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HAMILTON, GEORGIA.
Australia has promised England to
give $175,000 annually for ten years
toward the building of the proposed
new ships of war; also to fully maintain
the vessels when completed.
Russia now owns a gun from which
480 bullets can bo shot in a min
ute. In a battlo lasting two hours ten
such guns would kill off an army of
576,000 men, providing each bullet had
Us billet.
Arkansas’ State Geologist reports tho
coal of that State to lie worth, at $1.50
per ton, the sum of $2,937,800,009.
He says, further, that the State contains
more sorts of coal than any other in tho
Nation.
Sir George Gray, formerly British
Governor of New Zealand, says that
“America will eventually become the
leader of the Anglo-Saxon race, and
will displace England from the position
she now holds.”
An expert police captain estimated
the other day that there arc daily in flic
city of New York 200,000 strangers,and
tiiis multitude of visitors does not in¬
clude tramps or mere runners iu and out
from Jersey City and the like.
The government of Japan desires to
increase its navy by building four or five
first-class ships every year, in order to
be prepared for any emergency. Japan
already possesses a navy of thirty-five
ships and 8000 officers and men.
The extent of the poverty (hat pre¬
vails in London may be appreciated
from the fact that an appeal was pub¬
lished from a si agio society for aid in
furnishing 50,000 meals “for poor little
starving children” during the winter.
The meals to be furnished were not ex¬
pensive, since it was stated in tho ap¬
peal that each pound contributed would
pay for u<> less than 250 separate meals.
A glance at the annual report of tho
Imperial Patent Oflico shows that Ger¬
many performs her part in tho present
era of inventions. During the last three
years 29,764 patents were rpplied for,
and 11,813 actually registered. For tho
past year the number of patents regis¬
tered was 3923, and on December 31st
there remained in force (since 1S77) 11,-
585 patents. The Patent Office showed
a surplus of 994,321 marks.
Our harbor pilots have made a good
record for the past year, says the New
York Mail and F.rpnss, with pride.
They steered 40,000,000 people, and not
one death was caused by collision. Out
of a total loss of life in the United
States waters of 202 persons, only 12
deaths occurred on New York boats,
while they carried four-fifths of nil the
passengers in the United States. The
pilots have reason to be proud of such a
record.
Bays Professor Hadley: “The speed
of railroad trains is restricted within
three theoretical limits: First, a physi¬
cal limit of eighty miles an hour, be¬
yond which it is found impossible for a
train to hold the track ; second, an oper¬
ating limit of sixty miles nu hour, which
practical experience hat found trains
cannot run without much damage to life;
third, a commercial limit of thirty miles
per hour, at w hich,all tilings considered,
it is found most economical to run a
train.”’
A curious instance of the manner in
which political changes affect the world
of commerce may be noted in connec¬
tion with the admission of tho four new
Western States. One of the results is
the addition of four stars to the
thirty-eight which have for the last
thirteen years adorned the national en¬
sign, aud thereby the entire stock of the
flagmakers is rendered obsolete in the
eyes of all who want to have their flags
“up to date. But, at the same time,
the change w ill do away with the trouble
the makers have had in arranging their
stars simply and symmetrically. Thirty
ef*ht was an odd and awkward number,
but forty-two will fall naturally into six
yows of seven each.
A SoUTHKBN critic likens a fair
Writer’s sonnets to “the silvery texture
sf a cobweb endowed with the durabil¬
ity of a pearl.”
SOUTHERN ITEMS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM VA
R10 US POINTS IN THE SO UTH.
Fire partly destroyed the oil house ol
the Charlestown & Savannah Railway
Sunday; aho 36 hales of cotton.
Several steam tugs left Wilmington,
N. C., and South Park Sunday for the
relief cf the British steamer Alberta
Day, which is ashore near Cape Lookout
with her propeller broken. The cargo
consists of phosphate rock.
At the annual meeting of the bureau
of information and distribution of the
Delaware Fruit exchange, at Dover, Del.
Ex-Congressman Martin said that this
yeai’s poach crop, if all reports are true,
will be so large as to require all the
agencies of distribution to enable grow¬
ers to realize any profit.
News has been received at Raleigh, N.
O. , that a well known citizen of Durham
county had a fight with his son-in-law
in Patterson township, in company with
two men, he went to the house of his
soiv-in-iaw, made a forcible entrance and
attempted to hang him in the presence
of his family. But the intended victim
prevented the execution by escaping
with the noose around his neck.
James Thomas, a fireman in the em¬
ployment of the Charleston & Savannah
Hailway, went into tho oil and waste
storehouse of the railroad Sunday and
while there concluded to take a smoke.
He filled his pipe, struck a match, and
started his pipe to going and then threw
the match on the floor. The storehouse
and adjoining building were totally de¬
stroyed, together with ubout forty bales
of cotton and a car load of coal belong¬
ing to the Georgia Pacific railroad.
Rev. Charles Phillips, D. D., LL. D.,
professor of mathematics in the univer¬
sity of North Carolfha, for fifty years
connected with the institution as student,
tutor and professor, the South and well preacher, known
throughout as a
teacher, author and influential public
man, died suddenly at Birmingham, suspend¬
Ala, University exercises were
ed, and the faculty and students attend¬
ed the funeral in a body. Professor
Phillips was a sou of Rev. James Philips,
I). I)., of England, for forty years pro¬
fessor of mathematics in the university
of North Carolina.
A fatal accident occurred about noon
Saturday in the yards of the Alabama
Great Southern Railroad, just outside
Birmingham, Ala., ‘limits. A switch
engine pul ing six cars and running at
the rate of fifteen nines uu hour, jumped
the track, and rolled down ati embank¬
ment twenty feet high. Engineer John
Gladden was caught in the cab down and fa¬
tally crushed, the cars rolling on
the engine. William Burrows, a fire¬
man, was fatally injured, having a leg
broken, and receiving internal injuries.
Conger, a switchman, was badly bruised,
but may recover. William Murphy, a
car inspector, who was riding on one of
the curs, was badly bruised, but will re¬
cover.
I lie last day of the Scotch-Irish Con¬
gress at Columbia, Tenn., on Saturday,
was opened by a stirring extemporaneous McMillin,
speech by Hon. Benton who
said that not a single member of the
Seotch-Irish race, so far as he knew, had
ever been an anarchist or socialist. He
referred to the desolation in the South
twenty years ago, when there was
scarcely a fanu left fenced from Ken¬
tucky to the Gulf, out of which the
Scotch-Irish had produced its presait
flourishing condition, aided and encour¬
aged by their brave women, and that now
the iron of the South, manufactured in
Connecticut, furnished the screws that
drove down the lids of English coffins.
His speech met with a strong response
from tho audience. J. H. Mclutosh
spoke on “John Knox iu Independence
Hall.”
N. B. Forrest camp of Ex-Confederate
Veterans, of Chattanooga, Tenn., accom¬
panied by company K, 3rd Tennessee
regiment, Chattanooga Rifles, and the
3rd Regiment band of this city, went to
Ringgold, Ga., Sunday, where they re
interred at the Confederate cemetery at
that place, the bones of George Rector,
a private iu Forrest’s command, who
was killed in the battle of Ringgold,
aud whoso grave was unknown until
recently. The programme arranged
embraced a prayer from Rev. Mr. Phil¬
lips, pastor of the M. E. church. South,
at Ringgold, but he declined to officiate,
saying that the man having been dead
twenty-six years, and the funeral having
been conducted as a civic display, and
a buss band having been employed to
furnish music, he had conscientious
scruples against officiating. His con
duct has aroused general indignation
among his congregation as well as among
the old veterans.
Cigars a Hecent Addition.
The use of cigars by civilized people people
is much more recent than most
suppose, The real cigar, which is a
pure roll of tobacco aloue, probably
originated in Cuba, where the very best
cigars are still made. If uot there it
was undoubtedly in one of the West
India islands. Their origin with us, as
iu Europe, did not begiu until early iu of
tho present century. It is said that
all the various cook books published books which be¬
tween 1800 aud 1815, and
treat of the pleasures and adjuncts of
taste before the last named date,not one
refers to the after-dinner cigar or to
cigars at all. Cigars are now made all
over the civilized world. They are pro¬
duced very extensively in Bremen aud
Hamburg, and at Seville, in Spain.
But at Manilla, in the Phillippine
islands, the largest factories are to be
found, in some of which 10,000 girls are
employed. —JMtdairg Tima.
WASHINGTON, D. C.
MOVEMENTS OF THE PRESIDENT
AND HIS ADVISERS.
NOTES.
The Postofficft Department has received
information that the postoffice at Natch¬
ez, Miss., was entered by burglars, and
all the money and stamps taken.
The President left Washington Satur¬
day on the United StateR steamship Dis¬
patch for a cruise in Chesapeake Bay.
He was accompanied by Secretaries
Windom and Rusk, Mrs. Harrison and
grandson, Ben J. H. McKee.
Theodore Roosevelt, of New York,
appointed member of the civil service
commission, has written to the secretary
of tho commusion, stating that he will
accept the pltce on the commission. He
says that he will be in the city soon to
take the oath of office.
Beginning Monday, May 13th, addi¬
tional railway postoffice service will he
established on line of the Chesapcuke &
Ohio and Virginia Midland Railroads,
bctweeD Washington, D. C., and Cin¬
cinnati, Ohio, via Huntington, W. Va.,
forming a through line of railway post
office service in apartment cars between
the cities named. Additional railway
postoffice service will alto be placed Rail¬ on
tho line of the Chesapeake & Ohio
road between Richmond and Clifton
Forges, Va.
The remains of Gen. William Shelby
Harney, of the army, who died in Or¬
lando, Fla., were entered in the national
cemetery at Washington. The remains
were accompanied to the grave by Mrs.
Harney, wife of the deceased, who came
on with tho body from Orlando; by a
few friends and a military escort, consist¬
ing of two squadrons of the cavaby
from Fort Meyer. Eight of the oldest
jergeants of the 31 artilery, stationed
in Washington, acted as pallbearers, and
on the arrival of the train from the South,
about noon, tenderly raised the coffin
and bore it to the hearse, which, with
two squadrons of cavalry, was in line
outside the station.
RATHER BOLD.
Particulars of the robbery of Maj. J.
W. Wham, paymaster United States
army, at a point half way between Forts
Grant and Thomas, have just been re¬
ceived at Wilcox, Ariz. A large bowl¬
der had been roiled in the middle of tho
road, and as the ambulance bearing the
paymaster and clerk approached it, they
halted, and about half of the escort left
their arms in the wagon and proceeded
to the front of the ambulance. While
in the very act of rolling it aside,
a volley wag fired at them from a se¬
cluded spot almost directly over and
withimiilty l'qet of them. A lively reached fus
ilude begun, the guard having
a place of partial safety behind some
neighboring rocks. The fight lasted for
fully thirty minutes, resulting in the
wounding of eight of the ten guards, at
least one of which will prove fatal. Two
of the men were wounded. The fighting
of the soldiers is reported by Maj. Wham
as being the most cool and collected he
ever saw. The clerk, W. T. Gibbon,
was shot through the clothing, but es¬
caped any injuries. The strong box
which contained $29,000 was secured.
This was broken open and the money
taken by the robbers.
LABOR MATTERS.
The Window Glass Workers' Associa
tion of Pittsburg, Pa., lms issued an or
derto nil preceptories in the country
that all foreign glass w’orkers who come
to this country for wo.k hereafter are tu
be blacklisted. This action is the result
of recent importations of foreign glass
workers who were brought to this conn
try to work at the new glass works, just
started at Jeannette, encounter Pa., near this city.
There was an near Brack
el ei, Westphalia YYt'bipiittiiu, between T troops and
j’nkers. A large bo , y , ,,
gathered and were becoming isor , y j
when they were ordered to isperse >y
the officer in command of the military
The strikers refused to obey the order.
Three of the miners were killed and sev
eral were wounded.... Up in the fourth
pool on the Monongnhola continued River, Pa., a
number of mines have in oper
ation since the almost general shut down
was ordered. The mines will now close.
Tne operators say they will not resume
until the miners agree to work for two
cents per bushel, a reduction of one-hali
cent per bushel.
A HORRIBLE CRIME.
One of the greatest sensations on re¬
cord in Raleigh, N. C., has been caused
by the arrest of Father J. J. Boyle, of
the Roman Catholic church of the Sacred
Heart, on a serious charge. His arrest
was made very iatc last night by the
chief of police at the church. The of
feuse with which he is charged is a cap¬
ital one by the laws of North Carolina.
The warrant was issued by Mayor
Thompson upon tffidavit by ex-Muyor
Wesley Whitaker, a magistrate and a
Catholic. For some weeks he has been
drinking aud his conduct toward ladies
has not been such as ordinarily charac¬
terizes priests. He was in an insane
asylum some years ago, it is learned.
Since his drunkenness became known,
he was reported last week to his bishop
bv members of bis congregation.
NOT SATISFACTORY.
The trial of the new cruiser Charles¬
ton, held in the bay of San Francisco,
Cal., was not quite satisfactory, although
she steamed over 18 knots an hour. The
engine slides heated, and this may be
OVER THE GLOBE.
CONDENSATION OF CURIOUS,
AND EXCITING EVENTS.
FBANCE’s PEBIL—STHIKES—THE WESTERN BOOM
—DEATHS OF EMINENT MEN—ACCIDENTS, FIRES
AND SUICIDES.
The strike of the weavers in the cot¬
ton factories atTrizy, France, is ended,
mutual concession having been made.
James D. Fish, former president of
the Marine bank, of New York, left
prison Saturday morning. He was sen¬
tenced to ten years imprisonment in con¬
nection with the Ward-Grant rascalities,
in Auburn prison, June 27, 1875. His
sentence was commuted by President
Cleveland.
Two children, aged two and four
years, of the family of David Hill, of
Watertown, Mas-s., were poisoned Sun¬
day by eating white arsenic, which they
mistook for sugar. They found the
poison in the “dump,” where it had
been left by the town team. It was and a
poison intended for potato bugs,
there were fifteen or more boxes in the
heap.
The warfare between the Lehigh
Valley and tho Reading Railroads, has
broken out into active hostilities.
Wreckers of the Reading on Sunday fas¬
tened cables to a bridge near New Ring
gold, Pa., which the Lehigh Valley had
erected over the tracks. A team of loco¬
motives was attached, the bridge pulled
down and the timbers scattered along
the line.
Emma Abbott, the opera singer, has
contracted for a monument to her hus¬
band, Eugene L Withered, that will cost
$85,000, to be erected at Gloucester,
Mass. It is composed of various kinds
of granite, and beneath it will be a can¬
opy, supported by four columns of
Gothie style, on the steps of which is to
be a figure of Hope, Miss Abbott in¬
tends to have her body cremated when
she dies, and her ashes will be placed
near the body of her husband.
A letter from the United States consul
at St. Paul de Loando, west coast of
Africa, gives particulars of the explosion
on board the whaling bark Sea Fox, of
New Bedford, Mass., at Equimena.
The ship had put in for wood and water,
and un agreement was made with An¬
tonio de Bastos Pina to partly pay board for
supplies in friend, powder. and He the came powder on
with a was
hoisted up on the Sea Fox. As the cover
was taken off the box a terrific explosion
occurred, caused, it is said, by Senor
Pma lighting a cigarette. Many persons
were killed.
Fleeing From the Mormons.
A pale-faced little woman, giving her
name as Elizubetli Tnrahill Rutter, for¬
merly of North Shields, England, was
picked up in Chicago apparently faint¬ have
ing from hunger. She claimed to
had nothing to Utah, eat on her four days’
trip from Ogden, England. on the way to
her old home in She told a
terrible story of experiences among the
Mormons. Her son, she stated, had been
induced against the wishes emigrants of his organized parents
to join a party missionaiies of in England.
by Mormon
Tho father, frantic with anxiety, fol¬
lowed to Utah. He found employment
with a Mormon, Joseph Holbert, but
was unable to save enough to help con
timie the search until he pretended to
join the Church. Then he got money
and sent some to her, but all his letters
telling of the coudition of affairs in
Utah were intercepted, and others sub
stunted urging her to come to Utah
with the missionaries. Rutter was mur
fered shortly after she joined him. He
bad inadvertently given a young Mor
an inkling of his plans hie. to find his
boy and escape with his The Mor¬
mons assert that Rutter s death was ac
cidental. She was defrauded by Hol
bert of her husband’s savings, but flee
j n g Ogden, site earned enough money
working in a hotel to pay her passage
]j ome The amount of railroad fare wa_
] arf , er than she expected and she had de
p r j vei } herself of food on the long jour
to Chicago,
johnny’s reception.
Little Johnny was taken in to see hia
new baby brother. After a good look at
him he asked:
“Did baby come from heaven, ma¬
ma?”
“Yes, Johnny; God sent the little
dear to us.”
“Well,” said Master Johnny, after an¬
other inspection of the of round, bald head,
“I wonder what kind a barber they’ve
got up there. He’s given him a pretty
close cut, I think.”_
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MIDDLETOWN, CONN.
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