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About Crawfordville democrat. (Crawfordville, Ga.) 1881-1893 | View Entire Issue (April 4, 1884)
Tie CiaiMie Democrat. CRAWFOKDVILLE, GEORGIA. 7*T A DESPERADO’S DEEDS. -x'-arviM. •' A San AntonioiTexaMdispntch to the New York World says: The tragie death Of the famous des[*ra<loe«, Ben '1 iiOrtiaon, King Kisber and Jon Foster, who killer! each other in the Vaudeville thea're here, was the sole topic of ronver-alioi). Every burly knew Ben Thomson, and while the public m gcn' ral breatljMjnoreirealKpveri lag death, yet all feel that the city has lm-C one of its most noted character*. Strangers coming here wire Pali to believe that the quiet-spoken gentlemaii jxhutesl out to them was the no torioua Ben Thornton. He looked more like a sentimental dry-goods clerk than like a <ies js-rado. t hie of Ills boost* was that he was the only man in ti* city who dnre.i wear a talk hat Oft all ooeasionr. Slemlerl.v built, with carefully curled mustache, natty in dress, always clad in immaculate linen, Ben was the lastjiiau in lhe world to Is- taken ui 11 ,.- uiurdogor of a down men. He never *c#iilJicrl«tj«)>*r all whom difficult lie had wounded and not killed, and it was Tor him to recall the names of those who had met death * t *ltet 1 England, in wa- b#m in Yorkshire, when Tfc44. and came to Austin, Texas, a child, with his jiarenU. His mother was murdered by a mnawuy slave, and Ben, with hi* brother Bill, enlisted in the Confed¬ erate army at. the outbreak of the war. He was omy a hot-headef bov at tnis time and very soon quarreled with his suwrior officer, shot him dead, and was chained in the guard house, to enlisted which he set fire and escaped. Then he under Maximilian and spent two years chasing Mexican deserters, most ef whom he shot on the B*-n run went to Au*tm Tired of the army under th# and Opened a gambling Here saloon he often amused Austin Slnlnmion. frieada by filing •mused hiraarlf and 'just through tile eelitiig ‘ to see the printers clamber out of the windows.” Tha old of lice i* even now considered tbe best venti¬ lated m Texas. When drunk he would ride like mad through the streets, shooting out the lights. Next day he would call arid pay his fine. a u Cartalr. _ Rabb Aha bright moonlight asked night Ben to protect (Atm- to hut ho use and bim Iroin five cowboys. Ben ran down from his houte bareheaded and hj his ahirt-sleeves ditd w*t sOOn among the otiwlxiys. His first. shot killed the iMwJer,Jli« second a horse, If end. he swearing, actually __ xteasAlHie fou-' ummsil at thi-tn town, they gwiloi^d f J ffkVikirtg and fwu« as •way. Mo this desperado was continually Kaii lighting the battles oL,his Irtends. In r III r ,w* * 4 Ut.it hi* noise JiptW | of>w Bill fn a was store. bosiweed Hen clambered by the o iu Ui nt* assist anisv The marshal, an old , _ ^ lriamhof B"m, approached b- confer with the M.'«-<1, when Hill shot Inn, -U-mi. A»» Atreeil ms brothel- for <-wiring the death of his ls«st friend, but nevertheless helped Bill to eeca/K: hy a rear exit. Moth got nwny, but Bill was <■ nptured, tried and acquitted two years later. Christmas night three years ago Ben fflaptssl the fa<-« «Mthepmrietorgf nis ilcath the Wedues- satne a In which he met ttey.cs________ iMtattor ran Ixhttui tic- her. caught both spa double-barreled shot-gun and fired barrels. One side of Ben’s trousers, vest and rout we*’ cut to pH-r-i, but mfiv flight vHitnd* were clothes. rtfccl'V/JV|k4 As the smoke hi? wife cleared soon patch) <d the a wav Ben tiivd three through times at his the brain, proprietor. <tne bullet wait one arm. The barkeeper but Ben meinwhile turned got out his pistol, he dr-upped as behind Um> upon bar. Inin pistol visible The point of his wiw alone anil Ben tinsl bv ern-ss through the wood w ora of the bar. The bullet si nsi t he man tn t.i.« 1 ace. going through liackeoi<r hU u died ustaotie. # it I'eunvafl that the from etfccte of the wound, biit, lie -lid not. . MatthctW, and he afterward His name was was connected with tliisH it Springs .'R .Lxnsi. He which then hiuAMf* Au’dlve 1 frotti bttlle's theTjinV'o'r in. lung of oh* Hot, of wits Hnniig-;. He was lriUed less than two years ’ *»#<• min aCi'Aif *t '#*>' Arlytop house, Hurt, Hpriugs. Ben was not strong jihy i. ally. He said that when Ir u l in taue with he- wife and little boy th«y couloATwaysthfovY him down shot, Ssttw ■on< iiitister him. Hut ±s he was n dead w.Kssa ^'win giteer half mouqte the tfine I oqe. tiedi-i His Juek wa- In* aiqu. pistol, ing. not csri y IT a men vvanteit te fight, he tried to talk him out. of it. -It JiaCpMxiKted, Knit lot him tire tii-st. him “Then,” and worked saui in he, the with, plea a of smile, seif *T fixed ffu^Une tugtil Ban auvl bis brother were in a gambling swoon in Laredo. uad A row atari •perthe lights were lt*r pt|bout nffd Hill every- lit 4*91y want to ditotfur , got ' thi> wTudows, emptf.-d iheffTi-v iflx-5rs, sprang out the window. swam the river and gut off without u scruteh. ' ” mw&Y GLEANi&aa Thkhk are over 200 indi-'titirnt' (or murder or attempted murder pending in eoarU Thirty tnoi'sano (Rt«nts were is*ued Inst year in Great Britain against 20,000 in this ivunt ry. A party of Bktoii Rouge (La birel-Jitinters recently killed 1,400 robins with uo otdiar wen) sms but sticks. Trinity i-hcrch, Boston, lietug has a laundry de-fautuient, tlie object to pi-ovide work for needy women. Virginia, Tenuessre, Alabamn and Ge*.r gia produced TldTttel tons of iron la-t jNRir, against 2!>U.O.l0 ton* la 1 n$0. Six thousand euews-s at the number of Imwiis in a bag realb-.-d $l,&A*i for the flood sutlrrers nil olynibus, Ohio. his A prhne Nte^iH^h imui'tor, of tho and King of Corea, of nufitary a son of a aon a luaiidaTut »>t that country nave lately l*een ma • la uniffib' cstif the Methodts! church at tShaultal/GhiEE. SuiCK 181(4Pittsfmrg has had twenty-three occurred flisals. «knt»e« of nhich have in tne-WTUtniv-three m December, fourdn Jan liars dial ux iff February. TV Worat have rouie m Ffi Kynan. It is * roirioUa Inc: that the FYvuieb-speak incrvaseil ing (x»;*i\*itt t.wi of Can«'ia lia* during the Host ilrcaile at a much greater ratio than th* Kagtish The formerc'a-s now number 1 ..W.Ie.CVv'fc!' tooths of vtdiom live in tiw piyvmeeot Thk mayor ol Xaoat s-as, ii< xic >, 1 ms just ueiie 1 a dwiee that within Ksfy specified Uotffie in timet the ritv shad be |«intel and a also dire< ting that the owner's exi>ens<>. owners of city lota shall bulht houses tnareon uiM^riialald^or fo^fgit tlie same fo the guv A OOHPANT w.th $2.Vk»,OW4pap«Ul is pre twuing to drain l.OJO.OtU acres of laud iu t aiu »r>»i. t'alcAMeu aqd~Vefm;la>h, and yrvbnwiut* weet corner of Louisiana, to make a gulf front of one hundred pules of agricultural lamds te-tweie I.vke t Yiar'c. and Sabtte Hass, teteatp plows for the Work viowburfifty have ar¬ rived f in .... i.ngiaml) vapabte of Is • where x the , heart ..___ «c*iat u _ , had , • case s been susjwndetl by the aAlnunrnttation o! chloroform the appbcatkw ttf‘ a largo oloUl w et with Wing %au*r restored ite arVwu. Met w»t« wotiUprobably \m Ettnfi.trlv naertl iti cuaee of irregular Heart action from other causes. CCElfLTF COMMENTS. j, 'A mix introduced in the Kentucky House of Representatives, miking pool-selling or letting on home races punishable by a fine af not k*» than -5*250 nor more than 5500. Kansas Cm loom* up s'-eond in winter hag packing. Chicago packers" slaugMehei and packed 2,025,000 head; Kansas City packed 425,0S0 head; Cincinnati, 270,000; St. Lonis, .'J55JO0O; Indianapeiis, 2 Itfibt) Leadf Mil¬ waukee, 255,000 head and Louisville 141.000 head. The total shortness at the points battled aggregates * d-:\k<*f*liMis off in is fsrtS',- it^ifbu]4 sMiMffirt ptoplo must cat much less pork or prices must go up. Tux millionaires of New York are making ample provision for a dazzling show in the jhade of costly monuments and numsolettkW. In the woodiawn cemetery stands a model of the Pantheon The Jot on which it stands cast 500,000, arid the structure is 37v'!9 feel, con¬ structed of Westerly grsnite, surrounded by thirty Doric pillars. The bronze door dost 53,000. Inside are twelve catacombs, and through Am stained glass witglowe a soft, mel¬ low light plays over tlv inti rfor. This Is the elaborate temple which is to receive the duet of Jay Gould.) —... - - aa ---- - — The Legislature of Kansas, which fit* been called in session to consider the prevailing cat¬ tle plague, has already ipaugiuftted «tepH for its supprasslon. The nUdibcrsof cattle now in the state is nearly two million head, which ha* been increased during the year 1883 nearly two hundred thousand toad, valued at tiinc rnillku dollars, with a total value of at least $B0,0£Kt, 000, there are at least 510,000,000 worth cl fatted cattle ready for the market, and a largfl sum of money will bo lost to the cattle growers if their cattle axe quarantined against by other states and countries on account of the prevail¬ ing disease.< y A PotTrtown, Pa,, diipttch says: “Another colony of nailers, and employees of the PfittB town Iron company have left here. The He men have gone to Lynchburg, Va., where they have secured lucrative positions. Altogether some eighty skilled workmen have left here aruce the strike of the Potfstown Iron remap*ny s nailers was Inaugurated last Dcttethbcr.” Tlieae mqvcmauts of u<ai workers are significant. They point tbe way in which the Iron bpn&ese is traveling. •Both the cotton business and the iron buHinesH ape: moving to*t> word and weat ward. Dear co*Ii and dear ores are driving Iron makers away from Pennsylvania to the tilighborhriOd of cheaper raw mater ial. A. C 0 RSi.sroNDr.NT, writing from Ralt Lake City, b»}» that ho never saw a M0 :Tiwdo wife with a sniilaoti h^ir face. The favorilb wife in a family may look happy during her brief reign, but the others an- in tho depths of gloom. Bad pfecling revails all the thne. Even Brigham was always in trouble. At oiie thnehoha^ so much trouble wittr hie wives that he threatened to divorce the entire lot, but this had no eff ect. Mormon wives jfeel their absolute degradation, and are wholly mis¬ erable. Neatly every Mormon girl set la to marry a Gentile. A11 women who havb see» anything of the horrors of polygamy dcs;i4 to escape trow its bondage., The president of the Eagle and Thenix com¬ pany says that the southern mills now control the markets of tho country in coarse cotton goods, and ho predicts that the south will eventually control th* cotton gopOe market* of tiro world, bee ans, she has ** marry advanta¬ ges over Nt w England os the latter lias offer Old England. And 'that is truo of cottoi is to-no of iron, st least *o far as this country 6 ceneerned. i hat the pig iron of the future will he made in the south is plain at a glance. The cost of mailing a ton t.i pig iron in Fenn Kylrfifiiit is tlfns stuti il by tho American Much* facturer of 1’ittiburcr <*-.............. ..tl2 iS Due and one-quarter tons culjv, t-■ - ■ i X 2 50 .. 85 Xvbor _.,. r*> • .»■ • •! . 1 50 Xucnluuiais, .... . ... 00 roj-airs, tar-A elc......... 1 toUk........ _____108,69 The freest of calculations on a similar basis tired* t to* off irpu ui' .'dai.aina,' Georgia, or T'ditessi-e cost ssfoffcvVS: 2 ton* • ,+f ‘SM - - ' ...... $ 8 1Y to|*cdkt, $2...... 3283 L u#...... u.itir'r.: lucid. ut*L v .-f. ■. 4 - ... .... - Total $8 51 At Port Hamilton, New York, experiments hive been triiil the unk vr two 1 ,ng tvriiKH tuLo iiivented bv a Mr. Miflotd. )-i--”i» a two inch Ku-e. The motor is compressed air, and it is proposed to eirCMtncnt at tkV and SSp pounds pressure, Tho missiles are of light vuite. When in position tbe gun is tnu.mteil 0 :i* tripod, and has the appearance et a lo*g, t ender telescope'. The small tul-e connects with » receiver, which in turn connects with a twenty A vohors® power engine with along hoe*. The engine snd forter are located in ti»e fort. It is believed that the gun w ill prove a very effective w eapon. . The hot water craze has attracted its share n' attention ' lint other noDaiar ^ ^ crazes fuilv u« ' rein.ukable have enjoyed . their . run during . . the , past few ytcr*. About ten years ago the blood care started and for * time everyone troubled with weak lungt ^ became a convert* that is. iu o»u Urged ties. Then came the mud bath, lecpie fioakt d t.< a certain Spa in Germany to try tfce virxna of . sticky black mud. which was «ud to i-ure rhe uniat is in. joba.ne iw in it i. meant mi ant to to simply lie buried iu it up to the chin for about, two hours, and then to spend several hours in a tub ‘ of water gening rid of the t*mlnisceu*. ;' Tbp,Uhie _ ,, _ . , „ i lV . 1 • The shn l-ffth Cute, fT.e fisn oil cafe for cut suuiptun, the simple diet cure, the celery cure for nervousness, and mauywlhers, started ott „ R, w*, R.. a» ifiux w»y iiite orthofiox n invdi**. Tire Indian appropriation ^ te the house appropriates $5.34 ,,655. a Of ilS 000 from the appropriation of last y<wr, »od , oTmll-Ute ,,a if- Ti fnhn , -Rn :he ,sUmatee. stimatM Its Ike H ate foi 1 kc of ecteAtj ^ is ,18^,* inupriatiou artppv'it vearef » ft* Ust TUeaau-nn: apprept.ateo nnocr uu c cr tt»e ; u, tr,»tv tr,atv atepajatmns ter icMl the sup part of teachtra.lt also lucna»cd Au spurcqvtiation of ^4,520 ;s ruau, fqf the aA* f , pom* 4..US ia Akteaa. See i : -* t£eeojpp:ittee, prohibits the-war dipartment trort introducing liquor into the Indian rtser *«»<** «*- v circumstance?, and appro fcD* 1 * 8 ®5«CbO lor the detection and prosecution °* I* 1 *"* ‘•ttempnng to do this. Xlie census ofni e IemH&sh is al|o protided for. Fhf prin a--**-* ».,,»«*uu... compered with that oi last year are in the amounts appropriated for rations and clothing, the committee taking the view that as the it diaus .. became more and . mom civil:they . .. , ,, _ fcSolid depend less and lee# upon the govem meut for support. Besot, the Boswellian, biographer of Bis X march, has produced an iuietgtting hoftk jpis^icecpptjnn - , , . humonttm . . r. ‘ - tot prmoe as a 3* 'jV'BAWw J^oatob, Biap^rk’* h#tuer* wii however* is < kind and not aV boar pr.c . ,+og. . It.s account __* of . himself ,> * is p,..heti yfiff £ musing: ‘‘In point of health I am a mere drum, odiy skin and sound.” F peaking -!■» «—' r ^an, he said: ‘•Sitting for an hour opposite the Emperor Napoleon, I felt for all the world like a aran^mati at a Jiall yho had angdgei' a youjig Ifftty for a cotillion, but could- not find a word to say \o her, and wished some dne would come and take her array.” The natural gQ^rhuiaox of the prince was sorely disturbed on maay occasions by the late Kerr Lasker. The impertinent interruptions of politicians like Lacker or Br. Outlet generally drove him into an ungovernable passion. In one of these Outbreaks he turned aside from the Matter in hand to thunder oiit: “I tell you I'm no orator. I can hot play with words so as to work on you r feelings and thereby darken facts. I am man of plain speech.” I * ‘ MADAME 'ANNA BISHOP. Ti»e Long and Remark a. hi « Career <M a Once Famous Singer. Madame Anna Bishop, who died a few days ago in New York of apoplexy, in her Seventieth year, was once famous in the world of song, and had a ma-.t event'ui career. In the course of her long profes¬ sional life, she appeared in either concert or opera in almost, every country in the world. It is believed that, from first to last, Mad¬ ame Bishop sang before a greater number of jieeple than any other singer who ever lived She has sung in from tea to fifteen diffi-rcr.t languages on one occasion, While in Moscow, successfully taking the part of Alice, in ‘•Rbbert le Diablo, in the Russian language. China and India are among the countries tn which she has given concerts, and in 1ST3 she wai accorded the unusual privilege of which sing* hog in the tabernacle in Halt audience. lukecity, was filled by an immense from In 1866, while on the voyage Hono¬ lulu to Hong Kong, she and her party were shipwrecked on-a barren coral islaud, In wnere they remained for twenty-one days. the wreck they lost all their personal twenty-two effects. Finally they set out in a boat feet long for one of the Ladrone islands, 1,408 miles distant, and accomplished the jour uey in thirteen days They had but a scanty supjdy of food and water, which " U exhausted befbre they reached their journey’s end. Wnile they were almost starving, a large fish leaped from the water and felflnto the boat. There were twenty two persons in the party, and the fish was cut into twenty-two pieces, which were eaten raw, MaJ&me Bishop has referred to her share on t hat occasion as one of the most delicious tasting morsels she ever ate. She started on her last tour around the world in IBS'S. Since its completion she has lived for most of the time in New York, with hA- husband, Mr. Martin Schultz, whom she married in 1858, a few years a iter the death of her first husband. Her last (K. tx-ariuK-e in about: pub’.ic was at Her a concert voice w»t « New York a year ago. wonderfully In well person*! preserved in her and years, and her appearance mannei-s she was also remarkably youthful. Uur conversation was fund highly of entertaining, being enriched by a curious anec¬ dote, although she was singularly triumphs. modest in speaking of her own artistic MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC BouctrAULT claims to have written over ■ ‘ Sirauks xs . wi.dng ... & new opera, Tbe OjTsy. Barou. SrsiS the tenor, . seriously . . at Reeves, is m his home in England. eve.^siaSaaFt^co FmMa Abbott sings in ope:-a on Sun lay Henry TsvwcV. Irvinc. S wvints oil in tt-i counti y will aggregate nearl) $W0,000. the foremost leading _ SoNNENTHAt., man in C 5 eiTimny, has been engaged for an Atoenciii tour. ; Kivtort, Balvina and Bernhardt are all cimuug; back U> Wxrk&till further the mine iA America. Prksedkst Artittr gave a dinner recently nt the White house in honor of Mr. Henry Irvimr and Miss Terrv Miks WrtrrNFY the Boston scalp tor is en IVacbttt Colze and Hotel, three cel© bi-ateil German tenitv. wiU all rival each othei-In differcut theatres in Lerlin in Mav »»t!CWS» • »* , SrW3»'A . , pernicious piece of fiterttUire to put in the hatidpof the young. E&Avar P say^ that Mr. t Wilson xss&xS&as** Madame Nilsson says she shall retire from the stage in two years. “I shall not stay upon the stage,”slic savs. “ to hear it said, ‘ Poor Madame Nilsson! Her voice is all gone.’” (iURV u ANi>fc.RsON . . rests m .• Italy after the close of the season; then travels through Edinburgh, Glasgow. Manchester. Liverpool, Dublin ami cHarging Birmingham, .foubie taking her CvOi piutv and pr.ces. There is to lw a great Handel commsmor Germany, on the linth of May. toe til*centennial anniversary of the l-ow-s death. The first anniversary was field in estmimter Abbev. George Itt aad Ctisriotte being among the au liters. Miss Selena Fetter, who plays the heroine of "The Stragglers of Baris,” is the IkUovilU- beauty who ntad* She so fiattering a debut two wesosous ago. n said to veesem be Mary Anderson in intense physique, and to ex j*IW reL that favorAe in emotional en* ON the register of the St. James hotel. New w-pru atl a withni four lines of each other, Ue.y recently, were To be seen the uatne of B. M.-Auloy, New York, and John Macaulev, X*.iuisvUle, Ky. The two men are bro< tiers. oiie a well-known actor. Mid the other * prosperous theatre manager. They a jisjute some yekiv ago about theatre; " Bamey ” e bangei the filing of his name ami they have since Vassn strangers * ,1. a* ^ iu th« anil a very ab.e and con teientioua crittc thus tells a retsorter the j t ^ glmoet iti^vossitfSet*’ make does a eoqjparfeoa. Certainly, w hate ver (wrster she enacts i the character. She facility is a conscientious artist. . . the ‘.Ut la'U Lav 1 She hs. equally much eseuitioo. but there as arisimetising n LYtti* voice that Is iide aVibabde. The long and short t£"World. of n.;s that i %tti * tit9 anfct m _ -------- Ta* prrmediUlkjnof Joath Is ti.e pre meditation of ..iwr.y; he n uc uas-earned K die La? IWfcrwr /V W TiP.TT ’R NB\^TS. - —---— Eastern and Middle States. qj, vkr Dykic, Jb.. a student at Vale col¬ fe „ e> Xcw Haven, an i Von of a we!l- K r;own "Y oi k journalist, diwt fro-n t%ie ejects: coIor * a indent from Augusta, Ha. The two young men were span-in r in a friendly match,at tlie college gymnasium. 51". Dyer attributes his son* death to a-ioplexy, an 1 E ot to injuries received while sparring. At the thirty-second Medical annua! college commencement Pennsyl of the Women’s of van:a. held in Philadelphia, twenty-six young women received diplomas to practice &s physicians. • WmcEssEv testifle 1 in New 5.one , city before The 1+te.te senate committee on public health* that the sale of 'oleomargarine and butterine was killing the butter trade, and that these articles were injurious to health. ^ man tvbo had worked in an oleomargarine factory'testified that his bands became sore from handling the stuff, his hair dropped Speaker Carlisle, of the House of Rep¬ resentatives, United Stater Senator Vance, of North Carolina. Congressman Belmont and others made speeches at the sixth an¬ nual dinner of the New York tree Trade club. The strike at the Montour Iron and Steel mill, Danville, Penn., inaugurated January 1, has assumed serious proportions. Five hundred men are out ot employment and destitution prevails in a large number of families. The wife of one of the laboring men fell s ck. and failing to get proper nour¬ ishment. died in absolute penury. Two tbree-year-old Holstein heifers. Ja¬ maica and Etelka, owned by John Mitchell, a a farmer near Newburg, N. Y., have shown themselves the greatest milk produced producers 112J< in the world. Jama ca recently and Etelka 101 pounds of milk in one day, days the former pounds. During thirty-one the latter 5,486 gave 6,82S% pounds, and pounds ten ounces, beating all records to date. Tbe owner has been offered 525.000 for Jamai ca and her calf, or 510,000 for the calf only, but declined Doth offers. H. M. Richmond, a young lawyer of Meadville, Penn., son of n prominent law¬ yer of that city, shot himself through the heart in a New York hotel. He bad long suffered severely from dyspepsia. A Latrcbk (Penn.) Sbulthers, dispatch says wife that a German family—Mr. tbe Loyalhanna eoa’ mine an.i two brothers, at —have been affected with trichinosis, as a result of eating fresh pork, raw, with n» con¬ diment but a little salt. They had been re¬ duced to great poverty by the recent floods. The women died, and was buried, and her husband’s death was hourly expected. The two brothers were also reported as gradually getting worse. Democratic State The Rhode Is’and con¬ vention at Providence was the most exciting political gathering held in that ctate for many years. George H. Corliss. Republican, and nominee of the Independent in Repub¬ licans for governor, was put nomination, and received forty-four votes upon the first ballot, to t wenty six for for Th Ama a IV. Bprague and twenty-three uia- tiegar. Mr. Corliss w^s thereupon made the nominee for governor, but declinel the nomination ut on the score of ill health. Begar was then nominated lor governor and with Sprague the for lieutenant-governor, together re¬ mainder of the State ticket. Eight delegates to the Chicago national convention were also elected. A yaking . it . mandatory, , instead . of bill optional, with the mayors of cities to force the civil service reform law- passed the N w T ork assembly by 84 yeas to .1. nays, Madame A nna Bishop, the onee singer, died a few days since in New York of apoplexy. She was born in London in 1814. and bad a long and remarkable pro fessional career, appearing in either concert arm-era in nearly every country in the World, and singing in a dozen different Jarniiagss. At the Rhode Island Republican State co’xvention, held in Providence, all the pres ent State officers, from governor down, were renominated, and a resolution was adopted congratulating United States tjena tor Anthony upon his return to health. Prominent New York German business K^^ y a JvS-do farmer’ofllbany IooZ£Xy.\ but addicted to opium eating, and then killed his aged wife witn a hummer made an unsuccesstui attempt to cut his own “Dickens’Dutchman,’' Charles Langheimer, better known as died a few Philadelphia, days ago j n tbe Eastern penitentiary, where he had spent the better part of hiS life, H e waseightv-two years old and was buried m Potter's Field. He was first sentenced to the penitentiary in 1840 and was released from time to time only to returned l or thefts, His notoriety was gained bv Dickons’refer ence to him in tne American Notes, in a chapter desanbiug aad speaking the system of LanghcimeV of solitary confinement, th'*t!c terms. Langheimer, however, * n p a passed thrmi*rh art the misery tmccess;ii lv so pathetically pictured hv Dickens and lived to hear of the noveliseVdeath. This country is to have an invasion of white elephant?, t he first of his kind arriv ing [ u Kew York a few days since on mi ocean steamer. His color is described as “ a light grav, a shade lighter, perhaps, than ducer# in Bost-un tboy voted that the state board of health ought to regulate the sale of rrtiik to iusure purify, and arranged with the citj* contractors to deliver milk to tho latter for thirt v-four cents a can of eight and a . caiI „ Quarts, As » result of^ the recent mrest^iuton .... by New zs&tsussx? York city grand jury have indicted — South hud Westi Mrs. „ John Smith, _ of , Jackson _ , county, Ga., filled a pot with water, put it on the fire, and when th- 1 water began to boil she P h#»r hpai into it anti .'i** ! The Gill Car Manufacturing f company, of , Commbus, Ohio, has Ruled for about $290, 00”. A fireman and three chi'dren were in ktantly kiUed by tbe explosion of the boiler attached toa saw mill at Newport, Ark. Two brothers—Rudolph Columbia, and Champ EJh. Patrick—were hanged Miller Brewster at Ky., for the murder of last August, AU three men were farm bands, a:id the murderers maae away with their victim be nu*be was better liked bv his «H**>yer t huu they. teller : kebERHK J. Dietrichs, a » tee Laclede bank, of Si. Louis, has beau ar rested for embezzl-ng $30,000 of the rnsu tu.,on s funds, Frank SlteGKL was hanged at Semerset Kv.. for killing and robbing three coiuuau ions with whom he wa* getting out rsilroa i ties in a cwf last August ; and on the sane oav Matt Dewue colored was hanged at St. Louis for wife murder. Three thousand people were driven from their homes at Nashville. Tenn., by a flood, gceH t furious crowd w«- present at the S*SBiTJ l lW!S3K dows and plante were smashed, manv was" women fainted, the box office window broken, ^ ^ ptr ’ Cattle infected with the foot and month disease in Kansas are being kdlei and burned. Heavy frauds bv tobu ■co dealers have been unearthed , in LouisviHe. , . Kv. Mason, proprietor ot the People Tobacci warehouse, is a defEtther to the tune of ^ and Peter F bemoma T^denri jj-ett-n-frauds tc rig; *-y n; j aj-» -c: L-Ol. - A call ha- been is-ued for a nations- con¬ vention of Anti-Monopolists, to be held in < hicago on Mav 14, to nominate a presiden¬ will tial ticket The quota of rep resent atiou be four delegates from rac-i Territory congressional district, four iron each an 1 four from the District of Columbia. Later reports put the number of lives Ins by the explosion in t.ie Pocah mtas Ta niine at 112. Several large plantations were inundate hr a break in t he levee on the Mississippi at Baton Rouge. La. While a colored man and his wife were at work in a riell not tar from McBeau, Ga., their four children were murdered. A dispute between three ended men playing cards near Hutsburg, Tenn.. by one of the players shooting his two companions dead. Joseph F. Sanders, bookkeeper for a St. Louis wholesale grocer, stole *15,000 of his employer's money and spent it in Speculation. An affecting scene occurred the other day at a prayer meeting in Chicago. Mrs. Georgiana Miller, a widow. remained ou her knees i i the attitude of prayer, while the rest of the worshipers slowly left the hall. Examination showed that Mrs. Miller was dead. Five miners in Colorado were killed by a snow-slide fifty feet deep. Bishop Havana ugh. senior bishop of the Meihslist Eois&opal church South, died at Columbus, Mbs., after a painful illness. The Virginia senate before final adjourn¬ ment authorized the transmission to the pres¬ ident of the United States Senate of a eopy of the resolution recently adopted requesting Senator Mahone to resign. By the explosion of an oil still in Cleve¬ land, Ohio, three employes were surrounded by e-raping oil, which had caught fire, and were burned to death in sight of a helpless crowd. A train of forty with cars, handsomely deco¬ rated and loaded corn valued at 511, 000, has been ,-eut to the Ohio flood sufferers by the people of Sedgwick of county, Kan., in grateful remembrance charity extended when they were suffering from the grass¬ hopper plague in 1874. Washing tom Henry Wattekso.n, of the Louisville Coiirirr-Journal, appeared before the eou- and gre*sional joint committee on the library boll made a long argument iu favor of the granting newspapers a copyright Watterson said of eight hours on their news. Mr. that there had been a great deal of misapprehen¬ sion in regard to this bill; that it was not di¬ rected against the country press at all, but against daily papers and valuable certain concerns of which appropriate the news other [ apers in their vicinity, and by hur¬ riedly getting out such news or furni-sliing lilates of the same defeat legitimate enter¬ prise. THKHousecommitteeon postottlees ordered adverse reports on the bills authorizing jios* ta! ravings in banks mails and of prohibiting the contain- nans mission the newspapers ing lottery advertisements. A resolution has been adopted by the House committee ou postoffices and post roads declaring the charges against Repre senfative Ellis in connection with certain star route contracts to be utterly groundless, The Jeannette expedition to the Arctic regions cost the government, in cne way cr another, ’ about. $275,000. Congressman ,, Hat^h, of . Missouri, ... . and re ceiveda te egram stating that the loot mouth disease had broken^ out among cattle in the northeastern part o. that State. Representative Holman thinks Con gress will be unable to adjourn before Au gust. The President sent the following nomina tion to these ate: Sumner oAhe Howard, of Mich igan, to be chief justice supreme court of the Territory of Arizona; Case Broderick, of Kansas, associate justice of. the supreme* court of the Territory assosociati: of Idajio; Jacob the B. Blair, of Wyoming, justice of supreme court-® H-Jkvlev the Territory of Wyofning. £e nator having introduced a bill in the 8 -na e authorizing th * secretary of the navy to offer a reward of $25,000 for the rescue or discovery of the Greely expe dition in the Arctic regions, Secretaries Chandler and Lin :oln wrote to tbe President opposing any such action. Secretary Chandler has written to Mr. on inUf|e.M^° U Of P X g Jean againsfueutenarnlLlmt^Emringer members^ oT 0 f the court in Jerome J. Collins, meteorologist of the expodi tioB ore untrue ^na^rv and uniust intew’hat^tewTth2 and obiects to court oMnuulrv luch correctlv termed "trivial difficulties, as occur on shipboard even r„ v n „i,u ciivum«‘anoe# ” _ The Indian , appropriation . bill V in as - agT^d upon appropriates by, the House^anpropmtzon a deciea^s committee, of $!«, 002 front the appropriation ot las. yen at $o,lJ!»,lo(» liom the estimates. The Senate conMraie<i tne nomination? of Joseph E. Irish, ot Wisconsin, to be consul of the United States at Co.^na-cj Leonard E. Wales, of Delaware, to be United S ates district judge for the District of Delaware; James N. Kerns, of Pennsylvania, to be Tinited States marshal for the eastern dis triefc of Pennsylvania. Both the Senate and House having ac oepted the^conference report on the military Mr. Bliss, late counsel for the govern meut.appearedbeforetheBpringercoinmit- anl explained fiiscon tee ot investigation prcAeeutions. nection with tbe star route slated that in his opinion the Dorsey case t he strongest of all With which to go jury. The number of postoffices in tbe States on March 20 was 58.293, months. an If of 1,135 in less than nine same rate of increasa is maintained the remainder of the fiscal yonr it is mated that the postoffices will 50,000 on July 1 next French troops have captured the town ot Bacninh in Tonquin. Mr. Bradlaltgh, while delivering a lec¬ ture at Bridgewater, England, against per¬ petual pensions, was attacked and driven from tne and platform fireworks. by showers The mob of rotten afterward eggs, fruit attacked and wrecked the chairman’s house. A Berlin dispatch says that trichinosis, engendered due by eating German-brei pork, and in no wise to the American product, is ravaging various parts of Germany. Great excitement existed at Ottawa, On¬ tario, owing to a report that the government had received important information with of a con dy¬ spiracy to blow up public buildings parliament namite. The guard around the buildings vac increased, and the speaker of the house of commons, with his family. «ud uenly vacated his apartments in those build ir-gs.' bad hea.tk, , Queen Victoria issaid to be in suffering continually from fits of depression. During the second battle between General Graham's troops and Osman Diene's force* Adams FT a*er, the largest, soldier in thi Black Watch regiment, laid twelve Arabs low with his single bayonet For this feat he was cheered by the troop* returning to Suakim. Weston, the American pedestrian, ha? ac complished the feat of walkiug 5.H00 mile? m 109 days—doing fifty miles a day awd lector ing in the various cities and towns through which he passed. Prominent temperance ad vocates took great 'cterett Srri m the feat^as U‘Tve; _il d^^^th? ^uor^uudertakings requiring Plans fir genera! assassination bx the tfta « explosives have been disc wered at Bir. minghamand Nawcaslie-on-1>ue. Kopdand. Henp.y Brown, a colored man, died a few dav? arc in Niagara, Ontario, at the al¬ leged age of 121 years. He claimed to re¬ member George Washington, and said that on one occasion ho drove that Washington. gentleman from his masters plantation to Admiral Vtwam Hewitt df iss.sued a proclamation head of offering a £2,1*10 chief for the the Soudan; Osman Digna, the rebel in but the English war secretary ordered the proclamation t“ be withdrawn. Osman Digna wasreporiei to be slid defiant, and returned with‘.’.‘ 0) followers to his former encampment, lie exhorted the jieople to in a religions war, promised them success toward a third baffle, ana used stern mta ures his disaffected lo.lowers. A woman who was attacked by two dogs in Quebec was frightened to death. The French government has decided tc occupy Upper Touquin as far as the Chinese border. Tke Italian ministry resigned owing to the sma'iine-s of the ma orftv received by the president of the chamber of deputies. Admiral Lkssoffskv, the Russian minis- . ter of marine and commander of the Rus¬ sian squadron which visited the United States during the civil war, is dead. Twenty-seven nihilists, among them four artillery officers, were arrested a few days since in St. Petersburg. The alleged kidnapping of an Indian from British Columbia, and his ■summary execu¬ tion by a party of masked men from the a ;jaeent United States territory, has been the subject of indignant comment in the,. Do minion parliament. BOGUS BUTTER. Rsoort of a New York Stat3 Senate Comnittee. Alsr.nirg Wholesale Muirerations of Food Discovered. The New York State senate committee which has been investigating adulterations of food, savs in its report that it has |lir co’-ered alarming wholesale adulterations, w-bich are dangerous to the consumer and which are depreciating property in the rural districts. The adulters-, tion of butter by tallow oil, bone oil, and lard oil was found in almost every town and city in the State and in an amount W'hich equals half the production of the nat¬ ural article. The imitation is so disguised hat often it can only be detected by ehem fra I analysis. Out of thirtv samples of a’ ie.ged butter purchased by the committee it , _\' ew York only ten were genuine, the No labels to distinguish the pure from bogus butter are displayed, as required bv the existing law. Bogus butter is largely and. purchased by raloons, boarding houses, second-class hotels. The poorer qualities of bogus butter sell for from twenty cents to thirty cents to laboring men, ana the better grades at forty or forty five cents. The cost of manufacture ranges from twelve to eighteen cents, the average manufacture being lour teen cents. The in y y ork ^ tate chiefly carried on in New York and Brooklyn, ;4o0,000 several concerns manu facturing over pounds each out 01 /at brought from the We t, from France, and from Italy. The bulk of tbe bogus butter is manufactured in the West and ""sold in New York to th? detriment of the State's dairy interests. Many dairy iarnaers have been driven out ot" business in estimated consequence, The loss to the .State is at from $5,000,COO to $10,600,000 yearly. The c uumittee estimates that 40,000,000 pounds State, of the product are sold annually in the and tbe illegitimate business is breaking our export butter trade. The effect ofthede ceptiou in the trade is deleterious to business roora s. Butterine can be sola at eighteen cents less than natural butter. The committee quotes extensively frm the , evidence obtained to show the evil moral, commercial and sanitary effects ot adultera¬ Lons. Tne use of nitric and sulphuric ^‘i^Xrte^ndemie^^Tn^oommittee ^ and - jate^ot ^aU butter adulteration The the committee asserts, cannot compete with the dead hog. The committee also finds that 200,000 out of the qimxts of milkfuniisbed to New Vork daily in 188-were watei or ski in mil . ■ committee recommends the appointment of a State inspector of milk, and also n commends that the officials tohe chosen to enforce apti adulteration laws lie selected from and retp resent dairy interest-!, b 11 by the the report was a corriIn jttee. It six prohibits months’ under imurisonment, penalty nba of ^ )ine> cr of sa ] eo f adulterated milk, the keeping unhealthy cows for the production of milk in an C onditfon,and the diluting of milk with water. It provides that every manufacturer ofTnitter shall brand his name and tne wuaght of the butter on the package, pans for the sale of milk fehall ba startipfid with the name of the county where the* milk is produced, unless so jd exclusively in the county. A penalty of from to $1.00 j and imprisonment-! or one year is imposed butter on the cheese. sale or I maimfac- he Ntate ture of bogus or Dairymen’s association is appointed a SOME BIG THINGS. An Iowa man drank three quarts of cider in "three minuses. A ten-foot alligator was captured re¬ cently near Waxahatehie, Texas. The government envelope factory at Hart¬ ford, Conn., uses a ton of gum a week. A pawty of Baton Rouge, la., bird hunt¬ ers recentlv killed 1,400 robins with sticks. A sea EOG was killcsi on the beach near Long Blanch, N. J., not long ego. It weighed 1+6 pounds. While trapping near Bridgman, Mich.. Wiliiam Williams caught an eagle that measured nine teet An owl measuring four feet and two inches from tip to tip was recently captured in Franklin county. Ga. Mississipplans feel very proud of their State library in the capitol at Jackson, it comprises 68,000 volumes. A COW horn four feet eleven inches long and eighteen iuches in diameter at the base Is on exhibition at Moniiceilo, Fla. Robins are found in flocks of 10,000 in the neighborhood of Powhatan. \ a. A uian recently killed 4s0 of the birds. The highest rate of postage from this co untry is to Paiaion.a and fine island ot Helena—fifty-four cents au ounce, A straxue fish was rccint.'y eaptur doff island. Newport, It was four feet Jong, and it nada mouth ten inches wkl e. It wel ^j S -juq poomis. ~ A t MT gixty yeari 0 ]d, residing in Rochester, x. Y., skated from that city to prockport. twenty mile-, in an hour and twenty-five minutes. ^buinety Orleanr oecentlv had a baby show. ^ nine fnfsnuon exhibition. The woll bv a ^even mouths old baby that weighed thirty-one pounds. United States Treasury has tbe b«g snittooa on record, J* it is filled a grea; with oblong . as b - g a saw ( j t ,, es iu t e ba*cm?nt at Ahe foot of f our fijent5 of stair- which ffead uy the i rius Tories, and a -comminates the gov erniuen. empf Vte andothete j ‘ ago. In that time six children Pa. touP La™ re^ been ; added to h ? family., He ha* been married ! th the sa*er » eagMar a yea rs .
