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Fourteen thousand men and women
turn their living in London with their
pens.
A comparison of tho work of English,
French aud American detectives showi
the latter to bo twelve per cont. ahead
all aroun d.
A French doctor of note says that any
physician who will ail vise a women tc
ride on horseback for her health should
he kicked out of the profession.
The greatest achievement in th- history
of life insurance has been made by Mr.
John Wanamaker, the great Philadel¬
phia merchant, who is now paying pre
Biiums on if 1,000,000 to twenty-nine
different companies.
Only forty percent of the quantity ol
pine-apples sold in any year between
i860 and 1805 is dow disposed of. The
banana and early .Southern fruits have
gone far toward driving th s once fa¬
vorite fruit out ot the market.
In the gradating class of the college at
Hillsdale, Alich., this year, two members
of the same family were rivals for class
honors. One wpa C. H. Jackson, lilty
three years of age, and the other his son
aged twenty-two. So strange a rivalry is
unprecedented in educational history.
It is human to err, morali/.es-tho Phila¬
delphia Inquirer, and just in so far as it
ishutnau to err, men must be excused for
their occasional mistakes. A ( incinnati
druggist has killed a patient by m iking
a m stake in putting up a prescription,
the first mistake in eight years aud in
200,000 prescriptions.
It won’t be ten years hence, predicts
the Detroit Free P.rsi, when all build¬
ings piped for heat in the winter will be
cooled iu summer through the same
pipes. If ice can be artificially frozen
it would be nogr at trick to send down
the temperature of a ha 1, opera house
or room.
Since ex-Governor Hubbard o! Texas,
was appointed Almlstei to the Court of
•Ispan, our trade with that co ntry has
grown from $13,000,000 to $25,000,000,
$2,500,000 in excess of the total English-
Japanese trade for the same year. It
»lso exceeds the German Japan tr i le by
$19,00),0i)0, aud that of France by $12,-
000 , 000 .
A New A’ork house which leu years
agoemployed 10) trace ing sale-man now
does its business entirely by iilastrive l
catalogues and correspondence, and its
trade is aheal of what it used to be.
Others are moving the same way, and iu
a few years hence, predicts the Detroit
Free Pree'i, the drummer will drum less
The Shah of Persia has greatly cx’-
cited the eastern world by isming an
edict urging his subjects to go in for
railways, canals, roads and other much-
needed improvements, which, if carried
out, would undoubtedly revive the
ancient glory and prosperity of Persia,
The edict is attributed to the advice
and influence of the new British Al Uls¬
ter, Sir Henry Drummond Wolff, and is
therefore resented by Russia.
There is said to be in Aliska almost a
continuous line of glaciers fiom thehead
of Glacier bay to Copper river,ad stance
of about 509 mrie 3 This wall of ice fol¬
.
lows the crest of the Coast range, stretch¬
ing its arms down near every canyon and
iu many places debouching sheer into
the sea. At tlie head of Glacier bay is
an icy wa-te of thousands of acres, and
at times upon its glassy surface reflec¬
tions of strange cities appear.
ft has generally been believed that thc
reduction in average height of French
soldiers which followed Napoleon’s wars,
due, of course, to the immense slaughter
>n those campaigns, made all of those
soldiers the shortest in Europe. But, ac¬
cording to a high medical and military
autherity in Russia,the minimum height
of the Russian and the French conscript
is about equal—five feet; while in most
other European countries the minimum
ranges from five feet one inch to live feet
‘■luce inches.
The New York Sun says: “Queen
Victoria’s attention is to be drawn to
Uie fact that the woman who ma le the
lining for the superb carriage in which
her Majesty rode on Jubilee Day last
)ear is on the verge of starvation, Tho
poor creature is a cripple, bent almost
double, and lias worked an 1 lived in
the same room for thirty years, The
lining w as exquisite work, but tho
w oman was paid only five cents pel
yard, and by working from dawn till
midnight she was able to make just six
yards.”
The importation of firecrackers this
year, .■•ays the American Cullin'tor, will
amount to 300,000 boxes. This is 100,-
°)0 more thin last year, Tlie increase
impartially due to larger popu at.on, Presi¬ but
mostly to tho fact that this year a
dent ;a' election occurs. The left-over
e, ock on the 4th of July will all come ;
available before November. <*f the
more co- tly pyrotechnics large amounts
are made in this r o iutrv by American
manufacturers, but nobody can success-
lu! 'y compete with the <.'h note jn th*
Ureerwkw manufacture,
WASHINGTON, 1). C.
BUSY TIMES^STILL, IN THE NA-
CONG HESS IN SESSION VET— MOVEMENTS
Ob' PRESIDENT AND MBS. CLEVELAND—
"'HO ARE GETTING FAT SLICKS.
CONOKKSSIONAL.
the . resolution for completed his speech,
the last the investigation of
then Louisiana election, The Senate
took U P the resoluiions reported
nom the judiciary committee on the 20d
ot July on the subject of the suppression
ol the colored votes at municipal elec¬
tions in Jackson. Miss., aud Air. Wilson,
ot lovra, proceeded to address the Senate
m support of them. He had spoken but
a short time when Air. Pruden, one of
toe president’s secretaries appeared and
delivered to ihc Senate “a Messuge in
"ttttug.”... .The House resumed consid¬
eration of the conference report on the
army appropriation bill. When the dis¬
cussion was closed the conference report
was House rejecte i by a vote of 38 to 01. The
furt er insisted upon its disagree¬
ment to the Senate amendments, and a
further conference was ordered,
The House then went into
committee of the whole on
the deficiency appropriaiion bill
1 he pending point of order ag dust the
Iieuch spoil-tion claims section was
supported by Air. Nelson, of Alinnesota,
and nrgued against by Messrs. O'Nei 1,
ot Pennsylvania, Dibble, of South Caro¬
lina, and Nu.tiug, of New York.
In the Senate, on Wednesday, on mo¬
tion of Air. Call, proceeded to comidcra-
tion of tho Senate joint resolution, ap¬
propriating ion in the interstate $200,00t! to suppress infect¬
commerce of the
United States. The di-cu-sion on the
epidemic joint resolution was continued
ut much length by Senators Call, Pasco,
Harris, Spooner, Blair, Wilson, of Iowa,
Chandler, Plumb, Ilale and Cockrell.
The committee substitute was amended
iu several particulars and adopted. It
now reads: “That in addition to the un¬
expended balauce of the fund heretofore
appropriated, thousand the is sum of two hundred
dollars hereby appropriated
to be immediately available, to be ex¬
pended under the direction of the Presi¬
dent of the United States in aid of State
or municipal boards of health, or other¬
wise, by such means as he shall deem
best, to prevent the introduction of
cholera or yellow fever into the United
Strtes from foreign countries, or into
one state or territory from another, or in¬
to the Di-trict of Columbia from any
(t it ■ or territory, or into any state or ter-
rlloiy from said dis r:c f .....In the
House, Air. I ownshend, of Illinois, pre¬
sented the conference report, upon the
army approi nation discussed bill and explained it.
The report was by Afcssrs.
Tracy, of New Yor-., Savers, of Texas,
Blount, of eorgia, and i'ownshcnd.
Pending the dauate, further considera-
t on of tlie report was postponed presented until
Thursday, and Air. Herbert
the conference report on the naval ap¬
propriation bill. Air. Herbert stated
that as agreed to in conference, thc bill
provided fur four cruisers and three gun
boats.
Almost immediately after the rending
of the journal on Tuesday, the Seua'e
went into open executive session on the
fisheries treaty, and Air. Morgan pro¬
ceeded with his spei ch in favor of ratifi¬
cation, The Gibson resolution to recom¬
mit. thc fisheries treaty with instructions,
was lost by a strict party vote—yeas 29,
nays 31. The next vote taken was an
amendment offered by Air. Gray, to arti¬
cle 11, providing that on ail occasions
facilities sliaii be accorded United States
fishing vessels in Canadian ports lor the
purchase of casual or needful provisions
and supplies. Rejected by a like party
vote—yeas 28, nays 30. The following
bids were also taken from the calendar
and passed: Hou s e bill for the relief ot
the Roman Catholic church of St. Peter
and St. Paul at Chattanooga, Tenn., ap¬
propriating $18,729 for damages during
the War. A motion to reconsider was
made and is pending; Home bills appro¬
priating $30,000 for a lighthouse and fog
signal at or near Gull Hod, Pamlico
sound, North Carolina, and $25,000 for
a light off Pamlico Point, North Caro¬
lina were passed. To pay John D.
Munnerlyn, of Waynesboro, Ga., $1,-
405, for services rendered as internal
re fenue collector just, after the War ....
Air. Hooker, of Mississippi, introduced a
bill which was referred to the committee
on the judiciary, changing tlie time for
the assembling of the fifty-first and sub¬
sequent Congress to tlie first Monday in
March of each year, instead of the first
Alonday in December. The House went
into committee of the whole on the de¬
ficiency appropriation, and discussion ot
the French spoliation claims section was
lemnred. Air. Dibble, of South Caro¬
lina, upon whose motion the committee
on appropriations was directed to provide
for the payment of claims, defended his
position aud argued against tlie proposi¬
tion to appeal the cases to the supreme
court.
GOSSIP.
Air. Simmons, of Noith Carolina, in¬
troduced a bill in the House, appropri¬
ating $75,000 for the erection of a pub¬
lic building at Henderson, N. C.
Tho President sent to the Senate the
nomination of George AV. Preston, of
Georgia, to be Indian agent at the Mjs-
eion Tule river agency, California.
On AVednerd iy morning the tall and
beautiful tower of the new Church of the
Covenant, at AVaslrington, Rev, Dr.
Hamilton, pastor, fell with a tremendous
crash, taking with it thc entire fron t
portion of the edifice. Loss estimated
from $15,000 to $20,000.
The somewhat well known measure
which has been before several Congresses
directing the Secretary of the Treas¬
ury to adjust the claims of the states of
New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Vir¬
ginia and South Carolina, and the city
of Baltimore for expenses incurred tn the
common ,) e f e nse in 1812, was introduced
b ^ ^ elia t or Daniel ns a proposed amend-
e nt to the deficiency appropriation bill,
u , homestead
The solicitor’s additional
«t*y ^
wa (or cancellation 1?J the Commission-
ELLAVILLE, GEORGIA. THURSDAY. AUGUST 30. 1888.
< r or tho Lind Ofiico in March, 1885, ar.d
an Vilas appeal from his decision to Secretary
has decided that tho ruling war
correct. Myrick was a member of th ■
Missouri Home Guards, and the depart¬
ment bad, by several decisions, ma le it a
precedent that soldiers enrolled in the
Missouri Home Guards were not iu the
United States army.
An act to empower the President mere
effectually to carry out tlie purpose of «R
act 1 entitled, “an act to authorize tho
resident to protect and defend the rights
of American fi-hing vessels, American
tidier men, American trading and other
vessels, in certain cases, and for other
purposes,” approved Alarch 8, 1887, and
to authorize the President to protect
American interests against nnju-t dis¬
crimination in the tho u->o of canals in
the British dominions of North America,
has been introduced and undoubtedly
" ill be made a law at ouce.
The statement of the Treasury Depart¬
ment in response to the resolution of
Senator Sheiman, calling for a report of
all money on deposit in the various lia-
tional banks to the credit of the Treas¬
ury, shows that only two banks in Geor¬
gia hold any such deposits. They arc
the Gate City National hank of Atlanta,
which holds $97,075.90, and Alerchan's’
National bank of Savannah, which holds
$44,930.13. Asa security the Treasury
holds $100,000 in United States bonds
trom the former and $50,000 from the
latter. In South Carolina, the First Na¬
tional bank of Charleston holds $330,-
000, the People’s National hank of
Charleston, $100,717; the Bank of Charles¬
ton National Association, $110,000, aud
the National bank of Greenville, $182,-
500. In Alabama the City National
b ink of Selma holds $199,799, the First
National bank of Birmingham $500,000,
ami the national bank of Huntsville$49,-
900.
A statement has been prepared at the
treasury department in regard to appro¬
priations for the fiscal year ending June
30th, 1889, made at the present session
of Congress in the regular annual appro¬
priation bills. It is as follows: Bills
finally passed by both Houses,, $222,-
733,190; appropriation bills not yet bill, disposed of sundry
civil as passed by the
House, $23,382,406; a3 passed by the
Senate, $28,506,999; army bill, house,
bill, $24,639,300; $20,003,074; Senate, $31,531,800; navy
house, Senate, $20,-
193,292; fortification, pending in the
Senate, passed the House, $3,725,000.
Deficiency, pending iu the Ilquse, $3,-
539,431. Total bids as part'd $297,'973,405; by oi
pending in tlie House,
Senate, including amount of deficiency
bill, $310,229,716. Permanent and in¬
definite appropriation appropriations, iu $115,640,799. House bills,
Total
$413, 613, 204; Senate, $425,870,515.
Estimated revenue, including $57,562,-
734 for postal revenue, $440,563,734.
Estimated surplus, $26,950,530, based
on House appropriations, appropriations. and $14,693,-
219 on Senate
President Cleveland has sent a Message
to Congress relative to the rejection of
the fisheries treaty, and takes a most de¬
cided stand and favors retaliation. lie
says Americans have been very unfairly
treated by Canada. His message closes
with the following ringing words: “The
government does but hall its duty when
it protects its citizens at home and per¬
mits them to be imposed upon and hu¬
miliated by the unfair and over-reachmg
dispositions of other nations. If we in¬
vite our people to rely upon the arrange¬
ments made for their benefit abroad, we
should see to it that they are not deceiv¬
ed ; and if we are generous and liberal to
a neighboring country, our people should
reap the advantage of it by a return of
liberality and partisanship generosity. should These are sub¬ dis¬
jects which not
turb or confuse. Let us survey the
ground calmly and moderately and, liav-
ing put aside other means of settlement,
if we enter upon the policy of retaliation,
let us pursue it firmly, with a determina¬
tion only to subserve the interests of our
people and maintain the high standard
and the becoming pride of American
citizenship.’’
RUN DOWN.
The steamer Oceanic, from Hong Kong
and Yokohama, off Fort Point, just in)
side the entrance to the harbor of Sari
Francisco, ran into and stink the steamer
City of Chester, which sailed on the 22d
for Eureka, Cal., with had a large cabin number oi}
passengers. She 71 passen¬
gers; the number of steerage is not!
known. A thick fog due prevailed. misunder¬ Tho
accident seems to be to a
standing of the whistle signal. Both
vessels were whistling. The Oceanic
struck the City of Chester amidships.
While the vessels were locked a number
of the City of Chester’s passengers were
passed up over the Oceanic’s trow and
rescued. In five minutes after the vessels
gep rated, the City of Chester sunk. Ten
cabin passengers were lost and three of
the crew.
FATAL EXPLOSION.
The papei mill owned by George.
Whiting, situated on the island between
Neenah and Mehasha, Wis., was de¬
stroyed by fire. While tlie burning struct¬
ure was surrounded by a crowd of spec¬
tators the battery of boilers exploded.
Tlie roof and walls w r ere thrown out,
sending a shower of bricks and timbers
among the spectators. Eighteen injured per¬
sons were killed and seven fatuity several of
and a number seriously hurt,
whom will die.
West VJrjtlnin.
While 1,000 or more people bridge were
massed on the substantial stone
over Wheeling creek at Main street, in
Wheeling, watching the raging the waters creek
caused by the floods, a man on shouted
bank one hundred feet above, crowd
warning, and the panic-stricken in wild effort
rushed into each other a
to reach terra firma. After the bridge
was cleared, those nearest, seeing it still
apparently safe, turned buck, laughing reached
at their alarm, but before they
the edge the bridge, 140 feet in length,
fell with one awful crash and thc waters
leaped sixty feet in the air. and water,
gas and natural gas mains, sewers, tele¬
graph and telephone wires, electric lights
and street car wire conductors were car¬
ried down. The Baltimore and Ohio de¬
pot, built over the creek, and the Market
street iron bridge, it is feared, will go.
The losses will reach $260,009.
THE SOUTH.
CONDENSED PACTS, ARRANGED
IN READABLE SHAPE.
LIClHTHtNO PLAYS HAVOC EVERYWHERE—
COTTON STATISTICS—SUICIDES— RAIL¬
ROAD CASUALTIES, LTC.
Alabama-
Contracts have been signed which in-
sure the removal from Pittsburg, Pa.,
and the erection at Bessemer of ihe im¬
mense foundry, machine shops and boiler
works of James P. Witherow & Co.
The shops \x ill manufacture the fire fur¬
naces to be built in Bessemer. They
will employ a large number of skilled
mechanics, half mul new ait ate the outlay of
a million dollars.
Work on the Tennessee & Coosa Val¬
ley Railroad from the Huntsville end of
the line has been temporarily suspended,
aud the contractors and engineers have
returned to Huntsville, where the con¬
the tractors are mostly employed in building is
Huntsville dummy line. It nut
known what is tire cause oi the suspen¬
sion. Tire road has been completed from
Anniston, Ala., to Attalia, and the
grading has been going on from both
ends of the uncompleted portion.
Forty Italian and German immi¬
grants, en routo from New York to Tex¬
as, passed through Birmingham on Wed¬
nesday, over the Queen and Crescent
route. At the Mississippi state line they
were they stopped by health the quarantine certificates. officers, Not
as had no
one of them could speak a word of Eng¬
lish. They were traveling on limited
tickets, and having deplorable little or no money, they
their condition was when
were put off at. a small station xvhere
there were no hotel accommodations.
They had come direct from Europe, and
the women and children were exhausted
by the long journey.
News comes from Clay county, in the
eastern part of the state, of the mysteri¬
ous disappearance and supposed murder
of two Mormon elders, Davis and Weaver,
who have been preaching in that section elders
for some time. These Mormon
were ordered to leave some time since,
but they refused to obey thc order. The
feeling against them among the better
class of citizens was stirred to fever heat
last Sunday by a baptizing conducted by
Elders Davis and Weaver. It is said
that these elders took several converts of
both sexes to a mdl pond, and taking
them into the water in a perfectly nude
condition, immersed them in the presence
of about fifty people.
Florida.
The Jacksonville mails have failed to
reach Tallahassee for several days.
There is great complaint about the irreg¬
ularities of thc mails from all poiuts.
A party of eight deperate negroes at¬
tempted to run the cordon nt St. Augus¬
tine. They were sent back and then
made an attempt at night to cross a
marshy creek. Captain guard of Guard Hope
stationed an extra on the creek
with shot-guns, su-pecting that un at¬
tempt would be made at night. The at¬
tempt was made as anticipated, and the
guard fired. Ho sprinkled the party
pretty thoroughly with fine shot, which
put a quietus oa any further attempts.
(tiiiomin.
The police of Atlanta are going to
stamp out loitering in the streets, espe¬
cially at night.
Peter MeArdle, a young white nmn and
employee of thc Georgia Chemical Works
in Augusta, met with a horrible death
while attending to his duties. He fell
into a dust bin and before assistance
could reach him he was suffocated to
death.
Messrs. Dibbrell and Underwood, of
Atlanta, who, for the past year, have
been employed as conductors on the Pan¬
ama Railroad, left that city en route to
Mexico, having accepted positions on
the Mexican Central Railrood. Tho gen¬
tlemen have had sufficient experience on
the isthmus of Panama to last them for a
lifetime, and will probably never feel any
strong desire to return to that country.
liOiiiHlnnn.
The storm was very severe at Morgan
City. Dozens of houses were wholly or
partly unroofed, and fully fifty buildings
ne off their foundations. The floating
elevator, George Gilchrist, valued at
18,000, was destroyed. Among the
heaviest losers of property along the
river are the coal dealers. Eighty loaded
coal barges and boats, and one boat of
coke were sunk and a number of others
were reporte 1 sinking. The Pittsburg
and Southern Coal company lost forty
at Willow Grove, twenty-seven at Nine-
Mile Point, and ten at Brown & Jones’
coal yard at Algiers. The total loss is
$300,000.
North Cnrolina.
Thirty of the lawless negroes (railroad
hands) were tried before Judge Mares at
Charlotte. AH were found guilty and
sentenced from two to three years in the
chaiugang.
Walter Alvis Thompson, who, during
the War was color sergeant of Jeff Davis’s
regiment, the Mississippi Rifles, died on
Wednesday at bis home near Hillsboro,
His age was 78.
The Interstate Farmers’ Convention
assembled in Raleigh, and was called to
order by tlie president, Col. L. L. Polk.
The convention represents the cotton
states. Welcoming addresses were
made by Governor A. M. Scales, Hon.
A. A. Thompson, Mayor of Raleigh,
Commissioner of Agriculture John Rob¬
inson, aud Dr. G. W. Sandcrlain, of
Goldsboro.
Virginia-
The captain of the steamer Macon L.
Weems, which passed down the Rappa¬
hannock river during a storm, reports
that when the storm came up, the mem¬
bers of a colored Baptist church were
gathered at Carter’s Wharf, witnessing
an immersion. The ruin drove the
crowd into an empty freight shed.
While they were huddled together, a bolt
of lightning struck the building and
seemed to leap light into the midst of
the crowd, killing three persons and
stunning the entire crowd. The candi¬
date who was being immersed was one
of those killed.
OVElt THE GLOBE,
WHAT THE ELECTRIC WIRES
POUR INTO OUR EARS.
Labor notes—accidents on sea and
LAND— TERRIBLE ACCIDENTS ON TUM
RAILROADS—NOTED PEOPLE DEAD.
Tho White Caps, or regulators ol
Crawford county, Iml., have decided to
disband. Sturtliug developments are
expected soon.
Thc Bergnoff Brewery, at Fort Wayne,
Ind., burned Wednesday. The fire was
caused by an explosion iu the malt room.
Loss $11)0,000, insurance $25,000.
An epidemic of opthalmia is raging in
Osuabruck. There are few houses in
that place which don’t contain one or,
more persons suffering from tho dismiss.
Texas fever lias broken out violently
among the native cattle in Decatur, Ill.,
and many have died. Its origin is trnsed
to cattle brought there in June.
Hart & Wolff, ship builders, of B«V
fast, Ireland, closed their yards owing tD
a partial strike of their employes. Fiv*
thousand bunds are affected by the shin
down.
A cyclono in the shape of a funnel-
shaped cloud struck damaged Wilmington, Del.,
on Tuesday, and property to
the extent of $200,000. Thomas Bruce,
a blacksmith at Harris Corner, was killed.
Tho force of police detailed during the
administration of Mr. Gladstone in 1883,
in London, England, to protect various
members of the ministry, has been with'-
drawn for the first time since its ns-figm
inent to duty.
During a storm on Monday, train
0 on the Cincinnati Southern struck a
tree across the track between Cincinnati
and Oakdale. Thc entire train wap (Jo-
railed, and five passengers slightly in¬
jured.
The New passed York quarantine resolutions commisaioft- declaring
ers liavo
that domestic vessels from all ports south
of Cape Henlopen inspection. must In stop at there quaran¬
tine for case J
sickness on vessels, they ship are in require the
to stop at the quarantine low¬
er bay.
author Gen. of Lew “Ren Wallace, Hur,” the and distinguished life-Umg
friend of General Harrison, has just
completed an authorized biography of
him. W. U. Ilensel, a staunch leader in
national councils of tlie Democratic
party, has just Cleveland, completed an admirable bright
biography of xvith a
sketch of Thurman.
Mich., A cyclone Tuesday. passed For over four Marquette, minutes
on
the greatest havoc prevailed. The roofs The of storm
moved in a circl". mauy
business blocks were torn off, telegraph
aud telephone wires were prostrated,
plate glass windows were demolished,
shade trees were torn up, and the streets
were blockaded with debris.
THE FEVER INCREASES.
Nino new cases of yellow fever were
reported at Jacksonville, Fla., on
Wednesday, and sixteen new cases were
developed on Thursday: Thomas Cami-
dice, Mr, and Mrs. A. W. Barrett, Mrs.
Hubbard, Miss Grade O’Dell, Thomas H.
Clark, E. W. DixoD, Mrs. L. E Btellcn-
werf, Mrs. 11. R. Bebee, Sirs. Louis I.
Fleming, Master Fleming, Frank Perry,
Dr. P. J. Stellenwerk, Mrs. J. A. Knytt,
George Willis and William Smith. A
large portion of the cases were at the
Grand Union Hotel. J. J. Hooker, in
Springfield, a suburb, an old gentleman
over 70 years old, and the father of E,
E. Hooker, all well known proprietors and Miss
of the spice and coffee mills,
Nellie Buggies, at St. Luke’s, died. At
Greenland, about fifteen miles out on the
• St. Augustine Railroad, a house contain¬
ing sixteen people is infected; Mrs.
Cooker and her sister have died there.
Four more are sick at the same place.
Dr. Burrough has gone out to take
charge of thc cases. The Grand Union
hotel has been ordered closed and its in¬
mates will be moved to Sand Hills.
Much hard criticism action is indulged the in by South the
merchants at the of
Florida board of health in forbidding the
running of the DeBary line of steamers
Jacksonville, and permitting Tampa freight to Key enter West over Rail¬ the
&
way. This is regarded as done iu the
interest of the Charleston and Savannah
merchants, who cun slide goods into
Florida, past Jacksonville back doers.
Waycross and Brunswick and several
other cities have declared a close quar¬
antine against Blackshear, Ga. The ne¬
groes received a shock on Wednesday,
when it was announced that one of their
people was sick with yellow fever, for
they had an idea that colored people
were exempt from the fever’s attacks.
Scores of them have fled from the city.
This section of the city is the most diffi¬
cult to clean and keep so, aud it would
be impossible to isolate the cases if it
were to break out badly in that section.
City Health Officer Kenworthy is at his
work of disiufecting Jacksonville, and
has been using corrosive sublimate very
freely. A few days ago, finding the sup¬
ply about exhausted, ho applied for to the
citizens’ auxiliary committee Philadel¬ more,
and they ordered from a firm in
phia 1,000 pounds. Tho Quaker City
firm was not used to such large orders iJ
and sent 100 pounds and a letter to
quire whether or not the committee had
not made a mistake, as it is a very un¬
usual thing for so large a quantity to bo
ordered.
-srafynmn.
Krebbs’ cannery at cyclone. Stillpond Nine was to¬
tally destroyed by a per¬
sons were killed outriyfrt and many were
wounded.
Missouri.
Capt. Nat. Kinney tho founder of the
Bald Knobbers was killed in Ozark.
South C/urorifna.
The two-story framed dwelling of P.
W. Rentz, twelve miles south of George's
together with the furniture aud a store
house, were destroyed by fire; eaused by
a defective stove flue.
Post wick (who has Miss been Daisy pleasantly
refused)—Is this (who final, is coy)—-Y-yes, ?
Miss Daisy 1 pdd postscript, ex¬
cepting that always a
lAnd he got hsr.j
VOL. III. NO. 49.
BUDGET OF FUN.
HURfonotTS SKKTOFIRS PROM
VARIOUS SOURCES.
Afterward- Dove's Young Dream—
Nome Roliustnrss I .eft—Every¬
thing Pise Sett loti—Chang¬
ing the Subject, Etc.
■‘Never,'’ he vowed it, “while life may las;
fan 1 love a min. I will die unwed.”
“And I, too, dear, since our dre.im is past
I will live single,” sho sobbing said.
A storm of farewells- of wild like good-bys— ;
Hr ruslied Ivom tho spot, an outcast j
soul.
She hid in a pillow Ikt streaming eyes,
Ami wept with anguish beyond control
.lust five years afterward, they two met.
At a vender’s stand, in a noisy street;
He saw the smile lie could ne'er forget.
And she the eyes ill it were more than
sweet.
“O Kate,” “O Hurry,” How welt you look'
How well yon look.'
“I stopped,” he said, jusi to get a toy
For my i.ttle girl.” "I want, da boo';,”
She softly said, “for my little boy.’ Bridget.
_ —Un ieline a. :
Dove's Youu y Dream. ;
“Birdie," whispered a happy young
Chicago lover, “now that we Porcine are engaged
you mustn’t call me Mr. any
more. ”
iW* “Ah no darling,’’ responded tho girl, !
wuh a sigh nml a snuggle., , .... “you must
always cal me flird.e and I will always
call you ‘Hutch.’ ” -.V York Sun.
Some Robustness heft.
the Bobby lounge (whose and shoring gr.r.dpa is grandpas sleeping on
as can
snore)—“Ma, is < r ndpn so very feeble?”
Mother—“yes, dear."
Bobby—“Well. \ o;i wouldn’t think so
to hear him, would you, Ma?”—A qm-h.
Everything Else Settled.
you have iny daughter's hand, permis-
non to ask me for iior lmve you,
young man? ’
*‘1—1 am r umv t> say, sir, that 1
ST* tho | oor, but worthy
“Ami I suppo mid the banker,after
a pause, “you ha\ D a > asked her to name
the day. About what time, family!'— sir, do you
expect to break iutoiny Clu-
cayo Tribune.
Chanjjlni; i he Subject.
Knobley—“I saw you on Fourteenth
street a few minutes ago, Miss Ethel.”
She—-“Oh, did
hair Knobley—“les; you " were going intoa
store. ”
Sho—“Ah, yes; I was executing a lit-
tie commission for a fiiend. Beautiful
weather we are beckoned having, Mr. Knobley.”
And she haughtily to her
coachman.— Life.
A Sapcrtlnoua Cant Ion.
“Now, Bobby,” said his mother, “Mr.
Oldbcy is to take dinner with us to-night;
he is very bald, and you must uot say
anything about las hair.”
Bob! y promised, and while dinner
was audible progressing whisper- said to his mother, in
an
“Ma, you told me not to say anything
about Mr. Oidbo.’s hair. Way, he
hasn’t got any ."—New York D'upateh.
Not 4 fro <1 of Rain.
The old gentleman was restless. It
was getting late, an 1 he wanted to close
the house. Si m;ii g to the window, he
looked out and - Yd
“The clouds seem to be banking in
the west; we are likely to have a sharp
shower “Yes,'sir,” soon"
widdie from the replied young anticipated Mr. Din-
brought sofa, “I a
storm and an umbrella. We
need rain bndlv, Hr Hendricks. Er-
you were saying, Miss Clara—”— Life.
A Slight Chang In Phraseology.
“Did I tell you that Maud was learn¬
ing the viol n?" said a young lady on
whom Tom Sellars was calling.
“No, you did not.”
“Yes, she is practicing now. Do you
not hear those strains of music floating **
down from up stairs?”
“Those strains of music?”
<< y eg >»
“1 think I hear the sounds you refer
strains on the violin?”- Merchant Trav¬
eler.
A Frugal Lover.
affections)—“Darling, Frugal young mail (to object of his
your father being
a minister, perhaps we’d better ask him
to would perform do the ceremony for u<. He
it as reas—in fact, I presume
he would think it an insult if I should
offer him anything -er—.”
Object of his affections—“I don’t
know. I have often heard , , papa say that
he could al ways tell by the size of the
fee what kind of an estimate the bride-
groom put upon the bride.”
ruga could young man i uneasily i— II m.
Money n t express it in my case,
da> miz. All the wealth of the world
cou < n doit. But I ve got a second
cousin, a justice of the peace, that will
marry us for $ v . ucayo Tribune.
A Pair of German Lovers.
At the end of the second week, says a
Berlin letter iu the Chicago Tribune, thc
lover came in one morning and pre¬
sented himself before the young lady,
who was in ttie room, and asked for a
few moments’ private conveisation. I
stepped out to gi ve him the floor, and
this is what she afterward related trail-
pired: T fie young man advanced toward
his beloved and handed her a note, in
which were written a few linos from her
mother, saying the bearer was for her about to
prepose in good form, and to ne-
cept h m. As she finished reading, an
agitated voice in the vicinity of the door
was heard, for the young mau was ex-
ceedirgly gracious nervous and respected on this fraulie.i, occasion I :
“Most
have the honor to o ’er you my heart
(and and he clapped hand in his holy hand marriage.” over that Here or
gan)
emotion checked him, but not the young
lady, who was twenty n nc years old.
“Most esteemed Herr von II." she said,
“I thank you for a proposal which I do
myseif bowed, the honor to the a cept." lady's Herr hand von
H. kissed young
and retired, and .he V.tter came out nucl
threw her-elf on my luck, exclaiming. which
“I am engaged,” in a voice
plainly imjdied, “At last, at last.”
Well, they were married, but Pint
nia gave several parties jn their honor,
and there we saw ihom sitting side by
side on the sofa getting aeq minted.
He Deplored Haste.
“There it is again," said a dignified,
well dressed man as he came up to a
crowd which had gathered around another
man who had just been rescued from
beneath a truck driver’s team on lower
ISroadway; “the old story life once simply more—a
man uenrly sacrifices his to
gain a few seconds of time. r The ‘ rush
and hurry here in New York ia actually
astonishing, looked sir," and the dignified man
sadness around with wonder. an expression of
blended with
“You are not a New Yorker, then?"
saida man who was on his way to his
office in Wall street.
“Oh, yes, sir,” returned in the New dignified Y’ork,
party, “yes, always I live here
hurry, out I this deprecate rush, this this spirit intense of
strain under which wo labor,"
and big face assumed a pained,
thoughtful expression. “Now, here’s this
man, perhaps mortally wounded, when
if he had waited another moment
he could have crossed the street in safe¬
ty. It is this hurry, this rush,” went on
the dignified man, “this 1” haste, he groaned, this un¬
natural—oh, great Scott it
“there gees my ear—but I’ll catch oi
bust!” and he shot in front of a furni¬
ture van, galloped around a junk cart,
stepped on a newsboy, dodged the hold pole
of an ice wagon, and at last got of
the rear and platform of iu the disappearing the back
ear was pulled H over
daghboatd b / th(J conductor the way J a
mau haulg it a 8(jiue full of flsh( ’ and got
b| , coat turned wrong sjd8 out) and
hat smashed. battered and one thumb wouldn't partially
“Why,” he said, “I
have missed this car for ^10,” and he
looked back complacently at another of
the same line.coming not a half a block
behind .—New York Tribune.
How a Pig faiisetl the War of ISIS?.
It all happened Providence, in this It. I wise: fell Two into
a- ol ,
a most unseemly discussion on account
( ,f the lawless trespassing* of a pig
owned by one of them. The garden, aggrieved in
which party possessed a very fine spend his
it was his custom to
hours of leisure, weeding, grafting, and
transplanting in which he delighted. the (lowers But and often, vegetables ashe
entered his garden in the evening, his
cars would be saluted with a grunt and
a rustle, and the fat form of his neigh¬
bor’s pig might be seen making a hasty
Slight from tho garden in which it hart
been placidly rooting nil day. sought
In high dudgeon the gardener
neighbor and complaiued declaring that of tho little pig’s
frequent visits, in pig-sty a would
time spent repairing the
restrain the animal’s roving propensities, the pig
But to this the owner of re-
sponded his rickety that if his neighbor would repair, keep the
fences in proper
(fig might take its daily garden airing would without
temptations, endangered. and the not
be
Repeated misdeeds on the part of the
pig fanned tho smoldering fires hostility, of dis-
‘‘ension into the flames of open
At last the crisis came. The owner of
thc garden, rising unusually contented- early one
morning, discovered the pig
ly tulip-bulbs. munching Fiesh the last and of a blood fine bed could of
stand it no longer. Seizing a pitchfork
' vhich la y near at hand, the outraged
gardener plunged its sharp the body, tines thus into
the hapless impaled, pig, ami tho bore where
fatally to sty, hour it met
| be ’** ow ner aa or two
jater. Thereafter it . was war to the
knife between the two neighbors. with the
Sow ’ 7 bat hada11 this t0 do
™ ar <d , ^ be answer is simple,
"he two neighbors belonged the Federalists to the
political party known as that Great
Through all the outrages mted States,
'tarn inflicted upon the l
while seamen were being impressed
American vessels stopped on the high
seas, and while every possible indignity
the was being United committed the against Federalists the flag of
States, re¬
mained friendly to Great Britain, and
contested every proposition for the
declaration of war.
]iut the democratic party was eager
for . war - and as oppressioni tie¬
came more unbearable the strength ha of
the 80 P,~
pened that the election district m which
the “? i ? bbora | ivcd had beea » bou ‘
ways succeeded in carrying the election.
Butin 1811 the owner legislature of the garden was
a candidate for the on the
Federalist ticket. His neighbor had al¬
ways voted that ticket; but now, with
his mind tilled with the bitter recollec¬
tion of the death of his pig, he cast his
ballot for the Democrat. When the bal¬
lots were counted tho Democrat was
found to be elected by a majority of
one.
When tho newly elected legislator took
hig 8eat ’states hig firgt duty wa8 t0 votc for a
United Senator, lie cast his vote
f the C8ndida te of the Democrats, who
was also elected by a majority of one.
when this Senator took his place in the
United States Senate he found the ques-
tion of war with Great Britam discussion pending, it
and after a long and The bitter Democrats voted
carne t 0 a vote.
for war, and thc Federalists against it.
As a result of the voting, war was de¬
clared—again by a majority of one vote.
— St. Nic/iohts.
Bluestone as u Disinfectant.
I have come in the course of some ex-
periments, says a writer to the New York
Tribune, to regard sulphate of copper—
otherwise known as bluostone—as a more
effectual disinfectant and germicide than
gulphato of irou by more than ten to one.
g ,. e nis to me that for disinfecting
9 ; n v.s, drains, etc., one ounce of blue-
stone will do as much as a pound ofcop-
, iera9 while the stains of the latter are
, in the former,
idmos t entirely wanting approach in
j n f ac t ( bluestoue seems to
. )ower as a gentle germicide and disin-
fectant that dangerous and corrosive poi-
SO n, the bichloride of mercury, otherwise
corrosive sublimate, while possessing no
more poisonus properties than copperas,
-j ),e popular fear of the salts of copper,
as geen , R the green of copper and bra<s
utensils, has little or no good by reasen coinmis- to
be; a truth demonstrated a
s j on appointed by thc French Govern-
w hich reported pickles and other pre-
served vegetables might be “coppered”
w itUin certain limits without making
them unwholesome.
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A rich Philadelphia woman, noted for
her wealth and eccentricity, wears a
striking ring on one qf her thumb?.