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A ri t » a A ELLAVILLE PUBLISBIXG CO. 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. -a 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 , . 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 " 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. --- 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." --- 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 ■ 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 - -