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SC HLEY COUNTY ENTERPRISE.
A. J. HARP, Publisher.
THE NEWS IN GENERAL.
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST
FROM ALL POINTS.
ItsTERN AMI llllllll.i: HTATKM.
•Sc Avenue bght Horsecar e wiUi < Htrikbig'cnqt}oycs 1 of t tho Thdrd
company who attempted
whom had received a dubbing, were arrested.
This occurred on the 19th, and on the 20th all
the hone-car lines excepting the Third
avenue resumed were work. running again, the strikers hav
mg
Conversation was carried on between
iVow \ ork and Chicago n few day's since by
means of an improved telephone. The dis¬
tance by wire is 1,020 miles.
John Carpkntek, confined in the New
York Tombs under sentence of death for
wife murder, committed suicide by cutting
his throat.
The body of Leopold Scbenck, editor of the
format edition o* Hick, was incinerated at
the he SMST other morning. cr6mato, > on
Thiutehn menibors of tho New York
Bakers’Union have been indicted by the
Grand Jury’ for boycotting Mrs. Gray’s
bakery. bail. The They result were of the all boycott arrested, aud gave
large increase has been a
in Mrs. Gray’s business, per-
eons tences sending money to her from long dis-
-
Severat, fatalities from lightning during
severe thunder storms occurred on the 20tlr
At Pottsville, Penn . a young man and sev¬
eral mules were killed. Four little girls in a
public school at Freeland, Penu., were in¬
jured, one fatally. James Manly, driver for
dead, a colliery at Shenandoah, Penn., was struck
and Rev. A. M. Child, a Methodist
minister, ville, was painfully injured at We.tern-
N. Y.
The IHE Pitv ity Nstlonnl National bnni, bank, of of wiiii Williamsport, .
Penn., I® suspended.
1 or the second time a New York jury has
tier disagreeri upon the trial ot General Aleian
..haler, ot th ■ St it'' militia, who is
^*Vw.'s&wsstfeSBS «J55?BS rS’mnZJ&mt*T
its twentieth annual encampment in New
York city ,u tho 22d. A parade was the
feature of the day’s cureinonie*.
Thk New Jer^eVSenate sitting ns n omrt
sjjstsrSr State prison Trenton euilt’v 1SS-.8
at of two re ions
charges in connection with his mana -ement
of his office He was deprived of his place
and forever disaualified from holding office
IB _____ a "® . re cruslied , . . to death , by the ,
fniirf full of a derrick w at l.au aster, Penn
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T „_ ,, ,, ° f , ISS ,h , " f«-
n a H Buffa e , 10 0, dispatch , Presl ' i ™ to . t Cleveland, r, have stated is that rep )rted the
lady is in Europj selecting her wedding
sszxr** -
bakeress ' who has na been 1 boycotted miytoue i bv Dy th in
Ll t^dty i- ni .i'i f, f? ° ; m , * ympathmn rw6 ‘'' ■ lug * considerabte perSOa$aU fluau- ° Ver
nJn _ H rnff« Um ' 8 S i V ^ 1 !-t i0 " S i * bvfe ”i ht
^ ° f l e m C,re ’> ei Buga! Refill
m T om If ny ' . ? n .U ,Il:lt L°n?
L lf ud The of ’
I . , 188 ) employes the concen
had stiuck for increased wage! thj day ba-
w^woLm 1 ^S n th“e D fo.C?LvWhb ”
hkuil fractured
F !,Sl fisviMriTnv T & X- a Sons, n »« of f Ilion, ti v, N. v v
!indca ^ l k gunmaker.,, have sus- ,
SOUTH AM) WEST. 1
the Some of the striking railroads Knights of returned Labor on
Southwestern have tc
work. Vico Prosid-'Ut Hoxie, the of the that Mis
souri Pacifio road, reported on 19th
the places of nearly all the strikers had been
filled.
The Knights of Labor have been organiz¬
ing negro as-emblies iu Arkansas and Texas.
At a meeting of the officers of the different
railroads entering St. Louis it was deter¬
mined to eonl iuuo operating their reads with¬
out the assistance of the strikers and without
recognizing the Knights of Iaibor.
Two Mexicans, charged with horse sted
ing, were shot to death by a mob while
in a constable's custody at Collins, Texas.
The Kuight-s of Tabor are calling outtheii
men in factories which furnish supplies to
the Missouri Pacific Railroad.
WASHINGTON.
The House Committee on Alcoholic Liquor
Traffic by a vote of li to 5 ordered an adverse
report oh Representative Taulbee's bill to
provide that no person shall be licensed as a ;
retail dealer in intoxicants by the United |
States until he ha-, first received a license as
Mich from the local authorities. j
The Seventh regiment, New York State
militia, arrived in Washington from the
2£ffi! with large s crowds, 0,1 * he much lml ?’ enthusiasm, al i“ H ; as received music
and fireworks. The excursion was taken by
the regiment in commemoration of its first
journey break of to the national capital at the out-
the war twenty five years ago.
Mh. Powderly, General Master Work-
man of the Knights of I ab ir, appeared be-
fore the House special committee of investi- j
Rations labor difficulties on the 20tn and gave his version of the j
dared in the Southwest. He de-
that the railr ad companies there did i
ployes, not keep their agreement* with their em- ! :
and that undoubted cause of dis^on-
tent existed. ,j
Men.'' testmed on the 22d before the 1
t j°i! , ^ lt ee “ 'j ed mu ill n vest! ga-
tio,cf v vssaa 1
.
light, .liiioiT'm.I’lV.'''' end ulla’piai iuV bcii’ir'.ltiTi.nii 1 I
r.s sorted that he believed in arid-
trat on. but would not recognize the Knights
of Labor as such. !
The court of inquiry Into the recent Ore- I
gon disa ter, held at Liverpool, has exone- j
rated the owners and officers of tho sunken |
steemer from all blame.
g-
Foreign.
Lai er reports put the number of persons
killed at the tiro which destroyed ths town of
mry in Austria nt forty, most of them cliii-
men. pillaged, Alter the fire m -ny of the shots were
and some of the owners iu their de-
B I air committed sui' ide.
Much opposition is being developed
stones throughout Great Britain to Premier Glad¬
pl an for Irish home rulo.
Dcke de Castries, a well known French
sportsman and owner of race horses, "is dead.
Late news from Greece was decidedly
warlike, and it ivai feared that hostilities
against nc twithstanding Turkey might the intervention 1 ogiu at any of the moment, great
powers.
capital Incendiaries have tired Mandalay, the
of Burmah, and one-third of the
"ailed city is in mins, Hundreds of houses
were burned.
I he wife of a laborer living near Cologne
nas presented her husband with six children j
n less than a year—three ten months ago, j
anu three a tew clays since. Ths busbaui is J
reported to be u^irly prostrated by his good
iortuue W • I
I 0 f thei„a‘ gb '^ ayll ? en w 130 robbed a resident 1
of .ftS®oate Caleb 4V. AVest, lias .^nfirmed of Kentucky the to unmlnaH-o lie Gov.
ernorof Utah.
’ After the burning of the town of Stry, in
1 ttihK&R liv« ' vt ? 1( y b 80 many people lovt their
y t *’ r80ns ln tb * ^
SWEPT INTO ETERNITY.
i
I Mil.I.'. DAM GIVES H.4 Y WITH
/> i sa st it t > vs n ks ul r.s.
People Drowned mid House*Carried Away
A ,etTible disaster befell the post villagool
East . Lee, two miles east of Lee, Muss the
a * «-*■ •'*•*< >»x
upon t he inhabitants which wrecked three’
fourths of the dwellings and mills in the
place, took the lives of seven or more people,
nil I did damage roughly estimated at $200,-
000. Tlie town is situated on a brook,
the outlet of Mud Pond, which
supplies several pa|ier mills with
their running power, dams being built all
along the stream for four miles. This pond
has an area of about 150acres, and was very
i deep. The dam which held the water back
was thirty feet high and twenty-two feet
wide. It was built nine imsife years aco nrthinl and of
h ,s 1 e?n considere I but
was done to strengthen it, and the people con-
toiued erecting l ouses upon the banks of tho
I s'reain.
The other morning, a,few minutes after 5
| o’clock, the early a risers tremendous in Lee. roaring They was heard bv
raised the at once sur-
cause, and the ringing of the church
i"' 11 * and the blowing of whistles aroused
the whoJe town. It was supposed that Goose
u Bond, 11 , had a larger body of water than Mud
b. okett awav, in which event the
town of Lee would have been in danger Tins
alarm in Lee awoke the people in East Lee
and I hey. knowing f rom which source to ™..ul expect
danger aud liesiiiic " the r
of ami
or four n iles awav rushed from
ther homos-some half-clad, others al
most naked, all fleeing for their live;. They
were none too soon. The great mass of water
,aine ixiurin-down tl e narrow brook sween.
ing
the sides, the roads, the meadows, and strew-
; inc ro ks, trecr, houses, everything coneeiv-
able in the wild rush. The path of the tor-
;asss&«rsKri3r» !5‘«S«8 OT
, *
i. iuto a large <*•*<«* of fifteen -*• from r«.m.
: ! pnfl <* "hi,h swamp led the acres, the
cutlet brook. At this
I pont ,,rook the turBS descent ,ike is steep and winding- The
a snake in the ravine on
■ "*» ‘-ftr tr ts t •»
i th commenced. On entering the town
I " flrst «bsta-le encountered was
a heav Y irOD a ' 1(1 wooden bridge. Spectators
who ! aw the w ave as it advanced aud struck
th's bridge say that, it was about twentv feet
hich and sixty wide CL, It comnletelv y envoi- eu
omd open tne budge and cained it away. Just T .
t,el ‘"v was the mill of John Dowd, which was
wrecke 1 completely. The dam was washed
away and with this added weight the water
rolled on.
caught His him and swept him into eternity.
wife sadderti^identrf stood paralyzed at the sirtit
The the dav however
was the killing of AX
nine, his wife aged fortv-five and their
daughter Ida. ag.-d nine, and the baby, four
months old. They occupied a house re-
and cently pnrehafed with hard-earned savings,
ava’anclie were a of happy family. When the fearful
water struck the house White
and his family had not risen. Their
aa “'T ”® ae ^ t r .? . waa v ' al n '"K; and aw not ! y a trace ^‘"ont of it, .a
p v eii of the foundation stones, remains. The
naked bodyof the man was found lodged in
the crotch of a tree two miles from his home,
ixj»4«s3aa!!rat:
Mrs. Theodore King, a widow, about forty-
four yea s of age, was carried from her room
and drowned. Mre. Charlos King, of 1 !
Housatonie, a relative, who was visitin'" at
the house, was also carried away by the flood,
and her body was recovered from a mass of
debris. Further down the stream
John McLaughlin’s machine shops
suffeiel wreck, and still lower
down Forre-t & Farmer's and Decker &
Sabin’s paper mills vrere wrecked, all the
basement machinery being swept out by the
fleod. and, though weighing tous, were car-
ried along as if they were cork aud landed |
twenty feet un on a bank. Couch A Dak-
ley's Harrison millwright shops were also destroyed,
& Garfield’s ami Veranc A Gil-
mom’s ] ajier mills were badly damaged.
PERSONAL MENTION.
Mu. Moody is going to Chicago to follow
up the revival work of Sam Jones,
Denis Kearxey, the agitator, is speaking
a :a j n in the sand Jots of San Francisco.
Premier Gladstone says he has never
lost a night's sleep on a 'count of political ex-
citement ‘minister
’ Sl’NSET cox hai been lecturing ”
"? . Constantinople , . .. _____, upon ,, Th 1 be „ Poetiy p, ot M Me-
t nanism.
D. R. Locke Alderman (Petroleum thetity \ .Nashy) ot loledo has been
elected an in on
the Law-and-Order ticket,
Minister Kuki, the Japanese envoy, gave
a dinner at vv ashiugton at which there were
ten eours©3 and seven different kinds ot
wines.
Bertha Von Hillern, who ouca earned
a certain the distinction most successful as a oil pedestrian, pointers of is Phll- now
one of
adelphia.
rN1TKD States Senator Kenna, of West
zte&zszr . ■ f j. amatom '* . photographer, in (he *
The ladiss of N.,y Orleaas lioal^l Dom
Pedro’s son, the heir to the Brazilian throne,
during bis recent visit to that city. His
manly beauty captured the n completely.
Rev. Henry AV ard Beecher says that m
his early ministerial (lays the when preachers all the use l
to hold baptismal the partios, churches can-
didates in various were im¬
merse 1 at oboe.
"Mr Conklino,” said Henry Ward
Beecher iu C'hnajo, the other'lay, “is now
makinv $59,000 to $09,000 at his law, but it
is not tor biinseif. He is paving off endorse¬
ments made for friends to tlieeitent of sev¬
eral bundled thou-and dollars.
Kev. Sam Jones, the evangelist, right, says he is
happy because lie trial to do owe s no
man nionev and ha- a 512.0JO insurance his pol
icy on his life, which will goto wile in
enso of any accident to him. He lias one
child, a little gill, of whom hs is very fond.
Ciuse of the Run. '*
“What was the cause of the run on the
bank this morning?” asked the president
of the cashier. that the
“I don't know, unless it was
bank examiner was here yesterday and
pronounced the institution in good con-
dition. Tho least thing of that kind " ill
alarm 'our depositors.’’— Tid-Bit «.
—
_
He _ Knew ... Him rri.„..„„„i,t,. IllOlOl.gll V.
“You had the fullest confidence in
your clerk, Mr. Parsons?”
'.'il’ '' ) ou ”'i " n ,.}
then, , that he has embezzled . , $10,000 of
your monev?”
“Oh, that’s what I always thought
he'd do. No, sir, I wasn't fooled in him
‘ P»Tticle, n .
ELIAV1LLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, APRIL 29, 1880.
BASE BALL NOTES.
t There are seven left-handed batters on
Detroit League nine.
A high laced shoe is the led for ball play
ers, made on the English walking shoe last.
Thk railroad fares of tho League and Asso-
elation will foot Up to nearly $80,000 this sea
soil.
Johnny Ward hasn't forgotten how to
run the bases, according to reports from Now
York.
The Southern papers say that Twit, hell,of
the Iletroits, is the most graceful pitcher ever
seen down there.
Chattanooga, Purcell, of Atlanta, and Dickerson, of
are tho oldest ball players in
theSouthern League.
the The local Philadelphia! championship (National from the League) Athletics won
(American Association).
The Atlanta (Georgia) people are of the
opinion Southern that their cluii has n walk-over for
.he League pennant.
The eight lending organizations will
^
wm«™gate
in£toeteteLuhe^LT-a^and a r *• Nation^ i ^
win the “ Uame U-auir pennant,.
AlX , the Southern c League games are draw-
ln ft big crowds, and interest in tho contest is
S reater ev, ' n tb ar > it wa = l® 8 * seaiou.
It is said that the players of the Metropoli-
tan American Assoc iati in Club have Lean
promised $200 each if they win the pennant.
The pitchers seem to be getting the better
of the batsmen as much as ever and big
strike out records are of almost daily occur
'
rence.
indicate? indicates tiiat that r .,.. if not at the top of the league ,
thlS year ’ he ' von t Le V61 ' y 101
down n tne lis .
KvEavchib in the International Leaguo
, i>a-s already set forth its claim lor the
1 -h h:u 1 dudvely pen-
Qa nL au ea on; prove con
that it avill win the HeJd championship.
he New York thinks the New
arks will win the championship of the Eastern
Laague without putting themselves to much
inconvenience. Hartford demurs.
jwYasMitsfi?
ssr* n, “ 5, •*
n A i h ?f%,}°£ ^ 0 U, ?l K ^asserts t? , ,,, that’’F ls co f 1<I7 ^ si( . nUy ^ e , r-; ( l
/ V
^ k w best aniateur catcher m
01
Dealers in baseball supplies report the
, laUSest business known, which would
ever
indicate that the game is steadily gaming
* avor > and that this will be one cf the best—if
not R®-’t—season on record.
The base-stealin unse stealing >' record recoru serins seems to kj have nave
stirred , even the most sluggish players up,
aud men now run to second whom previously
feet nothing from could coax further away than two
first base but a safe hit.
yjwi'aa’ffSK . , . . M
^ ta b ;"'"t ’r.Y’ ! “t;
. have ball leagi.e has , been
formed - at Jacksonville, Fla., including Mam-
phis, Chattanooga, Atlanta,Macon, Augusta,
Havannah, St. Augustine, Mont-
gomery and other Southern cities.
Kent Howard, who was the leading bat-
ter of the New England League, and for that
reason League was Club, signed by the 8 t. Louis difficult National
has discovered how it
the s to fast maintain a minor league llague. reputation in
pro^i company of a big
The Virginia State League ought
to be a success, considering the popu'at.on of
the cities which propose entering, viz:
Lynchburg, ville, with 2SiO(Klinhabitants; 80,000; Norfolk, Dan
20 , 18)0 Richmond,
’tsstt Tr* t:ti w
the Guam has giants, " hile Rowe, Richard-
? on ’ kIrU1011 and * aie v e ] y large,
“ eav Y men -
The Bridgeport? have follovv’ed Washing-
ton’s example, buried a horse-shoe under the
home plate for luck aud then went to New’
York and allowed the Giants to beat them
14 to 0. Meanwhile the Washingtons are
catching it right to left. The horso-sh e
theory doesn’t seem to pau out at all in
practice.
The St. Louis Republican says: “Bauer,
of the Maroons, is perhaps the most muscular
ball-player in the profession. During Park, oae of
tho recent games at Si ortsman’s some
one in the crowd where Bauer was standing
made an insulting remark about the Maroons,
aud Bauer almost male a hols in the fence
with him.” i
, N Y. MBE1 r ^ . ,
° ____ ve . a
"
ready . Uj been heavily i ■). fined tor drunkenness ,
fl admits j d •I at this ?L• ou, and "j " lal) a.O 1 t 'g ill Directqi do it Ryan
say s: w again
whenever they break the rules, they know
the rules, and they know the consequences, of i
breaking them. Our team can play ball and
it nas got to play ball. j
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.
The museums all over the country appear
to be doing well.
The New York theatres gave no perform
auce on Good Friday.
V erdi has been at work on his opera for
five years, and it is not yet done.
Engagements for 210 performances for
next season have been made by Edwin Booth.
Congressman Hanback, of Kansas, besides
having a shiney bald head, is said to be gifted
with a cultivate 1 tenor voice. .
Anna Russell, aptur’ed a charming Limerick
singer, has . all London with the
sweetness of her face and voice.
There ire said to be 600 American girls
studying music in Milan alone, and hundreds
of others in other Italian cities.
Miozl. a popular singer iu Vienna cafes
chantants, receives for every night s per-
fonnance 500 florins—a little over $200.
It is now settled that Mine. Nilsson will
come signed to this engagement country with noxt Max season. btrakos She li. has |
au ,
BOM* charitable actresses in London have
started the custom of Bonding all the flowers
they receive over the footlights to th- 1 kg- |
pitals novelist, j» j
B L Farjeon, the which, English when i
writing his first submitted play, to American com- |
pleted, will be an
manager. coach 1
Queen Victoria rout the royal to
the station/o visited meet Liszt, the great pianist, '
when he Windsor. Thu is an excep-
tional honor. 1
Pauline Lucca made her long her illness first appear- in the ] i
ance in Vienna after received with j
opera of “Carmen,’’ aud was
great enthusiasm. s
Among the theatrical treasures that went |
down in the Oregon were the score of “ The
Harbor Lights" music, and a transcript of the !
new play, “Hi-ter Mary.”
Myron W. Whitney, the famous basso, the
rec eives $600 per week for singing in i
American opera, and has renewed his engage- :
inent for next year at an advanced salary. \
Chicago hai a rising geuius in the per-
that citv and received the encomiums of the
his performance. '
press for
The composer who has written mostoperas
is Pacini, who counts 115, including cantatas
and oratorios. Next to him Donizetti Uas
feli22,'lS" 1 ‘' 0 ° , "“‘ " :Mi ”
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THE PAN ELECTRIC MUDDLE.
GARLAXD ltr.FOm.THE 1XVKSTI-
(i.A TIO V COIdH1TTE V.
T' l( ‘ AI lame Y-(lri»rraJ Kxplnlno Ill* Hr.
i Intiena lo the Telephone Company.
Attorney-General CiArland testified before
the Pan Electric Telephone Investigation
committee of Congress at Washington on the
19th. As soon as lie wai sworn Mr. G in land
put in evidence his statement made to the
President aud his Cabinet last October con-
cerning his connection with tho Pau Electric
Company. He said that as far back
as February, 1883, Mr. Atkins, the
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gesrod t a m that t witness, being , a poor man like
himself, ought to enter into the Pan Electric
enterprise. Mr. Garland replied he had
never tua le any money except at law and
poker, , and at poker he frequently lc*t, and so
h « dt »*«! about going into the company fcasey
Subsequently Young, Mr. Atkins he met and Senator Rogers Harris,
Dr. at the
latter’s house, whore they talked about the
general idea of organization of the Pan Elec-
trie company, aud he concluded to go into it.
ney-General When, later on, parties urged him as Attor-
by to the bring a suit against the Bell
company government he at once
rcf V£f 1 to »■ «• htt ’' [ nto
matter carefully, and conclude Electric 1 that owiug
to his merest in the Pan company
he could not and would uot touch it.
Mr. Harlan 1 declared the organization of
the Pan Electric company simply an under
“K taking bv KSSTlsgt five or six inmoniuioiis men wh o
mate business enterprise. lie never intended
to United use bis official position (being then a
States Senator) in the interest of the
company. Tho original stockholders had paid
( n ther assessm-nta ,LmJ and went ahead
in a pro,ier hid to bring out
Roger’ invention. the They never took tried
to boom busine- He for one ho 1 d
of it as a legitimate busineis venture, and
s~ «»• fes*.»»^ ft i
Bell, ~
against the and therefore patentable,
but he did not. want to be dra#n into a dis-
cussion about the validity of the Bell patent,
Van Benthuysen and othors, Mr. Garland
Attorney-General to bring He simply suit in told the name them
of the government.
that he could not have anything to do with
it, as he was a stockholder in the Fan Elec-
trie eonnuniy, a rival of the Bell company.
That was the la;t talk he had with any
pony aootic nhollt it 1]ntil until alter _ ft „_ his ms letuin
Arkansas and the thing had gone out
of his mind until he received a dispatch in
Little Ro k from parties in New Orleans in-
forming him that ne was being complimented
ss; «arssw*
h, ,«».(• u» to Mr.
Goode that an application for a suit
was on file, in fart, never mentioned tele-
phone matters to Mr. Goode until after his
vfurn from bis Arkansas trip. Mr. Gar-
land denied positively that he timed his visit
so that he might bo away from Washington
while the bolicitor-Gencral was considering
the application. He made arrangements to
go six weeks before leaving. He went
to Arkansas, as had lieeu bu practice fora
number of years, in the month of September,
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iliatiKine G-. cut to luni .at Hominy c HR, urn
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s&ssstissizus^sss ss , ;
srsuawts tz r z "rz;L a
iand Little said Rock. that InreplytoaquestionMr.Gar- at the time his first,
name was
said^to mentioned, him and by subsequently, about nothing the office was of
-General any being one advantageous the
Attorney to
Pau Electric company. “1 never dreamed
of such an idea, and I have never tried, and
never thought of trying, to use the office or
its powers to benefit the Pan Electric eom-
pnny.” Mr. Garland could impropriety in
see no
taking the interest he had taken in the com-
I'sn.v. Other government and Congressional
officers were interested in all kinds of pri-
vate enterprises. cross-examination by Mr. Ran-
During Attorney-General his stated that he acted
liey, the
as attorney for the Pan Electric company to
the extent of examining and in some instances j
making nai>ers and documents. He often
met gentleman connected with the Pan Elec-
trie company in his committee-room of the
Senate; but there never was a meeting of
the company held in his room. Mr. Garland
re it e rated that he had refused to converse
U p 0 n matters relating to suits against the
}(«)( company since he assumed the duties of
jjj s j, resen t office.
NEWSY CLEANINGS.
IN Wyoming Territory sunflowers are
(rown for fuel,
Trey still want *10,000 to finish the pe les-
al for the Bartholdi statue. '
This country sends to foie gnparts).-
)00 worth of locomotives a } ear.
The Grant Monument Fund in New x oi k
unouuts to $120,2.54; the Hancock fund to
M3,043. Mr. Hatcn
There is something in a name.
s one of the biggest chicken rais:rs in i can-
lylvania. at Charon,
Seventeen Ida 4 furnaces
Penn ha ve made h contract for the use or
natural gas.
Tattooing in Japan is practnel to such .
in extent that a law prohibiting the pra ti e
has just been- j>a>se i.
Since 1876 the Congressional Library ha-
grown from 300,000 volumes to 550,uOO, be-
sides 105,010 pamphlets.
Rev ARTHUR Gray Howe, an “ g mig is j
h? son-° °' '
M.WOJTOO to hi, two two sonc ’
Pennsylvanians will he interested t;
know that kerosene lias been found on tlio
coast of the Red Se«, near Suer.
The a erage salary in forty-three of the
. district
Methodist churches in theNewHavcn
of New York Kast Gwifereni e is $8w. 1
Kecknt California, rains have and benefited the prospw the t growing I»r « J
crops in hotter: hunts
immense wheat crop wa, never ;
promise equally well. |
Cases of bread lead and po soniug flour, certain in Paris holes have in been the j i
ti a od to having
millstones which ground the grain
been filled up with lpud. ,
Montreal announces a winter carnival ;
for next year, to begin on the 7th of Fcbrn-
ary. Tne ice palace is to be larger, ohter. more
costly aud more brilliant than any
Jesse Eastwood, of Kentucky, who
served only t weuty days iu the army and was
mastered outr beraiue he had an attack or
rheumatism, has receive 1 $10,000 as arrears
of pensions.
letters of the alphabet, -which kHtoiicai now mai a
many streets,tiia namos ^ot Bun® persons— and ot
Acauis, Benton, Clay, Van “‘ ,
eto
There are 'TV,”iStt"ll^lllo,u. 5,060,000 India .u iou|
y j
wild, half life iq g&SSA*. the country districts, I
savage j
IRELAND S HOME RULE.
Tin- Prealrr’a Bill for ilio Purchase of
■ lie l.n ml In Irrlnml.
Mr. Gladstoue in a long speech has in¬
troduced his land purchase act in the house
of commons. The land act, he said, was in-
tended to go into effect on the same day on
which the home rule bill would become opera-
! livt ’- It could not goon without the operation
of the other, which would provide a legisla¬
ture in Ireland to appoint statutory authority
t ideal with the landed estates and uet be-
tween vender and purchaser.
The purchases would lie made through the
issue of £180,000,000 of three per cent, stock
^"h 'the*consent 'of*the'^tcrasiH-y^^oonn- If
muted for stock of a lower denomination.
the equal stock value could would not be issued b) i-sued forthwith, fortho script
of same
l’urpi se. The act was to give the landlords
the options to s-ll out under the terms. Its
j ! enactments I 1 " 1 ’ 1 ! 11 ”"’ aud were ,lkl uot confined ?' lu,le to mausions agricultural hav
-
l
j The state authorities, acting between the
peusaut aud landowner, would purchase the
land flora the latter and put the peasant in
I'OS-OSUOLl US absolute proprietor, subject to
an annual equalled rent charge the jjwha.se until tho total pay-
merits money.
The state would not force the small oceupi-
ers to become proprietors. In districts whore
thj population was congest'd, the state
wo ula have the power to decide whether ex-
preprint ion of the too crowded land should
bo compulsory. Nobody oiccpt the mi-
mo mo i liate iato i lanaioias u „di or ds would would have have the tne ontion option to to
<* {« l ' ie umbrancer, and then Re must
sell by fomdosureiand not at au option for
hmisolf. Applications to fell would have to
be made by all the tenants on an estate and
all the^e applications ‘ and sales would be
registered. would required
Applicants ba to gis . e se-
cunty for costs in.certain cas*. The land
commission would be empowered to refuse
appu ations. 1 hi bases of prices would de-
P= md “P 1 ” 1 the rental for a fixed period. Hie
Judh-W renUl of 18« would be the staudard
mall cosm wherein the rent of tto land to be
sold was then fixed; m all other ca s e s the
land commission would have the powei to
Appli- art ter
aurns ro. sale would not tie receiver
8rs& ssrtsf.
£20,0 M'/M) I iu 188* £‘.’0,000,000 in 1889.
The charge u x.n the Irish exchequer would
*
w mid be able to levy for rents amounting to
£2,500,000 be the first per nuuum. and this sum would
raised bv the charge Irish on the rents an Adding 1 taxes
government. to
this the imperial contribution, the sum paid
to . England „ ... . by secured lie __. aid would be £ 6 ,yU, KW
per fy. aanum, on a revenue of £ 10 ,-
,’ txn-tion of which OOtToS) would walpaid he at>-
[ntetU^neUsh^chTOuer’ t a nv mi .wse until £h ’^' ^
T me h e present present contrition tc ninoui ion of oilM the Irish lrisu tax- rax
S3^32Sffi'5Sr&K2 ’ 1)6 ’ , JI5
y > qs.=i oo i
' u-Y Vbat . d,d .i , Engiand'do e- i , with ,, it? Ah an In-
^'andt^dTept'^theTLre 1 ami ®ept lueiiimere rt’Z at an annual annual
* me4uo^ ^L b“„
j was nJ.
t 1( , eoonomy of ,| u . system siieaker 1
wanted to root un
Mr Gladstone commended the scheme to
the strict zealous careful ^ AZs unbiassed ^Svin^ exami
“ £ EggST* “cTtbS it
gn at British auspicious effort to sustain the plans of '
the legislature for the welfare of what
| m( l long lieen, and, the speaker hoped, would
ever be, under circumstances ** far happier /b
susssar jfe ,Mer “ ' -
LYNCHERS' HORRIBLE WORK.
Three llrotliers Shot lo Ilenlli lit Knnnao
in Presence of Their Mother.
A few mornings ago the city of Anthony,
Kan., was tho scene of a most tragic affair.
Aliout two months ago a fight occurreil in
the village of Danville, near Anthony,
between three brothers named Weaver and
a man named A dels heard. The
* r was fatally rvounded, aud the
" er boys were arrested and buried
away to avoid mob vio ence. They were re-
turned to Anthony for trial, but their cases
were continued for the term, with bail fixed
at $10,000 each. At 1 o'clock a. m., the other
surrounded morning, a mob of forty armed men
the residence of the
under Sheriff, guard. where The the prisoners were
prisoners the guard at once rushed the
out of back door and iuto the
basement of the new school building. The
Sheriff was taken prisoner by themob, when
the deputies, finding it useless to resist, sur¬
rendered. The three brothel's fought for their
lives with a revolver which they had taken
from one of the deputies.
Th J were finally overpowered and dis-
arm Ropes were placed about tbeir necks
and preparations were made to hang them,
but other officers hurryiug to the rescue
frightened shots the mob, into so they fired fifteen
or twenty each of the brothers,
literally shooting them to pieces. The lynch¬
ers then hastily mounted their horses and
rode rapidly away. The mother of the l>oys
and the wife of one of them witnessed the
entire tragedy.
Much in a Name.
In the name of his royal highness, the
Crown Prince of Persia, there is a whole
alphabet. At his home in Teheran he is
knQWn simply as MnsalTer ed Deen
* Alurza Vali ’ d’Dowlat Iran But
when registering . . abroad , , and his titles are
appended Ins autograph resembles the
tail of a boy’s kite.
fish The prince’s and visiting card used is as long as
a pole can card, be into as a strips, tape
nieagU | e A single cut
lasts his wife a week for curl papers. On
state Date occasions otcawons tonsts toasts are are drunK drunk to v his
rojal highness aud lus name ts pro-
nounccd in full. It sounds like the ex¬
plosion cf a pack of fire crackers, The
poet laureate, wlio was commissioned by
the shah to write a poem on the prince’s
| jirf j H ( liy replied with a sad and dismal
cmnhasis emphasis that that the the name name was w a autr. a heroic up Doem
in hexameter.
When the dies the Persians . will
obelisk prince remains, in
crcc t an over his
or£ j er to gj ve pi en ty of room to the stone-
cutter who carves the inscription. It will
tovtl UlC ioui skid, ., oi , tnt , nmnoin ,| t( u. j i n
the royal patroncmatolog) his name wi.l
go down to posterity m a second volume.
—Life.
_
In Contempt.
There was more or less confusion in
was be-
coming vei> nervous. 1 in.dly he
brought vociferated: ^ his hammer down on the block
and
“Silence in the court.”
“Where£ .-aid a solemn place taped attorney
looking up Iron, tin near IM wfc.
»c«d n U, «*«*-*«» 1
DUCK RAISING.
i A Business Which is Increas¬
ing Fast in the East.
j Dtoka Hatched in Incubators and Yield¬
| ing a Profit of $45 Each.
j
“It is remarkable,” said a well-known
poultry dealer in resiwmse to inquiries
i made by a reporter for the New York
; Mail and Hrprem, “how rapidly duck
| raising has grown to be a leading feature
in our business. Every day shows au iu-
creased demand for ducks for eating pur-
i |loses. Why is this? Because it has bceu
found that they are a great delicacy and
, far ahead , , of ■ chiekeus broilers,
even as
j They command as high, if not higher,
prices in the market than chiekeus. For
t ,hc past two years a great specialty has
been 1 made , of raising . , them f in . the .. East, t, ,
j
especially J around Boston, and now New
1
and. Jerseyites . beginning . to
Yorkers, are
„ into tbo business at a lively rate, We
b
_ , , -
have hitherto # devoted the larger part ot
the time on our chicken ranch to the rais-
ing of chickens, . but great , has , become
so
the demand for ducks that we have de-
| termined to make that our specialty now
instead of chickens. They can be hatched
.... the incubator the chtcks, , . ,
out in same as
and they J are raised more easily than
chickens. They are not so liable , I to dis
ca se snd do not require 1 so much care.
Bcs.de., they arc ready for market when
; two months old and are twice the weight
of chickens .i a, a. the oinu same age. »
-* *■ ^
“The White Pekins, -ause they have
no dark feathers and their flesh is a hand-
<■*--
I cd. Why, in early market such ducks
bring as high as 50 and 60 cents a pound.
Next to the White Pekins in demand are
the Rouens and the Aylesburys. The
latter are much like the White Pekins.
The points in favor of the Itouens are
that they grow rapidly and retain their
weight remarkably well, but their flesh
is not so yellow, and consequently they
do not bring as good prices in the mar¬
ket.”
"**^f six
“Ducks average in weight about
pounds ami ordinary-sized geese twelve ,
poimds. i But some breeds of geese b grow
ver >' lar U**- » nd 1 havt ‘ Kf ‘ pn a g oose that
weighed thirty pounds. The best food
’
^ ... or l lu k ' s ,s . niade , . . brewp rs , grains.
They T are great K eaters.”
“Can you give an example of money
| made In duck-raising?”
“There is one that is causing much
: [-comment all poultry dealers just
among
—. -«a
1 ........... ......... |ra, " w °' So '“ h
Easton, Mass. He shows nil actual profit
of $45 from one duck and of $1,575
from thirty-five ducks. As a poultry
journal commenting on the fact truthful-
ly says, that it is more than is made
from a herd of dairy cows and the capital
required is much less. ’
Particulars which were obtained from
this gentleman showed that his adult
flock consists of thirty-five ducks, and
the profit averaged $45 for each, lie
uses the Pekins, but thinks a cross be
tween that breed and the Aylesbury su¬
perior to either. His adult ducks are
allowed a large trough, through which
fresh water constantly flows, This is
used for bathing purposes. The number
of eggs last year was 140 from each duck.
The*eggs were hatched in his incuba¬
tors, from which 3,000 ducklings were
raised to the age of from eight to ten
weeks anil marketed, tho price received^
in the Boston market being 30 cents a
pound for those that came in early and
18 cents a pound for these that were late,
the average price being 22 cents a pound.
The cost of raising each duckling to the
age of eight weeks was 5 cents a pound.
His profit was thus 17 cents a pound,
and as the 3,000 ducklings produced
12,000 pounds of meat their yield was
over $2,000. Other expenses such as
quarters, attendance, etc., reduced his
• prbiits to $1,575. The young ducks had
no access to water except for drinking
purposes and were fed in the same man- ]
ner as chicks, except that they required
more animal food. It was found also
that each duckling yielded from an
ounce to two ounccb of feathers, which
sell for 50 cents a pound. Each adult
duck laid 140 eggs aud began to lay
when five months old. The best prices,
30 cents a pound, were obtained about
the middle of May, decreasing to 18
cents in July. They weighed per pair
one pound a week for each week’s
growth when eight weeks old, or four
pounds each, gaining a pound a week.
They were raised in brooders, but were
carefully watched, fed often and kept
warm.
Bound to Remain Single.
Black—AVhy don’t you get married,
White?
White—Well, the fact is, the girls
know too much nowadays; they’re too
well educated. I wouldn’t like to have
a wife who was my superior in intellect
and knowledge.
B.—Then you are bound to remain a
bachelor.
. \y a-fecLe _wby so?
the* don’t «Uow the girls
*a •>
Courier ,|
A City of Magnlflcent Kiilus.
A correspondent of the London Tiinei
who accompanied the expedition to Bur-
mab, writes as follows: We sighted tho
ruins of Pagau early on the 23d. These
remarkable ruins extend for more than
eight miles along the eastern bank of the
Irrawaddy, and average two miles in
breadth. In this space there are the re¬
mains of between 900 and 1,000 temples
and pagodas, some of them in tolerable
preservation, and many of them of grqpt
size and magnilicence. The site of the
city is covered with jungle, and the vast
assemblage of buildings towring above
the surrounding trees, and stretching as
far as the eye can reach, is singularly im¬
pressive. The oldest of the Pagan tem¬
ples are supposed to date from about the
year 850, and the city reached the zenitb
of its power and prosperity about the
time of the Norman conquest of England.
In 1824 the city was almost completely
destroyed during the Chinese invasion of
Burmah. Then the king of Pagan pulled
down an enormous number of temples—
some chronicles state as many as 4,000—
and used the materials in strengthening
the ramparts of the city. When the in¬
vaders captured it they completed the
destruction. Perhaps the most remarka¬
ble of the great temples in Pagan is tho
Ananda, which is still used as a place of
worship. In plan it is a square of 200
feet to the side, broken on each side by
the projection of large gable vestibules,
which convert the plan into an almost per¬
fect Greek cross. The central pinnacle
reaches to the height of 168 feet. Anoth¬
er of the great temples of Pagan is the
Thapinyu, the spire of which rises to the
height of 201 feet above the ground and
overtops all the other monuments. The
Gauda Palen temple, dating from 1160,
rises to a height of 180 feet. Being near*
er the river than either the Ananda or
Thapanyu it is very conspicious when ap¬
proaching Pagan, as we did, from the
southward. Gleaming in its white plas¬
ter, with numerous pinnacles and a tall,
central spire, it seemed, when we first
sighted it, like a distant glimpse of Milan
cathedral. Many of the ruins at Pagan
are so unlike all other Burmese buildings
that it has been suggested by some author¬
ities that these buildings are due to the
skill of a western Christuin or missionary.
How Gotham Grows.
Considering that last year was not one
of the best for money making, New York
did pretty well in that line, having laid
up 137,000,000 or so by increase in the
value of real estate. The gain was
greater in some previous years, but |37,-
000,000 is not bad for dull times. There
docs not seem to be much danger of Chi¬
cago getting ahead of Gotham just yet,
except in miscellaneous cussedness, and
New York threw up the sponge in that
matter some time ago. There biis lately
been some random talk about Chicago ul¬
timately taking away the bulk of the dry
goods trade from both New York and
Boston, but dry goods men in both cities
say it is all fool-talk and that the trade
increases in each city every year. The
steady and rapid growth of New York is
not fully known even by New Yorkers
themselves. Very few of them have any
idea of how fust the new part of the city,
the section north of the Harlem river, is
filling up. That section is almut as largo
as the original Manhattan Island, and
much of it is now as closely built as liar-
lern was ten years ago. As for increase
of population that does not stop a
moment. Not from the Old World only,
but from all parts of the New World, the
stream of humanity flows steadily into
New York, and all the probabilities are
that it will keep on doing so while thero
is room to spread. Some enthusiasts
about the future say there will be a plan
some day to arch over the East river, lay
out streets and build houses on a vast
stmeture supported by piers and cables,
as the Brooklyn bridge is, without intcr-
fering with navigation, and make New
York, Brooklyn and Long Island City a
single city, the largest in the world. This
may seem a hare-brained notion, but so
did the Brooklyn bridge when it was first
proposed. And if a man had said twenty
yca r S ago that families would now be liv-
ing on the top floors of ten-story build-
ings be would have been called a fool.—
Hartford Timet.
Ahont Shoes.
The immediate predecessors of India
rubber shoes, for wear in the cities
where paths were prepared during the
snowy seasons, were articles technically
described as “galoches.” They were, in
fact, leather overshoes, save that the pro¬
tection came to the sole of the foot rath¬
er than toother parts. The prototype of
the shoes was the ancient “clog,” which,
indeed, was worn as a shoe or foot cover¬
ing, instead of an extraneous protector.
In later years the “patten” of England was
kindled to the “galoche.” Thero was
always something natty in the appearance
of this article, and the facility with
which it could be donned was in its
favor as well. Yet, woe to the individ¬
ual who attempted the use of a new pair
upon icy walks where the hard and
smooth soles beguiled frequent downfall¬
ing to the uninitiated. The original vul¬
canized rubber shoes had a leather bot-
tom, and it constituted an objection hard
to overcomebecau.se they were so slip¬
pery. The use of bottoms came as a
th. . ppre cia.i0»0f.l.i.,p«cie.
of footivew,—-bAtw and Ltathif litportfr,
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