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THE MERCURY.
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the Sandcrsvlllc Postofjioc Aprtl 27,
1880.
Sandemille, Washington County, Ga.
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VOLUME VII.
SANDERSVILLE, GA., TUESDAY, JULY 20, 1836.
NUMBER 12.
THE MERCURY.
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City of Snndersville.
Mayor.
J N. Gilmore,
A Idcrinen,
W. It Thigpen,
B E. Houghton,
J. B Roberts,
A. M. Mayo.
S. G. Lang.
Clerk.
0. 0. Brown.
Treasurer
J. A. Iiiwnr.
Marshal.
J. E. 'Wednon,
THE NEWS IN GENERAL.
AN INDIAN SIMOON.
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST
FROM ALL POINTS.
A HOT WAVE SWEEPS OVER THE
NORTHWESTERN PLAINS.
IMPROVEMENTS IN GEORGIA,; STRIKES AND STRIKERS, ENGLAND’S ELECTIONS,
A, C. WRIGHT,
attorney at law,
103 Bay St., Savannah, Ga.
XfiTwir,!. PRACTICE IK ALL THE COURTS.
E, S, LANGMADE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
SANDERSVILLE, Ga.
n. I>. Evans, B. D. Evans, Jr
EVANS & EVANS,
ATTORNEYSAT LAW
SANDERVILLE, GA.
1\ H. SAFF0LD,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
SANDERSVILLE, GA.
Will practice in all the Courts of the
Middle Circuit and in the counties
furro'inding Washington. Special at.
tontiou given to commercial law.
ka«t.* £ n and middle status. Yceemtlbh^Deutroyci .»»■*«« „ nd th ,
Secret art Mannino arrived in New „ „ , , , . , . t
York n few day* since on bis way homo from Particulars of an unprecedented hot wave
tho Hot Springs, Va., where ho has been that has Leeu visiting sections of the North-
severe filnesa’ OTer tho of his recant e.stare given in tho following dispatch from
The total assessor! valuation of real and , . . .,
pcrsonvil estate in Now York city, is SB 1*0 . ™>I«e in Dakota thought the world war
WViaa, an lncfeUso of 94ft851i2S» ttvhr that poming to un end yesterday. Tho Intense >
of 18S5, ’ ’ hot weather of llie past week culminated in
Fnn n,., )„ *. a regular old fashioivcd Indian sitnoon. Tlld
first ttjpbm America imculau.ou air was as hot ns from n bakers CVeh. Hifcds
out
s to
ttle
,orl
At
many | la es iu Dak. t:i und Iowa tlio iner-
cni y lias been up to 10d degree <. Tuesday
was tli,* hottest any over known in Minim-
tola, tho mercury Vanning from 8! to 1H1 de-
rjporatlon.
Jem in BaRUEtt, of New York, on tiio
•th ordered tho prohouutiaii of the Volks
•n connection with tho trial of seventeen
Bohomln*i baltoi-s, indicted for boycotting
Mis. l-andgint's bakery.
Six of the sovontoon Bohemians indletod
in New Yoik for lioycolting tho bakery of
their country won an, Mrs i nndgrnf, thereby
destroying nor businoss, wore louuil guilty
and rentonzed to sliort terms of imprison-
I n eut.
! TnREr. hollers oxplodrd nt the colliery of
| llie Delaware and Hudson 1'iiunl Comiianv,
I near \\ lifer line, I’cnn., wrecking tho build.
I ing and intally injuring tho engineer and
, 111 oman.
j Bev. Sam Jokes, llio Southern revlvali-t,
! has been pl eaching ul Chuu:aui|uu, N. Y.
F. ]£. Hines.
O. 11. Roar.ns.
HINES & ROGERS,
Attorneys at Law,
SANDERSVILLE, GA.
Will practice In tho comities of Wnshingtn i,
Jefferson, Johnston, Enmniul nml Will,ii sou,
mid in the U. S. Courts for tho Southern Dia-
t lot of Georgia.
Wi 11 seta* agents in buying, selling or mil-
mg Heal Ednto.
Otlico on West side of Public Square.
Octll-tf
G. W. H. WHITAKER,
DENTIST,
SANDERSVILLE, GEORGIA.
TERMS CASH.
Office at Ills resideuco, on Harris street.
bpr20-’80
H. S. HOLLIFIELD,
ician & Surgeon,
SANDERSVILLE, GA.
Offico next door to Mrs. Bayne’s Millinery
Store, on Harris street.
SOUTH AND WHOT.
Rixty persons were poisoned nt a celebra
tion at Anthony, Kansas, by drinking leui-
onado nmdo with tartar emetic. All wera
tnmlo dangerously sick.
Seventy pi rs ms were poisoned nt Coul
ter v llio. III , by eating ice cream nt a picnic,
l our died nnd several, nt Inst accounts, Were
in a precat ious condition.
A kirk nt Deliver, Col., destroyed tho
Academy of Music, a newspaper oflico and
iovrr.il stoic 1. lino man was burned to
death. Tho loss is aggregate $175,(Jut).
ton. At I o'clock In tho morning the pooplo
wcreowakched by a roaring noise ami oppres
sive heat, which almost stilled breathing. On
going to tho door your correspondent was
driven back into the house by hot uir from
without, which felt like thnt from a furr.a e
or an oven. There were at the timo heavy
dark cloud-i in the s mthwesl, from which di
rection tho wind came.
l flat* seized upon tho people that n bad
cycluno was forming, nml they beguh to
congregate lu th • neighborhood bf cyclone
iQ'lars, Many fathers mid mothers on
Awakening mid feeling the hinted uit
seized their children from tho beds and
rushed into the street, believing that their
houses were on link Ono citizen describes
his fitnr that tho earth Was ho-
mg pro’lpita'el into the suii. A farmer
who wns on his way (o town, stnto3 that it
was comparatively cool when he started out,
but wns noon struck by n hot wind which ho
could not ftics. The perspiration oozed from
him in lnrge drops. Tho hot wind lastc I about
hnlf an hour, mid tho tenlpdfntui'o was lift)
degrees. YtJut* correspondent lias lived lu-ro
neuily five years, mid boon out when tho
mercury slo! d 100 degrees in tho shndo, but
never before experienced such heated ut nr s-
pliero us that of this morning. Hud this win I
continued for two or three hours thore w ould
not have been left a vestige of living veg-
rtnlion, and it Is doubt fill whether nniinal
life could have withstood it. As a gci:
oral rule tho nights nro very ion!
THE AMOUNT OV GOVERNMENT
MONEY EXPENDED.
rue Total ftmn Appropriated Slnco 178H.
for 1’iibllc Ilidlilinnsi It Ivors, etc.
The following is a ctfitipllde statement
of tho expenditures of the government
for public improvements in the State of
Georgia since 1781). First ns to the pub
lie buildings:
The first public building authorized in
Georgia wns ip 1811), when congress made
an appropriation of $20, 100 for "creel
ing a customhouse and wurehouso in 8a
vnnnalb”. Since thnt timo the following
allowances have been made:
Atlanta courthouse mid P. O...5,00t>
Macon postoffice 125,000
Marietta courthouse 5,000
Savannah customhouse, old.,... 30, Ion
Savannah customhouse, new.... 195,55n
The total allowances fot public build
ings amounts to $(120j/j6(l.
River ami harbor improvements in the
State commenced in 1820, when an ap
propriation of $50,000 was granted b\
congress "to remove obstructions in the
Savimnuh river, below the city of Savur.
imh.” The allowances are as follows:
WHAT THEY HAVE DONE ANB
ARE DOING—THE EFFECTS,
GLADSTONE’S DEFEAT BY THE
TORIES AND UNIONISTS,
Uoi.oiikd Knights of Lnbor hnvo struck - —„— — - ,
for higher wages on Arkmisni plmitati >u» and this freak Of nature is a mystery to every
r.cnr Little Rock. oil#. Tho hot wind wns ini mediately fol
lowed by n cool breeze, blit now, at 0 p. M.,
the inorciiry stands’ lit 100 degrees in the
I Colonel Georoe B. ConKtltl.t, the
! I nitid St tos Dbt'.'lct. Attorney who iiroso-
j cute,I Giiitniu, lh> n-s-i-s n of Garfield, died
I tiie other day nt Mount f’lousaat, la
A prospective shortage in the wheat, crop
i ha - sent the pe leo up with n jump at Chicago.
Till-: Minr.es >tn 1’roli hitionlsts U:ivo puta
full fdntjti. ket in the fl dd.
Tut: Ohio Iieoubli .an editors in convention
nt Columbus j ns - ,1 rosoliitions repeating the
< hargos of bribery in the election of Heury
B. i’nyuo to Ilia Lliltoil IS utoi Kcimto.
Fkvk.v salmon llsliermoa wore drowned by
the upsetting of I heir bonti during a gale oft
tl.e entrance of the Columbia River, Oregon,
Bemino, Now Mexico, has lost its princi
pal business houses by llio.
’1 he lCmisns Republicans have reuominnted
Governr r Mar,in.
Mio. Theresa Turpin, wifoof a fnrmor
living nt Frinreton, bid., in n moment of in
sanity killed her two young children nnd
horsclf.
FROM
jeb nsri .
(None genuine without our trade mark.)
ON HAND AND FOR SALE
SPECTACLES, NOSE GLASSES, Etc., Etc.
Watches, blocks
JEWELRY
nEPAIRED BY
TEi^isriQ^isr.
OUB
WASHINGTON.
Tm; Hennte Committee on ron«lons in its
report roc ommotuiing iho pnssage of tho bill
granting a pension to Msry J. Nottngo
charges the I’rc-ident with un unwarranted
use of (lie Veto power, declares his vetoes
wero sometimes "rudely expressed,’’ mid as
sorts tlmt tho motives rif Congress in passing
tho private pension bills huvo boon misrepre
sented,
H A. Whitney, cashier of tho Ilidtud
Rtate.s Treasury, dropped dead of nnoploxy,
the ot-hor duv, at his ru.-idenca in AVashlug-
trn. Ho linil been n Treasury employe for
about fwonty-ono r cars.
The Hennte has coafirmod tho following
nominatioiiB: J. W. Jlomoyn, of Doti’oit,
Consul at, Valparaiso; J, I.. Camp, llogistor
J-nnd Uiilce nt Prescott, Arizona.
The President has signed tho Pension Ap
propriation bill.
At n meeting of the House Ways mul Means
Conunittoj it wns ordered that tho Randall
Jariif hill ho reported adversely. All the
Democrats voted iu tho allirmative.
The President on tho lit U vetoed twenty-
nine private pension bill, and the bill pro
viding for i he erection of n publi: building
nt I)|iliitd, Minn. The la,'-mini d bill is vo-
too 1 Iiuchuso in the President’s opinion the
building is mine- e.siry. Tho pri vat j pension
bdls were vetoed mainly l.e:arise, tho Presi
dent says, tho claimants n"o not ontitled to a
pension. A bt dement of the result of the
President’s examination into ga ll ra,eao-
camprupos tho vetoos
The Senate on t.lio dth confirmed the noml-
natious of Governor Hugh Thompson, of
South Curolina. to lie A sistmit Secretary of
the Treasury, mid II. J. Wyn to be Post
master at Binniugliam, Ala.
Drunken desperatloes took possession of a
train at Somerset, Ky., intimidated the pas
sengers and killed the conductor aud n col
ored porter.
Fore t fires in Northern Wisconsin have
done great damage. Th y village of Romeo
has been entirely w iped out.
A recent hurricane at Apalachicola, Fin.,
resulted in tho los, of six lives and heavy
damage to sblpp.ng and other property.
The Senate has rejector! the nomination of
Harry Hall to be Postmaster at Catskill, N.Y.
tlmde. Frtimei'H and merchant* genoi-nlly
are feeling very bluo over the gloomy pros-
1 nets of croj s, us this makes thb sixth day of
osco-sivo lirnt.
A special from Pierre. Dak., says: Pierre
citizens have just passed through one of tho
most femmknblo nnd thrilling freaks of (lie
elomonls over experienced in this section.
For tho last throe days tho mercury has
averaged about 108 degrees, hut Inst
night capped the climax. About
nmo o’clock the western heavens
svero suddenly illuminated, and in a few
moments wind swept down tho streets, blow
ing down several housos nnd doing other
damage. The wind was red hot nml rnuplo
were compelled to seek sheltor in lellm sto
avoid the intense and auffm ating heftt. The
wind continued unt 1 4 O'clock this morn
ing, and nt. 2 b'cloek the thermometer
registered 105 degreet. Passengers who
rame in from Montana on the Northern Pa
cific say the air was almost unbearable. If a
hand was thrust out of a car window- the
rushiug air felt like a blast from a furnace.
The trainmen had their faces blistered and
swollen by the hot air.
Tho letter from Ashton was referred to
Hlgnal Office Observers Lyons and McGinnis,
and for a moment both were amaze I, and at
first neither could beliove it possible that the
thermometer had reached any sucli altitude
ns 120at4 A.M. With an engernessof twoscicn-
t ists thov began to seek to accountfor it. Mr.
McGinnis was inclined to believo that it wns
similar to the terrible Halmra Desert simoon
which, like this hot airstorm, is accompanied
by a dark cloud, aud seems not only to bo
hot but deoxygenized so that it acta
on the lungs' almost like carbonic
acid or davitalizorl air. Sergeant Lyons us-
' sented to this partially, butj.snggcsted that
it might have boon tho heat from a huge
meteorite. Both agreed that it wns ono of
the mystorious weather dispensations of
Divine Providence which could not be
i predicted.
KILLING JUSTIFIED.
Terrible Snflrrinu Cmi»r«l by tho Stliko
nt («rn|tc Creeks Illinois.
A dispatch from Grape Creek, 111.,
says: There is prospect Of a riot over the
View* of n Prominent Irish Uei
Upon (he Desalt.
Mr. Glarlstono telegraphed upon the 0th in j
. , reference to tho Irish question: “Woles and i
importation of negroes by the G rape Hoot land hnvu seen their duty quickly. Eng- i
Creek ('oul company to take the places of lnn(1 w jh h„ve to learn hors, but slowly aud j
the striking miners. The strikers declare | )n |„f„iiy,''
that the. new men cannot work under A Ij0IK 'i 0U dispatch of the nth -ays: The
allV fclftumstnnces) and that they xvill Conservatives arc still tarrying the Eng- |
resist force with force. Thb sheriff of lish counties by sweeping majorities.
Vermillion countv has forty specinl den- The Unionists succeeded to-day in retaitiing I
., • . , i ,„ni ,, ,.ii !_ Inveniess Itnrghs, Forfarshire, famine i
ulics on the ground, mid willl do ull m Bllr _ h#Wul Hartlepool,where they rede ted |
Ids power to maintain order if the ne- Thomas Richardson. Tho Unionist gains in
--rocs conclude to go to work. Liberal seats is IKI Tho total Unionist- |
There were over u thousand strikers Conservative noU up toifl p . M. was I |
, i„,i fi, n and the total Ulnd.stouiaii poll '.'fU,oU2. At
w hen the present Strike began, but the m i, llliK ht the total number oi Conservatives
nuinber )j now reduced to seven or eight am j Unionists l-eturned svas 810 a
Altmunha river
Brunswick harbor
Chattahoochee and Fliut
...$ 38.000 0U
83.000 On
Coosa river
.... 410,000 00
Cumberland sottnd
... 255,000 00
Darien lmrbor
8,000 00
Etowa river
..., 10,000 00
Flint river
07,000 00
Ocmulgeo river
57,000 00
Oconee river
23,500 00
Oostonnula anil Coosnwuitio
rivers
2(1,000 00
St. Augustine creek
5,000 00
Savannah hafllot
.... 082,000 00
Savannah river
. (101,090 04
Stu vev of rivers
. . 10,000 (It
Houiley marsh
10,000 01
Total
...$2,010,500 (i
i and of (Hail-
stonians 310, Tho Conservatives are confi
dent of electing 880 Candida! es without Uni n-
ikttts-istunce. Tho count at present is as fol
lows:
Conservatives SfilJ
Unionists
Gladstoninns 1-J8
73
Total s -’°
This leaves 141 saatsto becontested. Thera
is no lofigttr nay hope entertained by the
Gladstoninns of doidg better iu tho elections
to come than they have dwm in tho post-
Mr. Herbert Gladstone, speaking at the
Jiinidred. All arc destitute, ahd the con
dition of ninny of them Is absolutely
appalling, women nnd children hnving
bnrely sufficient clothing to cover them
and hardly sufficient food to exist oh.
The men insist that they never will sur
render. Most of them are foreigners, the
Germans predominating.
The strikers hnvo been out most 6f the
lime for sixteen months. Imto last fall
they accepted the company's rates, and
evert underbid each other for the work,
there not being employment for all on rv , —■ 7%
account of the company's business having “4S^ U anShMJ
greatly fallen of! In eonficqUcnco of the t j 0I1 w itliin twelve months. Mr. B-.-hna-l-
long continued strike. As soon its thb horst writesi “Tho tide has tin ned Consoi-va-
sprilltr opened they renewed their do- tivo, btit there will be another election w ithin
i P . i . a (j months.”
Ana'll -r I .-.dar. r’.l*rr.t‘li c/f the fth s ,y»;
There lins been quite a large sum <•!
money used In the light house service, i'
the state. Tho following arc the allow
ances for light stations:
Cumberland island $55,000 fit)
.. 80,050 00
,. 011,278 87
.. 00,150 00
..113,448 00
. 01,814 II
.. 20,000 oo
St. Simons
Supclo
Savannah river lights..
Tybcc
Beacons und buoys...,
Light vessels
. ...$494,728
Total
The only appropriation for u branch
mint in Georgia is for Dahlonega, the
amount being $87,870.
The next und Inst item of expenditure i-
for ports und arsenals, which are ns
follows:
Augusta Arsenal $230,750
Fort .taCksOil 285,000
Fort Pulaski 038,808
Total $1,403,558
The following are tho total amounts al
lowed :
Public Buildings $ 029,55(1 00
Rivers and Harbors 2,019,590 04
Public Roads 5,000 0o
Light Stations 404,730 88
Mints 87,870 00
Forts and Arsenals 1,403,558 00
FORBtGN.
DEPARTMENT
L supplied with sit the requisites for doing
oil kinds of Job and Bookwork in L i ’n'nb
Class Style, Promptly and st Rea
sonable Prices.
WEDDING CARDS,
VISITING CARDS,
BUSINESS CARDS,
BALL CARDS
POSTERS,
HANDBILLS,
PROGRAMMES,
STATEMENTS,
LETTER HEADINGS,
DODQErtS,
PAMPHLETS,
Ina «ro etc
Rev. Henrv Ward Beecher proached to
an enormous eon -regatiou in Dr. Parker’s
chim-h—the City Temple—in 1-ondon.
Thirty-five persons were injured by a
collision between two express trains uenr
Glasgow, Kv-'otjand.
The Conservative Club house in Dublin
was attacked with stones by a crowd during
tho elections. Tho members replied with
bottles nnd firearms, injuring twenty of the
rioters and killing ono. As the cro wd was
about to set fire to the building the police ar
rived and prevented its destruction. Tho
inmates were nrrestod.
Late oloction returns indicated a defeat
for Gladstone and Irish Home ltulo. Hoavy
gains for the Consorvalivos and Unionists,
who wero opposed to the Gladstonian3 and
Pornollites, wero reported.
The heat has been so overwhelming in
Madrid that tho Spanish Cortes—tho national
legislature—wus obliged to adjourn.
Asiatic cholera is on the increase through
out Italy.
News has boon received of a doitruotivo
tornado or the Island of Jamaica. Low
lands were inundated, great fields of bananas
destroyed, nnd many ves-els torn from their
moorings. Tho estimated loss Is $500,000.
An immense congregation heard Heury
Ward Beecher preach his second sermon in
the City Temple, London.
A political riot at Cardiff, Wales, was
broken up by tho poTce, who charged the
’ J • 100 1 — L -
A Girl Shoots a IHnn In Church nml Ii
Tried nnd Acquitted.
On Monday, afternoon, Mis9 Emins
Connelly walked into Hunter’s Chapel
church Barnwell county, B. C., while
Sunday school was in session, with u
cocked revolver in her bund, mid passing
into the pew behind John A. Steedley,
she fired her pistol into Sjtecdlcy’s back.
Ho arose, looked mound, tried to get out
liis pistol nnd nt the same time made foi
the door. Miss Connelly snapped liei
pistol at him again, but it failed to go oil.
Steedley fc'l nt the door of the church
just outside nnd died in about three min
utes. Miss Connelly surrendered herself
to the authorities, her only excuse for
murdering Steedley, who was her second
cousin, wns certain defamatory reports
circulated by him about her, und several
obscene letters addressed to her and hei
brother by him. The grand jury of Barn
well county found an indictment against
her for murder on Monday. The trial
enme oil Wednesday a ml resulted in her
or quittul. Since the commission of the
murder, Miss Connelly 1ms expressed no
regrets whatever. 'This is the first ease
of this kind ever tried iu South Carolina
I courts.
A DESPER ATE FIGHT.
Total for Georgia $5,000,81(1 08
FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT.
Dnilli nml Destruction the Outcome <il
C’ni-elesHiiess*
At Buchtell, Ohio, Johnson Bros. &
Patterson, of the New Pittsburg mine,
were preparing to start up on Monday.
Coal in this mine lins to be gotten out hv
machinery.
Sunday afternoon u leak was discover
ed in I he cohipresscd uir receiver which
furnishes the motive power, and Churlet
II. Johnson mid-Tom Williams went into
the mine about 250 yards to repair it.
They neglected to turn oil the pressure
ind, upon attempting to stop the leak
the end of the receiver Imrst in fragments,
Knocking the machinery about and tear
ing up things generally.
The following is n list of the killed nnd
wounded:
Thomns Williams, intently killed;
Charles II. Johnson, fatally injured ; John
llallam, fatally injured; L. White, seri
ously injured.
Johnson died before morning. Thom-
is wns repaving the leak, and John
son, one of the owners of the mine, wns
holdingn light, nnd llio others were look
ing on when the explosion occurred.
Every bone In Williams’ body was
broken. Johnson was thrown against a
wall with n large scantling across iii-
breast. Every shred of clothing on Wi!
limns’ body wns torn off, nnd liis shoes
were blown over twenty yards. It was n
case resulting from carelessness. Tin:
coroner rendered n decision in accordance
with the above facts.
mund for the Pittsburg rate of seventy-
i’ue cents n ton, nnd went out May 1st.
They have since been evicted from the
company’s houses nnd are subsisting in
tlm woods on per ccntnges from tho
uniou und tiie charity of the surrounding
country. A few of them have put up
slnte shanties, somb liavb tchts nnd other*
;r t .totar they
the time having only the protection of of ||alf „ W1W lf [hu t , d
tho forest trees.
It wns asserted in Chicago on Monday
thnt an extensive striko is threatened in
the packing houses of that city. The
trouble is caused by the lloormcn or side
t rimmbra. For some timo past they hnY0
been handling 123 bend of cattlo each
day. This they claim is too much for
l he pay, and a connnitteo has been ap
pointed to inform the foremnn of tho fact.
The men demand hereafter they shall be
required to handle but 100 head per day,
mid that they shall reeelvc tho same wa
ges that they nro now getting, $24 pet
week. They also demand pay whether
they work or not. Wlint action they will
take is not yet known.
Three men belonging to the steanifittera’
union wero arrested hi Chicago Monday
while interfering with workmen at the
.Mason building, corner of Fifth avenue
und Washington streets. Tho Ann of
Krocschull Bros., stenrafitters, employed
three men who had been out on strike
since May 15, nnd one named Burkhardt
was u member of the union, who returned
to work on tho old terms. A delegation
from tho union visited him and, making
threats of violence, was arrested.
Tho employes iu tho Rock Island yards
nnd cur shops resumed the ten-hour sched
ule. They nearly all work by the piece,
nnil thore was no difficulty in restoring
the old time table.
On Monday morning a switch on the
Lake Shore" road was turned at 45th
streut, while u local freight train was
passing over. Several ears were derailed.
At nrfon an engine with forty cars, ninny
of them loaded witli bridge piling for the
Northwestern Bridge company, was going
north. At 41st street, just ns purl of tho
train laid pussed, n inmi ran out from nn
alleyway und turned the switch. Fifteen
or twenty of the cars ran on to the Bock
Island main track und several of them
were derailed, uml tlio main tracks of llio
Bock Island and Lake Shore roads were
blocked. The sufety switch was broken
and considerable other damage was done.
•'Tlio new I arlinmont approaches (to nesr us
now thnt, liko the British files nt ButikeT
Hill, wo mu seo tho uhitos of their eyes.
Tho Tories Will not hnvo a mnjority.
To-night thny hrtvs n total of 284
members, with 140 moro elections to tnka
pin e. Of thi'so tho Torlos eArrled Inst
Autumn 20 English, 5 Scotch, nml 7 Irish
t-iAi, If thoy do so now it will give
which is 80 short
le continue.! to
ran ns it lias hitherto thov will he likely to
coin 15 seats, but tlili Will lodVit thorn 84
short of hnlf. But of tho lomniutifg vacan
cies 10 nro in Yorkshire, 4 in Cornwall, 5 In
Cheshire, 4 in J torset, 4 in Dorby nnd I in
Cumberland—all Gladstone strongholds, and
so life most of tho others. The
Tory gains fire more likely to num-
lior 10 or under. Nothing Imtn mlrn -lo enn
givo them n clear majority. Thus Mr,
OhnmbiiTiin will occupy in the next Hnu a
of Commons the position of nrbitornf Min
istries which Mr. f’m-nnl holl in tho Inst
Parliament, n situation Which will silt his
nuiliguiuit genius perfectly.”
Mr. Thomas Powor O’Connor, n leading
Iri.-h Home Buie member of Parliament,
wild ifi alt interview:
‘Wo are lidt at nil dlslionitene I, andean
afford to wait for what liliist. eertalnly come.
This is not a defeat, hut ouly n chock, and
homo rule will come sooner than some |io pile
export.
“Tho Tories are cnpnble of anything while
in office, but this time tholr pledges are too
recent and altogether too distinct to pprmit
th-dr dabbling in homo rule legislation. If
they did thoy Would bo tumble to ptopxiso a
measure that would satisfy us. and w-i won’t
accept nuytliing less tlinn Mr. Gladstone
offered.
“Another six months will complete tho
work which neods to ho done, and w osln l
try iicnln. The Lit orals nro not yet suffi
ciently educated, lienee their fatal nbston-
(ion from tiie polls; Imt we will educate
the a, and then we will hnvu home rule.
The Irish eie tors in Croat Brit-iiu hnvo
voted loyally for llio Liberal ran-
<’’<!r' . -. I the g i.i | or
rout o.' th -in exerclel tier light of -uf-
frnse. bone of the suecessiul Libciart
uou'd have been in n pretty pmlleaine.it
hul it not boon for tho Irish votes east hr
them.
The organi/atioln of tlio Conservatives Is
superior to that of the Liberals, ami their
discipline Is exoliont. Speaking of tho Con
servative organization, 1 may toll you tbut
1 intend to introdueo iu the n*xt House a
bid to suppress the Primrose Le tguo, which,
with all its patriotic pretentious, is really a
league formed for purposes of tho most ills-
grneeful intimidation of electors, and wbo<e
objects are faithfully carried out”
THE SUNDRY CIVIL BILL.
A TALK OF THREE MOUTHS.
In May, will the river entice the small boyl
It will, oh, It will, oh, it will, oh;
Will sport, and not school, bring him soloes
and joyl
It will, oh, It will, oh, it will, oh;
Will he fly hi* big kite from tho top of the
hillf
And b«, when there’s fishing, for study too
ill!
Will a thought of his marbles insure him a
thrill i
It will, oh, It will, oh, it will, oh!
In Juue, will the seaside claim fair Isabel!
It will, oh, it will, oh, it will, oh;
Will each wove have a tale of flirtation to
tell!
It will, oh, it will, oh, It will, oh;
Will her Bweot rosebud lips melt the soothing
ice cream!
Will hor big, lustrous eyes on the dry goods
clerk beam?
Will his poeketbook rudely awaken th*
dream*
It will, oh, It will, ob, it will, oh I
i In July, will the weather be awfully hot!
' It will, oh, U will, oh, it will, oh;
I Will remorso and despair be the poor plumb
er’s lot!
Tt will, oh, it will, oh, it will, oh;
Will the sheep In the churches decide it is
best
To give their dear shepherd a much-needed
rest!
Will the dude wear a bang and a polka-do
vest!
It will, ob, it will, oh, it will, oh I
-Tid-BiU.
PITH AND POINT, t
A tumble-down affair—A wrestling-
match.
Tho waist of time—The middle of an
hour-glass.
Lots of fellows who knew nothing of
art boforo tho war can draw a pension
easily now.
"Tea gowns" are a late novelty in fem
inine attire. They go well with a creamy
complexion.— CltxtCand Sun.
The small boy learning the alphabet la
very much like tho postage stamp—he
often gets stuck on a letter.—Boston Bul
let in.
Wife—"How I do wish I could have a
little change this summer." Husband—
"You can, my dear, noro is twenty-ilve
cents for you.”—Burlington Free Press.
Now that the struggle for the Leaguo
baseball championship has begun, let us
hope that we will hear no moro nbout
strikes, boycotts and such small matters.
—Purl.
"Where aro you going so fast, old
manl" demanded John Smith. “Homo,
sir, home; don’t detain me. I have just
bought my wife a new hat, and I must
deliver it boforo tho fashion changes.” —
New York Star.
"And she jilted you, did she!" in
quired Rufus of Adolphus, "Me deah
boy,” replied Adolphus hastily, "never
uso thnt dwoadful word again. Call
it n boycott, me deah boy—call it a
boycott."—Judge. _ /
CIRCUS TIME.
f
Tho birds are warbling melody,
The dasies deck the emorald glad*
Tho urchin now is In hie glee,
T ho olepliant he soon will see
And drink the circus lemonade.
—Boston Courier.
BASE BALL NOTES.
A rrcnclier nml His Hon Carved With n
Knife by u Knrmer.
Nexvs lias reached here of a knife-to-
thc-liilt fight between Bev. John Lockey
aided by liis son, Ephraim, and a mtiu
by the name of McClelland, near West
Fork, Ark. Lockey nnd McClelland Bis-1
agreed ns to the locations of the line be
tween their farms, and ended in a furi
ous quarrel. Lockey seized his gun und
attempted to shoot his antagonist, but
the enp snnppcd. Tho father and sou
TnERK is a boom in baseball in tho South.
Jersey City’s eolorod pitcher is doing fine
work.
The Doti-oits have lost fow games on their
own grounds.
Tiieiie aro 102 playors under contract in
tho Southi rn Long in.
You.no Hanihbob, the Pittsburg pitcher,
iB making a lino record.
The Virginia Baseball Asso -iation lias been
admitted to the Natiunul agreement.
PiTrsnuno is the first Association club to
lie whitewashed twice in succession this sea-
sou.
O’Rourke, Anson and Connor are running
a great race to lead the League in the baC
ting.
Smith nnd Do ker, the new hn’.tery of the
I'otroit.s, were purchased from the Macon
(Ga.) Club.
The Association pit-hers still hold their
own in batting. Of tho firot ton batters live
aro pitchers
In the League it is a close race between
Detroit, Chicago and New York for the
championship.
Browning, the leading batsman of the
| Anieri an Asso iation, has teen suspended
Augustin Daly’s Now York Co lipaay | indefinitely for l u I plaj ing.
Is meeting with great success in London. Uaubourn, of Bo to a, is rapidly gaining
Mr. Edward Southern will support Miss his old form. In tho last 11 - nine? ouly *>8
Holeu Dauvray in “One of Our Girls” next l hits hnvo boon made oil Ins delivery,
sea run. There is a growing do mini for a National
Rubinstein, tho pianist, made $35,003 d ir- ] Vague of umpireu. Until this is brought
g his re eat visit in London. Ho gave ouly about umpiros will always bo in hot wnte
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC,
mg
eight con orts.
Audhan has composed a new opev
titled “Indiana,” which will shortly bo pro
duced iu London.
The Kiralfy brothers nro tho owners oC
several now eom : c operas, which they may
produce next season.
The leading men for Mr. Booth aud Mr.
Barrett next sea -on are (Charles Larron and
Newton Gotthold respectively.
Misk Mated Jo an an
The Atlantis have tofhdr credit nearly
3rotia eu- i 235 stolon bases for the pi e -out season, j liis
j is more! than any other club in tho country
ha*.
The two youngest League clubs, the n u h-
! ingtons aud Kansas Citys, havo played two
, of the longest aud best games ot the Jx?agiie
' series.
; Latham has made more runs for tho St.
i Louis Club this season from base hits than
an American a :- 1 nuy other player in the American Asso. la-
lion.
Southern teams three—At-
nphis—have tho nd-
home with feicteen
“ u “VJjV ' 0l \ th , e . ".“V I Theatre. New York,
either. Mr. delimit!, at liis preliminary . a var i e a ro; e rt ire.
trial, was acquitted.
UlLLED BY LIGHTNING.
jjuring a storm which passed over the
Clovis ranch, twenty miles south of Pana,
exas, a house in which four women
crowdand wounded over 100 persons, twenty a exas, » , u T v,;
so brully that they had to be taken to the i were sleeping, was struck by lightning,
hospital
A letter in the postoffice at Lewiston,
Maine, that puzzles the clerks is addressed:
• Mister Sintomer Burgermeister, Staat
Main. Louis too. North America."
on Wednaaday, and
| killed.
all were instantly
The new South is pronounced by visit
ing tourists to be very different from tho
old in almost every respect.
, M. Coquelin, ths groat French comedian,
! who is to visit this country noxt season, has
tendered his resignation to tho manager of
t.’.o Comedio Franeaise, l’aris.
1 The American Opera Company, which
■ has just returned to New York after a sue-
i cessiul tour, is already making elaborate
preparations for next season.
1 A report tliur George Gould, the eldest
! sou of .'ay O-ml l, has gong to London to
’ marry Mi-s Edith Ktngdou, of Daly's Com-
j puny, ite; uiu.-b iutere.it iri Sew York.
Sarasat,:, ths S| aui h violinist, refuted
♦5U i. wh b was offered hi n to accompany
, Patti in a single sang at her last concert biv
tore her marriage, He demanded tfl.UOU.
Hines, of Washington, nnd Ro.vp and
Richardson, of Detroit, are tho only men in
tiie League who have batted for a total of
ten in one game.
The New Yorks won nine of the twelve
games which they playel on their last west
ern tour, their defeats being ono in Chicago
and two iu Detroit.
Pit.”he i Stood, of the Yale Club, struck
out ninety-three iu nine games, an average
of over ten to a jams He is to remain ui
colioge two years longer.
JUST think of it, a left fielder to put opt
ton men in on) game. That's what Jones, of
he Cindunat s, did in Bt. Louis recently
We are uurl'-r the impression, says Spo 'hug
Life, that this ha fuypr be.;n equaled in
professional base ball
Change. Made That Affect (lie gouthsrn
(State..
The following arc the principal changes
and those locally affecting the south,
made by the senate committee on appro
priations in tlie sundry civil bill:
For public buildings-Uharleston, South
Carolina, striken out. Galveston, Texas,
striken out. Pensacola Increased from
5,000 to $10,000. Mosquito inlet light
station. Florida, iiiereuseil from $30,000
to $00,000.
The provision in I he house bill that no
portion of the appropriation for eugrav-
ng and printing United States notes
“shall be expended for printing United
States notes of large denomination ill
lien of notes of small denomination, can
celled or retired," was stricken out by the
committee, but was subsequently restored
and remains ns it was in the house bill.
The provision in the house bill relating
to silver certificates, is amended to read
us follows:
Thnt tiie secretary of the treasury is
hereby authorized and required to issue
silver certificates in denominations of $1,
$2 und $5, and silver certificates herein
authorized shall be receivable, redeemable
and payable in like manner and for like
purposes us is provided for silver certifi
cates by tlie net of February 28, 1878,
entitled an act to authorize the coinage
of the standard silver dollar and to re
store its legal tender character, provided
that aid denominations of $1, $2 and $5
nrny be issued in lieu of silver certificates
of larger denomination in the treasury
nnd to that extent said certificates of
larger denominations shail be cancelled
and destroyed.
To the provision for lighting rivers,
the committee has added the St. John’s
river, Fla., and the Columbia aud Willa
mette rivers of Oregon, and increasnd the
appropriation from $170,000 to $200,000.
Ten thousand dollnrs is appropriated for
salaries nnd expenses of the national board
of health. To defray the expenses inci
dent to landing, housing, protecting and
inaugurating upon Bedloo’s Island of
Bartiiold’is statue of Liberty Enlighten
ing the World and for the construction
of platforms, repairs of wharf, clearing
the grounds of unsightly structures and
other incidental expenses, and for inci
dental expenses of the ceremony of inau
guration, the seaate committee provided
$50,500. Eighty thousand dollars is ap
propriated for a wharf nt Fortress Moil-
roe. An appropriation of $107,000 is
made for construction and repairs at the
southern branch of the uatioual home for
disabled volunteer soldiers, increasing
the total appropriation for this institution
to $1,081,000,
Laughing at the Teaeher.
The adage: "It’s easier said than
done," is only a variation on what we
aro constantly observing in life of the
difference between theory and practice.
Wo may be fully equipped with a theory,
and over rendy glibly to expound it,
though when the occasion arises for
putting it into practice wo forget all
about it.
Tho teacher of chemistry in n large
public school was speaking to his class of
the properties of a particular acid. In
one hand he held a glnss vessel filled with
the acid in question; in tho other he held
a stick of chalk with which he had just
been writing a chemical formula on tho
blackboard. .
"By the way,” he said, addressing his
class, "I may remark here, that should
any of you by accident spill any of this
acid on your hands, I should advise you
not to give way to the very natural im
pulse to rub it off with your pocket-
handkerchief. Tuko u pieco of chalk in
stantly, nnd rub it over the wet surface,
and the chalk will neutralize the effects
of the acid.”
Just then, by an accidental movement,
he spilled the acid on his own hand.
Quick as a shot he dropped tho piore of
chalk which ho hold in his hand, pulled
out his pocket-handkerchief, and be
gan rubbing the injured hand vigor-
onsly. , , , ,
Everybody who was present laughed
at this unexpected application of theo
retical knowledge; and after a bewil
dered glance round the room the teacher
laughed, too.
The demonstration of the difference
between theoretical knowledge and
practical efficiency was complete.
Portraits on Bank Notes.
The heads on the National Bank note*
of different denominations are not very
generally known, says the Toledo Blade,.
and very few persons can tell what por
traits are on the different notes. They
are ns follows:
On United States.
$1, Washington
$2, Jefferson
95, Jackson
$10, Webster
920, Hamilton
950, Franklin
9100, Lincoln
$500, Mansfield
91,000, D. Clinton
910,000, Jackson
Silver Certificates.
910, Robt. Morris
910, Com. Decatur
950, E. Everett
$100, Jas. Monroe
$500, C. Sumner
91,000, W. L. Marcy
Gold Notes.
920, Garfield
950, Silas Wright
9100, T. H. Benton
$500, Lincoln
91.000, A. Hamilton
95.000, Jas. Madison
910,000, A. Jackson.
Eternal Fitness.
A sailor for sea,
And a spinster for tea,
A lawyer for talk and a soldier for fighting;
A baby for noise.
And a circus for boys,
And a typewriter man to do autograph writ
ing.
A banker for chink
And a printer for ink,
A leopard for spots and a wafer for sticking;
A crack base ball flinger,
An opera singer,
A fbot gun, a mul* ana * cfcoJr for kteMy.