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blem. Chicago Herald thinks tna«
the blossom most emblematic of modesty,
the distinguishing trait of American
character, is undoubtedly the shy and
shrinking violet.
After all, Buffalo Bill’s visit to Eng¬
land was not without substantial results,
declares the Atlanta C nsti ution. He
claims that he introduced pop corn into
that country, and it is now very popu¬
lar. At one of Buffalo Bill’s exhibitions
20,000 balls of pop corn were sold, and
even the royal family munched this
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Empress Victoria, of Germany, has
turned inventor, remarks the New Or¬
leans Times- Democrat. She drew plans
from which a writing desk has been
manufactured, which enables the Em¬
peror to write whether lying in bed or
standing up. It is available in any posi¬
tion, and the mechanism employed is
said to be intricate and remarkably effec¬
tive.
M. Paul Leroy-Beaulieu, a French
scientist, gives figures showing the
quantity of tobacco consumed in the dif¬
ferent countries of Europe. The rate pei
100 inhabitants is, according to him, as
follows: Spain, 110 pounds; Italy, 123
pounds; Great Britain, 133 pounds;
Russia, 182 pounds: Denmark, 224
pounds; Norway, 229 pounds; Austria,
273 pounds.
Proceedings in the New Mexico courts
of justice are usually conducted in the
Spanish language, records the New
York World, and it very often happens
in a trial, it is said, that not a single
juryman can speak English. The two
lawyers who stand at the head of the
criminal 1 ar in the Territory owe their
success almost entirely to their fluent
command of Spanish.
The Chicago Herald remarks that
“Pennsylvania is said to have been the
first State to break over the old and
well e tablished custom of hanging
murderers only on Friday. Many other
States, Ill nois included, now depart
from it. There was never any good
reason for it anyway, and as there are few
States that do not need a hanging every
day in the week, it is well to do away
with it altogether.”
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phine, and for a few hour r m
greatest excitement, as the ^Jholars suc¬
cumbed to its influence.
Florida*
Twenty-four alligators were killed in
one night by a boy at Spring Garden.
The inland lakes in Volusia county are
lower at present than at any time during
the past ten years.
The catapillars are seriously injuring
the pea and potato vines in certain lo¬
calities in Pasco county.
The growers in and around Orlando
have netted 50 cents per pound for white
grapes. It is not impiobable that in a
lew years grape culture in Florida will
become one of the leading industries.
Alachua county has a large acreage of
vineyards.
There is a man in Palatka who imag¬
ines that he is a teapot. He is perfectly nothing
sane on every other subject, but
can convince li m that he is not a teapot,
and an earthen one at that. He sticks
out one arm to represent the spout, bends
ttie other to represent the handle, makes
a hissing noise to represent the escaping
steam, and then, if any one comes near
him, is very uneasy lest they hit him and
break off either his handle or his spout.
The relief measures to be inaugurated
by the Marine Hospital Bureau will in¬
clude a house to-house inspection of the
infected villages and the guarding of
them for a period of ten days, or until
the fever shall have entirely disappeared; premies
and also the disinfection of all
wherein the inmates have had fever. (
Guards wi.i be immediately placed other to
prevent the refugees from interning
places. Persons wishing to leave the in
lected villages will have to pass the
usual detention period and have their
clothing fumigated.
Texas.
The first bale of cotton of the crop of
1888 was received at Galveston on Wed¬
nesday. it weighed 569 pounds, and was
classed as middling fair staple. It was
-old at auction at 12 cents per pound,
find will be shipped to Liverpool via New
York.
Lieut. Flipper, the colored officer in
the United States army, who was dis¬
missed some yeais ago, and afterwards
joined the Mexican army, has turned up
at El Paso, with a story of two old gold
mines which he has found in Mexico,
ju t bursting with ore.
North Carolina.
An incendiary fire at Pigeon river, de¬
stroyed 100,000 feet of choice poplar tim¬
ber belonging to the firm of Kitland &
Co.; also a number of frame warehouses.
The trial of Cross and White, bank of¬
ficers, on the first indictment ended in a
conviction. Crsss was sentenced to seven
i ears’ hard labor, and White to five years.
An appeal was taken. The bail was
fixed at $10,000.
veirted tHis &; : CZ ffe i 1 cr ' s th$ opin
ion of this jtiiy 4-3 - the Non oik &
Western management should be held
responsible for the results of this disas¬
ter.”
Mississippi.
A daughter of Dolphs Miles, colored,
of Benton, poisoned her father and three
brothers. Two brothers are already dead,
and the third brother and father are not
expected to recover. The mother was at
church and missed her portion of the
poison.
RUSHING FOR LIBERTY.
A plot for the escape of four hundred
convicts at Pratt Mines, Ala., was dis¬
covered several days ago, but the prison
officials kept the matter so quiet that the
facts only leaked out on Wednesday. At
slope No. 1, about four of the seven hun¬
dred convicts are confined, and there is
only one entrance iuto ihe mine at that
place. It seems that one of the veins or
leads at this slope has been worked until
it was within a lew hundred feet of the
surface on the other side of the mountain.
Some of the older convicts some time ago
conceived a plan to dig out of the mine.
Others were let into the plot, and the
convicts would work turns on their tun¬
nel after completing their day’s task of
mining. Thu number into the plot was
increased, until nearly all of the four
hundred convicts working in the slope
knew about it, and aided in the work.
Saturday, it is said, was the day set
apart to force the tunnel through the
mountain and escape. After all the con¬
victs had entered the slope that morning,
the entrance was blocked on the inside,
and then they began to dig for liberty,
the tunnel lacking only a few feet of
completion, hut the plot had been be¬
trayed, and the guards were on the look¬
out. The obstruction at the mouth of
the slope was removed and the convicts
were driven away from their tunnel, and
forced to return to work. The ring¬
leaders were punished, and every pre¬
caution has been takud to prevent an es¬
cape by the tunnel route. Only three
mouths ago five convicts escaped from
Coalburg mines, by the same means, and
only two of them were recaptured.
WON’T HAVE IT.
Mr. O’Connell, chief clerk of the New
York Court of Common Pleas, has lodged
complaint with the authorities at Queens
town, Ireland, in which he says his steps
are constantly dogged by detectives, and
asked to be relieved of this unwarranted
surveilance. He alleges that since his
arrival he has visited religious and char¬
itable institutions in Cork, and every -
where he has gone detectives have shad¬
owed him.
men. oi p iwate lahclwclafms ir*the
tories of Arizona and New Mexico, and
the state of Colorado. On motion of Mr.
Smith, of Arizona, an amendment was
adopted exempting Arizona from the
provisions of the bill, and the bill with
the amendment was passed—70 to 24.
CSOSSIP.
Statesville, N. C., is to have a $75,000
public building.
Mrs. George L. Morgan, of Georgia,
was appointed a copyist in the interior
department, at a salary of $900.
Written arguments w r ere presented by
the Board of Trade of Spartanburg, S.
C., to the Interstate Commerce Commis¬
sion, complaining of a discrimination
against the town by the railroads pass¬
ing through the town.
The President on Thursday vetoed the
act granting the right of w r ay to the Fort
Smith & Dardanelle Railway to construct
and operate a railroad, telegraph and tel¬
ephone line from Fort Smith, Arkansas,
through Indian territory to near Baxter
Springs, Kansas. His message is of con¬
siderable length, and he finds many and
serious objections to the bill.
Senator Palmer reported favorably
from the committee on education and la¬ I
bor the bill appropriating $400,000 for a
Colored Exposition in Atlanta next year,
will call the bill up for action next week,
or earlier if possible. Both he and Sen¬
ator Brown have been talking up the bill
considerably, and expect its passage.
Senator Palmer says he has no doubt but
that it will pass without opposition.
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Miller has made a preliminary report of
the operations of the internal revenue
bureau, for the fiscal year ended Ju y 80,
1888. The total collections for the year
were $124,329,474, as against $118,887.-
301 for the previous fiscal year. Collec¬
tions were made up as follow’s: On spir¬
its, $69,306,156; on tobacco, $30,662,-
431; on fermented liquors, $23,324,218.
There was an increase of 278,220,900
cigarettes, and 56,421,207 cigars manu¬
factured during the year.
The committee on agriculture reconsid¬
ered its action of last week in referring
to the sub-committee the compound lard
bill and all adulterated food bills before
the committee, with instructions to report
by bill, or otherwise, in December next,
and decided to report to the House the
^ee kill, to prevent the sale, manufacture
OT transportation of adulterated articles
°f food, drink and drugs, a.so a su >-ti
tute for the Lutterworth bill, defining
} iard, arr ]> and ant ) regu.ating imposing a its tax sale, upon importation compoum
au( ^ exportation.
The first musical notes were used in
1338.
v.ai£ig6i n Sunday rt
the German squadron. Two Russian
meu-of-war are al?o expected to'be pres¬
ent at Copenhagen duiing the stay of the
emperor.
The old armory of the lltli regiment
at Elm and White street, in New York
city, has been used for commercial pur¬
poses for some yeais, although still
owned by the city. The Lovell Manu¬
facturing company, of book printers and
binders occupied a wide gallery around
the hall fifteen feet from the flror. In
this gallery w r ere five heavy folding m&«
chines and tons upon tons of punted
matter. The gallery was supported by
wooden uprights resting on the floor of
the hall. Under tills hung heavy iron
pipes in stock. On Wednesday the dou¬
ble strain reached its breaking point and
the northeast part of the gallery fell.
The five folding machines carried down
the floor of the main hall to the ground
floor. Six girls who had been working
at the machines went down with the
wreck to the ground floor, One was
killed instantly, two were protected by
debris which had formed an arch over
them and were unhurt; others were more
or less injured, but none fatally. Over
200 women and girls were at work in the
building at the time.
“WHITE CAPS” SHOT,
“White Caps” in Crawford county,
Ind., whipped two probably women die—and nearly then to
death—one will
proceeded to the house of a reputable ordered
citizen in the neighborhood and
him to spread the news of their doings
as their warning. The plans of the
(4 White Caps” had been overheard, and
the citizen had three friends with him.
He accordingly ref used to do the bidding
of the “White Caps,” and was threat¬
ened by them. A fight ensued, in which
t shot,
three of the “White Caps” were two
of them fatally. One of these is named
Gregory, a country merchant, aged fifty
years, with a family of grown children.
Another is a saloon keeper named Saun¬
ders, a worthless fellow. The wounded
men have been hidden away, and the
country is ud in arms on a hunt for them.
QUITE INDIGNANT.
Seven hundred delegates of the joint
convention of Engineers ahd Firemen to
consider the Burlington road matter, as¬
sembled at St. Joseph, Mo., in named secret
session. An enterprizing reporter in the
Replegel was found concealed
chandelier supports in the ceiling and the
iudig' ant delegates came near lynching
him.
The upright body of a dead tramp
was the other day mistaken by the Har«
risburgh, (Penn)., small boys for a dum¬
my, and was stoned accordingly.