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. Dead wood claim to be the gratesl
Chinese town in the country. The
Mongols he vs drowned ottt opposition in
the wnshee business, they compete «mc
Vt 8 sfully in the si|k, tea and other lines,
run rcKUuirrtnts, raise pigs and chickens
and patr onize opium dens and joss h ouses.
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Tile pronunciation of geographical
mamt s changes according to fashion, it
'often seems. Sometimes the spelling is
varied. The lust important change is
Iiew spelling in Japan which places
yo in place of to. Tokio has now be
conic Tokyo; Kioto, Kyoto; Iliogo,
Hyogo, etc. Fumlliar names look new.
The German government is not apt to
,
^go off at half cock” in its military ex
’pcnditnrcs, and hence the announcement
thut it has paid an inventor $260,000 for
a wan ing apparatus for balloons is a rca
sonable guarantee that a practical device
ifcas been thought out finally by which the
rchief obstacle to aerial navigation has been
" -overcome.
Nebraska reports a remarkable case of
long delay in bringing a murderer to the
gallows. The crime was committed fif
to'en years ago, but the body was not
Ifutind for over a year, and it was ten
years before tho murderer was arrested.
Four years of the law’s delay followed,
the accused being three times sentenced
to he hanged, Now the Governor has
signed the death warrant,and tho doomed
man lias apparently no further chance of
escape.
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The United States Ordnance Depart¬
ment has been making some computa¬
tions of the weight of the equipment that
.a soldier is required to carry which
show that when the soldier is equipped
with rod, bayonet, rifle and cartridge
belt, three day's cooked rations, 100
rounds of ball cartridges and “kit’’ of
clothing he carries a total weight of 53
'pounds 2.58 ounces. With Springfield
inlle, bayonet, scabbard, cartridge boxes
and leather belt, clothing and ammuni¬
tion, etc., the load is 54 pounds
1.84 ounces, and with Springfield rifle,
bayonet, scabbard, cartridge belt, cloth¬
ing, ammunition, etc., the weight is 53
pounds, 15.96 ounces.
The coming woman has come. She is
hen: —that is, she is in Boston, and the
.Record has found her and interviewed her
ion the liouso-clcunilig question. “J *
nev
<er clean house,” says Mrs. B;; “T used to
read a great deal about the beauties of
never cleaning house, and about live
years ago I determined to leave oil my
annual tornado and* I accomplished it.
My brother, who boards with us, says ■
Hint 1 must be either a very tidy or a
very . untidy person, he can’t decide
which”. One thing I know, my house is
never torn to pieces and I never go
.around looking like the Witch of-EipJor.
I take one room to pieces at a time, and
sometime* I only tuku half a room at a
time.
The unfailing and never misleading
barometer of commercial prosperity is
the iron trade, ami j nrticularly that ull
important feature of it, steel rails. A
survey of the whole area of production
reveals a condition of activity- which is
actually unprecedented. A careful in¬
quiry shows that for the current year 21 ,
:M7 miles of new railroad track are pro¬
jected, of which the laying of over
15,000 miles is assured. Of old track,
no less tluin 18,000 miles will be relaid.
This gigantic construction will require
3,250,000 tons of steel nils, and it is
easy to infer from these facts what, for
the ensuing twelve months, will be the
general condition, North and 8 outh, of
the iron trade.
Could we but utilize all the water
power lifted from the ocean by the sun
beams and wafted by the zephers over
the land, what vast factories might we
run! Wlmt magnified Niagaras might
we create! In a recent paper to the
Royal Society of Edinburgh, Mr. John
Murray sought to give the world's rain¬
fall in figures. The areas of country
having an inland drainage—equal to 11 ,-
486,350 square miles—receive 2,243 cubic
miles of rain yearly. The total areas
draining directly to the ocean equal 44,-
211,000 square miles, of which 88,829,-
750 square miles have more than ten
inche* of annual rainfall, and discharge
into the sea 6,569 cubic miles of water
every year. By this means rather more
than 6 , 000 , 000,000 tons of solids are car
ried'to the ocean annually.
, The newest feature of social life in the
* extreme West is “tamale” parties. The
“iaraale” is a Mexican invention. The
eatable portion is composed of coarsely
mumedThicken aud a sort of dressing
made- of corn-meal, nisi us, pepper and
olives. A small quantity of this mixture
. i—cnopgli to innk'- a roll al»otit the size of
an ordinary ear of Indian com—is then
. covered with crfrn-meal batter and rolled
up in Tlean eorn shucks. The shucks are
. firmly tied at each end, and the tamale
then looks like a big car of corn in tho
husk. A quantity of tamales so con¬
structed arc then put into a kettle aud
I boiled. When done it will be found that
f oh opting 1 out the corn-husks the tamale
t cftN^Ioped .*•• *. . •©orn-meal , crust -
* in a ana
lookslike a smidl '•pudding boiled in a
bag. Most Americans like the dish from
"-thetUrt. -When properly made it i» very
appetizing. •tizimr
EASTMAN, DODGE COUNTY. GA., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8, 1887.
WASHINGTON DOTS.
IHTERESTIHG BOTES ABOUT PRESIDENT
CLEVELAND AND OTHER NOTABLES.
*Tk© Operation* *f H»e Department*!, and
Wbat'Houthorn Men Are llrinf Ap¬
pointed lo Position*, Etc., Etc,
.- DEBT STATEMENT.
The debt statement shows the decrease
of the public debt, during the month of
May, to be $8,888,097.05, a decrease of
the debt since June 30, 1880, of $92,854,
02 , 21 ; cash in Treasury, $406,209,526,
05; gold certificates outstanding, $90,
060,977; silver certificates outstanding,
$139,143,328; certificates of deposit out¬
standing, $ 8 , SMiO, 000 ; legal tender* out¬
standing, $340,481,010; fractional cur¬
rency, lost not destroyed, including the amount estimated
est-bearing as or debt, $6,947,322 87; inter¬
which interest $1,008,024,075.51;debt
on has ceased, $0,737,403,
08; debt bearing no interest., $592,707,-
773.37; total debt, $1,097,542,151.00.
SOUTIIEUN COHPOR AT IONS.
The interstate commerce commission
has received a communication from G.S.
Brookerville, of Dublin, Va., complain¬
ing that the-NOrfolk & Western Railroad
company arc making unreasonable rates.
J. W. Bryant, of New Orleans, appear¬
ed before the commission, and, represent¬
ing the steamboat interests of the Miss¬
issippi river, denied the statements of
railroad representatives that they were
forced to cut rates at all points where
water the competition existed. He said that,
on contrary, the steamboat companies
tion \vc.ie obliged to cut rates to meet reduc¬
by railroads.
NOTES.
Clark Howell, post-office inspector at
Atlanta, Ga., has resigned.
The police regulations during tho Drill
were very faulty, and came near causing
a riot on several occasions.
The Light Infantry,^of Washington,
protest against the award of a prize to
the National Rifles of the same city.
Gold holdings in the United States
treasury have increased six millions since
May 1. There has been very little
change in silver circulation during the
past month.
Prof. Spencer F. Bairu, a well-known
scientist, and secretary of the Smithson¬
ian Institute, is dangerously ill at his
residence, of an affection of the heart and
kidneys.
The disappointment of the general
public did is great because tho Toledo, O.,
Cadets not get a prize. The judges
reply of that the company drilled on a sys¬
tem their own, and not according to
regulations.
The appropriation for printing small
silver certificates is well-nigh exhausted,
and nothing can lie done to meet the
large orders constantly coming in, until
the appropriation for the next fiscal year
becomes available.
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l nu.titln* 1 U reasury
in . r tl.o accounts of
the superintendent of the naval academy,
has disallowed ail items of expenditure
ton ing whisky, bran.Iv, and other intoxicat
liquors, furnished t<> members of the
annual board of visitors
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been appointed a postolheo inspector on
mail depredations.
Ca pt. Andrew J. Terry, of. Smithville,
Va. has been appointed custodian of the
Interior Department. *
The President lias appointed E. Henry
Laeombe, diuonal of New. \ork City, to be ad
circuit judge in the Second
Judicial Circuit; L. W. Reid, of Vir
grim, Assistant Register of the Treasury.
Tho Treasury is advertising in South
Carolina papers for the claimants to the
loot captured at Camden, S. C., by Gen.
Sherman during the war. It consists of
spoons, knives, silver pitchers, and 246
silver and brass watches, these last being
taken from prisoners of war at Elmira,
and Point Lookout.
Tho interstate commerce commission
has record from tho “Street Stable Car
Line,” 60 ff^Chicago, Western railroads, a complaint against
over with unlawful discrimination charging in refusing them
to permit the use of improved cars for
speetive the carrying of live stock over their re
roads from one state into or
through another, unless upon payment of
unreasonable and exorbitant chargos of
freight. •' ’
The first prizes at the National Drill
were handed over to the winners by Gen.
Sheridan, commanding the United States
Army, and were as follows: Best com
panv, Lomax Rifles, of Mobile,
battalion, Washington Light ir.fa itry, of
Washington, Virginia I). Guard; C.; regiment, banmy, First
National B, of
Indianapolis; zouaves. Chicago Zouaves;
cadets, Michigan Military Academy; in
dividual drill, Pnvato H. S. Staeke, of
Baa Antonio Rifles, Galveston, Tex.
LYNCHING IN INDIANA.
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Walter and Charles Davie, brothers, of
bad retmto, visited John FUu neon's
residence, 8 miles from Louisville, Ky.,
in Perry county, Ind., and and finding brothers a 14
veer old daughter her two
alone, they fold, the Flannegnn b 6 ys that
some stray atock was breaking into the
farm, a milo away from the house. No
sooner had .they left to than look the after Davis the
supposed stray stock,
boys carried the young daughter of Flan
negatf Into a neighboring wood, and
there outraged her. The girl was gagged,
tied, beaten and left for dead. When the
boys returned, they searched for their
sister, but she was not found until the
next morning—still alive.
Walter Davis escaped, but Charles
Davis was caught, taken to the girl’s
presence, giveu two miuutcs in which to
pr»y, .(whieh he did), and was then hung
to a stout young tree, which was bent
over> an a which in its rebound tossed
Davis in the air and broke his neck. Hi*
body was riddled with bullets by the
crowd, aud was! allowed to hang there
unt '* yesterday morning, when it wa*
^ t j own by hi* father aud given burial.
%t Jus tec e to All, Malice for None. 0
SOUTHERN NEWS.
been^old The Atlanta, Ga., Evening Journal has
Ao a stock company, and will
be Improved and enlarged.
A negro, but 10 years old, committed
suicide at Charlotte, N. C., because his
mother intended to whip him for stealing.
Rev. James F. Webster, a white man,
who was born in India, and at one time
the rector of Sli Episcopal Church, now
residing at Greenville, 8 . C. , has become
violently insane. He will be sent to an
asylum.
A novel boycott was begun in Chatta¬
nooga, Tenn., by the Knights of Labor.
A movement Was inaugurated to ck>so
all the stores at 7 o’clock, and nearly all
the merchants had signed the agreement.
However, some refused, and in conse¬
quence the Knights of Labor will-boy¬
cott those who will not give their em¬
ployes a rest.
W. W. Ellis, baggage master and ex¬
press messenger of the Piedmont Air
Line road, went into the office of the
Southern Express company, at Atlanta,
Ga., to report. Just after he entered the
office, the tin box in which he carries his
mail matter and revolver, accidentally
opened and his revolver fell to the floor.
It was discharged just as it struck the
floor, the ball passing through tho calf
of Mr. Ellis’s leg.
Gov. Gordon, of Georgia, says Smith,
of Heard county, the condemned murder¬
er must hang.
A book agent named A. S. Hill called
at the bouse pf Mr, Terri, at Corsicana,
Tex., and insulted the daughter of the
house, and was killed by her father for it,
Sumter F. Nichols, the slayer of Wil¬
liam Jordan, who was adjudged a lunatic
• at Baker court, Ga., died from injuries
received in attempting suicide while in
Albany, Ga.
William Echols, a young white man,
living at Cornelia, Ga. ; one of the best
known young men in that portion of the
state, was foully murdered by persons
unknown.
Rev. L. II. Humphries, a well-known -
colored preacher, so annoyed the teachers
of the Girls’ High School, in Atlanta,
that he was arrested and jailed. He is
thought to be insane.
For a drug joke, George Denelson, a clerk
in the store of Burge & Roscoe, of
Nashville, Tenn., challenged John G.
Bernard, an elderly man, to drink an
ounce of aconite. The words hardly es¬
caped his lips before Bernal swallowed
the poison. A number of physicians
tried to savo him, but ho died.
The recent heavy rains has caused an
increase of yellow fever cases at Key
West, Fla,
The Nashville Union, which begun
publication two years ago as a daily news¬
paper, has stopped.
There lias been a new post-office es¬
tablished m Iiabun county, between Tal¬
lulah and Clayton, Ga., and by the name
of Tiger, and J. C. Cannon has been
appointed postmaster.
Tobacco is not doing so well in North
Carolina. A great deal was killed by
cold weather. In some sections the
farmers have abandoned tobacco, plowed 1
„ th(! | aml , lt in cor „
ton S 4^ 8 P \ hu9 E Pi^P a ^te, , l church , sustained . in . Charles¬ _ , its
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^rosentativea who withdrew from the
Diocesan convention on account of the
attempted admission of colored delegates.
Prof. John II. Miller, professor of
matlreulatica in Krekinc has bccn
elected president of the Due West Fo
male resigned College, 8 . C., vice J. P. Kennedy,
who on account of failing health.
„ne of the most popular societies in
Charleston, S. C., is the Philatelic 80 -
ciety. The society will give a course of
lectures on “Postage Stamps” as soon as
thr services of a competent lecturer can
be secured.
The Alice Clarke, one of the steamers
running suffered between Augusta and Savannah,
Ga., slightly the other day by fire,
while about eighty-five miles down the
river. Fifty-four bales of cotton caught
fire and were thrown overboard,
The Charleston & Savanuah, and the
! Savannah, Florida «fe Western railway
companies will put on between New
York and Jacksonville an express train
that will make the run between the two
cities in thirty hours, leaving New York
about 10.30 a. m., and reaching Jack
j sonville about 4.30 p. in, the next day.
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! A LUNATIC VISITS GOV. HILL.
,
, E. O. Dieffcnbacher, an escaped lunatic
I from Herkimer comity, a large, powerful
man, pushed his way into the executive
chandler at Albany, X. Y., until lie
f beside* Governor Hill's desk an i de
manded an immediate hearing, llis ae
tions created some uneasiucas, but lie
was quietly carried away by a policeman
without offering any resistance.
, PECULIAR ACTION OF LIGHTNING.
j
i J. A. Sewell, of Garlandville, Ga.,
had a valuable ox standing under some
| j sweetgum lightaing struck bushes in bush the »l»ut pasture, 20 when feet
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; lush. » allowing a downward court"
| about 8 feet it jumped to another ueur
. { e ft 'the^mr'aml struck the'ox * AilUno
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char ley Ross IN jail.
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| Recently, Christian K. Ross said _ to a
, reporter, at his residence, "W alnut Lane
j Station, Germantown, near Philadelphia,
' Pa., that a man claiming to know the
j whereabouts of bis missing son, Charley,
, bad called upon him. The stranger gave
j his najue as Harrington, a keeper in the
State Prison of Connecticut, and assured
Mr. Ross that Charley Ross is in that in¬
stitutiou undergoing a sentence of im
j prisomnent.
GONE WRONG.
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The cashier of the Ilechetaga Bank, L.
, f). Parent, of Montreal, f an., has ab
sconded. He drew checks to the amount
G f $12,000, signed them “L. D. Parent,
on tru>t f<u Dr. Valade,” and succeeded
j n prevailing upon R ty, the ledger
keeper, to acc<*pi them for the bank,
Then he cashed them and left the city.
“ ALL QUIET! ”
DECORATION OF THE GRATES OF THE
FEDERAL DEAD.
Fraternization of the Gray and the Blue
Patriotic Addresses and Impressive
Services—Sauthern Military
Companies Take Part in
the Exercises.
Never since the War closed, has Me¬
morial Day under the auspices of the
Grand Army of the Republic been mora
impressively celebrated than this year,
and the capital of the nation—Washing¬
ton—witnessed a sight which deeply im¬
pressed all who were there to witness it,
particularly sides. the veterans who fought on
opposite The first division the procession
of was
made up as follows: Vicksburg South¬
rons and band, Belknap Rifles, Lomax
Rifles, Bullene Guards of Kansas City,
Louisville Legion and drum corps,
American Cadet baud of Milwaukee,
eighth separate company of’ New York;
company D, Thirty-second New York:
Grand Rapids Guards, of Michigan, ana
Custer Guards, of Michigan. The sec¬
ond division yras composed of local mil¬
itary companies and Grand Army of the
lington Republic posts. The ceremonies at Ar¬
were very impressive. the
The exercises at tomb of Gen. Lo¬
gan, in Rock Creek cemetery, were pic¬
turesque and interesting. The Loga*
Guard of Honor had charge of the services,
and were assisted by suggestions from
Mrs. Logan. Such a profusion of floral
tributes as decorated the last resting placo
of the dead general has rarely beeu seen.
New York city made it a close holiday
and a great many went to River¬
side park to take part in the special ser¬
vices at Gen. Giant’s tomb. Here 20,000
or more people gathered.
from At the Chattanooga, Tenn., a delegation
24th Illinois Volunteers from
Chicago, Ill., decorated the grave of Col.
Mihilotzy of that regiment.
At Richmond, Va., Winchester, Va.,
Galveston, Tex., and Jacksonville, Fla.,
Confederates and Federal veterans had
joint exercises, and at other points in the
South, Confederate veterans took a
prominent part. At Marietta, Ga., the
exercises were most impressive, and Ful¬
ton tion County had Confederate Veterau associa¬
Cemetery. a delegation at the Government
Rev. Dr. George Leonard
Chaney, of Atlanta, was the orator and
his remarks were patriotic in the highest
degree, and gave great satisfaction to the
great throng of people who attended.
BANDITS SURPRISED.
Mexican Cavalry ami .American Deputy
Sheriffs Rout a Gang of ltascatn.
At dawn of day, recently, in the midst
of a driving rain, the Balsh cut-offjibove
Santa Maria, Mexican territory, on the
American side of the river and the refuge
of about thirty desperate bandits, thieves
and smugglers, was raided by a force
from both sides of the river. Sheriff Brc
tof and Deputy Clausucr, of Texas, with
about ninety ranch,*r<#s and deputies en¬
tered and drove out the bandits, who
met with a warm reception on the other
side from a detachment of the Mexican
3d cavalry under command of Coi.
Nieves Hernandez. A sharp light en¬
sued, in which Col. Hernandez was
wounded, one of his men killed and an¬
other wounded. One bandit was kilhd,
several wounded and a number captured,
several of whom are well known mur¬
derers, and were executed on the spot.
EXCITEMENT IN FRANCE.
The Yoiin* Men of I’arfu Demand General
lloiilniitfer’a Retention In Olffee.
On retiring from give the place position his of secre¬
tary of war, to to succes¬
sor, Gen. Ferron, Gen. Boulanger, the
present idol of the French people, made
a short address. Riotous demonstrations
rtt outre took place. Fifty policemen
were stationed at the Britidi embassy.
During the night cries of “a L’Eiysce”
were raised by the crowd,and full}’ 1,000
young men formed a procession and
marched at a swinging pace in the direc¬
tion of the palace, shouting as they went,
“We want Boulanger!”’ Before they ar¬
rived arthc Ely sec, however, two strong
bodies of police appeared and dispersed
them.
LOCKED OUT.
T|w Master Association, of
n hia- P;i Gutters, decided to lock out all
, hl;ir and refuse theta
hirti'er employment until they cease in
terferinf? will, non-union employes,
About three hundred men will work on
usual, and such of the union employes
'* V } 11) pledge themselves not to interfere
with non-union bauds, will be restored
to their old piaco*.
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ENGLISH PLUCK.
Twelve hundred coal miners at Bach
mul, Russia, out on a strike, attempted to
rob a brewery owned by a firm of English¬
men. Fifty English workmen attached
to the brewery mounted horses and dur¬
ing the light which occurred, three of the
workingmen were killed.
gilt CiiKRDiw.
Complaint . made because the . cherubs’ , . ,
is
heads on 8 t. Michael’s steeple, in Charles
ton, S. C., have been painted white, in¬
stead of beiug gilded astheywereform
erly. There is a tradition that these
hea ls were made by Guillotin, a brother
of the inventor of the guillotine.
BUSINESS PROSPERITY.
The South Reaping the Benefit of Large
Capital to Develop Railways, lilts,
Foundries, Etc., Etc.
K ey Weat, Fla., is to be lighted by
el
Greensboro, railroad. Ala., is to have a “dummy”
street
A hotel to cost $80,000 will be erected
in Petersburg, Va.
the Dayton, Ky., has adopted electricity as
motive power for street railroad.
bonds Chattanooga, for Tenn., issued $50,000 of
sewerage and street improve¬
ments.
The Morgan County Asphalt and Oil
Co. with $150,000 capital has started at
Hartseile, Ala.
The Young Men’s Christian Associa¬
tion of Charlottesville, Va., has started a
$40,000 building.
The Birmingham & Atlantic Air-Line
Railroad Co., will extend their railroad
from Greenville, Ga,, to Savannah.
manufacturing Memphis, Tenn. items: A saddlery
company with $ 100,000
capitul with $ has started; also, a brick company
100,000 capital.
Sheffield, Ala., notes: The Sheffield
Land Company will erect 100 houses;
the First National Bank has contracted
for a $85,000 building.
E. B. Moon, of Richmond, Va., has
purchased about 50,000 acres of timber
and mineral lands in Smythe, Washing¬
ton and Grayson counties.
The Chattanooga Land, Coal, Iron &
Western Railway Co. will build the Chattanooga
Railroad from Chattanooga to
Walden’s Ridge, about 8 miles.
The Alabama Midland Railroad Co.
capital stock $3,000,000, will be incor¬
porated to build a railroad from Mont¬
gomery, Ala., to Bainbridge, about 175
miles.
The Eufaula & Southeast Alabama
Railroad Co. with a capital stock of $ 1 ,
000,000 to build a railroad from Clayton
to Blakely, Ala., with a branch to Geneva,
has been chartered.
The Georgia Central Railroad & Bank¬
ing Co. will extend the Mobile & Girard
Railroad from Troy to Elba, Ala., the
Eufaula & Clayton Railroad from 25 to 30
miles, and tho Fort Gaines branch from
Blakely, Ga., to Columbia, Ala.
Bills have been introduced in the Flor¬
ida Legislature to incorporate the Central
Railroad & Steamboat Co.; a company to
build a railroad from St. Lucie to Wah
neta or Lakeland; the Key of tho Gulf
Railroad Co., and the Memphis & Pensa¬
cola Railroad Co.
A New York syndicate have purchased
4,000 acres of mineral lands, at Collins¬
ville, Ala. An English company has
K urchased an immense area of coal land
the same locality and will ut once pro¬
ceed to develop it, and will build a 100 -
ton blast furnace.
The Atlanta & Chattanooga Railroad
Co. capital stock $1,000,000, has been
organized with H. S. Chamberlain as
president; E. J. Sanford, Knoxville, vice
president, R. H. Hood, Knoxville, secre¬
tary, and Mr. Mitchell, treasurer. The
object of the company is to build a rail¬
road to Stevenson, Ala., via South Pitts¬
burg, Tenn.
W. At Va., a meeting George lately T. held at Charleston,
York, Stearns, of New
made the statement that “a com¬
bination had been formed, with a capital
of $ 12 , 000 , 000 , to build a railroad from
the Pennsylvania line down the Elk, up
the Coal and on to Big Sandy, through
Kentucky and on to Nashville, Tenn.,
and that he represented that com¬
bination.”
FWnERMEN KILLING EACH OTHER.
There is war among the salmon fisher¬
men on.the Columbia river, near Astoria,
Oregon. The seiners and gillers have
banded together to stop all trap fishing.
A. E. King, owner of a cannery at II
wac, and Albert Green and Archie Ross,
owners of traps, started out armed with
guns is used to guard a large lot of web, which
in the traps, and which had been
tarred and was lying in the open air to
dry. This was in a field not far from
the beach, surrounded by small timber.
While on the watch they discovered
men moving in the darkness, whom they
challenged. shots. The reply wag a volley of
Mr. Ross was killed, and Mr.
King received three serious wounds.
Green was unhurt.
COST I,Y SEATS.
Americans in Loudon, Eng., are pay¬
ing as high as $250 rent for windows, to
be used the day Queen Victoria goes from
Buckingham palace to Westminster
Abbey, where the jubilee services will
take place.
ATTACKED niS EMPLOYER.
Dock Gay residing near Fairburn. Ga.,
had a difficulty with a negro boy about
rations, which terminated in his being
stabbed in the neck with a knife, The
negro fled.
INTERESTING MILITARY EVENT.
The friends of the Toledo, O., Cadets
have offered $5,000 as a prize, if the cel¬
ebrated Lomax Rifles will drill in Toledo
next September.
UNION DEPOT.
The merchants of Charleston, 8 . O.,
are agitating for a new union railroad
depot.
WENT AWAY.
Tho Salvation Army at Columbia, 8 .
C., found that place unprofitable, and
deserted their barracks.
LUCKY OMEN.
On the first anniversary of his wed¬
ding, President Cleveland caught a fine
mess of large trout in the Adirondacks,
No woman can be handsome by the
force of features alone, any more tluin
she can be witty only by the help of
speech.
LATEST NEWS.
President Cleveland sent $10 as a sub¬
scription to start the popular fund now
being raised to build a monument to Gen.
U. 8 . Grant.
Mr. Bright, tho English statesman,
strongly condemns Editor O’Brien’s mis¬
sion, and the refusal of Irish Mayors to
celebrate tho Queen’s Jubilee.
A strange disease, communicated by
contact, has caused dreadful havoc among
horses in DcWitt county, Ill. It is be¬
lieved to have been communicated from
imported French stallions, and is said to
lie common in France.
Probate Juilge Lyman Follett, of Grand
Rapids, Mich., has been missing for sev- 1
eral days. Inquiry shows a large short¬
age in liis accounts. Nearly every estate
in the probate court is suffering where
funds passed through Follett’s hands.
Maj. Elbridgc McCotikey, resident
clerk of the Pennsylvania House of Rep¬
resentatives for several sessions, and who
has been prominently identified with tho
state board of agriculture, committed
suicide by hanging, at HHTrisburg, Pa.
Fire broke out in the Huebenor quays,
in Hamburg, Germany, and they were
speedily destroyed. Six large slieds
were next gutted. The flames communi¬
cated to two British vessels, the City of
Dortnund and the Gladiator, and de¬
stroyed them.
New York was astonished to learn that
a project was on foot to build in that
city a mammoth Protestant Episcopal
Cathedral, a second Westminster Abbey,
or St. Paul’s Cathedral, in fact; and even
more astonished lo learn that tho scheme
has been on foot for over 14 years, and
the reporters didn’t find it out.
In one week, 1,590 emigrants left
Queenstown for America.
Lieut. Clarke, U. S. Navy, committed
suicide at Panama recently.
The Troy, N. Y., stove molders have
gone to work again, and the strike is at j
an end.
The yacht Thistle sailed a race of
about 50 miles in England, and develop¬
ed remarkable speed and “all around’’
qualities.
A distinct earthquake shock was felt in
Jamestown, N. Y. The shock hist d only
a moment, and seemed like an under¬
ground explosion of great severity.
It seems impossible to empanel a jury
to try Jake Sharpe, the great briber of
New York City; nearly all the citizens
summoned are prejudiced against him.
During a service in the Cathedral at
Pressburg, Hungary, an alarm of fire was
raised. A panic ensued, and many in tho
congregation were killed and injured in
the crush which resulted from the frantic
endeavors of the people to reach the
By the explosion of a boiler in Court
landt, N. Y., three men were killed.
The grain porters employed at Avon
mouth docks, Bristol, England, have
struck against the use of elevators in un¬
loading vessels.
Townsend Johnson and his brother
confessed that they set fire to Palmer’s
oooperage, in Williamsburg, N. Y., on
April 2 d. They claim to have had a
grudge against Palmer.
France is in a feverish state of excite¬
ment over the attempt to form a cabinet.
The military bill appears to be the snag,
and if it is withdrawn by the govern¬
ment, trouble will ensue.
Recently in the palace of justice, at City
of Mexico, where courts sit, tho roof
fell in. Luckily the room was unoccu¬
pied at the time. The earthquake shook
has created fresh alarm about the safety
of roofs in buildings of great ago.
A wooden cross has been erected at
Bodyke, Ireland, where the work of evic¬
tion had to be stopped on account of tho
sheriff being seized with a fit, upon which
are inscribed these words: “Praise the
Lord I Here the Tyrant’s art was para¬
lyzed.”
The Reformed Episcopal council in
session at Philadelphia, Pa., adopted
resolutions that the council recognizes
evangelistic services, as a potent fact in
the aggressive work of the church, and
indorses the utility of evangelistic union,
whenever practicable, for the more sys¬
tematic and efficient conduct of such
matters; also, ono recommending a dis¬
continuance of the committee on work
among freedmen.
‘able with the Curriculum.
First Omaha Dame—“How is your son
getting on at Omaha college Dame—“Splendidly,
Second
but I am afraid he studies too hard. I
got a private note from his room-mate
advising me to send for my son, as lie
was beginning to toss around nights and
see snakes and things.”
“Dear me!”
“Yes, isn't it awful! I have written
to the faculty to ask them to excuse the
poor boy from any further attendance at
the lectures on zoology .”—Omaha World.
John Anson and his wife of Bennetts
ville, Ky., lived happily together for
cided thirty that years, Bhe and wanted then Mrs. cabinet Anson de¬
a organ.
John the wife declined tried to drown buy one, herself and thereupon by
ing into the to of the Muddy plung¬
waters Fork.
She Was fished out unlia'rraod, and John
was home, so and disgusted be has that been he at onoe there quit
not seen
sinoe.
NUMBER 2.
PARABLES.
Earth sings her parables of loss and gain
In boldest speech.
Yet heights sublime which spirits shall attal
She cannot reach.
Aerial whispers float o'or land and sea—
“It doth not yet appear what we shall ba.* . ,
Her royal purples and her crowns of gold,
Her white attire. J
The sceptred lilies which her summers hold,;
With flames afire—
All fail to show the glory we shall see— ** ;
“It doth not yet appear what we shall be.”
Who from unsightly bulb or slender root
Could guess aright,
The glory of the flower, the fern, the fruit,
In summer’s height?
Through tremulous shadows voices call to me,
“It doth not yet appear what wo shall be.”
Triumphant guesses from the seer and sage
* Through shadows dart,
And tender meanings on the poet’s page i
Console the heart.
O songs prophetic! though sweet are ye,
“It doth not yet appear what we shall be."
—Clara Thwailes.
PITH AND POINT.
Always seedy—The fig.
In a tight box—Sardines.
A suit of mail—Will you marry me f
He does a driving business—the cab¬
man.
When dentists arc partners they ought
to pull together.— Siftings.
After all, the greatest fishery trouble is
when they won’t bite.— San Francisco
Alfa. t
If you want to see a wildcat, simply
hold up the domestic article by the tail.
—New ILiven News.
An exchange remarks: “Honesty fears
nothing.” But it docs, though. It fears
dishonesty .—Boston Post.
A New York firm advertises “umpire
suits.” We believe tin y are manufac¬
tured at a foundry in Pittsburg.— Stales
man.
A Fireman’s Toast—“Cupid and hit
torch, the only incendiary that can kin¬
dle a flame which the engines cannot
quench.”
It is premature to tell any woman that
she is an angel until it is seen how she can
cook a steak and boil a potato.—Pall
Biver Advance.
“What an outrage to cram so many into
this railway coupe.” “I should say sot
Why,a sardine is a hermit in comparison.' V
—Fliegende Blaetter.
He (at a Boston inusicale)—“What a
glorious interpretation!” She (a Waldo, Chicago I
young woman)—“Yes, Harper's Mr.
call that good fiddling. ”— Bazar.
The man who down the avenue
In brand-new hat doth jant,,
May feel that he’s filling a long wanted.felt,
As well as a long felt want.
—Merchant Traveler.
Trembling suitor—“Will you allow me
to ask your daughter to share my hand?”
Irate father—“No, but I will ask you
to share my foot.” Curtain .—Boston Ga¬
zette.
“Mr. Brown,” said Dunley, “I call to
request your daughter's hand in mar¬
riage. ” “Her hand?” “Yes, sir.” “Wliat's
the matter with asking for the girl?”—
Pittsburg Dispatch.
The little brother who persists in hang¬
ing around the parlor when his big sister
is entertaining her best young man is
committing a heinous offense. It is de¬
fiance of the court.
“What arc the prospects of Home Rule
now?” a correspondent asks. Really, my
dear fellow, we can’t tell you, unless you
let us know when the old lady is going
home .—Somerville Journal.
A woman doesn’t know half as much
about voting as a man does about rocking
a cradle, yet there are more women who
want to vote than men who want to rock
cradles.— Washington Critic.
An Indiana man sat down on a keg of
powder with a pipe in his mouth, and
some superstitious people in the vicinity
think they can see two men in the moon
now .—Burlington Free Press.
The innermost, unexpressed thought
of every man is about this: “If every
other man had been created as nearly
right as I am, the millenium might come
almost any day .”—Dansville Breeze.
“ Tell your mother, Johnny,” said his
kind maiden aunt, as she placed a piece
of cake in his hand, “that I was very
sorry your sister couldn't come.” “And
what will I say,” replied little Johnny,
with an air of strategy, “ if mamma ask*
where is sister’s piece of cake ?”— Judge.
A Convict’ i Peculiar Suicide.
A strange story of a convict’s suicide
comes from Coahoma County, Miss. Last
Wednesday agang of convicts were clear¬
ing land on Fisher & Ycrger’s planta¬ Point,
tion, some distance back of Friar’s
They hud just chopped a large tree until
its stately head was tottering in the air
and the woodland giant commenced to
fall, when the word was given retreated to run.
The convicts and guards all
but one—a negro named Muse Smith
sent up six months before from Panola
County to serve a ten years’ sentence.
Smith was on the side toward which the
tree was falling and made no attempt to
run. He threw down his ax, folded his
arms and with a half smile playing about
his features, gazed steadily upon the fall¬
ing tree as it bore swiftly down directly
on him. The guards and other convicts
shouted at the doomed man, but lie heeded
them not. The towering mass of wood
reached the ground, there was a crash of
broken boughs, and all was still except
the echoes which reverberated through
the forest.
The immense weight of the tree had
crushed Smith’s body out of all shape,
and when the tree was rolled away only a
flattened pile of blood stained clothes,
flesh and bones remained of the ten year
man .—Memphis Ledger.
Doctors at the English Court.
I saw a list of the household of Queen
Victoria the other day, and I am aston¬
ished that she has lived to celebrate her
jubilee. 8 he has three physicians in
ordinary, five physic ians extraordinary,
two sergeant surgeons, three surgeon*
extraordinary, a physician to the house
hold, a surgeon ditto, a surgeon apothe
cary, two surgeons and apothecaries at
Windsor and two at Osborne, dentist a surgeon
oculist, a surgeon dentist, a and to
the household and two chemists
druggist*.— Pittsburgh Chronicle,