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WEEKLY BANNER.WATCHMAN TUESDAY ApEIL i8K ■ LETTER FROM WYNTON. Ala-, April 14,—When lon« dosed hi» (rreit revival servl- hr raised hi* hand «W the Urge J,«tion end »eid: “In Birmingham ** !,on,, ‘ mi B h *y ROOd p e °p u " H# ' |th . Mil on the head. It U said men'. „ ,rr governed by the daily impTea- made on them. If this he so, the !oDtin<*al sight of fire here causes ■ houghts of where no man cares to 60, nlfjs h«‘ is better. On* of the many in- ° rf $ting Rights to be seen in and around K rnungH»m are the beautiful fires which fu<h «p o° m d *y t0 day and ,ight the fcfa ven* »t night. These fires are from ,hf furnaces and rolling mills and fills onf with awe as they are gazed at. It is ldnight. L«t 'I* 4 suppose we are stand- j .near the Alice furnace No. 2, waiting tt , the night run. The furnace is roar ing «nd belching out the slag, which is escaping with a loud noise from an open- side. Two stalwart negroes stripped to the waist armed with l'*ng iron poles with which they guide the heated dross. \r»u.nd the moulding room can be seen hiu**n forms with ghastly features standing watching for the approaching tim» The forms we see are the negro hands w ith the pale bluish glare from the furnace light shining on theirdark skins. The moulds have all been prepared, and f v,-nthing ready for opening the fur- e. The word is given and the ne- fI .„ s take a peculiar tool and make a hole through the clay at the opening. 1 he olav gives way and the cry, “Here phi- come; is shouted, and the red metal U'cms to course down the main channe into the moulds. Soon the stream grows larger, and the building is lighted up with a rich glow which extends over the surroundings. The scene is one of a.nmtv Seventy-live tons of pig iron has been made, w hich has a market value of twelve hundred dollars. The men who work with this iron are reduced to hone and muscle. They wear wooden fthoe.s, and during a run put on very heavy woolen clothing to protect them from the heat, which is intense. The first objects of attraction to a stranger who visits the city at night are live hundred lights bulging out of a rampant looking atlair, on which are walking men, who are silouetted by the reflection of the light. It is this tight that usually catches the country fallows, as they raise up half asleep off the ear seat and exclaim: “I’ll swar, this lure town is a burning up, show.” This interesting sight is the rrnsAo: cokkovkns, winch furnish coke for the furnaces. The ovens are usually five hundred feet long and twenty high, built of brick. These ovens are fed from the top, wher % the coal is dumped in. The heat and pas from them causes a blaze to shoot out three to ten feet. The workmen are negroes, who grow three shades blacker i ter a month s work. It is said a negro who works at Hie ovens will not awear. It is a good moral persuasion, and con vinces turn he is already plating around a young hades. The heat near the ovens i<* intense. Fire is a commodity here, ami is seen in large quantities. Wynton. Wu**ii \ ,i visit liarnaonx Grove,don’t t < ti* s* v the millinery tit pmiiuenl at • • inn* l>, I'.trti-r .* Co., they haw just r* c ive*l » :ull *i»riug stock which tran m e.vmi. uovtl'x and be«uty anything ev i nefore se* n in the place. HI NTING THE DIAMONDS. A Force of Detectives Scouring the Lines. There have been several detectives in onr city the the past week trying to get 4oine clow to the stolen diamonds' It is a theory among some that the thief who pot the sparklers, has been following the :« ntleman who brought the diamonds to Athens, some weeks ago, and finding out he had left some with Mr. Mandeville to he shipped, watched the movements of that gentleman to find out where he had shipped them. These diamond thieves *r»’ the sharpest rascals in the business, and work a long time to accomplish their object. The jewelers of Athens yesterday re- ceived notification of a diamond robbery which occurred in New York only afew days ago with a request that they keep a Uok-out for the missing diamonds. A gentleman went to New York and pur chased $30,0UU worth of diamonds, and put them in his truuk. The thieves were on the lookout and followed him. The diamond man stopped at a hotel and put his trunk in the ba-reage room, tak ing a check for the same. The thieves put their grip sacks in the baggage room, and while the owner of the diamonds was out, asked the man who attended to the baggage room to allow them to get a collar from their grip-sacks. While in tne baggage room the check was slipped otr the trunk, and the one on the grip sack took its place. They called for the trunk, produced the check and got away with the trunk and diamonds. The reason that there was no value placed on the package ahipped by Mr. Mandeville is that the diamond mer chants in New York insuro against rob bery by transportation, and on thU ac count they do net value the diamonds, as the express company charges according to the value of gold, silver, greenbacks and diamonds. The detectives are hard it work and we may hear something in teresting in a short while. AH INTERVIEW Witt Hr. K. &. Hodfiob OB Kallroads and tto Tociaoloflctf toluol. “Can't you giro u» an insight into the railroad movements?" a B.-W. reporter asked of Mr. E. R. Hodgson yesterday. “There is nothing on the inside," re plied that gentleman. “The only thing we can do is to patiently wait until the first of next month, when the contract between the city and the R. & D. road expires, when something definite will surely be done. Athens is not dead on railroads, and the people can reat assur ed that everything will work to the ad vantage of the city. We have been wait ing a long time for something to transpire, but now there is only an interval of about two weeks, and before you know it Athens will have more railroads than ■he knows what to do. This is all I can say about this matter at present." “Where, then, will the Technological school be located, Mr. Hodgson?” “Every city in Georgia will he given a chance to bid for this school, and the one offering the best advantages and the most of them will certainly get it.” "Is the fact that one city more health fully located than another the only reason it will have the advantage in com petition?" “A healthful location is one of the first essentials, but many other things will also have to be taken into consideration. There are hundreds of healthy localities in the state that would not be suitable pla ces for the school." “Well, tell us some of the advantages of this school, as we feel it would be of interest to the people?" "The school intended to combine prac tice with theory, similar to the wav in which chemistry and civil engineering is now taught in the University. I'rof. M bite's class in chemistry work in the laboratory just as if they were apprenti ces learning their future vocation. The same is true of Prof. Barrow’s class. They study text hooks at the college and a certain portion of each year is given to field work and regular camp life, and a graduate of either of the above classes is competent to fill a position in actual bread-winning service the day he leaves college. Both the above branches will be taught in the Technological school, and in addition to this we intend to have the finest and beat work shops in the South. Students will have their over alls and paper caps, and will have to work just as if they were working for wages. In the wood room will be done all man ner of bench work, wood-turning, ma chine-sawing and planing with the most improved machinery. In the iron room, filing and chipping and reaming and fit ting and finishing of plane surfaces, work with speeil and engine lathes, drilling, milling and planing, tool making, manage- agement of ateam, care of engines, de signing and constructing. The progress of a student will necessarily be faster than if serving an apprenticeship, because he will receive the constant attention of the superintendent of the shops, who will be one of the best men that can be found, and at the same time he will be receiving a first class education. I'll tell you more about it some day when I liave time." “Well, what are the chances of Athens to get the school?" "Just the same as any other city; but you must see to it, my friend, that any other cities do not outbid you. It is worth more thafi a railroad, and you see how some of the Georgia cities arc planking down the cash for railroads. It will just make me sick, if, when we open the bids on the first day of October I find some other city presenting greater induce ments than Atkcns for the location of this school. You know, we cannot con sult our personal preferences ir. the mat ter of location. It will he like awarding a contract. The best bid, all things con sidered, will get the school. Good-bye. OUR OGLETHORPE TRIP- CRAWFORD ADD rifXINGTON COM PARED- Messrs Gunnels, Power A Co., keep the most mrtiitic millinery More In Harmony Grove. This department is presided over by Mrs Gunnels and MrsGarricht. LETTER FROM HORACE GREELEY. The following is a copy ef a letter re ceived by Uncle Peter Culp from Hor ace Greeley, during his canvass for the Presidency: Bradford, N. H., Aug. 10, 1872.— Bear Sir; Yours of the 2d reaches me here, and I answer it only to say that you need not fear the North. New York is with us by a very large majority; so ia New Jersey; so ia Connecticut. New Hampshire and Rhode Island are closer, hut we will carry them, and expect to triumph in Pennsylvania. Yours. Horace Gsiilxt, USEFUL HINTS. Never carry a lamp which is burning from a warm to a cold room. Never go to bed with a lamp or candle burning. Bo not read by candle ok lamp-light after lying down. Open your window! at night Night ur >a seldom, if ever, to poisonous as y°ur own breath. Air and light are about the heat medicines known to man. A moist cellar ia more dangerous than 1 wet cellar. " oolen is, in this climate, the best undergarment daring moat of the year. ' Cold bath* are dangerous to the old Mid feeble. i t J ' ' Warm baths are relaxing, and should t » k *n in the morning. oeonle The morning is the best time lor a cold ■*«;the evening fo7 a Brooklyn Magaxine. !cu / U DASIELSVILLE U01.NGS. Danielsvii.lb, Ga., April 14, 1886.— Mrs. I.cttic Brannon, a very aged Christian lady died yesterday, a few miles from town and was buried here to day. She was a consistent member of the Presbyterian Church here for over half a century. Rev. Groves H. Cart- ledge preached the funeral sermon. Mrs. Samuel Chandler, whose hus band died three years ago, died of con sumption, the 10th, inst., and was bu ried near Union Church, on the 11th, inst. She leaves 7 little children, the eldest a daughter about 12 or 14 years of age, the other six hoys. Homes will be provided for these little ones. The infant of Mr. and Mrs. George Thompson, one day last week after breakfast, when the mother went to take it up from the bed, was found dead. The babe waa awake about midnight, and it ia supposed that it waa overlaid The new organ is in place in the Pres byterian church building, for the use of that and the Baptist church, and the Union Sunday School, all of which meet in that building. The Sunday School is flourishing and very interesting. Mr. Scoggins, who has been selling' liquor by retail in this county near Har mony Grove retails no longer, because Mr. John B. McGinnis, one of the 5 own ers of the land nearest the barroom re fused to sign the petition to the Ordina ry for license. Judge Lumpkin Las ordered that onr superior court hereafter meet on Mon day mornings at 9 o'clock, instead of 10 o’clock, as heretofore, thus saving an hour of work to the connty, without ad ditional coat to anybody. Judge Lump kin has won the reputation of doing more business with leas money than any of his predecessors. He thoroughly under stands the geography of a dollar, espe cially of the public's money; and when ever the people get ready to spare him from the bench of the Northern circuit, ha would make one of the best Governors Georgia could get. There will probably be a lively prose cution at the September term next of our superior court, judging from the facta below; Rev. T. J. Adams was formerly a preacher in the Methodist Episcopal Church South, bat for some cause ia now with the Congregational Methodists, a preacher. He is our county school com missioner, and is also teaching a school near his home in his own building, used for the double purpose of church and school house. I believe he teaches a public school. His, cousin, Mr. Hubbard Hampton, one of our staunch farmers, sends his little son. Bee, and his daugh ter, about 14 years of age, to Mr. Adams' school. A few dsys ago Mr. Adams gave little Bee a very sever* thrashing, report says, leaving several marks upon his person, some of them 3 or 4 inches long. Misa Hampton plead with Mr. Adams for her little brother, whereupon he turned upon this young lady and thrashed her. These, in substance, are stated by Mr. Hampton as the facts. Of course ha is indignant, and says he will prosecute to the extent ot the law. There Is considerable talk about the matter, and Mr. Adams'action is. condemned by the warm bath.—I “Have yon been before the grand in 1‘lUJwy?" is the latest question. Data Gathered During a Week's Sojourn Among the Kindest People in the World. We epent a week with the good peo ple down in Oglethorpe, and would have remained longer, but for renewal of pains in our lungs that admonished us of a threatened attack, and we returned home with all speed. We did not getnear through with onr visit, for our friends seemed to vie with each other in their tendering of hospitality. We could have spent twelve months with them and not remained at one house more than a day. The citizens of Oglethoepe have always been noted for their open-handed hospi tality, and they are the truest and warm est of friends, and most uncompromising, yet open and avowed opponents if they do not like you. For nearly eight years we lived among these kind and true hearted people, and our little start in life they gave us. If we should live to be an hundred years old, and move to the most distant climes, we should alwavs look upon old Oglethorpe as our home, and feel to each of its people as almost a kinsman. We love this county and its people, and we flatter ourself that we also possess their esteem and confidence. Many of onr most pleasant associations and friendships were formed there, and whenever wc can “steal a day" know of no more delightful place to spend it Crawford is largely settled by emi grants from,East Tennessee—a thrifty in dustrious, brave people; who brought with them to the old red hills of Ogle thorpe that vim and enterprise for which they are remarkable. Crawford is locat ed on the dividing ridge between the Broad and Oconee rivers, and the land, naturally thin, had long been worn out and thrown aside. The writer can well remember when Crawford was hut a lit tle way station, with one store and three or four dwellings. It was on this spot that our Tennessee friends settled. Mr. S. II. Stokeley was the vi- dette, and he soon built up here one of the largest mercantile businesses in the section. One by one his friends followed him, until now the leading spirits of this county are East Tennesseeans. They possess the happy faculty of making a success of whatever they touch, and as either merchants or farmers prosperity smiles upen them. The old worn-out lands were renovated, and fields that would scarcely “sprout a pea” now pro duce the most abundant crops. And this spirit of im provement and thrift soon hecainc an ep idemic, and the “natives" profited by the example set them by the new-coiners. As a natural consequence the most suc cessful and thrifty farmers in the coun ty arc now found around Crawford, and lands have quadrupled in value and fer tility. You see fewer loafers around Crawford than any country town in the South. When a Crawfordite is caught taking his ease you may bet that he lias attended to all business, and it only re quires the sight of a man with a dollar to spend to charge his system with industry Crawford does not heli-ve in booms. Her citizens are cautious, and before build ing a house or investing in a public or private enterprise they first count the cost and profit. Hence there is not a dollar of dead capital there. The place has steadily yet slowly improved, and is to-day on as firm a financial footing as the bank of England. It isjalso a moral and re ligioustown.andwill not countenance vice or wickedness. But at the same time there is a broad vein of humor running through the place, and no people know better how to give or take a joke. The Crawfordites are strong in their convic tions and friendship, and there is n o need for a man to ask their support for office unless he can show a spotless mor al and political record. The Baptist de nomination largely predominates, and at the regular monthly meeting days, on Saturday, every store in town is closed, no matter how busy the season, that the people may attend divine worship. But during our visit last week we found Crawford unusually excited and active. It seems that Messrs Hubbard and Ar nold are running rival hotels and hack lines, and a traveller to disembark from the train would think that he had in- Taded a metropolis. But this war for patronage is conducted in the best spir it, and serves to enliven the place. In new improvements we notice that Messrs J. L. Jarrell aud R. I). Stokely have both erected beautiful modern cottages, that are quite an addition to the town. Lexington and Crawford are as differ ent as if settled by two nations of peo ple. Lexington reminds one of A Tetired and somewhat seedy old gentleman, who still preserves all the hospitality and dignity of his more prosperous and younger days, and delights to entertain the visitor with the story of his past gTandeur. Crawford is a hardy young frontiersman, looking with hopeful and expectant eye to the future. Oglethorpe county has been the cradle of Georgia's greatest men, and it was from Lexington that they embarked on the sea of life. Every one of the imposing old buildings that form the town is a part of the history of our state' and could the walls speak would tell a story rich in interest. Old eitixens can remember when Lexington was the great mart of Northeast Georgia, and the la dies of Athens would there buy their finest goods. But when the railroad waa built, leaving the town stranded three miles to the left, Its trade disap peared and the place gradually perished of the dry rot But there is a quiet re finement and warm-hearted hospitality about the town that nothing can rob the people of. A Lexingtonian is rarely in a hurry, and the air of antiquity that sur rounds him seems to penetrate the very system of the people. During the dull season the male inhabitants delight to congregate in little groups around the store-doors, and a stranger would think that a Rip Van Winkle sleep had seized upon the place. The only thing that breaks the monotony of their lives is the arrival of the mails. It does not not take much to amnse a people cut off even for so ahort a distance from railway communication, and last week we saw Urge crowd gathered around a little three-year-old boy of Mr.Panl’s to he en tertained by the child. But the grand old town seems of late to be taking on new lease of life, and its citizens are turning their horoscopes in the direction of the Augusta and Chattanooga railroad and their rock quarries. There Uno doubt about Lexington being once more on the up-grade. She boasts some en terprising and progressive citizens, and these men are now taking the lead. The new conrt-honse will not correspond with the dingy old buildings that sur- roundsthe square, and when it is com pleted there must be a general scouring up. Lexington feels more like home to u* than any spot we know, and we are anxious to teethe town get out of those old ruts and take on a fresh life. PXSCIL FOISTS. Every man you meet has surveyed the A AC. railroad so as to run it in front of his house. There are a great nmnyair- lines running through Oglethorpe. Bermuda grass lands are on a boom, and when tended yield from two to two and one-half tons of fine hay per acre. ' We were surprised to hear Mr. Rich ard Bacon, who voted “no fence," 6ay he would vote against the stook lsw if the election wss called again, as it is driving cattle, sheep and hogs out of the county. The corner stone of the new court house will be laid early in May- John S. Da vidson, of Augusta, has been asked to of ficiate. Nearly all the peaches are killed and the plum crop is ent short. Other fruit uninjured. Col. J. S. Baughn says that on the 4th day of May, 1830, a heavy frost came that killed peaches as large as eggs and destroyed the wheat crop that was jointing. A great many spring oats have been sown. The fall crop of oats are killed and wheat very paor. We saw some wheat sown in February that was looking well. Major Bondurant, who has the contract to build the court-house, is a most affable gentleman. He will bid on Athens’ pub lic school houses, and says he is anxious to get a foothold here. Mr. George C. Hall, at Crawford, can prognosticate a cyclone 24 hours in ad vance. The late Dr. Jarrell left a monument to his memory in the public roads that he worked. It is a pity that every district in the county had not such a man. A great deal of sugar cane is being planted this year. It is a paving crop. Mr. J. W. Echols lias turned his atten tion to raising mules for market. He has a Bermuda grass pasture of 600 acres. Politics are very quiet in the county. It is proposed to give the liquor and the prohibition side each a representative in the legislature. The lawyers and doctors of Lexington say that it will be hard work for them to pull through until blackberry time. Some negro teachers in the county will be reported to the grand jury this week for false swearing. No efforts arc being made in the coun ty to evade the prohibition law. SHE must wed him or die. Keeper Daly shoot! at the Girl Who Would Sot Marry Him. A young woman and several men rushed out of Francis McElJuff s saloon, on the corner of Twenty- eighth street and Eighth avenue, last Wednesday. Patrolman Mitch ell of the West Thirty seventh street station heard their call and ran to the corner. “Bernard Dali wants to kill me,” said the y> ung woman. “He shot at me twice. The policeman entered the saloon and went up stairs to the apart ments of Mr. and Mrs. McEldufl. on the second floor. In a room oc cupied bv the young woman. Miss Annie McCann, a niece ot Mrs. McEldufl, Mitchell found a young man lying on the floor groaning The carpet was covered w itli blood, which flowed from a bullet wound in the left side of his abdomen. The man was too weak and excited to talk, but when the policeman said he was going for an ambulance he said: “I won't go. I’ll die here.” But the ambulance came and took him to Roosevelt Hospital. The wounded man is Bernard Daly, who, though but 19 years old. has for a year past had a saloon keeper’s license for No. 236 60 Thirty-second street. Five months ago the young sa loon keeper met Annie McCann, who is a plump and good looking Irish girl, two years his senior. He soon found that he loved Annie very much. She went often to places of amusement with him, and he thought she loved him. Last Sunday Bernard visited Annie at the McEldufl" home to ask her to be his wife. He asked, but she re fused. He pleaded, and she left him alone in the room. He went out and got very drunk. SOZODONT the ladies prlds, Obit rivals it deride. Zepnrs ot flower Isden sir. Only with it ean eompsre, Doing good to everything, On rv ry side Us praises ring; Negleet to use it, ladies won't They all must hsve their SOZODONT. The Fragrant Breath of Beauty, attests the matchless purifying prop erties of HOZODONT. Every lady vvtio has ever used it, proclaims it a jierfect antidote to dental decay. Pure teeth are essential to a pure breath, and both are enjoyed by all who resort to this agree able wholesome and invaluable vegetable compound. Good Results in Every Case. D. A. Bradford wholesale paper dealer of Chattanooga, Tenn., writes, that he was seriously afflicted with a sevens cold that settled oa his lungs: had tried many remedies without benefit. Being induced to try Dr King’s New Discovery for Consumption, did so and was entirely cured by use of a few bottles, Since which time he has used it in his family for all Coughs Colds with best results. This ia the experience of thousands whose lives have been saved by this Wonderful Discovery. Trial Bottles free at Long & Co., Durg Store. FRANKLIN COUNTY. A VICTIM OF HYDROPHOBIA. Terrible Suffering and Death of a Young Physician. Dr. Briton 11. Warner, a young physician of Baltirnoie, who has es tablished a good practice and was making tapid piogress in his profes sion, died the othei- morning of hy* drophobia. Dr. Warner was bitten on Christmas day. He was passing along the street when he saw a lap dog, which had been run over by a hoiseca, a..d had dragged itself biui-ed and bleeding, over the cob blestones. He was very fond of dogs, and with a kinkly feeling thought he would convey the tiny animal home, nurse it and make a pet of it. Taking out his handker chief he tied it aiound the dog’s neck aud tried to induce the animal to follow him to his home a block westward to Saritoga street. He made three attempts to induce the dog to follow him, whea suddenly it turned and bit him on the right hand. Although the ani mal exhibited no signs ot hydropho bia, Dr. Warner at once cauterized his wonnJ and said he was going to have hydrophobia. Soon alterwards 1 policeman killed the dog. Dr. Warner often worried over the bite although it gave him no pain. Thursday he went to his office as usual although he was slightly sick. The next day lie fell upon the kitch en fl ior, and when picked np wan very nervous ar.d excited. Saturday he went to bed and the delirium be gun. The symptoms of rabies had been pronounced. There was a wild look about his eyes. He could not swallow water and in his delirium he imagined there were dogs under his ■bed. So vividly was this idea im pressed on his mind that he sprang Irom his bed and rushed to the op- site side of the room, and the ani mals seemed to persue him wherever The disappointed lover continued | he went, and he moved restlessly Regular. An old trunk has been found in a branch near Hartwell, containing some clothing, a camera and other photo graphical instruments. The trunk was well-nigh rotten and must have been buried several years ago. The find has caused some excitement and a good deal of speculation about Hartwell. Somo sus pect foul play, and others again sossit the idea. i Price 50cents. A 1.'mss The Dr. Husanko During court week a number of the Medicine Co., Piq ia, 0. Sold by E. S. to drink and to seek opportunities for pressing his suit. He bought an engagement ring for Annie Mc Cann. He neglected his business, spending most of his time in Fran cis McEidufFs saloon, where he oc casionally got glimpses of Annie. Yesterday afternoon the brother, Frank, left the saloon in charge of his uncle and went to look for Ber nard. He found him at the McEl- duff establishment, but could not get him to leave. Bernard had bought a self-cocking, 3S-caliber British bulldog pistol, almost as heavy as a gun. He waited until he saw Annie go up stairs alone and followed her. She went to her bedroom, but he entered too. “Once more, Annie, will you you marry me ?” said he. “No, I won’t.” “Then here goes one,” said Daly, firing at the woman’s head. Theball grazed the side of her face and entered the wall. She scream ed and ran into the hallway, but, believing Bernard only meant to frighten her, she stopped and look ed b?ck into the room. He took aim and fired again, but missed his mark. He then shot himself in the abdomen. Nobody in the house heard the report, but the shot is a fatal one. CUBE FOB FILES. Piles are frequently preeeileil bv a sense of weight in the back, loins and lower part of the abdomen, causing the patient to suppose he has some affection of the kidneys or neighboring organs. At times, symptom of indigestion are present. flatulency, uneasiness of the stomach, etc. A moisture like perspira tion, pro*hiring a a very disagreeable Itching, alter getting warm, as a common attendant. Blind, Bleeding aid lu lling Pilesvield at once to the application of Dr. B warko’s Fife Remedy, which acts directly noon tile parts affected, absorb ing the Tm mrs. allaying the intense lung, and cif-otinga permanent cure. survivors ef the Tugalo Blues consulted together and decided upon having a re union the coming summer. The re union will he held after crops are laid by, and a meeting, or mectiags will he called preparatory thereto, of which the survivors of that gallant company will have ample notice. What can Be Done. Ry trying again and keeping lip courage many things seemingly imjtos- hle may t>e attainted. Hundreds of hopeless "cases of Kidney and Liver " mplaint have been cured by Electrice tters, alter everything else had been tried in vain. Sj, don’t think there is no cure for you, but try Electric Bitters. There is no medicine so safe, so pure, and to perfect a Blood Purifier. Electric Bitters will cure Dyspepsia, Diabetes and Diseases of the Kidneys. Invaluable affections of Stomach and Liver and overcome all Urinary Difficulties Large Bottles only 50 cts. at Long & Co. J.yndon and G. W. Rush. Thk Giikat Kkukdy. ROSADALIS is a great remedy for Scrofula, and alt taints and diseases of the Blood. It is well known to Physi cians, v* ry many of whom regularly f ireec.ibc it. It is a strengthening med- cine, enriching the blood and building up the system- Bead the following: I have suffered 37 years with Liver Com plaint Keliumatism,Sick Headache, and I'isordered Stomach. I was at one time having distracted, rubbing may bauds and hall crazy with pain Mv wife sent fora doctor, and he attended me nine months. He said lie could do me no good; butone bottle ot ROSADALIS did me more good than all the medicine the doctors ever gave me. Moore's Creek. N. C. J. If. WALKER TRUE BILLS. from one part ot the room to anoth er in a vain effort to escape. A number or leading physicians were in attendance; every mode of treat ment were tried, including the Rus sian bath but without success. In stead of getting betterhegrew worse. At midnight an Episcopal minister was summoned to his beadside. Af ter the minister had departed anoth er one of the convulsions occurred in which he frothed at the month during the intensity of the sDasm. He died after suffering the most horrible agonies. Dr. Warner left a wife and three children. An Actor Who Guys the Flay. From the New York Tribune. “ Ned” Thorne, the actor, has the reputation of “gnying” every piece with which he is connected. Shrewd managers who know his ir repressible flow of humor stipulate in his engagements that he shall forfeit all claims on them, if he “guys” the play. He told me yes terday, as 1 was chatting with him and “Billy” Florence at the Fifth Avenue hotel, that Manager McVicker, of Chicago, made such a stipulation with him when an at tempt was made to bring out a dramatization ot Fenimore Coop er’s “Spy” at Chicago, Thorne says that the worst guy he ever made was the result. “The plav was hor rible, abominable,” he said to me, and the houses were worse than the play. I was cast for “Harvey Birch,"’ the spy. I had solemnly promised McVicker that 1 wouldn’t guy the piece, but I had put in a proviso, which was that I might take the bridle off when I should see disgust written on his own face. This night Mack sat in the box The play yins along until the spy comes out on a bridge, from whose height he stops to hurl defiance at the minions of England. There is a dramatic speech, and then he runs off, while a British officer comes on and shouts: A hundred dollars for the spy.’ When I had made my eternal defiance I looked down on a beggarly audience and I saw in McVicker’s face the ulter disgust he felt at the poverty of the play and the greater poverty of the receipts. When the officer shouted out his of fer of a reward I said to myself. •Now is your time,’ and I rushed on at the left entrance, and throwing a piece of paper up at him, yelled back: ‘It’s yours, manuscript and all the parts. You might have got it for half the money.’ The audience didn’t catch on. But olU McVicker, bless his old soul, I thought he would die a-laughing. The play came off the next night.” A TERRIBLE CYCLONE. - , Two WUcrnsIn Towns Visited By Destruc tive Wlads—More thanone Hundred Uvea ***•' M iNNBAj’oj.is. Minh April 14.— Report* have been received at 6 p. m. of a terrible cyclone at St. Cloud, Minn., this morning, in which.it is reported that 40 weie killed, 75 in jured and half the town laid waste. It is reported that Sank Rapids also suffered. Mayor Ames and a half- dozen physicians areju-t leaving on a special train for St. Cloud, in an swer to a message for assistance. Further particulars will be obtain ed at the earleast possible moment. St. Paul Minn., April 14.—St. Cloud and Sank Rapids were swept by a terriably destructive cyclone this afternoon. The first knowledge of the disaster was contained in a telegram to Mayor Ames from St. Cloud, reporting the disaster and asking that a special train be sent with physicians. A similar dispatch was sent trom Sank Rapids. Im mediately, upon receipt ot these messages, preparations were made to respond to the call for help. A train for St. Cloud left at 6 oclock. Information at hand is very meagre and sensaaiona), reports are current that 100 persons were killed. It is believed that at least 40 persons have been killed and 75 wounded,but it is impossible to get much information as yet. All is excitement and the streets are filled with men and frightened women and children. The disaster is certainly apalling. As nearly as can be learned scores of bouses have been entirly wreck-' ed. Twelve physicians were aboard the relief train which left for St. Cloud. Private advices say the storm struck the railroad between the reund house and freight depot and swept a path 600 yards wide through the city, leveling between 150 and 200 houses. M. H. Clark a well-known lumberman who lives in St. Cloud, says that 90 persons were killed in that city and more than too injured,many very serious ly. Superintendant Wakeman, ot the Manitoba road, says between 30 and 40 persons were killed at Sank Rapids, a few miles Southeast of St. Clond, and nearly double that amount injured. The telegraph wires northwest of this city are all down and no news direct from either St. Cloud or Sank Rapids has been received or obtained since 7 o’clock. TELEGRAPHIC SPARKS. ■ V GEORGIA NEWS. BUCKLER'S ARNICA SALVE. The Best Salve in the World for Cuts, Bruises, Sores. Ulcers, Salt Rheum, ‘"ever Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Etupt- tions, and positively cures Piles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give lerfect satisfaction, or money refunded. Price 25 cents per box For sale by Long A Co.—tf. HARMONY GROVE NEWS. V . J. D. Barnett and Miss Lula Deadwylcr, both of this place, were married at the Biptist church here on Thursday evening. The attendants were Mr. Enoch Anderson and Miss Ada Almond, Mr. W. B. Barnett and Miss Blanche Comer, Mr. F. Y. Stark and Miss Pope McLaughlin, Mr. A. B Dcadwyler and Miss Josie Wood. The ushers were Masters 0. H. Williford and J. W. Merritt The ceremony was per formed by Rev. Frank Stark. Mr. Bar nett is a prominent young merchant a member of the firm of Messrs. T. E. Key & Co., and Miss L’ula was one of our prettiest and most accomplished young ladies. This happy couple have the good wishes of a host of friends. Mrs. C. Garreeht, late of Athens, is new in the employ of Messrs. Gunnels, Power & Co. “Ten Nights in a Bar-room" will be played here one night daring May for the benefit of the Harmony Grove brass band. The season for the sale of fertilisers is almost over. The farmers are using large quantities, and every effort it seems is being made for a large cotton crop. Our merchants have sold quantities of provisions on time this year—y ' 2 cents for meat and about 47 per barrel for flour is about the average time prices. Our merchants are getting a good trade from the people of Franklin county this year. There are some splendid farmers in Franklin, and they find onr town a good market for their cotton and can bay their goods here as cheap as in any market, with freight added. Mr. Jenks Comer, of Maysville, was here Thursday night He brought with him a bevy of pretty girls. Athens sends out a lat of clever dium- mers. We are thinkingof CoL Jim Co mer at present, though they are alt very clever. The Grand Jury After the Blind TlferB of Athens. The young bloods of eur city have been prancing up to the court house all the week, being summoned as wit nesses in cases where parties are charged with selling liquor in defiance of prohibition. One who professes to know- says that at least fifteen true bills will be found against a single firm, while some other parties are on the toasting fork. It seems that the unfortunate firm had been reported by a man who was actua ted by malice. The police are very vigilant and determined that the laws shall be enforced. It is folly forany one to try to sed liquor in Athens w ithout be ing caught up with. The cost and troub le of a court trial will be much greater than the profits. We trust the accused parties may be able to vindicate them selves. We know nothing about the character of the- evidence given. ATLANTA MOUTHS OPEN. Six months ago we had no demand for B. B. B., but now our retail demand is such that we are forced to buy in gross lots. We attribute tlie rapid and enor mous demand to the comparative size price ot B. R. B. (being large bottles for $1) and Its positive merit. It sells well and gives onr customersentire satlfaction Onr tales have Increased 500 percent, within a few months. Jacobs’Pharmacy per Fred. B. Palmer, M. D. ADVICE TO 'MOTHERS. Mas. Wis.low's Soothiso SYRUP should at ways bs used for children teething. It soothes the child, softens tha sums altars *H pain, cures wisdcolic, and Is tits best remedr tor diarrheas. Twentr-flve cents a bottle. Ir3lddwlr LIVER FILLS. Use Dr. Gunn’s Liver Pill*, for Sailow Complexion, Pimples on the Face and Biliousness. Never ticket's or gripes. Only one for a dose. Samples free at E. S. Lyndon and G. W. Bush. What a fanny name ior a medicine! Nsverbelcss it Is very Significant as applied to the article. Bile, according to Webster, ia “a yellowish bitter, viscid oaosceous fluid, sac reted by the liver.” Whenever the li vor does no act properly this fluid Is retained in the blood and paiaont the whole system, and aallow- neaa and misery Is the result. SMITH’S BILE BEANS I* a sore core for biliousness and liver complaint. Pries. 35 cento per bottle. Mr. George Murrell, near Winterville paid ’Squire O’Kelley yesterday $1,000 for 60 acres of land in front of his house. Bast English Bones Going to America. London Truth. The rapidly increasing through- bred stock of America is likely to tell upon our race courses. The principal breeders, Messrs. Lorri- lard, Belmont, Scott, etc., are im porting tome of the best English stallions and mares, and Mr. W. K. Vanderbilt who has a modest in come of 500,000 pound tteriing per annum, and ia a through sportsman, will probably appeajt both in Eng land and America as the owner of horses that will be able to hold their own. '»• , The watchman at the Savannah National Bank has a rat trap that works automatically, and some nights he catches two or three rats. Yesterday morning, thoTigh, he found that his trap had beat all pre vious records. .Wheq, the rodents were all slaughtered and laid tn a tow there were twenty-one of them. Four of the rats were fall grown, bat the other seventeen were young one* that had followed their mother into the trap. ' FIGHT WITH A MANIAC. A Lunatic Kills His Wife While Resisting the Constables. Milwaukee, Wis., April 12.—A tragedy occurred at Kewaskum to day, following a terrible struggle with William Helm, who has ex hibited symptoms of insanity for two days past. Two deputy sher- ffs were sent from West Bend to arrest Helm and bring him here, as he had been threatening the life of his wife and fourchildren. Yester day Helm mixed a dose of poison, which he desired the wife to take, saying that he had but a few days to live and did not wish her to survive him. The woman managed to es cape from him and desttoyed the poison. When the officers arrived to-day they were met by Helm, re volver in hand. Several attempts weie made to induce the maniac to part with his weapon, but these were unsuccessful. It was at last decided to make a rush for him and trust to his excite ment for missing his aim. As the officers sprang toward him Helm fired, the shot failing to take effect. Befo-e they could close on him he fiied the second time, 'he ball strik ing Mrs. Helm in.the breast, pene trating the heart and killing her in stantly. The officers then closed with the maniac, and, after a fierce struggle, succeeded in wresting away his weapon and securing him. He was lodged in jail at West Bend. Four children, the youngest a babe two weeks old, are left orphans by the tragedy. ATTEND TO IT NOW. Many suffering people drag themselves about with failiug strength, feeling that they are steadily sinking into the grave, when by using Parker’s Tonic they would find*core commencing with the first dose, and vitality and strength surely coming back to tnem, “ I am 63 years old; have been sick nearly all my life, and ought to know something about medicine by this time. 1 hare used Parker’s Tonic freely for more than a year, and consider it the best remedy I have ever known. In fact, I now find no other medicine necessary. For weak ness, debility, rheumatism, and that dis tressing all-goneneBs and pain from which I suffered so long, it has no equal. I do not see how any one can afford to do without so valuable * medicine.”— Mrs. Hattie W. Graves, cor. East and Front streets, Providence. R. I. Par ker’s Tonic prepared by Hiseox A Co., N. Y„ sold by ali Druggists in large bot tles at oae dollar. aprlll.3«r. Mm OUT SEED: Since gardening is about over the av erage congressman and United States senators are sending out large quantities of garden seeds with French names on the packages. Every farmer who receives a package digs a hole and puts them in the ground and writs for large results. They do not stop to think that these **>ds«* not for planting but electioneering purpo ses. The more seed* thq nars vatu*. If the congressmen will send out soma old- fashioned corn field boons and k pock of Irish potatoes, it will pfeaso thbfknM^ bettor and bo of some benefit tn them. 1 LATEK INCIDENTS. St. Paul, April 16.—The city council this morning voted $5,000 in cash to aid the cyclone suffecers, aud Governor Hubbard dispatched a car load of provisions to Sauk Rapids. The car was accompanied by a committee of the Jobbers’ Uuion, who will offer ell the assist ance in their power. A mere enumeration of distress ing instances that are coming to knowledge would fill columns. Dr. Denslow, who, with others, went last evening by special train to St. Cloud, returned this morning. Upon arriving at St. Cloud he said the physicians from St. Paul and Min neapolis divided, some going to Sauk Rapids. Dr. Denslow was on the force sent to the St. Bene dictine Sisters' Hospital, and they were kept busy until 3 o’clock this morning. One probably fatal case is that of a woman who has a broken collar bone. Both bones of ’.he left fore arm and both bones of the left leg are fractured, all comminuted, and the pelvis broken—an accident sel dom chronicled in surgery. Her head and face are bruised beyond recognition. Sti ang to say, the wo man is conscious and talks freely, saying her hip hurts, but otherwise she felt no pain. Another probably fatal case is that of a man twenty years old. Both legs are so badly crushed that they had to be amputated midway between the knee and the thigh. One man lying in the hospital badly injured said three . of his children were dead. Another man in the next bed to him responded, saying his wife and three children were killed by the storm. Three little boys about six years of age were brought in at midnight wounded cruelly. A woman was found with a piece ot scalp as large as a man’s hand torn from her head and hang ing in shreds. Drs. Denslow and Kilchel short ly alter midnight went across to Sauk Rapids to reader what as sistance they could there. Twenty- three dead bodies had been tound, and the doctors from Minneapolis were busy caring for the injured. Drs. Higbee and Dalliver, of Minneapolis, iust from St. Cloud, told an Associated Press reporter that new bodies were being recov ered hourly from the debris and be ing brougnt in from the country in the track of the tornado. Twelve injuted people were brought in, several of whom will die. Drug gist Scuab’s remains had just been found. He had only been in the city two weeks. Four have died of wounds since morning. At a church east of Kye Station 13 members of a wedding party were killed, including the officiating minister. At Sauk Rapids 31 are already Jead. The list will be swelled to A terrible cyclone got in its ■*vork vesterdey. • •*• ■ • *’ f L. Q. C. Lamar is in Macon, the guest of Anderson Reeie. The ninth death growing oiit of the East St Louis riot, has taken place, The naval drill and display at Pensacola has been Successful and without accident. Secretary Menning was yesterday reported to be progressing towards complete recovery. The delegation to Charleston in the interest of the Augusta and Chattanooga, have returned. There has been a reduction of 297 in the clerical force of the United States treasury department under the present administration. Savannah, April 15.—Harman Cohen, a butcher,. who stabbed a negro boy on Liberty street two weeks ago, plead guilty and sen tence was suspended. W. A Camp, the proprietor of New Holland, is out there now busily engaged in repainting the houses, clearing awav rubbish and beautifying the grounds of this fa vorite resort. Messrs. Randall and Morrison were both moviug about among members of the house today and it is said that both were ascertaining opinions on the pending tariff bill. Montgomery, Ala., April 15.— The cars of the Capital City Street Railway commenced running to-day by electricity. Trip* are regularly made and everything works per fectly. A negro who is supposed to be named Columbes Father, was horri bly mangled on the Brunswick di vision ot the East Tennessee, Vir ginia and Georgia railroad near Stratton’s brick yard yesterday at z o’clock, by an evening train. Mr. James Gibson,of Gordon,was stopping at the Sandersville hotel, had $9 50 in stolen from his valice in his room last week. Suspicion rests upon Clara Strong, one of the servants of the house. The development of cholera at Brindisi causes an alarm in France, and particularly along the Italian frontier. Precutions of the most stingent kind are being instituted to prevent the scourge from invading France. Robert Harr.iltons large tobacco manufactory in Covitigton, Ky„was burned this morning, damaging his stock to the amount of $60,000; in surance $6 5,00a A party of hostile Apache Indi ans passed through Pensacola, on the Louisville and Nashville rail road, in charge of United States au thorities, en route to Fort Marion and St. Augustine, where they will be imprisoned. The chair laid before the senate a letter from Senator Jackson saying he had accepted the United States judgeship of the sixth circuit; that his seat in the United States senate had therefore become vacant, and requested the president pro tern, of the senate to so inform the execu tive of Tennessee. Washington, April 15.—The Speaker to-day appointed the fol lowing committee to investigate the causes and extent of the labor trou bles in the West: Curtin, of Penn sylvania; Crain, of Texas, Outh- waite, of Ohio; Stewart, of Ver mont; Parker, of New York, and Buchanan, of New Jersey. Lynchburg, Va., April 13.— Lieut. Gov. Massey spoke to a great crowd at the skating rink to-night on local option. Anti-whisky clubs are forming, and every exer tion is being made to carry local option. The whisky men are work ing earnestly to defeat their oppo nents. The canvass is becoming bitter on both sides. Great excitement was occasioned at Angelica N. Y., today by the an nouncement that the First National bank of that place had closed its doors. It is said that J. E. Robinson the cashier is defaulter to the amount of $50,000. When last heard of he was in Canada whither he had gone for the purpose of “recovering his health.” At Alexandria, Va., today the property of the Virginia Midland railroad company was formally transferred to the Richmond and Danville railroad company, under a lease of ninety-nine years, by Colo nel Tohn Anerney, vice-president m charge of the Virginia Midland com pany, to Colonel A. S. Buford, pres ident ot the Richmond and Danville Company. Greenville, April 14,—Mr. Judson Anthony, county treasurer, died suddenly of heart disease on the evening ot the 12th instant, and was buried' here to-day. There seems to be a strange fatality about the office of county treesurer of Merriwether county. Three treas urers have died in the last ten years and a fourth one, who was running without opposition, was buried just the day before that set for the elec tion. 40 Dr. Apaps, of Minneapolis, who is on duty at St. Cloud, told Dr. Dalliver that at least 30 deaths can but result from the visitation there. ( At Sauk Rapids a man named Van Etten, who weighs250 pounds, was carried 400 feet through the air and fatally injured. A dead baby was found on the street; no owner for it can be found. At St. Cloud, in the track of the cyclone stood the Manitoba freight house and cars filled with freight Heavy cars were lifted, thrown from the tracks and cast in pieces in a shapeless mass. The rails were torn irom the ties and twisted like small wire. Telegraph poles were torn up and wires twisted into curious masses. The freight honse was to tally wrecked. The roof was lifted and blown several hundred feet The sides next succumbed, and over $3,000 worth of freight was scatter ed piecemeal over an are*' ot a quarter of a mile. Fifteen freight cars were demolished. The opera tors in the telegraph, office and the employes at the freight depots saw the cyclone coming and fled into a cellar, and they escaped. It was 8:30 in the evening when the special car arrived froiti St. Paul and Minneapolis. The run. was made in two hours through a terrible thunder storm. The akies hung low with clouds a* black as tbecnrtaina of Kedar, and zigzag streaks of lightning made livid rift* in the black pafi, while peals of fbnnder too deep to be drowded by the roar of the cor wheels shook the air. Through the air drove the hail and rain with sufficient force to almost break the cor windows, bnt the locomotive drove at the (ate of 35 miles sn boar. Along the road were signs of terrible storms ap parent on either hand, and streams turbid and awollen, had burstpver the confines Of their banks and cov ered the prairies until the country lttd the appearance of a world of angry watera. . » , ' ’ Wo understand that Msddrey dr Jopes Vrifl add ^tubbing to their business. An old negro woman died in Amerlcuk Saturday, who was said to bo 106 years old. Saturday a young msn by the name of Dorrough was killed six miles east of Carrollton, by the team he was driving getting frightened ’ and running sway with him. Mrs M iry B. Johnson, who died near Covington last week, was over 91 years old, and het descendants toot up 171—12 children, 42 grand* children, 116 great grandchildren, end one {reat-greatgrandchild. A willow farm in Macon, Ga., produces about a ton of switches to the acre, commanding, when dried, $200, and, as the leaves and bark sell at 25 cents a pound baled, the en terprise pays better than cotton. Philip Keane, the oldest inmate ot the state insane asylum, from Chat ham county, is dead. He was com mitted Feb. 22, 1854, and counse- quently had spent 32 years in the institution. The Rome Courier suggests that Augusta build her Western Air- Line to Kingston, where it could connect with Rome, with a view to its extension through North Ala bama to a navigable point on the Tennessee river. It i* reported that the family of the late William Hindsman found $3,200 in currency over a door in ins house a few days since. They knew he bad a good deal of cash on hand, but did not know how much or where it was kept.—Ncwnan Herald. An effort will soon be made to get stock enough subscribed to se cure a compress for Americus be fore the next cotton season begins. The compress will cost about $15,- 000, and will compress 600 bales a day, which will be good enough at present. The oldest house that was in Americus was a little frame one that stood in the old cemetery on Forsyth street It was built by old man Pegue, in 1S37, over his .son Sid, and was the only real old house in town. It was blown down last week and has been entirely moved from the sight of passers-by. It is reported that John Carr, of Sparta, who was convicted at the last' t r m of the court of assault with intent to kill, and who was out on bond, pending the derision of the supreme court bn an application for a new trial, has fled to greener fields and pastures new. Seab Simmons, a desperate ne gro. escaped from the Fulton coun ty jail Monday evening. He was, with a number ot others, being conveyed from his ceil to the court house, and at a moment when the attention of the guards was divert ed, made a leap for liberty. Dogs were put on his track, and after a hot chase he was reeaptured. A horse belonging to Mr. Fred Auld, of this place, died on Friday morning last, and its death is sup posed to have been from hydropho bia. A mad dog passed under the horse’s feet some time ago, and it is supposed that it bit the horse. The horse showed symptoms of the dis ease before it died.—Elberton Ga zette. Mr. L. B. Tarver, of this place, a hewer ot wood, but not a drawer of water, is noted for his superior strength. His horse jumped ofl the embankment in Rocky Comfort swamp the other night and mired up to its flanks in the mud, at the same time upsetting the buggy. Mr. Tarver then got mad and took the buggy on his shoulder, the horse by the tail and set them straight in the road.—Gibson Enter prise. A SPORTMAN’S ICEBOAT. Ha Bigs Up a Sled and Slides Smack Into aFlockof Wild Geese: From the Wilmington (N. c.) Star. A flock of wild geese alighted on the ice just at dusk the oth*r even ing, about midway between East Madison and Tonyawatha, and set tled down to sleep. Among others who saw the big, fluffy creatures, and wished to gut a crack at them was Andrew Hippenmeyer. He finally concluded to make the at tempt, and rigged up a hand sled in such a way as would deceive any but a sage old goose. He fastened on the front end of the sled a frame about four feet high, upon which he stretched canvass. Of course the latter corresponded with the snow in color, and as the sportman lay himself prone npon the sled and began to slowly propel himself to wards the fluffy line in the distance, the object was scarcely perceptible. Hippenmeyer succeeded within short range of the geese without arousing their suspicion, and when everything was in readiness, bang! bang! went his eun, and five geese were left floundering on the ica, while the others arose with tremen dous fluttering sped 'away into the gathering darkness. WAS IT GANGES* I have been taking B. B. B. for six or seven weeks for something tike cancer "I my neck, ana l would net take one MSi»«nd doHarfior tha benefit recived. 1 had previously tried ' various so- called blood remedies, but B. B. B. is the best, the quickest and the cheapest blood purifier I ever-used. I refer to any 'merchant of Griffin, Ga* J. H. Baines Griffin, Ga. Bsmarkabla Escape From Drowaln*. A .most remarkable escape from drowning was that of Miss Eliza Moate, of Sparta, on Monday. The factory tyraneb is asually a little thread-like stream where it crosses the public road, but Monday’* rains bad swollen it to git angry torrent; when the yonng lady attempted to cross it on the foot-log, which was under water. Whether the foot- log was floating, or the swiftness bf the stream made her footing un- *teady„is not known. In any event, she fell in, mad: .mashed down stream,|hronyf$ M ^m^ and under • bridgma Uutaice srf man than too yards. She was finally restued. ano. GENERAL NEWS. Chattanooga estimates her loss by the flood at $200,000. A* autograph collection owned by F. J. Dorer, of Philadelphia, is valued at $100,000. There is a “Poverty Club” at Mil ford, Ill. It gave a “hard times” party the ether evening. It is proposed in France to tax all foreign residents in that republic 15 francs per annum. Some travelers went from San Francisco to London recently in fourteen days—the quickest time on record. A new flagstaff on the Grand Union, Saratoga, is eighty feet high and weighs nearly three quarters ot a ton. The death rate of Cairo, Egypt, has been frightful this year. In Jan uary it was sixty per 1,000. Bad water is believed to be the cause. A Chinese student in the junior class at Yale has received the right, by scholastic merit, to be one of the eight speakers selected for the exhi bition next month. The astonishing statement is made that the belle of Butte, Montana, takes a shoe thirty-six inches long. The width and depth of the shoe are not given. At a horticultural exhibition in Philadelphia one of the attractions was a moon flower, a species of morning-glory that opens in the night instead of in the morning. China has not a single lunatic asy lum. Neither has the United States. Single men don’t need them. It’s the poor, deluded marritd men who go crazy.—N. Y. Star. Rubinstein has been offered $100.- 000 for a series of 100 concerts in the United States, but he says he suffered so excessively trom sea sickness the last time that he will never cross the Atlantic again. Wabash, Ind., March 14.—For the third time in three years an un successful attempt was made on Monday night to wreck a fast mail West, on the Wabash road, two miles east of this city. _A Parisian street beggar has com piled and printed a directory of phi lanthropists and soft-hearted per sons to whom it is worth while to apply for alms, and the police are trying to suppress the book. The printers in the calico making mills of the Connecticut valley have a very close organization of their own in each neighborhood, and will not impart the secrets of their trade to any but their own sons or the son of members of affiliated organi zations. The Earl of Shaftesbury killed himself while in a cab riding through Regent street. He shot himself several times in the body with a re volver. Death was nearly instanta neous. The corpse was conveyed to Middlesex hospital. Shaftesbury was within two months of being 55. He was the eighth Earl ot Shaftes bury, succeeding on October, 1, 1885, to the title on the death of hit father, a noted philanthropist. He leaves a widow, one son and five daughteis. There is a 13-year-old negro boy in Richmond, Ky., who h a perfect little fiend. The other day he bought a box of rat poison, cut it in two, and put one part in the tea kettle ot the Deatherage family. Three per- sons who drank of the water were made deathly sick, and;, tbeir Uvea were aaved with difficulty. The week before he set fire to the house andw year ago be tried to poison the family of k clergyman with whom dowAttwliwL He once showed his wickedness or his sensitiveness by thrusting a red hot poker into a Di-