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—PUBLISHED WEEKLY AT—
HAMILTON, GEORGIA.
While in London the annual propor
ti„„ of MB
eighty-seven and m Naples thirty-four,
it is in Paris 402.
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The police statistics of Paris furnish
the rather startling news that of the 28,
000 criminals arrested Uat year, W.OOO
were under 20 years of age.
The new constitution of Japan is
working satisfactorily, The latest ad
vices say the people are pleased with it
and the Mikado is happy too.
The rain-fall in Nova Beotia the past
season lias been the greatest in the his
tory of the province, and it has proved
disastrous to grain, hay and root crops.
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of , .
__ Many twng, aceon ing
us now
tlic New York Commercial Advertiser,
can reasonably expect to see Australia
have 25,000,000 people 1 and New Zea
land 5,000,000.
The building of the Canadian Tacific
and the survey of western lands has
given Canada a heavy debt, it now
amounts to $2.»6,000,000, nAI , which, ... ck n
sidering taxable property in each
country, is nearly twice the debt of the
United Staffs.
Of sixty-two London members of
parliament forty-eight arc Tories. Y'et
the change of public sentiment in con
sequence of the confession of Pigott
Hint he forged the Parnell letters is so
decided that it is considered possible
that thirty Conservatives may be unseat¬
ed in tlic next general election.
The magnificent building which tho
Woman’s Christian Temperance union
proposes to erect in Chicago will cost
$800,000. About half of this sum has
been raised already. It will he eleven
stories in height, and it is estimated
that its rental will be about $20,000 a
year, It will be known as the Temple
of Temperance.
Tho tomato, which is a native of
South America, and has taken kindly to
our own gardens, has now found its way
to England, where the demand for it is
growing greater every day. There how¬
ever, owing to the lack of sufficient sun¬
shine and the prevalence of fog and
rain, this vegetable, or fruit, as we may
choose to call it, 1ms to be raised under
glass. _______
A ease of a very remarkable nature lias
come into the hands of a Brooklyn law¬
yer, says tho Citizen. A lady traveling
on a car met with an accident, through
the alleged negligence of the railroad j
company’s servants, and sustained a se¬
vere nervous shock. As the result, a
child was prematurely bora and is
paralyzed. The question is, can an ac¬
tion be begun by the child, through a
guardian ad litem, for damages? It is
an entirely new point. It an action is
begun it will furnish ample scope foi
learned counsel and erudite judges to
exercise their intellects.
The Farm, Field and Stockman, says:
“Tho cattle interests of the United
States are depressed to that condition
that there is no longer profit. Over¬
production is one cause of this state of
tho market. The vast number of unem¬
ployed in our cities is another. The at¬
titude of a uumber of European nations
in placing undue restrict io t m upon raeav
products is still another cause,
principal cause, however, is, without
doubt, combination of the great capital¬
ist packers, together with exorbitant
yardage fee 1 , and prices of feeding ma¬
terial at the stock yards.”
A New York daily affirms that the
TJnited States government is still large
ly f indebted to Ericsson, ’ the dead inven
tor. He „ had, , , of . been paid tho
course,
price he demanded for the Monitor, but
had never asked for payment for inven
tions he subsequently put into the vessel
which were connected with very impor
tant details in the machinery. Nor has
the work done in the building of the
Pi iuceton over been recompensed. Sen
ato-s and congressmen often importuned
him to permit them to obtain for him
some pecuniary recompense for these in
vent ions, but he always steadfastly de
dined, on the ground that the things he
had done only represented his share in
the efforts to preserve the union.
1 MEMORIAL DAY.
UOW IT WAS OBSERVED IN THE
SOUTH.
GRAND PROCESSIONS-ELOQUENT ORATORS
LOVING TRIBUTES TO DEAD HEROES-A DAY
LONG TO EE REMEMBERED.
I , Memorial Bay - w» observe! theceremon- through
oufc the 8outh _ In At!anta
j ie.s were interesting. The companies procession and
; of veterans, the military
! civic societies was an interesting one.
I The exercises at the cemetery wore im
|
3 o’clock the procession began to form,
and shortly after 3 o’clock the longest
and most picturesque moved procession off. ever
s en in Atlanta, briskly In
advance rode Cl.ief of Police Connolly,
Capt. Jacobs, of the United States army,
closely followed by Captains Couch,
Manly and Wright, four sergeants of po¬
ke.; and a squad of mounted patrolmen,
At the head .j ] of ef the W. procession L. Calhoun, was Coin- with
maij( j er n . ; U
the following aids*. Col. L. P. Thomas,
i)r - is O. Divine, Col. W. W. Iluibuit,
Col. II. F. Stark, Hon. A. 11. Cox, apt.
W. D. Ellis, Hon. Mark A. Hardin and
jlr. (jp j{. DeSaussurc. Then in order
came the Confederate veterans, Red Men,
Knights of Pythias, Atlanta Artillery,
Atlanta Rifles, Gate City Guards At
I ant a Zouaves and Mean s Cadets. Ihese
companii p-oved a strong attraction
and by common consent were the pets of
Hie populace. Huff’s band preceded riding
the Governor’s Horse Guard,
four abreast, and forty strong and com
inanded by Capt. John Mdledge. ibis
or g., n j Zflt j tm has never made a more
magnificent appearance on any public
occasion. They moved with a dash of
brilliancy and harmony, which aroused
enlhusia in on all sides. The carriages
containing the presi lent, officers and
members of the Ladies’ Memorial asso¬
ciation, the orator of the day, the Mayor
and members of the city council, were
escorted by the Knights Templar in
their beautiful regalia, gracefully brought
up the rear of the imposing procession.
It wa3 nearly 5 o’clock when the me¬
morial exercises began. The monument
was crowded with people, its sides and
base being used as a platform. Several
thousand people gathered about the base.
Prayer was offered by Dr. ,T. William
Jones, secretary of the Baptist Foreign
Mission society, and a gallant ex-confed¬
erate soldier. Ilis invocation was ap
prepriatc and eloquent. The prayer was
f Mowed by music, after which Hon.
W. Lowndes Calhoun, president of the
Veteran association, introduced General
P. M. B. Young, as the orator of the day.
Judge Calhoun referred to General
Young “as a gallant son of Georgia,
one, who in her days of trial never de¬
serted Ilia mother, and as a major-gener¬ Northern
al of cavalry in the army of
Virginia, was true to his home and
n.s cbivalric as a knight of old.”
Memorial Day was appropriately ob¬
served in Rome. Large numbers of
people repaired to Myrtle Hill to stre^w
flowers over the graves of our heroic
dead. Dr. Goctchens delivered an im¬
pressive prayer, after which decoration
took place. A handsome sum was col¬
lected at the gate. The Methodist
church at Cuthbert, Ga., was crowded
to witness the memorial exercises. W.
E. Wooten, of Albany was orator. A
collection was taken up for the soldiers’
home and a nice sum was realized. Tho
day was well observed at Allymy, Ga.
Starting from the Baptist church a large
procession marched to the cemetery.
It v. YV. E. Eppo opened address, with prayer. intro¬
Mr. S. J. Jones, in a neat
duced Mr. YV. W. Turner, formerly
of Atlanta, as the orator. There
was a large number present and
the graves were covered with
a wreath of floral offerings.
Memorial Day was very generally afternoon ob¬
served in Macon, Ga. In the
all business was partially suspended Rose and
thousands of persons went out to
Hill cemetery to participate in the exer¬
cises and decoration of the graves, which
commenced at four o’clock. The exer¬
cises consisted of singing by the young
ladies of the Wesleyan Female College,
prayer and the reading of “The Old
Canteen” by Mr. H. S. Edwards. There
was a great profusion of flowers, and
every grave was bur ed beneath a wealth
of roses and other beautiful floral offer¬
ings. At three o’clock all business was
suspended at Americus, Ga., and the en
tire city asst*lbieR at Oak Grovt ceine
tery to pay tribute to the honored dead.
Col. A. S. Cutts, a veteran of two wars,
commanded the company of veterans
who had met to honor their fallen com
rades. Col. Frank A. Hooper was oratoi
of the day. One of the most interesting
features of the occasion was the decora¬
tion of the monument with floral em¬
blems by ten of the prettiest young thou-and ladies
in the city. More than two
people took hand in the memorial exer
cises at Milledgeville, Ga., which we c
appropnale amt pretty ln,1 ”ed- Aiicr s
beautiful rendition ol “bhall W e Gath i
at the River” bv a sheeted choir, Rev.
D. McQueen. ffered a.i eloquent pe.it .. n
to the God of m u a d natries, ;.tter
which Col. M. Grieve was introduced to
the vast multitude bv Captam Newell,
mal3 hal of ceremonies. Col. Gr eve’s
oration was a master tl i t. The door;
of the Philosophic Club at B. sum. Ga.,
were thrown open to do honors for the
brave heroes. A speech by T. F. Pr u
ett was loudly apptau led. Confederate A beautiful dead
seni. e in honor of t oe
was held at Talbotton. Ga., at 3 o’clock.
Appropriate music was rendered and
o. D. Gorman, after a touching
praver by Rev. H. R. Feld r, i treduced
the orator of the da\, W . II. Phiipot,
who delivered a beautitul aidu-ss
At Savannah, Columbus, and cities, Brunswick, and
other Georgia towns the day
was very appropriately remembered by observed, those and
will long be partici
r : g in the ex rcisesas a grand success.
SOL I HERN BRIEFS.
ITEMS OF GREAT INTEREST TO
INTELLIGENT PEOPLE .
KEW ENTERPRISES—RAILROAD PERILS—HEAVY
RAINS—GOOD CROPS ASSURED—WHAT THE TEL
LCUAPH REPORTS—GENERAL NOTES.
One hundred and fifty thousand dol
nrs of Anniston bonds, to run thirty
years, bi aring six per cent interest, were
taken yesterday by Fisher <fc Shaw, of
Baltimore, for 103.61.
«;k«iiuiia.
At Atlanta, Sunday evening, a dummy
car, running between the city and Grant’s
Park, suddenly left the track and ran
into a house, completely wrecking the
structure and seriously wounding several
persons.
During an altercation in a bar-room in
Atlanta, M. T. Whitlock, a horse trader,
shot and instantly killed J. C. Belding,
a railroad engineer. The quarrel result
ed from a bet which both men claimed
to have won The corroner’s jury re
turned a verdict of voluntary manslaugh
ler.
.MIRTH CAKOUXt.
Negroes from all parts of the state met
in Raleigh and organized the North Car¬
olina Emigration Association.
At Fairview,Buncombe county,a white
man named Tom Tate, while walling a
well was killed by a falling stone. He
was hurried, and a few nights later Dr.
G. A. Wise, B. L. Ashworth, and J. V.
Jay, who are studying medicine, were
caught in the act of stealing the body.
They had it in a sack and were walking
away with it when discovered. Dr. Wise
has been arrested, but the students can
uot he found.
S6K1T1I CAROLINA.
Ca;sar Frazier, colored, was hanged at
10:30 Friday, at Charleston, for the mur¬
der of Iloldenberg White, on February
9. The condemned man professed the
Catholic faith, and the execution was
unattended by the usual scenes of shout¬
ing, praying and singing.
TENNESSEE.
Harry Branch, an engineer on the
Cincinnati Southern Railroad, dropped
dead on his engine at Oakdale, He re
sided in Chattanooga, and was a popular
man.
A distressing suicide occurred at Sliel
byville Sunday night. Miss Mary Cal¬
houn, who had been sick for some
months, but not confined to her bed, went
quietly out to a frell on the premises of
a relative and drowned herself. She was
traced to the well and her body found
alter much trouble.
NEWS FROM OKLAHOMA.
A small pox epidemic now threatens
Guthrie and other towns in the new ter¬
ritory of Oklahoma. It seems that s
man named Joseph Ellsworth, of Kan¬
sas City, more recently from Leadville,
was taken Wednesday on his return front
Guthrie and Oklahoma City, and is now
quarantined shops. at a house is near reported the Santa that
Fe railroad It
this man stood in the line at the land
office in Guthrie for four hours, while
waiting to file his claim on Tuesday,
thus exposing to attack all those with
whom he came in contact at that time.
As the trains are crowded every daj
between Arkansas City, Guthrie, Okla¬
homa City and Purcell, the disease may
have already spread to these towns.
People who have heard of this case an
anticipate an epidemic. in nearly The depopulating first out¬
break will result
these embryo cities m Oklahoma.
Dr. Moore, of Arkansas City, who is
in attendance on Mr. Ellsworth, says it
is a genuine case of small-pox ...It is
reported that a fight occurred Wednes¬
day between the old soldi' rs, whose col¬
ony is 1 cated on the Canadian river, in
the south-western pait of Oklahoma, and
a number of cow boys. The lands occu¬
pied b’ th ■ colony are very valuable,'and
the fight resulted from an attempt by the
cow 1> ys to take them from the settlers.
During the melee guns and revolvers
were freely used. Nine men were killed
and one wounded...-A simoon swept
over the desert Saturday and Guthrie is
buried in led dust. The wind rose at
dawn, sweeping tb-wn from a cloudless
sky. a .d the red sand of the plain was
driven before it all cay in stinging, sti¬
fling masses. Tents collapsed, roofs w-ere
raised and everything light and loose
was blown away.___Col. republican D. P. Dyer, politics, ol
Kansas City, a in
and formerly Indian agent under Presi¬
dent Arthur, has been elected mayor ol
Guthrie. One of his first acts was tc
give the l amb ers twenty-four hours to
leave, a it the next train north took
away a good many of them. Two big
wail tents ha e been erected, and are
ealb deity buildings. Police Judge M,
lark, of Ivaiues holds his court there,
and t o city council and other city offi¬
cials inhaoi th in. Several good build¬
ings have be n put no and improvements
of all kit ds ..re in r *pid progress. YY. V.
II r rcourt, special artist for Harper’s
Weekly, dropped dead in front of his
teut Saturday mo mi g.
The New Y ork Assembly has passed
a bill incorporating the Grant Monu¬
ment Association, and empowering it
to hold $-7,000,000 worth of property
free of taxation. All that remains to
be done now is tlie securing comparatively that in¬
significant feat of doubt that ' 7, 00,
bU A There is no the asso¬
ciation can hold it after it is cnce se-
r
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I
j PENNED, CRUSHED AND BURNER
TO DEATH.
I a horrible accident on the grand trunk
i RAILWAY---Aw IT HAPPENED-TERRIBLE
l SCENES OF SL'FFFKING.
The limited express on the Grand
Trunk R.R. due at Hamilton,Ont.,Sunday
morning met with an accident two miles
I Z'Sitti Kk»j e W T°he tS
was composed of an engine, two baggage
Trunk through passenger coach, a
Wabash coach, a Wagner first-class, a
Pullman car and two Wagner sleeping
cars in the order named. The accident
occurred at a junction where a “Y” is
built. This “Y” is used to switch
through trains for Toronto to Toronto
branch from the main line. The train is
laid to have been running at a speed
of forty miles an hour more. When
directly on the crossing the switch
engine jumped the track which and stood plunged in
into the water tank
} ts P* lh between the “Y,” smashing the
* ank to and turmn S almost upside
d ? WI \ The baggage cars came directly
after tlic cn S ine > a “ d the first these
was pitched , over the engine and thrown
? n the main track leaving its wheels be
lund it. The o: her baggage car caught
fire from the engine, and the two were
soon in flames. The coaehes following
with the exception of two Wagner cars
in the rear of the train, w T ere huddled to
gether from by the shock and soon caught fire
the beggage cars. The passengers
on the train, numbering over 150, many
of whom were asleep at the time, had a
terrible experience. A majority of those
on board the train were able to get out
of the coaches before the fire reached
them, but in the confusion that reigned
it is not known how many victims were
left to the mercy of the flames, penned
in by the material of tho wreck and un¬
able to extricate themselves. L. S. Gur¬
ney, of Brooklyn, had his head completely
severed from his body by a piece of fly¬
ing debris. Rudolph Guerre, whose ad¬
dress is not known, was also instantly
killed. As soon as the engine rolled
over, after striking the water tank, En¬
gineer YVatson and Fireman Chapman
crawled out from underneath,
neither of them being much hurt.
Up to five o’clock the charred remains ol
eighteen victims had been exhumed from
the wreck. In no case was there enough
of the body left to identify the remains
or tell whether the person was a male oi
female. Thirteen of the wounded are
now in the hospital. About ten others
w r ere slightly hurt, but not so badly as
to prevent them continuing theii
journey. None of the members of the
Detroit Light Infantry were injured and
not a woman was in the least hurt,
James Welch and Fred Dumas, both
of Niagara Falls, were in the car which
jumped over the engine, yet neither was
hurt. The screams of the men who were
being burned to death in the smoking
car could be heard above the noise of the
escaping steam and the roaring of the
flames. Seven ears, a baggage ear, two
first-class coaehes, a smoker, a first-class
day coach and two Wagner sleepers were
burned, there being not a vestige left of
wood or anything that would burn.
One car—(he baggage car—was demol¬
ished and the engine was the most com¬
plete wreck imaginable. The loss to
the company will be enormous. Many of
those on the train were going to New York
to participate in the centennial festivities.
Most of -.the passengers lost all or a
porrion of their baggage and clothing,
and a large amount of mails were lost by
fire. Another report of the accident
says that the remains of from sixteen to
eighteen men were taken out of the
wreck. They were cut to pieces almost
to a man and burned beyond all possibil¬
ity of recognition. They were huddled
together in a heap in the end of the
smoker and were pinned in by the tim¬
bers, which made it impossible for them
to extricate themselves. Nothing could
be done for them, and the fierceness of
the flames made it out of the question
for the men'to rescue them. The only
way in which it could be ascertained
that from sixteen to eighteen bodies had
been taken out, was from the fact that
legs and arms corresponding to that
number were found.
YELLOW JACK.
YYilliam C. Chase, editor of the Clima
tologist, and a member of a party ol
sanitarians and physicians who recently
visited Florida, with a view of prosecut¬
ing an examination into the sanitary
condition in the state, was in Washington
Saturday, having just returned from
Florida.* Mr. Chase expressed himsell
as being much impressed with the
anxiety of the people of Florida to have
the condition of their cities and towns
thoroughly examined. He says that
with few exceptions, the towns of Flori¬
da would put to shame many of the
larger and richer populations in other
states in their sanitary affairs. Concern
ing the general condition of the state
and the effects of the fever, Mr. Chase
remarked. “No one can spend a day in
wonderful and fail to notice _
that state
the vigorous condition of both its people
and industries.” Y'ellow fever, he thinks,
cannot originate in Florida. Upon sub
ieet of the general health, Mr. Chase
gBes Flo.Oa a clean bill. »nd calls the
<tate the natural sanitarium Oi tae na
UO.l- Ti Lie e evuresses txpies.es his opinion F that
fever epidemic . ..
there will be no veilow in
Florida this Summer, but the disease will
be confined to sporadic cases like that
at Sanfcrd recently.
TELEGRAPHIC.
The Iron Mountain railroad (part of
the Missouri Pacific system), has given
notice that all unnecessary Sunday train
service, both passenger and freight, will
be discontinued on that road after May
1st.
John Roan, Samuel Conrad and Jere
miah Crowley were placed under bail of
$500 each to answer at court charges of
breach of the peace and inciting riot at
Philadelphia, growing out of a strike at
the works of the Enterprise Manufactur
• Company
^ National Gazette, of Berlin ta
SIS y°n Bars'. p“opdsa'l"tor“ i tkrc trip
artue control and to
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British delegates PtK a
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The large five story building of the
Lowell Manufacturing Co., on Market
street, Lowell, Mass., known as the carpet
mill, was gutted by fire causing a loss of
$200,000, as roughly estimated by Agent
Lyons. The company had nearly $40,
000 worth of new machinery in the
building, besides yarn and wool stock m
process of manufacture From 500 to
700 hands are thrown out of employ
ment.
In an interview, Gen. Boulanger rat¬
erated his disavowal that he had any in¬
tention of precipitating war between
France and Germany. Nevertheless, he
did not consider that the future of France
had been settled forever by the war of
1370. He declared that he would never
consent that France should be insulted,
He was aroused, he said,’ to cement
France’s friendship with Russia and
England.
Curtis and Taylor and Mrs. Woods
were arraigned at Lincoln, Neb., for
their preliminary examination, charged
with the murder of an old colored man
named Bob Woods. The negroes are
greatly excited, and little has been done
since the shooting but talk and threaten
lynching. rounded The about court 500 room was who sur¬
by negroes, are
led by two vlffiite men, Doc Porter and
Sam Hudson.
Mr. S. J. Ritchie, of Akron, O., is in
Ottawa, Ont., and has had an interview
with the premier relative to the proposed
visit to Canada of the Inter State com¬
merce commission, with a view to these
gentlemen having a conference with the
government. It is understood that May
or June will be a convenient time for
the meeting to be held. In view of the
inter-locking nature of the Canadian and
United States railway systems, it is an¬
ticipated that great benefit to both
countries will arise from the visit of the
commissioners.
While sawing a log that had been
chopped down a couple of years ago, V.
S. Whitemore, of Beatrice, Neb., struck
a stone as large as his two fists that had
grown solid in the heart of the tree. The
tree was sufficiently large to indicate a
grow th of perhaps twenty years or more
around tho stone.
There is only one kind of religion,
although it is dispensed through many
different denominations.
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