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A. J. JERNIQAN,
VOLUME IV
SANDERSVILLE, GA„ TUESDAY, MARCH 2^ 1884.
NUMBER 49.
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E- S. LANGMAOE.
Attorney at Late,
BANDERSVILLE, G4.
CURRENT COMMENTS.
»|AYOll.
O. H. ROGERS
LEEK d 2 JtEA S UTtETi.
D. E. B, WELLS.
MAE SEAL L.
J. E. WEDDON.
ALVETtMEE,
W. H, LAWSON,
Wm. RAWLINGS,
B. G. LANG.
A. M. MAYO,
M. H. BOYER.
2own of Jennilte.
Muyor—John C. Harmon.
Aldermen W I*. D.ivi«, J. W.
Smith, P. J. Pipkin, T. J. Bock.
Clerk—8. H B Miwtey.
Murehall—J. C. Humilton.
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ATTORNEY AT LAW,
■andeaevUls, On.
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Court*. Uflloe In Ooun-bonen
Watches, Clocks
And JEWELRY
BIFAIRBD BY
JER1TICATT.
Dr. H. B. Hollifield,
psTsicin m imm,
Having recently graduated at the Unlver-
Maryland and returned home, now
illy ui nmyiHUd nuu tuturunu uuiuui uvw
oilers Ills proleaalonal aorvlce* to tlit oltleena
m Handonvllle and vicinity. OiUoe with
l)r. II. N. Holllfleld, next door toiMra. Bayne’e
millinery etore.
Q. W H- WHITAKER,
DENTI ST,
BnnderevUle, On.
TERMS CASH
Office at hie Residence, on Barrie etreet
AorllSd. 1180.
H. N. HOLLIFIELD,
Physician and Surgaon,
■nadererUIn, I
Offlee nest doer to Km BayneM mllltMr
etore on Harrta etreet.
BUY YOUIl
SI’EmClliS, SPECTRA
FROM
JERNICAT
Rons genuine without our Trad# Uni
On hand and for sals*
SPElTAUliRs, NOSE GLASSES, ETC,
Machine Needles,
Oil and Shuttles,
fob all KINDS OF MACHINES. for eale.
1 will also order parts of M«oliluee
that get broken, for whloh new
pleoea are wanted,
Tn foot and mouth dieeaee, wbioh hae be>
come epidemlo among the oattle of the weet,
it a heavy affliction to the large (took interest
of that country.
To Manufacturer*’ Record publisher a
etatement ehowing that during January and
February the oepital invented in (Southern
manufacturing and mining enterprises in-
creeaed *28,200,000. Kentucky shorn the lar-
goet aggregate, •6,861,000; Alabama second,
with •6,210,000,
To New York Tribune olammore for uni
form legislation against the dimo novel ovil.
It is a lamentable fact that eheap literature is
more of a oorse than a blessing. A dime’s
worth of printed fllth in the hende of a few
aotlve boy* will poison the minds of all the
Juveniles in a large circle. If paronts or police
oannot or will not turn back this tidal wave of
ehoap Immorality, our statesmen should turn
their attention to the evil.
Edison, the inventor, indulges in the follow
ing prodietious: As to changes Which will be
effooted by eloetrioity within fifty yeais in the
city of New York, I would any that I believe
eieotrioity will propol the cars of the street and
elevated railroads, light the city within and
without its bnildings, furnish power for all
nnrposes, work telephones, burglnr alarms, de
liver the opera, convey parcels, detect nnd sig
nal fires, operate fire engines and jiussibly dis
place animal locomotion for vehicle*.
A curumii-ondknt of the New York Tlmos
shows the difference in the price* of olothing
of similar quality and workmanship in New
York and London. A broadcloth dress suit
costing ♦50 in New York costs but *22 in Lon
don; a heavy business suit *30 in Now York to
•18 in London; a spring sergo overcoat *20 in
Now York to •8.60 in Loudon; a winter beaver
overcost *30 in Now York to *14.60 In London;
silk hat *6 in Now York, *3 in London. I ho
garments costing *218 in New York cost but
•97.76 in London. Differouoo in lavor of the
Utter city *120.26.
ohlld wee found, a short time ago, to contain
•45 in gold, whloh waa restored to the owner.
Among odd things recently found here been a
large oaotus weighing one and a half pounds,
a living horned toed, ooloted matter for adul
terating beer, artlBolal eye* and teeth, cigar*,
aud wine. The postal authorities am untiring
in their efforts to restore artioles of value
found in the mails to their proper owners.
SUMMARY OF CONGRESS,
Denate.
The commercial treaty with Mexico Was
ratified by " “ ^
Many people are under the impression that
railroad commissions are very reoent Innova
tions. This is a mistake. Railroad commis
sions were established in some of the states
more than twonty-five years ago, but it is only
within the past ten or fifteen years that they
have attracted much attention. At present the
following states have commissions: Goorgia,
Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Illinois,
California, Connecticut, Iowa, Wisconsin,
Virginia, Vermont, Sonth Carolina, New York
Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Missouri,
Michigan, Minnesota, Massachusetts and
Maine,
Tm explosive compound celled nitro-glycor-
ine wee discovered by Sobrero, a pupil in the
laboratory of Peloueo, a French chemist, in
1846. Bo dangorous was tlio explosive that for
s long time people dreaded to use it for any
purpose. About 1863 mining engineers found
that nitro-glyoeriue could be safely used as a
blasting agent, when proper caution was takon.
Of all tho preparations of this explosive dyna
mite U considered the best. Its explosion is
•o rapid and violent that the air above it has
no time.to move away, but acts like a solid ;
henoe it will act downward when plaoed upon
the eurfaco of a rook. It* uses are probably
lot half understood as yet.
ratified by a Vote of forty-onu to twenty,
or jn«t olio vote more than the 1 equal la tw<>-
16 ,r 1r.!f ia:orit y- • A biU Wte introduced by
Mr. Mlllor, uf Now York. to.fltMj'outl for two
Viars the collate of silver dollars. Mr.
Logan introduced a bill to give pensions to
do endant relative, of decease! soldiers.
Mr. Ednmnilq Introduced a oil) to provide
for the ealnblUhmont of aforo.t reservation
In Montana... .Tbs coiilnlltteo on education
and labor rop rto 1 favorably bti the Morrill
educational bill. It provides for witting
apart thu udt proceeds of land sales, and an
nually asum of m moy e ;ual to one half of
the receipts from the Pacific ralln a ls for
pnbilo education... .Mr. Jackson pro
posed a constitutional amendment
mailing the presidential term six
years, aud making the President in
eligible to re-election. Referred to tho
committee on Judiciary....Mr. Mlllor, of
New York, said the Senate committee on
agriculture were in favor of passing tho
House pleuropneumonia bill, aftor amend
ing it so a. to provide that if .the huthoHties
of n Nla:o in which dl eitso exl-ts fall to take
stops to stamp them out tho President shall
prohibit the cxpnr ation of cattle from that
State... Mr. Bowoll spoke in favor of anil
Mr. «ilson against tho i-itz-John Porter
bill.
After speeches by Messrs. Logan and Man
derson against, anil Mr. Klddlnherger In fa
vor of tho bill for tho re’lef of General Kltx
John Portir, tho b II was read a third time
and passed by a vote of 3i yeas to 26 nttys.
It was discovered after th- announcement of
tho veto that the preamble to the bill had
hot been passed. The preamble was then
passed. The bill authorizes tho President to
anpolnt Porter to tho position of colonel in
I hn army of tho earn i grade and rank bold
by him at tho time of diemls-ab and also in
Ills discretion to pla -o General Porter on the
retired list as of that gra le. General Porter,
however, to rooelvo no compensation or al
lowance prior to his appointment Under th*
The Senate had a long disc union over the
bill appropriating *25,000 to stamp out the
toot and mouth disease among cattle in Kan
sas. Many Senators opposed the bill on the
ground that Congress had no power
to appropriate money for such a pur-
poso, and that it had apt been shown
that it was beyond the ability of
the State of Kansas to deal with the trouble.
Mr. Ingal a attacked the State right* doc
trine which, he said, had been preadied
against the bill. No action was taken on the
bill....A bill was introduced to authorize
tho secretary of the treasury to establish a
number of additional life-saving stations on
the sea and lake coasts of the United State*
....Mr. Bowen introduced a bill to reduoe
the postage on second class mail matter. It
provides that after October 1, 1884, the rate
of suoh postage shall be one cant a pounl.
This includes sample ooples.
THE NEWS.
8astern atid Kiddle State*.
▲ RILL to punlkh wife beaters by flogging
pneced toe Massachusetts house.
Fima Cut. si human, a prominent farmer,
luicertaliisd that bis daugliter Mary bail been
teen driving out of Go.d Mm* Btauun.Ponri.,
with Ksekiel Henry, who had recently been
warned by Cbustermau to discontinue his
attentions. Cbmt-rman, with two friend*,
lieury Swope au.l Israel Mpyer, st arte 1 In
pursuit, and overtook the couple about ten
miles away. In th* e introveizy which Al
lowed Henry shot all three of his pursuers.
Th» governor of Delaware, not being cm
powered to Ooimqut# a death sentence, ho*
done tho next best thing in the case of twwis
F. List, under sentence to be hanged for the
murder of George 'Taylor. List, who is
t wen tv-At* years old, has I teen respited until
1040. '
LiMiTENAht DANKNHowKn, of the Jean
nette expedition, was married the other day
nt OsWegn, N, Y , to a daughter of ex-
HpeakerSloan:
Wii.uam G. Mono an, who had charge at
Hartford. Conn., of the branch house of
Putnam & Earle. New York bankers, and
was recently admitted as a partner, has
prevail a defaulter to th* extent of *20,000.
A New London (Conn.) whaling firm have
received oil vice* from their brig Li ode P.
Simmons, to the effect that th* brig hai
captured a whale yielding 108 barrels of oil
and 2.600 pounds or whalebone, and from tho
sa’e of the stuff had realized nearlr •14,000.
This Is believed (o be the largest Whale ever
captured,
J. H. Fullerton, a Clerk in the employ of
the Manhattan Beaon Railroad company,
ruuuiug between New York and Coney
Island, has been fraudulently issuing stock
of the comnany end pocketing the proceeds—
about *46.000. Just before discovery he
cashed a cheok of the company's for •U20
and disappeared. Gambling led to his down
fall.
Oliver Dyer, Jn., a student at Yale col
logei Now Haven, and son of a well-known
Now York jotirnallst, died front the effect*
of Injuries received while engaged ih a
boxing match with Robert B. Williams, a
colored student from Augusta, Ga. The two
young men wore sparring in a friendly
match at tho o illege gymnasium. Mr. Dyer
attributes his son’s death to apoplexy, and
not to injuries received while sparring.
At tho thirty-second annual commencement
of the Women’s Medical college of Pennsyl
vania, held in Philadelphia, twenty-six
young women received diplomas to practice
as physiciana
Witnesses testified In New York city
liefore the State senate committee on publlo
health, that the sale of oleomargarine and
butterine was killing th* butter trade, and
Perry, of N6w Yofg/to be" clHIt Just®* of
the supreme Court or thf Territory of Wyo
ming; John M. Valentine, of PcHnsyLianla,
to he attorney of the United States for tho
eastern (Metric! of Pennsylvania.
Hknrt WaTtErsCn, fff the Louisville
Courier-Journal) appeared before the con-
g resit on al joint ouuttnitte* on the library and
made a Ipn* argument In favor of the bill
granting newspapers a copyright of eight
a ‘tr. WOetersm e*id that
4 DESPERADO’S DEEDS.
S our* on thpir news. Mr. ,
lore had been a great deal of mlsapprtfhen
Mon in regard to this bill; that it waa not di
rected against the country press at all, but
against daily paRirs and certain ooncerns
which appropriate tho valuable news of
otner j a;ers In their vicinity, and by hur
riedly getting out such new* or furnishing
filates of the skifto defeat legitimate enter
prise. - • - ' -
TMEU-meecotniirittee on poctofltMC ordered
adverse rep .rt* on the bills authorising pos
tal rarings banks and prohibiting the trans-
tnhalon In the mall* of newspapers contain
ing lottery advertisements.
A resolution baa been adopted by the
House committee on pmtofflces and post
roads deolaring the ohargee against Repre
sentative Kills In connection with certain
star route contracts to be utterly groundless.
Tn Jeannette expedition to the Arctlo
regions cost tho government, in cue way or
another, about •$78,000.
that these articles were injurious to health.
A man who bftd worked in an oluomOrgarine
factory testified that his bauds became sore
'aotory
from handling th* stuff, his hair dropped
out, his teeth decayed, and the grease
gave him hemorrhage of the lunx*.
Rpkaker Carlisle, of the House of Rep
resentative*. United States Senator Vance,
of North Carolina, Congressman Belmont
and others mad* speeches at the sixMi an-
1 dinner of thu NeW Ydrk Free Trade
Tm well-known educator, Dr. A. D Mazo,
In his recent address beforo the Louisiana Ed
ucational society, strongly advocated indus
trial eduoation for women. He believed that
the same brain power which enabled southern
women to shine in society, to render ofUciout
lid in ohurch and school affairs, and to m&u-
igo large plantations, would enable them to
luooeisfuiiy push thoir way to tho front rank of
rnch commercial and industrial occupations as
were suited to them. Tho tendency of young
tnen to abandon thoir home plaoes and seek
remote fields le&vos the young women of the
louth to bear the brunt of existence. Undor
uoh adverse circumstances they need a praoti-
sal, solf-snpporting, industrial education.
Gatu thus describes scenes at a famous
dairy farm in Pennsylvania: “I was interested
in two iliings in this stable. In tho first place,
tho orcam separator, which is run by a steam
tnglno, revolves with enormous rapidity, and
tho cream flows out of one spigot and tho skim
med milk out of another. Then I observed
tlie apparatus for cleaning oows, which are
oarefully washed and brushed once or twico a
day by means of brushes operated by tho on
line. Tile cow, calf or bull is brought forward
ind tied to tho post, aud from aliovo these
oruflhos are brought to her body and carefully
raise every hair. The cattle like it, but their
tails have to be tied up in a bag for not long
igo one of the brushes tore ont a tail. The
tomporatnro in the barn is kept at 60 dogrooB
the year round, regulated by the therniometor.
aud the barn iB lighted with tho Brush light on
Bvory floor, and at midnight is as bright as
day."
■fane*.
Mr. Morrison, from the committee on ways
and means, reported a bill revising the tariff.
Mr. McKinley, from the samo committee,
introduced a minority report The post*
otlloe appropriation bill was debated without
0o tit in.... A bill win noised admitting to
American registry torelgn Vessels Under cer-
tain'circumstances.
Consideration of tho pjstolfioe appropria
tion bill was resumed. After some debate
Mr. llorr'e amendments increasing to *12,-
500,000 the appropriation for the compensa
tion of postmasters, was lost. On motion
Bf Mr. Davis, of Illinois, the clause limiting
the salaries of postmasters to *4,000, was
stricken out. Mr. Holman offered an amend
ment, which was lost, fixing the salary uf
the postmaster at New York at *8,000. A
motion by Mr. Horr to increase the appro
priation for clerks by *125,005 was lost.
Mr. Harrisou, from the committee on Ter
ritories, reported fav irably and had plaoed
on the calendar the bill for tho admission of
Dakota... .The House resumed the consider
ation of the postofilco appropriation bill. In
oommirieo of the Whole, Mr. Skinner's amend
ment inor-adng tho appropriation for the
payment of letter carrlors from $3,600,000
to $4,0.’0,000. was adopted.
The bill granting a peuilou of *2.600 to
Reptimiua Randolph Meiklaham, the sole sur
viving grandchild of Thomas Jefferson, was
discussed at great length in the committee
of the whole. Finally on the motion of Mr.
Hewitt, of Alabama, the enacting clause
was stricken -nit by a vote «f 180 ysau and
sixty nay a He a creed to the committee re
port. .. .*At the evening session twenty-two
peiulon bills were passed.
NATIONAL EDUOATION.
A*. .T. JEHNIGAN
*■ K. Hijra*
O. H. BOMB*
HINES & ROGERS,
Attorneys at Law,
8ANDERSVILLE, QA„
WUl praetlo* In the counties of Washington,
Jefferson, Johnson, Emilnnel and Wilkinson,
5"* the D. S. Court* for the Oonthern Dto-
Wlot of Georgia.
Win «*t a* urente in bnyln*. eeUln* 01
re 5*4ng Real' Batata.
- o®,°e op Weet elds of Publlo iaaar*.
Ool ll-u
The onrious statement is made that within
the past ten yoars tho free use of narcotics lias
greatly increased not only generally, but
among physicians. It is also said that some
doctors ubo opium who make a specialty of
ouriug the opium habit in others. Possibly
the spread of the opium habit is due to some
extent to the knowledge that it can be cared.
Doubtless the stories about doctors have been
greatly exaggerated, but it must be admitted
that, like other people, some of them feel a de
sire for stimulants. It will not do for thorn to
make a practice of drinking whisky, and they
therefore resort to narcotios. Between two
evils an opium-eating dootor is preferable to a
whisky-drinking dootor, A dootor's undue
familiarity with narcotics will not make him
liable to give large doses of those drugs to his
patients, but the use of liquor* engenders e
certain recklessness in most men. At least,
this is the view of a New York physician.
Tons of mall matter in the oonrse of a year
fail to reaoh their destination. Many packages
have no addrees or one that is illegible. Many
Hings are stopped in the mails beoause the>
are non mailable, for Instance, such things ae
hair oil, ointment* and other liquids, explo
sive* grease, dead animal*, snakes, vegetables,
candy, substances with bad odor, edge tool.,
nnprotooted glass, wedding cake, etc. The
owners of packages of value are premptly noti
fied that they had better take tlielr property
iway Every day wedding cake end candy are
confiscated. A box of candy addrewedto*
Provisions of the Morrill Hill, Ho-
ported to the Senate Favorably.
The Morrill Educational bill, repoi-teil fav
orably to the United States Senate from the
committee ou education and labor, pro
vides for the setting apart forever of the net
proceeds of the sales of public lands, and
annually of a sum of money equal to one-
half of the moneys paid into tho treasury
In each year by Paciflo railroad companies
undor the Thurman act, for the eduoation
of the people, to be apportioned lo the sev
eral States and Territoriee and the District
of Columbia, upon the basis of population
between the ages of five and twenty yean,
as an educational fund, and to bear in
terest at the rate of four por cent., the in
terest only to be paid for educational
purposes. Two-thirds of tho income
arising from this fund shall be
annually appropriated to the free
and Impartial education in public schools of
all ohildren between the age: of six and six
teen years; one third shall bo appropriated
to the endowment and support of agricul
tural colleges until the annual income of
such college# shall have reached the sum of
$80,000, when only that sum shall be appro
priated to them. , .
It provides for the establish nsnt in these
colleges of sohools for the instruction of
femalos in such branches of technical or in
dustrial education as are suited to their eex.
It also provides that a sum not excoeding
fifty per cent, of the amount appropriated
to any State or Territory may be applied in
the first year to th3 maintenance of one or
more sohools for the instruction of teachers
of common schools and not exceeding ten per
cent, of the amount in each year there
after may be applied to the same
g urpoae. It provides that to entitle any
tate, Territory, or tho District of Columbia
to the benefits of this aot it shall maintain
for at least three months in each year until
January 1, 1887, and thereafter four months
in each year, a system of free public schools
•for all the children within its limits between
the ages of six and sixteen, andlshall, through
the proper ofHcer thereof, -for the year
ending June 30 last preceding suoh
apportionment, make full report to
the o iminissloner of education, of
tho number of public free schools, the num •
berof teachers employed, the number of
school-houses owned and tho number of
.school-houses hired, the total number of
children taught during the year, the actual
daily attendance, and the actual number of
months in the year sohools have been main
tained in each of the several school distriots
or divisions of said State, Territory or dis
trict, and the amounts appropriated by the
legislature, or otherwise received, for the
purjiose ot maintaining a system of fro*
publlo schools.
lull
Month and West:
A fire at East St Louis destroyed a larg
elevator, seven houses and ninety-six loaded
cars. The elevator contained 800.000 bushels
of oorn, 50,0X1 bushels of oats and several
th iusand bushels of wheat, and the cars were
nearly all londed with hay and grain. The
estimated total loss is $760,000.
Henry RicnAimsON, one of the leading
members of a Nebraska vigilance committee
which ha8 been waging a vigorous war on
gang of homo thieves, Was himself hanged
y unknown i>cr*pi
by unknown iK-rsous. It is supposed the
banging was done by surviving members of
the gang.
Kx-Conorehsman Robert Small (col
3red|, was renominated bv the Republicans
of tiic Seventh South Carolina district to
succeed the late Congressman Mackey.
Owing to the preponderance ot the colored
vote 8n all's nomination was considered
equivalent t > an election.
Ray and Anders in, the revenue officers
who recently kille 1 three men in Mitchell
county, N. have surrendered. Tho re
ward offered for their capture amounted to
$4, MX).
Colonel Edward 8. Wheat, ex-United
States marshal for the middle district of
Tennessee, and oue of tho most prominent
citizens of tho 8 ate. was shot and killed by
hi* fa'her-in-iaw, Colonol William Spence,
who was his predecessor in office. Tho terri
ble trageoy was the result of business trou
bles that hal existed between the two for
some years, and which, it is understood,
row out of affairs connected with the mar
lialship.
Thirteen persons lost their lives by a
sudden snowslido at Woodstock, Colorado.
Three persons wore reecufid alive out of a
party of sixteen. „
Fire has almost entirely swept away th 8
town of Allegan. Mich., destroylne twenty-
thi oo stores, three news: aper offices and a
hotel, end causing a total estimated loss of
$600,000. On the some day onother Michigan
town—Grand Rapids—also suffered heavily
from a fire, eight mills and factories suo-
cumbing to the llomes, with aggregate losses
of $100,000.
Prentiss Tiller, the Paciflo Express com
pany's money clerk at St. Louis, who de
camped with nearly $100,000 a few weeks
ago, was arrested in Milwaukee, and $1)0,000
uf the stolen money was recovered.
The Iowa senate agreed to a State woman
suffrage amendment to the constitution by
the close vote of 20 to 24.
The foot and mouth disease prevails to an
alarming extent in Kansas aud portions of
Illinois, and the governor of the former
State has called u special session of the leg
islature to consider measures whereby the
plague may be stamped out.
Frederick J. Dietrichs, a teller In the
Laclede bank, of St. Louis, has been ar
rested for embozzliug $30,000 of the insti
tution's funds.
Frank Blaoel was hanged at Somerset,
Ky for killing and robbing throe compan
ions with whom ho was getting out railroad
ties in a camp lost August; and on the same
day Matt Lowis (colored) was hanged at St.
Louis for wife murder.
Three thousand people were driven from
their homes at Nashville, Tenn., by a flood.
Such a furious crowd was present at the
sale of tickets for the appearance of Patti,
the opera sineer, In San Francisco, that win
dows and plants were smashed, many women
fainted, the box office window was broken,
and order was restored only after many per
sons bad been arrested.
Cattle infected with the foot and mouth
disease in Kansas are being killed and
burned,
Heavy frauds by tobacco dealers have
been unearthed in Louisville, Ky. D. K.
Mason, proprietor of the Peoples’ Tobacco
warehouse, is a defaulter to the tune of
$67,000, and Peter F. Seraonin, president,
and his son, W. O. Seinenin. secretary of
the Pike warehouse, absconded after com
mitting frauds to the oxtsnt of about $100,
'00.
Conormsman Hatch, of Missouri, re
ceived a telegram stating that the foot and
mouth disease had broken out among cattle
in the northeaatorn part of that State.
Fonlgn.
BoLomon Srapiha, will known la con
nection With the redent Attempt to sell in
England a forged manuscript of the Pent*
touch, hat committed suicide at Rotterdam.
Holland.
Ohm an i)|OMA, the defeated commander ot
the False Prophet's forces, wrote to Sheik
Morghanl declaring that he woe determ'iidd
to drink the blood of the Turks and their al-
lios. This Mvagn reply aggravated the feel
ing of the British soldiers who, miioo the tat
tle of Tub, hai desired to stare so brave a
foe Tlie reply was signed by twenty-one
Sheiks, representing 10,000 inhabitants,
A natIve tribe in North Burmah revolted,
socked and burned many villages and com
pelled American and English missionaries to
lloe for thoir lives.
Advices from Canton report that tho Cljt-
nese | reiaratlons for war with trance are
increasing, and all signs Indicate a prolonged
contest.
A Berlin newsuairar attributes tho excite
ment oVor the lauker incident to the corre
spondent of tlie London Timex Which, it says,
want* to stir up strife lietween Germany Olid
America
Port Spain, Trinidad, has been almost
entirely swept away by fire. Tho loss is
estimated at m ire than $460,(XK).
Another eEploslnu of dynamite has oc
curred in Loudon—tills time at a suburban
lotel, One man was blown to piece*,
Bismarck, the German chancellor, ap
peared in the relchstag nt Berlin and made
a s|ieech in justification of the course be had
pursued In refusing to transmit Urn Laikur
resolution to the relchsta -. He mid that he
had recognized the goo l intentions of the
Ameriean Congress, but he was unab e to
liaruess himself to the car of the opposition.
The relations botwnen Germany and the
United State* had always been plea-ant, he
■aid, and th* German government hal al
ways tried to cultivate th.'tn. He declared
that he would have presented th>
Lasker resolutions had he not
been prevented by their form. The resolu
tions contained a olaune directed against the
oollcy wbiob, in the emperor’s name, lie had
been punning and which Hsrr Lasker had
opposod for years. Once BUmarcE was
Interrupted by orios of "Shame I” from tho
opposition members ot the reiohstag, and
quite a scene ensued. The ap|ie*ranoo of
Prince Bismarck in the relchstag is generally
attributed to his deilre to maintain friend
ship with America
Advices from the Congo river, in Africa,
report that Henry M. Stanley has discovered
another affluent of tim Congo, Tho Arabs,
in a recent slave raid, captured 1,800 children.
The natlvwi reoently attacked tho Europoan
f bo tor!#* on the Lower Congo, plundered car-
avans, and killed several Europeans.
Mr. Bradlauqii, while delivering a lec
ture at Bridgewater, England, against pur-
potual pensions, was attacked and driven
YTaelungtoni
The Praiidein, , o i iuiod J.
Irish, of
ii at
Wyoming.
Confirmations by the Sena'e: Colonel
John Newton, to be chief of engineers, with
the rank oi brigadier-genera'; Oorman
Buck, to lie fi-s date justice of the supreme
court of the Territory of Idaho; W. r ltz-
gerald, to be associate justice of the supreme
court of the Territory of Arizona; John C.
MUSICAL AUD DRAMATIC
Some m* the Hear Crimes *• Horn
TIiseMee, of Texas.
A San Antonio (Texas) dispatch to the New
York World says: The troglo death of the
famous desperadoes, Ben Thomson, King
Fisher Ann Joe Foster, who killed each other
in the Vaudeville theatre here, was the sole
topic of conversation. Everybody knew Ben
Thomson, and while the publio id general
breathe* more freely over his death, yet all
feel that the oity has lost on* of It* most
noted characters. Strangers coming here
were loth to beliovo that the quiet-spoki*
gentleman pointed out to them was the no
torious Ben Thomson. He looked more like
■ sentimental dry-goods clerk than like a des
perado. One of his boasts was that he was
the only man in the city who dare 1 Wear a
eilk hat on all occasion*. Slenderly built,
with carefully curled mustache, natty in
dross, always clod in immaculate linen, Ben
was the last man in the world to be taken as
the murderer of a dozen men. He never
could remember all whom he had wounded
a id not killed, And it was difficult for him to
recall the names of those Who had met death
at his bawl*. • ,
Ben wus born in Y orkshire, England, in
1R44, and came to Austin, Texas, when a
child, with his parent*. His mother was
muruored by a runaway slave, and Ben,
with Ills brother Bill, enlisted in the Confed
erate army at, the outbreak of the war. He
was only a hot-huade 1 !>oy at this time nnd
very soon quarreled with his superior officer,
shot him dea l, and was chained in the guard
house, to which lto set tire and escaped.
Theil he enlisted under MaxlmiliAn and spent
tw < years chtislug Mexican deserters, most
of whom he shot on tho rtla.
Tired of the army Ben went to Anstin
and o leuud ft gambling saloon under the
Austin gialtiman. Here he often amused
amused himself and friends by firing
through thu coiling • ‘Just to see tho printers
c atnbor out of the windows.” That old of-
tico is even now c jusidered tho bust von ti
le toil In Tcxa-. When drunk he would ride
like mAI through the streets, shooting out
the lights. Ncitday lie woul l call and pay
hits flue.
Ono bright moonlight night Ca tain Babb
(kliiie to ills house and nsked Ben loproteOt
him from five cowboys. Ben rnn down
from his house U.ifoheoded and In hi*
shirt-sleeves and was soon among the
cowboys, His fir. L shot ‘kllloa th*
leader, ills second a h»ree, and he actually
chased the fou • men out of town, swearing,
taunting ami firing at th-m as they galloped
Away, Bo tills deeisiratlo wax continually
fighting the lint:les of his friends. In Kan
sas his broihor Sill «a< b sieged by the
entire potlca foroo in a store. Ben clambered
in to bis assis ance. Tin- marshal, an old
friend of Ben, approached to confer with tho
besieged, when Bill shot him dead. Ben
cursed his brother for oausiug the death of
his best fri nd, but nevertheless helped Bill
to escape iiy a rear exit. Both got away,
but Bill WOs i Mplurcd, tried and aoquitted
two yoars later.
Christmas night three years ago Ben
■lapped the taco of the proprietor of ineiaiiM
theatre in which he met Ills death Wednes
day. Tlie latter ran behind the bar, oaugbt
up a double- barreled shot-gun nnd fired both
barrels. Ono side of lion's trousers, vest and
Ctat Were cut to pieces, but uuly slight
wounds were reoeivo I and his wife soon
patched thu clothes. As the sinoke cleared
away Ben tired three times at thu proprietor,
Oue bullet w nt through Ills brain, on*
through his heart and the third through his
arm. The barkoeper meanwhile got out
bis pistol, but as Pen turned upon
him he droned behind thu bar.
Tho point of his pistol was alone visible
and lion fired by guess through the wood-
■ ft ‘ Ti
Boucioault claims to have written one
4ff> plays. > **
Strauss to writing a new ope**, "Tig
Gypsy Baron."
Bm Reives, the tenor, to eerlouely Ul a*
his horn* in England. >
Emma Abbott lings In open* bn Bandar
evenings in Ban Franolsca 1 '
Henry Irtino’s grass receipts In this .
country will aggregate nearly *400,000.
Honnenthal, the foremost lee ding man In
Germany, bos been engaged for an American
tour.
Ristori, Solvina and Bernhnrdk) are all
coming book to work (till further th* mlna
in Ameriod; _ ^
President Arthur gave’a StaWtwently
at the White house In honor a* Mr. Henry
Irving and Kim Terry.
Miss Whitnby, the Boston soalptor. to en
gaged on a bust of Ellen Terry, the English
actress now with Irving’s oqmpnny. j
WachtEl, Cote* and Bo tel. three oela-
bratod German tenors, wiU all rival eaoto
other in different theatre* In Berlin in May.
An imperial oensor in Russia recently ob
jected to the publication of "Hamlet" os a
pernicious pleoe of literature to put In th*
hands of tho young.
Edward Kino says that "Mr. Wltoon
Barrett is becoming a great mo* in London,
asmimlns a social prominence whloh few
actors in Frano* or America attain."
Madame N ilhbon says she shall retire from
the stage In two year*. " I shall no! stay won
tho stage," she say*. " to hear it eaid, ’ foor
Madame Nilssont Her voice is all goo*.’"
Mary Anderson rests In Italy after th*
close of the season; then travel* throng*
Edinburgh, Glasgow, Manchester, Liverpool,
Dublin and Birmingham, taking her com
pany and charging double price*. I
There to to be a grant Handel commemor
ation lu Germany, on tlie 26th ot May, tha
second centennial anniversary of th* com
poser's death. The first annlrermry wo*
held in Westminster Abbey, George HI and
Queen Charlotte being among the auditors.
Miss BeleNa Fetter, who play* th*
heroine of “The Straggler* of Parts." to th#
Louisville beauty who ramie eo Battering a
debut two seasons ago. Sho is said to reemn-
b’.e Mary Anderson in physique, and to ex
cel that favorite in intense emotional en
deavora
OH the register of the Bt, James hotel, New
York, and within four liusa of each other,
one day recently, were to be eeen the name*
of B. MoAulev, New York, and John T.
Macauley, Louisville. Ky. The two men oar*
brothers; one a well-known actor, andth#
other a prosperous theatre manager. They
hod a dispute some Years azo Rbout the
theatre; " Barney " ebangod the spelling of
hi* name, and they have rinoe bean stranger*
to each other
Charles Balmer, cue ot the be»t musi
cians in the Weet, and a very able and oon-
eolentlous critlo, thus tells a reporter the
musical relations between Patti and Gerstert
"The style of th* artists is so different that
It is almost impossible to make a comparison.
Certainly, whatever Geretor doe# she enact*
the character. Hhe is a conscientious artist,
but she has not the facility that Patti hoe.
Bhe has eqnally as much execution,but there
a is something in Patti's yoioe that to Inde
scribable. The long and short of it Is that
Patti is the greatest artist in the world.
H orn to# platform by slimvor* of rotten eggs,
id fireworks. The mob afterward
fruit an
attacked and wreaked the chairman’s house.
French troops have captured the town of
Bacninh in Tonquin.
A Berlin dispatch says that trichluosis,
engendered by eating German-bred pork,
ana due in no wise to the American product,
is ravaging various parts ot Germany.
Great exoitoment existed at Ottawa, On
tario, owing to a re;tort that the govoruineul
had received Important information of a con
(piracy to blow up public buildings with dy
namite. The guard around the parliament
buildings was Increased, aud the speaker of
the house of commons, with his family, sud
denly vacated his apartments in those build
ings.
Queen Victoria is said to be in bad health,
suffering continually from fits of depression
During tho second battlo between Genoral
Graham’s troops’ and Osman Digua's forces
Adams Fiaser, the largest soldier in th)
Black Watch regiment, laid twelve Arabs
low with his single bay-mat. For this feat
he was cheered by the troopi returning to
Buaklm.
Weston, the American nedestrlan, lias ac
complished the feat of walking 5,000 miles in
100 days—doing fifty miles a uay and lectur
ing In the various cities and towns through
whloh he passed. Prominont teuqieratice ad
vocates took groat interest in the feat, as it
was undertaken by Weston with a view to
demonstrating tho superiority of tea over
liquor in undertakings requiring physical
endurance.
NEWSY GLEANINGS.
work of tlie bar. The bullet struck the man
in tho la-o. going throueh bis mustache.
Ben b-llovoil that tho barkoewr died from
the effects of tin wound, hot be did not
lls name was Matthews, und bo afterward
wasconnecled wiili tint 11 tHprlngs Sentinel.
lie then hud three btille's in him, one of
which we* receive I from thu ninvor of Hot.
Springs, lie was killed less than two years
ago in an atfrnv at the Ariyton house, Hot
Bprings. Ben was not strong phy-i- ally. Ho
said that when iroliektng with his wife and
little boy th-y could always throw him down
and master him. But ho was a dead shot,
and could hit a man every time 1(X) ynrds
away with his pistol, which wus a beautiful
silver-mouMto 1 one. ills luck war amazing,
and half the time he did not o-irry his pistol.
If a man wanted to tight he tried to talk
him out of It. If ho iicrristod, linn let him
fire first. "Then," said lie. with a smile,
"I fixed him and worked in tho plea of self-
defense." One night- Ben ami his brother
were In a gambling saloon in Laredo. A row
startod, the lights were put out and every
body went to shooting. Ben and Bill got In
the windows, emptl-d Ihoirreyolvors, sprang
out the window, swam the river and got off
iUittut a scralkb.
PROMINENT PEOPLE
TiitfnE are over 300 indictments for murder
or attempted murdor ponding in Cincinnati
courts.
Thirty thousand patents were issued last
year in Great Britain against 20,(XX) in this
country.
A party of Baton Rouge (La.) bird-hunters
recently killed 1,40.) robins with uo other
weapons but sticks.
Trinity cHUiton, Boston, has a laundry
department, the object boing to provide
work for needy women.
Virginia, Tennessee, Alabama and Geor
gia produced 704,000 tons of iron last year,
against 230,0 K) tons in ls80.
AN oil and guano company at Beaufort,
N. C., lias caught and worked up within the
past three years 9,500,000 menhaden.
The mayor of Zacatecas, Mexiq >, lias Juri
issued a decree that every house in tho city
shall be painted within a specified time, at
the owner’s expense, and ulso directing that
owners of city lots shall build houses thereon
immediately, or forfeit tho same to tho gov
ernment
It is a curious fact that the French-speak-
ing population of Canada bos increased
during the last decade at a much greater
ratio than the English. The former class now
number 1,898,929, seven-tenths of whom live
in tlie province of Queb jc.
Two of the five Confederate generals are
still living—Josoph E. Johnson and P. G. T.
Beauregard. The C mfedcrates had twenty-
one lieutenaut-generals, and of these nine aro
still living—James Lo.igstreet Wade Hamp
ton, John B. Gordon, D. H. Hill, S. D. Lee,
A. P. Btewart, Jubal Early, 8. B. Buckner
and Joseph E. Wheeler.
A company with $2,500,000 capital is pre
paring to drain 1,000,00 ) acres of land in Cam
eron, Calcasieu a id Vefmilion, in the south
west corner of Louisiana, and to make a gulf
front of one hundred miles of agricultural
lands between Lake Charles and Sabine
Pass. Steam plows for tho work have ar
rived from Euglaod, capable of plowing fifty
acres a day.
Alexis. The Grand Duke Alvxis is now
high admiral uf the Russian navy.
Miller.—Joaquin Mlllor is an applicant
at Washington for a consulate in some warm
eUine.
Arnold.—Matthew Arnold, the English
esrayist and poet al ter an extended lecturing
tour in this country, has returned with his
family to England
Wood.—Professor J. G. Wood, the Eng
lish naturalist who has been leoturing in this
country on natural history subjects, intends
to settle tn Boston.
Dunne.—Pope Leo has conferred upon Ed
mund Dunne, formerly chief justiae of Ari-
cona, and now at the uea 1 ot the Ban Anto
nio colony in Florida, the title of oount.
Packer.—It is said that the death of
Harry E. Paoker, the late president of the Ix-
bigh Valley Railroad company, leaves his
sister, Miss Packer, with the largest income
of any unmarried lady in America.
Eads,—Captain James B. Eads, the noted
engineer, having finished his work at the
mouth of the Mississippi, has been invited to
examine the bar and channel of t he Mersey
with reference to improving, if possible, the
approach to Liverpool.
Hugo.—When Victor Hugo’s eighty-third
birthday was recently celebrated In Paris in
the (loot’s bouse crowds of his friends aud ad
mirers flocked to pay him homage. His
DANGEROUS EXPLOSIVES*
ffls# United Mat’ s Joining in Ih# One-
■ado Against Dynamite.
Attorney-General Brewster has sent th#
following oircu'ar to all Uuitod State# at
torneys and marslusls:
By dlreotlan uf the President I have to in
form you it is reported that oertaln persons
orb siding in the prosecution of heinous
crimes by shipping to foreign port# explosives
dangerous ill the highest degree to life and
property. No proof has been adduoed that
this rumor is founded upou fact, and the
President cannot believe its truth. The
honor of this nation, however, requires that
it should not be open to the imputation, un
founded though it be, of tUe slightest ap
pearance of tolerating such orlmes. whether
to be ooinmlttod aqainst our people or those
of other conn trie J.
Your attention is therefore called to sec
tions 5,353, 5,361, 5,365, 4,278 and 4,270 of the
revised statutes of the United States, which
regulate tho slilnment of explosives, and tho
punishment of those who Infringe their pro
visions, aud you aro instructed to be dlli-
ront in vour efforts to prevont the offenses
described and to detect and proseoute those
who have or may commit them.
A STRANGE CASE
Am Eight- Year* Old Hoy Whs Llvss
aud Diets Dally-
A wonderful case of suspended animation
is reported from Egypt, Penn. The subject
is an eight year-old boy, who has Jived and
died every day during the last month. From
sunset to sunrise he enjoys good health, and
rompe around like all ohildren of his age, but
at dusk he becomes entirely unconscious
and remains eo until morning. Phy
sicians are sorely puzzled by the case. One
■aid: “I pricked him with a pin, and applied
a galvanic battery to his most sensitive
parte, but without creating tlie least im
pression. I forcibly raised one of his arms
and it remained in an upright position. The
members were like wax, and were covered
with indentations wli ci: 1 made with my
fingers." The child had . ust recovered from
whooping cough when tnii str* ige affliction
came upon him, i t was proposed to take him
to New York, to b- examined bv the most
eminent physicians in tho country.
The Laplander.
The Laplander’s sledge has no run
ners, but, like himself, it is covered
with reindeer-skin, and is in shape some
thing like a canoe. Harnessed to his
sledge, the reindeer starts off with al
most the rapidity of the steam-engine,
going fifteen or twenty miles an hour.
The
e reindeer is not only the Laplander’s
horse, but his cow, ana, during the time
drawing-room was flllosi with choice - flowers j ££**«*"■
sent from all parts of the country. A recep- I quantities of it, to be used when no
tiou was almost forced upon ntm, but, m i more is to be obtained. Then he breaks
spite of his natural wish to retire early and off a piece, warms it out, and has again
seek repose, the agel poet, surrounded by th • ; a good article of milk. The deer is also
members of his family, had a kind word f jr
every one who had oome to congratulate
him.
PECULIAR ACCIDENTS.
Deacon John Corwith, a wealthy farmer
of Beaver Dam, Wis., lost his life by freez
ing his big toe.
John Barky, of Brauford, Conn., while
drunk, rolled off a lounge. His neck fell
over tne round of a chair and he chokod to
death.
The sloven-year-old daughter of Allen
Taylor, of Mayfield, Ky., while playing in a
his food, large herds of them being kept
in some ports of the country. From its
skin the Laplander makes the goof and
floor of his house, his bed, his shoes and
stockings, his olothes, and oords and
strings for his bow. Without this ani
mal, the Laplander would be in a de
plorable condition.
WUl Reid Either Way.
Our young Mends have heard of
palindromes—words or lines that read
swing got her neck in'tho rope'and was aU( q B peU the same backward as for-
chuked to death. I war d. The following sentences,
While having a tooth extracted, tho Dr inted in the London Truth, simply
young Bonof Josep^son, of ^on.Mo., £ ake ^ read word byword either
way:
became so frightened that he was thrown
into spasms and died.
While hunting, Gustave Rotzler, of
Evansville, Col.,stepped into the mouth ot
a mine shaft which the snow had covered
completely. Ho was instantly killed.
Charles Downs, of Atlanta, chased a
rabbit into a tall stump. While climbing,
his left arm was caught in a split near the
top, and he hung by bis wrist. He opened
his knife with Lis teeth in order to cut off his
arm. He male several gashes, and then
fainted. This caused his muscles to relax,
and h* dropped to the ground.
Solomon had vast treasures—silver
and gold—things precious. Happy aud
rich and wise was ne. Faithfully served
he God.
“ She site lamenting sadly, often too
mnoh alone.
“ Man is noble and generoue often,
but sometimes vain and cowardly.
“Carefully boiled eggs are good and
palatable, Youth’s Companion.