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VOLUME IV.
TEMPERANCE.
OonghV* Monument.
John B. Gough requested that on his
Monument ^ the following sentiment
thould be cut, u part of the inscription:
**1 can desire nothing better for the
greet spout try then that a barrier high as
Hasten should be raised between tbeun
jHAiled Ups of the children and the ia
tofloating cap;* that everywhere men
and women should raise strong and de¬
termined hands against whatever will
deflie the body, pollute the mind or
harden the heart against God and his
truth.”
This sentence has been duly added to
the stone. * f~", -T*
fieriy English Temperance Lswr.
The most stringent laws wo have had
pasted were those of James I., which may
a k i osk b a called the first piece of temper¬
ance EdwatdTV. Iftgislatiok, for, though the act of
gage power to the justices to
suppress unnecessary tippling .houses It
vfls chiefly directed against using unlaw¬
ful games and hound the licensed victual¬
lers to keep good order in their houses.
The act in the first year of James was in¬
tended to restrain tho inordinate haunt¬
ing and tippling in inns and ale houses.
It declares tho “ true use of ale houses *
to be for the relief of wayfarers and not
for the '‘entertainment of lewd and idle
people. There was to be a penalty of ten
shillings for permitting “unlawful drink¬
ing,” and all drinking was unlawful ex¬
cept by bona fide travelers, by the guests
of travelers sad by artisans and laborers
during their dinner hour. Tho public
house was only to be open to residents in
the locality for one hour in the day for
the consumption of liquor on tho prem¬
ises. This act was made perpetual, with
some modifications intended to render
conviction more easy, in the last parlia¬
ment of Jnmei. In tho first of
Charles tho penalties were some¬
what relaxed, but the law could not
be enforced, and, under these stringent
laws, drunkenness increased apace. It
had reached an extraordinary pitch in
1059, when a Trench Protestant wrote
from London: ‘‘There is within this
city and in all tho towns of England
which I have passed through so prodigi¬
ous a number of houses where they sell
a certain drink called ale that I think % a
good half of the inhabitants may be de¬
nominated also house keepers. * * *
But, what is most deplorable, where
gentlemen sit and spend much of their
tirno drinking a muddy kind of beverage,
and tobacco, which has universally be¬
sotted tho nation, and at which I hear
they have consumed many noblo estates.
* M * And that nothing may be want
ing to the height of luxury and impiety
of this abomination, they have translated
tho organs out of tho churches to set
them up in taverns, chanting their clithy
rambics and bestial bacchanalias to tho
tunc of those instruments which werc
wont to assist them in the celebration of
God’s praises, and regulate tho voices of
tho worst singers in the world, which
are tho English in their churches nt
present.—TA* Contemporary Jicview.
fitato Control of Liquor. !
1 Tho little republic of Switzerland has
just inaugurated a plan for dealing with
the liquor traffic. Heretofore there havo
been no restrictions on tho manufacture
of intoxicants and very few on the sale
of them. As a result, liquor has been of
poor quality, cheap in price, and drunk¬
enness has steadily increased. Now the
State has assumed a monopoly of the
business, that is to say, it will inspect
tho manufacture with the view to keep¬
ing tho quality up to a certain standard;
all liquors must bo sold to the State, no
distiller being allowed to dispose of any
to private parties. Tho government will
retail the liquor, and thus have absolute
control of the traffic in matters of price,
hours for soiling, and so on. The scheme
contemplates an increase in the price of
twenty-fivo per cent. This it is thought,
will reduce the consumption somewhat,
and will lessen drinking among the
poorer classes, who can lea<t afford to
spend money for drink. Allowing for
the falling off in consumption it is es¬
timated that the government’s profit will
amount to $2,000,000 a year, of which
$120,000 a year is to be expended in meas¬
ures to repress tho evils of drunkenness.
The plan is a novel one, and if honestly
and efficiently applied, ought to do
good in tho way of decreasing intemper¬
ance; hut it is such an open recognition
of wtraffic which is everywhere regarded
as illegitimate, that few governments
would care to adopt tho plan.—Salt Uke
Herald.
Temperance Notes.
Whisky, says the Rev. Sam Jones, is
the worst enemy God or man ever had,
and the best friend the devil ever had.
Tho liquor-seller’s motto !s: “Attract !
attract! attract For tho»e who are
•trlvinjr | to «... tho homo, V, th. motto
*”'* , ' i H . ^ ... ac . ^ . ftt .. tack. attack .. , ...
'
T. D. Crothers, M. D., says: “The
most reliable comparative estimate places
the number of inebriates in this country
at 500,000.
Steps are being taken toward the or¬
ganization of a Prohibition party in Eng¬
land Sir Wilfrid Lawson, M. P., Is
one of the leaders in the movement.
EASTMAN. DODGE COUNTY, GA., WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 23, 1887.
SOUTHERN ITEMS.
4
NEW* NOTES GATHERED
FROM VARIOU8 8ECT10N8.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
The parties to the robbery of Mr. Elli¬
son's house; in Fairfield county, have
been caught. The nurse and three of her
in friends jail are the having guilty ones. been incarcerated They are all
now, "hearing
after ustice a preliminary before Trial
.1 Catbcart. The money was recov¬
ered. The jail is rapidly filling up as
Court approaches.
A company of twelve men from Illinois
have leased for a term of years the j*old
SlTLIghb^rho^rteaT^bbe^^^The
Ilxe company has sufficient capital to de
velop the mine, and from all accounts
they will get rich at the business
i Mr. J. J. Goodwin, who lived near
Scranton, was killed in a very singular
manner. He was hauling timber
(with two oxen, when one of the wheels
of his wagon struck a stump, He went
to the tongue of hi* wagon to guide it so
as to Jet the wheel of the wagon clear the
stump, and while thus engaged the oxen
started off, rad, before he could get out
of the way, the pieoe of timber that he
that was hauling lying caught his leg between a log
was on the ground, and liter¬
ally peeled the flesh off to the bone.
Medical aid was summoned as soon as
nossible, but before relief could be ren¬
dered ho bled to death.
the An body inquest Echo was Kilgore, held ia Greenville on
of an old colored
man from Arkansas. He was once a tan¬
ner in the city, but went to Arkansas
several years ago in the hope of bettering
his condition. It appears from the evi
dence before the coroner that on his way
home he was thrown or fell from a train
on the Western and Atlantic road near
near Lily Pond, Ga., on Friday, the 14th
of January. Whe he reached Greenville
he was in*a semi-unconscious condition,
aud he never gave any explanation of his
misfortune. It is thought there was foul
Captuin play, and the case has been committed, to
A. Blythe, who will investigate
the matter. ..
Robert, Jones, colored, a convict from
Richland county, was killed while work
ing on the Columbia canal bv ‘Jones the caving
in of an embankment. was
digging out the earth from the foot of
the embankment and had dug in until he
had made u cave in the bank. Suddenly
the mass of earth above gave way and
descended upon the unfortunate work
min, burying him alive. The other com
victs immediately went to the rescue and
dug away the earth as fast as possible,
but when the man was found he was
dead, having been horribly crushed and
mangled, besides having been under
ground a sufficient length of time to have
been suffocated to death. Twenty-two
months ago Jones was convicted of bur
glarv and larceny and sentenced from
Richland county to five years in the pen
itentiary. This is the second fatal acci
.lent of tho kiml which has occnrred on
the canal in the past an month..
XT QUID A.
The main building of the hotel at Silver
splendid Springs Park is up, and commands a
view. The hotel will be three
stories high and have sixty-five rooms.
A large corps of surveyors are at work
getting ready for the great sale of the
trustee of the Florida Winter Home com¬
pany, who is soon to sell all the lands at
Orange highest bidder park and Ridgewood to the
at public auction.
The shad fishermen of Paiatka report
the heaviest ruu of shad for the season
on Saturday and Sunday nights, and on
olds’ Monday night the eight boats in Reyn¬
camp at E. S. Rugby’s place, in
East Paiatka, caught 2,600 very tine
shad.
The Fruit Growers association at
Orange Park have built a large two-story
packing house near the depoi. This is a
stock company composed of permanent
residents, in who have made a great success
strawberry culture and small fruits.
birds Captain Porter says that the mocking¬
of Dade county do not sing. He
has bought some Leon county songsters
to learn the naughty birds of his section
to Dado siug. Another strange thing about
county is that there is not a road
in the county. People there generally
,
travel by water, or ride along the beach
or through tropical the woods. The, forest trees
are all and different from other
sections of the state.
A Tallahassee lady dischaiged her col¬
ored servaut recently and got up the next
morning and to find her choice flowers dug
up lady destroyed. Last week another
sister discharged her colored servant, who
was to the first .girl discharged,
the same thing having happened to this
lady’s flower yard. Suspicion rested
upon the girl, and after some investiga¬
tion sufficient evidence was obtained to
convict her, and she is now serving her
country in the chaingang.
As a result of a call for a meeting of
orange growers to convene at City Point
on Saturday, February 5, a good number
of representative men were present. Va¬
rious questions of iuterest were freely
discussed, but the chief interest centered
on the Orlando exhibition It was re¬
solved to send an exhibit of Brevard
county River products under the auspices of the
Indian Fruit and Vegetable grow¬
ers association and to invite growers to
co-operate under this head.
Thomks F. Moore, one of Lske Jack-
8 °o’s farmers, cutup his lands last year
°“ e h « cul “
vatea nun self, put on fertilizers , and
worked it with system. The result was
twelve bales of lint cotton, besides other
crops. The five colored tenants who
leased tho other five farms scratched over
their farms as usual without fertilizers
or system, rad all combined only made
ten bales of cotton. This is the secret of
hard times among the colored people.
At 8t Augustine another daring bur¬
glary has been attempted, and the old
city escaped from what might have been
" Justice to All, Malice for 9one.”
* dangerous conflagration. glass . Burglars re¬
moved a pane of from a front win¬
dow in the store of George Myers St Co.,
on aperture King street, attempted and crawling through the
to break open the
money till, by cutting it loose, fearing
the alarm attached thereto. Possibly be¬
ing opened, disturbed or alarmed they left it un
but left a lighted lamp which
they had used immediately under the
drawer. When the store was opened
Thursday morning the till had the bot¬
tom nearly burned and a lot of old papers
were minutes just beginning to ignite. A few
more and all would hare been a
blaze.
ALABAMA.
The Tuscaloosa Gazette will shortly
issue a daily.
The population of Auburn is beginning
to increase.
The citizens of Selma are raising funds
CHy";U“ exposition to be e !|rr^n^». held in that city.
Sam Hogan, a negro brakeman, was
killed Thursday at Howison, two miles
below Stanton. While the train was in
motion, Sam slipped, falling under the
ca>s, the trucks passing over his thigh
and a portion of his body.
• The Tuscaloosa Times gives this as an
example of the rise in real estate in that
city: “L. H. Walter sold a lot on Broad
street to James Gaudin for $950. The
same lot was offered a few weeks ago
for $400, but fouud no purchaser.
They say the dogs in Gadsden have
grown so in numbers and intelligence
that they will insist on going to church
and other public gatherings, much to
the annoyance of the people. Yet with
such exhibitions of purity und sociabil¬
ity the Gadsden papers would have them
exterminated.
,° n Monday morning when Sheriff
r Tidwell went into the jail at Blounts
ville to fml flic prisoners, one of them
knocked the jailer in the head and made
his eKca F- 0ne oth<,r prisoner escaped,
but was 800,1 captured. Thompson, the
young man who knocked down the Sher
is >-till at large.
K. Ogden Wat on, of Mobile, was
awakened Thursday morning bv a noise
in his house. Hc‘ arose and went out
on the luck gallery,’ where lie was as
saultcd by a burglar. The burglar
shushed Watson on the arm with a razor,
< ul his ui o Ut clothing into ribbons, and
finely kicked h»'u in the abdomen and
Mt ,iim s - nseless 0,1 H° or - When
Watson revived the burglar had escaped,
Near Abbeville there is a man who,
f„r several years of his life, wore dresses
a i 3 d passed oil as a woman, would visit
young ladies and have them to visit him,
stay all night with each other until he
was nearly twenty-one years of age, when
one day. to his surprise, he found out
that he was a man, and pulled off his
frock, and has sinc 3 married and is novi
the head of a family. *
' R A OL,NA ™. -
A. board of aldermen of Goldsboro held
a special meeting last week and decided
to rake immediate steps tow-ards giving
Goldsboro an adequate system of water
works.
RcT Wm A McDonald, who has
, er „ d B pastor of PUiladc lphia Presby
terian church, of Mecklenburg county,
continuously for the past twenty-two
years, died suddenly of heart disease, at
the old Morris homestead.
The news from the fishermen in the
Albemarle and Pamlico sounds section is
that the catch of fish is large. Herrings
were never so abundant thus early in the
season, ana wmte snaa ot large size are
being caught in great numbers.
A bold robbery was committed on Bull
creek, Madison county, on Tuesday night.
The stores of John Bruce and 31erritt
White werc broken into and robbed of
money and goods. Bruce recovered
about $100 worth of his goods, findiug
them hid under a rock cliff in the moun¬
tains about three miles distant from the
store. No clue to the thief.
Henry Artis, colored, was recently
sentenced to be hanged at Goldsboro, for
the murder of his stepdaughter. He is
iu a dreadful conditiou of mind, He is
to be hanged the first Friday in March,
He says he was drunk at the time he lieat
out the girl’s brains. He cries and screams
ceaselessly, and it is thought may die of
grief and fright before the day of execu¬
tion.
A CLEVER COUNTERFEIT.
ACoantarfelt Two Dollar ul a Half Gold
Pleeoat Philadelphia, Pa
The United States mint at Philadelphia
Tuesday secured a counterfeit two dollar
and a half gold in piece of 1852, for which
it has been quest for years, for the
purpose of completing its cabinet. It
was L. presented to Superintendent Fox by
H. Taylor & Co., bankers, who got it
in a $10,000 lot from the sub-treasury.
This amount of gold was forwarded to
New York in the afternoon and this one
piece was returned as a counterfeit. By
a Philadelphia bank it was pronounced
genuine, and acid at the sub-treasury
subsequently failed to show it anything
but good.
At the mint, however, the aaaayer de¬
clared it a counterfeit—one of the most
dangerous bogus gold coins ever made.
“It contains only twenty-seven cents’
worth of gold,” he said. “Yet its weight
is that of the real article to a hair. Its
size is exactly the same, save that the
middle genuine coin is slightly counterfeit, thinner at the
than the and it has
the true ring of pure metal. We have
been looking for an example of this
counterfeit for. ten or fifteen years to
place in our cabinet here. I readily re
eognized it by the head upon it. That
style of the head of ‘Liberty was not
printed upon the two and a half pieces (if
1
KILLED HIS PARTNER.
Last Sunday at Houghton, in BoMier
parish, kifl^d Ia, Henry Bodenbeimer shot and
his partner, Wm. M. Mereer. ,
Mercer had fen drinking all day, been
-ith.piaJoh Sodenheimer then flmd
with tha above raanlt. ;
THE COTTOH REPOET.
The QaaJlty ef the Mania te Re»evte4 8e
perlor. The, Price ef Seed le Low.
£ A. JSS&£V?Tw
ruary, quality of the .taple, price of
Texas; one day earlier in Mississippi; LouiriSa!
two days later in Goj^and
four in Tennessee and twenty-one in Ar
kansas. The dates are: North Crrolina,
December 2d; South Carolina, Novem
ber 80th; Georgia, December 1st;
atJraSTfcisars;
The late maturing of the crop extended
the season slightly in a few states. Only
in Arkansas was the season lengthened
bv inability to pick the heavy 7 harvest
earlier.
Up to February 1, 1885, about 5,600,
000 bales had gone from the plantations.
This would indicate a crop of about 6,-
400,000 November bales, a mere trifle above the
indications of the rate of
vield.
The proportion by states are as fol
lows: North Carolina, 87; South Caro
lina, 88; h] Georgia, mfsiMippi, 85; Florida, 83; Ala
> r a 84, Louiri.ua,
T ““. 80; Ark ansa*, 81; Tenncee,
88 ^rv.
Tha quality ... of , ,, th. . •
Rarely, if have crop the la return, superior of
erer
cleanneaa and color combined with the
length of staple, equaled these just re
ccived.
1 he price of seed is low Complaint
is made of combinations of oil millers
to reduce tho prices. Renters will sell
at any price, sometimes as low as live
or eight cent* per bushel. The best
planters refuse to sell at ruling Louis¬ rates.
The average in Mississippi in and
iana is ten cents, eleven Arkansas,
twelve in Texas and Tennessee, thirteen
in South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama,
and sixteen in Florida. Feeders of cat¬
tle and product sheep is pay the than highest rates.
The larger last year in
Florida, Tennessee, Arkansas and
Texas and smaller in other states. The
average result from a careful analysis ol
the present returns, is an aggregate less
than two per cent lower than that of last
year.
A VESSLL SUNK.
1 Steamer Anchored in New York Harbor Is
struck by Ice und Sinks
The British steamer Wells City, while
anchored off pier 50, Thursday, was
struck by a heavy field of ice coming
down the liver on the outgoing tide,
which caused her to drag anchor. She
had no steam on and was helpless. She
drifted a mile and a half, until she ran
broadside on the bow of the Morgan line
steamer Lone Star, which was also at an¬
chor in mid stream. The cut-water of
the Lone Star struck the Wells City just
abaft the engine room and cut a hole in
her large enough to admit a two horse
truck, and she sank in twenty minutes.
Those on board escaped iti their own
boats. The Lone Star hud all she could
do to save herself, but finally got up
steam and ran behind a pier. She suf¬
fered only a few hundred dollars* damage.
The Wells City is a new vessel, valued at
$150,000, und had a cargo valued at
$140,000. both fully insured on the other
side of the Atlantic. The Wells City’s
masts and smoke-stack are visible above
the water, opposite Christopher street.
THE COAL HANDLERS.
They Kesolve to Go Hack to Work at Olcl
l’ric-es.
A committee of coal boat captains who
struck in sympathy with coal ham tiers,
waited upon Superintendent Stockton of
the Deleware and Hudson company at
Weekawken, N. J., Wednesday. A sh rt
consultation was held and the committee
reported to the union that they had been
received favorably. It was then decided
by the captains to return to work at the
old term's.
gathered Although large crowds of strikers
on the streets no breach of the
pence occurred. A laborer who had vis¬
ited Broken Rock, in Hoboken, ami was
und returning, was mistaken 1< i ‘scull,”
but for the timely arrival of police
would have been beaten Non-union
men are escorted to and from the ferry l>y
the police.
Freight handlers who were employed
at the West Shore company’s docks have
re mined to work.
HEAVY SNOW STORM.
Mnch SufTerinc Anion* Human Being* a*
well an Cr.tilr.
Specials from Dakota and Montana re
port accounts of heavy losses to stock
from heavy snow’s and long continued
cold. The snow has laid upon the ground
continuously since the middle of Novem
ber, and i( has been necessary to ire ! dur
ing the greater part of that time. Forage
is consequently so scarce old that being straw stacks
two or three years are bought
up for feeding purposes. Heretofore it
has been necessary to feed comparatively
little during the winter. A special from
Butt«*. Mont , says the cattle loss in Mon¬
tana, near Fort Assini boine, is estim ,t
ed at 75 per cent. Sixty dollars is refus¬
ed for a ton of coal, and green widow poles
are selling at $10 a lend. Flour and oil
are also scarce.
COULD NOT HOLD HIM.
A man was arrested at Marietta, Ohio,
Saturday on *uspicion of being one of the
men wanted at Cleveland for the Ravan
na murder. He gave the name of John
Cole, and answered the description of the
prisoner who was rescued. A description
of the man was sent the authorities at
Cleveland, and an unsuccessful attempt
was made Tuesday to photograph the
} ,ri30 ” er Wednesday night he broke
fr0 m k ‘* rel^-d al the pn»onc. s in
. “ d “ H <k : d - Wednesday the fob
‘“" des , , U;h '' tro1 1 lev
m * P* recme " «
£,.Kn ehioroformed and
paotogiaphed.
INCENDIARY FIRES.
S ‘* ,,x Vity ’ Io T£ *■ * **•*• mt
KaeUesseas.
zS^r£^IzijrS $£■ )<z
,u S l it wl f.fStS sgs
t n 1
l f-i* At the
<. ame t : me j oz _
a 0zen cnsea 0 f housebreaking g further
down 17“ town Wwinodw h,”“fj**
SHFSrSrtS ai,™!] Ififn . W f
f. n ioinprl untl ) ?tedT, •' + ^ l8 P fir?? 800 '\‘ J 8 ®
eXf oTt t bi, half’b^ U
when a second broke Zch a \
SI2.1 \} a Pr there JSS * w s “ «citement and
lchcd to th p lante bv
H enrv Mielki ’ ! S H a ^f
was abated Mielki «nd * vi« ^ epseli n i both
belong ^ment to thn rchpilirv iiennd T °° n
n! f'horses “I' r were°found }. In thr h U £» C ° D * d 9 t M ^ S* ? h ? 1®” n a
u were plainly incendlirv^ ^„La.n ^ Both hres
.« third and v Pr v , .
willlin tu^doorsof the Hubbard house!
iu the centre of the city / at 11 destroy^, o’clock p.
m The entire tie t WM
l,„t „ spread |! of flames was prevented
licmar a „ re hcard on the streets that
thi , is , he „ ?rk of prohibitioni „ s .
Others say the liquor men have done it
t0 excite sympathy,
AGAINST STRIKES.
Krpre*enfatlTM of Prominent New York
Firms Meet and Organic*,
Nearly 500 representatives of promi¬
nent New York firms engaged in differ¬
ent branches of the building trades met
\V ednesday afternoon at the headquarters
of the Master Painters’ association.
Architect Charles Bulk presided. Mr.
Bulk stated the object of the meeting to
be to form a building employer’s pro¬
tective federation for the protection of
employers in every branch of building
trades against the unjust demands ancl
restrictions of labor unions. He said the
step had been contemplated some time by
employers who were out of patience with
the many strikes which have seriously
hampered building operations in this city.
A committee appointed for that purpose
laid drafted a report giving the griev¬
ances of employers, which was accepted
at a previous meeting and issued in the
form of a published address with a re
quest to employers to take part in the
proposed organization.
lie concluded by suggesting that em
ployers organize in trade sections and
elect representatives to a central execu
tive committee to t iko charge of all mat¬
gestion ters pertaining to the trades. The sug¬
mittee was organization not considered, but a com¬
draft on constitution and was by-laws. appointed to
a The
committee as appointed represented the
iron following trades: Painters, carpenters,
workers, framers, plumbers, archi¬
tects, roofers, builders, heating, plasters,
gas fixtures, elevator makers, marble
workers, electricians, plumbers’ materials,
and blue stone cutters, The stone setters
refused to join.
A GAMBLER SHOT.
A Representative ef the Law and Order
Leaeae in Treable.
At Lavenworth Kansas, the “Sara¬
toga” saloon was closed by the sherifl
upon the complaint of two representa¬
tives of the Law and Order League, Carl
Miller and F. M. Anthony. While the
two were passing the place that had just
been closed by their efforts, they were
net upon by a gang of roughs, who
knocked them down, tore their clothes
and otherwise maltreated them. Miller
regained his feet, pulled a effect pistol and
fired one shot, which took in the
leg of a gambler named Ryan. The crowd
did not scatter, however, and were pre¬
paring to assault the two again when the
police arrived and drove them off, taking
Miller and Anthony to the county jail for
protection. The closing of the saloons
has engendered a most bitter feeling, and
there is no telling what the outcome
will be.
AN INTERESTING SUIT.
\ Georgia Lady Mains for 91,000,000 of
C'onfederato Bonds.
Mrs. Elizabeth Belt, of Georgia, sued
attorney Nelson G. Green in the supreme
court chambers of New York Wednesday
confederate before Judge Andrews for the return of
bonds of $1,000,000 face
value, but really worth little more than
a nominal price. The bonds were the
proceeds of an investment of $100,000
•vorth of Mrs. Belt’s property by her
trustee, Ex Governor Jenkins, during the
war, as she alleges, without her consent.
She is bringing suit to recover the amount
from the executors of her trustee in the
‘•upreme court of Georgia, and clams
that the bonds are of great value to her.
Mr. Green contends that he had a lien
upon them for unpaid services rendered,
and declines to give them up without s
guarantee of payment. The decision was
reserved.
ROASTED ALIVE
Thrae Men Perish la a Binriag Jail at
Murfreesboro, Teas.
The jail at Murfreesboro, Tenn., burn¬
ed Sunday morning, and three men con¬
fined in it perished in the flames. The
dre broke out at 12:30 in the office, Hum
an unknown cause. Jailor Jackson, who
was asleep up stairs, rushed down stairs
and opened the doors. but Ten three men in the in
upper cages escaped, reached. men
the lower cages could not be
They cried piteously for help until the
Barnes reached them. The names of the
three are Moses Money, Jack Irwin rad
Dilge Lyon. They are all colored. The
first two were put is for wreaking a train
last fall, ar.d the third for forgery.
Those who escaped were of captured, but
were released by order the eounty
judge, there being no place to keep
them.
DECLARED RAISE
A » N#w vhmam ^ AU*«eA ... . TeuneEleo
ioM wil1 *PP ear before the senate £m
lynched, wimm and who claim to have been
dr jeo out by democrsts. k* that ftt the>
close of the election xn Washington county
Dewea Bolton, the son of a candidate for
county commissioner, rode up to the pre
Eight "rested of the occupants of the room were
lynched. and three of them subsequently
The others fled the country for
fear of being similarly treated, and
brought the charge against the democrats
the C ° UUty that thcy werc driven out *
mi The ex-governor says:
fabrication. >r ^ e whole story Every of statement these men they is a have pure
made to ehow lbe y wcrc of politi
cal persecution is absolutely false and
that will be easy to prove by all these
witnesses. They were not driven from
the country, but left of tueir own free
SHOT THE WRONG MAN.
An Innocent Man falls a Victim to a Pone
of Pursuers.
A double tragedy occurred in Pike
county, Arkanas, Saturday. Alfred Ale
Clinton, a desperado, waylaid Allen Wil- then
liamsand robbed him of $50,
stabbed him and rode away; A posse,
under the command of officer lienry
Wood was organized and started in pur
suit of McClinton. It was decided to
secreted surprise themselves the desperado, in and woods the along posse
the
the roadside, where McClinton was ex- j 1
pected to pass on his way home. Soon
after twilight two men rodo down the
road, one of whom was James Savage,
cousin of Officer W r oods, and tho other
wss G. W. Trout, a well-known citizen.
Both carried shot guns.
Wood, mistaking Savage for McClin
ton, told him to “halt.” bavage paused.
Wood then ordered him to throw up his
hands. Savage wheeled his horse and
raised his gun, when Wood fired. The |
ball entered tnc breast of Sjwngo, who
fell from his horse and died shortly.
When Officer Wood discovered his mis
take he was overwhelmed with grief, and : .
would have killed himself had not a
friend interposed.
TWO RAILROAD ACCIDENTS.
Veepimr Cara lemollilifd Unt No Lo» of
Lite deported.
At Watertown, III., on the Chicago
and Iowa railway, Tuesday morning, the
Dubuque train, with two sleepers, had
just passed the station when the C dcago,
Burlington and Quincy train, which fol¬
lows it, crushed sleeping into it, completely The
wrecking the cars. en¬
gineer of the Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy train broke his legs in jumping
from the cab, but by almo-t a miracle
uone’of the passengers on the train were
injured. Each engineer claims that tho
other was two minutes out of his time.
At Robinson creek, five miles west of
Shelby (if ville, Ill., Monday night the en¬
gine New York express, on tho India¬
napolis and St. Louis railroad, became
disabled and the train stopped for a few
minutes. A brakeman was sent back to
flag the freight train, but too Into and
the engine crashed into the sleeper de¬
molishing the rear end. The freight en¬
gine was also wrecked. The passengers
escaped uninjured.
THE HUNGRY FED,
The Dronght Comrassloners of Texas Be- i
sin Their Work. I
The drought , , . commissioners . . appointed . . . ,
by Governor Ross to distribute the $100,
000 appropriated by the legislature ,
for
the relief of people d in the drought
stneken district of Texas, arrived in i
Iort Worth on the midnight train Bat- j
urday night and spent Sunday there,
leaving for Eastland, the county seat, I j
Monday. The commissioners began their
labors at Lampasas and have visited and i
inspected the condition of affidrs in six
counties up to the present time. They
say they find the people in need of assis¬
tance wherever they have been, but the
principal things they need are seed and
feed for their stock, and these the com- j
mission has not the the power or authority having to
furnish them, legislature re
drioted them to simply furnishing flour
end meal to those in actual need of bread
and who will make the required oath to
f ii.-it uffe.e.t
A SHOCKING AFFAIR.
Charles Kloze, a Schleisingerville,
Wis., saloon keeper, loaded two shot
guns Sunday evening, and wife’s emptied the
contents of one into his head, as
she was kneading bread, killing her in¬
stantly. He then tried to shoot himself,
but merely blew away one cheek. He
locked the door, 4t poured kerosene over
the furni-ure and it on fl e. When
the neighbors cried to enter, lie loaded :
one of the B gone __j and blew out U, brain.. !
ACCIDENT AT A SAW MILL
The saw in a portable sawmill on the
farm of L. D. Wright, a wealthy farmer
living flew eight pieces miles from California, Mo.,
to Saturday, one part if it
cutting open Wright's breast, exposing I
his heart and killing him instantly, and
another piece carried away part of the
head of Miss Thompson, a young lady i
who hail gone to the mill to call the men 1
to dinner. She died from the wound. ■
A VALUABLE INVENTION.
Mr. Charles M. Noble, mining engin¬
eer, the present popular superintendent
of the Woodstock furnaces, at Anniston,
Ala., has received letters of patent for
an improved been arc made electric lamp. Applica¬
tion ha* for patents in Eng¬
land, France, Belgium and Germany. It j
is the cheapest, simplest, best and most
powerful lamp ever invented.
NUMBER 39 .
i THE WORLD’S WAY.
At Haroon's court it chanced upon a thn%
An Arab poet made this pleasant fhymat
“Tho new moon is a horseshoe, wrought of
God,
Wherewith the Sultan’s stallion shall bs
shod.*
On hearing this, his Highnssa smiled, and
gave
The man a gold-piece. Sing again, O slave!
And turned another graceful compliment
And, as before, the smiling Saltan gavo
The man a sekkah. Sing again, O slave!
' j Again . the , verse came, fluent as a rill
That wanders, silveMooted, down a hUL
! ; The Still Sultan, gave the listening, gold, and nodded still demanded as before, more.
Grew Th.^f^.h-h-^-hto weary with its cRmbing by and by:
! Strange discords rose; the sense went quite
j amiss;
The singer’s rhymes refused to meet and kiss:
I Invention flagged, the lute had got unstrung,
And twice he sang the song already sung.
i
The Sultan, furious, called a mute, and said:
• “O Musta, straightway whip me off his
head!”
Poets! notin Arabia alone
You get beheaded when your skill is gonst
— T. B. Aldrich.
PITH AND POINT.
A man of deeds—the County Recorder.
‘ ^‘ i ^ ca Q° & un -
The world owes us all a living; bu
the great difficulty is to collect it.—
Puck.
Harvard boys call the female depart- X."—
ment of the Universty tho “Aun
liu lihgtvn Free Press.
The greatest reformer of the age was
the inventor of the bustle, which has re¬
formed nearly every woman .—PhiladeU
pfna Herald.
''“Doctor,” said the friend, stopping
him on the street, “what do you take for
a heavv cold?” “A fee,” replied the
doctor'softly, and so passed on.— Bur
dette.
g bo _‘«Ycs, we had a splendid time
last 8limmer> Tour other Vasaar girls
an( -j j a t rani p through the Adiron*
dacks >. He—“Did tho tramp have a
ood time?”— Lift.
Now doth the olcl fo]ks hu2 the flre ,
Their shivering to nmotbor,
While safe with u tlie parlor, snug,
The young folks hug each other,
~ 11 oshinytan Untie.
“What is a hero t” asks an exchange
A hero is a man who can pass a crowd
of boys engaged in making snowballs
without turning his head to make sure
that they h ive no de-igu on bun .—New
Harm Nam.
There was a mis-ionary concert at a
Rockland church the other evening, and
among other things was a paper on mis¬
sionary work read by a young lady.
When she had finished the leader of tho
meeting said: “Wo will now sing ‘Ilal
lelujab, ’Tis Done. »» Whereat every
body smiled .—llockland Courier-Gazette.
WOOD BDT NOT WON.
He stands beside the open door
In garments poor and thin,
And yet 1 do admire him more
Than those that fortune win.
His look shining is manly, fierce and and bright— his eye
ia
I love to saunter idly by—
He’s such a manly sight.
His limbs ore stout and nobly planned.
His brow is hi ;h and fair,
Alono this splendid youth doth stand
Beside the thoroughfare.
Had I tho power Pygmalion had
With every nerve I d plan
To bring to life that noble lad—
My wooden Indian!
—Cieceland Sun and Voice.
Milk In Tea.
A writer in the Contemporary Review
mak s these puiting remarks inilk in regard to *‘To the
( ii tom of into tea:
lint milk or cream into properly pre
f, ;!UV d tea is to commit an impardonable oily for the
is ronomi . , 0 | e cism. not
fanciful reason that a chemical com-,
pound results fronx the her, mixture. iesem- the
i>i ng the basis of lea! hutbecause
ndd tionof the milk ;lisg he- makes the peculiar kind
R!l :ua of tea and one
ta*te exactly lik another, very much in
th * same way a- Fiench cooks some-'
t nies spoil th - natural flavor of lish with
their eternal sauces, till you are unable
to tell w hether you are eating salmon or
shark, Catfish or dog, sh. .Sugar, on the
oth rhand, nviy and should be added to
tea. For it makes the taste of the tea
more agreeable without in the 'east in
terferiug with its fragrance, ilk and
b ft :oon becomes vety insipid accustomed to tho
sense of those who have once
themselves to drink plain tea. More¬
over, there i' a special en joyment to bo
derived from each kind of tea; and flow
acutely the sense of smell can be edu¬
cated in the art of discriminating teas is
sho .' n in who the case distinguish of professional tea- tho
la-ter-, can not only
country and the locality where the leaves
were grown, but the year anil season,
and even the ship that brought them
across the ocean.
Depth of American Lakes,
:} \ ( ecc nt . n ° A te . the .. V’hicnjjo 7YvW ..
call<d "ttention . to ( rater Lake of Ore
f>»j "tow* the deepest lake in tha
l mted States. The current literature
shows an extended discussion on this •
point, with some sugg»?stive data. The
following table of depths is given by
Mr. John Le Conte in Science:
Same of Labe. the Ilight above level, Greatest depth.
sea
Superior........ M*dusan 583 00'J 1,010 864
" uroU '*' 583 705
Erie.... 573 SU
'ntario 247 738 '
<
Tah e.. 6,217 1,645
G ator, 1,900
It is stated that the average lifeof mis¬
sionaries in foreign lands is rather m >re
than eighteen regarded yours. In tropical climates,
usually as less favorable to
h aith, the average time of service varies
from seventeen and a half to twenty
throe and three quarter years. The pro
portion of deaths among female mission
aries is not greater, but somewhat less,
than among men; and the average of
both compare favorably with that* of
ministers and their wive? in this coup
try.