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ELLAV1LLE, GEORGIA.
About IS, 500,000 persons, it is esti
mated, pursue the scheme of study laid
down by the international Sunday-school
lesson committee.
The young German Emp^rcr is play
ing sad havoc among the generals. He
•hunled in 1888 eight corps commanders,
tw r enry-one commanders of divisions,
twelve brigadiers of cavalry and forty
brigadiers of infantry. Age has no
claim fo consideration in the young
monarch's eyes. Soldiers, I 10 maintains,
should be young and vigorous.
The proposal to saddle tho Lord
Lieutenancy of Ireland upon a member
of the Royal family is grotesque thinks
the New York Tr.bune. F’orty years
ago the island might have been pleased
with the compliment, but it is too late
now to dignify the office when it goes
begging among tho nobility, The
proper course of action involves legisla
tive abolition of the office.
The American sugar beet is sweeter
by about 33 per cent, than any other
beet on the globe, asserts the New York
Herald. We don't say this in a boast
ng spirit, but with modest pride. The
average extract of sugar from German,
French or English beets is 12 per cent.
But out in Nebraska the beet has got
itself down to business, and insists on
extracting 17 per cent, of “sweetnin”’
out of the “site.’’
Says the St. Louis Star-Sayings: “A
monopoly, the most arrogant and grasp
ing in this country, which is seldom
scored by the press, is tho National As
sociation. of Biff Posters. It is com
posed of thc one man in each city of the
Union who owns the largest amount of
boards and fence privileges. Any show
man who should come to this city and
patronize any oue but tho association
bill poster, would be immediately listed,
and nowhere in the country could ha
get his paper on tho walls, or at least
the walls controlled by tho association,
and that is about all the desirable space
to he found.”
A beautiful damsel was recently per
suaded by her admirer to elope, and the
ardent pair tied in a sailboat from the
wrath of pursuing parents. The lover
grew sick with the washing of the
waves, and at last succumbed, much to
the disgust of the bride, who ordered
tho captain to turn the boat’s head and
let her land. If more couples would
try a sea voyage before marriage, instead
©f a trip to Europe afterwards, there
might be fewer unhappy marriages; for
men or women look their worst when
the horrible sickness of the sea is upon
them.
The gallant British tar, who has been
thc theme of so much laudation in poem
and prose, seems, remarks the San Fran
cisco Chronicle, to have fallen on de
generate day*—that is if credence is tc
be given to what Euglish shipmasters
say. It is alleged that they favor Nor
wegmn«, Swedes or Germans—anything
in fact but their own fellow-country
men. While the English sailor still
possesses his old-time ability, if he cares
to exercise it, nevertheless he is so given
to drink that he is insubordinate and
quarrelsome to a degree—characteristics
which are lacking in aailors of other na
tjonalitics.
' Fhe morphine habit, which is causing
4Ueh an amount of talk in France, is re
ceiving attention from English reviewers
and medical men. It would appear, ac
cording to some of the commendations
®n the vices of dissipated folk, as re
corded by the Chicago Herald, that all
Borts of ghastly dissipations have been
adopted by women who have nerves and
other idiosyncrasies. On this side of
the water tea cigarette* have been super
seded by cigarettes filled with various
herbs, including opium, which are
smoked by women of London who run
to that sort of thing, while the number
of ingenious drugs which have been in
troduced among the women of Paris is
too long to enumerate. There is little
serious doubt about the extent to which
this particular form of dissipation has
taken in Paris, but most of the talk in
London apparently emanates from pro
fessional alawnists, who are forevar
writing to the editors of the daily press.
SCHLEY COUNTY NEWS.
A Lowell (Mass.) paper says that the
outlook for cotton mills in thc North is
dark.
The words “patent applied for’* are
invalid as a protection against infringe
ments. Unless the patent has been
actually granted, it is no good to the iu
vent or. This is a recent decision of a
United States court.
Latimer, the Michigan matricide re
cently sentenced to life imprisonment,
can flatter himself that only five or six
cases as monstrous as his have been
known in criminal annals in the last
fifty years. lie is being mentioned even
in Europe.
Tho Johns seem to be international,
observes the Prairie Farmer. There are
John Chinaman, Jean (John) Crapeau,
John Bull, and Brother Jon-athan. The
four Johns represent more millions of
humanity than any other four nations on
earth.
Lord Wolseley, Commander-in-Chief
of the English army, has been lecturing
to the Woolwich cadets, and adjured
them to avoid the conceit which he said
was the beset ing sin of t e British offi
cer. He also advised them earnestly to
continue their studies after they had re
ceived their commissions.
A rather curious course has been taken
with his employes by the proprietor of a
broom factory at Duluth, Minn, lie in
creased thc wages of the married men
and notified the single men that their
services would not be required after the
end of the month, unless they were mar
ried by that time, when they would be
retained at increased wages. “Whether
he lias found that marriage is a success
ful institution which he is anxious that
others should enjoy, or is selfishly act
ing upon the general principle that
matrimony hai a tendency to promote
the broom trade,” comments the Chicago
Herald, “does not appear.”
Talking base ball cost three bank of
ficials of Forest G’ity, Mo., $4500, the
other day. They were caught, as it
were, writes the base ball editor of the
Now Orleans Times-Democrat, off their
base outside the bank railing by three
daring bank robbers wearing slouched
hats and masks, taken into tho bank,
where they were considerably put out
by having to give up their bag. r Fbe
robbers, however, put a short stop to
their victims’ protestations, and, after
committing their foul outrage, left on
the fly for parts unknown. The bank
thus lost all the cash there was in its
coffers; and the moral is that it is a bad
plan to let business interfere with base
ball. That is, it is a bad plan for bank
robbers.
Secretary Tracy has issued a general
order calling the attention of the officers
and men of the navy to the repeated acts
of heroism performed by William Fooye,
a seaman of the wrecked Trenton. On
February 23 and on March 9 last Fooye
jumped overboard and rescued ship
mates from drowning, and again on the
latter date, when the ship’s propellor
was fouled by a rope, he went overboard
under the counter during a heavy swell
and removed the obstruction, which had
temporarily disabled the engines at a
time when the vessel’s position in the
harbor was unsafe. In the order Secre
tary Tracy says that such bravery and
devotion and duty merit the highest
praise. He directed that tho order be
read.
The bridging of the Rio Grande at
point after point suggests to the New
York Times how slight the geographical
barrier is between our country and the
republic to the south of us. Such a
spanning of the river has just been com
pleted at Laredo, while at El Paso,
some hundreds of miles further up, a
bridge is further supplemented by a
horse railway between the two coun
tries. There is a certain suggestiveness,
also, in the names of tho towns which
face each other at points along the
boundary. Thus the two between which
the latest bridge has been constructed
are Laredo and Nuevo Laredo. The
town opposite El Paso is El Paso del
Norte. Closely joined to the American
town of Nogales in Arizona is thc Mex
ican town of Los Nogales. It is true
that often these opposite towns have
been thc scenes of contention between
the citizens of the two countries, but
ceremonies like the bridge opening at
Laredo should suggest that there are
ties to bind tho two republics in inter
est and sympathy, ns well ns a natural
end an artificial boundary to separate
them.
GENERAL NEWS.
condensa tion of unions,
AND EXCITING EVENTS.
nvi non BVBKTvrHKwy— acciidkktb, stbikbs,
KmaR, AND BAFPENINGS Ot INTSIUE3X.
Leader* of the striking miners who
took part in the riot at Dortemunde,
Germany, May 10th, last, hate been sen
tenced to terms of imprisonment ranging
from two to five years.
A waterspout broke over the city of
Altoona, Pa., Tuesday, doing great dam
age. ilie rain came down in torrents,
overflowing the streets and bursting damage.
sewer*, and causing widespread
r>t Philadelphia, Thursday, Dennis
Donovan, twenty-live years old, acci
dentaliy kliot his brother, Thomas, four
year* younger. Dennis was so overcome
with remorse that he fled from the room
and cut his throat with a razor.
A *»*ci»l from Guthrie, Oklahoma,
»«y« the grand stand from which 1,000
people were witnessing an exhibition of
firework* at Oklahoma City, Thursday
evening, collapsed, and several persons
were killed and seventy-five seriously
injured.
The miners employed in the Bennett
vain of the Woodward shaft, at Wilkes
bane, Pa., operated by the Delaware,
Lackawanna and Western company,
struck Tuesday. They claim that they
are being unjustly docked for “boney’’
coal min'd.
The official vote of the recent election
in Harrisburg, Pa., as received and corn
puted at the state department is as fol
lows: lor the prohibition amendment,
236,617; against, 434,644; majority
against 138,02 ,. F or the suffrage umend
ruent abolishing poll tax qualification,
109071 . nwainst ’ 400324 ’ - ’ maioritv
acminAit uginuAi, 236 95°
Etuclare, Wis., held its first election
for a board of education, Monday. It
brought out a heavy woman’s vote,
prominent society ladies spending the
whole day with their carriages diking
women to the polls. The anti-Catholic
question was made very prominent in
several wards, but the candidates al
leged to represent the Catholic side were
elected.
The big brewery ot F dk, Jung– Bar
chert, in Wauwatesa. just beyond the
pity limit* of Milwaukee, Wis., was to
tally destroyed by fire Thursday after
noon. The loss is $1,000,000, and there
is an insurance of but $300,000. Two
bundred men were thrown out of era
ployment until the firm can rebuild,
The firm bad just completed a $100,000
addition, and put on a $50,000 ice ma
chine.
A large cave near Hermosa mining
camp, sixty miles from Las Cruces, N. M.,
ious been opened up, and i s interior is
lined with veins of almost pure silver.
It had tor years escaped the eyes of old
prospector* because there was nothing
about the cave to indicate mineral. It is
now thought the cave will exceed in rich
ness the famous Bridal Chamber cave at
Snake Valley, N. M., from which over
$500,000 in silver was taken.
Jack Snyder, of Danville, Ill., died
of hydrophobia Monday, on the public
highway near Unit city. He and his
family set out in a covered wagon from
Lehigh county, Pa., lor Missouri,
Shortly afterwards, Snyder was bitten
by a stray dog. At Danville, his coudi
tion was so serious, that the family came
to a halt. They wore in a destitute con
dition, and the body was buried in the
potters field.
“Red Nosed Mike,” who murdered pay
master McCluie and the stable boss,
Hugh Flannagan, in October last, was
hanged Tuesday morniDg at Wilkesboro,
Pa. He gave to one of the clergymen
who attended him a confession of his
crime, manuscript. covering 7 fifty-two confession pages has not Italian yet
no
been fully translated, but he admits hav
ing though killed he both McClure aud Flannagan,
asserts that he acted under
compuliion.
The World’s Sunday-School Conven
tion opened it* *ession in London, Eug
land, Tuesday. There were 900 foreign
delegate* present, including over 300
from the United State*. Lord Kinniard
delivered an address of welcome, and
Couot Bernstoff, of Berlin, and Rev. Jlr.
Cuyler, of Brooklyn, responded in behalf
of tbe delegates from the European and
American continents. The convention is
•itting in Dr. Parker’s “temple,” Memo
rial hall having been found too small tc
accommodate the delegates.
Judge Cummins, who has charge of
the cash relief fund, arrived at Johns
town. Pa., Tuesday. He says all suffer
ers will not get a share of money, only
needy onee receiving will.be funds. It is prt>b
able money given out on the per
centage plan, but the age of person, how
many children he lms dependent upon
him, and the amount of property he still
possesses, will all bo taken into consul
oration. Each applicant for cash reliuf
will have to uiske affidavit as to his loss,
and will have to have witnesses to the
same.
The jury in the Mungqnmaier murder
case, at Charleston, 8. (A,on Wednesday,
returned a verdict of “not guilty.” The
ease excited a good deal of interest at the
time of the tragedy (March 9th), but was
entirely swallowed up by the McDow
rrial, which preceded it. Six of the
McDow jurymen were on tho jury.
Public opinion was directed to those men
who had acquitted in a judgment confessed murderer,
and were to sit on a man
who at least had a good plea of self de
fense. The jury was out about two hours
and then returned a verdict of acquittal,
Ihe grain . firm . of . T L. „ 1 . ,, Webb T , , – . „ Co.,
of Dalton Ci ty, the Ill., have brought suit
for damages in United States district
court at Springfield, against the Peoria,
Decatu'r and Evansville railroad, compa
ny for $10,000,for alleged discrimination
in freight rate*. The plaintiffs allege
that IS. P. Heilman, vice-president of the
compauy, is interested in the milling bus
iness, and that the firm gets a rate of six
cents, while Webb – Co. have to pay
eight cents. It is the first case brought
in court under the inter-state commerce
bill, and will doubtless be taken to the
United States supreme court. It is to be
a test, case.
WONDERFUL MONSTROSITY
A CHILD WITH TWO HEADS-—ALIVJS WITH
NO INDICATIONS OP DYING.
The parents of this curious freak of
nature are Mr. and Mrs. Jones, who live
about five miles north of Kempton, in
Tipton county, Indiana. They are young
married folks, probably about 30 years of
age, and this is the mother’s second con
finement, the first child being two years
old and nothing abnormal about its de
velopment. The monstrosity,for wuch it
w, and a wonderful one, too, consists of
a.single, continuous body, on each end
of which is a well formed head. It is
provided with four arms and four legs,
which are also well formed and about
the normal size and shape. The arms are
, , , thc , ! H<3 ,
F al ^u Idera, ? one P r0 P pair 3r . P at f each a « end of the
! °ng b uly, but the lower hmbs protrude
outvuir d each side at the middle of the
elongated being. The two heads face
!i ‘ e same W:J N> an< ^ tbe a ‘o s are so attach
ed as to extend at right angles from the
middled * “" ' " ti.? *V«i”bilicu8,‘ sides of thaVSg the bony. ouVhe I here
is b t 0
an terior surface and middle of the body,
showing . that the entire . form has been
j i the through one and the same cord
ur ue: =• entire period of embryonic life.
Th a duMhVitv cmpncity in in.so so far lar as ns there mere are are
two . , heads, two ot limbs, two sets of
genital pair
organs and that the voluntary
movements of the two portions are no.t
in conformity. On the other hand, there
was but one umbilical cord, and t..e
junction of the two halves presents no
line ot original separation to prove that
the being has been joined together from
the start. Ope half of the creature may
be sleeping while the other is awake, and
at such times it is noticed that one leg
on each side conforms to the other vol
untary movements of the end of words, the
body nearest to them, or, in other
the two legs on the same side of tht
body are not controlled by one half,
The entire length of the body from head
to head is about two feet, and the weight
of the creature is twelve pounds, figures
which show ample size aud weight for
two healthy children. Up to the .pres
enjoying cut writing the babe or hair s is or are
good health, and the mother, a
small sized woman, is doing very well.
NUMEROUS .... ..^ A i ■« IMlrn HUSBANDS. . „
A -north carolin.^ , woman has five liv
* !A ^ JS ‘
Qn Wednesday, Samuel Nickson ap
peared before Register Cobb,at Charlotte,
N. C., and requested a marriage lice, a
tor himself to Isabella Davis. The L
cense was promptly issued, but before
ft had been used it was discovered that
the woman was already married and her
husband was yet living. Furiber inves
tigatioo revealed the fact that the was a
bigamist, aud consequently a warrant for
her arrest was put in the hands of an
officer. She was arraigned before a jus
tice of the peace. The evidence accumu
lated against her, and it soon was proven
that she has no w living five husbands,
The woman is only about thirty-two
years old. Her son, a lad about sixteen
years old, testified against her in court.
She married tne first time at fifteen, and
has lived with no one husband more than
eighteen months. She married first in
1872 to Amos Johnson, and separated the
following year. In 1375 she married A.
B. McCowe, and lived with him till
Christmas of 1876. Again, in 1878,she
married lied Abram McElmore, and left
him in 1879. In 1885 she married Paid
R. Holton, and left him the same year.
Sb e married William R. Ferguson last
year, but only lived with him a few
weeks. All are now living. All parties
have been bound over to the criminal
court,
A MADMAN’S FREAK,
Persons passing along State street, in
front of the Palmer house, Chicago, Ill
Tuesday afternoon, were bonified at see
i w CJ g a man, V clad only J in a sheet, climb
---.. w—
out of a window and deliberately walk
a ' on g a projecting cornice. Suddenly,
w ‘th a shriek, he fell to a projection be
* ow> ^ ladder was procured and an at
tompt was made to rescue him, when,
a ^ream, he threw himself to the
pavemeut below, fracturing his skull and
receiving other injuries, whieh will prob
a biy cause his death. He was evidently
' n3UllP > aD d proved to be George W,
Howe, a prominent young civil engineer,
Leadvillc. He was on his way home
from Washington, where he had been in
attendance as a delegate to the conveu
tion of Patriotic Boris 01 America.
A RUINED CITY.
A speeial from Durango, Col., says:
Monday afternoon a tire broke out in the
southern part of the city, and in an in
credible short time the flames, assisted
by a strong wind, spread in every direc
tion, leaping from building to building,
until h»lf of thc town was in ashes. The
fire was extinguished after the total de
^ . . , , , . . . bI cks
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inc luf ‘ c8 a " u ' ^ P^'P^ m busincss houses
^ <icnk . churches, portion of and the a portion town was of the also run- de
jtroyed. The k>»s is estimated at $300,
qqq, w j tb light insurance. The origin of
%e ie nupjjose^ to £§ju§eudtjiry.
SOUTHERN NEWS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM VA
RIOUS POINTS IN THE SOUTH.
1 CONDENSED ACCOUNT OF WHAT IS GOING OH Of
IMPORTANCE IN THE SOUTHERN STATES.
A new postoffiec has been established
at South Atlanta. Fulton county, Ga.,
with Luther S. Price as postmaster.
The third annual conveution of the
Georgia Weekly Pre.s association began
its session at Cartersville, Ga., on
Wednduday. There was a large atten
dance.
Frauk Smith, of Smith Statioa, Ga,,
was struck by lightning Tuesday while
standing in his sto^re door and instantly
killed. lie leaves a wife and several
children.
The county court on Tuesday, awarded
a contract tbe for building a steel bridge
across Tennessee river at Chatta
nooga, wlU to cost about $225,000. W ork
be begun immediately,
On Wednesday morning a serious ac
cidcnt happened three miles west of Ge
neva, Ga. The Central passenger train,
due at Macon at 7:30, jumped the track
while roundin 09 a curve, turning the
coache? over an Cu
injuring|severalpersons. _
The false Christ, who has been a
source of so>much disturbance among the
colored people of Hinesville, Ga., for
several weeks, was tried for lunacy and
convicted, It is now hoped he will
have apartments where he can do less
harm.
Beports from Charlotte, N. C., say that
the recent heavy rains has done no small
damage. „#’cone Bridges over creeks and rivers
/ g°ne and ana low low lands unus crons crops are .ire greatly nreatlv
imaged. The ram is said to have been
the heaviest known in western North
Carolina }a some years.
„ , P , b Graves, _ professor of mathamat
. !lt ,bc stat lt attempted
1CS e unl J er ^ J, to
comBait . suicide . , at T Raleigh, N. C.,
01 \, bumiay knif J b . v cutting his throat
' v:t ha I )en ' f Ue hadbeen \ Q bild
lea , tb lor ni otU ls » aiul , at tll 11 es showed
symptoms of . derangement He T I resigned
lus vvork at tLe last Februar y
Parson Duncan, residing near Newton,
-\hu, of his eloped neighbor, Saturday Miss with Baldree. a daughter Dun
po
Can’s wife was b a ried ihursday, and he
is known to have bought both strychnine
and morphine. The eloping couple de
P ait ed on foot towards Florida, and offi
tera are in pursuit. Mrs. Duncan’s body
will be exhumed and an examination
made.
The first bale of new cotton was re
ceived at Augusta, Ga., on Wednesday,
from Primus J'ones,being two days earlier
thau the first bale last year. P was car
ried to the warehouse of S. R. Wiston
– Son. It classed middling, weighed
390 pounds, and was auctioned off and
bought by George W.Swiudell for 12 1-2
^ ^ ^ ^ N * W
York.
The vestibule train, eastbound, on the
Chesapeake – Ohio Railroad, was
wrecked by a slide in the chute near
Gaa „ ^ r _, ^buisday , . There _
’ morning.
bad been a \eiy se\i re rain, which caused
tbe sli(ie - Geor – e W - Walsh, the oldest
en g lneer on tbe roa( T and bis fireman,
A '-n° s f name canu0 *' be learned, were
^hled. It was an unavoidable accident,
No passengers were injured,
A disastrous fire occurred at Savannah.
Ga., Monday night, involving a loss of
over $100,000. When the fire was rag
ing firemen had ascended on ladders,
when a wall of a building fell suddenly,
killing John Weir outright and injuring
H. P. Goodson seriously and Richard
Hart perhaps fatally. Ed Pacet ti, Messrs.
Lipinski, Davis, AlcEvoy and Strobhar
and Maurice Butler, were badly wounded.
Natural gas was struck Monday near
Cordova, Walker county, about thirty
lailes west of Birmingham, Ala. It has
a pressure of sixty-five pounds to the
square inch, and was struck at a depth
or 700 feet. It was discovered on the
property of the Cordova Coal and Coke
Company, and the experts in charge of
the work say there is no doubt of the
gas existing in paying qualities.
On last Tuesday, a new born colored
infant was found abandoned in James
City, a suburb of Newberue, N. C.
When found, it had only some strips of
clothes wrapped around it. In the bas
ket with it was $150, and a can of con
densed milk. Investigation led to the
arrest of Rev. C. H. Smith, colored,
pastor of St. Peter’s A. AL E. Zion
Church, on the charge of abandonment.
He was judged guilty, and fined $50 and
costs.
J. B. Dickens, formerly a prominent
lawyer and politician nt Manning, S. C.,
charged with forgery and burglary, was
arrested a few days ago at F’ort Worth,
Tex., and brought back for trial. Dick
ens stood high in his profession in South
Carolina, and, several months ago, when
warrants houso breaking charging him with forgery and
were sworn, his friends
at first refused to believe the charges,
but Dickens fled before he could be ar
rested. A big reward was offered for his
capture, and he was finally located and
arrested at Fort Worth, Texas.
The Young Men's Christian Assoclfl
tion lms grown to vast proportions.
There are 1,248 associations in America,
2,392 in Germany, and even in Japan
there are 200. It is un interesting fact
that there is an organization in Naza
reth, where Christ lived, and at Jerusa
lem, where He was crucified.
The number of old persons in Tokio, Ja
pan, who received a gift of money from tho
run purer iu celebration of the declaration of
tho constitution was 5560—5339 persons above
eighty and three. years alKJve of apje, l–Oyevs. 218 above ninety years