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THE NEW SOUTH.
NEWS NOTES GATHERED
FROM VARIOUS SECTIONS.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Tlio Sumter national bank has declared
a rr-mi-annual dividend of four per cent.
Tho now town council of Darlington
has placed tho liquor license at $150,
which is $25 less than it was last year.
The Green Pond, Waterboro and
Branohvillo railroad has been completed
to a point within a tnilo of Waterboro.
James E. Davis, of BarnwoH, who was
so severely shot on Christmas day by W.
E. Owens, is rapidly recovering.
The directors of the Sumter cotton
mills hnvo declnred a dividend of woven
per cent on the cnpital stock, and also
passed ten per cent to tho surplus.
Ono hundred nnd fifty negroes left
StrotherB last week for Toxus and Arkan
sas, seeking bread and bettor homes.
Wives have gono and left their husbands.
They arc very poor and dissatisfied, hav
ing bad four wuccessive failures in tho
crop.
nnm. it is cnuca tnc rsortn Ainunmn
Colored Land company, and is capitalized
at $50,000. Nearly all the prominent
colored people in town are interested
in it.
Prohibition virtually prevails in Blount
county, from the 81st of December, 1880,
until at least to the 22d of July, owing
to the recent net of the legislature passed,
to regulate the manner of obtaining li
cense to liquor dcnlcrs in this county.
The Lowndcsboro correspondent Hayuo
ville Examiner says: Planters have pret
ty generally commenced work for 1887.
With few exceptions most of them have
plenty of labor and we trust all parties
will be better satisfied during the coming
year.
RAILWAY PASSENGER AGENTS.
A Koiialng Meeting nt Which Twenty-Two
Uoiiipaiili-s Were llepreeentnd.
A meeting of tho Southern Passenger
association was held in New York on
Tuesday, twenty-two out of the twenty-
five companies of the association being
represented. Col. T. M.R. Talcott, of Mo-
M. Mayer Richards, a cotton buyer in
Montgomery, was arrested Saturday on a
warrant issued by Justice II. B. Screws
on nflidnvit of L. Seligmnn, pnper and
stationery, the charge being larceny of
furs. Mr. Richards gnvo bond for ap
pearance.
An attempt was made to wreck a train
near Ilonea Path on tho night of the 1st
instant, by placing an iron hnr across tho
rails. It was struck by the engine of n
specinl freight going west, about nine
o’clock, but fortunately no injury was
dono, ns the bar was knocked clear of tho
track by the pilot of the engine,
Covington county is becoming noted
for the almmlnnco of large and small game
within her boundaries. A party of gen
tlemen from Pike came down a few days
since, were joined by friends at this place
ami went on a hunting expedition to the
lower portion of tho county. We learn
the results were satisfactory.
jprosented.
bile, presided. It was said that tho special
busiuess was to invoke now aids in an
effort to get those of the southern lines
not now m the association to come. Of
these four companies who arc not mem
bers, all but one—the Mississippi and
Tennessee—a small lino, have signified
their intention to join. Mr. Stoughton
was re-elected commissioner cf the asso
ciation.
Tho association completed its labors
and adjourned. A committee of five was
appointed to confer with the management
of roads not members of the association
and ungoverned by its rates to obtain
their concurrence in the schedule if pos
sible. The committee consist of E.. B.
Tliomns, of tho Richmond nnd Danville;
Henry Fink, of the Virginia, Tennessee
and Georgia Air-Line; E. T. D. Myers, of
tho Richmond, Fredericksburg nnd Poto
mac; N. II. Smith, of the Louisville nnd
Nashville, and John O. Galt, of tho Cin
cinnati, New Orleans and Pacific.
ABOUT THE PRESIDENT.
Mr. and Mra. Cleveland May Tmlt San Kran-
claeo nnd the YellowMone Park.
Leon county is redeeming her bonds
nnd stopping interest
Gnluesvillo uow boasts of u population
numbering 5,038 souls.
O. B. White, of Volusia, Inst week
picked 1,050 oranges from a five-year-old
tree.
Mr. Tyson, of Smithville, Ga., is now-
on Indian river looking out for a location
for a newspaper.
The university library at Tallahassee
has received 20 volumes of Swedenborg’s
Publishing society.
Tho reduction of hands in tho railroad
shops in Tnllnhassee turns twenty-two
employes out in tho cold.
Mr. Kcesley, of Point Pinellas, shot an
eight-foot nlligntor last week, but n horse
did noarly as well last Sunday, jumping
on and disabling one, live feet nnd a half
long.
Tho Courier, Mr. S. A. Jones's new
pnpci in Tampa, appenred Wednesday.
This makes three weekly newspapers for
Tampa, and it is now a question of tho
“survival of tho fittest."
Tho Andalusia Times says if Andalusia
continues to make the same headway in
mittcrini progress for the next two years
that she 1ms in the one just drawing to a
close, she will indeed be a boomer. Never
before in her history 1ms there been such
an influx of new comers and erection of
new houses nnd improvement of old ones.
Montgomery Advertiser: John Saun
ders, n notorious thief, was urrested by
(lllicer Payno yesterday afternoon. The
charge against John is grand larceny. A
few days ago he stole some hides from L.
Seligmnn and sold them to Mr. Sabel.
Mr. Seligmnn identified his jxroperty nnd
took the, hides lmek to the store, Tho
next day the hides were missing again.
John had stolen them again nnd sold
them to Mr. S. Marks, on Dexternvenue,
The hides were recovered and the thief
spotted. Yesterday nGernoon the officers
got him and lodged him in prison John
Saunders is a veteran thief, nnd is a fa
miliar character in the police court. lie
has been arrested up to date forty-eight
times by Officer Payne, and ill almost
every instance for larceny.
A man named Weaver appeared at tho
courthouse a few dnys ago to transact
some business with the clerk of tho court
who said ho lind wulked all the way from
Brevard to Tallahasseo to straighten out
his lund matters.
A wild boar was killed in Rice-creek
swamp, near Pnlntka, a few days ago.
The hog weighed more than three hun
dred pounds nnd was killed by Mr. Jim
mie Grooms. The tusks were about seven
inches long, nnd shows just what n Flor
ida razor-back can do when given tho
freedom of tho swamps.
It'IM CAROLINA.
that many of tho most
It is st it
prominent tobacco farmers of the section
nroimd Henderson will not put in a full
crop of tobacco this year.
It has been definitely ascertained that
Governor Scales will not order nil election
to fill the vacancy in the Fifth district,
caused by Reid’s resignation.
The Governor lias offered a reward of
$1011 for Thomas Brinkley, who is charged
with the murder of Pierce Hermann,
at Hickory, Christmas day. Hermann
was a merchant there. Directly after
committing the crime Brinkley fled.
While Lawrence Pritchard, son of Rev.
Dr. Tliomns H. Pritchard, was hunting,
nl Lake Wacinaw, his gun burst, wound
ing him painfully in the face and hands.
The gun was over-charged. The injuries
are not considered serious.
Negro brutality in some cases is horri
ble, and the latest instance occurrred at
Charlotte, where the wife of John Morri
son heat him on the head with cooking
utensils, fracturing bis skull and causing
his death, Wednesday night of last week.
The murderess has tie I.
The State Bonrd of Agriculture meets
on the 17th, and has invited tho farmers
of the State to meet with it for a general
discussion. There has been specially call
ed, a State Convention of farmers, on the
Stitli instant. This appears to be excit
ing ipiite a deal of interest.
Wilmington lias had more trouble than
any place in the State during the past
few months in tho way of strikes. The
last one of these labor troubles was
caused by railway firemen. The police
stopped the trouble. Thursday one of
the strikers, a negro named Aycock, was
before Mayor Hall at Wilmington, charg
ed with threatening to kill one Massen-
burg, a negro who had been given Aycock s
place.
ALABAMA.
All of north Alabama seems to be on a
boom.
A movement is on foot to plant a hun
dred thousand dollar carriage and wagon
factory at Birmingham.
The residence of Mr. G. W. Abbott of
Arkadelphia, was destroyed by fire a few
days ago. Everything in the house was
lost.
I W Dainwood, of Livingston, who
made an assignment some days ago has
compromised with his creditors and re
sumed business.
Major Garland Goode, an old and es
teemed citizen of Mobile, formerly in the
Cotton factorage busiuess, died and ™
buried Friday. He was born un Edge-
field, S. C.
The little six-year-old daughter of Mr.
ir,.,Xiek living near Calera, was burned
to death Friday morning. Her clothing
« fl r « and before assistance
came she was burned almost to a cusp.
At a meeting of the board of directors
■ f the pecatur Lind Improvement and
Fimineo company, the executive com
mittee were authorized to proceed nt
■nee to erect four blast furnaces of at
' .ist one hundred tons daily capncity.
' proposition, through Mr. Gunby
Jordan, of Columbus, Ga., from New
York, and Philadelphia captalists, for the
erect ion of n one hundred ton blast fur
nace, was received and neted upon. Tho
representatives of the Pierce charcoal nnd
wood alcohol works, who tiro now erect
ing fifty ovens at this point, are expected
ore with a view to erect a charcoal iron
mince at this point, A Curry cotton
cimpress company wns organized, to
erect extensive works at this point,
FROM TUSCALOOSA,
The excitement over Tuscaloosa’s great
iloom increases hourly. Telegrams have
p mred in from nil quarters nsking for
oek in the land company. The sub-
■ription hooks having been closed, these
chgrains are filed in the order in which/
they have been received. The talk now
is general on the streets that tho original
amount of ground floor stock agreed up
on will have to be increased to meet the
pressing demands of capitalists from
other points. The prospect is that tho
Tuscaloosa Coal, Iron and Improvement
( ompaiiy will bo the largest and strongest
ever organized in the South. It is ru
mored that negotiations are pending to
secure for the company a body of over
ime hundred thousand ncrcs of coal and
iron land lying between Tuscaloosa and
and the Georgia Pacific railroad, in addi
tion to the lands heretofore secured. Ten
percent premium was freely offered on
the streets for places on the stock list,
the holders generally refusing to sell at
that price. In the meantime real estate
of all kinds in tho city that is offered is
readily taken up, advancing jirices. Tho
proportions which the boom is assuming
is amazing even to tho most sanguine be
lievers iu Tuscaloosa’s future.
SIR STAFFORD N0RTHC0TE DIES.
lie Kitinls ivliilo ascending Iho Sintra of Lord
Salisbury’s Residence.
a ..pirni company * s Hie latest novelty
tAS3&Sw* ■»“ f
Lord Iddesleigb is dead, He is better
known to fame in British po'itics as Sir
Stafford Nortlicote, He fainted while
ascending the stairs of Lord Salisbury’s
official residence, in Downing street, as
lie was about to visit his lordship. He
was taken into the prime minister’s room
and almost instantly expired. A physi
cian's bulletin announces that Lord Id-
dlesleigli died from heart disease, from
which he hod suffered slightly for sev
eral years. A few moments before he
was stricken, he seemed to be in per
fect health and spirit. His body has
been removed to the family residence in
St. James place. There will be no in
quest, the doctors certifying that death
resulted from a failure of the heart’s ac
tion.
SNOW IN THE NORTHWEST.
singe C'eacbea llloeked—Two Men Barted
by ho Avnlanoho.
Many stage coaches are blockaded in
western Montana, and a number of casu
alties are reported. The coach from
llenton to Helena was blockaded twenty-
eight miles out, the team becoming ex
hausted from walking through the snow.
The driver and passengers walked to tho
next station and all were more or less
frozen. The c inch from Helena to Fort
Shaw was also obliged to lay up. The
snow is terribly deep iu tho mountains
and the roads are impassable.
Two men Tony Wise and a Swede named
Martin, were at work on the side of Sheep
mountain, near Cook City, developing
sonje mining property. A. huge slide
-wept clown the mountain and hurled the
two unfortunate men into eternity. They
were carried a thousand feet below, .and
their bqdies will not be round until the
mow melts next summer,
0LUVERIUS AND RELIGION.
Til. PrlMrrr Mnrkl.g Itellgloua Oaaiala-
Hon-Petition for Farther Respite.
Counsel for Cluvcrius, the condemned
murderer of Lillian Madison, have pre
sented a formal petition to the governor
for a further respite. Tlio prisoner re
ceives lew visitors, and spends much of
liis time reading the Bible. Recently, at
his own request, ho has been visited sev
eral times by Captain Frank W. Cun
ningham, wlio is known as “Richmond's
silver tongued tenor,’’ and its sweetest
ballad nnd hymn singer. On each occa
sion Captain Cunningham has sung for
the condemned criminal, and in recogni
tion of his kindness, presented Captain
Cunningham with an autograph album,
with the following written on the first
page:
“Captain Frank W. Cunningham: Let
me say that no words of mine can proper
ly thank you for the cliccr atid comfort
you lmvc brought me in my lonely hour
by your sweet music. Whatever others
may say or think, I can say to you I am
innocent. .May we all meet in heaven
whore sorrow is not. We shall sing on
that beautiful shore.
Thomas J. Cluverius."
KILLED BY A PENCIL.
A Nirange lleatlt Koparted from Flerei.ee
C. H. Pahrer, a merchant of* Florence,
died Monday from the result of a strange
accident. One day about two montni
ago, while standing in front of his store,
lie wns approached from behind by a
friend, who playfully threw his nrui!
around Barber’s neck. A scuffle ensued,
in which Barber's head was drawn down
ward and his right eye brought in con
tact with the sharp point of a small lead
pencil sticking out of his friend’s vest
pocket. The pencil, which was about an
inch and a quarter long, penetrated the
eye, and became so completely embedded
therein, ns to baffle the efforts of the
surgeons to extract it. After remaining
in tlic eye about six weeks, the pencil
worked itself out,and it was then thought
that,with (lie exception of tho loss of the
eye, Mr. Burlier would suffer no other in
convenience, but in a few days it became
evident that the lead had poisoned the
optic nerve, and soon after the brain be
came similarly affected. Burlier lingered
in great agony until death relieved him.
The autopsy showed that the braiu had
■iterally rotted away.
A CBI.LHK ATED CASH.
Private advices from Montgomery state
that tho suit in the supreme court of D.
W. Visher versus East Alabama Railway
company to recover East Alabama Rail
road, resulted in favor of present com
pany. This is u celebrated case, having
gone the round of t lie .state court into tho
United States supreme court and again to
the state supreme court. This is a final
ity. Mr. Visher was tho road contractor,
and sued for alleged unpaid contracts.
The present company offered at ono time
a compromise, but Vischer’s lawyers re
fused.
BASEBALL.
The Southern basebnll league is an es
tablished fact. John Morrows president
of the league said: “The league is
thoroughly organized now, is in harmony
and working under a guarantee of the
national association, lias secured all cities
■in the circuit, except Atlanta and Macon,
and these will he replaced by Mobile and
Birmingham. Memphis has remitted her
franchise deposit of $2,000. New
Orleans, Savannah, Charleston and Nash-
villo have fallen into line and Chattanooga
is safe.
IIE WANTS TO SWING.
A MYSTERIOUS LYNCHING.
It is said that tho president and Mrs.
Cleveland contemplate a lot of jaunts this
summer: that they intend going to tho
Pacific slope, through tho south, spend
ing some time in the woods of Michigan
and New York, and that tho president
hopes to take sufficient exercise to work
down his superfluous flesh and give liis
muscles some elasticity, so as to obviato
the danger he Is in of a stroke of nppo-
plexy or something else. Last summer
he had such a good time in tho Adiron-
dacks and felt so greatly improved that
ho will try it on a Larger scalo.
It will bo remembored that last sum
mer efforts were mado to get Mr. and
Mrs. Cleveland to go to San Francisco,
St. Louis, tlio Yellowstone Park and a
number of other plnces, contemplating
travel over a largo scope of country. Tho
president hinted at that time thnt ho
might pay visits to all those places in the
future. This summer will cover the long
vacation of congress, or rather the inter
im of great length when thoro is no ses
sion. The offices will nearly all have
been filled by new men, and they have so
completely mastered the details as to be
able to run the maohinery of government
without his directing care. So the mo
ment for politics, recreation and social
visits will bo opportune about Juno or
July.
A JACKSON COUNTY SENSATION.
A Man Enaprcted of Robbery la Taken Ont
aed !>Inltreated.
THF DEATH OP THI YEAR.
A TRAIN IN A SNOW DRIFT.
Kate I I’lnnce if a Mliaenrl I’aclflo Paaaen"
per Train.
A south bound passengor train on the
Missouri Pacific extension wns wrecked
near Dunbar, Neb., about midnight
Wednesday. The wreck was caused by
the loosening of a rail, done by parties
unknown. Several spikes and fish plates
lmd been removed and the train coming
along at the. rate of thirty iqiles an hour,
plunged fifteen feet down an embankment
and landed in a snow drift. James De
witt, of Wyandotte, Kansas, engineer,
was caught under the boiler nnd killed,
his body not being recovered nl last no-
counts.' Frank llonewith, express mes
senger, wus internally hurt and may die.
A lady, whose name was not learned, was
badly"hurt, but tlie other pussengers worn
not seriously injured So far ns known
here, all were shaken up, however, and
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more or less bruised. Tho entire train
left the track and probably the loss of life
would have been greater except for a
snow-1 milk which broke the force of the
plunge. Missouri Pacific olllcials state
that the wreck is the result of a third at
tempt upon the life of Engineer DeWitt.
THE CHINESE QUESTION.
Negotiations Willi tlio Coverninanc—Expul
sion at Van (louver.
It is understood that negotiations with
tho Chinese government, to which allu
sion wus imulo in the president’s message,
for such a modification of existing trea
ties as will entirely prevent the introduc
tion of Chinese coolie labor into this
country, have just been brought to a suc
cessful termination and that in u few
days, an amended trenty, covering this
point, will be submitted to the senate for
ratification. Both the State department
and Chinese embassy are much gratified
at tho satisfactory conclusion reached.
EXPULSION OF CHINESE AT VAN COUVER.
The committee appointed at tho public
meeting at Van Couvor, B. C., waited on
a number of Chinamen who recently ar
rived therefrom Victoria B. C., and re
quested them to leave, which they did.
Their return fare to Victoria was paid by
subscriptions received from citizens. It is
reported that instructions have been re
ceived to tuke proceedings against Mayor
McLean, of Van Couver and other citi
zens implicated in the expulsion.
On Thursday hight of Christmas week
tho storehouse of Mr. J. E. Statham,who
lives in 8entofc,Qa.,was entered and $100
stolen therefrom. For somo cause sus
picion at once rested on W. O. Shclnutt,
who lived near the store, buf direct proof
was lacking which would fasten the
crime on him. Threats were openly
made about Bhelnutt’s complicity. On
Sunday night following, about 1 o’clock,
Shclmitt’s door wns broken open, and
without giving him time to dress or bid
his wife adieu, a party of men wearing
masks and nine in number, hurried him
oil to nit old church nenr by. and finding
a suitable limb, procured a strong rope
and fastening one end around his neck
drew him U]i between heaven and earth.
After suspending him thus until life was
almost extiuct, the lino was Blackened
nntl an opportunity given him for a full
confession of the crime, but this ho re
fused to do, and again wus the rope
tightened. When breath had about left
him a halt was culled, and in an uncon
sci ms condition Shclnutt was dragged
by two men about 100 yards to a log.
While they held him down acroH* it a
brawny fellow administered a severe flog
ging with an improvised cat-of-nine tails
made from a heavy leather strap. When
tho mob had given him all ho could stand
a halt was ordered and another oppor
tunity given for a confession. With his
hack bleeding from a hundred wounds,
tho poor wretch, to nave his life, told
them that a mail named Griffith robbed
tlio store, and he Shclnutt happened to
sen him in the act, and that Griffith gave
him five dollars to keep mum. This con
fession seemed to appease tho wrath of
tlio crowd to a certain extent, and Sliel-
mitt was then taken to the home of Mr.
Stiitbain, proprietor of the store that wns
robbed, nnd turned over to his tender
mercies. The next day Griffith was ar
rested, but Shclnutt failed completely to
show any connection that Griffith had
with tho matter, so Griffith was released.
Shelnutt says he knows nothing what
ever about the robbery and only told the
mob what lie did in order to save his life.
Warrants have been isauud for six men
charged with complicity in the whipping,
and lively times may be looked for Defore
tho thing is finally onded.
A cloud came out of the golden west,
A bell rang over tho silent air;
The mm-god hurried away to rest,
Flushing with ldsses each cloud he prest,
And, oh! but the day was fair.
“How brightly tho year gees out," thoy soldi
"Tho glow of tho sunsot lingers long,
Knowing the year will be over and dead,
Its sod hours over—its fleot hours fled—
With sorvlce of even-song.”
“IIow sadly the year came In,” they eald,
I listened and wondered in dusk of night;
To me no your that might como instead
Of tho old friend numbered among the dead
Could over be half so bright.
ThfituR-WaAd cTouds grew pale and gray,
Tho bells hung silont in high mld-alr,
Watting to ring tho year away
In strains thnt were over too glad and guy
For mo—as I listened there.
A VIRGINIA RIOT.
HIS BODY FULLED IN TWO.
James Chavis, a young man about 18
years of age, met with a horrible death
in the gin house of J. T. Goodson, in
Darlington county. At the time of the
accident Mr. Goodson wns in tho gin
house, up stairs, nnd noticing that the
mules had stopped, he went down stairs,
where lie found Chavis’s dead body,brok
en in two just below the chest. It is sup
posed that Chavis was standing on .the
shaft, and while going backwards lie wns
mght by the hand wheel.
Riotous demonstrations on the part of
the striking employes of the Old Domin
ion Btoamship lino, at New port Nows,
occurred Tuesday. A tolegram from Mr.
Bremond, general traffic manager of tho
Chesapcak and Ohio railroad, at New
port News, to General Wcckhutn, of Rich
mond, second vice-president of the com
pany, says, the strikers have taken pos
session of pier No. 2, set fire to tho hath
house of tho Old Dominion land company,
nnd perpetrated oilier outrages. Mr.
Dromond asks for un armed force to pro
tect tho company’s property ami arrest
tho offenders. Judge Beck, of Warwick
county, has made a formal call upon Gov
ernor Lee for military aid, and he has
taken prompt action in the matter by or
dering three companies, two white and
ono colored, from Richmond, and ono
whito company and one colored from
Hampton, to proceed at once to tho scene
of tho disturbance.
A BATTLE AT TONQUIN.
A BRIDGE FALLS IN.
Cooper, tho murderer sentenced to bs
hanged on January 14th at Darien, Ga.,
was informed that the governor had re
prieved him until February 11th. He did
not hail the news with joy. He says ho
does not like this interference by outside
parties, and would prefer to hang on the
day first appointed.
A special from Adrian, Michigan, says:
Tho iron passenger bridge spanning the
Raisin river, connecting the two princi
pal portions of the village of Blissfield,
ten miles cast of this place, fell yesterday,
the intense cold causing the iron to con
tract and draw upon the supports. Wil
liam Black and Charles Quigley, with a
herd of cattle, were precipitated to the
bottom. The men are injured fatally.
THE ARMY AND PENSION BILLS.
‘Why
make it to
The army appropriation bill, as report
ed to the Senate by Senator Allison, ap
propriates $28,787,718, being $051,000
in excess of the appropriation bill as it
camo from the House, and $1,778,809
less than the estimates. The pension ap
propriation bill, also reported by Senator
Allison, appropriates tho same amount as
the House bill, and contains but one
amendment of slight importance.
Ike Brumfield, colored, was hanged by
an unknown mob Saturday night at
Osyka, Miss. The body was found on
Sunday. The negro, it is stated, resided
in Louisiana, but was taken into
Mississippi and lynched. Tho cause of
tiie hanging has not transpired.
CAPITAL COMING SOUTH.
BURNING HOUSES IN IRELAND.
A series of e victions was begun on the
Winn estates, in Kerry. As the tenants
were evicted their houses were burned.
Intenso excitement prevails in the dis
trict, and it is probable there will be
blood shed.
A party of eighteen gentlemen from In-
linois, Indiana and Michigan, represent
ing $2,000,000 capital, left St. Louis for
the south. Their intention is to purchase
a million or more acres of timber land be
longing to the Mobile and Ohio road in
Tennessee, Alabama and Mississippi, and
erect mills and open a new and extensive
lumber trade in that section.
LOBS OF LIFE AT A FIRE.
ENGLAND ASSISTS BULGARIA.
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A rumor is current that England is
giving pecuniary assistance to the Bul
garian regents. There are rumors on
bourse that Russia has occupied ft portion
of Afghanistan.
... ,
A fire started Tuesday morning in the
dentist office of Dr. Genslinger and ex
tended to the adjoining buildings of F.
M. Peal and J. H. Pipei, at Carlisle,
Ky. When the walls fell Dr. Genslinger
and Newton Craig were caught in the
debris. They were extricated, but are
fatally injured. The total loss is $50,000,
ineuruoe $25,090.
ODDS AND ENDS.
An excliango bns an article on
Bees Make Honey.” Thoy
cell.
A father may succeed iu cutting off
his son without a cent, but he can’t cut
off the lawyers
If a man borrows money ho does not
care to have it talked about, lie wants
to be quietly let alone.
The rockers on a chair never stick out
half so far behind nt any other lime us
when a man is prowling around in the
dark barefooted.
WnEN Georginna was three, she said
suddenly one duy, after long quiet:
“Mamma, where do the to-days go
when they get to be yesterdays ?”
The sheep is a mighty useful animd;
his body is good for meat, his wool for
clothes, and his skin is manufactured
into doeskin, and even kid gloves.
A damsel gave this as on excuse lor
the size of her pedal extremities: She
had rheumatism when a child, and her
mother rubbed her legs the wrong way,
and rubbed her calves into her feet.
A young woman in eastern Maine
cries by the hour because she is tall.—
f'x. This is a rather peculiar case, but
we have often heard of a man c nimit-
ting suicide because he was “short,”
You can always tell a man who has
once been a clerk in a hotel, says un ox
change. Our experience lias been that
you can’t tell him much. He thiuks he
knows it all.
“I see that one of the new rules of
the national game provides that where a
batsman is hit by a pitched ball lie is
given his base. Now, wliat is to pre
vent a man getting hit on purpose to
take his base ?” “llavo you over beeu
hit by a pitched ball?" ’•Never!” “I
thought not.”
Oh. hearts! tlmt beat in a million breasts,
Oh, lips! that utter tho same old phrase,
I wonder that never a sorrow rests
In words you uttor to friends nnd guest*
In the new year’s strauge now days I
Is it Just the ' nine as it used to ba!
Have uow years only a gladder sound!
For evor and always it seems to me
That no uow face can bo sweet to see
As the old ones we have found.
There Is no cloud in the darkened weet,
The boll is Bilent in misty air,
The year tins gone to its last tong rest.
And 1, who loved nud who know it best,
Shall meet it—God knows where I
—All the Year Hound.
PITH AND POINT
LOTTERY TICKETS COUNTERFEITED.
Head-work—Bonnets.
People who want the enrth do not cry
to hnvo it blown into their faces by wind
in a dry time.—Bouton Globe.
“It is the rout question that doraande
better home rule," as Bagloy remarked
when he pinned up the back of hiivest.
—Judge.
A correspondent asks: “Is it wrong to
cheat a lawyer?" First cheat the law
yer and we will answer tho conundrum.
—Profile nee Telegraph
“Wlmt is education?" asks a writer
Well, it is something a college graduate
thinks he has until he becomes a news
paper yinn. Chicago Tribune.
The doctor chuckled in wild glee,
With mirth almost exploded;
■‘The deadly mince nio come-,” said he
“And folks don't know Its loaded."
—Gonrlall’* A’un.
Wo ore given, by nn agricultural ex
change, a picture entitled: “A Device
for Feeding Hogs.” livery cheap res
taurant in .New York should have one.—
Purl-.
A-cliild who was sitting in the sun wa«
admonished by her mother: “My dear,
como out of the sut.” “No, mother,”
said the little girl, with emphasis, “I
got hero first.”
That tlio oyster is nutritious,
(Julte exquisitely (loll- ions,
Is a stutomout that can never be denied;
But lie .udUeuly grows vicious,
Toward your stomach quite malicious,
When he's fried.
—Merchant Traveler,
Perhaps, if the Yale students are
really tired of the old-fasioned religion
that is preached to them at tho college,
the faculty might delegato a fow of th*
young men to got up a now one, with
oiglit oarB and a coxswain in it. — Chicago
Adi os.
It has been discovered that Louisiana
lottery tickets have been counterfeited
for a year, and sold on tho Pacific coast.
A ticket bearing a ono thousand dollar
prise number was sent to New Orleans
for collection, und there pronounced a
forgery. Tho man who made the dies
nncl printed the tickets is known, uud lie
has given the names of tho men who or
dered them and sold tho counterfeits.
No prosecution for counterfeiting can bo
sustained because the lotteries have no
legal standing. Tho only prosecution
that can be made is for misdemeanor for
disposing of lottery tickets.
Official dispatches from Tonquin report
that French troojps made an nttack on a
large rebel force entrenched at Shnnhonk,
but were twice repulsed. During the
fighting four French officers were wound
ed five European and eight Tonquin sol
diers were killed, and fifteen European
and twenty-seven Tonquinese were
! wounded. Reinforcements of artillery
I and infantry will be sent to the French.
Thanksgiving In 1721.
From uu old newspaper, tho Boston
Gazette, of October' 1 , 17 11, tho follow
ing quaint and curious proclamation was
copied. Boston has never known a more
doleful Thanksgiving Day than that of
1721; for during that year six thousand
persons, out ol a population of about
nineteen thousand, had the smallpox,
nnd ono thousand of them died. Tho
Indiuns hud seriously threatened the
peace of tho colony, nnd Governor Shuto,
a gentleman of high tory principles, wao
in continual conflict with the Legisla
ture. The prominence given in the proc
lamation to the King, George, ana the
royal family, was probably a political
stroke aimed by the Governor at his op
ponents. It did not soothe them, and
the Governor soon after left tho province.
Bij His Excellency
Samuel. Suute, Esq.;
Captain General and Governour-in-
Chief, in uud over HU Majesty’s Province
of the Massachusetts Bay in New Eng
land, etc. A Proclamation for a General
THANKSGIVING.
For as much as amidst the various
awful Rebukes of Heaven, with which
wo are righteously nttticted, in the Con
tagious and Mortal Sickness among us,
especially iu the Town of Boston; The
tong and hninoderni*. Kafgg which have
been so hurtful to the Husbandry tad
Fishery; And the threatening Aspect of
Affairs with Respect t> our Frontiers;
we are still under the highest nnd most
indispensable Obligations of Gratitude
for the mauy Instances of tho Divine
Goodness iu the Favours vouen-afed to
us in tho Course of tho Year past; Par
ticularly, For the Life of our Gracious
Sovereign Lord the King, Their Royal
Highnesses tho Prince and Princess or
Wales and their i-sue, and the increase
of tho Royal Family; The Preservation
of His Majesty’s Kingdoms and Domin
ions from the terrible and do dating
Pestilence, which hath for so l ag a
time been wa ting the Kingdom of,
France: And the happy Kuc e-sef His
Majesty’s Wise Councils for Restoring
and Confirming the Peace of Europe;
For the Continuance of our valuable
Privileges, both rivil and Eoclosiastical;
and the Divine Blessing upon this Gov
ernment in their Administrations; Par
ticularly, in succeeding the Methods
taken to prevent the insults of the East
ern Indians; 1-Vr ivin - so great Meas
ure of Health wiilii . this Province, and
Moderating tho Mortality of the Sinall-
Pox, so that a great Number of Persons
are Recovered from that Distemper;
And for granting u-: so comfortable a
former Harvest, and so hopeful a Pros
pect of tlio latter:
I have, therefore, thiught fit with the
Advice of HP Majesty’. Council, toorder
and Appoint Thursday, the Twenty-sixth
Instant, to be Observed as a Day of Pub-
lick Thanksgiving throughout this Prov
ince, strictly forbidding nil Ben ito La
bour thereon, an l exhorting both Minis
ters and People iu their respective As
semblies on tlio said Day. to oiler up
humble and sin- ere Thanks to Almighty
afore-
God, for His many Favours, as
said, and for many other Blessings be
stowed on a sinful People.
Given ut Boston, the Eighteenth Day
of September, lidl. And in the Eighth
Year of the Reign of our Sovereign ^
Lord George, by tho Grace of God tof jL
Great Britain, France and Ireland, v
King, Defender of the Faith, etc.:' > "
By order of the Gove'rnour, with Ad
vice of the Council 8. 8HUTA
F. Willard, Sect.
God Save the King I