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LU ■f • 4 ‘ * V h y 5 Vi ♦ ELLAYILLE PUBLIStlSG CO. 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. ---- FROZEN TRUTH. ---- 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 __ 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 ' ---- -—— 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 - *81