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J. W. WHITE, Editor and Proprietor.
VOLUME V.
Central fi Southwestern fiailr’ds,
[All train* of this system are run by Stand
ird (90) Meridian time, which is 3G minutes
(lower than time kept by city.]
Savannah, Ga., Jan. 24. 1886.
ON AND ASTER THIS DATE PASSEN
GER TRAINS on the Oentral and South
western Railroads and branches will run as
follows:
GKDINO NORTH.
Leave No. 51— No. 63-
lavannah...D 810 am.. D 810 pm
Leave No. 15—
D 610 pm..
Arrive No. 15—
Uillen.. D 815 pm..
Arrive No. 61— No. 63
Augusta ~..D 315 pm.. D 615 am
Bacon D 120 pm.. D 320 am
Atlanta....;D 935 pm.. D 732 am
Ooluxnbus.. ,D 623 a m.. D 215 p m
Perry ~DEB 815 pm.. DES 12 00 m
Port Gaines DES 138 pin
Blakeley DES 710 p m
Euf&ula D 101.1.
Albany D 1015 pm.. D 215 pm
Montgomery D 7 25 p m
Milledge ville DES 619 pm
Eatonton .. .DES 7 40pm
Connections at Terminal Points.
At Augusta—Trains 61 and 53 connect with
outgoing trains of Georgia hailroad,Colombia,
Charlotte aud Augusta Railroad, and Sout.i
Carolina Railroad. Train 53 connects with
Dutgoing train of Angnsta and Kuoxvil.'e Rail
road. Train 61 oonnects with trains for Syl
rania, Wrightsviile and Louisville.
At Atlanta—Trains 51 and 53 connect
Air-Line and Ecnnesaw routes to ail pi
North and East, and with all diverging r
for looal stations.
COMING SOUTH.
Leave—Nos. Nos.
Uillen.. .16 D 6 00am..
Angnsta. 18 D 93)am..20D 9 30 pm
Macon... 52 D 910 am. .51D 10 60 pm
Atlanta..s2 D 600 a in.. 54 D 6 60pm
Columb’s2oD 9 00pm.. GD 1140 am
Perry....2l DES 6 00am..22DES 300 pm
Pt. Gaines 28 '* 10 05 am
Blakeley 26 11 8 15am
Eufaula 2D 10 55am
Albany.. ID 4 10am..2JD 12 15pm
Montg'ry 2D 7 40 am
Mill’dg’ve 25 DES 6 87am
Batonton 25 DES 515 am
Arrive—No.
Savannah 16 D 805 a m.. No.
Savannah 52 D 107pm..51D 600 am
Connections at Savannah, with Savannah,
Florida and Western Railway for all points in
Florida.
Trains Nos. 68 and 61 will not stop to take
on or pat off passengers between Savannah
and Minen, as trains Nos. 15 and 16 are ex
pected to do the way business between these
points.
Local sleeping cars on all night passenger
•tains between Savannah and Augusta, Savan
nah and Maoon, Savannah and Atlanta, Maoon
and Columbus.
Tickets for all points and sleeping car berths
on sale at city office, No. 20 Bull street.
G. A. Whitehead, WILLIAM ROGERS,
Gen. Pass. Agt. Gen. Supt., Savannah.
I. C. Shaw, W. F. BHELT.MAN,
Gen. Tray. Agt. Traffic Manager,
Savannah, Ga.
“D.” daily, “DE3,” daily except Sunday.
AN ECCENTRIC MAN.
The Birmingham Crank Again Loose in New
York City,
A New York special to the Atlanta
Constitution has this much to say of A.
8. Austin formerly of Birmingham Ala.:
Mr. A. 8. Austin, the wealthy capitalist
of Birmingham, Ala., whoso eccentrici
ties have caused general comment during
the past two or three weeks, has once
more come to the front. It appears that
a few years ago he invested some money
in real estate in Birmingham, Ala. This
purchase proved so rich a speculation
through the industrial development, that
whe.n hesold outlast November, he found
himself in possession of a fortune esti
mated at between two and three hundred
thousand dollars. Since then it seems to
have been his object to get rid of his
money as speedily as possible, His rela
tions, thinking him insane, have taken
steps to restrain him. To this course he
has made a violent protest in a communi
cation to an afternoon paper. In it he
gives the story of his arrest and exami
nation for insanity.
Many remarkable stories are current
regarding him, lie claimed to tell an
honest man by looking him in the eye.
He one day walked up Broadway, with
his pocket overflowing with five dollar
gold pieces. Accosting strangers, gazing
in their eyes, and if they passed his scru
tiny, slipping a gold piece into their
hand. He inserted the strange adver
tisements in the newspapers. One staled
that he would speak of important mat
ters to the general public, and would en
gage the Metropolitan opera house for
the purpose. He frequently, it is allege 1,
earned a satchel containing thousands of
dollars in greenbacks, and was never par
ticular about receiving change for $lO
bills. It is supposed that his sudden ac
crued wealth turned his head. In mzny
respects he was perfectly rational.
A DUMMY BIOWN TO PIECES
A Dynamite Explosion to San Francisco
Destroys a Dummy Engino.
The Searcy street cable road in San
Franoisco Cal., was the scene of another
dynamite explosion Sunday night. Just
as a train going west had reached the
corner of Filmore and Searcy streets, a
loud explosion occurred. The whole
side of the dummy was blown to splin
ters. There were no passengers on it,
and the only passenger aboard, besides
the gripman and conductor, was a police
man, who was detailed to discover ob
structions on the track. He was riding
on the front of the dummy, and his com
plete escape from injury, and that of tho
gripman and conductor, are marvelous.
The conductor had stopped the cars a
minute before to permit a party of ladies
and gentlemen to leave. The concussion
was felt for the distance of a mile. The
wrecked dummy was quickly replaced by
anew one, and traffic was not interrupted.
There is no clue to the perpetrators of
the outrage.
A NEW VOLCANO IN RUSSIA.
The inhabitants of Baku, the centre of
the great Russian petroleum wells, have
been much alarmed over a subterranean
explosion, which shook houses and caused
considerable damage. At the same .time
a volcano burst out at Lokbatan, ten
miles distant from Baku. For two nights
the volcano threw a column of fire and
mud 800 feet high, illuminating the
country for miles around. The mud
emitted during the eruption already lies
from seven to fourteen feet deep over a
full square mile of territory.
obe Bens and Jarmcr.
SOUTHERN ITEMS.
NEWS NOTES GATHERED
FROM VARIOUS SECTIONS.
FLORIDA.
Miss Rose E. Cleveland, sister of the
is expected in Orlando some
time time this winter to visit a Mrs.
Duncan residing there.
A resident of Orlando lias a Mexican
chocho on exhibition. It is similar to an
egg plant, and it is his intention to ex
periment with the seeds on Florida soil.
The Methodist college north will be lo
cated at Orange City. Twenty-two thou
sand dollars have been raised. The
prospects are bright for a prosperous in-
StfiutioTi,
John Wiley, a notorious, negro, jumped
out of a railroad car window in Alachua
county recently while under arrest.
There was a rope about his neck. An
end caught in the car and he was choked
to death.
Figures from the tax books of Florida
show the total value of all kinds of prop
ertp to be $76,610,042. The railroad
companies pay taxes on $12,752,331
worth of property, The total state tax
is $328,038, and the county tax is $666,-
879.
I. B. Giddeons & Cos. will commence
work on their brick building at Tampa
next week. It is to be a handsome two
story building. General J. B. Wall says
that he will have the handsomest front on
his new brick building in the city. Work
is progressing nicely.
The wife of C. L. Leßaron, of Pensa
cola, while looking over some letters was
surprised to find a valuable document
musty with age, which her father-in-law
had given her in 1849. It was a certifi
cate for SSOO worth of valuable stock.
The estate not yet having been settled
up, she will come into the possession of
the sum called for by the certificate. She
had forgotten the gift until after nearly
forty years had elapsed. She was re
minded of it by the document falling
from a bundle of chocolate colored let
ters.
Considerable indignation exists among
the bar pilots at Pensacola over the fact
that the barkentine Cushing slipped into
port Wednesday without pilotage. This
is said to be only the second instance of
the kind for the past two years, known
to the pilot’s association, and steps are
likely to be taken to compel the Cushing
to pay the pilotage she avoided, and if it
is not attempted it will be because of the
frequency of her visits to that port, as
she goes there three or four times annu
ally. Tho Cushing will be remembered
as the vessel in which Brown, the Swed
ish suicide, arrived about two weeks ago.
The South Florida exposition will be
held at Orlando, beginning on Tuesday,
February 15. The grounds, which have
been tendered by the citizens of that en
terprising city, will comprise a race
course, including a lake, and also ample
accommodation for the display of varied
exhibits of the growth and products of
Florida, especially those of the counties
of Orange, Volusia, Sumter, Polk, Hills
boro, Hernando, Brevard, Wade, Mana
tee and Monroe. The exhibits will also
embrace mineral, mechanical and such
other articles or productions as may lend
interest or value to the exhibition.
Dr. King Wylly, of Sanford, has an
orange which ho has just received from
Messina, Sicily, which came from the fa
mous orange tree planted by Pope Hon
orius 111. in the St. Sabina convent gar
den 665 years ago. It is firmly believed
by the monks of the Dominican order to
flourish or fail with the fortunes of the
order, so that it has lately been greatly
the worse for the suppression of the con
vent in Northern Italy, though the resi
dence of Pere LaCordaire within the con
vent proved exceedingly beneficial to it,
and his visit has even caused new
suckers to sprout. The trunk of the tree
is about twelve inches in diameter, and
about twenty feet high The orange
was sent to Dr. Wylly by Wallace S.
Jones, of Monticcllo.
ALABAMA.
Property has advanced some in and
around Scottsboro.
The Talladega warehouse company has
declared a dividend of 8 per cent.
Ths Gadsden News and Times have
consolidated and will publish a daily.
Dr. B. B. Smith, of Larkinsville, lost
about $5,000 by the fire which burned
liis storehouse and stock some days ago.
Coal has been discovered in Calhoun
county, in Alexandria valley, nsar An
niston. It is believed that this mine is
extensive.
The Incandescent electric light com
pany is locating its poles in Birmingham,
and work will begin on the plant imme
diately.
A party of 125 Northern tourists
reached Tuskaloosa last Saturday, and
spent three or four hours looking at
points of interest in and around the
town.
Gadsden held an enthusiastic railroad
meeting last Friday night. In twenty
minutes $35,000 was subscribed to the
Anniston and Cincinnati railroad. The
prospect is flattering for the early com
pletion of the road.
Mr. John Lawrence Louretta, one of
Mobile’s oldest and wealthiest citizens,
was sand-bagged whilo at Biloxi, Miss.,
Saturday night. He had gone down to
the Mobile bound train to give to the
conductor of the train the key to the
storeroom of his restaurant, and had
given the key to Conductor P. H. Potter
to be delivered; then he started up the
track toward the Wantress hotel, leaving
the train remaining at the station. Pres
ently he found himself followed by three
men, one of whom got in front of him
while the other two assaulted him behind
with a club. The man in front struck
liim across the face with a sand bag and
Mr. Lawrenpe fell unconscious on the
track. The men were then proceeding
to relieve Mr. Lawrence of S4OO he had
oil his person when the passenger train
came Mong.
A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE MATERIAL AND INTELLECTUAL ADVANCEMENT OF OUR COUNTY.
LOUISVILLE. GEORGIA, THURSDAY. FEBRUARY IT, 1887.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Taylor Warren, colored, is in jail at
Yorkvillo awaiting trial for breaking into
the store of Hernaon Bros., atYorkville.
He has confessed his guilt.
Incendiaries attempted to destroy the
cornhouse of T. L. Cave, of Hampton
county. The fire was discovered and ex
tinguished before any great damage was
done.
Black, Carpenter & Davies, at Black’s
in York county, have made an assign
ment, Dr. John G. Black being the as
signee. The assets of the firm are stated
at $7,200, with liabilities amounting to
$6,500.
An attempt was made to burn the corn
house of Mr. W. S. Gocley, Snider’s
cross roads, in Colleton county. The fire
was discovered in time to be extin
guished before anv great damage could
be done. f 9 1 ' '
Colonel Rice, state superintendent of
edneation, docs not aim to stay in Col
umbia only when it is necessary to attend
to official duties. He will spend most of
his time visiting different counties and
inspecting the schools.
It was rumored on the streets of
Greenville that a negro was in town who
had just been brought down from the
mountains, and who did not know until
he was told that the negroes had been
freed from slavery. A correspondent
traced the rumor and succeeded in inter
rogating the alleged reclaimed slave,
He found a negro, black, shabbily
dressed and with a dull, senseless look,
below that of the ordinary darkey. The
story he tells is that since the war he has
been working for a man named Holly,
away back in one of tha narrow valleys
around “Hog Back” mountain; that he
was not allowed to come back to his kins
people, and that he was flogged by his
master, who never paid him auy money
and gave him but little clothes. His
name is Calvin Garmany. His brother
lives near this city. He says that after
the war Calvin strayed off to the moun
tains, and was not heard of by his family
until last Christmas, when he heard
that he was being kept as a slave by a
man in that section. He went after him
and claims that he found him treated,
whipped and confined just as in slavery
times.” His story created some excite
ment among the negroes, who firmly
believe the man has been kept these long
years in the solitary mountain fastnesses
in ignorance of his race’s freedom else
where.
MISSISSIPPI.
Work on the street railway in Green
ville has commenced.
The last beer license has expired in
Durant, and the town is as dry as a
bone.
Tlie military company organized by
the young ladies of Crystal Springs will
be called “the Mikado.”
Eight thousand bales of cotton are
held in the warehouse at Aberdeen,
waiting for a rise before putting it on
the market.
Two negroes swapped wives in Cal
houn county recently. Articles of agree
ment were drawn up to clinch the bar
gain.
At the recent term of tire cireuit
court in Pike county the grand jury in
dicted the Illinois Central railroad for
working its men in the shops at McComb
City on Sunday.
The books of the Louisville, New Or
leans aud Texas railroad show that over
500,000 bales of cotton have been
shipped over that road in the past four
months.
Friday evening last, Mr. Win. Pibus,
living near Chewaßb, started home on
his mule. It was intensely dark and
the rain poured in torrents. His mule
came home without the rider, when,
upon search being made, he was found
.speechless from cold and exposure. He
died shortly after being discovered.
At a concert given by Professor Er
rington at Brier Hill, Rankin county>
Mr. Willie Manning, one of the per
formers, about twenty-two years of age,
was shot by another performer while
both were on the stage, and seriously
wounded. The revolver used was thought
to have been properly loaded for the occa
sion, but it contained a heavy charge of
powder tightly wadded with tallow. It
took effect ia the shoulder, inflicting a
painful wound which may prove fatal.
LOUISIANA.
Over S4OO has been subscribed for the
building of the Young Men’s Christian
association at Minden.
The St. Gabriel levee is now completed
It measures seventy feet base and twelve
feet high and contains about 85,000 cubic
yards of dirt.
Alexander Young and Nathan Surgon,
alias Mickens, escaped from the Terre
bonne parish jail last thursday night by
breaking one of the iron bars in the lin
tel or transom over the outer door.
Last Thursday, at William’s mill, easl
of Tangipahoa river, Mr. Alfred Hughes
was killed in alight with two men named
Parks and Carpenter. Hughes had ac
cused the others of hog stealing, and the
matter was brought up when the parties
met at the mill and led to a fight. While
Hughes was engaged with one opponent,
the other came up and beat him on the
head with a wagon spoke, breaking hii
skull. He died that night. The two
men were arrested and lodged in jail.
The Amite City regulators Have not
disbanded it seems, though they have
been quiet of late. The Gazette says:
“At about 9:30 o’clock Wednesday night
while there were yet a number of persons
out of their beds, an equestrian masquer
. ading party was observed parading the
streets of our town. A dance was in
progress at a residence, and as the party
rode by one of them called out “balance
all 1” This attracted the attention of the
dancers, and some of the young men
went out to get a look at the strangers.
It is said that they numbered thirty-two
and were all in uniform, the horses being
draped in white. Their presence created
no little excitement.”
LULA BURST MARRIED-
Miss Lula Hurst, the electric girl of
Georgia, was married on Wednesday
night last at Cedartown, Ga., to Mr.
Paul Atkinson, of Chattanooga, Tenn.
A SHOCKING AFFAIR.
The County Seat of Gilmer County, (in., Mas
a Shocking Sensation.
A big sensation has been developed in
Sllijay, Ga. On Sunday night the fam
ily of John E. Newberry was reposing in
sleep, and the first intimation lie had of
the impending danger was the unlooked
for appearance of three burly men, dis
guised, with a lamp, a double-barrel
sWgun and a thirty-eight Smith &
Wesson pistol. He jumped out of bed
and they proceeded to beat him with a
large hickory stick about four feet long,
twisted at one end, the other end being
about as large as a man’s wrist. During
the. melee which ensued Newberry’s wife
tore away the masks of two of them, and
saw who they were. He told them if
they would let him go he would not tell
who they were, whereupon they replied
with an oath that they would kill him.
His wife seized the gun and wrenched it
from the man who held it, when he
grabbed her by the hair of the head and
jerked her down. They then seized
Newberry by the hair of his head and
dragged him some twenty steps from the
house and knocked him down with a
maul, and, thinking him dead, skipped
out. Newberry and his wife fought des
perately for their lives, and when they
dragged him out of the house her
screams brought Mr. David Fowler, a
brother-in-law of Newberry. He found
Newberry in an unconscious condition,
his shoulders, the back of his neck terri
bly beaten and bruised. His body Mon
day morning was bloodshot and black
looking, and his neck swollen larger than
a man’s double fist.
Newberry was accused of reporting
men in that community to the revenue
department, and this affair is supposed
to be the outgrowth of malice towards
him from some parties who suspected his
report!ng. A brother of Newberry stated
to an attorney that some other party had
been reporting and gave his brother’s
name as a withess, and when required to
he swore what he knew as a truthful
man.
EVICTING TENANTS.
A Bloody Battle Takes Place In Texas in
Which Four Men are Killed.
A deadly battle was fought four miles
of Dekalb Texas Tuesday. Four male
members of a family named White were
pitted against Colonel John E. Rosser,
his son Willie, aged fifteen years, and a
hired man named Mullens. The affray
resulted in the killing of three of the
Whites and Colonel Rosser, and the
wounding of Rosser’s boy. The affray
occurred at the home of the Whites. Ros
ser, after being shot through the neck
and having, as he supposed, seen all of
his enemies killed, mounted his horse
and rode half a mile to his house, dying
as he entered his own door. Hie son
Willie was left with the dead men at the
house of White. Rosser had sold to
White and his sons a tract of land for
which they had not paid. A suit for
evictment was brought and decided in
Rosser’s favor. Rosser thought the writ
had not been enforced promptly enough,
and he started with his son and a hired
man to enforce it himself. Informally.
Rosser and the party were invited in when
they reached the house of White, and
after a few words, firing began, J. C.
White and his two sons, Walter and Law
son, were killed. Young Rosser was
insiijg and his version of the affair is as
follows: The elder White shot him and
his father, and he shot old man White
once and then turned his Winchester on
the White boys to keep them from shoot
ing his father. About fifteen shots were
fired and with deadly effect. The hired
man, Mullens, has not yet been found,
and it is not known what part he took in
the awful tragedy.
A STEAMER ABLAZE.
The Steamship Cherokee, of the Clyde
Line, Slightly Damaged by Fire.
The steamship, Cherokee, of the Clyde
line, bound for New York, caught fire
after leaving the dock at Charleston.
Tuesday morning. The fire broke out
in the afterhold in cotton. The steamer
signalled tugs and was quickly redocked.
The fire department responded promptly
to the summons and the fire was soon
under control. There was no panic on
board, although there forty
passengers, including a number of ladies.
The damage was slight. The fire was
completely extinguished in a few hours.
It occurred iu a watertight compartment
of the afterhold and was confined to the
spot where it started. The cause of the
fire is unknown. The damage to the
ship and her cargo was trifling. While
flooding the hold, James Warren, the
ship’s quartermaster from Norfolk, Va.,
was struck by a falling box and seriously
injured. The passengers, with their
baggage, were sent north by rail.
BCKNID TO DEATH.
William Parris, employed by the Dela
ware iron works, Wilmington, Del, was
made the victim of a practical joke
Thursday, by his fellow workmen, which
cost his life. He was dozing at noon,
when one of his companions threw some
blazing cotton waste in his face. It set
his cltftbes on Are, and he was burned so
badly he died in a couple of hours. He
refused to tell who was responsible for
uis death, although he knew.
A TRIPLE HANGING.
A mob of masked men, abont thirty
five strong, entered the jail at Seguin,
Guadalupe county, Texas, Wednesday
morning, and after overpowering the
jailer took three negroes, Coly Thomp
son, Andy Williams and Warren Wilson,
and hanged them to trees in full view of
the town. On each victim was tacked
this notice: “Killed for murder and
arson.” None of the mob has been sir
rested.
OCR GOLD EXPORTS.
The gold exports this year was ordered
Tuesday by Heidelbach, Ickelheimer &
Cos., who have taxen $300,000 in gold
bars from the assay office for shipment to
Europe. This was a decided surprise.
There is no apparent reason for such a
shipment, and it is concluded it was to
serve some special purpose.
ACROSS THE WATERS.
Rxottsment in the London Slock Exchange-
Panic in London and Farls.
There was intense excitement on the
stock exchange all Thursday afternoon,
and at the close of the market a panicky
feeling prevailed. The unfavorable state
of the market wag due chiefly to reports
of heavy failures on the Paris bourse aud
to a rumor that a large banking institu
tion in Berlin had collapsed.
Panic on the stook exchange set in
with the greatest force in the afternoon.
Earlier in the day English buying met
the continental rush to sell, but later
alarm seized English operators, and the
torrent of sellers became so great that
dealers refused to make prices. The
wildest rumors were credited, and the
best home and foreign eecurietlos were
largely sold. Business rive
in the street until “petite bourse” quota
tions were received, which showed the
panic was intensifying on tho continent
and caused depression and anxiety. At
the close the reckless selling of railroad
securities was partially checked by New
York buying, besides England, Berlin
aud Paris threw large masses of stock on
the market.
AT PARIS.
At Paris three per cent rentes declined
and were quoted at 76 francs, a fall of 2
francs and 45 centimes from the closing
quotations of the day previous.
Bourse opened depressed. Besides po
lities! rumors and general financial mis
trust, the suspension of all credit made
the transaction of business almost an im
possibility. An opinion prevails that un
less the banks and great capitalists come
to the relief of the market, disastrous
failures are inevitable.
IRISH ITEMS.
The Limerick municipal council has
refused to celebrate the Queen’s jubilee,
on the ground that the Queen has visited
Ireland only twice and has never assisted
Irish charities.
Micheal Davitt and his wife arrived at
Dublin Thursday, and were enthusiastic
ally greeted. They were escorted to their
hotel by a torch-light procession and
bands of music.
A BIG FIRE IN MOBILE.
Property Considerably Dainagcd-Oie Man
Killed and Others Missing.
A fire at Mobile, Ala., Monday morn
ing destroyed the wholesale drug house
of M. T. Sprague & Cos., at No. 14 N.
Water street. The building and stock
are a total loss. The loss on the build
ing is $8,000; insured for $5,000, and on
stock $20,000; insured for $12,000. Ad
joining buildings were slightly damaged.
A. Barnstein & Co’s stock of boots and
shoes was damaged considerably by
water, and is insured for $7,500. Dur
ing the progress of the fire, tho rear wall
of the Sprague building fell upon the
two-story brick next east and broke in
the roof and walls, which fell upon a
number of men engaged in removing a
stock of liquor therefrom, belonging to
James McDonnell. The heavy barrels
and mass of brick which fell covered Mr.
McDonnell and killed him instantly.
Mr. McDonnell was head of the firm of
wholesale grocers of that name doing a
largo business for a number of yenrs on
Commerce street. Frank McLarny, mem
ber of the same firm, was seriously but
not fatally, injured. Others are thought
to bo under the mass of brick.
MUTINY AMONG CONVICTS.
At the stockade for convicts on the
Asheville and Spartanburg railroad, at
Gash’s creek, four miles from Asheville,
N. C., a mutiny of the prisoners occurred
Monday About forty of the hun
dred convicts stationed there refused to
retire for the night, and the officers who
went inside to adjust matters were stoned
from a barrel of rocks they had for some
time been accumulating. Tuesday morn
ing when ordered out to work they re
fused to do so, and defiantly cursed the
guard, composed of only ten men. Sixty
of the convicts came out, the other forty
refusing. This placed the guards in a
dilemma. They fired over the heads of
the defiant convicts, but this only en
raged them the more, and they swore
they were not afraid of blank cartridges.
Small shot was procured and the guards
fired into the mutinous crowd and
wounded a number of them in the legs.
This brought them to terms, and several
of them were taken to the hospital.
THE SITUATION AT MABSOWAH.
The Republique Francaise of Paris,
publishes a dispatch from the Suez, which
states that in the battles between the
Abyssinians and Italians, near Massowah,
January 25th and 26th, the Abyssinians
captured all the guns possessed by the
Italians. It also says that of 14S Italians
who were engaged in the fights, not more
than fifty escaped. The dispatch adds
that the Italians have evacuated all their
advanced positions, and that the Abyss
inians have already attacked and carried
the first line of Italian entrenchments
around Massowah The latter success, it
is stated, was achieved by the Abyssin
ians on the 27th of January, the day after
the destruction of the Italian forces in
the field, and the latest intelligence re
ceived indicated that it was doubtful
whether the Italians would be able to
hold out at Massowah until the arrival of
reinforcements.
LOOKOUT AT PHILADELPHIA.
Monday morning the Clothing Ex
change of Philadelphia, Pa., carried out
its threat and the Clothing manufactur
ers composing that body closed the doors
to cutters who are Knights of Labor.
The latter are defiant, and are determined
to fight the employers to the end. The
lockout throws 1,000 cutters out of em
ployment and fully ten times that num
ber of others who depend on them for
employment.
NO HORSES TO BE EXPORTED.
The government of Russia has forbid
den the exportation of horses from that
country. ✓
The French government has made
large purohases of Russian oats for the
u-e of the Frenoh cavalry and has chart
ered a number of steamers to convey them
rorn B altio porta to France.
LABOR STRIKERS.
Itontou, Massachusetts. Street Care Tied
Up by Them.
The employes of the South Boston
horse railroad, at a meeting Monday
morning, voted unanimously to tie up the
roads, and in pursuance of the vote no
ears were taken out that morning. The
men are opposed to tho present superin
tendent, and want ten hours’ work of a
twelve hour day. The difficulty seems to
be chiefly in making out tables. The
company claims that it is impossible to
arrange them so as to give ten hours in
side of twelve and the proper time for
meals.
The track layers and car repairers of
the South Boston road have joined the
strikers. After the determination to tie
up the road committees were at once ap
, p-•iiile-3 iq patrol the streets and notifv
all patrons of the road that there were no
cars running that morning, and to watch
the stables and inform all of the employes
who appeared to go to work that their
brothers had decided upon a tie up.
Every man who voted to tie up also took
a pledge to abstain from all intoxicating
liquors while the tie up might last.
During the morning every stable was
guarded by employes of the road to pre
vent morning cars being taken out. A
detachment of policemen was sent to the
stables to protect the property of the
road, and any men who might undertake
to run out a car. Up to noon not a non
union man had appeared upon the scene
at either stable to take out a car.
The directors of the company met and
decided to advertise for men at once to
fill the places of strikers. The directors
expressed themselves as determined to
light the matter to the last.
AT WORCESTER, MASS.
All members of the Knights of Labor
now working in boot and shoe shops at
Worcester, Mass., the proprietors of
which refuse to treat with committees of
labor organizations and state that they
will make terms with employes only as
individuals, have been ordered to quit
work to-morrow by the joint executive
board of the Knights of Labor. The or
der is intended to get out workmen who
are now at work on shoes filling orders.
If these orders are not filled on time con
siderable loss will be caused, and to pre
vent this the executive board expect the
manufacturers will come to terms. The
manufacturers will wait, however, to see
how strong the organization is before
they call for a conference.
WASHINGTON ITEMS.
SixNew War Vessel* to b© Const ructeil—The
Postolilco Appropriation Bill.
Asa result of the consideration of the
various bills looking to the construction
of new naval vessels, the sub-committee
of the house committee on naval affairs
has drafted a bill which was laid before
the full committee, providing for tho
construction or two steel cruisers of 40,-
000 tons burden of the Newark type;
cost, exclusive of armament, of not more
than $1,300,000 each; to be equipped
with the best type of modern engines,
boilers and machinery; four steel gun
boats of 1,700 tons displacement. All of
the vessels are to be built as far as may
be in compliance with the terms of the
act of August 3, 1886. The bill appro
priates $2,400,000 to begin the work.
The postoffice appropriation bill was
reported by the senate committee on ap
propriations. The committee made but
two amendments. The first was Mr.
Frye’s proposition for the foreign mail
service so changed as to appropriate
$500,000 for the carriage of mails to
Brazil, Argentine Republic, Uraguay and
Paraguay. The contracts for this service
are made subject to the approval of con
gress. The other amendment gives au
thority to put letter boxes in buildings
which are freely opened to the public
during business hours, modifying to that
extent the house piovisioD limiting the
authority of the department in this re
spect.
The president has accepte 1 the resigna
tion of Gen. P. M. B. Young, of Georgia,
consul-general at St. Petersburg, but lias
not yet selected his successor.
A NEW PUNISHMENT
A Lyons, Mich., Schoolmaster's Oscnlatorv
performance.
A school teacher of Lyons, Mich., named
Israel Guinn Rounds, has been having a
high time with his young lady pupils.
He prescribed anew punishment in his
school, and inflicted it on the girls for the
slightest infraction of the rules. It con
sisted in kissing them. Some of the fair
pupils objected more than others, and
these Rounds encircled with his arms,by
way of extra punishment, and gave them
a harder kissing. Mr. Rounds’ fun has
now been stopped. The trustees of tho
school (out of envy, Rounds says) have
preferred seven different charges against
the osculatory teacher, who will be re
moved. He admits tne kissing aud says
it was all done for fun.
A BIG PAPER MILL FAILS.
The Dennison Paper Company, of Me
chanics’ Falls, Me., has suspended. It
is supposed that the liabilities amount to
$450,000. The assets are the plant, mills
and pulp mill at Canton. Two years ago
the Dennisons got an act through the
the Legislature allowing them to form a
stock company and issue bonds. Since
then their condition has been precaul ions,
but the thing which hastened suspension
was a strike in the pulp mill at Canton.
EARTHQUAKE SHOCKS.
A shock of earthquake about 4 o’clock
Sunday morning is reported from St.
Louis, Spriugfield, Terre Haute and else
where. It appears to have been very
generally felt throughout central and
Southern Illinois, and Indiana, Dis
patches from twenty different points give
substantially the same account as to hour
and duration of shocks. No damago
done at any place as fir as heard from.
IRON OKE NEAR NATCHEZ, MIOS.
Iron ore in paying quantities and evi
dently of splendid quality has been dis
covered near Natchez, Miss. Samples of
the ore are being assayed, and if it
proves as good as it looks to local ex
perts a company will be formed to de
velop the lead, which is many miles in
oxtent.
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NUMBER 7.
SOLDIERS AS LEEK
The voice of th* w£#J p it passes
Makes musical bwiffj
But hark 1 through the rustle of grasses
The beat of the drum—
A sob and a low voice that trembles,
A down-drooping head.
The morning of Maytime disnomhlm
We meet by the dead.
But all ore as one in their ending.
No sound of tjge strife
Comes up from the dust that is blending
To fashion the life
Of grasses and sweet-scented briars.
And deep-tinted blooms s
That bum out their delicate flies
By numberless tombs.
The maiden who moans for her lover
Or friend for his friend
Learns here that the battles are over;
i l.iU' t'ii.s is -uehuu,
And mothers who meet in their weeping.
With quivering mouth
Ask not if their son 9 that are sleeping
Came Northward or South.
—Wilson J Grosvaum,
PITH AND POINT.
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A sign of prosperity—s.
A tea party—The Chinese.
Before the Mast—The bowsprit.
Darwin must have had the toboggan
slide in mind when he wrote “The De
scent of Man.” — Tid-Bits.
There is no reliable and trustworthy
receipt for making a man a millionaire,
except to get the millions.— Siftingt.
A real estate transfer—The mud you
dragged from the road on your boots, to
your wife’s carpet.— Danville Breeze.
A mind reader—The child who reads
determination in its parent’s eye and
minds accordingly. —Philadelphia Chron
icle-Herald.
A physician says “if a child does not
thrive on fresh milk, boil It.” This is
too severe. Why not spank it?— Phila
delphia Call.
Whatever you do, my boy, begin at
the bottom and work up.’ “But,
father, suppose I were going to dig a
well?” —Chicago News.
There passed from earth on a bitter cold day,'
The man who oft in our office would stray,
Aud bis noblest epitaph’s here, I say:
“He closed the door when he went away '
— Goodall's Sun.
“This is my off day,” remarked a.
portly Burlington merchant, after having
been thrown from the festive toboggan
for the third time. —Burlington B’ree
Press.
When you say that you don’t know
which are the fattest letters in the alpha
bet, you will be told OBCT, where
upon you are expected to exclaim O I C.
Call.
An Illinois citizen became enthusiastic
upon first seeing the Atlantic Ocean.
“Why,” he said, “it’s immense [ grand!
What a prairie it would make if it would
only keep still!” — Harper's Bazar.
Why does tho beauteous maiden seem
So wearied and so veved? -,;
She’s just found out the tale will be
“Continued in our next.”
— Merchant Traveller.
Landlady (examining a fugitive
boarder's trunk) —“Why Bridget, liis
trunk is full of bricks! How could they
have got there?” “Sure, ma’a' lie
bi ought one home in his hut ivory
night.”— Life.
He was a youth of high degree,
His collar monstrous tall:
He tittered a pretty little lithp,. 'j
And danced at every ball;
He ogled every girl he saw,
His nerve was mostly gall:
He had a bad cold in his head, \
And that was all.
Washington Critic.
Fashionable Finger Rings.
“ I sell finger rings from $3 up to
$5,000,” said a Brooklyn jeweler to a
Brooklyn Eagle reporter. “Of course
the most interesting class of rings are
those known as engagement rings.
There are but few varieties of the latter,
the me st popular being plain gold bands,
with diamond settings. Sometimes a
ruby is preferred, but diamonds have
the call. No I don’t suppose it is really
necessary for a prospective groom to
give his fiancee an engagement ring, but
custom has decreed it and in conse'
nuence we keep them for sale. Wed
ding rings are not so expensive as they
were when I was married. I paid $1
for the ring with which I married my
wife twelve years ago. I could, now buy
a similar ring just as heavy for sll. No
man should regret the sum he pays for a
wedding ring as the sensation experi
enced in buying it seldom comes to one
more than once in a lifetime. A fine
good-sized ruby is even more costly than
a diamond of the same size. Their
value depends wholly on their color-
Opals ? No we sell but few opals, prob
ably because they arc considered un
lucky. Cats’ eyes, greenish bro'Wjl
stones with a light running through
them, were formerly very popular with
ladies. Serpent rings are now but sel
dom worn. Of course, some men will
load themselves down with jewelry
whether it be fashionable or not. To
buy diamonds judiciously cne must be a
pretty good udge of those stones. Here
is a diamond which I sell for $25 which
an inexperienced buyer could uot distin
guish from this stone (hold ng up a dia
mond of a similar size) which is worth
$125. One is very much off color while
the other is pure white, and as-clear as a
hell. In fact the cheaper of the two
stones makes the beat showing, is more
dazzling to the eye and is seen to much
better advantage by gaslight. Its de
fects, however, are easily distinguishable
to the eye of the experienced jeweler.’’
The Unlucky Toin-Tit.
A certain Tom-tit, feeling himself
somewhat swelled up by the salubrious
ness of a fine morning, thought he would
go ahead and puff out his plumage to
such an inordinate extent, that his fel
low-tits would mistake him for an Owl.
and scurrying away, afford him much
amusement of a refined and intellectual
character. His little racket would have
worked all right, had it not happened
that, just as he was indulging in the
preliminary chuckles over his success in
frightening his comrades, a Philadelphia
gunner came along, and, mistaking
him for a partridge, bowled him over
without further ceremony.
Moral. — This fablo ttfaehes that safety
does not lie necessarily in insignificance,
unloss the latter receives the undivided
; attention of the individual.— Tid-Bits,