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VOLUME XX.
WRIGHT & KECK,
Attorneys at Law.
(OFFICE IN COUKT HOISE.)
ACItSOIXT, • _
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M. M. MILLS,
Counsellor Sc Attorney at Low.
Will practice in all the courts. Money
loaned on r> al estate at low rate of inter
est. Long time granted with small pay
ments. Money obtained at once without
delay.
(office in court house.)
Ur. 0. H. Cantrell,
DENTIST.
JACKSON, - - GEORGIA.
Up stairs over J. W. Bun’s Rock
Corner.
J. W. LEE, M. D.
JACKSON, GA.
Will practice medicine in its various
branches.
Office at J. W. Lee & fjpn’s drug store.
Residence first house west of Mrs
Brady’s.
HOTELS.
DEMPSEY HOUSE.
Mrs. A. E. Wilkinson, Proprietor.
Board reasonable and table supplied
with the beßt the market affords.
(corner fublic square)
ALMAXI) HOUSE
First-Class Board at Low
Rates.
MRS. T. B. MOORE, Proper.
STOP AT THE
Morrison House.
EVERYTIIIUG NEW AND FIRST
CLASS.
Conveniently Located,
Free Hack to Depot.
MRS. E. MORRISON, Proprietor.
W. It. YANCEY,
SURGEON DENTIST.
JACKSON, GA.
Respectfully solicits the patronage of
Hie people of Jackson and Butts county.
Office up stairs in Watkins Building,
room formerly occupied bv Dr. Key.
SATISFACTION GUARANTEED.
I’m'". Brilliant, Perfect.
Authentic living testimonials from dis
tinguished generals and statesmen in fa
vor of Ilawkes’ New Crystalized Lenses
over all others.
Our Next U. 8. Senator Says:
Mh. A. K. Hawkes—Dear Sir: The
pantiscopic glasses tou furnished me
Home time since give excellent satisfac
tion. T have tested them by use and
must sa.’ they are untqualed in clearness
and brilliancy by any that I have ever
worn. Respectfully,
John B. Gordon,
Ex-Governor of State of Georgia.
Business Ulan’s Clear Vision.
New Y rk City, April 4, 1888.
Mr. A. Iv. Hawses —Dear Sir: Your
patent eye glasses received some tinn
since, and am very much gratified at the
wonderful change that has come over my
eyesight since 1 have disc irded my old
glasses and am uo v wearing yours.
Alexander Agar,
Secretary Stationers Board of Trade of
New York City.
AH eyes fitted and tl’e fit guaranteed bv
W. L CARMICHAEL,
JAOKf ON, - GEORGIA.
Treasures of the Deep.
Under a permit from the Board of
Trade, of Great Britain, a speculative
treasure seeker employed divers to ex
plore the wreck of an East Indiin which
sank off the Isle of Portland, in tlie Eng
lish Channel, eighty years ago, carrying
down with her an immense cargo of bul
lion. They cleared the wreck, but found
nothing in it, and the searcher for sud
den wealth then learned that thirty-five
years ago a Whitstable boat secretly
operated on the old wreck and got all the
bullion. The same speculator got a per
mit to search Mount's Bay, between
Land's End and the Lizard, for two
Spaniards, which foundered in 1775, and
which carried a cargo of $10,000,000 in
silver.—[New York Recorder.
TRAVELLING IN' AN' ELEVATOR.
Among others euteriug the elevator at
well-known Fourteenth street dry
goods establishment was a stout, deter
mined looking Irish lady. She was car
ried up and down the elevator several
trips, but evinced no disposition to get
out at any particular department. The
man in charge finally asked:
“Madam, where do you wish to be
landed?”
‘ ‘Lave me as near the Grand Central
Daypo as ye can,” came the paralyzing
response. She was left.—[Texas Sift
ings.
ENOUGH TO GO AROUND.
‘‘Charley Wicks has only one arm, has
he not?” asked Maude.
“Yes,” returned May: “but it’s a long
one.”—[Puck.
IPillfe
VAN WINKLE
Gin and Machinery Cos.,
ATLANTA, GEORGIA.
MANUFACTURERS.
The best system lor elevating cotton and distributing same direct to gins
Many gold medals have been awarded to us. Write for
Catalogue and lor what you WANT.
Van Winkle Gin and Machinery Cos.,
ATLANTA, GEORGIA.
WE AGAIN OFFER TO THE TRADE THE CELEBRATED
StGINS,
Feeders and Condencers.
The GULLET GIN produces the Finest Sample shown in the
market, and will generally bring from 1-8 to 1-4 cent per pound
more thanany other cotton.
tHe glark Hardware e@.
Atlanta Ga.,
JACKSON
Real Estate and Renting Apcj.
D. J. THAXTON, Manager.
SUCCESSOR TO
H. O. Benton & Cos.
Farm Lands, Business Lots and
Residence Lots For Sale.
FREE OF CHARGE.
We Advertise Property in
the MIDDLE GEORGIA AR
GUS without cost to the
owner.
We are the only Real Estate Agents in Jackson, and have In our hands quite a
number of valuable and desirable farms in Butts and other counties for sale on tka
best of ttrm.
Also City Property, Residence and
Business Lots.
If jom have land te sell, put it into our hands and we watt find jam a buyer. If
yon have houses to rent we will find you a renter. If yon wink to hay a heaas call
am m and we will furnish team and driver.
WE ASK ONLY A TRIAL.
Jacks**, Oa., June §, 1882.
JACKSON, GA., FRIDAY, AUGUST 5, 1892,
NEWS L\ GENERAL.
Happenings o[ the Day Culled from Oh
Telegraphic and Cable Dlspatehes.
WHAT IS TRANSFIRING THROUGHOUT OUR
OWN COUNTRY, AND NOTES OF INTER
EST FROM FOREIGN LANDS.
There were seventeen fatal cases of
sunstroke in Chicago Thursday.
Crane Chemical Works, at Springfield,
N. J., blew up Thursday night and ten
build ngs, composing the plant, were de
stroyed.
The deputy and acting comptroller of
the currency on Monday declared the
tir-t dividend of 35 per cent in favor of
the creditors of the First National bank,
of P.datka, F!a., on claims proved,
amounting to $261,550.
Return of triennial elections held in
provinces of France Monday for mem
bers of councils general have been re
ce ved at Paris from 1,132 districts.
They show a republican gain of 110
seats.
A New York dispatch says: In accord
ance with the resolution passed at a re
cent meeting of the Richmond Terminal
advisory committee, default was made on
the interest of 6 per cent bonds
wl c’i was due Monday.
Ex-United States Senator Anthony
Kennedy, aged eighty-two years, died at
Annapolis, Md., Sunday morning. Sena
tor Kennedy has been in feeble health
for a long time, but the superinducing
cause was the excessive heat of the late
torrid spell.
The thirty-third or upper union mills
in Pittsburg started up non union at 4
o’clock Monday morning. The plate mill
is running, and the other departments
appear to be in operation. A guard of
police is about the property and no
trouble has occurred.
A dispatch of Thursday from Bay
City, Mich., says: The relief committee
finds that the extent of suffering among
the victims of Monday’s fire is so great
that, outside assistance will have to be
asked for. Two hundred and sixty
families lost everything and are in very
destitute circumstances.
Informations were made at Pittsburg,
Monday afternoon before Aldmerman
Reilly by ex-Private lams against Colo
nel Hawkins, Lieutenant Colonel Streater
and Assistant Surgeon Grim,of the Tenth
regiment, for aggravated assault and bat
tery. Warrants were issued. The charge
of aggravated assault was for tying
lams up by the thumbs and the assault
and battery for thaving his head.
The usual monthly statement prepared
by the treasury was issued Tuesday. The
figures are as follows: Aggregate cash in
the treasury, $783,979,280; net cash bal
ance, $27,050,286; increase during the
month, $357,909; decrease of interest
and non-interest bearing debt,
$398,905; decrease of certificates aud
treasury notes outstanding, $569,051;
total certificates and treasury notes out
standing, $619,675,803, offset by an
equal amount of cash in the treasury; net
debts, $967,378,935.
Telegrams of Monday from Spokane,
Wash., state that Indians on the Colville
reservation threaten an outbreak. The
Indians are greatly incensed at the fail
ure of the an'horities to eject prospect
tors, and even those who have heretofore
have been peaceably disposed, seem to
have caught the infection from others
and all are armed. The removal of all
intruders would settle the trouble, and
Indian Agent Cole has received official
notification that troops will be placed at
his disposal for this purpose.
Advices of Friday from Madison,
Wis., state that the constitutionality of
the recent democratic reapportionment
will be tested in the supreme court in
August. The paper, which is to be served
on Attorney-General O’Connor will be in
the form of a petition, signed by some
private citizens asking the attorney-gen
tral to institute action, and of course, if
the attorney-general refuses, action can
be brought in the name of the private
citiz n himself. No steps have been
taken as yet in regard to unseating the
hold-over senators.
DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEES,
Executive and Campaign, as Annonnced
by Chairman Harrity.
After several days’ deliberation and
conference with Calvin S. Brice, William
C. Whitney and Gov. James E. Camp
bell, Chairman Harrity, of the demo
cratic national committee, announced,
Friday afternoon, the national executive
and campaign committees. They are as
follows:
Executive Committee—M. F. Tarpey,
California; Charles S. Thomas, Colorada;
Carles French, Connecticut; Samuel Pas
coe, Florida; Clark Howell, Georgia; J.
J. Richardson, Iowa; Charles W. Blair,
Kansas; Thomas W. Sherley, K<ntucky;
James Jeffries, Louisiana; Arthur Sew
all, Maine; Arthur P. Gorman, Mary
land; Daniel J. Campas, Michigan;
Michael Dore, Minnesota; Charles B.
Howry, Mississippi; John G. Pra
ther, Missouri; Alvah W. Sulloway, New
Hampshire; Miles Ross, New Jersey;
William F. Sheehan, N6W York; M.
W. Ransom, North Carolina; Calvin S.
Brice, Ohio; Samuel R. Hovey, Rhode
Island; Holmes Cummings, Tennessee;
C. T. Holt, Texas; Bradley B. Smalley,
Vermont; Basil B. Gordon, Virginia;
William F. Harrity, of Pennsylvania,
chairman ex officio; S. P. Sheerin, sec
retary ex-officio.
The following compose the campaign
committee: Calvin S. Brice, Ohio; A.
P. Gorman, Maryland; William F. Shee
han, New York; B. B. Smaller, Ver
mont; M. W. Ransom, North Carolina;
B. T. Cable, Illinois; E. C. Wall, Wis
consin; Josiah Quincy, Massachusetts;
W. F. Harrity, Pennsylvania.
After John Chinaman.
A dispUch of Thursday from Bois
City, Idaho, says: The police have or
dered , 11 the Jap aese residents to leave
town immediately. At Nampi *he
Chinese were ordered to leave, and they
departed on the firat train. A number
of Japanese escaped .rom the smallpox
camp at Nampa and flocked to Bois City,
but they were soon sent out of town.
Much uneasiness is felt thit the smallpox
THE MAFIA AGAIN.
A Strange Letter Received by the Chief
of Police of New Orleans.
Chief of Police Garter of New Orleans,
received a letter Saturday from what is
supposed to be the Mali t. Following is
the letter:
New Orleans, July 29.—T0 Chief of Police
Ga tor: We have in our poeso-gion Judge Marr.
Will deliver him in your hands for SSOO, or will
liberate him for SI,OOO. We will send you hia
old clothes, etc., such as we foand on his per
son, but b ar in mind, by one bad br ak au
thorized by you. hi3 body will be riddled with
shot; then sent you fo a present. Thi* money
must reach m before twenty davg, unless you
will have his right ear. For farther informa
tion address general delivery, postoffice, Chi
cago, St. Louis or New Orleans.
Respectfully, P. J. Muxnez.
It will be remembered that Judge Marr,
of the criminal district court in New
Orleans, mysteriously disappeared last
April. He was old and feeble, and was
last seen walking along the leve-. The
impression of his friends was that he Lad
fallen into the rivt r and tvas drowned,
and that impression still prevails.
IT IS GOV. JONES.
Alabama’s Gubernatorial Vote of Mon
day So Decides.
TIIE END OF THE BITTEREST POLITICAL
STRUGGLE EVER KNOWN IN THE
STATE’S HISTORY.
The bitterest political struggle ever
known in Alabama closed Monday and
the returns received so far coming from
the towns aud cities indicate the election
of Governor Jones by a majority ranging
from sixty thousand to seventy thousand.
Koib’s strength is expected from the
country beats which are out of the way
iud hard to reach. When they report
it is generally believed that Governor
Jones’s majority will be reduced and
that it will finally settled down to be
tween 20,000 and 40,000.
PASSED OFF QUIETLY.
No serious trouble is reported from any
section of the state, and the only inci
dent which threatened trouble occurred
in Selma. A prominent Kolb man named
Mcllwain took up a position at a box to
keep a private tally sheet during the day.
He persisted in the effort all day, and
when the polls were closed a number of
Jones men surrounded Mcllwain and
took away from him the tally sheet he
had been keeping. At first, it seemed
that there would be trouble; but the
matter was quieted down without any
violence.
Later returns carry out first indica
tions. The counties of Mobile, Calhoun,
J* fferson, Montgomery, Dale, Dallas,
Russel, Barbour, Sumter, Bullock, Talla
dega, Walker, Lauderdale, Perry,
Lowndes, Wdcox and Marengo show
nearly 35,000 majority for the democra
tic ticket. Indications are that not over
fi teen out of the sixty six counties in the
state will give Kolb a majority, and not
one of them will exceed 1,000. The
legislature will be overwhelmingly
straight democratic. Negroes voted in
great numbers the open democratic tick
ets. In many cases they were actual
workers at the polls. This was especi
cally the case in Birmingham. The ex
pectation was that the opposition vote
would be the largest in years, but the re
subs do no: show that this expectation
w s realized. A conservative estimate
places Governor Jone’s majority at not
less tha 50,000.
TRADE REVIEW.
Dun & Co.’s Report of Business for the
Past Week.
R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of
trade says: The extreme hot weather
for the entire week has checked many
kinds of business, but has not prevented
considerable excess in the volume of
trade over that of last year. At the same
time the weather has been extremely fa
vorable for growing crops, except in the
limited districts where damage has been
done by violent storms, and the crop
outlook is decidedly improving.
The great interruption of the iron and
steel manufactures at the west continues,
but there are distinct signs of a favorable
settlement. Finished products of iron
and steel are stronger —$3 to $5 higher,
but great demora ization is expected in
pig iron unless more of the consuming
works start speedily. Bar and sheet iron
are very active, and the manufacturers of
plate and structural iron have more orders
than they can well handle, but no im
provement is seen in rails.
Boot and shoe shops are running full
of business, and shipments exceed la9t
year's every week; being for the year,
thus far, 2,056,000 cases, against 1,967,-
000 to date last year. The shipments of
hides from Chicago have been 110,000,-
000, against 97,000,000 pounds last year.
At Baltimore the hot weather retards
much trade, though in dry goods and
boots and shoes aDd furnishing goods it
exceeds last year’s. At Pittsburg the
products of steel and iron grow stronger. !
A little improvement appears at Memphis
and Little Rock.
Trade is dull at New Orleans, though
the prospects are bright there, and at
Savannah the receipts of cotton are light
and the exports are slightly more than
last year, but the sales of plantation
stock for the week exceeds the sales of
tangible and visible cotton about ten to
one, aggregating 7,000,000 bales.
The busine-s failures occurring
throughout the country during the last
week, as reported to R. G. Dun & Cos.,
number for the United States 171.
OIL ON FIRE.
Lightning Sets Fire to Tanks in the
Pennsylvania Oil Fields.
A Pittsburg, Pa., dispatch of Thurs
day says: During the prevalence of the
thunder storm which swept over the
southwestern oil field Wednesday after
noon, lightning struck tank No. 17 of
the Southwest Pennsylvania Pipe Line
company, six miles from Washington.
The tank contained 37,000 barrels of oft,
and when it burst the burning fluid
spread to twenty tanks in the vicinity
and soon all were afire. The heat was so
intense that trains could not approach
within an eighth of a mile of the scene.
The loss is not known, but it is thought
THE SOUTH IN BRIEF
Tie Inrs of Her Progress Portrayel in
Pitly and Pointed Paragraphs
AND A COMPLETE EPITOME OF HAPPEN
INGS OF GENERAL INTEREST FROM DAY
TO DAY WITHIN HER BORDERS.
Twenty-two horses were lost by the
bnrning of Mack Bruce’s livery stable at
Stanford, Ky., Thursday.
A dispatch of Sunday from Memphis,
Teiin,, says; The Memphis Passenger
Association is on the verge of disruption.
The long threatened rate war between
the railroads centering here has broken
out at last and as a consequence, east
bound passenger rates have gone all to
pieces.
At a meeting at Savannah, Monday, of
the stockholders of the Middle Georgia
and Atlantic railroad a plan for the
formation of a syndicate was read. The
syndicate is to so be formed of gentlemen
already interested in the road and will
complete the road from Macon to Eaton
ton. Subscription books will be opened
at once. •
It is reported from Knoxville* Tenn.,
that as soon as the Knoxville Southern
railroad bridge is completed across the
river at that place that the Louisville and
Nashville would run through trains over
it from Cincinnati to Atlanta. This will
mean the purchase of the Southern and
Knoxville, Cumberland Gap and Louis
ville roads.
A special from Austin, Tex., says:
Lightning striking the wires leading
from the plant which lights the state in
sane asylum to the building, set fire to
the west wing of the structure at an
early hour Monday morning, and that
portion devoted to females was destroy
ed. The remainder of the building was
saved. The female patients, some two
hundred in number, were removed in
safety, none escaping from the attend
ants. The loss is $25,000, with no insur
ance.
Near Winchester, Ky., Sunday, six
boys were drowned in the Kentucky
river by the overturning of a skiff.
Their names are Kelley Farney, aged fif
teen; Claude, aged thirteen; Walter,
aged eleven; Charles, aged nine, all sons
of James H. Farney; Algin Brock, aged
sixteen; Willi im Brock, aged twelve,
sons of Rev. Henry Brock. The boys
were bathing in the river climbing in and
out of the boat and were thrown into a
panic by the boat overturning with some
of the small boys.
SHE IS INSANE.
S Say the Jury in the Alice Mitchell
Murder Case.
A Memphis, Tenn., dispatch s iys: A
large crowd was in attendance at the
criminal court Saturday, it being an
nounced that Judge Du Bose would de
liver the charge to the jury in the famous
Alice Mitchell ease, murderess of Freda
Ward. The defendant appeare 1 calm
and collected during the reading of the
charge, the time occupied in its delivery
being fifteen minutes; the question of
sanity or insanity of the prisoner at the
time of the trial being the only question
considered. The jury retired at 9:30
and at 9:50 o’clock filed into the court
room with the following verdict:
“We, the jury, find the defendant,
Alice Mitchell, insane, and believe it
would endanger the safety of the com
munity to set her at Liberty.”
Alice Mitchell was then remanded to
the custody of the sheriff, and will be
ordered placed in an insane asylum.
Should she be released as sane at any
time she can then be placed upon trial on
the charge of murder, as she was only
tried as to her mental soundness or un
soundness at the time of her trial, the
question as to her mental condition at the
time of the commission of the homicide
not being touched upon during her trial,
now concluded.
When the verdict was read by the clerk
a faint smile spread over the defendants’
features as if she had been confident of
the jury’s verdict throughout the entire
trial. She was taken to jail, gayly chat
ting as she went, and will be sent tliense
to one of the state insane asylums.
COLUMBUS DAY.
Great Interest Taken in the Approach
ing Celebration.
The approaching celebration of Colum
bus Day by the 13,000,000 pupils in
American public schools, is attracting
general attention. From prominent ed
ucators, from eminent statesmen in high
places and from the humblest citizens
come words of commendation. It appeals
to all classes and conditions becau e it
touches the institution which is closest to
the people, most representative of the
people and fullest of hope for the future.
Several thousand American newspapers
have championed the movement. A
bill recently passed congress authorizing
and instructing President Harrison to is
sue a proclamation making Columbus Day,
October 21st, a general holiday, and reo
ommending to the people a fitting ob
servance of this 400th anniversary of
America’s discovery,in all their localities;
in their school houses and other places
of assembly. Speaker Crip, when asked
a few days ago, “what do you think of
the movement for a national celebration
of Columbus Day,” replied: “The idea
of giving the general celebration of Co
lumbus Day into the hands of the public
schools impresses me very favorably. The
public school is certainly the most char
acteristic product of the 400 years of
American life. The public school stands
for the spirit of enlightenment which has
been the mark of life in this country.
The public school may have its defects,
but take it all in all, it is a superb
thing.
T. B. Ballentcnb, the millionaire “truck”
farmer of Norfolk, Va., has purchased an
entire square of ground in that city and
proposes to erect on it a “widows’ home.”
The building will stand in the centre, and
the remainder of the trac : will be laid out in
lawns and gardens. Mr. B alien tine is with
out children, and has provided in his will
that the rents of his city property be applied
to the support of the home. He is a native
of Currituck county, N. C., and began
truck farming in the vicinity of Norfolk
NUMBER 30.
THE INDUSTRIAL SOUTH.
Progress and Improvement Recorded
for the Past Week.
In its review of the industrial situation iu
the South during the past week, The Chatta
nooga Tradesman tates that its renorts re
ceived from correspondent s at all importaut
points in the Southern Static, are to the effect
that much attention is directed to the condi
tion and prospects of the new crop of cotton-
In the non hern portion of the cotton area the
reports are to the effect that a backward plann
ing time, heaVV rains which prevented cultiva
tion, and, in the river valleys the recent exten
sive oveiflows will cause the waking of a great
ly decreased crop. The hot weather which has
generally prevailed during the week is doing
good, but has come too late to be of much help
in many sections.
In the southern manufacturing, mining cn 1
iron producing centers it is reported that there
is no change in the steady demand, lor and no
special increase in the output. There is a
marked increase in the demand for machinery
in every part of the southern states.
Forty-two new industrit 8 are reported as es
tablished or incorporated during the week, to
gether with four en argem. nts of manufacto
ries, and Id important new buildings. Among
the new industries reported area SIOO,OOO brick
and tile company at Charlotte, N. C , and one
at Augnsta, 6a.,’a $500,000 compress company
at Little Rock, Ark., a SIOO,OOO development
fotflpftpy, and one with $50,000 capital at Cov
ington, Ky., an electrical company with $150,-
000 capital at L-ulstil.e. Ivy., and others at
Kis-immee, Fla., and Caldwell. Tex. A paving
company with SIOO,OOO capital is reported at
Vicksburg, MiBS., paint works at M* mphis,
Tenn., pertvder works at Covington, Kv., a
$300,000 sugar refinery at Iberville, La., .and a
tanflety at San Angelo, Tex.
The textile plants of the week include cotton
mills at Chapel Hill, and Durham, N- C.,
Ridgeda'e, Tenn., a ticking mill at Charlotte,
N. 0., a $500,000 carpet milt at Wheeling, W.
Va., and a $40,000 cotton and woolen mill at
Marble Falls, Tex. A $50,000 tobacco factory
is being organiz 'd at Mayfiold, Ky., lumber
mills are to be built at Ashdown, Ark.. Dur
ham, N. C., and Tyler, Tex., furniture fact-t
--ries at Cullman, Ala., and Brunson, S. C., and
saw mills at Thomson, Ga., and Cumberland
C'ity, Tenn. .
Water wofks are to be built at Alexandria,
La., Shelbyville, and Harrimau, Tenn., and
Caldwell and Palestine, Texas.
The cotton mills at Trenton, Tenn., are to bo
en'arged as are the lumber mills at New Berne,
N. C,, and Wheeling, W. Va.
Among the new buildings of the week at©
btlsiness houses at Ocala, Fla., Van Buren,Ark.,
and Roanoke, Va., churches at D. catur, Ala.,
and Oxford, N. C., a $50,000 college buil dug
at Atlanta, Ga., and Others at Newp >rt, Ky.,
Jonesboro, Ark., and Greenville, Ala., a $lO,-
000 depot at Milan, Tt nn , and a governm nt
building at Tallahassee, Fla,
RIOT ON A TRAIN.
Workmen Bound for Homestefid Under
Guard Rebel.
A Pittsburg dispatch says: A riot oc
curred Thursday morning on the Balti
more and Ohio train, on which a party of
fifty-six non-union men were being trans
p rted from Cincinnati to Pittsburg to
work in the Carnegie Steel Works at
Homestead. One man was stabbed in
the forehead with a bayonet in the hands
of an armed guard. Another had his
thumb chewed off and nearly a score of
others were badly bruised in an attempt
to regain their liberty. When the train
reached Pittsburg only twenty-one men
were aboard in addition to the armed
guard, the other thirty-fivo having
escaped from the car between Whitehall
station and the depot in Pittsburg. When
they left Cincinnati the men did not
kt ow they were being taken to the
Homestead mills, and when they found
it out they rebelled. That is how the
riot had inception.
COLD IN IOWA.
In Strange Contrast with Her Swelter
ing Sister States.
Adi-pitch from Ottumwa, li.. rays:
The excessive heat of the past few days
was broken Thursday by a heavy thunder
storm with a terrific rain. The mercury
fell twenty degrees in as many minutes.
The night was very cold.
DROPPED TWENTY DEGREES.
Another dispatch from Dubuque states
that a heavy rain Thursday afternoon
caused a drop of twenty degrees in the
temperature.
COLD IN MONTANA.
Avery slight frost was preceptible at
Great Falls, Mont , Friday morning. The
signal service office r ports the mercury ,
t- have 'alien twenty degrees in five min
utes about midnight.
Bergman’s Trial.
Alexander Bergman, the anarchist, who
attempted to assassinate H. C. Frick, was
given a hearing in the police office of the
jail at Pittsburg, Pa., Friday afternoon
and held for trial at the September ses
sion ia $24, #OO bail.
Chances of Death in War.
No doubt every reader has seen the
statement that it takes a man’s weight of.
lead to kill him. The statement is usu
ally looked upon as a rhetorical hyper
bole, suggested by the fact that compar
atively few out of the whole number of
shots fired in battle take effect. Marshal
Sale, we believe, first made the statement
that forms the basis of the above;;
only he said that it “would take 125
pounds of lead and thirty-three pounds
of powder to put each of the enemy in
the ‘long trench.’” Wild and visionary,
as this may seem it appears that there
was really more truth than poetry in the
remark.
At the battle of Solferino, according to
M. Ccssendi’s carefully deduced calcula
tions, a comparison of the number of
shots fired on the Austrian side with the
number of killed and wounded on the,
part of the enemy, shows that 700 bullets'
were expended for every man wounded i
and 4,200 for each man killed. The av
erage weight of the ball used was thirty
gr* ins, therefoi e it must have taken at'
least 12 kilograms or 227 pounds of lead *
for every man put out of the way. Yet,
Solferino was a most bloody and impor
tant engagement. *
Bogert, in light of the above, was about <
right when he said: “War is awful, but
the sound of war ie awfuller.” ' *
HER SACRIFICE.
He—Darling, if I give you such an .
expensive engagement ring we can’t get
married so soon. '
She—Never mind, dear. For your sake
I can wait.—f Harper’s Bazar.
USED THE WRONG GLASSES.
“Captain,” said Mrs. Trotter to the
commander of on ocean steamer, “have
you ever seen the sea serpent?”
“No, madam,” replied the old sea dog.