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About Crawfordville democrat. (Crawfordville, Ga.) 1881-1893 | View Entire Issue (July 23, 1886)
The r"i PUBLISHED EVERY BY CLEM. C. MOORE. C ALI WFOIID VILLI:, Entm<) nt til- p,o: •fRi'c at (Tawfoidri’Jc Gf'OiR ti, H'*c<»Jiti-uiab<4 j;k* J nasLU r, The “preacher ’ h the latest .. on his way distributing Bibles, and presents the family with a book. He then asks for dinner or other meal, and takes a receipt for twenty-five cents paid for the meal. A few months later the neighboring bank calls for the payment of a note for a large amount. TliF United States hydrographic office is continuing its interesting and very useful investigations into the practical effect of “pouring oil on the troubled waters.” The facts the office is collect¬ ing show conclusively that the use of a very small quantity of oil will break the force of the most terrific storms. Several instances are given where ships have re¬ cently been kept from foundering simply by tliis means. An astonishing “fish story” comes fern the tropics; to wit, that a ship which had u hole knocked in her side was saved from sinking by a large fish bat came alongs.de and was sucked mto the aperture by tho rudi of wafer and stuck there. Commenting on this Ire men docs v'jrn !))«• Yew V..rk Commercial lew . whales , . oil , r h nidy J Hook I, , when , the ,. Oregon was struck ! After this every wcll-otjuipp^ship^ngiiMo two in tow* ready To phi" hiive holes.” a whale or up --—----- ' ^’-TT-*T People,1o ml gcim -,r ly_ mjhze i- bow i tt*ny Washington - there era in tho IJnited States. The “Official Postal niiidi." Guide show tW. s one cach in Arizona a,A Ark. rt.,., n sas, California, Connect,cut, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Ken tucky, Louisiana, Maine, MawHadiu^^f (4 Michigan ~ Minnesota Missminni 1 ’ Mis V^! York, . North i 7” ( iirohna, ,}l nr Ohio, J T I crinsyl- ,V .. T vanin, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia - tw. ntv-eicrht out ot tho Hiirtv-cmlit Bt.i •s an I two territories; . .. . and diis is cx elusive of tho Washington ington and Centres, Washington Harbor? I so on, d-—_ sprinkled orounA cnmillv I ^ ‘ " j S ___ ‘-.ii,- ^ r ^ portion of non %dri?owTdays from kidnev KiUncytroub,^. tivnib’-a ' L r has i.ns been been said said that that jjea^.y Jlntfof all the diseases of civmza ‘Hmn come directly or indirectly from such ■ cause. And . yet it was not even auspec- ; ted nliv- icirns -« - say ri---- , that that the the kidney kidneys J jJ • - wi# affected until Bn^rtlcnard , , ever Br'igld, flOtfi himself a suffcrcTf^icd r.^d ift’1858 in Ids ycar(, * *. his “Origi nal Researches ,, rt mto .1 tlic Pathology ,, <’ f f Diseases of the Kidnev lie was the first to describe the affection of tlic kidneys since, associated with his name. The issue of his important , work Wrought a great change in medical treatment. It ox pUdnod many inconsistencies am! inystcr fan to professional mind, previously as crilicd to dropsy anu i i Heart . disease, )• which really proceeded directly from Hie kidneys. For centuries mankind has been afflicted with various affections of the kidneys, although until forty or fifty years ago the most skilful and learned doctors had no conception of the fact. The \ c:ir 1885 \vitn<*s<cil a consult ruble falling fullin'/, off IT in m the tho number m « ami and value of o sheep in the l mted States. In the first respect, sheep furnish an exception to Other live stock, which have increased in some instances twenty-live ‘ per cent. In the , second , respect, there , has , been , „ a great depreciation, the greatest being that in swine, and the next in sheep. In the latter the decline has been eleven jierccnt, . or r from an average of , 4 $2.11 .,ii per , head to one of $1.91 per head. The aggregate v ahte of live A ,ck is reckoned for last January at $2,355,151,862, being a decrease of tho figures of the previous year of $91,266,121. In this aggre-ato tho value of sheep is placed at $92,443, SOT, o It-., than f-a»|a» cent, tin-low,-,t in the m«Io of vntiiHlkins. O, Ihc -I growing States, Texas suffered more than any of the others in loss of numbers, it being at least ton per cent as compared with the year previous. The States be¬ tween the Mississippi and the Ohio lost considerably, , , Ilhnois being ,, the greatest . •ullurer. •nilerer Ohio tlMO and ana Michigan tunuan fell only oniy threo to four per cent under last year. With the exception of Iowa, Missouri, Oregon, Colorado and Texas, all the States and Territories west of the Miss¬ issippi add to their number of sheep one- Nebraska to the extent of twenty per * cent. The present number of iu tho Uni •. toil i States o,,, is reckoned a- i nt (S S23.3S1, by the Department rf culture, with an average va'.u.- of per head. tb by conpvss. is to be constructed the style of tha Capitol. THE NEWS IN GENERAL, HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM ALL POINTS. EASTERN AM) MIDDLE STATES. Secretary Manning arrived in Nevf York n few days .since on his way home from the Hot Springs, Va., where he has been slowly getting illness. over the effects of his recent Severe The total assessed valuation of real and pr rsonal. state in New York city, is $1,4^, an increase of $41),Sol,‘Mi over that v? i or ,u the* „ firs, „ time in America , in-xntet.on , , cording tine Mott, to the l a.ieurmethod, by Dr. Valeu Harold Nowell, seven years old, was the subject of the operation. He was bittern by a pet dog ten days previous to the operation. Judoe Barrett, of New York, on the 7 th ordered the prosecution of the I oiks % ; itwn f(? f German newspaicr ontbeebarge i-tration of justice TIi* articles were written in connection with t))« trial of seventeen Bohemian bakers, ii.dieted for boycotting Mn*. Landgraf’s bak-ry Six of th«i seventeen Bohemians indicted . destroy 1 hoi rrou n try won an?.Mrs 'inndgraf thereby mg her business, were found guilty and kenteuoed to short t^rma of imprison "L” IWalm-ean^TinTi^n ' . .. ♦he Wilkes, Penn., 8 Canal Corner! near on e, wrecking the build ing and fatally injuring tho engineer and liromun. Rev. 8 am Joni:s, the Houthern revivalist, has lx* n KOL’TII AM) WEST. 'made n iuk, w]t’n i.-utar emetic. All were er made dangerously sick H p , , )DS pojsonr(1 at ^ J«rvllb- inra'hmsrnnrUt’Ji III" by , ataig " 1 e lMt e-earn tt '' couut at a ' picnic. i were i u a > \ in * n *, fovei-a! stoic. One man was burned to death. The kes • -. aggregate *175,(.wo, Corot kd Knights of I.nbor have" str.ielf „tr j5ttte KogF ° a I' !aalati on S Coi.omi p £ oai '- HI *' I .. tl10 cuteid United Btatea ah ot'Ha'r‘'elci -> I Mi tbeother Huffman, it Hi- u s e iliasant, n ' d : X day Mount la prospective shortage iu the wheat crop •*«« sent the prii-e up wifhnjurnputChicago, ^ 1 ’Minnesota Prohibit ionists have puts ft,U r htatetleKot in the fi- d. The Ohio PequblP,aned.turs in convention B. Pay no to the Cnitad ;; ^ -naf-*. dr,iwned Seven salmon fishermen were bv the u|eetting of thoir boat; during a Oregon. gale oif the entranewof the Ccrfumbialtivor. Hkmino, .\ew Mod o, haslosfc its prin i- 1 a ,U I ’ U “' muses by fire. T v^,onrrU?' UbUcanShaVerenominated Go Miw. Theresa Tcrriv mompnio?!^ sanity living at Princetou. lad ina killed her two young ehiidron and herself. a «A»UII«.ton. ni ton Twk rtnmifa. , ranting" report. IV Wi. pasi a (tend- u to Mar* ’ ' were sometUm« ‘Tudely ^..f Com-.rc expr.^ ^ tbe moUy in pashm* th -prjrate ■ . pension bills have boeu a., srepro seated. H. A. WmTtflfcy, iWJpjicel c ashier or v ’h-N 1 the States other Tiv»isurj' day, at t his idanT-'o dead oTapopM?/, Wa-hing- 11 '"-' r« in *&>»• R" **"' ' i 1 b ft Treasury employe for about twenty-qnoyeaiv The Souaie has confirmed tha following nomi rations; J-W, llomeyn, of Detroit, S' ,' 1 - tlfc'' Ariz ,,'n P ' Tub President has signed the Pension Ap- . ^’ r a ;„ nhp V( n,-smul Means Commit! - it was onier.d that'the Uaudall Tariff bill lie i-ojk in rtoil affirmative. adversely. All the Democrats voted the the IT. .hleut on tlie.H-U vetoed twenty nine prhn:« pension bills and the bill pro it '.vUnn 1 ' 'Tb** 1 bil'/is've^ Pulut h last-nam-Hl tood be a :s- in the President's opinion the buildiug is none owirv. mainly lie-aase, The private the pension pn-sl bU | SWOIV veto ..| dwtmnys, the riaim-uits a J« *® “ h hvM.icnt’s esiiminatlon into sa il . a-e ac oompan.es the vetoes. Tin Senate on the lith eon'irmed tbe nomi nations of Governor Huih Thompson, of Bt-utU t ar. ban to 1« A-sistont Sivretar.v of inas!o?at'll?'miiighiun Ala J 1 * , . Dhvnek.n (h»s]HMi lees took possession of a train at Son ersci, Kv., intiinuiatxMl the pan * ,n n ers an, ‘ k,lluJ tb -‘ vuductor and a col oredp ntor. Fohe-t tires m Northern Bisconsm have j “-ritwhuil;' S8 a re >m hunueune at Apalachicola, Fla., resulted in the lc*< of six lives and heavy dtunogo to shipping and other property. Ti!B swiate has r jeeted the nomination of Hiuiy Hail to be Postmaster at CatssiU, N.\. FOREIGN. Rltv . H kxry Ward Bkcher preached tarkers to an enormous eonureRauou in Dr. church tho Cty T,n.plw~m Horn on. tX expre^'’"^ hear Glasgow, s otlanJ. ^YL^HS.^one" by a'm.wd replied durim; "ith the elections. 1U - iiv-.h.vts JlSSllSl ISlSTlm .-li-a aa. iumates were ai-m t hI. Late eleetien returns indicated a defeat for Glads:, n-and Irish Hmne Buie. Heavy gains (or the Consarvartv,want Unionists. who were opposed to the Gladstoniaus aad l'ameUites, were reporte 1. Tit* heat has- b-en s« overwhelming the national in Madrid that the St>anishCortes adjourn. le-islatim—was ■> obligwl to onfitalv hj -reasethrough News has twu re eivonl of a de tractive tornado intiwK-.nl oi .'a inuvi. Low lauds w ro inundated, great tietdso; bananas destroyed, an I ma w vrs e s to u from their uooruisa The estimated loss is fSOd.cQO. Ax immense eonjeeratoa heard Henry Ward Bo- -tier pr a h his second sermon in the City Temple. L »i doll. Wales, A POLITICAL ri d a! Ca -di.r. was brokea up bv the vo \who charged crowd and wmmlol o er b" lie p rsous, so Godly that they had to taken to ihj liosj ital. A vorxo Massachusetts girl died the • bv something and ,, ;iJ tQ ^ / fd , be * 0 ^ m Q neglected ° their duty. AH INDIAN SIMOON. A HOT WAVE SWEEPS OVEM SOUTH WESTEllS PEAtSS. Vegetation Destroyed In Dakota md the People in a Panic. I’articulars of an unporecedented hot wave ihat has been visiting se -tions of the North *e->tare given in the following dispatch from 8t p.,., le'in Minn . Poor Pal-nta end^wt, thr.- hf .p n mining to an rd"av The hot weather of the pa-1 w.'elc culminaW u. i regular old fashioned In-1 an simoon, fh* «r was as hotas from a baker s oven. Bn l, oroke s-eapo from un-e.n their danger. in's Horses and • att'n fasten and p.uuel into streams and woul 1 not be moved. At many Vas j la-es in Dakota and UegrL Iowa the Tu-Sfy mer -ury been up &iy to 10a was the hottest ever known in Mime sota. the mercury ranging from 8 } t > de Steves with an.average of 85 degrees chining ,b *™*“ r Tli ■ simoon in Dakota was severest at Ash ton. At 4 odock in the morning the people \ . «ve were_awakened b. ? t, wh.ehalm by a roaring ; .M stifle.1 noise breathing. and opp. On es- 7,,- V l 1 a^un'a® m without, which felt like that from au oven. Ihoro \vc:e at the tirn t- heavy H0Utilw esr, from ^hichdi VfJr seiz.'!''inxvi'Vlie rp-mle tVot n . Z^rintiT^ :^f K '- at J n * b - neigbborhoo f?“ l of cyclone r '' *' Ian y fath*rs and mothers on ^“ihSr . ami rushed w«eU into the street heJi win^ that their houses (he. f wtnKffi ,1? * . taa ^ . . earth was be a-?,-,™u \Va?‘oon Strucki?iiot y ^ t)WD i wind'whtehhe ita t e ’ tblt 11 but 5dm?nteVr^'oi””? 'min arged,-ops Tnehotwmdlastcdabout You “onSSitffivrfhS nearly five years, aad been wit when the mercury before sto- d exj>GrieSxe<l 100 dogr-ys such in the .oo^ted shade, but n«'»f not have been left a vestige of living veg etation, and it is doubtful whether animal iiS, Sffiiil f u ^ fea. tb v< ? : vvdhstood Sfeamystery^ it, As a ££y gen th 8 k lja one. The hot wind was immediately fol lowed the by 1 a cool stands breeze, but 100 now, degrees at it in'the j>. mercury at shade. li- a .m,as an 1 merchants pocts C of crors' astihs makes the sSS'^dlyoft * ! exce A sive heat. special from Pierre, Dak., says: Pierre citizens have just passed through one of th« FcTthe laltthreoTysthe ^rtn^d^ averaged about 103 degrees, but last n ght fW 1 .J be clbnax - About - :! °idmiv windswept i 11 mfi i n momen ts down the streerts, blow ing down several houses and doing other damage. The wind was red hot and yieople continued unt 1 4 o’clock" this morn ‘ in P- * n, l at 2 o’clock tho thermometer 1 i'^h»tered 305 Montana degree-. the Passengers who Pa ( 'f l , ue * 11 f’^om ^of° on a^^owto Northern hand was rishing The traimxpm air felt like a blast faces from a furnace. htW their blistered and bv tl.e hot air - Asmon w- thermometer had reached ahy such al itmte aslaflat-lA ,u . wm an eagerness of twoscien tiststhey began to seek to account for it. Mr. McGinnis was inclinedto.beljev^ that it was by adaii eJbud, deoxygenized ami seems not that only it to acts b a kf,t but so carbonic on the lungs almost like acid or devitalized air. Sergeant Lyons as ^entedto this meSt^otha^ed KiJ wTsoneTf the mysterious weather dispensations of Di . vine providence which could not be pr0<Ucte<L FRIGHTFUL rnwTUTTT ALLIDLW arrrnFWT i. — i> e ail, and Oeairnciion the Ontcome oi Cnreicnew. At Buclitcll, Ohio, Johnson Bros. & Patterson, of the New Pittsburg mine, were preparing to start up on Monday. c„ iv i j n this min ■ has to be gotten out by lv .,icliincry. leak discover- . Sunday compressed afternoon a air receiver was which cd in tile Charles furnishes the motive power, and n. Johnson and Tom Williams went into the mine about 250 vards to repair it. Th< y neglected to turn off the pressure, ami, upon attempting to stop the leak, the of the receiver burst m fragments, knocking the machinery about and tear Unr ut. ‘ things ,\ generally. the killed and Th folu v ing is a list of ' wounded: killed Thomas Williams intently . Charles II. Johnson, iatallt J ® ?* llallmn, injured: fatally injured L. \\ bite, sen 0U sIv Johnson died W-fore morning. Thom as was reparing the leak, and John son. one of the owners of the mine was holding a light, and the others were look injJ , lllw i u . n the explosion occurred. j.- vcr - p om . j„ Williams’ bodv was hrokem Johnson was thrown against a ''all with a uvast ^very sh^ of cloth ngon Wfl ww blown oxxr twenty yards. It wasa c;is0 V0S u!ting from carelessness. The rq-k-ri-d adeemon in aeeoalancc the above la m. Taking Big Chances. ' lo.ffii jto College ,, Athle 1 ir muscles seem sott, and your whole sys tem needs toniug up. Are you drinking anything:” Athlete—“Not drop.” College a S° .. c K_..< 1, m Y, okin<» to excess'* College Athlete- . No. o Foach •■t-tudyiug. little. „ Codugo At hide Lr ye>, a Coach (indignantly)— lose “Great the heavens, race!’'— man, do vo.i want to .it<. \ t lc } to, o t a Sun * A man liviim near Tampa, Fla, was bitten on the Peg by a ratdesuake. A doctor was at once sent for. and tiie lee was bandaged tightly aoove ,, .he wound. , shhough it was thought that the m*-i son d surely die bet. re medical assist •nee could le pr. cured. The leg having ! »ccn bared for the application of the i »£ nailyamvid. he found the .vs: mau m good s i '“udition, but the ground around wa suewn with mu quitoes. IMPROVEMENTS IN GEORGIA. THE AMOUST OF GOVERSMES1 MOSEY EXPESDED. The Total Sum Appropriated Since 1789, for Public Buiidiug^ Uivers, ete. The following is a complete statement of the expenditures of the government for public improvements in the State ol S i Jfforgia he buddings: since 1780. First as to the pub The first public building authorized m ■ ^rgia was in 1810, when congress made «° appropriation of $20,100 for “erect j mg a customhouse and warehouse in Sa ! aiJ T” owanees h " ku\e ■*» been «*«««» made: M*-* . , Atlanta courthouse and P. O...$275,001 _ Macon postoffiee................ 125,000 Marietta ” conn Seme T .....TT...... 5 000 Savannah n customhouse, , old..... ooi ~M0(. o, Savannah customhouse, new.... 195,ooC “e-”-"'#,* The total allowances for public build- 62 ?' 5 *' R Iver an< l harbor improvements , m • the th , State commenced in 1826, when an ap propriation of $50,000 was granted bv congress “to remove obstructions in the river, below the city of Savan “***.” The allowances are as foHows: Altamaha river.......... — $ o8,000 0C Brunswick harbor.......... 8:3,000 Ot and Flint Coo^ Loosa river river ...... ............... *‘2>XXn 410 000 00 Cumberland sound......... «oo,000 or 0C Danen harbor............. 8,000 00 Etowa river.............. 10,000 0G ^liut Ocmulgee river................ river........ 97,000 .><.000 0C 0 t ... Oconee river ............. 23,500 0C Oostonauia and Coosawattie ^ c Augustine rivers,...... creek......... ........ 20,000 n ,000 Ot Of Savannah harbor........... 082,000 O' favannah river............ 661,090 (i-l Survey of nvers............ 10,000 0c Rom ley marsh............. 10,000 Of --- Inert lias been fjiuto a large sum Oi money used in the light house service it Hie state. The following are the allow CumUrLnflsland Cumberland _ Isiand...........voo,000 ^- 00 0 00 00 St. Simons.................. 80,0o0 01 Sapelo...................... 63,278 8 i Tybee......................112,443 river lights.......... 99,150 0C 0( Ilcaoons and buoys........... 64,814 41 Light vessels................ 20,000 00 --- Total ..................$494,728 36 Tll< ; on j- v ffiipropriation for a branch mint , in Georgia is for Dahlohega, the amount being $87,870. | The next and last item of expenditure is J°f. P orts and arsenals, which areas follows: Augusta Arsenal...............$239,750 F“ rt Pulaskx.................. TJL'IZ J38,808 Total...,.................$1,463,558 The following are the total amounts ai f, ubI^*B*ildmgs..........$ : R - 629,556 00 ] . Rivers arid Harbors........ 2,919,596 64 j ’-lie »-ads........... . 5,000 J)0 *• “8 ---~| Total total lor for Geoma... ueoygia. ..$5,600,316 ,.g , , 92 j KILLING JUSTIFIED. church and Is ! A _ r Tried Tri< and " ‘ Aeouitted. On Monday, afternoon. Miss Duma j Connelly walked into Hunters |C.,whil Chapel church Barnwell county Sunday school was in session, with a cocked revolver in her hand, and passing : into she fired the pew her pistol ^f^to'iwodieA^Sll' into eteeatey s rack. He arose, looked around, tiled to get out his pistol and at the same time made tor {h c door. Miss Connelly snapped her off. ; pistol at him again, but it failed to go Steedlcv feU at the door of the elmrch j ust outside and died m about three mm nf es. Miss Comiellv surrendered hersell to the authorities, her only excuse for : murdering Steedley, who was her second cous ; n) v .- a s certain defamatory reports circulated by him about her, and sevcu.i obscene letters addressed to her and her brother by him. The grand jury of Barn well conntv found an indictment against h( . r for murder on Monday. The trial came 0 ff Wednesday and resttltm in her acquittal. Since the commission of tho murder. Miss Connelly has expressed no regrets whatever. This is the first ease c f t!lis kind ever tried in South Carolina courts. - ““ A DESPERATE FIGHT. _ . * “ alld „„ Son cawed with a - Klli | e b> a farmer. m„„ q tem reached ," hereof a knife-to tl ! < j n h Rev . John Lockey, oided b h «West . P - h : IT1 .. n( i a man y f by the name n - 1 McClelland ‘ dis Fork Ark Lockey and their farm? and ended in a furl L Lockey seized his gun and the cap sn. [napped 00 *The* fathef^d son . t he lat kitiCau-l c-ommenced the ^rk rf -d.J.rne.ion The old™ and the boy were litcn. y 1 ’ there is no hope lor the recox of f Clelland, his _ preliminary either. Mr. at tr j a ] was -1-—-- acquitted. KILLED BY ... IAG .mnevive HTMNU. During ^ a storm which „„es P d over the Clovis ranch, twenty miles south of Pana, Texas, a house in which four women were sleeping, Was struck by lightning. instantly P?, Wpdnesdav ’Fednes ., and all were killed._____ Important Information. _ A professor in the medical department of the University ^ of Texas asked one of , the more advance.l , x S.ud _ A nts ; “A\ liat is the name ol the teeth that a ! j hunmn being ge 3 last course.”— Siftings. 1 “False teeilg o: i ohar.ty \ It is an imposition upon t. waste tim» and patieuce assist on a man in tin ci woman who will not you . work. STRIKES AND STRIKERS. WHAT THEY HAVE l)OXE A SB ARE VOIXG-THE EFFEC TS. Terrible SnITering Caused by the Strike at tJrape Creek* liliBois A dispatch from Grape Creek, Ill., savs; There is prospect of a riot over the importation of negroes bv the Grape Creek Coal company to take'the places of the striking miners. The strikers work declare under that the new men cannot anv circumstances, and that thev will resist force with force. The sheriff of Vermillion countv has forty special den- K. Ok, „ ,h, ground- maintain and will do all his power to order if the ne ° ..roes conclude to go to work. There were Vert over °^ er a thousand anu strikers tr 1K f^ s when , the present strike . , began, but , . the number is now reduced to seven or eight hundred. All are destitute, and the con dition of many of them is absolutely *«-»» «”'> *»*» barely sufficient clothing to cover them and hardiv sufileient food to exist on. The men insist that they never will sur render . Most of them are foreigners, the predominatin'.. " Germans The strikers have been out most of the tiDie for sixteen months. Late last fall they underbid accepted the company’s other rates, and even each for the work, ^ Tr empl °^ e ^ for “ U on account of the company s business having . f greatly fallen elfin consequence of the 0 ng continued strike. As soon as the spring Lnd foF opened thev renewed their de r the Pittsburg rate of seventy five cents a ton, and went out May 1st. Thev have since been evicted from the eomiianv’s houses on'per and are subsisting *tbe in the woods centages from union and the charity of the surrounding country 4nties, . A few of them have put up slat , s some have tents and others seek any shefter they can find, most of the time having only the protection of that ''-.-“‘ft- an extensive strike is threatened m the packing houses of that city. The trouble is caused bv tlic floor men or side trim “ ers - For some time past they have , been handling . 12o head of cattle each day. This they claim is too much for the pav, and a committee has been ap pointed to inform the foreman of the fact. The men demand hereafter they shall be required to handle but 100 head per day, and that they shall receive the same wa that they are now getting, $24 per week. They also demand pay whether they work or not. What action they take is not yet known. Three men arrested belonging in to Chicago the steanifitters’ Monday union were while interfering with workmen at the Mason building, corner of Fifth avenue and Washington streets. The firm of Kroeschali Bros steamfitters employed three men who had been out on strike May 15, and one named Burkhardt was a member of the union, who returned to work on the old terms. A delegation from the union visited him and making threats of violence, was arrested. The employes in the Rock Island yards and car They,nearly shops' resumed^the work ten-hour by the sched- piece, u l e . On Monday morning a switch on the Shore °e road was turried at 45th a docal freight train was over Several cars were derailed, t n0 ? n an engine with forty cars, many them loaded with bridge piling for the Bridge company, just part was of going the At 41st Street, as from passe d, a man ran out an ^7 an d turned the switch. Fifteen of ^ cars ran on t0 the Rock „a main track and several of them derailed and the main tracks of the Rock Island and Lake Shore roads The safety switch was broken c , ons j derab i e otker damage was done, NEWSY nuu GLEABIH6S. —• Th e average cost of a Parliamentary can vassis about $3,001. j v Montana alone there are S,003 different registered cattle brands. Tuts year’s wheat ero- is the heaviest ever harvested in California sai ™ - k waM^atait - ’ ^ X *-e sixty Library, thoa'anl volumss in tho Bc S mto and not one novel among them. The question of using bloodhounds to pur ** J V v vrious countries Shitim of South America are ft . BeriVfu levtemb£ ™ of tbeii- oroda-ts 1 f m the lait ten years the increase of tha Mormon po lulavicn in the United States has be,n about 35 per centum. Colorado offers a premium o. -?- per 150 for every line of tr.es maintained a.oag ditches, fences and hi= “• ”■ A PROPOsmox meetmg ^vor.^ . of a sax-iags bank for soldiers l-V^te>jV The total number stona'tmd of. dwMhn^hous^ m tha balance of nuxe-1 nuw -i a.» d on'rofthTi-Ialtolels eilae, in ths A VO rth over liU£ a million. “ell's S;;<) p ri90ner s in the York penitentiary City, only on B , ai . k Wan t. New three refus? to go to church. These are Herr t ie Loyalist, an 1 his companions, Braunschweig cvXNtvo/lams and Bchenck. at Islip, Long Island, N. Y is aa'est.v bushels : di-hnl of clams industry. aie used Between dail vat f0 a and 503 ^ .ty-ive cents bushel. Clam t ,, fs . V e a is bottled aad sold by druggists as a cure fordys;depaa. to Christian 4 Scotch eoilev belonging has ad-pte 1 Tomling. of Lou’sviffe. wy.. lost their a brood of little chi -kens wh.eta have mother. At night the dog guards tasm too-1 an his kenne’ anl bv day he s -ratche; up for them/' He alio shares his meals with his adopted famly. of Wooster. Ohio,says Eattuesxake Jim. of t'Rat ratclesuate onlv rd'ab'e *'11-e for ths bite & 'is tm-y-ut n.v K« savs that a of tur p. u ri3e held over th» bitt-n s -„t. the un o. k -d .r.ruth do va, will draw out the poimn. which can be seen as it ente.ti ti e terpentine m a sort o: ol e (lame, a though he has never been “ t en. he tried this cure on h.s dogs, a.ways wan success. A BLOODY FIGHT. THREE BROTHERS KILLED B1 THREE EE SEE RV1LDERS. A Dispute Over Laud in Texas Leads to Bloodshed. _ Tb bro “^f“ T L . Elmer „ r ee f W15 ' and fame? „ Smith-were killed five mites from Hennet Texas, m a fight resembling a pitched bafHe. m which shotguns loaded with buck * hot «“d six-shooters were the weapons. Neal But2her * mana K er for the Clay County Lard aad Cattla Company, oua ot tha bl SS est hve-stock concerns of tho nomp.on an l Ja -x Diutaitt to tmja trace °t land with wire. Ta» ownership of of dupute betwoea the tho Smith brothei» and thr company; and thateotha^ 5fl^i h "J had VOr warned V* Buteher l6 not But to pro- mer ' i°'rinrii. pJt Taa;n P S0 “i Dout « l oftht latter received threat-, r 7 1!hlm th ? ~ t wm Jj t-* r fencing pourbitfe within 3W tot be Me threats and th> O mtbitt crowd went on with sfx-hOTfers ^TheT s^med 1- t^bav^mSfa safe estimate of th 3 deter.nmafcion of rh«ir enemies. The latter role in a wagon to within 101 feet of where the Doutbitfc crewd ^The^ijial shotgun for the the battle was the raisng of a from wagon-bad by one of the Smiths. The Doufcbitt crowd drew their weaponsaud OTnnn] fired Shotspasselinquicknae on ““hiteihfhtea^ S Jho’ 13 S^T hll^Vnfn 1 " 0 sfcret a°ruutt£ died out Smith farmhousa near by. Mrs. Smith, the mother of the young men, when she heard the shooting ran t iward the running home. She stopped them and drove back rapidly to the spot where Elmer He told her that'Dolftbift"Jail sho^bodi'of his brothers, and that Sterling Dawscm had shot him. The Doutbitt crowd surren lored THE SUNDRY CIVIL BILL. Changes Made Tl.nt Affect the Souihem States. The following are the principal changes and those locally affecting the south, made by the senate committee on uppro priations public in the buildings-Charleston, sundry civil bill: For South Carolina, strike, out. Galveston, Texas, strike, out. Peasnccla increased from $5,000 to $10,000. Mosquito inlet light station, Florida, increased from $30,000 to $50,000. The provision m the hpuse bill that no portion of printing the appropriation for engrav ing and l nited States notes “shall be expended for printing United States notes of large denomination in hen of notes of small denomination, can celled or retired, was stricken out by the committee, but was subsequently restored and remains as it was in the* house bill, Tlic provision in tlm Louse bill relating to silver certificates, is amended to read as follows: That the secretary of the treasury is hereby autholized :md required to issue authorized ^ shall ! a^mi^£k' be receivable, at redaemiu mrot ” m and payable in hk-> manner and for like purposes as is provided February for silver certiii cates by the act of 28, 1878, entitled an act to authorize tha coinage of the standard silver dollar and to re store its legal tendei qjuuacter prqv uled that said denominations of $1, $2 *d $5 may lie issued in lieu ofsilver certificates of larger denomination in the treasury and to that extent said certificates of larger denominations shall be cancelled and destroyed. provision lighting rivers, To the for the committee has added the bt Johns river, F'a., and the Columbia and W illa mette rivers of Oregon, and increasad the armronriation from *170,000 to $200,000. Ten thousand dollars is appropriated national board for salaries and expenses of the of health. To defray the expenses inci dent to landing, housing, protecting and inaugurating upon Bedloe’s Island of Barthold’is statue of Liberty Enlighten ing the World and for the construction of platforms, repairs of wharf, clearing t p ( , grounds of unsightly structures and other incidental expenses, and for inei dental expenses of the ceremony of inau gumtion, the senate committee provided $56,500. Eighty thousand dollars is ap propriatecl for a wharf at Fortress Mon roe. An appropriation of $107,000 is made for construction and repairs at the for southern branch of the national home disabled volunteer soldiers, increasing the total appropriation for this institution to $1,681,000. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. _ TEIX the jst , nlad8 *35.001 d tr ing h’s re eat visit m London. Hegaveoniy ^ t£y^y produce next seasm. T>« >J«a«i«m W “J Miss Ma. 3 EL Jordan, an Atmri-an ac- _ tres. ;s play, iae Mam sbeappeared m Da 0 i.et s bar for Slocum. Miss Fanny Davexport opens her next tour. October 11th, as ths she Lmon will be Squire Theatre New To: k, wuere so m m a varied re; e. t ire. M CoQfEtex, th> great French comedian, who is to visit this country next season, has tender*! hii resignation to the manager of tae Comeoie Francaise, Paris. The A.ercan Opera Company, whi-h. has just returned to New York aftei a » cossful tour, ls already making elaoo.ate p: e p arations f'W n ixt season. A report that George Gould, the e.uest • son of Jay Gould, has gone to Loudon to many Miss Edith.Kin tdoa.cf DalUsjGom pany. ex.-i-9i m.’-:u m-ie.t m . ew \o.k. Shi ^ a n h ViO raist, refu^e^ w,,,. v.u. h wa- ,-:'.e.v l him to accompany p a tri iu a single song at h?r last concert be tort h.-r marr.at \ £e demanded $1,000. Tffs ce w o -era. libretto by Charles H. jj t. music by Edward Solimon, entitled —Tii? Mii i aul Moonshiners.'’ will be pro Utx e<i m New York earlv in tho autumn.
