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. v<-^‘ ■. im. ®U. mm. . imntii JotiftT * .tl r ■& m r ■ m . i o ■b ":'i *♦ / VOLUME IV. TEMPERANCE. Undeserving. Myron Reed says that men drink bo eauM unhappy. What a pity that some ptoplff ate so constituted that they can¬ not bear anything but the sunshine of 4fe. A man or womnn who has not tho manhood or womanhood to stand up un¬ der the trials imposed upon tie eitiro without resorting to whi-ky or drugs, desorves not to inherit the earth. It is s most audacious piece of business to rebel against the arrangements of tho Universe. — tyuen Be,,. Intemperance and Iiongevltv. That axcessiye indnlgence in alcohol •kirtens life is admitted by all, bat the influence of the habitual though moder¬ ate use of ardont spirits and the free use of the lighter drinks in causing diseaso and death is not so well understood. Indeed, it has been claimed that tho regular use of beer is favorable to health and longevity. Facts are the strongest arguments, and these are abundant to provo tho contra¬ ry. The evidence of physicians and life insurance companies is most valuable as being unprejudicial and based on busi¬ ness principles. First, qs to the effects of intemperance in general: E. II. Slevcking, M. D., in “The Med¬ ical Adviser in Life Assurance,” says: “For the purpo 64 oflifo insurance the ha bitual spirit drinker ought to be declined altogether. There is scarcely a degener¬ ative condition or the body that may not result from the abuse, or rather the hab¬ itual use, of ardent spirits.” He also tolls us that it is common in England to add from ten to twenty per cent, to the premiums paid by iryi keepers on account of their trade alone. Most companies now rofuso to insure habitu il drunkarks under any considera¬ tion, us every-day expirienco shows that they are the worst of risks. A few go farther than this and reject moderate drinkers, while others put them in a sepa¬ rate class and charge extra rates. In the Temperance and General Provident In¬ stitution of London, where the two classes are kept entirely distinct, it is found that, while among the temporato drinkers there is one death per annum to every 15 i persons insured, among the total abstain¬ ers there is only ono to 201. In another company it was found that out of every 100 persons who should have died in a given time, according to the tablei showing tho average death" rate, there was in reality no less than thirty abstainors, but only a solitary one of tho tomperato drinkers, who survived the period. Mr. Nieran, in the Journal of t'ie Sta tidieai Society, states that in England, from tho age of 10 upward, the relative mortality of intemperate persons exceeds that of the general population 8.25 times, an l that an intemperate person of 20 has reduced his expectation of life from tho average of 44.2 years to 15.0. In thi British army in India, in 1819, the death-rate among total abstainers was 11.1 per 1,000 jnrnoug temperate drink¬ ers, 20.1 per 1,000; and among in cm perato drinkers, 44.5 p.r 1,0 <0. Thcso figures arc noteworthy, as slowing tho difference in power • f endurance, undci trying circumstances, of th; different classes. —J. M. Fre.c'i. M. 1). Adulteration mid Intoxication in Paris. The Paris correspondent of tho Daily Newt (London), writing recently of the prevalent liquor adulterations in the French capital, says: “All kinds of drink are now s) drugged an 1 doctored that it is hardly safe for those who do not press their own grapes and brew their own malt to drink anything but in¬ fusion or plain water, owing to tho new alcohols containing three and a half per cent, more fuscl-oil than the brandies of former times and artificial wine*. Intoxi¬ cation is seriously on the increase.” The correspondent adds: “Last Sunday night I counted in a distance of less than half a mile in tho outskirts of the village of Bt. Leu, in the Heine et-Oiso, five men lying drunk on a country road. They probably had not drank more than their fathers were in the habit of drink¬ ing on Sunday evenings, but the liquor they imbibed was more potent to upset the nervous system.” An infallible safe¬ guard against tho perils of thcso druggei and poisonous liquor?, alike in Paris and New York, is total abstinence.— Nntioml Advocate. Temperance Note*. A Portugese temperance society and two Bands of Hope exist at Galle, Cevloo. A druggist at Topek* pays $800 flne, and lays 150 days in jail for violating the prohibtory law. A newly formed church among th* Zulus has the following among its regu lations: “No member shall be peraitted to drink the white man’s grog or aativo beer, nor touch it with his lips.” Captain J. W. Craig, master of road¬ way and transportation for the Charles¬ ton & Favannah railroad, and President or the Roadmasters’ Association of America, recently expressed ths follow¬ ing rentiment: “The lime ia not far distant when temperance will bo a re » quirement of all grades of employes in railway service. Tho demand of tilt pfem if growing greater each day." EASTMAN , DODGE COUNTY. GA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1887. SOUTHERN ITEMS. NEWS NOTES GATHERED FROM VARIOUS 8ECTION8* OBOBOXAe There has been received at Milledge viHe 10,000 bales of cotton this season, which exceeds last year’s receipts by fifty bales. ' Treasurer James M. Sapp has had the placed to the credit of Dodge county in Exchange of $2,816.28. bank of Macon the snug sum Some of Polk county's best citizens have ordered pecan trees with a view to that trying the experiment of their growth in county. The canal cut by Mr. Sweeney and others around the drift in the 0< conee river is washing out handsomely, although the river there have been no freaheta in since the canal was cut. v Mr. Tol Lester, of Clarke county, last week killed sixty blackbirds at two shots besides wounding others. He also fired at a covey of partridges in a patch of broomsedge, fire. ana killed ten at a single Wednesday of while Allen Holt, a colored man the A., Americus, was working in a cut on P. and L., about two miles beyond Lumpkin, the side of the em bankment caved in and covered him up. lie was terribly crushed before he could be extricated, and his life is in danger. A. man living in Haralson county went home ono night about ten o’clock, while about three sheets in the wind, ana feast¬ ed upon a buzzard, which his good wife had cooked for the oil that was in the fowl. It is said that the man ate all of this bird, thinking it was a chicken, and when he was told of what he feasted up¬ on, he then and there “swore off and went to preaching. The season for woods fires has arrived, and the woods are being “burned off” throughout the piney woods, or wire grass burned region. The open pine woods are off annually for the benefit of the sheep and cattle that have to subsist up on what they gather from nature’s plant¬ ing. After the wire grass, which gets hard with half a year’s growth, has been burned off to the surface a new and ten¬ der growth springs up from the roots and stubble, making the best of grazing for sheep and cattle. A good portion of the woods on the east side of Flint river has already been burned. in Opposite the McAfee house, and jusf front of Charlie Hill’s barber shop, in Smithville, in the road where vehicles pass, a mysterious and well rounded well can be seen as the result of the sudden and unexpected caving in of the earti which has hitherto kept its locality a se¬ cret. The ground gave way as a heavy day, loaded and wagon passed over it the other a well with 10 feet of water and 20 feet in depth from the top to the bot¬ tom can now be seen there. Various speculations ns to the origin of tha well were hazarded by the crowd which definite quickly is collected known around about it, it, though bnt nothing it is supposed road men to when be a the well Central made by the being rail¬ was built. The legal tender silver mine in Mur¬ ray, which so much excitement was made about some years ago, is being operated upon again, and a better quality of ore is now Considerable being gotten out than growing ever before. excitement is out of the new find. Tho mine is in Cohutta mountain, about six miles from Spring Place. Mr, McIIan, wbo owns a tract of land near the mine, hes had an option taken on his land for $^,000. There is millions of wealth in CXd Cohutta which only needs operating cn to bring it to the eyes of the capitalist*. Captain W. C. Tilton’s line tulc nvno, four miles from daily. Spring Place, is shipping tons of talc There is not the a day in passing but what wagons unload talc the crude state at tho Baton the depot for eastern markets. Then are finest talc mines in Murray coun'.y that are now known in the United Stages. ALABAMA. Henry ounty has only nine barrooms. There i* talk of a $10,000 hotel to be built in Alexander City. ball Birmingham talks of giving a charity to raise funds for the proposed hos¬ pital. Tier* am about 3,000 hands at work on the extension of the Columbus and Good water road to Birmingham. The Macon and Tuscaloosa railway company, Miss., and a projected line from Macon, Tuscaloosa, has been incor¬ porated thought and that an organization work effected. It is will commence at once. Uniontown is situated in the midst of the noted canebrake lands of west Ala¬ bama, which are the finest and most pro¬ ductive farming lands in the south. This town has been very unfortunate in being twice burned; but its enterprising citi¬ zens have now rebuilt it more substantial than ever. The business portion of the place is solid brick. Near the town is located the state experiment farm for the black belt section, A fine artesian well is the being bored in the business portion of town. six hundred They have already reached over feet. A meeting of citizens was held in Hayneville to inaugurate a movement having for its object the draining of the swamps on Big Swamp Creek. W. C Griffin presided and Tom Baine was sec¬ retary. A committee was appointed to arrange for a grand meeting of all citi¬ zens interested in the undertaking to be held at an early day. Also a committee the to investigate and report to that meeting most practicable plan of draining these swamps and the cost of same, and also as to what amount of the lands re¬ claimed will be given by the owners to that any company would doing reclaimed the work The lands be are as fine as there are in the world, there being act ually no bottom to ths soil. They would amount to about 175,000 aeres. The notion drainage of would tho also add vastly to tbkt oountry. " Justice to All, Malioe for None.” fbOKBA. Bradentown if trying to arect a school house on the joint stock plan. Parties hare been prospecting for the past few sanitarium days with a Oedir view to establish¬ ing a at Key. association The Fernandina has completed Building and Loan its organiza¬ tion, and is now receiving subscriptions to its stock, Thomas A. Edison, who has been very ill in New York, is recovering, and will soon be able to return to his winter home at Fort Myers. There is shipping from Governor Drew's mill at Column us City, and John W. Dowling A of Co., at Lake Ogden, from 185 to 100 cars lumber per month. Columbus county exported $750,000 worth of her own products in 1885, and the acreage in tobacco this year will run up the value of her exports to $200,000 more if the tobacco is sent out in its man¬ ufactured state. If it were, however, made into cigars the value of her exports would be much higher. Cedar Key has been considerably ex¬ cited for the last two weeks over the mysterious disappearance of T. W. Gore, a young grocery merchant doing business at the Bradshaw old stand. Mr. Gore did not even take his clothes, but leaving the store in charge of young William Moore, took his gun and boarded a freight train, since when no news has been had of him. It is believed now that, realizing the fact that his business was in such a shape that it would be impossi¬ ble for him to pay out and contiuue, he became discouraged and concluded to save something from the wreck and seek a new field. It is not known what Amount of money he carried away. Attachments have been levied on the stock remaining, and those owing him have been garni¬ sheed by the creditors. SOUTH CAROLINA. An old woman named Pimda, livinrt near Port Royal ferry, was burned to death by her clothing taking fire from a fire in the yard. She was 70 years old, and her mother is living and is over 100 years old. The death of an old man from this same neighborhood, some timo ago, 123 year* old, was reported. In Port Royal many new buildings are going large up, tho most important being the planing miff of J. C. Cummings, just put up and now in operation. A track has been laid to the mill, and cars are run to it and unloaded. This mill gives employment to quite a number of hands. Robert \\ inu shot and killed Geoige They Downing eight miles from Newberry. five quarreled Christmas about seventy cents. Winn hid behind a post and shot Downing while the latter was passing by, with his wife. ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION. A Cincinnati Jndite Called to Ills Door and Is Fired Upon. A bold attempt was made Wednesday night to Assassinate Judge James W. Fitzgerald, of the Cincinnati police court, at his residence on Findlay street. About 9 o’clock in the evening the side bell of the judge’s residence rang, and he answered it in person. He had no more than opened the door when a man, whose face was blackened, but whose hands were white, fired a revolver. The bullet passed through the Judge’s coat on the right *>kle, but not entering tlie flesh. The judge hastily slammea the door. The would-be assassin made good his escape. The police have not the slightest clue to the identity of the miscreant, but his motive was undoubt¬ edly revenge for a judicial act. Judge hundred Fitzgerald and is the judge before whom one fifty men, arrested for cock fighting, were examined Monday, when forty of them pleaded guilty and contri¬ buted $25 each to the city treasury, and the remainder were notified that the men who stood trial and were convicted should receive the full measure of the law. Another attempt to kill Fitzgerald was made recently by throwing bricks at him as he was going home after dark. HER DIAMONDS. A Memphis Hotel Clerk Decamps With Fanny Davenport’s Jewels. Charles Talbot, aged nineteen, em¬ ployed as night clerk of the Guyosa hotel, Tuesday night, was on duty. After the performance of an opera, at the theater Edwin H. Price, Fanny Davenport’s husband, left with him a jewel basket, which contained Miss Davenport’s dia¬ monds, consisting of brooch, rings, neck¬ lace, earrings, etc., valued at $35,000. Price took a receipt. it The had been basket locked, was not put in the safe, as and Talbot did not know the combina¬ tion, but was placed in the cosh drawer, together with several packages of money which late guests had deposited and which amounted to about $3,000. This money, together with the jewels, is miss¬ ing. Talbot had duplicate keys of the cash drawer at the cigar stand cf the ho¬ tel, and it was rifled of $10 in change. He cannot be found. DR. MATT ALEXANDER SUICIDES. Dr. Matt Alexander, of Knoxville, Tenn., committed suicide Tuesday after¬ noon by taking five grains of morphine. He was one of the leading physicians dissi¬ of Knoxville, but had recently been pated. He left a note saying: “I die with malice toward none. I go to hell. Tell my son to go to heaven.” Dr. Alexander was a member of the board of examining surgeons of the pen¬ sion department. KILLED BY BURGLARS. William Gallaway and a clerk named McLease in his employ, were shot and fatally wounded Monday night at the former’s general merchandise store in Galloway, Ark. Galloway and his clerk went late in the evening to his store and found a gang of burglars going through the premises. Galloway opened fire upon the intruders, who fired back and mor¬ tally wounded both Galloway and his > clerk. Tha burglars escaped unhurt. A QUEER STORL RESURRECTION OF BRIGHAM TOUNG, A Queer Story Told by the HeeeekeePer of a Wealthy Eaelleh Mormon—Mach Ex¬ citement Among the Mormons. Two miles south of Lincoln, Nebraska, stands a palatial residence owned by an Englieh gentleman long 1 identified with the Mormon church. Th e residence has been unattended for the last two years, save by an old servant named White,who was connected with the Jezrels, of Lon¬ don, a sect similar to the Mormons. White claims that he was defrauded by them out of his property, and latterly be¬ came converted to the Mormon faith. He was considered a trustworthy man, and was, therefore, partially through ne¬ cessity, leaders taken into the confidence of the of the Mormon church of Zion, which, according to his statement, is about to perpetrate a fraud to which he is unwilling to become a party. He says: “Two months ago there ar¬ rived at the mansion an old geutlemaD, bearing letters from my master in Lon¬ don, the purport of which was to obey his every wish, and to keep his presence a secret to all except those to whom he saw fi t to reveal himself. Within a week person s began to arrive at the house in twos and threes. They were from Salt Lake City, and held long, whispered consultations with my mysterious guest. At first I did not care w ho or what he was. Little by little I gathered from stray remarks that he was a person of note, and soon after the truth burst upon me that he was none other than Brigham Young, the great prophet of our church, who is apparently to be resurrected from the dead, and preach to the people of Zion as one having returned from the grave to tell what lies beyond. That his death and burial were a deception will soon be seen by the whole w orld, while thousands of his ignorant believers bow at his feet, and he dictate to them their ways of life. My guests, the visitors, are men of high standing, as their appearance indi¬ cates, and it was in conversation with one of them, who supposed from the way I talked that I knew all, that my sus¬ said picions were verified. My informant that Brigham Young had risen from his grave in Salt Lake City, and was in¬ structing his disciples here, in order to prepare help for tne great event of his coming. My only reason for telling these facts is that I am an old man with but little to gain in this world, and do not want to see the people deluded as I have been. The Jezrels absorbed my competence and now the Mormons have broken my faith.” IDENTIFIED AS BTUOHAM YOUNG. The old man told the story with sin¬ cerity that w-arranted- further investiga¬ tion, and a merchant who formerly did business in Balt Lake City drove out to the mansion, and rapped at the door. Receiving the house no response he the started around when through to long apply at he rear, the the window saw form and features of the old man, who was sitting inside. As he was unaware of his presence, the merchant approached window to within a few feet of the scanning the old man’s face closely, ana stepped back immediately, pronounced whoso the man to be Brigham Young, marked features he had often studied in Balt Lake City, and which once Been, he says, can never be forgotten. For a fow moments the man sat silently, and then raised his hand to his brow, revealing the scar about the wrist that still further es¬ tablished his identity. It is a well known fact that the elders of the Mormon church throughout Utah have of late been preaching the return of Ihe prophet. This, together with the fact that it was claimed by a St. Louis man some months ago, that Young was seen and recognized in London, that a number of prominent Mormons from Salt Lake City have lately been upon legis¬ the streets of Linooln; that important lation is about to be enacted to the detri¬ ment of the Mormon church, and the veil of mystery with which shrouded, the prophet's death has always been makes it almost certain that the Mormon ban¬ ners throughout Utah will soon be. un¬ furled, announcing that “he is risen.” ROBBERS CAPTURED. A Fatal Enconnter In Which One Mnn Is Killed. Two detectives, accompanied by four determined men, with bloodhounds, started a short time ago in pursuit of a gang of train robbers, who-have been op¬ erating in the vicinity of Albuquerque, N. M., for the past six months. The robbers were tracked into the halls of a canyon near Belen station, 80 miles south of here, and when they discovered that they were surrounded, they made a bloody defense at close range. The rob¬ bers proved armed. to be detectives four in number, demanded and well The their surrender, but they answered the demand with a volley of lead, and a reg¬ ular battle commenced, The detectives and their party were victors. the During robbers, the fight Hardy Foster, wounded one of was fatally but lived long enough to make a confession implicating the whole party. Two others were captured, but the fourth made his escape. One of the captured men proved to be Charlie Rosa, who murdered Mar¬ shal McGuire, of Albuquerque, last No¬ vember, and subsequently broke jail. The name of the other is Leslie Boise, and he is a native of West Herford, Texas. Both men are now lodged by a sheriff’s feared posse. Lynching will be is favored, and it is that it carried out. TAKEN OUT AND H ANGED. Last Monday William Lud Cornish, of Sharpsburg, Washington county, Ky,shot Miss Lulu Green through the heart and brain because she would not marry him. He also tried to kill the girl’s mother and sister, but failed on account of his pistol getting out of order. The mother received a severe wound in the head, and was knocked down with the pistol. Corn¬ ish was captured and taken to Spring field, the eounty seat. Saturday night a mob, composed of seventy-five men, entered the jail and secured the prisoner. He was tiken to a farm about two miles north of town and hanged. OUR MINISTER TO GERMANY. He Arrives Is Nsw York oat Talks Ahoat Affairs Across The Water. Hon. George H. Pendleton, minister to Berlin, has arrived and will remain in this country about a month. He intends to go to Washington to report to the secre¬ tary of state. After that he will go to his home in Cincinnati, where he will re¬ main for a brief period before his depar¬ ture for his post of duty. Being inter¬ viewed, he remarked: “The situation when I left Berlin was very much strained. The power of Eu¬ rope, from a general feeling of insecurity, have been making immense preparations. There are tremendous military works and armaments on every side. I heard Yon Moltke say that it vas a condition of af¬ fairs that must have a solution. It may have Mr. changed since then.” Pendleton said that he could not see that anyone in Germany desired war. ’In fact, every effort was being made to avoid it. Bismarck was not ready for war now. He would not be ready UDtil the military bill had been passed and the army “In reorganized. fact,” added the embassador, “it seems to me that Bismarck wonld accord heartily with any proposition for peace with honor. Public opinion does not count in Europe as it does here. In America all questions are discussed freely by the press, who in reality form public opinion. In Germany public policy is decidedly different. Yon Moltke, Bis mark and two or three others settle such matters. In France General Boulanger leads. Americans One in peculiar Europe, thifrg that would is strike how little people influence the policy of rulers.” 80UTHSBN TELEGBAPH SALE. rh# Property Purchased lu the Interest * f the Western Union. The Southern Telegraph Company, which was sold under foreclosure pro¬ ceedings bought at Richmond, Va., Tuesday, was in the interest of the Western Union Telegraph Company, which has owned a majority of the bonds for nearly a year. The price at which the property was sold was $460,000, but the price would have been carried considerably higher, it is said, if the United Lines Company, had whose last bid was $450,000, continued the contest. The acquisi¬ tion of the actual control does not effect the relations of the companies, boause a contract was made between them even before the Western Union bought a ma jority of the bonds. Since that time the contract has been altered to meet the wishes of the Western Union Company, which was known to be the actual owner of the property. The sale now gives the company legal ownership. OFF FOB CANADA. 4 Clerk of tbs First National Bank of Balti¬ more Visit* the Province. John D. Liste, discount clerk in the First National bank of Baltimore, failed to put in appearance on Saturday last while the bank an investigation of the accounts of It is was proceeding said that by the direc¬ tors. now he is a default¬ er to the amount of about eighty thou¬ sand dollars, though the investigation is not which complete. The amount of cash and he disappeared said with him was $3,500, is to have deceived the na¬ tional bank examiner by substituting forged notes which he destroyed as soon as the examination was completed. Liste left his home, about twenty miles from the city, Saturday morning, since which time he has not been seen by his family, nor by the detectives who are looking for him. UNION MEN TO BE DROPPED. Knlsrhts of JLabor Assemblies Ordered to Oast Trades-Unionists. A sensation has been created among the Knights the cf Labor of order, Indianapolis purporting Ind., by receipt of an to have come from the general executive board, to the effect international that all cigarmakers belonging be dropped to the from membership union in must local and district assemblies. This is thought to be the first step toward carrying out the programme adopted at Richmond by the general assembly, which struck a blow at all trades-unions. The typographers moulders here are very indignant, and feel the blow quite as severely as the cigarmakers. WESTERN WEATHER. The signal service reports extremely cold weather in Northwestern Montana, the meroury at Fort Assinaboine regis¬ tering 46 degrees below zero at 7 o’clock kota, Wednesday morning. Throughout Da¬ Minnesota and Wisconsin it is con¬ siderably warmer, Northern Minnesota points reporting zero weather, while at St. x Paul aui it it is ia three turcc degrees uegrees above aoove zero, LaCrosse, Wis., 11 degrees above, and ™ Chicago SO degrees J above, ^ Snow is re ported nearly throughout all the the Northwest, and in states north of the Ohio river, also heavy thunderstorms at Knox¬ ville, Tenn., Louisville and Cincinnati, and the telegraph service throughout the southwest is very much impaired in con¬ sequence. A NEW PLAN ADOPTED. It is stated that the next step to be taken by the leaders of the strike is to put into operation the Irish plan of cam¬ paign—that is, orders will be issued to all members of the Knights of Labor and other organizations which can be con¬ trolled by district assembly 49, to refuse to pay any rent to landlords, but to pay rent money into a fund which will go to the support of the strikers. This plan has been discussed in seriousness by the strikers, and it is asserted, positively, operation by some that it will be put into next Monday. STRIKERS WIN IN PENSACOLA. Th* difficulty between the 8teved ores’ Association and the firm of Lear & Gon¬ zales, at Pensacola, Fla., has been ad¬ justed, the firm paying the association $500 to compensate the men for loss of time, and agreeing to hereafter conform to the rules and requirements of the labor organisation. THE GREAT STRIKE. VESSELS UNABLE TO LEAVE THE PORT, The Striking Longshoremen of New York Parade the Streets-Maas Meeting at the Cooper Union. strike Thirty-three thousand men were on a among the coal shovelers, long¬ ployed shoremen, freight handlers and men em¬ on the river front in almost every capacity, shores, on the Brooklyn and Jersey from the Wednesday. headquarters An order went forth of the longshore¬ men’s union, which was backed bv the Knights turned of Labor, assembly 49, and the men out. Beach walkers were sent out to cbver all the various points on the river fronts where trouhle was con¬ centrated and they had particular in¬ structions to use every means in their power to prevent any disturbances, and none The worthy of mention occurred. White Star steamship Britannic, which was to have sailed from New York to Liverpool Wednesday, was delayed, owing coal, to inability to obtain her supply of on account of the strike. The Btate of Geor gia, of the Btate line, and the Servia of the Hamburg line, and the In¬ dependent line and the Torio Rubatino,of the to Italy, were also delayed by the strike. Coastwise and southern bound steamers, Quinidad for Bermuda; City of Columbus, for Florida ports; City of Col¬ umbia, for Charleston and southern ports and the Algiers, for Galveston, were also One of the incidents of the great strike reported is that one of the East River Ferry companies became so short of coal that it sent out grocery wagons and other vehicles and bought coal by half tons from small yards, both in Brooklyn and in New York, but that the frequent calls of this kind exposed the scheme and the dealers refused further supplier to their new customers. In Brooklyn, handlers, longshoremen, grain shovellers, freight other laborers coal handlers, trimmers and ably and determined. went out quietly, peace¬ The entire police force of Brooklyn, including reserves, fered were put on duty. Sound steamers suf¬ along with the rest, although they employ a large permanent force by the month. The French steamship line is doing companies, more work than any of the ocean pally having hands, large gangs, princi¬ green and tho White Star also has a considerable force. Late in the day more or less men went to work unloading all the ocean steumers which arrived this morning, but they are work¬ ing at a disadvantage. The striking large longshoremen and coal shovellers had a ing parade previous to their mass meet¬ at from Cooper Union. They included men New York, Jersey City and Brooklyn. They formed at Pythagora Hall, with about five hundred men in line. The music was a drum and fife corps. They marched through Broad¬ way There to Eighth, then to Cooper Union. was no disorder. Lower Broad¬ closed way was deserted, as the stores had up for the day. When the parade arrived at Cooper Union, they were una¬ ble to gain admission, as the hall was packed, so an outdoor meeting was or¬ ganized. Cooper union hall was packed with pathizers. men engaged in the strike and their sym¬ Resolutions were presented to the effect that in view of the alleged all oppression of workingmeu by coal barons, granted franchises should be repealed, and that the system of hiring men for the purpose of robbery an 1 murder is highly condemned. The resolutions were adopt¬ ed with a yell. The principal speakers were Victor Drury, a prominent home club Knight of Labor; a man named Greenau, a socialist, and John McMackin, Henry George’s lieutenant The speech¬ es all denounced corporations in general and coal corporations in particular. Mc¬ Mackin laid the existing labor troubles to the prevailing land system. BREAKING A MONOPOLY. Planter* of Louisiana Start m Cotton Seed Oil Mill. A serious attack has been organized on the American Cotton Seed Oil Trust by the purchase of the Maginnis mills, for three months. The Trust has been in control of the cotton seed oil mills of New Orleans, La., having a Memphis complete monopoly of the field. x Two capitalists, formerly in the oil business, have organized a company and perfected plans for new mills to be run on a co-op¬ erative plan that will assure it a constant supply of seed. Nearly all the leading planters given on the lower Mississippi have and been stock in the new mill, have pledged themselves annually, to furnish thus so many tons of cotton seed assuring the mill 50,000 tons per year, as much as any of the mills of the Trust company here receive. The site for the new mill has been selected, and necessary barges and steamers contracted for. It is a direct attack on the Oil Trust, in which planters take a prominent part. A MOB POSTPONES A MARRIAOB. Michael McCoy, a grocer of Louisville, Ky, made a narrow escape from a mob McCoy is fifty years old and a man of family. A year ago he began to visiUa Miss Long and to neglect his wife, where¬ upon Mrs. McCov sued for a divorce and the restoration of her maid«-n name. Her petition was granted, and McCoy’s atten¬ tions to Miss Long, before secret, became open, and Saturday it was learned that the couple were to bo married. As the ceremony was abou to take place at M iss Long’s house a mob gathered and made threatening demonstrations Miss Long fled with a female friend, and the mob pursued but did not catch her. McCoy in the meantime slipped out and after a search found his intended and they were married by a magistrate. GADSDEN’S FURNACES. Work was begun Tuesday on two land new blast furnaces to be erected by the and improvement company at Gadsden, Ala. They will be completed by Decem¬ ber next. The real estate boom is more favorable than ever before, and sales are reported aggregating more than $250, 000. There are a number of capitalists in the city prospecting for sites for varj. oue land* of interest. NUMBER 37. CANADA GAINS 00TOACM. England Promises to Bead Moo-of-Wa* I# Koep Off American Vessel*. It is officially stated that the govern¬ ment of Canada, in response to an appeal ; to the mother country, has just received from the imperial authorities that men-of-' war will be dispatched to the maritime! provinces in the spring for the purpose of 1 co-operating the enforcement with of Canadian cruisers in; the fishery protective! service. The promise of the English government official creates great satisfaction In circles, and indicates that .Ameri¬ can vessels will be more rigidly exdu-• ded from Canada waters during the' next season than in the past. A cabinet; minister, speaking on the subject, ex pressed himself as follows. “I have coma to the conclusion that tho American leg¬ islators having gone so far, will never 1 yield their consent to thq appointment wili ofi a commission. Gloucester fishermen not venture into our waters again in forces and next April will witness the first start¬ ling falling off in their trade. Two years hence the splendid Yankee fishing fleet will be a thing of the past. Let them resort to retaliation if they will, and the result will be that that game will work both ways. .Portland, now the winter port of Canada, will decline, while Hali¬ fax, under the new order of things, will flourish. Civil war between the Eastern and Western States would follow tho adoption of the retaliatory bilk ICE GORGE AT FORT DEP08IT. M«eh Drnnie Done to Property—People floo to the Hllla for Safety. The Susquehanna river at Fort Deposit, Md., became blocked with ice Wednes¬ day causing the river to overflow with disastrous results. In thirty minutes after the flood from above reached the town the water had risen clear over the wharves and to the hight of six feet in Main street of the town, house doing uncalculable damage. Every on the river side of Main street was flooded in the cellars and the first floor and some on the opposite side, and in¬ habitants had to take to higher ground or to the hills and the country back of town. The water alternately rose and fell during the night and all day Wednesday varying several feet in a couple of hours. In the meantime the pile of ice increased hourly, became more dangerous. The damage up to Wednesday evening had been confined to the lumber, coal, fertilizers and kindred objects on the wharves and such build¬ ings as were built of wood. The outlook/ is not encouraging, for even substantial brick and stone warehouses and factories in the submerged district. The remark¬ able sight the drew throngs of sight above seers from country to the hills the town. LABOR LEADERS ARRESTED. A Bolt Instituted Asnlnst Then for Dam¬ age by a Steamship Company. James E. Quinn, of the executive board of tho Longshoremen's Union, was arrested at noon Saturday by Deputy United States Marshal George Holmes, for conspiracy Old Dominion to Injure Steamship the business Company, of the in an action brought in the United States Circuit Court to recover $20,000 damages, lie was released on $5,000 bail. against The suit is brought not only Quinn, but also against J. J. McKenna, T. B. Putnam, Patrick McGarland and Thos. McGrath, who with Quinn consti¬ tute the executive board of the Ocean As¬ sociation. Oounsel for Quinn said that none of the accused would run away and that as soon as bail could delivered be procured the for them they would be to marshal. After Quinn's bondsmen had been accepted it was concluded that no more arrests would be made. Their counsel promised to deliver the other members of the executive board to the United States marshal. A BIG HAUL. One Hundred and Fifty Men Arraigned In m Criminal Conrt. An unusual scene was presented in the police court of Cincinnati, O., Tuesday morning, xvhen 115 men were arraigned for this aiding and abetting a cock fig!it. Of number forty entered a plea of guilty and were fined $25 each with costs, school making an even $1,000 to go into the fund. Judge Fitzgerald an¬ nounced his determination to punish to the full extent any who choose to exor¬ cise their legal rights to a trial aind who m iy be convicted. The cocking main had progress in a regularly constructed pit in a fourth-story room of a building nearly opposite the court house on Main street. A STRIKER’S FINE. On# of the drivers of a brewery wagon in place Philadelphia, Pa., who took a striker'* er’s, who was brutally beaten by three strik¬ Only one were placed identified on trial and Wednesday. convicted. was In “This passing sentence, Judge Mitchell said: man was badl y beaten, and I am sat¬ isfied it was done for the purpose of pre¬ venting him from going to work. There can be no more aggravated offense than to beat a man who is going to hiB honest toil, and I propose to stop it so far as is in my power.” The prisoner was then sentenced to eighteen months at labor in the county prison. AN BX-SLATFR PENSION. The first colored woman to receive a pension from the government is Mrs. ilczekiah Gibson, wife of the pastor of the Union church of Christ Jamestown, N. Y. The pension was granted on ac- in count of the aeath of a son who was i he service on the union sh}e during the late war. Wnen this son joined the fed¬ eral forces his mother was a slave. The back pay amounted to about $500, $12 and hereafter Mrs. Gibson will draw per month. THE PROS PE It ITY OF CETATTANOMML The registered real estate transfers at Chattanooga, Tenn., in the month of January amounted to $2,618,385. It i* stated that there will shortly be estab¬ lished a horse shoe factory, a stove foundry, a woolen and cotton mill and an edge tool factory. Work will begin in March and April on buildings which to oost more than $1,000,000.