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MUNICIPAL,
Mayor.
Wm, Oallahbb,
Aldermen.
Wm. Rawlinob,
A. M. Mato,
W. H. Lawboit,
R. T. Walk**,
Morris Happ,
Clerk and Treasurer.
O. W. H. Wmitakb*.
Marshall.
J. E. Wkddo*.
OWN Old 'UICNNIUXiIO.
Tntcndant.
Joint 0. Harman.
Aldermen.
J. F. Mbrkison.
J. D. Franklin,
J. M. Brown.
J, R. Pritchard,
Clerk.
B. H. B, Mabbnt.
Marshall,
3. 0. Hamilton.
Jt. C. WRI8HT,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
105 Bay St., 8mnn»h, da.
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HARRIS A ANDERSON,
AttorneyN At Law,
RANDEIUJVILLE, QA.
Will practice in llio Middle Circuit, and In
11io counties surrounding Washington. Special
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SANDERSVILLE, QA:
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EVANS A EVANS,
Attorney* At I,aw,
BANDER8VILLE, oa.
F. H. SAFFOLD,
ATTORNEY AT I,AW,
BAHDERSVILLE, OA.
Will practice In all tlio Courta of tlio Middle
Circuit and in tho counties unrounding
Wfriiingt n. Hpocial attention given to coni-
nu re. il law.
c- c BROWN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
SandsisTlils, Oa. i
Will pracllceln lh« Mat.and Unltsd states
Courts. Ofllc. in Omrl-houss.
/. K. Hinxe.
O. U. Koasaa
HINES & ROGERS,
Attorneys at Law,
SANDERSVILLE, OA.,
Will practice lu vl»e oonntlea of Wauhlngton,
Jefferson, Johnson, Emanuel and Wllklnaon,
nud In (he U. H. Comm for theHouthern Dis
trict of Georgia.
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renting Real KM ate.
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VOLUME VI.
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SANUEttSVILLE, GA., TUESDAY, SEPTEMBERS, 1885.
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BASE BALL FACTS.
Thkhk is a movement on foot to place the
pitcher back live additional foot, bo on to aid
(icavy batting.
Evkhy basobnli gnmothatis played in Ma
con, (la., is witnessed by the prisoners in
tlio jail adjoining the grounds.
Tmk Indinm in Alliens, Calhoun county,
111., have a tmsoball nine, who play with
clubs in adjoining towns, appoaring in war
paint and (outliers.
Nkokssahy for the perpetuation of pro
fessional baseball: More e jual salnries:
teams more equal in strength; smaller salaries'
for playors so that small cities can support
them.
“You don’t know what a strike Is," wild
Burns, of tlio Baltimore dub, to Umpire Con
nolly, in a Hrookl.vn-Bnltimoro gatuo. “That
last ball was a strike, and to provo it I’ll just
line youf&V Wft>i the umpire’s response.
Tint league nines of Chicago, Philadelphia.
Boston and New York Imve each played
nn absolutely errorless game this season.
This means something under the rule classing
battery mishaps of any kind as errors.
Tiik Detroit club lias had seven pitch
ers, live catchers, two first basemen,
four second basemen, six third basemen, five
shortstops and ten outfielders;at different
times this season; has siient much money for
now material, and despite all is once more at
the foot of the league list.
A u a me nnd remarkable play was made in a
recent .Sandusky-Detroit game. Mulholland,
of l ho Sanduskys, in the fourth inning mndo
a jumping catch of a hot liner from MoQuery’s
bat and catching Wood and Thompson, who
ran on the hit, both at third base, executed
a triple play unassisted. A similar play was
made by tlio New Yorks in a recent game
with the Brovidonce nine.
The championship records up to recent date
i»ro as follows:
TUB NATIONAL LBAOU3.
iron. Lost. I iron. Lout.
Now York *»7 10 Boston H‘2 fi3
CliicAgo AT IS I St. bouts ‘27 fi7
I'liiliidolp :1a... .11 4S | Buffalo 33 63
Providence 4S 30 | Detroit W 57
AMERICA N ASSOCIATION.
St. bonis 64 27 I Athletic 41 49
Pittsburg 51 89 Brooklyn 40 48
clnciniHtl 52 40 | Baltimore 34 54
bouluvillo 47 45 | Metropolitan.- .29 60
EAST RUN LEAGUE.
Bridgeport 8 5 I Norfolk 33 43
Jersey City .. ... 9 27 | Trenton 40 80
Lancaster. 28 39 j Virginia GO 18
National 55 21 | Wilmington 5 82
Newark 81 43 |
Since our lust report the Bridgeport club
has boon added to the Eastern league.
BOVi'HRRN LEAGUE.
Atlanta 60 26 I Columbus 45
Augusta 52 34 Macon 46
Birmingham...17 71 | Memphis 39
Chattanooga...30 53 | Nashville.,,,.,68
No commission or other expenses chwrged
on consignments of Wool,
Highest markst price guaranteed at time o'
*’* »ep2'84-ly
sale.
Machine Needles,
Oil and Shuttles,
ro ? KINDS OF MACHINES, for salt,
1 order parU of Maohinea
that get broken, for whioh new
pieces are wanted.
-J- jehniqan.
DESTRUCTIVE STORE
Grent Damaaie Done by Halit,
Hall anil Lightning.
Mortified.—The Grand Jury ot
Coweta county, Fla., is "mortified to
find that tho sale of spiritous liquors in
our oounty has been far in exoess of the
ncoessary wants of the people for medi
cal purposes,” and it further asks the
Legislature to so amend the law that
"eaoh lioensed drnggist be required to
advertise once a month in a newspaper
published in the county the names of
all persons who prooured liquors during
the previous month, and the quantity
purohased by eaoh.
A Maood, Ga., man claims to have
invented a unioycle that may be pro
pelled at the rote of a mile and a half ■
minute.
All the relatives of ex-Vice-Pre»ident
Wheeler have died during the past ten
years.
Portions of New York and Penn
sylvania Suffer Heavily.
Great damage has boon done In portions of
New York and Pennsylvania by heavy storms
of wind, rain, hail and lightning. Details aro
given In Various dispatches as follows:
From Batavia, N. Y., comes the following
account: A destructive hailstorm,whose area
wns confined in width to about one mile, and
which extended across tho town from tlio
southwest to tho northeast, prevailed for
half an hour between 1 and 3 o’clock
this morning. The sky wns a fiery red, ami
boneath huge black clouds Wero driven by
tho wind. There was considerable thumb r
nnd lightning, and a heavy rain fell. Old
people Bay that more hailstones fell than
ever before in this locality. Tho storm
came from the South, ami on the south
sides of buildings hnlistonos wero found
thin morning in ridges six to eight
Inches deep, nnd where tho rain had
washed them into low plnces bushels of the
stones wero found. Whore tho storm was
heaviest the stonos covered many rods of
ground to an nvorngo depth of three inches.
Hailstones that had frozen together, forming
great chunks of ice, were exhibited. Home
of the chunks were nearly two feet long ami
eight inches square, and many of tho stonos
wero ns big uround ns n silver qunrter.
Panes of gloss were broken iu sev
eral houses, cornstalks wore nctunlly
cut down, plums wero knocked front tho
trees, and the skins of applet ami pears were
cut ns with a knife, (birdons wore ruined,
and flowering plants looked as if they Imd
been riddled with bullets. Grapevines wero
strimiod of foliage ami fruit, nnd unsecured
grain, not wholly dry from recent rains, was
injured beyond recovery. I ho damage will
amount to thousands of dollars Ouo house
was struck by lightning, but not much in*
jured.
A Hltarott Springs (N. Y.) dispatch says:
One of the most fearful rainstorms ovor ox*
neriencod In this soctiou occurred lost night.
Near Klchmondville and Hhnron Hill a
cloud burst Many buildings were removed
from their foundations, while others wero
toppled bocntHo tho water washed out
tho cellar wails. Tho mountain streams
wero swollen far over their banks,
swooping everything down tho valley, in
cluding considerable live stock nnd bridges.
The loss of bridges iu Hclioharlo county is
estimated at 12.1,000. David H. Smith’s
store was damaged $1,000. II. H. Lewis’s
barn wns destroyed, ids loss being $2,000.
A. B. Stevens’ machine shop was
damaged $1,000. Tho loss to
crops, esi>ecially hops, Is placed at $10,000.
Tho clouds coming together and bursting
mndo a report like an orirthqiiHke, and many
believe nn earthquake shock occurred simul
taneously with tlio break. No church was
hold in the county Inst night. The train on
tiie Middlobnrg ami Schoharie Valley rail
road was uunbln to run to-day because of a
washout near tho Buuck farm The wash
out damage linn boon nearly ropairo 1. Many
city hop pickers wore in tho county during
the storm, and they loft for homo this
morning.
Oswego (N. Y.) dispatch: A severe hail
storm visited the Nouthcrn part of Oswego
county and tho northern pnrt of Onondaga
county yesterday afternoon. The damage
is estimated at over $l(Hi,o K).
A telegram from Elmira, ’N. Y., says: A
Bovore hailstorm visited tlio village of Corn
ing, between 8 nnd fi o'clock la*t night Hail
stones ns largo as marbles fell, nud a large
quantity of tobacco was damagod.
Much damage was done to the crons and
roads near Albany by tho storm, which was
one of tho heaviest of the season. In Albany
2.17 Inches of rain foil in the twenty-four
hours.
ITEMS OF INTEREST,
THE NEWS.
Interesting H spinning* from ntl Fnlnts.
Til Elis aro thirteen Londons in this coun
try.
Hkkmn hotels aro using paper (macho)
plates.
California has an estimated colored
population of 7,500.
Wiggins, Jtho Canadian weather prophat,
predicts a very mild winter.
Electrical headlights aro now on the lo
comotives of a Western railroad.
A church in Dakota has gone Into the
fanning business in order to raise fundi.
It has boon figured out that 5,400,(XX),000
passengers wore carried by tho world’s rail
ways in IH82.
Tub State census of Now Jersey gives a
total population of 1,270,825, a not increase
sinco 1880 of 142,—
5,700.
No loss than 1,880,000 persons have visited
the International Inventor’s exhibition in
London sinco its o|>euing.
Home of tho gamblers driven out of Chica
go hnvo established their games in boats be
yond the city limits on the lake.
In Massachusetts 800,000 depositors have
$250,000,000 in tho savings banks. In Now
York tho savings institutions hold $375,000,-
000 of small deposits.
So many of the boys sent to West Point
prove unable to pass the examination for ad
mission that about fifty Congressional dis
tricts aro unrepresented.
Only about 150 pounds of each boef oni-
mnl is fit lor canning, hence to provide 3,0J0,-
0J l pounds of canned beef, or 600,000 cans,
would require 20,000 cattle.
Tiik false tooth of an elderly woman living
near Lognn. Ohio, became dislodged during
a severe spell of coughing, a day or two ago,
and slipped into her throut, choking her to
deatlu
Female prisoners have become so numer
ous in tho city jail at Pensacola, Fla., that
they have been placed in an Inclosure and
sot to breaking stone for street purposes to
pay their fines.
Lake Mistassini, Canada, is 250 mllos
east of James bay, which is the southern end
of Hudson bay. Aoeording to Bignell’s sur
vey it is about one-third larger than it ap
peal's on our mops.
According to the census recently taken
tho population of Dakota in round numbers
is 415,000, of which Houth Dakota claims
203,0 )0. Tho total number of farms in the
Territory is 80,000, varying in area from
(J.OOJ acres down.
DESPERATE ENC0DNTER,
F rom Johnson City. Texas, come tho de
tails of a terrible series of tragedies. A1
Locklo, an old citizen of extensive connec
tions was charged by his relatives
with numerous outrageous crimes.
Lockie the other aftornoon left home, in
tending, as he avowed, to go to John Greon’s
place to borrow some money. Green and
family were away. He entered tho house
and took Green’s rillo and returned to the
residence of his brother, Berry
Lockie. He then shot nnd killod Berry
and his (Berry’s) wife. John Nicholson,
a neighbor, rode up just then. He forced
Nicholson to go with him to Mr. Stokes’,
where he shot and killed Stokes. There
Nicholson was lost sight of. His borne was
tied there when found,nud it is supposed that
he was also killed. From there Lockie went
to his own house and shot and cut the throat
of Mil. Henry Lockie, of Llano oounty,
wife of his stepson, who wns ona visit to him.
He also shot and killed Mrs. Btokos, wife of
the Stokes whom ho had already killod. Then
he killed bis daughter. Lockie next at
tempted to kill his wife, but, his cartridges
being exhausted, he could not fire another
shot, and she escaped. He then cut his own
throat, mounted his horse, and started in the
direction of Johnson City. After riding a
few yards he inot Thomas Brunswick, whom
he attacked with a knife, inflicting fatal
wounds. The murderer then rode toward
Johnson City, but was arrested within two
miles of there. By those murders about
twenty children are left orphans.
A minor Instantly Hilled.
James McDermott, a miner, was instantly
killed at Stanton, Pa., coliery Saturday night
by being crushed between the cage and one of
the props. He had just flniBhndfhiB work and
was entering the cage to be noil ted when the
accident oocurred.
KAHTEItN AND MIDDLE STATES.
The oceanefoamship Ktraria has just inode
the fastest trip on record across tho Atlantic,
the run from Queonstown to Now York hav
ing been accomplished in six days, five hours
and thirty-ono minutes.
Thomas Smith, a farm laborer residing
near Itockaway, N. J., Wns shot dead by his
•on Ixkii in a quarrel over a game of doini-
noea
D. 8. Babcock, vice president and financial
manager of the New York, Providence and
Boston railroad, was killed by a train noar
Providence.
Ex-Treasurer Adams, of the Framing
ham (Mass.) Havings bank, whose accounts
had been made the subject of a special inves
tigation by a bAiik commissioner, committed
suicide on the 24th by cutting his throat with
a razor. Many irregularities in his accounts
had been discovered.
While a young New York lawyer, a per
sonal friend of General Grunt, was visiting
the flagship Tennessee, at Bar Harbor, Mo.,
a lieutenant on board Indulged In slnndorous
remarks concerning the dead commander,
file lawyer became very angry, and on his
return to shore immediately sent the slan
derer a challenge to fight n duel. The latter
declined on the ground that dueling is in
violation of navy regulations. Tho irate
gentleman then notified the ofHcor that he
would shoot him on sight unless ho accepted
the challenge. The lieutonnnt finally accopt-
od, but while the preliminaries wore being
arranged the admiral heard rumors of the
affair, and declined to permit tho lieutenant
to go ashore, thus frustrating the duel.
Joseph E. Bowen, the oldest master ma
son in the United States, died at his resi*
dence in Philadelphia the other afternoon.
He was ninety-four years old. and wns in
stalled the fit'st master of a lodge sixty-eight
years ago.
Ex-Governor Rruben E. Fenton died
suddenly of heart disease, on the 25th, at
Jamestown, N. Y. At the time of his death
ho was writing at his desk in the First Na
tional bank, of which ho was president,
Governor Fenton was born at Carroll, N. Y.,
in 1811), and in 1852 was elected ns a
Democrat to Congress, wns defeated
In 1854, but in 1850 was again elected, this
time as a Republican, which party he had
joined upon its organization in New
York In 1855. Ho remained in the House
In unbroken succession eight years
down to December, 1804, when no resigned.
In 1804 Mr. Fenton was elected
governor over Horatio Bevinour, and In 1800
was ro elected ovor Mr. Hoffman. He wn*
elected to the United States Henate in 1801),
and in 18?J joined the Liberal Republican
movement, supporting Mr. Greeley for Presi
dent After the expiration of his term ns
Benator in 1M75, Governor Fenton devoted
himself to business enterprises.
At a meeting of the New York Republican
Btate committee the convention for tho nom
inal ion of governor and other offices wns
failed to meet at Saratoga on .September 23,
two days b f. ro tho Democratic convention,
and in Hies uun hall.
Snow fell at liarvey Lake, Penn., on the
2flth of August
The Smiths of New Jersey met in their an
nual reunion at Pea|>ack, N. J. There were
about tlireo thousand of them together.
At the Pennsylvania Democratic Rtate
convention, hold in Harrisburg, Conrad B.
Day wns nominated for treasurer and a plat
form was adopted which "cordially approves
the Democratic reform administration of
President Cleveland 1 ' and denounces railroad
monopolies.
Gknkhal Logan and his wife and two
friends wero being photographed in a small
boat at the Thousand Islands, N. Y., when
their frail craft was overturned, and all four
were thrown into the water. They were res
cued without dilllculty.
Reports received from the eastern part of
New York Htnte indicate that the fruit and
other crojw will bo large.
Albert D. Swan, one of the most promi
nent business men of Lawrence, Mass., woe
shot dead at his desk by Henry K. Goodwin,
who IntrocN^ed the telephone system into
that city. After committing the crime Good
win telephoned to the |>olice that he was wait
ing to be arrested. Goodwin claimed that
he had been robbed in business of everything
he had by Hwan.
Texas fever has appeared among the cat
tle of Erie county, reun., and is reported to
be spreading rapidly.
NOUT11 AND WKMT.
A. B. Mariner, postmaster at Carey ville.
Tenu., has been caught robbing the mails ana
arrested.
The captain of the steamship Alexandria
which arrived at Beaufort, 8. U., reports the
loss of the dredge Beaufort in a hurricane off
the BeriuuJa Islands, with all hands, num
bering probably ton inon. The Beaufort wns
built on the Clyde and brought to this side to
dredge for phosphate in Boaufort harbor.
Hhe was one of the largost craft of her kiud
in the world, and wus valued at $150,000.
Leonard Gardner, a Springfield (111.)
restauraut keener, arrested for beating Uis
wife, procured nail and then went in search
of the two policemen who had taken him into
custody. When he mot his captors Gardner
immediately opened fire, killing Policeman
Camp and mortally wounding Policeman
Gall. The desperado was also killed by Gall.
A PARTIALLY successful attempt has been
made to blow up the jail at Murfreesboro,
Ark., with dynamite. One side of the build
ing was blown to fragments, and a prisoner
badly injured. The object wns to blow up
two brothers confined iu the jail for a brutal
murder.
A Nogales (Arizona) dispatch says that
three Americans nnd eight Mexicans have
been murdered at BAsacliucaby Apaches.
Two Knights of Pythias—Henry F. Hand
man, of Cincinnati, nnd J. F. Farnan.of Cov
ington, Ohio—while at an eucainpmont noar
Cleveland went in bathing, ana becoming
chilled were both drowned.
Senator John Sherman opened tho Ohio
campaign for tho Republicans in a long speech
before a largo open uir assemblage at Mouut
Gilead.
During the recent heavy storm along the
South Atlantic coast three'men, belonging to
a Savannah (Ga). pilot boat, and tho second
officer of a steamship, were lost overboard.
Part of a passenger train crashed through
a bridgo noar Nutohez, Miss., resulting in tliu
death of tho engineer, fireman and a brake-
man, nnd injuries to uine other persons.
Tiik Iowa Republicans, in State convention
at Dos Moines, nominated a ticket bended by
Senator William Larrnboe for governor, nnd
adopted a platform which declares that “tho
issues growing out of the war for tho Union
can never bo called settled until they aro set
tied right," and condemns the Cleveland ad
ministration.
Dr. H. P. Lynch, of Sturgis, Dakota, w...
shot dead in his office by Corporal Ross Hal
lis.of the Twenty-fifth United States infantry,
stationed at Fort Meade, liallis, who had
shot Lynch out of revenge, was seized by a
mob and hanged.
WASHINGTON.
The war department has receivod word
that tho Southern Utcs in New Mexico wore
starving; that they had no supplies and wore
unable to procure any, and that unless food
was immediately secured for thorn they would
go on the warpath.
Many appointments of fourth-class post
masters have been made recently.
The remains of the Hon. Seth Ledyard
Phelps, late minister to Peru, arrived in
Washington a fow days since, nnd were do
posited in Oak Hill cemetery, Georgetown.
Mr. Anthony M. Kkilev, of Virginia,
who was appointed United States minister to
Italy, and on his resignation was transferred
to Vienna, but was rejected by the Austrian
g overnment, has returned to America. Mr.
loiley states that tho assigned reason he was
rejected by the Austrian government was
because his wife is a Jewess.
The acting secretary of the treasury has
appointed twenty women clerks to assist in
the count of the paper manufactured at the
mills in Philadelphia for printing in
ternal revenue stamps, thus increasing the
force engaged in that work to forty-five. It
Is expected that the count will bo completed
by December.
FOREIGN.
Madrid has been the'scene of a great de
monstration against Germany for annexing
the Caroline islauds. More tran 40,000 per
sons assembled, and the chief speaker win a
Spanish colonel in full uniform. The German
legation was gu a riled by fifteen nolico-
inert. *
A leading London papoi ; conflhn6 the
statement that Russia lias abandoned her
claims to Zulflcar Pass, Afghanistan, and'
says that poaco is thus secured. >
The condition of Granada, Hpain. remains
pitiable. Hundreds of people are attacked by
cholera in a single si root nearly every day.
There are no doctors and no authorities to
look after the victims, who often pass through
their agonios in the streets and expire unat
tended in the gutters. Most of tho Unaffected
population have fled, and the few henltby
citizens that remain are disheartened and
apathetic.
The recent disclosures of gross immorality
in London have resulted in a monster demon
stration at Hyde Park. More than 150,000
people were present, and there was a great
procession, the majority in lino being women.
A resolution was passed simultaneously at all
the ten platforms pledging the meeting to as
sist in enforcing the pi dvisiotts of the Crimi
nal Amendment act
Information linn been received nt Cairo,
Egypt, of a grent massacre at Berber. The
populaoe are starving.
Since the beginning of the cholera epidemic
In Spain, and up to the 23d, there have been
156, 077 cases and 01,021 deaths.
TltE rebellion in Colombia has ended with
the capture of General Cnmnrgo and twonty-
flve other officers, and the disbanding of the
rel>el force. Prestan, the lender in the burn
ing of Aspinwall, has also tteeu captured and
will be tried by court-martial
A native craft called a bugnlow, loaded
with pilgrims, was wrecked in tho Gulf of
Aden and 100 of its passengers were
drowned.
A portion of Canada has been visited by
a disastrous tornado. Two children were
killed and many houses unroofed.
By the explosion of a bollor of the steamer
Argo at Trieste, Austria, eight persons were
killed.
Germany has established a protectorate
over the whole territory betweon the Tana
and Juba rivers In Africa.
Ten bodies were found in the ruins of a
fireworks factory at Civita Vecchia, Italy, In
which an explosion occurred.
Many persons were stoned and stabbed in
a collision at Batlyfarrissey, Ireland, bet.w. on
tho fYopulacs and fi)0 policoino.i, who wore
evicting some tenant i
Austria is expolling all hor Polish s ib-
louts.
OYER THE SEAS.
Matters «f General Interest From For
eign Lands,
Various foreign innttors of interest nnd
(mportAnco are discussed below:
THE CAROLINE ISLANDS 11 )W.
A Madrid dispatch states that Hpanish
mon-of-wnr have arrivod nt Yap, the chief
Island ol tho Caroline group, nnd planted tlio
Spanish flag, no German vessel bolng in
1t is also stated that the Emperor William
of Germany, through a feeling of sympathy
with King Alfonso, has made a personal in
terference in order to obtain a prompt settle
ment of the Carolines affair favorable to
Spain. Hpanish merchants and other con
sumers of Gorman products t lire a ton to boy
cott all German goods. Firms in Wu jrzberg
and Elberfeld have received noticoi from
commercial houses in Hpain sovering business
comv'ctfone with them.
A French paper states that all Hpanish offi
cers now on furlough have been ordoi ed to
rejoin their regiments. The same paj>©r is
authority for the statement thnt several
large Hpanish mercantile houses have can
cels! ail their outstanding orders for German
goods. Tho members of tho Hpanish colony
in Paris aro indignant at Germany’s occupy
ing the Caroline islands, and protest agninst
wlmt they coll Germany’s usurpation nnd
perfidy.
ADMIRAL COUUHKT INTERRED.
Tin lnxly of Admiral Courbet. Into com
mander of tlio French naval force In Tonquin,
was interred in tho Hotel das Involutes, Baris.
A largo assemblage attended the burial cere
monies, notwithstanding tho weather whs in
clement In the concourse were deputations
of tho senate and chamber of deputies nnd at
taches of foreign legations. The edifice
wns heavily draped with mourning nnd pre
sented a most impressive appearance. A
large model of tho Bayard, the flagship of the
French fleet, commnudod in China oy the
deceased, had boon constructed in front
of tho building. Tho coffin was placed
iri a colossal sarcophagus, which was
ornamented at the corners by stnt-
of Faith. Hope. Charity and Re
ligion, and which bore escutcheons om-
binzonod with scones of tho battle in which
Admiral Courbet lmd taken a leading part,
This was lighted by incense burners and
tajicrs, which emitted green flames and cast
a weird glimmering through the darkened
recesses of tho chnpel where the Ixidy lay.
During the funeral ceremonies French troop*
paraded slowly up and down tho esplanade
ud a forward filed past t he coffin.
PHOOHEHS OF THE CHOLERA.
The French transport Chateau Yqom, from
Pescadores, has passed Singapore with forty
cases of cholera on lionrd Ton deaths hail
oc urred. During the 28th there wore four-
toon deaths and fourteen now cases of cholera
in Madrid, thirty-four deaths in Toulon and
twenty-eight deaths iu Marseilles. One
hundred coffins have b.*on sent from Marseilles
to Toulon, tho supply ui tho latterplace boing
short. Kix deaths bn un average are daily
reported at Salon.
FOOTLIQHT FLASHES.
• Emma Abbott is taking walking exercises
to reduce hor adiposity.
Patti’s spare moments are bolng dovoted
to the writing of her memoirs.
Mr. Lester Wallace will play a short
season through the country this year.
. Clara Louise Kellogg hue had a sue*
lesiful concert tour through the Northwest.
William Caiileton, a well-known dramat
ist and singer, recently committed suicide in
New York.
Miss Ella Russell, a young Amorican
soprano, has mode a very successful debut iu
“Traviato” at Berlin.
The first prize for violin playing at the
Vienna Conservatorium this year has boon
awarded to a lad of ton years, Friedrich
Kroisler.
Miss Emma Nevada has boon engaged for
a concert tour in this country, beginning on
tho 31st of next October at .the Philadelphia
Academy of music.
Mmk. Patti was askod to appear in "II
Barbiere" nnd 41 La Traviato” at. Munich with
King Louis of Bavaria constituting the entire
audionce, but site flatly refused
Ninety-three farcical comedies to be on
tho road this year. And they all expect to
make money. Well, there is a line some
where about hopo and the human breast.
Tins country, so fertile in singers, has pro
duced scarcely any composers, and Mr. 8. G.
Pratt, of Chicago, is, so far as wo know, the
only American who has brought out a grand
opera in live acts.
Pauline Lucca is venturing her fame on
a new opera by a now composer. The name
of the opera is “Cordelia," tho composer’s
Holoview, and tho new work is to be given at
the Imperia Opera house, Vienna.
Letters from Paris speak of Miss Hattie
Eddy, of Philadelphia who is studying opera
with Mine, de Lagrange, os the coming cant-
atrice. Her voice is said to be superior to
that of any Amorican who has visited Paris
for many years.
Miss Bosford, a little American lady who
bos just entered her teens, is attracting much
attention ns a violinist in London. She made
hor dobut at Baron von Buch’s "at home,”
playing superbly a number of difficult pieces
which oiler players fear.
David D. Lloyd, tho author of "For Con-
f ress, the latest successful play in Mr. John
. Raymond’s repertory, severed his connec
tion with the New York Tribune several
months ago, and lias since devoted himself to
play writing, doing his work in Paris.
Cora and Nellie Clark, the one possesa-
Ing a soprano voice of rare merit and the other
being a lino violiuist, go to Europe soon to
complete their musical education. They will
moke their debut in America about a year
hence. The Misses Clark are daughters of
the Hon. M. E. Clark, of Leavenworth. Kan-
LATEST NEWS.
ItXPLOMON OF NATURAL GAS.
Five Persons tfaUlit lliifited M tlio 0<u
enrronce.
l*he oven room of 8. 8. Marv n A Co.'i steam
bakery, on Liberty streo , PU'abtvg, Pa,, wm
the scene of a natural gas explosion Saturday
morning, by which five po son« wo o torrib y
burned, two of them, it is thought, fatdly.
Their names are Sanmol Stafford | engineer:
W. B. Krobb . machinist 5 J. F. Huggins, fore
man ; John Olrtrk and Mart Charles, bakers
Th ilrirt rcoo. tit in r» ticed rtsturii (fas
into thoirnv ii«, and tile five tiers nis filmed
were engaged iu Mporim< n ing ofi ^lie mami-
NUMBER 20.
GEORGIA’S CAPITOL.
THE MERCURY.
bMi m MMnd-elM matter at ft* IH
t,nrUl, raatoflea, April 0, !■*
InttmlUt, WuViftn Ctnty* a.
rvaxtraaa *T
A. J. JEBNIGAN,
FlOPltnOB AND POSUMOi
Bn beer! ptlon-„.«*.^
factum of a new hue of g >oda.
• gas had
been turned off. nrohably imlf an hour, when
Engineor St flora advanced to the mouth of
tho oven to reiigli it. Instantly there was a
toiriblo explosion, and he flames shot out of
tho mouth of tho oven.' enveloping all in tho
room. Stafford and Huggins, who. wer di
rectly in from Of the ovc , Were hurtled in a
horrible ItiHuncri and It Is feared inhil d the
gas, In which ca-fc death is lilotilihe. The
others had their clothes almost bnrue l from
their IkmUos, but were not fatally injured. It
is aup|)osod that somo person turned on the gas
after it had been abut off by Stafford, and that
the gas accumulating in the oven exploded as
soon as it came in contact with tho light.
another gas Rxrbostcm.
Saturday morning a terrific gaa ex los'on
occurred at No. 4, slopo of Husdilehauna coal
company, at Nautico e, Pa. This b1o|>o has
always been eon-iderod very dangerou . and,
although every precaution has boon tak* n to
avoid accidents, explosions are frequent. As
the men entered 'lie slope to coniineiloo Work,
tho quantity of gas tlist accumulated in some
unknown manner in tho new rook tunnel, ex
ploded. Louis Perry and Charles Glanviile
were fatally injured, nnd Richard Ruhl and
Wm. A James were slightly burned.
HOAD AilKNTS ONUB MOttK.
A Party Capture* In lire Midst nf Their
Plundering.
Tlio Maysvill* coach was stopped by two
highwaymen al>out eight miles out of Helena,
Montana, Hatnrdav. and the treasure Inn, con
taining about $12,000 in bullion from the
Drrtmtnon mine, wss taken. Tlio passengers
wero relieved of their valuables. One of the
robbers bad given tho plot away to the officers,
snd when tile treasure box was bolng broken
open, the sheriff and posse captured the rob
bers and recovered tlio liooty. Tho passengers
were made to stand in line at the muzzle of a
gun held by ono of tho highwaymen while ths
other went through thoin in the old fashioned
maimer. Tlio prisoners aro named Jackson
and Gordon. Gordon will h released and get
a reward of six hundred dollars. Jackson lias
served seven years in the California peniten
tiary for stltge robbing, lie claims that Gor
don has boon working the same rehemo before,
giving away plots for robbery and getting re
wards.
A THAGKDY UNBAItTIIBD.
A llnrrlhlw Minrf of Murder nnd Mdteldn.
Last fall Aloiamler Easterly and wife disap
peared mysteriously from the neighborhood of
Effingham, Ontario. No trace of them w is dis
covered Until last Tuesday,when tho body of th"
woman was found In the gardeu alongside thu
house in which the couple had lived. John
Easterly, a brother of the missing man, ha«
been arras tod on suspicion as being their mur
derer, and tells a strange story. Ho says the
husband and wife lived unhappily logoi hor,
and the former concluded to kill the latter and
then commit suicido. The husband oommittwl
the murder and lie and his brother John buiie.l
the body in tho garden. Tho husband then
cut hh throat In an iffrtto commit Miio de,
but not dying quickly enough, called upon hi»
brother to finish him, woich he did. A search
is now going on in tho woods for Alexander'#
body.
NINE MEN KILLED.
Tha Disaster Attending the Lavrerlag «f it
Cage In a Caal Mliaft.
A terrible accident occurred on W< dnosdav
at Oakwood shaft, operated by tho Lehigh vaf-
ley coal company, in Pennsylvania. Tho cage
on which time minors wore boing lowered into
the shaft bad nearly reached bottom, when s
mass of looso coal and rock fell Irom tlio side
of I bo shaft down the pit, striking and com
pletely demolishing tho cage, which was innde
of heavy timber andiron work, instantly killing
nine of the mon and wounding two others
fatally, while tho other three were serioush
injured.
A 'Inn’s I Iran Torn UIV.
"A dispatch from Imlluinpolis, Ind., soys
The Hsturdsy morning train oil tlio "Big Four
road ran ovor nnd killed Honv.y Hahn, com
plotoly severing bis boa I f om hi 4 body. Halm
was 70 yea s of ago and a prominent musician
Fo from than thirty years ho bnd been a me
her of tlio tlioatro orchestras, lie fled fn
Germany in 1848, in company with the mvn
lionistsof that rear, and located iu this city,
Ho leaves a family, ono of bis children being
Mrs. Hanuccr, a leading »o:>rauo.
Mills Krsiiiiiliig Work.
The cotton mills at W io d> irry, Md., four i
number, giving employment to upward of tv
thousand operatives, h v made a ruigoiuen
to go to work on full time. Th • Moa low mil
which bai been idle for a year, h acted with
lull force of six hundred, anil on full tiim. Th
Woodbony, Clipper, Park and Druid mills hav
begun to run ou full time, as also the Mt. Ver
non mills.
A Terrible Accident.
A terrible acciden occurred Tuesday at Day-
ton, Tenn., in which a p pular young man
named Tom Walkor. lost bis life. He was on a
scaffo.d of the now rurnaco stack, be.ng erected
there, and lost his footing and foil thirty feet.
A heavy timber was dislodged at tho samo tim.i,
and fell ou him, producing instant death.
Killed by Lightning.
During tho thunder storm at Washington,
Pa., Hunday, Wm. Miller, whoso farm lies noar
Lindiy’s mills, was sitting on tho porch in com
pany with his wife, when a blinding flash of
lightning struck the house and killed the couple
instantly. Miller was a well-to-do farmer and
respected citizen.
Drownln* of Senator Morgan’s Son.
At Washington, D. 0., Tursday night, John
T. Morgan, Jr., a son of Senator Morgan, of
Alabama, and a lady named Mrs. Della Btcelo,
went up the river in a canoe, and when near
tlio chain bridge were caught in a squall. The
canoe was overturned and both wero drowned.
A Woman Ilurned to Death.
At Dayton, in Washington territory, Sunday,
Mrs. Ora A. Bowen, an agod widow, while
fighting fire in the woods, whioh threatened
to destroy her home, was burned to death.
Her clothes canght fire and the woman was
lost horribly burned.
Death Among the Cattle.
The epidemic of Texas cattle fever, which
appeared on the farm of Huan Goodwin, Rock
ville township, 111., last week, threatens to
devastate the entire herd of over 200 oattle.
Twenty-five are already dead, and ten or
dozen more in a dying condition.
A Miner Instantly Killed.
James McDermott, a miner, was instantly
killed at Stanton, Pa., coliory Saturday night
by being crushed between the cage and one of
the props. Ho had just finished Ills work and
was entering the cage to be hoisted when the
accident occurred.
Three Persons Killed.
Three persons were killed and several injured
on hunday by the fall of the cliff at the village
of Dawlish, Devonshire, England.
PERSONAL MENTION.
Miss Cleveland already has made $50,000
from her book.
Lord Tennyson, the poet laureate, is sev-
enty-six years of age.
Neal Dow, the Prohibitionist, has turned
his eightieth year.
All the relatives of ox-Vice-President
Wheoler have died during the past ten years.
Nine monuments to Grant will be erected
in this country unless some of the present
projects fail.
John B. Gouon, who has just completed
bis sixty eighth year, is said to be seriously
fuiling in health.
Ludwig, the mad king of Bavaria, is
thought by a Londou editor to look like
Byron, whom some regard as the mad poet
• to<»i gin r
*nd line
.AYING TIIK UDRNKR NTGNti Willi
IMPHKPBIVK CKRKMONIim.
(Irlfft lirSitJi flnd Kfteltement In Atlanta-
Nytinftafn HI the Proceeding*.
On Wednesday the corfiflf stone of the new
Georgia cnpitol was laid with impcftfffta eero-
ui mii sniul amid great enthusiasm in tl»e<ffty
r Atlanta.
i bo dny was one mcmornblo in the history of
At auto, nrtd ftairgift ah well. Hix thousand
l»'nple witnessed tlio ceremony, and many
uni unable to itol near enough to oven see tho
stone as it was lottvivd to Ha place in the wall.
By eight o’clock in tlio inornmtf people began
to gather nt the grounds, and the crowd grew
•adiiv from that time forward.
At nlno o’oiock die Iimiho and senate mot in
iiit Boston io take |M»dtiofi In the procession.
At Hie samo tlmo tlio organizations rtttd others,
who wore to tako part in tho exercises, gathered
from their various plates of rendezvous and
foil into lino Ht Marietta and Broad streets.
The following was tlio order of tlio procession
ns it ntoted off toward the oapitoi building, at
shout 10 o’tfook i
G ivermir's lforse Guard.
Marietta Silver CofnOt Baud.
Gate City Guard.
Joint LrgidaiivoCoinmittouon Public Property.
Tho House.
Officer.! of the llotiso.
Senate.
Officers of tlio Henate.
Mato Ilntlsg Officers.
Governor snd Senator Mltciiflll with General A
It. Lawton, the orator of tho occasion.
Capitol Commissioners.
The Masons.
tour DeLkott nommaudery Knights Templar.
'I bo line of Mflsort* w«* tho longest over
r.sHemhlt d in Georgia, and represented every
portion of tlio utnto.
Thousands of p *oplo preceded tlio procession
to the capitnl grounds, but the way was cleared
readily and tlio procession marched iu.
The choir was composed of a hundred voices,
and was aidid by tha Marietta band and an
Hwinging from tlio beam of an immense tier-
e v was the corner stone, a massive piece of
ia marble five foot long, three foot wide
t high. It waa |ndished and was
of wirlegated tints. Tho stone wom laid in the
rtliea t rn corner of tho building. It 1s a
•1 known custom of tho Masons So put tho
i rstoun at tho nortlieastorn corner of a
mg.
t 11 o'clock tho crowd was iminonso. The
g. and stand Waspackod. and tho people climbed
into tries and mounted tho tops of the neigh-
tmring bouses, due photographer was on tnu
top of the tower of St. Phillip's church taking
a perspective viow. and another Was on the lop
of a residdTice, while a third had erected a tern-
stand twenty feet high, and wm sight-
apparatus at the gathering from that
elevated perch.
Tharo was much enthusiasm when tho choir
rang beautifully tlio first anthem,
“My Country, *tis of Thee."
A fee vent and idoqnont prayer was offered
by Bev. W. D. Anderson, of Marietta.
When be conoludcdGovernor McDaniel arose
and niado a Kiwcch.
Heiiator Mitchell, chairman of tho joint com
mittee on public property, thon made some
timely remarks.
General Lawton thon aroso, amid groat obcer
ing, ai.d nude tlio spcoch of tho day. lie spoke
eloquently of the early history of Georgia, its
p. pn at ion and prosperity during the past eighty
•cars; the leauiti or the war, aud finally or his
ntiro confidence (u those who had ohargo of
this great work.
Gcueral Lawton’* speech wm received with
(ho greatest eiithuaiisni. At its olose tho choir
snug, “When Earth’s Foundation First
lain."
When this anthem was ended Senator
Mitchell arose snd said, addressing tho offl<
of • bo grand lodgot
"The g« nornl assembly of tho state, huvin r
high regard for tlio ancient order of Masoin
i ns commissioned mo to nresont to your lion
•ruble body this now oapitoi, now boing tree ted
.or flic purpose of laying the corner stone wit
t'ppropriato Masonic ceremonies."
A copper box, under charge of Mr. Frank I
. inal»on, slate librarian, bad been filled whl
> lie hi licks Which wore put into the leci ptm:
f the stone. A lew other articles were add*
•it I ho last moment.
Grand Muster Davidson then conducted tin
Masonic ceremonies of laying the stone in i
most impressive luanuer.
'I be corn, emblematic of plenty, tho wine
mhlcnmtio of joy mud gladness, and the oil
mbleiiiaiie of poaco^.were poured on th ston*
'J bo invocation followed.
I bo grand master sounded tlio stone w ill
..is gavel and the grand honors wero done
After a short but liapny and appropriate
•iiccch by Mr. Davidsou, tho grand master, tin
.loir snug, “Now Our Festive Joys are Over,
aud the crowd dispersed.
GREAT FLODD^IN CHINA.
More tlinn 10,01)0 l.lvm Lout In mad
Noar Cmaton.
Details of the destruction in Canton and
vicinity by tho great rain storm tlioro have
boon rocoived in Washington. Tho flood was
tho most serious which has visited Canton in
thirl y years. More than ten thousand persons
lost I heir lives, and a far greater number are
loft in a starving condition. Entire villages
wore engulfed, and tho ricoand silk cro]>s wore
almost nn nod. Many of tbosti oote of Canton
wore flooded for over a week. At Hz Ni city
tho water broke through the city wall. It is
reported that several thousand {>eoplo wore
drowned in that place. ThoeinbanUments of
the rivere wore broken in many places aud
tho waters swept across tho surrounding
country, carrying everything before it A
foreigner, who was an eyo witness of the
scenes of the devastation, reports thnt one
night the boat he occupied anchored noar a
bamboo grove. By morning the water hail
risen to the tops of tho bamboos. At other
points it rose as high as forty feet during the
night The inhabitants flod from tho villages
and camped on tho hillsides. At Kuu Xu, a
market place situated near nn eiubnnkiiiout
of one of the streams connected with the river
which brings water from the north ami west
rivers, the majority of the inhabitants were
drowned by tho water breaking through the
embankment Homo escu|>od to a piece of ris
ing ground in the neighborhood, I ut the
water continued to rise nud gradually over
topped tho elevation, drqwmng those who
stood on it
Seventeen Chinese graduates in Canton
bearing of the distress and suffering preva
lent in their native villages, too c | ussage
on a boat with a viow to nrocccding homo to
render what assistance tney could. On tho
way the boat was capsized, ami all who
were in it were drowned. In some
places parents tied their children on
the high brandies of trees, while they insti
tuted measures for their general safety. The
trees wero washed up by tlio roots, aud the
heartrending cries of tho children wore si
lenced in the surging water.
The BnbsoriptioQ raised Ifcrongn too
ibBtrumeutality of Oyrna \V. Field foi
the benefit of Mrs. Garfield, aggregated,
when invested in Government bonds,
about $312,000. Gen. Garfield’s life
was insured for $50,000, the payment of
whioh the companies, for the sake of the
extended advertisement it would give
them, if for no other purpose, promptly
mode. Congress al.-.o voted her the rem*-
uant of the salary whioh would have
been due Gen. Garfield for the first year
of service as President, whioh amounted
to $40,000. The little estate which Gar
field left aggregates some $30,000. This
was all that he had been able to aoon-
mulatoaftera life of unnsnal activity.
This makes her total estate, in round
numbers, about $450,000 in money well
invested. From this an income of prob
ably $16,000 is derived. In addition to
that she has from Congress an annnal
pension of $5,000, whioh is aow voted tr
the widows of all ex-Presidanta*
Th* Pensacola Commercial says the
moss crop of Florida is worth more .ban
the cotton, and can be pat on the mar
ket at low expense. The demand ex
ceeds the supply, and there is not a
county in the statein which this product
is not going to waste,
HUMOROUS SKETCHES.
L.rl.f I. . MMk.
Young Wife (to husband)—Don't you
notice » difference in the milk, dour I
Young Husband—Yes; this is mucu
better thnn tv. hnvo been Retting.
Young Wife—Very much better. I
pot It of a now mnn. He snid ho would
! ;unrnntco it to bo perfectly pure, nnd ,o
bought enough to Inst few ft week.—
N't io York Nun.
Both ,1 Then, Pr«ll<l|.im
No, I ennnot mnrry you," raid ■
young Indy to n gentlemnn who WM ft
book-keeper, and who had been plead
ing for her hand.
“An J why, my dear?" he Inquired.
“Because you are a prostidlgator."
“A prctidlgator I How do you raakn
thnt out!"
Because you prnctlco legerdemain."
Well, for that matter you are alao a
prctidlgator."
How 1”
By refusing me you are practising
■light of hand.”—Carl Prtltel.
A Complete «lre-Aw»T.
Mre. Poterby waa making a neighbor
ly call on Mre. Slinson. Whilo they were
chatting togothor llttlo Mamie Simeon
wii, seen coming townrd tho house with
a package In hor hand.
“Mamie is such a smart child; she ia
too swart for hor age. I often send her
to tho urocory on tho oornor with ai
twcnty-dollnr bill, and aho always bring*
bnck the right chango.
Enter Mamie, who runs to hor mother
and says:
• l I got tho coffco from tho grocery, but
tho clerk says If you don't pay Uet
pionth’e bill, you can't get anything
more on credit.”—Stylings.
Anatfce, D*la|t.
Sir. Dusonborry—“I see Doctor War
ren predicts another deluge.”
Mrs. Dusenberry—“A mere shower,
no doubt.”
“Oh, no, my lovo. An immonse del
uge ; and his thoorv is a vory scientific*
ono. He says that during 10,500 years
the Ice accumulates at one polo end melte
at tha otiior, thereby displacing the
earth's centre of gravity. Tho time will
come whon e catastropho will occur, te-
storing tha contro of gravity to tho cen
tra of the earth, and causo an immense
doluge.”
“OoodncM alivo I What are we going
to do about it? That just show* that 1
am alwaya right. You draggod mo
down hero to the seashore when I wanted
to go to one of the mountain reiiorts. It
would bo safer thoro when tho water
roso. If—"
“Wo may bo able to got there yet.” 1
“Do you think so?"
“Yes. Tho doctor saya the flood will;
occur six thousand yoars hence.”— Call.
A a—A Hscript (er a Peer Carver.
A host, whose carving is the one sub
ject on whioh he aud his wiso wife here
little tiffs, said the other day to a friend:
“My carving is like my dancing. It is
not conventional. It is extremely origi
nal, bold and audacious. I try to intro-,'
iluce joints whore uaturo did not intend!
to hnvo them, and I seek to make short
cuts ucross a fowl in a way that is pro
ductive only of chagrin, vexation and
fragments of hen. Man is a weak, falli-j
blu creature, and bo ought not to seek to
improve upon the anatomy of a fowl or'
to lmproviso joints and apertures where!
they do not belong: for at such times M;
you think not tho knifo will slip, and it
will trip over the colory-glass and fill tho
bosom of a warm personal friend with 1
gravy. To attract attention and keep
up tho spirits of the company, therefore,
1 m iRo it a kind of business, as it were,
to till tha air with harmless nmusomont
at the sumo time that I shed stuffing
through thu atmosphere and mutilate
the breast of tho fowl. This gives mo
an opportunity, occasionally, to gathor
up the sage, bread crumbs and gizzards
out of my lap and return them to tho
platter without exciting remark.”
Caught It All Aloue.
Ou thu boat coming down from the
Flats the other evening was a young man
and a black bass. They were a pair.
That is, thu young man had in some way
accumulated tho tiili, which was dead,
lie was such a guileless-looking young
man that several parties thought to guy
him and his catch. The fish was hang
ing to a peg, and with it a pair of small
balances which enabled a fisherman to
weigh his victims, providing thoy don't
go ovor twonly pounds.
"Catch it all alone?” asked one.
No reply.
“Pull vory hard?" asked a second.
No reply.
“Wore you much over three days
about it?” queried a third, and so it went
ou for ton minutus, whilo the fisherman
had nothing to say. At length one of
tho crowd ronmrkod:
“That bass will weigii all of half a
pound."
"1 doubt it,” replied another.
“Bay, fisherman, what are tho fig
ures?”
“Two pounds,” waa the solemn an
swer.
“Get out!”
The umn pulled a $10 bill from his
vest, and laid it on his knees and said:
“If he don’t tho money is yours. Put
up!”
After some hesitation a shake purse of
$10 wus raised, the fish hung to the
scales, and ho showod an ounce over.
Tho crowd kicked on the scales, and tha
fish was weighed iu tho steamer’s pantry.
The figures hold jood, but he waa
weighed again when tho boat landed,
and the rnonoy had to bo passed over.
“How did you do it?” asked a police
man whon the crowd lmd dispersed.
“Simply poured seventeen ouncas of
bird shot down his throat,” was the re
ply ; and ho let the fish’s bond drop, and
tho shot pattered out on tho wharf like s
young hail storm.—Detroit Free Frees.
Fiddling for Geese.
A lively air on n violin will sometimes
sot a whole fiock of geese wild with de
light. On one occasion at a country wed
ding I was a witness of a curious per
formance by one of these animals. Aftor
dinner a lady entertained her guests m-
Eomblcd on a lawn with music from an
accordeon. A flock of geese wore feed
ing in the road just bolow the house,and
with outstretched neaks answered back
with notoa of satisfaction. Soon a white
gander began dancing a lively jig, keep
ing good time to tlio music. For several
minutes ho kept up the performance, to
tho great delight of the compnny. The
experiment was tried several times for a
week or more, and the tones of the ac
cord con never failed to set the old gan
der into a lively dance.—Maryland Jour*
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