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VOLUME IV.
k TEMPERANCE.
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Bong of the Of
With eye* Inflame* t and blear,
With feature* hollow and wan,
A drunkard sat in a ricketty chair
In kia attic, all alone:
His person covered with rags,
. His hair a tangled mass,
vo ‘ c '® that told of soul’s despair,
He sang the sonj of the (Hass;
Till the Drink, drink, drink,
eye Drink, grows frenzied and wild;
Though it drink, drink,
Drink, murder* wife ami child;
Ay, quaff the drink, poison-bowl, drink,
Though every drop it contains is death,
And ruin to ti»e soul.
Deep A hid in the sparkling cup
A deceptive grinning demon glares,
fiend of beautiful form
Bawaye Concealing of a thousand snores;
his comely brow,,
Beware of his noxious breath,
* i* the devil’s sacrament ho offers now,
Twill lure you on to death—
Death by the suicide's hand,
Death by the murderer’s steel,
A maniacs <x’li, a iiungtuan's cord.
A grave in the Potter’s Field.
All this and more is bestowed,
A»i Ay, hour more of bliss, th in tongue can tell—
In the an eternal al>o la
O fiends sulphurous in fumes of hull/
human for j nl
O men unworthy the name!
Tts not a good you're dciling out,
But ruiu, disgrace und shaiue—
Shame for the gl ay-haired sire,
Shame for the agnl wife,
Shame < for tile innocent, prattling babe,
'i hat follows him nil through lifo,
0 men with franchise crowned!
Awake from your sluggard’* sleep;
Hoar ve not that wailing sound/
WJ»P J Tiyo for nation** the thousands women untold, who weep—
Who lie With the rum-stained grass,
WhUuannually Aud thousands renew their ranks
sing Drink t,ho Bong drink, of the (Jl.xss.
, Tdl the frenzied drink,
eyq Drink, grows and wild;
i hougli it drink, drink,
murders wife and child;
Ay, Drink, drink, drink,
Though quaff the |h>1soii-1miwI;
And every droj - contains is death,
/ ii m to the ■ =
"““0. i\ Tennant, in Temperance Advocate.
Tho Scourge of our Country.
The terrible curse and evil of liquor
selling h scphorowdily imbedded in the
custom* oflZicty 4P - nml ulL the denrtved u< a an P
pctitc.soi tfie people, that we lirnl its
flueucc. bhisim.g, controlling blight mg, every and department debauching and in
all sections of our country. It is a
mightier question than all other ques
tions combined, debasin'*- our manhood
debauch inrr ’
ing onp our womanhood, won, 1 . destroying , . .
our children, surging backward and for
ward, going down to the lowest depths
of degradation. Rut you cannot settle
this question by any magic wand of
tlenc is or persuasion, The issue will re.
quire all the moral f, rce of the people
combined in an unbroken phalanx of de
termined energy and enthusiastic zeal,
before we can conquer this formidable
enemy of our race. Ilis intrenchments
are dug deep mid numerous. The bar¬
riers to III overcome will challenge all
our moral heroism. Tho mountains of
difficulty will be found full of sharp jut
ting crags that will tower over our heads
ed seem to defy our most earnest en
dcavors, but with God and thc heroism
horn of faith and desperate determina¬
tion. we will not be dismayed; oureoursc
will lie upward and onward. Prohibition
will He our beacon light, our star of hope
and expectation. The grand, final, and
triumphant fiat of the people for Prohibi¬
tion will cause a shout of victory to bo
echoed all over the land.— Demomt'$
Monthly, .
Alcohol In The Kitchen.
I am not sure but every crusade against
strong drink in the house should begin
in thc kitchen, and end in the drawing
room. At any rate, when you consider
the subject culinarily, you reach, by
consent, a vital point in your treatment
of tho whole questiou. What men cat
has a great deal to do with what they
drink. More than this, tlicir eating may
be such as to directly create and cultivate
thc habit of drinking intoxicating liquors.
It is plain that if the fumes and taste of
alcohol are regularly, or even frequently,
recognized in the food of the people, the
desire to take it “ straight,” as the topers
have it, will be perfectly natural and un
avoidable. Plain, simple, nutritious
cookery will never create or foster an
appetite for strong drink. Mixing pud¬
dings aud pastry, and the variety of
dishes which might be recounted, with
alcoholic fluids, certainly will .—Janus
11 Kellogg.
Before The People.
Texas
Oukoon
M lCii 10 AN
Tennessee
West Vikoinia.
The above are the Slates in which pro¬
hibitory amendments are now to be voted
on by the people. Since last week the
quartette has become n quintette by the
addition of Texas. “ Our God is march¬
ing on."—Voice. ’
Temperam<* Notes.
There are 9,197 licenced liquor saloons
in New York, against 8,557 one year
ago.
There is a “Home for Intemperate
Women” in Boston which has forty-one
inmates.
The dram-shop is a clog on our civ fil¬
iation, and its ouly effect on society is to
destroy everything that is cither good,
true, or beautiful.
The amount of money paid for the
public schools of thc State of New York
for the school year of 1880 was $13,294,
986.64. The drink bill of New York
city alone for thc same period was over
$50,000,000.
EASTMAN, DODGE COUNTY, GA., WEDNESDAY. MARCH 23, 1887.
SOUTHER!? ITEMS.
NEWS NOTES GATHERED
FRPM VARIOUS 8ECTIONS.
TENNESSEE.
K. N. Irvine has erected a tobacco fac
tory at Dresden.
be built at Greenbrier.
A street railroad and water works are
to be built at Athens within one year.
A company has been formed at Chatta
»ooga to manufacture fence machines.
J. P. Ferguwm, Nuhrille.hM re o« iv«l
the contract to build a hotel at Kingston
Springs.
NaVviEnd A romnnnv to build a railroad roSd from the
Florence Chartered ra to We t
Point ha* ‘ been ’ '
Isaac T Roscnstein, , the Hebrew . who v shot ,
and killed Jessie Harris in Memphis, was
admitted to bail iu the sum of $:5,000.
Parties are negotiating with Paine 4
Montgomery, Dayton, for a foundry
fmm'dry “ VleW *° c8tabli,bln S ‘
stove Stove foundry.
ft is said that Dr. J. F. Hicks owns .
vein of solid manganese hx hundred feet
wide situated on the road from Bristol
to Khzabethton.
Tliere are no vacant business or dwcl
ling houses in Bristol. The population
of Bristol would have been five hundred
more than it is to-day if new-comers
could have found residences.
A one hundred thousand dollar stock
company has been organized at Athens
to build a cotton factory. F. B. Me
El wee, of the Mount Verd Cotton Mills,
Athens, will be superintendent.
V. II. 8tuples, one of the jurors iu the
late Goodwin case in Memphis, is on trial
i»‘ tbu criminal court, charged with per
.i u, T : Ho swore when being examined as
to Uldd ’ ut ‘ juror that he
< l R ' ous as 11
« huuwholdo.', and alWarf stated
that all his possessions in the world were
four dogs.
A shocking accident happened at the
Craighead Marble quarks Tuesday that
cost a laborer his life. The unfortunate
mau ’ Wush Yaiks » was removing some
dirt trom between a large stone, and the
wall of the quurry, when the stone became
undermined so much as to <nuse it to
topple over and crushed tbc man against
thc rock wall. Tho man was taken out
but, m>ou expired. Drs. were summoned,
but fin arrival found the uufortunato
man beyond medical aid
1.01101 A
I’ticift are thirty-live prisoners iu the
L )() "b'herty jail,
A canuiog factory is reported to be
•reeled at Marshall villc.
J. Taliaferro and others will devel °i
i slate quarry at I’laiuviile,
A stock company lias born formed at
^ adou tu ,, “dd a planing mill,
K. A. Fincher coutempluies develop¬
black lead mine, eight miles from
C ’‘’ uton ’
T. Tray has bought an old laboratory
it Macon, and will, it is said, use it for
i soap faclory.
Parties at Rome contemplate erecting
t large factory to manufacture bucket -s.
tubs, pails, etc.
Newton county has more available
water power than any three counties in
middle Georgia.
The Forestvill<- Land and Improvement
Co., capital stock $30,000, has been in¬
corporated at Forest villc.
The Eureka C’o., Macon, contemplates
erecting a three-story building, 70x100 j
feet to be used a4 a soap factory. f
The Rome, Iron, Laud and Improve¬
ment Co., Rome, are negotiating with
Northwes ern capitalists for the location
of a large rolling mill at that place.
Mr. T. J. Pallia, of Lowndes comity,
flow was chopping tire wood, when no^o, a piece
up and hit him on the knock¬
ing him down and causing a profuse
hemorrhage. !
Mr. 11. Simmons, of Cliokee, Lee !
county, has one hundred acres of the j I
Ihir.st oats ever seen in the State at this
season of the year. The entire field is
over two feel high, and are already be¬
ginning to boot.
Wednesday night of la«t week, the
commissary of Mr. W. W. Dews, at Wil
Hamburg, was robbed of a large quantify
of merchandise, consisting of dry goods
und groceries. The burglar is supposed
to have been a negro man lately employed
by Mr. Dews on his turpentine farm, but
who was discharged a few days before.
NORTH CAROLINA.
W. B. Crews will develop a coal mine
at Oxford.
The Salisbury Water Works company,
capital stock $85,000, lias been incorpo¬
rated at Salisbury.
The Salem Water Supply company has
contracted for thc construction of an iron
reservoir at that place.
1 he North Cniolina Millstone company,
Parkwood, have purchased aml two heavy eighty
horse power steel boilers a saw
mill. They wilt ad,I other machinery
ami arc making arrangements to l.mld
small roller mills.
W. C. Bain, Graham, has contracted to
build a two-story addition to the Oneida
Cotton Mills, in which about 100 plai 1
looms and necessary spindles will with be
placed. It will be 50x120 feet, a
lapper room 20x50 feet.
i^t.or Drown _ roads . . „ Ran
uear s cross in
dolph j county, one York white, hired a
negro man to set hre to the barn of AN il
liam Brown, hsq.. and the negro was
caught and contessed, but not until the
barn was in ashes aud two horses had
perished.
The people of Richmond bounty voted
down thc bill for the capital county subscription the
of $100 1)00 to the stock of
Soutu Atlantic and Northwestern rail
^oad which is planned to extend from
“ Justice to All, Malioe for None.”
Smithville on the sea coast of this state,
to Bristol, Tenn.
The Christian Brotherhood, with head¬
quarters iu Now York city, are discussing first-class
the project of establishing education a
I school in Hickory for the of
I boys and young men. The school would
! be under Catholic management; and the
buildings academy would and grounds probably of be Me. purchased St. Joseph’s by
the Christian Brotherhood for the pur
| pose in view. The society is backed by
! large capital.
i Hrlo
uitun It n i.ii A o lion bon ole ° beds whicharc
i "In hJd* P
1 of Nor( i aroma *cs• »r<»
and t.aceable for eight * *.
l immense, are a x,
and ten miles They ™eot* quality to
i £’1 5 “ P r T Zki.. omaniz^l’with Sin This
! IS n aSTIwrand^SlSmon pdm V wn a
dolhm k’t md ^ the entire stock was taken
! bv
six nu n.
i
, Florida.
1 he French bark Palmier, recently nr
rived at Pensacola, has on boaid a ca^e
containing uf 700 birds from the we,t c-mSt
Afrl “
syu.’cribcd °£oT* l ( !I^, h '5 1, a3 ‘ 'f“ bel ‘' h ll 1 u , f T of ' s f r al »'l . rca r <:'>d ' :l 5:
““ 8aY ““ b ’
A forty-acre Japan persimmon grove
will be set out by a syndicate of fruit
Rowers, which was organized by some
According to tho city directory just
j completed, the population of Pensacola
j is now 14,220, an increase in two years of
3,048. The number of new surnames is
1,649.
i Tho hotel question should certainly be
; kept going in Tampa until it is built.
The men are now in the city and the
! ™ nn c ? lf Tampa will buy an $8,
Oou , block the , notel will start at
once.
! General Finley, the new United States
j Senator from Florida, is seventy years old
- and the hero of three wars. He is very
! ; pious, very popular and a powerful stump
spcnKer. He is the originator of two-cent
letter postage.
Thomas A. Edison, at Fort Myers, has
entirely zing around recovered his health, and is buz
; town as active and strong as
; he ever was. Much to the satisfaction of
. the citizens, he will soon have the town
1 brilliantly lighted by electricity. He is
so extremely reticent about his new ex
j pertinents and inventions that he posi¬
tively viuwerr refuse'! to be drawn out by inter
on that subject,
/ One of the largest purchases of land
that has been made around Tavares lately
has been by Hon Frank Jones, of Ports¬
mouth, lands N. II., of thc Seals comprising grove and
connected therewith,
about 110 acres. This property was
owned by Mrs. F. J. Thomas, of Eufaula,
Aia. The land is situated on Lake Eus
tis, within tho town of Tavares, and has
an attractive location, comprising about
one-half mile of lake front. Mr. Jones
announces his purpose of having the en
tire property cleared. The purchase is
valued at $20,000.
About five or six miles from Baldwin
there lived an old lady who, wh«n she
was about to die, made her children
promise to never put her under the
ground. She told them if they did she
would come back and haunt them. They
faithfully complied with her commands.
They made a plain coffin out of the Flor¬
ida heart pine; carried her to the grave¬
yard and placed the coffin east and west
on top of the ground, and built writer a good
log pen over her, where the siw
her after about thirty years in this posi¬
tion. That was nearly ten years ago.
The little house was in a good state of
preservation, so was tho coffin, but curi¬
ous people had forced the lid off to see
the condition of the body. Most of the
body had decayed, but some parts were
in a natural position. Her desendants
met some two years ago aud repaired the
place.
MISSISSIPPI.
Olive Branch has been carried by the
prohibitionists.
Tt bus been discovered that the title of
130 acres of land in the heart of the res
id once part of Meridian has never been
acquired made from the government. The en
try was and not proven. This is
from the records at Jackson. No fears
tie entertained that the title s of present
holders will be effected.
'The analysis received from Binning
ham of a specimen of iron >re found at
Enterprise shows 51 per cent of iron and
onJy .70 of 1 per cent of phosphorus,
Thc ‘ a^sayist pronounced the specimen to
of a first-cffiivs ore and nearly a bessemer
01C * The Enterprise Mining and F uruuee
vmpany has been organized. The moor
Ppmors are from New Orleans, Mobile,
oTTeZ Mcr ld,al V The company
Kgs ’ 01 , land ’
The stockholders and directors of the
Mississippi Suite Fair Association held a
meeting at which it was determined to
hold a State fair at Jackson some time
next fall, the date not \et being fixed,
The number of stockholders have iu
creased to fifteen, all of whom are first
class, energetic business men, and who
S£* ^ JS “l«3 £
M . r ; l' or “ 11 ™ ^ ™ , ( emiuL a, J is
Patent me directors.
The negro Alex. Crawford, who mur
dered Vic Loggias, was captured in
Choctaw county and taken to Winona,
Crowds came in from the country, and
by 10 o’clock the town was full of peo
pie. Quite a crowd assembled at the
courthouse to decide what steps should
be taken, and many of the older citizens
tried to stay summary proceedings, but
all efforts fo stay the infuriated populace
were flltile Several hundred men as-
80mb i e d at the j til and by force took the
k cvs from the idler and uulocked the
ceU Alex resisted, but was soon over
powered and was carried about 300 yards
to the railroad bridge, where he was
Loggias, hanged. He acknowledged that he killed
, but would give none of the de
tails. IIe only stated that no one was
Implicated with him.
ARKANSAS.
A company has been organized at
Newport, to develop gold mining prop¬
erty near there.
A company will be organized at Van
Buren, to bore artesian wells to secure
water for fire purposes.
^ j*- Denning, of Michigan, has pur
chased about 4,000 acres of coal lands
near 0zark » and wlU dyVclo P them.
The Houston, Central Arkansas &
Northern Railroad Co., capital Btock
Louisiana State line in Ashley countv.
° nG ° f th , J C ,V. ... lzen3 , _ ^onojee , sbot , \ .
♦ ? a g an g ° it le school children, put
ting a number of small shot into several
of them, and lie was held over m a bond
’ CP
Tl « BI»« Athletic association
^’° was °rganJ»*d with a capital i stock of
00 ’ Suitab1 ^ buildi s a bfiat
club, gymnasium, bicycle, baseball and
all athletic sport will be commenced at.
once.
*rnnnv t*>0,000 , has been subscribed towards
SmuTto^huiW aH^c cottonlVtlv ° a
«0 000
tory; also a |50,000 company to erect a
canning factory.
Wednesday, the Kev. John White,col
ored, bum in South Carolina, and aged
112 years July 9, next, obtained from the
clerk license to marry Edie Smith, aged
between fi.l and 75. Rev. Vi bite lias
his third wife His atre was duly attest
cd by a responsible white person,who Ld has
known him many years is familiar
fee aud^R 1 hand’s congratulatiil ’"him up
on his third in\he venture mLl, and Srlll creat exnccta- SCe
.ions exist
suits su.is. He lives in m Greenwood uicimvoou township lownsmp.
The town and neighborhood of Searcy
have for weeks past been greatly excited
over the running at large of mad dogs,
The excitement was increased when it
became known that Mrs. Mary Pitts, a
well known lady, had been bitten by one
of these rabid canines. The animals at
tackid Mrs. Pitts and bit litr iu several
places, her arm and body beiug dread
fully lacerated. A mudstone was pro
cured muined and applied to the wounds. It re
upon each some ti ne and was re
peatedly applied. 'I'liis is the fourth
person who iias been bitten by a mad dog
in the locality named. 'All of these
treated the wounds with a madstone. No
cases of hydrophobia have yet developed
but there is naturally considerable unx
iety among all concerned.
I.OIJSM.VV
George \V. Dennett will erect a broom
factory at Cheneyvillc.
The New Orleans Elevated Railway
company tlicir road contemplate shortly. beginning work on
8hcrill Cook, of St. lumuiany, leports
the po 1 cents are killing the hogs,
SR, -cp and cattle in his neighborhood,
The Petroleum Prospecting company,
capital stock $2,000, has been incorpo¬
rated at New Orleans byB. F. Hitchcock
and others.
A statement has been made in several
papers of the state that Governor Mc
Euerv is a native of Virginia. This is
an error. He is a Louisianian, born in
the city of Monroe.
The St. Tammany Farmer says that a
large force of men will be put to work on
the Poitevent railroad in a few days, and
that the road will be finished to Abita
springs by June 1.
The Cypress Shingle and Lumber com¬
pany, capital stock $30,000, has been in¬
corporated at Plaquemiuc to manufacture
shingles, lumber,<fcc. S. D. Carpenter is
president and treasurer.
The Kaufman Fibre and Manufacturing
Co., capital stock $1,000,000, has been
organized at New Orleans to manufacture
machinery for decorticating ramie, jute,
Ac., to decorticate and treat ramie and
jute fibre bv the Kaufman process and to
encourage the eulivation of fibrous plants.
Messrs. Thompson aud Compton, of
Texas plantation, Iberville parish, have
erected upon their premises a substan'ial
saw and shingle mill, anti have just en¬
tered into a contract to furnish 10,000,
000 sliingles to Cameron, of Waco, Texas.
On the 25th ultimo they shipped to
Wheeling, W. Va., 350,000, shingles.
! A correspondent of the Point Coupee
I Banner advocates the establishment of a
cotton seed oil mill at New Orleans in
opposition to American Oil Trust. Such
f a m ill. he savs, could purchase seed iu
Loilisi . m ., j Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee,
Alabanm about Hud Mississippi, seed annually. which furnish The
500,000 tons of
^dependent mill would only want about its
30 .000 tons, ’ but it is believed that
con W litiou with thc oil Trust woukl
T hc p r 'uvit T duct
about $4 per ton. Oil Trust has to pay
dividends on $40,000,000 of capital, and
I could not afford the correspondent thinks,
to fight the new company to the extent it
has heretofore done. The capital stock
would be $250,000, a portion of which
would be held by the planters, and a
profit of $4 per‘ton dividend on the product,
would result in a of 40 per cent.
„ Slaughter A tragedy the took Mississippi place at
station, on
! Y"}** rwbo * 1 * “ Ik ® »g*m.
bolham was shot and killed , by Captain
w. B. Porter, of East Feliciana. Porter,
J Higginbotham and a number of others
' pad y ere been at Ripleys drinking store at during Slaughter, the and
i some even
in ^* After a while Higginbotham left
and weQ t toward the water tank, at
, least yards distant. When
j 150 or 20)
Higginbotham believed g<t ne irly shoot there, Porter him,
said he he would at
! uud cracked away. Higginbotham turned shot
and in the reckless way
, back. shots thus
Three or four were
firL ‘ d frora eRth P istol > when at 4he last
i report of Porter’s pistol Higginbotham his brain.
dropped dead with a bullet in
Higginbotham was a grandson of John
Higginbotham, known for forty years as
a devout Methodist minister. Captain
P° f ter is a leading citizen of East Fell
•
c * ana ; aD d was a member of the legisla
j ture 1887.
A HORRIBLE ACCIDENT.
A BRIDGE BREAKS DOWN ON THE
BOSTON & PROVIDENCE R. It.
CJo p owa IO D e *umctinn-Tbtrry-tur©e
Person* Killed and Twice as
Many injured.
° ne of the most appalling railroad
accidents that has ever been experienced
sate aJrjfjss-s
horror was between Rosendale and For
restville and was caused by a defective
bridge giving way under a heavy loaded
f p assC nger f train. Five cars fell through
he br dge ° instant lv killing Ending thirtv-three
person8 and horribly crowdll rtanv
“ ,hers - The t™ 11 '™ s with
workiu g P eo P lc principally. ‘engint The engi
near, when his broke from the
traiu, kept .right on to Forest Hill to
give the alarm instead of stopping to
ascertain the extent of the damage, and
on that account it was impossible to get
any assistance at once. Three cars went
over safely with the engine, but the five
others lei 1 to the road beneath a distance
of feot - The last car, which was
smoker, turned completely over and
lltruc on t0 P "
Ta u.l)/,
wl f 0 0 ”aTe . dfed . o“f “heij^iniuries . ’
B^nett RoXdale a”cd Gedh-im
Alice iV iDrilLm Roslinilik vioUnLt- 10 venn
w Hormidias*
Mrs s>5.s-sisi Cardinal Roslindale
^ilht deJk "t^Bo^toT‘ °i . [V iioii- ii ^
^ratvadf of mjTlnlt <md Spring
f :^ ^ ader ; P pXwofficer 0 1 er '^,. Spring ‘'sulctta' bt tt
. T • •
' V f- 1 -’ r c i 1 ’. '' d lam b- *“ tron £* 1U
n;l , , n j unc8> died . alter removal to the
city hospital; U illiam E. Durham badly
crushed, died after removal to the city
hospital; Stephen T. Ilaughton, gas fitter,
Corinth street Roslindale; Harry Gay, a
clerk, Spring street, died after O'Diorne,. removal
to the city hospital; Miss M. L.
Dover, N. H., employed by Salem, Wil
der & Co., Summer street; Miss Ida
Adams, Katriuge street; Miss Lizzie H.
Price, Dedham; Miss Sarah E. Ellis,
Medfield, who was Hopping with friends
at West Roxbury; an unknown woman,
about 30 years old; Albert E. Johnson, 40
years of age, employed by George II.
Morrill & Co., jewelers; Peter S. Warren,
Central station, about 15 years old, tailor;
Emma P. Hill, 25 years of age, worked
for R. II. White & Co.; llattie J. Dud
ley, residence unknown; Miss Laura
Price. West Roxbury; Miss Ilosi Bella
Wcleh, 53 years of age, West Roxbury.
The remaining parties killed have three not
been identity d. Of these there are
men and two women at the Morgue.
It is impossible to the obtain number any absolutely injured,
correct account of of
but it will reach one hundred or more,
Of these at least twenty-live are quite
badly hurt, and the remainder received
only slight bruises.
The bridge evidently gave way when
the foil.th car was passing over it. The
live rear cars in went through splinters to the road¬
way landing a mass of in the
street. The strain of the live failing cars
pulled the three cars in advance from tho
rail. They remained on top of the em
binkment, but were pulled off their
trucks and the floor of each was forced
nearly to the roof, while seats were
jumbled together in great confusion.
The end of the second coach was a mass
of splinters,caused by a carhead grinding
against it when the others went down the
embankment
The third coach was flattened to the
ground us if it had fallen on its trucks
from a great height, although it remained
on the edge of the embankment. The
roof of the fourth car also remained on
the embankment, having evidently been
torn clear from its fastenings while thc
coach went through. The next four cars
went down in a heap, the smoker, which
was on the rear of the train, failing in
the midst of the coaches and being actu
ally ground into splinters. Thc inmates
of the smoker were all either killed or
injured, not one escaping without injury
of some kind. Two of the coaches went
clear across the roadway,landing bounded against
a stone wall that a large field at
tlie foot of the hill. As the cars lie in
their present location they present a pie
ture of such absolute demolition that it
seems remarkable that any person in them
escaped alive.
A curious feature of the disaster is
fonnd in the fact that the entire bridge
went down with the wreck, not leaving a
piece of scrap iron attached to the abut
meats, and but for the chasm and awful
wreck beneath there is nothing to indi
cate that a bridge had once spanned the
abyss. the dead
Twenty-seven of bodies have
been identified.
THE FLORIDA CIGARMAKERS.
A Keport of Their Work Made In New York
< ily.
The Central Labor union, at its meet
ing Saturday in Clarendon hall, in East
j Thirteenth of officers. street The N. Y., cigarmakcrs elected a called new
j set Key West,
attention relative to the a dispatch adventures from of Ramon R
to 11 -
biera in Florida. Mr. Rubiera is seen-
| 3
of L l Ecp U jlitA aDd delegate to the
Ceiltral u union , „e went to Flor
ostensi b!y Lfacturing to settle the difficulties of
the d nia firm of Ybor &
; Sanchezly. llaxa, with its employes,
| but really to organize the cigar makers in
j piorida. The Central Labor union
adopted resolutions that the proceedings
of the board of trade at Tampa betiaysa
j desire to precipitate a class conflict in "this
j re . mbbc j n that the expelled citizens
were informed that the only cause of
their expulsion was their action in con
nection with thc labor organization,
T b ere is also a story to the effect that the
Spanish consul offered the board of trade
* 50 o0 o to have the expelled men, vho
are a u Cuban revolutionists, put aboard
the Spanish guuboat iu the vicinity of
j$>y West. 'Ibis seems remarkably
probable, but the Central Labor union
• ca ]| s tbe attention of the United States
authorities to it, and desire that peace be
, preserved in Florida.
AERE8TED AND JAILED.
Mr*. PamnR, the Fcmnle Anarchist, Strike*
a Town and 1* Nat Tolerated.
At Columbus, O., Friday, Lucy B,
Parsons, the lecturing anarchist, was re¬
fused a hall by a local military, where
she proposed to speak. She called on
the mayor to protest against such action,
and became so abusive and deraonstative
that she was locked up.
When Mrs. Parsons called on the man
ogement of the armory, where the speech
a that IMS? purpose, aud also that the mayor
had been requested to prevent the meet
ing being held, she proceeded to the city
prison, aud was considerably enraged at
the time. She told the mayor einphat
ically that she wanted protection at the
armory, and that she wanted Ids assist
ance in securing the hall, as it had been
pa d for. She was informed that th,
police would be sent to the armory, and
that no meeting of the character would
be held, and she proceeded to• upraid him
iu the name of freedom, saying that he
was a scoundrel and unfit for the position
he occupied, else he would extend the
protection asked for; that there would in
time be a revolution and a deal, by w-hich
the working people would secure th«r
that he was of"littlc 0 consequence™and
and that the meeting would ho held re¬
of him or his police, protection,
ln the height of her excitement the
ma f r orde / ed ier t0 b « taken to a cell,
and refused / t0 et an / of tbc iocal s vm ‘
P^Eizcrs , her, -
see although 1 a number
mg that Mrs. Parsons had been tt treated,
,Ut ?° ne ° f tbcm ^ ere allou cd to como
- tat - L ^ , K
"X ThevheMa
° f ind5 » i:atioa meetin « aboilt the hall f
but soon dispersed. Mrs. Parsons was
"*» ” Cr Mll > »“ d «*«'«» «»» *“* »
effort to muzzle free speech; that she liai
lectured in seventeen States and this i<
thc firgt time gh(J bascvcr been molested,
sb . t * f n ii nw ; no . t ( .i Prr , qr n •
** A R Parsons nrove’nt County Jail Chicago'
Arrested j to mv sneak P in g «■ ' Am
al right. ® Notify J press. 1 Lucv.”
AWAITING THE OBSEQUIES.
.Huny Thousand* of Cliicngo’* People Wit.
teen lUre. Necbe’e Bit rial.
Extra quiet marked the burial of Mrs.
Neebc. Fully forty thousand people
shivered three hours in the bleak wind
waiting for the obsequies of the noted
anarchist’s wife to commence, and were
only awarded by the sight of a procession
that,/except in size, differed only in a few
minor details from any ordinary funerals.
ies Saturday estimated evening tho master of ceremon
that 20,000 sympathizers
would be in line. Whether the absence
of thc anarchist widower dampened the
enthusiasm, or the fact the police were
taking extraordinary precautions to quell
disorder, had a like effect, the dcmcn
stration fell far short of its promoter’s
predictions. hundred Including the persons in
one and seventy-seven carriages
and buggies, there were probably 5,000
in the procession. The prohibition of
the red flags was scrupulously observed.
A few banners were carried and they
were furled and totally hidden in black
uniform, draping. Not a dozen mourners were in
only music in A single band furnished the
the procession. The police
men were almost wholly kept out of
sight, and the entire affair was character*
ized by sombre decorum,
A DEAD OFFICIALS BOOKS.
A 1>ea ‘ l PMIodalpMn, Official Provem to be
* Defau,tcr '
A considerable , sensation caused by
was
^ t bc r,imor teat Newman Keither, who has
been registrar of thc water department of
Philadelphia, Pa., for several years, and
"’ho died on the 3d instant, had been
found to be a defaulter. Keither had
been in the public service about nine
years, the major portion of this time in
be , e baud wa ter led department, as registrar, where
upward of $2,000,000 per
3 Ciir - When an examinat'on ot his books
'' as had, after his death, it was found
dlilt large firms, whose water rent
atnount to something like $8,000 each,
ad n,d been credited with payments as
they , should have been made. Investi
Ration revealed the fact that one of these
b nns bad paid Iyeither $4,200 in two
checks, one of which, for $751, he had
placed in the money drawer and taken
tbat *'} m J’V f asb therefrom, while the
oilier, for $3,449 he bad deposited to the
credit oi his individual account at his
hiking house. .Those in charge of the
investigation decline to say anything in
ro 8 nrd to tbe other four firms whose tax
a PP ears on ,he books as u,1 P aid -
A YOUNG MURDERER.
A Boy of Twelve Kill* a Whole Family ln
Kentucky.
No vs has been received from a lonely
farming community on Cat’s Fork, Law¬
rence. county Ky„ of a terrible tragedy.
Samuel Smith, aged twelve, who had
some difficulty with a neighbor, Stephen
Hammond, Tuesday armed himself with
a revolver and went over to Hammond’s,
following him into the house. Hammond
then reached for his rifle, but Smith fired
and killed him. Hammond’s wife and
children, a boy and girl, attacked the
murderer, but he soon fatally wounded
Mrs. Hammond, and as the children at¬
tempted to escape he filled them both
\\ ith balls. He fled to the mountains
and has not yet been caught. Mrs.
Hammond will die and the children may
not recover. It was hours after the
neighbors came, attracted by the cries of
the boy.
, FIRES IN BRUNSWICK GA.
1
Brunswick Ga., last Monday night .
At
at 12 o’clock, a fire occurred ^e
troying A. E. Wenz, H-L
Dillon and P. P. Halzendrof’s build
ing» on Bay street, and at 6 o’clock Tues
day morning two stores in the Kaiser
block, occupied by Glover & Dunn and
Lloyd & Adams, were burned. The total
loss is about $25,000, insurance $18,000.
A cigar box full of bones were found in
the debris of the Wenz building, sup
posed to be the remain* of Albert Lof
! I ranee, formerly of Elmira, New l ork.
NUMBER 43.
TIRED 07 BEING INSANE.
Jmmmen, th* Wife Ofarderer, Olvaa la aa#
aad -Aaka far a Warm Meal.
Henry Jansen, of Chicago, who was re¬
cently sent to Joliet for life, for the
brutal murder of his wife, has been con¬
fined in the crank cell at the prison ever
since his arrival, constantly under the
eye of a doctor. Jansen stood it for thir¬
teen days. Tuesday last he fell upon his
knees and begged for something warm to
cat, saying: *
“My blood is so cold. Give me a warm
meal.”
caused A few Jansen questions confess from the physician
to everything and
own up that he was not insane. He stated
that he had not meant to kill his wife,
but that when the fearful deed was don;
his playing only the thought insane was dodge to save him«clf by
and possibly ho
might escape the penalty of hanging.
After his conviction and sentence to the
penitentiary he determined to keep up
the idea, thinking that possibly he might
be transferred to an insane asylum, where
he would be better treated and from
which he might make his escape, but the
medicine and diet he had been forced to
live on was too much. Jansen fairly
danced and shed tears of joy when a bowl
of hot coffee and some warm meat and
potatoes were given him. He will bo
placed morning in the prison shop tomorrow
and be made to labor.
BOLD ROBBERS.
A Texas Itailrond and Express Office R«.
lieved of Over S3,IKK).
Sunday morning the Gulf, Colorado!
and Sante Fe railroad office at Coleman,
Texas, was the scene of a “hold up,” re-:
suiting in a loss to the express and rail¬
road companies and employes of over
$3,000. James Muse, the express messen¬
ger, and Henry Brent, the night operator,
two men were in the depot. Musa
had occasion to go out nbz'ut 3:45
o’clock, and came running back and said:
“Some one is robbing the cars.” Tho
party started to the cars, when Brent
told Muse to run back and get something
to shoot with. Muse went back toward,
the depot to get his six-shooter, when
three men jumped out from the south
door of thc d^pot, thrust six-shooters in
his face, and told him with oaths to open
the safe. Muse opened it, and the rob¬
bers got two express packages, and $2,-
500 and the other $300, and another of
$00 of railroad money, and the pocket
book of Muse with $135 in it, and his
gold watch, worth $125. While this was
going the on Brent and the yardman were up
road a few hundred yards, at the car
which Muse saw the man get out of, and
which they found had been broken open
and a load of bran set on fire. After
some trouble they succeeded in putting
the fire out. It is believed that the rob¬
bers do not live far from Coleman. All
thc men wore long black masks that con¬
cealed their faces.
under water.
Mach Damntfc by Kiver Overflows In L.oa«
taiana.
Advices from Richland and portions of
Madison parish report the outlook in that
section gloomy. Thc Epps plantation is
partially submerged, and the water is
rising in the Bayou Macon at the rate of
an inch in four hours. The half Pugh covered place,
on Jones bayou, is about
with water, which is rising there at tho
rate of about three inches in twenty-four
hours. The Cunningham place, on Ten¬
sas river, is all submerged und day. the water Tho
is rising about six inches a
Gasquet place, at section five, is also
covered with water. The Edward private levee, Rich¬
built by the late Colonel
ardson and other planters, which is about
six miles long and four'feet deep, and is
intended to protect thc east bunk of the
bayou Macon, has given away in about
twenty places above Wyleys Monticello
place. Although a general overflow is
not anticipated, there will be much dam¬
age done by the water coming through
the openings in the Arkansas front, also
by that coming in at Diamond island
bend, and Reid Crevasse. The news was
received from Reid Crevasse Sunday to
the effect that the United States protecting Engineer tho
Corps had succeeded in
ends of the levee, thus arresting a fur¬
ther cutting away of tho embankment.
VINCENT CAUGHT.
Ike Vincent the Defaulting Treasurer la
Jail.
brings A special the from Montgomery, Alabama, of
information of the arrest
Ike H. Vincent, Alabama’s effected defaulting
State Treasurer, which was at
Big Sandy is Wood Co., Texas. Most :very his
body conversant with the story of
sudden leave taking on the 20tli o. Jan¬
uary 1883, while serving his third term
as state treasurer.
The arrest was not due to any clever
detective work but is to be attributed to
a mere accident. Mr. E. C. Ray ”OW a
deputy sheriff of Wood county T exas,
but who formerly resided in Randolph,
counfy Ala., and whohad known Vincent
for many years previous to his defalcation
was the one to make the arrest. Thirty
two indictments hang over the unfortu¬
nate man. Mr. Ray delivered his prisoner and.
to the sheriff of Jlontgomery county,
taking his receipt for him went and »■«.
ceivcd from Governor Seay the
of five thousand dollars. •*.
Vincent declines* to talk about his ftt
ture prospects. Able counsel have been
employed to defend him.
IRON BRIDGE WORKS.
Another Industry Going to L>oe*t* Is
Decatur, Alabama.
A large and very important contract
has been made by the Decatur, Alabama,
Land Improvement and Furnace com¬
pany, by which capitalists from Chicago
and Birmingham agree for to the erect at that of
place a manufactory purpose
making all kinds of bridge iron, etc.
The company has just been incorporated
and expect to have their works in full
operation within four mouths. They
have a cash capital of $100,000, all the
stock being taken by parties in Chicago
and Bii mini ham. This industry from
the start will give employment to from
150 to 200 skilled laborers,^an early in
crease in the capacity of the works ifl
contemplated.