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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. Subscription $1.50 in Advance 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. ______ *v • 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,