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MIDDLE GEORGIA ARGUS.
VOLUME NIL
HIE WAR IN EGYPT.
KHARTOUM Til K HANDS OF El.
Trrnrht-ry mill llrarriinn A<'coiii|>lilit*ii
<-orlot’x Downfall—lntense Ex
rhi mrnl In J.oililon iirtl IClnr where.
London difipati-he-i say that the feeling of
ultatio ; which grc*. ed the new:; of General
8 w-wart's victories on his march to the Nile
> 'l ins mi*'; in re;, hing Gubat Lias
liven place to n feeling of dpre-vsion on
'■ re pipt of the news that Khartoum is
t;:< 1 ■! is of the Muli-ii, Unit General Gor
m ;? j< is* tier to the reliels if Jio is not al
a i\ Kill.fl, and that the objeit of fie.'ienil
* *i .'*>: ciey’seKpodifi in has lendefeated.
H r*l A * o seley has telegraphed to the war
jiai i i::*-ift that Khartoum lias fallen, Lut
!l -ays that he docs not consider th t the
British p ition it Gubat is in any immediate
danger. \\ hen it is considered tlmt General
Stewart, in ord r to gain his jtositionafc Gu"
! at, h id to light two desperate battles with
ihe A Tabs - o:;o, at At n ■ iua wells an*l another
at a p in* ntiout live miles south of Metein
i h ail Vat in each of these battles he lost
a mini m i *.t mm, it will be realized that the
*ll o. Khartoum is a mailer of great im
port*! nee to th- British *o, ee a? Gubat The
imi: eh acres th-(liv er; was a perilous one to
-ii. stownrls army. The return march
W I. 1,0 s*i,l more | **iib-u... The garrison
-I l!i r oum w:is exp‘cted to take part in
• - mail) and to mak •up for the men lost
:n t ii a*, ral Htevvart’s army in its passage to
l ae Nile. Now the general is lelt at Gubat
•Ml.aouti any lioju of reinforcements Iron
'■ r.lou, ami unless n relit f expedition frein
•i- L. it .in ;ao reach him iu time ho and
us army will be destroyed.
Th war 0:1 ice r< c iv• 1 news of the fall of
the dispatch coming dire t from
'ii-ra! 'U s ’ey. i l.j general announces
it the 'own of Khartoum fell into the
-unis of the A talis on January g(i. Colonel
> i.s-ni idler t ie victorious march across tho
■iert which en hal m the encamjunent of
1 " English at Gii hat on January Is,
riid uji the Kiie for Khartoum to
emmuni ite with Gen. Gordon. He went
11 on ■ of the steamers win h Gordon had
it down tho Nile, with news that he still
l o I Khartoum, and was able to hold it
1 y*ais to com-. Col. Wi.son nrrived at
. .artoum on Jan. 28, and tound to his
urprise that the town was in the
.ikl-i of the rebels. A native reported
;o tho colonel that the Slalvli
a ! l> men in the vicinity of
Hiartoum, and that a number of these
■ mnnged t*> make tlu*ir way into the city on
L" pi' ll that they were tri mds of G end
>i*ilon. 'lhe.se emissaries mingled lively
with tho soldiers of General Gordon, an-1 by
rdi ■ , threats, an l wor ,iug on the religious
■ In m <>f the soldiers, induced them to sur
r nder the garrison. Seven thousand of the
unison and serte 1 to the Arabs, leaving
• * General Gordon but 2,500 faithUd
oldters. With this small force he
a tempted to hold the city against tbeMah
i s great nnuy. but after a s -vere battle in
■>. I ich '.treat * umbers of the rebels were kill
* .he was obliged to surrender. This was
•' I t at <'olonel U ilson could learn of the
' ' attending the surrender of Khartoum.
V nether Gen* ral <-onion was a prisoner in
no bunds of th> Mali li or wheth rho had
1 ; o killed in the bat tie he did not ion rn.
\\ hen Colonel \\ tlsou found that Khartoum
\ as ill the Inin is of the enemy lie concluded
; ,in! it Mould not lie wise for him to attempt
t 1 ituiil, and he started at once on his return
down ilio rivor toward Gubat.
tin his way down ho Mas subjected
to a continuous tire by tho reljels, but
his sb timers pes-ed through this fusil
itcle uninjured until they reached the Shub
nlca cut. tract. A few miles below this cata
i act tho steamers of the British expedition
v. Ol e disabled by the fire of thi enemy, but
tin- so dits managed to reach an island in
the Nile, wh -re they are now securely en
tnn lied. From hero a dispatch Me.- nt
to the British camp at (inbat g. -mg
the nows of Gordon's surrender end
the wreck of the expedition,
end n st amor has been sent to the island t
res ne tin- shipor. ek i soldiers. General
\\ o -I y, in h>‘s dispatch to the war office,
s s that hede not know whether (L li u .il
Gordon is dead or alive, lie has still some
ho -is il-at U nlon may l>e holding the ci a
iK i.ie toM'n. but these are based simply
i ti lon’s Mell-kiiown characteristics for
- ; and n t on any information which
(' u< 1 Wilson was able to obtain.
1 h first news o tl > fall of Khartoum
re-viv- ,1 l>y tiener.d Wohseloy was brought
t v a t : s r, m!io left tli > island whom
t bii I\\ i s.r.i vas stranded and came on
fi > , to Gu al. Two uus cn.crs were dis-
I a h-s'i to K rli via Aba Klea and Gak
tir.l. 1 hey iH vhe.l their destination in
>*. owing to Ci' net that the news
ot ivharte in's fad had no; r.a h-1 the
i- t. ; iteiligui •of the di'jtstrr, Uow
. h since ■ is i r m.d Male, 1 -me
t.ius that have hitherto professed
■ t--' >p for Knjrkuvl htv ■ declared for tho
>. The Arabs Mid hold Metomnch. ihe
: s• a l ore re, ived tho news of the fail
K’t ;rt*uni v it!, lynentart salvos of ar-
V. Colonel Wilson’s
i ap; r ached Kiiaitoum it
a -,1 "s t > ruu tli - go nutlet of
% r the rom l) >th banks. Tho rebels
•ur Krupp guns on the river banks at
II If y i l>> n , -.i; l the st m n ts. When the
l>n sti force m. hit in iunuan. numberso
iv ■- atom !! . ' fii'i lcl '. Things look >d
m w -a it m is dire wrei that the
en v ii- in p< s -s -n ,f the inland of
Tut i. :. usi to tl’-. c:‘y. The English
S'i 1 puree 1 ... e 1. „i were dismayed to
ii and ii ti -a ri ■- o nmeuccd firing upon
t. o. f •> M--.e Hying fro.n tho puddle
1 . r s. n l ;; o tow a uj p acd to Ik in
• s uel - sion of th.* enemy. The
V c> .or ;re \ h> .g i tel. Fin ling
vv> 1' to hi:ul in the cuv of the over
m . u. •he rt bels, the British
we e t b itred to retire.
; ’ e ;n . r- cor vraing the fat * of General
ooi n .re many .ai.i v lie I, hut all agree
chat the Mai U captured Khartoum by
tr v. T. e most trustworthy reports
l> .a - b> <no u I\ >h:i ;.s tho traitor.
1 -.1 C ' e, b'in of in charge of
the ; m irs, o s a.sl the gates on January 3#
n:i 1 . 11 .ecu- my. Som -rumois stite
t' < .-r and Gordon. together With a lew
1 v ns G c\>--jKvi upon a church. -Others
s y ’ ..1 • - ci: i'll! Gordon ha ieeu seen wear
ily th lahli’s ui.ife.iu. The majority
a. e. >• ’Mover, that General Gordon lias
b e kit. and.
T.io cw ; • ;it in London and every
th re is u_a<Hit tho liriiish Isles where
ti. r. tvs uad >a* .i trated is at fever he.it,
Ti. ,-iu s au,t i iib ic resorts of every de
scription are ii*.rvn sd with crowds of
p ople ci ■~r to i eh tore last syba •’<? of
intelligente from Uv ‘ Egyptian desert.
Tl-* pi-siti-'u oi Gen. Stewart is well tm
deest to ba one of im in ut ilvncer,
and im’.e-s so:u< ti ig -do j roiuptiy for
hi- rel e. he Mill si rids.-:. v>i.h ii. lit—
tli army, io tho Arnos who sairouut.l him
F.eot -treat an and li M raid are so crewded
tl i. it is aim. -i pcs-ible to push one’s
Mr loro, h ; te.'i. ci.st *vnlc lake a
glo my vi, i o. the is.’sit m . the Brit.sh
in the Bon ia:i. an t tlsc p adnesswhich
has l.*e:i f--lt m E; giiind e \r sjuw the news
of General blew art - saet'cs ul arrival in the
n- igiil-orhoo 1 * 'de l .nuV.i has given way to
au ■ vers.il <-••*. it c •Vmv.ssiou. Expres
sions of dismay and u r U*dings come from
ail .-id s, and min and u;ih those are
exj r s-i< ns oi sympathy tor Gordon and
of com i cii lation • policy of General
Lord Wo’s k*y, m!i > iu isted on taking the
Kile passage to his re ,f. tlius M-astiug. it is
claimed, inauy vahmuie days. The wur
offi e is l td. :el w.th army ufticers who
an tendering tLeir services for active duty
in the ckmdan, and numerous velegi-ams are
o-ing received from officers throughout the
country asking for assignments on the re- ue
expedition for Gen* ral Stewart should
the government decide to send an expe
dition for this purpose. ITie capture of
Ki artoum has created grave f- rs, es
pecially in army cir.les, f> r the safety of
General Stewart an t his li tle arms-, and a
numb r of arinv oIH-ers express the opinion
that unless roiufcnements are hurried tor
ward to Korti the full of K artoum may
lead to disasters to the f met an .-r W - •
ley and General Earle. It Is state 1 that Com
-nunder Cameron, the African traveler, has
off re i to start at once for the Soudan to na
si t the British in their campaign acraiu.st the
rebels. Orders have been sent to Por mouth
Haven to begin immediately the tit dug of
troop sidj*-
The City of Khar oum.
Khartoum is tho chief city as well as the
capital of the Sou lan country claimed by
Egypt. It is located on the peni: suia formed
by the junction of the Blue and White Nile.
The dock yards and principal landings
are on tho Blue Nile. The water
in the river is about 1,-400 leet
above the level of the s- a. 1 here is ail ex
tensive quay on tho banks of the river,
wh re the |>rin* i;i.-il comm-r -e of a country
as large as all India naturally centres. The
prnvi ices of th • 8 mdan are not commercial
to any great extent, but these great rivers
bring to this point a great number of ships.
'fhe principal productions are ivory, hides,
senna, gum Arabic, and I tees wax. ft will ba
seen Hint all these productions are natural,
nn 1 not th<> result of m lu try or cultivation.
Tug inhibit mbs of that vast country ani
notoriously indolent, and someone has sai i
t'i 1 ■> s ere the onl industrial creatures in
t. t 0'..;- mint v.
.-. gn a |i .rt of the city ii >s low, so id it ,at
oded, which rendei u i
.. I.u it is bdievo.l that some ila
!• -c-iy ii.r hat evil will be provide-1. Tl r
*' 1 and ihe city are ( -.( in ■ . ,anle...i ain
l ■ -owsof da ep.-dms man v of which are half
n i: -v old, and ha vein orm v< ry valuable,
'i i,* view of the c.t ir m lie* o; p isitesida of
la iiv i" i< v.-ry ‘ine. 1 : c eit is 1,500 miies
L"in ( .l-i. 'ln - cliina' i severe. From
J 1 me ti.l October th * tn-rmomo or ranges
limn J 5 a- rec.s to 100 degrees in the shade,
nn lis .-iJ>i it so degrees in winter during tho
day< ;me.
WASHINGTON NEWS.
The following item -of special interest we
find in Washington cl latches:
FEES OF r; . ' IX AGENTS.
The bill to regul i' the fees of pension
agents has p.us-ed tii • 8 • rde. The provisions
of Ihe bill are sub autially tli.se form
ing the legislative fe .tares of the regular
Pension Appropriatio i bill passed by
the House. It provides that no fee
greater than $lO shall he receive 1 by pension
claim agents, < x -ept tint under special cir
cumstances, sub.uct i revision by the com
missioner of ( dosions, <a contract in wri'mg
may bo made between applicants and
claim agents for fee not exceeding
$25. The bill confr. ;>n a clause specially
forbidding the coll- ; > i by claim agents of
more than $lO on clai ns filed between June
t<). 1878, and July 1, 1 \j-i, and prohibiting
the government pension agents from paying
claim agents more t' a ■ the $lO or such
claims, even in cases m now corn arts.
THE OHIO ELECTION INVESTIGATION.
Chairman Springer, of the- House commit
ter, announced tiiat the testimony in the
Ohio election investigation was closed. Two
reports will bo made up >n it—-the majority
report by Messrs. Springer and Van Alstyno,
J kmiocrats, and the minoiityby Mr. Stewart,
11-pnblican. Mr. S evvart in his minority
re. :< rt, will say that h> O tober election in
Oiiio was a fair one. Messrs. Springer and
Van Alstyno have not yet agreed upon the
character of their report .
THE WASHINGTON MONUMENT.
Mr. Floratio King, of New York, has re
ceived a letter from Mr. Roberto. Wmthrop,
Jr., son of Mr. Robert C. Wiathrop, which
states that the latter is very feeble an l will
not be able to come to \yas'uing
ton to deliver tho oration at the
unveiling of the "Washington monument.
The United States troops M-hich Mill pari.ci
]>a e in the Washington monument cel bra
lion are live batteries of artillery at Fortress
Monroe, three batteries from Fort McHenry
and the batteries in Washington.
DIARIES OK THE GREELY PARTY.
In view of the discussion which has arisen
with regard to the nature o! the facts set
forth in the private diaries of the
members of Lieutenant Greely’s party,
the secretary of war has author
ized General Ilazen to make public or
to furnish for in selection upon request such
of the diaries as are in the possession of the
signal otliee. These include the whole of
Lieutenant Lockwood’s journal and a part of
Lieutenant Greely’s. Sergeant Brainard has
his own diary, and Serg. ant Connell re; uses
to allow his to be examined, saying tin he
had written it with the express unders aud
ing that it should be read by no one ex
cept the chief signal officer. The journals of
Lieutenants Greely and Lockwood add little
which is not already known to the history of
the expedition, but furnish more detailed
evidence of the lad feeling, bickering and
occasional insubordinati >n which were mani
fested during the last year oi the party’s
Arctic experience.
GUITEAU’S LAWYER WANTS HIS FEE.
Charles H. Reed, counsel for tiui cau,
asked the House committee ou appropriations
to previde for his compensation for defend
ing the assassin, the amount to be determin ’d
by the committee. Mr. IB'ed said that he
spent six months in defending Guiteau and
had never obtained a cent.
INDIAN EDUCATION.
The legislative, executive and judicial
appropriation bill provides for the a -oiut
m. ut by the Sp. ak r of a commission of live
members of the Forty-ninth Congress to eon
aider the system of Indian education and the
manner of expending the appropriations for
that purpose, and a.so to consider the b.sS
means of utilizing the Yellowstone park for
the Itenefit of the public. The commission is
required to report to the uext Congress.
OKIFTS OF SNOW
And (hr I'nttintr lllasls From the North.
The reports from Chicago. St. Fanl, Omaha
and all the leading points of the nor-.h and
northwest portray a frightful state of affairs
When the present suovr storm began, it soon
became evident that it would be oue of the
heaviest on record. A solid bed o six iuches
fell over the entire northwestern territory.
The increase of the cold and the consequent
driftings of snow soon blockaded every line o f
railway leading into the different trade centers.
Passenger and freight trains were blockaded in
unexpected places, to be run into by other
I i reins, which had no notice of the failure of
the one ahead io reach its destination. The
telegraph wires were broken, the railroad
schedu.es were disarranged, trains bloekadi and
were ffik-d wish human Kings without means
of sustenance, and thus the horrors of arv
tion, cold sion and d'saster have peed upon
each other in a manner shocking to eonfv.n
plaie. Fully hve hundred trains are snow
bound, upon which are 5,000 human souls.
—The trial of the suit brought by NTrs. Pqra
Ste’lpe against banker Mon-sun t* reeve; cbbO
f *r the trouble and excuse she was put to m
bringing Victoria Morosun-ScheUug-Hffi*-
kamp back to ler father resu.kd, m the t uy
Court, in a v rdi t for *SO for the plaintiff
—lt ia claimed that an iuvestigat on of the
Keu.ti ckv records shows that daring ihe past
tift en years a -ysteui of robbery bei n sar
r.ed on und< r tover of aw wmc - has resulted
in a loss to the State ol about *c,Uco,ood.
Devoted to the Interests ot .Butts County.
JACKSON. GEORGIA. TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 17, 1885.
NEWS OF THE DAY.
Faatern and .Nliddle State*.
General John W. Phelps, of Guilford,
Vt.. was found dead in lied by a neighbor,
his family being absent on a visit. General
Phelps was born in Guilford in 1813. serve L
through tne Florida, Mexican and civil wars,
was the anti-Mason candidate for President
in Ism), and was a frequent contributor to
lea ling magazines and newspapers.
Two fires in New York the other day did
great damage. The first broke out in a large
marble building on Barclay street, and
caused aggregate losses of $350,000. A fireman
fed from a ladder an 1 broke his neck, and a
Ixiy was seriously if nut fatally burned The
second fire broke out later in the evening in
a seven-story iron business building on
Wooster street, which was completely de
stroyed, entailing losses of about i 00,0 >O.
The Hotel Brunswick, one of the leading
New York hotels, has made an assignment,
with liabilities placed at $350,000.
During his three days’ visit to New York
Mr. Cleveland received a large number of
Democratic Senators and Representatives in
Congress and other prominent Democrats in
his parlors at the Victoria hotel,and listened
to their suggestions of names for places in
his cabinet and of measures of party aaid na
tional policy to be followed out.
For declaring that ho understood the com
mittees of the lower house of the Connecticut
legislature were made up by corporation in
fluence, a member was su-pended until he
apologized.
The British consul at New York refers to
the shooting of O’Donovan Rossa by Mrs.
Dudley as “a sil y crime.” He disclaims that
tho consulate takes any interest in her case.
Soutli and West.
More than 85<),O00 cuttle are said to have
per:, hed in Indian Territory owing to the
severity of the weather.
Three men—Cicero Jellerson, John A.
Smythiand Joel ’Wilson—were imprisoned
in ail at Audobon, lowa, for the murder of
Jed rson’s father, who was also Smythe’s
father-in-law, last April. A judge having
granted a change of venue to another coun
ty, the citizens became so incens and that three
or four hundred of them broke into the jail
the other morning and hanged the three
men, together with another man named
Ryan, also imprisoned for murder.
An entire train of cars was blown from
the track into a ditch near Georgetown,
Col., and of the twenty persons on board
eighteen were more or less injured.
By an explosion of gas in a coal mine near
Savanna, Indian Territory, three miners
were instantly killed, eighty-nine seriously
burned atul forty-two slightly injured.
A young man living in Louisburg, N. C.,
on a wager drank a quart of whisky in less
than forty minutes. He died two hours af
terward.
The Illinois Republican legislative caucus,
renominated General Logau for the United
States Senate, and the Democratic caucus
put in nomination Congressman W. R. Mor
rison. The Illinois legislature is a tie on joint
ballot.
An investigation of the Kentucky records
is alleged to havesli .wn that during tho past
fifteen years a system of robbery has been
carried on under cover of law which has re
sulted in a loss to the State of about $3 000,-
0 0.
•TcnRY Jackson, a negro charged with
murder, was taken lrom the jail at Bland
Court-house, Va., by a band of white men
and riddled with bullets. On the same
night Ben Hawkins, a negro accused of the
murde rof an old pocldler, was hanged to a
tree by lynchers at Franklin, Texas.
Many horses in Illinois are suffering from
glanders.
AVasTiington.
The Inst public debt statement shows tlie
decrease of the debt during January to be
S'.\4:id,O4o. Decrease of debt since June 30
lb: 4, §40,921,910.
Cash in the treasury §4 00,341, SOI
Gold eertifi -ates outstanding 184,279.530
Silver certificates outstanding.... 141,190,701
Certificates of deposit outstanding 30,130,000
Refunding certificates outstand
ing 253,000
Legal tenders outstanding 340,681,016
Fractional currency outstanding
(not including amount estimated
or destroyed) 6,909,008
During January the coinage executed at
tho various United States mints was: 100,5 0
g.'kl pieces, worth t 2,138,309; 2,928,297 silver
piecei, including 2.385,0.KJ standard dollar-,
worth $2,439,619.70; and 4,293,000 minor
coins, worth $74,190. Total coinage, 7,328,-
377, worth $4,642,187.70.
Mrs Laura de Force Gordon, of Cali
fornia, has been admitted to the bar of the
United (States supreme court She is the
second woman allowed to practise before that
court
The secretary of war has reported to Con-
F-css that there are 6,580,506 men in tho
nited States who are avail ildo for military
duty, and that in the organised militia of the
country there are 7.311 commissioned officers
and '83,979 non-commissioned officers
and privet s. In Georgia. Mississippi, Ar
kansas, Tennessee and Oregon there is no or
ganized militia.
The court martial assembled at Washing
ton conclude and the proceedings in the Sm aim
case, forwarding their records and findings
to the secretary of war, and began the trial
of Colonel Morrow'. New charges, alleging
fraud and conduct unbecoming an officer and
gentl man have been preferred against Gen
eral Swaim.
President Arthur has transmitted to
Congress a message concerning “the generous
offer made by Mrs. Grant to give to the gov
ernment In perpetual trust ttie sworls ati i
military and ii\il testimonials lately be
onging to General Grant. Tho President
says that these gifts and mementoes are of
national interest, and he a-ks Congress
*• to take suitable a tion to accept the truss
and to provide for is secure custody, at tae
same time recording the appreciative
gratitude of the people cf the United
States to the dor.ors." He also urges the
passage of a bill “looking to a national rec
ognition of Genera- Giant’s eminent services
by providing the means ior his restoration to
the army on the retired list.”
The President has asked Congress to au
thorize him to accept t,.e Japanese govern
ment’s offer to give thi United States a plot
of land m Tokio ior the use of its leg at: n.
The Pied lent has r-oinmnted to the Senate
James A. M Knight for i nited States consul
at St. He! r.a and H lwar 1 H. Thompson, of
Massachusetts, at Merida. The Senate has
confirm and Joshua A. Smith, of Mississippi,
! oumil at Asuncion. Paraguay
Foreign.
C-ougo river, Africa, and the contested coast
line.
A London d->ratch avs that Mrs Dn 51 ev.
who sit' O’lVinovan Ih-s-a, in ;'ew \ : h
was on .-e imprisonetl in iingln id fur a i mpt
ing sui *ide. and id:* a year was an tomato of
an English madhouse.
A great iattie has been fought in the
Gallabau country, Egvpt. with a larg? force
of Baggara rebels dmach -i from Sennaar.
Aft. r a revere the Ii a grams were
utterly routed, losing six thousani man auu
four eaiii-s, oue of whom was a nephew of
the Mahdi
The interiors of public buildings in Lon
don are now protected by a special detective
force.
A dispatch from Gibraltar says that the
vicar-gen-mal of that diocese hac been mur
dered. ALu her. supposed to be insane, at
ta ked the priest ia the sacristy mi tbs cathe
drai and sukobed him to death
HAiOED BY A MOB.
U - :- r .
The following dispatch from Audobon
lowa, gives particulars of the summary pun
ishment dealt to four men in jail at tha*
pin e charged with murder:
Lb am Jellerson, au old and inoffensive
cripple, was taken from his b**d on the night
of April 28, hd, and was hanged to a tree.
His sun Cicero and son-in-law John A.
Smythe and Joe J. Wilson were arrested.
Cicero made a confession, admitting hisguiit
and implicating the other two. They were in
di t■i by the -nd jury, but secured a cou
tinn On Wednesday Judge Loofborro
coin el the court here and the case wa:
cai : for trial, when the defendants filed a
niot.i) . for the change of venueonthe grounds
of the prejudice of the people. Without rul
ing on the minion the judge adjourned com t
un ii! Monday. On that day Judge Anderson
took his place and announced as Loofborro -•
ruling that tiie venue would be changed to
Cass County. The announcement created
great indignation, and it is alleged Judge
Loofborro was in consequence compelled U
leave town.
Last night over two hundred citizens hel 1
a secret meeting, when it was determined tv
lynch the prisoners. Guards were stationed
on every street leading from the jail at dusk
and mounted men patrolled the town in order
to frustrate tbs intention of the sheriff to ic
move tho prisoners by special train to Atlan
tic. At 4 o’clock this morning tho men were
taken from the jail by a mob of about four
or five hundred men and hanged to a
tree. Jelfe'cson was the first dragged
out, and was hanged on the grand stand in
the public square. Smythe and Wilson re
sisted and were shot in their cells and the
dragged out and hanged to a rail fence. The
mob was composed of many of the best cili
zens. Tha sh rilT waa on the scene but was
powerless. Another man named Ryan, con
fined in the jail fc-r a different murder, wa*
also lynched.
Tiie mob surrounded the jail and every
movement was most excellently made, show
ing to haste or confusion, but steady, deter
m. *d work, b/ a lot of men who had grown
w ary Ol the law’s delay.
They guarded every corner of the cit>
against the approach of citizens, and after
being refused tiie ke3'B by the Sheriff locked
him and his family in one part of the build
ing and effected an entrance to the cell room
by tearing down the brick walls. The locke
to the iron cages in which the prisoners
were confined were deftly cut and then
all the rest was- easy. ' The Coroner
viewed tho bodies of the four mea
a .and returned, as ueual, a verdict in accord
an"c with the above facts. The excitement
had dicxl down by noon. There were four
other prisoners for minor offences in the jail
at t,ke time, but they were not disturbed, a
though terribly excited. The four men
lynched were a ! young men and had resided
here a long time.
Hiram Jellerson, the murdered man, was
the father of seven children, two sons ami
five daughters. Smythe had married one of
the girls, but they lived unhappily. He hn
accused his wife’s father of an unnatura
Ji'ime with the daughter and had angered th
others. They hung the old man to a tr e.
after dragging him from his bed chamber t
a thicket fully 200 yards away. Suspicion
pointe .t * the son and ho was arrested.
In tho young man’s early confession lie to! ;
oo w the mt ierers dragged his father over
,ne rbp*y ‘ era ImncTaiid^iftrnmSx.
mlled him up.
A SAD RAILWAY ACCIDENT.
Two Lives Lost, and Great Destruction of
Property by Fire.
A freight trit n standing on the railway
bridge across the Raritan river, at New
Brunswick, N. J., was run into by another
freight train. Borne oil cars were thrown to the
ground and set lire to two factories near tho
track. A brakeman and a laborer were burned
to death, and losses aggregating nearly $700,-
000 were caused by the fire. Following are
particulars:
Shortly before 3 a. m. an extra freight train
from Philadelphia, owing to a broken truck,
stopped upon the bridge over the Rari
tan r’ver for repairs. While waiting,
the through Southern freight, which
le t -Philadelphia at 10:30 p. m.,
came dashing along through the city,
and not until he was within 50.) feet of the
caboose of tbe extra train did the engineer
:ee it. ; vake * were applied, but to no purpose,
t he engine of the Southern freight struck the
■aboose or tho eyira train, telescoped it, and
then struck an oil-tank car, of which there
w ere four att ached to the extra.
An explosion immediately followed, and
the wrecked and burning oil were thrown
over and down from tho high bridge to the
streets below. The "ignited oil ran through
the streets into the Raritan canal. ’this be
ing covered u-ith ice, the oil ran over it and
down the canal to the Mall-paper manufac
turing es ablisbment of Janeway & Cos., set
ting tire to if. The Haines were soon beyond
the control of the firemen, and the buiiding
was iotnlly destroyed, and seven dwellings
opposite were gutted.
In the meantime a building used as a box
factory by the Consolidated Fruit Jar com
pany, shouted directly under the railroad
bridge, had been set on fire by the burning
oil, and was entirely consumed" The flames
i ext spread to the main factory of the Consol
idated Fi it Jar company. " Here the fire
men battk-d bravely, and, although they
could not save the building, they prevented
.he fire fr::n spreading to the larger build
ings immediat. ly adjoining. By 6 o’clock the
local firemen had the fire under control, and
were thankful to iveeivq, the relief that came
from Trenton in the shape of two fire engines
and hose carts. All this time the woodwork
of the railroad bridge had been slowly burn
ing.
Engineer French and Fireman Harrison, of
the Swutli n freight, jumped from their en
gine when they saw a collision inevitable.and
escaped wit i a few bruises. Thebrakemau on
the front eadpf the train, Frank Dumas, of
Kensingtc' - _ Pa., failed to jump, and was
carried dovC) ru the wreckage to the street,
where he was roas ed to death. His body
Mas recovered, a charred mass of flesh, un
recognizable except by an amulet worn
around his neck. Pat#bk Dougherty, jr., a
young mechanic, entered the burning build
ing of Janeway & Cos. in search of his tools,
and lost his life.
The total Ion;.will be not less than $750,009.
Between 600 a.M 70 ; w rkmen are thrown out
of employment. Two ef the cars that w re
hurled into the street contained nineteen
horses. These were i ousted to death and
added to the horrors of the scene.
A tiofiststle Disturbance.
The National Executive Committee of the
Socialistic Labor Party, of New York, called a
me ting to protest aga i.stthe recent dynamite
ex; 1 -ions in Loniiun. The International
Workingmen’s Association called a meeting at
the same hall for the same time. A serious
trouble br ke out in the crowded hall, and the
police- broke up the meeting -mid a general
tight. Alt r the meeting broke up theie was
found on the floor dynamite cartridge, and
it is a my-tery fi >.! police how the cartridge
failed to • xp ode after being tramped over as
it a-. J - us -'cii-£;-b was arrested as a leader
of the d'.-:u: : g p:.siy, and held in the sum
<*f s£.ooo ban for iriaL"
—Mr. To mienw offered a resolution pro
vi lug for night :te..jUa ul lue House if Bep
resentauves.
—Beprio-entative Matson in n due and a bill
providing f r an increase of the pcm-ions of
t-oidiers' widows from $ y to €l2 a month.
—Secretary Chandler has directed the re
sumption of work at the navy yards ana sta
te us which was suspended January lon ac
tuu:;t of the failure of Congress to provide foi
its continuance-
LATER NEWS
The Hotel Brunswick, one of the leading
New York hotels, has made an assignment,
with liabilities placed at $250,000.
During his three days’ visit to New York
Mr. Cleveland received a large number of
Democratic Senators and Representatives in
Congress and other prominent Democrats in
his parlors at the Victoria hotel,and listened
to their suggestions of names for places in
his cabinet and of measures of party and na
tional policy to be followed out.
Fob declaring that he understood the com.
mlttees of the lower house of tha Connecticut
legislature were made up by corporation in
fluerice, t member was suspended until h e
apologized.
A young man living in Louisburg, N. C.,
on a wager drank a quart of whisky in less
th? j forty minutes. He died two hours af
terward.
Th -: Uiinois Republican legislative caucus,
renominated General Logan for the United
States Senate, and tho Democratic caucus
put in nomination Congressman W. R. Mor
rison. The Illinois legislature is a tie on joint
ballot.
The President has asked Congress to au
thorize him to accept the Japanese govern
meat’s offer to give the United States a plot
of land m Tokio for the use of its legation.
A great battle has been fought in the
Gallabad country, Egypt, with a largo force
of Baggara* rebels detached from Sennaar.
After a severe struggle the Baggaras were
utterly routed, losing six thousand men and
four emirs, one of whom was a nephew of
the Malidi.
Nine convicts were whipped at Newcastle,
Del., eight for larceny and one for burglary.
Tne latter received twenty lashes and stood
for one hour in the pillory. The others re
ceived ten lashes each.
During his three days’ visit to New York
President-elect Cleveland spent Sunday with
Samuel J. Tilden at Greystone on the Hud
6011.
An oil train standing on a railroad bridge
at New Brunswick, N. J., was by
a freight train running into its rear. Sev
eral of the cars toppled over upon the build
ings, below, the oil tanks took fire and tho
scattering oil ignited the factory buildings
in the vicinity. Two men and a lot of valua
ble horses were killed and property aggregat
ing upward of half a million dollars was de
stroyed by fire.
Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage preached on
“tho blasphemy” of Ingersoll’s lecture in
Brooklyn, and advocated the suppression of
6ueh teachings by the police.
Diuector-General Burke has submitted
the following statement respecting the New
Orleans Exhibition for the information of
tiie President and Congress: Receipts from
*584, Pig; United States
government loan, if i ,*>*> inrnrau-n-.
receipts, $J3,9 !8.39; gate receipts, $73,292.70
Total, $1,731,408.99; expenditures, $2,070,1
831.0-1; deficit, $319,422.95.
Winter wheat in Illinois and Indiana is
safe and promises an immense yield.
Seven persons were killed and sixteen
wounded by a train’s dashing through a
bridge at Ores ton, lowa.
Fifteen persons who tarred and feathered
TV. 11. Bailey while acting as attorney in a
liquor cas3 in Scott township, lowa, have
settled the matter by each paying him SSOO.
Hon. Thomas A. Hendricks, Vice-Presi
dent-elect, has been on a trip to the New Or
leans exposition.
Secretary CnANDLEn\s report to Con
gre ;3 shows that the expense of the expedL'
tio.n which saved Lieutenant Greely and bij
men was $759,2(55.
A fire at ttie United States signal service
oth-.v destroyed or damaged a large number
of valuable records and instruments.
—News has been received from Pekin of the
execution of two Chinese governors for having
permitted the French to capture Bacninit. A
third governor is on trial for cowardice in the
engagement which resulted in the French ob
taining possession of Foo Chow.
—There is evidently a feeling of grave ap
prehension among the police of Russia on ac
count of its becoming known that the Nihilists
have of Jate been secretly inching all classes
of workmen to an uprising. Extraordinary
measures are being taken to prevent the suc
cess of any widespread insurrection.
—A man supposed to be a dynamiter, was
arrested in England, on board a i ailway train
at Derby. A large quantity of an explosive
compound was found in his possession.
—The authorities of Dublin, have renewed
their prohibition again?-}, the circulation in
Ireland of O'Donovon Rossa’s newspaper.
1 he French are busy destroying and sink
ing Chinese junks and making prisoners of
the crews. Ihe latter are transported to
Kelung aud there placed in chains.
—The nervous t nsion of the London public
was illustrated by a s ar ling natural phenome
non. A stonn of rain and wind had raged all
day and at 7:30 p. m. itculmlnated in a territic
peal of thunder. The report startled the
whole metropolis, and a rumor spread like
wildfire to the effect that the General Post
Office, in St. Martin’s le Grand, had been de
molished by dyuaioite. Fearful excitement
followed.
—New York city and Chicago, one thousand
miles apart, conversed by telephone the other
day.
—Frank Bonham, the oldest son of Widow
LoviDg, on his return to hi- home near Radi
cal C.ty Kai:., after three days’ absence, found
his mother, brother, and sister murdered and,
to all appearance, they had been dead a day or
two,
—N (than F. Dixon, of Westerly, R. I, was
e ected to Congress for the unexpired term of
Jonathan CLace.
—At a meeting of the United States Conrars
sioners’ Association, consisting of the Repre
sentatives of the United States and railroads
exhibiting at the Exposition in New Orleans, it
was decided to make •-.n appeal to Congress for
a loan of $500,000 to help the Exposition oat
or the present financial diffioiities. A report
was presented s-h wing tha’ the Exposition
was now about $300,000 in debt.
—President Arthur sent to the House cf
Representatives a communication laying be
fore Congress the generous offer made by Mrs.
Grant, to give to the Government in perpetual
trust the swords and military and civil testi
monials lately belonging to General Grant,
with a eopy of the deed of trust. He asked
that the Senate bid placing General Grant on
the retired list might pass.
—The public and bt statement shows the re
duction of : h-- debt during January to have
been $9,420,016. The redaction since June
30, 1894, $10,921,910. Tae total cash in the
Treasury is ?1GX341.503.
—The Navy Department has ordered John
Roach to rem vi- ali the steel shafts fr >m the
new cruise; sand replace them with iron one*.
It will cost several hundreds of thousands of
dollars V) make the changes.
—The President asked Congress to authorize
him to accept the Japanese Governments offer
to give the Unite! S ates a plot cf land in
lokio for the use of its legation.
—Admiral Courbet telegraphs to the War
Office that the French forces, after a severe
fight, have earned the Chinese works com
manding tho Kelung mines. He says that the
French troops lost nine killed and fifty-three
wounded, and that the Chinese loss was heavy.
—The French are destroying hundreds of
fishing aud trading craft, killing their crews
or sending them to Kelung. Tne inhabitants
of Hong Kong are indignant that such opera
tions should be allowed.
—The London police have received informa
tion of a plot to blow up Wes tminster Abbey
with dynamite.
—The French have captured the coal mines
of Kelung from the Chinese, sustaining a loss
of sixty killed aud wounded.
—Portugal has annexed both banks of 'ihe
Congo river aud the contested coast iiue.
—A terrible double murder was committed
at Htiobane, D. TANARUS., the victims being tho wife
of Rev. C. G. Snell and her six-year-old mn.
The murder was to secure a few hundred dol
lars in money.
—A number of prominent boomers who re
turned from Indian territory were arrested
and turned over to civil officers on a charge of
conspiracy atul rebellion against the United
8. ales Government. General Hatch says Couch
retused to am render until tho order "as given
for the soldiers to advance upon their camp.
Then the boomers agreed to capitulate. There
were 1,600 tn outers in the camp aud they had
thirty days’ rations.
—James K. Jones, a member of Congress
from Arkansas, was elected United States Sen
ator to succeed Stewart.
—The w ill of a prominent citizen of Buffalo
was found buried with him, after being miss
ing for years.
--Five more white babies, four of them girls,
Lave been discovered in Chinese dens of pros
titution in San Francisco.
—The earnings at Sing Sing Prison, New
York, for the month of January were $21,-
357.74; expenditures, $15,341.46, leaving a net
profit for the month of $6,016.28. Auburn
Prison shows a deficit for Januauf of $3,700.
NEWS WINNOWINOB
Post-Cards have been introduce 1 in China.
Maine paid bounty on 549 bears last year.
Fifty-one farmers are in the legislature o 1
Michigan.
About 15,000 letters daily find lodgment in
the Dead Letter Ofliee.
In 18''4 there were upward of 250 hoteD
burned in this country.
A prune orchard of 13,000 trees is being
sot out near Gilroy, Cal.
.Boston is to have a crematory for the in
cineration of dead bodies.
Wisconsin is taking a prominent position
among the tobacco growing states.
Many passenger coaches on the Western
railway, in France, are two stories in height.
Boston men wear sealskin coats more
than those of any other section of the coun
try.
Tue largest potato starch factory in the
world is at Caribou, Me. Its capacity is from
200,000 to 250,000 bu.-hels.
Large importations of limed eggs are be
ing receive 1 in .New York from Antwerp,
Copenhagen and Hamburg.
The Mormon temple at Salt Lake will yet
require more than four years for its comple
tion. and will cost S3,OUU,UUO.
Lynn and Haverhill, Mass., together mad©
nearly enough shoes in 1884 to shoe half the
r —i-ulation of the uni tod States.
The Publisher's Monincj —<■ n
1384 there were published 4,088 books, an in
crease of 607 over the books of 1883.
Frederick Douglass,of Washington,gets
$13,000 by the will of Miss (Jetilla Assiug, who
committed suicide in a Parisian hotel last
summer.
The discovery of Chinese lepers is not of
very rere occurrence in t3an Francisco now.
One was discovered in a shoe factory a few
weeks ago.
The public debt of Canada now reaches
$243,009,000, or over ssl per head of popula
tion. This is an increase of twenty per cent,
cm the debt of last year.
The territory embraced in the “geographi
cal basis of the Congo,” which the Interna
tional African association claims, comprises
9,000,000 square miles, an area forty four
times larger than France.
The total number of persons who are de
pendent upon the New York city treasury
icr supp >rt is 10,832; thirty-three, including
the judges, receive salaries of from SIO,OOO to
$15,000, and seventy draw from $5,000 to
SB,OOO.
FOOTLIGHT FLASHES,
There are ten theatres in Ireland.
Miss Blanche Howard has dramatized
hor novel, “Guenn.”
Mme. Patti manages to carry her clothing
and traps in twenty-six huge trunks.
Henry Irving lias announced that he wil,
make another professional visit to America.
His season ends on April 4.
The Prince of Wales attended Time. Bern
hardt’s performance ol' "Tiieo iora ’ in Paris,
aud personally c ugratulatod the actress.
Bir Arthur Sullivan and Mr. W. B.
Gilbert have just finished their new comic
opera, which is about to be read at the Savoy
theatre.
The directors of the Metropolitan Opera
house, New York, have increased the salary
of Dr. Damroscii, tae manager of German
opera, from Ulo,(kk) to SL2,OX) a year.
At a recent performance at the Standard
theatre, Fa i Francisco, an appreciative man
became so enthusia.sLi 3 over the introductory
portion cf thj performance that ha began
throwing money on tne stage.
The sultan, a gr at amateur musician, has
recently become converted to Wagnerism and
spends not a little of of his timo hammering
the great composer’s music on tne piano. His
favorite spouse, daughter of the late Sultan
Alxlui Aziz, is devoted to must \
The total number of theatres, including
places licensed for theatrical performances,
in Great Britain at the end of the year was
445, compared with 359 at the end of 1933,
Of existing theatrical places of amusement,
London takes the lead witii forty-six, Liver
pool coming next with ten.
Paris is after all the home of the stage. On
the first of “Theodora” at the Porte ftaint
Martin the crush was tremendous. Ticket
speculators reape i a rich harvest. la many
cases as much as s4o was paid for a seat. The
piece was not over until 1:30, and it took
half an hour more to clear the theatre.
John Carboy, the oldest critic on the Now
York press, soys: “By common consent Mr.
Booth and Mr. Farrett are the foremost
tragedians in tais country, and it may be
doubted whether they have their equals in
Europe, when it is n-raeraoered how many
great characters they have made, especially
their own.
Miss Minnie Palmer’s manager has
signed a contract for a two years’ tour of
Europe for Miss Palmer, in April she will
play her farewell engagement in New York,
afUr which she will go directly tj Europe,
where she is to appear in London, Paris and
Viena. “My Sweetheart” will, therefore, be
performed in English, French and Germ nr
—at a boarding house in Omaha tw uc.i
three p rsons were poisoned by rough on rats,
which id in &■ me unaccountable manner
found its way into the sugar used in p_t:y.
All the victims are out of danger except one,
whose case is still very serious.
—A rich widow, seventy-four years old, mar
ried her coacbman, aged nineteen, at St. Roths,
P. Q.
—The North Carolina House of Commons
passed a bill to pension ex-Confederate sol
diers who may have been seriously wounded
daring the civil war.
OFFICIAL ORG-AN OF BUTTS CO
TV IT AND WISDOM.
Without economy none can It, rich
wit 1\ economy few need be pooL.
The more pains a dentist takes with
his business the less popular he is.
I know no such thing as genius; gen
ius is nothing but labor and diligence.
The little girl who called the ostrich
the bird with the bonnet tail puMt about
right.
Bocks with open-worked heels and
toes will be worn by bachelors as here
to! ore.
No treMA.N is educated who is not
equal to the successful mauagemoiJt of
a family.
Fathers and sons and brothers may
suffer for the want of an overcoat but
uncles, never.
The ignorant man hath no greater foe
than his own ignorance, for it destroys
where it liveth.
“The rich,” said a Chinaman, “eat
venison because it ish deer. I eats mut
ton because it ish sheep.”
The whole of human virtne may be
reduced to speaking the truth always,
and doing good to others.
You can tell an ex-schoolmaster every
time. He always tries his chair with his
hand before sitting down on it.
A concise and bright drama in two
acts: Act I—A little boy and a river.
Act 2—A river and no little boy.
Give a tramp the cold shoulder one
day and he will come back the next for
gravy and potatoes to go with it.
The seating capacity of the new skat
ing rink is very great. Nearly as many
take seats on the floor as do on chairs.
Many people take no care of their
money until they come very near to the
end of it, and others do the same with
their time.
The Armstrong Petroleum well at
Bradford, Pa., suspended spouting and
threatens to ruin its owners. This is an
instanco where oils not well that ends
well.
A little girl who had been told with
others to go to another part of the room
was overheard to say to her companions,
“Seems to me some people are kinder
bossy round here.”
“If you don’t keep out of this yard
you’ll catch it,” said a woman to a boy
in West Lynn. “All right,” answered
the gamin; “I wouldn’t have come in if
I’d known your folks had it.”
“Is TnE howling of a dog always fol
lowed by death ? ’ asked a little girl of
her father. “Not always, my dear.
Sometimes the man that shoots at the
dog misses him,” was the prompt reply.
The foolish man foldeth bis aims and
saith: “There is no trade—why should
I advertise ?’’ But the wise man is not
so. He whooped it up in the newspaper,
and verily he draweth trade from afar off
IHe Lieini., f nno.cf “Gertain
ly animals below the oriCr of t*Tan never
commit suicide.” W T hy, of course not;
they never do anything sufficiently
wicked and disgraceful to drive them to
suicide.
“If you are a good little boy where
will you go?’’ asked the Sunday school
teacher of the new pupil. “To heaven,
mam,” was the reply. “And if you are
bad where will you be sent to ?” “To
bed, mam.”
Mr. Hendricks is said to have kissed
forty-six young women of St. Mary’s,
0., the other day. This disposes of the
absurd notion that the position of Vice-
President isn’t a pretty lively and desir
able one, after all.
The detractor may, and often does
pull down others, but he never, as he
seems to suppose, elevates himself to
their position. The most he can do is
maliciously to tear from them the bless
ings which he cannot himself eDjoy.
;f you notice a young man contort
ing himself into four positions at once,
and trying to reach the lower part of his
left shoulder blade with his right hand,
yon needn’t be alarmed. He’s got on a
new suit of tlanuel under wear, that’s
all.
The other day a precocious youngster
vas asked if he was papa’s boy. He an
swered, “Yes.” “And are you mamma’s
boy, too !” “Yes,” replied Willie.
“Well, how can you be papa's boy and
mamma’s boy both at the same time?”
“Oh,” he replied, iudifferently, “can’t a
wagon have two horses ?” That settled
the questioner.
The Fuel of the Future.
A Pittsburgh letter to the Philadelphia
Press says:—That the gas for heating
purposes will eventually drive all other
combustibles out of the field in Pitts
burg is inevitable. Already the con
sumption of gas, instead of coal, is
enormous. It is estimated that from
15.000,000 to 20,000,000 cubic feet of
gas is burned each day in Pittsburg as
fuel. Already ten iron and sreel mills
in the city, and six in other parts of
"Western Pennsylvania, are using it in
their puddling furnaces and under their
boilers. Within three mouths a d* zen
more mills will have it in operation, and
every other manufacturing firm is
eagerly awaiting the com pi tiou of the
various pipe lines. Six glass factories
in the city, and seven in near towns are
using it.* Every brewery in the city
uses it instead of coal. There has not
yet been enough gas to spare for domes
tic purposes, aud only a few dwellings,
comparatively speaking, have been able
to get it for their stoves and grates.
Two of the largest hotels use it entirely
in their kitchens. Safety inventions
have been made and much of its danger
ous possibilities averted. Asa result,
householders are anxiousiy awaiting
more gas.
Within an area of fifty miles about
Pittsburgh at least a dozen small towns
have discarded coal entirely, aud every
dwelling house has gas in its cook stove,
parlor grate and bedroom fireplace.
Among these places are Butler, Free
port, Clarion, Tarentum, Kittanning,
Oil City, Wellshurg, Apollo and Marys
ville. There are no ashes to remove, no
sooty fireplaces to kindle in the morn
ing. * A thumb valve regulates the flame,
brick bats in the grate distribute it and
retain the heat and it may be kept burn
ing low all night to have the house
warm in the morning.