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J, D. STOKES, Proprietor,
T. P. CARNES, Editor.
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EASTMAN, GEORGIA.
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ANOTED ALLIGATOR.
He Likes to Be Shot At and Is Al¬
ways On Hand.
Boh of Dunn’s creek, in the best known
to rivermen nn.l tourists of any alligu
tor m F Ion.h, sin-saw nter in the Ht
Louts Globe Democrat He ■ ,* one ot
the large*i saununH m tlu* ntate, being
14 feet and 0 inches in length, while*
the largest alligator on the St. .Tulin’s
river of which unv reliable account can
be had is hut 16 feet in length. Dunn’s
creek, Bob’s home, is one of tint most
beautiful of Florida streams. ft is
twenty-two mites in length and is very
deep, lake into being the St. the John’s nutlet river. from Orescent It is
a
very crooked stream, and is so narrow
Hint in places the boat will scrape the
banks. Jt is lined with evergreens,
which meet overhead, forming a leafy
bower that is delightful to the lover of
the picturesque. 'The windings are very
difficult; abrupt at The times and navigation is
Bright steamer Georgia, only ('apt.
commanding, is the 1>< at
now plying its waters. In one of the
shortest of the many hi nds in Dunn’s
creek Bob lias had his home for many
years, always lying on the same log,
and so close to the log that passengers
can reach him with an oar. Alligators
usually become frightend and roll off
from the logs into the water at the :»J>
preach of a boat, but Boh is used - to it,
and appears to wait fur the boat to
come. Every day for ten years lie lias
been seen on the same log, and as the
boat approaches lie slightly 7 turns Iris
head, iis though lie were waiting for the
passengers to begin to shoot at him,
which they invariably do. After
he is tired of this amusement
he dives into the water, to
again reappear when the boat re¬
turns. He lias been shot every (lav dur¬
ing the lust decade, but lie never tires
of it, and no one lias ever succeiled in
flitting him in a vulnerable place. He
seems to understand that he is there to
act as a target for the marksmen and
throws his throat close against the log
and turns his head so that the bullets
cannot strike liis eyes. He then knows
that he is safe. The log on which Bob
.suns himself lias been measured a num¬
ber of times, and its length is therefore
well known. During t-lie ten years since
he first began to become famous he has
grown two feet.
the Capt. Bright stated liis that location he believed if Boh
piolet would miss certain landmark,
was to die. He is a
end passengers who are acquainted with
the stream will ask: “How many miles
are we from Boh 7 ” in order to ascertain
their whereabouts.
The Jog on which lie lies bus become
known us Bob’s log, and some facetious
passengers have made up positions to
have a post-office established there and
Boh appointed ns postmaster, giving
him ns a surnmne that of the Ilian after
whom the creek is called. Several pe¬
titions, it is said, have been pit pared,
but so far as heard from none have been
presented to the department; hut if
“Boll’s Landing, Bob Dunn, postmas¬
ter,” is ever put in the “Postal < itudo”
it can be known that no one lives there
and the postmaster is a lingo ’gator.
Bob’s homo is the half-way point John’s be¬
tween Crescent lake and St.
river, and visitors to Florida should not
fail to see him. (Apt. Bright states
that if they ever run short of ammuni¬
tion they will catch Bob and take the
bullets out of his back, where be imbedded. enough
to stock a small store must
Bob is not a myth. He can be seen by
any passenger who will go up Dunn’s
creek, and hundreds of tourists will
testify ns to his existence and character¬
istics.
ABOUT CAMELS.
Their Efficiency as Transports—
Their Food and Humps.
A burden-camel, writes a correspond
ent, can carry more than half a ton of
load, though, of course, not at great
speed. 1 have frequently 1,600 pounds seen them and
loaded with 1,500 or
load^mider favorab’le^eirennDitonce’s^is
about 600 pounds, and this a camel will
carry easily, without pushing, tw.ntv- *
five or thirty miles a dav.
Colonel McMindo told Major Wavno
that in General Napier’s campaign
against Sin<i<* they Tiad an efficient
corps of 1,000 men mounted cm 000
dromedaries two men to ea di drome
riary, b >th armed with rifles and sabers,
Iu battle the animals were made to
kneel in a squate, under the charge of
• r >00 of the men, forming a base of opera
tions, from which the other 500 operated
as infantry.
in ease of extremity tho thousand
men could find shelter behind (tie
animals, which were prevented from
rising This hv a hobble on the foie leg.
Corps frequently marched seventy
miles in twelve 1,oars. I have heard
some remarkable tales of the speed of
dromedaries An Arab told me he had
traveled 7,00 miles in a week on Iris
delool, but this was simply an oxsimpla
of the oriental habit of amplification,
All, what lia s they are in the East! It
is true, however, that while a horse can
outrun a dromedary in a short rare, the
latter will take a had of 400 or 500
pounds and moke liis fifty miles a day
i’ov a month.
An odd tiling in camel driving is that
they must not be pushed. They will
set their ow n gait, moving slowly where
the road is unfavorable, and making up
lost time of their own violitxon on tho
good stieteln s. The camel has one
groat adxantage over a horse. He can
live on auv thing, like a g( at. tie
browses on every shrub and plant that
grows, even the thistle and the prickly
pear. He can also travel, in cm. rg.o .Ws, ev.
thiee, four, exon six or sexen
without water or food. It i- his uglv
looking hump that enables him to
tins. Compos *d of gelatinous fat. the
animal liv. s off it hv re-absorption. In
tie East, tli ■ condition of a <ame after a
long journey is judged ^ bv the size of his !
hump.
It is not line (mnion to see the camels
.om ’in, after 1. ng and j ainful journey,.
having with oacks aWsti a ght, their humjw much
uearlv ilu appeared. I was
sin-prised t i leain that the hump d. os
not S‘vm to b» intimatelv conne t-d
with the animal’s vitality. I ina.it Pev
told me ho lmd often opened the hnnq s i
when thev :.' bec.me so large ’h'- from high
f Vihng s to prevent saddle from
fitting properly, anil tluu taken out i
laig ■ p ejes of a* without injuring the
annual , r affix t > g his health. It is ;
gen rally supposed, too, that the camel I
thrives 1 eMei ui hot tba i in cold conn
tries, hut this is not true. I s e no iei
s u whv the can.el should not do well :
• u 1 b x n i etui in the elima e ot i
Tex: s and on ait ot onv South-ve-tern
plains.
Both Modest ami Businesslike.
MnJbM V Pans mmer recent tuidii lv offered an em'. hi j
(or hi. .utc
alter getting a . he. k for the amount sent
on h;s autobiography, which was as tol
Iowa.. -I wa« bore at Lyons m 18o9.
-nd since that time I can recall nothing
of any account, except that I have not
been killed in any of the uprisings.”
Cl HHEM NEWS.
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COSHES'-EH FROM THE TELE¬
GRAPH ASH (ABLE.
FROM DAY TO DAY 1
THINGS THAT HAPPEN
THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, CULLED
FROM V ARIOLA SOURCES.
A fir on the barge, George Kent, in
New York harbor, Thursday, destroyed
t3,0<)0 worth of cotton.
M. T. t^uimby A Co., of Boston, man
tifaeturing jewelers, have failed, The
house was one of the largest in its line.
A pile of timber toppled over on tour
workmen iu Chicago, Ill., on Thursday,
and John Thompson and Andrew John
son were crushed to death,
]lmi „„I.V g.Jh t ,, n mon ths the import*
,f w l amounted in value t-
4 ^ 7 . l.iT 4 *?f eminst *44.010.890 during
the liiuic months .>1 1889.
\ Providers ©. It 1 . dispatch hours, to tut
OM*. says that in-icie of five on
Thursday. twenty-one death- were re
ported from grippe and pneumonia
Pataka river. Indiana, has risen at an
alarming rate during the la-t few days,
A trail of country twenty miles long by
three to four miles wide, i* inundated.
A telegram from Victoria mines, neat
Trinidad. Col., -ay* that a cave-in oc
urreil in that mine Wednesday morning,
awl that five men were buried.
Seven great flour mills, at Milwaukee.
\Vis formed a combination Thursday,
with #5,(100.006 capital, and an annual
output of nearly a million and a half bar
"cIh uf flour.
Judge W. S. Chisholm, of the S. F. A
\V. road, is critically ill in New York.
He w;is attacked with the “grip, and it
lias assumed a more violent form, going
into pneumonia.
While engaged in leading a raid on a
nihilist club, in Moscow. Russia. Solufu
chiue, chief of the secret pi lice, was shot
by a woman named OlgaC'harenko. The
woman then committed suicide.
An official decree has been promul¬
gated in Brazil proclaiming the separa¬
tion of church and state, guaranteeing and
religious liberty and equality; granted by con- the
tin ties flic life stipends
monarchy.
Bids were opened at the treasury de¬
partment for -tone and brick work on the
superstructure of the postoffice at Charles¬
ton, S. on Wednesday, the lowest
being that of 1). A. J. Sullivan, o'
Charleston.
Dispatches from Zanzibar state there is
much excitement and conjecture there
liver the constant arrivals of British men
of-war. . The British fleet now in those
waters is said to be the largest ever as¬
sembled.
On Thursday morning Indianapolis, tire was Ind., discov¬ hom¬
ered in the West
iny mills, and iu an hour the immense
building, which covers a quarter of an
acre, was iu ruins The loss is #75,000.
The mill xvas one of the finest mid largest
in the country.
At Johnstown, Pa., three more bodies
were recovered on Friday, victims of the
great flood, two men and one woman.
One of them was identified by the cloth¬
ing as a German named Yocglitley. decomposed that Tin
other two were so badly
they could not lie identified.
It is stated that the ste< l trade of this
country is to be revolutionized by a
new I irocess for making open
hearth steel asi cheap or cheaper than
Bessemer steel. A test was made a few
days ago at Pittsburg, Pa., which WHS
airly satisfactory to those interested.
A Ixnidon dispatch says: A ship laden
with petroleum at Sunderland took tire
Wednesday, and burning oil floating on
the tideway set tire to three other ships.
Great damage was done before the con¬
flagration could he checked, aud one tire
man was drowned while fighting the
flames.
The grip is spreading rapidly amirag
railroad employes at Galesburg, 111. On
Thursday, the'Chicago, Burlington train and
Quincy officials reported forty-two
nun ill with the disease. All of the
:raiumaster’s force are unable to work.
There are very few eases elsewhere in t«
l)r. Beall, a physician of Washington,
D. (., wa< arrested about two weeks ago,
' vith ~ l,bin * »8 r “X e m ‘ f 7?'
*rossional cemetery. On 5\ eiluesauy 1 In 1 -
.-asc came up in the police court, and the
loetor was convicted. He was sentenced
o six months' imprisonment in jail, and
•equired to pay a tine of $400.
^ horM8 were shipped in a ca.
*»•> 7 to Newark, N. J.. hursday, ^nsyiva- and
« the■ ear was opened l nday ^ ouml morning, ffo
' ,h ? hor 7 T' re s “. ’
only , three ot them being alive,
I hey had been shipped in an ordinary
Iryight ear, >vnu the h\eV. ot \ ent nation
killed them.
The board of health of Boston. Mass.,
lip to noon Saturday had received reports
of 436 deaths for the week, the largest
number ever recorded in that city in seven
j aV s. Diseases of the respiratory jess organs
|,. n terribly effective. No than
were from pneumonia, eightv-two
from consumption, thirty-two from bron
; . hitk and fourteen from influenza,
,, 1,1 , . 7® , ,, 1>7 . , ><'" v
S P‘ H ' R week ’ ending batonlay
v ' *rk <»«Fmg the which
mummedGo $o43. .*1. of *6 L . 34
in gold >»/'*>'}• and .pv.L, c40_ in silver, went to
Europe, and $.>4.,8h in gold anu #1.4*9
111 s *J ver America. Import> ot
specie for the week amounted to $63,89'!.
6 which $ >..334 was in gold, and $6 590
in silver.
In the libel suit brought by Mr. Parnell
against the London Timer, the court has
refused the Times' appeal against ansxvcr
ing an interrogatory regarding its circu
| nt j on !lt the time of the publication ot
the articles on “Parnellism and Crime.'
n „, ( . our , i, ()WCV er. allowed an appeal oi
th< rimes against disclosing it the names ot
1)nl ties from xvhoin received the infer
raHt ; ou 0 n which fhe articles were based
\ hat He of two hour.* duration took
place off Annapolis Hd.. Niturday . . morn
'“K Damx ‘’‘7' Archer k Mate » Plnpps the poll..
com.
‘'V’ml.ng, and dredging vessel \, r -
Lawrence. Captain John Lifts.
Both cannon aud rifles wen. 7 used The
vessel wwx illegn ly < redgmg on lln.mas
l ° lnl wh( ' 11 sl f? hted b - v the Archer ' " h,d ‘
chased her several milis before capturing
her.
Th e unoreriedentedlv low stage of water
; n t h e river at Burlington. It., is the
won(ier aB(1 cWe f topic among the people
»i ong the Mississippi. At that point it k
^theri^v = inches lower than it has been dur
™ Aw white falling people
,7 ,i,,V h ^ .* niw^of and it is still
{ * s [ Tt, The suction , p^w ot th-* th. wMerwoiki t
to be sunk Thut «> ’ 1 „
l,mn S- off of the *»«<*•
A special from Topeka says: M. L.
Egleston. the Topeka man. xxho is en
deavoring to induce the negroes of South
Carolina to emigrate to Oklahoma, h
iln irix succeeded in sending 800 uegroe 7
there. They are mostlvfr.>mTojek c and
have left during the lmsi six months.
They have established » colony neai ud
Kingfisher, and m. opening farm
building houses.
A fast mail on the Union Pacific rose
was wrecked near >idney. Neb., early
i’hursdav morning bv a broken rail. Tw*
»*j‘ • »"•*«'■ q 1 - »«•' V 1 ;””"
^ 11a l,. ,^ n = J e rs managed to *c: out of tin
4 .4 j„ heir aight .loti.-. son . ot
llu XV e re bruised, but none -.-rum-h
hurt q* be keepers were b-.dlv burnett
Bag-agemaster Dobbins was seViou-'v ia
jured.
A dispatch from Madison. S. I).. o
Saturday, says: The hank of South Da
kota has assigned to NV. W. Daly. Tin
assets are claimed to be $150.000: liahili
lies unknown. The assignee is tag.-ige*
iu looking over the Us.k—which are ii
hud sliajx:—learning how the concert
does stand. The assignment of the bunk
forced the Labelle Handle Horse Imjiort
ing company to assign, as the ranche am
hank were closely connected. George L.
Wright, late secretary and treasurer, i
assignee. The rancho's assets are atiout
#150,000, mostly, iu land and horses.
AT TUI- CAPITAL
WHAT THE FIFTY-FIRST COS
GRE<S IS DO I SO.
APPOINTMENTS BY PRESIDENT HARRISON—
MEASURED OF NATIONAL IMPORTANCE
AND ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.
The death of Representative the house Kelly, the ot
Pennsylvania, removes from contin¬
m«u who has served the longest
uous term, and was therefore known as
“the father of the house." Judge Kelly
has for many years sworn iu the speaker
Of each new Congress. That duty now
will fall upon Samuel J. Randall, who
will now be known as the father of the
house. Vice-President Morton has ap
pointed Senators Shcrinau, Cameron,
Mandersou, Butler anil Colquitt to the repre¬
sent the senate at the funeral of late
Representative Kelley.
Long before the hour of noon on Sat
turday, the galleries anxious of the house do honor were
filled with spectators to
to the memory of Judge Wm. I). Kelly,
who hail for many years been a prominent
member of that body. A few moments
before the house was called to order, the
members of the senate, without formal
announcement, entered the. chamber and
quickly took seats in the body of the hall.
V sable-covered bier stood iu front of the
clerk’s desk and a handsome floral tribute
was placed near by. At 12:10 the offi
atiug clergymen. Drs. Butler and Cuth
bert, entered the hall, reading the begin¬
ning of the burial service. They were
followed by the committees of the senate
and house, having charge of the ceremo¬
nies, and then amid a solemn hush, the
magnificent casket containing the remains
of Judge Kelly was placed on the bier.
The burial service was rend by Dr. But¬
ler, and prayer was offered by Dr. Cuth
bert. A benediction was delivered by
Dr. Cuthbert, and then slowly and sadly
the committees escorted the remains of
Hon. William I). Kelley from the cham¬
ber which had known him so long and so
well. The senators, headed by the vice
president, why had occupied having a seat left to the the
r ight of the speaker, ngham,
liamber, on motion of Mr. Bi of
Pennsylvania, the house, as an additional
remark of respect to the memory of the
deceased, adjourned.
notfs ‘
I he discussion of the worlds , ,, tan ... , bill
,y the house .committee on foreign affairs
lms resulted m bringing forward a prop;.
sition which it is suggested mav aid m
the election of a site* lor the fair hv the
house. The committee has already tie
'
eided that it, will report a bill leaving
blank the name of the city where the fair
shall beheld, but it is feared that if it
goes into the house in that shape and
without some arrangement iu advance to
govern the method of selection of a site,
no agreement can ever he reached.
The senate committee to select the site
for the quadro-eentonnial exposition,
on Friday, listened to the claims
of Washington city to be selected.
us presented by District-Commissioner Anderson,
Douglas: Secretary of
the national Americas board of promotion
of the three exposition: geologic Major
Powell, chief of the of'WgjBtaj survey:
Myron M. Parker, president
ton board of trade, and
Angus, of the Baltimore Anietinin. “ * >
Alexander I>. Wcddleburn, of Alcxan
dria, Va.. appeared before Saturday, the ways and
means committee, on as repre
seutative of the legislative committee of
the national grange anil farmers of the
Virginia slate grange to demand equal
protection of farm, with iron and wool
manufacturers. He said that in his opiu
ion protection protected manufacturers,
and enabled them to form combinations
and trusts, to take money out of the far
mers'pocket. but the grange recognized
that the country had declared for pro
teetion, and lie was not there to advocate
free trade. He was for equal legislation,
and the protection did of farmers think by the means o(
bounties, lie not present
system tin' of taxation protected pins. laborers to
value of a ‘tow of
AGAINST TOBACCO TRUSTS
THE GROWERS OF VIRGINIA XNI) NORTH
CAROt.lNA MEET IX CONVENTION.
The Fanners’ Alliance is justly proud
of its defeat of the jute bagging trust and
it lias begun cigarette an active tobacco. campaign Delegates against
the trust on
from the twenty-rive counties of Virginia
3 ml North Carolina which grow bright
tobacco met Thursday morning at Oxford,
X. C., to attend xvliat was officially
•ailed by the alliance an anti-cigarette
trust convention. The convention is a
strong body 7 . Captain Williamson, chosen chair¬ of
Caswell county. N. ('., xvas
man. The convention at once took up
the subject of the trust, and
agreed to receive representatives of
all the great cigarette appeared manufacturers
in the country. There repre¬
sentatives of Duke& Sons. Allen & Ginter,
King and Goodwin, who made statements
:o the convention. A committee xvas
ippointed to consider these statements,
ind report. Intense interest is mani¬
fested by every tobacco groxver in this
ight against the hated trusts. This in
erest is felt by all, whether alliancemen
or not.
A ST. LOUIS BLAZE.
ELECTRIC AND TELEGRAPH WIRES ARB
CROSSED, WITH DISASTROUS RESULTS.
A St Louis dispatch says: Shortly
before , o clock Wednesday morning a
fire started m the basement of the
Western Union telegraph building,
corner of Olive and Third streets
and was completely gutted. The cause ot
firc W8S il ^graph wire leading tc
, oasement of the building becoming
Many operators V lt \ a brok made N n then f 1(1 . < tnc escape. "'ire.
in .addition to the 5 estern U nion the
S^D-dlf hnrii. 7
Lxinrer u i aicue company. m ,nv I Uratllex, v I imt
°® cc 7 ' ro11 All ‘:TO the n i'7l 5\ m e. ] tern or t cion two othei wires
7
were burned out, but active efforts
are being made to restore com
mumcation. I hey are receiving message*
at East St. Louis. The tire started in the
basement and spreading upxvard so
quickly that all the inmates of the opera¬
ting room had to fly for their lives and
many of them had narrow escapes.
RAIN AND SNOW.
DISASTROUS FLOODS THROUGHOUT (EN . K.xl,
ILLINOIS CAUSED BY RAIN AND SNOW.
A dispatch from Mouticeilo, 111., says:
wain has .alien almost incessantly here
throughout central Illinois since
£m£
The heavy ram lms overflowed the Ba-r
gmuon river, and the bottom lands are all
submerged. At Decatur it during the river is two
feet higher than was the b ; .
flood of last summer. All the wnsH
streams arc overflowed.
SOUTHERN’ NOTES.
1STEREETISO SEWS FROM ALL
POINTS IS THE SOUTH.
GENERAL PROGRESS ANll OCCURRENCES
which are happening below ma¬
son's and dixon's line.
Wni. Muldoon, Sullivan’s trainer, gave
#200 bonds to appear on Governor Low¬
ry's requisition.
The contract for the -tone anil brick
w .rk on the postoffice building at Charles¬
ton, 8. C., has been awarded.
The American fish company of Florida
have made arrangements for making Mi*
con. Gn., their distributing point for the
South.
The That*- Ikmorrtil pronounces the
gravel roads of New Orleans a success,
and far | referable to the shell roads which
were first tried.
Dr. I.ehardy is preparing an exhaustive
report on the condition existing at the city
quarantine station at Savannah. Ga.. and
wilt propose several remedies that he be¬
lieves will be effectual in removing what¬
ever difficulties may at present exist.
exchange, A banquet was Richmond. given by the real estate Wed¬
of Va., on
nesday to Hinton Helper, correspondent
of the New York Sun. Several speeches
were the made in regard to the progress of
smith.
The summer temperature at Lexington.
Y.i., for two months, has put cherry,
peach and apple trees in full bloom, aud
lilies, roses and other flowers are bloom¬
ing. The temperature on Saturday was
in the seventies.
While four boys, between the ages of
six and eight years, were playing under
the edge of a sand bank in Jackson.
Teun., on Tuesday, the bank caved in.,
burying them under about ten extricated. feet of
sand. They were dead when
- Conductor Frank Layton, of the Ala¬
bama Great Southern railroad, was
knocked from his train by a water tank
and killed Friday night. He was leaning
out of the door of the caboose too far at
the train passed the water tank, and was
on the head.
Cardinal Gibbons was taken on tin ex¬
cursion around the harbor at Charleston,
S. ('., on Saturday morning, and at night
dined at the residence of 11. O'Neil, where
a reception was held. The ceremony of
laying the cornerstone of the new cathe¬
dral took place Sunday.
The stables belonging to Macy Bros, of
Versailles, Ky., burned Saturday morn¬
ing, destroying thirty-live out of thirty
eight horses. Among those burned was
the horse Bell Boy, that was sold at auc¬
tion hv Jefferson & Sayman to J. J. Clark
for $51,000. It is said that Clark had re¬
fused $100,000 for her.
The law class of Washington and which Lie
university, of Lexington, Va., of is
Hon. J. Randolph Tucker, L. L. J)., final
professor, ' organized Saturday for its
t . t q ebration elect i n ,, ? j. T . Xoel. of Hieh
m , m(1 j,, ln(1 Prauk Blair. of
Kll xvil • orRt()1 Th( twentv-one
„ , .„, are
mostlv from the south,
^‘'ssivnippi ..... senate, al
m session
Ta, ; ks " u - Siturday, suspended the rules
,n< passed a bill creating' a new county,
" "' called ".Jeff. Davis comity. It is
k - he composed ot parts of Sunflower, Bol
war aud Ualioma counties, with Cleve
'l'" 1 - 011 the Louisville, New Orleans and
Jcxas railway, foi the count\ *it<\
A preamble and resolutions were
adopted m that the the Virginia legislature General set
Img forth monument to
Bobert L. Lee is have nearing completion, been raised that
ufficiem funds not to
pay for the same and calling upon citizens
fhe -‘-fate to take measures in even
county to raise the necessary amount. It
is understood that about $«.000 will be
^ 0 tired for that purpose,
nutor'Williamson offered a bill iu the
barter sippi senate Saturday to amend the
of Jackson in several minor mat
tors, but the feature of general interest is
that it proposed to restrict the right to
v '°h' lor mayor and other officers
•' those who eon read and write,
11 who own live hundred dollars
''orlh of taxable property, The bill will
probably pass. and will be the first at
empt to abridge suffrage in the state,
Mr. M. K. Born, a member of the state
executive committee of the Farmers’ Ai¬
liauee, at Raleigh, X. ('..was questioned
Thursday in regard to the effect of the
negro exodus. He says 50 per rent of
the negroes in Lanier county have "ex
odusted" and that by March probably
75 per cent, will have gone, While
some of the large farmers are op¬
posed to this departure of the ne¬
gro labor, the poorer classes of white
people xfant all the negroes to leave. It
is a deep seated belief that such a separa¬
tion will prevent race troubles.
THE MONTANA MUDDLE,
tUB legislative deadlock still in
FORCE IN THE iroUSF. AND SENATE.
Messrs. Du Saturday Sanders at Helena, Mont ma,
aud Powers, who were
elected United States seuators by the re¬
publican house and senate, made formal
application to Governor Toole for eertifi
catns of (flection, The reque-t w-as de¬
nied on the ground that their election was
illegal, and because <>f t ie fact that Gov¬
ernor Toole had already given certificates
of elections to Messrs. Clark and Ma
ginnes, elected by the democrats The
legislative deadlock continuis in full
force, and the republicans have decided
to break it so far as the senate is con¬
cerned by unseating Mr. McNamara,
democrat, xvlio is ineligible because of his
being a federal official. This will give
the republicans full and free control of
fhe senate.
A LOCK OUT.
NIXE LARGE SHOE MANUFACTORIES IN
HAVERHILL, MASS., SHUT DOWN.
Through some trouble with the Slioe
maker’s Union, a lockout occurred Satur¬
day at niue large shoe factories at Haver¬
hill, Mass. In at least five of these fac¬
tories the employes were receiving good
wages and were contented, nor was there
any anticipated trouble with the union.
Tlie factories were running along
smoothly, and there was no apparent rea¬
son for closing. Three thousand persons
.hut out are mostly first-class men. The
loss will fall heavily upon the manufactu¬
rers as well as on the xvorkmcn.
THE GAME FLUSHED.
XX (MATEl H RENTER FIRES INTO A CROWD
OF CHILDREN WITH FATAL EFFECT.
In Marion county, s. Saturday
tfternoon, a crowd of colored children
were returning from school, when they
overtook a negro bov named McLaurin.
who had been out hunting, Several of
the children began “guying" McLaurin
because he had failed to secure any game.
I hi. angered the hoy. who suddenly and
wirhout x\.lining raised his gun. shot int'
the crowd of children, killing one and
severely McLaurin w ounding four others, one fatally.
f„ his xvas jailed, anc expresses no
regret r terrible deed.
bank statement.
I to- tuU'jyiug i- tie weekly statement
’ 1 associated banks lot the week end
ic a Saturday January llth
cfejcive lnereaie. iu iis. ;oc
1- nil,- iacmase. . . 6 q 7,T0C
apfcoie mcree.su...... ..... 3,255.2®
tend -rg iu iea-M.. ... 3 aSJ.loO
Cir; Dapoaitti iiKittse....... 5,102 40f
olation ilicreaae.... ..... 4.9 A
the Banks now hoid $4,015,700 in esevvyot
25 cvr cent. ruU
TRADE TOPICS
CONDITION OF BUSINESS Volt THE WEEK
, ENDED JANUARY 11. BY DUN A CO.
- H. G. Dun A Co.'s weekly review oi
trade says; An easier money market and
colder weather has helped business some,
but it cannot lx- denied that the opening little
trade of the year has thus far heeu a
disappointing for the widely responsible, prevalent
sickness is, to some extent,
as it interrupts the operations and of buyers
and sellers in every direction lessens
the retail trade, except in drugs.
COTTON EXPORTS
have been remarkably heavy for tliret
months, and are now falling behind last
year's change, which is natural and must
be expected to continue. The movement
of wheat lias not been large iu December,
with prices comparatively low. and can
hardly be expected to increase much still with
higher prices. The iron trade occasionally is in
doubt. Moderate lots are
offered below current quotations, while in
bar iron the feeling is less confident of
late. Undoubtedly the enormous build¬
ing last year sustained the iron trade. Al
New York and Brooklyn the value ot
new buildings was #95.000,000 against
#70,000.000 in 1SNN, and in Philadelphia
the number was 0,405, against 7,675 in
lass, but construction at such a rate can-,
not be expected to eontinue. The coal
trade remains dull and affects the prices of
stocks, though the average for active
stocks is about 50 cents per share higher
than a week ago. But sugar trust stocks
have been pushed down to about 50. not¬
withstanding higher prices for throughout raw sugar.
Business failures occurring
the country during last week numlx-v- for
the United States ;!;14, Canada 09: total,
370 failures, against 322 last week.
FALLING WALLS.
SEVERAL PEOPLE KILLED AND A NUM¬
BER OF OTHERS SERIOUSLY INJURED.
An appalling disaster occurred in
Brooklyn, N. V., Thursday morning.
The heavy winds of the night before
shook the new Presbyterian foundation, church aud iff 29(1
Throop avenue to its at
4.30 Thursday morning, one of the walls
fell with a crash on a three-story frame
building adjoining, and brought with it
death and destruction. The ruined
building xvas tenanted by the Mott aud
Purdy families. The following is a list of
those reported dead: David Purdy, aged
fourteen: Caroline Purdy, aged sixteen;
May Purdy, aged eighteen; Mrs. Caroline
Mott, aged seventy-five; Sarah Mott,
aged Purdy,'aged fortv-live. The injured are: Emma aged
j forty; Robert Poole,
thirty-six, nnd others who received only
slight injuries.
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AETER MANY YEARS.
A QUARTETTE OF MURDERERS CAPTURED
after eighteen years of freedom.
Eighteen years ago, George Woodson,
a ferryman on New liver, in southwest
Virginia, was murdered by four men—
John French, Pule French, David French
and James Dnrford, all of Pulaski county,
Tenn. T he reason was a refusal to ferry
them across the river, which was greatly
swollen. The guilty quartette fled the
country, leaving no clew whatever. Ten
years afterward David French was capture! I
and imprisoned. On Saturday, John and
Pale French passed through Knoxville in
charge of Virginia officers. After eigh¬
teen years of freedom, they had been
found in the backwoods of Harlem coun¬
ty, Ky. Pale French is n lawyer of some
standing, and an intelligent, educated
man.
germanV mourns.
THE REICHSTAG FAYS A IllOn THII 1 LTF. TC
DOWAGER EMPRESS AUGUSTA.
!\t flic opening of the reiehstag in
Berlin,Wednesday morning, the president
formally announced the death of Dow¬
ager Empress Augusta, and paid a high
tribute to her memory. The house
adopted a resolution requesting the presi¬
dent to convey its sympathy to Emperor
William, and then adjourned as a mark ff
respect. The emperor has ordered that
the court go into mourning for three
months, aud has fixed the period for gen¬
eral mourning at six weeks. He has also
ordered that the theaters and other places
of amusement be closed for a w 7 cek.
NEW YORKS MORTALITY.
THE DEATH LIST OF WEDNESDAY THE
LARGEST FOR YEARS.
Returns to the bureau of vital statistics
show that 250 deaths, occurred in New
York city for the twenty-four hours end¬ this
ing at noon Wednesday. The like of
has never been known in the history of
cholera. the department since the of time this of week the
people During have died four within days the city of
839
New York. The morgue is crowded to
its utmost capacity. Reports from Belle¬
vue hospital to the central office showed
tkat ninety bodies, the greatest number
in the history of that institution, were
there awaiting removal.
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A BUILDING FALLS
CRUSHING TO DEATH THREE MEN—CRIMI¬
NAL CARELESSNESS.
The north wall of the machine shop!
in the yard of the Long Island railroad
depot, in Long Island City, fell with a
loud crash Tuesday morning, burying
three men under several tons of brick.
The men were dead when taken out,every
hone in their bodies having been broken.
The building had been sold for remox 7 al.
The accident was due to carelessnes iu
undermining the building, and the con¬
tractor for removal and his foreman hax e
been arrested on the coroner's verdict,
charging them with manslaughter.
TO HONOR STANLFY.
THE AMERICANS IN LONDON TO BANQUET
HIM.
Henry M. Stanley has accepted an invi¬
tation to attend a banquet to be given in
his honor by Americans in London.
Fhe date of the banquet can not he
definitely fixed, but Mr. Stanley
has sent a cable dispatch stating
that middle he will probably February. be in London about
the of Mr. Lincoln
American minister, Stanley will American preside. He will
present to an flag and a
massive silver shield wrought with Afrri
can scenes.
MARCH OF THE GRIPPE.
THE PLAGUE NOW SPREADING THROUGH¬
OUT THE WEST.
Physicians admit that there grippe are in a num¬ both
ber of serious cases of la
Elinton. Ind., and Lyons. Ia.. and many
light ones. La Grippe h also rapidly the
spreading in Burlington. Nearly of prominent all
officials are sick: a number
physicians are unable to attend to theii
professional duties and a number of oper¬
ators iu telegraph offices arc suffering.
No fatalities hav* been reported. Influ¬
enza is commencing iu earnest at Perue.
(nd„ over fifty ca-es being reported.
A FATAL MISTAKE
\ family 'UFTERing from INFLlENZA
i XKE STRY. UMNI. FOR QUININE.
A terrible mistake was made iu thx
family of Mcirill Griffin at Dearborn.
Mk-h.. Saturday night iil’ faniffx :ri
had the influent and took strvehnioc
instead ol uinini Griffin, hh x-. if.
nine, daughter, aged thirteen
were th
died, and there is no hope fov
Mrs. '.riffia and son have a bare ch ,n( 'to
pull through.
BARNSTORMING.
A Peculiar Incident in the Parly
Life of an Actor.
Playing to an Audience Com¬
posed of One Family.
Joseph Jefferson, the great actor, thus
describes iu the Century a curious inci
dent of his early career: “We now cn
tered upon a cour e of the most primi¬
tive acting, going from town to town
and giving entertainments in the din¬
ing rooms of the hotels. As there
were no papers published in these
small villages, there were no printing
offices, couiequoutly no hills; so flam¬
ing announcements of our arrival in a
bold handwriting were displayed in the
three important points of the town,
viz. : the hotel, the postoffice and the
barber shop. It felt to my duty, boing
an adept with the brush, to write, or
rather paint these advertisements. The
plays were acted iu costume, but with¬
out scenery or c irtain. The nightly
receipts were small—just about enough
to get us from place to place.
“Our objective point was the town ot
Liberty, Miss.; but there was some dif¬
ficulty iu getting there, asthe distance
xvas greater than we could accomplish
in a day. A farmer who had been to
the theatre the night before for the first
time in his life was so struck by the
performance that he proposed to have
his teams brought in and take us to his
farm-house, about twenty-five miles dis¬
tant. According to his suggestion we
were to rest for a day, give an enter¬
tainment in his barn, aud so go oq to
Liberty.
“‘But, ’ said my brother, ‘you tell
mo there is no other house there but
your own. What shall xve do for an
audience?’
A 1 t Well, ’ said the farmer, ‘ali my
family will come, to begin with, and
there is a dozen or more on ’em; then
there’s eight orteu farm-houses close ljy t
and if one of your men will drive there
with my son and blow tho horn, they
wdl all coins, for there ain t one on ’em
ever seen a play before. I’ll insure you
a lull bavu.’
“So the matter was settled, auft xve
actually played in a barn, the house
that we staid in being the only one in
sight, it seemed in vain to look for
an audience in such a lonely place, but
the farmer was right. Soon after the
sun had gone down the full harvest
moon rose, and by its dim light we
could faintly see family groups of peo¬
ple, two and sometimes three on n
horse, coming from all directions over
the hill—now a wagon with a great
load. S mis of them walked, but all
were quiet and serious, an 1 apparently
wondering what they were going to
see.
“Those who have traveled through
the Southern states will peril a pi remem¬
ber the kind of barn we acted in:
tliero were two log homes joined to¬
gether, with ati opening between them,
which was floored and covered in. The
seats were arranged outride iu the open
nit—benches, rlinirs and log«. The
doub’e barn on each side was used for
dressing-rooms and for making en¬
trances and exits, while the opening
wasdevoted to the stage. The open air
was well ji led, containing an audience
of about GO persons. Our enthusiastic
admirer, the farmer, collected the ad¬
mission fee, a dollar being charged and
freely given. The plays were ‘The
Laly of Lyons’ aul The Spectre
Bridegroom.' The farmer had supplied
us liberally with candles, so that tho
early part of the entertainment was
brilliantly illuminated, h it tho evening
breeze had fanned ihc lights so fiercely
that by the time the farce began the
footlights were gone. The little ‘flam¬
ing ministers' ha 1 all sputtered out so
>Tbe Spectre Bridegroom' was acted in
the moonlight,
“It was curious to watcli the effect
of a strong emotional play like ‘The
Lady of Lyons’ upon an audiencr that
hod never seen a drama hn’orc: they
not only were much interested, hut
they became excited over the trials of
the hero and heroine; they talked free¬
ly among themseivos, and, at times, to
the actors. One old lad/ insisted that
the lovers sliou'd he ‘allowed their own
way,’ and a stalwart young farmer
warned the villain not to interfere again
‘if he knew what was best for him. J
Curiosities of the Postage Stamp.
There arc about 6000 varieties of
postage stamps now in use by the
different nations of th) world, The
museum of the Berlin postoffiec atone
contains a collection of betxvecn 4000
and 5000 specimens, half of xvhich are
European, and the remainder divided
between the Americas, Asia, Africa and
Austraria.
Thc emblems upon the stamps of na¬
tions are legion; the earth, the sea and
the vaulted canopy above us have been
ransacked for curious aud meaningless
devices and legends. The entire ani
mal kingdom, the stars aud the moon
in aii its pha ei, besides legendary em¬
blems by the thourands are known to
the collectors of stampi, who pride
themselves upon being “philatelists.”
Upon the printed fac.s of these little
squares of paper may be found the effi
g.ei of five emperor;, eighteen kings,
three queens, oue grand duke, several
inferior titled ruler; and many presi¬
dents. M. Phillippe de Ferrari, per¬
haps has the largest aud most valuable
collection of stamps in the world,
amounting to something life, 250,000, I
and single within he-e the present year sold ouc | I
fi ( a mp to „ collector in
Paris for }D,0 0!
HD Affliction.
tv* of u l ave some sttt etion ta'lj or 1
iher, said the landlady. . “Come,
TIL, «I
rave 3 Y. sifui glaocaat the meagre
•outwits .of the broad plats, “my atflic
;jon is a good appetite. dropped.
The couvrisvtion was
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