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Newspaper Page TextThe Mercury. mitred m soeemd-olats matter at the NrtndertvUU Peutofflo*, April 87, 1880. SANDBR8VILLE, wAwnwroN county, g rough. THE MERCURY. -mum »r— A. J* JERNIGAN, FRoranroa and munn Subscription II.BO per Year City of Bandorsville. Mayor. J. N. Oil,WORK, AlAi niirn. W. R Truiprn, it E. RoUuHTok, .T. It Roberts, A. M. May-.. 8. O. I/ANO. Cirri'. O. C. Shown. Treasurer J. A. Irwin. Martha/. J. E. Weddon, Town of Tennilla, A. J. JERNHJAN, Proprietor. VOfiUMR VI TIE NEWS IN GENERAL. ' THE RACING FLOODS. DEVOTED TO LITERATURE, AGRICULTURE AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. SANDER!WILLS. GA, TUESDAY, APRIL 13, 1888. $ 1.50 per Annum. NUMBER 50. Intr.ndant. John C. Harman. Aldermen, J. F. Merkison, .1. D FiianKun, J. M. Brown. J. R. Pritchard. Clerk. S. H. B. Massey. MarthaI. J. 0. Hamilton. A. C. WRIGHT, ATTORNEY AT LAW, 106 Bay St., Savannah, Ga. IflfWIM, PRACTICE IN AM, TIIK Co I'll TS. E Si LANGMADE, ATTORNEY AT LAW, 8ANDERSVILLE, Ga. B. D. B D. Kvanh. ,Ir EVANS A EVANS, ATTORNEYSAT LAW SANDERVILLE. GA. F. H. SAFF0LD, ATTORNEY AT LAW, SAHDERSVILLE, GA. Will practice in all the Courts of llw Middle Circuit and in the conn tic surrounding Washington. Speoial at* tentiou giveu to commercisl law. F. K. Hinrs. O. II. Hourhs. HINES & ROGERS, Attorneys at Law, 8ANDER8VILLE, GA. Wilt pridin' in the counties of Wsshinc'o *. Jefferson, Johnston, Kmamrel end Wilkinson Slid in the U. H. Courts for the 8 mill irn Dis trict of Qeorgis. Will solas agents in buying, soiling or n ir- ing Ileal Estate. Office on West side of Public Houare. Ootn-tf G. WrH. WHITAKER, DENTIST, SANDER8VILLE, GEORGIA. TERMS CASH. — Office [at his residence, on Hum is stiec . AprgO-'HO H. S. HOLUFIELD, Physician & Surgeon, SANDERSVILLE, GA. Office next door to Mis. Bttynt-’H Mi lineiy ^tor •, on Him* street. BUY YOUR ■i* 4&Mi FROM JEBITIGAN (.Sons goimino without our trade nnrb. i ON HAND A Nit FOB SA hi, SPECTACLES l *OSE GLASSES, Etc., Etc. Watches, Clocks and JEWELRY REPAIRED BY vJE3Kj3SriQj^3Sr. HAPPENINQ8 OF INTEREST FROM ALL POINTS. MinBN AND N1DDI.B STATE*. edbfvnf 5?? , 5r B ,’,S n 0,d mRB ' reject- J™ Williams at Oxford, Conn., olrnmT^i^.m.* n V* th#n AnilM bis own carver with poison. li*? , wii| , ^ : Si JoN * 8 > , the Southern evanjre tr^" 0 c_^rL 1 - I, .V the N,wark < N J > Pound ,P*P* r l <ll ? <1 tke ojher day in horrible torture dog™ bito drOPh0b * on^ondered by a mad another conference between the anlghto of labor representatives and Jay WoHrm? t? 9W a X° r . k , on ,hi ' :l0th Master JljTj^ntan Powderiy telegraphed toBt. Louis, rtrijtera In the South west to ro? g"**:"*- Mr. Powderly returned to his home at Scranton, Penn., and three members *E . of UW executive board •trlkobyarbltratfonf ^ B ‘ d ‘ n ” tUiug th " Duamo the severe storms of a few days i '•:*« steamers went ashore— the Capital City, running between New York and Hartford, striking the rocks off Rye f™“*h V., and the Europe, from Ham- nHr?n?.’ ln< f °T r Ne T York, going aground near Oilogue, Imng Island. No liver were lost, but both vessels were badly damaged. The steamship Gulf of Akaba.from Huelva bound for New York, with thirty-five men on board, has been given up as lost. ,„ Tp * Strike of 8,000 operatives in theCoboes '“•*.) mills has ended, the mill-owners con ceding the twelve per cent, increase in wages. mPu dk L. Bradin, who attended Neall the Newark (N. J.) poundkeeper, dur- ing hls ratal attack of hydrophobia, is him- wlf in danger, and haa startod for Paris for treatment by Af. Pasteur. While attending to hi* yiatient frothy ftaliva from the tnana ipa came in intact with Dr. Bradin’a aoro t numb. The doctor ia the aeventti person who haa gone to Paris from Newark for inocula tion againRt hydrophobia. Minkim in Pennsylvania are holding mass meetings to inaugurate the eight-hour sys tem in the mines after May 1. . Ex-Alderman William P. Kirk haa been arrested in New York on the charge of bribery in connection with the BrocuUay horse car company’s franchise, obtained from the city’s aldermanic board in 1884. The 2?, n {®* ion of ex-Alderman Waite led to Kirk’s arrest. IFIDE&PH EA I# i) ESTll UCTION 1A THE NORTH AND SOUTH. SOUTH AND WEST. GijykRal Delgado and Colonel Morey were hold for trial at Key West, Fla , as •Uipectad filibusters. Tho trial will take Place in New York in May. Convicts in tho Kansas State penitentiary nave been detected in tho manufacture of counterfeit coin. Two negroos, charged with murder, were taken from the jail at Alamo, Toun., by a crowd and hanged. _,The civil authorities proved powerless nt I»bis, 111., on the -‘JOth, and a crowd of 1,«XI men forced the sheriff to retire, as- •aulted his deputies, and destroyed and dam aged thousands of dollars’ worth of railroad property. Early in the morning Sheriff Hopiquet called for a posse. Only twelve an< l tb «y were soon put to tSF j l nv ®d*« the yards and dis abled a score of engines, and drove the few workmen who refused to leave their work out of the city. Mrs. Timothy Hurley, her fifteen-year old daughter and her new born infant, were burned to death in a fire at Rrouson, Mich. Six other persons were also badly burned. Geboniiio, the captured Apache chief, with twenty of his followers, 1ms escaped from the custody of the United States trooi* in Arizona. On the 1st the decree came from St. Louis that the strike must go on. The executive board of the Knights of Labor for tho dis tricts involved claimed that Jay Gould’s rep resentatives were acting with duplicity; that tfcoy refused to ro-employ men identified with the strike, and that they would not receive or confer with representatives of the order. For this reason the board declined to name a time for the strikers to resume work, and Issued an appeal to the country in the form of a short official address. The Missouri Pacific road claimed to be running its freight trains with regularity, and announced its ability to handle all freight committed to its care. At East Kt. Louis tho strike was still In full force, and all freight was blockaded except on the Wabash road. OTJR OB Pffll DEPARTMENT supplied with ah the requites fci Ml kinds of. Job mi 1 Hook kin F r Class Sly Jo. Pn* •ptvaud at Run.- sonabb Prices. 'VEDDJNG CARDS, VlfcjJT.NQ cards, BUSINESS ;vDS, _ BALL CARDS POSTERS, handbills. PROGRAMMES, STATEMENTS better headings, Dodgers. I’AMl lil.ETM, ETC.. ETC.. ETC WASHINGTON. Tiik KiMinte 1ms ronfirmeil the following noniinntloiiH; Williem L. Aldon, of New York, consul general nt Rome: Charles T. Bussell, of Connecticut, consul nt Liverjiool; pa’^uel U- Wheatley, to be commissioner of the District of Columbia; Samuel T. Corn, to lie associate justice, Wyoming Territory. In executive passion on the Hist Mr. Logan made a speech favoring open sessions. The nomination of the postmaster at Webster City, Iowa, was rejected by a nearly unan imous vote on the charge of “offensive par tisanship.” Tub nomination of William M. Merrick for judge of the District of Columbia has been confirmed by the Senate notwithstand ing the adverse report of the judiciary com mittee. The collections of internal revenue for the r .,8 , o £v 10nths of the fiscal year ending June ,50, 1880, amount to 175,158,200, an in crease of $2,410,888 over the receipts for the corresponding period of the last fiscal year. Additional confirmations by the Senate: William C. Emmet, of New York, consul nt Smyrna; Allen R. Bushnell, of Wisconsin, attorney western districtof Wisconsin: Alex ander H. bhipley to bo consul at Auckland: H. A. Johnson, of District of Columbia, con sul at Venice: William Gordon, of New York, consul at Medelin: H. C. Crouch, of New York, consul at Milan; Galusha Pen nell, of Michigan, marshal eastern district of Michigan; bpuille Braden, of Montana, to be a-ssayer, Helena; George F. Baylis, of New York, surveyor of customs, Port Jefi’er- *on, N. Y.; Arthur D. Bissell. of New York, collector of customs for district of Buffalo Creek, N. Y.; Brigadier-General O. O. How ard, major-general, vice Pope, retired. The reduction of the national debt last month was $14,087,884, leaving the total debt orUbe^lst£ less cash in the treasury, at $1,- Durino March the total government re ceipts were $80,070,168, and expenditures. $18,081,675. FOREIGN. Prince Bismarck has stated in the German reichstag that if great European troubles should arise they would prolubly become in ternational, aud that in his opinion the French army was opposed to workingmen’s movements. St. Johns, N. F., has been the scene of an exciting labor riot. A mob, demanding labor and railroad extension, assembled around the parliament buildings with flags, stormed the assemhiy house, routed the police nud broke into the council chamber, planting their banner on the table of the he use. An explosion of petroleum occurred the ; other day on board a vessel at Baku, Russia I The vessel was wrecked, and tho entire crew, ! consisting of thii teen persons, perished. ; The total number of arrests mode in Bel gium in connection with the labor riots is | 2,50.0. Hundreds of persons were killed or in- j jured, scores of buildiugs destroyed aud dam- | age amounting to millions of dollars was in- , flictod. The steamship Resolute, vvhaler and sealer, I haa been crushed by ice and'seut to the bot tom off tho coast of Newfoundland- Her crew, numbering 5180 men, were forced to leap for life, abandouiug everything. All but three reached land, seventy miles from the scene of the disaster. At the time of the accident the Resolute had captured 20,000 seals. A duel with pistols in which one of thu lirin ipais was instantly killed lias been fought between two French olllciaU in a pri- I v*te house at Valreas. C'itleannri Vlllagea NuliiiirraeH nnd People Driven From Thrlr Homes. Freshets in many parts of the country have Arne great damage. Many houses ou the Tennessee river were abandoupd, and the water ran through the doors and windows. The damage in tho lower part of Lynchburg, Va., was heavy. One third of tho Richmond aud Alleghany railroad from Lynchburg to Bu hanan, forty mile), was submerged, and all the trestling was washed away. The vil lage of Northpirt, Va., was almost sub merged, and the iron bridge was under water at lioth ends. In West Virginia tho Kanawha and Elk rivers rose rapidly. One half of Charleston, W. Va., was under water, and many dwell ings occupied by poor peoplo were submerg ed. The Western Union wires were under water from that town to Point Pleasant^ sixty miles. Floods near Pownal, Vt., raised the Hoosac rivor to such a height that the Troy A; Boston railroad track was covered with five or six feet of water aud debris. No trains could get thro.igli, and the company's tele graph wires were all dowu. Land slides along the east bunk of the Hudson retarded travel between Troy and Albany. A freshet along the Midland division of the Grand Trunk railway, Canada, stopped all trains, and travel was not resinned for several days. It was snowing hard there. In Illinois, Iowa nnd Wisconsin there was a heavy fall of snow lasting forty-eight hours. The snowfall ranges from four to fifteen inches. A heavy rain and melting snow back in the mountains, raised the rivers in Vermont so that great datnago was done. Main street, in Berlin, across the river from Mon teller, was filled many feet high with ice for nearly one mile. The Winooski branch was higher than at any time since 1 *»>'.», A house on the bank of the river, occupied by William Lind sey, was swept from the foundations by ice. The family was asleep when the shock came, but all escaped safely. A railway bridge on tho Northenstern road at East Rich ford was carried away. At Lancaster, N. H., the ice from Israel's river formed in a big jam just liolow Mechanic street bridge and caused the river to be par tially turned from its course, ho that aoout ono-nalf the stream ran rlown Mechanic street, carrying huge cakes of ice along in its course. Nearly all the houses in that section of the village were flooded. The sash and blind works of Nich olas Wilson were carried away and are a total loss. The Stewart house, fi small hotel, was flooded, but the guests and occupants were rescued from the second story by means of ladders and I mats. William E. Robertson, with six French la borers, stated from Bradaboro, VL, for Heart- burg, where they were all going log-rolling. When crossing Keith bridge, about a mlUh from any house,the bridge gave way and tht men ancf horses were precipitated into tht river. The water was very high and only two escaped. Robertson and t hree French men were drowned. The greatest disaster by the floods in Ala bama was along the Alabama and Coosa rivers, in Coosa, Elmore, Montgomery, An- tauga and Dallas counties. Wetmuntka, the county seat of Elmore county, and the coun try around it were in a deplorable plight. Water woh four feet deep in business houses of the town, and occupants were driven out of many of the reddeuces. A coiv- vict farm was flooded and all hands had to take to the rafts and then floated for miles on those before they could land safely. One farmer was drowned while crossing a stream. There is not a brichro left in Elmore county, and only one mill. Untold damage has been done further down the river. Selma was cut off from tho outer world by destru - tion of railroad bridges nnd tracks, and a vast area of farmingcouutrv tributary to it was under water. The Coosa l iver at* Gads den was the highest ever known. Railroad tralfic and mail service were paralyzed nearly all over the Htate. The James liver at Richmond. VfL.rose steadily, and nearly all that part of the city known as Rocketts, occupied mainly by poor families, was submerge I to a depth of from eight to ten feat. Numerous families were driven from their hmie* and had to seek shelter elsewhere THE PREMIER HISSED. Hill DEMONSTRATION IN LONDON A GAINST IRISH ROME RULE. FOR RIVERS AND HARBORS. 'SETTLED BY ARBITRATION, Tlir llntt.p ( oiiilnlltpr', nill Approprl.- tins Over 8IA.INMMHM). Tho River nuj Hnrlior Appropriation bill, completed by the House committee, mnkra ! n total appropriation of 815,1(11,200, which will become available immediately upon the pnnsnRc of the bill. As there was no appro printout made for river and harbor improve ments Inst session, the present appropriation Ylrtually covers a period of nearly two years. The larger Items of the bill are as fol ■ lows: Rockland, Me., *20,000: Burlington, Vt., 815,000; Boston harbor, 815,000; Nowlmry- port. Mass., 850,000; Newport: R. I„ 812,800; rawtuekot river, R. I., ♦.'CJ.iK'K); Providence and Nnrragausett bay, 8-'i5,000; New Haven breakivntor, 8100.000j Htonlngton, Conn., 820,000: Connecticut rivor, 835,000; Thames river, Conn,, 800,000; Buffalo harbor, 8160,- 000: Oswego harbor, 805,000; Buttermilk Obannol, N. Y., 875,000; Hell date, 8150,000; Hudson river, 815,000; Newtown creek nnd bay, N. Y., 850,000; Raritan bay, N. J., 830,000; Passaic river, N. J., 835,000; Raritan river, 835,000; Erlo harbor, Penn.; $50,000; Allegheny river. Penn., *10,000; Schuylkill rivor, Penn., *25,000; Delaware river below Trenton, $210,000; Delaware breakwater, $75,000; Wilmington, Del.. $20,000; Norfolk harbor, Va., *100,000 James river, Va., $150,000; Cape Fear rivor, N. C„ 8125,000; (treat Kanawha river, W. Va., #150 000: Charleston harbor, 8. C., 8250,000; Cumberland sound, Oa., $150,000; Savannah, Qa., *135,000; St. John’s channel, Fla., $200,000; Mobile, Ala, $120,000; Roekjiort and Corpus Christ! har bors, Texas,$135,(X)0; Galveston, $400,000; Sa bine pass nnd Blue Bush bar, Texas,$265,000; Chicago, $100,000; Illinois river, 8100,000; Humboldt harbor nnd bay, Cal., $100,000; Hay Lake channel Mich.,'$100,000; canal nt tho Cascades, Ore , $200,000; Lower tVilla motto nnd Columbia rivers, Ore., 8100,000; Cumtjerland river, Tenn., $100,000: Tennes see river, below Chattanooga, $350,000; Ken tucky river, #250,000; Ohio river, $500,000; Fails of the Ohio, $200,000; Missouri river, from mouth to Sioux City, 1500,000; Missis sippi river, $8,800,000. BASE BALL MOTES. THE HA1EHOAU STRIKE IN Tilh SOUTH}VEST AT AN END. Dundon, a mute pitcher, Is doing fine work for tho Nashville*. Home of the Southern league clubs play a tronggameof ball. A nine of female bolldossers has been playing Sunday games at New Orleaus. Toe new grand stand on tho Metropolitan grounds, Staten Island, will cott $27,000. In a game of baseball played at HavAnnah. Ga.. a short time ago, the Pltteburgs scored 1 to tne Savannahs 0 In lift en tuning*. J. E. Sullivan, a professional ball player, a few days since committed suicide at Grand Rapid*. Midi. He wah in ill henlth and somewhat dissipate!I. IThi seven olulvi which compose the New England league are as follows: Boston, Port- land, Brockton, Somerville, Lawrence, Haverhill aud Newbury port. The new Gulf league comprises clubs in Selma, New Orleans, Montgomery. Mobile, Columbus and Pensacola. The rules of the National league have been adopted by the Gulf league. Dunlap is captain of the Ht Louii Maroons, Ward of New York’s Giants, Anson commands Chicago’s Babies, Jim White is chief of Detroit’s' big four and little five, and Morrill boa charge of Boston’s men. The weights of tho Chicago*, as taken a* Hot Hprings, Ark., are as follow*: Anson- 227; McCormick, 226; Williamson, 221; Gore, 187; Flint, 1H.Y; Kelly, 182; Dalrym- pie, 175; Burns, WO; Clarkson, 165; Pfeifer, 160; Moolic, 158 1*2; Ryan, 155; Sunday, 140; Flynn, 142. This is the time throughout the land The huso-hall tos>or takes his stand Upon tho diamond, Ixili in hand, Exerting every nerve; For well he knows the noble game Will surely bring him worth and fame If he can got the sjieed nud aim Or some new-fangled curve. -Merritt. The mask which baseball catchers now wear was the invention of Fred. Thayer. He was training the Harvard niuo in the winter of '76 and ’17, when Harrold Ernst, one of the fasted of pitchers, was on tho nine. Jim Tyng, who caught, said that he would not staud tiehiml the bat unless lie could get some sort of protection for his face. The result was that Thayer fixed up a sort of cage, which has gradually become the improved mask of to-aay. MUSICAL AMD DRAMATIC. 4<li»riin* a Jteaoluiion ronilemnlnc Mr* Gladtiene nnd Purnell. A great mass meeting was held tho other afternoon in Guildhall, London, to protest agaiust the granting of a parliament to Ire land. The lord mayor presided. Nir John Lubbock (liberal), member of jwirliamenfc for London university, moved the adop tion of a resolution condemning Mr. Gladstone for his intention of “hand ing Ireland over to Mr. Parnell, whom he previously denounced.” A werk- iugman arose and offered an amendment to Sir John Lubbock’s resolution, but he was howled down, nud the resolution was carried amid wild enthusiasm. Two hundred jier- sons in I he immense audience voted in the negative. At every mention of Mr. Parnell’s name tho audience hissed. The name of the premier was treated in the same way every time any speaker used it. There was even cries of “Glaudstone is a lunatic!” All the speeches wore intensely patriotic nnd the speakers were loudly cheered. Mr. George 1 otter, a liberal, ventured to propose nn amendment to the r.ub*; k r»»v-- mt;^ id effect that Mr. Gladstone >wts entitled to the confidence of the audience and the British public, but ids voice was drowned by groans and cries of “Go home!” “Turn him out!’ The meeting closed with three cheers for the ciueeu, after which tho as- sembinge | e f^ tbe ball singing in chorus, “Rule Britannia!” ‘‘Mr. Gladstone is riding straight for a fall!” the Tall Mall Gazette declares. “He refuses,” says the Gazette, “to modify his Irish scheme, and the result will be that the country will have neither home rule in Ire land nor Mr. Gladstone.” The Gazette an nounced in precisely the same way that Lord Salisbury would “ride for a tall” at the very time the tory i premier was arranging for his own defeat. Ihe dec larntion at the time was gen- “rally liootod by tho otliei* Kuglish papers, I but the (luzeitr was entirely amii'ate then. , It is thought that the editor has special ' knowledge that Mr. Gladstone, being con vinced ot the absolute justice and good |>oliey I of his Irish proposals, and at the same time convinced that tiro tory aud radical politi cians have determined to defeat them, means I to forco tho issue and bring about, the defeat as soon as possible, content to sacrifice i power in his final oflort at pacification. The Dublin Freeman's Journal, com- ; mooting on tho growing opposition among I the Scotch members of parliament to grant ing Ireland a parliament, threatens that, if the Scotch members help to defeat Mr. Glad- I stone’s homo rule bill, the Pnrnellitos will I adopt a policy of reieptless opposition to ' cw.ry Scotch measure which may come he- ^ fore parliament. —i Evidently Not Practising. Pompano—“So Doctor Hackemnp is 1 about to retire from practice?” Bromley—-“Indeed? I was not % ware ! •( it.” “I have the strongest reason for believ ing so from an act of his this morning.” ‘.‘What was that?" “I saw him kick a banana peel off the sidewalk.”—Philadelphia CaU. Barky, the horse-trainer, was never married. Greatness never makes a mis take, Mrb. Lanotry has finally decided to tour this country again next season. Kibnzl’s now ojtera “Uraisi” lias beon brilliantly produced at the Court Theatre in Dresden. Miss Clara Louise Kklloqq is singing now away down in the region of the Rio Grande. Kmperor William bus positively refused Ntoman, tile singer, ]ier>niasion to make a tour of America. Anna Dickinson is negotiating with an English manager to return to the stage. Hhe will make her second venture in London. "The Haruor Lights,” the latest melodra matic success in iondon, will he produced at the Boston Museum by Manager Field, next fall. Cincinnati has been afilicted with more than twenty different "Mikado” companies this season, aud yet there has beon no rioting there. A NEW society drama,much after the style of “Fedora,” has been completed by Oscan- yan, n Turkish journalist residing in Now York, for Fanny Davenport. Mme. Bkmbriob, tho great prima donna, has beou singing with great succoss in Riga, Wlina, 8t. Petersburg and Moskow. Russia Isa good Hold for enterprising singers. The Countess Agatha Dornfieid, is to be gin a thirty-two weeks’ tour of this country on September 0, noxt, in a repertory consist ing of "She Stooiis to Conquer," "Romeo and Juliet," etc. Patti vigorously retents the imputation that her popularity is ou the wane. She »s- serts that her three concerts iu Paris averaged $3,(XX) a night, and that her reception was most cordial. Mr. Edward E. Kidder has just finished what lie terms a “Frivolous Farce,” in three acts, which satirizes iu a good-natured man ner the eutire secret workings of the stage aud the craze of young society girls for hand some actors. May loth Edwin Booth aud Tomasso Bnlvini will bogin an engagement at the Boston theatre. Two performances of “Othello" will he given, one with the Italian in the title-role end the American as “Iago," and one with the parts reversed. There were 130,300 poople who attended the performances of tin Gorman Opera com pany during the season recently dosed in New York, according to Manager Stanton. As there wore flfty-two representations, the average attendance was about 2,50.5. THE RIOTS IN BELGIUM. Towns and Vlllngen Plllnged, and Many i People Killed. The strikes in Belgium growing out of the j depressed condition of the iron and steel trodas have resulted in a t.nrihle series of j disturbances and collisions with the military iu various parts of the country. According i to one dispatch the damage to the property 1 iu tho disturbed district was estimated at i $5,000,000. There were more than 15,000 j poldiers in the field. Every jewelry store ; and gun shon in Charleroi, an l nearly every liquor warehouse and liquor saloon waa • looted. Churches were robbeu of all articles ! of precious metal. More thau 100 collieries, foundries and residences were burned. Hun dreds of persons wew killed or wounded. Many citizens were robbed iu the streets in daylight. One young woman who wore a dia- montfring that was tight upon tho finger had her finger amputated by ruffians with a chisel and mallet. Scores of women were brutally ; assaulted. In two cases mothers Imd thobraius of their babies dashed out be ford their eyes. Before order was restored more than 2,500 arrests were made. i Negotiation* Prtwcen ,!ny Gould nnd Tlir linight* of l.nbor. The executive board of the Knlghte ot l*alM>r m-t iu New York on the 27th and pro- ( poiod t«» ay build, president of the Missouri Pndil'ran road, that a committee of seven be appointed to arbitrate upon the matters in dispute which had lod to tho strike on the Gould eystem of railroads in the South* west. This offer of the Knights was , at first refused by President Gould up. n tho ground princinally that an ngireine.it made with tho Missouri Pacific road la*t August by the employes not to strike without due notice had b.'en violated by tho latter. This reply of Jay Gould Foemed to put an end to a chance for set tled ont. But the straiuel lela tions which seemed to exist between the officers of the Missouri Pacific railway nnd the general executive board of ! the Knights of I.ul>oron the 27th wore only stinin d iu npiwtrnnce. On tho 28th General 1 Master Workman Powderly nnd W. O. Mc- Dowelt, n inethbor of the Knights of Lnbir from Newark, N. J., a railroad man himself, representing the Knights of Iiabor, and Mr. Gould ana Vico-Presiaent Hopkins in l?ehnlf of tho companies, met at tin* house of Mr. Gould. Tho strike was discussed from beginning to end, In. Mr. Powderly says, a friendly spirit. The discussion lasted two hours and Isith side* acquired a great deal of informa tion which they had not before possessed. Then an adjournment was taken until even ing in order that each might think i tho mnt ter over in it* new light. At seven o’clock they met a second timo, and a tar two solid hours of argument Mr. Pow derly loft to fulfil an engagement. Half an hour later Mr. McDowell followed him. He bore with him the following communication from Mr. Gould: The Missouri Pacific Railway Co. I Nkw York, March 28. ( T. V. Powderly, Enq, G. M. IP; Dear Sirj Replying to your letter of the 27th Inst., I write to say that I will to-morrow morning sen?! the following telegraphic in* *tructi<‘iH: H. M. Ho.i ir, General Manager, St. Louie: Iu resuming the movement of trains on the Missouri Pacific, and in the employment of labor in the several departments of this company, you will give preference to our late employes, whether they are Knights of Labor or not, except that you will not employ any person who has in jured the company’s property during the late strike, nor will we discharge any person ! who has taken service with the company I during the said strike. We see no objection ! to arbitrating any differences, between tha 1 employe* a ml tho company, post or future. Hoping the al*>vo will be' satisfactory I re i main, yours very truly, Jay Gould, President. Mr. Powderly received the communication at tho Astor House about 11 o’clock and im- 1 mediately sent out the following telogram: Nkw York, March 28, 1886. j Martin lron.n t Chairman Executive Board, ! Diet riot Aetembly No. 10], St. Louie: President Jay Gould has consented to our proposition for arbitration, and so telegraphs Vice President Hoxie. Order men to resume work at once. By order of Executive Board. T. V. Powderly, G. M W. The following general order was also sent out by telegraph before midnight: New York, March 28. 1886. To the Knighte of Labor, now on strike fa the Southwest: President Jay Gould has consented to our proposition for arbitration and so telegraphs Vice-President Hoxie. Pur suant to telegraphic instructions sent to the chairman of the executive board of District Assembly No. 101, you are di rected to resume work nt once. By order of Executive Board. T. V. Powderly, G. M. W. Congressman John J. O'Neil, who is chair man of the labor committee of the House of Representative*, reached the Astor house just in time to be the first to congratulate Mr. Powderly on the successful issue of the strike. He had come from Washington to tuko a hand in the settlement himself. He brought with him the text of a tabor bill, intended for immediate presentation to the House, aud submitted it to Mr. Powderly. He went back to Washington on the midnight train, after sending the following despatch to tho Ht Louis Republican. Settlement of strike effected. Gould con sents to arbitration. Executive committee, Knights of tabor, order men to resume work. Congratulate our people on results. In the course of nn interview General Mas ter Workman Powderly was asked how many men hnd engaged in the strike and replied: 41 Well, it covered about 8,000 miles of road, aud there must have been At least 12,000 or 14,000 direct employes. Beside this, of course, mAny more men and women have been thrown out of work by the closing of the mills and factories, which was brought about by the failure to run trains. The strike has demonstrated in a mtst forcible manner the necessity of laws to regulate the relations between employers and employed, and Mr. O'Neill's bill will come in very pat just at this time.” The executive committee of the district as sociations of the Knights of tabor in St Louis issued orders on the 20th for the men to resume work. In the evening the order w as re scinded. a dis|mt£k having been received from Master Workbmnrowderly stating that fresh complications had arisen as to methods of arbitration. In East St, Louis, HI., the strikers thwarted all attempts to move freight, and the sheriff at length appealed to Governor Oglesby for assistance. After Grand Master Workman Powderly had held a second conference with J ay Gould in New York, on the 80th. he telegraphed to St. Louis, orderiug the striking employes on the various railroads to return to work. Mr. Powderly then weut home to Scranton. Penn., and a committee of three members or the executive board of the Knights of tabor proceeded to St. Louis, to confer with the railroad authorities with a view to a settle ment of existing differences. AtHt. Louis, on the 81st, Martin Irons, chairman of the executive committee of District Assembly No. 101, which embraces all Knight* of tabor employed by the M souii Pacific Railway oompauy. te.egrnnhed to the different local assemblies under his jurisdiction, notifying them officially thut the general executive board had ordered all the men to go to work pen iiug arbitration of the existing difficul ties by a committee of the Missouri Pacific employes and Mr. Hoxie. Upon receipt of this order many of the men returned to work and freight trains began moving once more. OM4I nrlta, with ink unfading, Onahrisf code for youths and mm\ Ooilil thow its all-porvadiag F«w«r in progrere, I would p«o t — Try It KMte word* these*, born in heaven; Dowd by thoughtful ugels hurled; Blighted, men to doom is driven; Heeded, they give men the world;— Try it. Lurk is judgment wed to Lebor; Pluck, the handmaid of Succeee: Toil to Truth should he a neighbor; Honor brings her own redrew;— Try it. Btarry orbs yet rail the etudent; Earth's past age is still unread; Nation, seek the wise, the prudent; Thtongs and armies must ht led) Try It How did Watt to steam give mettonl Locke, trace purposes of mind? How Columbus cross the ooeeal How did Luther change mankind!— They tried it How Did Homer write his spiel How did Scott compose hie lay*? How did Hendelaeehn, his mUriel How did Shakespeare write hie plays I— They tried it Thus it was, will be forever: If "To be" man has in view, Man must live with Arm endeavor Well to think, then plain, then do;— Try it. —T. C. Judkins, in (At Current PERSONAL HEHTIOI. C. P. Huntington, the railway king, says he rests tvo days every week. Rkpresentative Abram 8. Hewitt will not be a candidate for re-election to Con gress. Mr. George Hearst, the new Senator from California, is said to have an income of $2,000 a day. M. Pasteur is spokeu of as a modest,retir ing and unaffected man in social life, and a hospitable entertainer. Fred. Douglass aud his white wifearedaily visitors in the United States Senate gallery. They are going abroad this summer. General John B.Gordon will deliver the address r.t the unveiling of the Confederate monu?rient at Myrtle Hill cemetery at Rome, Gi., on May 10. Miss Marian Foster, the crippled artist, has visited the White House, at the invita tion of Miss Cleveland, and had an inter view with tho President,of whom she is paint ing a portrait. \ President Holden, of the California State uuiversity, receives a salary of $5,000 as pres ident, ana $0,000 as director of the Lick ob servatory. This is the largest salary paid to any college president in the country. Mr. Peter M. Arthur, chief engineer of the Brotherhood of tacomotive Engineers, t,be brtst ixtid body of skilled artisans ju the United Shitos, is an American of Scotch- Irish extraction. He is a man of fifty-ftyau and has been chief for th# lost* -- * ***'•* BY THE WAVES. “And why wc named her Muriel, is a mystery to me,” said good Mrs. Doyle, folding up her mending. “Mary Jane or Hannah Maria would hare been jeal aa good and a sight more suitable; but I read novels when I was young, and I ace that name somewhere, and it kinder £ leased me—so I must go and call bar [uriel.’’ And, indeed, Muriel Doyle waa little like her sweet, ethereal name. A strong, lithe, healthy fisherman's daughter, witn brown oyes, brown hair, brown cheeks, brown hands; hands that could wield an oar or trim a sail as well aa her father's own. A veritable child of nature, wild and free as the place she loved so well; and yet, not ignorant and uncultured. Muriel Doyle waa well versed In the lore Of books, and nature had given to her the ease and grace of dignity that others get by culture. “My sea bird I" her father called her; and the name was like the wild, glad young thing. When they could not find ner nb mt tne house, they always sought her by the sea, and they always found ber, slrolling idly down the beach, sitting among the roeks, nnd watching the wavea with dreamy eyes, chasing the surges like a child. Hhe was a rhild in guile less innnrence and freedom from art; but tn maturity of brain and heart she was a womnn at seventeen. Half a mile from thu cottage of the Doyles, n grand new hotel was being built; another season would lee their quiet home turned into a seaside resort, and Muriel was not pleased at the thought of tho coming change. Bite loved her wild rocks ana lonely bench as they were, and 1)10 did not want to see them changed to fashionablo promenades. But Muriol’i dissatisfaction could not change the as pect of affairs; she knew that the fash ionables were surely coming. She was thinking, rather sorrowfully, and perhaps a little unamiably of that, aa ihe wandered down the sands one day, thinking how she was soon to be driven from her favorite haunte, an4 a bright flame came into her eyes and cheeks, and site stamped her foot upon the sand and exclaimed aloud: “They shall not drive me awayl I will not exile myself from the sea because they cornel” And then she stopped sud denly and caught her breath; for turn ing around a point of jagged rocks, Mu riel was upon the vanguard of the in vaders. Two young men—one of them a com monplace, handaotnish young fellow—sat upon a stone, and held a portfolio upon his kneo—a sketeher. The other stood leaning against a rock beside him, and looking down indifferently upon the half-finished sketch on his companion's knee. A tall, grave man, of twenty- seven, perhaps, with a magnificent head, from which he had removed his hat; dark, half-curling short hair; eyes blue, and dark and splendid; a face that was perfect in beauty, and a commanding, stately figure, half-covered by a loose cloak flung over one shoulder; a very handsome man, but grave to sadness; a man who had suffered, and not lightly. Muriel hesitated for a moment whether to go back or to pass them; then a proud impulse bade her to go on. Both looked up as her light step crossed the sands, and both bowed when she slightly glanced at them. They were gentlemen. She inclined her head u little as she passed. The next moment she heard the young er of the two whisper: “What a striking face! Wonder if ■he would let me sketch her?” “Hush! She will hear tou,” warned the other; and Afuriei, turning, saw the half contemptuous curl of his lip. “I have heard," she said, quietly, com ing back. “You may sketch ray face, if you choose.” “May I? A thousand thanks." “None at all, if you please,” returned Muriel, composedly seating herself, and drawing her shawl about her. “I am curious to see a picture of ntyself. Shall I take off my hat?" “If you will be so good,” end Muriel lifted the broad hat from her aunny- brown curls, and quietly proceeded to ait tor her protrait. The young man sketched busily away, making no effort to conceal his admira tion of his “subject;” an admiration to which Muriel was quite indifferent. Meanwhile the second gentleman, who had not spoken, stood silently studying the face that his companion sketched. It was well worth studying; no ordi nary face, though not wonderfully beau tiful. The brown eyes and graceful features, and smiling, red lips were pretty and attractive, but there was a certain power and attraction in Muriel’s face which it did not owe to its prettiness, which would have been there still, had ihe grown plain. It was au expression not easily trans ferred to paper, and the tall gentleman looked somewhat contemptuously upon the finished sketch, when it was handed to him for judgment; then he remarked: “The lady is a better judge," and passed it to Muriel. She glanced a!, shook ber head sad smiled, and returned it to the sketeher. He colored a little, us he asked: “Well, da you like it ? is it good?" “It will do; but I could make abet tor)" said Muriel briefly. "Do yeu sketch?" he asked, wender- ingly; and he did not think she saw or understood his glance at her dress, and from that to the cottage, which he guessed was her home. But ahe did, and emiled slightly, aa ahe answered: “Sometimes." “Will you—” he hesitatod, then of fered her his portfolio, “will you show me a specimen?" “Your face?” queried Muriel, aa ahe quietly received tne materials. He assented, and bending over the paper, she shortly returned to him an outline sketch of his face; not a finished (ketch at all, but so like that it was wonderful. He looked from the picturo to her, then laughed and said: “Coon my word, I shall take care how I display my amateur attempts agsin.lest I flourish them in tha fsce of a genius I” Muriel emiled carelessly, and rising from her rocky seat, was about to go, when the silent gentleman spoke: “Pardon me, would you sketch me?” For answer, Muriel resumed her seat and took up her penoll again. Nowand thea, aa ahe worked, ahe glanced at the grave stranger, and her own face seemed to eatch the shadow from it, growing almost as grave aa his. She gave more flniah and completeness to this picture than she had bestowed upon the drat. Aa ahe waa about to band it to the “original,” a sudden impulse caused her to withhold it, an arch smile took the place of her gravity, and bending low her head, till the curls fell over ana con cealed ber work, she added a fewatrokea about the mouth and on the brow; then, with a laugh daaclng in her eyes, she placed it ia bit hand. It waa hi* face, aa real, aa vivid almost as its reflection in a glass; but his face tranaflgured. The cloud of isdneai was replaced by a smile: such a warm, trank, glowing amile aa gladdens the heart to see It; 'the real aunahlne of feeling," At first he looked at It in a puzzled way, aa if wondering what ihe had done to hia face, until Ms companion, looking over his shoulder, uttered an exclamation ef surprise, and then burst out: ' 'Owen. I believe she has second sight I She haa drawn yeu as you looked six years ago, in the college days. Old fel low, if you kaew how smiles become you, you would not be so charry of them. ” i “Owen’s dark-blue eves brightened for a moment with something akin to the j smile that glorified them in tha picture; then ha sighed and his face grew and agaiu. “Ysu are a strange girl,” he said, look-1 ing curiously at Muriel. “Do you know | what I would give to feel again as you have made me look?” “You are rich, I suppose,” answered Muriel, simply; “and you would give; your whole fortune—at least, I would, in ' yeur place.” A look of perfect agony swept across hia handsome face, and he cried, passion ately: “I would! girl, 1 am very rich, and I would give ten times as great wealth, if I had it, to bring back ” he stopped. abruptly, and turned away. He came back immediately, and sgain addressing Muriel, thanked her for tho picture; and then, aa ahe was turning away, he heai-1 tatingly asked her name. “Muriel Doyle,” ahe quietly replied. “And mine ia Egbert Owen,” he said. “Will you remember my name and me?” Hhe bowed, smiled, and walked lightly away, never glancing back, though she knew they watched her till the rocki hid j her from their sight. “What a handsome man he was,” ahe j soliloquized, walking up the beach toward ' her home. “But how sad and grave, and i how sorrowfully he spoke. I wonder what j hia trouble, ia perhaps ho Is in love and she won’t have him. She muat he a perfect! idiot!” Muriel did remember Egbert Owon. I That waa her first advonture, and he waa ! its hero (for ahe scarcely thought of tho I others); but she never thought to meet | him again. The winter passed away and the sum mer came again, and with it cams the crowd of visitors to the now hotel. Muriel’s quiet haunts were made to ring with gayety, and since their seclusion was gone their chiefest charm was lost for her. Yet still she sometimes sought ( them, at times when she was not likely to I meet the fashionables. On one of these | occasions she was sitting among the rocks when two women came and sat down, nearer her, but out of light, and 1 talked. Muriel scarcely heard them, until one mentioned a familiar name; then she listened intently. “Yes,” one of them had remarked, “she was married yesterday so the banker from Chicago. “I expected It long ago," sagely ob* served lady number two. “By the way, did you ever hear of the affairs between her and Egbert Owen?” “No, indeed; what about it?” “She was engaged to him," said the other. “It was some years ago, before he went to California. He just about wor shiped her, they say, and ahe pretended to be very devoted to him; it ia likely she wanted hia money. Well, one day, she got hold of that trumped-up story about insanity in his family, end she broke off the engagement, all in a Hash. “The poor fellow was half crazy, but 1 she would not listen to one word from ’ him. She treated him shamefully,called him an imposter, and accused him of de- i ceiving her, and sent him away, half maddened. My cousin, Dr. Thorne, aaya if there had been a particle of in sanity in his veins, it would have shown itself then. But that is all a story. The only instance of insanity in the family was a sort of cousin by marriage; but that was enough to make a rumor, of course.” “An that explaius Egbert Owen's mcl- ancnoly ways, I suppose?” queried the other. “Yea; he has never been the same man aince. He went off to California, and only came back last year. He is so changed, poor fellow. Was that the lunch bell? Dear me! we shall be late!” and the two hastened up to the hotol. And Muriel went home, und thought more than ever of Egbert Owen. The summer and the early autumn waned, and the guests, one by one. went home from the great' hotel by the sea, till only two or three were loft; and Muriel took to walking on the sands and chasing the surges again. She was standing on the beach, one glor ious autumn day, watching the sea-gulls at their play, when a step came to her side. “Muriel Doyle I” She turned quickly, knowing the voice. It was Egbert Owen. A smile, that she was quick to see, came into hia face, and he said, gently: “ You have remembered me, then?” “I have remembered you, Mr. Owen.” “Am I changed?” he uked, The Mercury, PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY NOTIOMi ■VALL COMMUNICATIONS in tended for this paper muat be accompa nied by the fall name ef the writer, n< t neceeaarily for publication, but aa a guarantee of goqd faith. Wa art in no way responsible for the views or opialons of correopondents.. “Fes,” she replied slowly, looking into his face, and smiling into eyes that would smile hack now. “Yes, you are happier.” “I am happier, Muriel Doyle,” he re sponded. Then he talked a little, of the sea-view and the birds, and went away. But he cami, again tho next day, and the next, and Muriel learned that he waa staying un at the lonely hotel. Every day, now, he came to meet her on the shore and she walked with him up nnd down the long, even stretch of sand; and tho hour when they met came to be brightest of the long, bright twenty-four to Muriel. Bhe loved Egbert Owen ; she did notssolc to believe otherwise. “Muriel," he said to her one day, when they sat together by the sea; “Muriel, I am going away next week." “Going away I" Her cheeks grew pale, and her hand grasped tightly the bit of stick she was (willing. "Yes; will you go with mo, Muriel ?" The color came back to her check, and she looked Into his eyes with a shy, soft light in the brown depths of her own, but ahe did not speak. "Listen, Muriel, while I tell you my •tory," he said. And he held her little brown hand In his while he told her the story that ahe had heard before. The story of hia un happy love for a woman who had been so false to him, and made his. life so sad. “Bhe is married now," ho added. “I presume she will be happv with her hus band ; I hope she will. 1 have ceased to care for her." Muriel did not tell him then that the had heard the story before. “Yea,” answered Muriel. Mrs. Doyle, who will not ga to live in the city, but likes to visit her daughter there, insists that the reason ahe knows Muriel's husband is a little conceited about hia handsome face, is becauae the only picture In hia own room Is a pencil sketch of himself. “And tho frame cost $1100, If you’ll believe me!" she told Mr. Doyle. Newspaper Advertising. I should judge that tha people of this country expend at least thirty times as much money In newapaper advertising as they did thirty yeara ago. The vast in crease, of population and newspapers ex plains a considerable part of tnls, but it mostly cornea from the more general and freer use made of the advertising col umns by the general public. All classes have come more and more to bolievo that the newspaper is the most impersonal, self-respecting, and effective way of get ting before tho public with what any one want# to say to it. Thirty y’rnra ago a man who should spend 92,000 n year in the newspapers would attract attention as a large adver tiser; now there are houses expending almost as much monthly, right along through the year, without attracting at tention. Mr. Robert Bonner, whose undertakings in all directions have been characterized by breadth, boldness, pre cision, and succc*s, was the first to ranks the public familiar with largo advertis ing applied in the most original manner, to build up the circula tion of hia ledger to a point never attained before or since by any journal in this country. Although Mr. Bonner’s largest newapaper advertising was dono twenty-five yeara ago (for ho rapidly made hia paper successful, and, having accomplished hia purpose, cut down nia expenaea in that channel), still no one hat como up ta the “splendid au dacity" of an order for an insertion of an advertisement to coat over $00,000. And yet in pecuniary matters he is a very ex act ana careful man. It agrees with my experience that news paper advertising is profitable. A* I look hark over the considerable number of those whose advertising I have done I do not recall a single one who judioiousty, persaveringly, and freely pushed good articles, of whatever kind, in the news papers, and did not make at least a fair success, whilo & great many have gained ample fortune!. I will not mention naniea in support of this statement, aa I could easily do, but the list is a large one. Indeed, It has been my observation that it is easier for large advertisers .to make money than to keep it. Often it cornea in so fast that tho head gets turned and lavish personal expeuditurca and uq, profitable investments swnllow up tho fortunes which, had they been longer in making, would likely nave been mors permanent.—J. H. Batts. The Liquor Traffic. Some statistics as to the retail liquor trade of the United States are interesting and instructive. Thero are in all the 8tates 201,435 persona selling ardent spirits at retail under United States licenses. The proportion of saloons to inhabitants in tome of the States forma a curious study. In California thare is a saloon to each aeventy inhabitants, or to each serf uteen voters. In Illinois there is a saloon to each 280 persona, or about one to each sixty voters. In New York the proportion ia one to 150, in Ohio, ono to 204, in Pennsylvania one to 205. The prohibition States ahow the following re sults : Inhab- State*. Saloons, itanta. Voters. Main*, 1 535 100 Iowa 1 40ft 31 1 443 «« Illinois stands ahead in whiskey pro duction, with 88,488,388 gallons of ar dent spirits annually. Its annual malt liquor product is 37,339,273 gallons. In whisky, Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio follow next after Illinois. New York is the Empire State in boor aa in other things, except whisky, with the enormous production of 200,000,000 gallons a year. The revenue derived by the govern ment from the manufacture of spirits and malt llquora is $85,742,052 a year, of which about seventy-eight per cent, ia from spirits and twenty-two per cent, from malt liquors. Illinois pays one- quarter of this total tax.—Chicago Jour- nal. In Borneo. The ancient capital of Borneo, the town of Bruui, is situated on a river.with muddy banks, about twelve miles from the sea. The houses ore poor aud small; they are built on piles and thatched with palm leaves. The sultan, alleged to be more than a hundred years old, haa re cently maaried a girl of fifteen, who is his one hundred and sixteenth wife. His ter ritory has been the seat of several-recent insurrectionr, which he has been .power less to suppress; and it is only a question of whether the authorities of Sarawak or those of the North Borneo company shall take posaessionof the rebellious districts. More than twenty British subjects of Sarawak were recently killed by the rebels on the Tnisan river not far fi»m Bruni. Last summer tlie Tories gave Ireland an inch, and now they have got to taka a Parn-ell.—LowtU Courier.

Georgia Historic Newspapers

The Mercury. (Sandersville, Ga.) 1880-1???, April 13, 1886, Image 1