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Newspaper Page TextTHE MERCURY. PUBLISHED EVERT TUESDAY NOTICE. OT-AU communications Intended tor thli paper most be acoompanled with the toll name of the writer, not necessarily tor pnbll. ca tlon, bnt u a guarantee of good faith. We are In no way reaponslble for the vlaws or opinion! of oorreepond«nla, THE MERCURY. A. .1. JEltMMAN, Proprietor. DEVOTED TO LITERATURE, AGRICULTURE AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. $1.50 per Annum. VOLUME V. SANDERSVILLE, GA., TUESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1884. NUMBER 17. THE MERCURY. Entered aa eeeond-olam matter at tte I deiarille Poetoffloe, April», IMA Sudemllle, Washington Connty, rounn « A. J. JERNIGAN, PaormurroB abb rwi.iiiii Subscription- ..»lJ»psrY«n* E S. LANGMADE, Attorney uthaw, BANDKRlVtLLE, GA. " MAYOR. 0. II. ROGERS '.‘LA'TtI\ iC- y/i'FAXU/tE-R. D. E. 11, WELLS. MAWtALL. E. Wl'.DDON. A L'D KltMJJA’. * \Y. It. LAWSON, Wm. RAWLINGS, S. (i. LANG. A M MAYO, M II. ROYER. MUSIC, MUSIC —ao to— JERNIGAN LATEST NEWS NOTES. Happenings of Interest to All, At Home and Abroad. —Throo thousand troops of tho Warsaw dis- trict havo been echeloned along tho roadway between Bkierniwico and Warsaw, tho routo to bo taken by the Czar. —A diaafltrouB firo occurrod Monday at Ma- rash, a town of Aula Minor. A thousand shops, two hundred homes, four hotels, threo mosquoa and tho municipal palaoo woro destroyed. —A riot has occurred at Klirnoff, Hussia. Tho workmen attacked tho shops of tho Old Boliovors, whom thov donounced as worso than Jows. Tlid contents of tho shops woro carried off. One person was killed and two wore wounded. —Tho Treasury figures show a shrinkage of tho curroney in circulation during the hcvou prior to July 1 amounting to about f32,000,000. —For improving tho harbors of Lako Bn- P®ri°r ^ ,0 nor thorn portion of Lako Michigan tho estimates of cost for next year aro 1786,000. —A so called “basement burglar,” who has fobbed over forty Iiouhib in Harlem, N. Y.. in five months and who has succeodod admirably in keeping out of tho hands of tho police, was news summary. Eastern nml middle Mutton. I’.x-Oovkiinoti John I’. Bt. JonN Rent, n telegram from Rochester, N. Y„ near which lie ha<l beennddrcsstiiKnenmp-nieotlng, to llio committee at Pittsburg, accenting tho nomi* nation of the National Prohibition convention tor President. Ex-Govkunou Walter IIarriman, o* Inow hamiishire, dial a few dnVR sineo a^ >> arnor, N. H., ng»»d sixty-seven years. Ho came out of tho civil war a general, and was elected governor in 1867 and 1868. Miss Mary C. Avlteus, tho botrotliod of 4 1 i»i .an Terbnrgh, who committed suicide at Pittsburg. Penn., a few wwks ago by taking prussic add. shot herself in Loechburg. 1 onn., inflicting a ratal woun6. The boiler of a loeomotivo on tho Lehigh V alloy rnilroml near Whlto Haven, Penn., ex ploded with torriftle effect Jacob Haasoll, engineer; John Armhrnster, fireman; John Hnssoll, brakeman, son of the engineer, and K. o. Smith, a Udegraph operator, were in stantly killed. A freight train ran into tho 1 wrcckiNl locomotive, and thirty cars woro do- ! troyed, 1' iKTY-ONK men of nil nntionaliUes, white i WlQ black, woro arrested near Pittsburg, J Ienn., and lodged in jail, charged with an ! outrageous assault on Lizzie Bradley. n young yyonmn of unsound mind, who hoc! Inn'll en ticed from her homo and was wandering lihiu) Bows, Strings, Rosin Boxes, Etc- C C BROWN, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Baudersyllle, Ob. Will prncltoeln til. Ntale snd Dal tod BUM CouHk. iifllce In OuurUbouM. Watches, Clocks And JEWELRY BirAlMD BT JERXTXGA2T. Dr. H. B. Hollifield, PSYSICIAS AID SURGEON, Having recently graduated at the Univer sity *'l MtovlHUif and returned home, now fu is his proieKMloniil services to the citizens of HandeiMVille uud vicinity. Offlco with Dr. 11 N Hollifield, next door tofMra. Bayne’s millinery store. G. W H. WHITAKER. OENTI ST. Handers* lile, Oft. VKVM'l CAS 11. H. N HOLLIFIELD, Physician and Surgeon, Offlo. n.it do.r to Hn. fcJM'i ■Iflf—iy store on Usirls slreek UUYYOUR WMCLIIS, SPECTllW, FROM JCRMIOAD, None genuine without our Trade Mark On hand and for salt* SPECTACLE*. NOSE GLASSES. ETC. ». E. Himes. O. B. Rooi HINES & ROGERS, Attorneys at Law, 8ANDERSVILLB, GA., Will practice In the oounties of Washington, Jefferson, Johnson, Emanuel and Wilkinson, and In the U. 8. Courts for theBonthem Dis trict of Georgia. Will act hs agents in baying, selling or renting Heal Estate. Office on West side of Pnblio Square. Oct 11-tf captured at his work. A wagon load of stolon country when dlscovored by her os- proporty was found at his homo. 1 —A dispatch from Bunding, Pa., says: Dur ing Wednesday night John Flowers, aged for- tv-fivo, an insnuo nmn, and an inniato of tho County Hospital, killed Thomas Louth, Ids roommate, by battering in his hoad whilo Louth was asleop. Louth was found dead In tho morning Ho was oighty years of ago and camo hero from England. As Flowors is a lunatic ho will not bo tried for murder, but will bo oon- fiuod in the iron-clad coll, —A sovore thunderstorm visited tho region of Beatrice, Nob., before daylight Wednesday morning. Light ning at melt tho farm liouso of Nathan Miller, mar Maryville, Kan., killing his four daughters while asleep. Their ages word seventeen, thirteen, nine and so von snectively. Tho mother in hi a critical condi tion from hor beroavemont. —Bags and bides in the cargo of tho Cha teau Marginx ran tho blockade of quarantine, an officer of the steaim r declaring that thoro was no such cargo on hoard. They woro dis covered at tho dock in Brooklyn. —On Tuesday a station agont on an Iowa railway was killed by a negro whom ho had ejected. A mob in Romo pursued a burglar in woman’s clothes, caught him, and hanged him. —Bags from Marseilles shipped in May last fiannot bo lauded in tho Uniteu Htatos. —Tho bonoB of Captain Ballard, a boro of tho naval engagement between tho Constitu tion and two English vessols, woro buried in tho Naval Academy Cemetery at Annapolis, Md. —Texas fever has caused tho doath and slaughter of hundreds of cattlo in Kansas, Missouri and Illinois. -Tho Commercial Bank of Brazil, Iml., and Bailouts. Thr committee of notification Appointed by tho national Democratic committee to inform Governor Cleveland of his nomination for President, wnited upon him in tho ox- ocutjvo maiiKiotf nt. Albany and dischargod its duty, Govornor Cldveland in a speech accepted the nomination. DkWolk a* Swan, Now York stock brokers, novo failed through tho thievish operations of one of their customers—W. K. Hcovil, a sten ographer employed by Lord, Day & Lord, lawyers. Hcovil stole hliouL f-200,000 worth or Mr. Day’sHivuritios, substituted counterfeits for the genuine ouch, and forgod Mr. Day’s signature on tho genuine stocks. Thk committee of forty seven who had in* formed Governor Cleveland of his nomination for President by the national Democratic convention |K*rfonnod a like duty toward Hon. Thomas A. Hendricks, Democratic nom ineo for Vico-Proaidcnt, at tho Grand Union hotel, Saratoga, N. Y. Tho rcremony was almost a refietition of that on the nrovioua day in Albany. Cot- onel Vilas made the address informing Mr. Hendricks of his nomination ; Hocrotary Bell rend the official letter of notification, and Mr. Hendricks n spnuled in a short address ac cepting the nomination. SOUTHERN NOTES. the Barnum WiroworkB, of Dotroit, Mich., Htato. fcoutli nml Wmt« Victor E1.01 (white), for tho murder of his wife, and Kendrick Holland (colored), for the tmiidor of Hannah Glover, his reputed wife, were hanged .from tho samo gallows simultaueously at New Orleans. Aktkh 168 ballols ex-Unlted Htatos Benatof Thomas M. Norwood was nominated for Con- gives in the First Georgia district Iowa’s corn crop is estimated at800,0(X),000 bushels—tho biggest over known in that fAilod. —A lynching party in tho Far West, after capturing a party of liorso thieves, hanged tho two lenders and turned tho others ovor to tho authorities for trial. —A survoying party, consisting of W. O. Johnson, John Eastwood, B. J. Eardon, and F. Bloakloy, woro drowuod in Spanish Itivur, Canada. —Tho Brushy Croak bridge, an immonso span, seventy-live feet high, and situated with in twenty-live miles of Austin, Texas, , Thk tomndoes which wrought such havoo ! in various nortions of Wisconsin, Dakota and Minnesota ha Vi* Ikn*ii followed by hailstorm# equally hs dontiu<iivu chips. Many sheep, hogs and culvcs were lolled, whilo horse* and cuttlu sufltroJ severely. Many bridges were swept nway, and flocks of sheop killed. Hailstones ns big as lien’s eggs fell, I Near Tower Cit y. Dakota, tho daniege wav I estimated nt $I(M),(KK). I Chop ronorl* from Ohio, Indiana and Ken tucky are to tho effect t hut wheat is tho host MImoutI raoiflo road, n> l.nr'nM wAlnowUr ; iu <iuB«ttty nnd (mallty thnt hnllwm Atheml afUiniDon. Ah a rc»ult all the train. 06 that ' Machine Needles, Oil and Shuttles, FOB ALL KINDS OF MACHINES, for sale. 1 will also order parts of Mnclilnes that get broken, for which new pieces are wanted. A. JT. JEHNIGAN, TIIG CIIOI.RUA SCOURCIK. Decreasing In Marseilles nnd Toulon, but Htill Spreiullmr. Tlio cholora has appearod at Spezzia, Italy. It was carried there by an Italian workman from the arsenal at Toulon. In Marseilles the poor are firmly convinced that tho physicians aro determined to keep up the opideroic. They iorco them to take their own medicines first before touching them. They sometimes shut tho doors in their faces, und in ono case threatened thorn with kuivos. Tho total num ber of places in Franco whero the infection has so far appeared is fourteen. The total « ! nb m, of deaths in Toulon of cholora is over . The oxodus from the city has decreased < 0 Pi n - ion two "ihirds. The total number or deaths in France since tlio' outbreak ap peared in over ono thousand. About five huu- dred^persons who were attacked with tho dis ease have been cured. A number of cases of suicide of patients in tho hospitals have taken place. On Sunday 66 deaths by cholora took place in Marseilles, Toulon and Aix. \ KeymI Gathering. A reunion of members of the royal families will ho held at Copenhagen early in August. Tho Czar and Czarina of Hussia, the Prince ami Princess of Wales, the King and Queen of Greece and tlio Duke and Duchess of Cumber land nro expected to ho present at the reunion. Efforts aro being made to induco tho Duko of Cumberland to resign his claimB to the throne of Hanover and accept the terms offered by the Emperor Willituu. road woro blockaded. 7-0ur Southern frontior is to be strictly guarded to prevent importations of yellow fover from Honora, Mexico. —llio Texss fever is still agitating Western cattlo markets. —At Saratoga on Wednesday, a portion oi die committee appointed by tho recent Demo cratic National Convention for the purpose of notifying the Presidential candidates called upon ox-Governor Hendricks at hia hotol and formally discharged tho duty imposed upon them. Tho Vico Presidential nominee re sponded In suitable terms, —The arrest of two American! in Mexico cansod indignation among the Amorican colon ists, until it was shown that they wore un worthy mon who had broken the laWs. At tho request of the Unitod Htatos government thoy were released. —A gallant young man from New York eity lost his life at Kingston, N. Y., while saving a lad from drowning. —A police officer was murdered In Minne apolis by three roughs. — 1 Three train wreokera were arrested near Lynchburg, Va. —Whisky sent to Canada to avoid the pay ment of the tax will be mulcted fifty conts per package before it is again imported to this country. —J. 8. 0. Harrison, of the broken Har* rison’s Bank, and rocolvor of tho Indiana Banking Company, has been arrested for em bezzling ti)5,000 in Indianapolis. —A surveying party of four persons wore drowned in Spanish Bivor, Canada, Tuesday. —Tho Notification Committee of the Dem ocratic National Convention for officially apprising Governor Cluvoland of his nomina tion for the Presidency, accompanied by tho National Committee, wailed upon the romiueo at tho Executive Chamber oti Tuesday and performed the mission with which it had buen vested. Col. Vilas, of Wisconsin mado tho ad dress. Gov. Cleveland responded briefly, and stated that his formal letter of acceptance would be givon in a few days. —Throo Fronchmon from tho cholera dis tricts of France woro among tho immigrants on tho Gallia to New York. They woro al lowed to land by tho Health Oificer, uecauso he believed they were going to South Amorican The men are at largo In New York. —It is reported that Hartmann, the nihilist, has committed suicide in Paris. —Daly, the dynamiter orrestod in April in Birkenhead, has been indicted by the Grand Jury, —Tho English government is ready to con firm the confederation of tho Australian colo nies and the annexation scheme. — The cotton worm is ravaging the cotton crop in Lower Egypt. Tho prospect is very poor. Tho Nilo is now much lower than at any tirao sineo 1878, when 40,000 persons per ished from famine. —A dispatch from London saysMrs. Weldon received a verdict of XT,000 damages against ;Mr. Temple, the medical man who had declared hor insane. —Warsaw is placed under martial law ini an ticipation of the visit of the Emporor of Bus- sia to that city. —Tho leading bankers, merchants and man ufacturers of Berlin are leagued against Bis marck’s colonial plans. —A passenger stoamor on tho Volga ltiver, Russia, capsized and twenty persons woro drowned. —The Siberian peBt lias appeared at OaU- china. A committeo bus been formed, with Prince Schakoffsky at its head, to enforce vig orous Hanitary measures to check tho spread or tho disoase. —The entiro northern shore of Long Island Sound is becoming built up with summer cot tages. —In Aberdeen (D. T.) artesian flowing wells aro boing used to run a grist mill. —Eighteen members of the Salvation Army wore arrested at Rochester and lockod np for singing while parading the streets. —At Blakely, Ga., a colored man, charged with a heinous crime, was taken from jail by a crowd of eitioens and lynehed —Tlio colored pooplo of La G ran go, G a., had a cako walk. Colored dudos partook ficoiy of liquor, and when tho game was nearly ended John Henry, an idiot negro pinched off a piece of the cake, which aroused great in- dignation. He was taken out W six men, stripped to the waist, and received 760 lashes, when he was loft weltering in his blood. —The Mudir of Dongoia telegraphs.that re- ports have readied that city to the effect that General Gordon lias captured Berber. _A priest was attacked at Witepsk, Huss.a, led by a mob to an attack on tho houses of Jews in that place. Tho military dispersed tho mob and made several arrests, lho pricBt _T!io Russian villages of Rybatzkogo and Bmolenskoge, near St. Petersburg, havo been destroyed by fire. —Tho French mon-of-war lying off lopcfiou havo been olewud for aotioff. in years. Corn ha? suffered from drought, but recent rnlns havo rescued it, and tho yield will be fin average one. Du kino a wrestling match between two negroes at Plnquemmo, La., ono threw the other with such force as to broak his nock, killing him instantly. The Ohio Greonbnokors, at tholr StaU> con* vnntion in Dayton, nominated a full tickoL headed by Peter liarrod for secretary of state. CobONttt, 3. 8. Murphy, president of the Mobile Life Insurance conipanv, was shot and killod at his residence near Mobile, by Keubon Tripp. Tlie shooting grew out of a dispute #ver land t rospassing.and Trinp was arrested. A STKAMsmr collided with and sank tho propeller J. M. Osl>orn on tAko Huperlor. The twopellor’s mate, a fireman,cook and five dock nnnds wore drowned. Seven horse thieves wore found hanging to trees nt the mouth of tho Musselsholl river in Montanr. Cowboys had done the hanging. A floou in the valley of George’s ereok in tho eastern part of West Virginia, swept away from twenty to thirty houses at Bar ton,a small mining t iwn, and caused a loss of from eight to fifteen lives. A fusion tirket of Republicans and Green- backers has been nominated in West Virginia beaded by Edwin Maxwell (Republican) for governor. Th remainder of the Htute ticket is made up of three Republicans and thre! Groonbachors. During a severe thunder-storm lightning struck the farmhouse of Nathan Miller, near Maryville, Kan., killing his four sleeping daughters, aged seventeen, thirteen, nine and seven respectively. Washington. Congressman William W. Culuertson, representing the Ninth Kentckuy district, while at his room in the National hotol at Washington, where he had been stopping a few days, attempted to commit suicide by shooting himself in the he*1 with a revolver. The weapon was fired five timet, but only two of the thott took effect, the balls furrowing Along the skull without breaking it, but inflicting terious wounds. Excess! ve drinking is given as the cause of Mr. Cull>crteon’B attack upon himself. Culbertson is a native of Pennsylvania, had been in the Union army, and in *.he Kentucky legislature; wus onco mayor of Ashland, Ky., and had been a delegate to tho last three Republican national conventions. The surgeon-general of the marine hospital lorvice, having received information that the yellow fever is spreading in Sonora, Mexico, has instructed the inspector at Nogales. Ari zona, to use extra vigilance to prevent Its in troduction into the United States. Treasury figures show a shrinkage of the currency in circulation during the seven months prior to Julyl amounting to about $32,000,000. In view of the threatened Asiatic cholera invasion the national board of health has directed its executive committee to fullv in- vastigate all matters bearing on that subject. Foreign. China is to pay France $5,000,000 as indem nity for tho recent attack of Chinese forces upon a body of French troops in Tonquin. Twenty jiersous were drowned by the cap sizing of a passenger steamer on the Volga river in Russia. England’s hop crop this year is pronounced a failure. A meeting of tho emperors of Germany an 1 Austria and tho czar of Russia is about to take place at Alexandrof, Russia. Henry M. Stanley, the African explorer has returned to England from Africa. A disastrous fire lias occurred at Marash, a town of Asia Minor. One thousand shops, two hundred houses, four hotels, three mosques and tho municipal palace woro de stroyed. Up to the 1st inst. about 2,300 deaths from cholera had occurred in France. A mob in Romo, Italy, pursued a burglar in woman’s clothes, caught him and hangod him. ^ A KlOItlllllLK DISK A HI*. The surgeons at tho County Hospital, Chi cago, have under treatment Mrs. Murphy^ 27 years of ago, who is suffering from a horrible disease which afflicts cattlo and is known as “dumpy jaw.” It is in tho form of an abscess on hor jaw, and was at first supposed to be an ordinary abscess, but microscopical examina tion proves the contrary. Tho abscess was found to contain vegetable parasites identical with those found in abscesses on cattle. It is supposed to havo been caused by eating tho meat of cattle having the disoase. An opera tion will bo performed shortly. The case ex cites some interest, as it is the first one re ported in the United States, though similar | oasts hare already been recorded in Germany. Talk of a bagging factory at Griffin, Ga. Cord wood sells for nine dollars per cord in Key West. Tho avornge monthly wages paid farm hands in Georgia is $9,83, There is going to bo a thousand aero cocoa palm grovo in South Florida. A class faotory to ooRt twenty thousand dol lars is to bo orocted at Morrilton, Ark. Eighteen hundred homesteads havo been en tered in Florida during tho past year. The streets in DoLaml, Fla., aro being cov ered with sawdust by tho town authorities. Key West imported over threo thousand gal lons of claret wine from Havana last month. It is said that the peanut orop this vear in tho Honth will amount to threo million dollars. The Mississippi carries annually to the sea tight hundred and twelve billion five hundred million pounds of mud. With her cattle upon a thousand hills, Texas geoplo eat moro oleomargarine than they eat A largo colonv of immigrants from Germany recently arrived in Louisiana to settle on lands In tho northern part of that Btate. Selma. Ala., has seventy-four artesian wells. Somo of thorn flow excellent mineral water, and every stream is pure and healthful. Alabama’s output of iron in 1870 was less than $4,000,000, in 1883 $19,000,000, an inoreasi of 400 per cent, in four years. f thr known as tho “Blair bill,” for educational purposes, will amount to OVcr $2,400,000. A single English syndioato owns 4,600,000 acres of land in Texas. Foreign capital alto- f ;other controls an aggregate of 21,000,000 acres n tho Htato. The Scientific American says tho best of hickory used in tho arts, where toughness is required, is obtained from North Carolina and East Tennessco, It iH stated that Lako do Funiak, Fla., 1h set tling up with a class of fanners from Iowa nnd Wisconsin, who will engage in raining sheep, cattle, rice, sugar, pecans, olives and grapes. There aro alxiut 300 men engaged in killing alligators in South Florida. Tho hide and teeth of tho ’gator is what’s wanted. Tho yoai ’s business will bring to that soction about $45,000. Immense quantities of plates mado from tho common gum treo ground up into wood pulp, pressed, aro manufactured in Newbern, N. C., and aro daily shipped from Norfolk to points all over the country. RoUtherh planters aro now proparing for a decisive test of a cotton harvester on their next crop, and should tho result bo favorable, it will probably work changes greater than woro caused by tho introduction of the cotton giu in tlio prices of cotton. In tho mijdlo of tho main street of Aber deen, Miss., aro artesian wells several squares apart, which supply the city with water. Ev ery well is covered with a large pagoda, and tho ground lamoath is pave I. The water runs from spouts into troughs, and passos off under ground. Tlio South possesses in her varied and valu able woods the basis of enormous future wealth. The manufacture of cabinet woods ahd furniture In the South enn be mado one of her leading industries, as the material is al most unlimited and the water power for fac tories abundant. A stock company has been organized at Montgomery, Ala., with paid up capital stock of $80,000 for an extensive manufactory of soap, bail potash and axlo grease. Cotton seed oil will tako tho place of offal ahd grease, Said to be far superior. Tho enterprise is In the hands of loading business uien. Jay Gould says that the Southern States are increasing beyond all precedent. Cotton man ufactories are being established in all direct ions, and in Florida manufactures of furmturo, etc., aro numerous; things that they used to have to depend on the North for exclusively, they now mako for tliomselves. The cattle interest is becoming immense, tho growth of which can scarcely be measured by estimate or figures. Tho great trunk lilies of tlio Missouri Paciflo railway will be taxed to their utmost to furnish transportation for this already vast and inoreasing traffic. It is esti mated that from the first of this month to October not less than 1,000.000 head of cattle will be shipped over theee lines from Texas to Northern points. In this no eitimate is made of horeee, sheep and swine that will seek north ern markets. In reference to tho cotton industry in Au gusta, Ga., which has been represented as in a serious plight, it is now stated that all the mills aro running in full, and the Sibley mills are about to increase their oapaoity by new machinery. Two out of tho ten mills have de cided to reduce their wagos. bnt it is claimed that those two mills pay higher wages than any of the others. The real c&uso of the trouble is the short cotton crop of 1883. Many of tho Southern mills did not buy sufficient when cotton was low, and the present high price doos not make them particularly anxious to work it up. Mills with an abundant stock of cotton will go right along. NEW* FROM EGYPT. THE NATIONAL GAME. Button is tho first Iioacuo piayor to make 100 bam hits. Navy nnd army officers in large number* attend tlio ball gnnuw nt Washington. ITnK Philadelphian have thin far played twenty mon this mason. Six pitcher* have b»n tried and flvo catcher*. ConKtllM., of the Cincinnati club, hn* mnde tho wonderful record of thirty-six gnmes in tlio right Held without an error. It will now ho in order for pitcher* to watch Bufflnton, of the Boston*, in order to discover that peculiar drop which ho alone has. Tub numerous club* in the country nro training school* for playors, nnd talented one* ought to improve their chances to get into tlio big leagues, which will be tho only mrvivors some any. ll.vOKKTT, of tho Bostons, and Ewing, of tlio Now Yorkors, wear the two heaviest mnsks in the longue, nnd iirolwbly in the profession. They wore made to ordor tor these two catchers, nml lho wire i» much larger tlinn thnt ordinarily used. Wmi.K deadheads wore enjoying a gmnont the Boston dub’* ground, Boston, from tlio tops of tologrnph imli-s near by, somebody enmo along nnd painted tlio polos black ns far ns could Iw reached, it is |wrhniw imod- iess to add thnt thoro was no lintont dryer in thnt paint Tho doth™ of tlio polo-topper* •bowed It after thoy lind eoino down. An exchange, sneaking of tlio invention of baseball, says: "Now the game is played by young men who piny it as nil avocation, who are called professionals, nnd who receive large pay. A contest roquircs tho oxortlouv of oiglitoon mon of exceptional skill and eniliir- nneo, ono umpire, two nmnngor*, nnd usually tlio service* of an accomplished surgoon. Ine ball Is a combination of cast iron and India rubber nearly n* henl ns a cannon ball, nml propollod ns rapidly. To occuuy tho grand stand of nlwsoimll jwirk is n dniigoreus pro- ■ irs take tho ball and same time,” At tho end of tlio fourteenth week the rec ord of tlio liongno clubs in tho championship race was i Cluhi. Won. f-0«f. I Club.. Won. ho.l Poston DO to I aiiugo... M M Providence «o to Cleveland « « lnifbilo <0 S7 PhlUdelphl* to to Now York <0 29 | Detroit IT 0i The record of tlio twelvo Associations chili* np to the 1st win: Club.. Won. I.o.t. I Club., Won. hotb Metropolitan,4T 1«) Baltimore....11 JJ Louisville... .42 to | Brooklyn 94 M Columbus — 49 19 olcdo 91 41 Cincinnati....49 to I Allegheny....to 49 ht loot* 89 to | Indianapolis.*4 Athlrt"o......M to I Wa.lilngton,,l9 to In the Eastern Iaaiguo the record was a* fol low*! Club.. Won. I.O.U I Club.. Won. Wilmington....41 H Virginia to 93 Acttvo 94 111 Nownrk 99 9T Trontop ,..99 99 I Allentown... . .18 to In the Union nssodtitlpn rnc* the HU Loula tonm hold tlio winning lend, tho Bnltlmores boing socond, and tho Bostons third. Cooding, while tho nlayors take thoir Uvos in their hands at tho A despatch from 8uakim says: “Tho friend ly tribes on tho mainland, near Agig, havo beon massaored. Five hundred persons wore killed. Seventeen thousand rebels are around Buakim and make nightiv attacks upon tho town, coming within short range of the garri son. The sailors and marines landed, but the rebels fearlessly danced and waved their spears in broad davlight within two miles of the fort.” A letter from General Gordon, dated June 11, emphasizes the necessity of his remaining to proteot Kassala. He says that his soldiers are in good spirits and are only waiting the rising of the Nilo to destroy the rebels. A merchant who left Kassala on Juno 21 says beforo starting he read a letter from Gen. Gordon to tho Mudir of Kassala, dated June 11. Aooording to this Gen. Gordon was safe and had abundant supplies of provisions and ammunition. He was snort of money, however, and was raising funds bv issuing bonds. He was hemmed in on all sides by rebels. As soon as the Nile rose his intention was to equip steamers. At Kassala, the merchant says, there were supplies of pro visions sufficient to last five mouths. The population at Kaddarif have joined the Mahdi. Tho inhabitants of Dongoia, through tho Mudir, have sent a dispatch to tho General commanding at Assouan, declaring their loy alty and expressing regret for their wavering in tho past. Tlio tolegram is rogftrded as a proof that the Muhdi’s influence is waning. An Arab trader who has arrived at Assouan /rom Amarar says it was reported there that Osiuan Digma was killed on July 18 by a mem ber of tho BiBharoen tribe, whose nephew Os man stabbed because he refused to join tho rebels. RDM AND DEATH ON THK RAIL* Two Men Killed by u Locomotive—Two Arguments for tlie ProlilbltlonUt*. Tlio cast bound pnssenger train on tho West ern North Carolina Railroad made an eventful trip Snnday, killing two men within a distanco of two miles. At Johnson’s ferry, near Asliovillo, there is a grog shop by the railroad track, and upon tho platform a white man named Levi Pressly was performing a shako down daneo as tho train approached. Tho goodly supply of mountain dew that Pressly had imbibed not onlv tangled bis feet, but muddled his brain, and when ho saw liiB mule, which was tied on the opposite side of tho track, get frightened at the approaching train ho started to jump acrodH the track to catch tho animal. Ho gavo a bound, and in the midst of his leap the engine struck and knocked him for ward. Ho fell in a field fifty feet distant. He was mashed to a pulp and evory bone in his body was broken. A bottlo of whisky fell from his pocket covered with blood, but the bottle was not oracked nor the whisky spilled. After tho remains had been picked up the train proceeded on its way and had not gone two miles bofore tho air brakes were ap plied and it was brought to a full stop. A pas senger stuck liis head out of a window and exclaimed, “Another man killed I” And he ho spoko truly. Tho second victim was namt4 Peter Fore. JTo had been lo Ashevillo on a spree and started to walk homo on the truck. Being overcome with whisky he foil with his body iu the ditch and his head directly across the rail. His head was ground and crushed so badly that tho particles could not be collect*^, Tlio body wus taken aboard with tho otl\e£ corpse and both wero PUt off at the next tjop for burial* In tlio Nortliwostern Ixiok 11 " race the dis bandment of the Bay City loam materially advanced tho Grand Rapids club, Saginaw lining second and Quincy third. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. Emma Aiibott, tlio Binder, lias bocome very ricn. An English lord is to go on tlie New York •togo next winter. i.’laHa LOOikb Km.boau bo* been dined in PuiIb by Mr*. Markity, Thk application of Mmo. Patti Vs. the Mar* quiii .1.3 Cmix for divorce will bo the first co*i trial under tlio now divorce law in Pori*. Ciihihtink Nilsson sny* that if Patti Is t® got f4,0U0 per night ill tills country uext soa- sou hor nervine* are cortniiily worth $3,0 4). Mils. LaNuthy’b unit season in America docs not Login until January 0. She will linve four now pieces snrt three nowKmrltth notor*. It is suggoHLed Hull Alice Uauj* uml Ed ward Hay would make a popular combina tion. Oates nml Hay would sustain tliu big gest sort of n team. Tna play culled "Shadow* of the lireat City," produced recently at MoVlcker’* thea tre, Chicago, Is understood to have been main ly the work of Mr. Joseph Jefferson,the actor, although Ills name doe* not appear in connec tion with it. It is now definitely settled thnt Mr. Abbey controls both Mine. Bernhardt nnd Miss Mary Anderson for this country. Both of them will lie brought ovor a year from the coming au tumn, and Mr. Abbey 1 * agents ore already en gaged in booking time oil over the country. MahIe RozH and Minnie Hauk have been in Paris listening to Heilbron in Massonettl "Manon Losenut.” Marie Rozo i*to give the opera ill English at London, and Minnie Hauk will sing it ni Herman at Vienna in the au tumn, and in English in this country next ycur. Thk Worcester (Mass.) Spu *ay» that Mrs Isabel Fassett, of Albany, who ha* met with marked succe** in oratorio in Europe, will Bing In a festival in Worcester. The state ment is made that she will sing nowhere else lit tliis country, but will return at anoe to Ea- ropo. Mias Mary Anderson says that *ho in tends to excel anything ever aone by Mr. Ir ving in the staging of "Borneo ana Juliet.* Blie has brought several sketches and plots for stage sets from Italy, and the scene paimers are row busily at work preparing for her fall campaign. Phivatk advices from Europe declare thnt Miss Emma Jucb and Mr. Theodore Thomas arc now In Bayreuth for the purpose of at tending the Wagnerian musical entertain- molds in that place. As soon as the object of their stay Is completed they propose to come buck to this country, bringing with them Mine. Materna and Fabbri, together with ■ number of other Important ringers, the pur pose boing to give Herman operate New York upon a grand scala NEWSY GLEANINGS. Maootsrhl, it Is said, aro r novor found south of Capo II attorns. \Nkarly 88,000,000 Imrrols of petroloum is sEonxl in tanks in Pomisylvnnin. Of Washington lifo it is wild that nearly everybody either Inxirds or keeps Imanlers. Fourteen foreign povomtnonts have so* cured spnoo in tho Now Orleans exposition. The iieach crop of Delaware is estimated to roach 10,000,600 baskets, tho largest sineo 1875. The Tennosse© mountains aro becoming fa?bionablo as a summer reeoi t among people in tlio South. Durino tho first six months of the current year tho Rum of $60,221,000 has Ixxm invested In new industries in tho Houtli. There aro 1.002 hotels in Switzerland, with 58,137 bods. There aro more English travel- el’s than of any other nationality. California promises to contribute 57.000.- 000 bushols to the 500,000,000 bushels of this country’s next estimated wheat crop. Cuban taxes for the current yoar amount to $M,000,000, while tho value of her sugar crop for tlio samo time is only $25,000,0 )0. The asse^ivl valuation of the real and per sonal estate in tho city of Philadelphia is $583,012,683, an Increnso of $12,128,420 over 1883. Virginia is to sot down this year for 2,100,“ 000 bushels of peanuts, Tennessee for 250,000, and North Carolina at 135,000 bushels. Accoruing to the returns for 1883, just issued, Micro wero in Ireland nt tho close of that year, 7,752 schools under tho jurisdiction of tho national oiueational eommhsion. Two Danes have’undertaken tho task of paddling, in a skin-covensl cauoo, from Alaska to Han Francisco, a distanco of alsnit 2,500 miles. The canoo is ninctoon feet long nml covered witli tho skin of sou lions. A year ago, Miss Knowles, a sixtoon-year- old girl of Deep River, Conn., was taken sick. On convalescing sho found that she could eat nothing hut milk and fruit, a singular diot, that, she has continue*! lo tho present tiino. Her hoalth at prooont is oxcollont. PROMINENT PEOPLE, Likutrnant Soiiwatka, the Arctic ox- plorer, Iioh roslgntsl from tlie nrmy. Conohkkkman Aiiham 8. Hkwitt, nf Now Yolk, ho* gimo nn a trip to England. riKRiiK LoniLLAttohn* built in Jersey City A library tor tlie iroo use of tlie 3,500 o|iora- II vea In hi* employ. Thomas Ewing Bukhman, tho eldest son of General Sherman, I" now one of tho sclinlnsUO brethren of tho society of Jesus nt Nushotali, Wis. The nowspaiwrs aro mont-imilng tho somo- what curious fact that Mr. Blaine was for a time a tenclior in a dnnf mute college,und Mi- Cleveland was n teacher in an asylum for tlio blind. Admiral CoorKn’H ling lion Is'en lowered at Porbmiontli Navy Yard, closing his bril liant official record. Admiral Luce sue- I of the North Atlantic Bant, official ciMMiod to the squadron. The Maori kdi^gavou •‘mvptloii”iwwitly at tho house l„. r. occupying in M<«>togu lines, London. Several well known litoiary and musical pwplo wore present, but tlio pro ceeding* could bnrdly Is' termed lively. Loud Uui'Kllrswnnn, of Victoria, is re ported to 1» ri her Ihsu W II. VaiKlerliUt, |To is well-til more than K'JxyWfOdO and .il* wealth is rapidly tiiemiKln ; lie Inherited « great estate Horn 111., father, including lull lions of cattle and sheep In Australia. Ills residence ill M lliounio is said to be til* most, magnificent in tho world. It cost $4,- 060,0J0. A table showing tho length of vendee In parliamont of tho most eminent English stutee- mon now living contains tho following figures Mr. Gladstone, flfty-ono years; l^ord Gran ville, forty-so von years; J/ord John Manners, forty years; tho Duko of Argyll anil Ixird Kimlierloy, ooeh thirty -sovon years: Lord Derby, thirty-six years; J/ord Salisbury, thirty-ono yours; Kir Stafford Nortlicote, twenty eight years; lx>rd Hartington, twenty- seven years and Mr. Childors, twenty-four yeanl Lord Granville has served tlio longest time in office, twenty-eight years ono month, and tlio longest in the Cabinet, twenty-on« years and two inontlm. Mr. Gladstone has boon in ofllea twonty-two years and ton faionths and in tlio cabinet twenty year* and bino montlis. THR ARCTIC HURVIVOKH. The Meeting llrtwern Urceln hlv Wile nnd Ilia Mother. FIGHTING FOR LIFE. Terrible Neenev at the Colllvlon of the GUon and Lnxhnm. The survivors of the British steamer Lax- ham, which oollided recently with the Spanish steamer Gijon, not far from Corunna, report that on the evening of tho collision there waH a thick fog. Tlie Laxham was going slow and both steamers were sounding their whistles. Tho Gijon struck tho Laxham amidship and tlio latter was nearly cut asunder. Tho funnel fell and tho steainpipe burst. Tho chief engi neer, in reversing tho engine, was horribly scalded. Most of the Laxham’s crew boarded tho Gijon. Captain Lothian tied his wlfo and child to himself and all three wero thus hauled aboard tho Gijon by a rope. The Laxham sank twenty minutes after the collision occurred. It was not long before tho Gijon began to scttlo. Torrible confusion prevailed on board. Tho Captain stood witli a revolver in his linnd, but he was unable to keep order. Tho passengers and crow woro fighting for thoir lives. Tho boats wero lowered and filled to tho gunwales but they could not ac commodate half the people. Those who were so fortunate as to secure places in them wero obliged to keep off others with knives. Tho Gijon sank bow first. The quarter deok was crowded with men and women, the oaptain and officers standing on tho bridge. It is esti mated that 130 persons perished. UNITED IN NCICIIIK. A sad double suicide of two beautiful young girls took placo near Gadeson, Ala., Tuesday night. Lucy and Texana Jones wero two lovely sisters, living in Etowah county, Ala. Their ages were seventeen and nineteen years. Their parents are well to do and they stood high in tho community and wero dashing ladies in the country so ciety. On Saturday last a young man who iiad been paying tho older sister devoted at tentions unexpectedly fled the country, and the girl seemed very despondent and suffering great mental agony. Blie was with her younger uistor constantly, and the latter offered her consolation and endeavored to lmoy her up. Tnosday the elder disclosed hor purpose of comu-’itting suicide, and repairing to the or chard hung herself to a large tree. No sooner had sl*> gone when the younger girl secluded herself r.n an upper room and hung herself with a shb et suspended from a coiling joist. Tlio (listjutted parents soon returned and found then/ two daughters cold iu doittU. It is feared they w*Ul Ipse their minds, * The Arotio survivors mot with a hearty re ception at Portsmouth. When the Beorotarv’s bargo was soon to leave tlio Tennessee with Mrs. Greely and her two brothers, G. O. and 0. A. Nesmuth, sitting in tho atom shoots. Commander Hchloy said to Lieut. Greely : “Lieutonaut, I would like to sco you in iny cabin for a few moments.” Commander Schley entertained Lieut. Greely in conversa tion about Arctic mattora until a peculiar signal was given, or a boatswain’s whistle to indicate that Mrs. Groely was on board and ready to meet her husband. Now tho lady trembled In every limb, her breath camo in gasps, and her wholo frame shook with emotion. With trembling steps sho wont to the cabin door, ana just at tho instant she entered. Commander Schley left tho room, leaving tho long separated couple alone. Lieutonaut Greely was sitting with his back to the door, but whon Commander Bchloy so abruptly left him, he turned and at the same instant saw his wife enter. With a loud cry that was more like a gigantic sob half smothered. Lieutenant Greely bounded from his chair with eyes gleaming in oy at tho sight thatgladdoncd them. Mrs.Greo- y, tall, dark, and stately, sprang forward to meet her husband, crying, “Arthur! Ar thur home!” After Mr. and Mrs. Greely had been alone for twenty minutes, her brothers were oallod in and cordially and tearfully grootod their broth er-in-law. It was noticoablo on board the Thetis that everybody shed tears when Mrs. Greely entered the cabin whore her husband was. , _ f , Late in the afternoon the mother of Lieut. Greely came from Newburyport, and was taken at once on board the Tennessee. Shortly after sho was put in tho Secre tary’s barge and taken on board the Thetis. When she arrived there Mr. and Mrs. Greely and the latter’s brothers were seated in Commander Schley’s cabin, al ternately crying and laughing, and embracing. An Instant bofore the Lieutenant’s mother entered the cabin, Commander Schley stoppod to the door and said: “Liou- tenant, your mother is hero.” Mrs. Greely then entered and throw hor arms around her son’s neck, saying only: “My son ! Mv son!” Lieutenant Greely spoko no word, save “Mother!" but in liis tono and expression there was a world ol' tenderness. Clasping his mother in liis arms the Lieutenant did nothing else but sob, whilo tho motlior cried like a child. Fearing the excitement would bo too much for Lieut. Greely’s shattered consti tution. Commander Schley entered tho cabin and wisely directed tho conversation into less •motional channels. The Mttle Black Wonder, Jny-Eyc-Nee, the King of ike Turf. Jay-Eyo-8ee, tho littlo black wonder of the West, circled the track of l’rovidoiico, It. I., on Friday, in 2:10 sharp, oxceiling all previous records by a quarter of a second. To warm him up ho went around the track in 2.22X* When tho word was given Jay-Eye-Sco was off liko a shot, and tho runner, who was sev eral hundred yards in tho rear, had a lively time catching up, but lapped Jay’s whoel at the three-eignths, and thoro ho hung, liis pres ence, of course, boing a continual incentive to the gamy littlo black to do bin best. The quar ter had been passed in 33% seconds, and at tlio half lho watches showed 1:05, remarkablo time. Still tho littlo horse trotted as square as a die, without lifting his nose, and without the whip being raised. Tho three-quarters was passed in 1:39, and then people began to be anxious. Would he be able to keep up the pace? Would ho break at tho turn V A thousand watches wero held in the palm, and six thousand pairs of eyes wero focused down the stretch. Still on and on ho aped, rounded tlie turn without a break, and dashed down tho homestretch like ftbluck streak of lightning. Just beforo he reached tho wire tho running horse swung out opposite, and its driver yelled. liitlicrB put the wliip lightly to the trotter, and lie went under the wire in 2:10—tho fastest tiino m tho world. Xite last quarter was done at tlio rate of 2;04. HCIIOOL TBACIIKRS. A very largo porcontago of Amorican states men started in lifo as school teachers. Wil liam II. Boward and Lyman Trumbull went South aa tutors. John Adams taught sohool while studying law. Jamea Madlaon’s laat of kin, Ida ncpliow’a daughters, woro tcaoliing school iu Virginia a fow years ago. Aaron Burr wna tlio son of tho first schoolmaster of rrincoton. John Quincy Adama taught at Harvard college. Andrew Jackson had a abort oxperionco aa school teacher in western North Carolina. Millard Fillmore was a school teacher and so woro Oarflold, Blaino and Clcvoland. I.KPIIOHY. Dr. 0. 0. O’Domioli, of Ban Francisco, who has nada a special aludy nf loproay, and makoa it tho haaia of ilia argument for tho ex pulsion of tlio Cliinoso from this country, arrived in Chicago Saturday and announcod that lie had two lepers on tho way anil would. exhibit them on tho lake front. Tlio health authorities warned him that it would not he permitted, and they wero not shown, lho doo- tor announcing that thoy had not arrived. IIo delivered a lecture and exhibited photograph* of persons afflicted with loproay. Ho says lie proposes to exhibit his lepers in tho prinoipsl eastern cities. Doubts aro expressed in some quarters about liis having any living lopert. NRKCIIIIIAI. IteHKONH. Occasionally when a sick mail is Informed that ho la suffering witli mercurial poisoning lie flics into a rage and calls Ida pliyatolan a tool. Ho lias never taken any meilicino con taining inorcury. How can lie, therefore, havo inorcury in Ids system? Tliis question is answered by tlio Medical llecord. It seema that looklug glasses aro largely responsible tor mercurial poisoning, In two instances whero a man and his wife wero tho 'victims, It is stated that tlio came of tho trouble was in a mirror hanging in tlio bed-room, tlio wooden back of which was dotted witli thousands of minute globules of mercury. Tlio apartment was heated during tlio night. In another in stance a mirror forty yeara old witli a weak back was tho canso of tlie mischief. When tlio mirrors wore removed lho sick people speo: ily rocovored. INDHHTHIAIj TRAINING. Tlio advocates of industrial training in tho schools insist that tlio 80 or 00 per cont of children who must entr .• upon somo sort of manual occupation as their life work shall come forth aawcll prepared for it as tho smaller per cent are prepared to pursuo lho intellect ual training wldohia to Jit them for tlie pro fessions. It is as noecasary for tlie mass of hoys to learn to handle tools as it is for a fow boys to learn how to handle a Latin noun or a Greek vorb. Handwork in the aoliools adds to s boy’s power. It trains ills eyo and hand, steadies his nerves and develops hia muscle snd Judgment. The hoys aro not mado lln- lriicd mechanics, but when they leave school they aro aa well prepared to enter a shop as to go into a counting-room or a oollego. II will not belong before tho pnblio echoois make in dustrial sdneation a part of their system. VKBNCII AND KNGI.H9H. A nowapaper man who has been studying the condition of tho Fronoli says that they live on cereals, whereas tho English live on meat. One pound of dry wheat or flour will go aa far as throe ponnda of most. If you fsed the aereala to eattle as they do In England, it will take eight pounds of grain to make a pound of meat. Ono aero of cerealH In Franoe will sup port live men, while it takes two sores of grate to support one steer, and In the end one msn cats the steer. Tho Frenchman bny millions of gallons of cotton-seed oil and eats it in his salads and sonps. Ho refines millions of gal ions and soils it back to America at two or throo dollars a gallon. Cotton-seed oil baa been found to bo better and cheaper than pea nut and olivo oil. Thoro is not a mouthful of meat or grease thrown sway In France, and a population of 100,000,000 can be enpported better in that conntry than a population of 15,000,000 oan be supported In England. is not known. Wells opened twenty-four years ago aro still ilowlng with undiminished press* tire, and aftor a well is apparently exhausted it ronows its flow aftor boing oleaned out. The natural gas burns with a pure rose color and gives out a great heat. It is bclioved that tho supply will never bo exhausted. It is entirely practicable to convey this gas in pipes for hnndrcdB of miles to supply manufactories with fuel, and tho probability is that before long it will be utilised on a large eoalo. TUB lilt Bit QUESTION. A thoughtful olwervcr who has studied the beer question in our cities does not agree with tho position taken by some people that the in troduction of lager beer baa reformed our drinking habits. To a certain extent it may b. tmo of young men and business men, but lk has lied the effect of increasing the drinking habit among the poor, and especially among tlio women. Deer is cheap, and it is moreover held up as a tomporanoe drink. Poor pcoplo with tho bines gradually get to drinking beer bccauso they find that it makes them oltlior Jolly or stupid. Later on thoy find that beer creates thirst, llioy drink two or throo glassos and want more. Almost before thoy know it they aro drank, and it is generally admitted that a beer drank is worse than any other kind. Ale is not so bad. After drinking four or flvo glasses of alo it becomes nauseating and a man baa to atop. It will lie a difficult matter to atop beer drinking. Pcoplo lniist that it Is not intoxicating t tliat it is good for tho health, and as tho offoct la stlmnlsting it is natural that povorty, mental depression and had health should lead poople to indulge in a bevorago which they havo been taught to re- ■' gnrd ns harmless. Tho bcor ovil is looming up ns tlie able-bodied brothor of tlio whisky evil. It is only nnothor direct road to drunkenness, disease and Jimjnms, and it Is time to show it up ill its true colors. A FRANT OF POISON* Five Persons Knt (Strychnine In Jen*—One llentl-THe Others In Grent Dnnaer. Mrs. Hoyle, wifo of a milkman.' koeps a boarding house at No. 417 Nortii Nineteenth street, l’liiladclpliia, Pa. Just before supper on Friday, Thomas Moran, ono nf her boarders, said lie was hungry. Mrs. Kolloy, tlio liouao- keejicr, was getting supper ready. Blio heard tlio young man’s remark, stoppod to tlio man tel, picked up a Imx of pills, and tossing It to him, said Jokingly, “If you aro hungry oat those.” Ho laughed and answered, "Indeed! onn cat them all.” He had chewed up four teen before ho asked any further questions, llo dared Mrs. Kelley to assist him at tho feaat of pills. Him took tho box and swallowed ten. Tlion Aiinio Kolloy, aged seventeen, not to bo outdono by the rest of tho party, swal lowed twenty. Then Bridget Boyle, aged forty-live, contributed to tlio general hilarity by innstirntiiig thirteen, and then Daniel Oar* lnglier, aged nineteen, wound up tlie piiar- niseeutleiil feast by taking the rest. Originally thoro lied lieon one hundred pills in that box, hut somo had beon taken prior to tills evening. Abont tliis time it occurred to somelssly to ask what they had been eating, but beforo any answo* was mad. evory mem nor of the family fell in convulsion*/ *, Mrs. Kelley and Gallagher dashed into tlm yard.' Ilioir distemper showed symptoms quite sim ilar to hydrophobia. Mrs. Boylo, Miss Kelley and Moran rolled about tlie dining room floor In great agony. Medical aid was at onoo summoned, and tho dreadful discovery was made that tho family hail eaten strychnine nllls, ono twon- tlotli of a grain each. One-naif a grain of tills poison will kill. Despite all tlio efforts of two physicians Miss Kelley died Iu Indescribable agony at half-past nino. Hor mother is not expected to llvo. Tlio others will probably recover. Moran’s life was saved by a prompt dose of salt and water administered by a policeman. Altogether it is a remarkable case. 1.1 VE TEfllPBRATRLY* As rules for temperate living are generally lntemperately noted upon by many pooplo, II is almost useless to make any health suggsa- tlons. Evory sonslblo man ought to know what la best for him in the matter of eating, drinking and exeroise, but when he does know he frequently acts in opposition to his Judg ment. Any excess will kill if persisted in. In tensity of montal effort has made many men famous and put them prematurely under the sod. Humboldt, Newton, Titian, Michael Angelo, Milton and Ooethe aro great names. They lived long because they took life easily, Itapliaol, Byron and Schiller were great men, but they burned their candles at both ends. They lived in a blazo and expired in a blazo. We must set our faces against excesses of si] kinds—excess of food, excessive drinking, oven of water, excessivo fatigue, excessive mental effort, excessive excitement—whether from worry, grief or pleasure, snd even exoesalve rest. The Judicious useof tho norYes, muscles, digestive powers and mental faoultles will keep a man from cither wearing out or rusting out. THE CIIOI.ERA AGAIN. The breeding place of cholera is the soil. Filthy soli under certain conditions of heat and moisture ferments in some peculiar way and tho virulent subHtanco in it multiplies a thousand fold and is carriod into wells and water courses and oven rises into tho atmos phere. There is always danger from well water in a time of cholera, and sometimes thoro is • risk of the feedors of a reservoir being tainted. Cholora is not always most destructive during its first year. In Italy in 1805 it carried off 13,000; it almoKt died out in tlio winter and spring, revived in the autumn of 18G0, appear ed to die out in tlio following winter, but in 1807 broko out so disastrously that 120,000 peo- plo died of it. Whilo wo cannot control heat and cold, lain and drought, there is ono thing wo can do. We can lieod Lord Palmerston's memorable reply to tho Free Church of Scot land when lie mot their suggestion of national fasting and prayor with tho counter suggest ion to “look to their drainB.” With a cholora visitation staring us iu tho face the scavenger looms up as tho biggest man in tlie community. If ho does hiB duty ho will stand like a stono wall between us and the plague. NATURAE GAS. Groat Interest has been exoited by the dis covery or vasi reservois of natural hydro carbon gas under a holt of territory extending from Lake Ontario southwestwardly to Pitts burg, Fa., and thenco through West Virginia, cast Koutucky, Tonnossoe, and probably north Alabama. In some of tho gas wells there is no sign of oil. That this gas will bo extensively used for illumination and for fuel in the future is generally conceded and oxteusivo prepara tions are now being mado in Pennsylvania to use i t for botli purposes. Ono thousand feet of gas is equivalent to four buaholfl of bitumi nous coal, pins the cost of labor saved in hand ling the coal and firing and getting rid of the furnace rofuso. Gas wells average 1,600 feot iu depth, and it costs from $3,000 to $6,000 to tlrlU and case one, The duration of the well TUB DYNAMITERS* The oonolnsion of the trial of John Daly, James Egan, and William MoDonnell in War wick resulted in a soeuo of most drsnuttlo in terest. MoDonnell. who pleaded guilty to th. ohargo of treasonable folony, wsa released on hail to appear at any time if called upon. James Egan was sentouoed to penal servitude for twonty years, and John Daly for life. After tlie verdlot Daly was asked whsthsr ho b&d anything to nrge why sentonoeshould net be passed upon him. Amid the breathless silouco Daly burst out Into so Impassioned apoueb. He arguod that nothing had been proved against him, oxcept that bo had borne an assumed name. Bnt the Quoon moved abont under an assumed name. Why had not ho as good a right? He asked for Justtco, not mercy. He was gratified that lie was on trial beforo Englishmen There was no clan-trap, as in Ireland. He was, lie said, guilty of treason and felony only aa every Irishman who dearly loved hu country, who prays for hor peace and would die for her freedom, is gmlty of tho same crimo. Like evory moinbor of libs raco ho was prepared to shed tho last drop of fits blood for Ireland. The remedy for tho hostility of tho Irish to the British Crown was not. ho said, in repression and prosecution. "Give ue," ho said, "our freedom and our own laws; give us onr own Parliament and onr own Oovernment I That, and that alone, will satisfy the heart of Ire land.” CHOPS IN TUB NORTHWEST. 45,000.000 Bushels .1 Wheal la Bllnaesala —300,000.000 Baskets of C.ra la lawa. The wheat orop of the Northwest, after sa- eaplng all the other perils, is rnnnlng the g auntlet of midsummer hailstorms. Beyond oubt a great deal of injury has been done within the past few days, bnt not so much rel atively as might be supposed, because the hailstorms are looal and of restrioted area. Oreator damage will probably be done by the smut which prevails in the sort wheat region of tho Hastings and Dako ta road and the rust along the Winona and Bt. Peters. Estimates of the yield aro rather premature, but statistical Agent Young, of Minnesota, finds an acreago of 2,757,218, and counts npon a total yield of 45,000,00(1 bushels in Minnesota. There is very little damage by the late storms—certainly not more than ono-fourlk of one per cent., so that the aggregate will hardly fall below 44,000,000 bushols. Oats, barley and rye aro also oxcol lont, and corn is as good as can be expected. Tho estimated yield of corn In Iowa, with favorablo weather, is 300,000,000 bushels; oats, 75,000,000 bushels; 'potatoes, 15,000,000 bush els, spring wheat, 35,000,000 bushels. Tho corn crop is the biggest ever known in the Stato. THE SIZE OF APPI.E DARRKI.S. War Between the Frnlt Grawere nnd FruU ilujereln Western New Vorlt. The moeting of fruit buyers of western New York, held in Lockport recently, at wldali they all decided aftor Oct. 1 to buy apples only when put up in barrels as largo nB flour barrels, lias Btirred up farmers. A defonsivo stop has boon taken by the farmers of Orleans and Niagara oounties, who are oireulating and signing tho following agreement: We, the undersigned, believing tho late ao- tion of tlio fruit buyors of Niagara and Orleans counties in regard to tho aizo of apple barrels, ill defiauce of the lawa of tho Stato of Nuw York regulating tlio size of the same, to bo both unwise and unjust to apple growers and ruinous to barrel manufacturers nnd persons who havo barrels on hand, do agree to pack"ur fruit for this season in tlie standard Now York barrel, viz., 16>£ inches hoad, 03 inohes bilge, 28)1 inohes stave, to hold not less than 100 quarts _ Th. French Defeated. Tho Louden Standard has a dispatch dated the Malagassy camp, Juno 27, saying 1,200 Frenoh troops attacked the Hovosat six o'clock on the morning of that date. The French force had mounted gonJarmerie, infantry and artillery, the hitter consisting of six field pieces and three mitrailleuses. The attack lasted three hours, when the Frenoh retired. The MaiagassyB behaved admirably, acting with perfeot coolness and firing steadily. The Attack wm not raneweth

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The Mercury. (Sandersville, Ga.) 1880-1???, August 12, 1884, Image 1