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THE MONROE ADVERTISER.
FORSYTH, GEORGIA.
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF MONROE COUNTY.
BY McGINTY <4 0ABANI8S.
Politically, according toclose observ¬
ers, Franco is in a snarl.
The Indian youth are to be educated,
whether they wish it or not.
Lp to the last few years, the growth of
population in the West had been rapid
enough to keep pace with railway exten¬
sion
Emperor William, in his last speech
from the throne, announced that deposits
in German sav ings banks had increased
by $50,000,000.
From having the dirtiest city in the
United .States Pittsburg has become one
of the cleanest, the change being due
to ihe burning of natural ga3 in place of
coal.
A correspondent of the New Y’ork
World makes the discovery that the let¬
ter A appears in the name or every Presi¬
dent the country has had, except in that
of John Tyler.
That is a largo flguio—$1^,000,000,
000. That represents the actual value ol
the real estate of New York, and is an
increase of nearly 2.4 per cent, over that
of the previous year.
Homo idea of how tar in advance the
monthly magazines are made up may be
had from the statement in the Kew York
Star that the March number of Scribner's
went to press in January.
Leopold, King of the Belgians, has
never signed a deatli warrant, and, al¬
though the statute has never been re¬
pealed, capital punishment is practi¬
cally abolished in Belgium.
Apropos of the tremendous length of
ionic of the newest ocean steamships, the
Philadelphia Times remarks sententi
ously: “The noxt vessel built by an
ocean steamship company will be a
bridge.”
The New York Commercial Advertise)
snys "The rapid growth of the West was
due largely to the emigration of South¬
ern whites to the new States. Nearlj
one-third of the active colonists of tht
West were Southern born men.”
'The former Collector of the Port ol
New York and later American Consul at
London, General E. A. Merritt, tells a
Chicago reporter that the question of
Canadian annexation is agitated even
more in England than it is in Canada.
•rnc agrtcrmurai returns or 1885
show that while the total cultivated
area of the Cnited Kingdom has in¬
creased since 18)8 by about half a
million acres and the area under grr.se
by two million acres, yet th^r^ms been
no increase in the number of live stock.
Tha iulgarians are hardly up to the
modern idojs of civilization. At balls
given by royalty the guests eat with
their fingers, wipe their hands on their
trousers or on their hair; when wearied
from dancing remove their shoes and go
about barefooted and conduct them¬
selves in many other ways xvhich seem
strange to those accustomed to the usages
of modern polite society.
It is proposed to is§ue paper money in
Eng ami of a denomination as small as
half a sovereign, The annual loss tc
traders by the depre iation of gold coin
of that denomination is something like
$550p 0\ and it claimed that much of
this would bo saved were paper used.
The half sovereign is an inconvenient
and easily lori coin, which is another
argument in favor of paper.
The Manufacturers' Re 'vd, of Balti¬
more, is pleased to think that “every¬
thing seems to indicate that the whole
South has entered upon what must be
called a ‘boom’ in the absence of any
better name for it. Enterprises are
being organi ed, wo m’ght almost say,
by the hundreds, and no one need be
surprised at any amount of industrial
activity during the next few months.”
One would think that all the wolves
in Trance bad been killed before this,
but during the past year 701 of these
ravenous animals have been killed, for
which the Government paid $10,000 in
premiums. In 1^87 700 wolves were
killed, and 900 the year before. Two
of the wolves k lied last year had at*
ta ked human beings and upon these
two premiums of £40 were paid upon
each.
The United States is not ihe only
country where the par value of silver
coin is greater than its bullion worth.
It is said that there is nearly $500,000
of small silver in circulation in England
whiqh has been manufactured at a profit
by so-called “counterfeiters.” The
gains of the manufacturers is said to be
*s high ns fifty to seventy per cent.,
whilo the coin is fully up to the standard
of purity._
The latest Missouri tragedy is one ol
the most remarkable in the annals of lov«
or murder. Having four daughters,
Henry Thomas could have spared some
of them. But when two young men
eloped with the two older ones he went
after them with buckshot, killing all
but one daughter. On his way home he
heard that two mor6 of hia girls had
eloped. These he soon recovered, but
before be coula reach his home unkind
fate overtook him in the shape of a mob,
and the three daughters, besides having
no husband*, mourn the loss of a father.
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SOUTHERN
CULLIXGS.
NEWSY ITEMS MOST INTEREST¬
INGLY BRIEFED.
acciAnts OJf THE BAH.BOADS, ETC.—DEATH Or
FBOIUSKHT PEOPLE—TEMPEBAHCE, SOCIAL
AXD RELIGIOUS ITEMS.
ALABAMA.
At a meeting of the stockholders of
turing the. Birmingham Co., Mining and Manufac¬
it was decided to build a
hundred ton furnace at Gate City at
once. The company will issue 8300,000
bonds. The money to be applied to
building the furnace and improving the
company’s property.
llie stockholders of the Sloss Iron and
Steel Co., met in Birmingham on
’•Row Wednesday. The reports of officers
that during the last twelve months
the furnaces of the company were in
blast a little less than one-third of the
time on account of building and repairs,
but after paying operating expenses, they
P»id interest on the first mortgage bonds
and two percent, on the income bonds.
This showing was a startling revelation,
and shows that iron-making in the
Southern states is probably the best pay¬
ing business iu the South.
A Tuesday. shooting affray occurred at Bessemer
on John Avery shot and bad¬
ly wounded "Wesley Barringer and Ed
Whitehead. All the parties are white.
Avery aud Barringer were formerly part
ners in a barber shop. Avery left there
several weeks ago, and then Barringer
opened a shop in the Grand Hotel. Tues¬
day, Avery returned and demanded of
Barringer a half interest in the latter’s
ed new he shop. "When his demand was refus¬
went off, and borrowed a double
barrel shot gun, returned to the door of
the shop and opened fire. The first load
struck Ed Wilson, an employe, in the leg.
The second was lodged in Barringer’s
back as he ran out of the door.
GEORGIA.
Several colored men have applied foi
places as policemen in the reorganization
of the force at Atlanta.
H. F. Hover, an alleged anarchist,
who styles himself “Grand Worthy Sage
of the Co-operative Workers of Amer¬
ica,” is busy stirring up the ignorant
class of Atlanta’s colored people. He
comes from Hickory, N. C.
Governor Gordon decided the contest¬
ed election case of W. B. VanValken
burg against J. J. Vocelle, for the office
of ordinary of Camden county. The
commission was ordered to be issued to
Vocelle, on the ground-that VanValken
burg failed to exhibit to the governor a
notice of contest in writing served upon
Vocelle in accordance with the law.
Clias. F. McCay, A. M., LL. D., died
Wednesday in Baltimore. He was once
a resident of Augusta, and his remains
were brought there for iuterment. He
was president of Franklin college, at
Athens, from 1846 to 1853, and resigned
to accept the presidency of the South
Carolina university at Columbia. From
there he came to Augusta in 1858, and
became the cashier in the Augusta Sav¬
ings bank. He left Augusta in 1869 for
Baltimore, where be has since resided.
Adam Eeck, an aged negro, died on
Wednesday, at his little home in Bell
wood, juri outside Atlanta. Beck is said
to have been a miser, and is considered
one of the richest negroes about Atlanta.
He hoarded his wealth, his greatest de¬
light being counting his money and
talking,about healthy hi* possessions. and his death He was a
strong man, was
the result of a short illness. He leaves
no relatives so far as is known and made
no will. Ilis property was estimated at
from $8,000 to $10,000.
The corner stone of the old Midway
church, iu Liberty county, was relaid
Wednesday with notable ceremony.
From all over the county, and from ad¬
joining counties, men and women came,
despite the rain. Savannah was repre¬
sented by several prominent citizens.
Many former residents of Liberty county
assisted in the exercises. The old cor¬
ner stone, which was laid with such im
pcsing ceremony iu 1852, was taken up
by the soldiers during the War, and the
treasure stolen, but the corner stone itself
was recovered, and Wednesday it was
restored to its place.
John L. Adams, the alleged forger and
“faster,” died at Macon on Wednesday,
wiih 'ut the slightest struggle. He died
in his sleep. He had been sleeping very
peacefully when the watchers by his bed¬
side noticed a cessation of brcathing,and
on examination he was found to be dead.
He had been conscious all day, but spoke
but little, and then in a whisper so faint
that it could hardly be heard. He had
eutered upon his twenty-seventh day of
fasting, and but for the great mental
pressure upon him, nature might have
lasted several days longer. He was
greatly emaciated. Adams, during his
fast, expressed a desire that he be not
buried too soon after his death.
MISSISSIPPI.
The board of mayor and aldermen of
the city of Jackson, has fixed the price
for license to retail spirituous liquors
at $1,000 for the the* city, and for malt
liquors at $500 for state and $500
for the city. Under the old law the sa¬
loon tax did not exceed $,400.
MISSOURI.
Sheriff Johnson, of Ozark, was
aroused from sleep by a disturbance in
the jail, which, on immediate investiga¬
fight tion by the officer, the proved to be Since a general
adjourned among prisoners. court
there last Friday, the Ozark
jail has been crowded to its utmost ca¬
pacity by the ex Bald Knobbers and
other offenders who were committed for
failing to pay the fines assessed against
them by Judge Hubbard. The whole
twenty-three prisoners were in a general
fight when Sheriff Johnson entered the
jail and commanded peace.
Charles A burglar broke into the house ol
8. Cryster, of Independence, by
using forceps to unlock the front door.
He was first discovered in the bedroom
of Mr. and Mrs. Cornell Cryster, whe
had been aroused by some slight noise.
Thinking it was some member of the
family, they were asked what was
wanted, and were told to keep still or
their heads would be blown off. Mr.
Cryster immediately jumped out of bed
and started toward the burglar, when
the latter fired at him, but missed, the
bullet passing through the headboard of
the bed and into the bedclothes, where
it was afterwards found. The robbei
escaped with over $5,000 in booty.
WEST VIRGINIA.
The supreme court at Charleston de¬
cided in the Goff-Wilson gubernatorial
mandamus case that Governor Wilson is
entitled to hold over until such time as
the contest between Fleming and Goff
shall have been settled, or, in other
words, Goff is not entitled to the seat,
on the ground <hat returns were not de¬
clared by the legislature. The fight will
now be between Wilson and Carr on quo
warranto proceedings. I
>OKTII CAROLINA.
At Goldsboro, in the course of an
affray in a barroom between Robert Ham
and Johu Mehan, a man named Pearsell
handed Ham a knife; Ham, with the
knife, almost disemboweled Mehan,
wuose injuries are very serious. Ham
so ne time ago stabbed and killed Police
Officer Johnson, at Goldsboro, and is a
desperate man.
Letters received at Raleigh state, that
the negro exodusters, who have gone in
such numbers from Durham to Missis¬
sippi, are not having such delightful
t mes as they looked forward to. Sam
Ruffin, Tom Holt and others went tc
Mississippi with the first of the large
parties. High discovered plots aud
exposed attacke'd them, whereupon Ruffin and
tit It High, aud in a quarrel on
arriving in in Mississippi, Ruffin was shot
the arm and Holt in the leg. Thi3 so
exasperated the Durham negroes that
they endeavored to kill High. The feel¬
ing against him ran so strong that Mr.
Richardson, the great cotton planter
who employed these laborers, to save
High’s life, had him shipped away in a
box, labeled as merchandise.
•SOl'TII CAROLINA.
Rev. Byron Holly, rector of St. Phil¬
ip’s Church, of Atlanta, has been called
to the rectoiship of Christ Episcopal
Church of Greenville.
At Darlington, Joseph W. James, a
young white man, and Lewis and Robert
Arthur, two negroes, have been convict¬
ed of the murder of James’ father.
TENNESSEE
A young contractor who was employed
by the Stone Portland Co., in Chatta¬
nooga, $555 to open of the a new street, skipped out
with company's money, given
him with which to pay off the hands for
their week’s work.
VIRGINIA.
Two hot-blooded young society lights
had a mil-understanding at Lexington,
on Monday, and settled it with a duel.
Forty-two rounds were fired with. 32
calibre Colt’s dueling pistols, but not a
hit was made. A love affair was the
cause of it.
W. Harvey Wilson, editor of the Daily
Record at Richmond, was arrested Mon
lay charged with being about to com¬
mit a breach of the peace by engaging in
a duel with Phil Shields, editor of the
•Journal. The editors had a difficulty on
the street street some days ago, caused
by publication in the Law Journal which
Wilson thought cast a reflection upon
his professional conduct.
MATTERS IN
WASHINGTON.
OF COURSE, A CHANGE BEGETS
A CHANGE.
CONGRESS.
In the Senate, on Wednesday, a reso¬
lution author zing the committee on
cottfst defenses to sit during recess and
to employ a clerk, was introduced and
referred to the committee on contingent
expenses. The Senate then proceeded
to the consideration of executive busi¬
ness, and confirmed the following nomi¬
nations: A. C. Mellette, governor oi
Dakota; L. B. Richardson, secretary ol
Dakota; Cornelius A. Hanford, ol
Washington Territory, chief justice ol
the supreme court of the territory oi
Washington; George W. Irvin, of Mon¬
tana, marshal of the United States, foi
the territory of Montana; Smilie N.
Chambers, of Indiana, United States at¬
torney for the district of Indiana:
George S. Batchellor, of New York, as¬
sistant secretary of the treasury, vice
Hugh S. Thompson, resigned; Albert G.
Porter, of Indiana, envoy extraordinary
and minister plenipotentiary United
States to Italy; John A. Enander, of
Illinois, minister resident and consul
general of the United States to Den¬
mark ; Walker Blaine, of Maine,
examiner of claims in the
State Department. The confirma¬
tion of Walker Blaine was out of
the usual order and made by unanimous
consent, as a compliment to his father.
The position to which he is appointed is
practically that of legal adviser or “law
i fficer” of the state department, and its
incumbent necessarily occupies espe¬
cially confidential relations with the Sec
"etary.
NOTES.
Ju ige Carey, solicitor of the Treasury
Depar.ment, has tendered his resigna¬
tion to the President, to take effect
upon the qualification of his successor.
E. P„ King, of Atlanta, has been ap¬
pointed assistant railway mail superin¬
tendent at a salary of $1,600, and $4
per day for expenses. Mr. King was
imon appointed by Postmaster-General Diek
before liis retirement.
The President has accepted the resig¬
troller nation of Judge Durham as first comp¬
of the Treasury, to take effect
upon the qualification of his successor.
It is expected that similar action will be
taken soon in the cases of other treasury
officials who have tendered their resig¬
nations.
It is reported that at a cabinet meeting
on Tue-day, the question came up as to
who should be appointed asistant ssecreta
rv of the interior. Secretary Noble reques 7 -
?d that his assistant be Cyrus Bussey, of
New Orleans, La., but President Harrison
objected on the grounds that he had select¬
ed an Indianian for the position in the
person of Col. W. W. Dudley. Secreta¬
ry Noble immediately interposed his ob¬
jections, which led to a very heated dis¬
cussion, in which Mr. Blaine opposed
the President.
PROHIBITION DEFEATED.
Returns from the New- Hampshire
election show that the constitu¬
tional prohibition amendment has
been defeated by a decided majority.
Of the cities, Nashua appears the only
one voting in favor of the amendment,
giving it 202 majority. Carroll and
Coos counties are the only ones that show
indications of having favored the amend¬
ment, although Grafton county may
show a small majority, but not the nec¬
essary two-thirds. If the remaining
towns cast the same relative vote m com¬
parison with that of last Fall as those
already heard from, the total vote in the
state on the amendment wifi be about
16,000.
TELEGRAPHIC,
After a discussion of less than half an
hour, ihe Rhode Island Senate, by a vote
of 22 to 15,.passed the resolution re-sub
the mitting the prohibitory amendment to
constitution. The resolution must
now pass the Assembly to be submitted
to the people in 1890.
A nest of three boilers at St. Nieholai
ploded Collieiv, near Mahonoy City, Pa., ex¬
with terrific effect. One of the
boilers was blown five hundred yards,
another was hurled through a black¬
smith shop, and the other was torn intc
fragments. The boiler house and black¬
smith shop were wrecked. Several per
sons were killed.
THE WORLD
AT LARGE.
PICK UPS HERE ; THERE AND
EVERYWHERE.
EUBOPE GETTING HEB ABMJE9 AXD XAYIES IXTO
COXDITTOS—THE LABOR FIELD—PROGRESSIVE
IDEAS BEING AGITATED.
The Salvation Army has been prohib¬
ited by the authorities from carrying on
its work in Berlin, Germany.
A cable dispatch from Aquamina, Capt. west
coast of Africa, states that
Holmes, of the whaling bark Sea Fox,
an officer and servant, were killed and
five of the crew killed by the explosion
of a whaling gun bomb.
' The Spanish government has received
dispatches announcing the loss of the
steamer Remus, which had a Spanish
military expedition on board. The vessel
was wrecked off the Phillippine Islands;
forty-two* persons were drowned.
The locopotive of a freight train on
the Mahoney division of the Reading
Railroad ran off the track at St. Nicholas,
Pa., on Monday. The engine aud twelve
cars were wrecked. Benjamin Walker,
fireman, was instantly killed, and Con¬
ductor Joslin Gillsner lias since died from
his injuries. ’
A sensation has been in Cashmere by
the unearthing of a plot against discovery the life
of the British Resident. The
was made through letters left by the late
premier of Cashmere. These letters re¬
veal the design on the part of the Ma¬
harajah to poison the British Resident,
besides other treasonable plottings.
A boiler thirty feet long in the forg¬
ing department of the Cleveland, Ohio,
Rolling Mills in the Southern part of the
city, exploded with terrific force on
Monday. One half of it went five hun¬
dred feet west and thfe other half sixteen
hundred feet east. Several buildings
were damaged, two men killed and elev¬
en persons—men, women aud children—
injured.
Henry Campbell, M. P., private secre
of Mr. Parnell, has brought suit for libel
against the London Times. The case
has been set for hearing, and the trial
will probably take place in May. The
suit is founded partly on the opening
speech made by Attorney General Web¬
ster in the case of O’Donnell vs. Webster
and partly on a leading editorial publish¬
ed by the Times on July 7th last, This
is the first of a series of suits to be
brought against the Times.
The will of Isaiah V. Williamson, the
dead millionaire, who died in Philadel¬
phia Pa., recently, was admitted to pro¬
bate in the register of wills office. The
estate will amount to between $8,000,000
and $9,000,000 exclusive of the fund of
$2,250,000 for the mechanical school.
The collateral inheritance tax payable to
the state will amount to between $400,
000 and $500,000, and the expense of
settling the estate will reach about
$750,000.
Indianapolis, Ind., now has a double
police force and two police headquarters,
and nobody can tell bow they will secure
pay. bill passed The by board the organized under the
Legislature, met Tues¬
day and organized a police force. This
force was selected the night before, and
included a number of officers of the old
force. Part of the men reported and
were swortin and assigned to duty, All
the men pkuriA in are Democrats, the
Republicans of the old force declining to
accept appointments. under the new
board. The patrolmen of the new board
were instructed to avoid a clash with the
old force.
The steamer Cobean arrived in New
on battle Sunday, between bringing Legitime’s news of a bloody
and Hippo
lite’s forces, and the massacre by the
victors.. Legitime’s men were so elated
over their success at Grandsaline that
they immediately commenced to pillage
the town. One drunken soldier shot
one of the prisoners for some trifling
matter. This was the signal for a gen¬
eral outbreak on the part of the soldiers.
They rushed at the prisoners, shooting
and stabbing them right and left, and
the undisciplined horde proceeded to
break into houses and smash furniture,
abuse the women and behave generally
like demons, winding up the atrocities
by firing the town.
At Norwood, N. Y., on Monday, E. L.
Smith, cashier of the Norwood Bank,
was when alone Chaides in the building about noon,
Phelps, a post-office clerk,
entered and asked for some stamps.
Smith stepped into the vault to get them,
when Phelps quietly closed the door and
turned the combination, locking the
cashier in. The robber then turned to
the money drawer and took all the paper
money that hundred it contained—$278—leaving dollars in silver.
several Mean¬
while, a customer entered the bank and
saw eashier what had happened. He heard the
calling to him from the vault and.
being instructed as to the combination,
released him. Phelps, who was arrested,
is a young man and a native of Norwood.
He has fallen into bad habits of late and
is said to have become an opium eater.
A mob of about 2,000 people gathered
in front of the city hail at Milwaukee,
Wis., on Monday, to await the airival of
Sam Yip Ja and Hah fling, two China¬
men, into charged with inveigling little girls
their laundries. They were disap¬
pointed, however, *
as the officers took
the prisoners to the court room at a very
early hour. The crowd was very noisy
but not violent, about fifty officers keep¬
ing for it in check. The crowd hung around
several hours, when it suddenly left
and proceeded in a body to the west side,
where they went to smashing in windows
and gutting Chinese laundries. At one
point an unlucky Celestial fell into the
hands of the mob. who began yelling for
have J rope to string him up, aud he would
fared badly but for the courage of
one policeman, who protected hirer until
assistance arrived.
VESSEL SUNK.
The steamer William Coulman arrived
from Gonaives, Hayti, at New York on
Wednesday. She reports that the gun
b at Dessalines, of Legitime’s navy, ar¬
rived off that p rt and opened fire on
both forts at the entrance of the port.
The eanonnading was continued for two
hours, but no particular damage was
done. The forts returned the fire, and
in a short time the Dessalines put out to
sea. The supposition is that three well
directed shots from the fort struck the
steamer. The general belief is that the
Dessalines has sunk with all on board.
The Dessalines foundered, it is said, off
St. Maries.
destructive.
A German snidery officer has discov¬
ered a new powerful explosive for shells.
It is manufactured from carbolic acid.
EDITOR MURDERED,
For some weeks. Cap*. F. W. Daw¬
son, the editor of the Charleston, S. €.,
News and Courier suspecte 1 that Dr. T.
B. McDow, a young physician, a married
man with an un-avorv reputation, had
been showing attentions to a y< ung girl
employed as a nurse girl in Capt. Dawson’s
detail amily. He asked i Lie chief of police to
a detective to shadow the girl,
stating that if she was honorably courted
he would have n ithing to say, but that
be did not desire bis children to be in
rusted to a girl who was not strictly
honest. Tuj detective accordingly
shadowed the girl. On Monday morn¬
ing he saw' her get on a Rutledge avenue
tr. clear, where she was soon joined
by Dr McDow, the murderer. The de¬
tective followed rlie pair for several
hou-s, ai d submitted a report in writing
o the o ief of police, who communicated
it-> details t > Capt. Dawson on Tuesday.
Capt. Dawson left Ins office at 3:40 p.
m., and was found murdered about 6:30
in the office < f Dr. McDow. His face
was badly beaten aud a pistol bullet was
found in his heart. It is supposed that
he we it to Dr. McDow’s to remonstrate
with him—a married man and the father
of several children—against his attentions
to his maid servant, and that Dr. McDow
shot him after the two had been engaged
in a scrimmage. The body of the mur¬
dered man had, in the meantime, lain
in the office of the murderer, not one
hundred yards from h s own residenc.
After the murder, McDow disappeared
till 6:30 p. m., when he appeared at the
police station and surrendered himself.
McDow is said to be the only doctor in
Charleston who is not a member of the
State Medical Society, lie married some
years ago the daughter of C. C. Ahrens,
a rich retired grocer, and it is known
that the police have been asked to
shadow him several times. After mur¬
dering his victim, it is said, Dr. McDow
tft the body, weltering in blood, lying
i n the floor, locked his ollice door and
went out to a corner grocery shop.
I here is evidence that he tried to bury
the corpse of his victim, but that in the
meantime suspicious had got out, ana
finally three hours after he had killed his
victim, he voluntarily surrendered
himself to the police authorities.
Capt. Dawson was a native of England,
but he passi d the greater part of his life
in the Southern States. Early in the
War, Commodore Robert B. Pegram, of
the Confederate Navy, was in English
waters in command of the Nashville.
Dawson asked him for passage to the
Southern States as he wished to join the
Confederate army. The gallant Dawson
on reaching the South went into the navy
and after wards joined the ai tillery branch.
He w T as on Gen. Longstreet’s staff in the
Knoxville campaign, and served with
conspicuous gallantry until the close of
the War. He was an intimate friend of
Gen. L3e, and was regarded by all as one
of the most chivalrous and gallant sol¬
diers and officers of the Confederacy.
CLEARING THEM OUT.
The United States troops will cleai
Oklahoma of boomers shortly. General
alarm p ievails in all the camps of boom¬
ers, and they are ready to move at a mo¬
ment’s warning. They are greatly inter¬
ested to know 7 win ther they xviil be ta
ken to Aikansis City <r to Purcell.
They have serious objections to be'im
taken back to the Kansas line, particular¬
ly if they have to walk. Soldiers art
moving from Fort Reno, but it is sup¬
posed the expedition is bound for tht
Pottawattoraie country, where they wil
a barge number of intruders.
A SCOURGE
liptheria is a more destructive scourge
thin yellow fever. In the little town of
Gallitzen, Pennsylvania, with a popula¬
tion of 2,000, in the past four months,
more than one liu i red deaths have oc¬
curred.
A Remarkable Volcano.
The city of San Salvador, the capital
o' the smallest and most populous Cen¬
tral American Bepublic, was founded in
1528. It has b en three times almost
entirely aud eleven times partially de¬
stroyed by earthquakes and volcanic
eruptions. It is eighteen miles from
the sea coast, lias an elevation of 2,800
feet, and is surrounded by a group of
volcanoes, two of which are active, San
Niguel display and Jzal :o, and present a magni¬
ficent to the passengers of steam¬
ers sailing along the coast, constantly
lischarging masses of lava which flow
down their sides iu blazing torrents.
Izalco is regular as a clock, the erup¬
tion occuring like the beating of 8
mighty pulse, every seven minutes. It
is impossible to conceive of a grander
spectacle than this monster, rising 7,
000 feet almost directly from the sea, an
immense volume of smoke like a plume
continually pouring out of its summit
and broken with such regularity by
masses of flame rising 1,000 feet, that it
lias been named El Faro del Salvador—
the Lighthouse of Salvador. It is in
many respects the most remarkable vol¬
cano in this world, because its dis¬
charges have continued so long and with
such regularity, and because the tumult
in the earth’s bowels is always to be
hoard. Its explosions are constant, and
are audible a hundred miles off. It is
the only volcano that has originated on
this continent since the discovery by
Columbus. It arose from the plain in
the spring of 1770 in the midst of what
liad been for nearly a hundred years a
magnificent coffee and indigo planta¬
tion.— Guatemala Star,
Where Cauliflowers Thrive.
eight-tenths It is not generally all known that nearly
of the cauliflowers which
come to this market are grown within a
belt of about thirty miles on Long Is¬
land. From Southold to Riverhead
almost every farmer is devoted to their
c ulture, the climate and soil being par¬
ticularly adapted the to their development.
The past year product was much
more than sufficient to supply the de¬
mands of the cities, so little houses were
erected near the railway stations, and
scores of chore boys were set to work
cutting up the flowers and pickling
them. There is usually great fun in the
preparation of the pickles, so there is
generally no lack of volunteers for the
work.
A somewhat singular incident in the
growing of this plant is that in no other
locality on Long Island, or for that
matter in the New England or Middle
States, have the farmers met with any
success in its perfect production. The
result is that Suffolk County has a
monopoly of of nearly cauliflower, which gives an
income $200,000 a year—New
York Timet.
“Godliness is profitable for all things"
Two Chinamen at Foo-Chow— a Christian
and a heathen— had their eyes operated on
for cataract. The Christian held a praise
meeting with his fellow Christians. Hia eyes
became entirely well and he devoted him
wlf to preaching the Gospel. The heathen
heid a feast with his companions, drank
whiaky. and ruined bfa aye* t*yoa4 KOOTtt/,
A SOUTHERN QUESTION.
HOW TO PRETEXT THE RISE AXD
SPREAD OF YELLOW FEVER.
Dr. W. C. Van Bibber, a prominent published
physican of Baltimore, Md., has
a paper recently read by him before the
Baltimore Academy of Medicine, upon
the prevention of yellow fever in the
South. Dr. Van Bibber’s treatise is a,
notable contribution to the literature of
ihe terrible scourge, aud abounds in val¬
uable suggestions as to the best means of
guarding against its rise and spread. Ar¬
guments are forcibly presented methods, in and favor
of improved sanitary quarantine
more enlightened system Upon the of question of
in Southern cities.
proper sanitary conditions, Dr. Van Bib¬
ber says:
“In 1881, a paper was read before the
American Public Health Association, at
their meeting in Savannah, Ga., under
the title of ‘l’wo Sugg(a iocs Concern¬
ing Healthy Buildings.’ The first sug¬
gestion made was ‘to build houses upon
arches or piers in low fiat grounds. under
Man has the privilege of building
his own control. He must take the
earth as he finds it, but one style of
building may be more healthy, conven¬
ient, and salubrious in one situation than
another. Instead of springing the
houses out of the ground in low, flat sit¬
uations, it is better to interpose a stratum
of air between the house aud the ground.
If the house be built w T ell up off the
ground, and the earth paved beneath it,
with no enclosed yards, then continued
cleanliness could be easily maintained.
The surface ventilation of the air would
be one prominent advantage of this style
of building; surface drainage, an easy
abatement of certain nuisances, with
consequent increased healthfuliress and
comfort would be the result.
“If Macctenny and Jacksonville and
Decatur had been built in this xvay, and
bad been kept according to the intention
of such a style of building, their inhabi¬
tants would have been saved the receut
epidemic. This plan of building the
bouses well off the ground, upon arches,
columns or piers, with clean hard pave¬
ments of brick or concrete underneath
and around them, I regard with great
favor; it would not only be an improve¬
ment in itself, but would bring after it
many other improvements. The objec¬
tions which have been raised against it
are the expense, the inconveniences and
the danger from violent storms. The ex¬
pense might be a little heavier at first,
but if all did it, this increased expense
would soon be equally distributed—if
the house cost more to build, the work¬
men would get more for building it, and
in this way it would not be considered a
burden amongst the poor. As to incon¬
veniences, if there be any, they are not
worth balancing against the gain, and
habit would soon make it cease to be
felt. The danger from violent storms
could be overcome by the supports of
of chimney stacks sprung from the
ground, or by supporting towers or
beams, by means of which the houses
could be firmly secured, and all danger
averted.
“It is difficult for some minds to divest
themselves of the early bias which they
have hud from infancy, from building on
the ground with cellars, and pits and
sinks. These arc not suited to low flat
lands in a warm climate; a sufficient
standard of cleanliness cannot be main¬
tained in their presence, or where they
exist. The question as to how high the
building-line should be] off the ground,
be is an consideredfcciha important one, if ver comes to
f statute en
ac’ment.”
Upon the subject of the quarantinr
of the future, Dr. Van Bibber says:
“Let us speak of the attractive quar¬
antine of the future. In this, you will
see four houses situated at a proper dis¬
tance from each other, in the most ac¬
cessible point of the state, built and ap¬
pointed in a manner not only to make
them most efficient for the comfort of
the sick and afflicted citizens and stran¬
gers, but to serve also as schools and
models to teach private citizens how they
can preserve amongst themselves con¬
tinued cleanliness and give no foothold
to preventible disease. The humblest
man in the commonwealth cannot then
plead ignorance as to how he should and
must build his house and manage his
domestic affairs, so as to preserve his
own health, not injure that of his
neighbor, nor impair the repuia
tion of his state. These four
buildings should have ample communi¬
cation with each other and the out¬
ride world by telegraph, telephone, and
what other appliances the future m iy
have in store. Then no one who is quar¬
antined will feel himself isolated or
harshly treated. The visitor from abroad
and the denizen can alike receive and
send messages from and lo all points.
“In these establishments, all knowl¬
edge of yellow fever is to be centered;
here the disease can not only be treated,
but studied under the most favorable
circumstances; and from them, all nec
essary rules for its prevention should
emanate. They should be under the control
of the board of health, who should be well
selected and thoroughly competent, and
they should see that nothing be wanting
to make the establishment as homelike
and attractive as the most agreeable re¬
sort.”
TRULY HORRIBLE.
On Spruce Creek, a father with nine
motherless children, joined with a wretch
of a woman in attempting to destroy the
lives of his entire family. Frank Conk
wright, the father of the children, iso
farmer in good circumstances, who, prior
to this tragedy, Lad stood well with lib
neighbors. His children are from three
years to nineteen years old, and because
they had objected to their father’s bad
conduct, they bad been severely chas¬
tised by the use of the lash and driven
from home out into the cold, and often
into driving storms. This has been go¬
ing on since Conkwrigbt lost his wife,
an upright woman, more than three
years ago. As the children grew they
protested the more, until the father,who
had become desperate, joined with Sal
lie Holden and her cruel brothers—Jim,
terminate Bill and Noble Holden—in a plan to ex'
the entire family.’ A bot¬
tle of deadly poison was* procured
Jim, the woman's brother, entered the
same room and crept stealthily to the
bed and administered a dose, first to a
little boy aged three year*, and then to a
daughter Dine years old. These two
poisoned unto death, the fata! dose was
then mixed in molasses and the drinking
the water to of be the taken children into the 8tomach3 ol
rest at breakfast. The
boy died, and in the afternoon the
daughter was also a corpae, and in shd
meantime the other children, except the
eldest son, aged 19 years, who was sus¬
picious of hi* father, bad taken the
poison. The neighbors are justly enrag
ed, and nothing short of heavy atona
walls and iron doors could protect tho
prisoner* from the wrath of an mdignan,'
people.
WORDS OF WISDOM.
Woman is born for love.
Think well before taking action.
Live to explain thy doctrine by thy
life.
Happiness is not perfected until it is
shared.
The tender, humble, broken heart i 8
the best thank offering.
He who wisely uses his wealth need
not leave it for his tombstone.
I)o the truth you know, and you shall
learn the truth you need to know.
The sight of a man’s money is oft
times the antidote for *H<* oil or of a very
bad character.
The most delicate, the, sensible o!
all pleasures, consists in promoting the
pleasures of others.
A woman may be ugly, ill shaped,
wicked, ignorant, silly aud stupid, but
hardly ever ridiculous.
Do not wait good for actions, extraordinary oppor¬
tunities for but make use
of common situations.
But the path of the just, as a shining
light, goeth forward, and increaseth wicker
to perfect day. The way of the
is darksome; they know not where tE.y.
fall.
The things which thy eye3 have seen
utter not hastily in a quarrel, lest after¬
ward thou mayst not be able to make
amends, when thou hast dishonored thy
friend.
No one can ask honestly or hopefully
to be delivered from temptation unless
he has himself honestly and firmly de¬
termined to do the best he can to keep
out of it.
Spanish Ragamuffin Soldiers.
Once, lor the sake of the excitement
and diversion, I joined Don Carlos, the
Pretender to the throne the of Spain, writes
General Crawford, of Enited States
army, at Los Arcos in the mountains ol
Navarre, and accompanied bis troops tc
Vienna, on the Ebro, and was a witness
to the attack and capture of the place.
They were a tatterdemalion lot of sol¬
diers, and no mistake, clothed in every
conceivable garment and armed with
every conceivable weapon, from a pitch
fork to a broken scythe strapped on a
stick, and from an antiquated out of~
date army musket to the latest improved
American breechloader. But nondescript
aud incongruous as they were, they had
stout hearts iu their ill-nurtured bodies,
and when put to it and spu:red on by
the presence of their Prince, they would
light as gallantly and dcspeiately as only
brave men can. As for artillery, they
had none; buttliat did not appear to af¬
fect them one way or the other.
I stood by the side of Don Carlos on a
Tustic bridge one dismal aud rainy morn¬
ing as his devoted followers filed by on
the march, and I was much struck by
loaded seeing a number of wagons in the line
down with barrels. I asked Don
Carlos what they contained, and he care¬
lessly answered in his most nonchalant
manner, with just a trace of a smile on
his handsome face:
“They’ contain petroleum.”
“And what earthly use,” I -asked,
“have you for petroleum on the march;’
“What use!” he answered, “Why,
much use to be sure, That’s our atl
lery. We employ it to smoke out oni
enemies from barricaded strongholds,
and I can assure you it’s been tried and
found very effective in case a conflagra¬
tion is deemed desirable ” And the:
after a moment’s pause and a look at my
face, “Oh, yes, I can assure you, Genera
Crawford, petroleum makes very good
artillery on a pinch, very good indeed.’
—New York Star.
Cotton Seed Oil.
In the United States cotton oil is
made from the decorticated and crushed
upland cotton-seed, by expression this
process yielding an odorless oark
brownish-green oil having a specific
gravity of about 9221. Being then
treated with alkaline solutions fgener
ally containing potash or soda}, the
clear yellow oil, which is odorless and
flavorless and bar the same specific
gravity as the crude, is drawn off by
racking, and the residuum, which is
called soap stock, is treated in a suitable
manner.
The present consumption ot cotton
seed for oil-making purposes is about
800,000 tous a year, from which there
are made about 28,000,000 gallons,
worth about thirty cents per gallon in
the refined condition.
The principal use to which it is put is
for food purposes. The well eslabli hed
fact that it is not only healthful, but
more easily digested than almost any
other artic e of food, accounts for the
rapid increase of its use for culinary
purposes, which to-day amounts to a
duction. very large proportion of the entire pro¬
It is safe to say that of the
28,000,000 gallons made each year, nine
tenths enter into the composition of
food products, principally leaned lard
and salad and cooking oil. It i.s also
used for illuminating; in the manu¬
facture of nuts and bolts; for
soap; for soap for laundry, bath
toilet purposes; as an emulsion in medi¬
cine, to take the place of olive oil : as a
substitu‘e for cod liver oil; in packing
sardines, and for dozens of other pur
poses as a substitute for olive oil.
Dixie.
New Readings.
There was once a little girl whose
reading she in school was so excellent that
her abilities was always called upon to display
when visitors were present.
On one such occasion, says Youth's
Companion, she rose, “puffed up with
majestick pride,” to repeat a poem be¬
ginning:
“Daffodils! daffodils!”
But pride had a fall that time, for the
words got twisted, and she enunciated
with emphasis:
‘Daddyfoils! daddyfoiis!”
longing Many are the ludicrous mistakes be
day to reading classes. A little girl
one attempted the sentence:“Cortes,
with a handful of followers, went to
Mexico,” but she read, in all gravity:
“Cortes, with a handful of flowers, went
to Mexico.”
Another child delivered, with great
expression, the lines from “Lord Ullin’s
Daughter:”
“M ho will cheer my bony bride.
5V hen they have slain her lover!”
The Origin of Halloo and Hnrrah.
Among other exclamations in common curi¬
use “Halloo!” and “Hurrah!” have
ous origins attributed to them. It i3
saril by the author of “The Queen’s
English” that the people of C harnwood
sired Forest, Leicestersh re, when they called d e '
to hail a person at a distance
out not halloo.” but “halloup!” This
he imagines is a survival of the times
when one cried to another “a loup!
a loup!” or as we would now say:
“Wolf ! wolf !” “Hurrah!” again ac¬
cording to M. Littre, is derived from tha
Slavonic huraj, “to Paradise,” which
signifies valiantly that all soldiers who fell fighting
went straight to heaven.
“Pri.hee” is obviously a corruption of
“I pray thee;” whilo “marry” was
originally a method of swearing by th«
Virgin Mary ,—All the Year Round.