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THE HENRY COUNTY WEEKLY.
VOLUME XVI.
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«. r. CAMPBELL,
DENTIST,
McDonough G*.
Any one desiring work done can l>o ac
commodated either by calling on me in per
aon or addressing me through the mails.
Terms cash, unless special arrangements
are otherwise made.
Gao W. Betas j W. T. Dicken.
BRYAN A DICK ENT,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
McDonough, Ga.
Will practice in the counties composing
the Flint Judicial Circuit, the Supreme Court
•at Georgia and the United States District
Court. apr27-ly
J AS. 11. TIJRNKK,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
McDonouqh, Ga.
Will practice in the counties composing
the Flint Circuit, the Supreme Court of
Georgia, and the United States District
Court. marl 6-1 y
g J. REAGAN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
MoDoNouon, Ga.
Will practice in all the Courts of Georgia
Special attention given to commercial and
other collections. Wili attend all the Courts
at Hampton regularly. Office upstairs over
The Weekly office.
J F. WALL,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
McDonough, Ga.
Will practice in the counties composing the
Flint Judicial Circuit , and the Supreme and
District Courts of Georgia. Prompt attention
given to collections. octs-’79
■yy A. RROWN,
* ATTORNEY AT LAW,
McDonough, Ga.
Will practice in all the counties compos
ing the Flint Circuit, the Supreme Court of
Georgia and the United States District
Court. janl-ly
JJ A. PEEPLEN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Hampton, Ga,
Will practice in all the counties composing
the Flint Judicial Circuit, the Supreme Court
of Georgia and the District Court of the
United States. Special and prompt atten
tion given to Collections, Get 8, 1888
Jho. D. Stl.» art. J R.T. Daniel.
STEWART A DANIEL,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Griffin, Ga.
JOHN Is TIE.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Gate City Natio&l Bank Building,
. Atlanta, Ga.
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POPULAR SCIENCE NOTES.
Prof. Rogers says that every pound of
coal contains a dynamic force equal to
the amount of work a man will do in a
day.
It has been computed, as an illustration
of the cheapening of ocean freights, that
a half note-sheet will develop sufficient
power, when burned in connection with
the triple-expansion engine, to carry a
ton a mile in an Atlantic steamer.
In many out-of-the-way places it has
been found necessary to manufacture
nitro-glyeerine on the spot in order to
avoid the very high rate charged by trans
portation companies. Such has been the
advance in methods of making this ex
plosive that, with ordinary precaution,
thorough washing, and careful watching
of the various changes of color, it can be
made without fear of serious accident.
Steam in Navigation. —Until about
1830, according to Prof. Henry Dyer, the
boiler pressure in ocean steamships sel
dom exceeded 8 lbs. on the square inch
above that of the atmosphere. In 1845
the average pressure had increased to 10
lbs. per square inch, by 1850 it had
reached 15 lbs., and in 1856 a few com
pound engines used 30 lbs. As compound
engines became common, pressures sud
denly rose to 60, 80 and 100 lbs., and the
average has now passed 150 lbs. for
triple expansion engines and 300 lbs.
for quadruple expansion. The earliest
marine engines consumed about 10 lbs.
of coal per indicated horse power per
hour. The side-lever engines used about
7 lbs., and for the engines in use before
the general introduction of the compound
type the average was 4 lbs. to 4| lbs.
The first compound engines burned from
3$ lbs. to 3 lbs. In 1873 the average had
been reduced to 3.11 lbs.,in 1881 to 1.83
lbs., while at present the consumption of
some triple and quadruple expansions is
as low as li or 1± lbs.
Columbus and the Eoo. —Prof. E. J.
Houston, in his recent lecture before the
Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences,
in referring to the incident of balancing
an egg on end, gives the usual explana
tion that Columbus accomplished it by
cracking the shell. We are not prepared
to controvert this idea authoritatively,
but for many years have regarded it with
suspicion. Patriotism inspires in our
breast such a high regard for the one w ho
discovered the land upon which we live
as to forbid our attributing to him any
such disreputable trick. We believe that
others cracked eggs before Columbus, as
they have since, and stood them on end,
too, but, as there is another way of bal
ancing an egg without resorting to such
unfair means, we submit this explanation
as probably the true one of Columbus’s
feat. If a freshly-laid hen’s egg be vio
lently shaken so as to thoroughly mix
the yoke and white, and also to fracture
the air sack and allow the contained air
to rise, it is simply a question of manual
dexterity, within the reach of all, to bal
ance an egg, without cracking it, on a
perfectly smooth surface.
Telegraphing Without Wires.—
The problem of a “telegraph without
wires” has often been broached, but, so
far as I know, even the theoretical real
ization of this project has never been
seriously attempted until recently’, when
Mr. Edison gave fortlihis views regard
ing the matter. It would seem that Mr.
Edison has actually patented 11 means for
transmitting signals electrically without
the interposition of connecting wires.”
What he has to say regarding this sub
ject is well worth our attention. He be
gins with the announcement of his dis
covery that, if a sufficient elevation be
obtained to overcome the curvature of
the earth, and to reduce as far as may be
the earth's absorption, electrical signal
ing may be carried on by induction with
out the use of wires connecting the dis
tant points of signaling stations.
For signaling across oceans, says Mr.
Edison, thi- method will be very service
able, inasmuch as it does away "with the
use of submarine cebles; while for com
munication between vessels at sea, or
between vessels at sea and points on land,
the invention would be equally impor
tant. There is also no obstacle to its
employment between distant points on
land, but in the latter ca j e it is necessary
to increase the degree of elevation or
height from which the signaling oper
ations are conducted, because of the
induction absorbing of houses, trees and
hills.
Mr. Edison states that at sea he can
communicate electricity to a great dis
tance from a height of 100 feet. This
height could be procured from the mast
of a ship, so that signal; could be sent
from ship to ship, and communication be
established in this way even over oceans
themselves.
M'DONOUGH. GA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 6, 1892,
jNEWS 1$ GENERAL.
Happenings of the Da; Called from Oar
Telegraphic and Cable Dispatches.
what ib Transpiring throughout -oOr
OWN COUNTRY, AND NOTES OP INTER
EST FROM FOREIGN LANDS.
There were seventeen fatal cases of
sunstroke in Chicago Thursday.
Crane Chemical Works, at Springfield,
N. J., blew up Thursday night and ten
build ngs, composing the plant, wefe de
stroyed,
The deputy and acting comptroller of
the currency on Monday declared the
fir-t dividend of 35 per cent in favor of
the creditors of the First National bank,
of Palatka, Fla., on claims proved,
amounting to $261,550.
Return of triennial elections held in
provinces of France Monday for mem
bers of councils general have been re
ceived at Paris from 1,132 districts.
They show a republican gain of 110
seats.
A New York dispatch says: In accord
ance with the resolution passed at a re
cent meeting of the Richmond Terminal
advisory committee, defanlt was made on
the interes' of 6 per cent bonds
which was due Monday.
Ex-United States Senator Anthony
Kennedy, aged eighty-two years, died at
Annapolis, Md., Sunday morning. Sena
tor Kennedy has been in feeble health
for a long time, but the superinducing
cause was the excessive heat of tbe late
torrid spell.
The thirty-third or upper union mills
in Pittsburg started up non union at 4
o’clock Monday morning. The plate mill j
is running, and the other departments
appear to be in operation. A guard of
police is about the property and no
trouble has occurred.
A dispatch of Thursday from Bay
City, Mich., says: The relief committee i
finds that the extent of suffering among ;
the victims of Monday’s fire is so great !
that outside assistance will have to be
asked for. Two hundred and sixty
families lost everything and are in very
destitute circumstances.
Informations were made at Pittsburg,
Monday afternoon before Aldmerman
Reilly by ex-Private lams against Colo
nel Hawkins, Lieutenant Colonel Streater
and Assistant Surgeon Grim,of the Tenth
regiment, for aggravated assault and bat
tery. Warrants were issued. The charge
of aggravated assault was for tying
lams up by the thumbs and the assault
and battery for shaving his head.
The usual monthly statement prepared
by the treasury was issued Tuesday. The
figures are as follows: Aggregate cash in
the treasury, $783,979,286; net cash bal
ance, $27,050,286; increase during the
month, $357,909; decrease of interest
and non-interest bearing debt,
$398,905; decrease of certificates and
trea-ury notes outstanding, $569,051;
total certificates and treasury notes out
standing, $619,675,803, offset by an
equal amount of rash in the treasury; net
debts, $067,378,935.
Telegrams of Monday from Spokane,
Wash., state that Indiana on the Colville
reservation threaten an outbreak. The
Indians are greatly incensed at the fail
ure of the au'horities to eject prospect
tors, and even those who have heretofore
have been peaceably disposed, seem to
have taught the infection from others
and all are armed. The removal of all
intruders would settle the trouble, and
Indian Agent Cole has received official
notification that troops will be placed at
his disposal for this purpose.
Advices of Friday from Madison,
Wis., state that the constitutionality of
the recent democratic reapportionment
will be tested in tbe supreme court in
August. The paper, which is to be served
on Attorney-General O’Connor will be in
the form of a petition, signed by some
private citizens asking the attorney-gen
eral to institute action, and of course, If
the attorney-general refuses, action can
be brought in the name of the private
citiz n himself. No steps have been
taken as yet in regard to unseating the
hold over senators.
DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEES,
Exeantire and Campaign, as Announced
by Chairman Harrity.
After several Gays’ deliberation and
conference with Calvin 8. Brice, William
C. Whitney and Gov. James E. Camp
bell, Chairman Harrity, of the demo
cratic national committee, announced,
Friday afternoon, the national executive
-md campaign committees. They are as
follows:
Executive Committee—M. F. Tarpey,
California; Charles 8. Thomas, Colorada;
Carles French, Connecticut; Samuel Pas
coe, Florida; Clark Howell, Georgia; J.
J. Richardson, Iowa; Charles W. Blair,
Kansas; Thomas W. Bherley, K-ntucky;
James Jefiriex, Louisiana; Arthur Bew
ail, Maine; Arthur P. Gormau, Mary
land; Daniel J. Campas, Michigan;
Michael Dore, Minnesota; Charles B.
Howry, Mississippi; John G. Pra
ther, Missouri; Alvah W. Sulloway, New
Hampshire; Miles Ross, New Jersey;
William F. Sheehan, Nt>w York; M.
W. Ransom, North Carolina; Calvin 8.
Brice, Ohio; Samuel R. Hovey, Rhode
Island; Holmes Cumming9, Tennessee;
O. T. Holt, Texas; Bradley B. Smalley,
Vermont; Basil B Gordon, Virginia;
William F. Harrity, of Pennsylvania,
chairman ex officio; 8. P. Sheerin, sec
retary ex-officio.
The following compose the campaign
committee: Calvin S. Bdce, Ohio; A.
P. Gorman, Maryland; William F. Shee
han, New York; B. B. Smaller, Ver
mont; M. W. Ransom, North Carolina;
B. T. Cable, Illinois; E. C. Wall, Wis
consin; Josiah Quincy, Massachusetts;
W. T. Harrity, Pennsylvania.
Alter John Chinaman.
A dispatch of Thursday from Bois
City, Idaho, says: The police have or
dered 1. 11 the Jap nest residents to leave
town immediately. At Nampa the
Chinese were ordered to leave, and they
departed on the first train. A number
of Japanese escaped rom the smnllpox
camp at Nampa and flocked to Bois City,
but they were soon sent out of town.
Much uneasiness is felt tbit the smallpox
will spread to the city.
THE MAFIA AGAIN.
A Strange Letter Received by the Chief
of Police of New Orleans.
Chief of Police Garter of New Orlears,
reoeived a letter Saturday from what is
stipposed to be the Mali ■. following is
lb*- IclUrr: W&EttKHL
NxW Orleans, July 29.—T0 Chief of Polioa
Gaiter: We liavo in our p>*«e sion Judge Marr.
Will deliver him in your bands for SSOO, or «i,l
liberate him for SI,OUO. Wo will send you Ids
old clothes, etc., such as we found on his per
son, but b-ar ju mind, by one bad hr ak au
thorized by you. his body will be riddled with
shot; then sent ,ou fo a present. Thi» money
must reach us before twenty dais, unlaw you
will have his right ear. For farther informa
tion address general delivery, po-totlice, Chi
cago, St. Louis or New Orleans.
Respectfully, P. J. Musnk*.
It will be remembered that Judge Marr,
of the criminal district court iu New
Orleans, mysteriously disappeared last
April. He was old and feeble, nad waa
last seen walking along the levee. The
impressiou of his frieut'i was that he had
fallen into the riv< r and was drowned,
und that imDretai' n (till prevails.
IT IS GOV. JOKES.
Alabama’s Gubernatorial Vote ot (ou
tlay So Deciles.
TIIE END OF ran BITTEREST POLITICAL
STRUGGLE EVER KNOWN IN THE
state’s HISTORY.
>r
The bitterest political struggle ever
known in Alabama closed Monday and
the returns received so far coming from
the towns and cities indicate 'he elec'ion
of Governor Jones by a majority ranging
from sixty thousand to seventy thousand.
Kolb’s strength is expected from the
country beats which are out of the way
and hard to reach. When thev report
it is generally believed that Governor
Jones’s majority will be reduced and
j that it will finally settled down to be
j tween 20,000 and 40,000.
PASSED OFF %UIETLV.
No serious trouble isTeported from any
section of the state, and the only inci
dent which threatened, trouble occurred
in Selma. A prominent Kolb man named
Mcllwain took up a position at a box to
k.ep a private tally sheet during the day.
He persisted in the effort all day, and
when the polls were closed a number of
Jones men surrounded Mcllwain and
took away from him the tally sheet ho
had been keeping. At first, it seemed
that there would be trouble; but the
matter was quieted down without any
violence. 11
Later returns carry out first indica
tions. The counties of Mobile, Calhoun,
Jffersou, Montgomery, Dale, Dallas,
Russel, Barbour, Sumter, Bullock, Talla
dega, Walker, Lauderdale, Perry,
Lowndes, Wilcox and Marengo show
nearly 35,000 majority for the democra
tic ticket. Indications are that not over
fi teen out of the sixty six counties in the
state wiil give Kolb a majority, and not
one of them will exceed 1,000. The
legislature wili be overwhelmingly
stiaight democratic. Negroes voted in
great numbers the open democratic tick
ets. In mnny cases they were actual
workers at the polls. This was especi
cally the case in Birmingham The ex
pectation was that the opposition vote
would be the largest in years, but the re
sults do not show that this expectation
w. s realized. A conservative estimate
pluces Governor Jone’s majority at not
less tha 50.000.
TRADE REVIEW.
Dun A Co.’s Report of Business for the
Past Week.
R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of
trade says: The extreme hot weather
for the entire weok has checked many
kinds of business, hut hns not prevented
considerable excess in the volume of
trade over that of last year. At the same
time the weal her has been extremely fa
vorable for growing crops, except in the
limited districts where damage has been
done by violent storms, aud the crop
outlook is decidedly improving.
The great interruption of the iron and
steel manufactures at the west continues,
but there are distinct signs of a favorable
settlement. Fb ished products of iron
and steel are stronger—s 3to $5 higher,
but great dernora izaticn is expected in
pig iron unless more of the consuming
works start speedily. Bar and sheet iron
are very active, and the manufacturers of
plate and stiuctural iron have more orders
(man they can well handle, but no im
provement is seen in rails.
Boot and shoe shops are running full
of business, and shipments exceed last
year’s every week; being for the year,
thus far, 2,056.000 cases, against 1,967,-
000 to date last year. The shipments of
hides from Chicago have been 110,000,-
000, against 97,000,000 pounds last year.
At Baltimore the hot weather retards
much trade, though in dry goods and
boots and shoes and furnishing goods it
exceeds last year’s. At Pittsburg the
products of steel and iron grow stronger.
A little improvement appears at Memphis
and Little Rock.
Trade is dull at New Orleans, though
the prospects are bright (here, and at
Savannah the receipts of cotton are light
and the exports are slightly more than
last year, but the sales of plantation
stock for the week exceeds the sales of
tangible and visible cotton about ten to
one, aggregating 7,000,000 bales.
The bustne s failures occurring
throughout the country during the last
week, as reported to R. G. Dun & Co.,
number for the United States 171.
OIL ON FIRE.
Lightning Sets Fire to Tank* In the
Pennsylvania Oil Fields.
A Pittsburg, Pa., dispatch of Thurs
day says: During the prevalence ot the
thunder storm which swept over the
southwestern oil field Wednesday after
nnoD, lightning struck tsnk No. 17 of
the Southwest Pennsylvania Pipe Line
company, six miles from Washington.
The tank contained 87,000 barrels of oil,
end when it burst the burning fluid
spread to twenty tanks in the vicinity
and soon all were afire. The heat was so
intense that trains could not approach
within au eighth of a mile of the scene.
The loss ; s not known, but it is thought
to be very heavy.'
THE SOUTH IN BRIEF
Tie Itis of Her Progress Portrayed in
Pltly and Pointed Paragraphs
AND A COirri.ETE EPITOME of happen
ing* OF GENERAL INTEREST FROM DAY
TO DAY WITHIN HER BORDERS.
Twenty-two horses were lost by the
burning of Mack Bruce’s livery stable at
Stanford, Ky., Thursday.
A dispatch of Sunday from Memphis,
Tenn., says: The Memphis Passenger
Association is on the verge of disruption.
Tbe long threatened rate war between
the railroads centering here has broken
out at last and as a consequence, east
bound passenger rates have gone all to
pieces.
At a meeting at Savannah, Monday, of
the stockholders of the Middle Georgia
and Atlantic railroad a plan for the
formation of a syndicate was read. The
syndicate is to so be formed of gentlemen
already interested in the road and will
c imple'e the road from Macon to Eaton
ton. Subscription books will be opened
at once.
It is reported from Knoxville, Tenn.,
that as soon as the Knoxville Southern
railroad bridge is completed across the
river at that place that the Louisville and
Nashville would run through trains over
it from Cincinnati to Atlanta. This will
mean the purchase of the Southern and
Knoxvide, Cumberland Gap and Louis
ville roads.
A special from Austin, Tex., says:
Lightning striking the wires leading
from the plant which lights the state in
sane asylum to (he building, set fire to
the west wing of the structure at an
early hour Monday morning, and that
portion devoted to feiiinle9 was destroy
ed. Tbe remainder of the building was
saved The female patients, some two
hundred in number, were removed in
safety, none escaping from the attend
ants. The loss is $25,000, with no insur
ance.
Near Winchester, Ky., Sunday, six
boys were drowned in the Kentucky
river by the overturning of a skiff.
Their names are Kelley Farney, aged fif
teen; Claude, aged thirteen; Walter,
aged eleven; Charles, aged nine, all sons
of James 11. Farney; Algin Brock, aged
sixteen; William Br'ck, aged twelve,
Bona of Rev. Henry Brock. The hoys
were bathing in the river climbing in and
out of the boat and were thrown into a
panic by the boat overturning with some
of the small boys.
SHE IS INSANE.
So Soy the Jury in the Alice Mitchell
Murder Case.
A Memphis, Term., dispatch says: A
large crowd was in attendance at the
criminal court Saturday, it being an
nounced that Judge Du Bose would de
liver the charge to the jury in the famous
Alice Mitchell case, murderess of Freda
Ward. The defendant appeared calm
and collected during the reading of the
charge, the time occupied in its delivery
being fifteen minutes; the question of
sanity or insanity of the prisoner at the
time of the trial being the only question
considered. The jury retired at 0:30
and at 9:50 o’clock filed into the court
room with the following verdict:
“We, the jury, find the defendant,
Alice Mitchell, insane, and believe it
would endanger the safety of the com
munity to set her at Liberty.”
Alice Mitchell was then remanded to
the custody of the sheriff, and will be
ordered placed in an insane asylum.
Should she be released as sane at any
time she can then be placed upon trial on
the charge of murder, as she was only
tried as to her mental soundness or un
soundneas at the time of her trial, the
question as to her mental condition at the
time of the commission of the homicide
not being touched upon during her trial,
now concluded.
When the verdict was read by the clerk
a faint smile spread over the defendants’
featves as if she had been confident of
the jury’s verdict throughout the entire
trial. She was laken to jail, gayly chat
ting as she went, and will be sent thenae
to one of the state insane asylums.
COLUMBUS DAY.
Great Interest Taken in the Approach
ing Celebration.
The approaching celebration of Colum
bus Day by the 18,000,000 pnpils in
American public schools, is attracting
general attention. From prominent ed -
ucators, from eminent statesmen in high
places and from the humblest citizens
come words of commendation. It appeal*
to all classes and conditions becau e it
touches the institution which is closest to
the people, most representative of the
people and fullest of nope for the future.
Several thousand American newspapers
have championed the movement. A
bill recently passed congress authorizing
and instructing President Harrison to is
sue a proclamation making CoiumbusDay,
October 21st, a general holiday, and rco
ommending to the people a fitting ob
servance of this 400tb anniversary of
America’s discovery,in all their localities;
in their school bouses and other places
of assembly. Speaker Crip, when asked
a few days ago, “what do you think of
the movement for a national celebration
of Columbus Day,” replied: “The idea
of giving the genera! celebration of Co
lumbus Dsy into the hands of the public
schools impresses me very favorably. The
public school is certainly the most char
acteristic product of the 400 years of
American life. The public school stands
for the spirit of enlightenment which has
been the mark of life in this country.
The public school may have its defects,
but take it all in all, it is a superb
thing.
T. B. luurDS. the millionaire “truck”
farmer of Norfolk, Va., has purchased an
entire square of ground in that city and
proposes to erect on it a “widows’ home.”
The building will stand in the centre, and
the remainder of the trac. will be laid out in
lawns and gardens. Mr. Ballentine is with
out children, and has provided in his will
that the rents of his city property be applied
to the support of the home. He is a native
of Currituck county, N. C.. and began
truck farming in the vicinity of Norfolk
with a few hundred dollars.
THE INDUSTRIAL SOUTH.
Progress and Improvement Recorded
for the Past Week.
Ib its review of the industrial situation.in
the fcknith during the paat week, The Chatta
tißm r a Ttariesman Mates that its reports re
ceived from correspondents at ail important
points in thfc Southern Bt&tts, are to the effect
that much attention is directed to the condi
tion and prospects of the new ctop of eotton.
In the northern portion of the cotton afen the
reports are to the effect that a bickward plac
ing time, heavy rains which prey nted cultiva
tion, and, in the river valleys the recent exten
sive overflows will cause tho making of a great
ly decreased crop. The hot weather which lias
generally prevailed during the week is doing
good, btit baa come too Into to be of much help
in many sections.
In the southern manufacturing, mining an 1
iron producing centers it is reported that there
is no change in the steady demand for and no
special in?re!i9« ifi the output. 1 here is a
marked increase in tho deniand for machinery
in every part of the southern states.
Forty-two now industries are reported as oD
tablished or incorporated during the week, to
gether with four enlargements of manufacto
ries, and 16 important new buildings. Among
the new industries reported are a #IOO,OOO brick
and tilo company at Charlotte, H. O , and ono
at Augusta, Ga., a $500,000 compresN company
at Little Itock, Ark., a # 100,000 development
fompany, and one with $90,000 capital at Cov
ington, Ky., an electrical company with
COO capital at Louisvil.e. Ky., and others at
Kis-immee, Fla., and Caldwell, Tex. A paving
company with SIOO,OOO capital is reported at
Vicksburg, Mifts., paint works at Memphis,
Tenn., powder works at Covington, Kv., a
#300.000 sugar refinery at Iberville, La., and a
tannery at San Tex.
The textile plants of the week include cotton
mills at Chapel Hill, und Durham, N. C.,
Uidgeda e, Tenn., a ticking mill at Chariotfcp,
N. 0., a $500,000 carpot mill at. Wheeling, W.
Va., and a s4o,ooocotton and woolen mill at
Mnrble Fahs, Tex. A $50,000 tobacco factory
is being organiz <1 at Mayfield, Ky., lumber
mills are to be built at Ashdown, Ark., Dur
ham, N. C., and Tyler, Tex., furniture facto
ries at Cullman, Ala., and Brunson, 8. C., and
uw mills at Thomson, Ga., und Cumberland
City, Tenn.
\V ater works are to be built at Alexandria,
La., Hhelbyville, anl Hurrimau, Tenn., and
Caldwell and Palestine, Texas.
The ootton nulls at Trenton, Tenn., aro to be
en’argod oh are the lumber mills at New Herne,
N. C,, and Wheeling, W. Va.
Among the new buildings of the week a e
business boast s ut Ocala, Fla., Van Buren,Ark.,
and ltoanoke, Va., churcho* at I>« catur, Ala.,
and Oxford, N. C M a $50,000 college buil ing
a Atlanta, Ga., and others at Newp »rt, Ky ,
Jonesboro, Ark., and Greenville, Ala., a slo,*
000 de pot at Milan, T» nn , and a governm-at
building at Tallahassee, Fla,
RIOT ON A TRAIN.
Workmen Bound for Homestead Under
Guard Rebel.
A Pittsburg dispatch says: A riot oc
curred Thursday morniug on the Balti
more and Ohio train, on which a party of
fifty-six non-union men were being trans
p .rted from Cincinnati to Pittsburg to
work in the Carnegie Steel Works at
Homestead. One man was stabbed in
the forehead with a bayonet in the hands
of an armed guard. Another had his
thumb chewed off and nearly a score of
others were badlv bruised in an attempt
to regain their liberty. When tho tram
reached Pittsburg only twenty-one men
were aboard in addition to tho armed
guard, the other thirty-fivo having
escaped from tho car between Whitehall
station and the depot in Pittsburg. When
they left Cincinnati tho men did not
kt ow they were being taken to the
Homestead mills, and when they found
it out they rebelled. That is how the
riot had inception.
COLD IN IOWA.
in Strange Contrast with Her Swelter
ing Sister States.
A di-pitch from Ottumwa, It., fays:
I'ho excessive heat of the past few days
was broken Thursday by a heavy thunder
ste.rm with a terrific rain. The mercury
fell twenty degrees in ns many minutes,
l’he night was very cold.
DROPPED TWENTY DEG HEWS.
Another dispatch from Dubuque states
that a heavy rain Thursday afternoon
caused a drop of twenty degrees in the
temperature.
COLD IN MONTANA.
A very slight frost was preeeptible at
Great Falls, Mont, Friday morning. The
signal service office r ports the mercury
to have 'alien twcrily d< grer s in five min
ut<s about midnight.
Bergman’s Trial.
Alexander Bergman, the anarchist, w ho
attempted to assassinate H. C. Frick, was
given a hearing in the police office of the
jail at Pittsburg, Pa., Friday afternoon
and held for trial at the September ses
sion ia $24,000 bail.
Chances of Deat h In War.
No doubt every reader has seen tip
statement that it takes a man’s weight o
lead to kill him. The statement is usu
ally looked upon as a rhetorical hyper
bole, suggested by tin; fact that compar
atively few out of tire whole number of
shots fired in battle take effect. Marshal
Sale, we believe, first made the statement
that forms the basis of the above:
only he said that it “would take 125
pounds of lead and thirty-three pounds
of powder to put each of the enemy in
the‘long trench.’” Wild and visionary
as this may seem it appears that there
was really more truth than poetry in the
remark.
At the battle of Holfcrino, aecordingto
M Ci ssendi’s carefully deduced calcula
tions, a comparison of the number of
shots fired on the Austrian side with the
number of killed and wounded on the
part of the enemy, shows that 700 bullets
were expended for every man wounded
and 4,200 for each man killed. The av
erage weight of the ball used was thirty
gr- ins, therefore it must l ave taken at
least I*2 kilograms or 227 pounds of lead
for every man put out of the way. Yet
Solferino was a most bloody and impor
tant engagement.
Bogert, in light of the above, was about
right when he said : “War is awful, hut
the sound of war is awfuller.”
HER SACRIFICE.
lie Darling, if I give you such an
expensive engagement ring we can’t get
married so soon.
Hhe—Nevermind, dear. For your sake
I can wait.—[HarDcr’s Bazar.
USED THE WRONG GLASSES.
“Captain," said Mrs. Trotter to the
commander of on ocean steamer, “have
you ever seen the sea serpent?”
“No, madam,” replied the old sea dog.
“I don't drink.”—[Detroit Free Pres*.
SINGLE COPY 5 CENTS.
j. LOVE AND THOUGHT
What hath Love with Thought to dot
Still at variance are the two.
Love is sudden. Love is rash,
Love is like the levin flash,
Comes as swift, as swiftly goes,
And his mark as surely knows.
Thought is lumpish, Thought is slow,
Weighing long ’tween yes and no;
When dear Love is dead and gone,
Thought comes creeping in anon,
And, in his deserted nest,
Sits to hold the crowner’s quest.
Since we love, what need to think?
Happiness stands on a brink
Whence too easy ’tis to fall
W hither’s no return at ail;
Have a care, half-hearted lover,
Thought would only push her over!
►-James ltussell Lowell, in Cosmopolitan.
PITH ANT) POINT.
The more people become wrapped up
in themselves the colder they grow.—
Texas Siftings.
Did you ever notice when you get into
an elevator that all the seats are taken
up.—Statesman.
If the eyes and the nose are fairly
counted the syes will always have a two
tbirds majority—Dallas News.
It is said that nature abhors a vacuum,
& fa«t which probably accounts for the
rush of blood to some people’s heads.—
Harvard Lampoon.
Marriage will continue to be a failure
till our young women learn to support a
man in the style ho has always been ac
customed to.—Elmira Gazette.
You can safely trust the promoi.r,
my son; but it is always proper to re
member that his business is to promote
his own fortune, not yours.—Boston
Transcript.
"Silence gives assent, you know," he
urged gently. “Does It?” she replied,
waking from a reverie. “Then I’d ad
vise you to propose to a deaf mute.”—
Washington Star.
The monumental mean man dwells in
the Quaker City. He shouted from his
window the other morning, “Ha, milk
man 1 You Deedn’t leave but a pint this
morning—my wife died last night.”
The Young Man—“ Grade, what is it
your father sees in me to object to, darl
ing?" The Young Woman (wipiug away
a tear)—“Ho doesn’t see any thing in
you, Algernon. That’s why he ob
jects.”—Chicago Tribune.
“Palet is playing in hard luck,” said
one artist to another. “How?” “He
painted u picture of the grate in his
room and got it so natural and life-like
that a new servant he had threw a scut
tle full of coal through it and ruined it.”
—Detroit Free Press.
Assistant—“l’m sorry to sav, sir, that
another genuine poem got in by mis
take this month.” Magazine Editor—
“ Heavens! Your inad to say itl Any
news from our readers?” Assistant —
“One sudden death and six prostrated
by the shock."—Atlanta Constitution.
Mrs. Van Stuyvesant —“I understand
that Mrs. Van Amsterdam was not at all
pleased with Padder- Effsy’s piano play
ing?” Mrs. Van Cortlundt —“Why
not?" Mrs. Van Stuyvesant—“ Why,
you see, the stupid fellow didn’t tell a
«oul that she gave him S2OOO to play at
her last reception.”—Chicago News He
cord.
Frederick—“ What's the mattah, Chol
ly? You look bothered." Cbolly—“I
ame me boy, twoubled.” “Ovab what?"
“Why, don’t you know, I have just
been chatting to Miss DeTrop for au
bouah or so, feclmgblue, don’t ye know.
Just awfter a little silence, ye know, I
said: ‘Don’t you know me thoughts are
very painful, Miss DeTrop?’ She looked
up and said, ‘I have always found them
so.’ And now, by Jove, what did she
mean by that, now?"—Chicago News-
Record.
Looking Out for Ills Interests.
A New York business man visited
Bcston on a business trip and was about
to return when he discovered that thero
was one account for SIOO which he had
overlooked, says the Boston Herald. He
consulted the landlord of the hotel at
which he was a guest, who knew the
debtor, and thought it a doubtful case;
but added that, if it was collectable at
all, he knew of a professional collector,
a tall, raw-boned fellow from Vermont—
who, by the way, was just then dunning
a lodger in another part of the hall, and
who he thought would “worry it out”
of the man if anyone could. He was
called up, introduced to the creditor,
and shown the account.
“Wall, Square,” said he, “’taint much
use tryin’, I guess. I know that critter.
You might as well try to squeez3 ile out
out Bunker Hill Monument as to try an’
c’lect a debt out of him. But, anyhow,
Square, what'll ye give, sposin’ I dew
try?”
“Well, air, the bill is SIOO. I’ll give
half—yes, I’ll give you $50 —if you col
lect it.”
“ ’Greed,” repliel the collector;
“thar's no harm in tryin’ anyhow.”
Sore time afterward the creditor
chanced to be again in Boston, and in
walking up Tremont street eacouutered
the enterprising collector.
“Look ahere, Square,” said the col
lector, “I had considerable luck with
that bill o’ yourn. You see, I stuck tc
Him like a dog to a rat, but for a week
or so ’twasn't no use—not a bit. If he
was home he was ‘short;’ if he wasn't
home, I couldn’t get no satisfaction.
‘Bymby, after going sixteen times, said
I, ‘By gum, I’il fix you!’ says I. So 1
sot deowr onto the doorstep, and sot all
day an’ psrt of the evenin’, and then I
begun early next day; but about 10
o’clock he gin in.”
“Ah,” said the creditor, “he paid up,
eh?”
“Wall, yas; he kinder ponied. He
paid me my half, an’ l gin him up the
note.”
Rothschild, the great banker, was
once asked the secret of his success. He
replied: "I never have business relations
with unlucky people.” . -