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NEWS NOTES GATHERED
FROM VARIOU8 8EOTION8.
OBOROIA.
Lm been received at Milled™.
Mile 10,000 bales of cotton this season,
" exceeds last year’s receipts by fifty
Treasurer Jamos M. Sapp has had
placed to the credit of Dodge county in
the Exchange bank of Macon the snug
sum of $2,810.28. *
Somo of Polk county’s best citizens
nave ordered pecan trees with a view to
'lying the experiment of their growth in
that county.
T he canal cut by Mr. Sweeney and
others around tho drift in the Oconee
uver is washing out handsomely,
although there have been no freshets in
the river since tho canal was cut.
Mr. Tol Lester, of Clarke county, last
week killed sixty blackbirds at two shots
besides wounding others. Ho also fired
at a covoy of partridges in a patch of
btoomsedgo, ana killed ten at a single
tiro.
Wednesday while Allen Holt, a colored
man of Americus, was working in a cut
on tho A., P. nnd L., about two miles
beyond Lumpkin, tlio sido of the em
bankment caved in and covered him up.
tic was terribly crushed before he could
bo extricated, and his life is in danger.
A mnn living in Haralson county went
homo ono night about ten o’clock, while
about three sheets In tho wind, and feast
ed upon a buzzard, which his good wifo
had cookod for tho oil that was in tho
fowl. It is said that the mnn ate all of
this bird, thinking it was a chicken, and
when he was told of what ho feasted up
on, lie then and there “swore oft*’ and
went to preaching.
Tho senson for woods fires has arrived,
and tho woods are being “burned off”
throughout tho pinoy woods, or wiro
grass region. The open pine woods are
burned off annually for the benefit of the
sheep and cuttlo that have to subsist up
on what they gather from nature’s plant
ing. After tho wiro grass, which gets
hard with half a year’s growth, has been
burned off to the surface a new and ten
der growth springs up from the roots and
stubble, making the best of grazing for
sheep and cattlo. A good portion of the
woods on the oast side of Flint river has
nlready boon burned.
Opposite tho McAfee house, nnd just
in front of Chnrlio Hill’s barber shop, in
Hmithvillc, in the road whero vehicles
pass, a mysterious and well rounded well
can lie soen ns tho result of the sudden
and unexpected caving in of tho earth
which has hitherto kept its locality a se
cret. Tito ground gave way na a heavy
loaded wagon passed over it tho other
day, and n well with 10 fectof water and
20 feet in depth from the top to the bot
tom can now ho seen there. Various
speculations ns to tho origin of tho well
were hnznrded by the crowd which
quickly collected around it, bnt nothing
definite is known about it, though it is
supposed to bo a well made by tho rail
road men whon the Central waa being
built.
Tho legal tondor silver mine, in Mur
ray, which so much excitement was made
about somo years ago, is being operated
upon again, and a better quality of ore is
now being gotten out titan over before.
Considerable excitcmont is growing out
of the new find, The mine is in Oohutta
mountain, about six miles from Spring
Place, Mr, McIInu, who owns a tract
of land near the mine, lias had an option
taken on his land for $4,000. There is
millions of wealth in Old Cohutta which
only needs operating on to bring it to tho
eyes of tho capitalists. Captain W. C.
Tilton’s tine talc mine, four miles from
Spring Place, is shipping tons of talc
daily. There is not a day passing hut
what wagons unload the talc in thocrudo
state at the Dalton depot for eastern
markets. There nrc the finest talc mines
in Murray county that are now known in
the United States.
ALABAMA.
Henry county has only nino barrooms.
There is talk of a $10,000 hotel to be
built in Alexander City.
Birmingham talks of giving a charity
hall to raise fund* for the proposed hos
pital.
There are about 3,000 handi at work
on the extension of the Columbus and
Goodwater road to Birmingham.
The Macon and Tuscaloosa railway
company, a projected line from Macon,
Miss., nud Tuscaloosa, has been incor
porated and an organization effected. It
is thought that work will commence at
once.
Uniontown is situated in the raidit of
the noted canebrako lands of west Ala
bama, which are the finest and most pro
ductive farming Innds in the south. This
town hns been very unfortunate in bciug
twice burned; but its enterprising citi
zens have now rebuilt it more substantial
thnn ever. The business portion of the
place is solid brick. Near the town is
located the state experiment farm for the
black belt section. A fine artesian well
is being bored in the business portion of
the towa. They have already reached
over aix hundred feet.
A meeting of citizens waa hold in
Havneville to inaugurate a movement
having for its object the draining of the
swamps on Big Swamp Creek. W. C.
Griffin presided and Tom Baine was sec
retary. A committee was appointed to
arrange for a grand meeting of all citi
zens interested in the undertaking to he
held at an early day. Also a committee
to investigate and report to that meeting
the most practicable plan of draining
these swamps and the cost of same, and
iuo aslo w P hat amount of the lands re-
claimed will be given by the owners to
any company doing the work. The land,
that would bo reclaimed are as fine as
Sere me in the world, there being act-
ially no bottom to the soil. They would
,,nt to about 175,000 acres. The
drainage would also add vastly to that
section country*
Bradentown is trying to erect a scliool-
house on the joint stock: plan.
Parties have been prospecting for the
past fow days with a view to establish
ing a sanitarium at Cedar Key.
The Fernandina Building and Loan
association has completed its organiza
tion, and is now receiving subscriptions
to its stock,
Thomas A. Edison, who has been very
ill in New York, is recovering, and will
soon be able to return to his winter home
at Fort Myers.
There is (hipping from Governor
Drew’s mill at Columbus City, and John
W. Dowling A Co., at Lake Ogden, from
125 to 150 cars of lumber per month.
Columbus county exported $750,000
worth of her own products in 1885, and
the acreage in tobacco this year will run
up ths value of her exports to $200,000
more if the tobacco is sent out in its man
ufactured state. If it were, however,
made into cigars the value of her exports
would be much higher.
Cedar Key has been considerably ex
cited for the last two weeks over tho
mysterious disappearance of T. W. Gora,
a young grocery merchant doing business
at the Bradshaw old stand. Mr. Gore
did aot even take his clothes, hut leaving
the store in charge of young William
Moore, took his gun and hoarded a
freight train, since when no news has
been had of him. It is believed now that,
realizing the fact that his business was
in such a shape that it would he impossi
ble for him to pay out and continue, lie
became discouraged and concluded to
lave something from the wreck and seek
a new field. It is not known what amount
of money he carried away. Attachments
have beon levied on the stock remaining,
and those owing him have bten garni
•need by tho creditor*.
SOUTH CAROLINA,
An old woman named Piada, livieq
Port Royal ferry, wag burned to
dosth by her clothing taking fire from a
tire in the yard. She was 70 years old,
nnd her mother is living and is over 100
years old. The death of an old mnn from
this same neighborhood, tome timo ago,
123 years old, whs reported.
In Port Royal many now buildings are
going up, i he most, important being tho
Inrgc pinning mill of J. O. Cummings,
juvl put up nnd now in operation, 'a
•rack hns been laid to the mill, and cars
are run to it ami unloaded. This mill
gives employment to quite a number of
hands.
Robert Winn shot nnd killed Gcoigc
Downing eight miles from Newberry.
They quarreled Christmas about seventy-
live cents. Winn hid behind a post
nnd shot Downing white the latter was
passing by, with his wifo.
ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION.
A Cindnaatl .Indm- Untied la Ills Iloor
and I* Fired Upon.
A bold attempt was mado Wednesday
night to Assassinate Judge Jnmcs W.
Fitzgerald, of the Cincinnati polire
court, nt his residence on Findlay street.
About 0 o’clock in the evening the side
hell of the judge’s residence rang, nnd
he answered it in person. He had no
more than opened the door when a mail,
whose face was blackened, hut whose
hands were white, tired a revolver.
The bullet passed through the Judge’s
coat on the right side, hut not entering
the flesh. The judge hastily slammcu
the door. The would-be assassin mado
good his escape. The police have not
the slightest clue to tho identity of the
miscreant, hut His motive was undoubt
edly revenge for a judicial act. Judge
Fitzgerald is the judge before whom one
hundred and fifty men, arrested for cock
fighting, were examined Monday, when
forty of them pleaded guilty and contri
buted $25 each to the city treasury, and
the remainder were notified that the men
who stood trial and were convicted
should receive tho full measure of tho
law.
Another attempt to kill Fitzgerald
was mado recently by throwing bricks at
him as ho was going home aftor dark.
HER DIAMONDS.
A SlampbU Hotel Clerk Dccninpi With
Fanny llnvenport'a Jewels.
Charles Talbot, aged nineteen, em
ployed ns night clerk of the Guyosa hotel,
Tuesday night, was on duty. After tho
performance of an opera, at the theater
Edwin n. Price, Fanny Davenport’s
husband, left witli him a jewel basket,
which contained Miss Davenport’s dia
monds, consisting of brooch, rings, neck
lace, earrings, etc., vulued at $35,000.
Price took a receipt. The basket was
not put in the safe, ns it had been lockod,
iind Talbot did not know the combina
tion, but wns placed in the cash drawer,
together with several packages of money
which late guests had deposited and
which amounted to about $3,000. This
money, together with the jewels, is miss
ing. Talbot had duplicate keys of tho
cash drawer at tho cigar 9tand cf tho ho
tel, and it was rifled'of $10 iD chnngo.
He cannot be found.
UR. MATT ALEXANDER SUICIDES.
Dr. Matt Alexander, of Knoxville,
Tcnn., committed suicide Tuesday after
noon by taking five grains of morphine.
He was one of the leading physicians of
Knoxville, but had recently been dissi
pated. He left a note snying: "I die
with malice toward none. I go to hell.
Tell my son to go to heaven.”
Dr. Alexander was a member of the
board of examining surgeons of the pen
sion department.
KILLED BY BURGLARS.
William Callaway and a clerk named
McLease in his employ, were shot and
fatally wounded Monday night at the
former’s general merchandise store in
Galloway, Ark. Galloway and his clerk
went late in the evening to his store and
found a gang of burglars going through
the premises. Galloway opened fire upon
the intruders, who fired back and mor
tally wounded both Galloway and his
Clerk, Tho burglars escaped unhurt,
A QUEER STORY.
RESURRB C TION OF BRIGHAM
XOVNG,
A Queer Story Told by the IlouerkecPer of a
IVoallby KnslUli Mormon-Much Ex
citement Amuug the Mormons.
Two miles south of Lincoln, Nebraska,
stands a palatial residence owned by an
English gentleman long identified with
tho Mormon church. The residence hug
been unattended for tho last two years,
save by an old servant named White, who
was eonnected with tho Jczrcls, of Lon
don, a sect similar to the Mormons.
White claims that ho was defrauded by
them out of his property, and latterly be
came converted to the Mormon faith.
Ho was considered a trustworthy man,
and was, therefore, partially through ne
cessity, taken into tho conlidcnco of tho
lenders of the Mormon church of Zion,
which, according to his statement, is
about to perpetrate a fraud to which he
is unwilling to become a pnrty.
Ho says: “Two months ago there ar
rived nt the mansion an old gentleman,
healing letters from my master in I,on-
don, tho purport of which was to obey
his every wish, nnd to keop his presence
a secret to all cxcopt those to whom he
saw fi t to reveal himself. Within a week
person s began to arrive nt the house in
twos and threes. They were from Salt
Lake City, nnd held long, whispered
consultations with my mysterious guest.
At first 1 did not care who or what ho
was. Littlo by little I gathered from
stray remarks that he wns a person of
note, nnd soon after the truth hurst upon
me that Ho wns nono other than Brigham
Young, tho great prophet of our chuich,
pparcntly
tho dead, and pr
preach to the people of
Zion ns one having returned from tho
grave to toll what lies beyond. That his
death nnd burial were a deception will
soon bo seen by the whole world, wliilo
thousands of his ignorant believers how
at his foct, and bp dictate to them their
ways of lifo.
My guests, the visitors, are men of
high (funding, as their appearance indi
cates, nnd it wus in conversation with
one of them, who supposed from the way
I talked that I knew nil, that my sus
picious were verified. My informant
said that Brigham Young had risen from
his grave in Balt Lako City, and was in
structing his disciples here, In order to
prepare help for tho great event of his
coming. My only reason for tolling
those facts is that I am an old mnn with
but little to gain in this world, ami do
not want to sec tho pcoplo deluded ns I
have been. Tho Jczrols nbsorbed my
competence nnd now the Mormons have
broken my fnitb.”
IDENTIFIED AS BRIOHAM YOUNO.
The old mnn told the story with sin
cerity that warranted further investiga
tion, and a merchant who formerly uid
business in Salt Lako City drove out to
tho mansion, and flipped at the door.
Receiving no response he started around
tho house to apply nt tho rear, when
through tho long window ho §aw tho
form and features of the old mnn, who
was sitting inside. Ar he was unuwure
of his presence, tho merchant approached
to within a few feet of the window,
scanning the old man’s face closely, ana
stepped back immediately, pronounced
tho mnn to be Brigham Young, whose
marked features he had often studied in
Salt Lake City, mid which once seen, he
Buys, can never bo forgotten. For a fow
momonts tho man sat silently, and tiler;
raised his linnd to his brow, revealing the
scar about the wrist that still further es
tablished his idontity.
It is a well known fact that the eldore
of the Mormon church throughout Utah
havo of late been prcnching the return of
ths prophet. This, together with the
fact that it was claimed by a St. Louis
man some months ngo, that Young was
seen and recognized in Loudon, that a
number of prominent Mormons from Sait
Lake City hare lately been upon ths
streets of Lincoln; that important legis
lation is about to bo enacted to the detri
ment of tho Mormon church, and the voll
of mystery with which tho prophet’s
death lias always been shrouded, makes
it almost certain that tho Mormon ban
ners throughout Utah will soon be. un
furled, announcing that “he is risen.”
ROBBERS CAPTURED,
A Fatal Encounter In Which Dna Mnn la
Killed.
Two detectives, accompanied by fouy
determined men, with bloodhounds,
started a short time ago in pursuit of u
gang of train robbers, who have been op
erating in the vicinity of Albuquerque,
N. M., for the past six months. The
robbers were tracked into the halls of n
canyon near Bolen station, 80 miles south
of here, and when they discovered that
they were surrounded, they made a
bloody defense at close range. The robr
bers proved to be four in number, and
well armed. The detectives demanded
their surrender, but they answered the
demand with n volley of lend, and a reg
ular battle commenced. The detectives
and their party were victors.
During the fight Hnrdy Foster, one of
the robbers, was fatally wounded but
lived long enough to make a confession
implicating the whole purty. Two others
were captured, but tho fourth made his
escape. One of the captured men proved
to ho Charlie Ross, who murdered Mar
shal McGuire, of Albuquerque, last No
vember, and subsequently broke jnil. Tho
name of the other is Leslie Boise, and ho
is a native of West Hcrford, Texas. Both
men are now lodged by a sheriff’s posse.
Lynching is favored, and it is feared that
it will be carried out.
TAKEN OUT AND HANGED.
Last Monday William Lud Cornish, of
Sharpsburg, Washington county, Ky,sliot
Miss Lulu Green through the heart and
brain because she would not marry him.
He also tried to kill the girl’s mother
and sister, but failed on account of his
pistol getting out of order. The mother
received a severe wound in the head, and
was knocked down with the pistol. Corn
ish was captured and taken to Spring-
field, the county seat. Saturday night
a mob, composed of soventy-five men,
entered the jail and secured the prisoner.
Ho was taken to a farm about $wq (piles
north of town and hanged.
OUR MINISTER TO GERMANY.
He Arrives In New York nnd Talks Akeat
Affaire Aeroee The Water.
Hon. George H. Pendleton, minister to
Berlin, lias arrived and will remain in this
country about a month. Ho intends to
go to Washington to report to tho secre
tary of state. After that he will go to
his liome in Cincinnati, whore lie will re
main for a brief period before his depar
ture for his post of duty. Being inter-
viowod, ho remarked:
“Tho situation when I left Berlin was
very much strained. Tho power of Eu
rope, from a general feeling of insecurity,
have been making immense preparations.
There are tremendous military works nnd
nrmnmcnts on evory side. I heard Von
Moltkc say that it was a condition oi af
fairs that must have a solution. It may
have changed sinco then."
Mr. Pendleton said that he could not
sec that anyone in Germany desired war.
In fact, every effort was being made to
uvoid it. Bismarck wai not ready for
war now. Ho would not be ready until
the military bill had been passed and tho
army reorganized.
“In fnct," added tho embassador, “it
scorns to mo that Bismarck would accord
heartily with any proposition for pence
with honor. Public opinion does not
count iu Europo ns it does hero. In
Amcricn all questions are discussed freely
by the press, who in reality form public
opinion. In Germany public policy is
decidedly different. Von Moltkc, Bis-
mark and two or throe others settle such
matters. In Franco General Boulanger
lends. Ono peculiar thing would strike
Americans in Europe, that is how little
people influence tho policy of rulers.”
SOUTHERN TELEGRAPH SALE.
Fks Property Purchased in the Inlorsst or
tho Western Uulon.
The Southern Tclograph Company,
which wns sold under foreclosure pro
ceedings at Richmond,Va., Tuesday, was
bought in tho interest of tho Western
Union Telegraph Company, which hns
owned a majority of tho bonds for nearly
a year. Tho price at which the property
wns sold was $460,000, but the price
would lmvo been csrricd considerably
higher, it is said, if the United Lines
Company, whose last hid was $450,000,
had continued tho contest. The acquisi
tion of tho actunl control does not effect
the relations of the companies, bo nuso u
contract was made between them even
before tho Western Union bought a ma
jority of tho bonds. Since that time the
contract has been altered to moct tho
wishes of tho Western Union Company,
which was known to he the actual owner
of tho property. The salo now gives the
company legal ownership.
OFF FOR CANADA.
A Clerk of ths First National Dunk of Balti
more ViaIte the Frovlaee.
John D. Liste, discount clerk in tho
First National bank of Baltimore, failed
to put in appearance on Saturday last
while an investigation of the accounts of
tho bank was proceeding by tho direc
tors. It is now said that he is a default
er to tho amount of about eighty thou
sand dollars, though tho investigation is
not complete. Tho amount of cash
which disappeared with him was $3,500,
and lie is said to havo deceived the na
tional bank oxamincr by substituting
forged notes which he destroyed as soon
as tho examination was completed. Liste
left his home, about twenty miles from
tho city, Saturday morning, since which
time ho has not been seen by his family,
nor by the detectives who are looking for
him.
UNION MEN TO BE DROPPED.
Kalfkia of l*abor Aaiemblles Ordered to
Ouat Trades-Unionist*.
A sensation lias been created among the
Knights cf Labor of Indianapolis Ind.,
by tho receipt of an order, purporting to
have come from the general executive
hoard, to the effect that all cignrmakcrs
belonging to the international union must
bo dropped from membership in local
and district assemblies. This is thought
to be tho first step toward carrying out
the programme adopted at Richmond by
the general assembly, which struck a blow
at all trades-unions. The typographers
moulders here are very indignant, and
feel the blow quite os severely as the
cigar makers.
western weather.
The signal service reports extremely
cold weather in Northwestern Montana,
the meroury at Fort Assinaboine regis
tering 40 degrees bolow zero at 7 o’clock
Wednesday morning. Throughout Da
kota, Minnesota and Wisconsin it is con
siderably warmer, Northern Minnesota
points reporting zero weather, while at
St. Paul it is three degrees above zero,
LaOrosse, Wis., 11 degrees above, and
Chicago 20 degrees above. Snow is re
ported throughout the Northwest, and
in nearly all the states north of the Ohio
river, also heavy thunderstorms at Knox
ville, Tenn., Louisville and Cincinnati,
and ths telegraph service throughout tho
Bouthwest is very much impaired in con
sequence.
A NEW PLAN ADOPTED.
STRIKERS WIN IN PENSACOLA.
The difficulty between the Stevedores'
Association ana the firm of Lear & Gon
zales, at Pensacola, Fla., has been ad
justed, the firm paying the association
$500 to compensate the men for loss of
time, and agreeing to hereafter conform
to the rules and requirements of the labor
organization.
THE GREAT STRIKE.
It is stated that the next step to he
taken by the leaders of the strike is to
put into operation the Irish plan of cam
paign—that is, orders will he issued to
all members of the Knights of Labor and
other organizations which can be con
trolled by district assembly 49, to refuse
to pay any rent to landlords, but to puy
rent money into a fund which will go to
the support of the strikers. This plan
lias been discussed in seriousness by the j
strikers, and it is asserted, positively, by
somo that it will be put into operation
next Monday.
The Htrikln* Longshoremen of New York
Pnrade the Htreots-Mnss Meeting
at the Cooper Union.
Thirty-three thousand men were on a
strike among the coal shovclers, long-
shoromon, freight handlers and men em
ployed on the river front in almost every
capacity, on the Brooklyn and Jersey
shores, Wednesday. An order wont forth
from tho headquarters of the longshore
men’s union, which was backed hv the
Knights of Labor, assembly 49, and the
men turned out. Bench walkers wero
sent out to cover nil tho various points on
the liver fronts whero trouble was con
centrated and they had particular in
structions to use every means in their
power to prevent any disturbances, and
nono worthy of mention occurred.
Tho White Star steamship Britannic,
which was to havo sailed from New York
to Liverpool Wednesday, was delayed,
owing to inability to obtain hor supply of
coal, on nccount of tho striko. The State
of Georgia, of tho State lino, nnd the
Servin of the Hamburg line, and the In
dependent and tho Torio Ruhatino.of tho
line to Italy, wore also delayed by tlio
strike. Coastwise nnd southern bound
steamers, Quinidad for Bermuda; City ol
Columbus, for Florida ports; City of Col
umbia, for Charleston and southern ports
nnd tho Algiers, for Galveston, wore also
delayed.
Ono of the incidents of tho great striko
reported is that one of tho East River
Ferry companies became so short of coal
that it sent out grocery wagons nnd other
vehicles and bought coal by half tons
from small yards, both in Brooklyn nnd
in New York, but that tho frequent calls
of this kind exposed tho scheme and
tho dealers rofusod further supplies to
their new customers. In Brooklyn,
longshoremen, grain shovellers, freight
linnd lore, coal handlers, trimmers and
other laborers wont out quiotly, pence-
nhly and determined, Tho entire polico
force of Brooklyn, including reservos,
wero put ou duty. Sound steamers suf
fered along with the rest, although they
employ a large permanent force by tho
month. Tho French steamship line is
doing more work than any of the ocean
companies, having largo gangs, princi
pally green hands, and tho White Star
also hns a considerable forco. Late in
tho day more or less men went to work
unloading all the oconn steamers which
arrived this morning, but they are work
ing at a disadvantage. Tho striking
longshoremen and coal shovellers had a
largo parade previous to their mass meet
ing at Cooper Union. They included
men from New York, Jersey City nnd
Brooklyn. They formed at Pythagora
Hall, with about fivo hundred men in
line. The music was a drum and flfs
corps. They marched through Brond-
way to Eighth, then to Cooper Union.
There was no disorder. Lower Broad-
wny was -deserted, os the stores had
closed up for tho day. When tho parado
arrived at Cooper Union, they were nna-
hlo to gain admission, ns the hall was
pneked, so an outdoor meeting was or
ganized.
Cooper union hall wns packed with
men engaged in tho striko nnd their sym
pathizers. Resolutions were presented
to the effect that in view of the alleged
oppression of workingmen by coal barons,
all granted franchises should bo repealed,
and that the aystem of hiring men for tho
purpose of robbery an 1 murder is highly
condemned. Tho resolutions were adopt
ed with a yell. The principal speakers
were Victor Drury, a prominent homo
club Knight of Labor; a man named
Grecnau, asocialist, and John McMnckin,
Henry George’s lieutenant Tho speech
es all denounced corporations in general
and coal corporations in particular. Me-
Muckin laid the existing labor troubles to
the prevailing land system.
BREAKING A MONOPOLY.
Planters of Lnklsat Stall g Oattea Sail
Oil Mill.
A serious attack has been organized on
tho American Cotton Seed Oil Trust by
the purchase of the Mnginnls mills, for
tlirce months. Tho Trust has beon in
control of the cotton seed oil mills of
New Orleans, La., having a complete
monopoly of tho field. Two Memphis
capitalists, formerly in the oil business,
have organized a company and perfected
plans for new mills to he run on a co-op
erative plan that will assure it a constant
supply of seed. Nearly all the leading
planters on tho lower Mississippi have
been given stock in the new mill, and
have pledged themselves to furnish so
many tons of cotton seed annually, thus
assuring tho mill 60,000 tons per year, as
much ns any of tho mills of the Trust
company here receive. The site for the
new mill has been selected, and necessary
barges and steamers contracted for. It
is a direct attack on the Oil Trust, in
which planters take a prominent part.
A MOB POSTPONES* MARRIAGE.
Michael McCoy, a grocer of Louisville,
Ky, made a narrow escape from a mob.
McCoy is fifty years old and a man of
family. A year ago he began to visit a
Miss Long and to neglect his wife, where
upon Mrs.McCoy sued for a divorce and
the restoration of her maiden name. Her
petition was granted, and McCoy’s atten
tions to Miss Long, before secret, became
open, nnd Saturday it was learned that
the couple were to lie married. As the
ceremony was about to take place at Miss
Long’s house a mob gathered and made
threatening demonstrations Miss Long
fled with a female friend, nnd the moD
pursued but did not catch her. McCoy
in tho meantime slipped out nnd after a
search fouud his intended and they were
married by a magistrate.
GADSDEN’S FURNACES.
Work was begun Tuesday on two new
blast furnaces to be erected by the land
and improvement company at Gadsden,
Ala. They will he completed by Decem
ber next. The real estate boom is more
favorable than ever before, and sales are
reported aggregating more than $250,-
000. There are a number of capitalists
in the city prospecting for sites for y^pi-
pus kinds of interest.
CANADA GAINS COURAGE
VESSELS UNABLE TO LEAVE THE
PORT,
England Promises to Bead NIs-sMTst SS
Keep Off American Veniola.
It is officially stated that the govern
ment of Canada, in response to an appeal
to tho mother country, has just received
from the imperial authorities that men-of-
war will be dispatched to the maritime
provinces in tho spring tor the purpose of
co-operating with Canadian cruisers in
the enforcement of the fishery protective
service. Tho promise of the English
government creates great satisfaction in
official circles, and indicates that Ameri
can vessels will be more rigidly exclu
ded from Canada waters during the
next sensoti than in the pikst. A cabinet
minister, speaking on tile subject, ex
pressed himself ns follows. “It have come
to the conclusion that the American leg
islators having gone so far, will never
yield their consent to tho appointment of
a commission. Gloucester fishermen will
not venturo into our waters again in force,
and next April will witness tho first start
ling falling off in their trade. Two years
hence tho splendid Yankee fishing fleet
will ho n thing of tho paint. Let them
resort to retaliation if they will, and the
result will be that that game will work
both ways. Portland, now the winter
port of Cnnnda, will decline, while Hali-
fnx, under the new order of tliingB, will
flourish. Civil war botwcon the Eastern
and Western States would follow the
adoption of tho retaliatory bill
ICE GORGE AT FORT DEPOSIT.
Much Dump ft Dane to Property—Poapla Baa
ta the mils for (fafoty,
Tho Susquehanna river at Fort Deposit,
Md., became blocked with ice Wednes
day causing tho river to overflow with
disastrous results. I
In thirty minutes after the flood from
above reached tho town tho wator had
risen clear over tho wharves nnd to the
bight of six feet in Main stlreet of the
town, doing uncalculablo dnmago. Every
house on the river side of Main street wna
flooded in the collars and thle first floor
and some on tho opposite sido, and in
habitants had to take to higher ground or
to the hills nnd tho country back of town.
The water alternately rose and foil during
tho night and all day Wednesday varying
several feet in a couple of hours. In the
meantime the pile oi ice innreaiaed hourly,
became more dangerous. The damage up
to Wednesday evening had been confined
to the lumber, ooal, fertilisers and kindred
objects on the wharves end such build
ings as wero built of wood. Tho outlook
is not encouraging, for even substantial
brick nnd stone warehouses and factories
in the submerged district., Tfhe reraark-
nblc sight drew throngs of sight seers
from the country to the hills, above the
town.
LABOR LEADERS ARRESTED.
A Halt lnallluiftrt Against Them tor Dobs-
nil by a Htcamahlp Osmpaay.
Jamos E. Quinn, of the executive
hoard of the Longshoremen’s Union, was
arrested at noon Saturday by Deputy
United States Marshal George Holmes,
for conspiracy to Injure ’lie [business of
tho Old Dominion Steamship Company,
in an action brought in the United States
Circuit Court to recover $20,000 damages.
IIo wa9 released on $5,000 bail.
Tho suit is brought not only against
Quinn, but also against J. J. McKenna.
T. B. Putnam, Patrick McGarland and
Thos. McGrath, who with Quinn consti
tute the executive board of the Ocean As
sociation. Counsel for Quinn said that
none of tho accused would! run away nnd
that os soon as hall could Ibe procured for
them they would be delivered to tlio
marshal. After Quinn's bondsmen hod
been accepted it was concluded that no
more arrests would bo made. Their
counsel promised to deliver the other
members of the executive board to the
United States marshal.
A BIG HAUL,
On* Hundred anil Fifty Ulnti Arraigned in n
Criminal Comer. I
An unusual scene was presented in the
police court of Cinciuunlti, O., Tuesday
morning, when 115 men wore arraigned
for aiding and abetting a cock: fight. Of
this number forty entered a plea of
guilty and were fined $25 each with
costs, making on even $1 |( 000 to go into
tlie school fund. Judge Fitzgerald mi-
noimced his determination to! punish to
the full extent any who choose to exor
cise (heir legal rights to a trial and who
may be convicted. Tho cocking main
had progress in a jegularly constructed
pit in a fourth-story room of a building
nearly opposite the court house on Main
street.
A STRIKER’S FINE.
One of the drivers of a brewery wagon
in Philadelphia, Pa., who took a striker’s
place was brutally beaten by three strik
er’s, who were placed on trial Wednesday.
Only one was identified and convicted.
In passing sentence, JudgeMiteliell said:
“This man wus badly beaten, and I am sat
isfied it was done for the purpose of pre
venting him from going to work. There
can be no more aggravated offense than
to beat a man who is going toi his honest
toil, and I propose to stop it iso far us is
in my power.” The prisoner was then
sentenced to eighteen months at labor
in the county prison.
AN EX-SLATE’S PENSION.
The first colored woman t:o receivo a
pension from the government is Mrs.
I [czekiah Gibson, wife «|f the pastor of
thu Union churoh of Christ Jamestown,
N. Y. The pension was granted on ac
count of the death of a son who was in
the service on the union side during the
lute war. Wnen this soni joined the fed
eral forces his mother was a slave. The
buck pay amounted to about $500, and
hereafter Mrs. Gibson will draw $12 per
month,
THE PROSBERITY OF UHATFANOOSA.
The registered real esj
Chattanooga, Tenn., in
January amounted to $2,(518,885. It is
stated that there will al
ortljr be estab
lished a horse shoe fi.ctoiry, a stove
foundry, a woolen and c
edge tool factory. Wot
March and April on builc
to cost mqrc than $1,000
ate transfers at
the month of
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