Newspaper Page Text
—— u x ■tnf ♦
(a
ELUVILLE PUBLISHING CO. C. D. ADAMS, Editor.
SOUTHERN PROGRESS.
tbs IMPROVEMENTS IN VARIOUS
SECTIONS OF THE SOUTH.
nnufarturlnx and Otker ItaslasM latar-
" Hu,.min# Now Kallraada. K»a.
„„
A brewery is to be sturted at Florence,
Al*.
The Fountain Head Railroad Co. will
build a dummy railroad at Kuoxville,
Tenn.
The Atlanta Gas Light Economizer
Co., capital stock $100,000, has been in-
corpoiuti'i.
The Birmingham, Ala., with Watsr Works
will build a reservoir 1,000,000
gallons capacity.
The Georgia Pacific Railroad Co. me
building a branch load from Hirming-
ham, Ala., to Bessemer.
Many men doing business at Sheffield,
Alu., arc now living in tents, and Borne
in the adjoining town of Tuscambiu.
A company has been formed to build a
rolling mill ut Florence, Ala. A site has
been selected and work will so >n begin.
The Marietta <fc North Georgia Rail¬
road Co. will change their road to the
standard gauge, and extend it to Knox¬
ville. Tenn.
Robert McCarroll has received the con¬
tract to build a pier for the U. 8. gov¬
ernment at Charleston, 8. C. Z. It will .
cost $33,000.
The Missouri Pacific Railroad Co. will
build a union depot and machine shops
at Fort Smith, Ark., and a bridge across
the Arkansas river.
Bush Bros, are testing their clay at
Chauncey, Ga., and will, if it is satisfac¬
tory, erect a plant with a capacity of
about 30,000 daily.
The Falls of Neusc Manufacturing
Co., at Raleigh, N. C., have built an ad¬
dition 40x75 feet, to their cotton fuctory
and added 40 plaid looms.
A number of furnaces will be built
during 1887 and 1888. A number of
build companies have lately been organized to
furuaces in Southwest Virginia.
The East Alabama Railroad Co. have
increased their capital stock from $2000,-
000 to $400,000, and have let the con¬
tract Roanoke, to grade the extension of their road
to 17 miles.
Mr. Stevens, a large builder and con¬
tractor of Birmingham, Ala., has secured
ground at Choccolocco, 8 miles from An¬
niston on the Georgia Pacific railroad for
a large brick plant.
The Armour Packing Co., of Chicago,
have signed a contract with the Selma.,
Ala., Land, Improvement & Furnace
Co., and work will commence immediate¬
ly on a large packing concern and refrig¬
erator there.
The Clinch Valley Railroad Co., re¬
ported ized as inaugurated, has been organ¬
phia, with Joseph I. Doran, of Philadel¬
the Pa., as president. is to build the The extension object of of
the company &
Norfolk Western Railroad from
Graham, Tazewell county, to a connec¬
tion of the Louisville & Nashville Rail¬
road, now being extended eastward from
Corbin, Ky.
RICH FIND.
DISCOVERY OF RICH UNUSED
GOLD MINES IN MEXIt O.
In a Chnpel Mnpa are Found whleli Ulvo
a Clew.
Special dispatches from the City of
Mexico announce the discovery of two of
the lost seven bonanza mines by an Amer¬
ican party of prospectors. Humboldt and
Hamilton speak of the fabulous wealth
obtained from these mines by the Span¬
iards They were worked up to the j
middle of last century. In 1776 the In¬
dians Bwept over northern Mexico and
destroyed Chihuahua and all the held miners
were driven out. The Indians con¬
trol of the country so long that records
were formerly lost. Recently, Lieutenant Kepper,
of the U. 8. army, W. K. Glenn,
of Illinois, Capt. Allen and J. McIntyre,
of Chicago, went out on a surveying ex¬
pedition iu the interest of a land com¬
pany, and in an old cliapel found maps
and other data. Dividing into four small
parties a thorough search was begun.
McIntyre’s party located what is thought in
to be the Lapoya silver mine. It is
the midst of thousands of ruiued build¬
ings, Within among large churches and forts.
of four miles are 420 workings
old Spanish furnaces and tons of
•hig. A few days later the Bowers party
reported in the discovery of the Guayanopa
the heart of the Sierra Madre moun-
tains. Around it tire the ruins of 118
arastnis. Advices from other points con-
hrni the rumor and state that the great
placer field has been located, where the
Jesuits of 200 years ago found fortunes
for the church. Great excitement in
mining centres prevail*.
ItiNO.RlNioi SLY KXl'itLLKD
Arguments in the Dakin bribery im¬
peachment case were concluded before
l Lansing, lc Michigan legislative committee, at
and tlie case was submitted to
me Rouse. By a vote of 83 to 11, it was
’Tided that he had endeavored to pro-
eure money from F. L. Eaton and John
■ ackleton ostensibly to corrupt mem-
)ers > tffit really with a view to nppropri-
a ln g it to his own Of the specific
t large use.
that he had placed nn estimated
r lce a ftcr the names of fifteen members,
soiutmn ! Vai ? unanimously found guilty. A
< was offered that Dakin be ex-
j * f r< ’ro the House, and it wus adopt-
, | ’J 11 unanimous
vote. »
FttlUJOT HIM KINM’FOLKH.
k" 'Jhi: 'mi dre will banker of Alexander wbo died Mitchell, Milwau- the
at
v'’’ o approximation “*«•,.recently, has been made public. of the
! • of the value
te ‘ s made, and the terms of the will
'•11 ■n avoid the filing inventory,
U| at the of an so
will exact wealth leit by Mitchell
’’ever be known. It is believed to
ji rn,n fifteen to twenty-five millions.
'f entire . property,-real and personal, is
.
’■“te Ins only son, John L. Mitchell,
’T uediu ting several trifling legacies,
IT*?? relatives. ! ’”i small sums to the re3 of bis
}
PERSONAL.
Patti taxed New York $80,00# tor
I six concert*.
Rev. J. W. Lee will preach the com¬
' mencement sermon at lllwaaaee College,
Tenn., and will also deliver the annual
| address.
The populai fund for Mrs. J. A. Logan
has been closed. One hundred thousand
dollars was asked and $67,000 was given.
Hon. 8. 8. Cox is writiug a book which
he will call “The Diversions of a Diplo¬
mat.” It will deal with his brief experi¬
ence in Turkey.
Rev. George White, who waa rector of
Cnlvary Episcopal church, in Memphis,
Tenn., from 1858 to 1876, died recently
j n the 85th year of his age.
j C. Latham, of Latham, Alexander
£ (_: 0 ( New York, has erected a beauti-
f u l m onument of Scotch granite at Hop-
kinsvilie, Kentucky, in honor of the
Confederate (lend who are at rest there,
At the great anti-coercion meeting in
Hyde Park, London, Eng., a huge coffin,
bearing Mr. Balfour’s name, was paraded
about and finally set up behind Mr. Sex¬
ton dress. as a sounding board during his ad¬
Mary Anderson, the actress lias de¬
veloped such vocal talent recently that
her friends are urging her to introduce
music into some of her well-known rotet,
while some even advise the operatic-
stage.
John 8. Logan, who had charge of
the printing department of the railway
mail service, in the Uuited States court
house at Atlanta, Ga., is dead. The re¬
mains were carried to Opelika, Ala., for
interment
Charles Kohler, who died California recently in
in Ban Francisco, went to
1852 as a musician, and in 1854 founded
the wine industry of that State, which
has grown to an annual consumption of
7,000,000 pounds of grapes.
Vienna has decided to erect a bronze
statue to Joseph Haydn, the execution
of which has been intrusted to the Aus¬
trian sculptor, Natter. It will be un¬
covered on the 81st of May, the seventy-
death. eighth anniversary of the composer's
During the reign of Queen Victoria,
there have been erected 6,500 buildings
for worship in the Church of England, us
against 3,0 00 by all other religious com-
municutious put together. Seven new
dioceses have been founded at home, and
sixty-two in the colonies.
Te Hen Hen has presented to the
New Zealand government for a public
park the “wonderland” of that country.
including the volcano Tongariro, the ex¬
tinct- volcano Ruapehu, Mount Ngarim-
hoe, and the liot-lake district. Te Hen
Hen is a great chief of the Ngatutaw-
barctoa Ma >ries.
Tiie late Mrs. Catherine Van Renssel¬
aer, of Mobile, Ala., was the last
surviving daughter of in Gen. childhood, Philip
Schuyler. Left an oiphun
she was adopted by her aunt, Mrs. fatal Alex¬ Ilam-
ander Hamilton, dhel and after the with her
ilton-Burr she went to live
uncle, the Palroon Stephen Rensselaer.
Canon Liddon, replying to Edinburgh some com¬
ments on bis refusal of the
bishopric, writes: “I can sincerely say
that mv motive in declining the See of
Edinburgh was that which has led me
before now to decline higher English
preferment than I hold at present, name¬
ly, the belief that I could serve God and
His church better by declining it.”
John Buskin is not a friend to the bi¬
cycle. He says: “To walk, to run, to
leap and to dance are the virtues of the
human body, and neither to stride on
stilts, wriggle on wheels or dangle on
ropes, and nothing in the training of the
human mind with the body will ever
supersede the appointed God’s way of
slow walking mid hard working.
Rev. D. II. Webster, who is now a
preacher in Illinois, is the author of the
famous song, “Lorena.” It was suug
everywhere on its appearance fifteen
years ago. Its origin lay in the rejection
by Miss Blockeon, of Zanesville, Ohio, of
Webster’s addresses. Miss Blockson
afterward married Judge Johnson, who
lately resigned from the supreme bench
of Ohio owing to incurable ill-health.
AKNtll.INrt A CHt KrirtMN.
Henry George’s Standard recently said:
■■Archbishop Corrigan, who, as bishop circular of
New York, presumed by secret Jjqw they
to instruct Catholic citizens
should vote, represents that wing of
Catholics who are to make the church in
this country a political machine, while
what Dr. McGlynn stands for is the
political independence of the clergy and
laity." The paper also informs its read-
ers that the archbishop of the diocese gets
a salary of $40,000 a year for his own
use. A headline in (he Standard asks:
“ Wlift does the archbishop do with his
$40,000?” It is reported in Catholic eir-
oles— and tlie report comes from an ap¬
parently reliable source—that the forth
coming statement defining Archbishop
Corrigan’s attitude toward the Catholic
Herald, and describing his stand on the
present phase of the McGlynn matter and
other topics that are uppermost m Hue
minds of Catholics, will contain passages
of a startling nature;
THE G. 0. M. SHAKES HANDS.
With B«tr><* Hill'. Western Wild lodlaM.
Mr Gladstone and his wife recently
paid a visit to the grounds of the Amer¬
ican exhibition and camp of the Wild
West show, in London, Eng A special
performance was given for their enter*
tainment, and they were much impress¬
ed by the aborigines. Mr. Gladstone sat
and looked on with al) evidence of child¬
like delight. After the performance ‘Red bhirt was
over he was introduced to ‘ spoke
one of the Indians. Mr. Gladstone
to him at length, and asked him whether
be noticed any difference between regarded hng-
lish and Americans, or if he
them as brothers. “Red Shirt replied
that he didn’t notice much about the
brotherhood. Fifteen hundred work¬
men employed at the exhibition grounds rule.
cheered for “Gladstone and home
Mr. Gladstone and his wife re P eated J y
bowed in answer to salutations. Mr. Glad¬
stone was entertained at tonch by he
manager of the exhibition. Col. Rus-
i of Boston,
EI.LAVILLK, GEORGIA. THURSDAY. MAY .4 s J
RAILROAD ROBBERY.
A RED LIGHT DISPLAYED AND
THE TRAIN STOPPED.
Only About *2,000 Hlol.-u-Kocape ot lb.
Villains.
A special at San Francisco, Cal., from
Tucson says the western bouud express,
due there at 10:30 p. w. recently, was
eighteen stopped and robbed at Papago station,
miles east of there, about 0:80
o’clock. The number of men engaged
in the robbery is variously estimated
from five to eight. Harper, the engineer,
when approaching Papago, was signalled
by a red lantern to stop. He slowed
down and as he approached the light he
noticed obstructions on the track, so
placed, that in case he failed to stop, the
engine would spread the rail and derail
itself. Immediately on stopping, a doz¬
en or more shots were fired into the ex¬
press car and a man with a pistol in each
hand boarded the locomotive and com¬
manded Harper not to get down.
The other robbers had, in the mean¬
time, been prying open the express, and
failing to get it open they placed a stick
of giant powder under it and compelled
Harper to light the fuse attached. This
he was obliged to do, but to avoid being
being blown up the messenger opened
the car and the robbers took possession.
A fter extinguishing the fuse they then
took charge of the car, uncoupled the
engine, baggage and express from the re¬
mainder of the train, and made Harper
get on the engine and pull ahead two
lengths. put off. This being The robbers done Harper took off was the
again
engine and pulled six miles toward Tuc¬
son. Here they “killed” the engine and
left it. They only got about $2,000.
The express messenger saved $5,000 in
gold by hiding it in a stove. The rob¬
bers are believed to be discharged rail¬
road employes. Thirty-five soldiers from
Fort Lowell are scouring the country, in
conjunction with Indian trailers from
Yuma.
WASHINGTON GOSSIP.
ITEMS 09 INTEREST FROM OCR
NATIONAL CAPITAL .
iVb.t Is Betas Bone by the Rends ef Oar
Uaverumeat The VVecb’a Review.
GRANT RELICS.
The Grant relics, which have been for
several months safely guarded in one of
the private rooms of the national museum
are now placed on public exhibition.
Two handsome plush-lined cases, filled
with articles from the collection, were
placed in the main entrance. The arti¬
cles are of great intrinsic value.
Notes.
The interstate commerce commission is
in the South. Their labors will be prin¬
cipally in Georgia and Alabama.
James H. Marr, chief clerk to the first
assistant postmaster-general, died re¬
cently. Had he lived until June he
would have been in continuous public
service fifty-six years.
Acting Secretary Thompson has ap¬
pointed James H. Wheeler, of Virginia,
a watchman iu the treasury department.
Wheeler is the man who was so badly in¬
jured at Richmond, Va., last year by the
premature discharge of a cannon, while
firing a salute in honor of the visit of
President Cleveland.
Acting Secretary Thompson has ap¬
pointed Dr. Benjamin F. Shaftel, of
Georgia, quarantine to be sanitary station, inspector, at Sa-
pello Georgia. have
Nearly four hundred pension*
been granted under the Mexican service
act of January 29th. About 15.000 Mex¬
ican claims have been received at the
p -usion office. The president has issued
a proclamation suspending discriminating
duties, tonnage taxes, etc., upon vessels
of the Netherlands and Dutch East In¬
dies under the law authorizing him to
make such exemptions, where similar ad¬
vantages have been afforded to vessel* of
the United States.
Commissioners Charges have been made against Tax of
Coleman and Donnelly,
New York city, for favoring great cor¬
porations. The sworn returns of the
corporations disclose the existence of as¬
sessable property, and Coleman and Don¬
nelly, acting in concert as a majority of
the board, failed to make lawful assess¬
ments. In the case of the Hudson River
Railroad Co, the returns of the company
showed $9,057,348. No assessment
whatever was made. The case of W. II.
Vanderbilt, whose will disclosed over
$33,000,000 of taxable bonds, the assess¬
ment was upon $8,000,000.
TEMPERANCE LECTURE,
Illuotrated In n Terr.bly Praeilonl Way
Owen Griffin and Martin Wilds, a
couple of young married men, of V ’ay-
cross, Ga., veceived by express a j...g of
whiskv from Savannah, and started
down the Brunswick and Western rail-
road for home, carrying the “little brown
juo” under their arm. They soon l«-
came tired and Griffin lay down by the
roa dside. while Wilds occupied the pillow. entire
track, using one of the rails for a
They fell asleep, and a tram came along,
and as it was then about 10 o clock <t
was very dark, and the engineer, him, not
seeing the sleeping man, ran over
entirely severing his head from his body
and dragging the body for some distance,
totally demolishing it to an unrecogniza¬
ble shape, scattering part #f R for fifty
yards along the rail.
CAKTEIUlVn.LE»* BOOM.
Tito Etowah Iron and Manganese com-
nany have entered into an agreement by
With the Cartersville Und company
virtue of which the location of the work*
of the former are assurred to the towipy
and the immediate erection of a 150 tot*
furnace promised.
nusmess failures occurring throughout
the for the week, as re-
ported to R. G. Dunn & Co.’s mercantile
agency, number for the United States 164,
Canada 27; total 191. against 199 the
week before.
SOUTHERN NEWS.
Eastman, Ua., is stirred to its iuuer-
most depths by a religious revival.
In a few months, the copper mines iu
ployment Paulding county Ga., will furnish cm-
to about 800 hands.
Dennis Maher was shot and kill eel in
New Orleans, La., recently by his son-in-
law, Richard Creely. Family trouble is
assigned as the cause of the crime.
John B. Bright, a young commission
ing, merchant, alleged, left Birmingham, Ala., leav-
it is about $2,000 of indebt-
edness. lie came from Atlanta, and by
Methodist The question of using the organ ip the
zj inonm < church nurca ht at opaica, Snarta v»a., Ga "as was
earned before the quarterly conference
bv appeal, but the.pflfeiding elder decid-
ed that 1 ^thKn^Inbeh^ he had no iurUdiction in the
matter,
after used iu the regular church services,
The-wine dealers of Milledgeville, Ga.,
have relented and Friday night was the
last night that the wine o.bbers were
permitted to cut the dust from their
throats with l he business'at ardent The wine men
have done no all since the
prohibition committee began their war
against them.
George , Ayers A and Henry r Lindsay „„„„ quar-
relied about an indebtedness of $:>, at
Bowling Green, Mo., recently, and the
latter whs killed. Lindsay was on horse-
back when the quarrel began and as he
dismounted Ayers seized him by the
throat and quickly drew a knife across
it, cutting it from ear to ear.
Two wife beaters were arrested in
con, Ga., recently. The first was
dorc DeLouis, from sunny Franco, who
«binned bis wife terriblv ’. and the sec-
-
ond was Thomas T , Reid, - a colored ... citizen,
who used his authority to an excess. He
beat bis wife unmercifully, and was
caught and caged along with his white
A negro teamster, named Lem Cole,
while driving across the railroad track
in the suburbs of Birmingham, Ala., was
struck by a backing freight train and in¬
stantly killed.
Clark Horn, a well known and popular
young man of Chattanooga, Tenn., while
out speeding a spirited horse in a gig,
was thrown out of the vehicle and kicked
on the head by the horse, receiving in¬
juries from which he will die.
A few nights ago at a church, in Sandy
BottomGa, May Whitehead an Henry Olay
a colored man got ;into a dispute about
Henry spitting on the floor, and Clay
said something that did not set well with
Whitehead, who struck Clay in the
mouth.
m?uS'Es .zz w'w.t.X™.
Their mother locked them up in the house
to make a call at a neighbor’s and in her
absence the house was burned down,
The name of the unfortunate family is
Welch.
Cicero Darby, who was confined in jaii
at Macon, Ga., and was sentenced to a
life-long of imprisonment, swallowed died eight
ounces opiates anil in conse¬
quence. He left a long letter, claiming
to be innocent of the crime for which he
was sentenced to prison.
Judge Jenkins, the new judge of the
Ocmulgee, Ga., circuit, is enforcing the
liquor laws with rigid impartiality. lie
a* rfid« s
law.
A younjf-.jnan, named Elmore, of Illi¬
nois, who has been in ChattAnooga,
Tenn., for several weeks past, lboking
for work, fell from a Cincinnati Southern
train at Daytpn, Tenn. The wheels of
the train passed over his legs and . right
arm, severing them completely from the
body.
While two of Jas. R. Ellis’ children
were playing in the yard at his home,
three miles from Griffin, Ga., they were
struck by lightning. One of them, a boy
about four years old, was instantly killed.
The other, a girl about five years old,
was stunned by the shock but soon re¬
covered, and is now out of danger.
A D Clinard, whos uddenly disappeared
from Rome, Ga., has committed suicide.
Mr. Clinard was about fifty years old.
He kept a hotel in Athens, then, removed
to Cave Spring, and afterwards to Rome,
where until recently he kept the Central
hotel. Ilewas financially embarrassed, and
had threatened to commit suicide in or¬
der that his family might receive ten
thousaud dollars life insurance.
Mayor Price, of Macon, Ga., in re¬
sponse to the complaint the Salvation of a number of
merchants, forbade Army
holding open air concerts. He gave them
permission to parade, but as the mer¬
chants entered such earnest protest
against their their stopping business to places, sing and he play told
in front of
them to return to their barracks, which
they did
FIGHTING POVERTY. i
What H«Bry Wforge and Rev. Or.
are Doing
The anti-Peyerty society, of which
Rev. Dr. MoGIytoi is president and Henrv
George vice-president,' held their first
public meeting at Ofiickeraig ha! I; 1 New
York. The hall was packed''to.overflow¬ large
ing, and on leadekof the platform the united were a Labor
number of
party. The exercises opened with sing¬
ing by a chorus of fifty voices led by
Miss Mullier. Henry George presided,
and Dr. McGlynn, in addressing the vast
audience, said: “I ain intensely con
geious that wo stand here to-night! |on fl
historic platform. The founders of this
society, in rears to come, will look-back
upon to-niiht’s meeting with should pleasure.
It is said a priest of Christ not
stand, here to-speak of a cause which pro¬
poses to abolish this horrid crime of pov¬
erty, which is the injustice God. -of ,.i$fn, I would in
violation of the laws of
be recreant to my sacred priesthood if 1
should falter to speak the word which I
am commanded by my Lord and Master
to speak.” At the close of the services
an anthem was sung by the choir and
audience.. The society proposes to!hold
a meeting every Sunday night.
A nihilist printing press has been dis¬
covered nihilis at Odessa, Russia, and thirty-two
ts JjftYJ beep arrested.
LATEST NEWS.
Pi a-, miners were smothered to death by
th.- colluiwe of a pillar in an Ashland (Penn.)
mine,
A hoakfoi.d at Montieello, Ill., was thrown
to tin: ground by the antics of a calf, one of
th.- four men upon it being killed and one fa-
tally injured.
Tiikke brothers named Hayward were
(|row lied in < 'liesapoake Bay by the capsizing
Of their boat.
Th* Govenun-ut has been informed that
many Indians in the vicinity of Yuma. Ari-
-rsfas vrw-
Department " ’ ll 8 lve ful1 and explicit
dire thins how to t-lithe difference between
, . •
.
ria. >o\a bu tin J^i. has a*looted 1 ^
solutionsu^mst coercion m Ire!land.
As American party of prospectors have
discovered two of the seven silver mine*
Mexico worked by the Spaniards oi er a
hu 'id,vd ■£ The *
these mines has been a mystery for many
>’® ers -
Mr. Gladstone, in a speech at a dinner
given by Labor members of Parliament, de-
claret his entire disbelief int thei accusation
made bv the London Dan's that Parnell had
written a letter expressing approval of the
rb puix “ rark murd e ra
T 1 wo fihnrn sharp shocks shocks of of eartbnmko eartpquak we vut re
felt at Spokane Falls, W. T., recently.
The vibrations were from the north to
the south.
The French journals are soliciting do-
nations of one franc each toward the
purchase of a diamond cross for Schnic-
I ir ,|,.„ ’ recent I ' v n released kA,eU " liv y the Germans Bormans
Eleven “ members of the Gautsch family J
head the suiiscripuoil list.
The L governor of the Sooloo Islands
and a fo of 1)00 Europeans and native
‘'»»i». <*w ****** "p*.
several thousand native rebels at Haig-
bug, and took many prisoners and a large
number of guns. Maigbug was burned
after being looted. There were heavy
losses on both sides. The native c’jiefs
. liave lUily f ,, submit v ... tcci. v
An An analvsis auaiysis oi of the tne returns returns lor for the me re- re
pent elections of members of the German
Iicichstag, issued by the bureau of slat is-
ticSt s j lows that the candidates compi is-
ing the government majority obtained a
total of 3,611,310 votes, whereas , the
minority polled 3,910,285 votes. The
majority owe their position to the un¬
equal , distribution .. of , the electoral , . , areas.
* r Dr
Mc-GIynn, of New York, lias again in-
formed the Vatican that he refuses to
come to-Rome.
Advices from Kodisk, Alaska, says
that the schooner Flying Scud, hailing
from that point, was recently lost at sea.
All hands were lost, j
Emanuel DeFreitas, a seveuteen-year- j
old lad who made a successful jump from j '
the Brooklyn bridge, was sentenced to
P r ' son ^ ur ^ jree months.
The steamer Benton, from Singapore,
was gunk j n a collision with a bark off
**•
A dispatch from Western Australia, 1
says a hurricane swept over the north¬
east coast recently. A pearl fishing fleet
numbering , . forty , , , bouts destroyed , , and , ,
was ,
five hundred and fifty persons perished.
At Booneville, Ind., five boys J. D. !
Wilson, Will Lampton, Louis Irwin, I
Emmett Moore, J. Gifford Lampton, while
roaming in the woods, ate wild parsnip, j
Three of them died within an hour.
Mrs. Joseph Farnsworth, aged 25 years
ofLockport, N. 5., ran away w.th her
husband’s father, Nathan •‘Farnsworth, j
aged 8 60 years. >. Mrs. Farnsworth left two
small „ children. The elopers went , * ‘
to
Ehtrland b
The English government recently an-
phed .. , for - a list of educated , A candidates \ to
fill vacancias in the ranks of the Irish
constabulary caused by resignations, and
refusals to join the service were so
numerous tuntllio government was com- , i
pelled to resort to an inferior list. Many,
even of the latter, refused to take the
places offered them.
The trial of persons implicated in the
plot to kill the Czar commenced recently
and a Russian general is present to report
proceedings for the Czar. A painful im-
pression was prodqced on the spectators
in the outer hall as the accused entered
the court, their -youth and high bred, in-
telligent air eliciting much sympathy.
Among » the .i prisoners . is . a maiden • j of ..
strikin'# beauty.
Dr. W. T. Northrop, a physician at
Hnverb ill, Ohio, was w:ls murdered ’numeral l»v oy
Thomas , .
McCoy, a saloon keeper, and
his brother Alfred, postmaster at Haver-
hill, aided by two sons of Alfred McCoy.
Dr. Northrop had incurred the displeas-
ure of the McCoys by being active in fa¬
vor of local option. They waylaid him
when coming to his office and began
firing on nim with pistols and shotguns.
He was unarmed, but drew a pocketknife
and badly wounded Alfred McCoy before
he wan fatally shot.
AUOI'T crops.
The Western crops summary says: The
conditions in the main have been favor¬
able for growing .winter wheat. The
condition of spring wheat in Iowa, Minn-
esota and.Nebraska ijrtjwted to be good.
though rains are needed. The acreage in
Iowa promises to lie fully as large as last
year, if not somewhat larger. The m< ad-
ows ’in Il.inois, Indiana and Widespread Ohio- are
thin mi l slow in starting. Illinois is
injury to clover farms in re-
ported, owing to the injury from freezing.
YOL. 11. NO. 32.
AN UPRISING OF SOCIALISTS.
A < 'OAIBINATION OF TH t THU UK
l‘HlNCI PAL ORGANIZATIONS.
•4olircliisu’ Plans for a Hrvololloo la lb.
(‘.untry In !•••.
A Chicago dispatch gives the following
particulars alwut a proposed combination of
tin- three leading Socialistic organizations in
this country;
SgHftS&SH A few days ago a report was published
International, and the Socialistic Labor Par-
tv. V\ liilatheaim* and designs of the so-called
mack International, or the International
Working People'* Association, thanks to the
Anarchist* 1 trial, have* become widely known,
nobody knew or hardly ever heard of the Rad
„ rgmlial ,j on ol Socialists along the ftcifle
^ This organization was founded
Jgd 1" a ^I\, m^the iX'^inciriTcities pal eith-s ThreiXu^
of far the Knights secret of than Lalsir that assemblies, organization. and is It by
more is
propo ^ there’shall l» on u prising in 1889.
What would ix-cur were t he uprising he
counts on successful is thus outliu m:
“The action circumstances which may these: permit In
decisive will probably be
ihsp It will the present lie widespread panic will and approach alarming, aclimax. ac-
force. worC^riotLg^ It may even, complicated th^usT* by £ffi™ a bitter
clas* feeling, result in a suppression of the
rights of free speech, meeting, and press.
hold aloof from riots iu special localities. The
time is not yet ri|ie for success; we have
,. OUIlto) ( ,ur heads and we know it. To strike
this vear would lx-to back uselessly slaughter hundred our
best people and put the i-ause a
years. No, at present we must be wise as
serpents, hut harmtoss as doves. We must
SS^ST WtaM- 2l
panic means a trebling feialT^’ of our forces
"* r th p re 2 i«uU f^ri-
Lie » action hSd’^Kin^ is impossible, with STEST 400,000
y) "we
We hiave, perhaps, plans. until 1KS9, time in Europe which
to perfect our That year In in America,
will surely bring grave results.
if (leep<sr ffirtires an ,j lie more not, widespread another than panic, the greater, prooed-
trig, will bs upon us. Then,and not till then,
mR >’ we risk “ cast of the iroil die ‘ Then may
we strike the strike to win.
The article states that they exjiect to have
in the United States in 1889 at least 500,000
earnest Socialists, divided somewhat as
follows: Chicago, 25,000; New York,
25,000; States, 100,000: in the in New England factory and
the central coal
iron region, 100,000; in Colorado and
the Western Htates, 50,000; on the Pacific
coast, 50,000; in the Atlantic and Southern
^^“^.P'X^U^icited ssMssrsa
move^ the'large
outbreaks. centres revolt, the
made places where hut a few Hocialists exist are
element. points In for rallying of the conservative
those small places it should be
made the duty of the Socialists there presid¬
ing, destructive secretely and with all the aid of science
in warfare, to raise suffi¬
cient turmoil to ki-ep the eon-
servatives busy at home. Meanwhile,
in large Our centres bold measures should be
taken. people should head, lead and con-
trol the popular revolt; should seize the
places machinery of power; should lay hands upon the
of the Government. Once in¬
stalled in power, the revolutionary commit-
i ee should follow this course ot action. The
decrees should at enre be promulgated und
enforced.”
rebars
elaborate programme is outlined of the
manner m which the style of government
will be changed after the revolt has proved
successful. The year 1889 is also th a <me
decided in 188ti by the National Federation
0 f Trades and Labor Assemblies as the one in
,llr eight-hour rule should go into
A LONG JUMP.
A Vnuii Man ot Nineteen l.eapo From ihe
Brooklyn Bridge.
Emanuel De Freitas, a nineteen-year olil,
printer from Nova Scotia, has essayed and
fwm rhe great Brooklyn
Bridge into the East. River. At 4:55 p.m.
Wednesday, Officer Doyle, who was stationed
on the bridge promenade, noticed a slight inches
built tali, boy, not more than five feet four
with Smooth face and dressed in a dark
sack coat and dark trousers, and wear-
ing a soft white hat, climb over
the rail and dacr«S upon one of the planks which
are place the iron structure through which
which the southern track runs, and
are used by the electrie light men.
The boy, who was De Freitas ran
quickly over the plank and climbed
uown a ladder to the roadway, across which
he rushed amt begun climbing upon the para-
^ De Freitas the roadway, f^fawayTom and Finn
"l^tfoi* upon Tould^Uffi
.m
^ ward, and ^ ri his ^ hand y U) ^“ caught mp . ° Kinn%ra^Tre De Freitas s heel
^ i^iSre sufficient but the to throw sHght
hold he had taken was
his"' hSl^ suddenly slightly toS turned
forward, and then
^“ p ^ y °an‘inclined cora-
t0 position. When
still some distance above the river his body
turned and he struck the water head, first,
cutting it likea knife and disappearing from
view. He soon arose and was taken aboard
a steam lighter close at hand.
De Freitas was arrested soon afterward,
an,i st N” 1 thttt h< ’ had made this jump He to
gatisfv j limhe if it could be done. was
uninjured__
LIVELY BI LL KrtrtITINU.
The City of M- xico is enjoying the
novelty of bull-fighting at night, with the
arena being brilliantly illuminated
electric lights. The illumination put the
bulls in a fury, and the first buli, made
frantic, rushed at the picadors and in a
minute was muster of the arena, having
killed one horse and gored two others.
The net result of the first night was four
horses killed, several torn and crippled ;
two matadors nearly killed and several
picadors disabled.
HORSE THIEVES.
Felix Griffin, a notorious outlaw, was
killed recently near Webber Falls, Ark.,
while stealing horses. Felix was leader
of an organized band of horse thieves.
Robert Vann, owner of the horses, he aid
that Grillin was lurking around his place
and laid inwait for him and shot him dead
when he entered the stables with two
companions. The others escaped, though
J^dly wouu<i$.
TEMPERANCE.
Guard the Homo.
Every true heart on earth, wherosoe’er ho may
Kinds roam, life's dearest idol
that is home, sweet,
sweet home;
But so many homes' sweetness is changed into
pain. pleasure
And the dear dream of arises in
vain.
Home, home, destroyer sad, sad home,
he deadly has blighted the home
Not long shall we barter our hearts' hopes
And give away, destroyer o’er
the all things full
Not long, sway; for the hosts
to the battle now
come, “For
And this is the war cry: God and the
home!"
Home, home, sweet, sweet home,
We pledge now our manhood to light for the
home.
Sweet home! yes, ’tis dearer than all else
beside,
And we will defend it whatever betide,
And speed on the day when the cause is re¬
moved
That places in peril the homes we have loved.
Home, home, sweet, sweet home,
The I/ord God of heaven preserve ns the
home.
—Herbert Whitney, *» tAe Voioe.
A Railroad Man on Prohibition. 1
The following is an extract from the
Atlanta, Georgia, correspondence of the
New York Times: “A local railroad-
manager says: ‘The average workman on
on his railroad used to be in debt all the
time; it was seldom that the month’s
wages were not drawn before the month
was out. Ready cash went for tipples;
the family had to go in debt for necessi¬
ties. It isn’t so any more. There may
be jugs galore; there may even be sa¬
loons where quiet rum-drinking is en¬
couraged; but the cld array of tempta¬
tion is gone. No longer ure a half dozen
invitations flaunted from bar-rooms on
on every block. And we are paying more
money out in a lump at the end of each
month than ever before, said my railroad
friend, who is neither a Prohibitionist
nor one who seeks to point morals. I
only know that we seldom have an as¬
signment of wages now. Our workmen
put in more regular time. And scarce a
week goes by that some wife does not
come to the office to say that she is hap¬
pier than ever before, and that there is a
lot more comfort in life. Now I do not
say that the Prohibition of liquor selling
has caused all this, only I do say that it
never was so when the grogshops were
running.’”
An Insurance View of Beer-T)rlnking
We are surprised to note that some of
the foreign insurance journals have been
copying the absurd conclusions of one
J. Thomann, in a pamphlet recently pub¬
lished in New York, to show by statisti¬
cal figures that “beer is the healthiest
drink known.’’ That writer declares, as
the result of his investigations, that “the
risks incurred in insuring the lives of
habitual beer drinkers are less by forty
per cent, than the ordinary risks of such
transactions.” Thomann simply proves
what he did not start out to prove, that
the robust men employed in the breweries,
who drink from forty to fifty glasses of
beer daily, remain in robust health for
some years by virtue of their large
amount of vital force and tenacity; not
by virtue of beer, but in spite of it. We
have closely watched the heavy beer
drinkers in this community with reference
to their mortality ratio, for more than
twenty years, and our observations show
that out of every imadred vy.lv> saturate
themselves in this immodem!e )- wary, not
more than five pass the age of fifty-three.
Those that escape Brigllfs disease or
uraemic poisofiing become victims of
cirrhosis, or fatty degeneration, or ery¬
sipelas, or apoplexy. One or other of
these fatal diseases invariably gives the
finishing touch to the “splendid phy¬
sique” about which Thomann rants long
before the period of natural expectation.
If beer drinkers choose to satisfy their
thirst with their favorite beverage, that
is one thing; but if they are led by Tho-
mann’s lying statistics into the belief th.it
beer will prolong their lives, or that life
companies can be fooled into acceptance
of walking beer-barrels as healthy risks,
that is quite another .—Bultimure Under¬
writer.
’
Temperance Notes,
Sam Small says that in five years the
South will be solid for Prohibition.
Stephen A. Douglas, the son of the;
“Little Giant,” who used to he very in- 1
temperate, has now become a total ab¬
stainer and has made speeches in temper¬
ance meetings.
A mammoth temperance meeting was-
held at Elmira, N. Y., recently by “The
Old Guard,” an organization of morel
than 100 former drunkards who reformed!
under the Murphy crusade and are now
prosperous citizens.
A Colonial and International Congress
on Inebriety will be held in Westminister!
Town Hall, London, on the (1th day of
July, with Norman Kerr, M. D., P. L. S.,
as President. “A public dinner (with,
out intoxicants) will be held at 0.30 F.
m. in the large hall.
Dr. B. W. Richardson, at a recent
railway temperance meeting in England,
is reported as saying that alcohol ex
ercised injurious effects on the sense of
sight, and that the range at which a
set of figures could be read across a
room was shortened by three feet after,
taking alcohol.