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WMSSSDH JOT, JUKE 17th 1885.
ITOREIUN FLASHES.
Zaldivar, president of San Savador,
did resign, as published some time ago,
for hi* health; but congress refused to
accept his resignation, and ho compro
mised by accepting leave of absence for a
while. Be says that he, like Barrios,
lias long wished that all the Central
American states were united under one
government, but would osc on'y peacea
ble means to accomplish this.
England has ns-umed a protectorate
over the country around the mouth of
the Niger, in Africa.
The treaty of peace between France
and China has been signed.
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KILLED.
In Bardin county, lowa, Jim and Mans
Rainabarger, taken from jail and lynched;
in Pulaski county, Ga., William John
son, for money; in North Adams,-Mass.,
William Allen, by Mrs. M. N. Woodard,
for improper proposals; in Gibson county,
Ind., James 11. Minnis by John Butcher,
in a dispute over “the rule of the road;"
in Tracy Ci'y, Tenn., John Manning by
Frank 'iaylor, over a game of cards, and
Taylor while resisting arrest; in Bonham,
Texas, Eli and Sam Dyer taken from
jail; in Belleville, 111., George Baker,
railroad engineer, by Nellie Albrecht; in
Louisville, Ky., George Knapp by Ma
mie LiHue, (jealousy); John A. Cheat
ham by William Gooch, both ofßaleigh,
N- C , at Berta, Ky., in a fight, William
Harris, Mitchell i'resten, and James
Johnston.
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WASHINGTON NEWS.
The Washington monument was slight
ly damaged by lightning on the 6th inst.
In n osso coming up from Mississippi,
Comptroller Durham has decided that
the direct tax laid in 1861 is a claim
aguicst the citizens of a sfuti, not against
the state; but that, as Taylor, former
comptroller, certified that the taxes were
duo from the state, he mutt dolay settle
ment of the claims of Mississippi on the
general government till congress acts on
the question.
Mr. Hay, first assistant postmaster
general, says that if it were clearly shown
to him that a majority oftho patrons ofn
postofF.co desired the appointment of a
Republican, he would appoint him, if
qualified, even if all the congressmen
from that state opposed him. Ordinari
ly ho will attach great weight to a con
gressman's recommendation, but he will
not be absolutely bound by it,
SUICIDES.
At Bcxeman, Montana, W. 11. Mo-
Mintry, after having shot (slightly) Mrs.
Allen for rejecting him; in Knox county,
Indiana, Fred Grotcgout, after killing
his wife; Peter Bost, of Milwaukee, Wis.,
by beating out his brains with a hammer,
because the tax assessor found out that
for several years he had concealed $20,-
000, to avoid paying tax; in New York
City, Benjamin Heltukcn, ofter killing
his wife; in Waterford, Peon-, Jas Kent
xel, because l.e believed that all his
friends were elect, end he was a repro
bate; John Jones, of Hampton, Va ,
while drunk, by jumping from a steamer
into tho ocean; J. W. Coles, of'Nashville,
(financial depression); R. C. Dorsett, of
Columbia, Tenn., (mental depression);
John Henderson, of Onondaga county,
N. Y., because his wife was unfaithful;
Walter C. Whipole, of New York City,
from over-study; J. Coles, of Nashville,
(supposed to have been crazed by Sam
Jones's preaching); Michael Tanley, of
Fort Wayne, Indiana, by lying down be
fore a train; John Hoagland, of Dawn,
Ohio, by cutting his throat, rather than
go to the poorbouse; Thomas K. Ott, of
Lehigh county, Penn., by climbing an
applctree, tying n rope round his neck,
the other end to a limb, and jumping off;
Joseph Renscn, liquor dealer in Newport,
R. 1., after a spell of hard drinking, by
gashing himself with a razor, and touch,
ing firo to a keg.of powder: in New Bed
ford, Mass., Cha». Foss, after killing
Philip D. Slocumb for delay in getting
him a situation at Hudson’s Bay, (Foss
was a drunkard, and wanted to go whore
be cou’d not get I'qitor).
No woman will love a man better for
being renowned or prominent. Though I
he is the first amorg men, sbe will be
prouder, not fonder; as is often the case,
the will not oven le proud. But give
her love, kindness, appreciation, and she I
will make any sacrifice for his content and |
comfort. The man who loves hei well is
her king and hero: no less a hero to her, I
though not to any other; no less a king, I
though his only kingdom is het hear: and I '
home. It is a man's owu fault if he is i '
unhappy with his wile, in nine cases out j
of ten. She is a very exceptional woman
who will not be all she can to an attentive J
husband, aod a very exceptional one who ; I
will not be very disagreeable if she finds ;
bvraelfwilfully neglected.— Ala. Baptist. 1
! THE KNIGHTS OF THE WHITE CROSS.
Many communications have been re
ceived by this Magazine respecting the
aims and objects of the “White Crass
Army,” of which mention has been made
in these pages. A number of meetings
have been held in New York and else
where to promote the objects of this or
ganization generally, under the auspices
of the Young Men’s Christian Associa
tions. The following is the pledge that
ail who join this admirable organization
are asked to sign:
“I promise, by the help of God, to
treat all women with respect and to en
deavor to protect them from wrong and
degradation; to endeavor to pul down all
indecent language and coarse jests; to
maintain the law of purity as equally
binding upon men and women; to en
deavor to spread these principles among
my companions, and to try and help
my younger brothers; to use every possi
ble means to fulfill the command, ‘Keep
thyself pure.’ ”
In view of the interest that so many of
our readers have expressed in this mat
ter, we quote the following remarks made
at the meeting organizing tho order field
in New York at the hall of the Y. M. C.
A. in March last:
“Rev. Dr. B. F. De Costa said that the
army was a revival of' the old knights ol
chivalry, ns some one hod said, ‘without
the killing business.’ ‘lf a woman sins,'
said the speaker, ‘you know what be
comes of her. Is there any place for her
except the street? If a man sins, where
does he find his place? Docs he not find
it in the highest society and tho best and
purest homes, while the miserable victim
of Lis lust is trodden underfoot? What
are you going to do about that, young
men? Are you going to tolerate a double
standard? If there be manhood among
you, I call upon you to treat woman as
you would bo treated yourself. If a wo
man falls, she falls forever. Iler own
sex disown her and reduce her to despair.
Though she reform and rise to a true and
pure life—become as pure as Mary Mag
dalene, aye, as chaste as the icicles upon
the Temple of Diana —her own sex refuse
to receive her nnd scarce allow her to
come into their kitchens to scrub the
floor. Now, I say to you, young men,
be pure on account of her. Whom do I
mean? Mother? Sister? Yes, and anoth
er, Some limn there will bo eno whom
you will regard with tl.e tenderest love
and affection as tho personification of
purity, beauty, and truth. You may not
have found her yet, but you will find her.
What do you desire her to think of you ?
If she loves you truly you know she will
consider you tho epitome of goodness,
honor, and truth. Will you not so live
that when the time comes you may go to
her with a clean nnd pure heart, so that
she may know that you are all that her
fancy paints you? God forbid that you
should go to her nnd tell her a lie under
whoso cloud you must live for a life
time.’ "
Branch organizations of this new order
of chivalry should be started nt every
school district in tho country. Let the
pledge above given be written out, nnd
fathers and mothers should see to it that
their sons sign it. A public sentiment
should be created that would honor puri
ty among n en and make unohastity equal
ly sinful for one sex as the other. Any
further information about tho “White
Cross Army" can be had by writing to
W. W. Hoppin, Jr., Pres, of Y. M. C.
z\., of New York. In England a like or
ganization has done a great deal of good.
—Demorest's Monthly for June.
ON THE ISTHMUS OF PANAMA.
Tho inhabitants of the Isthmus are
mostly negroes and Indians. People of
purely Spanish descent are few and fur
between. The true Jsthmianos are Indi
ans, small of stature, but oftho naostieck
lass personal bravery. Os them the ar
mies of the revoluti mists and of the gov
ernment are composed. They arc expert
in a kind of'sayagc warfare and arc always
aided by a mob of neg: oca. Ihe I thmi
ans are, to all intents and purposes, sav
ages. They live in villages which are only
collections of huts, all over the Isthmus.
These huts are composed of wattles, and
thatched with banana leaves.
This isthmus, which must always boa
great highway of travel, is at the mercy
of these people, and of the dregs of the
population of the two cities, Panama and
Colon. Revolution and poverty seem to
be the normal condition of the country.
'1 he State of Panama, which embraces
the whole isthmus, is hopelessly bank
rupt, and after tho present trouble is over
it is difficult to sec how the government
is to be carried on. Every possible tax
has been levied, and every piece of gov
ernment property mortgaged. Even the
revenues for many future years have been
discounted. Their coins are light weight,
and the issue of paper money with such
an unstable government is impossible. It
is a striking c mwentary on the relative
stability of the government of the United
States of Arne: ica, and the United States
of Colombia, that greenbacks bring 30
per cent premium in Colombian silver.
But almost every one demands payment
in United Staes money, and everybody
charges war prices. For instance, wash- j
ing is $4.50 a dozen in Colon, and $2 50 |
a dozen in Panama. Life is the cheapest
thing on the Isthmus. The penalty for '
killing a negro is impi isonment for two I
weeks; for a white man, three months, !
For political oficnces, however, the pen
alty is death. Bushwhacking is indulged
in by the natives al! over the Isthmus
Almost every night the American pickets
shoot a few of the outlaws. Aew York
Tribune.
The number of acres planted in cotton i
this year is 656.000 more than last year,
and the condition of the crop, as a whole,
better. |
A PHANTOM ENGINEER.
It’s only a ghost story. Jim Pace told '
it one dark night to a little crowd that had
gathered in the roundhouse. Jim’s a vet
eran of the rail. He was 72 last week,
and has pulled a throttle as often as any
living man. “How he used to make old
Six walk!” is the common expression
whenever Jim’s name is mentioned in a
crowd. He loved the engine better than
anything else in the world, and it nearly
broke bis honest heart to give it up. Jim
never had aa accident, but that wasn’t
his “fault”, he always said. "It wasn't
me that missed 'em. It was old Six. She
wouldn’t ever go into the back end of a
train in the blackest night, and all lights
out. You couldn’t drive her there, nor get
her nigh a broken bridge or washout."
Jim never got any further with his ex
planation until that night at the round
house, when some of the boys begged
him to tell them why old Six wouldn’t
get into trouble.
“As I've quit the track, boys,” he be
gan, “I don’t mind telling you just why.
I reckon you all know I took to firing with
Dave Griffin, and all I know about an en
gine I learned from him. He was like a
father to mo, and when he died I lost the
best friend u lone boy ever had. Lost,
did I say? No, not lost, but—” he looked
out into the night, and the little audience
waited for him to finish the sentence;
but he went on anew. “1 worked hard
and faithful, but 1 was an old man when
they gave me the best engine on the road.
You’ve all heard of old Six? She’s sernp
iron ten years ago. I had run along for
a good many years without an accident
of any sort, and—you all know how it is
—had got sorter careless, like. I knowed
every rail and crosstie in the road, to say
nothing of bridgesand trestles and cul
verts, and could shot my eyes and tell
where I wuz by the way ole Six carried
herself. Well, one night—it was the
darkest night I ever saw—the moon and
stars seemed as if they had gone out for
good, and the black, thick clouds set so
close to tl c earth that you could feel
them as you ploughed through them.
Headlights didn't amount to much them
days, no how, but that night mine didn't
do no good at all. Something must have
blacked the glass, for I couldn’t see ten
steps ahead of the pilot, and what dim
light there was flashed sickly against a
solid front ofcloud. By and by it began
to rain. The water came down like the
bottom Lad fallen out, and in less than
five minutes 1 could hear it roaring in the
ditches alongside tl.e track. The noise it
made tenting through the culverts
drowned the rattle of the train. I hope
I'll never see such another flood. Light
ning every minute and less split the dark
ness on all sides, and the thunder boom
ed among the clouds as if the Old earth
was exploding from the inside fires. At
every boom the clouds gave down more
rain, and old Six trembled as if she was
skeered to go ahead.
"Ou we went, tip hill and down, forty
■ miles an hour and no stops fur way sta
tions. We climbed the summit at Pin
sou's and flashed by like a skeered deer,
on down the long grade towards Dykes’
run nnd the big trestle. I knowed it’s
the best on the road, nnd 1 wa n't afeered
to go over it a mile a minute, so I didn’t
slack up. I leaned back in my seat nnd
listened to the i.aging storm outside. My
fireman had opened the furnace dour and
stepped back in the tender for some coal,
when suddenly a big, white-headed man
got between me and the rad light of the
furnace fire and leaned over toward the
front of the cab. One long arm reached
out, and taking hold of the throttle shut
off the steam. The other pulled three
long blasts of the whistle, the signal for
brakes, and thou before I could say word
the man caught the lever in both hands
and reversed her dean back to tho lowest
notch. The same long nrui again reach
ed the throttle ami pulled her wide open.
Ole Six's drivers began to spin around
backward and the train began to slick
up. Jumping up 1 made a lunge nt the
010 man, but instead ol hitting him I fell
flat across the cab. I get up and saw
him still standing there looking out ahead.
I throwed my arms around him to pull
him away but they passed right through
bis body and tell at my side. Ila turned
and looked n‘ me, and 1 saw it was Dave
—Davo Griffin, come back from the '
grave!
“When my senses came back the train •
was standing still and Dave was gone- 1
knowed there was something wrong ,
ahead, so I got out and walked down the
road. A hundred feet away 1 came to a <
great gap in the track —the big trestle
was gone! The wreck was growed to a
mighty river roaring and rushing and !
gurgling over the piles. Boys, I didn't 1
feel skeered then, but somehow I couldn't 1
stand up. My legs felt weak and give 1
way under me, and I set d?wn on the I
track in the pouring rain. I—l didn’t ■
go to sleet'. 1 couldn't have done that, |
but my fireman said he had to shake me
party hard to git mo up. No, boys, 1
didn't run ole Six. It's Dave and me to
gether that's always pulled her through.”
—Aew Jt'ork Tribune.
i
Better than She Expected.
“Your letter received. In reply lam 1
i happy to say that Parker's Hair Balsam
i did much more for me than you said it c
would, or than 1 expected. My hair has c
' not only stopped falling out, but the bald *
i spots are all covered, and ail my hair has a
grown thicker, softer and more lively I
than it was before my sickness a year I ’
ago. Thank you again and again.” Ex- 4
tract from letters of Mr. R. W. T., West 1
Fifty-third street. New York. I
The Indians whoieft their reservations h
some time ago are still scouting round, h
killing and robbing. U. S. soldiers are ;fi
after them, but more soldiers than In- L
4utis lure been killed. 1 h
THE PACIFIC COAST SCOURGE.
It would not be pitching the pres
ent article tn an alarmist key to say
that a large portion of the foothill re
gion of California is not only threaten
ed, but is being devastated by such
swarms of grasshoppers that they
amount to nothing short of a plague.
The line of march has been westward
across the centre of the State. All
authorities and reports appear to agree
in fixing ui on the desolate wastes of
the Sierra slopes as the birthplace of
the insects. There among the stones
and scrub the eggs lie hidden year af
ter year, until some peculiar climate
or physiological condition brings them
to life. Last week an army of grass
hoppers invaded the agricultural lands
contiguous to Wick’s, 8 or 10 miles
from Oroville, on the Chico road.
They annihilated 80 acres of grain in
short order. Grasshoppers have ap
peared ia lone valley in such numbers
as to amount to a scourge. The grain
crop, which only promised about half
a yield before, is now likely to be ut
terly ruined.
In the neighborhood of Latrobe
and V\ hite Rock the stench arising
from the dead bodies of the hoppers
that clog up the running streams is
more offensive than the worst aggre
gation of slaughter houses. The coun
try for miles around, usually at this
time of the year covered with long
grass and bedecked with wild flowers,
presents a most desolate appearance
and looks as though it had been
swept by fire. The large farmers in
that neighborhood have lost their en
tire crop and the feed on their past
ures. Those in the neighborhood of
White Bock and Clarksville have suf
fered equally as bad.
The grasshoppers are eating the
foliage from orange, peach and apple
trees about Wyandotte, nnd arc also
destroying the vegetables in the gar
dens. The Natoma vineyard is said
to be suffering severely. A gentleman
from Rocklin states that the California
Raisin Company's vineyard, near that
place, has been entirely denuded by
the grasshoppers. Capt. Westcott,
the manager of the company’s proper
ty, says that whi e the raisin product
of the vineyard was last year many
thousands of dollars, the fruit of the
entire 160 acres of bearing vines will
not this year be over SSOO. The des
truction is almost complete. A Sacra
mento paper states that a 10,000 acre
stock ranch in the southern part of
El Dorado county has been entirely
denuded of everything green, pine and
willow trees stripped of their foliage,
and in nearly every instance the trees,
vines nnd shrubs have been entirely
killed. The springs, wells, reservoirs,
ditches, water in troughs and streams
are filled with dead bodies of myriads
of the insects in a putrid stale, the wa
ter has became poisoned, .stock refuse
to drink it and the stench arising
therefrom is nauseating in the extreme.
In Grass valley the insects arej eat
ing the pcxclies down to the pits. In
al t acking a vineyard they commence
with the nearest row, and after eating
the vines down to the old wood pro- I
ceed to the next and so on. The Cal
ifornia and Oregon freight train of
thirty-five cars got stalled about a
mile front Rosevil'e Wednesday night
in consequence of the number of
grasshoppers that had collected on
the track. It was found necessary to
cut the train in two, take part to
Roseville an 1 then go back after the
remainder. They are so thick all
along the line of the radroad that the
officials are planning a kind of a plow
or scraper to clear them from the rails.
In one of their attacks or an orchard
near Galt they not only cleared off the
leaves and green fruit and dugout the
pith from the tender twigs, but also
delved down below the surface and
ate up the young roots. Away
up in the Sierra, on the mountain mead
ow pastures, grasshoppers and crick
ets are cleaning off the herbage and
are crowding up to the retreating
snow line in advance of the arrival of
migratory flocks of sheep. Near Stock,
ton a farmer was so overrun with them
that they not only filled up his well, I
but also forced their way into his Ik use
which, in despair and disgust, he was I
finally obliged to shut up and leave.—
San Francisco Chronicle.
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GRASSHOPPER TALES.
Since the invasion of Northern Califor
nia by the grasshoppers, there has been
a marked revival in the literature upper- j
taining to this interesting insect.
“I remember in ’71,” said a member J ,
ofthe Grain exchange yesterday, "1 was ,
coming across the plains. Well, sir, I (
was seated in a ear reading a newspaper ! ,
about noon, when sudden y it grew quite i
dark, and I thought sure a terrible storm ,
was on us. It was a clou ! of grasshop- ,
pers; so thick that when they settled on
the car track they stopped the train. L
There was good feed where we were just |
then, and it brought the 'hoppers to a
halt. We were blocked for twenty-four
hours, until a snow plow was telegraphed
for, and when it cut the way for us, it
left a bank of 'hoppers on each side t
higher than the smokestack cf the loco- .
motive.”
“That was pretty bad,” said another
broker, “but I have seen worse. We
were camped one summer in Kansas,
making a survey for a new town. The
'hoppers struck us at night, and in the
morning we thought the end of the world
had come. They were piled, sir, twenty
feet deep over our encampment, and we
were nine hours tunneling out of them.
If we did not. happen to have a few giant
powder cartridges to blast out airholes
we should have suffocated before we could
have struck a shovel into the mass.''
"Didn’t you hive any of ’em?" inquir
ed a warehouseman, who had teen a good
deal of Western life.
“What do you mean?” asked the brok
er.
“Just this: I was caught in the same
fix you have told about, once in Kansas.
I was in charge of a mule team, hauling
supplies to a railroad camp. Among
other things we bad several thousand
yards cf canvas for tents for the men. As
soon as the grasshoppers struck us I put
tny gang to work, and in a short time we
had a canvas sack made, balloon fashion,
only bigger than any balloon you ever
saw. Well, sir, wc fil ed It chock full T>f
hoppers—live hoppers—and bitched it
on to the wagons, and when the swarm
started to go our caged hoppers went with
them.”
“And took off your balloon?”
“No, sirree; they hauled our wagon
for over 78 miles, when they broke down
and wc bagged a new lot. It beat mule
power all hollow. Then it has oecured to
me —” But his audience bad gone, and
the Western man, growling “I suppose
these darned fools think I’m green,”
walked off to f?nd a more credulous and
attentive auditory.— San francisco Alta.
LOOKING FOR BEAU.
They have bears in the West that are
hard to subdue, and so tin y have need of
strong men and women. A settler’s wile
of this class, on the outskirts of civiliza
tion, overbearing herself described as
“half human, half alligator" resented it,
and declared that she had ‘feelin's’; but
she was net this woman—the story-teller
whom the hunter met. A New Yorker
on a hunting expedition in the i'ar West
rode up to a mountain cabin, and hailed a
woman hanging out clothes in the front
yard. “Good morning, ma lam,” said he.
“What yer looking fer? Yer must be
lost, eraumpfln,” she replied.
“Thank you, no; I'm a hunter, and I
understood there were bear in this neigh
borhood, and you could give me some
points." The woman dropped the white
garment she held, and came to the fence.
“Hit’s b’ar yer looking for, is it?" she
inquired, craning her thin neck forward
in an eager way.
“Exactly, madam,’’ said he, straight
ening himself up in his stirrups.
“Well, stranger, yer in the right neigh
borhood. Thar’s b’ar here in plenty."
“Have you tv. r seen any?”
"I shed say I Led.”
“Please tell me where I can find a den.
Pin looking for a dozen or so. I'm n t
particular about numbers.”
“Oh, haiu’t yer? That’s what my old
man said, but he’s changed his mind now,
I reckon.”
“Is ho afraid of the brute-?”
“Not now he baint.”
“I would like to hear about it.”
"Well, yer see, one day me and the
old man seen a b’ar climbing into the hog
pen; and he said he'd just put an end to
that b’ar with a club. I told him to get
a gun, but he sed b'ars wuz no great
shakes nohow, ami he'd go with a club.”
“And did he?" inquired the hunter,
as the woman stopped talking,
“I reckon he did. 1 went in the house
and dim up to tho roof, and purty soon I
heard a mighty racket in the pen. After
a while it got powetful still outside, and
I dim down ter see how it come out.”
"And did lie get the bear?" said l> '.
‘No, lie. didn't; the b’ar wuz deargone.'
“And your husbumi?” said the hunter.
“Well, the tuncrnl tuck place next day.
llit.S b’ar yer looking for, is it? Weil,
stranger, that same b’ar is round here
yit,’ — Merchant Tra vcler.
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A COLLISION,
A sleepy policeman was yawning and
rubbing his eyes one morning last week,
when his attention wag attracted by the
sound of unsteady footsteps. An liish- i
man with a red face and a fringe of white
whiskers came staggering along, slightly
the worse for liquor. The policeman rec
ognized him as one of the political lights
of the ward.
,‘Good morning, Mr. Mulcahey.”
“Good morning to you, sir. Is it (hie)
pasht two?’’
“It’s nearly five. Hadn't you better
get home?”
“Home? why home?old'wo<nan’s home.
I've been to Mickey Grogan’s wake. Ev
ery body drunk but me. I'm sober, sir.”
“Nat quite, Mr. Muloahey.”
“D'ye want to bet I can’t walk a line?”
“I’d bet you can’t keep inside the car
track for a block.”
"Begorra, I can.”
The whole street seemed too narrow
for Mr. Mulcahey, and the policeman felt
sure of winning. Mr. Mulcahey walked
nearly half a block on the up track, and
was advancing with an unsteady gait and i
great solemnity of expression, when a
runaway came in sight. The driver had ‘
fallen off, aod the hor.-e Was plunging .
madly. Mr. Mucahey shouted to them
to take the other track.
It toos four policemen an hour to pry
the wagon off Mr. Mulcahey, and when
he revived in Bellevue Hospital he said:
"I can whip the man who hit me.” ,
A’etc York Sun.
Elkhart, Indiana, reports a kitten born
with two mouths, two noses, and three
eyes. It lived but a few hours.
GENERAL NEWS.
A man living in the recesses of the
Blue Mountains has obtained the reputa
tion of a witch docL r among most of the
inhabitants of eastern Pennsylvania.
They spend much money with him for
witch charms. He tells them to spread
burned hair on buttered bread, and feed
it to the witch’s dog, to burn snakes and
spread the ashes oo the witch’s doorstep,
' etc.
Vincent M. Holt, an Englishman, has
published a pamphlet recommending
people to eat insects of all kinds, grub
worms, caterpillars, moths, ‘butterflies
grasshoppers, snails, etc. He says that
they are sweet and nourishing.
In Washington City several doctors
i who were operating on a negro for intus
auseeption of the bowels, were driven off
by a mob of ne.-roes, who clamored
against them as “night-doctors,” "only
wanting the body.” Before the police
i could clear out the crowd, the patient
died.
The community around McNeill’s in
Hampton county, 8. C., recently witness
■ ed a disgusting spectacle. Two school
marms, going to spend vacation at their
northern homes, bade farewell by kissing
all their negro scholars, and many of the
mothers, on the platform.
Chicago preachers are trying to sup
press horse raving on Sunday.
In Etowah county, Ala., during the
night of May 31st, a negro woman was
beaten by other negroes till they thought
she was dead, and her house burned.
They said she was a witch.
In Elkton, Md., Charles P. Barnes
recently shot bis brother-in-law and his
own son, ayed 13, and, when jailed, Hied
to butt his brains c ut
Near Wetumpka, Ala., the body of a
wotnr n was lately found in the Coosa
River, too badly eaten to decide whether
white or black, with two holes in her
breast like bullet boles. No clue to her
natne.
The Episcopal congregation in Fair
field, Conn., were lately dispersed in
stantly by the swarmin’of bees, which
had made their home between the raf
tors.
Katie Hoffman, aged 13, and small for
that age, awaits trial in Jersey City, N.
J., for stealing SIOO worth of silk ami
artificial flowers. She admits her guilt.
A dog belonging to a steerage passen
ger from Hamburg to New York went
prowling into the cook room, nnd was
thrown overboard about the middle of
the Atlantic Ocean. When the vessel
landed at New York, almost the first
thing the passenger saw was his dog. He
had teen picked up by another vessel
still holding in his mouth the piece of
meat which had caused him to be thrown
overboard six hours before.
S. W. Moore and E. W. Mendenhall,
cattlemen of Chattanooga, were robbed
of $795 on Sat I Mountain, opposite Val
ley Head, Ly Brad Samples,.on the 8:h
inst.
L cus’s have appeared in vast num
bers in numerous place.
In Jackson county, W. Va,, 300 fami
lies are reported starving from failure of
last year's crop, aod hard wit ter.
Schneider, of Butler county, Ohio,
has confessed that he killed his mother
Inst October becau-e she and bis wife
could not agree.
Gratefulness.
Mr. 11. Sampsel, Ottawa, Kansas,
writes : “Dr. S. B Hartman & Co.,
Columbus, O.—Gentlemen : I have suf
fered for seven years ; have tried everv
j thing and many physicians, and all have
failed. I went to Pittsburgh, and while
there fell on the street, my breath seemed
to leave my lungs, and numbness over
power me. I determined to give Pervna
and Manaltn a tair trial. I used four bot
tles of each, and my trouble left, never, I
hope, to return. I left Pittsburgh "three
weeks ago for Kansas, and thought, as I
was going to a new country, I had better
tike a bottle of Manaun with me, on
account of bad water, etc. I arrived
here with one-half bottle. I found one
! of my friends in a pretty bad condition, j
i ’I he doctors were treating her for chills I
‘ and fever. 1 did not know what her I
I trouble was, though I persuaded her to I
use the Manaus. She did so, and the
first day she was up doing her work, i
Now this seems strange, but it is, never- ;
theless, a candid truth She used it all, j
and has never hid cause to lie down ;
■ during the day since she took the first ■
| three doses.”
A Caso that was Pronouncod In
curable.
Miss C. C. Peck, 714 Jackson street, '
Milwaukee, Wis., writes: “Dr. S. B. !
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I received from your valuable Pervna.
I have been suffering for about fifteen
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ever. Dr. Fox, of this city, claimed I i
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Legal Advertisements.
, | .. .
Application to Have Child Bound.
' GEORGIA, Chattooga County.
To al! whom it may concern; Whereas James
Herndon has applied to me in proper foim of
r law to have Alice Hudchins. a minor orphan,
j (white child), of said bound to him in
terms of the law in such case made and prorid*
1 ed, this is to notify all persons concerned thst
, said application will be heard at my office on
• the Sfith day of June next, at 10 a. M. This May
28rd, ISBS. JOHN MATTOX, Ordinary,
Road Notice.
B
j GEORGIA, Chattooga County.
. To all whom it may concern; whereas John
W. Close, county supervisor, has laid rut and
marked a change in th** public road leading
from Summerville to ChattoogaviHe, on the
t John A. Johnson farm, as follows: leaving the
present public road going south at the corner
of Dock Starling’s garden, (marked 5): going
thence sc nth to stoh 4; thence to stob 3; thence
southwest to stob 2; and continuing in the
same direction to stob J. near the fence where
the change jn said road should intersect the
] present road, about sixty yards north of the
lands’of the Smiths, believing that the change
1 will be of public utility: this is to notify all per
sons concerned that on the 29th day of June
• next, said chan, e will b« finally granted, if no
s new cause is shown to the contrary This May
~ 25th, 1885. JOHN MATTOX. Ordinary.
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Road Notice.
GEORGIA, Chattooga County.
To all whom it may concern: All persons in
terested are hereby notified that, if no good
cause be shown to the contrary, an order will
be granted by the undersigned, on the 26th day
of June next, establishing a new read as mark
r ed out by the road supervisor appointed for that
purpose: commencing near Oak Hill church, in
1216th Dist. G. M.. In said county, leaving t-be
present public road south of said church, run
ning n a due westerly direction, elong the
settlement road, through the lands of Capt. K.
11. Foster and John Bridges, to the residence
ot said Bridses llu-nCH south to the Alabama
line, near the residence of Wm Wards Thia
, May 26, 1883. JOHN MATTOX. Ordinary.
Road Notice.
GEORGIA, Chattooga County;
To all whom It may concern; AH persons inter
ested are hereby notified that, if no good cause
be shewn to the contrary, an order will be
granted by the undersigned, on the 26th day of
. June nex:, establishing a new road as marked
out by the county road supervisor, appointed
for that purpose, commencing in the town of
Subligna, in said county, and running in a south
easterly direction, through the lands of A. A.
Blackburn. Milton White. K. H. Ellis, W. D. Hix,
’ Mrs. Davis Hix, Mrs. bailie Hill. John Hill,
Thomas Gray, Terrell Gray, and J. T. Davis,
and intersecting the present public road leading
from Jams' Ponder’s to Wesley Shropshire’s,
near said Davis’s in said county. This May Z 6,
WW. JOHN MATTOX, Ordinary,
Sheriff s Tax Sale.
GEORGIA, CliattooL’a County.
Will be sold before the c/iurt house
door, tn the town of Suuiuterville, in said
countj, on the first Tuesday in .luiy, 1885,
■vitliio the legal hours of sale, to the
hieliest bidder for cash, the following
Wild Laud lots, levied on to satisfy tax
fi. fa-', issued ly the Tax Collector of said
■ tit.iy, against each of sai l lots, for the
State ai.d County tax due thereon, for
the year 1883, to-wit: lots of laad Nos.
26.8. 239. 243, and —, all in the 13th
district and 4'h section, in said county;
and No 245. in the s'h district and 4tti
■section, in said coun v: and Nos. 4(1. 30.
71, 78 and 96, in the 15th district and 4th
section, it, said county; and Nos. 105,
185, 211. and I'J6, in the 6th district and
4th section, in said county; nnd Nos. 84,
9'X 170, 172, 206, 209. 225. 276,297. 296,
294. 319. and 95. in the 25th dis rict nnd
du! sor tion, in said county; and Nos. 71,
■old J7O, in the 14th district and 4th sec
tion, in sni i county. Also, the following
lots, levied on to satisfy ta» fi. fas. issued
as aforesaid, agaitot each lot, for the
slate nnd county tax due there -n. for the
year 1884. t.i-wit : lots of fund Nos. 287,
197, and 157, in the J3lh district and 4 li
seelion. of snirl conr ty; a»t«l Nos. 41, —,
109, 225, 269. 259. and 319, in the sth
district mol Ith section, of said enuntv;
ard Nos 73, 77, 46. 54, 79, and 44, in tho
15th district and 4th section, in sai l
enunty; and Nos. 55 191, 209. 245, 253,
258, and 283, in th ■ 6th tiis-rict and 4th
section, in ‘aid county; nnd N s. 40, 258,
259. 2'2. 266, 260. 261, 262, 191, 171,
99. 26. 263. 192. 96, 265, tod 273, in
the 25th district and 3rd section, in said
co .nty; and N - 4 i and 33, in the 24th
di-trl t and 3rd section, in said county;
and Nos. 24. 230. . 12. ar d 16, in the
14<h district and 4ih section, in said
county. Also, the following lots, levied
on to satisfy tax fi fas., issued ar afore
said, against each hit, fir the state au I
; coiinty tax due thereon, l.r the years
: 18'3 and 1884. to-wit: I its cf Intel Nos.
| 91. 317, 300. and —. in tho 13 h district
i and 4rh section of s--ii i county; and Nos.
I 294. 175. 67. 282. and —. in the sth di»-
■ trict and 4th section, in said curiry; and
Nos. -17. 55. 72 70. 75. 76. 94. and 95,
in la o 15th district and 4'h section o*
sai'l county; afd N”. 199, in the 6-h
district a:.d 4th section, in said cour.tv;
'■nil Nos. 2. 25. 4' 49. —. 61, 85, 97,
9< 119 120 121 132 133 155 204.205,
226. 227 240, 242. 213. 244. ‘245,
277. 278, 279. 2>'O. 281. 3< I. 300. 299,
298, 295. 313. ci4 318. uto! 32'1, in the
25th ,li- rict rod 3'd seeiinn. in said
county: nnd N< s. 6. 7, 8. 35. 34, 77. and
81. in the 24th di-trict and 3rd section,
in »-iid county ; nnd Nos. 7 and 28, in tho
1 llh district aii'.i 4il. sreti it>. in said coun
ty. All of said I- i‘ being "Wi:d Lvs,”
not returned !■ r taxation for said respec
tive years, and assessed as pn viiled by
taw.
All purchasers at said sale will be re
quired tn pay for making deeds to each
of the respre'ive lots, as pr scribed by
law. This 30ib dnv of March, 1885.
T. J. WOIISUAM, Siu riff.
Sheriff s Sale.
GEORGIA. Chattooga County:
Will be sold before the court-house d«'or in
the town of Summerville in said county, on the
first Tuesday in July. IHBS. within the feral
hours of s&le. for cash, to the highest bidder,
the following property, to wit: one Kandell har
row, as good as new: levied on as tb»* prvpetty
of John A. Starling, to satisfy one fi. fa. issued
from the superior court of said c unty in favor
of Moore. Marsh. A Co. Said property pointed
out by plaintiffs’ attorney. This June Ist, 1886.
T. J.’WORSHAM. Sheriff.
Application for Discharge.
GEORGIA, Chattooga County:
E. A. Hammond. Guardian of W. H. Edward?,
having applied to the Court of Ordinary of said
county for a discharge from his guanHanehip of
W. H. Edwards, thia is therefore to cite ell per
sons concerned to show cause, if any they can,
j on the first Monday in July next, why’E. A.
j Hammond should not be dismissed troir his
• guardianship of W. H. and receive tbo
; usual letters of dismission. Witness my hand.
May 5.1585. JOHN MATTOX. Ordinary.
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; Splendid Top Buggies. Hacks, etc., with good
safe horses, always on hand. Prices to suit the
times. Aug-lfl-ly.
JOIiX W. JIADDOX,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
SVMMEKVJLLE, GEORGIA.
Will practice in the Superior, County, and
District courts. * ’