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THE NEWS.
TOCCOA, GEORGIA.
Recent statistics show that nine million
Germans live outside of the Fatherland,
of whom seven million ace to be found in
the United States.
The choice of Pierre as the capital of
South Dakota has given the town a
wonderful liooni Men bought lots for
8100 and a week later sold them for
81000 .
The choice of Pierre as the capital ol
South Dakota has given the town a
wonderful boom. Men bought lots foi
|100 and a week later sold them for
$1000.
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The latest British annexation consists
of Humphrey and Ricrson Islands, in the
Bouth Pacific. They form part of the
Manihiki group and lie north of Cook’s
and the Society Islands, and to the north¬
east of Samoa.
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It has often been reported that the
British army is largely composed of
undersized boys instead of stalwart men,
but the returns do not bear out these
statements. Of 202,761 men only 11,596
are under nineteen years of age, -while
thirty-four per cent, are over five feel
tight inches in height.
The managing director of a big tea¬
dealing firm in London stated that he
once saw a leading broker in that city
have sixty teas, ranging within one pen¬
ny per pound in value, weighed up in
duplicate, the 120 pots numbered and
mixed up, he then picking out the sixty
duplicates without a single mistake.
James Bryce, author of “The American
Commonwealth,” has been sued for libel
by A. Oakey Hall, once Mayor of New
York, for connecting him with the Tweed
ring. Both live in England. The com¬
plainant includes about twenty pages ol
the book, that being the space devoted
to an article containing the alleged libel.
Trained dogs for military purposes
have answered so well in Germany that
similar experiments have been made in
the Austrian army. Pointers,sheep dogs
and poodles are the best breeds, and the
dogs will carry messages and ammuni¬
tion, guard depots and perform outpost
duty. One dog recently took a message
over a distance of eight miles in an hour
and five minutes.
The governors of the Bank of France
are trying to discover the author of a
daring robbery of $52,000, Avhich sum
was deposited early in the year by a per-
aon since dead. A receipt was given in
the ordinary course, and lately a man
presented a forged receipt, and Avithdrew
the money. AfterAvard the depositor’s
executors applied with the authentic re¬
ceipt, to withdraw the funds; and the
bank had to order the payment of the
money to its rightful owners.
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Sunday labor in France is by no means
Bo general as a few years ago. Visitors
to Paris cannot fail to notice how many
more ships are shut on Sunday after the
early morning aud now the first step has
been taken toward Sunday rest on the
railways. The Paris-Lyons Railway Com¬
pany recently decided unanimously to
give their employes in the goods stations
a holiday, and intend to gradually intro¬
duce similar reforms into other branches
of the service. In all probability the
other lines will be obliged to follow suit.
Indeed, some of the Northern Railway
directors have already pronounced in
favor of Sunday rest.
The recent reports telegraphed from
Europe, in Avhich the assertion was made
that the oil wells of the Caspian district
were rapidly drying up, is now pro¬
nounced a siock jobbing canard. The
statement was made Avith great positive¬
ness that the supply of oil was diminish-
ing so rapidly that the Russian Govern¬
ment contemplated prohibiting its ex¬
port, and that the steamers which are
now using the oil exclusively for fuel
would not be able to do so much longer,
owing to the threatened high price. De¬
spite the positiveness of the statements
they seemed to have no effect on Ameri¬
can prices, evidently because the Standard
Oil Company keeps thoroughly posted on
the real situation.
If an accurate description of the fores' 1
fires which for two months have been
sweeping over Montana, Idaho and
Washington Territories could be written,
the New York Herald declares it ivould
make a story so thrilling and exciting as
to eclipse in interest and fascination the
most enchanting romance. The forest
fires have been so extensive, so terrible
and destructive that the best informed
pioneer looks at you with blank amaze-
ment when , request , him .
you to place in
figures the value of the timber destvoved
or to give an estimate of the loss in the
Territories. TarriiArLc When it is known that in
one day the fire swept through Montana
over an area of 100 miles iu length and
eighty in width, ana that for weeks the
flames have been doing similar work at
different points in a country stretching
from the eastern slopes of the Rocky
Mountains to the waters of the Pacific,
some vague, indefinite idea of the great
destruction of timber and other property
may be gained. Where but recently
stooijrfall and stately pines now black-
ened stumps and bald and ashen moun-
tain fronts greet the disappointed eye. '
GENERAL NEWS.
CONDENSATION OF CURIOUS ,
AND EXCITING EVENTS.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE—ACCIDENTS, STBUtSI,
FIRES, AND HAPPEKINOS Or INTEREST.
The governor-general of Cuba dis¬
claims that he in anyway aided the strik¬
ing cigar/uakers of Key West.
Mexican newspapers state that negro
colonists will only be permitted to settle
in fever districts on the coast.
The Pall Mall Gazette, says that a vir¬
tual rupture has occurred in the relations
between Germany and the Vatican,
All the cigar factories in Havana have
been closed, except the Gener facto-
ries. The Gener factory is the only one
that does not belong to the combination
or manufacturers’ “trusts.”
district Judge Foster, of the United Slates
dered court at Topeka, Kansas, ren-
a decision in a criminal cage Thurs¬
day, holding that “No Man’s Land” was
Indiaa oountry, and as such was part of
northern Texas, when the offense was
committed.
The Turkish Journal Saadet, published
at ship Constantinople India, reports that the steam¬
with five hundred Mohamme¬
dan pilgrims on board has been sunk in
the fiEgean sea, and that of all on Imard
only the captain and two passengers were
saved.
Authorities at Belgrade, Russia, have
discovered a plot to depose King Alex¬
ander and to replace him by Prince
Peter Karageorgevics. Many Russian
diplomats are implicated iu the conspi¬
racy. Three of thi conspirators have
beeu arrested.
A dispatch, on Monday, from London
says: A gale prevails along the south¬
west coast of England. Much damage
has been done by the wind. Telegraph
wires have been blown down and many
trees uprooted. A number of casualties
have been reported.
Fire broke out Monday in the foundry
of the liecla iron works at Williams-
uurg, N. Y. The flames extended to and
included five one-story buildings and
two five-story building?. Damage to the
buildings and machinery ri estimated at
$250,000, covered by insurance indiffer¬
ent companies.
A dispatch from Kansas City says:
The nor:h hound passenger train on the
Missouri, Kansas and Texas railroad was
held up, Sunday night, at Pryor creek,
uear Perry Station, I. T. The express
ind mail car were robbed. The passen¬
gers were not molested. The amount
secured by the robbers is not known.
Exports of specie from the ports ol
New York last week amounted to $563,-
124, of which $76,829 was gold and
$486,292 silver. All the silvei went to
Europe and all the gold went to South
America. Imports of specie for the week
amounted to $203,074, of which $139,-
685 Avas in gold aud $66,389 silver.
In an open letter to Charles Steward
Parnell, Miss Anna Carslake, of Trenton,
N. J., has taken direct issue with the
great Irish leader about his mother’s con¬
dition. She tells him piainly that Sirs.
Parnell is penuilessandin absolute want.
If lie thinks otherwise he is in error.
Mrs. Carslake has been Mrs. Parnell’s
faithful friend, and Ava9 Fannie Parnell’s
schoolmate.
A revolt has occurred among the con¬
victs in Layolute prison at Tunis. The
prisoners succeeded in freeing them¬
selves from their chains and in procuring
firearms and other weapons. They then
made a fierce attack upon the jailers
who were unable to quell the revolt,
and troops were summoned. When they
arrived at the jail a desperate fight took
place and many of the prisoners and sol¬
diers were killed.
Arrangements have been in progress
several days for the holding of
at Kilkenny and Waterford, Ireland,
memory of the two inen, Allen Larkin
Gould, who Avere hanged for the
of Policeman Brett iu Manchester
1867. The government issued a procla¬
mation forbidding the holding of
meetings. Projectors of the demonstra
tion, hoAvcver, announce that they
not abandon their plans.
Fire broke out Sunday morning
the wholesale grocery house of Jannej
& Andrews, on Market street,
phia. The fire is supposed to have or
iginated from spontaneous
The aggregate loss is estimated at
a quarter of a million. Janney & An
drews lose on the stock $100,000;
sured for $131,000. The building, whicl
was six stories high, cost $90,000.
James McCuen, foreman of No. 4 fin
company, Avas caught by falling walk
and killed.
It was reported Saturday that the firu
of Sanger and Wells of New* York, coffei
dealers, Avere unable to meet their obli¬
gations. It is said that their liabilities
will be about $300,000, and their asset;
merely nominal. The cause of the troubh
is said to be the investment of soim
of the firm’s funds in a patent barrel far
toiy, the headquarters of which are it
Detroit. The firm has dealt principally
in Java coffee, aud is an old establish
meat. A quarter of a century ago the
firm was known as Sanger, Birds A
Fisher. They controlled a large trade.
A special from Edwardsville, Ill.,says,
A disastrous conflagation occurred here
early Monday morning, eDtaiiing a los?
of about $300,000. The fire started ir
the warehouse of Kehlor Bros.’ mill and
elevator. The flames Avere communicated
to the residence and saloon of Joseph
Blickett, then to the blacksmithingshof
of Phillip Wenner.then to Henry Brink-
man’s two-story store and tenement
building, all of which were badly dam¬
aged or totally gutted. The loss s will
be confined to the property mentioned,
amounting in all to about $300,000.
NEW OFFICERS
OF THE EAST TENNESSEE. VIRGINIA AND
GEORGIA RAILROAD.
At the annual meeting of the East
Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia railroad
held at Knoxville,Tenu., on Wednesdav,
the following directors were elected:
H- Inman, S.miuel Ttiomas, Charles
M c< ^hee, Calvin S. Brice, John G.
oore, Thomas N. Logau, Edward J.
Sanford, W. S. Chisholm, John Green
ough, Wm. L. Bull. George Coppell,
J°h u H Hall, Evan P. Howell, George
3c0K ““ Oeora,i J ' GouW '
BANK STATEMENT.
The following is a statement of the
associated banks for the week ending
Saturday, thft.23d:
Reserve increase. ..... .......$ 935,235
Loans decrease........ ....... 690,200
Specie Legal increase........ ....... 430,000
tenders decrease. ....... 337,990
L Deposit^ decrease ....... 8 . 2^2 3,000 900
‘rhe t bTDkfhold
$1,628,500 in ex-
cess of 25 per cent. rule.
BUSINESS OUTLOOK.
TRADE REVIEW fob WEJBK XND1NO SAT*
URDAY 28l>, BY DUN * CO.
R. G. Dun & Co.’a weekly report says:
The*Brazil revolution has had surprising¬
ly little influence in tho markets as yet.
Coffee is only j higher for the week, anl
the new government appears to be so
generally sustained that apprehension of
the closing o’ ports or interruption of
trade has almost ceased. But it is possi¬
ble that the men :y markets were indi¬
rectly affected to tome extent through
Europe, The where tn certainty continues.
bank of England lost for the
week 1,050,001) pounds, and the
bank of France 430,000 francs. Here
money has beeu scarce and
dull at times, tight at Philadelphia, and
decidedly close at Boston. Reports re¬
garding the policy of the administration
about silver have beeu assiduously used
to create a feelmg of distrust as to the
financial future, and in any case the near
approach of the first session of the new
congress would naturally have an unset-
ting influence with some. Under the
circumstances the money markets have
been less disturbed thin might have
been apprehended.and the volume of bus¬
iness has not been percepibly affected.
Clearings continue larger than a year ago;
at New York by 16 per cent, for last
week; Boston, Philadelphia and Chicago
by 4J per cent, and at all points outside
ol New York by 7$ per cent. While the
treasury has taken in for the week
$1,430,000 more than it has paid out.
Exports and imports for the month thus
lar both show an increase of about 13
per cent, but aa exports exceeded im¬
ports by tweniy-two and a half millions
in November last year, the comparison is
moat satisfactory. The marketing of
crops, and the movement of money to
pay for them, have produced an e isier
situation at western and southern centers.
The great industries are making steady
$35, progrefs, though the sale of steel rails at
quantity, reported last week, was of small
needed for renewals only, the
market is undoubtedly strong, and pig
and most forms of manufactured iron
and stc.fi fully maintain previous quota¬
tions. Cotton manufacture has been
doing a steady business, with firm prises,
and as to its prosper^ evideuce is af¬
forded by dividend averaging 9.73 per
cent, yearly on 33 Fall river mills.
Wheat has risen f cent, with sales of 25,-
000,000 bushels, and corn only with
sales of 5,500,000 bushels. Cotton un¬
changed, with sales of 408.000 bales.
The week’s receipts exceed last year’s by
19,000, and exports exceed last yen»-’s by
39,000 bales. Oats rose f cent ana pork
products are higher, while with sales ol
329,000 sacks coffee has held only £ cent
of its advance. The geueral course of
prices has been upward, however, the
advance since November 1st being about
l£ per cent on all commodities. Ac¬
counts from various cities as to the state
of business are almost uniformly of a fa¬
vorable character recently observed, and
embrace some items of special interest.
double At Chicago dressed beef receipts are
thoso of last year, and of provis¬
ions more than double, while the dry
goods trade still quotes satisfactory re¬
sults, with payments easy in the country.
The Minneapolis wheat market is very
active, and lumber cut is put at 275,000,-
000 feet, On the whole the outlook rc-
mains favorable, though for the present
monetary scarcity has a depressing influ¬
ence upon some eastern points. Business
failures during the last seven days:
Number for the United States, 245; Can
ada, 32. total 277, as compared with 256
last week.
DAMAGE C LA I M3.
BORDER COUNTIES OP PENNSYLVANIA DE¬
MAND PAY FoK CONFEDERATE INVASION.
Governor Beaver, Auditor General
McCaman, Attorney General Kirkpatrick
and several members of the Pennsylvania
legislature, Avho constitute a commission
to lay before congress the c’aims of the
border counties of the state for extraor¬
dinary losses incurred by confederate in¬
vasion during the late war, and to de¬
mand their payment by the government,
met at Chambersburg on Wednesday to
organize aud to consult with representa¬
tives of the border c unties. The claims
for the burning of C. ambersburg and for
losses in the other counties aggregate
about $3,000,000. The state of Penney 1*
vania has made three separate appro¬
priations, amounting to $300,000, to¬
wards the relief of the sufferers. It H
the intention of the commission, backed
by the united Pennsylvania delegation
in congress, to ask that the state be re¬
imbursed lor its outlay, and that the
balance of the claims be paid.
A MORMON GROWL-
THEIR MANNERS AND CUSTOMS EXPOSED
BY THE COURTS.
A dispatch from Salt Lake City, Utah,
says: The investigation in regard to tho
endowment house oaths and teachings of
the Mormon church was resumed in the
district court Saturday. James E. Tul-
mage, principal of the Mormon college
in Salt Lake, testified that pupils of his
schools were taught that the revelation
in regard to plural marriage was from
God; that the constitution, when prop¬
erly administered, did not interfere with
any revelations of God. Witness said he
believed polygamy Avas right and the law
against it unconstitutional, notwiih-
standing the decision of the supreme
court of the Uniied States. All pupils
were taught to obey the revelation o f
celestial marriage. Witness thought
about one in thirty of his friends was a
polygamist. He believed the president
of the church was divinely called and
would obey him.
GREAT PRAIRIE FIRE,
DESTRUCTION OF CROPS, FENCES AND
TREES—HEAVY LOSSES.
Passengers who arrived at Fort Worth,
Tex., on the south-bound Fort Worth
and Denver train, Wednesday night, re¬
ported that a terrible prairie and forest
fire was raging for over ten miles along
the road, and back from the road foi
more than a mile. The fire caugdt from
a locomotive, and a high wind from the
west blowing the flames, they soon licked
up farmhouses. ha^, corn, Railroad oats, fences, farmers barns and and
men,
6tockmeu worked diligently, but were
unable to arrest the spread of the flames.
Great trees are on fire, and the situation
is critical. The fire begins south ol
Rhone, in Wise county, and ends neax
Herman, ten miles distant. Tho loss will
reach thousands of dollars.
CONTRACTORS ASSIGN.
Caldwell, Wilcox &. Co., of Newberg,
N. Y., iron manufacturers and contrac¬
tors, with extensive works on the river
front,made a general assignment on Mon¬
day for the "Benefit of their creditors.
Liabs4iii*fc-ajjd assets are unknown, but
it is stated that they will be heavy.
WASHINGTON, D.
MOVEMENTS OF THE PRESIDEN1
AND HIS ADVISERS.
ArroiNTMKTTS, decisions, ano oTHEa MATTS&s
or iNTEBEST rROM the national CAPITAL.
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Dudley, Corporal Tanner and Colonel of W. ^ .
both ex-commissioners pen-
sion, have formed a copartnership here
in the pensiou and claim business.
The attorney-general at Washington is
informed that the trial of the cases of
alleged frauds in Florida, at the las‘
presidential election,has already resulted
in three convictions.
Major Isaac Arnold has been ordered
from command of Fort Monroe srsenal,
Va., to command of Columbia arsenal,
Tenn.; Major J. R. McGinnis, from duty
at Rock Island arsenal to command Fort
Monroe arsenal.
J. Edgar EDglc, as-istant chief of the
record division, George A. Bond, clerk,
Samuel B. Heasey, assistant chief of th ;
western division, and Wm. P. Davis,
assistant chief of the middle division,all
of the pension office, have been asked to
had resign. They were among those who
their pensions re-rated.
The president, on Thursday,appointed
John H. Devaux, of Georgia, to be col¬
lector of customs for the district of
Brunswick, Ga.; William G. Reposs,
postmaster at Wytheville,Va., vice Alex.
$. Heller, removed; Thomas Clay Me
Dowell, of Kentucky, collector of inter¬
nal revenue for the seventh district of
Kentucky,vice William Cassius Goodioe,
deceased.
Secretary Proctor is endeavoring to
make such arrangements as will enable
him to leave Washington during the
Christmas holidays in company with
Gen. (Jookand Capt. Piatt, Superintend¬
ent of the Carlisle Indian school, for the
purpose of making a personal visit of
inspection to Mt. Vernon barracks, Ala¬
bama, where Geronimo and his l and of
Apache Indians are now imprisoned.
The secretary has been in r ormed by the
surgeon of the barracks that the till e is
unusually sickly this year, and that there
is especial difficulty found in prevent¬
ing the spread of the tendency ‘
to consumption that is charac¬
teristic of the tribe, He received
a letter Saturday from Capt. Pratt who
argued strongly against the removal
of the Indians to a higher latitude or
altitude. The secretary hopes to find a
solution of the prcfblem lu- a personal
scrutiny of the condition ol the barracks.
Dr. Valente, Brazilian minister, on
Saturday, received a cablegram from Ric
de Janeiro, stating that United States
Ninister Adams had established relations
with the government now in the control
of affairs in that country. This infer.na¬
tion he communicated to the state de¬
partment, and it is reported that he
urged upon the secretary the expediency
of this government instructing Minister
Adams to complete the act of formal rec¬
ognition. While it is doubtless felt by
the state department lhat the Republic
of the United States of Brazil has been
established upon a permanent basis, it is
probable that the act of formality *wili recog¬
nizing it through our minister be
postponed until there is an official head
or chief executive chosen in pursuance
of some regular method. A meeting of
the congress in Brazil has been called for
next month, when the new republic will
probably organization. be launched with a complete
When this is ace mplished
the question of forma! recognition by
this government will probably not be
delayed.
The annual report of First Assistant
Postmaster General Clarkson shows that
2,770 fourth-class post offices were estab¬
lished during the last fiscal year, against
3,864 during the previous year. 1,147
postoffices were discontinued duiiag the
same time, making the total number of
offices in operation on July 1, 1889, 58,-
999, of which number 2,683 were presi¬
dential offices. The whole number of
appointments of postmasters for the yeai
is 20,030, of which 8,854 were on res¬
ignations and commissions expired, 7,-
853 on removals, 553 on the deaths of
postmasters, 2,770 on the establishment
of postoffices. offices The number „ of money
order iu operation at the close of
the fiscal year was 8,583, increase of 472
for the year. The number of money order
stations in operation July, 1889, was 144;
an increase of 14 over the previous year.
The number of postal note offices in
operation at the end of ihe year w r as 587.
The reports shows that June 30, 1889,
there were 401 free delivery pc stoffices
in operation, an increase of 41. In
about five other offices the. free
delivery service lias been established.
The annual report of Second Assistant
Postmaster-General Whitfield shows the
number of star mail routes in operation
June 30, 1889, was 15,077, upon which
the total cost of the service was $5,177,-
105. Colonel Whitfield recommends the
appointment of a commissioner to in¬
vestigate and report, with a view to
make the carrying of the mail under the
star route system equitable alike to the
government and the contractor, and re¬
lieve it, as far as posible, from the evils
and iniquities with which it is burdened.
At the'end of the year there were 128
steamboat routes in operation at an an¬
nual rate of expenditure of $446,032.
A TERRIFIC STORM
RAGING IN MONTANA—SERIOUS RAILROAD
WRECKS REPORTED.
A special from Missoula, Mont, says:
A terrific snow storm struck here about
five o’clock Friday morning, and is still
raging in all its fury. All trains
on the Northern Pacific road have
been blocked and two serious wrecks
reported near Bonner, a town about
seven miles east of here, on the banks of
Hell Gate river. Several trainmen were
injured and a special train containing
physicians and local railroad officials
have gone to the scene of the wreck.
This is the third wreck that has occurred
at that place during the past three weeks.
A later dispatch says: “Two more se¬
rious wrecks, in all probability mentioned, occurred more se¬
rious than the first
west of here. It is impossible this hour. ” to ascer¬
tain full particulars at
WON’T HAVE THEM.
fclTIZENS OF CLEVELAND, OHIO, CUTTING
DOWN DANGEROUS ELECTRIC WIRES.
Cleveland’s citizens are up in arms
igainst the electric street car motor wires
in the streets. From 7 o’clock Monday
until sundown a big force of linemen,
under Fire Department Chief Dickinson,
were at work cutting and slashing down
the wires. Scores of live telephone
wires were sacrificed in the interests ol
excited, popular safety* aad The crowds people are congregated intensely
great and cheered the linemen
on the streets as
wire after wire was chopped do wo and
THE BRAZILIAN REPUBLIC.
WHAT T11E NEW GOVERNMENT WILL DO—
ORDER TO BE MAINTAINED.
The new government has announced
that it will firmly maintain order. It i:
preparing a circular to foreign govern¬
meuts relative to the overthrow of the
empire, which will be telegraphed to
them through Brazilian representatives
abroad. The province of Bahia has sig-
nified its adherence to the republic,
News from other provinces show that
they are also in favor of a republican form
of government. The governors named
by the provincial government are all
military men. The newly made repub-
He will allow the deposed emperor 80C
centos dereis per annum during his life.
The five articles of the government de¬
cree are: First. A republic is pro¬
claimed. Second. Tho provinces of
Brazil, united by federation, com¬
pose the United States of Brazil.
Third. Each State will form its own lo¬
cal government. Fourth. Each State
will send a representative to a Congress,
which will convene shortly, and the final
decision of which the Provisional Gov¬
ernment will await. Fifth. Meantime
Governors of States will adopt more
means to maintain order and protect citi¬
zens’ rights. The nation’s internal and ex¬
ternal relations will be represented mean¬
while by the Provisional Government.
HOW IT WAS ACCOMPLISHED.
The city awuke on Friday to hear the
Republic proclaimed. Gen, DaFonst ca,
Senor Constant and others proceeded to
Petrolis in the morning and informed
the Emperor that he had been dethroned.
Dom Pedro received the deputation with
absolute composure. Gen. DaFonseca
said that Brazil had advanced far enough
in the path of civilization to dispense
with monarchy. The country.
while grateful to the Emperor
for his patriotic services, was firmly
resolved to recognize only a Republic.
Dom Pedro made a dignified reply. He
declined to abdicate, but said he would
yield to force. The Imperial family
were allowed one hour to prepare foi
their departure. Carriages, escorted by
soldiers, were waiting to take them to
the outer harbor, where a man-of-wai
was lying under steam. The captain
had been in-tnicted to sail as soon as the
Imperial family had embarked. He had
received sealed orders instructing him
what route to take. It is supposed thal
Lisbon is the destination of the vessel.
THE NEWS IN WASHINGTON.
The Brazilian minister received two
telegrams from Brazil, one from the
minister of foreign affairs and the other
from the minister of finance. They
were simply confirmatory of press re¬
ports of the establishment of a republi¬
can form of government, tho departure
of Dom Pero and that everything wae
quiet and tranquil in the Republic. It
is understood to be the intention of
Brazilians in official capacity at Wash¬
ington to await the pleasure of the newly
organized government.
AN INSANE WOMAN
COMPELS HER DAUGHTER TO JOIN HER
IN DRINKING POISON.
A ghastly affair occurred at Moshcr-
ville, Mich., Thursday night. During
the absence of her husband, Mrs. Nathan
Strong filled two tumblers w r ith a solu¬
tion of paris green and handing one to
her daughter, Maude, a handsome girl of
eighteen, and taking the other herself,
she drank her oavh dose and forced
the girl, at the muzzle of a revolver,
to swallow the fatal draught.
All efforts to save the woman and her
daughter were unsuccessful, and Mrs.
Strong died at midnight in horrible
agony and Maude an hour later. Maude
insisted to the last that her mother
forced her to drink the poison and said
she did not want to die. She begged
piteously of her friends and doctor to
save her life. The insanity which led
to the awful act has been clearly marked
for about two weeks.
ORANGE INTERESTS.
ORANGE GROWERS’ UNION AND FLORIDA
FRUIT EXCHANGE CONSOLIDATED.
The board of directors of the Florida
Orange Growers’ union have been in ses¬
sion for two days at Ocala, and the re¬
sult is the consolidation of the Orange
Growers’ union aud the Florida Fruit ex¬
change. The outcome of the consolida¬
tion will be to place nearly all
of the orange crop in the hands
of the exchange which has already han¬
dled 6,000 boxes of oranges this season,
ar. incicase of 500 per cent, oyer the pre¬
vious year. The total orange crop of
Florida this year is estimated at from
1,800,000 to 2,100,000 boxes. The ex¬
change, through itB agencies in various
sections of the state, probably control at
least 1,500, OtiO boxes of this crop. This
consolidation marks a new era in market¬
ing Florida oranges and it is expected
that it will save growers at least $100,-
000 this year.
THE ARMY ENJOINED.
A DECISION THAT AVILL SQUELCH RAM¬
PANT SALVATIONISTS.
The appellate court, at Springfield,
Ill., has rendered a decision in favor of
the city of Bloomington in its case
against Mrs. Washburne, of the Salva¬
tion Army. The decision establishes the
right of cities aud towns to protect them-
selve against the alleged objectionable
practices of Salvationists. The army
made a practice of parading the
business streets nightly, blowing
horns and pounding on an immense bass
drum. The mayor ordered that the
drum-beating cease, and when Mrs.
Washburne appeared on the streets and
violated the mandate, she was arrested
and fined. The case was taken to the
circuit court, where the decision was af¬
firmed. It then went to the appellate
court, and was again affirmed.
A SHIP GOES DOWN
IN A COLLISION—FIFTEEN LIVES SUP¬
POSED TO HAVE BEEN LOST.
The Old Dominion steamship Manhat¬
tan, which left New York for West
Point, Va., last Tuesday afternoon, with
thirty-five passengers collided with the
schooner Agnes Manning, from Bilti-
more for New York, and went to the
bottom. At least fifteen lives are sup¬
posed to have been lost, The
first information of the disaster was
given in an Associated Press dispatch
from New London, at the company’s of¬
fice on Friday. The information received
pointed to the fact that probably over
twenty people have been lost. The
vessel’s crew numbered twenty-seven.
The names of only a few of the crew are
known to the Old Dominion people.
Tue Manhattan was valued at $150,000,
and carried no insurance.
SOUTHERN NEWS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM VA¬
RIOUS POINTS IN THE S 0 UTH.
A ACCOUNT OF WHAT IS GOING ON OF
CONDENSED
IMPORTANCE IN THE SOUTHERN STATES.
The directors of the Tennessee Coal
andiron company net at iNew Tor
Monday and elected General R. A. Alger*
of Michigan, a director, in place of ex-
Governor John C. Brown, of Tennessee,
deceased.
The valuable barn of 1. C. Webster, at
Orchard Hill farm, Ky., was destroyed noted
by fire Sunday morning, Four
stallions were burned to death—Evann-
mond, Prairie Wilkes, Joe Larkin and
Weaglement. The loss is $75,000.
Arrangements were made at Rich¬
mond, Va., Thursday to restore service
from Richmond to Lynchburg and the
southwest, over the Richmond and Dan¬
ville and Norfolk and Western, via Bun-
kerville. The schedule goes into effect
at once.
A dispatch says that on Thursday a
fearful storm struck the plate aud pulp N.
factory of 8. H. Gray, at Newberne,
C., in which there were sixty hands, and
leveled it to the ground. One employe
was instantly killed, another mortally
wounded, and eight others injured.
Another meeting was held at the Mer¬
chants’ exchange at Nashville, Tenn., on
Saturday night in the interest of the
fund to save Jefferson Davis’ home.
A committee was appointed number to go ac- of
tively to work at once, A
subscriptions have already been made.
A number of gentlemen arrived at
Denver, Col., on Saturday from Reno
county, Kau.,to locate government lands
in South Santa Fe for a colony of 200
Mennonites, who propose settling on the
line of the Atchison, 1 opeka and Santa
Fee road. It is the first colony of the
kind to locate iu the territory.
William Carpenter and Whitfield Mur¬
rell Avere convicted at Edgefield, S. C.,
Thursday, of the murder of Preston
Younce in June last. The murder was
most brutal and unprovoked. The pris¬
oners were sentenced to be hanged on
the third of next January. These are
the first white murderers convicted in
Edgefield county for forty years.
A special to tho Nashville American
from Hopkinsville, Ivy., says: Informa¬
tion is received to the effect that Joseph
A. Smith, the man Avho killed W. F.
Williams, town marshal of Trenton, a
village on the Louisville and Nashville
railroad, several miles south of this city,
two Avceks ago, w.s taken from jail at
Elkton, the county seat of Told, Sunday
night, by a mob, and hanged to a tree in
the courthouse yard.
Governor Taj lor has received petitions
from 8,000 prominent citizens in East
Tennessee and letters from a majority of
the supreme judges, requesting him to
pardon or commute the seutence of death
passed on the five Barnard brothers who
killed Henley Button, in Hancock coun¬
ty last January. After a careful exami¬ has
nation of the record, the governor
decided to commute the sentence of all,
aud he may pardon some of the five.
HOMEWARD BOUND
STANLEY, THE GREAT EXPLORER, WILL
REACH HOME IN JANUARY.
Stanley, in a letter to the Geographi¬
cal society, of London, gives more inter¬
esting details concerning the country
traversed by him. The Times says it is
assured by high : uthority that Stanley
is not likely to reach home until the end
of January, and that he wall probably
stay some time at Mombassi to give the
benefit of his experience to Mackenzie,
who is organizing a government in Brit¬
ish East Atrica. “It is hoped,’’ says the
Times , “lhat Stanley, after rest, may be
induced to undertake the administration
of the East African government, We
believe he might be quite willing to be-
eome a British subject ”
AN ASYLUM BURNED
AND EIGHT OF THE INMATES PERISH IN
THE FLAMES.
The territorial asylum at Blackfoot,
Idaho, was destroyed by fire Monday
mornir.g. Fifty-seven out of the sixty-
five inmates were rescued, while two
women aud two men are known to have
perished and four are yet missing and
are supposed to have been burned. The
build ng was partially and its contents
Avhollv destroyed. Tne loss is estimated
at $300,000.
How Postage Stamps are Made.
The design of the stamp is engraved
on steel, and, in printing, plates are
used on which 200 stamps have been en¬
graved. Two men are kept busy at
work covering these with colored inks,
and passing them to a man and a girl
who are equally busy printing them with
large rolling hand presses. Tliree of
these little squads are employed all the
time. After the small sheets of paper,
containing 200 printed stamps, have
dried enough, they are sent into another
room and gummed. The g im used for
this } urpose is a peculiar composition,
made of the powder of dried potatoes
and other vegetables, mixed with water.
After having bee i again dried, this time
on little racks farm d by steam power,
for about an hour, they are put between
sheets of pasteboard and of pressed applying in
hydraulic presses capable a
Aveight of 2,000 tons. The next thing is
to cut the sheets in two, each sheet, of
course, Avhen cut. containing 100 stamps.
This is done by a girl Avith a large pair
of shears, cutting by hand being prefer¬
red to that by machinery, which would
destroy too many stamps. They are
tiien passed to another squad of Avorkers,
Avho perforate the paper between the
stamps. Next they are pressed once
more, and then packed and labeled and
stoAved a ay ay to be sent to the various
offices when ordered. If a single stamp
is torn or in any Avay mutilated, the
whole sheet of 100 stamps is burned,
Not less than 500,00) are said to Ire
burned every week from this cause.
The greatest care is taken in coun r ing
the sheets of stamps io guard against
pil ering by the employees; and it is said
that during the past twenty years not a
single sheet has been lost in this way.
juring the process of manufacturing,
tiie sheet s are counted eleven times.
MAY still BE kept in commission.
Small Fov—Pap say lie Avan' yo’ ter
put’m new sole on dis yer shoe er mine,
’n’ anew upper leather, ’n’-
Repairer of Shoes—Xink dat ’ll be
'bout de same’s makin’a new shoe.'’
Small Bov—No, sah; pap say de shoe-
strings on diis ver one am all nght—
[Harper s W eesly.
NOT MUCH OF A SIGHT, AFTER ALL.
“I saw a goblet, to-day, made of
bone.”
“Pshaw ! I saw a tumbler made of
flesh “Where?” and blood, last night.”
“At the circus.”
YE COLLEGE GRADUATE. f
He can give the laws of Solon,
He can dntw the flag of Colon,
He can write a Babylonian I O U;
He can make a writ in German,
He can draft a Turkish firman;
But the English common law he never knew.
He can write his thoughts in Spanish,
He can make a speech in Danish,
And recite such Sanscrit as would turn your
brain;
The Muallakat Arabic
He Can scan in feet syllabic;
But he couldn’t tell old Shakespeare from
Mark Twain.
He can fathom all the mystery
Of old Ethiopic history;
He can name one thousand Norse kings—
more or less;
He can mark the Roman bound'ries,
And describe the Aztec foundries;
But has never seen the ‘‘Statutes of U. S.”
He can trace the radiant vector,
With a geometric sector,
And can give the moon’s diameter in feet;
He can analyze the arum,
Classify the Coptic earurn;
But he cannot tell a cabbage from a beet.
— W. A. Buxton.
PITH AND POINT.
Pressing bussiness—Ironing.
A man with a pull—The dentist.
A story of high life—The attic floor.
Can a dude be called a ground swell?
A poultry trust has been organized and
thus the fowl business goes on.
First Fish—“How 7 are you getting
on?” Second. Fish—“Swimmingly.”
It is no sign that a hen meditates harm
to her owner because she lays for him.
The night air is not necessarily bad
unless sung by a cat and prevents sleep.
When a man is self-made few* people
are left in ignorance of the fact .—Boston
Courier.
Not every man who lays a wager is
inclined to cackle over it .—Richmond
Dispatch.
A man is not necessarily of heavy cali¬
bre because he has a large mouth.— Bos¬
ton Transcript.
We presume the fashion of earrings
came from the corn wearing tassels on
its ears.— Statesman.
First Butterfly—“What's the trouble?”
Second Butterfly*—“Oh, I’m all in a flut¬
ter .”—New York Sun.
Occasionally you see a very rich man
who is so economical that he Avould en¬
joy being poor .—Atchison Globe.
“This is a grate experience,” said the
nutmeg as it went through the pulveriz¬
ing process .—Merchant Traveller.
Being asked the name of the Avorld’s
greatest composer, a smart university
young man said: “Chloroform.”— Phtla-
lelphia Record.
“Won’t you come into my parlor S'”
Was the spider’s cordial cry.
“No, I thank you, ” said his heaver,
“Don’tyou seel , too, am fly.” Herald.
—New York
“Come, Johony, it’s past time to get
up.” “Then I’ll lie abed, mother; you
told me that life vras too serious to spend
iu mere pastimes.” — Florida Times-
Union.
“That couple walking across the street
are married.” “How did you discover
that?” “Easy enough; the man holds
the umbrella over himself .”—Boston
Gazette.
Boy—“Papa, what does *M. D.’ mean
after a doctor’s name?” Papa (who has
just received a bill from his family phy¬
sician)—-“It means ‘many dollars,’ my
son -”—New York Journal.
“Nurse—‘“It’s a boy and he’s got your
eyes and nose and chin.” Newly-Made
Father—“Got my chin, eh? That’s
good! I’m thankful he hasn’t got his
mother’s-.”— Munsey's Wteldy
There was a young man named Maguire.
Who thought he would smoke in the choir.
The sexton, no doubt,
As he fired him out,
Remarked, “There is no smoke without fire!”
— Puck.
Towne—“That’s too bad about Ding-
ley, isn’t it?” Browne—“How! What’s
that?” Towne—“Joined the silent ma¬
jority.” Browne — “What! Dead?”
Towne—“No, married .”—Lincoln Jour¬
nal.
There is such a thing as being tocr
funny, and u man realizes it when he
kicks another man’s silk hat, just for fun,
and finds that the other man has changed
hats with him temporarily, just for fun,
too .—Somerville Journal.
IN AUTUMN WEATHER.
Now to the woods the maid doth go,
The tinted autumn leaves to gather,
Of course accompanied by her beau—
Oh! love is sweet in autumn weather.
—Evansville (Ind.) Courier.
A lady physician of Philadelphia has
decided that spanking children is injuri¬
ous to the spine. Children will do well
to freeze on to this item and produce it
Avhenever they are threatened with that
disgracefully horizontal mode of punish¬
ment .—Dansville Breeze.
Jones was reading aloud to the fam¬
ily circle a mediaeval romance: “Just
then, fi\-e minutes past twelve sounded
from the belfry of the castle.” “But,”
criticised Mrs. Jones, “no clock could
strike five minutes past twelve.” “Oh,
yes, it could,” replied the ingenious
Jones, “if it was five minutes too slow--”
— Judge.
A baby is a specimen of human nature
uncontroled by principle. It is a being of
fierce instincts with no morals. It is the
opinion of observing persons who have
studied babies from a philosophical
standpoint that if their capacity for mis-
chief were equal to their ferocity, they
would soon exterminate the adults of the
human family .—New York Ledger.
Life and Death in the World’sMetropolig
London mortality . increased again last
week, says the London Graphic of recent
date. The deaths numbered 1267, against
1236 during the previous seven days,
being a rise of 31, although 146 below
the average. The death-rat# also ad¬
vanced to 15.2 per 1000. Scarlet fever
actually gains ground, and there were
1171 patients in the London hospitals on
Saturday, while the fatalities Avent up to
25, an increase of 7. yet 17 below the
average. Diphtheria also increases, the
casualties reaching 44, a rise of 3. There
were 73 fatal cases of diarrhoea and
dysentery (an increase of 5), 26 of whoop-
ing cough (a rise of 8), 11 from enteric
fever (a fall of 8), 3 frommeaseles ( a de¬
cline of 7), and one from an ill-defined
form of fever (a decrease of 1). Deaths
from diseases of the respiratory organs
declined to 142 from 152, and were 53
below the average. There were 2344
births registered, a decrease of 88, aad
446 below the .usual return