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& ft * i **>2 SsffSri ,.V I* V? V* >;P Ama 7" i "««J *^ f ,* ’ «»-... ,. i'YiV ■ i / '- .V ■ » Rj£ to,: , - 'mk ^ * *j Miai «<P > I ♦ 'w 1 ^ On ^ i* i few- ■ I . WPir # 4 *«il: *“* 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.