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WEEKLY BANNER WATCHMAN TUESDAY APRIL 1SS6
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DIDN'T KNOW ’TWA8 LOADED.
State Perry is a loquacious colored
gentleman, who attends to the temporal
wants of numbers ofonrliachelorH. Xow,
if there ii anythin" that Steve likes, it is
a good cigar, and if there is anything that
Steve dislikes, it is to pay for one, and in
order to appease his appetite for the fra
grant Havana, and at the same time not
disturb his finances. Steve considers it
perfectly consistent with his views of
religion (and he has some decided reli
gions opinions peculiar to himself) to
appropriate any lonesome looking cigar
that he chances to discover. Knowing
this propensity of his faithful “valet,”
Dr. John Crawford, with malice afore
thought. deliberately concealed within
the folds of one of his most fragrant
“twofor’s” a lire cracker, and carelessly
laying it down where Stove would he
most apt to find it. went off to conceal
his emotion and meditate on human de
pravity. Steve, in his perambulations,
stumbled upon the inviting and innocent
looking missive, and at once appointed
himself an appropriation committee of
one. and proceeded to disc harge the du
nes of that committee. After lighting
his fortunate find and putting compla
cently fora few moments, the cigar pro-
oeeded to discharge its duty also. A clear,
sharp pistol-like report broke the still-
rv*-s of Me early morning air. and a howl
:i< it some one was shot came from the
recesses of Cri* lord’s laboratory, imme
diately followed by jieals of laughter
from Crawford, Sledge and little Uradeen,
who were breathlessly awaiting the de-
iioument of Mr. Crawford s deep laid
plot. When the smoke cleared away
Steve’s face looked liko a scorched rub
ber shoe, and the air of innacence which
usually illuminated his countenance had
| completely faded away. Steve has con-
lnd-d to stop sampling John Crawford’s
THE WORKINGMEN’S TROUBLE.
LETTER FROM WYNTON.
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’ be put- .»!!.■
»-s. nlluving
r;w FA PER.
• :h n cohired piper will
At her- for the purpose
ny I he county for whis-
11 will doubtless prove
r..!.ibitioni<ts are stronger
v now tl.Mi before the last
II w,m.ki-:k
There are two form* of chronic rheu
matism: on.* in which the joints are
swollen and red without lever, and the
aopetite and digestion good, in the
other the joint* are neither red nor swol
len bn: on I v still and painful. In either
form Salvation Oil may Is* relied on to
e.teri h cure. Il kills pain, Price2m cents
a bottle.
CANT BUY.
In conversation with a prominent at
torney yesterday, he informed the re
porter that a liquor license could not he
transferred from one party to another,
ami hence Fowler could not purchase
the license of Sam Harris and run his bar
under the name of Fowler’s, but as it is
be can run it under Harris' name, but it
will be Fowler's all the same. The
good people of Oconee are using every
means to get whisky out of their county,
and before long will bold an election on
prohibition, when you will see it ever
lastingly crushed beneath the heel of
public indignation.
BILK "beans!
Wh:.t a funny name .t»r a med ! rine!
N.»V. r lien -s it i- vuv Sen dice, nt hs
•U plied In the artirle. H ie, a.-cording to
W.-iMer "a Vell .v. i-1 i»itt-.r, vi*c il
I. HH'I-M tl'lld. |* »cre!ed bv t»ie livei.”
\Y ben* v• -r t 1 ." livoi doe-no net properl v
tbm ;t no i- ret ante*! in the blood and
l»uis'*ns i te m h'.ie *»vst»*m, and sallow-
I „e-s ,,mIise> is t'.ie result. SMITH’S
! Lll.K BK\NS »s a sure cure for
j •uitou-m ss and hvei complaint. Price,
*2o cents |mt ImUI'o
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t*r, tl.Ht ii
TBs Riots in St. Lonls.
The guards stationed at the Louisville
and Nashville yards in St. Louis fired'
into a crowd of three hundred strikera.
Sia man and one woman were shot. Four
of the men were killed and the woman
supposed to he mortally wounded.
The crowd after the firing ran up
Itroadway shouting: “To arms, to arms!
We will get guns and rctnrn the fire.”
Women and children ran ont of their
houses and met their, in the street, weep
ing and wringing their bands. After the
crowd returnod to the scene and the ex
citement had abated, several of the lead
ing strikers drew their revolvers and
swore they would drive all the deputies
out of the city, even at the loss of tlicir
own lives. The deputies who did the
shooting, eight in number, went to the
third district police station in this city at
three o'clock and surrendered them
selves. Thegrcatestexcitement prevail
ed in Hast St. I.onis, and the strikers fast
armed themselves and seemed determin
ed to avenge the death of those of their
number so wantonly slain, as they say.
The executive committee of the
Knights of Labor were on the scene, at
tempting to restrain the men and trying
to persuade them to meet in Flannigan’s
hall, where they desired to advise them
against all further violence. The men
refused, however, to meet them, elaiming
that they would lie surrounded by depu
ties and fired upon again.
The outbreak at Kast St. Louis to-day
seems to have been wholly unpremedi
tated. The men had been busy in all
the yards, with but slight interferences
till noon, and it was thought that the day
would pass without any demonstration
by the strikers and that it would be re
corded as one of the quietest since the
strike began. At that hour, however, a
number of strikers, without apparently
having performed any preconcerted plan,
congregated at Relay depot and began
the discussion of the general situation.
The discussion became animated and the
crowd more demonstrative, until some
one proposed that they go to the Louis
ville and Nashville yards and drive out
the men employed there. As they pro
ceeded their numbers increased, some of
them joining the mob as spectators,
while others were in full sympathy with
the movement, till from !WA) to 4(0 men
were advancing toward the yards.
ARMKD WITH WINCHESTER RIFLES.
Crowds of men, women and children
had congregated on llroadway, where the
Louisville and Nashville railway tracks
cross the street, and also upon the Broad
way railway bridge, which spans Cahakia
creek, .lust as this train reached the
Broadway crossing the trouble began.
The deputies immediately leveled tlieir
rifles and tired two xolleysintotne crowd
on the bridge, with the result noted
above.
About half an hour after the shooting-
an excited and angry mob gathered on
the square between the city hall and the
police station. A man named Dwyer
• iambic, in no way connected with the
strike, became the centre of the crowd,
who cheered the incendiary statement*
which he uttered. He urged the men to
"bang and kill," nnd was in the midst of
Birmingham, Ala., April 9-r
Down, dowu to hell in two and a
qua'ter seconds. I *tn not alto
gether in the abode of the Duke o(
Sbcol. but am as near as I ever ex
pect to be, for this trip has learned
me a good lesson. But where am
l? Imagine yourself under the
earth two and a halftimes the depth
of the Presbyterian church steeple,
at the bottom ot a black square
hole, through which you have just
made the decent in the breath-tak
ing time of two and a quarter sec
onds. Then glance around and see
before you nothing but darkness,
so intense you could almost cut it
with a Unite. Now look down a
long dark avenue, and you can see
lights flitting to and fro like so many
lightning bugs. Take these for a
guide, and, as a nearer approach is
made, the sound of the air machines
and of the hammer and pick re
sounds throughout the blackened
space, until it dies away in an echo
seemingly through the very centre
of the earth. You are
DOWN IN A COALMINE
two hundred and four feet under
the ground, in the deepest shaft of
the largest coal mine on the civil-
zed globe. You are at the cele
brated Pratt coal mines, at which
the total amount of coal mined
daily is twin j*>s bundled tons.
Where vou are now is in what is
known as the shaft, which is verti
cal, and can only be entered by a
patent eleva’or from the surface, in
this mine are now working four
hunured state convicts, and as you
approach nearer the light* mention
ed, you meet Mr. L. W. Johns, the
mining engineer, who greet* you
with the exclamation: “You are a
long distance from Athens, are you
not? Oh, well, you must leel that
you are not among strangers.” Then
a long, loud laugh resounds
throughout the mines at the joke,
that probably the black imp who
drives the mules with the coal cars
to the elevator shaft will join in.
MULES UNDERGROUND.
“What, mules down here!” Y ou
would think so if you would happen
to get too near the sleek-lookin
object you see befo.e you. Down
here is a stable where twenty-one
mules sleek and fat live, not one of
which has seen the daylight for sev
en years Curious, isn’t it! but it is
a fact. These animals live better,
eat more and are more gentle than
the animals on the surface. Mining
coal is interesting. The vein before
you is eight feet thick in which the
picks and drills are being thrust.
The coal is hard and requires
work and muscle to do it. Each
convict has a certain task to flai>-h
in a day, which task is regulated by
the state board of prison inspectors
Thmk of having to work down down
here from day untii night without
ever seeing daylight. It might he
supposed the poor wretches who do
it would not stand it, yet it is sel
dom the case where a dis
charged convict vx.il leave the
mines, and a number of the miners
are paid laborers. “What is this
rat doing here. Mr. Johns? is ask
ed. He replies that they arc rats
and the pets ot the miners. Etch
miner has a pet rat, with which he
meal. There are
.iSCIUESTS OF THE FLOOD LABOR’S GBASP OX 5EW EXGLASl). W the NEGRO A FAILURE?
Monday a party of Macon bo-ts-
men went five mites down the r '" '’
to.recover an organ that the l * ] ,K
washed out o' a house in I- ,s * - 1
con. They found it in Dead »•**♦,
at the same time picking up a c.ock
that had also been washed away
On their way back to the cjy they
discovered an ancient rel'.c ju>t be
low thesite of the old Genigii
road bridge. It was the hud ot t
steamboat. It lay near the hoik,
the bottom partly turned up. It »a‘
about sixty teet long. Itwassup-
oo-cd that it was all that re-uaineu
ot the Goddard, a steamboat sunk
more than 45 years ago.
A most remarkable escape from
drowning was that of M'.s L iz.i
Moate, of Sparta, on Monday. The
lactory branch is usually a little,
thread-like stream where il ctosse*
the public road, but Monday’s 1
had swollen it to an angry tonent
when the young lady attempted 10
cross it on a foot log, which wa
under water. Whether the foot 1 >g
was floating, or the swiftness of the
stream made her footing unsteady
is not known. In any event, she
tell in and was washed down stream,
through a fence and under a hrtdge.
a distance of more than 100yuid-.
She was finally rescued.
Henry Hoover, a white mail liv
ing neat the Oconee rive^, near Ir-
winton, took a boat last 1’hu'sd.iy,
presumably lor the purpose of get
ting out of the swamp an ox that
had been caught there by the rising
ot the water. Before leaving home
he stated that he expected to drown
himself. Failing to return, a search
was instituted and the boat was
found Sunday. It contained IIo.i-
ver’s coat and other articles. The
ox had been roped and tied to the
boat, and when found was dead,
having been drowned. A hundred
men or more dragged the river for
Hoover’s body, which was found a
few yards from the boat.
HE PLAYS POKER.
THE JUSTICE COURT.
Tlier.- xvas a ohsp tried l.efora the l»(t ! !in appeal to the mob to follow him to the
justice court in Athens that probably is j °>>io and Mississippi depot to “bunt for
without a parallel in the state. One of 'he deputy sheriffs,” when John At.
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I our prominent citizens was sued in the
court by a tiejrro for the wares the n“irro
*! claimed as due him for the labor of his
son. whom he had hired to tlui citizen.
1 I The c'-ntl- nian denied owinr the money
• 1 and employed one cf the first lawyers in
r ! Athens to defend till- ease. The negro
t 1 repr-.-sinted himself, made a speech in
* ' opposition to the lawyer and won the
^ 1 ca-e before the jury. Nobody h
■lexer heard of just such another thing
happening before.
A Western Congressman Who Ha* Won
540,000 This Session.
“There is a man,” said a well-
known congressional attache,
pointing to a Western member,
•‘who has won $40,000 at poker
since the session began. It he
keeps on in good luck ne will have
over $100,000 before the session
ends, and when he goes home his
constituents will say he has hern
bribed. He came here worih noth
ing, and, ol course, when he gets
back, buys a tine house and begins
to drive fast horses, it will lcok sus
picious. But I happen to
know that he won his money
at poker. I was present at a
game in a Senator’s Louse one
mgl.t and saw him win $6000 on
•me hand. It was the dead man’s
hand. What is the dead man’s
hand? Why, it is three jacks and
a pair of lens. It is called ibe dead
man’s hand because about forty
years ago, in a town in Illinois, a
celebrated judge bet his house and
lot on three jacks and a pairoftens.
It was the last piece of property he
had in the woild. When his oppo
nent showed up he had three
queens and pair of tens. Upon
seeing the queens the judge fell
anil
The labor trouble is striking
deeper in New England ihan in
Texas. Thcieisao collision as in
the southxvest. hut there is a lorri-
t>l«- stiaiu.
The city of Lx no. Miss., ih
largest shoeinakir.g cemer in th-
world, is simply paralyze-!. Bu
ies* is suspended, and 3.000 wotk-
nen who averaged $15 a week
nave been idle for txvo xveeks
I’lvs stoppige ol $45001 a week in
wages bis put an end to trading.
Many of the leading m tnulac’tireis
wive moved t » s nail and remote
rill ages where thnx have a rural re-
-erve to diaw new hands from
Many of the older workmen have
quit the knights and gone with the
oanufacturer* into their new fields.
A boycotted manufacturer cannot
buy a morsel to eat in Lxnn. He
cannot have a horse shod. The
transier men will nut haul his bag
gage. He ha* had to go to Bos on
or staive. The city is simply
throttled, and is as helpless as it it
were dead. The manufacturers
piin'ed detailed statements show
ing that at present prices a pair ot
slioes they sell tor 75 cents costs 71
cents; anda pair sold at $1.50 costs
$1.-44. But labor xx iil not loosen it«
grip and the city is being deseited
iiy all who can leavt it.
In Wilmington; Del., a decisive
tic.itmnit of a boycott is described.
The News, of that city, had a luss
wi'h the union printers eight
months ago and discharged them.
The union demanded a few days
ago that the non-union men be dis-
chatged. The News refused to dis
charge the men who had
come to it when it needed
men, or to take back the men who
had deserted it. O her labor trou
bles atose in the city, and one ship
building concern announced that it
had refused $300,000 xvorth of work
in the past month because it was
uncertain as to whether it would be
allowed to finish it. Pending the
agnations the News was boycotted.
The business men at once organized
to protect the News. A few days
alter the boycott was declared, a
three-inch blank spice occu-re-l
with these words in the centre:
“This space was vacated by P.
Plunkett and is now occupied and
paid tor bv the business mens’ com
mittee.” Tlie committee then an
nounced that it xvould pay for every
contract forfeited and xvould rigidly
search out. publish and boycott rv-
ery man vxho had withdrawn his
patronage from the paper, and pat
ronize exclusively tho-e xvho adver
tise in it.
In every town and city in New
BARTOW MOUNDS.
T
The Augusta Chronicle continues
to puh i li I. Itc 1- 11. 111 It ailing t.11 :n-
ers in Georgia an-! S -uih C-u l-u >
->n Professor White’s theory that
he negro in the South has proved 1
fiilute.
The best, most philosophical ami
t the same time practical pape r '*•<
ave *een on the subject is from Mr.
•V C. Henrt. ol Ahetville, S. C. It
s a remarkable and exhaustive doc-
mient.
Mr. B. cover* the whole ground.
:Ie savs:
1. The negro is not a skilled lahor
■r. nor is the field laborer of Fiancr
■r England. But the negro is a
t good simple laborer, docile and
:onented, and su’ls our hot cli
mate.
2. The negro won’t make a peasan-
tv. and he xvil! not emigrate.
3. The negro will not die out. He
will not amalgamate with the whites.
There is a distinctive race antipathy.
4 The mulatoes form a fringe of
bastardy on the.negro race—a sign
of degredationto the white man and
of tie elevation to the negro. That
fringe so broad under slavery will
gradually, but surely grow narrow
in a state of freedom until it will
uccnme an almost invisible selvage.
5. The Two races must live togeth
»r. They can live together in peace.
There can be political union with
out social fusion. There can be
proprinquity without hydridity, and
there can be nationization without
amalgamation.
6. Let the negro alone. Let the
North leave the South alone.
7. We need not look for a new
class to substitute negro labor* Mor
ality and a spirit to acquire proper
ty, will slowly come to the blacks.
S. The South rather needs a yeo
manry ol small fa'riners than a pea
santry—rnen who can use negrd la
bor and are workers themselves.
9. The South should encourage
immigration to acquire a sturdy and
numerous yeomanry.
UNDER THE SNOW.
History of ths Tumult Washrd up in Bar
tow C unity, Ga.
< arieiisvitic Atucrit «o.
bo much has been written con
cerning ttie mounds in our county
TELEGRAPHIC SPARKS.
In the Covcnes mountainsin Cen
tral France, there is a villiage named
LaBeage, the inhabitants of which
practically live under the ground a
large part ol the year. It is 4.250
tret above the sea, and is at the bot
tom of a pass where the snow is ran-
idlv piled tip by the winds. As
soon as the snow begins to fall in
large quantities, say» a recent visi
tor, the inhabitants retire indoors,
and it is not long before the low
roofed houses are buried, and the
only means by which air can reach
the interior, being down the single
England Yh'e'forces' are'marshaVl'mg chimney, which in all the cottages
for a bitter and prolonged confbct. j Du,lt ver - v « 1 ‘ , « un ! substantia •
Up to this time the organiz .tion has | , le snow gradual y mourns so high
that the doors will not open, and at
last the windows are Mocked up.
The inhabitants lay in a good supply
ot bread, cheese and salt pork for
themselves, and of hay and straw
for their cattle. Although the men
occasionally go out by way of the
chimney, the women and cliil—
An Incident of the Strike—She Holds aMob i dren live in the fetid atmosphere all
been almost wholly with labor. |
Now capital is otg inizing. The lines !
of division are deepening and the
outlook is threatening.—Constitu
tion.
A W0MAN’VbKAVE ACT.
why a
a dead
i mail's hand.
fowler still on.
reported on the streets vester-
tt Fowler, who will have to close
> her on the first of May, on ac«
»f the authorities refusing to "rant
it-.-i,*«•. has hoii'jht out the bar and
• t*f Sam Harris, who keeps near
■1 will continue the business until
o.-toher, when his license expires.
was itTancer?
•Ihth inking 11. Ii. H. fo r sixer
\<-ek«fnr somethin.: l'ke eaneor
M t lx, an«l 1 would not take one
• •I.. I nrs jt.r O'a hen* !l reefcvd.
I*r \ ..us v tried various >o-
: > .x. 1 t elite .i-s, hut H It It is
the ijhicm-t and 'i»e ch-apeM
i".ritier ] ever u**e«l. 1 refer to any
ki.t ol tirtllin, tis* J - 11 Ikirnes,
'Mid pleasures aim pdarts though
»e iinv roaiu. be it ever so humble, n
there's n* s peel tic .'or pain like Salvation
Oil. l'riee cents a bottle.
LAND SALE.
1!. Hickson’s land 1 ( "> acres more
*s, near Madison Springs, in Madison
tv sold yesterday at Sheriff’s sale
r $1P> no. Mr. Thomas l>eenwas tlie
rtunate buyer. The land is said to be
.11 worth $.'►<«> This was the
.e.ipest lot of land sold in Madison
unty in many days..
•f men
called
THE CROPS.
One of our large guano dealers tells
us that «ip to the present time he has sold
as much or more guana than he has any
previous year. He says that while the
farmers will plant fully as much cotton
as heretofore, they will also plant a lar
ger area in corn, which they will highly
fertilize, and pay special attention to
grass; that they all express a determina
tion to make their farms self-sustaining.
The planters are not buying fertilizers to
replace that washed from the rows by
the late rains, but will plant and trust to
luck for the result. The beautiful
weather now will enable them to get
down to work in earnest, and the pre
dictions are that we will hare a splendid
crop year.
The Chinese say a Urge nose indicates
shrewdness, but we say a red nose and
a barking «*ough Indicate* the need of a
U>ttie ol Dr. Hull's Cough Syrup.
" Ail ai
the goodlUat loan «
>• born," still could not be
•1a enviable. f »r when be tilled ibe
r 1 ,, the M».\\ y t w ihjht and cioiglit
• rp tmiirh of rheumatism, he had no
. t'otiih! lor In-i iiie.and no twenty-
THE UPPER BRIDOE.
U.xrk will not nt once commence on
i.pp» r bridge, as it is in a passable
• i.turn, but as soon as practicable the
.. ary will have the bridge raised five
, which will then be far above high
» r mark. Should this bridge have
a washed away, the mi
U» s would certainly have followed.
A T LA NTK M OU T h S OPEN.
*t\ mom ha a^o we nnd nodemand for
it. 11, hsai now our retail demand is
*!i that we are forced to buy in irro-s
• We attribute the rapid and enor-
"•a demand to the comparative size
• »•>! It. B R. (being Urge tallies lor
;»i. I i> tsedtivt* met it. It sell- well
our cunt, tiner*. cut ire sat i faction
ir mlc* have increased oOO percent.
aft*u mouths. Jacobs'Pharmacy
r Fred. B. Palmer, M. D.
ADVICE H» N0T1IIHS.
•t”» Win-low’s StkoiuiMtt Starr should al
iir lor children tcfthin?- It soothe*
cMM. nii.rai ibf Kum*, atlny* nil |*ln, rare*
t»Jcanil I* iht- :z#*i remedy tor dl«rrhaa.
k t-o’.t*
Absolutely Pure.
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A BOMBSHELL IN MORGAN.
General consternation was created
yesterday by the discovery of a clerical
error in the registration bill which de
bars Morgan county the privileges of the
statue, and may result in the withdrawal
J of the petition asking for an election. It
I seems that Morgan county is named in
the head notes of the bill, but omitted in
tin* bill proper. This omission is said to
j he fatal f«>r Morgan, and as there is a
great pe -ro majority, the prohibitionists
I see that their chances of winning the
| victory are considerably lessened, unless
I this vote can be restrained by a registra-
‘i«n law. Tlio comptroller lias been
' written to, ami in his reply stated, that
there was no registration law lor Mor-
c»n county. AVe may or may pot haTe
an election on prohibition.—Madisonian.
AN IRON SPRING.
On Mr. B. F. O’Kelly's place, just out
side of the corporate limits, is a spring
which is more strongly impregnated with
iron than any in many miles around.
One gentleman who has traveled over the
United Slates says that during all his
tours ho ha« never seen one to equal it.
As the expression is among miners. “Iron
is the mother of gold,” wc would not be
surprised to hear of Mr. England pros
pecting and finding sn immense gold mine
there. The gold fever is catching, and
almost on every branch around Athens
you can see parties with pans trying to
get a hold on the veins that produce the
precious metal.
"Z MADISON ELECTION.
The election for mayor and aldermen,
yesterdaj, was comniendably quiet and
free from unpleasantness. Very little
interest was taken in the vote by either
ticket Mr. J. W. Bearden was elected
mayor over Mr. L. T. Penick.
It ii but fair to state that Mr. Pen-
ick’s candidacy was hampered by aerer-
eral rumors regarding his line of policy
that did injustice to his own views. He
is ene of the best men in the county, and
waa backed by a strong board of aider-
men.
Below is the rosnlt in detail: .
Tor mayor—J. W. Bearden, 160; L. T.
Penick, 36. Bearden’* majority, 154.
•h Bor Aldermen—L. H. Foetor, 150; 8.
W. Boothe, 165; Jj. Burnett, 1*4;
Ijtld.
Haynes, a member of the general execu
tivc committee of the Knights of Labor
M. O’Neill ami Knight of Labor Brown
arrived from this side.
Brown, who travels with the general
hoard in the capacity of Knights of La
bor orator and lecturer, mounted the
stairs that led to the police station nnd
\ »*lled at the mob for attention. Then
has | turning to the mob, which kept up the
cry to ’’kill and burn,” Brown began an
impassioned appeal for quiet, law and
order, and by sheer force of his earnest
ness, rivited the attention of the crowd.
At this point Dwyer broke in: “Yes, why
don’t you talk for Jay Gould and be
done with it. They shot down our men
and you ask us to be quiet. I say hang
them!”
Brown pointed his finger at Dwyer and
asked him, “Are you a Knight of Labor?”
Dwyer dodged the question and yelled:
“Kill the brutes!
“Are you a Knight of .Labor, I ask?”
said Brown.
“No,” answered Dwyer, “but I’m with
them on everything, you can bet!’
“I knew that you were not a Knight,”
said Brown, and continuing he said:
“1 know that no Knight would talk as
you do.”
After a while the temper of the mob
cooled down, and they dispersed with
threats to avenge the deaths caused by
the deputies. Mayor Joyce said that he
had notified the Governor two weeks
ago, but that he had done nothing, and
that he, the Mayor, was utterly power
less.
A few of the more violent of the strik
ers who gathered at the city ball, after
arming themselves, announced their in
tention of attacking the deputies on
guard at the Ohio and Mississippi yards,
and advanced in that direction. The
warehouse was surrounded by an im
mense crowd who
nowt.KD AND YELLED
and urged one another to attack the
stronghold and drive the deputies out.
The situation in Kast St. Louts, so ft r
as can be learned at midnight, has been
pretty quiet. Still later a good deal of
excitement was caused by the discovery
of fire in a car loaded with hay in the
Louisville and Nashville yards, but no
damage was done beyond the burning of
the car. About 11 o'clock fire broke out
in the Cairo Short Line yard at the
lower end of the island, and meagre re
ports from there at midnight say three or
four cars were burned, but no other
damage done.
MILITIA ORDERED OCT.
Governor Oglesby, of Illinois, at half
past five o’clock this afternoon, ordered
out eight companies of militia. Some of
them arrived in Kast St. Louis to-night.
How Powderly Lookc.
New York St»-.
I had the pleasme ol makin<» the
acquaintance ol Ma-ter Workman
j l’.iwderlv. He lo >kj» in-xre hke a
shares his every meal. 1 heie are , dead, clutching tii- j
several thousand rats in this mine. t fns , n his hand, and th:t*’s
A mircr will not live in a mine jack-full on tens is called
where a rat docs not live. It is re
garded in the tame light as a rat
leaving a sinking ship, llow the
rats get in the mine is a mystery,
but they are here by a large majori
ty. In this mine there are thirteen
miles of iron track, and you can go
twenty-seven miles around 'j ! college professor ora wt-ll-kep! B.ts
through the diflerent openings and |pn |j|j lar ,. man than a labor-agita-
chambers. It is as black as night,
and you are compelled to carry
with you a small oil lamp with
which to gti'de xour w iv. The air
is iurnishvd by pumps wh'ch gix’cs
a lre«h supply all the time. The
amount of coal secured down here
daily is eight hundred tons, every
pound of which is elevated two
hundred and four feet. There is
much more to be seen down here,
but I will let you imagine the rest.
W YNTON.
at Bay.
St. I.ouia Globe-Ir.m'Krst.
Mrs. S. I. Dufl’y. of De Soto, the
lady who so gallantly held the mob
at Bay and saved the life of Yard-
master Tod, who xvas puisued by
the infuriated crowd to her house,
the winter. They spend their time
making cane baskets and chairs,
doing a little rude carrying and knit
ting stockings, xvhile it the -noxv
does not melt in a month or so, the
people hurrow tunnels from house
to house, »nd so get a little society.
Richmond Arrested.
New York, April 9.—James A.
Richmond, president of the Broad
way surface railroad company, has
been arrested on an indictment
charging him with being connected
with the Broadway tail way fran
chise bribery, He was arrested on
a bench xvarrant issued from the
court of general sessions. His ar
rest followed as one of the first and
direct results of Alderman Waite’s
confession. Richmond lived long
at the Brevoor house, when Waite
was owner ol the the hotel, and the
Alderman’s confession made him
out the chief manager of the boodle
business, who put Waite up to all
the tricks and jobs by the means of
which the lranchise steal was ac
complished.
Richmond was bailed in the sum
of ,$25000.
tor. "Terry,” as his friends delight
to call bin, is a man of middle statue,
well knit compact figure, regular
featu'es, clear, keen exes, that cm
look soft and persuasive, a good
broad forehead, silky drooping
moustache, and a general air ot re
finement and capability. He is son
of Irish peasants, xvas working for
his bread at 13 years of age.has been
collier boy .switch tender.backsmith,
practical machinist, private soldier,
mechanical engineer. Mayor ot a
turbulant city, and has organized
and led the greatest labor movement
the world has ever witnessed. In
speech he shows a certain lack of
well-ordered early training, but he
is a xvriterof power and ability. His
mind is of a naturally judicious cast,
and he carefully weighs all his words
and opinions. He is a devout cath
olic, absolutely temperate and un
deniably incorruptible and true to
his cause. He struck nte as being
of too fine a texture for the xvork
cut out for him todo; but he seemed
nervous and somewhat irritable at
the time. “A model man!” exclaim
ed the mutual friend who had
brought us together, as we left the
room. I am inclined to think he is
right.
GEORGIA’S CENTRAL CITY.
74*. Onv 148.
..Tom
-P. B. Barney, 52; K
P. W.
Paul *"»:
Madisonian.
HARMONY OP.OVE HAPPENINGS.
Goss and Key, are the two wits of this
lengthy littb city.
There was a court held yesterday in
front ofthe livery stable.
Mrs. Garrecht is winning golden opin-
ions from the people of Harmony Grove
as a miliner.
The peaches are mil killed around the
Grove.
W. I. Pike and Ben Siltnsn, of Jeffer-
see, were in town yesterday.
There is two livery stables, both doing
a-fine business and two jewelry shops.
Mr. R. S. Cheney is the most business
like m«n in the Grove. He edits a paper-
attenda to the telegraph office, and i* de
pot agent.
Base ball is all the excitement here
The lovers of the sport are anxious to
join the N. E. Ga. Lodge.
LETT FOR OGLETHORPE.
Mr. Gantt left last evening for Ogle
thorpe county, where he will spend a
week or 10 with his friend*, with a hope
of recuperating his health. He is more
feeble now than after bis first attack
and it is advisable that be take a rest
from all cares of business. The patrons
ofthe Burner-Watchman are sailed to
bear with any ahort-comjngs.
- 1 -.4 |
Riot in Lyons
Lyons, April 9—A riot took
place in this city to-day in this city
.at Geraud’s silk mills. A sub-pre
fect and a number of gendarmes
attempted to cloxe up the chapel
connected with the mills and were
resisted by the oparatives and local
rc-idents. The gyndarmes persist-
e i and an open fight ensued. The
ictpulace. the major portion of
xvftoin xvere women, used stones
•tod sticks. The gendarme* used
their tiiearms. One woman was
shot dead and a number were
wounded. The sub-profect and
three ot his gendarmes were wound
ed. ^
A CURIOUS CASE.
Rev. J. IV. G. Watkins, pastor of Oco
nee street church, hss, without any pain
whatever, nearly lost the sight of his
right eye, while the other is somewhat
affected, lie will go to Atlanta Monday
to consult Dr. Calhoun. Mr. Watkins is
a true Christian gentleman, and since his
abort stay with u» has made many true
and warm friends who will be pained to
learn of his affliction. It is the wish of
all that this affliction may prove only a
passing blot, to be remedied in a short
while.
BUCKLER'S ARNICA SALVE. ,
The Best Salve in the World for Cuts,
Bruises Sore*. Ulcers, Salt Rheum,
Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands,
Chilblains Corns, and all SklnEiupt-
tions, and positively cures Files or no
pay required. It i* guaranteed to give
perfect satisfaction, or money refunded.
Price 25 cents per box. . For sale by
Long & Co.—tL j
COUNTY OFFICERS.
Two full-fledged candidates for sheriff
are out this momiag, with a probability
of several more in a few days The pros
pects are that there will be shout ten ap
plicants for every county offies and as it
is rsther early for candidates the strain
*T expectancy on their nerves will be too
great far some of them to bear. Politics
ire already becoming warm, and the
prespect is that next fall we'U have the
mast hotly contested elections in the
history of the county.
Senator Ingalls, by request, in
troduced a bill to provide tor the
appointment of boards of arbitra
tion to examine and settle differ
ences between railroad companies
and their employees.
cities Which Are [Fattlna In Bids for the
Technological School'.
Macon. G:i, April 6.—The News
correspondent asked Hon N E Har
ri* if any offers has been made lor
the location ol the school of techno
logy He said “Penfield, where Mer
cer University was lucated.offers the
old colledge build ; ge anil 200 acres,
of land. Hearn school, at Cedaitown
offers a number ot buildings and 60
icre* of land, .which they cla nte is
worth $50,000. Mi. |iinian. w ho rep
resents Atlanta, stand dial undei
Atlanta’s charter, Atlanta’s bid
must be made by private subscrip
tion Athens need* the school bad
and could afford to give $100,000
tor it. The location ol the school will
be hotly contested. The committee
is unanimous in the opinion that the
city which secures it will be fortun
ate. It is probable that we will visit
Worcester,Mass.,imd that our school
will be modeled after tint one.”
Prof. Wilson has l>een selected to
deliver the address ot welcome tr
the State temperance convention
which is to meet in this city on May
'3' ,
AecMentlr Killed Bis Son.
Georgctown, Ga April 9 - Ore
of the most deplorable mishaps that
haa distressed the people of our sec
tion occupied yesterday at the home
of Mr. James Graddy. about five
and a half miles east ol Georgetown
on the Lumpkin road. About 10 01
11 o’clock on the morning of that
day Mr Granddy got his pistol and
while oiling and otherwise handling
it the weapon was discharged and
the ball passed through the heart
of Itis little son causing instant death
The unfortunate little boy was
only 7 or 8yearsold>
is receiving unstinted praise at the | Should a death occur the body is
hands ot the people of De Soto, | roughly cofiined and laid upon tlie
who have determined to reward I roof untilla thaw makes the cemeta
her brave act in a substantial man- ry accessible,
ner. A purse has been started and
a handsome sum already secured,
xvhich xvill be largely augmented
and presented to the heroire wiih
appropria'e tharksand coniirenda-
tion tor her daring and timely act of
unselfish heroism. She is describ
ed as a petite brunette, quiet and
retiring in disposition, good-look
ing, and the wife of a locomotive
engineer on the Iron Mountain. Her
husband, S J. Dufl’y, hid been
guarding the company’s property
at the round house, and a short time
before the excitement had arrived
at home and was asleep. Before
retiring he had placed his revolver
on the dressing case, and as
Mrs. Dufly went to meet the
mob abe saw it and carried it with
her to the door. The pursued man
was breathless with fear and exer
tion as he rubbed past her into the
house. He hurriedly and briefly
told the story, and the lady was
quick to understand and prompt in
her action. .Her appearance, re
volver in hand, had an electrical
effect on the crowd.
“Stop where you are!’’ she cried,
raising her weapon. “I will kill the
first one who attempts to enter this
house.”
The mob astonished and awed,
was virtually conquered.
“We want that scab,” said a ven
turesome leader.
“If you mean Mr. Tod, you can
not touch him. He belongs in my
house and 1 will not permit you to
enter it."
There was no evidence of brava
do in her manner. Withflishing
eyes and uplilted arm, her weapon
pointed directly at the mob. she
-tood her ground and held il at bav
until the mayor of the town arrived
nd urged tlie people to disperse,
t hey did so, and the little woman
Itiid triumphed.
hat many of our reuders are famil
iar with them and their location.
They have attracted much atten
tion, and a considerable amount nf
peculation has been indulged in
concerning them.
As to their origin, our informa-
ion is purely negative. We know
hat we did not build them, and the
raditions handed down to us bv
the Indians inform us that they did
tot build them. Further than this
«e know comparatively little about
them.
These mounds are lecated on the
torth side of the Etowah river, in
Bartow county, being three in num
iter. The largest ntound is some
sixty-five teet high and, measures
around its base some eleven hun-
Ired feet. The others are much
smaller—not more than one-fifth as
large as the largest.
Many curious relics have been
gathered from and around them tor
many years past. Among them
are images of several kinds, sup
posed to be idols before which the
makers bowed down and rendered
rites.
Pipes of various kinds, carved
from stone and made of day; vari
ous specimenr of pottery, and many
other curious things. These images
are rather remarkable pieces of
statuary, showing considerable
skill in carving stone. The pipes
used there are much on the same
pattern as the modern smoker uses.
The thin pottery shows much skill
and evidences some knowledge of
dyes. The writer has seen a piece
of some vessel which appeared
finely glazed and was of fine red
color on the surface, much different
from the body of the material.
The recent overflow of the Eto
wah river has brought to light
much more than ever before.
Among other things scattered
upon the ground about the mounds
are quantities ot human bones, and
in one place xvas exposed a vault
Irom which the eyeless sockets of a
grinnisg, ghastly skeleton looked
forth upon the xvorld of two centu
ries of rext. Something has been
said of the marvellous size of a skull
and jaw hone that were found; this,
we think, is not so marvellous, as
the imagination of the man who
would create a fourteen footer from
the remains of a man xvho was not
far from six leet.
We saw also something that re
sembled a marble and doubtless the
younger of the people played
"Knuckledown” and “Vent you
any.” There xvere also discs vary
ing in size Irom a dime to a dollar
though somewhat thicker. These
are scattered all over the ground.
A friend of ours from Atlanta who
viewing the mound and sightsjinno-
cently suggested, that the boys
were indulging in a game of short
cards and xx hen run in by the police
scattered them far and wide in
their effort to evade the vigilant
officers.
In one of the vaults was found a
small piece of matting m?de ol
cane and exactly similar to a close
ly woven chair bottom. Upon this
matting were small pieces of cop
per as long as a man’s finger and
Blo6dy potiticirt not in Texas.
The strikers arc enraged and driv
en lo desperation.
Birnwcll narrowly escaped de-
s'ruction by free.
The resignation of the Italian
Ministry was announced.
Logan's hill to increase the army
vas defeated.
Secretary Fairchilds has taken
Mr. Manning’s place in the cabinet.
M. MuHarky & Co , hoot and shoe
nanulacturers, of Montreal, have
failed. *
Robert G. Phillips was hanged at
1:22 yesterday in Indianapolis for
wife mur ter.
Matter W orkman Powderly is
mproving and expects to he out in
a lew days.
The propositions to suspend the
coinage of silver and for the free
coinage of silver xvere killed in the
House yesterday.
A juvenile vagabond who had
been conx'icted of the murder of a
workman, was executed in Paris
yesterday, with the guillotine.
Eight thousand ladies ot Cork
county, Ireland, have sent a petition
to the Q_ieen against home rule,
one thousand of the signers being
Catholics.
A third member of the wolf bit
ten Russians, who went to Paris to
be treated by Pasteur, has died.
Like the others, he showed symp
toms of hydrophobia.
Two men living and two dead,
drifted ashore at Guyton Island,
near Cape Briton, on Monday,
eight days after having left their
vessel, on the western part of the
Grand Bank.
Tavares, Fla.. April 8.—The
first shipment ot Irish potatoes lias
been sent from this section, being
consigned to New Y’ork. There
xvere four barrels in the shipment.
The War Department has receiv
ed from Gen. Crook a telegram,
stating that he had started 77 of the
Apaches, xvho lately surrendered to
him to Ft. Marion, at St. Augustins
Fla.
SoiTitxvF.ST Harbor, Mb,
Aprils.—During a foariul gale
Tuesday night an unknown schoon
er went ashore here and before
morning xvas badly xvrfecked. It is
supposed the ves«<-l was the Chan
ticleer, of Vina! Haven.
Cleveland, O., April S.—One.
of the mail cars attached to lasj
mail No. 4, xvhich left Chicago at
5:30 p. m. yesterday on the Lake
Shore railroad xvas burned at 1
o'clock this morning at Oak Har
bor, three miles east of Sandusky.
A terrible disaster has occurred
on the Fitchburg railroad, in Massa-
ahusetts, I ist niglu, midway* betyecn
Bard well’s Ferrv and West Deer
field station. Six bodies have al
ready been taken out of the ruins
and it is not known how many oth
ers have been killed.
A committ*e ot coal miners,
representing six thousand diggers,
in the lour pools, on the Mottonga-
hela, called upon the operators yes
terday and notified them that if
theii wages wete not advanced on
May i«t from 24 to 2jc. per bushel
a general strike would be begun.
Columb'A, S. C.. April S.—Y’es-
terday evening, at four o'clock, Mrs.
John C. Haskell died at the resi
dence of her husband. Mrs. Has
kell was the daughter of Senator
Wade Hampton. She will be lm-
almost as wide upon which the j r * et I from Trinity church at 12:30
• A MOUNTAIN GIANT.
A Desirable Attraction for Bantam.
Csrtenrtlle Co urut.
John Andrew Ferguson, of Gor
don county, is the coming man to
knockjohn L. Sullivan out of the
pugilistic ring. John Andrew is a
whopper. He is of* raw bone na
ture, but tips the beam to the tune
of two huedred and forty pounda.
In heighth he stands six feet three
and a half inches “in his socks.”
Across the palm <d a hand measure*
six inches, and bis fingers look like
sawed-off sewer piping. H.s is a
most powerful frame. He i* very
active and boasts of his greatspeed.
A MICE IN A BOX:
Jumbo's Oil Ormasataa About to Start for
America,
London, March 30.—Baruum's
new elephant, Alica, ine consort of
the late Jumb->, was fettered at the
- Zoo” to-day, preparatory to ship
ping her to. America. She was in
an obstinate and vicious mood and
a large force ot workmen were oc
cupied several hours to moving her
a hundred yards although she had
been kept several davs without food
in order to weaken her physically
and jrender her submissive. Du
ring the process of moving her she
offered such powerful and danger
ous resistance that it was resolved
to immerse her in a pond close by
when it should be reached.
Her keepers and their assistants
managed to get her into the water
and partly submerged, but the huge
beast drove them off by filling her
trunk with water and squirting it
upon them until they were nearly
drowned and waded back to terra
firms. She was finally confined in
the massive box in which she will
make the journey to New York,
but before she could be secured she
had smashed several of the heavy
timbers forming the framework and
-neatly, demolished the front end of
the structute in her furious efforts
to escape.
She was vigorously prodded
about the head with a dozen or
more sharp-pointed pikes and ulti
mate!/ became moderately tracta
ble. The managers and employes
of the “ Zoo” seem to be delighted
to he relieved ol the presence of
the vicious brute.
Monster Sea Turtle in Kansas.
The discovery of a gigantic sea
turtle found near Fort Wallace,
in Western Kansas, first observed
the large ebony shields projecring
from a blurt neat Butte creek. They
xvere carefully takin out and
brought to Philadelphia, where the
restoration was made. The fore
flippers alone were nearly five feet
long, while its expanse fiom the lip
of one extended flipper to another
was about seventeen feet. The
question may arise. How did the
sea turtle become buried in a bluff
in the State of Kansas? A natural
supposition would be that Kansas is
the bed of a former ocean, and so
it is. Ages ago, in what is called
by geologists the Cretaceous Period,
that part of the world was the bed
ol a great sea, in which the great
turtle swam, together with other
monsters of curious shape and ap
pearance. Gradually the crust of
the earth was raised, the water fell
back or became inclosed, and left
the inhabitants of the Cretaceous
Sea high and dry, to be covered by
the earth and preserved for 11s to
studx' ages afterward. The shores
of this ancient ocean are easily
found and followed by geologists.
Its extent has been traced on our
Western plains by the bleaching
and disintegrating remains that
have been lound upon and beneath
the surface.—Charles Prederick
Holder, in St. Nicholas.
A Wife Wanted Badly.
BenoU Sentinel.
A wife is wanted by a man who
makes his living by poisoning rat*
and tanning dog hides. He has
cork leg, and is a little inclined to be
• ludeish. Head as bald as an egg,
never to'd a straight out fie, or stole
anything. Has an income of $3 to
$5 per week. Isdrigusted with sin
gle cu»sedness and means business.
Prefers a woman 3 feet 2 inches
high, billious tempetment, with pug
nose: al«o, that she be a little cross
eyed and have false teeth.and walks
a little pigeontoed but does not
particularly require this. She must
have big feet and know the art of
round dancing.
Any one comparing favorably
with the above description can get
further notice by addressing lock
box No. 197. Seoilia, Ga„
skull of the dead rested. The
mound is well worth seeing and we
suppose that Mr. Tumlin the pro
prietor will grant permission lo any
one desiring to see it.
The mounds should be examined
as they might afford us valuable in
formation of a people perhaps now
extinct.
REMISCESCES OF AN OLD CITIZEN.
Mr. Liang One -Of the First Setters Of Ran-
£d*lph County.
Dawson Appeal.
Mr. Liang says:
“My father moved to Randolph
county in Febuary,lS35—a few days
before the cold Saturday which all
the old people remember so well.
We settled in the wood, and during
the cold spell were without shelter
of any kind for man or beast-
Cuthbert was at that time, but a
small village, without a court house
log cabin for a hotel, one store,
built of pine poles and a dram shop
or two—not a framed house in the
villiage. only one church in the
countv, located a fexv miles north of
ofthe village.
“I was in the church the next dav
after Roanoke was burned. When
the news reached us there was I started lor a magistrate's office to
The strike at McClure’s coat
works at Everson. Pa., has ended
satisfactorily to the striker*.
The President nominated John C.
Anderson to be postmaster at Spar-
'tanburg, S. C. ’ 1 «.j re
The home rule question and Mr.
Gladstone’* speech Thursday are en
gaging the attention of the old
world.
little
Selllns Her Soul to Satan.
Omaha, Neb., April 7,—Laura
Phillips a pretty and well educated
young lady from Valiscoe, Iowa,
committed suicide yesterday in <
very sensational manner. She took
blood from her own veins and wrote
the following note,which was found
on her pillow:
“I, Laura Phillips, hereby seil my
soul (o the devil in consideration
for which he agrees to give me beau
ty, wealth and power to overcome
my enemies.”
She had taken a heavy dose of
morphine. Her home offered her
every comfort, hut she left it three
years ago, and step by step went to
destruction^
Midgets for Barnum.
Warrentor, ADril 7-—A
wonder was in town yesteri
the person of Mr. Willi* Heard of
Green county, who is 19 years of
age. about four four feet high and
weighs only fifty pounds. The
other members of his family were
all large, with the exception of one
sister who is 13 years of age, about
three and a quarter feet high and
weighs about thirty pounds.
Trtppls Murder Over Stvenlr Cents.
Ranger, Tex., April 5.—A sa
loon fignt occurred here last week
in which Robert Richardson, one
of the proprietors, was instantly
killed, and Frank and Vint Bryaut
were mortally wounded. J. T.
Hodges, another proprietor of the
saloon, fired several of ’.be shots,
then mountrd a horse and escaped.
The fight grew out of a quarrel over
.seventy cents.
p. m., to-morrow.
The hoard ot arbitra’ion the
Southern Railway .and Steamship
association, consisting of John Scre
ven, Colonel Thomas II. Carter
and Colonel Sibley, will hold .a
meeting at the office ol the associa
tion to-day for the purpose of con
sidering a case referred to the board
for arbitration.
Augusta, Ga.. April S—The
Southern Press association left to
night on an excursion to Charleston
after having been appropriately en
tertained by Augusta. The journal
ist spoke in the highest terms of
Augusta’s water power and advan
tages.
M.A, Hall, of Stamp Creek, Ga.,
was yesterday sent up for two
years for rifling a registered letter
at that place. Toe postmaster left
him in charge of the office and
when he returned he found that
txventy-five dollars had been taken
from a registered letter. The post
master had htht arrested and jailed,
and yesterday his case was dis
posed of in the United States court.
St. Francis, Auk.. April 7.—
Wm. Ellis, a hard drinker, habitu
ally abused his wife. After being
badly beaten yesterday, Mrs. Ellis
took her cnild in her arms, and
great consternation among the pro
pie. Thev went to and fro under
great excitement, expecting Indians
every moment. The excitement was
procure a warrant for Ellis’ arrest.
Ellis followed, a."d shot at her with
a Winchester rifle, the ball passing
through the bodies of the mother
so great that I don’t believe the I and child, killing both. Ellis xvas
preacher or any one else remember- 1 J ‘ :l “ ”
ed the text when they had reached
home.
,l hhortly after the Roanoke trou
ble, a large body of Indians passed
through the country—along an old
hurried to jail at Boydsville to save
him from lynching.
FRANK GORDON.
Chlauto Nrws.
Ex-Senator Gordon, of Georgia,
Indian traif about two miles East’of' l™* « M ’ n named Frank who is one
Cuthbert. A man named Parkham
was killed that day near the village
by Indians,
“This caused great excitement all
over the country. The women and
children were placed in a fort while
the men stood guard to make them
doubly safe. Some would go on
their farms in the day but return to
stand guard at night.
“Not long after Parkham was kil
led a body ot men pursued the In
dians and overtook them at the
mouth of Turkey creek and the
Nochaway where a considerable
battle ensued, with some killed on
both sides.
“The Indians passed on down
through then Baker county, and at
the head of sprinfl creek, they mur
dered two families, Jones and Hol
loway. Old man Holloway was sit
ting out in the yard reading when
he was shot dead; his daugh
ter was in the house aud saw the
indians. She jumped out of
a back window, ran to the swamp
and was saved.she was the only one
that escaped of two large families.
The Indiana were pursued and
overtaken a littlo below Pine island
where more than one-half were kil
led.
Thus ended the Indian troubles
in this section.
way a Drunken Man Escapes.
One sometimes secs a drunken
man pitched violently from a horse,
and when by the bystanders rush
to find him dead, they are aston
ished to discover that he has been
little injured. In his ^Scrambles
Among the High Alps,” Leslie
Stephen tells the story of a guide
who, while drunk, fell over a prec
ipice so deep that a fall over it
seemed almost certain death, and
who yet sustained little injury.
Stephen accordingly gives his read
ers the advice either not to fall over
a precipice or to get thoroughly
drunk before doing so.
The reason of this immunity is
that the nerve centers are so
much paralyzed in the drunken man
as not to be artected by the shock of
tha fall, which, in a sober man,
would have acted upon them so vi
olently as to atop the heart, arrest
the circulation, and cause instant
death.
Il'j »1ori!:tW
j* Juc! haniaj<v«
V’lii —l.J . , * ... - - 1 l •
of the laxv clerks in the Interior De
partment at Washington. His du
ties consist of looking up reference*
that are handed to him each day
written down on a tablet, yet he
imagines he is the legal bulwark of
the Department, and his impressive
remarks about himself and his work
are the cause of great merriment in
Washington society ciicles. F wank,
as the dear girls satirically call him,
is about 27 years o{ age. and his
father was bothered about xvliat to
do with him till he got him a place
in the Interior Department. “Itis
very trying.” says Frank, “to be
called to official life just as one gets
fairly*settled in his profession. I
had finished my education, had
traveled extensively, had located in
Georgia for the practice of
law, and was beginning to see my
way clear to a prosperous, if
not glorious future, when along
came this call from Washington, I
hesitated a long time. I saw what
I would have to giva up, and it was
natural that I should regret the
severance of those ties which
bound me to such rare prospects. •
But I had always been taught that
public duty was my first duty, and
the voice of my conscience bade
me eo where my country called.”,
Frank is not only a lawyer
anil an office-holder; he is
also a journalist. He owns a
little weekly paper in Geor
gia, and he is as proud as the con
ventional hen is of her one little
chicken. Not long ago he xvas
talking with the editor of a New
York paper, and he said:
“Is your paper a xveekly or a
daily ?’’
“Dailv,” was the response. .
“Oh.Jjut you ought to have a
xveekly. There’s more satisfaction
in it. I xvouldn’t edit a daily paper
for anything, for then I would be
compelled to write editorials every
day, and my opinions would con
stantly be misrepresented.”
Did So* Die o^Hor stocking*.
Tire youngest child of Jacob Ni-
per of Petersburg, N. J., walked
two miles with her parents Tues
day, wearing new shoes and red
stockings Immediately after her'
return the child’s feet and legs
swelled and Wednesday she died.
It is thought that the colored stock*
ing* poisoned her.