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v ■ «pg **’l a 1 ■git, % S$v!5si IPs 1 ?'V) ■-* m A t is M '!>*» r* PH& v " 1 ‘ ■■ 4 f J- •j v :U II r*; ■ *>’ / (h i rt. VOLUME V. A man out West who, three years ago^ was worth nothing, is now rated at $40, 000 , all made by ihosaleof “Bohemian” oats to cr edulous farmers at $10 a bushel. It is reported that an American has taken a contract to introduce pop corn to the English people at the fortbcom ing American Exposition in London and has 0000 bush els re ady to ship over. An outbreak of cholera that has oo curred on the west coast of Mexico mu-t greatly endanger Arizona and California and the Gulf port, that are -eached by W», o, tbo Southern Pacific Fifty per cent, of those who attend operas and churches in Boston aro bald; and the members of the Medical Society of that city are considering the question of “Baldness—What shall we do with it!” One of the rarest American coin* is the silver dollar of 1804. A citizm of In diann owns ne, undou , , >tedly 4 genuine, . for which tho late John T. Raymond offered him, he says, ns high as $800. It hus been placed on exhibition as an in¬ teresting rarity. Nebraska has furnished hu illustration of the practical value of Arbor Day. Ia that state of great prairies, on the first of its Arbor Days, fifteen years ago, 12, 000,000 shoots were planted; now th* United States Forest commission reports that there aro fine groves growing 800 miles west of the Mississippi, and that €05,000,000 trees are thriving where a few years ago none could bo seen save along the streams. A wren hav Gaiilt her nest under tho eaves of a car' (fa a South Carolina rail road, and makes four trips over the road every day. The bird puys no fare, and does cot appear to be entitled to a n„„ ■Oder tho new lew. Respectfully re lerrod to the interstate commission. t In a general review of tho work, under tho direction of the United States Agri cultural Department of making sorghum •ugar at Fort Scott, Kan., Prof. Wiley 4rho was in charge, says: “The most Important point suggested is the abso¬ lute failure of tho experiment to demon¬ strate tho commercial practicability of manufacturing sorghum sugar.” ' Scarfs aud neckties j of metal aro a new German invention. Gold, platinum land silver strips aro welded, after tho mosaic style, upon a metal ground, pre¬ Jmrally pared oiongiUed by the incandescent by presses, and iheeta rolling into long or strips. The colors arc yellow, fed green, white, gray and black, and the scarfs, being indestructible, aro com aidereil of practical value. y In reviewing the R-iv. Paillips Brook’s ^Twenty Sermons,” the London [Athenaeum lAmericans marks this difference between and European popu’ar ipreachcrs. The American preacher “uses iho Bible to interpret or to throw light Qpon tho facts of human lifo, to put man and h;s destiny in their true light, tt’he other seeks the interpretation, tho Inner meaning of the Bible, in tho (nets and necessities of human life, and what docs not correspond with these he over loads or puts nsido ns of little or no present moment. : the m olu “" notion d r bt r that of snakes iat : bocn cast upon and some in- j aects will deliberately commit suicide when hard pressed, A recent letter from India tells of a larpc black cobra, which was shot by an Englishman, and which in its agony, wa< said by natives present to be biting itself to death. Close watching by the Englishman showed, however, that the snake was simply throwing its head around, and hitting itself accidently, Accidental death, and not suicide, is the probable verdict in such cases. i . . Mr. Crnwioro, tbo London correspon- , j dent of tho New Yoi k World, says the \ members of tho house of commons aro j not as strong a looking sot of men as tho I *" i 0U8 ° 0 , re P resen hitivcs. . ^ Of the , house of lords he remarks: j “I j Lave criticised the United Stales senate j for a number of years as a correspondent j j •t Washington, but „t,er th. per house m England I don t think I j •ball ever venture again to say one word against the senate of the United States. : It is a body so superior in character and ability and positive force to tho fossil.zed house of lords that every American has good ro: son to he proud ct ir. I An interesting comparison betwfen th: army expenses of this country and E • ! ropo i. mud. b, L ,odon Truth, which I savs- ««JS. The amount .mount nnntiuiltr annually spent by the European countries to keep up their armies and navies is £181,120.000. The —»•<»««, 000,000. Adding, therefore, the cost for war debts und for armaments together, i it will he seen that Europe pays £394,* i 760,000, and Ameiica £18,000,000 pet annum. How possibly can Europe hope to hold her own against her truns-Atlan tic rival, when she handicaps herself, in the struggle for commercial suprem¬ acy, with the stupendous * charge of £376,000,000 per annum? As if this were uut enough, Europe is each year increasing her burden, whilst America is each year reducing her*.” EASTMAN. DODGE COUNTY. GA., WEDNESDAY. JUNE 22, 1887. WASHINGTON, D. G. INTERESTING NOTES FROM THE HI TIONAL CAPITAL. Wbat tbo Departments are Doing, and Who Are Reins Appointed, Etc., Etc. FLAG8 TO BE RETURNED. The governors of the Southern states have been notified by Adjt. Gen. Drum, that the President has approved the re commendation that all the flags in the states in which the regiments which bore them were oi ganized, for final disposi tion. With each flag will be sent a little History of its capture, designs for the new war vessels. The board of examiners appointed by Secretary Whitney to adjudicate upon the competitive designs finished for gunboats and cruisers, have their examina tio " 8 ’ ^ss than a dozen designs alto gether, including both gunboat and cru i 8(;r designs, were submitted. Two came from France, and two from Eng land, and the remainder were from American naval architects. The majority I of three the designs were for cruisers; only of four were lor gunboitts. A prize of $15,000 is pledged to the best design in each class. GOOD NEWS FnOM CUBA. One of the effects of the commercial agreement made by Secretary Bayard with the Spanish Government is shown by a dispatch ship announcing that the American Celina, arrived at Havana with a full cargo from the River Platte. This is said to be the first American vessel that has arrived at Havana direct from the River Platte in sixty years, the differen¬ tial duties that ruled in favor of Spanish vessels having before excluded the American agreement was ratified vessels from t ra d(L QUITE AN ADVANCE 1 ,ie * nK>t ,aml I5 ° lt h of “Washing ,1S “Cllfbourne," Adams,* which*was bought by° Mist^Effie A. Ideal Obcr, the Jate manager of the Boston been Opera Company, for $80,000, haa sold for $110,000. LUCKY CONSUL. JohnP. Campbell, the newly-appointed consul to Tamitave, Madagascar, reports to the State Department that he met with a cordial reception upon his arrival at that port. He was welcomed by the dig¬ nitaries of the islaud and presented with a bullock, six ohickens and two geese as a token of esteem by the Queen of Mad agascar. NOTKS. Two of the District police have been complained of because they stole flowers at night from the White House grounds. The President has appointed John C. Liming postmaster at Leesburg, Fia The office recently became a presidential one. Attorney-General Garland was fifty five years old recently, and he celebrated the event by going on a fishing expedi¬ tion a short distance in the country. Mr. Corcoran, the philanthropist, is slowly recovering from his illness, The partial paralysis was caused by a very slight effusion of blood near the junction of the blood vessel with the brain. Brig. Gen. Wesley Merritt has been transferred to the command of the De¬ partment of the Missouri, and his place as Commandant of West Point will be given to Gen. J. G, Parke, of the Engin¬ eer Corps, headed A delegation from North Carolina, by Senators Ransom and Vance, and Representative Henderson, waited on the President, and asked a modifica¬ tion of the executive order of consolidat sk ^™ “ zx changed, OLD SOLDIERS ENTERTAINED. Itnynl Welcome (Jlven R. E. Leo Camp of ( cm (Viler a to Veterans In Boston. Last October, John A Andrew, Post No. 15 G. A. R. of Boston, Mass., vis¬ ited the battlefields ot Virginia, und as this post has hosts of friends among Confederates because it has done so much to aid the Confederate Soldiers’ Home in I Richmond, Va., the post got a hearty I welcome from R. E. Lee Camp of Con federate Veterans A return visit has been made by R. E. Lee Camp, and at New Pd^t York, en route to Boston, Steiuwehr No. 192, were on hand to greet them and escort the Southern Veterans to ! the Fal1 boat. A most elaborate ! programme had been arranged at Boston, }Ul( j jj le Qrund Army veterans, militia and citizens were on hand, and gave the Camp, numbering The escort over consisted 100, a of royal the wel- first j 1 comc - * “•^i j thousands of Federal veterans and citi- , zens lined the streets. The line of march w,ls taken up through the principal . . I j streets, and when they neared the State j House, a salute of 17 guns was fired by | h ollett s celebrated battery of artillery. ; The programme, which covered four i ^®y the s » Battle ,n ^| u d of e d a Getty.burgh, visit to the cyclorama excursions of I down the harbor participation in the ; calibration «“* of the Battleof caTrC Bunker Hill, j ’ c 0 ° ce ’ “and a 9? ca rr, ' 1 8f “rideT.o r,a ® 8 10 i Lbrrvard , College, ., Mount . Auburn Cerae- ■ tery, etc. All the leading offlowls and , citizens took part in receiving a.nd en :rr g f,, t d e ei“ ratea ' ~ d they SOCIALISM IN POLITICS. Th* Socialistic „ Labor party is . making . preparations to enter politics on national issues. A call has been issued by tho national executive board at Chicago, Ill., j lor a convention to be held some time in September, at which individual “sec- j tious” are to be represented. The call is at the present being submitted to a vote of several sections. TheEngliah-ipeak ing and German sections held a meeting ' and the matter was discussed at length. The final vote was favorable to holding the convention. “ Justice to All, Malice for Koue." SOUTHERN REVS. Interesting bits of gossip GATHERED ALL OVER. Who are Getting Married, and a Fall Ae count of th ■ Killed, Wounded and Mlnaing in Life. Ex-Sheriff Ramey, Rowan county, Ky., and his son were killed by unknown per sons near Morehead, in that county. The Craig-Tolliver party are suspected. Governor Gordon, of Georgia, decides that he cannot interfere with the course of justice in the case of Jacob Leggett, ! of Reidsvilie, convicted of murder. Miss Effie Elder, of Barnesville, Ga., was married to Capt. I. H. Adams, ox Eatouton. Sam. K. Cook, brother-in law' to the bride, attended the marriage and was walking down to the train, when, midway between the bank and D. A. Stroud s store, he suddenly fell on the sidewalk in an apoplectic fit and died. The Gate City Guards of Atlanta, Ga., have not yet chosen a captain to succeed Capt. Burke, who resigned recently. A . prohibition .... . club . . Rome, Ga. was organized in Hon. Seaborn Wright was ******* a “ d Mr - J - F - HillW William Miller, a boy of 18, sentenced murder a year ago committed to imprisonment in for life for a aicdof Glynn county, Ga., consumption at “Old-time” Camp, m . i erson c.uinty. In the south end of Jones chapel, at Macon, Ga., in the place formerly occu pied by the old front door, a memorial tablet has been placed to the memory of Rev. Janies Jones, founder of the church. Some reports against the action of the police in Atlanta, Ga., with reference to lated gambling for implements that have accumu¬ many years, caused the author¬ ities to direct that the whole pile be burned up. It was done in the public streets at noonday. The commissioners have decided on building This a $12,000 jail at Waynesboro, Ga. includes building and lot. They propose applying to the Legislature for the passage of a bill allowing the county to issue 7 per cent, bonds at three, six and nine years, each bond call¬ ing for $4,000. The Catholic cathedral at Savannah, Ga., was entered by burglars, aud a gold chalice was stolen. The Brotherhood of Locomotive En¬ gineers will meet in Atlanta, Ga., on Saturday, August 18. It is expected 1,000 members will be present. At the inspection of the Columbia, S. (J,, militia, Gen. Bonham, the adjutant general of the state, complimented them on iheir tine appearance and discipline. H. C. Hamilton, of Whitfield county, Ga., n Confederate soldier, has been ap¬ pointed the Clerk of the United States District Court by Judge Newman. His salary will be $3,500 a year. Ala., County Jailer Austin, at Birmingham, discovered a bold plot among the white prisoners to escape. The plot, as revealed by one of the prisoners, was to place a dynamite cartridge under the outside door of the jail, so it would ex¬ plode when the jailer opened it. osity Cooper’s, N. C., has the grandest curi¬ of the age in a two headed uegro baby. The child is an unusually large one, weighing about sixteen pounds, and apparently two feet long. It is almost white, and has features that are rather pleasing when the shaggy forehead and rear head are concealed. A number of men were in a chamber in the mines, preparing to fire off a di’n amite Chattanooga, cartridge in the Inman Mines, near Tenn., when it exploded prematurely and five miners were blown into atoms, and ten more were so badly injured that nearly all of them will die. President I. F. Cox, of the Southern Female College at La Grange, Ga., died suddenly of apoplexy. He had attended preaching, His wife and awakened retired in his usual health. was by hisstentorious breathing, and tried to arouse him. The members but of the family were summoned, before any of them could reach his bedside he had passed away. At the conclusion of District Attorney Miller’s argument in' the case of Hamil¬ ton and others, of Jackson, Miss., charged with conspiracy and the murder of Gambrill, Chancellor Peyton said that Hamilton and Eubanks were not entitled to bail. Albrecht he bonded in $5,000; Hardy and Figures will be discharged. Col. Hamilton was talten by the sheriff to jail, where he was confined. LONDONERS SCARED. Muepects Watched for Months In London, Paris aud New Yerk. The police of London, Eng.,claim that dynamiters have arranged to commit an outrage, or a series of outrages, in Lon¬ don, but, having andsjhose full knowledge of the conspiracy thlfav engaged in it, they are confident they will defeat the plotters. Far months past, reports of movements of prominent plotters abroad, un( j ^eir probable accomplices in Eng land have beetl rewivt . d in London al most daily. The chief porta have been wa fched during the same period, in view of the arrival of certain suspects, without } previous notice having S been received rom Brifish a „ ent9 abr a(L The move . ments of Patrick Casey and his associates p ar ; p wbo bave be eu very active late W'”' defectives, b " t and "’ ^ others outside of the CiUiey ri ” nre a , g0 known t0 haTe ^ „ atche(] Dynamiter Rossa. in New York, has also been “shadowed.” „ * i Reports from the county of Calhoun, in Florida, state that au epidemic of rabies among dogs and cattle prevails there. Several persons have been hiiten by rabid dogs. Much excitement pr •• vails in the county, and dog and caitle kiiliug parties have been organized. _... „ — _ peace WITH ROME. Prince Bismarck has promised the Pope his moral supp »rt in claiming the Leonine City and the stretch of territory to Civita Vecchia as a basis for reconcili ation with Italy. GENERAL NEWS Noway Gleaala** About tbo Queen’s Jubi¬ lee, Pro*reoe of Coorcloa la Irelaad, La¬ bor Trembles, Warlike Rumors, Etc. A jury has been secured in the case of Jake Sharp, the briber, on trial at New York, and he is in custody. The Bay State Company of New York is about to absorb all the Boston gas companies. The amount of purchase money is about $10,000,000. An epidemic of flux is raging in Bed ford county, Va. A number of deaths have occurred. Scarcely a family in a large area has escaped the disease, Y Earthquakes in visited La Roche, 8ur ou, La Vendee, France. The people were but frightened into a temporary panic, no seriousniamage was done. A slave dhow attacked the launch of a British man-of-war in Zanzibar and wounded an officer and five men. The dhow was, however, sunk by the force on the launch, aud the slaves upon her 43 in number, were rescued Thc Voz de Anno,,™ report, a land slide on the El Pedero farm in Concordia not far from Panama, burying Senor Pedro at Resttepo, his wi.e and nine children, and the servant in the house, in all, sixteen persons w r ere killed, Charles Burch, a Jersey City, N. J., policeman, fired three shots at his wife, fatally woundiug her. He theu shot himself in the head and died. The couple had been married about 11 years, and had three children, the oldest of whom is 10 years. There have been no new cases of yellow fever lately in Key West, Fla., and but one death—that of a Mr. Hoffman, who died in a private house. There are fif¬ teen sick persons under treatment at the present time, four of whom are declared to be convalescent, and the remainder aie thought to be on the road to recovery. The Louisiana Ice Manufacturing Co., have asked for an injunction vs. the Mont¬ gomery Ice Co., and the Capital City Ice Co., and the Enterprise Manufacturing Co. of Selma, to restrain them from manu¬ facturing ice, alleging infringement of patent. Montgomery ice, depends entirely on artificial aud two compauies have a big business. The famous Daniel Dickson will case, was decided by the Georgia State Su¬ preme Court in favor of Amanda Eubanks, the colored legatee. Amanda Eubanks was an dying illegitimate daughter of Dickson. When he willed her $400,000. A contest of the will, thus made, is what the Supreme Court decided, holding that whites and blacks are on an equality so far as inheritance goes. The Belgian Chamber ol Deputies by a vote of 82 to 41 passed the bill for forti¬ fying of the Meuz. Th* *xeeutive committee of the Trades Union Congress, in London, Eng., has reported against the holding of au inter¬ national trades congress, on the ground that trades unionism in England has few point* in common with continental trades unionism. Conductors and brakemen on the Union Pacific railroad have been carrying out a systematic scheme of robbery like that exposed some months ago on the Penn¬ sylvania railroad. Several robberies of the same character have been committed at Central City, Neb., and it seems that crews deeply running east from Cheyenne are most involved. Mr. Chamberlain the Unionist leader in England don, said speaking at a banquet in Lon¬ he rejoiced that the signs of the times were favorable to unionists, and the game of lawlessness and disorder was up at last. The people had examined Mr. Gladstone’s statements for themselves, and the result was their faith in his judg¬ ment and patriotism had been rudely shaken. Old reactionary toryism was dead and the hope of the future lay in a union of parties to carry out the Dartford programme and other necessary reforms. Ex-Secretary of the Treasury Manning received a grand reception on his return to New York from Europe, and has gained in flesh and strength. There was serious rioting at Athlone, Ireland, between the soldiers and civil¬ ians. The soldiers wrecked a number of houses, aud many citizens were injured with stones. While speaking in Boston, Mass., Goind Master Powderly was suddenly taken ill, and had to break off his speech. It appears that he is afflicted with a lung difficulty whihh is liable to compel him to cease speaking at any time when ad¬ dressing a public meeting. The Earl of Aberdeen, who was Lord Lieutenant of Ireland under Gladstone’s administration, was given a reception at San Francisco, C'al., where he is on a pleasuie trip. There were present all the justices of the Supreme Court of Califor¬ nia, judges of local courts, the mayor of the city and a large number of state of¬ ficials and prominent citizens. The trial of members of the Alsatian Patriotic League on the charge of high treason, for Lorraine supporting from attempts Germany, to sepa¬ rate Alsace was begun at Leipsic, Germany, All of the accused, while confessing that they con¬ tributed to the funds of the Patriotic League, pleaded not guilty, contending that the league is not a secret society, but merely a society whose aim is to pro mote patriotism in France and raise the efficiency of the French youth by the formation of gymnastic and rifle club. WASHINGTON’S IDOL. Mn. Cleveland went to Oswego, N. Y., on a visit to some of her young friends. She made the trip from Albany in an or¬ dinary coach, one McGlynn. of her fellow-passen¬ gers being Dr. SHORT IN HIM CASH. Grand Master Engineer Manahan, of Kunsas City, Mo., declares that the ru mors of Condon’s shortage are correct, and that the amount waa thu s far ascer taiued $70,000. LARGE CAPITAL king invested in the SOUTH. Mills, Foundries and Railroads Springing Up All Over. Tuscaloosa, Ala., is to have water works. Woodlawn, Ala., has contracted for a new hotel. will Gould, Pearce & Co. of Cincinnati, 0 M move their cotton factory to Arkan sas. building Columbus, Ga., intends to build anew 1 for the boys’ department of the public school at a cost of nearly $20,000. ! Co. The Auniston preparing & to Cincinnati build Railroad j are a round-house and machine shops at Anniston, Ala. Over $500,000 have been subscribed toward organizing the company to build three 150 too iron furnaces at Fio euce, Ala. The Michigan capitalists who bought au immense tract of timber land at Bronson, $50,000. Fla., will erect a plant of Barrett, Denton & Lynn, of Dalton, Ga., have purchased machinery with a capacity flour of 200 barrels per day for their mills. The St. Mary Central Sugar Factory & Railroad Co. of Frauklin, La., capital stock tablish $250,000, has been formed to es¬ a sugar factory. As soon as the extension of the South Florida railroad (office, Sanford,) to Black Point, Fla., is completed, extensive docks and piers will be built. The Montgomery, Ala., Real Estate Co., capital stock $200,000, has been or¬ ganized. The company w r ill erect a large six-story iron-front building. There will be a wooden bridge built across the river 3,000 feet, at Ormond, Fla., aud a hotel costing from $20,000 to $30,000 will be built this summer and fall. The Coaldale Brick & Mining Co. of Birmingham, Ala capital stock $100,000, has been chartered to mine coal and other minerals and manufacture coke, tile and brick. Aberdeen, Miss., has by a popular vote decided to subscribe $60,000 to aid in building a 12-mile branch railroad from Aberdeen to the Kansas City, Memphis & Birmingham Railroad. Southeastern Kentucky, hitherto known as the railroad desert of America, is now attracting the attention of investors, and railroad enterprises are being pushed into that almost unknown region of coal, timber and iron ore. The Mountain Shoals water power at Enoree, 8. C., has been purchased organize by Charleston parties, who will a company to build a large cotton factory and about 100 tenement houses. About $500,000 will be invested. Knoxville, Tenn., notes: The Scates Warm Air Furnace Company organized with a capital of $75,000. A spoke and handle factory is to be moved from Bloomington, Ind., to Knoxville. An¬ other street railroad has been organized. Decatur, Ala., is pushing ahead. Con¬ tracts have been made with the Mineral Paint and Granite Roofing Co., of Kansas City, by which they contract to locate tueir enterprise at Decatur. The land sales still continue with astonishing re¬ sults. The Columbus & Decatur road sold some forty-five acres of laud and have realized nearly two-thirds what they paid lor their 5,000 acres oftown lands. They have sold in the last three days over two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars worth of property at private sale. CHASED OUT OF TOWN. Uriah Laborer* at Cleveland, O., Aseault Negroes Who Took Their Plaoee. A strike on the ore docks of the New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio railroad cul¬ minated in a riot at Cleveland, Ohio, recently. About a month ago, the men who load ore into cars at the docks struck for two dollars a day, an advance of 25 cents. Since then their places have been filled by colored men from the South, and foreigners brought from Chi¬ cago. For a fortnight the workmen have been given police protection, as the strikers, who are Irish, have threatened to drive them out of town, and started to do it recently. The police called for as¬ sistance and the patrol wagon was dis¬ patched to the scene and officers dispersed the mob. The railroad company, seeing that it would have to act quickly to pre¬ vent a bloody scene, loaded their import¬ ed oolored men into a train, and amidst a shower of bricks and ore, started away to the suburbs. WHEAT DEALERS FAILING. Oreat Excitement In the Great Centers of Western Trade. The sudden drop in wheat at all great grain centers in the West caused intense excitement, and many dealers have failed. Such scenes of wild excitement as were witnessed on ’change have never been known before. When the break came, everybody nobody frantically tried to sell wheat, and wanted to buy. In a short time, July wheat had sold off from 80$ to 77J, while September dropped from 79 to 75f. A PRINCE IN DANGER. The reports concerning the German crown prince’s condition differ, While the official bulletin is optimist well in tone, fears are freely expressed in condition in¬ formed circles that the prince’s is serious. Prof. Virchow’s report, it is now said, affirms that the examination furnished no absolute indication that the growth in the prince’s throat is not miti gant. RATHER SLEEPY. Frank T. Ridgeway is on trial before the U. S. Court, at Macon, Ga., for illicit distilling of whiskey, and his lawyer claims he i* insane. Tbe defendant tes tilled in his own defense, that he had not slept a wink in 8 years, 5 months and H days; that he laid down at night and rested, but that he never slept. DECLINE IN COFFEE. GREAT EXCITEMENT IN NEW YORK CITY ON CHANGE. Many Wealthy Firms la the C*fT*e Trade Fall—A Fall «r 81* Cents a Found. Never in the history of the Coffee trade of this country has it been so stirfed to its uttermost depths as it has within the past few dayt , caused by the failure of Arnold, Sturgis & Co., in New York, quickly followed by that of Mackay & Small. Mr. Small was formerly con¬ nected with the large coffee firm of Small Bros. & Co., with houses in New York, Baltimore, Chicago and New Orleans. Oruner, Joseph J. O’Donogbue and other strong houses bought largely at bottom prices, so as to sustain the market and make losses as small as possible. Several other firms went to the wall, and others will follow. Coffee dropped six cents a pound, and the fall represents a drop of about 30 cents on the dollar. Nothing but vast capital was able to withstand the call created by such a difference, with largo orders out. SAM SMALL’S IDEAS. Hev. Sam Small received a large num¬ ber of callers at his hotel in Washington, D. C. “It is just twenty-one months,” said he, “since I was converted. It was a sermon by Sam Jones that converted me. I was on the staff of the Atlanta Constitution at the time, and I was in the habit of blowing about $2,000 a year into the bar-rooms. I didn’t want to believe that Jones was right, but I couldn’t get over his savings by reasoning, sol started out to get drunk, and in that way to get away from the subject. But I couldn’t get away from it. It had taken a firm hold of me. I had a two days’ drunk over that sermon of Jones, and at the end of two days I was converted.” MONUMENT DEDICATED. A monument erected by the New York Press Club in its burial plot at Cypress Hill cemetery, on Long Island, N. Y., was dedicated in the presence of 2,000 people, including a large number of newspaper men. An eloquent and sym¬ pathetic address was delivered by Chauncey M. Depew. The dedicatory ode was read by Hugh Farrar McDer¬ mott, after which an address was deliv¬ ered by Rev. DeWitt Talmage. The closing prayer and benediction were by Rev. W. S. Rainsford, D. D., and the exercises concluded with the singing of the doxology by the Ampion chorus and the audience. SINGULAR COINCIDENCE. The body of Ii. W. White, a well known and prominent citizen of Danville, Va., was found in the canal. He had been unwell for some time, and went to the rear of a drug store on the canal to get some medicine, but failing to arouse acci¬ the clerk, he turned to go, and fell dentally into the canal. It is a curious coincidence that Dr. Hutchins, another prominent citizen and brother-in-law of White, accidentally shot himself a short time ago, and it was some time before his body was found, in about the same place. INDIAN WAR INEVITABLE. Gen. Miles, the celebrated Indian fighter, has taken personal charge of the Indiun campaign, as prolonged there is every appearance of a war. Suspicion has long pointed to In¬ dian settlers on the San Pedro res¬ ervation as being abettors of the San Carlos renegades, and it seems now to be an established fact. They have kept the hostiles informed as to the movements of troops, and have also furnished them with horses to aid them in making their escape from their pursuers. VALUABLE BIBLES. At the sale of Lord Crawford's library in London, Eng., the Mazarin, otherwi.se the Guttenburg Bible, the earliest book printed with movable metal types in original oak boards, was put up at $3,000 and was sold for $ 13,000. Tyudale’s Pentateuch in black letter, brought $1,300; Tyndale’s New Testament, in black letter, $1,200; Miles Coverdale's Bible iu English black letter with wood cuts, folio, the first English Bible printed, brought $1,200. MIA.M DUELING. Banks Hill and C. D. Little, young men in Macon, belonging to two of the best families Ga., went outside of the city limiw to fight a duel. Little knew that the pistols were not loaded with bullets, but Hill took the matter seriously, and bravely went through. Two shots were fired, when Little fell, and HiH wanted the pistol to kill himself, und was then told of the joke. On their return to the city the men shook liamls, and ar? new friends. PREFERRED THE U. 8. MTYLB. Red Shirt and Broncho Bill, of the Wild West show, now iu London, Eng., paid a visit to the House of Commons. 1 hey were both in war paint and wora enormous head dresses of feathers. They addressed tueinselves to Baron de Worms, who asked them what they thought of Parliament. Red Shirt answered that he didn’t think much of it Laws, he said, were passed much quicker in his country than in England. TO BE ARRESTED. The English government intends to prosecute Michael Davitt and Joseph Richard Cox, nationalist, M. P. for East Clare, for inciting the Bodyke tenants in Ireland to resist eviction. Sarcastic. “Oh, dear?” groaned young Mr. Leatherhead, sinking wearily into an office chair, “oh, dear! my.head aches fearfully.” asked»<dd Hardox, his “Possible!” Mr, unsympathetic employer, “possible? Then something surely must have got into it.” And then the atmosphere of the count¬ ing-room seemed to grow at least twenty degrees colder .—Hartford Journal, NUMBER 4. DON'T ORUMBm Don't grumble at every misfortune Don't fret at each little mishap, I Don’t worry because you’ve a neighbor Reclining in luxury’s lap. Don't get out of sorts with the weather, If cloudy when you would have fair; The sun will not shine any sooner % For those who lose patience and swear. / Don't hope to get something for nothing And still have an honest exchangee. The trade making both parties richer Is something uncommon and strange. Don’t think from the seed of the thistle To harvest a fine crop of wheat, Nor look for the jewel of honor To spring from the germ of deceit Don’t trouble yourself with dissecting The faults that your neighbors posses* Perhaps that the same zealous labor Might make your own errors the less. Don’t preach of perfection to others; Unless you’ve a little at home. And remember a very small pebble' Will outweight a bushel of foam. Don’t think that a theme is exhausted Because it has gone through your brain; A pint may be filled to overflowing. And yet not a gallon contain. Don’t think the good Lord is in error When failing with him to agree, Nor blame him for your stupid blunders Because He permits them to be. —H. L. Clinton. PITH AND POINT. A notion—The Antarctic. Seal A man with polished manners ought always to shine in society .—Boston Post. An unknown quantity may be de¬ scribed as what you get when you buy a quart box of strawberries.— Puck. There are very few brass bands in a mijitary parade that can play as many airs as the dmm-major puts on.— Shoe and Leather Reporter. Mistress (to new servant); “We hav# breakfast generally at 8 o’clock.” New servant: “Well, mum, if I ain’t down to it, don’t wait.”— Harper's Bazar. In China old women instead of the young are the belles of society. The mania for old China seems not to be con¬ fined to America.— Orange Observer. Dr. Lyman Beecher once replied to get¬ an inquiry of Dr. Hawes, “How are you ting on?” “First-rate! first-rate! first rate ! ever since I stopped trying to run this world .”—Living Church,. Minister (to layman)—“But why do you say that Mr. Smith is a good manf He rarely appears at church.” Layman— “I know he doesn’t show up at church very often, but BradstreeV s quotes him A 1 .”—Troy Press. The man who can now patiently sit on the damp ground and fish for suckers is the same one who was affected with cheumatics last winter so that he could not go down cellar for a hod »f coaL— Waterloo Observer. Now the married man of sense Sneaks over the back yard the fence, front Instead of leaving home by know, way. For well he ought him to If the women see go, half day. They’ll make him wallop —Dansville carpets Breeze. a “Say, Maria!” exclaimed Mr. Blobson the other day, “I move we suspend mean?’* the long-haul clause.” “What do you demanded Mrs. Blobson. “I mean.** said Mr. Blobson, “that instead of push¬ ing the baby carriage around four block* we try one block for a while. Otherwise, of I shall be obliged to raise the rates transportation .—Burlington Free Press. Queer Things in Persia. A Mr. Neesan lectured in New York’ not long ago on Persian life. The young ladies of the audience laughed when Mr. Neesan told how the Persian youth was allowed to take one kiss from his future wife on the eve before their marriage, dark 1 provided he could find her in a room full of other ladies. They were told silent and sympathetic when he how, although he was engaged for three years, he never got one kiss in all that time. Mr. Neesan was forced to confera that the Persian newspapers are rather slow. They are divided into two claase* —those published every week and those published every seventh day—and all Persia has just one of each class. Some time after Cleveland was elected Mr. Neesan received a copy of some of these papers. He looked anxiously to see if the election returns had reached the enterprising editor, but the only mention he found of America was its discov ery by one Christopher Columbus. He doesn’t expect to live long enough for the editor to go through the subsequent history of America and give his readers concerning some com¬ th* paratively recent news United States. A Cloak of Gold Feathers. At the coronation of King Kaiakua in 1883, writes a correspondent the mantle from of Kame- Hono¬ lulu, he wore royal hameha I., one of the most superb king em¬ blems of royality ever worn by or kaiser. As may be supposed, it is is semi¬ care¬ fully kept at the palace. It a circular cloak, about four feet in length, covering an area of twenty-five mad sq uare of feet when golden-hued spread out, feathers and it is of the O-o. e the small These feathers, each about the size of one’s little finger nail are fastened to • a fine network of fibre, made from the bark of the olona, overlaying each other. There are at least 5,000 of these feather* used in the cloak, there are but two taken from each bird, which has to be snared in the dense woods, the feather* plucked and the bird released; it was a crime ro kill them. The birds are by no means abundant, necessarily the value of the of it cloak is endless very great, task. and The the mantle keeping is an worn only by the reigning sovereign. worn* There are shorter capes and cloaks by Alies or chiefs, their length being regulated by the rank of the wearer. The books in the British Museum art bound on a principle, historical work* being in red, theological in blue, poetical* in yellow, natural history fa green. Be¬ side this, each part of a volume is stamped with a mark by which it can be distinguished as museum property, and of different colors; thus, red indicates that a book was purchased, blue that it came by copyright and. yellow that it was presented.