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Newspaper Page Text-J! r -mmm #18. RRKt'KKNItIMt, * ' *rK. *- CNWARD AND UPWARD’ SUBNCRiniOXitl.M Far Amu. VOLUME tU% ‘COUNTY, JGA., THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 1884, NUMBER 16. j CURHEtT CO**«i*W. A r&l introduced in the KtfBncfy ffoitM of- Representatives, miking pool-selling or betting on hone races punishable by anne of. not less than 5250 nor more tlun $•500?“* .♦* r , Kanrar City looms up second ihwinter hog packing. Chicago packer^ tdinglitcrcd and ^ packed 2,025,000 head; Kansan CUy packed 4125,000head; Cincinnati, 270,000; 8t. Louis, 355,000 head; Indianapolis. 27^000.head: Mil- ; traukco, 255,000 head and Louisville 111,000 head. Tho total shortness at the points named i aggregates about 750,000. As flio falling off In tight is large, it would sarin that peoplo uust cat much less pork or prioes mi The millionaires of New York are ntlttfrg ample provision for n dazzling show la tho shade of costly monuments and mausoleum*. In tho woodlawn cemetery stands a model of the Pantheon The lot on which -it stands cost 500,000, and tho structure is 37x39 feet, con structed of Westerly granite, surrounded by thirty Doric pillars. Tho bronze door cost 13,000. Insldo aro twelve catacombs, and through the stained glass windows a soft, mel low light plays over tin interior. 9 his is the elaborate temple which is to receive tho dust of Jsy Gould.’ The Legislature of frmsas, which lias been msHri called in session to consYr the prevailing oat tie plague, has already inaugurated steps for its suppression. Tho number of cattle now in the state is nearly two million head, which hr * been increased during the year 1883 nearly two hundred thousand head, Valued at nine million dollars, with a total value of at least 550,000,- 000, there aro at least 510,000,000 worth tf fatted cattle ready for tho markot, and a largo sum of money will be lost to the oattlo growers if their cattle are quarantined against by other states and couutrics on account of the orovsil- ing disease. • A Totthtown, Ta., dispatch says: “Another colony of nailers, and employees of tho Potta- town Iron company have left here. These men liavo gono to Lynchburg, Va., where they have secured lucrative positions. Altogether sonio eighty skilled workmen have left here since tho Btrike of tho rotUtown Iron company’s nailers was inaugurated last December.” Theso movements of iron workers arc significant. They point the way in which tho iron business is traveling. Both tho cotton business and tho iron business arc moving southward and w est ward. Dear coals and dr nr ores nrn driving iron makers away from Pennsylvania to the neighborhood of cheaper raw material. A correspondent, writing from Balt Lake City, says that ho never saw a Mormon wifo with a smilo on her face. The favorite wifo in a family may look happy during her brief reign, but tho others arc in tho depths of gloom. Bad pfccling revails all the time. Even Brigham was always in trouble. At one timo ho had so much trouble with his wives that ho threatened to tlivoroo tho entiro lot, but this had no eff ect. Mormon wives feel their absolnto degradation, and arc wholly mis erable. Nearly every Mormon girl seeks to marry a Gentile. All women who have seen anything of the horrors of polygamy desiro to eseapo from its bondage. ft tub of water getting rl d at the reminiscence. The bine grase cure will be recollected by all. snp,bath cure, the flwK^oil cure forcon- smnptMh'the nlmpic tfcft emo for nervousness, and many othe^ftfancJKmt a« crazes, but fllMf beat points have found * their way into orthodox remedies. The president of the Kaglo and Phentx com pany says that the southern mills now control the markets of tho country in. coarso cotton goods, and ho predicts that tho south will eventually control the cotton goods markets of tho world, because she has as many advanta ges over New England as the latter has over old England. And what is true of cotton is 4pj$uo of iron, at least so far as this country is oincorncd. That the pig iron of the future will be made in the south is plain at u glance. The cost of making a ton of pig iron in Penn sylvania is thus stated by the American Manu facturer of Pittsburg: Ono and one-half tons of ore, 58.50 512 75 Ono and ono-quarter tons coke, 52 2 50 Lime. Labor Incidentals, repairs, taxes, etc,. The Tndirffi appropriation hill, as. reported* I > the lionso appropriates 55,317,653, a dec rosso Apujpo from the uppropriatinn of (ant year, Virtof 3,119,156 from tho Climates. Tho- ap- propriatUn’foJ; the snppott of schools is 5185,- P’0, an inen ase from last ^barof 5130,000, 85 1 50 1 00 Total 518 60 The freest of calculations on a similar basis made a ton of iron in Alabama, Georgia or Tennessee cost as follows: 2 tons ore, $1 52 00 1 : h tons coke, 52 2 60 85 The amount Appropriated ftlJpuUtiamkfor school huili pQrt of Is also i appropriation 51, dUns in Alftka. the committee, proli from iutrodneing Mqti rations under any the treaty !hd the sup- 55,500. Aft for tho In- tpOHfd hw r^cVrpftrtment Indian rcser- ...jedty and appro priates 55,000 for tl\e dgtoe^on amVproflccution of persons attempting to flo this. ‘ lli$ census of the Indians is also tumbled for. Hie prin cipal reductions made by th^ proton t bill, compared with that of last year aro ii} tho amounts Appropriate^ fas rations and clothing. The ( omiuittcc'tfckfng the view that as the In- % .« Mine loot nti(x niontii uisooso prevaim dians became moro and moro cMliaed, awning extent in KaroAs and porttai should depend less and less^i|loii Oret;overifft| Illinois And the governor of the fo meat for su) pert. Behcii, the Boswrlliail, biographer of Bw- marck, has produced an interesting book. His description oT*tho prince as a humorist is good. Most of Bistiiark's humor, however, is of the llabelnisian kind and will not bear printing. His account of himself is patheti cally amusing: “In point of health I mere drum, only skin and sound.” B| of liis interview witli Louis Napoleon after Bt dan, he said: “Bitting for an hour- opposite the Emporor Napohon, I felt for all the world like a young man at a ball who had engage;i a young lady for a cotillion, hut could not find a word to say to her, and wished some on* would conic and tnko her away.” The natural good humor of tho prince was sorely disturbed on many occasions bv the lato Herr Lasker. Tho impertinent interruptions of politicians like Lasker or Dr. flut ist generally drove him into an ftl^Hgvcrnablo pnssion. In ono of these outbreaks hemmed aside from the matter in hand to thuneler out: “I tell you I’m no orator. I can not play with ^ words so as to work on your feelings and (hereby darken facts. I ni> a man of plain speech.” » NEWSY &LEANING9. There are over 200 Indictments formurde. or attempted murder pending in Cincinnati courts. Thiiity thousand | nfenta were issued loot year in Great Britain against 20,000 in this country. A party of Baton Rougo (La.) bird-hunters recently killed 1,400 robins with no other weapons but sticks. Trinity churgii, Boston, has a laundry department, tho object being to provide work for needy women. Virginia, Tennessee, Alabama and Geor gia produced 701,000 tons of iron last year, against 230,0 K) tons in 1880. An oil and guano company at Beaufort, N. C., has caught and worked up within the past three years 9,500,000 menl auen. Tiik mayor of Zacatecas, Moxic >, has ju*t Issued a decree that evpry house in tho city shall be painted within a specified time, at tho owner's expense, and also directing that owners of city lots shall build houses thereon immediately, or forfeit tho samo to the gov ernment. It is a curious fnct that the French-speak ing population of Canada has increased during the last decade at a much greater ratio than the English. Tho former class now number 1,398,929, seven-tenths of whom livi in the province of Queb *c. Two of the five Confederate generals are still living—Joseph K. Johnson and P. G. T. Beau regard. The C .m federates had twenty- one lieutenant-generals, and of these nine arc still living—James Longstreet. Wade Hainp- THE NEWS. Iirtita Mi Middle ItotMi ' £iJttop n vrn, Jh., ■ student itYth oof- loxvrWw Haven, and foil of a well-kr.owj* New YorX journalist., dial from til. effodts of inim iei.- rMvlved while onmacd 4n J* b.ixlnic M* With ilohoi t a Williams, a colored .HTdAnt fr an Au^unta, Oa. The two ■yoimu men wore upanliu In a frlondb match at Min o vyiinmiliim. Mr. u.vA atti'Mmtcn his foil’- dnatli to auopl.xy, awl not to In jiirle.receivml while sparring. At the thirty-second animal coinmenertnen* of the Women'll Mmllral college of i’ennayl- ran a, held In Philadelphia, twenty-nix young womon rccelvod diplomat to praotlco a* phytlciana Witxksb** to it illod In New York city heftne the Slat, wnate committee on publlo linnl111, that tho ulo of oUoiiiai unrino and bntterine wa. kilffny Ihe blitter trade; and that three article, ware Injurtoini to hnattli. A man who hail worked In an olnouifttKarino factory teitlfled that, !ii. hanil. bejegm* horn from handling t-ho ctiiff, hi. Iiuh?•dropped out, lil. teeth droayod, and the green, gave him hamorrhajh of the tun HpRAKlh CART.iBl.it, of the Hou.a of Hop- renentativen. I'nittHl State. Senator Vance, of North Carolina, Congre.inian Delmont and other, made speeches at the sixth an nuel diuncr of the Now York Pie. Trad, dub. • - - •nth Ml Wwti Tiik foot ana nioAtii aiwaiie praraiwho an ining extent In ltnnfh. and portion, of ioi<t ami th« governor of ths former State ha. rolled it .pedal seaslon of tho lng- l.lnturc to consider lnoamro* whereby tho plague may b. .tamped out, 1'nKiiKiurK J. DiKTnicnn, a toller In tho I arlrile hank, of St. I fin i i. hn. boon ar- rected for cii>l>e/.r.liug flit),000 of tlio insti tution's funds. Frank Si.Afirt. was liaiigml at Romorsot, Ky., for killing an 1 robbing llireo cninpnu- hms with whom ho was getting out railroad ItA, In a camp Inat, Augu-t: and on the sane, I a«wi Hfct P .. IpttMlwfr Cay Matt [eovls (colored) wa. hanged at St, ..T ’’ Ifniis for wifo miinler. TniiKK thousand people were driven from their homes at Nashville, Tenn., by a Hoik!. Hucn a furiom crowd wa. present at the rale of tickets for tho appearance of Patti, the oj ora singer, In Ran )• randsco, that win dows and plants wore smashed, many women fainted, the hox office window wa. broken, and order wa. restored only aftor many per sons had been arrested. Cattle infeoted with the foot and mouth disease In Kansas are being killed and burned. Heavt frauds by toba"cT dealora hare been unearthed In Louisville, Ky. 1). K, Mason, proprietor of th i Pooplev Toiler-1 warehouse, is ft doiftiiltor to tho tune of »«7 ,000, and Peter F. Boinonin, president, and his a>n. W. O. Remonin, pocrotaTr of tho Pike warehouse, absconded after nun- initting frauds to the extent of about $109, A DESPERADO’S DEEDS. •00. Lwbor 2 00 Incidentals 1 oo Total $8 51 At Fort Hamilton, Now York, experiments Inve been tried tho past week or two with a lmg brass tube invented by a Mr. Mifford. This tube is a gun twenty-eight feet long with a two inch bore. The motor is compressed air, and it is proposed to experiment at 600 and 850 pounds pressure, The missiles aro of light pino wood 31, 10 and 48 inches in length, and arc headed with brass cases charged with dyn amite. When in position tho gun is mounted o i a tripod, and lias the appearance of a long, s ender telescope. Tho smith tube connects with a receiver, which in turn connects with a twenty-five horse power engine with a long hose. Tho engine and forter ere located in the fort. It is believed that the gun will prove a very effective weapon. Till hot water craze has attracted its share of attention, but other popular crazes fully as remafkftble have enjoyed their run during the past feadyears. About ten years ago the blood cure started and for a time everyone troubled with weak lungs became a convert that is, in our hrgecities. Then came the mud bath. Peoplo flocked to a certain Spa in Germany to try the virtues of h sticky black mud, whi. li was said to euro rheumatism. To bathe in it meant to simply be buried in it tip to the chin for about two hours, and then to spend eeveral hours in Mill IIVIII^ ilftllllM J-U.ljJ.1l-l UVb, M U'lO JIUII4J ton, John B. Gordon, D. H. Ilill, B. D. i«( A. P. Btowart, Jubal Early, S. B. Bucknai and Josopii E. Wheeler. A comi\any with $2,500,000 capital Is prft* paring to drain 1,000^X1;) acres of land In Cam eron, Calcasieu and Vermilion, in the south west corner of Louisiana, and to make a gulf front of one hundred miles of agricultural lands lietwcen Lake Charles and Rnbine Pass. Rteam plows for tho work have ar rived from England, capable of plowing fifty acre* a day. PROMINENT PEOPLE. Alexis.—Tho Grand Duke Abxls is now high admiral of the Russian navy. Miller.— Joaquin Miller is au applicant at Washington for a consulate in somo warm clime. • -— — Arnold.—Matthew Arnold, the English essayist-and poet, at ter an extended lecturing tour in this country, has returned with his family to England. Wood.—Professor J. O. Wood, the Eng lish naturalist who has been lecturing in this country on natural history subject*, intends to settle in Boston. Dunne.—Pope Leo has conferred upon Ed mund Dunne, rorinorly chief justice of Ari zona, and now at the head of the Ran Anto nio colony in Florida, the title of oount. Packer.—It is said that the death of Harry E. Packer, the late president of the I.e- high Valley Railroad company, leaves hi5 sister, Miss Packor, with the largest income ■ IDlvl , JlliW 1BLKVI, VV1V14 HUO IUI of any unmarried lady in America. Eads.—Captain James B. Eads, the noted engineer, having finished his work at the mouth of the Mississippi, has been invited to examine the bar and channel of the Mersey with reference to improving, if possible, th€ approach to Liverpool. Hugo.—When Victor Hugo’s eighty-third birthday was reoontly celebrated in Paris in the poet’s house crowds of his friend* and ad mirers flocked to pay him homage. His drawing-room was filled with choice flowers sent from all part* of the country. A recep tion was almost forced upon nlm, but, m spite of his natural wish to retire early and seek repose, the aged poet, surrounded by the members of his family, had a kind word for every one who had come to congratulato him. Vaalnftftoiii Tub President nominat** l J E. Irish, of Wisconsin, to bo Unit si Htates consul at Cognac, and Eliot R. N. Morgan, or Wyo ming, to be secretary of tho Territory of Wyoming. Confirmations by the Sena e: Colonel John Newton, to bo chief of engineers, with tho rank of brigndier-goneral; Commit Buck, to be a-8' elate justlco of tho supremo court of tho Territory of Idaho; AY. Fitz gerald, to lie associate justice of tlio supreme court of tho Territory of Arizona: Jonn (J, Ferry, of New Yor*. to lie chief justico of tho supreme court of tlio Territory of Wyo ming; John M. Valentine, of PennsyUania, to be attorney of tho United Staton for tho eastern district of Pennsylvania. Henry AffffiKRsov, of tho Louisville Courier-Journal, appeared before tho con gressional join€ committee on tho library and maloti loug argument in favor of tho bill granting newspapers a copyright of eight hours on their new*. Mr. Watters m said t hat there had been a great donl of misnpprohon- sio.i in regard to tills bill; that it wan not di rected against tho country pres I at all, but against daily papers and certain coacorns which appropriate tho valuable news of otner ] apors in their vicinity, and by hur riedly getting out such now 1 or furnishing pi arcs of tho .-nr no defeat legitimate outer- prijo. The House cjynmlttec on Dosto/llces ordered adverse rep .i ts on tho bills' authorizing pos tal )avings banks and prohibiting tlio tram- nii.-sion in t»i<* malls of newspapors contain* iqg lottery advertisements. A resolution lias been ndopto 1 by tho ITouso committeo on postoflicos and Dost roads declaring tho charges agftlffst Itopro- sentativo Ellis in connection with certain star route contracts to bo utterly groundless. Tiik Jeannette expedition to tho Arctic regions cost tin government, in on* way cr another, about. $275,000. Congressman ITatoit, of Missouri, re ceived a te’egrnm stating tint tho foot and mouth disease had broken out among cattlo in tho northeastern part of that Stato. fiome of (tie Unity Crimea ol Ben TIi out an 11 off Toittti A San Antonio<T«xai) dispatch to the New York World Rays^lh# (i agio death of the Jamous dasj«rndo^ Hiea Tbo^nson, King Fisher ana Joe Foiter; who killed each other in tho Vaudeville tlpatre hero, 'was the sole topic of conYhr-at|jbif. 4 KjWybody knew Ben Thomson, and whRo.tbe publli In genoral breathes more freely over his death, yetfal^ feet that tho city ha* lost out of Its most noted dliaraoturs. Strangers coming here were loth to believe that tho qiilet-npokcB gentleman pointed out to them was the no torious Ben Thomson. Ho lOokevl.inore likp s a sont unontal dry -goods clerk than Ulto a ilc» R jrndo. Ono of his bonstM was that ho was te only iiinn in tho city who dared wear ft silk hat on all occasion* Slenderly built, with carefully curled must echo, natty in dress, always clad in immaculate linen, Bon was tho last man in tho world to be taken fts tho murderer of a dozen inert.* He never could remember all wltotn ho .had-.wounded and not killed, ami it was difficult Cor him to recall tho names of those who had mot death at his hands. Beu was bom in Yorkshire, England, In 1841. and came to Austin, Texas, when a child, with his parents. Ills mother wa* murdored by a runaway slave, and Ben, with his brother Bill, enlisted in the Confed erate army af tho outbreak of the war. He was only d hot-heado l boy at. tnis time and very soon quurroled with his superior officer, shot him dead, and was chained in tho guard house, to which ho sot flro apd escaped. Then ho enlisted under Maximilian and *i>eiit tw » years clin-dug Mexican do>ertors, most of whom ho shot on tlio run. Tired of tho army Ben wont to Austin and opened n gambling ratoon m\dor tho Austin Slntesnuw. Hero ho often amused amusod himself and frlpnds by firing through tho coiling * ‘just to see the printers ctntnbor out of the windowti/u. That old of fice is even now considered the best vonti- latod in Texas. Wlioti drunk lie would ride like mad through tho streets, shooting out the lights. Next day ho would call and pay li is fine. Ono bright, moonlight night Cantata Rabb came to his house And asked Ben to protect him from ilvo cowlwys. Ben ran down from his house bird leaded and In his , shirt-sleeves and was hoo:i among tho cowboys. His first shot killed the lender, ids second a horse, mid ho actually chant'd the fou • mon out of town, swearing. tAuutJng and firing at th mi as they galloped away. Ro this de*|)erado was continually lighting tho battles of Ids friends. In Kan sas his brothor Dili was b sieged by tho entiro iiolico force in a store. Ben clambered in to his assistance. Tho marshal, an old friend of Ben, Appr< ttohed to confer with tlio besieged, wlnm Bill shot him dead. Ben cursed his brother for causing tho death of his best frit lid. but novortholos* helped Bill . j.t,o eseapo by a rear exit. Both got away, R»ut. Bill win < aj»t 11 red, tried and**/ quitted two years later* Christ mas night three years flgo Ben slapped tho face of tho pronriutorof tlio sum* theatre In which ho mot his death Wednes day. Tlio lattor ran behind tlio bar, caught up a double barreled slot gun and flrod both barrels, One side of Ben’s trousers, vest and Coat wore Cut to pieces, but only flight wound* wore received and his wife soon patched tlio clothes. As the smoke cleared away Bon filed throo times at tho proprietor, (hio bullet w ut through his brain, one through Ills heart and the third through his arm. The barkeeper meanwhile got out his pistol, but as Pen turned upon him ho dropped behind the bar. Tlio point of his pistol was alone visible and Ben fired by guess through tho wood* IVnhlr *1... 1 'ri,,. * ** ... foreign 1 work of the bar. Tho bullet struck themati in the face, going through his mustacho. Don b liove<l that the harkoc|er died from tho effects of the wound, but ho did not Mis name was Matthews, and ho after ward waseo’inocto'l with the II .tHprlngs Senlinrl. Ho tlnn laid three bullets in him, ono of which w;is receive l from tho mnvor of Hot# Springs. He was killed less than two years a;;o in an affniy nt the Arlyton house, Hot Springs. Jkm was not strong pliyHially. Ho wild that when frolicking with liis wifo ami little boy they could always throW him down and master him. But ho was a dead shot, and could bit a man every time 100 yards away with hi.: pistol, which was a beautiful silvor-mountu l "110. His In k wa< amazing, ami half tho time iiodid not curry his pistol. If u man wanted te fight ho tried to talk him out of it. Jf ho persisted, Ben let him fire first. “Then,” said he. with a smilo, “1 fixed him utnl worked in tlio plea of self- defense.” Ono night. Ben and liis brothor woro in a gambling saloon in Laredo. A row started, the lights wore out. out utul every body wont to shooting. Ben and Bill got til tho windows, onipli-d their revolvers, sprang out tho window, swam tho river and got oil w.Lliuut a fcci'uU'Lu 1 MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC L THE JOKER’S BUDGET. Hoocicault claim* to har. written over ID) play.. Htiuuss Ii writing • -Mir. ogrn, " Th. Oyt»T Baron.” Bimh Rkkvkr, tha teno#, ll MTtowtly III nt lit.< horn. ln.Knxtanil. ICMM.'AanoTT .lng< In oporn on Sunday evenings In H.n FlwncV'cn. Hkkhy luviao’a icroM reoelpte In Mil. country will aggregate nearly ♦11x1,000. hiuxNRRTiiAi., th. foremost leading in.n In Goi many, lion bean engagod for au Ain.rlonn four. HlsTonr, Balvina and Bernhardt ar. all coming hack to work still further th. min. In Sirica. pRKgiDKNT AiiTnun gavoa dinner rocently at the White hoiwe in honor of Mr. Henry Irving and Miss Terry. Misr Whitney, the Boston so ilptor. is en gaged on a bust of Ellon Terry, the English actresa now with Irving’s company. WactiTel, CvtzA and Hotel, throo colft- brated German tenors, will all rival each other in difforent thoatres in Berlin in May. ,As Imperial censor in Russia recently ob jected to the publication of “Hainlot" a* a pernicious piece of literaturo to put In th* hands of tho young. Edward King says that “Mr. Wilson Barrett is becoming a great man in London, amminiiu a social promliionco wldoU fair actors in France or America attain.’ 1 Madame NiLfWONsnysshe shall retire from ho stnge in two years. “ 1 shall not stay upon tho stage in two year_. tlio stage,” sho says, “’to hear It wild, * Poor Madame Nilsson! Ilor voipg Is all gone."* Mary Andkrmon rests in Italy after the close of tlio reason; then travols through Edinburgh, Glasgow, Manchester, Liverpool, Dublin and Birmingham, taking her com* pany and charging double prices. Tiikuk Is to bo a great Handel cotnmomo?- a Hon in Germany, on the 26th of May, tlio second centennial anniversary of the com- poser's dentil. Tho first anniversnry was held in Westminster Abbey, George III. and Queen Charlott*»bolng among tlie au iltorx. Miss Sklkna Fetter, who play# the horoino of “The Stragglers of Peris.” is the liouisville beauty who made so flatter lug a (lobut two seasons ago. Hhe is said to resou»* b e Mary Anderson in physique, and to ex cel that farorito in intenso emotional en deavor*. ON the register of the fit. James hotel, New York, and within four lino* of eaoh’othor, one day recently, were to be seen tho name* or B. McAuLy, New York, and John T, Marauloy, Louisville, iCy. Tlio two men ere broUiurs; ono a woll-known actor, and the other a pro#|)erous theatre nmuagor. They had a JlHputo zoino years a;o about tlio theatre; “ Barney n changed the si elllng of liis t ame, and they 1m vo Hinco been strangers to each other Charles Halmkii, one of the bent musi cians in the West, and a very ub’.o and con* retentions critic, tlius t**lls a reiwrter the musical rotations between Itattl **i»d Ger^teri “The style of tho arid ts is so different, that it is almost iui|>osMibluto makMarompai Imoii. Cortalnly, whatever Gerster does she enact* the dim actor. Rim Is a conscientious artist, but she bus not tho facility that Patti has. Hhe tun equally as much exo mtioii.lmt there a is Hometiling in Patti’s voice that is hide- scribable. The long au l rhort of it Is that Itattl Is tho greatest art 1st in tho world. PECULIAR ACCIDENTS. SUMMARY OF CONGRESS. Mil BraDLAUGIi, while delivering a lec ture ot Bridgewater, England, against per petual pensions, was att#a ’kod and driven from tno platform by showers of rotten eggs, fruit ana fireworks. Tlio mob afterward attacked and wrecked the chairman’s house. French troops have captured tlio town of Barninh in Tonquin. A Berlin dispatch says that trichinosis, •ngonderod by eating German-brod pork, and due in no wiKo to tho American product, is ravaging various parts of Germany. * Greatexcltomontexisted at Ottawa, On tario, owing to a report that tlio government had received important information of aeon spiracy to blow up public buildings with dy namite. The guard around tho parliament buildings was Increased, and tho speaker of the house of commons, with his family, su I- flonly vacated his apartments in thoso build ings. Queen Victoria is said to bo in bad health, •uffering continually from fits of depression. During tho socond battle between General Graham’s troop? nud Osman Dizna’s forces Adams Fraser, the la?*gest soluior in th) Black Watch regiment, laid twelve Araks low with bis single bayonet. For this font he was cheered by tho troopj returning to Buakim. * Weston, the American pedo^rlan, has ac complished the feat of walking 5,000 miles in 100 days—doing fifty miles a day and lectur ing in the various cities and towns through which ho passed. Prorainont temperance ad vocates took great interest in the feat, as it was undertaken by Weston with a view to demonstrating the superiority of tea over liquor in undertakings requiring physical endurance. 1 Since wio nttsbnrg nas r.an twenty-three ; floods, thirteen of which have occurred in j the winter—three in December, four in Jan } uary and six in February. Tho worst Lave :orue in February. c Tan Cost.—It cost a Terre Hant man £4lrin a police court for giving a loaded cigar to an acquaintance. It cost the un fortunate acquaintance half his nosearp] his upper lip, Knnato. Tho Senate had a long discussion over the bill appropriating $25,030 to stamp out the foot and mouth disease among oattlo in Kan sas. Many Benators opposed tho bill on the ground that Congress had no power to appropriate money for such a pur pose, ami that it had not been shown that it was beyond the ability . of State of Kansas to deal with tho trouble. Mr. Ingalls attacked tho Rtato right* doc trine which, ho sail, had been preached against the bill. No action wai taken on the kill.... A bill was introduced to authorize tho secretary of the treasury to establish ft number of additional life-saving station* on the sea and lake coasts of the llnitod State* .Mr. IJowon introduced a bill to reduce the postage on socond class mail matter. It provides that after October 1, 1831, the ra 4 te of hucli noMa-je shall bo ono cen* a pounJ. This includes sample copies. IlOlIkft. The hill granting a* pension of $2,560 to Beptimina Randolph Meihlohani, tho sole sur viving grandchild of Thomas Jefferson, was discussed at great length in the committee of tho whole. Finally on tho motion of Mr. Hewitt, f)t Alabama, tho enacting clause was stricken out by a vote of 129 yeas and sixty nays. Ho agreed to the committee re port. .. .At tho evening fo.wion twenty-two ponsion bills were pascal. Deacon John Gmiwmi, a wealthy farmer of Beaver Dam, Wis., lost Ills life by freez ing his big teo. John Barry, of Branford, Conn., while drunk, rolltsl off a lounge. Ills neck fell over the round of a chair and ho choked to death. The alevon-year-old daughter of Allen Taylor, of Mayfield, Ky., wliilj playiuz in a swing got her neck in tlio rojio and was choked to dentil. While having a tooth extracted, tlio young son of Joseph Dyson, of Fulton, Mo,, becann so fright-nod that lie was thrown Into Kpssins and din 1. While hunting, Gustavo Rotzler, of Evansville, Col., stopped into tho mouth of a mine shaft which the mow h id covered completely, lie was instantly Idllo I. Charles Downs, of Atlanta, elms id a rabbit int.) a tall stump. Wii'lo cliinb'ng, his left arm was caught in a split near tun top, and he hung by liM wrist. He ojH*ned his knife with Ms teeth in order to cut off Ids arm. Ho mala foveral gashes, mid then tainted. This caused It s miisclos to relax, end he dropped to the ground. Xot Tnio Farmers. Sergeant Bates is still “promoting moral and patriotic citizenship” in liis peculiar way. Jfe is now tramping through Georgia with an American flag in one hand and the hand of his son in the other. It does not hurt the flag any, and tho people look on with care less apathy. The annual product of gold is now |orb than $100,<100,000, and its foreign coinage is practically Riiapended. In the United States the procfiiction has grad ually diminished. In 1878 it was S17,- •200,107 ; in 1879, it was #38,900,000; in 1880, #36,000,000, Tho Minneapolis rionr.cr says: In Mr. Finklo’s store to-day a farmer camo in to settle for a load of wheat, and mndo a number of purchase*, and among them wero several pound* of very ordinary butter nnd-three or four dozen packed eggs. I inquired if this sort of thing was a common practice of the farmers in the vicinity. “Farmers,'' repeated the merchant, contemptuously, “why, wo haven’t got twenty real farmers in this county. They arc all nothing but wheat-raisers, nud that is a long xvay from being a farmer. A large number of farmers in Dakota who own whole quarter section* of land seldom have a drop of milk in tho house, aud tho butter they eat is bought at tho nearest store. They don’t even keep a cow or pig or try to raise vegetables cuough to provide for tho winter.’ The Way They Do It. A “nice old gentleman” came along from the next town ostensibly after “sheep,” but really in wolfish pursuit of the “agricultural autograph.” Dropping into conversation in a friendly way about extravagance in high places, he finally drew from his pocket what purported to be a petition to the Legislature for re duction ot salaries of officers, rutting the mime to this apparently harmless document proved in the end equivalent to signing a note for $100 or so, which was discounted by a neighboring banker. A Massachusetts correspondent reports having heard of several victims of this artful dodge. THU 00081! HANGS HIGH. In Huiurnry thin wrotrh wm huncr. snd .... f„ un( |. f or HalnntiH, • ’ # nsv i yomnr, Iib’cI always around. Anil wh*n lu> li'ur »u*d, aim*, to invn th’ into*. ■ «,*n 5V.S • which hunir »• * buv# hn M at- • way* hantr it ui». Iln k«*I tlio ll.HMT of It.” In lilri nip i IlillliC dm yoln* yon mruay. A limitr ohc. Ill" hatiu i if would b*‘c him head. Ono ntiriit irry w rot oh ills Hlay,hoca«iBoaho to fntch hisdlu aw*r. IiiHiati mtrdo fouco hla law J'orapl “Qoab hamr and haiitr in <|uito.ti korch I af mot him other rtv\it Ity In \_.„ «wmI, for hy mm h in lllo, death which fl’ry that Ith away ills breat h. tlio wir wl ‘ next tho cvi. jfp hun ir Thus he a drop too too{i ono in inat took .Vv wicked nion kill, aud to Immrinan with rokn twirled low. II. C. Doixjk, in iNici, HIS PAPA S RKLIGIO.f. "Bo, my littlo boy, yon would liko to join onr Bnnd*y-sohool, would you?” aniil the auporintondent, kindly. "Yftt, air," replied (ho little (toy. "Wliat in your name, did you aay ?" "Johnny Himpaon.” "Oil, yoa, you are tlio non of Mr. Himpaon. Lot me aee, ia your papa • Presbyterian or an Episcopalian? "No, air; lie. ian’t cither; he'a a news paper man. ’ OVER Tint OARM5H WAI.tn An exceedingly l>right aud pretty little East Third street girl received a New Year', card from a Rinall admirer, and it created moro or less comment iu tho family. "Why, child, I didn't know yon know him,” aaid tlio mother, “Oil, yea,” mamma,” ahe replied,with a coquettish smile; "I have met him.” • 'Indeed ? IIow did it happen?’’ "Well, yon aeo, we tint became ac quainted by throwing mud at each other over (lie alloy fence, and then aoveral dava afterward Undo Frank preaented him, and aiuoe then wo have boon quite good trienda indeed.Merchant Trav eler. ILSTIMATINO WBAT/nf. Mn, yon kuow thoao Noweomots across tho way that we have all been afraiii to call on because their furniture nrrived nt night, nnd we couldn't tell whether it wn» nice or not?” "Yob, nnd they always keep the cur tains so near closed that not a soul has liccn nhio to gota glimpse of the rooms." "None of tlio neighbors htve called on them yot, lmvo they ?” "No.” "Well, we hotter go over, !>ecause if wo keep on snubbing them they may turn around nnd suub na.” "But why do yon think so?” “Tliolr servant girl was in Cash A Co.'s ton store this morning. Bhe liouglit n pound of ten, nnd when the clerk handed nor a glorious oliromo, she turned up her nose at it " Mm. Haycock, nt Joliet, and Miss SiiHio Bradley, in Pennsylvania, are both heiil on marrying the mon who wero put iu jail a week or so ugo for nearly mur dering them. This is, indeed, a terrible leap year, MDOIT TO HR TnANKFPTi ron. "Yes, wife, wo linve much to t>e thank ful for. Let us not complain.” "Oh, yon provoking man. No matter how miserably wo are situated, you always lay hack nnd say, ‘Wo have muoii to t)C thankful for;’ just ns if that put con) iu tlio stove or food iu the pot.” "tint think of tlio thonsnnds whonavo not tlio blessings we enjoy.” "lileHsingH ! Aro yon crazy ? There is not a stick of wood or n piece of coal in the houso, nnd the thermometer iH below zero. There is not so much as a crumb in the cupboard. Tho windows are broken, and wo linvo not a blanket left. Now, whore do you ttud anything to lm thankful for ?” "Think of the thousands, nay millions, in India and Africa, blistered by a broil ing sun, nnd suffering night nnd day for wlint we linvo in such abundance," "Suffering for what, pray ?” “Ice !”—The Call. rOPPBBMAN'S OOLDKN WISDOM. "I boliovo I’m being robbed,” said Mr. I’oppermnn to bis wife, as he en tered liis home. “By whom ?” "By Walter, my grocery clerk. I went into tlio store to-day and discov ered him in the act of putting some thing in liis pocket. I also heard, or thought I heard, a sound such as would be mode by one coin falling on another in a person's pocket. I said nothing tc the clerk, as I did not desire to aconse him until 1 was certain of his diabon- osty.” “Are yon sure yon heard the coins clinking in liis pocket?” asked Mrs. Pop- porman. "No, I’m not sure. Here, I’ll experi ment, and determine if snob a sound can bt heard twenty feet off. Take these two 810 gold pieces. Stand near the door. Put one in your pocket, and drop the other one upon it, I will listen.” Mrs. Popperman did as directed, and then asked : “Did you hear it ?" "Yes, I heard it. Consequently the result, of my experiment is ” "That I’ll have a uew 820 bonnet be fore I sleep this night,” exclaimed Mrs. Popperman, as she snatched up her false front and slid out of the front door.

Georgia Historic Newspapers

The Paulding new era. (Dallas, Ga.) 1882-189?, March 27, 1884, Image 1