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HAMILTON, GEORGIA.
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Two thousand five hundred men de¬
scried from the United States army dur¬
ing the past year, involving a loss to the
government of more than §025,000.
It is estimated by the New York T Vit
r.css that 12,000,000 school children are
now being taught the nature and effect*
of alcohol.
It is worthy of note that one-eighth of
all cases of blindness in Russia are due
to smallpox, and only one-half to direct
eye diseases.
The Virginia t.Nev.) Enterprise pa¬
thetically observes: “The only monu¬
ments of the millionaire* in this Btatc
arc inverted shafts. They point in the
wrong direction.”
The tendency of agricultural improve¬
ment, according to the New York
Times, is now toward cheaper produc¬
tion by the growth of larger crops on
less acreage, thus lessening the cost
without increasing the stock until the
markets can absorb it. easily.
England is pretty active in the monu¬
ment business, sneers the Chicago Her
aid. Not long ago it erected a monu¬
ment to the memory of Gordon,whom it
allowed to perish in the Soudan, and
now it will erect one to Colonel Baker
w hom it kicked out of the army.
A commissi .n winch was recently ap¬
pointed by the French Senate to study
the consumption of alcohol in Franco re¬
ports that the new diseases of the vine,
such as phylloxera, have produced a
complete revolution in the drinking
tastes of the French, spirits being now
taken instead of wine. As a consequence
drunkenness and crime are much more
prevalent.
Statistics of the extent to which diph¬
theria has prevailed in the last six
months show that in Paris, London,
Berlin, St. Petersburg, Vienna, Buda
pcstli, Copenhagen, Christiana, Prague
and Amsterdam there was a total of 3924
deaths from that disease. Paris was re¬
sponsible for 1017 of these, the other
cities liming n smaller number in the
order named.
A man connected with the penitentiary
says that nearly all newly arriving con¬
victs go to their cells serene in the belief
that they w ill be taken out within a few
days. They a:e thoroughly convinced
that the lawyers who defended them,
from whom they have doubtless had the
sweetest and most ones uraging assur¬
ances, will perform wonders to secure
their relief, and be nobly assisted by
tbe relatives and friends of the prison¬
ers.
.foe Howard says in the New York
Press that many men have an idea that
an execution is a most impressive affair.
On the contrary, it is a very tame and
common incident in civilized society. So
long ns the condemned si amis with face
uncovered it is indeed a solemn occasion—
one calculated to stir the kindliest feel¬
ings in every observer’s heart—but when
the black cap is drawn and the face is
concealed, it i* impossible to consider,
from any point of view, the figure stand¬
ing or the figure when lifted high in air
as that of a human being. That, by
the way, is a very remarkable psycholo¬
gic fact. In order to appreciate the hu¬
manity of the man about to suffer, it is
absolutely essential that you should see
his face.
That part of 3Iason and Dixon’s line
dividing the States of Pennsylvania and
Delaware lias for years been an imagin¬
ary one, and has been so completely lost
and obliterated by time that the aid of
the Legislature of the first named State
has been invoked to discover its loca¬
tion. The commissioners of the coun¬
ties in Pennsylvania bordering on Dela¬
ware say that nearly all the monuments
that were set in the Mason and Dixon
line have been mutilated, destroyed or
removed from their proper location, l*ud
that it is impossible to determine in
which State a large amount cf property
is situated. It is believed that when
the lost dividing ^ine is discovered it
will show that from 500 to 800 acres
now claimed by Delaware is in Pennsyl¬
vania, and that a member of the Dela¬
ware Legislature is really a resident of
Pennsylvania.
SOUTHERN BRIEFS.
ITEMS OF GREAT INTEREST TO
INTELLIGENT PEOPLE.
NEW ENTERPRISES—RAILROAD PERILS—HEAVF
BAINS—GOOD CROPS ASSURED—WHAT THE TEL
EORAFli REPORTS—GENERAL NOTES.
Af.ABA.UA.
A trade was closed in Birmingham for
the purchase, by New York and New
Orleans capitalists, of 100,000 acres of
coal and ore lands in the vicinity of Col¬
linsville and Fort Payne.
There is rejoicing at Birmingham
among the white Republican Protective
Tariff League, over the announcement
that R. L. Houston had been appointed
postmaster. Houston is about twenty
five years old, and is a prominent young
business man.
ARKANSAS.
A stage running between Wagoza and
Walker, on the southern border of Okla¬
homa and on the bank of the Canadian
river, was “held up” and robbed late
at night. The driver jumped
into the river after being shot through
the arm and reached the opposite bank
nearly unconscious. He walked to Vfal
nut Creek and stated that the passengers,
consisting of two men and a boy, were
in the hands of the robbers and the coach
had been burned.
GEORGIA.
Henry W. Grady was chosen president
of the Board of Directors of the Confed¬
erate Home at Atlanta.
Chns. Hindall and Steve Jackson were
drowned in the Chattahoochee river at
Columbus while bathing. Both good boys
were about 16 years of age and of
families.
Glenn McCord, of Atlanta, who was a
witness in the ease against Eddleman for
murder, and through whose testimony
the prisoner was freed, was convicted on
Thursday of perjury.
Nine companies of the 4th U. S. Ar¬
tillery will take post at Atlanta in a few
days," and ns its many officers, young the Southern society belles men
are among flutter of excitement. Property
nre in a
in the vicinity of the new barracks has
jumped up amazingly in value. Post
“Hancock” is said to be the finest bar¬
racks of any in the country.
Atlanta celebrated Easter Sunday by
having the greatest fire in the business
portion of the city, since the burning of
the Kimball House. The property de¬
stroyed was a six-story brick building
on the corner of Alabama and Pryor
streets, owned-by Cnpt. Harry Jackson.
The tire originated in the paper ware¬
house of YVellhouse & Sous, and was ac¬
cidental. 3Iany lawyers occupied losses a por¬
tion of the building. The foot
up §125,000 and the insurance was but
§75,000. Sparks from this fire commun¬
icated to the roof of the rectory of St.
Philips church (Episcopal) several blocks
away and the building was destroyed,
SOUTH CAROLINA.
The Council of Administration of the
Department of Georgia, G. A. It., has
authorized the formation of a post of
white soldiers of Charleston, There is
already a post of colored men in Beau¬
fort which is attached to the Department
of Virginia. The post just formed in
Charleston, is composed of some of the
best men of the city.
F. VV. Macusser, a Northern man who
settled in Charleston after the War, but
who has always voted with the whites in
the state elections, says he saw President
Harrison in Washington, and that the
removals and appointments will com¬
mence on the 1st of 31ay. The Presi¬
dent, he says, intends to ignore the old
party leaders and appoint young Demo¬
crats nud Republicans to office in the
state.
TEXAS.
The movement inaugurated by the
Austin Statesman, in aid of the Austin
Confederate Home, is rapidly taking
shape. It is universally commended by
all classes of citizens.
Considerable excitement exists in El
Paso, over the city government contest.
Krakaner, the Republican contestant,
who forcibly took charge of the city safe,
refuses to disclose the combination.
TENNESSEE.
The Southern Stove Jfauufacturers As¬
sociation held a meeting in Chattanooga
on Wednesday. Prices were raised <>n
ihe line of cheap cooking stoves, On
all other lines remain about the same.
The Chattanooga City Council suppl f'
men ted Baron Erlauger’s and the Queen
& Crescent Route gift of §9,000 for a
public hospital at Chattanooga by an ap
propriation of §10,000 for tbe same pur
pose.
VIRGINIA
Dr. Benjamin Blackford, of Lynch
bur«- was unanimously elected superin¬
tendent of the Western succeed Lunatic Dr. D. B. Asylum Con
at Staunton, to
ard.
Judge C. E. Stuart, of the corpora¬
tion court of Alexandria, died YYednes
day after a protracted illuess He was
speaker of the House of Delegates two
terms.
Intelligence from many counties con¬
firm the reports of great injury done to
the pea, bean and potato crops by heavy the
recent heavy storms and continual
rainfalls.
WEST VIRGINIA.
One of tile moft horrible accidents
that ever occurred in Broctonfconnty
ha ppened Wednesday. Perry felling Wiere, a
we sll known citixen, was demolish¬ a tree,
when it heuse broke across and killing a stump, his wife and
ing his
three children.
TELEGRAPHIC.
Murat Halstead is critically ill.
The new Cruiser Yorktown, was put
in commission.
The President app Anted 31. D. Wiek
esh im, of Alabama, to be United State.*
attorney for the Southern district of
Alabama.
A force of Soudanese attacked and de¬
feated a party of Egyptians from Suakim,
who were building a fort at Port Hailib.
The Egyptians lost ten killed and
wounded.
A telegram received in New York says:
Danmark “Passengers and crew of the steamship
lauded at Azores; 310 of the
passengersontho steamer 3Iissouri bound
for Philadelphia. The. rest to follow by
the next steamer.”
Postmaster Henry G. Pearson, of New
York, died on Sunday. 3Ir. caused Pearson’s by
death was from hemorrhage,
cancer of the stomach, lie was forty
five years of age. His death occurred on
the thirteenth anniversary of his wed¬
ding.
The Spanish Catholic Congress meets
in 3Iadrid. Cardinal Cenavides will
preside and 1,600 clergymen and laymen
will be in attendance. The object of
the Congress is to pronounce in favor of
the restoration of the temporal power of
the Pope, and the entension of the in¬
fluence of the church in the schools.
There was serious rioting in Vienna,
Austria, arising out of the strike of the
tram car drivers. The workmen in sym¬
pathy with the strikers blocked the
streets and overcame the police. A force
of cavalry had to be called out to quell
the disorder. 3Iany persons were injured
and a large number arrested. The so¬
cialists side with the strikers.
The steamer Everett, a raft boat be¬
longing to the Burlington Lumber Co.,
was sunk at the head of Otter Island,
Iowa, and five of the sixteen persons on
board were drowned. The Everett was
on her way to Burlington from New
Boston Bay, when she was struck by a
terrific gale and sunk in twenty feet of
water.
The prefect of police in St. Petersburg,
Russia, discovered the existence of a
nihilist plot to assassinate the czar when
attending the funeral of Gen. Pauker,
minister of Rhodes. The czar was im¬
mediately warned not to attend the fun¬
eral. A number of persons charged with
being implicated in the plot have been
arrested. The nihilists intended to use
dynamite on the czar.
The French ambassador at Brussels
informed Prince De Chimay, Belgium the
minister of foreign affairs, that
meeting of the Boulanger committee in
Brussels impressed the Paris government
unfavorably. The cabinet thereupon
sent an official to the hotel at which
Boulanger is stopping to warn the gen¬
eral that he must leave Belgium of his
own accord, ' or the government would
expel him.
Capt. Blacklen, of the British steamer
Minnesota, just arrived at Tilbury on the
Thames, from Baltimore, reports that on
the 4th instant in latitude 45 degrees, 18
longitude 37, 50 W. he the passed a lifeboat
painted white with words “Dan¬
mark, Copenhagen,” in black letter on
the stern. Pieces of cigar boxes were also
in the boat. There was every appear¬
ance that the people who had been aboard
had been taken off.
West Depere, Wis., was almost swept
out of existence by a fire Sunday. The
conflagration began in the 3Ierswinkel
wcodenware factory, and thence spread
rapidly till many houses were in flames.
There was a strong wind blowing, and
all attempts to subdue the fire proved
unavailing, despite the efforts of the
people from the country, who came in
and formed a bucket brigade. About
the same time an incendiary fire was
stinted in another part of the town, and
the towns of Fort Howard and Green
Bay were telegraphed for aid. They re¬
sponded with engines and men, and
worked all night to subdue the fire. The
losses aggregate §250,000.
The biggest and fiercest fires New
Yorkers have witnessed in this genera¬
tion, swept the east bank of North rivet
clean from 59tli street. It destroyed
property, valued at nearly §2,000
900, belonging to the New York Centra
railroad and at least a half million dol¬
lars worth of lard, fio..r, and the like,
belonging to other persons, notably, N.
K. Fairbanks, the great destroyed Chicago lard big
merchant. It also two
elevators of the A. & V., of the Vander-j
bill system, a big brick building stretch-i
ing from 59th to 60th street, and occupi-l
ed jointly by the Fairbank lard refinery
and resin stock and property of the Newt
York Central system. One man was
killed in his headlong flight from thd
lire at the first outbreak. A number
were injured jumping f om the windows
of the burning building.
IMITATING “JACK. * *
Capt. R. C. Jones, of the schoonei
Arthur, at 3Iobile Ala., on 3Ionday
from Bay Island, and reports that at
Rustan, last month, Rev. Henry Hobson,
his wife and her companion, a murder¬ youDg
girl, all natives of Jamaica, Were
ed by Joseph Bures. The family were
preparing to leave there for Belize, and
Bures was helping. Discovering that
3frs. Hobson had money, Bures at night
entered the house and cut the throats of
all three persons. The mutilation of
the bodies of both the womeD, bore a
strong resemblance to the murders com¬
mitted by “Jack the Ripper,” the White¬
chapel murderer in Eng and.
WENT DOWN.
The British bark “Wandering 3Iin
strel,” which sailed from Honolulu De¬
cember 10, 1887, has been heard from.
She vfas wrecked at the 3Iidway islands
February 3, 1888. The crew escaped.
OYER THE GLOBE.
CONDENSATION OF CURIOUS,
AND EXCITING EVENTS.
FRANCE'S PERIL—STRIKES—THE WESTERN BOOM
—DEATHS OP EMINENT KEN—ACCIDENTS, FIRES
AND SUICIDES.
A package containing §15,000 in gold, ,,
mysteriously disappeared from the office
of the Northern Pacific Express company
in Rrainard, 31inn., on Thursday.
Vice Admiral Tchikkateheff, of the
Russian navy, has submitted to the czar
a report on the condition of the navy,
In it he urges the immediate constn&tion
of a number of cruisers.
At West Farms, a farming hamlet,
sing midway between Westfield and
Montgomery, and five miles from West
field Centre, Mass., Joseph King a weal- of
thy and well-known citizen, 78 years
age, was shot and killed by Edgar King,
his eldest son, and the house fired and
burned.
A gentleman who has been stopping and at
the Hotel Richelieu in Chicago, III.,
was registered as Sidney Walters, com
mitted suicide Thursday, in his room by
taking morphine. He was an English
man, and a newspaper man of consider
able prominence in London. He has
bcen engaged in newspaper -work in
Philadelphia, Pittsburg and Chicago.
A car was started on the' West Seventh
street line in St. Paul, Minn., guarded by
four patrol wagons filled with policemen,
and ten mounted officers. The process¬
ion started off amidst hoots and derisive
cheers from a large crowd which had
assembled, Forty-one cowboys from
raenhes near Garden City, Kansas, left
Kansas City for Minneapolis, to take the
places of the striking street car men of
that city.
A mail car on the Lake Shore road,
which left Chicago, Ill., on Thursday
night, was robbed before it had gotten
out of the city limits. The thief secured
a pouch containing about 100 pieces of
registered mail for Cleveland, Ohio, and
was rifling detected the contents in an empty box As
car when by a watchman.
the watchman looked into the car the
man jumped out through a door on the
opposite side and escaped. He had
opened about a dozen registered letters
and succeeded in getting away with their
contents.
A disastrous -wreck occurred at Cora
polis, Pa., on the Pittsburg & Lake Frie
Railway, Thursday. As the express was
speeding along at a thirty-five miles an
hour rate the locomotive jumped the
track while passing a switch, dragging
the baggage, mail, smoker and three
coaches after it, the whole train except
the sleeper, being thrown over the bank,
turning twice in the descent. Mail
Agent Blackmore and a number of pass¬
engers sustained slight injuries, but no
one was seriously hurt. The baggage
car caught fire almost as soon as the
train left the rails, but the flames were
quickly extinguished by water from a
ditch.
SUMMARY MEASURES.
Mayor Grant’s secretary received a cer¬
tified copy of Judge Wallace’s order dis¬
solving the injunction procured by the
Western Union Telegraph Co., against control
the mayor and board of electrical
in New York City. The order was sent
on Tuesday, to the department of
public works. One of the inspectors was
on hand with a corps of axmen, expect¬
ing the war signal. Before eleven o’clock
the poles at Fourteenth street and Union
Square were being cut down. Hundreds
of people quickly gathered to witness the
novel sight of men cutting down tele¬
graph poles. Two gangs, one on each
side of the street, attacked the wood- poles.
Another company of strong-armed poles
choppers made an attack on the on
Sixth Avenue. They commenced on
both sides of the avenue at Twenty-Third
street, and leveled to the Fifty-eighth ground all
poles on the avenue as far as
street. The mayor sent to the commis¬
sioner of public works a letter notifying
him of the poles and wires that were to
come down. Broadway was fairly well
lit up with gas, but it was pale. The
only relief to the absolute gloom of
Madison and Union squares, were the
lights in the surrounding streets. Not a
flicker lit the darkness within the parks.
It was a strange scene and the talk of the
town. It was an object of interest, which
drew many spectators to the spot to see
the transformation.
WANTS PEACE.
Prince Bismarck, of Germany, has is¬
sued an order in which he defines the re¬
sponsibilities of commanders of warships
with respect to the request of consuls
abroad. The chancellor directs the
commanders to examine for themselves
legal and political consul grounds produces for such special a re¬
quest. unless the
authority from the German foreign office.
As a reason for his action, Prin ce Bs
marck refers to the recent events in Sa¬
moa, where, he says, the unauthorized
reque>t remlted in great loss of life and
injury to German interests, and the dan¬
ger was thereby incurred of Germany
becoming embroiled with a friendly na
tion, with no conclusive reason* existing
for the intervention of armed forces.
GLADSTONE’S MAN AHEAD
An election was held in Rochesteij
England on Tuesday, to fill the parlia
mentry seat made vacant by the resig,
nation of Col. Hughes-Hallett. The
balloting resulted in favor of Mr Hug
gesset, the Gmdstoman candidate, who
polled Mr. 1,655 Davies, votes the liberal against unionist 1,580 votes
»or can
didate.
WASHINGTON, D. C.
MOVEMENTS OF THE PRESIDENT
AND IIIS ADVISERS.
NOTES.
Secretary of Agriculture Rusk lias dis
charged eighteen men employed in the
seed room of his department.
From 100 to 150 fourth-class postmas
ters are now being ap p 0 i u ted daily. Of
tbese about one . t hird are to fill appointed existing
vacanc i es . Another third are
in the places of postmasters lenloved for
cause and the other third succeed poet*
masters who have served about four
years.
The National Academy of Sciences
held a meeting Wednesday morning, and
the following officers were elected: Pres¬
ident, O. C. Marsh, of New Haven,
Conn., re-elected president for the term
of six years, and Prof. F. P. Langley, of
the Smithsonian Institution, viee-presi
dent for a similar term.
The charge d’affaires ad interim of
Corea, in a note to the Department of
State, says that the newspaper accounts
of the famine in Corea have been greatly
exaggerated. It appears that, owing to
the scarcity of rice in the southern dis
tricts, the import duties were removed
from all food products, and cargoes of
rice were purchased in Japan for distri
bution among the sufferers by the express
direction of his majesty the king.
The President made the following ap¬
pointments: Robert P. Porter, of New
York, to be superintendent of census;
William H. Calkins, of Washington Ter¬ the
ritory, to be associate justice of
supreme court of the territory of Washing
ton; John B. Donnelly, of Louisiana, to
be marshal of the United States for the
Eastern district of Louisiana. Robert P.
Porter, the new superintendent of the
census, is an Englishman by birth, but
has lived in this country for many years,
and is a naturalized citizen.
Among the Easter remeinbrauees sent
to the White House was a mammoth sugar
egg for Baby NcKee, President Harri¬
son’s grandchild. The gift came from
Baltimore and was as big as a basket.
The baby’s name and “Easter, 1889,”
were inscribed upon the egg. Through
a gifts in one end a scene from Mrs. Bur¬
nett’s “Little Lord Fauntleroy” may be
seen. Another memento from another
member of the family was a hen ancl
brood of chickens, all done in sugar and
very life-like.
IRISH AFFAIRS.
Thirteen families at Falcarrh, in Ire¬
land, who had been evicted, but who
had returned to their homes, were again
evicted. Barricades had been erected,but
the police met with no violent resistance.
... .The proposed nationalist demonstra¬
tion at Piltcwn, which was proclaimed
by in the government, was held at Skough,
the immediate vicinity of Piltown.
The police were completely outwitted.
While the crowd, headed by a band Of
they music, were charged returning from the meeting
were upon by the hussars.
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