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VOLUME IV.
The colored people of his country have
a medical college ami a college of den¬
tistry. This year ten -: udents graduated
at the medical college in Nashville and
three at the dental college.
A Merced (Cal.) farmer has poisoned
over 20,000 jnek rabbits in tho last four
years, oal yet, iu spite of the warfare
against H»em, thpy are increasing in num¬
ber, and are becoming a veritable plague
to tho Merced and Fresno farmers.
The once famous Cardiff giant has been
heard from again, after years of oblivion.
It reposes in a lidless box at El Paso,
Texas, which serves as a settee for tho
idlers of tliat town. It appears that the
giunt was carried to El Paso a long while
ago by some speruJattVe individuals whoso
design it was,R/takc him to Mexico and
bury him, with the ultimate view of resur¬
recting him for thc show business. Since
then he is said to have been sold for tho
paltry price of $32.
One of the auditors of thc Treasury De¬
partment, who had rented a house in a
fashionable quarter of Washington, was
surprised to discover, when the end of
the month rolled around, that his land¬
lord was none other than one of the mes¬
sengers of his Bureau. Further inquiry
developed the fact that the latter had
been loaning money through tho depart¬
ment to impecunious clerks and others,
extorting in return an interest of 10 per
cent, a month. The ex-messc.ngcr Haims
to have kept $10,000 in constant circula¬
tion, which, deducting losses, netted
him a profit of about $8,000 a year.
The Chinese are a mild-mannered race,
but they draw the line at banking irregu¬
larities. When the recent failure of the
Tung Lung bank at Hong Kong was made
public, a crowd of excited depositors
stormed the building, ransacked it from
toji to bottom, and carried off and de¬
stroyed everything contained in it.. This
is a shorter and perhaps a more profitable
way of declaring a dividend than the one
usually pursued in occidental communi¬
ties. On this occasion it is not stated
whether the officers of the bank were
among the assets. The probability is that
they fled to the Montreal of China, wher¬
ever that may be.
Thc recent reappearance of the drum in
some European armies, from which it had
been banished, will seem timely should
thc whole <«mtinent now he called to
arms. General Farre, the French War
Minister, abolished it, nnd not until his
retirement whs it restored to the army of
France. Belgium followed Farre’s ex¬
ample,lmt. iw>\v her troops have welcomed
the return of the familiar music. Italy,
after being fifteen years without it, is
thinking of trying it again, the Trihumt
and Eacirite It alia no pleading vigorously
for it with the war authorities, The
argument against the drum was no doubt
theoretically strong. It was a relic of
barbaric days, requiring the employ¬
ment of a large force of men to do noth¬
ing but make a noise. ’Hie cumbersoius
instruments are often lost in battle or re¬
quire inordinate attention to take care of
them. After its successful raid against
the drums, the proci ■ss o f dry, scientific
elimination was extended to the colors.
There, however, it met a repulse; and in
the reaction in favor of the pomp and cir¬
cumstance of war, as a relief from its
mere slaughtering capacity, the drum
gets a hearing again.
The Commissioner of the General Land
Office has rejected thc application of the
heirs of John E. Bouiigny for the issue of
prize land script to the extent of 75,000
acres. This claim dates from the year
1717 and is involved in the historic oper¬
ations of John Law, of South Sea Bubble
fame. It. is based upon an alleged grant
by thc government of France, covering a
portion of the then French colony of
Louisiana. The claimants succeeded, in
1807, in getting an act passed by Congr ■(>—
affirming their title. After the pas-age
af the act it was discovered that the Su¬
preme Court had passed upon the claim
adversely. Thereupon a joint resolution
was passed suspending the operation of
the act. The claimants assert that the
art involved something in the nature of a
contract and, therefore, it was not within
the competency of Congress to annul it.
Writing about the recent grout growth
of Minneapolis, a correspondent says:
“There urc twenty-four flouring mills on
the banks of the Mississippi River, cm
ploying altogether some five thousand
men nnd a vast amount of machinery and
capital invested, the daily capacity of
theso mills lieing 31.200 barrels of flour,
nnd exporting directly to Europe about
2,000,000 barrels per year. This great
industry would of itself alone, with its de¬
mands of barrels, bags, machinery, etc.,
build up a large city; but in addition to
flour and lumber there are miscellaneous
manufactures of many staple articles- of
wood and metal, atul also of textile fab
ricksj which were a few years ago made
exclusively in the Eastern States. The
values of thc manufactures, exclusive of
flour and lumber, in 1885, were $21,050,
000. Altogether this miscellaneous man¬
ufacturing gives employment to over ten
thousand men. The jobbing trade of
Minneapolis has increased from about
$1,000,000 only in’ 1870 to the amount of
$41,809,000 iu 1885. There are now six¬
teen railroads entering the city, and more
seeking admittance.”
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Mo?.o Pouring into the Sonth for Mills,
l nmdries, Railways, Etc.
Aid Helena, Ark., is about to build asplen
opera-house.
Union City, Tenn., will build a $150,
000 court-house. •
San Antonio, Tex., devotes $150,000
for a city hall, jail, etc.
Greenville, Tenn., is to have a tobacco
factory to cost $20,000.
Tbnro I ;• „ C a i lC '!I light company at
win. 8t0n> v ^ n ^ a Ca P^ a °*
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The Memphis & Birmingham Railroad
Co. contemplate building a branch road
to Aberdeen, Miss.
S. Inman and others have chartered
the East Atlanta, Ga., Land Co. with a
capital stock of $00,000.
Samuel II. Lowry has organized a $50,
000 stock company to cultivate and man
ufacturc silk at Birmingham, Ala.
A company with a capital of $50 000
has been organized at Titusville A rk
to cultivate the poppy and manufacture
morchine.
Packard & Grover will move their
large shoe factory from Brockton, Mass.,
hands to Owensboro, Ky. Threo hundred
will be employed.
The Carolina, Knoxville & Western
Railway Co. has been incorporated to
build a road from Knoxville, Tenn., to
Greenville, S. C., 150 miles.
J. B. Burkstrcsser has purchased the
Black Mills falls water power, at Dade
ville, Ala., and will, it is said organize a
stock company to build a cotton factory.
W. G. Wclty, of Cleveland, Ohio, and
associates will build large works to man¬
ufacture iron bridges, nuts bolts, at
Rome, vested. Ga. About $40,000 will be in¬
J. A. Montgomery, F. Y. Anderson.
G. B. West, W. J. Cameron and I. Foist
have incorporated a company to build a
hotel at Leeds, Ala., with a capital stock
of $150,000.
The Alexander Iron Co., of Nashville,
reported before, has a capital stock of
$1,000,000. The company will at once
erect malleable iron works with a daily
capacity of about 30 or 40 tons.
Tho Balcony Falls Co., of Virginia,
been previously reported as incorporated, has
organized with an authorized capi¬
tal slock of $2,500,000. The company
will start a town and build furnaces and
manufactories.
George F. Alford, of Dallas, Tex., and
J. H. Langley, of Boston, Mass., con¬
template Archer Coal incorporating the Dallas &
& Iron Iluilwuy Co.,to build
a ruilroiul from Dallus to Archer county,
to Open up mineral lands.
John S. Perry, the great stove decided manu¬
facturer, of Albany, N. Y., to
establish expensive stove works in thc
South, and spent considcra 1 '’ * time in¬
vestigating the advantages of different
locations for this industry. Finally, he
decided upon Bouth Pittsburg, Tenn.
GOD’S VISITATION
ON OUR NEIGHBOR, MEXICO.
A Seismic Convulsion Which Kock> lho
Country, I’rotltiring Horrible Chasm*.
Many People Killed nnd (in
erul Terror.
News from Guymas, Mexico, state that
the earthquake of a few days ago was ac¬
companied Batrispe, by a which terrible destroyed volcanic erup¬
tion at Mont a
znma, killing one hundred and fifty per¬
sons ami igniting Twcnty-sevcfi the woods in the
vicinity. persons were
also killed at Oxutu by the falling build¬
ings. Many and persons were injured in
Grenada Gusabar, which towns were
almost completely destroyed. earthquake
Another violent is reported
in San Jose mountains, forty miles South
of Fort Huachuca, in Sonora. Gen. For¬
syth investigate. has sent an exploration party to
A party just returned from
Santa Caliana mountains report that the
canyons arc full of water, which was
brought to the surface by the earthquake.,
This is a great boon for that region, us
there are thousands of acres of good
farming lands at the base of these moun¬
tains, which only needed water to make
them valuable. Another good effect of
the earthquake te the opening of two
large gold veins, which were discovered
in Santa Calsiua mountains, at a point
where the whole side of thc mountain slid
down.
COERCION FAILING
And Ireland’s Friend* Very Hopeful.
With regard to the recent division in
the British Parliament, refusing a se
lect committee, a deputation of eonserv
ative members waited upon the Irish
party, to say that if the latter were wil¬
ling that the scope of the proposed include com¬ thc
mittee be so enlarged representing so as to
Parnell letter, they, conservatives, would a con
siderable number of
support Mr. Gladstone’s amendment.
The Irishmen counseled with Mr. Glad¬
stone, Mr. Morley and Mr. Dillon, and
subsequently said they were willing to
have it so enlarged as to include any
charge made by anybody against any
Irish meinlx r. Then the couser^IB
waited on Mr. W. H.
taken among hi', follower,, he
would resign The
tend, to weaken the allinm". of the con
perv.tive, and unionists, and thusworks
BUFFALO BIL.I/S POPULARITY.
Thc American exhibition at London,
Eng., was formally opened recently. Abmt The
weather was clear and sunny.
7,000 jiersons attended. The bursting of
a boiler during of the the machinery, morning prevented otherwise
the starting of the opening,
the programme ceremony
was carried out. Hundreds of visitors
ignored. the ceremony of opening the
regular exhibition and ruahed to the
grounds where the Wild West show per
formed.
“ Justice to AU. Malice for None.”
EASTMAN. DODGE COUNTY. GA., WEDNESDAY. MAY 18, 1887.
SOUTHERN NEWS.
i Invitations have been sent by the Press
1 club and chamber of commerce, of Bir
™/"faughtet la Mi^wYnnir 0 b thT^
MWng
to attend the meeting of the state press
association, as guests of the city.
j Monroe, Goodson Ga., Hillyer, who alias pardoned Bill Goodson,of out of
was
the penitentiary two months ago by Gov.
i I Gordon, died from hydrophobia. Shortly
after his return home, he was attacked
by a mad dog and the wounds healed up,
but recently he became delirious, and
died in great agony.
Peter Tripp and Alexander Caldwell,
. 0 f t he town of Catlcttsburg, Kentucky,
well-known farmers, quarrelled kill about each a
J fence, and parted threatening to
other on sight. Both armed themselves,
■ and met on the road near town, and at
onC e opened fire on each other. Tripp
was instantly killed. Caldwell lived uu
til the next morning,
The grand division of the order of
Railway Conductors held its 10th annual
meeting in New Orleans. Grand
Chief Conductor Wheaton praised 6trike mcm
bers for their nction in thc last -
Twenty-one new divisions have been
formed sincc the hat annual meeting, and
2,386 new members added to to the order,
which has a membership of 10,330. A
bill was presented providing for and the li¬
censing of railroad engineers con¬
ductors, and a resolution appointing a
committee to secure congressional action
on thc bill was passed by a vote of 200 to
10 .
J. W. Fitzgerald, a fugitive from jus¬
tice in Abbeville county, S. C,, was ar¬
rested at Westminster. II. B. Zimmer¬
man, postmaster at the latter place, re¬
ceived a letter a few days einee from
Thomas L. Moore, trial justice at Ninety
Six, asking him to look out for a man
calling for letters addressed to J. W.
Brown, S. S., or J. W. Brown, I). W.
Mr. ters Zimmerman for time had with been such delivering address, let¬
some an
and ho had no trouble in having Fitzger¬
ald arrested at once. He has served one
sentence in the South Carolina peniten¬
tiary, and there are now several warrants
against him, the most recent of which is
grand larceny. Fitzgerald escaped from
the officers of Abbeville county while
they were currying him to jail.
A number of veterans of the 6th Union
Army Corps, went to Spottsylvania to
unveil a tablet fo the memory of the
corps commander, Gen. Sedgwick They
were met at the railway station at Fred¬
ericksburg, Va., \ry the Fredericksburg
Grays and a celegation of Confederate
soldiers and citizens, and escorted to
their headquarters at the Exchange hotel.
The weathei w r as clear, warm and
pleasant and the afternoon was devoted to
visiting in carriages many places of in¬
terest in tho vicinity of this historic
battle town. Thc reception of the visi¬
tors by the citizens was most cordial.
The meeting of the military at Macon,
Ga., to contest for prizes, was one of the
most luiUiant assemblages held in the
South for years.
Three brothers named Hutchins, of
Huntsville, Ala., became involved in a
family quarrel, and James M. Hutchins
killed Hunter Hutchins and wounded
Charles Hutchins.
A inan named Follins, of Wetumpka,
Ala., was, with his dispute sons, hoeing with cotton
in a field, when a arose a
young man named Powell about a money
debt. It ended by Powell’s death from
a wound made by a hoe.
Columbia, S. C., recently celebrated
Memorial Day under the auspices of the
Ladies’ Memorial association. The graves
of the Confederate soldiers in the differ¬
ent burying grounds in thc city were
decorated with flowers by the committee
of ladies. There were no ceremonies,
but the city bell and the several church
bells were tolled during the decoration.
Express Messenger Fotheringham has
sued the Adams Express company and
the Pinkerton Detective agency, at St.
Louis, Mo., for $100,000 damages for
false arrest and imprisonment, m con¬
nection with the great express robbery.
The electric car system in Montgomery,
Ala., is working admirably and gives
very general satisfaction, but recently an
end of a wire from one of the poles had
been left carelessly on the ground near
the deyot. A mule attached to a bag
gago wagon accidentally trod upon it.
The wire was fully charged with tho
dangerous fluid. There was a flash, and
in au instant the mule tumbled to the
ground dead.
At the annual meeting of the Young
Men’s Library in Atlanta, Ga., the present
number of members was reported at 729;
total number of books 12,164 volumes, as
against 11,559 in the year 1885 6, being
an increase of 605 volumes, of which 373
were purchased and 232 donated. These
new books were carefully and judiciously
selected, and as a result the current of
j books issued from thc librarian’s desk
quickened from 926 in May last, and from
an average of about 1,100 volumes per the
month for the first eight months of
fiscal year to an average of 1,500 volumes
per month for the last four months.
The authorities of Macon, Ga., are hard
at work perfecting plans for the new
water-works.
The students at the Athens, Ga., Uni¬
versity became very unruly recently. They
armed themselves with guns and made
' demonstrations at the Lucy Cobb Iusti
whicll so frighte ae«l the principal.
! »“‘ h ^oM ‘hnt .he called on the
| P Charles V. Harm, of Jacksonville,
^ Savannah, Ga., for
, fter and attempting t
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Mrs. George R Black recently pur¬
chased a 600 pound bell for All Stints
; Episcopal Church in Sylvania, Ga. It is
j a memorial bell, and upon its side is this
inscription: “To the glory of God and
in loving memory of George R. Black,
who entered into rest November3,1886.’*
) Jennie Bowman, the brave young do
mestic, whose brutal treatment by the
negroes, Turner and Patterson in Louis
ville, Ivy., so aroused the people her <»f inju- that
city a few weeks ago, died from
( ries recently. A fund of about $1,000
was raised for her during her illness.
A GREAT STRIKE
IN CHICAGO, IL'LINOISE.
A Snail Oae Started la Atbni, Ga.
Nearly 1,000 bricklayers and stonema¬
sons in Chicago asked their bosses to
change their pay day from Monday to
Saturday, and when the demand was re¬
fused, the men laid down their trowels
and quit work. Fully 500 men struck
had work by ten o’clock, while others who
given the contractors a few hours to
decide, begau to leave later. By noon,
000 men were out and more will follow.
The strike is not in any way connected
with that of the carpenters or hod car¬
riers. The bricklayers quit wherever
bosses announced their refusal to pay on
failed Saturday. Only a few of the bosses
probably to refuse, und before evening
work. This 2,000 bricklayers had quit
threw out an equal number
of hod carriers. Nourly all hod carriers
in Chicago are now deprived of employ¬
ment, 1,000 of them having been idle by
the strike of their own inaugurated some
days since.
There has been some trouble lu the
past few days among the laborers in and
around Athens, Ga. They have been
restless and seem inclined to strike for
higher wages. The city has raised the
pay of the street hands to 75 cents, and
u large number of railroad hands have
returned to town from the M. and A.
Road, dissatisfied with their job. Messrs.
Gunn & Murray hands came near having a
strike among the excavating in the
new opera house site. They demanded
$1 per day, but the ring leader was dis¬
charged and the trouble arrested.
SECRET SOCIETIES
Who Care for the Widow and Orphan.
The supreme lodge of the Knights of
Honor met in Philadelphia, Pa., recently.
The Knights of in Honor Louisville, was organized
June 80, 1873, Ivy., by
James A. Demoree, and sixteen young
men. Mr. Demoree is still identified
with the order as grand reporter. In the
fourteen years of tho order’s existence it
has distributed $26,000,000 to its sick
members and the widows and orphans of
deceased members. Thirty-five states and
the District of Columbia were represented.
The report of B. F. Nelson, supreme re¬
porter, shows that at the begiuniug of
lastmonththe total membership was 126,
002, a slight decrease over last year. Tho
report of the supreme treasurer, Joseph
W. Branch, shows that during thc four¬
teen years of the order’s existence, a to¬
tal of $20,000,000 have been distributed.
Total receipts of widows and orphans
benefit fund, during 1886, was $3,080,018
and up to April 25th, 1887, $1,062,003;
total, $4,143,522 16. Balance ou hand
on April 25th, was $69,305. In the gen¬
eral fund, balance on hand, April 25,
was $16,058. There is special fund of
$21,375.
The session of district grand lodge No.
7, Independent Order of B’nai B’ritli, at
Memphis, Tenn., was devoted to reports
of committees of minor importance. To¬
wards the close of the session, the en¬
dowment committee reported unanimous¬
ly in favor of $1,500 endowment, with
annual dues of $30. Hon. B. F.Petixotto,
of New York, made a stirring address,
urging united action in behalf shores. of the
Jewish emigrants from foreign
The supreme delegates of the Catholic
Knights of America met at Chicago, Ill.,
recently. The organization is one of thc
strongest of Catholic organizations in the
United States, and now numbers among
its members fully 18,000 believers in that
faith. The supreme delegates represent
state societies, and two from each state
and territory were in attendance at thc
recent meeting. They meet once in two
years, the last biennial session having
been held in New York city.
BATTLES ON PAPER
Somewhat Different In Actual D'jnnnsira
* tion.
Murat Halstead, of the Commercial
Gazette, Cincinnati, O., prints in his
paper, over liis own initials, a stricture
ou .Jefferson Davis’s historical inaccuracy
in that gentleman’s recent criticism of
Gen. Wolseley, on Lee at Fredericks¬
burg. Halstead maintains that Wolseley
was right. Halstead was at Fredericks¬
burg and knows whereof he speaks, and
sharply criticizes Davis, saying: “Davis,
in criticising Wolseley for saying that
Burnside’s army was in a ‘tight place’ at
Fredericksburg, and allowed to escape,
falls into a strange error wdiich he re¬
peats and dwells upon, of assuming that
there were two national armies, one un¬
der Burnside, and another within sup¬
porting distance on tho north under
Hooker, and out of this theory of two
armies Davis makes the assertion that
Burnside’s troops were not in a tight
place, ilooker did not have an inde¬
pendent command. He had charge of
one of the three grand divisions of Burn¬
side’s army. The other- two were under
Frauklin and Sumner. Hooker was in
the battle of the first day, personally giv¬
ceived ing orders to Humphreys Burnside, that he had re¬
from to continue the
hopeless attack on the stonewall, and
vainly attempting to support it with
artillery. Stonewall Jackson Is reported
to have advised a night attack on the
troops in Fredericksburg, and if he had
known how greatly they had been dam¬
aged he would almost certainly have
made the attack. There is no doubt that
after their repulse, justifying they were in a dan¬
gerous situation, Wolseley’s
phrase of a ‘tight place.’ ”
FRANCE V8. GERMANY.
Two commercial men named Weissmao
and Patricia, who were parties to a bitter
feud, met in met in a cafe Terrian, in Paris,
Fran ce. The proprietor, to
ovoid a row, asked Weissman to leave the
place. This enraged the latter, and in
Ahe scuffle which followed, Weissman
drew a sword stick and mortally pierced
Terrian. A crowd collected,and believing
that Weissman was a German, tried to
lynch him.
NUISANCES.
The narrow gauge railroad must go.
President Charles Francis Adams, of the
Union Pacific, who manages 1,500 narrow
gauge miles, says they are “first-class
PERSONAL.
Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett, the •
Washington, Europe D. C., authoress will visit
this summer.
dicate Queen Victoria is determined to vin¬
Lady Colin Campbell. Her method
of doing this will be to receive the young
woman at court.
The Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, now
nearly seventy years old, is a great sports¬
man, and has shot in his Thuringian for¬
ests some 1,100 stags.
Gen. Sheridan takes a ride through
the Shenandoah valley every spring.
This year he will be accompanied by one
his aides and Senator Cameron, of Penn¬
sylvania.
Prop. Young of Princeton College,
N. J.,will observe the total eclipse of the
sun in August next at Kireshama, in the
government of Kostroma, Russia. His
sentatives companions will be the scientific repre¬
of Russia and England.
It is now almost certain that the Med¬
ical Society of Washington will take no
further steps in the case of Dr. Z. T.
Sowers, who recently talked indiscreetly
about President Cleveland’s adiposity.
Sowers has had a big advertisement.
Gen. C. A. Evans and Hon. Patrick
Walsh, ing of Augusta, Ga., have been talk¬
up the proposed Chattanooga A
Augusta railroad to the people of Chatta¬
nooga. Gen. Evans is president of the
company, and tho prospects for the con¬
struction of the road are good
A lecturer on “Golden Opportunities
and How to Uuse Them” asked John
Wanamaker the Philadelphia millionair
clothier, which of his opportunities had
been most useful to him. “Thinking,
trying, toiling, trusting in God, is all of
my keeper. biography,” replied the great shop¬
Frank ViZETELLY,th&artist, supposed
to have pciished in tne ill-fated expedi¬
tion, is said to be alive. A Syrian Greek
who has arrived at Cairo says that among
the European prisoners at Khartoum is “a
short, stout man, with a full beard,
wearing glasses.” There is every reason
to suppose that this man is Vizetelly.
Gen. S. B. Buckner is a man of middle
stature, with small, piercing blue eyes,
snow-white mustache aflfl imperial and a
rather ruddy face. He is between sixty
five and seventy years of age. lie is
wealthy. His real estate in Chicago is
said to be worth $500,000. About two
years ago he nuu-riod, as his second wife,
a reigning belle of Richmond, Va.
Jeferson Davis has written a review of
Gen. Wolselye’s “Life of Gen. Lee.”
Mr. Davis takes exceptions to many of
the Euglish general’s statements, and,
while not finding fault with the superla¬
tive opinion of Gen. Lee's military ability
expressed in the book, he shows plainly
that he considers Gen. Wolseley’s criti¬
cisms of other Southern leaders unjust
and unwarrantable.
The interesting historical problem as
to what kind of ciothcs George Washing¬
ton wore at his inauguration has. been
settled. His suit on that occasion was
made of cloth from the Hartford woollen
America, manufactory, the first woollen mill in
established in 1788. The color
of the cloth was dark brown. The Pres¬
ident wore white silk stockings, also of
American manufacture.
Scandal £ecms to be the ordeT of the
day at the Austrian court. There is
‘trouble between the Crown Prince' Ru¬
dolph and pretty little Crown Princess
Stephanie; they have been on the verge
of separation, hut the Emperor has person¬
ally interposed as a peacemaker, and in¬
stead of leaving Rudolph for good,
Stephanie, will only .deprive him of her
presence for a few weeks, while she goes
home to Belgium to pout and be consoled
by papa and mamma,
Josephus Compton, present member of
the Legislature of Alabama, has left his
home mysteriously. Compton retried in
6t. Clair Co. four years ago, coming from
Kentucky, so he stated, lie took up his
abode in the little town of Eden, where
he followed the trade of a carpenter.
His life was exemplary, and in a year or
so he was elected town marshal. Last
year, after a seasonable probation, preacher, Comp¬
ton was licensed as a Methodist
and his sermons and exhortations were
of the most fervid and eloquent charac¬
ter. It turns out that thirteen years ago
he was engaged in making moonshine
whiskey in one of the mountain counties
of North Carolina and shot an officer, for
which he was imprisoned, but escaped.
Ho was tracked, and a requisition was is¬
sued for him recently, but he escaped
the officers.
PERMANENT PROSPERITY.
President Alfred Sully, of the Rich¬
mond & West Point R. R. system, said,
on returning to New York: of South Caro¬
“I went liver some our
lina lines, East Tennessee roads and the
Georgia Pacific. I found them ell in
very good condition and a great boom
down there in real estate and -mining in¬
terests. There is a lull in Birmingham
real estate sales, but there is a very large
amount of building going on. There
seems to be a remarkable amount of en¬
terprise manifested in the South, espec¬
ially in Alabama and Eastern Tennessee,
developing the natural resources of the
country. There is no question but that
the newly developed manufacturing in¬
terests of the South are upon a perma¬
nent basis, and I believe that Georgia,
Alabama and Tennessee will add 56 per
cent. 40 their material wealth in tho next
five years.”
REMEMBERING HEROES.
The monument to the Confederate dead
of the battle of Bentonville was unveiled
at Smithfield, Johnston county, N. C.
Hon. A. M. Waddell, of Washington, D.
C., delivered an address. Many distin¬
guished men were present, among them
were Hon. William R. Cox, State Com¬
missioner of Agriculture Robinson and
others.
NEW CORPORATION.
Atlanta, Judge Clarke, of the Superior Court,
Ga., recently granted a charter
to the Atlanta Construction Co. The in¬
corporators are E. P. Barns, W. K. Park¬
ins and James A. Barns. The objects
are contracting, building, etc., etc. The
capital stock is $10,000, with the privi¬
lege of being increased to $100,000.
NATIONAL CAPITAL NOTES.
Gossip About the President, ills fjhjnei
od Other notables.
Win then Mm are Heine Rm«pIm 4
latereatlacItems About the National
Will Etc., Etc.
ASKg FOR CLEMENCY.
Secretary Bayard sent a that telegram the to
Minister Manning, the stating the re¬
ports concerning executions of
Mexican army officers at Nogales have
been most conflicting, and that the Uni¬
ted States government would view with
deep regret the imposition of a penalty so
extreme, and instructs him to say that
mitigation would be regarded by the
United States with favor.
silver dollars.
Ever since thc treasury department be¬
gan the issue of small silver certificates,
there has been a gradual return to the
treasury, of standard silver dollars previ¬ for
ously in circulation. Tho demand
these certificates has been so great of late,
however, that the supply has becomo
nearly exhausted. The effect of this has
been to slightly increase the circulation
of silver dollars.
FORT BROOKS TO BE SOLD.
Acting Secretary Muldrow, in the case
of Daniel Mather, lias directed the com¬
missioner of the general land office to
appraise and dispose of by sale thc land
of Fort Brooks, Fla., abandoned military
post, under act July 5th, 1884, except as
to those tracts of not more than 160 acres
settled upon prior to January 1, 1884.
The cases where occupation has been con¬
tinuous since that date, settlers will be
allowed to enter their lauds under tho
aomestead or pre-emption laws.
CHICAGO BEQUEST DENIED.
Application has been made to the treas¬
ury department by Chicago for permis¬
sion to stamp and remove for consump¬
tion certain imported manufactured
tobacco and snuff in packages, containing
quantities other than provided in section
3302, Revised Statutes. Tlio depart¬ the
ment has denied the (Revised application Statutes, on
grouud that the law
section 337,) prohibits the withdrawal
for consumption in thc United States im¬
ported packages other than those pre¬
scribed in section 3362.
NOTES.
Mrs. Cleveland does not assist her hus¬
band at public receptions, and it causes
•oinc disappointment sometimes.
The Woman’s Christian Temperance
Union are determined to stamp out the
immodest cigarette photographs.
An inquiry about the strength of the
militia in Pennsylvania, caused a mis
chievious canard about the fisheries con¬
troversy.
The President has appointed James W.
Ilyatt, of Connecticut, to be treasurer of
the United States to succeed Conrad N.
Jordan, resigned.
The evangelical ministers held a meet¬
ing to arrange for a series of revival ser¬
vices, and several noted evangelists will
take part in them.
Justice Woods, of thc United States
supreme court, is critically ill at his home
in Washington, D. C., and his death may
occur at any moment.
The Comptroller of the Currency has
authorized the Western National Bank,of
the City of New York, to begin business
with a capital of $3,500,000. Daniel
Manning is the president of the bank.
Edward G. Russell, a young brother
of Hon. R. B. Russell, of Athens, Ga.,
has been appointed to a cadetship at An¬
napolis Naval Academy, He was ap
pointed to succeed his brother, Robert
Lee Russell, who is now cruising off
Panama.
The Department submitted of State is publishing United
a series of reports by
States ministers and consular officers rel¬
ative to emigration to this country from
the various countries at Europe, which,
in an interesting manner, gives a sketch
of the emigrants, their native disposition
and the prospects of their becoming val¬
uable citizens of the United States.
An order was issued from the war de¬
partment by direction of the President,
dropping 2d Lieut. John Shaw (appoint¬ the
ed from New York) from the rolls of
army. Lieut. Shaw was charged with
duplicating his pay accounts, but disap¬
peared before he was arrested.
An CHAPPY L0BD,
Made So, by an Irish Editor.
At Montreal, Can., Mr. O’Brien the
Editor of the Dublin United Irishmen,
had a great ovation and made a speech in
which he said: “I come not to offer of¬
fense to any' section or class of thc Ca¬
nadian people. Quite the contrary; I
come not to meddle in Canadian affairs
not to deal with the career of Lord Lans
downe as governor-general, but as the
exterminator of five hundred human
beings. This being a free country, we
cannot expect everybody to agree with
us; but I believe we have such a strength
of justice and truth upon our side that
when all have heard our story, all will be
convinced. And that the Canidian peo¬
ple will stretch out their hands and save
the ljves and properties of these five
hundred poor tenants of Luggacurran,
for both are at this moment at your mercy
and in your hands.” It is feared t ie
Orangemen will meet Mr. O Brien siugu
ments by violence, and ample bloodshed. preparations
are being made to prevent
HELLING BRITISH SCHOONERS.
The U. S. revenue cutter, Richard
Rush, has been ordered to will proceed take to
Sitka, Alaska, where she a
United States marshal aboard and convey
him to Ouna, Alaska, for the purpose of
selling, at auction, two British schooners
seized in Behring’s sea last year for illegal
seal fishing.
RUINED BY A LAW.
Another failure in the barbed wire
business has taken place*in consequence is
of the Interstate law. The firm that
of Schnabel & Co. Their liabilities will
reach $803,000, and their assets are about
$175,000.
NUMBER 51.
LATEST NEWS
Gov. Hill, of New York, has signed
the half-holiday bill. Hereafter, every
Saturday afternoon will be a legal holi¬
day in New York.
The high license bill passed the Penn¬
sylvania Senate by a vote of 36 to 11.
The bill was at once returned to the
House for concurrence in Senate amend¬
ments. After a brief discussion, tlio
House concurred in the amendments—
yeas 122, nays 57.
Tho Gettysburgh Memorial Associa
tion, who declined recently to assist in
the erection of a monument to commem¬
orate the magnificent charge of Pickens
at Gettysburg’s great battle, is a pri¬
vate corporation and has no connection
with any veteran Union. organization.
No doubt tho association will bo “sat
down” upon very emphatically by tho
Union soldiers, who at all times show a
disposition to recognize Confederate he¬
roism.
New York city was recently enveloped
in a dense fog for three days.
M. Lamoureaux, manager of the Eden
theatre, in which “Lohengrin” was pro¬
duced recently, but which was withdrawn
owing to tho opposition, by a portion of
"the people, to German works, has entered
suit against thc newspaper La France to
recover 50,000 francs damages for an at¬
tack made upon the opera.
A long circular, said to have been sent
out to all prominent Knights of Labor
and secretaries of assemblies in Califor¬
nia, Oregon, Colorado, Nebraska, Illi¬
nois, Michigan and Missouri, by local as¬
sembly 8,133, of Portland, Oro., de¬
nounces General Master Workman Pow
derly for his rejoicing over the result of
the Chicago municipal election, and em¬
bodies resolutions passed by tho assem¬
bly demanding that Mr. Powderly bo de¬
posed from office.
An accident occurred at tho Edgar
Thompson steel works, at Pittsburg, Pa.,
that cost five lives. Furnace E was
blown out a few days ago. A gang of
men were put to work clearing it out.
Au arch had formed, composed of coke,
limestone and other material, which was
still at red heat, and part of the men
were working beneath this mass. With¬
out warning, the arch gave way. Red
hot matter was thrown in all directions,
knocking many men down, and in some
instances almost burying them.
The American paper wheels for rail¬
ways have proved unfit for the purpose,
and all the German railway managers
have discontinued them.
Walter Vrooman, an editor of Kansas
City, Mo., made a socialistic speech in
Pittsburg, Pa., and, denouncing the au¬
thorities and the American flag, was
jailed.
Count Shovalow, Russian ambassador
to Berlin, is the bearer of an autograph
letter from the Czar, assuring the Em
peror Wiliiam of Russia’s continued
friendship.
A rousing meeting of representative
men was held in Chicago, HI., recently,
to give expression to American sentiment
in opposition to the suspension of consti¬
tutional liberty in Ireland. About 6,000
were present, drawn principally from
well-to-do classes. Mayor Roche presid¬
ed, and most of the speakers were citi¬
zens of American birth, such as Governor
Oglesby, Rabbi Hirsch, Wirt Dexter,
Rev. Dr. Bolton, Congressman Mason and
Gen. Martin Beal. They strongly de¬
nounced the coercion bill no w pen ding in
the British Parliament.
similar in tone to the
adopted.
TWO OCEAN DIMAMTERM.
The French steamer La Bretagne, Cap¬
tain De Jousscli, from New York, for
Havre, France, reports collided that during with and the
night of April 30th she
sunk the a Norwegian bark. The crew La of
bark was saved. The steamer
Champagne, which sailed for New York
from Havre, and which afterwards re¬
turned, having been in collision, was
run into by the steamer Ville de Rio.
The latter steamer sank, but her crew and
imssengers were saved. The collision
caused a panic among thc Italians on
l»oard the Champagne, who made a rush
for a life boat and caused it to capsize. in ad¬
dition Thirty-five three of them were drowned, tried
to sailors who to pre¬
vent the rush. The steamer Ville do
Bordeaux rescued fifteen Italians cling
to the oapsized life boat.
A Small Boy Objects. f
The Lead ville Metsenger says:—Pro¬
fessor N. Luocock was down in Alleg¬
heny which county his brother officiating at a wedding, m
was the happy groom,
in the presence of two hundred and fifty
fashionable guests. The solemn ques
I tions which plighted the pair to each
other had been solemnly asked. The
hushed assemblage heard, “If any
■ knows aught why this man and woman
should not become man and wife, lei
him now speak or hold his peace for¬
ever.” when, to the astonishment of all,
a little boy ran to where the ceremony
was of the being minister, performed, said, and, “I object.” going in front Tho
bride and groom, nervous and excited,
almost fainted. The scene was very
dramatic. The lad was named Lees,
and was adopted by the family and was
very fond of Miss Maggie, and when**
asked to explain, said he objected to bear
going the minister away. It required some time far
and bridal party to regain
their equanimity.