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Tin-; Democrat.
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by CLEWJ. C. MOORE.
f /.M IV l'0 HD VILLE, GEOLOlA.
Enured at the p aU>flice at CrawfcrdvIUe,
tPorg a, a* gec^nd-clMH uiail uuU'cr,
LATEST NEWS.
Gilbert S. Phjvnly, a Brooklyn railroa/1
man, insured bis life for $.V),O00. and then,
oitcr di 'il>erat<‘ly arranging the details so as
to make it apficar that burglars had rnnr*
dcri^i him. committed suicide, Jic was fie
xjwndent '**1 a 'count of unr ciprocatcd love.
TffB Bepublfca.'i National Committee or~
runi/A- l at Vew York by selecting United
«**« M a . ...... of b, T Oa„,a
as ( JiaCffnan, an l Hon. J. SJoat I asHott, Of
. .-w York, as Secretary.
Hunky Blodgett, a young man who lived ,
I ji*ar Efctriek, W;s., while hunting saw a
swarm of bees passing and Bred his gun at
them. They at once nettled ou him, and
stung him to death.
William Bolton, a police officer, was
brutally murdered at Hot Springs, Ark., by
two men whom ho had arrested by mistake.
Torn men wore burned, two fatally, and
eighty mules roasted a live at a car-stable lire
in W icliita, Kan.
Thk Executive Committee of the National
American party hits agreed to call a National
Convention, to moot in Washington City on
August 14 to nominate candidates for Presi¬
dent and Vice President,
Tin: Pr..--(.lent has iipproved the Taisia,
. Ls-cutivB amt ...... Judicial Appropriation .
Inc
bi!l .'aid the Diplomatic and Consular Ap
jfuW'riat.ion bill.
He.nok A ntonio Floufs, a former Minister
to this country who has just Injun elected
1’residnnt of Ecuador, was given a reeeptjon
in Washington by President Cleveland ou his
Jcj-arture to assume hi,office.
Heavy gales have provailod on the River
Tyne and in the English Channel. The
weather throughout England has been ah
normally cold. Snow fell in the suburbs of
London, , i „ ami , the ,, peaks . of . Sklddaw u, * 1 , , and i
other mountains wero covorctl with snow.
'I’liis is the first time snow is known to have
fallen bUleu in m Em/land Ln^land in in July. lulv !
BASE BALL NOTES.
Tfn-., Bemvett ui.i r-_ i is doing j a *. all i. the n catching . , - , for f „ Do* , . n
^ Detroit received its first whitewash from
OhJcaga.
*or Tp!s the Now York Club will not; release Gore
present.
The London (Canada) Club has signed
Larry Cor norm
_ Dethoit load the League
continues to in
mam batting and fielding.
Wity-eight, Klvmldw, of Dm Londons, has caught in
consecutive games.
Wakhixoton would like to have pitcher
Iranc, but mmrm New York won! ..... s-II . TT 1- *TT -
T Light mmm r thuuMim T\"T ili.nm-s wore lost on tho
Mnmphl* team hoforeit disband -I.
Tiiiike brothers on one team is a novelty j ]
presented by the Ntnv Bedford itlonn.) t.'Ju!i.
Bings John Irwin’s reianso the IVaslimg- j
'ons have placed Slio k permanently ' *»t
diort, 1
('ah urn Miu.itii insi .l . (lint (talvinof Uir S
Rittsburgs league. is the speed tent pitcher iu th< .
Feh 8 «>n is doing hy far the best twirling j (
Df all tho New England League pitchers at .
present.
this Boston has won eight, games hv one run j
mwmiii ami let eleven by the same s'.... I
dw margin .....,
HmS'h. h-, ., ;,i"lh, ‘ JSl'VhS , ' TZ ai ldlvcr . ,, 1
o l
Walker and Higgins, th© colored plnv<*is tiio.r
M Syracuse, N. Y., arc jiopuinr among
fallow players.
1 x Cincinnati they have cowh* to the con*
elusion that there isn’t a snap club in the As
sociedlon this season
liosTviNKsK. ttiink highly‘J Tg’i (i.u iy a
«telling and consider tuc Chicago player the
greatest in tho business
1'hk Iowa Btate I aiversitv lias asked the
Jj«gis)iiturc for f.u o-'o t> buy a 1,1 - ■
ground tor the
Nku \ Giik S >ct»at Id o p"
»rr«rW. gnmes "”c d \ i. >•> .
and especially not 'worthy
.bmv A liwis the we 1 lot AVU t"ii | cr. h
IhMtas mrt'b2t'a ^ gam' i'"U’a m
^Scalcher. i ’A"" ,V.V‘ y L'j’l- te ."VUt A tt.'tolian' t".
fimls in
i
Thf exact distance from tho h > & , .....
t 'ooiid base .
catcher has a lame arm he thinks it is about
n mile.
H istox paid $1750 fiir Hay Indiamjiel
tflVrod more, but batnu wanted he p
pJayiT tt> go to a New I'n^lanti club, so R s
ton got him cheaper.
Durint a practice game at Pittsburg,
K it'd Dim lap was struck m the face with u
Utuxl hit bad an l bis right aw lu -d.ui
will not In' diallgure 1 .
C incinnati has iuMUgurats
Day, n One© a week fair aO =
game will be admitted fie , and on other
occasions half price will Ikj charge i.
The Washington^ boast of po - ing tho
ltost outfield ill ttie league In ui'ttin under
everything and throw th.; i uiirut dv.Wiimot,
Hoy and Daily an'lauded as fitting wi > it
superior*
Here VETER when the regular n:
to ap’H>ar oil the ground in t in hr ' 1
;>f t he opposing teams will have tho r
sehvt a player, and the double nuip.w
will U* trust for that contest-.
The Chicago Club is playing t:v* iu^vicst
of ball in the gu •. \nson w,U
idmit this, for the nine has ;ost but one . tin *
by one run anl woo nun*. In numen 5
:nm s they have Iven out->attod.
“Oi4j 8 nA EiC I is rarelv allow ed t
?atch for the Chit He has y > 1 1:;
only eight mi Dal :
Farrell are fllimg h s I S;
fieing Usvtl to tr im y tng p
B\ the time the season is ■ and rf t!ie
s win t i ■\noi
able to st a s< oi h i ng s\
He has be
3 ago* will ca’, ttue lirsi
t \RSKi ar of
tbe Moait . of New York *tru k ’■
the New York Re-erv ia a reoe
lie is i*onsidere<l oueof the nuist p
■sf all the young pitehers iu and ar-* i Nev
York Cuv
The attendance at t went ven nii
the Ro'C h uis been
mbstiintiaUv 9^ to. 'vs; - - Phi p
MONS M hull Pitts
iitiM.i, 1 vti.iit \ w
Turk. U.reM U -h
All puv’p.u art ou au e^xuaiit when
thev gel mud.
THE DEMOCRAT, CRAV'FORDTELLE. GEORGIA.
RACING WATERS,
rm. !<> vov; i in r i ovum loth
M i l II MSA*TJtOVS llPSlJ.TS.
!lf.w*€S* HrUUe*‘» ami Kftvr >!»»■< *^‘vVp|»t
Sway br the V’>a ««!»•
Haavy rains at the h:A f l-waters of the
Mcaongabela and Cheat Kivers jr» Penmyl
vania started one of the most #ui bten and
perhaps ot the most diei<rjiis floods
1852.
At Greensboro the river rose thirty-two
feet in twenty-four nouns. Early the oilier
nmming the water measured twenty-five feet
in the channel at that place and was at a
stand.
A great portion of Brownsvilk wa« fix
feet under water, ana much damage was
done. A t * ./clock a. m. the water reached
forty three feet an ! began slowly to recede.
It. was eighteen inches higher than the flood
of ’by.
From Brownsville to Pittsburg and all
along Cheat River reports have Then re
ccivel «f tremendous To** to lumbermen
from breaking booms, to coal operators
Sprite &
deuces and property ware Jldoded
U»*orge (letter wns instantly killed by the
parting of * c able rope ? with which he was
rh(;( . k ,,y . a Ioade(1 ( oa i j jar ge at Walton’s
finding, Tele,11.011.. »h>r, the
and tek-kvapn «irre
A V • r„,m Pinrks
l-urK. V. V« ...... -.V I. tor-, of IV Mon
on ahf> i ' « ; ,'.v:o vo Vb-,. ' t! .at twenty
dv ' iliii'; .n had |a- n sv.-.'pt away, and
i• i /• pr i» r! y . ;tim 'iuL'i
A mmi , - iron' ;ot « v .<> b i be, b • ” i
."•"VFral Jary :u’v miUr, 1 l »;th /firm
tilH H of lumb' f mid b-.- > nt do a n witlitne
Ac ■ i ;!,• n nb i ' A ],!v ... r U Hii -
lefs at that place.
’ l,.,!,.!!:.: Lol.-I r Ity dll t:, - l..w -> pii t of
, V u: "i
trmn th"ir - -..... '■»»*■> »> )>,i>
l'Vrb m in thr n'TmTng the heavy Ic'i'K drift in
(}„ ■! (Ml l.r, I , .. coat
I... hanti.M and III some nista,." dwellings
• ! rea died 1 i "xburg. and They
Oasl.cl against the bridge pier* by tho Over- were
snapped )«'lmlng and broken like twig*
, v fores of the current.
At lu:n5 a. i., the river marks showed 21
foot, inches and rising. Every boat and
Kt«‘» hi float on tho river was in peril minutes from the tho
heavy drift, and every few
whistles of the advance guard of the line of
Boats soun'loil now alarms of approaching
^"wheeling Belt,(mere, special Ohio says Railroad that tho between line of
tli ■ .V
Wheeling bli'i-keil. and Parkersburg I'urkorsburgbraneb was unprece
dciitly On tho
three Uiimels enved in.
'1 he Kowle-itmrg bridge over Cheat River
is down, and other bridges covered were swept feet away, deep
while tli- track was points. many
jtll ,. artb ilt tt mun ber of
Several bridges between Wheeling and
J’ittshnrg were badly damaged. At
mount tho now iron bridge of the New Rng
lau „ (ias Company was destroyed, involving
a loss of 300 , 000 . Beck's Run,
barge parts of Williamsburg,
M- K» es{>or(,, California, Alonongahela City,and City,
Bello Vernon, llrownsville, Fayette reported
oj .j jor ^ 0VVJ1S a ]ong tho rivor were
partly submerged. The water in some
j,!;i< vs was above tho first floor of the houses,
while piles of lumber, timbers, and drifts in
many cases were jammed against the doors
and windows. closed
At McKeesport all the mails were
and hundreds of people were homeless and
destitute. The Chartiers natural gas main
cr0 ssing the river at that point was
broken during the night and an iin
ru uise pressure of gas forced into the
air. Mr. Knight, the watchman of the Pitts
b»r*ham]lYoujfhioney Railroad,crossedAhe
trustlu nt Sitltaburif a short,., fcme i" ;
ignited tho BUS, cuusiu* fatally o
t.-.Miicndous explosion. Knight tiro, was but the
|„, rn ,.,l and the extinguished bridge was sot before on it was de
fiames were
stroyed. dispatch from heeling says, from
A later
reports received from the flooded district Iras oi
West Virginia, it looks as if the money
woukjroach *J,(i0tM)(l' 1 ’ "pV 1
. p d
have been lost Not less tl u tuty t;v dp l . 1 luges slig
W.d'rM.IvS‘wmrihb'hV Uw,s % anda,b
haveiw.'nswi'pt’nway T:ivlurcouiit#tho loss.H or arobadly r'ifl.OpU; damaged. m Har
III in Wood county,
risen as umcH more; proportions elsewhere.
*101.0(10 and in like believed
The sudden rise in the river is to
pave been caused by a cloud hurst, which
covered a large section of Southern Pennsyl
vania and West V irgiuia.
LABOR NOTES.
The button industry is booming, thanks to
[b© political badge wearers.
Mit. l’ovvnciii.Y wants the workmen to
boycott coffee until the corner is over.
There are prospots of great activity in
railway construction in Southern Africa.
More hands are nt work in England long at
nresent tliun have been employed in a
The German Federated Trades of New
York have started a working.....as reading
room
i New Jersey wire manufacturers are far
oishmg the Austrian cable railways with
There are about JO.)) locomotives in use
In the State of New York, mid about J V'00
In the United States.
Kreit. the German cannon maker, is so
rushed with business that ho 1ms to build
large works elsewhere.
A BOSTON company has put up $500,000 to
mike welding m whines to do all kinds of
welding by electricity.
The iron and steel manufacturers in the
Mahoning \ alley ha ve formed the Iron Man
ufactunrs’ Association.
Many Knights of Labor in Buffalo (lap,
Dakota, have taken twenty acres each iu t ve
new oil and alkali fields.
Aroi t KKi.OtKi.iKlO h ad iH' llc ' ,s are >nanu
[actured in the I niteil States annually, one
fourth of which are exported.
Thk Pennsylvania llailroad Company will
build a mmitier of new workshops in Altoona,
Pennsylvania, in a short time.
HorsKs made of corrugaW iron are being
erected in England inste id of brick or stone.
1„ -v are to be mtro vd mto tins country.
The Bigelow Carpet Company hands, mil have s at
Clinton, Mass., employing of V the ; >0 scarcity of
ihut down on account
work.
Au. railway employes of Minnesota have
igretnl to unite for the common good. Kn
j gioeers, firemen, bmkemen and switchmen
. ire included.
| More than ld’OOJXK) working idle. In people New in York thf
1 United States are now
?ity alone t«7,0(K) men and 50,090 women are
ml of work.
Also* J. Streeter, the nominee of the
Union Labor party for President, worked
his way through college by cutting shingles
au Saturdays.
Miners employed af Shamokin. Penn.,
have begun suits against their employers to
uvure senu monthly pay days, as provided
! for by statute.
The Government of Chili has ordered six
(X’omotives of home manufacturers.. They
w,l\ each cost $21,909 tu gold, and will lie
like our engines.
The dry goods ami carpet manufacturers
fhnmghout tlk* Now England and fall Mi Id e
. Statea are quite busy, and a good arid
winter demand is m sight
The 'Ve-tdighotise Klivirie people of PitN
OurK have recently taken r:e'> for 12.0 M
' lights. Tlio tinkers of electric
1 ire about tbe t siest paople in the country.
NEWS SUMMARY.
Eastern and Middle States.
A KIP.': lias destroyed the village of Glade
Pun. l’enn. Nearly every business place arid
some hundred forty dwellings were burned, and two
people were rendered hnm»l<wa.
Thirty' persons were injured in a railway
collision at Xantieoke, Penn.
Three persons were killed and man v in
jured by a boiler explosion at Pittsburg,
Rmru
'Eire visited JPnja.zi.ihux the publication office of
Cen'vry Now York city, i.% ai>'>
caused damage to the amount of %,
Ut-VEHAb SHK.mnA.y was safely landed
from the Hwatara at -Nonquitt, Mass, and
at his cottage there, feeling better than for
long time past.
A FO( r year-old child of Mr. John
who resides in Windsor township, Penn.,
caught in the machinery * grist nf ill
started ' rushed to death. By some means the
the mill.
Jb. at
were killed. Three others were injured.
the .NW York Republican State
tee h r decided t o hold the State
at Saratoga on August 28:
Edward 1 A. >\s, convicted of the
morder of Mrs. Ada Stone in Rochester, X.
vOQ Aug. lb, 1 - banged in
c ‘ t 'V*
Soui Ir and IVe.-r i
drunken fanners on gaged in A fa*
^ht at Mansfield. Mo., and five nf
were killed.
Delaware peach growers in convention
recently, at Dover, estimated their crop
12,00u,000 flaskets, of which the Petlnsylraniti
railroad ccin trartspdrt baskets.
Ky.. CoU.vrv shot and Judge killed Fulliam, of Hardinsburiif
tiou before him who a took man engaged in lltiga\
of his rulings. except on to
(; , s |„„ :! , ESi a bootblack of
Texan, nineteen years old, who
v.'illiam Morgan in the Creek Nati ,u v yec.ri
ago, has been haneed at Fort Smith, Ark. I
TiiKentii" business portion of Lake City,!
«»• county seat of Missaukee County, Mich.,|
has been destroyed by fire.
CmzK.vs Of Joliet, HI., placed obstruc
tions on tho track of a railroad, to the build!
ing ot which they objected, thereby derail
mg Um construction tram and silling th,
engineer and three Italian laborers.
Four persons—two men and two ehildrei
—lost their lives in the burning of a farm
house near Sf.uit Sfce Marie, Mich.
W illiam Landieth has been hanged a
Dallas, Oregon, for the murder cf January! his step
daughter, Simmie Ellis Antle, last J
under circumstances of peculiar atrocity.
A train Ind., ran killed into a three land slide near LafayJ
ette, and train men.
At Henderson, Ky., Robert Ryan, a colors
man, sixteen ytars old, stabbed and kille«
Riley Hancock, started white, Ryan sixteen years old
Three men with for the jail
when they were overpowered by a mob, wh<
hanged tho murderer.
K. J. Jcosta, a young man proniim nt iu
business and social circles of Birmingham,
weaitiiy young lady of Charleston, S 0 '
A disastrous Mo., rain flooding storm the prevade l m AJ
Kansas City, sti -ts.
HmiJL?* fOUP PeFW “ S nanWd WUBa ,SW,
U1 °
Serious floods arc reported as the result '
continuous storms in West Virginia. d>
loss by damage estitated to buildings, $1<D.0 crops, ro c
and bridges have is teen lost. at over )0, ui
some lives
Bernard Krugg, cornfield, a farmer, and his v
quarreled in a near Grafton, N
about the price of a pair of rubber boots.
battle with boas followed in which K
TiUtAitoJ
A FKV „ between the Bose and . u
o)ans has culminated in a fierce battle ius
the L aur( ,l Fork (Tenn.,) meeting-house di
i n g the progress of the sermon. Six me
were killed and a dozen more or less senousl.
wounded.
the town of Suiauc ,
seven-eighths o£
Cttl lmv0 been destroyed by firs.
i eonstruetio
m Br the spreading ^ of railsa ,
wag nrJed offi a fifty-foot employ^ trestle a
Cameron, Mo., and four railroad
Miss Hattie Pepavn, aged eighteen, . b „
been murdered at. lecumseh, Inn . by ., r
mint, The.unfortunate^girlwent Mrs. Mary •! u . n ^\“Umfri into the'iiinl the JuiAuU ill'
or ,hard to take a musket. few apples, when her auftt
killed her with a
CHAin>I 4K Huge, of the Grievance Engineers, Coil,.
mittee of the Brotherhood of a., d
Chairman Murphy, of the Brotherhood
Firemen, have been arrested at bio Chicago wilj,
the charge of conspiracy of the Chicago, to v Burliu^.. up
dynamite pvwtions Railroad.
ton and Quincy chU
Two brothers named Combs, mere
dren, vvero sentenced to imprisonment fi),. ff r
life in Breathitt county, brother, Ky.—one and the
murdering a younger othb r
for killing Ids younger sister.
-
Washington, investigatif,™
The sub-committee which is Finan,.f
the tariff on behalf of tho Senate
expects to have a Tariff bill coi u “ .
pletods horthU The bill will be tbe will substiti offer 4^. e
which the Republican Senators
them, tin. Mills bill when that measure ready*
The President a few days ago anwotjej
act^grant.ng pensions to thirty
Warrants have been issued by tho SeeL
tary of tho treasury for the payment ;ot
*ld,7(>7,0b'J The nomination on account of.Colonel of pension.. i nomas G; j n
.
cohi Casev to be Bnga. lor Gemral and Cli,; e j
^n^ntTo^he'leaaxe bi ■ ' by^he PreridSt.’
The l-rosident has wnt - ,„r th« the foltowmg followimr nc
. New’York r't to nud le John Chief W. Justice Judd,of of Teimesi.,, the’jtS
M c OU .^ the Supreme Co^t
be . Xgs0i te Justice of
of Utah. Hugh Justice, 'V. and Weir, Charles of Pennsylvan^ H. Pan-y,
t0 [, e Chief Associate Justice of
,,f Jliimesota, to be vp,,
Supreme Dakota, to Court be Associate of Idaho. Justice Roderick of Ruse^ the g„. of
prciue Court of Dakota. John H. Keatl^y i
of Iowa, to te .Limed States Judge of the
District oi Aia-'Ka.
Puksiiient Clkvblanh has approved i.he
act providing for nil international “gV *£ Mar. ue
Conference to ‘ite
^‘X^ L s P f t !?Kp% numUrof R vv -f certain prh^tot-ts. cadetengineei® 6
‘
Foreign.
Thf. Eec esiastieal Synod of Belgrade has
annulled the marriage of King Milan L n j
gueeu Natalie, of Servia. I
Cu ARLES STEWART Parnell, explanation the in Kish
leader, Etigliah ro-e House to a of jiersonal Commons and deno n/iced the
the 1 ter> publisbetl by the London -
imrli■-atins him with the Venian dynaimtera
as base forgeries.
A m " }>u>>ian Governm -nt decree
Al&ace- l^rraiiie lawyers to keep their Hols
ai German.
The locust plasue in Algeria is becotr.jag
wor sc. Bixty thousand laborers and 200;!
soldiers are powerless. The whole country
is devastated 1 . and it is feared that fa%j Qe
and pestilence will result
M any shops in the market place in Atl e n N
Greece, w« re destroyed by fire, caus \g 3
loss of $750,000.
The burned town of the Berbers, in Somaliland has
be®> to ground. Forty pe >jns.
mostly children, invalids and cripples, per
ished.
Ki ectios riots have occurred at
Bolginm. The gendarmes fired upon the n,ob
Many persons received bayonet wounds
Mr. O'Brien declare,! ir the British H ouse
•f C uumous that the death of the lau :d r
Maud ville, the Irish le&der, was caused by
the i.i-treatment and deprivation of food
while confine 1 under the Crimes t&\ m the
TuUamora Prison.
mittee The attempt the House by- Mr. o£ Parnell Commons to get appoint a com
ot
to investigate the charges made against him
hv the London Times and Attorney General
w ' ,t) * t ' ar Wi « defeated by the Government
Porfirio Pi A?, has been re-elected Presi
deD ! tHexioo hy W - )a « ctorel CoUe 8 e
W3tbout opposition.
Ban-7 am insurgents plundered Tj&egon.
1 ;" Java and killed the native
and a*l the European mhaoitants.
NEWSY GLEA5INU3.
Turke* v*nnt& a $10,000,000 loan.
Thf B<dl Telepnor^ Company is paying 2t
>er cent, dividends.
A girl, sixteen years old, has been arr^st^}
” Detroit for forgery. campaign
Judge Tbfuva.n will make a
in Brooklyn P, September,
The yiroperty valuation this year for the
-' Ir y of Ne ' v York is tl,500,000,0«K;.
Five-eighths of the flour imported irfto
Brazil comes from the United States.
Mrs. (.‘let eland has received two sixty
:wo pound watcfrmelmis from Georgia.
The New York and Pennsylvania farmer?
lave advanced the price of milk to 4 cents
quart. challenges 4h4
Davitt, the Home Ruler,
Government to arrest 1'arneJl an,.
tt " nseJf -
A Flortoa plaster has extracted . . to fur . .
nisli a New York dealer witn tao
bages this year. landing in British
Swarms of Chinese are border into
Columbia and stealing across the
fcbc United States.
The people of the United States now have
$C4h, 000,001 more in their hands than they
had seven years ago.
Seatti.e, in Washington Territory, hae
? grown to the extent oi eight hundred dwell
ngs since January 1.
Farts of the bi ? Nova Scotia raft have
been found 20)« miles from the spot where it
was broken up last fall.
The Burns county IDalcota) Commissioner!
have this season paid a bounty of three centl
eac h 0 n 07,000 gopher tails,
M j H . .JKN'KS, of Montclair, N. J., is
tbe ^ youngest grandfather in the State. He
ia 0 ly thirty-eight years old.
Chicago boys painted an Anarchist who
tried to tear down the stars and stripes, red,
white and blue, and the judge let them off.
Professor Powei.i. has devised a system
of irrigation by which 50,000,000 acres oi
arid Western desprt lands can be reclaimed
and made fertile.
The recent Gettysburg reunion has taken
more money into that community than it
has seen before in some years. Some esti¬
mates place the sum spent as high as $500,
000.
Among the private the pensions Houss bills recently
reported favorably to who was one for
the relief of John Chase, was wounded
iu forty-seven different parts of his person
during •>zkms?£s&$. the war
fullo f fish that his boat made headway with
qjificulty
THE report of the coroner of Cincinnati
diows that there have been more suicides in
, hafc city for t h -3 first six months of 1888 than
there were during the whole of 1877—forty
three in all, of whom thirty-two were men
UJ( ’ j eleven worn *n
^ BQX of flre . eracko „ costs six ty-fiy e cents
toinu, each box containing S50D crackers
eatly packed and subdivided, all ready for
. he retail trade. A million of these boxes
were imported by the trade for the season of
5 -g miff-Wue all sold. No doubt the_same
mount—that is, 2,500,000,000 tire crackers—
vv iv cracked away this year.
The two grown daughters of Jacob Nye, a
well-to-do farmer, living eight miles south of
Princeton, 111., Jacksonville have been adjudged insane
and sent to for treatment. The
father and mother and another daughter are
also insane. The family of fixe were all
stricken with this strange malady ou the
same day, and physicians are unable to ac¬
count for the cause.
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
Gi.adrtoke has been in Parliament fifty
lix years.
Henry Georg® contemplates visiting
Australia.
G i:\F.RAt, Fremont is spending the sum
n r at Long Branch.
The favorite flower of the new Emperor of
ermuny is the violet.
The brother of the King of Naples mar
-,ed his sister’s daughter.
Senator Cockrei.t. says he never gets a
.’hance to read for amusement.
Rev. E. P. Roe made enough out of his
looks to pay his losses as a farmer.
i ordinal Manning is now eighty-two
years of age, but is strong and active.
General Lew Wallace will xvrite the
"ii npaign biography of General Harrison.
F.mperor William lias four sons. The
Hohenzollern dynasty has lasted 9-15 years.
Whrn presented at the English court Mrs.
Vanderbilt wore $175,000 worth of diamonds.
C arlotta, ex-Empress of Russia, D rap¬
idly weakening, and is expected to die at any
moment.
Bland! William Sprague, of
is Chief of Police at Karra
ransett Pler .
, fHB Q ueen of Belgium, has contributed
to the progress made in music in her
ijntr> - oi - ] ate years.
It is stated that Mr.Thurman will take the
ituwp |’ in Ohio and Indiana, and afterward
ntU Eastern states.
Bret Harts, the social poet demand of the .Sierras, England is
said to be in such in
that he rarely dines alone.
The son of the (Jueeu of Servia’s guarded
m Wiesbaden wherever he goes by fourpow
jrful Servian male attendants,
j , ; TcRtfBUt.i. is the Jay Gould of Aus
jralia.' His fortune is estimated Philadelphia, at *50,000,
^ He is now visiting in
^ ^ ^ ^ princess Regent o(
Brazil is Isabella Christine-Lenpoldiue An
-u-Cnc Michelli-Gabrielle Haphelle Gon
a Veu. Prim 'ess Imperial of Brazil and Count
?ss
DCMAS. the French author,
a house-cleaning mania He is very orderlv.
and is often seen, feather duster in hand
lusting his study and changing pieces oi
furniture.
Josef Hofmann, the prodigy by'a celebrated pianist, is
under treatment at Eisenac h
specialist in nervous diseases, and his nerv
ousness has been greatly subdued. He prac
tiees an hour each day.
When the late Commodore Kittson was a
me naber of the Minnesota Legislature,in 1851,
he represented the i’embina District, and in
or j er to attend the sessions of the body he
was obliged to travel 500 miles on snowshoes
or b >" dog-sled. returned
The Duke of Westminster is in
“Bateman's Landowners of Great Britain
as Queen Victoria's richest subject : and the
cuing Viscount Belgrave, if he lives to in
erit his patrimony, will, it is said, be tbe
chest man iu the world.
Admiral David D. Porter, the chief offi
r of the United States Navy, is seveuty- of his
four ‘ years of age. Sixty-four years beginning
life have been spent on the water,
with th * time when, a boy of nine, he sailed
with his father m the expedition against
the West Indian pirates.
An English raet-hanif. residing at Pitts
uurg. ciaims to have provide di* overed motive a pneumatic
generator that will power to
anv extent without the use of fuel
Has Captured this Country
--WITH HIS IMMENSE BARGAINS IN
Bed-Room Furniture,
{'hairs, Sofas, Tables,
Cooking § tores, Carpets, 11 ugs,
Mats, Lace Curtains, Cor¬
nice Poles, Window
shades, Pictures,
--AND
EVERY! III YU NEEDED ABOUT THE HOUSE.
Large Illustrated Catalogue free to those who
need Furniture.
1110, 1112, 1114, anil 1118
BROAD STREET,
A.TTC7 C3rXTaC^ a
Factory, Harrison St*
j s *4 yg
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f W
eV H
---IS STILL AT II 1 S OLD STAND IN-
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mini bh 1 h hot r §
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l
at the very lowest prices.
-SUUII AS
Dry Goods, Provisions, Clothing 1 , Boots, Shoes, Hats
Ami Anything I3Isc Yon Want.
Bergstrom’s Cash Store.
IS THE PLACE TO BUY GOODS.
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oj
j m\. I rh. Hrn J
W if SO, SEND FOB
NATIONAL WIPE & IRON 00’S
ill Illustrated Catalogue! Detroit, NIich
N ■Wrought Iron Fences, Eoot
Cresting, .Jail "Work, W ire Si:;ns,
Bank <& Office Bailing, Window
LJi y Guards, TVire Bathing and every
rTTTTn description of Wire Work.
W. Edward Piatt,
DEALER IX
FUBNEETT %'J CJi •t
AND
I0V1MH1S
710 Broaa Street. Augusta, Uii.
Parlor Suits in 5 and 7 pieces sold at FACTORY PRICES
for the next sixty days. The finest and cheapest lot of Chil¬
drens Carriages in the city. W rite for prices—No catalogue.
mar. 23, 9 m. _________________—
ORE THAST NINE-TENTHS of
the Spices and Condiments used are adulterated.
To introduce Pare SpiCSS all into every home,
xve are sending over the country
" (charges paid) “ PURITY "
our
jmsmmr /4®» brand taining full SPICE weight, quarter BOXES, pound con- can
*eacE of ground Allspice, Cinnamon,
Cl0Te8 Gin S er > Pepper and MuBtard -
--JZSGw >
'. Sent by^mail (or express) to any address
ia the U. S or Canada, upon receipt o£
price C$2.0Q). Address, RflARKELL BROTHERS,
PACA SPJGS MILLS,
Eetr.rili^hecl 1S12. BALTIMORE,
ADKINS HOUSE
811 Ellis Street AUGUSTA, Georgia.
11.110 PEE DAY; LESb THAK A DAY, 50 c. EACH FOE BED ASD MEALS
Thirty new jomo ust been added, newly furnished and carpeted. Electric alara
eblla in every room, Electric Ushts and Telephone. Elegant bath rooms in cons-cc
tten with the house Hot and ooitl hath* free t» guests. A. J ADKXS». Hro-