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,/. D. STOKES. Proprietor,
T. P. CARNES, Editor.
PUBLISH El> KVEHY FBI DAY AT—
EASTMAN, GEORGIA
The Norwegians arc said to be the
longest-lived people in the world. Offi¬
cial statistics show that the average dura¬
tion of life in Norway is 48.33 for the
men and 51.30 for the women, and 49.77
f or botli sexes
The newspapers of Italy are rail
ing subscriptions to erect a monument
to Columbus on American soil.
At our prefeat rate of growth the
population of the United Stater will b*
nearly up to 70,000,000 in the year of
tho international exposition.
John Crerar, who has bequeathed
$2,500,000 fora public library in Chi¬
cago, insists in his will that the library
shall not contain any “sceptical trash. ’
Frank Ilosmer, contractor for ridding
the white house of rats, has completed his
work. During the raid he killed nine¬
ty-one rats, and he believes he has
thoroughly cleared the place of the
pests. Mrs. Harrison has purchased
three of the ferrets, and will keep them
for future use.
The Lake of Geneva yearly becomes
more shallow, owing to the large de¬
posits of mud brought down by the
Rhone. It is estimated that in another
four centuries the lake will be quite
filled up and will bccune a fertile
plain, like some of the districts in Hol¬
land which have been reclaimed from
the water.
Dr, Tyrrel, of the California State
Board of Health, in his report declares
immigration of consumptives to that
State should bo prevented, as there is
good ground for tho belief that the dis¬
ease is contagious. The influx of con¬
sumptives into the southern counties has
been followed by a spread of respiratory
affections among the original settlers.
.Many butchers have gone into bank¬
ruptcy in consequence of the continued
prohibition of the importation of cattle
and pigs. Another consequence is a
scarcity of fat stock throughout Ger¬
man}', and the consumption of horse¬
flesh is increasing, In Berlin alone
seventy horses a day are slaughtered,
the flesh being eagerly bought at mod¬
erate prices.
All chad Harvey of Brown Spring,
Wyoming, while hauling hay, tried to
start up a balky team by lighting a
bunch of hay under each horse, The
horses promptly moved on a few feet
and stopped. Tho hay on tho wagon
nt once ignited and tho whole outfit,
wagon, hay and horses, was consumed.
Harvey himself was badly burned in
endeavoring to save his possessions.
The headlong haste which white man
exhibited when they rushed into Okla¬
homa before tho President’s proclama¬
tion had opened it for settlement, is
now repeated in the case of tho Sioux
reservation, much to the indignation of
the Indians. Tho New York Commer¬
cial Atkerliger declares that “tho Presi¬
dent should put a stop to this work for
the sake of fair dealing as well as for
that of both the Sioux ami the would
be s ttiers. If ho does not, a wrong
will have been perpetrated on the Iudi
ans, and tho Sioux boomers will meet
the righteous fate that overtook the
Oklahoma boomers.”
A minister of the gospel, a sou of a
prominent minister of Lexington, Ky.,
is attempting the extraordinary task of
committing the entire New Testament
to memory. He has been working on
it for years, and, as he has n wonderful¬
ly retentive brain, the work is in a fair
way cf completion. As he argues, the
plan is au exceedingly good ouc, be¬
cause he can refer to his mind at any
time much more easily lhau to the
pages of any book ever printed. If,
for instance, he wishes to quote any
pas ago, he can do so at will and at the
very moment, an accomplishment
which should make him one of tho
most fluent preachers in the couu ry.
There is to be another investigation
of the Panama ship canal scheme by n
commission composed of four French
and one Belgian engineer. Upon their
report it will depend whether the en¬
terprise be abandoned to its fate or its
life prorogued by further emptying the
Ftcnch purses into its cormorant maw.
M. anwhile, it i- satisfactory to know
that the work upon the Nicaragua ship
canal project lias been formally inaugu¬
rated, au i will no doubt progress rap¬
idly under tho energizing influences of
American energy, supplemontea by
American capital. That way there is s
vista through which, the New York
Xcte» thinks, can bo seen an immensity
of profit and glory in this country’s
future.
Brazil is in area larger than the
United States, and the interests of the
various parts of this enormous territory
are dissimilar. The uortheru portion,
for instance, from which the rubber ex¬
ports aie chiefly derived, has complained
bitterly that it has been compelled to
bear an unduo share of the burdens c)
government The New York Sur,
thinks it remains to be seeu whether, il
the republic is a permanency, lh«
levcral j rts of the country can b« held
together or whether it will be brokeii
nto fragments: aad it is certainly-th*
glory of Dcm Pedro's rcigu that foi
~" ie ‘ a bu ' f ie,,tur v hU ^°P lc have eo
-
joyed comparative order and quiet, and
aavs kept together un ler the same flag,
while a’1 the olhc-r States iu Suth
America have been tc*ia by violent dis¬
sensions and civil war.
! CCER EM M.W
S.
CONIiEXSEI) FROM THE TELE¬
GRAPH A XU CARLE.
THINGS THAT HAPPEN FROM DAY TO DAY
Till OUQHOCT THE WORLD, CULLED
FROM VARIOUS sources.
Great inundations are reported through
out northern Italy
The Spanish ministry has resigned, 2
benor Sebariawill attempt to form new
cabinet ’
About 4 . fifty . attacked , the , temple , of
mm
ic fault healer*, ta 1 •i-cohi. 111.. • iiur>
iay. and smashed it- windows with
h oabs -
The Belgian goveinm at 1.1. stopped
the exportation of coal, ow ing to the
scarcity of that commodity, caus d by tb
strike.
Jnge McConnell announces that the ap¬
plication for a new trial in the Cronin
case nil! be taken up by him Monday.
January 13tli.
During tin past ten months the import
of woolen goods amounted in value to
$47,1(57,423, against $44,010,830 during
the same months of 1889,
The conductors'and switchmen's strike
on the Evansville and Terre Haute, and
Evansville and Indianapolis roads, of the
Mackey system, still continue.
arrested Twenty-two Russian officers, have been
society, charged with object being of members which of
a secret the is to
establish a constitutional monarchy.
The coopers and butchers at the stock
yards, Chicago, legal are making an effort to
break, by process, the contract
which ten packing house men were com¬
pelled to sign after the strike.
in Simon Delmel Monday, applied in circuit court,
Chicago, on for a receiver f< i
the furniture house of li. Delmel A Bros.,
the most extensive manufacturers of par¬
lor furniture in Chicago, if not in the
country.
Thestrike on the Mackey system iva- am
iealrly settled .Monday night, both sides
making concessions, All the strikers
were taken back without prejudice. The
terms of settlement are secret, and can
be learned no further than above stated.
It is stated that the steel trade of this
country is to be revolutionized by a
new process for making opt n
hearth steel as cheap or cheaper than
Bessemer steel. A test was made a few
days ago at Pittsburg, Ha., which was
fairly satisfactory to those interested.
It is estimated at the treasury depart
ment that there has been a decrease of
nearly $4,000,000 in the public debt dur¬
ing the month of December. Reduction
for the calendar year, ending $91,580,148 Tuesday,
is $81,481,253. against for
the calendar year of 1888.
Geo. 8. Jack, ex-United Staten deputy
marshal, ing burglary against whom and six larceny, cases are pend¬
for was con¬
victed in the circuit court, at Muskegon,
Mich., on Saturday, of larceny in one of
the cases. This trial has been one of the
most sensational ever held in that city,
sml lias cost the county $13,000.
Four loggers were burned to death at
Beebes earn]), up the Tenni ssee river.
>eventy-tive miles from Paducah, Ky.,Sat
nrday night, by their cabin taking fire.
Two of them were brothers named Dyer,
sud others named Colton and Corners. It
is supposed they were all intoxicated and
he cabin ignited from the chimney.
The London Time*' Liaison eorrespon
lent says ; Another note from the marquis
sf Salisbury was delivered on Monday.
It is believed that this note threatens that
unless prompt satisfaction is given for
Serpa immediate Printo’s action, of there diplomatic will bo an
rupture rela¬
tions. The cabinet, was immediately
summoned.
Henry M Pfeiffer A Sons, editors and
proprietors of the Daily Sentinel , of Car¬
lisle, Pa., were uu Saturday arrested on
lie oath of tin' postmaster of that city,for
alleged libel. claimed. Damages amounting The Sentinel to
•M0,000 are
•barged that tin* defaulter postmaster, the while count of v
reasurer, was a to exteut
jinny thousands of dollars.
The store of Johnson, Boyd A Co.,
it Baltimore. Md., dealers in notions and
white goods, was burned Monday
night. The fire started iu tlu
cellar from a furnace, and quickly
ran through the whole building.
I’he stock, which was valued at $85,000,
was very badly damaged by will fire, probably smoke
md water, and the loss
•each $50,000,
A Fanners’ dispatch Alliance. from Topeka, State Grange Kan. says; and
The
Knights of Labor there have formed an
offensive and defensive alliance according
:o the recommendation of the recent farm
>rs’ convention and Knights of Labor con¬
tention. The object iff the combination
s co-operation in Kansas business and
politics. The combined alliances number
n their ranks over 125,000 members.
The western passenger rate war is now
fairly begun. Reduced rates from Kt.
Paul to Chicago went into effect Thurs¬
day, and to make the fight more interest¬
ing, the Chicago, Milwaukee and 8t. Paul
road lias ordered a cut of $2.50 in the
first-class rate from Kansas City to Chica¬
go. The evident object of the cm is to
punish the Burlington and Quincy for the
action of the Burlington and Northern.
A dispatch from Nebraska City, Neb.,
says: AY. Simpson, charged ex-county with treasurer, embez¬
has been arrested,
zling the funds of the county. Simpson
had completed a four years' expiring sentence Tuesday, on a
similar charge, his term
when he was arrested on two other
counts. The total amount of Simpson's
embezzlement will never be known, but a
shortage of $88,000 was fouud.
Stephen Laplant, at Haverhill, X. II.,
a Frenchman, aged eighty, while visiting
his son's family, at Centre, was left with
hi- wife, in charge of two grandchildren,
aged ten and live years. The old man
became enraged from some trivial cause,
and killed hi- grandson, aged five, with
hammer, fatally -tabbed h,s grandaugh
ter, aged ten. and was in the act of at
tempting to kill liis wife, when a passer
by entered and seized him.
Collections of internal revenue for the
first five months of the present year were
$1,178,962. or $5,085,227 more than col
lections during the corresponding period
last year. Receipts from spirit- were
$32,628,344. an increese of fit.321.777:
from tobacco $13,*389,Htl. an increase of
$1,024,01)4; from fermented iujtiers *11.-
246,998, an increase ot *81. to v from
oleomargerine $289,468. a decrease of
$24,184 ; from miscellaneous $22.1.1. a
decrease of $12,418. Receipt- b-r .vocm
l>cr, 1889. were $1.045.861: greater than
for November. 1888.
One of the largest contracts for hip
cluded plate ever made in this country by was Captain con¬
at Duluth. Minn.,
Alexander MePougall’ for the American
Steel company, with a representative .4
Andrew Carnegie. The contract call- fot
about 3,000 tons of -teel plates, makiug
over $300,000. It will furni-h plates foi
seven great vessels of the Me Donga 11 type.
Dougal! An option was given to Captain Me
for steel for three more n — el:
and this will probably Ik 1 dosed in n ft-»
day-, making the whole order for .1 on
7,200 tau- and calling for about $1-50.000
HEAVY SNOWS.
j th* 1 SU.R*A KEVADA MOUNTAINS (Ov
j *RKD WnH SIXTEEN FEET OF SNOW.
Southern Telegraphic Pacific reports to the office of th
company, fall'of a: Sa-.-ranjcnt*.-.
Cal., state tha: the snow ua tre
Merrs Nevada mountains on ihe line of
the Central Pacific railroad i, unprec?
dented. At ih • summit tL-rr_ i * ixtee-c
feet on a level.
TRADE REVIEW
DUNS A CO.'* STATEMENT OF THE CONDI
TIO-N OF THE PAST WEEKS TRADE.
R. G. Dunn A Co.'s review of trade fr.i
the week ending Jan. 4. says: The new
year opens with a most confident feeling
prevalent in all parts of the country', and
yet with some features which suggest
especial caution. The volume of business
in progress, though a little more curtailed
than is usual near the end of the year in
wholesale and jobbing lines, was nearly,
« not quite, the largest ever known in
holiday goods* and on the whole close to
the maximum . But in wvcral important
trades profits have not been commensu
rate with the magnitude have of caused transactions,
and slow collections many
failure.., with apprehensions of more in
the near future. The money markets are
strained at the east, close* at Chicago,
Cleveland and Detroit, and closer than
before at Kansas City and Omaha, but at
other w estern points fairly supplied. The
chief industries are, on the whole, unusu¬
ally prosperous. A fuller statement of
cotton mills’ dividends for 1889 indicate
that they were prices. larger than The in leather any previous trade
year of specie
has become hopeful and the consumption
of boots and shoes is prodigious, but over¬
production pushes prices too low for
healthy profits. The iron trade pauses at
this season. but prices are firm at previ
ous quotations and, though sales at an
advance arc scanty as yet, there is general
confidence that the demand will prove
equal even to the unprecedented supply.
The woolen business is still a cloud in the
sky. Stocks carried over at the chief
cities prove to be and 22,000,000 the pounds more
than a year ago, sales at Boston
for 1889 were 134,000,000 pounds against
166,000,000 pounds for the previous Produce year,
a decrease of nearly dull. 20 per cent.
markets have been Wheat has risen
half a cent, with sales of 8,500,000 bush¬
els, and oats as much, but com has de¬
clined three-eights with sales of nearly
8 , 000,000 bushels. Oil is an
eighth higher, but pork is half a dol¬
lar lower, and lard declines a shade.
Foreign trade continues heavy, exports
for five weeks at New York falling only
1.8 per cent, below those of the previous
year, which indicates excess of $20,000,
000 or more in exports over imports foi
Deeenrl >er.
Failures in 1889 numbered 10,8*2 in
the United States, or one in every ninety
seven firms, and 1,772 in Canada, or out
in every forty-five firms. In 1888, fail¬
ures were 10,679 in the United States, and
1,677 in Canada. Tire aggregative of lia
bilities was $148,784,337 in the United
Stutes, against 1123,829,973 in 1888, and
$14,773,223, in Canada, against $14,081.
But the average liabilities for each firm
failing was lower in Canada, $8,279 last
year against $7,396 in 1888, and the in
crease iu the United States, if an unfavor¬
able indication was still not commercial enough tc
denote an unhealthy state of
credits for the average in 1889, was but
$13,672 against 11,592 in 1888, $17,376
in 1837, and 20,632 in 1886. Failures
occurring throughout the country, during
last week, number for tire United States
291, Canada 31; 322 failures against 288
last week
AT THE CAPITAL.
WHAT THE FIFTY-FIRST ( OX
OR ESS ]S DOING.
APPOINTMENTS BY PRESIDENT lCAIlliDON
MEASURES OP NATIONAL IVIPol! 1 \Nl I
AND ITEMS OK UK NEK AT. INTEREST.
Congress re-assembled on Monday u'.tet ml
a recess of two weeks. Thtsmall at <
anee at “the meet" of the house, -h i-.vod
that the fashionable “la grippe’’ had eti
circled tho homes of many rta^^en.
I he spectators were, howc\er,
show. The great leaders on
were in their places, tvitli the
of Hon. Sam Randall, who is vet confined to
his home, but tvho will, perhaps, soon be
able to occupy his old seat again.
A bill was presented by Judge Stewart,
of Georgia, in which he requests the ex¬
ecutive department to change the extra¬
dition laws with great Britan, so ; at
persons charged and with grand larceny, em¬
bezzlement other crimes may be ex¬
tradited from Canada. Mr. Lester, of
Savannah, introduced one providing for
$100,000 public building at Brunswick.
Senator president John A. Ingalls, of Karas,
protein pore of the smite.
lias prepared s speech on lie
the race question. which
will deliver, perhaps, next Monday.
Air. Cariislie had a resolution pasted in
strm (ing the speaker to goto the home of
lion. Samuel J. Randall, and swear him
in as a member of the present house.
Also for Mr. Wilber, of New York, and
Air. AVhitthorne, of Tennessee, to take
the oath of office before the proper offi¬
cers at their homes. All three of the
gentlemen have been id since the present
congress met, and not having taken the
oath of office.
'1 he question, whether or not the
members of the house shall re-imhursc
themselves for the Sileott defalcation,will
come up during this week. The ma jority
of the investigation committee will bring
in a report proposing a deficiency appro¬
priation to re-imburse the members.
General Cuteheon, of Michigan, intro¬
duced a bill providing for a coast defense
sen ice in the coast state-. There is to be
one regiment for each state, to be ap¬
pointed by the governor from the state
militia. The bill fortified provides for annual within the en¬
campments at a post
state, where the regiments are to be
trained in the art of defense, firing mines,
guns, etc. The expenses arc to be borne
by the general government, and the regi¬
ment to be subject to the call of the fed
eial government.
In an opiuion rendered in the well
known Edeihoff customs case, the United
States supreme court holds that silk and
cotton ribbons, used exclusively as hat
trimmings, are dutiable at 20 per cent.
under the provisions iu the tariff act of
lss:1, for “trimmings for hats, bonnets
and hoods." and not nt 50 per cent.under
the provision for the materials of which
silk is a component of chief value, The
government will, by this decision, be
compelled importers to refund about $6,000,000 tc
Boston and in other Philadelphia, places. New Y ork,
Charles E. Pearce, of St. Louis, read a
statement before the Congressional com
mittee of way< and iu Washing*
ton. on Saturday, showing that the jute
„HUs in the country can manufaeiure
70,000.900 yards of cotton bagging, whilt
the total amount required bv a seven mil
| H ou bale crop i« but 45,000,090 yards,
having a surplus of 25^000,Quo yards.
DIED IN JAIL.
WILLIS GAYLORD. ONCF A PROMINENT
RAILROAD MAN. COMMITS SUICIDE.
Willis Gaylord, for years a heavy uia
nipulator of railroad securities and oriran
izer of railroad corporations, committee
suicide Friday the night, at prison. Philadelphia,
Pa., in a cell in county Hay
lord was put under arre-t on a warrant
issued on the 18th of November Last ■ m
suit in a— uinpait. involving a claim ol
$:-,(*.tax), the plaintiff bring Frederick A.
! Bay cock, of New York, with whom Gay
ord haddicvii interested iu New Orleans.
Baton Rouge and Vicksburg railroad
bonds. Babcock alleged trand ou Gay¬
lord's part. In the meantime Gaylord
had remained in custody. Saturday :..oru
ing was the time set for a hearing Cz th*
motion. Instead of going announced oa wita the
;’ase. Gavlords counsel th*
tragic death of the defendant, euu»inj
quite a sensation in the courtroom.
SOUTH KRX NOT IS.
-
/AT ERF S TIXG NEWS FROM A LI
rmxTs ix the south.
j
GENERAL PROGRESS AND OtCTRHENl K:
WHICH ARK HAPPENING BELOW MA
son’s and dixos’s line.
The nev.-paper men of Columbia, S.C.
have formed a press club.
A fire at Wilson. X. ( burned flu
stores of M. Harris & Co. and IV. Corbett.
Loss, $20,000: insurance. $19,000 on ilar
ris & Co's stock.
Ihe grand , secretary of , v North ,, tarohn ,, , ■
State- that there are in that stut :
13,000 Freemasons who are members oi
230 active lodge*.
The Time*-Democrat pronounces the
gravel roads of New Orleans a success
and lar preferable tried. to the shell roads wluct j
were first ;
There were 1 140 nc^ro Wilmington, cxodiLstcrs oil C.‘ * i |
special train that left N I
Thursday night, Thousands all save fifty will going u
Mississippi. Goldsboro more leave
at once.
‘
Kx-GovcrnorF.Dhugh Lee. of Virginia
kss
line will connect the ore beds of Yirginh ■
with the furnaces of Pittsburg, Pa.
The executive committee of Hollywood
cemetery, Richmond, \a„ haVe wntter
to 1'hoiceof Mrs. Jefferson Davis tendering her th*
any unoccupied section for of the
cemetery as a b urial place her lat<
husband. I
A large delegation of citizens of \Vak< j
countv, N. C., called on the governoi
Saturday and urged the commutation Parish, ol
the death sentence of Claude the
white man who is to be hanged next Fri¬
day.
telephone exchange leaving at Florence Ala., has :
gone to Canada, a small shortage
in his accounts. The company is pro
tected by an $1,800 bondm the American
Surety company. |
While four boys, between the ages ol
six Ihe and edge eight years, sandbank were playing iu uudei
of a Jackson,
i'enn., on Tuesday, the bank caved in
burying them under dead about ten extricated, feet ol
sand. They were when j
Conductor Frank Layton, of the Ala
bama knocked Great Southern train by railroad, was j
from his a water tank
and killed Friday night. He was leaning
out of the door of the caboose too far as
the train passed the water tank, and was
on the head.
The Dee Deming Grocery company, of
St. Louis, on Monday, confessed ' judg
ment in favor of Julius Wolf, of New
York, in $M8,000. Attachments were
also filed against the firm for small
amounts. Liabilities $242,009; asset
$ 202 , 000 .
Sales of new leaf tobacco in the Dan
ville, Yn., 8,437.442 market for pounds, the past increase three j
months was an
over the same pounds. period of the previous yeat
of 4.357,532 the Output mmiufa c
lured tobacco for year 1889 was
7.532,854 pounds, nil increase over the
previous year of 2,251,771 pounds.
A Birmingham, Ala., dispatch T. Karlish, says: I
s. AI. Adams, It. F. Kolb, J.
11. Harris, delegates to the recent alii
mice convention, huve issued an address j
In the alliances of Alabama, assuring
them that nothing in the resolution
adopted there, is intended to influcucc
their action as to party. The address
also urges democratic alliancemen to stand j
by the democratic party.
l’hc Okeleuokee swamp, of Georgia, i
!o be sold at what if will bring, and a
yet the best offer is said to be twelve and
i half cents ail acre. If no better comes
t will go at that. General 1* M. B.
of Georgia, is at Asheviile, N’e
t“ do A '
is to negotiate which the is sale of the
Jkefenokee swamp, to be sold
iy act of the legislature, and Asheville
nay be the residence of the purclicr.
Governor issued Fowle, death of North Carolina.
jn Monday warrants criminals: for tin
execution of the following Montgomery 1
Manly Pankey. colored, of
county, for the murder of Camdus Leak. !
bv shooting him with a shot gun; John 1
YVilson, of Yaney county, for the murder
Halford if John Edgeby* and R* I*. shooting Wells* of him; Rutherford Samuel 1
-omitv. for burglary. Ail these four men
ire to'be hanged February 7th.
A special from Birmingham, Ala., says j
A frightful accident, resulting in the [
death of two men and the injury of twen
Sy others, occurred Thursday morning or,
the Bricrfield, Blockton and Birmingham j
railroad, unfinished forty miles south of that city, j
An trestle, about two hundred
feet long, and from twenty-five to fifty
feet high, fell, carrying down with it j
twenty-three carpenters who were at work ;
ro the structure. Carl Clark and David i
f. Webb, two of the carpenters at work
an the trestle, were killed, and twenty :
others injured. There were numerous
broken injured legs, ribs and dio. arms, and several j :
if the may
1
FLORIDA S EXPOSITION
WILL orEN IN CHEAT SHAPE AT JACKSON¬ J
VILLE—TIIE SHOW BOOMING. I
The Sub-Tropie exposition will open at j j
Jacksonville Thursday with a grand pro¬
cession and trade display. The procession j
will be headed by Governor Fleming and
his staff and the highest dignitaries oi
Florida. The four days’ carnival begins
Friday, and magnificent preparations foi
it are now under way. Jacksonville will
appear in holiday attire. Beginning continuing with
the morning of the 9th. and
for two days—probably into the early
hours of Saturday morning—the city will
bc in holiday attire, round and of will festivity, present one lhc j
grand continuous Sub-Tropical opening day,
exercises of the
with their accompaning procession, trade
display, music, speeches and grand enter
iainment, will inaugurate the demonstra
tion. and this will be followed on Friday
by tho masque-carnival, pyrotechnic Sub-Tropic dis
plav and masque ball at the
building. The from presence all sections in this of procession -the state
ff masquers
will tend to greatly increase the interest
in it among all classes of spectators, and
Tacksonville will be proud to inarch en
■nasque with her sister cities and towns of
Florida.
A HOLOCAUST.
A LONDON -CHOOLnOt -E BURNED—TWENTY
S1X BOYS PERISH IN THE FLAMES.
A London dispatch school,in -a\ -: the Tlie district boys’
section of Papers' of
Forest Gate, in connection with White
Chanel and Popular Unions, took fire
Wednesday night, while the inmates were
asleep, and was burned, with terrible rc
suits, twenty-six of the boys, who were in
the upper stories, being suffocated before
liiey could be rescued. Fifty-eight other
boys were safely taken from the burning
building, of the amid terrible excitement. Two
matrons of the institution escaped
in safety by sliding down the water pipes.
Several of the boys escaped in the same
way. The superintendent of the school
rushed through the flames repeatedly and
brought out a number °f inmates. There
00 jH*rsoni5 in the institution. The
nre \vas starteaiiT the overheated stove.
ine female department, in which were
• JU f£'V* J ‘?. n V t touched. Tlie boys rc
ured in he highest spirits, having been
P ‘°T pr *1 a,t \® t th,J >ew Years f ete
on the niurrow. Xlit: ^cenc-s *•*-*“■ m tlie miin
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THE LABOR WORLD.
Pittsburg capitalists will erect new steel
works at a cost of $l,«M,0>-“.
Wages hare received a slight advance at
the Carnegie Steel Works at Pittsburg.
Employers of fifteen out of seventeen coal
mines in Colorado have shut down on account
of a strike.
The Erie Rail way Company has made a
satisfactory agreement with its employes,
and there will be no trouble.
Herr ErvPP. the great German gua
maker, has established a fund to aid his era
ployes :nbuilding their own homes.
The bridge builders in the United States
cannot put up bridges a- fa-: as they
promised, for want of iron and steel.
The workingmen | of Victoria, Australia,
about to rect a $35,000 monument in
honor of the triumph of the eight-hour day.
The Sailors'and Firemen's I’nion, recently issued
organised in New York citv. lias a
to 6hip owners ' he rM * ot
\\ BOR i s quiet, but not contented. While
iron and ,.i a k-rs are clearing $5 per ton
on Bessemer pig and steel blooms, the iron
k@rs would liko iiior^.
Thk Federaton of Labor ' ******i harea'fuU^ mem
te
joo membership by that time.
At the annual meeting of the National
be- *-*-—......- -
The largest industry in the Wyoming Val- 1000
'ey. Pennsylvania, employing more than
“ s tfwukSirrtl ha-!been pm'cht^o
by ' an English syndicate.
Thk fun;aCf , of the Chestnut Hill Iron
y re Company at Columbia. Perm , which
have been idle for three years, are being They re
oaired to be put in blast immediately. State.
kre among the largest furnaces in the
BURIED UNDER SNOW.
A SNOW SLIDE in which six women and
A BOY WERE KILLED.
^ ’’ ‘ST ’ Svs'riia^u'tatal and dcsrt'uc
tiv snow 8li de occurred there on Friday
, s ; x -women and a bov were
k j lled . tw0 other people may die and
several houses and a Catholic church were
wrecked. The slide swept with terrific
force down the valley, carrying every thing
ffi its path before it. Several people had
namw escapes fronr death, as the slide
came without the slightest warning. As
soon as possible after the slide, a numbei
of men began the work of digging out
the unfortunates who had been caught it:
it, and in few hours had taken out the
bodies of Airs. Rich, her two daughters
and a son; Miss Ryan, of Downieville,
and Airs. J. T. Mooney, with her daugh
ter, Miss Ethel Langton. The last two
named were stil breathing when removed
from the snow, but efforts at
proved unavailing. Search for others
still going on, and it is leared that
than is now known may have been swept out
of existence in the avalanche.
A DIVIDEND DECLARED
by thk directors ok tjik louisville
AND NASHVILLE RAILROAD
The directors of the Louisville and
Nashville company, at a meeting at New
York, on Monday, declared » semi-an
nual dividend of three per cent, on the
stock of that company. The statement
for six- mouths, ending December 31,
1889. shows: Gross earnings $9.904,933,
an increase of 81.397.6,5 over the covre
operating spending period of the preceding increase year;
of $553,643: expenses$5,646,219, earnings, $4,058,714, an
net an
increase of $844,055. Total income ap
plicable to dividends $1,810,303, an in
crease of $704,767. The amount charged
to the dividend just declared is $993,384,
leaving a surplus of operations of six
nionths of $817,419.
'PUZZLED THE DOCTORS.
A STRANGE DEATH, THE ( E OF WHICH
BAFFLED ALL THE TOH8.
A Charlotte, N. 0., dispatch of Batur
d »L f- V3 : The very strange and remark
al>ic death , oi Na‘ban Morgan, or ( a»>a
rous county, is now puzzling the m-'ucal
ratern.,y ot that section. ,dr._ f< r-ua
Irod been gradually declining in health
for Dvo years, but was afflicted with no
disease. He had been examined
th<: d^nT
Ron, and all of them laued to hn<l in anj
thlu ff organically wrong with his system,
Air. Morgan went to Baltimore last sum
tner, and was there examined by eminent
physicians, who also failed to find anything
whatever wrong with him. He took to
his bed in October, and gradually wasted
away until his death.
FEEDING THE HUNGRY
WICHITA, KANSAS, REMEMBERING 8UF
FERING FARMERS.
A train of eighteen ears left Wichita,
Kansas, Thursday night Morton, for the suffering Hodg
districts in Stevens, and
mar counties. The cars were loaded with
clothing and food. Reports recently re
ceived were to the effect that several
hundred persons arc suffering at present.
People at the end of the railroad at Lib
eral and vicinity were ready with wagons
to make an attempt to transport relief
from forty to seventy miles to where it is
needed. It is believed the weather may
get extremely cold and thus increase the
suffering,
A NEW TOWN.
A HEAVY SALE OF LIN'D IN PIEDMONT,
ALABAMA.
A dispatch from Piedmont, a new Ala
bama town, savs: The Piedmont Land
and Improvement company sold , me him
dred and twentv-five thousand dollars of
real estate on Monday, eastern capitalists
faking thirty thoiK-uid. A l--.uk of one
hundred thon-.-md dollars , ipita! v.a- or
ganized the -ame day: b'usim stock was all taken,
md it will go into at one*'. The
company ha- sold ! v > hundred and - cv
enty-fiv thousand dollars worth of prop
city iu thru, (lays. George O. Vnnch'-rbilt
and party, of New Jersey and Philadcl
phia. arc then',
A STRIKE ON HAND.
switchmen, krakemen and conductors
T0 HAVE A
On Saturday learned* night, at switchmen, Evansville, Ind.,
it was that the
and conductors on the Peoria, Deca
turand Evansville and Air-Line
part of the Mackay roads system, Merc idle,
out and those two are now -*
far as freight traffic is concerned. It
also rumored that the strike - id
to the Cincinnati. V* abash and
uid the recent purchase of tlie Mackay
and that should an attempt be made to
freight trains by other than the
force, men on connecting lineswill
to handle freight.
|-pg CHARTER FORFEITED,
\ COMPANY I.<)*]-> IT FRAN< lil^K
JOINING THK TUI T.
Judo* Walla* . in th* -upvi i.ir ourt
r-.m Frau* :sco. < >i . decided the <-a-e
the American Sugar commenced'bv Refinery
The acion v.,,- the
W mc tin* ago t« compel a forfeiture
, barter on account of the companv li
beoiue l. -.o, - * vh - . - : o '.
,^ ur[ t5ldt the tun.
» i * u > -
•a of California, and has, therefore,
felted i arporate franchise.
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C* U -l-j
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! AVENUE OF CEDARS.
A Wonderful Railroad That:
Leads From Tokio to Nikko.
Forty Miles of Trees. Imposing
in Their Grandeur.
: The Japauese, when they entombed,
Nikko Jvevasu one of their greatest
‘ ’ * "
, , . .
statesmen and heroes, the lounucr oi
the Tokugawa dynasty of military rul¬
ers, whose power enun to an end only
with the revolution of 1838 after last
; ing three centurie3, planted belter than
i 'key knew when they built an almost
j strai S llt road from Tokio t0 tho ,ac ' C:1
ground at Nikko, lined the greater dis -
^ either haod witU J)ine8 aa d
cedars, whose fragrant breath . , and , giant .
tops perfume mud shadow the path
Since then 30TT yeari have come and
gone ad lin ,T year by year ring growths, I
till now th^se forest giants guard the!
«*. «•
only added to then strength,
avenue of cedars teiches almost forty I
miles of the way from Tokio to Nikko. j
1 , haye * seeu ®. RVeal , cs of oa!c at Windsor i
and Buckingham , maybe . two roues or or |
overlong; but think of il! a roadway,
graded level, about twenty feet wide,
curbed at both sides, with living water
running, and with steeply-sloping
banks from six to twelve feet high, and
upon these in an endlesr procession the
1 wonder if the
world eU,owhcre C ' lU “ atch “*
Noble trees impress most people;
with me, never before had I felt the
di „ uit tho maje3 J t y , that trees like
these could give as an expression of
j human emotion. The desire which the
descendants aad successors of tho great
r : \ uhaJ t0 embody in a fitting way
ll for his—to them god- ,
'e:r reverence
like powers could not possibly have
d Pp'.nyed iu a grander nnnu r
i than is to-day in this wonderful
seen
aven uo of cedars. They stretch along
mile after mile, sometime! only singly
in a , tra i 2 ht line close together, the
*
« ”
other, and then they stretch out in
couples and Ir plots. Often twin trees
seem to spring from one base. No¬
where is there absoluteness of straight
) line, but everywhere that delightful un
[ balanced symmetry pecu iir to Japanese
I art and which Nature only teaches,
The cedars vary iu diameter from two
j feet to six feet. Tin bark is reddish,
j thin and close sot in ra'her narrow
parallel strips. The trunks are straight
and uniformly round, reaching 50 to 75
i foot m height before branching . much, ,
and reaching an altitude of 134 to 180
! : j |ic ' , The branches are not largo in
propoitioa . t , . , .
i- ■ •> •
stand do<e together, interlacing their
j shade.
AYe entered this avenue from the
j railway station, Utsu-uo-miya, at about
j 3 o’clock in the afternoon, having ar
ranged for jin-riki-shas and extra mm
, to pull us all the way to Nikko, e.\
! peering to reach there before dark, but
j it was nine Japanese ri, equal to about
‘ 23 English miles, and a moderate up¬
grade all the way, and it was 9 o’clock
| at night before and imposing wc reached indeed Nikko. the
feolcmu was
ghadowed way during the afternoon
-
hours and si.oit twilight twin„ht, but out doubly uoun y
■ | solemn as night sott.ed down and uoth
cou ! d be d stinguished. The jin
riki-shamen seemed to foci their way
wita . their .. feet; a paper lantern . w.tli . , a
tallow candle lighted the space that a
I firefly would, The banks of the road
j way were quite above our heads, but
j after another could the great
one we see
trunks of the cedars leading up till lost
in the upper darkness. Every now and 1
then the “rfky’’ men would startle us )
| by “Ila,” then “Sh, ” “S rya,” the
expression of warning, and then some ;
gray ghost of a belated traveler
j ; would silently slide by. Then we would
see glimmering lanterns ahead and
i long stretches of pack-horsei loaded
w ;th charcoal, bale 1 rice and bamboo
poles would go noisily by. There was I
; no wind, no insect sounds, At inter - j
j va ; 5 0 f two or three miles we would
come to a large village built on either
side of the road, at which point the av
. enue of cedars ceases, only to commence i
eolidly and uniaterruptelly again at |
i the end of the village street
At Nikko the avenue practically cids
* and there the largest and oldest of the
cedars group themselves in foreit-lik.
masses arou d tlie great Shogun’s t< mb.
.
—ICtrcn I ret l/,*c
A New-Found Organ of S<‘ii-e.
During the last few years cert ait
physiologists have been working out a
curious puzz’e, and have found that a
remarkable organ—-existing not only in
man hut in all mammals and in birds
and most fishes—is the seat of a special j
sense. This organ is a membrane of I
the head, lodged in a bony labyrinth
- consisting of a rc-tibule and thr<e3cm -
circular canals and continuous with the
j cavity containing the hearing apparatus.
The organ was loDg supposed to play
1 i some part in the perception of sound,
j but it has now been demonstrated that
j its function is to show us both rotation-1 the di- |
j | rection and ihe amount of all
performed by the heal or by head and
body together.
Ohio's Largest Earle,
'
,s L *.< -'V- i
•“ ■ a ago a *ut,
-
was seen perched in a tree overlooking
the biru-yard of James Eib at R jminc't
Mills Ohio. Walter, a 12 year-old son
( of Mr. E:b, succeeded in getting a shot
at the bird with a squirrel gun. The
shot k:licd the eagle, which was found
to lie seven feet six inches from tip tc
tip of its Wing s . This is the largest
gtay eagle ever ki ted or seen in tha'
1 art of the state. — Cincinnati E tonirer.
Much Missed.
. >LiU'- people down ;o the steamer tc
'
' sea you off, Dum’cy *
j “Yes.”
“Mostly relatives, I suppose! r*
I »o; t.v.ioi-. —B .zas.
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