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About Schley County enterprise. (Ellaville, Ga.) 1886-1??? | View Entire Issue (May 27, 1886)
SCHLEY COUNTY ENTERPRISE. A. J. HARP, Publisher. THE NEWS IN GENERAL, happenings op interest FROM ALL POINTS. EASTERN AND MIDDLE STATES. John O’Brien, Chairman of the New York Democratic State Committee, has tieen ap¬ pointed Company, receiver of New of the York Broadway Railroad brought by tho State's Attorney City, iu a suit wind the affairs General to up of that corporation. Three thousand barbers paraded in New York a few days ago in favor of shorter hours and advanced wages. “Plinn” White, the most notorious confi¬ dence man iu tho country, died a few (lavs a;o at his brother's house in Reading, Vt. By his oily tongue and gentlemanly manners he succeeded in tho last twenty-two years in fleecing confiding business men, gullible farmers and women out of more than 11,500,00.1. He was a venerable, clerical-looking man, highly educated, aud dressed with excellent taste. Twenty-two Troy (N. Y.) collar and cuff manufacturing firms have locked out their employes, The comprising about 8,000 girls and women. cause of tho lock-out is a strike tor high T u ages of the 750 employes of one firm. About 16,0X1 persons are alio ted by the stoppage. Maine fishermen are greatly excited over the seizure of the sch .oner Ella M. Doughty by the Canadian authorities for violat ion of the fishery laws. They talk of arming their umels and resisting arrest if they are not protected by tbe Government. The New York Legislature has adjourned for the session. Alderman Jaehne, convicted of taking a bi'ibe of *20,0 K) for his voto in aid of tbe New Broadway York, railroad charter, was sentenced iu on thv 20th, to (state pris m for nine years and ton months. The highest sen¬ tence possible for the offense is ten years and a Imavy liuc. Application for a stay of pro- oee lings was made by Jachne's counsel to an¬ other judge, but refused. Jaehne utterly broke down after . entence was passed. Colonel John B. Folsom, grandfather of Miss Frankie Folsom, tho young la ly en¬ gaged died to bo married to President Clevelan d the other day at Folsomville, N. Y. President Cleveland w as the law paituer in Buffalo of the Colonel’s late gmi, Oscar. A fishing schooner heavily arme l is re¬ puted to have left bo-tou lor Ihe Banks of tempted New.ouudlaud, il tei min d to resist any at¬ seizure by tho Canadians. Louis Vt i ,.lett was hanged at Kingston, N. Y., for the murder of Edwin Holland, his employer, the motive being robbery. fcOl'TlI AMI WEST. Another Chi'ago policeman has died of v, ounds received from the bomb thrown by Anarchists. lie is the sixth policeman deal. More thai 20,00) striking tailors and to lore .o., have returns l to work in Chicago on the basis of nine hours’ work for ten hours’ pay. Nineteen men have been indicted and nrre tel in Milwaukee for taking part iu the rec collision ut labor riot which culminated iu a fatal with the military. An alarm of fire in c theatre at Weater- 7(H) yill people Ohio, resulted in tho a audience. panic among Tho the composing tiro « a' caus; d by tho ignition of garelino from one of the foot iz Ids. Iu the rush to escape about twentv-flve persons wore burned or crushed, several with fatal result. The Ohio Leg siature has adjourned to January 4,1187. The Democratic Senators, who left the State so they would not be com¬ pelled to take part in t he proceedings, did n. it return, but went direct from Kentucky to their homes. Mrs. Margaret Don nan, a widow living iu Lincolu county, W. Va., cut tho throats of eight her three years, daughters, 11 hen killed aged herself. twelve, She ten and had become aw insane from religious excitement. A warm personal canvass foi* the Gover- eral norship John of Georgia B. Gordon is going aud on Major between A. Gen- O. Bacon. Tho two candidates havebeen hold¬ siderable ing joint discussions on tho stump, and con¬ feeling has boon displayed. The Grand Jury at BoUeville, Ill has re¬ fused . to indict the Deputy Sheriffs who fired upon a mob in Ea^t St. Louis during the recent railroad strike aud killed six persons. WASHINGTON. The President lias vetoed the hill to estab¬ lish a port of delivery at Springfield, Mass. The Senato has confirmed Mrs Thomp- fon’s renomination as postmistress at Iiouis- Mt\ ville, Iiy. Of tha two Kentucky Senators Beck favored aud Mr. Blackburn op¬ posed confirmation. Among recent confirmations by the Senate of the President’s nominations are: General W. S. Rosccrans as Register of the Treasury ; S. W. Burt, to lio Naval Officer for the dis¬ trict of New York; United States Con¬ suls—Peter Straub, of Tennessee, at St. Dalle; Victor Vinuain, of Nebraska, at Bar¬ ren at >agasaki: millu; John M. Buck, of Vest Virginia, and Postmasters—C. C. Yonge, “it, hassee, Pensacola, Fla. Fla.; D. W. Gwyun, at Talla¬ The re jection by the Senate of the nomina¬ tion of C. YV. Litton to bo Postmaster at Lynchburg, nounced. Va., has been officially an¬ A bill is before Congress to prohibit own¬ er-hip tories. l,y foreigners of lands in the Terri¬ FOREIGN. A great banquet is to lie given in London to Oliver Wendell Holmes.'the American author, land. by the authors aud artists of Eng¬ Queen Christina has given birth to a son —the heir to the t hrone of Spain. The event Mas announced to the people of Madrid by the royal standard being hoisted on tlxo lalace, Hud and by n :al::to of twenty-one guns. t he cbihl been a Princess a white flag would have l,oen displayed aud fifteen instead 01 tweuty-ono guns tired. Mount Etna, Sicily’s celebrated volcano, Is again in a state of eruption. Sixty light Paruellitas, members of tho Louse of Commons, dosired to speak on Gladstone's Home Rule bill, but, in aefci ■ence to the v.i.hes of Mr. Parnell, they have t'g'eed that only a limited number of them should sneak- A con seiKAor against the livos of Prince Kuravelof, Alexander, the Bulgarian ruler, and M. the Prime M inister, has been dis¬ covered. Lmied Status Minister Cox has just, three hours’ interview with the Sultan of J ur.iey in Constantinople. The American Minister presented to 1 ha Kultau gifts sent by President Cleveland, consist¬ ing of a thousand views of S''011- cry in different parts of the United otate-s, portra ts of celebrated and typical etc. Indians, copies of the lust census reports, t he Sultan was well pleased with the Presents, nml requested Mr. Cox to thank resident Cleveland for the “unique aud valuable gifts.” Advices from China state that one of the impel ial palaces, built at a cost of §2,000,000, "toil do troys l by fire. During April •ywo persons died of small-pox at Jassam. Heavy Rain* in North Carolina. Honvy fr. shots have occurred throughout "ppei Carolina. The Pedee river stands li; iity-six feet abovo low water mark and ia Hid rig; ng- Crop, on th. rive, M.l .re . ihe lo,s is beyond estimate. Consider- damage done to railroads and orops (p lbs uortbern and western parts of the state. CAPTURED BY CANADIANS, ANOTHER AMERICAN VESSEL IS SEIZED II¥ CANADA. Great Excitement Prevailing Among New England Fishermen. The recent seizure of tin American Ashing schooner David J. Adams by the Canadians for alleged violation of the fishery laws has been followed by a second seizure—tho vic¬ tim this time being a vessel hailing from Portland, Mo. Like tho David J. Adams, the Portland vessel was seized for buying bait in a Canadian port, and also for neg- lecting to onter or clear at the Canadian Custom House. A North Sydney (New Brunswick) dispatch gives the following par. ticulars: The American fishing schooner Ella M. out-tde Doughty, the ('apt. Warren Doughty, anehorel en'rauce of St. Auu's Harbor on tho 11th Inst, and purchased a mun- ber of barrels of bait,. She left on tho filth, but owing to tho iee, had t J put ba k on Fri¬ day, the Hth. This morning (tho 17th) she wus seized by Customs Officer McAuly for purchasing ha t and neglecting to enter or clear at the C ustom Home. Captain Doughty admitted purchasing lat anl se-ms very little concerned about tho s (jure, -aying that he will look to the American Govern¬ ment for protection. No instructions have vet been received from Ottawa. The Col¬ lector of Customs at Baddeck, C. B., has in¬ quired aud into the facts regarding the seizure, expresses himself as satisfied that it U.'U, legally A Port made. and (Ms.) dispatch says: The re¬ port that the fishing schooner Ella M. Doughty, Doughty, of Portland (('apt. Warren owner), had been seize 1 by the ( anadinn Government, was confirmed this outfitters: morning by the following telegram to the Surr/ent, Lord Englishtown, C. B., May 17. Our Skillin, Portland: vessel is seized by the Government for buying See bait. Our permit is no good here. our Collector about it without delay. Warren A. Doughty. The vessel had the usual permit, signed by C< ^ Hector Anders in, to touch and trade at all Canadian ports. The following has been rent to Secretary Bayard. Thom'is F. Bayard, Secretary of Hate, Schooner Washington: Ella M Doughty, of Portland, seized at Englishtown, St. Anne's, C. B., far buying bait cm a permit from the Portland Custom House to touch and trade. Sargent, Lord & Skillin. A telegram has been sent to Smator Frye, considerable calling his attention to the n utter. There is excitement over the seizure,and the Portland Fishing Exchange will, as a body, take action in re card to it. A Bangor (Me) di-p itch says: News of the seizure of the s hooner Ella M. Doughty, of Portland, has caused much excitement among tho fishing trade in this section, and the feeling against the provincial authorities runs high. Unless a settle¬ ment of this question is reached soon there will be a very ugly feeling along the bor¬ der. The Nova Bcotians who sell bait to Yankee fishermen depend largely on this traffic at this time of year for a living, and they feel much aggrieved that the Dominion Government should try to shut off their revenues. Many prominent paper of the Dominion press ridicule the Govern¬ ment's policy. The New England fishermen have got their blood up over this latest seiz¬ ure, an l a provincial Maine craft is now a most un¬ welcome visiter in a port or in Glouces¬ ter, Mass. The following vessels, says an Ottawa (Cauada) d spitch, are fitting out at the points named for the protection of the fish¬ eries: Gt ."'al Middleton, at St. John, N. B.; Comrade and Howlett. at Halifax; Critic, at Georgetown, P. E. I.: Terror, at Shel¬ burne, N. S.. and Lizzie Lindsay, at Gaspe. The vessels will be armed and the crews lim- 1 el to twenty-five men each. FIVE PERSONS DROWNED. A TERRIBLE ACCIDENT NEAR CHATTANOOGA. A IIlTer Flnthont Sink* and Drown* Five Pei«on*.-C»efnils of tbe ralnatropbe. A gloom w&s thrown over the village of Lenoir*, Tenn., Friday evening by a terrible accident, which resulted in the loss of five lives. Ham Winton, a well known colored flat- boatman, partly loaded his barge with grain at Lepeers landing, about three miles above here, that morning, and dropped down to Mr. Wm. Bussell’s landing, one and a half miles east of Lenoirs, where he finished his load of grain. He took Mr. Wm. Bussell, his daughter, Mrs. Samuel P. Jackson and her little daughter Annie, aged eight years, and Andrew Hall, a white tenant of Mr. Bussell, aboard av pass¬ engers and started for Lenoirs. When about a mile east of Lenoirs tho boat suddenly began to eink. Mr. Bussell, who is advanced in years, made a heroic effort to save Mrs. Jackson, but without avail. 8I10 and Mr. Hall, who had also grasped her, sank to rise no more. Ttire : negro boat hands reached the shore and cams to the rescue of Mr. Bussell who was complete- v exhausted and at the point of drowning. Tam Winter, who was a large muscular man uni an expert swimmer, grasped little Annie Jackson and made a notle effort to save her, hut they went down together with Ihe little girl’s arms tightly clasped around liis neck. Mack Bigs, a negro boat hand who could*not swim, was also drowned. Diligent efforts have oecn made to recover the bodies, bnt without uccess. Little Annie Jackson’s liat and » nasktt, found about half a mile below the •nnken boat, are the only traces of the lost lies that, have been discovered. TDK CONGAREE FLOOD. \ Terrible Disaster From Water in Colum¬ bia, 8. C. The Conguree river assumed the look of a rag- ing sen. Xhe water reached a higher point tiian since 1852. The whole area of ground near the penitentiary WftH submerged. The strip of land upon which the city waterworks, the filter and reservoir stood were washed away, and all a a reck. The machinery and buildings are under mined. Thecity will be seriously embarrassed for a water supply. Mayor Rhett is very des¬ pondent, and declares that he knows what to do ;o avert a water famine. The situation is se¬ rum*. Too work cn the canal succumbed to the force of the flood. The labor of one year is ruined. The damage is exceedingly great. Thousands of visitors thronged the banks of the river to witness the spectacle. The stream dashed along furiously, bearing houses, trees and bridges. The water nearly touched the floor of the bridge. The railways entering the city have suffered severely in the loss of bridges and trestles Traffic was almost suspended on the Greenville road. It will be several weeks before the damage can be repair- ed eum.pJte.. and the passenger trains can run regularly. b*. atebU «. dated. The damage done the growing crops ! cannot now be estimated, but is certainly very | grwt . ELLAVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MAY 27, 1886. ARTHUR’S ILLNESS HIE EX-PRESIDENT SUFFERING FROM BRIGHT’S DISEASE. I Prominent Fliy*lriiin Sues That He I* Gradually Passing Away. The New York Commercial Advertiser publishes in its news columns the following about the serious condition of ex-President Chester A. Arthur: “Mr. Arthur is improving.” Such is the answer that every one revives from ex- President's Arthur's attendant when inqui¬ ries are made lib rnt the health of that distinguished variation to this citizon. There day is after no day. i-ometim the assurance, dome s tic servant de¬ clares that Mr. Arthur slept an hour longer than he did the previous night, or that his npix-tite No. West is slightly Twenty-ninth better. Dr. Peters, of 12 street, will not say a word one way or the other. The ex- President is constantly attended by his sis ter, Mis. McElroy, his who gives him liis me ii- ciue aud prepares food. A reporter for tho Commen t'll Advertiser has talkel with a distinguished physician who has more than ordinary means of learn¬ ing General Arthur's real condition. “Of course,” said this physician, "Mr. Arthur has his ups and downs. There is no doubt in my mind, nor in that of most physicians who have taken any interest iu the case, that he has Brights di-eiso of the kidneys, This is a very treacherous disease. To-day tin patient is about his rooms and to-morrow he may be insensi¬ ble. La-situdo, troubles of the stoma h and a general The feeling kidneys of do worthlessness are symp- tons. blood poisoning not in. prove good filters an l rets Coma or dropsy is the result. There is congestion of tho brain and the sufferer gradually sinks away to wake no more. (hie of tlu peculiarities of the dis aso is that the patient may appear to be in the best of health aud his spirits high. “General Arthur, I am quite sure, lias Bright’s disease. If he has it, his end is not far off. Ho may live for six months. He may The plea live for niuc. weather 1 see will no probably hope for retard him. viut the development But of the more fatal symptoms until autumn. Bright’s disease is a mortal foe, and the victim never escapes. “You cannot learn tho truth except from General Arthur's own physician, Dr. Peters. That gentleman, for reasons of his own, aud they may be He very good, keeps the the secret to himself. (anuot prevent more prom¬ inent Thes physicians from in expressing the an opinion. ■ concur opinion that I have expressed. General Grant had the can er a long while before his stick physicians fingers had down courage his throat enough to their and tell him his disease. In the same way with Gen¬ eral Hancock, his physician was actually a raid to ask permission to examine him. 1 know Dr. Peters and ho is assuredly doing all he can for General Arthur. To stay the deed'.y possible, consequences and the patient of Bright's disease is im¬ sooner or later must succumb. I am glad to see that General Arthur is no worse, and truly hope he may live for six or eight months more. As soon as insensibility sets in his death is only a question of a few hours. Watch for that, ” sick A gentleman who few was days permitted to see tho ex-President a ago told a friend subsequently emaciated that ho was startled Tho by Mr. Arthur's appearance. once portly form of the invalid had shrunken pitiably. Arthur had The lost gentleman than said sixty that General eight his confinement more in pounds in w since the nouse. The ex-President took a drive on the 18th in Central Park. This was his first outing since his illness assumed an alarming char¬ acter. The nature of Mr. Arthur's complaint, the physicians say, will necessarily lead to alter¬ nate periods of depression and exaltation of spirits—“good genial weather days” and they “bad days.” Tho recent and they there regard is as iu his favor, that fatal say that no reason to believe consequences are, to say the least, at present imminent. DEATH AND DESTRUCTION. tinny Lives Lost nml Hurt Properly De¬ stroyed by a Cyclone. Rain, hail and furious winds have swept down upon Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, part of West Virginia and part of Pennsyl¬ vania, with tremendous fierceness aud calam¬ itous effect. The storm in these States broke down telegraph wires, washed away rail¬ roads, flooded rivers, destroyed bonus, busi¬ ness houses, public buildings and live stock, and resulted in the loss of many human lives. At Xenia, Ohio, 100 houses, consisting of dwellings and business blocks, were com¬ pletely wrecked by tha storm. The loss of human lives is estimated at between twenty- five and thirty-five. At least one huudre i persons suffered injury iu some form and no hope was entertained of the recovery of many of these. The storm began about 9 o'clock p. m. Xenia contains 10,0)0 in¬ habitants. It is in the midst of a rich country, and its residents are, as a rule, well-to-do. The path of the flood, however, was through a district in which working ren had built small frame homes. The pecuniary damage in the city and sur rouuuiug At Dayton, country Ohio, is also and heavy. vicinity thi Mis¬ souri river be. ame a mighty fl > id, in mdating stock, sweeping fifty acres of houses, bridges drowning anl de live polishing buildings. away Two trains wrecked farm were by washouts and a number of train handi injured. At Shaker Village, three miles east of Dayton, many buildings w re unroofed, barns blown down, and cattle kil e I. George Miller, a prominent famer, xvas killed by lightning. From Cincinnati, Hamilton, Springfield, and other points in Ohio ca ne reports of ‘cores of track railroad ruined, bridges farmhouses washed and away, barns miles of totally destroyed or partly demolish -d, an i hundreds of rattle killed. Iu Ipdiana a waterspout washed out all the culverts betwe n . New. a-t.lu and Dies- sick, resulting in the wrecking ofa tra'n and the death of three train hands three more oeinginjured. At Logansport, In l., t,he bail and wind storm unroofed hundreds of li nisei and blew down almost American everything Normal in its way. Col¬ The High severely School and damaged. Thousands of lege were blocked the roads. trees around country Ind.. the damage In and Peru, done is estimated nt $250, (XK). At Africa, _ Ind., 200 houses were destroyed in five minutes and seventy persons injured, several fatally. An express train was ditched and totally wrecked. Otherpoints in Indiana send simi- lar reports of devastation by the storm. In Vermilion county, ill. .the h >u;e of John A. Shaw was struck and Mrs. Shaw, who was sick in bed. and her week-old babe were picked up and carried fifty yards. Tho babe was instantly killed, and Mrs. Shaw was probably fatally injured. Mr. Shaw's four-year-old The'house boy was fatally injured. mile? of Joe Miller, three east of Rossville, III., was struck, and Mrs. Mill r Instantly killed. Mr. Miller was fatally injured. So ne three or four other houses in the same vicinity were demolished, At Lanark, III., William Hixon, a butcher, was killed. Reports from many other points in the West tell a similar story to the above of im- raense damage to property of all kinds by the cyclone, which proved to be one of the most destructive that ever ravaged the West An Alabama Judge Impeached, Hon. Francis M. Taylor, probate judge of Winston county, was impeached iu the supreme court of Alabama on Wednesday. It was charged that ha wilfully neglected to send in gui i tered by the defendant Ti.*.! through his counsel. ly WM <n rendered judgement T .e court a sus- | ^ ° B hU guilt * nd db P own 6 kim from THE FATAL FLAMES, FOE It YOUNG CHILDREN BURNED TO A CRISP. A Widowed Mother'* Krnntie Grief— An Uncle’* Fatal Attempt at Iteocae. Mrs. Mary Mooney, a widow, residing about three miles north of Akron, Ohio, ro tired about 9 o’clock the other evening, sleep ing in tho same room with her five children— Thomas, aged 12; Julia, 10; Nellie, 7; Law. renco A,and Maggie, 2. Their be.l chamber was iutho front part on the second floor of a ___„ sinful frame , house. , Iu r tho rear part . of . the name floor, in other rooms, slept Lawrence Mooney, aged 68, brother-in- law law of ot the the mother motliei of of the the children Lizzio Mooney, aged 20, and Patrick Michael Mooney, Mooney, age 119. died Mrs. Mooney's husband, and since that the nearly two years ago. time children, with their mother anl uncle, have lived in this house, which was for them a very i omforable home. About II o’clock v. m„ some of the children cried out, which awakened Mrs. Mooney, who. ike the rest of the inmates, realize 1 that the house was on fire. The smoke wa. already so dense as to lie almo-t stilting. Mrs Mooney at once sprang baby from the bed, grasped her two-year- old in her arms, ami also attempted to carrv the little boy, Lawn n e. but her son, Thomas, Mrs. Mooney said he would told take care of him. then the children to join bunds and follow her, and she led the way to tho stairway to go down to the lower part of tha house, and in this way make their escape, but on reach- ing the stairway she found that the flames bad filled it and that there was no possible chance of escape by that way. Being almost overcome from the heat and smoke the poor mother and little ones retraced their steps to their bedroom. Here Mrs. Mooney raised a window and called to her children to jump for their lives. She could, however, no longer see them as the flames were now her babe scorching her and death stared her and in the face. In a half fainting and terribly excited condition the mother, with the babe hugged to her breast, threw herself out of the window aud landed safely on the ground with nothing but her nightclothes on. Lawrence Mooney, the uncle, and Lizzie and Patrick Mooney, also succeeded in making windows, their though escape neither by of jumping from the them had time to dress. The four children, Thomas, Julia, Nellie and Lawrence, who were last seen with hands clasped trying to find the stair¬ way, were still solid in wall the building, of which was now one ni ame. Tbe cries and shrieks were clearly heard, and oe- ' asionatly seen" the forms of the little ones could be through this terrible shroud of death that was so rapidly consuming them. Mr. Mconey, the uncle, was fairly crazed aud fought the fire as best he could. Again and again he rushed into the house through little the fire in The his endeavors to save the ones. floor had burned out from beneath them, and they had fallen into the cellar. The mother, brother, sister aud uncle were wild from grief as they watched the terrible sight, hamter aud fainter grew the cries of their loved ones, until all was hu-hed. Mr. Mooney, in his endeavors to save the children, almost perished in the flames. He was a sickening sight to look upon. His face was so swollen and blistered that he scarcely looked like a human being. His lips were three times their natural size aud looked as though they would burst. His cheeks were great blisters; his eyebrows, hair and his whiskers were burned close to the skin, leav- uothing but the curled yellow roots exposed on the face. Ilis hands and arms were liter¬ ally roasted. He was fatally injured. A CYCLONE'S CAPESS. Iteninrkable Occurrences During the Re. cent Menu in Ohio. Reports of the recent Ohio cyclone show tli3 remarkable freaks that these windstorms play with human life and property. In tho house of George Hoffman was an eight- mcnths-old baby. It was picked up by the wind, laid in a feather bed, and the whole business, baby and all, was carried 150 feet. All wa; then deposited, the child, aud a pinning log was thrown bed on either side of the to the ground. After the storm a search was instituted for the baby. One of the search¬ ers heard it cry, the and, following found the direction indicated by sound, the little pet, and restored mother. it uninjured to the arms of its distracted Mr. Curtis Hall, Jr., of Neptune, reports that he saw straws that were blown into old oak trees. A lied in the house of Andy Gin- ter was blown into carried the fields, and three chil¬ dren in it were along with it. All of the furniture was blown out of George Fox’s house. Feathers were stripped from chickens on this farm as clean as though the fowls h id been prepared by caught a cook by for the pot. The chickens were an obstruction that held them for tne wind to operate upon them. William Stevenson says that he saw the cyclone approach, it looked like a great black ball in the act of rolling over tho sur¬ face of the earth. It came along with fright¬ ful velocity, and made a noise louder than the roaring of a hundred thunder peals. It was a clear night everywhere but in the wake of the fearful mon¬ ster. It was about a half mile wide, and it twisted immense trees off at the ground as though they were pipe stems. It cut crops of grain and grass off as clean as a mowing machine, and hU in instances stripped trees ^ of 5 a “ gry W ° UlJ * banana Goorge The Fox’s wagon was carried half a mile. tires on two wheels wire each cut in two as with a sharp instrument, and each partly straightened At John Grimm's exactly dishes in the carried same shape. driven were could an' 1 into stump3 so that they not be pulled out. FOR WANT OF WATER. tlnn.v Thousand Slieep and Cnllle Dead anil Dying in Texa*. Major Bush, a United Stales Army Pay¬ master, who lias just returned to San An¬ tonio, Texas, from a trip through the centre of the sheep grazing section of the State, re ports that terrible drought prevails iu Pre¬ sidio, Pecos, and Crockett Counties. These rou utios embrace an area somewhat oxcc d- I m-r uhe acreage of the State of Maine. Vut 1 a fortnight ago the larger part of this eoun- ( r y t la q no t been visited by a heavy rain for -ighteen months, and a recent rain proves to ] ja ve done very little good, as the earth was s0 parched that the water, instead of soaked filling the small streams and reservoirs, was up by the burning prairies. that for milei, Major Bash snvs reach, the many is bare as f a r as the eye can weeds country growing, 0 Hundreds f vegetation, of small not streams even entirely dried are : n 1 water, evou for living purposes, is sparingly dealt out at tho ranches. Here- latei several instancei that came under iris observation, showing the terrible effect-of the drought on sheep ami cattle. On the Meyer- h alff ranch, out of O,00J cattle, :i,n00 prairie have is died within the past with month, aud the 1 rounded i;erally by strewn hundred of gaunt huge buzzards. carcasses, sur- On i another ran h 8,000 sheep have die 1, while one of the largost flock masters was com¬ pelled to kill 5,'t 1,200 0 lambs and a n dghborin; moth¬ herder killed lambs because their ers were too weak from starvation to afford them nourishment. Bask de-Kribe iliesitu- ation in this far West country a< terrible beyond description. The shepherds t >ld him that unless tains fell shortly ovary human b'ing and dom.-stie animal would b: com¬ pelled to ' a n e that dis rict aud move to the north of Texas. BASE BALL BOTES. Five million baseballs have been made this season. O’Rourke is doing the best work with the bat for New York. Macon claims to have the best running team in the Southern League. tremendous hitting. Bobby Mathews, of the Athletics has been pitching professional ball longer than anybody before the public. \ The Pennsylvania State league Kin!. consists of six bewiston,’Scruutou, clubs located nt WilLbarVe a It. llamsport.. and Wil- — __ The paid I., base-ball players country, \\ a-hington throughout the a paper states, number j 6 over re g atln l’! W S ’ about f nd . #J00,00J. J!', luually i “ alunes | The Supremo Court of Michigan has given j a decision to the effect that persons owning houses overlooking baseball parks may ere t seats for spectators on tho roof thereof, and . the associations have no recourse. | The National League was organized on February from 2, 1876. in New York city, bvde.’e Ih^delphiaCton.ChkC; irutes the followimr dubs- Athletic of Hartford, Louisville, Mutual CtoidnuaW of New Fork atK | tst Louis E \V7 0 National , T League giants . , 1 . .l Metropolis, a New York paper mly , give them little time and they says: a will come to the front again. But what they need more than time, responds a Chicago paper, are runs. There is a statue iu front of f he nations * i capitol, has holding a ball in one hand, which j been known as “Columbus discovering the new world,” but it is now supposed that the artist intended to represent a base-ball | pitcher, in honor of the national game, | There will be a very material change in the positions of the clubs in all the leading organizations by the middle of June. As soon as the wear and tear begins to tell on the teams, those which have the most united teams aud tho most enduring “batteries” will take up their position in the van Tup v™ki. 5l e d lS ,,,, ?? d ,, ,, T n”,! ’ , w ‘tk the fol- , g U 1 1 f "Vn ' p *iu—AI.'ut i* 'nlii ^tt others. ditjf One of Fe^man, the ti, Meischbach Tnd “F. I). ’s” marked against players him, had eighteen “M. and another hat 36” opposite his name. The large number of umpires show that the game was an exciting one. NEWSY GLEANINGS. Out of a coinage of 229,000,000 silver dol¬ lars only 52,000,0110 are in circulation. The money value of th? real estate changing hands weekly in New York is J4,0X),000. The profits of the gambling tables at Monte Carlo during fonr months were $11,678,058. The colored people in the District of Co¬ lumbia have eighty churches and missions. ! The Boston Postoffice yields the Govei li¬ ment an annual net revenue cf over *8,(XJ0,OX 1 , | j lT is al i e ged that 160,000,000 worth of build- i ug has been stopped in Philadelphia by the strikes. Two diamonds have been found in Wis-on sin, for and now companies are organizing to dig more. A shoal of whales, eighty in number, was recently driven ashore on the Shetland Islands and captured. The American Society of Civil Engineers will hold its annual.meetiug early in J uly at Denver, Col. No fewer than 100,000 shade trees now make grant Washington blossoms. glorious in fresh green and fra¬ Arbor Day in Nebraska was duly observed this year. Over X,000,030 trees were plante d throughout the State. Recently a steamer, the British Queen, sailed from these shores for Liverpool with the first shipment of chemically preserved beef ever sent to England. A new law in Connecticut requires every hotel, restaurant and boarding house serv.ng oleomargarine that to display dining-room. a conspicuous sign to effect in the Considering the threatened invasion of cholera it is announced that a German phy- sieiau has discovered that small coins are im¬ portant Ho has factors in the spreading of diseases. found bacteria and vegetable fungus in scrapings from the metal. Fourteen hundred blackfish were recently driven ashore by men in boat. at Wood End, Provincetown. The fish were speared an 1 sold at public auction at an average of 81.21 apiece, Each the gross pr.iceeds being about $1, 50J. fish yields about a barrel of oil. -♦ • MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. As many as 600 American girls are study¬ ing music in Milan, Italy. According to the latest reports Mine. Nilsson has abandoned her contemplated American tour. Mr. Joseph Jekferson’s next season will comprise Denver, twenty weeks, beginning August 80, in Col, Lester YV allack is going to do a farewell starring middle tour September. next season, beginning the of The title of a new two-act comic operetta, for which Mux Maretzek is composing tho music, is “The Peachblow Vase.” Miss Emma Abbott i< going to Europe this s umner to secure two new operas, which she will produce in this country next sea¬ son. Eleven murders, with a realist! • de ao- jtation L'teteLv scene, called are “Hen, the, mildest which features was recently of a prouu eu in Italy. ‘‘Bounced” is the unique title chosen for a truly Items Lombard, American comic opera and Messrs. by one Mag- Mr. and Bunner, composer, librettists. nus The Marine Baud in Washington is re¬ hearsing and “Haste Mendelssohn’s “Wedding March” to the Wedding.” The latter is dedicated to Mrs. Grover Cleveland. The city of Guatemala contains 60,000 in¬ habitants. Last winter a French opera troupe played houses a two months’ engagement to crowded lights, every night. Guatemala has electric hotels. telephones, street cars, and good TOO CLOSE FOR COMFORT. A Train Run* Over a Horne While the IhiR87 and Two l.ndie* are Left. Two miles west of Neuman, G»., on the Sa¬ vannah, Griffin and North Alabama railroad, Wednesday morning, an accident occurred which came near i, 0 eing :„„ „„ an awful „„f„i affair. Misses „ Dent, Pinson and Peddy were on the public road driving the horse of Major N. P. G over, and when on the railroad crossing, their horse halted and refused to go forward or hack, and j there was ladies hut a moment in top buggy. for action Miss and the l leaped young from were the buggy, a but before her Peddy com- panions could follow suit the engine had struck their horse, It killed the horse and took off the front wheels of tho buggy. Luckily for the young ladies, the coupling pin broke and they were left sitting in the buggy with the front wheels gone, The Old Man’s Turn. “Hey! broke a window, did you? Are you aware, sir, ilia' I had to piy eight dollars for that pane of glass?” “Please, sir, I was just swinging In- dian clubs.” “Was, eh? Well, just come out in the shed and I ll swing some American | switches for awhile.”— Call, A FATAL HVRRICANE. K Slorm in Spain Hill* Many People and n l.nrge Number Wounded. A terrible hurricane has just swept acrosi the middle of Spain. In Madrid thirty-two persons are known to have been instantly kiUod, and 620 others have been seriously in- donnessof lightning. Tram ears and cabs were overturned and broken into splinters, roofs we,e dislodged, and telegraph wires every- ) and where about torn the from ‘'17 their poles. de sta The ‘? i narks ,d in eome casrs ent4rel ,"T denuded. ™ Oue ’ tt church J ‘°, wer wa * “ own down A ot . houses in the subuibs ,. . wt re eutirely . wrecked, and of the cottages the outskirts of the capital many which on were blowm from their foundations and wrecked, some"were so completely and quickly broken lip an d scattered by the wind that they may be said to have simply vanished before the storm. Farm cropis and villages were distressingly ravage 1 in the country districts, the working classes suffering the heaviest losses. Many washerwomen were blown into the River Manzauaresand twentv-e ghtwere drowned. front * he largest of tree Parliament in Madrid, BuUding which stood blown in the was down. The hospitals are crowded with suf- ferers. The storm was preceded by several days The of Queen extremely visited hot weather, various points in the city and suburbs where the damage wrought by the hurricane was most marked. She of life ex- pressed and much profound sympathy sorrow with those at the loss homes whose lmd been wrec ko1 by the storm. The dam- age will exceed 'kid. PERSONAL MENTION. Vick Admiral Don Patricio Lynch, head of the Chilian Navy, died recently. Edward C. Knight, tho Philadelphia mil¬ lionaire, week. began life as an errand boy at *2 a Mrs. Sartoris is said to have not yet re¬ covered her spirits since the death of General Grant, her father. Mr. Moody is raising 8200,000 to start a training ork school at Chicago, for evangelizing w among the masses. Chief Justice Waite, of the Fnited States Supreme Court, is going to Alaska to spend his summer vacation this year. Mrs. Grant is going to spend the summer at West Point, and will lie aeco.npan:ed by Colonel Fred Grant aud his family. Senator hard Joseph E. Brown, of Georgia, is at work on a book showing the ma¬ terial and social progress of the South since tho war. Senator Kenna of West Virginia, keeps a fine pa k of deer hounds and beagles, and is a crack shot. In one day recently he brought down nine deer. King Kalakaua is an' active member of the Honolulu Fire Dcpaitment. He runs to fires with the engine, and is an expert operator of the pump handle. The Empress of Austria is going to Eng¬ land be to visit the Edinburgh by Exhibition. .She will accompanied the Archduchess (Valerie aud w ill remain several weeks in Scotland. A MOTHER'S AWFUL DEED. She Cot* tbe Throat* of Her Children and Kills Herself. A terrible murder and snioide occurred in Lincoln county, W. Va., Monday night. Mr*. Margaret Donan, widow, became insane from religions fanaticism and imagined that she had been called upon by the Lord to sacrifice the lives of herself and her three children to divine wrath. Early in the evening she threw her¬ self upon her ku< es anil spent several hours in wild ravings. She then arose and arming her¬ self with a large, sharp carving knife, made her way to the room occupied by her three daughters, aged twelve, ten and eight years, cut ihe throat of each child and plunged the blade into her own heart. The bodies were discovered the yeaterday bespattered by neighbors, who state that room was bo with blood aa to bear a very strong restmb ance to a slaughter house. One Scow-Load. An amusing story is tolil of tbe way in which Wm. H. Vanderbilt once over- icncbcd his father, the commodore. William wanted manure from the Fourth V venue car stables for his Staten Island farm, and asked liis father what he would charge lor ten loads, “Wliat’l! you give?” a->ked the commodore. “It’- svorth 84 a load to me,” said the farmer. “Good enough, I’ll let you have it for that,” answered the railroad man. hav ing a decided impression that the price was n t least twice as much as the stuff' was worth. Next day he found his rustic son with a scow just loaded for home. “How many loads have you got ■n that scow, Billy ?’’ asked the commo¬ dore in excellent humor. “How many?” repeated the sou, feigning surprise,“one, of course.” “Oue Lwhy there’s at least thirty,” the old gentleman exclaimed, inspecting but it curiously. “No, father, i never put one load on a scow—me c iw-load ! Cast off the lines, Pat! ” He Yet His Own Medicine Alone. “Gough drops, id five ceds a backidge! Greatest thig Odely the world (er a gold id the 'ed! five ceds a backidge!” A red-nosed, watery-eyed man, with a flannel muffler around his neck, stood on the corner of Eighth imdChestnut streets this morning offering cough drops for sale. “Why tiie don’t you take some yourself?” asked News man. “You seem to be pretty well stopped up in the head.” “The bad I worg for wode led me,” was the reply. “What, won't let you take the medi¬ cine you sell to others?” 1 Doe , sir. He pays me eggstra not to t ike ady.” “What for?” “Oh,” was the answer, with a sniffle, “so I cad stad oud here as a horrible egg- sable 1” A Brief Acquaintance. Bank Cashier (to fellow passenger)— rroiessionai f man, nn sin Fellow Passenger— Yes, sir. ^ Bank Cashier—“Thanks, I’m the cashier of the ’Steenth National bank of x- Ym ,. a ; . lawver?” ’,, ' ‘ Fellow ,, ,, 1 „ assengcr— ' 50, v sir. • f, lm a mind reader.” Bank Cashier (turning pile) — “Oh, I gue»s rqi 1 11 go forward lorw.ua and ana smoke smose a a ctear ci 0 ai. ” —New tone sun. A Fork in the Road. “Johnny, I should think you would hurt your feet running over these rough country roads bare foot.” “Naw. Dere used to it.” “Well, b3 careful when you get to th next corner.” “What fer?” “There's a fork in the road there. Step carefully. Rambler. VOL. I. NO. 35. My Hero. What signifies the outward show! What signifies his woal h or placet When wo the heart have learned to know. What do we care for form or face! And what care we for name or creed That buried ages may unroll, If under all we clearly read The record of a dauntless soul I If loyal to his sense of right, If prompt and surest Duty’s call. Ho walks, as walking in God’s sight, His aim the manliest man of all; If helpful as the sunbright day, If pitiful of other’s woes, He follows in the master’s way And bears a blessing where he goes; If, gaining much, ho loses all, , While summer friends go coldly by, He proves his courage by his fall Resolved to win the day or die; With hope alive, in God his trust, He keeps a spirit kind and true, And rises bravely from the dust To fight his weary battle through; If, working on through pain and loss, His earnest soul be not cast down; He beareth patiently his cross, While winning steadily his crown; The man’s herd and we give The meed of love, which is his due, No idle praise! but while we live, The wreath of bay! the knot of blue! —Helen Keith. HUMOROUS. A pawnbroker is a loanly man. Always comes out on top.—Your hair. If you cannot lick a man, be lenient with his faults. People who wear pepper-and-salt suits are always in season. The selfish man has most presence oi mind. He never forgets himself. “Buffaloes are bred in Kansas,” it is 6aid. They are meat elsewhere. “This is my sphere,’’said a happy wife, as she patted her bald-headed husband on the pate. A rule that works both ways—When a fleet goes out on a cruise the crews go out on the fleet. “Brass bands arc on the increase throughout the country.” Even the dogs wear them on their necks. Little Boy—Pa, why does the world move? Pa (thinking of something else) —Because it finds it cheaper than to pay rent. Thoughtful young lady (to college graduate)—Who, in your opinion, Mr. Muscle, was the noblest Roman of them all? College Graduate—I used to think Hanlan was, but I wouldn’t bet a cent on any of ’em now. A journalist went into a barber shop the other day to get his hair cut, and fell asleep during the operation. The barber, who awoke him when he had finished, said to him: “You are tired, I under- stand it. It’s the same way with me when evening comes. Ah, this head-work is something terrible 1” Apache Characteristics, The Apaches and kindred tribes are among the most cautious fighters on earth, and also among the most desper¬ ate. Near the close of last year a band of Chiricahuas numbering eleven killed twenty-one friendly Apaches living on the reservation, and twenty-five white men, women and children. Their supe¬ riors as prowlers in war probably never existed. The army officers in Arizona declare that the Apaches are the ideal scouts of the whole world, with their hawk eyes, stealthy motion and sensitive ears. Though undersized, they have broad, deep chests, muscular limbs, and small, wiry hands and feet. They march about four miles an hour, halting after a few hours’ tramp long enough to smoko cigarettes. If no matches are at hand' they bring fire in from eight to forty-five seconds by rapidly twirling between the palms a hard, round stick fitted into a circular hole in another stick of softer fiber. They will march forty miles a day on foot across dry plains and precip¬ itous mountains regardless of the fiercest heat. The Apache finds food where the Caucasian would starve. He can catch turkeys, quail, rabbits, doves, field mice and prairie dogs; feast off a dead horse; gather acorns from the stunted mountain oak; roast the Spanish bayonet or cen- tury plant, and strip the fruit and seed from the cactus; dig the wild potato or bulb of th« tule; raid the uest of the ground-bee; or, if driven to it, keep down the pangs of hunger with the inner bark of the pine or the roots of wild plants. With the rifle and bow he has a life training. “Every track in the trail, mark in the grass and scratch on the bark of a tree explains itself to an Apache. He can tell to an hour almost when the man or animal making them passed by, and, like a hound, will keep on the scent until he catches up with the object of his pursuit. ” A Very Snccessful Case. First Lawyer—Ah, Dobkins, how did you come out in that case you were just beginning when I went East? Second Lawyer—Gloriously, It was a perfect success. Created a great sen¬ sation. Papers full of it. Got lots of advertising out of it. I think it was the making of my future. “Good! Glad to hear it, old fellow. 1 knew you had stuff in you. And by the way, whnt did they do to your cli¬ ent? “Oh, they hanged him."
