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ELLAYILLE PUBLISHING CO. C. D. ADAMS, Editor.
WASHINGTON, D. C,
HTERESTING notes from the na¬
tional CAPITAL.
.fill the lieparlmanl* are Doing, anit Who
” Are living Appointed, Klc., Klc.
A NOVEL CASE.
The United States marshal for Alaska
hiving failed to fly the proper signals
u|l0 n the schooner ban Diego, which lmd
hemne (he property of the United Slates
hv confiscation, violation an enterprising of the law aud citizen
imported the has
a.plied to the treasury department for
pOO, his half of the penalty under the
/jiv, The attorney general is now n r«st-
ling with the question, whether the gov¬
ernment must enforce u line ngainst itself.
MUSKETS FOE THE SOUTH.
Regulations have been framed by the
H'ar Department for the purpose of car¬
rying into effect the act of Congress
making an annual appropriation to pro¬
vide arms and territories. equipments for the militia
of slates and Under the ap-
porti hinent of $400,000 appropriated
fast session, the following sums go to
Southern states: Alabama, #9,210; Flor¬
ida, $11,896; Georgia, #11,059; Louisiana,
#7,373; Mississippi, #8,292; North Caro¬
lina. #10,138; South Carolina, #8,293;
Tennessee, #11,059; Virgiuia, #11,059.
INCREASE IN COTTON.
I In the acreage in cotton an increase of
I one per cent is reported in the June re-
Iturn I of the department of agriculture.
I There appears to be a slight decline in
states of the Atlantic coast, and an in-
I crease west of the Mississippi. State
I averages are: Virginia 90; North Caro-
[lina, 198.5 99.5; Florida, South 97; Carolina, Alabama, 98; Georgia, 100;
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1106; Mississippi, 100.4; Louisiana, 102; Texas,
Arkansas, 102.5; Tennessee, 100.
The condition June of cotton is higher than
in auy since 1880, averaging 96.9,
and has only been exceeded three times
'however, since 1870. The best yield when in that period,
was in 1882, the June
condition was 89, a figure that has been
discounted six times since 1870. It is a
good beginning, but does not insure a
good crop. State averages are: Vir-
ginia, 99; North Carolina, 99; South
Carolina, 98; Georgia, 99; Florida. 98;
Alabama, 89; Mississippi, 99; Louisiana,
&7; Texas, 91; Arkansas, 98; Tennessee,
97. General average, 96.9.
There is generally unusually good
“stands,” or plant. In Texas early
■planted better. did not come up well; late plant-
■ ing is There is not a full plant
■ in some fields in Arkansas. Clean cultl-
■ v . is reported as a rule, and a healthy
■color and good growth.
TREASURT DISMISSAL.
Thirteen clerks in the Treasury Dc
Ipartinent have been notified that their
■tames will be dropped from the pay rolls
paly 1 to by make reason provisions of the failure for the of payment Con¬
gress
of their salaries after that date.
A GOOD MAN ILL.
philanthropist W. W. Corcoran, the aged millionaire
wassuddeuly stricken with
paralysis in the left arm and leg, while at
ti Mr. e dining table. An inmate friend of
Corcoran’s said that he did not know
9 what to ascribe the attack, except that
Mr. Corcoran was an old man, who would
■celebrate his eighty-ninth birthday ou the
puk of December next.
NOTES.
Portsmouth, Va., will be made a free
Idelivery after July 1.
The Secretary of the Treasury has ap¬
pointed Benjamin S. Sheppard to be
(ton keeper and gauger at Greenville,N. C.
The Postmaster-General has ordered
«n examination of candidates for the po¬
rtions of post-office inspector. Thirty
jtppointments salary is #1,600, are with to be allowance made, and of tbe #4
an
“day for traveling expenses.
The Secretary of the Navy has given
I orders for the vessels of the North At-
llantic squadron to proceed to New Haven,
■Conn,, Iiti fur the purpose of participating
the ceremonies incident to the dedica¬
tion of the Soldiers and Sailors’ Monu-
■ment.
I DcWitto Dumas, a well-known colored
Irasn, formerly secretary for Senator Kel-
I l W of Louisiana, has been arrested by
t: "; District police for alleged petty
l**mdliug. I’ Ho represented himself as
11 ' president of ‘-the Society for the
r ° ral Intellectual and Industrial Im-
Il'tovement of the Colored People.”
I President Cleveland’* country trip is at
I 11 end and he will soon be found at his
ll«of duty in the White House.
I thief Engineer G.W. Melville, of Arc-
IJ I T “ me d > (‘at just performed an unprec-
P' ecc °* w °rk. In less than two
1.7*” iv lime he ha* prepared designs for
■ s machinery of five different vessels of
I ■ * l,rt ,l ^ v D * v y. When he began his task
l e"giii,; ers said he was attempting
I Ik.., '[ n l l08s d>ility. The plans are for the
' er ? of the Newark, two nineteen-
I Jot vessels aud two gunboats.
I monument dedicated.
■Prl n 'ri tmm " b in . ent iu er ected Lurial by plot the New Cypress York
■ l»sjT Bill at
tcr y> on Long Island, N. Y„
Ipeoi,) ■news'’ U ln<: :lt " ' d u 'Lng ln *Le presence large number of 2,000 of
a
iPsthn * r nil ‘ n eloquent and sym-
'
Chi,,„ IC il( fdress was delivered by
ode Ct Depew. The dedicatory
‘
Imoti , n ia l,
, “' y Hugh Farrar McDer-
!t ,l', u 1, ‘ 1 'which , an address was deliv-
rc v {l DeWitt The
liv ciosi* w*' r yer ' v - nd Talmage. by
a a benediction were
[tier'' [the 8 COnC s - itainsford, ^ uded . ‘fh D. the D., singing aud the of
(ln» | w
[the audienc^ ^ ^ m Pi° n eborus and
'Authquake IN TURKU V.
CrJ?, “ v 0ck8 n °f earthquake in Turkestan. have The oc-
' <m ESJ
,120p Um , °' st tirely destroy* and
W erg ! Were dedandasmai ,
more
l^riede Atnon g the latter is Gen.
^i4^ to d r » or *be of shocks the still province continue, of
the i,i ,. of the have
town
e open country.
SOUTHERN NEWS.
Augusta, Ga,, is agitated over the early
closing of the dry goods stores. Clerks,
employers and citizens have gut into the
arena, and half a dozen arrests have been
made.
Miss Irene Fnnn, of Cleveland, Tenu.,
a school teacher was shot by William
Guess. At first it was supposed to be ac¬
cident, but appearances now indicate
intentional shooting, because Fann whip¬
ped Guess’ sister.
Four boys were bathing at Bean’s
Landing near Nashville, occuring Tenn., and some
tin il pleasant words between them
ent some men who were practicing at a
mark near by, the shelters turned their
tire on the boys. Elmore Greeu 10 years
old was killed.
A monument erected to the memory of
Louisiana soldiers, was unveiled at
Vicksburg, Miss., with impressive cere¬
monies. A number of prominent per¬
sons were present from all parts of the
South, including Governor McKeeney
and staff. The Continental Guards of
New Orleans and other military bodies
were in the procession.
An ordinance has been introduced in
the Anniston, Ala., Council, making it a
misdemeanor for any person under 18
years of age to smoke on the streets, or
any public place of the city.
Set rotary Greer, of the Georgia State
Fair Association at Macon, Ga., has re-
ceived letters from Governor Gordon and
Senator Joseph E. Brown, accepting in-
vitations to agricultural be present during the meet- be
ing of the convention, to
held iu Canton on the second Tuesday in
The Worn iu’s Missionary Society,
North Georgia conference, will hold its
annual meeting in Rome, Ga., July 3-7.
A largo delegation is expected from the
churches of the conference Dr. Ken¬
dall, of Rome, will preach the anniver¬
sary sermon. Bishop Key is expected to
deliver an address.
A heavy rain storm visit'' 1 Dawson,
Ga. Lightning struck th c imney of
T J. Hart & Co.’s carriage 1a ory, and
a large hickory tree in rear o. Tom Loy-
less’s ice cream saloon, knocking down
Sam Statham and Ed McDonald, who
were standing near it, and severely
shocking several others.
No passengers will be received on board
tbe ships of the Savannah Line at Ha¬
the vana or Key West. Until further notice
steamers will lie at anchor off Key
West, and all freight to and from that
port will be transferred by lighters at the
cost of the shipper or consignee.
The city sanitary board at Savannah,
Ga., have taken steps toward the placing
of an inspector at Wuycross or some
point north of that station on the line of
the Savannah, Florida & Western Rail¬
way to examine all persons coming from
iulected places and to sec that they are
in no way capable of endangering the
public health.
Anderson Weaver, of Social Circle,
Ga., while hoeing cotton, was struck by
lightning and killed. His hat and shoes
were torn from him aud destroyed.
P. J. Meehan, a citizen of Atlanta, and
Ga., was recently chloroformed
robbed of #400 in money by burglars
who entered his sleeping apartment.
Prof. Magath, of Oxford, Ga., Ireland, heads*
party who will make a tour of
Scotland, England and France. They
leave in July and return in September.
Dr. W. F. Bruner was sent to Florida
by the Sanitary Board of Savannah, Ga., of
to examine into the trustworthiness
the quarantine at Jacksonville, Tampa
and other points.
A cyclone, near Marshall, Mo. .destroy*
ed much property.
The workmen on the Lookout Moun¬
tain railroad, near Chattanooga, Tenn.,
have struck for more pay.
M. E. Farley, manager of the City
Electric Light Works, at Danville, Va.,
shot aud killed George W. Garner, charged a
young man of 18, who had been
with misconduct with Farley’s wife.
“Cherokee Sam” a saved Indian is the
latest card of the Atlanta, Ga., Salvation
Army.
Moses Polite, a Charleston, S. C., ne-
gro, had his nose smashed in a base-ball
game and nearly bled to death.
Governor Gordon, of Georgia, S hon¬
ored the requisition of overnor
Richardson, of South Carolina, asking the for
the extradition of John H. King,
negro school teacher and preacher, chnrg
ed with forgery iu Oconee county in that
itate.
Reports from many parts of Georgia ox-eyed
contain the information that the
daisy is causing a lot of trouble to farmer*.
It is said to be more troublesome than
nut grass or Bermuda. In the neighbor¬
hood of Atlanta the ox-eyed daisy is very
common.
The Salvation Army have moved ou
Opelika, Ala. Jerry McCurdy, who re¬
cently struck his mother in the mouth
with a rock and was given ten days with
the work gang, has been an attendant ar
their meetings, and signalized his adven
as a “recruit” by throwing down a small
boy and biting oil his under lip and
otherwise demolished his countenance.
•CHE BELL PIINCnER’8 GAME.
The Kansas City, Mo., Cable Railroan
company found a conspiracy fares. among II. con- C.
ductors to knock down
Jill* m, a discharged gripman, discovered
the combination of the bell punchers, ami
rented a room near the line of the road
where the conductors took their meals.
They would punch slips until perhaps which they one
hundred were registered, after
would simply ring the bell. They would
then take the punchers to Jillison, who
would open them aud make them corres¬
pond wit h the slip.
WBISKT DISTILLING STOPS-
The Kentucky distillers resolved to
atop making whisky until October 1,
1888. An officer of the association stated
that there were now in bond in Kentucky
80,000,000 000.000 gallons gallons were of whisky, distilled of ' n vh tne >^
lit 18 There 5,000,000 gallons in
year. are Kentucky
foreign ports belonging to
men, and all this makes the supply grea
enough to last three years.
ELLAVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 1887.
LARGE CAPITAL
BEING INVESTED IN THE
SOUTH.
Mills, Foundries and Kail roads Springing
Up All Over*
1 usealoosa, Ala., is to have water
works.
Woodiawn, Ala., has contracted for a
new hotel.
"’id Gould, Pearce & Co. of Cincinnati, O.,
move their cotton factory to Arkan¬
sas.
building Columbus, Ga., intends to build anew
for the boys’ department of the
public school at a cost of nearly #20 ,000.
The Anniston & Cincinnati Railroad
Co. are preparing to build a round-house
aud muchiue shops at Anniston, Ala.
Over #500,000 have been subscribed
toward organizing the company to build
three 150 ton iron furnaces ut Flo euce
Ala.
The Michigan capitalists who bought
au immense tract of timber land at
Bronson, #50,000. Fla., will erect a plant of
Barrett, C & Lynn, of Dalton,
Ga., have *2 A machinery with a
capacity H° of s per dav for their
ur mills,
The St. Mary Central Sugar Factory &
Railroad Co. of Franklin, La., capital
stock #250,000, has been formed to es-
tablish a
As soon as the extension of the South
Florida railroad (office, Sanford,) to Black
Point, Fla., is completed, extensive docks
and piers will be built.
The Montgomery, Ala., Real Estate
Co. > capital stock #200,000, has been or¬
ganized. The company will erect a large
six-story iron-front building.
There will be a wooden bridge built
across the river 3,000 feet, at Ormond,
Fla., aud a hotel costing from #20,000
to #30,000 will be built this summer aud
fall.
The Coaldale Brick & Mining Co. of
Birmingham, Ala. capital stock #100,000, and
has been chartered to mine coal
other minerals and manufacture coke,
tile and brick.
Aberdeen, Miss., has by a popular vote
decided to subscribe #60,000 to aid in
building a 12-mile branch railroad from
Aberdeen to the Kansas City, Memphis
& Birmingham Railroad.
Southeastern Kentucky, hitherto known
as the railroad desert of America, is now
attraction the attention of investors, and
railroad enterprises are being pushed into
that almost unknown region of coal,
timber and iron ore.
The Mountain Shoals water power at
Enoree, S. C., has been purchased by
Charleston parties, who will organize a
company to build a large cotton factory
and about 100 tenement houses. About
#500,000 will be invested.
Knoxville, Tenn., notes: The Scates
Warm Air Furnace Company organized
with a capital of #75,000. A spoke and
handle factory is to be moved from
Bloomington, Ind., to Knoxville. An¬
other street railroad has been organized.
Decatur, Ala., is pushing ahead. Con¬
tracts have been made with the Mineral
Paint and Granite Roofing Co., of Kansas
City, by which they contract to locate
their enterprise at Decatur. The land
sales still continue with astonishing road re¬
sults. The Columbus & Decatur
sold some forty-five acres of land and
have realized nearly two-thirds what they
paid for their 5,600 acres oftown lands.
They have sold in the last three days over
two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars
worth of property at private sale.
HEROIC FIREMEN.
Mat Peake and Ilenr? Iter, of the Chattae
noog* Pirn Department Hilled at
Their Poet.
An explosion took place on the prem¬
ises of the Standard Ga* Machine and
Gasoline Company iu Chattanooga,Tenn.,
caused by u leak in a tank. The fire
communicated to the Morgan House, ad¬
joining, and the inmates barely escaped
with their lives. The fire department
worked heroically to stay the devouring
flames and by direction of Chief White-
side, Mat Peake and Henry Iler, two gal¬
lant members of Lookout Fire Company,
ascended to the top of the building and
were doing excellent service with a lino
of hose, when a rear wall fell in, burying
them beneath the debris. Iler was dead
when the rescuing party reached them,
and Peake’s injuries were so serious that
he died a few hours afterwards. Jame*
Reynolds aud W. D. Miller, of Washing¬
ton, D. C., two white men, and Peter
Jones (colored), inmates of the hotel,
were all badly burned. The hotel was
nearly destroyed.
AN ABSURD SCHEME.
Expedition Fltiln* out at Savannah, Ga..
to Invade the Repoblla of Honduran.
The United States secretary of the
treasury, Mr. Bayard, has sent official
notice to Gen. Gordon, governor of
Georgia, that an expedition is fitting invad¬ out
at Savannah,with the intention of
ing the republic of Honduras, in Central
America. Tbe latest advices from Sa-
vannah state that the report seems to
have started from the Spanish consul,
The customs officials have received in
structions from the department and place
no credence in the rumor. The Spanish
consul stated in his letter to the collector
of the port that information of the expe¬
dition came from Cuba.
SINGULAR COINCIDENCE.
The body of R. W. White, a well
known and prominent citizen of Danville,
Va was found in the canal. He had
been unwell for some time, and went to
the rear of a drug store on the canal to
get some medicine, but failing fell to arouse
the clerk, he turned to go, and acci¬
dentally into the canal It is a curious
coincidence that Dr Hutchins, another
prominent citizen and brother-in-law of
White, accidentally shot himse f a short
time and it was some time before Ins
ago, found, in about the same place.
body wa*
HAND IN HAND.
* onfedorate nml Federal (taaera.lt TTnlta In
a (’oilfedrtrato Memorial Celebration.
The largest crowd ever seen in Staun¬
ton, Va , numbering over 10,000 people,
assembled to attend the celebration of the
Confederate Memorial Association. Th#
chief attraction was the presence of Gen.
W, W. Averill, orator of the occasion,
and a well-known cavalry leader in the
Federal army during the War. The col¬
umn was a mile long, consisting of mili¬
tary and civil organizations, etc. In an
elegant horses, carriage, drawn by four black
rode Gov. Lee and Gen. Averill,
and as they passed they were frequently
cheered. After the parade, speaking
took crowded place in tho opera house, introducing which wus
to suffocation, In
Gen. Averill, Gov. Lee referred to their
long acquaintance, beginning when both
were beys at West Point, and to their
subsequent association in the old army.
Their commands had met face to face in
battle during the war that followed, and
he was prepared to testify that no braver
man contended on either side than tho
troops commanded by that gallant officer.
In closing, the governor referred to the
obliteration of sectional lines and the re¬
union of the people, as shown by the
presence with the Southern of a Federal general in honoring joining
veterans
the dead. Gen. Averill was greeted with
ringing cheers as he stepped his forward, speech
and from time to time during
he was enthusiastically cheered, Brief
addresses were made by Gen. J. D. Im-
boden, Hon. A. J. McCall,of New York,
and Carlton McCarthy, of Richmond.
A SIGNIFICANT WARNING.
Tho Authorities Gelling Ready for an Up¬
rising of Anarchists and Socialists.
From many points in the Unit id States,
notably from tho West, comes intelli¬
gence that the anarchist leaders mean
ndiat they say, that some stirring scenes
will be enacted all over the United States
within tlve next few weeks. A general
uprising has been planned with a view
to revolutionizing the present state of
society, and burying iu one common ruin
all existing institutions. This tremen¬
dous undertaking is to be accomplished
by a sudden revolt. The torch is to be
applied in a hundred cities, aud the cap¬
italists ot the country, their wives and
children are to be murdered—sacrificed,
as the anarchists say—in the cause of
liberty. The terrible scenes of the
French Revolution, when “the streets of
Paris were red with blood;” the massacre
attending the uprising against the Carl-
ists of England in 1830, and the riots in
the streets of Paris in 1848; the uprising
in Europe in 1871; the rioting and burn¬
ing of property in the United States dur¬
ing the great railroad strike of ’77, and,
later still, the Haymarket riot in ’86,
were all uprisings of the anarchists, and
unsuccessful attempts to achieve their
aims.
FAVOIDS THE SOUTH.
In a letter to some members of the
Grand Army of the Republic proposed at St. Louis, visit
Mo., with reference to the
of President Cleveland, Gen. W. T.
Sherman says: Let us do right as near
as we know how, and trust the future to
the boys who look on us old veterans as
prodigies, or old fogies lingering supei flu¬
ent on the stage of life. I believe I know
both perfectly well, and that you would
sacrifice life rather than honor. Therefore,
whatever you do, I will stand by you.
The same as to Rainwater, Kennard,
Cobb and Jerome Hill, who took the
wrong side in 1861, but who are now with
us in heart and act for the Union one
and indissoluble now and forever, In-
stead of the Grand Army of the Republic
meeting only in loyal states of 1861, I am
in favor of their meeting hereafter at
Nashville, Chattanooga, Atlanta and
Richmond, following the Union.” example of our
armies in the war for the
SOIJTII CAROLINA PROHIBITIONISTS.
The executive committee of the Prohi¬
bitionists o South Carolina, met at An¬
derson. The object of the meeting, was
to ascertain what progress has been made
by those persons who were appointed to
circulate petitions for the signatures of
landowners desiring an election to the be
held in August in accordance with
provisions of the Murray prohibition bill.
In Pendleton, hot words and angry pas¬
sions grew out of the discussion of the
question, and, but for the wise counsel of
some cool heads, might have ended in
something serious.
SHOOTING A 8I1URIFR.
Capt. John Mannin was directed to
serve a warrant on John and William
Logan, well-known as desperate charac¬
ters in Morehead County, Ky. They are
the sons of Dr. Henry I). Logan, who is
now in Lexington jail for murder. When
the sheriff was told the brothers were not
in, he attempted to scorch the house,
when the two boys came out of their hiding
place and shot Capt. Mannin. The sheriff's
posse returned the fire and killed the
Logans.
A NEW TYPE MEASURE.
At the session of the International
Typographical Union at Buffalo, N. Y.,
Mr. McKcllar, type founder of Philadel¬
phia, presented would a new system of measur¬
ing type. It abolish the em quad
measurement now universally in use and
substitute the letter “m” and twenty-six
letters of the alphabet Standard must make would fifteen
letter “ems. ” fonts no
longer exist. Mr. McKellar received a
rote of thanks.
PREFERRED THE U. 8. MTTXB.
Red Shirt and Broncho Bill, of th*
SVild West show, now in London, Eng.,
paid a visit to the House of Commons.
They were both in war paint aud wora
enormous head dresses of feathers. They
addressed themselves to Baron de Worms,
who asked them wbat they thought of
Parliament. Red Shirt answered that he
didn’t think much of it Laws, he said,
were passed much quicker in his country
than in England.
LATEST NEWS.
Pascoe, the treasurer of the Interna¬
tional Union of printers, is said to be
several thousand dollars short.
M. Clemeuceau aud M. Foucher, the
latter the editor of the National, in Paris,
France, fought a duel with pistols. Two
shot* were fired, but neither of the com¬
batants was hit.
Serious rioting occurred at Park Ridge
Park, Guttenburg, N. J. An Anarchist
picnic, for the benefit of the Chicago
Anarchists, at which Herr Most was
present, was being held in the park.
Several persons were hurt.
A collision occurred at Denbigh. Wales,
between a mob and a body of police who
were protecting an auctioneer engaged in
selling property for tithes. The mob
turned an excited bull loose on the
police, and assaulted them with rotten
eggs-
Queen Victoria, in order to invest tbe
jubilee ceremony in Westminster Abbey
with greater pomp, consents to assume
the state robes. She will be surrounded
with all the insignia of sovereignty, and
8,000 troops will line the route to the
Abbey, beside a guard of honor of 600
persons.
Three thousand imigrants arrived 0
Castle Garden, New York in one day.
Prohibition was defeated in the As¬
sembly of the Massachusetts Legislature
by a vote of 139 to 74.
So many incendiary fires have occurred
iu Batavia, O., that a vigilance commit¬
tee has been organized.
Dan Rice, the venerable showman, has
married Mrs. M. C. Robinson, a wealthy
widow of Schulenburg, Texas.
Bryan Callaghan,mayor of San Antonio,
Texas, Phil Shardin, chief of police, Al¬
derman Degner, ex-Alderman Lockwood,
Fred Hertf, J. R. McCarsery, of the SaD
Autonio National bank, and four other
well known citizens, were arrested for
disturbing and breaking up a prohibition
meeting. They rotten-egged the speak¬
ers and broke up the assembly.
Emperor William, of Germany, is down
with neuralgia.
The Apaches of Arizona ara again on
the warpath, and killed Michael Grace at
Tompova Gulch. Several troops of cav-
airy are scouting the country in pursuit
of the savages.
The Grant Memorial Association
have invited artists to submit designs
for a monument or memorial building to
be erected over the general’s remains st
Riverside Park, New York.
The leading rubber manufacturers of
the country have for several weeka been
agitating the question of forming a com¬
bination or rubber trust, modelled some¬
what nfter the well-known monopoly, the
Standard Oil Trust.
Two judges at Camden, N. J., had a
quarrel while sitting at a trial, because a
liquor license had been granted to a wo¬
man who keeps a saloon.
Archbishop Walsh, of Dublin, Ireland,
has transmitted to the Irish National
League, #200, which had been forward¬
ed to him by tho Irish resident* of Kim¬
berley, Africa.
M. Saburoff and M. Tatischiefl, for¬
merly Russian ambassadors at Berlin,
have been dismissed from the diplomatic
service of Russia, for publishing secret
official documents.
The municipal authorities of Paris,
France, adopted a resolution, granting
theatres, cafes and concert halls three
months within which to substitute elec
trie lights for gas.
A waterspout, near Hooversville, Pa.,
caused great destruction of property, and
200 people were temporarily rendered
homeless and dependent for shelter ou
the charity of their more fortunate neigh¬
bors. Mrs. D. Z. Marrell died from
heart disease, produced, it is supposed,
by excitement, caueed by water surround¬
ing her house. Col. James M. Cooper, a
wealthy and influential citizen of Coop
ersdale, also dropped dead from over ex¬
A PROMINENT MAN DRAD.
lion. Henry Buist, one of the most
prominent lawyers and citizens of South
Carolina, died at Charleston, He was
born iu Charleston in 1829; was gradu¬
ated from South Carolina college in 1847,
and was admitted to the Bar in 1861. He
entered the Confederate service at the
beginning of the war as a captain in the
27th South Carolina regiment, Hagood’s
brigade. He was captured while charg¬
ing the breastworks at Petersburg in 1864
and held as hostage on Morris island
under the fire of Confederate guns. After
the War he lesumed the practice of law
and achieved large success. He was elec-
ted State Senator from Charleston county
in 1865, and was a prominent Mason,
having attained the highest degree. He
was Grand Chancellor of the Supreme
Council, Scottish rite, thirty-third degree,
and inspector general of that order for
South Carolina.
A PRINCE IN DANGER.
The reports concerning the German
crown priuce’s condition differ. While
the official bulletin is optimist in tone,
fears are freely expressed in well in¬
formed circles that the prince’s condition
is serious. Prof, Virchow’* report, it is
now said, affirms that the ex*nxinatu>u
furnished no absolute indication that the
growth in the prince’s throat is *ot miti-
gant.
VOL II. NO. 38.
THE FAMILY PllYsilCIAN.
Kpllepey.
Epilepsy Is ono of tho most obstinate
fliscasos which physicians encounter.
Yet that it is curable is as generally con¬
ceded. Doubtless one reason why fewer
epileptics recover is because, as a rule,
they aro not persistent enough in the
treatment, and, again, depend almost
entirely upon tho use of drugs, neglect¬
ing hygienic measures which are scarcely
of less importance. Those unfortunates
who are victims of the malady should
not assume, as so many do, that recov-
ery is impossible. They should find
courage in the fact that a larger per cent
arc being cured at the present day than
formerly. One physician who has much
used electricity in the treatment of epi-
lepsy unhesitatingly affirms that it is of
much value as a curative agent. There
is a ccrtan proportion of cases which,
failing to receivo more than temporary
benefit from the bromides, might recovei
when tho treatment is reenforced by the
judicious application of electricity.—
[Boston Herald.
The Woolen Smoke Cure.
So much interest is expressed in the
cures of felons, bruises, etc., effected by
means of woolen smoke, that we give
the record of a fresh case. Last Sunday
s little child of five years old fell from
some high place upon his face and struck
three upper teeth entirely through the
uppor lip. They had to bo extracted,
but the agony of the wound was fearful.
His mother left him in some ono’s care
and went out to do her washing on Mon¬
day. She was told of the smoke cure,
and when she went back on Monday
it to the child. Sh«
took the precaution to put a cent upon
the hole in the inverted flower pot, that
she might regulate the smoke, and 1
guarding his nose nnd mouth from in-
haling it, applied it to the wounded lip
and tho violently concussed jaw. In ten
minutes the pain was much relieved, j
In an hour the child seemed as well ns
ever, except that the mouth was sore,
and ho Could only drink, noteat.—[Bos- j
ton Transcript.
Care ot th* Teeth.
The care of the teeth should begin in !
childhood. If they become affected and
•how signs of degeneration before a cer¬
tain age, it is evidence that there exists
certain constitutional defects and de-
rangements—a fact to which sufficient
importance is rarely directed. Although
the disorders may bo overcome, and per¬
fect bodily health in later life be en¬
joyed, the teeth, which suffered from
tho general weakness and ill-health, can
never reach that perfect condition the
other parti of the body, without excep¬
tion, may attain. If the teeth of a child
become affected, not only should the
cause be sought for in tho general health,
but the duty of the parents demands
that every effort should bo made to pro-
serve them from destruction. While
some teeth are irretrievably ruined be¬
fore certain varieties of decay are sus-
peeted, habits of cleanliness will do
much to arrest disease and aid in their
prescivntion. Children should bo taught
to be scrupulously exact in the care of
tho teeth. A soft brush ought to be
used by them after each meal, before re-
tiring, and at their morning toilet,
Should signs of decay appear, or ten-
dcncyto deformity be noticed, then
they ought at once be placod under the
care of a dentist, that impor ant profes¬
sional so rarely sought by certain classes,
st least, excepting when extraction be-
comes imperative.
No Joke for the Dog,
A curious incident, which resulted
fatally to a dog, occurred at an Indian
wigwam near Lewiston, Idaho, the
other day, between Prof. McAlister, tbe
magician, and the noble redskins. The
Indians had a small dog that the pro-
lessor took quite a fancy to, and he
made himself quite familiar with the
brute by patting and potting him. He
asked tho Indiana how much they would
take for him, to which they replied
that they did not want to sell him. The
professorsaid “him very valuable dog,”
at the same time rubbing him down the
back to his tail length, at each stroke
taking a handful of money from the end
of his tail, also from his mouth, earl
and nose. At these strange proceedings
the Indians stood in awe and astonUh-
msnt. Alter the professor left their
premises, they took the dog down tc
the river bank and killed and dissected
him. But to their great chagrin, they
found that the professor had milked him
of all the money. — [Argonaut.
A Trip Aronnil the World.
Starting from Now York city and
making a journey around the world the
traveler would cover 22,172 miles. The
distance would 1> • from New York to
San Francisco, 3450 miles; San Fran-
cisco to Yokohama, 4764 miles; Yoko-
hamato Hong Kong, 1620 miles; Hong
Kong to Singapore, 1150 miles; Singa¬
pore to Calcutta, 1200; Calcutta to Bom¬
bay, 1400; B ratwv to Aden, 1664;
Aden to Suez, 1808; Su z to Alexandria,
250; Alexandria to Marseilles, 300; Mat-
seilles to Paris, 536; Paris to London,
816; London to Liverpool, 205; Liver-
poot to New York, 3 000, making a total
asgivttu above, — [Philadelphia Call*
Aspirations.
O nongi of wonderful gweetn-w
That my heart with melody fllll
O strains of marvelous music,
That my soul with rapture thrill!
Though in vain I essay to utter
Tho thought* you forever suggest
The heavenly hopes and yearnings
You srou e within my breast.
Still I know my life is better
For your music in my heart;
And your symphonies though silent;
Swoot peace to my soul impart.
And I know each aspiration,
Each pure, ennobling thought,
Shall live on and on forever,
In realms immortal wrought.
And songs that now are unuttered
My soul shall sing one day,
When the earthly chains that bind it
Shall break iu death away.
—[Philip B. Strong In Current'
HUMOROUS..
Always on time—watch crystal.
Never abuse a mule behind his baca.
Woman’s sphere is the home; man’*
is the baseball.
The most wonderful flight on record
when the chimney flue.
Borne men are so generous that they
always willing to give away what
don’t want themselves.
When did Gen. Geo. Washington have
first ride in a public carriage f When
took a hack at the cherry tree.
Henry Bergh has printed a set of
iules on “How to Approach a
Horse,” to which we appond a
fourteenth, “Let the hired man tackle
“That fellow is carrying things with •
hand hero to-night,” remarked
when the waiter passed bal-
len th «
8 • loaded tra Y at S
lus head.
New York mamma, — “Where have you
been, my son?” Young blood—‘‘To a
bull-light. Mamma—“A bull-fight T
Young blood—“Ynas, maw. I’ve been
down in Wall street.’’
It is a question whether the man who
looses a thousand dollars by a decline In
stocks is more unhappy for the time
being, than the man who bursts off hi*
suspender buttons when running to catch
the last car.
A lady traveling to a summer resort
was annoyed by the expefltorations of a
fellow behind, and when the conductor
entered, she drew up her dress and
asked: “Conductor have you not any
rule in regard to spitting in the car?”
The genial ticket-puncher smiled on her,
and responded: “No, marra, you can
spit around anywhere you like.”
British Columbian Mythology*
Dr. Franz Boas, who visitod the In¬
dian tribes of British Columbia In the
autumn of 1888, has presented in a pre-
] irnin!iry Teport Bome of the result# of
hii j ourn8 y. The large wooden huts of
these tribes, their canoes, their fishing
gear and hunting methods have often
been described, but Dr. Boas points out
that their traditions, their religiou*
tGeas and social organization are not
equally well known. The principal flg-
ure in tho mythotogy of sevoralof them
, g raTeQ who created ai | things, not
for the benefit of mankind, but in order
' to « rcrcn g e himself.” Canniballsm i*
practiced by some tribes in connection
w jti, the winter dances; and there is a
Kwakiut i tradition to the effiOt that
one of their ancestors descended from
heaven, wearing a ring of red cedar
bark and taught tho peoplo the cannibal
ceremonies. These ceremonies have been
adopted only in part by tho Qunoks,
who content themselves with eating “ar¬
tificial” bodies which they prepare by
“sewing dried halibut to a human
skeleton.” Among the Tsimpshian, the
Tllngit and tho Haida, children belong
to the mother’s gens; among tho Kwak¬
iuti and Selish tribes, they belong to th®
gens of the father. In some tribes there
are as msiy as from fifteen to twenty
gente*. Members of the same gens art
not allowed to inter-marry.—[Nature.
yy\ t j n ave Two Ears,
Dr Williams of St. Louis, thus e*.
pi a i,„ the necessity of having two earst
“Sound travels by waves radiating from
a central point of disturbance, like the
wavelets caused by dropping a pebble
jnto still water. So far as the hearing
0 f oa ch individual is concerned, these
waves move in a direct line from tho
cauM 0 f sound to his ear, the impact
b e i D g greatest in the ear that is nearest
t0 t j, e source. The effect, in this re-
gpecti 0 { the total loss of hearing in one
ear was forcibly illustrated by the
statement of a patient who consulted
me recently. He lived in a wild portion
of Tennessee, and spent a good deal of
bis spare time in the woods hunting
squirrels, accompanied only by his dog.
An explosion suddenly destroyed the
hearing in one ear. After this accident,
while in the woods, he found that h*
could hear hi* dog bark, but for the life
of him be could not locate the direction
of the sound, even when quite close to
him, and he was compelled to take hi*
little boy with him to find the dog.
After a time persons learn to correct, to
a limited extent, the errors in estimating
distances after the loss of vision, but the
effect of the loss of an ear upon the e*-
t.'(nation of tbe direction of sound is
never corrected.”