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VOLUME V.
EX-SLAVE’S LOCK.
A CAROLINA PLANTE IPS WILL
SURPRISES HIS RELATIVES.
Over Half a Million of Dollar® Left to n
N®*re Woman In Columbia—Legml
Authority **y It Valid.
Considerable excitement has been
caused in Sumter county, 8. C., by the
discovery that Col. William J. Reynolds,
ono of t 4 e wealthiest farmers in the state,
who Gied recently, has bequeathed the
bid,* of his entire fortune, estimated at
»rfX>ut $600,000 to a negro woman, who
was -lived formerly for his slave, with whom he
many years, and to her children,
to whom he is the father. Tho story of
Col. Reynold’s life, is an interesting one.
Born in Sumter county in 1806, of honest,
industrious and frugal parents, after re¬
lie ceiving began a good common school education,
life as a planter. Fortune fa¬
vored him from the outset, and every¬
thing that ho touched seemed to turn to
gold. he Possessing a genial disposition,
was one of the most popular young
men of his district.
Fifty years ago he became
enamored of one of the loveliest
•and most gifted young ladies of the eoun
ity, and sought her hand in marriage. His
isuit at first was looked upon with more
than passing favor, and lie had good
cause to believe that his love was recip¬
rocated. After awhile, however, the
lady influenced by her mother, rejected
him. But the ardent young lover would
not take “no” for a final answer. He dc
tennined to make himself more worthy
‘ of the object of his affections, and
to try
again. Taking a leading part in all mat¬
ters of public welfare, he was elected to
represent his district in the state legisla¬
ture, which in those days was composed
of the wealth, talent and chivalry of the
state. He at once made a record for him¬
self, and ere the close of his first term lie
,<»f van recognized as one of the leaders
the house.
Returning home elated hy his sue
-cess in the councils of his state, he
renewed his suit, for the hand of the lady
of his choice and was again repulsed.
Nothing daunted by these reverses, after
being re-elected the second and third
time to the general assembly, he again
bvooed the fair one to whom his heart
ihad ever remained loyal. This time stie
•cess seemed to crown his efforts, Thc
parents withdrew their opposition to his
suit and the lady finally accepted him,
and every preparation was made for the
happy event. One day, dispelled however, all his
fond hopes were rudely by the
reception bride, of a notifying formal note from his nlli
nnced him that, in
obedience to the wishes of her mother,
•die had reconsidered her acceptance of
!his hand and fortune, and that she could
never, under liny circumstances, become
his wife. The blow was a heavy one for
young Reynolds, and it changed the en¬
tire course of his life. At first he was
grief plunged seemed into the depths of despaii ; his
to he greater than he could
bear; hr neglected his business, and wan¬
dered listlessly over his plantations and
for several years seemingly him, oblivious to
•everything around earing not
whether ho lived or died, lb* reared a
large family of mulatto children and pro¬
vided well for all of them. Several of
these children have received liberal edu¬
cations, and are now engaged as teacher*
ill the public schools of the state. Two
or 3 years before hi* death, his Col. Reynolds
•drew his will with own hand, be
-queathing almost his entire fortune to his
negro concubine and his mulatto chil¬
dren. This will Col, Reynold's sister
and other relatives will endeavor to in¬
validate and set aside; but eminent law
vers who have looked into the matter
give it is a* legal the in r opinion that the instru
merit every particular, and that
the indignant relatives must swallow
their hit it r disappointment.
MANY PEOPLE DROWNED
Ilrrsnitf a Ynrht Captain Wns Drunk On
Herr anil Curried two >Iueli Mail.
A nuufber of German families, resi¬
dents of Brooklyn and Long Island City,
N. Y., hired the yachts “Mystery” anil
“Christiana” tit Cannrsie,N.Y., fora sail.
The boats lmd carried out a plentiful
supply of beer, which wns served with a
free hand. The sun of was the just sinking,
when the passengers gathered “Mystery ’.and
“i ’hristiana” on the pier at Bar¬
ren Island to embark for Carnasie. So
many men of the party ghowed the effects
of beer that the skipper thought it best to
put the women and children aboard the
Mystery, which is a cabin yacht forty
feet long, and rates as a much safer boat
than her consort. The women protested
when they learned that Capt. Hendrick¬
son and his nine-year old were all the
men aboard. Their protest went un¬
heeded, and Hendrickson became so
angry that some of the passengers no
ticed that he had also been drinking too
much beer. They got off, and the cap
tain said he would get to Carnasie lii't,
aud spread all sail, despite the piotest
of the women. A squall struck the
yacht middle out and upset her, and
twenty five people were drowned.
MTKANOK I’lCTDKBK.
The phenomena of picture® upon win¬
dow panes that has ncen exciting and
perplexing the denizens of Milford, Brack
rn n ninty, is being repeated at Bache¬
lor's Rest and Pickerell’a school house, iu
Kentucky. The window®of a number of
private residence® are handsomely ornar
mented with red and blue tint®, inter¬
lined with pictures of men and beast®—
one pane of glass representing Curiosity a picture i*
of animals entering Several an ark. of glass
at fever heat. pane®
were removed and brought to town, and,
after being washed and cleaned, the ill¬
ustrations disappeared. Further inves¬
tigation ceased. The pictures appear the
more perfect and distinct just at sunset.
The more superstitious and trembling, view the phenom¬ antiai'
ena with fear ana
Date all sorts of calamities.
IlKART-RKNDINft AFFAIR.
The family of John Bankhead, consist¬
ing of his wife and three children, were
standing on the verandah in their home,
three miles from ()|>elika, Alu., were
struck by lightning. When Bankhead
reached his home he found that two of
the children were dead, and the other
child and his wife so paralyzed that they
q|g hardly recover.
EASTMAN, DODGE COUNTY. GA., WEDNESDAY, JULY 20,
WASHINGTON NOTES.
HOT WEATHER MUSINGS FROM
THE NATIONS CAPITAL.
Momethinii About tho Karpin®, the Army,
tho Nnvy, Civil Appointment®, and
Department® Generally.
CONGRESS OF PHYSICIANS.
Tho International Medical Congress of
the World will be held at Washington in
September, and will be the greatest gath
cring of the profession, both as to num
hers and professional distinction, ever
seen on this continent.
MR. JOHNSON CALLS.
A. Among S. Johnson, the President’s callers was J.
Knight of Labor. a prominent Tennessee told the
Mr. Johnson
President that the people of the South
were very much pleased with his admin¬
dence istration, and that they had great confi¬
in him, believing that the interests
of tho laboring class would receive
proper care at his hands.
wool question.
Assistant Secretary Maynard, of the
Treasifi-y Department, gave a hearing to
W. M. Whitwell, President of the Na
tional Association of Wool Manufactu¬
rers, who made a strong argument in fa¬
vor of a revision of the classification of
wool t<rps and worsted clothes as adopted
in different parts, which, he contended,
gave an unwarranted advantage to the
importer over the manufacturer.
MUST NOT COMBINE.
Postmaster General Vilas has written a
letter to one of his clerks, who inquired
if a convention of postal clerks in his
division would meet the approval of the
department. Gen. Vilas says he feels
hound to state that in his judgment such
a convention is worse than valueless and
unnecessary. He says there is no occa¬
sion for it, and that it is forbidden by
sound principles.
WEDDING IN PROSPECT.
Cards are out for the marriage of Miss
Jennie, daughter of Secretary Lamar, to
her cousin, W. H. Lamar, a rising young
attorney of Washington. The ceremony
is announced to take place at the old
homestead of Mis. Secretary Lamar, at
Macon, Ga. Secretary Lamar and many
Southern friends of the family will go
from festivities. Washington to be present at the
WARSHIPS FOR DUTY.
Orders have been sent to the United
States Baeilie squadron to rendezvous
at Honolulu. The squadron include s the
Alert, four gains, at Callao; Juniata,
eight guns, at Panama; and tho flagship,
Vandniia, eight guns, which has already
sailed from Peru. The Iroquois has been
ordered to San Francisco, Cal., for re¬
pairs before sailing. The Asiatic squad¬
ron, consisting ordered of six men-of-war, will
a so he to.Honolulu, if found
necessary.
IMMENSE PENSION BUSINESS.
• The mail of letters received nt the
Pension Bureau and sent out from it
averages more than 12,000 a day. Tho
total number of pension certificates issued
during the fiscal year just ended was
112,340, of wh’ch 54,194 were original
allowances. This is the largest business
ever cleared off the desks in one year.
The average number of clerks for the
year was 1,530, or about 100 less than in
ihe last year of Mr. Arthur’s administra¬
tion. The amount paid out for pensions
during the year is not yet fully ascer¬
tained, but will probably exceed $74,
000 , 000 .
president Cleveland’s fortune.
Mr. Cleveland does not expend more
than half his salary, if, indeed, his ex¬
penses exceed 40 per cent, of his income,
and lie will have in the neighborhood
of $200,000 as a fortune upon which to
begin life anew when he leaves the
White House. Carefully invested, this
would yield him an income sufficient to
iake care of him very comfortably for
the rest of his days. When he dies his
w ife w ill have $20 ,000 from life insurance
policies to add to his savings. He has
no very heavy insurance on his life, for
the reason that w ithin the past two or
three years the principal companies have
instructed their agents that they do not
care for risks on tho life of the President,
because of his mode of living and his
disposition to apoplexy.
NOTES.
The “Atlanta” warship, lias at last
been placed on active duty, and has now
proceeded towards the fishing groundsill
Eastern waters.
The Navy Department, received infor¬
mation that the warship “Ossipee” could
not sail from Boston, Mass., because 22 of
her crew deserted.
The daughter of Maj. Gen. Worth (one
of the most distinguished soldiers who
fought in the Mexican war), has just been
discharged from a clerkship in the Quar¬
termaster General’s office.
The Secretary of the Treasury has ap
pointed J. H. Ostendorff to be store¬
keeper and ganger iu tin* district of
South Carolina, and Willa Viley to be
guager in the Seventh district of Ken¬
tucky.
The Marine Hospital Bureau has en¬
gaged a tug Keys, to take supplies and from take Tampa
to Egmont Fla., to pas
sengers who have been detained at the
latter place land for quarantine the period purposes of to
the main after 1 deten-
10 ”‘
The __ Navy _ Department . satisfied . ^ , with . ,
is
the plans for dry docks to be built at
Brooklyn, N.Y., and Norfolk, Va., which
were submitted by bidders under the
recent advertisement. Commodore liar
mony, chief of the Bureau of Yards and
Docks, will recommend to Secretary
Whitney that a re-advertisement be made
requiring bids upon plans winch have
been prepared by the bureau.
A DKMI'KUATK REDDLED.
At St. peddler, Henry’s, Ohio. C’a«per Link, a
clock got on a drunken spree
and commenced to insult women he met
on the street. The villagers ordered him
to leave town, and undertook to chase
him out of town. He turned on them
and struck Bernard Brook over the head
with a club, mushing iu his si nil j.ud
killing him instantly. He ih< n struck
Casper Schneid rla rgcr. knocking h-ui
insensible and inflicting injuries which
may prove fatal, lb* then attempted to
escape, but was arrested.
“ Justice to All, Malice for None.”
SENATOR BROWN’S CLAIM.
He AitMiihe® Che Oeargia Legislature
With u. Betterment® Claim.
The sensation of the hour in the Geor¬
gia Brown, Legislature is ci letter from Senator
upon the question of payment
for the betterments made upon the
Western & Atlantic Road. The claim
for improvements is estimated at from
two to three million of dollars. The
I lease specifics that the lessees shall return
j the road to the state in as go >d condi
; tion as when they received it. The lessees
will have it inferred that they are en
titled to compensation for such improve
j ments. deduction. This This is not provision a legal nor is equitable in
common
every form of lease. It is never pre¬
tended by tenants of lands or houses
that it means to confer upon them a
during right to indemnity for money expended
their term. Imperfect repair,
! ruinous state of road bed, were elements
considered in fixing the rental of the
, state road at so low a figure as $300,000
I annual rental. The profits have been
; colossal. They are matters of secret
Wstory. The road was leased, too, at
G 1Hn a more honest legislature would
have obtained,
POISON CASES.
Klngular Effect of Dcravrd M*-at and Bites
From a Cat and a Hot.
Mr. and Mrs. Crosland and their little
girl died at Wilmington, Del., within a
few days of each other, of malignant
dysentery. fa< An investigation reveals the
t that a piece of meat had been hung
in the well to keep cool, and had been
forgotten. It decayed and dropped into
the water, and the death of these three
persons was caused hy drinking impure
water. Detective F. M. Simpson, of
Atlanta, Ga., has a 10 years’ old child
suffering from blood poisoning. Mrs.
Simpson was sleeping with the child two
months ago and was awakened hy some¬
thing passing over her face. She struck
a light and saw a large rat running across
the bed. The child had awakened and
was crying as if in pain. A small bruise
was found on the left arm, and the
wound was undoubtedly caused by the
teeth of the rat. Frankie Bridges,'a lit¬
tle girl eight years of age, of Atlanta,
Ga., at Whitehall and Humphries streets,
feared whs seriously bitten by a cat, and it
blood poisoning will result.
A LIGHTNING STROKE
In Tennessee Sends Nine Colored People
Into Eternity.
At a negro funeral at Mount Pleasant,
about sixty miles south of Nashville,
Tenn., 9 negroes were killed by a single
stroke lowed the of lightning. A large party fol¬
remains of Harriet Terry to
the grave. Just as the final prayer had
been said, a dark,ominous cloud came up
from the east. The party had scarcely
left the grave when one of the most se¬
vere thunder and rain-storms ever known
to that section hurst upon them. Scarcely
had those who were killed reached the
shelter of an immense oak when a terrific
thunder-cloud burst and the tree was
struck. The whole party of 9 tumbled
down together and died instantly. Their
names are as follows: William Burch,
pastor of the colored Methodist Episco¬
pal church, and Hattie, his wife; John
Hannah, a minister engaged in missionary
vork; Emanuel Orr, a Methodist
preacher; Tom Rodgers, Hester Terry,
mother of the girl who w'as buried, ami
her two daughters, Eliza and Rose, and
• v*ba Guthrie.
WHERE DID IT GO?
Liquor Dealers In Kentucky Are Looking
lor $76,000 Worth of Whiskey.
Crawford, Special Revenue Agent Kellogg and
from Washington, with four
United States gaugers, examined every
barrel of whiskey in two bonded ware
houses of the O. F. C. and Carlisle dis¬
tilleries, located at Frankfort, Ky., and
owned by the E. II. Taylor distillery
company. In 17,000 barrels contained
be therein, they found 4,400 which had to
her regauged. Fifty barrels of this num
were almost entirely empty, while
1,200 were short from ten to thirty-eight
gallons each. One barrel, the last one
entered in 1884, which at that time con¬
tained forty-four gallons, upon regauging
was found to contain thirty-four gallons.
Local distilleries, as well as proprietors,
claim that the excessive shortage, 12,000
gaJlons, could not have been caused by
equalizing, but was stolen. The proprie¬
tors will lose by the affair about $75,000.
sTKIItE ON A RAILROAD.
At 4 o’clock in the afternoon, engineers
and firemen on the Brooklyn, N. Y., ele¬
vated railroad struck, and traffic on ihe
line was wholly suspended. Later, a few
trains were run hy some of the higher
officials in the engineering department of
the road. It seems that trouble has been
brewing between the engineers and the
management for some time. Nine engi¬
neers had been discharged, and the
Brotherhood of Engineers at once ap¬
pointed a committee to wait on the man¬
agement and demand that the discharged
i j employes be reinstated, refused, {lending urbi
tration. Ibis was
1
j SHORT INDIAN WAR.
j 1 A . strolling . band of Kickapoo Indians x ,.
! visited South St. Louis, Mo., to sell
j , their curiosities. A boy enraged them,
f or w hich they attempted to beat him
j | an( made j w hen him John Rose knives, interfered, and they
at with he shot
one of them The Indians were rein
forced and arined with Winchester
r ifl e8> r osc and several friends fled to a
hotel and from a seeond-story window
brought down Pawnee Tom, Indian
Charley 7 and Little Chief, with revolvers.
The Indians will probably die from their
wounds.
j LOVER OF CATS.
; A case of much interest between the
! health department of Montreal, Canada,
j and Mrs. 8tevcnsen Morley, a fashionable
i lady is before the courts. Th® lady is a
great lover of cats, and keeps in the
house all that she can collect. The
( I neighbors house complained to the police; her
was raided. Over 200 cats were
j found in the house, which was in a ter
I rible condition. The lady is very wealthy,
l and will fight the case to the bitter end.
SOBTHERN ITEMS.
VERY INTERESTING DOTS GATH¬
ERED HERE AND THERE.
Boiled-Dawn Fact® for n Week of What
1® Transpiring Around l 7 ®, Well
Worth Reading.
house, Augusta, Ga., is to have a new opera
which will cost $50,000.
different Slight earthquake tremors were felt at
recently. points in lower South Carolina
the Logan E. Bleekly, has been elected by
Supreme Legislature as Chief Justice of the
Court of Georgia.
Ex-Governor James M. Smith has been
chosen as judge of the Chattahoochee
circuit by the Georgia Legislature.
E. T. Browning, postmaster at Alliga¬
tor, Ga., has been placed under a $300
bond to answer the charge of making
false returns.
lenberg, O. B. Thornton, Ky., county judge of Muh¬
has fled the county to
escape a mandate of the United States
Supreme Court.
The local option election, which was
held in Stonewall district, in Harrisburg,
Va., resulted in a victory for the “wets’’
by something over 100 majority.
The volunteer fire department of Char¬
lotte, N. C., disbanded. The trouble arose
out of bills made by the department
which the aldermen refuse to pay.
Atlanta, Many burglaries have taken place in
Ga., lately and Bellingford
Pnntup, of the a negro, was captured with some
stolen property. He had a pistol
in his pocket.
Richard Dozier, a prominent citizen
and planter, died at his home near Col¬
umbus, Ga; the effect of a paralytic stroke.
He was about 75 years of age and was
one of the best known men in his section.
The Atlanta, Ga., police force have
arrested the principal liquor dealers in
the city for violating the law, and they
all agreed to quit selling if the authori¬
chaingang. ties. would not sentence them to the
The Salvation Army is the talk of the
town, filled at Greenville, S. C. Their barracks
was with people anxious to witness
the marriage of Captain John Denton to
Lieutenant Sadie Sammons. An admis¬
sion fee of 10 cents was charged, which
was given to the happy couple.
It has just transpired that John W.
Greyson, of Scottsboro, Ala., is now
serving a life sentence in ihe Alabama
penitentiary on a charge of burning a
house of one Porter, on Sand Mountain,
several years ago, when Adam Freeman
was the guilty man. Freeman confessed
the crime on his death bed.
Rev. Sam Jones is conducting revival
by meetings at at New Castle, Ky., assisted
Rev. S. Small and Rev. W. H. Millmrn,
the blind preacher. The meetings arc
being held in the open air on a magnifi¬
cent lawn formerly the property of Gen¬
eral E. Kirby Smith, and was used as a
drill ground for his military school in
1869.
Dr. J. D. Barbee, of McKcndrce
church, of Nashville, Tenn., has been
elected book agent of the Southern
Methodist Publishing House to succeed
Dr. McFerrin. For nearly four years
Dr. Barbee has been the pastor of Me
Kendree church, in that city, and the
judgment is universal that he is among
the very strongest men in the church.
Maj. Albert White Matthews, of
Georgia, Lieut. with Capt. Ella Brucker, and
Emma Sage, of the Salvation
Army, have secured a hall and opened in
Montgomery, ated Ala. Capt. Ella, who cre
quite an interest in the Army’s
movements in Atlanta, Ga., especially on
the Fourth of July, says they have come
to “lick the devil out of Montgomery.”
Mrs. Craig and her niece, Miss Alice
Phillips, were walking down the track of
the E. T. V. & G. railroad, at Sugar
Valley, Ga., when they reached a
long trestle. When just midway, the
fast express train dashed around
the curve, and before the engineer could
stop the train the engine struck the two
ladies, killing them both. They resided
at Dalton.
Miss Viola Meets, daughter of a promi¬
nent citizen of Graham county, N. C.,
was to have been married to John Am¬
mons. The match was opposed by the
father of Miss Meets, who armed himself
on the day of the proposed wedding, and
swore he would kill Ammons if he ap¬
said peared she on his premises. Ihe daughter
preferred to marry with her
father’s consent, but would marry Am¬
mon that day or die. Her father vio¬
lently adjoining refusing, she stepped into an
room and her father going into
the room shortly afterwards found his
daughter a corpse and iu her hand a vial
labelled “strychnine.”
BATTLE OF THE BOYNE.
OrRngrmrn Celebrate the Anniversary With
Considerable Fervor and Rioting.
In Liverpool, England, the ceremonies
attendant on the celebration of the Battle
of the Boyne, by Orangemen, resulted iu
a serious riot. The paraders were at¬
tacked by crowds of Catholics, who
threw stones and other missiles at the
men in ranks. The police forcibly re¬
moved party emblems carried by the
Orangemen. About a dozen persons
were arrested. In Toronto, Ontario, the
Orange demonstration was a great suc¬
cess, There were 53 lodges and between
4.000 and 5,000 men in the procession.
Visiting Catherine’s, delegates were present from St.
other places. Napanee, Belleville and
The procession was ac¬
knowledged to be the finest of the kind
ever seen on the streets of Toronto. In
Dublin, Ireland, 50,000 Orangemen met
at Lurgen to celebrate the anniversary.
The Earl of Erne presided. A policeman
fired into the crowd, but no one was hit.
Afterwards the police charged upon the
Catholics. The latter resisted and many
of them were severely clubbed. One
policeman was seriously injured in the
affray. Rev. Dr.Vane presided over a
monster Orangemen, meeting in Belfast, Ireland, of
and several severe fights took
place between them aud the Catholics.
In Patterson, N. J., a very serious riot
occurred, and Orange lodges that visited
from Newark and Jersey City were very
roughly handled.
GREAT IMPROVEMENTS
PROJECTED AND UNDER WAY
ALL OVER THE SOUTH.
Forest® Being Levelled and Mill®, Factories,
Railroad®, Foundries, Etc., Building
Many New Incorporation®.
Nixonville, Ala., is to have a starch
factory.
Cooke Springs, Ala., rejoices that she
is soon to have a 200-guest hotel.
A hotel will be put up at Daytona,
Fla., by E. E. Vaile, of St. Augustine.
Parties from fertilizer Georgia are about Oxford, to erect
a twenty-ton factory at
Ala.
C. E. Long, a Pennsylvanian, is ar¬
ranging to put up an extensive glass plant
at Chattanooga, Tenn.
The Southern Marble Company con¬
template building a railroad from Jasper,
Ga., to their marble quarries.
The Alabama Granite Company, of
Birmingham, Ala., with a capital of
$200,000, has been incorporated.
The Sparger Steel Compound organized Company
of Bristol. Tenn., has been
with a capital stock of $100,000.
A tract of 13,000 acres of land at
Bronson, Fla., has been purchased by a
syndicate, who will erect mills, etc.
Fernandina, Fla., is to have “a boom,”
as Daniel Whitney, of Detroit, Mich.,
has secured 33,000 acres of timber lands
in that vicinity, which will be developed.
The Van Depoele Electric Manufactur¬
ing Company, of Chicago, Ill., will estab¬
lish a branch factory at Montgomery, employed.
Ala. About 150 men will be
Philadelphia, Pa., parties have organ¬
ized the Florida Sugar Manufacturing
Co., at Kissimmee, Fla., with a capital
of $300,000. A sugar refinery wiil be
erected.
E. B. Comly, president of the Mother
well Iron & Steel Company, of Logan, O.,
is investigating the merits of several
Southern cities with a view to establish¬
ing a manufacturing plant.
The great Southern Iron, Brass and
Engine Co. will locate in West Nash¬
ville, Tenn., to do general machine work.
Capital $300,000. The Fuel Economizer
Co. will also build their machines in the
same works.
A bill has boeD introduced in the Leg¬
islature in Georgia, to incorporate the
Anthony Shoals Land Improvement
Company of Washington, Ga., to develop
mineral lands, quarries, &c., and build
railroads, pipe lines, etc.
The Bloomfield Water Power Co., with
a capital of $300,000 has been organized
at Athens, Ga. The company will either
build a cotton factory at Barnett Shoals,
or erect buildings to be leased out for
manufacturing purposes.
THE PRESIDENT S OUTING.
On Arriving nt Holland N. Y., No Con¬
veyance Being on Hand, He Walks.
President Cleveland and wife arrived
at Holland, N. Y., an hour and six min¬
utes earlier than they were expected.
They came from Utica, by special train,
comprising Central hotel one coach and a New York
land’s maid car. Only Mrs. Cleve¬
walked from the accompanied them. They
station to “The Weeds,”
fhe residence of Miss Rose Elizabeth
Cleveland, near by, where they were
heartily received by the President's sister
and his niece, Mary L. Hastings, of Clin¬
ton. The early arrival was a pleasant
little surprise, but Miss Cleveland was
all ready for her guests. The people of
the place had intended to be out en
masse to greet and welcome the Presi¬
dent, and it is a matter of general regret
that such a pleasure was not had. So
well had the secret of their arrival been
kept that there was no conveyance wait¬
ing. The President having satisfied him¬
self that no carriage was in attendance,
picked up a small bundle and said,
“Come on, like good American citizens.”
They walked slowly up tho street of the
village to “The Weeds” Alias Cleveland’s
residence. Miss Cleveland met them at
the door and breakfast was soon after
served.
H. W. BEECHER S SON.
A Singular Story ToUl About Him In A
San EraliciMt'o I’a pit.
The San Francisco, Cal., Chronicle de¬
votes two pages to letters and affidavits
found among the effects of the late Ab¬
ner L. lhake, formerly Deputy United
States Collector at Port Townsend, Wash
tion Territory, who died under what were
considered mysterious circumstances, at
Chicago last May while on his way to
Washington. The article says that Blake,
v ho had been removed from the customs
v rvice, held to the opinion that IT. F.
Beecher, son of the late Henry Ward
Beecher, who was collector at Port Town¬
send and who is now Treasury agent
there, had defrauded the Government,
and in one instance had withheld from
an informer the money due him, growing
out of a large opium seizure. Blake re¬
ported Washington this and other matters to the
authorities, but no attention
was paid to him. He then went East
with the documents and died in Chicago
In one of the letters it is intimated that
Blake met J> li Minty, formerly employed
on the steamer Evangel, of which Beecher
was captain, and was by him induced to
remain at Chicago, and that while there
Blake met foul play, to prevent his pro¬
posed exposure, resulting in his death.
CATTLE DISEASE.
few Pleuro-pneumonia days made its appearance
g ago in the town of West
Chester, N. Y., and the disease has ex¬
tended to the extensive stock farm of
William Havemeyer, on Throgg’s Neck,
where a number of valuable blooded cat¬
tle have been taken sick. The cows on
the farm of George McKettrick, near
West Chester village, are reported as riv¬
ing with the disease, as are also those on
the farm of J. Timmer. United States
Inspector R. A. McLain, of the Depart¬
ment of Agriculture at Washington, has
succeeded in thoroughly stamping out
the disease in the upper part of West¬
chester county, where he caused the de¬
struction of over 900 cows on various
dairy farms. __
TEMPERANCE.
The • Fourth of July.
God bless our rockbound coast,
The land we love the most,
Our native land;
Land where our noble sires
Lit freedom’s beacon-fires
And shook with bells the spires,
A patriot band.
And when they died ’twas well
Their starry mantle fell
On heroes free;
And to their colors true,
The red, the white, and blue,
The white light shiniue; through
On Liberty.
’Tis here our fathers sought
The boon their valor bought
With bleeding soars.
Firm as the granite hills
Were their unbending wills,
And now sweet freedom fills
Our flag with stars.
Now let us break the chains
And wash away the stains
Without delay.
Intemperance That is a sin within.
strikes the hoart
A good day to begin
Is Freedom's day.
When the saloon is sealed,
And broken hearts are healed,
And speech is dumb
That would, if uttered, be
Filth and profanity,
Then our glad eyes shall soo
God’s kingdom come.
—George W. Bungay, in National Advocate.
Prohibition Prohibits in Maine.
The National Temperance Advocate says:
Articles have recently appeared in tho news-
82“£. PW 6 ™ purporting ^£° to l be atte written “pti»B by show pro
n \ s 1a ,u ?.’ to
that prohibition is • a failure, is not enforced,
and not a finger raisod for its enforcement.
These articles are freely copied into the liquor
C* a gJ “the^humW
thousand to defeat the amendment in these
States. No one pretends that all illegal sales
whohfllln wnoie, outsulo 1 wi U Jw two leS ^ or e ' 1 1i three bufc cities, Iav is a 113 per¬ a
manenfc and wonderful success. Wo sent
these articles to Hon. Nelsou Dingley, Jr.,
nA°hi S iL > °i fe n C ;!!7.f aini, He'says'- i ai ' , wi ] rus h t 3 J0 ' v01 ' v ;? iy rkin F?
ness in the’case. ‘
“Theletter is a most gross perversion of
the facts. As a matter of fact the law was
never better enforced than it is now, as a
whole-the exceptions being a few cities
where the foreign element is very large. The
amendments to the law udopted l>v the last
he Lewiston (Me.) Journal says: “The
more the Maine rumseller " looks over the
-
amended prohibitory law of Maine the less
he is inclined to overlook it. It has the real
grip to it. Uur Hockland special gives tho
comment of an Eastern Maine rumseller who
could stand the fires of the old law but who
surrendered to Prima facie. We congratu¬
late him on his surrender. There is prima
facie mighty evidence that „ uuu he UH nus has abandoned an . vnaone(l a a
mean business. Let him mow start a
cold-water mineral spring and go in
“ The attempt to evade the law hy import
ing ‘original packages' of grog is also fraught
with peril. The Augusta find Bar Harbor
rumsellers who attempt thus to sell may yet
be amenable to the la w; there is som 1 doubt
about their right to <lo thus even under judi
cial decisions; but it is settled that tliey'ean-
1 P ac kages of less than a dozen bottles
^V' grog e8s shops fourteen in Maiue gallons. are pretty 1 ho 1 act well is, the
nered.” oor
Nations Destroyed by Drink.
Tho e rea <; empires of antiquity might still
fcCi&LMSttf bosoms. , , Babylon conquered, SStTSS
was Medea not so
much by tho arms of the anil Persians.
‘the
general long have effeminacy reared of her people, she might
her lofty brow among the
nations, with her hanging gardens and fair
energy and valor of the Greek armies as by
the druukenness of her Kings and people
S ad ^
pie world. might Greece, still have been a power in th®
in her turn, fell not so much
by the prowess and of the Roman arms, as by her
own discord effeminacy. Save for this,
st.li Athens, have in been art, the science worlds and wonder maimers, and might
er
example. Rome fell, not so much by th®
hordes of Goths, Huns and Vandals deseend
as ^ by the her careless plains ease and and assaulting sottish indifference her cities,
of her people. Wine and spoil took away th®
heart of that great nation and unnerved it®
mighty arm. But for this, Rome from seven
might still have been controlling th®
destinies of the world, or at least leading in
the van of nations.— Irish World.
Science and Drunkards.
Last week, at the meeting of the National
Medical Association in Chicago, Dr. Quinby,
of New Jersey, read a paper on Medical
Jurisprudence, “drunkenness in which it is said that
was touched on in its aspect as
a should disease, license and it was held that tho State
tion of not physical depots for the dissemina¬
contamination which may lie
come of the hereditary, drunkard.” and advocated punishment
Science may yet come
forth as a powerful ally to moral and re
it Ugioiis will effort in behalf of the drunkard. But
not be easy to enforce punishment for
drunkenness if being drunk is looked upon
as be merely sick without being very being ill. It is bad enough to
fined and imprisoned.
If punishing the drunkard does him any good,
it must be because he is well enough to ap
preciate that the pleasures of drink are not
worth the price of the penalty .—-New York
Observer.
The Drink Evil in France.
The French Senato recently discussal tho
report of the Committee on Consumption of
Spirits. M. Claude said that the Committee
had come to the conclusion that the drinking
of spirits in France had reached such a height
as to be a social danger. Alcohol was essen
tially a dutiable article, and it behoved tho
State to prevent it*excessive consumption, at
the same tune securing the utmost profit to
the treasury by the suppression of adulteration
and Committee’s other frauds. M. He Rouier said the approved Government the
would report. discovered,
prosecute fraud wherever
and that the revenue collectors would be
instructed to take vigorous action against
imposition.
Temperance News anti Note®.
Since prohibit ion went into effect over 3,000
miles of railroads have been built iu the State
of Kansas.
The Second International Temperance Con¬
ference will be held at Zurich, Switzerland,
September U and 10.
Mrs. Annie Boyd, of Grand Rapids, Mich.,
has recovered tW damages irom a rum
seller w ho sold her husband li juor, under th®
influence of which he killed a man and was
sjiit/enc j to prison for life.
Dr. Pruddan says that an ordinary glass
of water may contain hundreds of thousands
of bacteria, but nobody should quit drinking
water on that account and take up with the
other thing. A bushel of bacteria in hi*
stomach will play far less havoc with a man’s
natural history than ever so small a snake in
his boot.— Washington Critic.
Mr. C. S. Salmon states fn the Scotsman
that two of the four races inhabitating th®
Gab £°IL. dlsbr i < ?u A l ricu .’ are ru pidly suppled dying
S*!j* Mwwot th® abombn^ .. ink
GENERAL NEWS
GLEANED FROM MANY SOURCES
THE WORLD OVER.
Wliat is (ioinx On North, Canada, Mexico,
West Indies, Europe. Asia,
Africa, Etc.
The anti-Mormon element in Balt Lake
City elected their candidates in a number
of districts.
A crowd of citizens of Parkridge, N. J.,
drove the Evangelist Munson out of town
and cut off his beard.
Greenhut, the Chicago, Ill., Socialist,
says their friends have abandoned hope
of a new trial for the anarchists.
The Excelsior Fire Works Company’s
building, on Park Place, near Broadway
in Nefr York, was destroyed by tire.
George Bancroft, the historian, was
seized with sudden illness, at Newport,
R. I., which gave his household great con¬
cern.
The authorities of Milwaukee, Wis.,
are making a strong effort to induce Presi¬
dent Cleveland to visit that city in the
fall.
Another slight shock of earthquake
was felt at twenty-five minutes of six
in the morning in several towns in New
Hampshire.
Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg has
gone to Bt. Petersburg, to solicit the
Czar’s consent to his acceptance of the I
Bulgarian throne. |
Ilong Si, a Chinese domestic who mur- j
dcred Mrs. Bilyon, at St. Johns, Cal., '
some time ago, was taken from jail and | |
hanged ' by ? a mob.
France, Everything points to stirring scenes in ;
especially Crowds at Paris, within a few i j
weeks. parade the streets cheer
ng 01 Gen. Boulanger.
Canadian cholera is more prevalent in
Montreal this season than for many years J
sist. „ . Children a, dying f from cholera ,
are
iniantum at an alarming rate.
Queen Victoria seems to be rather fee
hie. She sat for an hour on the terrace
at the Hatfield house, and then took a \
short promenade, leaning on a stick. ■
rp, J he r General , , Executive Board . of , the ,,
Knights of Labor do not wish Edward
church, McGlynn, late a priest of the Catholic 1
to be a member of the order. ,
1 here has been further rioting at Vale- I
nica, Spain, in consequence of attempts
to [collect the octroi tax. The military j
tired into the crowd, killing four persons.
A young base-ball player in Pennsyl¬
vania met with a singular death while
playing. He was struck in the neck with
the ball, which split Ins windpipe, death
resulting soon afterward.
Because Louisa Eberliue, of Philadel¬
phia, Pa., listened about the houses, and
under the windows of citizens and re- i
peated the tattle she heard, under an old !
law, she has been indicted.
Tlie hotel keepers of Huntington, Pa., |
who were refused licenses in February |
l-ist lasL nave have agreed *um'pd to to close close their tneir r»lares places till till I
their cases are decided. There are no
hotels open in that city now.
The Peruvian government has invited
the republics of Central and South Amer
if* American sanitary in congress, the formation to be of held nn
in Lima, on November 1st of this year.
A terrific tornado and hailstorm paased
over the northern portion of Hughes and
the southern portion of Sulley counties in
Dakota. Stones as large as hens’ eggs
heat the eropa out of line, while '.he
wind.laid houses low. .
The extraordinary and enthusiastic
demonstrations at the reception 1 of G.n.
1 .oulanger at Clermont-r errand,in w • t-i I 1 ranee,
have caused great irritation in Germany.
The newspapers in Berlin contain very
severe comments on the affair.
Gainbrinus Assembly, Knights of Labor, J
of Cincinnati, Ohio, numbering 800 men, 1
rcsolvcd to withdraw from the Knights. *
riM 11ns . action ,. was brought , , , about i , . because
of the new constitution, which discrimi
nates against the liquor interest. They
will J join the National Brewers’ Union.
Gen. Richard ltoweu, one of the best
known residents of Southern Illinois, and
a man whose name is familiar in all parts
of the country in connection with run¬
ning the turf and the breeding of thor¬
oughbred horses, dropped dead at the
Washington Park race track in Chicago,
111 .
Superintendent Pennsylvania, Lawler, of issued the Reading notice
Railroad, in a
to all employes that they must abstain
from intoxicants whether on duty or not.
Any man reported A drink to him liquor as having been
seen taking of or beer will
be summarily dismissed from the service
of the company.
The Meadville, Pa., Theological Semi
, has conferred , , the degree . .. bachelor , , ,
nary of
of divinity upon a woman, Marion Mur
dock, who is pastor of the Unitarian ;
church at Humboldt, Iowa. This is the j
first instance of the kind in America. She i
is about 30 years old and a very eloquent
preacher.
A general strike of ice men in the
employ of the Knickerbocker, Consum¬
ers and New York Ice Companies in New
York occurred recently. The strike only
lasted until noon, ’ when the coin pan V
, , *
granted . the ., mens demands, , and , the . . k-<
famine, from which storeke epers and
housekeepers had suffered during tho i .
forenoon, was brought ” to an end. !
BOY CREMATED.
Fire started in Otto colliery, at Potts
ville, Pa., Ferguson, and is raging fiercely. Young
Eddy sou of the outside boss,
the lad who first discovered the tire, met
an awful death at the scene. He had
brought his father’s dinner to him, and
in crossing the floor of the engine room,
charred boards gave away and the boy
was precipitated into body the burning mine.
The recovery of his was impossible,
as the outburst of flames caused by the
collapse of the engine-house floor ren¬
dered the approach to the opening out of
all question.
the qubbn arrives.
Queen Kapiolani arrived in New York
from England by the steamer “Bervia’’ j
and was received with considerable cer¬
emony Hawaiian and saluting. She proceeds to
the Kingdom at once.
NUMBER 8.