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ELLAYILLE FUBLISKING CO.
It is expected that the United States
Government exhibit at the Cincinnati
Exposition will cover 40,000 square feet
of space. _ __
Many kinds of campaign badges have
been sprung upon tho public by New
York manufacturers,tbe trinkets costing
from 1 to 25 cents.
Since the row in tho Sandwich Islands
King Kalakaua is King only in name,
lie has little or no power, his salary hav¬
ing been cut down aud creditors dog him
about and sue him in open court.
Recently-compiled statistics show
that the number of National banks in
the country has increased about 1000 dur¬
ing the past seven years. Four-fifths of
these new banks have capitals of $100,-
000 or less, and about one-half started
with $50,000.
Since the 1st of Docember, 1887,
twenty-three young men have shot ot
stabbed young women who have trifled
with their affections, and further cases
are being recorded daily. The Detroit
free I’r<si thinks “it is getting to be a
serious thing to mash a young man and
then a3k him if his mother knows he’s
out.”__
The Bureau of Education at Washing
ton has in hand the preparation of a
series of histories of education in the va¬
rious States. The previous work cf the
Bureau of Education in this line has been
directed toward the common schools, but
in the present ser es higher education
w ill be the topic, with only incidental
reference to the earlier stages.
It has been estimated that there are
now 80,000 salesmen on,the road in this
country, and that their expense account
alone averages $1625 a year each, This
means an outlay of $130,000,000 a year,
and, couutingan average salary of $1000
per year, the grand total is swelled to
$210,000,000 expended by and on travel¬
ing sale-men. This immense sum is
scattered throughout the entire country,
and furnishes an importa t item of rail¬
way and hotel profits.
The Detroit Free Preis observes that
“Edison's claim that his phonograph will
di-place the stenographer is a little vivid.
Mr. L. F. Brown, who has carefully ex¬
amined the invention, says it can novel
arrive at that state of perfection lie
says of it: ‘It is too complicated with
its rubber hose mouthpiece, its discs and
needles (I use untechnicsl names) its
bearing tube ad asters and additional
ear pieces, sound multipliers, lathe knife,
electric attachment, wax registers,
sleeves, w ires, battery aud weight. And
its tone is too indistinct ai d metallic.
If a cornet is played into it the beauty
of the music is not preserved; its repro¬
duction is like that of a ventriloquist.
The Philadelphia Nent says that the
Philadelphia 51int cannot keep up with
the demand that is being made on it
from the South for pennies, and that the
increase in the use of the penny in the
South has, ot late, been tremendous.
According to the Atlanta Constitution,
“tho action of the Georgia Railroad
Commiss'on in requiring exa t change
to be given by the railroads to persons
buying t . kets has, no doubt, much to
do w ill the i lerease in the use of pen¬
nies in ih s State. They are used now
in nu Mmndise in this and other States,
where a 'cw years ago they could hardly
be passed. This is a good sign, audit
Mil l:c found beneficial to the South il
the penny conies into as general use here
as it is in the North.”
The single span bridge wh'ch is to be
thrown across the Hudson river at New
York will be a grand piece of engineer¬
ing work, says the Times-Democrat, and
xvill be 140 feet in the clear above high
water. Among those interested in th
scheme is 5Ir. Ilenry Find, President ol
the Board of Public Improvements of the
City of St. Louis, who was intimately
connected with Captain Eads in the con-
struction of the St. Louis bridg\ and
was formerly President of the American
Society of Civil Engineers. Another ot
the incorporators is Captain James An¬
drews, who built the piers of the St.
Louis bridge and the works at tho Jetties
of the 5Iississippi river. He is tlie suc¬
cessor of Captain Eads in the ship rail¬
way project. The other incorporators
*re well known manufacturers and capi
Mists of New York City.
F. A. Forbes, a (hicago lad of six
teen, about three months ago bought
several thousand bushels of wheat at
seventy six cents. The market went his
way and wheat climbed up to ninety
lents. Forbes closed his trade at that
price, clearing, as ho told his friends,
$115,000. Ilacl he stopped there all
xvould have been right; but he didn’t,
fine taste of the excitement of tho pit
xvas not enough, lie went iu again, this
time to make a colossal fortune. Tic
bought heai ily. The market fell. Little
by little he lost what he had won. He
became panic-stricken and held back
paying margins. Attachments xvere is¬
sued against him, hut nothing xvas
found. He owes, it is said, about $30,-
600. It is thought that he has trans¬
ferred his property to his mother. The
Hoard of Trade men are very so^e at bo
log beaten by a mere boy.
T11E SOUTH.
CONDENSED FACTS '
in readable shape.
LIGHTNING PLAYS IIAVOC
COTTON STATISTICS— SUICIDES—RAIL¬
ROAD CASUALTIES, ETC,
Mayor Alabnina.
dared Lane, of Birmingham, Las do
and a quarantine against Atlanta Ga
instructed the officers to rigidly en¬
force it. No person who lms been in
Atlanta within twenty davs will he al¬
lowed to enter or pass through the city
The mayor notified the officers of the
Georgia Pacific Railroad that no train
crews from ... Atlanta would be allowed
enter that city, and to
city could no crew from this
go to Atlanta and return. The
quarantine was declared on account of
the number of Florida refugees now in
Atlanta, and the fact that they continue
to arrive, there. It was also reported on
yellow Thursday that there were two cases of
fever in Atlanta.
Florida.
M. A. Cnwthon, a prominent citizen of
DeFuniak Springs, died at his residence
at 1:30 o’clock Thursday morning. The
deceased had been suffering from an ul¬
cer for some time, and, acting under the
advice of the best medical experts, had
it removed, and was thought to be doing
well until blood-poisoning set in, from
which he died.
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Blacksluar Ihequara:. itie of Savannah against
has been raised.
William Hall was arrested in Catoosa
county, bell from on a charge of stealing a church
one of the churches in Chat-
ttinooga. He waived the necessary for¬
malities in scour.ng requisition papers,
and was taken to Chattanooga aud lauded
in jail.
The digests from all the counties in
the state have been received at the
and Comptroller General’s office, at Atlanta,
the property in the aggregate re¬
turned by the 13? counties in Georgia
stun include up $327,803,331. But this does not
ablo the property returned by the tax-
railroads in the Bate, which will
ggrcgitc $29,000,000. This make:?
G oigin’s | roperly return foot up the
M.ug sum of $359,863,381. The digests
1 1 • in all of the counties show a net in-
(Tfi s- over last veer if $11,258,002, and
the net gain in railroad property returned
vill amount to $4,000,000, which runs up
t ic nggre-iatc net increase for the last
fisc d vear to $15,253,002. In nine years,
.iiorga 1 ns gained about $120,000,000
• :i tnx ili c property on the digest,
20,000,000 in taxable railroad property,
UlissiHMipp'!,
The f'1'owing older of the state board
of lica'th was pit mulgatcd end went into
op. r ti non Tiuiv-day: “On account
of ill,- increase of the yellow fever at
Jacksonville, Fla., it lias in the opinion
t f tho executive committee of the state
Ira il if hedtli, become necessary to
a (opt more s virg in measures for the
protection of this state. It is therefore
old. r d that on aud after this date, no
person will be perm tted to enter the
■s ate unless they possess a certificate from
a health officer that they have not been
exposed to yellow fever.”
S.ons-i mu.
Cot on p’anters from different parts ol
he A txuiidii.i section are discouraged of at
G.e crop pr speeds. Some complain
worms, and of rain washing off the poi-
son. AU s<y that in the bottom crops
i> dis i re rotting and the seed in open
oott n is sprouting, and that the crop
will l e cut oil not less than forty per
cent.
Novili Cnrollna-
Wiliiam Fletcher, of Durham, and J.
W. (! od-on were returning from a hunt
in u l uuny, and in front of the house of
the father-in-law of Fletcher, the buggy
became uncoupled, aud the front wheels
pulled out, throwing the front of the
bu-roy to the ground. Fletcher had the
muzzle of his gun under his arm, aud the
jar caused the gun to explode, and the
entire contents entered his body. Death
soon followed.
At Lumberton, Richard D. Johnson
was on Thursday convicted of bigamy,
and sentenced to five years at hard labor
in the penitentitry. Johnson had three
wives, some living at no great distance
from each other, but it turns out that he
is a regular polygamist. He now con-
ft sses since his conviction, that ha has
fifteen wives. He declares that when¬
ever he changes his residence, and this
was of frequent occurrence, heron: irrted,
and he declares that be always found it
cheaper to marry than to move a family.
Rev. Dr. Fordyce M. Hubbard was
found dead by bis bedside at bis home in
Ralebdi. He' xvas kneeling in of a posture and
of prayer. He was 80 yeats age, he
was a native of Massachusetts .where
married the daughter of baited States
Senator Bates, of that state. Fifty years
a on he went to Newberne, N. G., and in
1849 ” became professor of Latin in the
state university, remaining there until
1808. He then xvent to New York state
as rector of the Protestant Episcopal his
church at hlanlius. At the time of
death he was preparing a school history
of North Carolina for the state.
At Carthage, 51. N. Johnson, aleading
merchant, committed suicide. He com¬
plained of being unwell in the mornmg
and quit, work and went to two stores, at
each of which lie purchased an ounce of
laudanum. He then xvent to the resi¬
dence where he boarded and retired to
his room. He «to hearty at dinner and
went to bed, saying lie was not well. A
pistol shot was heard, and some school
boys, who roomed with Johnson, ran to
the room and found him dead with a
bullet wound in his breast, just abo\e the
heart. lie drank both bottles of lauda-
num before shooting himself.
•South ttnrolina. the
Cotton is arriving at Charleston at
rate of 2 000 hales a day. V ery fexx
h-ilcs are packed with other than jute
bagging, ns shippers reject all such bales
us unmerchantable.
The produce exchange, cotton ex¬
chnrure and chamber of commerce, in
ing Charleston, steamship perfected lino to p!ans Mtimore for estabhsh; "ith
a New York from
close rail connection to
that point.
ELLAVILLE, GEORGIA. THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 6. 1888.
Missouri.
I John Itiley, an unruly and desperate
| convict, who has infringed the rules of
tllC 1’onitentiary at Jellerson time and
: s“SdS htTirt
I Thursday Gresham, evening at the hands of Joseph
j Glesecke Boot a guard and Shoe in the Company, shop of the the
at
penitentiary. sounded Just after the whistle had
for the men to resume work
after the dinner hour, Riley assaulted the
guard, knocking him down, striking him
a number of heavy blows in the face aiul
kicking the him several times xvhile he was
on floor. After struggling a few
minutes, Gresham regained his feet, and
twice. drawing a revolver, shot his assailant
Ttxn ,
Huriison Spencer, a colored mnu
prominently identified with the laboJ
party at Longview night’recently was taken from his
home late at by members
of the party of liis own color and hanged.
The reason assigned for the crime was
that Spencer had left the labor pt.rty.
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BUSY TIMES STILL, IN THE NA
TIONAL CAPITOL.
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congress IN SESSION YET—MOVEMENTS
OF PRESIDENT AND MRS. CLEVELAND—
WHO ARE GETTING FAT SLICES.
CONGRESSIONAL.
T lie Senate, on Thursday, resumed con¬
sideration of the President’s retaliation
message, and Mr. George proceeded with
bis speech of the day before. The Senate
then proceeded to the consideration of
the fortifications bill, and with the
amendments recommended by committee
on appropriations. Amendments were
agreed to ns follows: Increasing from
$200,000 to $500,000, the item for torpedo
and for harbor defense; increasing the
appropriation from for iiinnon and carriages
$400,000 to $500,000; inserting an
item of $100,000, for examining, testing
and experimenting with pneumatic or
other dynamite guns; increasing the ap-
propriation for steel for guns ftom $1,-
500,000 to $2,500,000, and inserting the
word "American” before the word “Forg-
ings.”... .The Speaker laid before the
Home a letter from Representative Tra-
cey, of New York, resigning his mem-
railroads, bership of the committees on Pacific and
and coinage, weights
measures. Mr. Davidson, of Florida,
introduced a bill to subdivide the inter-
ual revenue collection district of Florida.
Deferred. Mr. Rogers, of Arkansas,
from the committee on judiciary, re¬
ported a bill authorizing writs of error in
criminal cases to the United States
supreme court. The House then went
into a committee of the whole, Mr. Dock-
t ry, of Missouri, in the chair, on the
Oklahoma bill.
GOSSIP.
B. II. Hall, son of Judge Hall, of Grif¬
fin, Ga., has been appointed on the
United States coast survey.
Robert N. Hall, of Georgia, has been land
ippointed a principal examiner $2,000 of
3 aims and contest, at a salary.
The committee on foreign affairs of
the House, arc unanimous Cleveland’s in reporting retal¬
favorably on President
iatory measures in regard to the fisheries.
Senator Brown introduced a bill to in¬
crease the pension of Beding F. AfcDon-
a’d, son of ex-Governor JIcDonald, of
Georgia, on account of wounds received
in the Jlexiean War, and from the effects
of which he is now unable to work.
Francis Matthews Gordo, 1ms been appointed
postmaster at Cerro Holmes county,
Fia., vice A. J. Matthews, resigned; L.
Smith, at Longview, Jackson county,
vice F. B. Hugerman, resigned, and
Charles T. Powers, at Tomoka, Volusia
county, vice T. R. Byrd, resigned.
Judge Stewart reported favorably from
tho judiciary committee, the hill to make
valid the deed to certain tracts of land
in Bibb county, Georgia; made and de¬
livered by Brigadier-General David Til-
son, acting assistant commissioner of the
Freedman’s Bureau, to Samuel I. Gustiu,
his heirs and assigns.
The House conferees oil the sundry
civil appropriation bill have agreed to the
Senate amendments appropriating $80,-
000 for completing the Jacksonville, t hi.,
public building, and $32,500 for a sup¬
ply steamer to run on the Gulf and East-
ern coasts, but have rejected the amend¬
ments appropriating $40,000 for coil-
strueting a light-house at the mouth of
Crooked River, Fla., and $25,000 for
another at St. Joseph’s Point, Fla.
The total collections of internal reve¬
nue during the month of July were $10,-
178,599, being $82,220 more than collec¬
tions during J illy, 1887. The collections
were as follows: From spirits $5,212,-
977, an increase of $333,082; from to¬
bacco $2,507,845, a decrease of $195,-
798; from fermented liquors $ 2 , 409 , 012 ,
a decrease of $64,703; Horn oleomarga¬
rine $41,571, an increase of $15,752;
from banks and banking $242,000, all in-
crease ; from miscellaneous objects $<v
953, a decrease of $6,355.
INDIAN FIGHT.
Two bands of Indians in the Lasal
the Utah-Colorado line,
The nomadic lighting tribe was
undoubtedly between a been
known as l’ahutes, who have not
under the agency protection for over ten
and a band of Utes, who were sent
years the southern agency where the three
from for the pur¬
Ute commissioners renegades, now are, if possible,
pose of getting the the
to go to the agency and take part killed. m
treaty negotiation. Several were
VENGEANCE THREATENED,
The United Ireland, a newspaper of
Dublin, t ays, that the American Senate
in rejecting the. fisheries treaty gave
England a terrible proof of the power of
retaliation of the greater Ireland across
the sea. whose vengeance Balfour’s coer¬
cion policy has aroused. It says the ar¬
rest of the Redmond brothers will incite
fresh vengeance. The paper, commends)
the action of the Cork band in refusing
to play the national anthem at the Irish
exhibition in London,
RELIEF AT LAST.
I
,ACK8oNyiuE To be
DEPOPULATED.
1
IUROEON GENERAL HAMILTON ISSUES AN
IMPORTANT ORDER—A TRAIN LEAVES
DIRECT FOR ATLANTA OA.—NOTES.
At a late hour on Saturday night the
I Jacksonville Times- Union received the
! following Haines, telegram the 8., F. from General W. Manager
of & Railroad,
j giving the first authentic information
! with reference to the government cxcur-
sion train: "Savannah, Ga.. September
j L—At 8:20 p. m., I received a message
I from Surgeon-General Hamilton asking
me to send a special of four cars for ref-
ugees from Jacksonville to Atlanta. Bag-
! gating-station. K a g e lnU3t 1)0 left at We tlic will Way endeavor cross fund-
to
Lave the train ready to leave Jacksonville
about 1:30 p. m. Please give this pub-
lie notice.— II. S. Haines, G. M.” As
soon as people learned this, there was
more or less bustle, especially as tele-
phone messages tof Way cross depot were
auswered by tho announcement that tho
train had been made up and would
leave promptly intending at 1:30 p. m. Nearly
two hundred passengers had
; booked their names with the secretary of
trade and it was expected that every one
of the four cars would be crowded full.
An impression hud gained ground in
some way that, inasmuch as this tram
had been heralded as a “government ex-
cursion train,” under charge of the sur-
geon-general, it would be free to all, and
scores of people, both white and black,
were on hand two or three hours before
the departure of the train in order to take
advantage of this, and they were all dis-
p h ry°coaches' Superintendent had bee n p^o vid .Fleming ed, and had the
orders from *u
carl to .a »**-. Ini «>j». a.
one allowed to leave thn th„ train
at any point between Jacksonville
was receiver 8 Tho C sTwho had bright
it with them, expecting that it would be
taken as far as Waycross and there left
behind for fumigation, were doomed to
disappointment. The train orders were:
“Receive no baggage.’’ Not even hand
baggage was received, or wraps, or over- their
coats. All had to be sent back to
homes by friends or messengers. Lunch
baskets and boxes were the only “extras”
allowed. Orders were, that after the
train had passed the tracks of the Sa-
vannah, Florida & Western Railroad and
gone upon those of the East Tennessee,
Virginia & Georgia, the conductor was
to securely lock the car doors, and mingle
with the passengers as little as possible.
A moderate cyclone passed over Jack¬ went
sonville Sunday. After the vortex
by, a gale from the southwest, accompa¬
nied by loud thunder, keen flashes of
lightning and a heavy rainfall continuing
several hours, clearing the atmosphere
won derfully and lowering the tempera
hire, washing the surface of the streets
perfectly clean, as well as carrying sev¬
eral hundred barrels of lime which had
been scattered abroad, into the river.
“The effects of the storm,” said a lead¬
ing Cuban physician, “will probably be
excellent on the well, tending to lessen
materially the infection, but will be bad
on the sick. Unless watched with great
care many patients may have a serious
set back in consequence of the change of
the weather.”
About thirty now cases were reported
on Sunday, and but two deaths. Up to
date seventy-two have been dischaged as
cured. Summary of situation: Total
cases to date, 258; total deaths to date,
34.
At a meeting of the Board of Health,
the following resolution xvas passed:
“Resolved, That from this time no up¬
holstered furniture or bedding shall be
moved from any place in the city with¬
out permission of this Board, obtained
through M. 51. Belisario, chief of the
sanitary guards. Neal Mitchell, 51. I).,
President of Board of Health.”
A committee of the Florida refugees
who are at present in Atlanta, Ga., went
to Tallahassee, Fla., and interviewed
Governor Perry, and the governor said
he will ask the government to erect bar¬
racks at some available point near Jack¬
sonville for use by the poorer classes of
Jacksonville who are unable to get away
from that city. The governor received
the committee very courteously and gave
every indication that lie felt would a deep in¬
terest in everything that in any
way relieve the dreadful state of affairs
at ‘Jacksonville. He promised to for do
everything in his power to arrange
transportation for refugees from Jack¬
sonville, and from present indications he
is going to succeed.
INSIST ON A REDUCTION.
A delegation of the South Georgia
Afclon Growers called on the rate com¬
mittee of the Southern Railway & Steam¬
ship m-sociation at Atlanta, Ga., to make
a formal demand for a change in rates,
etc. They say that the existence faiier of the
melon industry depends on treat¬
ment at the hands of the roads. They
ask for 83 per cent, reduction, fast
freights and better cars. The committee
took the matter under advisement.
MUST GO.
Gov. Gray, of Indiana, lias written
again to thejudges and prosecuting at¬
torneys of the judicial districts xvhich are
disturbed by the White Cap outrages,
urging that increased exertions be madu
to cause to be indicted all persons wild
have in any way been connected with tho
recent lynching*.
CONSPIRATORS ARRESTED.
The Paris Gnulois has advices from St.
Petersburg, which state that another
nihilist plot has been unearthed there.
The conspirat' palace, is, who had quarters near
the imperial captured were raided by the po¬
lice, xvho txvelve men and three
women. They also secured a number of
bombs.
_
Two horses bslonging to Elzy Harris, of
Palmer township, Ohio, were stung to death
by honey bees. The Ire ?s attacked them near
the hive, and in le:» than ttvrty minutes both
horses were dead.
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OVER THE GLOBE.
WHAT THE ELECTRIC WIRES
POUR INTO OUR EARS.
LABOR NOTES— ACCIDENTS ON SKA AND
LAND—TERRIBLE ACCIDENTS ON THE
RAILROADS— NOTED PEOPLE DEAD.
The August report of the Alexandria,
Egypt, cotton association shown exceptionally that Gte
i condition of the crop is
good.
A cable 1ms been laid between Cuba
, Huyti, „ ,, connecting . Cuba _ . with ... .. Porto
i ) "*| Domingo, Uuracoa and 5
I a * ban ene-
* uela -
Advices from Matamoras state that the
1 authorities Thursday, . raised , . the t .
i exas on
j quarantine raise her quarantine against Mexico. against Texas. Mexico will
,
j At amcetingin London, England, of the
holders of first debenture bonds of the
Alabama, New Orleans & Texas Pacific
Junction Railway Company, a resolution
was passed authorizing the receiver to
borrow $100,000, with which to pur-
chase second mortgage bonds of the
Vicksburg & Meridian Railroad Coin-
pany.
The reply of the French government to
( the note of Signor Crispi, Italian seizure prime
j m j nister announcing the Italian
; of Massowahi i 8 avoid published. It says
France desires to entering upon
irritating polemics and does not care to
prolon „ debate, but it is impossible to
avoid recalling the fact that the French
couau i ate W8g established at Maasowah
twenty-five years before date of Italian
occupation,
John T , Ba , r, x\h ... &
m “ hm "’®" f rn " i,v b L, the ‘
|’ and «“«“(»
W and deliberately feed him into the
o7 L’zz
hands, but before they could interfere the
, , , . y ‘ half disappeared min in the
, cd seized Ba-
k « aad hanged him to the straw carrier,
Horace Bishop, aged 15, and Charles
Applebee, aged 16, both of Branford,
Conn., while driving through that town
on Thursday, stopped and at called the drug for store soda
of Robinson & Toole
water, which was given them. They
drove off, but shortly after returned in a
very sick condition. They were taken to
the office of Dr. Zink, where both of
them died in about half an hour. An
investigation revealed the fact that tinct- _
ure of aconite had been mixed with the
soda water instead of syrup Robert J.
Lotta, the clerk who made the fatal er¬
ror, has been arrested.
THE DEADLY FLAMES-
At ail early hour oil Sunday morning of
fire broke out in the toy warehouse
Prior, Ililgenberg <fc Co. 107 South
Sharp street, Baltimore, Md. Before
the firemen could get to work, an ex-
plosion of fireworks wrecked the build¬
ing and caused the flames to spread with
alarming rapidity to the drug house of
J. H. Winkilman & Co. and the hat
house of 51. 8. Levy & Co., on the north.
Scarcely had the firemen entered the ed¬
ifice occupied by the drug house when
the inside of the building seemed to sud¬
denly drop in. A terrific explosion fol¬
lowed and the immense building col¬
lapsed. The entire fire department had
by this time reached the scene,
and as the attention of the men
was concentrated on the building
under which their comrades were
buried, the flames had a chance to
spread, and spread they did with fright¬
ful rapidity. In an incredibly short
space of time the entire block, running
from Lombard to Platt streets was a
seething ma‘s of flame, At the drug
house the firemen worked bravely. Holes
were cut through the pavement aud every
e ffort made to reach the under imprisoned men,
but tliey were buried a great mass
of brick and iron and the fierce flames
w ere roaring around the spot. George
Bowers, Thomas Wagner, John A.
Combs, Perry Ryan, Harry Walker,
George Kerins and Hiram McAfee were
buried in the ruins. The firms that were
completely burned out are: Wylis, Bus¬
ter & Co., wholesale shoe deal¬
ers; J.H. Winkilman & Co.,
drugs; Tabb Bros. & Domenick,
hardware; Prior & Co., toys; M.
S. Levi it Sons, lints; H. S. King &
Sons, hardware; Dobler, Birschberg, Mudge Hol¬ &
Co.,paper; and
lander & Co., paint will and glass.
The origin of the fire used probably never Prior
he known. No tire is in the
establishment and it is supposed spon¬
taneous combustion was the cause, but
it is kuown that a system of electric
lighting was introduced in the building
recently, and it was only tried that night
and it may he that defective insulation
started the flames and the combustible
nature of the contents of the building
served as food for the destroying ele-
ment. Thc fire was discovered by an
intoxicated man who stopped opposite. to rest on
the steps of a building
A BAKER8’ HARVEST.
A heavy rain, accompanied by a gale,
prevailed over England, doing additional
damage to crops. As a result of the ex¬
pected shortage in breadstuffs, bakers are
raising the price of bread.
a rosER.
Father—Jolmnie, you must go to bed
now.
Johnnie—I don’t want to, papa.
Father—But you must, my son. Early
to bed and early to rise makes a man
healthly, wealthy and xviso, you know.
Johnnie (sagaciously)—You when little didn’t boy, go
In bed early Washington you xvas a Critic,
did you, papa) —
ENTRANCE AND EXIT.
Charley—Jack’s very inattentive. A
blight thing goes into his head at ono
ear and comes out at the other.
Harry —Then I must always be ou the
wrong side of him.
Charley—How s that ?
I out in K- Hairy—The of his head bright on tho things side I’m never watch- come
MOGliT or (US.
HUMOROUS SKETCH US FROM
VARIOUS SOU ROMS.
The Malignant Fly— Hard Pressed
—Tlio Philosopher ami the
Malden—The Point ol*
View, Etc., Etc.
When drowsy morning sheds the night her light
Upon the bed where all
You’ve vainly sought to win rep oae,
Aud scarce could gain a simple ib oze.
The frisky llv.
With feet of fuzz,
Hails swiftly mocking by, buzz.
With
He Tlien prances gaily and frisks o’er your nose, toos.
turns upon your
In vuin you drop a fervent prav< r,
And paw the circumambient air;
He soars aloft,
In haughty ease,
Returning oft,
Your flesh to tease.
1 would not cars for CieSar's might,
(treat Alexander’s sway I’d slight,
Could I but have the power to crush
That fly with oue triumphant squall
l Oh hope most complete, high,
Oh joy
To smash that tiy
With fuzzy feet.
—Merchant Traveler.
Hard Pressed.
“If anybody was over more him. pressed ” for
time than I am I’d like to see
“There’s such a follow on exhibition at
the museum.”
“Who is he.”
“An Egyptiau mummy.”— Life.
Tho Philosopher and the Malden.
An old philosopher sat in his library.
A beautiful maiden entered tho room.
“Good man,” she said, “I have come to
ask your advice. Two men have made
me an offer of marriage.”
“Ah, and you do not know which one
to accept,” understand tho philosopher replied.
“You the situation. Oue
of the men is handsome, rich, and u
literary “And genius.”
the other one?”
“Ho is ugly, poor, und regarded as a
fool.”
“My child,” said tho philosopher,
“marry tho fool, for, should you marry
the genius, you would occupy the place
of fool .”—Arkansas Traveler.
The Point of View.
The long, sweltering day was drnwing
to a close.
“Madam,” said the tramp, “I have
eaten nothing starved. for two days, and am
nearly Can you give me a
morsel?”
“Mercy sakes, man!” was the
thetic response, “don’t talk about oat-
ing. It’s too hot sail to eat.”
•'And with a deep sigh the tramp
turned away, murmuring as he did so:
“This is a cold world we live in.”—
llarjxr's Bazar.
A Peck of Trouble.
Fcathcrly was making his customary
Wednesday his night call, and Bobby was
sustaining part of the conversation
with his usual case and fluency.
“Mu,” he said, “do people who steal
get into trouble?”
“Certainly, Bobby. Why?”
“I heard Clara say tlint Mr. Fcathorly
would get himself into trouble if lie
didn’t stop stealing kisses. ” — Epoch.
An Easy explanation.
Toper was of rapidly getting the better
of coffee-and-cako a plate “Ham and” in a Park Bow
saloon, when Downes
chanced in.
“Why, Angy,” he exclaimed, “I’m
surprised to see you here! Didn’t I see
you taking a girl into Delmonico’s last
night?” es,” said Angy, “and
“Y r that’s the
reason I’m here to day!”— Puck.
Better Than Nothing.
Young Man (to
“What’s a silver half dollar worth dated
1HB3?”
Numismatist-“Nothing, flooded with them.” the market
is
Young Man valuable. (discouraged* ‘I thought
they were it?” Can’t you tcive me
something for
Numismatist— U I wouldn’t mind giv-
ing you a quarter.”
Young 5fan—“Take it; that’s better
thaa nothing.”_ Life.
A Lordly Position.
“What business is your brother Bill
engaged “He’s iu now, Quimby?”
dustry.” running a bureau of animal in¬
“That can’t be. There's only one in
stitution of the kind in the country, and
I know he has nothing to do with that.”
“Only one! Thatshows all you know
about it. I have a letter from Bill in my
pocket showing that he superintends an
outfit of dog-catchers in St. Louis.”—
Lincoln Journal.
His Financial Rati hr.
5fiss Mainchance ( icorge, you have
asked of roe the dearest treasure a woman
has—her heart.”
George (impatiently) . 5 es, Irene, re-
lieve „„ my agony of ,.r suspense.” >>
Mi«s Mainchance—“You must give
me time.”
George—-“Time? day, How long, ” dearest?
A a week, a month, a—
Misa 5Ininchance (sweetly)—“No,
George; only time enough to look you
up in Braelstreet's."— Time.
AVhy Ho AVns Hard Up
Emma-“I say, Otto, do you remcm-
her the promise you made me last yeart”
Otto—“What promise, Emma?”
“To buy me a handsome breastpin on
my birthday. To-day is my birthday.”
“Y'cs, I remember something of the
kind, but—”
“But what?” *
“I haven’t trousers.” got my pocketbook in this
pair “Well, of to-morrow will do well.”
as
“But—”
“But what?”
“I haven’t got any other trousers.”—
Siftings.
It 5Vas a Lively Article.
Robert J. Burdette, whom everybody
knows whether they ever saw him or not,
used to run a little daily paper -auvhow, in Peoria,
Ill. I believe it was Peoria it
was the paper he enjoyed ruff C ing sc
much, because there was never « ny un-
certainty about it, He knew positively
VOL. IN. NO. 50.
overv iioudny morning tint Short
wouldn’t bo cuough money to pay tilt
compositots hadn’t Saturday written night. much good hu¬
He so
mor then as ho has since, but it used to
crop out once in a while—he couldn't
help it. One day a prominent citizen ol
Peoria got into trouble with a hackman
about the amount o f bis charge, and or fought some¬
thing, and took otT bis coat
him all around the blnck. He made it a
red day for hack men, too, and got pretty
excited before ho finished. The next
morning Burdette bad pretty had nearly boon a
columu about it. There so
muchspnce to (ill and ho turned his fancy
looso and tilled it. He had laughed
about it quietly to him elf all the way
home that night after he wrote it, and
in the morning read it over to see if the
hoys had got it set up all right, and
smiled sort of inwardly to himself again.
About the middle of the afternoon
the man who had the trouble came in.
Burdette trembled a little at first,because
ho didn’t know liow he might have
taken it, hut the mnn wore a broad grin
on his face and seemed to he very much
tickled over it.
•‘That was a good ono on mo in the
llmclcr this morning, ” said tile man.
“Kr—yes—do you think so)” said
Burdette.
“Oh, capital—took it off first-class.
Did you write it?”
“Oh, yes, 1 scratched it off in a hurry
last night. We have to have something
to fill up.”
“Of course. But it was really good.
I didn’t know you could do ns well as
that,” went on the man enthusiastically.
“Y-e-s, I thought perhaps it was a
little funny,” admitted Burdette, a little
uneasily. hackman
“You say in it the was a
small man 1”
“Why,yes,rather small,I understood.'’
“Probably not ns small as you are!”
“Oh,no-no, I presume not. I’m not
very big you see. Pleasant weathef
we’re having, Major. pleasant ” little cold
for “Y-a-e-s, very and editors -a I know of.
hrickmen some
I’rcbahly, then, if I licked the hack-
men there wouldn’t be any doubt bat
that I could lick you !”
“Oh, n-ne; no sir; not a particle o?
doubt, doing to the caucus to-nigM,
Colonel?”
“I expect to be there, but you won’t
—you’ll be in the hospital—you little,
insignificant, ohe-horso editor,” and he
reached out and got Burdette by the
collar. “Chased the man out beyond
the fair grounds, did. I? Boared like
the eight-thirty express jabbing coming hurdette hack,
did 1?” and he began
up and down like the dasher of an old-
fashioned churn. “>ly actions would
; have made a fish laugh, oh) Howled
! around till I made the world’s uackadie,
did I?” and all the time he was dancing
around the office with Burdette at arm's
length. “Oh, you’re going to b* the
great American humorist! No doubt of
it at all! You’ll make the Universe
double up and roll on tho grass some
day! You’re funny, oh, so very funny!
■lust give you a little more practiio ou
me and you cau start out lecturing!” and
it’s hard to tell what would have become
of poor Burdette if a big pressman
bmln’tcome in just then, with his sleeves
rolled up and ink on the side of his nose
and relieved him. T he pressman fought
the man ten minutes before he managed
to tear his coat off and shut up both his
eyes and fire him down the stairs and
half way across the sidewalk, llo ac¬
complished it at last, however, and went
back to work, and Burdette gathered
himself together and Wrote up a solemn
account of the death of the oldest Free
Mason, who had just passed away.— New
York Tribune.
Tlic Snlvation Army In India.
One of the strangest developments of
modem religious fervor is the Salvation
Army in Iudia. This remarkable organ¬
ization, which may be disliked, but
which is not to be despised in India anywhere,
has takeu a form sentiment entirely
adapted to the native and im-
I agination. Its European members dress
I iii Indian costume and walk barefoot—a
terrible thing to do on the burning soil. ,
They submit to privations which the
“^ive ^ir can scarcely surpass, and
li y 6 on an average of about twenty cents
“week. They have drawn into their
ranks Commissioner I ticker, an English
official, who has follow resigned them, a yearly and salary who
$4000 to
marches dressed in the wretched attire
of afakir > but under a red canopy ear-
ried by four Sal vatiomsts. Jlicse
missionaries address the natives in their
own language. demonstration,and At Madras lately they
bad a great characteristic stylo preached
in their to an at¬
tentive audience of natives. Perhaps
this is the best way for Christianity to
get at tho dull and debased myriads of
India after all .—Boston Transcript.
Amateur Entomology.
The Yankee Ilhi-le thus describes how to
mount and prepare for a collection, but¬
terflies, beetles, etc. do The killing quickly is and an
important matter, to it
not disfigure the insect in any way. For
this purpose butterflies succumb at once
to the fumes of chloroform. 51ostmotlu
need something more sulphur, powerful, like ben¬
zine or the fumes and. of moths—should hepedop-
(era—butterflies be
pinned through the thorax; colcoptera
—thebeetle tribe—should have tho pin
inserted through the right wing-cover.
bet the pin project about one fourth its
lent p above t R e insect. Many insects
will will need need to to have have the the dried, wings xvings expanded expanded
nndktmt in place till in a setting
]j0Y 'fo do this, use a small, straight
awl set in a handle to manipulate d the
wings, antennae aud. legs aud piecesof au keep the
same ; n pbice by pins card-
hoard. The small insects will dry
sufficiently to remove to the cabinet in
two or three days ; the larger moths will
require a week to dry. Place in the
boxes or drawers pieces of camphor
wrapped in paper to prevent the ravage.'
of insects.
A Ghost Party.
A novel party was lately given by
some Philadelphians issued at a summer for “ghost resort.
Invitations were devoted a
party,” and the evening xvas to
the recitation of weird and grewsome
tales of horror and. to the recounting of
personal experiences that were in every
way calculated to make the hair of the
assembled. company stand on end. W„en
die blood of all the gae ts was hour bcgin-
ning to curdle the witc ling of
midnight was rung out by the clock,
This proved to be the signal fot supper,
and immediately lights were brought
and the ghostly seance was over.