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VOLUME VI.
SANDERSVILLe7gA~ TUESDAY NOVEMBER 24, 1885.
NUMBER 31.
THE MERCURY. 1
Cniorod on owl Horn meSSse ■
Oonriuo mmii, April U, i
Sondemllle, WaaklncUa
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A. J. JERNIQAN,%
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City of Sandortv'lli.
Manor.
J. N. Gilmore.
Aldermen.
W. It. Tiiiopek.
B. E. Rouairroif.
J. B. Hodkktb.
A M. Mays,
S. (J. Lano.
Clerk.
O. C. Brown.
Treaimrcr.
J. A. Irwin.
Marti ml.
J. K. Wkdiion,
Town of Tonnlllo.
Inlendanl.
John C. Harman.
A Mermen.
J. F. Merkison.
J. D Pranklin.
J. M. Brown.
J. B. Pritohaiu),
Clerk.
B. H. B, Manky.
Marshall,
J. C. Hamilton.
A. C. WRI8HT
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
105 Bay St., Savannah, da.
liar Will praotloe In nil the Courts.
HARRIS A ANDERSON,
Attorne.ys At Lmw,
BANDE11SVILLE, CIA.
Will (irnctico in tlio Middle Circuit, and in
(lie counties Kumninding Washington. Special
attention ,;iven to Commercial Law. [Jun23-ly
E. S. LANGMAUf,
Stto^ey kt I^kw
8A NDER8VILLE, GAl
U. b. EVAM, B. O. EVANS, n.
EVANS A EVANS,
AttorneyH At Law,
BANDEItBVH.LK, OA.
F. H. SAFFOLD,
ATTORNEY AT I.AW.
SAHDErtHVILLE, OA.
Will practice In all tho Court, of the Middle
Circuit md in tho countiea ■urroumllng
WneliiriRt n. Special attention riven to com-
mere il law.
C C BROWN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
■mndanvllla, On. i
O. H. Bosnia
HINES & ROGERS,
Attorneys at Law,
8ANDERSVILLE, GA„
Will practice tu J o countiea of WaiihIngton,
JefTorHou, Johnson, Emanuel and Wilkinson,
ami In the U. H. Court* for the Boutheru Dis
trict of Georgia.
Will act hh mints in buying, sailing oi
renting Kent Kftnta.
umce on Waal aids of PubLie Sgnara.
Oct n-ii
H. N. HOLLiriELD,
Physician and Surgeon,
Baad.rvv 111a, as.
Dr. H. B. Hollifield,
M ‘Vina recently graduated at the Unlver-
* ! 'y i i MHiylnml and returued home, now
fh-ih |j is pruioBHtonxl services to the citlaenn
?* t'^nlciavllle and vlolnlty. Office with
1)1 li N 41 oUtfleld,uexldoorto|Mrs.Bayne's
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INVASION OF BURMAH.
KINU Til El:HAW DKI LARM WAR
AUA1NNT tIRKAT RKITIAN.
many thouMmlR vrlm tlll
•«».called "incurable’' ihnnama to do all that wnt amu
omvflde T r * u * i ^ noWD in d to intpire tho pul lie with
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Philadelphia, Pa., Janet, 1889.
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uln* iiohr of <,ur teatinioniale and loport" of c.aaoa. ws
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Rosin Boxes, Etc.
Needles,
Oil and Shuttles,
TOR ALL KINDS OF MACHINES!, for (aim
fn AUU niiivnuv BAvniono. iui hr
I will alao order part, of MaoliluM
that g«( hrok.n, tor wlilob n.w
piece, an wanted.
l lit Aalatlc Ruler to l.tnri 111. Troop, lo
Penan.
A dispatch from Rangoon, Burmah, state,
that "King Theeliaiv has Issued .a proclama
tion declaring ho will not accept the absurd
proposals of tile Indian government, and
thereforo declaring war. He promises per
sonally to load ills troops, anil calls upon his
subject, to fight for the defenso of their coun
try and rellgioa Europeans aro not to be
molested until the invaders cross the frontier
when all ore tube slain. Many European,
are loaving Mandalay unhindered.”
Advices from Mandalay, the capital of
Burmah, state that tho Burmeso have do-
tainn I the steamer Doowoon, which was sent
to Mnndalay to bring nway Europeans, and
threaten to burn hor If sin, attempts to leave.
The foreigners oro not nllewrd to leave Man*
dalay. The Brltis'.i expeditionary foroo
under General Prondergast is about to cross
the frontier of Burmah.
Tlio flotilla comprises fortv-flvo stenmers,
fiats and floating batteries, the latter being
fitted out from six of tho largest bargea
Each of the floating batteries carries two
alxty-poundor howltr.ers and is attended by
tinned launches. Twelve twenty-live poundor
aiege guns are mounted on tho steamers The
force numbers 10,000 men, 7,000 camp follow
ers, ftK) mules and tw > elephant batterios.
It is stattsl that the strength of the Bur
mese standing army is about 10,000 mon,
.vhich, however, can bo considerably In
creased by irregular and temporary levies.
"Tw. flt'll.V il to 11 in w Y. lllairalltni. lonlilnn
THE NEWS.
Interesting Happening, from all Point,.
it,intern ani. Minni.K ktatkm.
GALVESTON’S BIG FIRE.
A RI.KFI’iNo car was wrecked by an acci
dent to a train near Cnnajoharie, N. Y., and 1
tlie wife of Assemblvman Charles R. Pratt,
of Rochester, was kill. I. Mr. Pratt was
wrlously, if not fatally, hurt, and other pas-
tengers were also more or leas injured.
Work has s'.arted up again at tho ship
yard of John Roach, Clu ster, Penn.
Thk postmaster-general of Japan and a
party or prominent Japanese officials arrived
In New York, tho other day, from a tour of
inspection of tho postal snrvico In Europe,
ind proceeded to Washington.
Ciiarlkk J. Osborn, a prominent New
York broker, has just died, leaving a fortune
of about pi,000,00a i
' CrarmcS It. Baiikku, a single young man
residing in Newbury|u>rt, Muss., has fallen
heir to $7,*>00,000, left him by nn mint In
London.
A passbnokb train was thrown from tho
track near Conn.llsvllle, Penn. ,nnd the sleep-
I'ORTY II LOCKS* DEKTROYED
TMEHtUINO FLAMES.
Iln.itred. *r Famlllrs RenderMl H.os.1...
In the Cour.e of . F.w Hour..
Details »f the great Are which has just ray*
aged Oalveston, the loading city of Texas,
are as follows:
' At 1:40 o'clock A. m. the most destructive
Ore in the history of Gnlvoston broke out in
afeumlry and car iN‘pniring shop on the
north side of Avenue A., known ns tho
Btraml, between Hixtornth and Beventoontb
streets.' A gale from the north was blowing,
i atom's spread with rapidity to hath
dtolulng mpldlngs, one being a gro-
d trio other R dwelling. Boon the
'lie army Is almost altogether lacking
in cavalry and artillery. The con
stitution of the regular foroo Is some
what similar to the linked battalion
system of the British infantry, two bodies,
each 600 strong, being linked Into something
equivalent to a regiment T he battalion is
commanded bv a "bogyl,” undor whom aro
officers termod ‘‘blood-drinkers." These offi
cers are very deficient in military training.
Wlion in tho field the Burmowi army Is rapid
In movement, and quickly forms ’intrench'
holes to obtain shelter
nients, excavating
both from the enemy's fire and the
weather. Behind these rudely formed
earthworks, and uudor the lm-
S resslon that the position cannot bo turned,
le Burmese warrior is decidedly dangerous.
He tans one advantage over a more civilized
foe In that he provide, his own commissariat,
carrying a supply of rice around his waist
and for other provisions depending upon tho
resources of the country through which
ho passes. Thu Burmese aro regardod a.
adept, in river lighting. There are a num-
hor of war-boat, on the Irrawaddy, mainly
•uppllod by towns and village, along the riv
ers, which are under obligation to provide a
certain number of boats, with their crews of
rowing and lighting men, from fifty to sov-
A.. *J. JEHNIGAN.
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.
Organists in London lire seldom paid
inoro than $200 a year.
(ili.RKHT is said to bo engaged on nn opor-
etta libretto with a Hindoo snbjoct.
It in «uid that thero aro twice as ninny pro
fessional actori in Amoricn as five years ago.
Madams Patti will not come to America
this year nor go to Spain, but she will sing
in Paris.
Maudk Banks has writton a domestic nlay
on tho story of "Old llobin Gray,” which
will be produced bofore long.
Thk tonor Micr/.winski will bond an Italian
opora company which will make a tour of
this country, beginning next spring.
Thk members of the Horosis, tho well-
known woman's club of New York, gave a
banquet in honor of Mary Anderson.
Benjamin Lightfoot, n Shakespearean
stu'lont of color, re ently ma le a successful
appearance in t'rngcdy in* Providence, It. I.
Bin Arthur Bui.ms’AN has undertaken to
compose a new sacred oratorio expressly for
tlie Leeds fw*... 1 " xi autumn. He 1ms al
ready sketched it out.
Mias Van Zanijt, tlie American singor,
1ms repeated hor last winter's triumph «t the
Bt. Petersburg oj>erh house. The royal family
nitoudtd her first concert.
Tiikuk are 335 auuisoinont troupes now on
tlie road uni now companies are dally form
ing. 8 *omingly to atone for tho occasional
dropping-out of earlier organized parties.
Louisk Pomeroy’m Hamiot roceutly pro-
vokod a Detroit critic into thankfully stating
that "woman’s Hamlets aro not intorosting,
except in tho s use that museum ‘freaks’ at
tract tho curious."
Hiiim August Hvllesdatkd, a Norwe
gian pianist who has had remarkable success
in England and on tho continent, is making a
tour in this country under the management
of Mr. L. M. Ituben.
In a French adaptation of "Twelfth
Night," now being pluyod at a thmtro in
Paris, Sir Toby Belch and Sir Andrew Ague-
cheek actually aro merged into one charac
ter, Quinapulus by name.
Thk annual returns of musical production
In Germany show that there is no falling off
itjvtiiiK nun iiguviug iiivHi, 11uni miy iaj
•nty of whom are carried by each boat.
in the last Bunnose war a great deal of
anuoyanco was caused the English by fire-
boats, freighted with highly inflammable
material. Comparatively little difficulty in
dealing with river craft is now anticipated.
Machine and other guns, supplemented with
rockets, will probably make short work of
the opposition that may be offered on
the river. Commanding positions on
tho bauks, howover, are already in
closed by stockades and fortiflod,
and for use against these a number of
heavy guns are being carried. Transport
was provided by the Irrawaddy Flotilla
company, all of'whoso available steamers
and flats were hired by the British govern
ment. Tho steamers are paddle-wheel,
spacious craft of 500 tons burden,
Ing car rolled into the Yougliio/liony river. . places,and the
Twenty one person, imluljng Hon. C. E. ; of sparks to premises rail of Avenue A. In
and the
the nd,
eery end „
ton- tongues < rowed the street, and two inoro
buildings were in flames, the inmntes barely
escaping with their lives. At this moment the
lire department got two streams going, but
they wof’o of no avail. Tho heat became so in*
tonso that the itromon had to abandon their
wind n s j and carried myriads
Boylo, member of Congress from tho twenty
first Pennsylvania district, were in<
jurod In different degrees of severity.
MOUTH AND MUST.
A RKCEtVKR has boon apnoInt9d for the
Hichmond daily Wh(g t tho orgnn of Sonator
Mahone. The publication of tho papor,
which is in its fifty-second your, will be con
tinued.
John Folky, a theAt.ro omployeo at Butte, l
Montana, shot and fatally wounded Alice
Flack, wounded a male companion of the
woman, and then killed himsolf.
Two years ago much iutorost was nrousod
In tho Shenandoah valley, of Virginia by the
announcement that Miss Lydia liobecca
l'ayno, a representative of a well known fam
ily, was of the masculino gender, and that
•he had married her employo, a Miss Hinton.
And now it is reported that in the courso of
a suit argued nt Winchester. Va., tho fact
was brought out that Miss Leila Payne, a
sister of tuo abovo mentioned, is ulso n man I
Four men were killed by the breaking
down of a scaffold on which they wero work
ing at Kcithslmrg, 111.
Thk New Amorlcan exposition—an out-
f rowtli or continuation of the recent World’s
ndustrial ox|x>sition—has boon opened in
Now Orleans with imposing ceremonies. The
exhibits are from all parts of North, Can-'
tral and South America.
halt an hour two blocks wero burning fiercely.
And by 3 o’clock every ono saw that a great
conflagration was upon tlio city. Poonle for
squares around on either sido or the
burning blocks soon became panic-
stricken, and the cries of fright
ened women could lie hoard abovo the roar of
tho fire and tho mournful wind. At 3:30 the
firo had trnvoled throe blocks distant from
its starting point, but in a straight line,being
confinod to the blocks bounded by Sixteenth
and Seventeenth streets.
the eA*t and to the wost ol
Ko von teeth streets, and the wiud rose to a
gale. For a time it seemed as though the
cntlro eastern half of the city was doomed.
Tho firo spread to tho southward, liok-
ing up tho block« of fine residences
hastily abandoned by their inmates.
By o o’clock it had roachod Broad
way, which threads the center of tho island,
running onst and west. At 7 o’clook the
wind began to shift, then to decrease, until
FAR OUT AT SEA,
ar out at sna unsu Hied breozes sweep,
For there alone the winds and waves are
free,
Nature's unchallenged minstrels of the deep
Far out at sea!
Old rhythmic Instincts are roused in me-
To ocean cadences my pulses leap.
I seem to lose the thraldom of the lea!
My heart forgets all shoreward hours that
creep.
’Mid languid yoarning for dull days to floe;
Hopg gains the dual power to laugh or weep,
Far out at sea!
— IViMtam //. Hague, in the. Current*
Oil HXB TRACK.
W A Ml IM4T <I1S *
Thk annual report of'Third Auditor Wil
liams, of the treasury department, shows at
tho boginning of tho fiscal year thoro wore
on file in that office 3T, IN? unseltlod necounts,
on me in mat oince ;u, in. unseitloit necounts,
amounting to $U4,007,4^4, and during the
yoar 15,775 now account! woro rocciveJ, ag
gregating $W,062,000. tho total number of
accounts on hand ami received being 53.202.
amounting to $l'.»3,7 , ’fi,.V>3. Of tlieso 10,171
were di*p soil of, amounting to $122,225,1*35,
leaviir; at tli • eloso of tho year 87,0U1;cover
ing tlio sum of $71,503,017.
During the past fis al year tho number of
postofllces establUho l was 2,121 mid tho
number discontinued 880, making tho total , ,
miuliter in tlio United States 61,253. The |
nt by this time the firo had oaten its way
to Avonuu O, where, at 0:30 o'clock, it
seemod to exhaust itsolf, and tho fire
men coming up, choekod Its further rav
ages nt this point or within two
blocks of the gulf. From the houseU>|Mi the
smoking burned district rasembles a huge
black linlf-o|H)ned fan, lying across tho island
from tho buy nearly totbegu.f. Thu island at
that point is niuotcon blocks, or one mile and
a quarter wi le. Tlio business part of the city
begins at Twentieth street and runs wost ten
squares The burn d district includos the
jvenltlildidrand most fadilonnblo portion of
the city. Ono hundred elegantly furnished
mansions are in ruins. Many of the e reel-
deuces:,had beautiful gardens attached to
them, and tho moneyed loss does not repre
sent over half their value. Tho scene dur
ing tlio progress of tlio firo was frightful;
so filled/ with misery and terror, that
tli misery and
whoovor witnessed it must bear its vivid
impress for a lifetime. The wind roso to
a screaming gale and sw. pit trough the burn
ing belt in swirls, carrying mii ions of live
cinders high up in the air and raining them
[file di
distant over the wooden city
shallow in hull and light in draught,
■*tck«,
with high upper docks, on wlfioli
guns are carried. These 810011101*8 were con
st < ucted in parts on the Clyde and put to-
r Hun* at Rangoon. Tho stenmers tow a
pit* of iluts, 0110 011 OMvh si le. The 'niter,
with their corrugaiod iron awnings, resem
ble huge flouting sheds And aro each capable
of carrying nearly 000 men, with a large
quantity or stores.
The river swarms with native craft, and is
navigable only by daylight. For nine miles
above Thnyetmnyo the river is a mile and a
half broad, with villages and houses lining
the banks of the winding stream. Minhla,
which contains 5,000 inhabitants, completely
commands tho river, nr.d until it is taken no
advance beyond the town can bomado. A fort
of modern construction and scientific dosign
occupies a dominating position overhanging
tho river, and its well-forined earthworks
nro tolerably well mounted with guns of
modern calibre. Abovo Minhla tho river
gradually widens to ns much ns four miles,
but it is very shallow, and tho navigable
channel is known only to experienced pilots.
whole number of appointments during tho
year was K,203. The total number of money
order offices was 0,IM2, an in.reaio of 74 K
There aro 2,223 |x*fcofl4co! subjoet to appoint
ment by tho President.
Additional appointments by the Presi
dent: Bniniiol J. Tildeti, Jr., a nop ow of the
Democratic lender, to bo collector of internal
revcuuo for tho fifteenth New York district;
James Burls, to bo survoyor of cus onu for
tho port of Kunsas City, Mo.; Oscar Valcton,
to l>e assistant appraiser of inerclinudiHO in
tho district of Now Oilcans, La. Postmas
ters: William Ilydo, editor of tlio Kt. Louis
Republican, at Kt. liouis; J. J, Casoy, at
Weehawkon, N. J11. B. Linnoy, at Gor-
donsvillo, Va.; George \V. Boll, ut Cnrdlng-
ton, Ohio; Goorge Huumossor, at Wauseou,
Ohio.
Further appointments by the President!
Levorott Hal tons tall, collect *r of customs at*
Boston; Colonel Robert McKiustrey, to bo
pension agent at Detroit, Mich.; Don Carlo*
and its panic-stricken inhabitants. The en
tire cast ond of tho city contain! hardly a
dozen brick dwellings. All is wood—Texas
pine—and it burns with Indescribable fury.
Vivo minutos after a house had caught it
would lie wrapped in finmo.
The alleys and street* for ten squares on
either sido of tho-burning holt wore filled
with Iho blanched fn^es or women, children
and equally helpless men, who could do noth
ing in such a gnlo but crouch down for shelter
from tho piercing norther and watch the
flames lick up the fruits of lifetimes.
Although the victims number many of the
wealthiest residents of the city, whoso indi
vidual wealth runs up near tho million and
half million, yet the great majority of those
burned out loso the hotter portions of their
fortunes.
The hotels wero filled with homoless iieople,
and a citizens' committee at onco went to
work apportioning fuuilies to rooms ond
promises vacated for thoiruse. Kvory void
NEWSY GLEANINGS.
Buell, to bo pension .agent at Louisvi.lH, ICy.;
John B.^McClano, of Oregon, to bo Indian
vuiiii u> lULvuiiiu, ut uirg''ii. tO 1)0 llldlAll
agent; Dr. John G. Lee, of Pliiladclphio, to
l)o secretary of legation at Constantiuop’e,*
Turkey: General Joseph J. Bartlott. of Now
York city, to be second deputy commissioner
of pensions; William H. Morgan, of Nash
ville, Tenn., to lie a member of the board of
Indian commissioners.
The annual report of the commissioners of
customs 8nows that during the post fiscal
yoar thoro was paid into the treasury from
various source!, the a counts of which wero
sottled in his office, tho sum of §lh3,207,U08.
Tho amount paid out wa* $37,125,973.
During tho past fiscal vear the 7,355 money
order officos of tho country ismod orders
amounting to about f 129,«>}'J,'.'00.
Thk population of the British empire is
310,000,009; of Russia 100,090,000.
A rxcuMAR weed grows in Eastern Ore
gon, which kills sheep that feed upon it
Four cities—New York, Buffalo. Detroit
and Atlanta—are buildiug crematories.
Cranhkrrik.-! said to be as largo ns plums
nro being picked in great mininem in Indiana.
Thk guard of United Ktates soldiors ut
Garfield’s tomb is to be withdrawn in January
[ Ff
Further appointments by tho President!
I'ederick F. Mansfield, of Texas, to bos
next.
in quantity, whatever tho average quality
.y be. Lo
may be. Lost year 5,473 distinct pieces of
music wore published, the total for 1S83 hav
ing boon 5,433.
Lawrence Barrett begins his New York
engagement at tlie Star thoatro on February
1, probably opening in Victor Hpgo’s "Her-
nani,” produce 1 in great style, ai to scenery
andqostumes, by Alfred Thompson, and with
a veijy strong cast.
Women did not appear upon the stage in
England till the ,Stuarts wero restored to the
English throne. Charles II. is supposod to
have brought the usage from tho Continent,
where women had long boon employed instead
of boys or youths in the representation of
female characters.
Speculators are buying unall the vacant
land in Florida and building prosperous
towns.
There is but one millionaire in Nebraska
and only ton persons who are rated as high
as $500,000.
A Montana bachelor, worth $75 000, gives
public notice that lie will soon come East on
tho hunt for a wife.
A State capltol that is a copy in miniature
of the groat Federal capitol at Washington
is being built for Georgia, in Atlanta.
Pittshu tVJ clr.tr*;3 more rich men, in pro
portion to population, than any city in the
Union. Seventy residents aggregate $189,-
000,000.
The indications of the coming log crop oa
tho several rivers of Lake Superior region,
point to 900,000,000 feot more than was cut
i last winter.
The Victory, tlie war ship on which Nel-
foil fought and fell at Trafalgar, is still kept,
as a momento of naval prowess, at Ports
mouth, England.
Tiie flat head pin und the machinery to
make it were invented sixly years ago by Dr.
The Crop Report.
night,- will be promptly responded to. Office
Mrs. Pittman's lot, corner
•■FATED WW
JERM'XGAH.
NOVKHIBBIt RETURN* TO THE AGRI
CULTURAL DEPARTMENT.
The November crop report of the depart
ment of agriculture says: Tho present crop
of corn is tho first full average in rate of
yield since 18S0, which was the last of a series
of six in i. ciops of twenty-six lo twenty-
eight bushi Is per acre. The present crop,
grown on an urea of fifty-three to fifty-four
million acres, is slightly abovo an average
for a period of ten years, or twenty-six and
a quarter bushels per acre. Tho highest rale
of yield is thirty-six und one half bushols, in
Nobraska and Ohio. Tho three corn-glow
ing States which produce four-tenths o tlio
entire crop—Illinois, Iowa and Missouri-
each average several bushels per acre less
than in tho census year.
The cotton returns of November are local
estimates of yiold per acre. They aro some
what higher ilian those of the last two years,
but materially lower than those of 1880 aim
1882. The increase over tuo yield of last
year is most marked in Texas and Georgia.
John Howe, who has just retired from service
in Bellevue hospital, Now York.
The total number of parliamentary candi
dates in Great Britain is 1,100, of whom 907
are in England, the rest boing divided be
tween Ireland, Scotlaud a» d Wu
vales.
When the now Croton dam and aqueduct
aro finished 320,000,000 gallons of water will
find their way to New York city each day.
Ton thousand mon aro now employed on tho
work.
Tho potato crop is smaller than that of
18S4, in consequence o' injury from rot.
■ The reported yield of liny per acre averages
one and a quarter tons, and indicates a crop
of over 47,0)0,000 tons, nearly ns largo os
that of last year.
Tho buckwheat crop will be large, the
average yield will exceed fourteen bushels
per aero.
Wayne County (N. Y.) poppormintgrow
ers predict tho highest price for tlu nerb
next season ever known in America. They
are holding back thousands of pound < of ft
with this expectation.
Near Fayetteville, Ark., two men klUoi
fifty largo hawks in a fo.v hours. One of the
men says they wore as numorou! as pigeons,
numbering thousands, flying in a sout ivv.-s*
ern direction. This extraordinary migrati »n
has given local weather propints the cue that
the winter will bo unusually cold.
tary of the log at Ion to Japan; George W;
Gllok to Ikj pehsioijL a'outfit Topeka, Kansas;
Erastus Redman to be collector of customs ut
Frenchman’s Bay, Mo,. Presidential post
masters: J. C. Roney,'at A.mericusi Go.; K.
J. Harrison, at Toledo, Iowa; L. P. Obligor,
at Wooster, Ohio; Leonard Dozior, at Ocala,
Fla.
Thk court martial at Fort My or, near
Washington, which tried eighteen signal ser
vice men on charges of insubordination found
nil guilty and sentenced them to bo publicly
reprimanded by tho chief signal officer;.
FOREIGN.
King Thehaw, of Burmah, defies tho Brit
ish, and an expedition has boon sent against
him acro-s the frontier from India.
A Winnipeg (Manitoba) dispatch reports
that tho magnificent iron dad steamir A:-
goma, of the Canadian Pacific railroad, was
wrecked in Lako Superior, off Port Arthur, ,
strewn furniture, bedding and pic
cure places
Some score of pick \ eop’e wore hurriedly
removed during tho conflagration, and many
women wore reported prostrated by tlio ter-
rlblo excitement
Following close o:i the heals of the recent
groat strike, which inflicto l nmoiDyo l lots
on the buRinoss men of Galveston of fully
$100,00 *, this calamity is tho climax to the
woes and sore nttlicttonsof this city. With
tho exception, how . vor, of half u dozen gro
ceries nnd tho iron and car repairing foun
dry, where the fire started, no places of busi
ness were ftatroye 1.
Tho t.tal area of burnt district is 100 acres,
and forty blocks wore swept dean of every
thing eonihu ilible. More than 40) homes
burned, and it was estimated by the relief
commitfbs that, about 1.000 faruilioH were un
housed, the gi;eat majority of whom,especially
tho poor onos, lost everything.
A meeting of tho Cotton Exchnngo the same
aftcnnfei was largely attended by business
men, who set about providing relief for the
homo’e -R and suffering. A general relief coni
n'"* * of l\\vu:> : ven - Itl/eim wasnrpanittvj,
wit.i Colonel \V. L. Me 'pr ‘' ' of H-*
Cotton Exchange, as chairman. A
finance committoo of five, with Colonol \V il*
liam II. Sinclair ns chairman, was also ap
pointed. Beside these committees there
wore sub committors for tho various sec.
tions of the burne I district Tlio city council
vetod $154000 for the relief of the sufforors.
Jay Gould sent $5,000 from New York by
telegraph, and Captain James B. Ends $1,000
from St. 1 xmis. A together during tho eve
ning after tlio fire, $38,90 ) was donated. The
best informed citizens estimate tlio total i>o-
cuniury loss, at $2,090,000, while many put
their estimato as high a* $2.50 ).< 00.
Over twonty years ago, said Mr. Whit
mire, a detective, with whom I recently
had nn interview, I was on the pollen
force of Now York. One summer night,
u few minutes pnst 13, I was pacing my
heat In.a quiet part of 0 street,
when a man called from a second-story
window:
“I say, sir, aro you a policeman f”
“Yes,” I said. “What’s tho matter?”
“I heard a heavy jar in Mr. Bradley’s
house, noxt door, nnd he may have fa len
and hurt himself. Ho just came in a
few minutos ago. If I were you I’d ring
tho bell.”
Mr. Hrndlov was a wealthy old bache
lor who had lived entirely alone for
j ears in an old-fashioned brick houso.
Ills riches were a subject for frequent
gossip, nnd it was said that in his houso,
to which no outsider was over adinlttod,
lio kept a lot of silverware and money.
I rang tho boll, but thero was no re-
“Perhaps you will do mo tho kindness
to got out of my room,” he retorted.
lie had taken the valise from the floor
nnd I quick!v snatched it from him. I
had linedly done so when ho dealt me a
blow near the temple, sending mo reel
ing across the room, whore I brought up
against tho door. 11c then threw tho
vnliso on the bed and angrily exclaimed;
“Look here, sir, are you drunk or
crazy? Now* hand me that key nnd got
out of my room, or I'll throw you out of
the window.”
“Not so fast,” said I, drawing my re
volver. “I am an officer, nnd hero to
arrest you for the murder you committed
last night.”
Mo stared a moment, thun a change
came over his countenance, and lie sat
down a id fairly roared with laughter.
“Come, you can't play that,” said T.
“This is no laughing matter. Whore
ate tho monoy and silverware you took
from Bradley's house?”
“Are you really nn officer?” bo asked,
growing serious again.
“Certainly I am. Perhaps you never
saw this bit of paper, sir,’’ sniil I, dis
playing tho piece that had blown frota
tho window.
“My friend,” he replied, “I admire
tho earnestness with which you go about
your business us detective, but you havo
got on the wrong track. I am sorry T
struck you in a moment of anger, and I
hopo you will pardon mo. I am Charley
M—, a Boston detocllvo, of whom you
havo probably heard. I arrived at if ay-
light this morning, nnd have been taking
a good sleop before attending to some
business In Brooklyn. 1 registered ns J.
Brown, for a reason you will readily
comprehend. Here is my card, and horc
are some slight evidence! of my occupa
tion.” Hero ho took two pairs of hand
cuffs out of his pocket and jingled them
bofore tny astonished gaze. “By tho
caping tho gatiows, ho was so broken
down that he made a full confession,
sponse.
“Are you sure you saw him go In?” I
uwked. , , -
■•Vm, «ure of It. Ho hadn't been In i n 1 !)* 1 * tUo pl ? c 5 ot now ?t"M M ’ r
half a minute before I heard a heavy fall. I It? , , , rora window, and you
! have hoard nothing since." ’ , think it has any commotion with tho nf-
“Tl.ore roust bo something wrontr," I fttir y° u "! ,(mk of ' 11 wll > probably afford
aald, aftor ringing thu boll a second time J°" nfl Important ono. I found it
nnd recolvlna no rcaponio. I tried tho ! ,ero ' * h ? ro It «»» probably loftby a
door, but It war lockod. , ,orn,or lod 8 cr - I think you will find a
“If 1 woro you I would force tho door," , niJ i n0 on tho margin. ’
suggested tho ronu nt tho window.
giving substantially tho following ac
count of tho crime:
Tho storios of Urndloy'a great wealth
had flint put it into his head to rob him.
By watching for a long time from a fjack
window lie had dhenvered the nature of
tho fastenings by which the back door
and gntos woro secured. Ho was not bold
onough to undertake tho task alone, but
ho know a certain bad cbnrnctcr named
Kcvcrn, to whom ho conlldcd his
schomo, describing tho fastenings on
llrndley's gate and door nnd asking him
if ho thought ho could force them.
Kevcrn said ho could, and readily en
tered into the plot. They we'nt to work
a little after dark one night, wlion they
knew that Bradley had gone out; lint
tho fastenings of tho roar door resisted
much longer than they had expected,
nnd they nnd but fairly succeeded In
entering when Bradley cnino In at tho
front door, locked it, and lighted hli
candle.
Determined not to he foiled now, they
no hod upon tho old man and struck
him down with tho tools they had been
using. This, It scorns, was botsreen 0
nnd 10 o'clock.
They thon ransacked the homo, finding
considerable money,chiefly In bank notes.
The latter wore in a disordered condition,
nnd to mnko a compact bundlo of them,
Collins hastily toro In two tho fatal
newspapor, which lie chanced to havo in
his pocket, using one-half to wrap his
spoils In, and in his nervous haste leav
ing the other on the floor.
In order to oxnmine their pluodcr at
leisure they went to the hotel alluded to
whero one ol them engaged a room to
which ho repaired, nnd in which he wae
soon joined bv tho other. Both of th-m
wero disguised, a portion of Collin* 1 be
ing a fnWo heard.
t’olllns felt so nervous over the awful
alTnlr that night that he would not take
any of tho plunder homo with him, and
so, after counting the monev, ho en
trusted it to Kovcrn, for tho night, with
tho understanding that thoy should moot
noxt day, take a trip to Now Haven,and
there deposit his shiro In tiro hank inhia
or any nnmo ho might wish
V
'9
la there any
I examined the margin ovor tho titlo ° wn namo i
of the paper, and to my astonishment to nesumo. . ...
found written In penuil tho name amt When Kovern made a package of the
rciidenco of llonrv Collins. It was a i money again he pickod up a fragment of
another newspaper ho found in tho room,
loaving that hearing Collins' name lying
upon tho floor. It was shortly after Cof-
was
published In a city ho bad formerly
llvod in, and its dalo w.is so rooent that
lie must have received it on tho day pre
ceding the murder. I immediately took
Icavo oi Mr. M , saying I thought I
know whoro tho paper had come from,
don’t like to do that,
otlior cutranco?”
“Yes, that alloy just beyond the stops I rc,l< t® nco 01 uonry Collins. it w
leads to a hack yard, hut tho gate Is 1 "““W | ,tt l' cr ’ "Well I observed
probably lockod, ns well ns tlio rear | * n ft °* tv * 10 * 1,r * ^ orn
door.”
“I will go and see,” said I; aud walk-
ingup the narrow alley I dlsco/crod li;
tho dim light of tho street lamp nearly
opposito, that the gnto w s wide open. ■'"«» w “°™ iin.i oomo irom,
I looked in, n id perceived tli it iho roar n " d ’ |, . lr<1 " n f ?', lmvln K ,M) ? n
dooi was also open, nnd a faint light ^rudo to him. I hastened down to the
shone out. All was porfeotlv quiet I ° Nco of the hotel, whoro 1 examined tho
returned to the street and said to the ro 8 s,or ' " 10 nl * mu ° f ;>•
mun . , with room 21 ass gaed. 1 know the
“The gate and back door mo open. p ' c , r Jf<M* nd iA n w llr< i, ,
Comedown nnd wo'll go in." ' r ' Brown lalto w,„... ~ . ,1* detect Ive force
In half a minute lm mi,.ml inn mi ih. “Early this morning, when l was not (favorne a place on tuo uotcctivo iorce,
in na i a minute no joim.il mo on the ,i ntv ” 8 i aud I havo boon pretty succesaful ever
sidewalk, when I rocog lived him us an 0,1 ""J' , . since. Many a man hat workod harder
acquaintance named Henry Collins. one occupy tho room during nnd diaulttVe f, lnoro „ ai , cit v than I did
••Ah, ie that jronf 1 didn’t know von-tn* evening:’ 4 L ,i.-..v„Jl.imm nlShlno—
lived here," I said. “No—yes—let mo sec," ho replied,
room 31?"
line’ return homo that night that he
called my attention to poor Bradley’s
house, foolishlj thinking that by so doing
ho would not couio within the rango of
suspicion.
Collins diod hefora tho day appointed
for his execution, hut ICevern paid the
oxtromo penalty of the law.
It was In this caso which I worked
upon my own account, and in which I
wae largely assisted by more c banco, that
ixu—jva—-let uiu Bui', uu ix'iHiuu, L ... ond
“Yus, and I didn't rccogui/.o you when glnncing ovor tlio register—“Hero is the “
I first addrossod you." name of Harvey Elton. I remember
“Well, there mny have been foul now. Ho was without baggage and paid 1‘niilshlng the I’ntnconlaas.
work hero,” said I; “so wo’ll go in." for tho room in ndvanco, saying that ho i
We wont into the yard and entorod wanted to bo called at it o’clock. Tho „ riic dividing lino botwoen the Argon-
the house. Tho rear room had evident- porter went up nt that hour, but tlio l | no Republic and what was known as
’ was open and tho hud had not beon ’»tngonin was tho Hiver Negro which
y been used ns n kitchen; and guided , door was ope
lly a dim light wu passed into a narrow slept in. The other clerk told me ho Hp' v » along tho forty-first Pajvtllol'^aboitt
hull with n stairway. Near the streot i gave tho suneroom to Mr. Brown be-( u ' no J*' ,ndl ' od ml , l ph“° r , t „Vr ’nn.Mnn'if
door wns an old table, on which wan a oamo lie wanted a front room." of Magellan. Pho greater portion of
lighted cendlo, that had hurnod to with-! “Bo you remember tho appearance of i thi * country Is well watered pnmpae or
in an inch of the candlestick. At tho EUon r I \ mMe < fV° nd ‘ n « in plalDiy.marked tor;
f .°ot.o f ,h .° 8t - n ! r * W 1 '- 'l 11 .* 1 . 0 . Wa "' With 0 VOrV j fho AtlnnUc 8 to’the A A but fowurd
4a.svuut. [Galveston Is the cblof city of Texas in point
ond forty-fivo lives were lost. Another of popu’ation and commerce, and is situatod
steamer found twelve of the crew of j at the northeast extremity ot Galveston
Algoma and two passengers on an | Island, at the mouth of tlie^ buy of the same
island, aud rescued them. ’ The Algoma cost J naino. The city is laid out with wide
$450,000, and was as luxuriously furnisbad us streets, bordered by Ilowei-pi
an ocean steamer. dons. The public bui dings iuclu^
Kiel, tlie Manitoba rebel loader, sent nuod | the oustom-Uouso, .postofllco. United Slates
to be banged on tho 10th, was respited to't ho j court houso, city and county pi tsons. cit}
lfitli. Many petitions for a commutation of ! hall, opera bouse, theatres un i alwut nrtoeii
his sentence to lifo imprisonment were sent ! hotels ond many churches. Oleatide, park
to the Canadian government. , contains eighty acres nml City park twei ty-
fivd acres. There ore six public s piares, an
esplanade two miles I011.4, nnd tliroo public
government.
The trial of Editor Stead an l his fellow
defendants in tho Eliza Armstrong abduc
tion caso was resumed in London upon tho
count of anothor indifttmont, and the)' woro
found guilty ani\ Keutanccd as follows: Mr.
Stead, throe months; Rubocca Jarrott, six
months, and Sampson Jacques, one-month,
all without hard labor, and Mine. Mouro.v,
six months, with lioyd labor.
A daily interchange pf shots i.» going 011
among tho Bulgarian ana Servian imtro’s on
the frontier. ~
A Glasgow dispatch says tliat there is
great deprossioh in tho Ciytlo shipbuilding
trade, and that tho families of many men
thrown out of employ«n:-nt are b. .-lni*i:fi^ :o
suffer.
A Montreal cat caught the small ;
Ex-Prime Minister Gladstone L making
political speeches in'Scotlanrl, ffiid attracting
gardens. Nino miles o street railway were
in ojieration in - 1884. Tho island of
Galvoston is about twen y-eight miles long,
and from I 1-3 to 3 1-2 milos wldo. It is in
tersected by small bayous, diverserfied by
sjveral fresli water jjoniL, and bordered
throutrli itn wli "!<‘length by a smooth hard
beach. Tlie harbor is tho best in tho State.
Its chief business is shipping cotton, beef,
and hide! and cattle. The shipments annu
ally amount to more than $40,000,000. The
population ih IW> was 22,248, 5,090 of whom
were negroes.—Editor.]
IIORMUM RUN WILD.
SEVENTEEN JIISN FUOKTR AT El).
Gray, although far less fashionable a
color than last season, is uot discarded,
and in many shades of granite and steel
gray it is not only fashionable, but re
served for very rich toilets, owing partly
to the superb passementeries and beaded
ornaments and embroideries that are so
very handsome in shades of gray.
i Ilcniui'liub.c (Tut) ol Asphyxiation in
Pc nintylva.il in*
Tuesday night, while repairing ono of tlio
blast furnaces of tiie Chinbr.alrou company,
at Johustowu r Pa., J. 13. Smi h was overcome
and foil hoad.io/ig into the furnaco. Hopes
wero thrown to him, but he was unoonsoious
and could not take advantage of that moans of
escape, ami soon died. -Tho gas ar ho from 1 lie
furnuca in atiohyphime (hat the work of rescu
ing tho body w^yciy.diiugcrous, ftl| d * u a few
momo.itnouo of ; Tho.r&umTig pa-ty was over
come. Ho was ilr g^td’away and a f. How
aoikmun took his piao hut he, too, wa* soon
rendered unconscious. Matters continued thus
ti.l seventeen workmen were prostrated. Fin
ally tho remains of Bmiih were pulled up with
hooks und a rope, lhay were chant d and
burned and drawn int > »uch stiupe as to bj
scarcely recognizable »s those of the human
body.
great assomblagos.’
While working ai tlio coiling of.a public
building in Montreal six -fiaiuteis fell a dis
tance of fifty fuel. T.hreo were billed and
the others seriously hurt.
Manchkstkii, JCii^lftiid. bus iiad a 8530,090
fire, two blocks of warolnni«.M l» iug guttotL
J A SRAiii’ shock of earth pi-iku lia< just been
i felt in a portion of Fnun v
Mr. Pendleton, the Uuil Jt Klatos minis
ter at Borlini has protostoii to tlio German'
government against thu expulsion of five
German Americans from tin Island of FooliP.
A Triple Tragedy.
A FATHER KILL* 1 WO ASHA iL A NTH
OF HIM SON.
Particulars of a 11114-.fy o i Verde crJek’,
Bandera county. To..mu . ar
A young funner . named. Buck Bryant
suspected two G -rdiu is, . Aug!isfc
Rhejuhr.idt nnd Christiau Eckert, of steal
ing a hug. Bryant-went,to their house, ac-
cu -ed !bv?in and was fired uoon. Fleeing to
ward home ho was pursued fiy Rheiuhardt and’
Seven Persons .Seriously Injnrsd at a Public
Haptlsinir*
0 ( n TRcsday evening at Dorristowu, sight
miles from Gallalin, Tenn.,seven persons were
injured, some seriously. A public baptising
was tiie immediate cam.u of 709 people coming
together at that plac s Rev. John Gillain and
family wero on route to the scene, and were ir.
a barouche, when Dr. A. ('. Bryant drove up
from behind. B.yau's horse ran into Gillain’?,
barouche. Both veil cles wero unset, tin owing
women, and children out upon tho road. ltev.
John Gillain received injuries about the thigh,
Mrs. Gillain had her arm broken, Arthur un
lain, a voung man, received horrible wounds
about tlio head and it is thought his skull i-
injured. Two little daughters of Oilluiu re
ceived internal injuries, and tho young/tst wav
badly cut about the mouth, and became uncoil-
soioiiM. Dr. Gillain, brother of U.<v. John Oil-
lain, was driving a vehicle aud was also thrown
w out and received painful bru ses. Il is sup
fofibws- ! posed JI14 horses tramped up n some of them.
tj . i 1 Tfio frightened hoi'ses ran through a crowd of
two hundred people.’ bnockii g several buggies
down an embankment of U-n leot. Several ve
hicles were smashed.
dcml, and a frightful wound upon hi» ; full black board." ... u„i,
away to tho police station to notify tho his naino on tho margin of tho nows- ' J ( . T i w *, n }i»fa nm
captain, while I made nn examination of paper, yet 1 never dreamed that ho wna „ i j 1 f J
tho promUcs. A number of drawer* in ia .able of oommitlin K a crime. j *} h B „n h?™ „
tho second story buck room had been It was about midnight that Henry Col- , , V ’ Thaso windLro
broken open nnd ransacked, nnd on tho line told mo that Mr. Bradley had bocu , .. .
floor lay half of a fresh looking nowspn- I in but a very few minutes. I now re- - «»“"* h ' AH»n,le
per. Knowing that tho old bachelor momberod that tho body was cold aud ; K‘“. ® n 5 thn Indiana
was not in tho habit of spending monev ; rigid whon I first went in,and 1 hastened * u n ,* th , ,J. , , , , th •
for newspapers, it struck mo that, the 1 away to meet thu surgeon who had made ! .hn nntSlI.nftn
robber might have had it in hi, pocket, the Examination flvojLinu.es late, . . | aml°Tnvi n « them
nnd ])rolinlrly used tho other half to wrap ; I lind tho luck to find him soon, and In j rVJd»‘”unonTh.r's'attlernantii
up ids plunder, leaving behind him, in reply to my inquiry ho stated that ‘ wiiiu„ hnen
itls hurry, what might prove a. moat val- ; Bradley must have been dead two hours , JL.tL_ f fiatt B ’J, L®’ Ter-
uable clow. I thereforo folded up the when he was called. j f" d 1h 2"^ n T 5:
fragment nnd put it in my pocket. A | “Havo tho detectives foundany clue?” i ^rntwitlrm* C ,i,,? vnar hv vear
moment later Sir. Collins returned, nc- 1 ho asked. c . ,t,c ? for . Protection, and year by year
companioj by sovorai othcors nnd n sur- “Not that I nm nwnro of,” I replied,
geon. 1 nnd took tny loave.
the frontier line receded toward Buenos
Ayres, iustead of extending further upon
To make this part ef the story brief, I | Mv first stop now was to go to an oa- ,
will state that tho usual formalities fol-, tablfshment in which Collins was em-! ^j d a ‘d ha d won renown in tho
lowed, tlie body boing handod over to ployed and inquire for him. I did so, „ T Po ,„
tho coroner, and tho case was put in tho nnd wns told that ho had nskod and ob- war against Lo| . y . threo'
hands of detectives. I nt first intended tained leave of absence to visit Trenton. I f ogi ^ cnt ‘ t0 discipline the Indians, nnd
to give up the bit of newspaper I had 1 next started for his house, which was f, . 8 hm Vi„ » w.vYhar ™ XeZ
picked up, but I had some ambition to ha'.f a mile distant, carefully looking up . novel Whtln the Indians
L a detective myself, nnd concluded to ' and down every street i crowed. lU “» ™ Hi
keep itat least a day or two, to see if 11 made half tho'distance when 1 caught n “Zkrs’ 3 ul’worC'several
could find a clew from it. it waa lucky , glimpse of the very man I was looking \ 0 u“ nd of tlZ anddug a greatd^h
1 On the following afternoon, while off ! fcheS^SSfti wh^th”S h^hTd
duty, and walking around in ordinary . come directly from his house. lie oar-1 fron ? ll r e mountains to_ the Rio Negro,
dress, I paused opposito a well-known 1 ried a valise, and by his sido walked a i 8 ? Btto, ‘ n K , 1 * 10 oart [ l ^°. m ***.• oxcava-
his cavalry and drovo them southward
on tlio run . Being ignorant of the trap
Bet for them, the Indiaos galloped care
lessly along until thousands of them
were piled in the ditch, one on top of
tion over the ground with such care as
at“work on a scaffold ! °n7know,“and wUh whom UrwasYon“ | ‘ZIL n a 0tl Th g oXhef ?he h °dltZT. i 1 i
nnd my eyes happened to light on a man versing earnestly. I went a fow steps to . V h fl un lfnd thn Indiana with
who sat by a thffi-s.ory window, apnar meet Lm and'was within a few /ards
ently packing n vnliso. Tho window of them before Collins saw me.
was op'ou, ami, as ho lifted some article ! “Ah, how are you, Mr. Collinsi” I
to store it awny, a piece of newspaper ] said.
on which it had lain curno fluttering Ho started visibly, but on recognizing
into tlio gutter near my feet.
' might not have
circmustauco but
opuning a couvcr a- ot he r a were crushed by those "who fell
'°“Uoiug traveling,” said I. 1 U 1 J0, ‘ the, -“' 'vhile. those who crawled
“Yes: to New Haven.”
“Wouldn’t it lie just us well to go to
Trenton?" I asked significantly.
lie turned palo, aiul in a voice that
quivered porceptlhly said:
flMelkarst, Mlwlul|>pl, Drimyti hr Flre-
The JtMluiatt'd Law.
Eckert, one of wl om shot aiid moi't-H? The business portion of ti e io n of Hazel
womuted him. Tbe fatborof Bryapt; Iiasiv- -hurst, Hiss., was burnnl Tu.sdsy night, 'ilu
Ing li > son call, rap out and allot and killed
liotli of ills pursuers. Yoyng Bryant wai
mortally wounded.
low iacalonlated at $100,000, insurance small.
Thirty-live butldings woro destroyed.
(Which the |tnper
s, not in a straight line, but almost in
iho form of tlie letter V, ns though it
had beon done in a hurry. This corre
sponded with tlie piece I'd found in the
murdered tnnn'B house, nnd i snatched it
up nml ran into nn alley to compare thorn.
Wliftt a leap my heart gave when I dts-
unvoted that the two pnrts of the papor
titled exactly—there wns no doubt
about it. ^
“On bis track," I muttered. “He
must not get off with thnt vnli3e."
Being familiar with tho hotel, I
crossed tho street, went in. nnd was
soon rapping on tho tl tor of room twen
ty one, from wlto.-e window the paper
had just blown,
i “Come in.”said a voice.
I opened the door ami recognized,
! still seated by the window, Iho man I had
j seen packing the vnliso, n task he had
i completed. Ho was a muscular man of
J forty, with a clean shaven face thnt wore
an expression of craftiness. lie seemed
confused when I entered, and said:
“Alt. I thought it was the porter.
Haven’t you made a mistake?”
Without replying i dcliborutoly locked
tho door, and put the key in my pocket,
while he stared amnzcdly,
“1 see you nro getting ready to leave."
1 remarked sarcastically.
“Yes."
“Suppose you stay in New Yorlc a
little longer, ”T said.
“Why, what do you mean?" ho ex
claimed, rising from his chair.
“Uk,i nothing of consequence,” I re-
pliedv cooKy. “Perhaps you wouldn’t
object to my taking a look into that
jront Heaven, Mr. Whitmire, what
do you menu now?”
“I mean that you nnd your friend must
go to the station with nto.”
With a look of despair on his white
face that I shall never forget, ho dropped
his valise nnd stuggered a few steps to
att awning post, which ho hold to for
support.
Al tho same moment his companion
j turned to dart nway, but, luckily, two
men, who had just stopped ou the side-
wnlk to tulk, stood directly in his path,
and his movements became confused. I
reached him in oue bound and seized
him by the collar, warning him not to
resist. Ho was thoroughly eowod, while
Collins had too little strength left in
him to oscapo.
In five minutes I marched them into the
station, togother with the vjrl so, and
had thorn locked up ia separate cells, I
then told thu cnptuiu tho whole story.
He was disposed to think, at first, that
I had made a blunder; but on question
ing the two prisoners, and especially on
examining the valise and finding a large
sum of money in it, he concluded that: I
had caught tho right men, and so dis
tanced tne regular detectives.
It proved to be so, and the two men
were duly convicted of murder on evi
dence that was beyond all dispute, In-
JnAfl wVinn Pnlllna Innt. nil VionA til am.
out wero dispatched by the sabres of
the cavalrymen.
Those who wore uot driven into tht
ditch fled to tho eastward hunting for a
crossing, which tho soldiers allowed
them no time to make, even if they had
had the tools. Shovels and pick* nnd
spades are unknown amoDg the Pata
gonians, and as they are the wards of no
nntion, muskets aud ammunition had
never been furnished them to do their
lighting with. It was very much such a
chase as Chief Joseph of tne Nez Forces
gave Gonoral Howard in the Northweat
a few years ago, and finally ended in
General Roca driving tho Iudians into a
corner, with tho impassablo Rio Negro
behind them, where the slaughter was
continued until most of the warriors fell.
Tho remainder were mado prisoners and
distributed around among the aeveral
regiments of tho Argentine army, in
which they have proven excellent
soldiers. The women and children wer*
sent to tho Argentine cities, where they
have since been held in a state of temi-
slnvery by families of officials and men
of influence. The dead were never
counted, but were buried in the ditch
which encompassed their destruction.—
New York Sun.
V. Houghton, of Corning, Tehama
county, Cal., will soon lutvo probably
tho largest poultry farm in the world.
He has nearly 5,000 henB, and hat hie
hen houso built o
inovo them from
