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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
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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
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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
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most ludicrous, is the one formulated by .
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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 ’
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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.MlStXl'ES.
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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
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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.
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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 .
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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
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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.
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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
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neguo ly nched. i
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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
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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
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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 -
