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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 tauroada and braaohes will ran as fo lows: MUD DOWN. MUD DOWN. No. 81. From Saranaah. No. 68. 10:00 a m Lv....... Savannah Lt 7:3opm p m A r August* Ar 6:16 a m •:16pm. Macon ** 3:toam : B pm <• .Atlanta " 7:00 am Eatenton •• 12:30 p m No. 16. From Augusta. No, 18. No. 20. 830 am Lv. ... Augusta.. .I/rfo 80 am. “Ar 626 pm 8 26pm Ar....Savannah...Ar 8 00am....Ar8 00am 6 15pm “....Macon . " 8 00am II 15pm “ ....Atlanta " 7 00am 868 am “ ....Oolumbns " 160 pm 2 83am “ ....Enfaula “ 4 46 p m II 46pm “ ....Albany '“ 4 06pm • ** ....Milleagevflle “1029 am —Katonton “12 30 p m No. 54. From Macon. No. Q, B *S2 ;;;; * loiS? S Eatonton “ 12:39 pm .—* From Macon. No. 3,~~ LtfpmAr* F^? CO ? br 7:10 pm From Macon. No. 19. '-i: O*L 0 * L From Macon. No. 54. No. 63. 12-Mnm a T ; • • Lt 7:00 pm 8:16 am GAppmAr,... Atlanta Ar 11:16 pm 7:00 am —No. From Fort Valley. No 21 H°- ■ Prom Atlanta No. M. No. 52T !2?8“jS* Atlanta. X. :00pm 4:ooam 6.31 pm Ar Maoen ....Ar13:40 am 7:37 am S a m V. Enfaula •• 4 46 pm * Milledgeville. 10 29 am M Eatonton. •• 12 30 pm •"•••**•**— M Savannah *• 800 a m 325 pm Wo. 8. From Oolnmbnfl. No?2oT~ *1 E * m^ T - Columbuß. ....Lv 9 45 pm 4r,f<°“ * Milledgeville 10 29Am Eatonton .. "I’3o p m • ~ -..Augusta “ 4 45p in — Savannah ** 3 25 p m From Eufauiai N0.4.~" 12 01 p m Lv Eufaula. Lt l 02 a m 4 06pm Ar Albanj Ar “ 6 86pm Macon •• 7’ok".“ll‘ 11 15 p m m A t, n n } a "M * 12 65 p m „ Eatonton 44 12 30 p m 800 a m ..... Savannah 44 325 p m Wo. 26. From N >. 28. 12 00noon Alban? - Lv 2 25am 446 p m Ar Eufauli. .. Ar ... 635 p m 44 -....Macon - ** jok J'm 853 a m 44 Columbus l 6o n m 11 15 pm Atlanta •* 12 55pm .. -....Eat0nt0n...- 44 12 30 p m ............. —— Au-usta 4 45pm aOO a m ...... -....Savannah 326 p m No. 22. From Eatonton; nd Milledgevills. 115 pm Lv....... m -..Eatonton 8 42 p m Lv Milledgeville.. " 6 15pm Ar Macon 852 a m 4 .. Columbus. 2 32 a m 44 ... Eufaula ” 11 46 p m Albany .............. 1116 pm - —Atlanta - Augusta. ..,‘**7 8 00 a m Savannah...— 24. From Perry. No. 22. 5 S a m Perry... Lv 2 45 p in JjJjL* m Ar Frt Valley Ar 3 35 p m 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, Subscription $1.50 in Advance. 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 <ame 1— Qtrrrvm ttvn {P*nn.) __