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J. W. WHITE, Editor and Proprietor.
VOLUME IV.
Central & Southwestern Railr'ds.
[All trains of this system are run by Stawl
fcrd (90) Meridian time, which is 36 minute j
•lower than time kept by city.]
Savannah, Ga., Jan. 24. 1886.
ON AND AFTER THIS DATE PASSEN
GER TRAINS on the Central and South
western Railroads and branches will run a?
follows
GOINGS- NORTH.
Leave No. 61— No. 53
Savannah... D 8 40am.. D 810 pm
Leave No. 15—
D 5 40pm..
Arrive No. 15—
Millen D 8 45 p m..
Arrive No. 51— No. 53
Augusta....!) 345 pm.. D 6 15am
Macon D 420 p m.. D 320 a m
Atlanta D 935 p m.. D 782 a m
Columbus.. .D 623 a m.. D 216 pin
Perry DES 8 45pm.. DEs 12 00 m
Fort Gaines DES 438 pm
Blakeley DES 7 10pm
Eufaula D 4 01pm
Albany D 10 45 p m.. D 245 pni
Montgomery D 7 25 n m
Mllledgevllle DES 649 pm
Eatfonton .. .DES 740 p m
'Connections at Terminal Points.
At Augusta—Trains 51 and 53 conm ct with
outgoing trains of Georgia i a lr -:i<l,Colnnib a
Charlotte and Augusta Railroad, and Sou*
Carolina Railroad. Train 53 connect' mi'
outgoing train of Augusta and Knoxvii e lla -
road. Train 51 conneots with trains t. r Svi
fAnia, Wrightaville and Li me vide.
At Atlanta—Trains 51 and 53 connee with
Air-Lino and Kennesaw routes toad punts
North ami E .st, and with ail diverging loads
for local stations.
COMING SOUTH.
Leave—Nos. Nos.
Millen .. .16 D 500 am..
Augusta.lßl) 98> am. .2) D 930 pn:
Macon. ..52 D 940 am. 54 D 10 50 pin
Atlanta . .52 D 6 Ott a m. .54 1) 650 p m
Columb'B 20 D 900 pm.. 6 D 11 40 a m
Perry.... 24 DES 600 a in.. 22 I)ES 300 p m
Ft. Gaines 23 •• 10 05 am
Blakeley 26 “ 8 15am
Eufaula 2D 10 55am
Albany .. 4I) 410a m. .26 D 12 15 p m
Montg’ry 2D 7 40 am
MiliMg’vc 25 DES 687a in
Eaton ton 25 DES 5 15am
Arrive—No.
Savannah 16 1) 8 05 am.. No.
•Savannah 52 J> 4 07 pm.. 54 D 6 00 am
Connections at Savannah, with Savannah.
Florida and Western R.uiway for all points in
Florida.
Trains Nos. 53 and 54 will not stop to take
on or put off passengers between Savaunah
and Millen, as trains No-*. 15 and 16 are ex
pected to do the way business between these
points.
Local sleeping cars on all night passenger
trains between Savannah and Augusta, Savan
nah and Macon, Savannah and Atlanta, Maoon
and Columbus.
Tickets for all points and sleeping car berths
on sale at city office, No. 20 Bull street.
G. A. Whitehead, WILLIAM ROGERS,
Gen. Pass. Agt. Gen. Supt., Savannah.
J. C. Shaw, W. F. SHELLMAN,
Gi.ii. TraV. Agt. Traffic Manager,
Savannah, Ga.
‘D/’Maily, “DES," daily except Sunday.
A Back- Yard Hint.
Pints of ground even as small as ten
(feet square, says a writer in Outing, are
■exquisitely beautified by Japanese meth'
ods, so much do these people admire
gardens and garden effects. There is
truth in the suggestion that too many
American “back yards” are given over
to coal ashes, tin cans and the garbage
barrel, which by simple means and a lit
tle taste might be rendered charming to
tube eye. Such waste places in Japan
would be made neat and cleanly to begin
with; a few evergreen shrubs and one
or two clusters of flowers would be
[planted; there would be a rustic fence
projecting from the side of the house,
and here and there a quaintly shaped
flower-pot containing a few choice
plants. In gardens of more pretense
there would a little pond or sheet of
water of irregular outline, and if so situ
ated that a brook can be turned to run
through it a great charm is attained.
The picturesque features of such a
streamlet are brought out with the aid
■ot rock fragments and even rounded
(bowlders; rustic bridges of stone or
wood are made to span it, even the
smallest pond iiaving a bridge of some
kind thrown across; hummocks and
miniature mountains six or eight feet
high, over or aboutwhich the path runs,
are always present. In gardens of larger
eize the mountain grows to twenty and
'even forty feet high, and upon the sum
mit a little rustic look-out with thatched
roof is made. In still larger gardens
several hundred feet square, “the ponds
and bridges, small hills and meandering
paths, with shrubs trimmed in round
balls of various sizes and grotesquely
shaped pines,with long tortuous branch
es running near the ground, are all com
bi tied in such a way by the skilful land
s'.ipe gardeners that the area seems,
" i ibout exaggeration of statement, ten
times as vast.”—Chicago Ledger.
Curious Facts About Flowers.
Within the antarctic circle there haß
never a flowering plant been found. In
the arctic region there are seven hundred
and sixty-two kinds of flowers ; fifty of
these are confined to the arctic region.
They are really polar flowers. Ihe colors
of these polar flowers are not as bright
and varied as are our own, most of them
being white or yellow, as if borrowing
these hardy hues from their snowy bergs
and golden stars.
Perhaps the most beautiful of all our
everlasting, that longest defy the I
autumn frosts and most brighten our
winter bouquetß, are white and yellow
varieties. The rose of Florida, the most
beautiful of flowers, has no perfume.
The cypress of Greece, the finest of trees,
bears no fruit. The bird of paradise, the
most beautiful of birds, gives no song;
and some of the loveliest of human forms
have the least soul.
The Dorosidse family of flowers,
Ruskin tells us, including the five great
orders—lilies, asphodels, amarylids,
irids, and rushes—have more varied and
beautiful influence on man than any
other tribe of flowers. Nature seems to
have made flowers as types of character
and emblems of women. So we name
our children after them, and always in
tuitively compare a lovely, beautiful
child to a flower; we say the timid snow
drop, the modest violet, the languid
primrose, the coy lily, the flaunting
marigold, the lowly, blushing daisy, the
proud foxglove, the deadly night-Bhade,
sleepy poppy, and the sweet, solitary
eglantine—these are all types.
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Mem in high places are getting to be
dreadfully reokless. Senator Van Wy ke
not only wears paper collars but glories
in the faot.
mt Pews ami ifarmcr.
THE NEWS IN GENERAL.
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I
HAPPENINQB OF INTEREBI
FROM ALL POINTB.
EASTERN AND MIDDLE STATES
James Andrews, an old man, being reject-
Miss Elsie Williams, at Oxford, Conn.,
killed her with an axe and then finished his
own career with poison.
Rev. “Sam” Jones, the Southern evange
list, will hold revival meetings for eight
weeks m Boston next fall.
George Neall, the Newark (N. J.) pound
keeper, died the other day in horrible torture
rrom hydrophobia engoudered by a mad
dog’s bite.
After another conference between the
Knights of Labor representatives and Jay
Gould in New York on the 80th Master
Workman Powderly telegraphed to St. Louis,
ordering the strikers in the Southwest to re
turn to work. Mr. Powderly returned to his
home at Scrauton, Penn., and three members
°l i j of Labor executive board
started for St. Louis to aid In settling the
strike by arbitration.
During the severe storms of a few days
two large steamers went ashore—
the Capital City, running lietweeuNew York
and Hartford, striking the rocks off Rye
Beach, N. Y., and the Europa, from Ham
burg bound for New York, going aground
near Long Island. No lives were
lost, but both vessels were badly damaged.
The steamship Gulf of Akaba,from Huelva
bound for New York, with thirty-five men
on board, has been given up as lost.
r\7 , stri .K e B >°oo operatives in the Cohoes
(IN. \.) nulls has ended, the mill-owners con
ceding the twelve per cent, increase in wages.
D*. Edward deL. Bradin, who attended
. 'an. fee Newark (N. J.) poundkeeper, dur
mghis fatal attack of hydrophobia, is him
self in danger, and has started for Paris for
treatment byM. Pasieur. While attending
to his patient frothy saliva from the mans
bps came in contact with Dr. Bradin’s sore
thumb. The doctor is the seventh person who
has gone to Paris from Newark for inocula
tion against hydrophobia.
Miners in Pennsylvania are holding mass
meetings to inaugurate the eight-hour sys
tem in the mines after May 1.
Ex-Ai,derman William P. Kirk has
been arrested in New York on the charge of
bribery in connection with the Broadway
horse car company’s franchise, obtained
trom the city's aldermanic board in 1884. The
confession of ex- Alderman Waite led to
Kirk’s arrest.
SOUTH AND WEST.
G-enekal Delgado and Colonel Morey
were held for trial at Key West, Fla , as
suspected filibusters. The trial will take
place in New York in May.
Convicts in the Kansas State penitentiary
have been detected in the manufacture of
counterfeit coin.
Two negro js, charged with murder, were
taken from the jail at Alauv, Temi., by a
crow 1 nml banned.
Ihe civil authorities proved poworless at
Louis, 111., on the .10th, and a crowd
of 1,500 men forced the sherill' to retire, as
saulted his deputies, and desiroved and dam
aged thousands of dollars’ worth of railroad
property. Early in the morning Sheriff
Ropiqiiet called for a posse. Only twelve
men responded and they were soon put to
flight. The mob invaded the yards and dis
abled a score of engines, and drove the few
workmen who refused to leave their work out
of the city.
Mrs. Timothy Huri ey. her fifteen-year
old daughter and her new-born infant, were
burned to death in a fire at Bronson, Mich.
Six other persons were also badly burned.
Geronimo, the captured Apache chief,
with twenty of his followers, has escaped
from the custody of the United States troops
in Arizona,
On the Ist the decree came from St. Louis
that the strike must go on. The executive
board of the Knights of Labor for the dis
tricts involved claimed that Jav Gould’s rei>-
resentatives were acting with duplicity; that
they refused to re-employ men identified with
the strike, and that they would not receive
or confer with representatives of the order.
For this reason the board declined to name a
time for the striker to resume work, and
issued an appeal to the country in the form
of a short official address. The Missouri
Pacific road claimed to be running its freight
trains with regularity, and announced its
ability to handle all freight committed to its
care. At East St. Louis the strike was still
in full force, and all freight was blockaded
except on the Wabash road.
WASHINGTON.
During March tho total government re
and expenditures,
$13,981,675. ’
The Senate has confirmed the Allowing
nomiii ions: William L. Alden, of New
York, consul general at Rome; Charles T.
Russell, of Connecticut, consul at Liverpool;
Samuel E. Wheatley, to be commissioner of
the District of Columbia: Samuel T. Corn, to
be associate justice, Wyoming Territory.
In executive session on the 31st Mr. Logan
made a speech favoring open sessions. The
nomination of the postmaster at Webster
City, lowa, was rejected by a nearly unan
imous vote on the charge of “offensive par
tisanship.”
The nomination of William M. Merrick
for judge of the District of Columbia lias
been confirmed by the Senate notwithstand
ing the adverse report of the judiciary com
mittee.
The collections of internal revenue for the
first eight months of the fiscal year ending
June 30, 1886, amount to $75,158,300, an in
crease of $2,410,388 over the receipts for the
corresponding period of the last fiscal year.
Additional confirmations by the Senate:
William C. Emmet, of New York, consul at
Smyrna: Allen R. Bushnell, of Wisconsin,
attorney western districtof Wisconsin: Alex
ander H. Shipley to be consul at Auckland:
H. A. Johnson, of District of Columbia, con
sul at Venice; William Gordon, of New
York, consul at Medelin; H. C. Crouch, of
New York, consul at Milan; Galusha Pen
nell, of Michigan, marshal eastern district
of Michigan; Spuille Braden, of Montana, to
be assay er, Helena; George F. Baylis, of
New York, surveyor of customs, Port Jeffer
son, N. Y.; Arthur D. Bissell, of New York,
collector of customs for district of Buffalo
Creek, N. Y.; Brigadier-General O. O. How
ard, major-general, vice Pope, retired.
The reduction of the national debt last
month was $14,087,884, leaving the total debt
on the Ist, less cash in the treasury, at sl,-
417,992,235.
FOREIGN.
Prince Bismarck has'stated in the German
reichstag that if great European troubles
should arise they would probably become in
ternational, and that in his opinion the
French army was opposed to workingmen’s
movements.
St. Johns, N. F., has been the scone of an
exciting labor riot. A mob, demanding
labor and railroad extension, assembled
around the parliament buildings with Hags,
stormed the assembly house, routed the police
and broke into the council chamber, planting
their banner on the table of the he use.
An explosion of petroleum occurred the
other day on board a vessel at Baku, Russia.
The vessel was wrecked, and the entire crew,
consisting of thirteen persons, perished.
Bulgaria having refused the demands of
Russia to submit certain questions to the
European powers, is threatened with in
vasion by the czar's troops, and the possi
bility of a war is again looming up.
Massacres at Catholic missions in A imam
are reported, the number of victims being
m.
A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE MATERIAL AND INTELLECTUAL ADVANCEMENT OF OUR COUNTY.
LOUISVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, APRIL 15.1880.
The total number of arrests made in Bel-
W connection with the labor riots is
f Hundreds of persons were killed or in
jured, scores of buildings destroyed and dam
flirtod nomitil ' 8 *° mllhons of dollars was in-
The steamship Resolute, whaler and sealer
has been crushed by ice and sent to the bob
tom off the coast, of Newfoundland. Her
n T t belm ,K men, were forced to
tokptoc lire, abandoning everything. All
but three reached land, seventy miles from
the scene of the disaster. At the time of the
accident the Resolute had captured 20,000
seals. r ’
A DUEL with pistois in which one of the
principals was instantly killed has been
fought between two French officials in a pri
vate house at Valreas.
THE PREMIER HISSED.
till) DEMONSTRATION IN LONDON
A GAINST IRISH HOME R ULE.
Al.i iiiik a Resolution Condemning Mr#
Glad-tone and Parnell.
A great mass meeting was held the other
afternoon in Guildhall, London, to protest
against the granting of a parliament to Ire
land. The lord mayor presided. Sir John
Lubbock (liberal), member of parliament
for London university, moved the adop
rion of a resolution condemning Mr.
Gladstone for his intention of “hand
ing Ireland over to Mr. Parnell,
’"horn he previously denounced.” A work
ingman arose and offered an amendment to
Sir John Lubbock’s resolution, but ho was
howled down, and the resolution was carried
amid wild enthusiasm. Two hundred per
sons in (he immense audieuee voted in Hie
negative. At every mention of Mr. Parnell’s
name the audience hissed. The name of the
pi emier was treated in the same way every
time any speaker used it. There was even
cries of “(llandstone is a lunatic!” All the
speeches were intensely patriotic and the
speakers were loudly cheered. Mr. George
Potter, a liberal, ventured to propose
an amendment to the Lubbock rose
bii ju io the effect that Mr. Gladstone was
entitled to the confidence of the audience and
the British public, but his voice was drowned
by groans and cries of “Go home!” “Turn
him out!” The meeting closed with three
cheers for the queen, after which the as
semblage left the hall singing in chorus,
“iiule Britannia!”
“Mr. Gladstone is riding straight for a
fall! ’ the Pall Mall Gazette declares. “He
refuses,” says the Gazette , “to modify his
Irish scheme, and the result will be that the
country will have neither home rule in Ire
land nor Mr. Gladstone.” The Gazette an
nounced in precisely the same way that L ird
Salisbury would “ride for a tall”
at the very time the tory
premier was arranging for his own
defeat. The declaration at the time was gen
erally hooted by the other English pup us,
but the Gazette was entirely accurate then.
It is thought that the editor has special
knowledge that Mr. Gladstone, being con
\ inced of the absolute justice and good policy
of his Irish proposals, and at. the same time
convinced that the tory and radical imliti
cians have determined to defeat them, menus
to force the issue and bring about the defeat
as soon as possible, content to sacrifice
power in his final effort at pacification.
The Dublin Freeman's Journal, com
menting on the growing opposition among
the Scotch members of parliament to grants
ing Ireland a parliament, threatens that, if
i he Scotch members help to defeat Mr. Glad
stone’s home rule bill, the Pamellites will
adopt a policy of relentless opposition to
every Scotch measure which may come be
fore parliament.
PERSONAL MENTION.
President Cleveland recently spent a
few hours duck shooting.
C. P. Huntington, the railway king, says
he rests two days every week.
Representative Abram S. Hewitt will
not be a candidate for re-election to Con
gress.
Mr. George Hearst, the new Senator
from California, is said to have an income of
$3,000 a day.
M. Pasteur is spoken of as a modest,retir
ing and unaffected man in social life, and a
hospitable entertainer.
Fred. Douglass and his white wife are daily
visitors in the United States Senate gallery.
They are going abroad this summer.
General JTjhn B. Gordon will deliver the
add: ess at the unveiling of the Confederate
monument at Myrtle Hill cemetery at Rome,
Ga., on May 10.
Miss Marian Foster, the crippled artist,
has visited the White House, at the invita
tion of Miss Cleveland, and had an inter
view with the President,of whom she is paint
ing a portrait.
President Holden, of the California State
university, receives a salary of $5,000 as pres
ident, and $3,000 as director of the Lick ob
-Ber. atory. This is the largest salary paid to
any college president in the country.
Mr. Peter M. Arthur, chief engineer of
the Bn therhood of Locomotive Engineers,
the best paid body of skilled artisans in the
United States, is an American of Scotch-
Irish extraction. He is a man of fifty-five,
and has been chief for the last ten years.
David Siton, Ohio's richest man, is a
Scotch-Irishman, and grew up around the
big iron mills of Pittsburg. He began busi
ness as a clerk in a country store at $4 a
nvnfcli: then was a clerk in a blast furnace,
a-forward manager, and at last half owner.
He is worth $12, 1KK), 000, and gives largely to
public charities.
KEY WEST'S GREAT FIRE.
The I'rinciiml Part of the Florida City
Laid in Anlics.
A flrefstarted in the San Carlos theatre,
Key West, Fla., on tho morning of the 30bh
and soon went beyond the control of the fire
men. A fresh wind blowing from the south
caused the flames to spread, an l soon five
blocks in the center of the city were
destroyed. The Episcopal and Baptist
churches were burned about noon, and be
fore 3 P. M. whou the fire subsided,
over fifty houses in all were laid
in ashes. They includ *d Masonic
hall, three or four cigar factories a and the
bonded warehouse, containing $350,00)
worth of tobacco. Officers from the
United States steamers Brooklyn and
Powhattan aided in b’owing up some of
tho houses with powder to prevept the
spread of the flames. There was no water
supply, the cisterns being mostly dry.
The fire subsided at 3 o’clock. The
principal part of tho town has been burned.
Six wharves and five brick warehouses w. re
among the structures destroyed. About
fifteen persons were injured, of whom six
were taken to the Marine hospital and others
on board the men-of-war.
Tho damage to property is estimated at
$1,500,000. Individual losses cannot be
known, but terrible sufferings and privations
have been entailed. Between five thousand
and six thousand pceple were thrown out of
employment by the burning of the factories,
ana no provision could at once be made for
the large number rendered homeless. The
United States court and its records are con
sumed. Tin other government offices re
moved their records early to the revenue
steamer Dix, where a number of people took
refuge and were cared for by the officers.
THE RAGING FLOODS.
WIDESPREAD DESTRUCTION 1\
THE NORTH AND SOUTH.
Cities nml Villages Submerged and People j
Driven From Their Homes.
Freshets in raauy parts of the country have
done great damage. Man houses <. :i the
Tennessee river were abandoned, and the
water rau through tlie doors and windows.
The damage in the lower part of Lynchburg,
Va., was heavy. One third of tno Richmond i
and Alleghany railroad from Lynchburg to
Buchanan, forty miles, was submerged, and
all the trestling was washed away. The vil
lage of Northpjrt, Va., was almost sub
merged, and the iron bridge was under water
at both ends.
In West Virginia -the Kanawha and Elk
rivers rose rapidly. Ono-half of Charleston,
W. Va., was under water, and many dwell
ings occupied by poor people were submerg
ed. The Western Union wires were under
water from that town to Point Pleasant,
sixty miles.
Floods near Pownal, Vt., raised the Hoosao
river to such a height that the Tuoy <&
Boston railroad track was covered with live
or six feet of water and debris. No trains
could get through, and the company's tele
graph wires were all down. Lund slides
along the east bank of the Hudson retarded
travel between Troy and Albany.
A freshet along the Midland division of
the Grand Trunk railway, Canada, stopped
all trains, and travel was not re;aimed
for several days. It was snowing hard there.
In Illinois, lowa and Wisconsin there was
a heavy fall of snow lasting forty-eight
hours. The snowfall ranges from four to
fifteen inches.
A heavy rain and melting snow back in
the mountains, raised the rivers in Vermont
bo that great damage was done. Main street,
in Berlin, across the river from M oi'pelier,
was filled many feet high with ice for nearly
one mile. The Wino >ski branch was higher
than at any time since 1869. A house on the
bank of the river, occupied by William Lind
sey, was swept from the foundations by ice.
The family was asleep when the shock came,
but all escaped safely. A railway bridge on
the Northeastern road at Ea t Ri -hford was
carried away.
At Lancaster, N. H., the ice from Israel’s
river formed inabig jam just below Me ‘bailie
street bridge and caused the river to bo par
tiallv turned from its course, so that about
one-half the stream ran down Mechanic
street, carrying huge cakes of ice
along in its course. Nearly all the
houses in that section of the village wore
flooded. The sash and blind works of Nich
olas Wilson were canned away and are a
total loss. The Stewart house, a small hotel,
was flooded, but the guests ami occupants
were rescued from the second story by moans
of ladders and boats.
William E. Robertson, with six French la
borers, stated from Bradsboro, Vt., for Soars
burg, where they were all going log-rolling.
When crossing Keith bridge, about a mile
from any house,the bridge gave way and the
men and horses were precipitated into the
river. The water was very high and only
two escaped. Robertson and three French
men were drowned.
The greatest disaster by the Hoods in Ala
bama was along the Alabama and Coosa
rivers, in Coosa. Elmore, Montgomery, An
tauga and Dallas counties. YVetumptka, the
county seat of Elmore county, and the coun
try around it were ih a deplorable plight.
Water was four feet deep in business house®
of me town, and occupants were driven
out of many of the residences. A con
vict farm was flooded and all hands had to
take to the rafts and then floated for miles
on these before thej' could land safely. One
farmer was drowned w hile crossing a stream.
There is not a bridge left in Elmore county,
and only one mill. Untold damage has
been done further down the river. Selma
was cut off from the outer world by destruc
tion of railroad bridges ancl tracks, and a
vast area of farming country tributary to it
was under water. The Coosa river at (la la
den was the highest ever known. Railroad
traffic and mail service were paralyzed nearly
all over the State.
The James river at Richmond, Va..ro e
steadily, and nearly all that part of the city
known as Rocketts, occupied mainly by poor
families, was submerge lto a depth off om
eight to ten feet. Niimorous families w r>
driven from their homes and had to seoit
shelter elsewhere.
NEWSY GLEANINGS.
India’s national debt is $1,250,000,000.
There are 307,804 public school teachers in
the United States.
The dynamite attacks on buildings cost
England $250,000 for repairs.
Georgia has a law making death the pun
ishment for burglary in the night time.
Experiments in steering balloons are to be
made in all the fortified places in France.
Wolves have become so plentiful near
Washington, 111., that th y hunt in packs.
Massachusetts has a law prohibiting
the sale of tobacco to minors under sixteen.
Thirteen thousand stray dogs have been
killed by the London police since the hydro
phobia scare began.
The exercises on Decoration Day at Gen
eral Grant’s tomb will be of a very elaborate
and national character.
The International Congo association has
for want of funds abandoned several of its
s utions in Central Africa.
Land in Connecticut upon which pine trees
were planted a few years ago is now worth
SIOO an acre for its timber.
Jacksonville, Fla., is paving its deeply
sandy streets with wooden b'o'' .riel out.
by steam sawmills right in town.
It is calculated that there are 300 unions in
New York city, with an aggregate member
ship of 100,000 men and women.
Justice Butt, of London, has rendered a
decision to the effect that a divorce obtained
in America is invalid in England.
In Michigan there is anew factory for a
new purpose—to make a substitute for whale
bone out of the quills of geese and turkeys.
An extensive mine of rubidium, a rare
metal worth $5,000 a pound, has been discov
ered near Rock Creek, Wyoming Territory.
The leading ladies’ assembly of the
Knights of Laboa is the Garfield Assembly,
of Philadelphia, having, it is said, 1,000 mem
bers.
In January, 1885, his big scholars gave a
Wilson county (Kansas) school teacher a
ducking. He has just received s3,o< 10 dain
ages.
A company with SIOO,OOO capital has been
organized at Pittsburg to try to break the
Eatent controlled by the fruit jar monopo
sts.
The Washington Star attributes the illness
that has overcome several secretaries of the
treasury to the presence of sewer gas in the
building.
Grafted trees of the Japanese chestnut
ore now growing and yielding on Long Is
land. They bear from seed in from three to
five years.
Dakota farmers are making plans to grow
flax for fuel this summer. It is said that a
ton of flax Btraw is worth more to burn than
a ton of soft coal.
Germany has eight schools of forestry,
where five years’ training is required of
those who seek positions under the govern
ment, although a course of study half as long
may be taken by amateurs. France supports
a single school at Nancy.
A woman in Florida claima to be the
mother of forty-two children. To a dis
interested party it would seem as though
she ought to know,
FOR RIVERS AND HARB'IRS.
'llit* lloii.se Conimittee’a Dill Appropria
ting Over $15,000,000.
The River and Harbor Appropriation bill,
as completed by the House committee, makes
a total appropriation of $15,164,200, which
will become available immediately upon the
passage of the bill. As there was no appro
printion made for river and harbor improve
ments last session, the present appropriation
virtually covers a period of nearly two
years. The larger items of the bill are as fol
lows:
Rockland, Me., $20,000: Burlington, Vt.,
sls.oui); Boston harbor, $75,000; Newbury
port. Mass., $50,000; Newport, R. 1., $12,500;
Pawtucket river, R. 1., $35,000; Providence
anil Narragansett bay, $35,000; New Haven
breakwater, $100,000; Stonington, Conn.,
$20,000; Connecticut river, $35,000; Thame
river, Conn., $30,000; Buffalo harbor, $150.-
000; Oswego harbor, $95,000; Buttermilk
channel, N. Y., $75,000; Hell Gate,
$150,000; Hudson river, $15,000; Newtown
crook and bay, N. Y., $50,000; Raritan bay,
N. J., $30,000; Passaic river, N. J., $35,000;
Raritan river, $35,000; Erie harbor, Penn.:
$50,000; Allegheny river, Penn., $40,000;
Schuylkill river, Penn., $25,000; Delaware
river below Trenton, $240,000; Delaware
breakwater, $75,000; Wilmington, Del.,
$20,000; Norfolk harbor, Va., $100,000;
James river, Va., $150,000; Cape Fear
river, N. C., $125,000* Great Kanawha
river, W. Va., $150,000; Charleston harbor,
S. C., $250,000; Cumberland sound, Ga.,
$150,000; Savannah, Ga., $125,000; St. John's
channel, Fla., $200,000; Mobile, Ala.,
$120,000; Rockport ana Corpus Christi har
bors, Texas,slßs,ooo; Galveston, $400,000; Sa
bino pass and Blue Bush bar, Texas,s26s,ooo;
Chicago, $100,000; Hlinois river, $100,000;
Humboldt harbor and bay, Cal., $100,000;
Hay Lake channel Micb., $100,000; canal at
the Cascades, Ore., $200,000; Lower Willa
mette and Columbia rivers, Ore., $100,000;
Cumberland river, Tenn., $100,000: Tennes
see river, below Chattanooga, $350,000; Ken
tucky river, $250,000; Ohio river, $500,000;
Falls of the Ohio, $200,000; Missouri river,
from mouth to Sioux City, $500,000; Missis
sippi river, $3,800,000.
BASE BALL NOTES.
Dundon, a mute pitcher, is doing fine work
for the Nashvilles.
Some of the Southern league clubs play a
trong game of ball.
A nine of female ball tossers has been
playing Sunday games at New Orleans.
The new grand stand on the Metropolitan
grounds, Staten Island, will cost $27,000.
In a game of baseball played at Savanuah.
Ga.,ti short time ago,-the Pittsburgs scored 1
to the Savannahs 0 in fifteen innings.
J. E. Sullivan, a professional ball
player, a few days since committed suicide
at Grand Rapids, Mich. He was in ill health
and somewhat dissipated.
■6The seven clubs which compose the New
England league are as follows: Boston, Port
land, Brockton, Somerville, Lawrence,
Haverhill and Newburyport.
The now Gulf league comprises clubs in
Selma, New Orleans, Montgomery. Mobile,
Columbus nud Pensacola. The rules of the
National league have been adopted by the
Gulf league.
Dunlap is captain of the St. Louis
Maroons, Ward of New York’s Giants,Anson
commands Chicago’s Babies, Jim White is
chief of Detroit’s big four and little five, and
Morrill has charge of Boston’s men.
The weights of the Chicago as taken
Hot Springs, Ark., are as follows: Anson*
227; McCormick, 336; Williamson, 221;
Gore, 187; Flint, 185; Kelly, 182; Dalrym
ple, 175; Burns, 169; Clarkson, 105; Pfetfer,
160; Moolic, 1581-2; Ryau, 155; Sunday.
149; Flynn, 143.
This is the time throughout the land
The base-ball tosser takes his stand
Upon the diamond, ball in hand,
Exerting every nerve;
For well he knows the noble game
Will surely bring him worth and fame
If he can get tiie speed and aim
Of some nevv-faugled curve.
— Merritt.
The mask which baseball catchers now
wear was the invention of Fred. Thayer. He
was training the Harvard nine in the winter
of ’76 and ’77, when Harrold Ernst, one of
the fastest of pitchers, was on the nine. Jim
Tvng, who caught, said that be would not
stand behind the bat unless lie could get. some
sort of protection for his face. The result
was that Thayer fixed up a sort of cage,
which has gradually become the improved
mask of to-day.
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.
Mas. Langtry has finally decided to toui 1
this country again next season.
Kienzl’s new opera “Urassi” has been
brilliantly produced at the Court Theatre in
Dresden.
Miss Clara Louise Kellogg is singing
n 1 away down in the region of the Rio
Grande.
Emperor William has positively refused
Niemun, the singer, permission to make a
tour of America.
Anna Dickinson is negotiating with an
English manager to return to the stage. She
will make her so oil l venture in London.
“The Harbor Lights,” the latest melodra
matic success in London, will 1 e produced at
the Boston Museum bv Manager Field, uext
fall.
Cincinnati has been afflicted with more
than twenty diiferent “Mikado” companies
this season, and yet. there has 1 icon no rioting
there. ■
A new so doty drama,much after the style
of “Fedora," has been completed by Oscan
yan, a Turkish journalist residing in New
York, for Fanny Davenport.
Mme. Semurich, tho great prima donna,
has been singing with great success in Riga,
tVilna, St. Petersburg and Moskow. Russia
isa good field for enterprising singers.
The Countess Agatha Dornfield, is to be
gin a thirty-two weeks’ tour of this country
on September 0, next, in a reportory consist
ing of “She'Stoops to Conquer,” “Romeo and
Juliet,” etc.
Patti vigorously resents the imputation
that her popularity is on the wane. She as
serts that her three concerts in Paris averaged
SB,OOO a night, and that her reception was
most cordial.
Mr. Edward E. Kidder has just finished
what he terms a “Frivolous Farce,” in three
acts, which satirizos in a good-natured man
ner the entire secret workings of the stage
and the craze of young society girls for hand
some actors.
May 10th Edwin Booth and Tomasso
Salviui will begin an engagement at the
Boston theatre. Two performances of
“Othello” will be givon, one with the Italian
in the title-role and the American as “lago,”
and one with the parts reversed.
There were 130,800 people who attended
the performances of the German Opera com
pany during the season recently closed in
Now York, according to Manager Stanton.
As there were fifty-two representations, tne
average attendance was about 2.505.
The Reason Why.
“Can you tell me,” he asked as he en
tered an office on Broad street the other
day, “why the railroads should discrimi
nate so heavily against dressed meat over
live stock?”
“Certainly, sir. Dressed meat is dead,
isn't it?”
“Of course."
“Well, anything which can’t kick is
always bulldozed by a railroad company.”
WaU Street Newt.
SETTLED BY ARBITRATION.
THE RAILROAD STRIKE IN THf.
SOUTH R EST AT AN END.
Negotiations Detween Jay Gould and
The linights of Labor.
The executive board of the Knights of
Labor met in New York on the 27th and pro
posed to ay > lould, president of the Missouri
Pacific railroad, that a committee of seven
be appointed to arbitrate upon the matters
in dispute which had led to the strike on
the Gould system of railroad in the South
west. This offer of the Knights was
at first refused by President Gould
upon the ground principally that an
agreement made with the Missouri Pacific
road last August by 1 lie employes not to
strike without due notice had been violated
by the latter. This reply of Jay Gould
seemed to put an end to a chance for sot - j
tlement. But the straine * rela
tions which seemed to exist between
the officers of the Missouri Pacific
railway and the general executive board of
the Knights of Labor on the 27th were only
straim din appearance. On the 28th General
Master Workman Powderly and W. 0. Mc-
Dowell, a member of the Knights of
Labor from Newark, N. J., a railroad
man himself, representing the Knights
of Labor, and Mr. Gould and Vice-President
Hopkins in behalf of the companies, met at
the house of Mr. Gould. The strike was
discussed from beginning to end,
in, Mr. Fowderly says, a friendly
spirit. The discussion lasted two hours and
both sides acquired a great deal of informa
tion which they had not before possessed.
Then an adjournment was taken until even
ing in order that each might think
the matter over in its new* light
At seven o’clock they met a second tirao, and
after two solid hours of argument Mr. Pow
derly left to fulfil an engagement. Half an
hour later Mr. McDowell followed him. He
bore with him the following communication
from Mr. Gould:
The Missouri Pacific Railway Cos. )
New York, March 28. f
T. V. Powderly , Esq., O. M. W:
Dear Sir: Replying to your letter of the
27th inst., I write to say that I will to-morrow
morning send the following telegraphic in
structions:
H. M. Home, General Manager, St Louie:
In resuming the movement of trains on the
Missouri Pacific, and in the employment of
labor in the several departments of this
company, you will give preference to our
late employes, whether they are Knights of
Labor or not, except that you
will not employ any person who has in
jured the company’s property during the
late strike, nor will we discharge any pers-m
who has taken service with the company
during the said strike. We see no objection
to arbitrating any differences, between the
employes and the company, past or future.
Hoping thS above will be satisfactory I re
main, yours very truly,
Jay Gould, President.
Mr. Powderly received the communication
at the Astor House about 11 o’clock and im
mediately sent out the following telegram:
New York, March as, 18S6.
Martin Irons,Chairman Executive Board,
District Assembly No. 101, St. Louis:
President Jay Gould has consented to our
proposition for arbitration, and so telegraphs
Vice President Hoxie. Order men to resume
work at once.
By order of Executive Board.
T. V. Powderly, G. M. W.
The following general order was also sent
out by telegraph before midnight:
New York, March 28, 1886.
To the. Knights of Labor , now on strike in
the Southwest:
President Jay Gould has consented to our
proposition for arbitration and so
telegraphs Vice-President Hoxie. Pur
suant to telegraphic instructions sent
to the chairman of the executive board
of District Assembly No. 101, you are di
rected to resume work at once,
By order of Executive Board.
T. V. Powderly, G. M. W.
Congressman John J. O’Neil, who is chair
man of the labor committee of the House of
Representatives, reached tho Astor house
just in time to be the first
to congratulate Mr. Powderly ou the
successful issue of the strike. He had
come from Washington to take a hand
in the settlement himself. He brought with
bun the text of a Labor bi 11.,, intended for
immediate presentation to the House, and
submitted it to Mr. Powderly. He went back
to Washington ou the midnight train, after
sending the following despatch to the St.
Louis Republican.
Settlement of strike effected. Gould con
sents to arbitration. Executive committee,
Knights of Labor, order men to resume
work. Congratulate our people on results.
In the course of an interview General Mas
ter Workman Powderly was asked how many
men had engaged in the strike and replied:
“Well, it covered about 8,000 miles of road,
and there must have been at least 13,000 or
14,000 direct employes. Beside this,
of course, many more men and
women have been thrown out of work
by the closing of the mills and factories, which
was brought about by the failure to run
trains. The strike has demonstrated in a
mtst forcible manner the necessity of laws to
regulate the relations between employers and
employed, and Mr. O’Neill’s bill will come In
very pat just at this time.”
The executive committee of the district as
s' oiat-ions of the Knights of Labor in St.
1 ,ouis issued orders on the 2!)th for the men to
resume work. In the evening the order was re
scinded, a dispatch having been received
from Master Workman Powderly stating that
fresh complications had arisen as to methods
of arbitration. In East St, Lonis, 111., the
strikers thwarted all attempts to move
freight, and the sheriff at length appealed to
Governor Oglesby for assistance.
After Grand Master Workman Powderly
ha i held a second conference with Jay Gould in
Now York, on the 40th, he telegraphed to St.
Louis, ordering the striking employes on the
various railroads to return to work. Mr.
Powderly then went home to Scranton,
Penn., aiid a committee of three members of
the executive board of the Knights of Labor
proceeded to St. Louis, to confer with the
railroad authorities with a viow to a settle
ment of existing differences.
At St. Louis, on tho Gist, Martin Irons,
chairman of the executive committee of
Di-trict Assembly No. 101, which embraces
all Knights of Labor employed by the
Missouri Pacific Railway company
telegraphed to the different local
assemblies under his jurisdiction, notifying
them o iicially that the general executive
board had ordered all the men to go to work
1 pending arbitration of the existing diflicul
[ ties by a committee of the Missouri Pacific
I employes and Mr. Hoxie. Upon receipt of
this order many of tho men returned to work
and freight, trains began moving once more.
GERONIMO’S TREACHERY.
General Crook Has a Narrow Escape from
Martler by the A [niches.
General Forsyth, the commanding officer at
Fort Huochuca, Arizona, has arrived at
Tombstone, and makes known the startling
fart that, at an interview which General
Crook had with the Apaches, Chief Geronimo
hod his men with rifles ready to fire upon all
the white men, including General Crook, at
a given signal. Geronimo’s failure to keep
his promise of surrender is ascribed to the
fact tiiat having so much bloodshed to an
swer for he could expect no clemency, and
therefore preferred living in the mountains
to the prospect of hanging at the h mds of
the authorities. The hostilos had 200 rounds
of ammunition each. General Forsyth said
it was impossible to fathom (Jeronimo's in
tentions,und It was an open question wheth
er he would go .south and join the Man ..us or
remain and harass the frontier settlers.
Geronimo is a man of about fifty-two,crafty,
treacherous and merciless. This is the third
time be has proved faithless.
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NUMBER 15.
THE FOUNTAIN OFTRAHS.
If von travel o'er desert and mountain.
Far into the country of sorrow,
To-day, and to-night, and to-morrow,
And may be for months and for years,
You shall come, with a heart that is burst
ing,
For trouble, and toiling, and thirsting.
You shall certainly come to the fountain,
At length—to the Fountain of Tears.
erv peaceful the place is, and solely
For piteous lamenting and sighing
And those who come, living or dying
Alike from their hopes and their fears;
Full of cypress-like shadows the place is,
And statues that cover their faces;
But out of the gloom springs the holy
And beautiful Fountain of Tears.
And it flows, and it flows with a motion
So gently, and lovely, and listless,
And murmurs a tune so resistless,
To Him who hath suffered and hoars,
You shall surely, without a word apoken.
Kneel down there and know you're heart
broken.
And yield to the long-curbed emotion.
That day by the Fountain of Tears.
—Arthur O'Shaughvtssy.
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.
As was predicted, the winter has been
very open and lots of cold weather got
in.— Picayune.
Advertising is a good deal like making
love to a widow, it can't be overdone.
-—Chicago i.cJqer.
It’s the little things that tell—especial
ly the little brothers and sisters. —Bur
lington Free Press.
Some statesmen are continually putting
their ears to the ground to hear what
posterity will say of them.— Houston
{Term) Post.
The bangs having gone out of style
among young ladies the rolling pin and
washboard begin to look more hopeful.—
Merchant- Traveler.
An awfully homely man at a sociable
where kissing games are played looks as
lonesome as a straw hat in a snow-storm.
~—Neu> Torh Journal.
A Michigan boy had his left hand taken
off by a buzz-saw. which he thought was
not moving. He now calls his right hand
his left hand.— Puck.
She looked like a funeral hearse, so sad,
Of ail joy bereft and forsaken;
Oh, why was this change in feature once
glad?
She was having her photograph taken.
—Gorham Mountaineer.
In German army circles a soldier is
obliged to write home to his wife once
every month. An old bachelor says this
explains why so many Germans come to
this country to escape military duty.—
Norristown Herald.
Wife—“ What a very polite young man
Mr. Dumley is?” Husband—“ Yes? I
never,discovered it.” Wife—“He was
very polite to me last evening. Among
other compliments he spoke of my sing
ing.” Husband—“ Did he! That was
polite.— Harper's Bazar.
SPRING POEM.
Oh, where is the thing
We call “Gentle Spring,”
The season of thaw and of zephy
She singing a psalm
In the land of the palm,
Where she kicks up her heels like a heifer.
—New York Journal.
Native Houses of Alaska.
The houses of the natives are much the
same in all divisions of Alaska. The
dwellings are thus described: A circular
mound of earth, grass growing and lit
tered with all sorts of household uten
sils, a small spiral coil of smoke rising
from the apex, dogs crouching, children
climbing up or rolling down, stray mor
sels of food left from one meal to (he
other, and a soft mixture of mud
offal surrounding it all. The entrance J
to this house is a low, irregular square
aperture, through which the inmate
stoops, and passes down a foot or two
through a short low passage on to the
earthern floor within. The interior gen
erally consists of an irregularly shaped
square circle, twelve or fifteen feet in
diameter, receiving its only light from
without through the small smoke open
ing at the apex of the roof, which rises
tent-like from the floor. The fire-place
is directly under the opening.
Rude beds or couches of skin and
grass mats are laid slightly raised
above the floor, upon clumsy frames
made of sticks and saplings or rough
licwn planks, and sometimes on little ele
vations built up of peat or sod. Some
times a small hall-wav with bulging sides
is erected over the entrance, where, by
this expansion, room is afforded for th
keeping of untensils and water vessels and
as a shelter for dogs. Immediately ad
joining most of these houses will be found
a small summer kitclien, a rude wooden
frame, walled in and covered over with
sods, with an opening at the top to give
vent to the smoke. These are entirely
above ground, rarely over five or six feet
in diameter, and are littered with filth
and offal of all kinds; serving also as a
refuge for the dogs in inclement weather.
In the interior regions, where both fuel
and building material arc more abundant,
the houses change somewhat in appear
ance and construction; (he excavation of.
the coast houses, made for the purpose of
saving both, disappears, and gives way
to log-structures above the ground, but
still covered with sods. Living within
convenient distance of timber, the people
(inland) do not depend so much upon the
natural warmth of the mother-earth.—
Chambers' Journal.
The Frisky Sloth.
A sloth is in its way an interesting
animal, and in that view deserves a few
remarks. Take a snail, magnify him
10,000 diameters, clap on him four legs
with three long curved claws on each,
and. hang him head down among the
branches of a tree; then poke him
up behind with a sharp stick,-and he
will make about as rapid progress as a
sloth. Of course some sloths are ambi
tious. I saw one in the morning start
ing out on a limb where it' joined the
tree trunk, and that evening when I re
turned it was twelve feet away. It had
averaged one foot per hour, but this was a
through express sloth, and an exception.
—Hartford Time*.
The first patient admitted to the new
Northern hospital for the insane in Mich
igan was a man who assisted in its ereo
tion.