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IP THE MERCURY. gntered at Second-data Matter at 4A« SandcrtvIUe Postojfice April U7, ttSO. & SandersTllle, Washington County, Gi PUBLISHED BY A. J. JERNIGAN & CO. Proprietors and Editors. Subscription: $1.60 Per Yeti. THE MERCURY. THE MERCURY. pmiM EVERT TUBSE1T. A. J. JEltNlGAN <C CO., Proprietor*. DEVOTED TO LITERATURE, AGRICULTURE AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. SUBSCRIPTION! $1.50 Per Annum 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. NUMBER IT. ill Communications intended /br (Ms Power must be accompanied bp the full name ;'o/ the writer—not necessarily for publication, but at a guarantee of good faith. TYe ore in no way responsible ftf the views or opinions of terraspend ' ents. 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.” .