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J. W. White, Editor and Proprietor.
VOLUME V.
Central & Southwestern Railr'ds,
[All trains of this system are ran by StanA
nd (90) Meridian time, which is 86 minutes
•lower than ume kept by city.]
Savannah, Ga., Jan. 24. 1886.
ON AND AFTER THIS DATE PASSEN
GER TRAINS on the Central aud South
western Railroads and branches will ran a a
follows:
GOING NORTH.
Leave No. 61— No. 63
Savannah... D 8 40am.. D 810 pm
Leave No. 16—
D 6 40 p m..
Arrive No. 15—
llilten D 8 46pm..
Arrive No. 61— No. 88—
Macon D 420 p m.. D 820 a m
Atlanta D 935 pm.. D 782 am
Columbus..,D 623 a m.. D 215 p m
Perry DES 8 45pm.. DES 1200 m
Fort Gaines DES 4 38pm
Blakeley DES 710 p m
Eufaula D 4 01 pm
Albany D 10 45 pm.. D 2 45pm
Montgomery D 7 25 p m
MilledgevilleDES 5 49pm
Eaton ton.. .DES 7 40pm
Connections at Terminal Points.
At Augusta—Trains 61 and 53 connect with
outgoing trains of Georgia Railroad,Columbia,
Charlotte and Augusta Railroad, and Soufca
Carolina Railroad. Train 53 connects with
outgoing train of Augusta and Knoxville Rail
road. Train 61 connects with trains for Syl
rania, Wrightsville and Louisville.
At Atlanta—Trains 61 and 63 connect 0“
Air-Line and Kennesaw routes to all p(
. .North and East, and with all diverging r
for local stations.
COMING SOUTH.
Leave —Nos. Nos.
Millen... 16 D 600 a m..
Augusta.lß D 93) am.. 20 D 9 30pm
Macon.. .62 D 940 a m.. 54 D 10 60 p m
Atlanta. .02 D 600 am.. 54 D 6 50pm
Columb’s 20 D 900 p m.. 6 D 11 40 a m
Perry.... 24 DE3 600 am.. 22 DES 800 pm
Ft.Gakies 28 “ 10 05 am
Blakeley 26 “ 815 a m
Eufaula 2D 10 55 a m
Albany .. 4 D 410 a m.. 26 D 12 15 p m
Montg’ry 2D 7 40 am
MilTdg’ve 25 DES 637 a m
Eaton ton 25 DES 5 15am
Arrive —No.
Bavann&h 16 D 8 05 a m. .No.
tavannaks2 D 4 07 p m. .54 D 6 00 a m
Connections at Savannah, with Savannah,
Florida and Western Railway for all points in
Florida.
Trains Nos. 53 and 54 will not stop to take
an or put off passengers between Savannah
and Millen, as trains Nos. 15 and 16 are ex
peoted to do the way business between those
points.
Local sleeping cars on all night passenger
ti.iins between Savanuah and Augusta, Savan
nah and Macon, Savannah and Atlanta, Maoon
and Columbus.
Tickets for all points and sleeping car bertha
on salo at oity office, No. 20 Bull street.
Or. A. Whitehead, WILLIAM ROGERS,
Gen. Pass. Agt. Gen. Supt., Savannah.
J. C. Shaw, W. F. SHELLMAN,
Gen. Trav. Agt. Traffic Manager,
Savannah, Ga.
“D.” daily, “DES,” daily except Sunday. *
BOARDED BY BANDITS.’
A Texas Train Robbed of a Large Amount.
Sunday morning, as the eastbound
Texas and Pacific express was pulling
out of Gordon, a small station sixty miles
west of Fort Worth, two masked and
armed men jumped on the engine and
covered the engineer and fireman with
their revolvers. The engineer was forced
to*puli ahead until the train reached a
high trestle two miles east of Gordon,
As soon as the engine and baggage and
mail car had passed over the trestle, the
train stopped, leaving the passenger
coach on the trestle. At this point the
masked men were reinforced by six as
sistants. The robbers then went through
the express car, taking all the money and
valuables in the safe, the amount being
estimated at from $2,000 to $15,000, al
though the Pacific express officials re
fuse to state the exact amount stolen.
The robbers than proceeded to the mail
car, where they obtained twenty-eight
registered packages. The passengers
were not disturbed, and their coaches
being on a high trestle they could not
get out to assist the train men. There is
no clue to the robbers.
TWO MEN KILLED.
Fatal Accident on the Louisville and Nash
ville Road.
An explosion on the West bound Louis
ville and Nashville passenger Sunday
morning killed the engineer and fireman,
injured several others and wrecked the
entire train. The brakeman slipped from
the freight train and was horribly
mangled.
A special from Carmi, Illinois, says the
Louisville and Nashville railroad accident
was caused by the breaking of a driving
wheel while the train was running at high
speed. The engine was ditched and the
express and baggage cars completely
wrecked. The express manager and the
baggage master escaped with slight inju
ries. The smoking car was turned o> er
on its side, but the passengers sustained
only a few bruises. The inmates of the
cars were rudely shaken up, but none
were injured.
ACCIDENT TO A TAWt.
The yawl “Outing,” on which Captain
F. A. Claudman left Bt. Augustine, on
a voyage around the world, was wrecked
in a storm on Tuesday last at a point on
the Florida coast a few miles north of
Jupiter inlet. Captain Claudman and
mate, George Miller, saved themselves
from being submerged with the boat by
using kerosene, which stilled the waves
and abated their fury. The boat and
everything was lost. The men had an
extremely narrow escape from drowning.
STABBED HIS TEACHER.
Professor J. M. Dewberry, principal of
the Boys’ grammar school, of Montgom
ery, Alabama, was stabbed Tuesday by
Willie ITaygood, one of his pupils, aged
13 years Dewberry was whipping the
boy for some bad conduct, and the latter
turned quickly nnd stabbed him ta the
abdomen. The weapon used was a small
blade of a congress knife. The wound is
not considered dangerous.
A QUARANTINE AGAINST ILLINOIS.
Governor Foraker of Ohio, has issued a
proclamation to quarantine against the
shipping of cattle from Illinois. Hitherto,
on account of the pleuro-pneumonia epi
demic, Cook county only, has been bar
red, but the quarantine has been extend
ed because Chicago shippers were send
ing diseased cattle into Southern Illinois
and thence into Ohio.
(The Urns ami farmer.
THE NEW SOUTH.
NEWS NOTES GATHERED
FROM VARIOUS SECTIONS.
FLORIDA.
The Tampa Tribune, rising to the
growth of the town, has become a semi
weekly.
An immense black bear was recently
killed near Hiek’s prairie, not over three
miles from Eustis. His captors hold u
magnificent skin to testify to their prow
ess.
There are now in the course of con
struction and in contemplation within the
city limits of Tampa, about seven or
eight brick blocks, costing from SO,OOO
to $40,000 each, making an aggregate of
about $116,000.
Oranges are still being forwarded north
from Palatka, and the returns are very
satisfactory to the growers and shippers.
A better average price has been received
for the fruit this season than for some
time past.
A meeting of the citizens of Mantee
county has been called to assemble Satur
day, February 5, at Pine Level, to advise
with their senator and representatives on
the questions of dividing the county and
the line of the division.
The scales, gauges and all the custom
house implements have arrived, and the
preparations are now complete to put the
immediate transportation act in force.
In other words, the customs dues on goods
imported into Tampa will be collected at
that place, instead of at Key West as
heretofore.
Johnnie Williams, a white boy of Pen
sacola, while out huning last week, near
Magnolia Bluff, took deliberate aim at
what he thought to be a bird in the
bushes, and filled the face and neck of a
negro with what is known as “mustard
seed.” For a two-dollar note the darky
signed a contract agreeing to forego his
right to prosecute.
The grand jury of Orange county have
found a true bill for forgery and uttering
a forged note against F. H. Black, the
senior member of the now defunct firm of
Black & Nanway. The decease of that
firm resulted in the sudden disappearance
of Mr. Black and tho leaving behind of a
number of sorrowful friends. lie was
arrested in Tampa a few days ago, taken
to Orlando and lodged in jail, where he
is now awaiting trial.
MISSISSIPSI.
During the last six months the Vicks
burg Building Association, has made a
profit of $19,831.17 on a capital of $90,-
000, or nearly 23 per cent per annum.
Joe Thomas, who killed Chas. Murphy,
editor of the Roiling Fork Review and
Mayor of that town, in 1871, and who
was sentenced to the State penitentiary
for life, has been pardoned by the gov
ernor.
Mr. J. E. Carter, living a few miles
east of Ripley, accidentally dropped a
pistol on Tuesday last, when it was dis
charged, the ball passing through the
back part of the head of his wife, inflict
ing a severe, if not fatal wonnd. The
lady was alive at last accounts, but her
final recovery is involved in doubt.
Captain W. H. Edrington, of the
steamer Phil. Armour, states that two
negro men were drowned near Ben Eagle,
Sunday night, while his boat was at that
place. The men were out in a dugout,
and their craft was turned over while a
short distance from the shore. Neither
of the men could swim, and both drowned
before help arrived.
Mr. L. C. Dulaney, of Boliver, coun
ty, was ambushed and shot from his
horse near Rosedale. His wounds from
goose shot, are dangerous if not fatal.
Two negroes were arrested on suspicious
circumstances. There being much in
dignation aroused by the crime, they
were carried to Greenville to prevent
lynching.
Tho second fire in three months on W
YY\ Johnson’s place, near Red Bone, on
Wednesday evening destroyed his new
steam "gin and thirteen hales of cotton.
The gin was anew one and valued at
$2,500. It was built but a short time
ago to replace one was destroyed about
three months aSo, and was one on tho
finest in the Red Bone neighborhood.
The dead body of one George Harper
was found on the Loughborough planta
tion, in the northern part of Washington
county, on the 11th inst. Harper was
from Memphis and had been employed as
engineer at the Plantation Oil Mill, and
was discharged. His death was from a
fractured skull, probably with a car-phi.
He was probably killed for the small sum
of money he may Lave had.
Lem Smith, a well-known planter in
the Deer Creek neighborhood, last Thurs
day night was badly wounded by a shot
from ambush, but it is thought that lie
is not dangerously hurt. lie states that
he started from his home to ride on
horseback to Watsonia station, on the L,,
N. O. nnd T. road in Shcikey county,
and was still traveling when night fell.
He was in a thinly settled district, when
two men suddenly appeared on the road
side and began shooting at him. Five
shots were fired before he drew his own
pistol and began shooting back. His as
sailants drew off when he opened on them
and escaped. Mr. Smith was wounded
in the left side but managed to stay on
his horse until he reached a place where
he received assistance.
It is reported that anew oil mill is to
be started at Vicksburg as an adjunct of
which an improved paper mill will be
built. Anew process of making paper
is to be used and a recent patent for mak
ing fine paper of cotton seed hulls will
be introduced. The lint from the cotton
seed has been utilized by paper makers
for some time, but the hulls have hereto
fore been used only as fuel. The new oil
mill will have a paper mill connected with
it, and the material used for paper mak
ing will come from the oil mills. The
new use for the hulls will make the mills
an extraordinary good investment, and
the solid business men of Vicksburg are
much interested in the projected mills.
Several ef tho most enterprising of these
have been organizing a company, which
is to begin operations with a capital of
$1,000,000.
A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE MATERIAL AND INTELLECTUAL ADVANCEMENT OF OUR COUNTY
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LOUISVILLE. GEORGIA. THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 3. 1887.
NORTH CAROLINA.
Surveyors are at work on the Wilming
ton Coast-Lino railroad from that city to
\V rightsville Sound, nnd it is stated au
thoritatively that within thirty days
grading will begin.
The Carolina Central railroad company
luvs under construction at its depot in
Wilmington a large building to be used
for the storage of fertilizers, 218 feet in
length, aud 78 feet in width.
Peanuts have advnuced in price, as the
result of a small “boom” that began tho
latter part of last week. The supply in
\Y ilmington and other markets is repre
sented as light, and but little stock is
coming in.
While H. A. Neill, of Davidson coun
ty, was at work at his cotton gin last
Friday, his left hand came in contact
with the saws, and the hand aud arm,
half way up the elbow, were horribly
mutilated, the flesh being torn off and the
leaders t >rn out.
Anew find of magnetic iron ore is re
ported near Webster, in Jackson county.
It was found by a miner named Selirer
ber, who lias been exploring in that sec
tion of the State. The ore is said to
form a bed covering a large area, and is
claimed to be highly magnetic.
Two brothers in south Iredell were
sleeping together last Saturday night,
when one of them “dreampt a dream.”
lie was accused of crime and an officer
was after him. He resisted arrest and
dealt the officer a stinging blow in the
face. The other brother caught the force
of the blow and is going around now with
a black eye.
YV. S. Sisk, of Union Grove township,
and family, left a couple of weeks
ago for Kansas and carried in a gourd the
provisions which were to last them
throughout the journey. It was one of
these old-fashioned Jacksonian democrat
ic gourds, and a gentleman who
saw them unpack it for supper as they
struck camp two miles north of town,
observed among other things they took
out of it six cooked chickens.
At Egypt, in Chatham county, a Penn
sylvania company has purchased a large
area of coal fields, and propose to begin
operations there in the near future. They
propose to begin by supplying local de
mands along the lines of road most con
venient to them, and to gradually broaden
the business. There are also parties con
tracting for tlie Ore Hill iron property
here, for the purpose of erecting a fur
nace. The indications for that particu
lar district are brightening. When
work is once begun there in earnest, a
large and permanent business will result-
GEORGIA.
There is talk of starting a bank in
Greenville with $25,000 capital.
The Presbyterians of Griffin are about
to build anew church to cost $3,000.
A widower in Oglethorpe coupty has
recently taken unto himself a thirtecu
"ear-old bride.
Ordinary Gilham, of Oglethorpe, sold
one hundred and fifty-three marriage li
censes during 186.
Iho county commissioners of Houston
have contracted to put new cells in the
jail at an expense of $4,000.
The town clerk of Fort Valley lias pub
lished a uotice for an electiou in March,
to determine whether the council shall
issue bonds to raise money to build anew
school house.
A large land trade was perfected last
week, in Screven county, by which Mr.
L. F. Pfeiffer becomes the owner of about
seven or eight thousand acres of the Gib
bons lands near the Haga Slaga landing,
on the Savannah river. This is the big
gest transaction of the kind that has oc
curred in the county in many years. It
was a cash trade.
The first damage suit for injuries re
ceived against the Rome aud Carrollton
railroad has been filed in the clerk’s of
.lice, in Floyd county. Henry C. Boyd,
a section hand, is the plaintiff, and he
sets forth that on account of a collision
of a lever car and an engine on the road,
about the 15th of last December, he had
one of his arms fractured, and was other
wise injured. He claims damages to the
amount of SB,OOO.
THE LONGSHOREEMNS STRIKE.
Ocean Ntenraahlpa Likely to Be Delayed for
Want of Coni.
Mr. Hicks, of the Ocean Association of
Longshoremen and Knights of Labor, re
ports that not a pound of coal wi*j put
aboard any ocean steamers in New York,
Brooklyn in 1 Jersey City Tuesday.
Eleven ; rain elevators have suspended
business, iwo of them are on the Ham
burg and Bremen piers in Brooklyn, aud
six in Brooklyn at Prentice’s stores. The
elevator men refuse to load grain into
ships that take Old Dominion freights.
The trans-Atlantic steamers cannot sail
on time if this continues to-morrow, and
the United States mail will be delayed.
The Wilson Line lias advertised for a
large number of men, offering them high
wages, Louis B. Debean, of the French
line, notified a committee that called
upon him to-day that he had no freight
from the Old Dominion Line, and that
the 250 bales of cotton were from ocean
steamers, and the longshoremen went to
work. No coal, however, was got aboard
La Bourgogne.
THE SAVANNAH FIRE.
Th* Flame* Destroy Three Brick Hnlldln*..
About nine o’clock Monday night a fire
was discovered in the rear of Ruwe’s
steam bakery and candy fnctory, on Bay
street, Savannah. The flames spread
rapidly, and in an hour the inside, with
the whole stock, was completely burned
out. The bakery comprises two four
story brick buildings, and will be a total
loss. The adjoining building of the
same block, occupied as a lager beer de
pot and sales rooms, by George Meyer,
caught, and was destroyed. Ruwe had
an insurance for $30,000 and $14,000 on
stock, Meyer has insurance on his stock
for $5,000, M. A. Cohen $3,000, C. G.
Filligant SI,OOO and J. F Wheaton Sc
Cos. SI,OOO. It is thought the total loss
will approximate $50,000, about SIO,OOO
of which is nob covered by insurance.
The origin of the fire is unknown.
SOUTHERN PROGRESS.
STILL WE ARE BOOMING.—NEW
RAILROADS IN TENNESSEE.
l, nnd Bales In Anniston, Alnlmnm.—A Ten
Btory House for Birmlnglmin.
Records of the Secretary of the State’s
office of Tennessee show that twelve rail
road charters have been granted within
five weeks, as follows: Tennessee Cen
tral, from Brydston, N. C., to Tennessee
points; Knoxville and Nashville; Ten
nessee and North Carolina, from East
Tennessee to Murphy, North Carolina;
the Bristol and South Atlantic, from
Bristol eastwardly; the Baltimore, Nash
ville and Memphis, from Bristol to Mem
phis; Chattanooga and Southwestern,
from Chattanooga to Columbus, Georgia;
Cumberland Valley and Unoka, from
Cumberland River to North Carolina
line; Memphis and Nashville, from Mem
phis to Nashville; Cincinnati nnd Bir
mingham, from Chattanooga to Birming
ham, Alabama; the Missouri, Tennessee
and Georgia; Tennessee Midland, from
Memphis to Bristol, and the South Pitts
burg and Sequahatehie, from the Ten
nessee line to South Pittsburg.
Charters have also been granted to four
large street railway corporations, two min
eral paint companies, four marble compa
nies, one oil company, eleven large man
ufacturing corporations and six land com
panies. Thirty minor manufacturing
companies have applied for charters, but
have uot received them yet.
AT ANNISTON ALA.
The auction sale Monday was sixty-four
lots, amounting to two hundred and
seventy-two thousand dollars.
Purchasers are from every state in the
union. There was some delay and de
ficiency in the way, owing to tho hurry
in getting ready. The sale was publicly
continued Tuesday, after which the sales
were private by the agent and officers of
the company. A noted contractor and
corps of surveyors from Minnesota have
gone to work on the Anniston and Cin
cinnati railroad. To realize the situation
and enthusiasm it is necessary to be
present. Knowing ones can count up
seven million dollars represented now for
investment in real estate. Ninety-five
cents has been refused for the company’s
stock. Very little on the market at any
price.
AT CHATTANOOGA.
The sale of 110 feet, corner of Market
and Seventh streets, was consummated
Monday, at eighty-four thousand dollars,
to Mississippi parties. They will at once
erect a one hundred thousand dollar
building.
A company has been formed and all
the stock subscribed for the organization
of a $300,000 national bank. The head
of the institution is E. E. Watkins,
president of the Meridian National bnak,
and Charles A. Lyerly, president of the
First National bank of Meridian. Arc
the money is pledged and every detail is
already arranged. Tho bank will be
ready for business as soon as the charter
can be procured.
AT BIRMINGHAM.
Josiah Morris, of Montgomery, is hav
ing plans drawn for one of the finest
buildings in the south, which he will
erect in Birmingham at once. It will
contain ten stories and one hundred and
fifty offices, and will have all the modern
improvements.
The committee of citizens called by
the probate judge examined the county
courthouse, nnd condemned it as unsafe.
A new courthouse costing $250,000 will
be built.
CHILDREN UNDER WATER.
T*n Minute* Under Wntt-r nnd are Rescued
Alive at Lost.
A sewer u quarter of a mile in length,
running under Niagara Falls Out., forms
part of the bed of Muddy Run creek,
which, during thaws in winter, is swol
len into a rusting river of large volume,
which empties itself into Niagara river
over the precipice near the whirl pool
rapids. This river wag running fifteen
miles an hour Saturday evening, when
Bertha Farrel, aged four years, who was
seated in a hand sled, slid into it. Her
sister Blanche, aged ten, jumped in alter
her, and both were swept into the river.
A rush was made for the other end of the
sewer, and men secured by nopes, jumped
into tho water and waited for the chil
dren to appear. Bertha came first, under
the water, and Blanche followed on top.
When taken out both were apparently
lifeless, but after much difficulty both
were resuscitated. The children were in
the water ten minutes, most of the time
submerged.
THE WHITE PLAINS TRAGEDY.
Tlie Bodies of the Two murderers Identified
—They Were Two New York Boys.
The two dead bodies of the murderers
of George A. Mead, who committed sui
cide to avoid arrest, have been identified
as Thomas and John Trestliam, brothers,
aged 15 and 19. They belong in New
York, where their father and oldest
brother are respectable manufacturers of
wire goods. The third man who was in
company with the dead boys on the train
the night they were killed, and who re
mained on the train and went on past
White Plains, was another brother named
Henry. Tne eldest brother, James I.
Trestham, who lias identified his brothers’
bodies, says they only left home Wednes
day, and were only absent one day before
losing their lives.
A STEAMER HAS A MISHAP.
The Clyde line steamer Delaware, from
New York via Charleston, bound for Fcr
nandina, went on a north breaker off Bt.
Andrew’s sound, in a slight fog, at 0 a.
m. Sunday. The sea broke over her, and
when the tide rose she pounded heavily
The captain sent a boat to Brunswick,
twenty miles distant, and obtained three
tugs. The ship got off with the aid of
the wind at 7 o’clock Monday morning,
just before the tugs arrived. Her rudder
and main boom were lost. The tug?
hauled her out of the breakers, and got
her safe into Fernandina harbor. There
was no panic among the passengers, and
the vessel does not appear to be material
ly injured.
THE ENGLISH PRESS.
They UinciiM the Action ofthe United Ntntefl
Senate—Will There be War ?
The London Post, in an article on the
passage of the fisheries bill in the United
States senate, says:
We are sure that Mr. Ingall’s outspoken bit
terness against Euglaiul does not represent the
feeling of either the American senate or peo
ple. On the other hand it would he foolish to
shut our eyes to the importance of the question
involved.
The Chronicle thinks the fact that Mr.
Ingall’s splcuitic outburst neither stir--
prised nor shocked the more respectable
senators is a far more serious matter than
the dispute itself, and hopes that the
Washington authorities will early dis
claim any community ol feeling with
Ingalls. The “Daily News” says:
Today’s telegrams from N; w Yoik, Montreal
and Ottawa are of a very reassuring character.
Nobody here regarded tho violf nt speeches of
Senators Ingalls, Hale an 1 Frye serioimy.
Evvn dignified American senators are not above
playing to the gallery. It is much to be hoped
iliat no steps will be taken to exa-peratc the
quarrel, and that the good sens * of Canada
will insist upon a policy of peace.
The Standard says:
President Cleveland will probably havo tho
good sense to veto the measure, or a-gree to it
merely in form, os a prelude to amicable nego
tiations. We protest against the idea of citlier
England or Canada being ccreod into yielding
a jot or tittle of their rights by such (lnp v
threats. We have none of ihe nit rior motive's
assigned by Messrs. Ingalls, Frye an 1 Hale,
but Americans, by demanding such terms as
those indicated, ask more than justice. The
dispute, however, ought not to be beyond tlio
power of diplomacy.
INNOCENT BOYS IMPRISONED.
\\ hipped Until Willing to Sty Anything,
They Confess to a Crime.
Three years ago, next May, Mahlon
McCullough and William Puetz, two
boys connected with some of the leading
families of Bayview, were sent to state
prison for three years, upon conviction
of having shot and robbed August
Grothe, a street car driver. Today
Father Decker, pastor of St. Anthony’s
church, announces that the boys are in
nocent, and that the guilty man has
made himself known to him through the
confessional. He refuses, however, to
divulge the name of the latter; but has
asked Governor Rusk to pardon Puetz
and McCullough.
The assault on Grothe was made one
dark night in the suburbs of Milwaukee
in true highwayman style. Grothe re
fused to surrender his change box aad
was shot, it is supposed, fatally. At
sight of the bleeding body Mis. Grothe
became a raving maniac and is now con
fined in an asylum. At the trial, a de
tective testified that the boys confessed
their part in the act and robbery. Puetz
and McCullough say that the confession
was forced from them; that for ten days
they were beaten, starved, hung up by
the thumbs and otherwise ill treated, and
that they confessed to escape starvation.
Twenty witnesses testified to an alibi,
but they were convicted. McCullough
is said to be dying of consumption.
GOVERNOR LEE BANQHETTED.
He Respond, to a Toast to the ‘‘Now South’
at St. Paul, Minn.
Over one hundred guests sat down to a
reception and banquet given by the Mag
nolia and Opossum Clubs in honor of
General Fitz Hugh Lee, of Virginia, and
party, Tuesday night. Senator C. K.
Davis and Governor McGill were among
the guests. Judge Flandreau made the
welcoming address, recalling early recol
lections of ’possumhuntingnmidtho hills
of Fairfax county, and payi ng a warm
tribute to Virginia, the “land of brave
men and fair women.”
Responding to the toast “The New
Northwest," E. V. Smalley thought that
all that remained of the great struggle
was the memory of the courage and ideal
devotion to duty it called forth. His
toast to the descendant of “Light Horse
Harry” was drank standing with many
hearty cheers.
General Johnson recalled some amusing
reminiscences of Gen. Lee’s early adven
tures in fighting Indians in Texas, and
called upon General Lee himself to re
spond to the toast “The New South.”
General Lee declared meetings of this
sort would do a great deal of good. If
we had known each other better before
the war, that struggle might have been
averted.
PROHIBITION IN IOWA.
Two Dos Moines Brewers Set the T.aw at
Defiance.
Two brewers, Aultman and Mattes, of
Des Moines, lowa, recently asked Judge
Love, of the Federal court, to discharge
on the habeas corpus proceedings under
Judge Brewer’s decision that antecedent
brewery property should be compensated
to the owners. Judge Love notified At
torney-General Baker of the proceedings,
and at his request the hearing was post
poned till April. It is understood that
the brewer’s attorneys have advised them
that they are now wards of the Federal
court and therefore exempt from the
Clark law. The began selling beer again
Saturday. It was next to impossible to
get near the bar at either brewery. Seiz
ures were made hourly by constables, but
the amount carried away was only small.
The two brewers were arrested in the
afternoon, and gave bond for appearance.
They are determined to carry on the re
tail business over the bar again, and will
contest the case vigorously.
FROM PITTSBURG, PA.
The coal operators along the Baltimore
and Ohio district have been compelled to
close down a number of their works on
account of the scarcity of cars. They say
. that it is almost impossible to get cars
from the West, and that sidings at many
of the mills are full of unloaded cars.
The scarcity of cars has been particularly
noticeable within the last few days.
About 1,000 men are out of work by
these suspensions.
AGAINST THE PINKERTONS.
A bill unanimously passed the lower
house of the legislature of Michigan
Tuesday directed mainly against import
ed detectives. It prohibits sheriffs from
appointing any deputy not a citizen and
elector of the county wherein appointed.
A TRAIN DEMOLISHED.
Explosion ot Two Hundred Found, ol Giant
Povrdt-r on n Missouri Pacific Trnln.
About two hundred cases of giant
powder exploded while in transit over
the Missouri Pacific road a half mile west :
of Fort Scott Texas, at one o'clock Tues- j
day morning. It was being transported
in a magazine car. The train consisted \
of 23 freight cars aud 15 of them were
completely demolished. The magazine j
ear was blown to atoms. Tlie engine was |
badly broken up, but not blown off the ;
track. Scott Hooker, brakeman, was in- j
stantly killed. A great hole was blown j
in the* road bed and rails and ties ground \
to powder for several rods distant. En
gineer K. R. Dillon and Fiermati S. Shu- i
ford, although badly frightened and
stunned, were not seriously hurt. Con- j
ductor Elliott and a rear brakeman who |
were in the caboose were injured. Tlie j
shock from the explosion was simply ter- 1
rific. Ten thousand dollars’ worth of tine
plate glass and window glass was broken
in buildings throughout the central and
western part of the city. Many thought
it was an earthquake and left their beds
and ran from their houses panic stricken.
It is reported that several window glasses
were broken at Nevada, Mo., twenty-five
miles distant, and also at Rich Hill.
Houses were shaken all over this country.
A DARING BURGLARY.
A Railroad Agent Compelled lo Unlock bl.
Safe at Richmond Texas.
Between one and two o’clock Monday
morning, three masked men entered the
Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe railroad de
pot, at Richmond, Texas, and under
cover of a pistol compelled a watchman,
named Gregory, to open the doors lead
ing to inner offices. They then attemp
ted to drill through the safe in the sta
tion agent’s office. After drilling for
some time, the men became impatient and
two of them went to the residence of Sta
tion Agent Ilagen and roused him out of
bed, telling him the freight house was on
fire. As the agent came out of the house
they seized him and forced him at the
muzzle of a revolver to accompany them
to the depot, where, under threats to
take his life if he refused. Ilagen opened
the safe. The robbers then secured sl,-
400 in money. After rifling the safe they
ordered Hagen and Gregory to remain
quietly in the room at the peril of their
lives. When Agent Ilagen finally looked
out the men had fled. It is not known
whether they left on horseback or. on
foot. There is no clue to their identity.
BMALL-POX IN NEW YORK.
Great Daager that the Disease .liny Become
Epidemic.
The health commissioners of New
York city held a special meeting Tues
day to discuss the danger of small pox.
Doctor Janes, sanitary superintendent,
and his assistants and Doctor Taylor,
chief of the bureau of contagious dis
eases, each represented that witli now a
dozen centres of Infection on hand
and much cold weather yet in store, more
help was necessary in Dr. Taylor’s bu
reau to ward off danger.
The board is short of funds, and it was
stated that before more could be demand
ed a formal declaration would have to be
made, in effect that small pox was epi
demic in New York. The board thought
such a statement would cost the city sl,-
000,000 of trade, and it was resolved to
increase the vaccinating force by using
about seven hundred dollars now on
hand from the sale of virus. Six addi
tional doctors were appointed at once.
OPENING THE COAL FIELDS.
The Tnaknloosa Ala., People to Have An
other Rond.
The board of directors of the Tuska
loosa Coal, Iron and Land company met
Tuesday, and agreed to take immediate
steps to build a standard gauge railroad
north into the company’s coal nnd iron
fields. An engineer has been engaged to
make the survey, and the company’s
agents are in the field to secure the right
of way. All other preliminary actions
have been taken, and the building of that
road is now an assured fact. Captain
Early Hardaway has been employed to
survey the five thousand acres of subur
ban land belonging to the company, and
to lay this body of land out in lots, and
to make it all that an addition to Tuska
loosa should be. A corps of engineers
have been selected, and both schemes
will be pushed to completion by the com
pany.
RAILROAD ,i’REE PASSES.
The Texas legislature Passes a Law Pro
hibiting Their Use by Htato Officials.
Saturday a bill passed the House
to engrossment, at Austin, Texas, mak
ing it unlawful for any judicial, execu
tive, administrative or legislative officer
in this State or of any district or county
in this state, excepting sheriffs, consta
bles or other peace officers, to accept free
passes or tickets or any device, instru
ment, article or substance that may be
recognized or accepted in lieu thereof,
from any railway company, its agents or
employes, or to use, cairy or display the
same upon any arilway in the state. The
penalty is a fino not exceeding SI,OOO.
COTTON RAISING IN MEXICO.
A great deal of suffering is reported
among the Chinese in Mazatlan, Mexico,
arising out of differences between the la
borers and companies which brought
them out.
The cotton crop in Mexico this year
will amount to about 800,000 quintals,
and as 100,000 quintals a month arc re
quired to supply the mills of the country,
a sufficient quantity to make up the de
ficit will have to be imported from the
United States.
A LACK OF TRANSPORTATION.
Coal operators along the Baltimore and
Ohio district have been compelled to
close down a number of their works on
account of the scarcity of cars. They
say that it is almost impossible to get
cars from the west, and that sidings of
many of the mills are full of unloaded
ears. A scarcity of cars has been partic
ularly noticeable within the last lew
days. About 1,000 men are thrown put
I of employment by these suspensions.
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SUNSET PICTU ns3
At eve, when the day is dying
Adown in the clouded west,
I climb to my lonely garret,
Athirst for its peace and rest.
I look from my western window
Away to the sunset sky,
And watch, with a vague heart-aching*
Its pageantry glow and die.
From out of the deepening shadows,
And up through the rifts of gold.
Troop memory-haunting faces,
And forms that were dear of old.
And the dismal years sweep backward
Their burden of woe and pain,
Their heartaches and tears and partings,
And leave me my past again.
Oh, memory, treasure-laden!
If only your gates would close
To opeu no more, forever,
On our deep, heart-piercing woea—
If only the glad and joyous
Might break from your magic train.
How many would hail you gladly
Who shrink from you now in pain?
One face—Oh. the years of darknesi
That lie 'twixt its bloom and me!
Beams out of the falling shadows
That darken the sunset sea.
And the dear, bright eyes* all smiling,
Are bright as the sunset's - gold!
Dear eyes! and the sweet hands beckon
Away to the Father's fold.
Another face so sweet and gentle,
With a serious, boyish grace,
Shines out of the flaming splendor,
Ah, this is my lost love’s face;
But it greets mo now, as never,
Save out of some sunset sheen;
For years of rebellious grieving
Lie his and my face between.
I watch them with heartsick
These two—they were all my ownl
And my life seems strangely blighted.
And joyless now they are gone.
But over the sunset borders,
Adowu by the jasper sea,
I shall some day lind ray children,
Awaiting and watching for me.
—Nellie Watts McVey, in Current
PITH AM) POINT.
Strange as it may seem, when money
is close it is difficult to get very near it,
—Boston Post.
A fashion journal says there is a knack
in putting on gloves. Come to think of
it, that’s so. You have to get your hands
in, as it were.— W ashington Post.
The nineteenth century is marching on
apace, yet no man has been aide to dis
cover how a woman can put thirty yards
of cloth into a winter suit.— Call.
The rockers on a chair never stick out
half so far behind at any other time as
when a man is prowling around in th*
dark barefooted.— Danville Breeze.
It is very difficult for a lady to enter
or leave a carriage properly. It re uires
practice and a carriage. The carriage is
the hardest part to acquire.— Puck.
Customer (entering a notions shop and
pointing out an articlei —“What is that
for?” Obliging clerk (continuing to
read a newspaper)—“That’s for sale.”—
Lowell Citizen.
Smith— “My wife wants anew dress
every day in the year. Jones —“She
must be awfully extravagant. Does she
get it?” Smith—“No; that is the reason
she is comnelled to want it.”—Bingham
ton Republican.
Father—“Y T ou are a bad boy.” John
ny—“No, I ain’t.” “Yes you are, and
if you give me any more impudence I’ll
punish you severely. I’ll t il your alter
to play a tune on the piano for you.”
Johnny promised to behave himself
henceforth.— Siftings.
A fond father has a fair daughter at
boarding school. An old teacher of the
girl met the father and asked : “Is your
daughter making progress in her school
work?” “I should judge she is,” re
plied the fond father. “YVhy, she has
one grammar that cost sll.” — Buffalo
Express. ,
“Oconomowoc 1” yelled the brakeman.
“O’Connor may walk, may he?” ex
claimed an Irishman at the other end of
the car. “An’ faith, if yes mane me,
me, you’ll have a foine time rankin’
O’Connor walk when he’s paid foive
dollars for this bit o’ pasteboard.” — St.
Paul Herald.
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The Oldest Newspaper.
The oldest newspaper in the whole
wide world is the King-Pan, or Capital
Sheet, published in Pekin. It first ap
peared A. I). 911, but came out only at
irregular intervals. Since the year 1351,'
however, it has been published weekly,
and of uniform size. Now it appears in
three editions daily. The first, issued
early in the morning, and printed on
yellow paper, is called Using-Pau (busi
ness sheet), and contains trade prices and
all manner of commercial intelligence.
The second edition, which comes out
during the forenoon, also printed upon
yellow paper, is devoted to official an
nouncements nnd general news. The
third edition ap; ears late in the after
noon, is printed on red paper, and bears
the name of Titani-Pan (country sheet).
It consists of extracts from the earlier
edition*, and is largely subscribed for in
the provinces. The number of copies
printed and tily varies between 13,000 aud
14,000. _______
Invention or the Lock.
This is not a modern device. Among
tho ruins of the great temple of Itunafc
its general principles have been discov
ered. From this wo gather that it is
at least forty centuries old. The lock
smiths of Chinn, we are told, had, cen
turies before the birth of Christ, per
fected a lock out of which a sharp bam
boo thorn would dart and strike the
hand of any one wrongfully tampering
with it. The end of this bamboo thoru
was steeped in a poisonous decoction,
and should the luckless thief escape
death he would be maimed for life. But
this story ts hardly entitled to full be
lief, for the reason, as the Chinese them
selves claim that gunpowder wa- manu
factured by them at that time, a Celestial
safe blower could easily render the thorn
harmles by the aid of a few grains of
powder.
Boston’s gross city debt has increased
nearly $4,000 000 in the past two years.
The total liability is more that 446,000,-
000, and it keeps giowing steadily.