Georgia Historic Newspapers

    He CraiM?! Democrat.
CRAWFORDVILLE. GEORGIA.
LATE TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
The Virginia Debt.
Richmond, Va.— In the senate, Mr. Lybrooka,
of Patrick, introduced a preamble and resolu¬
tion looking to the total repudiation of the
state debt. The preamble sets forth that every
proper effort ha* been repeatedly made by the
state to effect a settlenwnt with the holders of
ito bonds, which efforts Imre Ixien met with
uncompromising resistance, captions opposi¬
tion and technical qnibbling, that the legal
responsibility, patience ami resources are now
believed to lie exhausted in the efforts to main¬
tain the credit of Virginia ; that no substantial, 1*)
equivalent or valuable consideration can
shown upon which to base these iionds ; that
the holders are not bona fide creditors of Vir¬
ginia, but merely adventurous speculators, who
have already realized from the 1 Kinds much
more than their original cost; that a syndicate
has been formed l>y these epeculators for the
purpose of perpetuating the legal pn isecotion
of the people of Virginia, and preventing a
settlement of this unproven debt, HO that
they mnv not liavi their claims tested, but
may continue to draw interest thereon; that
oerUin debt* are positively prolabitea Constitution; by Arti
cle 14 , Section 4, of thr ; PVlfnd
that we express our unalterable opposition to :
the payiiidit of any part of this nili ged debt,
or tlie interest thereon, anil that the auditor of
public accounts is instructed forthwith to re
fuse the payment of interests on any bonds
alleged to bo held against Virginia. 'Ihereso
l0 in n How'u.o (fcmm&toe
th« on Frivilegos
and K1< cHons reportc<i a substitute for the Ben
nto bill providing for electoral districts and for
choosing presidential electors. JhcrmiisBO
framed as to adjust itself to the present and
future congressional apportionment. The bill
maln-H the electoral districU correspond with
the congressional districts, and provides for
that number of ( lectors*,to which the .State is
at the time entitled under the laws of congress
and the constitution of the United States.
The substitute was adopted. j
ICollrouil Chitiifte. in Alabama. 1
MovrooMEHY, Ala. \V. 0. Fowler, for a
Bumlw of years connected with the Colombo* !
arid Western railroad of Alabama, lias been ap- j
pointed western agent of the Charleston and
Savannah freight lines at Montgomery, in
place of C. B. OromwcJi, who haw been Atlanta promo- . |
tod to he general freight agent of the
anil West Point railroad of Alabama, to take \
effect the first proximo.
The powerful Western Rogers railway engines, of Alabama of has received recently
two tie
most improved patent, for the exposition and
limited express traffic.
Hrliim Hecrlvci fler First IlnJr.
Hr.l.nx, Aiji.—T he firBt hale of the now crop
of cotton w*« received Hsturd.y from Browu *
station, this county. It was sold at auction
for 12 eentB per pounds. The time of receipt
Was nine days behind tin; first bale last year.
Tbc Mraienn I oimpiriiry.
Oitv or Mexico,— Forty persons in all have
been arrested in eouneotinn with tho con
npiraoy. General Pr/.a, chief of the artillery
department, and General Hokegary, are im
peachc-d. Eckegary eonuuand«d the garrison
at Vera Gnu under the Diaz adminislration
ftw years ano. l’e/a and Fs kegary are great
friends, and are thought to have bail connec¬
tion w ith tho conspiracy. General (Ihavarrio's
whereabouts are unknown. Ho had been re¬
moved from the barracks. His son is out look¬
ing for him. All tlie prisoners bavo been
turned over io Juan Perez do Laon, first Judge
nf the district. The authorities deny that any
prisoners have been sent to Vera t'ruz or Yu¬
catan. The conspiracy is reported to have in¬
cluded Gonzales, tho imprisonment leadership . r shooting Jordon, of Diaz
and under iho of
editor of "La Opinion,” and two colonels,
tkilido teetlves and Rodriquez. said have Tlie obtained government of the do
are to a list
conspirator* in not Jordan’s arreatisL possession. General plan of
Ail*tom- has Ik'oii Tlie
the conspiracy is said to have been to reisin
struot Hie government as in 1876, under Presi¬
dent I>udo. It is Uiuught the canoe was U'
trayisl by a compositor in-Jord"ii’« office, who
Lois ben at resli-d and his wife kept in close
so nil u eiuent.
The Banka nl Work.
Nt w Yobk. Louis P. Haven and J. E. Cnl
tinan, editors aiul proprietors of Thompson’s
Hank Note amt Cotamercial Register, published
in this city, accompanied by their counsel,
went to the district attorney's office and Suc¬
re idered themselves, in answer to a warrant
fm in n arrest, on the charge of blackmailing
charges tin Nassau them bank, with of endeavoring, tliiH city. The for complaint time,
some
to injure the reputation of the bank bv pub¬
lishing false stories concerning it. Tiie ac¬
cused state that they had sent circulars to the
Nassau, 11 lo other banks, s-king for a state¬
ment of their eouifition, and had been refused,
What they said in their pnhhcation was the
outgrowth of this refusal. The prisoners were ;
released on bad.
Postman A number ter-General of bank presidents Gresham having exclude written the
to
Thompson Bank Not* and Commercial Register :
from tlie mails, charring that it i« a blackmail
ing concern, the assistant attorney-general for !
cannot the post-office In' excluded department from has the mails, decided aud that ad- it j j
vises that the intended victims should have j 1
recourse to the courts.
l>eprcN»ion In (he Ivin** Tritde. j
I*rrmat ru. On account of a depr»M*sion in j
the gnvti bottle manufacturers have de
tidid not to resume operations in their factor
■
ii's until October 1 st, which is one month later
than usual. The workmen, who are anxious to
return to work. wiU oppose the auspunsum af
tei Npt. j .U r 1st, and assert that they will
demand 10 ta r c< nt increase in wages, to re¬
compense them for the loss of one month's
work. Tlie window glass factories wiU ail
start iu two weeks. i
;
Vt iru* in Cliirnno. ;
( HICAOO. Hie otlieiakof the Western Union
Telegraph C^mjviny were fined $250 for j
violating the ordinance prohibiting the eree
tion of P'V.yS and stringing winain the streets
4u apjv ai «M taken, am! the ease vuii lh mad#
a last one.
lluuk Mhi 4'itu'in.
New York. — diH'rease, $180,700, |
aj^vie, incrc«M'. 0t>08.2».V; legal tenders, in- i
mas* ^825.200: dejx*sits, increase, $520,8iH);
circulation, deci ■ease. $ 188 , 000 ; reserve, iu- i
crea.su, $1,807,000. The knnks now bold $82,• j
648,000 ui cle*** of the l^aiieiiuitxiuetits.
W*IU Kmuiiiinii Work. ;
rAlx TkiYvn. Mess.—All the mills that have 1
Nvn clos'd for the j»ast week will resume work
on Monday.
Thr Vfw TorW Firm ('ompaor. •
New York. The certificate of iuoorporation
or tlie New lurk Extra Company, which is to
ns»spap^na flled in i\»urt to-day. It has
a cap:i snv'k of $100,000. sud the term of ex
isttnoe nf the iv>ni}v»jir is fifty rears. The in¬
corporators, who are also the trustee* for tho
fiwt vear. are Murat Halstead, Uenrv Edwar
Jkwxei ami Hugh Praxcr.
EDITORIAL NOTES.
Anotlwv dim Weil.
Hie largest gas well in Westmoreland oonnty
jh been struck on Damn's farm, three miles
from Irwin station, I’a,
The Cotton Moth.
The cotton moth has appeared in the Gulf
States, and worms are reported in a few ooun
taes, but no damage as yet has resulted. The
plant is generally reported late and deficient as
yet in fruitage, but-in condition to give good
results with favorable weather and deferred
frosts, or to show a heavy depreciation with
continued excess of rain in one section and
drouth in the other.
Helping the P«*or.
Ip Amsterdam every common trade has a
Government shop, and the worthy poor when
out of work are employed there on application.
The wages paid are very low, only enough to
sustain life. The goods produced are used
wholly by the Government, and not sold in
competition with common labor. As a whole
the results are said to be satisfactory. This
plan is urg'd in London as a way to relieve the
‘"bitter cry.”
Hilk Manafarlure.
Bilk msnufacturing has grown wonderfully
. b 0 . { ^ A ■ the last thirty-five
the mewt remarkable , ,, . being . from -
yearn, increase
1B70 to 1880, when ft was 250 percent. This \
country iitaacl# second now in this branch of
industry, . , „ I ranee ranking , . first, „ , and , promises
to lead before long. The value of the silk
l/t 18 go waB *41,033,045, New
Jersey leading w.th *17,122,230, while New
York followed with *10,170,140, Connecticut
*5 ,881,000, Massachusetts #3,764,200, and Penn
sylvama $3,491,840. ....
Horn Furniture.
The manufacture of “buffalo-horn” fnmi
ture has become an industry in New York,
The horns are not those of the bison, as is ;
commonly believed, but are from cattle killed
in the abbatoirs. They arc sold at the slaugh
ter houses for a little more than what the but
ton manufacturer* give, arc cleaned, driod,
gcrB ,p( 5 d and polished. The cost of making
horned goods is less than that of carved
woo< j j mt t | iey bring two and throe timee
m ore than the latter. 9 he new Industry is al
most . mono polized by Germans ^ 4 from . baxony.
* —’
The Lute Karthijuiike.
New York City, Philadelphia and portions
of interior Pennsylvania and New Jersey, to¬
gether with the adjacent seacoast watering
places, were visited by a shock of earthquake
which lasted fully ten seconds. Great alarm
prevailed at all points visited, particularly in
New Turk City, where the shock seems to have
been the most severe. No livee were loet, and
but little damage done to property. In New
York it was at first supposed that an explosion
of some kind had taken place. Everybody
rushed out Into tho streets. At the seashore
watering places between New York and l’hila
u..„i,s,«.*».,»poat,
however, was there any perceptible movement
of the water.
The Isoquat.
Tho loqnat ib a fruit about the color of an
aprioot, one and a haLf inches in length and
one inch in diameter. The seeds are small and
the flavor like that of a oherrv delicate sub
aeid aci.l and and good. good A A gentlem-- gentleman -car -car &«Ur Now Or
leans, who has trees twenty feet m hight on
his farm, declares that for eating fresh, for
sancc and for pies tho loquat has no superior.
The fruit does not easily pull from tlie stem
and, in order to ship a long distance, the stem
must bo cut so as to avoid breaking the pulp.
The loquat is grown from Hoods with the great¬
est ease, also from cuttings and layers. In
form it is globnlar and one and one-fourth
inches in diameter. It begins to ripen in April
and continues until the first wivk in July.
The KJrrlrlr SI reel Vur.'
He new Brush electric motor oar, which
was given a trial trip ubout a week ago, was
not a complete commercial success, because
tho brush which takes the electric fluid from
the intermediate rails broke, being too tight.
A new brush haring been provided, the car
was again set at work and made regular trips
all day loaded down with passengers. Passen¬
gers arriving at the ('astern terminus of the
(la: deu street extension were ushered aboard
the electric ear. Many supposed it to be an
ordinary street ear, and while they were wait¬
ing for the horses to be attached tlie engineer
pushed tho lever aud the coach moved off,
making the jog trot speed of an ordinary street
car with ease. No load was too heavy for it.
Tin Kf* Oteveland road will at cnee extend
the electric line on* io tlie eastern terminus of
1 !‘ r Garden street extension, and then begin
ihe exit naion of the line down town,
(irowili oi roiHilulton*
It is ocii'eediiigly instructive to observe tho
growth of populutioii, entmoit-od, in different
parts of the country. The Sanitary Engineer
publishes the weekly mortality statistics of
thirty-one eities, with estimates of population,
percentage of deaths, etc. From the lust issue
it appean* tliat Boston now has 435 ,000 inhabi¬
tants, a gaiu of about 75,000 since 1880.
lhMoklyn is put down at 070,000, a gain of 104,
000. Chicago is placed at 650,000, a gain ol
nearly 150,000. She is picking up oil Brook
lyn fast, and will be ahead iu a week or two, at
prevailing rates. Even at these high estimates
of }H>pulation. the mortality in Brooklyn and
Chicago is terrible about 880 per week, or at
the rate v( SO per 1,000,000 of population per
annum. St. Louis is modestly put down at
875,000 inhabitants, being an estimated in¬
ert use of 25,000 since the census year, yet the
deaths are considerably less t-lian half as many
as in i ith r t'hieago or Brooklyn. It is worthy
of note that the river cities show a lower rate
of mortality than either the lake citus, eastern
cities of New York. Pennsylvania, aud Phiia
••wvphia or the New England cities.
The Origin ot the ••ltlne Book."
Peter Force, a New York journeyman prin¬
ter, came to Washington in 1815, became ihe
proprietor or a printing office, and originated
and for seme >eai» wiupued withon charge.
the “Biennial Iwgister,*' better known fnuu
tht' color of iu binding as the “Blue Book.'* cf
which the government purchased a small unm
l>er of copies. Fond of Amorioan history, he
in time collected a large quantity of rare books
and pamphlets, many of which had been
tfcrown HW1 V from executive aepartmente
-
** rubbish, and purchased bv him of the doal
er* in waste paper. In 1833 he originated the
ide* of compiling and publishing a document¬
ary history of the country under the title of
"The American Archives,” and in order to
sceure the neoess&ry appropriation from Con
gres* he associated himself with Matthew St.
Clair Clarke, the clerk of the House of Repre¬
sentatives. This publication “job, - ’
was a
which distributed considerable sums of money,
for a number of years, among the politicians at
Washington, but it was the only way in which
Mr. Force could carry out his plan, and he was
net enriched by it. He was instinctively a
gentleman and a worthy disciple of Faust—
tall, stalwart, with a bushy head of hair and
keen eves, which would beam with joy when
anyone brought him a rare autograph or
pamphlet. The simplicity of his manners,
bearing an expression of the gentleness and
purity of his heart, made him beloved, as well
as revered, by all who knew him. After his
death Congress purchased his collection of
books and manuscripts, and it now graces the
Congressional Library.
A Mew Fire Extinguisher.
A number of the chief officers in the New
York Fire Department witnessed a most suc¬
cessful exhibition of a new fire extinguisher in
that city a few d»ys ago. The experiment is
thus described: In a large lot some scantling
had been stacked up like the rafters of a high
peaked roof, twenty feet long by five wide. A
man had been at work smearing the scantling
with tar and Boaking it with kerosene oil
Next he feathered the coat of tar with a couple
of barrelsful of shavings. He then came for¬
ward with a flaming torch, and, upon word
being given, applied it to the soantling. In a
second the flames were all over the pile, tearing
away like mad. After it had burned three
minutes the extinguisher man appeared,.carry¬
ing a small Bix gallon fire extinguisher on his
back. He gave a valve at the top a.quarter
twist, and turned the stream on the ground
ends of the scantlings. He kept this up thirty
five seconds, and then the last flame on the top
end of a scantling in the middle died out.
He then invited the crowd to place their hands
on the charred timbers. They were cold, and
the operator claimed that they could not
again be ignited. Next a barrel of tar and a
can of kerosene oil were emptied on the
ground and set fire to. The flame and heat
drove everybody twenty feet away. The opera¬
tor got a little nearer, with the extinguisher on
his back, gloves on his hands and a mask on
his face, and put out the fire in nineteen sec¬
onds.
A TKKltlBLE STORY.
Ilruve lien, Frnzrri by S1 ji rv ill ten and
Biller Cold, Feeding on the Bend Bodies
ol ibelr ('omriideu— Ilow Private Charles
Henry Bled.
The report goes on to say ;—Lieut. Greely
was decidedly adverse to having the liodies of
tlie buriod dead disturbed. He thought it
wise, as thev had been buried so long, to let
tliem remain in their Arctic graves Com
niander Schley did not agree with him.
ITm liodies were dug from their graves in the
little hill just hack of the 1883. permanent Most camp of the es
tablished in October, white
blankets contained nothing but heaps of
js-ja
on the blankets.
When the survivors were found, and the re¬
lief sailors started to lift two of the
HnfferorB who were nearly dead from
starvation, one, a German cried out in
^Hemy'f Start i ’be kilted and
eaten as Henry was ? Don’t lot them
doit! Don’t! Don’t!” The horrified sailors *
toW the pommsnder wh»Ui-jr hsd
he found that the frantic man’s words went no
( i on bt true in their horrible import. Com
mander Schley instructed Dr. Ames, surgeon
of the Bear, and others to make a thor
ough examination, and put the results in
writing, this was done, and the do«nmente are
now at the of War the Department dt-ad dug in Washington and it
The Ixxliefl were up, white is
said in the blankets were found only
bones, many of the bones being stripped cl. an.
Commander Schley ietind that many of the
starvation party who, had it had been {>(on reported, by their died starving from
eaten
comrades.
or temTretn a un°muLtd 0d an1 theL . _____ died
of the scurvy The amputated limbs of men
were eaten It is not known whether the same
ttt< ‘ b J‘ f.l tl,e four ' >odlei ' wblcb were carn
-
aW phe ’ death^of Charlos B. Henry is said
to have occurred in this way: He was driven
to desperation by hunger, and discover
ing stinted^ an opportunity to get more food than
the rations' allowed to the men, lie
attempted to steal a small quantity. His
crime wns discovered and be was condemned
w&8 made for the body, it wm found, itw snid,
picked to the bones, with the exception of the
face, which was left iutact aud recognized.
dlOK.IIO.N ELDERS KILLED.
A yieetlea finer in Tennessee Knitted by
Masked .Hen.
Information received from Centreville, four Hick¬
man county, Tenn., says that Mormon
eldeiswere shot and killed on Sunday last on
Cane Creek, in Lewis » nuty, Tenn., a lines place
remote from the railroad and telegraph thirty-fivi
At 11 o'clock in the morning about ot
men wearing masks rode up to the house
Mr. Condor, where Mormon services were in
progress, and, leaving three men to guard tho
gate, the rest marched to the door aud knocked
lor admission. Martin Condor and John
R. Hudson responded, demand and they refused were told to
surrender, which to ac¬
cede to. One of the masked men struck Con¬
dor on the head with a gun, emptied crushing double- his
siiuU, whereupon Hudson a
barrelied gun at the crowd, killing David
Henson, a farmer, who lived in the neighbor
hood. The five was returned, and Hudson
dropped dead after running a short distance.
Going into the house the mob fired at two
elders, one of them, named Gibbs, falling
dead b;u^',ar^irechJMhctLrir^;af^: the top of his head being hterally torn
^ inured^hb ^ 7nS managed hTt^ wtu flee a
corpse. Two other eMer* to
&Lrssij-zs,‘tt hide behind Mrs. Condor. t &
endeavoring to
On, of tlie mob diet at him and fraetnrtri
Mre Condor's leg The elder escaped. Mrs.
ComVw will dm from the effects of the wound i
she receive,!. Wring the house of another
neighbor, tho mob loan t an elder, tied him, ,
and took him to the woods. Shot* were heaid.
aud it is believed that he was fciHed.
The scene at the Condor house was terrible.
The form of Huds-mlay where it had fallen. tied
his shotgun at Ins site, and his horse, a
few feet from his head, snorting and trembling
in its fright. Ju.-a inside the front door lay
the laaly of the Mormon elder, his brains
scattered on the wall and floor, aud on the
creen sward beneath the window lay the other
elder, with a load et buckshot to his breast.
Anofhvr Bank Fnltnre.
The Wall Strevt Bank, of New York, did not
open its doors Monday morning- and a sign on
the door annonneed that the concern had sus¬
pended. l'he notice read : “Owing to irregu¬
larities on the part of the cashier this bank
will remain cloned until matters can be inves¬
tigated. August It, 1884. The bank had a
capital of ♦500.000. The failure was caused by
the cashier, who lent about 1250,000 on in¬
ferior setontiea.
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LATEST SEWS NOTES.
Happenings of Interest to All l
At Home and Abroad.
j
—The French government will ask for j
a
further credit to enable it to prosecute the
campaign in China and force that country to ,
submit.
complaint _ made in the British _ Par
—A was
liament that the American authorities are in- ;
different to the alleged abduction of Sheldon in
Kansas.
—The London Worl/1 says the Duchess of
Albany's infant is very delicate, and it is con¬
sidered doubtful whether it will bo possible to
rear it. |
ca^Thedt^fof^w^y^sustaS ti0D of »*• in the New 0llean i j
F*JXm jaxpositun. '
—Three children burned to death .
were in a
barn where they were smoking, near Oircle
ville, Ohio.
—The Osage Indians have chosen Black Dog
as their chief.
—By concealing himself in a box a New
York detective caught a dishonest shipping
clerk in a clothing house and recovered a
quantity of stolen goods.
—The dory which is being rowed across the
Atlantic July by Captain Travnor he was passed well on iia
way on ‘27, when was by a
Gloucester fishing schooner.
—The British government is withdrawing
individual police protection in the south and
west of Ireland, but it is still obtainable at the
cost of those protected.
—The heat in London sent the mercury up
to 93 degrees Fahrenheit. It was the most in
tense that has been experienced in twenty
years. Work was partially suspended and ,
several deaths from sunstroke occurred. |
—liic The J.nanese Japanese offer oner to to remove remove all an res'ric- res no ,
fromEiir g,ie ““ PO “ “ “ !
-Crown Solictor Bolton says that informer
Casey volunteered his evidence in the Maain
traHiia murder case.
-The French Congress refused to abolish
the Senate, and rejected the amendment for
bidding princes of former dynasties from re
skiing on French territory. j
—A fire occurred Monday night at Pimlico,
a suburb of London, in Abraham’s hat .-hop.
The proprietor and three members of his
family perished.
—The Chinese Vice Consul at Victoria, B. C.,
has been stoned by a mob.
—The tugboat Mamie Glass was blown to
pieces by the explosion of her boiler at Ma li
son, Ind., and two of her ft-ew lo&t their lives, j
—Before the Presidential election in >v-m> •
ber elections will be held in six States. Thc.-e \
are Arkansas, September 1; Vermont, October Septem- j !
ber 2: Maine, September 8; Georgia,
1, and Ohio and West Virginia, October 14.
-Two brothers were arrest.<1 in Philadel
phia for setting fire to six buildings.
—The Clerk of the United States Courts at
Council Bluffs, Iowa, committed suicide.
LATER NEWS.
At the closing session of the Irish National
league in Boston speeches were delivered by
United States Sena#-ir Jones, of Florida, Wil¬
liam E. Redmond and Thomas Sexton, mem¬
bers of tho British parliament, President Sul¬
livan and others. Patrick Egan was oloeted
president of the league, Mr. Sullivan declin¬
ing re-election. A resolution was adopted
by a rising vote expressing the deepest regret
at the death of Woudell Phillips.
Lieutenant Greely, commander of the
unfortunate Arctic explorers, received a
warm public welcome at his home, No wbury
port. Mass. Governor Robinson welcomed
ml df-MasssofetaBM*- - ---
sons John McMahon muuuuH, a a messenger iiuamKigai emnloved e * in
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the Leather Manufacturers National bank,
of New York, was directed to take a package
containing * $20 ’ 000 to an express office. Instead
of doing _ so McMahon ,, ,___. left for parts Q unknown linl .„„ wn
with the $20,050.
James G. Blaine has begun a suit for
slander aga j nst t h 0 Indianapolis (Ind.) Sea
nnel.
President Arthur has appointed Miss
Clara Barton as the representative in chief
of the United States at the Red Cross congress,
in Geneva, Switzerland.
Duiuno July,tho total values of the exiwrts
of domestic cattle, hogs, and of beef, pork and
dairy products from tho United States
amounted to$9,991,0’Ji against $13,224,459 the
previousyeiu. vear
Lieutenant Greely has made an official
report narrating the circumstances which led
^ tl , e ex c Cl ,tion of Private Henry in the Arc
quiry bo ordered, oi a court-martial bo con
vouod, should the secretary of war deem either
ndvisablo.
General Haven, chief signal officer, has
secured the consent of the postmaster-general
to hoist the cold wave flag on postoffice build¬
ings throughout the country to signal for the
benefit of farmers and others tlie approach of
cold waves. The flag is of white, with black
center. It will remain in position twenty
four hours after being hoisted.
The British parliament, having closed its
labors, has been prorogued.
Anti-French mandarins poisoned the late
king of Annum.
King Leopold, of Belgium, has thanked
the American people for the interest they
manifested in the International African asso¬
ciation. •
The region affected by the earthquake &p
pears to have been bounded by southern
Maine on the north and by central
Virginia on the South. The shock was
felt in nearly every part of a belt
about 609 miles long and 200 mues
wide, although this width is extended midway
between the ends of the belt by the reports
most “ scvere'oii' th^ N J^Jereev'^o^
the Long Island coast. and in Con
nectic-nt. It in impossible to determine from j
»^jsrswis^Ji& of time fvem to lla ' e ,^' en
oniv m Boston. Cambridge. Shelter s Island.
New Haven, and New-York city. These records ,
varv only 75 seconds, and they mdicata—
if ' they indicate anything—that the I
movement traveled com N w York city in |
a northeasn ly direction. As a rule, |
the time recorded at p ic, .- south or sou li
west of New Yora cry was ,ater. The dis'.urb
ar.ee se, ms to have followed the coast line, ai
though it is not ; lain that it was propogated
from either end of the belt defined above. One
man died of fright. j
___^_ !
named Astio ,,
A COLORED woman ( iu“e .
dies! in Washington a few days smee woo .» .
safii to have tovn 116 years old.
.
Thk Senate special committee, consisting of
Messrs. Dawes, Canirron. Walker, of YViaconsin, Coke. *oint- Mor- j
can Harr - n and or »i 4
cd to vis: Citato Indian tribes, will som em
t«r mxm its duties. The ,toninuttee will visit
tiihesin Upper and Lvwer California an I the
Zuui Indians. A month will be s}<ent among
differont tribes in the Indian Territory.
Exports of brca istirffs from the United
State* during Julv reached $12.O53.970i to
value, exceeding July of last year by *1,700,-
NEWS SUMMARY.
Eastern and Middle States.
Philadelphia is to have a national elec¬
trical congress.
Part of John Roach’s great shipyard at
Chester, Penn., has been destroyed by lire,
The total loss is estimated at more than
5250,000.
The national committee of the two promi
neut Utical ,, arti( . s are now in f u u blast at
New the cartload York sending and employing out campaign whole documents by of
a army
clerks in their correspondence and mailing
business.
The Grech' relief fleet, consisting of the
steamers Thetis, Bear and Alert, arrived at
New York with the bodies of eleven mem
bers of the Greely party who perished in
the far north. They were received with
ttetaStes were taken to the homes of the
dead men in various parts of the country for
<j ua j juterment.
As Mr. and Mrs. Dixon, their two children,
and a man named Cuff were crossing the
railroad track at Connor station, Penn., by
in a carriage, the vehicle was struck
a locomotive. Mr. and Mrs. Dixon, one
child and Mr. Cuff were inst antly killed, demol¬ the
horses cut to pieces and the vehicle
ished. The driver and an infant child of the
Dixons escaped with slight injuries. The par¬
ty was returning from a funeral.
The Kemble Coal and Iron company, of
Riddlesburg, Penn., has failed; estimated lia¬
bilities, *700,040.
A second and lighter earthquake shock
V.'fLS felt in various parts of the Middle and
Eastern States on the day following the great
upheaval.
Another New York bank has been com
polled to suspend on account of the dishonesty
of one of its officers. The Wall street bank is
the institution, cishier. and the officer guilty Of who dis
honesty J is its John P. Dickinson,
sitoeffiation: s2M find ir' th- i-d.it iition's funds
in private When the bank failed
Uiekinsm could not be found.
The Republican campaign in Maine "was
formally opened at Lake >nai anocook, agieat
picric resort, by a meeting at which Mr.
ihainc made a shot t speech,
The tenth annual convention of the Amer
iean Banker’s association opened, at Saratoga.
N. Y.. with a large attendance. \ aiious
matters of financial import were discussed.
Delegates from all parts of the country,
Mrs. Parnell and two Irish members of the
British parliament,were present at the second
annual convention of the Irish National
league, opened inFaneuilhall. Boston. Pr?si
dent Alexander Sullivan, Mrs. 1 arnell and
others made addresses.
Lieutenant Greely declares in an inter
view that no act cf cannibalism among the
members of his party, as charged >v a -New
York paper, came under Ins notice. He says
Private Henry was shot by Ills order for steai
ing provisions. General Hazeii says that no
report as to cannibalism has been received by
min.
Henry Hall, Sr., a prominent citizen and
fishing-tackle Mills, manufacturer, of Highland fled from
N. Y., aged sixty-nine investigation years, showed he
impending ruin: and
had been making notes on persons who
have no existence and had lieen having parties. them
cashed by various banks and private
His son estimates the aggregate of such notes
outstanding at $8(1,000, with only $16,0o0that
is legitimate, the remainder being signed by
fictitious parties.
tniilli and West
About 3,000 Piegan In lians are reported in Mon¬
to be starving at one of the agencies
tana.
Three men were killed and two others fa¬
tally injured by falling walls at a fire in
Wheeling, W. Va.
The tugboat Mamie Glass was blown to
pieces by the explosion of lier boiler at Madi¬
son, Ind., and two of her crew lost their lives.
A terrible fight has taken place between
ten or twelve masked men and Mormon
eldgrS-Who haye ? or inverts
m Lewis county, Tenn. Two Mormon elders
and one of the attacking parties—a 1 aimer
bitterly hostile to Mormons—■were killed, a
woman had her leg broken by a shot, taken and a
third Mormon elder was have captured, been killed. to
the woods and believed to
namt , a Robert Woodj
Louis D. Wood and Kate Shaw, farm all under South ten
years of age, living burned on a death near barn,
Perry, Ohio, were to in a
where they had boon smoking, and which they
had set on fire.
Whjis George Rankin, showing aged nineteen, of
Switz City, Ind., was his brother
the ball striking James bllow the right lye,
nf!ict i 0 ,, a t ' ata i wound. and George ball then through turned
t h 3 revolver on himself sent a
breast, from the effects of which he died
aa /'
The Grand Grove of , Dnu.Is ,, . . .-f . ... the .. united .
States met 111 its twenty-iiteii amnuil couciave
at St Louis, Mo., 156 subordinate represented, lodge ..with
a membership of 14,509, being
Missouri Democrats at tlieir State conven
sssjsais%ssmsxs, (lee*
duke for governor,
’iVaaliiiigtoci.
In 1S83 suits were brought by the United
States government $497,083. against Judgments 11:3 delinquent
officials recovered claiming for $112,727 and $51,204 collected. were
The Washington for roof. monument About three is completed months
and ready the
will b - occupied in putting that up. The
shaft is 500 feet high.
Foreign.
Active preparations are still being made
by the English government for the autumn
expedition for General Gordon's relief at
Khartoum.
.Ninety houses were destroyed France. by a fire at
Yillard-Lurin, a village in
Vienna is almost iu a state of panic in
consequence of the large number of incen
diary tires which have recently occurred.
Hardlv a dav now passes without some nota
h 1 proii ' tin era H ti (, i l
Bismarck is reported to be urging an Aus
tro-Gernian confe<leration under treaties to be
ratified by the parliaments of the two coun
fries.
A REVOLTINa STORY,
The Nocnnd i„ Command of
Greet, Par,, Ealen ky Comrades.
The New York papers contain long ac
results of an examination of the corps ‘ bv
AocUrr^ Lieutenant Kislmgburys . .
remam s
had been buned in M -unt Hope cemetery at
Rochester. N. Y. The rumors that the sur
vivors hnls. of the the Greely oft-repeated party had turned canni
and inju nctio ns not to
the coflin under any circumstances,
aro^sri in the minds of many of the Lieuft-n
ant's friends an 1 relatives suspicions that there
waa some truth iu the horrible story. Con
sequently the remaiia. it The was determined to exhume
coffin was taken from the
gr* . e and carried to th,» chapel in the eeme
tery. There the lid was removed in the pres¬
enca of Frank W. Ki-lingburv and John P.
Kis'ingburT. Dr. Charles brothers of the deceased lieu
tea ant. Buckley. Dr. F. A. Man
deville. BuDerintendent Stelison. and Assist
ant Superintendent Manderille of the
cemetery and two newspajg'r men
The medical examination disclosed
the horrible fac t that all tho flesh of
the body had been cut completely off from
the bones, except on the face, hands and feet
The organs of the thoracic cavity were in
tact. There were no wounds on the head,
The remains weighed about fifty pounds,
Kmungbury s body was eaten by his compare
lOuS, ■*— |
SOUTHERN NOTES.
The crops in Virginia are remarkably fine.
Orange trees are looking well in Manitee
county. Fla.
Eggs sell at five cents per dozen at Colum¬
bus, Miss.
South Alabama is alive with political barbe¬
cues and picnics.
It is claimed for the State of Tennessee that
she has 300,000 dogs.
Corn of this year’s crop is going into mar¬
ket in the towns of Florida.
New corn crop of 1884 is selling at fifty cents
a bushel in Tallahassee. Fla.
The State Sportsman’s Association of Ala¬
bama will meet in Mobile September 18th.
St, Augustine, Fia.. is to have an opera
house, street railroad and a skating rink.
The United States barracks at Key West, Fla.,
ar pairs. ■ going to decay for want of seasonable re¬
In Tennessee there are several new sugar
factories which will soon he ready for the sor¬
ghum crop.
Rev. J. P». Plummer, near the Vanderbilt
University, Nashville, i'eun., exhibits a two
pound tomato.
Among the 1,000 convicts in the Virginia
penitentiary there is no representative of the
legal profession.
The Columbia. S. C., Register claims that,
nearly one hundred tons of hay is growing in
the streets of that city.
Seven hundred thousand cocoanuts have
been planted on the Florida keys and main
j land within two years and are growing splen
j didly.
| The South „ ,, Carolina ,, Railroad .. ..... is building an
elegant stone bridge tore-place the present
1 dilapidated wooden structure across the Sa
VMUMUl mer *
Com in St. Landry. La., has turned out
wonderfully well, will considering the dry to" weather,
and farmers have sufficient last until
the next crop. Cott on was'never in better con¬
dition, and picking will soon commence. Cane
is growing finely, and a good yield is expected.
North Carolina has received $1,000,000 from
persons who have invested in her mineral,
lands since she made her display of mineral
resources at the fair at Boston last fall. Nox-th
Carolina expended #17,000 for the exhibit; and
as a return for her sagaeitv has received $1,000,
000 .
slaughtered Ou September in 15, little 1883, a trichinous of Saxony. pig was
a town The
meat was sold in that and surrounding vil¬
lages. It was eaten in a raw state as mince¬
meat. From this 361 cases of trichiniasis are
known to have occurred, fifty-seven of which
proved fatal. Surely this pig was more fero¬
cious in death than in life.
The New Orleans “World's Fair," to. be
opened next December, centennial was first intended to
commemorate the of the shipment
of six bags of cotton from Charleston S. C., to
England, in 1884; but its scope has been en¬
larged so as to embrace all industries. The
buildings will be larger than machinery those at the Phil¬
adelphia will centennial; feet by the hall alone
he 1,300 900 feet, and cover thirty
two acres.
It is not generally known that the Amalga¬
mated Association of Iron and Steel Workers
claims to be one of- the largest associations in
the world. According to some of the reports
the membership is about 100,000, which di¬
nearly rectly and indirectly controls and influences
organization 1,000,000 working men. At one time
the was said to have $375,000 in
its treasury, but the strikes of the last two
years have depleted it considerably.
Federal officeholders throughout Arkansas
are in receipt of a circular from B. F. Jones,
chairman tim^calgii/upon of the National Republican Conven
mittoe “finds itself thejn dependent fori soap. the Thecom-__ liber
Republicans make upon voluntary
ality of to such permit,”
contributions as their means will and
the officeholder is requested to forward hie
draft as soon as possible. Atten tion is called
to the civil service act, but in such a way that
it looks more like a threat than otherwise.
The crop prospect in favorable. Claiborne, parish, La.,
is at this time very Corn enough
for home consumption is made, and the out¬
look for cotton is very good for this time of
year, while the chances for sweet potatoes,
peas and other fall crops are good. The stand
of cotton in many places is not good, and this
at present constitutes the most serious draw¬
back. But with a favorable season from this
time on more than an average crop will be
gathered if worms and other blights are es¬
caped.
There is a church bell at the depot at Meri¬
dian, Miss., following bearing an inscription translation in Latin, “Right of
which the is a :
Rev. Francis Janssens, mission Bjshop lie of Natchez, has founded Has
given me to the first
among the Indians.” Tlie bell is designed for
the Chiu’ch of the Hoiv Rosary, six miles south
of Philadelphia, Neshoba county, which was
recently organized by Rev. Father Btckker.
Father' Beckker has purchased 406 acres of
land anil designs establishing in connection
with the church, a school and farm for the
benefit of the Choctaws in that region.
There are relics of slavery in Delaware yet.
Marriage licenses must certify colored people
to be free. One issued by John Vasty, justice
of the .peace of Middletown, not long ago,
read as follows: This is to certify that there
lias been sufficient proof filed with me. John
Yasey, one of the aforesaid, justices of in the 'ortlance peace in with and
for the county ac
tht- Ihws of the State of Delaware, that George
W. Veal is a free colored man, ami that Mary
Reason is a free colored woman, and they are
heteby allowed to enter into the bonds of mat-
1 rimony.
..The discovery of cotton worms in several
! places on Red River, below Shreveport, expected La., aud is
| reported. In August worms are
never fail to appear. The damage to cotton
depends entirely upon the third crop of worms.
Taking into consideration the several stages of
j] ie worms thev cannot develop in sufficient 25th
qua ntity to do serious injurv before the June
September. The cotton planted before plant¬
will not suffer very much, but all June
ings would be ruined. The probabilities, how¬
ever, are that the worms will not appear to
! such numbers as are predicted.
The report of the committee of fifteen on
| rates and 1 ^es X ?tas gove^ng b^eif tra^portaUon ^ to
cemhei* l884 publisliecL round
I *5
| orion The u ne foffow louowmg ing are are the mtrouna round trip triprates- rates
from From some of the principal basing potato Cm-
1 Chicago, v20; Des Momes *24.85;
i Unii l td * jn * ton '
1 UJ; reon . *iq -ij.Sd; St. rtouio, slo. «i
The Business World.
New York. —The Wall street banks are
■Irawn upon this week for $2,946,534 to pay
the duties at the custom house, chiefly in gold.
The sum exceeds the daily debtor balances
against the sub-treasury at the clearing house*
1 Starvation Wages .—A minister iir
. Brooklyn said that a physician in the
Charity Hospital on Blackwell’s Island
tad told him that nine young girls in
i ,,, the employ of large establishment
a in
xotK city, being driven to despera
began tion by starvation wages, deliberately
a life of shame. Within three
I months they J were all patients e in the
h ita ,