The Mercury. (Sandersville, Ga.) 1880-1???, June 10, 1884, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextPUBLISHED ETHR TUESDAY notiox. mat of t>» writer, net iniim lor pabll. ration. but as a (MihIm of gusti flUto. w# miawww tsonnarihls for tta virus #r opinions of Proprietor. DEVOTED TO LITERATURE, AGRIdCLTURE AND GENERAL 1NTELLIGENC E. VOLUME V. tl.Mpor E S. LilOMK, Attorney nt Lem, 8ANDI5RSVIM,E, ,oi. MAYOR. 0. n. ROGERS. SAN DER8VILLE. GA,.TUESDAY, JUNE 10, 1884. NUMBER 8. THE MERCURY.’ w A. J. JETRNiaANJ I - <?LE1tK Jb 2XJPA9UXEX. D. E. B, WELLS. MAXSHA'ZZ. J. E. WEDDON. «•; b- ALVEIMCXX. W. H. LAWSON. Wm. RAWLINGS, 8. G. LANG, A. M. MAYO, M. II. BOYER. 2own o/ 2ennilte. Mayor—Jolm C. Ilnrmnn. Aldermen —W., P. Davis, J. W. Smith, P. J. Pipkin, T. J. Beck. Clerk—S. H. B Mimey. Marshall—J. C. Hamilton. MUSICMUSIC OO TO— JERNIGAN —for— VIOLINS, Bows/Strings, Rosin Boxes, Etc. o. & BBOWH, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Will practical* thr8UtasagDilMfitetm Donna. Offloa In Oourt-house. Watches, Clocks And JEWELBY II PA I SIS BY J3ERWICAIT. Dr. H. B. Hollifield, nmtui in mm, Hsvln* recently graduated at the Univer- •lt>- of Maiylanu and returned home, now oners lil* professional services to tlia citizen" ol Hnuderavllle and vicinity. Office with Dr. II. N Hollifield,nextdeortcfMrs. Uayae'r millinery elore. 0. W H- WHITAKER. DENTIST, Sanderevtlle, Qa. TKRM9 CASH. Office et tils Residence, on ■arris street. Aarll Id. 1M0. X H. HOLLITIBLD. Physician and Surgaon, ee next do e* Haiti* BUY YOUR SPBCTICLBS, SPECTKW, FROM • JERNIGAM. Rena genuine without onr Trada Mar* On hand and for sain, BPECTAfW NOSE PUSSES. ETC. A- *. Hicks. a B. Roai aw* omspAnm. Tta first Joint stock mannfeeiuring company r? rld w * t °nr^**d at Philadelphia to 17W. This oompsny moaafoetureg "woolens, Hncns and cottons." sistbu ot onumr. ■to. Bisa Baton foaaded the first attar at *W*tera of Charity" la tbs United States. This lady.-lmilt an institution for Ibis ardor at Rmmettsburg, Md., in 1809. She was th- Rrst Mother Superior of tba order. win. The French Aoademy of Sciences ha* dl*> oovered that people born in that country tine* the French revolution do not Ura a* long a* those born before < and eitaa In proof that nobody can mention a single parsosi whs ha* reached 100 year* that was born since 1788. SPONUKM. E»*ry town liae its "sponges." There is a ■ponge from the Bahama Island* five feet six inches in oironmforenee xnd woighlng six and half pounds, it will hold twenty-four gallon* of water. It Is not known how much tha com mon sponge will hold, as ho rarely take* water. EDUCATED ELIES. A Ban Francisco showmen is advertising a troupo or educated files. As the warm waathsr approaches the fly becomes an object of inter est, and will no doubt command attention when all others of the performing fraternity are taking a holiday. If tho fly can be educated'to keep out of the victuals and off bald hcada that la about all the public would aak of him. JOURNALISM. A school of journalism for women will sooi. be opened in Detroit. As soon as it bscomss generally known that Jennie June makoe 1150 a week writing fashion lettere, the Detroit school will Have to enlarge to accommodate its pupils. The faehions change ao rapidly now-a- days, and so many now terms and colors are Introduced weekly, that it requires more talent to write a comprehensive fashion lstter than it does to writa an intelligent editorial on the tariff or on the war in Egypt. CREMATION. It is claimed that there 1* a growing feeling In this country in favor of cremation. Th* crematory at Waahington, Pa., receives daily application* for the incineration of bodies, and has at last decided not to attend to such busi ness any longer. In future tbo trustees of the LeMoyne crematory state that no person living ouUide of the county need apply. They be tter# that other crematories will soon be built elsewhere, and everybody can then be aooom- undated. THE ALLIGATOR TRADE. Fonr hundred thousand alligators, it U sstt- mated, were killed in Florida during the paat year, to supply the demand for alligator akin articles of all kinds, besides articles of jewelry manufactured from the teeth. This nsw busi ness gives employment to over 2,000 people In the South. There are over a dozen tanneries in tho United States engaged exclusively in tanning these hides. The teeth are in demand in England and France, where they are manu factured into Jewelry. k*to» Rotated, tat to to tor* It* street* will i*m with to* hum of *owrieaa TIIIC HEATED TERM. It is well to bear in mind the fact that daring the heated term there is always a marked in crease in tho number of crimes of violence. Undoubtedly tho hot weather lias something to do with this. It unstrings tho nerves, makes people irritable, and causes them to loss their temper more readily than at other timss. By some it is contended that electrical condition* ef the atmosphere are responsible for these effects, but the catiso is of minor consideration. With the fact staring us in tho face everybody will see the importance of keeping oool and avoiding undue excitement. HINES & ROGERS, Attorneys at Law, 8ANDER8VILLB, GA„ Will praotloe In ti e counties of Wsstatngtoil, Jefferson, Johnson Kmnnnel ttnd Wilkinson, •ad In th* U. & Court* for Ui* BontUern Dla- Wjlf ?M%i%*nl* in baying, mating ot R#ttl Estate. Offia* on Wait *ido of PnbUe Eqn*rn vOt Ll-tf Machine Needles, Oil and Skutfles, *0? ALL KINDS or MACHINFH, for sate. * will elan order parts'of Mnohlnea that get broken, for wlilcb new please ere wanted. A. J. JEHNIGAN. THE LITTLE MIDGET. One Of tk* smallest men in the United Btnto* fives at Cedar Key. IDs name is Abcoham Livingston Sawyer. Ho is twenty-two years old, forty and one-half inches high, weighs thirty-nine pounds, and the captain he came over with from Key Went says ho can cat more than any t«o men in the Htate. The midget was boro and reared in Key West. He i* bnilt in perfect proportion, is very bright, and oen make an eloquent speech, and has a clear, high voiae, which sounds like a child’s. He was at one time a reporter on the Kew West Demo crat. At present he is clerking in a grocery store. He has a sister who is just a quarter of an inch taller than he is, and is just seventeen years old. DEGATING BODIES. A Philadelphia physician says that there is a great deal of exaggeration in mnch that hta been written and said about the pollntion of water and air by the bodies of the dead. Earth is a great deodorizer, add when bodies are placed in it they gradually decompose, and all scpUo and poisonous matter are removed. The alow process of combustion goes on in the grave. The gasses that escape are seized upon by other forms of life. A* an instance going to show that the gasses from tbo dead do not effect the living may be mentioned tho church of the Capuchins at Home. The body of each monk when ho dies is placed in the earth be low the church until it has decayed. It is then exhumed and placed against the walls of the vault- The survivors who live over this char nel honse have never been in the least affected by the exhalations from tho decaying bodies. SILTED MINES OF MEXICO. Bo many disparaging estimates of Mexico and her production have recently come before the pubTio that it has at least the charm of novelty to soe the Other side occasionally shown up. Take the single item of silver mines, for Instance. It may bo of considerable interest to all who are dircotly or remotely concerned tn such matters to learn that there are fully 800 separate silver mines in the single State of Zacatecas. One of these mines hss already yielded not less than one thousand billions of dollars. This vein was first worked in 1648 by one of the lieutenants of Cortez. In the court* of the next forty years the settlement increased to such an extent that Philip the Second gave it a ooat of arms and the title, "Noble and Loyal City." Aside from its mining interests Zacatecas is an interesting old place. It has about 76,000 inhabitants, and is the northern most oity of any importance on the Central railroad. Standing 8,000 feet above sea level its climate is delightful. U»W this year Ml* It Qaafl ptesm « **«ttaa*wta*m acquisled with th* riina^ New will *es that he aadere*timat*a the peten- ttelitiM of th* future. Of Alabama h* says that tan yean bene* eh* will supply * great part of tb* country with ooel and iron. In that time Selma, Huntsville and Montgomery will nearly double their population. Birming ham will have from 40,000 to 10,000. Th* State will have two or three mere railroad*, two or more large stove works, a car wheal factory, a great agricultural works, at leaat two eannlng factories, and n score of new town*. Of Georgia, he says Atlanta ten years hemoa will have 18,000 more population, and every town and city in the State will hare steadily gained. Score* of new Industrie* will be in existence, capital will b* increased by millions. Colored help will be almost entirely replaced by whit* labor. Fruit and truok will be shipped to every northern market. An im mense fruit sensing factory will he started between Atlanta and Maoom Thera will be a hundred more sew mills, half a dozen great agricultural and machine works and every oonnty in th* State will have a railroad run ning through It. Perhaps in the near future Conneotiont will bay her rattraps in Montgom ery, and Mlehigan her plow* in Atlanta. Thee* glimpse* of tho fntnre may startle some of M. Quad's readers, but people who have witnessed the gigenti* strides of this section In tho last decade will consider the picture altogether too ARTIFICIAL HTONH. Th* largest artificial etona in th* world I* the one juet finished and which is to form the foundation for Bartholdi’s statue of Liberty on Bedloe's island in New York harbor. Tha etona is made of broken trap rock, sand, American and foreign cement mixed and water. Twenty thousand barrels of cement were used. The mixture for the stone was emptied into tho "Jacket," or mold, and then the surplus water was squeezed out. The stone rapidly hardened and will now bear on* tmmlred tone to the •qhare foot. It is only expected to bear np five tons to the square foot, but it will grow harder for the next two years. It has the color and grain of coarse gray sandstone. It is sunk fifteen feet below th* floor of the fort and rise* thirty-seven feet above it, has a baas of ninety- one fket-square, is sixty-seven feet square at tb* top, and haa fifty-two feat and ten inches high. On top of this will bo erected the gran ite pedestal from which ia to tower in all its magnificent proportions th* ooloaaal work of th* great French ienlptor. The easting of this mammoth monolith evidence* the extent of modern progress ia a signal way, especially when W* imagine how, by this concrete pro es**, Cheops eould have so mneh more easily moulded his pyramid and th* Russian emperor hqen spared the greet undertaking of removing to fit. Petersburg th* monster rock whioh sup port# th* equestrian effigy of Peter the Great PAMTKIIH’M EIHCOVBRIBN. No greater advance has been made In any department of human knowledge during the past quarter of a century than in that which relates to medicine and aanitation. It haa been discovered that tuberculosis ha* its origin in a specific germ. It hw been found that epkmie fever may be prevented by vaccination ; there i* a.vaccine for chicken cholera; and the important dkmovery has been made that cholera has a bacUlie gcrm. These dieooveries point to the day, not far distant, when all xymatio die- ***** will W controlled by medical scisaoe. Tha latest and moat important discovery ia that ef ibt French scientist, Pasteur, who has per fleeted a vaccine for th* prevention of hy drophobia. In other words, I’Mtanr laocnlatea monkeys with the virus taken from a mad dog. Tk# monkey* died. With the virus him from tke meukeys, ho inoeulnted ether monkeys until tod virus became week enough tn he well- nigh harmless. With this he inoculated rab bits Until the viras had regained its original intensity, to that by this scries of experiments he wm enaDled to obtain virus of different degrees of power. He then inoculated a dog with virus of different degrees of intensity, and finally with virus taken directly from the brain of a mad-dog. The dog thus expert- ment*d upon showed that he wm proof against hydrophobia. The experiment wm repeated a number of times, and always with the same re mit. The success of the experiments is more im portant in its general bearings than in its im mediate results, for it demonstrates the truth of a theory whioh will ultimately enable medi cal scienoe to provide vaccine remedies for di»- eases that have hitherto defied all experiment. MANGEHM FACED NT FIMHBKMEN, Brent Las* of Life Among the Men Who (tell to the Bnnhn from Glooeestor. The loss of life among Gloucester fishermen linoo Aug. 1, 1883, causod by the heavy gales on the fishing banks, has now reached a total of 264 men, the largest loss recorded from that port in any year, 1879 ranking next with a to tal of 249. The dead of the past winter have left 70 a blows and 134 fatherless children. The disastrous winter fisheries were first opened in 1890, and sinco that time 4l7 vessels and 2,600 livo* have Isxui sacrificed in the fish eries centred at Gloucester. Until 1842 but few vessels wore employed in fishing, in com parison with the great number owned at pres ent, and up to that date hut 401 lives had been lost. In tho winter of 1862 a great gale wm en countered on George’s Dank, during which the kiss of life was swelled to th* then unpre cedented number of 162 for the year. Since that time the yearly lot* has often exceeded 100, and has seldom been less than 50; and from 1862 to 1884 the whole number of loat men is 2,140, an average of 97 each year. The losses eansed by eollision during the gales of February and March, when the fleet is crowded into a small space, are vary great. Other boats are capsized by the sudden squalls. A small number are run down by the large ocean steamers. During February and March a largo fleet of vessels are usually anchored in a crowded space, these are the stormiest months, and before full warning has been given a violent snow squall often strikes .a ves sel, whioh breaks away from its anchorage and. driven by the winds, drifts with tremendous speed through the entire fleets generally oolhd- ing with another schooner, when both go down together. If the drifting vessel is seen in time the other veaml outs its cable, and then not unfrequontly both oollide with other boats. The matter is becoming to serious that is ia now proponed to interfere by legislative enact ment to compel the adoption of modern safe guards against some of the danger* usual* en countered. •1 GUAM that I have tha floor, 1 now to death hr • Tumu boys, as twnlvaaBdWevea upxetUng fitn on Beaver river, Tu lorn of life fishermen fine* ‘ heavy gala* am I reached • total ot DM men, the largest Iom wcorded from that tort In any year. The fitod ef th* nut waiter have left seventy widows and lto totheriim ehildrtm. Tha dto Mfirous winter fishpln were first ensued ia 1888, and since that time 447 veewtle and 2,800 live* have been sacrificed in the fisheries cen tered ut Glow rued by t lift among Gloucester (Mam) > Augtot 1,1888, cauaed by the t tho fishing banks, hM now . A PrmiBtjM (tana) dispatch «y* that disgraceful disclosure* have been made ram parsing the affairs of tho suspended Penn hank, and that depositors will !« fortunate if they get It* percent, ef their deposit*. Many fictitious deposits with capitalists have bnen unearthed, and it is charged that tnuch money wm lost in oil speculation. A deficiency ot over $1,250,000 wm discovered. . Th Glendower iron company, of DsnrlU% Pena., hM failed for about $200,000. Bbooklym real aetata ie valued at $301,0)0,- 000, an Increase of $10,000,000 ever last year. Pirnsidiivt Annum reviewed Uie large parade In New York on Decoration day, and listened to Goneral B. K. ButJar’e oration be fore the Grand Army posts in the Aoademy of Music at night. AU the cemeteries around New York were visited by throngs, and the graves wore covered with flowers ■•Nth sad Wool. From answers received to 8,000 iinuirlw sent out by the secretary of the National Mil lers’ association, at Milwaukee, it seoius that this year's wheat crop hi the groat wheat grow ing State* will be unusually large, probably much larger than that of 18tfi). Tn Hot Springe (Ark.) National bank doted its doors, and a run on the ArkaasM National bank, aim of Hot Springs, created greed excitement. Stromo’fi bank, u prominent financial Inxtl tutian at Green Bay, Wia.hM suspended. Tha Crawford County bank, of Dennison,Iowa. hM also failed. Washouts along all the Texas railroad lines have caused great damage, forgo tracts of laud have been flooded, a great many csttla have been drowned, and the people compelled to ttae to higher ground for mfety. Am experiment in plowing by steam wm witnessed at Forgo, Dakota, bv prominent wheat growers, and voted a euocem. A trac tion engine draw eight plows, turning a aod four inches thick m evenly and wall m could be done by lioree-power, and at the rat* of over twenty-five acne a day. This will enable the farmers to plow at a coot of not mere than 91 per sere. ▲ larob five-story warehouse In Baltimore overloaded with heavy goods, suddenly seS- lapaed with a terrific crash and lay in a pile of ruin*. Six men were killed and four more in- Jhrad. Waahington. Fnaunoiv Arthur and party, tneluditur Secretaries 1 tmsalnr General Gresham, General Shsridaa, Admi ral Porter, the British. Russiaa, French and Gentian ministers, Senator* Hole, Mil- Mr, Call, Groome, Jones and Butler, and Representatives Cannon, Towu- thend, Cox, Morse, Ballantine, Tslliot, Holton, Thomas, McAdoo and Goff, visited Annapo lis and witnessed the drill of th* navel codsta. Many of tho visitors wore accompanied by their wives. A Bun-coMMiTTKE of tlie House committee on agriculture hoe reported a bill to establish agricultural experiment stations in commo tion with the various State agricultural col lage*. The grand lodge of Good Templars in Bessie* at Washington resolved to petition Congress to submit a prohibitory constitutional amendment to the States. Tbe delegates called in a body on President Arthur at the Whito House. Colonel J. O. P. Burnside, superintend* snt of the postofOce building and disbursing clerk of tbe postofilce department, hM been found short in his accounts to the extent of about 946,000. He lost the money through speculations in commotion with the fraudu lent, oil syndicates conducted by the broker fovi*, who fled recently. HI* arrest followed me discovery of his defalcation. Colonel Burnside has long held various government ueeitUmz in Washington, wm a prominent rl- Bmmw, and at c*a time wus a a**akNa-*r Mn Am art ana lean. R*voera from various parte of th* canals > My that immense damage has been doae to crops and small fruits by tho roesnt frosts. Foreign. A Mm. Leffley was hangod at Liixxfi*, England, for poisoning her husband. At tho holiday games in Chatham, Canada, the grand stand collapsed, and 160 persoiti were injured, several seriously. The injuries consisted of Jiroken arms, lags, and riba, ' and some were hurt internally. France has obtained tho exclusive right nn der the recent treaty with China to trade on (be Chinese frontiers bordering on Tonquin. Mlmc. Columbikr, tho French octrees and companion of Garah Bernhardt during the latter’s tour through the United Btatee, ha* bean sentenced to tureo mouths' imprisonment and to pay a fine for writing the book "Borah Barnutn, in which ker former friend wm unmercifully ridiculed. When the book first appeared a fierce encounter took place botween the two actresses In Pans, and Mile. Col uni- bier was horsewhipped by Mile. Bernhardt. Colonel Kkei, tbe ftwim minister to th# United States, hits resigned. Advices from the Phillippine islands say that s band of fanatics, under the leadership of a so-called prophet, nppoared there last month* The trooi>s disjierscd them with a loot of thirty-eight killed and wounded. The Catholic bishop of the Soudan report* that seven Italian priests and four sisters of mercy have tieen massacred at El Olieid. Three priests were exjxmsl iuik«l to the sun for four ilays anil diod from the efforts of thuir exposure. The race for tha Derby, England's annual great racing event, resulted this your in u dead heat between the horses Harvester r-yt Ht- Gatien, the favorite. Queen Adelntee, coming in third. Fifteen horses participated. Tlte stakes were divided. Great damage has tieen caused by floods in South western Kpain. In ene province alone 409 buildings have been destroyed and 61* damaged. A series of dynamite explosions In London hare carried consternation and alarm through - out England. The first explosion resulted from a bomb being thrown into the basement of tbo Junior Carlton cl jb house; this was fol lowed by another explosion near the army and navy club houso. Tne basement of the Carl ton club house wan shattered, and four female servants were severely injured. Shortly afterwar another severe explosion oc curred outside the noted detective office in Scotland Yard. The comer of the building was blown off to a height of thirtv feet, and a policeman, coachman, and several other per sons were severely injured. The streets and club houses at this time were crowded with wople, and the utmost excitement prevailed. Another explosion was averted by the failure of the fuse to burn. Several cakes of dyna mite were found by the police. One ma.u dis covered with a lighted fuse was pursued, but escaped byjyfljping iptoa waiting cab. Jealous -Jay Gould has decided to build a winter residence in Florida. Poor Florida 1 Poor orange groves | Poor fUJigatora,—/VwZotMpM# (MU. ■nCKLUlflOUS. —Heavy rate rails to Tsxm Mtiliston have caused an avarfiow *f tba streams sad much damage to preparty. —A atrika af brlcklsyare safi stoaa XMsaua fi axpaetad in Buffets. —•AdSMBrebaudar, to* defaulting pratidant of tb* Erie County (Pa) Bering* Bank, wm removed from kia realdenos to to* aunuty jail for tba purpose of protecting him from mob Ylolence. —The veterans of toe Twenty-eighth New • * 0 ! k regiment visited sx-Confederate soldier* Virgtaia, end express themselves m being daiighlad with th* kindness and hospitality which they have received ia that State. —At ton Prasbytariaa Ganatal Assembly at ■Malaga, MY., tha **ua* ef to* lack af min isters to 111 th# pulpit wm dlanssmd, and va rious remsdiM proposed. —The Brooklyn bridge salehrated to* anal- Senary of its first birthday an May fifith. Dur- JtffijWWIrei paaamqmsjreprs- seuting 940,881, has* trevsrsad it. TLs rsbi- •!•* has* numbered 887,081 and rsahmd 873,87*. The railroad Ims iaksa 8,181,988 pto- Pjf. Mros# the Eaat river and contributed 9267,641 to the treasury. Altogether 9391,770 have tieen received. —The Faun Bank suspended for tb* second Mm*. Great eaeitMuent in aoaasqueuoe agi tates Pittsburg. —ITis political treabtes at Hew Iberia, fo, are assuming serious shape end bloodshed is hourly expected. —At the Reformed Presbyterian Bynod. in Pittsburg, Pe., s report wm adopted providing for the *xoommuuicatk>u of such church mem bers m deal in spirituous liquors or rent property to tavern ktepers. —Ia New York, Jehu Carpenter, after four attempts, killed his wife, whose life h* had eftea threatened. He also dsugeroiwlT wounded hie sister-in-law and than thrust a sulfa Into hia own side. One of his aiurderoM attempts wm mads ia Bt. Francis Iavwr’a Gliuroh, ia 1878, wliaiw, during service, ha stabbed s ser vant girl whom be mistook for his wife. —Hi* floods in Bpsiu are baoomlim alarm ing, axoeeding those of 1878. —A train wm maliciously derailed near Rologoe, Ruaala, one porson being killed and mven Injured. —Tha Austral tens dafMted tha Mldtond* teem ia a gam* of cricket. —Th# Americans detested the Yorkshire team ia a gams of IscrosM. —American eiUzetia are aubjoct to a atrlot •lamination ia Cubs. —In France Mile. Oolembier hM been sen tenced .to three months' imprisonment 1st tar scandalous book soiled "Borah Bsrnum." —General Gordon's toolbar mya that to* Oanaral hM no*tear •• to hia personal safety, and can escapa from Khartoum whenever ha like* —Ax » bsats for tha Egyptian eonftnnea England hss agreed with France for s renewal of international oontrol, English occupation of Egypt to bo limited to fivo years. A warrant for toe nrreit of John a Eno, the former presidsnt of the Beoond Nations! Bank. .‘. , “ ued ky United Blsles Commissioner Bsturdsy morning at Uie request of District-Attorney Hoot. Mr, James D. Fish, President of the Marine National Bank, wm arrested Saturday evening in his rooms in the Myitie flat* Th* warrant b y_ U " h « J Mate# Commissioner Shields on an affidavit sworn to by Bank Exam iner Borih*. Th* warrant shsrgea Mr. rish with "unlawfully misapplying certain sums of money to the amount of $1,409,000 of th* mon eys and funds of tbs Marine National Bsnklug Association to his own use, benefit, and advan tage, with intent to Injure and defraud such association.” Hiuakley, the cashier of the West Bids Bank, who sbsoouded wtih over 990,000 of the hank’s funds, Iim not yet been arrested. Tint official examination of the bank's ooadltion shows that it is solvent, although it wm forced to ejoM by tha refusal of banks to atesr it* paper. It will soon raasma. —William McDonald, while sslssn, ten ovst fh# rivsr bank at Niagara Falls and wm killed on the rooks below. —The New Jersey CethoUe Total Abstinence Union hM declared n determined war against rnm in that Btste. —A serious fire broke out in Union City, Pe., doing damage to the amount of over 9100,000. —Tbe General Conference of tbs Methodist Episoopsl Church adopted s strict report on the questions of marriage and divoro*. It also adopted a report admitting colored people to all its chnrohes. Sabbath schools and ooi logos on the same footing m white people —The will of the late Oh arise O’Oonor hM been offered for probate. He leaves 920,800 end certain books to the Law Institute of N*w York oily. —By Mm anlttslon of twa steamboats on tbs BA Johns River, FIs., near Paktka, an* pan. senger wm drowned. —The vineyard* In the district of Osrlba- gena, Spain, have been ravaged by burrloanes and many families rained. Is the district ef Ouhuels hoiiHss are inundated. The village of Mulius is submerged and the people hsvsbeen compelled to take refuge on tbe roofs of the houses and iu hosts. —A letter from the Philippine Islands says that a band of fanatics under the leadership of a so-called prophet appeared there iMt month. The troops dispersed them with a loss of thirty- sight killed and wounded. —Gewitsoh A Sons, an old leather firm of Vienna, hav* failed for 2,000,000 florins. Five other leather firms have (Mpeuded in conse quence of this failure. —The hall in which the Repnbllean Conven tion is held in Ofaiaago will seat 18,400 persons. —Communication hM been sstalUishsd be tween Dover Bay and Cape Ann, Uie Faraday having successfully laid that Section of the commercial cable*. —^The Anthracite cool companies, In order to keep up the present high price of oool, will •top production two weeks during Jane. —The Governor of Rhode Island was in augurated si Newport with becoming cere monies. —'The Methodist Episcopal General Con ference, at Philadelphia, declined to make any change in the time limit of the pMtoral terms. A bill passed by tho Honse of Re presentatives pencils Ensign L. K. Reynolds, of the navy, to accept a deourstion from the Austrian government in recognition of the young officer's gallantry in saving life. Kepresentat.ve Robinson made a querulous objection, calling Mr. Reynolds s dude. Muuset, Cox replied in fine style, and »u the vote there was not enough opposition to call for a conut. The Senate Committee on Public Lands de rided to report bills forfeiting tbe lend grants opposite the nncompietad portions of ths North-rn Pacific main and branch lines snd the Atlantic and Pacific railroads. It is thought the forfeiture of the Northern Pacific will amount to about 13,000,004 seres, and of th* Atlantic and Pacific to about 94,000.000 seres —President Gonzales, .of Mexico, will Mk Congress to permit him to resign next month. —A fire occurred in a coal pit at Porto Bello, three miles east of Edinburgh. Nine mer were suffocated. —The floods continue in the EMtern prov inces of Spain, and are especially severs in the towns of Orihuela, Aiguerias and Aieirs. Provisions are being sent to the sufferers by the inundation. —It is reported that El Mabdl hM aueceeded in purchasing the neutrality of King John and ontwitting Admiral Uenvett. — A petition has been largely signed in Ger many praying fur a commutation of Kroszew- ski s severe sentenoe. —The foot and mouth disease whioh has af flicted the cattle in some ports of Maine lias been entirely stamped out. —The cotton mills in Angus to, Go., have re duced salaries and wages Irons 16 to 28 per cent on account of the deprsssidn/in trade. —The visible supply of wheat ia'Chicago shews a decrease of nearly 8,000,000 bushels during ths last week, caused ty the (harp od- BW!CA, ‘ A!W _ -A asUistoa starred ms to* «sta a. am « kL ** r,y 9101 —A tailtstoa starred Ml tta ftak total* Jn to* sot switching at tta otoUsn. Thu, Tta Minnesota Democratic State Convention adopted a platform for ravanuas. Tta date gateasra for Tildas drat and Flower Monad. Tha Wiseaaatn State Damocrtaic Ooavaatiou la its*raaalatioaa reiterate* tha tariff plonk ia tta National Democratic platform of 1878, •tostog with Ihsta words: "Hs demand that nli Custom Honse taxation shall be for revnaus g*8i" Tha delegates are for TUdan Ant. Flaw at second. tha Gfranhack National Convention, which .aaaemblid at Indiaaapolli, wm atlendsd tor over five hundred delegatee. The Southern delegates o|>|K>.ed Butler for President, but were outvoted. In a letter to the Convention, Bntlar said : ‘Why should I he Mkid a ques tion which under His oircumsiaucas wm never 8 ut to any other man ? Is not my reaurd m a retubocker for twenty years sufficient with out a formal pledge to you, wliiali would cause me to be pointed out M • man who bids for the nomination." The KanoM Democratic State Convention elected delegates to tho Chicago Convention. Resolution* were passed recommending, but not positively lnslructtiig, the delegate* to vote 'or Tildan. —By the overcrowding of goods Into a Balti more warehouse the building wm crashed and •ix persons were killod and four Injured. —The Episcopalian Convention at Baltimore, Md., having fal led to elect a bishop, adjourned to October neat. —The bonk rare between Courtney and Haas did not ooma off on Decoration day, m the water wm too rough for to* shall*. A large crowd boss tabled and Oonrtnay wm vary badly treated, m it wm supposed to lw his ftalt that tha race did not ooma off. —An old violin, supposed V) hare bslongad to Tom Paine, wm found in nn attic in Bordaa- towa, N. J, —The Fraabytarisu fight over instrumental music is to be referred back to the several Presbyteries by the Byuod St BL Louis. —A domestic quarrel over pecuniary mat ters, followed by a blow, ludneed an unfortu nate mother in Albany to kill bar five children and to daateoy herself. The woman test tar savings bank book, and tola lid to a quarrel which rendered her insane. —While digging for Indian italatons in a Connecticut vttloga the operator found the watch of a peddler who wm said to have bean reordered fifty years ago. —The Fourth Ohio militia ore to he disband ed and several olHoers court-msrtisllcd for thsir boil conduct m soldiers during the Cin cinnati riots. —By the foiling of a scaffold In Krupp’s Tunnel, on tha Houth Pennsylvania Railroad, several men were killed and wounded. —Jamas Tucker (oolorad) wm axaoutod at Parte, Ark., for murder, and William Brown (colored) met a similar foie at Belleville, IU., for a like crime. —Th* Frenoh government will estebrato tha oentenary of the Revolution of 1788 in on Im posing manner. —Ths r!*ors of imprisoned Bpeniah journal ists srv loudly complained of by ths press of Madrid. —In Hcotlaml Yard, Loudon, an explosion of dynamite occurred onteids of tbs detective of fice, blowiug down a portion of tbs building snd slightly injuring several persona. — A bomb wm exploded outside tha Junior Carlton Club, in Pall Mall, shattering i he base ment and injuring four.femate servants. -The twee for tta Derby resulted In a deed heal betwaea Bt. Oakisn and Harvester. Qnemi ■Bakhta finished third. * —Comte d’Haaaaqn villa, a French politic tor snd member of .to* Assdamy, is dead. —Four hundred nud nine dwellings have seen destroyed and 614 injured by the floods x the province or Murcia, Hpaiu. —Tb* Catholic Bishop ef ths Bouden hM I mt arrived at Cairo from th* south of Egypt. Ia report* that seven Italian priMta and four Bisters of Mercy have been massacred at E 1 Olieid. He also reports that time priests wen exposed naked to tits 11111 for four day* and died from the effects of their exposure. AN APPALLING DEEtt Tbe parti outers of n terrible tragedy enacted ft Albany, N. Y., are os follows: At 11 stolockr. M., Chtetophsr Bchratvsr, a black* aaMh, same borne awl found the bouse lights tow. His wife was not at home and be inquired upstairs for tar, but she wm not there. He then began to search the house. In the bedroom be made a horrible discovery. In a cradle lay bis dead Infant, nine months old: brnkle toe cradle were tores of hi* ether children, Henry, aired mven years; Annie, aged fonr, and John, aged three, with their throats cut HI# wife ami a nine-year-old daughter were missing. Mr. Bchreiveris cries brought the neighbors in end the polieo began a march fer the wife. It re sulted in finding her in the Btaek Rook cut on tta railroad with tar daughter. The woman wad grabbed the ehild and ran In front t a train. Bhe wm dead when found. r head, both feet above the ankles md her arms at the elbows were out off. Her little girl wm yet alive. The child's left arm and leg were severed. She mid her mother held her down In front of the train. The girl died afterword. The hus band recently purchased a team of horses and sent his wife to the bank to get the money. She lost the bunk book, and bed a quarrel with her husband. She thought all his savings were k»t because the book was lost, and liecamo crazy, with the above terri ble result. NEW PENHION HILL. Th* Prorislan far Those Who Nerved la the Anuy Three Mentha. Senator Cullom reported from tho Committee 011 Pensions the 1 ill * bicli oonfer* a pen-ion upon all pennons who served three mouths dur ing the war and have honorable discharges, and who are 01 shall boo me disabled front any reuse nut ths ran Isf their own gross rore- lessneis, disrepntahle eondnet or vicious habits, and shall.also be dependent wholly or in pari upon their own labor or upon pecuniary as sistance from others for the means of comfort able support .The highest rate of pension granted by tha bill, which shall be for total ineapacity to per form any manual labor, shall be 930, which ia hereby made divisible upon that basis for any leas degree of disability; provided that no par son entitled to or receiving on invalid pension greater than that provided for herein shall re ceive the beneflte of this set. AU widow* of soldiers and laitora who ora now raeaiving or eu titled to receive 99 par month sbaU from this date be entitled and ra- oeive at the rate of 912 per month. The widow or minor child of * pen'iio—r •haU be held to be entitled to on original pen sion in their own right under existing tows, without being required to prove that tod death cause of the pensioner wm due to his military or naval service. ■lawn fa Death. At a late hour Monday night the bleacher in Moore A tVllson’s straw board mill, between Cohoe* and Waterford, N. f.,'4xnlbd*d with* toad notoAtewokening the mhabltonte of the village ot Waterford. Flv* of the, nine men at wort iu ttamitt at the tins was* killed, four Instantly, lha other died 1$ $ few minute*. Four other* rere injured. Fawny Davenport has rirared taarly I 982 on Bar fleet "Fedora" mreca. , Dior Booccicault rateutotou ttoto tbarq are in the United Hta tea-2,663 thaalmSp worth 9116,000,000. Philmppe D’ENWnnj,. nuthow 01 Mm "Two Orphans,” is said to have amamad a fortune: of 99,(00,000. Michael B. Curtis has saved mist ths earninnof "Ham’l of Foaen" Hw nmi littte •urn of 8188,000. “May Blossom" will be kept ou ,ot tha Madison Bquare theatre, New York, until September next, when it will bs.ssot ou th* road. * ' Two unprintort cantatas by Bsethttan have been found among the collection': *• foipslg antiquarian. Tlmy were written when he wm twunty-onn years old. Emma Arbott has sung thfltfottht con secutive weeks, giving seventeen different operas and 310 performances without missing a tingle engagement Mr. Howells has not tet -completed tta comic opera for which Mr. George Henschel is preparing tho music. It is uncurtain when th* work will lie brought out. ThE entire audience nf tho Baldwin theatre Ban Francisco, wus recently photographed by the electric light, and every person preseal was given a copy as u souvenir. MANAOEHjOHNr. McCaULKY,of Louisville, Ky.. hM given the use of his theatre for a benefit for building a home for disabled Con federate soldiers in Richmond, Vs Rose Coohlan's salary has advanced mate rially during the past two of three seasons. She Is now receiving $850 per week at Wah lack’s. Now York, und $476 a week when she travels. Mr. Roiiert Htoefbl, the musician and director, Ims brought a suit against Henry Irving for the use of inutic employed by him in several of tlte plays li« appeared in. Papers were served upon Mr. Irving before his d» parture for Europe. Vehdi’h study is a sanctum sanctorum which Do one dares to enter or approach without tta master’s special permission, and thet is seldom granted. lie shuts himself un in It for boura every day, and sometimes for whale day* •merging only to eat and sleep. PROMINENT PEOPLE fHB revivalists, Moody, and Banker, will re turn to America soon. Mr. Froi'dk, the Engiteh historian, Is to take in America in hie voyage -around the world. Attorney General BhewnTb* Is said to have one of the rarest china collections In this country. Florence Niohtinoale, celebrated as the Crimean nurse, lias become an advocate of wonum’s suffrage'. Dr. Lorimer, a prominent Chicago clergy man, is writing 11 novel, the basis 01 which is to bo the Thirty Years’ war. "Lucky" Baldwin, 0110 of tjie California millionaires, aged sixty, has just taken for his fourth wife a girl of twenty summers. Henry Beriih, president of the New York 8. F. C. A., favors cremation, anti says that on hyghmh: principles the cemeteries should be gradually remove. I and abandoned. Bishop Green, of Mississippi, the eldest bishop of tlie Kpisco|«il church,lias transferred to the Rev. Dr. Hugh Miller Thompson, bis associate, all the administrative work of his office. Mr. Cili.ey, of Nottingham, N. H., say* that he reasonably hones to live to the nge of one hundred yours. At uinuty-three, ho is In go:*! health ami enjoys life, taking particular pleasure Iu reading tig) report* of the pro ceeding* in the United States Senate, of which ha was once a member. • JpDOE Richard Kkid, who recently killed hlinxelf because Kentucky society turned against him for not fighting a duel with the lawyor who horsewhipped him, \vns a typical Kentuckian in uppearuncc. He wqro a heavy mustache, long board, low-cut Teat, turn down collar, and no uuck-tle. John Khichniin, tho Inventor, is nighty years old. and bus lived for twenty years or more iu tile sumo houso hi the lower isirt of New, York city. His life is regular and methodical. Rising early, before' u, he walks for an hour, and, after u light breakfast, goes to work on his inventions; from 11 o'clock un til 4 is spent in rending, during which lie aim Indulges in a luncheon; and after an hour's ivture to work ho ends his day's inborn with anuttar wijk through tho lower part of the fifoy—ffetwolly along the wharves. Over Niagara Falls. "The most agonizing scene that I was ever doomejl to witness,” says a veteran visitor, "was the carrying over the Falls of Niagara of young Charles Addington and little Eva Do Forest. The Adding tons and De Forest’s were prominent families in Buffalo in those days, and yonng Charles was engaged to be mar ried |o Ada De Forest. Mias De Forest’s mother and her little sister Eva, accom panied by yonng Addington and herself, came to the Falls one day in the sum mer to spend the day. While they were on Qoat Island little Eva went away by herself, and Mrs. De Forest sent the yonng man after her., He found her standing near the shore. He thought lessly stole np behind her and, grasp ing her tinder the arms, held her ont over the water. . She suddenly threw np her bands and slipped through his arms r. He instantly sprang ii into the water. FX 0 „ after her and reached her before the ■wiftes rapids had oanght her. He suc ceeded in getting her Dock non enough to the shore to throw her on the h«nl bat $he had not strength snffleient tc hold on until her mother oonld grast her end fell back into the water. They wen both carried over the Falla in aighi ef their‘beloved ones. For years after, ward Addington’s father visited the Fan* onoe a week, and would ait foi bran gating at the water whan they wee* mt. ne. finally oeeaed ooming, aad wo learned that hehad dledgriev- tag flKhfebor, who waa hia oaly child.’ 1 Dutch Gap taaaL * -- - , - Tbe experiment of wjdeqing General Butler’s Dutch Gap Conti the hydraulic process, ia ] success by the engineers the work is being carried on. is now used by nearly all the craft going to Richmond np the Jaioew river, and it will soon be able to admit of tl of the largest seagoing vessel tafia the route to'tnat city by and 9 quarter. The wide a new one, having been i sisaipps rivetr recently far i A steam pump at the shore fa from the river through a ] stream is difleoted^Sfi^toti; walls of-sar|h with such fa drrmine and dash them away" (The cur- awft&rA-iswL’tsa washings to deeper water, thus prevent ing the Ailing o| tbo cli^iiHi

Georgia Historic Newspapers

The Mercury. (Sandersville, Ga.) 1880-1???, June 10, 1884, Image 1