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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. - ■ 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. — 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. Subscription $1.50 in Advance 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.