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THE HENRY COUNTY WEEKLY. VOLUME XVI. Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gov’t Report ABSOLUTELY PURE professional oahds. «. 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. Practices in the State and Federal Courts. East Tenn., Virginia anfl Georgia Ry. SHORT AND DIRECT LINE TO THE NORTH, SOUTH, EAST AND WEST. PULLMAN'S FINEST VES TIBULE SLEEPERS BETWEEN ATLANTA & KNOXVILLE MACON & CHATTANOOGA BRUNSWICK & ATLANTA without nm«j IN DIRECT Connections at Chat TANOOGA WITH THROUGH TRAINS AND PULLMAN SLEEP ERS TO Memphis sad the West, at Knoxville with Pallnaa Sleepers for WASHINGTON, PHILADELPHIA, AND NEW YORK. FOB FU»TH«R IWMIUIMI AIHW, I. W. WttENN, CNM. N. KMMT dot. Paw. A«'., A, C. P. A. KlfOirmAK. AfUMA ®eortflH Midland Gntf R. R. SOUTH. Leave McDonough 7:00 a. m Arrive Greenwood 7,27 “ “ Loaelia 7 ; 25 »• “ Griffin 8:05 “ Noam. Leave Griffin ... 4:00 p . m Arrfve Louelia 4 : 40 *< “ Greenwood 4;48 “ “ McDonough 5:05 W. 1 GRAY. S,m’, Advertise] It Will PAY YOU 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.” . -