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VOLUME IV.
IRELAND’S FRIENDS
Io Atlanta, Ga., Mate the Wel¬
kin Ring with Protests
Against Coercion.
NOTABLE JUDGES, STATESMEN,
SOLDIERS, CLERGYMEN AND
LAWYERS ORATE MOST
ELOQUENTLY.
J hmdlem Turn One In Groat Force
K> Graee the Occasion.
Governor Gordon had been requested
to preside over the meeting, recently
held in Atlantu, Ga., to protest against
the proposed English coercion bill, and,
although seriously indisposed, consented
to do so. In calling the meeting to
order, he said that the vast assemblage
for was present great to express deep sympathy
maintained a cause; by a great groat people. cause grandly
physical condition,” a said he, “is “My
such
that but for the very great sympathy I feel
in the cause I would not be here to¬
night. I request Mayor Cooper to pre¬
side over the meeting.”
Mayor Cooper made a very short and
timely speech in assuming the chair, and
presented as the first orator, Col. Albert
Cox, who presented the. following res¬
olutions:
“As part of the Anglo Saxon race, im¬
bued with the principles of English law
and liberty, we resolve,
1. That the policy propounded by
Gladstone and Parnell—home rule for
Ireland—has our profound sympathy.
Our own experience has taught us, aud
we submit it to the world, that local self
government is the keystone of the arch
of civil liberty and safety.
2. We sympathize with all English
and Irish statesmen and patriots who op¬
pose the policy embodiea in the “coer¬
cion bill,” viewing that policy as sub¬
versive of those ancient English princi¬
ples, that men accused be tried by a jury
of peers of the vicinage; that the freedom
of the press be preserved; that the right
peaceably and to assemble, discuss grievances
that petition for redress be inviolate; and
the writ of habeas corpus bo sacred,
so that an honorable judiciary may
promptly liberty adjudicate whether personal
be restored or be forfeited to just
laws.
3. We express the hope that the signal
failure of all other policies will induce
tho statesmanship of England once to try
Jho policy of ft generous justice toward
Gen. Colquitt, U. 8. Senator, said, in
a pal most eloquent address, that the princi¬
have appeal of tho Irish is, that they shall
the their privilege birthright, so dear to all Ameri
cans as to be tried by
their peers. Wc love whut is just anil
what is right. There is hope that Ire¬
land will be rescued from tho blow which
is is intended to be dealt her. Jp the
case of Ireland the moral sentiment of the
world will stand by and applaud Parnell
and Gladstone.
The gem of the evening was the mag¬
nificent speech of Judge Howard Van
Epps, and it was said by competent
judges to be one of the most eloquent
addresses over heard in Georgia.
After a long introductory speech,
which was brimful of information ubout
Ireland and grnding laws. Judge Van
Epps traced The sources of Irish discon
tent, the remedies proposed, English ob¬
jections to these remedies, and the remedy
—coercion, now proposed by England.
Irish discontent he said finds its source in
the infamous agrarian laws of the coun¬
try, and in the aspiration of the Irish
people Henry for W. local Grady self-governmertt. made short but stir¬
a
ring speech, and was followed by Rev,
I)r. Hawthorne.
Letters were ready from Senator Brown
and others, and the subjoined message
was sent by cable to Gladstone:
“Gladstone and Parnell, London, Eng¬
land.—The people of Georgia, at a mass
meeting, pres id ml over by Governor Gor¬
don, and participated in well by both the
United States senators as as judges
and clergymen, protest against the coer
cion of Ireland, and wish you godspeed
in your struggle for Ireland and human¬
ity ”
WILLING TO MARRY ALL.
He Maimed to Have HM) VI ive*.
boarded A handsomely dressed young man
an elevated train in New York
recently. As soon as it pulled out from
the station he began wandering from car
to cor, looking at every lady with such
close scrutiny that some of them became
incensed and complained to the guards.
W hen he reached the last car he turned
and was about to return, when a guard
told him hitn lie was drunk, and if lie
did not sit down and Indiave he would be
put off at tho next station The young
man sat down, but as soou as the con¬
ductor left the car he arose and addressed
the crowd, saying:
“That man has accused me of being
drunk and I wish to deny the allegation.
I am a member of the church and a teeto¬
taller. 1 neither smoke nor chew. I have
but one weakness, and that is an inor¬
dinate for the beautiful. I consider wo¬
men th$. most beautiful and thing* on earth.
I adore them all would like to many
them all. If there is any lady in tho car
who will have me I will get off at the
next station and make her my wife.”
B y the time the young man had finish
ed the people in the car had concluded
he wm crazy and a g eneral rush was
made for the forward cars. On being
questioned and he said his name was Wallace
he lived in West Thirty-fourth
street. He claimed he had 100 wives
officer and wm took getting him home. new ones every day. An
Olf mmhP S DOOM.
The Etowah entered Iron and into Manganese com¬
pany have an agreement
with the Cartersville Land company by
virtue of which, the location of the works
of the former are aeeurred to the town,
and the immediate erection of a 150 ton
furnace peemieed.
2a,
i SOUTHERN NEWS.
W hen the Baltimore & Ohio Express Co.
gained the franchise of the Queen and
Orescent route and invaded the territory
of the Southern Express Co., a war of
rates was predicted, made and it has of thirty- come.
The latter company a cut
five per cent in rates on fruit and vegeta¬
bles to all western points.
The Richmond & Danville Railroad
has assumed control of the East Tennes¬
see, Virginia & Georgia railroad. E. B.
Thomas, general manager of the Rich¬
mond & Danville Co., will have charge
of the East Tennessee Co., in the same
capacity, with headquarters in Washing¬
ton. Henry Fink nas consolidated been appointed
vice president of the com.
pany, with office at Knoxville.
News of a terrible accident at Coosa
tunnel, on the extension of the Columbus
and Western railroad, Ala., is at hand. A
white foreman and seventeen negro la¬
borers were at work in the tunnel, get¬
ting ready for a large blast. While ram¬
ming the blast with an iron bar a strata
of flint was struck with the iron, making
a spark, which ignited the powder. Of
the eighteen men only six came out alive,
and all of them were more or less in¬
iured.
The annual parade of the fire depart¬
ment of Columbus, Ga., was a grand af¬
fair. Champion No. 6 won the first prize
in the colored companies’ contest.
Deputy United States Marshal John
Adam Knox, at Lexington, Ga., arrested one
Pope, colored. Adam is accused
of cheating and swindling, though he
claims to be blind.
Fire bugs in Macon, Ga., are giving
the police plenty of anxiety. Recently
Policeman Watkins caught Jim Williams
starting a fire under a house, but two
companions of the incendiary escaped.
Capt. Dawson, of the Charleston, S. C.,
News and Courier, has just returned from
Europe where he was decorated by the
Pope for using his influence as a journal¬
ist against dueling. His first action on
landing from the steamer was to sue the
New York Sun for libeling him.
The coroner of Cartsrsville, Ga., held
Babe an inquest Stafford, over the died body of a negro,
who from the effects
of a blow on the head inflicted with a
post of a chair by one Dee Stafford.
This was a most unprovoked murder, and
the accused will doubtless suffer the ex¬
treme penalty of the law.
A shock of earthquake was felt at El
Paso, Texas, recently. It was percepti¬
ble in every portion of the city and so
alarmed the citizens that only invalids
and the helpless were left within doors.
For probably two minutes preceeuing the
shock, many persons recognized the dis¬
tinct and offensive smell of sulphur.
While the vibrations lasted, many articles
hanging on walls oscillated and some fell
to the floor, while plastering fell from the
fronts and ceilings of many dwellings and
husinsss houses.
An elevator at Louisville, Ky., owned
by Brown, Johnson & Co., containing
hay, barley, rye, corn and oats, $100,000; was re¬
cently destroyed by fire. Loss
insured.
A party of eighty-three survivors of
the 57th and 59th Massachusetts volun¬
teers, who served in the army of the Po¬
tomac duriug the late War, went to Nor¬
folk, Va., recently, by a Bostou steamer.
The party was entertained by commit¬
tees of military and citizens.
Patrolmen Moss and McCullough reconciling of
Atlanta, husband and Ga., wife. succeeded They in pproach- a
were a
ed by Henry Hood, a negro w ho com
plained McGinnis, that his wife had eloped with had
Jim and that the pair
come to Atlanta. Later in the day they
came upon the woman at a house near
the cemetery, on Gullott street. Hood
was notified that his wife had been found,
and called at the city prison. The meet¬
ing resulted in a reconciliation.
Holly, A sensational Tenn. James wedding Smith occurred months near
some
ago married the daughter of a widow
lady named Lea, and she being a poor
woman, everybody said it was a good
thing for her, as Smith was considered
an iudustrious man. They lived togeth¬
er peacefully a month or two, when their
connubial bliss faded away. They sepa¬
rated, and a divorce was applied for and
granted at the last term of the court.
Several weeks ago, Smith again came in
the neighborhood, and hovered around
the scene of his withered affections. They
were this time, however, centered on the
mother of his former wife. They were
made husband and wife.
Dennis Maher was shot and killed in
New Orleans, La., recently by his son-in
law, Richard Crcely. Family trouble is
assigned as the cause of the crime.
John B. Bright, a young commission
merchant, left Birmingham, Ala., leav¬
ing, it is alleged, about from $2,000 of indebt¬
edness. He came Atlanta, and by
his pleasant address made many friends,
and was a favorite in society circles.
The question of using the organ in the
Methodist church at Sparta, Ga., was
carried before the presiding quarterly elder conference decid¬
by appeal, but the
ed that he had no jurisdiction in the
matter, so that instrument will be here¬
after used in the regular church services.
The wine dealers of Milledgeville, Ga.,
have relented and Friday night was the
last night that the wine bibbers were
permitted to cut the dust from their
throats with the ardent. The wine men
have done no business at all since the
prohibition committee began their war
against them.
George Ayers aud Henry Lindsay quar¬
relled about an indebtedness of $5, at
Bowling Green, Mo., recently, and the
latter was killed. Lindsay was and on horse¬
back when the quarrel began, as he
dismounted Ayers seized him by the
throat and quickly drew a knife acrosa
it, cutting it from ear to ear.
Two wife beaters were arrested In Ma¬
con, Ga., recently. The first was Theo¬
dore DeLouis, from sunny France, who
w hipped his wife terribly, and the sec¬
ond was Thomas Reid, a colored citizen,
who used his authority to an excess. He
best his wife unmercifully, and was
caught and caged along with his whits
bro titer.
A aibitisi t printing press has been dw
etvwre d at Odessa, Russia, and thirty-two
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“ Justice to All, Malice for None.”
EASTMAN, DODGE COUNTY. GA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 11, 1887.
UNCERTAIN EARTH.
ARIZONA AND CALIFORNIA BAD¬
LY SHAKEN.
A Volcano Appear* on a Mountain Crrot In
Arizona.
An earthquake occurred at Tucson,
Ariz., and considerable damage was done
So«s 8 ,Z e r n 7hor.
were more or less cracked. The shock
was accompanied stopped by a rumbling and the sound, entire
population Many clocks of were the city took the
terror-stricken. The courthouse to streets,^ cupalo
swayed like the mast of a ship in a tur¬
bulent sea, and the building itself seemed
as though it were toppling over. When
the shock strnck Santa Cathalina moun¬
tain, great slices of the mountain were
torn from its side and thrown to its base.
Vast clouds of dust arose above its crest,
7,000 feet above the sea level, at three
different points, from three to four miles
apart.
A volcano broke out at a point twenty
two miles south of Tucson, in Total
Wreck mountains, and a voloano is in
active operation border in San Jose mountains,
on the of Sonora, Mexico, south¬
west of Tucson.
A severe shock was felt at "Wilcox
The vibrations were from north to south
and lasted one minute and forty-five sec¬
onds.
Ten miles from Tombstone, a lake cov¬
ering an acre of ground was completely
dried up in twenty minutes. Embank¬
| ments along the New Mexico and Arizona
railroad were moved from their former
positions in many instances as much as
twelve inches.
A severe shock occurred, which externl
front Centerville, Cal., through Ari
zona and New Mexico to El Paso, Texas.
PERSONAL.
Patti taxed New York $80,000 for
six conceits.
Rev. J. W. Lee will preach tho College, com¬
mencement sermon at Hiwassoe
Tenn., and will also deliver the annual
address.
The popular fund for Mrs. J. A. Logan
has been closed. One hundred thousand
dollars was asked and $67,000 was given.
Hon. 8. S. Cox is writing a book which
he will call “The Diversions of a Diplo¬
mat.” It will deal with his brief experi¬
ence in Turkey.
Rev. George White, who was rector of
Calvary Episcopal church, in Memphis,
Tenn., from 1858 to 1876, died recently
in the 85th year of his age.
J. C. Latham, of Latham, Alexander
& Co., New York, has erected a beauti¬
ful monument of Scotch granite at Hop¬
kinsville, Kentucky, in honor of the
Confederate dead who are at rest there.
At the great anti-coercion meeting in
Hyde Park, London, Eng., a huge coffin,
bearing Mr. Balfour’s name, was paraded
about and finally set up behind Mr. Sex¬
ton as a sounding board during his ad¬
dress.
Mart Anderson, the actress has de¬
veloped such vocal talent recently that
her friends are urging her to introduce
music into some of her well-known role*,
while some even advise the operatic
stage.
JonN S. Logan, who had charge of
the printing department of the railway
mail service, in the United States court
house at Atlanta, Ga., is dead. The re¬
mains were carried to Opelika, Ala., for
interment.
Charles Kohler, who died recently
in San Francisco, went to California in
1852 as a musician, and in 1854 founded
the wine industry of that State, which
has grown to an annual consumption of
7,000,000 pounds of grapes.
Vienna has decided to erect a bronze
statue to Joseph Haydn, the execution
of which has been intrusted to the Aus¬
trian sculptor, Natter. It will be un¬
covered on the 31st of May, the seventy
eighth anniversary of the composer’s
death.
During the reign of Queen Victoria,
there have been erected 6,500 buildings
for worship in the Church religious of England, as
against 8,000 by all together. other Seven com¬
munications put new
dioceses have been founded at home, and
sixty-two in the colonies.
Te Hen Hen has presented to the
New Zealand government for a public
park the “wonderland” of that country,
including the volcano Tongariro, the ex¬
tinct volcano Ruapehu, Mount Ngarua
hoe, and the hot-lake district. Te Hen
Hen is a great chief of the Ngatutaw
baretoa Marries.
The lato Mrs. Catherine Van Renssel¬
aer, of Mobile, Ala., was the last
surviving daughter of Gen. childhood, Philip
Schuyler. Left aji oiphan in Mrs. Alex¬
she was adopted by her aunt,
ander Hamilton, and after the fatal Ham
ilton-Burr duel she went to live with her
uncle, the Patroon Stephen Rensselaer.
Canon Liddon, replying the to Edinburgh some com¬
ments on his refusal of
bishopric, writes: “1 can sincerely the say
that my motive in declining See of
Edinburgh was that which has led me
before now to decline higher English
preferment than I hold at present, name¬
ly, the belief that I could serve God and
His church better by declining it.”
John Ruskin is not a friend to the bi¬
cycle. He 6ays: “To walk, to run, to
leap and to dance are the virtues of the
human body, and neither to stride on
stilts, wriggle on wheels or dangle on
ropes, and nothing in the training of the
human mind with the body will ever
supersede the appointed God's way of
slow walking and hard working.
Rev. D. H. Webster, who is now a
preacher in Illinois, “Lorena.” 16 the author It of the
famous song, was sung
everywhere on its appearance fifteen
veare ago. Its origin lay in the rejection
by Miss Blockson, of Zanesville, Ohio, of
Webster’s addresses. Miss Blockson
afterward married Judge Johnson, who
lately resigned from the supreme bench
of O hio owing to incurable ill-health.
Solou Dean, a young man about thirty
years of age, of Elkton, Va., was found
dead near the Greene county line. His
body Art. showed that he had been killed by
gun
LABORS AGITATION
Strike* Ordered all Over The Country.
Bricklayers, bricklayers’ laborers and
carpenters, to the number of two hun
o£?' ta,Tn 8 to<£n£e oTwaU 0
House ✓ painters in all Wilmington,
8 * r ® c k *£ r $2.50 per day, a
ra,8e °f 25 cents. Two of the largest
-<? 'SST^ffL othemwKC'!
All the carpenters in Washington, City,
because numbering employes nearly 300, refused quit work give to-day,
to them
the same wages for nine hours work as
they received last season for ten hours.
A Hamilton, large number of carpenters struck
at Ont., for an increase in
wages to 22J cents an hour all around.
Printers in the Hamilton Palladium office
are to be called out because the proprie¬
tors refuse to discontinue the use of
stereotype is labor plate matter. The Palladium
a paper.
The glass mixers and teasers, of Pitts¬
burgh, Pa., who struck two weeks ago
for ten per cent advance, returned to
work at their old wages. The recent
decision on the coke question was the
principal the fact argument against arbitration,
And that the Knights of Labor
did not support the strike, left the men
without resources.
A general strike of the coke workers
of Connellsville, Pa., region is certain,
One-half of the men refused to go to
work, and others it is thought will strike,
The operators issued their ultimatum in
which they refused to make any conces¬
sion at present, but promised to consider
the matter as soon as there is an advance
in coke. They are preparing to t close
down for a long and bitter fignt.
Some of the hands employed by Mc
Ginty & Co., on the public school build¬
ing at Athens. The Ga., demanded an increase
of wages. demand arose from the
fact that the hands employed by R. L.
Bloomfield on his Clayton street improve
ments Ginty were & Co., getting acceded higher wages. the increase, Mc
to
begin stipulating earlier however, in the day that than work heretofore, should
and that the stopping time should be
later.
NATIONAL CAPITAL NOTES.
Gossip About the President, His Cabinet
and Other Notables.
WhRt Hosthern Mss are Heinz Rscofnlzed
I n cere aline Item* About the National
Drill, Etc., Etc.
THE PRESIDENT'S INTENTION.
United States Marshal McMahon, of
New York, says: “I had a pleasant chat
with the President and invited him to
attend the meeting of the Society of the
Army of the Potomac in Saratoga on
June 22. He did not make a direct prom¬
ise, but gave me to understand that he
would certainly go, if possible. California, We are
going to build a new Home in
in Napa valley, and the President thinks
of going out there with us in September.
Homes' and“!f he rouMfi"” time” this
summer or fall, would make the trip.”
GUILTY OF BRIBERY.
Uriah Cornell Allen pleaded guilty in
the criminal court to two indictments
charging bribe him with haviDg offered a
of a certificate of stock in the Pratt
manufacturin is company, valued at $500,
to James B. Rogers, an examiner in the
patent his office, with a view to influencing
official action. Judge Haguer sen -
tenced Allen to pay a fine of $1,500 and
to imprisonment in jail for eighteen days.
DEATH OF BIOGRAPHER
Frank H. Alfricnd, assistant libarinn
of the Senate, died aged forty-seven
years. The deceased was born in Rich¬
mond, Va., and for many years was a
prominent politician and journalist. He
was a personal friend of Jefferson Davis,
Secretary Lamar and other eminent south¬
erners. Mr. Alfriend was the first bio¬
grapher of Jefferson Davis.
VISIT OF A QUEEN.
Queen Kapiolani, of Hawaii, and her
suite, arrived recently. At Baltimore
they were met by the Hawaiian minister,
Mr. Carter and Sevollen Brown, Capt.
D. M. Taylor, and Lieut. R. P. Rogers,
who wrere detailed by the state, war and
navy departments to extend the courte¬
sies of the government to the distin¬
guished guests, and were escorted to
Washington.
THE PC BUG DEBT.
The comptroller of the currency has
authorized the Chattanooga National
business with a capital of
$.100,000. The debt statement, just is
sued, shows the decrease of the public
^ $13,0o3,098.75. during the month Decrease of of Apnl the to debt be
since June 30th, 1886, $83,965,928.06.
( ash in treasury, $460,105,896.41; gold
certificates outstanding, $94,434,485;
430; ®i|' <: ‘ r legal certificates certificates, outstanding, of deposit $137, <40,- out
standing, standing, $8,350,000; legal tenders out
$346,681,016; fractional cur
rency (not including amount estimated
as lost or destroyed), $6,948,4 <-.37.
338.72. qflR W 111 T* Total 8 f l debt, $1,704.174,9o7.88. 1 i?! 0 q\ 7 5 «V
$180,902,431 or tre *n£^S $,037,416 n , less 30 ^ than WM on
March 31st. Circulation of standard
sdver dollars April 80th was $155,785 -
205 or $1,066,450 less than March 81st |
Note*.
The comptroller third dividend of the currency has
declared a of ten per cent
in favor of the creditors of the Exchange
National bank, of Norfolk, Va. This
makes in all forty per cent on claims
proved, amounting to $2,888,986.
Cleveland, It is reported the President’s that Miss Rose Elizabeth
sister, will be¬
come a teacher in a prominent private
school for young ladies in New York.
POISON IN MILK.
_
The wholesale milk poiaooiog °______ which
occurred , at A T Long Branch ~ last summer
has conclusively shown for the first
time, that milkwarm from the cow, when
placed in tight cans under conditions
which greatly retard the dispersion of its
hear, w.ll undergo change with the de
velopinent in the comae of fire hour, of a
potaon callod tjrotoxicon.
l0My POlfillg llltO Ut SOUtt fOI MIllS,
Foundries, Railways, Etc.
A * A brewery ia to be started at Florence,
The Fountain Head Railroad Co. will
build a dummy railroad at Knoxville,
Tenn.
The Atlanta Gas Light Economizer
Co., capital stock $100,000, has been in¬
corporated.
The Birmingham, Ala., Water Works
will build a reservoir with 1,000,000
gallons capacity.
The Georgia Pacific Railroad Co. are
ham, building a branch road from Binning
All a., to Bessemer.
Ala., Many men doing business at Sheffield,
in the are adjoining now living in tents, Tuscambia. and some
town of
A company has been formed to build a
been rolling mill at and Florence, Ala. A site has
Selected work will soon begin.
The Marietta & North Georgia Rail¬
road Co. will change their road to the
standard gauge, and extend it to Knox¬
ville, Tenn.
Robert McCarroll has received the con
tract to build a pier for the U. 8. gov
eminent $33,000. at Charleston, 8. O. It will
cost
The Missouri Pacific Railroad Co. will
build a union depot and machine shops
at Fort Bmith, Ark., and a bridge across
the Arkansas river.
Bush Bros, are testing their clay at
Chauncey, Ga., and will, if it is satisfac¬
tory, erect a plant with a capacity of
about 80,000 daily.
The Falls of Neuse Manufacturing.
Co., at Raleigh, N. C., have built an ad¬
dition 40x75 feet, to their cotton factory
and added 40 plaid looms.
A number of furnaces will be built
during 1887 and 1888. A number of
companies have lately been organized to
build furnaces in Southwest Virginia.
The East Alabama Railroad Co. have
increased tneir capital stock from $2000,
000 to $400,000, and have let the con¬
tract to grade the extension of their road
to Roanoke, 17 miles.
Mr. Stevens, a large builder and con¬
ground tractor of at Birmingham, ( hoccolocco, Ala., 8 miles has from secured An¬
niston on the Georgia Pacific railroad for
a large brick plant.
The Armour Packing Co., of Chicago,
Ala., have signed a contract with the Selma.,
Land, Improvement & Furnace
Co., and work will commence immediate¬
ly on a large packing concern and refrig¬
erator there.
The Clinch Valley Railroad Co., re¬
ported ized with as Joseph inaugurated, I. Doran, has of been Philadel¬ organ¬
phia, the Pa., as president. build the The object of
company is to extension of
the Norfolk & Western Railroad from
Grabam, Tazewell county, to a connec¬
tion of the Louisville & Nashville Rail
MteDdcd ea8twsrd ,rom
’ *'*
FIGHTING POVERTY.
What Henry George and Rev. Dr. McGlynn
are Doing.
The anti-Poverty society, of which
Rev. Dr. McGlynn is president and Henry
George vice-president, held their first
public meeting at Chickering hall, New
York. The hall was packed to overflow¬
ing, and on the platform were a large
number of leaders of the united Labor
party. The exercises opened with sing¬
ing by a chorus of fifty voices led by
Miss Mullier. Henry George presided,
and Dr. McGlynn, in addressing the vast
audience, said: “I am intensely con¬
scious that we stand here to-night on a
historic platform. The founders of this
society, in years to come, will look back
upon to-night’s meeting with pleasure.
It is said a priest of Christ should not
stand here to speak of a cause which pro¬
poses to abolish this horrid crime of pov¬
erty, which is the injusfice of man, in
violation of the laws of God. I would
be recreant to my sacred priesthood if I
should falter to speak the word which I
am commanded by my Lord and Master
to speak.” At the close of the services
an anthem was sung by the choir and
audience. The society proposes to hold
a meeting every Sunday night.
DEATH’S HARVEST
L.csaiMin. Located i. Briti.k Coiambi..
^ terrible explosion of gas took place
recently in a shaft of the Vancouver Coal
Co.’s mine, in which there were upwards £
of 150 minerg at the time< The r8t in _
timation those on the surface had of the
eX plosion was a terrific shock, followed
^ tn ou t bur8 t 0 f thick, black Bmoke
through the air shaft. The first explos
j on was q U i c kly followed by a second
stronger than the first. It carried
pi cce g 0 f wood, miners’ lamps, etc., hun
dreds of feet in the air. hi a few minutes
flame8 b t0 ififiue through the air
sba /t with a loud, roaring and noise. The fan
house ponsuiued. >oon caught fire around was the quickly shaft
The scenes
*> ead were most heartrending. Friends
tbose imprisoned \ below are looking
f the miM Dg K , but little hopes are en
terUined for the eafet £ v of about 150
minerg who are in the
FORGOT HIS KINS’FOLKS.
The will of Alexander Mitchell, the
millionaire banker who died at Milwau¬
kee, Wis., recently, has been made public.
No approximation made, of the value of the
estate is and the terms of the will
will avoid the filing of an inventory, so
that the exact wealth left by Mitchell
will never be known. It is believed to
be from fifteen to twenty-five millions.
The entire property, real and personal, is
left to his only son, John L. Mitchell,
after deducing but small Kveml trifling the legacies.
leaving j^g sums to rest of his
re i at
CHIC AGO ST RIKE.
o*er S,000 hod-carrier, of Chicago
? „ th , £ y t,-|,e
noreMe in w fro tw , 0 to
i.irty centopernonr.
FENIANISM.
Wfcea Gladstone Became a Home-R nter.
The libel suit brought in London, Eng.,
against William Ridgway, publisher of
the the Picadflly, black pamphlet for $25,000 the for Irish asserting in
recently issued by on him, that Sir question, John
Brennon, plaintiff, Parliament, former home rule and
member of was a Fenian
ally of the tnvincibles. The court room
was crowded in anticipation of develop¬
ments, called, pleaded Mr. Ricjgway, that the defendant, alleged libei being
WM
true. Brennon, the plaintiff, being
sworn, said he never was a Fenian. He
left the Land League, he said, in June,
1880, after a quarrel with its managers
for opening his telegrams. He had not
since that time joined any Irish league or
association, or any Fenian league or asso¬
ciation. Be had never interfered with
the work of tracing dynamiters. Sir John
declared that Sir Lyon Playfair told him
that Mr. Gladstone had become converted
to the home rule theory in 1879, and that
he desired Mr. Parnell to accept the office
of chief secretary for Ireland.
ASSAILING A CHURCHMAN.
“Archbishop Henry George’s Standard recently said:
York, Corrigan, who, as bishop of
New presumed by secret circular
to instruct Catholic citizens how they
should vote, represents that wing of
Catholics who are to make the church in
this country a political machine, while
what Dr. McGlvnn stands for is the
political independence of the clergy and
laity.” The paper also informs its read¬
ers that the of archbishop $40,000 of the diocese gets
a salary a year for his own
use. A headline in the Standard asks:
“ What does the archbishop do with his
$40,000?” It is reported in Catholic cir¬
cles—and the report comes from an ap¬
parently reliable source—that the forth,
coming statement attitude defining toward Archbishop
Corrigan’s the Catholic
Herald , phase and describing his stand on the
present of the McGlynn matter and
other topics that are uppermost in the
minds of Catholics, will contain passages
of a startling nature.
DIPLOMATS QUARRELING.
Considerable friction and bad feeling
exists between the United States legation
and consulate general, at London, Eng.,
the cause being the failure on the part of
the legation to include either the consul
general or his family in the official list
furnished by Mr. Phelps to the lord
chamberlain for court eutertainments.
Mrs. Waller the wife of the consul gen¬
eral and her daughters are leaving for
the United States, and will be ab sent
from London throughout the whole of
the jubilee festivities. It is asserted that
the consul general thoroughly disaproves Phelps
of the throw repeated cold efforts of Minister the American 1
to water on
exhibition.
IGNOMINIOUKLY EXPELLED.
Arguments in the Dakin concluded bribery im¬
peachment the case were before
Lansing, Michigan legislative committee, at
and the case was submitted to
the House. By a vote of 83 to 11, it was
decided that he had endeavored to pro¬
cure money from F. L. Eaton and John
Stackleton ostensibly to corrupt mem¬
bers, but really with a view to appropri¬
ating it to his own use. Of the specific
charge price that he had placed an estimated
after the names of fifteen members,
no was unanimously found guilty. A
resolution was offered that Dakin be ex¬
pelled from the House, and it was adopt¬
ed by a unanimous vote.
LIYBLY BULL FIGIITING.
The City of Mexico is enjoying the
novelty of bull-fighting at night, the
arena being brilliantly illuminated with
electric lights. The illumination put the
bulls in a fury, and the first bull, made
frantic, rushed at the picadors and in a
minute was master of the arena, having
killed one horse and gored two others.
The net result of the first night was four
horses killed, several torn and crippled;
two matadors nearly killed and several
picadors disabled.
ABOUT CROPS.
The Western crops summory says: The
conditions in the main have been favor¬
able for growing winter wheat. The
condition of spring wheat in low*, Minn¬
esota and Nebraska is reported to be good,
though Iowa promises rains are needed. fully The acreage in
to be as large as last
year, if not somewhat larger. The mead¬
ows in lliinoi Indiana and Ohio are
thin and slow in starting. Widespread
injury to clover farms in Illinois is re¬
ported, owing to the injury from freezing.
A MINISTERS CRIME.
Rev. A. M. Morrison who stole a horse and
buggy near Baltimore, Md., was arrested
in Brockton, Mass. He was returned to
Baltimore. Conviction followed, and he
was sentenced to seven years in the peni¬
tentiary with hard labor. Mr. Morrison
was formerly a Methodist minister and
was at one time well known in New Eng¬
land. Liquor was the cause of his down¬
fall, his last pulpit having been in Wil¬
liamsburg, KV. Last year he suffered
imprisonment for forgery.
about monuments.
Chinese Gordon is to have a colossal
bronze statue in Trafalgar square, Lon¬
don. Yamo Thomycraft is the designer. patrol
He will represent Gordon in a
jacket, unarmed, with a Bible in his
right hand and his foot resting on a
^oken cannon.
John C. Breckinridge is to have a
monument, too. It will be unveiled at
Lexington, Ky., next October.
HORSE THHVI&
Felix Griffin, a notorious outlaw, wm
killed recently near Webber Falla, Ark.,
while stealing horses. Felix was leader
of an organized band of horse thieves.
Robert Vann, owner of the horses, heaid
that Griffin was lurking and around shot him his place dead
andJUud when he inwait entered for the him stables with
two
companions. The others escaped, though
badly wounded.
NUMBER 50.
LATEST NEWS.
The anti-German feeling is so strong in
Paris that the proposed performance of
Lohengrin has been prohibited.
The Chinese government has ordered
that every foreign missionary must hold
a passport from his own government, in
order that his nationality may be shown.
All other passports are declared invalid.
United States Marshal Mead has arrest¬
ed three men charged with robbing the
express car near Tucson, Ariz. They are
named Barrock, Swsin and McCussick.
All three were saloon keepers.
Rev. Charles W. Ward, the Bogie
wood, N. J., rector, recently accused of
attempting to murder his wife, was found
dead at the home of Judge Drew, his
counsel, at Rockland Lake, from an over¬
dose of chloral.
Wm. H. Vanderbilt used to return his
personal property at $1,000,000. Shortly
after his death the same property was as¬
sessed at $10,000,000. The executors
offered to pay on $5,000,000 or move out
of New York. A compromise of $8,000,
000 has just been agreed upon.
The storekeeper of the warehouses
known as Almacons de Deposits at Ha
vanna, Cuba, lias disappeared and is
said to be a defaulter in the sura of
$500,000.
The Glasgow steamship, John Knox,
laden with liquor, brick and rolling
stock, struck the reefs near Channel har¬
bor, at St. John's, N, B., and sank in
half an hour. Every soul on board per¬
ished.
The Hounslow gunpowder mills, at
Hounslow, England, were destroyed by
an explosion, which occurred in the mill¬
ing room. One man was killed. Much
damage was done to property in the
neighborhood.
The royal commission at Dublin, Ire¬
land, for arterial drainage has recom
men led tho expenditure by the govern¬
ment of $1,325,000 in improving the
river Shannon; $325,000 in improving
the Barrow, and $100,000 in improving
the Bann.
Advices from St. Petersburg, Russia,
state that the nihilists set fire to a police
station in that city and that eight police¬
men perished in the flames, while nine¬
teen others were more or less injured.
The day following a timber yard was de¬
stroyed by fire and several workmen and
firemen were killed.
Caspar H, Borgess, Catholic bishop of
Detroit, has resigned. The resignation
was sent to Rome six weeks ago, and a
formal acceptance was received. Bishop
Borgess was consecrated bishop April
24th, 1870, and during his seventeen
years, incumbency has had many troubles,
especially with the Poles and French.
Before sending in his resignation, the
bishop promulgated a sentence of ex¬
communication against all who were con¬
cerned in the Polith riots in connection
with the Stalbert’s church troubles a year
ago.
Six men escaped from the county jail
at Worcester, Mass., recently. George
A. Barton, who was serving a term for
polygamy, had been trusted to work in
the corridors and cells and had a cell key
during the day. He had a fight with
George French and both of them were
put in solitary confinement, in which was
also another prisoner. The fight was a
part of a plot. Three men by the use of
Barton’s key, which had been concealed
in one of the solitary cells, opened the
doors and attacked the grated windows,
pried the bars apart, got into the yard
and over the fence and made their es¬
cape.
A west bound passenger train on the
Atlantic & Pacific railway, which left
Albuquerque heavily loaded with passen¬
gers, was derailed fifteen miles west of
Coolidge, N. M., and the train badly
wrecked. Several persons were killed
and injured.
Advices from St. Petersburg, Russia,
says thst after a fortnight’s quietude, the
country is again in a state of uneasiness.
Large armaments are being pushed for¬
ward with feverish activity. An order
of the war ministry points to the concen¬
tration of great masses of troops on the
frontiers of Russia.
Mrs. Herman Lyons was murdered on
her ranch near Napa, Cal., in February,
by a farm hand, Peter Olsen, who escaped
and for whose capture a large reward is
outstanding. A report reached there that
Olsen wm recently killed while resisting
arrest, near Bakersfield, Col. An inves¬
tigation made showed, however, tho
wrong man had boon killed, the victim
being W. H. Seibert, a farmer, wbo late¬
ly settled near Bakersfield.
Judge Hilton, of New York, hM given
Mcissouier’s painting of Friedlaad, 1807,;
to the Metropolitan museum of art. Ha
has also p re s sa t e d the museum with
“DetsHIe** Defense of Champaigny. H
The first was bought by Judge Hilton aft
tilt sale of A. T. Stewart’s collection for
the purpose to which it is now devoted.
Judge Horace Russell, Hilton’s
law, hM also presented to tho
Piloty** painting of ^‘Thusnslda at
Triumph of Germaricus,” purohacr^
|ha sale of the Stewart collection.
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