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CONNECTIONS. f
The Milledgeville and Eatonton train runs
daily (except Monday) between Gordon and
Eatonton, arid daily (except Sunday) between
Entonton and Gordon.
Train No. 20 daily (except Snnday).
.. Eufaula train ooiinecis-at Cuthbert for Fort
Gaines daily (except Sunday),
The Perry accommodation train between
Fort Valley and Perry runs daily (except Sun
day).
The Albany and Blahcly accommodation
train runs daily (except Sunday) between Al
bany and Blakely.
At Savannah with Savannah, Florida and
Western Kailway : at Augusta with all lines to
North and East; at Atlanta witsi Air-Lino and
Kenneaawßoutes to all points North. East and
West.
Berths in Slcep'ng Carß can bo Secured at the
ticket ofllce on Mulberry street, orat the depot.
WILLIAM ROGERS,
General Superintendent Savannah.
G. A. WHITEHEAD,
General Passenger Agent, Savannah.
T I). KLINE, Superintendent, Macon.
A. 0. KNAI’P. Agent. Macon.
DISASTER AT SEA.
The steamship Zaandam reached New Yorh
city a few days since nftor a tumultuous
•passage, of fifle -n days from Amsterdam,
•with cfglit of thfe vmv of tlio British bark
Brhniga, Captain Gcitzlor, which she en
countered on Iho 2tlh about 200 miles east of
Halifax. The b:;rk’s main and mizzenmasts
were gone, and tho exposed work of her deck
had been washed away, and she had seven
feet of water in lior hold.
Captain Potjor, or' tho Zaandam. sent wit a
boat to the bark and in ; quired if sno wanted
any help. Captain G ih lor said he had three
injured s amen that ho M auled taken oil’, and
. that ho was short of provisions. The three
men wore helped into tho boat and wore rowod
to tho Znmirtarii and carried on board. The
boat then returned to tho bark ladon with pro
visions. Five more of her men said they
.wanted to be traus erred to the steamship,and
they were rowed thither. Captain Geitzler
said ho proposed to stick by his ship and steer
her into Halifax or into Davy Jones’ locker,
whether anybody stayed aboard with him or
not. First Mato Houderbark, Second Mate
Olsen and the steward declared that thoy
would stand by their skipper. Captain Pot
jer offered to tow tho Nine in, but the offei
was declined, and the Znatidam stemmed
away from tho battered, broken, water
logged and crcwless vessel.
From the 10th to t he 10th Ihq bark had made
no headway. During Ibis time the men slept
on the dock, as effrytiling bulow was water
soaked. The steward, nil of whose utensils
wero washed away, cooked the food on pieces
of thin iron rudely fashioned into pans. The
faro was salt hoof and baked dough, all tho
hard biscuit having been rendered useless by
the water/ Captain Qyi.t Ivtf called tho men
tljf llliJi and addressed them thus:
“\\ r o have been sailing eight days and not
gaining an inch. I propose that we do ono
of two things: mako Sail for St. Thomas or
, bang around until wo ge>t a chance to be
taken off by a passing steamer.”
The men had a talk among themselves, and
announced that they were in favor of getting
northward in the track of steamships. They
fell in with the Zaandam. After the captain
hipl got provisions ho was reluctant to
.leave his vessel. Ito persuaded the first
and second mate and the stoward to remain
with him, but the men said thoy feared they
would novor go to soa again if they did not
leave. Tho men think there is little chance
of tho captain and Ills three volunteers get
ting into Halifax alive on the water-logged
bark. ’ , _
Mortified. —The Grand Jury oi
Coweta county, Fla., ia *‘mortified to
find that the sale of apiritoua liquors in
our county has been far in excess of the
necessary wants of tho people for medi
cal purposes,” and it further asks the
Legislature to so amend the law that
“each licensed druggist be required to
advertise once a month in a newspaper
published in the county the names of
all persons who procured liquors during
the previous month, and the quantity
purchased by each.”
"I'LOODS IN CHINA.
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irtrtFE iriiAH io,oo lives lost in
ANDI .NEAR CANTON.
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Ouorßowing* hirers EngiilT Entire Vil.
Inges—Scenes of Devastation.
the destruction in Canton and
ViCßiitJrbjrlbe great riiin storm there have
been received in Washington. The.flood was
the most serious which has visited Canton in
tcuty years. More than ton thousand persons
lost i heir lives, and a far greater number are,-
lef-trin n-starving corfdltion. Entire villages’
woiK unguUed, aud the rice and silk crops were
almost ruined. Many of the streets of Canton
wereUooiled for over a week. At Sz Ni city
the water broke through (die city wall. It i 9
reported that several thousand people were
dr©wnetr in thatgiiacL The embankments of
the,rivers wore broken;in many places and
the wafers. swept across the" surrounding
country, carrying everything before it. A
foreigner, wlio Was an eye witness of the
scenes of the devastation, royorts that one
night the boat he occupied anchored near a
bamb.oo grove. By morning the water hod
risen to the tops of the bamboos. At other
points it rose as high as forty feet during the
night.. The inhabitants fled, from the villages
and camped oil the hillsides. At ixun In, a
market place situated near an embankment
of one of the streams connected with the river
which brings water from the north and west
rivers, the majority of the inhabitants rvere
drowned by the water breaking through the
embankment. Some escaped to a pieco of ris
ing ground in the neighborhood, but the
water continued to riso and gradually over
topped tlie elevation, drowning those who
stood on it.
Seventeen Chineso graduates in Canton
heariug of the distress and suffering prova
-1 .'lit in their native villages, took passage
on a boat with a view to proceeding home to
render what assistance they could. On the
way tlio boat was capsized, and ail who
were in it were drowned. Ip some
places parents tied their children on
the high branches of troes, while they insti
tuted measures for their general safety. The
trees were washed up by the roots, and the
heartrending cries of the children were si
lenced iu the surging water. The body of a
bride dHtssed in her bridal robes was found
.floating In the river at Canton. A large tub
w-as also seen. It was picked up aud found
to contain a boy and a giri. With them was a
pasf' stating their names, the day and hour
of men' birth. Tlis parents had instituted
this means to save the lives of their offspring.
OYER THE SEAS.
Hatters of General Interest From For
eign Bunds.
Various foreign mattors of interest hnd
importance are discussed below:
THE CAROLINE ISLANDS ROW.
A Madrid dispatch states that Spanish
men-of-wnr have arrived at Yap, the chief
island of tho Caroline group, and planted the
Spanish liag, no German vessel being in
sight
It is also stated that the Emperor William
of Germany, tlmough a feeling of sympathy
with King Alfonso, lias made a personal in
terference in order to obtain a prompt settle
ment of tho Carolines affair favorablo to
Spain. Spanish merchants and other con
sumers of German products threaten to boy
*ll GfintiHiriiooriK. Firms in Wuerzborg
and Elberfeld huve received notices from
commercial houses in Spaiu severing business
pofivrctioris with them.
A French paper stales that all Spanish offi
cers now on. furlough have been ordered to
rejoin their regiments. The same paper is
authority for the statement that several
largo Spanish mercantile houses have can
celed all their outstanding orders for German
goods. The members of tho Spanish colony
in Paris are indignant at Germany’s occupy
ing the Caroline islands, and protest against
what they call Germany's usurpation and
perfidy.
ADMIRAL COURBET INTERRED.
Tli' ho ly of Admiral Courbet, late com
mander of the French naval force in Tonquin,
was interred in the Hoteldes Invalides, Paris.
A large assemblage attended the burial cere
monies, notwithstanding tho weather was in
clement. In the concourse were deputations
of tho senate and chamber of deputies and at
taches of foreign legation?. Tho edifice
was heavily draped with mourning and pre
sented a most impressive appearance. A
large model of the Bayard, tho flagship of the
French fleet, commanded in China by the
deceased, had been constructed in front
of tho building. Tho coffin was placed
in a colossal sarcophagus, which was
ornamented at the corners by stat
ues of Faith. Hope, Charity and Re
ligion, and which bore escutcheons em
blazoned with scenes of tho battle in which
Admiral Courbet had taken a leading part.
This was lighted by iiiceuso burners and
tapers, which emitie I greoh flames and cast
a weird glimmering through the darkene l
recesses of tho chapel where tho body lay.
During the funeral cercnionios French troops
\ nra led slowdy up and down the esplanade
n l a t rvvard filed past the coffin.
I’ROGRESS OF THE CHOLERA.
The French transport Chateau Yqor.i, from
Pescadores, lm; passed Singapore with forty
cases of cholera on hoard. Toil deaths had
oc Mino t. During tho BSth there wero four
teen deaths and fourteen new cases of cholera
in Madrid, thirty-four deaihs ill Toulon and
twenty-eight deaths in Marseilles. One
hundred colli us have been sent from Marseilles
lo Toulon, the supply at the latter placo being
short. Hix deaths on an average are daily
reported at Salon.
FOQTLIGHT FLASHES.
■ Emma Ajhwtt is taking walking oxorcisis
to reduce her adiposity.
Haiti’s sparo moments are being devoted
to the writing of her memoirs.
Mr. Lester Wallace will play a short
reason through the country this year.
. Clara Louise Kellogg has had a sue
fcessful concert tour through tho Northwest.
Wll. liam Carleton, a well-known dramat
ist and singer, recently committed suicide in
New Yoi'k.
Miss Ella Russell, a young American
soprano, has made a very successful dehut in
“Traviata” at Berlin.
The first prize for violin playing at the
Viojrtia Cdnservatoriunv this year has been
Awarded to a lad of ton years, Friedrich
Kreisler.
Miss Emma Nevada has boon engaged for
a concert tour in this country, beginning on
the olst of next October at .the Philadelphia
Academy of music. e
Mme. Patti was askod to appear in “II
Barbiero” and “La Traviata” at Munioh with
King Louis of Bavaria constituting tile entile
audience, but she flatly refused.
NINETY -three farcical comedies to boon
tlie road this year. And they all expect to
make money. Well, there is a line some
where about hope and tlio human breast.
This country, so fertile in singers, has pro
duced scarcely any composers/and Mr. B. G.
Pratt, of Chicago, is, so far as we know, the
only American who has brought out a grand
opei’a in five acts.
Pauline Lucca is venturing her fame on
a new opera by a new composer. The name
of the opera is “Cordelia, the composer’s
Soioviow, and the new work is to bo given at
tholinperia Opera house, Vienna.
On a recent trial, a cedar log twenty
feet long was taken to a California match
factory and in exactly thirty minutes was
sawed, split, glued, dipped in sulphur,
labeled, and the matches boxed ready
for shipment.
A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE MATERIAL AND IN IELLECTUAL ADVANCEMENT OF OUR COUNIY.
LOUISVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER ill, 1885.
THE NEWS.
Interesting Happenings from all Points.
EASTERN AND PUDDLE STATES.
Thk ocean steamship Etruria has just made
the fastest trip on record across the Atlantic,
the run from Queenstown to New York hav
mg been accomplished in six days, live hours
and thirty-one minutes.
Thomas Smith, a farm laborer residing
near liockaway, N. J., was shot dead by hia
son Lodi in a quarrel over a game of domi
noes.
D. S. Babcock, vice president and financial
manager of the New York, Providence and
Boston railroad, was killed by a train near
Providence.
, Adams, of tho Framing
ham (Mass.) Savings bank, whose accounts
had been made the subject of a special inves
tigation by a bank commissioner, committed
suicide on tho 24th by cutting his throat with
a razor. Many irregularitios in his accounts
had been discovered.
While a young New York lawyer, a per
sonal friend of Geuoral Grant, was visitin'* 1
the flagship Tennessee, at Bar Harbor, Mo."
a lieutenant on board indulged in slandorous
remarks concerning the dead commander,
ihe iawyor became very angry, and on his
return to shore immediately sent the slan
derer a challenge to fight a duel. Tho latter
declined on tho ground that dueling is in ’
violation of navy regulations. The irate
gentleman then notified tho ofileer that he
would shoot him on sight unless ho accepted
the challenge. Tho lieutenant finally accept
ed, but while the preliminaries were being
pranged the admiral heard rumors of tho
affair, aud declined to permit the lieutenant
to go ashore, thus frustrating tho duel.
J oseph E. Bowen, the oldest master ma
son in the United States, died at his resi
dence in Philadelphia the other afternoon,
lie was ninety-four years old, and was in
stalled the first master of a lodge sixty-eight
years ago.
Ex-Governor Reuben E. Fenton died
suddonly of heart disease, on tho 25th, at
Jamestown, N. Y. At the time of his death
he was writing at his desk in the First Na
tional bank, of which ho was president.
Governor Fenton was born at Carroll, N. Y.,
in 1811), and in 1853 was elected ns a
Democrat to Congress, was defeated
in 1854, but in 1850 was again elected, this
time as a Republican, which party ho had
joined upon its organization in New
York in 1855, He remained in the House
in unbroken succession eight years
down to December, 1804, when he resigned.
In 1884 Mr. Fenton was elected
governor over Horatio Seymour, and in 1806
was re-elected over Mr. Hoffman. He was
elected to the United States Senate in 1SG1),
and in 1873 joined the Liberal Republican
movement, supporting Mr. Greeley for Presi
dent. After the expiration of liis term as
Senator in 1875, Governor Fenton devoted
himself to business enterprises.
At a meeting of the New York Republican
State committee the convention for the nom
ination of governor and other offices was
called to meet at Saratoga on September 23,
two days before tho Democratic convention,
and in the same hall.
Snow fell at Harvey Lake, Penn., on th
26th of August.
The Smiths of New Jersey met in -
nual reunion at I’eapack, N. J.
about three thousand of them togcUit^HiKlf
At tho Pennsylvania Pi
convention, held iu 1 larrUi. n-g,
Pay was nom:nat<‘d f< r t r.v* m 7
form WBx ndopff 1 w 1:.. !i \ . u.,,V I^Hh9H|
the Democratic reform
President Cleveland” and denouncos rainH|
monopolies. ($1
General Logan and his wife and twl
friends wore being photographed in a smalr
boat at tlio Thousand Islands, N. Y., when
their frail craft was overturned, and all four
were thrown into the water. They were res
cued without difficulty.
Reforts received from the eastern part of
New York State indicate that the fruit and
other crops will bo large.
Albert D. Swan, one of the most promt
nent business men of Lawrence, Mass., was
shot dead at his desk by Henry K. Goodwin,
who introrsred the telephone system into
that city. Alter committing the crime Good
win telephoned to the police that ho was wait
ing to be arrested. Goodwin claimed that
he had been robbed in business of everything
he had by Swan.
Texas fever has appeared among the cat
tle of Erie county, Penn., aud is reported to
be spreading rapidly.
SOUTH AND WEST.
A. S. Mariner, postmaster at Careyville,
Tcnn., has been caught robbing the mails and
arrested.
The captain of the steamship Alexandria
which arrived at Beaufort, S. C., reports the
loss of the dredge Beaufort in a hurricane off
the Bermuda Islands, with all hands, num
bering probably ten men. The Beaufort was
built on the Clyde and brought to this side to
dredge for phosphate in Beaufort harbor.
She was ono of the largest craft of her kind
in the world, and was valued at $150,000.
Leonard Gardner, a Springfield (111.)
restaurant keeper, arrested for beating his
wife, procured bail and then .went in search
of the two polieemon who had taken him into
custody. When lie met iiis captors Gardner
immediately opened fire, killing Policeman
Camp and mortally wounding Policeman
Gall. The desperado was also killed by Gab.
A partially successful attempt has been
made to blow up the jail at Murfreesboro,
Ark., with dynamite. One side of the build
ing was blown to fragments, and a prisoner
badly injured. The object was to blow up
two brothers confined in the jail for a brutal
murder.
A Nogales (Arizona) dispatch says that
three Americans and eight Mexicans liavo
been murdered at Basachucaby Apaches.
Two Knights of Pythias—Henry F. Sand
man, of Cincinnati, and J. F. Farnan.of Cov
ington, Ohio—whilo at an encampment near
Cleveland went in bathing, and becoming
chilled were both drowned.
Senator John Siierman opened tho Ohio
campaign for the Republicans iti a long speech
before a largo open air assemblage at Mount
Gilead.
During the recent heavy storm along the
South Atlantic coast throe men, belonging to
a Savannah (Ga). pilot boat, an 1 tho second
officer of a steamship, M ere lost overboard.
Part of a passenger train crashed through
a bridge near Natdiez, Miss., rosultinjr in the
death of the engineer, fireman and a brako
man, and injuries to nine other persons.
The lowa Republicans, in State convention
at Des Moines, nominated a ticket headed by
Senator William Larrabee for governor, anti
adopted a platform which declares that “the
issues growing out of the war for the Union
can never be called settled until they arc s t
tied right,” and condemns tho Cleveland ad
ministration.
Dr. 11. P. Lynch, of Sturgis, Dakota, was
shot dead in his office by Corporal Ros Hal
lis.of the Twenty-fifth United H in! c; in fantry,
stationed at Fort Meade, Hallia, who had
shot Lynch out of revenge, was seized by a
mob and hanged.
WASHINGTON.
The war department has received word
that the Southern Utes in New Mexico Wire
starving; that they had no supplies and wi re
unable to procure any, and that unless food
was immediately securoi for them they would
go on the warpath.
Many appointments of fourth-class post
masters have been made recent ly.
The remains of the Hon. Beth halyard
Phelps, late minister to Peru, arrival in
Washington a few days sinco, and were do
posited in Oak Hill cemetery, Georgetown.
Mil Anthony M. Keij.ky, of Virginia,
who was appointed United States minister to
Italy, and on his resignation was transferred
to Vienna, but was rejected by tile Austrian
government, has returned to Ainorioi. Mr.
Keiley states that the assigned reason ho was
rejected by the Austrian government was
because bis wife is e* Jewess.
TnE acting secretary of the treasury has
appointed twenty women clerks to assist in
tho count of the paper manufacture,l at the
mills in Philadelphia for printing in
ternal revonue stamps, thus increasin ' - tli
forco engaged in that work to forty live. 1:
is expected that the count will bo completed
by December.
FOREIGN.
Madrid lias boon the "scene of a great de
monstration against Germany for annexing
tho Caroline islands. More than -10,00 i; } , ,'C
sons assembled, aud the chief speaker was a
Spanish colonel in lull uniform. The Gorman
legation was guarded by fifteen police
men. ‘
A leading London jwper confirms tlj
statement that Russia uas abandoned her
claims to Zulticar Pass, Afghanistan, ami
says that pence Is thus sectn-ed. t
Thk condition of Granada, Spain, remains
pitiable. Hundreds of peopleare attacked by
cbdlora in a single street nearly every day.
There aro no doctors and no authorities to
look after the victims, who often passthrough
their agonios in tho streets and expire unat
tended in Ihe gutters. Most of tho unaffected
population havo flijd, aod tho few healthy
citizens that remain are disheartened and
apathetic.
Ahe recent disclosures of gross immorality
in London have resulted in a monster demon
stration at Hyde Park. More than 150,001
people wore present, and' there was a grea.
procession, the majority in line being women.
A resolution was passed simultaneously at all
tho ten platforms pledging tho meeting to as
sist in enforcing the provisions of the Crimi
nal Amendment act.
Information lias been received at Cairo,
Egypt, of a great mnssaore. at Berber. The
populace aro starving.
Since tho beginning of the cholera epidemic
in Spain, and up to the 23d, there have been
156, 077 cases and 61,521 deaths.
The rebellion in Colombia has ended with
the eaptnre of General Camargo an l twenty
livo other officers, aud the disbanding of the
rebel force. Prestan, the leader in the burn
ing of Aspinwall, lias also been captured and
will be tried by court-martial.
A native craft called a bugalow, loaded
with pilgrims, was wrecked in the Gulf of
Aden and 100 of its passengers wore
drowned.
A portion of Canada has been visited by
a disastrous tornado. Two children were
killed and many houses unroofod.
By the explosion of a boilor of the steamer
Argo at Trieste, Austria, ei£ht persons were
killed.
Germany has established a protectorate
over the whole territory between the Tana
and Julia rivers in Africa,
Ten bodies were found in the ruins of a
firoworks factory at Civitavecchia, Italy, in
which an explosion occurred.
Many persons were stench and stabbed in
a collision
the 10) policemen, who were
c vie t r 15.
* all her Polish
w ' 881 HI 8 B BMmB Bi I
total
since. 188<^Bn3, 701).
No lessßtn 1,886,003 persons have visited
the International Inventor’s exhibition in
London since its opening.
Some of the gamblers driven out of Chica
go havo established their games in boats be
yond the city limits on the lake.
* In Massachusetts 800,003 depositors have
$350,000,000 in the savings banks. In Now
York the savings institutions hold $0i'5,000,-
000 of small deposits.
So many of the boys sent to West Point
prove unable to pass the examination for ad
mission that about fifty Congressional dis
tricts are unrepresented.
Only about 150 pounds of each boof ani
mal is fit for canning, hence to provide 3,030,-
033 pounds of canned beef, or 500,000 cans,
would require 20,000 cattle.
Tiik false teeth of an elderly woman living
near Logan, Ohio, became dislodgod during
a severe spell of coughing, a day or two ago,
and slipped into her throat, choking her to
death.
Female prisoners havo become so numer
ous in tho city jail at Pensacola, Fia., that
thoy havo been placed in an inclosure and
set to breaking stone for street purposes to
pay their fines.
Lake Mistassini, Canada, is 250 milos
oast of Janies bay, which is the southern ond
of Hu Ison bay. Aocording to Biguoll’s sur
vey it is about one-third larger than it ap
peal’s on our maps.
According to tho census recently taken
the population of Dakota in round numbers
is 415,000, of which South Dakota claims
203,000. The total number of farms in the
Territory is 80,000, varying in area from
6,000 acres down.
BASE BALL FACTS.
Tiiere is a movement on foot to place the
pitcher back iivo additional foot, so as to aid
heavy batting.
Every baseball game that is played in Ma
con, Ga., is witnessed by the prisoners in
the jail adjoining t'ao grounds.
The Indians in Athens, Calhoun county,
111., liavo a baseball nine, who play with
clubs in adjoining towns, appearing in war
paint and leathers.
Necessary for the perpetuation of pro
fessional baseball: More eijual salaries:
teams more equal in strength; smaller salaries’
for players so that small cities can support
them.
“You don’t know what a strike is,” said
Burns, of the Baltimore club, to Umpire Con
nolly, in a Brooklyu-Badtimore game. “That
last ball was a strike, nnd to prove it I’ll just
fine you $35,” was the umpire’s response.
The league nines of Chicago, Philadelphia,
Bo.ton and INew York liavo each played
nn abso'utely errorless game this season.
This mean; something under the rulo classing
battery mishaps of any kind as errors.
The Detroit club has had seven pitch
ers, 11 vo catchers, two first basemen,
four second basemen, six third basemen, five
short stops nnd ten outfielders 'at different
tinios this season: has spout much money for
new material, and despite all is once more at
the foot of tho lenguo list.
A rare and remarkable play was made in a
recent Sandusky-Detroit game. Mulholland,
of tiio Sanduskys, in the fourth inning made
a jumping catch of allot liner from iVctjuory’s
bat and catching Wood and Thompson, who
ran on tho hit, both at third base, executed
a triple play unassisted. A similar play was
nmde by the Now Yorks in a recent game
witli the Providence nine.
A GAME of baseball in aid of the Grant
monument fund was played at I,awrence,
Kan., recently between nine county officials
and nine business men of tho city, the partici
pants ranging in age from forty to seventy
years. T'* register of deeds fell in running
bases and broke bis arm, and the county
clerk sprained his shoulder. Of thomerchants’
nine, one suffered a dislocation of a knee, and
another hod two fingers broken. Tdie score
was 50 to 41 in favor of th officials. The re
ceipts amounted to $l5O.
UATI7BT NEWS.
EXPLOSION OF NATURAL GAS.
Fiv © Fer*oin Futally Burned by the Oc
currence.
The oven room of S. S. Mavv n A. Csteam
bakery, on Liberty sir u , Pi I Pa., was
Ihe scene of a natural explosion Satunlav
morning, by which five pe s >ll we e tvirib y
burned, two of tlu-m, it is thought, fat>lly.
Their names are iSamuel Stafford; engiuetr;
W. Ik Krcbb-, niaohinist : J. F. Huggins, fore
man; John Clark and Mary diaries, bakers
Jh firm roomitty in ; r*> uetfl natural gas
into their ov.tis, and the live persons mmed
were engaged in expeiinn Wing on the manu
facture of anew line of goods. Tli gas had
boon turned off, probably half an hour, when
Engineer Htdtord advanced to the mouth of
the oven to religh it. Instantly thr-iv was a
t inolo explosion, and ihe flames shot out of
the mouth of tho oven, enveloping all in tho
room. Staff id and Huggins, who wer di- j
reetly in front of the ovo , were burned in a
horrible manner, aud if is feared inlial and the
gas, in which ca o death is inuvit ib e. The
others had their clothes almost burno l from
their bodies, but were not fatally injured. It
iS supposed that some person turned on the gas
alter it had been shut off by Stafford, and that
the gas accumulating in the oven exploded as
soon as it came in contact with tho light.
ANOTHER OAS EXPLOSION.
Saturday morning a terrific gas ex los’.on
occurred at. No. 4, slope of Susquehanna coal
company, at Nantico e, Pa. This slope has
always been con idered very dangerous and,
although every precaution has been taken to
avoid accidents, explosions aro frequent. As
the men entered the slope to commence work
the quantity of gas tint accumulated in some
unknown manner in the new rock tunnel, ex
plotted. Louis Perry and Charles Glanville
were fatally injured, and Richard ltuhl and
tv m. A James were slightly burned.
ROAD AGENTS ONCE MORE.
A Parly Captured in tho Miilt of Their
Plundering.
Tho Maysvillu coach was stopped by two
highwaymen about eight miles out of Helena,
Montana, Saturday, and the treasure box, con
taining about $12,000 in bullion from llio
Drum moil mine, was taken. The passengers
were i elieved of tlieir valuables. One of the
robbers had given the plot away to the officers,
r.nd when the treasure box was being broken
open, the sheriff and posse captured the rob
bers and recovered the booty. The passengers
were made to stand in line at the muzzle of a
gun held by one of the highwaymen while the
other went through them in the old fashioned
manner. The prisoners are named Jackson
and Gordon. Gordon will b released and get
a reward of six hundred dollars. Jackson lias
served seven years in the California peniten
tiary lor stugo robbing. He claims that Gor
don has been working the same scheme before,
giving away plots for robbery and getting re
wards.
A TRAGEDY UNEARTHED.
A Horrible .Story of Murder mid Suicide.
Last fall Alexander Easterly and wife disap
peared mysteriously from the neighborhood of
Ontario. No trace of them was dis
- until last Tuesday, wilt lithe body of . 1 1--
1,1 llu! garden the
HBH|S which the couple Jiad lived. .John
brother of rl.i: mis>ing man, Ins
|BB||^P''te l | oil Ml >|iie on ;i ' being ilinr mur-
tells a sir.in ;c story. Hj says tiic
mid wife lived unhappily iog’nher,
r omeiiL I t i hi.l Hi*' Jailer and
Ml *' ' !l • I *' h U-> ••oid i'i.| nMi it ted
and h< ■ :tnd i.i brother .Jonn ■• *
ill the ... 11l till band til' ll
dying quickly enough, called upon lii.i
to finish him, which he did. A scare!.
■Tow going on in the woods for Alexander’s
Wy<
" NINE MEN KILLED.
Tho Disaster Attending tho Lowering of a
C'ngo in a Coal Shaft.
A terrible accident occurred on Wednesday
at Oakwood shaft, operated by the Lehigh val
ley coal company, in Pennsylvania. The cage
on which nine miners were being lowered into
the shaft had nearly reached bottom, when a
mass of loose coal and rock fell from the side
of the shaft down the pit, striking and com
pletely demolishing the cage, which was made
"f heavy timber amliron work, instantly killing
nine of tlio men and wounding two others
fatally, while tho other three were seriously
injured. _____
A Mail’* Head Torn DIF.
A dispatch from Indianapolis, Ind., says:
The Saturday morning train on the “Big Four”
road ran over and killed Jlenvvy Halm, com
pletely severing his head from liis body. Ilahn
was 70 yea s of age and a prominent musician.
For i:ore than thirty years lie had been a mem
ber of the theatre orchestras. He tied from
Germany in 1818, in company with the revolu
tionists of that year, and Ideated in this city.
He leaves a family, one of his children being
Mrs. Banneer, a leading soprano.
Mills Resuming Work.
The cotton mill* at Woo lb rry, Md., four in
numb r, giving employment to upward of two
thousand operatives, havo made a rmgements
to go to work on full tim >. Tli Meadow mill,
which has b;<ii idle for a year, s nr ted with a
uil force of h x hundred, and on full time. The
Woodb. r. y, Clipper, lktrk and Di uid mills have
begun to mil on full time, as also the Mt. Ver
non mils.
A Terrible Accident.
A terrible acciden occurred Tuordiy at Day
t"ii, Tenn., in which a p pillar young man
named Tom Walker, lost his life. He was ou a
scaffold of tho now furnace slack, being erected
there, and 10.-t bis fooling and fell thirty feit.
A heavy timber was disiodgedat the same tiim,
and fell on him, producing instant death.
Killed by Lightning,
During tho thunder storm at Washington,
Pa., Sunday, Win. Miller, whoso farm lies near
Lindiy’s milts, was sitting on tho porch in com
pany with his wife, when a Kindi eg flash of
lightning struck the house and killed the coiiplo
instantly. Miller was a well-to-do farmer and
respected citizen.
Prn.riiinc of (Senator Horgnn’M Son.
At Wa-hinglon, D. C., Tuesday night, John
T. Morgan, Jr., a son ot Senator Morgan, of
Alabama, and a lady named Mrs. Delta Steele,
wont up tlio river in a canoe, and when near
the chain bridge were caught in a squall. The
canoe ami both were drowned.
A Woman Horned to Dentil.
At Dayton, in Washington territory, Sunday,
Ora A. Bowen, an aged widow, while
lighting tiro in tho woods, which threatened
to destroy her homo, was burned to death.
Her clothes caught lire and the woman was
-lost horribly burned.
The subscription raised Iduongu tna
instrumentality of Cyrus W. Field fox
the benefit of Mrs. Garfield, aggregated,
when invested iu Government bonds,
about ¥312,000. Gen. Garfield’s life
was insured for ¥50,000, the payment of
which (lie companies, for the sake of tho
extended advertisement it would givs
them, if for no other purpose, promptly
made. Gengross aho voted her the rem
nant of tho salary which would have
been due Gen. Garfield for tho first yeat
of service as President, which amounted
to $40,000. The little estate which Gar
field left aggregates some $30,000. This
was ali that he had been able to accu
mulate after a life of unusual activity.
This makes her total estate, in rouud
numbers, adiont $150,000 iu money well
invested. From this au income of prob
ably $16,000 is derived. In addition to
that she has from Congress au annual
pension of $5,000, which is now voted \r
the widows of all ex-Presidents.
GEORGIA’S CAPITOL.
LAYING TIIK CORNER STONE WITH
IH PR ESSIV E CJK It EM ON I EH.
(Jrcnt Crowds and Excitement in Atlnntn-
Synopsi* or the Proceeding*.
On Wednesday the corner stone of the new
AT orgia capitol was laid with imposing cerc
m uiicsand amid great enthusiasm in the city
it Atlanta.
i lu- day was one memorable iu the history of
At sinta, and Georgia as well, frix thousand
people witnessed the ceremony, and mam*
wen. unable to get near enough to even see the
stone as it was lowered to its place in the wall,
by eight o'clock in the morning people began
to gather at the grounds, aud the crowd grew
steadily from that time forward.
_ At nine o clock the house and senate met in
joint session to take position in the procession.
At the same time tho organizations and others,
vho were to taku part in the exercises, gathered
irom their various places of rendezvous and
fed into line at. Marietta ami Broad streets.
I lie following was the order of the procession
ns it moved off toward the capitol building, at
about 10 o’clock:
Governor’s Horse Guard.
Marietta Silver Cornet Baud.
Gate City Guard.
Joint Legislative Committee on Public Property.
The House.
Oflicers of the House.
Senate.
Officers of the Senate.
State House Officers.
Governor and Senator Mitchell with General A
I*. Lawton, the orator of the occasion.
Capitol Commissioners.
The Masons.
Crrur DeLeon commamlery Knights Templar.
4 lie line of Masons was the longest ever
assembled in Georgia, and represented everv
portion of the state.
Ihousands of people preceded the procession
to the capitol grounds, but the way was cleared
readily and the procession marched in.
The choir was composed of a hundred voices,
vidwas aided l>y the Marietta band and an
organ.
Swinging from the beam of an immense der
r ck was the corner stone, a massive pieco of
Georgia marble five feet long, tim e feet wide
and throe feet high. It, was polished and was
of \ari(•gated tints. Tho stone was laid in tho
northern t rn corner of the building. It is a
v eil known custom of tho Masons to put. the
cornerstone at tho northeastern corner of a
1 u ling.
At 11 o’clock tlio crowd was immense. The
grand stand was packed, and the people climbed
into trees and mounted the tops of the neigh
boring houses. One photographer was on the
top of the tower of Rt. Phillip’s church taking
a perspective view, and another was on the top
of a residence, while a third had erected a tem
porary stand twenty feet high, and whs sight
ing his apparatus at the gathering from that
elevated perch.
There was much enthusiasm when the choir
rang beautifully the first anthem,
‘•My Country, ’tis of Thee.”
A fervent and eloquent prayer was offered
by Rev. W. P. Anderson, of Marietta.
When he concluded Governor McDaniel arose
and made a speech.
Senator Mitchell, chairman of the joint com
mittee on public property, then made some
time ly remarks.
Goneral Lawton then arose, amid great cheer
ing, and made the speech of the.day. He spoke
eloquently of tho early history of Georgia, its
population and prosperity during the paut oifdih
years; the results of the war, and finally of hi:-
entire confidence in those who had charge of
this great work:
General Lawton’s speech was received with
t-jiv At. UH.ploco Hi a choi.
sang, “When Earth’s Foundation First wa<
laid.”
When this anthem was ended Senahu
Mitchell arose and said, addressing the t>^ c ,.
of Ihe grand lodge:
“The general assembly of the state, having
high regard for tlio ancient order of Masons,
has commissioned mo to present to your hon
orable hotly this new capitol, now being erected
for the purpose of laying the corner stone wit
appropriate Masonic ceremonies.”
A copper box, under charge of Mr. Frank L
Haralson, state librarian, had been filled will;
the articles which were put into tho receptee!-
if the stone. A few other articles were added
at the last moment.
Grand Master Davidson then conducted tin
Masonic ceremonies of laying the stone in a
most impressive manner.
The corn, emblematic of plenty, Ihe wine,
emblematic of joy and gladness, and the oil,
emblematic of peace, were poured on tli stone.
The invocation followed.
Tho grand master sounded the stone with
his gavel and the grand honors wire done.
After a short but happy and appropriate
speech by Mr. Davidson, the grand master, tin
choir sang, “Now Our Festive Joys are Over,'
aud the crowd dispersed.
DESPERATE ENCO ENTER.
F lorn Jolmson City, Tons, com? tlio da
tails o£ a terrible series of tragedies. A1
Lo kio, an okl citizen of extensive connec
tions was charged by his relatives
with numerous outrageous crimes.
Lockie tho other afternoon left home, in
tending, as lie avowed, to go to Jolm Green's
place to borrow some money. Green and
family were away, lie entered the house
and took Green’s riflo and returned to the
residence of his brother, Derry
Lockie. He then shot an 1 killed Berry
and his (Berry’s) wife. John Nicholson,
a neighbor, rode up just then. He forced
Nicholson to go with him to Mr. Stokes’,
where he shot and killed Stokes. There
Nicholson was lost sight of. His horse was
tied there when found,and if is supposed that
he was also killod. From there 1 O 'kie went
to liis own house and shot mid cut the throat
of Mrs. Henry Lockie, of Llano county,
wife of his stepson,who was on a visit to him.
Ho also shot and killed Mrs. Ftokos, wife of
the Stokes whom ho had alroady killed. Then
lie killed his daughter. Lockie next, at
tempted to kill his wife, liut, his cartridges
iieing exhausted, ho could not fire another
shot, and she escaped. He then cut his own
throat, mounted his horse, and started in the
direction of Johnson City. After riding a
few yards lie met Thomas Brunswick, whom
he attacked with a knife, indicting fatal
wounds. Tho murderer then rodo toward
Johnson City, but was arrested within two
miles of there. By these murders about
twenty children are left orphans.
PERSONAL MENTION.
Miss Clevelandalready has ma le #50,000
from her book.
Lord Tennyson, tho p >ofc laureate), is sev
enty-six yea i*s of ago.
Neal Dow, the ProhibitionUt, has turned
his eightieth 3'oar.
All the relatives of ex-Vice Pro .idmt
Wheeler have rliod during tho past ton year?.
Nine monuments to Grant will be erode 1
in this country unless some of tho present
projects fail.
John B. Gough, who li is just completed
his sixty eighth year, is said to be seriously
failing in health.
Ludwig, tho mad king of Bavaria, is
thought by a London e liter to look lice
Byron, whom some regard as th: mad poet
Death Anion* tlie Cnttle.
The epidemic of Texas cattle fever, which
appeared on the farm of Uuaii Goodwin, B >cV
ville township, 111., last week, threatens to
devastate the entiro herd of over 200 oittlo.
Twenty-five are already dead, and ton or a
dozen more in a dying condition.
A Miner Instantly Killed.
James McDermott, a miner, was instantly
killed at Stanton, Pa., coliory Saturday night
by being crushed between the cage and one of
the props. He had just finished his work and
was entering the cage to be hoisted when tho
accident occurred.
'Three Persons K lied.
Three persons were killed and several iniurod
on Mindav by tho fall of tjio cliff at the village
of Dawlish, Devonshire, England.
Subscriptionsl.so in Advance.
NUMBER 30.
HUMOUS SKETCHES,
Laying in a Slock*
Young Wife (to husband) —Don’t you
nolice a difference in llie milk, dear f
Youn-j Husband -Yes; this is much
better than we have been "etting.
Young Wife—Very much better. I
got it of anew man. lie raid he would
guarantee it to bo perfectly pure, and so
1 bought enough to last for a week. —
Xi to York linn.
IS.(Ii of Tliesn l’roMliliijatnrs.
“'No, I cannot marry you,” said a
young lady to a gentleman who was a
book-keeper, and who had been plead
ing for her hand.
“And why, my dear?” be inquired.
“Because you aro a prestidigator.”
“A prestidigator ! How do you mako
that out?”
“Because you practice legerdemain.”
“Well, for that matter you are also a
prestidigator.”
“How ?”
“By refusing me you are practising
slight of hand.” —Carl I’rcUcl.
A Complete Give-Away.
Mrs. Peterby was making a neighbor
ly call on Mrs. Simson. While they wore
chatting together little Mamie Simson
was seen coming toward the house with
a package in her hand.
“Mamie is such a smart child; she is
too smart for her age. I often send her
to the grocery on the corner with a
twenty-dollar bill, and she always brings
back the right change.
Enter Mamie, who runs to her mother
and says:
11 1 got the coffee from tho grocery, but
the clerk says if you don’t pay last
month’s bill, you can’t get anything
more on credit. ” — “Siftings.
Another Deluge.
Mr. Duscnberry—“l see Doctor War
ren predicts another deluge.”
Mrs. Duscnberry—“A mere shower,
no doubt.”
“Oil, no, my love. An immense del
uge; and his theory is a very scientific
ono. fie says that during 10,500 years
the ice accumulates at one pole and melts
at the other, thereby displacing tlio
earth’s centre of gravity. The time will
come when a catastrophe will occur, re
storing the centre of gravity to tho cen
tre of the earth, and cause an immense
ieiuge.”
“Goodness alive! What are wo going
to do about it? That just shows that [
am always right. Vou dragged me
down here to the seashore when 1 wanted
to go to one of the mountain resorts, it
would be safer there when the water
rose. If—”
“We may be able to get there yet.”
“Do you think so?”
“Yes. The doctor says tho flood will
occur six thousand years lieuec.”— Call.
A Good Itccriiit for a Poor Carver,
A host, whoso carving is the one sub
ject on which ho and his wise wife havo
little tiffs, said (he other day to a friend:
“My carving is like my dancing. It is
n ’w conventional. It is extremely origi
nal, bovj audacious. I fry to intro
duce joints "i*—.. nature did not intend
to have them, and x ; o make short
cuts across a fowl in a way a... t j s pro
ductive only of chagrin, vexationL, )f j
fragments of hen. Sian is a weak, falli
ble creature, and he ought not to seek to
improve upon the anatomy of a fowl or
to improvise joints and apertures where
they do not belong: for at such times as
you think not the knife will slip, and it
will trip over the celery-glass and till the
bosom of a warm personal friend with
gravy. To attract attention and keep
up the spirits of the company, therefore,
I make it a kind of business, as it were,
to fill the air with harmless amusement
at the same time that I shed stuffing
through tho atmosphere and mutilate
the breast of the fowl. This gives mo
au opportunity, occasionally, to gather
up the sage, bread crumbs and gizzards
out of my lap and return them to the
platter without exciting remark.”
Caught if. All Alone.
On the boat coming down from the
Flats the oilier evening was a young man
and a black bass. They were a pair.
That is, tho young man had in some way
accumulated tho fish, which was dead.
He was such a guileless-looking young
man that several parties thought to guy
him and his catch. The fish was hang
ing to a peg, and with it a pair of small
balances which enabled a fisherman to
weigh his victims, providing they don’t
go over twenty pounds.
“Catch it all alone?” asked one.
No reply.
“Full very hard?” asked a second.
No reply.
“Were "you much over three days
about it?” queried a third, and so it went
on for ten minutes, whilo tlio fisherman
had nothing to say. At length ono of
tho crowd remarked;
“That bass will weigh all of half a
pound.”
“1 doubt it,” replied another.
“Say, fisherman, what are tho fig
ures?”
“Two pounds,” was tbo solemn an
swer.
“Get. out 1” ,
Tto man pulled a $lO bill from his
vest, and laid it on his knock and said:
“If ho don’t the money is yours. Put
up!”
After some hesitation a shako purse of
$lO wns raised, llio fish hung to the
scales, and lie showed an ounce over.
Tho crow and kicked on tlio scales, and tho
fish was weighed in the steamer's pantry.
The figures held good, but he was
weighed again when (lie boat landed
vnd the money had to be passed over.
“How did you do it?” asked a police
man wlien the crowd had dispersed.
“Simply poured seventeen ounces o
bird shot down ills throat,” was the re
ply; and he let tlio fish’s bead drop, and
tho shot pattered out on tlio wharf like a
young hail storm. —Detroit Free P/css.
Brins up your children to joy. Give
them just ns much as they can tako
without intoxication and without reac
tion. If you tako too much of any ono
essential, you cheat some other. Equi
poise of the various elements of o>.
being is what wo want.
Tlio Jewish population cf Jerusalem
is constantly increasing, and now num
bers 18,000.