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. m ■v < W L > t‘ 4--'* ill 7Q & jg ; "3 -J 1 ■■: Js . ‘i W; , -V. I i •vV •> i:. f 4m &|r£j > r • 'A VOLUME IV. TETOimCE. _. Eighteen Eighteen hundred Eighty-Seven. eighty-serve Should and be a year of jubilee • Eor, Ih the Bight ot earth and Heaven We’ve suffered long the slavery Of habit and of crime. Now Jet us snap the chain, And with a deoa sublime Our liberty attain 1, The Old Year that has passed away Saw Plenty, with her golden horn, Despoiled And Ceres, and made the tyrant’s prey, with her sheaves of corn, Plunged And baptized in the brewer's vat in the still. Up, Intemperance heroes, and with coinbat will! —G. W. n Bungay in Temperance Advocate. A Warning From the Scaffold. A murderer, about to suffer the death penalty, in a town not far distant, in his last words, attributed his crime to drink. While we have no desire to harp on or weary our readers with the evils result¬ ing from this awful curse, wo cannot re¬ frain from appealing to those addictod to the habit to heed the warnings and profit by the examples set them day after day in every portion of the world. Fren •icd with tho fiery liquid, their reason leaves them, transforms them into brutes, and incapacitates them for tho perform¬ ance of anything but that belonging to the wild animal. They lose all conscious¬ ness, and while in that state commit acts acts, which in their sober moments thoy would havo shuddered at. How much stronger do they want the evidcnco put before them? A fellow-being standing on the brink of eternity, about to be launched into the preschco of his Maker, warns his brethren to be careful of the false step they may take when entering the abode of the devil—the drinking saloon. What a powerful sermon it preaches, what u vivid picture, what an awful doom! Wo would that those possessing the weak¬ ness, tho cowardice, and the sin of nn bibing this froth of ruiu could bo im¬ pressed with tho realization of tlicso dreadful truths; that they are standing on the brink of a precipice, jeopardizing their lives with the risk of tumbling into that awful, gaping chasm, ever ready to engulf them, where mocking fiends de¬ light to damn each victim’s soul. This is no overdrawn moral,only tho sequel to the wine-bibber’x existence, confronting every devotee of the grog-shop and flow¬ ing bowl.— West Croce (Penn.) Indepen¬ dent. lx the Wine Hot do “Innocent.” Rev. Theodore L. Cuylor, I). I)., says in tho Ihonilrtic Jievicw; In dealingwith tint question of abstinence from an iutox irant, wc must keep in mind that it is not a merely negative article about whose use or non-use one may toss up a copper. The essential nature of intoxicating bev¬ erages, as tending to kindle depraved ap¬ petite, as tending to provoke excess, as tending to inflame the brain, and in pos¬ sessing a suitable influence to enslave those who use them—this nature of tho article itself must be taken into the ac¬ count. We do not pretend th?t every one who drinks an occasional gigss of wine becomes a drunkard. But w r o do affirm that every one who drinks wine throws the whole weight of his influence in favor of the drinking usages which do make the drunkards. A glass of intoxi¬ cating wine is not an “innocent bever¬ age” in the same sense that a glass of milk or a glass of water is innocent. No one can reasonably be asked to abstain from either of these latter beverages for the sake of his neighbor. They have no tendency to inflame bad appetite, no ten¬ dency to breed excess, no tendency to disorder the brain, no tendency to get fatal mastery over both body and soul. If wine and whisky (for some American wines contain twenty per cent, of alcohol) did not contain these dangerous qualities, how could they make my weaker brethren “stumble?” If not essentially dangerous to others, why should I be asked, by-any law of charity, to abstain from their use? It is not enough for me to intrench my¬ self in selfishness nnd say: “3fy wiue bottle does me no harm.” My wine-bottle is my voluntary contribution to the drink¬ ing usages of society which are hurling millions into eternal damnation! Can the wine-bottle l>c pronounced “innocent?” No! No! Temperance Notes. Twenty-five years ago there was but otic representative of total abstinence in the British House of Commous; now there are over forty. The success which has attended the afternoon temperance mectiugs in Boston and New York has led to their inaugura¬ tion in Chicago by the Rev. J. Bolton. He who seeks in alcohol Poetic inspiration Is risking his immortal soul To win a reputation. —Boston Courier. Mr. A. Barr, undertaker at Columbia, Teun., says lie has buried forty-four men killed in mortal combat in and near that town, and in every instance whisky was the cause. A medical journal states that “the two elements of highest cost of human life, as it is lived in the aggregate, are ' and tobacco, the one a stimulant narcotic, . the other a depressant narcotic and that more than one-third of the human race prove by living without them that they are in no degree necessary or healthful, , but oft jtho contrary teud to depravity and ucStruction.” SOUTHERN ITEMS. NEWS NOTES GATHERED FROM VARIOUS SECTION8. Mobile has secured nearly all of her baseball team. $ Mobile has a new afternoon paper called the Evening Telegram. jszmszs — thothM It is reported that a company will soon be formed to work the phosphate beds between Marion and Hamburg. A convention will be held in Mont gomery, on March 15th, looking to the removing of obstructions to navigation in the Coosa river. _ *? r ‘ . ? fa rm ,? r ? ear E U * / faula, takes off the hub of f the hom of f a calf when it ’S hvo or six months o d, and thereby bo is getting a hornless lot of cattle. The county treasurer’s report of Bui loc.k county shows a balance of over $3, J™ in tre ry ; ?? ad ? ll T t0 ,f. VCr $400 of fine nnd w forfeiture fund, making an 8gg re g ft te of $8,427. Sellers report an increased demand for guano up to dptc over sales for last year, 1 here has been at the rate of an annual incrense of ten per cent for the last five years in the sale of this commodity. Ozark, in Dale county, subscribed $10,000 to the Alabama Midland railroad on the first day the books were opened, It is 6aid that the county will subscribe between $00,000 and $70,000. The sur vcy of the road will be completed in about six weeks. fri*_ rhe assignment • „ . of . the ,, Bray „ Bros., of . Eufaula, is announced. It is an old house, having been in the hardware busi ness in Eufaula since 1858. Their liabil ifies are about $25,000; the exact amount of assets cannot be determined until an inventory of stock and other property v is had. Near Bilbra’s creek, in Washington county, last Thursday, Willie Trotter, of Montrose, Baldwin county, was stabbed and killed by Charles McMillan, of the same county. The coroner’s jury brought in a verdict that the killing was a “cold, deliberate murder,’’ and recommended the arrest of McMillan, who had fled. The City hotel at LaFayette was con¬ sumed by fire Tuesday evening. The fire was discovered about daybreak in one of the lower rooms, and is supposed to have been caused by a rat with a match. There was a slow rain falling while the building was on fire, but the flames could not be stopped. The hotel belonged to Mr. J. 1). Norman, who is in Montgomery in at¬ tendance upon the legislature, It was insured for $2,500. The furniture,which belonged to Mr. G. T. Johnson, propri¬ etor of the hotel, was insured. Frank Winney, u negro ex-convict,wms arrested in Tupello, Miss., Tuesday and carried to Mobile and lodged in jail, charged Smith, with the murder of Charles a machinist, in that city on July 4tli, 1884. There were some nineteen white men returning from a public meet¬ ing at Bull’s Head that day, aud as the wagon fired passed by the Catholic cemetery it was into by Frank Winney,who had secreted himself in there for the purpose of taking revenge for fancied insults put upon him at the meeting. Charles Smith was shot through the head and killed, and other men were wounded. There is strong circumstantial evidcnco against Winney, and if he escapes conviction by the courts it is very prbbublc that he will be lynched. TENNESSEE. Professor E. E. Barnard, of Vanderbilt university observatory, says of the new comet: “Since discovery the comet has been moving toward the northwest at a very unusual rate, 5 degrees and 17 min¬ utes north and 14 minutes of right ascen¬ sion, west, daily. It continues very faint. Its path since discovery has beeu oblique¬ ly across the milky way, and its rapid motion continually brings in it iu front of a small star, which every case shines through the comet’s densest part with undiminished luster. The rough posi¬ tion of the comet last night was about 8 or 10 degrees northeast of Sirius (the dog star).” Govcrnor Taylor, in an interview, said: “I notice that there is in prison a large number of children under fifteen years of age. It is a shame that Tennessee should not have some place of refuge for these poor little creatures, and not place them among hardened criminals Judges and jury should not send children to prison, and I shall deem it my duty to uphold the honor of Tennessee by pardoning them. I am confident I will benefit more by this in step than by allowing crime. them to re¬ main a school for 1 have re¬ quested the wardens to prepare for me a list of the names and offenses of every person in prisen under seventeen. They nor any other child shall remain there while I am governor of Tennessee. The supreme court has sentenced Ben Brown, April colored, to be hanged in Nash¬ ville, 15 next, for the murder of Frank Arnold, colored,near Belle Meade, November 9, 1885. Brown manifested no emotion when Judge Snodgrass pro¬ nounced his doom and at its conclusion looked at Simon Fox, one of his accom¬ plices and smiled, The court affirmed the verdict of the lower court in the case of Fox, who was sentenced to twenty years’ imprisonment at hard labor. Nelson Joslin, Foster Joslin and Bill Brown, the other participants in the crime, are iu jail awaiting trial. The murder for which Ben Brown will be hanged headless is known as the “Bellville street horror.” Arnold, the victim, resided six miles from the city and owned a small farm, which Ben BrowN wished to possess. On the night of the murder Arnold was induced, to leave home on a hunting expedition with Ben Brown, Bill Brown, Nelson Joslin, Foster Joslin, and Simon Fox. When in a thicket Arnold was struck with an ax and shot through the head. The body was cut in pieces, and the head severed from the trunk. “ Justice to AH. Malice for Hone.’' EASTMAN. DODGE COUNTY. GA., WEDNESDAY. MARCH 9. 1887. OSOROIA. the During outbuildings Saturday's storm in Dawson, and sheds of tlif Dawson the Manufacturing works were blown down, water tank of Baldwin & Sharpe’s mill, their shed and b tables. In Berrien county, while M. B. ClyaH, son of M. B. Clyatt, was harrowing a P ieco of ground, in some way the tooth of the harrow, seven-eighths of an inch thick and ten inches long, struck his foot a °d penetrated through it, pinning it to ground, Valdosta’s treasury is in a healthy con- - ruary, 1886, there was about $700 in the treasury and no considerable debts on the town. They reiired last week, and turned over to their successors about $1,900,and no debts am °unting to anything, A few fine white shad have been taken - the river near Bainbridge this B pring, plant probably a part of the govern ment made several years ago here and at ot her points. £ Those caught ® were taken with h ok and line aUho h , he v ar0 seldom ever taken except ', with nets, ; They wete ot good „ iM rom tw0 t three pounds, fat and juicy. Negotiations are pending ^catur now between certain lawl owners in county ami a northern syndicate, J ’ which promises t he early 8ale> fo r cash> 0 f 80 00 0 acres of timbered lands at $1.50 per acre—a deal °f $120,000. If consummated there is no doubt of its proving the largest single transaction in timbered lands that has oc curred in the state in a long time, dlviduals Ellijay Courier: We learn of many in in this county who intend rais i°g a crop of tobacco this year. The movement set on foot seems to be gain * n S favor with the substantial farmers of the county, and we hope to chronicle their experiments as they progress in this glad money-making informed business. We should be to be by all persons who engage in this branch of agriculture. ° Joseph W. Graham was killed at Pax son’s saw mills, near McRea, Saturday, He was running, the shingle machine at the mill at the time of the accident, and by some means his foot and leg was caught horribly in the cog wheels of the machin¬ ery, the knee. crushing his leg nearly up to Drs. Swinney and Blanton and Hunter amputated the limb, but the shock was too great, resulting in death at 12:80 o’clock Saturday night. A few days ago the Dade Coal com¬ pany bought of Judge Jas. R. Brown, of Canton, and J. D. Thomas, of Bartow county, about 0,000 acres of what is cluimed to be as fine iron and manganese property as there is anywhere lying in Cherokee and Bartow counties, on Stamp creek. thing They $12,000. paid for the same some¬ over This property was once owned and operated upon by Dr. John W. Lewis, of Canton, and at one time had as many as three or more fur uaces upon it and paying well. MISSISSIPPI. The discovery of iron ore at Duck hill has convulsed that town. Visitors from a distance arrive on every train, and it is almost impossible to keep up with the sales of property, and some is resold al¬ most immediately at advanced price. Northern capitalists are on their way to town, and many sales are made by tele¬ graph. The Vicksburg Democrat records a pe¬ culiar case tried before a negro justice in Delta. An ordinance had been made against running a skiff in certain places as a ferry and in the first, case he decided against the accused. In the second he was accused himself and he fined his skiff $5 and directed it to be sold for the fine and costs. Reports from Issaquena, Sunflower, Boliver, Sharkey and Washington coun¬ ties are favorable relative to crop prepa¬ rations. There will be an approximate increase in acreage of about 10 per cent, and the largest part will be devoted to cotton. Money from eastern and north¬ ern cities is freely flowing to which will enable planters to put in all their land. Labor is abundant. The Young Mens’ Christian association of Mississippi and will hold a state conven¬ tion training school for Christian workers at Columbus, beginning Friday night, March March 25th, and Prominent closing Thursday members night, 31st. are being engaged Mens’ for the occasion. Every Young Christian association and vited every send college of Mississippi delegates aro in to as many as pos sible. John Joyce, of Vicksburg, aged fifty years, suddenly stopped talking to a com¬ panion Sunday night in the sitting room of Mrs. Conley’s boarding-house and re¬ mained motionless and quiet until alarm was excited. When the silent man was touched he fell forward, dead and already beginning to grow cold and stiff. A doc¬ tor was called, but could do nothing fot a dead man. No inquest was held, as it was apparent that heart disease caused the sudden death. FLORIDA. An opera house is nearing completion in Tavares. The jetty contractors arc pushiug their work at Fernandina. Shipments of oranges arc over with, and that of early vegetables are taking their place. A Gainesville advertisement reads as follows: On and after this date the price of the Simonson’s artesian mineral water will be 2jc. a drink, or $2 a month. Reuben H. Stark, who lives some five miles from Conant, was robbed and mur¬ dered by two colored men named John D. Fuss and “Yankee” Patterson, who were working for him. They also shot Stark’s housekeeper, but she will recover. The murderers secured $150 in cash, a shotgun and a gold watch. At a meeting of the Florida Fruit Growers’ association, held in Orlando, it i was recommended that a sub-tropieal ex¬ 1 position be held at some convenient j point each year, commencing in Decem¬ j ber counties“to and holding be“invHed open till March, all the to take part, SOUTH CAROLINA. ^ Stenographer against the county Parrott of is about Clarendon to bring to recover the fees due him for official serv¬ ices the depleted during the condition past year. of On account of the county treasury Mr. Parrott has never received any remuneration for his services. Mr. John E. Peoples, one of Anderson’s extensive stock dealers, made a corner on mules drover last in the salesday. city He day, bought and out every that has been selling his a great many mules at retail here and at stable in Greenville. The Jef¬ ferson County (Tennessee) Visitor makes mention of the fact, that Mr. John Cottei, of that county and state, sold on his last visit to Anniston $5,000 worth of East Tennessee mules to Mr. JohnE. Peoples. J. E. Peonies and J. S, Fowler will sell this year $125,000 worth of mules. A correspondent of the Newberry Her¬ ald aud News, in a recent issue of that paper, says that just before the breaking out of our war, a highly educated Swede, named Hammerskold, settled in Lincola ton, N. C., to engage in the iron business, that abandoning his business to enter the confederate army, he became impover¬ ished, and that after the war, in order to raise money, he sold a valuable diamond studded gold snuff box, said to have been a gift of the king of Sweden, to Colonel L. D. Childs, of Columbia, who subsequently presented it to Colonel Rion. The correspondent thinks that this is the alleged Orleans snuff box. The snuff box bears the letter O., and a crown set in diamonds. It has not the Orleans monogram. The initial is probably that of Oscar I, king of Sweden and Norway, born 1799, died 1859. ARKANSAS. Work is progressing rapidly on the Desha lumber and planing company’s sawmill. It is to be the biggest saw mill in the United States. The safes in the sheriff’s and clerk’s office in Roseville were blown open Wed¬ nesday night and robbed of, as reported, $30,000. The amounts range from $16, 000 to $30,000. A large number of the leading citizens of Prescott are organized into a society termed the “Loyal Citizens.” Its object was for the purpose of suppressing any attempt which might be made to d reak tho prohibition law, but its meetings are taking a social turn. W. P. Homan, assistant general man¬ ager of the St. Louis, Arkansas and Tex¬ as railway, offered a reward of $100 for the apprehension and conviction of four unknown men, who, Wednesday night, assaulted near the company’s and left roundhouse/brutaily for dead Thomas Bergold, master mechanic of the Arkan¬ sas division of the road. In Itusselville John Sherrill committed suicide by shooting himself with a rifle gun. Sherrill locked himself up in a side room at his father-in-law’s house, loaded his gun and tied a string to the trigger, by which means he fired the fatal shot. The ball entered the left cheek bone aud ranged toward the back of the head. Drs. Ilill aud Drummond were called to see the man before he died, He seemed to be in his right miD<l when they arrived at the place where he had committed the deed, lie seemed to want to recover and called for his wife, lie died in a few hours. Near Roseville, Mr. J. C. Pendargas, living on the farm of W. P. Van Hoozer, had his house burned, and with it five out of nine of his family. The unfor¬ tunates were all boys—hearty, robust nnd the pride of their father. The house , on account of the high winds, was quickly consumed. The house was a little double story log house, with the stairway lead¬ ing into the hall entering the upper rooms by doors from the upper hall. It is supposed that the boys, who slept up stairs, set their lamp on a shelf near tIn¬ door, and going to bed left it burning and that the lamp was overturned by the wind, firing the house near the do>r, thereby closing the way of escape. The father awoke just before the house fell iu and escaped through a window with his wife nnd two little girls. The screams of the boys, whose ages were from six to sixteen, calling for their father to aid them, was heartrending in the extreme, but the flames were beyoud the power of any living person, and on account of the argry winds was but a short time in de¬ vouring their work. THE FIRE FIEND. Twenty Parana* Lose Their Lire* oa tho Steamer Gardner of the Tombigbce River. The steamer W. H. Gardner one of the largest boats plying on the Tombigbe river from Mobile, was burned Tuesday after¬ noon three miles below Gainesville, Sum¬ ter county, Alabama. The boat is a to¬ tal loss, together with four hundred and sixty-four bales of cotton. Loss of life is very large, as follows: 8. C. Black¬ man, Jule Rembert and two children, of Demopolis. Mrs. W. F. Rembert and three children, of Demopolis ; Theo L. Graham, R. G. Rutes. And the follow¬ ing colored persons: John Bryant, stew¬ ard, Green Jenkins, Henry Ford, Hay¬ ward Hudson, I.. Lindsey, Virgil Jones, Amos Harris, and three unknown. Mrs. Rembert is the wife of the clerk and part owner of the boat. The remain¬ ing whites were passengers district. living No details in the upper Tombigbee of the fire have of the cause and progress .»cen received. The Gardner was valued at $25,000 and is reported to lie fully insured. The cotton on hoard was insured for $25,000. A NEW TELEGRAPH COMPANY. The certificate of incorporation of the New filed York Monday, Southern Telegraph that its company, capital was states is $1,000,000, divided into shares of $100 each, with the privilege of increasing its stock to $5,000,000. The incorporators and number of shares held by each are as follows: James B. Pace, Richmond, 3,500 shares; John S. Wise, Richmond, 1.000; Thomas M. Logan, Richmond, 1,000; J. G. Moore, New York, 4,000, and J. C Weaver Page, New York, 5, 000. The wires are to run from New York to Philadelphia, Baltimore, Wash¬ ington, Richmond, Charleston, Savannah and New Orleans and to all intermediate points. SEARCHING THE RUINS Farther Detail* of the European Earth Wake. caused Heartrending details of the disasters rive. by the earthquakes continue to ar¬ At Diano Mariano, a child of twelve years and her father were extri¬ cated from the debris, when the latter expired upon the spot. The survivors at Diano Mariano say that a majority of the victims were killed by the second shock, people having re-entered their houses to procure shrouds, clothing. The bodies, wrapped in lie in the middle of the streets. At Bassano the soldiers are still search ing the ruins. They have rescued twentyseven persons, all of whom are more or less injured. The people sleep in carriages and improvised places of shelter. Signor Ganaja, minister of public works of Italy, has visited Bejardo, and attended the funeral of 230 victims of the church cellar, who were buried in a common trench in the cemetery. He also made arrangements for a temporary hos¬ pital for the injured. The relief committees are being organ¬ ized throughout the country, but it is impossible Remo to supply is deserted. the numerous There wants. nan were 808 that persons killed and 150 injured in town. back, Troops have point been compelled to keep at the of the bayonet, the crowds of despairing men and women who were impeding the work of excava¬ tion, in their efforts to find missing rela¬ tives, The bodies of the victims of the disaster are terribly disfigured. The suf¬ ferings of the survivors are great, The supply of provisions and drugs and inade- am¬ bulance apparatus being painfully quate . The work of the re=cuers is at tended with considerable danger. In some cases they have been obliged to flee from the battery walls, although they could hear the groans of the victims bur¬ ied beneath the debris. All the members W the family outright, of the mayor of Bajardo were killed Of another fum ily, consisting of twenty-two persons, named Maestria, only a The"half-clothed single member, half demented, is left, posed people are wandering inclement on the seashore ex¬ to the weather. At Diano Mariano a woman and child were taken out alive after being entombed three days. HEAVY WINDS. fwo Ohio River Steamers Sank at Louis, ville Ky. A telegram from Louisville Ky., says; Early Saturday morning, the wind com¬ menced to blow here heavily, coming from the northwest. It continued to blow a perfect hurricane at intervals un¬ til 6 o’clock this evening. Many acci¬ dents are reported aud considerabla damage has been done. The stern w r hecl steamer Reindeer, lying at the city wharf, was so roughly treated by the waves that she sprang a leak and sunk in four feet of water. After she had settled upon the bottom, a much larger steamer, Hi¬ bernia, -which was tied to the wharf o few r yards above, was seized by the whirl¬ wind. Her three large cables were snap¬ ped like twine, nnd she was cast against the lumber vessel. The latter was badly smashed up and the Hibernia reached her moorings with her side smashed. The river is rising two inches an hour, and if the heavy rains of the last week continue, much suffering will follow. The water has already reached many houses. The hurricane today also smashed in about 150 feet of the western wall ol the southern exposition building, doing £1.000 damage. THE WEEKLY REVIEW. Many Million* Invented In Southern Eater prise*. During the past week there have been received reports of the incorporation in of the following new companies the South: Nashville Light and Heat com¬ pany, two millions capital; the car com¬ pany, Anniston, Ala., one million cap¬ ital; the South Baltimore Car company, $200,000 capital; the Consolidated Coal Coal and Iron company', Chattanooga, Crude $2,500,000 capital! United States Petroleum and Gas company, Baltimore, $1,000,000 capital; the stained glass fac¬ tory, Chattanooga, $2,500,000; five blast furnaces as follows: one at Rome, Ga., one at Calera, Ala, two at Cartersville, Ga., one at Gadsden, Ala., gas machine works, Chattanooga; sheet rolling mill, Atlanta; Pawne Mineral company, Ash ville, Ala., $1,000,000 capital; Consoli¬ $1, dated Mining company, Memphis, Lexing¬ 000,000 capital; spoke factory, ton, Ky., $100,000 capital; Alabama, Bessemer Steel Rolling mills, Bessemer, half million capital; saw mill, supply factory, Chattanooga, $150,000 capital. Among the small new organizations Chat¬ are three flour mills and a factory at tanooga; seventeen lumber companies, three in Arkansas, two in Tennessee, one in Alabama, two in Florida, three in Georgia, two in Louisiana, four in Texas, and four railroad companies, two in North Carolina, odg in Alabama, and one from Chattanooga to the top of Lookout mountain. A COWARDLY ASSASSIN. A Young Mae and Woman While Riding la a Wagon are Fired Upon aud Killed. One of the foulest crimes ever commit¬ ted in East Tennessee, occurred in Roane county. A young man named Newman daughter was employed to move a woman and her named Weaver, from Kingston to Rockwood. He was driving on a mountain road in a wagon loaded with household goods, and beside him sat the fifteen-year-old when daughter of Mrs. Weaver, suddenly a man named Epps sprang from the roadside in front of the team. He carried a shotgun in his hand, and without a word he leveled it at Newman, and fired both barrels, which were load¬ ed with buckshot. Newman rolled from his seat a corpse, and the young girl fell back in the wagon with a dozen dullets iu her breast. Mrs. Weaver was sitting in tbe rear of the wagon and escaped un¬ injured. The alarm was given, and in an hour one hundred men were in pursuit of the murderer. No one can assign any cause for his assassination of Newman and the innocent girl. A MG CLAIM, Vlrflnlm Heirs te the Site *f the City- *f Louisville. Developments to light which to establish have the recently claims come seem of the heirs-at-law ot the late Daniel McDonald, of Virginia, to the land on which the city of Louisville, Ky., is lo¬ cated. The particulars are these: In 1782 a warrant was issued by Governor Benjamin Harrison, of Virginia, for mil¬ itary service to said Daniel McDonald for a certain tract or parcel of land lying in the district of Kentucky, on the Ohio river. No disposition was made of this land by said grantee, and it seems to have been lost sight of by his descend¬ ants until recently one of them, a grand¬ son, General James McDonald, of Rich¬ mond, adjutant general of the state,.in book making some investigations in the land of Virginia, came across the war¬ rant. He sent a copy to the register of lands of Kentucky, asking if he could locate the land. After taking due time for the investi¬ gation to be made an answer camo from the Kentucky land office that from all the Information that could be had the 1,000 acres of land in the name of Daniel McDonald was located at the falls of the Ohio river, and that the city of Louisville was built thereon. The letter went on further to state that a number of years ago the said land escheated to the com¬ monwealth of Kentucky, but as an escheat is only good in case of the de¬ fault of heirs, that amounts to nothing; indeed, is an advantage to the claimants. Another fortunate circumstance for them is that the compact entered into by the State of Virginia with Kentucky when the latter was permitted to set up as a State solemnly bound the new State to protect and defend the claims of Virgin¬ ians owning lands in Kentucky and their heirs forever against any and all comers. Lawyers who have examined the case say that it seems to lack no clement o f strength. AFTER THE COUNTY SEAT. A Difficulty in Kansas Results in the Killing of (Several Men. A serious shooting affray occurred on Sunday night at Coronado, Wichita Coronado c ounty, growing out of a contest between and Leoti as to which place should be the county seat. A general shooting lows: occurred, which resulted as fol¬ William Pains, a druggist, and 1 ; karles Cotter, both of Leoti, were in¬ stantly killed; Emmet Dimming, livery¬ man, Frank Jeanness, son of the mayor, David Johnson and Albert Bovey, mana¬ ger of the Chicago Lumber company, all from Leoti, were fatally wounded. Frank Lilley, real estate ageut, Charles Loomis and Ezra Loomis, all from Coronado, die were fight slightly wounded. The scene of is distant several miles from the railroad and telegraphic communica¬ tion and all details of the fight are not yet known. COTTON SEED OIL MILLS. Orgnnizntiou Mill be Completed Witkla Tun flnyti. A special dispatch to the Manufac¬ turer's Record, of Baltimore from au of¬ ficial source, as to a syndicate now form¬ ing to build cotton seed oil mills in the south, says the company will be organ¬ ized under the laws of New Jersey, with a capital of $5,000,000. The mills will be built of large capacity at points throughout the whole cotton seed terri¬ tory. The incorporators are best oill mill men in the south and the largest consum¬ ers iu the north. Four times the neces¬ sary money could be obtained. The or¬ ganization will be completed within ten days. SOUTH CAROLINA SHAKEN. Charleston and Hu miner ville Agnlu Shaken Up by Earthquake*. A* out six o’clock Saturday morning a Charleston slight earthquake shock was felt at and adjacent country. The shock continued five seconds. The di¬ rection of the wave w as from west to east. In one house a vase was thrown down but no damage was done anywhere. The shock was so slight that many persons sleeping at the time were not disturbed. The first disturbance worth mentioning since the first of the new year. A spec¬ ial from Summerville says: a decided earthquake shock was felt here at six o’clock Sunday morning. It was vc*£ short and no damage resulted. Coming after the earthquakes in Europe, it ha« made rather a sensation. OFF FOR UTAH. Two Hundred Convert* to the Faith Leave for tbe “Land of Milk and Honey” The semi-annual hegira of Mormon converts from the Southern States to Utah took place Tuesday. Chattanooga is the Southern headquarters of the church, and the converts assembled there on that day and left at night, about 200 strong They were in charge of John Morgan, chief elder. They came from ail the Southern States, and the most ig¬ norant and illiterate class of people. The converts labor under the delusion that Utah is a “land of milk and honey.” All of the men had large families, and many had only a few dollars left after purchas¬ ing their tickets. There are now 200 elders at work in the South. MURDERED HIS CREDITOR. R. V. Loggins, Wis., prominent merchant of Winona, was murdered Tuesday afternoon by Alexander Crawford, col¬ ored. Crawford had been purchasing supplies from Loggins and had become involved. He failed to bring a and mortgage note of a trustees’ sale Mr. Loggins went to see him about it and was murdered by the negro, who had prepared himself for the horrible work. Loggins was escaped, found but cut will to pieces. doubtless The be murderer captured. ELECTION FRAUDS. The federal grand jury, which has been investigating frauds committed at the election in St. Louis last November, made its final report to Judge Treat in the United States district court Thurs¬ day, and returned twenty-two indict¬ ments in addition to those heretofore found. A special jorv has been called to try these cases at tae March term of the court. * SNOWED UNDER. Of a thousand fchingTthat the Yearsnotred under, The busy Old Year that has gone away, How many will rise in the spring, I wonder, Brought to life by the sun of Mayf Will the roue-tree branches, so wholly hid¬ den ‘ That never a roee-tree seems to be, At the sweet spring’s call come forth unbid¬ den, And bud in beauty, and bloom for met Will the fair, green earth, whose throbbing bosom ** Is hid, like a maid's in her gown at night, Wake out of her deep, and with blade and blossom Gem her garments to please my sight} Over the knoll in the valley yonder The loveliest buttercups bloomed and grew; When the snow is gone that drifted them under, Will they shoot up sunward and bloom - anew? Mm When wild windt blew and a sleet storm I lost pelted, jewel of J priceless worth; a If I walk that way When snows have melted, Will the gem gleam up from the bare, brown earth? 1 laid a love that was dead or dying, For the year to bury and hide from sigM; But out of a trance will it waken orying, And push to my heart like a leaf to the light? Under the snow lie things so cherished— Hopes, ambitions, and dreams of men, Faces that vanished and trusts that perished Never to sparkle or glow again. The Old Year greedily grasped his plunder, Aud covered it over and hurried away; Of the thousand things he hid, I wonder How many will rise at the call of May? O wise Young Year, with your hands held under Your mantle of ermine, tell me, pray! —Ella W. Wilcox, in Boston Olobe. PITH ANDPipT. A game leg—Hindquarter of Venison. It is rain or shine with a boothblack. The German Army Bill— Emperor Wil¬ liam. Taken aback—A boy playing leap frog. . j Europe is so peaceful now that It is impossible to supply the universal de¬ mand for arms.— Post-Dispatch. A New York man advertises to restore old paintings. Wonder how many he has stolen .—Burlington Feee Press* To admit that our city is well laid out doesn't necessarily Philadelphia suggest the inference that it’s dead.— Call. Scientists believe it impossible for a man to have a double. If this is so, how can a man be beside himself?— Life. As you can now get two hundred quiniue pills for a dollar, i © should say that quinine is getting to cr a drug in the market .—Purity + The World says'thattlie woman’s bus¬ tle must go. The World is mistaken. It is the woman that must go. The bustle must follow.— Bazaar. When we see a goose with a lame leg trying in vain to keep up with the rest of the fleck, it always reminds us of a non-advertising so-called business man, endeavoring lo hold his own against his neighbors who advertise. —Dansville Breeze. “Papa,” said little Jimmie Briefless, “what d.» you wear when you go to the courthouse—your lawsuit?” “Oh, no, my son,” replied tho good barrister, kindly. “That is the suit a man puts on when he goes naked. Only the clients wear that.”— Burdette. The gray-bearded man who carefully husks a peanut, throws away the meat and tries accused to eat the shell in probably love, will he not be of being as would have been thirty years ago, but he risks winning a reputation for absent mindedness. —Somerville Journal. “The great trouble with you, John,is,” said a lady to her husband, of who was Buf¬ fering from the effects ‘No.’ the night Learn be¬ fore, “you cannot say to say ‘No,’ John, and you will have fewer headaches. Can you let me have a lit¬ tle money this morning?” “No,” said John, with apparent ease.— Puck. The Baby King of Spain. The baby King of Spain is a fine, handsome child who enjoys robust health, and does credit to the immense amount of care with which he is sur¬ rounded Though court etiquette re¬ quires that the six months-old Alphonso XIII. should be treated with the most rigid call him ceremony, ‘the his mother will never occasions, King” unless on very strict of hut uses the simple term “my child.” His Majesty has his own vast suite of apartments next to those of the Queen Regent; and a special guar I keeps foster h monthcr, s bedroom door sturdy at night. Ray- His munda, feeds and tho the peasant baby; but amuses he is washed aud dressed according to traditional ceremony by a bevy of ladies of honor under the direction of his “gov erne-s,” who held the same office toward his father. Doctors visit the baby twice his daily, and every day he drives out with governess and Raymunda, sometimes with the Queen. In court ceremonies Raymunda must not carry the King; that is the duty of the mistress of the robes or of his aunt, the Infanta Iaabella. Queen Christina is a most devoted mother,spending her boy, and the all her Infanta spare Isabella time with is don equally’attached Graphic. to her nephew.— Lon¬ Her Heavy Conundrum. “Billy,” quoth thundering Sophronia, as she lis¬ tened to the tread of pater familias come thumping down the stairs at 11 i*. xi., “when you leave here each,, evening, ‘by request,’ why is papa, when he parts with yoti at the f ont door, like your own dear self when you make me a nice present or taxe me to the rink!” “I couldn’t say, I’m sure, love,” trem¬ blingly preparing replied her '‘dust” best fellow her William, parent's while to at bidding. he always foots the Bill!”— “Because Siftings. Bagdad contains the largest Hebrew colony in Europo. There are twenty synagogues and about 40,000 Hebrews in the citj. • - ■ ’