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I l \ i 1 i r I ♦ ellayille FUBLISMXG CO. There aro 000 mile* of railway in op*, ration Ip Egypt. John Most, the New York Anarchist, says that there aro 500,000 Socialists in tbo Unit ed States. According to a Boston statistician "the cost of tho fences in tho United States is more than the National debt.’ If the arming of the German cuirass¬ iers with lances proves a success, the dragoons and hussars will be armed in the same way. A recent official publication estimates the average annual decrease of the In- dians nt nearly 2000. Their present total number iu the United Stales, exclusive of Alaska, is about 245,0 JO. Thcvc have been 855 persons arrested in the United States during the current year for violation of the law's against counterfeiting, etc. Seventy have been convicted and sentenced to imprison- ment. The work of the United States Fish Commissioners is appreciated. Begin¬ ning in 1808 with ( no hatchery aud $1000 appropriation, they now hatcheries aud an annual app of about $25,000. The Cincinnati Enquirer decl. the source of all yellow fever which this country has, or ever has had, is Cuba. She should be cleaned up or cleared out. It is nothing but miserable mismanage ment which makes that beauti.ul island a bieeding-placc for pestilence. In the manufacture of cotton the United States is the second nation in the world, led only by Great Britain, which uses fifty per cent, more than this coun try. We consume two and one-haif time 3 as much raw cotton as Germany, and three times as much as France. Pobeit Harding, a young English So cialist, when he wan's to make a speech on the streetsor pubi c squares, padlocks himself with a chain to an iron fence or some similar fixture. Then when the police come to lake him in they have to spend a long time in getting him un¬ fastened, and he can make a pretty long speech before he is carried off. An English fanner who has been in¬ vestigating the caterpillar pest, whi h is proving no destructive to the fruit and nut crops in Kent, his concluded that the spawn which pioduced the caterpil¬ lars was deposited by the swarms of butterliios which swept the coasts last autumn, and which were supposed to have been driven over from the conti¬ nent by the stoiins. English railroads do not cut prices, observes the Detroit Free Pre s, but they do cut time and have the fastest trains in the world. The Flying Scotchman uscdtodo3C4 miles in nine hours. A rival put on a train that equals this, and now the Scotchman docs the di'tance in eight hours. Notwithstanding the great speed of the English railroads they killed only 121 passengers last year. South I ondon is to have a new’ under¬ ground railroad. It is being built sixty feet under ground. I assengers are to reach it by hydraulic elevators, to carry fifty persons at once. The tunnel is being driven by the u c of a steel shield slightly larger than the iron rings of which the tunnel is to be constructed. The steel shield has a knife edge, and is driven forward nt the rate of fifteen feet a day by hydraulic rams worked by baud. Sheriff Grant, of New York, accord¬ ing to (ha Courier-Journal, has do dared that he would not hold his present office after January 1, for five times the present value of the position, which is $10,090 per year. The new law requiring exe¬ cutions in New York to be by electric shock goes into effect on tho date named, and Sheriff Grant fears that it might fall to his lot to execute a criminal and that thereby his name might become ill some way attached to the new systdm. The Khedive of Egypt has, by a de¬ cree, taxed land devoted to the growing of tobacco in his domains $157.50 an acre, aud the Egyptians have refused to glow tobacco. The result is, remarks Frank Leslie’s , that, instead of the usual crop of 13,000,000 pound*, not more thau 1,000,000 pounds are exported this year, whereat our Maryland tobacco man- ufacturers particularly rejoice. Virginia and North Carolina will also profit; but Maryland is entitled to assume that her products will be most in demand, be¬ cause the Balt more tobacco has been made the official tobacco of France. A leading Chicago restaurateur, avers the Prairie Farmer, conies pretty near solving the problem of how to furnish the poor w’ith good food at almost nominal cost, lie will buy tho entire carcass of beef at an average cost of eight and one-half cents a pound, re¬ serve for his restaurant the choice por- tions that would cost him twenty-two cents a pound, and with tlie remainder make soup. With the meat and bread he proposes to furnish from a large kitchen at live cents a meai, excellent food to individuals aud fumrlies. T he scheme is not a charitable one, but purely ft business venture, ruu for profit. UEOHGIA'S ELECTION. A fine <lay was vouchsafed to tho vot¬ ers in Georgia for the state election, and it was very exciting in the country dis¬ tricts, the Farmers’ Alliance currying Hs candidates through with a rush. Never in tbo history of tho state since the Y\ ar, were so many independent can¬ didates put in the field, especially from toe ranks of the Democracy, it being es¬ pecially noticeable in a presidential year. 1 he eyes of the whole state were upon Atlanta, Sun. and the result was that Rev. Small (Independent) received 1,- 423 votes in the whole countv, and Mr. Van Pelt, R., 1.828. The Republican can- didates for Legislature polled more votes ..... than the Prohibition candidates, the highest Republican receiving 1,838 votes, and tbo h ghest Prohibitionist 1,014. I rank Rice (Democrat) will have a raa- j"iity in the of 35th more than 1,300 over Mr. Small senatorial district. His ma- "rity Mr. in Fulton is 537. In Cobb county, Rice received 1,120 votes, and Mr. Small 391, with 243 for Mr. Van Pelt. Mr. Rices plurality over Mr. Small is 735. Mr. ilice has beaten Mr. Small in Clayton county by about 00 votes, This gives Mr Rice a plurality of 1,832 over Mr. Small, the next highest candidate. McIntosh county sends a Democrat to the Legislature for the first time rn 12 ycais, aud Daniel Garren (Republican) of Fannin county is the only member of his party e’cctcd to the Senate. All the Democrat c State officers were elected by the u-ual splendid mnjoiity. The fol¬ Senators lowing is a full 1st of those elected as and Representatives: SENATORS ELECT. 1st district—F. G. DuBignon, nominee. 2d district—S. I). Bradwell, nonvuec. 3 1 distric*—S. II. Harris, nominee. 4th district—A. G. Gowan, nominee. 5th district—F. C. Folks, nominee. 0th district—William Roberts, nominee. 7th district—James Vick, nominee. 8th district—John 8. Clifton, nominee. 9th district—C. B. Wooten, nominee. 10th district—C. A. Alford, nominee. 11th district—M. C. Edwards, nominee. 12th district—W. W. Fitzgerald, nomi¬ ne e. 13th district—J. M. DuPice, nominee. 14th district—T. J. Ray, nominee. 15th district—M. Henderson, nominee. lOili district—Charles L. Holmes, nomi- i ee. 17th d strict—J. W. Johnston, nominee. 18th district—T. C. Gibson, nominee. 19 h district—T. E. Musscngaic, nomi¬ nee. 20th distiict—Robert Whitfield, nomi¬ nee. 21st district—L D. Shannon, nominee. 22d district—C. L. Baitlett, nominee. 23d uistiiot—B. W. Sanford, nominee. 24th district—W. G. Johnson, nominee. 25th district—B. II. Williams, nomiuee. 20th district—John I. Hall, nominee. 37th district—J. li. Lyle, nominee. 28th distr et—T. P. Gibbs, nominee. 29tli district—J. E. Strother, nominee. 80th district—A. O. Harper, nominee. 31st district—'W. R. Little, nominee. 33d district—W. S. McCarty, nominee. 34th district—George If. Jones, nomi¬ nee. 35th district—Frank P. Rice, nominee. 30th distiict—Levi Bullard, nominee. 37th district— Edwin R. Sharpe, nomi¬ nee. 38th district—E. W. Y. Algood, nomi- nee. 39th district—A. J. Julian, nominee. 40th district—J. W. Foster, nominee. 41st district—David Garren, republican. 42d district—J. W. Harris, jr., nomi- nee. 43d district—Samuel W. Field, norai- uie. 44th district—J. B. McCollum, nominee. elect3£ Favctte—Jno. Snead. Floyd—J. W. Turner, J. W. Ewing, J. L. Johnson. Forsyth—Geo. L. Bell. Franklin—N. A. Ericks. Fulton—Clark Howell. W. II. YenablC, J. F. O’Neill, Gilmer—Jno. P. Perry. Glascock—Seaborn Kitches. Glynn—Ja<. Posted. Guidon—W. R. Rankin. Greene—J. B. Parker, sr., J. C. Hart. Gwinctt—W. T. Smith, G. A. Clements: Habersham—II. S. AVest. Hall—K. 8. Boone, F. T. Davie. Hancock—I. AV. Dugan, R. II. Lewis. Ilarralson—T. AV. M. Brown. Harris—It. B. Mobley, J. F. Jenkins. Ilart—J. A. Skelton. Heard—W. H. Daniel. Henry—I. L. Gunter. Houston—H. A. Alutthaws, R. N. Iloltz- claw. Irwin—Elbert Fletcher. Jackson-Z. AV. Hodd, J. N. Twitty. Jasper —E. L. Campbell. Gambell, A. E. Tarver. Jefferson-R. L. * REPRESENTATIVES elect. Appling—B. F. Williams. Baker—P. AV. Joms. Baldwin—I. N. Calloway. Banks—J. N. Coggins. elected, and Bartow—AV. H. Fulton, contest between A. M. Fuute and J. A. Crawford, Rep. Walker. Berrien—W. S. Bibb_AV. A. Huff, It. AV. Patterson and S. C. Chambless. Brooks—J- S. Humphreys. Bryan—J. H. lleery. Bulloch—Jasper Wilson. Burke—AV. H. Davis, John C. Chew, N. A. Buxton. Butts—Alexander Smith. Atkinson. Calhoun—C. S. Camden—Anthony Wilson, (col d) rep. Campbell-H. C. Johnson Carroll—G. AV. Harper, AV. G. Mc¬ Daniel. Catoosa—James Hunt. Charlton—J. J- Stokes. Chatham—W. AV. Gordon, Peter Reil¬ ly AVtn. Clifton. Chattahoochee —J. C. F. McCook. Chattooga—Sam E. Jones. Cherokee —J. H. Latham. Clarke—H. C. Tuck. Clay-J- F. Kimble. Clayton—AV. R. AVard. dinch—J. P. Mattox. Cobb-A. S. Clay, T. J. nardage. Coffee— D. P. Lott. Columbia—J. M. Atkinson. Coweta-J. P- Jones, AV. Y. Atkinson. Crawford-W. AV. Johnson. Dade—Geo. AV. M. Tatum. Dawson-G. M. Taylor. E. Decatur-J. D. Harrell, . i DcKalb—O. M. Candler, -J? ELLAYILLE, GEORGIA. THURSDAY. OCTOBER 11. 1888. Dodge—J. Dooly—J. P. DeLncy. T. Collier. Dougherty—Louis M. Arnhcira. Douglas—J. Oliver. Hughey. Early—G. D. Echols—L. C. Ilain. Ellingham—Morgan Rawls. Elbert— l*hil W. Davis. Emanuel—Alfred Herrington. Fannin—Ben Duggar, Republican Johnson—E. Jcukins. Jones—Richard Johnson. Laurens—A. B. Clark. Lee—W. W. Hooks. Lincoln—John Sims. Lowndes—L. J. Knight. Macon—8. T. Lofley. Marion—Vincent Montgomery. McDuffie—J. II. Hobbs. Mclutosh—Charles M. Tyson. Meriwether—H. \V. Hill, A. J. Snelson. Miller—C. O. Bush. Milton—J. A. Dodgen. Mitchell—J. L. Hand. Monroe—It. L. Burner, J. T. Crowder. Montgomery—A. Morgan—W. G. McArthur. Murray—M. R. Mu9tin, M. Bate. Newton—T. Muscogee—G. Y. Tigner, W. P. Gilbert. Oconee—James J. Spears. Frazier. Pauldiug—O. Oglethorpe—J. T. Olive, O. H. Arnold. T. Morris. Pickens—E. W. Allred, Republican. Pierce—Henry Pike—J. Hycrs. Polk—B. II. Mitchell, J. W. Means. Pulaski—Y. F. Wright. Morgan. II. Putnam—T. J. Lawson, R. A. Reed. Quitman—M. L. Albritten. Randolph—B. Richmond—M. P. Crenshaw. V. Calvin, J. R. Lamar, W. H. Fleming. Rockdale—A. C. McCalla. Schley—A. Screven—J. C. Murray. Spalding—N. R. Humphries. M. Collins. Stewait—G. R. Holliday. Sumter—E. G. Simmons, Wright Brady. Talbot—Simeon Maxwell. Talliaferro—S. T. Flint. Tattnall—J. B. Brewton. Tavlor—F. B. Singleton. Telfair—W. J. Williams Terrell—W. C. Kendrick. Thomas—A. T. McIntyre, Jr., R obert Alexander. Towns—Ab Ilalden. Troup—J. II. Whitaker, J. N. Carlton. Twiggs—E. S. Griffin. Union—J. Y. Walker. Upson—A. J. Williams. Walker—J. B. AVheeler. Walton—Dr. N. L. Galloway, II. A. Corithers. Ware—W. A. McDonald. Warren—T. J. Yeazey. Washington—W. B. Francis, E. S. Peacock. Wayne—J. F. King. Webster—D. B. Harrell. Whitfield—W. C. Glenn. Wilcox—J. II. Denard. Wilkes—E. Y. Aill, W. M. Smith. Wilkinson—Joel A. Smith. IT IS SUBSIDING. The new fever cases on Wednes¬ day in Jacksonville, Fla., footed up 73, the largest proportion deaths being colored people, and the were 6. The total cases amount to 2,896 and the deaths 270. Ansel Wood, a nurse from Cincinnati, Chio, who died at St. Luke’s, bad gone unscathed through four yellow fever epidemics. and had He had not been there long, only nursed one family, th it of C. T. West. Rev. Mr. Barbour, Episcopal minister of Lnvilla, who died on Wednes¬ day of black vomit, was all day in a dy¬ ing condition. Blood began flowing from his mouth early in the morning, and it was late in the afternoon before it could be slopped. He weakened his condition by extensively dosing himsell with calomel, previous to being taken sick The epidemic has developed some of the worst frauds in the way of nurses that ever went into a sick room. They came from other places professing to be experienced nurses, and expecting to get good pay, and when sent to knowledge a patient showed their utter want of in the business of which they claimed to be professionals. A party of twenty nurses were sent back to their homes in various cities, their services beiug no longer been re- quired. Some of them have in Jacksonville but ft few days and have not been assigned to any duty. A cold wave has made the outlook at Decatur, Ala., ruore encouraging. Four cases have been reported during the last twenty- four hours, besides one or two doubtful ones Two deaths have occurred. The sick are all reported in good condition. Several patients have been dis- missed as well, leaving only about 14 cases under treatment, Thcre is hardly an item In the gl ow fever situation at Jackson, Miss , to]us- tify a special telegram. The only cause of embarrassment now is the inability ot the “Howards” to subsisttnecolored pop- ulation who can have no employment till the quarantine is raised, which will Barton not be for ten days yet. Miss Clara telegraphed ft cm Washington to Cross, Hr. Guilbert, representative of the Re asking how she could assist, an some help may come through her. Several persons report a light frost on Wednes- day. At a meeting of the City Board 01 Ileallh at Columbia, 8. O., “ was resolved to invite from all yellow fever infected districts to come to Columbia. The city has not been quarantined H against any locality come!‘but o" 1 to all who might Wednesday the gates were formally thrown open to refugees from any or all the infected districts. Trams wliich were discontinued on the Memphis & Charleston road on recount of the yel¬ low fever quarantine, are now running again. _ SENSIBLE MAN. Thomas L. James, ex-postmaster interview gen¬ eral of tho United States, in an iu London, England, said ho believed that in the near future a one-half postal rate 01 one penny on letters and pe nny on newspapers, would bo established lm* tween Ureat Britain and Amorica. AT WORK- After a shut-down of fifteen weeks, the window glass factories of the West resumed operations, giving employment to several thousand men. The outlook for trade is encouraging. SOUTHERN STRAYS. A CONDENSATION OF HAPPEN¬ INGS STRUNG TOGETHER. MOVEMENTS OF ALLIANCE MEN—RAIL¬ ROAD CASUALTIES—THE COTTON CROP —FLOODS—ACCIDENTS—CROP RETURNS. ALABAMA. Dr. Sternberg, the United States offi¬ cial, known as a great fever expert, is in Decatur, and his piescnce is nn inspira¬ tion to the people. Owing to quarantines the recent in interruption of travel by several Southern States, the management of the Alabama State Fair Association decided to post¬ pone the date of the opening of the fan* from October 22 to November 12. Twelve horses, in the livery stable of Folmer & Sons, in Troy, were poisoned by some unknown person and at last ac¬ count three of them had died. There is uo clue to the perpetrator of the act, aud no reason (an be committed. imagined why it should have been Abe Christopher, of Gadsden, has sold a fourth iuterestia 880 acres of iron ore lands near Bees station, Etowah county, to T. C. Galloway, for $5,000. The Etowah Mining company have leased the lan 1 and Gadsden will commence Furnace Company. delivering ore to the Two fatal accidents occurred at the Henry Ellen coal mines, 10 miles from Birmingham. Johu Armstrong, a white! miner, while stooping to drink from ai spring at the mouth of a slope, was crushed into a shapeless the timbers mass by a falling! rock. Some of supporting 1 the earth and rock above the mouth of the slope had given way. A few hours later, another miner named llowser, was blown to atoms by a premature blast in the shaft. He had been arrangiug the blast, and his lamp going out, he struck a match, aud by accident dropped it in the powder. GEORGIA. A committee of 60 citizens, in secret pcssion at Atlanta, nominated John T. Glenn, the well known lawyer, for mayor. A. E. Slides, senior vice commander of the Department of Georgia and Ten¬ nessee, organized a Grand Army Post in Macon on Wednesday. George B. Pettit was selected commander. When the Dalton post is mustered, Georgia will become a department by herself. The air in and around Atlanta has been po sulphurous lately with powder from pistols in the hands of negro burglars, that lynching is talked about. The po¬ lice authorities have made preparations to resist any attempts at lynching, re¬ moving some of the prisoners to the county jail from the city prison. KENTUCKY. The tobacco crop in Bracken county was badly damaged of by the frost. From in one- the third to one-half crop was field, and a'l growing along the creeks and hollows is badly damaged. Reports from all over the county are to the effect that from one-third to one-half of tho crop was caught by the frost. MARYLAND. The registration of voters iu Baltimore City, which closed Thursday, shows ns compared with 1887 an increase of 2,400 colored voters, while there is a loss of 330 whites. MISSISSIPPI. All shotgun quarantines in Mississippi railroads have been withdrawn on tbe throughout the state, and Louisiana lias resumed business. The weather contin¬ ues clear and cool. north Carolina. B. Woods put into _ the James was penitentiary at Raleigh, who was, up to a few weeks ago, a practicing crime is attorney and in Iredell county. His forgery, he is to serve a three years’ sentence, At Dallas, Gaston county, C. M. Bow- Br3 was arr ested on a capias from Gaston, charged with criminal libel. lie lived j n that county last year, was a member 0 f t h e Knights of Labor, quarreled with them, attacked them iu the papers, and charged one of their leaders with having stolen the leather of a tanner, j> runt . r & Allen, the largest deulcrs in ° „ enera i merchandise at Wadesboro, made n ass jg nmC nt Tuesday under peculiar c ; rcunl stances. Last Saturday they bor- rowe(1 § 5 ,000 and iutended to use this gum and $ 3,000 more in meeting some £ p resa j n g claims. On a recent night some old t jd e f f orcc d their safe and got safely away w ith the $7,000. The result was that an ass , g nment was necessary. The fi rm ’s liabilities aggregate about $40,000. tho 1rial of Cross aud White, ex- icleilt and cashier of the State Na- [ ioua i bank at Raleigh, there was some and important evidence admitted to yfi that Cross and White did not in- tend f0 plunder ' tho bank, because they kft * 16 00 o^ n silver in the vault. Tbe Emitted evidence for the nrose- that cross an d White had ob- |, 0 00() from the State bank of a like sum from the Norfolk , . and $ 5 ,000 from Cashier Bclvin, ^ ^ Natiolial band a t Raleigh. It ■a as ed that white got the money from k elvin only a quarter of an hour the before the closing time of the bank on after- n00n that Cross and White lied for Canftda VIRGINIA. The Richmond Exposition was formal¬ ly opened on Wednesday in the presence of 20,000 people. Airs. Governor Lee set the machinery in motion by touching an electric button. There was a magnifi¬ cent parade made previous to the cere¬ monies at the fair grounds. The Philadelphia Brigade Association, numbering about one hundred and twen¬ ty-five War Curtin veterans and accompanied by ex- Governor a number of ladies, visited Richmond Thursday, to partici¬ pate in the ceremonies incident to the unveiling of the monument of the late Alaj. Gen. George Pickett, C. S. A. A boy, while passing through tho Hol¬ lies, two miles from Virginia Beach, near Norfolk, discovered the skeleton of a man. From the scattered clothing, pa¬ pers and other articles found around, it was identified as the remains of Alonzo Bewls, the missing salesman, of W. & B. New Douglas, York City. pump Tho buzzards manufacturers, had of eaten every pleached particle of flesh off, leaving only the bones, FLORIDA. Col. Daniel, tho leading man of Jack¬ sonville, died from the fever. SOUTH CAROLINA. Sumter The spire blown of tho down, Episcopal but, Church strange of to was say, did not hurt the church at all; not even a pane of glass was broken. The steeple was not on the church itself, but on a separate tower. \VR*T VIRGINIA. Some one broke into the corner stone of tho new Odd Fellow’s hall at Charlestown, and carried off the metallic box and contents. Numerous complaints linvc reached Charlestown of swindlers who got out in the back counties, and under guise of peddlers, sell goods to unsuspecting and farmers for a large sum of money, then get tho goods back, leaving but a few trifling articles with the purchaser. MISSOURI. The banking house of Shanklin & Austin in Toronto, tho oldest bank in Northern Missouri, lins closed its doors. The immediate cause is the fail¬ ure of the Traders’ bank of Chicago. The bank has been in business since 1850. TENNESSEE. United Probably the youngest convict in tho States is now iu the State prison, Nashville. His name is Dan Jordan, and jic was sent from Mcnlphis. Ho is less than eleven years old, and is small for Jiis age. He was convicted of having (•tolen $5, and sentenced to three years jn the penctentiary. Robert Harris, a prominent young pian, was killed Tuesday on the standard Mountain gauge railroad running up Lookout train at Chattanooga. As the Was coming down the mountain lie was and struck by a brake on one of the cars knocked off on tho track and several wheels passed over his body. The 11th regiment of Ohio decided to hold their next reunion in Chattanooga, in September, 1889. This regiment be¬ longed to the Fourteenth army corps, and at a meeting of the survivors of that corps, held nt Columbus, Ohio, during the Grand Army encampment, it was dc- ( cided that the entire corps should hold its reunion in Chattanooga next Septem-I her. Will McKinney, of Murfreesboro, died of yellow fever. He went to Decatur pome weeks ago to work in a printing of¬ fice. He returned home when the fever became epedemic there. He didn't re¬ main there long but went to Louisville, Ky., and returned home again sick. He grew gradually worse until the time of his death. The family have been closely confined at their resi¬ dence, and no fears are entertained of the spread of the disease. WASHINGTON NEWS. Doings of Congress and the United States Officials. CONCi RESSIONAIi. The Senate, ou Thursday, resumed consideration of Mr. Hale’s resolution on Gen. Benet’a circular as to discharges from nrsena's and armories, and Mr. Teller opened discussion upon it. The bill for the donation of the Fort Brooke military free reservation, at Tampa, Fla., for schools, was, on motion of Mr. Call, taken from the calendar and discussed, but no action was taken In the House, Mr. Bumes, of Missouri, called attention to the amendment appropria¬ Christian ting $80,000 for the Industrial association Home association, of Utah, an for the benefit of tho dependent women and children who desire to sever their allegiance to the Mormon church, This brought devoted on a long debate, political, question, and principally had to the tho which patty done most to sup¬ press polygamy in Utah. Finally the conference report was rejected, in order to enable the conference committee to change the language providing for an in¬ vestigation of the Washington aqueduct matter, so as to enlarge the scope of in¬ quiry. Iu the Senate on Wednesday, Mr. Sherman got permission to make some remarks ou the tariff bill. At tbe con¬ clusion of Mr. Sherman’s speech, the Senate resumed consideration of Mr. Hide's resolution on Monday last, calling on the Secretary of War for an explana¬ dis¬ tion of Gen. Benet’s circular as to charges of Republican employes in the United States arsenals and armories.... On motion of Mr. Herbert, of Alabama, the Senate bill was passed in the House, granting the right of Railroad way to the Company Pensa¬ cola & Memphis Florida, Ala¬ through public lands in bama, Mississippi and Tennessee, and through the naval and military reserva- lions near Pensacola. G OSH IP. Everelt llayden, of the Navy Hydro¬ graphic Office, lias been detailed to go to the West Indies to study hurricanes. The State Department has been in¬ formed by telegraph, by Minister Buck, that the treaty of “amity, commerce and navigation” between the Uniteil States and Peru, has been ratified by the latter. The Senate confirmed the nomination of John B. Baird, of Georgia, to be W. reg¬ T. ister of the land office at Scuttle, Mr. Baird is now superintendent he of the dead letter office, and expects to re¬ sign his present position and leave for his new post soon. Air. Baird is from Atlanta, Ga., where he practiced time adju- law fotne years, He was at one taut-general of Georgia. What was at first thought which to bo a case of yellow fever, and may yet de¬ velop into the dread disease, was found in Washington at the Baltimore & Ohio depot. A train which arrived there from Baltimore the other morning, brought with it a man about that thirty years of age, who was so ill he could hardly leave the car. The sick man was very poorly dressed and was destitute of money, liis name, he said, was James Oswald. Ho admitted that he had. come from Jacksonville. TERRIFIC BLOW, By the blowing out of a plate in the boiler at tho Chicago Coal company's shaft, Tony Kitmcs, engineer, was blown through the roof of the building forty- five feet into the air. He died within five minutes. HIE WOULD OVER. INTERESTING ITEMS BOILED DOWN IN READABLE STYLE. TIIK FIELD OF LAUOll -SltKTUINO ( Al l bUON OF EUROPEAN INTRIGUE—HUES, SUICIDES, ETC.—NOTED PEOPLE DEAD. Snow to the depth of six inches fell at several points iu Central New York and in Western Ontario. At Toledo, Ohio, the Armeda Flour Mills Caught lire from friction in the lollora, and the structure was entirely destroyed. Entire loss $100,000. Another New York lawyer, J mu s II. Goodman, has skipped to Canada, alter stealing nearly $30,000 from his clients, mostly widows and orphans. Ho took $10,000 from his wife. The Bay State Sugar refinery in Bos¬ ton, Mass., acting under orders from the sugar trust headquarters in New York, closed down for good, thus throwing out of employment 800 men. The Traders’ Bank of Chicago, 111., failed ou Tuesday. Judge Shepard receiver ap¬ of pointed Hugh McChesney, The liabilities tbea-sels of the batik. are nearly $1,000,000. The planing mill and all the lumber left from the fire at Romeo, AVis., was burned. The fire is also supposed The to¬ to have been of incendiary origin. tal loss now reaches $175,000. Mabel Vaughan, daughter of a retired New York merchant, has caused a sensa¬ tion in Montclair, N. J., by eloping with her father’s coachman, Henry Englishman Lupton. lie is a good-looking educated. young and well Albert Bosworth, treasurer of the Stafford mills corporation of Fall River, Mass., has fled, lie was also treasurer ol the Beattie Zinc Company, and was in¬ terested in several speculative enter¬ prises. The trustees of the Peabody Education Fund had their 27th meeting in New York. Only nine of the fourteen trus¬ tees were present. Among the absentees was President Cleveland, who had been expected to bring his wife to grace the board. A dispatch from Ishpeming, Michigan, says: ‘*A heavy snow lias been falling for the past six hours. Reports from u number of points in the upper peninsula This show that the storm is general. is the first snow of the season.” The down stage from Florence, Ariz., to Casa Grande was held up on Wednes¬ day at Dry Lake, five miles north ol Casa Grande, by two Mexicans, who took Wells Fargo’s treasure box and regis¬ tered aboard mail the pouch. The No robbers passengers escaped. were stage. Many retail bread dealers in Chicago, IU., have raised the price one cent per loaf owing to continued advance in wheat and the consequent increase in the price of flour. The probabilities are notch, that the price impression will be put if up tho another price will be and the forced up all over the country. A five thousand-dollar damage suit, under the civil rights act was instituted in Anderson, Indiana, by AVilliam Harri¬ son, colored, who was refused a shave at Barney Wood's barber shop. Goins, his partner, who is colored, claimed that to shuve negroes drove away white trade from a shop. The fiend who is running a murder mill in the most frequent thoroughfares of London, England, is still a mystery to the police. He wrote to the London Times that he intended to murder 25 women and then surrender himself. So far, he has murdered 8. The weapon used is thought to be a heavy surgeon’s knife, and every cut or stab he makes, always strikes a vital point, showing the wretch has ft know’ledgo of surgery. The North Side street car conductors and drivers of Chicago, 111., decided to go out on a strike. The vote by which the strike was decided upon was 400 to 7. The grievances of the men are two¬ fold. They oppose the “set car” system and demand increased wages. By the “set car” system is meant a schedule or time table, by means of which the men claim to be actually on duty for thirteen hours, while they are ouiy paid for twelve hours. THE PFABODY FUND. At the session of the trustees of the Peabody Fund held in New York on Thursday, Dr. Green, who has for three years been acting os general ngent, was relieved by the election of the Hon. J. M. L. Curry, of Richmond, Va., to the position. Mr. Curry the resigned three years ago to accept appointment of minister plenipotentiary has to the Court of Spain. He recently returned to this country. The report of the general agent showed that he had visited each of the Southern states enjoying the benefit of the fund and found*the South malting great strides in the development of its schools. The income distributed the past year amounted to $67,600. Since 1868 the income distributed amounted to $1,727,650. I 11 round numbers the fund amounts be distributed to $2,000,000, and the in¬ come to tlie coming year is about $70,000. ‘‘ALAS! POOR YORICK!” There was no foundation for the rumor that John L. Sullivan, “the slugger” of Boston, Atass., was dying, as a visit to Crescent Beach developed. AVhat is to become of Sullivan when he recovers is a matter of much conjecture. He has no money worth speaking of, and his friends are few and far between. His wild ex¬ cesses have so completely undermined his constitution that it is doubtful that If he will try to regain the his lost the fortune role by going through country in of an exhibition boxer. BTARVSNG. News from Alerrick, 202 miles cast of Saguenay, Canada, is of the most ap¬ palling description. The whole popula¬ tion of tlie district are on the brink of starvation. The fisheries this season have signally failed. Crops, of no great ac¬ count at any time, have also turned out badly. VOL. I V. NO. 3. A SONG OF DREAMS. A dream of a marry child at play, Blue oyed and fair, frolicsome, gay, (Had as the birds In the springtime are, Sorrows afloat like clouds alar, Careless of trouble, untouched by fear, Singing hor way through the golden yoar. A droam of a woman, old and gray, Wrinkled and bent, wonding her way Lomesomoly toward tho last milestone, Whore tho grim, dark shadow of death la thrown, Storm stained and weary, and worn with care— The candle of life at Its final flare. A droam of a grave in a churchyard lono, Neglected, drear, with weeds o’orgrown, With only the chirp of the cricket's song, As it sings in the grass the whole night long, To break the silenco that brood so deop Whore the worn out soul and body sleep. —Susie M. Best, in Home Journal. 11UMOU OF HIE DAY. In a nutshell—Sweet moats. Bora to rule—A book-keeper. Notes of tho day—Sight drafts. Worth its weight in gold—Gold. Ho “whoops ’em up”—Tho cooper. Awaiting its turn—A buckwheat cake. Tho bent of many a man’s inclination is crooked. Lame men have running expenses the same as other folks. Keep void your conscience but not your farm of a fence. Strange to say, elastic has its greatest snap when it’s “broke.” Tho bottom gf a gun barrel is always a good base for a charge. The chief disease of a miser i3 attacks of tightness of the chest. Paste diamonds are so called because people got stuck ou them so often. When a physician he loses his skill it naturally follows tliot is out of prac¬ tice. An imposing sight—A street solid fakir gold selling brass watch cases as watches. Shakespeare advised his readers to throw physic to tho dogs, He is silent about cats. A little up-town boy is so fond of whipped cream that he licks the dish.— Drake’s Magazine. Big Head is the namo of a prominent Sioux Chief, liis Sioux-de-uym as it were .—Philadelphia Press. Somo men aro born witty. Others have a good memory and some witty friends .—Somerville Journal. Determining the weight of an eel is all guess work. You can’t weigh a fish without scales .—Ottawa Dee. Signor Casus Belli, the celebrated Italian, is still trying to foment troublo in Europe .—Detroit Free Press. Tho sweet girl graduate about" this time is getting sour over the kitchen Journal. range, learning how to cook.— Somerville “Poor childless wish!" exclaimed Fogg, when Fenderson spoke of his wish being father to his thought.— BosU/n. Transcript. Blobson—“Don’t you think that Dempsey jay—"No, rather plays the fool!” Popin¬ tho sir; 1 think he works at job.”— Burlington. Free Press. “I am so glad your sister enjoyed her visit to us, Mr. Smith.” “Oh, well, you know, she is the sort of girl who can en¬ joy herself anywhere, you know.”— Life. “I love you, doar!” the young man said, The “Oh, will you be ray wife!” head maiden drooped her modest And whispered, “Bet your life!” —Somerville Journal. Probably there is nothing in tho world that a man resents so quickly and so deeply as to find you awfully busy and when he is perfectly at leisure.— Shoe Leather Reporter. Do not let your overweening modesty prevent you from recording your own good deeds. A real estato man lost a fortune once through an unrecorded deed.— Harper’s Bazar. Hopeful Youth —“Is Miss De Cash in?” Servant— “Yis, sor** Hopeful youth—“Is she engaged!” Servant—• “Yis, sor; but he isn't here this avenia’. Come in .”—The Cartoon. “Do you understand much about arbor culture’” asked Labatt of a friend. “Y T es, I think I do.” “Well, I want to ask you seeders a ?”—Texas question: Siftings. Aro all forest trees Says a novelist of to-day, describing an interview between lovers: “Between them there passed an ecstatic kiss.” Aud neither of them got it I Aw, what muffs they must have been.— Burdette. You can't woigh grams with ^grammar, Nor sugar cure hams with a hammer, Do sums with a summer, Stew plums with a plumber, Nor shoar an old ram with a rammer. —Sg ring field Union. Dentist—‘ ‘Well, how do the new teeth work?” Patient—“Not very well. They seem to cut tlicothers.” Dentist—“That is perfectly natural. They belong to an entirely different set, you know .”—Ban Francisco Examines. At s ‘a on his yacht, with a fair lady by him; Ho asked for a kiss, but she chose to deny here,” him, cried tho lady, in tones full ,, of "Not "Though earth.” I have not tho slightest objection on Visitor at Cannon Foundry—“This is all grand, stupendous, astounding. be when But where will your occupation universal peace prevails!” Proprietor of Works—“Casting cannon Tribune. to celebrate it with, Sir .”—Chicago “ If you think my legs eccentric,” Said the forehead grasshopper to the pointed beo. And my queerly Where the brain-box ought to be; That my mouth has feeble motions Whence dark mysteries do exude, Please to know I once existed As a Pythagorean dude.” —Judge. “Father, the paper says you ‘officiated nt the wedding clad in the traditional garb of the clergy.’ What does tradi¬ tional meim?” “Traditional, my son,” replied the poor minister, as he looked at his cheap suit of black with a sigh, “refers to things that have been ‘handed down.’”— ChUajo Tribune. Three women were in hysterics at one time in the waiting room of a New York dry goods store the other day. Some slight cause unbalanced one, and the other two went off because they looked at the first one.