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Newspaper Page Textthe mercury. entered as Second-class Muller at y,e sinulcrsvllte Postoiflcc April ft7, 1380. SandersYille, Washington County, Ga. PUBLISHED BY A. J. JERNIGAN & CO. Proprietors and Editors. Subscription: $1.60 Per Ten. THE MERCURY. A. J, JERNlGAN «C co., Proprietors, VOLUME VlllT DEVOTED TO LITEUATUltE, AGRICULTURE ANl) GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. Sandersvilee, ga., Tuesday, august ig. tssr. SUBSCRIPTION! ti.oo Per A muon Olcomnrgsrine costs at wholesale thir- j teeu conts a pound, and sells at eighteen, twcnty-tlTfl, and soraotimes thirty cent*. j Though no suddon deaths may be traced to its use, it may not be wholesome for ill that. A Hoston man says: "It ia probable that nine-tenths of all tho oleo ,1,1,1 is sold to those who do not wish it for their own use. The fastest passenger steamer afloat is mid to 1)0 tho CJuoon Victoria, which is ! to ply between Liverpool and tho Isle of j Mau. On tho trial trip from Greenock ! to Liverpool, she made an average of ; twenty-two and one-fourth knots or ! twenty-five nnd one-half miles an hour. , This was accomplished in bad weather j ami against a rattling gnle. The Presidents of tho various Repub lics of the world are, for the most part, men in about thu middlo purio, l of lifo, pew of them are over sixty, and for va rious reasons, nono of them aru so young asnmiiy monarehs have boon when they mounted tho throne. Tho oldesf is tho President of Franco—Francois P. Jules Grevy—who will finish his soventy- fwirlli year in less than three months from the present time. Our own execu tive, Mr. Cleveland, completed ids half con'iury some months ngo. The little Stale of Belgium, says tho 'Cidtinihr, lias always been the battle ground of Europe. More docisivo battles have been fought on its soil than on any other of equal area in the world. Should war occur between France nnd Germany, Belgium must take the brunt of the conflict. Tills small nationality appears to lmve been kept distinct as a lighting ground for its bigger neighbors when they fell out, Just now the people of Belgium are taking great interest in French and German politics, though unable to do anything in either, except top.atiently await the turn of events. Building railroads in Chinn is nil old theme. Circumstantial details have ap peared from time to time with accounts of concessions obtained and with pre dictions as to the time wheu that country would lie covered with a network of rails. The latest account is given in'the London Colliery Guardian, based on news from Pekin, which declares positively that China is at last to have railways. Tho rf|x)rt is that tho Chinese court lias ad vised tho empress to order the construc tion of a railroad from Kaiping toTakoo, •the port of Tientsin, ami a lino from Tnkoo to Tientsin. It is considered probablo that tho coal mines in tho vicinity of Pekin will bo connected with that city by rail, thus permitting t ho c ost of coal to be cheapened. Tho building of these roads, and positively others, is looked upon by British iron and steel manufacturers os likely to open a largo field for British goods of this character. r Tho cential provinces of Spain (tho Madrid correspondent of the London 'Chronicle says) havo been visited by so terrible a plaguo of locusts tlmt whole districts are ruined. Within the spaco of a few hours tlicso posts havo destroyed every traco of vegetation—grass, wheat, vines and olives. Ovor considerable tracts of country not a vestige of green is to be seen, and the reports slate that at times the sun has been obscured when these fearful pests havo boon winging their flight from placo to place. I11 La Mancha tho trains have been stopped by them, and gangs of workmen have had ,1° go ahead of passenger trains in trucks to clear tho lines of t l, e myriads of locusts tlmt have descended upon them. In many cases tho insects have lain so thick on tho wils that trains havo not boon able to travel faster than three or four miles an limir. The cortes are about to vote a large credit in aid of the suIVcrers and to provido for a menus of destroying these voracious swarms of insects. Iho Chicago correspondent of the New ^°rk Star says that Nina Van Zaudt, the proxy brido of August Spies, the con demned Chicago Anarchist,is in decided ly 'll health and probably dying. She lias c "t loose from her family and is having a hard tiino. The correspondent reports Miss Van Zandt saying: “Oh, this worry ls killing mo. Not only tho anxiety about the outcome of thucaso, but the intoler- ahlu throngs of callers, curious only to Dee me, and the army of beggars who have read that I was rich; and then tho letters, bushels of them, from every con ceivable sort of pcoplo, some of them threatening my life and some asking for money; many abusing 1110, and no end to dm marriage -proposals from unknown vagabonds who say they are much better than any Anarchist; tlmt Mr. Spies will he hanged anyhow, and I had better cou- chnle to accept their oiler. A great many include photos, so that I can see how good looking they are. Oh, I did *mt know the world was so full of silly hols as it seems to be. I am nervous, aleepless and nearly xvorried to death. Hie injunction suit chst me a great deal °1 money, and my incomo has boon, shut °ir on every hand. I havo nothing now hut the income of my book on tho lifo of ■M>'. Spies, and the attacks of tho press have mado Us sales very slow. I have n °t spoken to mother or father for months; thon came that cruel edict from *he jailer that I should not be allowed to ,ce JIr - Spies even through iron bars." SOUTHERN BRIEFS. condensation of the bust happenings of a we™ i[ Relltlous and I, 1 ''™" 0 , 0 Gnlherlngi—Boiled flown llems—Country Genet-ally Healthy. 1 ho ladies of Stone Mountain, Ga., are '"VTS"’ *«orta to havo ;ino rooms abolished in that place. Tim Engle flour mills on the comer of Vimee nnd Tennessee streets, in Mcm- S'lnnrm ?•’ "'ere destroyed by fire. Loss, v>10,000; insurance, $1,600. I ho board of directors of tho Decatur, Alu., Land company formally ratified the contract with tho Louisvdlo & Nashville Bailrond Company for the location of tiiuircoiiBolidntcd earshops at that placo. Mr. Wilson, a farmer on Peachtree street road, Hix miles from Atlanta, Ga., reports tlmt he found nearly 200 snakes in a thick grove 011 his farm. They wero rattles, black, spotted mid wood varieties. 1 llamas Keeler, and who is employed in tlie Nashville, Tcnn., penitentiary as a guard, made an unsuccessful attempt at suicide by laudanum, tuking 10 drachms, lie was discovered nnd saved, Me was drunk. 1 lie now Pearce cotton factory has boen completed at Columbus, Ga., and has begun operations. Sixteen looms uro in place, but it, is intended to increase the capacity to fifty looms. The new Muscogee factory is rapidly nearing com pletion. Albert Herman Fceso, n young Ger man watchmaker employed in Harry Meteor's jewelry store, left Birmingham, Ala., taking with him eight Hue gold watches belonging to liis employer. Fecse was in the habit of putting tho watches in tiro safe before closing tho store at night. During a heavy rain and thunder storm, a heavy bolt of lightning struck a tree in Messrs. Simeon and William N. Edwards’s pasturo at Upshaw, G11., around which three flue milch cows wero feeding, Tho tree was torn to pieces nnd all three of tlie cows killed, one of them struck by the bolt and the other two were killed by the shock. Bill Stratford, of Jcrnignn, Bussell county, Ala,, cut iris throat while in church. A protracted meeting is in pro gress there and the preacher was calling up mourners, when Mr. Stratford pulled out his knife and cut his ihroat. lie is a well-to-do farmer and religious excite ment is supposed to liuvo been the cause of the rush net. The Knights of Labor (colored) in session at Mobile, Ala., devoted a day to hearing clmrgcs of insubordination nnd rebellion prepared by Grand Oldef Men tor Moses Dickinson against Sir Knights J. W. Wheeler and C. L. Martin. The chief mentor then made his annual ad dress, advocating the formation of state grand lodges of tho order. Abo Bonner, a colored fireman em ployed on the East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia Railroad, was found on tho track at Macon budly bruised, and died from liis wounds. The theory is that he sat down on the track to await the leav ing of No. !!03, of which ho was the fireman, nnd fell nslecp, and was killed by 11 passenger train, which, having no headlight, failed to discover him. John Clay, the only remaining son of Henry Clay, died near Lexington, Ky. While giving instructions to somo work men about a pump, ho foil dead, without any premonition, of heart disease. Mr. Clay was 07 years old. He had no chil dren. He was married about 20 years ago to liis nephew’s widow, Mrs. Col. Irwin. Col. Irwin was killed at the battle of Perryville while in command of a Confederate regiment. He was a farm er and becamo a Catholic twenty years ago. A passenger train on the East Tennes see, Virginia & Georgia Railroad col- lid d with a switch engine half a mile northwest of Chattanooga, Tonn. YV. II. Burgess had liis shoulder broken nnd breast crushed in. Will Henderson had a hip mashed, and Fireman W. If. Brandon was so badly injured that lie will die. Engineer King was struck in the stomach by tho lever while trying to reverse ids engine nnd was seriously hurt. Many passengers wero slightly bruised, but none others wore dangerously hurt. Three workmen, in the employ of the Southern Granite Company, at Lithonin, Ga., were engaged in swabbing out the holes for a second blast, the ledge settled and Ihe dynamite cartridges were ex ploded by the friction. At the time of the explosion, a heavy drill, eleven feet long, and weighing 10 pounds, was lying across the top of the hole, litis drill was carried 300 feet in the air, striking Holman Clark, colored, one of tho men nt work, and tearing liis face completely oil. lie died almost instantly. Tobe Turner, ah.J colored, had his right arm broken in two places and was otherwise seriously injured. A remarkable occurrence is reported from Jackson county, Ga., ami tho neighbors of Newtown district will cx- cepT no other explanation than that of a waterspout. Dan Mathews’s mill is a two story frame structure, situated on a small branch ten miles from Athens, There is not enough water in the branch to'create a freshet, and even the heavy continuous rains of last week did not prevent Mathews’s mill from grinding. While other mills and dams wero washed nwav, 1 here was not enough water nt Mathews’s mill to down the wheel. After a rain of three hours, the mill was demolished, its foundations had been scattered, and its huge millstone had been washed three hundred yards down the branch. The dam had been broken the raceway flooded, and tho null wheel broken to pieces. BURIED TOGETHER. The remains of the widow of the late Col Benj. Stiles, of Savannah, Ga., were taken to Winchester, Vo., and burred in the same grave with that of her husband, in accordance with a request made before Imr death. Col. Stiles, aged 28, foil at tho head of his regiment, the lOthGeor- a volunteers, of Wolford’s brigade, Longs! root's corps, at Front Royal, on August 10, 1804. Uiis Las tho "first burial of a woman ever made in Stonewall Cemetery, at Winches ter. SOUTHERN CROPS. omelal Report ol tHo United State* Report- Went of Acriniiltnrr. The report of tho department of agri culture nt Washington, D. C. ( it as fol lows : Cereals—Tho prospect a month ngo was for a very heavy crop of corn, and the rate of yield about the average. Its condition in all the states of tho Atlantia coast is now unimpaired, fifia of a very high prdmisb. In Texas nnd TcnneBseo the condition lias declined materially. The pHst month has been fnvorablo for cotton, oxcept that the rainfall has been unequally distributed 111 point of time—a drouth threatened nt one period and damaging floods following. In the east ern Imlt Iho excess of moisture predonli- nntes as n factor of the depreciation. Tho weed is, therefore lnrgo and sappy, and the fruit fall appears in some fields seri ously, and in some eases rust appears. I11 Louisiana similar conditions have pre vailed, and only very partially in Missis sippi. Texas bns been too dry, though the drouth lias not as yet been disastrous or severe. Tim prevalent status of the crop is very good for the first of August, while reporters recognize this as a criti cal t ime, nnd fear tho cifoet ot subsequent drouth upon tho green mid succulent con dition of the plant. Ill a Comparison of ten years, thu August condition is only exceeded by that of 1882 and 1888, one producing a large crop, tho other iindei a medium yield. Tho general average condition is Oil.JJ, which is lower by three points than that of July. The state aver ages are; Virginia, tM jJNorth Carolina, DO ; South Carolina, 1)8; Cleorgia, t)l ; Florida, 1)(1 ; Alabama, 1)8; Mississippi, IHi; Louisiana, !)■!; Texas, 87 ; Arkansas, 07; Tennessee, 05. The first brood of ciiterpillurs lias ap peared in several states, but is not gen erally mentioned in the returns, ft ii reported in Orangeburg and Berkeley, South Carolina; in Calhoun, Taylor, Dooly and Laurens, Georgia; in Mali and Dallas, Alabama; Starkey, Newton, Is saquena mid Otttibbchuo, Mississippi; iu Red River, Bossier, ltichlnnd, Natchito ches and Thervlilc, Louisiana; nnd in Stephens, Camp and Jackson, Texas. The boll worm is much less frequently mentioned. Tobacco—The tobacco crop Is in high condition in seed, the leal state averaging nearly 100 Except ir. Wisconsin, ihe shipping nnd cutting dis tricts of the West make an unprecedented report of low condition; Tennessee, 70: Kentucky, 50: Ohio, 55; Indiana, 50; Illinois, 62; Missouri, 00. In view of t heavy reduction in acreage, only a small fragment ol the usual crop muy be ex pected. The ofilcild investigation of area now in progress, will determine authori tatively the breadth cultivated tho pres ent year. NATIONAL CAPITAL DOTS. WHAT TS DOING AT THE WHITE house And departments; DESTRUCTIVE FRESHETS Cun Great Lours On the Hlor Plantation* Along Iho NnvunimU ltlvi-r. A few days ngo, tho rice planners along tho Savannah river wero hopeful of the best crops for years, and in one day their lands are overrun with water and the prospect is utter ruin of tho crops. From the city of Suvannub, Ga., up the river towards Augusta there is tho Charleston bridge of the C. & B. Road. Thrco miles this side of the bridge is the Little Vcrnczebre creek. Before the Savannah river reaches this creek it di vides aud runs into two narrow streams around Argyle Island, and, indeed, a se ries of islands. Tho stream next the Carolina shore is known as tho Back river, and fronting on this stream, boili from tho Carolina shore and tho islands mentioned, are the great fields. In times of freshet the river rises over the low, swampy lands that lie on tho- Carolina banks of the Back river and are above Vernezebro crook. Just this side of ihe croek begin tho rice plantations. Veru- ezebre freshet bauk was built 35 year- ago. It runs back inlaud'from the Back river and nt right angles to the river, and is about 2 miles in length. The Vern ezebro freshet bank is not a financial institution, but it is a corporation with a president and other corporate officers, who keep it up, and who assess tho plan ters who are subjacent to it. This bank has never before been overflowed. It was supposed to be 4 feet above the high est freshet. The waters uro way above it, and lmvo rushed all over tho rice fields of tho Carolina coasts. This means the ruin of 9,000 acres of cultivated rice land, which, at a calculation of 40 bush els to tho acre, nnd a dollar and a quarter to the bushel,means a loss of about $450,- 000, besides the iminenso damage to 1 lie banks. The rice is in a condition when water will ruin it. Three-fourths of it has just shot up and flowered, 'i ho rest has headed and begun to fill. The water will prevent the milk from rising from the belly, and tho rice will be blighted. WHAT DOES IT MEANT I’ri-.lilent Glevolnml limy Reci-lvlnii lnvl. tat Ion*—tiiteratnte Unininlmlnn—Gov ernment Altalr* Going Well. SAVANNAH’S INVITATION. The following bns passed tho City Council of Savannah, Ga"."Whereas, It is the desire of the citizerie. of Savan nah tlint his cxcollcncy, President Cleve land nml Mrs. Cleveland visit our city, and tho desire bcittg In accord With the feeling of thu Council, Resolved, Tlmt tho mayor nnd aldermen of tho city of BavitUntth join in this request lind ex press tho hope that liis excellency will accept the invitation.” , DKI.EUATES APPOINTED. Miss Clnru Barton, president of tho American national association, of tho Bed Prosit; nml Mr. J. 11. lltibbeli, gun- oral Held agent and secretary of tho asso ciation have boon appointed by Presi dent Cleveland, delegates to represent the United Status at the fourth interna tional conference of tho Rod Cross, lobe hold at (lie court of the Grand btiKcittld Duchess of Baden, which opens at Cnrl- Biuho, Germany, on thc22d of next Sep tember. A UOOl) APPOINTMENT. An important change in the Nnvy De partment has been mado, by which Chief Engineer Charles II. Luring, who has I for somo years at thu head of the Bureau of Steam Engineering, has re signed anil tho President has appointed Chief Engineer George W. Melville in his place. Thu now chief is tho well- known explorer who took nn important part in the Jeannntte Arctic expedition, and has shown splendid executive quali ties in connection with tho pinna for tho machinery of the new cruisers. NOTES. The Secretary of tho Treasury lias ap S ointcfl M. J. Harris to be a Uuitci tales gauger at Youngsville, N. O.. and Junes Wiggins to 1)0 a Unitec States guugcrat Williuinston, N. C. A representative meeting of nrofes aional and bu-iuess men have adopted unanimously a series of resolutions ex pressing a desire that the President and Mrs. Cleveland Bhould visit Charleston, S. 0. Secretary Whitney has decided to send a number of naval officers abroad to study hull designing and machinery vonstruc- tion. The officers will first go to Paris, and will probably remain abroad four years. Prince Devawongse, of Siam, and hit party, twenty-two in all, including five of the children of tho king of Siam, havo arrived. They lmve been nnd will continue to be subjects of much official attention. Assistant Secretary of Stnto Porter has conveyed to the President nn invitation from tho pcoplo of NiiBhvillo and Middle Tennessee, to visit tlint city, nnd nnothoi from tho ehnmber of commerce of Knox ville to pay tlint city a visit. The Stato Department is informed of the death of Vicc-Consul-Qencral John T. Miller at Rio Janiero. Consul M. O. Call, at Santos, has been directed to take charge of tho consul-general’s office at ltio, tho consul-general being absent on leave. 'Iho Indinn Office 1ms received the fol lowing from Indian Agent Sheehan, at Atkin, Minn.: “Tho killing of the throe Indians nt Kimberly was done by the Indians themselves. No serious trouble between tho Indians and whites. Wit remain here with Indians until they nn quieted. Reports in newspapers are sen sational.” tllsniiirek I* Said To Ho .llskinx a iliovo Oil IIoIIiiiiiI’n llordi-r. The following dispatch from Antwerp lets been published* in I tic* Brussels Ga /i-ttc: “1 mu iiif, rm -d that the Berlin government is aliout to construct, just beypud the railway station of Sihpclpold, on the Dutch lio itier, on German terri tory, 20 sidings, eacli long enough to convoy a train with 1,500 men to tho grand central line from Aix-la-Chappello to Antwerp. Gradients and railways will bo constructed at this purely military station for the landing of cavalry, aud a iiscrvoir will lie built for the purpose of feeding locomotives. The whole works will cost 1,300,000 marks. Tho German nt at major, which lias 300,000 men con centrated in fortresses between Cologne, Dusseldorf, Aix, etc., estimates that, with such an installation, within an hour it would bo in a position to throw 50,000 troops upon Maostrecht, to occupy the bridge there and to prevent the Dutch from blowing it up. This bridge is un dermined for military purposes. Tho German etat-major is also contemplating measures to put the government in a po sition to throw nil army of 50 000 men under the walls of Antwerp at 24 hours’ notice.” The European correspondents of Iho New York papers report, that Bismarck has designs on Holland, and lias agreed with France to restore Alcaso- Lorraine if she will agree not to interfere. This will account for German military movements,- LABOR NOTES. Secretary Martin, of tho Amalgamated Association, received notification that the strike at Brown Bonuells, nt the exten sive mills in Youngstown, O., over tho “two job” question, had boon settled, tho firm agreeing to the rules of tho Amalgamated Association, tliut one man shall not hold more than one job. Tho leather workers' trouble at Newark, N. J., culminated when the manufacturers issued orders that nono hut non-union men would lie employed in their shops. This is tiie commencement of a fight between the Knights of Labor nnd the manufact urers. The strike of the employes of the Midlnnd railway in London, Eng land, is collapsing. Tho Birmingham en gine men have resumed work. Tito company announces that it has ob tained a full complement of drivers aud firemen to fill thu vacancies caused by the strike. The West Clare railway 111 Ireland lias been boycotted, owing 10 hatred of Traffic Manager Sullivan. Pla cards have been posted warning :ho peo ple not to patronize tlie road until Sulli van is dismissed. Pcoplo who travel by this line, thu pine; ids say, will bu in dan ger of being shot. All gondoliers in Venice, Italy, have gone out on a strike because a light service lias been started 011 the grand canal. All bakers iu the city lmve also gone out on strike, and waiters in the hotels aud cafes threaten to go out. The leather council of the Knights of Labor at Newark, N. J., it ia understood, decided to order out all the bag, harness and shoemakers in that city on account of tlie decision of tlie manu facturers to lock out thu union men. HAN FItAMCIHCO’S SCANHAL. If New York has its boodle aldermen, and Chicago its boodle commissioners Ban Francisco, Cal., has wealthy jury bribers. Robt. F. Morrow, a wealthy capitalist, and late president of the Geary street cable road, and James McCord late superintendent of the Sutter street cable road, who became notoriously prominent duriug the cable car strike and riots, have been arrested for bribing J uries. These cases had been previously ’fought before the courts, but owing to seme occult influence, wore dismissed with trivial fines. Recently, however, Frank Northey, who claims to have been paid by Morrow to bribe jurors in a case for damages against the Geary street road, fell out with his patron and brought suit against him for, as he boldly alleged in his complaint, services iti bribing the jury. LOOK OUT FOR BUM I John W. Ilallock, a compositor, Rhc went ffoin Atlanta, Ga., to Montgomery, Ala., was arrested at the latter ploee on a watrant which road ns follows: "One Juo. W, Hal lock, did unlawfully and mali ciously utter incendiary and inflammatory language, by sending assassin-like docu ments through the United States mails, and delivering copies of tho samo to tho youth of this State, against tho peace and dignity of the State Of Alabama." The following card speaks for itself: “John W. Ilallock. I am in fa in favor of revolutionizing tho existing condition of socioty; undeniably, it con flicts with tho liberties guaranteed by our ancestors, and infringes upon the rights of the American people, lfl violation of thb faith duo to the Constitution of tho United States.” Judge Screws, before whom Ilallock was arraigned, had to discharge him, and said: “I dismiss this caso because 1 am powerless to do other wise. There seems to be no law in Ala- buitm to overtake anarchists, cownrds and assassins. That there is no such law is not the fault of this court. This man Ilallock is evidently a dangerous charac ter, whoso motives are not pure nml whoso principles are corrupt. Hu belongs to that Vast army of society destroyers who envy their ncighbois and love not their country.” QUICKLY KILLED. NUMBER 16. GENERAL NEWS. POBLISHED EYERT TUESDAY. NOTICE I Ail Communications intended /be this Paper must be accompanied bu the full ttsuis of the writer—not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. We are in no way responsible/be 4he views or opinions of correspond* ents. KANSAS BOOM. Tim Hirnnae*! Duel Urcortlod n till* Great Continent. Honor Victoria, a mining speculator, and Sonor Pcdrnzn, an extensive ship ownci in Mexico, fought one of tlie strangest duels on record. Wiiilo at a hall a few days ngo, given at Tampico by 0110 of the chief ladies of the Spanish colony, tlie two gentlemen tpiartolcd in the presence of a lady and Victoria chal lenged Bodmin. As Fodiaza had choice of weapons, he demanded tlmt Victoria meet him in n dark room where should 1)0 placed a hundred tarantulus of most, poisonous character, mid that eacli should devote liis energies to killing tarantulas instead of lighting liis opponent, and neither must ldavc the room till all tho poisonous spiders wore killed. Tho duel was fought iu 11 room dark as a dungeon. There wero no seconds, and no 0110 in Tampico suspected tho fact. When tho doors were broken open both men xveru found dead, surrounded by lioriiblo spi ders, some dead and Bomc alive. COLLAPSED WALLS Dory Many Firemen unit Home *1 then) are Kllleil nml Wounded. A most terrible catastrophe has befall en tho fire department of St. Louis, Mo. Tho walls of tho ruins of Bishop & Spear’s peanut warehouse, 510 mid 812 North Sucoud street, fell and carried with them a portion of J. Alkires & Co.’s whole sale grocery Iioubo. In the ruins were buried a number of firemon, throe of whom, Barney McKcrnan, Frank Mc Donald and Chris Hoell wore dead when found; soveral more wore badly hurt, and may die. ; A number of firemen wore en gaged in raising ladders to get water ou tho smouldering peanuts when suddenly the east mid west walls of Bishop & Spear’s wavered and crushed; then down came tho north wall and with it n portion of Alkires’ south wall, tearing out Al kires’ south side right in tho middlo. As tho middle nnd noitli walls came down the front of tho peanut warehouse fell out, and tlie pressure from thu side walls forced the debris out into tho street. NEW LAIIOU ORGANIZATION. A new secret organization known ns “The Brotherhood,” in many respects siinilur to tlie Knights of Labor, has been formed and lias already grown to considerable proportions • in Boston, Mass., and through New England. Its organization is kept u profo ml secret. The principles of tlie organization arc contained in n printed circular, which begins with announcements that the or ganization does not believe in strikes, but uses the ballot ami co-operative in stitutions as weapousof warfare. It also asks that the government obtain posses sion by purchase of all telegraphs, tele phones and railroads. A WOMAN WITH GRIT. Alice Barry defied the police who went to execute a writ of eviction against her, nt Kuockdalc, county Antrim, in Irelund. She barricaded her house, and with the assistance of some friends, defended it for a long time against a large force of officers, who attempted to tako it by storm, mid who were many times repulsed by volleys of stones and streams of boil ing water. Tho polioo finally captured (lie house by a cbnrge with fixed bayo nets, but not until many of them wero hurt, aud one was bad(y pitchforked. NEARLY ALL PBRISIIBU. CURRENT EVENTS ON THIS CON* TINENT AND ACROSS SEAS, Effect* of Hat \Venther-Dr«*tnln*», Steam boat nnd Rnllronit AcCldcnta—Tlie 111*11. l.lalituiii*. etc., etc. Tho heat is very intense nt Chicngo, III., tlie mercury going up to nearly 100. There xvns a white frost nt Wellsvillu, N. Y); and the thermometer registered only forty degrees nbOVo zero. In a fight between strikers nnd new inon nt the Aden mines, near Wilkcsbnrre, Pa., about a dozen men were wounded, By neglect of n telegraph operator, two freight trains collided at White Hill, N. J. Fireman George T. Powell, of Jersey City, wns killed. Tho King of Abyssinia, who is hold ing for ransom Maj. Savoiroux of tlie Italian army, captured ut Mnssownh, de mands $10,000 for him. Baron Billings, late French embassa dor to Sweden, while visiting friends in Aisaco wns expelled from tho province by Germnn officials. M, Mugnior, editor of tho Evennlettt, has fought a duel witli M. Koinnch of tlie Kcpubliquc Frnneaiso iu Paris. Tho weap ons wero swords. Rcinncli was wounded. A fire occurred nt Concord, N. II., in a largo warehouse. Eight members of a brass hand practicing in tlie fourth story were injured by dropping from tlie win dow*. Tho scarcity of farm hands in tho wheat belt of northern Minnesota nml Dakota has become alarming, and farm ers are oilcring exorbitant wttgtB to save thu abundant crops. Tho roof of Clinrlelon’s Opera-house, in Springfield, III., fell, carrying n lmgo mass of debris into tho center of thu building. Tho accident was caused by heat shrinking tho timbers. No one was hurt. Smn Woo, a Chinese lnundryman, brought suit for libel in the United States court against tho Detroit, Mich., Free Press, claiming $10,000 dnmngos. He al leges that tho Free Press fulsoly stated that lie fought sparrowB in his establish ment. A dispatch from St. Thomas, West Africa, received at London, England, says, that letters havo been received at Stauloy Pool from Henry M. Stanley, announcing liis arrivnl lit Aruhwiinio Falls, nnd stating tlmt all of his party wero well. An immense anarchist meeting took S lacoitithc city park of Knnsns City, io. W. II. Clemens, n local agitator urged the tearing down of police courts ana jails, nnd said if tho Chicago llny- mnrkut scone was repented tho authori ties would bo to blame. Prof. Tyndall has written another scathing article to tho London Times at tacking Mr. Gladstone. Ho says that all tho facts tend to verify the fact that Mr. Gladstone is merely tlie resonant musk through which John Morloy blows over tho land liis fannlicul treason. Mmo. Elluiui, whilo traveling in tho country, somo distance from Paris, France, left the coach to relievo tlie horses upon reaching a hill. When she resumed her scat she discovered the loss of a valise containing valuables worth $100,000. Her male servant has been ar rested on suspicion. William M. Gibson, tho deposed prime minister of tho Ilawniinn kingdom, who was tried on charges of robbing the pub lic treasury, and who escaped from the island ufter his acquittal, lias arrived in San Francisco, Cnl., from Honolulu on the brig John D. Sprockles. Ho will soon S o to South Oarolinn, where he formerly ved. Whilo Sheriff Charles II. Lacy, of At lantic City, N. J., was absent at tho fun eral of his wife, there was an attempt on the part of tho prisoners at tho jail, ut Maye’s landing, to escape. They were led by a housebreaker, named Slocum, who, with nn iron pump handle beat a hole through the ceiling and effected nn entrance into the attic. *1 hoy were driven back at tho point of the pistol and se cured. Hiram Sehoonavar, of Browsvilio, Neb. shot his mother-in-law in u watermelon patch under tho impression that tho was a skunk. Ho was watching for thieves, nnd about 10 o’clock at night an object appeured in the corn nnd slowly approach ed. A dog sprang at it ami suddenly retreated. This convinced Sehoonavar that the intruder wus a skunl., uud he fired. At the meeting of tho Indiana Stato Board of Health, reports wero presented showing that tlie jails in Lawrence and Perry Counties are unfit for human hab itation. In Lawrence County the over seer of the poor-house hired the inmates out at $1,75 a week nnd pocketed tlie proceeds. Young children wero forced to sleep with old inmates who were af fected with loathsome diseases. Boomers arc now gathering nt Geneda Springs, a small town six miles north west of Arkansas City, Kansas. They have been issuing a paper there, and an nounce their intension to tnke possession of tho coveted country in tho Indinn Ter ritory. No trouble ia apprehended, ns the boomers are not thoroughly organ ized. Companies E, Onpt. Price; D, Capt. Thomas, and H, Cnpt. Sclitipler, of Gen. Miles’ old Fifth United States Cavalry, under command of Mnj. Upham, just from Fort Riley, are encamped on tho outskirts of the city for the purpose of crossing into the Indian Territory and joining several companies stationed there ■ ssia i ~ ■ to bead off tho boomers. NO SOIt* ON SUNDAY. In tho suit of the Law and Order So ciety agniust a numlicr of druggists, at Pittsburg, Pa., for selling soda water on Sunday, Judge Collier affirmed tho con- victkns of the defendants on tho ground that iho sale of soda was not an over powering necessity and that it wus not sold as a medicine, but as a beverage. Tlie defendants claimed that it was a necessity, and endeavored to provo by thu testimony of soveral physicians that it was medicine. LARGE FtlROnAMB. A Pittsburg, Pa., syndicate has pur chased 100,000 acres of land in tlie South; tho lands aru along tlie northern line of South Carolina and Georgia, most of it beiug in tlie latter state. Tho price paid was a million dollars in cash. Tim inten tion of tho purchasers is not to develop tlie lands, but to hold them as nn invests ment until the advance iu tlie priou of lumber greatly incereusos their value. A DASTARDLY CHIME. A plot to wreck tho Council Bluffs St Chicngo cast bound train on the Chi cago, Rock Island & Pacific road, was discovered and frustrated. Had not the engineer seen the misplaced rail and slopped the train, it would have plunged into the river and a fearful wreek would have ensued. ADVENTISTS MOBBED. A tent in whioh Rev. Messrs. Hoslei ..and Schultz, Sevcn-Duy Adventists, from Neliraskn, wero holding revival service* at Winona, Minn., was attacked by ■ mob of two hundred Geriqans and Poles, and pulled down. Tho congregation re sisted nnd a free fight ensued, In whioh several persons were hurt. CHATTANOOGA'S INVITATION. At a citizens’ meeting in Ohattanoogu, Tcnn., it was resolved to send a big del egation to St. Louis, September 26th, to invito tho grand encampment of the Grand Army of tlie Ropublic to meet io Chattanooga in 1888. A COSTLY SWORD. The sloop Sara, eighteen tons register, owned and commanded by Abralmm 111- karun, left Molojo, Arizona, loaded with tun Imrk, and having on board the cap tain, bis wife, her children and nieces, Mr. Hall, superintendent of the Balti more Copper mines at Suntn Rosalia mid nnd a crew of five men. Between San- Pcdro mid Martinez, in the Gulf of Cali fornia the vessel was struck by a heavy surf mid capsized. All on board per ished except the captain and two sailors. UNPltOFlTADLE FROLIC. Charles Hopkins played ghost on a recent night iu Baltimore, Md., wrapping himself up in u sheet, aud attempted to frighten a few laborers in a brickyard at tlie corner of Goroy’s Lane aud Bcddle street. All the laborers with tho excep tion of Wni. E. Goodwin ran. William called upon his ghosiship to bait, nnd not being obeyed, fired his revolver. The ball entered the ghost’s mouth, lodg ing behind his ear. The spectre uttered a yell and foil to the ground. VISIBLE COTTON SUPPLY. The total visible supply of cotton for the world is 1,023,233 bales, of which 801,183 bales are American, against 1,360,288 and 024,583 bales respectively last year. The receipts at all the interior towns are 2,50t bales, The crop iu sight i* 6,304,010 bales. Tho anniversary of Geronimo’s anrren- dcr to Gen. Miles has been set apart as a day for tlie presentation of a sword to the general. The sword will be made by Tiffany & Co., of New York, at a cost of $1,000. PROHIBITION DEFEATED. Returns received from 507 voting pre cincts in Texas show a majority pf 9$,045 against the prohibition amendment, and indicate that the amendment has Been defeated in the wholo state by over 125,000 votes. A LITTLE FEATHERED DETECTIVE. (Tho Onto Triolca of tho Honey Bird to Obtain Sweet Morsels. A SECOND DELUGE. AiitfUMtu, <su., Im Overflowed, and Much Destruction ol Property Occurs* The rapid rising of the Savannah river at Mount Carmel threw Augusta, Go., peopie into a fever of excitement, and everyone commenced immediately mak ing preparations to keep the water from their business houses and homes. The force of water iu the third level canal blew out one of the gates on Marbary street, at Clarke’s Glebe mills, and thu water flowed through very rapidly, and flooded many houses down through Dub lin, and extending out by the Central railroad to the south commons, which were completely flooded, and there join ing the water from the bend in tho river below the city, thus encircling Augusta. The water extends on every street be tween Greene and the river down os far as Cumming, on Greene as far down as Campbell, on Telfair to McIntosh and on Walker all that entire portion of southern Augusta down to the east boundary, ex cepting the extreme eastern portion, which is much higher than the city prop er. The water is, of course, over the first floors of ut least one hundred houses. Many persons sought the second story, but those who rcsiuo in one story houses were compelled to desert them and seek shelter with friends who were fortunate enough to own or rent a two-story bouse. Many people are greatly excited over the rapid rise, which is without parallel, We camo to a largo pieco of timber, and whilo passing through it I hod my first experience with tho honey bird of South Africa, says a writer in tho Amer ican Field. Tins curious little bird is, in size and plumago, about liko an En glish sparrow, and gets his nnino from the fact that tho little follow, who is very fond of honey, beiug unable to obtain it for himself, will lead men to the places where the wild bees have liiddon stores of rich wild lionoy. Whenever this bird sees a man lie will fly oloso to him, hovering around, utter ing a twittering sound; then he will go off in the direction of tho place (gener ally a tree) whore the honey is, flying backward and forward in a zigzag fash ion. Then book he will come, twitter ing in the same manner, os if to say, “Come along, I’ll show you where it is." These notions are repeated until tho tree is reached, whon the bird will indicate it very plainly by flying to it and hovering around it. If tho distance is great (and eomotimes the honey bird will lend a person who ia willing to follow a distance of ten miles), he will wait on a tree until the follower comeB up and will thon continuo liis bus iness of piloting, Ho is very persistent and will do his best to drnxv any one on, but if the party is not posted about honey birds ana refuses to follow, or goes in the wrong direction, the bird will leave, probably in search of some person who will appreciate his efforts to provide him with sweetmeats. While the bees are being smoked out and the honey taken up, the bird will hover in the vicinity until the job is done, when of course liis reward comes in the shape of a feast on the fragments that are left. If he knows of other hives, just as soon as one is disposed of he xvill lead the way to another, ajid I have, since this time, known as many ns four trees to be taken up by a party in one day. When the honey bird lias shown one treo, if the hunters are satisfied with that and refuse to follow him further, he leaves them; but I liax r e never heard of an instance in whioh the bird misled any one in regard to finding honey. It frequently happens, howovor, that a honey bird will lead a person into very dangerous places, and unlf ss the hunter keeps his eyes about him, when follow ing this bird, hemay run right on to a lion, venomous snako, or some other qeually undesirable aoquaintanoe. Herring from Eastport, Me., go all over the United States as the genuine imported sardine#.

Georgia Historic Newspapers

The Mercury. (Sandersville, Ga.) 1880-1???, August 16, 1887, Image 1