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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.