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HAMILTON, GEORGIA.
Eight stat rejected woman suffrage
propositions last winter.
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There arc many signs, announces the
New York Sun that Mahdisra is doomed
to peruh, and that even without for
eign interference the power of the Sou
danese pretender is falling to pieces.
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Some people, thinks the Boston Ad -
vertiser, might possibly become firm be
lievers in the Lower California gold dis
coveries from the following chronologi
cal table: California, 1819; Pike’s Peak,
1859; Nevada, 1869; Leadville, 1879
»nd ? 1889.
It has been conclusively proved that
the fogs of Ragland would make
ball as now played impracticable in tho
“tight a little island.” Perhaps, 1 ’ how
ever, suggests the New __ \ ork , World, ,, a
transparent hall with an electric light
inside might be used to overcome the
atmospheric obstacle referred to.
Tiie world’s consumption of salt is up¬
ward of 70,000 barrels per day, while
the production is averaging in tho
neighborhood of 47,000 barrels daily
Thus a deficit of 20,000 barrels daily
has to bo supplied from the reserve of
18,458,500 barrels, which will be ex¬
hausted in less than two years.
It Ls not often that a “lost art” is re
Covered, observes the'New York World,
but it Ls said that the chemists have
triumphed in the matter of the ancient
Alexandrian blue, a peculiar and remark
ably durable color. They have achieved
a successful analysis of tho Pompeian
frescoes and reproduced the paint. Tho
prospect is that it will soon conic into
fashionable use, and an announcement is
made that it will shortly bo placed on
the market—a circumstance, be it said,
to the discredit of human nature, which
is calculated to arouse the doubts of the
suspicious.
The Chinese Minister at Washington
expends more money in telegrams and
Cable despatches than tho Government
of the United Stntos. In communicating
with tho Chinese Government lie makes
use of a cipher, but as his despatches
cost $4 a word his bills arc enormous.
His cxnondtturos in telegraphing reach
an average of $1000 a week. One day
recently lie spent $2000 in sending do
spatchos to China regarding tho Mil
waukec riots. Ills cable messages to
Ch.ua go to Havre, from there to Aden,
then across the Arabian Sea, through
Hindostan and Siam, to Peking.
The advisors of tho young emperor oi
China are all hostile to European inven¬
tions and the encroachment of foreign¬ j
ers upon Chinese soil. The first sign of ;
this influence is the absurd declaration j i
by the imperial astrologers that the re*
i ".:.u 'tiyn of the palace at Peking
a wajatin h>:t foreign iuven* j
eirm has
tit
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port J eve', u liu'Uth
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hibition had b. m * U»i
wu simply taken advautag ct as a to •
veuient pretext for tho decree, ii .o
as tractors though who the expected foreign engineers to find a and bonanza con- j
in China in constructing railways nnd
telegraph lines will be doomed to disap¬
pointment.
One of tho great difficulties encoun¬
tered with the ordinary screw-propeller
in use is the liability to In' thrown clear
of the water by the pitching of tho ves¬
sel in a heavy sea, thereby rocking and
wrenching the machinery, and the ease !
with which it becomes disabled by foul- !
ing with cables or by striking any heavy
floating object. A Scotch mechanic, j
however, has invented a method of plac
the propeder, , which ... entirely ,. , docs , . J
mg
away with both of these objections. At
the stern of an ordinary vessel the keel
is divided into two sections, leaving ® a
space wherein the propeller is placed.
Sluices arc left in the sections of the
double keel, through which the water
may readily pass. By the working
model of this invention it has been dem
onstrated that much greater forward
speed can be secured with no greater
expenditure ^ of power, while the speed
. going^astern . . • / fully ,, equal , that
in is to se
cured in moving ahead.
SOUTHERN ITEMS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM VA
RIO US POINTS IN THE SO UTH.
An electric street railway is to be built
at Americus, Ga.
The Postal and Cable Telegraph Com¬
pany will open an office in Atlanta, Ga.,
about June 15.
Preparations are being mnde for the
centennial celebration, June 18, of the
Athens, founding of the State University at
Ga.
The total number of maimed soldiers
entitled to pensions in Georgia this year
is about 25,000, and the total amount of
Prions will be about $150,000.
Virgil Dobson shot and killed his son
in-law, Lucien Floyd, Friday night, at
Nashville, Tenn., because of his intim
acy with his wife’s sister, a young
daughter of Dobson a.
The Banner-Watchman, of Athens,
Ga., changed hands Saturday afternoon,
its former editor, T. Larry Gantt, pur¬
chasing it from Mr. M. C. Pope, the
present editor and proprietor.
a gentleman representing a wealthy
Northern syndicate took an option on
l.™0 »c.es of ^ in one body, just
out of Americus,Ga., a few days ago,the
tra de to be concluded in thirty days if
the company accepts.
The section hands of the Marietta and
North Georgia railroad are driving Hie
outside spikes for the broad gauge, and
new switches have been put in all along
the road to Jasper, Ga.
The mayor of Fairburn, Ga., declares
prohibition to be u failure. He states that
it is impossible to stop the sale of whis¬
key, und that in his opinion there was
more than whiskey drinking and drunkenness
ever before in the history of the
town.
J. W. Hardin, a student at the State
Agricultural and Mechanical college,
at Lexington, Ky., quarreled with Will
Run Bush, keeper of the college dorma
tory, Saturday. In the fight Hardin cut
Bu * h «J U to R i<!Ce9 > death resulting
instantly.
Miss Emma Roberts, of Rutherford
C0U uty, N. C., was to have married Jon
athan Norris on Monday. Friends had
assembled, and when the time for the
marriage arrived, and the couple stood
up before the minister, the young lady
fainted and died in ten minutes.
The Western Union Telegraph com¬
pany is preparing to put up three clocks
in with Chattanooga, Tenn., to be connected
the national observatory at Wash
ffigton, to be regulated at noon of each
day, so that the existing disparity of the
regulating viated. clocks in that city may be ob¬
The Y. M. C. A., at Athens, Ga.,
laid tho cornerstone of its building
Thursday afternoon with impressive
ceremonies. After :m eloquent speech by
Hon. II. C. Tuck, the Alasonio lodge
deposited the stone in its place. Vari¬
ous things were placed in the openiug
beneath it.
The sales of tobacco in Danville, Va.,
for April, aggregate 2,234,934 pounds,
which with the is a slight tailing off as compared
sales lust year. Sales since Oc*
toher, the beginning of the tobacco year,
were 14,500,000 pounds. This is u dc
crease of 5/00,000 pounds is compared
with the same period last year.
A bad acddent occurred on the Bruns¬
wick and Western road near Riverside,
Ga., Saturday. Tho work train ran
over and killed a negro. The train
stopped and the men started to pick him
up. Tho freight train came at full
speed around the curve, and into the
work train, telescoped itself and injured
the engineer and fireman.
John Hudd, telegraph operator at
Jasper, Walker county, Ala., was killed
by lightning Wednesday thunder night passed about
dark. A severe storm
over the tow n. During the storm Hudd
was at Lightning his instrument struck receiving the a mes¬ and
sage. wires,
iu -ooeived a shock, from which he died
w >m r filter. He was a young man
\ isuring seven
frtY ■ lied by Mr. F.
fi » nest of Hampton,
Oil , reef r' id by Mr. Jack
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tho revolutionary n. The shot was a
remarkable one, as when he fired he was
quite seventy yards from the bird and hit
exactly where he aimed.
The Georgia Alliance has contrated
with mills for 2,000,000 yards of cotton
bagging, to be delivered the 1st of
August. The bagging is wide, to be not and less
than thirty-seven inches to
average twelve ounces to the yard, the
manufacturers agreeing to take the cot¬
ton as covered at ten cents additional
per hundred pounds, ttycover the loss of
weight iu light covering. The bagging
will b« made by the Lane mills, New
Orleans, and the West Point mills,
Georgia,
It is said that William K. Vanderbili
wiU build ncar Asheville, N. C M tht
mos t magnificent private residence in tht
Botith, aud that it will stand in truly a
royal domain Some months ago he be
gan the purchase of property near Ashe
dl le, on the French Broad and Swan
nonoa rivers. He has added to the
orignal purchase until he now owns 4,000
acres, which cost him trom $50 to $100
per acre. The mansion is to be 300 feet
in length, with gorgeous parlors and re
eeption rooms, conservatories, ball rooms
and fountains.
A tragedy near Covington, Tenn., Sat
urdav uight, resulted in the killing
of yp x. Douglas, mayor of that city. It
see ms a warrant had been issued for the
arrest of Henry Donaldson, a negro,
charged with attempted rape on a white
woman. Mayor Douglas was one of the
posse of ten men who went to the negro’s
house to effect his arrest. They found
his cabin closed and called upon him to
open the door. Receiving no answer,
they gave warning that unless the door
was opened they would break it down.
Just at this point a gun was thrust
through the door and discharged. The
eouteuts struck Douglas, who was in
front, killing him instantly.
TELEGRAPHIC.
The marquis of Ormonde, will succeed
Lord Londonderry as viceroy of Ireland.
The postmaster at Thomasville, Ga.,
Colonel J. D. Alexander, dropped dead
in the postoffice about 3 o’clock Satur¬
day.
Two and three-quarter million of dol¬
lars in gold has been ordered from tht
New York assay office for shipment tc
Europe.
The volcano of Vesuvius is in ac
alarming state of eruption. Streams ol
lava are coursing down the mountain on
the Pompeii side.
A cyclone in Warsaw, N. C., on
Thursday, accompanied by hail, de¬
stroyed a number of buildings, including
those of the seminary and the Presby¬
terian church. Many persons injured,
but none seriously.
Major John N. Edwards one of the
editors of the Kansas City Times, and
one of the best and most favorably
known newspapermen in the West, died
mddenly at the McCarty house, in Jeff¬
erson City, Mo., Saturday, from a stroke
af paralysis.
About one-half of the extensive soap
and candle factory of Schaefer Bros., and
Powell, at Barton and Kosicusko destroyed streets, fire
St. Louis, Mo., were by
between two and three o’clock Saturday
morning. The loss is from $75,000 to
$100,000... Insured.
BURNED TO DEATH.
A distressing accident by which four
children of Charles Williams, whose ages
ranged from six to thirteen years, were
burned to death, took place Thursday
night at Abington, near Harford station,
Md., on the Baltimore and Ohio rail¬
road. The family, consisting of a hus¬
band, wife and five children, retired to
rest at about 10 o’clock. An hour later
a neighbor saw the house burning, and
made ineffectual attempts to quench the
flames. Mr. and Mrs. Williams escaped
with the baby, who will probably burned die;
and the parents were seriously
themselves. The house burned to the
ground and consumed the children,
furniture and all......At Ashtabula,
Ohio, Friday, a house occupied
by a Portugese family named
Silvey, caught fire. Tho father had
gone to work and the mother to market,
leaving thiee small children in the house.
One, a“l}ov of three, was burned to death,
and the two others so badly injured that
they will die
TENNESSEE EDITORS.
The members of the Tennessee Press
.Association atrived in Nashville Satur¬
day. There were about sixty-five in the at¬
tendance, including ladies. At 8:30
members were met at the Maxwell
house by a committee from the local
press and the Commercial club. The
visitors were driven to points of interest
in the city. A number of manufactories
were visited, the Vanderbilt and the new
reservoir. After a drive through the
resident portion of the city, they visited j
the phonograph in the Neil block. At
one o’clock the city visitors and the two
committees sat down to a lunch at the
Commercial club. A 2:30 o’clock the
train for the races was boarded end the
afternoon spent there. At 5 o’clock the
members went aboard the Armstrong
for a trip up the river of a week’s dura¬
tion. The trip will be to the head of
navigation. The sights along the river
were viewed during the day, and the
uight sessions of the association held.
SOUTHERN PROGRESS.
The Manufacturers’ Record reports
great activity in cotton mill building
throughout the South. In the last three
weeks about fifteen companies have been
organized to build cotton mills. Flor¬
ence, Ala., leads with three new mills, at
an aggregate cost of $800,000, two of
which, ct sting $600,000, are to be moved
from Philadelphia. New Englaud capi
tali-ts will build a $50,000 spindle mill
at Denison, Texas, and one to cost $250,
C00 at Fort Payne, also Galveston, Texes,
is to have a $500,000 mill, and a $100,000
twine $500,000 factory; Spartan!,urg, S. C., a
mill, with 30,000 spindles;
Atlanta a $500,000 enlargement on an
old mill, including 8,000 spindles aud
600 looms; Texarkana, Arkansas, $120,
000 mill; Greenwood, S. C., a $100,000
mill, while a large number of others will
soon be fully organized.
INDIAN OUTBREAK.
There has been considerable excite¬
ment in Silver City, New Mexico, on ac¬
count of the reported outbreak of the
Apaches from the San Carlos reservation.
Last Saturday the foreman of the Head
and Heart ranch was shot through the
legs, and then roasted to death on a
sb >ve where he was preparing a meal. It
wa8 believed that he was murdered by a
remnant of Geronimo’s band, which has
been 0 ut since Geronimo’s outbreak in
iq a y 1888. Wednesday the tloops at Fort
Bayard were ordered out, and a lively
time is anticipated. Couriers went out
j n all directions to warn people of the
danger, so they might come in withtheii
families to a place of safety.
OVER THE GLOBE.
CONDENSATION OF CURIOUS ,
AND EXCITING EVENTS.
usance's peril—strikes—the western boom
— DEATHS OF EMINENT MEN—ACCIDENTS, FIBES
AND SUICIDES.
In Russia the Cronstradt police have
discovered stores of explosives which
were to be used in au attempt on the life
of the czar.
A bill appropriating thirty thousand
dollars to the Girls’ Industrial School
has been favorably reported in the Penn¬
sylvania House.
Carle Rosa, the well-known musical
director, whose wife was the famous
Madame Parepa Rosa, died on Tuesday
iu Paris, France, from peritonitis.
Iu the United States Court on Monday,
at Fort Smith, Ark., Judge Parker
sentenced four men and one woman to
be hanged on Wednesday, July 17.
The Grand Trunk railway workmen
think they have discovered that the re¬
cent accident was caused by the break¬
ing of one of the axles of the engine.
The railroad coal miners’ strike inau¬
gurated in Pittsburg against the reduc¬
tion, has spread to a number of other
mines, and about 3,000 miners are now
out.
The Chopensaw Mill company’s mill,
lumber yard and all of the houses except
three, situated in Natchitoches, La.,
were burned Monday afternoon. Loss
$30,000.
Mr. Bates and Lieut. Parker were re¬
fused admission to the exhibition opened
by the German Emperor Tuesday, be¬
cause they wore frock coats instead of
dress coats.
The boiler of a dredger burst in the
harbor at Calais, France, on Monday.
The explosion killed seven persons and
injured several others. The bodies of
the killed were horribly mutilated.
The men at work on the cable line on
East Seventh street, St. Paul, Minn.,
1,018 in number, left their work at 1
o’clock p. m., Monday. The men were
dissatisfied w ith the wages they received.
A portion of the gang of desperadoes
who have been robbing and committing
murderous assaults upon the farmers in
the vicinity of McClellandtovvn, Fayette
county, Pa., have been captured at last.
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.
Ten thousand pounds of dynamite
exploded at the aqueduct shaft No. 10,
West Chester couuty, N. Y., Thursday
afternoon, the building that contained it
having unaccountably caught fire. No¬
body was hurt. Loss, $20,000.
Since April 25, 800 wagons and car¬
riages and 5,200 people have passed
through Ponca back from Oklahoma, on
their way North to Kansas. General
Merritt will go into camp for a few days
seven miles North of Arkansas City.
Lloyd’s agent at Berlin reports that
the Steamer Weser has yellow fever on
board, several officers and twenty-eight
men being ill, and three having died.
The North German Lloyd steamer, Wes
er, Captain Yon Schuckman, sailed from
Baltimore April 27 for Bremen.
A general strike of the building trades
was inaugurated at Philadelphia, Pa.,
on Wednesday, for an average advance
of twenty-five cents per day, and union
workmen, nearly all carpenters, joiners,
IricK layers, hodcarriers, and stone¬
masons in the city are idle. The strike
affects about 5,000 men.
Lennan’s Windsor Theater burned Tues¬
day night in Chicago. Only the walls
were left standing. The loss is $75,000—
fully insured. Three firemen were in¬
jured, but not dangerously. The fire
was due to sparks shot into the flies
from rockets fired on the stage during
the evening performance.
A special dispatch from St. llero, 1.
T., says that Capt. Hall and company
of cavalry, left Kingfisher Wednesday to
eject settlers from the Cherokee strip,
and a company also left Guthrie for the
same purpose, Several hundred settlers
are now on the strip. They are determ¬
ined men who have staked everything
on the Oklahoma opening, and, failing
to get their claims, have gone to the
strip. A large amount of hardship and
suffering are certain to ensue.
Mr. S. J. Ritchie, of Akron, 0., is in
Ottawa, Out., 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.
Preliminary arrangements are being
made for another big town in Alabama
on the line of the Alabama Great South¬
ern railroad, It has not' been named
yet, but arrangements for its location are
about consumatcd. A syndicate York, com¬ New
posed of capitalists from New
Orleans and France, who, in the aggre¬
gate, represent about $20,000,000, are at
work securiug mineral lands and rights
in the Sand Mountain territory, and
propose to erect furnaces and build a
town. The new company will plant a
colony that is to be as thoroughly the
child of Gotham as is Fort Payne the
child of the Hub, and there will be a
zealous rivalry between the two iu en¬
terprise and prosperity.
A BIG BUILDING.
The Lookout Sewer Pipe company on
Wednesday, began staking the ground
for their building which will be the
largest in the country. The main build¬
ing will be 60x364 feet, part two and
pait three stories high. It will beside
have a building containing 36,000 square
feet of dry floor. Two hundred and fifty
cars of material has already been order¬
ed, 1,200,000 red brick and 500,000 tire
brick will be used in the construction
of the building, all of which has been
contracted for. The company is com¬
posed of local capitalists, backed up by
the,Bennett Sewer Pipe company, of
Jackson, Michigan. The works will be
located in Walker county, Ga., near the
State line, about two miles South of
Chattanooga, Tenn.
THE STEEL TRUST.
The meeting of the stock-holders of
the North Chicago Rolling Mill Co.,
and Union Steel Co., for the purpose of
consolidating their interests with those
of the Joliet Steel Co., were held in
Chicago on Wednesday. Both meetings
were brief, and at their close it was
stated that nothing definite had been
accomplished. The plan by which this
important move in the manufacturing
world is to be accomplished, is in brief
an increase of the capital stock of the
North Chicago Co., to $25,000,000, and
the purchase, with the money so accru¬
ing, of the plants of two other companies.
The new concern will be known as the
Illinois Steel Co., and will be the larg¬
est of its kind in the world.
KILLED BY A TRAIN.
Mrs. Mary Kirtly, a white woman
seventy years of age, and wife of L. C.
Kirtly, was instantly killed by a Nash¬
ville and West Nashville dummy train,
Friday afternoon at 5 o’clock, on North
Vine street, near Jefferson, Nashville,
Tenn. The woman was deaf and did
not hear the bell warning rung by the
engineer. She was crossing the track as
the engine was coming swiftly down
grade, and the brakes proved defective.
Her body wa3 horribly mangled.
WILL SUE.
S. M. McCaul, chairman of the judi¬
ciary committee of the Massachusetts
Legislature, as counsel for Samuel Cod Ship Fes¬
senden, treasurer of the Cape
Canal company, has sued the Boston
Traveler for libel, laying damages at
$100,000, on account of a special dis-'
patch from Sandwich, May 2, alleging
that Fessenden had mysteriously disap¬
peared, larities. and hinting at financial irregu¬
QUARANTINE RAISED.
The ten days’ quarantine at Sanford,
Fla., has dismissed/ been raised Business and the guard*
have been has re¬
sumed its usual features and the recent
fever scare is entirely over. No suspici¬
ous cases followed the death of Mrs.
Demot. The inmates of her house at
the time of her death were isolated at fi
camp in the woods, but are all in good
health and were released on Saturday.
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