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SANDE&SVILLE, GA„ TUESDAY, OCTOBER T. 1884.
MUNICIPAL,
Manor,
W»r. GAM,AUER.
Aldermen.
Wji. Rawmnos,
A. M. Mayo,
IV. II. Lawson,
R. T. Walker,
Morris Happ.
Clerk and Treasurer,
G. W. II. Whitaker.
Mars/tall,
.1. E. WnonoN.
TOWN OH' THINNILLFI.
Mayor,
•oiin C. Harman.
Aldermen.
P. J. Pipkin,
J. F. Mehkkh on,
,1. N. Rogers,
W. J. Joyner.
Clerk.
8. II. Tt. Massey.
Mar r hill',
•I- C. I'lAMIl.TON.
E. S. LlNGMtDE, .
A11 ov ticy kt Law
ANDKRKV1LLH, GA.
&VANS & E.VAK8,
Attorneys At I^nw,
SANDEHSVILLE, OA.
R. I. HARRIS,
ATTORN KY at LAW,
HANDEllHYlLLE, OA.
Will practice m nil the Coiirta or the middle
circmt, ninl ip tl,o enmities surrounding
Wnhliiiiclo", Special nit on t ion given to cum-
mereml aw
?. H SAFFOLD,
Attorney at law,
KAiU>I dsVILLE, OA.
Will l.i-nrt co in nil tint Courts of tho Middle
«!'!. ' n * 'V Static* MirroundinK
• uii L’t n. special attention f ven to com*
nit i r t law.
c. c BROWN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
HnndertivlUe, Ga.
HINES & ROGERS,
Attorneys at Law,
SANDKRSVILLE, OA„
Will practice In tlo countlci of Washington.
JeqcrHon, Johnson, Emanuel and WilkitiNon,
*nd In tho U. W. Court* for the Bouthern Di»-
trlctof Georgia.
Will act mh uirenta In buying, eolJIng or
renting Rea) Estate.
Offioe on WmI aide of Public Bauer*
Oot 11-Lf
H. N. flOLLIFIELD,
Physician and Surgeon,
DandsrxrUls, Oa.
Dr. H. B. Hollifield,
■Ity of Maryland and returned home, now
offers hid professional services to the citizens
of Bandersvllle and vicinity. Office with
Dr. H. N Hollifleld, next door tolMrs. Bayne's
millinery store.
G. W H WHITAKER,
DENTIST,
Ssndersvllls, Oa.
TJCRMS CASH.
Office at lita Residence, on Harrla street.
DR. J. II. MAY,
SANDEHSVILLE, GA.
Offers his services to the citizens of Sanders-
'illc and adjacent country. Ail calls, day or
ni^ht, will bo promptly responded to. O’ffice
Jt his residence on Mrs. Pittman’s lot, corner
Rarris and Church streets. janl5-1884tf.
J. S. WOOD * BRO.,
G«1 Ct!iiissi#ii Menials,
SAVANNAH. HA.
No commission or other expenses charged
on consignments of V. T ool,
Highest market price guaranteed nt time of
»ale. sep2’81-ry
Savannah, Ga.
Ir conceded to be the most comfortable and
far the boat conducted Hotel in Savannah.
Rates, $2.00 Per Day,
M. L. HARNETT.
Machine Needles,
Oil and Shuttles,
F °B ALL KINDS OF MACHINES, for eale.
‘ WU1 also order purls of Machines
that get broken, for which new
pieces are wanted.
A. J. JEHNIGAN.
editorial notes.
av ,v v' r r ° r Vl tHn '" 0n WP*- appear
. . ar 7 lie Kmun( , whldl 110?ris » i( , s
i' ll ? dwithtli 0 remain, of soldiers.
Z drived fromtb*
and . „ "' lM ,hef0nn *laudanum
and paregoric. So, r , in
!oaWnhv"n r ^r’" , '' ,n "'' R, “I LablcB put
Mm d, ° f ' Wn ' vl ‘° foU ln
Invnntlnb.
'• Uxcrett, a cabinet maker an^ in-
nlor, of l'ldiadelphli, "h„ , 1!u) ^
, . 1 ' ' ,r ,,lir, - v dOfcnenl patents for mcclian-
rffr 1 "**' on an Invcn-
.cblliat, if imcc«anfiil, may oompleloly revo-
I..Hm,ia„ per,,, M „, lai , wnv (l . avel Thinls
nothing oi, 0 than the rednpllcatfon of steam
rower. Ho liaa designed a steamlmat which
by mcaiiaofaa.iooo.alon of paddles beneath
IP water, may attain „ speed of thirty knot.
, Hnnd l.nngungc.
U'-Op'o should M.V<ro (lie habit of
wore, awaking ami writing, „,d abandon, a.
arly aa > ,oaal ,l , . 1 ,„j, , 190 of slang words and
pmnrcs. Tho longer you put this off, the
moro diillciilt tho acquirement of correct Ian-
Kuage will lie j and if the golden age of youth.
U.o proper aoason for the acquisition of Ian-
8 "’f > ^ Paaaed in It* „ac, tho unfortunate
, ' m wllt n,0,t probably bo doomed to talk
Blang for life. You havo merely to use the
language which you road, Inatead of along
w . eh yon hear, to form a tasto in agreement
With tho boat speak™, and poet, in the conn,
try.
Sleep.
Men who arc tho faateat asleep when they
»re asleep, are tho widcat awako when tlioy aro
awake. Great workers must bo great restore.
I'.vorj nian who has ole, ka ln hli employ ought
to know what their sleeping habits aro. The
young man who is up till a, 3 anil 4 o’clock In
the morning, and muat put in Ida appcaranco
M tho bank or store at Oor 10 o’clock and work
all tho day, caunot repeat this process many
days without a oertaln shakinesa coming Into
Ills system, which ho will endeavor to atoady
by aomo delusive atlmulua. It la in this way
that many a young man begun ilia comae to
rntn. ne need not nocoasarlly havo been In
had company. Ho has IobI Ida aleep, and loe.
ing aloep la losing atrength and graoo.
The Ylrloua Character nr,he Tallow Candle,
The air of a room lighted by gas la heated
twenty times as much as if it wero lighted to
an equal catont by incandescent oloctric lamps.
When arc-lamps aro used, the comparison la
•till moro in favor of electricity. You will bo
surprised to know that ottr old friend the
tallow candle, end even tho wax cnndlo, la far
worso than gaa ln tho proportion c.f air vitia
ted and the heat produced ; and yon will be
disposod to dlobellero It. But tho fact is that,
no long as candle* were used, light was so ei-
permivo that wo were obliged to be'content
with little of it; ln foot, wo lived in a state
of send-dai knoss, and in this way wo oTaded
tho trouhlo. It is only sinco tho general in
troduction of gns and petroleum that we hare
found what an evil is.
A Hnperalltlon ol the Isle of Man.
A legend exists of tho Isle of Man to tho
effect that a fairy who exerted a baleful In
fluence over tho island was pursued by a
knight, and only escaped in a moment of ex-
tremo danger by aasumtag the appearance of a
wren. Io conacqncnce of this, on the spccilio
anniversary, tho islanders devoted their ener
gies to tho extirpation of the fairy, and the
wrens were pursued, pelted and fired at with
out moroy. Their feathers were presorvod
with great care, there being a anperstitions
belief that they possessed the peculiar charm
of preserving against drowning or from death
by Bhipwrock. Any fisherman going to sea
without such a safeguard was looked upon as
exceedingly foolhardy. Every year, after
Christinas Day, boys go about the Islo of Man
carrying a wren in a cage, suspended upon a
pole, and tlioy pluok out hor foathera and pre
sent ono to every liberally minded poraon who
pays them for their song.
A Gum Game.
The finest grades of crude rubber come from
Para, the tree, being tapped and tho asp gath
ered by moans of paddles which are dipped in
the tub of sap and held over a smoky tiro that
tho coating may harden. This process is re
peated until a cake of gum ot the size and
shape ot a squash 1b formed when the paddle
Is cut ont and the lnmp is ready for market.
The scraps and droppings from this prooesa
aro carefully colleotod and sold aa an inferior
grado. American rubber manufacturers make
as much oomplaint of the rubber gatherers aa
English manufacturers of Amorloau cotton
packors, and oven with moro reason; for rub
ber being snob an expensive raw material
affords a groator profit to tho wily nativo, who
Increases his gains by stuffing the rubber
with stones, wood and dirt. Tlicse
adulterations are of course charged back from
nianufaclurcr to dealer and from dealer to im
porter, but the original offendor is seldom
reached.
’* IHInil as a flu,.”
“Blind as a bat" is an old saying so mnch
tlio roverse of fact that It is not easy to ex
plain linw it ever obtained curreuoy among
peoplo who had soon tho animal. Novorthe-
icss, bats aro not dependent Upon their eye
sight for a moans of getting about in Uicilark.
Tlioy are able to fly with great speed and ac
curacy, to avoid obstacles, and to enter small
boles without making tho loast mistake. Ex
periences havo shown that this singular power
of direction is due to a remarkablo dovelop-
opmant of the sense of toneb eipoeiaUy to bo
found in their great expanse of wing. Fur
ther, thoso animals possess largo ears and
curious nostrils, some Of which aro loaf-like
formations of the raoBt extraordinary descrip
tion. The skin growths aro all supposed to
havo roforenco to tho skill with wbioli the
eroaturos wing their way in the darkest caves.
Most bata feed on insects which they catoh on
tho wing; aomo of them eat fruit, and a few
enjoy a bad name because they suck the blood
of other animals. Of tho last aro tho so-called
vampire bats, respecting which it need to be
said that they fanned their victim with their
wings while they anckod its lifeblood, bat that
part of the talo le altogether fabolona.
The Wisdom anil Feollsbness ofDatblng.
Our modem habita have mado the bath
room a most importaat part of thehonae.
Every one bathes. Tho batli baa been so long
and so industriously trumpoted as a panacea
for almost everything that even those who
shiver after a cold bath or feel like fainting
after a warm one will regularly take either the
one or the other. He who does not take a
morning bath in these days scarcely dare own
to the fact, for lie feels that lie will bo regard
ed at once as v uncleanly person. Yet there
is no racesoiry connection between cleanliness
and total immeralon of the body for a greater
or less period. The batb, aa ««w understood.
Is, as ii well knoW’A to many physicians, too
rndo'k lYoatmont for many persons of a sensi
tive temporamout. It is not every organism
lhat can stand the chill of k plrtfige in cpli
water and tho shock o’f k aliowcr upon the
bvitd. if reaction Is swift, kb'A ail the organa
vf tho body aro ip good working order, cold
and shower bathe may ofton bo beneficial i bnt
If tho tono of tho system it low tho reaction
will not tako place and injury will result, tt
would bo well if we would trwnt nur kensatiotie
more and follow our wills less. When a person
does not ’Tcp) like’’ tailing a ilitb, ^-ot will
takolt, hois simply uslnf-fok will against liim-
Bclf.^ CleOnlM*'-*. cUn tio satisfied by washing
pOrtfoWhbt tho body separately so as not to
onill tho entire surfaee at onoe. In rt*’i
tho benefit of a cold bath cbWco trom tho re
action and most to secured by friction, fol-
lowed by active exertion, not by sitting or
Handing In currents of air.
Tht Alarming Inrrense af Dear Mules.
Throughout tho sessions of tho Bclonfo As
sociation, Oho of tho subjects that hAs como lip
most frequently has feech tlio Lest way of deal
ing Willi deal ihutes. An interesting disctis-
MUh oh tlio subject took place in tlio section on
Wlth’rb’pology. Whetlior it is because “the
chief study of mankind is man,” this section
is always wsll attended, and, from tlio first,
moro ladies havo attended it than any other
section. Tho eliiof interest of tlio (leaf mute
discussion was the part taken ln It by Prof,
A. Orahara Bell, the tclophono Inventor, whose
wife, aa la woll known, Is e dost mUto, end
was Instrumental, It II laid, th Ms making the
discovery that hoe brought him famo and for-
tmio. Mrs. Bell, who la able U> toll all that ll
said by watching tho lips of tho speAkcrs, wal
present and sat hear her hnaband. Prof.
Bell’s father, Who has given the eabjoct con
siderable attention, and devisod a method by
which tho dnmb mav lie tanght to speak, was
also present. Prof. Beil la violently opposed
to tho existing arrangement concerning the
deaf And dhmbln this country, which makos
them a separate dais, and especially objects to
tlio oontinnal marriage of d6af mntes, which,
lie claims, will ovolre a raoe of deaf mutes ln
this oountry. In one family, he aaid, he had
fonnd ninety deaf mutee In fonr generations,
connected by blood or marriage. Of deaf
mntes forty per cent, merry, end with each
succeeding generation the tendenoy to the in
firmity (ncrcaaea. Of the forty-five per oent.
of deaf mutee who marry, eighty por cent,
marry deaf mutoe. To remedy the evil he
said we mnet separate the deaf mnte ea mnch
ns pnsslblo from the other deaf mates during
tlio time either he or ehe Is being educated.
Tlioy should not be eent to asylums; they
slionld 1>o taught English Instead of the elgn
lnngusgo. They should essoelete, during play
hours, with olilldren not similarly affectod,
and they should be taught here, as they ere ln
Germany, la enumerate artificially. Deaf
mulclsm, the speaker declared, la increasing
hero at an alarming rate.
LATE It NEWS
Isaac Newton, chief engineer of tho Now
York department of public works, committed
suiddo by cutting his throat with a razor.
Mr. Nowton is 1 oliovod to havo killed himself
in a fit of dosjxiudoncy caused by longsicknoss
and posuniary difficulties. Ho was tho chief
engineer on board tho Monitor nt tho time of
her ex)lobrated fight with the Morrimac.
Mrs. Nellie E. Huiuiakd, tho divorced
wifo of William Shepard, and tho daughter
of ex-Govomor Richard D. Hubbard, of Con’
necticut, has boon married privately to Clark
Smedloy, a Now Haven businrsi man. Mr.
and Mrs. Sm eel ley will dwell in Now Hnvom
whero her divorced husband, who it will be
remembered was her father’s coachman, with
whom kIio eloped a few years ngo, still lives.
The first marriage, which created a great
sensation, was an unhappy ono.
Mu. Blaine mado short speeches at soveral
agricultural fairs in Now York on his tour
westward. At Buffalo thoro was a largo pa
rade in his honor, njany campaign clubs from
surrounding towns participating.
A fire at Pittsburg, Penn., dostroyod Abel
Smith & Company’s extensive glass works, a
largo machiiio shop, five frame dwellings and
other property, causing an estimated loss of
$200,000.
From 75,000 to 100,000 poople wero reported
prosent at a Democratic demonstration in
Columbus, Ohio. Clubs from surrounding
towns participated in a torchlight parodo;
speeches were mado by Messrs. 1 lend ricks*
Bayard, Pendleton, Payne, Thurman, Car
lisle, Governor Iiondly and other Demo
erntie leaders, and a letter regretting his in
ability to be present was received from Gov
ernor Cleveland.
South Carolina Republicans, after u
stormy all night convention nt Columbin,
nominated a Stato ticket headed by D. T. Cor'
bin (white) for governor and D. A. Straker
(colored) for lieutenant-governor.
Tub bodies of two horso thiovos were dis.
covered susiiended from a tree on Poplar
river in Montana. This makes thirty-soven
thioves lynched by vigilante in that region
this season.
Hundreds of convicts were killed during n
sunguinary out break in tho jail at Mandalay*
tho capital of Burmuh.
The ravages of tho cholera aro again in’
creasing in Italy.
King Humhkrt, of Italy, has been com
plimented for his heroism in visiting tho
cholera-infcctod districts by tho president of
tho French republic.
General Diaz has been eloctod president
of Mexico for four years from December 1
next.
Three Pullman cars attached to a train
running between Toronto and Montreal left
tho track, broko from tho other cars and
tumbled thirty-five feet down an embank
ment, ttftor which they caught fire. Forty
or more i>ersons were injured, twenty of
them quite badly.
'The Newfoundland fisheri** this season
havo been a failuro, and the Labrador fishers
are starving.
—The cotton, peanut and late corn crops in
Virginia and North Carolina have been seri
ously injured by tho drought.
—It was learned that Rabbi Bilbciman mar
ried He-nrv C. Friedman to Sarah Scheuer. the
runaway daughter of the New York million-
naire, in the Metropolitan Hotel, in the pres-
mco of a few strangers.
—The steamahip Lord of the Isles, loaded
with tea, consigned to Moslo Bros,, arrived in
New York from Yokohama. On Aug. 23, off
Cape Guardafire, Africa, she rescued 306 per
sons from tho French tiansport Avyron, which
had Just been wrecked. 8bo lauded them at
Aden two days lator.
—Two little girls were held in Ottawa, Kan.,
for murder in killing their half brother, six
years old.
—Potatoes ahow a smaller acreago and mnch
lighter yield than last year in Now York State,
New England and Canada.
—The employment of a gang of Italian and
Hungarian laborers in Washington, D. C., has
caused much indignation among the resident
oolored laborers, and trouble is threatened.
Illnlnete Nworii ConfesMlou.
In the Blaine libel suit at Indianapolis, Mr
Blaine’s attorneys fileil the answers to tho in
terrogatories propounded by the SentineCa at
torneys on Sept. 5. The answers were em*
braced in full in Mir. Blaine’s letter to Mr.
Phelps, given elsewhere
NEWS SUMMARY
Vaatertt fottfule Klelse
Mirk Sadie Ixobinron, tho thirteon-vear-
old daughter of wealthy residents of couth
Framingham, Mass., has created A sensation
by secreting a valiso belonging to her mothei*
nncl containing sixty thousand dollaM’ WoHh
of jawehvy* poouVitieA find mttn©y. .Tile eirL
Who ft pimjr aha weighs nedrjy 200,, pounds,
Was ihiklfig prepl^aVions To oloi>c wIUlS
young; whpt^ she bad mpt clandestinely.
The valpnblGp were recovered.
, MR. Blaink’8 visit to Philadelphia wai
jnado tho occasion of a roeoption to him by
tho Union League club, and a torchlight pro
cession of uniformed Republican clubs, com
prising about 25,000 men.
, The total equalized valuo of real and per*
8onal property in New York State is returned
as $3,014,521,372.
At tho DolaWnre Democratic convention In
Dover Congressman Lore waa renominated
by acclamation, presidential blecfcoHi Werh
tftotien and Cleveland and Hendricks w«ro en
dorsed.
GENfeh^L jduTLKH’fl fdjiowera iniiaisaehu-
(totts, at ,tho Btuto convention of the “Poo
dle’s pajdyy’ hjBld in Worcester, nominated
McCalTerty for governor, and a
full Btute tickot. Iiloctors at largo wore also
chosen. After the convontion Butler ap-
I>enred and hold a reception and mado a
spcoch to tho delegates.
Mr. Newton is believed to have killed himself
in a fit of dospolldeiicy catishd by Ibng sickfiosa
and i>ocUniary difficulties. He wtte tho chief
engineer on board the Monitor at thb time df
hor celebrated fight ddth thb Merriinda
Mrs. Neli.ie E. HuruIrd. the divorcoti
wifottf William Shejwird. aud the daughter
of ox-GCvcrnor Richard I). Hubbard, or Coii-
nccticut, has bcctjjnarriod privately to Clark
~ ” ‘ vortbUslncAi man, Mr.
Smedloy, A Now ilav,
and Mrs. khnodloy Will dwell in Now Haven;
whore her divorced husband, who It will be
romoniberod wds her father s coachman, wita
whom she oIojhnI a few yonte ago, still livo*.
Tho first marriage, which created a great
sensation, was an unhappy one.
Mr. Blaine made short siiocchos at several
agricultural fairs in New York on his tour
westward. At Buffalo thero wna a largo j»a-
rado in his honor, many campaign clubs from
surrounding towns participating.
A fire at Pittsburg, Ponn., destroyed Abel
Smith & Company's oxtensivo glass works, a
largo machine shop, tlvo frame dwellings and
other property, causing an estimated loss of
DutiiEo a Hopublican flag raising at t'affc-
villo, Conn., tho flag-staff loll, killing Mrs.
Paul Tctrault and fatally Injuring unothoT
woman.
At tho annUnl session of the National Bi
ennial Conference of Unitarians, hold ln Sar
atoga, N. Y , thero wore present 2,000 persons
representing 212 churches and thirty-throe
conferences and associations. The session
lasted fivo day a
ttetitli and West*
Portland, Oregon, bus hud a disostrouil
fire, which destroyed a whole bldck, including
tho Esmond House, tho loading hotel in the
city. The total loss is about $125,000.
Tub Newcomb-BUchanan company, of
I/ouisvillo, Ky., the largest whisky house in
the country, hnc gone into bankruptcy. Two
years ago tho company fnilcd for $1,500,000.
By a ci llision between two froight trains
near Now Cambria, Mo., throe men were
killed aud two others fatally injured.
Fire dostroyod ten buildings in Eureka,
Nevada, including a hotel anil a bonk. Loss
about $75,(XX).
An important land transfer in New Maxi-
lias been mado to Now York partiea
through tho deiMirtmcnt of emigration of
tho Santa Fo Railway company. The grant
I way company. The grant
comprises 20,(XM acres, and thopurposo is to
found an Episcopal colony of Eastern people
in connection with which an oducation&l in
stitution will be established.
Texas straight-out Republicans hove put
a State ticket in tho field, headed by Judge
A. B. Norton for govornor.
Drought has seriously injured the cottoa.
rennut and other crops In large portions of
Virginia and North Carolina.
Two young girls— Cm rio and Bessie Water-
man, a^e<l twelve and fourteen years, daugh
ters of Jarncs Waterman, a farmer living near
Ottawa, Kansas—tied a rope around tho neck
of a half brother, six years old. dragged him
about and beat him with a stick until he waa
dead. The girls stated at the coroner’s in
quest that they hated the child aud wanted
him dead. They were held for murder.
From 75,000 to 100,(K)0 people wero reported
present at a Democratic demonstration in
Columbus, Ohio. Clubs from surrounding
towns participated in a torchlight parade;
speeches were made by Messrs. Hendricks,
Bayard, l’cudluton, I’ayno, Thurman. Car
lisle, Governor J loudly and other Demo
cratic leaders, and a letter regretting Ids in
ability to be prosent was received from Gov
ernor Cleveland.
South Carolina Republicans, after a
stormy all night convention nt Columbia,
nominated a Ktato ticket headed hy D. T. Cor
bin (white) for govornor and D. A. Straker
(colored) for lieutenant-governor.
The bodies of two horse thiovos were dis
covered susi>6ndod from a tree on Poplar
river in Montana. This mukes thirty-sevon
thieves lynched by vigil.mts in that region
this season.
Incendiarism is rampant at Cleveland,
Ohio, several attempts having been made
ever sinco thoyecont largo fires to burn down
sonic of the finest business blocks in tho city.
Miss C. I. Welton, a wealthy young lady
from Now York city, recently perished in a
snow storm while descending Long’s peak in
Colcrudo. Bhu wus frozen to deuLh.
{Simmons & Sewell, millers, of Virden,
111., have failed. Liabilities, $206,COO; assets.
$16,000.
Mr. Blaine was welcomed at Cleveland*
Ohio, by a largo torchlight narado, which ha
reviowod in company with Gonoral Logan.
iYnuliingtou.
Payments from tho treasury on account
of pensions during September wore $650,( 00.
Over $10,000,000 was paid out for pensions in
August.
The acting secretary of the treasury has
issued the ono hundred and thirty-first call
for tlio redemption of Ijonds. Tlio call Is for
$10,000,000 of the three por cent, loan of
18J*2.
Foreign*
The British war department has for warded
$500,000 in gold to Ceneru] Lord Wolsoloy to
defray expenses incidental to his expedition
to Khurtoum.
Suspension of warlike operations by tho
French troops in China is suid to bo duo to
Germany’s mediation. Li Hung Chang, tho
famous viceroy of Poe Chi Li, and leader pf
tho peace party in China, has been reinstated
in all the offices he formerly held.
King Humbert, of Italy, has been com-
plimontod for his heroism in visiting the
cholera-infcctod districts by the president of
tho French republic.
General Diaz has been elected president
of Mexico for four years from December 1
next
The decline of receipts ut the custom houses
of Italy,owing to the prevalonco of cholera,is
ettimated at $8,006,00a
A desperate conflict took place at. Bonn-
die, in tho province of Bnrabov, between
several of tho German inhabitants and Rus
sian peasants who were visiting tho annual
fair. During the row eleven persons were
killed, including one gendarme, and’ thirty
more were wounded.
A tremendous flood is reported from Bue
nos Ayres, South America Many lighters
foundorod and the shipping was extensively
damaged.
A disastrous conflagration hus occurred
at Zoitoun, in Syria. Tho bazar and 400
houses were consumed.
Hundreds of convicts were killed during a
sanguinary out break in the jail ut Mandalay,
the capital of Burmah.
The ravages of the cholera are again in-
reusing in Italy.
The damage done bv Wednesday’s cyclone
in Clear Lake and vicinity will reach fully
$25,000. Hardly a house remains unscathed.
Threo persous in the town were killed and at
least six others cannot survive the injuries
they sustained. The loss of grain to tho
farmorn is very severe, and many of them will
bo ruined-
THE CHOLHU SCOURGE
March or tlio Dreaded Pestilence
In Europe.
‘Total Nnmbflt; of Deaths Sinoe the
Outbreak,
A BpoelAl cqblo dispatch from London says
Hint up to midnight on Thuralny tho total
number of dentils ln Europe from tho cholora
since the outbreak In Toulon wns 14,133. Of
these Italy hud 7,974; France. 5,708, and
Spain, 300. Tho nctun! totals, says the
corre*|)ondent, may lie higher from
the two causes of ofilcinl cod*
OeatmeHt and bad report ing, hilt 1 hnvo
etory death tthich louud its way Into nrijj
hoport, local or gonerni. The rroviiKo of
NntJlea has now furnished nfcrq depths than
the whole ot Franco, tho total being 5,023>
of which only 800 or so bolong outside
tho city. Noxt In Italy comes Qonoa, with
033, two-thirds of which come from little
Spozla. Tho dlseaso hits now, howovon
got a firm grip on the city of Genoa, do-
splto the ridiculous cordon kept around
Hpezia to save the marble
city. To this barbarous measure, which lit-
chilly Scared and stilrvod tho, HpOzidns Into
the (liwitac, niny btj ascribed tlio fHghtfUl
mortality that has provallod there. A goii-
tjenmti Just arrived front Geneva tolls trio
the bark (lUnrtoni tliei-o are very dii-tt,
anil that tho epidemic is likely to lluvo
ninny Hundreds of .victims, Tlio Province
of Cunep has had 4<H deaths, half of thorn
■olng !h tl;o city of Uuscn, whirl! ltkowlsb
line been a martyr to a mcdin-vnl cordon.
I lie otlior provinces whirl] lmvo htul over 100
deaths nh> Bergamo, with 30fi; Mniwa Cnh
rnra, with 148; Pnnna, with 113; Turin, with
108, and Cntnpo Basso, with 101. In tho hut
threo the plague sooms now to have diod out,
but It Is raging in now fields. In all, 41 pro
vinces in Italy have boon infected.
An Italian friend of mine who Is n inendier
of a ltepubllean socloty in Italy tells
mo tho curious fnct that his latest circu
lars from headquarters annuunco ncvos-
slons by the hundred* from membership,
Including somo of tho licst mui in the
socloty, owing to tho admiration for the
king’s courage in visiting Nnplw. Tlio
(iaiil)ahiians from Milan who yolUnteored
to nurso tho sick at Naples, and wllo wear red
shirts, hnd are to a mail Hadlcal. Wore mot In
tlio slupts tho qtliet dny by Cardinal (San Fo-
e other dny , _
Heo. Tho. prelate, shook hands with nil of
them, and thanked them Warmly, Tills fact
lias done more for tho Dial Unification of Italy
than It is easy to beliovo.
lit Franco there are now twenty-tfiroo do-
pnrtmonts whore cases have been reported,
and nineteen that havo had deaths. The
stricken communities number 1£1T. Mar-
willies has had 1.788 deaths, Toulon, 981;
Arles, 383; Perpignan, lull; Aix, 103, nnil
(’/irr/LKsniilUV If MI Tim fnnliim t\f .Is
Carcassonne, lot). Tlio fonturo of tlio week
has boon the spread of tho dlsonso Into Bowdo-
imrtmonts—bicre, Gcrs and Contol—and its
anpoaranco in tlio norlheni suburbs of
Paris. Fivo different suburbs hnvo bail
deaths sinco tlio 1-ltli. The Klvor Bolno at
Cllchy aud Nt. Eonfs is in a horrililo state—so
bad. In fnct, that a ;mrty of scientist* who
made an examination yesbirday were mado
violently ill by tho stench. It will bo no innt-
tor for surprise if tlio genuine Aslntlc cholera
break* out thero and Invades tho Bollovillo
and Grenclle quarters ot Paris before mnny
days aro nnssnL
PROMINENT PEOPLE,
Fiuncis Mij ant v )m< boon holding tein-
porauca meetings in St. raid.
Dn. NonviN Giik.-n, pruildont of the UV-it-
•rn Union Telegraph company, Is a great
sugar oqlor.
Ex-Unitbd States Sknatoii Nesmith, of
Oregon, has bticomo insane anil lias boon
placisl in an asylum.
Mui.ky Hahsan. til- emperor of Morocco,
call rend and write, and is the only subscriber
to a newspaper in tile empire.
The International Forestry oxhibltion. at
Edinburgh, hns nwarded n gold medal of tlio
Hist class to Professor Riley,of tho Department
of Agriculture of Washington.
Uenerai. Pleasanton hns not abandoned
his “blue-glass" tlioory. Ho says lie lias
three-yonr-old colts roaro I under blue gluss
that nro as large os livo-yoar-olds raised on
Kentucky blue grass.
Noiidenhkjold, tlio famous Arctic ox-
B lorer, is said to bo anxious to try his luck in
tie South, nnd lias made plans for an expedi
tion to the South Polo. He is writing ids
experiences in tile Arctics.
Poor Carlotta, ox-ompross of Mexico,
spends only a few thousands a year in her
mad-house, nnd tho accumulated intorost of
her immense fortune hus become enormous.
Hor heirs will bo her brothers.
Alokhnon Charles Swinburne, tho
English poet, detests tobacco. “Jnnics the
First," ho said recently, “was a knave, a ty
rant, a fool, a liar, n coward, but I love lilin.
1 worship him because lie slit tlio throat of
thnt blackguard Raleigh, who Invented this
flrthy smoking.”
Eijward Kino thus writes from Paris of
two noted men: “Victor Hugo and Marshal
von Moltko wore both at Kaggatz in Switzer
land recently. I tldnk it would lie difficult
to Hud in America two such vigorous old men
of eighty as the famous Prussian general nnd
tho celebrated French poet. Nolthorof thorn
seem to have any intention of dying for tho
next quarter of a century.
"Oklahoma” Payne, tlio man who lias
mado himself notorious by his Incursions Into
tlio Indian Territory, is doscribod ns an ordi
nary-looking man, who jioscsses n strong mag
netic influence over his followoin. Ho Ts
about six fiat high, sttongly built, wears a
moustocho and full chin board, Is of dark
complexion and lias dark eyes. Cnptrln
Pavno sneaks with rnnrsn flimnr*v nt>.i
Payno s;leaks with conrso fluency, ami am
peals to tlie'passions lo accomplish ids ends.
Senator Wade Haui-ton stands ut tho
bead of the sportsmen of the United stales
Senate. His sjiecialty Is fishing, and In- is
said to lie ono of the best nmatour fishermen
'll tlio United States. Tho Into Senator An
thony w-ns also a capital fldicrmnn. Senator
Vest loves to hunt and fish, whilo Senator
Beck lias hunted everywhere wortli mention
ing in tlio United Stalos and Scotland. Like
his prospective colleague, Mr. Blackburn, lie
is passionately fond of good horses
NEWSY GLEANINGS.
It is said that only ono small herd of buffalo
remain in Texas.
It cost fifty million dollars to pick last
year’s cotton crop.
Mexico owes English creditors $60,000,000
and Americans $20,00:),(XX).
Thirteen States have labor bureaus. Mas-
ncliusetts set the example in 1860.
In some parts of Kansas grain remains un
harvested for want of the nocessary laborers.
One gold mine in Utah has never ;evicd an
assessment, and has paid $5,00J,000 in divi
dends.
Indiana employs 5,400 men and $2,000,000
in getting 2,500,000 tons of coal of 206 mines
yearly.
From one squirrel killed by O. W. Fleckler,
near .Santa Cruz, Cal., 891 kernels of wheat
were taken.
A VISIT TO A JAIL, .
Four PrikonerN Taken Out by a lflof
and Lyn.liedi
A special dispatch from Brookhaven, Miss,
says that 11 a mob of forty men visited the
Franklin county jail, overpowered the jailer
and took out four nogro prisoners and
lynched them to trees in tho court house
yard. Opo was charged with an at
tempted assault Qn a white girl, two with the
murder of other negroes and the other with
arson and robbery. Four other prisoners
were in jail at the time—one charged with
criminal assault, tho others with arson—but
~J le y wore unmolested. The mob informed
tho juilor that unless the circuit judge cleaned
out the jail this term they would return and
make a clean sweep. 'I ho affair is greatly
deprecated by a largo majority of the citi-
zen * 2* county, where six men havo been
sacrificed by Judge Lynch in eighteen months
TEtS NEVS.
TKI.RGRAPIIIO HKPORTB OV WHAT M
TKANMPIHING OP IMPORTANCE IN
T1I1M COUNTRY AND BI.SKWHIU.
—The nsttte of ex-8ocroi*ry McCulloch 1*
how mentioned m tho sfichessffr of tlio lata
Secretary Folgef.
—Tlio monument to General Reynolds waa
tinTeliad with beoomlng oeremonics at Phil
adelphia. , , , j. i, .
—A marshal, whilo sorvlng a ilUpoflscw war
rant in Albany, N. Y.. waa killed by tho wife of
tho tenant by being thrown over the banutora.
-It is stated on authority that Postmaster
General Gresham will be appointed Judge of
Circuit Court, to tuccocd
tho United Htatea
Judge Drummond, wlio baa tendered hi* resig
nation.
Thq Italian government will bring In •
bill to dbolloii the slum* of Naploa.
—General Gordon tolegrajflif to tho Khedive
ami Hir Evelyn Baring that lio expect* 30.000
Tnrkt.li troops a( Kliuftonm and want* money.
He had sent a fettering jforoe to
^ Berber, and
ordered tho town to lie burned.
—Two men engaged In repairing a tower in
Pittsburg were suffocated by gas.
—Tlio stookhnlders of the Northern Railroad
declared a division of the (1,590,000 mirplua
accumulated by tho road.
—A Hebrew girl of ninoteen, falling to pasa
her examination in New York city recently,
wrote to bor parents that the oould no longer
beer to seo them slave for her, and disap
peared. She was found working aa a servant
girl In a family in that all/,
—-Tlrb finding of » naval oottrt of inquiry
lh*t all the blame fot Sinking the Tatlapooaa
lice with tho master of the schoohof has been
dpprpvod by the Naty Department.
, —Three iteamlioat*. Including the relief boat
Lily, wore huriied at Oinoihnatl, one ih Boston
harbor and another in Delaware fiver. At the
latter flro ono life waa iosi
—A new vault io hold fifty million ailrer dol
lars lias boon Completed In tlio TtoaaUry build
ing at Washington.
—Tlio dlroovory of the. body of jamee Waln-
wriglit, pierced with shot, ln a orook among
tho woods near Tom’* River, N. J., led to the
arrest of a prominent resident of the Tillage,
anil also of scvoral members of hla family,
—Fonr lnoendlary fire* wero started tn Cleve
land. Two of thorn caused great damage.
—At Stamford, Conn., a gang of about sixty
boys, organized for pnrposoa of petty tliofta,
etc., lias been discovered and some of the
members arrested.
—A Spanish sergeant and aeven privates on
the northeastern frontier of Spam do-erted
from tlielr poll Tuesday ami. taking tho
treasure ohosl of tholr roglntoni with thorn,
crossed into France. Shunting "tire Zorllla/’
They Were placed under arrest and deprived
ot their arma.
—Lord Lyolts, the English Amhaaaador to
France, has msdo an appeal to tho Frenoli
government for work for the suffering work
men of Pai ls.
-Preparations aro golhg on for a general
Uprising ln Cuba during (he oomlng winter.
Tlio negroes will bo urged to loin th. Insurrec
tionists, and that portion of tlio programme
most concerns tlio government of the island.
—Twonty-ono persons have been arrested ln
Vtouiia as anarchists.
—The Now York clothing trade waa startled
by tlio failure of Rlndskopf Brothers It Co.,
wholesalers, with preferences for over (HUH,-
000. Tlio house suspendod to proteot ba
friends. Orerprodnotlon is said to be tl*
cause of the failuro.
—Mrs. Moroalnl’s recent Illness was duo to
threo attempts at aulolda. She lias gone
■broad with her two daughters. Victoria will
go upon the stage and Ernest will become a
Cathnllo.
—W. H. Payne’s flour mill In Ifsrlem, N Y.,
ra* burned down. The Ism la (40.000.
—A tromondons flood Is reported from
Bnenos Ayres.
—Military movements have ceased ln China
pending rumored German mediation.
—Thomas A. Fawcett, a private banker of
London, Ontario, lias failed. His liabilities,
at a rough guens, aro (8(10,000 or (900,000.
—A disastrous conflagration lias occurred at
Zeitoun, in Hyria. Tho biizsar and 400 houses
were consumed. Tlio fire lias occasioned much
Buffering among tlio residents of tho town.
—A dri.porato conflict took placo at Ronndlc,
in tho provinco of Haratov, hotwoen soveral
of tho German inhabitants and Russian peas
ants who were visiting tho annual fair. Dur
ing tlio uioloo eleven persons wero killed, in
cluding one gendarme, and thirty more were
wounded
t —As many aa 4,600 of tlio Frenoli troops ln
Tonquin nro reported Bick, and it la assertoil
also ihut tlio Chili'so troops havo spread ovor
the northern portion of tho province ef Quany
You, in northeastern Tonquin, where they are
levying contributions upon the inhabitants.
—A gang of plckpockots who had worked
tho fair grounds at Worcester, Mass., took
E asssgn on the same tram with James G.
Union and robbed tho crowds gatliored nt tho
stations on tho route to greet tlio Republican
candidate.
—Lively oarthquake shocks were oxporloncsd
in Iowa. Indiana, Ohio and Michigan on Fri
day. No damage is reported, bnt there wan
considerable alarm.
—A husband wna killed by a Jealous wifo
near Clearfield, Pa,
■Many lodges of the oath-bound Molly
Magniros exist in tho Pennsylvania coal dis
tricts, whore tho Jives of prominent citizens
aro threatened. Tho murder of one Hun
garian and fatal wounding of another aro
charged npon theso Mollies.
—A Virginia huntor shot and killod a boy
who refused to oarry a beor keg for him.
—Two men were killed at Ashland, Pa., by
being accidentally thrown down a colliery
■haft
Tns British gunlioat Wasp has boon
wrecked off 'Tory island, on tlio northwest
coast of Ireland, Fifty-two of the men on
board were drowned. Among tills ntimbnr
all the officers were included. Only six |»r-
eons were saved. On tlio rocky coast whero
the disaster occurred it wns imjMissibie to uso
small bout*in tlio attempt to rescue the ship's
crow. The Wasp had a registered tonnage of
4U5 tons and carried four guns.
Gillie Leigh, n member of the British
pnrjiainciit, lost Ids life in Montana ny
fulling over a precipice.
Six vessels wore lost on tlio Labrador coast
during a recent easterly gale. In Dm Wlii'e
Bay district tluoo thousand persons are starv
ing.
Two Paris editors have fought a duel, one
receiving a wound ill tho arm.
--Tho Gormans are sending corvettes to th"
west coast of Africa to protect thoir in tcrosta
—A Varna correspondent says that all the
Powers aro now united in resisting the offorta
of Turkey to emancipate herself from inter
national eontroi.
—Tho Belgian Education bill has boon pub
lished bearing the royal assent.
—Thoro have been oleotion riots at Agram.
—Theodore Ronlean, aged eighteen, and
nortense Paro, aged slxtoon, botli French
CauadiaiiB, while walking homo from a ball at
Rochester, N. H., Tuesday night, were over
taken by a thunder storm and both struck by
lightning, ltouleau was instantly killed. Miss
Paro's hair, ono arm and band wore badly
burned, and she bat iost hor reason, wldoh, it
is fearod, will not be restored.
—The president and secretary of tho New-
comb-Uuchanan Distilling Company, of Louis
ville, Ky., aro said to havo fled, and extensive
frauds by means of duplicated warehouse re
ceipts havo boon discovered,
—The Logan National Bank of Wost Lib
erty, Ohio, lias closed its doors.
—In tlio White Bay district, Labrador, threo
thousand pereonB aro starving. Commander
French, of the war ship Olorido, and passing
vessels rendered temporary assistance, and
Commander Frenoli lias forwarded a strong
appeal for aid to the Newfoundland govern
ment.
—Two mon wero liangod for murder in
Pennsylvania on Tuesday.
—Tho total and equalized value of real und
personal property in New York State is re
lumed os over throe billion dollar*.
Peace In Furore.
A Berlin correspondent leiegraphB as fol
lows: I hear from tho best source that whi n,
at their last meeting, the Czar, Kaiser and
Emperor Btood together the Czarina said to
Frinco Bismarck: “Could not we be always
so. Would it not bring happiness to tne
world?” Prince Bismarck ropnoU: “As long
as I am Chancellor it will remain so, and when
it cannot be «o it will be my time for giving
in."
NUMBER 25.
„(lJ(yw YMV
BMisrs Tiro KsnoiNos.
He Anya he W*» Secretly Mnrrled In 1(00.
n«t Onnhtlnw the Validity cf the (In*
emany hnu It llenented,
Tlio Hon. William Walter Phelps gives lo the
f iublio the following private letter addressed
o him by Mr. Jamce O. Blaino:
Auocbta, Sept. 0,1884.
Mt Dear Mn. Pitr.t.rs: I have your favor of
tho 4th advising me lhat "the continuous in
vention «tid wjdo simulation of evil reports
render It advlsaliio (Iff yotir Judgment) not to
wait tho slow procosB of the law, tint to spoak
directly to the publlo In my own vindication.”
In tiiia Opinion mnny others on wlioeo Judg
ment I rely oontfff. f, shrink inallnctlrely
i, although 1 feel suYJ I
from tho suggestion, _
could strengthen tho confidence of all Who feel
friendly to mo by bringing to viow tho simple
thread of truth whloli is concealed ln tills end
less tlssno of falsehood. Yon can inmgino how
inexpressibly painful it must ho to discuss
one's domeslto life ln the press, although I
think with you that under tlio circumstance* I
could count upon tlio generosity of the
public 10 Justify a statement which ollierwlsa
might seem object to liable. I can, In any
event, safely onmmit tho f.ltft to yon for per
sonal communication to those friondn who have
taktm n dcMoato and so considerate nil Interest
in my affairl Tho leisure hours of to-day,
when our tampaign is ctided and wo wait only
for tlio oleotion, give* me tlio opportunity for
this prompt roply and for tho following e«w«-
tlal details!
At Georgetown, Kj., In tlio spring of 1818,
when I was hut 18 years of age, I first mot tlio
lady who fur moro than 34 years lias been my
wife. Our acquaintance resulted at tlio Olid of
six months In an engagement, which, without
tho prospoct of speedy marriago, wo naturally
sought to hoop to oursolvos. Two years laior,
In the spring of' 1860, when I was maturing
plans tn Icsvo my profession in Kentucky and
establish rriyscM elsewhere, I was suddenly
summoned in Fenfisylrafita hy tho deatli of
my father. It being vorj doubtfnl if I conld
return to Kcntuoky, I was throstonod wllli an
indefinite separation from her who possessed
my entire derh'tiftn.
My ono wish was to Seen Vo her to ifivself by
su iiidlssnlubiu tlo against over? pomlblo con
tingency in life, and, on tlio SOtli day of Juno,
I860, just prior to my doparturo from Ken
tucky, wo word, fn tlio presunco of clvisen and
trusted friends, united by What I know was, In
my nativo Btato of I’ennyslvaftla, a perfectly
legal form of marriage. Cn reaching home I
found that my family, and especially my
bereaved mother, strongly discountenanced
my Imslnoss plans, mi tnvolylnir too long a
separation from homo and kindred, I com
plied with hor wish that I should resUtne, at
least for a tlmo, my occupation in Kentucky,
whither I rottirnoil in tho latter part of August.
During the ensuing winter, lnducod by mis.
givings under now responsibilities—misgiving*
lions—I
which wsro Increased by legal oonsnltati
' ‘ ‘' a doubt might bo thrown
lieoatue alarmed lest
npon the validity of our marriage hy reason of
non-oompllaiioe with tlio law of tho Htato where
It had occurred—fur 1 had learned that the
laws of Kentuoky mado a license certifli d by
tlio Clark of the County Court, an liidlsiK'ir.
sable requisite of a legal marriago. After much
deliberation, and witli au anxious dnsiro to
guard in tlio moat effectual niannor ugalnst
any posslblo embarrassment resulting from our
positlon-for which 1 alono was responsible--
wo dcoldod that tho simplest and at tlio aamo
tlmo tho surost way waa to repair to Pennsyl
vania and havo another marriage service per-
formed.
This was done, in the proaonce of witnesses.
In the city of Pittsburg in tho month of
March, 1861, hut was not utlierwtso mado pub
lic for obvious reasons. It Waa solumnizad on
ly to secure an lndlspiitahlo validity, tho first
marriago being by my wifo and myself always
held sacred. At the mature age of 54 1 do not
defend tlio wisdom or prtidonoo of a secret
marriago suggested by the ardor and tho lnex-
porienco of youth, hut Us honor and Its purity
wore inviolate, aa I believed, ln tho sight of
Cod. and cannot bo mado to appear othorwiso
hy tho wioked devices of mon. It brought to
mo a companionship which has been my olilef
happiness from boyhood's yours to tills hour,
and has crowned me with whatovor of sucoess
I havo attained ln life.
My eldest child, a sou, was born in his grand
mother's house on tho 18th day of Juno, 1H5I,
ln tho oity of Augnsta, Mo., and died in hor
arms three years lator. HU ashes repose
In the oometery of his nativo olty, be
neath a stone which recorded his liamo and tlio
limits of his innocent lifo. That stone, which
has stood for slmost'an entire generation, lias
boon recently dofscod by brutal aud saod-
logious hands.
As a candidate for tho Presidency, I knew
that I should encounter many forma of calum
ny and porsonal defamation, bnt I oonfusB that
1 did not oxpoot to bo called upon to doroml
tlio name of a beloved and honored wife, who
1* a mother and a grandmother, nor did I ox-
peot that tho gravo of my little child would bo
cruelly desecrated. Agolnst such gross forms
of wrong tho law gives no adoquato redress,
and I know that In the end my most rffectii o
appeal against tho unspeakable outrages which
I resist mast bo to tlio noble manhood ami tlio
noble womanhood of Amerioa.
Your friend, very aiuccrcly,
Jambs G. Blaine.
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.
Macklin, tlio actor, playoff Shylock ut
ninety-five, and dieff nt 105.
The oldest actor living nwiffes in St. Louis
—N. M. Ludlow, eighty mjvoii.
The New York Actors’ fund has had
seventy-four funerals in four years.
Lai»y ushers *»t llaukin’s Third Avenue
Theatre, New York, have proved a success.
Tine mounting of M. Surdou’s now drama
at tho Torbe Haiut Martin, I'uris, will cost
upward of $(X>,(XX).
Mme. Magda Irsciiick will make a torn
of the United States this season, supported
by her own company.
M. Coquetin, tho elder, the eminent French
actor and dramatist, will take a four months’
vacation in America in 1885.
Verdi, now seventy-three, white-haired
and bearded, calmly stands on a column of
125 operas of his own comi>osing.
Owing to tho deatli of her father, Madam
Trebelli has resolved to postpone her return
to tho United States until October, 1885.
Emma Abbott has purchased a new opera
by the author and composer of “The Twelve
Jolly Bachelors.” It is called “Don Filibusto.”
Langtry has notified several American
managers to cancel her dates. They threaten
to make it warm for her if she returns to this
country.
Harry Dunman, the tenor, hns l>een en
gaged by Henry Irving for tho tinging parts
in the lutter’s repertoire. He joins the com
pany in Quebec.
Harry Courtaink, who was a few years
ago one of the most popular of young Ameri
can uctors, has been reduced by drink uutil
he is now a raggod beggar.
Mahsim, tho new tenor, wants his oxpensea
paid and $.20,000 u month to sing in the
United t'tatos. Moreover, ho stipulates that
he will sing.only eight times a month.
Dan Rice, tho once famous circus clown,
deliveraLwliat ho called a lecture in tho Ma
sonic Temple theatre in Louisville, Ky., on a
recent Sunday evening,in the course of which
ho displayed many of his clown tricks, sung a
comic song and danced a nogro break
down,
The audience was very small, ho far as the
traveling company could see in tho opera
house at Murcelomi, Mich., but a funny pas
sage in the play raised laughter, which evi
dently came from the outside, and on ilivesti-
f ation it was found that ladders uiroinmo-
at ing a hundred i>orsons lmd been placed at
the windows.
The first negro song ever sung before an
audience in a theatre was by an actor named
Herbert. He had been a cook in early lifo,
and was famous for his pot-pies; therefore ho
was famil.a-ly tallel “Pot-pie’ Herbert.
The song was entitled “ The Battle of Platts-
burg.” Herbert.made his first effort in Al
bany, N. Y. It was in tho year 1815. Ho
painted his face with black paint, tlio u se of
burnt cork boing unkn nvn at that time. 11a
sat in a chair before tho curtain.
A. Journalist Elopes with the Wife of no
Knirllxh Nobleman.
An English paper says that a \fl5ll-known
journalist, who is a corret-pondenfc of several
newspapers in America, has eloped with the
young wife of an Euglish nobleman. The de
tectives have tracked the fugitives to Brus
sels, hut the scent was lost in that oity, and it
is believed they have taken passage to tho
colonies. The lady is said to be one of tho
most beautiful women in Europe, and tho
elopement is considered very incomprehensible
by her relatives and friends The journalist is
old enough to be the father of the lady. The
names of the parties have pot yet been made
publlo,
SOUTHERN NOTES.
Paper peaoh-baskcls aro used in Maryland.
Watermelons six for a quarter at Canton,
Texas.
Three hundred Cubians arrivo at Kcj West
moutl^y.
A lot of horso stock left Ban Antonio for
Alaska lately.
Mississippi has tho third host State library
ln tho country.
A full grown cocoa nut tree will produce
sixty nuts annually.
Tho Louisiana rico crop aggregates 250,000
barrels tide year.
Virginia has shipped a lot of Jorsoy stock to
South America.
This year’s cotton crop in the South is fig.
tired at 6,700,000 bales.
An electric light company Is being organzlcij
at Blierman, Texas.
A Delaware farmer has plowed undor 40,000
horrings ns a fertilizer.
Tito ltomo, Oa., cotton factory will shortly
ho enlarged and improved.
A valuable mica mine has been discovered
four miles from Macon, Ga.
Boo keeping in South Florida is attracting
much attention from boo mon.
Immense quantities of charcoal are being
shipped from Stonow&U, Miss.
A fish canning and a guano factory are
talked of for Charlotto Harbor, Fla.
Largo bods of anthracite coal havo just been
discovered in Northern Mexioo.
Tlio Han Antonio driving park is being put
In flrsl-elasB slinpo for the fall race*.
A mini in l’ntnam oonnty, Fla., hat killed
sixty-eight alligators in ono wcok.
It is estimated that tho nut crop of th*
South tide year will lie worth (3,000,000.
Englishmen, residents of England, own 20,•
000,000 acres of land in tlio United States.
Virginia will this year harvost one million
ono huudiod thousand bUBhclt of poannts.
It is computed that the forests of Texas will
anpply the whoto country with timber for
years.
Plko county, Ark., will send a thousand
pound block of gypsum to tho World's Expo
sition.
Nearly a thousand barrels of cotton seed oil
wero shipped from Madison. Fla., during th*
year past.
The Atlantia Coast Canal, from Daytona to
St. Augustino, is oxpootod to be flniehed by
November.
Augnsta, Ga., lias gained in population 21,-
182 Hi nee 1870, 14,080 of whlon hie come ln
Blnco 1880.
A negro at Athens, Ga., bonnd ont his olilld
fur ono year to got money to go on an excur
sion with.
Island 10, below Memphis, where In ante
bellum days 5,000 men were stationed, has now
entirely disappeared. (
South Carolina tea, cured in a fruit evapo
rator, has been pronounoed by experts to b*
equal to Imported tons.
Apalachicola hopes soon to sconre hor for*
mer importance os a cotton shipping port.
Capitalists aro at work thore,
A palmetto factory for the manufacture of
palmetto into fibre for brushes ts soon to bv iu
operation In Sanford, Fla.
It Is estimated that ten million dollars worth
of grass is annually consumed by the prairie
dogH in Northern Texas.
A rcscut dlsoorery has been made of sn im
mense deposit of sulphnr, one hundred feet
thick, in Tom Orocn county, Texas.
An Anniston, Ala., paper reports that works
capable of turning out 125 locomotives a ye tr,
are to bo built at that plaoe.
Jack Daggart ran a base ball olub In Fort
Wurth until ho amassed (800 of collections,
and then was suddenly called away to other
fiolde of usefulness.
Grange peel Is now said to be collected,
dried in ovens, and sold for kindling wood.
It burns readily and with groat flerosnoss, aud
is safer then kcrosono, ,
A report comos from Brevard oonnty < (
sugar cano eighteen feet high, and weighing
as many pounds. And yet Florida Is lie;
known ob a sugar producing State.
A Ban Antonian aues a druggiet for (5,000
damagos for selling him s poisonous porous
plaster witli whloli he droeeod s wonnd and
poisoned his systom last March.
It is stated that a now company with a capi
tal of fivo hundred thousand dollars are guing
to open a new cool mine at Jollico near tho
Tennessee and Kcntuoky state line. ,
In Florida tho strong fibre of the leaves of a
species of cactus i» turned into rope, its Juice
into a pleasant beverage, and its trunk, after
tlio removal of the pith, into pails.
Over one hundred now buildings aro now
being erected in Oainesville, Fla., and two
hundred moro should bo in courso of erection
to supply tbo demand fer houses to rent.
Tom Green oounty, Texas, whioh le about
tho size of Massachusetts, though it has no
towns, has an assessed valuation of (5,000,000
and a population of GOO,000 sheep and cattle.
Many of tho best posted among our cattle
men say that comparatively few cattlo will ha
drivon out of Texas another year ; that tlioy
will bo shipped hy rail.
A Texarkana girl objected to being hugged
by a follow named Ivy, bccauso she said she
hoard that ivy .was poisonous and she didn't
want any of it climbing around her. .
The largo shops at Meridian, Miss., of the
New Orleans and Northeast Railroad, to ba
completed Sopt. l,jvill bo supplied with the'
latest machinery. Four hundred men are em
ployed upon it.
From 130 trees growing, on 1% acres of
land, W. W. Thompson, of Smithvillc, Ga.,
shipped 200 crates of LcConto pears; bosidcs
these forty bushels wero blown off by tbs
wind nnd not shipped.
The name of Lake Tnhopekaliga is Indian,
and was dorivod by them from tho immense
number of blackbirds from around tbo allures
of tho Jake at all soasons, and whose song re
sembles it in syllabio pronunciation.
Few cities in this country contain- so much
beauty within their limits aa Savannah, Ga.
Twenty-four parka, or equares, eaoli with sev
eral acres of tall trees and smooth lawns,
adorn different parts of tlio city, and give
breathing-places for tho inhabitants.
MR. FOLGER’S SUCCESSOR,
I'osluiriNler-Oi-ueral Circsliaill, Secre
tary of tlie Trea-ur;-.
1'ostinastor-Genoral Groshara received iv
telegram at 11. p. M., from the President, \vho :
hod been stopping tho past fortnight at Sec
retary Frolinghuysen’s home near Eoinet-
ville, N. J., inforinlnj him of his appoint
meat os secretary of he treasury. Judge
Gresham immediately qualified, and sont lo
the President his resignation as postmastor-
genoraL At 10 o’clock the next morning Mr.
Gresham went to the treasury departmc.’t
with Secretary Chandler. His appointment
from the President was given to him by Mr. O.
L. ITuden, assistant private secretary to the
President, and his commission by Third Assist-
a icaiuDiiu, uuu uu Luuiimaoiuu uj xuuu naniai-
ant Secretory of State A, A. Adee. The two
assistant secretaries of tho treasury, Messrs.
French and Coon, wej e preseno, and tenuered
him their congratulations. Tho now sec-e-
tary left in the afternoon to consult with the
President
Under tho law, First Assistant Post-
umstcr-Goneral Hatton bccarao acting post
master general for ton daya
Three Pullman cars attached to a train
cunning between Toronto und Montreal left
the track, broke from tho other car^ and
jumbled tnirty-flvo fesb down an embank
ment, ufter which thoy caught fire. Forty
m °ro persons were injured, tweuty ot
them quite badly,
