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CURRENT NEWS,
GATHERED 1IE11E AND THERE
ALE OVElt THE WOULD.
PC rtonnl, I’o’tllrul nml lllnurnnliimt Note*,
buiuiiiartzi'il In a Few W oitU, ot
(be W*ek'i» Events.
Gen. Janies Lincoln’s Speed who cabinet, was a member
of President died re-
oently at Louisville, Ky.
Armour’s immense provision packing
house at Chicago, III., valued at over a
million of dollars wus aim st completely
destroyed liy tire.
tiel W,T* '' S l, 1r K ,n J ernnic ’
Park, M New York Cl >. In his , letter f f was
f mad an envelope directed to “M. M. A.
Market.
The Southern Synod which represents
the Lutherans of the United States, in
session at Chicago, III., denounced amir-
ehists, socialists aud affiliated workmen
societies.
A man in Racine, W is., who bought
$50 of sky-rockets and other fire works
aiinl issued 150 invitations to friends
to celebrate the death of hi* wife, who
died a few month* ago, was arrested as a
lunatic.
Between $3,000,000 and $3,000,000
have been lost in wages by the Chicago,
Ili., striking bricklayers.
John Bennett, a compositor, carried off
the highest honors at his Yale College, New
Haven, pronunciation Conn., for composition and
correct of an English ora-
tion.
The veterans of the Philadelphia brig¬
ade, of Pennsylvania, that fought Pick¬
ett’s division of the Confederate army at
Gettysburg, propose to return to Pick¬
ett’s men all the flags they captured in
the battle.
Of the persons charged with having
been murder implicated, at St. Petersburg, in the
of Col. Soudekin, chief of the
Russian police, iu 1883, seven have been
sentenced to death and fourteen to de¬
portation to Siberia.
The Royal Lottery at Havana, Cuba,
after the last drawing, was mulcted to
the amount of $85,000 through counter¬
feit fractional portions of a ticket bear¬
ing the number drawing the capital
prize. The forgery was not discovered
until after the above amount had been
paid out. Active efforts are being made
to discover the perpetrators of the swin¬
dle.
If Dr. McGlynn, the suspended New
4 ork priest, docs not appear in Rome
furly in July, he will be excommunicated
from his church.
By the wrecking of a train on the
Hawkesliurg railway, at Sydney, N. 8.,
seven persons were killed and forty others
injured. The accident was caused by the
failure of brakes to work while the train
was going down an incline.
Matthew Guinea, of Ilaverstraw, N.
Y., who was bitten liy a dog,with which
he was playing, a month ago, and who
was seized with symptoms of hydro¬
phobia recently, died after a night of
great, agony, lie was 60 years old, un •
married and wealthy.
mines An explosion Susquehanna occurred in one Co., of the
of the Coal at
V.'ilkesbarre, Pa. Four men were killed
nnd four badly hurt. Opinion is ex¬
pressed by survivors of the accident that
the gas was set on fire by powder explo¬
sion, ing from as several the kegs house. of powder are miss¬
store
Chicago's water collector, L. G. l’opc,
turns out to be a defaulter.
Win. Clark Noble, a young sculptor,
is to execute a monument to the memory
of John McCullough, the actor.
Pit ladelphia, Pa., bakers use chrome
yellow to color their buns, and George
M. Palmer, a baker, lost a wife and live
children, who a:e some of his buns.
There has been a failure of crops in
Asia Minor nnd oihcr districts of Adana
nnd Kutahia are threatened with famine,
'ihe Sultau of Turkey held a cabinet
council to discuss the subject, and dis¬
patched a commissioner to institute
measures of relief.
Bij u, an elephant, over 100 years old,
could not stand erect on account of his
®gc, so the manager of the dime museum
iu Boston, Mass., where he was on exhi¬
bition, Just gave him poisoned twined caramels. his
as lie was dying, he
hunk affectionately around his keeper.
Maxwell, alias Brooks, the murderer
Preller, at St. Louis, Mo., is to be
banged. The Supreme Court refuses The to
Averse the decision of the court.
prisoner was unofficially notified by his
attorneys, and was very much dejected, The
saying ihat his trial w as a farce.
execution is fixed for August 12th.
Tbe Irishmen of New Y'ork City as-
’euibled at the Cooper Union to mourn
deaths of their countrymen who have
died eu the scaffold in the past 50 years.
''a'reading desk and stage were decked
*itb mourning emblems,
A solemn mass of requiem was cele-
Wd in the Church of the Holy Inno-
!* b Dt8 . New York, over the victims who
,T c died iu 60 years of English misrule,
A coffin was placed in tbe church, cor-
fr ed with black cloth and having the in-
Option, '! “I. ji S.” There was no
,r iere l«c in the coffin, which was placed Irish-
"n "ho #s a had sign for the thousands of
““ring perished from British laws
the past 50 years.
HOUSES CRUSHED.
0 . , "dniington, f Wlnd and Del., rain and storm big broke oak
tree a
iL. Wa f nprooted and fell on a double
killin crushing in the roof and
Jamef v ° . J ' c of Mrs. die George occupants, Doran Mrs. and
Mrs n ’* i Hi l,oy Durin the
norm 1 110 S
mp l?™ '
blown Play ’ Tex -i a tree wn *
•UutU child u n D ’ crus Ml8 bing a house and her in-
two ' Tete and
ren.
RATHER hot.
dreadful at Bloom-
"K with for nearl y a week, culmimit-
•R*., 4 rec °rd of 116 degrees in the
o
o»ttih, P 1 ® > and 00 degrees 6 in house?
J «on«d ered cool
YELLOW FEVER.
What the Government I* Doing to Stamp
Out tlu' Epidemic.
The Marine Hospital Bureau, at Wash-
: ington, D. C., has made arrangements
for the establishment ... , of refuge station
a
on Eguiont Key, Fla., for tho benefit of
. such of the unucclimated residents of Key
West as chose to go there. The station
will be ready inside of a week. Surgeon-
General Hamilton bus suggested to the
authorities at Tampa a reduction of their
period of detention of fifteen to ten days,
* lle period to be deemed sufficient
I, fl’ r e t ‘• u * e PP P re ur ® P? 91 °u 8C - of -^ 9 the t° epidemic the outlook at Key for
West r Dr. Hamilton the disease will
> says
with, but if this is not done, the cpi-
deraic may be prolonged and extend says" to
otiler sections. The government, he
li as now ( j one a p in 5ts [)ower to ai(} the
local authorities iu suppressing the epi-
demic. Passed Assistant Surgeon John
Guiteras, now stationed at Charleston
8. C., has been ordered to temporary
duty Burgeon at Key West, Passed Assistant
Glenham,stationed at Key West,
reports in regard to the yellow fever epi-
demic at that place, saying that cases are
developing affecting on children all parts of the island and
the of unaccliinatcd
residents, the indications being that the
disease will run its cour.-e until all the
susceptible material is exhausted. He
adds that steps are being made to confine
the disease to the island and to prevent
its spread to the mainland. Aid of every
description is being extended to the local
Board of Health at Key West by the Ma-
rlIle be Hospital Service, and assistance will
also rendered toward the isolation of
the unacclimatcd residents.
DEVIL'S WORK
Horrible Depravity Unearthed Iu a South
Cni'olfuR Town.
The recent destruction of valuable
Property by fire in Wallialla, S. C., on
result investigation appears to have been tho
of a base conspiracy which has
been hatching for several' years. The
have people of Walballa*aBCt of Westminster
been annoyed from time to time by
the posting upon ihe premises of the
leading citizens of anonymous notices,
containing scuirilous and obscene lan¬
guage the inmates reflecting upon the good name of
of different households. The
night before the tire, anonymous notices,
in Ihe same handwriting as all former
ones in Walhal were posted and West in several public places
a Union. These no¬
tices contained the names of the wives
aud daughters of many of the purest
and best families of the two towns, and
were so full ot obscenity and vulgarity
as to cause the vilest blackguard to blush
with shame. Such insults had now be¬
come too numerous and too public to be
borne, and the people, aroused with in¬
dignation, resolved to stop them. Sus¬
picion had already marked out the guilty
ones, and the discovery of a pocketbook
i car where one of the notices was posted,
h d to the issuing of warrants for I. K.
Hunter, Walter Ilodge and--Saddler,
all of \Y est L'nion. By the burning of
the building in which the Koewee Cou¬
rier was located, many valuable law pa¬
pers have been destroyed, which will
cause an endless lot of litigation.
IMPORTANT MM) DECISION.
In the United States Circuit Court at
Macon, Ga., iu the case of J. K. O. Sher¬
wood against Rebecca Rountree, Judge
Speer rendered a decision in his charge
to the jury which is regarded by leading
members of the bar as one of the most
far reaching and important in its conse¬
quences which has been made in this cir¬
cuit for years. The pendency of an im¬
mense number of suits against land own-
(r- in Georgia, in which the principle de¬
cided is applicable, gives it this import-
ance.
The testimony in the case was that the
agents of the money-lenders di ducted
twenty per cent, by way of commissions,
and counsel in argument stated that in
all the borrower had paid forty-three under per
cent, interest. This, of course, and
the Georgia law', would be usurious,
the usury would render void any deed or
mortgage made to secure such a debt,
provided that the true lender of the
money had notice of the usury, and the
court decided against the mortgage com-
pany of New York, who loaned the
money. The most widespread effect of
the decision will ho that such usury
wou der void the deeds and mort¬
gages executed to these usurious loans.
THE RIGHT MOUT.
The Society of the Army of the Poto¬
mac met at Saratoga, N, Y. Several
resolutions were offered on the matter of
;i ic return of the captured flags, but all
were laid on the table. Resolutions were
j„pted that the next annual meeting he
a July 1st, 2d and 3d,
he |d at Gettysburg, addresses made,
jgg8. Several were
showing that an extremely kind feeling
existed toward the Confederate survivors,
and resolutions were unanimously adopted
that the survivors of the Army of North-
Virginia be invited to meet with l e
ern adopted
society. These were a >
ringing speech in favor of the ast by
Corporal Tanner, who lost two hgs
the war, while serving as a corporal.
THE PROPER CAPER.
A crusade having been inaugurated
(he tobacconists of Washington,
D C who display in their windows
pictures *f actresses in tights, one dealer
has taken a wicked revenge. He aressca
his scantily clad works of art in little
nil From the smalles
skirts of tissue paper. they are all clad in
to the largest figure
paper, the , figure rss
over
ankles.
BRAINEDJXriTH A CLUB.
Keeper William E. Cole, New-V *,
dall Island House of Refuge at
brained with a baseball bat t >
was li I teen year
Moses J. Speights co».p.^ a ■ i5 2"
„h„ tl
boys to escape from uu:
He did not recover consciousness.
made full confession to Cor-
Speights Levy. a
oner
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THE SOOTH,
ITEMS OP INTEREST GARNERED
A EE OVER THE LOT.
Facta, Fancies slid Personal Dots Briefed
For Iluay People-A Week’s summary
Of interesting Mewa.
Petroleum has been found on the farm
of Mr. Lyons, in Griffin, II , and now
that town expects a big boom.
IVvtou S. Coles, past grand master and
grand lecturer of Masons, died at the age
of 01 at his home in AlDcrmarle, Yu.
The Boone and Banner tobacco houses
in Louisville, Ky„ were destroyed by
fire. Loss over $500,000; ’ pnniall , y v in- ' n
sured.
J he . of Sculptor Joel 1’.
of Frankfort, remains Ky., have been Hart,
home from Italy and buried brought the
at ex-
pense of the state of Kentucky in Frank-
tort, ins native place.
The Grays and the Blues two of the
military companies of Montgomery, Ala.,
who won the first prizes at the Louisville,
Ky., military contest, got a splendid rc-
ception on their return home.
Rev. J, A. D. Blackwell, D. D., pastor
of the Monumental Church, of Ports¬
mouth, Va., died, after a brief, illness of
peritonitis. Dr. Blackwell was fid years
of age, and was a very prominent minis¬
ter in the Southern Methodist Church.
Rome, Ga., is to have a $200,000 cot
ton factory.
A $250,000 stock company is being
formed at Crowley, La., to erect a rice
mill.
The Henrietta Mills is the name of a
new cotton mill corporation who arc
building at Rutherford ton, N. C.
The Southern Soap Co., has been in¬
corporated at Louisville, Ky., to manu
facture soap. The authorized capital
stock is $-50,000.
Damascus is the name of a new town
started in Virginia, 14 miles from Abing¬
don. Manufacturing enterprises will be
inaugurated at once.
Durham, N.C., is booming with a new
factory, half a dozen storehouses, a
church and new court-house, and a new
female seminary is projected.
Pittman <fc Baker, of Thoniasville,
Ga., have contracted to build bridges
and trestles and furnish eross-ties for the
Georgia Southern & Florida Railroad.
The Atlanta Brown Stone Co, at
Wadesboro, N. C., has been reorganized
as the Wadesboro Brown Stone Co. The
capital stock has been increased to $2.50 -
000 .
Since October, 1886, there have been
40 business enterprises chartered in At¬
lanta, Ga., with a capita! stock of $8, -
133,000, the limit of whose stock aggre¬
gates $21.4(55,000. These companies arc-
all in operation.
Moses Bros., of Montgomery, Ala.,
who purchased 158,000 acres of land de¬ at
and near Cullman, to start towns and
velop the lands, have organized tis the
North Alabama Land & Immigration Co.
The capital stock is $2,500,000.
Fred Balcom, of in Harrisburg, Red River Pa., and
others interested the Land
Company, will build a 5-ton ice factory
at Natchitoches, La. Mr. Ralcom con¬
templates erecting factories at other
points in the South.
A construction and improvement com¬
pany has build been organized at Bristol,
Tenn., to furnaces, manufacture
lumber, quarry marble, etc. The capi¬
tal stock is $4,000,000. F. \V. Huide-
koper, of Washington, D. C., is presi¬
dent, and John II. Inman, of New York,
vice president. The company own about
1,200 acres of laud at or near Bristol,
beside coal and iron lands.
The Mobile & Dauphin Island Railroad
& Harbor Co., Ala., have commenced
work on their railroad, ) which will be 35
miles long. The Neil McDonald New
York Railroad Supply Co. have the con¬
tract to buiid the railroad, and the Phoe¬
nix Bridge Co. of Phoenixville, Pa., the
contract to build the bridges. and Large
cotton warehouses, docks, a cotton
compress will be built at Dauphin Island.
Thomas II. Thrailkill, of Nashville,
Ala., lost his life in attempting to save
Willie Gerald, a boy, from drowning.
An attempt was made to kill Dr. T.
D. Buck, of St. Louis, by exploding a
dynamite bomb under his residence. The
house was shattered, but no life was lost.
The 30th Georgia regiment, C. S. A.,
will have a reunion at Salt Springs, near
Atlanta July 15th
Measles are prevalent and particularly Ga.
fatal in many cases in Irwin county,
\ McOleod lost his wife and grown-up
d iiu'hter from the disease.
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During . the nrpvnlence prevalence of of a a thunder- th
storm in Cone id ^C.^ancg a t
mules were ki y g m
plantation o Webb, jeweler * of Sal . is,
James M. a the evidence
Miss., poisoned Ins wife and
was so clear against him that a crowd ol
the citizens of the place hung him on a
trestle.
A large number of negroes who are
emuloved at the Williamson furnace and
Lv nn ‘iron works in Birmingham, Ala.,
hnve struck for higher wages. They are
members of the Knights of Labor.
Adeline i" Slaton, who works in the Sib-
Slitn lev) in Augusta, storm’and Ga„ was struck by
ng during a knocked
senseless 5 for awhile. She was better the
following day, but has entirely lost her
vo 0 ce not having been able to articulate
a ‘' ' • „ ihe shock.
The Souther , n --P ress ■ office at Wick-
eral’rcvoVvers^ ro ’ ' *
by a man giving the name
of H W Wells. The agent was sick
and left an assistant in charge Wells
volunteered to help him, and when the
assistant went to dinrer, Wells took the
money and absconded.
Tim FIGURED.
The Board of Health of Key West,
Fla announce to the public the follow¬
ing' regard to the yellow fever cases
t” n of June: Tota eases to
the middle 5, still sick 8,
date 35, convalescent hospital 7, total deaths
discharged foreign from marine cases 3.
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TERRIBLE AFFAIR.
A Band of Uraulatora Almas! Kxtermate
a Family ol Mespcrmloi's.
Rowan county, in Kentucky, has been
[ ' the which scene the of notorious another bloody Tolliver encounter, family, iu- in
eluding almost annihilated. the redoubtable Craig, have beeu
! ostensibly led A large party of
men, by Dr. Logan, whose
two sons were murdered in cold-blood by
the Tolliver men about two weeks agis
a ! ,d was in jail in this city at the
regulators time <> the for tragedy, organized a band of
the purpose of suppressing
M LiRin^wSLT u g- Reports dilh i as to the ‘ mint K ! her
kdled, , one placing the number at live,
SXSl’U Crab/ Toliver 'two' !'“ h 7 '"I : ,'" 1
°w- i killed. Lx-
« Governor v Windman, i acting governor in
the absence of Governor Proctor Knott,
| has received the following telegram from
j all Lexington: morning at “There Morehead. has been Craig, fighting Bud
I and Jay Tolliver are already killed. Don’t
know how many more. Thu town is full
of armed men. Think the worst is
over.” The killed include Craig 'Pol 1 i -
ver, Bird Tolliver, Jay Tolliver and Ili-
ram Cooper. They were all shot through
the heart, and died instantly. Craig
Tolliver seems to have been the general
target, as lie was so thoroughly riddled
as to be scarcely recognizable. Cate
Tolliver, a twelve-year-old boy, and
three others, all of whom were cap-
tured, except Cate Tolliver, whooratvlecl
into the brush and escaped, were
wounded. Three others escaped, but
one was captured afterwards.
CHARLESTON'S TRlitl TE.
The Queen’s jubilee was observed iu
Charleston, 8. C., and, although to a limi¬
ted extent , the recognition of the day was
iu certain respects eminently character¬
istic. It has not, perhaps, been forgot¬
ten that of all the sovereigns of the Old I
World, Queen Victoria was tho only one i
who expressed her personal sympathy
with Charleston in the great calamity
of August, 1880. Recalling this fact on
so auspicious a day in the life of the
Queen, Mayor Courtenay ordered all the
flags buildings. to be displayed on all the municipal ! 1
He also sent a dispatch to
Secrctaiy Bayard for transmission to .
Loudon through the proper authorities, j
The English-made chimes of St Mich- I
ael’s church were also rung at intervals
during the day in honor of the occasion .
by order of the vestry of the church.
Among the airs played were “God Save , !
the Queen.” “Taffy “The Star Spangled Ban-
uer,” was a Welshman,” aud the
nationalities “Suwanee River.” in The shipping their of all
honor port displayed col-
ors in of the event.
DISLIKED THE EMBLEM-*.
An attempt was made by a gang of
nine men to pull down the figures of the
lion and uuicorn, which decorate the
front of the old state house in Boston,
Mass. Whoever fastened the ropes to
the effigies was evidently familiar with
the building. The si le door was forced
open and access to the roof wa- gained.
When the roof is reached the distance to
the figures mentioned is encompassed
have with many dangers, but they seem to
been braved by at least two men,
one of whom fastened a rope to the lion
and another man a rope to the u dcorn.
The manager of a telephone company no¬
ticed the unusual sight of a number of
men in the street pulling at ropes mid
gave the alarm. A detail of climbing
firemen was necessary to remove the lines
f;om the figures. The action was, of
course, intimately connected with the
antagonistic feeling toward the celebra¬
tion of the Queen’s jubilee in Faneuil
hall.
DISCARDING STOVES
Governor Hill, of New Y >rk, has
signed the bill regulating the beating of
steam cars. The statute makes it un¬
lawful for any steam railroad, after May
1, 1888, "to heat its passenger cars on
other than mixed trains by any stove or
furnace kept inside the cars, or suspended
therefrom, except it may be lawful in |
case of accident or other emergency to j
teniporarily use any such stove or furnace
with necessary fuel; provided that in !
cars which have been equipped with ap-
parntus to heat by steam, hot water, or
hot air from the locomotive, or from a j
special turned, car, be the used present only stove when may the be re- is j
to car ,
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too fresh.
one of the - express trains on the j
ka
Georgia Railroad hound from Atlanta,
Ga., to Augusta, two colored men who
were in the first-class coach were asked to
change their base, but claimed they had
^ a claim t() ri de in that coach as
w hite men. At Conyers, the train was
boarded by about a dozen young men,
who ingiate( ] U1)0U the negroes leaving,
which thcy were compelled to do. Sov-
pral ® tlemen on the truin tri(!d to in .
fluen e th() negroe , to leave before
reaching Conyers, but they were very
1D8oleut ttlM i dechucd.
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getting ready.
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The rivalry of American capitalists of
who desire to monopolize the trade
the Sandwich Islands will plunge the
Kingdom of King Kalakuainto civil war.
Clearance ustom-hmlse papers at the San Francisco
. show that the steamer
Australia, for Honolulu, carried a large
quantity of arms and ammunition. It
{ . ompr j 8 ed eighty cases, in which were
nearly 1 000 Winchester repeating rifles
and 164 000 cartridges. The articles
were con’s! J " ned to old missionary mcr-
chants. ~
DIG CHIEFS TO ASSEMBLE
Chief Joyner of the Atlanta, Uu., the
dtqiartmcnt, who has been North to make
arrangements for the convention of the
ChieUEngioeers of fire departments, attend the rc-
ports that over 400 will At¬
lanta Convention, September 20th. An
old-fashioned Georgia barbecue will lie
the principal attraction offered the visi¬
tors.
WASHINGTON NOTES.
OOSMPY GLEANINGS AHOVT OVH
NA TIONAL OFIICIALS.
Something About tho President ’* Move-
monto—Uoporta from the l>eparti.ient«.
#r K,e “ Il,c ’
consolidatinu treasury divisions
T ho vacancy o* in Mercmttiff the office Marine of ( hid Treas' of
the Division
ury Department, caused by the tilled! resigim-
tion of • Mr - Lyman, will not be as
Secretary Fairchild has decided to con-
srdidate that division with the Division
" f Ca P tured ftud Abandoned Property,
aad to retain David Okie, now chief of
the latter division, as chief of the consol-
id*ted divisions.
postal ukveni ks.
A statement prepared at the Post-Office
of Department May shows the that during the mouth
last, sale of po ttage stamps,
stamped envelopes and postal cards at the
?« tirst-class post-offices, aggregates $1,
r3B, 089, which is an increase over the
s.iuio month last year of $15.5,533, or9.80
per cent. Fifteen oRices, including
Washington, D. C., show a decrease.
TREATY WITH MF.XIUO.
The Postmaster-General was authorized
by the last Congress to negotiate postal
treaties without the consent of the 8en-
ate. Under this act, Postmaster-General
Vilas has concluded a treaty with Mex-
ico, which is now in effect. Most of our
domestic rates of postage will be extend-
ed to Mexico. A letter can be sent from
the Uuited States to any part of that
couutry for two cents, and parcels under
four and a half pounds weight may be
transmitted at tho same rate tiiat is
charged in the United States.
CASES TO HE l'l'SHED.
Wni. C. Struwbridge, of Philadelphia,
Pa., tho special suit counsel against for the the llell government Telephone
in
patent, says: "Ex Senator McDonald,
who is retained in the Bell interest, is in
error when lie says that a final decision
in this case cannot be hud before the term
°* t K ’ patent , has expired, . This
suit,” said he, “was brought to be pros-
tented, not t0 be delayed. It is now be-
ing pushed forward in the Circuit Court
at Boston, 1111,1 tllCTe ls no rem * on lo doubt
that the decision of that court will be
reached at the fall term. After that, if
uu u PP cal , . 18 takcu , 1,1 Uie , „ Supreme Court ,,
of the United States, there will be no
avoidable delay there.” , „
colored militia.
Nearly all the militia, including the
famous Light Infantry, of Washington,
have been mustered into the National
Guard of the District and now the Wash¬
ington Cadet Corps (colored) 1ms been
mustered in by Gen. Ordway. The cel-
emony consisted simply of administering
the oath to the individual members of
the corps, accomplish but it required this, 283 considerable privates
time to as
took the oath binding them to the service
of the country. When it was concluded,
Gen. Ordway made a brief address,
complimenting Major Fleetwood on the
excellence of the corps.
MUST USE LAWFUL MEANS.
The Collector of Customs at Key West,
Fla., has reported to the Treasury De¬
partment, labels that printed imported cigar and cigar¬ that
ette arc being intention at of de¬
port with tho evident
ceiving the trade by placing them on
boxes of domestic cigars aud cigarettes,
and thereby impressing the purchaser labeled
with the idea that the goods so
ure “genuine smuggled ins goods.” He
asked if it is not duty to destroy
them. Assistant Secretary Maynard does has
informed him in reply that there
not appear to be any authority for the
course suggested, and says further that
such destruction does not seem to he de¬
manded in the, interests of the revenuo,
since similar labels produced in used tbs
United States may just as well be
for the purpose stated.
OFFICIAL I'LUMS.
I he retirement . of three captains of the
:1,,e . °f ,bo Army brings the number of
-ccond lieutenancies for the graduates
1 tlle Military Academy up to forty,
'' *4b . this number of vacancies twenty-
lour additional of the graduates will be appointed
" s lieutenants. About one-
third ot these promotions will coma to
Southern young men.
FALL OF STOCKS.
Tb« Rumor of Jut Gould’. Douth En.ettle.
Financial circles tn .""t®*',, Wall street, t , „ New
Jork have not experienced such a
disastrous panic as afflicted it re-
ccntly, in years, l he wrecks of May,
18S4, and trio wretchedness of December,
1880, were not comparable to the wild
excitement and serious damages. Colos-
sal fortunes were swept away m an hour,
and many a man who left home in the
morning with the proud night consciousness bankrupt aud ol
wealth, returns at raid fancy
hopeless. The was not on
specialties, as it was last. December, but
there seemed to be a sudden and total de-
struction of confidence iu all values, and
the entire list of stocks, good, bad and
indifferent, went to smash. Alarming
rumors filled tho air, and the maddening
scene on the floor of tho exchange was
past all description. Manipulators of the
money market helped the collapse on by
calling m loans aud forcing hues of long
stock to sale. Money was rapidly bid up
to one hundred per cent, a year. At one
time, Mr Gould was reported dead, at
another it was, said^ Cyrus Field was
broke, and still another rumor made
Russell Sage a victim to the widespread
slaughter ot the hour. It is a serious
backset to general prosperity, and makes
men timid about all classes ot securities,
and suspicious even of legitimate enter-
prises, and it is a calamity to the whole
country. The greatest declines, so far
recorded, are Manhattan 40$ per cent, to
116; Missouri Pacific 11 per cent, Richmond to 93$;
Cotton seed 7 per cent, to 39;
Tenninal 7J percent, to 26; New Eng-
laud 6 per cent, to 45j, and Lake Lne
& Western 6 per cent, to 53$.
NEGRO TEACHERS.
The Atlanta, Ga., Board of Education
has decided that in all colored schools
only colored teachers shall be, employed,
VOL. II. NO. 40.
SONS OF AMERICA
I’airiulie Order Advocating ‘‘America for
Americana” and Oenouncea. Imitator*.
The Patriotic Order of the Sous of
America held a national convention in
of Chicago, the convention Ill. The most passed important when the act
was
platform and principles of the order
were read and adopted, as follows: “For
the welfare, prosperity and liberty of all
American citizens and their descendants,
we desire to protect our form of govern¬
ment and to preserve it from the influ¬
ence and control of any foreign of loyalty power.
By a discriminating sentiment
and establishing a fraternal feeling among
nil Americans, we hope to make it im¬
possible for any one to/live under the
protection of the stars qnd stripes who Wo
does uot honor nnd revere them.
are opposed to the occupancy of any part
of our country by foreign .speculators become or
adventurers who do not wish to
citizens, and we believe that all of tire
resources and privileges of the country
should be reserved for the exclusive use
and native horn naturalized citizens. We
are in favor of crushing out that foreign
element which comes here to advocate
communism and nihilism, and which does
not identify itself with our country and
does not respect our Hag. ’’
STUPENDOUS BANK SWINDLE.
Oiflictuncy of Neveral Mi ltoim of Dollar*
1'ouud In a U'^aleru Iimtitntiou*
United States Bunk Examiner Powell,
was ordered to inquire into the affairs of
the Fidelity National Bank of Cincinnati,
Ohio, and found that while the figures
showed the bank owed $0,000,000. the
assets looked very small. The deficiency
undoubtedly represents money lost in the
recent wheat speculation. When Mr.
Powell asked for a sight of the $1,100,-
he 000 cash leprcsented be shown to be iu lead-pencil the vaults,
was amazed to a
memoranda reading, “Wiltshite, Eckert
& Co., $000,000;” “J. W. Wiltshire,
$40,000,” and so on through a long list.
There was no collateral; no security
whatever. It is tho belief of some that
Wiltshire succeeded as agent of Harper
in conducting the wheat deal, and was
uot really a borrower. Vice-President
Harper, Cashier Baldwin and Assistant
Cashier Hopkins are under arrest on war¬
rants sworn out by the bank examiners.
Harper’s bail is fixed at $15,000 and the
others at $10,000 each, Cashier Bald-
win is much dejected. He is naturally
reserved, and as lie had before serious
afflictions—one the murder of his sou
and another the suicide of a brother—it
has been suggested that there was danger
that this blow would unsettle his mind.
MILLIONAIRE GOULD’S PRBsKNT.
The Mt, Vernon estate, where the re¬
mains of Washington lie eutombed, has
been enlarged by the addition of a tract
of 33$ acres on the north side, near tho
old Washington mansion. AVhile on his
way up the Potomac from Fortress Mon
roe recently, in his yacht “Atulauta,”
Jay Gould stopped at Mt. Vernon and
was shown around the grounds. In the
course of conversation, the superintend¬ question
ent remarked that the land in
is much needed to protect the property
from encroachment. Mr. Gould imme¬
diately authorized the purchase of the
land at liis expense, and it has been
bought and turned over to the Mt. Ver¬
non regents. The price paid is not
known.
THE PLUMBERS’ IDEA.
At tho National Convention of Plum¬
bers held in Chicago, Ill., resolutions
plumbers’ were adopted goods that who all sold manufacturer* to of
consumers
•should be boycotted by the plumbers,
the committee that reported the resolu¬
tions argued that the adoption of the
resolutions was just the thing for plum¬
bers. It would do away with the dis
agreeable habit of consumers who bought
their pipe from the manufacturer and
afterward hired inexperienced men to do
their work.
ducking married men.
Much excitement was cauaed in Flush¬
ing, N. Y., by tho ducking of Charles
Doscher, a respectable married man, in
the basin of the village fountain by four
men whom he could not recognixe in the
dark, but who are supposed to be mem¬
bers ol a vigilance committee. This or¬
ganization was formed two years ago and
its object ducking is stated to be the punishment
by of any married man found
out after 11 o’clock unaccompanied by hi*
■vif*.
GOING to CRUSADE.
A meeting has been held in Newark,
N. J., fortlic purpose of forming a na¬ be
tional labor order. The order is to
known as the Knights of the New Cru¬
s de. It is intended to further the Henry
George movement, The objects of the
order are: To advocate the land theory
end to secure the election of parties who
are pledged to the principles of the
United Labor party.
MUmPENDED Till! MAYOR.
In consequence of the action of the
Mayor of Cork, Ireland, in hoisting the
black flag on the occasion of the jubilee
and because of his having shown favor to
“Xed gktTnlvTreshlent *£££“ mid 1> '“ ' mijs mag ' S
trate shall try the prisoners.
IMMENSE CASTING.
The steel stern post for the war ship
charleston was successfully cast at San
Francisco, Cal. The post is twenty-two of
f ee t long on the keel, with an upwards upright of
twenty feet, and weigh*
15,000 pound*.
Sworn Off.
Young Poet (to friend)—“Well, Char-
p, r j- ve SWO] . n 0 ff >■
; ‘F ri( . I1(1 (enthusiastically)—“I’m ‘ heart-
j j ilv iod of it> feel old the boy; au(1 a n Let’s c f yollr
will same wav* go
! ft nd have a drink.”
Young Poet—“Didn’t I just tell you
| j that I had (disappointed)—“You sworn off drinking?” didn’t
Friend
Slly you Dari sworn off drinking. 1 sup-
. (os(M | that yon had sworn off writing
poetry.”— Puck.
“Going for tho ('off*.'*
Long bofora the erlmso i sunset
Finsho* on the farmhouse panos;
Long before the mi»t,y purple
Down the distant valley wanes;
Wistful eyes are looking field wards,
While the patient grandma sews;
And I he old clock on the mantle,
Tic, tic, tic, so drowsy goes.
"Dear me, Jenny, ” cries the grandma,
With her specs above her brows;
"Do be quiet, it’s so early,
Lots of time to fetch the cowsl”
Shadows lengthen down the mountain.
And the swallows wing their round;
Scarlet sunlight flashes brightly
O’er I he daisy-laden ground.
Anxious eyes are at the window
Looking down the meadow lane;
Tiny fingers softly tapping
On the kitchen window pane.
"lilesi me, Jenny," calls the grandma,
"There's no peace in a'l the house;
Do go, if you can’t be quit—
Go at once and fetch the cowsl”
Light the step that tient the clover,
Tripping o’er the meadow widel
Two were meeting there together.
Talking softly, side by sidol
Up the lane come Jet and Snowball,
Brindle Be-s, with ^-tep so slbw,
While the sunlight softly lingers
On a mai len’s cheek aglow.
"Girls are girls,” old graudma whisper^
As she sees them through the boughs;
"Unce I » ent, I well remember,
Very early for the cowsl"
—[John Kenyon, in Accident News;
• . HUMOROUS.
A fine place—A justice’s office.
Fumily jars often grow out of family
jugs.
Man wants but little here below, and
ho generally gets it.
A falsetto voice does not necessarily
imply a falsetto toeth.
It seems a paradox that tho bud, in its
very birth, should dilate.
Mild as tho summer zophers are, they
invariably come to blows.
Ignorance may be bliss, but the. hot
handle of a shovel Is blister.
“Girls think men are all soul,” says a
woman who has had three husbands;
“but women know they are all stomach.”
Somo old dinner customs still prevail.
The Romans used to recline at their ban¬
quets, and the habit of lying at public
dinners still prevails.
‘“There are over three thousand medi¬
cines in the world," and of this number
aver flvo thousand aro prescribed by
friends for the man who is suffering from
an attack of rheumatism.
An Omaha grocer gives away an origi¬
nal poem with every cake of soap he
sells. This Is a sure sign that the liter¬
ary ccatro is getting tired of Chicago
and is wandering furthor west.
An “earthquake indicator" has b:en.
invented. A married man who bought
one and went home in a rather shaky
condition after midnight says the con¬
trivance is the worst kind of a fraud.
The earthquake came all the same with,
out a moment’s warning.
An Opium Eater.
Chance gave me one day an oppor¬
tunity of seeing how the opium habit is
practiced by its devotees. Like most
people, I had an idea that it was some¬
thing poetical and Oriental, like hash-
eesh-eating, or that, at the worst,
it wus no more common place
than De Quincy’s sipping tho ex¬
tract like wine poured from a decan¬
ter. I was at a druggist’s counter when
a shabby woman, evidently living in
some neighboring tenement house, camo
jn with an ordinary four-ounco medicine
bottle. It had a label on it as if it had
been once filled by a proscription. The
woman laid down a few cents, the drug¬
gist took up the botiie, turned mechani¬
cally to his shelves and poured into it
from u big glass jar an ounce or so of—
laudanum. Not a word was said. The
woman thrust the bottle in her pocket
and went home to drink herself into in.
toxication. Suspecting the nature of the
transaction tasked the man:
“Is she an opium-eater ?”
“Yes,” he said, with a mean and
guilty look,—[Brooklyn Citiz-n.
Be Gu Time.
The habit of punctuality is a proflt-
nble one to cultivate. A boy or a man
who is sure to keep every appointment ha
makes, has added just so much capital
atock to hi* character. Every employer,
every customer is eager to enter into
business relation* with him.
Unpunctuality brings its punishment
in a tiionsand ways, small and great.
Not long ago a part of the stock in a
large jublisbing house in this city was
seized by the sheriff to satisfy a compara¬
tively small claim, the justice of which
the firm was contesting. This disagree¬
able circumstance occurred simply be¬
cause the lawyer employed by the firm
missed his train, aud thus gave the op¬
posing counsel in the case an advantage,
which he was quick to grasp.—[Golden
Argosy.
A Pertinent Inquiry
Little R chmond is learning to recite.
IVke most children he dislikes the
practice and his small wils usuully de¬
vise a way to get til of it.
This time it was Mary and her little
lamb. Richmond mused a moment, then
he asked, coolly:
“Isn’t Mary’s little lamb most a sheep
now, gran’pa?”—[Detroit Free Piess.