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VOLUME yHI.
passengers b»T0 arrjved in New Yoifc
from Yokohoma is twenty day* by the
(Canadian Pacific route. Such diapatoh
imnkoa the new line, contrary to genorol
.expectation, a very formidable competitor
for die lniainaas of China and Japan with
our own Unoific roads, and with the *x-
tremedy leisurely steamer service that
connects them with Sad Francisco.
SANDERSVILLE. GA.. TUESDAY. AUGUST 23. 1887.
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WASHINGTON ITEMS.
rna national capital in the
HEAT OF MIDSUMMER,
Artificial clouds were recently mado
'for the protection of vines from frost at
Ptgny, on the Franco-German frontier,
Liquid tar was ignited in tin boxes and
[pieces of solid tar bn • the ground near
•.the vines. Large clouds of smo^s arose
•mil protected tho vinos for two houra.
Although vinos in tho neighborhood
|,m hood wore injured by the frost, ell
that remained under the clouds were loft
uninjured. Of course this contrivance
con sueeood only In calm Venthor,; but
it ii only in calm weathor that white
frosts occur.
Tho small boys of Blolly havo a game
•which they call “Killing tho Tsar,”
which is very popular with tho ragged
urchins of Messina in particular. Not
long ago a little follow, whose fathor is a
miner, found a dynamite cartridge and
earricil it oil in high glen to his play*
mates. One of tho^uuugnters 4vss thon
selected to impersonate tho Tsar; the
others, as ambushed Nihilists, lny in
wait for him in a clump of bushes, and
as lie rode by on a gont., jumped out with
« yell and (lung the cartridge at his feet.
It instantly exploded, and, to the horror
.of the unthinking urchins, tho poor little
Autocrat of tho liuasins died from his
wounds.u fow hours later.
A long, lank West Virginlnn named
Brown presented himself at tho Pension
Bureau one morning recently to furnish
rvidenco in a claim [tending before the
.office. It wns learned upon iitqillry that
his mother had born thirty-threo chil
dren in nil. Twenty of this number wera
boys, sixteen of whom had served in the
Union army. Two wero killed. Tho
other fourteen survive. Each of them
draws n pension from the Government
for disabilities received whilo in ths
service. Tho death of tho two boys on-
titles the mother to n pension also.
General Black says tho flics of tho ollico
fail to show another rocord where tho
sixteen sons of ono fathor and mother
served as soldiors in the late war.
"We have tho rarest bird over brought
to America,” remarked the Superintend
ent of tho Philadelphia Zoological
Garden to a reporter. “It is called tho
Australian bush turkoy. It is really a
most remarkable croaturo. During tha
icaann of incubation tho parent birds
Krupe together a mound of sarth and
rubbish, roaclnug sometimes a diameter
o( twenty-five feat and a height of five.
A spacious hole in thon randcin the centre
•of the pile, narrowing ns it approaches
the bottom. In this excavation the eggs
ore deposited in layers, mingled with do-
coinposing vegetnbio matter and the
worst rubbish to bo found. The heat
generated by tho fermentation of fids
mass of olYal hatches tho eggs and the
little ones scrntch their way unaided to
the surface. t}ueer, isn’t it?”
The Epoch observes that “this country
has led I lie world for a score of years in
•he production of petroleum and in tho
utilization of its residual products. In
tine respect, however, tho Russians nro
•head of us. Tho uso of kerosene as a
hiel lias, in this country, hitherto been
conflnod mostly to the servant girls, who
employed it to start tlio kitekon fire, but
°n the Black Sea steamers, and on many
Russian railways itdia-s been used for fuel
•° r a yoar or two past, with good results.
The I’onnsyivauia Company is trying it
r«w on a train running between Altoona
• lu l Pittsburg. Ono ton of either tho liq-
u *d oil ortho residuum is said to produce
•s much boat as two tons of coal, whilo
it occupies only obout half tho space. If
•his bo true, coal may soon be supplanted
• s fuel on steamships nud ra'lwuys, and
e 'en in factories and mills, which arc not
clos « enough to Pittsburg to uso natural
gas.”
•’ho Commissioner of fho Gbndral Land
Gfficc, in response to a call from (ho i’a
Cl lc Railroad Commissioners, h(is for-
" udod a voluminous report giving in
Uliular form tho amouulsof land granted
*°.selected by, and patented to the
■everal companies whoso affairs arc under
’uvcstigiitioii. Tlio summary Bhows the
amounted granted lotho Union Pa-
Cllic was 11,300,3-14 acres, of which
•mount 3,147,082 acres have been so-
''led and 2,01(5,178 acros patented,
li’iivi
n S 8,102,102 acres to be selected.
!.!!! •’entral Pacific has a grant of 8,000,-
ucres, ]t lias received patents for
>040,310, and lias 0,413,712 acres yet
0 ho selected. The Kansas Pacific had
* fount of 0,000,000 aorcs. It has se
ated 1,788,252 acres, of which amount
^■'.714 acres have boon patented. Ithas
,vl '.748 acres yet remaining to be se-
feted. Tlio selections mado by the re-
®.iiiiing companies havo nearly all been
Patented, and cover about all tho avail ft-
1 hunls in thoir grants.. The selections
Jfe.is follows: Central < branch, Union
hie, 222,500 acres; Western Pacific,
<53,704
13,330
acres,
t,,' D.'Pnrimrnt*-
••on Mall-Ara; and Navy Notes.
LANDS FORFEITED.
Beorotary Lamar rovokod tho order of
OfcL° f indemnity lands for tho
bsnefit of the Atlantic*'& Pacific Rail-
road Company, and in a letter to the
Commissioner of tho General Land office
directed that tlicso indemnity lauds be
restored to settlement under the pro-
ooption and homestead laws. It is
non nU ut betwc#n ^h’ 000 . 000 an4 30,-
01(0,000 acres nreinvolvedin this decision
m the case of the Atlantio & Pacific
Uompany alone.
KENTUCKY’* INVITATION.
*. A delegation of prominent citizens of
Louisville, Ky., including tho president
of the Louisville board of trade, ' *
—■ t;—u* unuu, and ed
itor of tho Louisville “Commercial,” and
headed by Hon. J. A. McKenzie, secre-
ot state, oalled at Oakville and, on
behalf of Governor Knott for tlio state of
Kentucky and tho city of Louisville, pre
sented an urgent and flattering invitutiou
to tho President to visit Louisville on his
western tour. The President expressed
an earnest desire to meet tho good people
of Louisville, and said that ho would
gladly accept the invitation if ho found
it possible to do go.
a*mt orncuns quarrel.
Lieut, Gen, Sheridan 1ms under con
sideration chargos preferred by Col. W.
D. Whipple, stationed nt Governor’s Is
land, New York, against Col. W. W.
Burns, who is Stationed at the same [sist.
Both officers are on tlio stuff of Maj. Gen.
Sohoflold. Tho charges allege “conduct
unbecoming an officer and a gentleman,”
and grow out of an altercation between
tho two officers over a personal matter.
Col. Whipple asserts that Col. Burns
abusod him shamefully, applying most
opprobrious epithets to him, and struck
him when hie back was turned. Col.
Burns was placed under arrest by Gen.
Schofield.
NOTES.
Tho Secretary of tlio Treasury 1ms ap
pointed John li. Ball to lie a gauger at
Jouesville, N. C.; L. H. Lewis to bo n
gauger at Dunville, Va.
Tlio recoipts of tho Government In two
weeks of August, amount to $18,30(5,883
and the disbursements to $4,000,438, be
ing an excess of receipts of $13,310,400.
Tho President 1ms appointed Rev
Cleveland and Henry T. Stanton, of Ken
tucky, commissioners to appraise and allot
certain lands in tlio Umatilla reservation
belonging to confederate bunds of Cnyuse,
Walla-Walla and Umatilla Indians.
The Secrotary of tho Treasury has ap
pointed George S. Fockler to be store
keeper mid gauger in Washington county,
Md., and J. II. R. Turner, David J. llill
and Jnruos L. Dysart to be gauger in the
6th district of North Carolina.
STRIKES.
Important Action of n Trade l.encue—I'nrf-
iioemQnlt Work In Mexico.
At a meeting of tho Builders’ Trade
League, in Augusta, Gn., composed of
canientiers, bricklayers and paintors, tho
following resolutions wero adopted:
“No union nmu is allowed, under any
oircumstances, to work with a non-union
man. No journeyman shall act as fore
man in any way for loss than twenty-five
cents pur day in advance of any other
mnu on tho same job. No union man
shall work or handle any building mate
rials, or work on buildings where any
material is used that is manufactured or
sold by any company that docs not reo-
ogni/.e 58 hours ns a week’s work. If it
bo found by any ono of tlio several unions
represented by this board of delegates to
be advisable to refuse to work or handle
any building material of any kind on ac
count of convict labor, or tho refusal of
tlio manufacturers to recognize tho 58
hour system, all the unions shall unite in
the same. There shall be no general
•trike of any union for wages, without
serving the general contractors with 15
days’ notice.” The league is not vet thor
oughly established throughout Geor
gia, but efforts are being mado to do so.
The engineors of the first and second
divisions of the Mexican Central Railrond
struck. Tlie cause of tho strike is sup
posed to be the diseharge of ono of their
number. These divisions extend from
tho city of Mexico to Calera, ovor
1,200 miles long. The freight con
ductors of the Memphis & Charleston
JUflvosd notified the superintendent that
they oould no longer afford to work for
$75 per month, and naked for nn incrense
of $10. Not hearing from him, they quit
work and no freight trains are now run
ning.
BACH TROUBLES.
For a year or more, bad blood lias ox-
isted between tho Austrians nnd Selavo-
nians in fian Francisco, Oal. Recently,
tho Austrian flag was carried by the III
Griac society on their xvuy lo some picnic
grounds and was guarded by the police.
That evening fifty armed Russians, Bul
garians nnd Poles, under the leadership
of one Gropetevich, a Bulgarian, awaited
the returning picnic, when an onslaught
was to be made. The police, however,
had been warned, and a strong force sent
to the scene caused the Wood thirsty Sla
vonians lo withdraw. The latter are
more incensed than ever against the Aus
trian colony, and a terrible fight is pro-
dieted.
dynamiters ARRESTED
The latest dynamite sensation in Eng
land is the urrest of ft well-dressed w o
man and her maid at ths fashionnble re
sort of Cowes. The arrest was made by
London detectives who claim to have
obtained information that the women
onwnneu ----- —
were acting as *ocomp|lees J*
acres; Sioux City and Pacific,
miters Idc statement is made that
fortv pounds of the dangerous explosive
was found in ft satchel in the possession
of the suspeotod parties. The theory is
that this means was taken of smuggling
the dynamite into Loudon without
arousing suspicion, or that tho intention
ma/hafe been to use it at Cowes in case
certain objectionable personages should
mako their appearanoe at that place.
AUHT AMANDA
*• Colored Woman lo ladtaaa, lino a
Hnllrond Train From Discolor.
Amanda Barker, an aged negress, was
walking along tho track of the Oinoim
nnti, Hamilton & Indianapolis Railroad,
CURRENT MOTES.
WHAT is GOING on IN THE NEW
AND OLD WORLDS.
near Glenwood, Indiana, on her way to e |
farmhouse, where ehe was to work dur-,
ing tho day. She had just passed Glen- j
wood, a lonely dismal spot between Iu-;
diatiapolis and Connersville, frequented
Only occasionally by the farmers living
around, whon, on turning a sharp curve
iu'the road, she wae horrified to soe
some distance ahead the smoldering ro-!
mains of wlint had a short while boforo I
boon a stout, substantial bridgo, con-1
necting cinbankmonts 050 feet apart
and spanning a chasm ninety-five
feet deep. The bridgo had evi
dently been burning during the I
entire night, for tho superstructure 1
was entirely eaten away by the firo, and 1
only u fow woak timbers and tlio three 1
stone piers wero left to tell tho tale. Tho 1
old woman could not collect horsolf for ,
upon her that a train genornily passed
that point somo time in the early morn- j
ing. She had no idon what tinio it wns,
or when tho train xvas due, but slio knew
that it wss n fast ono and never stopped I
at Glenwood. She turned her steps
backward, intending to flag tlio train at
the station, but lmd got srnrcely a hun
dred yards whon sho heard the shrill
scream of the whistle, an sho thought,
directly ahead of her. It wns tho enst-
bound lightning express, duo at Glon-
wood at forty-five minutes past flvo
o’clock. Sho tried as hard ns sho could
to get nromul tho boud which obstructed
the train from viow, nil the time tearing
nnd tugging away at nn old
brown apron which _ sho wore,
which she used os a signal flag.
Raising the improvised flag high above
her head, she waved it frantically,
standing in tho center of the track,
where her presence could not go unno
ticed. For a whilo it sccmod to her that
no one saw her, but she kept licr position
determined to stop tlio train or die in the
track. At last the engineer saw her aud
reversi d his engi no, bringing it to n stand
still a lew yards in front of the old womun.
All tlio passengers were around
the spot iu a short while, and
when they saw how narrow their escape
had been, they could scarcely speak.
A large purse was made up for their ben
efactress, but sho positively refused tet
take any money, nnd said she was too
happy to touch anything, that money
would only nmke her feel bad again.
When every ono on tho trnin was cn-
gratulaling themselves on their escape,
tlie old woman became so happy that she
burst into tears, and was bo joyful for a
whilo tha sho hugged several of the
Indies and gentlemen nnd danced an old-
fashioned jig. An effort will be nindo
to present old “Aunt Amanda" with
something substantial, if tho names of all
tlie passenger* can bo secured.
MAN’S INHUMANITY.
i: III In i'll II l n I'riim Geriminy Hold Into Slav
ery In Ym'ntnn.
Ernest Schoeltz, \vbo has just put in
nn appearance at Au Sable, Midi., tells a
startling story of personal outrage.
Willi liis wife und one son, Schoeltz sail
ed from Germany for the United States.
Their ship touched at a Yucatan port and
Schoeltz nnd his family, together with a
number of oilier emigrants, were sold in
to slavery. Thoy remained in the inter
ior of the country eighteen months nnd
then escaped to Campache, only to be
again taken into custody and subjected
to tlie most inhuman treatment. They
wero compelled to xvork in tlie broiling
sun, without covering to their bodies.
His lvifo xvas driven into the field to work,
three days after the birth ol a child.
They were provided with but two pounds
of eornmcnl a day, and this continued
nearly two years nnd a half. When
his xvife -fell ill mid was sent to
a hospital. The husband was allowed to
visit ner occasionally, and while making
one of these visits lie fell in with a Ger
man sailor, who agreed to carry his fami
ly to Logona, whence they wero sent to
the United States, by the German consul.
Schoeltz nnd liis wife show upon thoir
persons the effect of tlie inhuman treat
ment given them.
INDIAN WARFARE.
The Pesple at Fort Meeker, li<ilnrn«lo, Ex
pecting nn Attack.
The Rocky Mountain Nowb correspond
ent, of Denver, Col., telegraphs from
Glenwood Springs the following, which
wns received from Meeker by n i ourier:
Van Chief, the courier whom Gen. West
sent out to find Sheriff Kendall, arrived,
having ridden from Kendall’s camp, n/'iir
Thornburg’s cattle ground, iu less than
18 hours, a di-tancc of 105 miles. Forty
of Kendall’s men had weakened nnd de
serted him, leaving him only 15 men. He
is greatly reduced, his horses are worn
out, and ho is working toward Meeker
for assistance and supplies. The messen
ger says tlio Utes are coming up from
thoir reservation and the Augustinus band
from Douglass creek. The worst lias
been realized and tho citizens of Garfield
county arc wrought into the highest
pitch of excitement over the fact that
tlie whole White river country is swnr
ing with Indians, und that an attack by
them is imminent on all ranches lying
away from Mocker. Tiie most thorough
preparations nro being made, and if tlie
Indians should attack, they will meet with
a warm recoption.
Fax Phnt•graphleis ef Intevr stlne Events In
Karaite, Aula, Africa, ike Dominions, noil
Ike lelonde el Ike Men.
Rev. Bam Jonos preached nt Round
Lake, N. Y., to audiences litcrnlly pack
ing tho great auditorium.
Five fatal accidents to Alpine tourists
are reported from Zurich, Switzerland,
making eighteen death* in tho Alps
within a month.
John Joyce, a well-known highway
man, was sentenced in New York to
twenty-four years and nino months in tho
State prison nt hard labor.
Russia decidedly objects toPrinco Fer
dinand occupying tho Bulgarian throne.
France tacitly backs up Russia, by de
clining to have any official relations with
the prince.
A cyclone ravaged a great part of the
southern France. It wns the severest in
the department of Ardenes, where a num
ber of houses wero destroyed and several
persons wero killed. The storm was se
vere at Bordeaux.
Tlie murderers of James B. Duvall, a
Southern man, was sentenced each to ien
years’ imprisonment at Banta Rosa, Mex
ico. A man in tho court room inndc a
very insulting remark about the dead
man and Americans genornily, and he
got ten years’ Imprisonment as well.
Tlio tenants on tho Ponsonby estate in
, Ireland, hnve engaged a civil engineer to
supervise tho construction of works of
defense in preparation for expected evic
tions. Barricades nro being eroded and
trenches and drains mado, and in cusc of
of emergency the forms will bo flooded
from the bog.
Two dynamite cartridges wero ex
ploded on the West Clare Rail way bridge
at Ennis, Ireland. No serious damago
was done. Two other cartridges wero
found on the bridge, whioh hud failed to
explode. The town hall nt Crushoen,
county Clare, wae fired into but no
damage wee done.
J. X. Page, book-keeper of the largo
wholesale stationery liouso of C. 6.
Beachman & Co., of Montreal, Onnnda,
raised a twenty-flvo dollar check to $25,-
000 on the Juques Cartier bank, ensiled
it and absconded. He has been specu
lating in the bucket shops, nnd it is said
lost $1,000 in one of the establishments.
Archbishop Corrigan, of New York, has
demauded of Rev. Dr. Curran an expla
nation of the lutter’s recent appearance
with Dr. McGlynn at a public meeting of
the United Labor party. Dr. Curran was
not penitent, and on being requested by
the nrchbishop to apologize for his action
refused to do so. Ho was then warned
not to repeat tlie offense.
JohnJ. Reily, foreman in tlio scrntch
■hop of llathbun, Sard & Co.’s, stove
foundry, disuppeured recently and liis
body was found in an oven for baking
ladles. It is presumed he went in there
and laying down, fell asleep. Firo was
started ami the door of the oven was thon
locked. His presence not being noticed,
he was baked for about forty hours.
Two Cnnadian steamers, the Hastings
and the Kathleen, were seized by the
custom-house officers at Charlotte, N.Y.
The seizure was made on the ground that
neither of the boats had bcon inspected
by United States inspectors. Tlie for
feiture is $500, nnd the boats xvoro al
lowed to return to Toronto upon giving
bonds to the umount of $1,000.
A disease said to be Texas fever, has
broken among cattle in Oswego, N. Y.
John C. Rowe brought a herd of twenty-
eight cows from Jefferson county to
butcher for market. Seven wore killed
and sold, when it was discovered that
the others had Texas fever. Tho cattle
took the disease from a pasture where a
car load of Texas cattle wore received
two months ago.
An election in Northwick division of
Cheshire, England, to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of P. Verdin, liber
al-unionist, resulted in another victory
for tho Gladstones. The votes stood;
Brunner, Gladstoninn, 5,112; Lord Hen
ry Grosvouer, liberal-unionist, 8,083.
Grosvener is a son of the duke of West
minster. In tho last election, when the
liberal-unionist candidate was successful,
the vote was ns follows: Verdin, 4,410;
Brunner, home rule, 8,008.
Tho president of the World’s Woman’s
Christian Temperance Union, Mrs. Mar
garet Bright Duetts, of London, England,
and Miss FranceaE. Willard, of Chicago,
111., vice president for the United States;
Miss Hannah Whitnll Smith, of Philadel
phia, secretary, have sent out a call to
every Christian woman in every land nnd
of every denomination who are interested
in temperance reform, to observe the 12th
and 13th of November next as days of
prayer, for tho success of the work in
which thoy are engaged.
SOUTHERN BRIEFLETS.
ITEMS FROM HERB AND THERE,
THAT INTEREST PEOPLE,
FARMERS’ COLUMN.
INTERESTING NEWS ABOUT COT
TON, RICE, CORN, ETC,
TWO RASCALS CAUGHT.
Two men havo been arrested on the
charge of being the inccndiarios who
caused the Chatsworth, 111., horror, where
nearly 150 persons were killed and 400
wounded. The authority given for tho
information is a man named L. Dobbs,
who. has been working for some time
past for a fanner named Norris Kenoya,
about three miles from Kentland, Ind.
Dobbs informed a newspaper correspond-
4-Unf tni/v men TtrOVn neT'netA/1 ah —
ent that two mfen WCTe'lirrested on Sus
picion of having set the bridge on firo.
They wero given a preliminary examina
tion before the justice of the peace, and
the proof against them was considered
strong enough to hold them in .jail, where
they are now confined pending other pro
ceedings.
FATAL SEARCH.
Several cowboys left Holbrook’s, New
Mexico, some days ago in search of a
nmu named Blevins, who hail been miss-
iug for several days. They were rein
forced by four other cowboys who joined
in the search. The next day they reached
tho residence of Tc&ksberry, in Tonto
basin. After making inquiry about the
missing man they turned to ride away,
wheu a volley was fired from the house,
killing John Paine nnd J. R. Gillespie
and severely wounding G. F. Tucker.
Tucker died before they reached the
rauche.
STARTING I
Dispatches from St. Johns, N. F., es
timate that 50,000 people in Newfound
land and Labrador are in danger of
speedy starvation, owing to the failure of
the fishing season for three successive
years, together with summer droughts,
which have intervened. The situation
could not be worse, and there is certain
■to lie widespread stnrvatien.
RAILROAD WRECK.
The Chicago limited express, which was
20 minutes behind, und running fast,
jumped the track at a “Y,” within the
city limits at Washington, D. C,, and
plunged into tho signal tower, killing
tho engineer nnd wounding 16 people,
several so severely that they may die.
The Travel by Htraiabnat and Car Hnrlsl,
Retlelon* and Trinprrxntss Mutter*—
Mldtaaiaer Madness.
A few days ago, Ernest Rogers, a *on
af 8. 0. Rogers, near Columbus, Uu.,
■tuck a large splinter in his foot, lie
was attacked by lockjaw and died.
A man named James Torroll, about 80
fears old, afflicted with cancer of tho
stomach, is kept alive by being fed with
dynamite in a nospital at Atlanta, Gn.
There is an impression in the minds of
the friends of Senator RUldlcbcrger, of
Virginia, recently arrested at Winchester,
Va., for contempt of court, that he is in-
iano.
Two locomotivo on tho E. T. V. &
Georgia Railroad collidod rccontly under
tbo Nelson street bridgo in Atlanta, and
were considerably smashed up. No per-
■on was hurt.
Prof. Calvin 8. Weld died at liis
homo in Banks county, Georgia, lie
had been teaching in northenst Georgia
for a number of years, having come South
from New York fifty years ago.
About this season of the year quite a
largo fleet of Neapolitan vessels leave for
tho Chesapeake liny ports lor cargoes of
barrel staves. The most rigid quaran
tine of these vcssols will be enforced on
account of cholera, which is epidemic in
Italy.
The family of William Turney of Mo
bile, Ala., consisting of a wife, two
daughters, two grandsons, granddaugh
ter, two foraalo and one male servant,
arc all sick from tlie effects of poisou in
cream. Tho caao of Mrs. Turner is con
sidered quite serious nnd the sufferings
of all nro vory severe.
Freight train No. 27 on tho East Ten
nessee, Virginia & Georgia Railroad, wna
wrecked by an axle breaking neur Sugar
Valley. Ga. Seven ears were thrown
from the track and badly torn tip but no
one was hurt. The top brnkemnn es
caped by jumping from one cur to anoth
er about us fast as they left the track.
Judge Lovern Bryan, n prominent
planter nnd citizen of Lumpkin county,
Ga.,died nt the ago of 84 years. Judge
Bryan was for several terms a state sena
tor, and was also a member of tlio House
of Representatives. His death is general
ly lamented, as the judge wns a vory
popular man and citizen.
James Thomas Brewor, a mailing clerk
in the Knoxville, Tenn., post-office, was
spotted on suspicion of thoft, and lie was
caught by means of decoy letters. Upon
being confronted with evidences of liis
guilt,Brewer confessed. Ho waived pre
liminary examination and gave bail in
the sum of $1,000 for his appenrnucc at
tho next term of tho United States court.
Tho jury in the Langston murder case
at Petersburg, Va., rendered a verdict of
murder m the second dogreo and fixed
the term of imprisonment at eight years
in tho penitentiary. The trial lasted ex
actly two weeks and the oourt and jury
wore exhausted by worry and heut. Five
times the jury declared thoir inability to
agree, nnd finally rendered a verdict un
der positive instructions of the court.
“Blind Tom,” under order of Judge
Bond, of the United States circuit court,
at Alexandria, Va., was turned over to
A. J. Lercho for his new committee, Mrs.
Eliza Bethune, of Now York, by J. A.
Bethuno in the United Stntea court room.
Tom nt first declined to go, but finally
reluctantly consented nnd loft for Now
York, declaring, howevor, that he would
not play again until ho came back to
Virginia.
After twenty-six years, Govornor
Richardson, of South Carolina, is about
to obey a joint resolution of the lcginla-
ture of 1801, which was indorsed and
renewed by the legislature of ’80, that is,
to present a gold medal as the gift of the
state to Gen. N. G. Evans, of the Con
federate army, for conspicuous gallantry
at Leesburg, Va., 1801. This is tho only
testimonial presented by the state to a
soldier in the late War. It will cost
$500.
A severe storm of wind, accompanied
with fierce lightning, passed over Audcr-
son, S. 0., lasting ovor twenty minutes.
Iko Sloan, a ne^ro, was standing in the
front door of his house, when lightning
struck the chimney, tore away tho man
tle and setting fire to a box on which
another negro was lying. Sloan was in
stantly killed, while the other man was
severely shockod. Tho city suffered
other damage to buildings nnd fences,
but no other persons were hurt.
Athens, Ga., wns visited by one of the
most terrific wind storms ever experi
enced by the oldest inhabitants. Large
trees and strong fences that happened to
bo in tho path of the destroying element,
wero wrenched from their places and
hurled in every direction. Several streets
were almost blockaded with limbs aud
large trees. Tlie windstorm was followed
by a very hard rain, which did consider
able dumngo to property injured by the
wind. Nearly every street in Athens is
left with some reminiscence of the storm.
Anderson county, South Carolina, votes
“no prohibition” by a majority of two
thousand. Tho election passed off very
quietly. Tho election was held under an
act, passed by tho legislature at the last
session, applicable to the counties of
Anderson and Laurens, providing that
upon the petition of a majority of the
real estate owners of the county, an elec
tion should be held to decide whether
or not the sale of liquor should be abso
lutely prohibited in nil parts of the
county, in incorporated towns at, well as
in outlyiug districts.
Frank Morton returned to his home
near Kansas City, Mo., from attending
the services of the Salvation Army, and,
iu bidding good night to an acquaint
ance, a member of the army, said:
“Good night, I’ll meet you in hell in the
morning.” He immediately fell to the
floor apparently lifeless. He was carried
to his room, and, after medical assist
ance had been rendered, he recovered
consciousness, but up to the present time
has been unable to utter an articulate
sound. Soon after his return to con
sciousness he wrote on a slip of paper:
“I did not know I wns so near hell.”
The Salvation Army are making great
capital of the circumstance.
The Warlil’s Visible Mnp|llj> H CMtsn-Tnv
ble Ernm the Recent Errshrts—Itepeet sf
the United Stntea Signal Office.
AUaUHTASt IDRA.
A woll-known Beech Island, 8. 0.,
fnrmor took tho first bale of tho season
to his Augusta, Ga., factors. Tho cotton
men of Augusta generally are of the opin
ion that 1 lie receipts this year will greatly
exceed those of the past few years. In
fact, they ail seem confident that the re
coipts will not bo less than 200,000 bales.
Last year’s receipts were only about 145,-
000, whilo those of the previous year
wore obout 108,000. 1
RICE CROP DISASTER.
An earthquake does not cause greater
locnl interest in Savannah. Ga., than a
threatened disaster to the rice crop. For
some days tho planters were in stisponse
awaiting the freshet’s arrival. For a
week they have been in far greater sus
pense waiting for it to subside. At first,
nearly overy planter said that If the crop
was submerged it would bo ruined. Then,
after they lind lain awnko a few nights
thinking ovor the matter, they remem-
bfefod that an August freshet was a now
experience. What it would do thoy
could not toll. Tho probable result,
though, would be a total loss. Nino
thousand nnd somo odd acres wero under
water for several dnya. In 1881 whon
tho memorable storm came, salt wator
was backed up the river for 10 miles
above the city, and the rico crop was
ruined. In 1854, a September gale caused
such havoc that tho foreign nnd coastwise
shipments of rico from tho port the
following year amounted to only $214,-
000 against $700,000 tho preoeding year.
In 1853 2,01)0 barrels of rico wero shipped
from Savannah. From tho way tho plan
ters feel now that is quite as much as will
bo grown next year along the Savannah,
Tho planters arc discouraged, and man]
of them talk about giving up, but by
next Spring they will probably docido to
try it once mote. If tho crop proves a
total loss along to Snvannah, it will be a
severe blow to that city. Tlio first esti
mates, which put tliu probable loss at
$350,000, may be exaggerated, and it
may turn out oven yet to be too small.
VIBUILR SUrPLY OF COTTON.
Tlio visible supply of cotton of the
world, as made up by cablo and telegraph,
is as follows:
1887. 1886.
Total East India, Brazil,
otc., bales 010,100 401,800
Total American 728,800 801,588
Total visible supply. .1,844,400 1,208,888
Tho above figures indicate an increase in
the cotton in sight of 51,102 bales os
compared with tlio same date of 1880,
an increase of 14,072 hales as compared
with the corresponding date of 1885, and
a decrease of 848,320 halos as compared
with 1884.
WBATHEB CROP BULLETIN.
During the week, according to tho U.
8. Signal offleo reports, tho daily average
temperature was from 2 to 8 degrees be
low the normal in tlio states on tho At
lantic coast. It has been decidedly
warmer than usual in tho central valleys,
the daily excess tanging from 8 to 4 de
grees, nnd in the rogion from Texas
northward to Nebraska Uto daily nvorago
excess ranged from 6 to 9 degrees. In
California the daily averago temperature
was 8 to 7 degrees below tho normal.
The averago temperature for the season,
from January 1 to August 18, hns been
generally in excess from the Alieghauies
westward to tho Rocky Mountains, the
daily nverngo excess in this region rang
ing from 1 to 4 degrees. The rainfall
has been slightly in excess in tho drought
rogion of Northern Illinois, Southern
Wisconsin, Soutliorn Michigan, Northern
Indiana and Eastern Iowa; slight ex-
cesses aro also reported from Northwest
ern Missouri, Eastern Kansas, Nebraska
and Southern Minnesota, and general
rains are reported in the drought
region from Missouri and Iowa east
ward to Ohio. In all other sections
the rainfall was less than usual, except in
the eastern portion of the cotton region,
Eastern Virginia, nnd southern portions
of. Louisiana and Mississippi, where the
rainfall for the week was slightly in ex
cess. The large seasonal deficiency in
rainfall previously reported in the West
ern portion of the cotton rogion and in
the corn belt from Ohio westward to Iowa
aud Missouri continues, although recent
rains havo decreased this deficiency in the
northern portion of the corn belt. Dur
ing the pnst four weeks less than 25 per
cent, of the usual rainfall has occurred in
Southern and Central Illinois, Western
Kentucky, Southern Missouri and
Northern Arkansas. Tho weather has
been generally favorablo for all crops in
in the states on tho Atlantic coast, from
Georgia northward to New England, nnd
reports from Mississippi, Arkansas and
Alabama indicate that the weather for the
week lilts been favorable for tho cotton
crop, although, this crop needs more rain
in portions of Tennossco and Arkansas.
Less than 50 per cent, of tho usual
amount of rain was reported in the to
bacco region of Kentucky and Wcst
Tennessee during the past four weeks.
During the same period in Virginia over
75 percent, of tlio usual amount of rain
occurred, and in North Carolina, Penn
sylvania and Connecticut the raiufall tor
the month Inis been largely in excess.
ABOUT TOBACCO-
A meeting of the committees from the
various loaf tobacco markets to take ac
tion against the misleading report of the
United States Agricultural Bureau re
garding the tobacco acreage, was held in
Louisville, Ky. The meeting addressed
a memorial to Commissioner Colman, at
Washington, asking that ho furnish the
tobacco trade with statistics upon which
he founded his report. If these be found
inaccurate or wanting, or if he refuses to
furnish information, it wns decided tp
appeal for redress to President Cleveland.
REALLY DEAD.
A dispatch receivod at tho office of the
French Secretary for Foreign Affairs, in
Paris, dated at Zanzibar, states that
1 leery M. Stanley,tho African explorer, was
deserted by his escort, and massacred by
the natives.
* THE sour.
“1 am weary ef life,” said the roes
As she leaned to look over the wall;
"I am tired of the garden close,
And the birds, and the bees, and aUF*
She was plucked with a earetaM smile
As a beautiful dome went by*,
To bloom on her breast awhile,
And be cost In tbo dust to die.
"I am tired of the tree,” sold the bird,
“Of the leaves in the wind and the rain,
Of the trills and the times I havo heard
And warbled again Slid again.”
He wns shut from the sky End the star*
In a cage, like a savage thing.
And beating his breast on the bare
Hedied, with a broken wing.
"I would go to the war,” said tin boy;
“I am weary of olover in bloom;
In the rush of the battle Is joy,
And I pant for a sabre and plume.”
In the face of the foeman he led—
To the wall of the wounded, the moan
Of tho dying—and over the dead
He mounted the steps of a throna
For the soul is a thing that grt»ws—
Tho soul is a deathless flame;
In the king and the bird and the rose
It wss ever the one and tlie same.
It was born of a beam of the sun,
From tho heart of the blossom it passed
To the bird and tlio boy, where it won
The glory it pinod for, at lost.
—Minni* Irving.
PITH AND POINT.
A deep mystery—Tho bed of tho ocean.
—Stockton Prodigal.
Whoro there is a deficiency of brain
you will generally find a preponderance
of collur.—Peoria Call.
A Texas photographer advertises to
“take a photograph as quick as a mule
can kick.”—Burlington Free 1‘rets.
To the crook that dines in a restaurant
the silvpr spoons are liko some kinds of
medicine—to bo taken after meals.—St.
Paul Herald:
A married man remarks that, tho prin
cipal difference between a man’s hat and
a woman’s bonnet is about $12.—Minne
apolis Journal.
“There he goes l” We knew a man
once who said it was tho height of his
ambition to hear the people say of him:
“Thore he goes." Ono day his ambition
was gratified, but ho woe going to the
penitentiary.—S{flingt
A Philadelphia paper says there is
enough beer consumed in tlio United
States every year to float all tho navies in
the world. That’s nothiug. Twenty
ichooners sometimes como out of one
keg.— Washington Critic.
Omnhn wife—“What has become of
your friend, Fircatcr?” Omaha husband
—“Ho is still doing tho editorial work,
but is no longer able to hold a pen and
docs all his writing by dictation."
“Doos ho dictate to liis daughter or his
wife?" “To his daughter, of course.”—
Omaha World.
“Oh, Rowena,” exclaimed Voltigorn
Tapemeasurc, dropping on his knees
without e struggle, “your beauty fires
my heart—” “My daughter,” sold Old
Hengist Whcateorncr,entering the room*
"I will divide the contract with you; I
will fire the rest of him." Which he
did.—Brooklyn Eagle.
Cashing Big Checks.
In a gathering recently of five or six
men, most of whom aro at least reputed
to be wealthy, doubt was expressed by
each one if there is a man in New York
wh» could draw his check for $1,000,000
aad have it honored in actual cash.
One of the group, a prominent financier,
said: “I know of an instance not long
since which is a fair illustration of these
million dollar checks. A London man
had a business transaction in which a
payment was to bo made to him of
£08,000. For business reasons lie did not
wisn the cheeks to be passed as in ordi
nary business transactions. A check had
been given to him on Mills, Glynn, Cur
rie & Co., who nre tho recognized outside
bankers of tho Bank of England. He
went to them and demanded the cosh fox
the cheek. They had not so much money
on hand and were obliged to ask him to
wait until they could go to tho Bank of
England and procure it. When ho had
secured the cash ho went to tho other
bankers to make a deposit. The second
house refused to accept the monoy on
deposit until he had explained to them
in the fullest manner where he got it.
They had never had so largo a deposit
made in cash at one time. They would
not accept it without knowing where it
came from, and looked upon him _ with
suspicion for having so much cash in bis
possession until he had explained the
circumstances of his business. Of course
the Bank of England had money enough
to meet euch a check or a much larger
one, the same os the United States
Treasury would be able to meet a great
demand. But the fact that £68,000
should be a stumper for two of the big
gest banking establishments of London
indicate how small a part actual cash
plays in the business transactions of the
* day.”—New Yprk Tribune.
A Few Amiable Delaglong.
i nat our best girl is perfection per
sonified.
That our children are phenomenally
bright.
That the man who does not share our
political opinions is either on idiot or a
rascal.
That we could edit a paper with great
success.
That dullness is profundity.
That vulgarity is wit.
That our friends would get along a
great deal better if they would only fol
low our advice.
That we possess unusual histrionic
talent.
That we can prevent our son from fall
ing in love with the first girl he meets,
just as we did.—Tid-Bits.
Professionals.
“Beautiful?” said the drummer.
“Sixty birds in two hours, and only
missed two shots."
A quiet gentleman sitting in a corner
of the hotel office pui down his paper,
rushed across the room and grasped trim
warmly by the hand. “Allow me to
congratulate you, sir,” he said; “I am a
professional myself.”
“Professional sportsman?”
“No*; professional liar.”
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