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THE MERCURY.
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the Sandersvllle Postofltce April 37,
1SS0.
Sandersiille, Washington County, Ga.
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THE MERCURY
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DEVOTED TO LITERATURE, AGRICULTURE AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.
VOLUME Vll.
SANDERSVILLE, GA., TUESDAY, JUNE 1, 1886.
.50 per Aunntn
NUMBER 5.
City of SandcraviUo.
Mayor.
J, N. Gilmore,
A Mermen,
\V. R Tmcu’Etr,
R E. Houuiiton,
J. B Roherts,
A. M. Mayo.
8. G. Land.
Clerk.
C. C. Buown.
Treasurer
J. A. IliWIN.
Marshal.
J. E Weddon,
Town of Tennillo.
Inlendant.
John C. IIarmvy.
Aldermen.
J. F. Mrrkison,
J. D Franklin,
.T. M. Brown.
J. R. Pritohard.
Clerk,
S. H. B. Masset.
Marshal.
J. C. Hamilton.
THE HEWS IN GENERAL.
HAPPENING8 OF INTEREST
FROM ALL POINTS.
* A. C. WRIGHT,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
X05 Fay St.. Savannah, Ga.
IliflTWILL PRACTICE IN AI L THE COURTS.
E. S. LANGMADE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
SANDERSVILLE, Ga.
1). It. Lvank, B. I>. Evans, .In
EVANS & EVANS.
ATTORNEYSAT LAW
SANDERVILLE, GA.
F. H, SAFFOLD,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
SANDERSVILLE, GA.
Will pi'act'ce in nil the Courts of Ilia
MiiMlo Circuit nml in the cmmtiia
mirro nnling Washington. Special n>
t i.tio-i given to conimercinl law.
KANTLHN AND .1I1IIDLE NTATKS.
John (TBiukn, CT.nlrmanof the New York
Domo-nutr .Stale Commlttoo, has lioon an-
in luted lo.-elver of the Hr. aiway Railroad
Loinpauv, of New York C.ty, In n suit
brought by th© Stnto's Attorney General to
"iud up t.io uffair? of tlmt corporation.
ThHkii thousand barbers lAm lel in Now
York a few days ng) in favor of yhorler
“ours an l advanced wajoi.
“I’linn” WniTE, the most notorious c.iuft-
a«Uce mau in tho country, fllefl n fewtlrrva
h his brulhor's house in Bending, Vt.
,y “is oilv tongue and gout hrtlanly roan rer?
lio sinceedod in tin last tWptity-two voir? in
rc ®Jdtg busincs? m n, gullible farmers nml
eontidiu ; women out of more than $1,500,001.
11 wi VU * , a Venr ‘ruhlo, clerical looking man,
nlgoly educated, and ilrobso.l with excellent
WIKto.
Twenty-two Troy (N. Y.) collar amt cud
manufacturing Anns have locked out their
employes, compiling about 8,000 girls ami
women. The cause of tho lock-out in a striko
jor nigh t va ^cs of tho 7.‘i() employes of one
Arm. About 16,000 persons aro alfo.ted by
tho sti ppngo.
Maink flshcrn.en aro greatly excited over
the seizure or tho hi h on *r Ella M. Doughty
by the Canadian aufchoi p.Ioj for violat ion of
the fishery law.*. They talk of arming their
vo t-OiH mul resisting arrest if they aro not
protoclod by tho Govornniont.
j Tun Now York Logtolnturo has adjouruoJ
for the m 8 ilon.
! Alderman Jariinp. cenvlotoil of inking
| a Or.bo of $■«.'(>,() H) for Ids vote in aid of the
Broadway r.iilrond chart? r,.was sentenced iu
New \ oi'K, on tli j Sloth. tj Slate prison for
nine j cars and ten montus. The highest son*
loncu pos-ihb for the oHVn -o is tvn years and
a h nvy line. Application for a stay of pro-
( ce l ugs wuiinade by Jaelmo's coutisol to an-
otro.* 1udgo, lint roiusod. Jauhno uttoily
brol o iIjhii a'tor to.it.nco was pa sod.
Colonel John B. Folsom, graiuifatbor
of Miss Kinnkio Folsom, the young laly on*
gngeil to ho m irrleil to President Clovoian d
died the other day at FulsomviMo, N. Y.
President Clevo'aud wn? the law pm tier iu
Buffalo of the Coloreds Into son, O.nar.
A fishing schoonor heavily annol is ro
ll * 10.1 to hi vo n iu Bo .ton lor the lisnku of
New oun Hand, djtormln.d t» resist any at
tempted Mdxuru hy the Cauodiuns.
Ljujb Willktt wa? h inged at Kingston,
o. V., fur the murder ot K«nvin K«Hand, his
employer, t!io uutivo being robbery.
A FATAL RIDE.
THE wife of u. s. minister
PENDLETON KILLED.
CAPTURED BY CANADIANS.
ANOTHER AMERICAN VESSEL IS
SEISED HP CANADA.
. K ICinics.
O. 11. Roue us.
HINES & ROGERS,
Attorneys at Law,
SANDER8VILLE, GA.
Will practice in the Bounties of Wushingto i,
JcA'iTHOti, .Johnston, Emanuel nml Wilkinson,
mid in tho U. S. Charts for the Soulln rn Dis-
t rot of Georgia,
Will nut mi agents in buying, selling or rent
ing Itoal Kdnto.
OAico on West side of. Public Square.
Oct 11-t f
a. w. h. Whitaker,
DENTIST,
SANDERSVILLE, GEORGIA.
TERMS CASH.—
(HT Office at bis rcaidunoo, on Uurris streot,
Ap/20-’BO
H. S. HOLLIFIELD,
Physician & Surgeon,
SANDERSVILLE, GA.
ftOCJTII AND WEST.
Another Chicago policonnn Hat died of
Mounds received from tho bomb thrown hy
Anarchists. lie ia tho sixth policomnn dea I.
More than 20,00.) striking tai'ors aud
tailmosKo 5 have roairne l to work in Chicago
cm tho Losis of nine houra’ work for ten h(>ura'
pay.
Ninktben inon havo boon indicto<l and
nrro to 1 in Milwaukeo for talcing part in tho
recent labor riot whi *h culminated iu a fatal
collision with tho ilulitary.
An alarm of lijo in a tliratro at Woatcr-
vill», Ohio, ivsulto l in a paid ; mining tho
700 iKKiplo composing tho and,on o. The tiro
"a, cauiid hy the ignition of gasoline from
one of the foot igli’.s. Iu the rush to evapo
about twenty-five pTsonswcro burned or
crushed, sjvornl with fatal ro»ult.
The Ohio slaturo has a ljoumod to
Jnnuarv4, P8f. Tim Democratic iSenatora,
who left tlio Hudo so they would not bo com
pelled to tako part in tho proceedings, did
not return, but went diroefc from Kf ntucky
to their homos.
Mur. Maugaukt Donnan, a widow living
in Lincoln county, W. Vu.,cut tho throats of
her throe ilaughtors, ago i twolvo, ton mi l
eight years, aud then killed herself, ttho had
become insauo front roligiousoxciteitiout.
A WAitst liersonnl canvass l’ur tho Gover
norship of Georgia is going on botwoon Gen
eral John B. Gordon aud Major A. O.
Bacon. Tho two candidates havo boon hold
ing joint discuss ions on the stump, and con-
sidcrablo feeling has boon displayed.
The Grnud Jury at BolloviiJo, Jib, has ro-
fusHl to indict the Deputy SlierilTs who tired
upon a mob in Ea-t, St. I/oiiis during tho recent
railruud strike aud killed six jiersons.
BUY YOUJl
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—FROM
j"Tui^nsrxa--A.nsr.
(None gcnuliro without our trad3 mirk.)
ON HAND AND FOlt SALE
SPECTACLES, HOSE pLASSES, Etc., Etc.
Watches, Clocks
AND
JEWELRY
nEt’AIUEI) BY
JBRIXIGAXr.
QUIT,
fiB PIT
DEPARTMENT
Is Hiipplird with alt the requisites for doing
all kinds of Job nil I Bonk work in F rulr
tUss Stylo, Pro apt v nml at Boa*
euimUa Vncia.
WFDDING CARDS,
VI8iT.NO CARDS,
BUSINESS CARDS,
BALL CARDS,
FOSTERS, .
HANDBILLS,
IT10URAMMES,
STATEMENTS.
LETTER IIEaDINGS,
D0DGER3,
rAMFIIIiETS,
. Kra sto era
WASHINGTON.
The Prcs'dont has vetoed the bill to o'tab-
lifeh a port of delivery at Springfield, Mans.
The Benttto hai conflrtne.l Mrs. Tliomp-
ton’s reuomlnatlon ni postmistress at Louis
ville. Ky, Of tin two Kentucky Senators
Mr. Bock favored aud All*. Blackburn op
posed contlnnntion.
Among recent confirmations hy tho Senate
of tho President's uomii atious are: General
W. S. rto^ocrnnsaB HpgLterof thwTroasury ;
S. AV. Burt, to ha Naval Onicer for tho dL-
triefof Now York; Unite 1 States Con
suls—Petor Ftraub, of Tennesajo, at St-.
Guile; Victor Viouain, of Nobrasku, at Bar-
rnnquilla; John AI. Buck, of West Virginia,
at Nagasaki; and Postmasters-G. C. Yon go,
Jr., Pensucoia, Fla.; D. W. Gwynn, at Talla
hassee, Flu.
The refection by tho Senate of the nomina
tion of C. W. B ittoa to bi Postmaster at
Lynchburg, Va., hai been officially an
nounced.
A bill is before Congress to prohibit own
er.-hip hy i'oi eiguoi s of lands in tho Terri
tories.
FOREIGN.
A on eat ban piot is to bo given in I«ondoa
to Oliver Wendell Holmes, tho American
author, hy tho authors and artistj of Eug-
laud.
Oueen Christina hm given birth to a son
-—the heir to the throne ol Spain. Tho ovont
was announced to tin peopio of Madrid by
tho royal standard being hoisted on tho
E alace, and hy a saint? of twenty-one guns.
[ad the child been a Princess a white Hag
would havo Loon displayed and flf toon instead
of twenty-one guns tlrdu.
AIoitnt Etna, Sicily’s celebrated volcano,
Is again it* a g,ato of eruption.
Sixty-eight Parnellitos, inombers of the
House of Commons, desired to speak on
Gladstone’s Homo Rulo bill, but. in rloforonco
to tho wiihes of Mr. Panioll, they have
agreed that only a limited number of them
should speak.
A conspiracy against the lives of Prince
Alexander, tho Bulgarian ruler, and M.
Karavolof, the Primo Minister, has been dis
covered.
United States Minister Cox has just
had a three hours’ interview with tho Sultan
of Turkey in Constantinople. Tho Amorlcau
Minister presented to thd Sultan gifts
sent bj' President Cleveland, consist
ing of n thousand views of scen
ery in dilTorcut part? of tbo United
States, po/ti a ts of celebrated and typical
Indians, topioi of the last census reports,
etc. The Sultan was well pleased with tho
presonts, and requested Mr. Cox to thank
Prosiclent Cleveland for tho “unique and
valuable gifts.”
DIH ASTRO US POWDER EXPLOSION.
In Tcn-
As tho Roddy coal company’s bestlocomotivo
engine was hauling two of their narrow gauge
coal cars up to the mines Tuesday aftornoon
londod with seventy-five kegs of powder, a ter
rible explosion cccurr. d, resulting in the de
struction of tho cars and powder, and burning
all the woodwork off tho (ngino. W. T. Lloyd,
engineer, and Dave Harper, fireman, had
their clothing blown and burned almost on"
tirely off and were badly burned from the head
to tlio feet. Just as tho explosion occurrod,
;Ii'e Rain, a darky, happened to bo passing, and
was blown into the ore k near by. When first
discovered, after the oxp’.osion, lie was sitting
up in tho creek entirely linked. It is not yet
rerlalnly known that cither of the three are
not fatally burned, but .there seems to be a
strong likelihood of it in all three cases. The
explosion is thought to have been causod by a
spark from the engine.
Thrown From Her Purring* In a tlmmwny
In Central Park, Now York.
A frightful accident, cmisol by a runaway
in Central Park, Now York, shortly after 5
o’clock i». M., a few day. since, resulted in the
indnnt death of Mrs. Alice Pondleton, Wife of
ex-Fenator George If. Pcudleton, United
States Minister t) Gannany, tthd the Serious
though not fatal injury of Miss Juno
Frances Pendleton, their twenty two-
year old daughter. Mis. l’cndloton
with her daughter, returned from
Berlin soma two mouth; ago, on a visit of
consolation to hor son, Frank K. Pendleton,
who recently lost hi? wife, and they were
shopping at his house iu N *w York. It wa
their intention to re join Mr. Pdudlet n
in Berlin in a shirt time. Abmt
i o'clock r. M. they entered tlio
ouo-horso victoria which tiny had order©1
from a livory stab'.o in Lexui jton avouuo,
and worodrivon l>y Hugh itollly, the conch-
roan, tj No. UIJ Hlxlh avouuo. While there
the hor o bo am j grea ly excit 'd uado.* the
(levatcd road, b it ll.-il.y kept him well in
hand.
From there, after a momentary viiit by
Miss Pendleton to Di-kel’s Hiding Academy*
in Fifty-sixth struo.. they drove into Central
/Park by way of tho Fifth nvomu ontratice.
They folio we 1 tho cont’al drive, and wore
ju?t in b.ght of tlio Wohst r statue
when a ruiiihling noise wa? hoard l*o-
h nd tho Vi t >rla. In nn instud?
tli .* t ‘lTiJlo I hors > plunged mid h lto 1. Tho
su Idea spring mil ed tlio coaohmau over t o
dashboard mid upon li s head, hut lie held
to tin reins without tliuclung. Whon the
ocuuimntiof tin lur. liing carriage saw the
box empty, with oil.) accord th *y sprang to
1 he Bnmo s.doof the carriage, and tried to
leap to tbo gim*?y slopo ho. during the road.
Mi-h ’u.idletou, hoing the li;ht.‘i*, reached
it; IVudlOton, Who was very stmt,
fail d, aud fed lioavlly on tli * con rote curb,
not five feet- from her tiuconcirms daughter.
The h nvo, dragging tin carriage and coach-
man, ran into a bush, :iO) feet further on, and
wa? then rung it by Patrick Conway, tho
watering fcrou ;ii hoy, win helpo l tho coach-
mail to ids tei t The'coachman hastened to the
as?is;nn *o of t jo ladies. At th) sa no ti no an
offic r of tlio mount d park police, ntt a tod
by the outcry, arrive l on the H'*euo. He in
stantly put into pi n *ti *o the i u’.oi ta ight liy
tlio , < ’o i )ty for l* irat Aid to th j injured, lie
ado nrt 'dto re jo w respiration iu tho elder
lady, bit, t niching her i hojk, lie found it
cold. Then he turned to Miss Pen.Poton, and.
aft r a fo.v unvoinenU of tho nrms, restored
her to con? iouiuesi. •
An ambu'mio lnd b*ou meanwhile or*
derod from the Presbyterian II woitnl, and a
Park wngon from the arsenal. M as Pend'o-
tm, wh » was soverely bruised and only semi-
couhcIous was removed to the hospital. Mrs.
Pendlct »n, who had nil ugly gash, three
inches long, two iuclies nhovo tho nape of the
uo .*k, was dead, aud was takon to the arsenal.
A coroner was s mini mod, a jury impaneled,
and a verdict iu aicorda ico with tho facta
given above was rendered. Tlio news of the
Mid calamity was cabled at 7 o'clock to Min
ister Pendleton at Berlin.
Mrs. Pendleton w.w, before marriage, Miss
Alice Key, daughter of Francis M. Key, tho
world-famou i author of the “Htar Spmiglod
Pan nor. ’ Hho was tho niece of Honor B.
Taney, once Ulfof Justice of tho United
Btnto.s. 8ho was married to Mr Pendleton
in IH-lfl, an I nt tho time of hor death wai Cl
years of ngo.
Mrs. Pondloton was esteemed in society in
Cincinnati and nt the Nnbioual Capital ns a
ladv of rnro culture nml lovable qualities.
Philip Barton Key. once a citizen of national
prominence and Attorney General of the
United Htatcs, wa? her brother. Ho woe
killed by General Sickles. Mr& PondLtoa
leaves throe grow/l cliildreu.
FIYE PERSONS DROWNED.
Grunt Excitement Prcvnlllnjr A moil* New
Un* nml Flstiermen.
DEATH AND DESTRUCTION.
tinny Lives l.ost nml Itfneh Pinpcfly lie*
stroyert by a Cyrlonei
Hain, hail and furious Winds have swept
down upon Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri,
part of \V st Virginia and part of Ponasyl*
vauitt, with4.ro:nmiou? Asreeneisau Icala H-
ito.is oTecfc. The storm in th '8) State i broke
down to'egraph wlroi, waihoi away rail-
mid?, fl >o .to l rlvjr.?, destroy j 1 bento?, huiU
hous'fl, p.ihli • bn'Uiu j?a i l live ste:k»
Tho recentseisui'e of th j American flshlti;
s diooiior David J. Adams hy tho Cutihiiian?
for allogcd violation of the fishery laws has j ami rBsultod in th? loai of many liutnn:
been followed by a ebsond seil iro-dhd vie-! live?.
Win this time being a vowel hailing from ! At Xenia, Ohio, 10) lv.u?os« cons sting of
Portland, Ms. L‘ko tha Davi 1 J. Adams, | dwellings and business blocks, were com-
the Port and vo?sol was seizol tor buying pluiely wreekwl by -tin sterm. The low of
bait iu a Cam liau part, nu l also for u'Jg- t
looting io outer or clear nt the Crtoa Bart i
ARTHUR’S ILLNESS
rilE EX-PltESlDENT SUFFERING
FROM HEIGHT'S DISEASE.
“It la Winter on grandpa’s head,"-
The little girl, Gold Locka, said,
Aa, parolied like a bird on the roued of bt*
A TERRinLE ACCIDENT
CHATTANOOGA.
A IMver Flntbont Minks nnd Drowns Fin*
Pei sons.—Details of (lie Cnlnstrophe.
A gloom was thrown o?or tlio vilisige < f
Lcnoiis, Tonn.. Friday evening hy a terrible
accident, which lesulted in the Iohs of five
lives. limn Winton, a well known colored flat-
boatman, partly loaded his barge with grain at
Lcpeoii. landing, about three miles nhovo here.
• hat morning, and droppod down to Mr. Wm.
Busst U’s landing, ono and a half miles east of
r.cnoirs, whero ho finiHlud his load of grain.
Ho took Mr. Wm. Bu?icll, his daughter, Mrs.
■simuel I*. JnckHon nnd her littlo daughter
Annie, aged eight years, and Andrew Ilall, a
white tenant of Mr. 43usgcll, aboard a? pass
engers and storied for Lenoirs. When about a
mile east of Lenoirs the boat suddenly began
to fink. Mr. Broisoll, who is advanced in years,
nade a heroic effort to save Mrs. Jacksou, but
without avail. She and Mr. Hall, who had
also grasped her, sank to riso no more. Thro*
oogro boat hands reached the shore and came
•) t o rescue of Mr. Bussoll who wa? complete-
) exhausted and at the point of drowning,
tom Winter, who was a largo musoular nun
-nd an expert swimmer, grasped littlo Annie
Jackson and made a noble effort to save her.
hut they wont down together with tho li: tie
girl’s nrms tightly clasped around Ids neck.
Hark Rigs, a negro boat hand who could not
♦wim, was also drowned. Diligont efforts liaYa
-iccn mads to recover tlio bodies, but without
access. Littlo Annie Jackson’s hat and n
t’U&ktt, found about half a milo below the
•unken boat, aro tlio only traces of tlio lost
ncs that havo been discovered.
NEWSY GLEANINGS.
Out of a colnago of 2^9,00.0,030 silver dol
lars only 52,000,030 aro in circulation.
The money vuluoof tin mil estate changing
hands weekly in Now York is $4,030,900.
The profits of the gambl’ng tables nt Monto
Carlo during four mouths were $0,0rs,U5t\
The colored ponplo in tho District of Co
lumbia havo eighty churches and mu->i ns.
TnE Boston Postofllce yicl Is llio Gove n
mentau animal netrovonuoi f oveb $8,000,0
It is alleged that $50,000,000 worth of bail 1-
ing has been stopped iu Phila JolpUia toy t.).*
strikes.
Two diamond? have bom foun l in W s on
siu, and now conij auies are organizing Lo jig
for more.
A siioal of whales, eighty' i:i nuniLor, wa?
recently driven ashore on tlio Sbetlan l ls.auds
and captured.
The Amarican Society of Civil Engine, rs
will hold its annual^mectlug early in du;y at
Denver, Col.
No fewer t linn 100,000 shade trees now make
Washington glorious iu fredi green a id iru-
grnnt l-los :oais.
Arbor Day In Nebraska was duly observed
this 3'car. Over 1,003,03) trees wore pianio 1
throughout the State.
Recently a steamer, tho British Queen,
sailed from these shores for Liverpool with
the first shipment of cho.nica ly preservoi
beef ever sou; to Eagland.
A new law iu Connecticut roiuiro? ©very
hotel, i estauraut and boanlin ; house serv ng
oleomargarine to display a conspicuous sign
to that offait in tho dining room.
Considering the threatened invasion of
cholera it is announced that a German phy
sician lm? discovered that small coin? are im
portant factors in tho spreading of diseases.
IIo has found bacteria an d vegetable fungus
in scrapings from the metal.
FoyuTKEN hundred b’.ackflsli wore recently
drjven ashore by men in boat? at Wo id En «,
Provincetown. Tho fish wore speared nu I
sold at public auction at an average of $1.21
apioce. the gross proceeds boing about $1,-
50). Each fish yield? about a barrel of oil.
Cus om House. A North Sydney (New
Brunswick) dispatch gives th; following par.
ticuhrs:
tho American fir king schoonef Ella M.
Dbughty, Capt. Wanvn Dmighty, anchor© l
outtido (he eu rauco of St. Alin’s Harbor
on (ho lJth inst, and purchn?cd a mini-
her of barrels of halt, bh * b'.ton tho 1- th,
hut owing to the ice, had t) put ha k on Fri
day, the lath. This mo iling (tiro she
vns seize I hy Cu items Officer M’Auly
for purchasing I a t nnd U04I jctfng to outer or
dear at tl.ei u him llou 0 Cuptain Doughty
admitted pur. li ning I a t nn l somis very
littlo (oncornoU aiionh the » iniro, raying
that I10 wid to >k to tho Amo 1 ?au Go.e.n-
n 0 it for pr. t cllon. No lustru tons have
yet boon receive.I from Ottawa, 'llie Uol-
loctor ( f Customs nt Unddo 'k, C. B., tins In-
quired into tho fad? regardin' tiro seizure,
nnd cx| r»M o? him«ulf ai atii tel that it was
legally inudo.
A lWt and (M •.) dLspnteli says: The re-
porfc that thu fiihing selroou r Ella M.
D .niglit.y, of l’oitlnil (Capt. Warren
Doughty, mvnpr), had be* n seir.el liyih*
('auadiail O ivcnirneut, wa * < 011 IrineT this
morn 111 hy the following t;legrmn to tho
out liter.?;
Emolisiitowx, C. R, May 17.
Sargent, Lonl d s S/cHlin, I\tr land:
Our vessel i? sii/o.l toy tiro Government for
buying bait. Our permit is no good hero.
Hoe our Collector about it without delay.
Warren A. Douohty.
Tiro vessel had tiro usual porin't, signed hy
C« ll'jctir Anders n, to touch mil tiale at
all Canadian port?. Tho following hn? bjon
i-ent t) blov’i otary Bayard.
Vhomaa K Ha yard, Secretary of it ale,
]Vn*hinuton:
Bi'hoomr KBa M» Doughty, of Portland,
seize J at Engliiht iwn Ht. Anuo's, C. B , f ir
tniying bait 011 a p;i mlt from tlio Portland
Cuito.n House t? 1o toll mid trade.
Kah'ient, Lord & Hkillin.
A (oloirnm lias boon sent to H nmtor Frye,
calling his iittent'on to I In 11 alter. There is
considerable oxcite iront over tho s.d ure,aud
the Portland Fishing Kxchnngo w.ll, as u
body, lake action In ro;ard to it.
A B.tngor (Mo )dbpitnli says: New? of tlio
seizure of the s lioouor Ella M. Dought}’, of
Purtlnn I, Iris cauiel much oudtsiuout
among the fl.ldtig trade in this section,
nnd the fooling agaiast tin* proviindal
anthoriti?‘s nn? high. Pules? a *ott!o-
niont of this question i? rrached soon tlicio
will l»o a vo»y ugly feel ng along the lx»r-
der. The Nova »S ’otl:m:? who sell bsit to
Yankoo fislrormou dep«*n l largely on thi?
traffic at this time of year for a living,
nnd they ftol much n/grleved that the
Dominion Government should try to slmt
off their revenue?. Many prominent pn;or
of tiro Dominion nrai? ridi mle th * Govern-
nient's |)olioy. Tbo Now England flsliornron
have got their blood up over this luto?t seiz
ure, an i a jprovin *-nl era 11? now a most un
welcome visitor in a Maine port or in Glou r oi-
tor. Mass.
The following vessels, lays an Ottawa
(Canada) d sp itch, aro fitting out nt the
point? immod for the protection of the fish
eries: General Middleton, at Ht. John, N.
13.; Comradoand U iwlett, nt Halifax; Critic,
nt Georgetown. P. E. I.: Terror, at Shel
burne, N. 8 , nnd Liz do Lindsay, at Gasno,
Tho vessels will ho nrinod and the crows Inn-
i el to twenty-five inon on?h.
BASE BAH NOTES.
Five million baseballs have been made
this scaion.
O’Rourke is doing the best work with tho
bat for Now York.
Macon claims to have tho host running
team iu the Southern Lcnguo.
The “big four” in tha Detroit*'—Brouthors,
Rowo, White, and Richardson—are do ng
tromcndcu? hitting.
Bobry Matiikwh, of the Athletics, has
boon pitching profojsiounl hall longer than
any bod3' Before the public.
The Pennsylvania State League con?lsteof
six clubs, located nt Altooja, Laucastar,
Lewiston, Scranton, Wilkesbarro and Wil
liamsport..
The paid basc-luill players throughout tiro
country, a Wa-liingtan paper state.?, number
over 1,000, and draw annually talnrios ag-
grogat-ing about $900,00).
The Supremo Court of Michigan lias given
n decision to tho effect that persons owning
houses overlooking busob ill parks may ore t
seats for spectators on tlio ro- f thereof, and
tlio asiociat'o.is have no recourse.
The National League wa? organ! ol ou
February 2, 1870, in i\ew York cicy, by do 0
gatojfrom tho following dubs: Athletic of
Phiindalphia, Boston, Chi -ago, Cincinnati,
Hartford, Irouisvilto, Mutual of Now VTork,
aud St. Louis.
Speaking of tiro Nation\1 League giant?
of tho Metropolis, a Now York paper s ivu:
“Only give tiio.11 a littlo time and they will
came to tiro front again.” But what they
need more than time, responds a Chicago
paper, aro runs.
There is aslvtuo in front of tho nation^
capitol, holding a ba'l iu one hand, which
has been known as “Columbus discovering
tiro now world,” but it is now buppo o 1 that
tlio artist iuteudod to repro.ont 11 bajo-bull
pitcher, iu h)iior of tlio natiouol game.
There will'00 a very material change in
tho positions of the club 1 in ull tho loading
organizations by tiro middlo of Jun *. As
soon as tho wear aud tear begins to toll on
tho teams, those which have tli) most united
teanro and tho most onduring “batteries’’ will
la ce up their position in the van.
The North Springfield, (Mo.) South water
reports a local baseball game with tlio fol-
1 iwing now and uni pro table of ]>oiutH iu toa
so aro: R—Runs. U—Cuts. F. D.— Foil
Down. M—.Mu‘fed the hall. Umpires -
Sperry, Gates, Feeeman, Meischbach and
othen?. Ono of tho players had eighteen
“l'\ I). V marked against him, and auotlror
hal “M. HO” oppositj his name. The largo
number of umpirou show that the game was
an oxc.ting one.
inian lives i? cstlnmt ii nt l o.ween twenty
rt. Ail thi Hy live. Aw kViM one liunbol
nersous suite.o 1 i:i jury in somo form a: d no
nope wa? entertained of tho recovery of m my
of these. The storm Iwgati about 9 o'cKrok
r. m. Xotiia contilu? in,0)0 in-
liabitauts. it is in tlio mid t of a
rii*li country, and it? rcsidmU? are, a?
a rulo, Mell-todo. Tho | nth of tho IIo >.l,
however, wa? throu;li adis.rict in which
working on hud built smad fraiiro holl os.
Tho pecuniary tla nag?) in tho city nn l sur-
rouii • ng country is nl.?o heavy.
At Diyton, Ohio, and vicinity th) Mis
souri river I ».* anoamigityfi) d, iu iidnting
fifty acres of house?, drowning liv ? stock,
svv.orilug away hridg-s an I ?lo nolLliiti;
farm huildi ig». Tno train? wo e wr.v kol
toy washouu? an i a numb.t of train hind?
injured At .'shaker Village, tbr.*e miles o 1st
of Dayton ninny bulldiu ;s w n nu roofed,
barn? blowu dovvu, mi l cattto kil o I. Go irgo
Miller, a piouiiuout frtinor, wa* killo l by
lightning.
From Cincinnati^ Hnmllton, Bpringfiohl,
an I other point? in Ohio cane ro »orts of
‘Cores of railroad bridge? wnfirol away,
mil;s of track ruined, farmhouse? nn l turns
t dally desbroyod or partly demoiisUid, an 1
hutidrods of ?attic kille.l.
In Indiana a waterspout waili d out nil tiro
culvorts hotwo 11 New a t!o and Mcs-
niclc, resulting in tbo wrecking of a tra n an l
tlio death of tluo; train hand?, threo in >ro
i.*‘in; injured. At Lognusport, 1111., tbo I.all
and wind storm uiiroufod liundro is of li )use?
and blew down almost everything in (to way.
Tho High Hchool nn I American Normal C?>l-
lego woro Severely dauu?;e?l. Thou?a ids of
treo? hlocko 1 tho country roads.
lit and around Poru, lnd,, tho. damage
done Is estimat'd at $250,003. At At tea, lnd..
200 limuros woro d 'strayed in live minutes and
soventy persons injured, s *veral fatally. An
oxpress train was ditched ami totally
wrecked. Other point? in ludinuascnd simi
lar rep .it? of (iovnstation by tho storm.
In Vermilion county,III.,tho h mu of John
A. 81mw wa? struck and Mrs, Shaw, who
was sick in bod, and hor woak-old ImiIh) woro
picked up ami carried fifty yard?. Tho hobo
was instantly k lied, aud Mrs. Bliaw was
probably fatally injured. Mr. Shaw’s
four-yoar-old hoy was fatally injure I.
Tho houso of Joo Miller, three milo?
cast of Rnsjville, 111., was struck,
nnd Mrs. Mill *r Instantly killo l. Mr. Miltor
was fatally injured. Ho no thro)or four other
houses in i,lie snnro vi mity woro domollshod.
At lummk, 111., William lllxou, a lutclror,
wa? killed.
Reports from manyothar point? iu tlio
West toll a similar story to the nhovo of im
mense damage to property of all kinds l»y tlio
cyclone, which proved to bo oiro of tho most
destructive tliut over ravaged tho Wc«t»
STIC A.II lilt Ill'll MCI).
An Oil
PERSONAL MENTION.
Vice Admiral D6n Patricio Lynch,
head of tho Chilian Navy, died recontl>\
Edward C. Knight, tho Philadelphia mil
lionaire, began life as an errand boy at $2 a
weok.
Mit8. Sartoris is said to have not yet re
covered her spirits since tho death of Gouorul
Grant, hor father.
Mr. Moody is raising $200,000 to start a
training school at Chicago, for evangelism ;
work among tho masses.
Chief Justice Waite, of tho United
States Supremo Court, is going to Alaska to
spend his summer vacation this 3’ear.
Mur. Grant is going to spend tho summer
at West Point, and will bo accompanied by
Colonel Fred Grant aud his family.
Henator Joseph E. Brown, of Georgia,
is hard at work on a book showing tlio ma
terial nnd social progress of tho South since
tho war.
Senator Kenna of West Virginia, keeps
a fine pack of doer hounds and beagles, aud
is a crack shot. In 0110 day recently ho
brought down nine deer.
King Kalakaua is an" activo membor of
the Honolulu Fire Department. Ho runs co
liras with tho engine, and is an export operator
of the pump handlp.
The Empress of Austria h going to Eng
land to visit tho Edinburgh Exhibition. She
will bo accompanied by thu Archduchesi
Valerio and will remain several weeks in
Scotland,
Tue sday morning mi oil lamp explod jJ in tho
barber shop of tho stcamor Dean Adam? nt
Mcmphia, Tonn. Tiro flames spread rapidly,
and although tlio night watchman promptly
gave tlio alarm, tho crow hiro’.y escaped with
their lives, Tho boat wus towod to shore, aud
burned to the water’s edge. Too steamers
Bono MtCready and G.iyoso wi ro just bolow
tho Dean Adams, nnd were cut loose from their
moorings nml takou in low hy a number of
tugs. The Kv'c A tam?, which was lying Just
above tho burning steamer, was in gnat dun
gor, ns a stiff up st'cam hrcizo wa? blowing.
The fire department turned thoir attention
piiucipally to saving hor. and they nice ode b
Tho Doan Adams «#* '*»»* t in October, 188)«
•nd coat $37,COO. Biro wa? intended Jor tho
Aiknusus City and Vicksburg trade. In 1883
she wa? puioiiAsod by the I^o lino for Memphis
and Osceola, Ark., trade. They recontly ex
pended 314,000 in repairs. 8)10 wis iu urod
for $15,000. HI,0 arrived into Hit unto? night
from O ccoln.with 70 bole? of cot;oft, GOO sack?
of corn, 803 sacks of cotton soid and ome
miscellaneous freight, which wus all do»troyod.
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.
% rroiiilncnl Pliyslclnti Snjs That He Is
(• t-ndtinlly Tassina Aw nr.
Tlio Ndw York Comn\tr:fal Advertiser
pnMldi »s in its ndws column? tho following
about tiro serl Us couUt.'on of ex-Prosidenl
Chest. 1* A. Arthui 4 :
“Mr. Aithur is improving.” Siroh is the
hitower that every 0 ;o ro;oivoi from ox-
lVosidmt’s Arthur s .nttem’ftnt when in iui*
rics aro n ado cb ?ut the ln-alUi* of tndl
fli t uguifilrod fill on. TI1010 is 110
variation t> thi? nssur.in**, day after
day. Fdmothn s tho donifi tie servant d?»-
rlaro? that Mr. Arthur slept an hour longer
than he did tiro nrevtou* night, dr that Ills
appetite is sliglif.v Iwt-tj**. Dr. IVtors, at
No 12 Wo t Two.ity-niii li street, will not
Bay ti w >ri ono way or tho ? tlnr. Tho ot-
I’ivsi 1 nt is «o:?s.inll/ ntoiloilh/ his sl?
ter, M s. McE!r.«y, wh > give. him his 1110 .i-
clno and prepares his food.
A reporter for tiro C' nmnerriil Ad>er'insr
has tiiko i with a distlnguifdroa phvsl ton
who ha» more than oral ary moans ot loam-
lug (ten uni A thur’s r? nI eoudltiou. “Of
eour.o.’ said this physician, “Mr. Arthur
has his ups an 1 downs. There i? iro doubt in
my mind, nor in tint of 111 >si physicians w 10
have tulo'ii any intcrost in tho case, that ho
ha? Blights di-oisn of tho kidneys,
This is a very troa iro.ou? disease.
To-drty llro pit lent I? about his
icrouis and to-morrow ho may be insoud-
hlo. La sltudo, troilbtos of th i stoma :h a id
a general fooling of worthlessness nre symp-
tons. Tlio kidneys ?lo not provu gu sl fitton
nn I blood poisoning rat? in. Coinnordrojwy
is the result. There i? Congo?ti >11 of tiro
bruin and tlio bufferor gra lunlly sinks away
t > wakono 111 ora* Olio of tli»| cculiaritiosof
the cl»s mi ?o Is that th) mil u: may appear to
bo in tho lj)?t ol lroalth and ills spirit? high.
(tenoral Arthur, l am riulto sure, »ias
Bright s <1 iso iso. If I10 has it, his cud i? not
far off. Ho may live for six months. IIo
may live far nine. I seo no hope for him.
Tho lilolfCnt weather w.ll probably retard
tlio dovolopniont of tlio raora fatal symptoms
uutil autumn. But Bright's disoaie is a
mortal foe, and tho victim nevor oicapes.
“Yon cannot loam tlio tru h excopt from
General Arthur’s own physician, Dr. Peters.
That gentleman, for reasons of Ills own, aud
they may bo very good, keeps tho secret t#
himself. Ho rautiot; provont tho more prom*
Inont physician? from oxi>ros.sitig an opinion.
Thes) cou'ur in tho opinion that
I have expressed. General Grant
had tho rail or a long while before
his physician.? had oourago enough to
stick tlioir fingors down his throat nnd tell
him his disease. In the samo way with (ten-
oral Hancock, his physician was actually
a raiil to ask permission to oxamino him.
1 know Dr. Peters and ho is assuredly doing
a’l ho can for General Arthur. To stay tho
dondly como-pioncosof Bright's disease is im
possible, and the patiout sooner or Inter must
succumb. I am glad to hco that General
Arthur is no worse, nnd truly hope lie may
live for six or eight months more. As soon
a? insensibility sot? in hi? death is only a
question of n few hours. Watch for that.”
A gentleman who wa? permitted to si'o the
sick ox-Presidouta few days ago told a friend
subsequently that I10 was startled by Mr.
Arthur's emaciated appearance. Tlio once
portly form of tiro invalid had shrunken
pitiably. Tho gentleman said that General
Arthur hud lo«t moro than sixty pounds in
weight siuco bto confinement in tlio house.
4 Tho ox-President took a drive on the 18th
In Central Park. This wa? his first outing
since his jlllness annulled nn alarming char
acter.
Tho nature of Mr. Arthur’s complaint, tho
physic a us say, will necessarily lead to alter
nate pirio to of depression anil exnltath 11 of
spirits —“good days'' nnd “bad days.” Tho
rocent genial weather tlroy regard os in his
favor, and they say that thoro is no reason to
believe that fa*al consequences are. tu say
tho least, at present imminent.
IDE FATAL FLAMES.
FOUR rOtTNG CHILDREN BURNED
TO A CRISP.
Wldeweit lUeilier , ii Fianlle Orlef-dw
Uncle’s Fntnl Attempt at Itoscne.
Mrs. Mftry Mooney, a widow, redding
about throe mile? north of Akron, Ohio, ro
tired about 9 o’clock tho other evening, sleep
lug in tho same room with her five children—
Thomas, flgod 12} Julia, 10; Nellie, 7; Law*
ranee 4,ami Maggid, 2. Their bed chamber was |
in the front *pait on the ra oud floor of n
small frame house. In tho io:ir part of;
the sAulo floor* in other roums, slop! j
Law ran 0 M onoy, aged 58, hrothor-ln-
law of the mother of • tlid children: !
Lizzie M 01103', agol 20, and Patrick
Mooney, agel 19. Mrs. Mooneys liudmnd,
Michael Moonqy, died Heart v two yo ir? u;jt).
and since that time the children * with thoir
mother an l uncle, have li\ed m ‘his house,
which wai tor tu in n very o nforablo home.
About 11 o’doc.t t*. u„ some of thu cliil iron
cried out, which awakened Mrs. Mooney,
who, ll.ee tiro rejt of tho inmates,
real! el thnt the houso was 011
flro. Tho smoko wa 1 already so densoastu
ho tibno .t stl ing. Mrs M .one}' at onco
spiunr from the nod, grasped hor two-3*oar-
ol l I nhy in her arm?, aud also attempted to
carry the little hoy, Liwren e, but ho.* son,
Tnomne, said ho would tuKo caro of him. j
Mrs. Momoy then told tlio child, on to join j
hands nml follow her, nnd sho lol t'10
way to the stairway t> go down
to thu lowor part of tiro houso, nnd
in th is way make thoir escape, hut on reach
ing llio stairway sho found thnt tho flames
lint filled it anil that thoro was nopossihSo
rlmucti of os? a. 0 by that way. Being almost
overcome from thu heat and smoko the poor
mother and littlo one.? rot-mcad their steps to
fheir bo.lroom. ltero Mrs. Moouoy raised a
window and called to hor children to jump
for thoir lives. Hho could, however, no
longer seo them ti? tho flames woro
now scorching her nnd death stare l her an l
her Imho in tlio fare. In a half fainting nnd
terribly excited condition tiro mother, with
the babe hugged to hor broast. throw herself
ant of the window ami landed safely on the
ground with nothing but her night clothes
on.
Lawrenre Mooney, tiro uncle, nnd Lizzie
nnd Patrick Mooney, alio succeeded iu
milking their escape by jumping‘from tho
windows, tliough neither of them had time
te dross. Tho four children, Thomas, Julia,
Nellie nnd Lawronco, who wero Inst won
with hands (laspod trying to find tiro itnlr-
way, woro still in tho building, which wa?
now one solid wall of flinmo. Tho
cries and shrieks were dearly heard, and oc-
1 asionnlly tho form? of tlio little ones could
Iro soon ‘ through tlito terrible sliroud of
death that was so rapidly consuming them.
Mr. Mooney, tho mrolo, wa? fairly crazed
aud fought tho fire ns heat ho roulil.
Again anil agatn lro rushed into tho house
through tho fire in Ills endeavors to save
the little ones. The floor had burned out
from beneath them, aud they had fallen Into
the collar. Tlio mother, brother, sister and
uiiclo wore wiki from grief a? they watched
the terrible right Fainter nml Janitor grew
the cries of their loved ones, until nil was
hushod.
Mr. Mooney, iu his endeavor? to save tho
childion, almost perished in the flame?. Ho
was a sickoning sight to look upon. His faco
was so swollen nnd blistered tlmt ho scarcely
looked liko a human being. His lips were
throe times their natural sizo and looked ns
though tlioy would burst. Ills cheeks w’010
great blisters; his eyebrows, hair and li<s
whiskers woro burned closo to tho skin, leav-
uothing but tlio curled yellow root? oxposed
on tbe raco. His hands aud arms woro liter
ally roasted. Ho was fatally Injured.
A CYCLONE'S CAPEBS.
Sin brushed and patted hi* soft white hoir.
Then, tired at la?t, sho crept
Into hi? flrms and slept; . ^
And her chocks grow 101 os a rose, so
Wan tho nest of his close enfolding arm.
FOE WANT OF WATEB.
As man}' as 000 American girls aro study
ing music iu Milan, Italy.
According to the latest reports Mme,
Nilsson has abandoned lier contempla e l
American tour.
Mr. Joh'ciui Jefferson's nextseasen will
comprise twenty weeks, beginning August
80, in Denver, Col.
Lester Wallace is going to do a farewell
starring tour next season, beginning thu
middle of September.
The title of a now two-act comic operetta,
for which Max Marotzek is composing the
music, is “Tbo Poucliblow VaaV*
Mms Emma AnnoTT to going to Europo
this 8 limner to secure two new oporas, whi h
slro will produce in thi? country next sea-
Eleven murdors, with a realistic decap
itation sec/uo, nro the mildest feature? of a
tragedy called “Hell,” which was recently
produced iu Italy.
“Bounced” is the unique title choson for a
truly American comic opera by one Mr.
1 <01118 Lombard, composer, and Messrs. Mag
nus and Banner, librettists.
The Murine Band in Washington is re
hearsing Mendelssohn’s “Wedding March”
and “Haste to tho Wedding.” The latter is
dedicated to Mrs. Grover Cleveland.
A Palpable Mtotako.
Mrs. Smith—“I am very soiry, Mrs.
Hundiicks, but 1 con n lor it my duty to
inform you tint I saw your lmsbind
coming out of a salo m last evening.”
Mrs. Hendricks— “Whit time was it,
Mr?. Smith?”-
Mrs. Smith—“About 8 o’clock.”
Mrs. Ifcndiicka—“Did y.u say he was
coming out or going in?”
Mrs. Sni'th—“Coming out.”
Mrs. Hcndri ‘ks (p jsitivcly) — “You
have mistaken him for sonrj one else.
John never come? out of a saloon as early
as 8 o’clock.”—Nieut York Sun.
In upenkiug ot n wostoru story-writ, r,
t western papsr observes: “She has,
he*ide*, a genius for story-telling, which
is rarer than is generally supposed. 11
This is whero the journal make? nn
error. The genius for story-telling to
common enough. Almost everyone ha?
it. It is the genius forgetting one’s
stories printed after they are told that
brings so many heads in sorrow to the
dmshouse.
lUnity Tliounanil Nlircp nml Daltlb Dead nml
Itoinx in Tcxm.
Major Bash, a United Htates Army Pay
master, who ha? just roturndd to Hau An
tonio, Toxa?, from a trip through tho centre
of tho shocp grazing section of tho State, re
ports that terrible drought prevails in Pre
sidio, Pecos, aud Crockett Countini Thoie
counties omhiace an area somowimt exco 'il-
ing tho acreage of tlio State of Maine.- lint 1
a fortnight ago the larger part of this coun
try had not been vi-itod by a heavy rain for
eighteen months, and a recent rain proves to
havo done very little good, a? the earth was
so parched that the water, instead of filling
the small streams ami reservoirs, was soakou
up by tho burning prnirio?.
Major Bash Bays that for many milo?, as
far as the eye can roach, tho country is buro
of vegetation, not oven weeds growing.
Hundreds of small streams nro entirely dried
up,*md water, oven for living purposes, is
sparingly dealt out ot tho ranchos, llo re
late? several instauco? that came under Ms
observation, showing tho terriblo effect of the
drought on sheep and cattle. On tho Meyer-
httlH' ranch, out of 0,003 cattle, 8,000 have'
die 1 within tho past month, ami the prairie is
literally strewn with gaunt carcasio.?, sur
rounded by hundrid? of lingo buzzards. On
another ranch 3,000 sheep have died, while
ono of tho largest flock masters was com-
nolled to kill 6,0.0 lambs and a neighboring
herder killed 1,200 laml s because their moth
ers wore too weak from starvation to afford
thorn nourishment. Bash describe * t ho oitu-
atiou In this far West country as terrible
buyoud description. The shepherdst- >ld him
that unless rains fell shortly every human
being and domestic animal would be com
pelled to vacate Umt district and movo to tho
north of Texas.
TIIB CONG A HER FLOOD.
Changed His Order: Temperance
advocate (to young man in restaurant)—
“My dour young friend, do you know
that the Bible says, ‘Look not upon tho
wine when it is red?” Young man
(Mirprise)—“No, does it? Here waiter,
make that Rhine wino instead of claret.”
.V. Y. limes,
THE*prairie*dogs which havo a village at
the Philadelphia “Zoo” got into a terrible,
light, and two of them wore killed, be
ing litterally torn in pieces. There aro
about fifty of them in the village, and
they divdo into factions and engage in
fights until one side or the other sue*
ciimbs.
A Terrible Disaster From Wnlcr in Colum
bia, ». C.
The Gongarco river assumed the look of a r«g-
ing sen. Tlio wator ranch? d a higher point than
since 1852. The whole area of ground near tho
penitentiary was submerged. The strip of land
upon which the city waterworks, the filter and
reservoir stood were washed away, ami all a
vs reck. Tlio machinery and buildings are under
mined. Tliecity will he seriously embarrassed
Tor a water supply. Mayor Rbctt is very des
pondent, anddeo'.aroH that ho know? what to do
o avert a water famino. Ti»o situation is se.
. iou?. T.io work cn tlio canal suo:umbod to
fho force of tlio flood. Tho labor of ono year
.? ruined. Tho damage i? exceedingly groat.
Thousands of visitors thronged the banks
of the river to witness tho spectacle.
Tho stream dashed along furiously, bearing
houses, trees and bridges. Tho wator nearly
touchod the floor of tho bridge. Tlio railways
entering the oity havo suffered severely In tho
loss of bridges and trestles Traffic wns almost
suspended ou tho Greonvi'le road. I f . will be
several weeks before tho damage eau ho repair
ed, aud the passenger trains can run regularly.
All the plantations below Columbia are inun
dated. Tho damage done the growing crops
cannot now bo estimated, but ia certainly very
great.
RAIN, WIND AND HAIL.
Roporta of tho rocent Ohio cyelouo show
tin remarkable freaks that these windstorms
play with human lifo and property. Iu
tho homo of George Hoffman wns an eight-
months-old baby. It was picked up
by tho wind, laid in a feather bed,
aud tho wholo business, baby aud
all, was carried 150 feat. All
wa? thon deposited, aud a log wns thrown on
either sido of tho cuild, pinning tho bed to
tho ground. After tho storm a search was
instituted for the baby. Ono of the search
ers heard It cry, and, following tlio direction
indicated by tno sound, found tho littlo pet,
aud restored it uninjured to tho nrms of its
distracted mother.
Mr. Curtis Hall, Jr., of Noptuno, reports
that ho saw straw.? that wero blown into old
oak trees. A bed in tho houso of Andy Gin-
tor was blown Into tho Holds, nnd three chil
dren in it woro carried along w 1th it. All of
tho furniture was blown oht of George Fox’s
house. Feathers woro stripped from chickens
on this farm as clean as though tho fowls h .d
born pro pared by a cook for tho pot. Tlio
chickens woro caught by an obstruction
that held them for tue wind to operate upon
thorn.
William Stevenson says that I10 saw tho
cyclone approach. It looked liko a great
black ball in tho act of rolling o\er tho sur-
fa-o of tho earth. It came along with fright
ful velocity, and ma io a noise louder than
tho roar ng of a hundred thunder peals.
It was
in the
star. It wns about a half mile wido, nnd it
twisted immense trees off at tho ground as
though they wor.c* pipo stem?. Tt cut crops
of grniu and grass oil a? dean as a mowing
machine, and in instances stripped trees of
bark as a hungry Italian would peal a
banana.
George Fox’s wagon wns carried half a
milo. Tho tires on two wheels were each cut
in two as w ith a sharp instrument, and each
partly straightened exactly in tho same
shops. At Jolin Grimm’s dishes woro carried
ana driven into stumps so that thoy could
not be pulled out.
Before sho scarcely woke,
Or opono 1 her eyes, she spoke:
“I fcol your heart beat grandpa, dear,
And i b just as hot ns Summer here.”
Ah, loving thought. We sraileJ (
At I he wisdom of tho child,
For though snow.? do lie on his dear hair,
His heart ha? ouly Summer there.
—Clara Doty D ites.
PITH AND POINT.
Photographers tiiko tlio world just ns
it comes.—sittings.
Tho ico cream s gu is tho hnrbinger of
spring.—Philadelpnia Cal'.
A bad cold makes some men very
proud. It awelta their heads.— Philadsl-
phia Herald. *
Tho gold beater ia ono of tho few men
wlio works the hardest when ho ctrikes
tho inn-t.—Philadelphia Herald.
“When should n young woman marry?"
anks a writer. After a careful considera
tion of this subject we have come to the
conclusion that they should marry when
they get a chuneo. —Burlington Free
Press.
Aa a debtor 8chabnram baa a peculiar
method of conduct. “For my part,” ho
Bays, “when a creditor has the importi-
nrnco to write to me for hia little amount
—tlmt ends it, 1 don’t pay him.” “And
when lie docson't write i” “In that caao
1 always wait to hoar from him."
"Ugh,” grunted a toper whon tho bar
keeper rofuacd to giro him whisky and
handed him a g!ao< of wator instead.
"1’gh, ain’t much difference ’twcon water
nn’ jour whisky any wny." “Of course
not," replied the barkeoper. "Only
Ilf teen cents, thnt’s all.”— Washington
Critic.
"Do you peopio speculate any?" asked
a New Yorker, who was passing a day or
two in an Indian ) village. “On, a litt'.o;
but it has become purty risky," was the
reply. “The lust two speculators went np
for five years apiece." “For what? ’
• •They broke in!o the postoflico to specu
late on stamps."— Walt Street Hews.
Mrs. Ycrgor is much given to gadding.
She is evorlastingly on the streets, whllo
Colonel Yorger iH much given to st lying
nt home nnd smoking his pipe. "1 bo-
lievo you love your nasty old pipo more
than you do liic,” sho remarked, indig
nantly. “I guess I ilo. My pipe doesn’t
go out ns often ns you do.”—Texas Sift
ings. a 1
IIo had fought under the old flag, ha
said, with a husky pathos, but thoolHcer
had two thin-fueed women nnd a colored
cxprcssmnn ready to swinr that tho row
occurred beneath the rod rag in front of
an nuction room, and grew out of a
wrangle about tho price of a Bccond-hand
couk stovo with n broken \cg.—Ohicagj
Ledger.
A WRSTEBN BOY'S LAMENT.
1 wished I lived away down East, whore cod
fish salt the sen,
Aud where tlio folks have pumpkin plo and
apple ass for too,
Ua boys who’s livin’ here out West don’t get
mor'n half ft show—
Wo don’t have nothin’else to do but jost to
sort o' grow.
Oh, If I wuz a bird I’d fly a million miles
nwuy
To whero they feed their hoys on pork and
beans three timoa a dny;
To whero tbo place they cull the Hub gives
-«lt Its shiny spokes,
And where folks—ho father say3—Is
mostly women fofikV •
—Chicago IPws.
Severe Htornt In IiKtlnun—Hall Nix Inches
Deep.
A terriblo wind and rain storm passed ovor
Hendricks county Tuesday aftornoon, doing
great damage. Many cattlo and horses woro
killed by falling trees. Hail stones fell meas
uring two inohos in diameter to tho depth of
six inches. M?ny houses had all tho windows
torn out by tho hail. Tho groatest danTAgo is
to tho growing wheat crop now in full head,
and wholly dcstro}’cd along the track of tho
storm. No Jives wero lost so far a? known, but
Levcral houses were blown down.
Lives of tho Presidents.
“Carp” says in one of his Washington let
ters to the',Cleveland Leader: Old fricudsof
Cleveland will take you n-ido and whis
per emphatically that tho Presidont will
never marry. They will tell you, and
how true it is I know not, thnt the only
woman that the President over rcnlly
loved has b»en in her grave for more
than twenty-Hvo venrs. Ilo met her, they
ray, when he was u school teacher in a
little town of New York, when the down
lmd just begun to come upon his lip, nnd
she was sweet sixteeu. They loved, but
wore too poor to marry. Cleveland had
a cloar night, overyw icre but a,. ( .i,J cl l t„ g 0 West to make a fortune,
’.vako of tho fearful muu- w hen his sweetheart became sick, and
within a few days died. James Buchan
an’s love jilted him when he was a young
man, aud ho never courted another. Fill
more had much tho snme experience of
Cleveland in that ho was too poor to
marry when ho first foil in love. He went
oir and spent threo years at Buffalo with
out seeing his swoetheart because he was
too poor to pay tho traveling expenses of
oue hundred and fifty miles which lay
Dctwecn them. Most of the Presidents
linvo been true to their first loves, nnd
the onlv instance of a President marry
ing again is that of John Tyler, who
! was too bashful to kiss liis first wife
A FATAL HURRICANE.
* Mlnriii In Npnln
it Largo
fi Kills Jinny People nml during their engagement, but was bold
Number Wo u ml ml. j enoug i l to mnr ry*a young girl shortly
after" her death in tho White House.
The first three Presidents married wid
ows, and Washington had had ono or
two love affairs before he got Martha
Gust is. Jefferson was a good match
while he was iu tho White House. He
was a widower and true to his first wife. ;
Martin Van Huron was also a widower,
President, and though he said sweet'
things without number, he did not talk
lovef Jackson’s wife was buried in tho
dress made for her White House recep
tions, and Arthur put a memorial win- •
dow to his wife in St. John’s church
while he was President, and always sat
in her old pew.
A terriblo hurricane has just swept aero.??
tbo middlo of Spain. Iu Madrid thirty-two
persons are known to havo boon instantly
killed, nnd 020 others have been seriously in
jured. The wind struck the city with the sud
denness of lightning. Train cam and cab3 were
overturned and broken into splinters, roofs
wore dislodged, aud telegraph wires every
where torn from thoir poles. Tho parks in
aud about tho city wero devastated* aud in
somo cases ontircl denuded., One church
tower was blown down. A number
of house? in tho suburbs wero
entirely wrecked, nnd of tho many cottages
on tho outskirts of the capital which wero
blown from their foundations and wrecked,
some woro so completely and quickly broken
up and scattered by tho wiud that they may
bo said to have simply vanished before tho
storm.
Farm crops and villago? were distressingly
ravaged in the country districts, tho workmg
classes suffering tho heaviest losses. Many
washerwomen wero blown into tho River
Mnnzauares.and twenty-eight wero drowned.
Tho largest tree in Madrid, which stood in
front or the Parliament Building, was blown
down. Tho hospitals are crowded with suf
ferers. Tho storm was preceded by several
days of oxtremoly hot weather.
The Queen visited various points in tho
city and suburbs where tho damage wrought
by tho hurricane was most marked. She ex
pressed profound sorrow at the los? of life
and much sympathy with tho?a whoso homes
had been wrecked by the storm. Tho dam
age will exceed $',2
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Heavy Rains In North Carolina.
Heavy freshets have occurred throughout
upper Carolina. The Pedeo river stands
thirty-six feet above low water mark and is
still rising. Crops on iho river are a total
loss. Tho loss is beyond estimate. Consider
able damage done Jo railroads and crops in the
aorthorn and western parts o! the state.
A Rovcrio Rudely Broken.
Maiden in a hammock swines,
Where tho elm its shadow flings;
Overhead the robin sings,
And tho honey bees are humming.
Dreaming is the maidon fair
Of a youth with princely air,
Handsome, rich and debonair, r
Who to claim her hand is coming. ,
Building castles fair is she,
Swin ing in a reverie,
While the robin momly
Trills his tuneful lay above her. ^
Now has como tho wodding-day;
Sho is dyckod in flue array,
And to church she takes her way,
With hor rich and princely lover.
But a voice the stillness breaks;
Ah, tho discord that it makes!
And the maidon fair awakes
From hor reverie delicious.
'Tis her pa. Her dreams'take wing.
Hoar him: “Hanuah, leave that swing!
Come right iu, you lazy thing, ...
And help your mother wash thadWMsr