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THE NEWS.
TOCCOA, GEORGIA.
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The Legislature of Illinois has made it
a misdemeanor to adulterate lard.
It is estimated that a rainy day in a
city of 200,000 people kilLs $25,000
worth of trade.
Co-education of white and colored stu¬
dents is practiced in the law school at
Baltimore, Mil.
Andrew Carnegie, the iron master of
Pennsylvania, wants rich men to set the
example of simple living.
“At no time in the history of the coun-
try,” asserts the Chicago Sun, “has there
been so many new concerns started up.”
A writer in the Paris Matin iudicates
ihat the next Papal Conclave will he
compelled by the drift of events to elect
as Pope an English or an American Car-
dinal.
An international congress on the im-
portant subject , . of , the , housing . of , the ,
poor, in both its physical and moral
aspects, is to he held in Paris during the
great Exhibition.
England can only , find _ , forty . . men in her
military service who can talk the Russian
tongue, while there 5000 Russian
officers who can handle English with
deadly precision.
Thibet is a much larger country than
most people suppose, It has an area ol
about 750,000 square miles and a popula¬
tion of about 8,000,000 souls, according
to the New York Mail and Exprest.
The example of Pittsburg, which lost
its old pre-eminence as the smoky city
upon the introduction of natural gas
into general use, is likely, predicts the
New York Commercial Advertiser , to be
contagious.
The Emperor of China is to send a
commission of three to the United States
“to study the customs and manners of
the middle class, and to particularly in¬
quire if the wearing of socks and stock,
iugs wards off diseases.”
The buried-alive scare has led to the
organization of a company in New York
which proposes to erect a huge mausoleum
in which 40,000 bodies can be placed,
and premature burial avoided and better
sanitary conditions obtained.
The people of India are demanding
home rule, and if they are in earnest
about it, says the Atlanta Constitution,
England will have to get ready for a live¬
ly racket. A united effort in India would
drive the last Englishman into the sea.
Canadian papers complain that their
country seems to bo regarded as a sort of
penal colony by England. A young man
who was convicted of larceny before a
London magistrate a few days ago was
let off on his friends promising to send
him to Canada at onco.
Tho Governor of Wyoming has just
pardoned a man sentenced to a term of
years for a murderous assault,on the con¬
dition that if the convict ever drinks an¬
other drop of liquor he shall forfeit hi*
liberty and be sent back to prison. A
similar pardon was granted in Mississippi
a few years ago.
Twenty years ago corporal punishment
was abolished in New York public
schools. The superintendent says that
judicious praise has been found to be a
greater incentive to study than threats,
scoldings and physical punishment. The
world is surely growing better when such
i statement can bo made.
During the six years since it was first
thrown open to the public the Brooklyn
Bridge has been traversed by over one
hundred and forty-six millions of people
—an average of almost twenty-five mill¬
ions a year. These statistics prove more
conclusively than words what a grand
aud useful structure it has been.
A half grown American boy can earn s
barrel of flour in a week, and this will
keep him iu bread for a year. These
Ihiug-s go to show, remarks the Prairit
Farmer, that t tiers is no danger of starva¬
tion, hunger, or even want. All theories
to the contrary, food appears to increase
aiuch faster than human beings do.
There are over 800,000 more widows
than widowers in England, In France
for every 100 widowers there are 194
widow >. These facts lead the Westmin-
ster Rev ten to treat the growing disposi¬
tion of men to marry late in life as a very
serious evil of modern society. Such men
usually marry younger women, who, ia
the natural order of things, mav be ex¬
pected to survive them.
At the recent Medico-Legal congress ir.
New York city Dr. O'Neill read a paper
on “Suicide," in which he argued that a
man who attempts suicide should not be
punished by the authorities. He said:
1 fie aesire , to do away with one's self,
he said, arises from great distress
|mityor ca-
1 disappointment. L 1 not ° one'-
1 , n f * Iph ‘ ierat '“ s sufficiently , lull without
t etc mg to his misery by the law r-teppire
i and putting him in prison? If a‘mm ‘
*e<olves ives to to kill kill Ki himself n «»u ,o escape real . or
iilU troubles, the knowledge of the
L will not deter him.”
GENERAL NEWS.
CONDENSATION OF CURIOUS,
AND EXCITING EVENTS.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE—ACCIDENTS, STRIKES,
FIRES, AND HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST.
A dispatch from London, says: Wilkie
Collins, the novelist, is dying.
It is reported that three British men-
of-war have been ordered to Crete.
Half of the town of Djarkend, in Sem-
iretiehinsk, Russia, has been destroyed
by an earthquake.
Addie and Kate Gordon and Myrtle
Cranby, ranging in age from eleven to
fourteen years, were drowned while bath-
iug at Paoli, Kan., Tuesday.
The tank of the consolidated oil com*
pany, in St. Joseph, Mo., wts struck by
lightning early Sunday morning and de¬
stroyed by fire. Loss $75,000; insured.
The Hon. R. G. Horr, of Michigan,
recently appointed United States consul
Valparaiso, has stated that under no
circumstances would he accept this ap¬
pointment.
achutist, Lennox, assistant of Higgins, the par-
was killed at Manchester, Eng-
land Tuesday by the collapse of the
balloon in which they had made an as¬
cension. Higgins escaped without injury.
The citizens of Johnstown, Pa., met
Saturday and protested against the man-
ner in which the relief fund is being dis-
tributed. The claim is that the state
commission is handling the funds instead
of the local committee.
Dr. Wm. P. White, aged sixty years,
who did business as an electric physician
at 4 Jefferson place, Boston, Mass., dur-
ing a quarrel with his wife Saturday
afternoon, stabbed and instantly killed
her. He then committed suicide by
shooting himself.
A dispatch from Cario, says: In skir¬
mishes with the Egyptian troops, the
dervishes have lost ninety men. There
are effect presistent rumors in this city to the
that the combined Brithh-Egyp-
tiau advance will be made onDougola in
autumn.
Court Judge Foster, of the Untied States
at Topeka, for the district of Kan¬
sas, rendered a decision te the effect that
no officer of Oklahoma has legal author¬
ity to arrest or imprison offenders, inas¬
much as that couutry is under the juris¬
diction of no Court.
In the circuit court of Chicago, on
Monday, Goodlander a tresspass case was filed by the
Mill company for $200,000
against the Standard Oil company. It is
believed that this is the first move to
prevent the Standard Oil company lay¬
ing a pipe line into the city, as proposed
by the city council.
leather Arrangements are making to form a
syndicate or trust at Newark, N.
J. , which is the center for patent leather,
nine-tenths of that made in this country
being manufactured there. The prelim¬
inary steps are being taken, so that when
George fi. Halsey and Samuel Howell
return from Europe the trust will be
ready to go iuto operation.
John McAvoy, aged 34, foreman of one
of the Medina, N. Y., quarries, was
blown twenty feet into the air by a pre¬
mature explosion Saturday. lie was
horribly injured and died instantly.
Edward Cappella, his assistant, was
thrown ten feet into the air. His eyes
w’ere blown out and he was otherwise
terribly injured.
The fishing schooner Edith Emery, Cap¬
tain Patrick Sullivan, arrived at Boston
Tuesday, with only three of her ciew of
nineteen men. Sunday morning when
the Emery was about seventy miles off
Highland Light, the missing men set out
in dories to tend the trawls. The
weather was very thick and the fog be-
came them so heavy as to shut out all sight of
from the vessel, and nothing more
has been seen or heard of them.
A cloud-burst occurred nearBultimore,
Md., on Saturday. Two men are known
to have been drowned, and a number of
people narrowly escaped with their lives.
Many bridges were washed away and
crops along the path of the flood were
swept out of existence. The same day,
a cloud-burst occurred at Fort Robin¬
son, Neb., in which Marsh Duncan and
three children were drowned, and a
large amount of property was destroyed.
Reports were current on ’change in
Buffalo, N. Y., on Friday that the firm
of Gorman Brothers & Co., limited, man-
ngers of the Associated elevators, were
involved in serious complications It is
alleged that certificates fora large amount
of grain in the International and Lake
Shore elevators are out, and it is further
claim d that there is no grain to repre¬
sent them in the elevators. Banks hold¬
ing receipts are amply secured.
A dispatch from San Francisco says:
"J. J. Creighton, ex-state senator, who
was convicted of jury bribing nearly two
years ago, and escaped from the city be¬
fore sentence was pronounced, arrived
from Victoria Tuesday night and sur-
rendered to the police. He states that
he could not endure his exile any longer,
and determined to come home and give
himself wife and up children.” so that he could be neai^his
A cablegram from London says: “The
community lias been greatly startled by
another horrible murder, thought to be
committed by the butcher of fallen wo¬
men, known as ‘Jack the Ripper.’ The
body of a woman, mutilated iu theu-ual
frightful manner, was found Tuesday in
Castle alley, in the Whitechapel dis rict.
Ah hough the police have used every
means of to him apprehend the murderer, no
trace has been
The celebration of the one hundredth
anniversary of the fall of the Bustile
New was begun Monday by Frenchmen of
York. The French societies, nuni-
their bering about 5,000 men, gathered at
'Washington headquarters and marched through
square and some of the
streets in that vicinity, and finally pa¬
raded to Union square, where they were
reviewed by Mayor Grant and a number
ot distinguished Frenchmen. In the
procession were three carriages with
children. One group represented Al¬
sace Lorraine under past French rule,
the other under present Germau rule, and
the third picturing the glorious future
when again under the French flag. The
Alsace-Lorraine society was represented
largely in the procession.
WORK RESUMED.
The strike at the Homestead steel
plant of Carnegie, Phipps & Co., at
Sunday Pittsburg, Pa., was definitely settled
«med evening, and work will be le-
s as soon as the furnaces sue he •ted.
The workmen, it is sad, have agreed to
accept a 20 per cent reduciiou in-te id of
j»per 1 he scale cent. will •» proposed iu force by the firm.
remain ft three
years. As a result of the settlement three
thousand men will again be working
wi’A steady employment for three years?
A FAMILY MURDERED.
AFTER ACCOMPLISHING TIIE BLOODY DEED
THE MURDERER MEETS HIS FATE.
In Somerville, Mass., early Saturday
morning, Augustus Rosenburg shot and
killed Mrs. Catharine Smith and her son
Thomas. Three other children were
shot, one probably fatally. No cause is
known. The scene of the shooting was
at the corner of Dane street and Dane
court, Somerville. The ground floor is
used as a provision and grocery store,
conducted by Mr*. Smith. The neigh¬
bors were aroused at about one o’clock
by a number of pistol shots, and the po¬
lice were promptly notified. The police
entered the front door and encountered
the dead body of Thomas Smith, who
received his wound probably up stair*
and succeeded in reaching the lower
landing b-fore falling. A bullet had
entered h ; s forehead. Mrs. Smith was
found in bed. The indications were that
she was shot while asleep. All the
children occupied rooms in the attic;
Mrs. Smith and Rosenburg occupying a
room on the second floor. Thomas slept
alone. Willie, aged twelve, and Augus¬
tus. aged seven, slept together in a room
by themselves. The former was shot
through the body. Augustus was shot
in the mouth. The boy wounded. Charles, aged
five years, was slightly He
was in bed with his little sister Mabel,
one year younger. Five shots were fired
for the five persons. Rosenburg jumped
from the window after accomplishing
his bloodv work, and his dead body was
shortly afterwards found in Dane court,
about five hundred feet from the scene of
the murders. There was no wound, and
from the froth at mouth, it is supposed
that he cither died in a fit or by poison,
Rosenburg was the husband of Charles
Smith’s sister, who died a few years ago.
He lmd several children of his own liv¬
ing in Bow street court, Somerville. He
went to live with Mrs. Smith shortly af¬
ter the mysterious disappearance of her
husband. The couple were never mar¬
ried so far as any one knows. Physi¬
cians who examined Rosenburg say that
he was undoubtedly crazy.
THE GRAND ARMY
CONSIDERS THE RAILROADS UNJUST FOR
. REFUSING THEM LOW RATES.
A Grand Army railroad* of theRepubliocirculai
against the was formulated
Thursday, at Chicago, and will be sent
out broadcast through official channels.
It says: “We have failed to secure for the
old soldiers the customary rate of one cent
per mile to the national encampment to
be held at Milwaukee, Wis., during the
last week in August. In view of the fact
that a rate of less than one cent per mile
has recently been given to the German
Turnvereiu of national one-half meeting at Cincinnati mile has
and a rate a cent per
been given to Niagara Falls excursions, the
there is a general feeling that men
whose services and sacrifices alone made
it possible for these roads to exist and
share in the prosperity which has attend¬ fairly
ed the nation in recent years* are
entitled at least to the rate which has
been asked, The refusal of railroads to
give this rate is an unjust discrimination
against the veterans of the late war.” The
circular further advises all comrades, as
a matter of self-respect and self defense,
to forego the anticipated pleasure national of meet¬
ing their comrades at the en¬
campment by remaining at home, only
those attending who are duly elected
delegates, ex-officio of the encampment.
AN ELECTION PROHIBITED*
ANTI-ADMINISTKATIONISTS IN OKLAHOMA
SAT DOWN UPON.
day A dispatch from Oklahoma defiance says: Tues¬
morning, in of Mayor
Crouch’s proclamation, aud the special
order of General Merriam, an attempt
tvas made by the anti-administration fac¬
tion to hold a charter election. Two
polling places were established. Near
each were stationed squads of United
States soldiers and detachments of spe¬
cial police. Mayor Crouch,accompanied
by City Marshal Kuntz, approached the
polling place at Broadway, and demand¬
ed of the men in charge, by what right
they were holding an election. “By the
authority of the people,” they replied.
The mayor and marshal then took pos¬
session of the poll books and ballot-boxes
and conveyed them to the city hall,
where they locked them up. They then
proceeded to the second polling place
and repeated the proceedings. A few
minutes later the mayor aud marshal
were both arrested on wairants sworn
out by United States Commissioner
Spears, of Qutbrie, on the charge of in¬
timidation. but were later released by
Commissioner Sommers, of Oklahoma”
who discharged them after hearing the
evidence.
TERRIBLE WIND STORM.
AN OHIO TOWN NEARLY DEMOLISHED—
FIFTY PEOPLE REPORTED KILLED.
A wind storm, which nearly demolish¬
ed the village of Princeton, Ohio, occur-
ed Monday afternoon. Before reaching
Princeton it blew the roof off the barn
of John Stinson, throwing it into acorn-
field some d stance away. The dwelling
house of Finley Whitehead, in Prince¬
ton, was carried away, and his wagon¬
making shop, near by, was demolished,
A large brick school building in the vil¬
lage was torn down to the foundations,
and the ra ters of the house rallied 200
yards by the force of the wind »nd lodg¬
ed in the top of a large oak tree, while
desks and other furniture were scattered
in every direction. The blacksmith shop
and a barn of Gus Ninnear were bo;h lev¬
elled to the ground. The houses of John
Lc-nnard, Rose Miller and Stephen Claw¬
son were completely wrecked, while
W. H. Walter lost everything he possess¬
ed. The oats and corn crops vrere ruin¬
ed and the village was diluged with
water. tiist A fifty report from Hamilton, Ohio,
says ed. people were i hied ori Jar¬
but this has not vet been confirmed.
PAYING OUT THE MONEY.
THE PLAN BY wniCH THE JOHNSTOWN
SUFFERERS WILL BE GIVEN RELIEF.
At Johnstown, Pa., Monday, the board
of inquiry met an 1 is-ued orders for re-
lief to those entitled to it. The coumts-
sion at Cresson clas-ified the sufferers m-
to classes 1, 2, 3, 4 aud 5, and reccom-
mended that immediate payment be made
to classes 1, 2 aud 3, requiring $496,009.
Cla-ses 4 and 5 would require $686,-
000. As the cnnnn ssion only appr .pri
ted *500,000 withou' intimating when
another distribution would be made, the
board determined to apportion $500,000
among the five elresi* instead of three
classes its at first proposed. Accordingly,
they will be jam on the following basis:
Class 1 1 I get $600; class 2, $400; cltss
3, $200; cl iss 4, $125, aud cla s 5 $80.
WASHINGTON, D.
MOVEMENTS OF THE PRESIDENT
AND HIS ADVISERS.
appointments, decisions, and other matters
OF INTEREST FROM THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
Secretary Tracy has approved the re-
port of the board of officers who recom-
mended a site for the new marine bar-
racks at Norfolk, Ya.
The Attorney General ha 3 appointed
David F. Baily to be assistant United
States attorney for the western district
of Virginia, vice Hermans, who de-
ciined upon the ground that he thought
he should have been appointed district
’
attorney.
At Washington. D. C., about three
o'clock Sunday morning, Artie Shirlev,
a young man formerly ot Richmond, Va.,
threw himself in front of a south bouud
fast freight and w is crushed to death.
Shirley was about twenty-four years of
age, and was employed in Richmond.
He was engaged to be married to a young
lady of that city. She died a month
ago after a sudden illness, and Shirley
gave up his employment and went to
Washington.
The President, on Friday, ^ made the „ fol- , ,
lowing appointments: Jesse Johnson, of
*) ew Aoik, to be attorney of the United
States for the eastern district of New
AorK, Eugene Marsuall, of Texas, to be
!l tt ; >rney the United States xor the
^ortbern A aiiau, of district U tab, to of be Texas; attorney Charles of the S.
“J L-, I l laa lte< , T ®l^ es * or J- t elI1 ta ^> tory to be marshal U tah;
United States f r the territory of
btan.
Colonel John M. W ilson, commis-
sioner of public buildings and grounds,
m his annual report to the chief of en-
gineers, rec. mmends that an office build-
ing be erected for the use of the president,
just west of the white house and where
the green-house and conservatory now
3tand. The latter, he says, might be
built on the ground just east of the white
house and between it and the treasury
building. It is believed that the time
has come when the chief magistrate of
the country should no longer be obliged
to have his private residence and his of¬
fice under the same roof.
Treasurer Huston has ordered that in
future the redemption of legal tender
notes by the Treasury Department shall
be made on a basis of the three-fifth rule
in vogue in the re< e nption of national
bank notes. Heretofore, the former
■were redeemed on the basis of the tenths,
that is, a mutilated note was redeemed at
a value proportionate to the part pre¬
sented, counting in tenths. Under the
three-fifth itile if that part of the note is
presented it but is redeemed at its three- full
face value, if less than
fifths is handed in nothing is paid
unless an affidavit is filed together wi h
evidence that the missing portion of the
note has been destroyed. Thus under
this rule the person presenting the note
gets all or nothing instead of a propor¬
tionate number of tenths of full value.
Thfe postmaster-gem ral gives out the
following concerning reducing the report that he
had made an order the rate on
government te egran s from one cent to
one mill per word, lie says that he had
suggested this rate, and notified the tel¬
egraph companies to this effect. To
some of the companies objecting to the
rate, he had written a letter, which
stated among other thing-: -‘I desire to
say that the rate proposed was fixed
upon information furnished this depart¬
ment that your company has been mak¬
ing lates to various instances, large corporations
that are, in some as low ns the
figure now pioposed for government ser¬
vice. With notice of this fact, I would
not be justified in making for the govern¬
ment a new contiact at higher rates than
were charged other patrons; especially so
in view 7 of the privileges and benefits
extended to your company by acts of
Congress. 1 submit to your own sense
of right that the government, under ex¬
isting conditions, is entitled to minimum
rates.”
FLOOD IN CHINA.
MORE THAN SIX THOUSAND LIVES LOST
AND MANY HOUSES SWEPT AWAY.
The steamer City of New York arrived
at San Francisco, Tuesday evening from
Hong Kong aud Yokohoma. The Japan
Gazette of the 29th ult. contains the fol¬
lowing: Intelligence has been received
at Hong Kong from Kiaying Chan, per-
fecture in the northeast of Kwansjtang,
that early on the morning of the 2*1 of
June, Chan Ping and Ping Yuen districts
were flooded by the bursiing of a water
spout or tornado, described by the Chi¬
nese as a watir dragon, and the level
country was flooded with nearly thirty-
aix feet of water. Many houses were
wholly swept away, while others were
inundated. Upwards of 6,000 lives were
lost.
FATAL ACCIDENT.
A POND BACKS UP IN PITTSBURG AND
DROWNS TWO MEN.
Red pond, a body of water on the cor¬
ner of Center avenue aud Soho street, in
Hill district, Pittsburg, Pa., caused
by the choking of a sewer,
swept the barriers away
about two o’clock Sunday morning,
drowning John Dalay, ag< d twenty-six
years, unmarried, and Andrew McGregor,
aged thirty-six years, married. The fol¬
lowing were injured, but will survive:
Robert Munns, shoulder and arm broken
and injured infernally; Win. McClay, cut
and badly biuised about the head aud
body, injured internally, Jos. McCart¬
ney, slightly bruised and cut, not serious.
TOM CONDER HANGED.
TomConder ”obion who murdered Jack Ri-
lev mar Trov *last, hange^Monday count v Term in
Nashville, September was in
Tenn. Governor Taylor sev-
era! davs arm received sU -i netition net bufdc" asking
elined to interfere. Gender and Mrs.
Riley, wife of the victim and mother-in-
law of the murderer, were arrested for
the killing of Riley and tried. Conder
was sentenced to be hanged and Mrs.
«Uey to imprisonment for life She
m .de a confession, saying that R.l *y was
shot and kll led by Conder, and iliac she
was present at the time the crime was
commitred. Conder was forty-three
years old and a Mormon.
HANGING IN NEW JERSEY
_
Michael Bolak, murderer of Michael
Bolhnshire, was hanged at Belvidere,
N. J., Tuesday morning at 1A : 54 o’cIock.
The body Was lowered at 11:08 and
placed in the coffin at 11:21. Bolak s
neck was not broken by the fall and he
died of strangulation. He protested his
innocence with the rope about his neck.
MIN1STER8 SPEAK.
TnE MINISTERIAL UNION OF CHARLESTON
DENOUNCING MC DOW.
Sunday was a field day in the Charles¬
ton pulpits. At a meeting of the Min¬
isterial union, held on Manday last, a
series of resolutions were adopted «nd de-
nouncing the crimes of adultery mur-
der, of both of which Dr. McDow, the
murderer of Captain Dawson, had con-
fessed himself guilty, and of the latter of
It which he was acquitted by a action packed of jury. tho
was understood that tne
union was taken in consequence of the
publication in several newspapers that
the verdict in the McDow case had been
approved by the best elements in the
community. It was generally known
that a number of leading clergymen of
* hc cit ? would P** ch ,^ ada y
* !D f f et ou * by ^°, e resolution,
a n( ^ hence the attendance at the
churches _ was unusually large,
Presbyterian Thompson, pastor preached of the
Scotch church,
from the text: “Fools make a mock at
' Ufle church is attended by Judge,
Magrath, Me Dow’s counsel, and Dr. John
Forrest his intimate friend, who, to save
McDow's life, testified on the trial that
Dawson was a bully and a braggart, and
that McDow had a wound on his scalp
the day utter the murder. Dr. Thomp¬
son, who was an officer in the confeder¬
ate army, has been outspoken in his de¬
nunciation of the crime, and it had even
come to his ears that McDow, or some of
his friends, intended to go gunuing for
him. At the Circular Congregatianal
church, Rev. H. M. Grant delivered a
forcible sermon, and was very emphatic
in his denunciation of McDow. The Rev.
R. N. Wells, of Trinity Methodist
1 church and seven other prominent cler-
gymen delivered sermons on the same
subject. McDow attended divine wor-
; s hip at St. John’s Lutheran church, his
I usua l place of worship. The pastor is not
; a member of the ministerial union,
ELECTRICITY’S WORK.
FIREMEN AND CITIZENS OF EVANSVILLE,
IND., PROSTRATED.
A special dispatch from Evansville,
Iud., says: “This city was visited by a
heavy rain and wind storm Monday af¬
ternoon, doing much damage. About 10
o’clock at night, when the power at
electric light station for the street illum¬
ination was turned on, numerous wires
which had been blown down, charged
buildings and pools of water in the
street with electricity. Fire a foot high
W’as emitted in places, causing an alarm
to be sounded. The fire department re¬
sponded, and being unaware of the con¬
dition of things, rushed into what was
almost certain death. Horses and fire¬
men alike were knocked down with elec¬
tricity. Others rushtd into a building
that was apparently on fire only to be
thrown violently down. Citizens rushed
ih and met a similar fate, and excitement,
ran high. A messenger hastened to il e
station and had the ilecriC power shut,
off, and then the work of resuscitating
began. A dozen or more meu were
found unconscious, but their lives were
saved by laying them upon the wet
ground. Several firemen are yet in a
precarious condition.”
FATAL COLLISION.
TERRIBLE RESULTS FROM TRYING THE
SPEED OF A TRAIN.
Saturday afternoon a collision oc¬
curred on the Western, New York aud
Philadelphia Railroad on a sharp curve
near Petroleum Center, Pa. Master Me¬
chanic Newman, with Engineer Stone,
wet e trying the speed of an engine, when
they suddenly collided with a freight
coming south, killing Brakeman Murtin
Timlin, of the freight, and seriously
wounding Engineer Van Dresser Engineer and Stone his
fireman, of the freight.
and Master Mechanic Newman were also
painfully wounded. Both engines and
several cars were completely demolished.
prisoners”suffocated.
Saturday morning the jail at Jackson,
Oregon, containing be three fire. prisoners, Before was
discovered to on the
cells could be reached the prisoners had
suffocated. The origin of the fire is a
nutters of conjecture. The name of the
prisoners were Newton Cook, of Tennes¬
see, aged 50; Henry Hover, family iu
Michigan, aged 55, an union, honorable and Frank dis¬
charged soldier of the
Warner, aged 19.
Twenty Million Dogs.
It is the everlasting regret of man
that human friendship passes away.
Out of the difficulty of securing a com¬
panion who will forgive and forget all
faults, and also bear gifts, man turns to
the dog, thus proving that the gifts
need not be gifts of money. The dog
will look his master in the face, will
flatter that despot with a silence which
can only eloquent—and delight the eloquent^—for will e e y
man is never forsake
the human friend who has honored the
poor servant and adulator above all
other dogs. On this account it is found
that one out of every three inhabitants
owns a dog. Prodigious for testimony of
the hunger of humanity service and
flattery! behind this
There lurks not unpleas¬
ant picture the horrid presence of hy¬
drophobia. The tongue licking its n as¬
ter’s hand also laps fangs that carry the
deadliest householder of poisons. The noble fa vorite
of the gees out on the street
and bites small buys. The father of a
bitten boy presents himself before the
owner of the dag as a person grievously
wronged and society must, througn its
courts, debate and adjust a matter that
has two sides to a couple naturally of liagants. hold his
The rea m wi 1
son to he a matter of more than damages. law Sxys
The dog must be killed. The
so, and the’aw is just. The owner be-
holds the killing of the dog with feelings
ofrebellion against the State and forth-
with believes he rs the v.ctmr of remorse-
le.-s andd.abolnalpersecution. Should
? <>' hydrophobia supervene descn we
lia ^ e * t° P tlo “*
and all _wh° behold it become converts
to the theoi-y that dogs as s\ell as t.gers
sl! ^ ,( al !^ many‘do™
dofrs horre^ twice as Is she°ep as
cows, ’ and half as many dogs student or
gwi will convince a uv that
the qucs ti on c f hvdropliobia s but just
ente j. ed U )OU . Man loves liis dog, and
forgives doA his one besetting sin. Albe t,
not the dog promise to his mas'er
a certain degree of hostility Herald* toward
other men ?—[Chicago
jq JK 'l Yeung Ft n’s Christian Assoc’*
'ion as grown to vast proportions
Tin re arc 1,248 associations in Ameri. *,
3,312 in Germany, 200. and even in Japan
them are It is an interesting
ih»t ti mi e is Christ an organization in Jerusa-
reth, where lived, and at
lem, where Me was crucified.
SOUTHERN NEWS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM VA-
Rl0US POINTS IN THE SOUTH.
A CONDENSED ACCOUNT OF WHAT IS GOING ON OF
IMPORTANCE IN THE SOUTHERN STATES.
Frank Smith, of Smith Station, Ga-,
was struck by lightning Tuesday while
standing in his store door and iustantly
kil’ed. He leaves a wife and several
children.
The postal telegraph company reached
Birmingham, Ala., Saturday from the
north. A large force of men are at work
pnttiDg up wires, and the line will be xe-
tended to New Orleans and Galveston a*
rapidly as possible. tin
Col. L. C. Jones, superintendent of
Carolina Central Rai road, died at Mil-
mington, N. C., of heart failure Friday
alter a sickness of four days. He was an
accomplished civil engineer, and one o 1
the most popular men in the state.
Warrior, twenty miles north of B rm
ingham, Ala., is a prohibition of the leading town.
Saturday morning four
mediants of the place were arrested by
a Uuited States’ marshal for selling
liquor without a license, The men ar-
res ed were Martin and Oliver Parker,
Virgil and Jack Warnock.
The Savannah News announces a curi
ous but most important discovery that has
been made by a citizen of Georgia. It
says: “A South Georgia farmer says he
prevents his cows from jumping a fence
by cutting off their lower eyelashes. This
makes the fence appear to be about three
times higher than it is.”
A tragedy was enacted in Atlanta, Ga.,
Tuesday night, in which ex-policeman J.
W. J. Pelot was shot and killed by A.
Wylie, watchman at the East Tennessee
Railroad shops. Pelot’s intimacy with
Wyly’s wife is the allegid cause. Both
men were well known, aud the killing
caused great excitement. Wylie was
arrested.
Hawes was sentenced to hang Friday,
July 12th. An appeal was taken to the
supreme court. Pending the decision of
that court the sentence stands suspended. till
The supreme court will not convene
December next, so that any further ac¬
tion is impossible before then, In the
meanwhile Hawes remains in jail at
Birmingham, Ala.
The tax digest of Dougherty Co., Ga.,
was forwarded to the comptroller-general of
Tuesday. It shows an increase taxa¬
ble property in this county of $300,000.
This is mainly from new enterprises
started within the last year in Albany,
Ga. Lands are given no higher than last
year, and the stocks of merc handise, as a
general tiling, make a meagre showing.
The dead body of a man was fouud
floating under a lot of loose lumber at
Snodgrass & Fields’ saw mill, at Chatta¬
nooga, Tenn. The body was in such an
advanced stage of decomposition as to
defy identification. But from clotting
aud papers found on the body, it proved
to be John Cochran, a well-known work¬
ingman who disappeared mysteriously
about three weeks ago.
A Farmers’ Alliance warehouse is be¬
ing built in close proximity to the othei
warehouses on Pine stieet, Albany, Ga.
It is at present a large wooden lrame.
Mr. Will Mock, the contractor, says:
“The warehouse will fill up the half acre
entire, being 105 by 210 feet. It will be
covered throughout, roof and walls, with
corrugated iron from them Cincinnati. I will
have it ready for to weigh cotton
in by the first of August.
James A. Patterson, Jr., of Waynes¬
boro, made an assignment Monday to A.
C Braxton, an attorney of Staunton, Ya.
IIis assets are over $00,000, aud debts
less than $10,000. Patterson owned and
operated and the did largest flouring mill in the
valley, a large business. He has
left the couutry. No reason is given for
li s absence or for his assignment. He
was a prominent and influential citizen,
and chairman of the democratic county
committee.
The people along the line of Lee
county, Ga., are greatly excited over the
alleged Pickett, appearance in their midst ol
John a negro, who was hanged
in Lee county, on the 14th of June. Af¬
ter his body was cut down it was placed
in a pine boat, and hurriedly driven off
to Sumter county, where he was born,
for burial. A week later it was rumored
that he had been resuscitated and nursed
ha k to health. When asked as to where
Pickett was living the negroes relused
to talk, alleging that he should would throw a
spell over them if they betray hts
whereabouts.
A BIG SALE.
AH AMERICAN STEEL FACTORY SOLD T(J
ENGLISH CAPITALISTS.
The Otis Iron and Steel company, th«
greatest manufacturing concern in Cleve¬
land,^ syndicate O., has for $4,500,000. been sold to The an 6ale English
was
made through President Charles A. Otis
and Treasurer Thomas Jop ing, who
went to London last Febiuary and re¬
turned with representatives of English
capi alists, who will float the securities
of the new company on the English mar¬
ket. The securities will consist of $1,-
500,000 of six per cent debenture bonds,
$1,500,000 of eight per cent preferred
shares and $1,500,000 common share*.
The plant employs 1,000 men.
CHANGES IN BUOYS.
Changes of buoys at the entrance to
gimon’s Sound. Georgia are an-
mmilced bj the light house board as f
lowg . “A bell buoy, painted black, has
b e n ^ placed a little to the southward and
east ard of the po9ition formerly tS oecu-
,* • mo r ri td and has now No -
bc '^e the entrance oell buoy. A sec-
l ,alnted red and
«‘nibered 4, has been plaoed m . the po-
J ™
ca can f bll ottoy, o y painted patnteJ blaTand^numbered Dla^k and numDereu as 1 1,
^ ^ ° f X^reTof the Wfeck ° f th * Su°n 9U
bcam •
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MURDEREDJHIS MtiRn'RPn HlQ TFNANTS TEN
.
Mrs. E.tcnshaver and child were hru-
tally murdered on the farm of Joh-. Gil-
man, near Coquillc City, Oregon, Tlmrs-
day ni-ht, and buried in a gulch near the
house, where they were found Monday,
The husband was working up the ti^fr,
returning home Saturday. They were
tenant-; of Gilman, who wanted them to
leave, which they reused until th<lr
expired. After the murder of the
wire aud ch id, Gilman E.t’enshaver laid in wait Fat-| Ins
nrday, and attacked < i, i
approach to his home, but he escaped
an 1 gave the alarm, wheh n su-te in
the di-coverv of the r< mams or lus wife
and child, mid a read j-made gjave .or
thehusbmd. Gilman and Ins wife were
arrested.
▲ fantasy. ’
What is a girl’s life, pray!
A little garden space
Within whose every spring -
She sees her beauteous face;
Where she is sole possessor
Of all she hears and sees,
From the fluting of the birds in summer
To the honey of the bees;
Rosy wreaths and strings of pearl
All belong to the happy girl.
And what is a boy's life, pray!
A quiet, shady nook
Where he has nothing to do but play
Nor ever read a book;
A kingdom of contentment,
Which every hour discloses
Some new delight of sense and sight.
Fresh growth of sweeter ro -es;
A rich inheritance of joy
That crowns with light the happy boy.
We might be more than happy
And lead such perfect lives,
If all of us were children
And none were husbands, wives;
But boys grow, and girls grow,
Together or apart,
Till some day each discovers
The other has a heart.
This halves their joys and doubles their
cares,
And ends in wrinkles and gray hairs;
In the feet that rock the cradle,
In hands that toil for bread.
The trouble about the living.
The sorrow above the dead.
What can we do, then? Nothing more
Than those who begot and bore us;
They make our lives before us
As theirs were made before,
We must be up and doing,
Maidens flying and men pursuing;
Then hey! for billing and cooing,
And ho! for wooing and winning.
The world will never mend;
Love was before the beginning,
And will be after the end.
— B. H. Stoddard, in N. Y. Independent.
PITH AND POINT.
The Indian question—“How?”
A perfect paradox—A beautiful plane
tree.
A man of small caliber is the greatest
bore.
Of what kind of timber is the post of
honor?
A boom in pickled pork is a case of salt
rising.
A lynching party always travels at a
break-neck speed.
Oftentimes the boldest of ventures is to
venture an opinion.
Life is no chestnut; it is story that is
only told once .—New York Herald.
An old actor, painting his face to look
youthful, is “making up” for lost time.
If you are traveling iu a Pullman car
you want to give a fat man a wide berth.
—New Orleans Picayune.
Appropriate Ending to a Mask-Maker’s
Advertisement.—“New features constant¬
ly added .”—Pittsfield Sun.
The Electoral College has no baseball
team. It is the only college of the kind
in the country .—New York News.
Friend—“What’s the matter, #83 fel¬
low 7 , you look haggard?” Author (of re¬
jected stories)—“I wish I was Haggard.”
The town which flies the highest
Sinks the deepest in the gloom;
A big delinquent tax list
Always supersedes a boom.
Female barbers are not having much
success. Gentlemen will not go to them
because they dislike to be cut by a lady.
—Burlington Free Press.
“Bromley, I hear you are going to
housekeeping.” “Yes, Darlinger.”
“What have you got toward it?” “A
wife .”—Detroit Free Press.
Geologists tell us of a time in the
earth’s history when vegetation had a
monopoly of the life upon it. That time
must have been the foliage.— Cleveland
Sun.
One of the worst of nuisances is
The chap who’s up at early dawu
Making Rasping the lawn-mower ziziziziziz.
the whiskers off the lawn!
—Somerville Journal.
“You wish to marry one of my daugh¬
ters? The youngest will get 15,000 marks,
the second 30,000 and the oldest 45,000.”
“You don’t happen to have one still
older ?”—Fliegende Blaetter.
One of the sad things connected with
the hard times in Persia is the fact that
many men with from fifteen to twenty-
five w'ives have had to reduce the number
to three or four .—Detroit Free Press.
Old Lady (to her niece)—“Good graci¬
ous, Matilda, but it’s cold' My teeth are
actually chattering.” Loving Niece—
“Well, don’t let them chatter too much,
or they may tell where you bought ’em.”
Tell me not in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream,
While the maid of forty summers
Keeps her passion for ice cream.
—Texas Siftings.
A young Frenchman, living at Bor¬
deaux, has advertised that he will sail
for the United States in July and com¬
mit suicide at Niagara Falls on the first
day of August. Get your tickets now
and avoid the rush .—Detroit Free Press.
It was a Connecticut boy w-lio surprised
his teacher in reading the other day by
his interpretation of the sentence: “There
is a worm; do not tread on him.” He
read slowly and hesitatingly: “There is
warm doughnut: tread on hmil”—-
Christian Register.
She (romantic)—“Oh. how beautifully
significant those Indian names are.’ Ala¬
bama, for instance. ‘Here let us rest!’ ”
He (unromantic, but determined to go
ler one better)—“Yes, and tber s —or—
Monongahela. ‘Here let us drink ! A
pause follows .—New York Herald.
Angling for Dild Cat.
As Mr. H. Montreuil was padd.itig his
P-gue to the mouth of Cffief Menteur
and Lake Boigne, La., wnere he was fishing
f or .rreeu trout, a few days ago, he saw
what he took to be a young deer swim-
ming, not far away, m the water. He
immediately gave chaser but on nearing
the animal he fouud it to be a large wild
cat . The bold fisherman took his rod
and made a cast at the wild cat, His
J he rst hooked aa f\ ^ him u under ^ccessml, tne thigh but at when last
making fast his pole he began paddling
as hard as he could in order to pull the
wild cat under water and drown him.
Finding himself hooked the wildcat
turned to attack the pirogue and its oc-
cup ant, but the latter, by paddling vig-
0r0 usly, kept pulling him tail foremost,
a1 rid in this wav, after a protracted strug-
*
^ iQ whicb he was cear lv worn out,
Mr. wild Montreuil succeeded in drowning'
the cat, and he subsequenrlv landed
biui safely. His spoils for the day con-
of fourteengreen fmawrat trout end one
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