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The public speaking during a Prest
dential campa'gn costs about a million
dollars. ______________
The Balloon Society of London have
given Professor Baldwin their approval,
stating that liis parachute w.ll bo useful
for war balloons.
The six Kentucky counties of Nurlan,
Knott, Bell, Leslie, Lucy and Fletchci
have no church within their limits, yet
the Btatc gives each year many thousand
dollars to foreign missions.
The South has gained 18,000 miles ol
railroad track within eight years, at a
co^t of $750,000,000. The increase ol
the crops, iron and other products of
that section has been in equal propor
tion.__
Le c 8 than fifty years ago there was not
a photographic camera in the world; to¬
day there are 15,01)0 photographic es¬
tablishments, to sav nothing of the
thousands of amateur outfits, in the
United States.
The Provincial Bank, of Buenos Ayres,
South America has a capital of $38,
000,000 and $37,000,000 cf deposits. It
does more business than any American
bank and more, even, than the Imperial
Bank of Germany.
The average price pa'd the average
Iowa “schoolmam” by the year is
8 >12.45. Presuming that her board and
washing costs her about $3 per week ana
her clothing and incidentals $53 more,
she will then have a surplus of $0.4) tc
build up a bank account, which in twen
years of hard work would amount to a
tittle mote than $123.
The French police have received in
structions to discover the authors of an
ingenious political trick which consists
of defacing the coins of Napoleon III.
and substituting the name of 11 ulanger
I., Empereur, with the date 18 'N Be
far the substitution has been confined to
tea centime pieces, and hat been treated
as a political joke.
Mormonism is spreading. The tribe
at Sa t l ake may be disintegrating but
only for the benefit of other localities.
Four hundred Mormon fum 1 ies have
recently settled iu Wyoming. Thou¬
sands of Mormons have settled in Idaho.
There arc large Mormon colonics in Ari¬
zona and Colorado. Nevada is so over¬
run with them that it has been declared
the Mormons could soon secure control
of the state if they should make a vigor¬
ous effort.
That foreign claim of a torpedo vessel
that can run for hours under water is not
a sound one, asserts the Cincinnati En-
ruircr. It is simply a reproduction of a
lute American Experiment in the boat
called the “,’ea eina’ier.” The scheme
will never be a complete success until a
motor is discovered that needs no re
and makes no smoke. Compressed air
was used by the “Peacemaker,” but so
little of that can be carried that the
eampa : gn must be very brief. 1 erhups
some day some one will be able to so
“store” electricity as to solve the
problem.
The owner of some hom : ug pigeons
at Hamm, in Holland, bet that on a fine
day twelve of his bees would beat a like
number of carrier pigeons in making
the distance one hour) between Hamm
and the town of Rhynern. Twelve
pgcons and twelve bees (four drones
and eight working bees, all powdered
with flour) were taken to Rhynern and
simultaneously set free. A white drone
arrived home four seconds in advance of
the first pigeon; the remaining three
drones aud the second pigeon arrived to¬
gether, and the eight working bees pro¬
ceeded the ten pigeons by a length.
It is not generally known, says tho
-V iii g lievicw, that important mining
operat ons are carried on in the Arctic
circle, Cyrolite is carried from Greeu-
and to Philadelphia hv the ship-load to
be used in making candles. Extensive
copper mines have been worked for a
long time in Finland. Aiost of the
work of mining has to be done under¬
ground, and the workmen in deep mines
suffer much from heat ; consequently it
is apparent that mines can be worked a;
profitably in these high latitudes as iu
our own country. Deep mines are
warmer in winter than in summer. In
such work ns iias to be done above
g.ound tlieie u scarcely auy interrup¬
tion. During the three dark months
•here is no lack of light to L 1 aeeu.
tomed eye.
The American Cultivator asserts that
“to make fruit attractive is not a wrong
to the purchaser, even if it does add to
tbe price. Good looks really make the
fruit taste better. A package of fruit
from which every inferior specimen has
been removed may be eaten blindfolded.
-Nobody wants to have to guard against
eating worms or shrunken places in pears
caused by absorption of its juices by in-
'Cets that do not puncture tlie skin. A
P"aeh grown on a tree affected by tlie
fellows is not only inferior iu looks, but
abo poor in quality. Where many such
are offered in market they diminish the
demand for all peaches. Fruit growers
Hind in their own light by trying to
"mrket the poorer qualities of fruits,
better throw the poor to the pigs aud
get a paying price for the best.”
SOUTHERN STRAYS,
A CONDENSATION OF HAPPEN.
INGS STRUNG TOGETHER.
MOVEMENTS, or alliance men rail.
load casualties—the 1 cotton cnm*
-ELOOi.s_Arcnvv.no accidents—crop RETURNS,
Near ALABAMA. . — —
ifnchirnRHl? Jasper, II. M. L. Strickland, a
movfn* triin Tt 7 ??> f °i fr # 8heffie ° m the ' d t & °i )ofa Bir '
hU hV J twe 1 . lv ? ° tars passed 8lll eles over
marshal f IrlLffiXl*“““ rt a *P *
mass r i W ° S fofmerl
marshal of Sheffield. y
The Memphis & Charleston and the
n pai n °.On ing V1 ! to le i' locate fc ^ ashville extensive . Railroads yards and are build pr C .
eh. ps at Sheffield. The Memphis &
0a t.° W i nS S1 ^ ,r acres of land a<
Slw ffl 1 i will , be occupied by
. v v wii a M^. belaid Sh V ds L . in Fu the , U y yards. faf ‘fe n raUes °f
1 he color-blind law which the state
put in force, requiring,tn examination for
defects of vision by all railway employes
in that 6tate, had juet been declared
constitutional by the United States su-
preme court. A great objection which
bas been urged agninst this law is the
fact that the cost of the examinations
forded was considerable, by and >tould be ill af-
many of the railroad employes,
The newspapers of the Mate are working
to gecure a reduction of the examination
fees.
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FLORIDA.
Surgeon General Hamilton has written
to Governor Perry, ot Florida, suggest¬
ing the enac meet of a law by the leg¬
islature for the establishment of a state
board of health and auxiliary boards in
each of the counlies, for the better sani¬
tary protection of the state.
The new cases in Fernandina were 14,
white, 2. No deaths. There is no diffi¬
culty in shipping lumber, crews being
left on Tiger Island iu a shelter prepared
by the Government. The stevedores de¬
sire to resume work. The steamers can
come on the same regulations or by re¬
down. turning to the quarantine station at sun¬
The Government has taken
charge of the guards.
GEORGIA.
AN bile Joseph Whitaker, colored, of
Blackshenr, was absent from his home,
ills house caught tire and his four small
eiiildreu were burned to death.
T. 8. Foster, of IVest End, near At-
i mta, was awakened by burglars on
Thursday, and not receiving a satisfac¬
that?” tory answer to the inquiry, “AVlio is
fired iu the direction of the noise.
At the same moment he received a shot
in one of his hips, and will probably die.
W r . T. McEnry and W. E. Jones, both
of Waynesboro, attempted to pass
through Augusta to the famous Sandbar
ferry dueling grounds iu South Carolina,
to settle a business dispute on the field of
aonor. Jones reached the spot, selected
the piace and waited until night for his
opponent. McEnry was arrested by an
Augusta policem m, and the meeting was
prevented.
LOUISIANA.
The New Orleans police closed up
all the keno rooms and airested the pro¬
prietors. Faro dealers were not molest-
ed.
NORTH CAROLINA.
W. J. Yates, editor of the Home Dem-
eerat for th rty-seven years, died sudden¬
ly at Charlotte, on Thursday.
The residence of John Robinson, state
commmissioner of agriculture, near Ral¬
eigh, was i urned on Wednesday. Part
of the furniture was saved.
The fibre factory of the Acme Manufac¬
turing Company, at Wilmington, was
burned. The spinning and wearing mill
aud fertilizer factory were saved.
At Newberu, on Wednesday, the
large machine shops, known astheCuth-
bert shops, took fire from rapidly some unknown
cau-e, and burned so that they
could not be saved by the fire depart¬
ment.
Bituminous coal has been discovered
in Orange county, near the Durham
county line. A company with large cap¬
ital bus been organized to push the ex¬
ploration of deposits, aud great tracts of
land have been purchased.
New forgeries were on Thursday
brought to light, in looking over the pa¬
pers of the State National bank, of Ral¬
eigh. They are of the signature of Airs.
Thomas E. Skinner, a wealthy lady,
and are attached to drafts on Lorillaid
& Co., of New York.
An imposing granite monument tlie at
Oakwood cemetery, in Raleigh, to
memory of the late Capt. Randolph A.
Shotwell, will be unveiled soon. Sena¬
tor Vance will deliver the memorial
address. Capt. Shotwell was, in 1870,
sent to Albany penitentiary by Jud^e
Huirh L. Bond,, on charge of kukluxing
in North Carolina.
All the prisoners in jail at Troy, Alont- by
gomery county, made their escape
cutting through tha wall. There were
nine prisoners. Some of them had been
very carelessly put in a 100 m used in old
times for the confinement of debtors.
They cut through the wooden walls of
this, and released the other prisoners. It
appears there was also great carelessness
in pursuing the prisoners after discovery
of their escape.
Henry Harris, night watchman of the
Wilmington, Columbia and Aiuusta
freight yard, climbed into an open freight
car, at Wilmington to shield himself
from the rain, iu a car where car wheels
were stacked. A few minutes later the
freight cars came down iho track, strik¬
ing the cars with such force as to throw
seven of the heavy wheels upon Harris.
Ilis leg caught under them and was
crushed from the hip joint to the foot.
The limb was literally crushed to splin¬
ters.
vntiiiNi*. Cunningham
Past Assistant Burgeon board the
W. Deane, U. 8. N., died on
coast survey steamer MacArthur, at ban
Francisco, Cal. He was a native of Rich¬
mond.
At a meeting of the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers held iu Richmond
on Thursday, P. M. Arthur was re¬
elected chief and Air. Ingraham broth- sec re-
tary of tho insurance order of the
erhood.
ELLAVILLE, GEORGIA. THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 1, 1888.
T he BII8SIUMIPPI.
steamer Phil Armour sank at Wil¬
ton’s landing, a short distance above
Vicksburg. V ieksburg She was eugaged in the
and Greenville trade.
NOI TII CAROLINA.
T ) le npw telegraph and patrol system
• Charleston,
Thursday. went into operation on
The system is similar to that
in Chicago. It cost about $15.000 and
is expected to double the efficiency of
the force.
There is a remarkable activity in the
Uhark.toa rice market. Despite the
I )rc ' 8ent actlvi 'y in rice, the bulk of the
crop has yet to be marketed. The crop
the 18 unusually frtshet8 late this season, owing to
. and many of the planters
are Sh'y holding dried. their rice until it is thor-
ou
The existence of an underground rivei
running through from the mountains of Virginia
North and South Carolina, is
i’ rct, y wel1 settled. It is reported from
Black’s Station, a town almost on a di-
rect line from Hsleigh, N. C., through
Laurens and Abbeville counties, that two
farmers named Byer, who live there,
"ere farm, engaged in digging a well on their
which is on the line of the C. C. &
& It. It., when they struck a limestone
formation which gaveout a hollow sound
under the tools used. In further prog-
ress of ihe work a few feet of the stone
ing } lu( f the been point removed, of and a workman strik-
the bar forcibly into an
apparent seam in the rock, was surpiised,
Cfst M l to see disappear a hole open under him, and
Later, 9 ,ar the depth wholly from sight,
of the hole was attempt¬
ed to be measured by use of a long pole,
but it tailed to reach anything solid, and
when dropped gave no sound to those
who listened at the opening.
tenne.sske.
Slate fell on a German miner, name
unknown, in a mine at Jellico crushing
him to death.
The absence from Knoxville of Ex-
Trustee Swan of Knox county, and the
deficit of nearly $25,000 in his accounts,
continues the sensation. There is noth-
ing known of his whereabouts, although
his friends claim that he will return and
fix everything up.
A lawsuit is to be filed to recover the
(and on ,uthern*Railroad which the shops of the Alab ama
Great S stand in Chat¬
tanooga. This property was donated to
the lailroad on condition that the shops
of said company would be built and
used by the corporation, but the main
shops having been located in Birming¬
ham, the Whiteside estate will seek to
recover the land, which is now very val¬
uable.
The East Tennessee, Virginia & Geor¬
gia company has leased the Ivnoxville &
Ohio Railroad, which is sixty miles long
and runs from Knoxville uoith to Jellico,
on the Kentucky border, where it con¬
nects with the Louisville & Nashville for
Lou’sville and the Northwest. The East
Tennessee as rental guarantees the inter
est on the Knoxville & Ohio six per cent,
bonds, which aggregate $2,000,0u0. It
operates under a charter granted by the
state of Tennessee under which it is ex¬
empt from taxes, and it has received state
aid on several occasions. The lino cost
a little over $4,000,000.
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FEVER NOTES.
The fever took a decided advance on
Thursday. Seventy one new cases were
reported, tlie largest number for nearly
four weeks. No direct cause is assigned
for the increase, other than physicians
have reported two cases together. The
death record is still low. The situation
at Enterprise continues to excite alarm
and iu response to Dr. Porter Dr.
II. J. Long, president of the board of
health of Enterprise, weed as follows:
“We have nine people now sick, six in a
critical condition. Dr. King Wyley, of
Sanford, pronounces it yellow fever. I
cannot agree with him, wholly, but still
regard the situation as most serious. Am
the only physician and here and just up from
an attack myself, cannot attend. We
have need of an expert fumigator of ma¬
terial, and everything necessary to take
proper care of five hundred people.
Send at once.” Dr. Porter at once wired
the surgeon-general, who ordered Dr. Po¬
sey at Camp Perry, to proceed to En¬
terprise. Dr. F. Caldwell, of Sanford,
who had yellow fever there while house
physician at St. Luke’s hospital, but who
is at present in Rome, Ga., has volun¬
teered his services for Enterprise. Two
nurses have already been sent there from
Sanford. McClenny reports four new
C ises of whites and three colored ; no
de iths. The sickness of Enterprise will
sariously interrupt of the the political canvass
in that part second district. Quar¬
antines are being established in every di¬
re tion, as there is no telling to what ex¬
tent the infection may have spread from
Enterprise. In Fernandin i the new cases
are 10; all colored; no deaths. In De¬
catur, Ala., there were three new ca-es
of yellow fever and one death.
The weather is still unfavorable.
TOO LATE!
A sad feature connected with the death
of the late Col. Pulsifer, the Boston edi¬
tor and capitalist, has just come to light.
It was generally believed that Col.
Pulsifer committed suicide on account ol
his financial troubles. Everything de¬
pended upon the success of his ageati
in London, England, in placing about a
million and a half dollars in Marietta <S
North Georgia Railroad bonds, 'I ha
day before he died he cabled several
times to London, but received no sa'is-
factory answer. In his despair he killed
himself. Twenty-four hours later the
n.*wtf cam 3 that his bonds had been
placed, and his fortunes were re-e*tal»-
iisued on a secure footing-
MANY SINGERS.
Prof. Wm. Taylor Thom, editor of the
Evening Telegram , and Miss Bessie
Porter Miller, daughter of Benjamin Mil-
ler, were maTried at Mount Airy, Md.
The ceremony was performed Society of according Friends,
to the usages of the
and there were one hundred and seven-
teen signers to the marriage certificate.
RATHER SHORT.
City Treasurer Axworthy, of Cleve¬
land, Ohio, ran away to Canada, and he
was found to be deficient nearly $500,-
OCO, He carried off on his trip $200,-
000 in easli. His losses were heavy in
tho reeeut wheat squeeee.
THE WORLD OVER.
INTERESTING ITEMS BOILED
DOWN IN READABLE STYLE.
THE FIELD OF LABOR—SEETtUNQ CAUL¬
DRON OF EUROPEAN INTRIGUE—FIRES,
SUICIDES, ETC.—NOTED DEAD.
The treasury of Cleveland, Ohio, is
bankrupt on account of the stealing of
Treasurer Axworthy,
The sirike of the colliers in England
is assuming alarming proportions, and it
is feared the movement will become a
general one. In Yorkshire 15,000 work-
era went out on Wednesday.
A South Gerrnau paper publishes a
letter from a correspondent aboard the
gunboat entirely Adler, holdiug the Americans
Samoa in responsible for the blood shed in
declares that August. The correspondent
an American man of war
delivered firearms to Samoa.
Reports by a courier from the Chey¬
enne Indian reservation, are to the effect
that unless aid is soon extended to them
by the government, great numbers of
Cheyennes will die of starvation. Fort
Buford and Fort Keogh are constantly
besieged dians. by these bauds of starving In¬
The Official Journal, of Belgrade, pub¬
tan lishes Theodosius, a pastoral prepared he by Metropoli¬
in which says that in
the exercise of his power ns leader of
the Servian church, and by virtue of the
rights consecrated by precedents, he dis¬
solves the marriage of King Milan and
Queen Natalie, and declares that it is no
longer existent.
The mail pouch which left Boston,
Mass., and arrived in Chicago, Ill., on
Thursday, over the Michigan Southern
Railroad, was robbsB of all the first-
clkss mail matter it contained. The
package consisted of registered letters
au< i the supposition is that a large
amount of money was secured by the
postal thief,
The sub-prefect and German consul at
Havre, France, have arrived at a friendly
agreement in regard to the outrage at
the German consulate in that city, where
the escutcheon on the front of the build¬
ing was torn from its place by unknown
persons. The consul now awaits the
German ambassador’s consent to the re¬
placing of the escutcheon.
The fund to defray the expenses of the
defense of Mr. Parnell and his associates,
in meeting the charges brought by the
London Times, now amounts to £11,000.
The Freemans Journal asserts that over
200 Irish policemen have been placed at
the witnesses riispositi who >u of the London Times at
may be useful in proving
its charges against the Parnellites.
A fast West bound freight train on the
Erie Railroad ran into the rear of anothei
freight near Otisville, N. Y., on Wednes¬
day. The brakeman, George McMullen,
was instantly killed. Engineer Willard
Hector was badly scalded. Conductor
John Hawkins had his foot cut off, and
the leg ol the fireman, A. A. Cronk, was
severed from his body. Before tlie flag¬
man could be sent forward, the East
bound express No. 14, dashed into the
w reck and cut off the leg of Hawkins,
who was lying on the track insensible
from the injuries received in the first col¬
lision. Two engines and a dozen freight
cars were demolished, but no passenger*
were hurt.
At the annual session of the American
Missionary Society, held in Providence,
R. I., three colored men made addresses.
First, Rev. Joseph E. Smith, ihe of Chatta¬
nooga, Tenn., spoke ubout evils ol
caste to the colored race. President
Taylor told of the colored delegate to
the world’s missionary conference in
London, who was for ten days the guest
of Lady Kinnard, and said lie nevei
knew anything of color-caste feeling be¬
fore coming to America. He thought
this prejudice is deeper than color, that
it is a matter of race. Rev. B. A. Jones,
of Memphis, the Tenn., colored took for of his subject, socie¬
“Evils to race secret
ties.” Itcv. J. B. McLean, Paris, Tenn.,
spoke on the evils to the colored race ol
intemperance.
GIFT TO NEGROES.
Daniel Hand, a prominent and wealthy
resident of Guilford, Conn., has given tc
the American Mission.try Animation,
of New York City, the suiu of $1,000,000
to be held in trust by the association,
the interest to be devoted to the educa¬
tion of colored people of tho South.
The association is said to have unre¬
stricted charge of the expenditure of the
interest, except that it must be devoted
to the education of such colored people
as arc needy aud indigent, and such ns
by their health, strengih and vigor of
body and mind give indications of effi¬
ciency and usefulness in after life.
Daniel Hand, the donor of this gift, was
a omcer in Charlcs’on, S. C., before the
War, and beimg of Northern sentiments,
was forced to fly to the North when the
War broke out, leaving all his property,
of about $130,000, in oiiarge of George
W. Williams, his confU ntial clerk and
a Southerner. Mr. Wiliams used the
property profitably Southern dunug pine the War, lands and
by investing in be¬
came very rich. Six years ago Judge
Luzon B. Morris, of New Haven, counsel
for Mr. Hand, udvised the latter to seek
a settlement with Mr. Williams. Air.
Williams went to New Haven and
honorably paid up the original sum
and interest, the amounting installment to $048,000,
sending This on last wiih two years
ago. amount, accrued inter¬
est, forming the great bulk of the sum,
is now returned to the South by Mr.
Hand. Under the terms of the trust*
not over $100 is to be expended colored on the
education of any one person.
TO BE TESTED.
The East Tennessee directors have de¬
clared a devidend of 5 per cent, on first
preferred stock. Information has been
received in New York by officials of the
East Tennessee company that papers
have been prepared by legal officers of
Georgia and Tennessee, for proceedings of the
to test the validity of the lease
E ist Tennessee to the Richmond & Dan¬
ville railroad. It is claimed in the pa-
pers that the East Tennessee forfeits its
charter by the lease.
WASHINGTON NEWS.
WHAT THE UNITED STATES OF¬
FICIALS ARE DOING.
President Cleveland went to New York
to review a Democratic business mens’
parade.
The Comptroller of Currency has de¬
clared a dividend of five per cent, nuvk-
ing in all fifty per cent, upon the claims
of the credilon of the Exchange Nation-
ft l Dank, of Norfolk, Va.
Dr. Knott, of Atlanta, Ga., is in Wasli-
ington in attendance on Burgeon General
Hamilton about his discovery in regard
to yellow fever. He says: 1 “Wherever
yellow fever is epidemic I have always
noticed that there was a blue mist in the
foggy air which arises from the earth af¬
ter nightfall. It is then that the real
nnd greatest danger of infection is to be
found. This bluish tint which I speak ol
is caused, in my opinion, by the presence
of a dangerous amount oi phosphorus iu
the air. And this phosphorus is really
what develops the geim. It gives
it vitality, something to feed upon,
and as the infection is more cer¬
tain afier nightfall, I consider that one
of the best foundations for my theory.
The blue mist I speak of is never notice¬
able during iho hours of sunshine.
Now, if the presence of a large amount
of phosphorus in the air really produces
the oisease and propagates it, I certainly
have a remedy. Everybody is familiar
with which the phosphorescent Jack O’Lautern,
in swampy and marshy countries
is so common. I contend that the same
causes which produce this wizard of the
swamp, produces the fever-breeding
germ. I was iu Chattanooga in the cp-
idemio of 1878, and I observed this bluo
mist, and the air seemed poisonous and
siQfening.”
The following is «n accurate and com¬
plete account of all of ihe governmental
expenditures authorized during interested: the past
session, in which iho South is
Iu the matter of public buildings, tho T<>
following is a complete statement: and
improve and repair the courthouse
postoflice in Atlanta, Ga., $120,000;
completion of the courthouse and
po-totliee in Augusta, Ga.,
$100,000; building purchaseof Birmingham, site and commence¬ Ala.,
ment, of at
$150,000; completion of building at
Huntsville, Ala., $50,000; continuation
of (Savannah, Ga., courthouse and post-
office building, $75,000. Protecting the
light station on Sand Island, Ain., from
encroachments of the sea, $12,000. Pro¬
vision is made out of tho general appro¬
priation for maintaining post lights, to
aid navigation on the Savannah, Ga v
river. To coutinue the primary triangu¬
lation, from Atlanta towards Mobile,
$3,000; Tesurvey of Mobile hay entrance,
$3,000. the for appropriation construction of $5,000 of
made in 1885, the a
roadway to the National cemetery near
Marietta, Ga., is made available for ex¬
penditure, notwithstanding the limitation
imposed by the original act. The ap-
pioprialion for providing Ga., the heating build¬ ap
paratus of the made Macon, public the
ing is also available without
Original limitation. Expenditures to be
made m the improvement of rivers aud
harbors during the present fiscal year:
Brunswick harbor, $35,000; Cumberland
sound, $112,500; Altamaha river, $10,-
000; Chattahoochee river, $20,000;
Coosa river, $00,000; Flint river, $20,000,
of which sum $5,000 is to be expended aud
between Albany and Montezuma,
$15,000 below Albany; river, $12,500, Ocmulgee portion river,
$15,000; Oconee be expended the a
of which may on river
between Skull shoals and the Georgia
railroad bridge; Savannah $21,000; rivei
between Augusta and Savannah,
Jekyl creek, $5,000; Romerly marsh,
$4,633.77. In Alabama the following:
Mobile harbor, $250,000; Alabama river,
$20,000; Black Warrior river from Tus¬
caloosa to Danipl’s creek, $100,000; Tal¬
lapoosa river, $7,500; Warrior river be¬
low Tuscaloosa, $18,000; Tombigbee
river from Walker’s bridge to Fulton,
$4,000; Tombigbee river $5,000; from
Fulton to Vienna,
Tombigbee river below Vienna, $0,000.
Provision is made out of the general pro¬
vision for the following surveys with
the view of future improvements, should
thev be deemed necessary: Flint
river, rock reefs at Albany and above;
Savannah river, above Augusta and be¬
tween Augusta and Andersonville ;Oconee
river; Ocmu'gee river. In Alabama:
Channel in and along the Coosa River,
from the rapids at Wetumpka already to connect
wilh the improvements com¬
pleted above the Ten Islands; Warrior
River, from Tuscaloosa to Demopolis for
deepening and widening the channel
with a view to the easy transportation of
coal; Choctawatehee River, for low wa¬
ter navigation.
OFFICER SUICIDES.
Thomas Douglas Hoxsey, a paymaster
in the United 8tates navy, committed
suicide by shooting himself in the head,
iu a secluded spot iu tho handsome
grounds of a family residence at Hale-
ion, N. J. The deceased was stationed at
Brooklyn, (N Y.) navy yard. About
two years ago his wife died.' Since then
he has been depressed in spirit,and at limts
despondent.
BIG THING.
Negotiations aro being made with
Alvin Clark, of Boston, Mass., by the
University of Southern California, located
at 1,< s Angeles, for making a telescope
iliat will have iv 42-inch lense, B inch s
larger in diameter than the great Lick
equatorial. With this glass the surface
of the moon will be v.si'ffe as it would
be to the naked eye if it were only sixty
miles away.
Unreliable I'liinese.
“Tbe Chinese Learned are very persistent,” re¬
marked Alias to a gentleman
visitor.
“J don’t know about that, It seems
to me the character of a Chinaman is apt
to be wish-he-washy.”— Texas Eifi lugs.
No Time to Waste.
Clerk—“Gloves, did you say, Alias?
Something with six buttons?”
Country Girl—“Without buttons. I
ain’t got time to fool away half au ho~ur
every time J put ’em on.— Life.
BUDGET OF FUN.
HUMOROUS SKETCHES FROM
VARIOUS SOURCES.
Watering and Frogglng Milk—In-
herited Traits—(lotting Even
With Her-Nearly Ex¬
hausted—Etc., Eic.
Thu doctor said: “This is n stone,
And proof there is in plenty,
Tlie frog’s linen in it nil alone,
Buy, eons ten or twenty.’’
A granger scoffed: “Sir, if you please,
It’s t know, and tell hunk you truly, of cheess,
Made nothing down hut in a Ashtabula.
—Job Fish, Jr., in Pack.
Inherited Traits.
Blitlins (wrestling with his infant—
“1 never knervbefore how much Florinda
takes after me.”
Wife —“Takes after yoc, How?”
Blitlins—“ Well, to begin San with, she
has my hair—ouch!”— Francisco
Examiner.
Getting Even With Her.
“John, Mrs. Quiver (waking in the night)— down
I’m sure there’s burglars
s t a irs 1”
’em Air. burgle." Quiver (sleepily)—“Stuff! Let
Mrs. Quiver—“O, John! didn’t you
promise at the altar to protect me?”
Mr. Quiver—“llnhI And didn’t you
promise Judge. to obey me! It's a stand off.”
—
Nearly Exhausted.
'"Young Man (to editor)—“Did you re¬
ceive a poem from me, sir?”
Editor—“I believe I did.”
Young Man “After looking it over
were Editor—“Yes, you able to do anything had with strength it;”
1 'just
enough left to throw it in the basket.”—
Lazar.
Went to the Hail.
Woman (to tramp)—“Have you got
any friends or relatives?”
Tramp—“1 have a brother, Bill.”
Woman—“Is Bid a tramp, too?”
Tr.imp—“No; Bid didn’t turn out
very well. He tried most everything
and finally drifted into the milk
ness,” —2'ime.
___
How Ho Got There.
Friend (todentist)-“Nowthat you’ve
got the Custom House job you were
after teeth' 1 s’pose 1 you’ll J b give up 11 pulling b
Dentist—“Yes, indeedy.”
Friend—“How did *ou J manage to get
that iob Charley?”
Dentist—“I had a strong pull..”—
SirUnai J J '
Ile Enjoyed Water.
“Ah. that is nice and refreshing,”
said Billy Bliven, as he set down tho
-id
tho landlady
“Yes,” replied Ilillv, enthusiastically,
“If there’s anything that 1 do en.oy its
a big refreshing draught of pure water.”
Merchant Traveler.
Tliat Greedy Dog.
“What is the baby crying about,
Ma"' ie?”
“ldon’t know, mamma.”
“And what are you looking so iudig-
nant about*”
“That nasty dog’s been and took and
eatou my sponge cake!”
"Why, 1 saw you eating b sponge 1 b cake
i minute a*'Ol”
“Uh, that was baby’s!”—JR* York
World.
\ Punishment Fitting the Crime,
First Counterfeiter—“Jimmy, did you
know that the garret had been burglar-
ized of every J one of that last batth of
dollars ”
Becond Counterfeiter (bitterly)-“And
yet they call this a well policed, law-
abiding city, one consolation, the sin
of the infernal thieves will find them out.
They’ll be sure to get caught shoving
that stuff. It’s the poorest lot we even-
turned turned out out. —Sifliuos Sift ing*.
A Little Munir prides
Young Mr. Sissy J (who 4U himself
on hi. r Ilk. ,o
hear mesmg before 1 go, would you.
would , ,m b il be W 80 kind. ft" (iv., YeS ’ * ir; if lf y ° U
* b r?“l* 1 ""- r i "7T r
antgca singing. ay cn.
Something Burning.
They were sitting on the porch ancl it
was growming late.
“Would you mind if I lighted a cigar,
Miss Clara?” he asked.
“Certainly not, Mr. Sampson,’’ the
replied. And presently old
the man, who was
getting ... desperate, . , spoke , from ,
window above: au open
“! .
“Daughter,” overshoes he the said left my rub-
her near k.tchen stove and
you had be ter sec to ’em I can smell
something burning. '-Philip F. Welch.
Ifis Sentence Commuted.
“Evelyn,”said young Mr. Buttercup
huskily, “speak one word of hope to rao.
Do not crush me with yourdisdatn. You
say you do not love me now, hut if 1
should come to you at some future time,
perhaps—perhaps—oh, sad condition. Evelyn, you see
my Ought I not cold to dis re-
ceive missal?” something more than a
*
“i'erliaps so, considering your condi-
tion,” said Evelvn, Joftly.
“Then,” exclaimed the young man,
joyously, “yon would change your sen-
tence
“Ninety days,” murmured the beauti-
ful girl.’’— Chicago News. •
A Dialogue With a Cltninx.
Scene, ncriy married pair on bench in
nark. Old gentleman supposed to be
asleep. t-ho—“Aly darling!”
He—“Aly dovel”
She—“My doggie 1”
He—“Aly puss c!”
She—“Aly duck!” birdie!”
He--“Aly pretty
She—“Aly kitten!” goosie!”
He—“Aiy ckee!”
She—“My ah
lie—“Aly lambkin!”
VOL. IV, NO. 6.
Old gentleman (interrupting brutally
— “Can’t you call each other Noah's ark*
and have done with it?’’— Idea.
A Witticism of Larry Jerome.
(hie of best stories told of the late
“Larry” Jerome is that when traveling
not very long ago ho stayed at a hotel,
the proprietor of which asked him, when
lie was about to depart, to sign his name
in a book not quite like an ordinary ho¬
tel register, but one used, after the
fashion of un old English custom, for
the purpose of obtaining tbo names ol
distinguished guests. about to place
When Mr. Jerome was
his signature with tlio others he saw
that the writer just before him had in¬
scribed the comment, “I came here for
change and rest and got it.” penned Quick bo- as
thought the witty clubman
neathit: “I also came here for change
and rest, but the waiters got rest.”—Aw the change
and the laud lord got the
York 1‘ress.
He Old It.
It is an unusual wit which enables its
possessor to be ns funny in speoch author as he of
>» on paper. W. S. Gilbert,
the “Bab Ballads,” is evidently ready
at any moment to thrust or parry.
Once, in leaving a largo reception, die
stood in the hall, waiting for a servant to
bring him his coat nnd hat. As he
lingered there a “heavy swell” descended
the stairs, took him for a servant, and
called out to him “Call me a four-
wheeler ”
Mr. Gilbert put his glass in his eye,
looked blandly at the young man and
sakl:
“You arc a four-wheeler.”
“What do you mean?” cried the other.
“Y’ou told me to call you a four-
wheeler, and I have done so. I really
couldn't call you handsome (hansom),
you know.”
Tlio Privilege Oenlwl Them.
A traveler, who returned from a two
weeks’ vacation among the Maine water¬
ing places, relates an amusing New England incident
that occurred at a small
hotel where he chanced to stop for a day
"’lulo journeying to Bar Harbor. , The
hotel small and the principal >
was a oue,
person in charge of the office was the
daughter of the proprietor, a buxom lass
of When probably the twenty mofning summers, of departure
camo
this fair Diana presented the hotel bill to
the traveler, and could it so happened that that
neither of them change a note
was tendered in payment In a gallant
traveler, who had something of
the Don Juan in Ins nature, al hough he
did live on Walnut street, smilingly of-
<? ,ed to the young lady and let the
change go. She drew herself up
haughtily, “I’d like you to know, sir,
that in this hotel we don’t kiss tran-
stents,” she replied in freezing tones.
“Such a privilege is only given to per-
manent boarders. Will you take a pros-
P ectl,s for nuxt season V-Philadelphia
Time*.
* ,*T rom *h° sowing of the seed to the
harvested crop the farmer is subjected
1° tlia ' ar,ia ds myriads of insects of
species known and unknown, and in
many sections to the depredations of
birds and mammals, all seeking to ap-
propriatc damage and sustained destroy by his Northern crops. farm- But
no
ers from crows, blackbirds aud the ever-
P r !^ , e8en ‘ E"t?* i8h sparrows ^ nce-tields can compare
w l n t 1 ® com-
nutted by tho birds called bobolinks id
the North, reed-birds along the Chesa-
peakc, and nco-birds in the bouth. In-
numerable hosts of these birds nut the
rice-fields at the time of seed planting m th the
V'*"*’ de !°"" n « ,he h '; t0 re ®
fields Hooded, aud , again at , harvest
are
time in the fall, when, if the maturing
ffrain is in the milk, they feed upon it
to a ruinous extent.
Dunn fc' tho P erlo ds of ‘, he ^ *“ . v “» .
8a vs a Government f report thousand, of
- boys bird-mmdera
men and called are
employed with gun* and millions of
birds are lulled. bti
vadlri -' the rice fields each year seem in .
no wa V diminished, and the agglegate
°' 8 occasioned is os tinaJed at
, According to the authority
quoted, ft ’ the bud is strictly migratory,
nppe ar g on the Bavaunah Giver about
tllc 10,h or ll5,h of A P ril and remaina
uotil perhaps the 2kth of May. It ap-
E’ ^ "liting i^cn'iS ;
as when unripe and in
the milk, gome lessening of its have ravages the
is gained by seeding irrigation so ns to before the
young rice under
"e—’«'■**
the immense losses annually occasioned
by birds in the rice fields of the South.
—New York World.
The Versatile Indian. r
Of all misunderstood and misrepre¬ North
sented people, 1 cons der the
American Indian the most so. By some
he has been painted an incarnate fiend;
b others he has been represented with as a
sage f and stoic, his mind stored
pl » llot0 p V hy , 5u demeanor grave, taciturn
nd de % ht!ng “ in f0 litude; his bod,
[ ble “ t endurance, and his
gp rit gU8tai ed by unflinching and courage.
By such wresting, would twisting make mis-
representation multiplication aa tabic, a poem
out of the or an
allegory out of n problem ot Euclid,
his childish fetishism has blossomed into
a sublime theology. His myths, which
are 1 ke the dreamings of insanity, are
remodeled to resemhl9 legends dash of of tha the
lives of tho saints, with a
Arabian Nights. With a language of
but little more than a hundred words
lie has become- the author of sublime
poems, dealing with the abstract and
the compf®. Even gentlemen discovered of that the
Alasonicfgiternity anticipated have the signs and secrets
has
of their order. He is described as
stoical, yet it is an every day affair down, to
see a full grown Indian buck ait
lifs up his voice and weep over tbe most
trifling disappoin’.ment. H e ts called
taciturn nnd loviDg solitude, and yet he
will chatter like a magpie; gossip is his
principal business in life, and ho will
ride lor miles to be the first to tell any
news; while there are not sufficient
inducements on this whirling globe to
influence him to live a solitary life for a
single .month. He is supposed to be
naturally brave and physically he pretend strong,
hut he is not, nor does oven
to himself to be either. —Forest and
is.ream.