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KLLAVIUE PUBUSHUG CO.
Thoestinmlod population ol'tlio
State* to-day is about (15,000,000
The farmer< last year furnished
fourths of all the exportations shipped
from this country.
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The consular repirt on tho condition
of Brazil says that the population con-
sists of 4,000,000 whites and 4,000,000
me/.tizocs.
Five vears ago there wero five girls’
school, ill Yokohama am) Tokio, .Japan.
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,.il all «Umuo»lml well patronized.
Opt of 870 females who went into
imeiness for the.u-«Ives flftt Lade tear- G»on- £5
ing .to- ami shops .83
business imlures inside of seven months.
They’re, all -angels, but thev-are not ail
business bU8ine38 men mC •
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There , is a man m Hamilton County,
Ohio, who has run for a county office
twenty-one successive times aud been de-
r? *72 t n : t“. b '” i “ to
look a little blue anu that five, or six
more defeats will lead him to pause and
consider.
“I w!H kj 11 any man In tUi* r,„m (or
ten cents, exc aimed Pete H&mmii, as
he entered a saloon in Deadftood, Da—
kota, but the crowd turned loose and
shot Peter fuil of holes for nothing at
at all. A liberal spirit is seldom prop-
erly J rewarded in these cold day's.
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It has been discovered that at least
a portion of the “Great American
Desert” is underlaid by a stratum of
water which-may be reached by boring
from 100 to 200 feet, lhe wells ffow so
bountifully that one of them will water
thoroughly five or Six acres of land.
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The action of Judge Arfiold, of Phila
delphia, in refusing naturalization papers
to a Hungarian because the latter avowed
himself an infidel isa reminder, observes
the New • York Telegram,' that the days
are not so far off when Univer-alists
■were refused the,right to testify in court
because tllejf'stohd'in no'feafiof bell.
Mediaeval superstitions, linger in Aus¬
tria. * 'The'Bufgomasfer'hf ZuraRi, in
Galicia, has just instituted a jjrOsecution
before the Criminal Court of Solotwina
against a man named «Jean Kowalesink
for having “by his malicious sorceries
and incantations caused a hailstorm to
del Estate-tho fields ’of illiraki.” The
damages aio laid at 6000 florins.
The To'atco Plan,*, of Durham, N. C.,
tells how Colonel R. F. Webb, a Mexi¬
can veteran of that town, who saw Pro¬
fessor Morse and his daughter plant the
first telegraph pole, the other day sat in
his office in the Stirring little N6rth
Carolina town and sold tobacco by cable
over id London, sending the message and
receiving the answer without stirring
from his seat
At Charleston; W. Va., a company.of
young ladies, thirty-five in number, have
organized, elected officers, chosen uni¬
forms, consisting of blue dresses,
trimmed in white, and hold regular drill
meetings every Wednesday evening. The
arms used are wooden muskets, made in
exact imitation of the regulation article,
and the girls are said to be making re¬
markable progress in the manual of
arms.
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The habit of taking morphia is in¬
creasing.in France to a dangerous ex¬
tent, according to the. New York Post.
Among some wealthier circles it has be¬
come quite a fashionable custom, and
the most inveterate “morphia maniacs”
habitually carry about with them a tiny
phial of fhe drug and a small syringe
concealed, in a cigarette case, a scent
bottle,, yvork-case, or some other dainty'
trifle.
A whole sfealmboat' load of ivory has
lately come down the Qongo River, in
Africa; from regions where the native
know, little of its value; fo the European
trading-centre established by Stanley,
the explorer. This is good news to- the
manufacturers' of ivory, hut better still
to those who hate cruelty. For one great
object of the African slavcdiunters is to
probure the huriian cattle that carry the
ivory to the coast These dolorous pre¬
cessions of dying wretches wearing great
yokes of logs about their necks, besides
the freight they lug, will now be less
necessary to trade. It is calculated that
every tusk (worth $500 in London) has
cost at least one human life to get it to
the sea coast.
Our present Congress can boast of the
longest session on record. When tho
two’ Bouses of Congress met at noon on
Monday, October 1, the had , be-
session
come the longest by twenty-four hours
in American history. The longest pre-
ceding session was that of 1850, tboyear
of the-Missouri Compromise, which was
adjourned at noon of ’ September 30.
Constructively, says the New 1 ork
Olserver, the session of 1808, following
tlie impeachment proceedings against
President Johnson, was longer, the ad-
journment sine die having taken place
November 10, but, as a matter of fact,
ongress took a six weeks’ recess from
inly 27 and never afterward had a
quorum or attempted to transact any
busies*.
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INTERESTING ITEMS BOILED
DOWN IN READABLE Z3_L STYLE
THE FIEI.D OF LABOR—SEETHING CAPL-
DHON Of EUROPEAN INl'HIGUE—FIRES,
SUICIDES, ETC.—^OTEd DEAD.
Gen. Harrison is a blood relation of
the Hon. Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi.
u l’l Kurs th at this interesting piece of
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The IMtea BUM ateamtr Atl.nl..
now preparing tor a scant New York
will be sent for a cruise around the world
b y of tko Pahifia. The cruise
1 -las* three or four years.
has closed
*1 £ *’ ^ , he proprietors, I. Scovillc untr
Leaving mow OpLu* ' b * n8 * tl »£ ed c ^ ,\ ^’
y e ,:^ , alUed ’ ,he llabl1 "
ties tlL8 Wlb w ill reach r, «eh • j00 0 ® 0
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A* “ l0 papsl consistory in December,
a number of bishop* will he created,
no “ inati o n of cardinals has been
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experienced in the creation of the French
cardinals. ; _<
The principal bank of Osceola, Iowa,
closed on Thursday, and is in the hands
hi,* "him jipoS *io°ff L'k“mS
there is.$30,000 in the vaults. It is ru-
mored that the president has been spcc-
ulating in wheat.
Boston, Alass., has something of a
sensation in the shape of a man who
chasea g‘ T }^ d threatens to stab them
with a stiletto. He is a light comi>lex-
ioned man, with a smooth face, and
wears a Scotch cape over his shoulders,
'Under this cape he carries the dagger,
which he tries to use.
An explosion occurred at IJristol, Eng-
..la u d on W e <^e|day onboard the schoon¬
er United, which was loaded wfth pe¬
troleum. The vessel w r as wrecked and
three men Who were at work on board
were killed. The force of the explosion
was building so great as to wreck the windows in
the near the .scene of the explo
sion. .. *
Negotiations for the sale of the con¬
trolling interest in the vast plant of the
Connelisville Coke and Iron Co. to the
H. C. Trick Coke Co., were consum¬
mated at Ujiiontown, Pn., on Wednes¬
day. - The plant is the largest. in the
ConneHsvilte coke regions, and embraces
9,000 acres-of coal land, 1,800. coke
ovens and.many miles of-railroad trapk.
Gen. nurrison tendered Elijah Ilnl-
fotd, Managing editor of the prbi-te Indianapo¬
lis Journal, the position of
tafy. He was for a few private secretary
to the late Senator Morton. He shares
withHon.Wm.McKinley,of Ohio,the dis¬
tinction of having contributed a consid¬
erable Jliafe in the- construction of the
national platform, upon which the late
campaign was fought and wod.
Jake and Joe Tobier, colored, were
executed in the county’jail on Wednes¬
day at Wichita, - Kan., by the United
States authorities, Deputy Marshal
Howard superintending. At the scaf¬
fold, in answer to the question whether
they had anything to sav, both replied
“No,” emphatically. The crime for
which they were executed was the killing
of Cass and Godykuntz, near the Sac and
Fox agency,.in August, 1885.
Patrick Durkin, a baggagemaster, liv¬
ing in Erie, Pa., had both eyes burned
out and his face horribly disfigured by
his wife dashing a teacupful of vitriol in
his face at the tea table. The woman
fled and was brought back by her a policc-
man, and when Durkin heard voice,
sightless and suffering as he was, he
despite the ' officer,
sprang on her, and
nearly killed her. She was jailed, and
Durkin sent to the hospital.
At the closing session of the national
grange, held at Topeka.'Cal. elected Jos, grand H.
Brigham, of Ohio, ’was ‘
master and Leonard Rhone, of Pennsyl¬
vania, was selected to fill the vacancy on
the executive committee. A resolution
urging that United States Senators he
elected directly by the people was passed,
as was also a resolution adjourned, advocating pure
food. The grange leaving
the matter of the selection of the next
meeting place to the executive commit¬
tee.
The Ossermtore Romanoe states ttiat it
is unable to either confirm or deny the
report that the Pope is to leave Rome in
the event of war. It thinks, however,
that he would leave, though regretfully,
if the Italian government further con¬
tracted the iron circle that confines him
aud deprived him of all freedom iu re¬
spect to his actsand communication with
the Catholic world, or if his holiness had
reason to consider that Rome was no
longer a sure residence, either from a
material or personal standpoint.
The town Of Leavenworth, Ind., situ¬
ated on the Ohio River, and at the foot
of a high cliff of rocks, is in great dan-
ger of destruction by reason of the fall¬
ing of immense rocks from the cliff.
The residents are in a high state of ex¬
citement, and many, realizing the-ir dan-
ger, have rooyed- their families and goods of
our of the line of danger, The cause
the sudden danger is said to be the re¬
sult of the recent frosts and constant
heavy rains, which has carried the loose
earth from-about the rocks. <*
During the progress of the suit,
brought against the Rock Island Co., by
E Randall, an operator in the tele-
graph office, Manager Wood, of the
Western Union Telegraph Co was ora
dered to produce p in court at Kansas
a cnpy 0 f the “black list,”
wb ich he refused to do. The operator
wa s in the employ of the railway corn-
pa ny, and lie sued for discharged $25,000. damages, f j°‘“'
alleging that he was ° r
effectually
be wflg urfab j e to procure employ- be
men t. It is likely that a test case will
made of the matter.
The trouble with the local rail way
switchmen at Indianapolis, Ind., wfitch
^^^^i^Thuwlay. rlecliued hold further ' The sujerin- confer-
tel)dents to
cnPe concerning the demands of the man,
ud three-fourths of tho employes in the
R the city, closed work. Some
yards about the
little delay resulted to passenger
KLI.AVII.Li; GEORGIA. THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 29.1888.
tnun< tlw Rtrikera „ blockading the belt
'’
line and some of the qrp-lngl with
freight cars, but 'the trucks were soon
cleared. The trouble is tho result of a
demand by the men for $73 per month of
20 days, and 10 hours a day; also the
addition of one man to each switch en¬
gine crew. This demand the company
decline to entertain. In the yards of the
Beit Railway company wostot the city,
a gineers party or strikers draw compelled their three loco¬ en¬
to the fires of
motives.
Charles Eyck and Eva Henrcithcr wen
£ S”?
.p nt Satitrd., in bujing fun.1
t,,ro ,or two rooms that Eyck had rented
Lovcr tlnd sweetheart workod togethol
lavm « tho carpets Saturday night,
fv l< _ P irt ' ,d }L was to meet al
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Eyck did not appear at the »pp 0 inted
time, and Eva hastened to the rooms tc
see what could have detained her lover.
He h’”l not been seen about the house,
and his door was locked. Eva knocked
repeatedly, but got no answer. There Then
the jauitor forced tho door open.
on the floor, with his throat cut from ear
e.™i
work ever since the Coney Island res-
taurauts closed for the season.
SOUTHERN NEWS.
A CONDENSATION OF HAPPEN-
INGS STRUNG TOGETHER.
MOVEMENTS OF ALLIANCE MEW—RAIL¬
ROAD CASUALTIES—-THE COTTON CROP
—FLOODS—ACCIBENT8—CROP KETUBN8.
ALABAMA.
The family of William Morgan, a
white farmer, of Summerfield, Ala.,
were poisoned, and some ot them may
die. servant) They.ate food immediately prepared by fled. a ne¬
gro who
Near Warsaw, Sumter county, Ala.
Henry Jones, colored, .and his w ife, went
to a church festival. They left theii
three children, aged one, threo and six
years, locked in the house, and when
they returned about eleven o’clock, they
found the house in ashes and the thre«
child ran burned to a c.risn.
FLORIDA.
The cornerstone of the Florida Inter
national and Semi-Tropical Exposition
was laid at Ocala, Fla., with imposing
ceremonies. The program was as fol.
lows: Prayer by ReV. C. B.I Wilmer;
laying of the cornerstone with Masonic
eeremonies, under direction o{ Hon.
Ibury W. Long, as Deputy'GraniVTSTas-
ter.
Surgeon-Geueral Hamilton Thursday received
the following telegram on Fla.: from
Surgeon Ross, at Fernandina, One
new case of yellow- fever repoited for the
twenty-four hours ended 6 p. m.
A careful unalysis of the status
shows four cases of yellow fever
under treatment in Fernandina. On no
day since my arrival here has the total
number of-cases under treatment been so
small as ye-terd-ay. The yellow fcvoi
has about exhausted.”
MARYLAND.
A disastrous fire broke out on
Thursday night, and swept away almost
the entire business portion Md. of Permoc- The fire
kee City, Worcester Go.,
broke out in the office of Dr. J 4 C.
Smith, and spread very quickly, entirely
destroying two hotels and six w-are-
houses, together with their contents.
The loss is estimated at nearly one mil¬
lion dollars. No> lives are known to
h^ve been lost.
MISSISSIPPI.
Felix H. Van Ardo, a prominent drug¬
gist, was assassinated at Osyka,Miss. of lumber,
assassin, hiding behind a pile
emptied both barrels of a gun
with buckshot into Van Ardo’s breast,
killing him instantly.
SOUTH CATtOLINA.
The hoard of survey at Charleston, S,
C., of the steamship Sandringham, hai
ordered that thirty bales of cotton dam¬
aged by fire and twelve hundred bales
damaged by water to be sold and all the
rest to be reloaded. The vessel has been
pronounced safe and sea-worthy.
TENNESSEE.
Henry F. Woodall, Tenh., a very accidentally prominent
citizen of Nashville,
shot himself through hik the heart and on
Thursday. He took gun went
into the garden to kill a (rabbit thi: his wife
had seen. In a few mordents report
of the gun was heard. A negro boy
who works on the place went to the gar¬
den to’see if the rabbit had been killed.
On reaching tho fence the boy discovered
Mr. Woodall lying on the ground; a
stream of blood flowing from his left
,
side. From’the location of the gun, the
body and the condition-of the fence, it
is supposed that Mr. Woodall had
crawled through this opening in tho
fence, and was attempting to got his gun
through after him, when the hammer
caught on the wire, and in this way
caused his death.
VIRULVfA.
The official returns of the vote of Vir¬
ginia, are: Cleveland, 151,977; Harri-
son 150,442. Cleveland’s majority 6,535.
The vote in 1884, was: Cleveland.
145,497; Blaine, 139,356. Total 284,
858.
'I he Home Savings bank, of Norfolk,
Va. suspended on Wednesday. The board rca-
- -n assigned for the failure by the
of directors, is that reports recently circu¬
lated affecting its credit, produced Savings a run
on the bank. The Home bank
was founded upon the ruins of the old
Freeman’s Savings bank and had among
its depositors a number of colored people.
The great tobacco exposition and
trades display at Danville, Va., opened
on Wednesday with an immense crowd in
attendance. The parade represented city, the
great business and industries of the
and was a mile long. The tobacco ex¬
hibition embraces 1,800 samples of all
grades of tot scco from Virginia, North
Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee,
and is a magnificent display of the weed.
The colored people took a conspicuous
part in the street parade.
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$10,000; . partially insured.
hor the first day in some time, Sure
geon Martin has no new cases of yellow
fever to report from Gainesville, Fla.
The weather cool, but no frost.
Two negro women of Granvillle
ty, N. C., have’lieen arrested and nre in
jail on account of thrashing with a buggy
whip, cratlc ticket. a negro - tnan who voted the Demo-
It is learned that in Pitt county, N. C.,
one hundred negio women dressed in
men’s stateelectloii clothing, U^d weat to the This polls is in the
voted. a matter
to be iuvt*tig* ed.
Mp*«s Bmith. a hardworking miner ol
Brazil' Ind., has just been apprised of
the death of 0 relative in Wales, whereby
he inherits a fortune aggregating $100,-
000. Htpis sixty years old and without
a family. Ttoinas,
Rev. Tt. D. the distinguished
divine of the Welsh Congregational
church, died in Knoxville, Tenn., aged
71. He was a well known scholar and
his poet in Wales, and a leading minister of
church in America.
The Pope has instructed Cardinal
Gibbons his to congratulate Mr. Harrison on
election to the presidency. The
Pope has and sent a letter thanking Cardinal
Alarming the English Catholics for
their support of him in the pending law
question.
Lieut. Wissmann will wait on Emperor
William to resign his commission in the
army, and to state his plans for the Emin
relief expedition. He will leave Berlin
in three weeks to lead the first column.
Dr. Peters will have command of the
supporting column.
The harbored question regarding the fugitive
slaves by the mission station at
Alombasa has been settled by Messrs.
Alackenzie and Alathews, the British
commissioners, to the satisfaction of the
natives who have invited Air.* Alackeuzio
to a public freedom feast. The arrangement se¬
cures the of 1,500.
Dr. Neal Mitchell, President of the
Board of Health at Jacksonville, Fla.,
reports death. one new The case of jellow fever and
one just atmosphere Sunday
was iii the right state for a heavy
frost if the temperature was sufficiently
low. The mercury was at fifty. Its av¬
erage descent during the night for the
past week has been from 7 to 9 degrees.
The formal installation of Bishop John
S. Foley as the head of the Detroit dio¬
cese took place Sunday. He offered
ra yef a$d the priegls drew up before
irn in the order U seniority of ordina¬
tion, each Bendeu his knee and kis^d
the ring in recognition of his authority
and as evidence of submission. The
bishop afterward celebrated pontifical
High Mass. aud delivered a masterly
sermon.
E. AL Stanberry, president of the citi¬
zens’ bank of AIcConnellsville, Ohio, ar
rived in Chattanooga, Teiin., Weils, with a re¬
quisition for Lamar W. who was
arrested for obtaining a large sum oi
money from the banks at McConnellsville
and Alalta, Ohio, on fraudulent checks.
Tlie total amount of his ill gotten gains
is $7,055. Wells was taken to Ohio. He
drew checks on the Citizens’ bank of Bev¬
erly, Ohio, which were cashed by the
AIcConnellsville aud Malta hanks, when
be had no money to draw against. Wells
is the son of a wealthy West Virginian.
For several days past, the Brotherhood
of Locomotive Engineers in Houston,
Texas, have been in session. The en¬
gineers of the Southern Pacific Railroad
Co. have a grievance against J. J. and llyau,
master mechanic of the road, pur¬
pose- to make a firm stand againSt him.
The shopmen working said and under Ryan are
with him, it is will stand by
him. The Brotherhood appointed a
committee who left for New Orleans to
consult and arbitrate with the manage¬
ment of the road in reference to the
matter.
J. L. Onley, of Friendship, Crockett
.county, Tenn., last week wrote the fol¬
lowing message to Rev. W. H. Bruton,
editor of the State Wheel, of Jackson:
“I thought find you nothing were in editing it but a wheel pa¬
per. I rotten De¬
mocracy, and you can take your Democ¬
racy and paper and go to -. I am a
wheeler and a Republican.” Bruton
showed the card to the Federal authori¬
ties'and a deputy marshal was sent to
arrest Onley. He was taken to JackBon
on Saturday and tricu before a Unite I
States commissioner and held over under
a bond of $500. The lowest penalty for
such ah offemje is $100 fine and thirty
days’ imprisonment.
At a meeting of the Central Labor
Union held in New York City on Sunday,
the Freeman’s Labor Club and Waiters’
Union aak composed admission entirely the of ne-
groes, '.d to cen-
tral body, but were refused. It
argued ' that colored
was men
should not form separate unions, but
rhould be members of the unions with
their white fellow workmen, but: tlie r
admission in these cases were denied on
other grounds. A breeze was started
by a motion to petition the
Legislature to make eight hours a
day’s work, beginning June 1,
1890. It was referred, to the . building
trades, but in the discussion of the cause
of their same movement in 1886, T. V.
Powderly was rated severely for working
against them as was alleged. It was
decided to renew the boycott against
pool beer.
The Farmers’ Alliance has taken an im¬
portant and bold step to advance the in¬
terest of its members, who are engaged in
growing tobacco. It has been decided to
call a convention at Durham, N. C., to
take into consideration the tobacco in¬
terests as it relates to the farmers of the
tobacco sections of Virginia subordinate and North al¬
Carolina, and to ask each
liance in the tobacco section to send del¬
egates. The object of the meetings are
to discuss aud formulate some plan for
the relief of the tobacco farmers, to con¬
fer on the advisability of establishing tobacco,
warehouses for the sale of leaf
to formulate a plan to lessen the cost
of handling and selling farmers’ tobacco;
to discuss the advisability of estab¬
lishing places for the manufacture ol
tobacco in nil its branches, and such
l
other matters in connection with the
tobacco interest as may come before the
meeting. »
Joseph B. Miller, Commissioner of In-
ter mil Revenue, in his annual report to
the Secretary of tire Treasury, says that
the total receipts of tfie fiscal year end-
l U g jtmo 30>b, were $124,325,475, ah in-
crease of $5,480,174 ovir tho previous
year. Tiro estimated receipts for tire
rurreitt fiscal year are $125,000,000 pro-
vlded no change is made in existing
rates of taxation. Tho aggregate amount during
of taxes collected from tobacco
the year was $5,062,431, an increase ol
$554,804 over tho previous year. The
export account shows a decrease in all
kinds of tobacco, except cigarettes, oi
which 40,831,500 more wero exported
than last year. The commissioner recoin,
mends that the distillation of all kindi
of fruit brandy be herealter allowed un-
der the law regulating tho distillation oi
apple brandy, 'lhe commissioner ex¬
presses the fear that the law relation tc
oleomargarine is being evaded, and
rcccmim -mis additional legislation to se¬
cure its better enforcement.
JUMPED TO DEATH.
Tho programme at the Columbus, Ga.,
Exposition on Thursday, remembered closed with by a
tragedy who that witnessed will long it. bo The crowd in
those
attendance was the largest that has yet
passed through the gates many drawn
hither to witness the balloon ascension
and parachute jump of Prof. Vanoegrut.
A high wind prevented nn ascent, but at
4 o’clock lie notified them that ilie wind
having subsided he would go up, and at
onco proceeded to the inflate the air balloon. ship had In
a few moments vast
lifted itself from the earlh and tho dar¬
ing man the was air. swinging lie performed from the his trapeze usual
rope in
wonderful feats as he ascended, and
when about half a mile high, and just as
he liad pulled himself back on the bar
and w as kissing his hand to the eager
gazers below, the balloon burst. Women
screamed and men the'daring stood paralyzed, dashed ex¬
pecting the earth to see mangled aeronaut but with
to a mass,
wonderful presence of mind he cut the
parachute loose, and descended with
lightning rapidity some hundred Vandegrift feet, its
vast wings unfolded the and
swung it from beneath falling mass
of canvas, which came to earth like a
wet rag. The crowd greeted the narrow
escape with thundering applause,
and. the parachute sailed westerly.
The relief was but momentary, when the
cry arose “lie is going into J the river,”
and vast . crowd ,.r of men rushed , ■, to , the
a
bank an eighth of a mi e away lhe
parachute with its priceless burden of
mmpnuof i the Chatt,dtodhffffr*f!1lll'i|( V
the jetties John and D'rkm near and where C. «• two Hamburg, young
men,
who had been down the nver duckhunt-
! ing, had anchored their boat to watch
the ascent of -the balloon Ashe struck
the water he saw them and cried : “Bring
your boat here; come quick, for God s
sake.” Casting anchor they pulled fo
him and both mnng to the,forward end
of the boat and catching him and the
parachute tried o pull him in, bu the
great weight of the three of men the and the
parachute sunjr the end boat,
whmn fast filled with water.
hat the boat was sinking they
. him loos,-, and rush, d to the .other erai -
to restore the eqmhbnum. he boat,
which was now ha filled with . water,
floated, away and the unfortunate man
sank entangled in a mass of rope about
the now saturated parachute, to n«c: the nv
more in this life -Ho-was bound to
parachute, else lie conla have s*am to
the bank. The body was recovered a
few hours later. F. 1L Vand.rgnlt the of
unfortimate man, was about 24 years
®^ e .’ ‘.. )( 1 '
Bpnuns, West r v Virginia, . . . and , made r ha 1 *
first ascent in a balloon and jump with a
pnrachrite m August this je.r, sin,re
which time he has made forty-six sue-
ce ' s u ! ' 111 ' 11,1 J - I’--
UNEARTHING HIM.
Great excitement was occasioned
Wednesday in the Whitechapel district
in London, England, when it was
ported that another woman v had been
murdered and mutulated, The police
immediately formed a cordon around the
premises, and an enormous crowd soon
gathered, It was learned that
another murder had been at-
tempted upon ; a woman by a roan
but that in this instance, his work had
been frustrated. According to the wo¬
man's story, the mat had seized her and
struck her once in the throat with a
knife. succeeded She had struggled in freeing desperately, herself fr<
and had m
the man’s grasp, and had screamed
help; Her cries had alarmed the man,
Le had fled without attempting any
violence. Some neighbors, who had
heard the woman’s screams, followed
murderer for about three hundred yi rus,
when he disappeared from their sight.
The woman says she is fully able to
tify thegnan and gave a description
him to the police. The police are
ful of soon capturing him. Tlie woman
suffered only a slight abrasion of the skin
on her throat.
THE NATIONAL WEALTH.
United States Treasurer Hyatt has sub¬
mitted his annual report of the opera¬
tions of the Treasury, from which some
extracts are herewith given:—The net
revenues of the government for the
year ended June 30, ’88, were
074 aud tlfe net expenditures, $287,924,-
801, the surplus receipts available for the
reduction of the public debt being $111,-
341,273, an increase of $7,870,176
the year before. The Treasury balance
increased during the year from $69,224,- in¬
379 to $129,804,242 and total assets,
cluding from certificates of deposit m cash, The
$022,304,284 t'o $704,029,585.
net change of $00,579,863 in the balance
408 was produced and by an decrease increase of of $23,053,- $37,526,-
in assets a
394 in liabilities. The new silver vault
in the Treasury building having a capaci¬ and
ty of one hundred million of dollars,
said to be the largest Treasury vault in
the world, is being filled at the rate of
half a million a day. It will hold the
total coinage of three years, but at the
end of that period a stilt further storage
rook will probably suspended. have to bo provided
unless coinage is
WINTER GALES.
DISASTERS REPORTED ALONG
THE ATLANTIC COAST.
A TERRIBLE SNOW STORM IN NEW ENG¬
LAND—NEW YORK ALSO SUFFERS—A
SAVANNAH STEAMER COLLIDES—NOTES.
The sloop whose yacht Narngansott couTd be and a
schooner, name not as-
ceitained, broke -from their moorings
near Boston, Mass., during a snow Forest storm
on Sunday, and wont ashore near
river, the latter lying in a bad nosition.
The harbor is full of coasters and several
have dragged considerably. The storm
did comparatively little damage at Coney
Island, N. Y. The tide was unusually
Norton's high, and Point tho surf to tho roared eastern fiercely^ point from of
the island, off the Oriental hotel, but the
chief damage reported was the washing
away of some small frame buildings and ana
shanties between Norton’s Point
West Brighton. Tho Brighton
Beach hotel, which formerly was
in danger during Winter storms,
is now perfectly safe on its new site.
The first storm was very severe on and
about the shores of Staten Island. The
suow which fell throughout tho day was
“info'The night.^Tlm ”
d b|e f le and TOany £ v Me ls took
, h Uer |n tl e coveg ftbou the island,
There was a rough ferry-boats sea on the experienced bay, and
Staten Island
much difficulty in entering their slips at
3t. George. A large three-masted ship,
which was anchored oil Tompkinsville,
Bragged her anchors and drifted down
the bay and narrowly escaped colliding
with the United States cruiser Boston,
anchored at quarantine. Thu vessel was
finally picked up by a tugboat aud towed
to a place of safety. A canal boat loaded
with coal, while being towed through
Kills, foundered 1n a heavy sea close un¬
der the Staten Island shore at Mariner’s
harbor. A two-masted schooner with a
cargo of bricks from Haverstiaw fol
Elizabeth, N. S., was blown ashore cn
the veef in the Kills, off Constable Iiook,
and went to pieces. Her crew took to
the yawl boat and landed safely at the
oil dock at Constable Hook. Old “salts”
in Sailors’ Snug harbor followed predict by
that the storm will be
1 heavy suow storm Wednesday., 0<
The storm was terrific in the harbor
Portland, Me., and the damage to vessels
will be large. The breakwater was
washed many ^ich times during tho day,
iomt&i « rare i y ever happens. tho
rfafi ]it( ^ Undine got in
Ul h f , ho 9tom ftnd was almost de'-
sh, d. The double-cnder Terry boat
, luaWi . t( , u lan on the
Bouth } , 0 ,: t|flnd 8ldo ; The waves ran
h ^ h e h to - wa6ll hor lower deck,
Ur; deadlight £ scene was in
g(rild , Cached d 0ver nd over !lKii
a | point never touched
,, ef ’ J t i[t t e f grea t storm last
WJnte w n tho mon8t r wave8 started
buiidiog ^ from Its foundation. Captf
Trund (’ 0 he United States life-saving
8tatiol t ed: “No vessel sighted
- % La8t ni ^ ht we saw ge v-
j running ff T Kh , ltcr , we supposed,
J d Help ^pJ-Tarndy any t hill g 0 ff this coast to-
^ . ht „ } L added that it had
the w0 gt night had everexperi-
d The gravest f apprehensions portion of the are
felt {„ the 6a ttty Let. of
f The steamer Par-
, , - yfid B Cllrtrles ton, ’ 8. C. t from
u P 0 , left thero 0 n the 20th of
0ctob e ’ and experience<l ‘ a terrific hur-
- 0 ff the ba nk8 of Newfoundland,
fa - ch ^ ed two boats ftnd her
^ vesselulso sustained
Wlli i er „nni nff mavi 0 -
lect noit heast gale, sixty miles south,
west of apparent^ Hatteras, she sighted a dismasted
vessel, ’ P ? ^„ American, about four
hundr ed ^ ^ lst er, and saw leeward people
board r im de d to tho
of th(j wreck at grcat risk> bui the
steamer was unmanageable, and the
sea was too high to render assist¬
ance and' kept the ship away. Sa¬
The steamship City of Macon, from
vannah, Ga., collided with the steamship
Tallahassee, from New York for Savan¬
nah, Saturday night'. Tho Tallahassee
was struck on her port side a glancing thir¬
blow just forward of the fore hatch,
ty feet from the stern, cutting in three
of her plates above and between decks,
and about four inches below the watei
line,'but the opening was so slight that
she made but little water, and the cargo
in the lower hold, which consisted ol
railroad iron, remained undamaged. The
damage to the vessel is estimated at about
$5,000. The City of Macon was appar¬
ently not injured, as she continued on
her voyage. The American bark Aloro-
castle, 'bound from‘Philadelphia coal, for arrived San
Francisco with 610 tons of
at the Delaware, breakwater Satur¬
day night. The next .morning the
bark’s cable parted,and she was driven on
to the breakwater, where she went to
pieces. The crew were safely landed.
A three masted schooner parted her
chains, and was beached near the iron
pier. The-bark Hannah, from Philadel¬
phia for Limerick, and the sehoonei
William D. Alarvel, are repotted A sehcfoiiei ashore
in the harbor of Lewes, Del.
of about three hundred tons is ashore a!
Rehohoth life saving* station. Mttckie
Co.’s steamer Newhurg, of Leith, while
pn a voyage from Grangemouth to Aar-
hurs with coal, foundered in the North
Sea. Sixteen persons were drowned,
and one was rescued and landed in Nor-
way.' ^ ''
TrrE - story is going* the- rounds- of a
co'wlajy. of. tho Wild ‘West allow, who
wont' into a -London restaurant and-
ordered’dsfcjafc.’. exceedingly wliicfa.was He looked Jnreugiit. at it
him rare. and
a moment,, the® drew liia revolver,
blazed away at tlie meat. Of course there
was a panic, and tho police came about
the time that tlie revolver had been
emptied. “What on earth do you mean
by this conduct ?" asked the answered proprietor. tho
“‘What do I mean, pare! ?” the al-
cowboy. “Why,” pointing to
mo»t raw steak, “I wanted to kilj the
blamed thing.”
NORTH CAROLINA.
L. Edwards, dealer in dry goods, C.,
cloth’ng and shoes, at Goldsboro, N.
formerly of Wilson, N. 0., made au as-
signmeut on Thursday. Liabilities
$28,000; assets not known.
VOL. IV. NO. 10.
A FLORIDA CRIME. t
Interest in a horrible murder that oc¬
curred near Monticello, Fla., has been
intensified by the discovery that one ol
the men implicated is a -son of Mary E.
Bryan, tho well-known writer of New
York. Mrs.' Bryan wns*'-iu Savannah,
Ga.,. to look after her son’s interests, ana
le(t a few days ago for Thomnsviye, Ga.,.
where it is supposed she is still stopping.
The story she told is a pathetic one.
Just before the election she received a
letter urging her to come to Florida, as
her son was taking a very active part in
politics, and that it was feared that he
would get into trouble with the negroes
at the polls at Lloyd’s, Jefferson county,
where he voted. Her next summons was
a dispatch which read: learned “Come at that once.” hen
When slio arrivpd, she
son was a fugitive, with a suspicion of
murder hanging over him. Tho story of
Ids crime is tragic in tho extreme. In a
fracas in a mill at Lloyd’s station a month
ago lile he was stabbed, and nt one time his
was despaired of. .Who cut him was
uncertain, but a negro named Judsoo
Cason was suspected. On election day
Lee Houston, John S. Bryan, sou of the
authoress, and Arthur Duncan arrested
Judson. That night he was taken froml
a room in which he was confined! at
Lloyds, bound hand and foot; placed in
a wagon and carried ' two miles to the
Mkcosukie sinks. There he was stub¬
bed to death, at least a dozen ghasiy
wounds being inflicted. ' Five or Six
heavy stones were then tied-to the body,
and it was thrown into the yawning
abyss forming the mouth of the sinks.
Had it not struck au obstruction it
would have disappeared found. in the fathomless struck
opening ledge, and never been discovered It
on a however, was
next morning, and thus brought out the
story of the crime. m
BOULANGER'8 PLATFQRM,
M. Derouledo made a speech St a
meeting of the Patriotic League iiFf’aris,
France,-on Sunday, lie spoke in* term!
of warm praise of Gen. Buuluiiger3 Re¬
ferring to tho accident to the HussiaD
imperial train, ho expressed sympathy
with tlie Czar and rejoiced over hi* es-‘
eapefTom harm. Tlie speech was greptly
applauded, especially the -reference^ to
Gen. Boulanger. The Gauloi* says thal
the government intends to dissolve bri¬ the
Patriotic League. Access to the
quetting hall to out-iders was tlie barred
the public pollc ce, who prevented ■ propose nrri.vt
reception. The guests, on
ing,, were merely greeted with shouts of'
“Vive Boulanger” and made, “a has Flbquet.”
A few arrests were but the
ceedings,were, in the main, orderly. At)
followed tlie conclusion the meeting, of the_ ’ banquet, Boulaqgdr which
Gen.
made a speechTii-VUich lie said: “I am
more a patriot than a holdieiV I ardently
desire peaee, not. tlie pence, -which is dej
manded, hut a peace imposed by the a firm
and dignified attitude. That is only
peace acceptable to French hearts.”
♦ -— T V -
GERMAN AFFAIRS.
The German Itichstag assembled Oi$
Thursday at Berlin. ' The emperof
opened the session in person.- In Lis
speech he said the tours he, had recently ,
made, convinced him that the desire for
imperial unity was deeply rooted’ in th$
people. Tho emperor made no refer-*
ence to any'military hills or credits African ami
touched but briefly upon East
affairs. Settlements in Africa are a mat4
ter of interest to Germany. He said itij
the task of winning Africa to Christian
morality, friendly England and its par¬ ago*
liament had .recognized a repressing. century
that they must begiu by tne .,
trade in negroes and' slave hunting.
With reference to foreign relations’ fie
fcaid: -‘Our relations with all foreign
powers are peaceful. My efforts have
been unceasing to strengthen this peace.
The alliance with Austria arid’ Italy lias
no other object.' To bring without ne¬
cessity, the miseries even of a victorious
war upon Germany would be and incompati¬
ble with my Christian faith my du¬
ties towards the German people.”
HARD TIMES.
When the eccentric .old bachelor;
Luther James, died at Ann Harbor,
Mich., three months ago, he . left about
$250,000 to his nephew, J-. L. Babcock,
of Chicago, on condition that tho latte!
should marry within five years. Babcock
is settling up the estate, and his life is
made miserable by the number of letters
received from young women who are
anxious for love and fortune, He has
received offers of mafriage Phila’delphiay-Bafti-f from' ladies
in Ohic&go, Detroit; Cincinnati,!
more, New Y T ork, Richmond,
New Orleans and hundreds of smaller*
towns. His mail is grpwing daily and he
is e! mo tt., persuaded to forfeit the for*<
tune. 1
Y
LOANED TOO MUCH.
Macon, Ga,, had a sensation on"Wed¬
nesday over the shortage of O. F. Adams,'
city his" treasurer, amounting, according to, A
own statement, to $18,790.56.. .
week ago the finance Hudgins, committee board,
Alderman John D. chairman,
in examining the books for the last' quar¬
ter ending September 17th, tfjSoDvered $
cash shortage. Adams stated to Mayor
Price tlflfi he did hot know how tho
shortage occurred. Ad sms has fifeen
treasurer about eight years, and haasfceen
very accommodating in’ .the office# fre¬
quently loaning money ' to frienefa and
would constantly loan”the numermi s cm-
ployes of the ’citr government. Jr
SHUT DOWN- ? ‘
At a. meeting of .thean ver.cpff, opera¬
tors, held on Monday, it was. unanimVius- -
ly decided to shut down all the mines
along- definite the period.’This Monpngtjhela will River throw out for of an em¬ in¬
ployment 7,000 miners besides all the
river men engaged in taking coal down
the river and the mine laborers. The op¬
erators say the shut will be for two
months at least, 'they claim they cannot
sell coal to overlooked, an ..advantage now, as tha
market is and coal is selling
for five cents dir bushel, the lowest for
many ye:
Snow Jh inch deep is reported at
Mon tejpy, Mexico., and so cold was the
woatli* that Howe’s Girons, which went
out tli«, had to build a lire around the
elepiumt to prevent the aiiim m ‘
fr g U death. •fe
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