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HAMILTON, QEORGIA.
AVonderful old msth P. T Br-muin is—
h living illustration of the beneficent in¬
fluences of incessant activity and peren¬
nial p.f. n. At the age of eighty-one he
pope over to London, and in a hundred
days, observes the Commercial, Adtwliter,
he will make the Londoner* give him a
new fortune.
Queen Victoga * weak knee,the Prince
of Wales’s varicose veins, Princess Alex
anjlra’s crippled instep and Prince Al¬
bert Victor’s sprained ankle point, so a
contemporary thinks, to the gradual fill
filment of the prophecy so often made by
British socialists, that, by the end of the
century, loyalty in England would not
have a leg left to stand on.
The London Timet say* that in view ol
the amount of English capital invested
ill the Sandwich Islands, England could
not see them pass into the hands of nuy
foreign power with indifference, but that
their ncquieitibn by the United States
would be regarded with more equanimity
than their spoliation by any European
power, to which th« British Government
would never submit.
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’Die training of dogs for military pur¬
poses is being proceeded with actively in
the Russian army, and uatisfoctory re¬
sults have been obtained by some regi¬
ment* garrisoned in Bosnia. One of these
soldi- i dogs the other day curried a me*
sage mm a li stance of eight milt:* in an
until- ami five minuter According to tbe
instructions issued by the War Office in
Vienna, the best brea ds fm warlike occu¬
pations are poi iters, sheep dogs and
Private letter* from H^aoluhi indicate
1 up,twist, T?, , t}( ih'
av !i ih b
iag - lumUx SC -wu;;.
favor /i the annexation of Hawaii to Hie
United States Three treaty power*—
England, Germany and the United Stales
—are bound by compact not to annex tbs
i*innd«, bnf Hawaiian* argue that there
I* nothing to prevent them from |>etitioii
itig the United State* le plant them under
if* protection
Laborers digging a sewer at Ticouue
ruga, N. Y,, found a stone under which
was a partly decayed oakeu coffin, con¬
taining a well-preserved skull aud some
V. utes. An inscription shewed that this
xens the grave of that Lord George
II(.we, the English iufantry officer, who
fell before the French at Ticouderoga in
July, 1758. Relic hunters were with
difficulty prevented from taking pieces of
Aha -coffin before It could bn put in a
place oi safety.
From the British board of trade returns
it appears that every fev days through¬
out the year a vessel ear.,, eg the British
flag leaves port never more to be heard
of. la the year ending June, 1888. the
number of vessels under the Brit.-ii flag
t> tV |) lich accidents happened of various
.uvds was 7724’, Involving the loss of
5584 lives This is a melancholy record,
but is leas than the average (or ten years
.*1 about fifty lives. Theta; were 9"6
torid iaSM-a, ot which nearly •ai< -third lire
reported as missing.
A* Canton the Chinese Governin'.nt
lately established outside the cost side
jgato* two sets of machinery purchased
t-'-i.md, one for minting copper cash and
the other for mtatiu^ ■r ""ins. The
Viceroy Chang Ohi-Tung, however, aftoi
mature deliheriation, has, it ia said, coma
to the conclusion that both these enter
«re iiupracUcaWc, the twakiug of
copper money on account of the expense,
and that of silver Money ,i account of
riie small prohsbllity then 1 is of such a
new silver coinage being acceptable -o
aha Ckl&rsi.
Tl history *f Coiun icut is rem u tvA
oinfor tii<; miiibcr of viit Lx that hnv«
ftourishe'l fur* gcneiattou m two onjy to
.fast fad into decay atul tinally rlirap
P'd! iilta»gotViei. Ttus the New Ymk
ft'gRrds aa tvuv iu thost*
v! r*rs of tile State ivin re .-igr-ieultore is
(Kll ue.l under Uiscnura mg isreum-tanec
I in- otiicr day it a Danielsouvi’i a hon.e
atewd was put uj uon. The barn
was sold for f 14 -Y-five centi. 0OQ}d slit ■;
bar fifty cents, and snol outbuilding
for £t. When tbe auctioneer tril'd to
sell the home he could t nd no b era
The novelists, rereirtvis and others
who write Indian *r beginning
with the words; “I am the last of my
race, the red man is vanishing before the
white the ic;ives,et, " had la-tter
man on .,
Jook up th fact it n w- seems that
snv gtaiewent to the effect that tl tint
oar of our Indian population .a MOWlV
itcrais iflg, L rd * m
truss - m
, 8(1
Tirev
t_8St i«U*t a *
tad lire qui
ra In i Luet
j^rderlv «.0!UiauDUi^ the ImiiAc Ter
ntorT, iu the rr*ervs.?ions, of Dakoi and
.n the pueblc.s of New Mexico aud
Axiaona- th* ludtsh »* encamped peaet
folly, and his children are being edu
sated. He is fairly prc»p.>re>«». provided
the Indian agf at and the con tea c*"! do
not try to starve Ida. sad he is raising
h>S fsrtuiv and increasing u *«« land
Nevassa ov Nfavrza i<» small island of
the Caribbean Sea, oil the west coast of
Hayti, It furnishes guano. It i« owned
by a Boston syndicate. The questions
as to jurisdiction are now before the
United States Attorney-General, and the
place hiu just been made interesting by
l guano labor strike and riots.
According to a Russian paper there are
actually in Russia more than 500,000 beg¬
gars who carry on begging as a business
with the indorsements of village, city
and church authorities. 1. pward of 3200
of them are of noble blood; 3491 of the
clerical calling, and 181,932 peasants.
Moscow, of all. Russian cities, contains
the most beggar* of noble otigin .
r*=
The Mormons who expect to find an
asylum in the Canadian Northwest where
t b,-y ma r practice polygamy undisturbed
w ju p intl] 38Scr tsthe San Francisco Chron
icle, that the Dominion authorities arc not
partial to any vagaries ou tbe marriage
relation. The “saints” would do better
to strike tor some Houth American coun¬
try where the moral lines are no* drawn
so strictl y.
The guns on the dynamite- ('miner Ve¬
suvius have been thoroughly tested and
have shown themselves sufficiently dia¬
bolical to merit the warm approval ol
this humane government. If the output
,,f dynamite guns and missionaries can
only be made large enough, remarks the
Chicago Xc.c the United States doubt
less - ill briag ihe whole world to a high
stage oi civilization in time.
A vote was taken at the St. Loui* Ex¬
position on the nation..’ flower question,
resulting in favor of the gold-’n rod by <s
rote of 6347 to 4743 for the sunflower;
Sixty.one different flowers were voted
for, but fhorc running the highest were;
Rose, 824!; daisy, 1342; violet, 951;
pansy, 842; lily, 741; tuberose, 643;
pink .>50, morning glory, 451. The
v’ .li-ts pint,a jv-tnsies, daisies, and oi;-.;;
moiwl rt MVfur* beaut drew ballot'
large 1 ’ U >m.
rr of Prince Bismarck in (let
many arc developing plans to found « Bis
marck museum in Reriin ott the next oirtlr
day anniversary of the Chancellor. Colli
lion* have been niiiih- already and re¬
quests sent out for all relic* pertaining to
the Prince or hi* family. It will, in all
•liability, 1 ranged somewhat after
the sty to of tl i '1-knowu HohetukiUerrt
museum, whic in one ol tuft palaces
if Frederick the Great. The Cliancellot
in flattered by the idea.
Colonel W. W. RockhtU, recently sec¬
retary of legation at Pekin, China, has
returned to Washington after a journey
through Thibet. He estimates the popu¬
lation of the country at 2,000,000, one
tliird of whom are lamas or priests, who
practically monopolize education and
wealth. Tfi"e isuminimal King, beside
Urn gniud lama, but the country is gov¬
erned by the Chinese minister and resi¬
dents, and pays tribute to China, The
country i* poor aud largely a wilderness.
The controversy ns to the island upon
which Columbus first landed when he
reached the New World and which he
named ban Salvador is likely to he reiti
vigorated by the coming celebration iu
honor of his great achievement. The
New Vork Sun say* the trouble is that
"the hardy old mariuer in hi* log hook
gave anything but definite tied miuute
descriptions of Iho many i hands he
vliitnd. His discovery of Cuba, the
frowning achievement of hi* first voyage,
distracted attention from the Bahama
They were very little known for many
yean* after Columbus discovered them,
-art were never correctly charter until
thi* eeiltnrv Wsushiugtou Irving wadi
the tong narrow island, now kuovvn as Cat
Island, the scene of Colu-uhti® s first ap
pdnuico in -America fli* theory was
long ngo tUsourti**■-!. Other student* de
okrtnl In f»\voi of (irand Turk, Maya
guann 4 Sanaana aud one or two other
islar^a* but st Houa flaws lurve been found
,u their arguments. The supposition
advanced bv Mu * *. m V H <’
IK h lati
VKW Sar, Salvador best
Stands the test of investigation and rc
,yvt geographers, by a eom}v«vi»oa of the
gre.-u discoverer’s log-lxvok w ith thi - or
ret t charts of the Bahamas, are generally
agreed that in all probability Watting**
Island was the first bit of the New World
| v! *>v Columbus.*’
Qitiik f'iriag Gna*.
The long account which the Standard
(London) gives of the new quick firing
Ktswick guns fitted to tbe Italian cruisei
Piemonte is rather uncomfortable read
ing. U auKgnata plainly enough—what
we know t. lx- the opinion of many naval
exjwrts—that another revolution it ism!
architecture and naval armaments i
| progress. mounting Juat a* we have brought iu huge Ui<
art ol monster guns
fit tine cries to within s>mo distance
i of jritfcct’on, we discover that monster
I | gun* ma- after alt have to be superseded
Instead of throw ing one huge shot and
i .he U wcey two minutes or so, the warship
>f the futun may strive to overwhelm its
qiponeot by concentrating upon it a rr -
uc pid fire from weapon* o
small cai’brt and to at
av tie net irr to dis
turret* Qu Lro^tres even ail
r»f abaonaal thickness. Vie oay
have, after alt, a reversion to thy old type
if ironclad frigates, which L ,d at **?v *.
rate this ad van tog hat they were com
Sort able ship* to I <? in ttK were not half
ouuer w»ie* >c a ** WAT.—.V I>«aAs ,
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dfitir.
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SOUTHERN NEWS;
ITEMS ON INTEREST FROM VA¬
RIOUS POINTS IN TEE SOUTH.
t CONDENSE» ACCOUNT Or WHAT l» OOIXO OS Of
iireo stance in the soutuiks states.
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Columbia, 15. C., on Tuesday, bales, re¬
ported cotton receipts st 639,098
•s against 5118,642 bales last year
Aleut three hundred negroes left
K hton, N. 0., Tuesday for Arkansas
sod Mississippi. A large number were
lef- behind who will leave later on.
The mmigrants came from Jones, Letoir
Pi’-U and Green counties.
A fire at Baldwinsville, N. Y., ofi
W'diie'daw wight caused a loss of $250,
OOO. 1 he naoiee originated ia the Seneca
bo‘el, *ftd the entire hotel block, with
two large warehouses adjoining, were
destroyed.
Arrangement* were made at Rich
mond, Va., 'i'hursday to restore service
from Richmond to Lynchburg and the
southwest, over the Richmond and Dan¬
ville. and Norfolk au'd Western, via Buu
kerville. The schedule goe3 into effect
at once.
The Randolph county, West Virginia
capitalist* purchased one hundred thous¬
and acres of land, which is occupied by
squatters, who have armed themvives to
resist eviction One fturrayot U.s al¬
ready been killed, and serious trouble ifl
anticipated, a* the settlers will tight.
A dispatch rays that on Thmadsy a
fearful storm struck the plate nud pulp
factory of H. H, Gray, at Nu'vbcrne, bauds,and N.
C., in which there were sixty
I- vi led it to »ae ground. One employe
was Install!iy killed, uftothei mortally
wounded, and eight others injured.
a number of gentlemen arrived at
Denver, f ol., on tRturdny from land* Reno
county, Kan., to locate government
iu Mennonites, South Santa Fe for a colony of 200 the
who propose settling oa
line of the Atchison, l opeka atul Santa
Fee road. It. is the first colony ol the
kind to locate In the territory.
William Carpenter and Whitfield Mur
fell were convicted at Edgefield, S. C.,
Thursday, of the murder of Preston
bounce in June last. The murlerwst
most brutal and unprovoked. The pris¬
oners thc4hird were sentenced to oo hanged on
of ucai January. Tlnse are
the first white munlefers conVifited id
E'l"(-field county for toily years.
Friday, Governor acted Toyin', of Tennessee, on
upon ,he cast of the five
Barncrds, ml hang f->r mnrdei
in Hancock count-: I be governor par
duned aO olutc-ly John, Jr., an I Elijah
Barnard, confuUUc ! Id five year* in the
p'nitentiary Anderson the scoteaces of Cline add
Barnar ., and to ten yearn that,
of old man John Barnard.
A special from Eutaw, \v.., i ay* that
Tuesday night burglars broke ipio the
sioro of Brow tfc Huigemr.n, nt Clinton,
Greene county, blew open the iafc and
secured over two iltoUsand dollar* in
cash, TiiB scene of ihh burglar)* being
oi iv about thirty miles from ihe home of
Rube Burrow,the country people believe grenl
outlaw. the burglary was committed by the
A meeting of stockhol ler* of the
Richmond, Fredericksburg ai d Potouaac Rich¬
Railroad company was hold at
mond, Va., on Wednesday. Too report
showed the operations of (ho road for
nine months ended Juno '!<), 1889 In*
coma was $502,431; expenses bonds of trims
p rtation $307,063; interest ou for
nine month* $91,271. Dividends, on
genfcral itock for nine months $2W,t#Tit
not profit $137,823.
Goveruo r has .eceived petitions
from 8,o0 ’ r . .lent citizens in East
Tennessee and Ue-. from a majority of
the supreme judg's, requ-sting of b death m to
pardon or commut ■ thesentenco
passed on the five tl maid brothers who
killed H'-nley Sutton, iu Hancock coun¬
ty last January. After a careful exami¬
nation «f the record, the governor has
decided to commute the sentence of ail,
and ho may pardon some of the five
ORANGE INTEREST'S,
ORANOk OIU1 WF.hr' I NlOS V'tU FLORIDA
Vlll’lT EXCtlMtOE CONSOLIDATED.
The hoard of directors oi ■ Florida
Orange Growers’ union have been in ses¬
sion for two days at Ocala, and the re
ult is the consolidation of the Orange
Growers’ uniou and the Florida Fiuit cx
change. The outcome of the consolida¬
tion drill be to place nearly , all ,,
of the .range cro p l: ' ! “e hands
■ * ’he exchange which has air, adv ban
died 6.000 boxes of Tange,; this season,
ra.-ienee of 500 per rent, over the pro
viom year. The total orange erop of
Florida tilts year is estimated at from
1 800,090 to 2,lh0,000 h ues. The ex¬
change, through its agencies in
sections of the state, probably control at
least 1.500.0(0 boxes of this crop.
consolidation marks a new era in
ing Florida oranges and it is
that it will save growers at least $160*
ftOQ this v»‘*f
TERRtf 3 STORM
RAGING IN MONTANA— 0CRIOUS RAILKJAE
WRECKS REPORTED.
A special flout Misaott’a, Mont, savs;
A terrific snow “torm struck here about
five o’clock Friday morning, and is still
rag'ng in all its fury. All trains
(it the Northern Pacific road lmvt
been blocked and two serious wreck,
reported near Bonner, a town about
seven miles east of here, on the banks of
Heli Gate river. Several trainmen were
injured and a special train containing
physicians and looii railroad official^
have gone to the scene of the wreck
This is the third wreck that has occurred
at that place during the past thro eeks.
A later dispatch ia atl says: probability “Two more se¬
rious wreck*, more se¬
rious than the first mentioned, occurred
west of here. It i* impossible to ascer*
'•flu full psrtku .rs at this hour.”
A SH!° GOES DOWN
IS A COIXIS'ON—FIFTEEN LIVES SEP
POSED TO RAVE RE! N LOST.
The Old Dominion steamship Manhat
i tan, which let* New York for West
j Po nt, Ya., last Tuesday afternoon, with
i | th;rty-five passeugn collided with th;
schooner Agnes Manning, from B dt<
J j mote for New York, an 1 wert to the
botri'm. At least fi’teen lives art 5*Up
p.vsed information to have been 'SI Tbc
first of the disaster wa'
givsj-i in an Ass, riv.ed Press despatch
j I fice reran New Fridsv. Loodo 1 ;* information -tie company received t - of
on
J f twenty pointed to people the f-ot have that bees prubabiy lost. over The
‘ vessel's numbered twenty-sewn.
crew
and carried no insurance
THE BRAZILIAN REPUBLIC.
WHAT THE NEW <5 >TItUN5tEKT WILL DO—
OJtCJBr. TO BR MAINTAINED
Tha new government has an runced
tliat it will fl mly miiutam order. It ii
preparing a circu’ar to foreig rvtrn
meuta relative to the orerthro of the
empire, which will be teleg-aj d to
them through Brazilian rwj.-oe; atives
abroad. The province ef iiaiiia .. s sig¬
nified its adhtrenco to the r. iblic.
News from other provinces t h;. that
they are also in fav The >r of a republic i form med
of government. governor'
by the provincia The : government all
military men. depose newly mad :>U>>
lie will allow the 1 emp<; 800
cohtoi def'jis per annum during h ife.
The five articles of the governrr ie
cree are: First, A republic , pro¬
claimed. S cout). The prov es of
Brazil, united by federation com¬
pose the Unit'd States of * Brazil,
t hird. Each Staff wi 1 form it ■ ‘Wii io
cal governnv nt Fourth. Fa Bfate
will send a representative to a . ' a,
which will convey shortly, an I e find
decision of which the Provision Gov
eminent wifi await. Fifth, id it'js
Governors of States will adoj.t more
means to maVrtiin order and pro* ciii
Zens rights. Tic nation's inter; d vr.dex
terna! relations wilt be represent i n. an
While by the iVovisioua! Qiwrn- :it.
noW it Was acurtM^i-isFEO.
The city awoke on Fr d .y ». boar ‘ re
Republic proclaimed. Gen. 7- cons cn,
tho Emperor r^Hed U»4t bo bad beet) ri. l.
Dom Pefho the depuuniou v j .
absolute comp-su e G u. D.iFou-e-,
said that Brazil had advanced larerr nd
in the path of Civil ration iUpensc
with monarch-. Ine cm- t.-v,
while grateful to the Ik-, r.u
for bis pntiiotic Kerri* es. viw ti nlj 1
resolved t > recogn ze only 11 j, ic.
D ,iti Pedro made a digniflr reply He
in d to abtluale, but i • he would
yloir t« force. The In -ial fonhy
• ere allowed due tidui t pn-j ,r - fc)<
: Ad’-pasture. Carriago s .,rte theta I by
«ildicr*, were wailing to -ke to
the outi r harbor, where ’nan-of-wai
waa !"icg ua ler steam. captain
had been m-tructcd to sail -..a toe
Imperial family h id emba tie lad
received sealed orders ii; / him
what route f>i lake. It ia ,u
Lisbon is Uio destmation o, tive ves
TKK JiBWS IS wasiunuto:;.
The Brazilian miniitor received two
! telegrams from Brazil, »>..*■ from ths
minister of foreign affair* and iho i-'h -r
from tbe minister of 'ape* They
wetc simply confirmatory tablishmcnt of ot pies repulili- >o
ports of the e a
can form of government, the departure
of Dom Pero and that everything was
quiet and tranquil in the Republic If
is understood to be the intent on ol
Brazilians in official caparity at Wan
ingtop i0 await tha pleasure of t. * newly
oiganizcd government.
THE NEW PLANT
WUiCH ptiomcis COTTOtt BEEB WITHOUT
”11!-: LIST.
The new liut’es* cotton plant men¬
tioned in these columns some tune ago,
i* attracting considerable eltention.
There seems to be no doubt about the
existence of such a plant, as proof of it
raised in SunX county •
^“ utd ou T" Tre, Wanbur? Xch county was
in g Jo
, it i* claimed, produce from 800
400 bushels of cotton seed, i»rf.kh~l without lint,
The boll, if
:“‘.rr.
many seed as it can hold, the bolls being
the size of the averngecotton boll,and ev
eiy individual seed is as clean as a Boston
bean. The importance of this matter may
be understood when it is remembered
that th< re are thousand! of chiton oil
mills throughout the sbuth, aud when it
is added that the propf.g tors of this new
cotton plant claim that at the present
price of cotton reed, an acre of the new
plant will yield from 309 to 100percent,
more than an -~rt f cotton.
DAMAGE CLAIMS,
BORDER COUNTIES OP PojmsTLVANIA OS
HAND par fuu (O.nPeoerxtk tu.c fo.V
Governor Beaver, Auditor General
yi c 0 am *n, Attorney General Pencsylvasis Kirkpatrick
S( . VPr »l members of the
% who constitute a commiasioo
to y before congress the c alms of ths
otd * f the state for entrant
, M f0unl , es 0
di.iary losses incurred by confederate in¬
vasion during the late war, and to de¬
mand their payment by the government,
met at Chamberaburg on Wednesday to
organize and to consult with representa¬
tives of tbe border c unties. Ttieclaims
h r the burning of C amtiersburg aud for
losses trt tbe other counties aggregate
about $3,0U0,0i)0. The state of Pennsyl*
vania has made three separate '00,006, apjiro
.nations, amoum •• t to $ to¬
wards me relief oT the sufferers. It is
the intention ot me c -mmissiou, oacked
by the united Pennsylvania delegation
in congress, to ask that the state be re
•mbursed lor its ou lay, and that the
balance of ti.e claim * be paid.
AN INSANE WOMAN
COMPELS HER DAUGHTER TO JOIN’ HKH
IS DRINKING POISOS.
A gbr.stly affair occurred at Mosher
ville, Mich., Thmsday night. Mrs. Naihan During
the absence of her husband.
Strong filled two tumblers with a solu¬
tion of pari* green ..nd handing ore : rl of to
her daughter, Maude a handsome g
eighteen, and tokirg the other herself,
she drank her own dose and forced
the girl, at the muzzle of a revolver,
-o swallow the fatal draught.
All efforts to save the woman and her
daughter were unsueces-ful, and Mr*.
Strong died at mi!night in horrible
agonv and Maude „n hour later, Maude
insisted to the last that her mother
forced her to drink the poison and said
she did not w.,nt to die. She begged
piteously of her friends and doctor to
rave her life. The insanity which led
te tha awful act h« been ciearly marked
for about two weeks.
NEW OFFICERS
Or T Hr. EAST TENNESSEE, VIHQINIA ANB
GEORGIA RAILROAD.
At the annual meeting of ths East
Trnntssee, Virginia and Georgia railroad
held at Knoxvnie,Tt'Uri, on WedDrad -y.
■ following director* were electevt:
J.'h;. ti. Inman, ri.muei Tnomas, Ohmles
M WGhre. Cawin S. 3r.ee, John G.
M-o-r. _. .uowr-is V Logan. I rt»- E. ii t •
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Saaford, W, S. GHisLoiia,
ough, 'V*m L. b.di. Georg- CoppelL
Job a 3- HilL E'.ac ?. Howell, George
$ 8: it and Geoj^e J. Gouia.
GENERAL NEWS.
CONDENSATION OF CURIOUS,
AND EXCITING EVENTS.
SEWS rBOlt KTEBVWBEKE— ACCIDENTS, ST*IK*I,
IISES, AND B4PPEX1K0S OE MrEBZST.
The governor-general of Cuba dis
rlaims that he in anyway a ded the strik¬
ing cigariuakers of Key West.
Mexican newspapers state that net;re
colonists will only be permitted to settle
in fever districts on the coast.
The government has contracted with
General Joseph Cebalios for the con¬
struction of wharves at Gravmas.
The papal nuncio at Paris has been
instructed by tbf Vatican to favor the
adhesion of the Catholics to the Conser¬
vative republican party.
E'ecti- n was held in the third division
of Berim, Tuesday, f"r members of the
municipal council. Six liberals and six
socialists were elected,
J. H. Ruthbone. of Wa-hingto", foun¬
der t f the order of Knights of Pythias,
is prostrated at a hotel in L ina, Ohi-,
and is not expected to live.
Tie strike in the Vienna mo1her-of
pear. buttou factories is spreading. Mother
There are now 4,000 hands out.
of-pearl has risen fifteen florins per hun
dred weight.
UnirefBlitck *11
within its limits fid area ol
* * *
The Grange, m . session #
Sacramento, Cal., on M ednesday passed
4 resolution favoring the elec ion
waited Stabs senatoia direct by a meet vote _
of the people. The Grange will
ne« year at Atlanta, Ga.
The British East African cOfiiptinjr has
1 mVeyed to ti e German government, for
through Lord Salisbury, its regrets
e disasier to the Peter „ Expedition, possible
end offers to do evt rything to
disfiover and punish tlie murderers.
district judge Foster, of Topeka, the Uiiit--d Kansas., States
court at ren
dered a decision in a criminal case Thiifs
holding tliat “No Muu’s Laud” was
Indian o untry, and as such was part of
! - them Texas, when the offefise was
, ummitied.
A 'irt combine of all the barb wire
mllia ot iliinbis will be known as the
y deral Pteel Company, with a capital of
$1*,000,000. Ihe present price or bufb
wire, painted, is $3.10 ia car load ids,
but after Jnuuni \ 1 the price will piobu
■ lily go up lo $3.50.
j i he United States consul at Colon rc
j p.-rta that since work on ihe Panama ca->
rrffl eea-ed, business at Colon has been
almost entirely prostrated. It some
times happens, ho say-, that not a single
vessel ii to be found in the harbor,
j (bmp r onknon -' nr >
The isllumis faiirtwdi w hich, in ifi8_S, will
paid a dividend of 28j vlor c*sti,
this year pay only 9 per cent.
In an open letter to Charles bteward
Parnell, Miss Anna Carslake, of Trenton,
N. j., has taken direct issue with the
c/reat Irish leader about his mother's Con¬
dition. She tells him p.ainly that Mrs.
Parnell is penniless and in absolute want.
If he thinks otherwise he is iu error.
Mrs. Car slake has been Mrs. Parnell's
faiihf ill friend, and was Fannie Parnell’s
schoolmate.
-reives from their chains and in They procuring then
firearms and other weapons.
ro » de a fleroe " tU( ,' k
who were unable ri q
when the*
ssia ‘Gets ^ killed, »< * i >»- »-> »>•
were
DAMAGE CLAIMS.
BORDER COUNTIES OF P.'NNSTLVANIA DE
MASD FAT F.ilt COX FEDERATE JVVASION.
Governor Beaver, Auditor GfeneWl
McCnman, Attorney General Pennsylvania Kirkpatrick
aud several members of the
legislature, who constitute a commission
to lav befortMCongress the c airns of the
border countiea of the state for oxtreor
dinarv losses incurred by confederate in¬
vasion during the late war, ami to de¬
mand their payment by the Wednesday government,
met at Chaintre-rsburg on to
organize and to consult with representa¬
tives of the bolder c unties. The claim*
r, r the burning of 0 amberaburg and f. t
lu-m.o ... U ."her CilliJltitJ
about $3,090,000. The state of Pennsyl¬
vania has in ide three separate appro
j riations, amounting to $ 00,000, to¬
wards the relief of the 6ufferirs. It ii
the inten'ion of the c mmistion, backed
bv the united Pennsylvania delegation
in congress, to ask that the state be re
mbursed tor its ou lay, and that the
balance of ti e claimi be paid.
ORANGE INTERESTS.
ORANGE GROWEBS 1 ITNtON AND FLORIDA
FRUIT EXt HAM® CONSOLIDATED.
The board of directors of (be Florida
Orange Growers’ union h»«e been in sis
sion for two days at Ocala, and the re¬
sult is the consolidation of the Orange
Growers’ union and the Florida Fiuit ex
change, The outcome of the consolida¬
tion will be te place neatly all
of the orange crop in the hands
of the exchange which has already han¬
dled 8,000 boxes of oranges this season,
at. increase of 500 per cent, oyer the pre
vious year. The total orange crop of
Florida* this year is estimated at from
1,800,000 to 2.100,060 boxes. The ex¬
change, through its agencies in various
rectioas of the state, probably control at
'east 1,500(8 0 mixes of this crop. Thi*
consolidation marks a new era in market
iu" Florida c-ranges and it is expected $ri-0,
that it wili save growers at least
000 this year.
A TERRIFIC STORM
RAGING ES MONTANA—SERIOCS RAILROAD
WRECKS REPORTED.
A special from Missou’a, Mont, says;
A terrific snow storm struck hers al»out
fire o’clock Fridsy morning, and is still
raging lts AU trUDS
on the Noithern Pacific road , nave
bo-a blocked and two seitou* wrecks
reiiorted near Bonner, a town about
seven miles east of hire, on tbe banks of
Hell Gate riTer. Several trainmen were
injured and * special train coctainirg
Physicians and local railroad officials
have if gone to the scene of tha..wreck,
This the third wreck that his occurred
at th&t place during the pas: three weeks,
A later dinwteh sava: * ! Tw^ 'jjfce
wntdi*. -------- ia all probability - mentioned, --------. oejjorred afire ---, re
rious than the Drat
west of here. It is impossible "W.ascer
tain full pirticulars st this honx. ’ *’
SCIENTIFIC AND INtftSTEJ/CL.
Gum chewer;’ pAralyw > the latest
form of professional neurosis recorded in
medical literature.
The new telescope for the Hat rard ob¬
servatory h£s been completed and will be
used for photographing stars
Some interesting experiment^ !»▼<
lately been undertaken at Cherbourg
France, to ascertain the possibility of tele
phonin" between topedo boats and the
admiral’s ship, so that orders con be
given direct.
The smokeless powder intended lor
use in the Austrian* army is now declared.
to be perfect. Bri,ide the initial advan¬
tage of being smokeless, it is said to givt
a velocity some twenty per cent, great?!
than that of ordinary powder.
A German scientist, wishes to detet
mine by means Ci photography if the
moon is inhabited, and it is Said that the
King of Wurtemberg has decided; fa
order to solve this interesting problem,
to cause to be made, in the best possible
condition, photographs of the moon;
then to enlarge the negative 190,000
times.
M. de Susiui, a Corsican doctor, has,
it is asserted, constructed a motive ap¬
paratus or propeller of twenty-horse
power, which is worked by sulpntlrie
ether, a result which the doctor antici¬
pates will realize a saving of sixty-five
per cent, of the combustible material at
present employed for setting machinery
ifl motion,
A ycoitig German student of Assyriology
has been experimenting with soft tiles
and a stylus, and concludes that the As¬
syrians wrote their cuneiform llirC* with
a cube-shaped instrument having wood, a
pointed end, which was made of
not metal. He professes to find ^ it "ei }
easily to write cuneiform as rapidly M
German with such a stylus.
it is calculated , that . a range oU t mount
ains consisting Of 1(6 cubic »iles of
Solid rock falling into the sun wou d
*>•1? nsimiti th<‘heat for a single .«•
ond. A mr*s eip’.g. fa that ot the eai
would maintain the heat for only P»nety
three years, and a mass equal to tnat m
the sun itself falling into the sun would
afford 33,000,(100 years of sun heat.
Professor Hirschberg declares in a
Viennese medical paper that T’l ’fe.'
Ebert, Ihe well-known novelist, hi.-
rendered a great service to medical sci
euee by the discovery. . unslatioii add xe
nfetdootion in facsimile of part of a va!
liable MS. containing medical recipe* 1#0>.»
i-5< -i in Bgvpt and written about
years before 'flirist. The poTtiog Irans of
la ted aml annomed by Lbers trea*,
ffireuse* of tie eye. lt is the oldest med
ical treatise hbw known.
A peculiar tendency ii* idiots to imper¬
fections -ad til a in the teeth hits been
noticed > ‘ -vend physicians; and »t has
been studied bj Mad. nt -.-v>»»»er iU a huii
(ired cases of’idiot* taken of at the random, den¬
ihe mUitiplleifj and variety the
tal lessons were remfifk-able; aud con
elusion has been drawn that idiOCfg with
or without epilepsy, predisposes to arreJt*
of development and to anomalies of denti¬
tion The effect rarely appears in the
first tcetii, however, but almost wholly in
the second. _______
Where Colors Come Front.
The cochineal insects furnish a great
many of the very fine colors. Anion a
them are the gorgeous carmine, the enm
„; u , scat-let carmine, <md P“rple lakca. It
The cuttlefish gives the sepia. discharges is
the inky fluid which the fish
in order to render the water opaque when
attacked. the camel.
Iiidian yellow comes from
Ivory clhijts produce the ivory black
and bone black. , , .
The and other xrfia*
fusing horses' hoofs
animal matter with impure discovered potassium
carbonate. This color was
accidentally. derived ... trom roots,
Various lakes are
Harks, and gums.
Blue blfick tomes from the charcoal
the vine stalk. Lamp Mack is soot from
certain resinous substances.
Turkey red is made from the maddef
plant, -which grows in Hindostar.
The yellow sap of a tree of Siam pro¬
duces gamboge; the natives catch thes*
in cocoanut shells. Raw sienna is the
natural earth from the neighborhood of
Sienna, Italy. Raw umber is also an
earth found neav Umbria aud burned.
India ir.k is made from burned cam¬
phor. The Chinese are the only man¬
ufacturers of this ink, and they will not
reveal the secret of its manufacture.
Mastic is made from the gum of the
mastic tree, which grows in the Grecian
Archipelago. of wood ashes. _
Bistre is the soot
Very little real ultramarine is found in
the market, ft is obtained from the
precious lapisluzuli. and commands s
fabulous price. zinc, scarlet in iodide ,
'Ihinese white is
of mercury, aud native vcrmillion is from
the quicksilver ore called cinnabar —
American Erw/gid.
A f>3sr That Showed Sense.
A little crowd of reedy men, says the
New Y >rk Tribune, v.-ere gathered the
other night about one of the ugly fur¬
naces that defaced City Hall Park, while,
the contractors were covering the plaza
with aspbaitum. 3 hey were warming
their bodies in the tarry smoke that
streamed out of it. and had deserted Cie
scats under the trees where they had
slept most of the sumnie
•‘I saw a queer thing happen here yes¬
terday,” said me of them 'A nig New
foundland dog. won muzzte on him.
was folio wins: * - aloeg -Mail street
when a little bull - mer made a dssh tor
him and got a dest.- grip on one of the
big fellow’s ears. R -as all done sr
quick that the Newfo mdlard was lremg
well chewed before he knew what struck
him. He gaw a howl and a snap at the
little brute, but his mczSte would not
allow him to open his jaws, and the buli
terrier cheved away like mad. Ali he
could do was to turn tail and run. but
the terrior did not icmse his grip and
r;ent alonsr to0 . They dashed through
crow d passed the fom taia. and oat
* big fellow
oc theplaza here . where the
nearly ran over a paii ot smoking hot tar
“« t t standing fc-r moment by the
wo-krmic wh: had stepped ‘ .
ught his p.p-- stopped,
--LJuice a.- * flash the big dog
and threw hi- oeaa “high . in Air ES
he well eoula. off Its i fee., re. and near tre to " the
from* the head of tee Newfoundraua.
when the ’- trie brute cade down
be hr pJpr.p in the pail ofburviag
He w* )« let go » quk& oukfit sough Kiouga then tS*a- ™
and as toe big feilow tro-.te-i _ -
like g**dug hire » v
h-* heud I fen
for hie emartness ’’
WASHINGTON, D. Ci
MO VEMENTS OF TEE PEES IDEEl
iAi EI8 advisers.
Arrois-rfflurra, decision's, and oral* :tATr®*
or lwrsaisT raoii m »a- hohal casual.
CoTjwrai Tanner and Colonel W. W
Dudley, both ex-commissioners of pen¬
sion, have formed a copartnership business.. here
in the pensiou and claim
A tommifaion of engineers has been
•pp' inted by the secretary of war to re¬
port on the site of the proposed bridge
across the Mississippi river at New Or
leans.
The attorney-general at Washington ia
informed that the trial of the cases of
alleged frauds in Florida, at the last
presidential election,has already resulted
in three conviction*.
Mujor Isaac Arnold ha* been ordered
from command of Fort Alonroe arsena;,
Va., to command of Columbia arsenal,
Tenn,: Major J. R. McGinnis, fromdv.ty
at Rock Island arsenal to command F r.
Monroe arsenal.
Mi>s Ada Tanner, of New York, cc:,
fidential clerk to commissioner of pcav
sions, has resigned. Aliss Tanner is '
daughter of ex-Comraissioner Tanner.
She has been appointed private secretary
to United States Treasurer Hustin.
Subpoenas have been issued for Sfr.i'i
Armour, Secretary Williams and other
persons connected with the Union stock
yards at Chicago to appeaT at Washing¬
ton before the United btate’s senates
committee investigating the dressed beef
monopoly. chief of ihe
J. Elgar Engle, assistant
record division, George A. Bond, clerk,
Samuel B. Heasev, assistant chief of the
western division, and Ww. P. I.av ',
assistant chief of the middle diviaion,n.I
of the pension office, have been asked t>
resign. They were among those wi
- d.
pen 9ions re . rate
^ cjv ., service comm i 9S ion, it ia uu
deigfood ’g , jas lald before the presided the
fi n di n g and recommendations in
faJe of |he o ff 0n ders of the “Old Do
mjnion RepubliC „ n league,” of Virginia
jor t;) t!je j, te . Rction, and in v
ojntj/m of the rival service law, for - »r«tP
j ettcr# soliciting contributions t re l
paign purposes. Thursday,..no
• j The president, D c.a of Georgia, to <w
John H cva ux, the »• ■■
, oolol 0 f cus tcuis for ni
Brunswick, Ga. ; William. G ■ “ 1 ; -
paymaster at removed, Wytheville.Ya Thomas , v;o *’->
S. He! Ut, cui.ector of s - -4> ■
Dowell, of Kentucky, seventh d
mil revenue lor the j
Kentucky,vice William.Cassms 'do¬
deceased.
Secrstaty Windom. lias sustain tr ft
urcr Huston in his controversy
United States Express company • ’
to-the transportation goverr ctr.
cys Issuca j arec 'id ;
.
decision mode Tuesday afternoon, ...
under its contract , ’ a tlv; .mrtinei..,
the express company is e ■ , ’dec to re¬
ceive and transmit, at contract rates, any
aud ail money tendered by the Unite J
Brides treasurer in his officii l capacity.
Dr. Valente, minister from Brazil;
called at the state department Thursday,
and informed the secretary that his latent
advices from Biazil were to the rife.6
that peace and tranquility reigned aocS
that the new government was receiving
the support of the people. Dr. \ alente
also received authority from t he provis
ional government to Internationa' instruct reproeeata* Ans
tivesof Rrazil to the
ican congress to continue to act for ure«* r '
country m sessions of the congress, ”*
A SHIP GOES Dowry
IS A COLLISION—FIFTEEN LIVES SUP¬
POSED TO HAVE BEEN LOST.
The Old Dominion steamship Manhat¬
tan which left New York for W 'A
Point, Va., lfirt Tuesday afternoon, with
thirty-five passenger y collided with the
schooner Agnes Manning, frori B.;tt
otote for New Yolk, and went to the
bottom. At least, fiftern lives are sup
posed to lave ben lost, The
first hifoiusatioa f> tbe disaster wa*
given in an Are •'• ((--i Press Uispatce
from New London, at ' -e c< rapanvA cf
fice on Friday. Th • iirioirr.ufioo receivrt
pointed to the fact havr that prclrtbly lost. ova
twenty people ireen -
vessel’s crew numb' red tweuty-sevf
The names of only a few of the -rew to
known to the Old Dominion peup'o.
The Manhattan was valued at 1150,009.
and carried no insurance.
GREAT PRAIRIE FIRE,
DESTRUCTION OF CROPS, resets Aid
TREES—HEAVY LOSSES.
Passengers who arri' cd at Fort Worth,
Tex., on tne touth-b»rrad Fort W’orth
Denver train, Wednesday night, re
p 0rte( j that a terrible prairie and fore*
g r( , wag ra gi- 4 g for over ten miles aloe
. bc road, *nd back from the read f e
more than a m-lc. The tire c.angat 5,-tc
a locomotive, aDfl a high wind from >t;
wes j hlowfhg the flames, they soon licked
n p hav, corn, o its, fences, barns j"-’
farmhouses. Railroad men, fan.. r»anoi
slockinen worked diligently, bu“ w,t*
unable to arrest the spread of the flam’ t.
Great trees are on fire, and the sitnatio#
i* critical. The fire logins south M
Rhone, ia Wise county, and ends to it
Herman, ten miles distant. Tho Iom til
reach thousands of dollars.
a strange"reqll ?r.
Im his will, Mil ard P. F; -.or-.. >f
President Fillmore, partic.ii&riy *11 no .-* *
that his executor destroy cor
dence or letters written by his
mother, «’*ter or himself that
found in his effects. He beque« relari .
estate valued at $200,000 to r s
friends.
OioKGE Ken-san is an America i
;urer »bo knows a thing or two ht at
m d< rn Russia. Ho rays that
nof understand how it i? that the ;•
neve* makes the least effort to fine i v -
for himself what can make men o
are .r. even particular his equal,
ring the mere accident of pos tv n, u -
peraie enough to have recourse t- . ..
means ot getting rid of him aatho bi '
ing op of tbe Winter Fa’ ace a r
destruction of ra Iway trains
which be is supposed to be have : -
Should he do so he would be :n s
tion "to correct many tvris and -
many troubles to himself en- 1 gtc t v
rviDgof mird to his wi id Chi! ’V
YbeBussian people, who at a fir-*
ins to the Bu .annas, ore a* al
that intelligent pco >ie to tar c <
themselves. As to the ignore •La
ants, they coa d be taught Kenrnvu re re
they ®rw are. Mr. '
wrn abegiad f he -on d follow m
oi notta ratnblingi . parts- oi the
B-& Bog-vaoltse, and- or G frem 1 prayyrs • =•
wMid« ia ti a anr: i
sifinaSa 1 e‘», ka i.ng +*£-**. wiin
s^ftarsteucs ana ad a
remanot aud --ce ri.r&.
w