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THE NEWS.
TOCCOA, GEORGIA.
Among the American Indians there are
28,663 church members
California has 187,500 homesteads of
160 acres each that have not been applied
for.
The United States occupies one-third
of the entire space devoted to machinery
at the Paris Exposition.
It is estimated that the Protestant
churches of the United States contribute
annually $11,250,000 to foreign missions.
Standard oil and electric lights have
combined to make Cleveland, Ohio, the
richest city of its population in the world.
According to the officials of the United
States Mint there are 100,000,000 of the
old-fashioned copper cents still out but
not in circulation.
It has been decided that we are to pay
high for our sugar this year, but we are
likely, says the Courier-Journal , to get
our biscuits cheap.
The Legislature of Missouri at its recent
session passed a bill which prohibits the
marriage of first cousins, and declares
such marriages absolutely void.
The Government printing office at
Washington has not yet been able to turn
out in book form all the statistics which
were fathered in the census of 1880.
The Somerville (Mass.) Journal has
noticed that people always fight shy of
the young lawyer. He knows altogether
too much about law to be of any practi¬
cal use.
Rye is the bread-grain of eastern and
central Europe, and Russia alone produces
many more bushels of this than the
United States produces of wheat and rye
together.
Egypt employs 2500 convicts upon its
public works at a very small cost to the
country. When the plans of Dr. Crook-
Bhank, Director-General of Prisons, are
completed, the time of 4000 other prison¬
ers will be profitably employed.
The “scramble for Africa” still contin¬
ues. According to an announcement in
the London Times, a number of leading
financiers of England and the Cape are
about to apply for a charter for a com¬
mercial company to take possession of the
Central Zambesi Basin.
A Chicago woman has appealed to the
courts to protect her against a money
shark who is charging her forty-five per
cent, interest on a loan secured by a
chattel mortgage. In Cincinnati poor
women have been known to pay 120 per
cent., alleges the ^Atlanta Constitution,
without complaining.
A Kansas paper relates that a man in
Saline County sowed wheat on the same
land for three successive dry years with-
out getting a head of grain. A few years
afterward, according to the veracious
chronicler, the wheat began to grow, and
he has harvested immense wheat crops
three successive years without ever plow¬
ing or sowing.
The municipality of Berlin intends to
create a new establishment for epileptics
at Bisdorf, a village near the city. It is
intended to hold 700 patients, but may
bo enlarged to receive 1000, and is to
have a farm or ample grounds attached to
it. It will consist of a central building
and a number of cottages, each with a
garden round it.
Everyone who takes the slightest in¬
terest in natural history will be sorry to
learn that the kangaroo is in danger ol
being extinguished, Its skin is so
valuable that large numbers of young
kangaroos are killed, and high authorities
are of opinion that, unless the process is
stopped, Australians -will soon have seen
the last specimen of this interesting
animal.
The Dunkards, or German Baptists, at
their recent annual meeting at Harrison¬
burg, Va., agreed upon a sweeping reform.
They decided that hereafter the wearing
of gold watches should be held good
cause for expelling the member so offend¬
ing. A like punishment is to be meted
out to those who attend places of amuse-
ment, and no user of tobacco can be placed
on a standing committee.
Chile offers a premium of $4000 Ameri¬
can gold to the successful competitor in
a trial of flour milling machinery, to take
place in Santiago, Chile, in November
next. As there are S00 flour mills in
Chile, which is the great wheat raising
State of South America, it will be seen,
observes the San Francisco Chronicle.that
Die successful competitor not only makes
$4000 but opens a good trade for him¬
self.
A man in Boston employed in an elec¬
trical establishment accidently fell and
instinctively clutched hold of the positive
and negative wires of an electrical bat¬
tery, receiving through his body a full
current of 1500 volte. He was picked up
for dead, but subsequently recovered, and
is now in as good health as before. As
this is a more powerful current than the
electricians propose to give condemned
murderers, muses the Chicago Herald
therearises ,
another objection to the
substitution of electricity for the rope.
GENERAL NEWS.
CONDENSATION OF CURIOUS ,
AND EXCITING EVENTS.
NEWS FROM EVERTWHERE—ACCIDENTS, STRIKES,
FIRES, AND HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST.
Arsenic was placed in the food of foui
children of Joseph Hunter, a planter, liv¬
ing near Star City, Ark., Tuesday, and
three died. The criminal and motive ate
unknown.
The stable and carriage storage place
of Moses Weill, on E-ist Eleventh street,
New York City, burned Sunday morning
with one hundred and twenty-five horses
and fltty carriages; loss $45,000.
The extensive car shops of the Eel
riverdivision of the Wabash road, located
at Butler, Ind., were almost destroyed by
fire Thursday, throwing over one hun¬
dred men out of employment. Several
fine coaches and much valuable machinery
were burned. Loss nearly $100,000.
Thursday morning the bodies of Mrs,
John McGregor and two children were
discovered in ten inches of water in a
small creek near Youngstown, Ohio.
The woman had first drowned her chil¬
dren and then herself. Her husband had
left her in destitute circumstances, and
she was recently seen begging for food.
A. W. Callen shot and instantly killed
Byron J. Charles and Frank Work at his
tnining camp at Oro Flno, Arizona, Mon¬
day evening. Witnesses state that the
trouble arose over a mining claim which
Callen had been working,and that Charles
and Work attempted to drive him from
the claim when he shot them.
Saturday A dispatch from Minneappolis says:
powered night a gang of strikers over¬
the sheriff and police and forced
a large number of coal dock employes to
throw up their jobs. Six of the mob
leaders were arrested. Major McKay
telegraphed Governor Hoard,asking that
troops be sent there.
The whaling schooner Franklin arrived
at New Bedford, Mass , Monday morning,
with the crew of the steamer Lorenzo D.
Baker, from Port Antonio, La., for Bos¬
ton, with fruit, before reported overdue.
The steamer was burnea at sea. Her
cargo was valued at $10,000, and the
vessel was insured for $50,000.
A mob of 100 men, with black masks
over their faces, attacked the house of
Nancy Vincent, a notorious resort at
Montpelier, Indiana, Thursday night.
One male inmate was whipped with
switches. The Vincent woman was
caught and tarred, and the house and
furniture demolished. The occupants
have fled.
A dispatch from Spring Valley, Ill.,
says; The Spring Valley Coal company
has finished serving evictions on all miners
that are living in their houses. About
100 families or 500 people will be thrown
out of house and home in a few days.
They have no place to go to. It is quite
likely that many of the miners will resist
and trouble will result. The sheriff and
a posse will do the evicting.
Exports of specie from the port of New
York last week, amounted to $3,633,003,
of which $3,379,970 was in gold and
$253,133 in silver. Of the total exports,
$2,874,285 in gold, and $252,400 iu sil¬
ver went to Europe, $2,742,643 in gold
going direct to Paris, and $505,585 in
gold and $733 in silver sent to South
America. Imports of specie for the
week $116,186 amounted to $156,595, of which
was in gold and $40,400 in sil¬
ver.
Captain Abbott and seven other secret
service men, Thursday morning, made a
descent on the United States hotel, near
Dayton, O., to capture a gang of counter¬
feiters. Officer Donnella was wounded
twice in the head, but not fatally. An
escaping counterfeiter was shot in the
side, but the extent of his injuries is not
known. Two carpet-sacks of counterfeit
ten dollar bills have been found, and the
search is not ended. The hotel belongs
to Nelson Driggs, an aged and noted
counterleiter.
Bob Younger, the Missouri outlaw,
must die in prison. He is in the last
stages of consumption, and prominent
men of Missouri have been trying to se¬
cure bis pardon, Governor Alerriam
said to Col. Bronough and ex-Governoi
Marshall, on their presentation of a large
petition: “I may as well siy to you
now once for all, that I have my own per¬
sonal feeling and prejudice in the nut¬
ter, and I should not be moved to inter¬
fere in the case of Bob or any of them,
even if Haywood’s wife could come from
the grave and sign your petition, or if
Haywood’s surviving daughter should
join in your appeal. ”
Hiram Hoad ley, Jr., formerly a prom¬
inent county politician and a prosperous
citizen of Edgerton, Ohio, whose
wife was seeking a divorce, early Sunday
morning secreted himself near the farm
house of his father-in-law, where his wife
was staying and killed her with a re-
volver as she passed by to milk the cows.
He then shot and instantly killed her
father, who was attracted by the pistol
shots. He pursued the mother and a
sister of his wife also, but they escaping
he returned to where his wife’s body °
and killed himself. was
A still exploded in Dodge & Colcott’s
chemical works, at the corner of Morgau
and J., Washington Saturday afternoon. streets, Jersey A City,°N.
brick building, 100 by 25 feet, three-story
with a
large stock of essential oils and valuable
drugs, was destroyed. The building oc¬
cupied by Ames & Co.’s spike works,
across scorched. Washington street, was slightly
known drug Dodge & Colcott are a well-
firm with offices on Wil¬
liam street. New' York city. Their loss
is estimated at $120,000 on building and
machinery and $200,000 on essential oils
and other stock.
A general strike was inaugurated at
West Superior, Wis., on Saturday, among
the laporers, ana over ouu are out. i ney
demand an increase from $1.50 per day
to $1.75. They visited the St. Paul aud
Pacific coal docks, where fourteen men
uuder were working police at forty cents an hour rate
protection, They over-
powered the police and routed the men.
The St. Paul and Pacific and Northwest¬
ern Fuel company refuse to meet the
concessions by the Lehigh coal heavers of
fifty cents an hour. They claim they can
hire men at forty cents and propose to do
so. One of the leaders has beeu ar¬
rested. A company of state militia has
been ordered to the scene of trouble.
A shocking accident occurred Monday
morning on the Philadelphia and Read¬
ing railroad, near Mahoney City, Pa.
Three boys were driving in a buggy from
Mahoney City to Frackville. As they
approached the railroad crossing a pas¬
senger train passed, closely followed by
a little combination engine. They at¬
tempted to cross as soon as the passenger
train had passed. The combination
engine struck the buggy, smash¬
ing it into splinters, killing the
horse and terribly injuring the boys.
One of them was thrown forty feet and
shockingly mangh d and instantly killed.
The other two were very badly, and it is
believed, fatally hurt.
A JUDGE KILLED
fN ATTEMPTING TO GET OFF A CAE HE
FALLS UNDER THE WHEELS.
Judge John T. Clarke, judge of tht
Pataula circuit, was the victim of a hor¬
rible accident Monday, at Smithville,Ga.,
in which he lost his life in the t*vinkling
of an eye. His head was almost com-
pletely severed from his body, beneath
the wheels of the west bound Macon and
Montgomery passenger. He was on his
way to Macon to hold court for Judge
Gustin, having agreed to git in the fa-
tnous Cotton State Life insurance case.
At waits Srnithville, the Macon bound train
until another train can make a
trip to Albany and back. During the
delay, Judge Clarke boarded the Mont¬
gomery when he train attempted to speak to fnend«, and
in to leave, the cars
were full motion. He swung by the
railing, and in attempting to gain foot¬
hold was jerked underneath the wheels
of the coach. His right shoulder and
arm were crushed, a large wound made
on the forehead, the lett arm broken in
several places, and the neck cut
entirely loose from the body.
Judge John T. Clarke was born at Eaton-
ton, Putnam county, Ga., in January,
1834, being 53 years of age. On Maj
May 2d, 1885, John T. Clarke married
Miss Laura F. Fort, a grand niece of Dr.
Tomlinson Fort, of Milledgeville. He
was ordained a minister of the Baptist
Church in 1858. Ia 1863, being then
only twenty-nine years old, he was ap¬
pointed Judge of the Superior Court of
Pataula Circuit, vice Judge Perkins, de¬
ceased. He was, with oue exception, the
youngest man who ever held such a po¬
sition in the state. In April, 1808, by n
special order of General Meade, then
military commandant, the Judge was re¬
moved from office Judge Augustus
Reese, of Madison, shared the same fate.
These were the only judges in Georgia
who were expelled from office m that
way. In 1868 JudgefClarke was chosen
by the State Democratic Convention as
elector at large, with General John B.
Gordon, for Seymour and Blair. Later
he was elected to the State Senate from
the eleventh district, for the term of
1878-79, and took a prominent partin the
legislative work. He was for years
a member of the state executive com¬
mittee, and has always been a staunch
Democrat, but as a judge he had not
since taken an active part in polities.
From 1868 to the latter part of 1882 he
devoted himself to his profession, at
which time he was elected by the Legis¬
lature to the judgeship of the Pataula
circuit. Several years ago he was vested
with the degree of LL.D. by Mercer uni¬
versity. He was a brother of Judge
Marshall J. Clarke, Mrs. E. E. Rawson,
the late Mrs. Sidney Root, Mrs. J. P.
Logan and Miss Clarke, of Atlanta, Ga.
He leaves a wife and one son.
THE CROPS,
OFFICIAL BULLETIN OF THE CONDITION OF
THE WEATHER AND GROWING CROPS.
The weather crop bulletin of the sig¬
nal office at Washington, D. C., says that
the week ending July 20th has been
slightly warmer than usual in states west
of the Mississippi River and in Missis¬
sippi, Maryland, Delaware and portions
of Pennsylvania, Virginia and Alabama.
About normal temperature prevailed in
the South Atlantic States, Ohio and the
upper Mississippi valleys, while the daily
temperature iu New England and the
upper lake of region, including northern
portions Indiana, Illinois and
Ohio, has averaged about three de¬
grees below the mean for the week.
There has beeu more than the average
amount of rainfall during the week gen¬
erally throughout the Northern states.
The rainfall has been in excess in Geor¬
gia and some portions of Alabama, South
Carolina and Texas. Over the remaining
portions of the Southern States generous
rains occurred. Seasonable rains from
January 1 to July 20 continue in excess
from New York southward to Florida,
and from Texas northward to the Mis¬
souri Valley, also in Northern Illinois and
Eastern Wisconsin. Over the greater
part of the cotton region and the princi¬
pal corn-producing states, the
rainfall for the season generally
exceeds 80 per cent of the normal.
Throughout the principal corn produc¬
ing states from Ohio west to Nebraska,
the weather was generally favorable to
the crop, which is reported in excellent
condition, but excessive rains cause dam¬
age to wheat and oats and interrupt har¬
vesting in some localities. In the south¬
west, including Texas, Louisiana aud
Arkansas, the excess of sunshine and
all light showers proved very favorable to
growing crops, and cotton is report¬
ed as much improved. Kentucky reports
the tobacco crop improving under the
favorable weather of the w r eek; that the
harvesting of a good crop of oats is in
progress, and that corn was never in bet¬
ter condition. In Tennessee, Mississippi
and Alabama excessive rains have caused
some damage to cotton, which is greatly
in need of culture. In middle Tennessee
wheat was damaged, and tobacco is
growing well. The weather was unfa¬
vorable for farm work. Iu the south
Atlantic states and Virginia the weather
was especially favorable for all growing
crops, and the prospects are excellent.
Respecting the Louisiana rice crop, it is
reported that heavy rains and high wa¬
ter in the Mississippi river are doing
wonders, especially for late plantings.
It is conceded the outcome is likely to
be six or seven hundred thou-and sacks.
If the present weather continues, the
crop is likely to be the largest aver pro¬
duced in that state.
WILL BE TESTED.
At the request of Goveuor Merriain, of
Minnesota, Attorney General Clapp ren-
dered an opinion upon the John Day
Smith law to regulate executions, and
pronounces it constitutional. The law
becomes of interest, as it will be tested
Friday, when Albert Bulow will be
hanged at Little Falls. The law pro¬
vides that no newspaper shall be repre¬
sented at executions, an l no paper sh ul
print any facts about them except the
hour of occurrence. The newspapers
have arranged to print extended reports.
FATAL SHARK BITE.
Ed Roe, a young Englishman, while
fifteen swimming in Cumberland sound with
other boys from Fernandina, Fia.,
was struck by a shark, which bit off the
calf of one leg. Roe was taken into a
beat at once, but bled to death before
medied assistance could be obtained.
This is the first instance known of a
shark attacking a man in those waters.
A PREACHER TO HANG.
•Henry Duncan, the Free Will Baptist
preacher, who recently murdered his w ife
in Dale county, Ala., and eloped with a
youDg lady in the neighborhood, was
captured and tried in the circuit court o,
Dale county, aud convicted and sentenced
to death by hanging.
SOUTHERN NEWS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM VA¬
RIOUS POINTS IN TEE SOUTH.
A CONDENSED ACCOUNT OP WHAT IS GOING ON OF
IMPORTANCE IN THE SOUTHERN STATES.
At the Pratt Mines, near Birmingham,
Ala., the Thursday night, burglars entered
residence of R. W. Baker, and se-
cured $1S0 in money, and $1,800 in notes
and checks,
On Saturday Professor R. N. Pool, of
Staunton, Va., sold the Speculator iron
containing ore property at Waynesboro junction,
3,000 acres, to a company of
which General W. S. Rosecrans is presi¬
dent.
Governor Gordon, Monday, appointed
Mr. Malcolm Johnson, of Atlanta, Ga.,
Judge George M. Lester, of Marietta,and
A. F. Wofford, of Banks county, to serve
as assessors for the Atlanta and Charlotte
Air-Line railroad.
A negro professing to have supernatu¬
ral powers and attempting to imperso¬
nate Christ, is attracting considerable
excitement in and around Canton, Ga.,
and has succeeded in enlisting a number
of followers among the more ignoraut
negroes.
The steamer St, Nichols, with 500 col¬
ored excursionists on board, ran into the
closed drawbridge over St. Augustine
creek, four miles south of Savanuah, Ga.,
at 9 o’clock Saturday night, demolishing
the forward part of the steamer, killing
two women, injuring twenty-eight men
and women, some of whom will die.
Friday evening a slight shock of earth¬
quake was felt in Memphis, Tenn.
Crockery and glass were rattled and in
some instances were thrown from shelves,
hut no other evidence given besides a
rocking motion. Two severe shocks
were felt at Covington, Tenn., thirty-
five miles of Memphis, each shock lasting
several seconds.
Dr. D. T. Lupton,state chemist of Ala¬
bama, has just completed the analysis of
the stomach of Mrs. Heniy Duncau, who
was supposed to have been poisoned a
few days ago, by her husband, a free will
Baptist preacher, not far from Ozark, in
Dale county, Ala. The analysis shows
the stomach contained morphine. Pub¬
lic sentiment is very strong against Mr.
Duncan.
Thursday the body of Mrs. Fulmer,the
wife of Engineer Fulmer, of the Duck-
town branch of the Western North Caro¬
lina railroad, was found in a pond in the
suburbs of Asheville, N. C., and near the
Fulmer residence. The deceased, a
young wife, conceiving the idea that her
husband did not show the attention to
her that he formerly did, threw herself
into the pond.
Comptroller-General Wright, at Atlan¬
ta, Ga., received notice Monday from the
Atlanta and West Point railroad of their
intention to appeal from the assessment
made by the state of their property. They
gave notice that Air. L. P. Grant would
act as arbitrator for the road. There
is a difference of $88,000 between the
road and the state’s estimate of the
property.
The board of directors of the Insane
asylum, investigation at Raleigh, N. C., after a con¬
tinuous for three weeks of
charges against Dr. Eugene Grissom, su¬
perintendent, charged with immorality
with female attendants, cruelty to pa¬
tients and the misuse of public property,
on Saturday, rendered a decision of not
guilty on all of the charges. The vote
stood two for conviction and six for not
guilty.
A rather novel suit was entered in the
criminal court at Durham, N. C , ou Sat¬
urday. About a month ago a young
man by the name of Joe Fraley married
Miss Bettie Hall, near Durham, or at
least Farley made Miss Hall believe she
was his legal wife. They lived together
until Friday, when the fact bacame
known that the marriage was bogus. Miss
Hall has instituted legal proceedings
against Fraley, and if caught he will be
prosecuted.
A forty-horse power boiler exploded at
Mr. J. C. Wisenbaker’s mill, about one
mile from Valdosta, Ga., Saturday morn¬
ing. The wreck was terrible and com¬
plete. The night watchman, an old ne¬
gro named Cason, was instantly killed.
He was thrown about thirty feet by the
explosion, and nearly every bone in his
body was broken. The engine house
was a total wreck, and the mill carriage
badly damaged. The debris was scat¬
tered in all directions.
At Elizabethtown, Ky., Friday, Edi¬
tors Stovall and Duncan, of the Hardin
county Independent, and Editor Givans,
of Welcome Tidings, were tried for pub¬
lishing a letter signed Judge Lyoch,
threatening punishment to a young man,
who, it is alleged, had killed his wife,
but had beeu whitewashed by the coro¬
ner’s jury. Stovall and Duncan were
convicted by Justice Omeara and sent to
jail. Givans swore Omeara off the bench
and was tried by Magistrate Terry, who
dismissed the prisoner, though the of¬
fense and evidence were the same in both
cases.
A SALT COMBINE.
A COMPANY ORGANIZED TO CONTROL THE
SALT INTERESTS OF THE COUNTRY.
The North American Salt Company,
the incorporation of which York,has has been made
public iu Albany, New a capi¬
tal stock of eleven million dollars and
proposes to issue four million dollar;
worth of bonds. The advertisement
states that the object of the company is
to unify and systematize the salt interest
of the country. The prospectus states
that arrangements have been made for
the purchase or control of nearly all ex¬
isting salt producing properties on the
North American continent and that these
number 150 different works aud compan¬
ies. It is also stated that a “liberal div¬
idend” can be declared. In its prospec¬
tus the company insists that it is not a
trust aud as proof of this states that any¬
body may buy stock who will pay for it.
DISASTROUS FLOODS,
A special from the flood district,
near Parkersburg, W, Va., Sunday night,
give the following list of drowned. It
i s thought that the death list will be
much larger when the districts uow cut
off from the outside world are heard
from: Robert Black, Mrs. Black, Mrs.
.Thomas Hughes and four children;
Edward Bose, Mrs. Isaac Roberts,
Mrs. Orville West and two chil¬
dren; J. Bailey, R. Kegier and wife:
Mrs. Lasa Tucker, and a man whose
name cannot be ascertained. The dam¬
age to property and crops cannot be es¬
timated at present. Hundred of people
lost all they possessed and many families
are homeless. A later dispatch says the
village of Morristown, W. V., was swept
entirely aw^ay. Great suffering exists.
The commissioners of Wood county will
issue an appeal for aid.
CURIOUS FACTS.
A Charlestown (Mass.) man claims to
prove that the earth is flat and floats in
water.
The illumination of the dome and
cupola of St. Peter’s, Rome, usually re¬
quires over 200 men.
The master and engineer of a trading
steamer on the Columbia River, Oregon,
are husband and wife.
A fifteen-year-old boy of Fitchville,
Conn., has trained six sheep to harness
and drives them daily about the village.
The machinery palace of the Paris
Exposition is 1400 feet long and the
largest building ever constructed under
a single roof.
The fortune of the richest man in New
South Wales, Sydney Burdekin, began
in pawnbroking. He is worth several
millions of dollars.
A “sandwich man,” in New York
parlance, is a man who walks along the
streets between two advertising signs,
strapped over his shoulders.
Windmills are said to have been origi¬
nally introduced into Europe by the
Knights of St. John, who took the hint
from what they had seen in the cru¬
sades.
Sea lions are so plentiful ou the coast
of California this year as to be a nuis¬
ance, especially to fishermen, while their
barking annoys the farmers for two miles
inland.
In China grief is associated with a
white dress, in Ethiopia with brown, in
Turkey with violet, and in Egypt with
yellow. Thoroughly civilized nations all
affect the black.
A rustic chair, bought by a citizen of
York, Penn., was made of greon sassa¬
fras wood, and a few warm days have
caused it to put forth many sprouts,
some an inch long.
Mathematics has its oddities. The
multiplication of 987,654,321 by 45
gives 44,444,444,445. Reversing the
order and multiplying 123,456,789 by
45 a result equally odd is obtained,
5,555,555,505.
Judge J. H. Gaston, of Merriweather,
Ga,, has jumped across a thirteen-foot
gully every birthday of his life for many
years. The other day he was seventy-
five years old, and he made the jump
with perfect ease.
A man on Long Island, N. Y., has had
a dog fish in a pond for twenty-eight
years, and there is no sign of his being
worn out yet. He figures that the life of
a dog fish who takes proper care of him¬
self is at least forty years.
J. E. Vardeman, who died in Sparta,
Ga., a few days ago, possessed a won¬
derfully retentive memory. He knew
the greater part of the Bible by heart,
and had a vast array of political and
historical facts at his tongue’s end.
Beekeepers at Independence, Inyo
County, Cal., complain that for no reason
that they can see their bees are idling and
not gathering honey. One man keeps a
hive on a platform scale and says it did
not increase in weight over a pound in
a week.
A curious feature in ornithology is
reported from Eckington, Yorkshire,
England, where a hen has hatched two
chickens from one egg, both chickens
being in a perfect state except that they
are joined together on one side of the
membranes of the wing.
A Montgomery (N. Y.) farmer has a
colt that has learned to ring the farm
bell by catching the rope in his teeth and
prancing back and forth. He kuows, too,
when to ring it—at daybreak, to awaken
the farm hands, and at noon, to call them
to dinner, and is never five minutes late
or early.
An Experiment in Fish-Culture.
Last spring about half a million young
shad were placed soon after hatching in a
large pond in Washington, and were care¬
fully tended and fed and protected from
enemies during the whole of the period
which the young shad spends in fresh
water. The young fishes prospered and
grew rapidly, and nearly all of them were
still alive when the time for migrating to
the ocean came in the fall. The gates of
the pond were then opened one morning,
and all day long the silver stream oi
young shad poured out through them and
started on the long journey down to the
sea. All naturalists will look forward
with the greatest interest to the time
when these fishes return, bringing back
with them to the fishermen of the Poto¬
mac the wealth of food which they have
gathered in the ocean. In the mean time
we may indulge the hope that the strong
constitutions which they have acquired
during their carefully nurtured youth will
enable them to excel their less favored
brotheis, and that when they reach oui
market they will have some of the ex¬
cellence of our improved garden pro¬
ducts.
But this is not all. These shad were
reared from selected eggs, The adults
which entered our waters first in the
spring are most valuable to the fishermen,
since they are put upon the market at a
time when fresh fish are scarce and high
priced. Our experience with garden
vegetables justifies the expectation that
the eggs of early shad shall themselves
give birth to early shad. Now, all the
young fishes which were put into the Fish
Commission pond were hatched from eggs
taken from the earliest shad of the season,
and, if this process of selection be pur¬
sued for a few years, we may feel confi¬
dent that the Potomac River will soon
abound in shad of extra quality at the
time when fine shad are hardest to get
and most valuable .—Popular Science
Monthly.
A Humorous Plant.
A good-natured plant has been dis¬
covered, one which has the same desire
is Punch is supposed to feel, namely, to
make people laugh. The seeds are black,
resembling a French bean in size and
shape, and have a sweet taste, a flavor
somewhat like opium and a sickening
odor. Small doses of the pulverized
seeds give rise to peculiar manifestations.
The person laughs boisterously, sings,
dances and cuts up all kinds of fantastic
capers. The excitement continues about
an hour, w r hen the subject falls into a
deep sleep of an hour or more, and
awakens utterly unconscious of his late
ridiculous behavior .—London Court Jour¬
nal.
Cold Comfort.
The ice.
$
The price.
This is an illustrated “pome,” and is
especially applicable to the present sea¬
son.— Rutland Telegram.
WASHINGTON, D V C.
MOVEMENTS OF THE PRESIDENT
AND EI8 ADVISERS.
APPOINTMENTS, DECISIONS, AND OTHER MATTERS
OF INTEREST FROM THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
Sir Julian Pauncefote, British minin-
isterto the United States, visited the
state department Thursday, and ba, a
adieu to the officials York for for a England, reason. and Hj
sails from New October.
will return to Washington in
The president appointed the following
collectors of customs: William Gas-
ton Henderson, of Mississippi, for
the district of Pearl river,
MississipDi; N. Wright Cuney, o!
Texas, for the district of Galveston,
Texas; Henry DeB. Clay, of Virginia,
for the district of Newport News, Va.
Collectors of Internal revenue—Jamesi D.
Br'adv, of Virginia, for the second dis*
trict of Virginia: P. H. McCaull, of
Virginia, for the sixth district of Viigm*
ia; Joseph W. Burke, of Texas, for the
third district of Texas. M. M. Hurley,
of Indiana, to be the third auditor of the
treasury; J. H. Franklin, of Kansas, to
be deputy second auditor of the treasury;
James J. Dikerson, of Texas, to be mar¬
shal of the United States for the eastern
district of Texas, Milton C. Elstner, of
Louisiana, to be attorney of the United
States for the western district of Louisi¬
ana. To be consuls: Evans Blake, of
Illinois, at Crofield; Henry C. Fisk, or
Vermont, at St. Johns, Quebec; Jasper
P. Bradley, of West Virginia, at South¬
ampton ; Eugene O. Fechet, of Michi¬
gan, at Piedras Negras; Archibald J.
Simpson, of Colorado, at Paso del Norte;
Horace E. Pugh, of Indiana, at Newcas¬
tle, England. engin-
In their reports to the chief of
eers of operations under the river and
harbor bill, the various officers in charge
make the following recommendations of
appropriations for continuing the work
next year: By Captain Milliam^ M.
Black, St. Johns River, Florida, $576,-
500; Volusia bar, $500; northwest en¬
trance Key West harbor, $300,000; Ca-
lt/i’Sahatchie River, $3,600; Pease River,
$10,000; Manatee River, $10,000; Tam¬
pa Bay, $25,000; Withlacoochee River,
$5,400; Cedar Keys harbor, $5,000; Se-
wanee River, $5,000. By General W. T.
Smith—Inland Water Bay from Chinco-
teague Bay, Virginia, to Delaware Bay,
at Lewes, $100,000. By Captain William
H. Bixby—Roanoke River, Va., $60,000;
Pamlico and Tar Rivers, N. C., $15,000;
Contentnia Creek $30,000; Trent River,
$8,500; Neuse River, $60,000; Inland
waterway from Beaufort to New River,
$35,000; Beaufort harbor, $38,000; New
River, $17,000; Black River, *20,000;
Cape Fear River, $420,000; Yadkin
River, $10,000; harbor at Georgetown,
S. C., $20,000; WinyardBay, $300,000.
By Captain Frederick V. Abbott—Lum¬
ber River, N. C., $30,000; Mingo Creek,
S. C., $12,000; Clear Creek. Salkiehatchie $5,000;
Edisto River, $12 385;
River, $5,000; Little Pee Dee River,
$50,000; Wateree River, $12,500; Con-
garee River, $39,500; Wappoo cut $55,- con¬
necting Stone and Ashley Rivers,
000; Wuccamma River, $73,000.
ELECTRICITY’S WORK.
SEVERAL PEOPLE KILLED AND MUCH
DAMAGE DONE BY LIGHTNING.
During a terrific thunderstorm Satur¬
day, which prevailed throughout the
central and western portion of Massa¬
chusetts, Janies H. Kierner, provision
dealer at East Brookfield, was struck by
an electric bolt and instantly killed.
Louis Harper, who kept a restaurant, was
also struck and knocked across the room,
his ear being nearly severed. James
Corcoran, baggagemaster at the Boston
and Albany raiiroal station, was also
prostrated by the shock. The lightning
badly damaged the switch boards of the
telephone exchange, besides burning out
nearly all the local lines of the New
England Telephone and Telegraph Ex¬
change Company ... A Pioneer Press
special from Sturgis, Dakota, says:
Lightning struck the residence of Sam¬
uel Layster, in Whitewoods, seven miles
west of St. Paul, Min., Saturday night,
during a heavy storm. A son of Lays¬
ter, aged twenty-two years, was instantly
killed. The house caught fire and was
totally consumed. A young child also
in the house at the time was sever, ly
shocked. Iu St. Paul the residence of
P. A. Brigham was struck and badly
damaged. A bolt descended at Fort
Meade, one-half mile east of the city,
and struck a school-house occupied by
the government. The building was
badly wrecked. The loss will reach into
the thousands.
FIGHTING ROBBERS.
A SHERIFF AND HIS POSSE HAVE A LIVELY
TIME WITH THIEVES.
Two horse and cattle thieves, and the
dead body of the leader of the gang
passed through Socorro, N. M., Thurs¬
day night. 'They had stolen several
horses from Dedrick’s ranche and four
from a ranche near Albuquerque. They
were Sheriff desperate, and defied arrest. Dep¬
uty Lawson, of Apache county,
organized a posse and soon came upon
the thieves. A general battle took place,
and the leader of the gang, a Mexican,
wts shot dead. The deputy sheriff also
received a serious wound. The other
two surrendered.
RAILROAD ACCIDENT.
TWO MEN DEAD AND ONE DYING—A TER¬
RIBLE WKECK.
Sunday morning, about twelve o’clock,
a terrible accident occurred on the East
Tennessee Road, about four miles from
Brunswick, Ga., by which two men were
killed, three badly injured—one fatally—
and a passenger engine and four freight
cars killed were completely demolished. The
are; Hostler George Douglass,
Fireman Joseph Ames. The injured are:
Yard master liobinett, who is said to be
dying, and Car Cleaners A. J. Anderson
aud Dan Scott, the two latter colored.
A COSTLY FIRE.
A disastrous fire occurred at Columbus,
Iowa, Thuisduy. Half of a four-story
business block on North High street,
owned by the heirs of the Breyfogel es
tate, was completely gutted by the
flames. llte Geiman Furniture Com-
pauy occupied the first and second fl jors,
and their s ock, valued at about $40,-
000, was totally destroyed. The upper
floors were occupied l.y J. A. McAuley’s
awning and tent factory. His loss was
about $6,000. Less on the building waa
about $20,000. The roof on the King
budding, a handsome, six-story brown
stone, supposed to be fite proof, was
burned. The loss was about $1,500.
The total loss is estimated at ab -ut
$75,000 or $80,000. Three firemen wete
injured, but not dangerously.
a/name for the baby.
Prom this list of names you, maybe,;
Can get one to please the baby.
Agnes, Celia, Adelaide, Anna,
Blanche, Agatha, Constance, Hannah;
Claudine, Claudia, Barbara, Phcabe,
Elizabeth, Mabel, Frances, Hebe;
Caroline, Catherine, Eva, Cora,
Corienne, Beatrice, Lilly, Flora; •- I
Augusta, Dorothy, Dorris, Helen,
Grace, Louise, Lettice, Ellen;
Georgia, Gertrude, Ruth, Estella,
Julia, Rosalie, Arabella;
Lucy, Winnifred, Portia, Laura, >
Eloise, Prudence, Patience, Clara;
Myra, Myrtle, May, Malvina,
Amanda, Enid, Rose, Sabina;
Antoinette, Rosalind, Ann, Cornelia,
Rosamond, Nanette, Joan, Cordelia;
Mary, Margaret, Edith, Ida,
Penelope, Emma, Aleen, Ada;
Johanna, Ophelia, Olivia, Jane,
Regina, Sarah, Sophia, Elaine: J.
Harriet, Louisa, Kate, Elvira,
Pauline, Paulina, Lucinda, Almira;
Hypatia, Eunice, Henrietta,
Euphemia, Sybil, Alfredetta;
Charlotte, Milincent, Maud, Matilda,
Theresa, Adelaide, Pearl, Clotilda;
Marlon, Miriam, Josephine,
Victoria, Florence, Imogen©;
Virginia, Magdaline, Isabella.
Eliza, Isabel, Cinderella; u
Felicia, Alice, Gladys, Bertha,
Eleanor, Ursula, Clarissa, Martha;
Juliet, Adelina, Venus, Amelia,
Georgianna, Rosamond, Violet, Adelia;
Daisy, Ethel, Bridget, Annie,
Eve, Eliza, Clothilde, Fanny;
Angelica, Mercy, Angelina,
Nancy, Gwendolyn, Christina. }
Arnold, Anthony, Peter, Paul,
Christopher, Isaac, Hobart, Saul; <
Clement. Conrad, David, Silas,
Dennis, Richard, Francis, Cyrus;
Edmund, Edward, George, Adolphus,
Edgar, Edwin, Luke, Augustus;
Ferdinand, Henry, Harry, Rudolf
Julian, Julius, Gerald, Adolph;
Hiram, Ebner, Kenneth, Giles,
Nathan, Reuben, Percy, Miles; ; t
Frederick, Everard, Felix, Justh>
Eustace, Ernest, Evan, Austin; i
Peleg, Owen, Grover, Victor,
Gregory, Hilary, Jacob, Hector;
Francis, Elijah, Benjamin, Thomas,
Alphonso, Alexander, William, Morris;
Augustus, Samuel, Abraham, Abram,
Arthur, Alfred, Albert, Adam;
Mathew, Mark, Mathias, John,
Columbus, Cyril, Jonathan;
Basil, Robert, Thaddens, Horace;
Raphael, Simon, Asa, Maurice;
Timothy, Solomon, Esau, Lewis;
Gustav us, Goddard, Harold, Lucas; >-
Jasper, Joseph, Allan, Elias,
Jonah, Titus, Hugh, Tobias;
Roderick, Charles, Theobald, Herman,
Roger, Roland, Rodney, Aaron;
Sebastian, Stephen, Guy, Cornelius,
Theodore, Tracy, Ralph, Theophilus;
Jacob, James, Jerome, Job, Geoffrey,
Reginald, Philip, Raymond, Humphrey;
Walter, Reynold, Randall, Joshua,
Randolph, Richard, Michael, Esau;
Patrick, Philebert, Lucian, Andrew,
Leonard, .Orville, Frank, Bartholomew;
Nicholas, Oliver, Martin, Godfrey,
Manuel, Daniel, Eben, Jaffrey,
Eugene, Ebenezer, Aaron, Ethelbert,
Simon, Gilbert, Hubert, Herbert.
—H. C. Dodge, in Detroit Free Press.
PITH AND POINT.
Glass eyes ought to be made of peer
glass.
The careless servant is a great piece
maker in the household.
The silence that speaks—The conversa¬
tion between two deaf mutes.
The mariner is always glad to see a
lighthouse, but this cannot be said of the
actor.
“Has Charlie a sister?” “No, but he
is going to have one as soon as he pro¬
poses tome.”— Life.
Old Bore—“Which party in the
church do you favor most?” She—“I
prefer a wedding party.”— Fun.
Jones—“I’ve just been engaged in a
shady transaction.” Brown — 44 Why,
how was that?” Jones—“I bought an
awning.”
“Do you want to buy this hand-book?”
“Do you call that ponderous quarto a
hand-book?” “Certainly; it’s a work on
palmistry.”— Life.
Railroad Patron—“Why don’t you
have a clock here?” Station Agent—
“Got tired telling people it was right.”
—New York Tribune.
‘ ‘What cruel luck! Just as I had made
up my mind to be an out-and-out pessi¬
mist, this joy mast needs come in the
way.”— Fliegen.de Blaetter.
Wife—“Where shall we hide the sil¬
ver while we are away?” Husband—
“Put it in the pockets of your dresses ia
the closet.”— Harper's Bazar.
Teacher—“Name some of the most
important things existing to-day which
were unknown 100 years ago.” Tommy
—“Us .”—Terre Haute Express.
“I want to write a letter to the Secre¬
tary of the Navy. Shall I address him
as ‘Your Excellency?’” “Oh, no; use
the term, ‘Your Warship.’”— Life.
The maid you meet in Fashion’s whirl, i
That you’d ne’er try to woo,
Is just the very kind of girl
Your mother picks for you.
—Life.
Old Lady (to elevator boy)—“Little
boy, do you go up in this elevator all
day!” Little Boy—“No, ma’am. I
come down the other half .”—Philadelphia
Times.
A. (somewhat illiterate) — “I read
something in a paper about idiots. Are
they human beings?” B.—“Certainly;
they are human beings like yourself.’ —
Texas Siftings.
Guest—“See here, waiter! There’s a
pin in this soup. Suppose I had swallowed
it?” Waiter—“It wouldn’t have hurt
yer, sah. Don’t you notice that it am a
safety pin, sah?”— Epoch.
1 ‘This heading, ‘French Duel—A Man
Hurt,’ doesn't fill out the line by about
three-quarters of an inch,” sung out slug
47. “Fill out the line with exclamation
points!” thundered the foreman.— Chi-
caf J° Tribune.
Mr Lytewaite—“Miss Hightone, how
do you like my painting, ‘Columbus Dis¬
covering New'York Bay?’ ” Miss High-
tone_“Oh, the painting is lovely; but
didn’t you forget to paint in the Statue
of Liberty?”— Time.
HIS PROPOSAL.
Edoax Miss Edi h, I —ah — have
somethin" most imporiant to ask you.
Mav * I_that is — Edgar?
Eelith (softly i_What is it, be
Edgar_Mav I— Edith, would you
willing to have our names printed in
the papers, with a hyphen between.—
[Life.