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system of tactics worked out by
General Fcrrier is to be tried in the
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j[ Do Lcsscps persists in the promise
tint th c Pau“ ma Canal wil ' he iinished
in two jears^_
A society of people favorable to Cana-
jinn independence is being formed in
Toronto, Ontario.
A French electrician says he will soon
be able to produce a thunder-storm
whenever demanded and in the district
desired, and the cost won’t exceed $3.
The London and Northwestern Rail-
vay - has decided, “in deference to the
prejudices of its American customers,”
to institute the system of checking bag-
g»S c '
The Government ornithologist at
Washington estimates that the surplus
j„the Lnited States Treasury would not
suffice to pay the present bounty for ex¬
terminating the English sparrows in
New York State.
One docs not attribute much filial
sentiment to the red men, says the Inde-
ftmlmt. But Roan Dog, the big medi-
dne man of the Sioux, finding hit
mother dead the other day, sent a bullet
through his heart.
The Chicago Journal of Commerce
Hates that three newsboys of that city,
guilty of no misdemeanor, were arrested
last week at their request and sent to the
Bridewell. Their reason for wish ug to
go there, as stated to the police justice,
was that they wanted to lea: n a trade.
This year is the bi centenary of A!ex-
mJer Pope’s birth. T he eminent -Eng¬
lish poet was born on .May, 22, 1688.
Mr, labouchere, of London Truth, occu¬
pies Pope’s villa at Twickenham and has
thrown the house open to the public in
honor of the author o the “Essay on
Man.”
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When the President of France is
elected it is for seven years. He receives
is salary 8120, GO J a year, and $60,030
for household expenses, lie lives haad-
lomely. When be retires from o fire,
beside the honor which will attach to his
name, if lie has been a wise magistrate,
le will lie a rich man.
The Italian Government has devised
that may be a useful plan for diminish¬
ing the number of due s. Duel ng in
Italy is allowed under certain conditions,
soil it is supposed that many duels aie
due to the fear of those challenged that
I if they do not fight they will be trea ed
I as cowards. In future any Italian who
I tails a countryman a coward because the
I latter will not fight will be made to pay
I u extremely heavy fine.
One of the ship’s chronometers at the
1 nited States Navy Department has a
history. It was used by Captain Hall on
the Polaris, which was crushed and sunk
by two icebergs off Littleton Island, in
T872, and was put in a cairn on the main
land by the Buddington party. There it
remained until 1870, when it was found
by the British ship Discovery and taken
lo London, and later returned to the
United States.
A visitor from Manchester, England, is
astonished at the high average main¬
lined in every social circle in the
Inited states. He is reported to say:
"Ihc working classes—in whom I am
most interested—are morally, mentally
wil materially in advance of the similar
classes in any European country. Physi¬
ol comfort is the primary desire of the
sttisan; but he cannot live anywhere
else so comfortably as in the United
States. ”
| I Seveuteeu The Augusta, (Ga.) Chronicle in says: the
year locusts abound
Mt. There is a well defined ‘W’ on
Nth wing of the locust. The supersti-
attach to their visitation the im¬
portance .oil of a warning from Providence,
maintain that the *W’ signifies war.
P Is a fact that in 18 >4, w hen occurred
r e first of any recorded visits of the
r es| , the Crimean war was inaugurated.
• venteen years later in 1871, they again
•PPearcd. That year marked the begin-
Dlu g of the Franco-Prussian war. This
eari”
’tales r ’ George M. Sternberg, United
llr| ay, has returned to Baltimore,
®-' s the Sun of that city, from his trip
0 Havana, whither he was sent by the
pov er otnent to investigate the yellow
®' M - He made autopsies in
numerous
11 ^military b of which hospital confirmed in Havana, the conclusions the re-
Relied ^naiti in his previous investigations in
the 1879, and in Brazil and Mex-
past year, that no micro-organ-
, Bls 01 bacteria have been found in the
fowl |
of yellow fever patients, conse-
I“ I , ‘ tltl T the cla : ms of Dr. Domingos
t ': lre °f Brazil, and Dr. (
ariuona
■ "foi of Mexico, that they found germs
■ ' ' m3u PPoited by Dr. Sternberg's au«
® les - He does not, however, assert
i [“lively
that no germs exist und may
■ {1,0 ^covered in tbe future. If, adds
R " • the positions of Drs. Freire and
’dfoshould be established by further
J' 10 protective inoculation against
* fever would be the great boon
mankind.
YELLOW IKY Eli,
I RywIv N iS I ,? 0 ^r i
m ■n « ii WAo.
CASES NOT INCilEASIEU AT JACKSONVILLE
— HEROIC MEASURES ADOPTED— FI MI-
OATINO STATIONS ESTABLISaKD—NOTES.
1 lie situation in Florida is calming
down, but the panic is .‘•till very great.
Notwithstanding inville is the death rate in Jack-
s small, and that it has at no
tune been great either at Tampa, Manatee
or Plant City, yet the fears of the pcoplo
in the adjoining towns are surh as to
lead them to establish rigid ‘ shotgun”
quarantines everywhere. At Callahan,
in only Florida, the citizens—and there aro
about two dozen—forbid any train
to stop going either North or South.
I umigation stations are now open at
Chattahoochee, addition Fla., and Dupont, Ga.,
m to that at Waycross. These
stations are not in immediate connection
with the railway stations, but aro some
distance from the railroad towards Flor-'
ida. 'i’iic one at Chattahoochee is at
River Junction, about two miles from
Chattahoochee. These fumigation stations
are const! ucted from box cars, which ii re
divided into two compartments by up¬
right planking in each compartment.
Wire netting shelves are placed'at regu¬
lar intervals os thickly as practicable.
When articles are to be fumigated, they
are loosely scattered on the shelves, and
when all is ready, a charcoal brazier or
iron kettle is filled with charcoal. As
soon as the charcoal becomes a glowing
coal, five pounds of sulphur are thrown
Uj on it and soon the fumes of sulphurous
acid gas penetrates every part of
the car and every fabric therein.
Oiher cars similarly shelved have been
provided for the railway mail service,
and the clerks in that mail service
open the mail bags, puncture the letters
and scatter them upon the wire shelves.
The cars being moveable can be shitted
from place to place, and the passage way
between the broad doors give ample
room for the shifting of baggage. The the
method of puncturing the letters is
same as that adopted in Europe during
the cholera epidemic, and will
not prevent them being read
while at the same time time
it will allow the gas to penetrate them.
Passengeis coming North from an in¬
fected town must pa-s a short period of
observation in the detention camp near
Boulogne. From other towns in Florida
they may pass the inspectors but are not
allowed to stop at any Southern point.
The reiugee camp near Boulogne is in
command of Passed Assistant Surgeon
Gross. This ca??-p with such police reg¬
ulations as tire necessary will be enforced,
is not, strictly speaking,ITniTIMry camp.
Persons from Jacksonville and other in¬
fect'd points, falling sick at this camp
will be returned to Jacksonville at once.
The camp has been supplied with
tents and cooking utensils, and the hard¬
ships of the delegation will be reduced as
much as possible. Persons unable to
bring rations will be furnished them
while undergoing detention, but it is
only those able to buy tickets that will
avail themselves of the camp. Ten days
at camp will be required and to enable North. one The to
pass the inspector go
inspectors have been provided punch with con- and
ductors’ punches, and they
issue to each passenger a ticket showing
to what points bound, where from, date,
number of pieces of baggage and name
of inspector. The traveler must also
sign his name to the ticket as a means of
identification. estab¬
Postmaster-General Dickiuson
lished fumigating stations at Bartow,
Fla., Flomaton Ala,, St. Augustine, Fla.,
and Waycross Ga. At these points all
mail matter from yellow fever districts
will be thoroughly fumigated before be¬
ing forwarded to its destination. No
mail of any character comes through
Jacksonville. The situation is decidedly
better at Jacksonville, No new eases
have been reported and no deaths, Pft-
tients are all doing finely. Rain com-
menced to. fall at an early hour in the
morning and poured in torrents all day.
The mercurv is lower than at any time
during the week. The work of disin¬
fecting goes actively forward. The san¬
itary force has been increased to nearly
300 men. Many places are found in
a decidedly unhealthy condition,
especially the premises of citi¬
zens who have fled the town.
The tar and pitch fires and booming of
cannon enliven the scene somewhat. The
committee on cannonading has batteries
firing nt different points night and morn¬
ing. Many people laugh at this, but the
majority deems it a measure worthy of
11 Tiie the Jacksonville relief
money for and
committee is begining to come in,
telegrams have been received from many
cities offering municipal assistance. Rep¬
resentatives in Congress have sent tele¬
grams offering to lend their aid toward
the passage of a bill appropriating $200,-
000 for the purpose of stamping out the
fever in the United States, and especially has
in Florida. The relief committee
divided the city into five districts with
competent men in charge of each. He
will register the names of the needy and
extend no succor to paupers and tramps
who flock into the city to take advantage
of the distribution of rations.
There were twenty deaths from yellow 28th
fever, in St. Jagode Cuba, up to the
of July, largely among the military.
New food is furnished the dr-ease by a
lot of freshly arrived Spaniards, who are
working at Juaraguay mines near
now is irregular,
that city. The season very when yel¬
in fact weather which prevails epidemic the
low fever becomes an on
island. Reports continue to be received
from the interior. Many children and
native Cubans are dying of yellow fever.
El Pais of Sancti Espintu refers to a
SS number of cases there. It is a long time
it has visited that city As many
as twenty-four children have been swept
away in it single day by the disease.
A special to New Orleans, La., from
Brownsville, Texas, says: On account of
yellow fever in Matamoras, quarantine be¬ is
still in force and all communication liter-
tween Brownsville and Matamoras
allr suspended, to the great inconvenience
of hundreds whose business relations cm-
b»-«ce both sides of the river, all business
both sides , f the river being at astand-
on de Sanidad heia ft meeting
atill Junta Miliiuiade. Torre, pwitofr
ELLAVILLU, GEORGIA. THURSDAY. AUGUST 28. 1888.
1 He latter nun an oiiuu.il cornu,uu.cation
from the M xicin consul at Brownsville
and the prociimation of quarantine ofB-
extraordinary sidering retaliatory aetiou: “Con¬
that the port of Now Orleans is
in the same condition, sanitary and topo¬
having graphically, as Vera Ortiz, and, b sides,
reliable information that in the
first named port there is actually existing
an being epidemic of diphtheria without this
nn olist tele against admittance of
passengers and freight, which steanieis
that frequently come from infected ports
bring, the junta, ns a measure of piu-
dence and precaution, orders that passes
between Brownsville and Brazos and this
city and its jurisdiction to Bagdad be
c.osed; the time of this prohibition t >
continue for a period that the juuta con¬
siders convenient.” Matamoras has a
very small stock of flour, oollee, sugar
and other necessities instock of merchan¬
dise, end goods for that place which nr-'
rived on the steamer will not he allowed
to cross the river. Matamoras merchants
ure alarmed, and fear scarcity, and are
treating be for a schooner load of groceries
to sent from New Orleans to Bagdad
direct.
MANY PERISHED.
The steamship Wteland, Ca| t. Albers
from Hamburg, arrived at New York on
Thursday and reports: August 14ih
thirty miles south of Sable Island, at
noon, saw the Danish steamer Thing
valla, from Copenhagen for New York,
with signals of distress. The Thingvalla
Jtnd collided, on the 14lh. at 4 a. m.,
with the steamer Geyser of the same line,
from New York for Copenhagen. minutes. The
Geyser sank in about five
Fourteen passengers and seventeen of the
crew, among them Capt. Holier, were
saved. Seventy-two passengers and
thirty-three of the crew were lost. The
steamer Wieland brought 455 passengers
from the Thingvalla and those saved from
the steamer Geyser to New York. The
Thingvalla will endeavor iO reach Hali¬
fax, N. S. The Geyser left New York
August 11th, bound for Stettin. The
Thingvalla was ou her way to N. Y. city,
and was advertised to leave August 25th.
A very heavy sea and a flense fog were
experienced through the night and early
morning of August 14th. It is said an
object could not be distinguished Stories fifty
feet away, by reason of the fog.
differ as to where the liability lies, if not
due wholly to the fog and heavy sea; but
the Thingvalla struck the Geyser ou the
starboard side amidships. The boats
quickly recoiled, aud within five minutes
the Gevser sank. The crew of the
Thingvalla did all they could to save the
Geyser’s crew and passengers, while still
in doubt whether the Thingvalla owing was not
dangerously disabled; but, to the
heavy sea, vessel only thirty-one at w ere the' ..saved. time.
No other was near
The Wieland, on her way to port,
was 100 miles away. At 11.30 o clock,
on the morning of the 14th, the Wieland
' of distress
was sighted. Thingvalla, Signs and the transfer were
made bv the
of passengers began. The sea was then
very heavy, but no mishaps occurred in
the transfer of passengeis. is L&ti-
mated that 100 persons were lost.
A VENDETTA.
There is trouble again in Pike county
between the Hatfields and McCoys. Frank
Phillips, sheriff of Pike county, who made
the former arrests, and whose daring
deeds made him famous, appears to be tho
coveted prize of West Virginians, who
>■ 'iu destined to get his scalp. The
trials of the Hatfields were set for Pike-
ville on Monday. Last week, Phillips was
out through the county securing witness¬
es, aud when in the neighborhood
of Beter, the scene of the formei
bloody encounter, he was approached detectives, by
three men who claimed to be
aud who demanded his surrender. Phil¬
lips replied by whipping out his revolver
and opening fire on the trio. He shot
the belt off one Alexander, well known
and secured his three revolvers. No
one was hurt in the melee. The three
letreated minus their hats, weapons etc.
The next day they returned with nine re¬
cruits iu search of Phillips and hiu body
guard, and the West Hatfield Virginians squad were
again repulsed. The to
the number of sixty, passed the mouth
of the Beter creek and Captain Hatfield
told an old miner that he had better
leave, as there was going to be trouble.
Shortly afterw’ard he heard a skirmish
between the Hatfields and the McCoys,
the latter being forty-five strong end ly¬
ing in wait for their enemies. After the
smoke of the battle had cleared away ll
was discovered that three Hatfields were
killed and two wounded, while three of
the McCoys were slightly wounded. The
end is not yet, but the Kentuckians have
the best of them, inasmuch as they are
thoroughly organized and well armed.
MAINE’S EARTHQUAKE.
One of 1he most severe earthquake
shocks ever felt in Maine occurred on
Wednesday evening. A report like a
heavy cannon, continuing thirty seconds,
shook the earth violently, sw aying build¬
ings and rattling dishes and furniture.
A'second shock was felt about but midnight of about
and was somewhat lighter, continued
the same duration. The noise
at its loudest for half a minute. Houses
were shaken on their foundations, like
large oaks in a fi<“ jMe, and then the
noise subsided into a distant roar, which
could be heard seemingly toward the
•northwest. No serious damage received is re¬
ported, although everything a
genera) shaking up.
A NEW COMBINATION.
Twenty-four wholesale liquor dealers
of St. Louis, Mo., formed a corporation
to build a gigantic distillery in that city.
The purpose of the organization is to di¬
rectly oppose the whiskey trust, which
has put the price of high wines at a figure
which the organization claims is alto¬
gether to high, in comparison with dis¬
tilled goods, notably Kentucky brands
STILL ON DECK.
Gen. Boulanger was elected to the
Chamber of Deputies iu the department j
of Somme, by a majority of 84,713. He I
also heads the polls iu the Charente and
of Nord departments. figures caused The great announcement excitement in j
the
Paris,
1
THE SOUTH.
CONDENSED FACTS, ARRANGED
IN READABLE SHAPE.
LIGHTNING PLAY’S HAVOC EVERYWHERE
COTTO.N STATISTICS-—SUICIDES—RAIL
ROAD CASUALTIES, ETC.
A tub mini.
A negro boy named May field Sharp,
only ten years old, living near Jeriiigan,
was left lo nurse a 14-mouths old negro
child. Growing tired of the charge,dur¬
ing the absence of its parents, lie took i.
a kettle of boiling water mouth. and poured JIe then it
in the child’s face and
strangled the child until it was dead.
A freight train with twenty ears loaded
with iron ore was .wrecked neat
Reeder's station, on me Birmingham Birming¬
Mineral road fifteen nfilw from
ham. The wrerk wns caused by the rails
spreading. Every one of the twenty cars
were broken to pieces and pulled down
an embankment, Biakcman A. W. Sit-
tie was instantly killed and Conductor
Leo Gardner and Brnkeinan .T. A. Fuller
were severely injured.
Florida.
United States Court Clerk P. Walter,
of Jacksonville, has been ordered to re¬
move his official headquarters to Talla¬
hassee.
Charles W. Cook, of St. Augustine, a
young man about 20 years old, and a con¬
tractor in charge of the concrete work on
tlie cathedral, fell eighty feet from the
belfry to the ground, lie broke lfis a - m
and died a few minutes later.
The Presbyterians of Orlando have ex¬
tended a call to the Rev. J. G. Patton,
of Nashville, Tenn., and the hope is eu-
tortained that he will be with them by
the 1st of October, by which time their
handsome church will be nearing comple¬
tion.
A colored school trustee of the
Board of Trustees of Orlando, named G.
E. Edwards, having been charged with
demanding teachership, $12 in from order an applicant his for in¬ a
to secure
fluence, w as tried by the County School
Board and found guilty.
(ieorffla.
Dr. J. S. Pemberton died at Edge-
wood, near Atlanta, on Thursday. He
was a Confederate captain of cavalry
during the War and was a distinguished
chemist.
Krm ncky.
Police officers Joseph Rosenberg and
James W. Jones, of Louisville, while at-
ly tempting private to arrest Charlts Dilger, watchman former¬
a policeman aud at
the Buckingham theater, and general
bad character about town, were killed
by Dilger. Dilger was beating his mis-
ri S3, and the officers, attracted by her
cries, broke into the house and attempt¬
ed to arrest the tough w’hen the fatal re¬
sult cited.
liOiilMlnna.
A heavy wind aud rain Thursday. storm prevailed Con¬
around New Orleans on
siderable damage is reported to the rice
mid sugar cane crops. The storm is nl -o
reported severe at Bayou Sara, Baton
Rouge and along the Mississippi gulf
coast.
Maryland.
One hundred and fifty men employed
byJ. II. Thiemeyer & Co., box makers,
of Baltimore went on a strike because
they learned that the firm was about to
purchase machinery for nailing.
MlMlssIppl.
A bill in chancery has been filed at
Jackson to have lands lying in levee dis¬
trict No. 1 sold to pay about 00,000 No.
1 bonds and coupons. It is claimed that
nil sales heretofore made are illegal, null
and void. This suit involves the title to
over a million acres of the richest and
mo-1 desirable lands of the whole state.
North Carolina.
A waterspout burst on the mountain
in Alexander county and in a few min¬
utes the small branches had sw’ollen to
the size of rivers and done much dam¬
age.
W. A. Darden, of Green county, was
chosen state agent of the Farmers’ Al¬
liance. It will be his duty to make all
purchases for the alliance. Ail sub¬
alliances will let him know their wants.
He will purchase with money which will
he furnished him.
Mouth Carolina.
C’apt. F. M. Trimmer, for the last
twenty years clerk of the court, died at
Spartanburg, He was buried with Mn-
sonic honors. He was one of the most
popular men in the county.
Great excitement was caused in Green¬
ville by the raiding of two gambling gamblers
saloons by the police. Thirteen
were arrested and placed in the station
house—twelve negroes and one white
man.
In Kershaw county, on Thursday, Hen-
rv Shropshire and his wife went to church,
about two miles from their house, taking
their baby with tliem but leaving at home
their other children, aged respectively they
ebriit and ten years. When
returned, three hours later, they
found their house in smoking ruins chil-
nnd the charred remains of the two
dren. The father fainted, and when he
recovered consciousness it was found that
his ieasm was dethroned. shock The and her mother life
is prostrated by the
is despaired of.
Tenne««e©»
The police of Chattanooga, are arrest-
ing violators of the cruelty to animals
law.
A threshing machine exploded near
Telford on Thursday, and Bud Carper,
engineer, instantly, and wounded several
others. The cause of the explosion was
a defective steam gauge.
It is alleged that the revenue officers
had discovered one hundred empty whis¬
key barrels in the wholesale liquor store
of Col. Frank M. Potts, of Chattanooga,
without the stamps having been can¬ is
celled. The penalty for each offense
a fine of from $500 to $10,000 and impris¬
onment not less than one year.
SAILOR8 DIE.
Quarantine physicians at Lewes, Del.,
r< port that the stoamer Ardangorm afterwards lost first a
steward at Havana and a
engineer on the voyage, both having died
of yellow fever. The oro i. at present
are all well.
OVER THE GLOBE,
WHAT THE ELECTRIC WIRES
POUR INTO OUR EARS.
LABOR NOTES —ACCIDENTS ON SKV AND
LAND—TERRIBLE ACCIDENTS ON THE
RAILROADS- NOTED PEOPLE DEAD.
The Pope is suffering from rheuma¬
tism. •
Sixteen people were prostrated by heat
in New York city on Saturday.
The Pennsylvania Rolling Mills, Lan¬
caster, Pa., will suspend on Saturday,
owing to dullness in iron trade.
The supreme court of Washington
Territory hns decided the law granting
sulfrage to women to be unconstitutional.
The Lipari volcano, in Italy, is again
in a state of eruption Port Maurice, in
Riviera, was shaken by un earthquake.
The new Catholic church at Coleman,
Wis., collapsed on Thursday, killing one
man and crushing seven others so that
they may die.
Five thousand miners in the Newcastle
district, New South Wales, have given
notice that they will quit work unless
granted an advance in wages.
An Illinois Central Railroad passenger
train collided with a freight train on
Thursday at South Lawn, 50 miles from
Chicago, hurt. and a number of people were
At Birdsboro, Pa., neatly till the de¬
partments of the extensive works of the
E. A G. Brooks Iron Company have sus¬
pended operations in consequence of the
heat.
Rev. Edward H. Camp, a Presbyterian
minister, who has just returned to New¬
ark, N. J., from Palestine, committed
suicide on Sunday, by cutting his throat
and then jumping into a cistern. Ill
health was the cause.
The Norwegian steamer Liberta ran on
White Island, off Erwin Secum, Nova
Scotia, and is a total wre ck. The crew
were saved and have reached the main¬
land. The Liberta was from New York,
bound to Stettin.
The warehouse of Skippee Agricultural
Works in San Francisco, Cal., was
burned on Sunday. About eighty com¬
bined harvesters and a number of grain
cleaners stored in the building were
burned. Loss about $100,000.
The Hiscock File Co., of AY’est
Chelmsford, Mass., shut down for an in¬
definite aggressive period, of owing large to incorporated persistent and
war con¬
cerns. The stockholders voted to peti¬
tion the company into insolvency.
A terrific wind and rain storm devas¬
tated Upper Austria, orchards. doing great damage
to crops and Lightning district, set
lire to twenty houses in the Isclfi
and a woman and two children were
killed. The ground is covered with dead
cattle and birds.
The plant of the North Chicago rolling
mill company, at South Chicago, Ill., is
to be shut down for a time. Fifteen
hundred men have been paid nnd laid off.
The blast furnaces were unaffected by the
(order and will continue in active opera¬
tion. The cause of this unexpected lack turn
of affairs is due directly to a of or¬
ders.
Gen, Lew Wallace, the distinguished
author of “Ben Hur” and life-long friend
of General Harrison, lias just completed
an authorized biography of him. W. U.
Hen.se 1 , a stanch leader in national
councils of the Democratic party, 1ms
just completed an admirable biography
of Cleveland, with a bright sketch of
Thurman.
Emperor William attended the unveil¬
ing of the monument erected in memory
of Lite Prince Frederick Charles at
Frankfort on Thursday. The emperor
was present at a breakfast given in his
honor after the unveiling, and said gave a
toast to German unity. lie die that
46,000,000 of Germans would rather
than to deliver a single stone of Alsace
Lorraine to France.
Adolph Harman, a German, employed
us a clerk in Morford, Brown & Co.’s
stoic, in Long Branch, N. J., tried to
shoot Mrs. Haynes, Iris mother-in law,
and then killed" his wife and himself at
Highlands of Navesink, in the woods
back of Twin Light House. Harman
was a man of ungovernable temper and
wns veryjealous. He shot at Mrs. Hayes
bee; use she took from hint a stick with
which he was beating his wife.
At a prohibition meeting in a tent at
Manheim, Pa., while addresses were be¬
ing delivered by Hev. II. Kellogg, this of
Michigan, and T. II. Kauffman, of
city, a gas pipe bomb, five und one-hall 1
inches long and three-quarters of an inch
bore, tightly packed with gun-powder, attached,
plugged at I oth ends and a fuse
was lighted by some miscreant. It failed
to explode. There was an audience of
500 people present, mostly women nnd
children, and the result of an explosion
would have been very disastrous.
NOT VERY NEAR.
W. R. Brooke, of Geneva, N. Y., has
'tinounced the discovery of a comet. It
was in the northwest at evening, and
only about thirty degrees from the sun,
so that it does not remain long above the
horizon after sunset. For this reason
very few observations have been secured.
It is now in the lower part of the con¬
stellation Great Bear, and is moving to¬
ward Leo. It is at present 142,000,000
miles from the earth.
VERY CRUEL.
A man named Roder, of Quincy, Ill.,
shot three boys, all about ten years of
age, who were stealing apples from his
orchard. One of the boys, Harman
Kemper, will die. Bail was refused Ro¬
der, pending the result of the boy’s
wou”d.
Virginia.
A duel between Segar Whiting, son of
H. C. Whiting, president of the Hamp¬
ton bank, and Dixie Lee, son of Maj. B.
H. Lee, collector of customs at Newport
News, was arranged to take place at
Buckroe, at daylight on Saturday. The
choosing principals w’ere when on the Sheriff ground and
weapons Williams
arrived and arrested Lee and his party.
Whiting escaped and went to the eastern
shore.
VOL. III. NO. 48.
WASHINGTON. 1). C.
BUSY TIMES STILL, IN THE NA¬
TIONAL CAPITOL
CONGRESS IN SESSION VET - MOVEMENTS
OF PRESIDENT AND .MRS. CLEVELAND -
WHO ARE GKTTIKC1 EAT SLICKS.
rONIillRSSlDNYI,.
The Senate, on Thursday, went into
open executive scs ion on the fisheries
treaty and voted on Mr. Morgan’s resolu¬
tion to jiostpi n j till Deccmlter next,
Tlte reso ution was defeated—-yeas the 24.
nays 27—a strict patty vote.... In
House, the fortification appropriation Morrill, bill of
passed without division. Mr.
Kansas, called up the resolution previ¬
ously reported from the committee ou
invalid pensions, assigning May 2d and
lid for the consideration of general proposed pen¬
sion legislation, with the
amendments change g the dates to Yu-
gust 29 and 30. Mr. Morrill gave a
resume of the various measures of a gen¬
eral character which had been pensions reported
from the committee on invalid
nnd urged the necessity of fixing a time
for their consideration. Mr. Morrill de¬
manded the previous question, and the
vote resulted yeas 11(1, nays 7—no quo¬
rum, and a call of the House was
ordered. Boll call showed the presence
of 174 members, and it stopped all busi¬
ness, there not being a quorum.
(lOSSII'.
Gen. John B. Parkhuist, of Michigan,
will bo appointed minister to Russia to
succeed Minister Lathrop, resigned.
President Cleveland has issued an or
der, placing General Scln field in perma¬
nent command of the armies of the Uni¬
ted States.
Judge William W. Wildfire died in
Washington from congestion of the brain.
Judge WiUhire was born in Illinois.
During the War he served in the Union
nrmy ns major and ou its conclusion set¬
tled at Little Rock, Ark. He was ap¬
pointed which chief oliice justico lie of resigned Arkansas three n
1808,
years later.
The weather during the week has been
favorable for growing crops in the wheat
and corn regions of the northwest, whore
reports indicate that crop prospec ts have
been Mississippi, improved. Alabama In Arkansas, and South Tenne Carolina sec,
the weather during the week was favor¬
able and growing crops which was suffer
ing from drouth in the early part of the
week were much benefited by recent
rains. Rain has pre ved beneficial to t lie
tobacco crop in Kentucky.
Choosing « Trade.
First of all, make stive of what you
will bo best fitted for in tlio long run.
Remember that some kind of work may
be in demand now, nnd in a few years
the demand may die out. 1 >on’t choose
a trade of this sort if you can help make it.
You may spqnd by hand, yoars aud learning to
something as soon as invent¬ you
have learned, n machine may lie thus
ed that can make it better, and
throw you out of employment, unless
you have learned a great deal about tho
whole business connected with your
work.
Again, think of where yon want to be¬
gin. Don’t learn a trade that is overrun
with workmen in your own stato unless
you are willing to go to another state is to
work. In New York state there a
machinist to every BOO of the and popula¬ Ala¬
tion; while in Texas, Georgia
bama there is only one machinist to over
2,000 people. Iowa has 11,000 carpen¬
ters and joiners, while Georgia hns less
than 5,000.
Choose what you can do and what you
have a taste for. If you are a weakling
don’t try to be a blacksmith; aud don’t
fry to be a painter if you are color-blind.
If you are fond of reading, that is a good
reason to become a printer, against provided it.
there is no other good reason
If you have a natural meohatiical turn
and inventive genius you may make a
good machinist. Resolve to make your¬
self a thorough master of your trade,
and all the machinery nnd tools used iu
and about it. Then don’t bo afraid of
learning too nmcli. You will be a better
painter for being able to handle the saw;
brush; a better joiner for machinist knowing by how acquiring to use a
a better
the use of the pencil. hard for
Be willing to plod and work
a time, for the sake of learning your
business thoroughly. have in mind If you start become as a
Mr penter, machinist to a
builder; if you start as a ex¬
pect to become a manufacturer; if you
begin as a type-setter publisher. aim Or, to if become a
priuter willing and be ahvays workman you employ¬ aro
to a
ed by someone else, make tip your mind
to become so very expert iu your linos
as to command a high price.
Start witii the idea of getting to the
to]). Be ambitious; all American boys
ought to be. Don’t be contented, but
aim to bo and better and bettor, improving
yourself your position every year.—
Treasure Xxqv&.
4-
A Fortune Lying Loose.
The novel display of $1,800 in cold
cash stuck promiscuously in large at all points
of the compass one show win¬
dow, has for the past day or two attract¬
ed thousands of clothier. people to the big win*
dow of a local Tho wind ow is
e'-.-borstely set with handsome suits of
clothing. of the window stands
In the oentre
the figure of a boy with his hands on a
barrel, apparently filled to overflowing
with silver dollars, meant to represent
the amount of money saved by the peo¬
ple in purchasing the firm’s $10 suits.
About the barrel are three urns filled
with halves, quarters and dimes, re¬
presenting the value of the discounts
made in purchasing the firm’s goods.
On every suit of clothes is the price,
not marked with the old-fashioned card
board label, but the amount of the cost
of the suit in cash, bills thus pinned a $4 boy’s it, while suit
has two $2 to a
$16 man’s suit has a $10, $5 and $1 biii
attached.
The display is oausing no little com¬
ment and many are the humorous in¬
cidents observed, as the people who
have probably never seen so much money
at one time the before stare tools, in open-mouthed
wonder at spec
A KISS FOR YOU AND ME.
Tie years am speeding by, my love,
The years are speeding by,
And m irks of age, they say, are there,
To nmr the faco to me so fair;
Let others see it, but not I
Will ever find it so, my love,
Will ever find it so.
Tiie years are going fast, my love,
The years are going fast,
And many griefs have been thy lot
To make thee seem what thou art not;
Still dear to me, while life shall last,
Will be thy own sweet self, my love,
Will be thy own sweet self.
Ami though wo twain should go, my lova,
And though we twain should go
Along life's path still many years,
(>r Mower strewn or l athed in tears.
Twill ever be, we both do know,
A kiss for you and me, my love,
A kiss for you and me.
— N.’iu Orleans Ucaguni
ITIII AM) POINT.
Fun flows from the vein of humor.
Something uncanny—Over-ripe fruit.
The widow is the person who looks
out for number two.
Just now the favorite tune with the
giris at the seaside is Neptune.
The liabilities of a dead failure must
generally amount up to a pretty stiff fig¬
ure.
( hampionship eating matches ought to
be for large steaks .—iMiesler Post hi c-
prts
Grated Corn Sauted— Mix grated little corn
with salt and pepper. Saute iu a
hot butter.
The difference between a striker and a
kicker is that the former quits some¬
times.— Han cUle llnez .
Iced eofff e is said to be gaining ground
as a beverage .—Nath ride American. It
was settled long ago that coffee needs no
ni'ire grounds .—hew York World.
On the Atlantic,
Maiden esthetic.
“ Oh! how romantic!”
Action—emotio.
— Ocean.
lie had envelope. lent his stylographic “Oh, doesn’t r ten to
direct an She:
it write beautifully! I declare 1 avn in
love with this pen.” lie: “ I am in love
with the holder .”—New York New.
The b iby robs upon the floor,
Kicks up it's tiny feet,
And Thus pokes making bis toes both into ends his mouth,
meet.
— Sifting* i.
“I look nice and cool, and the nectar I give
Kefreshes tiie multitude these torrid days; five,
But tiie fact is, although l help others to
1 find life a lizzie,” the soda fount says.
— Iloston Budget,
Mr. Edison, the famous pleased inventor, with his is
-aid to be immensely
new baby. He is now at work on an
ingenious electric apparatus which will
carry a baby’s squall noiselessly off and
drop it a mile or two from the house.—
Chisago Herald.
When Bolva takes her pretty place
To rule this mighty nation,
Tiie cow will fly with ease and grace,
The mule have whiskers on bis face,
Tiie hog start conversation.
—Nebraska Journal.
It was on a Central Hudson train
bound north, disquisition and he had been delivering
a learned upon the political
and financial outlook to a passenger iu
the seat ahead. “My friend,” he con¬
cluded, ‘ what is your opinion of gov¬
ernment bonds ?” Just then the xvliistle
sounded for Sing Sing, and his friend
replied ; “I don’t think much of ’em,”
displaying n pair of handcuffed wrists;
“but I'll have to say good-by, sir; this
is my station .”—New York Sun.
Where and How Hammocks are Made.
There are not many changes in the
style or structure of the hammock this
year. Woven Mexican grass, so called,
is still the favorite material. The gra<s
does not grow in Mexico, however. It
is found only in the Central American
States, chielly in the vicinity of Yuca¬
tan. Nearly all the laborers in that
province are engaged just now in cutting
the grass, bleaching it and weaving it
into hammocks. They arc the only peo¬
ple in the world who can make a thor¬
oughly comfortable hammock. With
there the construction of this article of
summer comfort is an art. They arrange
the strauds so as to secure the greatest
amount of comfort to the human body,
and they alone know how to cultivate
the grass used.
Nearly all the better class of ham¬
mocks come from Yucatan. '1 he natives
not only weave them, but use some sort
of vegetable, sold matter commission in coloring merchants them.
They are to dozen. merchants
for $1 to $5 a The
afterward retail them for three or four
times as much.
A Yueatanian who works very hard in
making hammocks, clears about fifty
cents a day. The profits of the mer¬
chants can be easily calculated . ro;n these
figures. But fifty cents a day is consid¬
ered good wages for a Yucatan nmn, for
he lives on vegetables and sleeps in ham¬
mocks of his own construction.
The highest-priced hammocks in the
market to day cost about $6. They are
made of the finest kind of grass and are
gorgeously colored. The lowest priced
cost seventy-five cents. These are made
of cotton and are manufactured in this
country. Linen hammocks cost from
$2 to $5.
Most of tho cheap hammocks are manu¬
factured by the sailors at Snug Harbor,
r-taten Island. These veterans of the
sea have a great deal of time at their dis¬
posal, and as they are dexterous with
their fingers they manage to turn out
many thousands of hammocks every
summer. The work not only employs
their idle fingers but gives them an op¬
portunity to earn a little extra money
for pipes and cigars .—New York Com¬
mercial Advertiser.
Leap Year.
We were sitting, after supper,
Tete-a-tete upon the stair,
With the gleam of waxen tapers
Falling gold upon his hair. downcast,
And his roguish hi- eyes sunburnt were cheek
While upon
The dash of red had grew deeper.
Ca se ooit. I to speak.
The strong, brown fingers trembled
As I held them fast iu mine:
A sby, swoet glam-e made glnd my heart
Like draughts of < insoon wine.
I kissed his unresisting lips,
And then, in keen delight,
He sighed: “1 bet them ten to one
That you’d propose to-uigW.” i '-Life,