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ELLAV1LLE POBLISMKG CO.
get Your Faces to the San.
nere’s a ringing glorious men-uro
jjtha march of life, my brother.;
we listen we may hear It all day long,
Vitb an undertone wholly of triumph smothers,
jio discordance •
And this is the cheerful burden of the
song:
“Forward 1 Keep the column moving 1 .
Perfect rest shall be our guerdon
When our missions sire fulfilled—our labors
done;
Duty’s path lies plain before us,
Whatsoe’er our task and burden,
If we bravely set our faces to the sun.
A Four-Footed Contest.
"Djoridgowka will kill tho stallion at
I (he first spring,” said tho Rajah, ia his
luy, arrogant and heartless way. There
I jjno tiger of hill or junglo that can
compare with my Djsridgowka (thun-
I der spear) for siz^, strength and feroci-
I ty. The white steed, were he twenty
I fold the equine hero you claim for him,
I g.hib Colonel, would not evade his
doom. He will go down like a shot,
tad you will no longer dispute my
guardianship over Mahaia, the demure
little Nautch girl under your wing
there." •
: ‘‘But your Excellency,” zaid tho
officer addressed, “if the stallion should
win, the girl will go to Bombay with
no, according to your august promise?”
r The Umky potentate waved his arm,
whoso j iwel-stiffenod sleeve fairly
blazed with tho movement,
f ‘You have my word, Sahib," was
hii supercilious reply. “The word of
j Djimpudra Hissan, Rajah of Nagpoor,
khis bond.”
“Certainly,” called out Major Poin-
deitcr, another red-coated officer of the
group. “But if you are so suro of your
tiger winning, Excellency, I will lay
you an additional thousand of rupees on
Iftdgka, the mountain stallion.”
Tho Rijah inclined his head in assont
tad the wager was duly registered by
laobicquious whito-robod secretary at
I ha elbow.
The arena was a deep walled circular
; pit, about 100 feet ia diameter, aad
•round this tho tiers of seats, with a
••parity of 5000 spectators, roso so
iteeply as to give overy one, even tho
hamb.est, a complete view of tho inte-
lior, aal yet grant immunity from tho
fcreest wild boast's spring*
Ia addition to tho throng of personal
j attendants surrounding th ■ R j ilia the
j gorgeously tapestried Stato compart-
aent sacred t > his accommodation there
»as a group of E tglish officers, rosplen-
fent in their scarlet uniforms.
The first ono of theso to whom tho
Rajah had addressed himself was Col.
lohun, and at his side was a singularly
I beauti:ul young Ilia loo girl, the Ma-
I k U&ke tala referred with to. Everything w is at
tho poor child ia tho unique
I combat that was about to ensue. Mo-
I tun had found her with a band of
I vhant dancing women or Hindoo gyp-
I >ies of tho Deccan, and secretly
I verified a rumor that sho wa* tho
I last surviving child of Muley Ilassau,
half brother of tho present Rijah of
Xagpoor, who had, aftor usurping tho
throno, foully murdcrod all tho other
fightful heirs, many of whom ho had
*v thrown as prey to his favorito tigers.
Ihe Rijah had only been prevented
(torn wresting Mahaia from her self-
constitutod piotector through a wkolc-
»mo fear of tho British couquerors,
ht had at last exortod hi* malign aad
still powerful insistence to such an cx-
tent that the present contest had beoa
•greed on as a test of tho girl’s guard¬
The Itajah agroed to pit his cham¬
pion fighting tiger Djeridgowka against
• whito stallion, likowiso uotod for his
oombativo disposition, that Col. Mohun
Wl obtained from the foot hills of tho
Western Ghants, justly celebrated for
tlieir fino cavalry stock, much of which
j*blooded, try. with a pure Arabian nnces-
Bhoull tho stallion win, Mihala
bo transferred to the protection
^powerful friends in Bombay, with a
Ifir prospect of ono day rocovoring at
j«ast Mould a portion of hor inheritance.
tho tiger come off tho victor,
•ho was to be surrendered uncondition¬
al to her cruel and rapacious kins-
whoso ’appalling charactor was a
’ufScicht guarantee of tho terrible fato
la that event awaiting her.
Th °
inero was a sea-like murmur of nn-
kipatioa, anfi a u O y 09 ^ O ro rivetol
tot ono 1 or two strong iron gratings that
Were side by sido in the wall of tho pit,
5n 8 ^ 0V( fi with its sandy floor.
An instant later it shot aside, and
‘hero was an involuntary burst of ap-
Iplause as the noble horse bounded into
I View.
I He was not large, but perfectly pro-
|portione<l, w y satin, wit^a glistening and tail coat, that as of
| a mano were
r 1'ght golden tingo, furnishing a con-
rs,t as uniquo ns it was harmonious
dutiful. Firo was in his cyo, the
' Jtiim'of speed and activity in his fine
® *i and, as ho curveted snorting
[* r ' °uad s the arena, it was noticed that
snail hoofs were shod with now and
* ar p stoel shoes, that fairly flashed
*° i running rivulet in tho sunshine,
»>th th 6 grscefal and airy movements
that scarcely seemed te touch the earth,
»ad yst were suggestive of fierce wari-
»«• a
and ■ expectancy.
Tho Rajah stroked his board
more and amilod once
again.
“It waa not mentioned in tho
pact that Nadgka com-
should be shod ”
said ho. “Still, I waive tho point-I
can well afford to.”
Then ho straightonod himself with
cruelly a
gloating and exultant look, and
there was a fresh burst of many throat-
od applause, not unmixed with terror,
as tho othor grating shot back with a
clang, and tho vaunted monarch of the
jungle, aftor springing into tho arena
with a snarling sort of roar, bogan cir¬
cling around and around it in ominous
siionco, with his eyos fastenod on ovory
movomont of the stallion, who coolly
kept revolving in tho contre, as on a
pivot, head down and heels invariably
to tho foe.
“Djeridgowka’s way—Djeridgowka's
pet trick 1” chuckled tho rajah, rub¬
bing his jowellod hands together.
“Sihib Colonel, in two minutes Nadg¬
ka s satin skin will be in red rioboasl”
Tho tiger was, for very truth, a
prodigy, evan for those days, when
larger and fiercer prisoners wore mado
than now. IIo was four foot tall at the
shoulder, precisely eight feet from tip
to tip, and correspondingly propor¬
tioned, with a ferocity that was at that
timj proverbial throughout India.
Round and round prowlod tho mon¬
ster with no more sound than would
havo been produced by tho footfalls of
a kitten.
Suddenly thoro was an exulting roar,
tho large striped bulk seemed to fly up
into tho air as though hurled by
springs, and he was seen to launch out
toward the white stallion a3 if projected
out of a cannon’s mouth.
But lightning-lika as was tho attack,
it was countered by a movement as
electric and as effec tive on the part of
the equine hero.
was a whirling sort of
flash, out flew the glistening steel-3bod
heels, striking the tiger in the chest
while yet in mid-air with the force of a
catapult, and hurling him back with a
resounding crash against the wooden
wall of tho pit till it fairly trembled.
The rajah frowned, while Mahila’s
soft face correspondingly brightened,
and tho bronze face of Mobun slow.y
relixeainto a smile as he drew her
sli-ht figure yot moro reassuringly to
his side; the entire British contingent
at tho same time bursting into a shout
that rang and reveibcrated over tho
shriller p'au lits of ths native onlookers
much like tho hoarse braying of a battle
horn ovor the squeaking* and c'aruor-
ings of the fifes and kettledrums.
“Another thousand on Nadgka 1”
cried Poindexter, excitedly fluttering
two fingers at tho potentate in betting-
book fashion. “A whole lac of rupees,
if I only had them 1 WW says your
Excellency?”
Djampudra-Hassan composedly nodd¬
ed his assent, and tho wager was re¬
corded.
“It was Djeridgowka 3 first miscal¬
culation; his impatience overreached it¬
self,” he said, stroking his board once
more. “AVatch him now.”
Apparently but slightly injured by
his repulse, thou;b panting slightly, tho
tiger had resumed his silent, watchful
circling* of tho uronn, seemingly with
no moro want of confidence in himself
than if they had not been in tho least
interrupted.
B it the stallion was now seen to have
changed his tactics so far that, wkilo re¬
suming his pivotal gyrations, his head,
in lieu of his hindquarters, were now
presented to tho front.
Another breathless interval of sus-
ponso, f olio wed by a fresh hurtling
spring on tho part of tho tiger.
B it it was countered even moro cun¬
ningly and effectively than boforo.
Crouching and gliding under the flying
black and yellow bulk, much as a
gazelle might croUchingly evado a 1am-
mergeyor’s hurtling swoop, out flew tho
glistoning heols again at just tho right
instant, this timo bringing up with a tre¬
mendous impact on the monsters fl ink,
so that when Djeridgowka’s revolutions
were resumed, a3 they were almost in-
stantly, it was with a sullen, half-gasp¬
ing air, and with a perceptiblo limp
that betokened more than a trifling in-
jury to his hips.
“Another thousand to five hundred
on tho white stallion 1” vociferated
Poindexter yet again over tho many-
voiced applause. “Is it a go, your Ex-
ceUency? Or I go you throe to one 1”
The Rajah's Oriental composure had
doffpenod into something moro than
Oriental glumnoss; and his cruel gazo
roamed from the tiger to tho littlo bo-
gum—now radiant—with a smoldering
fierceness of diisatisfactionj but he,
nevertheless, inclined his head majesti¬
cally, and tho third additional bet was
registered. again the tiger _ t
But again and was s
spring repeated, and with no better suc-
cess, gavo that on one occasion ono of
his mighty forepaws managed to fetch
tho bravo stoed a long raking stroko
along tho loias, ripping his skin into
strips and staining his silvery coat with
blood.
It was now a foregone conclusion that
Nldgka wouid be tho viator. The Eng¬
lishmen roarod thomse’ves hoars*; even
thq natives yelled their unrestrained
delight, in spito of their royal master’s
EUAVILLE, GEORGIA. THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 15, 1888.
displeasuro; while littlo Mahal* fairly
clapped hor hands and bounded in hei
seat at the side of hor stornvisaged pro¬
tector.
But Djeridgowka, though plainly dis¬
pirited, had as yot suffered no positive¬
ly disabling injury, and it was quickly
ovident that he intended to moke one
moro effort to rctriovo the day.
Without tho slightest warning he sud¬
denly changed his tactics by swerving
from his prowling circuit, and running
instead of leapiag directly toward tho
horso’s lowered crest, until within a
couple of yards, and then launching
himsolf forward, like tho veritable
thunderbolt for which ho was named,
full at Nadgka’s throat.
___
But the stallion was not thoro to moot
it, having danced to ono side with the
rapidity of thought. Tiien, and before
tho tiger could recover from tho shock
of striking tho opposite wall of tho pit
crash! crash 1 crash! successively woro
the steel shod torriblo heels launched,
each time reaching tho mark with ar¬
rowy precision and bone-crushing force.
And then tho junglo monarch was
seen running whimperingly around tho
skirts of the arena on three legs, and
with his jaw hopelessly broken—con-
quered f dofeated, and with the solo ob¬
ject of effecting a skulking escapo from
his victorious foo.
Tho R ijah made the sign by which
his favorito was permitted to makegood
his retreat, and thon, with a bow to
Col. Mohun, turned to go with hi*
suite.
"Oao moment, Excellency!” shoutoi
Mahala’3 protector. “Deign, if you
please, to formally announce that the
victory ii with Nadgka, End my little
friend hore is to continue uudisturbed
under my guardianship.'
The potentate did so with none of
the best graco, it must bo said, and
then took his departure with as much
haste as was consistent with his august
dignity.
It was none too soon.
The whito stallion, which had until
that momont remained proudly ia the
centre of the pit, suddenly reared him¬
self high in tho air, with flashing eyes
and floating mmo and then fell upon
his side— lead.
“Poor Nadgka!” commented Mnjoi
Poindexter, laying his hand on Mohun’s
shoulder, on which the littlo begum
was now sobbing as if her heart would
break. “See, his entire left ribs were
laid baro by that one stroko of Djer¬
idgowka’s paw. But never mind,
Mskala it free from the Rijah’s clutches
an 1 I havo won a pot of his money.”
And perhaps they didn’t mind, at
len t not greatly. M may had changed
hands; Mahaia, the whilom Niutchgirl,
was saved to become a g .'at magis¬
trate’s wifo in Bombay, and the mother
of a child destine i to deposotho usurp¬
ing Rajah of Nagpoor, twenty years
later aad restore tho rightful dynasty,
and a most decisive single combi,t had
been nobly contested and heroically
won.
But then tho hero was only a white
stallion—only ahorse!—[Oica a AVoek.
The Oil Tree of Ciiina.
The Rural Ilorticolo calls attention
to the valun of tho oil yielded by the
seed of the “oil tree” of China and
Japan. This tree resembles in habit
and ia foliage the common fig tree.
The fruit a napsulo the size of an
orange, formed of several cells, each
containing a largo thick-shelled seed.
These seods contain an active purga-
tivo principle, and are not edible. Thoy
contain, however, 40 per cent, of thoir
weight of a cloar, colorless, limpid oil,
possessing remarkable siccative proper-
tie 0 Thi 3 oil is used largoly in China
.
and Jipan in the manufacture of lac¬
quers, in making water-proof cloths and
in painting buildings and for lights.
An oil tree fivo or six years old may bo
expected, it appears, to produce nn
average annual crop of from 300 to 400
pounds of seed, It thrives on dry,
sandy, rocky soil, and 1m boon found to
succeed in somo parts of southern
Franco, where, and in Algiers, its moro
general cultivation is now urged. Ex¬
periments with this tree should bs made
in California, and as it is found in the
northern Island of Nippon, it may bo
expected to bo hardy ia many parts of
tho United States.—[San Francisco
Chronicle.
Adhesive Qualities of Onions.
Paper pasted, gummod or glued on to
metal especially if it has a bright surface,
usually comes off on the slightest prov¬
ocation, leaving tho adhesive material
on the back of tho paper, with a sur¬
face bright and slippery as ice. Tho
cheaper description cf clock dials are
printed on paper and tnon sluck on
zinc, but for years tho difficulty was to
get tho paper and metal to adhere. It
is, however, said to bo now overcome
by dipping tho metal into a strong and
hot solution of washing soda, after¬
ward scrubbing perfectly dry with a
clean rag. Onion juice is then applied
to tho surfaco of tho metal and tho label
pasted r.nd fixed in tho ordinary way.
It is said to bo almost impossible to
separata paper and metal thus joined.
Probably mstsl show tablets might ha
successfu l} treated in the same manner.
—[Scientific American.
PRESIDENT-ELECT
Harrison’s Friends Congratu¬
lating Him.
A. Semi-Official Opinion of
His Views Regarding
The South.
THE STATUS OF CONGRESS
STILL IN DOUBT.
The Democratic plurality in New Jer¬
sey is now put down at 5,0 H). The Demo¬
crats elect to Congress Geisenhainer in
the fourth, and McAdoo in the seventh.
The legislature will be Democratic by a
close vote. The Senate stands, Demo¬
crats, 11; Republicans, 10. This is the
first time in ten years that the Demo¬
crats have had the N. J. senate. Tho
closeness of the legislature will make
the contest for United States Senator
next AVinter unusually exciting.
The New York Times (Cleveland),
says: “The 51st Congress, according to
returns, will consist of 163 Republican*
and 162 Democrats. This Republican
majority of one may be wiped out, and
it may be increased by later correction*
of the list. Indiana has gained three
Democrats and Missouri has lost three.
Ihe Maryland delegadon is equally di¬
vided—three and three. New Jersey
gains a Democratic member. Virginia
appears to have chosen an almost solid
delegation of Democrats. The New
i ork Herald figures: 163 Democratic,
10 i Republican, 1 Labor. The New York
Hun ays the next House is *o evenly di-
videu ihat it will take an official count
to decii.e which party has a majority.
The New York World (Dem< cratic), says:
“New Yota state is 10,000 plurality lor
Harrison. Connecticut is 600 for Cleve¬
land. New Jeisey is 8,000 for Cleve¬
land. Indiana is doubtful. The Demo¬
crats have been claiming Illinois as a
forlorn hope. Illinois, with its twenty-
two votes, would probably elect Cleve-
and, despite the loss of New York.
Missouri has had a peculiar election, St.
Louis going Republican. The Democrat¬
ic state and national tickets, how¬
ever, are elected. New Jersey
is solid for Cleveland Cali¬
fornia is claimed for Cleveland.”
Returns throughout California come in
slowly, and as there are no complete
city or county returns, nothing of a com¬
parison with the vote of 1884 is possible.
Republican and democratic state central
committees both claim the state, the
former by 7,000 to 9,000, while the latter
claim a majority of 2,000 to 3,000. San
Francisco was carried by the democrats.
Republican Chairman Cnppeller The claims dem¬
Ohio for Harrison by 25,000.
ocratic committee makes no claim, ticket but
still say the vote on the national
is very close. The republicans gain two
congressmen—Moore in the 7th and Bur¬
ton in the 21st—and lose one in the 10th.
Mill’s majority in Texas two years ago
was over 6,000. This has been reduced
between 1,200 and 1,500. He will have
a safe majority of 4,500. The counting
is slow owiug to the many kinds of tick-
e a. J he fight in Mill’s district was very
hot, but no I rouble occurred. The tables
of the Albany, N. Y., Argus (the oldest
Democratic paper in the country), Cleveland gives
New AT rk to Harrison over
by about 10,000. Pennsylvania is
claimed for Harrison by 50,000 majority.
Delaware went for Harrison. The At¬
lanta Constitution has this opinion: “It
is doubtlul if President Cleveland has
carried any Northern state except New
Jersey, though both Indiaua and Con¬
necticut are claimed. It is equally doubt¬
ful if the Democrats hold the House.
The loss of congressmen in the North¬
west, where it was claimed the tariff is¬
sue would make phenomenal is probable gains, that can the
hardly be overcome. It
President,the House and the Senate will be
in Republican hands for the next 2 years.”
The latent reports show that in 440 out
of 1,806 precincts in Indiana, Harrison
has a net gain of 2,800. Republicans jEtar-
say confidently “Indiana will give
rison 5,000 to 8,000. The Demo¬
cratic managers say: “Our reports
show that we have carried the
stafo by from 3,000 to 5,000
unless the returns are tampered with.”
The family of Gen. Harrison (Presiden-
elect), is a most interesting one. It con¬
sists of liis wife, a matronly lady of at¬
tractive manners; his son Russell, who
has for a wife the daughter of Senator
Saunders, and bis daughter, who is
married to Mr. McKey. They are at¬
tendants upon tho Presbyterian cliurrh.
Piesident Cleveland takes the result
rnlmlv and philosouhically. He talked
quite freely about the returns and in¬
creased Republican vote, but expressed
not the slightest regret in the world at
any action he had taken during his ad¬
ministration. From what he has heard,
however,he concedes that he is defeated.
He attributes bis defeat to no one in par¬
ticular, and says that Governor Hill and
Tammany hall treated him with perfect
fairness, and that he has no fault to find
at all. Probably the coolest and appa¬
rently the hast interested man in Colum¬
bus. Ohio, was Judge Thurman, who
spent his time in the way he has done
for the past few years, quietly reading in
his library. He was free from opinions
as to the result, and had not been pay¬
ing much, if any, attention to the par¬
ticulars of tho election. Being asked for
an expression of his opinion, he
»aid he had nothing to say.
While President-elect Harrison is re¬
ceiving the congratulations of his friends
at his home in Indianapolis, fnd., the
inevitable storm is brewing around him.
The hotel corridors are filled, not by
distinguished strangers from abroad, but
by men bent after the spoils of office.
Those men are cheering for Harrison
now, but in a few months, when they
find there are not offices enough to go
around, they will be as loud in their un¬
precations upon him. In the meantime,
those close to Gen. Harrison have become
aware tint their utterances nro likely td
be regarded us the eehois of their chief,
and have become somewhat chary of
conversation. Ono of the closest friends
and neighbors of Gen. Harrison, and
who worked hard for his nomination, is
Dr. Wilson, In formerly of tho Buigicnl
Institute Atlanta, Ga., who lived
twenty years there, and was commander
of 0. M. Mitchell Post O. A. 1'.. Said
'l>r, Wilson: “I want my frienJs in At¬
lanta to know what kind of anran Gen,
Harrison is. lie l§ clear-harded and
free of nil entanglen*nta. When ho bc-
ci'ii'is President ho will recognize the
fact that Georgia and South f urVina are
ns much parts of the tJnion ns Indiana
and Illinois. He will bend to nothing
for mere parly purpose. I have had oc¬
casion to talk with him upon tho situa¬
tion in the Soutli long before lie thought
of the nomination, and therefore I can
speak heart. for Gen. the Harrison honest sentiments will recognize of his
tho
intelligence and virtue of either part of
the country, He is aware of the pecu¬
liar circumstances in tho South, which
he render politics tiiere ho such will a problem. If
cannot remedy, not irritate.
He evidently desires the elevation' and
healing full recognition of citizenship and the
of wounds, and the promotion
of harmony will be with him a labor of
love. My residence in the South and
knowledge of the noble character of her
people make* it a pleasure for mo to be
able to convey these assurances to my
friends there.” A staff correspondent of
a Southern Democratic paper says;
“There ure already signs of trouble ahead
in regard to the cabinet. The notice
semi officially conveyed to Mr. Blaine
that the memory of his visit to Iudiaua
was not fragrant, wag aggravated London by the
publication of extracts from the
newspapers in ivliich Gen. Harrison was
spoken of contemptuously, and Mr.
Blaine wms hailed as the realJiead of tho
next government. Gen. Harrison feels
theso taunts deeply, judgment, and though he is a
man of cool there are times
when he feels like asserting himself. A
near friend of his said: ‘Wherever
Gen. Harrison sits, w ill be the head of
the table.’ This wish to assert his own
individuality will force Gen. Harrison to
pass over Blaine, and select some other
man for the premiership,” In a double-
leaded editorial headed “Harrison and
the South,” John C. New’s paper, the
Indianapolis Journal says: “Gen. Har¬
rison is not merely a strong friend of the
policy which of protection the progressive to American people indus¬ of
tries, the
South desire to see maintained, but he is
in all other respects a patriotic American
statesman, large enough and broad
enough to take the entire country in the
scope of his vision and his efforts for its
welfare. We believe his election marks
the dawn of a new era of good feeling
between the North' and South, and the
development of a new national
sentiment based on a better
understanding of our common interest*.”
A story is in circulation in Covington,
Ky., that Speaker Carlisle ia to be de¬
prived of his certificate of election. The
ground of tins action is an alleged ille¬
gality of the ballots cast for him in Camp¬
bell and Kenton counties. It is as¬
sumed that if these are thrown out
his majority in the district will be over¬
come. The Kentucky law, it is said, re¬
quires that the ballot shall be plain features, white
paper, with no distinguishing
but the Carlisle perforated ballots were printed on
large sheets of paper, so that
when the tickets were torn apart, the
perforations appeared on the edges and
made them easily distinguished from
other tickets. W. H. Barnum, of the
Democratic National Committee, Itock* is seri¬
ously ill at his home at Lime Conn.
In answer to he telephone inquiry, sick it was
learned that was taken a week
ago while in New York, ne returned
to his home Monday and his illness as¬
sumed a dangerous character. Trouble
was caused by overwork, re¬
sulting in nervous prostration,
in regard to the congressional situa¬
tion the New York Evening World, of
Thursday says: “Is Congress, as well
as tho presidency, lost?” As the belated
returns from the congressional tho come in
the complexion doubtful. of House is grows possi¬
more and more It a
bility that the Republicans may have
control of the 51st Congress. The Dem¬
ocratic majority of 18 is dwindling away.
Estimates made by tho Democrats
bring the margin down to two votes.
The Republicans are claiming that the
full returns will give them the House.
This is very improbable but a distinct
possibility. There Lave been some sur¬
prising Republican elected gains. three Congressmen. Democratic
St. Louis has
The Republicans make apparently well
based claims to three gains in Michigan.
But the Democrats have gained in Vir¬
ginia. New York’s delegation is un¬
changed as to parties. The fact of the
situation, is that there are enough dis¬
tricts yet uncertain to turn the House
majority either way. Chairman Brice,
of the Democratic National Committee,
concedes Harrison’s election. The Re¬
publicans carry California from 5,000 to
10,000, Indiana by 3,000 to 4,000; West
Virginia is still in doubt. It will re¬
quire an official count to decide thp re¬
sults. Full unofficial returns from New
York state place Harrison’s plurality at
12,000. The New York Evening Post
makes the electoral votes stand: Harri¬
son 233, Cleveland 168, giving The indica¬ West
Virginia to the Democrats.
tions are that the Republicans have ma¬
jorities in the legislature of West Vir¬
ginia and Delaware which give the p irty
two additional Uniled States Senators.
PRUSSIAN ELECTIONS.
The elections for members of the Land¬
tag resulted in favor of the Government,
the Extreme Right and the Left losing
seats which were captured by the Moder¬
ates. On church and school questions there
is a majority against the government,
consisting of Conservatives, Centrists
and Poles, is still possible. The lower
House of the Landtag will not meet be¬
fore January. The Reichstag will meet
in a short time.
RESCUED.
Ten men in a small boat belonging to
the British steamer Sax Mundham, be-
fore reported sunk in collision with British the
Norweigan bark Nor, in the
Channel, have been rescued. Theremain-
ning twelve of the crew are probably
lost.
THE WORLD OVER.
INTERESTING ITEMS BOILED
DOWN IN READABLE STYLE.
rna field of i.auoh—skktiiino caul¬
dron OF EUROPEAN 1NT1UGUE—FI11K8,
SUICIDES, ETC.—NOTED DEAD.
The Spanish government will not pro¬
test against the seizure of the Spanish
schooner Gracio by the United 8 ates
revenue cutter, admitting that tho seizure
was justified.
Seven waiters and anarchists have
been arrested in connection with the ex¬
plosion of dynamite bombs in the registry
offices in tho Rue Boucher and Rue Fran-
caise, in I-aris, France.
A report conies front a town in Alsace-
Lorraine of a conflict between the Ger¬
man and French sympathizing populace. officer,
Tin 1 people threw compelled stones draw at an his sword.
and he was to
In accordance with a decision of tho
special naval committee, the English scheme gov¬
ernment announce an admirably
to build eight first-class men-of-war, a
score of swift cruisers and many torpedo
vessels.
The largo hotel at Long Beach, on the
const, about twenty miles from Los An¬
gelos, Cal., with nearly all its costly fur¬
niture, was totally destroyed by fire od
Thursday night. Loss, $91,000; insur¬
ance, $15,000.
There was trouble between tho Repub¬
lican and Democratic judges of election,
at San Rafael, New Mexico, over an at¬
tempt by the former to secure the poll
books, Provenclier, one of the through judges, the
and an old citizen, was shot
heart aad instantly killed by tho attack¬
ing party.
On Thursday, the upper story of the
building occupied by the wholesale
grocery house of Jacob Wellaner,. in
Milwaukee, AVis,, was gutted by fire.
The loss, which was caused mainly by
watir, is fully $100,000; fully insured.
Three firemen narrowly escaped death by
suffocation.
The Bishops of the Methodist Episco¬
pal Church began their semi-annual ses-
sion on Thursday in Boston, Mass. The
Episcopnl Board is made up of ten mem¬
bers. Two of these bishops—Taj lor and
Thoburn—are missionary bishops, and
have jurisdiction and authority, one in
Africa and the other in Indiu.
Mr. Gladstone received an address
on Thursday from the Birmingham na-
tionalists, in reply to which he said that
the Irish cause was no longer dependent he de¬
upon one life. The liberal party,
clared, had taken up home rule, and
they never had yet espoused succt-szful a great
cause without achieving u
issue.
Anna Dickinson, lecturer nnd actress,
lias begun suit in Ihe supreme court in
New York, against ihe Republican
National Committee to recover $1,250
for 8 rviees rendered during the cam¬
paign. She c’aims she was engaged in
September to deliver thirty lectures in
the AVest, and was to receive $125 for
each lecture and her expenses. She lias
received $3,750, but claims it was also
agreed that in the event of Harrison’s
election she was to receive $5,000.
In the French Chamber of Deputies,
on Thursday, M. Dreyfus moved that the
5,000,000 francs asked for by the gov¬
ernment to fortify the harbors of Brest
and Cherbourg be spent in building
cruisers and torpedo navies, vessels. lie said, The Ger¬
man and Italian were
superior to the French navy, and the
Gennan government was about to demand
250,000 marks to build moro vessels.
Admiral Kronlz, minister of marine, said
that when the Germans demanded that
amount he would demand a similar sum.
WASHINGTON NEWS. *
WHAT THE UNITED STATES OF¬
FICIALS ARE DOING.
Porter, Jacksonville, Fla., 1
Dr. at re¬
ports to the Marine Hospital service
that there were forty-seven new cases of
yellow fever und one death on Thursday,
making a total number of cases to date
4,355 and deaths 807. Dr. Porter sug¬
gests that arrangements be made for con¬
valescents and other persons who have
escaped tho fever 8 ) far, and wish ing to
go North without stoppage, to points
where frost has appeared this year, to do
so without quarantine detention disinfec¬ at Camp
Perry, with the restriction of
tion and fumigation of baggage and per¬
sonal wearing apparel.
AUGUSTA’S EXPOSITION
The music at the opening exercises al
the Exposition, opened in Augusta, Ga.,
on Thursday, was furnished bv Cappa’s
New York 7th regiment band and a cho¬
rus of several hundred local singers.
An oration was delivered by Hon. J. C.
C. Black, the leading lawyer of Augusta.
In the course of his address, he called
attention to the fact that Augusta had
water her power equal to 4,000 horse power;
that factories turn two hundred
thousand spindles and employ 5,000
hands; that they pay one million dollars
in annual wages and that that their pro¬
ducts reaches $5,000,000. He said the
property of Georgia had increased in the
last ten years $103,000,000, exclusive of
railroad property; while the railroad
property had increased $20,000,000, or
212 ored percent. people, he Property said, ownod round by col¬
was, in num¬
bers, $10,000,000, an increase in ten
years of 85 per cent. Governor Gordon,
also spoke, saying the auspicious opening
means that the Southern laud is taking a
departure right direction from tho old-beaten track in
the and at the right time.
At the conclusion of the addresses, Mrs.
Gordon, wife of the governor, touched
an electric key, which started the en¬
gines and set the machinery in motion
THE BEAR GROWLS.
The Russian government has notified
the Porte that, should the divorce of
King Milan of Servia cause trouble,
which would lead to the occupation of
Bsrvia by Austria, Russia will consider
herself released from hsi obligation not
occupy Bulgaria.
VOL. J V. NO. 8.
SOUTHERN STRAYS;
A CONDENSATION OF HAPPEN*
INQS STRUNG TOGETHER.
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MOVEMENTS OF ALLIANCE MEN—RAIL-
ROAD CASUALTIES—THE COTTON CROP
—FLOODS—ACCIDENTS—CROP BKTUllNS.
ALABAMA.
low There have been two new cases of yel*
fever at Decatur, both colored nurses,
but no deaths.
The Birmingham Age was on Thurs¬
day bought by the Herald,. The office, n ■ wpapei and
will bo issued from tho Herald
will bo called tho “ Age-Herald ." j
City Marshal A. n. Draper, of Oxford,
was shot twice in the left arm by Abner
Alexander, a grocery merchant of the
town. Alexander and a companion had
violated a town ordinance the night bo*
fore by popping fire crackers. Marshal
Draper made a case against them, and
when he went to summon Alexander
before tho mayor, he got mad and slap¬
ped the marshal in tho face. Draper and
then struck at him with his stick,
ing from pistols, that both with parties the result commenced above. flfcj «
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bystander he held Draper, or it is thought
would have killed Alexander. /
FLORIDA.
Dr. Neal Mitchell, president of tho
Board of Health, reports 34 new cases <M
yellow fever for twenty-four hours. Dr.
Martin, at Gainesville reports, that phy¬
sicians will not accept less than $15 per
diem, and even at that price prefer not
to visit cases which are principally will, ne- he
groes, and very insulting. He
added, employ them ut that rate until
otherwise ordered by the U. S. Govern¬
ment.
GEORGIA.
An Atlanta policeman named Yeal
was heavily fined and will likely be dis¬
charged from the force, declined for assaulting allow a
Mrs. Christian, who to
him to court her daughter.
KENTUCKY.
Five men were killed and another mor*
tally wounded at Lexington. In a and po*
litical discussion Champion Mullins
John Martin pulled their revolvers and
commenced firing at each other. The
former a prominent Republican, and the
latter a government official. Friends of
each took up the quarrel and twenty
pistols were pulled and a fusilade of
shots fired. Desperate men fought fox
several squares. The fight waa contin¬
ued for a quarter of an hour, when, fol af¬
want of ammunition, the sanguinary found
fray ceased. It was then that
Sumuel AYard, member of the Kentucky
Legislature; John Clifford, agent of the
Louisville & Nashville Road; John Mar¬
tin, government storekeeper; Frank
Stewart, an employe of the Kentucky
Central Railroad, and C. Mullins, were
killed, and J. Sambrook, merchant, bad¬
ly wounded.
NORTH CAROLINA.
Governor Scales, on Tlinrsday, issued
his death warrant for the execution, od
January 25th, of Howard ulias Bud An¬
derson, the mun who last July, at Golds¬
boro, murdered AV. II. Porter.
SEVERE ACCIDENT.
A train from Buena Vista to Americu*
Ga., was wrecked on Thursdaj’. It was a
special for Macon, with about 125 pas¬
sengers. There were two coaches
crowded with a pleasure party. Tho
wreW.UkurrCd at Reid’s Crossing, three
mihJTlx low Ellaville. The engine and'
three freight boles passed over safe, but
ofal* freigit left the track and waa
'wrecked” with the two their coaches. sides. The The
coaches turned over on
dead when found were as follows: Char¬
lie Scofield, age 16; Gerge Tyson, Jr.;
Henry Marlin, colored; John Vanover,
train hand, died in a few minutes after
being cut out from the wreck. The in¬
jured are: George Davis, Big Farish,
AV. C. Singleton, conductor; Nathan
Stewart, Miss Evie Wiggins, Judge J.
M. Lowe, Charlie Goodson, E. S. Bald-
win, Mary Ann William*, colored; Dr.
J. M. Cheney.
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For ladies of li^ary proclivities.—
Fliegende Blaetter.
About the beginning of the summer
somebody published the statement that
if ohe wished to havo good luck in the
daily transactions of life all that was
necessary was to watch the first hump¬
backed man or woman who chanced to
pass doftn the street and touch him or
her quietly on the Bump. At first tiie
idea was confined to tho theatrical pro¬
fession. Lately, however, the craze has
spread. AVomen, as well as men, have
taken up the idea, and the life of a con¬
servative humpback in Philadelphia is
far from desirable. Men vie with each
othor to touch him for “good luck.”
Pretty girls will cros3 the street, should
he be on the other 8 <^H| and with the
most insinuating smilowush i ast him
and place their hands for an instant up¬
on the back of his ceat. Should he seek
tho seclusion of the smaller streets, it is
only to bo handled more roughly, the for
the humbler the dwellers are more
it seems vo they imbued witii the. ideri
of the. Jack-bringing qualities of the
humpbacked man,— Philadelphia Times,
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