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J. W. WHlTE,'Editor and Proprietor. VOLUME V. Central & Southwestern Railr’ds, [All trains of this system are run by Stand lid (99) Meridian time, which is 86 minutes ■lower than time kept by city.] Savannah, Ga", Jan. 24. 1886. ON AND AFTER THIS DATE PASSEN GER TRAINS on tho Central and South western Railroads and branches will run as follows: GOING NORTH. Leave No. 61— No. 63 Savannah...D 8 40am.. D 810 p ni Leave No. 16— D 6 40pm.. Arrive No. 16 — Hillen D 8 46pm.. Arrive No. 61— No. 53 Augusta.... D 345 pm.. D 615 am Hacon D 420 pm.. D 320 am Atlanta D 9 35pm.. D 732 am Columbus...D 623 am.. D 216 pm Perry DES 8 45pm.. DES 12 00 m Fort Gaines DES 4 38pm Blakeley DES 7 10pm Eufaula D 4 01pm Albany D 10 45 p m.. D 245 p m Montgomery D 7 25 p m Milledgeville DES 649 p m Eatonton.. .DES 7 40pm Connections at 'Terminal Points. At Augusta—Trains 61 and 63 connect with outgoing trains of Georgia hailroad,Columbia, Charlotte and Augusta Railroad, and Sout.i 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 51 and 53 connect r*"‘ Air-Line and Kennesaw routes to all pr North and East, and with all diverging r for local stations. COMING SOUTH. Leave—Nos. Nos. Hillen... 16 D 600 a m.. Augusta. 18 D 9 BJam..2OD 9 30 pm Macon.. .52 D 940 a m.. 54 D 10 50 p m Atlanta. .62 D 600 am.. 54 D 6 50pm Columb’s 20 D 900 p m.. 6 D 11 40 a m Perry... .24 DES 600a m. .22 DES 300 pm Ft. Gaines 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 Mill’dg’ve2sDES 6 37 am Eatonton 25 DES 515 am Arrive—No. Bavannahl6D 8 05 am.. No. Bavanuahs2D 4 07 pm.. 54 D 6 00 am Connections at Savannah, with Savannah, Florida and Western Railway for all points in Florida. Trains Nos. 53 and 54 will not stop to take on or put off passengers botween Savannah and Mitten, as trains Noe. 15 and 16 are ex pected to do the way business botween these points. Local sleeping cars on all night passenger trains between Savannah and Augusta, Savan uah and Macon, Savannah and Atlanta, Macon and Columbus. Tickots 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., Savanuah. J. O. Shaw, W. F. SHELLMAN, Gen. Trav. Agt. Traffic Manager, Savannah, Ga. "D.” daily, “DES," daily exoept Sunday. A HORROR OF THE SLUMS. Fivo Hand nnd Dying Cliltilren and o Father llcsoir and Willi Drink. A letter from Detroit, Mich., says; “Isn't it terrible?” “Yes, awful.” There was a large crowd about the house at No. 456 Woodbridgo street. It was noon and the gathering was soon Bwollen by people going homo to dinner. Tit < women's faces were blanched and tnen’s had a stern and forbidding look. ]f there had not been several city officers present another dreadful tragedy might have been enacted. The house is a dilapidated frame building, and in it Thomas Grears, a stonecutter, thirty-three years of age, lives with his family, consisting at present of five children. La-t Sunday Mrs. Grears died in childbirth, the in fant living. She was buried on Wednesday. Since the funeral nothing was seen of Grears or any of the chil dren. The house was closed and the doors locked. A neighbor, becoming suspicious, broke in the door one morn ing and saw a sight which caused him to retreat as from a pestilence. Lying with the children upon tho one bed was the father, crazy drunk. The cold, naked and bloody body of another child lay on the floor, where it had been thrown by the brutal father to make more room on the bed. The living chil dren were down with an virulent attack of scarlet fever. A girl three years old was dead and cold. A boy eight years old was dying, and the other children, a girl of five years and a boy of one year old, were so ill that they could not move. A child a year old -was uncon scious. The house was cold, the blanket of the bed filthy and bloody. '1 lie little sufferers on the bed were almost naked, and the burly form of the father lay partly over the younger lad and the babe. Not a morsel of food was found in the house except a little milk frozen hard. Horrified at the sight, the neighbors rushed out and gave the alarm. Tho Poor Commissioner took immediate charge of the case. Physicians were called and food and fire provided, and several fiercely indignant women neigh bors set to work to clean up the house. Grears was put in charge of the officer. He is said to be a fine workman at his trade of stonecutting, and was recently employed at Lett’s Stone Yard. The family came from London, Out., five months ago. Euttcr and (horse. From a report of tho New York Mer cantile Exchange it appears that during tho last yeur the receipts of butter have been 1,048,220 packages, being 8,620 packages less than lor last year, while cheese has fallen off 178,927 boxes. In exports butter is 58,476 packages and cheese 83,434 boxes less than last year. The prices of Western creamery butter have increased from 2 i 7-16 and 24 cents to 25 1-8 and 26 3-4 cents. The price of cheese and eggs also advanced. For December there was a large falling off in the quantity of butter, cheese, and eggs received in this market. Five thousand and six packages of oleomar garine were reported as having been re ceived duiing the month, and tho oleo margarine and oils exported during the month show an increase of 6,603 pack ages over the same time last year. ~ Last year eight peaks of the Alps, hitherto Inaccessible, were ascended by adventurous parties, but eleven persons lost their lives in climbing, ten being killed and one froze to 4etb. Steam ami Jfcicmct. SOUTHERN ITEMS. —i . % NEWB NOTES GATHERED FROM VARIOUB SECTIONS* GEORGIA. There has been received at Milledge ville 10,000 bales of cotton this season, which exceeds last year’s receipts by fifty bales. Treasurer James M. Sapp has had placed to the credit of Dodge county in the Exchange bank of Macon the snug sum of $2,816.28. Some of Polk county's best citizens have ordered pecan trees with a view to trying the experiment of their growth in that county. The canal cut bv Mr. Sweeney and others around the drift in the Oconee river is washing out handsomely, although there have been no freshets in the river since the canal was cut. Mr. Tol Lester, of Clarke county, last week killed sixty blackbirds at two shots besides wounding others. He also fired at a covey of partridges in a patch of broomsedge, and killed ten at a single fire. Wednesday while Allen Holt, a colored man of Americus, was working in a cut on the A., P. and L., about two miles beyond Lumpkin, the side of the em bankment caved in and covered him up. He was terribly crushed before he could bo extricated, and his life is in danger. A man living in Haralson county went home one night about ten o’clock, while about three sheets in the wind, and feast ed upon a buzzard, which his good wife had cooked for the oil that was in the fowl. It is said that the man ate all of this bird, thinking it was a chicken, and when he was told of what he feasted up on, he then and there “swore off” and went to preaching. The season for woods fires has arrived, and the woods are being “burned off” throughout the piney woods, or wire grass region. The open pine woods are burned off annually for the benefit of the sheep and cattle that have to subsist up on what they gather from nature’s plant ing. After the wire grass, which gets hard with half a year’s growth, has been burned off to the surface anew and ten der growth springs up from the roots and stubble, making the best of grazing for sheep and cattle. A good portion of the woods on the east side of Flint river has already been burned. Opposite the McAfee house, and jus! in front of Charlie Hill’s barber shop, in Smithville, in the road where vehicles pass, a mysterious and well rounded well can be seen as the result of the' sudden and unexpected caving in of the earth which has hitherto kept its locality a se cret. The ground gave way as a heavy loadtd wagon passed over it the other day, and a well with 10 feet of water and 20 feet in depth from the top to the bot tom can now be seen there. Various speculations as to the origin of the well were hazarded by the crowd which quickly collected around it, bnt nothing definite is known about it, though it is supposed to be a well made by the rail road men when the Central was being built. The legal tender silver mine, in Mur ray, which so much excitement was made about some years ago, is being operated upon again, nnd a better quality of ore is now being gotten out than ever before. Considerable excitement is growing out of the new find. Tho mine is in Cohutta mountain, about six miles from Spring Place. Mr, Mcllan, who owns a tract of land near the mine, has had an option taken on his land for $4,000. There is millions of wealth in Old Cohutta which only needs operating on to bring it to the eves of the capitalists. Captain W. C. Tilton’s fine talc mine, four miles from Spring Place, is shipping tons of talc daily. There is not a day passing but what wagons unload the talc in the crude state at the Dalton depot for eastern markets. There are the finest talc mines in Murray county that are now known in the United States. ALABAMA. Henry county has only nine barrooms. There is talk of a SIO,OOO hotel to be built in Alexander City. Birmingham talks of giving a charity ball to raise funds for the proposed hos pital. Thera are about 3,000 hands at work on the extension of the Columbus and Goodwater road to Birmingham. The Macon and Tuscaloosa railway company, a projected line from Maeon, Miss., and Tuscaloosa, has been incor porated and an organization effected. It is thought that work will commence at once. Uniontovrn is situated in the midst of the noted canebrake lands of west Ala bama, which are the finest and most pro ductive farming lands in the south. This town has been very unfortunate in being twice burned; but its enterprising citi zens have now rebuilt, it more substautial than ever. The business portion of the place is solid brick. Near the town is located the state experiment farm for the black belt section. A fine artesian well is being bored in the business portion of the town. They have already reached over six hundred feet. A meeting of citizens was held in Haynevilie to inaugurate a movement having for its object the draining of the swamps on Big Swamp Creek. W. C. Griffin presided and Tom Baine was sec retary. A committee was appointed to arrange for a grand meeting of all citi zens interested in the undertaking to be held at an early day. Also a committee to investigate and report to that meeting the most practicable plan of draining these swamps and the cost of same, and also as to what amount of the lands re claimed will be given by the owners to any company doing the work. The lands that would bo reclaimed are as fine as there are in the world, there being act ually no bottom to the soil. They would amount to about 176,000 acres. The drainage would also add vastly to that section of the country, A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE MATERIAL AND INTELLECTUAL ADVANCEMENT OF OUR COUNTY. LOUISVILLE. GEORGIA. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10.1887. FLORIDA. Bradentown is trying to erect a school house on the joint stock plan. Parties have been prospecting for the past few days with a view to establish ing a sanitarium at Cedar Key. The Fernandina Building and Loan association has completed its organiza tion, and is now receiving subscriptions to its stock, Thomas A. Edison, who has been very ill in New York, is recovering, and will soon be able to return to his Winter home at Fort Myers. There is shipping from Governor Drew’s mill at Columbus City, and John W. Dowling & Cos., at Lake Ogden, from 125 to 150 cars of lumber per month. Columbus county exported $750,000 worth of her own products in 1885, and the acreage in tobacco this year will run up the value of her exports to $200,000 more if the tobacco is sent out in its man ufactured state. If it were, however, made into cigars the value of her exports would be much higher. Cedar Key has been considerably ex cited for the last two weeks over the myiterious disappearance of T. W. Gore, a young grocery merchant doing business at the Bradshaw old stand. Mr. Gore did not evsn take his clothes, but leaving the store in charge of young William Moore, took his gun and boarded a freight train, since when no news has been had of him. It is believed now that, realizing the fact that his business was in such a shape that it would be impossi ble for him to pay out and continue, lie became discouraged and concluded to save something from the wreck and seek anew field. It is not known what imount of money he carried away. Attachments have been levied on the stock remaining, and those owing him have been garni sheed by the creditors. SOUTH CAROLINA, An old woman named Pinde, livin'! near Port Royal ferry, was burned to death by her clothing taking fire from a fire in the yard. She was 70 years old, and her mother is living and is over 100 years old. The death of an old man from this same neighborhood, some time ago, 123 years old, was reported. In Port Royal many new buildings are going up, the most important being tho large planing mill of J. C. Cummings, just put up and noiv in operation. A track has been laid to the mill, and cars are run to it and unloaded. This mill gives employment to quite a number of hands. Robert Winn shot and killed Geoige Downing eight miles from Newberry. They quarreled Christmas about seventy five cents. Winn hid behind a post and shot Downing while the latter was passing by, with his wife. ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION. A Cincinnati Jndiro Called to ilia Door and is Fired Upon. A bold attempt was made Wednesday night to Assassinate Judge James W. Fitzgerald, of the Cincinnati police court, at his residence on Findlay street. About 9 o’clock in the evening the side bell of the judge’s residence rang, and he answered it in person. He had no more than opened the door when a man, whose face was blackened, but whose hands were white, fired a revolver. The bullet passed through the Judge’s coat on the right side, but not entering the flesh. The judge hastily slammed the door. The would-be assassin made good his escape. The police have not the slightest cine to* tho ideutity of the miscreant, but his motive was uudoubt edly revenge for a judicial act. Judge Fitzgerald is the judge before whom one hundred and fifty men, arrested for cock fighting, were examined Monday, when forty of them pleaded guilty and contri buted $25 each to the city treasury, and the remainder were notified that the men who stood trial and were convicted should receive the full measure of the law. Another attempt to kill Fitzgerald was made recently by throwing bricks a) him as he was going home after dark. HER DIAMONDS. A Memphis Hotel Clerk Decamps With Fanny Davenport's Jewels. Charles Talbot, aged nineteen, em ployed as night clerk of the Guyosa hotel, Tuesday night, was on duty. After the performance of an opera, at the theater Edwin H. Price, Fanny Davenport’s husband, left with him a jewel basket, which contained Miss Davenport’s dia monds, consisting of brooch, rings, neck lace, earrings, etc., valued at $35,000. Price took a receipt. The basket was not put in the safe, as it had been locked, and Talbot did not know the combina tion, but was placed in the cash drawer, together with several packages of money which late guests had deposited and which amounted to about $3,000. This money, together with the jewels, is miss ing. Talbot had duplicate keys of the cash drawer at the cigar stand of the ho tel, and it was rifled of $lO in change. He cannot be found. DR. MATT ALEXANDER SUICIDES. Dr. Matt Alexander, of Knoxville, Tenn., committed suicide Tuesday after noon by taking five grains of morphine. He was one of the leading physicians of Knoxville, but had recently been dissi pated. He left a note saying: “I die with malice toward none. Igo to hell. Tell my son to go to heaven.” Dr. Alexander was a member of the board of examining surgeons of the pen sion department. KILLED BY BURGLARS. William Gallaway and a clerk named McLease in his employ, were shot and fatally wounded Monday night at the former’s general merchandise store in Galloway, Ark. Galloway and his clerk went late in the evening to his store and found a gang of burglars going through the premises. Galloway opened fire upon the intruders, who fired back and mor tally wounde 1 both Galloway and his The burglar* escaped unhurt. A QUEER STORY. BESURRE C TION OF BRIG HA M YOUNG. A Queer Story Told by the Housekeeper of a Wealthy Kns’llsh Mormon—Much Ex citement Among tho Mormons. Two miles south of Lincoln, Nebraska, stands a palatial residence owned by an English gentleman long identified with tho Mormon church. The residence has been unattended for the last two years, save by an old servant named White, who was connected with the Jezrels, of Lon don, a sect similar to the Mormons. White claims that he was defrauded by them out of his property, and latterly be came converted to the Mormon faith. He was consider';a a Trustworthy man, and was, therefore, partially through ne cessity, taken into the confidence of the leaders of the Mormon church of Zion, which, according to his statement, is about to perpetrate a fraud to which he is unwilling to become a party. Ho says: “Two months ago there ar rived at the mansion an old gentleman, healing letters from my master in Lon don, the purport of which was to obey his every wish, and to keep his presence a secret to all except those to whom lie saw fi tto reveal himself. Within a week person s began to anive at the house in twos and threes. They were from Salt Lake City, and held long, whispered consultations with my mysterious guest. At first I did not care who or what lie was. Little by little I gathered from stray remarks that he was a person of note, and soon after the truth burst upon me that he was none other than Brigham Young, the great prophet of our church, who is apparently to be resurrected from the dead, and preach to the people of Zion as one having returned from the grave to tell what lies beyond That his death and burial were a deception will soon be seen by the whole world, while thousands of his ignorant believers bow at his feet, and he dictate to them their ways of life. My guests, the visitors, are men of high standing, as their appearance indi cates, and it was in conversation with one of them, who supposed from the way I talked that I knew all, that my sus picions were verified. My informant said that Brigham Young had risen from his grave in Salt Lake City, and was in structing his disciples here, in order to prepare help for the great event of his coming. My only reason for telling these facts is that I am an old man with but little to gain in this world, and do not want to see the people deluded as I have been. The Jezrels absorbed my competence and now the Mormons have broken my faith.” IDENTIFIED AS BRIGHAM YOUNG. The old man told the story with sin cerity that warranted further investiga tion, and a merchant who formerrv <1 id business in Salt Lake City drove out to the mansion, and rapped at the door. Receiving no response he started around tho house to apply at the rear, when through tho long window he saw file form and features of the old man, who was sitting inside. As he was unaware of his presence, the merchant approached to within a few feet of the window, scanning the old man’s face closely, and stepped back immediately, pronounced the man to be Brigham Young, whose marked features he had often studied in Salt Lake City, and which once seen, he says, can never be forgotten. For a few moments the man sat silently, and then raised his hand to his brow, revealing the scar about the wrist that still further es tablished his identity. It is a well known fact that the elders of the Mormon church throughout Utah have of late been preaching the return of the prophet. This, together with the fact that it was claimed by a St. Louis man some months ago, that Young was seen and recognized iu London, that a number of prominent Mormons from Salt Lake City have lately been upon the streets of Lincoln; that important legis lation is about to be enacted to the detri ment of the Mormon church, and the veil of mystery with which the prophet's death has always been shrouded, makes it almost certain that the Mormon ban ners throughout Utah will soon be un furled, announcing that “he is risen.” ROBBERS CAPTURED. A Fatal Encounter In VVbich One Man !■ Killed. Two detectives, accompanied by four determined men, with bloodhound*, started a short time ago in pursuit of a gang of train robbers, wlio have been op erating in the vicinity of Albuquerque, N. M., for the past six months. The robbers were tracked into the halls of a canyon near Beleu station, 80 miles south of here, and when they discovered that they were surrounded, they made a bloody defense at close range. The rob bers proved to be four iu number, and well armed. The detectives demanded their surrender, but they answered the demand with a volley of lead, and a reg ular battle commenced. The detectives and their party were victors. During the fight Hardy Foster, one of the robbers, was fatally wounded but lived long enough to make a confession implicating the whole party. Two others were captured, but the fourth made his escape. One of the captured men proved to be Charlie Ross, who murdered Mar shal McGuire, of Albuquerque, last No vember, and subsequently broke jail. The name of the other is Leslie Boise, and ho is a native of West Herford, Texas. Both men are now lodged by a sheriff’s posse. Lynching is favored, and it is feared that it will be carried out. TAKEN OUT AND HANGED. Last Monday William Lud Cornish, of Sharpsburg, Washington county, Ky,sliot Miss Lulu Green through the heart and brain because she would not marry him. He also tried to kill the girl’s mother and sister, but failed on account of his pistol getting out of order. The mother received a severe wound in tho head, and was knocked down with the pistol. Corn ish was captured and taken to Spring field, the county seat. Saturday night a mob, composed of seventy-five men, entered the j til and secured the prisoner. He was taken to a farm about tvyq pules north of town and hanged. OUR MINISTER TO GERMANY. lie Arrive. In New York nnd Talk. About Affair. Aero.. The Water. Hon. George 11. Pendleton, minister to Berlin, has arrived and will remain in this country about a month. He intends to go to Washington to report to the secre tary of state. After that he will go to his home in Cincinnati, where he will re main for a brief period before his depar ture for his post of duty. Being inter viewed, he remarked: “The situation when I left Berlin was very much strained. The power of Eu rope, from a general feeling of insecurity, have been making immense preparations. There are tremendous military works and armaments on every side. I heard Von Moltkc say that it was a condition of af fairs that must have a solution. It may have changed since then.” Mr. Pendleton said that he could not see that anyone in Germany desired war. In fact, every effort was being made to ..void it. Bismarck was not ready for war now. He would not be ready until the military bill had been passed and the army reorganized. “In fact,” added the embassador, “it ;eems to me that Bismarck would accord heartily with any proposition for peace •'ith honor. Public opinion does not count in Europe as it does here. lu America all questions are discussed freely by the press, who in reality form public opinion. In Germany public policy is decidedly different. Yon Moltke, Bis mark and two or three others settle such matters. In France General Boulanger leads. One peculiar thing would strike Americans in Europe, that is how little people influence the policy of rulers.” SOUTHERN TELEGRAPH SALE. Th* Property I’uroha.ed la the latere.t of the Western Union. The Southern Telegraph Company, which was sold under foreclosure pro ceedings at Richmond,Va., Tuesday, was bought in the interest of the Western Union Telegraph Company, which has owned a majority of the bonds for nearly a year. The price at which the property was sold was $460,000, but the price would have been carried considerably higher, it is said, if the United Lines Company, whose last bid was $450,000, had continued the contest. The acquisi tion of the actual control does not effect the relations of the companies, be ause a contract was made between them even before the Western Union bought a ma jority of the bonds. Since that time the contract has been altered to meet the wishes of the Western Union Company, which was known to be the actual owner of tho property. The sale now gives the company legal ownership. OFF FOR CANADA. A Clerk of the First National Bank of Balti more Visits the I'roYince. John D. Liste, discount clerk in the First National bank of Baltimore, failed to put in appearance on Saturday last while an investigation of the accounts of the bank was proceeding by the direc tors. It is now said that be is a default er to the amount of about eighty thou sand dollars, though the investigation is not complete. The amount of cash which disappeared with him was $3,500, and he is said to have deceived the na tional bank examiner by substituting forged notes which he destroyed as soon as the examination was completed. Liste left his home, about twenty miles from the city, Saturday morning, since which time he has not been seen by bis family, nor by the detectives who are looking for him. UNION MEN TO BE DROPPED. Knlahta of Eabor Assemblies Ordered to Oust Trades-Unionists. A sensation has been created among the Knights cf Labor of Indianapolis Ind., by the receipt of an order, purporting to have come from the general executive board, to the effect that all cigarmakers belonging to the international union must be dropped from membership in local and district assemblies. This is thought to be the first step toward carrying out the programme adopted at Richmond by the general assembly, which struck a blow at all trades-union*. The typographers moulders here are very indignant, and feel the blow quite as severely as the cigarmakers. WESTERN WEATHER, The signal service reports extremely -old weather in Northwestern Montana, the mercury at Fort Assinaboine regis tering 46 degrees below zero at 7 o’clock Wednesday morning. Throughout Da kota, Minnesota and Wisconsin it is con siderably warmer, Northern Minnesota points reporting zero weather, while at St. Paul it is three degrees above zero, LaCrosse, Wis., 11 degrees above, and Chicago 20 degrees above. Snow is re ported throughout the Northwest, and in nearly all the states north of the Ohio river, also heavy thunder storms at Knox ville, Tenn., Louisville and Cincinnati, and the telegraph service throughout the southwest is very much impaired in con sequence. A NEW PLAN ADOPTED. It is stated that the next step to be taken by the leaders of the strike is to put into operation the Irish plan of cam paign—that is, orders will be issued to all members of the Knights of Labor and other organizations which can be con trolled by district assembly 49, to refuse to pay any rent to landlords, but to pay rent money into a fund which will go to the support of the strikers. This plan has been discussed in seriousness by the strikers, and it is asserted, positively, by some that it will be put into operation next Monday. STRIKERS WIN IN PENSACOLA. The difficulty between the Stevedores’ Association and the firm of Lear & Gon zales, at Pensacola, Fla., has been ad justed, the firm paying the association SSOO to compensate the men for loss of time, and agreeing to hereafter conform to the rules and requirements of the labor organization. THE GREAT STRIKE. VESSELS UNABLE TO LEAVE THE FORT . Tlie Striking Isongntioremen or New York Parade tlie Htrects—Mnss Meeting at the Cooper Union. Thirty-three thousand men were on a strike among the coal shovelers, long shoremen, freight handlers and men em ployed on the river front in almost every capacity, on the Brooklyn and Jersey shores, Wednesday. An order went forth from the headquarters of the longshore men’s union, which was backed by the Knights of Labor, assembly 49, and the men turned out. Beach walkers were sent out to cover all the various points on the river fronts where trouhle was con centrated and they had particular in structions to use every means in their power to prevent any disturbances, and none worthy of mention occurred. The White Star steamship Britannic, which was to have sailed from New York to Liverpool Wednesday, was delayed, owing to inability' to obtain her supply of coal, on account of the strike. The State of Georgia, of the State line, and the Servia of the Hamburg line, and the In dependent and the Torio Rubatino,of the line to Italy, were also delayed by the strike. Coastwise and southern bound steamers, Quinidad for Bermuda; City of Columbus, for Florida ports; City of Col umbia, for Charleston and southern ports and the Algiers, for Galveston, were also delayed. One of the incidents of the great strike reported is that one of the East River Ferry companies became so short of coal that it sent out grocery wagons and other vehicles and bought coal by half tons from small yards, both in Brooklyn and in New York, but that the frequent calls of this kind exposed the scheme and the dealers refused further supplies to their new customers. In Brooklyn, longshoremen, grain shovellers, freight handlers, coal handlers, trimmers and other laborers went out quietly, peace ably and determined, The entire police force of Brooklyn, including reserves, were put on duty. Sound steamers suf fered along with the rest, although they employ a large permanent force by the month. The French steamship line is doing more work than any of the ocean companies, having large gangs, princi pally green hands, and the White Star also has a considerable force. Late in the day more or less men went to work unloading all the ocean steamers which arrived this morning, but they are work ing at a disadvantage. The striking longshoremen and coal shovellers had a large parade previous to their mass meet ing at Cooper Union. They included men from New York, Jersey City and Brooklyn. They formed at Pythagora Hall, with about five hundred men in line. The music was a drum and fife corps. They marched through Broad way to Eighth, then to Cooper Union. There was no disorder. Lower Broad way was deserted, as the stores had closed up for the day. When the parade arrived at Cooper Union, they were una ble to gain admission, as the hall was packed, so an outdoor meeting was or ganized. Cooper union hall was packed with men engaged in the strike and their sym pathizers. Resolutions were presented to the effect that in view of the alleged oppression of workingmen by coal barons, all granted franchises should be repealed, and that the system of hiring men for the purpose of robbery an 1 murder is highly condemned. The resolutions were adopt ed with a yell. The principal speakers were Victor Drury, a prominent home club Knight of Labor; a man named Grecnau, asocialist, and John McMackin, Henry George’s lieutenant The speech es all denounced corporations in general and coal corporations in particular. Mc- Mackin laid the existing labor troubles to the prevailing land system. BREAKING A MONOPOLY. Planters of Louisiana Start a Cottoa Seed Oil Mill. A serious attack has been organized on the American Cotton Seed Oil Trust by the purchase of the Maginnis mills, for three months. Tho Trust has been in control of the cotton seed oil mills of New Orleans, La., having a complete monopoly of the field. Two Memphis capitalists, formerly in the oil business, have organized a company and perfected plans for new mills to be run on a co-op erative plan that will assure it a constant supply of seed. Nearly all the leading planters on the lower Mississippi have been given stock in the new mill, and have pledged themselves to furnish so many tons of cotton seed annually, thus assuring the mill 50,000 tons per year, as much as auy of the mills of the Trust company here receive. The Bite for the new mill has been selected, and necessary barges and steamers contracted for. It is a direct attack on the Oil Trust, in which planters take a prominent part. A MOB POSTPONES A MARRIAGE. Michael McCoy, a grocer of Louisville, Ky, made a narrow escape from a mob. McCoy is fifty years old and a man of family. A year ago he began to visit a Miss Long and to neglect his wife, where upon Mrs.McCoy sued for a divorce nnd the restoration of her maiden name. Her petition was granted, and McCoy’s atten tions to Miss Long, before secret, became open, and Saturday it was learned that the couple were to be married. As the ceremony was nbou: to take place at Miss Long’s house a mob gathered and mado threatening demonstrations Miss Long fled with a female friend, and the mob pursued but did not catch her. McCoy in tho meantime slipped out and after a search found his intended and they were married by a magistrate. GADSDEN'S FURNACES. Work was begun Tuesday on two new blast furnaces to be erected by the land and improvement company at Gadsden, Ala. They will be completed by Decem ber next. The real estate boom is more favorable than ever before, and sales are reported aggregating more than $250,- 000. There aro a number of capitalists in the city prospecting for sites for vari ous kinds of interest, Subscription $1.50 in Advance NUMBER G. CANADA GAINS COURAGE. England I’roinises to Rend Men-of-War t# Keep Oil American Vessels. It is officially' stated that the govern ment of Canada, in response to an appeal to the mother country, has just received from the imperial authorities that men-of war will be dispatched to the maritime provinces in the spring for the purpose of co-operating with Canadian cruisers in the enforcement of tho fishery protective service. The promise of the English government creates great satisfaction in official circles, and indicates that Ameri can vessels will be more rigidly exclu ded from Canada waters during the next season than in the past. A cabinet minister, speaking on the subject, ex pressed himself as follows. “I have come to the conclusion that the American leg islators having gone so far, will never yield their consent to the appointment of a commission. Gloucester fishermen will not venture into our waters again in force, and next April will witness the first start ling falling off in their trade. Two years hence the splendid Yankee fishing fleet will be a thing of the past. Let them resort to retaliation if they will, and the result will be that that game will work both ways. Portland, now the winter port of Canada, will decline, while Hali fax, under the new order of things, will flourish. Civil war between the Eastern and Western States would follow the adoption of the retaliatory bill. ICE GORGE AT FORT DEPOSIT. Mach Dninie Done to Property—l'cople flea to the IIIIIs for Safety. The Susquehanna river at Fort Deposit, Md., became blocked with ice Wednes day causing tho river to overflow with disastrous results. In thirty minutes after the flood from above reached the town tho water had risen clear over the wharves and to the hight of six feet in Main street of the town, doing uncalculable damage. Every house on the river side of Main street was flooded in the cellars and the first floor and some on the opposite side, and in habitants had to take to higher ground or to the hills and the country back of town. The water alternately rose and fell during the night and ail day Wednesday varying several feet in a couple of hours. In the meantime the pile of ice increased hourly, became more dangerous. The damage up to Wednesday evening had been confined to the lumber, coal, fertilizers and kindred objects on the wharves and such build ings as were built of wood. The outlook is not encouraging, for even substautial brick and stone warehouses and factories in the submerged district. The remark able sight drew throngs of sight seers from the country to the hills above the town. LABOR LEADERS ARRESTED. A Hull Instituted Agnlnat Them lor Dam age by a Steamship Company. James E. Quinn, of the executive board of the Longshoremen’s Union, was arrested at noon Saturday by Deputy United States Marshal George Holmes, for conspiracy to injure the business of the Old Dominion Steamship Company, in an action brought in the United States Circuit Court to recover $20,000 damages. He was released on $5,000 bail. The suit is brought not only against Quinn, but also against J. J. McKenna, T. B. Putnam, Patrick McGarland and Thos. McGrath, who with Quinn consti tute the executive board of the Ocean As sociation. Counsel for Quinn said that none of the accused would run away and that as soon as bail could be procured for them they would be delivered to the marshal. After Quinn’s bondsmen had been acoepted it was concluded that no more arrests would be made. Their counsel promised to deliver the other members of the executive board to the United States marshal. A BIG HAUL. One naadretl and Fifty Men Arraigned iu n Criminal Court. An unusual scene was presented in the police court of Cincinnati, O , Tuesday morning, when 115 men were arraigned for aiding and abetting a cock fight. Of this number forty entered a plea of guilty and were fined $25 each with costs, making an even SI,OOO to go into the school fund. Judge Fitzgerald an nounced his determination to punish to the full extent any who choose to exer cise their legal rights to a trial and who may be convicted. The cocking main had progress in a regularly constructed pit in a fourth-story room of a building nearly opposite the court house on Main street. A STRIKER’S FINE. One of the drivers of a brewery wagon in Philadelphia, Pa., who took s striker’s place was brutally beaten by three strik er’s, who were placed on trial Wednesday. Only one was identified and convicted. In passing sentence, Judge Mitchell said: ‘ ‘This man was badly beaten, and I am sat isfied it was done for the purpose of pre venting him from going to work. There can be no more aggravated offense than to beat a man who is going to his honest toil, and I propose to stop it so far as is in my power.” The prisoner ws then sentenced to eighteen monthc at labor in the county prison. AN EX-SLAVE’S PENSION. The first colored woman to receive a pension from the government is Mr*. I lezekiah Gibson, wife of the pastor of the Union churoh of Christ Jamestown, N. Y. The pension was granted on ac count of the death of a son who was in the service on the union side during the late war. Wnen this son joined the fed eral forces his mother was a slave. The back pay amounted to about SSOO, and hereafter Mrs. Gibson will draw sl2 per month. THE PROSPEUITY OF CHATTANOOGA. The registered real estate transfer# at Chattanooga, Tenn., in the month of January amounted to $2,618,385. It i* stated that there will shortly be estab lished a horse shoe factory, a stove foundry, a woolen and cotton mill and an edge tool factory. Work will begin in March and April on buildings which or* to coat mor than $1,Q09,000,