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(The Penn? and Jfaonet.
J. W. TV HITE, Editor ami Proprietor.
VOLUME IV.
Centra? & Soulhwestern Railf'ds.
I All trains of this system are run by Siaiul
* (98) Meridian time, which is 86 minutes
Kroner tmn nine kept by city,]
Savannah, Ga., Jan. 24 1886.
ON AND AFTER THIS DATE PASSEN
GER TRAINS on the Central and South
western Railroads aud branches will run a
to lows :
GOING- NORTH.
Leave No. 61— No. 53
Savannah...D 840 a m.. D 81) pm
Leave No. 15—
D 5 40 p m..
Arrive No. 16—
114*611 D 8 45pm..
V. live No. 51— No. 53
• An :n-ta 1) 3 45 p m.. D 6 15 a m
Macon D 4 20 p m.. D 3 20 a m
Ai ante D 935 pm.. D 733 a m
i.' ilmnbus.. D 623 am.. D 215 pm
Perry Di£B 845 pm.. DEB 12 00 m
Fort Gaines DES 438 pin
p’a i Jev., DES 710 pn:
Eufaula D 401 pin
A liany. D 10 48 pm.. D 245 pm
Montgomery D 7 25 p m
Kl ledgeville DF.S 540 p m
Jiatonton.. .DES 7 40pm
CONNECTIONS AT TERMINAL POINTS
At Aliyu ta —Truiiiß 51 anil 53 (' nneet '.v 'ii
mißwin,' trains of Georgia . a lr >ad,Co!iut:b a.
Olmr.oite and Augusta Itiilroal, and Hon
;.'.!i-. lina Railroad. Train 53 conn cl i |
a rtgting train of Augusta an I Kuoxvi e lUi.- |
road. Train 51 connects with trains ii K,,- ,
•niiiii. Wrightoviile and Louisville.
At Atlanta-—I rains 51 aud 53 cornier witii
? ii-Line and Kennesaw routes to ad points
Nor.h and East, and with ail diverging loads
for local stations.
COMING SOU I'H.
Le v. —Nos. Nos.
M dm. ~IOD 5 00am..
Aagn.-ia.3BD 931ain..2'D 9Sopn:
Ma00it...52D 940 am. 54 D 10 6‘J p m
Atlanta. .52 D GOO am.. 64 I) GSO p m
Oolmnb’s 20 D 900 pm.. 6D 1140 am
Party. ...24DES 600 u m.. 22 DES 800 p m
Ft. Gaines 28 “ 1005 am
Blake.ey 26 “ 815 am
iimau'a 2D 10 55am
Al isny .. 4 D 410 a m.. 26 D 12 15 p m
Monty Yy 2D 7 40 am
MiUMg've 25 DES 837 a m
Ettomon 25 DES 5 15 a m
Arrive —No.
savannah 16 D 805 a m.. No.
-savannah 52 D 407 pm.. 54 D 60> am
'Connections at Savannah, with Savant,ah.
Florida and Western lUilway for all points ii
-Florida.
Trains Nos. 53 and 54 will not stop to V.’
on or put off passengers between Savani.idi
and Milien, as trains Nos. 15 and 1(1 are .x
--pouted to do the way business between 'ii >so
points.
Local sleeping cars on all night passenger
trains liotweeu Savannah and Augusta, Sa ait •
liali and Macon, Savannali and Atlanta, Mom
and Columbus.
T ckcta for all points and sleeping car berths
m sale at city office, No. 20 Bull street,
a. \. Whitehead, WILLIAM ROGEItS,
Gen. Pass. Agt. Gen. Supt., Savannah.
J. C. Shaw, W. F. SHELLMAN,
Go. Tray. Agt. Traffio Manager,
Savannah (it.
'TV* daily, “DES,” dally except Sun I tv.
His Education.
“What is your name?” asked the young
3ady school teacher, addressing a boy
'ahem she had called up.
'“Dave Black.”
“Well, Davey, have yo , ever been to
school very much?”
“Nome.”
“Do you know your letters?”
‘'Reckon so.”
“Can you spell?”
“Kaint spell cow, but I ken spell
hoss.”
“You must say horse, not hoss.”
“That’s wbut pap says.”
“Well, he’s wrong.”
“Blame ef he is.”
‘ ‘X on must not say that. ”
“Whitt must I say, cuss it?”
“Gracious, no.”
“Pap says it.”
“Well, but you must not, Are you
the only child at home?”
“Nome, I a’int at home.”
“I mean are you the only one when
you are there?”
“Not ef any the rest uv ’em air thar?”
“You have brothers and sisters,thou, I
suppose?”
“Yus, got a brother an’ a sister, but a
sister married Fool.”
“Married whom?”
“Fool.”
“Is that his name?”
“I reckon so, fur I heard pap say that
Sal had dun run erway with that fool.”
• ’That will do. Go over there now and
sit down.”
“Tired a-setten’; wan'er go out an’
slosh round er little. Well, er good
bye.”
D.ivey's education was complete.—
Arkansaw Traveler.
The Man Who Never Forgot a Face.
The passenger who was newer known
to forgeta face satdownbeside a freckled
young man with a sandy mustache.
“Seems to me I’ve seen you before,”
said the never-forget-you passenger.
“Possibly,” replied the freckled young
man, “my name is Smith, of Jones
ville, Mich.”
“What! Smith, of Jonesville.”
“Yes, John Smith, of Jonesville. Di
you ever live in Jonesville?”
“Bhould say I did. Lived there ten
yeats. Knew I had seen you somewhere
before. I never forget a face. I knew
you as soon as I sot eyes on you. Never
forgot a face in my life.”
“How long since you left that old
town?”
“Let me see; it was twenty-seven years
last June. That’s a long time, ain't it?
Hain't been back there since, but your
face is as fresh in my mind as if it were
only yesterday.”
‘’Now this is odd,” said the freckled
young man; you haven't been in Jones
ville for (wenty-seven years. I haven't
becn-out of it for twenty-seven years,and
lam just twenty-seven years old. I
must have been born the year you left
our town. Do you still think you re
member mo?”
“Remember you, lad? Why, I knew
you the second I saw you. I was your
godfather at your christening, and do
you think I would forget a fuse that was
impressed on my mind i.t so solemn a
ceremony as that? No, siree. I never
forget a face, young man, never.”—
Chicago Herald.
I he Power of Money Over Mind.
“No, George,” she said, “alPmust be
aver between us; lean never marry you.”
But why did you promise to be my
wife?’’
“Well, George, I didn’t know my own
mind until yesterday; at least it wasn’t
until but euius that. I heard that your
i*■ -■ m.it who died last week hadn’t left
you a cent." —Philadelphia Herald.
THE NEWS IN GENERAL.
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST
FROM ALL POINTS.
EASTERN AND MIDDLE STATES
The bark James Stafford, which arrived
at New York from Havre a few days since,
had a most tempestuous voyage, and lost four
seamen overboard.
An enormous mass of rock and earth be
came detached in anew railroad tunnel at
Potteville, Penn., and overwhelmed a num
ber of workmen. Three men were killed or
fatally injured, and about a dozen more bad
ly hurt.
The president of Mexico and the mikado
of Japan have each contributed SSOO to the
Grant national monument fund, which has
reached about $122,000.
New York and Boston have just been
holding big flower shows. Rare orchids and
many floral novelties were exhibited.
Mrs. Francke, a widow, residing near
Reading, Penn. , kindled a fire with coal oil,
and while so doing the flames spread to the
can, which exploded with terrific force. The
burning oil scattered over the body of the
wc man and upon her two children, aged nine
and eleven years. Mrs. Francke jumped into
a cistern and was drowned, and her two chil
dren were fatally burned.^
SOUTH AND WEST.
Furious snow storms, ice gorges and
floods have earned considerable damage to
property and delay to travel in portions of
the West. A cyclone destroyed two churches
at Williamsport, Ind., and damaged many
buildings and barns.
As Jailor Clarke entered a cell in the
prison at Yazoo City, La., to give three ne
gro convicts their supper, he was disarmed
Ly the prisoners, who escaped into the yard.
Clarks attempted to stop the ringleader, but
was brained with a billet of wood.
Three valuable blocks, including the
opera-house, have been burned at Helena,
Ark.
Both houses of the Kentucky legislature
have passed a bill making gambling a felony.
A street-car at Lacrosse, Wis., fell twelve
feet over fa bridge. The horse was killed,
the car crushed and five passengers seriously
njured.
i Govf.cn ir Stoneman, of California, on
the 23<1 appoint.! 1 George Hearst United
Btates Senator in place of John F. Miller
j deceased.
j Dr. W. M. CttASTi.AN was shot and killed
at Dexter, Kansas, by A. B. Elliott, to
whoso daughter he was paying addresses
| against the father's wishes.
Thu son of Mrs. Sarah McKenzie while
shooting at a mark near Waverlv, Ind., ac
cidentally killed his mother.
A compromise was effected with the strik
ng switchmen at Kansas City on the 24th,
and the men resumed work.
William M. Smith, an ex-speaker of the
Illinois legislature, committed suicide at his
home in Lexington in that State by shooting
himself through the head. He had been in
j failing health.
The governors of Missouri and Texas issued
proclamations on the 25tli relative to the
great railroad strike. All persons were
! warned not to interfere with the resumption
of business by the railroad companies.
WASHINGTON.
The secretary of the treasury has issued the
one hundrel and thirty-fifth call for the re
demption of bonds. The call is for $10,009,009
of tho throe per ■ ent. loan of 1882, and notice
is given that the principal and accrued inter
est will be paid at tho treasury in Washing
ton on May 1.
Additional nominations by the President:
Malcom G. Barney, receiver of public
moneys at Spokano Falls, Washington Ter
ritory; J. Richard Winfield, of Virginia, to
be consul of tho United States at San Jose,
Costa Rica, and a number of presidential
postmasters.
The Senate committee on public buildings
and grounds authorized a favorable report
to be made on Senator Morrill’s bill appro
priating $300,000 for the erection of an ex
tension to the White House.
The Senate committee on the District of
Columbia voted to report adversely the nom
ination of James C. Matthews (colored), of
Albany, to succeed Frederick Douglas as re
corderof deeds iu the District. Tho votes for
confirmation were cast by three Republicans
(Ingalls, Pike and Palmer) and one Demo
crat (Brown), ami tho votes against confir
mation were cast by three Democrats (Black
bum, Vance and Harris) and one Republican
(Riddleberger).
The se retary of the interior has decided
that the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad com
pany has no right to certain lands in Cali
fornia, and has ordered that such lands—
amounting to 2,451,200 acres—be restored to
the public domain.
Lieutenant Maus, who was with Captain
Crawford, of the United States
the latter was killed by Mexican troops, re
ports that Crawford was deliberately and
intentionally assass uatsd. The Mexicans
claim Crawford's party were mistaken for
Indians.
The President has sent to Congress the
third annual report of the civil service com
missioners, accompanied by a message saying
that “wherever this reform has gained a
foothold it has steadily advanced in the es
teem of those charged with pub
lic administrative duties, while tho jteople
who desire good government have constantly
been confirmed in their high estimate of its
value and efficiency.” During the j ear the
commission examined 7,602 persons—6,772
males and 830 females. The number of per
sons examined who have been appointed to
office during the year is 1,876. There are
more than 14,000 places subject to the ex
amination.
Secretary Manning’s sudden attack of
illness on the steps of the treasury depart
ment on the 23d, turned out to be worse than
was at first reported. It was an apoplectic
stroke, and bis relatives were summoned
from Albany to his bedside. It,
was reported on the 25th that
ho would probably resign and go abroad for
a long rest; the oares of office undermined
his health. Another report stated that he
had expressed a desire to resign, but the
President had previously refused to accept
his resignation, and for the present the
secretary would retain his position.
FOREIGN.
Emperor William, of Germany, has just
celel'.rated his eighty-ninth birthday.
A W ahsaw dispatch says thatthe exodus of
Jews Ir an Russian Poland has attained ex
traordinary figures. During 1885 no less than
20,150 left the country for America, to say
nothing of those who went elsewhere.
Riotous anarchists have destroyed or
damaged a great amount of property in
several Belgian towns. At Lige the military
chargod upon the rioters, and many persons
on both sides were wounded.
The first steamer lighted by electricity has
just passed through the Suez canal.
John Bright is reported a convert to Mr.
Gladstone’s schemo of Irish government.
A Nordeneeldt gun aboard the British
man-of-war Albatross burst, instantly, kill
ing two men and fatally injuring two
others.
News Ims just been received of (lie re
opening of hostilities between the French
troops in Madagascar and the native “ Ho vat, *
The French have been badly defeated twice.
| [One Gabriel Dumont, who was Riel’s lieu
tenant during the recent rebellion in Mani
toba, is said to be inciting Indians iu Mon
tana to join in an intended insurrection of
their brethren in Canada,
The Abyssinian troops sent by King John
to relieve the beleagured garrison at Kassala
in the Soudan have fought a battle wit h the
hostile Arnbs near that place. The Arabs
were defeated, and 659 of their men were
killed.
A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE MATERIAL AND IN TELLEOTUAL ADVANCEMENT OP OUR COUNTY.
LOUISVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY. APRIL 8, 1886.
A remarkable duel, resulting from a dis
pute over the relative merits of American
and French female doctors, has just lieeu
fought on the field of Waterloo, in Belgium.
The contestants were Miss Shelby, an Aineri
and Mine. Valsayre, a native of France.
The weapons were swords, and Miss Shelby
was slightly wounded in one arm.
The brig Georgina, of Liverpool, Nova
Scotia, eight men on board, has been lost at
.sea.
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.
Granville, Mass., last vear turned out
-00,000 drums.
A company of deaf and dumb amateurs are
to play “Hamlet” iii London.
Mr. Boucicault’s new comedy, “The
Jilt,” has made a hit in New York.
Miss Mary Anderson will sail for Europe
on J une 5. At present she is playing in tne
far West.
Young Alexander Salviui, now with his
father’s company, gives every promise of fu
ture greatness.
Mme. Janauschek will shortly leave for
Europe, but will return next season for a*
farewell tour.
Frank James, the famous Missouri ban
dit, is reported to have declined on offer of
$25,000 a year to travel with a circus.
Mrs. Langtry is to appear in London in
May as the beautiful Helen of Troy in Mr.
Godwin's Greek play modeled on Sophocles.
Florence Mollinelli, a fifteen-year-old
Denver girl, has made her debut as Juliet,and
is said to show considerable genius for one so
young.
Tiie young American c antatrice, Miss Ella
Parepa, a pupil of the Frankfort Conserva
tory, has been engaged by the Berlin royal
opera.
Another actress has entered the lecture
field. This time it is Miss Kate Reynolds,
formerly leading lady of the Boston Museum,
and now Mrs. Irving Winslow.
California is about to launch anew and
wealthy amateur on the professional stage.
She is a Mrs. Alfred Abbey, of Oakland, and
has ample beauty, a huge bank account and a
sweet soprano voice.
Senora Ruiz and two female choristers of
a Mexican theatrical company were kidnap
ped by Indians during a raid on Peto, Mex
ico, recently. They were held for SB,OOO ran
som, which was paid, and they were re
leased.
Miss Bottsford. a young American girl
who is studying at Pali‘s recently attracted
considerable attention from the critics by her
violin performances. It is said that she will
soon return to this country and begin an ar
tistic career.
A beautiful girl, formerly of New York,
more recently of Washington, where she re
signed a posit ion in the treasury department
in order to study lor the stage, has just been
dismissed as incompetent by . a theatrical
manager. She resigned monotony and S7O
a month for excitement, uncertainty and S4O
a month while “under study.”
NEWSY GLEANINGS.
There are now about 130 steam vessels in
i the trails-Atlantic service.
The spring drive of cattle from Texas is
expected to exceed 300,000 head.
The emigration from Ireland for 1885 was
| 62,420, against 76,048 during 1884.
During the last five years 66,000 persons
; have died of consumption in Paris.
The amount of railroad building already
l this year is one-half as large again as last
A Boston court has ruled that a divorce
obtained in Dakota is not binding in Massa
chusetts.
There are living in Barrington, N. H..
three men who voted for James Monroe at
his first election.
Anew secret order,resembling the Knights
of Labor, anil to be called the Knights of
Industry has been formed.
Senor Antonio Mayner, the owner of the
large sugar plantation Aurora, in Matanzas,
Cuba, has declared his slaves free.
An international exhibition of industry,
science, and art, will be held at Ediuburgh,
Scotland, during the coming summer.
An extensive mine of rubidium, a rare
metal worth $5,000 per pound, has been dis
covered near Rock Creek, Washington Ter
ritory.
From tho five States of New York. Penn
sylvania, Illinois, Massachusetts, and Ohio
the government derives one-half of all its
postal revenues.
It is believed that there are more fowls in
the country than at any previous period in
its history. The supply of poultry and eggs
is very large in most cities.
The new aqueduct building in New York
at present gives employment to over four
thousand men, and about fifty thousand
pounds of explosives are used every week.
F 5 Boston has developed anew industry.
Men there make a business of going around
from house to house washing pet dogs, and
charging therefor from fifty to seventy-five
cents apiece.
A New York commercial agency estimates
that at the present time there are in this
country 51,000 working people idle on ac
count of strikes. A year ago there were only
18,00;) strikers.
More than 3.500 babies have beeu entered
for the international baby contest iu Paris.
I One of th J entries is a Belgiau boy of live
j years, who is four feet one and a half inches
iu height and weighs 158 pounds.
Among tho mining organized
last year in London were fourteen projected
to carry on operations in the gold and dia
mond fields of South Africa, three companies
for Asia, twelve for South America, six for
Mexico and Central America, and five for
Australasia.
I
A DESPERADOS DESERTS.
iiilliiiM Two Mpn anil Seriously Wounding
Others-Ithlillcit with llulleta.
An exciting tragedy which was begun in
Burt county, Neb., on Saturday, the 20th,
was brought to a close on the 21zt by the
killing of the desperado, Allen Wright,
who, after killing his employer, H. C.
Stodman, and Charles P. Johnson, was
pursued and chased into a barn
twelve miles from the scene of the
first murder. Being armed with a revolver
and a Winchester rifle, and having plenty
of ammunition, he held a crowd of over 200
armed men at bay from Saturday morning
until a lato hour Sunday afternoon. During
Sunday he fatally wounded Edgar Everett,
and ■ -riously wounded several others. As
he had food aud milk in the barn, it was im
posiible to starve him out. It was therefore
i determined to burn him out, and this plan
was carried into execution.
When Wright saw that escape was impos
; sible he fired twenty or thirty shots at the
crowd, uo one being wounded, however. The
crowd, which entirely surrounded the bam,
: fired volley after volley from Winchester
rifles from all sides on the spot in the bam
where they supposed Wright to be. When
the fire was extinguished it. was found that
bis head had been almost shot away, and his
body was full of bullets. His arms and legs
were burned off. He was buried near by.
. - ... *••
A Lady Hunter.
The champion hunter and trapper of Butler
conn y, A a., is a lady, Mrs. F. H. Grem. She
f ri quently goes out gunning, aud always comes
bade laden with game, such as squ rrels, w.ld
turkeys, etc. Last week she caught six wild
turkeys in one day in a pen. and winged two
more with her rifle
FRIGHTENING THE QUEEN.
4 CRANK THROWS A PETITION
INTO VICTORIA’S CARRIAGE.
The Incident Has the Effect of (’renting
Great Excitement lii London.
Queen Victoria went in state the other
afternoon to open the ceremony of laying the
j foundation of the new examination hall of
the College of Surgeons, on the Thames
embankment, London. She was accompa*
nied by the Prince and Princes of Wales
and other members of the royal
family. The weather was clear
aud beautiful, and the people turned out
in vast numbers along the route taken by
the Queen. The shops and club bindings
i were decked with flags and streamers, and
! displayed an abundance of loyal mottoes.
} Tne r.yal party was every when* received
j with ♦!;.* 1 cuthusiasm. The , 'pie
rushed alongside the royal earriago during
, its progress, greeting her majesty ever where
with cheering.
After her return from the corner stone lay
ing the queen left Buckingham palace at 4:80
e’clock for a drive. She was accompanied by
Princess Beatrice. They went in an open
carriage to Hyde park, and everywhere were
cheered by crowds of people. Among the
crowd was a man in.shabby clothes and wear
ing a slouch hat. He appeared to be much
agitated and elbowed his way to the edge of
the assemblage. When the royal turnout
reached a point opposite him ho throw some
thing into the carriage. Great excitement
followed the .strange man's actions, and he
was quickly taken into custody by tho police
and hurried from tho scene. It was learned
that the article was only a p e .*e of paper.
When the quo m noticed the man's action
i she shrank back* and was evidently
startled. Princess Beatrice leaned forward
apparently for the purpose of shielding tho
queen from any attack that might be made
upon her. The prisoner offered no resistance
to his arrest, and went without struggle to
the police station. Ho said that he lived in
King street, and dote dives were at once de
i tailed to work up his history. The paper
, which he threw into the queen's carriage con
! tained nothing more than a petition for re
i dress of a personal grievance under which he
i believes he is unjustly suffering.
Tho man is mentally deranged. The peti
tion is written in a style peculiar to insane
: persons, and contained nothing alarming.
The man is about forty years of age: is of
low stature, slender build, sallow oomph* v ion,
aud emaciated and careworn appearance.
The man, whose name is Charles Brown,
served for years in the army, anil has since
been confined in insane asylums in England
and Ireland. In his petition, which is well
written, he complains that he was robbed of
his pension. He was held for an inquiry,
PERSONAL MENTION.
Rev. Sam Jones say3 he never wrote a
! sermon in hi^ife.
j . Ex-Governor George Hoadly, of Ohio,
i is said to be much broken in health,
i Henry M. Stanley finds it hard to get tho
i Congo fever out of him. and he is sick-a-bed
t again.
Ben: Perley Poore’s collection of auto
graphs contains the writing of 10,000 promi
nent people.
Elijah Babdett, of Erie, N. Y., is the
oldest practitioner at the New York bar. He
is ninety-two.
Leopold von Ranke, the celebrated Ger
man historian, who is past ninety, works
away like sixty.
The Prince of Wales, restricted by his
physician to a lean mutton chop and stale
bread for his dinner, is rail to he a very mel
ancholy dyspeptic indeed.
General Logan’s mail is, according to a
Washington correspondent, probably the
largest of any member in either branch of
Congress. It frequently exceeds 200 a day
and seldom falls below 150.
Jefferson Davis is going to deliver an
address in Montgomery, Ala., in May for
the benefit of a charitable institution. A cot
ton warehouse capable of accommodating
5,000 people has been secured for the occa
sion.
Lieutenant GREBLY,the Arctic explorer,
has been a constant sufferer from acute neui a!
gia since his return rom the Polar regions; and
recently, as a remedy, had the nerves at
the base of the spine severed aud the flesh and
muscles separated.
T. V. Powderly, the head of the Knights
of Labor, is a native of Carbondale, Penn.,
where he was born January 28, 1839. By
trade a machinist, he has made himself a
competent civil engineer. He was mayor of
Scranton for two 3’ ears, aud has served six
years at the head of the great labor organiza
tion.
A LOST STEAMER.
A Vessel Sails from New York with Twenty
People on Board and is Unheard Of.
All hope for the steamship Rapidan, which
left New York on February 2 for Port
Limon, Costa Rica, has been given up. Hers
is undoubtedly one of those mysterious
cases where a stanch ship sails out
of harbor and is swallowed up
by some unknown fate. No passing
vessel sees the doomed ship struggling with
storm and tempest, no floating wreckage
gives a clew to her fate, no dead bodies
washed ashore come as messengers from the
lost craft. There seems to be an utter an l
complete annihilation of the ship and every
body and everything pertaining to her.
The Rapidan sailed with a crew
of twenty-two all told, one pas
senger, a quantity of live stock
and somo general cargo. She was go
ing to Port Limon in Costa Itica, and from
there to Colon aud Cartagena, iu the United
States of Columbia. She waste have lieen
the pioneer ship of a . ew Hue which E. P.
Kenuard, her owner, was to establish be
tween ports on the Spanish main. The loss on
the steamer and cargo is about $45,000.
A FIGHT WITH OUTLAWS.
4 Youni Englishman’, Plucky Keslstunce
of Brigands in Sicily.
Quito a sensation has been produced in
Sicily by a daring attempt by brigands to
capture the Hon. Victor Albert Nelson Hood,
a .on of Lord Bridport. Mr. Hood is a god
son of Queen Victoria.
Lord Bridport is equery to the queen, and
through his mother succeeded to thadukedom
of Br> >nte, in Sicily, conferred on Admiral
Nelson. The fief attached to the dukedom in
cludes the Castillo di Mauiaco. Mr. Hood was
residing there wheu the brigands, who, it is
believed, had plotted to take him a prisoner
and hold him for a high ransom, made an at
tack in force upon the place.
The servants were brave and soon rallied in
defence of their youDg master. A fierce
fight ensued, which resulted in the defeat
and dispersal of the robbers, but only after
many of them had been disabled by wounds.
Four of the brigands were taken prisoners
and turned over to the custody of the authori
ties.
Anal for Brazil from Alabama.
The Pratt coal and iron company, at Bir
nii gham, shipped & car load of coal to Mobile,
win re it was loaded on tho Brazilian .steamer.
Almorento Bvwasa, and shipped to Brazil. This
!a the first sliipmout of Alabama coal ever made
direot from the mines to that country.
THE LABOR BUREAU.
SYNOPSIS OF THE COMMISSION
ER’S FIRST ANNUAL REPORT.
in Which the Condition of the Country’s
Mechanical Industries Is Set Forth.
The first annual report of tha Bureau of
Labor has been submitted by the Com
missioner, CarroU D. Wright, to the Sec
retary of the Interior. Mr. Wright says that
of factories, mines, etc., existing in the coun
try, about 5 per cent, were idle during 18S5,
and that 5 per cent, more were idle a part of
the year. In roimd numbers 1,000,000 were
'brown out of employment, which means a
loss to the consumptive power of tho country
of over $300,000,000 a year. The volume of
business, however, has been fairly well pre
served and prices have constantly fallen.
There lias also been a constant diminishing
of profits and lowering of wages in general.
the whole, however, the commissioner is
of the opinion that the volume of business of
i the country during the depressed period has
been fairly satisfactory.
The mechanical industries of the United
States are canned on by steam and water
power representing, in round numbers, 3,400,-
000 horse-power, each horse-power equalling
the muscular labor of six men. To do the
work accomplished by power and power ma
chinery in the mechanical industries would
require men representing a population of
172,.>00,000 in audition to the present popu
lation of the country of 55,000,000. The
present cost of operating tho railroads with
steam power, in round numbers, is $502,000 -
000 a year; but to carry on the same amount
of work with men and horses would cost the
country $11,808,500,000. These illustrations
show the straits to which the country* would
he brought, if it undertook to perform ita
work in the old way. Tho apparent evils re
sulting from the introduction of machinery !
to a large extent have been offset by ad
vantages gained. Prior to each j
period of depression siuco 1887
i there has been a large increaso in iinmigra
! tion, and following the inception of the de
pression a sharp falling off. Many instances
might be given, he says, to illustrate the ill
effects or the inopportune importation of
foreign labor—the employment of Hun
garians in mining districts, tho padrone
system m some localities, and other features,
not only* of foreign contract labor, but of the
employment ol foreign labor, which comes
freely on a certain kind of solicitation.
Considering suggested remedies for depres
sions, the commissiqper says that a halt
: should be made in freely granting lands to
corporations. When immigration becomes a
subject of inducement of contract for (he
Surpose of displacing a higher grade of labor,
le authority of law should be called in to
prevent the continuance of the wrong. The
effect that the enactment of laws to slop i
speculation would have, if they could I
be specifically upplisd. would he
tor the public good. A sound
currency is demanded by labor in
order that the laborer may know the value
of his earnings at all times,‘and by the pro
ducer that he may ealculato with reasonable
accuracy the cost of production. Reform in
the methods of distributing supplies would 1
bring great relief to consumers. Co-opera- j
tion in its distributive form is suggested as a
remedy; but co-operative distribution is only I
a half measure. There is no contest be- j
tween labor aud capital, nor be
tween the laborer and capitalist us such, but I
there is a contest between the latter as to tha
profits of capital aud wages of lapor, or, in
simple terms, as to the profits bach shell !
receive for his respective investment, aud j
this contest will continue so long as the I
purely wage system lasts. It is absurd to j
say that the interests of capital and i
labor are identical. They are no more j
identical than the interests of the buyer aud
seller. They are, however, reciprocal, and
the intelligent comprehension of this recipro
cal element can only be brought into the
fullest play by the most complete organiza
tion, so that each party shall feel that he is
an integral part of the whole working estab
lishment.
A FATAL MAIN.
A Leaky Gas Main Causes an Explosion In
which Several Persons are Killed.
By an explosion of natural gas at Murrays
vi’lf, Penn., the other afternoon, seven per
sons were injured, several of them fatally.
The explosion was followed by a fire,
which destroyed seven dwelling houses.
The names of those fatally in
jured are: Mrs. Harry Taylor, William
Taylor, Mi’s. Taylor’s father-in-law, and
Nellie Hanken, a young girl about fourteen
years of age. Of the others injured three
were children of Mrs. Taylor. They were
quite seriously burned, but the physicians
said they would recover.
The explosion was caused by a leak from a
main. It seems that the Charliers Gas com
pany was making connections from the Mc-
Williams well, a “roarer” just struck, to
their main line. The heavy pressure
caused a break in the pipe, aad the gas.
escaping in large volumes, scon fif'd
the air and the houses iu the
vicinity. Before the break could be re
paired the gas caught lire from a grate in
the house of Mrs. Taylor and almost Instantly
there was a terrific explosion. Flames shot
up in all directions. Mrs. Taylor, with her
three children, father-in-law and Miss Han
ken,were seated on the porch in front of
the house. They were enveloped in
the flames and terribly burned.
Immediately following tho explosion the
house took fire and quickly spread to the ad
joining buildings, destroying seven of them
in a short time. The Melt illiams well caught
' fire also and is now burning fiercely, flames
leaping fully 200 feet in the air. There was
great excitement, as it was feared other wells
in close proximity will be ignited. The loss
on the buildings destroyed was $3,000.
A COSTLY BLAZE.
KhII Itiver’. Handsome City Hall aad Bis
Library Laid in Ashes.
Fire was discovered in the city hall at Fall
River, Mass., tho other day. The flames wen
seen issuing through tho roof at the east end
of tho building. Before the fire department
arrived the entire upper story was a mass of
flames. Sparlis and burning pieces of wood
dropped on neighboring buildings, but thoy
were saved from destruction. The whole fire
department were soon at work.
Three-quarters of an hour after the fire
was discovered, the tower, IGS feet high, con
taining a clock and bell, fell to the street
with a terrible crash, scattering burning tim
bers in all directions. The upper floors and
parts of the walls fell about the same time.
The firemen worked vigorously aud in a short
time had tho fire in check.
The building, which contained all the city
offices and a library of 28,000 volumes, was
a stately granite structure, four stories high
it was built in 1844, the year after the great
fire, at a cost of $75,000." It was remoaole.' '
in 1872, at a cost of $195,000. The entire loss
is placed at $300,000, on which there was no
insurance.
A Wentworth, N. C.t Man Marries Ills
Nelce.
Andrew Roberta, a well known young mau of
Rocky Springs, N. 0., made a visit to his sis- !
tel'*, where he fell deeply in love with his
pretty ueice. Not regarding the law against
the marriage of pereons within the third de
gree of kindred, the couple appeared before
Squiie Henderson and were made one. The
couple were arrested & couple of days later , the
hithband was placed In jail, while the wife was
subsequently released. She begged, however, j
to be allowed to remain witu him, but her on
treaties were not listened to.
THE STRIKING RAILROADERS.
l FREIGHT TRAIN DITCHER li\
STRIKERS IN MISSOURI.
The Views of n Prominent Knight of Labor
Upon the Situation.
on me vso tne great raiiroaa strree on tne
j Gould system of railroads in the Southwest
had assumed a most serious aspect, aud
| threatened to oxtend to other roads. At
Sedalia, Mo., E. K. Sibley, division superin
tendent of tho Missouri Pacific, attempted
to move a freight train. A large de
tail of polico was in the yards and
no resistance was offered until the train
reached the city limits aud Sheriff Murray
took charge. Tiie local polico stepped off
the train and a lew deputy sheriffs stepped
on. The bell was rung and the train started
east, with a full head of steam. About three
miles from the city, while going at the rate
of twent)* miles an hour, the engine and live
cars were ditched and a half dozen other
cars wrecked and destroyed. The engineer
and fireman appear to have been on guard
and jumped off before tho engine left the
rails. An officer, one Mason, and a man who
had volunteered to go along as a guard, were
caught iu tho wreck and badly injured. Oth
ers who were on the tender and the
cars next to the engine were danger
ously injured. Tho wounded were
quickly carried away. At op. m. some 2,000
persons hail walked from the city to the
scene of the wreck. The engine was lying
on its side in the ditch badly damaged. There
was little left of the cars except kindling
wood ami the freight was a total loss. It
was charged that, strikers or their sympa
thizers caused the accident, but this they de
nied. Vice-President Hoxie was at once in
formed bj* telegraph of what hail occurred.
At St. Louis an attempt was made to send
oui a frieght train of twenty cars. Engineer
Study and Fireman Barrett were on the lo
comotive. As it backed down from the
shops Barrett jumped off and a detective
took his place. There were fifty police*
men in the yard besides tl e detec
tives in the employ of the
company. VV r hile the engine was being at
tached someone pulled a pin in the middle
of tho train and tiie engine started off with
only ten cars. As it backed up again the
strikers swarmed into the yards and turned
the switches and the engine and half the
train were run a half mile across on another
track. I’ins were again pulled out and the train
cut into a half dozen sections. Une of the
defectives on top of a car saw a man about
to draw a pin, and pointing a revolver at his
head ordered him to stop. The man said;
“Shoot away,” aud walked deliberately be
tween the cars, pulled the pin and then es
caped. By this time a crowd of a thousand
§ersons had congregated on Tr3*on Avenue
ridge, cheering the strikers amfhootmg.the
police. Tho attempt was abandoned and no
arrests were made.
At Atchiuson, Kansas, 150 men, masked
and otherwise disguised, went to the Central
branch shops, drove the fifteen watchmeu
into the oil house, took possession of all the
remaining engines aud disabled them. The
next morning a freight train came iu from
Hiawatha and ran down iuto the lower yards
followed by a great crowd of strikers. It was
guarded by a city marshal and a squad of police
until it reached the city limits. As soon as
the officers left it the strikers Immediately
took possession, set the brakes and stopped
tho train. The engine was “killed” (disabled)
on the track, aud the train had to be hauled
back by a switch engine. The switch engine
was then “killed.” The men who captured
the train had been served with injunctions
by the United States marshal.
0e of the leading Knights of Labor at St,
Louis was asked if all tho Knights were to be
Called out. Ho replied: “I hope it will
never come to that Thepresent fight is only
against the railroads. We will wait a couple
of days, perhaps three or four, in tho hope
that some way of escape from the conflict
may show itself, and then if the situation
remains unchanged for the better every
freight train on every road running out of St.
Louis, and every freight train on every road
running out of Chicago will be stopped.
Somo 0,000 men now employed on roads
centering in Chicago will stop work. They
will have no brakemen, ho firemen, no
switchmen, no yard beliefs, no freight haud
| lers in the freight house, and with engineers
and conductors alone they cannot move their
freight. We will leave the trackmen and
enough men to run the mail trains and a
few accommodation trains, but not a
! wheel of a single freight car can be turned
i until the Knights of Labor, the great labor
; organization of the country, are recognized.
It is a matter of necessity to us. If
we fail after calling out the Knights on the
roads centering in St. Louis and Chicago,
tho order will be extended to all Eastern and
Southern roads, embracing the entire coun
i try, and if it comes to the worst, the strike
will be made to embrace every large manu
factory and every large business industry
in the country. Defeat means enslave
ment, and death is preferable. I
don’t mean to say that all the wrong in this
fight has been on the side of the railroad
company and all the right on our side; not
at all. To tell the truth, I think it was a
grave mistake to order that strike against
the Missouri. Pacific without first laying
our grievances before the company and
asking that they be heard and righted.
That was a serious mistake, almost an un
pardonable blunder, but tho mistake once
made, and the matter having been carried so
fnr, an issue having been made against the
jvnignra or Laoor, we cannot go Dacs on it.
but light it out to the end.”
The Knights of Labor issued a reply to
V ice-president Hoxie of the Missouri Pacific.
It was agreed, they say, to submit their
frievances to the governors of Missouri and
Kansas on the understanding that they would
arrange a meeting between Mr Hoxie and
themselves. They condemn the action of
the governors iu publishing Mr. Hoxie’s
propositions before they were per
mitted to se s them, anil they repudiate tneir
conclusions that the Missouri Pacific had not
violated the agreement of March 15, 1885.
They say Mr. Hoxie simply wants trouble;
that lie is inciting it, and making au innocent
public pay the price of his perfidy. How
long, they ask, will the public consent to let
Gould and Hoxie thus rule or ruin.
WHERE IHO THEY COME FROM?
The People or Rnlvlali. N.C.. Find Strange
Tliiugic tn the Air.
The sivarm of strungc insects which passed
over tin city of Raleigh, N. 0., Friday night
has arou-cd the curiosity of those who take in
terest iu such things. Thousands of them fell
■i various parts of the oity, especially where
attracted by lights. Tho iuseots, or hugs, or
iocusts, are immense foilowe, averaging two
and a half iucheß in length, with broad, flat
bodies au inch wide. They have four legs, a
powerful pair of feelers, horny-like mandib es
and immense eyee. They are very quick in
their movements, but extremely tenacious of
life. Tueymade no attempt to fly after touch
ing the street or sidewalk. Placed on their
backs they moved with ease by a series of short,
jerky jumps. Their wing covers are of great
size. Their herd, winch is large, is hinged at
its junotion with tho body. The insects are
tough customers to look at or handle. At the
time they fell the sk.v was slightly overoast with
clouds and a cool breeze wae blowing from the
northwest.
It is said to have been discovered by
science that the wind moves in a circle,
but uo explanation has been made as to
how it happens that when the playful
zephyrs seize hold of a man's hat they
always make a straight shoot lor the neat
ert mudpuddle.
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NUMBER 14.
FORESHADOWINGS.
Wind of the winter night,
Under the starry skies.
Somewhere my lady bright.
Slumbering lies,
Wrapped in calm maiden dreams.
Where the pale moonlight streams,
Softly she sloops.
I do not know her face.
Pure as the lonely star
That in yon darkling space
Shine!h afar;
Never with soft command
Touched I Iter willing hand.
Kissed I her lips.
I have not heard her voice,
I do not know her name;
Yet doth my heart rejoice,
Owning her claim;
Yet am 1 ierue to her;
All that is due to her
Sacred I keep.
Never a thought of me
Troubles her soft repose;
Courant of mine may be
Lily or rose:
They may not. bear to her.
This heart's fond prayer to her,
Yes—she is mine.
—Julia C. I!. Durr.
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.
A cold snap—Breaking an icicle.
The best thing out—An aching tooth.
Up to everything—The thermometer.
There are a good many Johns iu Con
gress, but the Bills head the list.—Good
all's Sun.
The man who persists in remaining sin
gle is too economical by half.—Burling
ton Free Press.
The only leading lady that society
recognizes is the one who conducts a pug
with a string. —The Judge.
She took his watch and said to him,
“When you have learned to do
The things task aud you forget,
I’ll give it back to y ou.”
That evening, when she asked, in tones
Of confident* sublime,
“Say, did you get it?” “No,” he said:
“I didn’t have the time.”
“Say, waiter, this beefsteak looks as if
it had been hammered on an anvil.”
“Yes, sir, we buy it by the pound.”—
Boston Budget.
“A man never loses anything by po
liteness.” At all events there are a great
many men who never do and never in
tend to. —Boston Transcript.
In Alabama they chew the tassels
of the fir trees us a substitute for tobacco,
“which,” says a correspondent, “reminds
me of the adage, ‘be fir-chewers and you
will be happy.’ ” — Life.
The South Americans put up sausage
in bark. Concerning this no comment is
necessary, only’, to say that the South
Americans desire to preserve every phase
of the dog. —Arkansas Traveler.
A Camden man has invented an ice ve
locipede. No, thank you, none for us.
We have cracked ice two inches thick
with the back of our neck off common
skates.— Qermantown Independent.
. FANCY AND FACT.
These were the rings that the circus man
swore
They would have in their show, at least three
or more,
O 0 0
But the people who gathered did jeer and did
hiss.
Instead or the three, they saw one like this
o
—Evansville Argus.
First “lady”—“And which side is
your husband now, Mrs. Mangles?” Sec
ond ditto—“ Sometimes one, and some
times another, m’um. When I don’t want
any money he's a ‘Liberal,’ but when I’m
short he’s a regular Conservative!”—
Punch.
A French agricultural college experi
ment is claimed to have demonstrated
that giving cows water at sixty-six de
grees increased the milk yield one-third.
But this must be a mistake. We suspect
that, from long habit, the water was put
into the milk can instead of tho
cow.— Minnesota Tribune.
AT THE BALD.
Her face was fair
Beyond compare,
Her mannor haughtiness supreme;
I thought, and yet
I can’t forget,
That things are rarely what they seem.
Three words she spoke,
Which like the stroke
Of doom, in fragments rent my dream.
“You dance?” I said,
She turned her head,
And smiling, answered, “I should scream.’’
—New Haven News.
Points About, the Eye.
The following facts and statements arc
from a lecture by Dr. H. B. Grove on
“ Color Blindness and Other Peculiari
ties of the Eye
There is no cure for color blindness.
The first case of color blindness was
reported in 1777.
Color blindness is due to exhaustion of
nerve fibers.
Four in every 100 males and one iu
every 400 females are color blind.
It is uo sign a man is color blind be
cause he cannot name every color.
The eye of an insect contains from fifty
to 20,000 small eyes. It is really com
posed of eyes.
We do not need light to see certain
objects. A sharp blow on the eye often
causes a man to “ see stars.”
Tho cause of color blindness, aside
from natural causes, arc alcohol, tobacco
and disease. It is in many cases heredi
tary.
1 once saw a man who was color blind
take 150 colors and divide them into four
groups, black, yellow, white and blue.
It is nonsense to believe that there is
any particular way to rub the eyes. It
makes no difference whether you rub
Iromor towards the nose, or up or down.
The cat, horse and birds have a third
eyelid, which is used to protect the eye
from too much light. Man has a third
eyelid in the corner of the eye, which is
undeveloped.
The defects of the eye are numerous,
but we are pretty well satisfied with it.
Everyone has a blind spot in his eye.
This is proven by shutting one eye and
looking at an object. We cannot see it.
fully.
The use of the eye cups to change the
form of the eye in hopes of bettering the
sight is ridiculous. They draw the eye
out of shape and often cauae blindness.
Thousands of these cups are sold every
year, —Buffalo Express.