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W. WHITE, Editor and Proprietor,
VOLUME V.
Central fi Southwestern Railr'ds,
[All train! of this system are ran by Stand
tt'd (90) Meridian time, which is 86 minuter
ilovver ifcan urns kept by city.]
Savannah, Oa., Jan. 24. 1886.
[\N AND AFTER THIS DATE PASSEN-
U OER TRAINS on the Central and South
western Railroads and branches will run as
follows : * i ,
GOING NORTH.
Leave No. 61— No. 53
Savannah...D 840 am.. D 810 pm
Leave No. 16—
D 6 10 p m..
Arrive No. 16—
Millen D 8 45pm..
Arrive. No. 61— No. 83—
Augusta D 8 46pm.. D (15am
Macon D 4 80pm.. D 8 20am
Atlanta D 935 pm.. D 732 am
Dolumbus.’. .D 6 28am.. D 215 pm
Perry DES 845 p m.. DES 12 00 m
Fort Gaines DES 488 p m
Blakeley DES 710 p m
Eufaula D 4 01 p m
Albany D 10 45 p m.. D 246 p m
Montgomery D 7 25 p m
Mi lledgeviile DES 649 pm
Satonton .. .DES 7 40pm
Connections at Terminal Points.
At Augusta—Trains 61 and 53 conneot with
jutguing trains of Georgia Railroad,Columbia,
Charlotte and Augusta Railroad, and South
Carolina Railroad. Train 53 connects witli
Jutgoing train of Auguata and Knoxville Rail
road. Train 61 connects with trains fur Syl
rania, Wrightsville and Louisville.
At Atlanta—Trains 61 and 63 connect t‘''
Air-Line and Kennesaw routes to all p<
North and East, and with all diverging r
for local stations.
COMING- SOUTH.
Leave—Nob. Nob.
Millen.. .16 D 500 am..
Augusta.lß D 9 3)am..20D 930 pm
Mac0n...52 D 940 am.. 54 D 10 60 pm
Atlanta..s2 D 600 am.. 54 D 6 50pm
Uohimb’s 20 D 900 p m_.. 6 D 11 40 a m
Perry... .24 DES 600a m. .22 DES 300 p m
Ft. Gaines 28 ' ‘ 10 05 a m
lllakeley 26 “ 8 15am
Uut'aula 2D 10 55 a m
Albany.. 4D 4 10&m..2JD 12 15pm
Montg’ry 2D 7 40 am
Mill’dg’ve 25 DES 637 a m
Eatonton 25 DES 515 am
Arrive—No.
Bavannah 16 D 805 a m.. No.
Savannah 62 D 407 p m.. 54 D 600 a m
Connections at Savannah, with Savannah,
Florida and Western Railway for all points in
Florida,
Trains Nos. 63and 64 will not stop to lake
on or put off passengers between Savannah
and Millen, as trains No.. 15 and 16 are ex
pected to do tho way business between these
points.
Local sleeping cars on all night passenger
Pains between Savannah and Augusta, Savan
nah and Macon, Savannah and Atlanta, Macon
and Columbus,
Tickets for all points and sleeping car berths
an sale at city office, No. 20 Bull street.
G. A. WniTEHCiD, WILLIAM ROGERS,
Gen. Pass. Agt. Gen. Bupt., Savannah.
J. C. Shiw, W. F. SHELLMAN,
Gen. Trav. Agt. Traffic Manager,
Savannah, Ga.
* "D.” daily, “DES,” daily except Sunday.
• S7S;C'OO,OOO FOR 'VEER. .
Figures Stimiiu IViut New York Spirals
Yearly lor Thin £tet’rpslniien'.
It is estimated that there are 0,000,000
bavrels of beer consumed annually in
this city. The brewers receive $8 a
barrel for this beer, le-s a discount to
the dealers ranging from 10 to 50 per
cent. Supposing all to receive the
highest discount, which would allow
for an occasional bad debt, the receipts
of the brewers would aggregate $38,-
400,000. This beer is now substantially
all furnished by the members ol the
Brewers’ Exchange, the portion sup
plied by the non pool brewers scarcely
amounting to the odd $400,000.
It is also estimated that the aggrieved
dealers number one-biilf of all in the
city, and fully one half in the trade.
Should they withdraw their custom from
the Exchange brewers, as now seriously
threatened, they would thereby leave
one-half Of the product of the Exchange
breweries unsold, br cause those brew
-c'rics to reduce, their product one-half.
Thus the movement, if earned out will
inflict a loss in trade upon these brewers
of $19,000,000 a year Uiese figuros
will give some idea of the magnitude
and importance of the movement now
under consideration.
It was shown at the conference of the
dealers and non-pool blowers on Monday
that, including the nftn brewers of tho
city proper, and othqfs in the vicinity,
the aggregate capacity is but 1,165,000
barrels'Annually. Supposing that the
sfrike,' if inaugurated, will withdraw
half the' custom of the Exchange
brewers —that is, 3,000,000 barre s a
.year—there remains a deficiency of
1,835,0Q0 barrels to be supplied to the
trade here by brewers of the West, or of
Boston, Philadelphia and other neigh
boring cities.- This is not a large
amount; but the importation will be an
item of some importance to the railroads
and other freighters, and to that extent
will make them sympathizers with the
dealers in the strike.
The figures given above furnish
another interesting item As shown,
the wholesale cost of the beer annually
consumed in this city is $38,400,000.
That s what the dealers pay the manu
facturers for it But the price of the
consumer is vastly more The dealer in
retailing his keg of beer expects to
double his mohey. An expert beer
jerker will get from a keg three times
its cost, while exceptional cases are
found where fourfold the first <ost is
received. But allowing the sale by tho
glass to bo merely double the cost by
the keg or barrel, and it is seen that the
beer drinkers of Now York pay $76,-
800,000 annually for tliis single article
of refreshment—l'c/vl;,.' nn.
FIRE AT UNION (SPRINGS.
A fire at Union Springs, Bullock coun
ty, Ala., Tuesday, consumed the follow
ing buildings in anew block in the busi
ness part of the city: The Pulmanhouse,
the post office, J. P. Roberts’ and L. J.
Frazer’s stores with contents,the Bullock
County bank, the opora house, flic West
ern Union telegraph office and Wright's
new brick store. The loss on the build
ings and stOok is over $40,000, partly in
sured.
A MURDER IN INDIAN TERRITORY.
‘r~ —*—
Henry Smith, actjng as a posse of
United Stat.es Deputy Marshal John Phil
lips, and two guards,' names unknown,
were murdered in their camp at Eufaula,
Indian territory, Tuesday night. . No
particulars of tire ufTair have been re
ceived. Marshal Phillips and party were
in the territory serving write and arrest
ing violators of Uoltid Stats* laws.
(The 31ms and banner.
THE NEW SOOTH.
NEWB NOTEB GATHERED
FROM VARIOUS SECTIONS.
NORTH CAROLINA.
A horse was bought for two dollars in
Laurinburg last Saturday.
A few years ago Mr. A. A. Watson, of
Robeson county, bought a guinea cow for
S2O that now gives thirteen quarts of
milk at a milking.
In Newberne work on Hotel Albert is
progressing. Steam pipes for heating,
for water and for gas, have been put in,
| and the plastering will soon be com
menced.
In Durham, the large factories of R.T.
; Fancett and Pogue & Cameron consoli
dated Tuesday under the name and style
of the Faucett Durham Tobacco and
! Snuff company, with a capital stock of
: SIOO,OOO.
Mr. Adolphus Hopson lives six miles
east of Durham. Last Saturday morning
his two little daughters were playing in
the fire with a piece of paper, when the
dress of the elder girl caught fire and she
was so badly burned that she died before
night.
Miss Parker attended divine service at
Juniper Primitive church, in Smithfield,
last Sunday morning, and, with other
young ladies, was sitting around afire
built in the church grove, when her
clothes caught fire, and she was fatally
burned before her clothes could he ex
tinguished.
A number of petitions are being circu
lated, one petitioning the legislature to
allow the county of Buncombe to vote on
the liquor question, including Asheville
in the county vote; another petitioning
the legislature to urge congress to pass
the Blair education bill; and still another
to establish a reform school or a school
of correction in Asheville.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
The legislature has passed a law to pro
hibit the stealing of fruit and melons.
The Winnsboro national bank has de
clared a semi-annual dividend of 5 per
cent.
About one hundred and fifty negroes
have left Strother’s aud the vicinity to
seek their fortunes iu the West.
In Greenville there were 28 fires for
the year 1886, just double the number
during 1885. The fire losses were $90,-
220 and the insurance on the building
and property $89,820.
A former citizen of Winnsboro, writ
ing from Mississipi, wants to exchange
his Mississippi property for property near
bis old home.'He claims that South Car
olina is the best State in which to live.
A letter from Rossville, Chester coun
ty, states that the whites and blacks are in
a destitute condition. A meeting of both
races has been called and resolutions
passed asking the government for help
Abbeville has a postmistress who car
ries off the palm as a practical and ener
getic woman. She recently slaughtered
three hogs, whose combined weight was
eight hundred nnd seventy-four pounds
General M. L. Bonham, Jr., has sold
out his interest in the Abbeville Messen
ger to J. S. Perrin, who will hereafter
conduct it himself. General Bonham
will hereafter devote himself to the prac
tice of law, and the discharge of his du
ties as adjutant general.
The Aiken Recorder thinks that the
refusal of the last legislature to allow an
appropriation for the Colambin canal a
great mistake. The canal having been
begun and the 6um of $200,000 having
been already expended, the Recorder be
lieves, and with justice, that the only
way in which the State can realize on the
investment is to complete the work.
Mr. J. W. Creech, of Elko, has a cane
patch of 7,400 square feet. It costs him
one fourth to have the syrup made, leav
in him 77 gallons net, which would make
the value per acre three hundred dollars
at sixty-five cents agallon. The cane was
manured with broadcast compost and
acid phosphate and cotton seed in the
drill, at the rate of 20 bushels of seed and
200 pounds of acid to th% acre.
MISSISSIPPI.
There was quite a number of private
dwellings in Gloster burglarized last
week. It seems that there is an organ
ized band of night thieves of this charac
ter traveling from station to station on
the railioad.
William Boehmer, a German, aged
about fifty years, and in the employ of
Dr. Thurber, on his place at Back Bay,
was found dead in the yard by a lady
neighbor, who immediately gave the
alarm. Upon investigation by a coroner’s
jury they found a verdict of death from
appoplexy. He leaves no family. From
the condition of the body he is supposed
to have been dead about thirty-six hours.
A meeting of the members of the Meri
dan bar was held at the courthouse,
which adopted resolutions asking for the
introduction of a bill in the house of rep
resentatives providing for the establish
ment of a United States court at Meri
dian, to be known as the eastern division
of the southern district, and Hon. John
W. Fewell was appointed as a delegate to
proceed at once to Washington to urge
and assist in the passage of the bill.
LOUISIANA.
Captain Marstoii’s ginhouse at East
Point, on Red River, was destroyed by
fire. Loss, $3,000 to $4,000; no insur
ance.
Through error, the Reveille, of St.
Martinville, stated that the operations of
the oil factory would bo suspended in a
few days. Such is not the ease
The petition for the pardon of Dr.
Emanuel Dreyfus, now in the penitenria
ry for subordination of perjury, is being
circulated in Shreveport. It has received
but a few signatures.
On the affidavit of James W. Knox,
before Judge Burgess,' C. W. Sumrnll
was arrested by Deputy Sheriff 1. S.,
Alexander and committed to Baton Rouge
jail on the charge of assault with a knife
and threatening tu kill affiant, fipth
parties we white.
A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE MATERIAL AND INTELLECTUAL ADVANCEMENT OF OUR COUNTY.
LOUISVILLE. GEORGIA, THURSDAY. JANUARY 27. 1887.
WHITE HOUSE RECEPTION'
The President Tenders a Reception to the
Diplomatic Corps.
At the white house on Thursday even
ing, the long corridors and large high
rooms were brilliantly lighted, while in
every niche were placed tropical plantsof
all varieties.
In the east room the decorations were
supplemented by a great profusion of
choice cut flowers, while gilded columns
were wreathed with fern and palm leaves
and the largo chandeliers twined with
smilax. The Marine band, stationed in
the corridor, furnished the music.
The gaily decorated rooms were crowd
ed from 9 till after 11 o’clock with con
gressmen, diplomats, judges, department
officials, army aud navy officers and other
prominent people with their wives and
lady friends.
The receiving party consisted of the
president and Mrs. Cleveland, Mrs. Man
ning and Mrs. Vilas. Marshal AVilson
made the presentations. Behind the re
ceiving party in the blue room stood
Secretaries Bayard, Manning, Endicott
and Whitney and Postmaster Vilas; Mrs.
Charles AY. Goodyear and Mrs. George J.
Sicard, of Buffalo, and Miss Hastings,
the President’s nieces, who are new guests
at the white house; the young ladies of
the cabinet, and Colonel and Mrs. La
rnont.
Mrs. Cleveland wore a trained gown of
ruby plush, cut square in front with a
moderately high and pointed back; short
lace sleeves, a single rosebud, diamond
necklace with pendant, and diamonds in
her hair and tan gloves reaching to the
shoulders.
RISING FAWN RIOT.
A Desperate Negro Sliot and Killed by n
Guard.
For some weeks past Captain Conner,
who is in charge of the convict cam)) lo
cated at Rising Fawn, Ga., has suspected
that two convicts named Jim llolt and
AVilliani Jackson were planning an escape.
He succeeded in getting satisfactory evi
dence that nolt was the leader, and de
cided to punish him. In attempting to
do this Conner was stabbed in the left
shoulder. AVith a view to disabling
Holt, Captain Conner thereupon shot at
him twice, but merely grazed the skin.
The friends of Holt who were in the
building became very much excited, and
a mutiny was threatened. A bad state of
affairs continued up to Sunday, when
AVilliam Jackson, figuring as leader, was
so effectual in keeping up the strife, that
it was thought advisable to punish him.
Accordingly, he was ordered out, but re
fused to come, saying he would die first.
Late in the evening guards were stationed
at the door, and Captain Conner, accom
panied by two trusties, entered to remove
Jackson.
Jackson resisted, using a knife, and
several of the convicts talcing sides with
him, hurled bottles and other missils at
the guards and trusties. At this stage
the excitement became intense, and one
of the guards seeing Jackson furiously
brandishing his knife, shot at him with
the intention of disabling “him, but tlie
ball hitting his arm, severed an artery,
from which he died. This had the effect
of subduing the others. No blame is at
tached to the act of the guard; and no
further trouble is apprehended.
THE RIDE TO DEATH.
Four Tramps Burned to Dentil In n Locked
Freight Cnr.
Asa special freight train of nineteen
cars, loaded with cotton was pulling info
Paducah, Ky., on the line of the Chesa
peak, Ohio and Southern railroad Mon
day, one of the cars was discovered to be
on tire. It had been taken on and locked
at Memphis, being transferred from the
Louisville, New Orleans and Texas rail
road at that point. The engineer backed
on the side (rack and the crew endeav
ored to extinguish the flames with hose
attachments. All they succeeded in doing,
however, was to prevent the fire from
spreading to other cars. While removing
the debris of tho burned car, four dead
bodies, charred beyond recognition, were
discovered. They are supposed to have
been tramps. Whether white or black it
is impossible to say. The car was locked
at Memphis, but tho men must have en
tered to their horrible fate through a
window in the end, which could have
been opened from the outside.
A LAND GRANT DECISION.
The Alabama and Chattanooga Railroad
Cannot Condemn Certain Lande.
In the case of the Alabama and Chat
tanooga railroad company against the
Tennessee and Coosa railroad company,
the secretary of the interior has affirmed
the decision of Commissioner Sparks, of
July 23 1885, which held that a tract of
land within the six miles granted limits
of the grant to the state of Alabama by
the net of June 3, 1856, to aid in the con
struction of the Tennessee and Coosa
railroad is not subject to selection by the
Alabama and Chattanooga railroad com
pany, as indemnity, notwithstanding tho
the fact that the Tennessee and Coosa
railroad has not been constructed. The
decision is made on the ground that tho
grant in question has never been forfeit
ed by congress. The case involves sev
eral thousand acres of land in the Hunts
ville, Ala., district.
THE DROUTH SUFFERERS.
Appropriation for Relief Recoinmonded by
a Legislative Committee.
The special committee appointed to
investigate as to sufferiug from the drouth
prevalent over a large section of Texas
has submitted to its report to the
legislature. The committe state that
there is a large section of the state west
and north of the Brazos river, and ex
tending far down the river edge to Ham
ilton, which has been visited by one of
the most destructive drouths ever known
in Texas. The reports state that in this
region there are at least 30,000 persons
who are, or soon will be, absolutely des
titute, and who can not possibly subsist
without immediate assistance. The com
mittee recommends An appropriation of
$200,000 for the relief of the suffer
ers under such provisons as may bp
deemed best, until the crops can be
grown. The action on the report will be
taken to-morrow,
THE CRIMES OF A DAY.
CLEVELAND, OHIO, HEADS THE'
LIST.
\ Desperate Woman little Five of Her Chil
dren and Then Mulcitles—A Triple
Trnnedy—Mexican Horse Thieves
—Ollier Crimes.
James Cabaleke is a well-to-do carpen
ter, of Cleveland, Ohio. 11 in wife was
out of temper at the breakfast table
Thursday morning and refused to talk to
her husband. After lie and bis oldest
son went to work, the mother sent two
sons, aged fourteen and fifteen, on cr
rands. AVhen they returned they could
not get into the houses In the back yard
they found a younger brother bleeding
from many woundsy They speedily
called help and broke into the house and
found their two little sisters, aged five
and three, and a brother, aged three,
dead from many stabs. A girl of eight
was seriously hurt, and she with the boy
found in the back yard will probably die.
A bloody pair of shears told the story. A
hunt was made for the mother. She was
found in the cellar hanging from a rafter,
dead. She had killed her three children,
mortally injured two others and had then
suicided. The two children who were
still alive were removed to a neighbor's
house. No cause for the terrible deed is
given. The husband does not think that
his wife was insane.
A TRIPLE TRAGEDY.
Tw® Strange .Men Assassinate a Voting
Man and are Afterwards Killed.
AVilliam E. Mead, aged 27, was mur
dered in cold blood Thursday evening,
being shot through the head while stand
ing on the stoop of his father's store, on
Railroad Avenue, in AVhite Plains, N. Y.
Two men were seen running away from
the store after a pistol shot had been
heard, and Chief of Police Lee, with two
officers, at once followed them.
After the shooting the two men jumped
into a sleigh and drove away, but having
mistaken their way returned to the vil
lage and were fired at by Chief of Police
Lee and both of them killed. Great ex
citement prevails in the village over the
tragedy.
The murdered man was highly esteem
ed by all who knew him, and was not
known to have an enemy. He leaves a
wife and child. No motive for the mur
der can yet be assigned. On the bodies
of the murderers were found two new
sheath daggers with ten-inch blades, one
new mask, four heavy revolvers and time
tables of the Harlem and New York city
railway. Both men were strangers here.
MEXICAN HORSE THIEVES.
Lare Number of norseo Stolen—. Two Men
ilfnrdcreu.’
The report that Jack MoLane and Fred
Aberdeen had been murdered at Farmer’s
ranche near Hudson, in Grant county N.
M., has been confirmed. A neighbor
going to his ranche found McLane lying
dead on the ground near the house with
three bullet holes in his body. Just in
side the house Aberdeen’s corpse was
found on the floor. He had a bullet hole
through his head,, from which blood and
brains had oozed. The bodies of both
men had been stripped of all valuables,
including clothing, boots and weapons,
and the murderers had also ransacked
the house, carrying away everything of
value. After completing their work the
thieves stole the horses owned by McLane,
and then went to Indian Springs where
they gathered in six more horses belong
ing to Mr McLane. The excitement
caused by the affair is intense all through
Grant county. The perpetrators of the
outrage are believed to be a part of the
same gang of Mexican thieves and rob
bers who were concerned in the killing
of Deputy Sheriff Hall some time ago,
and if they are caught they will certainly
be lynched.
A DOUBLE MURDER.
Particulars of a double murder near
Murfreesboro* Ark., have been received.
Arthur Miller and Miles Wallace, while
returning to their homes in the country,
were attacked from ambush. The assas
sins numbered three persons and were
armed with rifles. Wallace and Miller
attempted to defend themselves, but
without effect. Miller was shot three
times and fell to the ground, dying al
most instantly. Wallace escaped, but is
believed to be mortally wounded. The
assassins were uninjured. Miller had
lived in the country many years and was
unpopular, having shot a number of men
with whom he had personal encounters
ROAD AGENTS ATTEMPT A ROBBERY.
A bold attempt at train robbery of a
St. Louis train, on the Chicago and Alton
railroad, took place Thursday, three miles
cast of Independence, Missouri. The
train was brought to a standstill by a
violent pulling of the bell cord. The
breakmen and conductor rushed through
the forward p<yt of the train to ascertain
the cause of stopping, when they were
fired on by a man standing on the front
platform of the smoking car and ordered
back into the cars. They barely escaped
injury by dodging back into the car.
Four or five shots were tired. The
would-be robbers then jumped from the
car and escaped in the darkness.
MURDERED BY HIS VICTIM’S SON.
The dead body of Nelson Borden
was found near Point Pleasant, West
Virginia. Three years ago Borden killed
John Letcher during a quarrel. Lester’s
son Abner, then 12 years old, told his
mother and others that when he was big
enough he would kill Borden. The fac'
that he was hunting yesterday in the
woods where Borden wns found dead
gives color to the belief that he has car
ried out his threat.
A YOUTHFUL MURDERER.
Elsie Walker,-a fourteen-year-old girl
living on Sapelle Island, near Darien,
Ga., was-shot and killed by a playmate,
Anthony Handy, aged twelve years. The
iboyt iopfessbd the crime but said he did
not intend, to kill her. The scene of the
murder was hideous to behold, blood and
brains being scattered abogt over the
floor and tho wollo.
CONSTITUTION’S CENTENNIAL.
Tin* President Sends a Message Itegardlug
Its C elebration.
The President has sent the following
message to congress:
To the Senate and House of Represcn
-1 at ives: Asa matter of national interest,
and one solely within the discretion and
control of congress, I transmit the ac
companying memorial of the executive
committee of the sub-constitutional cen
tennial commission, proposing to cele
brate, on the 17tli of September, 1887, in
the city of Philadelphia, as the day upon
which nnd the place where the conven
tion that framed the Federal constitution
concluded their labors and submitted the
result for ratification to the thirteen
states then composing the United States.
The epoch was one of the deepest interest
aud events worthy- of commemoration. I
am aware that as each state acted inde
pendently in giving its adhesion to the
new constitution, the dates and anniver
saries of their several ratifications are not
coincident, so action looking to a national
expression in relation to the celebration
of th" close of the first century of popu
lar government under the written consti
tution has already been suggested, and
whilst stating tlie great interest I share
in tlie renewed examination by the Amer
ican people of the historical foundation
of their government, I do not feel war
ranted in discriminating in favor of or
against tlie propositions to select one day
or place in preference to all others ; and
therefore, content myself with convey
ing to congress these expressions of pop
ular feeling and interest upon the subject,
hoping that in a spirit of patriotic co-op
eration, rather than of local competition,
fitting measures may be enacted by con
gress which will give the amplest oppor
tunity all over these United States, for a
manifestation of the affection and tlie con
fidence of a free and mighty nation in the
institutions of the government, of which
they are the fortunate inheritors and
under which unexampled prosperity has
been enjoyed by all classes nnd condi
tions in our social system.
Grover Cleveland.
OUR BIG BOOM.
Further Evidences of the Influx of Northern
Capital into the Houlli.
The boom in Alabama continues. Bir
mingham is to have a large coal storage
house. Sheffield has its sixth furnace.
Decatur four new furnaces. East Bir
mingham, tlie largest foundry and ma
chine works in the South. Mobile an
anti-friction metal foundry. Florence a
hundred ton furnace. Elyton a SIOO,OOO
dam. Gadsden two one hundred ton fur
naces and water and gas works, and the
new town, Besemer City, a $500,000 roll
ing mill. The influx of Northern capital
continues unabated, and a majority of the
heavy capitalists now developing the re
sources of Alabama and Tennessee arc
officered and conducted by well known
Northern men.
In Arkansas, the DeSha Laud aud
Planting Company, headquarters at Ar
kansas City, and owning 65,000 acres of
cotton and lumber land, are putting up a
SIOO,OOO saw mill and engaging over
1,000 hands in plant-ng. An immense
brewery is to he erected in Little Rock,
and copper and gold in paying quantities
have been found near Golden City. A
fourteen feet thick vein of fine coal lias
been struck at Bartleville, Indian Terri
tory. Two fifty ton charcoal furnaces
are to be erected at once near Nashville
Tenn. ’
TROUBLE AT NIAGARA.
A Large Mass of Rock Falls on the Cana
dian Bide. o
Over 223,000 Quebec yards of lime
stone and slate rock of the bank of Nia
gara river, near Horseshoe falls, on the
Canada side, fell out Thursday. The
mass fell with a tremendous crash, which
was heard nnd felt for miles around. The
break has considerably changed the ap
pearance of the v bank, and now a dark
chasm can be seen behind the falls from
the bank above. The mass of rock which
fell was sixty feet long and one hundred
and seventy feet deep. Its fall from the
main rock has left a perpendicular wall.
The tremendous weight of the ice
which has accumulated during the past
three weeks, with steady frosty weather
and low water was the cause of the
break.
A WOMAN ON FIRE.
Mrs. Butler, an old lady living with
her family, at Athens Gn., was standing
near an open fire Tuesday, when she dis
covered that her dress was ablaze. She
was by herself in the house. She rushed
out of doors to go to the river, but before
she had gotten out of the yard was
enveloped in flames from her clothing.
Frantic with pain and fright she began
tearing them from her and when first
seen was sitting on the frozen ground
trying to pull off her stockings all that
was left on her. Dr. Benedict was at
once summoned, and reached there in
about fifteen minutes. When it was
found that she was literally blistered all
over, and some places the burn extends
through the skin. Her left hand is badly
burned.
THE GLANDERS IN ATHENS, GA.
Dr. W. 11. Rose,the veterinary surgeon
of the agricultural department, Washing
ton, D. C., finished his investigation
at Athens, Ga., Tuesday. He dug up
the bodies of two horses which had died
from the prevalent disease, and split
ting open their noses found evidences oi
glanders. He recommends the destruc
tion of the stables formerly occupied by
the street car stock, the burning of the
manure and the quarantine of tho ani
mals. Dr. Rose does not think there is
danger of a spread of a disease, which
though contagious, is not at all infect
ious.
lumber dealers coming south.
The fourth annual convention of the
Union of Associated Lumber dealers, af
ter session just held at Cincinnati, left by
a special train over the Louisville and
Nashville railroad- for Nashville and
points where they will visit and in
spect some ;nilis in, the lumber regions of
the south. The visit will extend to Bir
, miugham. Mobile, Pensacola and Knox
rill*.
THE LABOR WORLD.
REPORT OF NEW YORK BURE A V
OF STATISTICS AND LABOR.
Investigation and Inqnlrles into the Work
ingman's Position.
New York State Commissioner Peck, in the
“Fourth Animal Report of the Bureau of
Statistics of Labor,” says:
The year 1886 has witnessed a more pro
found and far more extended agitation
among the members of organized labor than
any previous year in the history of our
country, and while such agitation in our
own State has not been characterized by the
wholly unwarranted and criminal excesses
that startled with horror the populace of sev
eral cf the Western cities, it has neverthe
less been earnest aud pronounced. With
but rare exceptions, organized labor has
continued in this State, with greater suc
< ess and vigor than ever before, to agi
tate, to strike and to boycott during tne
past year, and 18S(> will lie remembered as
one of the greatest importance in the battle
waged between capital and labor, the signal
failures and successes of which will not be
lost or fail to serve as lesions of value to tha
student <>f social and economic questions.
The subject of apprenticeship is treated at
great length and in a most exhaustive man
ner. Among other things the Commissioner
ays, in discussing the question:
*;As a very prominent feature of the labor
question, it has been foetid expedient and
necessary to look into our apprenticeship
system—the means at hand of renewing and
perpetuating our lab r supply. The broad
result is that we are largely dependent upon
foreign skilled labor. Our supply of native
mechanics is daily augmented by the skilled
labor of Europe, and while this foreign ele
ment is not equal to the skilled labor which
is retained in Europe, it is in the main vastly
superior to that produced iu our own country.
Whether unrestricted emigration bo or
be not a national blessing may be disputed,
but a visit to the workshops of the State will
demonstrate the truthfulness of the statement
that the large majority of our tradesmen
and mechanics are foreigners. Indeed, in
many trade and industrial establishments
there is not a single American at work.
Nearly all positions of trust and responsi
bility in the mechanl a 1 de, ai tineuts are in
the hands cf foreign-born workers, and most
of the boys aud young men learning trades
are either foreign born or the sons of
foreign-born workers. And the opinion
is now very generally expressed and ac
cepted, that most of the labor troubles of the
last few years have beeu precipitated, not
by whole* trades, but by sections of them,
and that these sections were largely con
trolled by foreigners, or natives who had
from r.ssociation‘imbibed foreign ideas on
the labor question.”
The Commissioner argues in favor of man
ual training as a moans of keeping up the
supply of trained labor aud prevouting the
coming man from becoming the slave of the
machine.
The conclusion a t which the Commissioner
arrives in regard to “Shorter Hours of La
bor” are thus summed up:—“As predicted in
tho last report of this bureau, a very
general movement was made on the first
day of May last looking to the reduction
of the hours of labor from ten to eight per
day. The organizations of New York and
Brooklyn seemed to have acted more in con
cert than those of other cities in the States,
and were by far more successful,
having won a majority of the cases
where demands were made. It is true
that while a large percentage of all engaged
in the movement asked for a reduction of two
hours a day, very many of the organizations
did it with a view of compromising on nine
hours as a day’s work.”
He next gives brief histories of the leading
strikes in the State during the year, notably
those ia the Troy laundries, the sugar
refineries, and oh the street rail
roads. The losses by these dilfereht
strikes, boycotts, &c., he is unable
to give in total, but fifty-eight firms alone
report an aggregate of $3,000,000. On the
other hand, the losses of wages to striking
emnloves ar represented the sum of *9
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IIE HAD TWO WIVES.
Lee Ayers alias J. H. Moore, a young
white man who was formerly a brakesman
on the Louisville and Nashville railroad,
was arrested at Birmingham, Ala., Thurs
day for forgery. He had succeeded in
getting two checks, one for $375 and on*
for $275, oashed at the Berney National
bank, He was identified as the man who
had presented a forged check for $250
at the First National- bank Monday, and
slipped out while the cashier was exam
ining the signature During the search
of Ayers the police found that he has two
wives living in the city, neither of them
being aware of the existence of the other.
A FATAL EXPLOSION.
The boiler at the saw mill of Mr. Skel
ton, four miles west of Anniston, Ala.,
exploded Monday. Charles Dcmsey, en
gineer of Milton county, Ga., was in
stantly killed, his head crushed and
scalded. Perry Ford, a neighbor, was
killed, his head severed from his body by
a portion of the boiler. J. W. Skelton,
the proprietor, was slightly wounded in
the hand. John Sheron, of Atlanta, had
his right leg broken and otherwise in
jured. Buck Shearer was slightly wound
ed in the arm. Old man Demsey was
slightly wounded in the head. Charley
Demsey was blown a distance of forty
feet.
the mad dancers.
A sad outbreak of insanity is reported
from Whiteday, W. Va. Washington
Lake has five grown daughters. Two
weeks ago Tabitha got married and the
young people of tho neighborhood, in
cluding her four sisters, celebrated the
event by dancing all night and nearly all
the next day. On the evening of the
second, Martha, one of the sisters, lost
her reason and developed into a raving
maniac and four days later the bride
went stark mad. Since then the three
other sistors exhibited evidences of in
sanity and the worst is feared.
THE STRIKE AT OXMOOR, J 1 A.
The Superintendent of the Eureka fur
naces at Oxmoor, Alabama, lias secured
one hundred and fifty men who do not
belong to the Knights of Labor, and put
them to work in place of the strikers.
I’he strikers, who nro Knights of Labor,
notified the Superintendent that the scabs
would not be allowed to work. The
Sheriff was notified of the impending
trouble, and put four deputies at the
furnaces, and so far the strikers have
made no effort to iuterferc with the new
men.
IRON SHIPMENT FROJI CHARLESTON.
The steamship Seminole sailed from
Charleston for New York Saturday with
one hundred and eight tons of iron from
Birmingham, Ala. This is the first cargo
of pig iron ever shipped from Charleston,
ana is the beginning of a trade which
promises to make Charleston the most
important shipping port for Albania ii qy
pn the South Atlantic coast.
Subscription $1.50 in Adrante
NUMBER 4.
TWO FRIENDS.
We have beside us ever two close friends,
Who walk on either hand thro 1 all our lives,
One with gay laughter takes our eager hand,
And leads us through youth’s wondrous
Pleasure Land—
Which with a tale of fabled glory vies;
Then guides us to the shade of sylvan grove,
Where love is blushing in the twilight sweet,
And all the air is filled with song of birds—
And heavy with the weight of tender words
From lips that melt together as they speak.
But with us, in our journeying with one,
The other walketh with his head bowed low,
A guest unwelcome is he, aud unsought,
And when, by chance, we turn with merry
thought,
A glance from him falls on our hearts like
snow.
Yet, silent walks ho. On our shrinking
hearts
He lays no hand until his hour has come.
Then leads he even to the vale of Death,
And in the shadows there, with shuddering
breath,
We recognize his features and are dumb !
Both friends ? Ah ! yes. The name of one
is Joy—
Our heart strings quiver with his notes so
gay.
But ere the wondrous symphony’s complete,
Pale Sorrow's baud across the chords must
sweep
To tuno in perfect time life’s melody.
—Grace D. Hoe , in Detroit Free Press.
PITH AM POINT.
“This beats me,” as the egg remarked
when it saw tho spoon.— Boston Bulle
tin.
It is said that the coming cow will
have no horns. In that case the coming
man will take none. — Picayune.
There is no oleomargarine about a
goat. He is genuine butter every time,
and gives tuil weight.— Brake's Maga,'
zinc.
“Nerve Food” is advertised in differ
ent papers. We suppose it forms the
chief diet of book-agents.— Pith and
Point.
“How many women marry a good,
sensible man?” asks Kate Field. Only
one, if the man can help it. —North
American.
It is the silly man who slings aside his
paper with the comment that “half of it
isn’t worth reading.”—The wise man
reads the other half.— Philadelphia Call.
“Every lassie has her ladilio ”
To whisper words of love—
But every lassie has a daddy
To knock on the floor above.
-Life.
A Western farmer has had his infant
son christened with twenty-six names.
It is seldom we hear of a man cherishing
such bitter enmity against his offspring.
Graphic.
Whene'er the small boy makes a racket
Or annoys his mother with his tunei,
She is sure to say she’ll warm his jacket,
Though she always warms his pantaloons
— Judge.
~WSiV we always talk about putting
on a coat and V€:' ■ Who puts on a coat
before the vest? Wfr-Hl?o say shoes and
stockings. What’s the matte! 1 jwith us,
anyhow?— Philadelphia Call.
K ate Field says she is tired of the
world, and “would like to live apart
from the fashionable bustle.” Why don’t
you take it off, then, Kate, and give it
to the hired girl? — Minneapolis Tribune
That the oyster is nutritious,
Quite exquisitely delicious,
Is a statement that can never be denied
But he suddenly grows vicious;
Toward your stomach quite malicious,
When he’s fried.
—Merchant Traveler v
Bricks That Will Float
“Floating palaces” are often spoke®
of, but mostly by a figure of speech to
describe certain splendid steamships.
But now it seems that modern improve
ment has made it possible to build a
brick house on tho sea (?). Floating!
bricks are now successfully produced in
France, the material of which they are
composed being a kind of earth found in
Tuscany, consisting of fifty-five parts of
sandy earth, fifteen of magnesia, fourteen
of water, twelve alumina, three lime, ono
iron. It exhales a clay-like odor, and,
when sprinkled with water, throws out a
light, whitish smoke. It is infusible in
the fire: and though it loses about an
eighth part of its weight, its bulk is
scarcely diminished. Bricks composed
of this substance, either baked or un
baked, float in the water, and a twen
tieth part of clsy may be added to their
composition without taking away their
property of swimming. These 1 ricks re
sist water, unite perfectly with lime, are
subject to no alteration from the heat or
cold, and the baked differ from the un
baked only in the sonorous quality which
they acquire from the fire. Their strength
is a little inferior to that of common
bricks, but much greater in proportion to
their weight. Thus a floating brick,
measuring seven inches in breadth, and
one inch eight lines in thickness, is said
to weigh only fourteen and one-foiftth
ounces, whereas a common French brick
was found to weigh five pounds and
nearly seven ounces.— San Franciteo
Call.
Burial Place of the Booth Family.
The burial place of the Booth family
is Greenmount cemetery. Baltimore, and
Edwin Booth always visits the spot when
he is in that city and lays flowers on tha
graves of his mother and sister. A plain
monument stands In the lot. One side
of it has these words: “In the sama
grave with Juaius Brutus Booth is buried
the body of Mary Ann, bis wife, who
survived him thirty three years.” On
t e opposite side is inscribed : “To the
memory of tho children of Junius Brutua
and s(ary Ann Booth —John Wilkes,
Frederick, Elizabeth, Mary Ann, Henry;
Byron.” On the east side is found:!
“Junius Biutus Booth, born May 1,1
1796,” and on the opposite side, “Died'
November 30, 1852.” Close to the moa- i
ument, on the south side, is a grave cov
ered with ivy, said to mark tho spot
where lie the remains of John Wilkes'
Booth One small rose bush is growing
at the head of tho grave and mother at
the foot. Edwin Booth defrays the ex
pense of keeping the lot in order.
About 100 babies have been named
after tho presfiqf President of tha United
States, ' ' ~ ;