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1 *pi S^f ia&£& ‘ •/ r£- - f ‘f V" ri in ■ VOLUME 17 —i- Grittin U the liveliest, pluckiest, most preesiT* town in Georgia. This Is no hiper olleal description, as the record of the lire years will show. Daring that time it has built and pot moat successful operation a 1X00,000 factory and is now building another nearly twioe the capital. It has pat up targe iron and brass foundry, a fertilizer ory, an immense ice and battling works, sash and blind factory, a broom opened up the finest granite quarry in United State*, and has many other prises in .ontemptation. It has another ail road ninety miles tong, and oeateu ou the greatest system in the the Ceutral, has secured connection with important rival, the Bast Tennessee, and Georgia. It has just secured direct penoeat connection with Chattanooga the Wi st, and has the President of a railroad residing here and to its ultima!? completion. ts fire white and three ehurcbea, it is now building a inoriased $10,000 Presbyterian ohuroh. It has * population by nearly one fifth. It has tracted around its borders fruit growers nearly every State In the Union, until it now surrounded ou nearly every side by chards and vineyard. It Is the home of grape and its wine making capacity doubled every year- It has Inaugurated a system of public soliools, a seven years curriculum, second to none. This is part of the reoord of a half and simply shows the progress of an admirable city, with the natural of having the finest climate, summer winter, in the world. Oriflln is the county teat of county, situated in west Middle Geo' gia, with a healthy, fertile and rolling oountry, fast above sea level. Jty the census of 1890, will have at a low estimate between 8,000 7,000 people, and they are all of the sort—wide-awake, up to the times, ready weieome strangers and anxious to secure sirable settlers, who will not be any less wel some if they bring money to help build np the town. There Is about only one thing need badly just now, and that is a big hotel We have several small ones, but their modations are entirely too limited for business, pleasure and health seeking guests. If you see anybody that wants a good loca¬ tion for a hotel in the South, just mention Griffin. Griffin is the place wherB the GstrriN Maws is published—deily and weekly—the nest newspaper in the Empire State of the lieorgia. Please enclose stumps in sending fer sample copies. This bnet saetoh will answer July 1st 1888 . By January lit, 1889, it wiU have to be changed to keep up with the times. PROFESSIONAL ) C CT0R HENRY C. PEEPLES, attorney A l LA W HlUCtUS, OKOBUli. Practice* iu all tbe State and Federal Courts. oct9d*wly JNO. J. HUNT, attorney at law aiurri.v. QEoB.au.. Offiot, 81 Hill Street, Up Stairs, over J. H »Lite’s Clothing Store. •narthiddtw! y U. DISKl/S*. g. M- COLLINS 0ISMUKE * GOLLINS. LAWYERS, GRIFFIN, OA. room In Agricultural Building Stair#. uiarl-dJtwtf iTHOS. R. MILLS, TTOBNEI AT LA W a BIFFIN, aa. aud Fedeial □ Will practice in the Btate Courts. Office, over George A J truer. uov'.’-tf C*H D. STXWAXT. T - D1N 1 EL STEWART A DANIEL, attorneys at law. Over George A Hartnett’s, Griffin, Os. Will practice in the State end Federa courts ianl. D. L. PARMER, attorney at law WOODBURY, s : GEORGIA. ever va-isa^d^^-ftSss business calls. epecialty. . aprtklly ... f3T Collections e Pure Iwmciy Bys -A.VD- HEAQQUABTERS for flat CORN WHISKY. Also, *11 kind* o( Wines, gnd Cigars such as are kept in a first class establishment. ErerjrtKx3j No. nvited to call and see me st West side Hill street. ISON. e2ItMkw8a> JOHN New Felts JV8T MCKIVEDD AT fraa M. L. Millinery Store. *»' “IS T NEW YORK Rudolph Aronson Declares “Coal Johnny" Is Yet Alive. MAYOR HEWITT AND THE RIPPER.’* CeL Shepard'* Latest Break—Min* Raymond Find* a Lover—Lawyer* of New York—Quincy Ward’* Latest—Bishop Hare. New Yoke, Dec. night while I was seated iu ths ager’s office < f the Casino theatre, Ar.nson suddenly turned around said: -‘By the way, have you heard Coal Oil Johnny jf” “No; poor fellow, he is long why;*” “Dead in one tense, but strictly ing, very much alive. Ho exists at moment at Louisville, a one-horse not far from Badford, Pennsylvania.” I expressed great surprise, and son continued: “I was passing the country last summer, when my panion ing farmhouse, called my occupying attention to {loa-ant a a cation, and all its surrounding substantial prosperity. •That.’ said the oil man, 'is the brated e’.d McCiintock farm. In early days of Oil Creek's petroleum citement that farm spouted out of dollars to its owner. The was John Steele, the famous Coal Johnny, fast his who wells squandered spouted the it, and money as at became a tramp, oe everybody The strangest thing about the is that that Jimmy Watt owns it and is a rich man.' ‘What is there strange about Watt’s ownership of the farm?' I asked. ‘Why. the when Johnny Steele was dering for him,’ replied millions Mr. the farm Watt Aronson, was his bootblack.” public “Coal-Oil view severaPvears Johnny” disappeared He been reported dead ago. as at least a dozen times, but he is still in the land of living. A gentleman staying at the Brevoort house gave some interesting last nigiit about the man whose caused such a sensation in this city eisewhere. “ ‘Coal-Oil Johnny,’” said he, ‘is dead, as has been so often reported. lives now in the very place that his im¬ mense fortune came from. I saw saw him a few days ago at Louisville. He is station-master and general Buffalo, utility Pittsburg man and at the Western station of in that little town. Steele says that can hardly remember anything of past life. The whole thing was like dream to him. John Steele’s wildest act was the ing of the Continental Hotel. He did not retain possession of the house long, as the oriental proprietor rebought it the next day. He told mo that lie is by no means poor thing man, although his claims vast wealth is a of the past. He that he worth about $80,000, and if he can age still to keep in comfortable it, ‘Coal Oil Johnny’ be circumstances. But what a drop it must be to the man who owned so many thousands to come down to but $30,000, and to be station master at a little country town!” A dramatized A of “Robert Ela- version mere” is We soon to be brought Butler's out in Chi¬ cago. v ’ placed may yet the see “Analo- go upon stage, or even “Critique of Pure Reason.” How Young’s “Night Thoughts ?” #*# It is a long time since the city decorated by any new work from studio of Quincy Ward, the sculptor. But Brooklyn will soon park. see his statue of Beecher in Prospect Those who have cast an eye on the model pf work say that it embodies the most sen¬ timental conception that its autiior haa ever put in visible shape. His Wash¬ ington in Wall street, his Shakespeare in Central park, and his other productions in plicity, public but places, are severe in their sim¬ his Beecher is accompanied by three them subsidary figures strewing of flowers children, one of a negro at his feet. In the view of at least one critic this attempt at the romantic or picturesque detracts from the classical dignity of the design, and adds an ele¬ ment not in keeping with the mettle of the Beecher main he figure. and the During sculptor the who lifetime is of now- creating this commemorative work, were mutual admirers of the warmest kind. A An amusing story is told by a govern¬ ment officer who was instructed by the secretary of the navy to remove the buoy in the bay near the summer cottage of Miss Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, because it made tier nervous. Miss Phelps and a lady companion were so nervous that they could not bear the noise of people the buoy, with though it was impossible the for good nerves to hear noise they com¬ plained of so piteously. The author of •‘Oates Ajar” was unable to bear the slightest jar upon her system until the Rev. Mr. Ward's yacht anchored near her house. Then she became so much Improved that not even yacht the splashing the heavy of the water about the or ’ tread of the young divine over the mat¬ antly. ting-covered floors affected her unpleas¬ Ward is Since her marriage officer Mrs. who has much better, and the to remove the buoy has put it back with the assurance that next summer he have no orders to disturb it. He pre¬ scribes matrimonv for all maiden ladies who have nerves sore annoyed nv the buoys, even though they are nearer to shore than half a mile. Apropos of the son’s marriage to Miss Phelps, the Rev, Dr. Ward (of the Independent has suffered as much annoyance from letters and tel¬ egrams of congratulation as did Phelps from the buoy. He is a widower, and the him first the bridegroom published instead of made equanim¬ son. He bore the tetters with ity, but when the writers of poetry bore down upon him he protested. White Bishop ftare. of Sioux City Falls was in this city a fsw montlis ago be persuaded John Jacob Astor to erect ’ • catherdrai to his wife, and Ffelte was' selected as the cathedral U catted St. Au¬ gusta, from her name, and on Thursday tha last the center storm was laid in of ths rep- cbumi in GRIFFIN. OEORQIA, SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 1 6, I88». I : 108 by 58 feet, with detac hed stum are a toner 110 feet high. Fifteen mastic lodges ing the took part in the oeremonv of lay¬ corner stone, occupied nod the cbnuuem orative exercises two days. Whether it is due*to the fact that so many in the audience are English men or that would-be Americans Englishmen, seeing or to the fact play do not care for local a typical wternolutious. English or to the fact that the said local interpoal- tion* areas a rule poor, the writer does not pretend to know; but it is certain that the frightfully in “Monte bad Cristo. English Jr.,” puns and jokes came iust as much laughter as the interpolated Amer¬ ican “gags.” That, however, is not say¬ ing ing done much. Probably there is less laugh¬ at the Standard Theater now than in any other theater in the city ex¬ cept the Fifth Avenue. Even the intro¬ duction to tlie tune of “Yankee Doodle” of two dancers clad in small American in flags the does not touch a sympathetic chord hand.” audience, and fails to ‘ get a What does bring out applause is Leslie’s remark apropos of the dancers, “ Ah, two Dakotas.” The remark is wit¬ tily lengths timed, and coming after lengths and of such clever puns as “Ready?, companiod' Yes, I see you’re reddj ly,” invariably ac¬ companied the' b; by digrammic gestures, it appeals to 'ie audience and “it goes.” **# taining Young lawyers are in a long time in at¬ prominence the legal profes¬ sion in New York. There are too many old heads in the profession here; brainy men, whose equals are difficult to find. Then, too, very many of the prominent lawyers ami business men of tlie country Hoad- have New York offices. Ex-Gov. ly, inent of Ohio, one of Gotliam’s associated latest prom¬ self with converts, not York only him¬ a New law firm, but has moved his family here. Gov. Beniamin F. Butler's name in bold gold stands out prominently fine office in the on the Mutual plate Life glass building door of a on Nassau street. J. O. Battertoti, of Hert¬ ford, the insurance man, has an office in New York, and so have Senator Joseph R. Hawley and ex-President George H. Wat roue, of the Consolidated road. The list can be extended almost indefinitely. Major General O. O. Howard, who has succeded Major General Schofield in command of the division of the Atlantic, has arrived from San FYancisco. Gen. Howard has been at the head of the di¬ vision of the Pacific for two years. Ac¬ companied by his wife and child anil his aid de camp. Lieutenant E. St. J. Greble. the general took the 10:30 boat from the Battery for Govern¬ or's Island mm&nd. Thursday He morning Ad¬ to assume jutant-General ct Whipple was met by other and the officers and escorted of the General garrison, Whipple's at the wharf, to quar¬ ters, where the party dined. The firing of tlie guns at the Island and the other ceremonies which are customary on the arrival of a new commanding officer were omitted, on account of the illness of Inspector-Genflral Jones. Gen. Howard, returned to the city by the 3 o'clock boat. He will not take up his residence on the Island for a few days, being as repaired. the house lie is to occupy is *** day Mayor Hewitt received tills letter a or two ago: "Hon. Abram S. Hewitt, Mayor: Sir — It is folly for the police and newspapers to speculate on my Canada. being in Montreal or any other part of I am right here in their midst, and will begin opera¬ tions immediately after Jack Christmas. the Kipper.” The letter is looked upon as the work of some the police. joker, The who hand-writing would like to stir up bears but slight resemblance to tlie fac simile of which the original been published. Jack's hand-writing, has #** Miss F'rankie Raymond, the young air tress who was suspected of stealing Mrs. Mills's diamonds some we ks ago, has found a husband. He is Hugh Hill, a photographer. Raymond while He he fell in taking love with her Miss pic¬ was ture, he says. The couple were married in the Little-Church-Around-the-Oorner. Miss Raymond formerly claimed to be the daughter of Henry J. Raymond. When her mother, Mrs. Meyers, of Chi¬ cago. died a short time ago. Miss Ray¬ mond acknowledged that she had lieen lying about her parentage Her and received her share of tlie estate. inheritance is between $100,000 and $150,000. Col. Shepard, *** the E. F’. editorial son- in-law of the Vanderbilt clan, is still in¬ quiring disposition if the south for wants peace,” war. “With every he says, “our former experience be has compelled shown us that the southrons c an to do justice to all classes of our fellow- citizens in no other way than by war.” I really,feel ho sorry would for Shepard. To look at him one ever dream he was such established an unmitigated ass, but the colonel has a reputation for idiocy now, which even if he desired to reform, he would have freaks a hard job have to overcome- What strange we in Goth, am, anyhow! Cade-Gacl. MRS. CLEVELAND— IN HER MIND. A Little, Old Detroit Lady Taken With a Peculiar Freak. Chicago, 111., Dec. 15.—A little, old lady dressed in black silk, landed from a 'bus at the Grand Pacific hotel last Thursday and was assigned to a parlor on the lower floor. She gave the clerk a card upon which was written: Mrs. Francis Cleveland, Detroit. Mrs. Cleve¬ land had her meals served in her room, and was very quiet and well behaved, though a housemaid Cleveland reported at the of¬ fice that Mrs. was acting rather queer. A hotel official called up¬ on Mrs. Cleveland. She insisted that she was Mrs. Frances Folsom Cleveland, and talked very incoherently. of the Friendless. She was She sent to the Home was released from there and went again to the Grand Pacific and complacently installed herself in her old room. The hotel officer then took her to the armory police station. The woman said she had a sister, Mr. Blehm, in Detroit, and an¬ III. other, Mrs. Julia Davis, in Cairo, She was taken last to Hie evening. detention hospital for the insane T* tally Shot HI* Cutwur. Wichita, Kan., Dec. 15.—8. A. Hart- zell, a policeman ou the West Side, was shot and fatally wounded at noon to-day. He had traded his revolver for another at the second-hand store of Blood 4 Turner. E. E. Blood, one of the firm, in to show its workings, let the lip. The fanB mtered Hartzell s the heart, and he now am at of death. Mood is mimmmt Hartnett is the third hi the teat tea month* POOR IRENE FOUND. The Third Victim of the Awful Bir. ningh&m Tragedy. LOADED DOWN WITH WEIGHTS IN THE LAKE. Th« Hotly tint Util* l)mni|Ht»wl—No Trou¬ ble Anticipated at thr Ub*»Uy III*- cover)—Troop# In H®ali— »«•»—H»w«» ( #Un. JIihminuham, Dec. 15.—{Special,}—Tlie IhkIv of little Irene, the 0-year-old child of Dick liawcs, was found in the lake at lakeview shortly after noo.i, in tlie same place iu which tta • body of tlie mother w as resurrected. It was dressed in its clothes and w eighted down to tbe bot¬ tom with heavy railroad iron, just as the mother. . It was well preserved, being but little decomjKjsed. There is little excitement over the find,as everylssly was prepared tor it. Gov. Seay has been telegraphed of the horrible discovery, and at tin* fir t inti¬ mation of trouble will send troops to the city. All the Montgomery companies are in readiness, but no trouble is an¬ ticipated. Hawes still retains his calm demeanor in spite of being told of tlie latest devel¬ opment. The body lias been taken to the same Undertaking establishment at which the mother and little sister were prepared for burial. A coroner's jury has been empanelled. Accident to an Actor. Sherman, Tex., Dec. 15.—Jules Gran, proprietor and manager of Gfau’s opera company, met with a serious accident while performing at the Grand Opera House in this city Thursday night. The play was the “Black Hussar,” and Grau had the part of leading actor in tlie iiat- tle scene, in which he appears on the stage on horseback. When he mounted his horse to approach the stage from he- hind the scenes b$ drew the reins quite suddenly, causing the horse to rear up and fall’ back wards on the floor, catch¬ ing his rider under him. The in juries received by the actor will not prove fa¬ tal, though it w ill require a long while for him to recover, I is brother has taken charge of the troupe on its tour through the state. DAKOTA’S JOY. Great Enthtij»Ja»it) Over the Iteeult of tbe Democratic Oauen* in W tMhingtoii. Chicago, Dec. 15. —[Special. ]— Ihs- patches from various points in Dakota show that the greatest enthusiasm pre¬ vails among tlie people or. account of the recent action of tlie democratic catu ns in agreeing to the admission of Dakota as a state. llurial of K. A. Poe'* Pbyticiun. Washington, Dec. 15. — [Special.]— The remains of tlie late Dr. Moran, who was distinguished as tlie physician of Edgar Allen Poe in his lust illness, have been sent to Falls church, Virginia, for interment. He would have received fees amounting to $15,W bill which by the enactment of the direct tax la'ssedthe house Tuesday. A Baby Swallow* Carbolk Arid. Topeka, Kan., Dec. 15.—Mabel Miller. 19 months old,the child of W. H. Miller, took several draughts of carbolic acid from a bottle which she took from a cupboard this morning. .She was in ter¬ rible agony for several hours before dy¬ ing. They are Not Stanley's Partridge#. London. Dec. 15. —[Special.]—General Grenfell reports that the Snider rifle cartridges sent him by Osman Digna, and alleged to have been taken from his white prisoners—Stanley “1369.” and Emin lley —are stamped • APTLY ABRIDGED. The News of the Day Given Iu a Terse unit .Spicy Manner. Klrain has accepted the challenge of John L. Sullivan to fight to the finish for $10,000 a side. A dispatch Maurel of and yesterday Clemenceau from Paris re¬ ports: Clemenceau fought a duel to-day. was wounded in the shoulder. Albeek's woolen manufactory burned at Neu' munsti ground r. yesterday. Germany, F'iftceti was to the killed and others jersons were ten sustained fatal injuries. Randall, chairman Mr. of the appro¬ priations committee, yesterday rejxmed to the liotis‘i the legislative, executive and judicial appropriates appropriation is $7'0,3 bill. The amount it *3,345. A dispatch of yesterday from San Francisco reports: The steamer City of New York, which has just arrived here from Hong Kong and Yokohama, is the first steamer that has arrived from the Orient in a numlx-r of years without a single Chinaman aboard Ixmnd for this port. J, W. »». Gilmore, UIIIIIUIW, who W UU was wtta wounded HUdUUtNl du- ui ring the late shooting at the county jail is in Birmingham Saturday night, died at i the the Charitv Charity hospital. hospital. He He is is the the tenth tent victim of the sad tragedy. Oiltnore had been a n bident of the city several years, and leaves a wife and five children. A special dispatch from Augusta. Me, says that Mr. Biaine declines to give any information as to his having been offer¬ ed tbe M-cre' H. Manley ary ship of state, and be does that Joseph Harrison states has tendered that not believe the position to Blaine. A dispatch To night from hand Jane-*town. of masked N. Y., says a men. wearing a white handkerch ef over tiieir head-, drove through the «r*-eu.driving people to their home- in terror. It is re¬ ported tl at taken a mu from three hit home mile, saJ east given of Mn was 35 Uwhm on hi* hare back FEM ALE M Sl'U KiL t X -r e.llficly Joyo-.** Ovsr iIhi r,,*s;ieet-- Thu Mouth in lb** Vmi». Nr.\v York. Pey: mi. 1J —{Special.}.....Mrs. Catherine Is on w i'o ie fitly ran for mayor of New lurk, state I to a u*|toner last night that the result of the late elec¬ tion in Host n. where worn n e\ot, i-ed tlie rigid of stilfr.tgo. was the Icgintung of a new era for women • For six thou and years she mid. “we have had no share in ll» * govern¬ ment of oar own. and atlas' there las burst a new light ou the souls of man¬ kind. unJ my sox is to cast off the chains of slavery and issue forth in rjl the glory, well won, of citizenship. 1 have just received a letter from Mrs Lw k wood, in which she state* she will It*** no time iu ntur.iu ' for Wash nylon to press the claims of woman hill suffrage which u will o i cougru.-s. I think the c one up in the nest session will I* s ip- Isorted by many members who dtJ not have much faith in woman's ability to conduct herself properly at the pel s, b ,t at the Boston election she is proven a most “1 capable ’ added and fAtiafuctory Mrs. Leonard, citi.en.” wish. ”1 could exercise one masculine prerogative and go out in the street and give a good, hearty ‘hurrah.’ 1 am so gr.atlyen- tourged by the Outlook.” George William Curtis, editor o' Har¬ per's Weekly, has sent the fo lowing let¬ ter to Mrs. Lucy Stone, tin- leader of the female suffrage movement in Boston: My Df.au Mrs. Stone: —It is more than twenty years since I moved, in tlie constitutional convention of Now York, that the word “male” should be stricken from the the suffrage question. The vote U]s>n proposition of opinion. was interesting as an who expression supported it Among those the in committee of whole were the late Sanford E. Chnrch and the late Charles J. F'olger, the lead era of the two parties in the convention. followers. But upon The this question tin* they proposition, had few justice detefmiued of by however, is not vote, and I have never seen any reason to change my opinion, that the change would lie ww*. nor to doubt that it will one day be made. There can lie little doubt. I suppose, tiiat a general demand for tlie suffrage upon the part of women would secure it. But I cannot deny the obvi- ous fact that the feeling among women is not general enough or strongenough to produce that demand. This fact, of course, does not affect the justice of the demand, but it serves, and will continue to serve as an excuse for inaction. The practical continue course, therefore, appeal it seems to me, is to to to women. It is not necessary to argue that the con¬ cession of suffrage would he fair and logical, because that is not disputed, but desire it is indispensable it demand to persuade it. women to and to The laxity of interest on tlie part of many women is not, indeed, a valid reason for deny tig the suffrage to those who desire it, bat pretext. unhappily Your it is fo: example.’dear il l to be a satisfactory Madam, in the constant and convincing publi<* inspire presentation others. of tn<* If all question American might well women were like you. the laws would authorize them to vote ior the next president. Very respe, t fully, W. George Curtir. The Houth in tti« Vmi. New' York, Doc. 15.—The Women’s Suffrage Society of Brooklyn is securing the names of the citizens of Kings coun¬ ty who believe that women should vote on equal terms with men. The enroll¬ ment is ordered by the American Wo¬ men’s Suffrage Society, which has every state and county organization busy at work. Before tlio present congress ad¬ journs there will lie jx-titions by the wagon load presented, and. it is said, tho south, ow e the stronghold of conserva¬ tism. will lead all the sections with its numliers. Florida, Alabama, Geirgia, and Tennessee are ahead at the present time. Tlie Brooklyn women will for- ward a heavy list. TilE PITTSBURG STEEL GUN. A lie port Ijion the Appem-am*** of the Fracture. Washington, Dec. 15.— [Special.]— The official report on the test of the Pittsburg coast steel gun, after detailing tlie failure, says : “Tlie apfs arance of the fracture was in many eases very peculiar. Only two flaws have been detected, but there is a striking lack of uniformity in the gran- ulat.on at different points. An attempt will lx: made to illustrate this clearly bv photographs.” A Hunk Kotibrr C*|>turel. Denver, Col., Dec. 15.—A bold at¬ tempt of bank robbery was made in this city this morning, at the People's Sav¬ ings bank. While part of the force were absent at lunch a stranger entered and engaged tbe cashier in conversation. His pal the sneaked in the track door and i n- terea vault,but before beseemed any money. Mr. Stannard, the bank teller, noticed him, and running to tlie vault, covered the thief with a revolver, order¬ ing him to hold up his hands, which lie did jail. until the the patrol arrived and took him to In excitement, tlie first rob¬ ber escaped. The one captured wore a pair give of I ids x>ots made of felt. He refused to name, but lie is supposed to be an eastern crook. They were stopping at dressed. a leading hotel, and were elegantly DYNAMITE IN PETTICOAT*. It male IVtieiigcrk Carrying Uyuamltc Car¬ tridge# to Queentovn. New York, Lm*c. 15.-—{Special.]—A Queenstown special, by the Evening World's cable, says great excitement was caused there this morning by the arrest of female passengers of the steam inhria. on her arrival. One srin»[/'“SSciSSi trntelu.. .JSTtaW (osata. .on- ate action showed that they wer* in full pos»essiori f nil ne emarv facts ----- A scaffolding around the waterworks standpipe, Friday, prmaptiating at Btarrens’ five Point, Wi*.. fell men te the •tone hot to u U MUFFIN EH RAUFS. Diphtheria Growiag Grim and Ghaut- ly in Canada. BAD SIGHTS AND SCENES AT THE CEMETERY. The Terrible Ravage* nt tha TTague tn n rurally—Tnor Children Unrruusb, Owe After Aim!hrr—Htddlsr tuirger's Keeignattoa. Montreal, Que., Dec. 15. - ' Hie diph¬ theria epidemic is growing more fright¬ ful. It is extending over several pro¬ vinces, and drives all before it. Four children of a uuin uaun-d Brunet, who ke p* a small grocery store at Co- toau Roug**, a small i ettlenient opjosite Montreal, died mu: alter the other, trout Friday to Monday, of diphtheria. The man co.il<l get no physician, rind the Height ors would not go near him. He took tin- bodies to the cemetery him¬ self, and laid them on the ground, one of ihem uncoined. One of them he had -ec re I a coffin for was found with the feet h inging over the end. live coffin Uing too slior;. The sexton had refused to sell Br .net a longer one been l-c he hadn't money the enough to pay refused for it. bury The sexton of cemetery to the children unless he was paid his fee, anil left the bodice where they hie! been placed until yesterday, when Dr, Mo-juin beard of tlie mutter, had the bodies dis¬ infected, them iii and receiving induced jjgplt. the rex No ton physician to place a visited Brunet’s emtdren while they were ill. and they had no medicine of any kind. In fact it is whispered that they died ns much from starvation as from diphtheria. Diphtheria has broken out in different {doses, and tlie only physician who will go into the houses fa l)r. Mo jiiin, who is attending the pa¬ cians tients dare gratuitously. the The tents, other tiecauM physi¬ not visit pat they would not lie F'rench allowed inside any other houses by the Canadians. BOTH SAID “OOOD-BYK," One Marriage That wa# a Failure by a Vary 1 dirge Majority* Chicago, Dec. '5.—Chicago is justly noted for swift divorces and the calcula¬ ting coolness with which couples pro¬ ceed to tlie severance of hinds matrimo¬ nial, but there is one pair who toko tha lead. The young man came from the cast some months ago, with plenty of money, good looks and recommenda¬ tions. lie met at the house where he lived, a young lady of rare beauty and good family, uiul iu a few- weeks they were married. But their bliss didn’t lost long. One day lie departed for Kansas City, whore, lie said, he had been sent by hi* firm. Thu following week she Then left for Michi¬ gan to see her folk*. two letters came to the bouse here a few day* apart, addressed to the husband and wife, and as neither returned, it was concluded to open them. The one addressed to the wife read: ‘ My Dear Edith—I am convinced that you and I are unfit for one another. Wo cannot Is* happy. I left $500 in the lower bureau drawer. Take it and get a di¬ vorce. You can do so on the ground of desertion, as I now toll you I will never live with vou again. Good-bye, and may you have butter luck next time. “ChariJe." It was marked at Cincinnati. The one addressed to tho husband woe mailed at Buffalo. It said: ‘' Dear Charlie—I am tired of you, You and 1 know you arc tired of me. will never s *e me again. I took $500 which you forgot in the bureau drawer. I will never tro ibie you, no matter what you do. Good-bye, forever. EDIT#.” HE IS WRATHY. Khhlloherxvr Resigns III* Seat in the Sen¬ ate— Bis Itruim fnr the Action, Washington, Dec. 15.—[SpeclaLJ— Senator Riddleberger.of Virginia, ha* re¬ signed his seat in the senate, to take effect the first of January. Hu makes tiffs emphatic statement to¬ day. Tlx* fiery readjustcr is mail, mad with Ingalls, and mad with the entire repub¬ lican paity. In conversation with your c >rrespondent he referred to Ingalls “that sahl: d-d spider-legged Kansan,” and "He can abuse mein the senate, but he bad Is-st not attempt it hi tlie street.” Ti.e Virginian say* lie will sta'- in tlie senate until the first of January simply to bushwhack tlie republican senators .wl.o 'then l av e treated him He outrageously, and he w i 1 resign. says the repub¬ licans have cut him; that only one man in tiiat body .Senator Palmer, of Michi¬ gan -ha* ever invited him to his home. Fie says be i a- never worn a swallow tailcoat and never will, and without one i.e is ostracised from society. He finds that t e republicans will not asso¬ ciate with him. and thinks it best to get out. ha Mr. Cohen talks. M«? Kchol# la th«* M»n WhoComaitlted th* I>«o<l. Madison, Ga., Dec. 15. —[Special.]— Cohen, who was so terribly beaten at the Pitts house, Covington, a few weeks ago, lias made a statement, in which he says tiiat Echols is the man who killed Thomas and in,ured him elf. Echols lias made no confession, but it is believed that Cohen's statement is true. Cohen is watch-d all the time, to pre¬ vent harm from Echoi* and his com- i ------ A New Russian Consul. St. Petersbcrg, Dec. 15 —{Special.)- vr Hr V:: • ‘"'rr ' ,h " * ______________ A Matxlrar'i ratal Wrvs-k. CtscBW Tt. I<ee. 15.—ffxLl—A m gtj e t. J* in, h ut two fit ttv. NUMBER ——- ..... - ............■.........—-— - r TV a: iW Csm*W«l» izwtiON, Dec.tj5.~40l noli Tun * commission « >m*i h. Tha g n rat the e t mosiy so far j |x>tthin of it that is reliable D t ani aod that the portteai licet the league With rsgra Is not trust* ....... At ...... given by witnesses* In pay Times, Ivy self-confessed ‘ prejudiced land agents ami or by men who had been grace from Urn orga n i s ation. No evident*, up to the been adduced to show t in. u'.nattced the outrages, ! contrary, several '#11 , t iuu he < ouderuned thorn t the j er, etrator# of them that at <>ne time his Ufa was I jeopardy as Hue' shot P'uster’a. It is now generally behoved Times will not undertake to | ti e letter* which Parnell, in parliament, pennine. h There s pronounced not are are i incline to the opinion that caw- might be abandoned the ooinrciindofl anty not . Such a fiasco, however. L* not regarded that* as probable. altthM^I known ....................... heavy e* pease which the. ■ i»» ha* utitutted, but public *“ f. el outraged at an “ ' J care, or evalt at * Cap** is expected before the that end many is w the investigation Times completed, satisfied with are it now >'ands. The former < it lias been shown that he league* exercised < command to enforce law, while the latter Mitt ready practically convicted I having been a law teas those mob, who ......... aim was to terrorise 1_ implicitly execute its orders. The investigation has dons < which, it is feared, wilt result if ly to the Irish movement, that it has widened I l’arnett and Dsvitt. The rehw Parnell and Davttt have been i for rear*, but now they Me lured. The remark of Pi la ted in the witness box by f that he reluctantly Phosnix signed nark the i denouncing of the ift phraseology, on account alleged contained too much ev Davit t » vanity. This was too i tho founder or the fond I It lias been noticed since then i though be and ParneS sit in gather day after day they l changed a word. It would ! those who know Davitfe I __ to No 1‘ofM. rnio* tkt* CkMUHTf.' Rome, Dec. l5,-{8j»cial.}-tho l>brts recently published in newspaper* that there is a j either (‘ordinal Gibbons, of ] Cardinal TaschefCMt, of selected for the papal throne or, i of I*o Jill, have reached ih and are causing a good dealt ment. It requires no prophot 1 that neither of the will ever receive the tiara, lifts ihd Bil and ten—but out-live Cardinal fo srQi ( may ditud Taachereau, who younger. In <*n doubts that the i an Italian. The Itahih* are ttt | tty elects in the the college and of they cardinal pope, aa are as well is naturally as churchmen, to of thg t erenoe r one nationality. Comparatively few cardinals, not Italians, < .,uld attend tbe 4. a pope, a»thorn at American a long d iet an as the Canadian, a*»d litn cardinals, could not reach I ns I city in time to vote, and vi proxy is not allowed. There is no rule In the vents the election of a trs." nationality that wiiatsoever, few mains only very were not Italians, Adrian have VI, chair of Peter. the tiara 300 years ago, was a and the last pope who i was Mil ian. DAILY MARKET REPORTS. {*rscuij.T Avujrtx, aa, Deventer M r: Dwcemhw — January -------.... I nbruary ........ Mar..*.......... Avrfi......................... ...............*M»* M*T October .............. ....... Noreni's-r...............«k...... Cksete st-.wdy Saha RSI. Ka.tlA »?*: recoipw ■li.lfh stork Cmcsao, nL, Wheat, twrwnlw ISP:: January. May Corn. iMeemoor January. Mai ...... . &== ...... . - Port lies-rauer January 1*K> . May tA«H Lara. {Hn ember January ■iV: ..... ...... Rite. Jai.uary ... Raj Atr-urr*, Ga. 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