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A Paris paper reports that the drum mere and trumpeters of the German army are hard at work learning the bents and calls of the French troops, It also nl leges that in many engagements in the war of 1870 the command to cease firing was often given to the French army by German buglers, and that the command to halt, sounded by the same buglers, often stopped a charge of French cavalry : j and placed them in u position where they Could be mowed down. Now a scientific person 1ms explained why IlanlAti is the great rower that he is. Dr. Sargent, of the Harvard gym¬ nasium, has examined him, and says that he has “a great head and an ex¬ cellent body nil the way down to the legs.” Judged by a standard of per fection tho oarsman’s legs and arins are too short. Dr. Sargent says that this defect has made Hunlan the oarsman ho is, and that the power from the shoulders, back and loins, together with the immense leverage given by the short legs and arms, is what has made him almost the perfection iu build for a sculler. The people of Dodge City, Kansas, are now marveling over the discovery of a largo bone, which has recently been brought into that city from a point ‘about sixty-five miles southwest, near the Ci¬ marron river. This mammoth fossil was unearthed by some workmen while dig¬ ging a well at the depth of about forty five feet, and below a stratum of sand¬ stone. Tho length of this colossal femur is about 6 feet 8 1-2 inches; weight, 96 pounds;circumference of shaft, 20 inches; head of bone,(femur,) 24 inches in circum¬ ference; lower end or knee, .39 inches in circumference. Further excavations will lie made at an early date with the hope of discovering the entire skeleton. Do you know that people like to be humbugged?” asked a physician of a Philadelphia Call reporter. “It’s a fact, and a largo percentage of the practice of the most successful doctors is pure humbuggery. A great many people are filled with hnmaginury aches and pains. They’ve had them for years in their imagination, and lmvc grown to regard them with a tenacious affection. When they consult a physician about them they do not like to have tho matte: pooh-poohed. They do not wish to be told there is nothing the matter with them. They want to be told they aro sick; to bo sympathized with, and to be prescribed for. They then pay the fee willingly. Some of the best and most persistent patients I have are as sound ns a dollar. I listen to their recital of their symptoms right along, prescribe some harmless as well ns use¬ less doso and charge it in my little bill. It is to this little diplomacy of mine that I attribute much of my success. ” The Department of Agriculture reports an increase iu the total number of horses, mules, cows aud oxen owned in this country as compared with last year The greatest)ncroaiso, says Broihtrut , is shown in oxen, while mules show a.slight excess over last year. In the ease of sheep aud hogs considerable decreases ure shown. The following table shows the total num¬ ber at this time and at a corresponding jieriod last year: Stock. 18*6. 1W, Horses....... ...... 12.077,657 1?,496,743 Mules....... ...... 2,052,593 1.117,141 Milch cows.. ...... 14,235,388 14,552,083 {1 Oxen and other cattle. 81,275,242 33,511,750 Sheep...... ....... 48,322,331 44,759,314 Swine..... ....... 40,092,043 44,012,836 As to values, the decline lias not been very large, being greatest in the ease of cattle, which show the largest increase in num¬ ber. Horses, sheep and hogs have in creased in value,while mules have slightly decreased. The total values of the va¬ rious classes of animals are shown in the following: Stock. 2886. li>*7.‘ Horses.... $860,823,206 f901,6&»,755 Mules.... 163,381,070 107,057,538 Milch cows.......... 389,965,523 318,789,588 Oxen and other cattle 061,956,27 4 663,137,926 Sheep. 92,443,967 89,872,839 Swine 197,509,894 290,043,291 Totals........$2,365,159,862 $2,400, .580,938 The total value of all the farm animals of the country is placed at $2,400,580,938, an increase of $35,427,076 over this time last year. The greater share of the in . crease is due to the increased number and value of horses. The decline in the value of cows has been charged cluefly to the low prioe of butter. X EASTMAN. DODGE COUNTY. GA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 4, 1887. SOUTHERN PROGRESS. THE IMPROVEMENTS IN VARIOUS SECTIONS OF THE SOUTH. Sfuafaetnlifs and Other Busies#* La tar eats Beonleg—New Rail reads. Ere. A barrel factory Is being erected by Chicago parties at Chattanooga, Tenn. Arrangements have been made for huildmg * furniture factory atPIoreooe, latin, Tenn. The stock of the Planters’ Compress & Warehouse Co., at Greenville, Miss., is $ 100 , 000 . Garner & Son, of Tampa, Fla., con¬ template niston, erecting a steam laundry at An¬ Ala. The Rayides Compress Co., capital stock $30,000, has been organized at Alexandria, La. Subscriptions the erection are being received to¬ wards of a hotel to cost $60,100, at Americus, Ga. Iiitt & Co., will erect a Taylor compress at Americus, Ga. They will probably erect several other compresses. Allen Fort has organized a company to build a cotton factory at Americus, Ga. Tho capital stock will be $100,000. The mayor of Anniston, Ala., will re ceivo bids for the erection of the city hall. It is to be two stories, 120x120. E. F. Gould, of Lake Helen, Fla., is to build a 9-story building on Decatur street, Atlanta, Ga., to cost about $150. 000 . The Montgomery Iron Works, of Montgomery, have contracted to furnish machinery for a 15-ton ico.factory at Eu fauln, Ala. A national bank with a capital of $100,000 has been organized in Anuiston, Ala., and a dime savings bank, with a capital of $30,000, has been formed. Arrangements have been made for run¬ ning a regular line of fteamers between Brunswick, Ga., and European ports, to commence on or before the 1st of August. Works are to be erected in Birming¬ ham, Ala., to manufacture sad irons. 1 lie capacity will be 10 tons daily. The East Birmingham Land Co., are inter¬ ested. Tho Atlanta, Ga., Cotton Compress & Warehouse Co. have changed their name to tho Atlanta Compress & Warehousing Co., and have increased their capital to $500,000. The Catawba Falls Manufacturing & has Improvement incorporated Co., capital stock $200,000, been at Catawba, S. C. Tho object of the company eventually is to purchase the Catawba falls and build a cotton factory. A Western syndicate purchased recently through a local real estate broker, thirty four tho: s ind acres of timber in Escam¬ bia county, Ala. It is the intention of the syndicate to commence at once the erection of a large saw and planing mill. THE APACHES MOVING. Over Four Hundred Indians to bo Sent to A In be mu. The Apache Indians who were moved from Arizona to Fort Marion. Fla., last fall, nre to be removed by direction of the secretary of war to Mount Vernon barracks, Ala. They number about 450, in addition to Geronimo and seventeen bucks, who are confined at Fort Pickens. The wives of the latter will not be re¬ moved from Fort Marion to Mount Ver¬ non, but will Ik* permitted to joiu their .husbands at Fort Pickens. Captain Pratt, superintendent of Carlisle India 1 ) school, has gone to Fort Marion to select 150 or 40 young Indians, before removal, to be instructed at this institution. The removal is made on account of the crowded condition of the quarters at Fort Marion. Although the health of the Indians has been good,it was thought a ivimible to send them to a healthier lo¬ cation, where they will have plenty of room and be free from tlie gaze of hun¬ dreds of curious people, who flock about them every time they appear in public. Mount Vernon is considered as peculiarly well adapted southwestern to their needs, of being situ¬ ated in the part Alabama on the Mobile river, not far distant from Mobile, and consisting of a tract of 2,100 acres. The barracks are occupied Indians by two will com¬ panies of artillery. The live in touts, and it is hoped that they may •income self-supporting. Geronimo and ids renegades are not kept in solitary confinement at Fort Pickens, but are re¬ paired to work under guard. EMPLOYES SHARING PROFITS. i'roetor <& Gamble, of Cincinnstl, Agreo to Divide with Their Employes. The firm of Proctor & Gamble, manu¬ facturers, has made an elaboiate proposi¬ tion for allowing their employes to share in the profits of the firm. The plan is to and appoint three trustees, two bookeepers ploy, a who superintendent shall in the firm’s em¬ twice a year ascertain the amount of profits during the preced¬ ing six months, allowing as expenses six per cent interest on the capita! employed, and reasonable salaries to members of the firm devoting their tiino to their inter¬ ests, and divide profits between the firm in proportion to the capital and wages earned. The employes have accepted the prop¬ osition with thanks, and resolved to al¬ low no outside influence to disturb the relations between them and their em ployws. FATAL CYCLONE IN VIRGINIA. (leases Blew* Dawn and Several Lives Leet. Monday night a cyclone visited Suffolk Va., section with fatal and destructive effects. Its track was about one hundied yards wide. The house of John Wright, six miles north of Suffolk, on the Norfolk and Western railroad, was completely demolished. Wright and his wife and a young sister and James Luke were in the house at the time. Mrs. Wright and Mr. Luke were killed, the young girl fatally injured and Mr. Wright seriously hurt. Much other damage was done to property along the path of tbe cyclone, . “ Ju»fi«e to An, Malice for Rone.” MEMORI AL SAT. BMDtitkl Weather, Greet Crowd*, Fie# Displays ef Military mad Clrlo Bodies and Patriotic Orations. In Atlanta the procession comprised the officers of tho police force under command of Chief Connolly. Following came the Confederate veterans, about one qundred strong, under command of Col. der George command T. Fry. of The third W. division, D. Ellis, un¬ the Capt. attractive, including was one of most the Gate City Guard, under command of Capt. Sneed, Burke, Atlanta Rifles, under Capt. Means Cadets, under Prof. Edwards and the Patriots Militant, commanded by Captain William Kinyon. The Atlanta Military Band was with this division, W. J. Lotg, assistant marshal, was in com¬ mand of the sourth division, which in¬ cluded three tribes of the Independent Order of Red Men, with the Marietta band. Maj. J. Gadsden King was in charge of the fifth division, which included two divisions of the Uniform Rank Knights of Pythias, the Governor’s Horse Guard and the Atlanta Artillery with their four guns. The 6ixth division, under the command of Frank M. O’Bryan, assistant marshal, including riages the Knights Templar escort and cai containing the ora¬ tor and chaplain of the day and the members of the Memorial association. Following this came various officials and citizens in carriages under the command of GeorgeR. DeSaussure. At Oakland an address full of partiotic lire was delivered by CoL Albert II. Cox. The day was fitly noticed at Macon, Ga., Montgomery, Ala., Milledgeville, Ga., Amcricus, Ga., Athens, Ga., Covington, Ga., Albany, Ga., Jacksonville, Fla., and many other places. the Chattanooga, Tenn., was honored by presence of Miss Winuie Davis, daughter of Jefferson Davis, and in the evening a reception was given at the Stanton House. At Augusta, Ga., Governor Gordon delivered an oration before the Confed¬ erate Survivors association, and an im¬ mense audience. His address was di¬ rected to u review of the South tinder the old regime, showing its civilization and prestige in directing and controlling gov¬ ernmental affairs. Governor Gordon was sick when lie began his address, and was compelled to end it suddenly, on account of intercostal neuralgia. RICH FIND. DISCOVERY OF RICH UNUSED GOLD MINES IN MEXICO. In a Chapel Maps are Found which Give a Clew. Special dispatches from the City of Mexico announce the discovery of two of the lost seven bonanza mines by an Amer¬ ican party of prospectors. Humboldt and Hamilton speak of the fabulous wealth obtained from these mines by the Span¬ iards. They were worked up to the middle of last century. In 1776 the In¬ dians swept over northern Mexico and destroyed Chihuahua and all the miners were driven out. The Indians held con¬ trol of the country so long that records were lost.. Recently, Lieutenant Kepper, formerly of the U. 8. army,W. K. Glenn, of Illinois, Capt. Allen and J. McIntyre, of pedition Chicago, went out on a surveying ex¬ in the interest of a land com¬ pany, and in an old chapel found maps and other data. Dividing into four small McIntyre’s parties a thorough search was is thought begun. party located what to be tho Lapoya silver mine. It is in the midst of thousands of ruined build¬ ings, among large churches and forts. Within four miles are 420 workings of old Spanish furnaces and tons of slag. A few days later the Bowers party reported the discovery of the Madre Guayanopa in the heart of the Sierra moun¬ tains. Around it are the ruins of 118 arastras. Advices from other points con¬ firm the rumor and state that the great placer field has been located, where the Jesuits of 200 years ago found fortunes for the church. Great excitement in mining centres prevails. RESTLESS INDIANS. The Blows* end Sioux on the War Path. Advices from Auadarko Indian agency, in the vicinity of Fort Worth, are to the effect that there li*s been great excito ment theie owing to the action of the Kiowas. A band of them roamed over the cattle country, visiting residences and greatly frightened the women and children. They made such demonstra¬ tions throughout the territory as to ter rarize the children. Troops were at once sent to regulate them aud went into camp on the Wichita, eight miles from the Indian position. They advanced to the base of the mountain on the follow¬ ing night. After three days’ parley the Indians agreed to give up the offending Indians to the soldiers located near the fort, where they could be watched. Ths troops returned to Auadarko with the prisoners. The Indians, covered with war paint and armed with Winchesters, mounted, followed the troops. A company of the latter, reinforced by a mob of Indians, proceeded to carry out instructions. Half Breed Gillum, a scout, fears trouble with the Sioux, and reports them quietly leav¬ ing the Big Sioux reservation. XIDNAPPING A SENATOR. A Bold Plan to Gobble General Sherman’s Brother. It has just leaked out, that a party of kidnappers of the or outlaws, comprising much ditti, had dangerous elements of Cuban ban¬ John Sherman arranged to capture Senator on his recent visit to Cuba. The project only failed by a notice in time. The plot was well arranged, and tho banditti were in sufficent force to capture Sherman’s party, but they left the plantation intended as the scene of the outrage just five minutes before the, outlaws appeared. It is thought the ow ner of the plantation was a party to the scheme. While in Havana, Senator Sherman took occasion to congratulate the captain general on the peace prevail¬ ing throughout the islands. When the visit senator, the however, expressed a desire to the military sugar plantation in the interior, and guard was sent as an escort, the entire party barely escaped an unpleasant surpriae. HONORING k STATESMAN. CALHOUN’S STATUE UNVEILED i AT CHARLESTON, & C. Is*areas# Crewde Attend the Ceremeny A Ultcaiflecnt Oration by Rea. I* Q. C. Lamar. 'usnet $ TBK OALHOUN STATUE. One of the finest davs of the year offer¬ ed the people of the South a chance to unveil, at Charleston, South Carolina, on Memorial Day, a magnificent statue to John C. Calhoun, and the procession numbered nearly 5,000 military and civic associations. The statue, situated on Murion square, was draped which by both state and national colors, little were drawn away by six children, while thirty-five young ladies and misses stood around as spon¬ sors. The young ladies were appointed to be present With at the unveiling few exceptions of the mon¬ ument. relatives very Calhoun. they are of Mr. Two of the young ladies are the nearest relatives of their age of Gen. Francis Marion, of the Revolution,the directresses believing that the two distinguished Carolinians to have been kindred spirits, though in different departments of the service of the state. Six babies pulled the rope under super¬ vision of attending Julia Calhoun, young ladies. The babies were: great grand¬ daughter Lowndes of the statesman; William Calhoun, great-grandson of the statesman; B. Putnam Calhoun, Jr., great-grandnephew great-grandson of the statesman and of General Putnam; Sadie Ancruro, great-grandniece of f lie statesman; Floride Calhoun Pickens and Floride Peyne Johnson. The dedicatory prayer was made by Rev. Dr. C. C. Pinckney, who was pre¬ sented to the audience by Mayor Court¬ enay, who presided. The unveiling then followed. An ode to Calhoun by Miss E. B. Cheseborough was read by Rev. A. Stakely. Secretary Following this came the oration of Lamar, which was followed by another Calhoun ode, written by Mar¬ garet J. Preston and read by Iiev. Dr. Junkin, and then came the benediction, pronounced by Rev.* John O. Wilson. Secretary Lamar’s speech, which occupied two hours, was received with the deepest attention and frequent applause. “MILLIONS IN IT.” Tbe WestluBhonse Air Brake laveatlen Claimed by a Poor 91a*. Theodore Mungerwho lives in Detroit, Mich., is a tall, rather powerful-looking man, rather wearing close, a full gray beard, trimmed cloth, usually dressed in gray and wears cowhide boots. Mr. Hunger has been a resident of Detroit for ten years or more, but until recently has attracted no attention. He now comes forward with the claim of having been the inventor of the Westinghouse air brake, from which invention he says he never realized a dollar. He claims that he invented this valuable Improvement about eighteen years ago, at the time an attempt w as made to produce the result with steam on passenger car brakes. lie Being in poor health at the time he says revealed his invention to those work¬ ing at the steam brakes, who have since taken advantage of it to deprive him of pecuniary and other benefits. Mr. Mun ger talks rationally about this invention and backs up his claim in the most cir¬ cumstantial manner,and if legally proved, will make him a millionaire. I VIOLATED ORDERS. fit. Men *.« UDMI B, . Tr.i.™.., A west bound train, pushing a flat car loaded with laborers, was going around the curve leading to a trestle at. a good rate of speed on the Cascade division of the Northern Pacific railway, when it * i an into an engine which was running east, backing up. The flat car passed 1 half way through the tender of the light ! cugiue and the other end crushed up I against the pilot of the west-bound train, on which were two men. The unfortu¬ nate men were crushed to a pulp. Five men were killed outright, and one bai since died. The injured number eight de¬ men. The scene of the accident, as scribed by those present, beggars de¬ scription. Blood is scattered in every i direction, and the fearful neighboring rocks The bear evidence of a carnage. accident was the fault of one of the train’s crew neglecting to flag, as per orders. TEMPERANCE LECTURE, Illustrated la a Terribly Practical Way Owen Griffin and Martin Wilds, a couple of young married men, of Way cross, Ga., received by express a jug of down whisky from Savannah, and started the Brunswick and Western rail¬ road for home, carrying the “little brown jug” under their arm. They soon be¬ came tired and Griffin lay down by the roadside, while Wilds occupied the entire track.* using one of the rails for a pillow. They fell asleep, and a train came along, and as it was then about 10 o’clock it was very dark, and the engineer, not seeing the sleeping man, ran over him, entirely severing his head from his body and dragging the body for some distance, totally demolishing it to an unrecogniza¬ ble shape, scattering part of it for fifty yards along tbe rail. WASHINGTON GOSSIP. ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM OUR NATIONAL CAPITAL . IV hat la Being Dene by the Head a ef Oar Government—The Week’s Review. OUR REVENUE RECEIPTS. The total amount of trade dollars re¬ deemed for nine mouths to date is $5,243, 000, which amount will be increased $400,000 by recent importations at San Francisco from China. The total collections of iuternal rev¬ enue during the first nine months of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1887, were $83,981,204, being $575,788 less than collections during the corresponding period of the last fiscal year. Collections from spirits were $46,668,141, a decrease of $3,927,737; from tobacco $21,443,631, an increase of $1,306,276; from fermented liquors $15,182,758, beiug au increase of $1,519,603; miscellaneous from oleomargarine $481,- 246; from objects $201,- 807, being an increase of $41,203. Re¬ ceipts for March, 1887, were $341,819 greater than those for March, 1886,4he increase being fermented mainly in liquors. receipts from tobacco and There was a small decrease in receipts from spirits. Commissioner Miller estimates that the receipts for the present fiscal year will aggregate $118,000,000 as against $116,902,869 for the last fiscal year. Notes. The interstate commerce commission is in the South. Their labors will be prin¬ cipally in Georgia and Alabama. James H. Marr, chief clerk to the first assistant postmaster-general, died re¬ cently. Had he lived until June he would have been in continuous public service fi“y-six years. m Gen. C. C. Auolk, U. S. A retired, will command the encampment of the national drill. He is a resident of Wash¬ ington. The treasury vaults contain 2,000 tons of silver and 48 tons of gold. This is tho limit of their capacity, and the treas¬ ury officials are puzzled to know wha 1 to do with the constantly accumulating store of precious metals. An appropria¬ tion for a new steel vault failed to pass the last Congress. pointed Acting Secretary Wheeler, Thompson of Virginia, has ap¬ James H. a watchman in the treasury department. Wheeler is the man who was so badly in¬ jured at Richmond, Va., last year by the premature discharge of a cannon, while firing a salute iu honor of the visit of President Cleveland. PERSONAL. Rev. Sam Jones will go to San Fran¬ cisco in June. Subscriptions to the Henry Ward Beecher memorial now aggregate about $ 12 , 000 . W. W. Corcoran, of Washington, D. C., pays taxes on $9,000,000. He has always been a real friend of Southern people. Miss Abigail Dodoe (“Gail Hamil¬ ton”), sister-in-law of James G. Blaine, is said to be the author of the Arthur Rich¬ mond letters. Lieut. Jepiison, author of the popular novel, “The Girl I Left Behind Me,” is among the Englishmen in II. M. Stanley’s exploring expedition. A movement to erect an equestrian statue of Gen. N. B. Forrest in Memphis has been started, Gen. Grant once said that Forrest was the greatest cavalry colli¬ mander on either si de of the Civil War. Chaplain General Gleig, of the British army, dates further back in mili¬ tary experiences than the Emperor Will¬ iam. lie is well over 90, but is still able to preach. He was present at the battle of New Orleans and wrote an account of the siege of that city. Pin Edward Thornton, formerly British minister at Washington. S. M. Braithwaite and E. O. P. Bouverie ar¬ rived in New York recently from Eng¬ land. They cam6 to negotiate a settle¬ ment with the Virginia legislature, rela¬ tive to the bonds of that state held in England. Col. James F. Farrel, at one time associated with Col. James R. Randall on the editorial force of the old Constitu timalist , of Augusta, Ga., has returned from the North and made Atlanta his home. The colonel’s sister, Mrs. San¬ ford R. Gifford, the widow of the dis th.gui.hedI artist, died a few daja ago at P nn £ a e, x . David Preston died suddenly of heart disease recently at Detroit, Mich. Mr. Preston is best known as a leading Meth odist and prohibitionist. He was a dele gate to several general conferences of the Methodist Episcopal church, and in 1881 was a delegate to the ecumenical council at London, Eng. His estate is worth nearly $1,000,000. The funeral of Lieut. John W. Danen hower took place in Oswego, N. Y. The escort was composed of the Kingsford (corn-starch factory) band, forty music¬ ians, and the 29th and 88th companies of the militia. Tbe casket was draped and covered with an American flag. The floral offerings were by the elegant, deceased’s several bro¬ pieces being sent ther officers. John Bright, advocating a continu¬ ance of free which trade in he England, that has the written a letter in says reason other nations maintain high tariffs is that those who are protected are an organized army, while consumers are merely a mob. United States under a system of protec¬ tion aro burdened with a large surplus revenue, yet refuse to lessen duties, thus promoting a system of corruption un¬ equalled in any other country. Rev. William M. Crumley, one of the oldest aud most respected citizens of Atlanta, Ga., died at the residence of his son. He was born at Lawrence Court House, S. C., February 29, 1816, and was but a bov " when he began preaching he the gospel. For fifty-three Methodist years Episcopal was a minister of the church, having been twice pas tor of Trin ity chureh in Atlanta, and having b held also important charges in Savannah, Au¬ gusta, Columbus, Macon and other prom* meat plaoes. a P uu att new intiita p.n v flaws. wb i p b " Burke oouniy jail at Waynesboro, Ga, ■> was recently destroyed by fire. Columbus, Miss., has voted to donate $100,000 to the Tombigbee railway. Judge William F. in Wright of Atlanta, in Ga., who was born Coweta county 1821, died recently at Alexandria, Va. Alabama's State encampment in June will be a fine affair, and will do much to increase the efficiency of the military of that state. Calhoun county, Ala., intends to send a loaded special with train specimens of cars as of far as New York of the resources that section. A jury was summoned by the sheriff of Baltimore, Aid., to determine the mental condition of Lambert Gittings, one of the wealthiest men in that city. His property is estimated at $2,000,000. Mrs. Edna Mullen, of Columbus, Ga., answered a ring of the door bell recently and some unknown ruffian tried to kill her by a blow over the head with a bar of iron. She escaped death, but received a terrible wound. In Jefferson City, Mo., Judge Henry and State Auditor Walker quarreled. The judge struck his opponent over the head with a cane and the auditor re¬ sponded and with neither a pistol seriously shot. Both are old men was hurt. The convention of the Shipping League of the South Atlantic States, held a meeting recently in Charleston, 8. and after passing resolutions favoring the increase of means for the Coast defences, adjourned to meet in Washington next April. Johnnie Ryols, a white boy while play¬ ing with tops colored in company chila with Willie Ga., Harris a at Macon, became involved in a quarrel, which ter¬ minated by the white boy killing the ne¬ gro by a stab-wound with a pocket knife. Both were employed in a cotton factory. The Georgia railroad is laying steel rails on the Athens branch. Mobile, Ala., petitions the interstate commission to suspend some of the en¬ actments of the law. The Grays and Blues of Montgomery, Ala., will enter the prize drill at Louis¬ ville, Ky., about the middle of June. A middle-aged man riding a small mule, is going over the state of Georgia passing off bogus silver dollars on the people. W. P. Fowler and Mr, Stivers, rector of the Episcopal Church at Grenada, Miss., had a difficulty recently, in which Mr. Stivers was mortally wounded. A freight train on the Valley branch of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, was wrecked near Timberville station.. Billy Cooley, of Strausburg, Va., brakeman, was killed, and Edward Russell, con¬ ductor, badly hurt. William Garvin, who murdered William Hankinson, near Waynesboro, Ga., a year ago, was arrested a few days since. Garvin killed Hankinson to prevent the latter from testifying against him in a and hog-stealing case. He buried the corpse escaped. Both were negroes. Tom Sheely, a farmer living near Op¬ elika, Ala., about a month ago was bit¬ ten on the little finger of his left hand by a fine dog. Recently symptoms appear* ed in the form of intense pains through¬ out his left side, and water being shown him he at once went into violent convul¬ sions. Three young sons of Geo. W. Hay¬ wood, of Solomon Island, in the southern part of Maryland, were drowned recent¬ ly. The boys, with a colored man, were returning in a small sail boat from a visit across the bay. The boat was capsized in a heavy gale and two of the boys, Frederick and Guy, were swept away in the darkness. The colored man and Bernard, the youngest boy, clung to the mast till daylight, when Bernard lost his hold and drowned. The colored man was picked up by a passing vessel. A REMONSTRANCE From Certain Citizens of Atlanta* Ga*» to the Railway Commissioners* The interstate commission, in session at Atlanta, Ga., received a formal docu¬ ment from a delegation of colored people which recited that they are assigned, peaceably if possible, by force if neces sary, by the officers in charge of the trains who claim to be acting under orders from superiors, to some particular car, known in the common parlance as the “Jim Crow car,” “smoker,” or “negro annex,” which is always inferior in every respect to cars occupied by and white passengers pay¬ ing the same fare which traveling between the same points, drunkards and car is also the retreat for all low and un¬ principled public other characters thereby of the subjecting traveling of races, maidens, wives, children, mothers ana sisters to horrible outrages and indigni¬ ties, and forcing them to listen to lan cruaire which is heard in, the brothel and AN ARCTIC EXPLORER DEAD. Suicide of Lieutenant Dnnenhower, of the Arctic Exploring Party. Lieutenant John W. Danenhower, of Arctic fame, was discovered at 10 o’clock Wednesday the morniDg dead in his quarters at naval academy, Annapolis, Md., with a bullet hole in his right temple. He was found lying on his rug in front of the fire place with a tag tied to his button hole, saying: “Send to my brother at Washington.” Although he has had mental trouble since he returned from the Arctic regions, what thought immediately have led to the suicide is, to been the recent ground¬ ing of the Constellation on its way to Norfolk, which he had charge of, and for which it is supposed he had fear of being courtmartialed. Furthermore, he was veiy intimate with young Robert W. Gatewood, who recently committed sui¬ cide on the Carolina, and whom he saw in death: It is supposed that this death suggested the mode to him. His wife, formerly with Miss Sloan, of New York, is away her parents. Lieutenant Danenhower leaves two children. He was about 35 years old and an intelligent and polished officer; ' " "'5? " h’w ‘ “as; 1v qr 3‘1‘5‘ ; , . a ' ‘3': w ‘ ‘ L [I " 5‘ i .. _ LATEST NEWS. The Wabash railway roundhouse, at Desmoines, la., containing fourteen en¬ gines, was burned recently! Mrs. Hetty Green, a forty million dollar New York widow, ii going to buy the Baltimore Ohio railway. Being refused a ten per cent, advance in wages, about 1,600 window-glass workers have quit work at Pittsburg, Pa. Harry Gill, Michael Bohannan, Harry Morrison, Daniel Finn and Eben Frances were killed at Tunnel colliery at Ashland, Pa., by a fall of coal. The speculators who bought up trade dollars made over a million dollars profit. About $5,250,000 of this depreciated cur¬ rency has been redeemed at par. A Central American confederacy with a firm constitutional basis has been formed. The treaty of peace and friend¬ ship which has just been made public, will probably promote the welfare of all the Central American republics. Fred Reeves, one of the militiamen guarding tho reservoir and state property in Paulding county, Ohio, where the cit¬ izens have partially destroyed tho old canal reservoir, accidentally shot and killed himself while on guard duty. Mr. Gladstone, in his speech at the dinner given by the labor members of Parliament, in London, Eng., declared his entire disbelief in the accusations made against the Irish leaders of being concerned in tho Phoenix park massacre. Customs officers throughout Great Britain and Ireland have received string¬ ent orders to search all vessels arriving from America, China and the east, tho government having been warned that ex¬ plosives have been sent from San Fran¬ cisco to ports in the east to be transhipped to England. The cases of a number of druggists and merchants charged with keeping open their places of business, on Sunday, came up for trial in Washington, D. C. Judge Snell, on authority of Webster’s Diction¬ ary, held the words “Sabbath” and “Sun¬ day,” to be synonymous. A fine of twenty dollars, or thirty days in tho workhouse, was imposed in each case. J. H. Burns, of Mansfield, Ill., a farm-* er, employed three men to paint a barn. They stood on a bracket scaffold twenty feet from the ground. A calf running at large with a rope around its neck man¬ aged to get the rope entangled in tho •upports of the scaffold, pulling the posts away, and two of the men were killed by the fall. The United States soldiers are evicting white settlers from the Crow Indian res¬ ervation. Ned Forrest, a well-known gambler of San Francisco, Cal., has turned over a new leaf and come out as an evangelist. The Pennsylvania railroad has boycot¬ ted thirty-two Western railroads for not complying with an agreement to abolish commissions on through tickets. Some of Buffalo Bill’s Indians, who are now in London, Eng., raised the war whoop the other night in Drury Lane theater and created a stampede. The great powers of Europe have de¬ clined to take part in France’s great ex¬ hibition of 1889, on the ground that the affair is intended to celebrate the fateful revolution of 1789. Dr. A. J. Grant, the noted English bigamist, died in the Cambridge, Mass., jail after an illness of several days. He was awaiting trial for robbing and desert¬ ing a maiden lady named Torrcy, and there were half a dozen other victims. A papal allocution was submitted to the council of cardinals at Rome recently and will be pronounced at the coming consistory. It refers to the peace made with Prussia and the changes in the hi¬ erarchy of India. It has finally been ar¬ ranged that Msgr, Rampolla shall become papal secretary of state. The Pope has sent confidential notes to the French and German governments of¬ fering to act as mediator in the Schnae bles affair. Copies of the French “Vie Parisienne” have been confiscated in Berlin on ac¬ count of an illustrated article ridiculing the German imperial family. The silversmiths employed at the Gor¬ ham Manufacturing company works at Providence, R. I., have voted to disband the local assembly of Knights of Labor. Arrangements are being made to hold a mass meeting in Victoria park, London, Eng., on May 21, to protest against the crimes bill. Thirteen Irish constables, who have recently recigned, have sailed for America. John W. Franklin, who ran for mayor once on the labor ticket, summoned sev oral member, of the Bricklayer.’ union , to the New York police court, charging them with conspiring to -deprive him of work and to prevent him from earning a living. A dispute has arisen between the Bel¬ gian government and the Vatican, which threatens to lead to serious trouble. The Belgian cabinet wanted the Vatican to instruct Catholics to vote for the army bill, which makes religious students liable to military serrloe. The Vatican fatly refeMd to do $q, : h ■