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1880.
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SANDERSVILLE, GA., TUESDAY, JUNE 14, I88T.
NUMBER 7.
E. S. LANGMADE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
SANDERSVILLE, On.
g. |). liVANi,
B, D. Rvani, J*
EVANS Si EVANS,
attorneysat law
SANDBRVILLB. OA.
F. H. SAFFOLD,
attorney at law,
SANDERSVILLE, OA.
Will practice in all the Courts of lbs
Middle Circuit and in the countiei
,unwinding Washington. Special ai*
tontion given to commercial law.
H. N. HOLLIFIELD,
SANDERSVILLE, OA.
Ofliro nnxt door to Mr*. Dunn's Milliner,
ju-r-, on Harris street.
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ON HAND AND FOR SALK
SPECTACLE^ NOSE GLASSES, Etc., Etc.
Watches, Clocks
JEWELRY
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JBX^XTXQ Aisr.
lir.NTA.NH4 THE OSTRICHES.
Miilmils Dmploycil by Aruba <if tbo
bcNi'rt. to Cntcb tbo IJig Birds.
Before starting o(T tlio hunters nseer-
tnin where a largo number of ostriches
nr to l>e found. They are generally
met with in the places where there is a
great ileal of glass, and rain has recent
ly fallen. The hunters cmnmenoo their
journey early in the morning. After
mieortv.o days’ traveling, when they
lime arrived near the desired spot and
begin to sou traces of their game, they
hull and camp, After settling, two in
telligent slaves tiro sent out to recon
noitre. They carry a goat skin at their
side and a little bread. They walk on
until they find the ostriches, which are
generally on elevated places. As soon
us the game is in view one lies down to
watch and the other returns to convey
the information to the camp. The birds
ore found in troops, consisting often of
ns many as sixty. The horsemen, guid
ed bv iln, fo.m't, travel cautiously to-
'vurd the game. The nearer they ap
proach the spot the greater is their enil-
tion, and when they reach the last ridgo
"iiicli hides them from the ostriches
they dismount and creep forward to as
certain whether the birds are still there.
If simh is the ease, a moderate quantity
f>f wider is given to the horses, and each
mini mounts again mid proceeds. The
tervants and camels follow a little dis
tance behind, carrying with them corn
and water.
The horsemen divide and form a circle
nround the ostriches at such a distance
ns not to lie noticed by them.' The ser
vants halt when the horsemen separate,
and ns soon as they see their musters in
j'osition, they walk below their prey.
Hie ostriches flee, blit are met by tlio
uniters, who at first only drive them
hack into the circle. They nro made to
fun around the ring, and in this way
their strength is exhausted. At tlio first
sign of fatigue in the birds the horses
unsli in, and the flock separates. Tlio
niTriglitod birds open their wings, which
js a sign of great exhaustion, and the
hinder, now fooling sure of his prey,
Meets ids bird and runs it down, and
Ihushes it with a blow' oil tlio head with
tlio olive stick.
The moment the bird falls the man
Quickly dismounts and cuts its throat,
taking cure to hold the bend at some dis-
timcc from the body, so as not to soil
“jo plumage. It is said the main bird
utters loud moans while dying, but tlio
Joninle dies in silence. When the os-
man is on tlio point of being taken by
lmnter, if ho does not wish to kill
■t he can easily drive it with the stick to
''here the camel is, it is in suoli an ox-
ijuisted condition. After the birds are
’t' d to death they are carefully skinned,
1" t but the feathers may not become in-
juvod, and the skin is stretched upon a
j r,, o or a horse, and salt is well rubbed
'. 0 't. Then a fire is built and the fat
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SOUTHERN NEWS.
DISMISSED YOU CAUSE.
W. II. Groon, tlio only colored man
ever added to the signal Bervico, has been
dismissed from that service without char
acter. The only significance in this order
lies in the fact that he is a colored man
and is the man over whom Qen. Ilazen
and Secretary of War Lincoln had a con
troversy. Groon was n graduate of a
Now York college und was highly recom
mended, and the secretary overruled
Hnzcn. Green, soon after appointment,
was assigned to duty at Pensacola, Fla.
The sergeant in charge of the signal of
fice tliero refused to accept Green as his
assistant and was court-marilided and
reduced to privato ranks for disobed
ience of orders. Green was placed in
chnrgo at Pensacola, but did not give
satisfaction, either to the signal ofllco nor
to tho community be served. He was
sent to Rochester, N. Y., whore his re
cord has been very unsatisfactory, and
it is stated that had ho been a white man,
his connection with tlio signnl service
would have boon summarily cut short
long boforo this, but tho desire to give
a ojlorod mini overy possible indulgence,
led to his retcution uulil his own conduct
necessitated his disraissul.
President Cleveland’s country trip is at
an end and he will soon bo found nt his
post of duty in tho Whlto House.
Chief Engineer G. W. Melville, of Arc
tic fame, has just performed an unprec
edented pioee of work. In less than two
weeks' time ho lms prepared designs for
"ve different vessels of
?! tlio bird is boiled for a long time.
) V ['? n it is very liquid it is poured into
_ .ties made of tho skin of tlio thigh
Mid leg Hint strongly fastened nt the hot-
torn. The fat of one bird is generally
,'ulieiont to fill two of these eases, and
Jt >8 said the fat would spoil in any
1 tier vessel. After the trying out pro-
tlm flesh is prepared anti eaten by
10 ‘"inters, who dross it woll with pe.p-
P® r “J"! flour. While all this is going
, , tn° horses are carefully tended,
filtered, and fed with corn, and the
! Mlt .v remains quiet for forty-eight hours
, *est the animals,
wn to
After that they re-
camp or seok more game.
I ,° the Arab, tlio chase of the ostrich
n, V 1 « "nt'! 0 attraction—that of pleasure
"t, profit. The price obtained for
n ° Rtm '" ell compensates for tho ex-
L;, B0 - Not only do the rioh enjoy the
L R1,lt > >mt the poor, who know how to
k f" 1 !? for us well. Tlio usual plan
Rfu. 01 * 10 P°°r Arab to bargain with
nf'v® °'. 10 who is well to do for the use
the machinery of fiv
the new navy. When ho begun his task
expert engineers said lie was attempting
mi impossibility. The pluns nro for tho
machinery of tlio Newark, two nineteen-
knot vessels and two gunboats.
Tlio redemption of trade dollars to (Into
amounts to about $7,000,000 and Treas
ury oflleiiils say that very few more aro
outstanding.
Upon recommendation of Gen. Sheri
dan, the Secretary of War, has decided
that two companies of cavalry shall ho
permanently stationed atFoit Mycr, Vn.,
which lms been abandoned siuco last
summer, when it was used us a school of
instruction for tlio signal service.
Rear Admiral Chandler, commanding
the Asiatic squadron, reports that a
search along the Formosan coast for tho
crow of an American vessel, supposed to
bo tho Abbio Curvor, shows that a throe-
masted vessel flying no colors, was
seen oil tho coast ono evening in July
last. Sho was lost sight of in tho galo
and darkness, and tbo next morning tho
bench was strewed with wreck ago. No
other particulars wore obtained.
Anderson Weaver, of Social Circle,
Ga., while hoeing cotton, was struck by
lightning mid killed. His hat and shoes
wore torn from him and destroyed.
P. J. Meehan, a citizen of Atlanta,
Gn., was recently chloroformed and
robbed of $400 in money by burglara
who entered his sleeping apartment.
Prof. Mngath, of Oxford, Ga., heads a
party who will make a tour of Ireland,
Scotland, England and France. They
leave in July and return In September.
Dr. W. F. Brnner was sent to Florida
by tho Sanitary Board of Savannah, Ga.,
to examine into the trustworthiness of
the quarantine at Jacksonville, Tampa
nnd other points.
No pnsNcngcrs will he received on board
the ships of the Savannah Line at Ha
vana or Key West. Until further notico
the steamers will lie at nnrhor off Key
West, and nil freight to and from that
port will be transferred by lighters at tho
cost of the shipper or consignee.
The oily sanitary bpnrd at Savannah,
Ga., have taken sttps toward the placing
of an inspector nt Way cross or somo
point north of that station oil tho lino of
the .Savannah, Florida & Western Rail
way to examine all persons coming from
infected places and to soo that they are
in no way capable of endangering tho
public health.
A cyclone, near Marshall, Mo.,destroy-
cd much property.
Tho workmen on tho Lookout Moun
tain railroad, near Chattanooga, Tenu.,
have struck for moro pay.
M. E. Farley, manager of tho City
HAND IN HAND.
Conn-rioi-nlc nnd Feitrral (tenoral* Unite In
u Uonfialoratd Memorial Celebration.
Tho largest crowd uver seen in Staun-
on, Vie, numbering over 10,000 people,
assembled to attend the celebration of the
Confederate Memorial Association. The
hief attraction was tlio presenco of Geii.
W, W. Avi-rill, orator of the occasion,
nml n well-known cavnlry leader in tho
Federal army during the War. The col
umn was a mile long, consisting of mili
tary nml civil organizations, etc. In an
elegant carriage, drawn by four black
horses, rode Gov. Loo and Qen. Avorill,
and as they passed they were frequently
cheered. ‘ After the parade, speaking
took place in tho opera house, which was
crowded to suffocation. In introducing
Gen. Averlll, Gov. Leo referred to their
long acquaintance, beginning when both
were boys at West Point, and to tlieir
subsequent association in tho old army.
Their commands had met face to face in
battle during tho war that followed, nnd
ho was prepared .to testify that no braver
man contended on cither side than tho
troops commanded by that gallant officer.
Inclosing, tho governor referred to the
obliteration of sectional lines and the re
union of the people, as shown by tho
presence of a Federal general joining
with the Southern veterans in honoring
the dead. Qen. Avorill was greeted with
ringing chcors ns ho stopped forward,
anil from time to time during his speech
he was enthusiastically cheered. Brief
addresses were made by Gen. J. D. Iin-
boden, lion. A. J. McCall,of New "York,
and Carlton McCarthy, of Richmond.
A PROMINENT MAN DEAD.
Hon. nonry Buist, one of the most
prominent lawyers and citizens of South
Carolina, died at Charleston. He was
born in Charleston in 1829; was gradu
ated from South Carolina college m 1847,
and was admitted to the Bar in 1851. Ho
entered tlio Confederate service at tho
beginning of the war os a captain in the
27th South Carolina regiment llaguod s
brigade. Ho was captured while charg
ing the breustworks nt Petersburg in 1804
and held as hostage, on Morris island
under the fire of Confederate guns. After
tbo War he tesumed the practice of law
anil achioved large success, lie was elec
ted State Senator from Charleston county
in 1805, and was a prominent Masoi,
having attained the highest degree. He
was Grand Chancellor of the Supreme
Council, Scottish rite,
and inspector general of that order lor
South Carolina.
Eloctrio Light Works, ut Dnuviile, Vn.,
Ik:" ' ~ — -
shot and killed Gcorgo W. Garner, a
young man of 18, who had been charged
with misconduct with Farley’s wife.
“Clicrokco Sam” a saved Indian is tho
latest enrd of tho Atlanta, On., Salvation
Army.
Moses Polito, a Charleston, 8. O., no-
gro, had his nose smashed in a base-ball
game and nearly bled to doath.
Governor Gordon, of Georgia, hon
ored tho requisition . of Governor
Richardson, of South Carolina, asking for
tho' extradition of John H. King, tbo
uogro school tenchcr and preachor, clinrg
ed with forgery in Oconco county in thut
state.
Reports from many parts of Georgia
contain tho information that tho ox-cycd
daisy is causing u lot of troublo to farmer*,
i ot
It is said to be moro troublesome than
nut grass or Bermuda. In tho neighbor
hood of Atlanta the ox-eyed daisy is very
common.
Tko Salvation Army hnvo moved on
Opelika, Ala. Jerry McCurdy, who re
cently struck his mothor in tho mouth
with a rock and was given ten days with
tho work gang, has been an attendant at
.their meetings, and signalized his advent
as a “recruit” by throwing down a small
boy and biting off his under lip nnd
otherwise demolished his countenance.
WILLIAM A. WHEELER,
B. H. Phelan, a dealer in cotton fu
tures and head of the Atlanta, Ga., Pro
duce and Cotton Exchange, has failed
for $300,000, and with scarcely any as
sets.
Borne negro children woro playing with
a shotgun at Dawson, Ga. Lowgono
Williams, a girl about fourteen years of
ago, grabbed tho gun, pointed it at Sol
Wes on, a boy eleven years old, nnd
fired. The boy fell doad, with a load of
buckshot in his broast.
Four little negroes, who havo been liv
ing on Mr.Wm. Harrell's place, at Tliom-
asville, Ga., eat somo of tho wild jessa
mine vino and chewed somo of tbo stalk,
and wero poisoned. Two of them have
died and another expected to die. There
is n ohanco for the recovery of the fourth
one.
At Union Springs, Ala., old Adam
Owens, a negro, aged 80 years, hud a
young and handsome quadroon girl for a
wifo, Ho was recently found murdered,
nnd his wifo and Henry Roberts ure sus
pected. Henry confesses to having quar
relled with the old man, which resulted
in his pushing Adam into a burning
brush heap.
T. 0. Cragin died of yellow fever at
Key West, Fla. The board of health has
declared the fever epidemic, nnd will no
longer insist on removing patients to the
hospital. This action will probably be
very beneficial, ns many cases occur in
privato houses where patients enn have
comforts and nursing not to bo found in
tho hospital.
One of tho most enterprising officials
in tho South is Chief Joyner, of tlio At
lanta, Ga., firo department, and tho en
ergetic way he puts out for n fire kindles
tho enthusiasm of all wjio behold him.
IIo had a chemical engine come for his
department the other day, and within
one-half a day after its receipt, tho ap
paratus was ready for duty.
Engine No. 60 ran into engine 58 on
tho Western & Atlantic railroad nt Mc
Daniel Station, Ga.. both engines were
badly demolished. The engineers and
firemen on both engines escaped with
hardly a scratch. Engine No. 50 was
the bend section on that schedule going
North, and was followed by three other
trains. These were stopped nimost by a
miracle before they ran into tho head
(action.
A NEW TYPE MEASURE.
SOUTH CAROLINA PROHIBITIONISTS.
The executive committee of the Prohi
bitionists oi South Carolina, met at An
derson. Tho object of tho meeting^ was
to ascertain what progresses been made
by those persons who were appo nted to
circulate petitions for the signatures of
landowners desiring an eflection to be
hold in August in_ accordance ^withjhe
thii-’i H 101S0 > camel, harness, and two-
Im,' S °l the necessary provisions. The
and °*r r * ur "i 8 hes the remaining third,
in tu 0 resn lt of tlio chase is divided
"6 same proportion.
revisions of tkp.-Murray prohibition biff.
something serious.
At the session of the International
Typographical Union at Buffalo, N. Y,
Mr. McKellar, typo founder of Philadel
phia, presented a now systom of measur
ing type. It would abolish the em quad
measurement now universally in use and
substitute tho letter “m” and twenty-six
letters of tho alphabet must make fifteen
letter “ems.” Standard fonts would no
longer exist. Mr. McKellar received a
vote of thanks.
WHISKY DISTILLING STOPS.
HI* Dentil nt Malone, N. Y., After n
Lour Illness.
William A. Whooler died Saturday morn
ing nt liis homo in Malone, N. Y., after a
long Illness. His death was painless, and life
went ont so gradually and qulotly that It was
hard to mark tho exact moment of its flight.
Mr. Wheeler lmd no near relative in the
world to minister to him during his illness or
to watch by his sido at death, Dut the rola-
YELLOW FEVER.
ENERGETIC ACTION OF THB UNITED
STATES GOVERNMENT.
A Key Weal Pkyalclan Denle* that the Di
sease Is Yellow Fever—Kl*ld Quaran
tine Iteaniatlnn* Unforced.
Acting Surgeon-General Stoner, of the
Marino Hospital service, telegraphed tho
president of tho board of health at Tnm-
p«, :Fla., for information ns to what
measures lmvo been adopted at that city
to prevent the spread of yellow fever. A
reply was received, saying passengers
from the infected districts were detained
in quarantine fifteen days ami their ling-
gage. disinfected. Tho const Counties
south of Tampa havo also established a
quarantine against Key West. In order
to insure a thorough fumigation of the
tires of his deceased wifo and friends, who
have been bound to him from boyhood by
tlio closest tii<s of affection, wero grouped
With liis pastor and physician about him
when tho iliinl summons came.
Tho following tologram from Tremont,
Ohio, signed “K. B. llayos,” was received ai
Mr. Wheeler's homo a few Uou
hour* after hi*
death. “Mrs. Hnyes nml I have heard with
deepost sorrow of the death of our friend, Mr..
Wheoler. I will attend tho funeral with my
fon.”
William A. Whoolor, LL. D.. ex-Vio*-
President, was born Juno !I0, 1810, In Malone,
Franklin county, N. Y. He ontsrod tlio Uni
versity of Vermont and afterward com
menced the study of law with Colonel Asa
Hoscall. He was mado District-Attorney
for Franklin county, anil was its Super
intendent of Schools. In the years of 1850
and 1851 Mr. Wheoler reprosenti'd that county
In tho Now York House of Assembly, and
was a momlior of tho Sonato of Now York in
1858 anil 185(1, anil tho 1’rosidont pro tom of
that body. Ho was a member nnd tlio Presi
dent of tho Now York Constitutional Conven
tion in 1807 and 1808, ami was elected a Re
publican in Congress to tho Thirty--seventh,
Forty-llrst, Forty-socond, Forty-third,
Forty fourth Congresses. In the political
complications which arose in Louisinna dur
ing tho session of tho Forty-third Congress
Mr. Wheeler was conspicuous, lie having
boon Chairman of the Special Commit-
tho of the House of ltoprescntatlves
that visited Louisiana anil finally ad
mails nt Tampa, the employment of extra
‘sed.
BUSINESS PROSPERITY.
The South Reaping the Benefit of Largo
Capital to Develop Railways, Mills,
Foundries, Etc., Eto.
Brunswick, Ga.,
dock.
is to havo a dry
Tuscaloosa, Ala., is to havo an electric
light plant.
A grooved picket fence factory has
started at Macon, Ga.
A broom factory is tho latest manufac
turing concern started nt Maryville, Tonn.
Michigan capitalists havo purchased
84,000 acres of timber lands near Bron
son, Fin.
Parties from Paterson, N. J., aro look-
help lms been authorized
A Jacksonville paper says: “There is
no yellow fever in Florida,except at Ivey
West, which is on an isolated island,
nearly two hundred miles south of Tam
pa, nnd nearly ono hundred miles from
tho nearest point on the mainland which
borders the everglades. There lias been
no yellow fever at Tampa, or any other
place of the uiaiulnud. Tho health au
thorities aro vigilant in nearly every
county in the state. The genernl health
is excellent, nnd snnitnry conditions de
cidedly good. Tbo weathor is simply
delightful, the heat being tempered by
constant cool sea breezes. A rigid quar
antine is maintained against Key West
nnd Hnvann, and to mako assurance
doubly sure, certificates are required of
travelers to show that they nro not from
the infected localities. There is no dan
ger whatever in any ono coming to Flor
ida and going anywhere in the state, ex
cept to Key West.”
The secretary of tho treasury author
ized tho employment of six nurses to
attend tho sick in the barracks hospital
at-Key West, and four guards to protect
tbo property of persons removed to tho
hospitnl.
Dr. Moreno and other physioians of Key
tne pr
justed tho difficulties existing therejin the
basis
isis of what is known ns the “Wheeler
Compromise.” In June, 1870, Mr. Wheeler
was unanimously nominated for the Vice-
Presiilimcy of tlio United Htntes by the Re
publican National Convention at Cincinnati,
on tho ticket with llutborforil B. Hayes.,
After serving liis term of four years, Mr.
Wbeelor returned to Mulono, where, his health
having given way, lie lived quietly and in re
tirement until liis death. Hu was ono of the
organizers of tho Bank of Malone, anil held
tho imsition of cashier and chief managing
director. Ho was Trustee of the New York
Railway Company.
HBR0I0 FIREMEN.
Mat Peake end Henry Her, of the Chatta
nooga Fire Deportment Killed mt
Their Pont.
An explosion took place on the prem
ises of tho Standard Gas Machine and
Gnsolino Company in Chattanooga,Tenn.,
caused by a leak in a tank. Tho firo
coinmunicuted to tho Morgan Houso, ad
joining, and the inmates barely escaped
with tlieir lives. The fire department
worked heroically to stay tho devouring
flames and by direction of Chief White-
side, Mat Peake nnd Henry Her, two gal
lant members of Lookout Fire Company,
ascended to tho top of tho building and
were doing excellent service with a lino
of huso, when a rear wall fell in, burying
them beneath tlio debris. Iier was dead
when the rescuing party reached them,
nnd Peake’s injuries were so serious that
lie died a fow hours afterwards. James
Rcynoldsand W. D. Miller, of Washing
ton, D. \)., two white men, nnd Peter
Jones (colored), inmates of the hotel,
wero all badly burned. Tho hotel was
nearly destroyed.
West deny positively the prevalence of
yellow fover, and assert that tho disease
is merely an acclimating fever of a pecu
liarly fatal typo unless properly treated.
Secretary of thoTrcnsury Fairchild has
issued a circular in regurd to contngious
diseases, in which ho snys: “In order to
assist local authorities in tlio maintenance
of quarantine against the Introduction of
Infectious diseases, ns provided in suction
4,792, Revised Statute*, Act of April 20,
1878, and appropriation acts authorizing
the President to maintain a quarantine at
points of danger, tho President has de
termined to establish, by means of ves
sels of tho revonue service, a national
patrol of the coast of the United Slates,
ing up a sito in Now Orleans, La., for a
factory.
Capitalists have subscribed money for
a new cotton factory in Columbus, Ga.,
with 400 looms.
Tho sandstone quarries near Wadesboro,
N. O., wiU be developed with the aid of
a $50,000 plnnt.
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ents.
LATEST NEWS,
Cliivis & Kingsley, of Tullapoosa, Ga.,
a brick-yard and are pro-
bavo started
Jecting a furniture fuctory.
Tho capital stock of the Pawnoc Land
A Mineral Go. of Ashville, Ala., has been
increased from $200,000 to $1,000,000.
Thu Jacksonville, Tampa & Koy West
Railroad Co. will build a soven-milo rail
road from Lake Worth to Juniper, Fla.
Parties from Cincinnati. O., and James-
rm iiio i ruin Vyiuuiuuaui* u., uuuuuiuou*
town, N. Y., have started a rolling mill
at Birmingham, Ala., with a capital of
so far as it may be practicable under ox-
‘ ' d i * '
isting laws and consistent with the per
formance of other duties confined to that
service.’’
Ho has ordered tho revenue cutters to
commence an activo cruise upon their al
lotted stations, and to nid tho quarantine
authorities to the extent of their power.
Quarantine affairs will be recognized as
follows:
“Medical officers or acting assistant
surgeons of the marine hospitnl sorvico
in charge of the Gulf, Bouth Atlantic,
Cape Charles, or Delnwuro Crookwatcr
quarantine, or any officer ol said service
on duty at any port on interior rivers,
great lakes, or tho
AN ABSURD SCHEME.
Expedition Fillln* out nt Savannah, Ga.,
to IiivimIo the Republic of llomlurM.
Tho United States secretary of tho
treasury, Mr. Bayard, has sont official
notice to Gen. Gordon, governor of
Georgia, thnt an expedition is titling out
ut Savannah,with the intention of invad
ing tlie republic of Honduras, in Central
America. The latest advices from Sa
vannah state that the report seems to
have started from the Spanish consul.
The customs officials have received in
structions from the department mid place
no credence in the rumor. The Spanish
consul stated in his letter to the collector
of the port that information of the expe
dition came from Cuba.
TnE KNIGHTS OF LABOR.
The Kontucky distillers resolved to
stop making whisky until October 1,
1888. An officer of the association-stated
Unit tliero we're now in bond in Kentucky
80,000,000 gallons of whisky, of which
18 000,000 gallons were distilled in the
last year. There are 5,000,000 gallons in
foreign ports belonging to Eentuoky
men, and all this makes the supply great
enough to last three years.
Cardinal Gibbons, of Baltimore, Md.,
it is said, will soon issue n letter to Cath
olic Knights of Labor stating, that the
right of laboring men to combine for the
common benefit will bo conceded, and all
such lawful combinations will receive the
blessings of the church. But Catholics
will bo forbidden to take part in boycotts
or infringements of the rights of citizens,
and they will be forbidden to join any
organization which practices intimida
tion, whether of a violent or other char
acter.
Pacific coast, and all
quarantine officers acting under proper
state or local authority. Special regula
tions to aid bad quarantine authorities
will be promulgated hereafter should oc
casion require.”
Tho mnrino hospital bureau is in re
ceipt of numerous applications from tho
lower counties of Florida for govern
mental aid to prevent tho spread of ycl
low fever and for the stationing of phy
sicians connected with tho service ut
points whoro tlio fover is likely to break
out. Theso applications arc evidently
based on tho idea that the government
may be called upon to act at ar.y time;
whereas, according to the terms of ap
propriations for tho prevention of the
spread of yellow fever, the marine hos
pital servico cun only act in connection
with and in nid of local authorities, in
case of necessity. No such necessity is
deemed to exist at present in Florida ex
cept Koy West and Tampa. Tho bureau
has no information of the existence of an
epidemic at any point except Key W est.
$200,090.
Tlio Moinphis & Little Rock Ark.,
Railroad has been sold to parties who will,
it is said, extond it to Hot Springs, ana
thoncc to somo point in Texas.
The llopo Manufacturing Co. of Fay-
ettovillc, N, O., aro adding to their cot
ton factory a weaver room, 100x150 foot.
Fifty additional looms will bo put in.
A Philadelphia, Pa., company have
leased maugaiieso lands in Smyth oounty,
Virginia, and propose to build a railroad
from tlio Norfolk & Western Railroad to
their ere bunks.
Tlio largo mill in Dodge county, Ga.,
48 miles south of Macon, ou tho East
Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia Railroad,
at Empire, Ga., valued at $80,000, is
nearly completed.
Messrs. Wiley. Davis & Hoad have
sold their mineral lands in Ringgold, Ga,,
to a Pennsylvania syndicate, who con
template building ono or moro furnaces
lit or near Tunnel Hill.
L. A Dunham, E. Orinsby and Ruth
B. Fay lmvo incorporated tho Tempest
Mining & Milling Co. at Louisville, Ky.
to buy and sell and develop all kinds of
mines. The authorized capital stock is
$2,500,000.
A oontraot has been given to build tho
street railroad for tho Union Passenger
Railway Go., Richmond, Virginia, nnd
havo commenced work. Thu cars will bo
run by electricity if permit enn be securod,
A oompany has been organized t3 build
a bridgo across tho Ohio river nt Paducah,
Fy., with B. K. Bullock, of New York, ns
S resident; G. C. Thompson, vice-prcsi-
ont; II. 8. Houston, secretary, and E.
Waltmnn, treasurer.
Tho Georgia Bleachory Co. of Augusta,
has been organized with Charles Estos ns
president, nnd James V. Vordery, secre
tary. A committee has been appointed
to select a sito for tlieir plant, which is
to lmvo a daily capacity of from 50,000 to
75,0 )0 yards of cloth.
CONFEDERATE MEMORIALS.
A SIGNIFICANT WARNING.
\ JUDGE’S CRIME.
Tliomas Lamb, county judge of Mnv-
' .Illi '
Tlio Autliorltle* Gottln* Ready for an Up-
rlolii* of Anarchist* and Socialist*.
From mnny points in the United Statos,
notably from tho West, comes intelli
gence that tho anarchist leaders mean
whut they say, that some stirring scenes
will by enacted all over tlio United States
within tlio next fow weeks. A general
uprising has been planned with a view
to revolutionizing tho present state of
society, and burying in one common ruin
all existing institutions. This tremen
dous undertaking is to bo accomplished
by a sudden revolt. The torch is to be
applied in a hundred cities, and tho cap
italists oi tho country, their wives and
children are to be murdered—sacrificed,
ns tho anarchists say— in tho cause of
liberty. The terrible scenes of the
French Revolution, when “the streets of
Paris were re I with blood;” the massacre
attending the uprising against the Carl-
i-ts of E .gland in 1830. and tho riots in
tlio streets of Paris ill 1848; the uprising
in Europe in 1871; the rioting nnd burn
ing of property in the United States dur
ing the great railroad strike of ’77, und,
later still, tlio Haymarkot riot in ’88,
were all uprisings of the anarchists, and
unsuccessful attempts to achieve their
aims.
Confederate Memorial Day was colo
brated at Winchester, Va.. with much
spirit, though rain fell nearly all day. A
large crowd from tlio surrounding coun
ties came to tho city, und the decoration
of graves and shafts in the State lots in
Stonewall Cemetery were profuse nnd
handsome. Confederate Memorial sorv
ices, the decoration of graves and the un
veiling of the Col. Harry Gilinor Monu
ment at Baltimore, Md., were very inter
esting. A lecturo was delivered at Ford’s
Opera Houso by Lieut. Gen. O. L. D.
Hill, of Georgia, on tho “Old South.”
Emperor William, of Germany, is down
with neuralgia.
Tho Apachcn of Arizona are again on
(the warpath, and killed Michael Grace at
Tompova Guloh. Boveral troops of car-
iulry are scouting tho country in pursuit
f the savages.
The Grant Momorial Association
avo invited artists to submit designs
for a monument or memorial building to
bo erected over the general’s remains at
Riverside Park, New York.
Tho leading rubber manufacturers of
tho country halve for several weeks been
agitating tho question of forming a com
bination or rubber trust, modelled some
what after tho well-known monopoly, tho
Standard Oil Trust,
The Masonio fraternity of Missouri is
greatly agitated by a decree promulgated
by tho Grand Master, setting forth that
at tlio meeting of tho Grand Lodgo in
1882, it was decided that the business of
selling -liquor is unmasonio and »hould
not be tolerated. Several Master Mason*
havo boon suspended on account of it.
Two judges at Oamdon, N. J., had a
quarrel whilo sitting at a trial, because a
liquor licenso had been granted to a wo
man who keeps a saloon.
Archbishop Walsh, of Dublin, Ireland,
has transmitted to tho Irish National
Loaguo, $200, which had boon forward
ed to him by tho Irish residents of Kim
berley, Africa.
M. Saburoff and M. Tatiscliicfl, for
merly Russian ambassadors at Ilorlin,
have been disimiuod from the diplotualio
service of Russia, for publishing secrot
official documents.
The municipal authorities of Paris,
Franco, adopted a resolution, granting
theatres, cafes and concort balls throo
months within which to substitute elec
tric lights for gas.
A waterspout, ncar'lloovorsvilto, Pa.,
caused great destruction of property, and
900 people Wero temporarily rendered
homeless and dependent for shelter ou
the charity of their moro fortunate neigh
bors. Mrs. D. Z. Murrell died from
heart disoaso, produced, it is supposed,
by excitement,caused by water surround
ing her house. Ool. James M. Cooper, a
waalthy and influential citizen of Coop-
ersdale, also dropped dead from over ex
citement.
Now York lliotol keepers recontly hold
a meeting to devise some mothod of es
caping from tho Sunday liquor-soiling
law. Committees were appointed and
moaBurcs taken to raise funds for tlio
further agitation of the matter.
Sentence of death waa imposed on
Mrs. Clara Oignaralc, in New York city,
convicted of murder in the first dogreo
for shooting her husband. Sho was
condemned to be hanged in tho Tombs
orison yard, Friday, July 22d.
Tho National Convention of colored
men culled to< meet in Indianapolis, Iud.,
for tlio purpose “of considering tho poli
tical bondage in which the race has been
hold since tho War,” was but slirnly at
tended, and adjourned without transact
ing any busiticss of importance.
An earthquake swept over tho greater
portion of Nortliorn California and
Western Nevada. At Sacramento it
shook houses, making them rumble as if
windows were being slammed by gusts of
wind. At Carson City, Nevada, pictures
and plastering foil from walls, and a large
amount of plastering fell from tlio‘Su
premo Court iroom in tho capitol building.
THE BELL PUNCHER’S GAME.
The Kansas City, Mo., Cable Railroad
company found a conspiracy among con
ductors to knock down fares. H. C.
Jills n, a discharged gripman, discovered
the combination of the bell punchers, and
rented a room near tlio lino of the road
where the conductors took their meals.
They would punch slips until perhaps ono
hundred were registered, after which they
would simply ring tho bell. They would
then take tho punchers to Jillison, who
would Open them uml make them corres
pond with the slip.
WOULD TAKE IT.
erick county, Texas, killed his brother,
Joseph Lamb, a wealthy ranchman, ou
Mexican soil. Thomas Lamb drove iuto
Piedrus Negras, intending to cross to
Texas, but he was arrested. Tho broth
ers had quarreled over a division of their
property. Troops had to bo called out
to keep tho Mexicans from lynching tne
criminal.
A LOCOMOTIVE EXPLODES.
SHOOTING A SHERIFF*
The boiler of one of tho Baltimore &
Ohio railroad engines exploded at dies-
ter, Pa., killing two men, and wreck/# | i , ; /''' ut rn
the railroad station. 4, °” 1
Capt. John Mannin was directed, to
serve a warrant on John and William
Logan, well-known as desperate charac
ters in Morehead'Oounty, Ky. They are
the sons of Dr. Ilcnry D. Logan, who is
now in Lexington jail for murder. When
tho sheriff was told the brothers wero not
in, he attempted to search the house,
when the two boys came out of their hiding
place and shot Capt. Mannin. The sheriff’s
■lisso returned the fire and killed the
A French socialist namod Victor
Delnhoye, during an address at Chicago,
111., said that the workingmen oi
France were asking the government for a
loan of six million francs with which to
pay tlio money back in sixty years. He
naively added, that if the government did
nut enable them to get the machinery
they would have to take it unyway, and
a vote of thunks rewarded the speaker.
wil.r.
NOT YIELD.
Five boys were drowned atMaquoketa,
Iowa, by going beyond their depth in
tho Maquoketa river.
Highwaymen boarded a Texas &
Pacific railroad train near Fort Worth,
Texas, and robbed the express car.
Beventy-Miren South Carolina newspa
per men, members of the press association
of that state, are on a visit to New York
city.
The contractors of St. Paul, Minn.,
will not accede to tho demands of the
1,200 carpenters who struck for nine
hours.
PANIC STRICKEN.
During services in the cathedral nt
Chihuahua, Mexico, a caudle fell on tho
altar ornaments, setting the place on fire.
Many people wore kilted—mostly child
ren.
A neqbo cook at tlio Los Angeles,
Cal., jail kept eighty-live prisoners at
bay the other day and prevented their
esoapo. Fifteen desperate characters
overpowered the jailer and got away 'bo-
fore the cook heard the disturbance. Ho
faced the remainder with a carving
knife, which he threatened to use with
all his skiff on tho first convict that
oaxno within his reach.
Hundreds of people were killed and
injured at Neschen, in Germany, by tho
blowing down of a circus tent, which
was set on flire by petroleum lamps.
Six years ago, masked burglars tortured
the family of' Allen Fairbanks of Wheaton,
111., into telling whero $10,000 in bonds
were concealed. William Murray, a Chi
cago, HI., saloon keeper, offered one of
the bonds for sale recently and was ar
rested.
Farmer Thomas McKee, of Wilkins,
Pa., has a first-class sensation on his
premises in the shape oi “a something”
thnt sets clothing on fire, empties cream
jugs, moves heavy goods at night into
the garden, and makes bis dwelling a
pandemonium.
Before leaving for Ireland, Editor O’
Brien was bsnquetted at a hotel in Now
York. Many distinguished priests and
laymen attended, and letters of regret
were received from distinguished men,
among them Governor Hill, Mayo; Hew
itt, Gen. Sherman, Roscoe Conkling,
Gov. Lounsberry, of Connecticut, Judge
Noah Davis, ex-Gov. Hoadley, and Pres
ident Fitzgerald, of the Land Leugue of
America. O’Brien bears to Ireland a
ietter from Eugene Kelly, president of
tho Parliamentary Fund association to
Mr. Parnell,, inclosing $95,000,
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