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EUiVILLE POBLIStIJG
SOUTHERN STRAYS.
A CONDENSATION OF HAPPEN¬
INGS STRUNG TOGETHER.
MOVEMENTS OF ALMANCB MEN—RAri,-
JtOAO CASUALTIES—TUit COTTON CHOP
^.FLOODS—ACCIDENTS—CHOP RETURNS.
ALABAMA.
James Ware, a well known contractor
and former circuit court clerk, of Bir-
mingham, was thrown down stairs by a
man named Place, and was fatally injured
his skull being crushed in on the right
aide. Place keeps a boarding house, and
at night Ware came to the house very
drunk. Place met him at the head oi
the ►fairs and ordered him away. Ware
began cursing pushed and refused. After 8nme
words, Place him down thest airs.
The Talladega fifty A Coosa Vu'ley road
Will build more miles of railroad,
and will also widen their track to the
standard gauge. The road at present
operates between Talladega and Pell
city. The extension will be from Tal a-
dega through Clay county to connect
with the East Alabama and Cincinnati,
which is a part of the Central of Georgia.
The road has been in operation between
Talladega and Pell City four years.
FLORIDA.
On Wednesday, there were 36 new
ca es of fever, nvilh (8 white and 30 colored;
nt Jacks - , and 8 deaths. Huf-reon
General tl at in H»mi his t pinion tt wit fed th- from Washing¬ -tiiugen
ton i mo-t
tne sit res should he adopt'd to keep reu-
g es away until after a thorough disitif. c
lion.
LOUISIANA.
Thomas D. Mdler, a member of th'
tot ton exchange, a we l(hy su ar planter
and w id ly known in commercial and so¬
cial circle-, died on Tuesday, at New Or¬
leans, aged 05.
NORTH CAROLINA.
At Mt. Zion cluu ch. in Surry countv,
as Rev. F. AlcNanghan, who had been
i vited t<> preacb, \va- in the pu'p ; t and
in the very act of opening the service, he
fell (lead without the least struggle. He
was 72 y ars old.
At Reidsvnle, and J. R. Webster, of Web¬
ster's Weekly, .-pealc-r of the Huu-e
of C Hintons, and E. M. Redd, a too un¬
nent tobacconist of lieid-vide, hail a
person ii encounter, during which Reid
receive d severe cuts. Thenffiirwns the
result of a quarrel about politics.
Mrs. Adolphus Fuller, of Durham,
while in her home, and wc. ring a bu tie
of goodly fire-plate, proportions, parsed'near the
open when the bustle, bo ding
the -kirt of her dms far out behind it,
reached over the bl zing fire, Before
she w r :is aware she was all aflame, and is
fatally burned.
I wo while men, William Venters and
William A. Branch, set upon Calvin Cox,
at a p ffitieul meeting in Ca ico, and tim¬
ing planks Irorn a fence, beat h m ou die
h ad until they h ,d driven into Ids skull
the n ils which | r jected from t. e
planks. Cox was a prominent man sonic
years ago, and was grand icctur r of the
g'aad lodge oi M isous of Not h Caro¬
lina. He was a man of genius and su
inventor. Th s fatal affray w as not dti
toaiiy quarrei about politics, but was
the result of a long standing feud.
A woman’s screams, ns if in mortal
a .'"iiv. were h aril, mid tliri led hundreds
will never be » at Giteiisbufi',
W|V' v, ; as a rtisit, and the
. 0 * tto woman was round lying
V.tD wt y in the duor of a store. ILr
thioat was cut from ear to ear, and she
lay in a po 1 of blood, 'lhe Wound ■was
so dieadful as marly to cut off her bead.
Her name was Laura II>atr, and she wa*
a young mulutio. She had left her home
but a little distance away, only a few
tnoments beloie, as the door of her house
wits open and her baby, aged ten months,
was assigned lying in the bed. No reason can be
lor the crime.
NOUTH CAROLINA.
A fire broke out in the j.vl in Green-
vtlle, being set by Fletcher McDavid, a
lunatic negro. As soon as the fire was
noticed. Jailer Powell rushed to the. cell
of the insane negro, but was unable to
unlock the door, as the lock was he .ted
•o such a degree that hi- hand could not
bear it. The key would nut turn. The
negro was left to his iate.
David E. Durand and his wife left
home in Bishopvillc to sp nd the dav,
leaving fora, their little daughters, Eva and
with their brother-in-law. Late
in the evening, while the children were
playing, Carnes was informed that Cora
had fallen from a bed in the room in
which they had been playing. Carues
hmried in where she was and picked her
up, but she died in a very few seconds,
her neck having been broken by the
fall. The ne xt morning Eva died from
the shock caused by her little sister’s
death. Their ages were seven and thir¬
teen respectively.
While TENNESSEE.
which playing around a cane mil),
was in operation near Midway
years, on Wednesday, had John Carroll, aged the 11
his head caught betwi en
ever and frame, and was instantly
killed. His head was crushed almost to
u jelly.
('oinnels Dtincnn P. Cooper, Sparrel
rha-ed Hi'l, nnt1 John W. Childress have pur-
the Daily American new-papi r, of
Nashville. Col. Cooper will be the edi-
tor-ia-c ief. The pa er will be Deiuu-
eia i but the VVutti r onian idea will
prevail in thi treatment of the tariff ques-
ituD. The American h s hitherto been
® P r< >tection journal. Col. Cotyar, who
has been editor-in-chief, will retire, as
well as the former stockholders.
The grand lodge of the TenDCfsec
Independent Order of Odd Fellows, in
ses-sion at Chattanooga, elected the fol¬
Nolan, lowing officers: Grand masfi r, John L.
h Peter of Nashville; Jr/, d-nuty grand Nashville; mas
grand - r, Ncrns, of Chut-
tnnooga; w&rden, Phillip Eichorn, of
^ grand secretary, J. H- Harwell,
a8 i lv iH < 'i grand treason r, J. L.
W " enkloy, of Nashville; grand represent¬
ative to the sovereign grand lodge, A.
1 • Davis, of Memptm. The next meet-
[ Columbia. n g of the graud lodge will be held at
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he . A1 “™!i™Hir4 , r i ' e,>er * n -'
co2l? Ua sags ! y ,sssr of Fulon
r fn« dwa L betw «t n toll budge
nd I
dn Wedne^ay, Land Davis. „ g#(i nbo , lt
fa ail. I VH’-m* The killing U occurred ,e,r ' bl0 at de Reid’s ‘ h ou .he
mZ,°f t Tenne stn-
lU m’ 1 ® 1 * s '« Road, sixteen
miles from Macon. The train w.s com-
ri U ?| Jt ' r f W d way and Davis tried to
ems.he track , in front of the engine.
Geo tried Rogers, who teas Manriin- near hv.
to deter him saying the min w ; 8
too close at h md, but the lad w, uld not
heed and he w,. s mashed to death by the
ponderous engine J
ALABAMA ROMANCE.
A remarkable and long legal contc i t
of a will has just been ended iu a mo t
unexpected maimer in Winston county,
Ala. Twelve years ago, Cnarlcs II. B.tk-
er was known as the richest man in Win-
stun. He owned several large pUnta-
tions nnd a More, from which ho sup-
piiod the f-mall farmers f< r miles around
Baker «us then living wrth his sec nd
wife and two children,-also three sons by
a former wife. In the Sum,mr of 1878
Baker went to Memphis, Term., where
he always sold Ids Ct.tton and did his
banking When the yellow fever broke
K '■>“ a
the family heard that he was dead. Then
hts widow fl ed for probate a will which
left her and her chtldreu the principal
part of Baker’s fo,tune, and made her
administrator without bond. Baker’s
-ons bv his first marriage contested the
will, and ten yiars of bittef an t expen-
sive litigati m followed, the final result
being that the widow and her children
seemed the bulk of what p op rtv the
lawyers had left them. The three sons
immediate'} - secured an injunction re-
straining Mrs. Baker tram taking cha'ge
of the property, claiming th t tney had
secured evidence 01 a later will. Tne
day alter the injunction was served
Charles H. Bakerhim-elf, now a very old
man, appeared at the old home-t. ad and
claimed bis fortune. It seems be did not
die of yellow fever, but after he recov
ered, after several weeks, his reason was
gone,and had drttted the past here wa- and n blank to him.
He thire as a com¬
mon tramp, finally turning tip in Buenos
Ayres, South America, where ho was
taken to a hospital, and under the cate
of a Spani-h physician, recovered his
reason. He then worked his way to New
Orleans as a common sailor, and after
many hardships, reached his home. He
confirms the claims ol his sous that he
had made a later will, in which lie ma le
an equal divis’on of his property among
his wife and five children.
FEVER ABATES.
Surgeon General Hamilton is incorrcs-
p tvienfe with Dr. Potter with reference
to the ays etna io liisiulection of Jackson¬
ville, Florida, at the close of the epidem¬
ic. It is estimated that about 18,000
people, re8 ; dents of Jacksonville, me at
present awaiting permission of their to return.
This wholesale entrance houses
in their sb ei ce is fraught with deep
meaning.to them, and the system to he
adopted is looked for with much anxiety.
Official bulletin for Thursday: New
case*, 29; death* one, Eiwood B. Holli¬
day; total cases to date, 3,692; to al
deaths, 322. The following telegram W.
was received in New York City Fernandina by
D. O. Duree, secretary of the
relief committee: “New cases 10; whites
2. J. W. Bailey and Annie Perry. No
deaths. This low rating nm-t not deceive
you ns executive comm’ttee of colored aux¬
iliary committee somewhat mixed it and
made nu increase of neatly 50 per cent, The
on the same ba-is of returns,
weather is very warm. There arc seve-
ral critical cases. The city is quiet. It.
S. Schuyler, Secretary Howard Associa-
tion.” Two moro new ca-es of yeJiow
fever have developed in Gainesville,
Fla., and the fever has been de-
chued epidemic. Surgeon Ross tele¬
graphs from Feinandira, Fla., that one of
hi s men ha* teen taken sick and requists
authority to employ a other in his place,
Mr. Rubbled and I. For l, a promi- Ala.,
nentcontractor, died nt Decatur,
on Thursday; and four new cases: II. O.
Jones, Jr., president of b ard of relf f;
Mrs. Renis'-n, 8. E. Skinner and \\ il s
'Vise, (colored). D aths fiom yel.ow
lover to date, 24. The executive c m-
mittee of the Missjs-ippi State Board < t
Health, on Thursday, withdraw all its
quarantine officer*, and travel to and
Imm the state will not any longer be tn-
fi rfe-cd with, unless by loed quarantines,
which are now very few in number,
hungarians killed.
A wreck occurred on the Pott-viHe
division of the Lehigh Vabey Rai road,
near Tamar nd, Pa., between a Lehigh
gta.ei train and a Pennsylvania fast
fit mht. The flagman did n t get back
far enough to signal the freight, which
struck the caboose of tho gravel train, the
] ttercontaining » batch cf Hungarian
lai orcra, six of whom were instn tly
killed. Twenty-six were inju'ed, twn ot
them dyiug while being conveyed to the
ho? pit al. Ti e gravel train was backing
on sating when the fnight train, wiiieh
n idled at
running on orders, appro a
w as and ent crash mg
lii'dt rate of speed The w ki led and in¬
into the cars nhe id.
jured men were all on the gravel train,
with the exception of one brakeman <>n
the Pennsylvania train, who was k lied
on his own train. 8 > far as is knew n, tne
responsibility rests upon the shoulders
the flagman, who failed t" flag the freight
train in time to tirsveat the • evident.
EMPIRE PREDICTED.
The German newspapers speak dis-
truttwgly ot -the situiti i<m in France.
The JVoflh 'German Gazette, quoting the
Temps' ironical comments on Premier
FicqueVs revision Ml, indorses the pre-
diction of the Temps that tin empire is at
hand. The Tagblatt thinks that some-
thing unexpected will happen in France,
and that the doom of the moderate re-
publican party is sealed.
EJMVILLE, GEORGIA. THURSDAY. OCTOBER 25,1888.
HIE WORLD OVER.
^TURESTING ITEMS BOILED
ws * EE4D r LE •»*“
the FIELD OF LA 110It— SKKTntNG caul-
hnoN OF EUHOPEAN t-NTlUGUK— FIRES,
SUICIDES, ETC. — NOTED DEAD.
M-s. Cynthia Leonard Is running as a
candidate fo mayor of Now York, on a
woman's suffrage ticket -
T , te grip cars of Chicago, Ill. nre to be
n. the after run b T new men, nearly all
new haudi bciug supplied from Kan-
,lJ ? (l1 ' 1 j* 0, * ^ 1U P°i ,ce li ‘Vo thuii iiuiidb
f ul ihe
‘ ifuaraiiig new nieu.
Railway traffic throughout Greece is
impelled by hi ary converted floo s. Toe Mega-
riau plitin h is been into a take*
and railroads on botli so es of the Mega-
ra have beeu distioyed lor a distant e of
tweive miles.
The circulation of the newspapers Afs
bffet, l>uy», Jntransegeunt , Putric , Teh-
grupheaml France, Voltaire , all published in
h.sbeeu prohibited in Allace-
Loraine, and circul tion of other French
p ipers has been ixstrictsd by the German
authorities.
From a report made at the fourteenth
annual convention o. the Mutual Benefit
Associn ion of tne mail c erks of the
Untied Sta es, now in session at Cine n
nati, O. io, it nppe ,rs that the ns-ocinti n
™““"'Tid
on Brigs’ | v s ,,ffeie r ?t is* s-uHo have^ten
Lsory plan to notcs°und ior-e n.mes of patrons
lo prou net the bank bank to to
di-connt ‘ th. m ‘
'' ben " ist Shore t train . which ...... left
a
V eehawk ^ 1- N- J- t 'caehed a point in
" est Point tunnel where the roof is
bei[ • S re P “ l a rge mass ot rock and
earth came down -on the baggage and
eX|jms ca rs ' cn,shin K lhcmHud suddenly
^ 0 Pl’'“g , train. Nobody wa* injured.
1,,e d!imi '" e U ' ,lie tU!U ' el is « ri ' at-
Hod. John Wentworth, better known
as “Long John,” a man as well known
as any iu the West, tiled on Tuesday,
Mr. Wentworth was one of Chicago’s
ol(icst residents, and in his day was mayor
ol that city, cougre-sm n and editor ol
the 73 principal daily paper there. of He wealth,
year-of age, an t a man
his estate being worth at least
At a meeting of the Franklin Institute,
Philadelphia, Taylor, Pa., N,, Commander H. of th« W.
U. 8. general manager
Nicar agua Canal Construction
oy, read a paper describing the route ol
the proposi d NicaraugUa could canal. finished H«
stated that the canal be
in six yt ars, allowing f r ail poss bie
lays. The cost of the work is estimated
lit $8 >,(>00,000 but Commander • Tuy lot
tlinks a company with a capital oi
$100,000,000 should be organized to
cany on the construction. *
The fo'ce of an explosion of petroleum dt
on board the French steamer Vil e
Calais, which anived at Calais, France,
horn Philadelphia, Pa., tore off the deck
and partly away her side*. Only the
ward portion of ihe ve-sel sank, and the
fire raging fiercely in that portion above
the water. Othu - shipping lying in the
vi inity of the steamer was nruen
aged by the exjrlo-ion and the loss ol
Tile is great. Portions of a dozen bodies
legs wetc found lying on the quays, about arms, iu
and heads being scattered
shocking confusion.
Two passenger trains on the Cumber-
land Valley Railroad collided on Thurs-
day near SbippfBsburtr, Pa., engines wh le run*
ring at high speed. The were
telescoped, the boiler of one being driven
five het into the boiler of the other,
and the express ear on each train tele-
b oped the baggage car killed bihind it. both One
lwggage master v»as and
conductors seiiousjy injured. dange Many
passengers were hurt, but not
ouslv. The mail cars caught fire a -a
most of the mail was destroyed.
DESTITUTE DAKOTA,
M. J. Horpmann, of Minneapolis, Minn, of
has been iuvi s irating the condition
farmers iu llamsey county, Dak., who
were reported to hive been starving to
death, says the real condition of the peo¬
ple is bey uid description. Men, women
and chi.dren are in rags and luve not a
cent f money in the world. Their crops
weie tota ly destroyed • ml their laud,
stock and farm implements mortgaged—
ab-o.ute distres- prevailed ev> rywnce. A
minister was living iu one room wi h his
wife and two small cluldrt n, oa of the
latter wrapped up in the cv b iu Older to
keep warm, and the other blue Hnd shiv¬
er i.g with cold and emaciated with hun-
g r. There was no fuel, with the excep¬
tion of a little dry manure, which is all
that any of the families have to burn,
and the only thing they had to cat was a
dry trust <ff bread.
A PARSON’S QUANDARY.
“Shut up, old m in, you are iff yout
base, I’m a preacher to day.” Tiffs Rad- lau-
guacc w us nd r s-ed to Rev. J T.
cbff. a Baptist minister in 8helby coun
ty, Ala., as he announced his text, The
speaker was David Harrellson. a meinl er
of the church, who had -uddeii !y be¬
come cr zed on the subject of teligion.
With a knife in one hand and a lSifile in
the other, Ilarrcdson tiien marched up nd
down tlte Aisle lciiff and 'preached a the sermon. house
Parson Ka tried to have
and Hanellson spr. ng upon him and
beat him severely. While the tight was
going o i, the 'congregation escaped wandered from
the thnrah. ILirrelison then
ar um! throu.h the m i-hborhood with
his knife in one brad and his Bible in
the other, preaching to eviry one he met
and defying arre-t. He was captured
and wa- taken to the inlsne asylum at
Tuscaloosa. __ •
COTTON.
jp e rP porfc for the week shows that,
the ratal vi-ible supply of cotto i for the
w ,, r j t | i S) 1.206,797 bales, of which
959 ^97 are American, aga-nst 1,046,049
nn( i 1,408.149 respectively last year,
Receipts at all interior towns, 174,094:
rece ipts at plantations, 292,101; crop in
giafit. 913.627.
WASHINGTON NEWS.
Doiugi of Congress and thti United
States Officials.
CONG RKtiMIONAIi.
Mr. Browu offered a resolution
in the Scm to on Thursday, for the final
adjournment of the rcs-ioti atone o’clock
ou S.iturdav, and It was pn-Si d. Ah - .
ott *? d « resolution instruct,uji
thu ^.nmitioc on Indian affairs to m-
quire as to tho truth of the report that
tne secretary of the interior 1ms pur-
phased a large number of wagons for the
Indian service that were man,if .ctu.ed
Wllh la h or in the state of Tenues-
8ee> jj e rau je some r< marks on theRub-
in imntwtf that the complaint was of
really against the late commissioner
Iudlau affairs. A discussion then en-
sit d on the tar,if bill ...Mr. Cox, of
New York, was in (he chair when the
House mit Farquliar, After prayer by Y the cliap-
lain, Mr. of New rk, rose
and called the chair's atbutioil toTtile 1,
of the House, which directs the S|*ake*
to cause the journal to he read on the
appea an e of a quorum. He was tui¬
wilting that certain u.ambers should ab-
® ei1 ^ themselves, v\hile otheis, like him-
self, had remained si tee December,
He / eh ,kU i t «“• ' ,0 ? !*'? “ di *f^'
b , »t an affront;-o f the mtebfg.M ee o O. t.d- fl-
gress to have two mstgu'hcnut v ,aO
ments c 1 , ' , ’ dl of f "“’.““K ^ * ‘h ' SC “lion ' ‘IV
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w ere the
1 he ^aker laid before the
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Hou ®- tvvelve m Vl, ° meh81 * , - c *
President Cleveland, 1 and 1 tney were
refen(jd t0 the commltte e on invalid
pensions. Mr.Cox,ufN'-wYork,am-
j U g t0 a question of privilege, sent to
the clerk’s desk and lu.d read an extract
f, om ttKJ New York Tribune, entitled
..g, 8 . Cox’s Tostul Fraud,” charging
hilu w j t t semiing unftank .ble matter
through the mails under ids frank. Mr.
Qox said he had seen the alleged frank
»P -n which the Tribune's euito.ial was
based, and it was a forgery. H<-had set
on foot an inve-tigation as to where the
forgery olig na ed.
gossip.
A. M. Speer, of Georgia, has been np-
point d a $1)00 clerk in the post ttice
department and assign d to the first as-
gjsta t postmaster-general’s office.
Superintendent Horan, of the National
Mu-eum, left on Mo day tor Augus a,
Ga., to superintend the placing of the
govemmeut exhibits from that bureau at
the Exposition, which opens in that city
on the 8th of November Maj. Charles
8. Hid, commissioner of the government
exhibits, will also leave for Augu-tain a
few days, and n. pes to have the govtun¬
merit exhibit historical and illustrative
of the functions of the bureau of the dif-
ferent, departments, in readiness by tne
time the Exposition op ns.
Dr. Ham lion, surgeon-general, of the
Marine Hospital service, received the
following telegram on uonday from the
Board of Health at G iino-ville, Fla. :
“We have two new cases to-day in d s
tant parts of the city, 'the outlook is
not good.” Dr. Hamilton also received
the following report from Su’geon Hut-
ton, at Camp Perry: “Five deaths,
eleven employes, forty new refugees ar-
rived. Discharged 32, remaining 113;
yellow fever camp 6, all convalescent; no
new cases in eight days. ”
The case of the. North Carolina special
tnx bond case was called in the supreme
court of the United States on Tuesday,
After counsclon b th side's had an noun*
ced their readiness to proceed, the justices
held an informal consultation The
chief justice then announced that the
coutt deserved a full bench to hear this
case, as it involved a const tutiona! qnes-
tion. As Justice Matthews was ill, the
court would adjourn the hearing for \he
present. r lhe case of Bernarii P. Hans
'8. the State of Lout-tana, involving a
similar question was di-posed of in like
manner.
BOUNCED.
The most important action taken by
the pi-iseut general executive board of
the Knights of Libor was at Philadel¬
phia, Pa., oa Wednesday, when Thomas
B. Barry, a former member of the board,
was formal y txpeled by the order.
Barry was accused of abuses and vituper¬
ation, nud was suspended from tltry Inst
August. A mout i after be forwarded
his r. signation, but this was not acted
upon until later, when the board refuse I
to accept it, nud thr atoned to expel
him. In the Journal of United Labor ,
too General M su r Workman, Powdirly,
i ver his own sianuture, ventilates every¬
thing which has a bearing on B rry’e
rases. He 'charge* him wii.fi having
violated every p edge he made when he
entered the order, nud ex-
ing himself for not noticing the attacks
ot Barry upon himself, declared that the
quarrel b tween them alwavs tiad been
one-sided, and that now that he is Com¬
pelled to hit buck, he piououuces I horn-
as Barry one of the most despicable
scoundrels living.
engineers’ brotherhood.
The 25th annual convention of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Lngiuwrs
was commenced in Rn hmond, Va , on
W’edniMlnv. An a idress of welcome
w as made by Mayor Ellison, nls -speeches Jiufi.rd
f ont Governor Lee, Col. A. S.
and Judge 8. B. Witt, aud ilie reading
of the anfliml addn ss by Chief Arthur.
In the comae of hi- adurera Mr. Arthur
said that 32 new divis ons were estah-
11shed in the post year, and there are
394 divisions located at different point-,
jioin Manitoba to Mexico, and fiom
Nova Sc tin to California, giviugagrand
tutal of 25.000. ___
SPANISH TROUBLES.
Gen. O'Rvan, minister of war, has de¬
clared his intention to resign frran the
Spani-h cabinet. Premier Sagasfa is
trying to pacify his radical supporters
who reproach him for always deferring
to the reactionary influence of tl e mili¬
tary and consirvative parties. Members
of the cabinet are divided on the ques-
t j oa 0 f army reform, A ministerial
crisis is, therefore, threatened.
TERRA DEL FUEGtt
Information About tho Country
and its Inhabitants.
Geological Formation as Deter¬
mined by Recent Surveys.
Terra del Fuego has hitherto at¬
tracts l but little attention, and the
busy world lias been content to let it
alone. Of h tr, however,circumstances
buvo arisen Which givo the country in¬
terest and supply information about it.
Within tho last live years it has bcin
tho su j.ct of moro thorough and scien¬
tific investigation than has ever been
previously attemptod. Lieutenant 15 ive
oi tho French Navy has, by pormia ion
of the Argentine Government, and
partly under it* patronage, made an
expedition to tho southeast portion ol
Terra del Fuogo; and h.n labora havo
resulted in a valuable report on the
fauna, fl >rn and general characteristic*
of the ecu , try and tho condition and
language ol tho people.
Another even moro valuable contri¬
bution to our knowledgo on tho subject
has been made by R v. Thomas Brydges,
a Chu ch of England missionary, who
has lived in tho southeastern part ol
Terra del Fuogo for or r 23 year'*, and
ha- duri tg that long residence accumu¬
lated aa important amount of iof'irma-
tion about tho eounDy and ita inhabit¬
ant*. Mr. Ju ius Popper, a man ol
scientific antecedent*, but also on be¬
half of a mining company, recently
made an expedition right across the
country from Umloss B y on tho wiit
to Ban 3 bastian oa tho east and thonce
along the c>ust. Lastly, Don llamon
Li ta, a well-known explorer and a
member of tho Geographical society ol
Buonos Ayres, ha* ju-t returned from a
scientific and geographical expedition
to tho east and southeast coast, under¬
taken at the instance of tho Argentine
governm - nt. These com ined sources
of information havo’servo 1 to correct
many errors hitherto current about the
country, and to aid to our knowledge
in many important respects.
The group of island ■ which form the
archipelago of Terra del Fuego havo an
area of about eighty thousand square
miles, nearly the st.mo size as Engiaud
and Scotland. Darwin descriocs the
country ns a mountaintu* land partly
submerged Tit the sea so that deep inlets
ai d bays occury tho pheu whero the
valleys shou d exi t. To fl id an acre ol
level land in any wart of the country is
most rare. Don Ramon Listn, however,
who had greater and more recent oppor-
tudtiea, thiaks this investigation a
mi-taken one. He describes Argentine
Terra del Fuego as presenting two as¬
pects. In the north there are valleys
moro or less extensive, covered with
epieedid proves and irrigated by large
rivers, some of which are nevigaule,
this region enjoying an agreeable tem¬
perature, with very little snow during
tho wintor.
8 *uth of this he reports that tho ap¬
pearance of the country changes, and
ex endod forests appear, where the
gras* is not go abundant or the rivers so
large. Tho face of the land ia in this
part something like Bwitz rland, with
small lakes, elevutcu mountain* and
valuable timber forests. Ha seems to
think tho country capable ot great de¬
velopment, for he adds: “Oa the plaius
there will yet be ph.nted a great pas¬
toral industry, while I believe the
mountains will bo found to contain val¬
uable mineral deposits.”
The geologic d formation of Terra del
Fuego corresponds with that of Pata¬
gonia; its mountains aro tho continua¬
tion and southern extremity of tho
Andes, while tho plains and uplands
correspond to tho Patagonian steppes.
In some parts the‘formation is decidely
volcanic, ptvnico stono is found in large
quantities, and grariito and quartz aro
abuadmt. Oa the other haud, lime¬
stone, iron and coal seem to be wanting.
Gold hug been louad in considerable
quantities in the north, and for a num¬
ber of y ars tho enterprid tg Chillians
have been wa lling it at th • loot ol the
(h ii t hills which form tne coasts of the
U e I ess an 1 Futuro buys.
Tne climato is cartai ly not the best
in tho world, hut its disadvantage*
seem to h.vo been a good deul ex-
aguerutod by casual visitor’s, who h ive,
pevhip', been unfortunate as to times
snd loci itiis. Mr. B yJges tells u-
tb it in tho humi 1 regions of the west
lro-.ts are almost unknown; while iu
the central and eastern parts, where
the sky is nearly always cloudless,
there is intense cold (luring tha four
months from June to September.
Hj i d L that tho want of sufficient
heat ia summer is the great drawuack
to tho climate, and is a greater iicon-
venienco than tho cold in winter, width
has never been known to bo lower than
12 degrees Fihronheit, while tho high¬
est summer temp raiuro is only 75 de-
groes. If it wore not for tho raw, damp
winds ths climate of Terra del Fuogo
would bo much better than thnt ol Can-
ads. While thero »ra prubably lew
streams in the country which are of
sufficient size ever to be utilizod for
navigation, there is a largo number ot
small rivers and watsreourees, which
carry off tho rains and incited mow
from the mountains, and thus asaitt to
irrigate tho lowo# plains.-IChambor*’
JouruaL
The Chemistry of Vinegar.
When the juice of applon or of grapes
in allowed to remain at rest at a moier-
ato temperature* any 00 degrees to 80
degree* Fahrenheit, a chemical change
take* place which is called ferment*,
lion, and the resulting product* of IbU
change aro tho formation of carbonic
»cil gag, which escapes, and alcohol,
which remains ia tho liquid. Thia
process is called viuotli faimoutation.
I. now this vinous ia rmor.tutaoB U al-
lowed to continue in the npplo or grnp#
juice till no mora alcohol can bo found,
and tho liquid ia still allowed to re¬
main at rest ot about tin sumo temper¬
ature, another chemical change will
commonco, and tho liquid, which was
sweet to tho tasta before, will now bo-
gin to turn aour, and continue to bo-
como more ond more sour as loug a*
this aecond change continues. This
second change is called tho acetic fer¬
mentation, and tho alcohol that was
lormed during the first fermentation is
coav<rted i ito acetic acid, aid the wina
or cider i< converted into vinegar. Tho
liqui I which romains is racked or drawn
off, and Is ih' D known as wine orcilrr
vinegar, according as it wa» formed
from grape or apple juice. There is no
olhor way cf making wineorciJer vine¬
gar, and there !■> no otner product than
th it mHdo from ftrapo or aople juice by
feime tation to -which the name wino
nr cidor vinegar ah mid be applied.
Thiacid principle ia each of ihe<a
kin Is of vine rar is the sane, viz.,
acetic acid, but the other organic con¬
stituents of each juice give a flavor
which is sufficiontly. characteristic to
enable the vinegar to be recognized by
tasto and odor. These, however, were
the vinegars of our gran 1 fathers, and
with a little searching »omo genuine
lots can even yet bo found; but not over
one-teeth of all tho vl iegar used in the
whole U.iitcd States is either wine or
cider vinegar. —[ B iltimoro 6ua.
The Chinese Almanac.
Recently tho Chinosu milenta at
Lhasra, in Thibet, implored th* imu-
rorto c*u*o arrangement* to bo made
which wi ulel enable them to rcccivo tho
copie* of their almanac at the earliest
possiblo dite in each year. This anxie¬
ty would seem very curiouj, woro it not
tho fact, a* we are informed by a writer
in the Chinese R cordor, that tho al¬
manac is tho most important book to
the Chinose. Its space i* far too impor
tant to bo occupied with the matter
which fi is western almanac*. It con¬
tains astronomical information which i*
useful, but its great miision i* to give
lull and accurate information for select¬
ing lucky places lor poricrmiug all the
nets, great and small, of tlicir everyday
life. And os every act of life in Chinn,
however trivi il, depends for it* success
on tho time in which and tba direction
(i. e., the point of tho corapau toward
which it is done) is of (he utmost im¬
portance to the Chinese that every one
should have correct iaformatin avail¬
able at all times to so ordor bit life aa to
avoid bad luck and calamity and *<curo
good luck and prosperity. Consequent¬
ly, tho almanac is, perhaps, tho most
universally circu ,ted book in Chino.
Giving Away Japanese Children.
But tho queerest cu-tom ia Japan,
any* the Omaha Bee, nud one that is not
generally known i* tho interchange of
boys. Mr. Kawakurs has a boy and to
show his appreciation of his hiend’
kindness gives him this child. The
coy is formally adopted in his new
lami.y and asumes all the right snd
title belonging to it. Ho becomes to¬
tally alienated from his real parents snd
is diiowned by them. Now, M . I way a,
who has two sons, bears of K wakurs’s
generosity und, not to uooutdone, sends
him one of his boys.
Kiwakura accepts this present with
thanks and young Iw«ya bears that
name no longer, but enter* at once as
the heir to Kiwakura’s namo and prop¬
erty. This struuga procredi ig is carried
on among all classes. The ubiVj i,aaol
in-tance in which the name* are not
changed came under the w iter’s obier-
vution. But another hi;h < ffi ial, Mr.
Mut-u Nuo, once sail that nedil not
tutu it that his youngest son, a child of
eight year*, wn of much account, hot .cj
he had given him to a jtimkiffta coolie.
A roliceman Crusliod
There was a jam of peoplo at the cor¬
ner oi King and Yonge streets, and
the crossings were blocked t.y street
cars. A policeman who lud not taken
carclul st> c c of tlxo situation lifts J. up
his voice and shouto I, “Aluvo oa P' A
cjtizm with a better knowUdqa of the
po-ition suggested that the officer should
order the horse* to move on.
“And what would wo do with jack¬
asses!” queried the cop.
“You could make policemen of
them,” replied the citizen.
Tho crowd laugh d loudly, ths ctp
looked surprised and a little grieved,
and dropped bis head to think and did
not come out of hi* meditation until ths
cars and tbo crowd had moved on of
their own accord. —[Toronto Globe,
VOL. IV. NO. 5.
Mndy of nn Old (Janie*.
Bubble t ko th" hollyhocks
liuiHed, burst, and flaunted wide,
Gypey beauty from their stocks;
Morning glories, bubble dyed,
Kvrung iu honey hearted fl )*Us.
Towny tiger lilies flung
Doublet, sloshed with crimson «•<
Graceful girl *lnv*s. fair an 1 yonng.
Like Circa,»lM?« in the sun
Alabaster lilies swung.
Ah, the dr. nlng of the Ism
I n 1 is dusty pantaloons,
Tumbling in the fleurs de Ik;
In the drowsy afternoons
Dreaming in tho pink sweet pea.
Ah. the moaning wild wood dove.
With ita throat of amethyst
Rofll -.1 like a hhiniug «>ve
Wnich a wind to pearl hath hirstH,
Moaning, moaning of its love.
And the insects' gossip thin.
From the summer hotne-skld,
In the leafy shadows erevn;
Then at eve the kalyd d,
With i s hard, unvaried din.
Often from the whisperin'? hi’ls,
Lorn within the gold, n dusk—
Gold with gold of daffodil*—
Thrilled into the gard e’s musk
The wild wad of whippoorwills.
From tho purple tangled tree*,
Like the wbi.e, full heart of night,
Solemn with majestic peace,
Swum the big moon, veined wi h light.
Like some gorgeous g< Men fleece.
-IM .disun Car vela.
UUMURUUH
Brothrea of the cloth—tailor*.
Tho block head i* of a woodon lram«
of miad.
Clothes do not mike the man, but hi*
wife’s often break hitn.
The ru ing passion ia said to be very
strong in tho Czar of Russia.
It isn’t so much a man's constitution
as his bile laws that arc iairinged by
malaria.
Lemon juice i* cordially recommended
for ono kind of felon, the penitentiary
for tho other.
A Cincinnati hoy gnv* tho following
description of hiving a tO'.tlt | ulled:
“Just before it killed me tho tooth
enmo out.”
Foggs: Just look at that absnrd hat!
Why it’s as tall as a steople! Bigg*:
Whit’s odd about that? Isn’t there a
belle under it?
Other thing* havo been aettloi by
scientific research, but no ono yet ha*
ever been able accurately to determine
wiicthor or not a big man suffer* more
th tn a small man when ho ha* tho rheu-
metis tn.
___“Ilush I” he wispored, with a warn-
ing gesturo. “Isa’t that tho night
watchman’s raltlo?’’ “No, Mr. Satnp-
son, rcplied the girl, suppressing a
yawn, “that is th* cook griuding tho
coffra for breakfast.”
Mias Ethel—Did you havo a pleasant
time at the Wabash party last niffit,
C ara? Miss Clara—Not very, Ethol;
l —asn’t feeling at all like my u-ual
lelf. I dancod but fourtimos, and only
went into supper once.”
Hunting With Dogs.
AH hounds, save the greyhoutd, ran
entirely by sernt. When they coma
upon tho faint scent of a track they will
work along it until it grows fresher,
and then Login to bay or “givu tongue.’’
There is always a correspondence be¬
tween tho baying and tho trail. An ex¬
perienced hunter can tell by the baying
not only where the dog is, but, by tho
frequency and confiJcnco of tho sound,
how Irohli the trail is- that is, how close
upon his gomo the dog is. All hunted
animals have a way of doubling, or
rtianiag in circle'. Hance, if a hunter
observe* by tho baying that his dog ia
going away from hint, he waits patient¬
ly, sometimes for n.irates, sometimes
for hours, until tho circle i* made aud
ho hears tho dog approaching. The i he
is on the alert lor a shot lor tho game is
probab y not mauy rods in adyauea ef
tba dog.
A bound is seldom lost Ili* nos# is
his compass, Whenever bo please*, ha
can take up bis master’s track and find
him, or ho can retrace his own steps
homeward.
Dogs do not socrato enjoy those odors
that please u*. A dog will tur i aw y
disappointed and iadifforort lrom th*
Baeat of perfume*. Except the scent ot
those things waich howou'.d lik'to cat
I havj never found nuytbi g that
seemed to delight a (log's buns* of
smell.—[St. Nicholas.
Singular Coincidence.
Tho day the disastrous conflagration
occurred, E. J. 8 vier, one of tho had¬
ing insurance agents in the city, rtedved
a letter from quo oL his companies in,
which they suggostod that he was carry-
ing perhaps too n uch imnrauca in the
G iffi -Caldwell block. That night ho
answered tho letter, and wrote that ho
considered it one ot tha safest ri*k» in
the city ; that the building was *o con¬
structed that even if a fire started id
any oao section it could notspros i. Ho
tralcd tho letter, and, just tub* hied ad
it to his brother to mail, the fire ahem
sounded. IIo ran out and saw ths block
in flames at tho very point ha-had £5
writtsu about.—[Chattanooga (Te
Times,