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1880.
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VOLUME VIII.. SANDERSVILLE, GA.. TUESDAY. JULY 5. 1887. NUMBER 10.
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Oflleo next iloor to Mm, liavini’s Millinory
j|..r ■, "ii H.irrl-. *tru*l.
r * tbbbi.1i Pallilml and lllnaraphlcnl Note*,
NumnarUcd In n Few Word*, of
ShB Wtak’a Lvanta.
A body of police was nttackud tiy a
mob on St. Stephen’s jrreon, Dublin, Ire
land, Stones and other missiles wero
thrown at the ofllcors, who, however,
soon dispersed their assailants.
Mrs. Langtry, the actress, renounced
her allegiance, at Sail Francisco, Cal.,
to Great Britlan, and took out her first
papers declaring her intention to bcootno
n citizen of tho United States.
Four
HUY YOUIi
from
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( None genuine williont our trade mark.)
O.V HAND AND FOll SALE
SPECTACLES, NOSE GLASSES, Etc., Etc.
Watches, Clocks
AND —
JEWELRY
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TE3 H/lsTIG AN.
am Jones Answers Questions.
A gi'!itlemiin wlto recently mot Sara
Jon on a railway train repeats part of
thee eiversatiou as follows:—•
Said I-—“Adam and Evo wore tho
first two people on earth. According to
the lHblt they lmd two sons—Cain and
Abel. Cain slew Abel and then fled in
to the laud of Nod and took unto himself
n wife. Adam and Eve, tho first Cain
and Able, next Cain lied. Wo under
stand from ‘(led 1 that ho ran and got
away from his awful crime ns quickly ns
lii.s legs would carry him. Tlion," I con
tinued, excitedly, “right in the snme
■ eiiteneo the Bible suys ho took unto
himself a wife. Wlloro did she oomo
from?” I sank back thinking I had giv
en him a poser.
liis eyes twinkled, his lips parted in a
siuilo,
‘‘An’ navy ono of thorn preaohers could
toll you'" he asked.
"No, sir, not olio."
“Well," ho continued, “that’s funny,
fer that’s a mighty easy question.” Ho
Mailed again and said:—“Why Cain got
his wife from his father-in-law."
1 w as done up.
‘‘Where is lu ll that you preachers talk
so much about,I asked.
" I dunno," bo said. “I don’t want to
know. I aint beadin’that way. I’m go
ing to lot thorn fullers as are goin’ thur
And out."
“What’s your idea of backsliders!”
“Well,” ho said, “tliar was a man
walkin’ along a country lanoiu Arkansas
unco with a pitchfork on liis shoulder,
and a very vicious dog jumped ovor the
Teuco and miulo at him. Ho jabbed the
piehfork through tho dog and impaled it
to tho earth, Tho dog’s owner came
nnimin out:—‘Wlmt d’ye mean, sir,’ lie
shouted, ‘by stiekin’ yo’ pitelifawk
through my (log?’ ‘Ho was goin’ to bito
me,’ siii- 1 tho other, ‘Why didn’ you
hit him with the other cud then?’ ‘Why
didn't lio coino at me with the other
end?' was tho answer.”
After I had cousod laughing tho Rov.
Mr. Jones said:
. ‘‘Just liko tlio dog, baokslidors are go
ut’ wrong end to, and consequently got
into troublo."—Kansas City Times.
Englishman, named William
ICullow,William Pingilly, Jamos V.mdor-
slyua and Paul Hustings, wore instantly
lulled in tho Vulcan initio nt Norway,
Mich. They wore coming out of the
mine in u cage. Some men above allowed
Iho tram-car to get uwny, and it went
thundering dowu the shaft and fdruck
i he cage.
h'lflin & Hand’s powder mill utWayno,
N. .1,, exploded, instantly killing Charles
1 ier, aged 45, ntid John Cures. August
Knruuso, married about nine months ago,
w as near the mill mid lias not been seen
sinco. He is undoubtedly killed. James
If. Garner, foreman, was struck on tlio
hnid with a missile, but will recover.
Several men wore slightly injured.
Sigs. llneeolli and Iloughi, ex-ministers
f public instruction, will present in
ii the Chamber of Deputies, at
Homo, Italy, a bill providing for the
preservation of ancient Homan remains
hi the vicinity of the Forum, tho Buths
f Cirncalln and the Via Appa by mentis
f an urchnhdogieul promenade inclosing
hem. The estimated cost oT tlio work
i $8,000,000.
The Archbishop of Cologne, Germany,
has excommunicated Huron Soleninchcr
for challenging Baron Sckorlemer to light
>cntly VI««1 f tlm Itilifibltnntfi of a M'tutrrii
Town I>!a«!n lloitit'lori* l»y Fire*.
There is a lamentable state of iitTnirs
in the town of Marshfield, Wis. A tire
started in the main portion of the town,
and us there was a high wind, the flames
were carried with remarkable rapidity,
seeming almost to leap from house to
house. Twelve boilings were blown up
with dynamite in the vnin cilort to cheek
the flames. So rapid was the spread of
the tire that little could bo saved.
Frantic men and wo i.cn used vehicles of
every description to save goods w hen the
lire reached the residenre part of the
town. The loss w ill exceed $1,000,000,
mill the total insurance will reach $300,-
000. The burned district embraces eight
blocks, hounded as follows: A street on
the north, Fourth street on the south.
Maple street on the eas', and Chestnut
strict on the west. I'pluun Manufac
turing Company lost their saw mill,
Itimle r yard, lion mill, elevator, 15,000
bushel i of grain, 1,000 barrels of flour,
planing mill and furniture factory.
Their loss is $350,000. Sanger, Rock
well & Co., of Milwaukee, tire heavy
losers, having an entire season’s cut of
line lumber. There lire not enough roots
left standing to shelter the homeless, and
the people camped in the fields and
woods. Over half the people of the
town were rendered homeless.
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WASHINGTON NOTES.
HONEY INVESTED
aossirr gleanings about our
N l TIONAL OPEIG1ALS,
Rcmclhlas Aknnt tka FraalSent’a Move-
aicnla—Kssnrta tke llamrliiii uts,
I.WI sf As»nlat«#a»e, Ktc., K«c.
John M. Barclay, alias Bartlett, who
traveled through tho country mounted
mule, getting spurious money
imaged into good coin, was sentenced
rs’ ii
4 LUNATIC'S WORE.
a duel.
Queen Victorin, in conimcinmoration
of her Jubilee, gave gold medals to her
royal visitors, and silver medals to their
attendants.
In a 50-mile race between tho Thistle
and Itex, from Rothesay, Scotland, tlio
former won by 12 minutes. She is the
lavorite in Great Britain.
The Russian Nihilists have discovered
nn ingenious method of distributing pam
phlets, by introducing them into cigar
ette boxes, which are sold throughout
the country.
It is announced that Ovid’a tomb lias
been discovered. The location is ut
Anadolkioi, near Kustendnmi, in Greece.
The stone miuking tho tomb represents
Ovid’s arrival at the Island of Tami,when
lie was banished thither by Augustus, A.
D. 8.
The North Atlantic squadron, com
manded by Admiral Luce, und consisting
of the flagship Richmond and tlio cor
vettes Ussipeo, Galena and Ynntic, ar
rived at Newport, R. 1. The Ossipee
sails direct foi the Canadian fishing
banks, and tho Galena, Richmond and
V,mtie will continue their eastern sum
mer cruises, so as to be ill supporting
distance from her.
RIOTOUS WORKINGMEN.
A Slrtke Oronr* In llocliosler, N. Y.-Tlio
Fallen HLoot Several For so iis.
A Fourth of July Remand.
The masons, helpers and laborers em
ployed on tlio sowers ami street im
provements in Rochester, N. A., struck
for $1.75 per day, of nine hours’ work.
The strike was ordered by the local as
sembly. In two or three instances, non
union men employed by tho contractors
on the street works were driven away by
the strikers. The union men comprise
less than one-third of the total number
of laborers. At a sewer on Goodman
street the strikers tried to stop an cti
gincer, when a cloud of steam was
thrown on them from tlio pipe of a
hoisting engine, and after a sharp light
they were driven off. At another point
a mob of over two hundred strikers as
sembled, and began to intimidate the
men at work there. Tho mob began
stoning the police officers ^ho, finding
their clubs useless, opened lire with thur
revolvers, finally clearing the street-. 1 m
fight lasted only ten minutes, but, dur
ing that time, Policemen Moran, Burns
aud Farmer, wero severely injured by
ttones. Three of tho strikers were badly
clubbed and wero arrested. Several men
were shot by the officers, but were car
ried homo by their friends.
lie Uses To A Field And Kills A Man
At Work.
Ncrlah P., son of Job Lewis, living
near Franklin, Ky., a young man, 80
years of age, lins shown signs of derange
ment for the past four years, though not
thought to be dangerous. Recently, ho
mounted his horse and armed with two
Navy pistols, rode into town, rema ning
only a short whiles. Ho started in tho
direction of William Roach’s farm, nnd
on reaching his field, in which his two
sons were resting under tlio shade of a
straw stack, lie slipped up from behind
and fired, shooting John Roach, a young
man about twenty years of ago, in tho
back. He jumped and ran a distance of
about one hundred and thirty yards, nnd
fell dead. Lewis continued to fire on
tlio fleeting brother, one ball passing
through his clothing. Tlio sheriff was
at onco notified, amt with a squad of
men, hastened to tho scene. In the
meantime, Lewis had repaired to tho
home of liis father, saying lie would not
surrender, and when tho sheriff’s posse
arrived, he opened tire upon them, which
they returned. They were held at bay
some hours before they heard n pistol
shot in tho house, followed by groans us
coming from a dying man. They entered
and found him lying on tho floor shot
through the right side, from which he
died.
to four years 1 imprisonment by Judgo
Speer, nt Macon, Ga.
Tho ono hundred nnd eleventh anni
versary of Fort Moultrie was generally
celebrated in Charleston, 8. O. The
military organizations of tho city turned
out, public offices were closed, and flags
were everywhere displayed.
C. R. Carter, Tom M. Killon and
three other prisoners killed tim deputy
sheriff and escaped from the jail nt Mt.
Vernon, Mo., and a reward of $400 has
been offered for Carter’s arrest. Ho whs
convicted of murder in tlio first dogroo
and sentenced to bo hanged at Mt. Vernon
in a few days.
In a collision between trains at Bar-
nu ksville, W. Va., on tlie Baltimore <Sr
Ohio Railroad, Engineer Jennings was
killed.
August- Beriiung, of Louisville, Ky.,
only nun tied live months, killed liis wife
in a III ol jealousy and then suicided.
J. \Y. Erwin, ono of the editors of (lie
Atlanta, Ga., Evening Journal, lias been
appointed a U. S. post-office inspector.
Macon, Gn., has started a new crusade
against- liquor drinking, in the shape of
an anti-treating society. Tlio society has
n printed pledgo card.
Judgo Duffy, at Baltimore, Md., sen
tenced Charles L. Owens, Isaiah Wuters,
John Brandnn, John B. Banner and Win.
J. Byrne, judges nnd clerks of election,
to two years each in jail for election
frauds. James 11. Ilntnlin, judgo of elec
tion in the 18th ward, was sentenced to
two years in jail, and to pay a fine of
$1,000.
IN
LABOE AMOUNTS IN
SOU I'll Ell N STATES.
Rollrnnil*. Fnclorlei, ItnllliiK .11111*. Etc.,
Betas Ilnllt, Fureat* I.CTcllril nnd
Now Industrie* Fontorad.
THE CAPTURED FLAGS.
There lire upward of 1,000 flags in
wlmt is for tlio present tho flag-room os
tlio War Department, Of these nearly
000 nro “rebel flags,” so named in tlio
record book bearing tlio title, “Record of
Rebel flags captured by the Union troops
since April 10, 1801.” Over 200 are
Federal colors taken by Confederate
troops nnd found in Richmond after the
evuetnation of that city. The buhtnee
are also Federal colors, regimental flags
turned over to tlio War Department by
tlio vniious state organizations. Tho
real history of tlio Confederate flags
would bu more interesting than tlio few
lines each one gets in tlio record book.
Home of these nro made of women’s
dresses. Whore cashmere or other wool- !
material was used, as in sovernl, they j
have been eaten into slireds by moths. (
They wero, no doubt, worn out when
placed in the department 20 years ago,
but now they are literally in tatters.
Blues have faded into whito, nnd red in
to faint pink. Tlio stars have dropped
out, and when unfurled little hits fall to
the floor. The largest flag in the lot is
SONS OF AMERICA.
A COOL RECEPTION.
Smart Boy (whoso father is a printer)
—“Say, paw, if you want to make a lor-
tune, got up a boy’s calendar, with sev
enteen Fourth of Julys every yean And
tnake one this week while you’re* about
please.”—Chicago Herald.
Princes Albert Victor and George, sons
of .he Prince of Wales, proceeded from
I cmdon to Dublin, Ireland to attend the
iul.ilce exercises, but rcceivod rather a
reception. Tho corporate authori
ties of the city did not meet them, but a
ndlitary escort and a number of crown
officials and prominent people won- to
Kingstown to await their nriival. 8
oral steamers went down the buy to moot
nud escort t ho royal boat The princes
arrived ut Kingstown at the appointed
time and wore received with great cn-
The Marquis of Londonderry,
I’ntrlotlo Order Advocating “America for
Americana” and llononiicc* Agitator*.
The Patriotic Order of the Sons of
America held a national convention in
Chicago, 111. Tho most important act
of the convention was passed when the
platform and principles of tho order
were rend and adopted, ns follows: “I*or
the welfare, prosperity and liberty of all
American citizens and their descendants,
wc de-ire to protect our form of govern-
mont and to preserve it from tlio influ
ence and control of any foreign power.
By a discriminating sentiment of loyalty
and establishing a fraternal feoling among
all Americans, wo hope to inuke it im
possible for any one to livo under tho
protection of tho stars nnd stripes who
docs not honor find rovcrc them. AN **
me opposed to the occupancy of any part
of our country by foreign speculators o-
ndvonturers who do not wish to become
citizens, and wc believo that ail of tho
resources and privileges of the country
should bo reserved for the exclusive u«o
and lintivo born naturalized citizens. \Y o
arc in favor of crushing out Hint foreign
clement which conics here to advocate
communism and nihilism, aud which does
not identify itself with our country and
docs not respect our flag.”
IMPORTANT LAND DECISION.
In the United States Circuit Conrt at
Macon, Gu., in ttie case of J. K. O. Sher
wood against Rebecca Rountree, Judgo
Speer rendered a decision in lus charge
to tlio jury which is regarded by leading
members of the bar as one of the most
far-reaching nnd important in its conse
quences which 1ms been made in this cir
cuit for years. The pendency of an im
mense number of suits against lund own
ers in Georgia, in which the principle de
cided is applicable, gives it this import
ance.
The testimony in the enso was that the
agents of tlio money-lenders di ducted
twenty per ceut. by way of commissions,
and counsel in argument stated that iu
all the borrower had paid forty-three per
cent, interest. This, of course, under
the Georgia law, would be usurious, and
the usury would render void any deed or
mortgage made to secure such a debt,
provided that the true lender of tlio
money had notico of the usury, and tlio
court decided against tho mortgage com
pany of New York, who loaned the
money. The most widespread effect of
the decision will bo tliut such usury
would render void the deeds and mort
gages executed to these usurious loans.
the garrison ting of Fort Tyler, West
Point, recaptured by tlio 1st Wisconsin,
1 Indiana and 7th Kentucky regiments.
Tlio smallest is a tiny guidon taken from
the First Irish brigade, or (llltli Now
York in that brigade. No. 2110 is a
Union flag, “made by Mrs. Hetty Mc-
Ewon, floated from her house nt tho time
tho city of Nashville, Tenti., was in pos
session of the South, und found still
waving there when Gen. Buell’s army
took tlio city.” A’flag captured from
Gen. Longstrect's corps had these re
marks on paper pasted on the staff:
“Mr. Yankee, you will plcnse turn this
flag, staff and shoulder belt ovor to tho
0th Maine; was captured at St. Gilmore
on 20th October, 1804, by Third Forks
Regt. Vol.” (Signed) “Big Rebel.”
A LADY WON.
Antony those examined for pro
motion in tho quartermaster general’s
offico by tlio Civil Service board, was but
one lady-clerk, and she neither went in
to hysterics nor exhibited any excitement
whatever. She was cool anti placid, and
passed with higher percentages than most
of the men. Tho three gentlemen who
failed to piiBs the examination, fulled
upon tlio very matters that were of prac
tical, every-dny importance in the offices
in which they were serving.
DECLINE TO PAY TAXES.
United States Marshnl Grosa visited
Taylor county, Ky., to collect taxes for
tlie payment of county railroad bonds of
the Cumberland & Ohio Railroad, in ac
cordance with judgments issued by tlio
United States Circuit Court, lie re
ports the citizens of that county in vory
bad temper and determined not to pay
the taxes. The threat was made that the
mandate of thee, urt would tie executed
ut the loss of many lives. Tlio amount
of taxes involved is $18,000 ill this par
ticular case,though the total amount due
the bondholders from other counties
amounts to about $250,000. Thu road
was never built.
CONSOLIDATING TKKAHUHY DIVISIONS.
The vaeanoy in tho offico of Chief of
the Division of Mercantile Marino, Treas
ury Department, caused by tlio resigna
tion of Mr. Lyman, will not be filled, as
Secretary Fairchild tins decided to con
solidate that division with tho Division
of Captured and Abandoned Proporty,
and to retain David Okie, now chief of
the latter division, as chief of tho consol
idated divisions.
Rome, Ga., is to have a $200,000 cot
ton factory.
A $250,000 stock conipauy is being
formed at Crowley, La., to erect a rico I
mill.
Tho Henrietta Mills is tho name of n
new cotton mill corporation who nro
building nt Rutherforuton, N. 0.
The Southern Snap Co., lias been in
corporated nt Louisville, Ky., to mnnu
fncturo sonp. Tho authorized capital
stock is $50,000.
Damascus is the name of a new town
started in Virginia, 14 miles from Abing
don. Manufacturing enterprises will bo
inaugurated nt onco.
Durham, N.C., is booming with a now
factory, half a dozen storehouses, n
church and now court-house, nnd a new
fcninlo seminary is projected.
Pittman & Baker, of Thnmnsville,
Gn., have contracted to build bridges
and trestles and furnish cross-ties for the
Georgia Southern & Florida Railroad.
Tho Atlanta Brown Stono Co., nt
Wndosboro, N. C., has been reorganized
ns tlie Wadosboro Brown Stone Co. Tlio
capitul stock bus been increased to $250,-
000.
Sinco October, 1880, there hnvo been
40 business enterprises chartered in At
lanta, Ga., with n capital stock of $8,-
183,000, tlio limit of whose stock aggre
gates $21,465,000. These companies are
all in operation.
Moses Bros., of Montgomery, Ala.,
who purchased 158,000 acres of land nt
und near Cullman, to start towns and de
velop tlie lands, hnvo organized ns tlie
North Alabama Land & Immigration Co.
The capitnl stock is $2,500,000.
Fred Bnlcom, of Harrisburg, Pa., and
otliors interested in tlio Rod River Land
Company, will build a 5-ton ice fi^tory
nt Natchitoches, La. Mr. Unicom con
templates erecting factories ut other
points in the South,
A construction nnd improvement com
pany has been organized nt Biistol,
Tonn., to build furnaces, manufacture
lumbor, quarry marble, etc. The capi
tal stock is $4,000,000. F. W. Iluldo-
koper, of Washington, D. C., is presi
dent, and John II. Inman, of New York,
vico president. The company own about
1,200 acres of lnnd nt or near Bristol,
bosido coni niul iron lands.
The Mobile & Dauphin Island Railroad
Harbor Co., Ala., hnvo commenced
work on their railroad, which will bo 85
miles long. Tlio Neil McDonald Now
York Railroad Supply Co. hnvo tho con
tract to build tho railroad, nnd tho Phco-
nix Bridge Co. of Plimuixville, Pa., tlio
contrnct to build tlio bridges. Lnrgo
cotton warehouses, docks, and a cottou
compress will bo built nt Dauphin Island.
Tho King can drink tho best of win#,
So can I;
And has enough whorl L® would dins,
So havo I;
And cannot order rain nor shlno,
Nor can 1.
Then whoro's the difference-—lot mo see-*
Bowixt my lord tho kiiiR and mot
Do tnisty friends surround Ids thron
Night nnd day?
Or mako his interest thotr ownt
No, not they.
And that's one difference which I so.
Betwixt my lord the king and mo.
Do knaves around lfio lie and wait
To deceive,
Or fawn wild flatter wlion they hate,
Aiul would griovel
Or cruel pomps oppress my state
By my leave!
No, Heaven be thanked I and here you soo
Moro differences ’twixt tho king aud me.
He has Ills fools, with jests and quips,
When lio’d play,
He has his armies and his ships—
Great are they.
But not a child to kiss liis lips—
Wett-a-day
And that’s a difference sad to soot
Betwixt my lord tlio king and mo.
I wear a cap and he tho crown—
What of that!
I sloop on straw and ho on down—
What of that?
And he'» tho king and I’m the clown—
What of that!
Happy I and wretched ho.
Perhaps the king would chango with me.
—Charles Maclcay.
PITH AND POINT.
RIOT IN LOUISIANA.
In Arresting n Negro, Hover* I Ofllcer* are
Killed anil Wounded.
the Irish viceroy, met them, and the town
commissioners of Kingston, presented
them with an address. The princes then
proceeded to Dublin, and upon their ar-
' they were presented with an ad-
A riot occurred at Oak Ridge, La., in
which one white man and six negroes
were killed, and several white men wore
dangerously injured. It appears a negro
man assaulted a white woman, and when
tlie deputies were taking him to Hie cal
aboose, they were fired on by Jerry Bald
win, colored, his two sons, and three
other negroes, wounding Deputies Baker
nnd Gardner, They then dispersed, and
later rendezvoused nt a negro cabin two
miles from town. On looming their
whereabouts tho officers went to arrest
them. On approaching the cabin they
were fired upou, and ono of their num
ber, G. W. Higginbotham, was instantly
killed, and Constables John Conger,
Gardner and Coker dangerously wound
ed. During tlie melco which followed,
Jerry Baldwin and ono of liis sons, and
.four other.negroes, were killed.
liOILEit EXPLOSION.
A terrible boiler explosion occurred on
tho farm of Andrew Hudson, near Har
mony Grove, Ga. J. A. Sugar’s engine
aud separator wore at Mr. Hudson’s
threshing bin wheat, and G. B.
Whitehead was in charge of both when
the boiler exploded. The force of the
escaping steam blew tlio engine sixty-five
yards in tho air. It was blowu over tlio
separator and ono comer of a stable.
Whitehead was killed instantly, and four
others were seriously injured by the ex
plosion.
POSTAL REVENUES.
A statement prepared at the Post-Office
Department shows that during the month
of May last, tho salo of postage stamps,
stamped envelopes and postal cards ut the
70 first-class post-offices, aggregates $1,-
783,080, which is an inerenso ovor the
same month last year of $155,583, or 0.80
per cent. Fifteen offices, including
Washington, D. C., show a decrease.
SPECK OF-WAR.
Franco Bond* A TUrciitcnlnu Nolo To Tjir-
Uov— Unulitn Troop* Moving.
Tlio French government lias sent a
lioto to tho Sultan of Turkey in which it
distinctly refuses to accept tho situation
which will result from the signing of (lie
Egyptian convention with England, nnd
says that if tho convention bo ratified,
Franco will take measures necessary to
protect her interests, which will be en
dangered by tlie disturbance of tlio equil
ibrium of the Mediterranean, On the
other hand, Franco offers formal assur
ance that she will protect and guarantee
tlie sultan against whatever consequences
may result, if lie will refuse to ratify the
convention. By so doing, tlie note says,
the sultan will strengthen tho ties of
friendship between Franco and Turkey
and protect liis couniry from the en
croachments and ambition of England
Russian troops are advancing from Kars
as a menace to Turkey.
WHIPPED TI1U MAGISTRATES.
RETURNING A FAVOR.
TERRIBLE STORM.
rival
dress of welcome by some conservative
citizens. —
BOGUS TICKET SWINDLERS.
For the last three years it very modest
Mins Francis E. Willard nnd Miss Anna
uordon left on June 18 for a trip to the
) rovi UC es of Manitoba, where they will hold
! ’,• C. T. U. Temperance Convention
p 1 the far Northwest. They will stop at St.
Duluth, Bismarck, Fargo and other
“Whig towns « n route.
TheW. O. T. T. of Massachusetts sent an
earnest personal letter to each member of the
House of R
— Representatives, urging liis presence,
attention anil vote In favor of the Consti
tutional Prohibitory Amendment, ut the
Special suasion called for tlio consideration o
that measure
Judge Orr, of KanTiakee, IU., bM •
Ifost which runi hi* Uwn moiwr.
with bogu —of tho victims, put
One of tho most destructive storms
ever known occurred recently, _ twenty
miles below Long View, Texas and carried
dentil nnd destruction in its course. At
New Prospect five men were lulled out
right. At Fairplny, (a small hamlet), one
woman and two children were killed,
having taken shelter in an old house on
which a very large tree fell, crushing
them In tho track of this tornado noth
in" was left. Tho country is thinly set
tled, which accounts for tho few lives
lost.
A party of gentlemen and land-owners
and many of them local magistrates be
longing to tho County of Westmoreland
in England, while out riding near the
boundnry line separating that county
from Yorkshire, offended some Yorksliire-
men, aud were forbidden to cross tho
line. They crossed, and a bloody en
counter eusued, in which clubs and lists
were freely used. A number were in
jured on both sides.
GEN. I.EH'N STATUE.
It is snid in Cincinnati, Ohio, Hint tho
financial collapse of E. L. Harper, of tho
Fidelity Bank, is tlie outcome of n plan
for revenge made by Phil Armour, of
Chicago, III , who was severely injured
some years ago in a “deal in which Har
per displayed great treachery."
In the Wrong Place.
6S5SSSjK".fW2
„„ nrv information led them to regard
agency. a eiifmiftion. nnd tlio
*P u * w« ohoD with suspicion, ana tn<
PR -a P colored pencil metallic stamp, etc.
acids, colored penw » WO rk. They
Two of the men 1 ^ B jgnatnro
could counterfeit eny km l g cQ “ ld flU
and by nieans of i-aeir st P n ticUct
$800,000.
TDE PREACHER'S COMPLAINT.
The Leo monument board of Virginia,
of which Governor Fitz Hugh Leo is
chairman, awarded a contract for tho
erection of an equestrian statue of Gen.
Robert E. Lee to tho eminent sculptor,
Mercior, of Paris. It is expected that
tlie corner stone of the monument will
be laid in t Do latter part of October next,
during the state fair. The monument
will be erected in tlie extreme west end
of the city of Richmond. •
IMMENSE CASTING.
W. II. Heard, colored pastor of the
Mt. Zion M E. Church, of Charlotte, N.
O., has complained to the Interstate
Commerce Commission that he and seve
ral members of his congregation, having
based first-class tickets over the
pur
Georgia Railroad, fi’om Atlanta, Ga., to
Charleston. S. C., wero forbidden entry
to tho Jirst olnss conches, and compelled
to lido in a dirty and uncomfortable car,
onu-hulf of which was tho smoking car.
Tho steel stern post for tlio war ship
Charleston was successfully cast, at San
Francisco, Cal. The post is twenty-two
feot long on the keel, with nn upright of
twenty feet, aud weighs upwards of
15,000 pounds.
NEGRO TEACI1EUM.
The Atlanta, Ga., Board of Education
has decided that in all colored schools
only colored teachers shall be employed.
A burglar goncrally makes his homo
run after he readies tlio pinto.—Lowell
Citizen.
It was a farmer caught by a prairio tiro
who ran through Ills proporty rapidly.—,
S(ftings,
A poor paymaster Is like a boiling cof
fee pot, because ho will never settle.-—
Dansrille Breeze.
A Now York paper says there is con
siderable bustle in the dry goods market,
but then there ulwnys is when tho ladies
go shopping.—Pittsburgh Chronicle.
Wife—“Dear, I wish you would invite
young Professor Y. some day. 1 hear ho
fs so dreadfully absent-minded; perhaps
Cecelia."—German Joke.
he will take out i
A society journal states Hint girls oan
hnvo their lips cleared of incipient mous-
| tuclies by electricity. A surer method
tlinn this is nn Irate parent’s number nino
boot.—Siftings.
Old lady (to wicked little boys who
are playing marbles on Sunday)—“Littlo
boys, wlmt are you playing marbles Sun
day for?” Little boys—“Wo’re playing
for ’keeps.’ ”—Life.
Bella Jones, a young Indy of Dol.,
Of tho fashions was not vory wot.,
Bo a handkerchief red ;
Bhe wrapped round her head,
And this rig to the ball did Miss Bel.
—Life
An agricultural exchange asks “howto
STARTLING WEATHER I'HOPIIECY.
Prof. Couch, tho well-known meteo
rologist of Nebraska, is out with a start
ling programme for July. Tlio month,
lie says, will be characterized by phe
nomenal weather. It will open fair with
wind, clouds nnd local rains up to tlio
5th. There will lie higher temperature
with cloud nreus and local rains near tlio
Oth, followed by cool, northerly winds.
It will be warmer by the tOHi and 12Hi,
After local thunder storms, it will be hot
from tlie lfltli to the 18th, when thero
will bo a cold rain wave from tho north
west. Between the 20th nnd 25th, frosts
may bo expected, but after the latter
date the woatlior will ho cloar nnd fair.
mako hogs pay.” This is a linrd question
to answer. The best
way to avoid tho
ditliculty is not to sell a hog any tiling un
less ho paysforit iu advance.—Traoeler's
lleeord.
Emperor William is reported to have
said that “it is tho ono button left un
buttoned which is tho ruin of an army.”
Too true, and it is tho one button left
u use wed tlint is the ruin of a honeymoon.-
— Omaha World.
How doth the tuneful Thomas cat
Improve each moonlight night.
And olimboth on tho back-yard fenoe
To spit, and yowl, and fight.
EXPELLED COLORED PEOPLE.
The action of cx-Mayor James A.
Bradley, ef Asbury Park, N. J., in ex
cluding colored people from the privilege
of tho pavilion, board, walk and beach
has caused great indignation among tlio
negro population of Now York city.
Rov. Jesse S. . Cowles, of Zion African
Methodist Church, Rev. Dr. Derrick, of
Bethel Church, and other colored minis
ters protested in energetic languago
against Mr. Bradley’s order.
A NEW TRIAL.
And how tho spldor-leggod dude
Improves tlio moonlight, too;
Ho climboth on tho front-yard fence
To sweetly bill and eo.
—Peck's Sun.
Humoring A Patient.
Dr. Crawford of Baltimore is related
to have udvised a path'iit, who fancied
ho was dying of liver disuaso, to travel,
says tlie Philadelphia News. On return
ing lie appeared to bo rjuito well, “but
upon receiving information of tlio death
of a twin brother, who had actually died)
of a scirrhous liver, lie immediately
staggered, and, falling down, cried out 1
that ho was dead, and had, as lie always
expected, died of a liver complaint. Dr.
Crawford being sent for, immediately at
tended; uud, ou being informed of tho
notion which had seized tlio hypochon
driac, exclaimed: “OU, yes, the_ gentle-,
man is certainly dead, and it is more
Tho Supreme court of Illinois has de
cided to give the condemned anarchists
a now trial, as the judges sitting on the
Supreme bench decided in favor of tlio
points submitted by Capt. Black and
Leonard Swett, why tlie sentence pro
nounced by Judge Gary on tlio liny-
market assassins should not be executed,
at least, before another hearing was al
lowed the condemned.
DERELICT COLLECTORS.
The Berks County Pa., grand jury,
which has been in session investiga
ting frauds among tlie tux collectors, re
turned bills of indictment against eleven
collectors, all prominent citizens, for
misappropriating and misusing public
funds ranging in amount from $500 to
$10,000 nnd aggregating nearly $30,000.
About thirty others will in all probability
bo indicted.
SUSPENDED THE MAYOR.
in consequenco of the action of tlm
Mayor of Cork, Ireland, iu hoisting the
bluck flag on the occasion of tho jubilee
and because of his having shown favor to
nationalists, Mr. Plunkett, divisional
magistrate, has superseded him and has
ordered that only a resident paid magis
trate shall try the prisoners.
than probablo his liver was tho death of
him. However, to ascertain tho fact, I
will hasten to cut him opon before putre
faction takes place.” Ho called for a
carving knife, and whetting it, as a
butcher would when ubout to cut open
a dead calf, he stepped up to the patient
nnd begun to open his waistcoat. Tlio
hypochondriac became so terribly fright
ened that ho leaped up with the agility
of a rabbit, and crying out: “Murder!
murder! murder!” ran otf witli n. speed
that would have defied a score of doctors
to catch him. After running a consider
able distance, until lie was almost ex
hausted, he halted, und not finding the
doctor at his heels, soon became com
posed. From that period this gentleman
was never known to complain of his
liver, nor had ho for more than twenty
years afterward any symptoms of this
disease.
BIG CniEFM TO ASSEMBLE.
Customer from Texas—“I’ve busted
my head-gear, young feller, what’s th’
tax on that ono up there?”
Clerk—“That ain’t a hat. That’s a
bath-tub.”
Customer—“You don’t say so! Now
I look at it, though, I see the brim is a
little narrer fer the size of the head-hole.”
—Tid-Bitt.
Chief Joyner of the Atlanta, Ga., fire
department, who has been North to make
arrangements for tho convention of the
Chief Engineers of flic departments, re
ports that over 400 will attend tho At
lanta Convention, September 20th. An
old-fashioned Georgia barbecue will be
the principal attraction offered the visi-
, tors.
Superstitions of Speculators.
Tlie whims of speculators are illus
trated by a story told by the Atlanta
Constitution, of some Georgians who
were trading in cotton in tho New
York market. “The market was fluctu
ating without apparent reason, and they
were speculating briskly, but blindly.
They finally selected, so tlio story goes,
engine No. 42 on tlie Third avenue ele
vated. Upon reaching the offico in tho
morning they would watch for .that
engiue. If, when first seen, it was
going down-town, they would sell, and
if going up-town when first seen they
would buy. By following this course
they made nearly $300,000, when one
tine morning the engine betrayed them,
and they lost uearly double that amount.
In one of the French schools there is a
natural magnet capable of lifting four
times its weight.
China has the fastest torpedo boat iu
the world.