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VOLUME V.
TEMPERANCE.
Only Only.
Only a glM us the £ barroom. rroom ’
Only lack a single gl a
a of courage.
Only Only the answer “yes-"
^Kfylylurinuhhni; nn evil companion.
»ly And » five -hearted Charlie,"
the fatal work is
Only Only a blood-shot “little bit tipsy "
Only a pleading eyes,
(July a wifes mother,
Only iiching forehead. surprise:
tin
Only Only a bruised faee,
ft broken promise,
Only a deep disgrace.
D'ffj Without a cheeriew flro shanty, wood,
or
W I'dlf-elad children
Only and crwin# for food
‘ r urnes for kisww,
Only illy sorrow and woe,
a drunken father, ‘
Only an angry blow.
Only < Oily weeping children,
Only ft dying wile,
another promise—
*)! ’ 'nly The a drunkard’s lif«|
woo «utd anguish,
"diat. mortal tongue cun tell!
Only o. glass in the barroom,
-Schuyler thilyn drunkard's helll
Scara, in Ohio Farmer.
Disgracing <ho Flag.
Among the Fourth, the sights which grooted our eyes
on our great national holiday,
was one that ought to make every true Amer¬
ican Mush.
We were enjoying our Fourth in adeiightr
fully quiet way, chatting and laughing
among our family, somewhere when suddenly we heard
n great uproar near. Wo looked
down tlie roii I, and what a sight we beheld?
hotl* A large wagon, drawn i»y a pair of horses,
horses and wagon profusely decorated
w 1 th the “Stars and Stripes.” Uur enthusi
n-.ni wns instantly cheer, aroused, we felt lilto start¬
ings ing a received reusing a shockt when It suddenly would bo our impossi¬ feel¬
ble to describe our sensations when wo dis
covored tiiat the wagon contained a large i
keg, Alongside which must have boon a keg of l*oer!
oi the keg ley ayonuginait, dead
thTwV loUe'l ns’thoughsonw V"?.' fci, ouTought *K l f dd ®
nit hough /(••
to "steady” l»eti(T him. The driver did not seem in
any Well | condition, mid alongside the wag
O.. e three or four men, all of them
looking tin worse from drink. 1 heir con
vers, it ion was not very edifying, if we might
judge by the few words which reached oar
«... ears, 1 l ' n! i UIUO they had been out in the 1
'
could nut help thinking what a disgrace
to the Stunt amt Htri|M*sI What a shame that
• Mir beloved and beautiful flag should
actually thul cover Mich things! Oh, the pity of
it . \vu miinot Have it from such liumilia*
Lon! the pity of it, that every rum hold,
‘•ILgh' mil low, cun decorate their fronts
• mi unv iu mi who loves his country allow it?
ll mv oi h >r people should offer our flag one- '
ton'u of ih > indignity which wo heap upon it j
niii .e!,os, we would resent it at the point of
th In sw ul'il Why. o|(holding then, will Americans
s In* ill out the dignity of their
Hu*- uk home.* U iiy will they allow the very
• hi.-s who are protected by its starry folds to
trail it in the dust? (Hi, men! Americans I
Jin not it. Hally around our dear
l m*l cave t rmn the polluting touch of
p r.mee! !.<>t it be an emblem of pro*
t -i the curse of drunkenness, ns it
l.s millions .Ml • >11111 n oi claim refuge shelter to thousands—yes,
v " it. from evils
wfm>h do n de troy ne ir so surely, L tit
li» l ti>> c -i » .\ mug g.oi y oi our tlag that it
tent ovtT a nation o; tree men and
is •i i intt in every s**iis* <>f tl>o word;
i nil the i vil; \u* beg to le relieved of,
i. fi'n it l.h • e.irs-j o. nun! -.Urs. ■/. A
iu Siije Jln'lut.
Iiy Wliift lllght Doom (he Saloon
U\l8t ?
The saloon system Even can the plead no constitu¬
tion il guurunty. absurd and oft
rep forth >ati*il by the claim liquor of drinker, “personal doos lilmrty,” apply put
the not
to the seller. If wo admit right to com¬
mit. suicide, it does not prove tho right to
o t murder. If l have !,ho right to de¬
drink stroy >uy U'cfulneK.s drugs, and my it does life, by strong follow
<>r poisonous not
th.it you h ive tho right to sell them to me,
knowing Nop Hie use I will mako of them. its right
I'siu the saloon system base to
exi-n o.i any claim of usefulness. It is not a
legitimate branch of trade, supplying a
naiu have .il and healthful demand, hut, as we
nlrea !y s.i>u, an active, tireless agency
In the creati n of nn unnatural demand for
that which is only pernicious iu itseirecta. If
its dreary pathway of vice bo illumined
by mu* r mmI deed (lone for couutry
or for - nuuitv, it has not yet been
t >d. If it has one redeeming
v iu • tn Ifset against an unbroken monotony
of wi* keduess, it has boon most successfully
concealed, ilcclnro its be character, subject purpose for and political history
it to a proper |
ncliire'i'.r ......t title re sympathy, or tho
If society Inn th<> right of self-protection
ngnlnst unjust taxation it most assuredly
may protect its If against tho unequaled .te
S c jre ilMXnKv'
rruno, corruption or the npreiulof contagious
disease, for a much stronger reason it exists
ngaiiist the saloon, which i* the known cause
ibmi'auv UU<1
Mhcr
'I ne uni v honest ground on which the saloon
*> th. -tern can claim too right to be,i* the right of
individual to get money regardless of the
rw,,,,cnees to society. And for the same
r> a-on that into we practice, puin-h criminals have the who put that
abolish l>i ineiple we right to
tho saloon.— ILm. U’/n. Windom.
--
Some Lose. Many Gain.
Twwt week one of the city breweries enleu
loss in uyeir will amount to $40,ooi(. This
may lie somewhat exaggerated—|x>rhaps is,
lint take the half of it and say $ 20 , 000 , and
I!",' R|s*ndingly, m,T' oTT/T.'V then whit / a ' ,h pro " l s , ligams wl11 Kwc amount tHirr t
of drinking then* must have l**.*n on Sun
days! But flu* breweries may console them
sclvcs with tho assurance that what in this
terkilniiivd ”«.v ^ by by « the gum be to more t.u* community. than conn
Whore an* <»r wen* that $l, 2 (io which this
brewer claims to have lost? Of course it re
mailied in tlio pixkot* of the drinkers, and
that sum of money would pay for a large
am Mint or healthful hkkI or comfortable
clothing—and $40,000 a year saved t»y the
em uiners would la* quite an item with thorn,
certainly ns much as it would l» to the
■wers so what might Ik* lost on one side
Z7U? *»««
No Wonder They are Rich.
Th • National Bureau of Statistics shows
t iu: mi the$700,000,(MX) whichuunuaily pas»«
into iho tills of the retailors of intoxicat¬
ing liquors in this country there is a profit
If poor |H*ople had to pay
sii h a tax as that on bread there would oe a
ret >« lion. But when a man tosses off a glass
of and whisky and eight pays five cents for thearink
seven or cents to the barkeeper for
the trouble of handing it to him he generally
tluuks the bartender an awfully good fallow.
—S/-nng/iWd Union.
I fEves in the bandit business sobriety is in
disjieni-abh* "l to Hu -cess. Frank James This t**!ls is &
reporter: never touch liquor.
one reason why 1 was never caught: ii**t’.iit»g
could induce me to drink a drop, so I always
carried a cool head. Sum** men nvd 1 w<* or
three drinks to give them courage *>noq *!i to
make a fight, but as for myself I always want
to go into flgbt with a clear lieu I I. 1 can »*o
bettor, toot'iuysmJf shoot bettor.” quicker , tight hardt-r uiul pro-
EASTMAN, DODGE COUNTY. GA„ WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1887.
SOUTHERN BRIEFS.
CONDENSATION of the bust
HAPPENINGS OF a WEEK:
«.i o,i Oops Assured—Mociai« Religions and
j»«ara-e-BA rnmd from its foundation by the flood.
I he r irst Baptist church at Oayka,
Miss, was struck by lightning, tearing
the w hole of the northside of the steeple
to pieces.
A flue of the ammonia chamber of the
Central City Ice works blew out at Ma
eon, Ou., creating a great deal of conster
nation among the employes.
Charles K. Jones, proprietor o t the
Ihiily Observer at Charlotte, N. C„ mode
an assignment for the benefit of his cred
itors. He places his liabilities at $9,500.
Reports J received ’ (lvca “om from Mane Manchester neater, way Clav
county, . the southeastern of j
in corner
Kentucky st•*to that a riot rifmen occurred dur- I
kVn.Vl i„„ „,•!<* n in which wbkh six men were wore
'• !
Hon. E. W. Robertson died ^ at A Baton A
Rouge, La., aged sixty-four. He served j
three terms in Congress and was elected J
in November last a member of the 60th
Congress. !
Margaret Davis, an old and well-known
eoh'i’ed woman of Atlanta, Ga., who was i
injured at Picneher Clemmon’s funeral at j
the time the floor gave way iu the church |
I rum the crush, died of her injuries. j
Oen. George S. Black died at Romo, !
Ga. He was one of the early settlers of !
Floyd county, and was for a long time a !
prominent tigure politically aud other- I
w ise. He was over eighty years old, had !
led a blameless life, and was universally
beloved.
Rail The mild Chattanooga, have Rome & Columbus
located its line and work
" iH J ’* 5 bc ?" a °. n tho r<md within the next
b » days. The line will be 142 miles long
mid will puss through a rich country.
The capital will be furnished by J New
„,..i 1 r, London i .. i bankers, i
'
At has a depth of 900 feet, a small flow of
gas been struck at the Logan well,
>ix ?"•»• Chatanoog., Tenn. The
high, was lighted and blazed up five feet
and the flow is continuous. There
is considerable excitement, and a stock
’ * with a * cnnitnl ( < ipitai of o* *20 onn W has
, *>vrn organized to sink five mor® wells.
The son of John PI oyer, of Kershaw
Ins little «•.»««}«w mother, aged 3, mulcting
•> severe and perhaps serious wound. A
gun had been loaded without the know
ledge of the father, and while the elder
bov was playing with it, it went off with
the result stated.
By the breaking of a brake beam on a
freight car on the Georgia Pacific Rail¬
road, near a station called llenry Ellen,
several cars were derailed while ou the
( aliawba mountains. The cars went down
the mountain side and were knocked
about badly. Conductor Dooley and
Brakeman Tucker of Atlanta were badly
hurt.
Dr. W, II. Saunders, the physician ap¬
pointed to make examinations of locomo¬
tive engineers and other railroad em¬
ployes, under the new law which went
into effect recently, abandoned his work
at Stevenson, Ala. lie wns arrested on
a writ of mandamus, which requires him
to complete his test as to color blindness.
Hi reason foi abandoning his work is
sai l to be trouble with railroad men, 20,
<Hhi in number, who dislike the new law.
EARTHQUAKE SHOCKS
Tennessee, Illinois and Alabama Get n Se¬
vere Slmkliie Up.
Nashville was visited by an earthquake
shock which lasted six seconds and
passed from south to north. Fourteen
vibrations were felt and the rumbling
noise was distinctly heard. Houses in
nil parts of hundreds the city were of people perceptibly
shaken an*l were
awakened from their sleep ana rushed
into the streets. The plastering in the
, ignat office WM cracked »nd articles in
the room were misplaced. Clarksville, An earth
quake shock was felt at
Tenn. The direction seemed from
--iwo* <» “ Dd th ? “ u
wss forty or fcixt.} seconds, lucre
seemed to be only one shock nnd a suc
cession of waves. It was the severest
,,Ver fc,t thcre ™ d crcated much alarm l
from some buildings the ladies . ran
screaming into the streets and many
others vacated their houses for the time
h * [ *' The shocks were felt at Colum
bia, Murfreesboro, , . Pruuklin, „ ... Gallatin,
Tullahoum, and other places in Tcnnes
sop. A slight earthquake shock was felt
nt Louis lt wo k e up the occu
W*- pants 0 f houses, but no damage is re- 1
t... »™t«. T *
to north, and the \ dilations lasted from
five to eight seconds. News from Jack
gonville, Centralia and Jonesboro, III.,*
indicate that the early earthquake J 1 shocks
noted . at , Nashville, , ... Tenn., St. . Louis T . and j
Evansville, Ind., were general tlirough
ou t {southern and central Illinois. At
Jacksonville the vibrations seemed to be
from , the east . to . the ., west, . ... but. at . Jones- T -
boro from the northwest to south. A
rumbling noise was heard, nnd the
8hockf , werc of sufficient force to
cause picture frames to fall /..m from t
the walls. The time was 12.40 a, ui.
A. severe shock of earthquake was felt at
0ftir0i m l n the morning at 12:30,
producing naurea with several per
sons. A distinct earthquake shock
was felt in Huntsville, Ala., arousing
sleepers by the noise and motion The
vibration was from south to north, and
was followed by a protracted twelve tremor,
having a duration of about sec¬
onds.
CHINESE HANK.
The carl of Rose berry, in the House ol
Lords, asked Prime Minister Salisbury tc
confirm or contradict the report tele¬
graphed from financiers Shanghai that an American
company of (Jay Gould and
others) had established a bank in China,
with a capital of $200,000,000, and had
obtained from the Chinese government s
franchise which secured to the corpora¬
tion exclusive control «»1 the financial de¬
velopment, of the empire. Lord Salisbury
denied that such was the case.
“ Justice to All, Malice for None/’
DEFENDING THE FLAG.
The Way in Which an Irishman In New
York Showed his Patriotism.
At 12 o’clock, noon, an attempt was
made to burn the British steamship
Queen, while she was lying at her dock
's®
were when getting the vessel ready to start,
thrown suddenly a bottle of phosphorus
was from the river on to the
steamer, aud instantly after the deck was
enveloped in flames. The fire was quick
ly subdued, but not until it had burned
a ", In the deck twenty feet long and
ten feet wide. A man on the pier volun
the miormation that he had seen a
b r ' , ' v .'Hv 1 ’ 01 "" on ‘l*® stc " mer - He
i ou ‘ wh ° WM W 11 *
„ ’- lve I) ® e t°Iv? G ^ U ‘
, r( Detective Vail, -i of the Nation
S the man. , boB l? He e<1 H 8team caught * ug and a " d /<>llowed taken |
was to J
rourt ’ w here lie ne described .f« uuea himself nunseii as
mi Warren w " T street, , Mo .. ° no r- Brooklyn. 0 37 J, cara old Andrews : °, f 267 !
; har g ( -‘ d h,m with having attempted to j
burn the steamship Queen. Capt. Nelaud, , J
of the barge Echo, said that ho saw \
Mooney in the row boat with three bot
ties wrapped up in paper. The captain I
asked what was in the bottles, and was
tool that it was whiskey for the officers !
l * ie Queen. When tho prisoner was
searched there was found on him a Smith
& W esson revolver, dagger, new, and a
dumber of clippings from newspapers re- j
lo the fisl ? er y question in Canada. |
,e was also , found upon him a West- i
ern lJn )n telegraph hlauk, upon which j
. Dcn the Welch “Men
J'. as ' v,, song, of j
iIiU lech, march to Battle.” Mooney said |
, land, ,af . m and ‘ ' v ‘ had ,s | M,r been " \ in n this County country Clare, fifteen Ire- j j
ycucs. At one time he was in the cloth- j
ing business in Sixteenth street. When
:if-ked w hy be tried to set the ship on tire ,
lie said : “The tact of the matter is I |
iidther admit nor deny anything till I j
ha\e legal advice. I should like to know i
it it is law tul to haul down the American ;
llig in Canada, why it is not lawful to |
haul dow n the English flag in America.” |
AIDING THE SOUTH.
Important Freight Arrangements, Which
tiiyen Three Throagh Lines North.
Frank Thomson, vice-president of the !
Pennsylvania with Railroad, the has made of the ar- j
rangements managers
important railway iines leading South
from Washington for one of the most
important railway tariff arrangements
over entered into by the Pennsylvania
Railroad. The arrangements embrace
the formation of three through Southern ,
lines in order to overcome the expense j
and delays by the numerous transfers In
cident to the shipment of freight from
the cities and interior pointsin the South
destined to points North reached by the |
Pennsylvania Railroad system. The J
three through freight lines are arranged •
to ritory cover reached all the by important the roads out Southern of Wash- ter- j
ingtou, and will run as follows: One
line to run via the Virginia Midland
Railroad and the Richmond & Danville
Railroad, the second to run via the At
lantic Coast Line, and the third via
Portsmouth. Wilmington, Noifolk, Richmond and
Each of the companies in
tercsted will furnish its quota of cars,
and the lines as established will provide
an all-rail connection which will undoubt
edly have a great influence in promoting
the business interests of the South.
A DAM I1RKAKH.
A dam burst the side of the |
on moun
tain not f:ir from Wilkesbarre, Pa., let
ting water down into the village of
Parsons. The whole town was flooded
and the people had to flee for their lives, i
caught A little in girl the current named Annie aud drowned, Quinn was and j j
Four her body bridges was found washed five miles away, j
were away and 500
feet of the Jersey Central Railroad track
carried off. The Melrose House was car¬
ried down streuin, but the inmates were
rescued by a party of men in boats. At
Laurel Run the mod w aters caught fifty
loaded coal cars on a side truck and
dashed them down the mountain like
kindling wood. The loss to the railroad
company is about $95,000; to town prop¬
erty, about $60,000. The waters of Coal
Brook carried off two bridges in the
northern part of tho town, between
Wilkesbarre and Parsons.
DENOUNCE tiie measure.
citizens A large meeting of white and colored
was held iu North Russell street
Methodist Episcopal Church, in Boston,
Mass., to protest against the enactment
of the bill recently passed by the Georgia
House of Representatives, prohibiting
the mingling of white and black pupils
in the schools. Addresses were made ov
the Rev. Dr. Wood worthy, trustee of At¬
lanta University, against which it is sad
tlie bill is principally aimed, and E. C.
Carrigan, of the State Board of Educa¬
tion. Resolutions were adopted declar¬
ing the bill unconstitutional, and likely
to call down the judgment of Heaven
upon the heads of the people oft
A CRAZY MOTHER.
Sirs. W. H. Lisle, of Lansingburg, N.
Y., with two small children, left for
Glen’s Falls. The train stopped occurred at Fort
Edward, and something to ex¬
cite the lady, and she attempted to jump
from the coach to the platform. She
threw* one of the children first and then
sprang after it with the other child. She
fell under the cars aud was killed, with
the child she had iu her arms. The other
child was hauled out from under the mov
iiur cars just ahead of the wheels.
A JUG FRAUD.
Recently a man went among the negroes
of Atlanta, Ga., and canvassed them for
the sale of jugs of whiskey at $1 each.
He arranged to meet them at night in a
wagon yard on Decatur street, and on ac¬
count of the vigilance of the- police—At¬
lanta being a strict prohibition through city—he hole
Arranged to pass the jugs a of the
at the end of a stall. After many
negroes had paid for aud taken the jugs
home, they fouu c. the liquor was muddy
*
RAIN! WIND! FIRE! HEAT!
ALE COMBINED, MAKE THE LIVE
OF MORTALS UNHAPPY.
The Reports Wlilcli the Wires Flush of the
Phenomenal Weather Ail Over
the Country.
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river have escaped. IlJrteLiw Citico,
a mail boat plying between Kingston aud
Loudon, was caught bv a raft at 8line’s
Bluff, near Loudon and dashed bur“t against
the bluff with such force as to the
cylinder head and tear away the smoke
stack and pilot house. Capt. William
Allison and officer Dearmond were
thrown into the river. Dearmond has
been badly ecalded by the escapiiu
steam.
The Armstrong Furniture company
lumberyards and works at Evansville,
Ind., were discovered on fire and were
destroyed, together / with several several million million
feet of lumber aud a number of cars.
' rh<! lo» « over $500,000. Tho water i
supply little became exhausted and the fire had
flour and opposition. Ten cars of wheat,
and grain were totally destroyed
soveral empty cars, and one section
of the Peoria Decatur & Evansville
Railroad round house. rain
A severe wind, and hail storm
swept over and Louisville, large hail-stones Ky. It rained iu j
torrents, fell, cov- i
ering the streets. The storm on the
river did considerable damage and life
saving crews and harbor boats were kept
very busy.
A terrific rain storm swept across
Yallobusha county, Miss., leveling both
cotton and corn to the ground. Young
corn is almost totally destroyed,
The trestle at Mount Madison, on the
Air-Line railroad, 110 miles from Atlao
ta, Ga., was washed out and the passeu
ger trains were badly delayed.
A Pittsburg dispatch says that a fire
occurred by which the glass manufactur
ing firms of McKey & Co. and King, Son
& Co. sustained heavy losses. The local
loss is estimated at $150,000, of which
Mclvcy & Co. lose $100,000 ai d King,
Son & Co. $50,000. The insurance was
about $75,000.
the During a heavy thunderstorm one of
tanks of the Atlantic Oil Relinery,
at Point Breeze, near Philadelphia, Pa.,
of was oil struck destroyed. by lightning, and 500 barrels i
were
The month of July goes on record as
the hottest ever known in Philadelphia,
Pa. The highest number of deaths from
the effects of the heat in any one day
was thirty-three, on the 16th, and there
have been but few days when there was
none reported, the numbers ranging
lrom three to a dozen,
The steamer Umbria, of the Cunard
Line, reached her pier in New York in a
very ward decks dilapidated condition. Her for
were swept clean aud her
bridges were washed away. While go
ing at full speed, in heavy seas, two
huge waves, said to be about tifty feet
high, struck her and broke over the deck
ahead of the foremast. The cabins and
steerage were flooded aud a panic oc
curred. The passengers put on life belts
and prepared for the worst. The vessel
trembled violently when the masses of
water deluged her decks,
Union City, S. C., reports a singular
circumstance of a cloudburst, described
as follows: “The wind, when first noticed,
was from northwest to southeast and ex
tended about a mile wide across the
country; blew over the country about
two miles, then turned exactly in the
opposite direction, southeast to north¬
west, blowing down considerable corn
in opposite directions and in the differ
ent localities through which it passed,
injuring it in some places seriously. The
same cloud came down suddenly while
the ground was dry, the cotton withered,
and the sun was so hot that the cotton
The was literally scalded, from top to bottom.
oldest inhabitants say they never
knew anything like it, and there are
whole acres that apparently look dead,
presenting fallou the appearance of frost having
on it. lt is really a curiosity, and
is worth coming from Union to sec.
What will be the outcome of it is uncer¬
tain. The forms and stalks seem alive,
but the leaves are as crisp os when frost
falls on ihem. Our crop looked unusually
fine before this and it would have been
best for us not to have had the rain at
the time it came.”
At Haledon village, two miles north
from Patterson, N. J., John W. Camp¬
bell, a wealthy milkman, sat in his ele¬
gant parlor, surrounded by his family.
They were so much alarmed that they
closed the windows and pulled down the
curtains. Then came a crush more fear¬
ful than all the others combined. Mr.
Campbell, who weighs 270 pounds, was
picked up and thrown bodily through
the French window in front, through
sash, curtain and all. He landed twenty
feet off, out on the lawn. Mr. Campb l!
thinks the bolt came thro gh the rool
aud down the chimney, and then went
out of the window along with him, fot
it tore off a corner of the piazza in mak
ing its exit.
THE DUKE’S RELATIVES STARVING.
A young woman of refined and pleas¬
ing manners applied to the New York
police for lodging for herself and tw r o
children. • She gave her maiden name,
Mary Morton, wife but investigation reveals
that she is the of Arthur Wellesley,
a distant relative of the great Duke of
Wellington. Wellesley’s father owns a
Luge sheep ranch in Loanceston, Aus¬
tralia, and his family is'wealthy and well
connected. Young Wellesley married
the daughter of a well-to-do captain who
lived near his father’s ranch, and then
r- moved, with his wife, to New Zealand,
thence to England and afterwards to
New' York. He is said to be acting as a
cook iu Boston, Mass.
A BISHOP’S TROUBLES.
Bishop Loughlin, of Brooklyn, N. Y.,
has been ordered to Rome to explain why
he has disobeyed a papal mandate. The
trouble was caused by the removal of
Father Crimmins from the pastorate of a
and Williamsburg the disobedience church several years ago,
consisted in his refusal of Bishop Loughlin
to reinstate him
when oidered to do eo by the Vatican.
GENERAL NEWS.
CURRENT EVENTS ON THIS CON¬
TINENT AND ACROSS SEAS.
Effects of Hot Weather—Drowning** Steam¬
boat and Railroad Accidents—The
Deadly Lightning, etc., etc.
An earthquake shock occurred early in
the"morning pronounced at Evansville, and lasted Ind. about It eight was
very
seconds.
There have been five cases of cholera
and one d'ath from cholera at Malta.
Ten days’ quarantine against that place
has been established at Gibraltar.
At a meeting of the board of trusteos
of the New York Soldiers’ aud Sailors’
Home at Bath, N. Y., Treasurer Robie
was ousted. His accounts were $90,000
short, which friends made good.
All the Swiss commanders have been
ordered to pay the strictest attention to
tho effectiveness of the troops, in order
to ensure a proper working of the army
in the event of an outbreak of war in
Europe.
The bill to allow the construction of a
tunnel under the English Channel con¬
necting England with France w r as reintro¬
duced in the House of Commons by Sir
Edward Watkin, was defeated by a vote
of 153 to 107.
GeorgeS. Peters, has tiled United suit States against attor- the
ney for Utah
trustees and managers of the Mormon
Church iu behalf of the United States to
disincorporate the said church aud wind
up its business.
A valuable herd of sixteen “ pedigree”
Holstein and Jersey cows, owned by
Geo. W. Rolfe, of New Brunswick, N. J.,
were killed by order of the United States
inspectors to prevent the spread infected of pleu
to-pneuraonia, the herd being
with that disease.
hoil During the festivities at a picnic of the iu
carriers’ union at Arsenal park,
pended Pittsburg, Pa., a gasoline lamp dining sus¬
from the ceiling of the
hall exploded, scattering the burning
fluid over a number of people, many of
whom were seriously injured.
Mrs. Fannie llaine was gored aud tram¬
pled to death by a mad bull at Tuscola,
III., while attempting to drive the brute
out of the front yard. She fought the
animal as long as her strength held
out, but as no one came to her assistance
she was killed before the eyes of her
little children.
There are now seven Canadian cruisers
on the mackerel grounds iu Nova Scotia,
looking after the American fishermen.
The mackerel are very plentiful in-sliore,
and Americans very daring, but with the
presence of so many cruisers on the look¬
out,opportunity fish for them to get Canadian
are not many.
Jame3 S. Martin, a painter, seventeen
years old, was at work painting on the
Brooklyn, N. Y., bridge, when he acci¬
dentally fell into the river below. He he
complained of pain iu his side, when
struck the water, but apparently was not
seriously injured. The distance he fell
is about 160 feet.
A disastrous tornado passed over the
town of David City, Nebraska, and one
man was killed and over half the build¬
ings in tow'n demolished, including the
Union Pacific and Burlington & Missouri
depots, odist and a large Congregational brick school-house, Meth¬
churches, sev¬
eral stores and many dwelling-houses.
Harrison Stone and the Fletcher broth¬
ers (pals of the Jesse James gang) stole
some horses in Polk county, Missouri,
and were arrested. After their arrest
one of the Fletcher boys got possession
of a pistol when near Forest City, aud
killed Anthony DeLong and Gideon
three Bostwick, thieves two escaped. deputy sheriffs. The
Prince Krow Luang Devawougsi Varo
prakaw, half brother of tlie king of
Siam, and suite have arrived in New
York. The party consists of besides the
Prince, his cousins, Princes Kiliya Robi,
Prauit and Clura; the new Siamese Min¬
ister, Count Phra Djsuii Rak.su, several
aids, three tutors, Nai Chit, a student
and an interpreter. The prince is about
31 years old, and speaks English readily.
Three children of Martin Dapp, a
German shoemaker of Harrisburg, Pa.,
were poisoned by eating sausage which
their father had purchased in the market.
The youngest child, John, died in two
hours, aml the others were saved with
great difficulty. The lather, who took
some of the meat to his shop for lunch,
noticed the queer taste and did not eat
it.
Billy Moloney, the man who acted as
Jake Sharp’s tool in bribing the New
York aldermen, while out i» his yacht
with a party of friends at Montreal,
Canada, saw two men struggling in the
water just above Lachine rapids. Their
boat had capsized on account of the
strong current, and they were in great
danger. Moloney headed h.s yacht for
them and succeeded in getting them
aboard and landing them at Lachine.
While worship was progressing at St.
John’s Catholic Church, at Scranton, Pa.,
Mrs. Steele, whose home was near by,
rushed from the dwelling with her cloth¬
ing in flames, and somebody in the con¬
gregation seeing her, shouted, “See the
woman on fire.” At the mention of “fire”
the congregation was in an uproar. A
wild rush for the doors ensued, and many
people were trampled upon and severely
hurt. Mrs. Steele died soon after in
great agony.
Delegates to the seventeenth general
convention of the Catholic Total Absti¬
nence Union of America at Philadelphia,
Pa., before entering upoa business which
drew them together from all parts of the
country to that city, proceeded in a body
to the cathedral to engage in the solemn
services of high mass. The delegates
numbered about leu? hundred, and
among them were many priests who are
active members of the Total Abstinence
societies.
M . L’Hostk. the French aeronaut, recent
tj fell with his balloon into the sea some
leagues away from the British coast. He was
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The population of thff United States
for 1890 is calculated by a San Fran¬
cisco paper at 62,775,000.
SOUTHERN POUI.TRY VAliD. f
\t
If the fowls haven’t free access to w a
ter that is pure, do not fall to supply it.
Poultry cannot thrive in hot weather if
neglected iu this particular.
If young chickens arc inclined to
crowd into corners at night, provide them
roosting boards, so there will be no
crowding and smothering. If they do
not smother they are likely to get
stunted.
To make a roosting board, drive four
stakes in the ground, if the fl^or is dirt,
let them stick up about two feet, and
on these lay an old door or a platform
made expressly for tho purpose.
The egg shell is porous, and any filth
on it very soon affects the meat. Eggs
should be cleaned as soon as gathered, if
at all soiled, and those to be put up for
winter should be eggs which have been
gathered as soon as laid. Eggs wet by
rains are difficult to keep fresh.
Rats are liable to bother young chicks
at night. To rid the place of them, ef¬
fectually, make a box one foot wide,
three feet long and a foot high. Three
inches from the bottom, on both ends,
bore two-inch holes. One foot from the
ends, on the inside, put in partition
boards, three inches high. Jnthisceuter
apartment or box. within a box, put poi¬
son in moal or cheese or anything rats
will eat. Hinge a lid on the box and
screw it down, to prevent accideuts.
Pluce this box about or in your hennery,
and another one like it at the barn and
you will not see a rat as long as you keep
it well baited. It is a fact.
A distinct, separate breed of poultry is
breeders not, however, as easy to fotm as many
suppose. It is often the caso
that beginners get an idea into their
heads variety that they can establish some new
with but very little trouble, and
generally they are very desirous of hav*
ing this honor. Cases have come under
observation, where the* beginner starts
with glorious expectations and thinks he
can form a new and popular variety by
experimenting crossing two or three years and
some of the breeds we now
have, but in most oases, instead and of pro¬
ducing anything valuable distinct,
the both result is generally a very mixed flock,
in looks and reality.
The hen changes its plumage once a
year, and while this process is going on,
egg production is necessarily suspended.
The making of a new coat of leathers
usually occurs in the fall after the hen
has been busily engaged iu laying eggs
through the cold summer. Unless well fed at
this time, weather comes before the
new coat is on, aud there will bo ho eggs
until spring. Otherwise, with warm
quarters feather should ana good feeding, hens in full
lay iu winter as well as iu
summer. The large fowls which look
ragged about midsummer will probably
prove good winter layers, while those
that produced their egg a day all through
the warm weather will be worth little or
nothing until spring brings their laying
season again.
MUST HAVE RECOGNITION.
An invitation has been issued to all
German-American Catholics to meet at
Chicago, September 6th. National Cath¬
olic conventions are an old custom
in Germany, but the one held next
September will be the first one in
the United States. The object of the
convention will be, it is said, tlie consid¬
eration of differences existing between
German and Irish Catholics, It lias often
been the complaint of German Catholics
in this country that they are neglected highest or
even intentionally slighted by the
dignitaries of the church. Complaint
lias been made at Rome and the propa¬
ganda lias recently decided that German
Catholics iu the United States must be
treated as equal to the Irish. The object the
of the convention is to demonstrate
strength of German Catholics and t ike
- teps to secure recognition. It is claimed
Jiat there are about 2,000,000 German
Catholics in the United States.
NATIONAL CAPITAL DOTS.
WHAT IS DOING AT THE WHITE
HOUSE AND DEPARTMENTS.
President ftleTelnnd Busy Receiving Invi¬
tations— Interstate Commission—Gov¬
ernment Affairs Oolnff Well.
WATERWORKS DEFALCATION.
At a meeting of citizens resolutions
were adopted asking the President to re¬
move the District Commissioners for re
fusing the to make public, information about
admitted defalcation in the watci
department, and for using public fuuds
for private purposes. The committee of
one hundred of the District also adopted
resolutions calling on the President to
investigate the reported water depart
ment engineer defalcation, and to remove the
officers iu charge of the water
works.
APPOINTMENTS.
The President has appointed the fol¬
the lowing named persons special agents of
Interior Department to make allot¬
ments of lands in severalty to the In¬
dians: James R. Howard, of Washing¬
ton, D. 0., to the Crow Indians on t lie
Crow reservation in Montana; Henry R.
West, of Woodsfield, O., for the Indians
on the Yankton reservation in Dakota;
Miss Alice C. Fletcher, of Washington, D.
0., for the Indians on the Wiunebago
reservation in Nebraska; Michael c.
Connelly, Indians of Petersburg, Ill., for the
on the Siletz reservation in Ore¬
gon; for Maj. Isaiah Ligh
the Indians on the reserva*
tion in Dakota.
IMPROVING SOUTHERN RIVERS.
Col. A. Gilmore, Uuited States en¬
gineers, in his annual report says of the
work Charleston, of improving the entrance to
propriations S. C., harbor, that the ap¬
have been inadequate to nn
absurd degree, for the successful pi osecu
tion of operations, having in view the
completion of the project within the
present century. He recommends an
0 appropriation for the next year of $750,
i0. He asks for $10,000 for Wappoo
Cut, S. C., $10,000 for Edisto river, S.
C., aud $8,000 for Salkaliatchie river, S.
C. He asks for $78,000 for next year’s
expenditures the in Savannah harbor. Of
nah projected improvements of Savan¬
river between Augusta and Savan¬
nah, have the original estimate of $91,000 will
to be increased to $176,000. This
is owing to meagre appropriations in the
past. He is confident that if the pros¬
pect be now carried out, a channel of five
He feet depth $21,000 at low for water will be secured. Ho
asks next year. esti¬
mates that $4,633 can be profitably ex¬
pended next year at Romney Marsh, Ga.;
$3,000 in Althamaha river, Ga.; $75,000
in Brunswick harbor, Ga., and $600,000
on entrance to Cumberland sound, Fla.
Capt. W. M. Black, United States en¬
gineer, submits the following estimates
tor expenditures during the next fiscal
year: Upper St. Johns river, Fla., $10,
000; Key West, Fla., $30,000; Culoosa
hatchie river, Fla., $18,000; Manatee
river, Fla., $15,000; Tampa Bay, Fla.,
$78,000; Withlacoochec river, Fla., $20,
000; Cedar Key, Fla., $15,000: Suwa
nee river, Fla., $20,000.
NOTES.
Mrs. Cleveland has gone to Marion,
Mass., where she is the guest of the fam¬
ily of Gen. A. W. Grcely.
It is estimated that the reduction of
the public debt during the month of July
will amount to $5,000,000.
E. W. Warfield, division .superintend¬
ent of the Railway Mail Service, sta¬
tioned at St. Louis, Mo., has resigned.
The Secretary of the i icasury has ap¬
pointed Mansfield B. McClellan to be
United States gauger at Lexington, Mo.
offices A number of new free delivery post
will be established. Only three
in the South—Columbia, S. C., Shreve¬
port, La., nnd Charlotte, N. C.
The Secretary of the Treasury has ap
pointtd William B. Jarrett to be store¬
keeper in Harford county, Md., and
James J. Barry to be storekeeper and
gauger at Blackwatcr, Va.
Mrs. John A. Logan has arrived at her
home. She is reported to be in a serious
condition. It is said that her shoulder
blade, which was dislocated, will have to
‘>e reset, as the first operation was some
what of a failure.
1 lie Interior Department has informa¬
tion that the law of February 5, 1885, to
prevent the maintenance of illegal f( II ces
oi public lands lias been generally coni
; lied with throughout the West, espe
•'ally Arizona an 1 Nc.v Mcxlc >.
NUWH FROM CHINA.
Over 1,000 telegraph poles belonging
to the Munaman-Miutzag district and the
Kweichew Lane line, in China, have been
pulled down by the people, who say the
telegraph is a diabolical European artifice.
Eighty-eight persons were summarily ex¬
ecuted near Shanghai for belonging harrowing to
secret societies. The most
accounts are giveu of floods at t hu Clin
Fu, up the Wenchow river. Over 1,000
persons were swept away, and the de¬
struction to the growing crops is im¬
mense. S. S. Popoff, Chinese Pekin, secretary has just
to the Russian legation to
published a pamphlet on the Chinese
population, in which he states it to be
382,000,000 against 413,000,000 in the
year 1842. A plague of sudden death is
ranging at Nanking, The people are
dying in every quarter, and there are
many instances of very sudden deaths.
The people are apparently well in the*
morning and dead in the afternoon.
NOVEL-READING ROBBERB,
Two young men, named Robinson and
Bramley, still in their teens, were ar¬
rested on the charge of robbery at Se
guiu, Tex. Bramley turned state’s ev¬
idence aud confessed that he, Robinson
and a man named Henry, belonged to 8
baud of robbers which rendezvoused
in a cave. He said that one daj
last May, while at the cave, Rob¬
inson shot Heurjf, who was cap
tain of the band through the head,
killing him instantly, and he helped Rob
; njJOU CO nceal the body in a cave Bramlej
conducted officers re the cave aud the}
found the body as represented, expeditions. and vanoui Rob
relics of the marauding old, and
1USOU is about seventeen years
in explanation of the deed he says, hi
wanted to rival the record of Jesse James
NUMBER 11.
great anti-proiiibition meeting.
An anti-prohibition state barbecue was
held at Fort Worth, Texas, and was the
occasion of bringing together the largest
gathering of people ever seen in Texas
since the Mexican war. Thirty thousand
people visited the barbecue grounds special trains dur
ing the day. Aftet all the
had pulled into the depot, a procession 8. Ross,
was lormed headed by Gen. W.
the venerable father of Gov. Ross, in a
handsomely decorated carriage druwn by
four horses, aud proceeded through the
city to the barbecue grounds. Speeches
were made from two platforms by Con¬
gressman Rogers Q. Mills and Seth Shep¬
ard, of Dallas.
MADE I’lJIt LIU.
The Observatore Romano says that th<
circular addressed to Cardinal Rainpolh
was not intended for publication, and wai
only given him for his personal instruc¬
tion ou assuming the office of papal sec
retary of state. He was empowered t<
show copies of it to the nuncios at th»
various European courts as setting fort!
the policy to be pursued by the Pope ir
future. There is considerable irritatior
and regret at the Vatican over the pub¬
licity which lias bceu given to the (locu
ment, which in many ways will be in¬
jurious to papal diplomacy. It is com¬
plained that all Europe is now cognizant
of the future policy of the Vatican.
THE COTTON PROSPECT.
Dr. W. L. Jones, of Athens, Ga., tho
well-known writer on agricultural sub¬
jects, says that upland corn was injured
but slightly and on branch bottoms it was
not materially hurt, but on the rivers and
creeks it is disastrously damaged. As to
cotton, Dr. Jones said, he thought all the
blooms that have appeared since the rain
began will fall off, and as the crop has
but about two weeks longer to make, he
thought that farmers could only safe'-y
’ount on the fruit already on the stalk.
•a’eos Piutbs.—C apt. Johnson Sides,
an intelligent Piute Indian, sicys that
the idea prevalent among the whites that
the Piutes are gradually diminishing in
numbers is incorrect. The census re¬
turns of 1880 show that there were at
that time only 3,700, but he says many
of them were not counted, and that there
were fully 8,000. Ho estimates the pree*
ent number of the tribe at fully 9,000,
~^d probably 9,600.