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About Crawfordville democrat. (Crawfordville, Ga.) 1881-1893 | View Entire Issue (May 13, 1887)
The Democrat. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY BY CLEM. C. MOORE. CRA WFORD VILLE, GEORGIA. Knteiwl *t th* po»toIBce »t Crtwfurdnile, Ororji*. as *ecoad-cl»M mail matter. General Sheridan has a sunny corner room in the new War Department build tore * of hi* own choosing. ~»p»">;«-. Several cabi nets are filled with Indian pottery and curios, and the walls are covered with paintings of Western scenery J with buffa , lo* and ,, Indians 1 - m ■ the ,, foreground. , , Black ... , Kettle’s war belt is as dear to him as a r“T r* * Si “‘ «r M *• ch,e ' ...... The new Baptist “yearbook” shows followmg followin'/ statist statistics if...... as to to the he* strength of Baptists in the l.nited States: Assoem tion*, 1,244; ordsince! ministers, 19,277; churches, 30,522; baptisms, 154,378; members ’ 2 ’ 732 ' 376- Sunday schools 13 '.'’•"I fr d t«* iclir r« 107 037 bun lay school scholars , 1,011 8., val Vic of church lvropcrty, $42,558,704; contributed tor missions, $849,838.07; for education, $108,749.00. Total amount of contributions, $7,843,031.13. A A newsn.nc, newspapci in in lllino i tin i.s s recently . y brought suit against 43 men who would not pay their subscriptions and ob tsined a judgment in each case for tho made affidavit that they owned no more property than the law allowed them, thus preventing attachment. I lien un der decision of the supreme court thej were arrested for pr-tit larceny nn 1 bound over in tho sum of $300 ca-h. All but six ® nave bonds ’ those went to jail. The * new postal law makes it petit larceny to fake a newspaper and refuse to pay .or It. Tho theories for studying character from the veriest trifles promise to have Th( . * ' * ‘ [* lho ’ most ludicrous, is the one formulated by . ..... and heel are equally worn, it belongs to an energetic man of business, a trust worthy officer, an exemplary wife, an excellent mother. A shoe worn on tho inner edge 4 indicates irresolution, on tho r» temper, etc «?;, It has <‘T"■° been accop r od i r, that a man’s walk indicates character, and the step from gait to gaiters isn’t a long one. MGs Clara Cushman of Boston, who . has iccently , „ returned r , I fmn, from mw.-in.i.irv mission .ry work in China, has established a number of schools ill Pekin for Chinese girls. She says tho girls are very apt scholars. and that $30 arc required to support and Instruct instruei onn one child cm. . for a year. vear The children chant thoir lessons in a curious ring-song tone, and tho noiso made by a hundred of these seekers aftor knowledge i* frightful. Seven hundred girl infants who had been thrown into the streets of r». 100,1, L!„ l.T 7 tl„.ir n * .n.nta were rcseu d in one year by Catholic missionaries. ,, Miss Cushman says that nn American sewing' machine is known in Pekin a9 the “iron tailor ” Tho advantages of natural gas for manufacturing purposes arc attracting Attention even outs.do of our own conn try. Several Belgium and English makers of plate glass and iron founders have been making s inquiries ' with a view of removing their works to the nntuial gas district of Pennsylvania. Their object is not only to get a chenpir fuel, but a better product, especially of plate glass, which is superior to that made by burning coal. Several sites havo been contracted for, and in some tho purchase has been completed. The American Cultivator thinks it will bc somewhat strange if the possession of the natural gas helps to make the United States tho gt ate si manufacturing country in the world. Manv lightlsir people are strangely affected by It the and 6 H'0 feet altitude Cheyenne, in Wyoming. They gener *Uy imagine that they are going to be carefullv watched 1,. Women are tho most liable . to be affected, and , they , feci . . the off ct of the rarefied atmosphere in the cars before reaching the town. Among other incidents of this nature a policeman relates the following: “A little fellow from Nevada began to show the effect of the altitude as the train neared Cheyenne. By the time he had reached then: ho had barnca-icd him * e if !n - 11 . roirin-r “ >„m ’ nml ’ ” to throw him-cf out of the , window . , when the trainmen furred their way in ami caught him. Ho was sure some body was going to kill him. I got him away from the crowd and told him I’d protect him, and fins! y got him quieted down. The trainmen looked after him until they t«*gan to descend from Sher¬ man, and thereafter be set-mod to be as o*ne a« an' b-vlv.” “ He E that injum- J another in j J ore* him self. THE DEMOCRAT, CRAWFORDVILLE, GEORGIA. BUSINESS BOOM. Money Pouring into the Sonth for Mills, Foundries, Railways, Etc. Belena, Ark., is about to build asplen did opera-house. Union City, Tenn., will build a $150, 000 court-house. San Antonio, Tex., devote* $150,000 for a city hall, jail, etc. Greenville, Tenn is to have a tobacco f ’iriri2Tv c»,»n.v- $ Winston, N. C., with a capita! of JO, ooo. The Memphis <fc Birmingham Railroad Co. contemplate building a branch road to to Aberdeen, Aberdeen Miss Miss »• /««»>«» and others have cha.tered ...... ...... M0 ........ stock i“ company.tocultivate ......V-• w*« am J»■».- mail ufaCtui<; Mik Ht B,rm,ngba,n ’ A1 “' A company with a capital of $50,000 , iag organized at Titusville, A rk., to cultivate thfi poppy and manufacture morribb.* Packard & Grovo will " lovc lor . lar «* « h <>e factory from lbockton. Mass., 1° V VVCT !| b 0r °’ V' bin ire hands w.H , be c,npkm,i. i I he Carolina, Knoxville A Western Ihuhvny Co ha- been incorporated to build a road from Knoxville, I'-nn., to Greenville, C., loO miles. J. B. Biirkstresscr has purchased the | Black Mills falls water power, at Dade yiRe, Ala., and will, it is said organize a stock company to build a cotton factory. W. G. Welty, of Cleveland, Ohio, and associate, will build large works to man RR 1 - Ga - Al,out * 40 ’ 000 vuU bc % ± Montgomery, F. V. Anderson, q g West, W. J. Cameron and f. Forst have incorporated a company to build a hotel at Leeds, Ala., with a capital stock of $150,000. The Alexander Iron Co., of Nashville, reported before, has a capital stock of 11 000,000. The cempany will at once malleable iron works with a daily capacity of about SO or 40 tons. Tho Balcony Falls Co., of Virginia, previously reported as incorporated, lias been organized with an authorized eapi tal stock of $2,500,000. The company will start a town and build furnaces and mMluf(tctoriCH Archer coin «5 iron iwn way uo.,ioduuu ’ jihn lau'Is. S Perry, the great stove men. f uc turer of Albany, N. Y., decided to establish expensive stove works in tho aui f this ............. Finally, he or deci ,] 0 ] „ pon South Pittsburg, Tenn GOD’S VISITATION ___ ON OVll it NhWHUOH, \n 4 }illtolt MEXICO. MEXICO . A """laii’y J ■"oil”r"!> ivoi'.ie I nr r l bl e (Imam <•* Kiiir.l n n<i i;m eral Terror. Nows from Guymas, Mexico, state that the earthquake of a few days ago was ac com ., lln5od by a terrible volcanic erup (j(m (U p n ( r j sp0i which destroyed and Monte attma, killing one hundred fifty per sons and igniting the woods in tho vicinity. Twenty-seven persons were ' llls,> ut 0x11,11 *»>' ,llc lalll, !P '»uild [iugs. Many persons were injured in Grenada mid Ousabar, which towns were almost completely destroyed. Another violent earthquake miles is reported South 111 ’' ,ln Jo'- 1 ' mountains, forty . lluachuca, in Sonora. Gen. I of Fort 1 or Hvth has sent an exploration party to investigate. A party just returned from Santa ( aliana mountains report that the , full which canyons are of water, was j brought to the surface by the earthquake, I his is a great boon for that region, as ,l,cro ar< ; ’houwnds °f acres of good j . farming . lands at the needed base of these moun | llbls _ which only water to make j them valuable. Another good effect of the earthquake is the opening of two large gold veins, which were discovered in Santa Gaisina mountains, at a point where the whole side of the mountain slid down. COERCION FAILING And lrHnnd’a I'rieml* Very Hopeful* With regard to the recent division in the British Parliament, refusing a sc loot committee, a deputation of eonserv ative members waited upon the Irish party, to sav that if tho latter were w,l “ng that th, scope of the propo-ed ,v.m siderable conservatives, ^inrin^-- would mimbt r of support Mr. Gladstone's aroendm-nt. ' The Irishmen counseled with Mr. Glad stone, Mr. Morlcv and Mr. Dillon, ami gtlW(|UCIltl} enlarged tiloy w , ro include „,‘!ing to have it so us to any charge made by anybody against any lush member. Tlum the conservatives Son V ^ “ takeS rt V if ^ followe^he -o Vw w among his would resign. The Time-, Dillon affair tends to weaken the alliance of the con servat.ves ami unionists, and thus works directly against the interests of the gov eminent, lho general impression is that t he present government ts in a tight place, and likely to be defeated. DEATH OF A JURIST. Judge J. T. Willis, of Columbus, died! Ga., t *g stricken with paralysis, and He was unconscious from"the time of the attack to his death. He had been on the just street during the afternoon. He had laid down on his bed for an after noon u«p, when he was attacked, lie * a ?!. <i * , J' one » native »f lalbot county, and leaves* wife and right children PERSONAL. Mrs. Francks Hodgson Burnett, tbe ESX’JSiS?. * u,h °”’ *" Queen Victoria is determined to vin dicate Lady Colin Campbell. Her method of doing this will be to receive the young j woman at court. The Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, now nearly seventy years old, is a great sports- j man, and has shot in his Tburingian for ests some 1,100 stags. Gen. Sheridan takes a ride through the Shenandoah valley eveiy spring. ’ Proe. Young of Princeton College, ,„ N. J.,will observe the total eclipse of the sun in August next at Kireshama, in the government of Kostroma, Russia. H.s companions will be the scientific repre sentatives of Russia and England. . alm09t (;ertain that the Med- I rit %2Z,SZX •* SE*US£5i about President Cleveland’s adiposity. 1 Sowers has had a big advertisement. 0kv c a Kvans aild H on Patrick I .,j ' I w M <){ A ta> <}a have bccn tolk . ^ the proposed Chattanooga <fe Augusta railroad to the people of ChattiU nooga. Gen. Evans is president for of the companv antl the the road prospects gopd. the con ftruetion of are A i.ecturer on “Golden Opportunities ^ * ^^ThvKiJw^iHiiSr „ . r Thr-rn 1 ’ K>l)f c j ot)l j er whi( . h of his opportunities Thinking, had been most useful te him. tr ying toilin<>- trustin'- in God is all of, my biography,” ' replied the great shop-1 kccner ' v v (i t to have netished in tne ill-fated expedi is s-iirl to be alive A Syrian Greek tbc Enrop. an prisoners at Khartoum is a J”’ring gTa.^”"’ Thli* cveJy SS to suppose tlint this man is Vizetclly. Gen. S. B. Buckner is a man of middle stature, with small, piercing imperial blue and eyes, snow-white mustache and a rather ruddy face, lie is between sixty five and seventy years of age. He is wealthy. to"be His real estate in Chicago is said worth $500,600. About, two years ago he married, as his second wife, a reigning belle of Richmond, Va. Jekebson Davis has written a review of Gen. Wolselyc’s “Life of Gen. Lee.” Mr. Davis takes exceptions to many of the English general’s statements, and, while not finding fault with the superla ‘ n-miahle The interesting historical problem Washing- as to what kind of clothes George has hejn ton wore at his inauguration hat settled His suit on I w, 1 America, established in 1788. Tie color | of the doth was dark brown. Tljo Pres I ident wore white silk stockings, also of American manufacture. St ANUAL seems to be the order of the day at the Austrian court. There is trouble between the Crown Prince Ru , liltlc Crown Princess Stephanie; they have been on the verge of separation, hut the Emperor has person ally interposed as a peacemaker, and in stead of leaving Rudolph for good, Stephanie, will only depnvo him of her pres, m e for a few weeks, while she goes home to Belgium to pout and be consoled by papa ami mamma. JoskuiiusComi'Ton, present member of the Legislature of Alabama, has left his home mysteriously. Compton settled in gt Clair Co. four years ago, coining from Kentucky, so he stated. He took up his a bode in the little town of Eden, where be followed the trade of a carpenter, jj; s jjf e was exemplary, and in a year or go bc wag elected town marshal. Last year, after a seasonable probation, Comp ton was licensed as a Methodist preacher, and his sermons and exhortations were of the most fervid and eloquent eliarac u .,. It turns out that thirteen years ago he was engaged in making moonshine j w hi»kev in one of the mountain counties , of Nort h Carolina and shot an officer, for j which he was imprisoned, but escaped. He was tracked, und a requisition was is¬ sued for him recently, but he escaped the officers. I i TWO ocean lUS.tSTl-m j i The French steamer La Bretagne, Cap-, tain De Jousseli, from New York, for Havre, France, April reports collided that during with and the uitrht of 30th she sunk a Norwegian hark. The crew of the bark was saved. The steamer La j Champagne, which sailed for New York i from Havre, and which afterwards re- ; turned, having been if, collision, wes ' run into by the steamer Viile de R.o caused board the a Champagne, panic among who the Italians rush on i : ma le a for a life boat aud cause 1 it to capsize. 1 Thirtv-live of them were drowned, iu ad- j : dition to three sailors who tried to pre vent the rush, flic steamer Ville de Bordeaux rescued fifteen Italians cling- : to the capsized life boat. ---- ----- ! POP»l-*KITV. xhe American exhibition at London, i Kng.. was formally opened recently. T ie j w ,, uher was 0 , e „ and sunny . About 7,000 persons attended. The bursting of : a boiler during the morning prevented j 1 the starting of the machinery, otherwise | the programme of the opening ceremony J was carried out. Hundreds of visitors | ignored the ceremony of opening the j regular exhibition and rushed to the ' grounds where the Wild West show per- j ! formed. I I .MlStXl'ES. , The narrow gauge railroad must go. i President Charles Francis Adams, of the Union Pacific, who manages 1,500 narrow gauge miles, *ays they are “first-cioss DUisanct*. 1 - NATIONAL CAPITAL NOTES. GOSSlp At)0Ht tll6 Pf6Sid6Dt, HlS CfibiUC' “1 Otto Kotables. wk>[ nouibern are Hei»« Rmocaized iotertxina item* About tbc Natioaai Drill, Etc.. Etc. ___ oahnot tat nsruMras Judge _ Merrick, . the district in . supreme uourt, announced thei judgement of that, Henneck a Baltimore drummt-r charged with „ an unlicensed «*"*■ zxffz&g The act.imping the license tax Congress. The court dismissed Henneck, holding that a tax regulation on drummers from other states is a of commerce between such states and the District and that such a tax can In; imposed by Con «ress alone ' about crof*. “• B ir °“r T1 “, ,h< ’ -t » SLKJSZTiZ£ In the grain regions of the North it has t , eeu comparatively cold and dry; in the cotton regions usually to dry; the west the of Georgia and warm and in cotton rice regions of the South Atlantic coast, j cold and comparatively dry; in the to- | bacco cold regions and dry; of Virginia in the and tobacco North regions Caro- j lina j of Kentucky, Tennessee and Pennsylva- j «ia the weather ha, been warmer, with a rainfall slightly less than usual, closing the monument. The Washington monument the advisability eomrois- I sion are discussing of ! closing the monument to the public after 1st of June, on account of the continued acts of vandalism which are perpetrated V^vwitore. The silver ornamentation of the Nevada stone has been mutilated aud d( / R0 jg necc J ary to dcny visitorH M . ' — * ^ dining a colored queen. Queen Kapiolani is the recipient social, of much attention, both official and 8he attended the Jockey club races and the circus, and received a large nuc,her of prominent callers. She went to . lount Vernon, oa the United States Steamer Dispatch. When she embarked at the navy yard, she was greeted with a salute of twenty-one guns. The President gave a state dinner in fter Honor, me wnue b R us e Ra S proluse { ^ orated foi the occasion with palms, pot plants and Ho e • - ■ guests outside of the royal party were _ their wives; the Ilay tien minister; Gen. Airman ^Xfnns Sf^htsenatecomrSttecog committee og for - => jS&sisEx&sst ^ national drill. 1 K fstafi appointment, Brigadier-general h. H. Wright; Colonel H. Kyd Douglas, of Maryland; Colonel P. Lacy Goddard, of Pennsylvania; Captain C. A. Sinclair, of the St. Louis Branch Guards, and Cap tain Louis V. Clark of Birmingham, Ala. The southern passenger association, in eluding all roads south of the river and east of the Mississippi, announced in ad dition to their three-quarter cent rate for parties of twenty-five persons, a special excursion rate, for single passengers, of two cents a mile. Charles T. Murry has been made chairman of the press com mittee for the drill and will have charge of all arrangements for correspondent*. rifle shooting. At the request of the executive com mittee of the national drill, Gen. Sheri j lin i ias detailed Col. S. E. Blunt, of his staff to take charge of the rifle competi- will rion during the drill. Competition enlisted be open to any regularly volunteer manor commissioned officer of the militia—entries not to exceed two men from any one company—under will be army offered, reg ulutions. Eight prizes silver and bronze consisting of gold, entries have already medals About 100 received gettysbuku's iiattlefield. There is a hitch between the Con fed crate committee and the Gettysburg Bat tlefield Memorial Association, regarding be the locating of tho monument to erected on the scene of Pickett’s charge. The hitch appears to he whether the monument shall be located at the far thest point reached within the Union lines by members of the division, or at i the point reached by the mam body The latter point is not at present covered i by the ground of the association, but is : open to purchase. __ The comptrolk ... , nf ihp ourrenov has I declared a.tiurd dmdend •, j ofrten * tpn per tlP r cent cent in favor o the creditors of the Lxch-mte Mvu ba'tk o 1 ’ claim3 inf 0 n j to $2,888,986. It is reported that Miss Rose Elizabeth Cleveland, the President’s sister, will be- , come a teacher in a prominent York. private K Khwl -hool for UT ?!-2 voung ladies in Newt ___ neguo ly nched. i ___—. Ben White, a negro, who feloniously assaulted a sixteen-year old white girl, a member of a highly a^bof mwked men! When the arrested, indig f ^Triends or the better protection \ girl, from the was 0 the negro A s .. nf a » WHliamston, N. C. Ko,lv of men arrived there on the train, picketed [ the streets, broke open the hanged j-.il, (Hlk , be ne , rro to Tar boro and bbu to a tree near where he perpetrated t he outrage, ~ NEW CORPORATION. Judge Clarke, of the granted Superior charter Court, Atlanta, Ga., recently Co. a The in to the Atlanta Construction corporators are E. P. Borns, W. K. P»rk ins and Janies A. Borne. The objects are contracting, bui ding, etc., etc. 1 he capital stock is $10,000, with the pnvi ie_,e of being increased *0 $100,000. SOUTHERN NEWS. M. V. Clark, of Forsyth, Ga., a well “S,»f”* *“’* bJ * The authorities of Macon, Ga., are hard at work perfecting plans for the new water-works. The students at the Athens, Ga., Uni versity became very unruly recently. They armed themselves with guns and made demonstrations at the Lucy Cobb Insti tute, which so frightened the principal, Mi 8 S Rutherford that she called on the Varies , - V llZX Jacksonville P1 ^"t „Lt5dffiSavanSGa'.for V of js sra.-irsa; frustrated the police, tion house it was by alleged In a race he attempted ’ it is' ‘ ° to shoot a policeman. M Mrs Ureorge c R u. BiacK Black recently reeent i v pur pur . chased a 600 pound bell for All Saints Episcopal Church in Sylvania, Ga. It is ”»;t3 25 1 ’ ' ' Je !" u( - Bowman, the brave young do mestic. whose brutal treatment by the Turner and Patterson in Louis v e ’ Ky., so aroused the people of that . lt few-weeks died from her c y a ago, luju . recently. A und of about $1. J JO nes was raised for her during her ulnass. The State Farmers’ alliance cotton congress, at Waco, Tex., arranged to enter into the manufacturing of wagons, agricultural implements, $10,000,000 cotton presses and o : ‘ mills. Over were rer sented. Arrangements have been included for collecting statistics and for an early charter under the laws of Texas. Several weeks ago, a hound ran through a settlement near Decatur, Ga., aud frightened a number of people, who felt certain that he was mad. The dog bit a valuable mule belonging mule to died. Jennings Hulsey, aud recently the A fine jersey cow which was bitten also died. The dog was not killed until a few days ago. Mrs. Susan Sullivan and five small children arrived at Chattanooga, Tenn., from Pierce, Mo., huving walked the entire distance »f 600 miles. Her hus¬ band died in December, leaving the family among strangers, and penniless. her Mrs. Sullivan wished to return to former home in Knoxville, and having no means, concluded to walk. A terrible tragedy occurred near Spring Station, Ky. recently, on the farm of Capt . j a3 . Blackburn, ex-secretary of state, and brother of Senator J. C. S. Blackburn Miss Henrietta Blackburn, ue i Blackburn, a voung man of twentv £v°, burn, a brother and a of friendly MJs HenriettaBlnck^ contention was begun as to who should shoot first. The 'Vtfe TfifiF&L aun SLSCd DcmpsteaU, ana Sg Killing LfffistSy uer instantly, Three hundred residences, arc in courst of erection in Anniston, Ala., with a prospect ol' tw ice this number, during -he present, summer. The private bank of T. R. Beard at Richmond, Tex., the liabilities amount to $04,000; assets are valued at $62,000. For s-.vera! years the bank hat been con ducted by Mrs. Beard, under the name of imr deceased husband. George S. Hancock and Dirk Moore, Uvo c j t i Z ens of Augusta, Ga„ had an atercation at the artesian well on Wash¬ ; U g toll street, which culminated in Han .-ock cutting Moore with a knife, intiict mg wounds which may prove fatal, A Young Men’s Christian Association bils recently been organized at Newberry, s. C.; there are now one hundred on the ru ll. Money is being raised to erect a building for the use of the association, and already more than $3,000 has been secured. BATTLES ON PAPER Somewlint DIOerent in Aetna! Ileinonstra lion. , M T over^his Halstt-a.l, of the Commercial^ paper, J, 1 own initials, a stricture tl j ( . 1Ters0;l Davis’s historical inaccuracy Jn tbftt gentleman’s recent criticism »f Geia Wolseley, on Lee at Fredericks , g Halstead maintains that Wolseley was ri „ ht . Halstead was at Fredericks burf fply r and knows whereof he speaks, and s b a criticizes Davis, saying- “Davis, j,, criticising Wolseley for saying that Burnside’s army was in a‘tight place’at Fredericksburg, and allowed to escape, f u 5nto a s t n tnge error which here pc ats and dwells upon, of assuming that there were two national armies, one un der Burnside, and another within sup nortin" porun distance OiAance on or the i north unuur J^t^an^out^ ^ Burnside’s troops were not in a tight ^nf ^ Zrffi one 0 f the three grand divisions of Bum side , g artny The other two were under Franklin and Sumner. Hooker was in S" the battle Sr“ers of the first day, personally luufre- giv to Humphreys that he ccived from Burnside, to continue the hopeless attack on the stonewall, and vainly attempting to support it with artillery. Stonewall Jackson is reported and if hTbld known how greatly they had been dam aged he would almost certainly have ffiade the attack There is no doubt that after their repulse, they w-ere in a dan gerous situation, justifying Wolseley* phrase of a‘tight place.’” DROWNED AT a BAlTlSi.NC. A number of colored people, belonging to the congregation of Mt. Zion Baptist New church assembled on a wharf at Orleans La. The crowd leaned on the wharf railing, which gave way und r the great strain brought against it. and oout fifty persons were precipitated into the river. Three whites and eight col ored persons, ail women or children, were drowned. ■ LATEST NEWS. The American papier wheels for rail¬ ways have proved unfit for the purpose, and all the German railway managers have discontinued them. Walter Vrooman, an editor of Kansas City, Mo., made a socialistic speech in Pittsburg, Pa., and, denouncing the au¬ thorities and the American flag, was jailed. Count Shovatow, Russian ambassador to Berlin, is the bearer of an autograph letter from the Czar, assuring the Em¬ peror William of Russia’s continued friendship. A rousing meeting of representative men was held in Chicago, Ill., recently, to give expression to American sentiment in opposition to the suspension of consti¬ tutional liberty in Ireland. About 6,000 were present, drawn principally from well-to-do classes. Mayor Roche presid¬ ed, and most of the speakers were citi¬ zens of American birth, such as Governor Oglesby, Rabbi Hirscb, Wirt Dexter, Rev. Dr. Bolton, Congressman Mason and Gen. Martin Beal. They strongly de¬ nounced Ihe coercion bill now pending in the British Parliament, Resolutions similar in tone to tbe speeches were adopted. France has concluded a defensive .-Alli¬ ance with certain other powers, und henceforth France will not be alone lit event of aggression against her. Col. W. If. Bolton, ex-superintendent of second-class matter in the Chicago, III., post-office, who was convicted of the embezzlement of about $25,000, was sen¬ tenced to four years imprisonment in the penitentiary. Paul Grottkan, an anarchist who made incendiary speeches in Milwaukee, Wis., was sentenced to one year at hard labor in the house of correction. A hot sirocco blew a whole week throughout Hungary, parching vegetables and rendering them inflammable. At Tor razko three hundred houses were burned and four lives were lost. The conflagra¬ tion lasted two days. At Ruskburg a church and thirty-seven houses were de stroyed. Many houses were burned at Maregys. At Eperies all the churches and public buildings were destroyed. William Slaughter, one of the wealth¬ iest stock raisers in New Mexico, was killed in American Valley by two men named Youngblood and Adkins. Slaugh¬ ter was riding along the road unarmed when Youngblood and Adkins met him, and after a w words shot and k ille d him. Last'y^r t^a'ugliter"vasA member of the Soeocro county grand jury, and a large number of men were indicted for cattle stealing, among them Youngblood and Adkins. The New York city police authorities learned that one of their own officers was carrying on a regular policy and lottery agency at his post of duty and in his uniform. The policeman named was Morris Colbert. He is assigned to a post at the Mercantile building in lower Broadway. The superintendent with a pair of scissors proceeded to cut the brass buttons off of the policeman’s coat. The stripes were Tipped from his trousers and his badge taken from him. He was then placed in a cell. SOUTHERN MAN’S HONOR. .k Trusted Bookkeeper Upturns Nearly » Million Dollars After Twenty Years. The New Haven, Conn., Register in¬ prints a remarkable story of financial tegrity on the part of a Southern capital- ......* The names of the priutSpals are withheld, but die eminent respectabihty oi the counsel 111 ,U ‘ 3 cx-Judge Luzon ,ts truthiulness. Haven - ls a b ,p?„ fhe Register says savs * hat at ^ begmmng of the War, a wea.tht Southern gi , “ ' cently taken his voung bookkeeper into partnership, tearing that lus. property ^ North, oul f ”! lie ^^rrt^hookkeeitr told the bookkeeper to to ule use *he proper t y, valued at about * 100,000, a ? be thought best, and that he the mer chant, would rely upon the bookkeeper honor for a settlement at some u ur time. Tne merchant then left and set tied in New Haven. Six years ago,won dering what had become of his estate in ^ ^u ia 7h^ham “iUestU “with and coilect, if there was anything to couect,^ After f ome corre-pon'lence wu ' ic^ ,00 ^ keeper at _ lies, o , ‘ acknowledgment ol the d< , . . fntoiy, showing his indebtednc^ 0 h , s former cmp.oym to be $ j 48 000, a x pressing ms uc-m u> ret I 1 J _ i rci|,1 J j ^ bL ^ck -o a n^miuffig several*years an(i t Linvnrded the last pay meat, including interest, thus wiping out J 1 '“details' 1 f ‘ further than his ,. . cnt i eina D listed as a million genta b is ’ k , , , “ v - FRANCE VS. GERMANY. Two commercial men named Weissman and Patricia, who were parties to a bitter feud, met in met in a cafe in Pans, Fran ce. The proprietor, Terrian, tc avoid a row, asked Weissmau to leave the place. This enraged the latter, and in the scuffle which followed, Weiss man drew a sword stick and mortally pierced Terrian. A crowd collected,and believing that Weissman was a German, tried to ! J ncil him -
