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J. W. WHITE, Editor and Proprietor.
VOLUME 111.
Central aii Mwesteni 8. Es,
Satjlnkah, Ga., Nor*mbr 17, 1883,
AN AND AFTER SUNDAY, NOY EMBER 18. 1883,
► ..PMSMWtwimi on the Central anil Southwestern
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MUD DOWN. MUD DOWN.
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8 26pm Ar....Savannah...Ar 8 00am....Ar8 00am
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Local Sleeping Cars on all night trains be
tween Savannah and Augusta, Savannah and
Macon, Savannah and Atlanta, and Macon and
Montgomery via Eufaula.
Pullman Hotel Sleeping Cars between Chicago
and Jacksonville, Fla., via Cincinnati without
change.
CONNECTIONS.
The Milledgeville and Eatonton train runs
daily (except Monday) between Gordon and
Eatonton, and daily (except Sunday) between
Eatonton and Gordon.
Train No. 20 daily (except Sunday).
Eufanla train connects at Cuthbert for Fort
Gaines daily (except Sunday),
■The Perry accommodation train between
Fort Valley and Perry rane daily (except Sun
ay)-
The Albany and Blakely accommodation
train runs daily (except Sunday) between Al
bany and Blakely.
At Savannah with Savannah, Florida and
Western Railway : at Augusta with all lines to
North and East; at Atlanta wit-.i Air-Line and
Konnesawßoutes lo all points North. East and
West.
in Sleep ng Cars can be secured at the
ticket office on Mulber y street, or at the depot.
WILLIAM ROGERS,
General Superintendent Savannah.
G. A. WHITE ; i EAD,
General Passenger Agent, Snvannan.
T D. KLINE, Superintendent, Macon,
A. C. KNAPP. Agent. Macon.
BA-E BtfLL FACTS.
Anson, of Chicago, leads the league in two
t>ase hits.
Tiie directors of the Poston league club say
this season has been a good one financially for
them.
New York is the only league club that hag
won the series from the Chicago team this
season.
The Eastern New England league is finish
ing with more vim than new organizations
usually display after a hard campaign.
New York won 12 out of the 16 games
with Providence. New York made 90 runs,
i67 hits and 103 errors to Providence’s 41
rims, 98 hits and 113 errors.
There is every indication at present that a
Now England league will be formed for 188(1
of eight clubs taken from the following cities:
Fall River, Worcester, Brockton, Boston,
Lowell, Haverhill, Moss.; Manchester, Con
con l, N. H.; Portland, Me.; Pawtucket,
R. L
At the beginning of the summer there were
nearly a dozen different leagues and associa
tions in the field, who were represented by
between seventy and eighty clubs. Of that
number the Western league has gone to
pieces; the Eastern league has only four o
its original eight clubs left, and one of them
is in a very shaky condition; the Southern
league has finished its championship season,
but several of the clubs were obliged to suc
cumb, for the want of proper local patronage,
before the season was completed. Nearly all
the other leagues and associations have suf
fered by the loss of one or more clubs before
the championship schedule was finished.
FOOTLIGHT FLASHES.
Barnum nnd his circus contemplate a visit
to Europe in 1887.
There are only eleven theatres in the en
tire State of Virginia.
Mrs. Langtry is wearing the boy’s clothes
of a tramp on the English stage.
There will be seven weeks of Italian opera
in New York, beginning November 2.
Madame Durand, the American soprano,
will sing at tho Teatro Beal, Madrid, during
this winter.
Few men are more generally and respect'
fully noticed by the public on the streets of
Boston than the venerable comedian, William
Warren.
David Oakley, of “The Diamond Broker”
company, is one of the oldest actors in the
profession. He first appeared upon the stage
in 1830.
The Vienna conservatory awarded tho
first violin prize to a ton-year-old lad,
Frederick Kroissler, the son of a physician
of that city.
A recent count of 296 companies at work
amusing the American public, shows 201
dramatic, 29 variety, 34 musical, 14 minstrel
and 12 circus.
Mr. John 8. Clarke, has made a play on
the subject of “Nicholas Nickleby,” which
has just been brought forward at the Strand
theatre, London.
ike pews am! Jaemee.
CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION.
DORMAN B. EATON. CHAIRMAN OF
THE COMMISSION. RESIGNS.
The I’resdent Writes a Letter Accepting
the Resignation.
President Cleveland has sent to Mr. Dor
man B. Katon, chairman ot the civil service
commission, a long letter setting forth his
views and policy in relation to the civil ser
vice, and accepting Mr. Eaton’s resignation,
to take effect November 1. Mr. Eaton, in
his letter of resignation, says
that when President Arthur nomi
nated him, and he was con
firmed as commissioner, ho was about to de
cline the nomination, but the friends of re
form, with whom ho had labored for many
years, insisted that he was in duty bound to
accept, especially as the enemies of roform
made clear their purpose of charging any
refusal on his part “as a coward
ly shrinking from the speedy
and disgraceful failure sure to follow any at
tempt to execute so chimerical and impracti
cable a statute.” He therefore entered on
his official duties, he says, with tho declared
purpose of remaining hardly more than a
year, at which time he expected to get tho
system in working order. Mr. Eaton closes
by expressing his absolute faith in the con
tinued triumph of the “reform policy.” In
deed, he says, “the contest is already over in
that part of tho government to which
alone all legitimate authority and re
sponsibility for appointments and removals
rests, and in which alone the thorough infor
mation needed for a correct judgment as to
the utility of the now system exists” He
thinks, however, that it is possible that the
politicians and Congressmen of the dominant
party may prevail over the well-matured
judgment of their own administration. In
the contest which would result from such a
course he says he could far bettor serve the
cause of reform in the exercise of that full
liberty which is hardly compatible with the
proprieties of his present office.
THE PRESIDENT’S REPLY.
Executive Mansion, )
Washington, Sept. 11, 18S5. (
The Hon. Dorman If. Eaton.
My Dear Sir: I am in receipt of your let
ter tendering your resignation as a member
of the board of civil service commissioners.
I cannot refrain from expressing my sincere
regret that you havo determined to withdraw
from a position in tho public service where
your intelligent performance of duty has
been of inestimable value to the country.
The friends of civil service reform and all
those who desire good government fully
appreciate your devotion to the cause
in which you early enlisted; and they have
seen with satisfaction that your zeal and
faith have not led you to suppose
that the reform in which you were
engaged is unsuited to the rules which
ordinarily govern progress in human af
fairs, or that it should at once reach perfec
tion and universal acceptance. You have
been willing patiently to accept good re
sults as they, step by step, could be gained,
holding every advance with unyielding
steadfastness.
The success which thus far has atfc ailed
the work of civil service reform is largely
due to the fact that its practical friends have
Eroceeded upon the theory that real and
ealthy progress can only be made as such of
the people who cherish pernicious political
ideas, long fostered and eucouraged by vic
ious partisanship, are persuaded that
the change contemplated by the reform
offers substantial improvement and ben
efits. A reasonable toleration for
old prejudices, a graceful recognition of every
aid, a sensible utilization of every instru
mentality that promises assistance, and a
constant effort to demonstrate the advan
tages of the new order of things are the
means by which this reform movement will
in the future be further advanced, the oppo
sition of incorrigible spoilsmen rendered
ineffectual, and the cause placed upon
a sure foundation. Of course there
should be no surrender of principle, nor
backward step, and all laws for the en
forcement of the roform should be rigidly
executed; but the benefits which its
principles promise will not be fully
realized unless the acquiescence of the peo
ple is added to the stern assertion of a doc
trine and the vigorous execution of the laws.
It is a source of congratulation that there
are so many friends of civil service reform
marshaled on the practical side of the ques
tion, and that the nnmber is not greater of
those who profess friendliness for the cause,
and yet, mischievously and with supercilious
self-righteousness, discredit every effort not
in exact accord with their attentuatod ideas,
decry with carping criticism the labor of
those actually in the field of reform, and. ig
noring the conditions which bind and qualify
every struggle for a radical improvement in
the affairs of government, demand complete
and immediate perfection.
The reference in your letter to the attitude
of the members of my cabinet to the merit
system established by the civil service law,
beside being entirely correct, axhibits an ap
preciation of honest endeavor in tho direction
of reform, and a disposition to do justice to
proved sincerity which is most gratifying. If
such treatment of those upon whom the duty
rests of administering the government ac
cording to reform methods was the universal
rule, and If tho embarrassments and perplexi
ties attending such an administration were
fairly regarded by all those professing to be
friendly to such methods,the avowed enemies
of tho cause would be afforded less encour
agement.
1 believe in civil service reform, and its ap
plication in the most practical form attain
able, among other reasons, because it opens
the door for the rich and the poor alike to a
participation in public placeholling. And I
hope the time is at hand when all our people
will see the a Ivantage of a reliance for such
an opportunity upon merit and fitness, instead
of a dependence upon the caprice or selfish iu
tere>t of those who impudently stand between
the people and the machinery of their gov
ernment. In the one case, a reasonable in
telligence and the education" which is freely
furnished or forced upon the youth of our
land, are the credentials to office; in the
other, the way is found in favor secured by a
participation in partisan work, ofren unfit
ting a porson morally, if not mentally and
physically, for the ivsjxmsibilitios and duties
of public employment.
You will agree with me, I think, that the
support which has been given to the present
administration in its efforts to proservo
and advance this reform by a party restored
to power after an exclusion for ‘many
years from participation in the places
attached to tne public confronted
with a ne.v hysfcu.j j hiding the redistri
bution of such places in its intorost; called
upon to surrender advantages which a per
verted partisanship had taught the Ameri
can people belonged to success, and perturbed
with the suspicion, always raised in such an
emergency, that their rights in the conduct
of this reform had not been scrupulously re
garded, should receive duo acknowledgement
and should confirm our belief that there is a
aentiment among the people better than a de
sire to hold office, and a patriotic impulse upon
which may safely rest the integrity of our
institutions and the strength and perpetuity
of our government.
I have determined to request you to retain
your present position until the first day of
November next, at which time your resigna
tion may become operative. I desire to ex
press my entire confidence in your attach
ment to the cause of civil service reform, and
vour ability to render it efficient aid, and I
indulge the hope and expectation that, not
withstanding the acceptance of your resigna
tion, your interest in the object for which
you have labored so assidiously will continue
beyond the official term which you surren
der. Yours, very truly,
fiUOVER Cr/KVKLAND.
Hun Over nnd Killed-
Major James Ralston, a well known farmer
and extensive cattle dealer of Harrisburg, Va.
was run over by the train and killed at Cowan,
station, on the Baltimore and Ohio toad, bat
urday night.
A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE MATERIAL AND INTELLECTUAL ADVANCEMENT OF OUR COUNTY.
LOUISVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8,1885.
THE NEWS.
Interesting Happenings from all Points.
EASTERN AND MIDDI.B STATES.
In the New York county clerk’s office has
been filed a certificate of incorporation of the
‘ Grant Guards of the State of New York,”
made up of the colored men leading the
horses attached to General Grant’s catafalque
at his obsequies in the metropolis.
Henry Tarbox, a youth of seventeen, was
shot and killed at Glen wood, Penn., by a
one-armed man named Hudson. The latter
became enraged because he had been thrown
in a wrestling contest by young Tarbox.
The American Forestry congress has been
in session at Boston. It was shown by star
tistics that the torests were being rapidly de
stroyed.
A tornado struck Barnum’s circus during
a performance at Titusville, Penn. The tents
and side shows were wrecked and many per
sons seriously injured.
George WrLKES. founder of Wilkes' Spirit
of the Times , died the other day at his home
in New York, aged 68 years.
The English yacht Genesta has won her
second race on this side by defeating the
schooner Dauntless for the Brentoa’s Reef
Challenge cup. The yachts started from
New York on the 21st, and the Genesta re
turned on the 23d, forty miles ahead of her
American contestant.
The New York Republican State ticket,
nominated upon the second day of the con
vention at Saratoga, is as follows: For Gov
ernor-Congressman Ira Davenport; for
lieutenant-governor, Joseph B. Carr; for
secretary of state—Anson S. Wood; for
comptroller—James W. Wadsworth; for
state treasurer—Charles F. Ulrich; for at
torney-general—Edward B. Thomas; for
state engineer—William V. Van Rensselaer.
Tho platform favors civil service reform and
protection to American labor, and arraigns
the national administration tor its position
regarding the currency and American ship
ping.
The American champion yacht Puritan,
winner of tho America’s cup in the recent in
ternational race with the Genesta, was sold
at auction in New York, bringing $13,500.
The purchaser is a resident of Boston.
Four miners were caught by a sudden
flood of water in a mine near Houtzdale,
Penn., and drowned.
Goldsmith Maid, the trotter who reigned
for years as queen of the trotting turf, died
a few days ago on her owner’s farm near
Trenton, N. J. She was twenty-nine year*
old, and had trotted a mile in 2:14.
SOUTH AND WEST.*.
Twelve prisoners escaped from the Jeffer
son county jail at Steubenville, Ohio, by
sawing the cell and window bars, thereby
making a hole large enough to get through.
Five Chinamen in jail at Pierce City,
Idaho, for murder and robbery, were taken
out of confinement by a crowd and hanged to
trees.
Captain William Jones, of the lifeboat
service at Racine, Wis., was drowned while
out practising with his crew.
A storm on the Great Lakes has resulted
in disasters to shipping at various points.
At the eleventh annual session of the
American Bankers’ association, held in Chi
cago, more than 500 representatives of th3
banking interests from every leading city in
the Union were present.
Twenty-five persons were injured, many
of them severely, by tho sudden fall of a cir
cus tent during a storm at Martinsburg, W.
. Va.
The two little children of William Winter
and wife, of Point Pleasant, W. Va., were
burned to death during their parents’ absence
from the house.
Tiie colored people of Mississippi will
erect a monument, to cost fifty thousand
dollars, at Vicksburg, in commemoration of
the signing of the emancipation proclama
tion.
T. C. Mayfield and his son Wesley wore
called out of a store at Whatecom, Washing
ton Territory, and shot dead by an unknown
man, who made his escape.
The old wages have been restored at the
works of the Cleveland (Ohio) Rolling Mill
company, where there has been a strike, re
sulting some time ago in a fatal collision,
since last June.
The Republicans of Maryland, at their
State convention in Baltimore, nominated
Francis Miller for comptroller, and William
M. Marino for clork of the court of appeals,
and adopted a protective tariff, civil service
reform platform.
The bankers’ national convention at Chi
cago adopted by a large majority a resolution
requesting Congress to suspend silver coinage.
WASHINGTON.
Mrs. Sarah Jenifer, a colored woman
wbo died the other day in Washington, wa
statod in tho doctor’s certificate of death to
have been 112 years old. It is said that care
ful investigation has shown that a colored
man named Nugent, now living in Washing
ton, is 125 years old.
Dorman B. Eaton, chairman of the United
States civil service commission, has resigned.
Commodore Alexander A. Semmes,
commandant of the Washington navy yard,
died suddenly the other afternoon at Ham
ilton, Va. He had served in the navy since
188 L
The President has appointed the following
collectors of customs: Charles C. Sweeney
for tho district of Galveston, Texas; Otto L.
Khrelkeld, for the district of Saluria, Texas;
J. J. Cocke, for the district of Br.os de San
tiago, Texas.
FOREIGN.
Heavy rains in [the southeastern part of
Spain have resulted in the loss of many lives
and the destruction of an immense amount of
property.
Reports from Palermo, Italy, regarding
the progress of the choiera show a distressing
state of affairs prevailing there. Thirty
thousand persons have fied from the city; al
the shops are closed and tho streets are
almost deserted. There is a great scarcity of
food and water, and tho epidemic is increas
ing with frightful rapidity.
It is reported that an agreement has been
effected with Germany by whicu Spam re
tains tho Carolines and the Mariana and Pa
laos islands, whilo Germany acquires the
Marshall and Gilbert groups.
The revolt in ltoumelia against Turkey
has caused the war drum to sound again in
Europe. Sixty thousand Servian troops have
been called into the field, for fear of an up
rising. In Bulgaria"all tho ablo-bodied men
between eighteen and forty years are to be
put under arms, in anticipation of war with
Turkey. Severe lighting has already occurred
bet ween the Albanians of Djakobo, and the
Turks, both sides losing heavily. Turkey
will attempt to put down the revolt in Rou
nelia.
Seventeen persons were crushed to deat.i
in Stockholm, Sweden, after a concert given
by Christine Nilsson. She was singing from
the balconv of the Grand hotel at the time of
tho accident. The crowd numbered about
30,0(10.
Piu n'ck BiSM arck Ims accepted the apology
of Spain for the recent insult to the German
Embassy ut Madrid.
The steamer Humacoa, which was wrecked
near Grand Mamin, New Brunswick, severa
weeks ago, was blown off the rocks and sunk.
Twelve or fifteen sailors belonging to St John
or the neighboring city of Portland were lost.
They were taking her to pieces at the time of
the disaster.
The Earl of Shaftesbury, a prominent and
philanthropic English nobleman, is dead in
Lis eighty-fifth year.
A Father aad Children Burned te Death. '
Joseph Fisher, a farmer living near Waubeek,
lowa, was burned to death Wednesday night
with his three children in hil residence. His
by jnmuiiig out of the window.
THE DREADED SMALLPOX.
ITH RAVAGES IN THE DOMINION OF
CANADA.
Compulsory Vaccination Put in Force in
Montreal.
It is a week ago, says a Montreal (Canada)
dispatch of the 24th, since the health board,
on the recommendation of the French Cana
dian members, agreed to try voluntary com
pliance with regulation for isolation and vac
cination as a hope of stamping out the small
pox. The attempt was to have a week’s
trial. It has been an utter failure, The
disease is rapidly on the increase, 'instead of
being in any way diminished. The
board of health has Jieen made to feel that
the epidemic lias now attained proportions
which demand compulsory measures. The
alarming mortality shows the utter futility
of the measures that, have been tried. The
official mortality returns show thatß3B deaths
have occurred in the city from smallpox in
less than six months, and that the mortality
for Septomber is already nearly double that of
August. In view of these facts, at a meeting
of the board of health tomorrow the Eng
lish membsrs will demand that compulsory
vaccination bo at once put in force. The
mode to be pursued will be as follows: The
public vaccinators will go to the door of the
nouse, and ask for proof that all its inmates
are vaccinated. If they are not vaccinated,
and refuse to bo vaccinated, th© officer
will at once take action against those who re
fuse, and they will be heavily fined. Fresh
action may be taken for every new refusal,
and there will be no appeal. It remains to be
seen how the French Canadians will take
these stern measures, but the following edi
torial utterancos ot one of the most active
English members of the board to-night ex
press the unanimous opinion of the English
people of this city:
“Hero and now the authorities intrusted
with the city’s weal have a grave duty. Their
charge is to pass from porsuasion to action,
and give effect to wise and just regulations.
Irrespective of prejudice or crankiness, let
them oblige every man, woman 'and child on
this island to be vaccinated, and every one
ill of smallpox to be so secured and guarded
as to bring to a speedy end the visit of our
loathsome guest. All dependson the firmness
of our board of health.”
The returns show that there were fifty
three deaths in the city yesterday.
At tho meeting of the citizens* committee
this evening a motion censuring the action
of the government in establishing a military
camp at La Prairie was carried amid
loud applause. A deputation of promi
nent citizens was appointed to wait
upon Sir Adolphe Caron, minister
of militia, who 13 at tho Windsor
hotel, and urge tho immediate disbandment
of the troops and the disinfection of their
clothing. It is held that if this is not done the
smallpox will be spread all over the province.
A speaker mentioned that one street that
used to be called the children’s street, from
the number of children playing on it, was
now silent The little ones had been swept
away.
At a meeting of the central board of
health, held this afternoon, it was resolved
that the bodies of those who die of small-pox
during the day shall be buried witnin six
hours of death, and during night within
twelve hours. It was forbidden to carry the
bodies of those who have died of smallpox
in public or private conveyances other than
those provided bv local boards of health.
BOSTON OPIUM “JOINTS.”
Scenes in Them Described by Newspaper
Reporters.
The Boston Globe has published a five
column article giving some startling dis
closures of the subject of the use of
opium in Boston that will awaken
the city to the sense of its hid
den danger from the pernicious habit.
The article is the experience of reporters.
They give the addresses of a number of re.
sorts outside the usual Chinese dens where
money has been lavished to fit them up in a
most luxuriant manner for this purpose.
These places are in the most fashionable
elioruugiiu-.ro*, and have been flourishing tin
suspected tor months under the very shadow
of tho Massachusetts Stale house. The per
sons who patronize these gilded dens come hi
carriages, and are recognized as belonging to
the host circles of society.
The following is a digest of what was seen
by ft reporter and his guide in one of these
establishments: As the visitors entered they
W' re greeted by a woli dressed man of middle
ago, with tight, hair and complexion, who
shook hands with both an l asked them if they
wished to smoke. The room is a large
square one, richly furnished. On the bed,
over which was thrown a rug, were sL-enin"-
two beautiful girls. They were both past
consciousness, in one corner was the form
of a talented young law student, who is re
tained by one of tho Lading lawyers in Pom
berton Square. By iris side slept a theatri
cal man and his wife, whoso faces are well
known in popular comedy. A wealthy voung
man, whose father is a promiuent theatrical
manager, was among tho frequenters of the
joint. In numerous other places well-known
men were found who had beon followed from
their place of business, the club or the theatre
to these haunts. The Globe has in its posses
sion a list of names of the patrons of these
resorts, the publication of which would cre
ate ft consternation in society. All classes
are more or less implicated in the hahit. Sev
eral well-known frequenters of the dens occu
pying high social positions have left the city
to escape exposure, being informed that the
police havo their names down for witnesses.
DISAPPEARING FORESTS.
Inierriting iijfiirci showln. Heavy
Drain- Upon Timber Land.
At a session of the Amerioan Forestry
congress in Boston, Rev. N. H. Egleston,
c.lief of the forestry division of the depart
ment of agriculture, Washington, read a
paper setting forth that the recent census
shows that the whole area of land surface,
Alaska being left out of consideration, is
1,856,070,400 acres; total forest area, 440,-
090,000 acres; total farm area, 295,650,000
acres. Of unimproved and waste lands, In
cluding “old fields,” there are 1,115,439,400
acres. There are 150,090 miles of railway,
including side tracks. It has required 396,-
099,000 ties for their construction. Suppos
ing that the ties require to be renewed once
in six years, and that 10,000 miles of new road
are built annually, it twenty-five years be
allowed as the time necessary for
trees to attain a size suitable for making ties,
then it would require 15,000,000 acres of stand
ing timber to supply the annual demand for
ties, or an area almost exactly equal to that
of Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut
and Rhode Island. But with the increase ol
railroads it is to be considered that the an
nual demand for ties is all the while increas
ing. The census reports the consumption
of 145,778,137 cords of wood, and 74,000,-
0)0 bnsheis of charcoal for fuel in dwel
lings, stores, factories, steam
boats and locomotives. This, In a single
year, would clear the forests from an area of
30,000,009 acres, about equal to that of Now
York and North Carolina. The census also
reports that in 1880 forest fires consumed the
trees on 10,274,089 acres, and there is no
reason to believe that a less area will be
burned over this year than In 1880.
The census gives the amount of lum
ber out in 1880 as 18,000,000,000
feet. Cast year the cut had Increased to 28,-
000,000,090 feet, which would lay bare on
area of 5,600,000 acres, equal very nearly to
that of New Hampshire. Altogether it ap
pears that the forests of the country are sub
ject to an annual drain of 50,750,089 acres,
which would clear a wooded surface equal in
extent to the area of all the New England
Htatee, together with New Jersey and nary-
LATEST NEWS.
BLOODY WORK.
A Desperate Political Duel In Vir
ffinla.
Judge George W. Ward, editor of the Exam
iner, and comrconwealth’s attorney lor Wash
ington county, while about to enter the Colon
nadc hotel Sunday, about 4 P. M., was fired up
on bw Dr. William White, independent candi
date t)r state! senator, who had been concealed
in a storeroom nearly opposite the; hotel. Whitt
stepped out of the door and discharged one
barrel of a shotgun loaded with buckshot at
Ward, who fell lace foremost, but recovering
on his knees, drew his pistol and fired three
thots at a young relative of White’s, who was
>ll the other side of the street behind a tree.
White in the meantime had stepped inside tliu
•tore, and hearing the firing came out again
tud fired the second barrel at Ward, who ti 11.
While he was lying on the ground two of White’s
datives (one of whom Ward had already shut
\t, and whom he thought had shot at him;
walked up and fired seven shots at him (Ward
ill of which took effect. Judge Ward is in v
•cry critical condition and it is thought he can
not live. Dr. White and liis two r 1 stives liav
seen arrested, and bailed in the sum of S7 t OOC
each.
DYNAMITE EXPLOSION 6 *
One Jinn Killed nnd Three Others Serious
ly Wounded.
A terrible accident occurred at Yorkliaven,
Pa., Friday afternoon, which resulted in the
death of one man and tho set ions injury of
three others. A large paper mill w r as being
ected there and the workmen were engaged in
the excavation of rock for the foundation. A
number of blasts had been made, but one of
them failed to explode,.and it was thought he
workmen had neglected to charge it. John
Morrissey, of Washington, D. C., began drilling
out a hole, and with his drill struck the
dynamite with which it had been charged,
when a terrible explosion occurred. Morrissey's
right hip ws crushed and tho flesh torn from
his limi s. He died. Thomas O’Brien was cut
about the head and was badly burned with pow
der. Patrick Hagerty had his left eye blown out
and was also severely burned, and John O’Con
nor was badly inju ed about the body.
A DELIBERATE SUICIDE.
An Alnbnmn Farmer Stations His Gan and
Pulls the String.
Wiley J. Owsley, a prominent and industrious
farmer, wbo lives at Natasulga, Ala., committ and
suicide Thursday. He, with his family, were
all on the farm near his residence, and as is al
ways his custom, left them about an hour by
sun to go aiul look after his flock.
Instead of this he went to the house, took a
quilt and went to the kitchen and made a pallet
on the tUv'>r,iken fixed a gun by the side of him,
attached a string to the trigger, laid down and
pulled the string. The contents of the gun
entered clo*o to his right ear and came out over
Ids eye.
Kis wife cam© home and found him dead.
He left a note to his wife saying it was no fault
of hers, thnt lie was simply tired of life, and
also gave instructions as to his burial and
funeral.
He was a good citizen, a kind and devoted
husband.
DESPERAIE DUEL FOUGHT.
in Which Doth Men Engaged Receive
Mortal Wounds
Information comes her.* that a despera'i
tragedy occurred in the village of Cottonwood
Point, Mo., on Friday night. Two intoxicated
strangers got into a dispute and tl en had a
rough and tumble fight over the weight of a
bale of cotton, but they were separatul by tlu
bystanders. Shortly after, however, the nu n
renewed their fight, and mutually agreed, in
order that neither k. uld liav:* an advantage
over the other : that tiny should cl; sp tli ir .3 f:
hands together and fight only with their r ; h:
hands. Thus arranged, each man, with a re
volver in liis right hand, began the bloody work.
Beve shots were exehangt <l, one of the men
fell dead with four bullets in his head and
breast, whilo the other sunk dying from two
or three desperate wounds.
A TERRIBLE LEAP.
A Jackson Conttfy Mnn Mimics th© Oflicerw
at a Fright In I Risk.
A p isoner named J. C. Harden, who was be'
ing conveyed from Texas, where lie was cap
lured by the sheriff, to Jackson county, Ga.,
where he is wanted for horse stealing, made a
daring leap for liberty from a flying tra n on
the Mcmplrs nnd Charleston rai.road. near
Chattanooga, Trim. Harden was handcuffed
and tied to tli seat. He gnawed the rope and
jump dli iidiuiig tiirough the window. The
shock threw him uliy thirty feet, but he soon
recovered, and when last seen was deep in tin
woods running at full speed.
A Tennessee Trngedy.
In the preliminary trial of John Bradley \Ol
the murder of Deputy United States Marshal
Miller, at Tenn., the strongest cir
cumstantial evidence of the prisoner’s gui t wa
p.oduced, but there was no witness of the mu -
del*. On Saturday afternoon at Buck lodge,
near Gallatin. Wi 1 am Herron, a wealthy farm
•n, who was thrown liom h s horse and fat-all)
injured, confesses that he killed Mil er, think
.hat lie was comi g to arrest him, and that
Bradley had nothing to do with the crime. Mil
.et’s pisto. was foun-l in Herron’s room. Herroi;
bed in an agony of remorse. The story of
tftrron’s confession is rec ived here with some
doubts.
Eleven Men Killed.
Eleven men were drowned in the wrecked
steamer at- Grand Manan, Me., Thursday, and
cot twenty, as before reported. The sea began
to break over the wreck on Wednesday forenoon
and the steamer to break up. The lighthouse
men could see the steamer breaking up, but no
assistance could be rendered. Most of the men
leave large families in Portland and St. John.
The steamer was broken by two large seas.
Nnldde of a l.nily.
Mrs. Robert Spang, a weli connected mar
ri< and wok an, brought suit lor slanderous charges
thi' week in the court at Reading, Pa., against
Miss Charlotte Harvey, a relative, for $10 ; 000
damages for defamation of character. The jury
decided in Miss Harvey’s favor, and on Friday
morning Mrs. Spang committed suicide with
poison b< cause of her shock and mortification
in losing the suit.
Seventeen Persona Crushed to Heath.
Christine Nilsson sang to an iramenso crowd
from the balcony of the Grand hotel, London,
on Wednesday. The crowd was estimated at
30 000, and 17 persons wero crushed to death
in it. In addition to this,twenty-nine others wero
seriously injured. Mme. Nilsson is so pros
trated by the shock that she has temporarily
postponed the fulfillment of her engagement.
miners Killed by Carelessness.
Four minors were drowned in the Franklin
mine, Honesdale, Pa., Thursday morning, by
the sudden break of water from the aban
doned mine, adjoining one in which they were
working. Death was due to the carelessness of
di mseives and other miners in neglecting the
proper precautions. Thoy wore aware of the
proximity of the danger and that they were
working towards it, but they drove ahead with
ut adopting the usual method in such cases.
Los* of Life and Great Dmtruct.'.on
of Property In Spain*
Heavy rains have provailod in the south
eastern part of Spain. The rain came down
in torrents, and soon the rivers overflowed
their banks, causing immense destruction ot
property and the lam of many lives. The
Segura river and the Jjorca canal, which
runs by Cartagena, rose rapidly, until the
water was seven feet deep around the walls
of 1 16 city. Houses, trees, and dead animals
r.re living carried out to sea by the raging
flood.
A Car of Yalnoble Cattle Burned.
A car of full blood H**rt ford stock, owned by
the Cosgrove Live Stock company of Lesurer,
Minn., burned while in transit, to Dakota. The
car caught fire from a spark from the engine
when about two miles from Lesurer. The stock
was valued at $6,000. Two men who were in
the oar jumped off and badly injured.
PUBLIC LAND SALES.
Reeeipin from their Sal© Daring (he
Pant Fiscal Y>nr.
Commissioner Hparks ot' the United States
Land office, has prepared a statement of the
disposals of public lands and receipts there
from during the fiscal year ended June 30,
1885, from which it appears the disposals were
as follows:
No. of
entries. Acret. Amount
Alabama.... 3,950 270,901.62 $66,385.70
Arizona 2,447 278,174.78 67,376.26
Arkansas... 4,393 244,582.90 61,840.85
California... 15,813 1,295,909.03 784,031.76
Colorado.... 10,979 062,611.05 356,404.22
Dakota 53.304 4,547,749.772,508,769.50
Florida .... 3,961 282,515.55 193,791.05
Idaho 3,544 284,903.04 111,592.39
Illinois
Indiana
lowa 215 11,659.36 8,819.59
Kansas... . 32,574 3,030,846.60 667,983.17
Louisiana... 1,889 181,043.60 79,181.23
Michigan... 1,326 89,511.23 47,941.91
Minnesota... 9,198 624,379.49 807,220.91
> ississippi.. 1,362 111,000.03 28,520.10
Missouri.... 3,638 291,277.83 66,759.tH
Montana.... 8,059 l,il‘.\ 140.57 198,354.67
Nebraska... 37,680 3,698,381.76 903,846.10
Nevada 1,179 171,430.94 6,222.73
New ' exico. 2,417 163,981.57 05,373.22
Ohio
Oregon 8,481 788.287.71 244,861.60
Utah 2,222 184.853.62 55,880.92
Wash. Ter.. 10,778 1,016,117.75 827,753.18
Wisconsin... 3,283 218,436.92 101,694.05
Wyoming... 3,510 552.967.14 355,480.04
Total 226,382 20,113,663.38 $7,686,114.80
The number of original homestead entrie
was 50,8J7, including 7,415,885 acres, from
which the receipts were $731,843. The num
ber of final homestead entries was 22,066, in
cluding 3,032,679 acres, from which the
receipts were $105,152. The number of
original timber culture entries wa530,998, in
cluding 4,755,095 acres, from which the re
ceipts were $425,420. The number of final
timber-culture entries was 750, including
90.3 K) acres, from which the fees were $2,764.
The total number of acres taken under rail
road selections was 3,558,914, made up as fol
lows (fractions omitted): Alabama, 33,198;
Arizona, 133,052: California, 376,445; Colo
rado, 14,252; Dakota, 790,693; lowa, 6,014;
Kansas, 195,046; Louisiana, 19,887; Minne
sota, 108,217; Montana, 793,459; Nebraska,
178,039; Nevada, 60,612; Oregon, 245,386;
Utah, 17.123; Washington Territory, 535,216;
Wisconsin, 51,819.
The grand total of disposals of lands (20,-
113,663 acres) includes 881,850 acres of Indian
lands. This is a decrease in the number of
acres disposed of as compared with the year
l v ß4 of 0,535,65 5, but as compared with the
y-Mir 1883 it is an increase of 683,630 acres.
From sales of Indian lands $933,483 was real
ized, making the total receipts from all sales
of lands $7,686,114, a decrease compared with
the receipts during 1884 of $4,159,532, and as
compared with the yaar 1883 a decrease of
$3,086,167.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
A New Jersey law prohibits the sale of
cigare tea.
The railroads of Pennsylvania employ
seventy thousand men.
An official report of the 1885 wheat crop of
India puts the yield at 247,000,000 bushels.
A haw has just gone into effect in Ohio re
quiring all wages to be paid weekly in cash.
McNamara, the grave-digger at Staunton,
Va., is eighty-three years old, and has buried
7,00:) persons.
The hop crop for the year averages 662
pounds an acre for 41,960 acres, a total of 37,-
633,000 pounds.
A breeder of Reno, Nev., is said to have
netted $(40,000, as tho proceeds of one short
horn cow, bought for SSOO.
There is hardly a village in Russia in
which there is not to be found a bottle of
water from the famous river Jordan.
Report says that a majority of the farmers
of the Northwest have decided to hold their
wheat crop until prices are more satisfac
tory.
The whole of Oregon and Washington
territory is now shrouded in the vast, dense
blue bail of smoke that comes down every
autumn.
In San Francisco the Union foundry in be
ing built, which, when completed, will be the
largest in the United States. It will cost
*4OO,(XK).
One of the curious freaks of the tornado
which leveled Washington Court House,
Ohio, was to destroy all the churches and
eave untouched the saloons.
The Chinese find that the cost of their
little difficulty with the French at Tonquin
will reach not less than $314,000,000. Their
loss in moil was also upward of 100,000.
A trustworthy estimate of the probable
cranberry crop of 188> is as follows: New
England, 335,000 bushels; New Jersey, 175,-
000; Wisconsin, 150,000; other States west,
10.000, showing a total product of 560,000
bushels.
Many thousands of cons of cottonseed, onc
considered valueless, are now sold for from
ton to twelve dollars per ton. In seven months
ending last August, $1,828,771 worth of cot
ton seed oil was exported to Europe from the
Southern States, or about twice as much as
during tho same period of last year.
PERSONAL* MENTION,
Tennyson is about to publish another vol
ume of poems.
Patti’s spare moments are being devoted
to the writing of her memoirs.
Alt, members of the family of the czar of
Russia speak the English language.
General Joe Shelby, the Confederate
raider, is now a dairyman in Missouri
General McClellan is the only survivor
of (he commanders of the Army or the Poto
mac.
I)u. Hierme Retsof, an eminent occu
list, says ' hat tho common electric light pro
duces color blindness.
Krupp, the German guntnuker, is at pres
ent chiefly manufacturing guns for China,
Turkey. Japan and Egypt.
President Cleveland’s stableman says
the President does not care much for horses,
lu taking exercise he much prefers to walk.
Mkissonikr, the great French painter, is
the oldest artist in Paris, having boen born in
1802. Ho is us sensitive as a woman in re
gar* 1 to his age.
Stanley is fitting apartments in London
where he will open out the great store of Af
rican curiosities and Oriental fabrics which
he has packed away.
Dr. George B. Elliott, the specialist,
whoso microscopical invest igations revealed
the true nature of General Grant’s disease,
and who pronounced it cancer and incura
ble, is not more than twenty-seven years of
\ge.
Gknerat. Sherman positively declined tc
be president of the St. Louis Grant Monu
ment associat ion, or to have anything to do
with it. “Grant,” he said, explaining, “was
worthy of every monument that can be raised
to his memory, but 1 think that the one over
his grave should be finished before others are
begun.”
The Crops of Niimerons Farms In
Dakota Ifiiined.
The devastation by prairie fires from Fargc
to Bismarck, Dakota, far surpasses the de
struction of any previous year. Hundreds
of wheat crops have been swept out of ex-
Btenc*. The amount of wheat burned in
North Dakota is immense. It is estimated
that the entire crops of 100 farms between
Jam stowu and Bismarck have been de
ployed
Burned Their Nelhbor’e Cuttle.
P)euro-pneumonia having been declared to
exist, among the oattle of David Branneok, of
Falmouth, Ky., several days ago, and no effect
ual means being taken to destroy the disease,
several of the neighbors collected and slaught
ered fourteen of the diseased oattle and burned
i the*r oaroassea,
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NUMBER 40-
SUMMER COMPANIONS.
’Mid the flowers and the brakes,
In the sun, in the shower.
One with insect and bird,
Children born for an hour;
They pitched their white tent
On my wild blooming sward,
Contented with summer
And nature unbarred.
One morning when storm-wind
Swept over the land,
And the fog-bell was tolling
Blind shi[>s from the strand,
I sought my green pasture
And sail-sheltered birds;
There was silence for laughter,
And sadness for words.
Nor again with thn season
When soft waves return,
God’s sweetness of sunshine,
And lilies that burn,
Do they pitch on my greensward
Their white-winged tent,
Nor dance in cool sunshine
When clover is bent.
Then come, mighty storm-wind,
Companion thou me,
For iu dark and in tempest
My spirit is free !
The summer may go.
And the flowers they may die,
On thy wing to my dearest
Ever nearer I fly.
— Harper's Magazine.
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.
Loafing is doing nothing—laboriously.
The craw-fish is very forward about
going backward. Merchant- Traveler.
Misery—a girl with anew dress on and
no place to go.— Marathon, Independent.
The Finnish language ought to be
taught at all boarding-schools.—Pica
yune.
“Women dentists are gaining ground
in German,” says a Boston paper. Achers
of it, no doubt.— Lowell Courier.
More than $30,000,000 is invested in
telephones in the United States, and yet
some people say talk is cheap.— Derrick.
A dentist in a Western city is named
Leggo. Asa usual thing, however, he
will not do so until it is out.— Boston
Dost. f
Perhaps nothing has more of a ten
dency to sour the milk of human ki®l
ness than a snoring man in a sleeping
car. — Chicago Ledger.
A felon is a bad thing to have, but
there is one good point about it. It is
always on hand when you want it—and
when you don't.— Texas Siftings.
“Oh, where does beauty linger?” is
the query of a Quaker City poetess. If
beauty has auy senve to Bpeak of she's
lingering in the shade.— Biiaard.
A shrewd girl hurried up things won
derfully by assuring her young man that
she despised those females who continue
to eat ice cream after they are married.
“This world is all a fleeting show,
A circus, quite complete:
And he who had the fattest purse
Will have the finest seat.”
—Philadelphia World.
A school journal advises, “Make the
school intensely interesting.” That’s
what Ihe small boy tries to do to the
best of his ability.— Burlington Free
Press.
“Wilt thou?” he asked a maiden fair,
Who oft had lovers jilted.
She gazed at the thenuometair,
And then she weakly wilted.
—New York Journal.
There is a Chinese laundryman in Cali
fornia who has no chin, which leads us
to remark that we wish our washerwoman
were afflicted in a similar way. She has
too much chin altogether.— Lowell Citi
um.
There are times in a man’s life when
the whole sky seems rose colored, and
this old, dull world a paradise. One of
these is when he has discovered a quar
ter in the lining of his old vest. — Boston
Post.
“I rather marry a yaller dog than
you,” wrote a California girl to a suitor.
She afterward reconsidered her determi
nation and married him. He now wishes
he had taken her at her word.— New
York Graphic.
Boots are seldom worn in the evening
ami undressed kid is the favorite ma
terial for slippers, says a fashion jour
nal. It may be added that slippera are
not a favorite material with the un
dressed kid. The Hatchet.
A shipmaster who has returned from
Samoa says that the English residents
there make as much ns #20,000 a yoar by
squeezing the natives. Gracious. We
didn’t know there was as much money
as that in huggiug. Graphic.
Bee inse Miss Lulu Hurst has retired
from the stage it does not follow that
she has lost any of her magnetic quali
ties. Indeed, it is not unlikely that the
neat little fortune which she has gath
ered during her tour will prove more of
an attraction to strongmen than the um
brella which they found so hard to let
go.— lndianapolis Journal.
A PICNIC PHANTASY.
Come lot us lump aboard the train!
Oh, hear the whistle blow!
All nature seems to smile on us,
Bet's to the picnic go.
We’ll drink the sparkling lemonade,
The sandwiches we’ll munch.
Baseball we’ll play, likewise croquet,
And dally with the lunch.
.... *
Oh. what a jolly time I’ve had!
I dance and laugh with glee,
A beetle has crawled down my back,
I feel him round my knee.
A bumble-bee has toyed with me,
And in my shoes are anta
I sat upon a lemonpie,
And spoiled my Sunday pant*.
Man and Hone.
A friend who was at Saratoga last sea
son when Mr. Vanderbilt was there with
his famous horse, Maud S., which he
then owned, informs us that tho mare
held receptions at certain hours, during
which thousands of people of both sexes
and all ages paid their respects to her.
Each one would give Miss Maud S. a
couple of pats on the nozzle, and would
then retire as having been permitted to
enjoy a privilege which they never had
anticipated, while right by the mare
stood Vanderbilt, who though worth
$200,000,000, was passed by appaiently
unworthy of the least notice.—This ia
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