorish govern¬
ment has been satisfactorily settled.
President Cleveland is contemplating
another Southern trip, to visit Texas dur¬
ing the week the new state capitol at
Austin is to be dedicated. The dedica¬
tion xvill occur on the 16th of May.
lhe commissioner of pensions is ad¬
vised that William Graham, William A.
Dillshaw and R. G. Chambers liax’e been
held to answer at Atlanta, Ga., on
charge of conspiracy to defraud the gov¬
ernment and using affidavits in support
of a pension claim.
The President sent to the Senate the
following nominations in the engineer
corps: Lieut.-Col. Cyrus B. Comstock to
he colonel; Maj. Jared A. Smith to be
lieutenant-colonel; be Maj. Gotwald II. Er
ne.-t to a member of the Mississippi
river commission, in place of Gen. Gil¬
more, deceased.
Gardiner G. Hubbard addressed the
Senate Committee in regard to the Inter¬
state 1886 the telegraph bill. He said that since
Western Union lias received in
$100,000,000, toll $186,000,000, its expenses have been
and its profits $86,000,000.
Of this $86,000,000, $47,000,000 have
been expended in dividends, $18,000,000
in lllc construction of nexv lines,
tllC I n ! r cha -, e of other lines,
.
rrv, . . ^t^fsco! .
pal Church met at Washington. The
Bishops of Nexv York. Maryland, Ken
tueky, Florida and the assistant Bishop
four of Virginia, xvitli four presbyters and
laymen, xvere present. It xvas the
largest held. and most satisfactory meeting yet
The secretary reported that the
offerings for the xvork have already
reached the amount appropriated by the
commissioners for the .year, and they have
still live months in xvhich to look for
further offerings.
The House committee on invalid pen¬
sions, took final action upon the Senate
bill known as the dependent pension bill.
Amendments xvere made to the first sec¬
tion. relating to claims of dependent pa¬
rents, but none of them materially
changed the effect of the section. The
element of dependency placed in the
Grand Army bill by the Senate xvas elim¬
inated, so that all soldiers are to be pen¬
sioned for their services equally, xvithoufc
regard to tl e' r financial condition, and
according to the per diem idea.
Pope Leo has sent a letter of the most
cordial character to President Cleveland,
thanking him for the present of the copy
of the Constitution of the United States,
sent by Mr. Cleveland to the pontiff on j
the occasion of the latter’s sacerdotal ju¬
bilee last -January. The communication
x\-as handed to the President by Cardinal
Gibbons, who made a special call at the
NN bite House for that purpose. I he Pope
renews assurance of his thanks to Mr.
Cleveland, xvislies him peace and pros
perity and prays for the American peo
pie and their country; the perperuation.
of liberty and plentitude of God s favor, j
April statistical returns to the Depart- i :
meut of Agriculture relate to the condi
t j ons 0 f winter grain and of farm ani- j
nulls. The season for seeding xvas long, j
three months in some Southern states,and
the appearance as the NY in ter set in was
i
rooted. The averages oi' the states of
principal production are as follows: Nexv j
York 95, Pennsylvania 90, Ohio 68,Mich- 1
iffa’i ,G, Indiana To. Illinois 74, Missouri
Kan.-as 97. The* average of Texas is
0S. nd of most of the Southern states
higher, from SO in Arkansas to 97 in Ten
h< - il, ughth. area seeded is -mad in !
ali this region. !
The H committee on public lands j
has instructed Chairman lloiman to re¬
port the bill d daring the forfeiture of
ail unearned railr oad land grants oppo
Th
feited I v the gene r-.l -in k «« fniinn-c
T. Floridi and A1 in 1856; to
Alabama, in to Wisconsin and
Michigan, in ls56:to NY: SCV msin.in 1856;
to N\ iseorsin, in 1805: to Mississippi, in
l v 50; to Minnesota, in 18-56; to Minne¬
sota, in 1857: to Mir nos ta and Iowa, in
l v 65; to Iowa, in 1S-54: to Wisconsin, ;n
l v 01; totheCentrd Pacific Railroad of
California, the iti I860 Tiie bill confirms
rights of aetu.l settlers and innocent
purchasers of forfeited lands.
‘NEW ITALY” DOTS.
All the Sunday trains on the Florida
Southern Railroad will be discontinued.
... .Palatka will have two new hotels in
time for next season's business... .The
tobacco crops about Tallahassee are do¬
ing finely.... An immense cabbage crop
is being shipped from Florida, and hun¬
dreds of thousands of dollars are being
real.z d therefrom... .The new manage¬
ment of the Florida Midland have ac¬
quired w. at was known as the Alabama,
Florida & Atlantic Road.... Cypress
gustine. blocks arc Many being used of the in paving St. Au¬
prefer asphalt. difference people would
The in cost is
considerably in favor of the be" cypress
pavement und it will probably more
generally used than any other....As
many as 1,177 carloads of lumber have
been transposed to Fernandina by the
Florida Railway and Navigation Com¬
pany in one month—an average of about
forty-three carloads per day....A Very
larg6 force of hands are now at Work on
the La Cahieiia tobacco plantation near
Quincy, and work is progressing rapidly.
Over 200 acres of land has been cleared.
....D. A. Miller, of Ocala, had ten
orange trees in his yard on Magnolia
street insured for $30 apiece, which were
destroyed by the late lire, and for which
the insurance company promptly paid.
.... The orange trees throughout Pasco
county are in the most vigorous condi¬
tion, and the promise for an unusually
heavy crop is encouraging.,,.
Colored people DeLand; own a great deal of
property in some of it right in
the business centre. The property they
own in the corporate limits covers at
least thirty-five acres, and is valued at
about $25,000... .It. F. Kreigsman, of
Eustis, has a cuiiosity in his garden in
the shape of a combination tree. It con¬
sists of a lemon, peach, pear, grape
fruit, persimmon, orange and guaVa, all
in bloom....Dr. J. F. Appell, of Lake
City, is probably the largest amateur
florist in the state. His grounds em¬
brace about eight acres. He cultivates
in their highest perfection 250 varieties
of roses of the choicest species, aud
many other rare flowers and fruits ...
During the month of February the books
at the United States land office at Gaines¬
ville show that there were entered 102
homesteads, embracing 13,096.64 acres of
land, 152cash entries, embracing 26,064.
04 acres, and 41 pre-emptions tiled. The
cash receipts of the office were $31,000.
... .It is rumored that one of the largest
corporations in this country, worth $50,
000,000, has negotiated for the purchase
of that large and magnificent tract of
land south of the barracks at St. Augus¬
tine, commanding a beautiful view of the
bay and fronting thereon, owned by D.
Dunham and others, and will build on it
a concrete Moorish hotel to accommodate
1,000 guests.
TENNESSEE DOTS.
NV. II. Vance, a fanner living r.e r
Strawberry plains, had a difficulty with
Alexander Anderson, a hand working on
his farm. Vance struck him on theheao
xvitli a stick. In a short time Anderson
became unconscious and died in about
i-ix hours... . A young workman named
Keeling fell in front of a saw in the
Mitchell mill near Gadsden, and before
he could get up, the saw r caught him and
passed almost through his body just
above the hips....F. C. Beaman’s one
year-old girl at Knoxville upset a cup of
boiling coffee into her mouth and died in
a few minutes .. J. T. Williamson,
postmaster at Columbia, has had his ap¬
pointment confirmed by the U. S. Senate. .
A large number of representatives of
the wholesale poplar lumber dealers and
manufacturers of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois,
Kentucky, West Virginia, Virginia and
Tennessee, met at Nashville, and
formed an “association for mutual ben
tit and advancement.” Nearly all the
firms in the states named were repre¬
sented personally or by letter.... A ter¬
rific rain storm xvitli hiirh wiud passed
ox’er the country around Nashville. Re¬
ports from surrounding towns shoxvn an
almost unprecedented rainfall that
washed away fences aud in
many cases drowned stock, but
no loss of life is reported ...
Mrs. Lou Watkins, xvidow of the late
Editor Abner NYatkins, of the Chatta¬
nooga Times, died suddenly at the En¬
terprise hotel in Chattanooga.....
The manufacture of the Bob White
plow xvill be carried on in Chattanooga
hereafter, and a large factory will be
built... .John Grudup, father of D. G.
Crudup, of the firm of Tablet - & Crudup,
and of Mrs. J. A. Tabler, expired at
the residnee of J. H. Tabler, in Chatta¬
nooga. He xvas born in Wilson county,
in 1809, and lived there until about three
yeais before his death. He was an < x
lensive stock dealer in Middle Tennessee,
and xvas xvell known and highly esteemed
ali through that section.
STATESMAN DYING.
Roscoe Conkling’s condition changed
for the worse, and a consultation of phy¬
sicians determined that what began as an
iiiflamation of the ear, superinduced by
his exposure during the recent blizzard,
has extended to the brain. An operation
was determined upon, and as no time
could be lost, it was perfc rmed immedi¬
ately. The temporal bone xvas rcmox'cd
and a secretion of matter found and
drained off. The operation xvas very fa¬
vorable, and gives the patient a slight
chance for recox*ery. He remained un¬
conscious throughout the operation. The
patient xx _ as under the influence of ether,
p>ut he rolled and tossed so that it was
only with difficulty that the operation
-was performed. Dr. Bajkor said that
while the recovery of his patient was not
assured, he stands a much better chance
than before. He sent for Edward S.
Stokes, the proprietor of the Hoffman
House, xvhere he lives, and when he ar
rived. Mr. Conkling said to him: “Ed, it
is no use. I am gone. I have fought
against this for some time. I can’t stand
SeffiTe
doctor if Mr. Conkiing had any chance,
Dr. Sands raid: “He may live forty
eight hours, but I doubt it.”
WORLD AT LARGE.
PLS PICTURES PAINTED DT A
CO It PS OF ABLE ARTISTS.
XVhnt U Gnlnjt tin North. Eatt nnd tVrm
nml Acro«s thp XVytrr—The Coining E«
roprnn stonu:
Wi " g made in Brazil
Enipero* Frederick of Germanv, is
6teadi *? gating worse. He L very non
u!1> '
In the district of Matanzas, Cuba, sev
end planters were captured by bandits
and held for ransom.
District Attorney Fellows, of New
York, is charged with misappropriating
money belonging to a client.
Advices front Montevideo, Uruguay,
report the loss of the steamer Rio de Ja¬
neiro, with 120 souls on board.
Ma ietoa; lhe deposed king of Samoa,
has been left at Cameroons as a prisoner,
by a Ge man gunboat from Samoa.
Bismarck has withdrawn his opposition
to the marriage of Price Alexander of
Battenburg, and Princess Victoria.
The Spanish Chamber of Deputies, by
a vote o£ 154 to 28, rejected the pro¬
posal to grant amnesty to political exiles.
The conviction and sentence of Brofile
Alderman O’Neill was affirmed by the
New York court of appeals, and he will
stay in Sing Sing prison,
Seuor GallendiZa, a Wealthy merchant,
who was recently kidnapped at his estate
in Santa Ka, Cuba, by bandits, has been
released on payment of £17,000 in gold.
Mr. Glad-tone, the Grand Old Man of
England, Liberal ^ was banquettedby the National
Club in London, and reviewed
the conduct of the Government in strong
language.
Sir Charles Tupper, ill the Canadian
House of Commons moved the second
reading of the bill to ratify the fisheries
treatyq and made complimentary remarks
about Americans on the commission.
Gen. Quincy A. Gilmore, who has
been suffering for some time from kidney
disease, died at his residence in Brook¬
lyn, N. A'. He was the inventor of the
ing “swamp angel” at Charleston, S. C., dur¬
the War.
At the funeral of John S. Brown, at
Shawneetovvn, 111,, the floor gave way,
throwing the coffin and various articles
of furniture and about forty men, women
and children into a deep cellar, and a
number were hurt.
The Trans-Atlantic steamship compan¬
ies at Loudon. England, are stopping the
booking of Irish emigrants because the
number of applicants for passage is great¬
er than can he accommodated. A large
number wish to emigate to the Southern
states.
The accounts of S. M. Weir, treas¬
urer of New Albany, Ind., have been
found $70,000 short. Expert account¬
ants say it has been exceedingly difficult
to trace moneys received and expended.
Weir has been treasurer for fourteen
years.
A large number of accidents have oc¬
curred on the Chicago, Burlington &
Quincy Railroad since the inauguration
of the (Engineers') strike, but the facts
are kept from the public. The company
has improvised a special hospital in Chi¬
cago.
freight Near Carr^lton, traiafelSi^ III., wrecked a double-headed by
a cow,
which had cat’s pWAfcmek. The two
engines andjen were wrecked and
many cattle killed. Brakeman L. Pow¬
ell was killed, Fireman P. Richards was
terribly scalded and Fireman J. K.
Brown had an arm broken.
The British government is concerned
in regard to the Berlin crisis. They fear
that the growing irritation in Germany
against the empress and her mother,
Queen Victoria, xvill extend to the Brit¬
ish nation, resulting in the destruction of
the cordial relations now existing be
tween the two empires.
Lower California is excited ox’er the
recent gold finds. The placer grounds
are reported to cover thousands of acres,
and are said to be rich in gold dust and
nuggets. The mountains contain several
natural reservoirs and streams of water,
having a fall of from 1,500 to 2,500 feet,
making the locality ax'ailable for hydraul¬
ic mining.
Brig. Gen. George Crook, in command
of the department of the Platte in the
military division of the Missouri, has been
promoted to the command of the dixusion,
taking rank and office of Maj. Gen. Ter¬
ry, resigned. He thus assumes responsi¬
bilities xvhere his experience will be of
the greatest service. He is a noted In¬
dian fighter and they gave him the sou¬
briquet of the “Gray Fox.”
A ‘ Q” engine manned by new men
Western xvas approaching Indiana Chicago, Ill., over the
tracks from the south
west. At 47th street a crowd threw
stones through the cab xvindoxv, xvken
Charles Sommers, one of the crexv, drew
a revolver, and firing it at the crowd,
struck James Boylan, a foundryman, in
the knee. At 4th street the engine
met the same repulse from another crowd,
and into Sommers again brought his pistol
use. He shot Mike NVelch, a NYa
bash engineer, in the groin, wounding
him fatally. An alarm hax'ing been given
to the police, the engine was intercepted
and Sommers placed under arrest.
ABOUT THE FLAG.
Mayor Hewitt, of Nexv York, trans¬
mitted to the Common Council a stirring
ing message from disapproving the resolution tak¬
the mayor the power of di¬
recting what flag shall be displayed upon
the city buildings. He shoxvs that xvhile
the Irish born population amounts to
16.45 per cent., 27 per cent, of the board
of aldermen are Dish, more than 11£
times the normal ratio of representation
prevails in all departments except the
police, where 28.10 are Iiroh born, nearly
double the normal per centage. This, he
declares, is at the expense of the German
element.
COTTON.
The total receipts from the plantations
since September 1, 1887, are 5,859,306
bales, in 1886-7 were 5,154,351 bales; in
1885-6 were 5,195,883 bales. Although
the receipts at the outports the past week
xvere 39,563 bales, the actual movement
from plantations was only 26,362 bales,
the balance being taken from the stocks
at the interior toVns. Last year the re¬
ceipts from the plantations for the same
week were 18,360 bales, and for 1886
they were 25,473 bales.
SHE WAS BOYCOTTED.
The friends of the. striking engineers
flooded Cheyenne, NVyo.. xvith flaming
handbills, reading: “Boycott Mrs. J.
Brown Potter: slie patronizes a scab
road, the l liieago. Burlington & Quin¬
cy." The actress reached Cheyenne on a
branch of that Hue, and played to a small
ho us?.
SOUTHERN GOSSIP.
BOILED DOILY FACTS A YD FA
CIES INTER E>TIS'GL 1 STATED.
loriilcat* on I.nml nml on Ncn-Nrir Enter¬
prises—s nieitfes—Religion*. Trinpernnco
nhd special .Matters.
is &xz
and the other three wid go in blast in two
weeks.
Col. W. II. Chapman, an internal rev
enue ag nt, was shot by a moonshiner
while raiding an illicit distillery near
Florence, Ala.
The Shreveport Arkansas Railroad was
completed and a golden spike was driven
by Mrs, Julia Rule (Pansy), of the
Shreveport Times ,
Fifteen business buildings and eight
cottages entailing were destroyed by fire at Tavares*
Fla., a loss of probably $200,
000: insurance very small.
NY. E. Lively, an Atlanta, Ga., preach¬
er, summoned for jury duty, was sent to
jail by Judge Marshall Clarke for con¬
tempt of court, because he refused to be
sworn.
The tailors' union of Montgomery. Ala.,
went out on a strike. The trouble orig¬
inated in the fact that Alex Rice and Lil
icnthal & Gossenheimer,merchant tailors,
have several non-union men in their cm
ploy.
The treatment of convicts in Alabama
is receiving considerable attention from
Gov. Beay, and some officers at Love¬
lace’s camp near Birmingham are likely
shooting to get into trouble for unnecessarily
prisoners for trifling offenses.
A negro named Jack NYilsou attended
Joe Jefferson’s play of “Rip Van Winkle”
a lew weeks ago at Macon, Gn. From
that time he has developed a longing to
imitate Rip in his long sleep, and has
almost lost his mind on the subject. He
was taken to the hospital, where he suc¬
ceeded in sleeping two nights and days
without waking. About 3 o’clock the
other morning he awoke, shrieking like a
demon, and showing every symptom of a
raving maniac, smashing furniture and
attempting to kill every one he met.
From November 1, 1880, to April 1,
1887, the sales of commercial fertilizers
in South Carolina amounted to 81,032
tons; and for the same period in 1887-88
the sales have been 119,220 tons, an in¬
crease for the present season of 28,188
tons. This is probably the largest quan¬
tity of fertilizers ever purchased by the
farmers in one season, and is a good in¬
dication of an increased cotton area, al¬
though the low induced prices prevailing this
year may have the farmers to
use it more largely than usual on other
crops.
RATHER OLD.
The oldest woman, familiarly known
as Granny Rose, died at Davidson College,
North Carolina, at the age of 131. She
was owned and raised by the grandfather
of David A. Sloan, who is now in his
eighty-first year. Her age is well estab¬
lished. Her mind gave way several
years ago. Si c became blind and de¬
formed, and has finally died of sheer old
age. 8lie did not complain of feeling un¬
well up to within an hour of her death.
A peculiar would circumstance in her life was
that she occasionally cut a new
set of teeth, and she had just finished
cutting an entire new set a few days be¬
fore the die.l. '
IMPORTANT RULING.
In regard to the requestor (he col¬
ored people that first and second class
passenger rates be established, the Georgia
railroad commission decline to establish
a second class rate, but hold that the
railroads must furnish the colored people
accommodations equal in every particu¬
lar The to commission, those furnished in the its ruling white people*
on this
point, uses the language of the section of
the code which requires equal accommo
dations to be given to all citizens without
discrimination and without reference to
race, color or previous condition of ser¬
vitude.
MISPLACED SYMPATHY.
Earnest efforts are being made to ex¬
cite sympathy for Cross and White, the
boodlcrs, xvlio are iu jail at Raleigh, N.
C. As yet bail has not been secured.
One of counsel for the prisoners said that
it xvas impossible to secure bail, and that
it might be announced that the idea of
giving it xx-as abandoned entirely. Some
preachers gathered at the jail, and held
short services in the room where Cross
aud White are confined. Both prisoner
were much affected, and shed many tear*
whenever friends see them.
EARTHQUAKE SHOCK.
A slight shock of earthquake took place
in Lancaster county, S. C., recently.
There was no damage, but the people in
the viciniiiy were considerably excited.
A Messenger.
‘•‘One afternoon in the <mmmer of
1851,” said Doctor Melnikoff to George
Kenman in the course of a conx’ersation
about his fortress life, “I xvas lying on
the bed in my casemate, wondering how
I should get through the rest of the day,
when there flew into the cell through the
open port-hole in the door a large blue¬
bottle fly. In the stillness and loneli¬
ness of one of those casemates any trifle
is enough to attract a man’s attention,
and the occasional xdsit of a fly is an im¬
portant event in one’s life. I listened
with pleasure to the buzz of his wings,
and followed him with my eyes as lie
flew back and forth across the cell until
I suddenly noticed that there was some¬
thing his unnatural in the appearance of
body. He seemed to have something
attached to him. I arose from the bed
in order to get nearer to him, and soon
satisfied myself that there was a bit of
paper fastened to his body. How to
catch him and secure that paper without
attracting the attention of the guard in
the corridor I hardly knew, as he xvas
flying most of the time in the upper part
of the cell beyond mv reach. For ten
or fifteen minutes I watched him without
being able to think of any way to cap¬
ture him; but at last he came down
nearer to the floor, and as he passed me
I succeeded in catching him in the hol¬
low of my hands without injuring him.
Attached to his body by a fine human
hair I found a small folded scrap of thin
cigarette paper, upon which a man’s
name had been xvritten with the burnt
end of a match, it was not the name of
any one whom I knew; but as it was
evident that some strictly guarded pris
oner hoped by this means to let his
friends in the bastion know either that
he had been arrested or that he was still
alive, I fastened the paper again to the
fly as well as I could and put him out
into the corridor through the port-hole,
saying ‘S’Bogom’ ” [“With God,” or
“Go with God”—a Russian expression
commonly used iu bidding a friend good
bve. ]— Century.
ORIENTAL BEGGARS.
MISSHAPEN WRETCHES AY HO j
SUBSIST BY MENDICANCY'.
A Calling That Is Respectable In
China. Honored in turkey*
and Holy in Persia—
Weird Dervishes.
All through Asia Minor, writes Thomas
Stevens, every town and city is swarmed
with professional l eggars. In the larger
cities thev are almost as numerous as the
prairie dogs, and a ten times greater
nuisance. The Moslem, however, re¬
gards mendicancy as a ending in which
there is no disgrace; and does not con¬
sider the loathsome crowd that hangs
aro ;tid the entrance of the mosque to
importune him for alms a- 5 he gee- to his
devotions a nuisance. He dispenses his
charity among them according to .11 be
means, ami feels that his prayers W
the mdre eff’c icious for having doue so.
The ranks of the mendicants now em¬
braces big, burly, able-bodied men who
do not hesitate to elbow to one side those
of the same ilk that a:e feeble and de- |
formed. There is no disgrace attached
to their profession here, and tiie sturdy
ragamuffin, strong enough to fell an ox,
wallows in his tilths and plies li.s calling
with no more feeling of shame than tHo
m serable cripple who lost both legs in
the Turko-Russinn war.
But the true land of the mendicant is
Persia. It has been estimated by obser
vaut travelers that onc-tenih of the trhali s
subjects are beggars by profession. mendicant toler¬ Not
only is the professional but he is regarded
ated iu Persia, eminently as
holy, and his calling as of Persian city re¬
spectable. The streets a
are lull of beggars Some of every imaginable
description. are regular fixtures at
certain spots, occupying their posts as
regularly as the days come and go.
As you walk down the stieet, one
miserable wretch shuffles out of his cor¬
ner, and thrusts into your notice some
horrible deformity; a little farther, and
you meet a pitiable object With his nose
cut off and eyes entirely gone front their
sockets. The next one will perhaps be
without hands, and the next without
feet. These are poor wretches who have
been multilated for theft from some pro¬
vincial official, or other mime which
would be punishable in a civilized coun¬
try by a few months’ imprisonment. In
Persia they are multilated and turned
adriit to spend the rest of their lives in
mendicancy. however; from
Not all are cripples far
it. Many of lusty frame and robust
health follow mendicancy as a profes¬
sion, because it pays better than work.
An English telegraphist, a friend of
mine in Teheran, once took a kindly in¬
terest in an intelligent-looking fellow
whom day, he saxv offered begging him on place the corner in his
every and a
service at current wages. The beggar
thanked him politely for his kindness,
an 1 told him that he had a family to
support, and could support them in bet¬
ter form by begging than he could by
work, conse uiently wasn’t looking for
work.
One of the most eccentric landmarks
in the streets of Tehcian that 1 remem¬
ber was a man whose peculiarity ivir
attitudinizing in the m ddle of the
road. Iu the keen rivalry for attract¬
ing the notice of passers-by, in a
community swarming with professional
beggars, all sorts of ingenious devices
are resorted to. This person was
all but a living skeleton, and in this
country would naturally gravitate to a
dime museum as such. lie was as much
of a fixture as a post. In the summer
the sun baked him, and in the winter the
cold rains kept him in a perpetual
shiver. He always stood with arms
folded so that each claw-like hand
grasped the opposite equally bony
shoulder. From morning till night he
never uttered a 'fiord oi supplication,
but used to turn his big black eyes with
mournful appeal on such passers-by as
he thought fair game. When a coin was
handed him, he mechanically released
one shoulder, quietly slipped the coin
into a handy pocket, and immediately
clutched his shoulder again. It xvas
ascertained that he had occupied that
same spot for years; everybody had
come to regard him as a permanent land¬
mark of the street.
The most interesting clasi of mendi¬
cants in Persia, and probably in the
whole world, are the dervishes, These
weird members of the mendicant frater¬
nity are met with all over Persia, on the
roads, in the villages and the cities.
Their usual dress is the skin of some
wild animal, preferably a tiger skin,
thrown carelessly about their shoulders,
and If the a dervish pair of white cotton pantalettes!
cannot obtain a tiger skin,
he will, as the next best cho’ce, secure
the skin of a leopard or panther, or even
the hide of a deer or antelope, In ad
dition to this striking make-uphe carries
a huge spiked club ora small battle ax,
and an alms holder made from an oblong
gourd shell or the outer shell of a cocoa
nut. Thus fantastically and even fero¬
ciously arrayed, the dervish stalks
through the thronged bazaars of a Per¬
sian thrusting city shouting his out “liakk, yahhakk!”
and alms holder right and
left among the people.
The dervishes are regarded as holy
mendicants by the common people, and
spend the greater portion of their lives
in wandering about from one distant
Central Asian city to another. They
might, perhaps, aptly be compared to
the wandering friars of England and
Europe 500 years ago. Everybody re¬
gards it as lucky, as well as meritorious,
to give alms to the dervishes. The aver¬
age Persian gives a tenth part of his in¬
come away in alms to beggars, the
greater part of which goes to able-bodied
men and dervishes who are well able to
work for their own living.
As might be expected, the most abom¬
inable specimens of the mendicant fra¬
ternity are to be found in China. The
loathsome appearance of the Chinese pro¬
fessional beggar is beyond the powers of
description. All sorts of horrible de¬
formities are voluntarily endured, to
work upon the sympathy of the people.
Eyes are blinded, faces mutilated and
limbs twisted. All that is done in the
way of mutilation by the authorities of
Persia in the punishmont of criminals is
inflicted by Chinese mendicants upon
their own offspring as tricks of their pro¬
fession. Horribly misshapen victims of
this atrocious custom are i ncountered at
the gates of Chinese cities, and in the
streets.
Silver Lining to His Clond.
A smart farmer in Missouri, when he
recently learned that the grand jury xvas
about to indict him for working on Sun
day. didn’t try to evade the charge On
the contrary, he had his four sons sum
moned as xvitnesses against him He
-was fined $1 and costs, a total’ of $5
But as the mileage and witness fees of
his sons amounted to $10.40, the family
cleared $5.40 on the transaction,
j
Inthe t Bermudas -i accounts . are settled , ,
j but once a year. The ..,0th of June is
the day usually fixed for the payments.
CURIOUS FACTS.
There are 2,750 languages.
A storm moves thirty-six miles pel
hour.
The death penalty was abolished in
Michigan previous to 1850.
A Maryland father can “bind out” his
soil; a Maryland mother cannot.
Book-keeping was first introdued into
Efiglrind from Italy by Peeles in 1569,
The Japanese have only one swear
word and that is nd more expressive than
our “by-gosh.”
Julius Hildebrand, who for sixteen
years was the Chicago. body servant of Bismarck,
is living in
Signals to be used at sea were first
contrived by James II., when he was
Duke of York, in 1665.
Charles Greek, of Milton, Mass., owns,
and sometimes wears, a pair of shoes
made by his father 53 years ago.
Over 1,000 skunk skins went, out of
gcratiton, Penn., for Germany the other
day, where they will be made into grena¬
dier caps.
Warren, Penn., claims the oldest
member of the G A. R. in the country,
His name is D. T. Nan N cchten, and he
was born in li. ..
The City of London, England, proper,
covers an area of 122 square miles.
Philadelphia covers more miles. territory,
spreading over 129 square
Notaries Public were first appointed
by the Fathers of the Christian Church
to make a collection of the acts of
memoirs of martyrs in the first century.
Recently an elk was shot in Galicia.
It is now 130 years since the last of these
animals was killed in Austria. It is be¬
lieved that the one referred to had come
from Lithuania.
Three men, over six hundred miles
apart, invented an egg-heater on the
same day and their applications for a
patent arrived in Washington within two
hours of each other.
An Englishman has given London up because his home
facing Hyde Park in a
strange lady used to walk in the park at
10 o’clock every morning wearing green
gloves on her hands.
There is in the vicinity of Yaughns
ville, S. C., an infant a few months old
whose mother is seventeen, grandmother
thirty-two, grandfather thirty-seven and
great grandmother fifty-one.
A New York merchant estimates that
3,000.000 bushels of peanuts were con¬
sumed in this country last year, The
cost to the consumers was $10,000,00;),
fully half of which was profit.
An old man telegraph living near Wabash, Ind.,
cut a railway wire, run the lino
into his house, and was utilizing tlie
electricity as a cure for rheumatism when
the linemen discovered where the break
was.
Martin P. Rogan, cash’er of the Plant¬
ers’ House, in St. Louis, picked out a
handsome pearl from the shell of a clam
he was eating in the Planters’ House cafe
the other day. It is about the size of a
small pea, and a jeweler says it is worth
$30.
There is a woman at Port Jarvis, Now
York, who goes into convuls’ons every
time she hears any one sing the neighbor air of
“ Old bang Syne,” and a
woman has just been mulcted in the tune
of $400 for singing it with malite afore¬
thought.
At the trial of a NVooster, Ohio, man
for murder, it was brought out in the
course of the testimony that at the out¬
break of the war he had himself con¬
victed of stealing sheep in order that he
might avoid military service by going to
the penitentiary.
Raw silk is said to have been first
made in China about 150 B. C. It was
first brought from India in 274, and a
pound of gold. of it Tiie that time was worth a pound
manufacture of raw silk
was introduced into Europe from India
by some Monks in 550. Silk dresses were
first worn in 1455.
Another edition of the Siamese twins
has just seen the light of the world. The
xvife of a poor xvorkman at Misslitz, in
Moravia, xvas delivered of triplets, two
of the babies grown together by the ribs
and having a common breastbone. The
rest of the two little bodies is perfectly
developed in every part.
Ah Illustrious Skir»IIint.
An illustrious skinflint is coming as
such to the front. I mean the Prince of
Monaco. That sovereignlet, I need
hardly say, has followed the example of
the Landgravine of Ilesze, the Dukes of
Nassau, the Grand Dukes of Baden and
the Princes of Waldeek-Pyrmont in
making money out of a heff. Ilisgam
bling concession to the Monaco Com¬
pany and his share in the profits of the
roulette tables bring him in, and have
brought him in for years, an income that
amounts on an average to £600 a day.
He is a widower, blind, keeps up no sort
of style or state at his country seat of Le
Marchais or at his hereditary place of
Monaco, and has but one son and a
grandson to provide for. I do not sup¬
pose he spends £5,000 a year.
“Well, xvhen last winter earthquakes
shook the Riviera, Monaco not escaping,
the first thought of the Prince and his
partners was to keep their source of
xvealth up to its usual money-producing
mark, so they caused telegrams to be
sent to the newspapers everywhere to
make believe that, as the earthquakes
did not trouble Monaco, gamblers need
not stay axvay in dread. It was onlv
when things had got back into the old
rut, and the roulette tables xvere in full
swing, that any thought was given to
the victims of the earthquake,and means
resorted to for clearing up shattered
houses. A subscription was set on foot,
which the Prince was asked to head, and
he led off with a sum of £400—less than a
single day’s income. He stipulated,
moreover, that a half—namely £200—
was to be spent at Mentone, on his own
tenants there, a town which once was
under his sxvay, and in xvhich he has
still valuable property. The ?overeignty
of Mentone he sold for £160,000 to Na¬
poleon III.—a sum represented by a per¬
petual income from France of £8,000 a
year out of the 3 percents. The Casino,
or Hell, Company w - as not much more
liberal than the blind old Prince. It
subscribed £1,400, which is less than a
day’s profit on one of the six roulette
tables, and this is to be recouped (and
more) by another table .”—Modern S'jci
ety.
The Big Hats of Corea.
“What signifies such wide brims?”
Asked a correspondent of Mrs. Allen,
who has spent much time in Corea.
“Surely the Coreans are not Quakers.
“Long “Thereby hangs a tale,” she said.
years ago the King ordered hit
subjects to wear hats with enormout
brims, three or four feet in width. The
object was to prevent conspiracy, The
rooms in Corea are small, and with sue!
hats on not mere than four men coulc
get into the same room at once. Bui
with the passing of generations the brim;
of the Corean hats have been growing
graduallv smaller until they have reachec
their present dimensions.»