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VOLUME V.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
J. F. DkLvcy. J. Bishop, Ja,
DK I.* /VCY Ac MIS HOP.
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
KASTMAN, OA.
Practice iu tho State an 1 Federal ootirtn.
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C. C. SMITH,
ATTOR NEY AT LAW,
MoVILLE, OY.
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E. D. .GRAHAM, JR.
ATTORNEY AT LAW
AND
SOLICITOR IN EQUITY,
BAX LEV, GA.
api 28- 8!! ly
HARRIS FISHER, M. D,
Physician, .Surgion an I toucher.
Offirjo at "Ew'mvi D.ng Store” on IDilroal
Avonui*. lt '»> 1 'ii m. o >: n r Church Street ami
Fifth. Aremw, Entmin, O [ eb
LUTIIKIi A. HALL,
ATTORNEY AT LAW 5
EAST.VI AN, GA.
Practices in (lie State and Federal Courts.
Half fee in advance.
Ollieo on 2 l ll »or in my briod biii'dinss on
weet Rail oail Avenue. novl 7 . 0 ino.
DR. J. D. HERRMAN j
PRACTITIONER OF
Medicine and Surgery.
Oflieu at tlic'Citjr Drug Htoro of Henman A
IUrriaun. Kc( »l( n cordor 1st Avenue uni
County 1 to hI street, Eastman, Ga.
bprll, '87-tf
DR. J. B. MITCHELL,
PHYSICIAN ai SURGEON,
OITits hi* profcnxion d h< vices to the peoplo
»>f Do I go county. Oflieo at, the rmi.len of
ll II. Harrell. Calls promptly attended to, d iy
or night. julj27-ly
DR. J. WI. BUCHAN & SON,
PHY,Sli'IUS AD DRUGGISTS,
EASTMAN, GEORGIA,
f I I'TEH their professeonal services to tho peo
|)lo of Mis immediate mil *nrro.in<linft
comities. 0 ,i-s or thu other can be found at
their nfli-e at any tim-. Al 1 ells promptly al¬
ien 'ed ilay or ni^bt. J’uti uts at a om'finoo
Visited All by ►p ul coni raid.
chrome nil l private iliseaaos, either of
male or female, a i-pt-cUlty. No charge for
consultation, if l>y loiter, send stamp for im¬
mediate reply. Ad consultation-' ami bdters
privn'e. ly A ipniil supply of drills n I; p- n
tu id on loth I, including ul! of t i >v r i •
dies. UIOhl2-t!
W. F. KAIN,
Fashionable Barber,
KASTMAN, GEOlUilA.
Having removd my stock 'o the front room(
of usk the bull Ini i kn nvii of the as G public uy's shoe patron shop, f
a continuance ik*’.
Ivih v' chairs, clean towel-', nh;up iaz»rs mid
particular the litest stvl% attention The assured. leading shop Hur cutting iu
of the tmvn.
Give me a cult, W. F. Fain
inch 23 tf.
BEST OF ALL.
OUR SUMMER OFFER.
JUST A LITTLE CASH DOWN To
BIND THE BARGAIN ONLY
A LITTLE SEE.
!'iam>s,$25 Gush ml Util me November 1*0.
Organs, 410 Gush ,»nd tin Unco Nuvvtubur 1st.
ItKMK.MDr.a— Spot Utah pri-e*. Nn advance. !
Nt> interest, buy iu Juno, July, August or
Kept' mber, mi I pay when crops come in. Pur- j |
cltfoiriM pav In ighr and dedue sum* from Jast
payment (wv ussumo it). The security r> q mred
is invariably the sign ng of our mmul 1 !,ca»i)
Contract, retaining to m the title in in»tra
nu nr.
AND WHAT IF CHOPS FAIL?
Wfll, wo will fix you there too. L'afon! Tf 1 !
when Nov. ft.ima*. you cannot pay the cash
balance down, wo will lot you complete pay- ;
meat un ler either of our One or Two Yean*’ j
Installment Plans. In this ca o, thenr.ee of j
instrument will In* advanced to i s regular time !
price under the plan selected, and you will be
required make fitch to Mmll sign cash a now L"ase Contract, tiled and j ^
pfivm nt.asis c for
under the plan '•elec t'd.
style Tiiuh 3, : If ton pric io.vo 4250, bought and Arion November piano, j
at ea-di , on 1
wish tu complete purchase on our Oih year j !
plan #25 the hav- time inner uml will lea^ei be $275, deduct balance the
\ou pa d, it a of J
# 250 , payabl • 50 cash, #62.50 in three
months and #135 November 1, 1888, Seven i
other methods of payment are also given at
your No option buying under
rink is run in our summer
offer, as in event of hard tim™ purchaser* cap
fall hack on our easy terms as if they bad or Ki¬
ndly so purchased. That's fair, ain’t it ? We
wait your order ami will do our be»t for yon.
Dodge, A. L. Ryaisi, Telmir, Akco* Lanrens lor L. A and B. 8. Montgomery M. H. in
counties.
MoUae, Ga., June 27, 1887-tf
DR. J.C. MONTGOMERY
ECLECTIC PH1SICIM,
CHAUNCEY, GA.
Chronic Diseases of Women, Impo¬
tence, specialty. Sterility, and all private diseases,
a
General practice promptly attended to.
A full line of drugs and medicines
kept on hand all the time. Calls an¬
swered all hours, day or night.
MONEY LOANED
On Farms and Town Property,
IN Bin« AND ADJOIMKO COUNTIES.
ELLIOTT ESTES,
561 Cherry St., Macon, Cl a.
July 13-ly
HOLME’S SURE CURE
Month Wash and Dentifrice.
Cures Bleeding Gums, Ulcers, Sore
Mouth, Sore Throat, Cleanses the Teeth
aud Purifies the Breath; used and rec
ommendf d by loading dentists. Prepared
by Drs. J. P. A W. K. Holmes, Dentists,
Macon, Ga. For sale by all druggists
and dentists.
Justice to All. Malice for None/*
EASTMAN. DODGE COUNTY. GA.. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1887.
ISOS. ESTABLISHED. ISOS.
OLD and RELIABLE
-SALE AND LIVERY STABLES.-
A Large Stock of L T Horses and Mules
Kept Constantly on Hand. From ths
Cheap to The ^ High-Priced.
H. & M. WATERMAN,
Hawkinsville, Ga.
As wo procure our supply direct from the West in Carload lots, we are prepared
at nil times to furnish saw-mill and turpentine firms with first-class Mules at the
lowest Market Rates. WE MAKE A SPECIALTY IN THIS TRADE. Informa¬
tion, or orders by mail will receive prompt attention.
Blow ye the trumpet, Blow 1
And Let all the people know—that
MARTIN * PEACOCK
Arc prepared to Giu their Cotton as of yore !
have made es ready with our three excellent Gins to turn out 25 bales per day. We
extensive preparations for this season, and believe we have the best
arranged Ginnery in Wiregrass Georgia. We also have wagon scales, upon which
our they customers brought may the weigh Gin. their loaded wagons and know how much seed cotton
to Our price for Ginning is as ever—positive, cheap; com¬
parative, cheaper; superlative, cheapest.
25c par 100—8 yds. Bagging and 6 tits for 95o. to OUR CUSTOMERS.
As to quality and quantity we guarantee to be as good as the best, and if any
of our competitors doubt it, we stand ready to test the matter. Bring us your
cotton, and will do dead level best make it 0
headquarters we for our Corn, Meal, Chops, to Special to your advantage. As ever
we me etc. attention to those who
want ceties, Corn ground for home use. We are also leaders of low prices in Family GrO
tinware, hardware, etc.
Thanking the you for your past liberal patronage, and hoping to merit a contin*
! uance of same, we are Yours truly,
Aug. 17 3 m MARTIN & PEACOCK.
HENRY COLEMAN.
Goods, Clothing, Boots & Shoes.
HATS AND CAPS,
BIDDLES, BRIDLES, CROCKERY WARE
Highest Market Price Paid for
Country Produce.
Hides a Specialty.
J-tTRAlL LOAD AVENUE, July 13th, 1887.
SAW MILL, CORN MILL, FLOUR MILL, 7
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Water Wheel, Steam Engine or Mill
Supplies of Any Kind.
DON’T FORGET TO SEND FOR OUR LARGE CATALOGUE
WE CAN SAVE YOU MONEY!
Best Saw Mill in America and Prices Very Low. Now is the time to buy. Let u
hear from you. A. A. De LOACH A RRO., Founders and Machinists, Atlanta, Gi
A 5 M HOBBS,
County Hoad Street,
GEORGIA,
DEALER IN
Staple and Fancy Dry Goods, Boots,
SHOES. HATS 1
Family Groceries, Tobacco, Cigars, Fruits, Con¬
fectioneries, Etc., Etc.
Having just returned from market with a large stock of just such general mer¬
chandise as (he trade denurads, I now ask the public to give me a call, feeling as
suied that I can make it greatly to their interest to share their patronage with me.
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1 kCC ^ ° n * y tllC fre8 ^ est an< * P urcst g°°^ s » an( l f? ive m y customers down
g3fT" I am in the cotton market, and am prepared to pay the highest cash price
for either packed or in the seed. I also want yotu hides, eggs, chickens, butter,
and will give you therefore in cash or barter as much as the next man.
j Think you for past liberal patronage, I hope to merit a continuance of the
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j Very respectfully,
at»g 17^m. A. L. HOBBS.
SOUTHERN BRIEFS ‘K
READABLE ITEMS CAREFULLY
GATHERED HITHER AND YON.
Noe Ini, Temperance and Religions Move
meats—Fires, Doaibo and Ealeldos—Rail¬
road Operations and Improvement*.
For fear the harmony of tho state fair
will be disturbed, the Macon, Ga., au¬
thorities will expel the Salvation Army.
Gen. Edward Hopkins, collector of
customs for the district of St. Johns,
Fla., died in Jacksonville in the seventy
seventh year of his age.
Four stores at Seal near Columbus, Ga.,
were pied by burglarized. They were occu¬
B. M. Henry. E. F. Pye and
two were vacant. At Henry’s store they
blew open the safe, but got only four
dollars.
The Augusta, Ga., Gazette had been
sold out to T. L. J. Miller, one of the
largest stockholders. As to the price
paid no one knows exactly, but it is said
it did not exceed five thousand dollars.
Mr. Miller is a good business man, and
will make a success of the paper.
By some means the Thompson-Hous
ton Electric Light Company’s wires got
out of order in Augusta, Ga., and set
fire to Lombard’s foundry and the lower
market, in entirely different sections of
the city. Both fires were, however, ex¬
tinguished before the arrival of the de¬
partment,
A call for a mass meeting has been is¬
sued and signed by a large number of
prominent merchants of Nashville, Tenn.,
to consider the new proposition to be
submitted by the Tennessee Midland
Railroad Company, and to protest against
the frauds committed by the opponents
of the proposition voted on recently.
On the Mobile & Ohio Railroad, near
Jackson, TenD.,an entire passenger train,
except the engine, was hurled from a
trestling hour, while running forty-five miles
an and over thirty persons were in¬
jured, though, by what seems almost a
miracle, none were killed. The coaches
were thrown forty feet from the track
and some turned completely over.
The ladies’ coach and sleeper of the
southbound train on the Alabama Great
Southern Railroad, were thrown from the
track, near Ft. Payne, Ala., by a broken
rail. The coach was badly wrecked, and
eighteen people were badly injured, and
some of them seriously. The sleeper was
only overturned and none of the passen¬
gers on it were injured.
The people of Winchester, Ky., are
jubilant over the prospect of having a
new railroad. The proposed line is the
Louisville, Cincinnati & Virginia Rail¬
road and its termini will be Beatville,
Va., and Winchester, Ky. It will form
a link in the great Louisville & Nashville
system. Ground 1ms already been broken.
r l he contractors will have 1,000 men at
work as soon as shanties for their accom¬
modation can be erected.
The last spike on the Kansas City,
driven Memphis & Birmingham Railroad was
by Congressman Allen, of Missis¬
sippi, at Guin Station. President Geo.
II. Nettleton, accompanied by several of¬
ficials of the road and several citizens of
Kansas City and Memphis, arrived in
on the first through train over
the new road. The visitors were re¬
ceived by a committee from the Chamber
of Commerce. The road is one of the
best built and equipped south of the Ohio
river.
The sti ike in the woollen mills of Louis¬
ville, Ivy., which was begun two months
ago, has collapsed. The weavers de¬
manded an increase of wages and were
supported in their action by the Knights
of Labor. The mill owners refused to
' take back any of the strikers who would
not sign an agreement to give up alle¬
giance to the Knights and come back at
old wages. The mills were closed. Re¬
cently the employes began to seek their
old places, and nearly all the weavers
have agreed to the conditions.
Dr. James A. Gray died in Atlanta,
Ga. lie was a native of Monroe county,
where he was born on tho 29th of De¬
cember, 1849. He was the son of Dr.
Joseph Gray, a prominent planter of that
county. He beg in the study of medicine,
matriculating which at the he Atlanta graduated Medical Col¬ the
lege, from in
class of ’79. He took first honors in a
class which had forty-eight members. At
the time of his death he was proctor of
the faculty of the college. He was a
Master Mason; a member and medical ex¬
aminer of Gate City Lodge K. of H.; was
surgeon of the Atlanta Rifles and a mem¬
ber of the Atlanta Society of Medicine.
Great distress prevails on both sides of
the upper Rio Grande country, in Texas,
on account of high water. It is said that
entire farms are under water, and that
families residing near the river have been
washed out, and have lost all they had.
A large number of these families h* ve
lost their entire The crops river reaped overflowed during the
past season. has
its bauks for miles, and looks like an
ocean. The water is still rising at
Brownsville. Edinburg and La Pueblo,
situated sixty miles above Brownsville,
have been washed from the face of the
earth; and at Santa Maria the water is
gradually making its way to destroy the
place.
8IIE WAS A DAISY.
Among the passengers who arrived on
the steamship La Gascogne, at New
York, was a Boston dressmaker named
Miss M. Kennedy. When her baggage
had been placed on the dock she opened
one of her trunks, and taking out a silk
dress carelessly threw it on the floor.
Then she quickly picked up a box that
had lain under the dress and handed it to
a man who started to place it in his
trunk, which had been passed, The
movement officers, was seen by special customs arrested
who seized the box and
the womau and man. The box contained
four handsome hand-embroidered dresses
worth several hundred dollars each. The
dress that had been thrown aside was
found to be lined with costly laces and
silk and satin dress goods. An inspec¬
tress found that Miss Kennedy htid laces,
silks, etc., to the value of several thou¬
sand dollars concealed on her j»erson.
Her other baggage, three trunks and a
packing-case, was seized b»*t not ojiened.
The goods discovered arc valued at $75,
i 000 .
VOLUNTEER WINS
THE AMERICAN YACHT BUN9
A WA Y FROM THE SCOTCHMAN.
An Immense Crowd In New York Harbor
Sees the Canny Scot Easily Defeated
by Urn. Paine’s Racer.
The Scotch cutter Thistle and the
American sloop Volunteer have met in
the first 1887 contest for America’s cup,
in New York harbor, and the Volunteer
beat the foreigner so badly, that the lat
tor’s most enthusiastic champions have
only to say that something unexplainable
is the matter with the Thistle. The peo
h »° WCnt d ? Wn °? 3,000 B ; eam 8 ^P 9 ’
yachts mcr steamers, tugs, steam yachts sailing
and boats improvised for the occa
sion inhered easily 50,000, and the
scene fore, presented by the mass of craft be
at, and after the start, cannot be de
scribed. They covered a vast area and
they kept up anoise throughout the race,
that startled the people who came from
Europe to witness the contest. Incessant
gun firing and steam whistling called
forth the wildest kind of enthusiasm,
wnich interfered with tho duties of offi
eials of the race. The great flotilla cov
ered the ground off O’Neal’s Head in a
way that made it doubtful if a decent
start could be made, while the elements
indicated “no race. From early morn¬
ing, there was no sign of a breeze, and a
dirty haze hung over the water, indica¬
tive of a continuously thick atmosphere,
and a poor view of the race.
With favorable surroundings, the race
would have been started at 10:30 a. m.,
but at that hour there was not air enough
to blow a match out, and the judges, on
Commodore Gerry’s Elcctra, waited to
fdart the racers until there should appear
a chance of getting the boats over the
course within the prescribed seven hours.
At 12.20, the Elcctra fired the prepar¬
atory gun, and at 12.30 the gun to start.
After the latter, the yachts had five min¬
utes to cross the line. If either had
taken longer than five minutes, her time
of start would have been registered at
the expiration of the five minutes.
The boats crossed as follows: Thistle,
12.33.06; Volunteer, 12.34.58. The
Thistle not only had the nearer position,
when the order to start was given, but
she also went through the water faster.
So she got over the line 1 minute 52 sec¬
onds ahead. An cight-miles-an-hour
wind was then from the south-southeast,
and the yachts had to sail close on the
wind for the first matk, buoy 10, on
southwest, the ship which bore south by
west was three and a half miles away.
The yachts Volunteer went over port tack and at
once the began to overhaul
the Thistle. The fitst tack was in to¬
ward Clifton, Staten Island, and on that
tack of fifteen minutes or less, the Vol¬
unteer showed her superiority over the
Thistle in weather that had been written
down as the foreigner’s best, that left no
doubt of the result. The Volunteer went
by the Thistle as though the latter was
anchored, and she stayed in front to the
end. The Thistle was more than a little
bothered by the excursion boats on that
first tack. Steamers crossed her bows,
and gave her much swash, but after that
the steamers hung to the Volunteer, the
leader, and throughout the rest of the
day she suffered three times, at least, as
much as the Thistle did, from the way
they kicked up the water and shut oil
the wind. It was no longer a race. It
was a procession. The wind varied in
locality and strength. It shifted between
the southeast and southwest, and some¬
times one boat had it when the other did
not. And the result was a most decisive
victory for the American sloop. Beat¬
ing, stretching and running, with free
sheets, the Volunteer outsailed the This-
After the the race, Thistle, James Bell, principal
owner of said he was not at
all satisfied with the result. The Thistle,
he declared, had never moved so slowly
through the water. He was of the opin¬
ion that there was “something wrong
with the cutter’s bottom,” and sire would
be hauled out of the water at once
with a view towrnrd finding out what it
was. lie did not consider that the race
had been sailed for that reason and be¬
cause the wind was so shifting. The
Volunteer often had the advantage of
breeze that the Thistle did not feel. Be¬
sides, excursion boats swashed the This¬
tle, to a damaging extent. Gen. Paine
and Edward Burgess, of the Volunteer
took the victory quietly, but very hap
pily. The London News “It is to
says: not
be concealed or denied, that the result of
the race is a bitter disappointment. We
had been led to expect great things of
the Thistle, and the Americans themselves
encouraged us in our expectations. Our
disappointment is ail the more greater
because, though neither boat had the
right wind for a thoroughly good race, a
light breeze prevailed that was supposed
to be iu favor of the Thistle. The This¬
tle lost in the wind of her own choosing.
We may build a better boat 9ome day
and we have never built such an one
before.”
RACK WAR IS TfiXAH.
An insurrection is imminent among the
colored people in Matagorda county, Tex.
The sheriff of Matagorda county sent a
courier to Sheriff Hicley, of Brazier
county, asking for immediate assistance.
The courier stated that over 200 negroes
were under arms in Matagorda, and that
excitement among the whites was very
great. The trouble arose over an at¬
tempt of a colored constable to arrest a
white man who resided on Cancy Creek.
The constable was found dead lying in
the water of the creek, and the negroes
believe that he was murdered by white
men of the vicinity, because he had u
warrant for one of their number. Later
reports stated that Sheriff Hicley had iai9
ed a posse of fifty mounted white men
and started for Matagorda. While the
sheriff of Matagorda county was en route
to the scene of the trouble with one hun¬
dred mounted men, an alarming report
reached Houston, Tex., that the sheriff's
forces had arrived and active hostilities
bcirun. The negroes have been largely
reinforced. The Houston Light Guards
have received orders to leave on a special
train for the town of Columbia, Brazier
county.
Parasols are made with unusually The
long handles of natural wood,
“Tuxedo” is the latest shape.
THE VORLD OYER,
EPITOME OF THE INTERESTING
NEWS OF THE DAY.
The Irish Troables—Labor Agitation Every¬
where— What to Doing North, Eaot;
West and Across the Kona.
wiU * hort] ? resi S n the Preai *
e 7 ° f France '
in . Slight shocks of earthquako were felt
felt Santiago in de Cuba, A shock was also
Baracoa.
The epidemic of scarlet fever in Lon
don, England, is still spreading. There
are now 1,600 cases in the hospitals.
with Monsignor the Galinbert has reraonstnted
Russian government on behalf
the Holy See, against the treatment to
which Catholics are subjected in Poland,
Jaco Tn ,. *T „ Bu P> of , w Wood's Run, in Pitts
b , " r & Pa ' , ba " wr i . tten to sheriff Watson,
? f Chica . g°> f ° r f cont ! act fo r mak '
\ ng ro f * ,tb which to hang the , con
de,nned anarchists,
T be g rowin g tobacco has been serious
injured in the region of country in
Southern Illinois and Indiana and Ivan
sas ’ °f which Evansville, Indiana is the
centre. ^ ^* Reports are general to this ef
cc
Cardinal Gibbons accompanied by Rev.
I)r. P. L. Chappell, of Washington, left
Baltimore, Md., by the Pennsylvania
Railroad, for Portland, Oregon; but he
will stop en route at Chicago, Milwaukee
and St. Paul.
A violent storm has been raging in
northern Mexico for several days. At
Sonz, twenty-eight miles north of Phil
urhua, a bridge 200 feet long is almost
completely destroyed, together with con¬
siderable other property.
The Illinois state’s attorney is still en¬
gaged in settling up the affairs of the
Chicago boodlers, and it was learned that
so far settlements have been effected with
J. M. W. Jones, who paid over $45,000;
Mandell Brothers, who gave up $750, and
Elijah Robinson, who paid $13,500.
Bailiffs, accompanied by a body of po¬
lice, seized a number of cattle belonging
to a family named Hurley, at Kilbarrey,
Ireland. A crowd at'acked the officers
with stones and pitchforks. The police
charged their assailants with fixed bayo¬
nets, and bayonetted several, but they
were obliged to retreat without the cat
^
Fifty persons, principally Jews, have
just been tried at Riga. Russia, on thir¬
teen different charges of arsou. The evi¬
dence showed that an extensive conspira¬
cy had been formed to defraud insurance
companies. Ten of the prisoners were
sentenced to Siberia for life, nineteen
were acquitted and the remainder were
sentenced to various terms of imprison¬
ment.
The military and police were present
at the eviction of Michael Lane and
family, from their holding on Col. Mead¬
ows’s estate, at Ardnaorusha, in Limer¬
ick, Ireland. The Lanes made a stub¬
born resistance, and during the struggle
Mrs. Lane, with a poker, split open the
skull of Inspector Riley, who was direct¬
ing the eviction. Mrs. Lane, her husband
and brother were arrested.
Jubilee receptions at the Vatican have
begun. The Roman congregation pre¬
sented the Pope with an offering and re¬
ceived the Pope’s blessing. Roman po¬
lice have seized the Pope’s medals, which
are inscribed: “Pope Leo, XIII Ponti
fex Et Rex.” It is expected that the
Vatican will protest against the seizure,
and will point‘out that the law of guar¬
antees recognized the Pope’s right to the
title of sovereign.
In a letter from Wadelai, Africa, Emin
Bey declares that he will not return with
Stanley. He says: “I succeeded have passed
twelve years here and have in
reoccupying nearly every station in the
country which Gen. Gordon entrusted to
me. I have won the trust and confidence
of the people, civilization. sowing seed of a splendid
future for It is out of the
question to ask me to leave. All I want
England to do is to make a free trading
way to the coast.”
Sir William Vernon Harcourt addressed
a meeting of liberals at Lewis, England.
He denounced the government’s policy in
Ireland as base and brutal. The course
of the ministry, he said, was revolting to
the free people in England, who would
not long endure to see sister countries
maltreated. The tories qimed to main¬
tain their privileges by force; the liber¬
als offered freedom, conciliation and self
government to Ireland, He hailed the
prospect of the contest reaching a cli¬
max. He did not doubt that home rule
would win.
MORE TRAIN-WRECKING.
Three Ilnutnrilly let, by I'ndiacorered VII.
Inins—No Liven Lost.
An attempt was made to wreck a St.
Louis express train on the Fitchburg,
Mass., road, about one aud a half miles
above the townof North Pownal, Vermont.
Engineer Philling, in the dim moonlight,
saw an obstruction on the track about
three train lengths ahead—the train was
running about forty miles an hour—and
he applied with the jerk, air but brakes, stopping tho
train a not until the en
gine hud struck the obstacle. This was
a pile of nine ties, two of which were
spiked to the track. The engine did not
leave the track, though several of the ties
were displaced from the train pile laid across
the rails. A passenger on the Cairo,
Vincennes & Chicago Railroad ran into a
saw log upon the track about eight miles
south of Vincennes. The log was as
large as a flour barrel, but the engine
knocked it off. Over a hundred people
were on the train and felt considerable
alarm over their narrow escape. A few
nights ago an attempt was made to wreck
an Ohio & Mississippi train between
Shoals and Hutson, Ohio. On this occa
sion,crossties were piled on the track, but
the engineer saw them in time to reverse
the engine. The obstruction was strong
enough to shake up the passengers and
throw off the cab. A northbound pas
senger train on the Iron Mountain Rail
road was wrecked near 7 Walnut Ridge, and
Arkansas. Members r Texarkana
Hot Springs Grand Array Posts were
among the passengers en route to St.
Louis,
NUMBER 19.
THB G. A A KENT.
Ht. L»«l* Mo.. Ulm the Soldiers » Trtf
Cordial Wclesat.
No such crowd was ever handled in St,
Louis, Mo., as appeared at the Unit da j
of the assembling in annual encampment!
of the G. A, R. veterans. Governors afccf
and ex-governors the following reported from time to time,;
reviewing stand: were Governor ready to take the of
Illinois; Rusk, of Wisconsin; Oglesby, of
California; Fletcher, Stone,
of Missouri; Craw¬
ford, of Kansas; Evans, of Colorado;
Sanders, of Nebraska; Pierrcpont, of
Sprague, West Virginia; ex-Governor William
of Rhode Island; ex-Yice-Pres
ideut Hannibal Ilamlin. An extended
programme of receptions, luncheons and
dinners had been prepared for their en¬
tertainment for the week. In the evening
the doors of the Merchants Exchange
were thrown open for the soldiers and
their friends, who were wending their
way to the reception tendered by th e citi
zens of St. Louis, and the immense cham¬
ber was profusely decorated with bunt¬
ing, ing flags and stripes and streamers hang¬
gracefully from the balconies. A
great banner welcomed the boys of ’01.
A fountain m the middle of the hall, filled
with floweis and surrounded by tropical
plants, the dashed jets of water into spray,
and as great center piece separated
the great masses of the peoplo who filled
the hall long before the hour set for the
welcome address, and band discoursed
stirring coming airs, while the crowd awaited tho
of the speakers. Mayor Francis,
accompanied distinguished by war governors and other
guests, entered the hall _
and took places on the platform. A few
minutes luter Gen. Sherman entered, - ac¬
companied by two friends, and succeeded
in getting almost on the platform before
he was discovered by the veterans. Then
a shout went up and a rousing cheer.
Th& general was given an arm chair in
front of the platform near the speaker’s
rostrum.
Mayor Francis arose, and turning to
. wards Gen. Fairchild extended a hearty
welcome to the Grand Army of tho Re¬
public. chief’s attention He called the commander-in- only
to the fact that not
comrades-in-arms were working harmoni¬
ously side by side by many who, a quar¬
ter of a century ago, were arrayed against
them in civil strife, and Gen. Fairchild
responded that to the cordial greeting by the
assufance when tho invitation was
accepted,it was Louis with would the belief and knowl¬
had edge that St. and there do just as sho
done, was not a moment
when members of the Grand Army
doubted the hospitable reception they,
were to receive, or the moment that they
ever thought of not coming. To meu
who wore the gray he could say, they met
them with feelings of love and confidence,
and extend to them the right hand of fel¬
lowship. hatchet The Grand Army did not dig
up the or wave the bloody shirt.
There never had been, from 1867 to the
present time, among comrades, a thought
or feeling of malice to words the South. Here
to-night were given of welcome
which would ring out through the land,
and when the Grand Army goes home
they will leave behind a portion of their .
hearts. As his voice died out, a call for
Geu. Sherman was followed by a dozen
more and then a flood of cheers, but they
apparently fell on deaf ears, for, though
looking directly over the sea of faces, the
general gave no sign of respouse, and
Mayor Francis seized the opportunity of
the lull to introduce ex-Vice President
Hannibal Hamlin. Gov. Oglesby, of Ill¬
inois kept up the enthusiasm by a jocu¬
lar assault upon Gen. Sherman for not re¬
sponding to the repeated Sherman calls. Ashe re¬
tired, the name of flew from
mouth to mouth, and an ovation greeted
“Uncle Hilly” as he rose to answer to the
calls. Gen. Sherman found o pportunity
to retire, and as the echo diec 1 out the
band struck up “Marching Through
Georgia.” The veterans quickly caught air
the tune and 4,000 voices rent the
again and again until the ball re-echoed
_
with their choruses. Gov. Thayer, of
Nebraska, Gov. Sprague, of Rhode Is¬
land, Gov. Solomon, of California, and
her honored guests made speeches, nod
i travelling's reception closed with three
rousing cheers.
DRAMATIC INCIDENT.
German Officials Fire on Frenchmen and
Instant Reparation Demanded.
A party of five sportsmen and four
beaters were following a territory, path ut Baon, ’
near Surpluine, on French seven
yards from the frontier, when a person
standing behind a clump of trees on the
German side, 80 yards from the frontier,
fired three shots at them. The first bul¬
let did not hit anyone, but the second
killed one of tb* beaters, and a third se¬
verely wounded a gentleman li med
Wauger, German a pupil officials at Sanmur declare cavalry
school. that a
German soldier named Kauffman, who
was detailed to assist the forest guards
in preventing poachiBg, that fired the shots.
Kauffman affirms he shouted three
times for the party to halt before firing
on them. He believed that they were oh
German territory. The sportsmen de
! clare that they heard nothing. Officials
I on both sides of the frontier are milking
j inquiries Itdvier conferred into the with shooting. Premier of
I the minister
foreign affairs and the minister of justice
in relation to the incident after the receipt
of the official report of affairs, and it was
decided to send a note to Berlin request
ing the German government, in the in
terest of the continuation of friendly
relations, to institute an inquiry intojble Mun
affair without delay. Outint Von
ster, German ambassador at Paris, in an
interview expressed with Foreign Minister
Flourens, regret at the occur
rence and gave assurance that justice
would be done by the German govern
ment. L» Paris says: “Germany will
have to pay heavily for.the shots firedon
the frontier. • Unless Bismarck is bent
upon a conflict,-lejaliu^ to a general *#**
no will have to givfi'.Fmnce full satislao
tion. Germany never fights unless she
believes herself the strongest. OiM»
more she will have to make amends.
is something Jp find a conqueror coin
pelled twice within six months to humble
himself before the conquered.” La X45*
erte says: “We will have to get amp!#
satisfaction if it is proved that we
entitled to it. Until the matter is fully
sifted let ua keep our temper.” Tho afr
fair haa created great excitement in Eu¬
rope, and stocks were badly affected,