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great improvements
PtttMECTBD AND UNDER WAY
ALL OVER THE SOUTH.
l urrpila ltcin« I.evellrd nml Mill*, I'arloriea*
JtiiilTniuN, »< on mil'll-*, BtO., Itiiihllng —
iilniiy Now Iiiooriioi'iitioim.
Nixonvillc, Ala., is to have a starch
factory.
Cooke Spriftgs, Ala., rejoices that she
is soon to have a 200-gucst hotel.
A hotel will he put up at Daytona,
Fla., , by L. h. n ,, vaile, .. of . St. Augustine, . ..
Parties from Georgia are about to erect
a twenty-ton fertilizer factory at Oxford,
Ala.
C. E. Long, a Pennsylvanian, is ar-
rimging to put up an extensive glass plant
nt Chattanooga, Tenn.
The Southern Marble Company con¬
template their building a railroad from Jasper,
tin., to marble quarries.
The Alabama Granite Company, of
Birmingham, Ala., with a capital of
$200,000, lias been incorporated.
The Sparger Steel Compound Company
of Bristol, Tenn., lias been organized
with a capital stock of $100,000.
A tract of 18,000 acres of land at
Bronson, Fla., has been purchased by a
syndicate, who will erect mills, etc.
Feriintidiiia, Fla., is to have “a boom,”
ns Douiel Whitney, of Detroit, Mich.,
has secured 33,000 acres of timber lands
iu that vicinity, which will be developed.
The Van Depoele Electric Manufactur¬
ing Company, of Chicago, Ill., will estab¬
lish a btanch factory at Montgomery,
.Via. About 150 men will be employed.
Philadelphia, Pa., parties have organ-
1/1'd the Florida Sugar Manufacturing
to., at Kissimmee, Fla., with a capital
of $300,000. A sugar refinery will be
erected.
E. B. Comly, president of the Mother-
xvell Iron it Steel Company, of Logan, O.,
is Southern investigating the merits of several
c ities with a view to establish¬
ing a manufacturing plant.
The great Southern Iron, Brass and
Engine Co. will locate in West Nash¬
ville, Tenn., to do general machine work.
Capital $300,000. The Fuel Economizer
Co. will also build their machines in the
same works.
A bill has been introduced in the Leg¬
islature in Georgia, to incorporate the
Anthony Shoals Land Improvement
Company of Washington, Ga., to develop
mineral lands, quarries, Ac., and build
laiiroads, pipe lines, etc.
Tin- Bloomfield Water PowerCo., with
a capital of $800,000 has been organized
til Athens, Ga. The company will either
l.iiiid a cotton factory at Barnett Shoals,
or manufacturing erect buildings to be leased out for
purposes.
TERRIBLE ACCIDENT
Id Norlli Carolina, By Which Nine People
Are Blown I p nml Killed.
Information lias licen received of
in explosion which eight - in Lancaster county,
in negro men were
killed, and a white man seri-
oiish wounded, has since died. The scene
nf the accident is three miles from the
Catawba river, near the camp of Messrs,
Wright Bros., who have a grading con-
tract on the Georgia, Carolirih and North-
ern railroad. Instead of digging down
the hills with picks, the contractors have
been blasting their way in heavy cuts,
usd on the evening in question hands
were engaged Agee* at this kind of work under
Lee from Virginia. A hole
eighteen of feet in depth had thirteen kegs
giant powder for use, and the cap
xvas struck some way, thus producing
the explosion. The ground was broken
back for a distance of about forty feet.
As tlip time explosion before the was accident expected, was it was di.s-
some
covered. But when it was, search was
made for the bodies, one of which was
found at a distance of five hundred feet
from tin: cut, liis logs and arms torn from
Vis body and his bowels blown out, and
mNcoat was hanging on the top of a tree
near w. Another of the colored men
was foe.,,1 a t a distance of three hundred
teet fearfmty mangled, and a white man
was dying not. f ;lr from them, a charred
and lacreated mass, but still living. Nine
persons were killed, eight of them being
negroes. Mr. Agee, the unfortunate
foreman, rience is said to have had much expe¬
at railroad grading, aud is repre¬
sented to have been very careless and
reckless about his blasts, so much so, that
he had often been remonstrated with on
this account.
THE PRESIDENT
Will Be Especially Invited to sit. I.onis By
11 Committee of Civilian*.
A mass meeting of citizens xvas held
by the citizens of St. Louis, Mo., at the
merchants’ exchange, to take public action
in regard to inviting President Cleveland
to vixit St. Louis in the autumn, and xvas
called to order by Frank Gaiennie, presi¬
dent of the exchange. The meeting
"as quite large. After three or four
speeches by prominent citizens, the fol¬
lowing Louis was adopted; “The people of St.
called assembled at a public meeting,
for the purpose, and held at
'be merchants’ exchange on July
8fii, 1887, respectfully and earnestly
extend to the President of the United
‘States and to Mrs. Cleveland an invita-
tion to visit the city and become its
quests lor tiie week commencing October
-■ 1887. In doing so, they beg leave to
'‘fge him on the President their desire to give
a welcome that will demonstrate the
f Kpect and love they have for him a
pulxlif as
officer and as a man.” The mayor
?' k(te,| Louis and a committee to be se-
by him are appointed to proceed
0 Washington and deliver this invitation
t0 the President.
KILLING THE CHINAMEN.
A number of the Chinese mining camps
Wong Snake River, in Oregon, have been
t( iried either by the Indians or the
"bites. Numerous mutilated bodies of
hinamen have come down the stream,
w live being found together. It is
"night ho to be tiie work of white men,
robbed the Chinese of their gold.
U an ? ' t * 8 said the Chinese minister
at \v Washington } the
outrage. las been informed of
WASHINGTON NOTES.
j HOT WEATHER HUSINGS /ROM
THE NATION'S CtriTAE.
''uiiicllilna Aliniu lln> Niirpliin, 11,,. Army,
Ihe Navy, Civil Ap|>uiii|iiieiua, »m|
ItepnrliiientN Ceil ..rally.
The President appointed P. Stephen
Hunter to be collector of customs for tho
district of Rappahannock, Va.
The President will not visit the West
at all during the present year. The
abandonment of his proposed trip to St.
Louis lias resulted in wholly changing
whatever plans he had made for visiting
Western cities.
Three six!een-huniIred-dollar clerks in
the mercantile marine division of the
Treasury Department were dismissed in
consequence of the trunsfer of certain
work from this division to other divisions
of the Treasury.
Commissioner Column has writen a let¬
ter to the executor of the estate of the
late Henry A. Middleton, of Summer-
vjllo, S. C., notifying him that the land
recently occupied by the Government as
a tea farm has been abandoned.
The cruiser Chicago was taken out of
the dock the other day at the Erie basin
and sent up to the Brooklyn Yard. No offi¬
cial report has yet reached the Depart¬
ment blades concerning the accident by which
two of the vessel’s propeller were
broken while being docked.
G.W. Sage, a dealer in door sashes and
blinds in Rome, N.Y complaifts pathet¬
ically tv ,
the Interstate Commerce Com¬
mission Gat lie is being ruined in his old
age by the kj«h freight rates charged to
Boston “anct Boston points” since the
interstate law wc*t into effect.
The Navy Department is satisfied with
the plans for dry docks to he built at
Brooklyn, N. Y., and Norfolk,Va., which
were submitted by bidden under the
recent advertisement. Commodore Har¬
mony, chief of the Bureau of Yards and
Docks, will recommend to Secretary
Whitney that a re advertisement be made
requiring bids upon plans which have
been prepared by the bureau.
"KING CALICO DEPOSED.
Ills l’eople Uisc I-hi Masse and Fore© Him
To ( liaugc His Tactics.
The steamship Mariposa, which arrived
from Australia, brings important informa-
tliat the expected revolution in the Haw¬
aiian kingdom has actually occurred. The
downfall populace of organized the ministry and demanded the
and the abdica¬
tion of the king. Residents of Honolulu
aud surrounding country assumed the
powers of government. The volunteer
military forces of the-kingdom were with
them, and as a result the Gibson minis¬
try has fallen, and a cabinet named by
the people, headed by Wj^Jiam M. Green,
has been appointed. King Kalakua is
permitted to remain ou the throne, al-
though divested of all present power,
having acceded to the demand for a new
constitution, and to abide by the will of
the people. The king was thoroughly
alarmed, and called a meeting of the
American minister, the British commis-
sioner, and the French commissioner and
the Portuguese ................. to whom
he offered to transfer the pro tem powers
vested in him as king. These officials
refused to accept the trust, but advised
the king to lose no time in framing a new
constitution, which advice lie followed,
Walter M. Gibson, his son-in-law, and F.
II. Hayselden, are under arrest, having
been sc ized by civic troops when attempt-
ing to escape. The populace assumed
control of affairs in the kiugdora, and
other were joined by the Honolulu Rifles and
hastily organized military com-
panics,
A CATHOLIC PRIEST
Formally r.xcoiniiiiintentrd From Ilia
(’Itill-pli and lVr*ua*ioi».
Archbishop Corrigan, of New Y ork,
bv authority from Rome, liasturued Kev.
Pv Edward McGlvnn out of the priest¬
hood and the Catholic Church. On
publication of the fact, a meeting was
held at the Academy of Music. Inis
xvas soon packed, and hundreds were
turned away unable to find admission.
James J. Gahan, of the Catholic Herald,
presided over the meeting in the Acadc-
„,v of Music, and John Feeney, of St.
Stephen’s parish, took charge of the
meeting in Irving hall. And then came
a scene that must have thrilled all pres-
ent, whether thdre as Dr. McGiynne ad-
herents or as curiosity seekers. Cheers
an d applause swelled until nearly 4,000
persons were upon their feet, and a
thunderous roar went out to those in the
streets, and was there taken up and
spread to Irving hail. And word went
through the multitudes that Dr. Mc-Glynn
xvas before the people, and that he was
even then waiting a pause in their up-
iilausc to begin his speaking. Dr. Me-
Glvnn was received with uproarious up-
plause. In the course of Ins speech, lie be
said it was his duty to resist and even
burned alive at the stake, rather than
commit the unpardonable sin against the
Holv Ghost of declaring what Ins con-
science believed to be false.
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NEWS OF STANLEY.
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The latest, intelligence from Stanley,
the African explorer, is that on the jour¬
ney from Leopoldville to Lankalela he
had to overcome serious obstacles. <>"•
of the gravest difficulties he found was
to replenish hw commissary. A tlirc.it
oned scarcity of provisions greatly became »x
cited a number of his men, and it
necessary Hutch to punish malcontents with
severity to reduce them to subjec¬
tion and save the expedition. StanH \
himself is ill from excessive heat. ■ tan-
SuencTof lev’s programme was to encamp at tin
the Congo with tuc Amoo-
honim, there to await the arrival^of T \
several h undred more men.
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POISON IN 1CK CREAM.
A case of wholesale ice cream poison¬
ing occurred in New 5 ork eitv.
number of victims will exceed fifty. Of
these eighteen are known to be very ill,
but physicians think that they will all re¬
cover/ A Sixth-avenue confectionery
Hold it.-,00 the reward cream, for a and solution the P^pnc «t the or mystery offc^
as to how the cream was poisoned.
ELLAV1LLE, GEORGIA. THURSDAY. JULY U, 1881.
SOUTHERN ITEMS.
VERT INTERESTING HOTS GATH¬
ERED HERE AND THERE.
Hrii.it-lioffM rnrts lor a Week of \Yli |
is Ti'nii.iiiriiiK Around fl
I s, Well
Worth Rending.
Tho Georgia Bar Association will meet
in Atlanta, August 8d, and it is expected
over 200 members will be present,
Louisville, Ky., lias decided not to
allow colored troops to take part in the
Encampment. military contest ut the International
Garnett Allen, aged ten years, the old¬
est son of tlie Ordinary of Gilmer county,
Ga., was drowned in Cartecay river, near
the residence of J. I. Jarrett".
Nashville, Tenn., is excited over the
liquor anteed question. Funds have been guar¬
by respectable citizens, necessary
to enforce the law. Arrests will he made
for violating the four-mile law, for selling
liquor without license, and for selling it
on Sunday.
The Memphis Appeal has started a
subscription Grambrell, list for a monument to
young who was killed by
Hamilton during the prohibition cam¬
paign in Jackson, Miss. The Appeal
refers to Gambrell as the “martyr editor,”
and heads the list of subscribers to his
monument with $100.
The twelfth annual session of the Geor¬
gia State Horticultural society will he
held at Dalton on the 4th, 5th and 6th of
August, next, Delegates will be enter-
tained free of charge by the citizens of
Dalton, and transported free by the Geor¬
gia. Central. Savannah, Florida and West¬
ern. and Western and Atlantic railroads.
For some time past, some of the clerks
been of the endeavoring principal counties of Georgia have
to bring about a con¬
vention of all the clerks of the state for
the puff of exchanging views upon
some matters m interest to all. The re-
suit is a call for a f, " -v(,ntion to be held
at the Kimball House, lit Atlanta, Ga.
The Columbus fast train pulit a ouf 0 f
the union make depot, Columbus at Atlanta, Ga., iin
ing to at forty minutes
past ten, Montgomery an hour later, and
Selina a short time after dinner. But
unfortunately dent, the train met with an acci¬
almost as soon as it had gotten out
of the-city, by jumping the frog at East
Point, Gs.
II. M. Batman, postmaster at Ack-
worth, Ga., by mistake, swallowed a tea¬
spoonful of digitahis. He realized the
mistake the moment he swallowed it and
at once sent for Drs. Green and Humph¬
ries. In the meantime he drank copiously
of warm water and salt and swallowed
tobacco juice, and by the time the doc¬
tors arrived he had thrown up everything
in him and had left but little traces of
the deadly poison in his system.
THEATRE BURNED,
'■»> Seven teen l’cniUe Are t nt on »■*
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Fire broke out on the stage of the A-
cazar theatre at Hurley, Wis., and wi -
in an hour the entire business portion ot
the town was in flames, while seventeen
persons had remains perished of in nine the theatre, people lne
charred nave
been taken from the ruins. The loss is
fully half a million dollars. The Alca¬
zar was a variety theatre, chiefly fre¬
quented by miners, and was one of the
resorts of unsavory repute associated
with the notorious dance houses of the
mining regions. Only a small audience
had gathered when the fire broke out,
and they scrambled out in a hurry.
Several of the actors, however, rushed up
stairs to save their wardrobe, and when
they sought to escape found that they
xvere hemmed in ou all sides, the flames
having spread through the wooden
building with incredible rapidity. This
tiie, together with one of the previous
week, destroyed nearly all of the busi-
ness portion of the town, leaving only a
few stores standing. The losses are par¬
tially covered by insurance of about
$50 000. The loss by the two fires will
amount to fully $800,000,
WENT DRY. I
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4 .,„ By A Large Majority Decide*
m Favor of Frohibitton.
One of the most that interesting occurred and excit-
- n(r * ( . ampa j gng ever in
F1 d C0U nty, Ga., closed by Rome de-
cid j nf r in favor of prohibition, liquor by a vote lor
^ to 908, that must go. lias
moru t i )all forty days the contest
rage( j growing fiercer as the day of elec-
° 8ched. Two ago last
tj n a pp r0 years held the
Fe | jru;il . V) an election was on
1)ro j.' hibition question, resulting in victory
)r tlle “xvet” ticket, by several hundred
, na i 0I ity. It was felt, however, at that
t ; n J 0 au( i ever since, that the result was
no t a fair expression of the people s will,
The election had been called by the liquor
men j u m jd winter. There was no regis-
trut io,i law. It was felt that this question
shoul(1 bc fairly submitted to the people
ou itg mer its, especially, in the meantime
tbe great ”j contest hud been fought fraud and
WOI u Atlanta, and the danger of
wag , r( , at i y lessened l>y the registration worked
; aw now in force. The ladies
xvith a will, and as they, with some chil-
dreu st0 od near the court house and sung
“Nearer My God To Thee,” it made an
impressive scene.
turned out.
The Chicago, III., papers an
(t
,,f the Young Men’s Christian Association
■md the pastor of the Plymouth the Oongre-
uation.il church, announcing expul-
Ljon from both organizations of Ju«ig<
Alva A. Knight, on account of grossly
immoral conduct practiced under the
cloak of religion. During the recon¬
struction period he occupied residing several for pub-
I ( . offices in Florida, some
time in Jacksonville.
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T , 1 1. CLUBBER on trial.
Police Captain Alexander Williams was
Placed SSi on trial before the Board of Police
C 7 .1.1 sioners in New York. m. charges,
hv Rev. Dr. Howard Crosby
and other citizen*, that lie knowingly per
t d eertaia disorderly houses to con-
traffic in his precinct and that
he also permitted violations of the Excise
law in Tom Gould’s and other disreput¬
able resorts.
GENERAL NEWS
GLEANED I ROM MANY SOURCES
THE WORLD OVER.
What i« Coins On North, Ciinuila, .AIpmIco,
Wwil Imlii'M, Rttropn,
A trim. Etc.
The Alexandria & Washington Railroad
was sold at public auction, at Alexandria,
to the Pennsylvania road for $100,000,
Montreal Canadian cholera is more prevalent in
this season than for many years
jiast. Children are dying from cholera
infant mu at an alarming rate.
Andrew Carnegie laid the foundation
of tho new frap library building in Edin¬
burg, for the’ endowment of which lie
donah d $250,000. Mr. Blaine was pres¬
ent and made an address.
In evictions at Coolganery, Ireland, a
man named Darey and his three daughters
made a stubborn resistance, and were
badly beaten by the bailiils, who will be
arrested, charged with assault.
The Peruvian government lias invited
the republics of Central and South Amer¬
ica to co-operate in the formation of an
American sanitary congress, to be held
in Lima, on November 1st of this year.
Gold-hearing quartz has been discov¬
ered on the lapds of tho Lake Superior Iron
Company, near Ishpeming, Mich. Ihe
discovery was made in August verified last year, and
but only recently been
located.
The following bishops have been ap¬
pointed by the Pope; The Rev. James
O’Reilly, of Wichita; the Rev. Richard
Scniiiiei, of Concordia; the Rev. Thomas
Bonacum, of Lincoln, and the Rev. Mau¬
rice Bourke, of Cheyenne.
Charles Guesberg, thirteen years old,
son of an employe of the Government
printing office, was fatally shot by a play¬
mate in Washington, D. C. The boys
were playing “Buffalo," with blank car-
tridges, as they supposed, with but one — bullet. ear-
tridge proved to be loaded a
Superintendent Lawler, of issued the Reading notice
Railroad, in Pennsylvania, they a abstain
to all intoxicants employes whether that must duty not.
“ an on or
Any takiivBrink reported to him as having been
seen summarily of liquor or beer will
lie wx-.ii S8e d j rom the service
of the company.
WASHINGTON S SENSATHat
Discovery of Rnsoalily Iu The Horse Claim*
Division of the Treasury Department.
in Something of a sensation was created
the Treasury Department recently by
the discovery that a trusted official in the
department matic had been guilty of a syste¬
attempt to defraud the government.
The officer was arrested at Wilkesbarre,
l’a., as he was about to take the train for
service Washington, and his dismissal from the
was ordered by Secretary Fair-
child. His name is Oscar J. Harvey, and
he has been employed in the department
since Juue, 1885, when he xvas appointed
chief of the horse claims division of the
Third Auditor’s office. Austin H. Brown,
chief of Indianapolis, succeeded Harvey as
of the Horse Claims division, and
shortly after lie took charge of the office
he discovered frauds of which his prede¬
cessor had been guilty. These consisted
of the passage of forty-six fraudulent
claims for horses, aggregating $9,200, and
the preparation of 210 additional cases of
a similar nature, which were under con¬
sideration iu the office. Soon alter Mr.
Brown, a peculiarity in the autographic
signatures to abandoned a number during of claims W for
horses lost or the ar
by officers of Pennsylvania and New Jer¬
discovered sey regiments. On the 20th of June he
the allowed, a palpable which forgery appeared in one of
eases, to
have been Philadelphia prosecuted and by W. W. Wynn, Wash¬
first of then of
ington.
THREATENED INSURRECTION-
People in Manitoba Moke Vi C orou« Tlireal*
to the Dominion CJovernm«>nt.
There seems to be a probability Manitoba that
trouble will break out iu be-
tween the people of that province and
the Dominion authorities. It relates to
peopuTdcsire, of a railroad which t lie
but which is opposed by
the Canadian Pacific Company. A cla-
patch from Winnipeg says: “Secrit or-
ders have been issued to local volunteer
battalions to hold themselves in readiness
tor active service. This is believed to be
a ruse on the part of the Dominion gov¬
ernment to send volunteers out West un¬
der the pretence that another Indian up¬
rising is feared, so that the government
can easily carry out their evident inten¬
tion of preventing Manitoba from build¬
ing the proposed road to the boundary.
It is said to be the government’s the mounted intention
to send into Winnipeg volunteers, and po¬
lice in the absence of so
coerce the province into submission. It
the federal authorities resort to force, 1 he
government house aud Fort Osborn will
be razed and a big riot will follow.
RESISTED THE “WHITE GAPS ”
A terrible fight occurred at Marengo,
Crawford county, Ind., between a band
of “white caps” (regulators) and two
brothers named Naushe. Tiie “white
caps” called upon John Naushe for the
purpose of whipping. John and his
brother Sherman were awaiting their
arrival, and with wagon-wheel apokea
attacked the regulators. In the fight
that ensued, Sherman Naushe was fatally
shot, and John was beaten with clubs
until he was left for dead. The Naushes
were powerful men, aud it is said that
several “white caps” were wounded and
killed^ The charge against John Naushe
xvas, that he had caused the separation of
.Tustice"Town and his wife.
TROUBLE IN TEXAS*.
The prohibition campaign in Texas has
stirred up more bad feeling than ever be
fore on election issues Prohibitionists
were rotten-egged at San Antonio, Aiogai
Q Mills was lmnged in effigy by Piohibi
tionists at Crockett, the Speaker of the
House of Representatives lias been turiiec
out of church because he opposes prohi¬
bition, aud anti-prohibitionists liave been
denounced from the pulpit, personal and en¬
counters have been common, wordy
denunciations have occurred without
number.
ENGLAND S DISGRACE
('•nsiirnmnlrd Itv ilie Panur of Ihe I'o.r-
non or ('rluioM Bill#
The debate on tho Crimes’ bill,
being about to close, Hir William
Haruourt, criticised the bill at great
length, saving that every town and
village in the kingdom should bo made
to understand that the government re-
fused to Irish tenants that protection
bination from an old oppressive granted law against trades com- j
which they to a
StSJt! CCT-
Crime daily was gaining dying out. and The professed Gladstonians union-
were
ists losing votes; and the home-rule cause
was certain to win in the long run. Mr.
Goschen then rose to speak, whereupon
the Parnellites left the House in a body. |
Mr. Goschen said he would not stop to i
s
contention was, not that the bill was jus-
titled because others as drastic had been
passed, but that it was necessary, The
bill was only permanent in the sense that
the government which the refused bill should to publish the
dale upon cease to
operate. Referring to Mr. Gladstone’s
bills, he said that the conservatives had
defeated both of them. “Hear! Heart”
shouted Mr. Gladstone, amid laughter
and cheers, and Mr. Goshen exclaimed:
“O, splendid admission! O, splendid Goschen
denied repentance that 1” the Continuing, literature of Mr. the civilized
world condemned the government’s pol¬
icy. Americans in the struggle for the
maintenance of the Union were not influ¬
enced by the opinions American of English states¬
men, and if the opinion union was
„? against the continuance of the
England and Ireland, which I10 did
not believe, the unionists would not be
influeneed by that opinion in the defense
of such a cause. The bill passed its third
reading by a vote of 34b to 202. The
announcement of the vote was received
cheers and counter cheers.
STRANGE PICTURES.
The phenomena of pictures upon win¬
dow panes that has been exciting and
perplexing the denizens of Milford, Brack-
on county, is being repeated at house, Bache¬ in
lor’s Rest and Pickerell'a school
Kentucky. The windows of a number of
private residences are handsomely orna-
me nted with red and blue tints, inter¬
lined with pictures of men and beasts—
one pane of glnss representing Curiosity a picture is
at -r animals entering an ark. of glass
K..„ r beat. Several panes
were n*ni. -d and brought to town, and,
after being . c ie a „od, the ill
ustrations disappen. The t fin Further inves¬
tigation ceased. appear the
more perfect and distinct jusi , sunset,
The more s uporstitious and trembling, view the and pn>
ena with fear antic.
pate all sorts of calamities.
INCENDIARIES AT WORK.
Fire broke out in a building on La-
trobe street in Grafton, W. Va., and be¬
fore it was checked, totally consumed,
with almost all their contents, twenty-
eight buildings, including two of the
largest hotels, tw’o furniture stores, two
drug stores, two millinery stores, the
Standard Enterprise newspaper office,
one hardware store, one jewelry store,
one clothing store, a number of other
Stores, offices aud private dwellings. No
organized lire department work exists the there,
aud only by the hardest on part
of citizens was the fire finally controlled.
The total loss will reach nearly $100,000,
and the insurance is only about $12,000.
q he lire is supposed to be of incendiary
origin. _
HONORING TI 1 K G. O. M-
In the presence of a large number of
guests, invited by Mr. Gladstone, to a
garden party in London, England, Gladstone the
American testimonial to Mr.
was formally presented to the ex-premier,
and afteward exhibited by liim to the
guests. The presentation speech the New « as
made by Joseph Pulitzer, of
York World. Mr. Pulitzer was accom¬
panied to Dallis Hill by Mrs. Pulitzer,
Perry Belmont, of New York ; Patrick R.
Collins, of Boston ; James McLean, of flic
New York associated press; Richmond M.
Walters and C. C. Shayne, Jr., of New
York, and T. C. Crawford, London cor-
res pondent of tho New York World.
RABBI IN HOT WATER.
A meeting of the board of trus-
tees of the congregation of the Gates
of Hope, was held in New York
in the synagogue, and the rabbi of tlie
congregation—E. B. M. Browne-was
suspended on charges of conduct unbe¬
coming a minister. Trouble lias been
brewing for a long time. 1 he course of
the rabbi in seeking notoriety and making
himself generally officious dissatisfaction in public mat¬
ters,began to breed among
the members a long time since. Ihe
charges also include details of his career
elsewhere.
Our National flame.
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leesr/
“Hit Jimmy, tome here, knocked quick, or
you’ll miss the fun. The’ve a
ball clean through a man, an’ he’s a lyin’
on the ground in conwulsions 1”— Life.
Last Chance Gone.
Omaha Dame—“ llow is your papa
this morning, pet ?”
Omaha Child “lie has given up
hope.” “Mercy me! 1 didn’t know his
case
was so serious as that.”
“Yes, he lias sent for a doctor.’’—
Omaha World.
VOL. II. NO. 42.
SCIENTIFIC M RU’S.
Owing to the increased electrical in¬
tensity of tho atmosphere, which is in¬
duced liy the continual evulsion of steam
ami smoke, Dr. A ... mines estimates ....... that
the danger from lightning is from throe
to jj ve llmCi greater than it was titty
J 0
R cent delicate sc entitle experiments,
g( 1 y, (t writer ou earthquukos, have dis-
ROVoru j t j lL . f ac t that tlio surfaco of the
'“•*"“•«'» ~™
than thirty hours at a tune, ihus those
great earthquakes which make epochs in
)ljfctory #ru moro iy extreme manifestations
of forcMthftt raruly , loe
t| 1c yellowing of paper, according to
p ru f Winner is due to an oxidationde-
«"• *
rcfrangiblo rays. It is greater in wood
Unin 111 rag papers, and in moist than in
dry air. The electric light, rich ia tho
more refrangible rays, has a greater dis*
coloring effect in libraries than gas.
The Fall R ver (Mass.) mills have a
new devico for stopping tho engines in
any part of the mill. An electric wire
runs from tho engine to each room in
the mill. There is a box in each room
from which, by the simple turning of 11
key, tho engine may bo immediately
stopped. A convenient contrivance.
A less restricted diet in athletic train¬
ing is being favored iu England, and, iu-
stead of the largo proportion of meat
formerly rigidly insisted on, physiolo-
“ |8 ^ g aow consoler a variety of food os-
^ ^ ^ reBults Tlle Cam-
bridge boat crew, m training . . for , the ,. race
w ith Oxford, were this year permitted to
eat fish, puddings and dessert, though
still forbidden sugar with pastry.
How much influence do fish exert on
cace other? W. A. Carter, iu speaking
recently on “Marine and Fresh-Wator
Fishes,” mentions a shoal of carp follow¬
ing a single one acting as a leader, which
conducted them a long distance to aeon-
siderablu amount of food. Trout some¬
times seem to follow a leader which
swims along at the head of a tribe. Both
fresh-water and salt-water lish appear
to show tile same characteristic. Herring
and bass have frequently been observe 1
following an apparently-chosen leader.
It is a fact worth noting that no
comet, so far as is known, lias ever come
iq subiiL., contact with the eertli, or mingled its
The re w tlic earth’s atmosphere.
nearest, -» r> j. 0 ach ever observed was
Lexell’s comet ot *—xvhich approached
to within 1,400,000 enii. „f tho earth,
and subtended an angle of - 23
minutes, the largest npparont diamc.„
vet observed in any comet, It has not
been seen since 1770, though an orbit was
computed for it of only five and a ha[f
years, and astronomers are of tho opinion
that perturbation by Jupiter may imvo
changed its orbit to one of long period.
In the village of Meyrin, in the canton
of Geneva, Switzerland, somo disused
wells, it U said, have been hermetically
sealed and devoted to the novel purpose
of serving as barometers to tho people.
In this arrangement an orifice of about
one inch in diameter is made in the
cover of tho well, by means of which the
internal air is put in communication with
the external, Wlion tho air ptassure
outside diminishes on the approach of a
storm, the air in the well escapes and
blows a whistle in connection with ths
orifice, and in this simple way notico of
a storm’s approach is duly given to tho
inhabitants. But if, on tho contrary,
the pressure increases, a sound of a dif-
ferent and well-understood character is
produced by the entry of the air into the
well, and the probability of fine weather
is announced.
An Orchest ra of Convicts.
The island of Noumia lias what is ac¬
knowledged to be the best orchestra in
the southern hemisphere, and is com¬
posed entirely of convicts. Its comple¬
ment averages 120 pieces, and the whole
is under tho direction of a former leader
in the Grand opera, who is “doing life¬
time” for murder. Twice a week—on
Thursdays and Sundays— the hand plays
three hours in the public square, and all
the officials and business element of the
capital make use of the time and place
as a sort of clearing house fortheirsocial
obligations. The band plays music of a
high class, and as, in 1884, Noumia was
the only place in the southern world
where Wagner’s music could be heard,
many music lovers came from Australia
expressly to hear it.—[Boston Tran¬
script.
Vegetation In Mexico.
Through the acquisitions from ArnOld
World, tho richest flora and finest va¬
rieties of fruits and vegetables abound
in Mexico, such as apples, pears, cher¬
ries, peaches, oranges, figs, grape*,
pomegranates, East Indian mangoes,
papaws, the passion-flower, ciictus
fruits, etc. One will find in an Indian
village of the temperate zone a truly
delightful landscape picture, surrounded
by heavily laden orange-trees, banana-
stalks, and fruits of every imaginable
hue, and by blossoming shrubs and
flowers. Mexico has the markets ot all
the world constantly open. Plants of all
the different zones, lroin frigid to torrid,
are encountered in the ascent from the
coast to tableland, and indicate to a
nicety the diff rent degrees of altitude
and temperature,—[Frank Leslie’s.
Are The; Gludf
she were here
take my hand and ask. "What Is It
dear? 1 ’
would not see the wrinkles on mV face
or note ihe silver whore the gold had place.
my faded lip she’d leave a klsa
And whisper “Darliug," and she would not
miss
The vanished rose, or it she did, would say,
• How you have ri|ieued since I wont away.”
The blemishes that others might despise
Would st ill bo beautiful (o mother's eyes.
If sliowero here,
She would not mind the changes; if a tear
Should fill my eye, I kuow that she would,
see.
And give sweet consolation unto me;
Yet, in her heart, some things would little
heed, 1 noed
Knowing how much their discipline
And so, I think, though heaven bo far,
And friends can see us even as we are,
They may bo glnd, like loving motherhood.
Because they know how all things work for
good.
—[Julia May in Congrogationallsk
HUMOROUS.
A striking performance— a boxing
match.
The man who believes talk is cheap
never employed a lawyer.
A Western lady fainted when her bon-
net enught fire. She naturally felt light-
headed.
Hi —What are you thinking of ? She
—Nothing. Hu (absent-mindedly)—You
flatter me.
A Pennsylvania musician fell from a
second-story window, and found the
pitch unconifortably-high.
A western man has had a needle taken
out of his body. He now knows how to
account for the stitches in his side.
A contemporary tells tho ladies that
they must “take heart.” As if they
hadn’t been doing this ever since the
creation.
A lady advertises for sale a baboon,
three tabby cats, and parrot. She
states that, being now married, she haa
no use for them.
Minister—“I wish 1 could do some¬
thing with the choir to stop that con¬
stant chewing of gum. It’s detestable.
Leader— “No, it isn’t; its spruce.” .
In the bright lexicon of youth there is
no such word as fail, but later on, when
ti’ie youth gets into business for himself,
then the word shows up in good shape.
Prof. Baird says that fishes sometimes
live to be 150 years old. Now, wo can
understand why they aro in no liur-
ry to partake of the tempting morsel at
the end of our line.
When a man complained about *
I* 01 - xvitli no moans of getting out iu
case cf tiiv, Popkins swl that he didn’t
cure for means to g-et out ot a hotel.
Wlmt ho needed was naans for staying
there.
“Nothing but trials and tribulations
and disappointments. I am disgusted
with it all I” “And what aro you going
to do about it?’ “I am going to quit
tho earth.” (Horritud.) "You don’t
mean you are going to commit suicide?’’
“No, I am going to take a sea voy
A Strong Man.
There is a man on the Carson river,
below Daytou, Nevada, named Angel*
Cordelia, who claims to be tho strongest
man in the world, He is an Italian,
aged 28, and stands 5 feet 10 inches,
weighing 198 pounds. His strength
was born with him, for ho had no ath¬
letic training. Ho differs from other
men chiefly in the osseous structure.
Although not of unusual size, his spi¬
nal column is much beyond the ordinary
width, and bis bones and joints are
rnado on a similarly largo and generous
scale. He has lifted a man of 200
pounds with the middle finger of lus
right hand. The man stood with one
foot on the floor, his arms outstrotched,
his hands grasped by two persona to
balance his body. Cordelia then stooped
and placed the third finger of his right
hand under tho man’s foot, and, with,
scarcely any perceptible effort, raised him
to the height of four feet and deposited
him on a table near at hand. Oaco two
powerful men waylaid Cordelia with in¬
tent to thrash him, hut he »eiz;d ono in
each hand and hammered them together
until life was nearly knocked out of
them.
A Geological Phenomenon.
In many parts of the world abundant
evidence shows that tho laud is still
slowly rising or sinking, producing
gradual changes that in tho course of
ages will completely transform the
earth’s topography. Ono of the most
remarkable examples has been lurnished
by Sweden and Finland. Lyell long
ago estimated that portions of Sweden
ire being elevated about four feet in a
century, aud surveys just made in Fin¬
land once more prove that the shores of
the Baltic aro steadily rising. M.
Venukoff reports to tho French academy
of Sciences that since tlio surveys of
1810-15 several islands have become
peninsulas, While many •shallows have
become islands or beaches. On the
southwest coast and in the neighboring
Aland Archipelago, pastures, gardens
and corn-fi :lds occupy spots which were
under water a few years ago. Steps are
being taken to accurately measure the
future progress of this geological phe¬
nomenon. — [ Arkansaw Traveler.