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NUMBER 15.
THE MERCURY.
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E- S. LANGMADE,
Attorney at Law,
SANDER3VILLE, GA.
MAYOR.
0. H. ROGERS.
7\EVIC <C- 2REASERER.
D. E. B, WELLS.
MARSHALL.
J. E. WEDDON.
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Wm. RAWLINGS,
S. G. LANG,
A. M. MAYO,
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H. N. HOLLIFIELD,
Physician mid Surgeon,
(iHOVI.lt Cl,IIVKI.AM), OF NEW YORK.
O rover Cleveland, tho nominee of tho Demo-
cratie Convention, baa attained that distinc-
tion in spito of perhaps tho most determined
opposition ever made to a candidate from liiB
own Btato. Ho was born in Caldwell, New Jer
sey, March 18, 1887. At eighteen years of ago
ho arrived in Buffalo, aa ho describca it,
"friendless, unknown and poor," and was re
ceived by his uncle, who gave him a situation
as clerk to support him while studying law.
After ndmission to the bar ho was appointed
assistant district attorney, and in 18G8 elected
sheriff,
fnE POPULATION OF MEXICO.
Tho census of Mexico gives tho population
at 9,686,777. No State has 1,000,000; two
States have less-than 100,000, ami several
States have less than 200,000 inhabitants. Hut
Heuor Homcro thinks that the population is
really not far from 12,000,000. Eighty-two
per cent, of tho population lies south of tho
parallel of Tampico. Moro than half tho
wealth of tho republic lies south of tho north
ern boundary of tho federal district in which
Mexico City is situated.
I.ON1ION.
Tho great metropolis is without a rlTal for
aizo and population. It oontains 4,000,000 ol
people and covers an area of 117 square miles.
Its population is almost equal to that of Can
ada ; it is quite equal to that of Holland ; it is
greater than that of Scotland ami double that
of Denmark. It adds 70,000 people, or a city
moro than half tho sizo of Toronto, to its
population annually. Over its bridges overy
day 381,000 pedestrians and 75,000 vehicles
pass, whilo its railways carry 373,000 persons
daily. Loudon is ouo of tho wonders of the
age. t
IiKMK DRINKING
The United States Consul at Nuremburg, in
a recent report, said that Bavaria, which isone
of tho Southern kingdoms of dormany, with a
population of 6,284,778, produces 8,070,000
barrels of beer in a year, 03 per cent, of which
is consumed at homo This makes a record of
about 200 quarts per year for each man, wo
man and child of tho population. In the Uni
ted States tho averago is but 45 quarts por
capita, but tho Germans who come to this
country are as fond of beer as they wero at
home, and to shut off their supply on the one
day in tho week when they care most for it and
bare moro time to enjoy it no doubt Becms
hard.
TIIE SNOW PLANT OF THE SIERRAS.
l’rof. Thomas Price returned to Ban Fran-
cisoo yesterday from a visit to Plumas county,
bringing three lino specimens of snow plant,
in porfeet condition. They woro obtained
from the flanks of tho Sierra, on the snow lino,
over 7,000 feet above the level of tho Bea. The
plants are about two feet in height from the
base of the bulb to the top of tho flowering
spike. The bulb resembles a fine applo about
the size of a man’s list, from tho top of which
oxcept aa a medicine. Pork and tobaeoo are
also numbered among tho "forbidCru articles." |
A HINT TO DRINKERS-
Liqlior dealers, it is Baid, pay on an avorage
of >2 a gallon for whiskey. Ono gallon con
tains an average of sixty-flvo drinks, and at
ten cents a drink a man pays $6.50 a gallon for
liis whiskey; or. rathor. ho pays $2 for the
whiskey and $4.50 to tho man for handing it
over tho bar. In view of these figures a West
ern paper makes tho following practical sug
gestion to drinkers: "Mako your wifo your
bar-keeper. Lend her $2 to buy a gallon of
whiskey for a beginning, and every time you
want a drink go and pay ten cents for it. By
tho time you have drank a gallon she will havo
$G.50, enough to rotund the $2 borrowed from
you, to pay for another gallon of whiskey and
a balanco of $2.60. She will be able to conduot
future operations on her own capital, and
when you bccomo an inobrinto, unable to sup
port yourself, shunnod and despised by all
respectable persons, your wife will havo
cnoiign money to keep you until yon got ready
to fill a drunkard's gravo.
NEWS SUMMARY.
Eastern and Middle Males.
John Mat, a shooenaker of Conshohocken,
Penn., fifty years old, entered the room of his
Lizzie,
OYSTERS AND STARFISH.
Tho destruction of tho oystor industry of
Long Island Sound is said to bo certain unless
some method can lie devised to check the dep
redations of starfish upon tho oyster beds.
daughter Lizzie, (seventeen years of age, and
stabbed her seventeen times, inflicting fatal
wounds, aftnr which lio killed himself. The
crimo is attributed to insanity.
A heavy dry goods failure lias occurred in
Now York, the long-established firm or
Halstead, Haines A Co. having gone under
with estimated liabilities of $1.000,000.
The iminotise furniture factory of Martin
Worn & Sons in Brooklyn, N. Y., was struck
; by lightning, caught lire and was destroyed.
together wit li adjoining property. The total
: loss is est imated at $300,00(1.
I James Bkii.i.v, it snake charmer,whilo per-
| forming in Now York, was bitten by a rattle
snake und (lied after twenty-eight hours of
great agony.
WniLK a gang of rnilroad laborers wero at
work on ail excavation near Darker, Penn,,
on tho Clnrion riv-r, tho embankment caved
in, killing two insiuuTy, and it was ih sight
fatally injuring two others.
The bnrn of Thomas Loo, a farmer, at Hom
ing Creek, Penn., wns struck by lightning mid
destroyed with all Its contents, including eight
head of cattle. Two of tho farmer’s sons and
a man named Rohler woro fatally injured by
falling timbers while attempting to rescuo the
stock.
Senator Hawley, of Connecticut, mid .
Tit* existence of a pint to blow up the pal
ace at Warsaw during the czar’s stay there in
has been discovered.
Tnr.steamer The! is. Hear, and Lock (Tarry,
of the Grecly Relief expedition, arrived at SI
Johns, N. K, with six survivors of th* ob
ject of their search, including Lieutenant
Greelv. Of the twenty live members of th#
Ureci v colony, seven wer ■ rescued on Jims22,
near the mouth of Smith’s sound, when at
tho point of death from starvation.
Ono of these died oil the way to
Kt. Johns. Lieutenant (lively’s retreat
begun on August 9, 188.1, was entirely
successful until Cape Sabina was reached in
September. Supplies of foist gradually gave
out during the winter, but it wns not until
last April that starvation and ex insure began
to carry off tho men ono by one. The Urooly
expedition was sent, to the Arctic regions for
purposes of obsorvutiou.
LIEDT. GREET FORD.
OnU’ Six Out or Twenty-ilro Men
Brought Back Alive.
Another Thrilling Chapter of Arc
tic Exploration.
LATEST NEWS NOTES.
Happenings of Interest to All,
At Home and Abroad.
Ex-Secretary Evorte, were tho iirinciiml
speakers nt a Blaine and l/igaii ratification
(.’apt. Thomas Scott, a well known submarino | mooting ill New York. At a similar meeting
Bsnderrvlllv, Oa.
Office nail .loo. lo Ml*
kloie u« Harris • U»#L
Uny D*1
OUV YOUK
SFEimiiS, SPECTACLES,
FROM
expert, nas beer, engagod to dive down among
tho oysters for an investigation of tho work or
tho destructive "fivo fiiigcrB," and if ho finds
that starfish can bo removed from tho bods in
“purse nets," hundreds of oystermen will soon
bo engaged in tho uao of aucli nets along tho
Connecticut coast. Ono theory of tho pest of
which tho Sound oystermon complain ia that
the cxtmustiou of menhaden by tho manufact-
ers of oil and fcrlilizera has resulted in the
rapid increaso of starfish, as there aro not
menhaden enough to destroy the starfish
spawn as formerly. Whether the theory is
true or false, it iB certain that tho government
ought to restrict menhaden fishing. Connec
ticut Is tho chief New England pro lucsr of
ysters, and her beds in tho Sound aro ao valu
able that their destruction would bo a great
calamity.
SOUTHERN ENTERPRISE.
Tho latest statistics show that during tho
laat six months nearly $70,000,000 has been
Invested in now industrial enterprises and en
larging tlioBo already established in the South.
For tho past two months tho amount invested
was $13,744,000, a falling off from the earlier
montliB of tho year, due mainly to tho usual
summer dullness. The list of new enterprises
established during tho first half of tho year
shows a wide rango of industries, including
cotton mills, woolen mills, flour mills, saw aud
planing mills, iron furnaces, agricultural im
plement factories, machine, shot foundries,
cotton seed oil mills, fertilizer factories, tobac
co factorioR, ship building yards, paper mills,
and many others. Tho aggregate investments
foot up $011,221,000, Alabama heading the lilt
with $13,840,000, Kentucky $13,497,000, Vir
ginia $11,032,000, Texas $7,934,000, Tennessee
$4,849,000, Georgia $3,759,006, Maryland $2,-
832,000, North Carolina $2,738,000, West Vir
ginia $2,428,000, Louisiana $1,730,000, South
Carolina $1,529,000, Florida $1,608,000 and
Mississippi $767,000.
A Daring Test
The world is full of fatalists. It is an
oasy and oomfortahlo belief. I have
been told a peculiar anecdote on the
subjoot. At a frontier post tho officers’
mess was engaged in an ardent discus
sion. Wine had been freely partaken
of, and, with one of the strange caprices
of intoxication, there was philosophy at
the bottom of tho glasses. The Mahom
etan religion was the subject of argu
ment. Mussulmans believe in fate ; for
them a man’s destiny is written above,
the time of his death is set, aud nothing
can advance it. Every one had some
thing to advance or relate in pro and
con argument. In answer to ono of the
in Boston, presided over by Governor Roliii
son, the principal speakers woro Senator
Hoar and Congressman Long.
Mn. William Purcell,one of the tivodelo- | new
gntes at-largo on tho New York electoral
ticket, has withdrawn. He lias also asked
and obtained a four months’ leave nl nhsciieo
from his duties ns editor of the Ho lu ster
Union and Advertiser. Mr. Purcell was
strongly opposed to Governor Cleveland's
nomination at Chicago.
Tnic Republican National cominittoo has
Its headquarters at tho (lilsoy house, New
York, and has begun work for tho campaign.
CONOIlKSSMAN SAMUEL J. RANDALL 111 all
Interview In Philadelphia says lie is perfectly
satisfied with the action of tho Chicago Demo
cratic convention, and will do all in his power
to aid in assuring the success of the ticket.
Edmund Yard, Jn., & Co., New York im
porters of white goods and laces, have failed
for nearly $1,000,003.
> The Now York Greenbaekers will hold a
State convention for tho nomination of an
electoral ticket in New York city, August 27.
Rev. L. O. Thompson, a popular Presbyter-
inn minister, and his son, Sidney, and Freddlo
Bishop, of Medina, N. Y., lads about twelve
years old, woro drowned by the upsetting of
their boat while fishing on the Illinois river,
nt Henry, 111.
A prominent medical journal of Philadel
phia, declares that "Hie progress of cholera
during tho past week has been such ns to war
rant the belief that ii will spread throughout
Europo during the next thirty days, mid limy
roach our shores at any time. Its progress
can bo arrested only by tho most wntchfiy
care on tho part of our quarantine officers, for
this disease has always reached our shores by
■hips.”
- The Treasury Dopnrtiiicnt paid the following
claims for expensus inrmri-d by Slato govern
ments daring the war "f the rebellion: Ohio,
I $90,216; New Volk, $61,946; Michigan, $42,-
j 346, mill MiKHiu'lmsolts, $28 619.
There aro twelvo vacancies ill tho rank of
second lientanaiit ill the army after the assign
ment of the cadi t*, and tho Dr* sidclit will fill
them by appointments from civil life.
South mid West.
Two men named Bealo anil Bowie quarreled
in n InJel nt Dallas, Texas, and each shot th*
Other dead.
While two colored men wero being con
veyed to jail at St in Uvillo, Miss., having con
fessed to poisoning two small hoys in 1-888,
they wore taken from i us’.ody by masked men
and hanged.
John li. HoKKMAN, who killed his son Rob
ert at Cincinnati in 188-1, lias boon sentenced
to be hanged.
FletcheriV Shari e, of Indianapolis, bid.,
hitherto considered one of the m st relinhli
banking lion^-s in the West, havo snsjieiiiled.
with estimated liabilities of $l,80D,i:00 and
assets amounting tn$'.\290,ri 0. Great excite-
nient was caused in Indianapolis by tho firms
suspension, mid there was a general run on
tho other hanking houses of tho city.
The boiler at Carter’s saw-mill, noar
Bloomington, III., exploded, and blew th*
mill to atoms. Over a dozen men were In th*
structure at tho time. Four men were in
stantly killed and all tho others severely in
jured.
Albert Miles (colored!, was hanged a!
Natchez, Miss., for his wife's murder.
Governor McLane was tlio principal
speaker nt a Cleveland and Hendricks ratifi
cation meeting in Baltimore.
Colonel John A. M artin, an At-ehi i
editor, has been nominated for governor by
tlio Kansas Republicans.
A TinoirEN axle remitted in nil express train
/i living the track and falling from abridge
Dei ml stoii, England. Twenty-live i>or-
s> sis wore killed mid forty others moro or less
seriously injured.
OiuiERB have lieon given by tho Austrian
government to arrest all Mormon missionaries
Hotectod in endeavoring to secure converts in
Austria to tholr faith.
Advices from Pondicherry, capital of th*
French possessions in India, slato tlint, n rocket
exploded during the celebration of. tho fall of
the Hostile. The building in which tlio rocket
exploded contained a large quantity of lire-
works, and a fearful explosion resulted. Fif
teen pci b ms wore killed and many others in
jured.
The Spanish troops have been defeated
twice recently by tlio Cuban insurrectionist*
under Aguoro.
—Dr. J. C. Peters, well known as a eholora
expert, gives a graphic history of tho disease
sinco its lhst historical appearance at Jossoro,
ill India, and points out the ease with which
it can be avoided and stamped out. Should it
come here, ho thinks that a large appropriation
should lio made to tho health authorities aud
that caro should be taken to avoid a panic, as
there is no greater safety in a to wn or rillago
than in Now York.
—A family of ten persons at Detroit woro
poisoned by eating meat which had boeu loft
standing in a brass kettle.
—Tho steamer Stato of Maino struok a resf
at Lopreaux Point, near St. John, N. B. She
is a total wreck and is breaking up, but no
lives were lost.
—A man in New York city, who turnod his
wife, with her twill bullies, out of doors dm ing
tlio pitiless storm of Siitimlay night, was ar
rested and attempted to commit suicide in
his coll.
—Two wood cutters were killed by light
ning In tho Dismal Swamp, Virginia.
The Tower Block, in Chattanooga, was
destroyed by flro; loss $50,000.
—Judgment was given In tho Eno ease at
Quebec denying the application ’for tho pris
oner's extradition. Eno was set at liberty.
A German shoemaker at Conslioliuckon,
Pa., broko into his daughter’s room, fatally
stubbed her and committed suicide.
—Messrs. Halstead, Haines A Co.. dry goods
Dispatches received by tlio secretary of the
navy and General Ilazen at Washington front
Lieutenant Ureoly and Commnndor Hih’cy
announuod the safe arrival of tho Greoly Re
lief expedition at St. Johns, N. F.
Tho expedition hud been successful, but 111*
Success wns marred by sorrow, as eighteen
out of the twenty fivo moil who formed the
Groely party lind perished from hunger and
exposure before the relieving party reached
them.
When rescued, on Juno 22, the survival's
woro in a most deplorahlo conditio'. , many
having been frost-bitten, and all dying of
hunger. In forty eight hours more all would
hnve been dead. Sergeant Ellison had Ixitli
hands and foot so badly frozen that they lmd
to ho amputated, but ho dhl not long survive
the operation, and ho die 1 on July 0. The
others are rapidly improving in health.
Tho vessels that coinnosed tho relieving ex
pedition were the Thetis, commanded by
Commander Schley; tho Boar, in command
of Lieutenant Emory, ond the Alert, com
manded by Commander Coffin.
Until expeditions are regarded, from a scion-
lilic staiid|»>iiit, as the most successful that
have ever lieon made into the frozon regions
of tlio North, and as all of the records of ob
servations Wmi'ing oil tlio researches of Lieu
tenant I Ireelv havo been preserved,tho im|>or-
‘.unco of his intelligent efforts cannot bo ovei
>tlniatcd.' For the first tlmo in a period of
three centuries America oan claim the proud
distinction of having penetrated to a point
nearer the polo than i ltv oilier country oil th*
globe. The first mm nceinontof tho safuty
if Lieutenant. (Ireelv was mado in tlio follow*
Ing dispatch from Commander Schley to Soo
rotary ('hnndh r, dated at Kt. Johns:
linn. ID. Chandler, Secretary of th<
Navy, ll'iis/itupf
scarlet flowering column springs,
JERNICAU,
None gouiHnn without our Trade Mark
On baud nud for sale,
BPELTA(’Ii!? g , NOSE GLASSES. ETC.
K. Hines. H> Ho<5K “
HINES & ROGERS,
Attorneys at Law,
SANDERSVILLE, GA.,
Will practice in ti e counties of Washington,
Jefferson, Johnson, Emanuel and Wilkinson,
and In (lie U. 8. Court* for the Bouthem Dls
lrl WlU 8Ct° r as a iirent* In buying, Killing or
"Smif cm W(wt»ld* of Public Square
Oot il-tf
Machine Needles,
Oil and Shuttles,
FOR ALL KINDS OF MACHINES, .for'sale.
I will also order parts of Mncnlnes
that get. broken, for which new
pieces are wanted.
a. j. jeunigan.
the scarlot- | officers, who demanded to know of what
colored leaves interlacing between the small, j R we were bom
cup-shaped blossoms, iho plants had to bo , tag of our destiny attaohed ?
m-afniiv nocked in ice to preserve them in , ftno tjj 6rj a new comer, arose and said:
"Gentlemen, what is the use of dis
cussion? Make a practical test of the
question. Take mo as the subject. Can
a man wilfully dispose of bis life, or is
the fatal moment chosen by a higher
power ? Try the question on me. Who
will conduot the experiment ?”
No one answered. Then some one
proposed a wager.
"Done," was the answer. The sub
ject drew a pistol, showed that it was
loaded, and held it to his temple.
"Twenty dollars, I believe? Who will
pay if I lose ?” ......
Ho pulled tho trigger, and the pistol
missed fire.
"A joke I” cried the crowd.
Tho fatalist rmilod. He recocked tho
pistol, aud with a steady hand aimod at
a clock on tho wall. He fired, and the
bullet went right through tho center of
tho dial. T .
"Apologize now," said he, l have
won tho bet. I always did believo in
fate."—Spencer News-Letter.
carefully packed in ice to presorv
transit.
A IlRIt.LIANT RECORD.
Tho record of young Irving Ilalc, of New
York, who carriod off tho highost honors at
West Point this year, beats any record that was
over mado at that famous institution. Tho
boy commenced at tlio head of his class. Ho
waB first in every study in the first year bo en
tered tlio academy. In tlio second year ho held
liis first position in all his studies but one, and
in the third year lie found himself again at tlio
head in every branch of study. Ho now stands
first in tho graduating class in all but ono
study, Bpanish, and in that there is but one-
tenth of a mark between him and Cadet San
ford, who is first. Hale is the son of a school
teacher. He will ho assigned to duty iu tho
engineer corps of tlio United States army.
THE GROWTH OF TIIE ORANGE TREE. ,
Tho orange tree is tho longest-lived fruit |
treo known. It is reputed to have attained j
tho ngo of 300 years, and it lias been known to
have flourished and horno fruit for more than ^
a hundred years. No fruit treo will grow and
produce fruit so well under rough treatment.
It commences to bear tlio third or fourth year (
after budding, and by tlio fifth year it will
produce an abundant crop, but its yield will
increaso gradually under favorablo circum- j
stances, and as tlio years pass on it will be-
como a very productive tree. Ihe early
growtli of tho orange is very rapid, and by the
tentli year it will havo increased moro than in
tho next fifty years, so far aB its breadth and
height is concerned ; but its ago multiplies its
fruit steins greatly, and an old treo will some
times hear several thousand oranges.
INVENTIVE QUAKERS.
The peculiar Beet known as the Shaking
Quakers” deserve credit for many use nl in-
volitions of the present. More than half
century ago they first originated tho drying
of sweet corn for food, and they first raised,
papered and vended garden seeds in the pres
ent styles. From their first methods of pre-
modicinal roots and herbs for market
Angelica (at a looturo)—“How rude
of that couple to go out, Algernon !
Algernon (glancing toward the door
with a sigh that signifies he thinks tho
lecture a bore)—"Yes, but how happy
tllov are now I”
The Latest Tiling in Music.
Says tho Gross Valley Tidings:
YVe are informed by James Judd that
there is a man living near Tar Flat who
is booh to travol with a quartette. lno
party in question has spent most of ins
life iu catching different kinds of frogs
aud other little animals, and is quite a
naturalist. Tho party has now on hand
four different kinds of frogs, which ho
has had for two years, and m that time
has quite successfully taught them *°
sing tho "Sweet By aud By. A little
marsh frog is tho tenor, and ho is placed
in a bowl of water and partly buries his
mouth in the water when he sings ten
or This gives tho voice a bird-like
sound that is said to be very charming.
A very largo bull frog is the basso of the
troupe and he is fully equal to the occa
sion, 1 doing his part well. The soprano
and alto are very good songsters and
when two or three persons are gathered
to hear them the soprano is said to put
Wa»liiii|ftoili
An exhaustive treatise on tho laboring
classes of the world, their conditioh, etc., is in
course of preparation ut the state depart
tnent.
Secretary Freunohuybkn has in
structed by cable the connular olucers at Lon
don, Liverpool, Marseilles, Havre, Bordeaux.
Bremen and Hamburg at once to appoint
competent physicians to inspect all vessels
And passengers departing for the \ nvtoa
States from tlir-.u ports. consular offi
cers are instructed to refuse clean bills of
health in all cases except upon the recommen
dation of tlio sanitary inspector that such bill*
lie given. Tho consuls aro instructed to re
port by cable any case of infectious or con*
tngfous disease Known to exist on hoard of a
vessel at the time of her departure for Iho
United Elutes. This course is adopted in
order that tho henlth officers in Unit, d States
ports nmy have t imely warning ot approach-
ing danger and bo prepared to lake such
measures as shall prevent the scourge from
gaining a foothold in this eountiy.
Luther Harrison, chief clerk of the Gen
eral Land office, lias been appointed to fill the
new position of assistant c -mmissioner of the
General 1 .and office, created at tlio last ses
sion of Congress.
The Indian office lms boon informed that
Koshiwny, chief of tho hue und Fox Indian
tn- . now upon the foi tawntamle reservation
in Kansas, was murdered a few days ago and
his body thrown into the river. Kosluwuy
was opposed to the policy ol theothei ohiots
of tho tribe, who wished to remove into the
Indian Territory. 'I hecimm sionorol Indian
affairs has auiliorizisl tlie a root to oiler a re
ward of $:!(itl for tl.e detection and arrest of
the murderer.
More than 8( 0 promotions hnve just b-^
mado in tlio clerical force of tic pension of
fice.
The court of Alabama claims is o i the
point of completing a series of ju g cents
numbering between 2,000 and 3,000. u.u ag
gregate ol I lie awards, including interest, bo*
ig about. $2,700,000.
It has been learned by the treasury depart
ment that paper rags supposed to have been
collected m I lie cholera inlet si districts of
Egypt, Turkov and the south nt Franco, nre
Jading import oil into the United State* through
Canadian posts.
The treasury nepnriment has just is.su-s.
warrants fur Ih ■ payment of $9,000,0( 0 on
account of pen-ions.
Among the visit ts to ITesidont Arthur tire
other day were ex .Minister Sargent, General
Butler, General Sheridan and Senator W ude
Hampton. ■
( orciffn.
' TMETftthafilah courts havo refused to extra-
jobbers and merchants, of New York, made all
aHsigumont. Liabilities about $1,000,000.
—Urasshnppors are destroying the sugar
cano In tlio Stato of Vera Cruz, Mox., particu
larly in tlio vicinity of Cordova.
—Two men woro killed and two injurod liY
tlio caving in of an embankment on tlio Al
legheny Railroad, near Clarion River, 1'a.
—A tight ever a game of iaerosso at Toronto,
Out., ended fatally for ono of tlio contestants.
— Middletown, Conn., celebrated tlio ono
hundredth anniversary of its corporate exist
ence.
—'I’ll* steam tug n. 0. Coleman exploded it*
boilers at Elliott’s Landing, Missouri river, aud
all the crew, three white men and four ne
groes—excepting Captain Thompson, were
killed The boat was torn to pieces and tho
pilot house blown 220 yards away.
—The Ohio Coal Excliango lias decided to
import Swedes and Hungarians to take tho
place of the 2,000 miners now lucked out in
tho Hocking Valley, also to start mining mv
chines.
A party ot tourists Were recently over
whelmed by ah avalanche oh Mount Bland,
and one of the number was killed.
—'The heat Is Intense at Toulon. The stroete
aro entirely deserted. All the cholera patients
who wore In the oity hospitals have been re
moved to tho suburbs.
—Dlspatohes from 8t. Petersburg sav that
there h ive been two cases of cholera at Polta
va, ono of which resulted fatally. The Sibe
rian plaguo Is raging at Pskov. Twenty deaths
have already occurred and the precautionary
measures- seem inadequate to prevent tho
spread of the diseaBo.
—A serious anti-l’apal demonstration oc
curred in ltome during tho servieis in memory
of Pope Pius IX. The riotors attempted t-i
cross the square in front of St. Peter's, but
the police and military prevented thorn. Six
of tlio rioters wero arrested.
— 1 Tho latest advices from Madagascar state
that the Hovas aro actively preparing to resist
the French. Heavy lighting is imminent.
No more one dollar notes can he supplied by
tho Treasurer until about tlio 1st of August.
Tlio order for the preparation could nut bo
given until after tlio Appropriation bill was
passed, and tho failure or the supply is duo to
tho delays of Congress.
Secretary Frelinghuysen instructed by cablo
tho consular officers at London, Liverpool,
Marseilles, Havre, Bordeaux, Bremen and
Hamburg to at once appoint oompotont physi
cians to inspect all vessels and passengers
departing for tlio United States
from tho ports mentioned. The consular
officers referred to are instructed to refuse
clean bills of health in all cases except upon
tho recommendation of the sanitary inspector
that such bills bo given. Tho Consuls aro
instructed to report by cable any case
of infectious or contagious disease known
to exist on board of a vessol at
die timo of her departure tor tlio United
States. This course is adopted in order that
the health officers in our ports may havo
timelv warning of approaching danger and bo
prepared to take such measures as shall pre
vent tlio scourge from gaining a foothold in
this country.
—James Reilly, a showman, was bitten on
Sunday afternoon by a trained rattlesnake at
Higli Bridge. Although ho had tho best modi-
cal attendance ho died Monday evening.
The Thetis, Bear and Lock Garry orrlvoo
here tn day from West Greenland. AU are
well. We separated from tho Alert 150 miles
north during a gale. At 9 1*. M., Juno 82, llv*
miles off Caiie Snliino, in Smith’s sound, tin
Thetis und Bear rescued alivo Lieutenant A.
W. Groely, Kergt. llmiiiurd. Hcrgt.. l-'redor-
leks, Kergt. Long, Hospital Steward Bolder*
back, l’rivato Connell and Kergt. Ellison, th»
only survivors of tho Ijuly Franklin Bay ox-
I hi iit.ii >n. Kergt. Ellison lmd lost both liundl
and f<H't by frostbite, and died July 0 nt God-
haven, three days after tlio amputation
which had hei-omo imjierntivti.
Eighteen of the twenty-five persons com-
posing this ex]H) lit ion perished by starvation
nt the point- where found, lino was drowned
wtiilo sealing to procure food. Twolvc bodioa
of the dead were rescued and are now on li nrd
tlio Thetis and Bear. Ono. Esquimau Turns-
vik, was buried at Disco, in accordance with
tin-desire of Hi - Inspoctor of Western Green
land. Five ho lies buried ill tlio ico fort noal
Iho camp were swept away to sen by winds
and currents before my arrival nnd could not
lie recovered. The nninos of tho dead which
were recovered, with tlio (Into of death
arc ire follows; Borgoant Cross, Jnmi
ary 1. 1884; Wedoriek, Esquimau, April 5
Korgcant Linn, April 0; Lioutonnnt Lock-
wood, April 9; Sergeant Jewell, April 18
I'rivale Ellis. May 19; Sergeant Ralston, Ma*
83; I’rivale Whisker, May 84; Korgi-nntlsrau].
May 81; Lioutonnnt Kingsbury, Juno 1; l’ri-
valo Henry, Juno(1; I’rivuto Schneider, Jun*
is. Nan os of (load buried in tho lco fort
with date of death, where bodies woro noi
recovered, ns follows; Sergeant Rice, April
0. 188-1; Corporal Salem, Juno 3; Frlvat*
Bender, Juno 10; Acting Assistant Borgoant
I’avy, Juno 6; Sergeant Gnrdnor, Juno 18.
Drowned whilo breaking through tho newly-
formed ico whilo sealing, Jens Edwards, Es
quimau, April 84.
I would urgently suggest that tho bodies
now on boar-1 lio placed in metallic eases hero
forsaforuud better transportation in a son wny.
Thisnp|Hsars to mo Imperative. Greoly aliiure
doned Fort Conger August 9,1882,and reached
Bail’d Inlet September 89, following, with
tho entire party well. Ho abandoned all
his bouts and wns adrift for thirtv days on
an ico lloo ia Smith’s sotlnd: His jiermn*
■lent camp was established October 21,1883,
at a p ii where lie was found. During nine
niouilre Ins pariy had to livo upon a Brant
nlluwan e of food brought from Fort
Conger,that ea hodat Payer Harbor and Capa
1 cliliyH 'e ii'geNaresiii 1875, but found
- i dnuillgod by lapse of time; that cached
1 B ebC nl Cuiie Sabine In 1832 and a small
ainouiit saved il'oiii tho wreck of the Proton*
ill 1883, and landed by LieUU. Darlington nnd
Colwell on the bedel) WhoroGroely’s party wn*
found camped, When these provisions z/er*
consumed the party was forced to llv* upon
boiled so - si i strips from thoir sexlskin
clothing, lichens and shrimps presorzod In
good weather, when they were strong
enough to make exertion. As 1,900 shrimps
were required to fill a gallon measure th*
labor was too exhausting to depend upon
them to sustain lifo entirely. The channel
between Capo Sabine and Littleton island did
not close, Oil account of the violent gales all
winter, so that 210 rations at (ho latter point
could not bo reached. All of Gro 'ly’s record*
and ail instruments brought by him Irora
Fort Conger are recovered and nre on board.
From Haro Island to Smith’s sound I had a
con-tant mid furious struggle with ice in un
missable floes. Solid barriers of ice wur«
overcome by wotehfulness and patience, No
opportunity to advance a mile escaped me,
and for teveral liii-CK the ships were forced to
rum their way through ice varying m thick
ness from three to six foit, and when rafted
mnero uand, w* righted signals ot rtis-
trees at a distance of about seven miles, it
was about 9 o’clock f. M. and the sun shining
brightly, but bitterly cold.
After considerable trouble we steamod
down toward tha pack lot upon tvhich thev
were, an l a horrible sight mot our ay® 8 -
Lieiiteiisnl Oreely, Brntnard. Fredericks,
Long, UmiTlerback nnd Connell were crying
like chili Iron anil hugging each other franti
cally. Thev scorned frantic with joy. I put
.17 in n cutter, nud a ter great difficulty
reached them. They (low nt me, and I no
Hint imagined they were crazy. They seized
each of (lie men in tho boat, hugged them/
kissed their hands and did every thing one
could iuiAgino 11 show their joy nnd gratituao.
All but iioor Elh.'OU. liis loot and hands
were so nndtr frozen Hint Tie eouM not mom
lie lay still on tlio ground and moaned.
Tho others of tho party, nisi, wore moro or
less frost bitten, but they seemod to forget
their sufferings.
Th'< pnrty on tho ice looked as if they could
not live live hours, they looked s.i feeble, not-
wii Iretmrling I he almost superhuman strength
they l.a.1 shown when wo reached them. Slow-
Iv, one by one, seventeen of the pnrty had
•Me I lip their lives to tho (lemon Starvation.
hi of them, tho strongest-, lind gone scnl-
huntir.g. He never returned. He wns
' -owned while trying to get to n seal before it)
ni'hi'-l the edg < of n floe upon which they
tv. lie miss -d liis footing, fell into p seam
tho ico mvl was scon no more.
YVe on"nuutered a gn!e day lieforo yestor-,
iv which was so furious that tho Alert
painted from us in U. Greelv, in his roixirt
me, said Hint on August 9, 1883, ho nhan-
Fort (’linger. They traveled northerly,
and, aftor cniisiuorablo privation and suffer
ing from the cold, reached Baird Inlet en
Bcntember 09. There wns no one In tho party,
who was not in full possession of health,'ann,
excepting their Isolated uosltlon, everything
as well.
arssly’* Terrible Bwperlenee*
General Hazon of tho signal service «•
WashiiiKt-m ro<*oiv(Ml tho following tologruni
from Lieutenant Greoly ntSt. Johns:
“Bralnnrd, Boirdorbnek, Connell, rroder*
leks. Long, myself, sole survivors, arrived
icri! to clay, lwiving lieon rescued nt Uio JJoint
of death from starvation bv reliof ships me
tis and B"iir -limn 22 nt Camp Clay,northwest,
of ('nisi Sabine. AU in o now in good healthy
hut weak. 1 abandoned Fort Congor August
9, and was frozen in the pack off v ictoria
Head August 29; abandoned steam launch
Keptomb'r II, eleven miles north-
easi of (locked Hat island. When on th*
point of landing we were throe times driven
soiilhw-'st bv storms Into Knne’s sea. Hnaliy
iroetosix felt, and when ratted
much greater. Tho Thetis and Bear reached
Cane York June 18. after a passage of twenty-
one days in Melville Bay with the two ad
vance ships of the Dundee whaling floot, and
continued to Cape Sabine. Returning seven
days later, we fell in with seven others of tlie
fleet oil' Wostenholme Island, an-1 announced
Greelv’s rescue to them in order that they
might not bo delayed 'from their fishing
grounds or be temuled into the dangers ot
Smith’s Sound In view of tho reward of $25,-
001* offered by Congress. „ .
Returning across Melville bay we fell in
with the Alert nnd Lock Garry off Devils
Thumb, struggling through the ice. Com
mander Collin did admirably to get along sq
far with the transport so early in tho season,
before an opening had occurred. Lieutenant
I'mory, with the Bear, has supported me
liroughout with great skillfulness nnd un-
flineliing readiness in accomplishing the great
duty of relieving Groely. I would ask in
struction about the Lock Garry, as the char
ter party hold by her master differs in several
resiiects from mine
'iS.rx
arrivo I Kcntomls'r 89 in llaird inlet. I/onrn-
Ing I iv s-otiling i art liw of t ie Proteus disas
ter, and Hint no provisions had lieon loft for
us from Cap: Isali-lhi to Hnbino, I moved
Slid established winter quarters nt Camp
Clay, hn’f way between Sal line and Cocked
Hat. Inventory sh -w d that by daily ration,
(our and one-(hird ounces meat, seven of
,lv nl and dog biscuits and four ounces ol
(iiisi'i'lluneous, (lie parly would have ten days
full r.iti'n ; left for (To-slng Smith Bound to
LiHli't* n island up to March 1.
I'lifor.limit- ly Smith Sound remainca
open tin* iMitir? winter, ivnloringerosbiiigiin*
possible. Game failed, despite dally hunting
from early February, lieforo tho sun re-
turned only 509 pounds of meat, could ho oh-
tallied. During this year minute shrimps,
seawoosl, sassnlras, rock lichens and sealskin
were resorted to lor food, with results ns
iliown in tho liumlior of survivors. Tho hist
regular food was issued May 14. Only 1-0
pounds of meat having boon left bv Garling-
ton, compelled m-s to send in Novombor
four men to obtain 144 pounds of Eng-
ish meat nt Isabella. During tho trip Ellison
froze solid both hands and feet, and lost them,
surviving, however, through our terrible
winter and spring, until July 8. Tlio sur
vivors owe their lives t > th * indomitable
energy of Can nin K hi -y anil Lieutenant
Enuiiy, who, pro edeil by thro-and accom-
pani <i |,y five wlnleis, forced their vessol*
from Gikii n tvik, through Melville hay, into
North Water at Capo York w.tli tho foro-
mo-t whaler. They gained a yard
wh rover povPilonod always held it. Smith*
Sound was crossed and tho party ro»-
cueri d ir.n ono of tlio most violent gales X
have over Known, Hie boats boing handled
on I v at the imminent risk of swamping. Four
o! ii i wore then unuhloto walk and could not
have s irvivod oxeis d-ng twen y-four bin}™-
Every caro and attention was given us. We
hav - saved and bring back copies of motooro-
Jo-i -ai, tidal, astronomical, magnetic, pendu
lum and other observations; also pendulum,
Yale and standard therinometoi s, forty-eight
photographic negatives, acolleetiuiiof blank*
oiit 1 pilot/I'jninliiu proofs, LsipuiiiLiiix
an I other Hungs noeess iniy abandon* 1. Uie
Tnotis will remain here for fivo d ■ • prooa-
bly ’’
—Two society belles woro drownod »t M
summor resort near Montreal.
, —Five men were scalded by a boiler oxplo*
sion near Wilmington, Del.
—Three murderers were hanged at Fort
Worth and two In Missouri.
—Stockholders In a national bunk In Mon
mouth, III., must pay an assessment of 100 per
cent.
—The Mexican government are to pay a
bonus of $60 for eaeh Chinese laborer landed
at Quyamas,
—Jay-Eye-Soe failed to beat the record on
tbs Chicago traok. Ho made iho mile In Zilljrf’,
—Dr. Cervera has retired from the Presi
dency of Central America by permission of the
Superior Court, which, at his roqueBt, granted
him sixty days’ leave of absence.
—A freight train collided with a passenger
train at Bayoux iu France, and forty persons
were injured.
—A Paris correspondent had an interview
with Dr. Koch, relative to the cholera Dr.
Koch insists that it is Asiatic eholora that is
uow visiting Franco.
Lightning struck a circus tent near Cologne
and killed four persons, injured seven severely
and many others slightly.
Great Indignation was aroused in Ger
many by tho action of some Alsatian students,
who tore down anil burned the German flags
displayed at the Hotel Continental in Fans.
Prune Minister Kerry has apologized to the
German ambassador to France for the insult.
James Walker, a suspected dynamiter,
Wns arrested in Glasgow alter u desperate re
sistance.
The cholera is increasing in the country
around Toulon. Tourists are evading
Southern France and Italy. Tho Anieucan
consul at London insists upon vcss.ds showing
clean hills of health lieforo they will be al
lowed to enter American ports.
Did not Miss It
Mosen P. Handy, managing editor of
the Philadelphia Press, told the editor
of the Journalist that he recently had a
I curious experience with a serial story,
much improved It had been running along Sunday alter
—A sevoro drought exists in Toxas.
—A mob attacked the jail at Owensboro,
Kv , oil Sunday night, killed the jailer and
• 3 ’ - Two of iho mur-
rince°tMrrtwraBeJ^t)utwere^cHHeal inthe ox* j Press, taking up about
tremo when found anil for sovorul days after. t j ire0 columns of valuable space, and
Forty-eight hours’ delay in reaching them j- - could not fl ud 0 ut that anybody
would have ber atnl to all now living. Th* r p„ f ji uc it. He got all the mem-
season north is late and the closest tor years. 8 the 8 editorial staff to ask their
. % a. ..a.m 4’/-vi* 1 iiront.tf Vt*ltrS. 1 ..z* *1,n f r
ShSwirrhy the Shakers at New the
Lebanon. This is uow in the Albany Goologi- ^ ft smttll j e af is thrown lo
cal Hall. The Shakers invented ^Uic pen ^ ^ aftor a 80Ugi will hop out and
«—■>' b '“.s **»vsrsa;ns
liquors wero
abandoned by tho Shakers i
years ago, and during the past forty years no
fermented liquor* of any sortJn» h<*n ’^i
sume her place. Then the alto
to turn green with envy.
crash, and was charged with forgery.
Orange celebrations in Ireland resulted in
serious disturbances between Orangemen and
Nationalists at Belfast, Newry and Clcator.
Two or three persons were killed and ninny
vvrt'j wounded,
was "tho m ost severe for twenty years. ! werG watching the story, and the report
. - - , „ pn = ar TW0 0I mo , mu - 1 This great result is entirely due to tho un- i wRs that they were not, so he concluded
SwereWd during the assault on the -rttoen‘ 8^^
1 ‘ wort it has had the honor to accomplish. made up liis mind that if there wore any
inquiries he would put it back again the
He followed out this course
-A coal train on the Brooklyn, Bath and
Coney Island Railroad collided with two pas- I
senger trains in succession. The engineer and
firemen of the coal tram were arrested for de-
sel ling tlieir post of duty.
—Reporters of alt toe New York papers en
deavored to secure from General Butler what
fiis action would ho in tho coming campaign.
Butler would give no satisfactory replies to the
queries and refused to be interviewed.
of war in fitting out this expedition foi too altogether for one Sunday. He
work it has had the honor to accomplish. , out aiiogeiucr *, „ , .„ ,,
W. y. Schley, Commander.
A Talk will, emu uniiilerSrUtcy. week . He followed out tuts course
in tho 22d of June, while lying in toe drift story up to date. He snyu that a con-
ire off Cape Sabine, in Smith’s sound, latitude tiuued story iu a daily paper is pqt of
favor,
prees 30 juinutos west, and which forms pm t