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A suspension bridge between New
York and Jersey City has been de¬
cided as practicable by United States
engineers________________
The underground system of railways
| u London, England, has a length of over
twenty miles, nearly three-quartors of
which are absolute tunneling.
American orchardists must soon meet,
announces the American Agriculturist,
the competition in English markets of
apple growers in Australia and Tasmania.
pi,e imports of choico apples from these
latter points has already Increased to
luch an extent as to affect British fruit
growers. _______
Tho phrase used by the new German
Emperor iu referring to himself in his
recent manifesto to tho army has puzzled
the American translators, according to
the New York Sun. They have made
it “chief” and “ruler of the army,” and
a lot of other things, but have finally
decided that the nearest English to it is
‘‘Lord of War.”
An English built collier, expected
shortly at Rochester, N. Y’., is looked
upon as being a dangerous competitor
for the honor ot being the biggest steam
collier navigating fresh water. Her hull
is of iron and she has a capacity of from
2000 to 2200 tons of coal. She will ply
between . Charlotte, i a. Detroit, rw •*. Chicago, r«u*
Duluth, and other points on tho upper
lakes in the coal-carrying business.
A new profession has been started in
St. I.ouis, that of solicitor of marriages
for the .Justice of the Peace. A gteat
many people procure marriage licenses
a:ul do not know exactly where to go to
have the ceremony performed. Then
the solicitor steps forward, arranges the
whole matter satisfactorily and gets a
certain percentage out of tho Justice’s
fee for his trouble. It is a queer busi¬
ness, but, unfortunately, does not pay
very well as yet.
There is in a Southern insane asylum
an eight-year-old hoy who has never
been awake since the hour of his birth.
He was the child of a paralytic mother,
and has delicate features and a high,
white forehead, with long, black curls.
His arm is not larger than an ordinary
man’s thumb. He lies on his bed year
after year, taking no note of anything
that passes. Twice a day he is aroused
c o gh to take a little nourishment, and
then relapses into sleep.
New Y’ork is sa d to be one of the
strongest Catholic cities in the world.
It has 7o parish churches, 40 chapels, f OC
priests, 300 brothers, 2000 religious
women, 40,000 pupils in its college?,
academies and parochial schools, and
15,00.) poor or sick or orphaned cared for
in its homes, hospitals, and asylums.
Full $30,000,000 are invested in Catholic
churches and institutions, and there are
80',000 Catholics within the city limits.
So the Boston Pilot tells us.
The chances of life arc thus set down:
out of every 1090 men twenty-five of
them die annually. One half of those
who are born die before they attain the
age of seven years. The men able to
bear arms form a fourth of the inhabit¬
ants of a country. More old men are
found in elevated situations than in val¬
leys aud plains. The number of inhabit¬
ants of a city or country is renewed
every thirty years. The proportion be¬
tween the death? of women and those of
men is 10CI to 108. The probable dura
ration of female lives is sixty years, but
after that period tlie calculation is more
favorable to them than to men.
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England, especially in the midland
counties, has been suffering from a severe
plague of small green caterpillars. To
walk in Hie woods means to have dozens
of the little pests falling down one’s nock,
and it is a relief, cable? a London
correspondent of the New York Sun, to
hear that certain means of putting an end
to them has been unearthed from a ne ws¬
paper of 1812. A gardener of that period
hit upon tho means of taking the cater¬
pillars by kindness. In each of his
infested hushes lie p it warm pieces of
woollen rag at sundown. The cater¬
pillars crawled for shelter to the comfort¬
able woollen, and in tho morning were
taken a id shaken into tho fire by thou¬
sands. The same plan has been success¬
fully adopted by persecuted British
farmers.
8'clwynn Taylor, a mining ongineer
and coal expert of Pittsburgh, thinks
natural gas is giving out. Fie says:
“Within two years at furthest coal lands
will be se’ling for what they were con-
sidered worth before natural ga? was
thought of. This will be duo largely to
the failure of tho ga? fields to supply the
demands made upon them. Gas, liko
°il, will in timo exhaust itself. New
fields may he opened, hut taking all in
all, I think the outlook for coal was
never so bright since natural gas came iu
nse. All the iaige gas fields are playing
out. Murraysvillo has seen its best days,
aud all the wells in the - Beaver and Ohio
valleys are go ng. The prospects for
fields large enough to take their rilace in
case of total failure are not bright by
sny means. The big natural gas com-
panics recognize this as a fact, and are
expending thousands of dollars on ft pro¬
cess for making gas fuel. This is sig¬
nificant. In my judgment two years will
®eean end to natural gas as fuel.”
SOUTHERN STRAYS.
A CONDENSATION OF HAPPEN¬
INGS STRUNG TOGETHER.
MOVEMENTS op ALLIANCE MEN—RAIL*
hoad casualties—tub cotton crop
EI.OOD8—ACCIDENTS—CROP RETURNS.
Governor Alabama,
Austin judge Seay, has appointed W. A.
of probate of Elmore coun-
to AH the vacancy caused by the re-
signment of Johu A. Lancaster.
The town of York, a town of 200 peo-
ii’, 0n ttle Alabama Great Southern
Railroad, near the Mississippi line, has
quarantined against the world. No pas¬
senger from any point will be allowed
to get off at that point. Armed guards
meet every train, and no amount of
health certificates will enable a passenger
to stop there.
Gcornia.
in Augusta will levy a tax of 1 ] er cent.
order to get tho city in shape for the
Exposition.
Mr. Robert II. Rielinr Is, a prominent
business man of Atlanta, died of heait
disease while on a visit to Asheville, S. C.
Henry Kennedy, a carpenter, of Au¬
gusta, Supervisor Farmer of the Port
Royal R ii'road, -Higgins, and Mr.
Williams, a boatman, and an unknown
man and woman were drownod in the
recent floods.
) J <>s he Gc anu ° r « loaded ia Railroad cars on ran its eight bridges en-
tin . "
(hccanal at August;1 to k th m
bridges being spept away by the flood,
e he gave way under the exces¬
sive weignt and several wrecked engines
is the result.
A cold-blooded murder was committed
in Atlanta Saturday night. A colored
man his named Si Campbell, quarreled with
wife late in the afternoon, an-1 when
the woman had retired for the night, and
was sound asleep, Campbell deliberately
placed the muzzle of a pistol close to the
woman’s face and fired twice in rapid
succession, killing her instantly.
Louisiana.
New Orleans is discussing a bolt line
railway scheme, intending to ouild a
grand union depot, into which all trains
eon run. As it is now, the traveler who
passes through New Orleans has to
make a transfer, nnd the belt line and
u ion depot is intended to do away with
this.
An awful crime was perpetrated
Breaux Bridge. Friday night, whc-n a
gang, supp >sed to be composed of five
members (so far unknown), attacked a
negro cabin, ai d shooting through the
wa Is, moita ly wounded a colored
woman, who died a few hours afterwards.
From there I hey went to another cabin
where they outiaged colored women,
and then whipped a colored man. The
uegroes have made no affidavit as yet.
Flic white pupil ation are very much ex-
rite J over the matter, and resolutions
vere adopted p'edging and declaring protection that to the the
-.iolore I people,
perpetr tors of the outrage shall be pun-
Uhe.l.
North rarolitia.
At Charlotte, Sunday, a daring incen¬
diary set tire to ti e ice factory, aud but
for quick wiu-lc the building and The ma¬
chinery wou!u have been destroyed.
fa tory had been idle since August 1st.
The incendiary had used quantities of
rosin, cotton waste ancl shavings to start
the lire.
Fire broke out at Beaufort Sunday and
spread rapidly, burning the sheriff’s of¬
fice nnd three other buildings on Turner
su-ee:; Handlers and Hou e, on Dicken¬
son street, and a two-story house occu¬
pied by colored people. The Winfield
Chadwick building was partially burned.
Lo-s about $10,000 with very little in¬
surance.
The weekly weather crop bulletin, of
the North Carolina weather service, says
that on account of the excessive rainfall,
reports as to crops are the worst ever le-
ce.vcd, not one is in the the least favora¬
ble, save those as to rice. Rot aud black
rust are (fleeting cotton, Tobacco is
growing green and cannot ripen before
frost iu many case? in Durham, Person,
Orange wad Granville counties.
A white mint named Clauduas Parish,
of White county, was before a justice of
p ini.ting nca Saturday charged twelve-year-old with coui-
an assault on bis
daughter. After hearing the evidence
of tin; child, lur m tlier and brother,
which was conclusive, Parish was com¬
mitted to jail. The case caused a de¬
eded sensation. P.-rish was brought his
here quii tly to escape lynching iu
own section.
Smitfi Ciiro.’lnn
The breaking out of yellow considerable fever at
Hendersonville bas created
consternation at Charleston, Henderson¬
ville being the Summer resort or a large
number ot wealthy Charlestonians. Im¬
mediately on receipt of the news of fever
at that place the mayor issued orders
quarantining, it and this complicates mat-
ters, ns many women and children were
their home, having „ run from tho
Oil way from Hendersonville
fever. No person is allowed to
or any place in that vicinity
come to the city now without certificates.
Reports from all sections of the State
continue to he of the gloomiest kind as
regards the crops. One of the strangest
and most serious causes of the damage to
the cotton is the sprouting in the bolls,
a feature which has heretofore been com¬
paratively unknown in the annals of cot¬
ton planting. It seems that a good deal
of cotton was open when the rains began
about September fir.-t. The continuous
rain prevented picking, and the open
bolls find to be left in the beginning fields. Ihe to
seeds in the bolls are now
sprout, rendering the cotton useless for
market or any ol her purposes. Sprout-
is reported from almost every section
of°the state, and what promised in Au¬
gust to be the largest crop of cotton ever
p.oduced in this state looks now to be in
a very bad condition.
Texas. Rutherford,
State Health Officer Dr.
who was at Galveston on Sunday, de¬
clared a strict and absolute quarantine offi¬
against New Orleans. Quarantine notified
cer Blount, at that point, all vessels was coming
to quarantine against New Orleans, aud a
to that port from placed
similar embargo has been upon
railroads.
ELLAV 1 LLE, GEORGIA. THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 20 1888
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Tfniifaire.
rier, Henry Williams, a star route mail car¬
was arrested at Jacksboro and
fling brought to Ivuoxvillo on a charge of ri¬
registered letters.
J. F. Lewis, of Nashville, has volun¬
teered to go to Jacksonville as a nurse to
wait upon yellow fever putieuls. He was
furnished a pass by the railroad authori¬
ties and left ou his mission of mercy.
Jim Shackleford, a farmer living on
Dog Branch, death." whipped his twelve-year old
daughter to He had ordered the
child to briug a bucket of water from a
spring, quickly and because she did not come as
as he thought 6he should, he
seized a piece of plunk and brutally beat
her so that she died after a few days,
Virfflnin.
A wreck occurred two miles east of
Waynesboro, on the Chesapeake &Ohio
Railroad, on Thursday, which delayed
trains nine hours. A misapprehension
of train orders led to a collision
between tho east bouud mail and a
freight train.
Steps have been taken for the construc¬
tion of an electric line of cars from Rich¬
mond to the historic battlefields of Seven
Pines or Fve Oaks. The distance is
seven miles, thousands of old Union
soldiers visit the field annually from
Richmond, nt a large expense. This line
will minimize the cost the little trip.
The directors of the Atlantic & Danville
railroad have secured the money necessa¬
ry to complete the line to Danville.
THE FEVER.
One feature of the epidemic at Jack¬
sonville during the past week is the fre-
quincy wi h which it lias attacked phy¬
sician* and clergymen and other active
workeis in the cause of the sick and suf¬
fering. Drs. C. J. Burroughs and C. H.
Mallett were bo h prostrated on Thurs¬
day, and Dr. Danit-1 gave up and went
to bed on Friday. The ranks of the
clergymen have been thinned, but all who
are sick give signs yf early recovery.
r J he condition of Rev. J. B. Bickrell is
not so hopeful as could be wished, but
has not as yet become critical. Bishop
Edwin G. Weeds is still well and doing
good work at all times and places.
Bishop Moore and the Rev. Father Ken¬
ny (recently recovered) are both active iti
tne work of nursing charity, and may be
seen at almost any hour of the day en¬
gaged in the noble mission of relief to
t e suffering. Just about enough new
doctors have come in to fill the local va-
c ncits caused by sickness, More are
n eded. ’I ho following temporary ns- H.
bignments have beeu made by F.
Caldwell, who has charge of the medical
corps. Dr. A. W. Knight will take the
territory east of Market to East Jack¬
sonville; Dr. Clay will take
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Lavilla, north of Beaver street,
i nJ Hansomtown ; Dr. Donthue, of Cury-
ville, Fla., will take Campbell's addi¬
tion, Fairfield and Oakland; Dr. George
C. Mathews and Dr. Eddy, of St. Louis,
will take Lavilla, south of Bean street;
D. \ Yahoo, of Ocala, will take charge
of Ea t Jtcksonville,with headquarters at
Dr. Fail-lie’s drug store. Dr. Bryant, of
Houston,and Dr. Shetral,of Savannah has
been assigned to the district bounded by
Clay street, on West Market street on
the east, and Springfield and Hausom-
town on the north. There js room i.t
St. Luke’s hospital to accommodate thir¬
teen more ] atients, and the hospital private is
now in excellent condition. Six
rooms. suitable to patients who desire
isolation, are vacant aud they are neatly
furnished and most comfortable apart¬
ments. Dr. Sollnce Mitchell says he has
thirty patients now at the Sandhills and
ample accommodation for sixty or seven-
ty more. He proposes to move oul
and make his home there until
the frost puts an end to his labors.
Dr. Porter received the following tele¬
gram: Camp Pciry, September “Suggest 10.—
Dr. S. Y. Porter, Jacksonville:
to the people coming here that they may
bring sheets, pillow cases and towels, and
gtt them some evening after fumigation. fresh
No pillows. Will fill cases with
pine straw.—Hamilton.” Saturday's
weather was somewhat pleasanter as no
rain fell, but a hot sun poured scorching
rays down without mercy and exhalation
arising could be s en Lne thin mist.
“This is yellow fewfcr weather,” said a
doctor, “and you may now look fora
large increase in the number of cases, but
it is a great relief for tho sick, and that
we think good.”
THE CAPTAIN WEAKENED.
The Norwegian bark Nor arrived in
portat New York, having picked A.- up
and biought back Qapt. William A.
drews and his cockle-shell dory the Daik
Secret, who was suppose 1 to have been
been swamped. He and his boat were
taken on board in latitude 40, 18;
tude 8®, 50, about fifty miles more thah
half way across the ocean. Skipper Au-
ohitTner Brews is as brown u3 an Indian and as
ft ns a cricket He sad • “I was
j us wo months and one day alone in my
littlo boat. In that time I tpHcc to
twenty-two * vessels, but saw only
sni’s. I hadn’t tasted a morsel of warm
food or drunk a cup of hot coffee in all
of that time, because iny alcohol stove
got full of water. I took one hundred
bottles of llygcia distilled water with
me, but it was all gone. August 19th 1
spoke the Nor, and ssked her captain enough for
pork and water.' He was willing declared
but ho looked me over nnd I
was a fool if I didn’t come aboard and
go back to New York, So I didn’t need
much coaxing to get me to abandon tho
trip and return, especially ns I had had
some trouble with sharks.”
A STRAGE BET.
Two Swedish farmers named Ole Johu-
and Hans Erickson. of Nebraska
son mad strange bet on tho
Oitv presidential Neb., ‘ a A wu.ten agrees
eheti-m. placed tae
me,it was drawn up and m
hands of a prominent business nan
According to it? terms, in the event of
Cleveland’s election, Mr. Johnson for¬
feits to Mr. Erickson his wife. Jo.msun
to have and to hold against the lawful
claims of any and all persons whatsoever.
If on the other hand. General Hawu >n
elected, the aureement stipulates that
Mr. Johnson shall receive frmn _-,r.
Erickson one Jersey cow. valued at ? >0.
All the parties to the wager are ,n earn*
including Mrs. Johnson wh > ex-
csr, hope that Cleveland will be rc-
presses a
elected.
THE WORLD OYER.
INTERESTING ITEMS BOILED
DOWN IN READABLE 8TYLE.
THE FIELD OF LABOR—SEETIISKU CAUL¬
DRON OF EUROPEAN INTRIGUE—FIRES,
SUICIDES, ETC. —NOTED PEOPLE DEAD.
Tt has been discovered that Diroctoi
Putin of the secret police of St. Peters¬
burg, Russia, is in the pay of bandits and
of thieves and has received a heavy trib¬
ute from tne proceeds of their robberies.
Political correspondence at Vienna,
says the negotiations between Russia
and the Vatican for tho establishment ol
iug diplomatic relations opposjtion have of Pobiedoneiteff, collapsed, ow.
to the
procudator of the holy synod in Russia,
'of the Polish clerical authorities in Aus¬
tria aud of the ultramontane cardinals in
Rome.
Bitter feeling has been engendered at
of Pittsburg, Pa., school over the the establishment in
a p irochal by Catholics
the first ward public school building.
Seven Protestant ministers denounced
Catholocism from their pulpits on Sun¬
day. Arrangements were made for mass
meetings in that city and also in Alle¬
gheny school to protest against religious the use of public
buildings for purposes.
T. J. McGuire and Samuel Remer, em¬
house, ployed iu a South Omaha, beef-skinning Neb., packing,
engaged in a con¬ and
test. Tho match was for $-50 a side
the gate receipts, Two dead beeves
were brought in, and when time was
called, both men set to work. McGuire
removed the skin from his subject first,
doing the job in four minutes and fifty-
two seconds, Rerner’s time was five
minutes.
A strange malady has affected the vil¬
lagers of Franklin Park, N. J. About
four weeks ago a sailor named Garrett-
son returned from trip along the
Southern coast, and soon after his return
was stricken down with a disease which
the doctors called ship fever. lie died.
Within a few days a number of those
attending the funeial were stricken down
with the same disease, and in the past
three weeks six others have died, and
now there are a number sick with the
fever, many of whom, the doctors say,
will die.
Counterfeit five and one-dollar bills are
being extensively circulated m New
York. The sub-treasury officials say
they are so skilfully executed that they
would deceive almost every one unless
carefully scrutinized. The piper in the
five-dollnr bill is a trifle thicker than it
should be, aud the head of Gen. Grant,
which adorned the bill, is somewhat
rougher and less evenly executed than cn
the genuine bill. The one-dollar coun¬
terfeits: the paper is more nearly like the
genuine paper, but the same defect is in
the head of Martha Washington as in the'
head of Gen. Grant.
A Roman cablegram to the New York
Catholic News announces that the decree
of the holy office on the Knights organiza¬ of La¬
bor question, favorable to that
tion, has been forwarded to Cardinal
Gibbons. It will be remembered that in
April, 1887, his holiness, concurring
with ideas set forth in a letter of Cardinal
Gibbous in favor of the knights, decided
that there was no cause for action. The
Pope also decided that in Canada, where
a mandament had been issued against
knights, members of the order could re¬
ceive absolution on promise of obedience
to future decisions of the holy see. The
matter having decree been placed the before the It
holy office, good tli.s the question is result. far
settles for as as
Rome is concerned,—provided, and aims of of course, the
that the constitution or¬
der remain the same.
THE CROP BULLETIN.
The weather crop bulletin, issued by
the signal office, says that reports from
the corn belt, including Indiana, Illinois,
Iowa, Missouri, and Nebraska, indicate
that the weather during the past week
has been especially favorable, and that
the corn crop, which is very large, is
generally secure and past occurred injury during from
frost. The frosts which
the week along the northern border of
Iowa and in Minnesota, Wisconsin and
Michigan did some damage to the grow,
ing crops. Over the west portion of and the
cotton region, including Alabama
Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas, Louis-
iana and T<-xas, favorable weather dur-
mg the week greatly unproved all grow-
in S cro P s . and cotton picking North is m
progress m all these b ates. In
^ are seriously S°uth Carolina injured by all^growing heavy rams crops and
dangerous floods The -weather during t
th e 'veele was. ^pecud y favorabh
tobacco , m Ken ^r^pnetsee The
weather m Netj y^Mtfifly the middle
Atlantic States tx unfavor-
»)>•<-' for ripening crops. Farm work is
retarded. -
THEG, A. R.
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The 22d annual encampment of the
Grand Army of the Republic was held
at Columbus, Ohio, and lasted three
days. Nearly 200,000 people attended,
and the parade of 70,000 veterans wus a
magnificent display. Wm. Warner,of Mo.,
was chosen as commander for the ensuing
year. Ail invitation from the state ol
Georgia and city of Atlauta for the next
meeting, to be held in Atlanta, was re¬
ceived with great favor, but as it had
been practically promised decision to -Milwaukee.
Wis., for 1890, that could not
be changed; however, an agreement wa-
made that the 24th encampment will be
held in Atlanta. It goes without saying
that Atlantians will put forth some noble
efforts to make it one of the grandest
affairs that has ever taken place in the
South.
CIRCUS ACCIDENT.
A Cincinnati bound freight tram heav¬
ily laden, dashed at full speed into John
Robinson’s emu? train, which wa - stand¬
ing at Corwin station, Ohio. The ca¬
boose at the rear of the circu? train war
slit in two and four sleepeis ahead of it
telescoped. No damage occurred to tin
animals of the circus proper, which were
in long trains ahead of the sleepers.
Four men were killed and eighteen
wounded.
NATIONAL CAPITAL
THE WASHINGTON SOLONS GET¬
TING IN THEIR WORK.
WHAT IS niCING PONF. FOR THE ARMY AND
NAVY—LIVELY DEBATES IN CONOItESS
—NOTES.
t’ONIillEMSlONAT..
The Chinese exolurnn hi 1 was taken
up by the Senate up Thursday and add Mr.
,Joucs of Nevada, proceeded to c s
the Somite in,favor of its immediate pas¬
sage. Mr. Vest followed in opposit oil to
Mr. Blair’s motion to consider. The debate
was continued by Messrs. George, Blair,
Butler, Morgan, Saulsbury and llm i is.
Mr. modify Blair’s amendment, as effect he proposed that the
to it, was to the
bill shall not take effect until the tiist of
November next, unless the pendingtreaty
shall bo rejected by Chinn before that
time, but shall take effect immediately
shall on such rejection, make nnd known that the the president Chiueso
atonce to
government the pa-sage of tho bill after
no agreement to dispose adjourned.....In of tho bill the on
Friday tho Senate
House on motion of Mr. Flourney, of Al¬
abama, a joint resolution was passed ex¬
tending until October 1st the existing
appropriations for the sundry civil ex¬
penses of the government. The House
resumed consideration of the Senate bill
amendatory to tho interstate commerce
law. Mr. Anderson, of Iowa, offered an
-amendment, and Mr, Anderson, of Kan¬
sas, also offered two amendments. Mr.
Grosvenor. of Ohio, submitted an amend¬
ment making it unlawful for any com¬
mon carrier, subject to the provisions of
this act, to cat ry refined oils and other
petroleum products, cotton seed oil and
turpentine for any other shipper in tank
or cylinder curs who shall own, lease or
control the same in any manner, except shall
uport the condition that said carrier
charge the same rates in wooden of transportation and
of said products packages
barrels iu car load lots as in tank or cyl¬
inder, cars; said tank and cylinder aud
said wooden packages and barrels being
carried free in each case.
<;ohnii*.
The hcadquarteis of the American Na¬
tional Red Cross was established «t the
Riggs House with its president, Miss
Clara Barton, received in charge. from Among Col. the F.
dispatches Southmnyd, dated w as New one Orleans,
R. stat¬
ing; “Am off this evening with eigh¬
teen nurses for Jacksonville,” which
makes a total of fifty tained nurses
ready for duty and in the employ of the
Red Cross, all of whom are acclimated
and have had the yellow fever.
THE COTTON CROP.
The report of the Department of Ag¬
riculture at Washington, D. C., makes
the average condition of cotton 83.8, a
decline of three aud a half points since is
the last report. The general average
slightly higher than in 1887 and 1880,
when it stood at 82.8 and 82.1 respect¬ has
ively. The decline, while slight,
been genera! throughout the belt, except where
in North Carolina and Tennessee,
more seasonable weather has resulted in
a slightly improved condition. Local
damage has resulted in the Caroliuas
from both drouth nnd excess of moisture,
the rainfall during the month being un¬
evenly distributed. Rust is general drouth
throughout Georgia, and with the
and shedding of bolls has seriously re¬
duced the condition. Alabama has suf¬
fered from heat nnd drouth and in some
sections the month closes with appre¬
hensions of damage from excessive and
continuous rainfall. A decline in Mis¬
sissippi and Louisiana is the result of a
marked excess of moisture during the
last two weeks of August. The severe
storm which swept over these states on
the 19th and 20tli prostrated the plants,
an( j continuous rains have beaten out
the bolls and caused some rotting. The
cr0 p j n Texas was beginning to suffer
for moisture when tho rains of the latter
par t 0 f the month came, seasonable over
the greater part of the state, breaking
the threatened drouth nnd arresting the
decline in the condition which had sei
; n> In Arkansas the average has been
lowered by locally unfavorable seasons,
drouth In some sections and excessive
moisture, especially toward the close of
the month, in others, causing a reduc-
t j on . The month was favorable in Tennes-
8ee • seasons good, and but little coin-
p i amt of rust. State averages of condi-
tion arc; Virginia 84, North Carolina
84,SouthCarolina 83, Georgia 85,Flor-
ida 90, Alabama 87 Mississippi 88, Lou-
isiana 79, Texas 78, Arkansas 87, Ten-
,^ 95. The crop « generally
IiV Jblltat late and picking delayed by
anffy w\ms l able weather. Caterpillars and
boll are frequent! mentioned,
au d doing damage und fre-
f 0U ght. The first is b most
qw .„tly In Georgia, Alabama.and Louin-
ana, white the latter is noted chiefly in
It will of course, be understood
that this report relates to the status on
the first day of September.
FOREST FIRES.
A dispatch from East Saganaw, Michi¬
gan, says a fire has been burning in the
woods of northern Michigan and two weeks,
and although have several threatened, towns valuable serious
property been no
los-os have resulted up to this time. A
disaster is reported railroad, on baganaw, resulting lusko-
la an l Huron from
forest tires. An express train, while
tunning twenty miles an hour, ran on a
piece of track beneath which the ties had
burned, and the engine, express and
baggage car and two coaches left the
rails and rau along the ground about two
lengths of the train and the engine
turned over iu a ditch. dhe engineer,
fireman and express messengers were
thrown clear and of the burns. wreck and escaped
, itli bruises The fire on the ]
track was immedeiately communicated
to the coaches and tho passengers ancl
crew barely had time to run through the
train and escape by the tear coaches be- ;
fore every particle of wood work in the
train was burned. j
Of KUOU convicted criminals examined by a
French medical man, ii. Marainbet, more
tlmn half were drunkards, that is, seventy
nine mue per jib, cent, comu u, of the vagabond? ^. and mu* mendi uicput'
cants, fifty per cent, of tho assasdns, fifty
BUDGET OF FUN.
HCMOIinrS SKETCHES FllOM
VARIOUS SOURCES. I
;
A Rnnsian Courtship—Keeping Him
liusy—Not for Hlmaelf— Her
Mother had Been
There, I2tc.,
j “ Bo minor said tho ardent young Saw-
In milegoff, with emotion quite husky.
a voice
“ Mv fondest devotion,oh, please do not scoff,
Kutinka Pojakarolusluf”
“ Techcrnysehevsky, my friend,” the shy
maiden replied,
“Your people are noble and rich.
Would a Golgusotf’a granddaughter be a
tit bride
For a hephew of Maximov itch!”
“ I care Afc a kopeck!" he said. ‘‘In my
I have droshky safe and I laugh
you now, Klitkin Overhaul-
At the wealth of a or
ostikt, FullerzedolT.
Gojavnik, or
■* You are worth more to me than the gold
of Slugmiski,
Brakemupski, or SumarakofT!
Kutinka Pojakaroluski, it’s risky, 1" _
But I'm going to carry you off
And this is the way theyoung Sawmilegoff
But an end to air further discussion,
T x: ssasssttssi —Chicago Tribune.
Keeping Him Busy.
“James,” said the grocer to his new
boy, ^haven’t you got anything to do
“No ‘We’ll, sir ”
‘ ketch some flics an’ stick ’em on
“ lh «
Not for Himself.
Snftrley—“1 Bee l.ttl. you’re pktt .p»ai.* . 1«
mouey on (hot ol
Snobley-“Yes, I wan’t to make the
place—a—-thoroughly fit* for a * gentle-
man, don’tcherknow?”
8 n " , 5Z;;S h ’ 1 8Upp090y ° U mCM t0
lfit i
Her Mother Had Been There.
E i8 h, o'clock.. «.->.« r„*.y-
“Where are you going, Angelina? he
Angelina “Only lust around
eorner to match tins p.ece of silk,
Nh-™ a popinjay—“All right. I’ll tell
Bridget not to have supper until 7
o’clock .”—Free Press.
Affrced With Her.
„ Mrs. ... Y east—“Do you , buy your eggs
at Shortcounts?
Mrs. lJaeon Why, certainly; his
egg’s can t he beat.
Mrs. Yeast—“I know it; that* the
reason I don t think they re good.
Not Wholly Voluntary.
Mrs. \ an ITim - I am astonished,
Clara, that^you should voluntarily allow
Mr. Featherly to put his arms around
y° u ’
Clara ; ‘It wasn t exactly ,, voluntarily, , ,
mother; at least, considerable pressure
was brought to bear upon mo.’ San
Franctsco Examiner.
A Practical View of tho Situation.
Lady Blanch—“I m so tond of riding,
I could almost live in the saddle! Tho
habit grows upon one so, you know.”
I ady Rose—“I wish mine had grown
on me! I had to have it moulded to my
shape, nnd I expect papa will grumble
frightfully at the cost when he has to
pay the bill,”— l‘un.
Hope Springs Eternal.
Mr. Tilbury Carter—“Thatship yonder
is the Pontiac, bound for the Land of
Orange Blossoms.”
Miss Marie Gold (twenty-nine, dcs-
perate, “JYeddiug and humming Mendelssohn’s
March” under her breath—
“I Bhuuld n’t mind being bouud in the
•ame direction myself l"—Puck.
A Terrible Threat.
“Vat,” said the collector for a little
German band to a citizen who gat in his
front window. “You no gif noddings
for dot moosie?”
“Not a cent!” replica the citizen, with
hopeless emphasis. 4 dat’s all!"
“Den ve blay some moro,
threatened the collector; so the citizen
hastily gave up a quarter.— Epoch.
A Singular Coincidence-
Benson (entering Newport Casino)—
“Where have you been, Ed?”
Cathcart—“Called on that rich and
hideous heiress, Miss Smith. Thank
heavens she was out.” (Exeunt twenty
young Miss men.) Smith (at home next day)—
“Strange that thirty-seven gentlemen
should have left their cards last night—
just the night when I was not at home.”
— Time.
Unlucky Fate of a Hotel Clerk.
Clerk—“Will you register now?"
Lord Divvivian (taking pen)—“Aw,
aw, James!”
Enter James.
Lord Divvivian—“What is me full
pame, .Jcames?”
James—“Cecil Fauntus Victor Albert
Warwick Quincy Burleigh Bacon Walvaughnn
Divvivian, sixth Earl of Gil-
courtmage, me lud.”
Lord Divvivian— <( Aw, thank jou,
Jeames ."—Mall and Express.
\ Stray Latnb.
Village office)—“You Parson (entering promised country
editor’s to pub-
lj 8 h that sermon I sent you on .Monday,
but I do not find it in the latest issue of
your paper.” surely
Editor—“I sent it up. It went
j a . What was the name of it!”
Parson—“Feed my lambs.”
Editor (after searching through You paper)
—Ah—yes—um—Here it is. see
we’ve got a new foreman, and he put it
under the head of “Agricultural Notes,”
as “Hints on the Care of Sheep."
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A Great Sale.
On a railway train. Two men dis-
cussing a book that has just beea handed
to them by the newsboy, book, sir,
First Man—“That’s a great
a masterpiece of work.”
Second Man—“I wonder how it is sell-
-
,n C.‘.
First Man—“Selling like whisky at a
Montana picnic. Never saw anything
[ike it. You see I am the publisher and
VOL. III. NO. 52.
Second Man—“Your information de¬
lights I the author .” J
me. am
First Man (with fallen countenance)—
“Well, that is, it hasn’t had much of a
sale yet, but I think it will have. Dig of
risk you know, getting out this sort
book. ”• —Arkantaw Traveler. '<«v
Slightly Misunderstood
“Yes,” said Miss Crushington, tho
celebrated exponent of society and emo¬
tional drama, “I had a most successful
tour in England last summer.”
“Did you enjoy the trip across tho
ocean ?”
“Very much corning back, but not so
much going over.” .
“Were you sick?”
“N-not so very, but I felt badly and
wished I hadn’t agreed to come. Wauted
; to back out, you know."
“I understand; you felt like throwing
up tho whole affair, ”
“Oh, dearnol I wasn’t as sick as
that !”—Merchant Traveler. ,-«V
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Disproving Vital Statistics
There was a cold, hard look in het
eyes and a baby on her arm as she came
into the Critic office and satdown in tho
visitor's chair, alongside bf tho editor’s
desk.
“You are the editor,” she asserted,
confidently. deny tho charge. :
T he editor did not
continued, “I read ”° an t article ‘“■t on “t” tho cen¬ ,to
sus returns made by increase the police, of population and in it
I noticed that the
; in Georgetown from 1885 to 1886 was
0Q
. said the editor, bo-
cause he hadn’t anything slander else to sayi j
‘ ‘Well, it’s a base on our town,
.
“wh*
sir, on my block alone, the increase has
been twenty-four within a year, and this
°,lTi th. ditoy '
in the paste . ticking „ ia
pen I pot
• 1 r ‘. " tt “ t
! for . hbel. T It’s either the police or the
“The P police, of madame,”said
j the editor, recovering course, his wits.
! „ “ l [ a •» 8a ™ to J“y ‘“AJS
Georgetown ^ Committee on that Population
cft „ ’ th ’ m Lt p> ve beea
her r and 8tl0 Washington went Critic. haughtily with
the baby. —
Supreme Court Pomp,
The opening of the Supreme Court ii
one of the stage accessories, declares th«
New Yo rk Graphic, to official life at
; Wmhington. Anyone who has ever been
present will never forget the scene. The
room is a stuffy one at best and is rather
an owlish-looking the place. door with One placid-
faced negro sits at a string
> in his hand to help him open it without
trouble. Another, but a white haired,
Bon 0 f Africa sits inside to aid him.
Neither one of them would demean him-
sclf by pu ni n g the string for anyone less
than a Senator or a member of the House.
Ordinary unaided. citizens must push their way
inside No one must carry a
newspaper openly within the sacred pre-
cinets, for the rule is absolute that no
reading of journals is allowed in the
Nor any uotes
t . ee dj ng8 be taken—the official reporter
j s t Q d5 all that.
j Once inside suppose the clock over the
door is 8tr jking noon. If it is striking
at a n tba t is the hour one hears, for it
never sounds save to call the court to-
getlier. Behind the long curtains that
hang in the rear of the bench the judges
are formed, dressed in their silken robes.
I The grave faced old crier stands at one
end of the court and then looks sternly
around to noto if all are in proper state to
receive their honors. Then, with an ele-
V ated chin and a loud voice, he an-
nounces: ‘ ‘Tho Honorable the Chief
justice and* the Associated Justices of
the Supreme Court of tho United States 1”
The audience rises, the curtain parts,tho
judges step forward and bowing low
staud who an instant tho facing salutation. those present,
return the modulated voice “Oyez, the
oyez,” says business of
crier; “all persons having any
with the Honorable the Supremo Court
of the United States are admonished to
draw near, for the Court is now iu ses-
gion.” And with a quick, sharp glance
around to see that no unregenerato
citizen has yet dared to be seated, the
official adds impressively: “Godsave the
United States and this Honorable Court.”
The business has begun. I
A Texas Eviction.
A Ran Antonio (Texas) landlord had
trouble iu effecting the eviction of un¬
profitable tenants. Mr. O. Bergstrom
was the landlord, and the family he de¬
sired to rid himself of bore the some¬
what snaggy name of Pflughaupt. Pro¬
curing a writ Mr. Bergstrom placed it
in Pflughaupt, the hands it of deputy sheriffs. advised of Mrs. tho
seems, was
coming of the officials, and jumping in¬
to bed, covered herself withal blanket.
When tho officers arrived she moaned
that she was sick unto three death, and a
! grown Pflughaupts daughter flew and the sheriffs smaller with
at
brcmsticks, skillets, tin cans and other
articles of like character, sometimes
used for purposes of fought caressing. their But the
doughty bailiffs way
through the foe, and reached the bed-
side of Mrs. Pflughaupt with the papers,
when, to their astonishment, tbit lady
reached out with a long pitchfork officers handle
and whacked one of the over the
right ear with it. Nothing lifted daunted,
however, they gently her bed, tfio pre¬
tended sick woman from bore
her into the yard and soon had her aud
the belligerent children out of the prem-<
ises. — Tunes-Democrat.
A Workman’s Heroism.
A large derrick in the Court House in
Circleville, Ohio, commenced total!, and
Elmer McGath, a workman, held on to a
gOy rope until IBs right hand was
crushed and the flesh burned off the palm
of the left hand' by tM. fast' escaping the rope.
His pluck in holding rope
gave his fellow workmen, working a large under num¬
ber of whom were the
derrick, a chance to escape, and the ODly
damage dono was McGaths injuries.—
Cincinnati Enquirer.
Four or five of the head porters in the
lending Chicago hotels are dollars. collectively
worth over half a million
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