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THE MONROE ADVERTISER,
FORSYTH, GEORGIA.
OFFICIAL ORGAH OP M08B0S COUNTY
Gy McGINTY <2 CAHANIS-*.
No child born in Aspinwall on the
Isthmus of Panama has ever reached the
age of twenty-one years.
The rabbit pest is again making head¬
way in Australia. The means taken tc
eradicate it have proved insufficient.
A Chicago paper announces that Jay
Gould will have control of a road from
the Pacific to the Atlantic in twelve
months.
The New York Commercial Advertiser
says: “A national monument should be
erected to Ericsson, for the nation was
his debtor for priceless inventions.”
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The Atlanta Constitution announce - )
that the natives in New England are
gradually decreasing, and the French
and Irish are taking their places, both
in tho manufacturing and rural dis¬
tricts.
A newspaper correspondent roam
ing about Paris in search of unpublished
gossip about the first Napoleon, has un
earthed the fact that tho tan once
pawned his watch J . . for a
six-cent dinner.
It has been the aim of reat Britain, jc
which, ia the opinion oi critics of
naml policy if has not altogether sue
ceeded, to maintain an effective navy
equal in strength to the combined navies
of any two other powers.
Crime is decreasing in England, if
penal statistics can be relied on. With¬
in live years female convicts have been
reduced onc-half, and there are, in pro¬
portion to population, fewer arrests of
both sexes than ever before.
A Chicago surgeon testified in n crimi¬
nal case the other day that he had prop¬
erly set the defendant’s broken nose, but
that the patient was morbidly afraid that
his beauty wouid be spoiled and that to
euso his mind the witness had twice
thereafter rebroken and reset the nose.
Tombstone, Arizona, is famous for its
apt names. Its leading newspaper is
called tho Epitaph, and the Sheriff of
tho county is Colonel Slaughter. He
defeated Major Blood by two votes at a
recent election. Captain Cutts was also
a candidate, but was nowhere in the
race.
Industrial enterprises are multiplying
In the South beyond all precedent, de¬
clares Goodalt's Sun. Capital is rushing
in; all sorts of manufacturing enterprises
sie springing up. Very few mishaps
occur. Land keeps low, and railroad
building is opening up the territory all
the time.
Vaccinatiou is compulsory in Englaud
and optional in France. In the large
cities of France the number of deaths
from smallpox was 1956, or 0.31 pet-
1000 of tho living population. In the
largo cities of England during the same
period the number of dea r. s 332, or
0.04 per 1000.
Says the Chicago Nnrs : “Th*' ladies
of the White House' have been gifted
with sensible names, worthy of imita¬
tion in American families. Martha,
Mary, Abigail, Eliza, Elizabeth, 31ar
garet, Sarah, Jane, Harriet, Dorothy,
Julia, Letitia, Emily, Angelica, Louisa,
Lucy, Frances and Caroline arc all good,
womanly names.”
According to the Examiner, there are
houses in San Francisco to which victims
of the morphine habit resort. They are
cared for until their money gives out,
when they are kicked out of doors. A
hypodermic syringe is called a “gun,”
and a woman who is employed to give
the injections is known as the “gunner.”
Kaeli shot costs five cent?.
When the train, bearing 3h\ and Mrs.
Cleveland on their way from Washington
to New York stopped at the depot in
Fhiladelphia, George W. Childs took
occasion to present Mrs. Cleveland with
three gilt-edged copies of the Public
Ledger, with blue pencil marks around
the column editorial eulogizing the la ly
lately of tho White House.
There was no use in allowing Adams,
the forger, to starve himself to death in
Afacou, according to the Atlanta. C, li'fl
tuti In New York when a prisoner
tries that sort of thing they tie his hands
behind him. pry open his mouth, intro¬
duce a spoonful of liquid food and hit
his throat a gentle tap. His muscles
spasmodically relax, his throat opens,
and the food is swallowed. This method
never fails.
The New 4 ork Telegram says the as¬
sertion that the household of ['resident
Harrison is the largest which ever oc
cupied the Executive 3!ansiou, is er¬
roneous. the family . of the President
consists of 3Irs. Harrison, his son Russell
Harrison and his beaut ful wife and one
child, Mr. J. Robert Me See and wife
.bo daughter of Mrs. „d
childreu. i he largest \\ hite House
family, including those of the married
son and daughters, irrespective of rcsi
dence, was that of President Tvler. con
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Robert, who married a daughter of
Thomas Althorpa Cooper, the great
English tragedian, his daughter Jones', >Iarv
and her husband, Hearv Lightfoot
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j. itia . and ,, her . nusoand, Judge taempie, _
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Eiizabeth and her hutband, iliiatn
Waller, and the younger children, John
Alice and Tazewell.
THE MONROE ADVERTISER : FORSYTH, GA TUESDAY. MAY 7.1889.—EIGHT PAGES.
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MEMORIAL DAY.
HOW IT WAS OBSERVED IN THE
SOUTH.
*baxt> raocessioirs— ei/xjcent OBATO&3
Lorvio TBIBOTEB TO DP.AD HEBOES-A DAT
XX)XQ TO BB HLSII.MEEBED.
Memorial Day was observed through¬
out the South. In Atlanta the ceremon
ies were interesting. The procession
of veterans, the military companies and
civic societies was an interesting one.
The exercises at the cemetery weie im¬
pressive, end nothing occuned t'< msr a
perfect Memorial Day. Between 2 at.d
3 o'clock the procession began to form,
and shortly after 3 o’clock the longest
and most picturesque proces-ion ever
seen in Atlanta, moved briskly off. In
advance rode Chief of Police Connolly,
Capt. Jacobs, of the United States army,
closely followed by Captains Couch,
Manly and Wright, four sergeauts of po¬
lice and a squad of mounted patrolmen.
At the head of the procession was Com
mauder-in-t hief W. L. Calhoun, with
the following aids: Col. L. P. Thomas,
I)r. K. C. Divine, Col. W. W. Hulburt,
Col. II. F. Stark, lion. A. II. Cox, Capt.
W. D. Ellis, Jlon. Murk A. Hardin and
Mr. G. R. DeSaussure. Then in order
came the Confederate veterans, Red Men,
Knights of Pythias, Atlanta Artillery,
Atlanta Rifles, Gate City Guards, At¬
lanta Zouaves and Mean’s Cadets. These
companies proved a strong attraction
and by common consent were the pets of
the p ipulace. Huff’s band preceded
the Governor’s Horse Guurd, riding
four abreast, and forty strong, and com¬
manded by Capt. John Milledge. This
organization has never made a public more
magnificent nppeurauce on any
occasion. They moved with a dash of
brilliancy and harmony, which aroused
unihiuiusin on all sides. The carriages
containing the preeiden*, officers and
members of the Ladies’ Memorial asso¬
ciation, the ora^i of the day, the Mayor
and men'bas of the city council, wero
circuited by the Knights Templar In
their beautiful regalia, gracefully t brought
up the rear of the imposing procession.
it was neurly 5 o’clock whea the me
morial exercises began. The monument
was crowded with people, its sides and
baso being used as a platform. Several
thousand people gathered about the base.
Prayer was offered by Dr. J. William
Jones, secretary of the Baptist Foreign
Mission society, nnd a gallant ex confed
erate soldier. His invocation was ap
propriuto and eloquent. The prayer was
f llowed by music, after which Hon.
W. Lowndes Calhoun, president of the
Veteran association, introduced General
P. M. B. Young, as the orator of the day.
Judge Calhoun referred to General
Young “as a gallant son of Georgia,
one, w ho in her days of trial never de
sorted his mother, and as a major-gener
ul of cavalry in the army of Northern
Virginia, was true to his home nnd
as chivalric as a knight of old.”
Memorial Day was appropriately ob
served in Rome. Large numbers of
people repaired to Myrtle Hill to strew
flowers over tho graves of our heroic
dead. Dr. Goetchens delivered an im
pressive prayer, after which decoration
took place. A handsome sum was col¬
lected at the gate. The Methodist
church at Cuthbert, Ga., was crowded
to witness tho memor.al exercises. W.
E. Wooten, of Albany was orator. A
collection was taken up for the soldiers’
home and a nice sum was realized. Tho
day was well observed at Albany Ga.
Starting from the Baptist church a largo
procession marched to the cemetery,
Rev W E. Eppo opened with prayer.
Mr. l. J. Jones, in a neat address, mtro
^ Yuruer, formerly
of Atlanta, as the orator. There
was a largo number present and
tho graves were covered with
i cat t of fl >ral offerings,
Memorial Day was very generally ob
served in Macon, Ga. In the afternoon
all business was partially suspended and
housands of persons went out to Rose
lull cem- tery to participate in the exer
clses and decoration of the graves, which
commenced at four o’clock. The exer
cises consisted of singing by the young
ladies of the Wesleyan Female College,
prayer and the reading of “The Old
Canteen” by Mr. H. 8. Edwards. There
was a great profusion of flowers, and
every grave was bur.ed l eneath a wealth
of roses and other beautiful floral offer
ings. At three o’clock all business was
suspended at Americus, Ga., and the en
hie city assembled at Oak Grove^ ceme
erv to Pay tribute to tne honored dead.
Col. A. ta Cuts a veteran of two wars,
commanded the company of veteran.
who had met to honor their fallen com
rades. Col. Frank A. Hooper was oratoi
of the day. One of the most interesting
features of the occasion was the decora
tion of the monument with floral cm
bit ms by ten of the prettiest young ladiei
iu the city. More than two thousand
people took hand in the memorial exer
rises at Milledgeville, Ga., which wor*
appropriate ana preUy lmleed. ATTer «
beautiful rendition of “Shall We Gathei
at the River’ by a selected choir, Rev.
D. McQueen offered an eloquent petition
to the God of m m and battles, after
which Col. M. Grieve was introduced to
the vast multitude by Captain Newell,
marshal of ceremonies. Col. Grieve’s
oration was a master effort. The doors
of the Philosophic Club at Boston, Ga.,
were throwu open to do honors for the
brave heroes. A speech by T. F. Prou
'
ett was loudly applauded. A beautiful
service in honor of tbe Confederate dead
was held at Talbotton. Ga., at 3 o’clock.
Appropliate muuc was tendered and
Coi. O. I). Gorman, after a touching
prayer by Rev. II. R. Felder, introduced
the orator oi the dav, W. H. Phiipot.
who delivered a beautiful add:es*
At Savknmd), Columbus, Brunswick, and
other Georgia towns and cities, the day
was vrry appropriately observed, and
wil long be renumbered by those panici
patiugiu the exercises as a grand success.
BAD TEN-DOLLAR BILLS.
Indianapolis is flooded with a coun
terfeit $10 greenback. The Merchants’
National has thrown out four of the bills
innocently presented in the last day or
50 - The Indiana National has met with
eight or ten of them; the Indianapolis is
°L?l
good imitation of the genuine, but it
looks enough like money t > deceive. It is
designed to pass for bills of tbe same de
KSaCr"" F°mination, series of 1378. The genuine
It
fias the small red Treasur? seal on the
left hand side, with the larger Jathework
seal “ten” on the right of the center,
The false has these fairly well executed,
but the likeness of Webster is execrable,
paper is poor and pale and the letter
ing is all ia a line, w'hereas in the genuine
the capitals and first letters of words rLe
above the others.
OYER TIIE GLOBE.
CONDENSATION OF CURIOUS,
AND EXCITING EVENTS.
nuance’s PERU.—STRIKES—THE WESTERN BOOM
—DEATHS OF EMINENT MEN—ACCIDENTS, FIRES
AND SriCIDES.
of ore of the axles of t.*e engine.
The Cbopensaw Mill company’s mill,
lumber yard and all of the houses except
three, situated iu Natchitorbet, La.,
were burned Monday aftern on Loss
$30,000.
The boiler of a dredger burst in the
harbor at Calais, Frame, on Monday.
4 he explosion killed seven persons and
injured several others. The bodies of
tlie killed were horribly mutilated.
The men at work on the cable line on
East Seventh street, St. Paul, Minn.,
1,018 in number, left their work at 1
o’clock p. m., Monday. The men were
dissatisfied w ith the w ages they received.
A portion of the gang of desperadoes
who have been robbing and committing
murderous assaults upon the farmers in
lie vicinity of McClellandtown, Fayette
county, Pa., have been captured at last.
The Iron Mountain railroad (part of
the Missouri Pacific system), has given
notice that all unnecessary Sunday train
service, both passenger and freight, will
be discontinued on that roud after May
1st.
John Ryan, Samuel Conrad and Jere¬
miah Crowley were placed under bail of
$500 each to answer at court charges of
breach of the peace and inciting riot at
Philadelphia, growing out of a strike at
the works of the Enterprise Manufactur¬
ing Company.
The National Gazette, of Berlin, in an
article on the Samoan question, favors
Herr Von Bars'** proposal to restore trip
artite control and to appoint a nominal
king of Samoa. It is expected that tho
Bntish delegates wi n take only a medi
atory part iatbe 1 p rocec dings. ‘
, large five story building of the
r °"ell , Manufucturmg Co., on Market
- > Lowell, Muss., known as the carpet
; 'VI 9 £ uUeti by fire causing a loss of
. 0,000 roughly estimated by Agent
as
s ’ I ne company had nearly $40,
building, , 9 worth besides of new machinery and wool stock m the
yarn in
L^ ‘ l ' cc .'“ hands s °/ manufacture. are thrown out From of employ- oOO to
tneut ’
In interview, # Gen. Boulanger reit
an
stated his disavowal that he had any in
tention of precipitating war between
France and Germany. Nevertheless, he
did not consider that the future of France
bad been settled forever by the war of
1870. lie declared that he would never
consent that France should be insulted.
He was aroused, he said, to cement
France’s England. friendship with Russia and
j Curtis and Taylor and Mrs. Woods
were arraigned at Lincoln, Neb., for
j their preliminary examination, charged
with the murder of an old colored man
named Bob Woods. The negroes are
greatly excited, and little has been done
riuce the shooting but talk and threaten
lynching. The court room was sur¬
rounded by about 5 0 negroes, who are
led by two white men, Doc Porter and
Sam Hudson.
Mr g j Ritcbiei 0 f Akron, O., is in
Ottawa, Ont., and has had an interview
with the premier relative to the proposed
visit to Canada of the Inter State com
merce commission, with a view to these
gentlemen having a conference with the
government. *. It is understood that May
June will be a convenient time for
the meeting to be held. In view of the
inter-loeking nature of the Canadian and
United Sta-es railway J systems, it is an
tici ‘ ted that f grca t bene fit to both
COu ntriea will ar 8e from the visit of the
30muiis8io!ier s.
A . swindler, . calling himself ,, W. L.
Bryant, and purporting to be a traveling
passenger agent of the Chicago, St. Pau
! md Kansas City road, lias been victimiz
i»g railroad men throughout the south.
wa *J last heard of m Bowling Green
where he swindled the Louisville and
Nashville agent ny imams of a forged
check lor % <5. llis game is to c.aim to
* >e an a = e nt °f Chicago, tat. 1 aul and
Kansas City . road and ask agents to cash
checks for him. Of course navment of
thege cTlccks wonld be rcfused at the of .
Chicago and Ivannas Citv road ^ l
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’thepa*sen£erTusineTs but has a verv limited
Knowled ge of oi ne pas-e- ger pu sme^s.
YELLOW JACK.
William C. Chase, editor of the Clima
tologist, and a member of a party ol
sanitarians and physicians who recentlj
visited Florida, with a view of prosecut
ing an examinati on into the sanitary
condition in the state, was in M ashingtoc
Saturday, having just returned from
Florida. Mr. Chase expressed. himseil
a 3 being much impressed with tne
anxiety of the people of Florida to have
the condition of their cities and towns
thoroughly examined. He says that
with few exceptions, the towns of Flori
da would put to shame many of tbe
larger and richer populations in other
states in theirsj^dary affairs. Concern
j ing life ge.^ffWonuttion' of the state
! and tbe effects of the fever, Mr. Chase
remarked. “No one can spend a day in
that wonderful state and fail to notice
1 the vigorous condition of both its people
I and industries.” Y"ellow fever, ho thinks,
: - cannot originate in Florida. Upon sub
! jeet of Florida^ the general health, Mr. Chase
feate gives clean bill, and calls the
the natural sanitarium of too na
tion . He expresses his opinion thal
lhere will be no vellow fever epidemic in
Florida this Summer, but tbe disease will
be confined to sporadic cases like that
ct S^ford recently.
TELEGRAPHIC,
rrv The pope i has sent . a dispatch , , bestow- .
. -rfss^Rnahf ^ Catb he
UP ° n ° C ° n '
° 53 ln
Hon. William H. Barnum, chaiiman
of the national democratic committee,
died at Lime Rock, Conn., Tuesday.
The new charcoal blast furnace of
Mons Alto, Iron county, at Mont Alto,
Pa., was totally * destroyed ’ by ' fire Tuts
dav.
Carl Rosa, the well known musical di¬
rector, whose wife was the famous Mad¬
peritonitis. ame Parepa Rosa, died in Paris from
3Iaiietoa, the deposed king of Samoa,
has apologized, and the emperor, Will*
iam. has decided that the ex-king may
te liberated.
In the house of commons Tuesday
evening, liberal, the motion of Samuel Smith,
fosteting censuring spirit drinking the government India, for
in was
carried by a vote of _113 to 108.
IS PEOrLE KILLED.
PENNED, CRUSHED AND BURNER
TO DEATH.
E HOBHIBU ACCIDENT ON THE OBAJTD TECS*
BAILWAT-HOW IT HAPPENED-TEBRIBU
SCENES Or SCTTTBINO.
asgfgag
was the loss of many lives. The tiain
was composed of au'engine, Chicago’ two baggage
cars, a smoker, a and Grand
Trunk through passenger coach, a
Wabash coach, a Wagner first-class. a
Pullman car and two Wagner sleeping
cars in the order named. The accident
occurred at a junction where a “Y” is
built. This “,Y” is used to switch
through trains for Toronto to Toronto
branch from the main line. Ihe train is
6aid to have been running at a speed
of forty miles an hour more. When
directly on the crossing the switch
engine jumped the track and plunged
into the water tank, which stood in
its path between the “Y,” smashing the
tank down. to atoms and turning almost upside
The baggage cars came directly
after the engine;, and the first of these
was pitched over the engine and thrown
on the main track leaving its wheels be¬
hind it. The other baggage car caught
fire from the engine, and the two were
soon in flames. The coaehes following
with the exception of two Wagner cars
in the rear of the train, were huddled to
gether by the shock and soon caught fire
from the beggage cars. Tin; passengers
on the train, numbering over 150, many
of whom were asleep at the time, had a
terrible experience. A majority of those
on board the train were able to get out
of the coaches before the fire reached
them, but in the confusion that reigned
ifc is not knoWD how many victims were
t ^ e mercy of the flames, penned
material of the wreck and un
able to extricate themselves. L. S. Gur
ney, of Brooklyn, had his head completely
evened from his body by a piece of fly
In S de bris. Rudolph Guerre, whose ad¬
dress is not known, was also instantly
killed. ^ 8 soon a8 t be en gi ne ro lled
over , after striking the water tank, En
gj neer -Watson and Fireman Chapman
craw i ed out from underneath, J
ndther of them being much hurt
Up igi to five o’clock the charred remains ol
e * teen victims had been exhumed from
th wreck> In no case was there enough
of t ie body left to identify the remains
or tell whether the person was a male oi
female. Thirteen of the wounded are
now in the hospital. About ten others
were slightly hurt, but not so badly as
to prevent them continuing their
journey. None of the members of th«
Detroit Light Infuntry were injured and
not a woman was in the least hurt,
James Welch and Fred Dumas, both
of Niagara Falls, wero in the car which
jumped over the engine, yet neither was
hurt. The screams of the meu who wero
being burned to death iu the smoking
car could be heard above the noise of the
escaping steam and the roaring of the
flames. Seven cars, a baggage car, two
first-class coaches, a smoker, a first-class
day coach and two Wagner sleepers werq
burned, there being not a vestige left of
wood or anything that would burn.
One car—the baggage car—was demol¬
ished and the engine was the most com¬
plete wreck iviflpns imaginable. The loss to
the company endrmous. Many of
those on the train were going to New Y T ork
to participate in the centennial festivities.
Most of the passengers lost all or a
portion of their baggage and clothing,
and a large amount of mails were lost by
fire. Another report of the accident
says that the remains of from sixteen to
eighteen men were taken out of the
wreck. They were cut to pieces almost
to a man and burned beyond all possibil¬
ity of recognition. They were huddled
together in a heap in the end of the
smoker and were pinned in by the tim¬
bers, which made it impossible for them
to extricate themselves. Nothing could
be done for them, and the fierceness of
the flames made it out of the question
for the men to rescue them. The only
way in which it could be ascertained
that from sixteen to eighteen bodies had
been taken out, was from the fact that
legs and arms corresponding to that
number were found.
A SHIP BURNED.
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^ T ie ^“ 4 cncan . S J U P> , ^ , „ L „ Buck, ,
n Captain - Carver, from Philadelphia foi
S:in Francisco, was discovered to be on
fire at about 2 a. m. on April 10 th at
Bermuda. She was taken in tow by a
tug and beached near the naval tanks,
about 200 yards from shore. The flames
spread with amazing rapidity, owing to
the inflammable nature of a large portion
0 f the cargo, kerosene, whisky, etc.,
and the ship was soon burned to the
water’s edge. The ship was of 1,490
tons burden, and had a cargo of 215 tons
of general merchandise. It is estimated
that the vessel and cargo represented
half a million dollars. A hulk, with
steam, avith submarine diver and a large
number of laboiers are bu-ily engaged in
getting out tbe uaburned remnants of
the cargo, which will be s^ld at auction.
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DUEL BETWEEN FARMERS.
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^ deadly duel occurred in Jackson
c suited °-m‘-y, Alabama, on Tuesday, that re
in tbe death of one of the par
ticipants.^ at some distance Two farmer from Scottaboro, neighbors named living
J- T. Prince and J. H. Green, quarreled
over some trivial matter and Green
threatened to kill Prince. This threat
learned by Prince and he pregared
himself with a shot gun. On Saturday
morning the two men met m a public
road and immediately dismounted from
their horses and resumed the quarrel.
Thgr finally decided to fight it out, and
out leveling ae-aTnst the hfa trun Prince thrust the
muzzle muzzle against his finnped enraged enemy, e-iemv null pull
ed the tngger and lodged a heavy load
lust msSly^VHne antly. Prince 111 * "ave kimoe*! him^lf 'uo un. ^
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C,MA * 1
This city has 1 ecu inG sted for several
days by snc-ik thievei and thugs, and
there is mu h excitement over three
h g iway rob-cries Sunday night, the
D uties being “held up” on the streets
and deliberately robbed. 3!r. A. S.
Ochs, proprietor af the Times, was one
of the victims. The robbery being com
milled about 8:50 on one of the prir.ci
pal streets. B. R. Freeman, manager of
the city placing mill, was found about
11 o’clock iu the street, near Lis resi
Hence in an uncouset us state, with an
ugly woun i on nis head. Mr. Freeman
was robbed considerable money. It
is feared that he wid die. A double set
of policemen are no^v patroling the city,
SOUTHERN BRIEFS.
ITEMS OF GREAT INTEREST TO
INTELLIGENT PEOPLE.
NEW ENTERPRISES—RAILROAD PERILS—HF AVI
RAINS—GOOD CROPS ASSX'RED—WHAT THE TEL
EGRArH REPORTS—GENERAL NOTES.
A I. A It A MX.
One hundred and fifty thousand dol
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years, taken bearing six per cent interest, were of
yesterday by Fisher & Shaw,
Baltimore, for 103.61.
F. O. Sherrod, a wealthy real estate
dealer, of Birmingham, Ala., was on
Sunday sent to the state insane asylum
at Tuscaloosa. Last summer Sherrod
claimed to have been cured of some
chronic disease by faith and he at once
became a firm believer in faith cure, lie
advertised iu local papers that he would
cure without people of all manner of diseases
medicine and free of charge,
He claimed that he could effect a cure by
correspondence with the afflicted. Ho
wrote a book on Christian science and
became a crank on the subject of faith
cure. He neglected his business to per¬
form miracles and finally became a rav¬
ing maniac on the subject of faith cure.
(JEOKGI \.
A dastardly attempt was made tc
wreck a Central railroad train, Tuesday
night, near East Point. A crow-bar
was found fastened to the track.
At Atlanta, Sunday evening, a dummy
Sk/Tucidfniy lelTlhe
iuto a h completely wrecking the
6tructuro and seriously wounding ° several
persons.
State Treasurer Hardeman received a
letter Tuesday fiom John Beck, acolored
man living iu Indianapolis, who claims
that he and his sister are the legal heirs
ol Adam Beck, the old negro who died
in Atlanta about six months ago and left
$ 12 , 000 .
During an altercation in a bar-room in
Atlanta, M. T. Whitlock, a horse trader,
shot and instantly killed J. C. Bedding,
a railroad engineer. The quarrel result¬
ed from a bet which both men claimed
to have won. The coironer’s jury re¬
turned a verdict of voluntary manslaugh
ter.
A section of the Oconee river bridge at
Milledgeville gave way Tuesday, and
tumbled into the stream. It was con¬
demned by the county commissoners as
being unsafe, the latter part of last week,
and the workmen were engaged adjust¬
ing the difficulties when too crash came.
Mr. Fred Butts was painfully hurt by a
fa ling timber, but there were no serious
injuries.
MISSOURI.
There is considerable excitement in
Saline county, Mo., over the discovery of
gold. A California expert has pronounced
it a rich find.
NORTH CAROMNA.
Negroes from all parts of the state met
in Raleigh and organized the North Car¬
olina Emigration Association.
At Fairview,Buncombe county,a white
man named Tom Tate, while walling a
wdl was killed by a falling stone. He
was hurried, and a few nights later Dr.
G. A. Wise, B. L. Ashworth, and J. V.
Jay, who are studying medicine*, were,
caught in the act of stealing the bodyj
They had it in a sack and were walking
away .with it when discovered. Dr. Wise
has been arrested, but tho students can
not be found.
MOUTH CAROUNV.
Ccesar Frazier, colored, was hanged at
10:30 Friday, at Charleston, for the mur¬
der of Iloldeuberg White, on February
9. Tlie condemned man professed the
Catholic faith, and the execution was
unattended by the usual scenes of shout¬
ing, praying and singiDg.
TENNESSEE.
Harry Branch, an engineer on the
Cincinnati Southern Railroad, dropped
dead on h s engine at Oakdale, lie re¬
sided in Chattanooga, and was a popular
man.
A distressing suicide occurred at Shel
byville Sunday night. 3Iiss Mary Cal¬
houn, who had been sick for some
months, but not confined to her bed, went
quietly out to a well on the premises of
a relative and drowned herself. She was
traced to the well and her body found
after much trouble.
M. .. F. Riedenheim, w , ? dry i ‘ goods , dealer - , in .
Richmond,Ya.,assigned Monday. Liabil
; ties $140,000; assets unknown.
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NEWS FROM OKLAHOMA.
-
A small pox epidemic now threaten,
Guthrie and other towns ia the new ter
ritory of Oklahoma. It seems that t
man named Joseph Eilswoith, of Kan
sas City, more recently from Leadville,
was taken Wednesday on his return Iron)
Guthrie and Oklahoma City, and is now
quarantined at a house rear the Sants
Fc railroad shops. It is reported thal
this man stood in the line at the land
office in Guthrie for four hours, whiU
waiting to file bis claim on Tuesday,
thus exposing to attack,
whom he came. jir&efiLact at that time,
A&'-tfie trains are crowded every dal
between Arkansas Purcell,’ City, Guthrie, Okia
hema Citv and ’ the disease maj
ba ve already spread to these towns,
People anticipate who have heard of this case an
an epidemic. The first out
break xvill result in nearly depopulating
tbe£e emb ryo cities in Oklahoma.
‘
j£ oore G f Arkansas Citv, who is
in attendance on Mr. Ellsworth, savs it
; 3 a genuine case of small-pox ...It is
chfv -hat a fi"ht occurred Wednes
^ between the ; old «oldLrs ’ whose col
thJsouth f , td t pk.t , c di j {
J[ western 5Ie of Th»'and“occu Oklahoma and
[be C)wb a^everv
['£ d . 1 , b '^tVulteSteo^ v colonv valuable and
^'V.otakltS fi SB:
<>» -*'“6““
Wt J e Lc-ely used. Ninemen were ki. led
aC< ^ one wounded.... A simoon swept
over the d esert Saturday and Guthrie u
bu , ied in red dust . The wind r . 3 „ at
dtmc ’ swee,,in - (k,wn from a c ' oud,es e
s ky, and the red sand of the plain was
before it all < ay in stinging, sti
fling masses. Tents collapsed, roofs were
rj j se i and everything light ami loose
was blown away... .Co’. D. P. Dyer, ol
Kansas City, a republican in politics,
and formerly Indian agent under Preai
dent Arthur, has been elected mayor ol
Guthrie. One of bis first acts was to
oive the g&mb er? twenty-four hours to
leave, and the next train north took
away a good many of them. Two big
wall tents have been erected, and are
called citv of* buildings. Police Judge M.
Clark, Kama.-, holds his court there,
and the citv council and other city offi
dais inhabit them. Several good build
ings have bet n put up and improvements
of all kinds are special in r>pid progress. W. V.
Heratcourt, arust for Harper’s
Weekly, dropped dead in front of hu
tent Saturday morning.
WASHINGTON, 1). C.
MOVEMENTS OF THE PRESIDENT
AND HIS ADVISERS.
NOTES.
There is considerable talk just Beuch, now
about the vacancy on the Supreme being
and various new candidates are
announced, Ex-Postmaster General J
A. J. Creswell’s name was delegation presented of to
the president Friday, a Repiesentative
Marylanders, headed by
McComas, urging his appointment.
The Signal Service will, when practi¬
cal, make a general prediction showing
the condition of the weather two orthreo
days in advauce. These predictions will
be furnished at the same time as the reg¬
ular detailed indications, but they will
not appear regularly, so that their non
appearance will signify nothing think more
than the indication officials did not
it judicious to make an advance pre¬
diction.
The following promotions have been
made In the Southern Express Company:
Mr. J. G. Mays, of Augusta has been
made superintendent of Southern Ga.,
and Mr. T. R. Osborn, of Jacksonville,
has been promoted to be superintendent
of Florida. Mr. E. F. Cary, of Charles¬
ton, S. C., has been advanced to Mr.
May’s position as route agent. Mr.
Hollingsworth succeeds Mr. Cary as local
cashier.
The Interstate Commerce Commission
notified the principal railroads of the
country that they are likely to be inter¬
ested in and affected by the questions
presented in the complaint of Nashville George
Rice against tlio Louisville &
Railroad alleging discrimination in favor
of shippers of petroleum uud cotton seed
oil in tank cars, and that they will he
afforded an opportunity to be heard
upon the questions involved in the case.
Postmaster General Wannamaker on
Saturday issued the following order:
Ordered. That hereafter the Post Of¬
fice Department he closed on Sunday to
the clerks and all employes thereof, ex¬
cept the required watchmen, engineers
and firemen. Clerks and employes shall
without exception be denied admittance
on that day to the maiu building anti to
the several rented buildings, and the
watchman on duty shad strictly enforce
the provisions of this order.
Secretary Tracy has decided that he
has authority under the law to proceed
with the construction of the great coast
defence vessels. There wdl be no re
advertisement, and the only question yet
to be decided is which of the three .hi is
shall be accepted. Union Cramp’s Iron bid was-Hie
lowest, but the Works of
California, whose bid was but $14,000
above him, hope to secure the work in
consideration of the fact that they abso¬
lutely guarantee the success of the ship
for the amount of their bid, which was
$1,628,00 ». This decision of the Si cre
tery will involve the aoaudoument o!
the idea of building a submarine torpedo
boat.
Private, as well as corporate capital,
has btcome largely interested in new
schemes for transportation. The govern¬
ment lias continued its policy of financial
or other aid to all projects of this nature,
and both Mexico and Cei-tral America
are being siowly embraced in a series of
lines which promise, within the next ten
years, to fully epen up the couutry to
the outeide woild. In Y’ucatan the
work of railroad construction is be ng
pushed of with railroads great vigor. in Mexico The is total
mileage esti¬
mated in President Diaz’s message at
nearly 5,UOO miles. In the matter of
telegraph construction the showing is
still more favorable. The State con
stiuction of new lines for the last half
year has amounted to an addition of
about 900 miles, making the total length
of the Federal system on April 1st over
13,000 miles, exclusive of double and
triple wires and the lines temporarily
transferred to the States.
JIM RENO’S FATE.
HOW THE OUTLAW OF SOUTH¬
ERN INDIANA WAS KILLED.
Tlie End of a “Terror” who had
“Killed his Man” Two or Three
Times and Defied Arrest.
John T , Bonfield. „ * ,. , late A Inspector T , of Police, r
killed Jim Reno.
It was not by J a rap ^ of his suppressive revolver
dnb nor at tl shot f his ready
that Bonfield put out the old outlaw’s
light, and, after all, the manslaughter the
rests with no culpable weight upon
broad shoulders of Chicago’s great demands ex
policeman. It is a tale that
preface. happened back in 1863,
The affair
more than a quarter of a century ago,
and it is enough on Bon field’s record to
say he was a locomotive engineer then,
driving on the Ohio and Mississippi
Railroad. The road spans the territory
between Cincinnati and St. Louis, cross
ing among other parts of t lie country
the whole.oL-Sputkcm^fediana. Tfi54&
in that picturesque and en
lightened region in those days a family
of the name of Reno. The fame of that
great house rings throught that country
side and the youth of tho region ia
reared upon the stirring chapters that
Jack Reno and his banded brothers con
tributed to history. They were of the
James hoys and the Youngers of that
part, and Jackson and Jennings Coun
ties are hillocked with the graves of
th f De puty Sheriffs, vigilante, and pri
va " e CItlZens ""J 10 crossed their paths
Of course Jack and his brothers “gotit
themselves one day, and left behind. only their The
old father of all their name
old man’s savage spirit, embittered by
Lis bereavement, arose within him, and
he grewa5 \ dangerously opposed to Ion- the
constituted order of things and the
became a terror. He went from Seymour
along desperately the O. k M. track hot one night in dav 1863. of
Sn? drunk iL and mS from a it
tak
ward bound was tearing at his heels,
John Bonfield sat on the driver’s box in
the cab of the locomotive that drew tire
ingout train. It had grown window, pitchy the dark. engineer Lean
of his cab
thought he saw for just one heart-beat
the figure of a man on the track, but the
fireman had seen nothing and dissipated
the impression. There were blood and
shreds of clothing on the pilot when the
engineer, with cloth and can, looked over
his panting pet at North Vernon. Track
walkers found old Reno’s mutilated body
in the ditch next morning. The engineer
and fireman of the fast passenger were,
perhaps, the only ones who ever learned
or cared to learn which train did the
blocdy but public-spirited throughout deed. There the
were joy bells pealing Hoosier counties the
southern tier of at
removal of the last of the Reno race, and
Bonfield would have had a testimonial
were the truth known .—Chicago Iribune*
CURIOUS FACTS,
Ships wera first “copper-bottomed” in
1783. taught
A-. elephant has been to play
euchre.
Frenchmen are growing perceptibly
smaller.
Christianity was introduced into Japan
in 154:'.
The first telescope was used in Eng¬
land in 1608.
Cuecn Victoria's private estates extend
over 37,372 acres.
English fakirs paint sparrows yellow
and sell them for canaries.
Arizona boasts of a woman who “can
drive a nail with a bullet at forty yards.”
A Chinese family,consisting of six per¬
sons, can live comfortably for a month
on $7 iu their native land.
A man tried to raise money in Ameri
cus, Ga.. the other day by mortgaging a
twenty-three-year-old mule.
There are schools for dunces in Ger¬
many, at which dull children receive in¬
struction suited to their capacity.
A Canada girl has had banns read for
herself and two of her adorers and will
choose between them at the foot of the
alt a".
The Florida woods are full of bird
plume hunters, and if the cruel slaughter
is kept up the plume birds of the State
will soon become extinct.
Sirs. Alexander llauua, of Pennsyl¬
vania, was born, married and had two
children born the th of March, Upon
the ninth anniversary of her wedding
day she was struck by a passing train
and instautly killed.
The great fortune of the Sturgis
family, in Boston, was founded by
William Sturgis, who began life as a
poor Cape Cod sailor. He rose to tho
command of lus ship, finally monopolized
the trade of the Northwest Coast, and
died rich.
Persons puzzled by the word “ohm,”
as a term of measurement for electric
force, will be glad to know Simon that tho
original ohm was George Ohm,
born in Bavaria, March 16, 173U A
statue has been unveiled in his honor
at Munich.
A resident of Washington, who is
notable as the possessor of an extraordi¬
narily large head, is said by the Post to
have sold it to a certain number of
physicians for $3000, the delivery death of the
head to take place on the of its
present owner.
Man is the universal animal. It is
estimated that there is 1,250,000,000 of
him on the globe. The sheep rank next
with 500,uo0,000. Three hundred
million cattle, 100,000,000 hogs t^the
lour-footed variety) and 00,000,000
horses continue the list.
A silver bell has been placed in the
Kharkow Cathedral to commemorate tho
Rorki disaster in which tho Czar
and Czarina of Russia nearly lost their
lives. The bell will be tolled for five
minutes every afternoon at one o’c ock,
which was the time of the accident.
Washington B. Cooper, the Tennessee
arti-.t, who lately died at the age of sixty
seven, painted portraits of every
governor of that State except Wiley
Blount, one of the greatest among them.
The last—that of Governor Taylor—was
nnished barely a week before the death
of the artist.
One of the lnckie t mining men in this
country is “Diamond Jo” Reynolds, who,
among other possessions owns a line of
Bteamboats on tho Mississippi. His in¬
come from his Colorado ni nes is $ >00, -
OUu a year. His original investments in
mining property wero made mainly on
the advice of an Irish deckhand on one
of his steamboats.
Ho Captured a Company of Regulars.
Tho only private citizen who captured
a detachment of United States troops and
held the entire command us prisoners of
war in times of peace, was recently in
Kansas City.
The hero of the strange adventure ia
John C. Blake, a prominent mining pros¬
pector of Colorado. 3Ir. Blake fitted out
a body of three hundred Colorado moun¬
taineers ten years ago to prospect the t. te
reservation. He was wealthy at tho time
and spent $100,000 before the object of
the expedition was accompli bed. When
he left for the lud an couutry a printed
proclamation was issued, a copy being
sent to the addresses of all the members
of Congress in the country and to the In¬
dians themselves, stating that the party
proposed the to make a thorough explora¬
tion of reservation in spite of every
obstacle that might be thrown in its wav.
White men had been warned to keep off
the Lte country under penalty of death,
and serious trouble was anticipated, i he
Indians knew the desperate character of
the invaders and kept out of sight, ap¬
pealing to tbe Government for aid. A
detachment of two hundred regular
troops entered the mountains to make
short work of the adventurers. As they
were filing through a canyon they were
iuddenly brought to a stop. Blake ap¬
peared on a rock above.
“I command you to surrender.”
“By what authority?” exclaimed the
leading officer.
“By the authority of these men,” and
looking around the officer saw the rocks '
alive with mountaineers fully armed and -
for. bat tie. ____________
Resistance would, have bee a folly, and
che officer gave up his sword with the
treated understanding that his men should be
After as prisoners of war.
three days of captivity the troopi
were released on parole. 3Ir. Blake has
the paro'e3 at hri home iu Colorado to¬
day. The prospecting party was never
punished and the Utes were soon aftei
jent to a new reservation.— New York
Herald.
' L’-aev T,J. Trick- 0
'
article ) h* 5 _ le theswmdlingline gacy trick ’ js a rather finished
m ustintro
duced into Pans by the elite of . the pro
The story of M. Cailac, a coal
merchant illustrates the mode in which
> “ carried out, says the Liverpool Mer
^ M Cauac lec^ved a telegram to
ifefleft to°you-Pkcb ,|J- The'S'py 4tarH S
Kue d^teri
t L® message lost no tmie in visiting
M- Ploch s orhee. A short time after he
left his wife received a telegram onceTet from t“
him, and telling her to at
bother $100, which were required to pay
preliminary expenses. The good woman,
overjoyed at this stroke of luck, got the
money ready, and shortly afterward a
demure, whue-chokered gentleman, well
got up a-; a notary,called for the money,
*,° r whioh, of course, he gave a receipt in
doe form. A few minutes afterward the
husband, white with passion and savage
wlt L disappointment.returned to say the
^Hole F ioc u thing Knew was nothing a hoax, of the and legacy that 31. in
ques^on. 10V ® clw ^ His^ state learned of mind was not im
P | len he that a sham 31.
naa called in the meantime and
f Xt [ aCLea f 1 -^ om wife. To add
----
- he found „
( u ^ 10n his room full
1 , ^hb°rs, wfiom 3Ia3am
Catiao- had
" ’ , f e j°ice with her
p • - pectea windfall. Ihe
the clever lit-tte r6 ^' 11 y searching ioc
® man Wl
* n w r ’ vc no * yet w touu