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THE WEEKLYTELEGRAPHilTUESDAY. DECEMBER 4.1888 -TWELVE PACES.
EVENTS IN GEORGIA.
Death of a Negro at the Age
of 114 Years.
J[rP ER30N COUNTY'S FIRST FAIR.
cot l P e Committee ct Sumter De-
9" Not to Cull a frimury—Mar.
c ' ringe ot Ur. Melton of Cutlt.
nert at Conyers—Notes.
CaM iiXA,N° v . 29.—Sol Hopkinj, an
1 negro, died in this county the other
f ,t the advanced age of 114 years.
4 .[itehell superior court is in session this
„cek. The civil docket haa some Tery im ‘
portant
cases, the most noted being the
n r Emmons will case. Parties from
Michigan are here who are interested in
^Judge"Bower charged the grand jury
strictly as to building a court house.
I' ke 0 ia court house was condemned two
rfjr , a go, and the authorities have neg-
iected te take proper steps toward erecting
a temple of justice. The last term, court
aas held in the dining-room of the Hotel
Georgia, the hotel then being closed. This
term it i s being held in Bennett’s Hall. It
BO w evident that a $15,000 court house
HI be erected in Mitchell within the next
**p”[ U Conaglian, an Irish peddler, met
«!th a serious accident a few days ago.
While out on n trip his horse became
frightened and ran away about a mile
rom Camilla. In his mad flight, the horse
ran headlong into a large pond, in which
the horse was drowned and Mr. Conaghan
, ss near frozen when assistance arrived.
Mr. Mac Davis, while returning from
Albany a few days ago, was accidentally
thrown from his buggy, sustaining pam-
tul injuries. His right shoulder-blade was
fractured by the fall. ,
I am sorry to say that Dr. G. B Twitty
is confined, and has been for several days,
to his room from general physical debility.
Rev. Mr. Hoggard of this town, who was
severely stricken by paralysis some months
igo, is able to be out regularly, and has
ilmost entirely recovered. _ .
Mr. J. L. Johnson of Savannah is in
'own, having business in court.
Mr. A. J. Craven left today Sot Au
gusts, thence to go to Charlotte, S. C.
where he will make his future home.
Mr. Wim Cullin, the depet agent at
this place, will be removed from hero to
Gainesville, Fla. His successor is not
known at this time.
AMERICUS AFFAIRS,
How Thanksgiving Hay WasObserved—The
Campaign fur County Ofllces.
AMEJUCV8, Nov. 29.—Thanksgiving was
very generally observed here today.
Nearly all of the leading business houses
were closed. Several parties went out in
organized excursions to the country.
The directors of the Americus, Preston
ami Lumpkin railroad, the officers of the
Investment company and invited guests
have gone over in a special train to spend
the day in Cordele. Rev. A. B. Campbell
accompanied the party and held Thanks
giving services in the church at Cordele,
Prof. W. K. Wheatley also accompanied
the company, with his artist’s outfit, and
will take a number of views of Cordele
and surroundings, including the now
almost famous Joe Brown residence.
The county executive committee lias de
cided not to order an eiceiiuu to nominate
candidates for the various county offices,
Quite a number of candidates have an-
nounced their names in print—three for
iberifl, three for ordinary and three for
tax receiver. As yet Col. T. M. Furlow,
tax collector, and J. II. Allen, clerk of the
court, have no opposition.
Ferry Notes,
Pkrhy, Nov. 29.—The people of our
town, as is their good custom, observed
Thanksgiving day. The schools were dis
missed for the day and the stores closed
during the hour for church services -*
least. The small boy opened the day
the woods inquest of birds, squirrels, etc.,
■ad the volume and sincerity of his thanks
depended to some extent on the contents of
hi* game bag when he returned.
Mr. L. F. Cater has just returned from
the Chattahoochee Valley Exposition.
Miss Marion Jones of Fort Valley, is
Perry, the guest of Mrs. C. H. Moore.
, Miss Gena Kendrick of Henderson,
la Perry visiting relatives.
The Recherche Club held a very success
ful and enjovuble meeting Monday even
ing at the residence of Dr. J. P. Smith
Jefferson County Fair.
Moxley, Nov. 29 —The county fair —
Jeffeison county was held yesterday. The
exhibits were not as full as they might
have been, but were very fine. The agri-
eahural department was conclusive proof
that old Jefferson can have her cribs at
home. The chickens were of the finest,
*“d the stock ahow could not be beaten in
*“T county in Georgia. The track being
uncompleted, there were no races. There
*.** 1 large crowd at the fair ground, and
pronounced the fair a success. All
premiums were paid, and some money left
over. 1
Marriage at Conjera.
Conyers, Nov. 29.—Dr. Miles G Melton
of Cuthbert, Ga., was married here last
hight to MUs Alice Lawson, a charming
Joung lady of this place, Rev. J. L. Pierce
oScistiog, The happy couple will leave
home * or Cuthbert, their future
, '■“a.iinu for city officers here <*...
“** place (gaturday. There are two can-
Km* * or ““Jor, Col. J. C. Barton and
.’£*• Ayer*, and the campaign promises
tI ‘ one.
j, “"giving Jay was observed here to-
J with services at the Methodist Episco-
church.
Nylvanla Items.
bTLVAHiA, Nov. 29.—We are hating
*p le Ter Jcold weather. There was plenty
joe yesterday morning.
‘fe.apcriorcourt for the Novembir
b adjourned on Thursday evening last.
r *y. a, deal of business was disposed of
Miissi Lila Hull and Adele and Kate
til* k n l bU morning for Augusta,
’ "here they will visit the exposition.
To Locate at Sliiloh.
J«ei tTr8Bl ’ B ' , > Nov. 29. — Dr. A. II.
lluSfo* 1 locates at M)iiloh,on the Georgia
He is a young physician. \Se
Mir r-commead him ami his good wife
people of Shiloh.
OYER THE si A I K.
local Matter* of Passing Interest Gathered
From the Georgia Papers.
Mrs. Jinsey Tower died in Hart county
last week, aged 95 years.
Dr. C. T. Stovall of Vienna will donate
the ground Lr a hotel in that place.
About forty bales of cotton were burned
Elberton, Friday. All insured.
Miss Addie Wooten of Washington has
gone to New York to complete a course in
ait.
It is thought there will be no primary
in Sumter for nomination of county ofli-
cert.
Tiie Bronwood Reporter, recently estab
lished, has changed its name to.Bronwood
Clipper.
Americus has received -10,000 bales of
cotton so iar this season, and hopes to add
10,000 to the total.
Washington has received 8,000 bales of
cotton this season, as against 12,000 for
the corresponding period last year.
In a difficulty at Willingham on Tues
day between two leading citizens, Messrs.
Brogden and Marshall, the latter was
killed by the former.
A Pulaski farmer Bold 3,000 pounds of
cured bacon in Hawkinsviile last week,
and still has au ample supply for home
consumption.
At Enal, in Bulloch county, last Friday,
while Mr. William Bowen and a uegro
were at work under a large pile of lum
ber, it fell down upon them crushing them
to death instantly.
Applications have been made for char
ters in Rome by the Northwest Georgia
Coal and Mineral Company, capital $600,-
COO, and the Carroll Iron, Land and Tim
ber Company, capital $300,000.
A gentleman of Washington says that
one of his tenants will make eievea bales
of cotton—they are in sight now; but the
tenant lias managed to run his expenses
up to about all the cotton will bring.
A young man by the name of John Vance'
was in Washington Monday, trying to get
money to pay his way back to Richmond.
His arm had been scalded by the water
from an engine, and he was unable to
work.
An armed negro resisted arrest by a
posse, near Delhi, when a member of the
arresting party forced the gun from the
negro’s hand and gave him its contents, a
load of small shot. His wounds are not
serious.
The Brunswick News says that a negro
woman, on first seeing the electric lights,
said: ‘‘Lord er massy! Its a good thing
dem white folks didn’t find dis thing out
in slavery times, or dey would have
worked niggers all day aud . all night,
too.”
Mr. E. L. Little, a young farmer of
Morgan county, was bitten by a mad dog
last Friday evening. Acting on the ad
vice of friends, he went to Union Point to
test an alleged mad-stone, which seems to
have acted satisfactorily. Thus far he has
experienced no unfavorable symptoms.
At the recent term of the Liberty
county superior court at Hinesville, a ver
dict of murder was rendered against Wm.
Macon, and lie was sentenced to be hanged
January 17, 18S9.' At the same term Jake
John was also tried for murder, but the
jury made a mistrial.
At Abbeville last week two veterans
were telling stories about the heavy eat
ing they had done. One said he ate, just
betore taking a long march, seven pounds
of beef, two of pork, and three of bread,
and lie supposed the long march kept that
amount ot food from killing him.
At New Hope quarterly conference Sat
urday a resolution was introduced asking
the North Georgia Conference to take the
Broad River circuit out of the Elberton
district. li is understood that Lillie
River circuit also wishes to be again
placed in the Athens district.
Two weeks ago last Monday night,
Joseph W. Cain was married to Miss An
nie Edmondson, in the Presbyterian church
at Summerville, by Kev. \Y. A. Milner.
Her family opposed it, and they intended
to keep it a secret for a while, and, there
fore, had but one witness, John Cain;
but (he affair leaked out, and by noon last
Wednesday it was tolerably well known
about town.
Last Friday, while grinding cane, Mr.
D. 8. Hughes of Dooly county had a negro
woman feeding the cane mill. Wishing
to step off for something, the negro called
Loot, a little daughter ot Mr. Hughe*,
aged 13 years, to feed the mill for her.
Lucy, while feeding the mill, was trying
to unchoke it, and her hand was caught
and crushed by the rollers. The arm had
to be amputated above the elbow.
Mr. L. C. Tripp of Americus went up to
Audersonvilie a few days ago, r ml while
walking about the grounds of the old fed
eral prison, picked nn quite a lot of
trinkets lost there by the prisoners during
the war. Among them are a dozen or
more old brass buttons, and also a belt
clasp with the letters U. S. upon it. It is
said that after a hard rain many such
trifles as those can be picked up in the
ploughed fields about the old stockade.
About two weeks ago a couple of men
from Madison county were m Elberton
and professed to be strong friends of one
of the candidates for sheriff in Elbert
county, and pledged themselves to do all
they could lor him in his election. The
candidate, thinking they were Elbert
county men, carried them to the hotel and
gave them their dinner. His opponent
found it out and had the laugh on him for
a while, hut a few days ago the sama two
men were in town and played the same
game on the other candidate, when the
laugh was turned on him.
A pen on might search the world over
and not find another woman who is capaci
tated for managing even a stationary en
gine. The East Tennessee, Virginia and
Georgia Railroad Company can boast of a
woman of luis uaui|>uuu *u LUi
Mrs. Rebecca Boutwell, who, for nearly
thirteen years, has attended to the run
ning of the engine used in filling the tank
with water just 'below Eastman. She is
thoroughly competent to do this work,
managing the Hancock inspirator, a por
tion of the machinery used for supplying
the boiler with water, and which, it is
•sid, the inventor himself could not ex
plain.
The Elberton Gazette says: We heard
a farmer say the other day that there were
100 mouths to feed on his place. Rome
one asked him how many out of that num
ber worked, and he said about twenty, ot
different sizes. Such is not only the case
in this instance, but it is a common thing
—about a fair average proportion of thosz
who work and those who don’t work. Can
any country in the world pro.qier .where
four-fifths of the population are idler*.'
Never in the worlu. We have ween this
trouble for years. The negro is depended
on to do most of the labor on the farm,
and the men have it all to do, for the
women have about quit work, and the
children must go to school—and most of
the white people won’t work. Is it anv
wonder the country is in such a bad fix?
Let the alliance consider these things
among others.
The Chattanooga (Tenn.) Times pitches
into President William-on pretty Heavily,
and accuses him of discriminating against
Chattanooga iu.favor of Rome by running
au accommodation train from Trion to
Rome, but none to Chattanooga. Wil
liamson replies that the road cod several
hundred thousand dollars more than was
expected, and this was partly because the
construction c.inptny had to pay the con
tractors extraordinary prices to get the
work done by July 1st; that Chattanooga’s
bonds have not yet been delivered; that
the construction company would have used
the bonds in putting more trains on the
road; that the accommodation train is a
long-established train of the Western aud
Atlantic hired at small expense to run on
tn Tnon; and that other trains will be put
on as soon a* the company has the money.
A bloody fight occurred in Americus
before daylight Sunday morning, in which
the principals, Wiley Grinton and Homer
Dorsey, two negro men, were badly used
up. They had been to a negro break-
down and both were under tho influence
of liquor. A quarrel sprang up between
them over some trival matter and a light
ensued, during which Grinton whipped
out his razor and gave Dorsey a wipe
across the throat, cutting a terrible gash
several inches in lengtii and about an
inch deep. Dorsey defended himself with
a fence picket, and gave Grinton a couple
of cracks over the head that sent him to
the grass in short order. Both were car
ried to their home and their wounds at
tended to. It was reported yesterday that
each one was in a dangerous condition,
especially Dorsey, who it was thought,'
would hardly survive the terrible wound
in his throat.
On Monday evening a Mr. John Patter
son, who has been working on tho Oconee
bridge, fell from that structure and nar
rowly escaped death. The bridge men
were busily engaged in putting up the
iron bridge, and it rained all day Monday,
making the scaffolds slippery and danger-
ons. The river was swollen very much by
the recent rains, and Mr. Patterson has
been sick for the past two months with
chills and fever, winch makes his escape
all the more wonderful. His companions
were almost paralyzed with fear when
they saw him lose Ins balance and his
body sink beneath the waves of the rush-
ing Oconee, but he Boon re-appeared and
cal ed out to his friends to get the boat
ami recover his hat, that had washed from
his head when he went under the water.
Mr. Patterson seized one of thepolesof the
temporary bridge, and held on until his j
companions rescued him from his perilous
position. Strange to say, he escaped with
out a bruise, and tho reaction produced on
.his system has been so great that he is
‘rapidly recovering from the chills-
BUSKIN'S HEROINES
Wlia
TELEPHONIC REVOLUTION.
An Instrument Which Dlsponses With the
Mouthpiece nml Sound Waves.
From the Chicago News.
“Hells! hells! Ds yen hear me all
right? I am talking through 10,000 ohms
of resistance, equal to 600 miles.”
“Yes, that comes perfectly plain," re
plied the reporter, pressing a button
against his throat, near the Adam’s apple,
instead of talking to a hole in the wall.
The Lowth stettio-tclephone is a new de
parture in the field of telephony. The in
strument is a marked departure from the
Bell telephone and though it ha* no
diaphragm it transmits sounds as perfectly
as the Bell Bvstem. It is a combined
transmitter and receiver. A hollow exten-
sion.about four inches long is attached to
the receiver, from the end of whicli a
smalt buttuu iirulfuucn alighuj. This
button is placed against the throat near
the vocal chords, and the receiver is
held against the ear in the
usual maimer. When the operator speaks
the vibrations of the throat are trans
mitted with distinct clearness. The in
strument is operated, not by soundwaves,
as is the Bell telephone, but by the muscu
lar vibrations that accompany the utter
ance of words. It is claimed by the pat
entees that for this reason tho instrument
canbeustdmor successfully in longdis
tance talk ins than the old lyatim, bsoaiM'
there is no limit to the strength or number
of batteries that can be used. The dia
phragm of a Bell instrument will crackle
so loudly when overcharged with elec
tricity that the sound of the voice can not
bo heard.
He Kind* Them 111 Life and Fiction
— Matchless Swiss Typos,
in tilt course of his running commcn-
rv to Kottlielf's “Ulna” (the concluding
parts of which have just been published),
Mr. Kuikin gives somo interesting notes
ou types of noble womanhood as drawn in
various works of fiction, Bays the Boston
Herald]
"The essentially right life for all woman
kind,” says Mr. Ruskiu elsewhere, is that
of the Swiss paysanne, andOottlielf’s Fre
nch (the heroine in “Ulric") is the perfect
type of it. Hence it is after Freneli that
Mr. Knskin calls the Alpine violet in the
nomenclature with which lie has
proposed to supersede the barbarous
Latin of tne botanists. She
the entirely pure aud noble
type of the Bernese maid, wife and
mother.” . Gottbelf has joined in her, he
ow continues, “the three perfections of
omatily grace, of womanly honor and of
pure intellect." Her character is, indeed,
thus‘‘too complete to be exemplary j or
even, in the common world, credible.
Nevertheless, women of her type, and even
coming near her standard, are frequent in
the Berutse, Uri and Tyrolese Alps, and in
dedicating the pansy of the Wengern Alp
to her, I meant to iudicatc at once the re
lation of her noble strength to her mount
ain land, and the peculiar sadness and pa
tience in sorrow whicli invest her, even
througli the happiest scenes of her life,
with the purple robe of the kings and
pieens who reign at once in earth and
heaven.”
•‘But,” continues Mr. Ruskin, “the two
points of character in which _ Freneli is
eminent above even these gracious women,
such as they are generally, are iter .frank
ness—and yet command of her lips. Many
very noble women are subtle, reserved, or
inexplicable even to themselves; they
know not their own hearts, or the tendency
of their own thoughts. But Freneli knows,
always, not her own mind merely, but her
power, capacity, sensibility; knows how
truly she can love, how unwearily she can
labor, how faithfully she can keep the law
and the gospel of Christ. And further, she
is frank and simple to the utmost, eveu to
those who are Reeking her destruction. She
never designs to deceive, never loses in
anger the peace, or in jealousy the sweet-
mss, of her life and conduct. Rhe expres
ses nei her indignation nor pride to the
lover who has left her, asks for no atone
ment on his return, speaks of her own af
fection to him as quietly ns if it were a
sister's, and trusls to his respect for it to
guard him against imprudent contest with
his own fortune.”
• Mr. Kurkin then proceeds to ask “How
far the women who have this perfect
power alike over their own affections and
the expression of feeling differ in the ele
went of their nature from those whose pas
sions possets and conquer them. Alike
Scott, Gotthelf and Miss Edgeworth ar-
sume that noble training and right princi
ple cau always give the power of seff-com
maud, fchakspeare allows the passion
always to conquer in the most lovely na
tures. *. • * They are conquered by
love in an instant; and confe** It as soon
as they have the cuauce; wiiiie eveu
h’cott and Miss Edgeworth, reserved as the
affection my he, it is always deeper than
their Inver’s, ami usually anticipates
but never couqtiers their own characters or
for an instant shakes their purposes.”
But with regard to Shakspeare's types o
noble womanhood, “it isof little use,” says
Mr. RusMn, “for lessoning in ilai y life
study the thoughts or wavs of maiden*
wlio arc always dukes' daughters at the
least. Indeed, in returning to my Shale
penre alter such final reading of the real!
ties of life ns may have been permitted to
me (dazzled too easily,and too often blind
it grieves me to find in him no laborious
or Towiy ideal; his perfect snepherdess is a
disguised princess; his miracle of the
white island exultingly quits her spirit-
guarded sands to be queen of Naples, auil
cottage Rosalind is extremely glad to get
her face unbrowned again,”
Ilut the noblest types of womanhood are
not “dukes’ di lighters,” in the least. Go'tt-
hell’s Swiss heroine, Freneli, is only a
farm servant, and Scott’s Jennie Deans is
of the same type in Scotland,
For as for women’s work, says Mr.
Ruskin in a paasaga in “Fora Clavigera,”
with which we may bring hisliater notes to
a conclusion, “what should it be but
scrubbing furniture, dusting walls, sweep
ing floors, helping with the farm work, or
the garden, or the dairy ?” Take the facls
of such li f e in old Scotland, seen with
Walter Scott's own eves:
Oa reaching the brow of a bleak emi
nence overhanging the primitive tower and
DYNAMITE DEFENSE.
Zalinski and His Pneumatic
Guns.
Cheaply nml Quickly Constructed, Dyu
mite Tubes Would He More Effect
ive Than the Powder Guuh
for llarbor Defeute.
DESTRUCTIVE WEAPON OF WAR.
The inventor, James Lowth, has been
experimenting and workingon this in-
strument for over ten years. When he tiny patch of cultivated ground, he
first applied for a patent, three years ago, found f, is |„, et and t i, reo 80n8 perhaps
the authorities at Washington thought half a dozen attendant gillies, all stretched,
him a crank and refused to issue one. He half-asleep in tlu-ir tartans, upon the
attached the instrument to wires in the heath, with guns and dogs and a profusion
office and jukhd over it: “What do you 0 f game about them; while in the court-
think now?” Back over the wire came: varJi f ar below, appeared a company of
\Ve give in. It work* perfectly. { women actively engaged in loading a cart
Some of the best patent lawyers tn tue wil)l manure. The stranger was not a
country have been consaUe.! and say that )mle ut onished when he discovered, on
as the diaphragm is dispensed with, the descending from the bight, that among
irutrnment does, in any way, infringe on these industrious females were the laird’s
the Bell patents. It has been successfully own lady and two or three of her daughters:
operated between this city and Milwaukee, bn t they seemed quite unconscious ot
and it Pittsburg it worked perfectly, over having been detected in an occupa-
a line seventy-five miles m length, on tj on unsuitable to their rank, retired pres-
which were twenty-five Bell instruments. enlly to the “bowers," and w4ien they I
A company dm been organised with head- appeared in other dresses retained IV
quarters in this city, and the manufacture traces 0 [ lht . ir , norn i ng >, work, ex. J '
of instruments will soon begin. complexions glowing with a radiant fresii-
steHaHaa i„ n .„ ness, for one eveuing of which many a
_ 1 high*bred beauty would have bartered
fiMlt, half her diamonds. He found the young
Out of 2,9,3 cases admi ie.1 to the Hud- l a <lioa not ill-inlormed, and exceedingly
son River Lunatic Asylum, at lough- agreeable; and tne song and the dance
keepsie, there were fourteen barkeepers, 8et med to form the invariable termination
thirteen bookkeepers, sixteen black- 0 f their busy day*
smiths, fourteen butchers, fifty-tixearpen-1 »y on think such barbarism forever
tern, ten cigarmakers, eighty-nine clerk*, pa>t? No, my dears; it is only the bar-
nine clergymen, nineteen dres*maker», Urity of idle gentlemen that must pass,
ten engineers, twenty-mne factory opera- They will have to fill the carts-you to
lives, 277 farmers and farm laborers, drive them.”
twelve v.rdener.- ten prnceni. 791 hnli**- I ‘
kei> pe r*7 330 who dill housework, 3o6 lab-! On. Error of Judgment,
orers, thirteen lawyers, twenty-seven From Uc Pittsburg Times,
sailors, eighteen masons, fifty merchant*, LijeHalford, the President-elect’s sec-
twenty-five painters, fifteen phfsician*, retary, when managing editor of the C’bi-
twenty one seamtresses, twenty-one shoe- cago Inter < )cean, discharged a young man
makers, twenty-one tailors, thirty-eight named Melville W. Stone for what he
teachers, three editors. Of this number termed “incompetency.” Stone Rtsrtel
rom the New York Evening Telegram.
A dynamite defense.
That is what the cities of New York,
Brooklyn and Jersey City will have, in
all probability, within the next eight
months.
Ever since Lieut., nowCapt. E.L. Zalin-
ski, of the Fifth United States artillery,
began experiments with pneumatic guns
and dynamite in t834, he and others in
terested in harbor defenses, have been
trying to secure for the pneum&tio dyna
mite guu a place in the United States
forts aud fortifications along the seacoast.
The current army appropriation bill
authorizes the expenditure of $-100,000 i for
these guns, and by the middle (of this
week the war department will issue ad
vertisements for ptoposals for supplying a
certain number of dynamite)|guns and
placing them in position in several of the
principal harbors of the Atlantic sea
board. It is more than probable that one-
half of this $400,000 will be expended in
placiog pneumatic guus iu New York
harbor for the protection of the three big
cities above the Narrows.
WHO WILL MAKE THEM.
As Capi. Zalinski is the ouiy person in
this country who lias successfully solved
the problem of firing dynamite from a gun
with compressed air, and, furthermore, as
the only pneumatic guns de.igued fur this
mrpose have been built right here in
New York, it is safe to say that the dyna
mite guus whicli will be mounted in New
Y’ork harbor will be desigued by Capt.
Zalinski.
Just where there new engines of war will
be mounted has not yet been definitely
settled, but some of them will probably be
placed at Bandy Hook and others at
Willet’s Point or Fort Schuyler. They
will, it is said, be of fifteen-inch calibre,
each gun capable of throwing 1,000 pounds
of dynamite a distance of two miles.
CAfT. /.AI.lSSKl’S VIEWS.
But when the new pneumatic dynamite
guus are placed iu position at the entrance
of the harbors, what will they do? How
will they do It? is a very natural question.
A Telegram reporter called on Capt. Za
linski at Fort Hamilton and asked him
these questions, iu reply to which the cap
tain said:
“As far as we have tested the dynamite
gnus, they have done all that we ever
claimed, and while ~c arc Sir bevosi the
experimental period, we do not claim that
the dynamite gun is all that is necessary
for the defense of any harbor; we only
claim that a dynamite gun is an aerial
torpedo machine, and a valuable auxiliary
to the torpedo branch of the tetvloe. Or
dinarily, torpedoes are not laid over two
miles outside the fortifications in which
arc placed the guns, and as the dynamite
gun is effective at two mile*, it answer*
every purpose a* a torpedo or mine. Then
a set torpedo, once it is exploded, is use*
less, of course, and ha* to be replaced.
“The same way with a mine. It takes
days, and even week*, to construct a mine,
hdu li by any mi*take It VApluum, ui tiu
enemy finds it ami explodes it without re
ceiving any damage, it would not accom
plish the purpose for which it was con
structed, and the lime and labor upon it
would he lost. Thedynamitebomb thrown
from the pneumatic gun takes the pise of
the mine torpedo to a curtain extent, and
a hundred bombs can be dropped in ■ the
same spot, if s) desired, in rapid succes
sion.
ACCURACY IN FIRINO.
“Another advantage of the pneumatic
gun is that it is accurate. In firing with
an ordinary heavy gun a deflection of fif
teen minutes means at a two-mile range a
difference of about twenty-five feet, while
with the pneumatic gun the seme deflec
tion means a difference of only fifteen feet.
Then it ha< been said against the dyna
mite gun that it is fired at an an^le. while
the heavy powder gum make a line shot;
hut the fact that our gun fires at an angle
is really an advantage. The shot from a
powder gun strikes and penetrates, while
the dynamite bomb drops down on the ob
ject aimed at and creates untold damage
hv reason of the explosion.
“At present the range of the dyrnamite
gun is about three miles, but if desired the
range cau be made longer, although there
Is no need of it.
1 No bombardment it effective at a dis
tance of five, six or seven miles. For ex
ample, take the bombardment of Alexsi-
dria by the British fleet in the Egyptian
campaign. The guns were tired at a range
ot about 2,330 yards, ami bad the forts
been in possession of men whq were wortli
anything ss soldiers the bombsrdment
would not have driven them ouL
A VALUABLE AID.
“More than pneumatic guns are needed
to protect the harbors of this country, but
thev will prove a decidedly valuable addi
tion to the defense*. A few thousand
pounds of dynamite dropp'd in a judicious
manner among a hostile fleet is very apt
to cause some disturbance, and might have
the effect of discouraging some of the ene
my’s ylans. The .hot from the heavy guns
iu our forts would have about as much ef
fect on some of ths Lig foreign ironclads
as so many peas would. There are less
lhau uity Kuus iii uhiuwT
are of any real if we neeued them, and
among the half hundred are the three dy
namite guna now at FtJrt Lifayett*.”
luck Mccnoim okoi* pipe.
The dynamite guns in Fort Lafayette,
which Ca pt. Zalinski referred to, can be
money has been appropriated lor the pur-
pose of narchasinjr dynamite guns. All tho
guns called for by the recent appropria
tion can be constructed in less time than
it would take to make a single ten-inch
rifled powder gun, and when once a com
plete plant is established for the construc
tion of pneumatic dynamite guns they can
be turned out as rapidly as desired.
THE FIRST DYNAMITE GUN.
The first dynamite gun was constructed
in 1884. It was a seamless tube, twenty-
eight feet Jong and two inches in diameter,
a quarter of an inch thick. It threw pro
jectiles a distance of 2,100 yards under a
pressure of only fiOO pounds. Since the
construction of the first gun each succeed
ing one has been an improvement, until
tbe present one, which, as has been said,
can throw 1,000 pounds of dynamite a dis
tance of two miles.
The projectile fired from the dynamite
gun ia an elongated shell, resembling an
ordinary rifle cartridge, blit in place ot the
leaden ball there is a shell filled with dy
namite. What in au ordinary cartridge
would be the copper shell is in the dyna
mite projectile a piece of w»od, which acts
as a runder to the bomb. The charge it
driven from the tube by means of com
pressed air, and is exploded either by con
tact or immersion.
As A CHANNEL CLEARER.
Besides being of value as a torpedo ma
chine, the dynamite gun is of use to vessels
in clearing channels of obstructions which
have been placed in them. A bomb from
a dynamite gun striking the water within
any reasonable distance of an object, either
torpedo, mine or vessel, destroys it. No
harbor can be protected by torpedoes only,
and naval and military men laugh at the
idea of this big city depending on subma
rine mines or a few torpedoes for defense.
new yobk’s protection.
Flared at Sandy Book, two dynamite
guns could easily command the narrow
channels which afford the only passage
way for large ships iato the Narrows, while
two pneumatic guns could command the
irincipal ways oi entry through Long
slnnd .Sound. One bomb of dynamite
such us can be thrown from a fifteen inch
gun would, if properly aimed, destroy the
largest war vessel afloat, while a shot from
a powder gun would have no apparent
effect upon her.
GOOD FOR HARBOR DEFENSES.
Capt. Zalinski does not claim that his
gun will entirely take the place of the
heavy rifled powder gun*, but, as an
effective aid in harbor defenses, he thinks
that the pneumatic gun has a great future.
A NEW KXPLOslVK.
Successful KxporlniHUts With Uelllte Car
tridges in England.
From the London Saturday Review.
A distinct advance has been made in the
iuveution of new explosives in recent
years, and there can be no doubt that dy
namite. . which lias so long held the field
as a high explosive, is being seriously
threatened by competitors. The ideal ol
a high explosive—that of combining abso
lute safety witli great energy—has been
the aim oL all inventors, but until lately
Miccess hi this direction has only Wn
partial. • • • Of these “bellfte,” the
invention of M. Lamm, OT Stockholm, is
r.ne of the first practical outcomes, and
Judging from tin* very severe tests to
which it was subjected last week, both a*
regards safely aud power, it would appear
to approach nearer to the ideal than any
of its predecessor!,.
Its Snfrtv was, jtfgwfl, amply demon
strated m the experiments made last week
at Middlesbro’ under the direction of Na
pier Hake. Some carriages containing
liellite were, for example, placed on an
iron plate and subjected to the sudden
descent of a block of iron weighing over
half a ton from a hight «of twenty feet,
: r!*h the* rviiili ths! iJ.« cartridge: were
only crushed into a hard mass. Hut when
the crushed cartridges were afterward de
tonated by meacs of a fulminate, immense
energy was developed. Again, when
placed in the fire of a smith’s forge, it
simply volatilized. It* safety was also
demonstrated in a* remarkable manner by
exploding a three ounce cartridge on the
lid of a case of bellite, the effect being to
simply pulverize the wooden case and
scatter the contents.
A large number of experiments were
also made lry way of comparing its power
with dynamite, with the view to showing
the injury which equal weights of each
would inflict on steel rails and iron plates.
In tjiese it was clearly shown that, when
confined, the energy developed on detona
tion was equal to that of dynamite; but
that, when uncor.fitied, bellite apparently
did less work. This can be accounted for
by the fact that bellite is much slower in
developing its full energy than dynamite,
and thereiore less local iu its action.
Some practical tests made in the blast
ing of coal and in the Cleveland iron
mines were of a highly satisfactory nature,
both as regards economy aud adaptability;
for they clearly proved that bellite was
capable of doing the work of three to four
times its own weight of gunpowder, aud
without the objectionable result of pro
ducing those noxious fumes so character
istic oi dynamite ami gunpowder.
the cause of insanity of 1,515 was not as- the Chicago News ami made it one of the 1 ieen T! 10 *** ou ^ e lo
certained, but of the remainder 23 were most eua
made insane by business troubles, 174 by Halford
epilepsy. 200 by ill health, 202 by in- “No,”
fol properties in the West,
plied to him for employment.
^ ilh a sardonic smile,
temperance, 96 by loss of sleep, 85 by “your judgment of men if bad.”
anxiety and grief, 64 by old age, 37 by
overwork, 52
opium habit,
15 by apoplexy, 84 by injury to the head,
and 7 by poverty and privation.
52 by b
it, 9 by religious excitement.
FOR 8LEEPLF89MK88
U«« Horse ford’s Add Phosphate.
Dr. C. H. Drake, Belleville, III., says: “I
have found it, and it alone, to *>e capable of a certitk-*!
producing a sweet and oatural sleep in casee
ot in.omni» from orerwork of th. brain. w hich tb. Bntraplul prise 1. $aooooo." au
which so often occurs in active professional formation to be had bj applying to M. A. 1
and business men. phla, New Orleans, La.
Col. C. M. Wood's Lnck.
Col. Hun. 3. Wood, the tall and han<l*ome
iMtitiau' r of lit*? KuUw Houm.-, U in grest luck.
He in wealthier today, by the suiu of *•'. 0(M than
he was a week ago. He bought one-twentieth
of a ticket In tbe Ix>uUiai a State Lottery. Hu
pat it In bis pocket and was notified that the
ticket, of which he held a fraction—it was No.
7.5.h*d drawn on October 9 theflOO.uuu. 1 he
colon. 1 was not slow in rnruinun.'catlQg with
the lottery people. a*»d on Monday he r»« » iv d
led check for his »hare of the wealth,
namely. IVOOO.—Baltimore (Md.) Herald. Oct. .’I.
On l>* c. zath tccura the mammoth drawing la
“ ' —«... “i ln .
Deu-
go down to Fort Hamilton and look out
across tbe narrow channel which separates
Lafayette trom Long Island, but unless
one is told what they are, nobody would
for a moment imagine that what appears
to be three long sections of^ gas pipe
mounted on iron frames, are in reality
the mo6t destructive engines of war ever
constructed.
The largest gun and one that will prob
ably serve as a model for those which are
to be constructed for the defense of New
York harbor, is forty feet long and of
fifteen-inch calib e. It has a range of over
two miles and throws 1,000 pounds of
dynamite. The gun was originally made
for the Italian government, but the United
States may take it instead, now that the
A HULL-1*HP DILKMMA.
lie U a Passive Victim of the (SniubUng
Habit.
From the Philadelphia Times.
There is a white bull-dog now living in
Philadelphia whose case should he brought
before the ladies’ branch of the Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals for
amelioration and sympathy. 1IU name is
Pete, and in the past he has not been
wholly unacquainted with the prize-ring,
as a few scars on his body and one torn
ear surely testify. At present he is the
property of a young medical student, who
is the victim of ii consuming passion for
noker. To thU passion all hU grief is due.
It so happens that the owner’s devotion to
i he Goddess Fortune is not bounded by
his anceetrai wealth, and ine consequence
is that Pete, representing a certain mone
tary value. U continually being put up as
collateral during the progress of these in-
| ten sting games. During the past month
he has been staked at least twenty times,
and U carried off by a new owner at the
expiration of nearly each evening’s sitting.
Iking of a loyal and affectionate nature,
Pete is put in a sad dilemma by this blate
of affairs. Just as he isbeginning to love,
honor and obey a new master a bad stroke
of luck comes in, and that night he finds
himself ftlie property of another aud a
stranger. It is true, he may be back in a
day or two, but all the same it is very em
barrassing for the dog. When on the
street he has to be continually keeping in
mind whow* property he is fer tne time
being, le*t in a fit of absentmindedne**,
spying some former master, he might fol
low nim instead. Pondering so deeply
upon this subject has had the effect of
straining Pete’s brain quite severely, and it
is but right that some chaxitable society
should take the case In charge.