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loofly Pouring into the South for Mills,
Foundries, Railways, Etc.
Helena, Ark., ia about to build a splen¬
did opera-house. will
Union City, Tenn., build a $150,-
000 court-house.
Han Antonio, Tex., devote* $150,000
for a city hall, jail, etc.
Greenville, Tenn., i* to have a tobacco
factory to cost $20,000.
There is an electric with light company at
Winston, N. C., a capital of $30,-
000.
The Memphis & building Birmingham Railroad
Co. contemplate a branch road
to Aberdeen, Miss.
S. Inman and others have chartered
the East Atlanta, Ga., Land Co. with a
capital stock of $60,000.
Samuel R. Lowry has organized a $50,-
000 stock company to cultivate and man¬
ufacture silk at Birmingham, Ala.
A company with a capital of $50,000
has iicon organized at Titusville, Ark.,
to cultivate the poppy and manufacture
morphine.
The Sylvania Rifles, a newly formed
company at Sylvania, Ga., have applied
to the adjutant-general for an order to
hold an election of officers.
Packard & Grover will move their
large shoe factory from Brockton, Mass.,
to Owensboro, Ky. Three hundred
hands will be employed.
The Carolina, Knoxville & Western
Railway road Co. has been incorporated to
build Greenville, a from Knoxville, Tenn,, to
S. C., 150 miles.
J. B. Burkstresser has purchased the
Black Mills falls water power, at Dade-
ville, Ala., and will, it is said organize a
itock company to build a cotton factory.
W. G. Welty, of Cleveland, Ohio, and
associates will build large works to man¬
ufacture iron bridges, nuts bolts, at
Rome, Ga. About $40,000 will be in¬
vested.
J. A. Montgomery, F. Y. Anderson,
G. B. West, W. J. Cameron and I. Vo rst
have incorporated a company to build a
hotel at Leeds, Ala., with a capital stock
of $150,000.
The Alexander Iron Co., of Nashville,
reported before, has a capital stock of
$1,000,000. The cempany will at once
erect malleable iron works with a daily
capacity of about 30 or 40 tons.
The Balcony Falls Co., of Virginia,
previously organized reported as incorporated, has
Been with an authorized capi¬
tal stock of $2,500,000. The company
will start a town and build furnaces and
manufactories.
George F. Alford, of Dallas, Tex., and
J. II. Langley, of Boston, Mass., con¬
template incorporating the Dallas &
Archer Coal & Iron Railway Co.,to build
a railroad from Dallas to Archer county,
to open up mineral lands.
John 8. Perry, the great stove manu¬
facturer, of Albany, N. Y., decided to
establish expensive considerable stove works in the
South, and spent time in¬
vestigating the advantages of different
locations for this industry. Finally, he
decide I upon South Pittsburg, Tenn.
BATTLES ON PAPER
SoniFwhnt DlHerent la Artnal Renion*irn-
tion.
Murat Halstead, of the Commercial-
Gazette, Cincinnati, O., prints in his
paper, over his own initials, n stricture
on Jefferson Davis’s historical inaccuracy
in that gentleman’s recent criticism of
Gen. Wolseley, on Lee at Fredericks¬
burg. Halstead maintains that Wolseley
was right, Halstead was at Fredericks¬
burg and knows whereof he speaks, and
sharply criticizes Davis, saying- “Davis,
in criticising Wolseley for saying that
Burnside’s army was in a ‘tight place’ at
Fredericksburg, falls into and allowed which to escape, he
nnd a strange error assuming that re¬
peats dwells upon, of
there were two national armies, one un¬
der Burnside, and another within sup¬
porting distance on the north under
Hooker, and out of this theory of two
armies Davis makes the assertion that
Burnside’s troops were not in a tight
place. Hooker did not have an inde¬
pendent command. He had charge of
one of the three grand divisions of Burn-
ride’s army. The other two were under
Franklin and Sumner. Hooker was in
]he battle of the first day, personally giv
ln j( orders to Humphreys that he had re
Wved from Burnside, to continue the
hopeless vainly attack on the stonewall, with and
artillery. attempting Stonewall to support is reported it
to have Jackson
troops advised a night attack on the
in Fredericksburg, and if he had
known how greatly they had been dam-
*f!cd he would almost certainly have
made the attack. There is no doubt that
after their repulse, they were in a dan-
gwous aituation, justifying Wolseley’s
Phrase of a ‘tight place. 1 M
COERCION FAILING
Ireland’* Friend* Very Hopeful.
With regard to the recent division in
“>* Britis h Parliament, refusing a se
*ct committee, a deputation of conserv-
riive members waited upon the Irish
P* rt y, to say that if the latter were wil-
that the scope of the proposed ,com-
lttee be so enlarged so as to include the
p •rnell letter, they, representing
a con-
uerable number of conservatives, would
Pport Mr. Gladstone’s amendment.
,i unen counseled with Mr. Glad-
ne ' Mr. Morley and Mr. Dillon, and
„,, Mecprently said they willing to
T were
* it so enlarged as io include any
> Irish ra *de by anybody against any
, ?' cm * )er - Then the conservatives
„ ° n Mr in-
- W. II. Smith. He
I . l that
, ,ai| if any independent
W “* ta ^ cn among his followers, he
JWresrgn. 1 ." wef ‘ken The the Times, alliance Dillon the affair
lerc “,! of eon-
di ves an( ^ unionists, nnd thus works
eminent &g l4t tlle interests of ,he g ov ‘
' rk lbe general impression is that
nr government is in tight
Dl*v * tad ‘idly a
to be defeated.
PERSONAL.
Mns. Frances Hodgson Burnett, the
Washington, Europe this D. C., authoress will visit
summer.
Queen Victoria is determined to vin¬
dicate Lady Colin Campbell. Her method
of doing this will be to receive the young
woman at court.
The Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, now
nearly seventy years old, is a great sports¬
man, and has shot in his Thuringian for¬
ests some 1,100 stags.
Gen. Sheridan takes a ride through
the Shenandoah valley every spring.
This year he will be accompanied by one
his aides and Senator Cameron, of Penn¬
sylvania.
Prof. Younq of Princeton College,
N. J.,will observe the total eclipse of the
aun in August next at Kireshama, in the
government of Kostroma, Russia. His
sentatives companions will be the scientific repre¬
oURussia and England.
It is now almost certain that the Med¬
ical Society of Washington will take no
further steps in the case of Dr. Z. T,
Sowers, who recently talked indiscreetly
about President Cleveland’s adiposity.
Sowers has had a big advertisement.
Gen. C. A. Evans and Hon. Patrick
ing Welsh, of Augusta. Ga., have been talk¬
up the proposed Chattanooga &
Augusta railroad to the people of Chatta¬
nooga. Gen. Evans is president of the
company, and the prospects for the con¬
struction of the road are good.
A lecturer on “Golden Opportunities
and How to Uuse Them” asked John
Wanamaker the Philadelphia inillionair
clothier, which of his opportunities had
been most useful to him. “Thinking,
trying, toiling, trusting in God, is all of
my keeper. biography,” replied the great shop-
Frank VizETELLV,tbe artist, supposed
to have perished in tne ill-fated expedi¬
tion, is said to be alive. A Syrian Greek
who has arrived at Cairo says that among
the European prisoners at Khartoum is “a
short, stout man, with a full beard,
wearing glasses.” this There is every reason
to suppose that man is Vizetelly.
Gen. 8. B. Buckner is a man of middle
atature, with small, piercing blue eyes,
snow-white mustache and imperial and a
rather ruddy fare. He is between sixty-
five and seventy years of age. He is
wealthy. His real estate in Chicago is
said to be worth $500, COO. About two
years ago he married, as his second wife,
a reigning belle of Richmond, Va.
Jefebson Davis has written a review of
Gen. Wolselyc’s “Life of Gen. Lee.”
Mr. Davis takes exceptions to many of
the English general’s statements, and,
while not finding fault with the superla¬
tive opinion of Gen. Lee’s military ability
expressed in the book, he shows plainly
that he considers Gen. Wolseley’s criti¬
cisms of other Southern leaders unjust
and unwarrantable.
The interesting historical problem as
to what kind of clothes George Washing¬
ton wore at his inauguration has been
settled. His suit on that occasion was
made of cloth from the Hartford woollen
manufactory, the first woollen mill in
America, established in 1788. The color
of the cloth was dark brown. The Pres¬
ident wore white silk stockings, also of
American manufacture.
Scandal seems to be the order of the
day at the Austrian court. There is
trouble between the Crown Prince Ru¬
dolph and pretty little Crown Princess
Stephanie; they have been on the verge
of separation, but the Emperor has person¬
ally interposed as a peacemaker, and in¬
stead of leaving Rudolph for good, her
Stephanie, will only deprive while him of
presence for a few weeks, she goes
home to Belgium to pout and be consoled
by papa and mamma.
Josephus Compton, present member of
the Legislature of Alabama, has left his
home mysteriously. Compton settled in
St. Clair Co. four years ago, coming from his
Kentucky, so he stated. He took up
abode in the little town of Eden, where
he followed the trade of a carpenter.
His life was exemplary, and in a year or
so he was elected town marshal. Last
year, nftcr a seasonable probation. Comp-
ton was licensed as a Methodist preacher,
and his sermons and exhortations were
of the most fervid and eloquent charac¬
ter. It turns out that thirteen years ago
he was engaged in making moonshine
whiskey in one of the mountain counties
of North Carolina and shot an officer, for
which he was imprisoned, but escaped. is¬
He was tracked, and a requisition escaped ivas
sued for him recently, but he
the officers.
TWO OCEAN DISASTERS.
The French steamer La Bretagne, Cap¬
tain De Jousseli, from New York, for
Havre, France, reports that during the
nitrht of April 30th she collided with and
sunk a Norwegian bark. The crew of
the bark was saved. The steamer La
Champagne, which sailed for New York
from Havre, and which afterwards re¬
turned, having been in collision, was
run into by the steamer Villc de Rio.
The latter steamer sank, but her crew and
passengers were saved. The collision
caused a panic among the Italians on
board tho Champagne, who made a rush
for a life boat and caused it to capsize.
Thirty-five of them were drowned, in au¬
dition to three sailors who tried to pre¬
vent the rush. The steamer Ville de
Bordeaux rescued fifteen Italians cling-
to the capsized life boat.
BUFFALO BILL'S POPULARITY.
The American exhibition at London,
Eng was formally opened recently. The
weather was clear and sunny. About
7 000 persons attended. The bursting of
a’boiler during the machinery, morning prevented otherwise
the starting of the
the programme of the opening ipeumg ceremony cereuiouj visitors
was was carried carrieu out. out. Hun ......drr-ds of
ignored the ceremony of opening tne
regular exhibition and rushed to the
grounds where the Wild West show per¬
formed.
nuisances.
TTio narrow gauge railroad must go.
President Charles Francis Adnms, of the
Union Pacific, who manages 1,500 narrow
g*ug« miles, says they are
nuisance*.
ELLAYILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY. MAY 12, 1887.
NATIONAL CAPITAL NOTES.
Gossip About the President, His Cabinet
aid Other Notables.
\l tint Non)hern Men nr. String It.cognlned-
1 iiterr.ling Item. About Ihn Nutlo.nl
Drill, Eto.. Etc.
ABOUT CROrS.
Tho Signal Office says: That the sea-
son, to date, in the various sections of
the country has been about as follows:
In the grain regions of the North it has
been comparatively cold and dry, in the
cotton regions to the west of Georgia
warm and usually dry; in the cotton and
rice regions of the South Atlantic coast,
cold and comparatively dry; in the to¬
bacco regions of Virgiuia and North Caro¬
lina cold and dry; in the tobacco regions
of Kentucky, Tennessee and Pennsylva¬
nia the weather has been warmer, with
a rainfall slightly less than usual.
the national drill.
Gen. C. C. Augur, commandant of the
national drill encampment, has added to
his staff appointments, Brigadier-general
II. II. Wright; Colonel II. Kyd Douglas,
of Maryland; Colonel P. Lacy Goddard,
of Pennsylvania; Captain C. A. Sinclair,
of the 8t. Louis Branch Guards, and Cap¬
tain Louis V. Clark of Birmingham, Ala.
The southern passenger association, in¬
cluding all roads south of the river and
east of the Mississippi, announced in ad¬
dition to their three-quarter cent rate for
parties of twenty-five persons, a special
excursion rate, for single passengers, of
two cents a mile. Charles T. Murry has
been made chairman of the press com¬
mittee for the drill and will have charge
of all arrangements for correspondents.
closing the monument.
The Washington monument commis¬
sion are discussing the advisability of
closing 1st of the monument to the public after
June, on account of the continued
acts of vandalism which are perpetrated
by visitors. The silver ornamentation of
the Nevada stone has been mutilated and
the commission is determined ta put a
stop to these disgraceful acts, if even to
do go it is neccessary to deny visitors en¬
trance to the shaft.
wish to compete.
The interstate commerce commission
has received an application from the New
York Central and Western connections to
be relieved from the action of section
four of the interstate act, so that so far
as to permit competition with the Penn :
sylvania Central road and its affiliated
lines for traffic between a number of
points named in the East and West.
CANNOT TAX DRUMMERS.
Judge Merrick, in the district supreme
court, announced the judgement of that
court, in the case of the District ugainst
Henneek, a Baltimore drummer, charged
with being an unlicensed commercial
agent. The act imposing the license tax
was passed by the old district legislature,
under the authority, it was claimed, of
Congress. The court dismissed Henneek,
holding that a tax on drummers from
other states is a regulation of commerce and
between such states and the District
that such a tax can be imposed by Con¬
gress alone.
rifle shooting.
At the request of the executive com¬
mittee of the national drill, Gen. Sheri
dan has detailed Col. S. E. Blunt, of his
staff, to take charge of the rifle competi¬ will
tion during the drill. Competition
be open to any regularly enlisted man or
commissioned officer of the volunteer
militia--entries not to exceed two men
from any one company— under army reg-
illations. Eight prizes will be offered,
consisting of gold, silver and bronze
medals. About 100 entries have already
been received. .
DINING A COLORED QUEEN.
Queen Kapiolani is the recipient of
much attention, both official and social.
She attended the Jockey club races and
the circus, and received a large number
of prominent callers. She went to Mount
Vernon, on the United States Steamer
Dispatch. When she embarked at the
navy yard, she was greeted President with a salute
of twenty-one guns. The gave
a state dinner in her honor. The white
house was profusely and beautifully dec¬
orated for the occasion with palms, pot¬
ted Diants and flowers. Among the
cuests outside of the royal party were
Chief Justice and Mrs. Waite; Hawaiian
minister and Mrs. Carter; Secretaries
Bayard, Fairchild, Endicott and Whit-
nev and Postmaster-General Vilas, with
their wives; the Haytien minister; Gen.
and Mrs Sheridan; George Bancroft and
chairman of the senate committee on for-
ekm relations.
Gettysburg’s battlefield.
There is a hitch between the Confed¬
erate committee and the Gettysburg regarding Bat¬
tlefield Memorial Association,
the locating of the monument to be
erected on the scene of Pickett’s charge.
The hitch appears to be whether
the monument shall be located at the far¬
thest point reached within the Union
lines by members of the division, or at
the point reached by the main body.
The latter point is not at present covered
by the ground of the association, but is
open to purchase.
AMENDING THE RULES.
The civil service commission submitted
to the President certaiu proposed amend¬
ments of rule 4, 6, 19 and 21 of the rules
for the regulation and improvement of
executive civil service. All of the pro¬
posed amendments were approved and
became at once effective. These regula¬
tions will be applied to the war tried depart¬
ment, and after they have been ia
that department, if found satisfactory t*»
the commission, they will be applied all to
the treasury department, and later to
of the other department* of the govern¬
ment.
The comptroller of the currency has
declared ft third dividend of ten per cent
in favor of the creditors of the Exchange
National bank, of Norfolk, Va. Ibis
makes in all forty per cent on claims
proved, amounting to $2,888,986.
It is reported that Miss Rose Elizabeth
Cleveland, the Presidem’s sister, will be-
come a teacher in a prominent private
school for young ladies in New York.
SOUTHERN NEWS.
M. y. Clark, of Forsyth, killed Ga., a well-
known negro editor, was by a
runaway accident.
The authorities of Macon, Ga., arc hard
at work perfecting plans for the new
water-works.
The students at the Athens, Ga., Uni¬
versity became very unruly recently. They
armed themselves with guns and mado
demonstrations at the Lucy Cobh Insti¬
tute, which so frightened she the called principal,
Miss Iiutherford, that on the
police for protection. of Jacksonville,
Charles V. Harris,
Fla., was arrosted in Savannah, Ga., for
larceny after trust, and attempting to
commit suicide with frustrated a pistol in the police. sta¬
tion house it was is by the
In a rage policeman. he attempted, it alleged, to
shoot a
Mrs. George R. Black recently pur¬
chased a GOO pound bell for All Saints
Episcopal Church in Sylvania, Ga. It is
a memorial bell, and upon its side is this
inscription: “To the glory of God and
in loving entered memory into of November George K. 15,188ft,” Black,
who rest
Jennie Bowman, the brave young do¬
mestic, whose brutal treatment by tho
negroes, Turner and Patterson in Louis¬
ville, Ky., so aroused the people of that
city a few weeks ago, died from her inju¬
ries recently. A fund of about $1,000
was raised for her during her illuess.
Express Messenger Fotheringham has
sued the Adams Express company and
the Pinkerton Detective agency, at St.
Louis, Mo., for $100,000 damages for
false arrest and imprisonment, in con¬
nection with the great express robbery.
The State Farmers' alliance cotton
congress, at Waco, Tex., arranged to
enter into the manufacturing of wagons,
agricultural oil implements, cotton presses
and mills. Over $10,000,000 were
represented. concluded Arrangements statistics have been
for collecting and for
an early charter under the laws of Texas.
Several weeks ago, a hound ran through
a settlement near Decatur, Ga., and
frightened a number of people, The who felt
certain that he was mad. dog bit a
valuable mule belonging to Jennings
Hulsey, and recently the mule died. A
fine jersey cow which was bitten also
died. The dog was not killed until a
few days ago.
Mrs. Susan Sullivan and five small
children arrived at Chattanooga, Tenn.,
from Pierce, Mo., having walked the
entire distance of 600 miles. Her hus¬
band died in December, leaving the
family among strangers, and penniless.
Mrs. Sullivan wished to return to her
former home in Knoxville, and having no
means, concluded to walk.
A terrible tragedy occurred near Spring
Station, Ky-, recently, on the farm of
Capt. Jas. Blackburn, ex-secretary of
state, and brother of Senator J. C. 8.
Blackburn. Miss Henrietta Blackburn,
accompanied by her cousin, Henrietta
Hempstead, a young lady of nineteen
years, went out to shoot at a mark with
a small rifle. They were joined hv Sam¬
uel Blackburn, a young man of twenty-
two, a brother of Miss Henrietta Black¬
burn, and a friendly contention was
begun as to who should shoot first. Tho
three engaged in a playful struggle for
the possession of the gun, and in this
struggle the weapon was discharged, Miss the
ball piercing the heart of Henrietta
Hempstead, and killing her instantly.
Three hundred residences, arc in course
of erection in Anniston, Ala., with a
prospect of twice this number, during
the summer.
The private bank of T. R. Beard at
Richmond, Tex., the liabilities amount to
$114,000; assets are valued at $(12,000.
For several years the bank has been con¬
ducted by Mrs. Beard, under the name of
her deceased husband.
George 8. Hancock and Dirk Moore,
two citizens of Augusta, Ga., had an
altercation at the artesian well on Wash¬
ington street, which culminated in Han¬
cock cutting Moore with a knife, inflict¬
ing wounds which may prove fatal.
A Young Men’s Christian Association
has recently been organized at Newberry,
S. C.; there are now one hundred on the
roll. Money is being raised to erect a
building for the use of the association,
and already more than $2,000 has been
secured.
The trustees of the Monroe Female „ ,
College at Forsyth, Ga., have devised a
plan, and will soou erect a commodious
and well arranged boarding department
connected with the college which sup-
plies a long-felt want to that institute,
and will place it in compet.ttou with the
best in the state.
Capt. Burke of the Gate City Guards
and William Atwood Editor of the Capi¬
tol newspaper, had a fuss in Atlanta with
reference to an article in the paper re¬
flecting on the conduct of the Captain in
connection with the European trip of flour¬ the
Guards. Canes and cowhides were
ished around and the daily papers arc
filled with lengthy accounts of the mat¬
ter, It Is hard to tell who had the ad¬
vantage in the scuffle.
_
MEXICAN INVADERS.
One'tnorning recently, the judgement of
the court-martial in the case of Col.
Arvisa, Lieut. Guiterez and Louis Ren-
con was executed. The trio faced death
bravely, bandaged, all refusing at first to have their
eyes but finally, on appeal of
Col. Yarrati, the men allowed themselves
to be blindfolded. A volley was then
fired on them, and the examining surgeon
pronounced all three dead. These were
the persons who created the trouble on
the American side of the line some weeks
ago. They brought a squad of soldiers
to the American side and attempted to
release a man from local officers.
NEGRO LYNCHED.
Ben White, a negro, who feloniously
assaulted a sixteen-year old white gitl,
a member of a highly respected lynched family by
near Raleigh, N. C., was When arrested,
a mob of masked men.
for the better protection from the indig¬
nant friends of the girl, the negro was
sent to jail at Williamston, N. C. A
body of men arrived there on the train,
picketed tbe streets, broke open the jail,
took the negro to Tarboro and perpetrated hanged
him to a tree near where he
the outrage.
GOD’S VISITATION
ON OUR XEIGRBOR, MEXICO.
j A Hfitiimio <onvnl*lon Which Itorku the
Country, ('rodtiring Horrible ( Unmnn.
.Hun? People killed mid <icn-
ornl Terror.
News from Guymas, Mexico, state that
the earthquake of a few days ago was ac¬
companied by n terrible destroyed volcanic erup¬
tion at Batrispe, which Monte¬
zuma, killing one hundred and fifty per¬
sons and igniting the woods in the
vicinity. Twenty-seven the persons were
also killed at Oxtitu by falling build¬
Grenada ings. Many and Gusabar, persons which were injured in
towns were
almost completely violent destroyed. is
Another earthquake reported
in San Jose mountains, forty miles South
of Fort Huachuca, in Sonora. Gen. For¬
syth has sent an exploration party to
investigate. A party just returned from
Santa Caliana mountains report that the
canyons are full of water, which was
brought to the surface by the earthquake.
This is a great boou for that region, as
there are thousands of acres of. good
farming lands at the base of these moun¬
tains, which only needed water to make
them valuable. Another good effect of
the earthquake is the opening of two
large gold veins, which wore discovered
in Santa Calsina mountains, at a point
where the whole side of the mountain slid
down. ___
SOUTHERN MAN S HONOR.
A Trusted Bookkeeper Returns Nenrly ft
.Million Hollars After Twenty Years.
The New Haven, Conn., Register
prints u remarkable story of financial in¬
tegrity on the part of a Southern capital¬
ist which stands without a parallel in the
commercial history of the country. The
names of the principals are withheld, but
the eminent respectability of the counsel
in the case, ex-Judge Luzon B. Morris,
of New Haven, is a sufficient guarantee
of its truthfulness. The Register says
that at the beginning of the War, a
wealthy Southern grocer, who had re¬
cently taken his young bookkeeper his into
partnership, fearing that property
would be confiscated, decided to go
North. He told the bookkeeper to use
the property, valued at about $400,000,
as he thought best, and that he, the mer¬
chant, would rely upon the bookkeeper's
honor for a settlement at some future
time. The merchant then left and set¬
tled in New Haven. Six years ago, won¬
dering what had become of his cstnte in
the South, the merchant placed the mat¬
ter in the hands of Judge Morris, with
instructions to investigate nnd collect, if
there was anything to collect. After
some correspondence with the book¬
keeper at the South, the latter forwarded
acknowledgment of the claim and un in¬
ventory. showing his indebtedness to his
former employer to be $648,000, and ex¬
pressing his desire to return the property,
but requested time to perfect this arrange¬
ment. He began remitting several the years
ago nnd last week forwarded last pay
ment, including interest, Judge thus Morris wiping out
the debt of honor. de¬
clines to give details further‘than his
client is a gentleman listed ns a million¬
aire, and that the Southern gentleman is
now a wealthy banker.
EXCITEMENT IN FRANCE.
Young Men Parade the Mtreete of Parle
and Ming Palrletie Song*.
A procession carrying a banner inscrib¬
ed, “ To Berlin 1 ” marched to the palace
of the Elysee, the residence of President
Grevy, in Paris, where it was dispersed
by the police. Another mob in the
neighborhood of Eden theatre, where
Wagner’s “ Lohengrin” was being per¬
formed, shouted: “A Bas L’AUemagne!”
“Down with Germany 1” “Vive La-
Francel” “A Berlin!" “On to Berlin!”
“A Bas Bismarck 1” “Give us back our
clocks!” referring to Strasburg. A mob
composed of students and gamins march
ed about shouting. They halted in front
of the army and navy club and there cried
out: “Vive l’armee Francaise!” “Vive
Boulanger!” “A Berlin!” Another mob
went to the building, occupied by the
Russian embassy, shouting, “Vive La-
France!” “ Vive la Russie!” “Vivel’al-
liance Russie-Francaise!” The leaders
of this mob then proposed to their fol¬
lowers to march to the German embassy,
Place Do La Concorde, singing the air,
“Lampions,” to the words of the song,
“Nos Pendules,” but it was stopped by
the police and turned away before it
could reach the German embassy.
PERMANENT PROSPERITY.
President Alfred Sully, of tho Rich¬
mond & West Point R. R. system, said,
on returning to New York:
“I went over some of our South Caro¬
lina lines, East Tennessee roads and the
Georgia Pacific. I found them all in
very good condition nnd a great boom
down there in real estate and mining in¬
terests. There is a lull in Birmingham
real estate sales, but there is a very large
amount of building going on. There
seems to be a remarkable amount of en¬
terprise manifested in the South, espec¬
ially in Alabama and Eastern Tennessee,
developing the natural resources of the
country. There is no question but that
the newly developed South manufacturing in¬
terests of the are upon a perma¬
nent basis, and I believe that Georgia,
Alabama and Tennessee will add 50 per
cent io their material wealth in the next
five vears.”
DROWNED AT A ICAPTISINU.
A number of colored people, belonging
to the congregation of Mt. Zion Baptist
church, assembled on a wharf at New
Orleans, La. The crowd leaned on the
wharf railing, which gave way under
the great strain brought against it, and
dmut fifty persons were precipitated into
t he river. Three whites ana eight col-
ored persons, all women or children,
wire drowned.
NEW CORPORATION.
Judge Clarke, of the Superior Court,
Atlanta, Ga., recently grunted a charter
to the Atlanta Construction Co. The in¬
corporators are E. P. Barns, W. K. Park¬
ins and James A. Barns. The objects
nr O contracting, building, with etc., etc. the privi¬ The
capital stock ls $10,000,
lege of being increased to $100,000.
VOL. II. NO. 33.
LATEST NEWS.
The American p:q»er wheels for rail¬
ways liavo proved unfit for the purpose,
and h 11 the German railway managers
have discontinued them.
Walter Vrooman, an editor of Kansas
City, Mo., mado n socialistic speech in
Pittsburg, P»., and, denouncing the au¬
thorities and the American flag, was
jailed.
Count Sbovaiow, Russian ambassador
to Berlin, is the bearer of an autograph
letter from the Czar, assuring the Em-
peror William of Russia's continued
friendship.
A rousing meeting of representative
men was held in Chicago, Ill., recently,
to give expression to American sentiment
in opposition to the suspension of consti¬
tutional liberty in Ireland. About 6,000
were present, drawn principally from
well-to-do classes. Mayor Roche presid¬
ed, and most of the speakers were citi-
zens of American birth, such as Governor
Oglesby, Rabbi Hirsch, Wirt Dexter,
Rev. Dr. Bolton, Congressman Mason and
Gen. Martin Beal. They strongly de¬
nounced the coercion hill now pending in
the British Parliament, Resolutions
similar in tone to the speeches were
adopted.
France inis concluded a defensive alli¬
ance with certain other powers, and
henceforth France will not be ulone in
event of aggression against her.
Col. W. H. Bolton, ex-superintendent
of second-class matter in the Chicago,
Ill., post-office, who was convicted of tlie
embezzlement of about $25,000, was sen¬
tenced to four years imprisonment in the
penitentiary.
Paul Grutikun, an unari-liist who made
incendiary speeches in Milwaukee, Wis.,
was sentenced to one year at hard labor
in the house of correction.
A hot sirocco blew a whole week
throughout Hungary, parching vegetables
and rendering them inflammable. At Tor-
ra/.ko three hundred houses were burned
and four lives were lost. The conflagra¬
tion lasted two days. At Uuskburg a
church and thirty-seven houses were de-
stroyed. Many houses were burned at
Maregys. At Epcrics all the churches
and public buildings were destroyed.
William Slaughter, one of the wealth¬
iest stock raisers in New Mexico, was
killed in American Valley by two men
named Youngblood and Adkins. Slaugh¬
ter was riding along the road unarmed
when Youngblood and Adkins met him,
and after a few words shot and killed
him. Last year Slaughter was a member
of the Sococro county grand jury, and a
large number of men were indicted for
cattle stealing, among them Youngblood
and Adkins.
The New York city police authorities
learned that one of their own officers was
carrying on a regular policy and lottery
agency at his post of duty and in hil
uniform. The policeman named was
Morris Colbert. He is assigned to a post
at tho Mercantile building in lower
Broadway. The superintendent with a
pair of scissors proceeded to cut the brass
buttons off of the policeman’s coat. The
stripes were ripped from his trousers and
his badge taken from him. He was theD
placed in a cell.
FRAM E VM. IIKIOIANY.
Two commercial men named Wcissman
and Patricia, who were parties to a bitter
feud, met The in met proprietor, in a cafe Terrian, in Paris,
Fran cc. to
avoid a row, asked Weissman to leave the
place. This enraged the latter, and in
the scuffle which followed, Weissman
drew a sword stick and mortally pierced
Terrian. A crowd collected,and believing
that Weissman was a German, tried to
lynch him.
DEATH OF A JURIST.
Judge J. T. Willis, of Columbus, Ga.,
WU8 8 tricken with paralysis, time and died.
He was unconscious from the of the
attack to hia death. He had been on the
street laid during the afternoon. bed He had
just down bn his attacked. for an after¬
noon nap, when he was He
was fifty-one years of age, was a native
af Talbot county, and leaves a wife and
eight children.
ABOUT MONUMKNTlS
Chinese Gordon is to hare a colossal
bronze statue in Trafalgar square, Lon¬
don. Yamo Thomycraft is the designer. patrol
He will represent Gordon in a
jacket, unarmed, with a Bible in his
right hand and his foot resting on a
broken cannon.
John C. Breckinridge ia to have a
monument, too. It will be unveiled at
Lexington, Ky., next October.
POISON IN MILK.
The wholesale milk poisoning which
occurred at Long Branch last summer
has conclusively shown for the first
time, that milkwarm from the cow, when
placed in tight cans under conditions
which greatly retard the dispersion of its
heat, will undergo change, with the de¬
velopment in the course of five hours of a
poison called tyrotoxicon.
CHIUAOO STRIKE 0
Over 5,000 hod-carriers of Chicago
quit work because they cannot get an j
increase In wages from twenty-five to
' irty centa per hour.
TEMPERANCE,
Wo Taka It. Ia Folly,
■treny Drink is a sowar
Of malice and strife,
A poison that cankers
Ths fountains of life.
Strong Drink's-a deceiver, (i-
As thousands have found(
He tells m* that pleasure
With him shall abound.
Strong Drink is a jailer;
Ahl bas-ho not bound
Ten thousand poor drunkards
Like slaves to the grosaidl
—S. Knou Us, in Temperattce Banner.
Iionjj Step Forward In Matne."
The large number of indictments
against liquor sellers found by the grand
jury at the present term of court speaks
of an awakened public sentiment against
liquor selling, and increased efficiency
on the part of public officials in the en¬
forcement of the law. We think the
opponents of prohibitory laws, who de¬
clare that public sentiment has weakened
in regard to the enforcement of the laws
and the promotion of temperance forget
with what great difficulty indictments
were obtained against liquor sellers when
the first prohibitory law was enacted, and
deceive themselves in regard to the pro¬
gress of public opinion upon this matter.
In the early days of prohibition very
few liquor indictments were found by
grand juries. County attorneys would
not give the law a faithful support. In
many cases they instructed grand juries
decidedly against it. Sheriffs and muni¬
cipal officers were opposed to enforce¬
ment, or so stow to act for fear of offending
the liquor selling interest that their efforts
were of no avail. But as time has gone
on, juries, officers, and public have been
passing through an educational process,
so that officers now enforce the law im¬
partially and faithfully as they do any
other law, grand juries will indict ac¬
cording to the evidence of guilt pre¬
sented, and the public will not only sus¬
tain officers in doing their duty, but de¬
mand its faithful performance. There
has been a long step forward in Maine in
regard to the enforcement of the prohib¬
itory liquor laws during the last, thirty
years. Whatever liquor dealers may say to
the countrary, the consumption of intoxi¬
cating liquors in Maine has vastly de¬
creased during that time, and public
opinion has as certainly gone forward in
favor of measures for the suppression of
the liquor traffic. The prohibitory prin
ciple is engrafted upon the constitution
of the State by the will and act of the
people, there to remain as long as the
State stands. The large list of indict¬
ments found in Kennebec County at the
present term is significant of the people’s
wishes and demands for the strict en¬
forcement of the laws for the suppression
of drinking shops, and vigorous work
against those who are engaged in the il¬
legal traffic. The friends of temperance
are goingshoulderto shoulder against, the
traffic, which is evil and nothing but evil,
and they will drive it into closer quarters
than it has ever yet occupied. We trust
the law will be executed with a firm and
impartial hand, so that no guilty man
may be allowed to escape. Let the tem¬
perance laws be enforced as faithfully as
other laws arc. If men will transgress
the laws against dram-selling, of which
they cannot be ignorant, let them suffer
the penalty. They have nobody to blame
but themselves for whatever punishment
may be meted out to them, for they knew
from the commencement that their busi¬
ness was illegal and that they were liable
to prosecution and punishment.— Augus¬
ta (Me.) Journal.
Alcohol.
Professor Alglave, the director Of the
International Scientific Series in France,
recently delivered a public lecture on al¬
coholism, in which he stated that of 100
insane persona, forty had been intem¬
perate; that fully one-half of our crimi¬
nals had been in the habit of drinking to
excess, and that delirium tremens killed
2,200 persons every year. The reason for
the increase in the death-rate of alcoholic
patients is not that there are a greater num¬
ber of victims, but that alcoholic liquors
are much more poisonous than formerly,
owing to the poorer quality and the ad¬
dition to them of inferior alcohol made
from rice, potatoes, corn, beets, etc. Of
1,872,000 hectolitres of alcohol consumed
annually, scarcely 25,000 hectolitre are
pure ethylic ncohol marie from grapes,
and other alcohols are real poisons, as
may easily be shown. To kill an animal
it requires about seven grammes of
ethylic alcohol per kilogramme of the an¬
imals weight, while of amylic alcohol it
requires only about one gramme. To pro¬
duce death in a man of eighty kilo¬
grammes weight, it would require 620
grammes of the pure alcohol, but only
eighty-eight of the other. Alcoholism is
therefore produced seven times sooner
with the latter than with the former.
Temperance Note*.
Maine has eighty-six local Woman's
Christian Temperance Unions.
Twelve counties have been added to
the “dry” list in .Mississippi the past
year.
Kansas has increased her population
under prohibition from 900,000 to 1,500,-
000 .