The Mercury. (Sandersville, Ga.) 1880-1???, June 07, 1887, Image 1
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1680.
Sandersvllle, Washington County, Ga.
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VOLUME VIII.
E. S. LANGMADE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
SANDERSVILLE, Oa.
B. I>. Stans,
B. D. Evaki, J»
EVANS & EVANS.
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
SANDERVILLE, OA.
F. H. SAFFOLD,
attorney at law,
SANDERSVILLE, GA,
Will practice in all the Courts of the
Middl
le Circuit and in the countire
lurroumling Washington. Special at*
tmtioii given to commercial law.
». A HOLLIFIELD
Pliisician S Suwon,
SANDERSVILLE, OA.
Onioe noxt door to Mri. Bayne's Millinery
gtor", on Harris sired.
HUY YOUli
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FROM
(None Kenuino witliont our trade mark.)
ON HAND AND FOR SALE
SPECTACLES, NOSE GLASSES, Etc., Etc.
Watches, Clocks
AHD
JEWELRY
miPAXRlD BT
JE lE^nsriGKAlSr.
SHOOTING A (US WLiiL.
R Is Exulting, and GIvch tho Senna*
lion of a Mild Mart liqiinko 1
I Emm llio Kokomo Dispatch.]
“By Georgo, sir, if tlmt stuff was to
explode it would blow us nil to kingdom
comol”
I’.verybody oyod tho hit of white tnr-
pnulin and llio four innocent-looking
runs it covered suspiciously, mid of ono
accord withdrew to u safer distance,
l-ioli of the cans contained eight quarts
of nitro-glyeenno, fetched overland from
Limn, ()., by Jim Caliban, representing
mny, of
the llereules Torpedo Company,
•but place, to shoot the Junction gas
Well.
A largo crowd lmd gathered at the gas
well Saturday morning, watching every
movement with an interest born of oun-
"Mtv that brooks all danger to satisfy
itmdf ill the minutest detail. 'J’ho big
drill was withdrawn and fastened at tho
point to the easing-head. Lushed to it
miis a strong steel pulley, through which
run a light line extending from an iron
reel made fust to the arm of the great
walking beam and terminating ill an
iron hook. To this book was attached a
large tin vessel, resembling in shape a
monster syringe. Here began the most
dangerous part of the work, and tho
spectators were warned to leave tho
ground. Tho cans were brought into
•lie derrick and thirty-two quarts of tho
terrible explosive, formed by treating
glycerine with concentrated sulpliurio
id nitric acids, were carefully poured
jute the tin torpedo. This was slowly
1 " reel,
lowered into tho well by aid of tho
great caiv being taken to see that it did
>iol jar violently against tho casing and
imn e a premature explosion. When the
•"’•tom of tho well was reached the hook
was swung looso and the line drawn out.
f'alilian then tilled another tin vessel of
smaller capacity, shaped very much like
“ gun cartridge, and attached it udeton-
ating fuse. The glyco rino cans contain
ing the small residue of tho explosive,
were removed to a place of safety. Culi-
•iiin then entered tho derrick with his
"go devil,” coolly lighted the fuse from
ins cigar, dropped it in the well and
slov.lv walked a few rods away. Every-
nody held their breath and waited, A
"'mute passed—two—threo. Inoxperi-
eneeil persons thought the shot had
meed, and approached nearer tho well.
1 resently there was a dull, heavy thud,
"iiirli like striking a meal bug with ono’s
closed fist. There was a slight tremor
Hie earth, barely perceptible to those
nearest tin} well. Then followed ano-
"nit, of tlfteon seconds when o great
"mime of black colored water shot up,
"P away over the derrick a hundred
mi't in all, falling with a great shadow
s l°’ies and drenching the more ven-
jiii'esomo spectators who rushed toward
tho well.
• he offoct of tho shot was at once dis-
""innhlo. Tho woll was a good one be-
hut the deep, sullen roar from the
"'e-anil-fivc-eigh th-inch casting an-
minced a find perhaps exceeding in
miinic any well yet drilled in tho Ko-
01110 fi°ld. When the union was put
n ftno connection with a two inoli pipe
"s made, the roar increased to a hoarse
, l(!llm . almost drowning tho mighty
... “'at went up when the gas was
"f lighted, throiving out a flame nearly
10 the top of the derrick.
0T ‘* White’s experiments on the re
fill ftl , 1<!0 ^offered by a bank of snow to n
'I '’iillet, which wore made recently at
It u ' vn i Canada, were most interesting.
„ tound that tho Martini bullets
1 ! n t° a bank of woll packed snow
•’ 0 t e ty spent after truversing a dis-
},.]ll' 0 . 0 '. n °t more than four feet. Snidei
ioe it in ' lari t packed snow mixod with
ein, . . n °t hal'd enough to prevent dig-
imt^ lu ^° it with a slioet-iron shovol, did
Penetrate more than about four feet;
driftway ^ Bnow ' packed by natural
in H,’ ""Pablo of being easily onished
four f lon< t> e bullet penetratod about
lftKu ii’ an d ln loose drifted dry snow
rifiin J ftn , 8evnn feot > though fired from
taut ° U ^ twenty or thirty yards dis-
NUMBER 6.
WASHINGTON DOTS,
INTERESTING NOTES ABOUT PRESIDENT
CLEVELAND AND OTHER NOTABLES.
T, .«’Opera, I..... or II, o Depart mom., on,I
WhRl SoMtliorn Ml.,, Arn llrln. Ap .
Pointed In I’oellloiis, Ulc., Etc.
debt statement.
The debt statement shows tho decrease
of tho public debt, during tho month of
May to be 18,888,1)117.00, a decrease „f
tho debt since Juno 80, 1880, of $92,834,-
02, 21; cash in Treasury, $400,209 320 -
&°i d pwtificatos outstanding, $90,-
*,ok Sllvcr ccrti| ic»tes outstanding,
$189,143,828; certificates of deposit out
standing, $8,990,000: legal tendon out
standing, $349,481,010; fractional cur
rency, not including the amount estimated
as lost or destroyed, $0,947,822 37: inter
est-bearing debt, $1,008,024,073.51;debt
on winch interest ling ceased, $0,737,403,
no 1 w . . “■■■vi-uauu, 1.1, -
08, debt bearing no interest, $392 797 -
778.87; totnl debt, $1,007,842,151.90.
BOUTHEllN COllI’OHATIONS.
1 lie interstate commerce commission
lias received a communication from G. S.
llrookerville, of Dublin, Va., complain
ing that the Norfolk & Western Railroad
company ure making unreasonable rates.
J. W. Bryant, of New Orleans, appear-
pd before the commission, and, represent
ing the steamboat interests of tho Miss-
is'-ippi river, denied the statements of
railroad representatives that they were
forced to cut rates at all points where
water competition existed. Ho said that,
on the contrary, the steamboat companies
weje obliged to cut rates to meet reduc
tion by railroads,
NOTES.
Clark Howell, post-oflico inspector at
Atlanta, Uu., 1ms resigned.
The polico regulations during the Drill
were very faulty, and came near causing
a riot on several occasions.
The Light Infantry, of Washington,
protest against the award of u prize to
the National Rifles of tho some city.
Gold holdings in the United States
treasury have increased six millions sinco
May 1. There has been very littlo
change in silver circulation during tho
past month.
Prof. Spencer F. Iiaird, a well-known
scientist, and secretary of the Smithson
ian Institute, is dangerously ili at his
residence, of an affection of the heart and
kidneys.
The disappointment of tho general
public is great because the Toledo, O.,
Cadets did not get a prize. The judges
reply tlmt/fho company drilled on a sys
tem of their own, mid not according to
regulations.
The appropriation for printing smnll
silver certificates is well-nigh exhausted,
and nothing can be done to meet tho
large orders constantly coming in, until
the appropriation for tho next fiscal year
becomes available.
Comptroller llutlcr, of the Treasury
department, in auditing the accounts of
the superintendent of the naval academy,
Ims disallowed all items of expenditure
lor whisky, brandy, and other intoxicat
ing liquors, furnished to members of tho
a iiiimi board of visitors.
John B. Riley, of Macon, Ga., has
born appointed a postoffice inspector on
mail depredations.
Capt. Andrew J. Terry, of Smithville,
Vn., bus been appointed custodian of the
Interior Department,
Tho President has appointed E. Henry
Lucombu, of New York City, to he ad
ditional circuit judge in tho Second
Judicial Circuit; L. W. Reid, of Vir
ginia, Assistant Register of the Treasury.
Tho Treasury is advertising in South
Carolina papers for the claimants to the
loot captured at Camden, 8. C., by Gen.
Sherman during tho war. It consists of
spoons, knives, silver pitchers, and 248
silver and brass watches, these last being
taken irom prisoners of war at Elmira,
and Point Lookout.
Tho interstate commerce commission
has received from the “Street Stablo Car
Line,” of Chicago, a complaint agniust
over 50 Western railroads, charging them
with unlawful discrimination in refusing
to permit tho use of improved cars for
tho carrying of live stock over their re
spective roads from ono state into or
through another, unless upon payment of
unreasonable and exorbitant charges of
freight.
The first prizes at the National Drill
were handed over to the winners by Gen.
Sheridan, commanding the United Statos
Army, and wero as follows: Best com
pany, Lotnnx Rifles, of Mobile, Ala.;
battalion, Washington Light Infantry, of
Washington, D. C.; regiment, First
Virginia National Guard ; battery, B, of
Indianapolis; zouaves, Chicago Zouaves;
cadets, Michigan Military Academy; in
dividual drill', Private II. S. Stnekc, of
San Antonio Rifles, Galveston, Tex.
LYNCHING IN INDIANA.
Tivn Young Men Commit n llnoturdly
Crime, mat Indignant Citizens Hang
One ol TUem.
Waltor and Chnrles Davis, brothers, of
bad reputo, visited John Flannogan’s
residence, 8 miles from Louisville, Ky.,
in Perrv-county, Ind., and finding a J4
year old daughter and her two brothers
alone, they told the Flanuegan boys that
some stray stock was breaking into the
farm n mile away from the house. No
Ser had they left to look after the
supposed stray stock, than the Davis
boys carried the young daughter of 1- lan-
negan into a neighboring wood, and
there outraged her. The girl was gagged,
tied beaten anil left for dead, vy.ieti tho
boys returned, they searched for their
sister but she was not found until the
next morning—still alive. - ,
Walter Davis escaped, but Charles
Davis was caught, taken to the girl's
nreseuce, given two minutes in which to
wav (which he did), and was then hung
p ray ’ctnnt vounir treo, which was bent
over and 'which in . its, rebound tossed
Davis in the air and broke his neck. His
bodv was riddled with bullets by the
crowd and was nllowed to hang there
C til vesterdav morning, when it was
cut down by hfs father aud given burial.
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SOUTHERN NEWS.
The Atlanta, Ga., Evening Journal lias
been sold to a stock company, and will
bo improved and enlarged.
A negro, but 10 years old, committed
suicide at Charlotte, N. C., because his
mother intended to whip him for stealing.
Rev. James F. Webster, a white man,
who was born in India, and at one time
the rector of Mi Episcopal Church, now
rosiding at Groenvillc, S. 0., lias bocomo
Tiolently insane. Ho will be sent to an
asylum.
A novel boycott was begun in Chatta
nooga, Tonn., by the Knights of Labor
A movemont was inaugurated to closo
all the stores at 7 o’clock, and nearly all
tho merchants had signed the agreement.
However, some refused, and in conse
quence the Knights of Labor will boy
cott those who will not givo their em
ployes a rest.
W. W. Ellis, baggage master and ox-
prcBS messenger of the Piedmont Air-
Lino roBd, went into the office of the
Southern Express company, at Atlanta,
Go., to report. Just after ho entered the
otllco, the tin box in which ho carries his
mail matter and rovolver, accidentally
opened and his revolver fell to the floor.
It was discharged just ns it struck tho
floor, tho ball passing through tho calf
of Mr. Ellis’s leg.
f G° v - Gordon, of^ Georgia, sa^s Smith,
of Heard county, tho condemned murder
er must hang.
A book ngent nnmed A. S. Hill called
ut the house of Mr. Terri, at Corsicana,
Fox,, and insulted tho dnughtcr of the
bouse, and was killed by hor father for it,
Sumter F. Nichols, tho slayer of Wil
liam Jordan, who was adjudged a lunatic
at Raker court, On., died from injuries
received in attempting suicido while in
Albany, Ga.
William Echols, a young white man,
living at Cornelia, Ga., one of tho best
known young men in that portion of the
* .. - .
state, was foully murdoroa by persons
unknown
Rev. L. II. Humphries, n well-known
colored preacher, so annoyed tho teachers
of tho Girls’ High School, in Atlanta,
that ho was arrosted and jailed. He is
thought to be insane.
For a joke, Georgo Donelson, n clerk
in the drug store of " * ~
„ Burgo A Roscoe, of
Nashville, Tenn., challenged John G.
Bernard, nil elderly man, to drink an
ounce of aconite. The words hardly es
caped his lips before Bernal swallowed
tho poison. A number of physicians
tried to savo him, but ho died.
The recent lieuvy rains 1ms caused an
increase of yellow fever cases nt Key
West, Fin,
The Nashville Union, which begun
publication two years ago as a daily news
paper, has stopped.
There has been a new post-olfico es
tablished in Rabun county, between Tal
lulah aud Clayton, Ga., mid by the name
of Tiger, and J. C. Cannon has been
appointed postmaster.
Tobacco is not doing so well in North
Carolina. A great deal was killed by
cold weather. In some sections tho
farmers have abandoned tobacco, plowed
up the land and put in corn.
St.Phillips Episcopal church in Charles
ton, S. C.. has by vote, sustained its
representatives who withdrew from the
Diocesnn convention on account of the
attempted admission of colored delegates.
Prof. John II. Miller, professor of
mathematics in Erskinc College, has been
elected president of tho Due West Ro
maic College, S. C., vice J. P. Konnedy,
who resigned on account of failing health.
One of tho most popular societies in
Charleston, S. C., is the Philatelic So
ciety. The society will give a courso of
lectures oil “Postngo Stamps” as soon ns
thr services of a competent lecturer enn
he secured.
The Alico Clarke, one of tho steamers
running between Augusta and Savannah,
Gil., suffered slightly thootherday by fire,
while about eighty-five miles down the
river. Fifty-four bales of cotton caught
fire anil wero thrown overboard.
The Charleston & Savannah, and tho
Savannah, Florida & Western railway
companies will put oil between New
York ami Jacksonville an express train
that will mako the run botween tho two
cities in thirty hours, leaving New York
about 10.80 a. m., and reaching Jack
sonville about 4.30 p. m, the next day.
A LUNATIC VISITS MOV. IIILL.
E. C. Diellciihacher, an o-ionped lunatic
from Herkimer county, a large, powerful
limn, pushed his way into the executive
chamber nt Albany, N. Y., until lie \v;it
beside Governor Hill’s desk and do
mantled an immediato hearing. His ac
tions creatocl souiu uneasiness, but he
was quietly carried away by a policeman
without ollering any resistance.
PECULIAR ACTION OF L1MI1T.NINM.
J. A. Sewell, of Garlandvillo, Ga.,
had a valuable ox standing under some
sweetgum bushes in the pasture, when
lightning struck a bush about 20 feet
high. Following n downward course
about 8 feet it jumped to another near
tho ox and pnssed down it soveral feet,
left the bush aud struck tho ox, killing
him instantly.
CHARLEY ROSS IN JAIL.
Recently, Christian K. Ross said to a
reporter, s f bis residence, Walnut Lane
Station, Germantown, near Philadelphia,
Pa., that a man claiming to know the
whereabouts of his missing son, Charley,
had called upon him. The stranger gave
his name as Harrington, a keeper in tho
Stnte Prison of Connecticut, and assured
Mr. Ross that Charley Ross is in that in
stitution undergoing a sentence of im
prisonment.
GONE WRONG.
The cashier of the Ilechetnga Bank, L.
D. Parent, of Montreal, Can., has ab
sconded. He drew checks to the amount
of $12,000, signed them “L. D. Parent,
on trust for Dr. V.dndc,” and succeeded
in prevailing upon Ray, the ledger
keeper, to accept them for the bank.
Then he cashed them and left the city.
“ALL QUIET!”
DECORATION OF THE GRAVES OF THE
FEDERAL DEAD.
Frnlnrnlzntlon of iho Gray aud the Itluo
l’atrlutlr. Addressee and Impressive
KerTloes — Noalhern Military
Companies Take Part In
Iho Exerelace.
Never sinco tho War closed, has Me
morial Day under tho auspices of the
Grand Army of the Republic been more
iinpressivoiy celebrated than this year,
and tho capitul of tho nation—Washing
ton—witnessed a sight which deeply im
pressed all who wero there to witness it,
particularly tho veterans who fought on
opposite sides.
The first division of the procession was
made up as follows: Vicksburg South
rons and band, Belknap Rifles, Lomax
Rifles, Hullcno Guards of Kansas City,
Louisville Logion and drum corps,
American Cadet baud of Milwaukee,
eighth separate company of New York;
company D, Thirty-second Now York;
Grand Rupids Gunrds, of Michigan, and
Custer Gunrds, of Michigan. The sec
ond division was composed of local mil
itary companies and Grand Army of the
Republic posts. The ceremonies at Ar
lington were very impressivo.
The exercises ut the tomb of Gen. Lo
gan, in Rock Creek cemetery, were pic-
turesquo and interesting. The Logaa
~ clof
Guard of Honor had charge of the services,
and were assisted by suggestions from
Mrs. Lognn. Such a profusion of floral
tributes ns decorated the last resting place
of the dead general Lias rarely been seen.
New York city made it a close holiday
and a great ninny went to River
side park to take part in tho special ser
vices ut Gen. Grant’s tomb. Hero 20,000
or more people gathered.
At Chattanooga, Tenn., a delegation
from tho 24th Illinois Volunteers from
Chicago, 111., decorated tho grave of Col.
Mihilotzy of that regiment.
At Richmond, Vu., Winchester, Va.,
Galveston, Tex., and Jacksonville, Fla.,
Confederates and Federal veterans had
joint exercises, and at other points in the
Sou tli, Confederate veterans took a
prominent pnrt. At Mnriettu, Gu,, tho
exorcises wero most impressive, and Fill-
ton County Confederate Veteran associa
tion had a delegation at tho Government
Cemetery. Rev. Dr. Georgo Leonard
Chaney, of Atlanta, was the orator mid
his remarks were patriotic in the highest
degree, and gave great satisfaction to the
great throng of people who attended.
BANDITS SURPRISED.
illuxlcnn Cavalry ami .\ni(>rluan Deputy*
.sheriff* Rout n («uug of Uaxcal*.
At dawn of day, recently, in the midst
of n driving rain, the Bnls'li eiit-otr above
Santa Maria, Mexican territory, on tho
American side of tho river and the refuge
of about thirty desperate bandits, thieves
anil smugglers, was raided by a force
from both sides of the river. SherilT Bre-
tof and Deputy Clausner, of Texas, with
about ninety ranch ros mid doputio- en
tered and drove out the bandits, who
met with a warm reception on the other
side from a detachment of the Mexican
3d cavalry under command of Col.
Nieves Hernandez. A sharp tight en
sued, in which Col. Hernandez was
wounded, one of his men killed and an
other wounded. One bandit was killed,
several wounded and a number captured,
several of whom are well known mur
derers, mid were executed on the spot.
EXCITEMENT IN FRANCE.
The Yiiiuik Men of Furls lleiiiiiml General
Iloiiliinair’H Retention In Olllee.
On rotiring from the position of secre
tary of war, to give place to his succes
sor, Gen. Forron, Gen. Boulanger, the
present idol of the French people, made
n short address. Riotous demonstrations
at oueo took place. Fifty policemen
were stationed at the British embassy.
During the night eries of “n L’Elysco”
were raised by the crowd,and fully 1,000
young men formed u procession and
marched at a swinging pace in the direc
tion of tho palace, shouting as they weut,
“We want Boulanger!” Before they ar
rived at the Elysee, however, two strong
dies of polico appeared aud dispersed
them.
LOCKED OUT.
The Master Masons’ Association, of
Philadelphia, Pa., decided to lock out all
their union stonecutters, and refuse them
further employment until they cease in
terfering with non-union employes.
About three hundred men will work on
as usual, and such of the union employes
who pledge themselves not to interfere
with non-union hands, will bo restored
to their old places.
ENGLISH PLUCK.
Twelve hundred coal miners at Bach-
raul, Russia, out on astrike, attempted to
rob a brewery owned by a Arm of English
men. Fifty English workmen attached
to the brewery mounted horses and dur
ing tho fight which occurred, three of tho
workingmen wore killed.
GILT CIIERUilS.
Complaint is made because the cherubs’
heads on St. Michael’s steeple, in Charles
ton, S. 0., have been painted white, in
stead of being gilded us they were form
erly. There is a tradition that these
heads wero made by Guillotin, a brother
of the inventor of tho guillotine.
BUSINESS PROSPERITY.
The South Reaping the Benefit of Large
Capital to Develop Railways, Hills,
Foundries, Etc., Etc.
Koy West, Fla., is to bo lighted by
eleotnolty.
Greensboro, Ala., is to have a “dummy”
street railroad.
A hotol to cost $80,000 will bo erected
in Petersburg, Va.
Dayton, Ky., has adopted electricity ns
tho motivo power for street railroad,
Chattanooga, Tenn., issued $50,000 of
bonds for sewerogo anil street improve
ment*.
Tho Morgan County Asphalt and Oil
u —“A $if'' -
Co. with $150,000 capital lins started nt
Ilartsellc, Ala.
Tho Young Men’s Christian Associa
tion of Charlottesville, Va., has started n
$40,000 building.
Tho Birmingham & Atlantic Air-Lino
Railroad Co., will extend their railroad
from Greenville, Ga., to Savanunh,
Memphis, Tenn. items: A snddlory
manufacturing company with $100,000
capital has started; also, a brick company
with $100,000 capital.
Sheffield, Ala., notes: Tho Sheffield
Land Company will erect 100 houses;
tho First National Bunk has contracted
for a $85,000 building.
E. B. Moon, of Richmond, Va., hns
purchased about 50,000 acres of timbor
and mineral lands in Siuythe, ■Washing
ton and Grayson countios.
Tho Clinttanooga Land, Coal, Iron &
Railway Co. will build tho Chattanooga
Western Railroad from Chattanooga to
Walden’s Ridge, nbout 8 mileB.
The Alabama Slidlnnd Railroad Co.
capital stock $8,000,000, will bo incor
porated to build a railroad from Mont
gomery, Ala., to Bainbridge, about 175
milos.
Tho Eiifnuln & Southeast Alabama
Railroad Co. with a capital stock of $1,-
000,000 to build n railroad from Clayton
to Blakely, Ala., with a branch to Geneva,
lias been chartered.
Tho Georgia Central Railroad & Bank
ing Co. will extend tho Stabile & Girard
Railroad from Troy to Elba, Ala., tho
Eufaultt & Clayton Railroad from 25 to 80
miles, and tho Fort Gaines branch from
Blakely, Ga., to Columbia, Ala.
Bills have been introduced in tho Flor
>da Legislature to^incorporate tho Central
Railroad it Steamboat Co,; a company to
build a railroad from St. Lucie to Wah-
netaor Lakeland; tho Key of the Gulf
Railroad Co., and tho SIcmphis & Pensa
cola Railroad Co.
A Now York syndicate have purchased
4,000 acres of mineral lands, at Collins
ville, Ala. An English company has
purchased an immense area of coal land
in tho same locality and will nt once pro
ceed to devolop it, anil will build a 100-
ton blast furnace.
Tho Atlanta & Chattanooga Railroad
Co. capital stock $1,000,000, has been
organized with H. 8. Chamberlain as
president; E. J. Sanford, Knoxville, vice-
president, R. H. Hood, Knoxville, secre
tary, and Mr. Slitchell, treasurer. The
object of tho company is to build n rail
road to Stevenson, Ala., via South Pitts
burg, Tenn.
At « meeting lately held nt Charleston,
W. Ya., Georgo T. Stearns, of Now
York, made the statement that “a com
bination had been formed, with a capital
of $12,000,000, to build a railroad from
the Pennsylvania line down tho Elk, up
' ~ “ ' ‘ :k
tho Coal and on to Big Sandy, through
Kentucky and oil to Nnshvillo, Tenn.,
and that he represented that com
bination.’’
FINIIERMEN KILLING RACn OTHER,
There is war among tho salmon fisher
men on the 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, and Albert Green and Archie Ross,
owners of traps, started out armod with
guns lo guard a large lot of web, which
is used in the traps, and which had been
tarred and was lying in tho opon air to
dry. This was in a field not far from
the beach, surrounded by small timbor.
While on the watch they discovered
men moving in the darkness, whom they
challenged. The reply was a volloy of
allots. Mr. Ross was killed, and Mr.
King received threo serious wounds.
Green was unhurt.
COSTLY SKATS.
Americans in London, Eng., aro pay
ing as high us $250 rent for windows, to
bo used the day Queen Victoria goes from
Buckingham palace to Westminster
Abbey, where the jubilee services will
take place.
ATTACKED MB EMPLOYER.
Dock Gay rosiding near Fairburn, Ga.,
had a difficulty with a negro boy about
rations, which terminated in his being
stabbed in the neck with a knife. The
negro fled.
INTERESTING MILITARY EVENT.
The friends of the Toledo, O., Cadets
have offered $5,000 ns a prize, if the cel
ebrated Lomnx Rifles will drill in Toledo
next September.
UNION DEPOT.
The merchants of Charleston, 8. O.,
are agitating for a new union railroad
depot.
WENT AWAY.
The Salvation Army at Columbia, S.
C., found that place unprofitable, aud
deserted their barracks.
LUCKY OMEN.
On the first anniversary of his wed
ding, President Cleveland caught a fine
mess of largo trout in the Adirondueks,
No woman can bo handsome by the
force of features alone, any more than
she can be witty only by the help of
speech.
LATEST NEWS.
President Cleveland sont $10 ns n sub
scription to start the popular fund now
being raised to build a monument to Gen.
U. 8. Grant.
Mr, Bright, tho English statesman,
strongly condemns Editor O’Brien’s mis
sion, and the refusal of Irish Mayors to
celebrate tho Queen’s Jubiloo.
A strango disease, communicated by
contact, has caused dreadful havoc among
horses in DoWitt county, 111. It. is be
hoved to havo been communicated from
imported French stallions, nud is said to
ho common in Franco.
Probnto Judge Lyman Follctt, of Grand
Rapids, Mich., 1ms boon missing for sev
eral days. Inquiry shows a largo short
age in his accounts. Nearly every ostato
in the probate court is suffering whero
funds passed through Follett’s hands.
Muj. Elbridgo McConkoy, resident
clerk of tho Pennsylvania House of Rep
resentatives for several sessions, and who
hns been prominently identified with tho
stnto hoard of agriculture, committed
suicido by hanging, nt Ilnrrisburg, Pa.
Eire broko out in tho Huobcnor quays,
in Hamburg, Germany, and thoy wero
speed^y destroyed. Six largo sheds
wero next guttod. The flames communi
cated to two British vessels, tho City of
Dortnund and tho Gladiator, and de
stroyed them.
Now York was astonished to learn that
a project wns on foot to build in that
city a mammoth Protestant Episcopal
Cathedral, a second Westminster Abbey,
or St. Paul’s Cathedral, inflict; mid ovon
more astonished to learn that tho scheme
hns been on foot for over 14 years, and
the reporters didn’t find it out.
In ono week, 1,500 emigrants left
Queenstown for America.
Lieut. Clarke, U. S. Navy, committed
suicido at Panama recently.
Tho Troy, N. Y., stovo moldcrs hnvo
gono to work again, and tho strike is at
an end.
Tho yacht Thistlo sailed a rnco of
about 60 miles in England, nnd develop
ed remarkable speed anil “till nrouud”
qualities.
A distinct earthquake shock was felt in
Jamestown, N. Y. The shock last d only
a moment, nnd seemed liko an under
ground explosion of groat soverity.
It seem! impossible to empanel a jury
to try Jako Sharpe, the great briber of
New York City; nearly all the citizens
summoned ure prejudiced against him.
During a sorvico in the Cathedral nt
Prcssburg, Hungary, an alarm of fire was
raised. A panic ensued, anil muiiy in tho
congregation wero killed anil injured in
tho crush which resulted from tho frantic
endoavors of the people to reach tho
By tho explosion of a boiler in Court-
landt, N. Y., three men wero killed,
Tho grain porters employed at Avon-
mouth docks, Bristol, England, have
struck agninst the use of elevators in un
loading vessels.
Townsend Johnson and his brother
confessed that they sot fire to Palmer’s
oooperago, in Williamsburg, N. Y., on
April 2d. They claim to have had a
grudge against Palmer.
France is in a feverish stato of excite
ment over the attempt to form a cabinet.
Tho military bill appears to be the snug,
and if it is withdrawn by tho govern
ment, trouble will ensue.
Recently in tho palace of justico, at City
of Mexico, whero courts sit, the roof
fell in. Luckily tho room was unoccu
pied at the time. The earthquako shock
has created Iresh alarm about tho safety
of roofs in buildings of great ugc.
A wooden cross has been erected at
Bodyko, Ireland, where the work of evic
tion had to be stopped on account of the
sheriff being seized with a fit, upon which
are inscribed these words: “Praise the
Lord 1 Hero tho Tyrant’s art was para
lyzed.”
Tho Reformed Episcopal council in
session at Philadelphia, Pa., adopted
resolutions that tho council recognizes
evangelistic services, as a potent fact in
the aggressive work of tho church, nnd
indorsos tho utility of evangelistic union,
whonover practicable, for the more sys
tematic and efficient conduct of such
matters; also, ono recommending a dis
continuance of the committee on work
among freedmen.
Tiblo with tho Curriculum.
First Omaha Dame—“How is your sou
getting on at college?”
Second Omaha Dame—“Splendidly,
but I am afraid he studies too hard. I
got a private note from his room-mate
advising me to send for my son, as lie
was beginning to toss around nights nnd
see snakes and tilings.”
“Dear me!”
“Yes, isn’t it awful! I have written
to the fnculty to nsk them to excuse the
poor boy from any further attendance at
the lectures on zoology.”—Omaha Wwlil.
John Anson and his wife of Bonnetts-
ville, Ky., lived happily together for
thirty years, and then Mrs. Anson de
cided that she wanted a cabinet organ.
John declined to buy ono, and thereupon
the wife tried to drown herself by plung
ing into the waters of the Muddy Fork.
She was fished out unharmed, and John
was bo disgusted that he at once quit
home, and he has not been seen there
sinoe.
PARABLES.
Earth sings her parables of lots and gain
In boldest speech.
Yet heights sublime which spirits shall attain
She cannot reach.
Aerial whispers float o’er land and sea—
“It doth not yet appear what we shall be.”
Her royal purples and her crowns of gold, ,
Her white attire.
The sceptred liliee which her summers hold,
With flames afire—
All fail to show the glory wo shall see— -
“It doth not yetappear what we shall be.”
Who from unsightly bulb or slender root
Could guess aright,
The glory of the flower, the fern, tho fruit,
In summer’s height?
Through tremulous shadows voices call tome,
“It doth not yet appear what wo shall be.”
Triumphant guesses from the seer and sage
Through shadows dart,
And tender meanings on tho poet’s page
Console the heaH.
O songs prophetic 1 though sweet nrs ye,
“It doth not yet appear what wo shall be.”
—Clara Thwaites.
PITH AND POINT.
Always seedy—The fig.
In a tight box—Sardines.
A suit of mail—Will you marry me f
He docs a driving business—the cab
man.
When dentists arc partners they ought
to pull together.—Sifting*.
After all, the greatest fishery trouble is
when they won’t bite.—San Francisco
Alta.
If you want to see a wildcat, simply
hold up the domestic article by the tail.
—Nexc Haven News.
An exchange remarks: “Honesty fears
nothing.” But it docs, though. It fears
dishonesty.—Boston Post.
A New York firm advertises “umpire
suits.” Wo believo they aro manufac
tured at a foundry in Pittsburg.—States
man.
A Fireman’s Toast—“Cunid and his
torch, the only incendiary that can kin
dle a flame which the engines cannot
quench."
It is premature to tell any woman that
she is an angel until it is seen how sho can
cook a steak and boil a potato.—Fall
River Advance.
“What an outrage to cram so many into
this railway coupe.” “I should say sol
rail
Why,a sardine is a hermit in comparison.’
—Fliegende Blastter. ’
He (at a Boston musicalc)—“What a
glorious interpretation 1” She (a Chicago
young woman)—“Yes, Mr. Waldo, I
call that good Addling.”—Harper's Bazar.
The man who down the avenue
In brand-new hat doth jant,
May feel that he’s filling a long waftbd^felt,
As well as a long felt want.
—Merchant Traveler.
Trembling suitor—“Will you allow me
to ask your daughter to share my hand?”
Irate father—“No, hut I will ask you
to share my foot.” Curtain.—Boston Ga
zette.
“Mr. Brown,” said Dunley, “I call to
request your daughter’s hand in mar
riage.” “Her hand?" “Yes, sir.” “What’s
the matter with asking for tho girl?"—
Pittsburg Dispatch.
The littlo brother who persists in hang
ing around the parlor when his big sister
is entertaining her best young man is
committing a heinous offense. It is de-
fianco of the court.
“What aro tho prospects of Home Rule
now?” a correspondent asks. Really, my
dear fellow, wo can’t tell you, unless you
let us know when the old lady is going
home.—Somerville Journal.
A woman doesn’t know half ns much
about voting as u mnn docs about rocking
a cradle, yet there arc more women who
want to vote than men who want to rock
cradles.— Washington Critic.
An Indiana man sat down on a keg of
powder with a pipe in his mouth, and
some superstitious people in the vicinity
think they can see two men in the moon
now.—Burlington Free Press.
The innermost, unexpressed thought
of every man is about this: “If ivery
other man had been created as nearly
right as I am, tho iniilcnium might come
almost any day.”—Dansville Breeze.
“ Tell your mother, Johnny,” said his
kind maiden aunt, as she placed a piece
of cako in his hand, “ that I was very
I." “And
sorry your sister couldn’t come.'
what will I say,” replied little Johnny,
with an air of strategy, “ if mamma asks
where is sister’s piece of cake ?"—Judge.
A ConvIctN Peculiur Suicide.
A strange story of a convict’s suicide
comes from Coahoma County, Miss. Last
Wednesday agang of convicts were clear
ing land on Fisher & Ycrger’s planta
tion, some distance back of Friar’s Point.
They had just chopped a large tree until
its stately head was tottering in the air
and the woodland giant commenced to
fall, when the word was given to run.
The convicts nnd guards all retreated
but one—a negro named Mcse Smith—
sent up six mouths before from Panola
County to serve a ten years’ sentence.
Smith was on the side toward which the
tree was falling and made no attempt to
run. Hu threw down his ax, folded his
arms and with a half smile playing about
his features, gazed steadily upon the fall
ing tree as it bore swiftly down directly
on him. Tho guards and other convicts
shouted nt the doomed man, but ho heeded
them not. Tho towering mass of wood
reached the ground, there was a crash of
broken boughs, and all was still except
the echoes which reverberated through
the forest.
The immense weight of the tree had
crushed Smith’s body out of all shape,
and when the tree was rolled away only a
flattened pile of blood staiued clothes,
flesh and bones remained of the ten year
man.—Memphis Ledger.
Doctors at the English Court.
I saw a 4st of the household of Queen
Victoria the other day, and I am aston
ished that she has lived to celebrate her
jubilee. She lias threo physicians in
ordinary, five physicians extraordinary,
two sergeant surgeons, three surgeons
extraordinary, a physician to tho house
hold, a surgeon ditto, a surgeon apotho-
cary, two surgeons and apothecaries at
Windsor and two at Osborne, a surgeon
oculist, a surgeon dentist, a dentist t
the household and two chemists an<
druggists.—Pittsburgh Chronicle,