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VOLUME V.
SOUTHERN DOTS.
J x *?e resting news put into a
CONDENSED FORM.
Th* Manv iiniipeaing* 0 f a Week Pat !
into n Pieaeaat. iteadoiiie Form
Fnr Hnsr People.
Hon. Primus Jones, the renowned
irst-lw.li'" man of Georgia, presented
.* Gordon with a 04-pound water
mr|',t).
I he Hebrew order of the B'uai Brith,
Atlanta, (*«., has a fund of *40,000, 1
winch they will devote to building au ,
< orphan*’ Home. '
I In Georgia Legislature intend to pass
«» bill in fixing the license of all retail <fcal
■’ rs domestic wines at #10,000; it has
p»s.so,l one branch.
, men of # .. Memphis, , . Term.,
I mvc mt out an authoritative denial of
ul Vii‘w Yn k V<T 1 U ‘ r ”’ “ rCp0rte<i
*. ° r P^P 0 **’
( ‘ bimbos, Ga., and Kufunla, Ala.,
-■ pitnlists have determined to put three
on the Chattahoo. he,river to make
daily tri| between Columbus and
Fufauhi.
Dresident Printup, of the Rome &
Decatur Kailrond, reports that the road
will I »e finished and trainR running- to
( d Gi¬ Bluff, Ala., by August 20th, and
fu i i'|l I b'b n, Ala., by September 10th.
D L. Booher, one of tho oldest citizens
< olumbus, Ga., died. Mr. Booherwas
rmh \ CJI r of his uge, and was for
a prominent grocery mer
nt ity. About twelve years
ago his eye Might failed and he retired
ns 1 usinesM.
t.<-i ii many years since the crop
>ut loop f ( ,r Georgia was as favorable as
He sent From nil parti} of the state
• OIIIOS l lie nine report. All the indica
tior.s pnint to a most Ruccessfull season,
1 tli j<- farmers aiul planters are happy.
W . W, Johnson foreman of the foundry
.......
f tin- . Nashville, rlmt tnnooga & St. Louis
lilroiul iddqnly, s hops, at Nashville, Tenn., died
IB- was sitting in a chair at
v hops when lie suddenly fell forward
•c died almost immediately, lie leaves
g ifi and six children.
A miiuII negro girl about five years old,
/»-oiling neat the gas-works at Macon, Uu.,
•nd daughter of Mattie Gray, died re
r4? ntl) and the mother of tlie child claims
bat a companion ef her daughter had
m polled her to swallow a lot of broken
S nimtiug her death.
Ndaiisville, Ga., was completely par
red b\ the death of Mis. Alexander by
1 o\\ II bands. She fastened a shotgun to
M-dp, ’ and*put the barrel to lu-r head
ml pulled the trigger, ller head was
cut. r« •iv blown off, scattering her blood
and brains, and making a horrible pic¬
ture.
o| <-r Itijod, who went to Americas,
• -a., sinful two months ago from Talla
I 1‘refi, to take charge of the Wcs
ter IVniou tclegrtiph office, in the
afisem/- of the regular operator, who was
aw bik' iy on ill in a short the morning vacation, was died suddenly
n and of con-
1! d ion of t In- brain.
Dr. E. f I >. Alfriend died very suddenly
at about Sparta, Ga. lie had been sick only
24 l|ftins. 11 is death teas caused
I onngunuon of the lungs and brain,
lie married Miss Mary Fierce, the next
1o tip youngest daughter of the late
liM* Fierce; t: at the time of his
length had been - widower for soup
yt* ,n lie left no children.
. The Benevolent Home in Atlanta, On.,
is to be investigated, The bill of fare is
given by a widow with a babe of three
months, ami is as follows; “Two small
ireuiiH and a half wup of coffee has been
and Ul v breakfast; a piece of sour corn bread
a small slice of fat bacon, with a
plate of boiled beans, lias been my dinner,
and supper consists of a halt cup of weak
coffr-c and a piece of cold, sour bread.”
Fire broke out >n the upper floor of
b. IlHrnhurdt hotel, a 2 story wooden
structure, at Bessemer, Ala., ami destroy
'•d it ami twenty-one adjoining lion SCN of
the same character. Thirteen persons
wen- hurt bad enough to need the scr¬
vie.-so| jihysicimis; the injuries of one,
an ' •ii'; raver imtned Frederick Peterson,
nii Nud to lx- fatal. The buildings he¬
bo 'd to the Carolina, or tho New ()r
lea SilJ 'd Natelmz K< a! Estate and Improv
einei I ('n ii'l'imy. It is thought a candle
'•'It .’.ii a room started the tire.
LIGHTNING IN U t KOLI NA.
J. 'V. Gardner, while, living near
York ville, S. was instantly killed by
a siroke of li^liining. He ns standing
Jin h s back yard when a bolt struck two
in frees, front, apparently at the same time, one
and the other in tlie rear of the
house. He also received the full force of
tin shock from head to feet, Ilis son
was five or six feet from him with a ra
zor in bis hand, engaged in shaving, and
was also severely shocked. Frances
Fewell, a negro woman, living in Y’ork
ville, S. C., was also severely stricken by
lightning. She was in her yard washing cT
clothes when the bolt struck, taking
feet mainly in the right shoulder, which,
with the arm and right side of the face,
is lightning paralyzed. entered At the Winnsboro, S. C.,'
the News and Herald composing room of
M. Probat, compositor, newspaper. who Wyatt
a was work¬
ing near a fireplace, was knocked dow n,
stunned and hail his left side para I v zed.
Two other typos were knocked down and
stunned.
INVITATION TO THE PH EMI DENT.
Mayor Francis, of St. Louis, Mo., has
tion /appointed to President a committee Cleveland to carry an visit invita¬
to that
city during the fall festivities. On this
committee are the presidents of tbe va¬
rious associations having in charge the
fall festivities, and many prominent citi
’eens soldiers, representing Union and Confederate
and business men. The colored
citizens are represented by one of theii
race.
CHILDREN swept orp. I
The mortalit y among children in Pitts
burg and Alleghetn . y county, 1 ennsylva
nia, during the past six weeks, is some
aupalling. In June oOJ children,
EASTMAN; DODGE COUNTY. GA., WEDNESDAY, JULY 27, 1887.
STARVING T0 DEATH.
and Mtiflrriua of the
Rwk'itlbbed I,mid of Labrador.
Rev. Frank W. Colley, missionary to
Labrador, gives a graphic uccount of till
heart-rending destitution prevailing there.
He has travelled the whole coast and de
clares that wonls cannot describe the suf
of ferings helpless of the poor. He tells of families
old people and equally lulp
less children enduring the rigors of the
late winter with the themometer 38 Ue
grees below zero, living in huts, sleeping
°h th .<; ground, covered only with
(,1< 1 and subsistinff on rock cod. the
Poorest kind of codfisL known, and on
hardtack supplied by the Government,
, b*ve ° c f tc1 travel ie . five 1 * !. e perishing people
to miles over bare rocks.
klnd { i . r , or ' tea, an y molasses, of the necessities flour, meat of life of any are
unknown to them. Slow starvation has
driven the father of one family mad, and
Ui6 poor wretch had been trying to eat
hi « own boots. The puny cod for break
fast, dinner and supper, weeks upon
weeks and months upon months, while
death, keeping the poor wretches from actual
only served to be a daily torture
to the them, and was of itself enough to drive
whole population into raving rnani
a os A large portion of the coast is
sealed up by ice all winter long, naviga
tion closed in October last and remained
so until the middle of June, It is im
possible for the few who have money to
get supples iu winter. I he missionary
dred tjimself miles accompanied over the rocky two men wilderness one hun- to
get two barrels of flour, but could not
^et them. Twenty miles further on they
got one barrel of the commonest kind at
a great favor by paying #95.0.
The official organ of the Government
of Newfoundland comments on the mis
sionary’s revelations as an honest and
truthful account by one who has shared
the temble privations of the people iu
the exercise of his sacred calling. This
paper, which a few months ago relent¬
lessly denied that any unusual distress
existed at Labrador, is “now filled with
astonishment” to find that human beings
should be able to prolong existence amid
such suffering and want.
A DARING PLOT
To Sin iim lifer Pinkerton Detective* in the
Pennsylvania Coke Ur«um*.
A murderous plot had been laid by the
striking llutigatians at and near the Leis
enring Works, near Pittsburg, Pa., to
surprise the Pinkerton detectives at that
plitce and drive off all new men working
tlierc. All the details of the attack had
been arranged by a Hungarian who form
t-rly held a high position as an officer in
the Austrian amiy, and who has been for
tbe past few month* drilling the striking
Hungarians in the Austrian manual of
arms. The strikers, consisting mostly of
Hungarians, a thousand strong, were to
have proceeded to the Lcisenring Works
at the break of day and draw off all the
detectives, and men working there, and
to kill ami wound all who resisted them.
Thc Hungarian officer, becoming fright
ened, gave the whole thing away to one
of tin- officers at the coke works and
bo„M„ a ticket at bcottdale for New
lmk and left there for the east. He
informed an officer Justus lie mounted
the Irani that lus hie would pay the pen
Hi v lor hi- treachery to his countrymen
it he remained ; so he left.
DlSi INGIJIMII.D VIRGINIAN DEAD.
Hon. U. M. T. Hunter died at his
home, Fount Hill, Essex county, Vir¬
ginia. eminent Mr. Hunter was one of Virginia’s
m 'M citizens for many years
before and during the late War. He was
born in 1809, and served several terms
in the national House of Representatives,
being elected speaker of that body in
1839. Subsequently lie was elected
United States Senator and made chair
man of the Senate finance committee, iu
1 *49. which position he held till the
Gpeniug of the War. During the War
lie served as Confederate Secretary of
Stat«- ami Senator. He was also a mem
ber of the peace commission which met
Abraham Lincoln in Hampton Ronds.
After the War lie was elected treasurer
of Virginia, holding that office for sev
eral terms after which he retired to pri
vate life.
CATHOLIC BISHOP,
Formerly of Baltimore, Mtl., Murdered by a
Servant iu the Wild* of Alaska.
Information from Onulaska is to the
effect that Bishop Seghers, a Catholic
missionary, was murdered by his com
paoion one night in November the last. banks The of
seme the Yoknn of the tragedy K.ver, about was on hundred
hve
miles from «» mouth, and fully sixty
miles from any habitation. The murderer
i-s Frank Fuller, a young man from Port
land, Oregon, who accompanied the
bishop as companion and servant, and he
gave himself up. No cause for the deed
is given. The bishop was formerly of
Baltimore, Md., and prior to being named
bishop of Alaska was archbishop of Ore
gott and >Va>hington Territory. He left
for Alaska last summer to perform mis
sionary work among the Indians, but was
allowed b\ the Papal See to retain his
honorary title as archbishop.
KKFKUTH OF LIGHTNING.
During a thunderstorm the lightning
struck a telephone wire on Capitol av
enue, Atlanta, Ga., and running into
E. H. Carlett’s store struck one of the
clerks, nnd would have killed him but
for the fact that one of the wires melted
and a part of the electric fluid passed him.
tlirough the floor before reaching
The same bolt of lightning ruined three
telephones close by, completely burning
up the inside works. In Foster's gro¬
cery store, one block from Carlett’s, two
men were knocked down and stunned.
THE 8A LOON WENT.
A building occupied by Ira J.^ Smith,
the town of Fairmont, Ind.,~5vascom
pletely ^joining destroyed by dynamite. Several ruined.
tM buildings were also result
b high-handed act was the of a
isr ^*° w £ * h r * Qu ‘ kcr d"
“ Jt'tioe to All, Malice for None.”
WASHINGTON GOSSIP.
MIDSUMMER NOtES PROM THE
capital of the Nation.
What Is Being Done In Al the Department h
of the Government—Rigid Econ¬
omy the Kne.
UAKUACKS Foil NEWPORT, KY.
Gen, Sheridan and Col, Blunt, of
his stuff, left for tho West. They will
visit Newport, J Ky„ to look over the sites
offered b bidders for the new barracks
to bfe erected there Twelve giteg haVc
| )ecn olforetl and the Secretary of War,
iu order that he may wisely dispose of
:he #60,000 appropriated ^ by J Congress for
, a new situ for barrac k8> requested
Gcu. Sheridan to inspect all the sites and
, n:lke ft selection
CASH ALL RIGHT.
The count of the cash and securities
in the Treasurer’s office, which began May
28, is finished. The funds on hand
^mounted to #95,500,000. In examining
i !ll ° silver vault several bags containing
' ,ilQ< lard silver dollars were found to In¬
; 'hurt two or three pieces each. These
"ere gradually recovered, however, as
t 1,,, ‘ u i»d. ‘ count Not progressed, until all were
found, a single penny’s deficiency
" as
OVERIIAtJLING THE BOOKS.
| By direction of Acting Secretary
and Thompson, an examination of the books
accounts of the disbursing officers of
| the Treasury Department will be made at
j once. A count of the cash actually hold
| |, v each will be made. No notice of the
j examination otlicers. was given to the disbursing
t So far everything has been
| found to be correct. An examination of
| the books and accounts of the disbursing
officers of the Department of the Interior
| will also be made,
MEXICAN PKN8ION ACT.
The Commissioner of Pensions an
nounces, in answer to a number of in¬
quiries, more especially from the
South, that, under tho Mexican pension
act, pensions can be paid from the date
of the passage of the act, January 29,
1887, only when they were sixty-two
years of age prior to that date. In other
eases, the payment will date from the
date the pensioner reached the age of
sixty-two. This does not apply to ap¬
plicants for pensions on the ground of
disability or dependence.
VAGRANTS ARRESTED.
thority, Acting on instructions from high au
the District police have been or
; dered to clear the city of all loafers and
! suspicious characters who hang around
the hotels, saloons and gambling rooms.
Many of these men are regular gamblers,
and to all appearances have plenty of
money, but the law against vagrants and
suspicious characters is so comprehensive
that they are all liable to line and impris¬
onment, unless able to show some legal
i weans oi support. The officers arrested
I twenty-four ®B dresied, such characters^ who were
1 W but come wilhin the pur
I v i ew o' the vagrant law.
| stopping tiie Chinese.
| The Treasury Department is informed
J that a number of blank Chinese certifi
cates were recently'stolen from the dis¬
j j tom house Territory, at Port Townsend, Washing
ton and that many of thorn
bave been sobl or otherwise disposed of
for the purpose of enabling Chinamen to
enter the United States in violation of
law. Instructions have been sent to the
custom officers to carefully scrutinize all
certificates presented by Chinamen en¬
dian tering their districts by way of the Cana¬
Pacific Railway, and if any of the
stolen certificates are found among them
to deny entry to the holders.
j REWARDS TO BRAVE MEN.
| The Secretary of State has received,
through the German Minister at Wash
ington, from the Emperor of Germany, a
check for #1,000 and two handsome gold
; watches, embellished with the likeness
and monogram of the Emperor, with a
request that the money be divided equally
among the families of five members of the
life-saving crew at Dam Neck Mills Sta
tion, Va. f who lost their lives in attempt
ing to rescue the crew of the German
ship Elizabeth, on the 8th of January
last, and that the watches be presented
to Frank Ted foul ami Joseph E. Ethridge, crew!
the only survivors of the life-saving
The monev and watches have been turned
over distribution. to General Superintendent Kimball
for
NOTES.
The President has appointed W. A.
Fisk to be postmaster at Portsmouth,
Va., vice Ambrose Lindsav, removed,
'
j Thc Comptn)llcr of the Cm-urv has
authorized Oglethorpe National Bank
of Brunswick, if Ga., to begin business
^th a capital #100,000. \ ’
i Commodore J. A Greer president ., of
Examining Board, has been selected
command the European station, m
of Hear Admiral (handler, who
ho placed on the retired list.
The accouuts of the post-office depart
ment for three-quarters of the pa>t fiscal
year show a deficiency of #2.539,358.
ending During the same period deficiency for the fiscal #4,890,- year
1886, the was
494. and for 1885, #5,241,917.
! Mr. Lapscomb, who was Assistant Sec¬
retary of State of South Carolina, when
Mr. Thompson, now Assistant Secretary
of the Treasury, was Governor, will be
appointed Chief Clerk of the Patent Office
in #2,250. place of Duryee, resigned. The salary
is
The Commissioner of Pensions is in
f orme <j 0 f tbo conviction at Knoxville,
Tenn., of Thomas G. Barry aud John J.
charged with making of guilty false made certifi
cates, and of a plea by
Samuel L. Sussong, to the charge of
forging an affidavit,
Oscar J. Harvey, the Treasury Depart¬
ment Criminal forger, was arraigned in the District the
charge Court forth and pleaded indictment. guilty to He
j set in the
was sentenced by Judge Montgomery to
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CURRENT NEWS
GATHERED from all portions
of the globe.
Item* Briefed For n Week About Canada,
Europe. Asia. Africu, thu West
India Inland*, etc.
Officer Adams, of Ciuciunati, Ohio,
Clubbed a prisoner to death.
At Dumferline, Scotland, a monument
to King Alexander HI was unveiled.
At Joliet, III., state prison, many con
victs were overcome by the heat and sev- j
eral died.
than At Chicago, old, Ill., fell over sick 800 and babies, died from less . !
a year
the heat SpithcudJ j
A collision occurred off
the*Devastation. England, between the iron-clad Ajax badly and I
The latter was
damaged. e |
Chicago, III., has thus far returned the ;
greatest fatalities from the heat; 47 fatal
sunstrokes in two days and 60 deaths
from heat prostration.
railroad Because the Philadelphia & Reading
directed their train employes
should be examined for color blindness,
1,100 of their men quit work.
The French Chamber of Deputies has
ordered 30,000 more men added to the
army, of to be formed into new regiments,
four cavalry and eighteen of infantry,
Official returns show that 9,420 persons
were evicted in Ireland during the quarter
ended June 80th. Of these 188 were re¬
admitted as tenants and 5,737 as care¬
takers.
The Citizens’ reuuion Committee Louis m charge of
the G. A. R. at St. have ap
propriated #10,000 for decoration. Among
these will be a Grand Army arch erected
at the expeuse of #4,000.
from Trustworthy private the information William comes
Europe that Emperor
is alive, but liable to die at any moment,
The official reports are said to be untrue
about his taking horseback rides, strolls,
etc.
Fire broke out at the Standard Oil
Company’s warehouse at Constable Hook, is
near Bergen Point, N. J. The cause
unknown. The barrel factory, supply
house and warehouse were entirely con¬
sumed. The loss will be over *1, QUO,OUU.
Serious damage was done to the decks
of the warship Atlanta by firing her
eight inch guns during proved the recent tests at
Annapolis, Md. It is that guns
of that calibre will be too large for use
on the Atlanta and her sister ship, Bos
ton.
Snow storms have been raging in
Switzerland among the mountains, and
news has been received of the loss of a
party of six tourists, including the sons
of the directors of the Zurich College.
The party was lost in a storm on Jung
Frau.
A cyclone , wrecked . , the , opera-house ,
in . W ailpagui, Wis., unrooted two hotels,
blew down tlio Episcopal church steeple
and cuused other havoc. ilie Uurran i
HouSC was struck by lightning, but 11,1
one was injured. Farmers in the vicinity
suffered heavy losses. ;
Six eases of small-pox have been re
ported in discovered New York in city. the A seventh head
ease was police I
quarters’ building. The patient is a j
i aby found on the stree . The child re
maiued headquarters two hours before '
at
it was discovered that it had suiall-pox. ;
Mrs. A. Little, member of the Salva
tion Army at Janesville, Wis., is charged
with inhuman treatment to her infant I
children, and they have been taken from
her by tbe police. Her husband was
driven from home by her, and the woman
is believed to be crazed by religious ex¬
citement.
A movement is on foot in New York „ ,
for Catholic societies of that and sur- ;
rounding cities to appoint delegates to a
p c “ end cou ucd ’ at which steps will be
taken to make . arrangements for d
a pu e ,
jucetmg “ 0lj p r °* anil u parade ’ 8 0lUeu in the J u “ metropolis ,lee ol * °P m e (
Leo s priesthood. y {
At a reception given to President and
Mrs. Cleveland at Cazenovia, N. Y\,
Knowlton Post, G. A. R., had charge of
affairs. Just before the reception began
Cleveland was presented with a solid ■
oaken box, silver-mounted, containing a
teacup and saucer of a breakfast set used
l >y George Washington.
Mrs. Langtry, the actress, is now en¬
gaged in inspecting land in Lus Angeles,
The reports reach ’Frisco that the strife
over the “Jersey Lily” among the land
ageuts has reached such proportions that
several men engaged in booming villa
tracts have offered her lots free lor the
sake of advertising the beauty as a future
resident of their towns. !
A committee Wright, composed of Gen. New¬
berry, A. M. J. B. Drake, J. C.
Creger and M. VV. Fuller, of Chicago,
111., culled upon Mayor Roche in the in¬
terest of having the City Council extend
an invitation to President Cleveland to
visit that and city during his proposed of Wes¬
tern trip, at the time the soldiers
encampment in October, if possible.
It seems that 125 of thc Third avenue
car company’s horses have beeu poisoned
by cyanide of potassium, instead of 20,
as at first stated. Twenty-nine horses
have died, and several more are unable
to work. The Society for the Pi even- ;
tiou of Cruelty to Animals say that j
they have evidence to show that the poi
soiling was intentional, ami done by one j
of the stable hands.
Four people were shot during the Wild
West performance of a circus at Clinton,
Iowa. George Harrington, aged seven
teen, was shot fatally; Mrs. W. A.
Lambston, dangerously; Wallace Phil¬
lips, aged sixteen, but seriously. immediately One of the
Indians was shot, taken
away. The shooting was done during an
encounter of cowboys and Indians in the
ring. It is supposed that some of the i
cowboys got the wrong revolvers, a j
;
BARTHQUaKE in EUROPE.
Severe _ earthquake . T shocks 7~ , felt , . at .
were
Malta A serious shock was also exper -
lenced at Cairo, where otic man was kill
ed and several injured. A mimlier of
mosques Were injured. Shocks were also
felt at Ismailia and Alexandria. A slight
shock of earthquake was felt at Sicily
and along thc Italian coast ML Etna
is in a state of eruption.
'
A SOUTHERN BELLE (
To Adopt tbo Stage fdt a Pttffeition, and
Will Appear Hdon,
Mrs. Frank Holtheide, a society belle
of Louisville, Ky., has gone to New Y"ork j
to finish her studies preparatory to mak- j
inn her debut upon the Stage. Her mind !
has been made up. however, and she has
been taking a preparatory course of study j
for several months. Her manager has I
been selected, Or at least au offer has been i
made, and arrangements are nearly coni
pleted for the production of a play in
which she is to go before the footlights,
Charles VV. Chase is to write a piay for
her. The ideas, however, are Mrs. Hol
theide’a own. The plot is to be laid in
the fumed regions of the Blue Grass, and
the heroine is to be a rollicking Ken
Kiil. 'vdh »n interest in raemst and
r
,k,,cm K- ^ l “)° P 1 ?; 1 "* “ ,,J ,' h “ V “ t “ r :
‘*1"“ ?“'; door l,fc '. u ' o d-fash.oncd
Kentucky home, giving the star an abun
daut opportunity for display of soubrette
graces . >i rs . Holtheide is and a brunette.
with a magnificent form and splendiu
voice, and almost regal beauty accom
plishments, and i6 said to be in evory
way superior to Mrs. Langtry or Mrs.
Potter. Her maiden name was Blanche
Metcalfe, and she was a granddaughter the founder
of the late Michael Keen,
mid propiietor of the Louisville Hotel.
>^h e was a fortune by him, and mar
ned Jcrrv Clemens several years ago.
Mr. Clemens was one of the best known
young business men iu Louisville, and
he and his charming wife were great fa¬
vorites in s iciety. They resided at the
Louisville Hotel fur a l<-ng time, where
he died several years ago. Two years
ginoc Clemens moved to the Galt
jUiusc, and a month later married Frank
Holtheide, whose father has been connec
t( ,j w i tb tb( . i i01 ,isville Hotel,
IMNtJI.KS or ROYALTY.
A band of religions fanatics attempted
:o murder the Grand Duchess Elizabeth
Mavrikieva, Constantinovitch, the wife of the Grand Duke
Constantin son of the
Srand Duke Constantin, who the un
lie of the Czar. The attempt at assns
sination was made at the Paulovsk pal
ice, where the lady and her husband
were stopping. The cause given for the
ittack was that the grand duchess, who
is a Lutheran, refused to modify which the
b . rms 0 f ber carriage covenant,
fcco lds ber ^ be privilege of remaining a
but h ora n, and join the Greek Church.
^ previous attempt was also made to kill
tbl . Grand Due.css Elizabeth Feordo
rovna> w j fe o{ tbe Grand Duke Serge,
The lady is also a Protestant, being the
daughter of the Grand Duke Louis iV, of
Hesse,
LltE.MATED BY TEllPENTINE.
A horrible accident, which cost two
men their lives, occurred at Hilliard
Goodwin’s turpentine distillery, iti Lex
i tua county, S. C. The distiller, a
wbbe man, named Thomas Griffin, ac
< ompanied by a negro laborer, went into
the still-house with a kerosene lamp, and
by cureless handling, overturned a bar
iel of spirits and set fire to its contents.
Tho two men made desperate efforts to
extinguish the burning fluid with saud
from the floor, but the flames soon com¬
municated with the hot spirits in the still;
a terrific explosion ensued. Griffin and
his cotnpauion were enveloped in a sheet
of flame, and in an incredibly short time
were with the entire establishment, liter
ally burned up in sight of Mr. Goodwin
several others, who were powerless
t0 render them any assistance,
TIIE BREWERS* QUIT.
Gambrinus Assembly of the Knights the of
Labor of Milwaukee, Wis., will quit
order on account of the temperance views
hel( , b General Master Workman
|> 0W( ierly. The Gambrinus assembly is
j be muneiousand wealthie st organi
z; ,tion of the order in Milwaukee, and lias
f rom 10,090 to 15,000 members. At a
, C( -ent meeting a committee was and appointed ascertain
to confer with the brewers
whether the contract for one year in May
would be affected if they left the order,
There is li’tle doubt that the desired as
mrance will be given, and when it is, the
assembly will step out and form an imle
indent organization.
PARENTAL INHUMANITY.
A man living near Riverside, Ark., had
a ste p-son, live years old, whom he
greatly disliked. lie was known to
treat him cruelly, beating him in a terri
blc manner, fellow’s once putting one of whipping the Jit
tie eyes out, while
him. A few days ago he beat the child
in a horrible manner, then tied him by
the wrists to a stake in the hot sun,
without food or water until he died.
Just how long the child was there is not
known, but the cords at his wrists had
cut in two, and the flesh and wounds
were filled with worms, The fiend,
finding his victim was dead, armed him¬
self and took to the woods. The child’s
mother seems to be indifferent over the
affair.
UNITED IN DEATH.
Giles Luther, an aged resident in the
outskirts of Warren, Rhode Island, left
his invalid wife at 11 o’clock at for night doc- to
get a neighbor to go to town failing. a his
t«>r, as Mrs. Luther was Ou
return he walked into the Kickimint
rivery four feet deep at that place, and
being much fatigued and partially blind,
was unable to body get out. Searching par- and
ties found his in the morning,
his wife died while they were bringing
u inl ° 1 Ui
Says a Mexican mine owner; “We
usually have trusty men who act as de
tcetives and work around in the mine
picking up information. In this way
\vc discover many strange devices to
smuggle out the mineral. One day a
detective came tome and said when such
r.ud such men came out to examine their
sandals. 1 had that done. On the bofc
toms of the sandals was what appeared into
to lie mud, but when it was scraped
ft * n ull j WO rked I found that it ran at
th e rate of $3 >00 0 to the ton. of My mud miners from
b;ul plash-red a thin layer
tlie mine ovor tbo lather and then
f;1 , r j„kled on the particles of silver, and
over all bad put another layer of mud.
x boy were working for 37* cents a day,
ftU j carrying ont 50 cents worth of silver
on the sole of each sandal”
SOUTHERN PROSPERITY.
MANt IMPROVEMENTS UNDER
WA r A tii) CONI EM PL A TED.
Large Tract* of Land Bought By Capitalists
~ Nrw “broads iTojected-Factorle.,
Hotels, etc., Being Built.
Sanford, Fla., is to have a Union
depot.
A new hotel is to be built soon at
McMitintillC, Tenn.
Murphy, N. C., is about to get a brick !
yard and planing mill.
A railroad is to be built to Selma, Ala.,
to be known as the Bessemer and Seim?
Railroad.
The Mechanicsville Laud Company, 1
capital stock #50,000, has been organized I
at Anniston, Ala.
Henry T. Collins, of Cleveland, Ohio, :
will erect at Asheville, N. C., a roller ,
flour mill and ice factory,
The Morning Herald Publishing Com- !
pany, capital stock #60,000, has been 1
organized at Birmingham, Ala.
rp lj0 ^ ornwa ji i ron f ur nace at Cedar !
will be put in operation by i
g ;imU gj Noble of Anniston and other*.
The Fisherville National Gas& Mining i
omttanV , v ; tb a
has-been / Louisville, i
Ky. i
Tho Davy Crockett ~ Mining and Smelt- u j
ing Company, of Hot Springs, Ark., has •
been organized with a capital stock of
#3,000,000.
The money has been raised for build¬
ing another one-third charcoal furnace in Gadsden,
Ala., and of it was subscribed
by Gadsden ladies.
The Standard Machine Company, of
Bay City, Mich., will shortly remove
their machine works to Chattanooga,
Tenn., and enlarge their capacity.
The contract for the inside wood work
of the new eapitol, at Atlanta, Ga., has
beeu let to the Mitchell Furniture Com¬
pany, of Cincinnati, O., at #59,750.
An investigation is being made of Pen¬
sacola, Fla., as to its adaptability for
accommodating steamships a large plant for building
iron and heavy machinery.
John W. Bishop, J. A. Povvo, J. A.
Ifuey, George P. Auderton and J. T.
Dumas have organized a company to
build au iron furnace at Talladega, Ala.
Jackson, Tenn., wants a #200,000 cot
ton mill. Iler citizens have subscribed
#66,000 and will donate a valuable
site toward the enterprise. The entire
product within of the radius mill can, it is said, be
sold a of 60 miles of the
citv.
The Printup Land & Improvement
Company, of Rome, Ga., is contemplating
the building of a street-car line for
Printup City, near Rome, Ga., at the
junction of Rome & Decatur Railroad
and East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia
Railroad, to connect Printup City (a su
hurban village) with Rome, and also to
erect an “inn hotel” at Printup City.
court-rocDI Tragedy.
At Union City, Ind., a negro named
John Thomas, was charged with a horrid
crime. A posse was organized, Humboldt and after
a long search, he was found at
and brought back. His and preliminary large ex¬
amination was held, a angry
and determined crowd tilled the court¬
room. He was positively identified by
his victim. At this point “That’s some enough. one in
the crowd shouted:
Let’s put him where he’ll do no more of
the devil’s work.” The entire court¬
room of men, numbering perhaps two
hundred enraged citizen®, then rose to
their feet and with an impulsive rush
surged over the posse of ofheers sweep¬
ing them aside and despite tin ir efforts
to save Thomas, the maddened throng
seized the trembling wretch. In an in¬
stant, a good rope was produced and a
noose, deftly neck. prepared, Willing slipped hands about threw the
prisoner’s end of the beam iu the
the rope over a
court-room and then the crowd walked
away, leaving the body swinging.
COMBINE OF DISTILLERS.
A large number of distillers met in
Chicago, 111., to discuss the organization of the
of a whiskey trust on the plan
Standard Oil Company, the plan being to
unite in <t monopoly of all distillers west
of the Ohio River. It is understood that
the scheme will be in full operation in a
month, and that the name adopted is
“The Western Distillers and Cuttle
Feeders’ 1 rust.” Stock is to be appor¬
tioned among the members according to
the values of their plant, instead of their
capacity. The amount of stock to be is¬
sued, it is said, will be about lour times
the value of the combined plant, which is
estimated ;it #10,000,090, and it is to be
listed on the New York and Chicago
stock exchange. The trustee# will have
absolute control of production.
KAINBR IN DANGER.
The Paris Intranzigeant announces
that the police at Grosgeren, Germany,
have discovered documents which give
evidence of the existence of a socialist
plot to murder Emperor William of Ger
many while journeying to Gastein. Ar
rests have been made of persons charg
ed with being implicated in the plot.
Slips of paper had been found in several
places, through which tiie imperial traitv
would pass, indorsed, “To-night at about
midnight the emperor’s train passes.
Be ready.” A fictitious special train was
dispatched Mayence before Darmstadt, the emperor’s and route lined
from to was
with police and and gendarmes. Both
trains passed safely without incident.
KABIEM IN A HOR&E.
George Scott, employed by the Wes
tern Transit Company, at Chicago, horst III.,
was bitten and fatally injured by a
which, it is supposed, has gone mad
through the intense heat. The horse had
been out iu the sun during the day, and
being driven into the covered dock Of th*
ping his head and remaining very quiet.
Suddenly he commenced to tear and
kick, S at the same time snapping viciously.
Severai , men, umo lg them Scott, vnaiiAxl rushed
up to quiet the annnal. The beast caught
Scott by the chiu, cutting the badly. tip to the
bone and tearing his throat
NUMBER !).
TEMPERANCE.
The Little TenfpO»»nce Soldier
I am a little soldier,
Tho’ but a few yean old;
I mean to fight for temperance.
And be both brave and bold;
I knowhow strong the foe is,
How many ho lias slain,
Yet still I’ll be a soldier,
Ami fight with might and main.
I’ve heard of other soldiers.
Much younger too, than I,
Who overcome the drunkard,
Then why should I not tryf
I know that God will help me,
For ’tis a holy cause;
And all who don’t keep sober
Are tramp'ling on his laws.
I now can do but little.
Yet though J’m not a roan,
I’ll try to do ft tt temperance I
If The God greatest will good can.
give me courage,
In all I dt) or say,
Then I, with my companions, >
Will win the glorious day.
Come, then, my fellow soldiers!
And march along with me;
Though We shall long and nerco the battle,
victorious be.
And soon tho temiiYance army
With banners all unfurled.
Will go through every country
Ami conquer all the world!
— Youth '.s Tenijjerance Banner ,
Strong Words for Temperance.
In the Journal of United Labor, over hli
own name, Master Workman T. V. Powder
] V) j„ speakingof tho liquor traffic, says:
1 Hii<I •; Among the letters that came to me for to-day
niio which takes me to task my
words mi tlio teniperaueo question, spokon
some ten or twelve days ago in Boston and
Lynn. My friend inn lies tho candid admis¬
sion in starting out that in the main I urn
l .ght, that even the ruinseller will not deny
the justice should of my position. stopped. Having Even then said he as
nieli In* have
.1 I me nothing new. 1 know that l am
rigid-. I i know that in refusing t< > even touch
a drop of strong drink 1 was and am right.
In refusing Io treat another to that which I
d > not believe to be good tor myself to drink
I know I am right. In refusing to associate
With run who get drunk I know I am right.
In not allowing rumsellers Knights to gain of admittance Labor I
into the Order of the
know 1 am right. In advising our assem¬
blies not to hire Imlls or meeting-rooms over
drinking places 1 know 1 am right. I have
done i his from the day my voice was first
heard j-o.it ion iti the council the question halls of of our temperance order. My is
on
right. I am determined to maintain and will
not alter it one jot or tittle. If ‘ in the main’
1 am right, why should 1 alter my course/
“ Ten years ago 1 was hissed because I ad¬
vised threatened men to let strong drink alone. They
to rotten egg me. I have con
tinned to advise men to bo temjierate, and
though I have had no experience that would
qualify me to render an opinion on the
ctfii-acy of a rotten egg as an ally to therurn
sclI- t, vet I would prefer to have my exterior
decorate I from summit to base with the rank¬
est kind of rotten eggs rather than allow one
drop the end of liquid of my villainy nose illuminated to pass my by lips the or have blos¬
som that follows a planting of the seeds of
hatred, envy, malice and damnation, all of
which are represented iu a solitary gluss of
gin.”
Mrs. Leavitt writes from Bangkok, Siam,
♦ hat she had an audience with tho King of
Siam, going before him with a parcel of W.
('. T. U. documents, and conies of tho
Union Signal, all tied with a white ribbon,
entering tho place between two rows of
guards aiul meeting a handsome, smiling
gentleman, to whom Mrs. Leavitt, re¬
calling! the manner taught her in
her New England childhood, enurtesied
three l lines, alter which t In- King took her King by
the hand and led lu-r to a seat, the
ovineing much interest in Mrs. Leavitt’s ac¬
count of the World's W. C. T. U., which, as
lie understands English, was not given
through an interpreter. Mrs. Levitt also
writes: "Dear Reverend Missionary Board:
Pray do not send out any more wine-bibbing, bad
cigar-smoking missionaries; there is ex¬
ample enough in nil these lands from the un
godly men employ of Christian and engaged lands who in business. are in
Goverrimen
Let Christian missionaries lie so free from
ail these things that no poor soul exainpla.” or body can
be injured by following their
Pleasant for Beer Drinkers.
Dr. E. 11. Bartley, chemist to the Brooklyn
Health Department, has recently made sonio
discoveries which it will not he pleasant for
beer drinkers to contemplate. His examina¬
tions of different kinds of bottled inser, in¬
cluding some of tlio Western beers, show that
they contain salicylic acid. Tho Medical
Record states that the amount of this acid
required to preserve beer is about twelve or
fifteen grains per gallon, and it adds that
‘‘salicylic acid, if taken continuously, tends
to injure digestion and irritate the kidneys.”
The employment of this drug in the preserva¬
tion of different articles of food and drink the
has increased so much in Paris that
French Government has already twice taken
action in the matter.
What Canadian Doctors Think.
In r sponse to the. inquiry addressed to
them recently by the Canada Citizen, “Is
total abstinence, in your opinion, compatible healthf”
with the fullest degree of physical Toronto
Eighty-two out of 01 physicians of
answered in the affirmative. Of the 91 there
were .77 who emphatically denounced all
moderate drinking as had; .84 whose opinions
on that poilit were very diversified, though
only about 10 distinctly favored habitual
drinking in quantities usually deemed mod¬
erate. Again of the 91 there were 75 who
agreed in the opinion that the total abstainer
had a letter chance than the moderate
drinker for recovery from disease or accident;
and 81 of the 91 agreed that total abstinence
would 1» a great public lienefit. The moder
ationists were in a small minority. As a
whole the answers show gratifying progress
—National in the sphere of medical temperance opinion.
Advocate.
National W. C. T. U. Bulletin,
Y) r Newman, paster of tho Metropolitan
church, at Washington D. C., recently his organ
izcil a Youth's Temperance Society iu eon*
glegation.
Thft meTnbors of th * W c. T. T7. and other
I .
philanthropic women of Duluth. Minn. ar«
| about to establish a “Home for needy womeiw
i and children.”
Mrs. Laura Berry, a prominent member of
the Ues Moines (Iov\a) W. C. T. has re¬
moved to Chicago, to take a position ou tho
staff of the Lever.
Maine By an law amendment makes the recently helling of adopted, Unitel thp
a
States tax receipt prima facie evidence of
liquor bulling.
The W. C. T. U. of Cleveland has been in¬
vited by the Common Council of that city and to
name two ladiee who shall act as janitor This
matron at the Central Police Station.
action ought to extend to every city and large
town in the United Statea.
Tbe highest honors of the Triennial Inter
nationnl Sunday-school Convention were this
i ymr bestowed on three leading temperance
! ^ hlThad nuSf’ do to
to
■ ti.e International course, a ^measure steadily B.
i urged by tho W. C. T. U. General C.
! F.-k. who preeided untilthe arrival .of Mr.
1 Evans, stands in the forefront of thetem
: |, battle, unanimously and Wm. Iteynoids, elected permaasBt ofFscefa,
j ; W u wu to
I'resident, is at the head of a movement
w* i*»rtof the State