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VOLUME V.
CURRENT NEWS,
GATHERED HEBE AND THEll l
ALL OVER THE WORLD.
Fm rmmmmt, Political aad Biographical Notes,
•■aaimrlso4 la a Few Words, of
•ho Woolfs Bvsnts.
mob A body of polico was attacked bv a
on 8t. Stephen’s otW green Dublin Ire
land. Stones and missiles were
thrown at the officers, who, however,
soon dispersed their assailants!
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v *| OUr J Englishmen, rr i named William
iVaUow,William Pingllly, James Vander
killed i the Vulcan Hastings, were instantly
ju mine at Norway,
Mich. They were coming out of the
mine m a cage. Some men above allowed
the trum-cnr to got away, and it went
the t Hindering down the shaft and struck
cage.
Lallin A Hand’s powder mill at Wayne,
N. J., exploded, instantly killing Charles
Tier, Karouse, Hged 45, and John Caves. August
married about nine months ago,
was near the mill and has not been seen
tnee. Hois undoubtedly killed. James
H. Garner, foreman, was struck on the
head with a missile, but will recover.
Several men were slightly injured.
Sigs. Buccelli and Boughi, ex-ministers
"f public instruction, will present in
m the Chamber of Deputies, at
Home, Italy, a hill providing for the
preservation of ancient Homan remains
in the vicinity of the Forum, the Baths
>f Ctrecftlla mid the Via Appa by means
"f an archtcologicul promenade inclosing
Hu-’ni. Tho estimated cost of the work
*H,001),000.
'The Archbishop of Cologno, Germany,
has excommunicated Baron Soleniacher
for challenging Barou Schorleiner to fight
a duel.
Queen Victoria, in commemmoration
of her Jubilee, gave gold medals to her
royal visitors, aud silver medals to their
ut teudiints.
In a 50-mile race between tho Thistle
and I rex, from Rothesay, Scotland, the
former won by 12 minutes. She is the
lavoritc in Great Britain.
The Russian Nihilists have discovered
an ingenious method of distributing pam¬
phlets, by introducing them into cigar¬
ette boxes, which are sold throughout
lhe country.
It is announced that Ovid’s tomb has
been (li.-covero h The location is at
Anadolkioi, near Kustendami, in Greece.
The stone mm king tin* tomb represents
Ovid's arrival :it the Island of Tumi,when
he \\ banished thither by Augustus, A.
K.
Tl North Atlantic squadron, corn*
m ,ii ted by Admiral Luce, and consisting
ot the ti n:-hip Richmond and the cor
rive t >ssipee, Galena and Yantic, nr
I direct >it Newport, R. 1. The Ossipee
s foi the Canadian fishing
hs, mi l the Galena, Richmond and
<in continue their eastern sum
IMS, • as to be hi supporting
i -1 limn her.
Gen. .1 nines Speed who was a member
<>l Piesident Lincoln's cabinet, died re¬
cently at Louisville, Ky.
house Armour's Chicago, immense provision valued packing
ut III., at over a
million of dollars was aim st completely
destroyed by lire.
A man supposed to belong in to Edge
field, 8. C., hung himself Jerome,
Park, New York City. directed In his letter was
found an envelope to “M. M. A.
Market.”
The Southern Synod which represents
the Lutherans of the United States, in
session at Chicago, 111., denounced anar¬
chists, socialists and affiliated workmen
societies.
A man in Racine, Wis., who bought
*60 of sky-rockets and other fire works
and issued 150 invitations to friends
to celebrate the death of his wife, who
died a few mouths ago, was urrested as n
lunatic.
Between *2.000,000 and $3,000,000
have been lost in wages by the Chicago,
III., striking bricklayers.
John* Bennett, a compositor, carried off
the highest honor* at Yale College, New
Haven, Conn., for his composition and
correct tion. pronunciation of an English ora¬
The veterans of tho Philadelphia brig¬
ade, of Pennsylvania, that fought Pick¬
ett’s divisiou of tho Confederate army at
Gettysburg, propose to return to Pick¬
ett’s men all the flags they captured in
the battle.
Of the persons charged with having ,
been implicated, at St. Petersburg, in the
murder of Col. Soudekin, chief of tho
Hunniiiu nolice, in 1883, seven have been
sentenced to death and fourteen to de
portation to Siberia.
The Itoyal Lottery at Havana, Cuba,
after the last drawing, was mulcted to
tho amount of *85, 009 through counter
feit fractional portions of a ticket bear¬
ing the number drawing the capital
prize. The forgery was not discovered
until after the above amount had been
paid discover out. Active efforts are being made
to the perpetrators of the swin¬
dle.
WHIFFED THE MAGISTRATES.
A party of gentlemen and land-owners
and many of them local magistrates be¬
longing to the County of Westmoreland
in England, while out riding near the
boundary line separating that county
from Yorkshire, offended some York shire
men, and were forbidden to cross the
line. They crossed, and a bloody en¬
counter ensued, in which clubs and fists
were freely used. A number were in¬
jured on both sides.
SHAKY JAKE.
As the evidence proceeds in the trial
of Jake Sharpe, now on in New York
city, it looks very black against him.
Judge Barrett has rescinded all his priv¬
ileges. is evidently end he failing is locked up in jail. He
in health, and a ver¬
dict of “guilty” will no doubt kill him.
EASTMAN. DODGE COUNTY. GA., WEDNESDAY. JULY 6, 1887.
TOWN DESTROYED.
<early flail the Inhabitant* ot a Western
Town Made Hameless by Fire.
There is a lamentable state of affairs
. in the town of Marshfield, Wis. A fire
started in the main portion of the town,
and as there was a high wind, the flames
; were carried with remarkable rapidity,
j seeming h<m»c. Twelve almost builiugs to leap from blown house to
! were up
! " i,h fl dynamite in the vain effort to chock
I , 1 ! 1< ‘ 1 amc . re "\ t lat 3° lmlc rapid was could the 1x5 spread aved. of
?
men and wo non used vehicles of
7^’ ' U '* cr 'l ,t [ fm to “ ve K oods whci1 the
reached the >
lire residence part of tho
tmvu - The »«« "ill exceed *1,000,000,
“'*<» the total insurance will reach *000,
°°°- The burned district embraces eight
funded us follows: A street on
the north, Fourth street on the south,
Maple street on the east, and Chestnut
street on the west. Uphnm Manufac
turing Company lost their saw mill,
lumber yard, flotr mill, elevator, 15,000
bushels of grain, 1,000 barrels of flour,
planing mill and furniture factory,
Their loss is *250,000. Sanger, Rock
well & Co., of Milwaukee, are heavy
losers, having an entire season’s cut of
lumber. There are not enough roofs
standing to shelter the homeless, and
,ll<1 P co | , * c ( "‘mped in the fields and
woods. Over half the people of the
town were rendered homeless.
A LUNATIC S WORK.
lie (tart To A Field And Kills A Man
•At Work.
Neriah P. eon of Job Lewis, living
near Franklin, Ky. , a young man, 80
years of age, has shown signs of derange¬
ment for the past four years, though not
thought to be dangerous. Recently, he
mounted his horse and armed with two
Navy pistols, rode into town, rema'ning
only a short while, lie started in the
direction of William Roach’s farm, and
on leaching his field, in which his two
sons were resting under the shade of a
straw stack, he slipped up from behind
and fired, shooting John Roach, a young
man about twenty years of age, in the
back. He jumped and rati a distance of
about one hundred and thirty yards, and
fell dead. Lewis continued to fire on
the fleeting brother, one bull passing
through his clothing. Tho sheriff was
at once hastened notified, and with a squad of
men, to the scene. In the
meantime, home Lewis had repaired to the
of his father, saying lie would not
surrender, and when the sheriff’s posse
arrived, he opened tire upon them, which
they returned. They were held at bay
some hours before they heard a pistol
shot in the house, followed by groans as
coming and found from a dying man. They entered
him lying on the floor shot
died. through the right side, from which he
' SONS OF AMERICA.
I’uirtollc Ord»*r Advocating ‘‘America for
Americana” and Denounces Agitators.
The Patriotic Order of the Sons of
America held a national convention in
Chicago, III. The most important act
of the convention was jmssed when the
platform and adopted, principles of tho order
were read and as follows: “For
the welfare, prosperity and liberty of all
American citizens and their descendants,
we de-ire to protect oar form of govern¬
ment and to preserve it from the influ¬
ence and control of any foreign power.
By a discriminating sentiment of loyalty
and establishing a fraternal feeling among
all Americans, we hope to make it im¬
possible for any one to live under the
protection of the stars and stripes who
does not honor and revere them, Wo
are opposed to the occupancy of any part
of our country by foreign speculators o r
udventurers who do not wish to become
citizens, and we believe that all of tho
resources and privileges of the country
should bo reserved for the exclusive, use
and native born naturalized citizens. We
are in favor of crushing out that foreign
element which comes lure to advocate
communism and nihilism, and which does
not identify itself with our country and
docs not respect our flag,”
RIOT IN LOUISIANA.
In Arresting a Nr*rn, Hevrrnl Officers are
Killed and Won tided.
A riot occurred at Oak Ridge, La., in
which one white man and six negroes
were killed, and several white men were
dangerously injured. It appears a negro
man assaulted a white woman, and when
the deputies were taking him to the cal¬
aboose, they were fired on by Jerrv and Bald¬
win, colored, his two sons, three
other negroes, wounding Deputies Baker
and Gardner. They then dispersed, and
later rendezvoused at a negro cabin two
miles from town. On learning their !
whereabouts the officers went to arrest
them. On approaching the cabin they
were fired upon, and one of their num
ber, G. W. Higginbotham, was instantly
killed, and Constables John Conger,
Gardner and Coker dangerously wound
cd. During the melee which followed,
Jerry Baldwin and one of his sons, and
four other negroes, were killed,
TERRIBLE STORM.
One of the most destructive storms
ever known occurred recently, twenty
miles below Long View, Texas and carried
death and destruction in its course. At
New Prospect five men were killed out¬
right. At Fairplay, (a small hamlet), one
woman and two children were killed,
having taken shelter in au old house on
which a very large tree fell, crushing
them. In the track of this tornado noth¬
ing was left. The country is thinly set¬
tled, which accounts for the few lives
lost.
THE PREACHER’!* COMPLAINT.
W. H. Heard, colored pastor of the
Mt. Zion M. E. Church, of Charlotte, N.
C., has complained to the Interstate
Commerce Commission that he aud seve¬
ral members of his congregation, having
purchased Railroad, first-class tickets over the
Georgia from Atlanta, Ga., to
Charleston, S. C., were forbidden entry
to the first-class coaches, and compelled
to ride in a dirty and uncomfortable car,
one-half of which was the smoking car,
“ Justice to All, Malice for None.”
THE SOUTH.
ITEMS OF INTEREST GARNERED
ALL OVER THE LOT.
of Interesting Nows.
$£ohn M. Barclay, alias Bartlett, who
traveled through the country mounted
on changed a mule, getting spurious money
into good coin, was sentenced
to four years’ imprisonment by Judge
Speer, at Macon, Ga.
The ono hundred and eleventh anni
vereary of Fort Moultrio was generally
celebrated in Charleston, S. C. The
military organizations of the city turned
<»ut, public offices were closed, and flags
were everywhere displayed.
C. B. Carter, Tom M. Killon and
three other prisoners killed the deputy
sheriff aud escaped from the jail at Mt.
Vernon, Mo., and a reward of *400 has
been offered for Carter’s arrest. lie was
convicted of murder in the first degree
and sentenced to be hanged at Mt. Vernon
in a few days.
In a collision between trains at Bar
racksvillc, \V. Va., on tho Baltimore A
Ohio Railroad, Engineer Jennings was
killed.
August Bernung, of Louisville, Ky.,
only mat ried live months, killed his wife
in a fit of jealousy and then suicided.
J. W. Erwin, one of the editors of the
Atlanta, Ga., Evening Journal, has been
appointed a U. S. post-office inspector.
Macon, Ga., Inis started a new crusade
against liquor drinking, in the shape of
an printed anti-treating pledge society. The society has
a card.
Judge Duffy, at Baltimore, Md., sen¬
tenced Charles L. Owens, Isaiah Waters,
John Brandan, John B. Banner and Wm.
J. Byrne, judges and clerks of election,
to two years each in jail for election
frauds. James II. Hamlin, judge of elec¬
tion in the 18th ward, was sentenced to
two years in jail, aud to pay a fine of
*1,009.
Petroleum has been found on the farm
of Mr. Lyons, in Griffin, Ga., and now
that town expects a big boom.
Peyton S. Coles, past grand master and
graud lecturer of Masons, died at the age
of 61 at his home in Albermarle, Va.
The Boone and Banner tobacco houses
in Louisville, Kv., were destroyed by
fire. Loss over *500,000; partially in¬
sured.
The remains of Sculptor Joel T. Ilnrt,
of Frankfort, Ky., have been brought
home from Italy and buried at the ex¬
pense of the state of Kentucky in Frank¬
fort, his native place.
The Grays and the Blues two of the
military companies of Montgomery, Ala.,
who won the first prizes at the Louisville,
Ky., military contest, got a splendid re¬
ception on their return home.
Rev. J. A. D. Blackwell, D. D., pastor
of the Monumental Church, of Ports¬
mouth, Va., died, after a brief, illness of
peritonitis. Dr. Blackwell was 66 years
of age, and was a very prominent minis¬
ter in the Southern Methodist Church.
IMPORTANT LAND DECISION.
In the United States Circuit Court at
Macon, Ga., in the case of J. K. O. Sher¬
wood rendered against Rebecca decision Rountree, in Judge
Speer a is regarded his charge
to the jury which by leading
members of the bar as one of the most
far-reaching and important in its conse¬
quences which has been made in this cir¬
cuit for years. The pendency of an im¬
mense number of suits against land own¬
ers in Georgia, in which the principle de¬
cided is applicable, gives it this import¬
ance.
The testimony in the case was that the
agents of the money-lenders dc ducted
twenty percent, by way of commissions,
and counsel in argument stated that in
all the borrower had paid forty three per
cent, interest. This, of course, under
the Georgia law, would be usurious, and
the usury would render void any deed or
mortgage made to secure such a debt,
provided that tho true lender of the
money had notice of the usury, aud the
court decided against the mortgage com¬
pany of New York, who loaned tho
money. The most widespread effect of
the decision will he that such usury
would render void the deeds and mort¬
gages executed to these usurious loans.
DECLINE TO PAY TAXES.
United States Marshal Gross visited
Taylor county, Ky., to collect taxes for
the payment of county railroad bonds of
the Cumberland A Ohio Railroad, in ac¬
cordance with judgments issued by the
United States Circuit Court. He re¬
ports the citizens of that county in very
bad temper and determined not to pay
the taxes. The threat was made that the
mandate of the c urt would be executed
at the loss of many lives. Tho amount
of taxes involved is *18,000 in this par¬
ticular case, though the total amount due
the bondholders from other counties
amounts to about *250,000. The road
was never built.
GEN. LEE’M STATUE.
The Lee monument board of Virginia,
of which Governor Fitz Hugh Lee is
chairman, awarded a contract for tho
erection of an equestrian statue of Gen.
Robert E. Lee to the eminent sculptor,
Mereicr, of Paris. It is expected that
the corner stone of the monument will
be laid in the latter part of October next,
during the state fair. The monument
will be erected in the extreme west end I
of the city of Richmond.
IMMENSE CASTING.
The stoel stern post for the war ship
Charleston was successfully cast at San
Francisco, Cal. The post is twenty-two
feet long on the keel, with an upright of
twenty feet, and weighs upwards of
15,000 pounds.
RETURNING A FAVOR.
It is said in Cincinnati, Ohio, that the
financial collapse of E. L. Harper, of the
Fidelity Bank, is the by outcome Phil of a plan
for revenge made Armour, of
Chicago, Ill , who was severely injured
soye years ago in a “deal in which Har¬
per displayed great treachery. ”
RIOTOUS WORKINGMEN.
A Strike Ocoers In Recbeetor, N. Y.—The
Felloe Sheet Several Persons.
The masons, helpers and laborers em¬
ployed on the sewers and street im
The strike was ordered by the local as¬
sembly. In two or three instances, non
union men employed by the contractors
on the street works were driven away by
the strikers. The union men comprise
less than one-third of the total number
of laborers. At a sewer on Goodman
street the strikers tried to stop an en
gineer, when a cloud of steam was
thrown on them from tho pipe of a
hoisting they engine, and after a sharp fight
were driven off. At another point
a mob of over two hundred strikers as¬
sembled, and began to intimidate the
men at work there. The mob began
stoning their the police officers, who, finding
clubs useless, opened fire with their
revolvers, finally clearing the street. The
fight ing lasted only ten minutes, but, dur¬
that time, Policemen Moran, Burns
and Farmer, were severely injured by
stones. Three of the strikers were badly
clubbed and were urrested. Several men
were shot by the officers, but were car
ried home by their friends.
A C’OOI< RECEPTION.
Princes Albert Victor and George, sons
of the Prince of Wales, proceeded from
London to Dublin, Ireland to attend the
jubilee exercises, but received rather a
ties poor of reception. The corporate authori¬
the city did not meet them, but a
officials military escort and a number of crown
and prominent people went to
Kingstown to await their arrival, Sev
eral steamers went down the bay to meet
and escort the royal boat. The princes
ai lived at Kingstown at the appointed
time, and were received with great en¬
thusiasm. The Marquis of Londonderry,
the Irish viceroy, met them, aud the town
c munissioners of Kingston, presented
them with an address. The princes then
proceeded to Dublin, and upon their ar¬
rival they were presented with an ad¬
dress of welcome by some conservative
citizens.
BOCSF8 TICKET SWINDLERS.
For the last three years a very modest
barber's shop has been conducted in South
Clark street, Chicago, Ill. For a long
time back the railroads have been flooded
with bogus railroad tickets, and finally
the Pennsylvania, one of the victims, put
the matter in the hands of a detective
agency. Information led them to regard
the barber’s shop with suspicion, and the
place was raided and five men arrested.
In the shop was found the most complete
paraphernalia for raising railroad tickets,
acids, colored pencils, metallic stamp, etc.
Two of the men did the pen work. They
could counterfeit any kind of signature
aud by means of their stamps could fill
in the name of any road or make a ticket
good for any destination. They cleared
nearly *200,000.
boiler explosion.
A terrible boiler explosion occurred on
the farm of Andrew Hudson, near Har¬
mony Grove, Ga. J. A. Segar’s engine
and separator were at Mr. Hudson’s
tlircsliiug bin wheat, and G. B.
Whitehead was in charge of both when
the boiler exploded. The force of the
escaping steam blew the engine sixty-five
yards in the air. It was blown over the
separator and one corner of a stable.
Whitehead was killed instantly, and four
others plosion. were seriously injured by tfie ex¬
GETTING READY.
The rivalry of American capitalists
who desire to monopolize the trade of
the Sandwich Islands will plunge the
kingdom of King Kalakuainto civil war.
Clearance papers at the Sun Francisco
custom-house show that the steamer
Australia, for Honolulu, carried a large
quantity of arms and ammunition. It
comprised eighty cases, in which were
nearly 1,000 Winchester repeating rifles
and 164,000 cartridges. The articles
were chants. consigned to old missionary mer¬
TIIF. l’HIMmats’ IDEA.
At the National Convention of Plum
bers held in Chicago, 111., resolutions
were adopted that all manufacturers of
plumbers’ goods who sold to consumers
should be boycotted by the plumbers.
The committee that reported the resolu¬
tions argued that the adoption of the
resolutions was just the thing for plum¬
bers. It would do away with the dis
agreeable habit of consumers who bought
their pipe from the manufacturer and
afterward hired inexperienced men to do
their work.
DUCKING MARRIED MEN.
Much excitement was caused in Flush¬
ing, N. Y. f by the ducking of Charles
Doscher, a respectable married man, in
the basin of the village fountain by four
men whom he could not recognize in the
dark, but who are supposed to be mem¬
bers of a vigilance committee, This or
ganization was formed two years ago and
its object is stated to be the punishment
by ducking of any married man found
out after 11 o’clock unaccompanied by his
wife.
NEGRO TEACHER.**.
The Atlanta, Ga., Board of Eduction
has decided that in all colored schools
only colored teachers shall be n?ployed.
Too Fnll for Utterance.
A clerk in a banking-house celebrated
the twenty-fifth anniversary of his con
nection with the firm. Schtnul, the
principal, hands him in the morning a
closed envelope, inscribed: “In memory
of this eventful day.” The clerk grate
fully receives the envelope without open- i
ing. but on a gracious hint from the head
of the firm, he breaks the cover and finds
—the photo of his master.
“Well, what do you think of it!” in
quired “It’s Schmul, like with you,” a grim. the
just Blatter. was reply.
—Fliegendc
VASHIN6T0N NOTES.
GOSSIPY GLEANINGS ABOUT OUR
NATIONAL OFFICIALS.
Bosaethla* Aboot tbs President’s Mote
■tents—Reports from tbs Departmentw,
List of Appelanaeals, Ktc., Etc.
THE CArTUHED FLAGS.
There are upward of 1,000 flags in
what is for the present the flag-room of
the War Department. Of these nearly
600 are “rebel flags,” so named in the
record book bearing the title, “Record of
Rebel flags captured by the Union troops
since April 19, 1801.” Over 200 are
Federal colors taken by Confederate
troops and found in Richmond after the
cvactuation of that city. The balance
arc also Federal colors, regimental flags
turned over to the War Department by
the various state organizations. The
real history of the Confederate flags
would be more interesting thau the few
lines each one gets in the record book.
Some of these are made of women’s
dresses. Where cashmere or other wool¬
en material was used, as in several, they
have been eaten into shreds by moths.
They were, no doubt, worn out when
placed in the department 20 years ago,
but now they are literally in tatters.
Blues have faded into white, and red in¬
to faint pink. The stars have dropped
out, and when unfurled little hits fall to
the floor. The largest flag in the lot is
the garrison flag of Fort Tyler, West
Point, recaptured by the 1st Wisconsin,
2d Indiana and 7th Kentucky regiments.
The smallest is a tiny guidon taken from
the First Irish brigade, or 69tli New
York in that brigade. No. 266 is a
Union flag, “made by Mrs. Hetty Mc
Ewen, floated from her house at the time
the city of Nashville, Tenn., was in pos¬
session of the South, and found still
waving there when Gen. Buell’s army
took the city.” A flag captured from
Gen. Longstreet’s corps had these re¬
marks on paper pasted on the staff:
“Mr. Yankee, you will please turn this
flag, staff and shoulder belt over to the
9th Maine; was captured at St. Gilmore
on 29th October, 1864, by Third Forks
Regt. Vol.” (Signed) “Big Rebel.”
A LADY WON.
motion Among those examined for pro¬
in the quartermaster-general’s
office by the Civil Service board, was but
one hysterics lady-clerk, and she neither went in¬
to nor exhibited any excitement
whatever. She was cool and placid, and
passed with higher percentages than most
of the men. The three gentlemen who
failed to pass the examination, failed
upon the very matters that were of prac¬
tical, every-day importance in the offices
in which they were serving.
CONSOLIDATING TllKASUUY DIVISIONS.
The vacancy in the office of Chief of
the Division of Mercantile Marine, Treas¬
ury tion Department, of Mr. caused by the resigna¬
Secretary Lyman, will not lie filled, as
Fairchild has decided to con¬
solidate that division with the Division
of Captured aud Abandoned Property,
and to retain David Okie, now chief of
the latter division, as chief of the consol¬
idated divisions.
POSTAL REVENUES.
A statement jrrepared at the Post-Office
Department shows that during the month
of May last, the sale of postage stamps,
stamped envelopes and postal curds ut the
76 first-class post-offices, aggregates *1,-
733,089, which is an increase over the
sumo month last year of *155,533, or 9.86
per cent. Fifteen offices, including
Washington, D. C., show a decrease.
CARE8 TO BE rUSHKD.
Wm. C. Strawbridge, of Philadelphia,
Pa., special counsel for the the government Telephone
in the suit against Bell
patent, says: “Ex-Senator McDonald,
wlxo is retained in the Bell interest, is in
error when he says that a final decision
in this case cannot be had before the teim
of the Bell patent has expired. This
suit,” said he, “was brought to be pros¬
ecuted, not to be delayed. It is now be¬
ing pushed forward in the Circuit Court
at Boston, and there is no reason to doubt
that the decision of that court will he
reached at the fall term. After that, if
an appeal is taken to the Supreme Court
of the United States, there will be no
avoidable delay there.”
NOTES.
The street inspectors of the District
use tricycles in going their rounds.
Commissioner Sparks, of the General
Land Office, will cancel fifty-five desert
land entries in Wyoming Territory, ag- !
gregating in area about 35,000 acres.
Inspector General Baird and Col. Has
brook, commandant of cadets at West
Point, have been detailed to visit France
in September next, for the purpose of
witnessing tho fall maneuvers of the
French army.
Secretary Fairchild has arranged with
Assistant Treasurer Canda, at New York,
te keep him informed of the condition of
affairs in Wall street. Should a panic
seem imminent, he would authorise the
prepayment of the interest due in July, j
which would release about $9.000,000.'
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SPECK OF WAR.
France Sends A Threatening Note To Tar
key---Russian Troops Moving.
The French government has sent a
Satinet
which will result from the signing of the
Egyptian that convention with England, and
says if the convention be ratified,
France will take measures necessary to
protect her interests, which will be cn
dangered by the disturbance of the equil
ibrium of the Mediterranean. On the
other hand, France offers formal assur
ance that she will protect and guarantee
the sultan against whatever consequences
may result, if ne w ill refuse to ratify the
convention. By so doing, the note says,
the sultan will strengthen the ties of
friendship between France and Turkey
and protect his country from the en¬
croachments and ambition of England.
Russian troops are advancing from Kars
as a menace to Turkey.
MONEY INVESTED
IN LARGE AMOUNTS IN THE
southern states.
Railroads. Factories, Rolling Mills, Etc.,
Being Unlit, Forests Levelled and
New Industries Fosterod.
Home, Ga., is to have a *200,000 cot¬
ton factory.
A $250,000 stock company is being
formed at Crowley, La., to erect a rice
mill.
The Henrietta Mills is the name of a
new cotton mill corporation who are
building at Rutherfordton, N. C.
The Southern Soap Co., has been in
corporated at Louisville, Ky., to inarm
facture soap. The authorized capital
stock is *50,000."
Damascus is the name of a new town
started in Virginia, 14 miles from Abing¬
don. Manufacturing enterprises will be
inaugurated at once.
Durham, N.C., is booming with a new
factory, half a dozen storehouses, a
church and new court-house, and a new
female seminary is projected.
Pittman & Baker, of Thomasville,
Ga., have contracted to build bridges
and trestles and furnish cross-ties for the
Georgia Southern & Florida Railroad.
The Atlanta Brown Stone Co., at
Wadesboro, N. C., has been reorganized
as the Wadesboro Brown Stone Co. The
capital stock has been increased to *250,
000 .
Since October, 1886, there have been
40 business enterprises chartered in At¬
lanta, Ga., with a capital stock of *8,-
133,000, the limit of whose stock aggre¬
gates *21,465,000. These companies are
all in operation.
Moses Bros., of Montgomery, Ala.,
who purchased 158,000 acres of land at
and near Cullman, to start towns and de¬
velop the lands, have organized as the
North Alabama Land & Immigration Co.
The capital stock is *2,500,000.
Fred Balcom, of Harrisburg, Pa., and
others interested in the Red River Lund
Company, will build a 5-ton icc factory
at Natchitoches, La. Mr. IJalcom con¬
templates the erecting factories at other
points in South.
A construction and improvement com¬
pany has been organized at Bristol,
Tenn., to build furnaces, manufacture
lumber, quarry marble, etc. The capi¬
tal stock is $4,000,000. F. W. Iiuidc
koper, of Washington, D. C., is presi¬
dent, and John H. Inman, of New York,
vice president. The company own about
1,200 acres of laud at or near Bristol,
beside coal and iron lands.
The Mobile & Dauphin Island Railroad
& Harbor Co., Ala., have commenced
work on their railroad, which will be 85
miles long. The Neil McDonald New
York Railroad Supply Co. have the con¬
tract to build the railroad, and the Phoe¬
nix Bridge Co. of Phcenixviile, Pa., the
contract to build the bridges. Large
cotton warehouses, docks, and a cotton
compress will be built at Dauphin Island.
STARTLING WEATHER PROPHECY.
Prof. Couch, the well-known meteo¬
rologist of Nebraska, for is out with a start¬
ling programme will be characterized July. The month,
he says, by phe¬
nomenal weather. It will open fair with
wind, clouds and local rains up to the
5th. There will be higher temperature
with cloud areas and local rains near the
6th, followed by cool, northerly winds.
It will be warmer by the 10th and 12th.
After local thunder storms, it will bo hot
from the 16lh to the lttlh, when there
will be a cold rain wave from the north¬
west. Between the 20th and 25th, frosts
may be expected, but after tho latter
date the weather will be clear and fair.
EXPELLED COLORED PEOPLE.
The action of ex-Mayor James A.
Bradley, of Asbury Park, N. J., in ex¬
cluding colored people from the privilege
of the pavilion, hoard, walk and beach
has caused great indignation among the
negro population of New York city.
Rev. Jesse S. Cowles, of Zion African
Methodist Church, Rev. Dr. Derrick, of
Bethel Church, and other colored minis¬
ters against protested in energetic order. language
Mr. Bradley’s
A NEW TRIAL.
The Supreme court of Illinois has de¬
cided to give the condemned anarchists
a new trial, as the judges sitting on the
Supreme bench decided in favor of the
points submitted by Capt. Black and
Leonard Swett, why the sentence pro¬
nounced by Judge Gary on the Hay
market assassins should not be executed,
at ... least befor< another , , hearing was al¬
lowed the ’ condemned. :
DERELICT COLLECTORS.
T1 “ Berks County Pa., grand jury,
’T' , 1 "* h f been “ the session tax collectors, invest,ga¬
10 8 among re
tu co r, llector9 ne 2 bl " 9 .“ °, ! prominent against oilmens, eleven for
-
rmsappropnating . and public
misusing $^,00°
About thirty others will in all probability
be indicted.
HIJSPENDED THE MAYOR.
>'u consequence of the action of thk
Mayor of Cork, Ireland, in hoisting the
black flag on the occasion of the jubilee
and because of his having shown favor to
nationalists, Mr. Plunkett, divisional
magistrate, has superseded resident him paid and magis¬ has
ordered that only a
trate shall try the prisoners.
BIG CHIEFS TO ASSEMBLE.
Chief Joyner of the Atlanta, Ga., fire
department, who has the been convention North to make
arrangements for of the
Chief Engineers of fire departments, re¬
ports that over 409 will attend the At¬
lanta Convention, September 20th. An
old-fashioned Georgia barbecue will be
the principal attraction offered the visi¬
tors.
NUMBER 6.
DIFFB! RENCES. . ^
The King can dripk the best of wlnat I
So can I;
And has enough when he would dine,
So hare I;
And cannot order rain nor shine,
Nor can 1.
Then where’s the difference—let roe see-*
Bewixt my lord the king and mo?
Do trusty friends surround his thron
Night and day?
Or make his interest their own?
No, not they.
And that’s one difference which I so.
Betwixt my lord the king and me.
Do knaves around mo lie and wait
To deceive,
Or fawn and flatter when they hate,
And would grieve?
j Or cruel pomps oppress my state
By my leave?
No, Heaven be thanked 1 and here you see
More differences ’twixt the king and me.
He has his fools, with jests and quips,
When he’d play,
He has his armies and his ships—
Great ai-e they.
But not a child to kiss his lips—
Well-a-day
And that’s a difference sad to see l
Betwixt my lord the king and me.
I wear a cap and he the crown—
What of that?
I sleep on straw and he on down—
What of that?
And he’s the king and I’m the clown—
What of that?
Ilappy I and wretched he.
Perhaps the king would change with me.
—Charles Mackay.
PITH AND POINT.
A burglar generally makes his homo
run after he reaches tho plate.— Lowell
Citizen.
It was a farmer caught by a prairie fire
who ran through his property rapidly.-—
Siftings.
A poor paymaster is like a boiling cof
fee pot, because he will never settle.—
Dansville Breeze.
A New York paper says there is con¬
siderable bustle in the dry goods market, ladies
but then there always is when the
go shopping .—Pittsburgh Chronicle.
Wife—“Dear, I wish you would invite
young Professor Y. some day. I hear he
is so dreadfully absent-minded; perhaps
he will take out Cecelia .”—German Joke.
A society journal states that girls can
have their lips cleared of incipient method mous¬
taches by electricity. A surer
than this is an irate parent’s number nine
boot.— Siftings. \
Old lady (to wicked little boys who
are playing marbles on Sunday)—“Little
boys, what are you playing marbles Sun-1
day for?” Little boys—“We’re playing
for ’keeps. ’ ”— Life.
Bella tho Jones, a young lady of Del., wol.,
Of fashions was not very
So a handkerchief red
And She this wrapped to round the ball her did head, Miss Bel.
rig —Life
An agricultural exchange This hard asks question * ‘how to
make hogs pay. ” is a avoid the
to answer. Tho best way to
diflicultyisnottosell a hog anything un¬
less ho pays for it in advance.— Traccler'*
Record.
Emperor William is reported to have
said that “it is the one button left un¬
buttoned which is tho ruin of an army.”
Too true, and it is the one button left
unsewed that is tho ruin of a honeymoon..
— Omaha World.
How doth the tuneful Thomas cat
Improve climbeth each moonlight back-yard night,
And on tho fence
To spit, and yowl, and fight.
And how the spider-legged dude
Improves the moonlight, too;
He eumbeth on the front-yard fence
To sweetly bill and eo.
— Peck's Sun.
Humoring A Patient
Dr. Crawford of Baltimore is related
to have advised a patient, who fancied
he was dying Philadelphia of liver disease, to travel,’
says the News. On return¬
ing lie appeared to bo quite well, death “but
upon receiving information had actually of the died |
of a twin brother, who
of a scirrhous, liver, he immediately j
staggered, and, falling down, cried out
that ho was dead, and had, as he always
expected, died of a liver complaint. Dr.
Crawford being sent for, immediately at¬
tended; and, on being informed of tho
notion which had seized the hypochon¬
driac, exclaimed: “Oh, yes, the gentle¬
man is certainly dead, and it is more
than probable his liver was the death of
him. However, to ascertain the fact, I
will hasten to cut him open before putre¬
faction takes place.” He called for a
carving knife, and whetting it, as a
butcher would when about to cut open
a dead calf, he stepped up to the pat ient
and began to open his waistcoat. Th©
hypochondriac ened became so with terribly tho agility fright¬
that he leaped up
of murder! a rabbit, murder!” and crying off out: with “MurderIj speed
ran a
that would have defied a score of doctor*
to catch him. After running a consider¬
able distance, until he was almost ex¬
hausted, he halted, and not finding the
doctor at his heels, soon became com¬
posed. From that period this gentleman of his
was never known to complain twenty
liver, nor had he for more than this
years afterward any symptoms of
disease. 3
Superstitions of Speculators.
The whims of speculators are illus¬
trated by a story told by the Atlanta
Constitution, of some Georgians who
were trading in cotton in the New
York market. “The market was fluctu¬
ating without apparent reason, and they
were speculating briskly, but blindly.
They finally selected, so the story goes,
engine No. 42 on the Third avenue ele¬
vated. Upon reaching the office in the
morning they would watch for that
engine. If, when first seen, it was
going down-town, they would sell, and
if going up town when first seen they,
would buy. By following this course
they made nearly *300,009, when one
fine morning the engine betrayed amount.] them,i
and they lost nearly double that
In oue of the French schools there is a ;
natural uiaguet capable of lifting loutt,
times its weight.
the China world, has the fastest torpedo boat fa*
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