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1880.
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THE MERCURY
E. S. LANGHADE,
attorney at law,
SANDERSVILLE, Oa.
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ATTORNEYS AT LAW
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ATTORNEY AT LAW,
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O.Y 11 AM) AND FOR SALE
SPECTACLES, NOSE GLASSES, Etc., Etc.
Watches, Clocks
—AND
JEWELRY
BKrAIRID BY
JE it]srxa.A.3sr.
Dividing the Bedclothes.
The one man who will bo most shocked
»t Alexander Mitchell’s death, says a
MV: ,n paper, will bo an aged old
!•;.'li, lei', who lives now in one of the
bmluii club 1 louses—George Smith.
Tin-hitter brought Mitchell from Scot
land, inf him ut work at a clerk’s desk
in ii Ixinking room on South Clark
street, opposite where the courthouso
toil,Is now, sent him to Milwaukee to
buy groin of the farmers who came in
tlii'iv, mid to pay out George Smith's
lniik notes, and at last made him a
pint'K i'. Fifteen millions of George
Biisitb's money have boon kopt in St.
Paul lioinbi and stocks because Mitchell
'"as its president. The two men wore
like brothers for thirty years, yet as un
like ( uch other as it was possible for
for them to be. When Smith retired
from business and was gathering to-
P 1 tlior bis assets ho that lie might retire
for good to the other sido of the water,
(lie two old Scotchmen had an aooouut-
1!l K, Until that timo everything that
the two owned luid been undivided.
Mlien Mitchell was in Cliicago ho ooon-
j'ii'd Smith's room and shared the old
Mil ler's bod. For ten years thoro
wish little room above the Milwaukee
wink that Mitchell occupied, and that
Georgn Smith, whenever lie was there,
snari'd. It hail boon furnished by the
ti' 0 jointly, even down to the sheets and
Blankets. for years it had not boen
o , y | inicl, '- -elicit having, on marrying
bis pretty wife, changed his mode of
: lvll, g- In making out the final invon-
‘w.v Mitchell had, as ho supposod, in-
tl’iileil everything. It aggregated mil-
j! 01 ! 11 ' As lie handed* it to old George
In' feelingly remarked that it ox-
Bil'itwl vastly more than they lmd had
''inn they started. The millionaire
pneh.’lor looked ovor tlie list carefully.*
,!, , 1 “loKeit ovor tlie list careluiiy.*
,. “'‘til a i|uarter of the securities of the
iy'-Vst railroad in tlie world, tlie St.
, When lu, tinislied it the old fel-
w turned to Miteholl and said: “You
aorgot, Aleck, tho bed-elotliing in tlie
Bliiitiiher over tho bank.” The younger
, two Scotchmen promptly took
tho inventory and added $3.75.
'’“ilh thought that would bo a fair value
'i th" forgotten sheets and blankets
ml 'i' UH miisfled. A good authority
"t that moment tho thoughtful
I'. . y ”• “tilt muiiKuit uiu
' tiiichelor owned $24,000,000 of tlio
'minti. s of two railroads, tho Chicago,
“"'iuigtoi “
Uilv,
Quincy, and the Chicago,
''v & St. ITiui.
A Serious Afl’alr.
Tlio military marriage in France is a
nous nfliiir. Any ollioer wishing to
arry in forms his Colonel of his inton-
, ll 8, Tho Colonel passes the word on
„ ,, War Ollieo, and it ut longtli is
ll," . , 0 U'o Minister. Tho first thing
' :n to ho done is to find out if tho
i,„ . laJ y concerned fulfils tlie re-
'cuts of tho law, which lays down
dhJ. i i mus * 1 have an irreproachable
- si character, and a dot worth a year-
Ifvomie of 10,000 francs. The appli-
i] 011 Reaches tlie officer commanding
flu. f’0»durinei'ie iu the district where
Pass° l * 01 8 hoooeo resides. It is then
fiinn i l ! l ffondarmo who is commis-
tliari ° ln< J l, h' 0 into the lady’s moral
diaiucter. ilo proceeds cautio*usly as
detective. Should lie happen to' know
hn „ ll * lur °f tho demoiselle indicated
un( V- .eeeB him; if not, lie culls
"ill, oni \ a ti°n from tho neighbors. He
loth 't* 1 ^°Uow her when she goes out
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VOLUME VI IT
SANDERSVILLE. GA.. TUESDAY. MAY 31. 1887. NUMBER 5.
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INTBRBSTNG NOTES ABOUT PRESIDENT
CLEVELAND AND OTHER NOTABLES.
hrpn ; HO UrUAVH up
Off „ 0,t ° 11 strictly police court lines.
- ? quont ly Provide the dot secretly them-
° r th ® Department*, anti
What (Southern Attn Are Heins Ap-
polated u Paaltloaa, Kic. t Etc*
off
INDIAN# ItKMKMHEHKD.
The Interior Department hag struck
■A at tho Philadelphia mint a number of
Indian peace medals, with a bust of
President Cleveland on one sido and on
♦ •“ reverne an engraved scene represent-
n settlor and an Iudinn, Abovo is
■■* v w ord “Peace,” nud below is n toma
hawk and a pipe crossed. These medals
arc given to Indians as a reward for ser
vices in inducing their tribes to rclin-
djdsh their savage customs for thoso of
civilization and peace.
the pkksidknt’s views.
Tlie President the othor day denied tho
application for a pardon In tlio caso of
dames .1, Stanley, who was convicted
April 18 of fraudulent registration and
sentenced to ninety days’ imprisonment
in i lie jail at St. Louis. The President
indorsed the application as follows: “I
,|! iiuot pardon a crime against the elcc-
ir.n law except it lie in a case presenting
unusual considerations for clemency, I
consider such oilenses tlio worst of nil
crimes, and I know of none tlie punish
ment of which is more important to the
public.”
THE COI.OIIEI) SOt.DIEItS CLUBBED.
Tlie Museatino Hi lies anil tho Vicks
burg Southrons divided the honors of tho
day and tho applause of the spectators at
tho competitive drill of infantry at the
National Drill, until later in the dny tho
Ivock Zouaves, of Jolmstown, N. Y.,
enmo on the arena ami wont through a
labyrinth of beautiful evolutions in a way
which won universal ndmiratiou. Vir
ginia made hut a poor showing. Ev
idently she was not permitted to put'tlio
best foot foremost. Tlio performance of
tlio two colored companies from that
state wero mousing iu tnc oxtremc. They
seemed to have more officers than pri
vates and one-half of the men were kept
busy in clubbing the other half into line
with the butts of their guns.
ouu PILE OP CASH.
Tho trnnsfer of the funds in tho Treas
ury to tho new treasurer Mr. llyatt, in
volves a careful count of tho cash which
includes $137,000,000 in paper money iu
tho reserve vnults; $1)5,000,000 in tlie
cash vault; $00,000,000 standard silver
dollars; $25,000,000 gold coin and smal
ler quantity of fractional silver. The
counting committee in making tlio count
will have the assistance of seventy-live
persons, including experts, and it will
occupy two months.
THE PRESIDENT ACCEPTS.
A committee of 25 of the prominent
citizens of St. Louis, Mo., waited on
Prcsidont Cleveland and extended an in
vitation for himself and wife to visit that
city in the Full, nnd it was accepted.
The invitation was contained in a large,
elegantly bound book, with a carved
wooden cover, tho carvings representing
the great bridge nud principal municipal
buildings of St.-Louis. Tho clasps and
edges of ilio hook nro of solid silver,
bearing tho initials: “G. C.” Thcinvi-
tntion is beautifully engrossed on satiu
and is siguod by over 20,000 persons-
REVOKING LAND GRANTS.
The secretary of the interior recently
issued a rule upon land grant railroads to
show cause why tho orders of withdrawal
from tho settlement of lauds within their
indemnity limits should not be rovoked,
and the same opened to settlement entry.
The roads uifected arc: The South &
North Alabama, Mobile <fc Ohio Hiver,
Alabama & Florida; Alabama & Chatta
nooga, in the State of Alabama. 1 he
Florida, Atlantic & Gulf Central, Pensa
cola & Atlantic, Pensacola & Georgia,
Florida & Alabama, in the State of Flor
ida. Tho Vicksburg, Shreveport & Tex
as if; New Orleans Pacific, in tlie State of
Louisiana. The Mobile & Ohio Hiver,
Vicksburg & Meridian, in the Stutc of
Mississippi.
nUTUD.
Tho President has appointed to bo
lostmastor, Ellis Hunter at Hrunswick,
fa., vice J. T. Blaine, resigned, .los.
I*, n >1 Mm»iiit.ful AnriL 11. 1887
finiulf'i'T 8 ? r °ntai , taiiimeiits. Having
- lHl lll « investigations he draws up
»J ( i 19 khe document on its way up
turn 1 . ll0l, gl) tho bureaus and red tape
fill-., g°ts to tlie War Minister.
Wfi '. “ 10 conditions be fulfilled, the
tw , ls Permitted to marry. If not, lie
fiarlcJ? 110 ' 11100 intentions. If tlie
bus morality but not money, it
Gu., Vico J. i* miiiuc,
St 0. Wiggins, appointed April 11, 1887
having declined.
Henry J. Rnmsdell, a well-known jour
nalist and formerly register of wills for
the District of Columbia, died recently
of npoplexy. A few hours before lus
death he was about the city iu good spirits
and apparently good health, although he
had suffered from Bright’s disease several
years.
Paymaster Robert Rodney, U. S. Navy,
is engaged iu trying to abolish pawn
brokers. He says ot lus effort that it is
“a virgin field of mercy which lias never
been entered by private charity since
Shentpershent, the first pawnbroker,
hung out tlie three gilded balls from Ur.
old abandoned gate lodge of the Garden
of Eden.”
The President lias appointed Conimo-
doro D. B. Harmony, William A. Wal
lace, of New York, II. S. Van Eaton, of
Mississippi, Asa Morgan, of Arkansas,
Thomas A. Logan, of Ohio, «'>d I rof. D.
O Gilman, of Johns Hopkins University,
as members of the Board of Visitor* to
tho Naval Academy at Annapolis, Mil.
The work of converting tlio Navy Yard
into a gun foundry, authorized by the
last Congress, has been commenced Op
erations are nt present confined to the old
anchor shop, where the termer nppl
ances arc boteg removed preparatory 10
its being fitted up for the construction ‘>j
guns of 8-inch calibre anuundei. It will
be many months before the gun fouudiy
is iu full working order.
touslbo ■ ,f uu J r c
f r <'qne"U- ttl8eC ^ ??U ro marriage. Officers
Wives.
REJECTED.
GHOLEitA AND YELLOW FEVER
to tho ahPrii T- ,?• °f Emporia; &■>. .walkcfi
Wgmur"!? Sfef k ’ 8 °® c * h»-» body and ware
o-wed. Tlut* wen ninety of them.
The New York Senate declined to
fe=,'S-.l p = “»
New York city , an who ll0( i been
wmiutffor emigratkm commhsioner.
People Rapidly Dying Off In the Argen
tine Confederation.
Key West. Fin., Alnrmed-Wkat will Hap
pen In Blrmln*hnm, Ain., II th* City
I* Not Clenned Up.
Chief officer Gay, of the bark Macleod,
of St. Johns, N. B., which arrived at
Philadelphia, Pa., from Buonos Ayre*,
tells a frightful story of death from chol
era in thnt portion of the Argentine
Confederation. He sajis that while his
vessel was lying in tho harbor of Bueno*
Ayres, the people of that city nnd (Uburbs
were dying off like sheep, nud the disease
seemed to bo spreading like wild-tiro.
The wife of tlie captain of tho Goldon
Rul ’, the chief mate and one man of tho
bark Brcinou nud four men of tho bark
Wylo, who were stricken down with tho
disease, died while the Macleod was in
port. As fast as eases were discovered,
tho patients wero removed to a hospital
in the city, adjoining which is an open
lot, and when death relieved their suffer
ings, they wero nt oneo removed to this
lot mid thoir bodies burned,
Tho excitement occasioned by the ap
pearance nt Key West, Fla., of
yellow fever was revived by the doatli of
a cigar maker uarned Minneden, who
arrived it short timo ago from New York.
He was boarding nt tho restaurant Where
the sickness originated.
Regarding the report of several cases
nt Birmingham, Ala. that wero reported as
cholera, A. 8. Robinson, of Boston, who
has been in Alabama two years, said iu a
talk: “Having spout much time in Bir
mingham, I know enough about the
southern climate and tho lack of drain-
nge, and sanitary provisions, in places
like Birmingham, so thnt I, in some meas
ure, anticipate what will ono dny tako
place there. Tho large growth of tho
city lias been attended with disregard of
snnitnry regulations, and they are certain
to have trouble there this summer, and in
subsequent years, unless they seize timo
by tlio forelock, und take precautions
against an epidemic.”
SOUTHERN NEWS.
PERSONAL.
Col. J. W. Pauamodr, a promine^
citizen of St. Louis, Mo., died in tha
city of pneumonia.
Tntc Queen of Belgium stood god-
moiher to a young negro from the Congo
who was christened iu Brussels. lie wan
named Henri Leopold.
Governor Hill sent tho name of Col.
Fred Grant, sou of Gen. U. 8. Grant, to
tlio Now York Senate for Quarantine
Commissioner in New York city.
J. Armoy Knox, of “Texas Siftings,”
who is commonly cnllcd Armory beenuso
ho carries two revolvers nnd a bowie-
knife, is tho ablest coin-matcher in the
country since John T. Raymond died.
Frank MaoArthuh, son of cx-Judge
MacArthur, of tho Washington, D. O.,
Supreme Court, was married recently to
Miss Surah Winston, grand-daughter of
the late Governor Winston, of Alabama.
Gen. Dan Sickles heads a large body
of Northern veterans, who denounce the
Gettysburg Memorinl Association for re
fusing to allow a monument to be erected
to commemoruto the bravery of Pickett’s
mon.
The Duke of Rutland will not allow
gas anywhere in Belvoir castlo, his unccs-
tral sent. Lamps lire used nil over the
immense building, and u servant who inis
spent fifty years in the ducal service oc
cupies liis whole time in filling tlie bowls
nnd trimming tho wicks.
William T. Walters, of Baltimore)
Aid., values his art collection nt more
than $1,000,000, Mr. Walters is a
Pennsylvanian of Scotch-Irish ancestry.
His love for art hns been the ruling pas-
sion of his life. The first $5 he evor
spent was for a picture.
Mrs. Madeline Yinton Hahlohey, of
Washington, 1). C., has written 11 now
novel, not yet published, to bo called
“Divorced,” of which she says: "i'ho
book is a plea for the •sanctity of tlie
marriage tie, and intended to show the
various evils consequent upon ourproseut
system of easy divorce.”
Rev. Dr. E. F. W. Walther, presi
dent and professor of th* theological
seminary at St. Louis, of tho German
Evangelist Lutheran Synod of Missouri,
Ohio, and other States, died nt St, Louis,
in tho 70th year of his ago. He was the
organizer of the Missouri Synod, and was
well known throughout Europe.
There is a paragraph going the rounds
of the papers stating that tho Baroness
Burdette Coutts, who married Mr. Bart
lett, an American, wears three skins, the
third one being of silk and covering her
entire person. She is quite old, very rich,
and has her body thus covered on account
of her real skin breeding a most loatlie-
some parasite.
J. H. Beard has just finished an oil
portrait of Gen. W. T. Sherman. lie
says of his subject: “Gen. Sherman was
always punctual to the minute for his
sittings. Ho sat for me nine or ten times,
but he never could keep still for any
great length of time at any sitting, lie
would constantly apologize for tho fact
that he Could not keep still.”
Tippo Tip, the famous African trader,
came upon a remarkable tribo on tho
Congo, to the north of Nyangwe, who
do a great deal of work in copper, and
whoso ini id work in that metal is of a
highly artistic character. Among the
same people, enormou i spear heads of
very thin copper are made, some six feet
in length, which serve os a kind of cur
rency.
Columbus, Ga., is rigidly enforcing tho
vagrant law.
Griffin, Ga., is to have a contingent
from the Salvation Army at Atlanta.
Atlanta, Ga., is to have an improved
cab service similar to the great Northern
cities.
A man giving the name of T. B. Otis,
who represented himself as a capitalist
.from Boston, Mass., victimized many
peoplo in Memphis, Tcnn., through tho
medium of worthless checks. Ills real
name is Brown, and he belongs to Kansas
City, Mo.
Dr. J. S. Kcnnard, of Chicago, who
has beon conducting revivals in Atlanta,
Macon and other cities, with remarkable
success, is now working in Albany, Ga.
The meetings, though undenominational,
are held in the Methodist church, which
is crowded night and morning to its ut
most oapacity.
Considerable excitement was created
in Little Rock,.Ark., over tho arrest of
ex-Mayor Gen. W. 8. Walsh, of Hot
Springs, on a Berious charge, sworn out
by Miss Ella Dyer. Gen. Wulsh went
over to Little Rock recently, on business,
and his arrest was ns n poisoned arrow
fired in tho flesh of an innocent lamb.
Atlanta, Ga,, dry goods houses will all
closo hereafter at 0 p. m.
< Master Workman M. J. Devereau, of
tlio Augusta, Ga., Knights of Labor,
went North rocently and raised money
enough to pay all the debts acoruing
from last year’s strike.
The board of regents of tho Grant
Momorial University of Athens, Tenn.,
unanimously conferred tha degree of
doctor of laws upon George W. Childs,
of tho Philadelphia Ledger.
Tho officials of thu East Tonnes***,
Richmond & Danville Railroads wero in
Chattanooga, Tenp., lately to locate'tho
silo for a bridge aoross the Tenucssee
River. Tho bridge will bo built shore
the city, near the city furnaco.
Leo Furtangler, an itinerant watch
maker, dropped dead in a Nashville,
Tenn., hotel from paralysis of the brain;
and uliortly after, Logan King, an aged
colored man, dropped dead from heart
disease while passing the same hotel.
A negro named John King, of Chatta
nooga, Tenn., was bitten on the leg by a
small red spider, and hti died from the
bite. His body was swelled to enormous
proportions and was covered with large
white spots. Tho negro suffered tho
greatest agony.
George Oakes was killed in Chatta-
noogo, Tenn., in the Louisville <fc
Nii8Uvillo Railroad’s yard. Oakes was
about twenty-two years of age, and was
well known in Atlnnta. For a long time
ho was a thriftless fellow, but a fow
weeks ago joined the Salvation Army,
nnd when I10 was killed was Wearing tho'
Salvation Army badgo and uniform.
The most diverting part of the enter
tainment of tho Atlanta, Ga., University
wus tho exhibit made by tho members of
tho cooking class. The girls are instructed
how to make and baku bread, pies nnd
cake; nro given practical lessons in roast
ing and boiling meats and fowls and
preparing all sorts of food for tlie table.
They succeeded in milking a tempting
display of cooking food, nil prepared by
thoir own hands.
Thirteen bar-room keopers wore before
Recorder Dunbar, in Augusta, Ga., for
keeping open and selling liquor on Suu-
dny.
Rev. John Pirkoy, uged 70 years, and
for forty years minister of the Christian
Church, nnd pastor of a church in Win
chester, Va., died recently,
A discharged negro railroad linnd is
suspected of hnving attempted to wreck
several trains on tlie McMinnville biuuch
of the Chattanooga railroad, by placing
obstructions of tics and rails across the
tracks.
A letter was received in Montgomery,
Ala., from Charles McIC. Foster, of New
York, offering to return a sword pickc i
up on the battlefield of Antietam, the
blade of which bears tlio name of Capt.
George J. Watloy, 10th Alubama Infan
try.
Brick masons employed on the U. S.
barracks iu course of erection at Atl nta,
Ga., struck for an increase of pay from
$3 to $3 50, buf* Dr. Howard declined.
New inen flocked in to take the place of
the strikers, who gave in after being out
ono dny.
Robert Cushing was f .und near Lula,
Ga., on the', Richmond & Danville rail
road track with his skull fractured. The
indications arc- t Hut he was killed and
then placed on the track, ns thu wound
011 the head could noL have been made by
the train.
Grant Best, the negro who killed three
of his companions nnd wounded two
others at one shot, 11 short time since, ut
Wilmington, N. O., was found guilty of
murder in the first degree. At tho time
of the shooting, there was a general im
pression that it was the result of careless
ness, but it was found to be murder.
THE MARQUIS WELCOMED.
Gov. Gen. Lansdowne and his wife on
thfir return to Ottawa from Toronto, re
ceived a tremendous demonstration of
regard. The escort to the Governor
General contained six brass bands. At
Cartier square a great stand had been
erected and was ociup ed by about 2,000
school children, who sang a chorus of
welcome. There was un enormous con
course in the square, estimates • varying
from 15,000 to 20,000 persons, thousands
having come from surrounding counties.
Rev. Fa-her Dawson read a jubilee ode.
The governor general Ihankcd the citi-
aeus for their magnificent welcome,
BUSINESS PROSPERITY.
LATEST NEWS.
The South Reaping the Benefit ot Large
Capital to DeYelop Railways, Mills,
Foundries, Etc., Eto.
Dade City, Fla., is to have a $15,000
hotel.
The Lorain, Ohio, tool works wilt ro-
move to Chattanooga, Tenn., very soon;
tho capital stock is $50,000.
Decatur, Ala., is to havo an extract
factory with a capacity of 75 barrels a
day, the largest in tho world.
The Noshvillo, Tenn., Land Improve
ment Co. is negotiating for the removal
of several manufacturing plants from tho
North to West Nashville.
R. C. Cooke, representing a New York
company, has purchased the mineral right
ou 1,200 acres of laud at Bristol, Tenn.
It is rumored that a furnace is to be built
by the company.
Affairs in Knoxville, Tenn., look very
promising. Iron bridges are being built,
streets aro being oxtended through large
auburban tracts, a belt railroad around
the city is projected, also new street car
lines.
Tho Macon, LaGrango & Birmingham
Railroad Co. and the Birmingham, Geor
gia & Florida Railroad Co. havo arranged
to build a direct line from Birmingham,
Ala., via Talladega to Savannah, Ga.,
with a brunch road to Brunswick,
Bills have beou introduced in tho Flor
ida legislature to incorporate the Ala
bama Alidlund Railway Co.; a company
to build a railroad from near Lake George
to tho Gulf of Mexico, and a company to
oporate a canning factory nt St. Lucic.
Tho Nottingham Railroad A Improve
incut Co. capital stock $800,000 has been
organized. The compuuy will purchnsi
and extend a narrow gauge railroad mid
build a 25-ton charcoal furnace nt Alpine,
Ala. A cotton factory is to be built also.
North Carolina dots: Plow works litivi
started at Boat’s Mills; Davidson collcgi
bus a new boot and shoe factory; Allen
B. Goodwin has put up a large factory
for the manufacture of buggies; Greeus
boro lias iuuugurutuiLa street car line and
two tobacco factoriui; and Emma is to
havo new brick works.
Tho Jefferson Brick Co. capital stock
$40,000, has beeu organized with R. F.
Hudson, of Columbus. Miss,, us presi
dent; E. F. Manning, New Ormans, Lu.,
vice-president, and F. C. Dunn, secretary
autl general manugor. They have bought
and will enlarge thu brick works of Car-
roll & Carroll, ut Birmingham, Ala.
Thu resolution “that un invitation is
hereby extended to any corporation to
erect iu thu city of Mucon a complete
systent of water und gas works; that for
tho purpose of promoting said enterprise
the city of Macon pledges tho cordial sup
port to make such undertaking a success,”
has beon passed by tho Macon, Ga., coun
cil.
“The vast plants that have been put in
at Birmingham, Sheffield and vicinity will
remain. The iron and coal industries in
North Alabama havo been developed for
permanence. Tlie manufacturing growth
of Nushviilo and Chattanooga, the trade
development of Atlanta, Little Rock and
other cities in the South will survive any
monetary crisis that may occur.”—Manu
facturers' Uncord, Baltimore, Md.
THEATRE BURNED.
A Largn Number of the Andlrno* Burned
—Heroism, of the Firemen.
The Opera Comiquo in Paris, France,
tqok fire from one of the wings coming
in contact with a gas jet, during tlio per
formanco. The manager M. Tasquii
rushed on the stage and implored tin
audience to rJmain seated until the exits
were opened, which the majority did,
and thus a terrible loss of life was pre
vented; -as it was, nearly 20 persons
jumped from the upper windows am
were killod or maimed. The iron curtain
was lowered in front of tho stage, ami
this prevented tho fire from spreading
immediately to the auditorium nnd al
lowed the audience timo to esenpe. The
fire brigades distinguished themselves,
and many of them had harrow escapes
Most of the casualties were due to cxciti-
ment aud fright, and persons who were
unable to'trust tbemsglves to walk the
narrow edge of the cornice around the
building, jumped off in their terror. One
woman coolly walked all around tho cor
nice, while the flames wore bursting
above, until : sha reached a. fix#.escape.
Tho victims were almost all singers, and
are about 60 in number. Only a fort
night ago, M. Slenakers called attention
in the Chamber of Deputies to the dam
goroils condition of the Opera Comtque,
which was the oldest in Paris.
FISHERMEN KILLING EACH OTHER.
There is war among-the salmon fisher
men ou tho Columbia river, near Astoria,
Oregon. The seiners and gillers have
banded together to stop all trap fishing.
A. E. King, owner of a cannery at II-
wac, nnd Albert Green aud Archie Ross,
owners of traps, started out armed with
guns to guard a large lot of web, which
is used iu the traps, and which iiftd been
tarred and was lying in the open air to
dry. This was in a field not far from
the beach, surrounded by small timber.
While on tho watch they discovered
men moving in the darkness, whom they
challenged. The reply was a volley of
shots. Mr. Ross was killed, and Mr.
King received three serious wounds.
Green was unhurt.
NEGRO MURDBRBD
William Prenty, a young white man,
had a dispute with Sherman Bacon, a
colored man, in Charles Umbach’s store,
three miles from Savannah, Ga. Tho
trouble came about because Bacon re
fused to treat to'cigars after Prenty had
treated to beer, and'the negro was killed
by a shot from a gun in the hands of
Prenty. A coroner’s jury promptly
found that Prenty was guilty of wilful
murder,
SUMMARY JUSTICE.
i Me* Arraigned for Outrage Shat la Death
'In "tlie Court Room.
LOVE AND COMFORT.
An attempt has boon made to kill tho
Sultan of Turkey.
Tho moeting of tho executive commit
tee of the Southern Press Association,
which hns beou in session in New York,
adjourned to meet in Atlanta, Ga., on
June 21.
Placards were posted in the country
around St. Petersburg, Russia, threaten
ing to bur,, down tho landlords’ villas on
B certain night, nnd at the appointed
timo ovor 00 houses were fired nnd de
stroyed.
Tlio national convention of the United
States Brewers’ Association, in session at
Baltimore, Md., appropriated $5,000 for
tlie assistance of the brewers of Michigan,
$5,000 for the btowers of Texas, nnd
$8,000 for tho browers of Tennessee, the
monoy to bo used In attempting to defeat
tlio offorts of tho prohibitionists in those
etutes.
The colored queen, Kaploluui, with
her suite, has sailed for Europe.
A movement is on foot to consolidate
tho cities of New York and Brooklyn.
P. S. Peadroe, a farmer, confined in
tho Anna, 111., Insane asylum, was beat-
on to death by tho attendants.
Tho coke operators of Pennsylvania
nro so disgusted with their Hungarian
help, who took the piaco of tho strikers,
Hint they will discharge them, and hire
native Americans in their stead.
There Is trouble agnin on the Mexican
border, because Sheriff Sanchez, of
Laredo,Tex., arrested Lieut. Joso Cortez,
of the Moxlcnu army, who tried to arrest
a deserter on the American sido, aud in
doing so, used a pistol.
Tho 28d annual session of the Grand
liodge of Good Templars of the World
met at Saratoga, N. Y. Nearly overy
country in tho world was represented.
Thcro wero renlly two bodies in . session,
tho Right Worthy Grand Lodgo and the
Right Worthy Grand Lodge of tho World.
In 1870, a disruption occurred, when the
English branch seceded.
A young man called at the residence of
John D. Bates, one of the most prom
inent citizens of Boston, Mass., and de
manded hush money, claiming to have in
his possession a terrible secret affecting
Mr. Bates. The latter called the police
by telephone, but tho blackmailer es
caped, nnd before doing so, tried to in
timidate Mr. Bates with a pistol
Strikers exploded n dynamite bomb
under the police liarrneks at Heburn,
Eng., and destroyed tho building.
Belgium strikers have used firearm*
und explosives iu their encounters with
the police and destroyed n railroad bridge.
Mnrcon L. Sequin a manufacturer of
umbrellas iu Philadelphia, Pa., has dis
appeared, leaving his creditors minus
$85,000.
Recent rains throughout the North
west, have extinguished most of the forest
fires which havo been raging in Wiscon
sin and upper Michigan with such de
structive violcuco of lute.
A student tried to kill the Ozsr of
Russia while he was iu the Don Cossacht
country. The culprit had in his posses
sion a bottle of poison, six cartridges,
a revolver and a dagger.
Ono of Queen Victoria’s chaplains,
Fleming by name, published recently a
volume of sermons, the most important
of which was identically the same as one
delivered by Dr. Talmage, the noted
Brooklyn, N. Y„ preacher.
Tho Pope in on allocution referring to
Germany said: “Thank* to the equita
ble, end-pacific sentiments of Emperor
William and his counsellors, the Prussian
government removed moro serious incon
veniences and then accepted various prac
tical concessions of peace by which some
of the former laws against tho church
have been repealed.”
A mag. called ut tho residence of Join
Anderson, iii Rockville, Mo., and asked
for a glass of water. Jennie Anderson
a daughter, wnited upon him, but when
she came near, he suddenly seized and
chloroformed her, and while under influ
ence of the drug, she was terribly treat
ed. Sencli resulted in the arrest of John
Vnnderburg, nnd lynching was prevented
only lije doubt of the prisoner’s guilt.
After the excitement had cooled down,
Jennie Anderson confronted tlie prisoner
and clafmod to rec.ognize him. At a pre
liminary court hearing, the'' Ander
son family were all presort, besides many
other citizens. Jennie told the horrible
details of tho crime, and the prisoners
made 11 poor attempt to prove an alibi.
The judge had just announced that the
prisoner would bo held in $10,000 ball,
when a shot rang out, followed in rapid
succession by two more. There was a
scamper for the street, and when quiet
was restored, the prisoner was dead. No
one knows who fired the shots, but ss
two of the Anderson boys were in the
court room, they were put under arrest.
ALABAMA'S CYCLONE.
Montgomery, Ala., was visited by
cyclone which lasted half un hour, tore
off the roof of tho court-house, pros
trated the buildings in course of ereerinn
for tho fair and did considerable damage
all around.
O’BRIEN WELCOMED.
Tit Now York IiOfflRlaturo GItoi film a
Royal Welcome—If© Goei to Montreal.
The New York Legislature gave a
semi-official reception to William O’Brien,
the Irish editor, and Speaker Husted, of
the Assembly, in receiving O’Brien on
the rostrum said, motioning to himself
end the distinguished visitor: “Sham
rock and tho stars and stripes.” This
.created another outburst of applause.
Theu there were cries of “Speech I”
“Speech 1” “Give us your idea of Ca
nadian hospitality.” Mr. O’Brien then
made a ten-minutee’ speech, in which he
referred to the universal hospitality with
which he had been received everywhere
in America; Jo the feeling of security he
experienced-when he found himself un
der the glorious stars and stripes at Cape
Vincent and to the great honor now ac
corded him by the Legislature of New
'York. He then went to the train and
took passage for Montreal, Canada, where
he received a flattering ovation. No
disturbance took place.
OAR STABLES BURNED.
Tho Belt line stables on Ninth avenue
iu New York city were destroyed by fire.
The immense structure of the Consoli
dated railroad in Cincinnati, O., occupied
as stables and offices, were burned up.
BOSTON ON HAND.
The first donation for the Atlanta, Ga.,
exposition was a check for $100 from
Phelps, Dalton & Co., of Boston, Mass.,
received through W. C. Dodson, of At-
In days gtnte by, we danced, we sung
The sunny vale* of life among',
There was no joy liire being young I
Now, we have supped virith toil and. core,
And ’mid tho glint of shininj hair,
Time, as I10 long ago did pass,
Shook from his never-failing glass
Thesilverocldustof witherod years—
Ploughed furrows with regretful tears—
Along the qheek whoso roses palod
Before the cold breath he exhaled.
In days gone by, with righteous sham..
Wo scorned pursuit of gold nnd fame,
Give as, with love, herlis and a crust!
Riches hod wings, gold woe but dust.
With love divine and four bare walls
Who cared for lands, for gilded hallsl
But now, tho noon of life is past I
There blows a strong and chilling blast
That snakes tho poor, thin cottngo door*
And penetrates its creaking floors,
Tho toothless gums reject love's crust—
Love's herbs aro dry na storm-blown dust
The days gone by will come no more,
When heaven was roof and earth vrtis floor f
And star and flower and leaf-clad tree
Exceeded all mun’s tapestry.
Tho swoet, tlie foolish lovo of youth
That brookod no shade of doubt—near
truth,
But bravely faced that cloudless sun—
Is all disproved—its lesson* done I
Now spread thick carpets on the floor,
Curtain tlie windows, drape th? door—
AnJ lot the glittering chandelier
Throw mellow light upon good cheer;
Now, wi»or grown, let truth be told—
We lovo—our ease, our lands, our gold.
—Margaret II. Lawless, in the Current.
P1TII AND POINT.
A shoplifter—An carthquako.
Never abuse a mulo behind his back.
Tho man who has just bought a dog L*
a bore to his friends.
The farmer who raises the glass too
often isn’t likely to raiso much else—
Siftings.
Tlio best way to “get rich by poultry
keeping" is to sell all your hens early
every spring. Then you won’t have to
plntit your garden but once.—Journal gf
Education.
Pastor—"Woll, wlmt did your young
people renlizo nt your entertainment. I”
Member of tho Committee—“We have
just realized that wo aro $25 out.”—Bur-^
lington Free Prtss.
A lady who had her photograph
tnken was showing it to her husband.
“Do you think it looks like me?" she
asked. "Yes," he said after a critical
examination, “it looks like you, only it
seems very quiet.—Harper's Bator.
11EM ARK ABLE UNANIMITY.
Tlie bridge had broken, and the crowds
Flocked near and far the wreck to see;
They came in swarms, in drove*, in clouds,
And grow in numbers momently.
Anil then, In loud accordant notes,
Tliore rose a shout from hill nnd lnke,
And burst from fifty thousand throats:
“I always said that bridge would break.
—TidrBils.
Simulating Death.
Homo persons havo possessed the power
of simulating death, but it is a dangerous
experiment, and the story is told of a
college student who for tho amusement
of his comrades did this onco too often.
By the power of the will over tho vital
functions ho lmd agnin nnd ugnin lain
down upon a sofa and fnllcu 111 a few
mlnuteB into his sportivo death triinco.
He lind always come back to activity
within half un hour, but on this last oc
casion they grew alarmed at tlie longcon
tinuance of his trance. They called to
him, but lie did not answer, they shook
him, but ho did not awake. Thoir fellow-
student wus really dead. It is minuted
of Colonel Townshend, Rajah of Puttiuli,
in the Punjab, thnt he hud this power of
what doctors call voluntary hibernation.
As some women faint away whenever they
feel like doing so, so tho gallant Colonel
coulcl "die daily,” or wheuever he
pleased.
His heart, says tho medical account of
it, would cease to beat; then; was no per
ceptible respiration; tlie body became
cold and rigid, the eyea glossy and the
features oadaverous. He would continue
dead for several hours, and then come
back to Hfe, Dr.Cheyno says that Colonel
Townshend told him that he could ex
pire whenever lie pleased and by an ef
fort of his own will restore himself in
stantaneously to the living state.. On one
occasion he performed the experiment in
tho presence of three medical experts,
one of whom kept his hand upon the
Colonel’s heart, while 11 second held his
fingers on his wrist-pulse, and the third
held 11 mirror before his mouth. They
found all traces of pulsation and restora
tion gone, and were unanimous in their
belief that he was actually dead, when ho
revived as easily ns lie had died, to tlieiv
greut astonishment.—Brooklyn, Eagle.
A Rat on a Goose’s Back.
“Misery makes strange bed-fellows,”
says the proverb. It also renders the in
stinct of creatures in peril exceedingly
keen in finding moans of self-preservation.
During tho recent freshet in the Ohio
River a sigular instance of a rat’s sagac
ity occurred a short distance below Cin
cinnati.
About the time when the river was at
its height a number of people were as
sembled on its margin, watching the
huge masses of hay swept along on its
irresistible course.
At length a goose hove in sight, strug
gling sometimes for the land and at
others sailing majestically along with the
torrent, and, as it drew near, a black spot
was observed upon its snowy plumage,
which tiic spectators were astonished to
find was 11 living rat.
It is probable that it had been borne
from its domicile, and, observing the
goose, hastened to it as a refuge. On the
goose making land the rat leaped from its
back and scampered away.—Youth's Com
panion.
Setting an Example.
“Br-r-r-r-r-r 1 I wish this wind would
settle,” remarked a man as he slammed
the aoor of an editor’s sanctum And
backed up to the stove to warm hia coat
tails.
“Mebbe it would if you’d set the
example. It’s four years since yo^ set
tled your .subscription,” was tho breezy
reply pf the editor,—BamiUt Breste.