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Newspaper Page TextW ERA. BUBSCRiniOH s $1.80 Per lull VOLUME DA.LLAS PAULDING COUNTY, ,OA„ s THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1884. NUMBER ll. EDITORIAL NtPjESk.' A few years ago a measure adopted providing for the gradual irnvim- missi n of sliivos in Cuba. Thi* wprkud exceedingly well indeed, and U der it ,285,Q90 iia««Wi ijnve already beeftpfiaee- luHy lilierated, with ontiro satisfaction to ►the owners. I here 10*0 now baldly more than 100,000 staves oft ' the island,'and most of them will be set free during the year. Gbnehal John Newton, who has miulo a study of modern explpatt^ca('Hnys that no agent enn 'supplant gunpowder for the principal, requirements of- war fare. In blasting rock the higher ex plosives may be employed, except wh< ro the rock is .weak in cohesion, when gun- powder is preferable. In coal mineB the higher explosives are too dcetructive in their action. Dynamite as a destructive agent for unlawful pnrpoees^can only lie applied on a limited aca e, and with nearly fruitlosa results, as time, money and elaborate preparations are required tor effective woik. The World’s exposition at New Or leans, will devote 247 acres to lakes and gardens, showing the rnrest t ees nnd plants of Mexico, Control America Florida and foreign countries. Horti cultural hall will lie GOO by 184 feet. Mr. P. J. Ilerokmans, of Augusta, (lit., lias bee 1 appoint d a special cornmis- tfiflbur to confer with various European societies in reference to the fruit and plaut display. . he collective Mexican exhibit will bo an immense thing, occu pying a building 1,400x900 feet. Ac companying this e hibit will be a Mexi can band and a battalion of Mexican troops. I lie exposition will receive lib- oral encouragement from the leading countries 1 f the world. * Beeb ns an artiole of diet has been discontinued in at least 27 pauper luuatic asylums 111 Engluud, with the result that in no instance liu the apparently impor tant change led to any sort of physiologi cal inconvenience. Many of the super intendents, in whose asylums the modi fication was made, and through them many of the patients testify cordially to the bnnefits derived from the clinugo. The question, says the Journal of Mental Science, la not ono of toetotalism, or even primarily of a financial order, but one of pure expediency and good mauagemont. In all probability the disuso of boer as an elemeut of the diet of pauper lunatics in English asy urns will be more ex tended and will bo watched with in terest. The la’est estimates place the popula tion of tho globe at 1,433,800,000, indi cating n decroaso in the last three years of s >me 22,000,000, though, as a matter of fact, there has been an actunl increase of s mo 33,000,000. 1 his apparent dis crepancy is accounted for by tho fact that the population of China lias heretofore been largely over 0 tinmted. In reference 11 our* own country the statistics show that no country in tho history of the world ever had such a compos! to popu lation, leaving but four cent from other countries, and from wliite rnces of other types, and thirteen per cent for those oi African descent. Probably no other country on the face of the globe can show such a diversity and at the same ti me such a substantial unity of race and descent. hospital subjects, provided a satisfactory apparatus be constructed (ft “one oi tho Paris cemeteries. >t in the nature of the recovery of a re state wor the- chaatMcmont of a 017-people, nor ivei the suppress of the alave trade, but It renews tho old conflict between Christian civiliza*-! ..iTi* . ,• .. . , r , ... „„ with some listlessncss. tion and Mohhmmedan barbarism. T)io ^ o Baron*. During a fight betwean whites ami na tives in the province of Angola, tVw»t Africa. •, MEr. of Parnell, the Irish bt®l4.*fiie leader, ’ife- triumph of To 1 el Kebir did not conquer Moslem fanaticism. The hatred of the MahojniBedan_ag«lnst *he 0 ristinn and sgatnaheMHaation la Innate and prcsaihle. This hydra-heeded mom is notdHiUMMMk it la quiet it Ja fa and the ow** Bi# *«“* wo^L The cigarette is tfSKraTira looking thing, but in the opinion of many wall- posted peop o it contnins about as mucJl poison to the square inch as any one ar ticle that "could be named. Tho cigar-" otte busine s started jn tills oountry. about fifteen years o^teKmorican cigar ettes were nove tics, and attracted favor able attention from the start. growth of the business and 1m pteeent magnitude wiK be better uuderstood when it '8 stated that jp 000 cigarettes were mnnufartnreaTtrThis^ country of which New York furnished 444,092,867. Ono 'hunJPhd and eighty"- two "different brands of cigarettes have been manufactumd in thte last lllteim ye|is. Of-f Wtfctyfim 4%rtrn4h have had their day and oonsed to exist. Tho original American cigarettes had mouthpieces In imitation of tho Euro pean article. The prieo was then twenty cents n package, lint since mouthpi ces went out of fashion tlie price dropped to ■ ten conts: It is ass rtod that the tobacco- used in the manufacture of cigarettes is of a meaner grade than "that used in "the clinaiiest cigais^iUMk»iIultcrnte(l with saltpeter to prevent mdulSing, auil this fl»ldS.i>«gB)tt^ s Parnei l» ^mjoiiemtmwit td’ tli. Turn's of maklftff-SC uornmonS 1 ^ b: eh, Mopeaed by him in the house bf u>e™j that, Engrsiid’s policy in Ireland .he was afraid of 'oise, in this lespoct I10 diil?flT**'* fans#'trEiiqulihs thsneopls." wantonly eifer who n».1e H.» -'I"*- «- wTi^trRe'b^W^BWlMtaJl^SssiM of tht Country. . AOCqci-shk-n oi' 13.000 striking weavers St IjPHthurn, England, carried tlie eltlgy ok saltpeter to pre- use of saltpeter jg said by medical men to he highly injurious to tho \ ital func tions. 'I he oil of tlie cigarette paper wrnppors is“"’'ttk Jm.umwvc..*.- ous than JJje_o tftajtff- ity of cigarette smokers are WMWHpgJ, -VL, 0 7, ixiople, principally boys, and not a few biers—thlbe brother uauied_ Flypn, • wore in a hack at tlie time, bn bnWftWW, affray grew out of ail attempt of two fac tions to control the gambling “ business" of tlie town. girls. Physicians spo ify the following as among M&bvi Is spring*ng from the habit: palpitation of the heart, indiges tion, catarrh in the head, asthma, pneu monia, bronchitis, morbid craving for drink, destruction of tlie nerves of the eyes. In New Jersey a law lias.buhn paased making it a penal offense to sell cigarettes or tobacco to minors under sixteen years of ago, and a similar bill is now pending in tlie Now York legis n- ture. There is a disposition evetyvQiere dependent and will be 1 0* apa npnhnhlv 20 000 r to suppress or check as much tiff~pogsibl§ tho habit of cigarette smoking. The vice loads to rc ults as injurious as any produced by the use of Alcohol, and tlie physical, mental an moral decay oejjsi- sioned by tho practice cannot fail to fill our hospitals, asylums, jails and ccmoto- ries, unless a holt is speedily called. The recent discovery of tin ore at King’s Mountain, North Carolina, is at tracting considerable atteitl^jjfc. Several scientists visited King’s Mountain's few days ago, and found quantities qf tin ore scattered over the ground all through the town. Striking a hill-sido several ditches were dug, but without running ncross a vein of ore. The discovery was made in a singular manner. Several specimens of black looking ore were sent to the Boston exposition, and marked “unknown." A11 examination showed it to bo tin ore of t e ricuo-t quality, yield ing 75 per cent of tin. There ifre only three tin-bearing mines in the world and there is a standing reward of $50,000 offered for the discovery of one in the, United States. Following the announce ment of the North Carolina discovery femes the report rf the finding of vast Ain deposits within three miles of Santa Fe, New Mexicj. Soudajt is the name given to the vast extent of territory in upper Egypt that stretches from Nubia to the coniines of Abyssinia and from the Bed Sea to the Lyliiau desert This vast and dreary territory is inhabited by some thirty or forty millions ef Arabs of various tribes. The proposed control which England is preparing to exetciee QY6I ttofolldM If ITEMS OF NEWS. .-6-6- **> The movemont in Germany’ for the better obs.Tvatiqn of Sunday is growing rapidly. A census just concluded in New Zea- inn I gives that far-away land a popu a- tion, European and Chinese, of 532,000. The old fields and bush undergrowth around Mobile that s i.d for a song five years ago command from twenty five to three hundred dollars an acre. The total income of the Salvation army for 1883 is reported at $1,509,000. The army is now publishing sixtegn • ‘War Cries” in various countries At Miss Clara Cushman’s mission school in Pekin the febt of the girls are not allowed to he hound—tho only school in China whore that is thq case. Busbia, which has an area in Europe two-tliirds as large ns the whole United Staten, with n population of more than 70,000,000, lies almost entirely north of St. Paul. Thebe were 1,676 accidents last year in tlie Pacific coal mines, 323 deatlis, making T53 widows and 512 orphans. There was one death to eveiy 90,000 tons taken out. The bank of England has a floating balance of $100,000,000 and the bank notes, if stretched together end to end would reach a distance of 12,620 miles. The Egyptian war will use up a few miles of this money. The “Confederate rose” is the name of a new flower which is white in tin morning and red at night. Four of them have been planted around the grave of General Albert Sidney Johnson, in the state cemetarv at Austin, Texas. Cremation is to bo" triad in France, permission having been given by tlie prefect of police, on the recommenda tion oi Cioiudeii to bum .tho loowu oi Xeifer, who made tlie splinters fly over the devoted heads of the clerks be- H«j« a smoothly-shaven man “"*■ ““:Tmmpa gf intellect uni- lie id The steamship State of Ni Glasgow, arrived in New Yolk, he E.MknuU- turar with the intention of haiig- inr it in front of I .If MAml- Ting., were The (KiUce aad several parsons Bartow, nJL> , or the Mat Awnetatiou of the K«1 lilted hV Doctor Hubbsll, tht) •Kant of tho assootetlou, has Mincto* to tho sfttm* of tho , - Atojg tho Ohio for tlio pnrpdou of af- 1 fording follof by distributing supplies to tho nulTererali •• Nearly 5,000 bills, most of them of a private Qftture, have been introduced no far in the intent eexsiou of Congrees. Great! dinMatisfaction has Immu created ij^iroumhdut Great Rritaiu by the guYern raoiiUM wdllating policy uoikhm nunc tht board the ninety-two men comprising the orteio in Ai one diH|»atcli pttt« it: Ijtloerf. ^ud crew of tho oteamship Nutting “People vauuot uudertitaud a |>olicy of in- wilt, running between London and Now.! dilferenco to mwa -resln a country where York. The Nutting Hlli'bfcd been struck by Kuglandrules, and of indiffureuoo likewise a huge iceberg‘and injured so badly that to tlie dtdeate of armie.s which KngliHhmeni had to bo abandoned. — ” Six convicts—five colored and one white— were whiptiod a few days since at New Cas tle, Del. ^ Muoh damage has been done by floods and fro near Harrisburg, Penn. Pour bridges, valued at more than $80,000, were crushed and carried away. Three dams were washed out aud tho mijfs connected with them ho ^ Wrepl'M 118 P revent their running Mayor Edhoy, of New York, received many telegrams from tho mayors of flooded towns on tlie Ohio river, appealing for asl. Copies of the telegrams were sent to the various exchanges of the city, and imme diate action for tho relief of the sufferers was taken. Thomah Kinski.i.a, a prominent journal ist, for many years editor of the Brooklyn Ktvjle, is dead. , A •: Mihh Jkn.nik Almy, a handsome young woman, a private teacher, sh»»t and mortally Wounded Jjlctor U Atwenty-one years old, a'sapfpnata taacher, In a crowded sir" tion of the New York elevated railroad. Then Miss Almy shot and killed herself, liie two hail beern*ngnge.l to be married, Ui!t.if is asserted that Andre,' l ^rho had come tr this country six months ago ami been ad mitted to the best society, hod betrayed ami then refused to marry the girl. « South Mid Wail i dkhpkkatk sbootiqit JtfPr/iy at Hot Jugs, Ark., between two lactions ot’gam- gam who . and seven men on the other side—resulted in the killing of one of the Flynns and the hack driver, the mortal wounding of another Flynn and two innocent bystanders, aud the* filinnliiwv a urn i* nl’./tai-f *i\( tnft ibitwl CLiimIiW officer.” A band of 800 Indians murdered all the principal resident- of Oniltlan, Mexico, and plundered the town. At a banquet given in PariN to leading meiujber* of the srientiflo press, M. d< * seps stvtett that the hcheme for cr m u in the great Sahara desert, in < t ransform the arid sand into a fertile < would shortly he commenced. Mr. Bhadlauoh, elected to the British house of commons, but refusod permiadon to takd liiN seat because he divlined to take the prescribed oat h for members, eutered tho chamber during a session and ad ministered the oath to himself. Upon motion he was excluded from tlie preclude of the h nine. • It* is announced from Biyily that Mount .ACtna is in a State of eruption. Thomah Ciilnkry, editor of the London UViney, is dead. While a wedding party was crossiug the River ^Thwis*, near Doiurod, Hungary, tlie ioe broke and thirty-ll*e meintiers bf the iparty. w ,0,: drowned. •yod. Queen. Victoria ban just published a book twenty; a ham. ^o4orlbing tier personal enio- * ttonl, «Mib statu affairs and family matters, aiid highVv. eulogizing her late ix»dy guard, John Browfi. WnkaT, in the Soudan, has been captured by El Mahdi's rebels and ite force of tK.0 KgyptiR^“ under Tewflk Bey cut to pit ce*. A motion to censure Gladstone’s govern ment for its vacillating jiolicy in the Sou.Ian was passed in the British house of lords by .« . . * w f M .. .- 181 yeas tQ.81 nays. ifi&SKw T Uo'^^n th2 yC2 * A-viohent earthquake ha, oeourred at *r^X^u,lw^^e t »^ >,y Ti2 Bitlis, Asiatic Turkey, desfovinK . number nSn-nV oraw nut, nf mu nfUmiit. nf t.um fan. The estimated total loss by the floods in Wheeling, W. Va., and vicinity, amounts to $0,000,000. An aiipeal for aid, issuod from Wheeling, states that tho suffering there and at points above and below is intense, and that more than 10,000 people of the city “are 'or weeks.” There are probably 20.000 people to be fed and •lothed from Wellsburg to Moundsville. The county jnil in Wausau. Wih., was burned early in the morning, and McDonald and Cary, two desperadoes, wero burned to death. • The Plattevlllo bank, of Platteville, Wis., has suspended, with liabilities of $15(),000. Kiohtekn drunken men capturod a coal train at Milledgville, Oliio, fatally beat a brakeman, seriously injured the conductor and drove him away, and compelled the engineer to cut his engine loose from the cars to save his life. Great destitution te rejxjrted from the overflooded hanks of the Ohio and its tftbu- taries, and many appeals for relief have been sent out. Thou'^amis of inhabitants belong ing to numerous villages and towns were driven from their homes to the hills for refuge, and were compelled to camp out with out food a id with insufficient cl (thing. The rivers were higher than they had ever been before, aud the state of affairs among the people was described as appalling in tlie ex treme. ' Fort Sully, in Dakota, has been burned out. The soldiers there wore compelled to camp out, with tlie thermometer at twenty* flve degrees below zero. Washington. Representative Townshknd, of Illihois, ‘‘War ,.who represents in Congress the Hta*-e con- Haining most exporters of pork and ther > hog products, expresses hi an interview the opinion thut retaliation is the onlVijavpdy left us against tho foreign govwnrnerits which are shutting out the American hog from their markets. ^ A Chinaman whp aiSpeared in the district court at Washington tW the purpose of ba- coming a citizen df the United States had his application refused. The House committee on labor ordered a favorable rejicrt on Hepre.sei^ttive Hopkins’ bill for the establishment ofpa depahtincnt of lat>or statistics. Tlie measure provides for the appointment of a commissioner, who shall acquire all useful information ujxm tlie subject of labor, it« relation* to capital, and the means of promoting the materiul, social, religious and intellectual prosperity o£ the laboring men and women. The question of contract convict labor waa discussed without reacbfhg a conclusion. The House of Representatives pawed a joint resolution authorizing the secretary of war to issue rations for the relief of desti tute peraouji in., the district, overflooded by the Ohio river and its tributaries, and mak ing an appropriation of $300,000 ’td relievo the sufferers. The resolution was then sent to the Senate, and that body passed it at once. The Senate, ill executive session con firmed the following nominations: John M. Langston, minister-resident and consul-gen eral to Hayti, to be also charge d'affaires to Santo Domingo; Henry F. Wild to be consul at Concepcion del*St. Oro, Mexico. Governor Ordway, of Dakota, addressed the House committee on Territories in favor of the admission of Dakotu as a whole into the Union. Judge-Brookings and Mr. Tripp, also of Dakota, favored the division of the Terrritory. Returns received by the director of the mint indicate that during 1883 the total pro duction of ' - ‘ building*, Bradlaugh lias given up the long strug gle for iKissession of u seat in tlie British house of commons, and u new electiou iu hi* district has l>eeu ordered. MUSICAL APffi DRAMATIC. Mme. Pauline Lucca will undoubtedly ting in this oountry next season. A movement is on foot to establish a con servatory of music iu Peoria, 111. Lott-a is announced to ojam'dio now Casino theatre in Washington next autumn. Mu. Winch, tho American tenor, is sing ing with Ruccess iu oratorio England. Fannie Davenport is playing “Fedora” on the road to average weekly receipts of $0,000. Kiktoiu, tho celebrated Italian actress, Is coming to this country in October, aud will make a tour of the principal cities. Mrs. Langtry will not, after all, soys an English pa|»er, go to Austrkliu, but will have a Ixnidon theatre after the termination of her American engagement. # Edward Milliken, of the “Jalma” com pany. has written new drama in five acts, which is purely American, and contains some novel scenic and ntechunical effects. George Alfred Townsend, the New York journalist, has written u drama called “Crom well,” which duuIk with the history of the protector up to and including the protec torate. Mrs. W. G. Noah, one of the groat ac tresses of fifty years ago, who played rival engagements with Fanny Kemble and sup- uartea the elder Booth uud Forrest, is still living in Rochester, N. Y. Edwin Booth, who recently finished a very successful enga/emeat in Philadelphia, de clined an engagement in Pittsburg u|mjii a guarantee or $10,000 clear for a single week, He preferred to go to Boston. “The Marchioness,’’ as played by Lott* In London, is a new adaptation of the lncid&flfH of the novel, by Charles Dickens, who has merely arranged Ids father’s “Old Curiosity Shop” into a series of disconnected rcenes, not, in any sense of the word, inakiug a drama. The Now York Orchestral society has an orchestra of amateurs composed as follows: Ton violins, one viola, 0110 violincello, two double basses, two flutes, one oboe, throe clarionets, one saxophone, two trumpets (cor nets probably), two horns, twg trombones, one piano aniT two drums. The Modjoska ranch out in California, which cost her $00,0JO, has commenced yield ing a profit, bringing the actress $.>,000 tho other day, which she looked upon as “luck money,” and invested it iu a tiara and ear rings to wear as u sort of mascolte in Mau rice Barrymore’s new play. The Pall Mali Gazelle notes an interesting fact with reference to tho well-known song, “I Arii-e from Dreams of Thee.” It was com- |K>^ea' by Mr. Charles K. Kalainon, who, not recognizing the hit he had made, sold it for £H, copyright and all. The present holder of that rlttht derives from it the nice little in come of .£800 a year. Mr. T. Slater' Smith, manager of “.Ranch 10,” has purchased a new play, which.will be produced for the first time in Philadelphia on March 17. The title is •• Kentucky Belle,” which applioj not only to the heroine, but to a celebrated race horse that has been named after her. The play has a number of sensational effects, a novel tire scene*, and a reproduction of a race COUrr'O. “Hatked to Death” is suggested as mi iuseriptioo for the tombstones of visitors who die fit Niagatfe SUMMARY OF CONGRESS 4k __ cHafr Wun before the Senate a" com- muniCfitiou.froiii the secretary of war trans mitting, iti compliance with a recent resolu tion of the Senate, a statement showing the number of HoldtejMif the tete tear who served ope year, how flwny two year*, and how many threeryears, and the amount of money required to equalize the bounties of those Wfro sorved'ln >4id war.a..Mr. Pendleton premntofl the credentials of Henry B. Payne, Senator--elect from the Htate of Ohio, for tlw term beginning March 4, 188ft. The cre dentials were rea 1 and ordered to be Hied. .. .-.The committee on naval affairs .reported favorably a bill for the relief of the survivor* of the Jeannette ex (edition and of tbe widows and children of t hose who {wrished. Mr- Kiddleberger's resolution providing for a johit. committee to inipiire Into re- inovuisand appoiut-mentsof Heuateaud House employe* was the subject of a long debate, |sii*tici|inted in liy Alessrs. Vest, Biddleber- ger and Conger. A mesHage was received from the House announcing that that body was still unable to agree to the Senate amendment to the Greely Relief bill, renuirimr that the meu sent on that expedition should be volunteers. After *01 ne debate the Senate receded from its amendmeut by a vote of 211 to 22. A mil appropriating $- 00,000 to commence the construction of a building for the ac commodation of the library of Congress waa l>a*'C l by a vote of 8ft yea* to fl nays.... Mr. Yoprhee* asked and obtained unanimous consent to introduce, out of the regular order, a bill to prohibit officers aud eminoye* or the United Htates government from con tributing money for political purposes. A debate, |mrt oipatod in by Massr*. Voorhees, Hawley, Beck, Dawes aud Harrison, fol lowed. The bill was referre 1 to the commit tee on the judiciary. .. A bill was introduced by Mr. MoPhersou to suaiiend the coiuag* oj the Rilver dollar. MONMft The House adoi bvi tne r«|>ort. on the new rulw after a two days’ delmtc. Mr. Bandall repdrte«1 the naval approiniation bill, aud i uve notioe that it would be called the next uemlay. It appropriate* $ 1-4,\Hlfl,000, being $8,JW2,(KX) lens titan the amount •stlinated for, and $1,(131,000 la-M than the amount im propriated for tlie current fiscal year... .Mr. ‘Willi* Introduced a bill tem|s>i'arily provid ing ior the support nf common hcIumiIh. It provides for an annual appropriation of from $10,(XX),0(1.1 to $1,000,000 for the next *ten year*, the, appropriation to be reduued $l.U00,00u eacC nucceedingyear... .Mr. Bayne introduce I a MU re|>oaliii-x all Internal taxes on domeitUc tobacco.. . Mr. Goff iutroduceil a joint esolution aptiropi iatliK $100,000 for the relief of (lie sutfereiN by tue ovmiluw at the Ohio river rfed its tributaries .. .Mr. fin- ' "erfy. or Tmtinta offensf n resolution de dar ing that the Himso “lamenlM the death of Wendell Philli)>s as a national tiereavenieut.” Mr. Eaton objeuted and the resolution went over. Hills Introduced: By Mr. Hel r ord, to facil itate the settlement of private land claims; by Mr. Oates, restoring to the iiensioii rolls tfio naiiiHN of those droppu I therefrom on acouut of disloyally; by Mr. BInDuo to im pose duties on cocoaiiut.s, Itananas aud pinuupples; by Mr. Towuslieud, a rejolutiou proilosing a constitu ioua! amendmeut i>ro- viding for the election of President by a majority of the votes of the |>eople and the abolition of the electoral college, and regu- luting tbe method or counting the vote* by the two Housesof Congress; by Mr. Hender son, providing for the i-sue of circulating notes for national banking associations; by Mr. Poland, provldiu : that before regis tration iu Utah and Idaho a voter shall take an nuth that he does notlielongtothu Church of the flatter Day Ha nts. On motion of Mr. Htowart a resolution was adopted directing the committee 011 expendi tures in the department of justice, in 1110k« lug investigation into the expenditure* on account of prosecution of persons charged with fraud* on the government, and especially in the ntur Route mail Fervid, to inquire into the manner iu which such prosecution* are being conduct ed. and into the conduct, efficiency aud good luith of all officials or |*ersou* in the pay of the government in connection with such prosecutions, and whether guilty i*rtles have been duly prosecuted.... Tlie House went Into committee of the whole on the naval appropriation bill. PROMINENT PEOPLE. Vanderbilt.—Careful estimates place the value of William H. Vanderbilt’s outfit, when he drives, at $150,000. IIuntoon. -Colonel Nathan Huntoon, of Unity, N. H., is the oldest Free Mason in tho world, having been ii itiated in 1803, Palmer.—Ex-Governor John M. Palmer, of Illinois, was iu early life a clock peddler. He studied law by the advice of Htephen A. Douglas. Whittier.—John G. Whittier, the poet is about the last of the influential Abolition- ists belonging to tlie Phillipa-Garrison era left alive. Packard.—Professor Alpheus H. Packard, of Bowdoln college, who is now iu his eighty fifth year, says that ho has never been ill a day iu his life. ViLlard.—Henry Villard is not a very poor man after all. It is given out that he will inuiiage to save $1,000,000 from the wreck of his fortune. Blackburn.—Henator-elect J. C. S. Black burn, of Kentucky, is forty six years old, and is tall, square shouldered and sinewy. His feature* arc handsome, and large, blue-gray eyes look out above a heavy brown mus tache. Oechok.—Henry George, who is now forty- five yeurs of uge, began life as a printer. Afterward he became a sailor, then a re porter on the Sacramento Record, next owner of the Han Francisco Pont, and later he took to lecturing. His wife is a lady of Irish parentage And Australian birth. Pierce.—Bishop G. F. Pierce, of Georgia, the great Methodist leader of the South, re cently celebrated his golden wedding at Sparta. The bishop’s father, Rev. Lovio Pierce, was tho gieat ajKJstlo of Georgia Methodism, and for.over half a century the son has followed vigorously the path set by the father as an ecclesiastical leader. Wheeler.—An intimate friend of Miss Ella Wheeler, the poetess, now in New Or leans, says that young lady is to be married in early spring to a Mr. Yorke, of this city. Bhe also says that Miss Wheeler is twenty- six years old, and with her pen has earned and paid for a lovely little home, in which she resides with her mother and a younger sister whom she educated. Bradlauoh.—Charles Bradlaugh, the infi del member of the British parliament, has a brother who is actively engaged in evangeli cal work. The latter disclaims any differ ences with his brother, except in religious opinions, and though there is no frutemal companionship between them, he says ho loves hirti as much as ever and eonfmeutly looks for his conversion to Christianity, We believe it was an astronomer who first said, “Can suoh things be and comet o’ei ua like a sumuei cloud.” .•, t EOOENTRiq BPI0IDE8. Louis Walters, of Akron, white intoxi cated, cut a hole in tho ice and drowned him self. A Du Kalb county. Tenn., man cut a tree until it was ready to foil,and then let It crush him. A Ban Antonio man cut his throat be came a lottery ticket he bad purchased proved a blank. Mas. Thomas Paxton, of Howard Lake, Minn., killed herself because she was married against her will. Mrs. Joheimi Waoeniiausbr, of Youngs town, Ohio, cut her throat on account of A* death of her son. A iter injuring her knee iu lumping a rope* Jane Becker, aged tuirleeu, or Reading, hung herself from a Dtnlpost. While suffering from Inflammatory rheu matism, Mr*. Benjamin Wnteon, of Bloom ington, HI., threw herself into a cistern and was drowned. Mrs. Ann Htump, of Columbus, Ohio poi* lied her |sit dog, fearing it might out live her. Remorse at tlie deed caused her to kill liorself with strychiiiiH*. Lemuel Wiiistkn, mar Enterprise, tied 1 halier around his neck and hitched himself to his wagon. He tlien scared the lioraee and made them run. Wliteten’s young wife had died but a few weeks Ikuforo Henry F. Millwaiid shot himself after participating in a ino?k trogtdy at Spring- field, (>hio. Home weeks ago Mill ward, a*- sistc.l by a bundle of frieixui, constructed a dummy but of a number of towels and pii- Kwf, nnd laid it 011 a lied iu the Arcada hotel in that city. The room wa> carefully darkened, and Uie dummy covered with a sheet. A | ostsbourd lira 1 with grotesquely IMtiutcd features was ut tached to the body, so as to be iji p'ain sight when the sheet should In removed. Wh*n all was ready,the iejs>rt was circulated through the city by tbe inkers that a drummer had committed suicide at the hotei. The report attracted hundreds of citizens, including the coroner, who were pi oi«»d up to tlm room one by one. Millwnrd killed lihnwlf in the sfiuie room. MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. • Thk Texas legirtlature lias mails fsnoa cut* Uiik 11 felmiy. Kansas last year iinxluead 107,660 pound, of cotton, valued at fll.ftHO. Hixibkn Chinamen wlm dwell in Worne ter, Maiw., attendOrnce church. A HKVKN-YIAII-OL.D girl is one of ths fast* eet type-Mittera at Natv Hartford, Conn. rx nAVX POVY, miriveu iwim. m.., -mm- recently Hold at Healy, Texas, fur f 1,00b. A maui. weighing nearly !MW grain, ha. lately been found on the line of tlie Panama canal. it Hi line Island Havliign banka have $6‘V 400.1616 Intimated to their eare by 130,482 de positors. Thk Montreal ice palace, built of large blocks or ice, is in sire 1U0 by 160 feet and one. ail.llO). An cleveii-year-old boy in Cory.loo, Ind., cuinmitied su'chle became Ills |*nmts re fused to let him cat at first table. Salmon fishing on the Hecramento river is now very uotive, anil is going on day and night, more than 3,000 men being employed in it. Tiikiik have been only two known caeca of femule lynching in tills country. Tbe first occurred in 1861 at IJonneville, a mining camp 111 the lbalie district of California, and the victim was a Hpaninh women named Ines i'arla, who had murdered and robbed a man in her husband's Million. The Second and lest cane la the recent lynching of Ura Cud- dingham iu Ouray, Col. Senator Frye’s Hunk Account. “I seo,” said Senator Eryo, of Maine, “that a Washington paper, in a very complimentary notice, sets me flown ns a poor man, not wortli over $25,000. ‘Tlint’s too much,’" said Mr. Frye, “lint the fellow who wrote that does not kuow tlie reason I am so poor. It came shout in this wise. I was brought up in n Quaker family, and when, in my boyhood, I got, a chance to go lip to Boston, my Quaker grandfather gave me five dollars to spend. I did not know any hoys in Boston, nnd I could think of "no way to linve five dollars’ worth of fan without lioys. Ho I kept, the money iu my pocket. When I got home my grandfather asked me how I spent tho five dollars, and I, witli the nir of one who hud done a virtuous notion, said -I did not spend it at all, grandfather; I saved it and have it in my pocket.’ Whereupon uiv grandfather said: 'You may give me bank the money, William. I gave you tlie money to spend at Boa- ton. ' Ever since that," said the Senator, “I have known better than to sava He Was From Oshkosh. There entered the front door of a ear on the Northwestern Bailroad a tall, stooii shouldered chap, who looked ns though lie might have been a deacon of some church in Wisconsin. He held be hind him one of his hands in which was tightly grasped tlie neck of a suspicious looking black bottle,nnd after glancing through the car witli eager gaze, lie quickly asked; "Is there anybody in here who comes from Oshkosh?" For a moment no one answered, and then a clerical looking young man looked up and nodded his head. Tlie tall young mail, with Ids hands still be hind him, shuttled slowly down the aisle and stopped suddenly by tlie side of tho modest man who had finitely replied to his query and said: "lie you from Oshkosh?" “I live there," was tlie quipt answer. Stooping down and placing his mouth to the young fellow’s ear, the old man hoarsely whispered:— “Say, stranger, just lend us your corkscrew, will you?” Of course the entire audience roared, an ! tlie Oshkosh limn went silently into tlie smoking ear and put tlie corkscrew where it would do the most good.—Mil- wnnkne Sentinel. Kemarkable transformation of color —'WLea tbe wMte stag turns to b»j.

Georgia Historic Newspapers

The Paulding new era. (Dallas, Ga.) 1882-189?, February 21, 1884, Image 1