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Kaiser William is much interested in
naval atlairs, and it is believed that Ger¬
many will hereafter pay much more at¬
tention to her navy.
Greystone, Mr. Tildeu’s expeusive
Hudson rivor residence, lias been iu the
market for two years, with no buyer.
It cost him $15,000 a year to keep it up,
and no one has been willing to follow
suit. _
Seventy-five miles an hour—or a mile
in forty-eight seconds—is the astounding
rate of speed which has just been at¬
tained by the “West Coast Express,” of
the Loudon and Northwestern Railway,
on its trip from the J nglish to the
Scotch metropolis.
Ifow many persons iu the United
States, asks the Ar(/onfin\ know that
the increase of the population in the
Argentine Republic during the last
twenty-five years has been one hundred
and tifty-fo ir per cent., while ours hat
been only seventy-nine per cent.?
Kansas is anxious to annex the strip
of land called “No Man’s Land” adjoin¬
ing the State. Not, the newspapers say,
“for boom p rposes,*’but for protection.
Every thief and murderer who commits
a crime in Kansas makes a break for No
Man’s 1 and, where he is as safe as the
manslayer of old in the city of refuge.
A pract cal test of fire-proof, patent
stiffened wire lathing, was given recent¬
ly in Philadelphia. A b:ick building
twenty feetsauare was erected of two
divisions, in one the common wood lath¬
ing such as is generally used, in the
other was thestiilened wire lath’ng w th
east iron ribs. At 3:05 in the afternoon
the fires were started, and in e ght
minutes the plaster and wood bith.ug
dropped and were consumed. At 4 :V),
when the visitors Jett the grounds, the
fire in the wire lathing a par tit cut was
still burning, with no sigis of consump¬
tion of the plaster or lathing.
Mrs. Diaz, wife of the President of
Mex.co, has labored for years, accord
ing to the New York Graphic, tc
ameliorate the condition of the poorer
class of licr sex. 8he has established
various institutions for the employment
of poor women and g rIs, and ha-'
popularized work which, until she be¬
came its protecting patroness, was looked
upon as unbecoming and contrary to
established customs. Under her patron¬
age these institutions ln e become
liourishingand afford respect able employ¬
ment to hundreds of her sex. She is ever
studying some new scheme for the
advancement of the poorer classes, and
her name will be a future household
. iword assorted with benevolence and
1 kindness.. 1
A very curious case is n p irted frow
Wilkcsbarre, Penn. One of the young
women emplo . ed at the silk mills of that
, town was taken with an epileptic fit.
She fell to the floor, and the other girl-
ga'hered around and became mosi
alarmed and excited. Sud lenly one of
them gave a wild shriek and fell over in
Violent hysterics. The excitement in¬
creased, aud iu a minute or so another
yo mg woman was seized with hysteria.
The girls were now almost wild with
nervous excitement,and on • af;er another
war seized with hysteric < o:ivulsion9.
Their cries and struggles as they lay
quivering on the floor combined to make
tlie scene an extraordinary a id alarming
one. Sixteen of the girls were thus pros-
tinted. Medical aid was summoned, and
tlie girls were revived aud sent home.
Mr. A. W. Van Dorston estimates, in
th e Scientific American, that there arc one
million cars iu the United Slates, the
couplers of which must be (hanged ii
the standard of the Master t ar Builders’
Association is generally adopted. He
figures tlie cost at $.8.50 a car, which
would make the entire expense of the
change $38,50', 000. Suppo-ing the
present couplers—which must be dis¬
have co t $15 per cor, or
•>1-5.(100,000 for the entire e piipment,
and that the destruction of cars and cat
trucks, tho wrecks from broken links,
the loss of pins atd Inks, the death rate
from the free stack and going between
the cars to place and replace the links,
cost annually $17,000,0 0 more, or $2.’,-
000,000 in all, still he thinks the auto¬
matic coupler mu t bo regarded as de¬
cidedly the cheapest.
The regular annual comp aint of a
K * - **«- —»”•
keepers at Bar Harbor, ve^ Me., boast that
‘key have found a efficacious way
in which to remedy tlus evil. When the
season is “at its height” they send tc
certain agenies in Boston for a supply of
tire article for (he want of which less
’
■ These
1 ei re oris droop and pine.
boston instiiutions supply at so much
Per head any desired number of voung
tnen handy with their feet to use a col-
looni-.iicrr, 'oquialism. These dancers are fellows
of poor but highly respectable family,
f'onie of them are clerks, some collegians,
and once in a Wuile a few actors are fur¬
nished. The don't receize much salary,
hut they have a fine time and theii
*"’^ d \7. Considerable diplomacy is re¬
quired Of thef-hotel man'to prevent theii
patrons discovering just what of tho
Jouug men are of tho imported stock.
FEVER SPREADING.
THE DREAD FCOURGE APPEARS
IN MANY NEW SPOTS
A RIGID shot-gun quaiuntie TREVAILS
—UGI.Y STOIUKB ABOUT NURSES AND
PHYSICIANS—KOTKS.
cool Wednesday and in Jacksonville, Fla., was
that the bracing, and everybody hopes
that Dr. worst Neal is Mitchell over. D<spito tho fact
the gave notice to
Associated country through the medium of the
Press that no more nurses or
phyi-ieiaus were 'heeded, complaint is
heard on every hand that it is extremely
aiffi ult to secure nurses when wanted.
Nearly ical 400 are under charge of the med¬
buie tu, but many of them, especially
the colored contingent, quit the service
pla< a- soon us paid off. Thi se are not given
in nine e3 again if they cun be identified, hut
cases out of ten, this is practically
imp isdbie. Many nurses are proving
wholly incompetent and unreliable. Dis¬
sension an t dissatisfaction coutiuue in
relation to physicians’ oruers tor nurses
and delicacies for convalescent patients.
By leason of their refusal or neglect to
Health, report yellow fever cases to the Board of
thiee physicians have been de¬
nied the right to mike such orders. A
letter was sent by Fiesideut Mitchell to
Mr. Porter instructing him to honor no
more orders from these doctors. Yellow
fever has been rather disastrous ta the
liquor drinkers. However, this solemn
fact seems to be no restraint to s >me
meu, as tour or five have been noticed of
late full) under the influence of strong
Tne steamer Gulfstream sailed on
Wednesday morning from Fernandina,
Florida, with ne.rly all the people
who desired to leive, and took back
freight consigned to interior points. One
lady passenger was taken off the boat too
iil to proceed. Many of the stores are
closed. The e hive been three hundred
cases of sickness of all kinds at Fernan-
diun, with twen y deaths from the
dreaded disease during the month. A
special from McClenny says there were
three new cases on Wednesday and one
death. A special from Gainesville says:
“There are no new cases, or symptoms of
any. The convalescent are all doing
well, aud will be moved to the hospital.
A si ecial from G unesv lie says: Fitch
Miller died of yellow fever tiiis evening.
No otiier cases h ive deve oped. Pliny
Reason) r, the noted Florida horticultur¬
ist aud botanist aud proprietor and of the
cel-'brated tropical died fruit that plant place nur¬ of
series of Manatee, at
yellow fever soon a ter his return from
the Cincinnati Exposition. Reasoner,
though a young man, had a world-wide
reputation as an investigator and botani¬
cal wr.ter.
The Illinois Central Railroad people, in
order to render a 1 the asristance possi¬
ble, established a quarantine station what two
miles above Jacks n, Miss., at is
known as the asylum switch. Here it
was proposed to put off Jacksonville. all freight, ex- On
pre.-s and mail for
Wednesday night about twenty-five or
thirtv men flagged the switch engine
down before it reached the switch, and
declined to allow the station to be es¬
tablished there, or anything taken away.
was off Wednesday night was
brought away becau-w joining from New
Orleans, St. Louis, York and other
points. There mi^^t pepnlty Jiave of been death infec¬ all
tion, but under the
were warned not totjvisit tho switch
again. This high-hiuded outrage of the state was
participated in even by some enough provi¬
officials. There were not
sions in town on Wednesday to feed
those remaining therb one week, if every
store in town was depleted. Amongst
the negroes great suffering is now ex¬
perienced. situation is encouraging . at Deca-
The deaths have been imported.
tur, Ala. No
Two new cases, both colored, were re¬
ported on Wednesday. Money is badly
needed, and every Decatur citizen,
wherever found, is urgently requested
to send in his pro rata for the relief of the
The Board of Health of Memphis,
Tenn. declined to m“dify the resolution
placing all trains on the west side of the
river under strict non-imercourse quar¬
antine regu Sat inns, and therefore the
sarje law will apply to them as now gov¬
erns the trains on tlie east side of the
river. Dis. Willford and Henning were
called to attend Berry H. Biuford, a res-
ident of Memphis, who travels for a Cin-
cinnati coffee and spice house. B.nh.rd
had a ch 11, which was f< ! llowed '’7 a
hitrh fever. The board ordered Bmford
removed at once to the yellow fever ward
at the city hospital, and this is the first
case of fever this year in Memphis and
Notwithstanding the great labor
attaching thereto, the Kniahts
of Honor, Free Masons, look-
Grand Army of the Republic their are
ing closely alter the si. k of respec-
h„ mon J: >» nr. i. a. ffie T luotlmrhoi.^prob- -> °< m r -
ber Never have
.
ably ever kno” B t and
been accompbshii! there i q
unostentatious table societies smce manner t tyt^ g ^h ^ _
pldem ^ “]' _ f Ka j ght of
® j„ good standing, re-
bo d ■sssrs
m ° 9tl y qtiaTan- \Sti*
S °S 2£T ^'mph™ wii’hin «n5 twenty days
hav. been there Mayor Lana
be sent out of the city.
was notified that there was one
suspicious sickness in Memphis. the A pa fitst
senger train from Chattanooga, Birmingham
j f days, arrived at on
n our amount
^r ednesda y, bringing an immense j
n B.went further than,
0 f delayed mail. no hope to have
that, city The officials Orleans
trains runnin'r running through g to New
in a few days.
notes: reported at Per-
Two Mill ca«es of fever are suspicious of
kin’s M'ss ...A case ;
is reported in Coffeeville, Miss.... I
fver Si lma, Ala., on ac-
The excitement at has sub-
count of the yellow fever scare
aided Baton Rouge and Vicksburg are ,
illations... nmericailv bottled up by quarantine raised her reg-
.Meridian has em-
ELLAVILLE, GEORGIA. THURSDAY. OCTOBER 4. 1888.
bargo on the railroads, so ns to allow
freight to bo delivered..*. .'Mayor Pecks,
of Waycross, Ga., is in Savannah, solic-
iting money to quaranrine that town.
He Inis rai-cd about $300... .Moatgum-
cry has raised her quarantine against
Alhuny, been Ga, as investigation shows there
has Di'tierer, no yellow fever there, ...Dr.
of the Ferntindina Board of
“""D-h, asked the Surgeon-General bv
telegraph, if he would permit refugees
from that city to go to Camp Perry. could Dr.
Hamilton replied that CAmp Perry
take fifty or sixty refugees that day, and
as many or more the next day. The tents
now at Camp Perry are all betug put iu
shape for the Fernandina sufferers.
POOR BABY!
A startling ... story orought , . . to .
was in
\\ icl.ita. Kansas, from Seward .county,
It is to the effi ci that a baby of a farmer
named W illiam Beatty, who lives ou the
\V lnmaron River, was killed by an eagle.
Beat ty went to work m the morning,
leaving at his dug-out his two children,
one five years and a baby two months
old. About noon Beatty returned home
and found his gul in tears She told him
that she had taken the baby in the yard
and lelt it lying on a .blanket she herself
going to the house. In a few minutes
she heard a cry. 81 ie looked out and saw
the baby flying away. The had father visited knew
at once that an eng e his
home, as they hud done those of the
neighborhood. A pa.ty organized, and
dividing, came up with the eagle One
of the men wounded the eagle and was
engaged m deadly confl ct with had it when
his compari< ns came up. . He < mj
t «d his gun at the bud and broke a
wing, and was usmg his gun as a club
w.ien reinforcements arrived. The eagl j
fluttered in the bu h, and then the father
saw his infant dead the bodv horriblv
MODERN HIGHWAYMEN.
When a passenger train on the South¬
ern Pacific Road was two or three milet
east of Harwood, Texas, the engineer
was signal ed to stop, which ho did; just
after the engine had s-toppvd m >vmg, a
bn ad-shoulilen d man boarded her and
covered the engineer with a six shooter.
Another m.m, apparently not over twen¬
ty-two or twemy-three years old, leveled
a revolver on the fireman and ordered
him to go back and uncouple the expre-s
cur, which was dune. Two young men
nameu West and O'Neil opened on the
robbers and shot one of them. They got
safely away, however. Dun Tourney, tne
engineer, was badly wounded. West
says he raw only two mm while the fir¬
ing was going on, hut thinks from the
number of different voices heard that
there mu t have been between six and
ten in the gang. ITe is of the opinion
that the meu making the attack were
.
green country boys, and that the leaders
sat off some distance, from the track and
directed affairs.
FARMERS’, LOSSES.
The answers received. at the Depart¬
ment of Agriculture to inquiries sent out
>y Commrsioner Henderson, some days
once, as to the damage of the principal
tops, caused by tlie recent .unprece¬
dented rains, cover the state generally
md were compiled on Tuesday. They
stimate the per cent of damage in the
iiffirent sections of the state as follows:
North Georgia—To cotton, 16 per cent;
corn, 13, Middle Georgia—Cotton, 10;
com, 15. East Georgia—Cotton, 33;
corn, 14 price 15. Southeast Georgia—
Cotton, 21; corn, 9; rice, 31. Southwest
Georgia—Cotion, timated 18; corn, 7. The es¬
damage to the cotton crop of
i he state by tlie rains is placed at 19 pei
cent; corn, 11, and rice, 18. Many of
die cotrespoudents report much corton
sprouting on the ground or rotting in
the boll, so that it is almost impossible
to give an intelligent estimate of the
damage to the quality of the staple.
A TERRIBLE PLACE.
Yellow fever reitrns supreme both in
Jneo de Cuba and at the military hos-
pitT,l outside. Of the battalion of San
Quentin, on duty in Santo victims Espiritu— the
twenty-three have fallen to
yellow fever, seventeen more have been
attack'd with it, and three are danger-
o„ g ly ill. Of the detachment of w< n
on duty at Pai da, a spot noted for its
salubrity and good sanitary condition,
nll were attacked, and seven died of ' he
fever. The mortality has been terrible.
The epidenyc
J ,n J “ , ^
h f er may be gilthercd from the
following: “ ^ Out of a full company ‘ of
^ . g ht h;ive been swe t awft y
' n Ja „ 0 The island of Nassau,
",„u,e ^ dan Tuninst „- cri ba8 declared forty
J ’* Cuba.
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FROZEN TRUTH.
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The State Health officer of Alabama
n ow at Decatur, has ts-ued the foil .w-
ss Unr. N^th^AlabamB^along ^
& charleston Rail.oada, may he saf. ly
removed. There inav be a few cases
among them, but I dou’t believe tl.e
fever will with si read at tins season “f the
year, and the sort of weather we
sets
ment-all doing The'relief well. No new c.besarc
reported. Comm tteo is ready
to give help to all that need it.” Jerome
Cochran, btato HealihOffaair.
POOR FEuLOW.
--
In Uke course of a uisi usston before the
Jacksonville, Fia., Board of Health, related one
i .nucent-looking pracutioner for
, bat he recently signed an orffir sev-
tra i articles lor a patient, but, trusting in
ib e general honesty of mankind, had left
, onm space between the last line and iris
signature. Into this space the following
xvhs sub equently ins-rted by some party
or parties to the deponent unknown,
oQne case Murum's quarts.” Auoiher
or lcr f or “one cnickeu” had been nd-
,
roitly raised to “twelve chickens” by the
insertion of a “2.” This sympathy physician was he
, he center of much a*
, )J0U njfully, almost sohbingly, took his
V4jut .
itililUJIAL \T i roTAvr at fl vivl 1 DTT 11 Al;. H T
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THE WASHINGTON S0L0NS GET -
TING IN THEIR WORK.
WIIAT IS BEING DONE. FOR THE ARMY AND
NAVY—LIVELY DEBATES IN CONORESS
—NOTES.
congressional.
l„ the Senate on Thursday, Senator
“Kesolvad, Call introduced the fodowing'rosoluti. n:
That the President of the
United States call up a academy of sci-
cnees to convene in the city of. Washing-
ton at as early a day as practicable, and
that the President shall select and
request the attendance of such persons of
different schools of medicines and of such
other persons as may be distinguish) d for
their at'aiuments iu science and natural
research to take evidence, examine into.
and report unen all methods that shall be
submitied.to them for the cure, preven-
tiim and fU|)I)n . Ss l 0 n of yellow fever and
other contagious or infectious diceases,
g eL . tlon 3 Xhat tbe p rt . si deut is autnor-
ized to inv ite tlie attt . ndauce of men eini .
n( , llt for i enrnin „ und attainments in
g c j eace and natural research of foreign
countries, and to order such per diem
compensation to ihem.and mileage from
a nd to their homes to all persons who
elxall b o requested to attend and
shllll attend 1he convention,
i LCluding tho me mbenf of the
academ o{ ic . it . ni . e - and the
sum uf $1 0 o, 0 00. or so much thereof as
p e D€C , gsar y \ 9 . hereby appropri-
a t ed to pay the expenses of such conveu-
ti , in . 8- c ion 3. The Pie-idcnt shall
appoint the time iheloni.th of meeting of such con-
Vl . nti ,, Blu n alld u 'outi in of time lime which wiucn it it
“ 1 sfptrr&r , To-
tiou be paid 4. up J he n money the order appropriated of the President shall
of the United States and as shall be: di-
reeti d hv •' tom ‘
In the Senate on Wednesday, r the , Atjill
reported by Mr. Hoar on the hlh of Feb-
ruary last, “to provide for inquests- un-
der national authority,” was taken,'up
and Mr. George proceeded to address the
Senate on the subject. At the close of’Mr.
George’s speech the bill went over, with-.
out action. Mr. Daniel then pn ceded
to address the Senate on the resolution
to refer the Pr. side,it’s annual message,
but it went over without adtion ... In the
House, Mr. Harvey, of Alabama, pre-
seated the conference report on sundry
civiUppropmti m bill. Mt. McRae;, of -
Arkansas, from the commitiee on public
lauds, reported, and the Ilou-e pJssed
without debate, the bill to forfeit.cer-
tain lauds granted to the Northern Pafi,-
fie-Railroad company. The Senate , bill'
was passed, changing the boundaries-of
the fourth collection district of Virginia,
Mt. Bur-nes, of Mis-oqri, fiom the com-.
mittee on appropriations reported ?back
with amendment, the Senate joint refco*
lution appropriating $100,000 lor the rg
liefjof yeWotv fever sufferers, and ifiVwAs
passed as amended. It ri a Is as foHows:
“That the sum of $100,000 be anti the’
same is hereby appropriated out of, any
money in the treasury uot otherwise ap¬
propriated, to be immediately available;*
to be expended in the discretion of the
president of the United States, in aid of
the state and municipal boards of health,
and otherwise to prevent the introduc¬
tion of cholera or yellow fever iittojtlic-
United States from foreign - c. untries, or
from one state and territory into another,
or in the suppression of, or pi cyofttff?
the spread of said diseases, or either of
them, in infected districts.”
GOSSIP,
James W. Harper has been appointed
postmaster at Deep- Spring, Cheatham
county, Tenn., vice'‘ Hiram W. Strong-
fejlow, resign'd. * '*■'• -
The President has nominated Civil Ser¬
vice Commissioner John II. Oberlcy, of
Illinois, to be commissioner of Indian
affairs vice John D. C. Atkins, resigned.
Mrs. Ernestine Baker, in the redvmp-
tion division of the Treasury, has been
found $944 short in her cash, and dh-
charged. She was appointed in 1865 by
President Johnson.
Justice Matthews, of the Supreme
Court, continues in a very feeble condition
and he will in all probability be unable to
take his seat on the beuchwhentheOc-
tober term court begins,
President Cleveland the joint promptly resolution ap-
p roved on Thuisday
0 j- c on gress appropriating $200,000 to
suppress infection in the interstate com-
merce of ,he Lntted &tftU9 '
Gen. MacFeely acting Secretary of
War, telegraphed to General Stanley,
commanling the d.p irtment of fexns,
to eend troops to Rio Grande City for the
protection of life and property, and al o
to take such steps as may be deemed ad-
visable for the preservation of peace and
order in that, vicinity.
Pregidetu cleveIaud hag d,Verted Maj.
Sternberg, surgeon U. S.
tssc scientific z
deemncc 10 continue his
investigation of yellow fever,
The Senate has passed biffs granting
penshms to the following Tennesseans:
Susan E. Latture, widdow of Jacob Lat-
tore, private in Company 1), 5ib Icn^
ss “■ c“?. 8 r
Florida war; Thomas Rains, Captain of
Company B, 5th Tennessee mounted ,n-
fantry.
HE GETS THE CAKE.
James W. Brown, of Detroit, Mich.,
wa8 f ace d by a jury on a charge of biga-
m y t an d in four minute« after the judge’s
cbar ge, was found “guilty.” It was
,
Bb own he had married 38 women since
lgg3 Hi* usual method was to adver-
t ; se f or a housekeeper, marry such of
the applicants as he selected for the
' senting himself widower,
pj aee re p r as a
'
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FLOUR GOES UP.
A. boom in wheat caused an advance
of forty cents a barrel on flour in New
Yoik, Wednesday. The transactions in
wheat in the P roduce Exchange aggro-
gated $10,000,090.
SOUTHERN STRAYS.
A CONDENSATION OF HAPPEN-
• INGS STRUNG TOGETHER.
MOVEMENTS OF 'ALLIANCE MEN—RAIL¬
ROAD CASUALTIES—THE COTTON CHOP
—FLOODS—ACCIDENTS—CROP RETURNS.
F1.0UHIA.
The Ktcuing Metropolis, of Jackson¬
ville, w ill appear after a suspension of
two weeks, which was caused by the
prostration of its entire force by yellow
fever. Slcssrs Carter & Russell, the
proprietors, had at flr-t concluded not to
start again until frost, as. they feaied
their few remaiuing men now cotival-
escents, would bo unable to work; bud,
finding they Jiave that such w ould not be the case,
determined to resume the
■Metropolis, and propose to run it right
along.
GEORGIA.
Policeman Veal, of the Atlanta force,
was shot , by a negro burglar whom ho
was trying to arrest, and will die.
Strict railroad cars are now being
manufactured in Atlanta, The cars are
made of wood grown in Georgia.
The Atlanta Board of Police Commis¬
sioners are weeding out. their incompe¬
tent Lynam policemen, aud discharged Officer
for sleeping on duty.
Sam Francis a Georgia Pacific Rail¬
way car coupler, was cut nd crushed to
di ath on Thursday night in the railway
yard .just at'Atlanta. in the rear of liaimnn’a plow
iactoiy He was neurly cut
iu two.
gnenco Everett t-veictt suicided sutciaea on on Tuesday l uesaay by ny
gh,„, i lln • g himaejf in the side with a shot
M xn:
a sm(d i station about three miles lrom
Covington. ’ .'
Mr. ,, Brosstus. .. an Atlanta man, , has in-
vented a motor for sewing machines,
w Km:1i consists .of coiled springs, and a
s tiong company will soon manufacture
th( . p . j, M the on i y practical machine
the- purpose vet invented,
“putuMi - T ^ • l "f Uu t R»i|road.wa on , the ? .^ laid otaa8v , on Thurs- ... »* e & „
nto Jbe E ornln completion Qprps ,a of roqteYar th« new d stan me
trot If?!" Y?r 0 M,dd xrUn ! e aud ' 1 F ^ da “f ns
ot >r produce and ge ting
is noLhkely to be interfered
;«Uh Judge by agones. Milo Olvn, white-haired - , - and
a
aged-justice left f,dr Jacksonville,-having of the peace in volunteered Augusta,
hivservices as a nurse for yellow fever
pkCiqnts, He is sent by the Augusta
Exchange. He has been very successful
' ns f ySUow .fever nurse, and has had
-
®??a\9jlMheMi(' in the epidemics in
Memphis, Savannah Norfolk, and Fernandina. Wilinmgton, _ Pensa-
coiaj
• SOUTH CAROtINA.
Capt' 1 'Hubbard, of the steamer Planter,
ply big claims 'b.ctyeenCharletto.wri he met and while George¬
town, a serjient, on
one Of his trips, fifty feet long.
Maj. Eliphas G. Smith, a well-known
.
farmer, of Spartanburg county, died at
his home, Rockford, near Glenn Springs. fam
He was descended from an historic •
ily. His great-grandfuther the old was Iron one of
the original settlers of couu-
}% and shared iil the perils and privations
of the pioneers.
A te&gram was received at Gaffney
City, that the dead body of P. G. Petty,
who-e home is at Gaffney, had been
found floating in the water off Pratt
street,, Baltimore, the man, it was sup¬
posed, having been accidentally drowned.
Petty was a drummer for Robertson,
Lane & Co., hardware dealers, of Balti¬
more, and was well known.
For the first time in the history candi¬ of
South Carolina, a woman will be a
date for office at the. approaching lady elec¬
tion. Miss Eliza Garner, a about
thirty-five years, old and a native of Union
county, is out, announcing herself as for a
candidate for school commissioner
that county. Miss Garner was a candi¬
date at the primary election for the nom¬
ination, but only got forty votes. She
has decided to bolt the ticket, and will
run as an independent. She has abun¬
dant mean-,and announces that if elected,
she will devote the sala-y and emolu¬
ments of the office to the purchase of
text books for poor children.
TENNESSEE.
Memphis has the raised world, her quarantine and
is open to except from in¬
fected piaces.
TEXAS.
Five white convicts made a break for
liberty at Dallas. Two were killed, two
got away and one was recaptured.
MISSOURI.
The Switchman’s Association adjourned
at St. Louis aud will meet again next
year at Columbus, Ohio, on the tbiid
Monday in Sept ember. The plan of fed¬
eration as proposed by the Brotherhood
of Locomotive FiremeD at Atlanta, Ga.,
was unanimously adopted.
MISSISSIPPI.
A. A. Hamblen died of fever at Vos-
burg, a small village on the New Orleans
& N rtheaslern Railroad forty miles
8"Uth of M'ridiun. Mr. Hamblen had
been im a visit to Camden, Miss., and in
ie timing st pped and at the forty uuion minutes, depot and at
Jackson one hour
it is thought contracted the disease there.
PR AIRIE FIRES.
All of the western part of Laniour
county, Minn., und tho southern und
western part of Sturtevant county were
burned over recently. The strong wind
drove the flames belore it with great ve¬
locity. Distances of whete the lire ran
faster than hoises and wagons are nar-
rated. Many much farmeis will Jose every-
thing ano ois ress wi.l be expe-
rienued. A instance of fifty miles wus
all ab aze. The prairie grass is thick
and d.y and ordinary fire breaks were
ineffectual in the lace of the gale that
drove the fire on.
give him a show.
Wm. Radam, a florist, of Austin,
Texas, stated to an Associated Press r<^
potter that he had discovered a pan¬
acea in a microbe kilbr, and offers to en
ter the yellow fever district aud cure any
case in from fifteen minutes to one hour.
THE WOULD OVER.
INTERESTING ITEMS BOILED
DOWN IN READABLE STYLE.
THE FIELD OF LAItOU—SEETOING CAUL¬
DRON OF EUROPEAN INTRIGUE—FIRES,
SUICIDES, ETC.—NOTED PEOPLE DEAD.
The prospects aro that the cotton crop
>f Egypt wilt be supetior in b oh quan¬
tity and quality to tho crop of IN88.
Ninety-one hales of wool have been
seized at Philadelphia Pa., by U. S. ITV-
rime men. Each contained a pair of flue
English blank) ts.
Ex-United States Senator Charles W.
Jones, of Florida, is still in Detroit,
Mich., in good condition mentally aud
physically, aud is engaged in journalistic
work.
At Paris, the budget committee per¬
sists in its demand for ieduction of naval
estimates by five million trnucs. Ad mi-
ral Krantz, minister of murine, will re-
•ign.
The Greek minister has present'd to
the Porte a note from tho Greek govern¬
ment against the illegal se zuro of i .reek
ships at Chois aud demanding the re¬
lease of th vtjgiels and the payment of
an indemnity.
Twenty-one little girls, ranging brought in from age
from nine to fourteen year-)
Europe to New Y. rk by M rmon elders,
were on Wednesday otdered to be sent
bai k to Europe on the return trip of the
Wisconsin.
Two severe shocks of Wednesday. earthquake were The
felt at Guayaquil, on
shocks were followed II>ieu, by flashes of I'ght-
ning. At Mount Ecuador, a
sharp shuck of earthquake was felt about
as at Guayaquil.
Mr. Dodge, of New York, cashier
of the legal fitm of Bhipiey,
Barlow, Latoque & Slioate, com-
mitted suicide by turning on gas in his
bed mom. This Quo is the same recent¬
ly victimized by the forger. Bedell. He
was in no way implicated with Bedell.
Most of the Lancashire, England, cot¬
ton mills are running on short time. 'I he
mill owners think ;hut they will have
to run on short time two months belore
the ring i-broken. The Liverpool bro¬
kers attribute the increase id prices Dot
to ring operations, but to natural causes.
The mills t-pinniug Egyptian cotton are
not much affected.
The rebels at Suakim made an attack
upon the water fort. They were re¬
pulsed with severe loss by the heavy
artillery fire of the British. One British
gunner was killed. rebel The gunboats Desert¬ con¬
tinue firing into the camp.
ers reported that there is much sickness
in the camp. Cholera hoi broken out iw
Khartoum.
A north hound engino on (he South¬
west branch of the Pennsylvania Rail¬
road, running at a rate of about thirty
miles per hour, struck a cow between
Fair Chance and Uniontown, Pa., throw¬
ing the engine off the track and com¬
pletely overturning it, instantly residing killing
one man named Leander Miller,
at Fair Chance. It is supposed he was En¬
stealing his way to Uniontown.
gineer Thompson, of Uni ntown, Brake-
man Rush, of Uniontown, und Conductor
Dmges, of Pittsburg, were also severely
injured.
A young butcher named Tom Winsley
was dashed to pieces by falling from a
balloon at a height over one thousai d
feet in the exhibition grounds at Ottawa,
Out. A balloon ascmsinn and parachute
drop were advertised m the drawing card
of the day. Among tho volunteers to
hold down the balloon was Wim-Iey,
who, with others, grasped base of the the stout balloon. rope
running round the
When the order to let go was given, all
released their hold with ihe exception of
Winsley, who, retaining his hold, was
swiltly borne upwards, The aeronai t
was unable to help him. At the height
of 1.000 feet he let go and was dashed to
pieces on the ground.
The negro Harrison and Morton clubs
of St. Louis, East St. Louis and Brook¬
lyn, 111 , gave a parade there on Tuesday,
which resulted in what threatened to bo
a serious riot. A mail wnigon, driven by
August Zolin, got mixed tip in the pro-
ce8-ion, and the negroes beat the driver
badly and prevented the mail reaching
tho depot. A squad of officers arr- sted
the ringleaders, and while Officer Han¬
non was conducting Johnson Powell, a
burly fellow, to jail, he was set upon by
n mob of negroes, and used his revolver.
Powell was shot in the buck and danger¬
ously woun led. The negrocs threatened
to lynch the officer, and it was found ne-
cessaiy to call out a heuvy force to quel)
the troubles.
JMPORTANTTO THE SOUTH.
Fir-t Comptroller Durham, . of . the ,,
Uruted States Treasury has decided an
imp rtant point arising out >ff the act of
making appropriations for the is impiove- bub-
meiit ut rivers and harbors. It in
stance, that tne appropriations their character made in
that act are specific iu
and can be drawn upon from time to
time until exh aisled, us the object for
wiiich they were made shall h.ve been
accomplished. The decision acting is based
upon questions raised by the Sec-
retary of War as to whether unexpended
balances, of appiopriation for the opira-
tion of snag b ats, removal of snags,
K au gt n 8 of waters and surveys in the
Mississippi river, would lapse in the
Treasury after the expiiariou of the pres¬
ent ti.-cal y ear. The com troller holds
that the r.ver and harbor appropriations and that
aienot their “annual appropriatious" based
ticuiar expenilituie is not to any par-
lime.
A GRAND LADY.
Mrs. K. L. White, of Bluffton, Mich.,
went to Jacksonville on Thursday. She
is a menffuTof the Wunun’s Relief Corps,
No: 8, of Muskegon, which is connected
with I'hil Kearney Post, No. 7, G. A.
IL, of th»tcitv. She is the postmistress
of Bbiffton, and asked ot the postmaster- in
genera 1 sixty davs’ leave of absence,
order that s e niigl t go there A. R. to nurse It
the sick among the G. men.
was accorded her. She has taken rooms
at the St. John’s Home, and will go to
work at once. She was from 1862 to
1865 army nurse with the Army of the
Potomac.
VOL. IY. NO. 2.
THE MILL POND.
Here one# the green-edged roll! pond q
Its mirror to the light of day,
And here I came when I was younj» a,
To while the truant hours away. - I
Mere golden suntlsh, silvery roach,
I landed proudly on the hank, i
And once—ah. what a thrill It gavol
A pickerel, long and lank.
The |K>nd to-day is filled with ooze; c
The dam is broken, flsh are goue;
The mill wheel rotten—nevertheless,
The stream runs merrily on.
At times upon the bank I lay, i
Beneath a spreading beechen tree.
And watched the shadows come and go
O'er what was quite a lake to me.
I listened to the noisy mill,
And hoard the merry voices souna,
From where in groups the farmer boys
Waited till grist was ground.
The mill is roofless now and still,
The beechen tree I s iw has gone.
The boys are men perhaps, and still
The stream runs merrily on.
Tis sixty years since I was here,
A careless barefoot boy of ten;
To-day, in spite of silver locks, •
I seem to be a boy again.
I hoar the clack, I seo the wheel
From which the water gayly falls;
But waken from my midday dream
When yonder hoarse-voiced bittern calls.
Fades out the picture of the past,
By memory on the vision drawn;
Tiie past is dead; but nevertheless,
The stream runs mrrily on.
—Thomas Dunn English
P1T1I AND POINT.
Booksellers deal in yarns.
A soar Bpot—The eagle’s ne^t. '
A ditty that is very unwelcome to tho
New Yorkers is humidity.
The wag of a poodle's tail is the nearest
thing to purp-pet-ual motion.
'I he sue essful lover thinks ho is get¬
ting ahead when he is getting a heart.
A cornet player who cannot attend
the bund meetings should seud subs-to-
toot.
“A baby’s life is a constant series of
sut prises—both to the baby himself and
to the people who have hTm in charge.—
Somerville Journal.
A story he told her of tenderest love,
Of eternal devotion and more,
But she heeded it not; all his words failed to 1
She move— had heard it so often before. /
Me rch. i ri tT't'ra refer.
“A tribe in the palm region of the
Amazon cradles the young iu palm
leaves.” In this country a palm also enters
largely in the worx of bringing up the
young, but it is used more in threshing
than in cradling.
'i he Hat Went With the Boy. At the
Mountain Rwort—LouiL.Moiluu: twiiosa
8<m had just been rescued, by lie Jonev you.j .
from a watery grave)—“Thank but you’vb
ever so mur h, Mr. De .Jones, Pitts¬
forgotten to get Tommy’s hat.”—
burg liulleton.
The Secretary of State has just issued
alicenseof incorporation to the “Gegen-j
seitiger Unterstitzungs N erein Vork Bei; ”
Schmeide WagenmaehervonNcw the of
He week is expected unfavorable to be out in symptoms course set
a if no
in .—New Y rk News.
First Brooklyn Citizen—“Say, Per-
kius, I see by the papers here that the
anuunl output of cigars iu this city is
65,000,000.” Se ond Brooklyn Citizen
— “That so? Well, I shouldn’t wonder
a bit. Mine’s gone out four times already
this morning.”— Burlington Fret Press.
Enterprise—“And is that yellow domo
which rises in the field yonder the roof of
another dwelling?” asked the city vistor
of his country friend. “On, no,” said
the farmer; “that is my prize pumpkin
you see, which is growing .”—Detroit right along Free
for the agricultural show
Press.
West End Society of London—Lord
Periwinkle, an admirer of “Buffalo Bill”
— “May I—aw—have the pleasure of
ropimr you in for the next, Lady Some-
bodvV” l.ady Somebody—“Oh, thanks
awfully, Lord Periwinkle, but I havo
already been corralled by Mr. Deadwood,
of Dakota.”— Harper's Bazar.
“Will nobody separate those dogs?’*
exclaimed tho humane man, with
righteous indignation. “Have you no
fee ings, sir?” he continued, addressing
a big fellow who seemed to be taking a
delighted interest in the combat. “1* eel-
in’s, pard?” was the reply. “Feelin’s?
I’ve got $20 bet on this fight, and Chi¬ my
dog’s on top. Chaw ’im, Zeke!”—
cago Tribune. ,
A Curious Cane.
Mr. E. G. Osgood, of Maine, has ft
curious walking can« The stick is oc¬
tagon in shape, and is of white maple
with cherry head, the entire body being
made hollow, different with the designs displaced and left wood in
made into
the hollow space. In the carved head is
set a compass; in the first joint or hol-
low space are three loose balls; in the
secondi three dice; in the third, a
mounted cannon; in the fourth, a roll-
ing pin; in the fifth, a chain; in tha
sixth, a sailor’s log, and in the seventh,'
a dumb-bell and nondescript somewhat
resembling an hour gl iss. The whole is
tipped off with an octagonal ferrule of
brass. In circles around the cane is the
following inscription: “Made by E. G.
Osgood, Rortland, Me., in lt>84. Total
abstinence from all that intoxicates—E.
G. O.” Mr. Osgood his been offered
quite a sum of money for the stick to
place in the Boston museum.— Detroit
Free Press.
A Prodigious Hospital Dietary.
The patients’ bill of fare at the London
Hospital lor one day is as follows: Two
hundred and one pounds of mutton, 20
chops, 17 steaks, 1-3 pints of beef tea*
2oZ pounds of potatoes, 119 portions of
greens, aol puddings, 1338 pints of
milk and 767 eggs. In addition to tho
patients there are some 300 servants and
nurses. The weekly washing bill in¬
c i ude s 4000 sheets, MO) blue- becked
upper sheets, 400 counterpanes, and 400
blankets. Twenty-three women and a
Uundryman are employed daily iu the
laundry. '1 he medical stores included
last year 116 tons of tee, five tons of
linseed oil, and six mileiof plaster.-—
New York Post .
Henry Carey, the author of “Sally in
Our Ahey," T.as an English poet who
died in 1743,. -i
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