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About Schley County enterprise. (Ellaville, Ga.) 1886-1??? | View Entire Issue (April 1, 1886)
COUNTY i ENTERPRISE. rP A* - * '■Jk, A. J. HARP, Publisher JUST ENOUGH. ! The man who hopes for little In this great world of strife Will find success awaiting Ere the culminate of life; While he who hopes to grasp the stars From out their legions bright Will miter by the wayside drear, With havens just in sight. The child that learns to babble Close at the mother’s kne ■ i May have the genu, ambition, In babe’s expectancy; To-morrow, when the sun of lif nos settled o’er the land, A sod of green may cover o’er Tho chill aud nerveless hand. It’s much that makes the little, Or little makes the much, Depending all entirely Upon tho might of touch— Upon the touch of greed or trust. Oh Hope! why will you die When first the beacon flashes o’er The firmament of sky? Oh heart of great endeavor! You’ll never learn the worth That’s germed within the human breast As smiles and tears in birth. Why will you never count the cost Of jewels far- away, And never stop to gather up The pearls which round you lay? — H. S. Keller, in Clipper. A SPY IN THE CAMP. BV AN KX-CONFEDEKATE. In the winter of 1864, when Johnston’s army lay at Dalton in winter quarters, I made two or three excursions in the di¬ rection of Chattanooga, picking up more or less valuable information, and was resting after one of these raids when the incident I am about to relate occurred. That Yankee spies were penetrat> D 6 our camps was a well known fact, Two or three had be-"' arrested, but it was only two «• three out of a dozen, and or- <Gis had been issued to all regimental officers to be vigilant and alert in seek¬ ing to detect the presence of strangers. All tlie scouts had, as a matter of course, received tlie same instructions, but for a week nothing resulted from this com¬ bined watchfulness. One afternoon, while sitting in the quarters of an old friend belonging to a brigade band, a crowd gathered outside, and I heard the music of a fiddle. Step- ping to the door, 1 saw a German about 40 years of age in the center of a circle of soldiers seated on a cracker-box and play- ing' the fiddle in a rude sort of a way as if entirely unmindful of their presence. The man was in citizen’s clothes, and for what seemed a very good reason. His right arm had been amputated at the el- bow. 1 looked him over closely as he sat there, eyes half-closed and keeping time with liis foot, and I could not say that I had ever seen him before. Give us a song, cried a dozen men in chorus after he had played for a spell, and he at once complied. The first verse ran as follows: “Oh ! Ooau’ yon see my falling tear*? Oil ! iloan’ von know dat I vims sad? Dot vhile yon laugh mid nu-rry vhas. No home 1 haf to make me glad.” lie had not yet finished it when I was trying hard to remember where and when l had heard it before. His voice was soft and plaintive, and the air of the song was one to captivate a soldier. They crowded closer anti were silent while he sang the second verse: “Nopody vhails to welcome me. Nopody cares which way 1 go; 1 vhalks alone, ttdown life’s path, My happiness vino turned to woe." I was struggling like a prisoner to break his bonds. Years ago I had heard that song, and had not heard it since. It was in vain I cudgeled my brain, but just when I was in despair I happened to no- tiee how he was holding and playing the fiddle. His right arm was gone, as I have told you, but with the stump he was holding the bow by a simple contri¬ vance and with his left hand he was fin- goring the strings. Indeed, the soldiers were remarking on the novelty of it. I imd not watched him thirty seconds when my memory came to my aid. In the summer of 185!) I made a trip to a watering place in Wisconsin—a bridal tour. One evening, as my wife and I sat on the porch of the hotel this man came along, having a little girl with him. and as he played that fiddle and sang she joined in the chorus and accompanied him on the banjo. This was one of the songs he sang that evening—seven or eight verses to it—and it was so sad and plain¬ tive that we paid him to repeat it two or three times. Now I could not say that he was not a Confederate, but the fact that he was not in our uniform, and that I had seen him so far North, was enough to rou«e a suspicion. As soon as he had finished his song he offered for sale from his pack, buttons, thread, needles, pencils and other small wares, and did a rushing busi¬ ness for half an hour, lie could have sold everything right there, but he sud¬ denly packed up and moved away, even when a dozen customers had money iu their hands. This action seemed queer, if not auspicious, and I followed the man. In half au hour I was certain that he tt8 Py an d had been making an estimate pur strength. Without entirely losing sight, of | Communicated uiy suspicions ,tLe offleer-ot-the-day, and the result an arrest. The man did not eren chaage countenance when he found himself bo- tween the bayonets, but marched off as If such affairs were down on his programme, Upon reaching the guard house ho calmly submitted to a thorough search of his person and pack. This lasted a full hour, but we made no discovery of im- portanee. The man denied that he was ever north of the Ohio River, and claimed New Orleans as his residence. He learned the song from a vagabond musican who visited that city, and had sung it in hun- dreds of Confederate camps since the war. There was absolutely no evidence against him, and he would have been set at liber- ty had I not entreated the officer to give me until next dav ^, to look nn VS Komrthintr to confirm suspicions. , my 1.1 o.cnounwd through all the adjacent camps and I found that the man had visited every one of them. He had certainly taken in a whole corps in his round, and was heard of among infantry, artillery, cavalry and e »ven ven the tne hosnitals nospitais. As as a a neddler peauicr he ne would have done this, but as a spy he wm.ld would hm,o have done done the the same some thinrr thing. All All the evidence I could get was that he had appeared, oTvnoarod nln^od played hio his fiddle tiddle, sung mn„ hia his song and sold his notions, claiming to < to i be selling »• ... for some on commission a sutler, and to others that he was in busi- ness tor himself. I returned to headquarters clean done __ up and mad at myself tn. for having moSo made such a mess of it. The man was all right and I was all wrong. I went to the guardhouse to ask him a few questions, and it seemed to ®e that my sudden en- T “ff ‘ questioned I also watched, ana presently I observed u that he seemed to have a very .i large , quid of tobacco in hLsenetK. , Mina r you 7 I W»a looking for trifles, and I no sooner noticed .• the fact I have mentioned than I watched to see him expectorate and soon realized that he was doing so This wasn’t at all natural, and I began at liis head to look him over. When I came down to the third button on his blouse there was no button there. All the others were in place, but this one was missing. vpv The was talkative . „ and ot .j AtrA even _ jovial, man and by and by I left him with the remark that I would go and report to the officer and have him set at liberty. I stepped out, walked around for fifteen minutes and then re-entered the’guard-house. The third button on his blouse was now in place, and the quid of tobacco no longer bulged out his cheek. When ordered to “peel” his coat he hesitated for an in¬ stant and I saw him change countenance, but off it came aud I carried it to head- quarters, Every button on that blouse waa not only a hollow cylinder to screw to- gether, but each cavity was filled with proofs to convict him as a spy. He had worked an entire corps, and he had the number of men, pieces of artillery, condi- tion of arms, and whatever else might be asked for. It must have taken him two weeks to secure such full and explicit in¬ formation. When he was brought before Gen.- he felt that the jig was up. There were his own notes to confront him. He re- fused to utter one single word, and seemed to have made up his mind to pay the penalty without-flinching. It was brief work to try, convict and condemn him, but he was never executed, On the night before his execution he died on his blankets. He was in the full vigor of years and health, having a hearty appe¬ tite, and liis death has ever remained a mystery. There was no wound of any sort, on the body, and of the five surgeons summoned to investigate all were certain that he did not take poison of any sort, After playing on his fiddle for half an hour he lay down on the blankets with the remark that it was his last night to sleep. A guard sat within ten feet of him and saw him apparently fall into a sweet slumber, but two hours later he was dead.— Detroit Free Prm. The Coendon. The Havre aquarium has just put on exhibition one of the most curious, and especially one of the rarest of animals— the prehensile tailed coendou. It was brought from Venezuela by Mr. Equidazu, the commissary of the steamer Colombie. Brehm says that never but two have been seen—one of them at the Hamburg Zoo¬ logical Garden and the other at London. The one under consideration, then, would be the third specimen that has been brought alive to Europe. This animal, which is allied to the porcupines, is about three and a half feet long. The tail alone is one and a half feet in length. The entire body, save the belly and paws, is covered with quills, which absolutely hide the fur. Upon the back, where these quills are longest (about four inches), they are strong cylindrical, shining, sharp- pointed, white at the tip and base, and blackish brown in the middle. The animal, in addition, has long and strong moustaches, The paws, anterior and posterior, have four fingers armed with strong nails, which are curved aud nearly cylindrical at the base. Very little is known about the habits of the animal. All that we do know is that it passes the day in slumber at the top of a tree and that it prowls about at night, its food consisting chiefly of leaves of all kinds. When it wishes to descend j from one branch to another it suspends ELLAV1LLK. GEORGIA. THURSDAY. APRIL I, 1886. itself by the toil, and lets go of the first j only when it has n iirrn hold of the other, One peculiarity is that the extremity of j This the dorsal part is part deprived of the of tail quills is for prehensile. aleugtli J of about six inches. The coendou does ] not like to be disturbed. When it does it advances toward the intruder ana endeavors to frighten him by raising its I quills all over its body. The natives of Central America eat its flesh and employ its quills for various domestic purposes. The animalisquite extensively distributed throughout ...... South America. It is tound , in Brazil, Venezuela, Colombia, Guiana, and in some of the Lesser Antilles, such as Trinidad, Barhadoes, Saint Lucia, etc —London Nntnr, • __ Some Qne.r Fish. A far moos singular walking fish than any of these is the odd creature that re. joices, unfortunately, in the very classical surname of Periophthalmus, which is, be- i n{ r interpreted, Stareabout. If he had 03 recognmed English name of n f bis his own own, would gladly give it; but he hasn’t, and j it • clearly , , to . call ..,- him as is necessary something. I fear we must stick to the somewhat , alarming , scientific . nomencla- ture. Periophthalmus ’ then, is an odd fish of the tropical Pacific shores, , with ,,, a na i r of verv distinct fordoes ’ theoretical- ly described , as modified ... , pectoral , tins, ... an d -with two eossle eves, J ’ which he can protrude at pleasure right outside .. tlie , sockets he’chooses so as to look in whatever direc- t ion without even taking the trouble to turn his head to left or right, bac kward or forward. At ebb tide this p™p««li0 goby Btenllj walk. .Imight out Q f ^he water, and promenades the t Dare e v, Deacn enrb erect (>rer (- on on two two i legs, eos j in n searen search of oi gmal i crilb s and other stray marine am- m „ lg 1 i lelt e ft behind behind bv hy the the receding receding waters. waters jf _ ou j— to catch him, he hops awav brisklv briskly miich much like like a W frog and and stares stares h Hack ick at you grimly over his left shoulder, with his squinting optics. So completely adapted is he for this amphibious long- shore existence, tliat his big cy.s, unlike those of most other fish, are formed for gee j n g in the air as well as in the water. ^ VntViirwr cm tin mnm ltidicions than 1 to n wa tch him suddenly thrusting these very movabIe orbs ri ° „ ht out of their sockets like a pair of telescopes, and them twist- ing round m all directions so as to see be fore, behind, on top below, in one delight- ful fll , circular sweep. There is also a certain curious tropical American . . carp which, . . , though .. , it , Hardly ,, deserves to be considered in the st ricte st sense as a fish out of water, yet manages to fall half way under that peculiar cate- : gory, for it always swims with its head partly above water and partly below. But the funniest thing in this queer ar¬ rangement is the fact that one-half of each eye is out in the air and the other half is beneath the water. Accordingly, tlie eye is divided horizontally by a dark strip into two distinct and unlike por¬ tions, the upper one of which lias a pupil adapted to vision in the air alone, while the lower is adapted for seeing in the water only. The fish, in fact, always swims with its eye half out of the water, and it can see as well on dry land as in its native ocean, Its name is Anablcps, but in probability it does not wish the fact to bo generally known.— CornhUl. Proved a Perjurer. In a large factory, in vvliich were em¬ ployed several hundred persons, one of the workmen, in wielding a hammer, carelessly allowed it to slip from his hand. It flew half way across the room, and struck a fellow-workman in the .eft eye. This man claimed that his eye was blinded by the blow, although a very careful examination failed to reveal any injury. He brought a suit in the courts for compensation for the loss of half of his eye-sight, and refused all of¬ fers of a compromise. Under the law, the owner of the factory was responsible for an injury resulting from an accident of this kind, aud although he believed that the man was shamming, and that the whole case was an attempt at swind¬ ling, he had about made up his mind that he would be compelled to pay tho claim. The day ol the trial arrived, and in open court an eminent occulist, retained by the defence, examined the alleged in¬ jured member, and gave it as his opinion that it was as good as the right eye. Upon the plaintiff’s loud protest of his inability to see with his left eye, the oc¬ culist proved him a perjurer, and satis¬ fied the court and jury of the falsity of his claim. And how do you suppose lie did it? Why, simply by knowing that the colors green and red combined make black. He procured a black card on which a few words were written with green ink. Then the plaintiff was ordered to put on a pair of spectacles with two different glasses, the one for the right eye being red, ’ and the one for the left eye i,. consist- mg of ordinary glass. Then ^ . was ordered to read the writing on it. This he did without hesitation, and the cheat was at once exposed. The sound right eye, fitted with the red glass, was unable to distinguish the green writing on the black surface of the card, while the left eye, which claimed to he sightless, was the one with which the lending had to be doue, —Harpert Young People,. Drifting, the wares may spark la thro jgh lha UvUang <tey, Decked hi the folils of FsavenS, reflected ^ ^H ng 0 tw wflwolcad *hoafa may pj ay Or mirror In its sur)'ai»4ept.hs the views But the stream flows-on, juid we, upon life's 1 1 io*< t t,iri or " ver ‘ Soft melodies may soothe us os we drift Beneath the boughs of over-arching trees; An(l Perfumes float from ev*ry leafy rift, Or from (lie neighboring lilv-inaiitled leas; ^ m elpaads JnU> „ ljgMy ,, And we, upon its boaorn, drift forever. Ah, aoon its sparkle dulls, ts glitter diet; And all the song m life is left behind; And only emptiness around us lies love grows cold; until at last we find US*. «•'- ». »«. o.»n to river, Veara for a swerfness t hat is gone forever. But often in our hearts a fragrant air Float, down the stream in sad, delicious sighs: And in, and round, aud near us everywhere thousand mellowed memories nr he Tf Like flowery perfumes wafted down the river To luj m we drift alonsr forever —Q. ,, II. Murphy ,, , t» . the ,, Current. „ _i_________ — — HUMOROUS. - A bberty pole—Kosciusko. “Ever kneeling ® at thv y feet”_The boot black - People we must put up with^Hotel keepers. A friend in need—The real estate Jonah was the first secretary of the in- * tenor •. . htu. Th mo ey a era in the mint> What is . pie-plant? Why, the bunal of 9 of course * Buttons-Missus told me to coma down and tell you she was not a* home. Huff- cat—Go back and tell your mistress I saj I haven’t called. A poor young man and his poor young wife ^ crpt alnmr ^ verv wpll with their economy until the dry goods stores begin . to spread * all over the newspapers. ^ Then there . s a break. , No xr matter ** if •, , hasn’t . , but . three 4 , ft woman lines to write on a page of letter paper, she , can’t ,. resist . . the temptation to . write two of them on the side “ margin b and then .agn . her , name upside down , over the date An up-country schoolmaster, whose wife was one of his pupils, had occasion to rxunish punish her her nnn one dav day. The 1 ne next next, dav day the tne school-house door boro this inscription : “School closed for one week owing to the illness of the schoolmaster. .Mecca, the Holy Cfly. Mecca, the most celebrated city of Arabia, the seat of the Mohammedan re¬ ligion, stands in a narrow sandy valley enclosed by hills, without trees or vord- ure. In its centre is the Bcatu Allah (House of . God), _ or hi Harem .. the invim- ble), the great mosque, enclosing the Kooba, dividing the whole into the northern and southern towns, these again being sub-divided into 25 quarters, ex- elusive i • of f 4.1 the suburbs, i \ which stretch f i,i in • single lines of houses along the narrow parts of the valley. The streete are wider than is usual m Eastern towns, the houses of stone three stories high and usually well „ lighted. I he Shereets house is large enough for a garrison of 1,000 man, and is said to be impregnable. Ixi Tho city is annually u filed j at the time of the pilgnmage and thousands of the devout camp in the suburbs. The inhabitants Of this renowned city of the False Prophet, with •al tho ovrenfinn exception nf ol ltjaazi Hi iAzi Rcdonin Bedouin, are strangers by birth or parentage, being __„.i„ mostly settlers or /.hii.jmn children atfructfld attracted Lirb- hlth- er by gain. Tta college, or Mecca h...MI«lo decay, and the libraries, once rich, have totally disappeared. a As Udc nmndarfnl Asiatic city during the pilgrimage visit- _ is •* l»y from 100,000 to 200,000 .trongor, it becomes for three fir four months in the year the greatest mantel ir, m yi,„T?o»*. m jaaai, its merchants occasionally accumulating , large fortunes. . , On , . the ,, other v,„j hand, tne berxoars of the city are importunate as well ,, as numerous. The Sherecfs, or direct descendants of Mohammed, ,, , , are now a numerous aid ,, widely spread body. These nobles, as they may be called, elect the Shoreef of Mecca and their choice is confirmed by »1 the Ottoman Sultan. Tbo The stationary , t „ t ;„„orv population of Mecca is estimated at be. tween 25,000 and 30,000, including some 3,000 or 4,000 Abyssinian and negro slaves But two Europeans have over . been perm.tted .., i . to enter . the a Holy re, City __< of Mohammed. A Lending Question. daughter , to the * altar a u a U 'n next .Yf'mlmth-Mra* month, Mrs. Hendric ks?” said the minister, who was mftkj ^ wecldy ^ “Ah, yes I” replied Mrs. Hendricks, ’ with sigh; . “I _ don’t , . know what , , I shall , a do without Clara.” “Will Mr. Featherly lead Clara to the altar the same as Aunt Jane says that ma leads pa?” inquired Bobby, “How is ttuit, Bobby ?” asked the min¬ ister, pleasantly. “By the nose.”—A. Y. Tim*. THE LABOR BUREAU. SYNOPSIS OF THE COMMIS SIONER’S FIRST REPORT. In 1\ liii-li th** t'nmlilioii of llie t oimtry’f The'flm"nnuaV'relwi-t' of'the 'Bureau of l^abor has beeu submitted by the Com- misslouer, Carroll D. Wright, to the See¬ retary of the Interior. Mr. Wright says that «*"?*** try, about 5 miues cent ’ exis,i idle “* during ‘ n per were 1885, and that .1 per cent more were idle a part of the year. In round numbers 1,000,out i were Iosst^the t ment ’ ,Meani J a couemnDdv , of business, over $300,000,000 however, a year The volume of has been fairly well lire- served, and prices have constantly fallen, There has also been a constant diminishing of the opinion that the volume of business of MSrl74sKn; „’ l h mechanical industries tepreS,,ed of the United *** " OjX) ^r horse power, each iSfi horse-power equalling $£ the muscular labor of six men. To do the work accomplished by power and power ma- chinery in the mechanical industries would require 172,500,ooo men in representing addition to the a population presentpopu- of latlon ihe country of 55,000,000. The present cost or operating the railroads with steam power, in round numbers, is *503,000,- into a year; but to carry on the same amount ot work with men aud horses would cost the country ho the 111,308,50o,000. straits which These illustrations ? w to the country would be rk brought , the if it undertook to jwrfonn its " V m way. The apparent evils re- suiting , from the introduction of machiuerv to a large extent have l>een offset by ad- vantages gained. Prior to each period of depression since US37 ESSttaV5enf teUo^nfth^Tn^tiou Sf ^s?’to Sffl! o?tZ£ effects of the inopportune importation of system gSS. ST£2j locahties, SSSSTS. aud other JUSSt features, 111 some employment not only of foreign foreign contract labor, winch but of the ot lalwr, comes freely on a certain kind of solicitation. sions, Considering the suggested remedialifor depres- commissioner says that a halt should lie made in freely granting lands to corporations. V hen immigration becomes a subject of inducement of contract for the purpose of displacing a highergrade of labor, ^ “ti^ffin^tto ‘xto effect that .the enactment of laws to stop r“55k** .^|Sd good. " Si™5 for the public A sound ^ order that the laborer may know the value of his earnings at all times, and by the pro- that he may calculate with reasonable accuracy the cost of production. Reform in the methods of distributing supplies would bring great relief to ™,winiei- < —, ,..| a- tion in its distributive form distribiftion is suggested as a reroeily; but co-operative is only a measure. There is uo contest be- tween labor anil capital, nor be- tween the laborer ami capitalist as such, but there is a contest between the latter as to the profits of capital and wages "profits of lapor, or, in simple terms, a- to the each shall receive for his respective investment, aud this contest will continue so long as the purely that wage the system lasts. It is absurd to interests of capital and |n r are identical. They are no more identical than the interests of the buyer and sel,er T, ”‘- v are > however, reciprocal, and th@ inteb ig ent comprehension of this recipro- cal element can only be brought into the fullest play that by the most complete orguaiza- tion, so each party shall feel that he is nn integral part of the whole working estab- lishment. DESERTS OF A DESPERADO. liiliiiiB Two .Hen mill scrioii*t> w ituiidina Others -Kidillrd wiili Bullets. An exciting tragedy which was begun in Kurt Hurt, countv county, Neb Neb., on on .Saturday, Sstimlav the the 20th -Oth, was brought to a close ou the 21st by the killing of the desperado, l ’ Alien Wright, ! ^ ^ kuJing ujs employeri H c .spylitian. and Charles P. Johnson, was pursued and chased into a barn twelve miles from the scene of the Hilda Winchester Being armed and with having a revolver plenty of ammunition, he held rifle, crowd 200 a of over armed men at bay from Saturday morning Sunday he fataHy woun^ed^^gar" EveretL and seriously wounded several others. As ^Uc tTstarvVhi n o“ut “'Il'^as tlmrof'ire determined to bum him out, and this plan . " When Wright saw that escape was impos- sible ho fired twenty or thirty shot* at the crowd,wtohentirely crowd, no one being wounded,however. surremnd^ The sid(L5 te f m'sheTiara the l^rn, ] ifles from all 0ii £he snot where they supposed Wright to be. WheD fke JL ^ixr ’ILui w»is ovringuishetl a )P\ 0st it ofc was found an ^ that bis body i was full of bullets u. His arms and legs were burned off. iieji as bui led near by. COSTLY FIRE. .................... ........ Library Laid in A»l*>. Fire was discovered in the city hall at Fall River, Mass., the other day. The flarues weri **,„ issuing through the roof at the east end arrived the entire upper story was a mass of dropped flames. Sparks neighboring ana burning buildings, pieces but of wood they on were saved from destruction. The whole fire department were soon at work. Three-quarters discovered, of an hour after the fire was taining clock the and tower, bell, fell 165 feet the high, con a to street; with a terrible crash, scattering burning tim bers in all directions. The upper floors and ^ parts of the xvalls fell about the same time, be fi remen wor ked vigorously and in a short tb S a ^ i “»2 library reb jdbMck. ™,(KKJ vofumre offices and a of was a stately bunt granite structure, four stories the high it was in 1844, the year after great fl r e, at a cost of 175.000. iui5,ooo. It was remodeled in te72, at a cost of The entire loss ^’ 0W ' which there waa no ^ A FIGHT WITH OUTLAWS. ______ y y . ...... . ...... ......... p||ieky l{< „ iBtalirc Bri«m«U in Sicily. Quite a sensation has been produced in Sicily by a daring attempt by brigands to capture the Hon. Victor Albert Nelson Hood, H “noffxirdBridport. Mr. Hood fa a god- , so „ „f Quix-n Victoria. I /uni Bridport is equer v to the queen, and through liis mother succeeded to the dukedom of Bronte, in Hicily, conferred on Admiral Nelwm Tto fief attached to thei dukedom in- eludes the Caatmoal Mauiaco. Mr. Hood waa residing there had when the brigands, him who, prisoner it is believed, plotted to take a aud hold him for a high ransom, made an at- tack iu force upon the place. The servants were brave aud soou rallied in dS and dispersal them of tlie robbers, disabled but hy only wounds. after many of had been Four of the brigands were taken prisoner* and turned over to the custody of the authori¬ ties. FRIGHTENING THE QUEEN. A CRANK THROWS A PETITION INTO HER CARRIAGE The Incident Ifaa the KOerl of Creating Great Kxeitement In London. Queen Victoria ■vent in state the other afternoon to open t ie ceremony of laying the foundation of the new examination hull of th ® ( ^eon* o n the Thames embankment, London. She was aceouqia. nied hy the Prince and Princes of Wales and other members of the royal family- The weather was i-lcar aud lieuutiful, and the people turned out in vast numbers along the route taken by the Queen. The shops and club huntings were decked with flags and stream ?r<. ami tS-USS m luottoes. Seed mi ih' '.iUm-m-m The, ^ pie Cfr^Stiug^^y with cheering. everwhere e’elock infthe^u^V^lngEam'^atat for drive. She accompanied % by a was Princess Beatrice. Hyde park, They went in an <>i»eu carriage to and everywhere were cheered by crowds shabby of people. clothes Among the crowd was a man in and wear- ing a slouch hat. He appeared to be much the agitated assemblage. and elbowed When his the way to the edge of royal threw turnout reach,si a point opposite liim he some- followed thing into the carriage. Great excitement the stransro fnto man s actions, aud he and was quickly hurried from taken the custody It by the learned police scene. was that the article was only a piece of paper. When the que u noticed the man’s action she shrank liack and was evidently startled. Priucess Beatrice leaned forward apparently from for the attack purpose that of might shielding be made the queen {HiJSiJSff'tSrt any wtth^sSJCto tailed to work up his history. The paper dress ^tSS^&frSafX-Tt of personal griovanc under which he a s believes he is unjustly suffering. The man is mentally deranged. The^ti- tion is written iu a style peculiar to insane persons, ^be and contained nothing alarming. man is about forty years of age; is of low stature, emaciated slender and build, sallow complexion, and careworn appaaram e. The man, whose name is Charles Brown, served for years iu the army, ancl has since "intesZS'which^weU he’was written, he complains that robbed of He w„ Uehl tor „ iw.ulry. — - — ----- A FATAL MAIN. _ * ,a, . g < , aune» ai « h *( «_ i on « u ' 1 ' " k ' , ' 1 ”' n »hi«h Several Per.o». are niuea. Bv ' an exnlosion->f natural ira- at Murravs viUe, Penn., the other afternoon, seven per- sons were injured, several of them fatally. The explosion was followed by a fire, whl w “ -.,, Icstmjed seven ,;.„„ii awelimg ino . houses. houses T be uame » of _ those Taylor fatally tVilliam in jured , are: Mrs Harry Taylor, Mrs. Taylor s tather-m-law, and Nellie Hanken, a young girl about fourteen years of age. Or the others injured three were children of Mrs. Taylor. I hey were quite senouslv burned, but the physicians said they would recover. The explosion was caused by a leak from a maln - 11 that the Charliers Gas com- pany was making connections fromthe Me- Williams well, a roarer The heavy just struck, to their main line. pressure caused a break in the pipe, aad the gas. escaping in large volumes, soon nl'e'i tl ? e air a “ (l e houses in the vicinity. . . Before , the , break , could be re paired the gas caught tire from a grate in the house o, Mrs. Taylor and almost instantly shot there was a terrific explosion. Flames up m all directions. Mrs. Taylor, with her | hr ” e children father-in-law and Miss Han- Jen,were seatoi on the porch m front of the the hc flames , use They and were terribly enveloped burned. in Immediately following the explosion the l? n toXiWta^ ^’he d^i.^v« U^lliams of m a short time, Me well caught fire also and is now burning wwf^dotwZ freely, flames fn «R close proximity destroyed will lie ignited. $$,000. The los- on tho buildings was *’* A LOST STEAMER. ‘ *>«el Mall. iron. New York_w"h Twenty People on Board and is Unheard Of. _ AU hope for the steamship Rapitiau, which left NewYork on February 3 for Fort Limon, Costa Rica, has been given up. Hers fa undoubtedly one of those mysterious cases where a stan, h ship sails out of harbor and is swallowed up by some unknown fate. No passing vessel sees the aootned ship floating struggling with storm and tempest, to. wreckage gives a clew to her fate, no dead bodies washeil ashore come as messengers from the lost craft. There .seems te be an utter and complete annihilation of the ship and every- JSj 0 f twenty-two all told, one pas- seuger, a quantity of live stock and some general cargo. She was go- ing to Port Limon in Costa Rica and from the pioneer ship of a new line which E. P. Kennard, her owner, was to establish Thelosson be- tween ports on the Spanish main. the steamer and cargo is about $45.00D. . -- A “Pnonoplex. “What’s a phonoplex word ? boxed I inquired that , strange e was about as my ears the other day in a company of electricians. “It is the latest telegraphic device-EdIson’s,” explained A. O. fate, “I> 8 effect is to make a single wire do double duty. But it is nothing like the duplex, which can be worked from ter- m : na “ i s on j y v ’ The lihononlex P i" ^ enables ^ ns despatches, k w i re a ea y in 18e either for and we , an telegraph way on it und chip in anywhere along the line. We use static electricity, the same as in the air diaphragm telegraph, but substi- tute a metallic for the Morse sounder. Two lines are already phono- plexed in this added city, aud the new wrinkle has been to the Montreal and Toronto line. ” —New York World. A Very Successful Case. First Lawyer ”Ali, Dobkins how did vou come out in that case vou were just beginning when I went out?” becond Lawyer— i Gloriously It Tf was a perfect success; created a great sensa- tion; papers full of it: got lots of ad- vert ising out of it. I think it was the making of niv future " ’ <’)«<» to hear it, old fell ,-w. 1 knew you had the stuff in urn; and, by the way, vvliat did they do with your “Oh, they hanged him .”—Chicago VOL. 1. NO. 27. THE STRIKING RAILROADERS. \ FREIGHT TRAIN DITCHED IN MISSOURI. flic Views of n Prominent Knlnht of Labor Upon the Munition. rm tne 2nd tne great ram-oao stme on the Gould system of railroads iu the Southwest had assumed a most serious aspect, and threatened to extend to other roads. At Bedalia, Mo., E. K. Sibley, division superin¬ tendent of the Missouri Pacific, attempted to move a freight train. A large de¬ tail of police was in the yards aud no resistance was offered until the train reached tlie city limits and (Sheriff Murray took charge. The local police stepped off the train and a few deputy sheriffs stepped on. Tlie liell was rung aud the train started east with a full head of steam. About threw cities from the city, while going at the rate of twenty miles an hour, the engine and five cars were ditched aud a half dozen other curs wrecked and destroyed. The engineer and fireman uppear to have lieen on guard and juni|ssi off before tho engine left the ruils. An officer, one Mason, and a man who had caught, volunteered in the wreck to go aud along tsully as a injured. guard, were Oth¬ ers who wore ou the tender and the cars next to the engine were danger¬ ously injured. Tho wounded were quickly carried walkoJ away. At 6 P. M. some 3,000 the persons had from engine the city to lying scene of the wreck. The was 1*1 on its side iu the ditch badly damaged. kindling i ere was little left of the cars except wood aud the freight was a total loss. It was charged that strikers or their sympa¬ thizers caused the accident, but this they de¬ nied. Vice-President Hoxie was at once in¬ formed by telegraph of what had occurred. At St. Is mis an attempt was mode to send out a frieght train of twenty cars. Engineer the Study ana Fireman Barrett were on lo¬ comotive. As it backed down from the DO ips Barrett jumped off and a detective too k his place. There were fifty police- men in the yard besides tie detec- tives in the employ of the company. While the engine was being at tached some one pulled a pin in the middle of the train and the engine started off with only ten cars. As it backed up again the strikers swarmed into the yards and turned the switches and the mile engine and half the train were run a half across on another track. Pins were again pulled out and the train cut into a half dozen sections. One of the detectives on top of a car saw a man about to draw a pin, and pointing a revolver at hi« . - . . • The said: . . . . man twee^theeik, .deliberately and be- pulled the pin then e* < ' a l** i - ,Krl„“?KSk,™ J5Cttg“hl F'l^-^ ’ 1 ^ e a " lpt was abaudoned and no wp I ad At Atchinaon, Kansas, 150 men, masked anti otherwise disguised, went to the Central branch shops, drove the fifteen watchmeu into the oil house, took liossession of all the remaining engitms and disabled them The next morning a freight tram came in from Hiawatha and ran down into the lower It yards fo i lowe d by a great crowd of strikers. was guardedbyacitymarshalandasquadof until it reached the city limits. As police soon as the officers left it the strikers Immediately possession, set the brakes and stopped the train. The engine was “killed” hail (disabled) be hauled on the track, and the train to back by a switch engine. The switch engine was then “killed.” The men with who captured tb e train had been served injunctions by the United States marshal, One of the leading Knights of Labor at St. Louis was asked if all the Knights were to be called out. He replied: “I hope it will never come to that. Thepi-esent fight is only against the railroads. We will wait the a couple hope of days, perhaps three or four, in that some way of escape from the conflict may show itself, and then if the situation remains unchanged for the better every freight train on every road running out of St. Louis, and every freight train on every road running out or Chicago will be stopped, Some 6,000 men now employed on roads centering in Chicago will stop work. They wbl |j ave no brakemen, ho freight firemen, hand- no 8W itchmen, freight no yard house, helpers, ami no with engineers lers in the aU d conductors alone they cannot move their freight. We will leave the trackmen and enough men to run the mail trains and a fe , w J*™™™**™. Knigfts ^Sbor^tli* **+ great'labor a until the of organization afteT^linglut^l^igh?* of the country, are recognized. f^il % the roads cen tering in St. Louis all and Eastern Chicago, and the order will be extended to try, aud if it comes to the* worst, the strike in tll e country. Defeat means enslave- ment, and death is preferable. I don’t mean to say that all the wrong m this fight has been on the side of the railroad company and all the right on our side; not ^.^‘ f. e ln T s °t^e toortertlit rtrikeag^tes? ™°r \r.a«niiri Parlfin tvifhmif; first iHvinir asking that they be heard and righted. J^ ^ fldo , an d the matter having Iieen carried so far, " rirgSrs an issue having been made against the it, or teaoor, we cannot go Dacx on but fight it out to the end.” Vice-president The Knights Hoxie of Labor issued Missourl/aciflc. a reply to of the It was agreed, they say, to submit their El^S&’JX^'SJSSSlSl meeting between Mr Hoxie and arrange a They the action of themselves. condemn tne governors iu publishing Mr. Hoxie’s propositions before they H3SM5 were per- violated the agreement of March 15, 1885. They say Mr. Hoxie simply wants trouble; that public he is inciting it, and making perfidy. an innocent, How pay th© price of hi* long, they ask, will the public consent to let Gould and Hoxie thus rule or ruin. I Unking city Boarding-House Chicken ! Soup I j | vV | o i i -V V 'M j j w I liil . the usual method. If the ... bird This is was on shorter stilts the soup would be strong, and the boaideiswou ge^ the gout. the chicken is made to pa a through the water very rapidly.— Vnmiit- \ na ** Enquirer.
