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THE NEWS. TOCCOA, GEORGIA. •SSSf 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 • _ 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 _ ftt _tv„„ t