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THE ATHENS BANHEfii ATHM3, GEORGIA, JANUARY i4, 1890
SUMMER LINGERS.
V 0K ctat«on Flourishing as Under Sum-
mor’» Sunshine,
NEGRO EXODUS VrOM THE CAR
OLINA^
It really seems that something has
„ 0 „ e wrong with great nature this
y,. a r. The winter has been perpetual
summer anil the sun ha« rarely liiil its
f. u . e for twelve months. Under its
warm rays vegetation lias flourished
ami the year has been fruitful in the
extreme A second growth seems to
have set in since September in the vege
table kingdom, and overythingis grow
ing green that sprouts from mother
earth.
lli,. Banner editor was down m
Oglethorpe comity a few days si nee and
f„uml that many fa niers had corn
rit .;,ilr a hand high. Cotton seeds that
have been sown with small grain as a
fertilizer have sprouted from the sofien-
,.(] -oil and are growing luxuriantly.
.->in ill grain has ewme up and is farther
advanced than than was ever known ni
this season of the year. The ground is
green with the fal‘ oats that have been
planted and looks more like a verdant
ear]iet of June than Janury.
urs. II. McWhorter has garden peas
in full bloom ami ready to mature,
while Mr. Cobh, of Oconee county, has
strawberries for dinner each day I
ri|»‘‘
yir. Bancroft, of Athens, also has ripe
strawberries from time to time.
All of these tell us that something
li ; i> turned up wrong with the world.
Perpetual summer which heretofore
l, ; i> Iks:11 known only to the tropic
lauds, does not exist everywhere.
Whether it be that the gulf stream is
changing its course or not, we can’t
-av. Inn surely summer lingers in the
Jaii of wintei.
LANG DON S LUCK.
Hi Suddenly G: a»psn Fortune by Real
Estaio Speculations.
Everybody in Athens well remembers
Mr. Paul l.angdon, who was at the
University from Augusta two or three
years ago. He was a popular student
aiuI was well known in Athens.
dr. l.angdon has recently become one
of the richest young men in Georgia,
ami lias worked out his own fortune,
too. Since he left college he has work
ed at a small salary, but saved enough
by it to invest in nearly .'150,000 acres of
land lying between Anniston, Ala.,
and Home, which he made by gaining
an option on the land an i afterwards
interesting a number of capitalists in
the purchase of the land.
Tlie lands have since that time gone
to an enormous value, owing to the iron
ore found to exist beneath the soil, and
Mr. l.angdon has stepped into posses
sion of a fortune.
lie was lately olfered $50,000 for hi
interest in the lauds, hut refused, claim
ing I hat it was worth $125,000 to him.
SHE WANDERED AWAY.
Mis. Wall of Wintorville Leaves Her Homo
and Little Ones, but Is Found.
The Hanker in a late issue an ac
count of Mrs. Wall’s mysterious disap
pearance from her home'in Winter
vilie and stated that her whereabouts
were unknown for a number of days.
Si nee that time, however, she has been
found and her strange and sudden dis
appearance accounted for. She was
found last Sunday in some little dis
tance from Winterville in the woods
and.was almost in a starved condition.
.She was very feeble and could liardly
walk home. When found, Mrs. Wall
had almost become insane with wild
despair and did not talk much about her
mysterious departure from home.
li is believed that her poverty weigh
ing -o heavily upon her caused her to
wander away from home and her little
ones whom she had to support. She lias
a large family and but little to lire on,
ami it seems that all this caused her to
give up in hopeless despair and leave
home not caring or knowing much
wh.il she did.
OKRA CULTURE.
The Rose C olored Pictures by Which
ThryAre Enticed to Leave Their
Old Homes.
Columbia, Jan. 6.—(Speceal).—Four
more car loads or negro emigrants from
upper South Carolina and North Caroli
na passed through here this afternoon,
all bound for Southwest. Tho negroes
give as their reasons for leaving their
Carolina homes the poor erops that have
been made for tlie last few years and
the scarcity of money. They hope to
make plenty of money and grow fat in
the country “Out West,” about which
many wonderful stories have been told.
This immigration of the negroes isprofit-
able chiefly to the railroads. Labor on
the large cotton plantations in Lousi-
and, Mississippi, Arkansas and Texas is
very scarce. There is an immense
amount of,and thatjlies idle for want of
handS'to cultivate it. The railroad au
thorities send an agent among the
Western planters to llud how many
hands are wanted. The planter agrees
to take a certain number, and places
with tlie railroad a sum of money suffi
cient to pay their traveling expenses,
the amount to be returned by the negro
iu work before he receives any wages.
The railroad agent then goes to North
or South Carolina, as the most fruitful
tlehl iu which to ply his vocation. Last
year the farmers ros.i up in indignation
and for a time made it sqnally for the
agent. This year, however, they are
encouraging the negroes to leave.
The great question with the railroad
agent is liow io get the negroes to leave
their homes in which they have lived
since their childhood. The most at
tractive dodge is a highly colored circu
lar embellished with large and well-
executed pictures. The first picture
represents a negro with a family leav
ing a broken-down cabin home in an
old field. Each member of the family
is laden with the simple household ef
fects. The next picture is taken five
years later, and represents the negro in
his new Western home. He is standing
hoe.in his baud, in his lot, surrounded
by frisky mules, fat hogs, and line
chickens. The third picture is that of
a comfortable two-story dwelling, with
a b autiful lawn iu front, on which a
young darky is cutting the grass with a
patent rolling machine. At the gate a
horse attached to a fine buggy is hitch
ed : on the front porch, seated in a
large and comfortable rocking chsir,
can be seen the pompous-looking col
ored man and his comfortably dressed
“ole woman,” taking things easy.
These are supposed to be the same poor
“niggers" who left their wretched
Carolina home a few years before.
This circular catches the darkies
every time. The ministers are carried
away, anil preacli immigration; the
teachers are wild, and talk emigration.
Everybody is half crazy until they have
sold out everthing and are on the way
to the enchanted western .and. After
they get there, their passage money lias
to be paid, they have to wo; k as hard
as ever, their fine home and fine stock
don’t materialize as they thought it
would, and they all awake at hist to the
fact that there’s cheating going on all
around. Then they .-truggle hack as
best they can to their old California
homes.
A DUEL WITH AX AXE.
A NEW LAW,
and
Concerning tho Payment of State
County Taxes.
It may not lie generally known that
a now law was passed by the last legis
lature regard the payment of state and
coimi v lax, and possibly there are some
who have suftered their taxes to run
over date, without knowledge of this
late act.
In elicet the law is this: All tax fi fas
issued by the tax collector after Decem
ber 21.»t. bear interest at 7 percent.
There are many li fas being issued
iu Clarke county and it may bethalif
the delinquent tax payers had known
i his law, they would not have suffered
their taxes to have run beyond the date.
At any rate we give it as a piece of
news.
Maui: a Raid.—Colector Tube
Murray, of the Internal Revenue sys
tem, lias make several important raids
recently, and brought back to Athens
the products of his energy and vigi-
A few nights ago lie captured a
lane.
block still in Madison county, and an-
m lo r in Jackson county and brought
tinm tn Athens.
He also, a day or two ago captured
two stills in Walton county, together
with a good deal of good old coir II-
•fimr, >ir. Murray stored bis newly ae-
quired property in the depot at Bcthle-
m m. ding its removal to this city.
During the night, some one broke into
the depot, and took away the property
alia, bed to the two stills, but left the
whiskey. Mr. Murray says he will
have the offenders in the course of a
*•" days, and will take great pleasure
in turning them over to the State and
government authorities.
THEY ARE IN ELBERT.
The Surveying Corps of the G., C. and N
Roach Elbcrton.
The Georgia, Carolina & Northern
railroad is surely being built towards
Athens Ol this there is no doubt. It
,s only a matter of time when the loco
motives of this great trunk line will be
rushing into our nourishing city, dis
pensing trade and plenty throughout
cur section. The latest from this rail
road is that tlie corps of surveyors un-
•ler the direction of A1aj. Morrison have
reached Elbeiton. They have gone to
work earnestly and speedily 'o lav the
read-bed of this great railroad, and it
,s tf > say that they will spare no
energies to bring it into our city as soon
as it is possible.
1 he G., c. & X. railroad directors
and officers meet in our city on tlie loth
'hen they will transact a good deal of
important business relative to the road.
heir session wilt be the regular annu
al meeting which was to have occurred
a month ur two ago but which, by rea-
ren of the failure of a South Carolina
paper to properly advertise it, was «le-
<•> red and re-advertised. This meeting
"HI hring many railroad magnates to
mir city.
I'wo Newsboys Frozen to Death.
Kansas City, >lo., Jan.G.—[Special.]
i n a deserted hut on tlit river bank a
Pmieeinan yesterday found the bodies
‘two small boys, who had evidently
<*eu frozen to ueath during the recent
wiu snap. They were rccognited as
The Principals Used the Weapon Al
ternately, and One was Chopped to
Pieces.
Gainesville, (i.i., Jan. 4—[Special]
—At Pine Mountain, in the Moccasin
district. Will Thoinassou and Grant
Burrell fell out about the ownership of
some still tubs in possession of the
former, and fought with an axe, using
the weapon alternately. T -oinasson’s
turn came first, and he threw the axe
at Burrell, breaking the latter’s thumb
and cutting a severe gash in his left
thigh just above the knee. Burrell then
seized the weapon in both hands, ami
with his whole might hurled it at his
antagonist, who had by tins time turned
to run, striking him edge foremost in
the back, just beneath one of his shoul
der blades, and severing three of bis
ribs, entered his lungs. Burrell ran
after liis victim with the dripping axe
uplifted, and once more sunk it into liis
back. Tboinasson fell, mortally wound
ed, and died in a few minutes. As
Burrell started tlie row, feeling runs
strong against him. He lied to the
South Carolina side of the river, where
he was secreted by his relatives. Last
night he returned to his home, where lie
whipped his wife until she was almost
dead, because lie had heard that she
condemned the murder of Tboinasson.
He then re-crossed the river, anil defies
arrest.
IX MALE ATTIRE.
tin
A Savannah Masquerader in
Clutches of the Police.
Charleston, Jan. G.—(Special).—A
young woman who claims to be Miss
Ollivy Cbri-scs, of Savannah, boarded
the train at Savannah on Thursday
evening oil her way to Charleston.
When the conductor went around for
ticket s,Miss Chrisses was minus a ticket
as well as money with which to pay
her fare. The masquerader appealed
u> two benevolent-looking gentlemen,
who kindly paid her fare, probably not
knowing that she was a “fate.”
J be conductor discovered before lie
reached Charleston that his non-paying
passenger was a woman in male attire,
and thinking that there was something
wrong, he reported the fact to the po
liceman at the Northeastern railroad
depot. The policeman took the woman
in charge and conducted her to the po
lice station. Yesterday morning she
said she left Savannah because she had
been ill-treated there. No further in
formation could be obtained from her.
The police authorities will send Miss
Chrisses back to Savannah as soon as she
is able to return.
Tlie woman is about 20 years old, a
dark brunette and not at ail hand
some.
THE DEADLY CIGARETTE.
Discoveries That Promise to Make It
a Very Important Product.
Columbia, S. C.. Jan. 6.—(Speeial).-
The wonderful possibilities of the favor-
its Southern vegetable, the okra, have
been discovered by W. E. Sad low, ax
English engineer, now of Columbia.
He has had 1 irge experience with tex-
tilcs_ For two years he has been look
ing into the okra Hbre question, and
reached the conclusion that it can be
cheaply produced, and that the okra
stalk is essentially different from the
jute, cotton, and ramie in this, that the
wood surrounds the fibre, while in the
others it is mixed with it, and this is
ne key of the problem of cheap pro
duction. His experiments last summer
and fall prove that the okra fibre anil
wood are naturally separated. The
mixing of the fibre with the wood of
jute, ramie, ami cotton makes it neces-
ry to employ manual labor chiefly to
decorticate, and this is so costly that
only iu India and China, where* laber
is excessively cheap, isrit possible to
produce the fibre at low prices.
The okra on the contrary, can be sep
arated by machinery. Mr. Sudlow de
clares that he can make a machine
w hich will not cost more than an ordi
nary cotton gin, which can be employed
as gins are employed on each large farm
or in each neighborhood, and that by
its use planters can turn out their fibre
and sell it as they do cotton for so much
a pound. Into this machine the okra
stalks will be fed, butts forward, and it
will cut the wood from the fibre. The
gluten will be removed from the fibre
by a simple process, and the fibre is
really.
Soine beautiful samples have been
exhibited. The fibre is long, exceeil-
inglv strong, between straw color and
white, and with a silken gloss. The
okra plant grows in this State almost
without cultivation, to perfection. A
farmer in Edgefield says he. can now
prepare the fibre at a cost of a cent a
pound, and a factory has applied for all
he can make at a good price. The fibre
can be subdivided so that cloth as well
as well as rope and bagging can be made
from it. Secretary Rusk says that it is
very line fibre, and asks tor the process
of making it. It promises to become
an important industry and to far sur
pass cither cotton, jute, or pine straw
as a baggingfor cotton.
Smoked Fifty Cigarettes Dal y.
Louisville, Ky., Jan. 6.—[Special.]
—Walter Fletcher died here of tobacco
poisoning on Friday of last week and
was buried Monday, lie was one of
the brightest boys in his class in school,
but about a year ago became an excess
ive smoker of .cigarettes, sometimes us
ing fifty to sixty in a day. About six
weeks ago he was stricken with heart
disease, directly brought on by smok
ing. He was confined to his bed for
four weeks. A week ago he was im-
S roved auil able to drive about the city,
ut just before Christmas he was again
confined to his bed and sunk gradually
until his death.
Frankfort, Ky., Jan.fl.—At amect-
ingof tlie Board of Council of the city
of Frankfort a few days ago, an ordi
nance was adopted prohibiting the sale
of cigarettes to anybody within, the
corporation. The law went into effect
yesterday morning, and there is not a
cigarette to be had in the city.
At Bridgeport, Conn,, a mulatto is in
Kad evidently used tbo jail for bigamy, liis second wife being a
m bouse. . | white woman.
A SLAVE MARRIAGE.
Its Legality Tested in the Superior
Court Yesterday.
Atlanta, Jan. 7.—[Special.]—There
was an interesting case in Judge Mar
shall J. Clark’s court yesterday after
noon. in which the legality of a slave
marriage was one of the points at issue.
Ferry Keith, col., was suing for the
recovery of some property.
Austin Keith, a well-known negro in
Atlanta, died about ten or twelve years
ago and left no will. lie owned con
siderable real estate and made some
verbal wishes as to what should be done
with it.
A part of it went to Perry Keith, a
son by a slave marriage, anil the rest
to a second wife, also married in slave
ry.
This second wife deeded her proper
ty to Jane Jones and her children.
Perry recently brought suit to recov
er the property owned by the Jones on
the ground that liis father’s marriage
to the second wife was not a marriage
by law, but they simply lived together
as s aves frequent'}’ did.
This morning the jury brought in a
verdict for the defendants, which deci
sion established the validity of the so-
called slave marriage.
AWAY WITH WHISKEY.
That’s YVhat Some Augusta People
Want to Huppm.
Augusta, Ga., Jan. 6.—[Special.]—
There is no doubt that there is a move
ment on foot here to force an election
on the liquor question under the local
option law, and it is understood a peti
tion for submission to the ordinary will
be circulated soon.
While there has always been a pro
nounced prohibition element here, it
never lias amounted to anything in
strength. But the Christmas day trou
bles, which grew out of driukingbad
liquor, has made many good antis turn
over to the other side.
The city papers ere advocating high
license and the Georgia Baptist, the
negro organ, has come out flat-footed
for prohibition in view of the Christ
mas killing. The W. C.T. U. is active.
The liquor dealers have an organization
and are on the alert.
HE WAS LOW-SPIRITED
And Consequently Took the poison
Route for “tho Und iscovcrcd
Country ”
Washington, D. C., Jan. 4—[Spc-
ci ]—A young man by the name of
McMurray, a native of Bartow county,
Georgia, but long a resident of the dis
trict, suicided the other day at liisliuiii-
ble quarters in South Washington.
He has been out of employment for
some time, and presumably was in a
depressed mental condition! His aged
mother anti a married sister live here.
He swallowed poison.
Tu the changes announced for the in
terior department this week, Georgia
loses a place. Thomas J. Hogan, a
third assistant examiner in the bureau
of patents, lias been dismissed. 1 do
not know him personally and can give
no account of his residence.
Thomas Degnan’s Delaberate Su'cldo
Albany, Jan G.—[Special].Thomas
Degnan, a laborer living at 32 South
Lansing street, committed suicide here
in a most deliberate manner at about 7
o’clock this morning, lie was seen to
walk to the wharf at the fool of Blecker
street and eliuib carefully down with
his back to the river. On reaching the
water be folded his arms and laid him
self hack as though going to sleep. His
overcoat buoyed him up for a time and
the current carried him several blocks,
when lie sank suddenly and did not re
appear. liis botlv was recovered at
about noon. Xo cause for the deed is
known. A dozen persons witnessed
bis death and endeavored to rescue him,
but he paid no attention to them,
though he might easily have reached
the dock and been rescued.
GEORGIA NEWS.
Bill Reid, of Tahoola, Ga., is adver
tising for a wife:
The Okefenokee swamps are adver
tised for sale by the state.
Covington is trying to work up a
railroad toL»wren*ceville.
The alliancemen in Sumter county
will establish a bank.
Albany voted recently for water
works
Rev. W. R Dale, alias Nntall. can
not give bond and is in jail at Dallas.
The population of Brunswick is 12,-
000.
A negro fair at Columbia, S. C., was
a complete failure.
A billy goat started a race war in
Philadelphia.
A snow slide in California buried two
families.
The cigarette manufacturers deny
having formed a trust.
In Xew York a German murdered hN
wife and little ehildaud then suicided
Two attempts were made to assassin
ate Mr. C. Lowenthal, un engineer at
Carrollton.
The Savannah News complains that
the postal officials are getting worse
and worse about the mails.
Two negroes were murdered in Tay
lor county during the Cbrisnias holi
days.
James Keegan, an Irish brick mason,
was killed by the train near Anicricus,
while intoxicated.
The Bank of Madison has opened with
a capital of $50,000 ail paid in aud a de
posit of $54,000 in its vaulcs.
Mr. Fontaine, of Marietta, won fifty
dollars by lifting a chair at arms length
with a heavy man sitting in it.
The handsome new Baptist church at
Crawford*vilie will be dedicated on the
twelfth.
Mr. A. C. Riley, of Fort Valley, lias
been appointed Judge of the county
court of Houston.
Mr. J.J. Nelson, a West End mer
chant of Atlanta, has disappeared leav
ing some debts behind.
Jimmy Cooper, a fifteen year old boy
of Carroll county, is charming Atlanta
with bis eloquence in the pulpit.
Garfield Beattie, the six year old At
lanta boy, bad both eyes shot out.
Eight negroes will be tried this week
at Perry for the murder of old man
Miller. The fiends found only $30 on
bis person.
Prof. R. E. Mitchell lias tendered his
resignation as president of Gainesville
College. Prof. A. W. Van lloose was
elected his successor.
Mr. Pierre Lorillard, of Xew York,
has purchased an oak grove in McIn
tosh county and will improve it for
a home.
The grand jury of Fulton county has
returned true bills against the Bone
family and their associates for the mur
der of Jim Woodward,
A Boston merchants’ association sent
a thousand dollar subscription to the
Grady inoihumeiit fund. The fund now
amounts to nearly $10,000.
The depot of the G., C. & N. railroad
at Elbertou has been located' at the E.
A. L depot. The survey will be com
pleted in a few days.
The marshal of Bciton clubbed Eli
Powell while drunk. Powell lay in the
lockup all night and died <>u the day
following. v
An election was held in Lula for
mayor and aldermen, which resulted :
C. W. Asburv, mayor; and Richard
Martin, H. X. Thomas, J. L .Smith,
aud J. R. Martin, councilman,
Albert Turner, colored, had his hand
mashed so badly at the turning tables
at Carrolltou last Saturday that ampu
tation wat necessary, lie has brought
suit against the road for $10,000.
Sum Jones has announced his cru
sade again-1 sill ill New Orleans. He
said that when dugs barked people came
to see wliat they were barking at, and
all lie wanted was the people.
A writer in the Brunswick Times af
firms that he was approached by a
friend four years after his death. The
spirit touched him on the shoulder and
vanished without speaking.
Gen. Alexander was again chosen
president of the Central railroad sys
tem. Kvun P. Howell and James
Swann were cected new directors. The
road will build two new steamships.
Henry Muey, colored, shot and killed
Milton McTeur, also colored, at Baxley,
Friday night. Mdear’s wife was the
only witness to the crime. The mur
derer escaped and is at large.
Green Waters, a negro living near
Rocky Mount, shot his wife some days
ago and then struck her with bis gun.
The woman was badly injured. In the
scuttle Waters was shot himself in the
thigh and his wound may result fatally.
He is now in Greenville jail.
News has readied liiwassce of a very
serious knife cutting affray which oc
curred at Habuu Gap, in Rabun coun
ty. The parties engaged iu the cutting
were Robert Long, Terrell Curtis.
Cannot Recover for Accidents While
Ridingon a Pass
Boston, Jan. 4.—[Special]—In the
case of Asahcl Quimby against tlie Bos
ton and Maine Railroad Company, in
which tlie plaintiff obtained a verdict
of $li,000 in tlie Superior Court, the Su
preme Court lias sustained the excep
tions of the defendant. Quimby was
riding on a pass when the accident oc
curred, and one of the conditions of the
pass "as that the holder released the
company from liability in case of acci
dent. I he Court says: “We are of
opinion that where one accepts as gra
tuity a free pass upon a railroad train
upon the agreement that lie will assume
all risk of accident which may happen
to him, no rule of public poliuy requires
us to declare such contract invalid
without binding force.’ 1
and
Curds,
James Mosley, Xoali and Riley Gar
land. The two later were seriously, if
not fatally wounded by several outs in
the back and arms. Robert Long and
Terrell Curtis have lieeu arrested and
carried to Gainesville jail for safe keep
ing. James Mosluy made his escape.
Cause, whiskey.
The editor of the Fannin county Ga
zette says: Another gander-shanked,
pigeon-toed, whopper-jawed sun-of-a-
gun in the person of J.N. Barnes sends
us word to “to let him know if we get
pay for his paper before be does.” Mr.
B. w ill pay bis subscription and that p.
d. q., too. Also, if he will show up
and we can’t put him four feet under
ground inside of five minutes, we will
agree to cancel the insurance on our of
fice, set the shanty on fire aud leave
town on foot.
The spring term of Hale Superior
court shows, fifty-three cases returned.
This is unusually large, but there is no
case of special interest among them and
all for small interests. Court convenes
third Monday and the most interesting
case will lie the trial of John Coflln for
the murder of John X. Merritt, deputy
United State* marshal. He was tried
last July and a mistrial resulted, the
jury standing eleven for acquittal an .
one' for conviction. Public opinion is
very much divided as to the result.
Coltin has been ill the Atlanta jail ever
since his recovery from the wounds re
ceived in his capture, for safe keeping.
At Phillip’s station on the E. T. t V.
& Georgia railroad the passenger train
was brought to a stop. Before the pas
sengers could learn the object of the
stop the cry was heard, “Jump!”
and as the last passenger was stepping
to the ground a freight train crashed
into the rear, completely demolishing
the 8lee|ier and wrecking the entire
train. Mrs. J. P. Moulden of Straw
berry Plains was the last to leave the
train. She had a baby iu her arms. The
conctiS’ion threw her violently to the
ground. She is badly hurt, but the
baby is not hurt at all. Dr. II. K.
Main was in the toilet room, aud was
forced through the window. He was
While crazed by religion a Kansas
man and wife tried to cremate them
selves.
It is thought that “La Grippe” will
play havoc w’ith a small republican ma
jority in congress.
Near Paducah,JKv., four men were
burned to ueath in a cabin whiledrunk
ry
An engineer on the B. & O. rai.road
as blown 100 yards and escaped injti-
fhe policy of the Republican congress
seems to be spend as much money as
possible.
Gov. Ross, of Texas, has offered
$250 reward each for the men who
killed two negroes.
nenry Jorden,a Camden.New .Jersey,
negro, brutally assaulted an aged white
woman.
The insane patients at the poor house
near Wlieatcu, III., are most brutally
•rented. J
John McWilliams, of Lewiston, Me.,
became insane and killed his wsse with
an axe.
David Sullivan, the famous base hall
umpire, died suddenly at Chicago;wliile
singing “MeGinty ”
A duel is probablo between two
Birmingham, Alabama, newspaper
men.
“LoJGrigpe” is scoring a large num
ber of deaths, but the doctors say it is
not dangerous,only to old people.
Rev Dr. Harper, the distinguished
Presbyterian divine of Philadelphia, is
dead.
Mrs. Brenman, of Holtyrope, Mass.,
who is in jail for poisening mem
bers of her fiunilvjin order to;secnre life
insurance, is dying of Bright’s disease.
Ah advance of % of a cent per pound
has been made by the white lend trust,
but it has provided better terms for
jobbers.
A negro iu Spartanburgcounty, South
Carolina, was given 31) I ashes foi - having
a white wife, aud tlie wouiun; was or
dered to leave.
Rev. C. L. Powell, formerly of North
Carolina; but a missionary in Africa,
became insane and killed bis youngest
daughter, age G years.
At llnrverliil), New Hampshire.
Stave il l y Plant, age 80 years, w hile in a
rage killed liis grandson, age 5, and fa
tally stabbe 1 his grand daughter, age
10. He was arrested.
Rev. T. M. Joiner, tlie Baptist cler
gyman who was roughly handled by a
crowd at Holy Springs! X. C., for in
cendiary talk to negroesf has applied
t > the British Minister at Washington
for redress. The matter is being inves
tigated.
Burglars entered tho house of Dr.
Arthur S. Kniffen at Trenton, N. J ,
and chloroformed Mrs. Kniffen and a
young, lady. Miss Purcell, who is visit
ing the family, and then ransacked the
premises. The Doctor’s wife died un
der the influence Of the drug, and it
was a long time before Miss Purcell
was restored to consciousness.
JUST MISSED A FORTUNE
A Hlorj that Itecnll. the filgnmic Oprr-
niioiiM of the Dity. of Oil.
From the Pittsburg Dispatch.
Quincy Bobison related an incident
of the early history of- tlie oil regions
recently, which may give the children
of the -present generation a vague idea
of the liiagMitudc of the transactions
which took place when oil was $S and
$!) a barrel, and poor people gained a
competency by scooping it off the sur
face of creeks, or gathered it from pools
around tlie tanks which had overflow
ed. The story as told by Mr. Bobison
was as follows:
•Within a month after Col. Drake
hadd struck the first petroleum ever
brought to the surface in America by
means of drilling, my father
and tlie here bought a
tract of land comprising 1,230 acres, ad
joining the farm on which the Drake
well was located, for $350,000. Not
long afterward I was sitting iu their
oflice one day—I remember it as dis
tinctly as t'.ougli it happened only yes
terday—when an agent for an eastern
syndicate walked in and offered $500,-
000 for the 1.230 acres, The owners
looked at him rather incredulously for
a moment, hut before they could speak
he bail counted out on tlie tableJ$500,-
000 in cash anil drafts, which he offered
for a deed of the tract. I was appalled
by the sight of the pile, but my father
and the father of these gentlemen retir
ed for consultation, and decided that if
the property was worth $500,000 it was
worth $1,000,000. and tlie offer was re-,
fused. Their heirs still own the land
and now it is valued at about $20,000.
When they could have got dollars we
scarcely could get nickels. Thus you
can sec what seemingly fairy stories
could be told of those days. They are
almost incomprehensible to the present
generation, but they were red-hot
facs.” And a sign of regret that the
offer had not been accepted went
around the circle.
Said to Be 180 Years Old.
The oldest man in the woihl is a citi
zen of Bogota, in the republic of San
Salvador.
This new Methuselah declares that lie
is 130 years old, and it would seem he
flatters himself, for his neighbers give
that he is older thau he says he is.
He is a half-breed named Michael So
lis, whose existence was revealed to Dr.
Louis Hernandez by one of tlie oldest
planters in the locality, who as a child
knew Solis as a ceutarian.
They have found in the year 1712 his
signature umoiig those of persons who
contributed to the building of a Fran
ciscan convent which exists near San
Sebastian.
liis skin is like parchment, liis long
hair, of tlie whiteness of »noiv,envelops
his head like a turban, and his look is
so keen that It made a disagreeable im
pression on the doctor.
Interrogated by the doctor, he an
swered oeiuplaisantly that his great
age was due to his regular mode of liv
ing, and to his never giving up to any
success of any sort whatever.
“I never eat but once a day,” said
he, but 1 never use any hut the strong
est and most nourishing foods. My
meals last a half hour, for I believe it
is impossible to eat more in that time
than the body ean digest in twenty-four
hours. I fast the flrst and fifteenth of
each month, and on those days I drink
as much water as 1 can bear. 1 always
let my food become cold before 1 touch
it. It is to these things that 1 attribute
my great age.—Union Liberal of Que
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