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VOLUME IV.
TEMPERANCE.
The Drunkard’s Warning.
Touch not the sparkling bowL
* a r.i5;r,T
And dim thy youthful si ght.
Touch not the sparkling bowl;
Its Although ’tis bright aud fair,
Yot mag’c r. n't be tol l,
-M d< otb I cd hi ’de i there.
Touch not the sparkling bowl;
’Twill poison with its breath;
Beneath its surface roll
The seed* of strife and death.
Tcuch not the flowing bowl,
And strew thy path with woe.
Touch not the drunkard’s bowl:
I’ve drank it to its dregs,
And now my inmost soul
Is filled with grief and rage.
Touch not the sparkling bowl
There is a better fount,
Whore crystal waters flow,
And living streams gush out.
Touch not the sparkling bowl,
*>• But drink from Nature’s spring—
Dethrone King Alcohol,
* And shout Cold Water king.
Coffee- Houses.
Another effort is being made to intro¬
duce in New lork tho coffee-house as a
substitute for the liquor-saloon. In Eng*
and, notably in Birmingham and Liver¬
pool, the coffee-house movement has been
a great success, securing a large nnd
^jdicrto a pecuniarily profitable patronage,
the attempts made to introduce
this city have not, unless it be in
, \ 0f tcm P criu,co ‘ dairies,” been
It is to be hoped that tho
effort mar find more substantial
lbnconragement and achieve a permanent
llcccss.
itefliiluting the: Elephant.
/ Kverybody had heard that tho great
dephant wns loo e, aud several families
lose gardens he hid torn up and whos e
hoys ho had trampled upon, wore sure of
t. Th ro was great excitement, and the
nvn held u meeting to decide what
Sould be done They did not Avant to
.terminate him, in fact, many of them
Aid not believe that thoy could exter*
inatc him, for ii: av.is a pretty big ele
jant. .... lies Ucs, ho useful ...
was in his
ropor place—in shows, ' in 1U In iia ,in » un(i and ,n in
lory-books.
“Our best plan 1 is to trv f and rcmilate guiaie
. „ .. ,
•im, said an enthusiastic speaker.
‘♦Let us build toll rates alem? ® the 0 route route
enna , , ho . . to take, , l
is going an make
ijftl * pav_”
‘Ycb, but that leaves him roaming
ound,” shrieked an old woman. “And Ana
. . ......
I aon t want my boy killed.”
“Keen V your boy away y from him * that’# l at s
our„busincss. \\ hy, madam, don’t you
n.row that an < Icphnnt’s hide and tu-ks
.... ... *
TO valuable for mechanical and , surgical
•UTDOiet. * ’ and that he is useful in India? niiaf
I>e>Ule8, there’s the toll he Will pav. We
-hall br this means K get monev money cnouoh (nougn
nto the t public , treasury to build schools
for a ® flood many bovs who uro aro not not tram tram '
— —
pled to death.”
“That’* the plan 1 Ucffiilato ucguiacc him! mail
, Regulate . him. ,,, shouted
trie crowd.
Bo they * appointed * * a ® creat t many manv com- com
mittees, . and drafted constitutions and
by-laAvs, and circulated petitions, and by
the time the elephant had killed several
more hoys and trampled down a quanti¬
ty of gardens, they hud erected very
comfortable toll-hou-cs for the gate
Jtecpers and gates for the elephant; and
lien they waited Avith great satisfaction
to sqe thc animal rcsulat d.
the great feet tramped onward;
slowly the great proboscis appeared in
view; and, with n sniff of contempt, the
elephant lifted the gate from its hinges
end walked off Avith it, while the croAvd
started alter him in dismay.
“Well!” exclaimed thc keeper, catch
iug his breath; “we haven't m ide much
money so far, but the regulation plan
would have been first rate if tho elephant
hadn t b en a hetle stronger than the
obstruction.” The elephant’s name was
whisky.— H’. C. T. i T .
TempecuiicM Notes.
* V council of eminent English physl
sians have arranged for an Internationa
Uongress on Inebriety, to be held in Lon¬
don, England, in July, 1»87..
The recent National Council of Con
grcgationalii-ts at Chicago passed a
strong resolution on thc evils of iutcui
* perauce.
' 1*r. N. S. Davis, of Chicago, at a tem¬
pera ce breakfast in England not long
ago, said he lunl not prescribed enough
alcohol to fill a pint pot during the past
fifty years of hit professional practice.
M. Emile do Lnve’eye, Professor of
Politcal Economy at Liege, Belgium,
urges the govcrnm< nt of that country to
largely increase the govc*rnment tax upon
Dt °*ioating B .uors in that country.
Intemperance is slid to be strictly
among thc employes of the
Pacific Railroad. Any em¬
ploye addicted to thc use of intoxicants
is first warned'^ nnd i/dismissed. if he does not forego
||la evil habit, he
V'’The number of gallons of spirits pro
dUced from grain in this country in the
lastfl*cal\ear was \ Although
it an i>crrase over the product of
it !« _____ 87^,60 gallons ..... less than the .
»
*uct of thc last nine years.
Christian Instructor says; “A
Joon can no Z Xc be run without u.i„g
r n bovs tb-»n a flouring-mill ° without
rheat or a saw-mill without logs. The
ml* I question “ is: Whose boys—your
, , boys neigh- . .
'or mine; our or our
»’i”
EASTMAN. DOLC 11 ? ror -7 ■, W E »N WSDAY. .i \ > T1 JfcY 5,
. _
JOB i LOBAR
Sudden Death of the Senator
r rom TI|{„„;„ Illinois.
Vivid Account of His Last Moments
and Sketch of His Career.
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john Alexander logan.
G..«r 0 i John A. Logan, Senator ot the
United Stat e from Illinois died at his house
in Washington at 2:55 o’clock ou the after
noon of the 20th of Deeembsr His death
was quiet nn 1 painless. There wore with
him at the ond Mrs. Logan, his two chil¬
dren, Mrs. Tucker, Manning Logan, Major
Tucker, his sou in-law; General 1’. H. Sheri¬
dan, General Green B. Itaum, of Illinois;
Judge Symmes, of Colorado, and several of
his immediate friends and servants. General
Ijogan’s death came as a great shock
because there hail been no warning of
immediate danger. It was known
that (General Logan was Billering
from au unusually severe atta k of rheuma¬
tism, aud that this atta k had run into rheu¬
matic fever, but every one thought ho would
pull through. Ho had had similar attacks
nearly overy year for the last ten
years, and in 1870 he■ came very
near visited lying Hev'eral years ago ho
the Hot Spriug* of Arkansas and re
ceived great rolief. If hi
kans&s thl
escaiied wouid tHI utta k which proved fatal. He
if it had undoubtedly not been have recovered this time
for tho bruin complication.
Tho fever reached his brain toward the last
and produced congestion.
The family had uearly as little warning as
the public. They knew that he was very
ill but he had b>en through so many
similar attacks that they could not realize
tnat his iron constitution would not pull him
through.
The deathbed sceno was painful nnd dra
mafic. General Logan has always lived the
centre of a group of admiring friends. Hj
rarely he knew a moment of privacy. When
dietl his room was crowded with others
than the members of his family. General
Phil. Sheridan stood at th « foot of the bed
with his hands clasped behind, looking stern
ly and sorrowfully upon tho face of his old
comrade. Backof him was Gen. Bale, Grant's
intimate friend. Mrs. Logan knelt at
her husbands side, her face drawn and
white, and as near as j jssible to tho color
of fa or snowy hair. By her sido were her
two l»oyofapuro children, Manning, a splendid, swarthy
Tucker, his sister, Spanish appearan e, and Mrs.
a slim .lark-eyed brunette,
tearless and pale, who watched alternately
her mother and her dying lather.
Major Tucker, her husband, stood at the
General's head rca iy to run to his assistant*.
About the room were other groups from the
callers b ? l< w . who lia l tiptoed up to the
roo ra, which Avas Generali part ally darkened. It
was feared that tho death would be
choking painful. His heavy breathing aud occasional
made every one fear a
death from suffocation. At ten minutes of
three, amid the sound of weeping, tho deep
sonorous voice of Dr. Newnutu was heard
in prayer. He prayed with an elopieuce
that moved everyone in the sight of the
death which was so slowly stealing down
upon the sufferer. The Do tor prayed
thst the brave s >irit might cross, in
safety Ho besought to the world humbly where Avelt pain is unknown.
a ome for this
brave soul now to start on its last journey,
while he besought tho Great Ruler of All
to sustain Avith his great strength the
stricken ones left behind. As the deep
voice of the pastor resounded through
the grt-at room General Logan died.
Buddon y his painful breathing came
quicker the colored and in great pants. Then James,
servant, wished to lift him up,
Ashe lilted him up there was a choking rat
tle in tho throat, a strong effort to clear it
from the accumulation of mucus, but the ef
fort was a failure* There was a stoppage of
the breath, tho es half opened, their pupils
enlarged General to the full size of the ball, and then
the fell ba k lifeless. Dr. Newman
said solemnly: “Ho is gone.”
Mrs. Logun became wild with grief. She
fell upon the b d with her arm about her
husband’s body crying, sobbing, wailing,
calling out: “Oh. darling! Oh, darling!”
Her abandonment to grief was even more
sorrowful thau tho sight of the General’s
death. Mrs. Logan remained in this pros
trate condition so long that it was felt oeces
sory to call her to herself. With great dlf
Acuity she was torn away from the bed.
Oe? oral liOKtM’i) Career.
General John Alexander Logan was born
on February 9, 1820, in Murphrysboro, III.,
and was tho eldest ot eleven children. His
father, Dr. John Logan, Avas au Irishman
and * ato« to this Elizabeth country iu 1821, Tennessee and soi u
after married Jenkins, a
lady, and settled to practise medicine
in the town whore General Logan was born.
Dr. Logan was a man of good education, and
for a time personally took eharge of his sou’s
early instruction, but subse iuently seut him
to the best schools the comm unity afforded,
and afterward to the Shiloh Academy.
The Mexican war broke out when
young IjOgan was but twenty years
of age. and he at once enlisted and was
made a Lieutenant in one of the liduci* reg¬
iments. He returned noine in 1858 and -om
nieuced the study of law in the office of his
uncle, Alexander M. Jenkins, who had for¬
merly been Lieutenant-Governor of the State.
in 1844, before he had completed k is law
course., he was elected clerk of HL *J ackson
county, and at the expiration of hp term of
office went to Louisville. Ky., wh fre he at¬
tended law lectures, and was admitted to the
bar in the spring of 1851. In the fall of
the same year he was . elected to
represent Jackson and Franklin coun¬
ties in the Illinois Legislature, and
from .that time has been almost uninter¬
rupted^ military. in the Even public service, either civil
or before he went to the
Legtawture, Att ho had been made Prosecut
ij* district . of »rney his State. for He the was Third twice re-elected Judicial
to the legislature, and in 18.54 was a Demo¬
cratic Presidential elector, and cast his vote
for James Buchanan.
The year of I860 saw Logan serving his
second term in Congress as the representa¬
tive of the Ninth Illinois Congressional dis
tnet Mr. Logan was then a Democrat, and
an ardent supporter of Stephen A. Douglas,
Mr. Lincoln’s opponent.
In July, 1861, he left his seat in the extra
of Congress and joined the Federal
SStf'K Sitaottf T2
Bb noi * Infantry, and in March,
1862, was appointed Briga Jier-Goneral of vol
untoers.
th »® ®ummar of 1802 he refused*
nomination for Congress,saying he preferred
to remain in the field. For servi es performed
during mad* Grant’s Major-General, Misiissippi movements he was
a and suooeeded Bben
“ .r ■' - to Malice for None.”
| bear ! °f the Fifteenth army corn* ^
1 In, 1 ! 6 ?- " hen L General McPherson was
kiiie.1 Logan succeeded him as commander
of the Army of the Tennessee. He was with
Sherman in his “March to the Sea,” remain*
la gwith “SJS47 him until the surrender of Johnston.
*• tion *? in 180b by career the Republicans ended with his nomina
represent the of TiimnU
Large State as Congressman at
in the Fortieth Congress. He was
elected by 00,000 majority. He had In the
year before been offered by President
Johnson the post of Minister to Mexico,
but declined. He was later one of tb$
managers on the part of the House
ceedings f>rese which ?^ a u ives were in Instituted the impeachment against John
-\t Iu 1n * s anf i in 1870 he was reflected to
the House, but before he had finished his
term under the last election he was elec¬
ted to the United States Senate to
ceed Senator Yates. In nun.
licans 1877 the Repub¬
m the Illinois Legislature had
only two majority, and with the help
of a few Democratic votes David Davis, an
seat. independent, In was elected to Senator Logan’s
re-elected 1879, however. Senator Logan was
to the Senate, and has since then
in his official capacity been very active in
promoting the the interests of the veterans of
war. He was one of the founders of
the (.rand Army of the Republic, which
had its origin at Decatur. Illinois. One of
Senator Logan’s memorable efforts in the
Senate was his four days’ speech in opposi¬
tion to the reinstatement of Fitz John Porter
He took an active part in the last Presiden
tail campaign, when he and Mr. Blaine were
the candidates on the Presidential ticket.
General Logan was married in 1855 to Miss
Mary Cunningham, of Shawneetown, Illi¬
nois, a lady of extraordinary force of char
I ooter and tact, to whom he is reputed to have
i CS^Jf’tJKS ^married’to P ollt iS al suc "
Logan and a daughter, who
1 aymaster Tucker of the regular army,
A STORMY PASSAGE,
A STEAMER NARROWLY ESCAPES
WRECKAGE.
A qanrt«rmarter Killed and Three Men
Badly Wounded.
The steamship La Champagne, of jthe
French lino, recently left Havre for New
York, on what proved to be a most e ventful
' o.'ago. For the first three days, says the
Neiv York Herald she experienced heavy
,
stemusand bead seas, but the fourth day
out the wind veered, the weather avos bright
and clear, an 1 the thousand souls on board
“»Y atulau ’ tht ' msolvM on the
probability of tho remainder of their trip be
mg p.easant.
out they had re kor.ed without the “Roar
! n ^ rmties.' t»u the 15th heavy clouds
loomed up ou the horizon, the barometer fell
rapidly, and the wind l>egau to Woav with
H 1 .' 1 '® 1, violence till at four o'clock in the
afternoon a whole gale was blowing and the
bead seas were very heavy.
lhe * ki P,'': ns in tll »t region known to sail
ors as the “Roaring Forties,” about latitude
north forty degrees and longitude west forty
degrees. As tne night wore on the gale in
creased to a hurricane, ami Captain Traub
8, was obliged to lower the speed of the good
><p her so as to koep only enough steerage way
on to point her head to the wind, in
fact ing vessel she had would. to lie to m the same way a sail
This, considering the fact that La Cham
pagne is one of the largest aud finest steamers
a ™ at > skould * iv « *’ m ® i,Iea ” f the force
the bun icane aud tho si/eot the waves.
*V hue the storm A%as at its worst, about
nine oYl< ck i> m. one of those 1 accidents
O'-curi ed which will happen m spite of all the
P , ’ r '‘ , ”" 1 ' ’t-'Dnn « of oilers The rna«t-
8,ew ? 1 around to
Reward bj the fotce „ of the w iuil,
an ' 1 a couple of hands were sent
torvAaid on the turtlebaek to adjust it. Ow*
tng to the darkness and the tossing of the
vessel they Avere a little slow in this, and the
boatswain s mate aud a quartermaster Avent
forward to hurry them up and to assist
them.
while all four were standing together on
tfa e forward turtlebaek the vessel made a
di P aml a mountainous wave rushed over
her, carrying the men off their feet and
frrmdmg that when, them immediately against the deck fixtures, so
reached them, the quartermaster afterward, assistance
was found
! to be dead and his companions not much bet
ter off.
All night the storm continued to increase
. violence, until at 5 o’clock Captain Traub
in
admitted that in all his experience at sea he
ha ' 1 n «yer before seen anything like it One
" ave in particular is declared by all who
witnessed it to be a phenomenal one and to
Monarch of Ocean
Waves. It was d scernible a longdistance
ahead lifting its white crest many feet above
its fellovAe.
It was the supreme effort of the storm, and
shortly abating after and the wind was perceived to be
i.a Champagne was soon pur
suing her way at the usual rate of speed,
* tbe morning of the 1 ith burial services
were read over the body of the unfortunate
quartermaster, and it was then consigned to
its water grave. The quartermaster’s name
was Jean Mane i hillippe, and ho leaves a
widow and several children, for whom agen
orous the cabin subscription was at once taken up by
j passenghra
I 1 he remainder of the voyage was unusual
ly pleasant and La Champagne reached New
^ '■be 20th without further mishap,
Fham; ague is the crack ship of the line
and , one of the largest aud mo'-t; handsomely
appointed fluently she ot transatlantic steamers, Fre»
carries from twelve to thirteen
! hundred passengers.
BUSINESS DISASTEES.
< harle* IT- Raymond- of New York, Fall*—
Othcf Failures.
Charles H. Raymond, dealer in sup¬
plies at 121 Chambers street and 103
Reade street, has made an assignment for
the benefit of creditors, to James M.
Oakley, with preferences amounting to
$206,609. Raymond has dealt iu hard¬
ware supplies for twenty-five years, the United hav¬
ing for his heaviest customer
States government. He dealt mainly by
sample, carrying no stock worth men¬
tioning. His warehouse Avas at 103
Reade street, and up to about a year
since he w as reported to be very wealthy,
and liis credit was of the best. But
since then he has been lax in his pay¬
ments. He once owned sixteen or
eighteen pieces of real estate in Brook¬
lyn. His assignment to James M. Oak
Icy, of Jamaica, L. I., was filed in
Brooklyn. The amount of his liabilities
is unknown, but they are estimated to be
near $500,000. Raymond is a silent
partner with George H. Creed in the
supply business, and at their establish¬
ment nothing was known regarding the
financial trouble of Raymond.
The failure of the J. Kellogg fiim,Little Printing Rock,
company and stationery
Ark., is announced; liabilities $20,000;
assets $30,000. the creditors of P.
At a meeting of A.
Martin & Co., Boston, Mass., boots and
shoes, Wednesday, it was unanimously
voted to accept 35 per cent cash, and 5
per cent in six months in Martin’s own
notes unindorsed. Martin was unable to
state at present whether he would accept
the offer-or not. •
The assignee of the cattle firm of Pea¬
cock, Brocher A Co., Colorado, Texas,
has filed a statement of assets and liabil¬
ities of the firm. The total indebted¬
ness of the company is $269,850, while
the assets, at a very low calculation,
amount to $856,600.
THE NEWS IN GENERAL
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST
FROM ALL POINTS
EASTERN AND MIDDLE SPATES.
Alden’ Goldsmith, the famous horseman
who brought out and developed the great
trotter Goldsmith Maid, died the- other day
seventh at Blooming Giove, N. Y., in his sixty
year.
The 220th anniversary of the landing of
the Pilgrim Fathers was celebrated in Boston
by the Congregational Club, the principal
speakers James being Governor Robinson and Hon.
G. Blame. Banquets in celebration
of the day also took place in New York,
Brooklyn and other cities.
Governor Hill, of New York, has granted
sentenced a respite until February 28 to Mrs. Druse,
to be hanged for husband murder.
A New York firm has been fined ♦500 for
selling violating the law against oleomargarine,
it as butter.
A tie-up on thj Brooklyn horse-car rail
were In the severely evening clubbed and’ other? arrested
the strikers and the compa
nies adjusted their differences.
A young man named Warner shot and
.JL, E1 i aLy “w at N ® wto r?L S° un -’
ami and a few hours later entered the house
where her body lay and committed suicide.
Warner was enamored of Mrs. Lynch, who
had separated from her husband.
One man was killed and three were badly
injured by an explosion of fifty dynamite
railroad cartridges which they were warming at a
cut near Elizabethtown,Penn.
SOUTH AND WEST.
by Vilonia, fire, Ark., has been partly destroyed
the work oi incendiaries.
Counterfeiters are flooding the North¬
west with bad money.
William Mussel was taken from the
Eaton (Ohio) jail by a crowd and hanged.
Ho had killed Daniel Christman, an aged
farmer.
A recent movement is said to have been
started in Chicago to depose General Master
Workman Powderly, of the Knights of
strike Labor, off. for declaring the recent pork packers’
Engineer Hunter and four Chinamen
were fatally burned by an explosion cf gas
in the coal bunkers of an English ship lying
at New Orleans.
Three men in a sleigh drove up to a jew¬
elry store in Minneapolis, Minn., and while
one of them broke in tho large plate glass
window with a stick and seized all the
watches and jewelry available, the other two
kept the crowd at bay with cocked revolvers.
After securing their booty the bold robbers
drove rapidly away.
INTER-STATE COMMERCE.
SENATOR WILSON’; SPEE // IN
FAVOR OF THE HILL.
Prospect* of thc .Alcnmire itrtfiilaf iiir Itnil
ronil Trallic.
Among the most Important measures be¬
fore Congress this session Is the Inter-State
Commerce bill, which provides for the super¬
vision of railroads and freight rates in the
various States. The bill has been before
Congress several years, but its promotors
have been unable heretofore to secure its
passage. This session the Conference Com¬
mittees of both Houses agreed upon a reporl
in its favor, and on the last day before the
holiday recess it came up in the Senate, but
after a speech in its favor had been made by
Senator Wilson the bill went o\-er until af¬
ter that the he holidays. would then Senator ask the Cullom Senate announcing to take it
reached. up daily, and Washington keep it up until a vote was
A special said of the
bill
While it is evident that the views of many
representatives have changed since the Rea¬
gan last Inter-State session, it bill does passed the House at the
that tho of not the seem Conference probable
report
Committee will be rejected. A few
extreme members complain that the
House conferees yielded too much and,
threaten to vote ayainst the report, but it is
not likely that Western many of them will do so.
Home of the members who were
among the most earnest supporters of the bilk
now say that they are in doubt as to whether
the measure will not" injure rather than
benefit the farmers and stoijc growers of the
West, but that the sentiment in their district*
is so strong in favor of action by Congress
that they will be constrained to vote for the
conference report.
The truth is that w’hen th» bill passed the
House not one man in three understood its
provisions or care 1 to.
One thing which gives many considerable of the sup¬
porters of the conference report
uneasiness is the suggestion that the “long
haul and shore ba il’’ provision, if enforced,
will be likely to divert the transcontinental
Iraflc, as well as a large part of the grain
and meat traffic, from the United States to
( anada. But there seems to he no reason to
expect that any or all of the consideration*
involved will receive weight enough to de¬
feat the conference report.
In conference the Heuate to-day Mr. Cullora bill, called up
the report on the and Mr.
Wilson, of Iowa, thereupon addressed
the Senate in favor of the adoption
of the report He referred to an in¬
terview published which in President the New King, York of
Tribune, in
the Erie, recommended live boards of com¬
missioners to examine all the questions in¬
volved. That, demanded he said, action. simply meant Nothing, a delay. said
The Mr. public Wilson, had been done more to demor¬
alize railroad managers, officers and agents
than pools. Under the present system
losses on through business were
unloaded on the business of the
iutermediate or local points. This
practice was, in itself, an outrage. As the
oill came from the House it authorized, by
implication, railroad companies to charge as
much for a short as for a long haul. But
not so under the conference report; because
it provided that nothing in the bill should
he construed as authorizing a railroad
company to charge and receive as
great compensation for a short as for
a long distance. The people recognized the
healthful aid which railroads had given to
the development aud progress of the country;
Put they insisted on the enactment of a law
v. hich would aid them in the recovery of
some that the of their railroad lost rights. companies They should were prosper wii ing
and should be reasonably paid for their ser¬
vices; but they did not recognize them as
their masters.
A* an illustration of the injustice of the
present system, he stated that on the 16th of
t hin montii corn was selling in Western
Iowa, where it had bushel, been in a Chicago good crop, 30 at from
20 to 25 cents a at cent*
a bushel, and in Southeastern Iowa, where
the crop bad been a failure, at 40 to 42 cents
a bushel: so that Western Iowa corn was
being sold in than Chicago in Eastern at from Iowa. 4 to 6 • euts a
bushel less m
A NOTH Ell BOND CALL.
fh# Secretary of th* Treasury I'allt for
Tea Million* of Three Per Cent*.
The Secretary of the Treasury issued
the one hundred and forty-fifth call for
the redemption of bonds last Tuesday.
The call is for ten million dollars of the
three per cent, loan of 1882. It matures
February 1st. The bonds called can be
redeemed upon presentation at option of
the holder.
THE GROWING SOUTH.
j THE DEVELOPMENTS MADE DUR
ING THIS TEAR.
Nearly 9130,000,000 Invested in New En¬
terprises During the Year—Alabama
Again Leads.
In its annual review of the industrial
progress of the South, the Baltimore Man¬
ufacturers Record says that 1886 has been
the most remarkable year in many re¬
spects in the history of the Southern
States aud more has been accomplished the
for the prosperity and progress of
whole south thau ever before in any
year. This is shown in the enormous in
vestments of capital in industrial enter¬
prises and in the growth of confidence
among Northern ana European investors
in the stability of the South’*-iron and
other manufacturing interests. The
amount of capital, including the capital
stock of incorporated companies, and mining repre
rented by new manufacturing chartered
enterprises organized or at the
South during 1886,including the enlurge
ment of old plants and the rebuilding
of mills, aggregate $129,229,000, against
010 812,000 non in 1885, iack divided among omniur the
States as follows:
States. 1886. 1885.
Alabama.. $19,848,000 $7,841,000
Arkansas.. 16,240,000 1 , 220,000
Florida.... 1,659,000 2,019,000
Georgia... 3,599,000 2,500,000
Kentucky. 2,844,000 1,833.200
Louisiana. 2,240 000 ,2118.500
Maryland. 8,765,000 6,663.800
Mississippi 774,000 761,600
North Carolina...... 3,676.000 3,230,000
South Carolina .. 1.208,000 856,000
Tennessee..... .. 2.124.000 2,692,000
Texas ......... .. 5,694,000 3,232,000
Virginia....... .. 8,514,000 3,314.tOO
West Virginia........ 8,365,000 1,205,600
Totals.. $129,226 000 $66,812,000
The development of iron manufactories
employs the bulk of this new capital.
Other interests as well as iron, however,
are being rapidly developed. Included
in the list of new enterprises organized
in the South during 1886 were 28 iron
furnaces, 50 ice factories, 68 foundries
and machine shops, many of them of
large size; 1 Bessemer steel rail mill, 26
miscellaneous iron Avorks, including iron
pipe Avorks, bridge and bolt Avorks, etc.;
8 stove foundries, 24 gas works, 34 elec¬
tric light companies, 11 agricultural and im¬
plement factories, 174 mining quar¬
rying enterprises, 16 carriage and wagon
factories, 9 cotton mills, 28 furniture
factories, 42 water works, 58 tobacco
factories, 92 flour mills, 448 lumber mills,
not counting small portable saw mills,
including suav and planing mills, sash
and door factories, stove, handle,shingle,
hub and spoke, shuttle block factories,
etc., in addition to which there Avas a
number of miscellaneous enterprises. One
cf the most gratifying features of the
South’s industrial progress is the wise
diversity of new industries that are de¬
veloping all through that section.
TAKEN FROM THE GUARD.
Tavo Nc*rop* Simpicloned of Murder in the
Hand* of a Mob.
Borne time ago two negroes, Robert
Beasley and Raymond Murphy, murder were ar¬
rested on suspicion of constable Wed- near
Vicksburg. Mis As a
licsduy evening was about to board a
train with these prisoners, at Glass crosa
ing, a mob of seventy-five persons, white
and colored, surrounded the constable
and took the prisoners from him. As the
train started off the crowd were taking
the men to a telegraph pole to hang
them. It is said that the only testimony
against the men ax as the evidence of a
boy, aged fourteen years, who says he
held the horses of the men while they
went to the store on the night of the
murder.
A LIREIIAL BEQUEST TO HARVARD.
Harvard Collet receives some $400 -
*Hich 00(i f romthew 'has mofJOA in Will -! ri ms
been tiled the Suffolk
tv Probate Court. The estate is left in
trust, and after the bequest of several
dent’^and *400 0 VuTs toVe^iv^n 11 to* it lie'n-''I 1
I he sum of $200,000 is to be set i.part
and known as the Abialiam M llliams
fund, in memory of the testator s father
and grandfather, the latter being a mem
her of the class of 1844. A fund of $4-»,
000 is to be used m aiding needy ami
meritorious students, who are to consider
such aid as debts of honor, and also for
the library of the college. In ease the
college refused to accept the tru*t, thc
estate is to go to the society for old men
in Boston and the society for old females
in Newburyport.
BUBNED TO DEATH.
A I.ad; Fnll* Down Httiir* WltU n Lighted
Lump, Which Explode*.
Monday evening Mrs. John Burke, of
Scranton, Pa., while going up stairs with
a lighted lamp, fell to the bottom aud
was stunned. Tne lamp exploded and
set her clothing on fire, Before sh<
could be rescued she was burned alu.o
to a cris ip. Her husband, who is blind,
was una ible to render assistance, but l:is
cries brought help to the house which,
however, arrived too late.
CLUYERIU8»S EFFORTS FOR LIFE.
Cluverius, the condemned murderer of
Fannie Lillian Madison, has sent out cir¬
culars to members of the getting general them assem- to
bly for the purpose of
sign a petition asking the governor to
grant him a reprieve until they meet.
When the legislature meets, Cluverius
hopes that they will recommend the gov
ernor to commute his sentence to life im¬
prisonment. Unless the governoi calls
ui extra session, which, however, it is
probable that he will do for the consid¬
eration of important state matters, the
legislature will not meet until it assem
bles in regular session in December,
1887.
A RAILROAD DEPOT BURNED.
The depot at Akron, Ala., on the A.
G. 8. R. R., was burned by incendiaries
Tuesday night. This is the second time
within two months. A large quantity of
merchandise was destroyed, amounting
to over $5,000.
BUDGET OF FUN.
TUMOROUS SKETCHES FROM
VARIOUS SOURCES.
No Possible Hope—A Gentle Hint—
v ot a Manufactory—How George
Was Captured — A Sweet
heart’s Ingenuity, Etc.
At night upon the porch roof, flat,
The felines make a clatter,
The sleepless boarder yells out “ scat!”
And And then they—don’t he throws scatter. out brick bat,
a
But It don't batter,
And when he shies out the door mat
It—doesn’t matter;
And then he gets a great big gun,
Well filled with snot and powder,
And tires; but they do not run,
Thfy lie there and yell louder. Press.
—Detroit Fret
A Gentle Hint.
He had been courting her a long time,
»o long that she began to get tired; so
one night sho said to him:
“John, who is author of the phrase,
“Man proposes?”
“I’m sure I do not know,” answered
John. 4 - Why do you ask ?”
“Oh! I merely wanted to know who
he was.”
“For what reason?”
4 ‘Because I guess he didn’t know what
he was talking about.”
Five minutes later the wedding day
was set .—‘Boston Courier.
Not a Manufactory.
A stranger who had, upon arriving in
Little Rock, met a friend, was walking
along the street with him.
“This seems to be a pretty lively
town,” said the straDger.
“It appears rather dull to me,” the
friend replied.
“I don’t see tow it can be when your
manufactories run full blast at night.”
“My dear fellow, there are no manu
factories running.”
“What, don’t you hear the noise of
that boiler factory over there?”
“That’s no boiler factory.”
“Well, what makes that awful clamor?”
“A performance at the Opera House.
Look, see that fellow tumble out!”
“Yes; what’s the matter?”
thrown “Nothing, the only the gallery boys have
policeman down stairs.”— Ar
kansaw Traveler.
How George Was Gaptnred.
“You look very much excited, dear ”
he said, when she entered the parlor
where he was waiting for her
“Well, I should think I ought to look
excited,” she answered. “I’ve just had
the most awful argument with ma .”
And she began to weep hysterically
“Why, what is the matter, my dar
ling?” he inquired, as he slid his arm
around her Avaist and endeavored t o
soothe her; “what was the
“Oh, how can I tell you? She said
you would were only trilling with me, and that
you never pop the question; and
I told her she did you a great injustice
for I believed that you would pop the
wouldn’t question to-night. She said you
and I said you would, and we
had it hot and heavy. Dear George, you
will not let ma triumph over me, will
y 0U p>
“Wh—hy, certainly not,” answered
George.
“I knew it, my darling!” the dear girl
exclaimed; “come let us go to ma and
tell her how much mistaken she was!”
And they did, and ma didn’t seem to
be so very much broken down over the
affair after all. —Boston Courier.
A Sweetheart’s Ingenuity.
“A minister who used to live here in
the town of Perry,” said he, “was once
visited by another minister on a Sunday,
so he killed two ducks and ordered his
hired girl to dress and cook them for din
ner . Tne girl did as she was told, but while
the ducks were roasting, her beau came
and made her a call. Being hungry and
tempted 8eiz ed by the smell ducks of the sizzling fowl
one of the and ate it.
“The girl was driven to her wits end
g VT lad Jj* her unlucky beau had incident auch She a nlce wn, d rather “wr.
but despaired . of f finding an excuse to tell
toacooimtlfor the^issing 11 duck, "when
hu upoQ a 8 ^. heme- She a ^ ked ^ ler em
p F i oye r to go out to the grindstone which
t ood in the yard and sharpen the carving
knife He went to work on the knife at
0 nce, being hungry tmd for those ducks. The
g5r utole upstairs asked the visiting
minister “ to the^!’ lookout of the window Tca^rTe
said she up to
give you warning. You little know the
danger you’re in. The man I work for
j g crazy, and he i* sharpening that knife
tocutyour throat.’
“The girl succeeded in thoroughly
arousing the visitor, and he hastily put
on his hat and ran as fast as his legs could
take him.
“When he had ran several roads, the
girl called her master and asked him
what kind of a man he had brought
home to dinner. The minister inquired
why she asked, when, pointing to the fly¬
ing brother, the girl exclaimed: ‘There
he goes, running ^way with one of your
ducks !”’—Lewiston {Me.) Journal.
Something He Forgot.
When Mr. Jenkins went to his bed¬
determination room at half-past one, it was with the
of going to sleep, and with
another determination that he would not
be interviewed by Mrs. Jenkins. So, as
soon as he had entered the door,and de
posited he his lamp upon the dressing-table,
commensed his speech:
“I locked the froDt door. I put the
chain on. I pulled the key out a little
bit. The dog is inside. I put the kit¬
ten out. I emptied cook the drip-pan of the
refrigerator. her. Tie took the silver
to bed with I put a cane under the
knob of thc back-hall door. I put the
fastenings over the bath-room windows,
The parlor lire has coal on. I put the
cake-box back in the closet. I did not
drink all the milk. It is not going to
rain. Nobody gave me any mes age for
you. I mailed vour letters as soon as I
got down-town. Your mother did not
call at the office. Nobody died that avc
are interested in. Did not hear of a
marriage or engagement. I was very
busy at the office making out bills. ][
have hung my clothes over chair-backs
I want a new egg for breakfast. I thick
that Is all. and I will put out the (
now
light.” Mr. felt that he had hedged
Jenkind
against ail inquiry, and a triumphant
NUMBER 32.
smile was upon his face as he took hold
of the gas-check, and sighted a lino for
the ringing bed. laugh, when he was ea?thquaked from by Mrs. a
and the query
Jenkins;
“Why didn’t you take off your hat?”
— Puck.
Taken In.
A saloonkeeper up Gratiot street sat
at his door the other afternoon wonder¬
ing Detroit why it was that so many men. in
preferred buttermilk to beer,
when two strangers came along. One
of them placed a penny on the sidewalk,
placed his right heel on the penny, and
then bent over to see how far ho could
reach and mark the flagstone with a
nail. As he reached out he lifted his
heel off the penny, and the other man
picked up the coin, slipped it into his
pocket “That.s and winked at the saloonist. 1,
he straightened a long reach,” said No. as
“Yes, but up. lifted heel off the
cent.” you your
“No, I didn’t.”
“Bet you a dollar!”
“I’ll take it!”
“Hold on, shentlemens, ” said the beer
seller, as he rose up; “I like to make
some bets myself.”
“I’ll bet you $2 my heel is on a penny,”
said No. 1.
“I take dot bet awful queek,” replied
the saloonist, and a couple of $2 bills
were handed to No. 2.
No. 1 satdown on the walk, pulled off
his shoe and held it up that the saloon¬
keeper might see a penny screwed fast
to tne heel. He replaced his shoe after
a moment, rose up and bowed court¬
eously, and the pair walked off. They
were at least half a block away before
the victim recovered*su(Hciently to say:
“Vhell! Vhell! I pays taxes in two
wards und goes twice to Chicago, but
yet I vhas some lunatics who ought to
be led around mit a rope !”—Detroit Free
Press.
A a Terrible Episode.
of Hungarian old papers announce the death
Ferencz Renyi, a hero of one of
the most terrible episodes of theHun
& ari an Avar of independence in 1848.
For th irty-six years Kenyi has been a
lunatic in a Buda-l’esth asylum, and the
history of his sufferings is recorded after
his d ? ath b y the Petit Par men. Ferencz
was a young school-master of
twenty-seven years at the beginning of
the war, proud, handsome and’full of
buoyant life. Ills pupils adored him,
and he wa3 always welcome among the
Vllla £ e8 ' 'whether he came with bis violin
b) P^ a y dances or Avhether his
! v ° ice wa3 heard amon ff the P atriota
chantm . the of their country,
S praise
He lived with his mother and sister, and
I was en g a g ed to a bright young llunga
i nan U. irl ! when the government, after
! proclaiming the independence of the
C0UQtr y. oalicd all good patriots to arms,
Ferencz leffc hls sch ° o1 »nd enlisted in
the ranks - () ueday, after having fought
vab . antly at the head of a detachment of
8 °hDcrs, he was taken a prisoner by the
Austrians. Brought before General Ilay
nau > ^“y 1 refused to indicate the place
wheie the re3t of his regiment lay hid
dcn< 0n learnin g that his home was in
a neighboring village the General sent*
f or thc raother and filter, and brought
j thorn , into the room where the prisoner
was ke P t “- Xow 8 ivc m ® the informa¬
tion I require, if the Jives of
i these two Avomen are dear to
, „ said ., General _ , to , ,. him
' J’ ou > Havnau
^ . trembled, his filled
I with en y 1 tear8 but he remained eyes silent. “Do
>
no ^ 8 P eak > m y son,” cried the old moth¬
er, “do your duty, and think not of me,
for at the best I have only a few days to
j live ” “ If you betray your country,’
added his sister, “our name will be
covercd wltb shame, and what is life
wlthout hon °r? I*> not speak, Ferencz.
«e calm; I shall know how to die.”
remained silent and a few
mmutes later the two women were dead,
Another trial was to come. General
lla > nau sent for Ilenyi’s future wife,
who was weaker than his mother and
f 8ter - With wild cries the girl flung
at her , ^trer g feet, pleading:
l° Z f 1 8 f 0 “ ’ ou'T'notlet anT me “
J You 0 ' 1 ^ wiU 1 11 save 8a vuursel i vo!i f”e me
8 a t wh are
we will go far away and be happy. Speak,
1 h.t“ .
drowning man cl ngs to his last support
The young Hungarian was choked Avith
^ ar3 - but suddenly he pu-bed the girl she
««de and turned away. Once more
cried to him, but he did not heed her.
“Be cursed,” she shrieked; “be cursed,
who let me die; you who. will kilt
me; who are my assas-in.” Renyi and re
mained silent, f he girl was shot,
tke prisoner was taken back, into hi*
cell, but his reason had fled, and he waa
dismissed. Some friends found him and
L'»ve him a shelter; till after Hungary
was once more suppressed and pcacee*
tablished, they obta-ned a place for him
in the asylum in which he has recehttj
d ^ ed -
Where to Reside.
A good place for anarchists—Bombay,
No ring there—Belfast.
Free from riots—Concord.
A rural resort for milkman --Cowes.
bury. A retreat for scolding women—Shrews¬
Affords rare facilities to fugitives es¬
caping from justice—Hyde Park.
A desirable place for inquisitive peo
pl e —Pekin,
Where one may find plenty of game—
Lyons,
A popular resort for gamblers—Luck¬
now.
The first in importance—Leeds.
It has no fascination for dpgs—Bo¬
logna.— Life.
Lincoln’s Mother.
There is something very pathetic in
the story of Abraham Lincoln’s loss of
his mother when but a little boy, as told
in Nicolay and Hay’s Life of Lincoln. It
happened iu the unhealthy backwoods
settlement where they lived, fhe coffin
was made out of green lumber dut with
a whip sajv, and she avus buried, with
scant ceremony, in a little clearing A%ra- of
the forest. It is related of little
ham, that he sorrowed most of all that
his mother should have been laid away
with such maimed rites, and that he
tried several months later to have a
wandering preacher, named David Elkin,
brought to thc settlement, to deliver a
funeral sermon over her grave, already
stiff and white with the early winter
snows.— Siftings. ■