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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. Subscription $1,50 in Advance 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.