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VOLUME IV.
TEMPERANCE DEPARTMENT.
VWli«t Shall Ik> Done Wlrh the Sa¬
loon ?
* *peak as a Christian minister and
educator, whose work is to train youth
for worthy citizenship, giving utterance
to my profound convictions upon the
burning question: “What shall be done
the saloon?” Into our modern
,
civilization has come a new factor, start
*igniflcant in the problem of tho
future. I nknown to the ancients in
•ny such form^as it now presents, it
strikingly illustrat s tl:e fact that as
civilization advances society develops
new phases and new perils. I et us con
aider the place of the saloon in modern
society. To see the prominence given
to it, and the tender treatment which it
receives from highest officials and dig¬
nitaries of every class, one might sup¬
pose that the hope of the country was
entrusted to the custody of tho liquor
dealer. Looking at its character and
deadly work, one might think it would
be driven to dark and secret dens, and
only influence a few deluded victims.
Alas that we should be compelled to ad¬
mit that tho saloon is the most potent
agency in society, more feared, more
honored, moro influent al than any other.
It has large numbers. There are in the
United States 206,070 liquor dealers and
manufacturers known to the goyern
ment. The number is doubtless much
larger. Allowing twenty feet for each
•aloon, they would stretch from Chicago
to New \ ork. There is probably one
aaloon for every sixty voters in the
United States. The saloon power is or
gamred. It masses all its forces and
hurls them against all opposers; it sacri¬
fices every other interest in the defense
and prosecution of its atrocious business.
These combined liquor dcalcis control
the legislation of the country by bribes
and threats, and make no concealment
of the fact. At the National Capital,
and around tho lobb.es of every State
Capital, their agents are kept, and legi -
lafcors discern their power, and bow be¬
fore it as the willow before the wintry
blast .—PrceuUut C. It. Pag,,, J). D
. .,
LL. U.
The “Iitcense” SyMem.
A liconso is tho rum-seller's justifica¬
tion and temperance delusion.
A license is the rum-seller’s fort and a
temperance humbug.
A license sanctions the crime and giidb
tho saloon.
late A license, while protending to regu¬
the saloon, apologizes for the crime
that it produces.
A license calls for a bribe and cor
rupts the bribe taker.
A license is a legal sanction for crime
for a money consideration, which costs
ten times the amount received to take
care of tho consequenco-* of the crime.
A license is murder sanctioned by law.
A license is a murderous war on the
people, sanctioned by the people them¬
selves.
A licenso is murder by the wholesale,
with a provision that the murder shall
be done with slow poison only.
A licenso restricting the number of
aaloons docs not restrict the amount of
poison to be drank. A concentration or
monopoly may, and often doe , offer su¬
perior attractions to drink oftenor.
A licenso to furnish intoxicating liquid
poison to our sons, brotlu rs and fathers.
ior a money consideration, is a glowing
evidence of our present high civilization,
our Christian civilization. Don't you
see the point, voter:
* High or low liceuso i* a premium to be
paid for the privilege or commission to
commit crime.
High or low license is a bribe to our
selfishness and a sanction of our crimi¬
nal propensities.
A licenso to commit crime as a means
of regulating it;—this is the last method
by which pretended advanced weak*
kneed politicians and anti-saloon re¬
publicans are trying to coddle this upas
tree of intemperance with a justification
of the rum sellers’ criminality; with the
sanction of a bribe, and, besides, the
monopoly of the business of making
drunkards. Did the world over know of
a more stupid and wicked attempt to
bolster up a criminal business? A sane
tion of crime to be boasted of as a means
of regulating it is all bosh und nonsense,
and only acts as a delusive snare to en¬
trap unthinking temperance people who
have not the moral courage to demand
and enforce Prohibition .—Demo reft'e
Monthly .
Steady Progress.
The temperance reform is making
steady progress in Great Britain, al¬
though it is not by any means as far ad¬
vanced as in the United States. We are
so accustomed in this country to take it
aa a matter of course that all evangelical
ministers of Ihe Gospel are total ab
Stainers that the statement, given as an
evidence of encouraging progress, that
Hsixty abstaining Baptist ministers in
hootland allow their names to be pub¬
lished in the list of members” of the
Hcottish Baptist Total Abstinence Soci¬
ety, seems rather strange, not beca tse
they are total abstainers, but because this
fact attracts special attention. — St. Loris
Christian Advocate.
Bishop Ireland, of Minuesota, says that
“Ihe American laborer, earning $2 or $3
a day can not support bis family, hit
Church and a saloon.”
EASTMAN, DODGE COUNTY. GA., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19, 1887.
THE NEV SOUTH.
NEW8 NOTE8 GATHERED
FROM VARIOUS 8ECTION8.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
The Sumter national bank has declared
a semi-annual dividend of four per cent.
The new town council of Darlington
has placed the liquor license at $150,
which is $25 less than it was last year.
The Green Pond, Waterboro and
Branchville railroad has been completed
to a point within a mile of Waterboro.
James E. Davis, of Barnwell, who was
so severely shot on Christmas day by W.
E. Owens, is rapidly recovering.
The directors of the Sumter cotton
mills have declared a dividend of seven
per cent on the capital stock, and also
passed ten per cent to the surplus.
One hundred and fifty negroes left
Strothers last week for Texas and Arkan¬
sas, seeking bread and better homes.
Wives have gone and left their husbands.
They are very poor and dissatisfied, hav¬
ing had four successive failures in the
crop.
An attempt was made to wreck a train
near Honea Path on the night of the 1st
instant, by placing an iron bar across the
rails. It was struck by the engine of a
special freight going west, about nine
o’clock, but fortunately no injury was
done, as the bar was knocked clear of the
track by the pilot of the engine,
FLORIDA.
Leon county is redeeming her bonds
and stopping interest
Gainesville now boasts Of a population
numbering 5,038 souls.
C. B. White f of Volusia, last week
picked 1,050 oranges from a five-yenr-old
tree.
Mr. Tyson, of 8mithville, Ga., is now
on Indian river looking oui for a location
for a newspaper.
Tlie university library at Tallahassee
has received 20 volumes of Swedenborg’s
Publishing society.
The reduction of hands in the railroad
employes shops in Tallahassee turns twenty-two
out in tbe cold.
Mr. Keesley, of Point Pinellas, shot an
eight-foot alligator last week, but a horse
did nearly as well last Sunday, jumping
on long. and disabling one, five feet and a half
The Courier, Mr. S. A. Jones’s new
papei in Tampa, appeared Wednesday.
This makes three weekly newspapers for
Tampa, and it is now a question of the
“survival of the fittest.”
A man named Weaver appeared at the
court house a few days ago to transact
some business with the clerk of the court
who said he had walked all the way from
Brevard to Tallahassee to straighten out
his land matters.
A wild boar was killed in Rice-creek
swamp, near Palatka, a few days ago.
The hog weighed more than three hun¬
dred pounds and was killed by Mr. Jim¬
mie Grooms. The tusks were about seven
inches long, and shows just what a Flor¬
ida razor-back can do when given the
freedom of the swamps.
north CAROLINA.
It is stated that many of the most
prominent tobacco fanners of the section
around Henderson will not put in a full
crop of tobacco this year.
It has been definitely ascertained that
Governor Scales will not order an election
to fill the vacancy in the Fifth district,
caused hv Reid’s resignation.
The Governor has offered a reward of
$100 for Thomas Brinkley, whoischarged
with the murder of Pierce Hermann,
at Hickory, Christmas day. Hermann after
was a merchant there. Directly
committing the crime Brinkley fled.
While Lawrence Pritchard, son of Rev.
Dr. Thomas II. Pritchard, was hunting,
at Lake Wacinaw, his gun burst, wound¬
ing him painfully in the face and hands.
The gun was over-charged. The injuries
are not considered serious.
Negro brutality in some cases is horri¬
ble, and the latest instance occurrred at
Charlotte, where the wife of John Morri¬
son beat him on the head with cooking
utensils, fracturing his skull and causing
his death, Wednesday night of last week.
The murderess has fle 1.
The State Board of Agriculture farmers meets
on the 17th, and has invited the
of the State to meet with it for a general
discussion. There has been specially call¬
ed. a State Convention of fanners, on the
2fith instant. This appears to be excit¬
ing quite a deal of interest.
Wilmington has had more trouble than
any place in the State during the past
few months in the way of strikes. The
hist one of these labor troubles was
caused by railway firemen. The police
stopped the trouble. Thursday one of
the strikers, a negro named Aycock, was
before Mayor Hall at Wilmington, charg¬
ed with threatening to kill ono Masscn
burg, place. a negro who had been given Aycock’s
ALABAMA.
All of north Alabama seems to be on a
boom.
A movement is on foot to plant a hun¬
dred thousand dollar carriage and wagon
factory at Birmingham.
The residence of Mr. G. W. Abbott, of
Arkudelphia, was destroyed by fire a few
days ago. Everything in the house waa
lObt.
J. W. Dainwood, of Livingston, days who has
made an assignment some ago,
compromised with his creditors and re¬
sumed business.
Major Garland Goode, an old and es¬
teemed citizen of Mobile, formerly in the
cotton buried factorage Friday. business, died and was
S. C. He was born iui Edge
field,
The little six-year-old daughter of Mr.
Kendrick, death Friday living morning. near Calera, Her was clothing burned
to
caught on fire, and before assistance
came ahe was burned almost to a ct isp.
A negro company is tl\f latest novelty
ia tU lild suoMlatiMLWit * Btominn-
“ Justice to AU, Malice for None/’
in am. it is cauea tne Norm AtaDama
Colored Land company, and is capitalized
at $50,000. Nearly all the prominent
colored people in town are interested
in it.
Prohibition virtually prevails in Blount
county, from the 31st of December, 1886,
until at least to the 22d of July, owing
to the recent act of the legislature passed,
to regulate the manner of obtaining li¬
cense to liquor dealers in this county.
The Lowndesboro correspondent Hayne
ville Examiner says: Planters have pret¬
ty generally commenced work for 1887.
With few exceptions most of them have
plenty of labor and we trust all parties
will be better satisfied during the coming
year.
\r 1 was^rresfed . i i .. iturd^TL^ , .
Mont-oinerv w^rranUssuedT Tustico^ ITRWw!
on affidarit of L fiSSSnan l»CC,v!
‘stationery the charge
furs. Mr Richards ^
1 pearance ’
Covington county is becoming noted
for the abundance of large and small game
within her boundaries. A party of gen
tlemen from Pike came down a few days
since, were joined by friends at this place
and went on a hunting expedition to the
lower portion of the county. We learn
the results were satisfactory.
The Andalusia Times says if Audaluai.
that she has in the one bA just drawincr leve? to a
close, she will indeed boomer
before in her history has there been such
an influx of new comers and erection of
new houses and improvement of old ones.
dvrs Montgomery Advertiser: John Saun
a notorious tliief, wa, arrested by
< Hiker Payne yesterday afternoon. The
charge against Jolm is stme grand larceny. frim A
few days ago he stole hides L.
Heligman and sold them to Mr. Sahel.
Mr. Soligman identified his property and
took the hides hack to the store. The
John next day had the hide, were missing again.
stolen them again and sold
them to Mr. S. Marks, on Dexter avenue
The hides were recovered and the tliief
spotted. Yesterday a'tcruoon the officers
got him and lodged him in prison
Sam,.....sis a veteran polici thief, and is a fa
miliar character in the court He
has ton arrested up to date forty-eight ®
i^tam K,, ruHcv... i «7eeny „ ' , i *.
, ver • e or y ‘
At*a meeting of the board of directors
of the Decatur Lind Improvement aud
Furnace company, the executive com¬
mittee were authorized to proceed at
once to erect four blast furnaces of at
'east one hundred tons daily capacity.
A Ionian, proposition, through Mr. Gunby
of Columbus, Ga,, from New
York, and Philadelphia captalists, for the
erection of a one hundred ton blast fur¬
nace, was received and acted upon, Tbe
representatives of the Pierce charcoal and
wood alcohol works, who are now erect
in ;■ fifty ovens at this point, charcoal are expected iron
here with a view to erect a
! urn ace at this point, A organized, Curry cotton
compress company was to
erect extensive works at this point,
FROM TUSCALOOSA.
The excitement over Tuscaloosa’s great
I *oom increases hourly. Telegrams have
poured in from all quarters asking The for
-took iu the land company.. sub
- ription books having been closed, these
telegrams are filed in the order in which
11u*y have been received. The talk now
IS general on the streets that the original ?
mount of , ground , floor _ stock . , agreed , up
on will have to be, increased to meet the
pressing demands of capitalists from
other points. The prospect is that the
'Tusc aloosa Goal, Iron and Improvement
< inpanv will be the largest and strongest
over organized in the South. It is ru¬
mored that negotiations are body pending to
secure for the company a of over
one hundred thousand acres of coal and
iron land lying between Tuscaloosa and
and the Georgia Pacific railroad, in addi¬
tion to the lands heretofore secured. Ten
per cent premium was freely offered on
the streets for places on the stock list,
the holders generally meantime refusing to sell at
that price. In the real estate
.■f all kinds in the city that is offered is
i a adily taken up, advancing prices. Tho
proportions which the boom is Assuming
I s amazing even to the most sanguine be¬
lievers in Tuscaloosa’s future.
SIR STAFFORD N0RTHC0TE DIES.
He Faints while ascending the Stairs of Lord 1
Salisbury’s Residence. j
Lord Iddesleigh is dead, He is better ,
known to fame in British politics as Sir I
Stafford Northcote, He fainted while i
ascending the stairs of Lord Salisbury’s
official residence, in Downing street, as
he was about to the visit prime his minister’s lordship. He
was taken into room
and almost instantly expired. A physi
oian’s bulletin announces that Lord Id
dlesleigh died from heart disease, from
which he had suffered slightly for sev¬
eral years. A few moments before he
Avas stricken, he seemed to be in per¬
fect health and spirit. His body has
been removed to the family residence in
St. James place. There will be no in¬
quest, the doctors certifying that death
resulted from a failure of the heart’s ac¬
tion.
SNOW IN THE NORTHWEST.
'*t«se CwchM Blocked—Two Meo Borled
by mb Avalanche.
Many stage coaches are blockaded in
western Montana, and a number of casu¬
alties are reported. The coach from
Benton to Helena was blockaded twenty
eight miles out, the team becoming ex¬
hausted from walking through the snow.
i he driver and passengers walked to the
i.ext station and all were more or less
frozen. Thf c ach from Helena to Fort
Shaw whs also obliged to lay up. The
huow is terribly deep in the mountains
and the roads are impassable.
Two men Tony Wise and a Swede named
Martin, were at work on tbe side of Sheep
mountain uear Cook City, developing i
some mining property. A huge slide
«wept down the mountain and hurled the
two unfortunate men into eternity. They
were carried a thousand feet below, and
their bodies will not be found until tha
$uow melts next summer.
RAILWAY PASSENGER AGENTS.
A Rousing Meeting at Wbleb Twenty-Two
Comp&nlrs Were Represented.
A meeting of the Southern Passenger
association was held in New York on
Tuesday, twenty-two out of the twenty
five companies of the association being
represented. Col. T. M.R. Talcott, of Mo
bile, presided. It was said that the special
business was to invoke new aids in an
effort to get those of the southern lines
not now in the association to come. Of
these four companies who are not mem
bers, all but one—the Mississippi signified and
Tennessee—a small line, have
their intention commissioner to join. Mr. Stoughton the
was re-elected of asso
ciation.
The association committee completed of its five labors
and adjourned. A with the was
to confer management
of roads not members of the association
and ungoverned by its rates to obtain
their concurrence in the schedule if pos
sible. The committee consist of E. B.
Thomas, of the Richmond and Danville;
Henrv Fink, of the Virginia, Tennessee
and Georgia Air-Line; E. T. D. Myers, of
the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Poto
mac; Nashvilie, N. H. Smith, of the Louisville and
and John C. Galt, of the Cin
cinnati, ’ New Orleans and Pacific.
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CUJVERITO AND RELIGION.
c—u.
Man—PftltloB for FurtherReipitc.
Counsel for Cluverius, the condemned
murderer of Lillian Madison, have pre
sented a formal petition to the governor
for a further respite. The prisoner re
ceivee tew visitors, and spends much o
h f">c reading U>e he 1has Bible. been Recently, visited at
e™> “,°!^ times by Captain , Frank W. Cun- sev
"A"R hn “. " h “ “ kno * n “ s ‘tH-chmond’a
SI ""n , T"
’
MM and hymn smger. ■ On each oeca
'’ the on conaemned Ca P taln Cunjiingham criminal, and has sung for
in recogni
*' on h ’ 8 presented Captain
Cunningham with an autograph album
wlth the folIowin g written on the first
P“f 8:
“Cap’ain Frank W. Cunningham: r Let .
me «y that no words of mine can proper
>1 th "“ k J ou fo f ,he ! h “ r ‘‘ n<1 ?°“ fort
J OU ' aVC l,rou K ht . '. n0 lu l™ely 1 hour
by your sweet music. Whatever others
™y -J or think, 1 can say to you I am
innocent May we all meet in heaven
where sorrow is not. We shall sing on
that beautiful shore.
Thomas J. Cluveriue.”
KILLED BY A PENCIL.
A Rtraufe Death departed front Flaranaa
R. C.
O. H. Pabrer, a merchant of Florence,
died Monday from the result of a strange
accident. One day about two months
ago, wbile standing in front of his store,
he was approached from behind by a
friend, who playfully threw his arms
around Barber’s neck. A scuffle ensued,
in which Barber s head was drawn down
vvard and His right eye brought in con
fe H a! P point of a small lead
pencil sticking out of his friend’s vest
pocket. The pencil, which was about ac
inch and a quarter long, penetrated the
# and became
eye, therein, baffle so completely embedded
as to the efforts of the
surgeons to extract it. After remaining
in the eye about six weeks, the pencil
worked itself out,and it was then thought
that,with the exception of the loss of the
eye. Mr. Barber would suffer no other iti
r() „venience, but in a few days it became
evident that the lead had poisoned the
optic nerve, and soon after the brain be¬
came in similarly affected. Barber lingered
great agony until death relieved him.
The autopsy showed that the bruin had
literally rotted away.
A CELEBRATED CASE,
Private advices from Montgomery state
that the suit in the supreme court of D.
W. Visher versus East Alabama Railway
comj any to recover East Alabama Rail¬
road, resulted in favor of present com¬
pany. This is a celebrated case, having
gone the round of the state court into the
United States supreme court and again to
the state supreme court. This is a final¬
ity. Mr. Visher was the road contractor,
and sued for alleged unpaid contracts.
The present company offered at one time
a compromise, but Vischer’s lawyers re
f used.
BASEBALL.
The Southern baseball league is an es
tublished fact. John Morrows president is
the league said: “The league
thoroughly organized now, is in harmony
»°d working under a guarantee of the
iwtional association, has secured all cities
in the circuit, except Atlanta and Macon,
and these will be replaced by Mobile and
Birmingham. Memphis has remitted her
franchise deposit of $2,000. New
Orleans, Savannah, Charleston and Nash
yille have fallen into line and Chattanooga
is safe.
HE WANTS TO SWING.
banged Cooper, the murderer sentenced to be
on January 14th at Darien, Ga.,
was informed that the governor had re¬
prieved him until February 11th. He did
not hail the news with joy. He says he
does not like this interference bv outside
parties, and would prefer to liaug on the
day first appointed.
A MYSTERIOUS LYNCHING.
Ike Brumfield, colored, was hanged by
an unknown mob Saturday night at
Osyka, Miss. The body was found on
Sunday. The negro, it is stated, resided
m Louisiana, but was taken into
Mississippi and lynched. The cause of
the hanging has not transpired.
BURNING BOUSES IN IRELAND.
A series of evictions was begun on the
Winn estates, in Kerry. As the tenants
were evicted their houses were burned.
Intense excitement prevails in the dis- {
trict, and it is probable there will be
blood shed.
ENGLAND ASSISTS BULGARIA.
A rumor is current that England is
giving pecuniary assistance to the Bul¬
garian regents. There are rumors on
bourse that Russia has occupied a portion
of Afghanistan.
ABOUT THE PRESIDENT.
Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland May Ytatt San Fraa
claeo and the Yellowstone Park.
It is said contemplate that the president lot of jaunts and Mrs. this
Cleveland a
summer: that they intend going to the
Pacific slope, through the south, Michigan spend
ing some time in the woods of
and New York, sufficient and that exercise the president work
hopes down his to take superfluous flesh and give to his
muscles some elasticity, so as to obviate
the danger he is in of a stroke of appo
plexy or something else. Last summer
nc dacks had such a good time in improved the Adiron- that
and felt so greatly
he will try it on a larger scale.
It will be remembered that last sum
mer efforts were made to get Mr. and
Mrs. Cleveland to go to San Francisco,
St. Louis, the Yellowstone Park and a
number of other places, contemplating The
travel over a lame scope of counter.
president hinted at that time that he
might pay visits to all those will places in the
future. This summer cover the long
vacation of congress, or rather the inter
im of great length when there is no ses
«on. The offices will nearly all have
been filled by new men, and they have so
completely mastered the details as to be
able to run the machinery of government
without his directing care. So the mo
S'wi/to Ju^ol
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A TRAIN IN A SNOW DRIFT.
“
Fatal Pinn.e ef Paolflo Pmmb .
*
A * south bound v, M1T1 j passenger train train nn on u*. the
Missouri Pacific extension was wrecked
near. Dunbar, Neb about midnight
^ ednesdav. The wreck «. earned by
unknown. Several apikea and fish plate.
l.a l ton removed and the train coming
*\ong plunged ^at themteol Mtecn feet down thirtyml«l e»>b«okment an hour
an
and landed in a snow drift. James De
witt, of M yandotte. Kansas, engineer,
w‘iaea'ghtundcr the boilerand tiled,
his body not being recovered at last ac
counts. Frank llonewith, express mes-
8e "S' r ’ w f hllrt “ nd d, «
A lady -whose name was not learned, was
badly hurt, but the other So* passengers were
not seriously injured far however, as known
here, all were shaken up, and
more or less bruised. The entire train
left the track and probably the loss of life
would have been greater except for a
snow-bank which broke the force of the
plunge. Missouri Pacific officials state
that the wreck is the result of a third at¬
tempt upon the life of Engineer DoWitt.
THE CHINESE QUESTION.
Negotiation* With the Government—Expul¬
sion at Van Gouvor.
It is understood that negotiations with
the Chinese government, to which allu¬
sion was made in the president’s message,
for such a modification of existing trea¬
ties as will entirely prevent the 8 introduc¬
tion of Chinese coolie labor into this
country, have just been brought to a suc¬
cessful termination and that in a few
days, an amended treaty, covering this
point, ratification. will be submitted to the senate for
Both the' State department
and Chinese embassy are much gratified
at the satisfactory conclusion reached.
EXPULSION OF CHINESE AT VAN COUVEK.
The committee appointed at the public
meeting at Van Couver. B. C., waited on
a number of Chinamen who recently ar¬
rived there from Victoria B. C., and re¬
quested them to leave, which they did.
Their return fare to Victoria was paid by
subscriptions received from citizens. It is
reported that instructions have been re¬
ceived to take proceedings against Mayor
McLean, of Van Couver and other citi¬
zens implicated in the expulsion.
HIS BODY PULLED IN TWO.
James Chavis, a young man about 18
years of age, met with a horrible death
in the gin house of J. T. Goodson, in
Darlington county, At the time of the
accident Mr. Goodson was in the gin
house, up stairs, and noticing that the
mules had stopped, he went down stairs,
where he found Chavis’s dead body, brok¬
en in two just below the client. It is sup¬
posed that Chavis was standing on the
-haft, and while going backwards he wa*
mq’it !»v the band wheel.
A BRIDGE FALLS UN.
A special f from Adrian, Michigan, says: the
The i on p a88en g er bridge spanning
R a i s j 0 river, connecting the two Blissficld, princi
. portions of the this village place,fell of yesterday,
ten miles east of
^ j n tense cold causing the iron to con
tract and draw upon the supports. Wil
Slack and Charles Quigley, with a
k er( j G f cattle, were precipitated injured fatally. to the
bottom. The men are
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THE ARMY AND PENSION BILLS.
The army appropriation bill, as report¬
ed to the Senate by Senator Allison, ap¬
propriates $28,787,718, being bill $951,000 it
in excess from of the the House, appropriation and $1,778,809 as
came
less than the estimates. The pension ap
propriation bill, also reported by Senator
Allison, appropriates the same amount as
the House bill, and contains but one
amendment of slight importance.
CAPITAL COMING SOUTH.
A party of eighteen gentlemen from In
Indiana and Michigan, represent- Louis for
ing |2,000,000 capital, left St.
tha sout ii. Their intention is to purchase land be¬
a minion or more acres of timlier
longing to the Mobile and Ohio road in
Tennessee, Alabama and Mississippi, and
erect mills and open a new and extensive
lumber trade in that section.
LOSS OP LIFE AT A HE*.
A fire started Tuesday morning in the
dentist office of Dr. Genslinger aud ex¬
tended to the adjoining buildings of F.
M. Peal and J. H. Pipei, at Carlisle,
Ky. When the walls fell Dr. Genslinger
and Newton Craig were caught in the
debris. They were extricated, but are
fatally injured. The total loss is $50,000,
insurance $25,000,
A JACKSON COUNTY SENSATION.
A Man Snepecced of Robbary Is Taken Out
and Maltreated.
On Thursday night of Christmas werk
the storehouse of Mr. J. E. Statham,who
lives in Sentofe,Ga.,was entered and $100
stolen therefrom. For some cause sus
pieion at once rested on W. O. Shelnutt,
j who lived near the store, but direct proof
j crime was lacking which would fasten the
on him. Threats were openly
made about Shelnutt’s complicity. On
Sunday night following, about 1 o’clock,
Shelnutt’s door was broken open, and
his without wife giving adieu, him time to dress or bid
a party of men wearing
masks and nine in number, hurried him
off to an old church near by. and finding
a suitable limb, procured a strong rope
and fastening one end around his neck
drew him up between heaven and earth,
After suspending him thus until life was
almost extinct, the line was slackened
and an opportunity given him for a full
confession of the crime, but this he re
fused to do, and again was the rope
tightened. When breath had about left
him a halt was called, and in an uncon
sci us condition Shelnutt was dragged
by two men about 100 yards to a log.
While they held him down across it a
brawny fellow administered a severe flog
ging with an improvised cat-of-nine tails
!he mobTad“ give?S
oppor- his
Witli
“ ^^ . s^e , , Ss , nA _
thei/that 0 a man named Griffith robbed
the store, and he Shelnutt happened to
see him in the act, and that Griffith gave
him five dollars to keep mum. This con
fession seemed to appeise ‘ ' the wrath of
the crowd . cert ai n Md 8hel .
„utt was then taken to the home of Mr,
stath>m , )roprietor of , h , tt0 „ tbat WM
robbed, and turned oyer to hie tender
mcrcies . The next day Griffith was ar.
r(!sted but 8helnutt failed completely to
show any connection that Griffith had
with the matter, so Griffith was released,
shelnutt says he know, nothing ? what
cver about the bb d , oW tbt
raob what he did in order to aav. hia lifh.
Warrants have been issued for six men
and charged lively with limes complicity in the whipping, befori
may be looked for
tbe thing is flnally ended
A VIRGINIA RIOT.
Riotous demonstrations on the part of
the striking employes of the Old Domin¬
ion Steamship line, at New port News,
occurred Tuesday. A telegram from Mr.
Bremond, general traffic manager of the
Chesapeak and Ohio railroad, at New
port News, to General Weckham, of Rich¬
mond, second vice-president of the com¬
pany, says, the strikers have taken pos¬
session of pier No. 2, set fire to the bath
house of the Old Dominion land company,
and perpetrated other outrages. Mr.
Bremond asks for an armed force to pro¬
tect the company’s property and arrest
the offenders. Judge Beck, of Warwick
county, has made a formal call upon Gov¬
ernor Lee for military aid, and he has
taken prompt action in the matter by or¬
dering three companies, two white and
one colored, from Richmond, and one
white company and one colored Irom
Hampton, to proceed at once to the scene
of the disturbance.
LOTTERY TICKETS COUNTERFEITED.
It has been discovered that Louisiana
lottery tickets have been counterfeited
for a year, and sold on the Pacific coast.
A ticket bearing a one thousand dollar
arise number n sent to New Orleans
for collection, and there mode pronounced the dies -
forgery. The man who
and printed the tickets is known, and he
lias jiao given gifou the me xiaxxxvo names v. of the ^ men who or
dered them and sold the counterfeits,
No prosecution for counterfeiting can be
sustained because the lotteries have no
legal standing. Tho only prosecution
that can be made is for misdemeanor for
disposing of lottery tickets.
A U ATTLK AT TONQUIN.
Official dispatches from Tonquin report
that French troops made an attack on a
large rebel force entrenched at Shanhoak,
but were twice repulsed. During the
fighting four French officers were wound¬
ed five European and eight Tonquin sol¬
diers were killed, and fifteen European
and twenty-seven Tonquinese of artillery were
wounded. Reinforcements
and infantry will be sent to the French.
ODD8 AND ENDS.
An exchange has an article om “Why
Bees Make Honey.” The;, make it to
cell.
A father may succeed in cutting off
his son without a cent, but he can’t cut
off the lawyers
If a man borrows money he does not
care to have it talked about. He \\ants 1
to be quietly let alone. ■
The rockers on a chair never stick out !
half so far behind at any other time as l
when a man is prowling around in the
dark barefooted . i
When Georgiana ivas three, the .raid
suddenly one day, after long quiet: i
‘ Mamma, where do the to days go
when they get to be yesterdays ?”
TnE sheep h a mighty useful anira 1; !
bin body is g rood for meat, his wool for ‘
clothes, and his skin is manufactured
into doeskin, and even kid cloves.
A damsel gave this as an excuse for
the size of her pedal extremities: She
had rheumatism when a child, and her
mother rubbed her legs the wrong way f
and rubbed her calves into her feet.
A youko woman in eastern Maine
cries by the hour because she is tall.-—
/*. Thixuara,her pec.liar care, hut
we have often heard ot a roan c in nit
ting suicide because he was “short.”
You can always f tell a man who has
once , been a clerk , in . a , hotel, , , .ay an e\- _
change. Our experience has been (hat
you can’t tell him much. He thinks he
hnnwu KDO it at | ‘ *
“I sfe that one of the new ruies of
the national game provides pitched that ball where he is a
batsman “ is hit by ; a ‘
given his base. v - A o v, what is t to _ pre
vent a man getting, hit on purpose to
take his base ?” “Have you ever been
hit bv a pitched ball T •‘Never 1” “I
thought not,”
NUMBER t
34 •
thf death of tmb yaait
A cloud came oat of the golds* w e st i
,
A bell rant over the silent air;
The sun -god hurried away to rest,
Flushing with kisses each dead ho pTM$ >
And, ohl but the day was fair.
•‘Hojv brightly the year gees out,** they saiit
“The glow of the sunset lingers long,
Knowing the year will be over and dead,
Its sad hours over—its fleet hours fled—
W^fch service of even-song.”
“%w sadly the year came in,” thoy said,
I listened and wondered in dusk of night;
To me no year that might come instead
Of the old friend numbered among the dead
Cdild ever bo half so bright.
The sun-kissed clouds grew pale and gray*
he bells hung silent in high mid-afr,
j J*™ •**«“ 1 "* ***** that Weaver year f too wa glad ^ , and gay
| For me—as I listened there,
j Oh, hearts! that beat in a million brearia,
j Oh, lips! that utter the same old phrase,
i wonder that never a sorrow rests
i n words you utter to friends and guests
In the new year - g strange new daysl
Is it just the ^ame as it used to be?
Have new years only a gladder sound!
For ever and always it seems to me
That no new face can be sweet tp see
As the old ones we have found.
There is no cloud in the darkened west,
Tho bell is silent in misty air,
The year has gone to its last long rest*
And 1, who loved and who know it best,
Shall meet it—God knows where!
—All the Year Round.
PITH AND POINT
Head-work—Bonnets.
People who want the earth do not cry
to have it blown into their fapes by wind
in a dry time .—Boston O' > 0 V.
“It is the rent question that demands
better home rule,'’ as Bag ley remarked
when he pinned up tho back of his vest.
— Judje.
A correspondent asks: “Is it wrong to
cheat a lawyer?” First cheat the law¬
yer and we will answer tho conundrum.
—Five Hence Te ’eg ra / >h
“What is education?” asks a writer
Well, it is something a college graduate
thinks he has until he becomes a news¬
paper man. — Oiucago Tribune.
The doctor chuckled in wild glee,
With mirth almost exploded; comes” said he
•‘The deadly mince pie Its loaded.”
“And folks don't know
— Goodall'u Sun.
We are given, by an agricultural ex¬
change, a picture entitled: “A Device
fqr Feeding Jiogs.” should Every have cheap res¬
taurant in New York one.—
Fu'L
A child who was sitting in the sun was
admonished by her mother: “My dear,
come out of the sut.” “No t mother,”
said the little girl, with emphasis, “I
got here first.”
That tiio oyster is delieious, nutritious,
Is k’uite exquisitely be denied;
a statement that can never
But lie suddenly crows vicious,
Toward your stomach quite malicious.
When lie's fried.
—Merchant Traveler,
Perhaps, if the Yale student! are
really tired of the old-fasioned the college, religion
that h facility is preached to delegate them at few of ths
t e might a with
young men and to get coxswain up a in new it.— one, Chicago
eight oars a
Acice.
Thanksgiving In 1721.
From an old newspaper, the Boston
Gant e, of October fi, 17’H, the foliow
, . quaint . and , . proclamation , _ .
Mg curious wa.
«>P* d ; Boston has never known,»more
dtdeful Thanksgiving Day than that of .
for during that year six thousand
»“* ®* » P°!’“ la °° ° ,a ^f
■ u “ tccn thousand had tne smallpox,
one thousand of them died. The
j dians had Ker i 0H8 j,. threatened the
« ’ , ){ , ho colony, £ eld Governor principles, Shiite,
gentteman continual of hl( tory with the Legisla¬ wa.
in conflict
ture. The prominence given in the p roe
lamation to the King, George, and tho
royal family, was probably a political his
stroke aimed by the Governor at op¬
ponents. It did not soothe them, and
the Governor soon after left the province,
Bg His Shute, Excellency Esq.;
Samuel
Captain General and Governour-in
Chief, in and over His Majesty’s Province
of the Massachusetts Bay iu New Eng¬
land, etc. A Proclamation for a General
THANKSGIVING.
For as much as amidst the various
awful Rebukes of Heaven, with which,
tagious we arfe righteously and Mortal afflicted, Sickness in the Con¬
among The us,
especially long aud in the Town of Boston;
hnmodermA which have
been so hurtful to the Husbandry *ad
Fishery; with And Respect the threatening Frontiers; Aspect)of
• Affairs to our
we are still under the highest and most
indispensable Obligations of Gratitude
for the many Instances of the Divine
Goodness in the Favours vouchsafed to
us in tho Course of tho Year past; Par¬
ticularly, Sovereign For Lord tho the Lite King, of our Their Gracious: Royar
Highnesses Wales tho Prince and Princess of
of the Royal and thoir Family; issue, The and Preservation the increase
of His Majesty's the terrible Kingdoms and do dating Domin¬
ions from and
Pestilence, v hic'n hath for so lung a
time been wasting the Kingdom of
France: And the happy Success of His
Majesty’s Wise Councils for Restoring
and For Confirming Continuance the Peace of Europe;
the of our valuable
Privileges, both Civil and Ecclesiastical;
and the Divine Elessing upon this Gov¬
ticularly, ernment iu in their succeeding Ad inistratiogs; the, par¬
taken to prevent the ln*ults nogi oL
era Indians; For •••ivin:r
ure of Health wi ilii ; this Pr<w
Modern Pox, that ing tho a great Mortality Number of $| el ll
are Iiccqsrered from that D
And for granting us so comf
former Harvest, and so hopeful a Pros
pect of the latter: wifi
Advicj I have, therefore, Majesty thought fit the
of HR - Council, jporder
and Appoint Thui-sday, the Twenty-sixth
ince, strictly forbidding all Servile both Minis- La
bour therein, nn I exhorting
ters and People iu their l Day, respective As
eembhes c n the 6ai to offer up
humble and sin ere Thanks to Almighty
God, for His many Favours, Blessings as afore
said, and for mam; People. other be
stowed on a sinful
Given at Boston, the eighteenth iu Day
of Year September, of the 1721. Reign And of the Sovereign Eighth
our
Lord G^rge, by the Grace of God of
Great King. Defender Britain, of France the Faith, and etc.: Ireland,
By order of the Governour, with Ad
vice of the Council &. BHOTR
V.WlhLxnn. Sect. the &
°* d Sav *
.