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Newspaper Page TextKjSIC, MUSIC rEHNIGAN Bows, Strings, losin Boxes, Etc. the mercury. PUBLISHED EVERT TUESDAY NOTICE. communication* Intends ft>r Mill must be acoompanled with the foil (0 f the writer, not necessarily tor pnbU. tlon> but as a guarantee of good faith. tf« are In no way reeponslble for the Tlewa „ C plnlon« of correspondent*. MERCURY. A. J. JERXIOAX, Proprietor, VOLUME V. DEVOTED TO LITERATURE, AGRICULTURE AND GENERAL 1NTELLIGENCE. $1.50 per Annum SANDERSVILLE. GA„ TUESDAY, JULY 15, 1884. NUMBER 1*. THE MERCURY. Holered a* eeeond-elaae matter a* the I derrrlUe Foetoffloe, April If, IMt Rnlemll^ Washington C$uty* A.. J. JERNIGAN, Faoramoo an Fnnmta ■obeerlptloB — „I1J| pw Tea* £. S LANGMAOE, Attorney at Law, SANDERSVILLE, OA. MAYOR. 0. II. ROGERS. irnK £ 'kjRfiAszntmt. 1) J5.J B, WELLS. .V'A7tS/lA 7s L. J. E WEDDON. A /,/>/ \V. II LAWSON, \\M, RAWLINGS, S. (I LANG. \. M. MAYO, M II ROYER. nr/ 0* C- BROWN, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Handenrrllle, Oa, Will pract ice In the Btate and United State* urla. UOloe In Ooart-houM. Vatches, Clocks And JEWELRY REPAIRED BY F. RXTICAZT. Dr. H. B. Hollifield, isicias aid mmi ivlng recently graduated at the Unlvor- "l Maryland and returned home, now is Ills prntosstoiial aervlcen to the citizens • 'inlei'KVllle and vlolnlly. Offlco with II ,N llollltlel'J, next door to)Mra. Uayne'H llnery atore. G. W H. WHITAKER, )EN T I ST, Handererllle, Qa. /.VI.1/7 CASH. Oltlce at hla Itealdence, on Harris street. till lid. 1880. H. N. HOLLIFIELD, Physician and Surgeon, BaadererUta, Oa. Offlo* oext doer te Mm rt on Harris HYJY YOUR SWIMS, SPECT1MS FROM J E R N IC A U , 0n « genuine without onr Trad# Hark On hand and for sale, fEOTAIW NOSE GLASSES, ETC, filflKS. O. H. Kookbs STATISTICS OF mmiznA A<rrS M N ,°' 6 ® 0f th0 8h “* 0°®«ni«loner of AgriotUture haa beon rocoired, being an analy te* and atatiatica of commarolal fertiliser* in- •P*ct«d, analyzed and admitted to sale i„ Oeorgia during the aoaaon of 1883-84. During this reason thoro were impeded 161,849 tana a* againat 120,377 tona last year. The balnnce L“ d o n0 ;, 8 ‘ ate trc *" iry for tl10 p rc » ent caaon la $02,133.92, an increaao of $11 323 02 as compared with 1882—83. A TEXAS FISH STORY. Toiag came to tho front with a flah story last neck which seemod hard to beat. It claimed that a sea fish was found in the street of an intorior town, one hundred miles from the coast, after a heavy hail storm. Tlio pccu- liararity of the flah wna that It was alivo and flopping. ThiB wna a hard atory to beat, but Maaaacliuaotts oamo to the front on Tuesday and tolls ono that makea Toxaa bluah. It is claimod that after a rain atonn at Pawtucket over one hundred cola wero found in a mnd puddle. nitro-glyckrine pills. Tilla mado from a preparation of nitro-gly- Corino will oure heart diacaae, So eaya a medi cal journal. That nitro-glyccrino will effectu ally rid a poraon not only of heart diacaae, or any otlior ailment, is not questioned. It will remove the patient as far from tho disoaso aa necessary to effectually relievo tho disease of tho patient. Aa a remover, nitro-glyccrlne takes a high rank. A rank so high, in fact, that an inquisitive poraon has been sent out of sight by it. However, nitro glycerine pills, while effectual removora, are too much so to In spire entire conflilonco in their curing power. KING TIIHKI1AW. King Theebaw, of llirmah, it will bo recol lected, recently poisoned his wife and her mothor, and married his wife's siBtor. Thia waa bad enough, but ho haa been guilty of still more horrible crimes. At the age of twenty when ho seconded tho throne ho caused all of his relatives to bo put to death. One of his brothers waa killed by flogging, another had hia limbs broken and was burlod alivo, and an other waa blown to piccea with gunpowder. At another timo the young monster waa vory sick, and fearing he would die ho earned aoven hun dred people to bo burned alivo. Recontly thia bloody king announced that ho had reformod, but hia latest exploit will cause his sincerity to be doubted. INSTITUTION OF TRAINING An inatitntlon that haa long been needed is at last to bo established in Now York. It la an institution for the training of and the gradu ating of aetora and actreiaoa—an American Conservatory of Dramatio Art. The building, which is now In course of contraction, will contain a theatro with a seating capacity of eight hundred. It will have a large stago fitted with all the appliances of a first-class theatre; rehearsal room and several rooms for recita tion and practioo. The clauses will be formed Into stock companies subject to tho discipline of the best profcaaionai theatres, and all to be under tho directorship of Frank II. Sargont, at present dramatic director of tho Madison Square theatre. Mr. Sargent will havo a corps of assistants in tho various branches of the profession and the result of their work can not be other than of good In American dramatics HIMES & ROGERS, Attorneys at Law, SANDERSVILLE, GA., Sj} 1 practice In tho counties of Washington. insf* 0111 Johnson, Kumnuel and Wilkinson, trii.i rb- S- Courts for the Southern DIh- Wiu 0eor g'». teiu "* agent* In buying, solllni Dm 11 * EsUite. °mi-tf" U W#8t * ld ® of Public Squar*. Needles, Qil ai? & Shuttles, F ° 1: A J, r a KINDS OH' MACHINTH, for sale, " i l nIso* order pans of Machines " l ui i(» t broken, for >vh1rh new l’I ecus nro wanted. A * -1. .IF/JfNICiAN y-'-ul had. been. During and tips! '“ u ceremony there van muoh co n f aU( l . embracing, and after the iiig w,r°„ n J’ n gibg, praying and speak- H &ar. ,' w «ro again resumed. — Washington VOLCANO IN FLORIDA. The supposed volcano In southern Florida has at last beon Investigated. For many years thiu smoke rising from the everglade region has attracted attention and it has been rumor ed that it oame from Iudian campfires or from volcano. Various expeditions havo been or ganized to solve the mystery, but the oxplorers found so many difficulties in the way that they were forced to turn hack after a fruitless search. A short timo ago Captain Ashor fol lowed the Ancilla river, hunting for cypress logi, and in the courso of his journey saw this cloud of vapor and determined to find out what it was. In one of the swamps he found a number of large, black rocks, rising out of the water. Home were worn in the shape of basins and others wero huge, hollow shells, all filled with strong sulphur water supplied from subterranean sources. From theao arose tho mist or vapor which has ao long puzzled the outaldo world. tho age of 101) years, bnt shore are not many aloes in Northern climates which attain such an age. THI FATHER LAN D’N RAniES. Parents havo to bo humblo pretty often hero in Germany, writes a correspondent from Bcr- *lin, for a family of five or six children is con sidered a moderate ono, ten or a dozen being ■o common as not to cxcito any remark, and the number being largo only when it rises to nearly twonty. Ilonco it comes about that all tho baby perambulators that ono secs on tho streets of a German city aro great wicker-work affairs, built expressly for two children-not twins, mind you—who aro too young to toddle about on their own legs, and into which, If needs must, a third or oven fourth tired littlo Teuton may bo crowdod. Thoro is nothing in this world liko foresight and preparing for future emergencies, evon in such a simple mat ter as buying nimby carringo, for it is a pretty constant occurrence iu Gormnn married life to hare the baby carriago going all tho timo with two occupantB, bo that when ono first gets on German soil and sees tho army of nurso girls trundling their perambulators, each ono with two children arranged so that a littlo flaxen head peeps out from beneath tho covers at each end, one is surprised at wliat ho considers the great number of twins in Germany, nnd all bis preconceived ideas tho twins aro a compara tively seldom human accomplishment disap pear until ho examines moro olosoly into tho matter. MING DELAYED IIUT DESERVED. Our Minister to England presented a gold medal tho other day to (Icorgo Head, who was formerly chief of tho iifo-lsiat pout at Deal, as a reward for a heroic act which Head perform ed twenty-two years ago. In 1802 tho Ameri can slop Annie Hooper waa wrecked off tho Kentish coast, near Deal, and Head and his men, by tho oxerciso of groat skill and dating, in which Head especially imperiio I hia life, ancesedod in rescuing tho entiro crew of tho doomed vessel. In replying to Mr. Dowell's eulogistic speech and accepting the medal, Head said that ho had only done his duty, and that in fact tho circnmstanco had made so lit- tl" impression upon him that when lie was no tified that lie was to reccivo a medal ho had almost forgotten tho *0011006000 of the wreck and rcscuo. Truo heroism ia always modest and sclf-aacrifieing. The conaciousncaa of hav ing dono ouo’s duty to God and man, In grand as well as simplo matters, ia sufficient reward for men of tho IUad and our own Rhodes' stamp. Still wo arc glad to notice that our government, in tho most conspicuons and pub lic manner, recognizes the grandeur of a heroic action, especially in the rescuing of life in shipwrecks. CONFERENCE CONCERNING EGYPT. The conference of European powers, called at the instance of England to consider tho condition of Egypt, especially the regulation of its perplexed finances, ia now in acaBion. The policy of Gladstone in Egyptian affairs has beon rigorously assaulted by the opposition in parliament, and he has narrowly only escaped defeat in important measures. Aa this fight U Increasing in intensity and about to culminate in a vote of censure, it is shrewdly surmised that the conference lias been called to meot in London in timo for its deliberations to influ ence Ihe action of Parliament, and to divert tho threatened final assault on tho Administra tion. France, Austria, Germany nnd Italy havo sent representatives, who aro to agreo upon a plan for tho adjustment of Egypt's finnnccB. No doubt, however, other questions of a sorions political character will lie consid ered. This will force a suspension of decisive action In tho liritisli Parliament, and give tho Administration time to repair damages. NEWS SUMMARY. F.nmrra anil 31 111 file Malm, Tita Roptibliotui Nat iotml comtuitteoorgan- ized at a meeting in New York by oleetln ! B. F. Join s, of Pennsylvania, chairman, on I Ramual Fassondou, of Connecticut, soirefcv.' Tins annual boat race at New London, Ctinn., between crows of eight men lvpre Renting Yale and Harvard colleges, was won this year by tlio Yule crow, who came i:i three lengths ahead of their opponents, nnd rawed tlio three miles in the fastest lime on record for American college crows. Tub St. Petersburg bank, of Clarion coun ty, Penn., considered one of the strongest banking institutions in the Plato outside of tho cities, haa failed. Twelve lives wore reported lost during the recent heavy storm along tho Atlanticeoast. Near B.miegat, Muss., the schooner L. and A. Babcock was nm ashore nnd went I o pieces. Tho captain, male's wife and three sailors wore drowned. At Homer's Point, N. J., nine Italian laborers were trying to cross an inlet when their boat upsol and hix out of the uinu wore drowned. Another man was drowned in Egg llnrbor inlot. Stx men were injured, two fatally, by tlio premature explosion or a blast while ox- cnvntlng for a roadway at Johnstown, Bonn. Bki ohr n convention of teacher* of tho deaf nnd dumb, in Now York, a deaf girl gave a wonderful illustration of the perfection to wliioli lip-reading rnn lie brought. Ily tho movement of a speaker's I p 1 outlined* in shadow on n wall she wils cnan.ed to do- eiplior tlio word* uttered. TIIE CENTURY PLANT. Yoars ago, in a conservatory in London, says well-known florist, a century plant, generally supposed to liuve attained the age of 100 years, began to allow signs of life by sending out a stem in the center, which grew from seven to oight indies daily. It at once began to attract general attention. The stom grow larger every day. The plant was moved from placo to place, for tlie glass roof was not high onough, until as a last resort it was placed undor the cupola. Bcforo many days tho stem reached the cupola roof, and, in order that its progress might not be retarded, tho clnss was removed and the roof raised. When the stem had attained a height of about forty-fivo feet, if I remember rightly, it stopped growing, and numerous email branches grow out of the main slem. each of which wa* topped with a duster of magnificent greenish-yellow flower*, forming a aolld buBh of beautiful flowers of about ten feet in height. It aeomed to mo all London flocked to see that flower, and it waa the topio of con versation everywhere. The American aloe, or century plant, a« it is commonly known, will sometimes bloom when but twenty-five years old. It altogether depends upon tho care. At timeB it will not bloom unloss it has attained FIGURES OF THE FISCAL TEAR. The footings of the flaoalyear can be approx imately given. Tho redaction of debt will bo $100,000,000 as againat $137,000,000 last year. Tlio interest-bearing debt will stand at tho oloao of the year at about $1,240,000,000, of which amount only $240,000,000 will beiubject to call. If tho present rate of redemption ia maintained, there will not be a redcemablo bond at the end of tho fiscal yoar In 1880, and a gap of fivo years will follow in which the debt redeemed must bo purchaiod at market rates. Tho revenue’of the government haa fallen off about $40,000,000. The receipts from internal revenuo will be about $20,000,000 less and the loss from miscellaneoiu sources, ■uch as land sales, eto., will bo about $5,000,- 000. Tho custom receipts show a reduction of about $15,000,000. We are Importing leas than we did laat year. The total of dutiable im port* for the ten months ending April 80,1884, waa $883,931,208, againat $420,891,742 In the corresponding period of the previous year, the ten montbi alono there waa a reduction dutiablo imports of $43,000,000, and aa the average rate of duty la 42 per oent, the loss In custom receipts is accounted for. It is estima ted that the valno of merchandlae imported daring tho fiBcal year will foot up $665,000,000 and the value of merchandise exported, $725,- 000,000. The so-oalled “balanoe of trado” la therefore $60,000,000. against $90,000,000 laat year. We have doue less business a* a people, and beyond that there ia nothing especially un satisfactory in the foreign trade of the closing year. But where, as a matter of oorioaity, ia tho $130,000,000 that we nave accnmnlated ac cording to tho atatistioians dnring the yoar ? F.nropo haa not settled in specie, for we have exported daring the past year more specie than wo have importod. The ohances are that Mr. John Boach could, if olosely poshed, tell where the immense sum has ogne to. Nothing short of tho rack or thumb sorew would bo apt, howevor, to draw the truth on this point out of him. Exports nml Import*. The Chief of tho Bureau of Statistics in hia eleventh monthly statement reports that tho excess of tlie valno of exports over imports or of imports over exports of morchancfiso was as follows : Month ended May 31, 1884 (excess of im ports ) $7,318,CG9; live months ended May 31, 1884 (oxcess of exports), $9,544,165; oleven months ended May 31,18H4 (excess of exports), $71,661,040; twelve months ended May 31, 1884 (excess of exports), $01,120,430. The total vulueH of the imports of merchan dise for the twelve months ended May 31, 1884, were $080,3/0,442, and for tlio preceding twolvo moil til's $721,079,141, a decrease of $40,751,099. , Tho valuo of tlio oxpoils of merchandise, during tlio twclvo niontliB ended May 31, 1881, were $741,440,877, and during 1)10 twelve nn mills ended May 31, 1883, $820,500,557, a de crease of $79.125.080. ^ An Enemy ol Ntlilllmn. A animation was created in 8t. Petersburg |,y the receipt of telegrams from Odosaa au- iionnniiiK that Captain Gerdzoy, a prominent officer of tin gortdarmes, hail been assassinated by Nihilists. His body was found with a bulle 1. hole in tho temple and a dagger sticking in his heart, with a note pinned to his ooat, which loft no doubt that tlie mur- der waa the work of nihilists. Particulars or tho affair aro oagcrly sought, but are vory dif ficult to obtain, as tho police endeavor to preserve as much secrecy as possible. Captain Gerdzey, who was a capable and courageous official, bad specially devoted him self to grappling with nihilism, and had thus incurred uie bitterest hatred of tho members of that body. His murder has produced s sensation In Russia equal to that of the assas- slnaliouof Lieutenant Colonel Buduikiu, and form* the universal topio of conversation. Nontli nnd IVcvL The Indiana Democratic Htato convention, hold In linlinmipolis,nominated Isaac P. Gray for governor, together with a full tiekot. Ohio Democrats, nt their Stale convention in Columbus, put a full ticket in tho field, hooded by James W. Newman (renominated) for Beerotniy of stuto. 1 Fon slandering several white women near Caledonia, Miss., Aleck I/vick, a colored man, was hanged nnd his Issly riddled with bullets by n number of lynchers. Tiihkk persons—two mon anil a woman — wore killed by a boiler oxplosiou in a planing mill nt Wausaw, Wis. At tho South Carolina Democratic conven tion nil tho pres“nt, Stale ellicers wore renom inated by acclamation. In Arkansas tlie Dom ocrats have non 1 i 1111 to I ex- At lornoy-GenornI 8. P, Hughes for governor, together with a full ticket, nrnl in Florida tlio Democratic Btate ticket is headed by Mr. Perry for gover nor. „ Tho ofllcinl vote for Congressman in the re cent Oregon oloction is as follows; II. Her man (Republican), 25,099 votes; Moyers (Democrat), 23,6.72. Women’ssiiiTi age amend ment—For, 11,233 votes; ngninst, 2', I Tl). Five thousand spectators witnessed tlio hanging of Dock Walker (colored) for the murder of Lucius Grant (coloredi at Texar kana, Ark. Eleven men were injured, some fntnlly, by a boiler explosion in a saw-mill mid nr factory at Toledo, Ohio. A NuiniEn of horso thieves have recently beem captured and unceremoniously killed by cow-boys in Montana. James Buhob, of Franklin county, (ia,, interfered in n quarrel which two of Ills daughters wero having nlmut somo article of dress while preparing for church. Oneof tli i daughters—iAila, seventeen years old—sei/.isl an ax and killed her father, 8I10 was taken to jaiL Seven persons wero killed,mid lln eo fatally and eight seriously injured by a boiler cxpl< ision in a flouring mill near llryon, Ohio. The mill was totally destroyed. a child was drowned a,t Doll’s Island, Md., by being blown overboard in a carriage. —Before delegates to a convention of teach ers of the deaf and dumb a deaf girl gave a wonderful illustration of tho perfection to which lip-reading can bo brought. By the movement of a speaker’s lips outlined in a shadow on a wall sue was enabled to decipher the words uttered. . „ v . —Mr William A. Beach, a noted New York lawyer iB dead. Ho waa born at Saratoga Springs on the 13th of December, 1809. Wltklilngtoii. The investigation of (lie accounts of J. O. P. Burnside, the defaulting disbursing clerk of tlio postalllco department, shows a do- llcioney of about $14,IKK). Tint Mississippi contested oloction case of Chalmers against Manning lias boon decided in favor of Chalmers, who appeared at the bar of tho House nnd took tho oath of office. TnE ivwto91 department hn* completed the readjustment of the salaries of postmns* a a ters. Tlie number of prosidential postofllcol . In 1 is 2,28.7, Tlio salaries of presidential post* in in I masters amount to $3,831,200, ns ngninst ** $3,707,500. paid under the previous adjust ment in Octobor, when there wore 2,195 offi ces. Tlio salaries of tlie eighty postmasters ol the first class amount to $284,000. Bechetary Folokr has issued tho loots call for tho redemption of $10,030,000 of thl throo per cent, bonds. Secretary Chandler appeared before tin Senate committee on expenditures in tho pub- lio service and made n statement regarding the recently discovered frauds in his depart ment. The secretary explained the methods of transacting businoss in his department,and showed how tlio frauds had been committed in the bureau of tnedieino and surgery by menus of false vouchers for goods never delivered. The nrmv appropriation bill, ns agreed upon in conference or the committees or both bouses, with tlie exception of tho clause regu lating I lie comp nsnl ion to subsidized railroads for army transportation, appropriates $84, 454,450. Eli H. Murray has boen nominated by tho President to lie governor of Utah. Gilbert A Pierce, of lllim is, lias been nomin itod to governor of Dakota, and John H. Kinaoad, of Nevada, to be governor of Alaska. The Senate in executive session confirmed tho nominations of Eli H. Murray, of Louis- viUo to bo governor of Utah, ana Henry F. Pickles to lie collector of customs for the district of Delaware. President Arthur has appointed Cornel- Ions It. Agnew, of Now York, anil Merrill E. Gates, of Now Jersey, ns mombors of tho Board of Indian commissioners; also, Com modore William T. Sampson, United States navy, and Professor F. A. P. Barnard and Cleveland Abbe as delegates to tlio Interna tional Meridian and Timo Standard congress, to bo held in Washington on October L The President lias npprovod tho act estab lishing a bureau of labor. foreign. Concern 1 no (lie appearance of Asiatic cholera at Toulon, Franco, Mr. Frank H. Musi>11. uur cons 1, tclogrilplis to the State do pariiueiit thill tho disease was kept a secret for some lime. I11 ten days there wero thirty, seven deal 111. Mr. Mason says: “The deaths are equally divided between civilians and tlio military, and aro chiefly among tho ngod or young. The question whether it is Asiatic or sporadic cholera is still undecided, but the former is probable. There are hopes of checking the epidemic by sanitary precau tions.” An election for a member of tho Danish Diet for Copenhagen resulted in tlie choice of a tailor nam'd 1L h'i, n leader among tho socialists. Four thousand Chinese regulars in trenched themselves at bangson, Tonquin. in violation of the recent treaty, nnd attacked 7(Kj French troops ns they were on the march, killing 7 and wounding 42. Tho French troops repulsed tne attuck and routed the Chinese. France will demand satisfaction. El Mahdi, the False Prophot, is reported to have been repulsed with heavy loss in nn attack on Khartoum, whore General Gordon is ent renched. A most disustran i hailstorm has occurred in Krivnn, a province'of Southern Russia. Tlie hailstones were as large a-i goose eggs. The rivers wero dammed, seventy houses wero razed, and property was damaged to the amount u£ 339,009 rubles. Forty lives wero lost. The m i 'ii e l prison.rs, charged with the murder ol b\ - . >ngomen on St. Stephen’s Day. were nil acquitted hi St- John, N. F., %mid Intense excitement. Finss are mado at night in tho street* ol Toulon, France, to purify the city and pre vent tho spread of tlio plaguo. The city of Panama is full of thieve* and bad eharactera and murderers and robberies ere %*qui-ni. Several attempts have been mod* to lire the city, as well as AspinwalL Large immliors of Jews aro emigrating from Polni d to America. The elections in Portugal for mombers of tbo chambei-s of deputies resulted in a large majority for the government. MISCELLANEOUS. —Spurious Bank of England note* have been passed in Montreal and in Chicago and Milwaukee. —Tlireo children wore burned to death In tho destruction of tlioir home near Yonngitown, Ohio. —A woman was nmrdorod by shooting In Philadelphia. The mnrdorer waa drank. Olio of tho Indians in tho Buffalo BUI Com bination was allot at Trenton. —Divors are now to bo omployod in circum venting tlio starfish in tlie oyster beds of Long Island Sound. — Forest fires aro raging hi Massachusetts and Malno. Tlie linporltitlnii ol I’nniior Labor. Beimtor Blair reported to tlie U. 8. Benato favorably, and without ainemhnent, the Dili recently‘passed by tlio Hulisu to proliiblt the importation and migration of foreigners and aliens under contract or ngreoniont to porforu labor iii tlio United Hlaics. Tlio report saya that, although there are cortaiu features of tho bill wbieii might well be changed or modi fied, it is reported without amendment in order Hint it may not fail of pasHago during the prcBont season. Among tlio amendments wliioli tho com mittee say they would havo especially recommended is one providing fur the Huhslitutiun of tlie words "manual labor or manual service" for tho expression labor and Horvioe." This amendment, tlie report says, would accomplish the purposes of tho bill and also remove objections, which a sharp and unfriendly orlticism may urge against the proposed legislation, but a* tlio opinion Dial tlie words wUl bo construed to mean substantially thin, tboy mado no changes. —Tlie Indiana on tlio reservation in north ern Montana aro dying of starvation on ao- cuunt of the scant food supply at tho agenoy. -The wifo of Bishop Henry W. Warren, of (he Methodist Episcopal Church endows with $109,001) a school of divinity in tho Denver University, to be call, d after lior former hus band, 5Ir. Iliff, a Colorado cattle king. —A railway train, whoso alr-brakcH did not work, ran down a steep grade through a bridge into tbo James river, near Ijoicliburg. Tlie passengers narrowly oscapod drowning. —A terrific boiler explosionoconrred at 8try- kor, Ohio, in the flouring mills of Bolirou A Haefer. About forty 111011 wero employed in tho mill at tho timo, and tho oxplosion waa bo terrible in its force that the large structure was blown almost in atoms, and among it* debris wore buried twonty-sovon of tho em ployee*, eleven of whom wore extricated in a dying condition; othora are seriously injured. Tho souno was a sad one. —Tho remains of a drowned man wero found floating off Fort Hamilton a fow days ago who a few years ago waa a notably wealthy man ol Now York city. —8|>ooial reports in regard to tho oholora in Franco give a greater number of deaths than tlie official returns report, and tho truthfulness of tlio lattor is distrusted. M. Boehard, Chief of tho Naval Health Department, reports that tho nuinficr of viotlms at Toulon are oight to ton daily, that the aggregate deaths are 14 iu the navy and 31 in tho town, and that thoro aro 62 patientB in tho naval hospitals. A mosquito plaguo at Mar seilles increasos tlio gloomy aspect. A thou sand fireH havo beon kindled m various parts of tho city to dispone the pest. Gibraltar now refuses entranoo to Frenon ships. —A fire at Matanzas destroyed three ware houses. Sevontcou hundred hogsheads of sugar which wero stored in tho buildings wero bnrnod. The total loss is reported to be $450,000, partially insured. —The Thoatre RovaL Edinburg, was totally destroyed by Are. No lives lost. —At Lemberg, the capital of Galicia, there was a severe storm Monday. Three persona were killed by lightning and five others are reported missing. —Tho Orangomon and Nationalists oame into collision at Warronpoint, County Down, Ireland. Two Orangemen were arrested. One NaMonalist was slabbed almost to death. —The two officers guilty of desertion wero shot Saturday at Gerona, Spain. The shops of Gerona and Barcelona are draped in mourning Thousands of people assembled in front of the house of thu Governor and compolled him to telegraph to the government asking for a com mutation of the sentence. —Tho Philadelphia cricket toam was beaten by five wickets by tlie Gontlomen of Hamp shire. —Grave suspicions are entertained in Egypt as to the loyalty of the Mudlr of Dongola. The road botween Massowah and Kassala is re ported to be open. —The appearance of cholera in Marseilles has created quite a panio in that oity. Profes sor Virchow oritioiscs the French authorities fur what he terms their defective precautions. —Reports from Hanoi state that the French fleot bos received orders to bombard Chinese port*. —The dynamite fright has taken fall posses sion of the officials of Frankfort-on-the-Maln. The police of that oity say that the place is a nest of oonspirators and is, in fact, tne centre of the socialistic propaganda of all Germany. A TERRIFIC'EXPLOSION. A Mill Destroyed by tho Burst ing of It; Steam Boiler. NJMAItY OF CONGRIiSS. Seven Persons Killed and Many Others Injured. A terrific boiler explosion oeouiTed n few evenings in the Hom ing mill of Beliren & Haefer, near Bryon, Ohio. About forty men were employed in the mill at tlie timo find tho explosion was so tumble in its foreo that tlio large structure was blown almost to atoms, and among its debris wore buried twenty- seven of the employes, eleven of whom wore extricated in a dying condition. It was found that seven men wero killed and tlireo others mortally wounded. Beside these idio'.it eight otlior persons were seriously injured, while nearly every man in tlio mill wnsjinore or less hurt. The force of the oxplosiou was so great Unit pieces of tho boiler, nuehinury and stones from the wall were Inn led through the air 11 distance of a quarter of a mile. One pioco of the boiler, about three feet square and weighing probably more I linn u hundred pounds was sent dying through the roof of a house at that distun ■ from the mill. It took nearly the whole i > if olT, and the falling tim bers seriously injured Mir,3 Nellie Winters and George vYinteis. two of its occupants. Edward Forster, 1I10 engineer, was thrown nearly throe bundled feet. He was terribly scalded and mangled, but lived for threo hours. E. R. Ayers, ins assistant, was hurled through tlin ro d, three hundred feet away. Tlio work of extricating the injured was not completed until Liiis morning, and while tho work was carried ou, women and children whoso fathcre and husbands wero buried in tho debris, filled the air with their lamenta tions. The scene throughout was a oitiful ono. Be praised not for yoar anoeetora, bat for your virtues. The Senate passed tlie legMMJoit *i*ouUy* and judicial appropriation bill, with an anientL niont providing that no speecnee not actually delivered in the .Senate or House shall bo print ed In the Congressional Hrcord, and that such speeches shall bo printed Just as they were spok en, except verbal corrections inode Uy their au thors. Tho bill appropriated $21,(547,200, an inereaso of $1,037,423 since it eame from the House. Of the addition, $15,000 was for the purchase of Mr*. Faaictt's painting of tho electoral conn u Mon Tho Iiouso Dill ex tending to water transportation routee th* provisions of (lie statute hitherto applied to land routes only, regarding tho Immediate transportation of dutiable goods was passed. Tho annual deficiency appropriation bill, appropriating $7,823,092. an increase of $1,- 094,692 over tlio House bill was reported.... Tlie conference report on the invalid pensions bill was agreed to....Mr. Mahone reported favorably, from tho committee on education and labor, tho bill to provide for the adjust ment of tlie accounts of laborers, workmen and mechanics, arising under tlio eight-hour law. Tlio bill providosUiat all persons who ha v* been employed ns laborers, workmen, or me chanics by or on behalf of tho government of tlio United Stotos since Juno 25, 1808 (the date of tlio net constituting oight hours a day’s work),shall lio paid for enen day's work at tho price jior day as regulated by private parties iu tlio vicinity in which tlio work whs performed, without reference to the num ber of hours work required by such par ties; nnd tlint ail claims fur Inlior so performed in excess of eight hours per day shall lie refer red to the court of claims, to lie adjudicated upon tlie basis that eight hums constitute a day’s work and are to be paid for ns above tated; all judgments given ngninst tho United Btntae in favor of claimants for tlie amount found duo to Is- paid us otlior judgments of tlio court of claims ngninst tlie United Hinted. Mr. Ulnir, from tlie committee on educntion and Inlior, re|K>rt<'d fnvornbiy and without amendment, 1 lie bill recently passed by the House to proliiblt tlio importation nnd migra tion of foroigneis and aliens undor contract or agrooinenl to perform labor in the United. Btatos Thu general deficiency appropria tion bill was taken up. On motion or Mr. Hale the district attorney was authorized to pay Charles H. Heed, of New York, a *um- not oxccodlng $3,000 for services aa counsel for tho defense of Oultoau. With these ex ceptions the hill was pns«<d substantially aa roportod Discussion on tlio river and har bor appropriation bill followed, without no tion. Hom*i Mr. Bingham, from tho committee on post- offices nnd post ronds, reported a bill fixing nt two cents ;>er ounce or fraction thereof the rate of poslago 011 nmilahlo matter of tho first class... .Mr. Oates,from thu committee on pub lic lands, reported adversely tlio bill to declare forfeited ccitnin lands granted to Alnbamnto aid In tho construction of railroad*....The House, by a vote of 121 to 77, rejected the bill to forfoit the land grant of tne Backbone rail road of Louisiana. Mr. Valentine, of Nebraska, nroso and cnilod attention to n sp-’ccli of Mr. McAdoo, Of New Jersey, on tho establishment of a soldiers’ home in the West, and said Hint in tho Record Mr. McAdoo hud tnl o 1 occasion to print as part of his remark* a newspaper dispntch containing the nnm s of native land monopolists, among which n| pmred thnt of John A. Logan ns owning SO,(SKI acres of land. Senator Logan had desired Mr. Valentine to say that, so far as ivlntod to him, the statamont was falso. Mr. Valentine ac cused Mr. McAdoo of an a’niso of privilege. Mr. Cannon moved thnt tlio llecord bo *0 amended as to show that the speoch of Mr. McAdoo was not nctually delivered in the House, nnd intimated that Mr. McAdoo had not had tlio courage to avow on tho floor wliat he lmd caused to appear In the liecord. Mr. McAdoo defended his courage, and de clared he did not retract a word of tho printed speech. The list referred to had been printed nil over the country mouths ago, and not n word of denial came from Logan. Bov- ernl members desired to offer amendment* to the Cannon resolution so as to hnve it apply to . “ -r speeches which have been published, although nev. r uttered in the Iiouso. Fend ing discussion the House adjourned. Tho legislative appropriation bill was re ported back with the recommendation to non concur in tlio Senate ameudmont. Adopted ... .The conference oommitteo’R report on the resolution to pi-int the agricultural report for 1884 was agreed to. Four hundred tnousnnd copies aro to be printed for $200,000... .The political discussion of the previous day came up os the unfinished business, Mr. Valentino's motion to correct the record being a privi leged question. Upon motion of Mr. Cox of Now York, tho whole matter was laid upon tho tablo On motion of Mr. Hopkins, of Pennsylvania, the House wont into commit tee of tho whole 011 tlio bill to adjust the wages of workmen, laborers and mechanics under the eight-hour law. The bill provides for the settlement of claims for labor by the court of claims, since Juno 25, 1808, on tlie basis of eight hours as a day’s work, at the same rate as paid for similar work by private parties, regardless of the timo required for a day’s work by such private parties. Mr. Lov- eruig, of Massachusetts, spoke 11 support of and Mr. Tillman, of Bouth Carolina, against tho bill. General debate war. continued for several hours, when tho reading by sections waa begun. Tlie first section was amended ■o as to make it applicable to work hereafter performed, and without proceeding further the committee rose. The El*ht Heur Bill. A long debate sprung up in the Hoase on the Eight Hour law, arising out of the favora ble report of the Committee on Labor of a bill providing for the adjustment of account* of laborers, workmen and mechanics. After the diseussion, on motion of Mr. Hewitt fDem.), of Ala., the first section was amended ao as to read as follows: That whoever, as a laborer, workman or mechanic, is hereafter employed by or on behalf of tho government of the Unit ed Btates shall be paid for each eight hours he haB been employed as for a full day’s work. On motion of Mr. McMiilen, of Tennessee, the scoond section was amended to correspond with the first seotion, so as to apply merely to the future. It was stated by members that the bill as reported would take $30,000,000 from the Treasury. In Financial Trouble. After tlie Marine Bank failed, Bays Gath, a friend of mine said: “I do not require to go down-town anyway more than once in two weeks, so I will keep my nooount up-town, and there is the Second National Bank whioh I know to be good.” He was about to open an ac count there when a friend told him that on one occasion he had received a notice that as his deposit aooonnt was under $6,000 the bank did not care to be both ered with it. My friend had so much respect for $6,000 that he did not put his money in the Second National. As soon as he could get over this rebuff, that he was not fit to be a depositor even at no interest, with $6,000, he said to himself: “I will go to one plaoe where I will be respected. There is the West Side Bank, which probably would es teem an account of $6,000 as something fine,” Before he had made up his mind just when to go there, the West Side Bank graduated a clerk who could get off with nearly $100,000 and not be missed. So my friend said: “I think I will be my own banker for a little while to come,” and now he sleeps in the midst of an armory, full of dreams of thieves, so that if he would only get up in the morning and write his dreams , ont he would be a great novelist. THE JOKER'S BUDGET. WHAT WR FIND IN THU IIUMItROUl* PAmm TO MHIILK OVCK. moral for husbands. Mr. Minks—“I don’t know what we shall do. I havo lost all my money in the Grant ft Ward failure.” Mrs. Minks—“I am not surprised. Mrs. Finks was in to-day and said ner husband did not lose a cent.” "That is strange. Ho was in as deep sa I was.” »’ "Bnt lie drew it out three weeks ago. * at the request of his wife.” "My gracious, you don’t say so.” % "Ye*, she nnd I both demanded moiii. ey for onr tpriug wnrdrobes at the snm*? time. Her husband yielded, but yon, my dear, refused.”—PMla. Call. QUALIFIED FOB A NURSE. Lady (in an intelligence office—"1 am afraid that that little girl won’t do for a nurse. She is too small. I should hesi tate to trust, her with tho baby,” Clerk—"Her size, madam, we look upon ns her greatest reonmmendntiou.” Lady—“Indeed ? But sho is so very small.” Clerk—"I kuow that she is diminu tive, bnt yon should rememlier thnt when she drops a baby it doesn’t havo very far to fall."—Evening Call. "■PAOIAU.Y JIM." I was mlglitv good-lookin’ when I was young Feert an’ black-eyed an’ slim. With fellers a courtin’ mo Bunday nights, ’Bpaeially Jim. Tlie likeliest one of ’em ail was he, Chipper, an’ han’son’. an* trim, Bui I tossed up my head an’ made fun o’ tho orowd. ’Bpaeially Jim I I said I hadn't no 'pinion o' men, An' I wouldn't take stock in him t But thoy kep' np a cornin' til spito o’ my talk. 'Bpaeially Jim. I got so tired.o' havin' 'em rouiT (’Hpacially Jim I) I mado up my mind I'd sottle down An' take up witli him. Bo we wore married one Sunday In ohurcli, ’Twas orowdod full to tlie brim; Twas tlio only way to got rid of 'em all, 'Bpaeially Jim. ‘ — Century "Hrlc-a-Brac " OUT OF DOORS. Some timo ago, on a very cold and stormy day, an anotion sale waa held at the New York Custom House. Among the articles sold were a lot of old doors, bought by a gentleman from Staten Island. Mr. B , the auctioneer, rather surprised at the purchase, re marked : "T , what are you going to do witb those doors ?” The quick response wa*: "Why, Mr. B , you wouldn’t have a man out of doors such weather as thia I”—Harper's “Drawer.” ENTIRELY TOO HIGH. Dealer—"Yea, theae atrawborriea are perfectly freab. Just received ’em this morning.” Cuatomer—"What is the prfoe ?” "Only twenty cents a box now.” (Examining the box.) "Too high; too high." "Why, madam, twenty cents a box at thia time of the season ia not at all high. It ia low." "I waa not referring to tho berrioB,” "To what, then ?" "To the bottoms of the boxes,” aaBIOULTURAL RELATIONSHIP. "I can't understand,” said a Fort Wayne man tho other day, "why it is that weeds always grow so mnoh faster than mv vegetables and seem to thrive so muon better." "Oh, woll,” replied the friend, "you most remember the earth is the mother of the weeds and only step-mother tr your garden truck."—Hoosicr. IT NEVER WAS LOST. Mr. and Mrs. Burpee have a great habit of arguing questions; now this is all perfectly right if Mrs. Burpee wouldn’t get angry and fly all to pieces for she has a regular whirlwind temper. A few days ago a heated debate sprang up between them, and as usual Mrs. B. got mad. "Hold on, Saliny,” gently remon strated her mother, who chanced to be present, "don’t lose your temper.” "Huh,” growled Burpee, thought fully, "no nse to put in that caution; her infernal temper has got too big a hold on her to be lost."—Atlanta Con- stitution, A KENTUCKY COLONEL. At a soldiers’ reunion, a colonel whe hailed from Kentnoky was invited tc make a speech. He mounted the stand and began a eulogy on the soldier. Warming up to his topio, he exclaimed with passionate fervor: "The soldiers’ home is on the battle-field.” As he paused impressively, a veteran in the crowd yelled np. "You always were a great hand at running away from home.” Tlie silence whioh followed this re mark became very embarrassing, and the Kentuckian refrained from atty farther remarks. GONE TO PERDITION. “I was a fool not to follow my own judgment. I knew if we sent tho bo^y away from home lie would go to perdi tion,” sobbed Mrs. Blimbor, looking up from a letter which she had been read- tog- "Why, what’s the matter with the boy ?” asked Mr. B. calmly. "Matter 1” exclaimed his wife, "he’s joined a baseball olub.” Mrs. Sowell’s Defease. The Utioa Observer saya: It is un derstood that the wife of E. Newton Bowell, of Batavia, will pat a defense in the suit of diverse and the possession of the two ohildren that has been begun by the husband. The basis of the de fense will probably be the alleged con sent of the husband to the act ol adul tery oharged by him. The defense will probably argue that the husband witnessed the preparations for the of fense, and that it waa his dntv and within his power to have prevented it; and that, nr.ving failed to do so, he cannot suooeed in a suit 0< this kind.

Georgia Historic Newspapers

The Mercury. (Sandersville, Ga.) 1880-1???, July 15, 1884, Image 1