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The Oconee Enterprise.
VOLUME III.
Under the sceptre of tho Czar of Rus¬
sia live thirty-eight different nationalities,
each speaking its own language, which is
-Ic 2 “ign to all others. ’S
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According to tho Prairie Farmer * ’the
Farmers’ Alliance is actively at work in
tho West and South fighting obnoxious
trusts and other monopolies."
: ‘Flm New York Herald states that < < race
nud religious prejudices are making po¬
litical conditions in Canada that appear
to threaten the disruption or the Domin¬
ion.”
The Chilian Government has engaged
many railway engineers from this coun¬
try for the building of its new roads—
some 2500 miles in- length—from coast
cities to the interior parts.
A project is being considered for add¬
ing 250,000 acres to the irrigated area in
Egypt, the water being taken from a
point so high up on the Nile that the
canals shall never run dry.
The Prince of Thurn and Taxis has
taken his place among the comparatively
limited number of royal patentees - . This
enterprising potentate has invented ycl
another method of making paper.
Miss E. A. Southworth, who has been
made assistant mycologist at Washington,
is said to be the first woman to receive ar
appointment to a scientific post at Wash
ington. Her specialty is fungoid growths.
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As a New World correspondent,
looking from the vantage ground of the
T Isthmus of Panama itself, sums it up
that 20,000 lives and $200,000,000 have
been thrown away on the grand DeLes
seps fiasco.
Jerusalem seems now to be a rapidly
growing city. This is due to the great
number of Jews who are flocking there
yearly. They now - number 30,000 more
than the Moslem and Christian population
combined.
The reduction of the death rate for
England and Wales from 20.5 to 18.8,
has been effected between 1881 and
1887 by tho progress of sanitary science,
means a saviug per annum of $38,175,
000. This, it seems, is the money worth
of that amount of human life, at an aver
age value of $795 per life.
The year 1889 is the fiftieth anniversary
of the establishment of the penny post in
England. It was in 1839 that a coru
mitteo of the House of Commons reported
favorably upon Sir Rowland Hill’s
scheme for the establishment of cheap
postage. The bill received a majority of
100 votes and became a law on August
17, 1839 .
The death of Mrs. Hayes leaves but
five women living whose husbands wero
at any time Presidents of the United
States. These are Mrs. Tyler,Mrs. Polk,
Mrs. Grant, Mrs. Garfield and Mrs. Cleve¬
land. There arc two other women still
alive who also acted as mistresses of the
Presidential mansion—Mrs. Harriot Lane
Johnson and Mrs. McElroy. fh
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The English company who are work¬
ing the Nacoocheo mine in Georgia took
out the other day a nugget of gold weigh¬
ing 1300 pennyweights, and valued at
$2500. Not long ago they took one nug
get-that weighed thirty pennyweights,
and another of 507 pennyweights. Such
finds as these, muses the New York Sun ,
are calculated to make a fellow feel rich
streaks run up and down his back.
The determination of the Argentine
Government to withdraw its fractional
paper currency from circulation and to
replace it with an equal amount of coin
will open the way, announces the New
York Mail and Express, for the resump¬
tion of specie payments, and thus do
much to relievo the fevered and un¬
healthy condition of financial affairs in
the chief nud most rapidly growing re¬
public of South America.
The Oriental Congress which is to take
place in Stockholm, in September, willJbe
of unusual interest. Five hundred foreign*
menrbcTX have announced their intention
to take part iu the proceedings. Deputa¬
tions, single members from Persia, Arabia,
India, Egypt, Japan, China, etc., will at¬
tend, and many renowned savants of the
(ar East are expected. King Oscar is
honorary President. Several fetes will
bo given in honor of the strangers.
The German Empire does not pay its
high employes on an exfravigant scale.
Prince Bismarck receives $13,500 a year
and a residence. Tho Foreign Secretary
gets $12,500 including free quarters. The
State Secretary $9000 including free
quarters. Tho State Secretary of the
Imperial Court of Justice, $6000, and n
house. Tho State Secretary of tho Im¬
perial Treasury, $5000 ami a house. The
State Postmaster-General, $6000 and n
house. Tho Minister of War, $9000
with a house, fuel and rations for night
-torses, and tho Chief of tho Admiralty
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GENERAL NEWS.
CONDENSATION OF CURIOUS,
AND EXCITING EVENTS,,
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE—ACCIDENTS, STabCBS,
FIRES, AND HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST.
Snow storms and rains prevail through¬
out Switzerland. Mountain passes are
partly blocked.
Abraham Finkbone, a prisoner in Read¬
ing, Pa., jail, committed suicide Thurs¬
day by liauging himself in his cell,
day Bethlehem, issued Pa., iron company Thurs¬
a notice of an increase in
wages of puddlers from $3.25 to $3.80
per day.
Twenty-seven storekeepers and gaugers
were appointed Wednesday to take tho
places of democrats in California and
Kentucky.
A machine gun exploded on board the
France, training frigate Courens, at Hyeres,
killed Wednesday. Eight persons
were and seventeen injured.
Andrew C. Drumm, who has full charge
of the cattle commission business of A.
A- Drumm & Co., of Kansas City, has
disappeared and $15,000 with him.
The Peter Schoenhafen Browing com¬
pany, of Chicago, has been incorporated
with a capital of $3,000,000—one-half
taken in Chicago; tho other half in Lon¬
don.
Eight thousand bunches of overripe
bananas were seized by the Now York
board of health Thursday. Tbe fruit
was on the steamer Alps, of the Italy
line.
Eleven houses were burned at Fenn
ville, Mich., Wednesday night, involving
a loSs of $35,000. A tramp caused the
conflagration, jniledi and ho was arrested and
t ull According to tho latest statistics care
ffon^-A’Jrt'u^Pa.,. y compiled by the board of injury, at
Wednesday, tho num
her of lives lost in the devastated district
wag about six tbou9ttnd .
the The postoffice department has received
Milwaukee, resignation of Postmaster administration Paul, of
whose of of¬
fice was recently severely criticised by
the civil service commission.
Three young ladies—Misses Flanagan,
McCabe and Farrell ? were drowned Tues¬
day night while trying to cross Menomi¬
nee river at Ishpening, Michigan. Their
bodies have not been recovered.
Ex-Treasurer Henry F. Royce, late ol
the Wiilimantic Savings institute, w«
arrested Thursday in Wiilimantic, Conn.,
$15,000 on a new charge of embezzlement ol
from the institute and making
false entries.
W. F. Johnson & Co., leather dealers,
doing business at 244 Purchase street,
Boston,have failed. Liabilities $225,000.
The cause of the failure is the general
condition of the leather business for tho
past three years.
John. Hroneli, one of the Chicago an¬
archists confined at the prison, made a
desperate Wednesday. attempt During to commit suicide
working hours he
severed the arteries in his arm with a
saddle knife.
Twenty thousand dollars was paid out
by Treasurer Thompson, at Johnstown,
Pa., from 12 o’clock till 4 on Friday.
Work is in shape to be pushed right along
now, and the money will soon be in the
hands of the people.
Acting Secretary Batchelor has issued
an order suspending payment on all bills
against the Treasury Department for tel¬
egraphing during the current fiscal year
on account of the question of fixing
rates not beiug settled.
The New York Herald says the cotton
crop of Texas is worth $84,000,000, and
that reports of the corn, cottou aud wheat
crops have been underestimated. Such
cotton was never seen, and wheat and
oats are up to the average.
Twin children,belonging to the wife of
one of the lockedout mini r , died at Spring
Valley, Ill., Tuesday moniiug.and physi¬
cians who attendod them, pronouuccd it
a clear case of starvation. Tho mother
had but little food in tho house, and was
unable to provide sufficient nourishment
for them.
Beginning August 5th, and lasting to
August 13th, a great encampment of
Knights of Pythias will be held at Spring
Fountain Park, Ind. It will be com¬
posed of the entire Indiana brigade of
uniform rank, including sixty divisions,
and many from Ohio, Michigan, Illinois,
Kentucky and Missouri.
Exports of specie from the port of New
York last week amounted to $689,437, ol
which $163,586 was in gold consigned to
South America, nud $525,851 silver con¬
signed to Europe. Imports of specie for
the week amounted to $25,218, of which
$11,588 was in gold and $13,710 in sil¬
ver.
The assessors appointed by Governor
Gordon, of Georgia, to estimate the
value of the Atlanta & Charlotte Air
Line Railroad, made their report Friday.
The road valued their property at
$1,025,003. worth The assessors, however, find
it to be $1,809,997, a difference of
$184,094 iu favor of the state.
Tito grand national monument, in
of the pilgrims, was dedicated at
1'lymoiith, Mass., on Thursday. The
Sons and Daughters of Plymouth were
there in great numbers, also visitors from
far and near. Tho dedicatory exercises
were carried out by tho Masonic grand
lodge, according to tho ritual of their
order, and wero very interesting.
A committee, consisting of William
Onahau, of Chicago, chairman, and
Henry J. SpannhoKt, of St, Louis, ami
Daniel If. Rudd, of Cincinnati, Wednes¬
day issued a call for a general congress
of the Catholic laity of the United States
to be hold iu the city of Baltimore No¬
vember lltli and 12th, 1889, to celebrate
the centennial anniversary of the estab¬
lishment of the Catholic hierarchy of tho
United States.
Thu debt .statement i.-isned at Wash¬
ington, D. C., Thursday, shows an in
crease of debt during the month of July
to be $1,017,311.51; total interest bear¬
ing debt $895,301,886 00; total debt of
all kinds $1,010,777,309.01; total debt,
less available credit, $1,077,003,032.90;
legal tender certificates notes outstanding $340,
081,010; ing of deposit'>utalaud¬
$17,075,000; gold certificates out-
WATKINSVILLE, GA., FRIDAY, AUGUST 9, 1889.
090.47; total cash In treasury $634,728,
023.44.
The ice trust, at Indianapolis, Ind.,
which, since the beginning of the sea
son, has kept prices up to 140 per cent,
more than was charged last year, has
collapsed. Tho break resulted from an
higher. attempt by the trust to force prices still
One of the dealers refused to
agree to the proposition and withdrew
from the compact. He had previously
purchased a large supply city, of lake ice,
sufficient for the whole he states,
and he has reduced prices n early 50 per
cent., so that the public will now get the
benefit of some desperate rate cutting.
A dispatch from Kansas City, Mo.,
says: On Saturday night, ns the Wabash
express boarded pulled out of Harlem, it was
manded by two road agonts, who com¬
the passengers, at the muzzle of
two revolvers, to “hold up their hands.”
One of the men “went through” the pas¬
sengers, his one by one, while the other,with
revolver in his extended arm, kept a
watchful lookout for signs of opposition.
In this way, the plunderer secured all
the booty he could in his haste, and the
robbers had escaped. The pnssengeis
found they had been relieved of $175 in
cash and two gold watches.
A Chicago dispatch says: A terrible
epidemic of bloody flux has appeared at
Warsaw. It came on last Monday in a
light form and resembled dysentery-, but
on phase, Wednesday it assumed a more serious
and now fifteen people have died.
Four deaths occurred Thursday and four
Friday, dren. the victims being mostly chil¬
Cue hundred and eighty cases
are ror-stricken now reported. The people are ter¬
and do not know what to
make of the scourge. The disease has
also appeared at Hamilton, and it is said
to exist in epidemic form at Canton and
Yalioka, Mo.
THEY WANT ALL OF THEM.
ENGLISH CAPITALISTS SEEKING TO BUY
OUT AMERICAN COTTON INDUSTRIES.
A letter, mailed in New York Satur¬
day, addressed to the president and board
of directors of every cotton mill in Fall
River, Mass, says: “Gentlemen: It is
our desire to secure control of the entire
cotton River and manufacturing elsewhere, and property in Fall
we address you
for the purpose of obtaining your views
as to the probability of your share¬
holders, or a majority, being willing to
sell or poll their stock on a basis of mu¬
tual advantage. We are pleased to in¬
form you that tho Central Trust Com¬
pany of New York, has consented to act
as trustee in behalf of both parties.
Should the matter meet with your favor
able consideration, we will confer with
you personally in regard to details. Very
respectfully, George F. Mellen, Emerson
C. McMillan, H. B. Wilson, Committee.”
The syndicate, which has been formed,
represents principally foreign capital,
and that already the amount subscribed
is more than sufficient to buy the cotton
industry of Americs. ’Ibis is reaily
what is aimed at, aud the operations will
not. be confined to Fall River, but extend
to Lowell, Lawrence, New Bedford, and
tho best mills in tho country. The Fall
River mills have a capital exceeding
$20,000,000, and an investment probably
of $30,000,000 or more. Just how the
negotiations will be instituted will in¬
terest outsiders, as these mills are owned
by thousands of stockholders. The di¬
rectors have power to sell the mills, and,
beyond a few hundred shares probably,
little stock could be bought at anything
like the prevailing prices.
SEALING SCHOONER SEIZED.
A BRITISH SEALING SCHOONER CAPTURED
BY AMERICANS.
A dispatch from San Francisco says:
The steamer Dora arrived from Behring
sea detailed Monday night aud brought the first
news of tho capture of ;lie
British Sealer, Black Diamond, by the
United States revenue cutter, Richard
Rush, on July 11th. The Rush over¬
took the Black Diamond and ordered
her to heave to. The captain of Black
Diamond refused to do this. Thereupon
the commander of the Rush ordered the
lowering of the ports and the running
out of guns, which caused the schooner
to heave to. Captain Shepard and
Lieutenant Tuttle boarded’the English
craft and asked for her pa] e s. The offi¬
cers of the Black Diamond offered no
armed resistance, but refused to deliver
tho ship’s papers. Captain Shepard at
onco broke open the cabin and forced
the hinges of the strong box and the
captain’s chest, thereby securing the pa¬
pers. A search of the vessel disclosed
103 seal sk,ins which had been taken in
Behring sea. Captain Shepard placed
non-Commi6sioned officer Rush in charge
of the Black Diamond and ordered tho
vessel to be taken to Sitka to await
further instructions.
SOUTH CAROLINA FRUITS.
A WONDERFUL PLENTY—PEACHES FIF¬
TEEN CENTS A URATE, ETC.
The abundance of fruit this year seems
to be general throughout the whole state
of South Carolina. In Columbia fruit
is actually a “glut” on the market.
Farmers of bring into that city wagon
loads melons for which they are un¬
able to find a market at any price. Can¬
taloupes of tho finest quality sell for a
song; the nutmeg variety is sold at fif¬
teen or twenty cents a dozen. One ol
the fruit commission merchants had a
a number of crates of peaches in front of
his store marked "fifteen cents a crate;”
they were fresh and of good quality.
Country watermelons sell for five or ten
cents. In fact there is a superabundance
of all kinds of fruits.
A COTTON TRUST.
SOUTHERN COTTON MILLS APPROACHED BT
AN ENGLISH SYNDICATE.
A format proposition has been made to
many syndicate leading Southern cotton mills by a
of English and Eastern capital¬
ists view for of the purchase of their plants »th
a tral combining in interests in one cen¬
trust company, Aho same manner
that cotton seed oil nrflls have heretofore
combined. in tho hands Tho oLifarions letters of proposal mill are
now owners
in Columbus, Ga^s No steps have been
taken, l knowing the fiT
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SOUTHERN NEWS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM VA¬
RIOUS POINTS IN THE SOUTH.
A CONDENSED ACCOUNT OP WHAT IS GOING ON OP
IMPORTANCE IN THE SOUTHERN STATES.
The fire in Pratt mines, Ala., which
bad been burning six days, was extin¬
guished Saturday.
Gen. J. R. Lewis, the newly appointed
of postmaster the at Atlanta, Ga., took charge
office Thursday.
W. H. lleywaTd, one of the richest and
times, most prominent rice planters of the olden
died at Charleston, 8. C., Tues¬
day, aged seventy-two years.
The first lot of “anti-trust” cotton
bagging in for the season was received
quite Voldosta, Ga., Saturday. It attracted
a crowd to inspect this new cover¬
ing which the Farmers’ Alliance has re¬
solved to use.
The largest gathering of farmers seen
in Charlotte, N. C., in many years,
greeted Harry Tracy, the alliance lectur¬
er fair Wednesday. Mr. Tracy spoke at the
least grounds, and it is estimated that at
2,500 farmers heard him. Much
enthusiasm was manifested.
Saturday night, at Raleigh, N. C.,
Theodore Couusil, a young man wh(
poisoned his wife with “rough on rats,’
was captured in the woods near Wii
liamstown, Martin county, A largt
number of men had pursued him evei
since the verdict of the coroner’s jury
had fixed the murder upon him. ne is
in jail and is endeavoring to appear in¬
sane. His friends claim that he is crazy.
A storm broke over Richmond, Va., on
Thursday night, during which the city
railway city limits stables, in located End, just without the
West were struck by
lightning. spread The building took fire, the
flames rapidly, and before aid ar
riyed the entire structure was consumec
and sixty mules and horses were burned
up. Seven street cars were also de
stroyed. The loss is estimated at $24,
000; insurance $40,500, all in foreigr
companies.
A fierce quarrel broke out betweer
the Smiths and Slushers, near Pineville,
Ky., over a hog worth $2. Smith's
home was attacked Saturday last by tht
Slushers and a volley poured into the
bouse which put holes through the dooi
and broke several windows. Smith re¬
taliated by putting a guard, armed with
Winchesters, on the Slushers’ road tq
Flat Lick, the nearest village. Both
sides are now well armed and are watch¬
ing for each other. ‘ -
At a house on East Lanvale street,
Baltimore, Md., a few sharp words and a
hasty u-e of a revolver and an appa¬
rently happy young dead, couple, husband and
wife, were lying each shot directly
through the heart. The house was
broken in and there stretched upon the
floor were the bodies of Mr. and Mrs.
Dolan. As there were powder marks on
the man’s shirt and as the pistol was near
his body, he is supposed to have done
the shooting.
The belief is becoming very general
throughout North Carolina that Gover¬
nor Fowle will request Dr. Grissom to
resign the superin tendency of the asylum
at Raleigh. officially The governor has no power
to act in the matter, but it is
plain that tho asylum’s usefulness is at
an end if Grissom does not resign, and
the people expect the the governor to make
the request in name of the people of
the state, and for the good of the insti¬
tution.
Martha Yorit, an old woman, was on
Tuesday placed charged in jail in Randolph
county, N. C., with murdering
her grandchild, a boy eleven years old.
While delirious the child said repeatedly
that his grandma mother had beaten him to death.
The child’s testified that its grand¬
ma was the murderer. There had leei;
a quarrel in the family, aud it is said tin
old switches woman whipped the boy with hick¬
ory until she fainted from ex
haustion. The affair is creating excite¬
ment among the citizens.
A dispatch from Tuscaloosa, Ala., re¬
ports the mysterious death at noon Mon¬
day of Arthur Fitts, superintendent ol
the Tuscaloosa cotton mills, nud son ol
J. Fitts, a prominent banker. lie was
seen last walking back and forth on the
grounds of the mills, and finally disap¬
peared under an old building. A pistol
shot was heard, and an employe found
Fitts lying on ihe ground with au ugly
wound behind his right ear, and the pis¬
tol with one chamber empty at his feet.
There is nettling to determine wRetherit
is a case of suicide or murder.
A collision occurred on the Virginia
Midland Railroad Sunday morning at
Burley’s, Va., fourteen miles north ol
Charlottesville, between two freight
trains. Fireman Ford A. Fox, of the
southbound train, was killed Instantly,
aud Engineer Charles Davis, of the
northbound freight, seriously the injured.
Engineer Ernest Hayes, of south
bound Donald, freight, missing, and Brakeman and M, A. Mc¬
be under are the Fireman are supposed to
McClain, wreck. Kelly and
Brakeman both of Alexandria,
are also badly injured.
THEY OBJECT.
NORTH CAROLINIANS DON’T LIKE TOO
MUCH INDI AN AMONGST TUKM.
The people living in the territory oc¬
cupied Indians by the eastern baud of Cherokee
which live in Jackson, Macon,
Graham and Cherokee counties, North
Carolina, tiro greatly excited over the
announcement that Geronimo ami his
band of Indians are to bt' located on a
reservation in Swain county. Tho
Cherokee, oppose the plan, and tho sen¬
timent of the white settlers is strongly
opposed to it. The people realize that
the government has this baud on its
hands and must do something with it,
aud these Indians are now, and will bo in
the future 1 , treated as prisoners of war,
with an armed military guard over them.
In that cast- they can’t see the need for
quite Vr so much land. There are 425 of
band, 75 beiug children of school
‘go. From 6,000 to 10,000 acres of laud
looks like a pretty big allotment, the peo
pie sny^
It is J .....-unfortiVfttcthmy (hr the ports
U rhv 7 for -^ iau
RUSHING WATERS.
GREAT FRESHET IS VIRGINIA— HOUSES AND
STREETS FLOOD ED—UNTOLD DAMAGE.
Keports river from Richmond, Yu., gay that
the James is seventeen feet above
the ordinary low watermark, and rising
four inches per hour. The wharves at
Rocketts are all under water and adja
cent streets, houses and cellars and the
gas works are inundated. A number of
business houses had to suspend trade and
move their effects in consequence of
Schoekoc creek backing up water from
the river and overflowing their premises,
Indications point to a freshet equal to
the greatest for years. Reports through
out the state, though meagre, lead to the
belief that ail the streams are swollen,
At Fredericksburg the lower portion of
the city is submerged from high water
in the Rappahanock, and merchants
aBd citizens are moving their
effects to places of safety,
At Danville, Thursday morning, there
was more water in Dan river than was
ever known before. Factories and small
dwellings ed, and the on the river be banks were flood
loss will about $ to, 000,
exclusive of the damage to the railroad.-.
Travel on the Danville and New River
road is suspended. Two bridges and
one long trestle have been carried away,
and the wires are all down. Cars on the
Atlantic and Danville track are complete
ly submerged and hidden from view.
are out of their banks. Much damage
has been done. The rainy spell which
has teen almost continuous in that loc:.l
ity for over two months, has destroyed
much of the hay crop, and wheat is now
sprouting in tbe shocks. The outlook is
g.oomy for farmers. Reports from Pail
adelphia say: Waters in the Schuylkill
nver Thursday attained the highest point
reached in this city for twenty years, in
volvingdestruction $10,000 $20,000. to property Park estimated drives
at from to
were submerged, the boathouses the flooded, river and
some of streets near backs
were under water to the depth of be
tween .four and five feet, doing consid
erable damage.
TROUBLE IN M’RAE, GA.
ORE ALAS KILLED ASD TWO OTHERS SE¬
VERELY WOUNDED.
th a.
d s 1 a °u fier b.ee'hng , 5N»to» .^-;>-Shot l of in
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J e $J. e evening man was
thPmwtnffie , . !h!t & t™* 8 1:5
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r,7fU irp« * aiu C f t ,°^ D * * nd •*'
thought the matter was ended. But few
sturtied by ,t the P rapid ’ firing ^7 of °“ pistols. e f T
fl of ™ falr * prominent citizens
dehed , each other with but a few
feet of dirt intervening — three Lsn
casters, father and two sons on the one
side, and t.m three McRaes, Edward.
r n . antra the .-the, ? K * W ™^ R hen r °t| iers cloud ap - G ol "
,n on
smoke had cleared away it was founu
?f’ M t r b E hJl l d fr MC M ^ 0 3 3 * 4
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T W S - W 1 d '^Thi
and his son Wright jn the ^SSL ieo 'c
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deep f 18 the ” d regret t0 ”' on » every thl. side that this
tragedy occurred.
A BIG GRAB.
THE BOOK-KEEPER OP A BANK GETS RICH
VERY SUDDENLY.
There was a big sensation in Wheeling,
W. Va. f Friday morning,when it became !
known that Harry Seyboid, a very popu- 1
iar young man, individual book-keeper
of the bank of Wheeling had been ar
rested for embezzling $27,000 from the
bank. On the 10th of April, a package
containing bank by $27,000 was deposited in the
and a placed prominent business man,
was in the vault
to be counted after business hours,
After the bank had closed, the man
who had deposited the package went to
get it and found it missing. The ab
sence of the package was kept quiet for
a time, being as it appeared evident that
some bolvt employe found had taken it. Harry Sev
freely. was Suspicion to be spending money
very at once rested on
him and he was arrested. He was taken
before Justice Arkle and charged with
the theft. At first Seyboid denied the
an chargo, officer but ha after finally close eonfe-sed examination to have by
taken the money. Seyboid has been in
the employ of the bank for the past
-even years, and lus books have always
been found correct at each examination.
Ue gave as a reason for taking the pack¬
age that the temptation was too strong.
THE CITIZENS ARE MAD.
BRUNSWICK INDIGNANT OVER THE EAI.SI-.
REPORT OF A YELLOW KEY Bit CASK.
Tho Athertiser and Times Ot
Brunswick, Ga., both appeared
Thursday containing strongly worded
editorials condemning Savannah'
action in regard to qunrantinc
ing Brunswick on account of the fever
minors. Further investigation proved wild
that false rumors weie started by a
drummer w ho left lu re some days ago,
and without any regard to truth circula¬
ted the report that a man named Night¬
ingale bad died of yellow fever.
A dispatch from Washington of states
that owing lo the prevalence Brunswick, rumors
< f suspicious cases of fever at
On,, the marine hospital bureau ordered
S: nitary Inspector l'osey invtstigatiou. to proceed to
ihat following place aud make an
Ihe telegram from Dr. Posey,
dated at Brunswick, Ga., was received
a* the marine hospital bureau Thursday:
The cause of tho death of B. Nightingale,
which occurred July 24th, wnslumor
i* *icuwjualarhd fever, confirmed by au
nUiv '".-Mrs V ’’u Dun woody, of ft Bur.
cases vet
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TRADE PROSPECTS.
ENCOURAGING REPORTS OP GOOD CROPS
THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY.
R- ■ *■ Hun <fc Co.’s review of trade for
the week ending August 3d, sayg; “The
country ttood begins to feel the stimulus ol
crops. New Spring wheat began
earlier to arrive than at Chicago last on the first, ten days
year. The St. Louis
corn corner ha3 no effect, and an abund
act departments yield is expected and business in all
is gaining. The North
western Miller estimates the wheat yield
ity, -t 500,000.000 bui-hcis of excellent qual
and the mills at Minneapolis are ac
t ve with water plenty. St. Paul natu
rally reports an improvement in trade,
and .Milwaukee also in all branches. At
Omaha the assurance of crops above the
average makes business excellent. In
the iron regions a distinct increase in
demand is felt, and orders for one hun
dred new locomotives were placed dur
ing the week. The eertaintv of large
traffic also has its effect upon railroad
negotiations, toward which have made progress
peace. The volume of trade
continues to exceed last year’s, at New
York, 12 {ter cent, and outside 12$ per
cent., banks. according to clearings through
Exports for July, from New York,
14$ per cent. larger than last
ve.tr, with import, 5J per cent, larger,
and these figures would point to an ex
cess of about 11,000,000 imports over
prevents better apprehension. decline The prospect is
for a of 2J cents in wheat
during the week, though corn, oats and
cotton for immediate delivery are frac
tionally higher. Pork products have
all declined a little, and hogs 20 cents
per 100 pounds. The speculative move
ment in these products has not been
large, the sales* of wheat retching 18,
000.000 bushels for the week, of corn
7,000,000 and of cotton 191,000 bales,
But coffee is three-quarters stronger,
with sales of 326,000 tags. In oil oulv
3,700,009 barrels have been sold, and the
price is about one cent lower.”
FREEMASONS GO TO LAW.
IOWA MASON'S ASK FOR AN INJUNCTION
AGAINST THE GRAND LODGE.
Action A special from Ctdur Rapids, la., says;
was begun Mon iay in the district
st
Graves and Henry Bonn, ;t, plaintiffs a«l
g ran( j officers of the Iowa consistory of
that branch of the Scottish rite of Ma
ronry, commool temporary r known as the Cereneau,
ordtred a A injunction against
tLe ™ !od of Iowa Ancient Free
and Acceptedr, “training them
f the r ' m last putting into effect the legislation ol
session of the Grand lodge refer
ric t0 Cmneatt bodies and which c m
ma “ dtd Mas. ns to leave the con
sUt0 ry of L o{ that rite under punish
raent of cxpu : s ; OQ . The petition states
that as thebo iv represented bv the plain
t[& does EOt c 3 nft . r a b;iR lodge decree
and the grand lodge or its subordinate
lodgtS higher do not confer the twenty-nine
-diction degrees, the Errand lod^e its'action has no
whatever and is
j;j ifof e . r ■ their* r v,,. r . r .- consistories' . •
£ individual and
Masonic relations an 1 hurtful of their
;1S good and reputable citizens.
,
~Th,, srsr hJ*i
, !a ,1m. f. i
for a perpetual injunction will be during
the Oct,,; term of court at Marion.
A PHENOMENON,
45 ALABAMA WELL WHICH GOES TI1ROUGH
THE PROCESS OP BREA! RING.
The Texas and Pacific Company sank
a£ »rea well some years ago near Eagle
d ‘ at Ala., in order to obtain ar
tes i an water. The well was abandoned
when it ha I been bored 600 feet, but the
tubing is still intact in it. For twelve
toars °-‘.'h day a furi us gust of air
runhes into the tubing, and toe next
twelve hours an equal,y strong gust
rus hes out. The well is supposed to
Penetrate i’.no some large subterranean
cavern which contains a large body of
' vater - This water having connection,
hy an underground {a-sage, with ihe
or the Pacific Ocean.
tu ^ e e ^ s ^owu in this cavern, a
\ acu um is underground, which is
a ^ lc lUr ru>i j n ^ through this
welI< {Uk1 * cemyerseiy, w eo the tide
comes U P- iur torwJ out t * lr °uga
the ,
same opeu-g.
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THE FLOODS.
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BKID0ES ami railroads destroyed
other serious damages.
A dispatch from Danville, Va., says:
IdofaH in this*seetion.*'V'au river"is'^tp
to h Mi water mark, and is still rising,
The bridge at Cascade, on the Danvdle
aml New River road, has been washed
awav, The'Atlantic and abo bridges over Sandy Creek,
and Danville track is
submerged for several miles, and much
damage has been done. Several wash
outs tv reported on the Virginia Mid
land toad between Danville and Lynch
burg, and trains have been stopped. by
Tiaius for Hiehmond Washington are running by the At
w ;v of and thence
Untie Coast Liue. Tho crops of corn and
tobacco on the lowlands are flooded and
scriously damaged.
DISASTER IN OHIO.
AT LEAST A DOZEN KILLED BY A RAILROAD
ACCIDENT.
A pushev,runutng wild,returning Hamilton, from
Conncrsville, Ohio, to collided
with a passenger tram. The latter wa
running at a very high speed. The
p'nee is remote from telegraph stations,
and definite news is hard to obtaiu. li
is known, however, that it was a bad
smash-up. Fireman Lee and Baggage
m.ister Shields were killed outright.
Engineer Dougherty was badly hurt, and
a Mr. Brannan, fireman, was severely
hurt. It is believed that the numb t of
killed wtnHycgnded will tu weat«>
twelve
NUMBER
SUNSHINE LAND
They cam* In sight of a lovely shore,
Yellow as gold la the morning light;
The sun’s own oolor at noon it wore,
And it faded not at the fall of night;
Clear weather or cloudy, ’twasallasone;
The happy hills seemed bathed with the sun;
Its secret the sailors could not understand,
But they called this country Sunshine Land.
What was the secret? A simple thing,
1 will make you smile when once you know
Touched by the tender finger of spring,
A million blossoms were all aglow;
Bo many, so many, so many and bright,
They covered the hills with a mantle of light;
And the wild bee hummed and the glad breeze
fanned,
Throngn the honeyed fields of Sunshine
Land.
U 0Ter the ^ we two were hound,
What port,dear child, would we choose for
onrs?
5Ve would sail, and sail till at last we found
This fairy land of.. million flowers,
Yet, darling, we’d find, if at home we stayed,
Of many small joys our pleasures are made,
More near than we think, very close at hand,
Lie the golden fields of Sunshine Land,
—Edith M. Thomas.
PITH AND POINT.
Time is money. Some car conductors
,W* beat time
^“ tlt ' s “ 0 ‘ s0 llard t0 rear-admirals,
JVeW iaTk * Vfirs -
The tombstone is about the only thing
that can stand upright and lie on its face
at £ & e same time .—Torre Haute Express.
A Pullman porter is not necessarily
dishonest because he is in the habit of
goin*- 000 through the sleepers.— Neu> Tori
Netes.
A tailor being asked if the close of the
year made him sad said yes. until the
clothes of the year are paid for .—Texas
S if tin 9 s -
“I love you well,’' the stamp exclaimed,
“Dear envelope so true;
In fact, it’s evident to all
That I am stuck on you.”
—New York Sun.
Sirs. Jones—“Your baby is very small
for its age, don’t you think?” Mrs.
Brown—“Yes, the poor darling was fed
on milk which was condensed—that’s
whv the baby is so too.”
Clerk—“Mr. Daybook, I would like
leave of absence this afternoon to attend
the funeral of a cousin.” 3D. ^Daybook
Jotat ~ Nets x
A St. Louis paper declares that no man
who claims to be a gentleman, will re
verse his cuffs. We are waiting patient
Iv to see larust.-j Chicago will gei oen for
this cruel Unneapdis W Tribune.
Her, is the reason score.
Are made a nuisance wTPwwi nh
Folks Handel it as though it was :'
A wood-pfie they ~£>»t«delphta.State. were Chopm
ned . „ anxious,despairing ^ble-“What „ . look an awfully Mrs. Good- wor
>
^ *“•** Mrs. Dabble—“Yes, I guess
she ' s stopped doing her girl.’*—New own work York and
S one lo keeping a
Of the size of her hand you may judge by
her glove;
For ^ there is needed no art:
** ^ aevet ^ ^ depthof th9
Of a maid by t£e sighs of her heart,
“Well, sir, what are your fc? prospects?
gSVSh ? ?’m i 1 * *° **
father '“- laW ’ ~ T ' me , -
Heaviest Corpse on Earth.
Elmira, N. Y., recently had one of the
heaviest corpses ever heard of in that of
John L. Lawes, who carried 640 pounds
of human flesh over to the majority. Mr.
Lawes was a very fat man.
Lawes was forty years of age. It is
only within the past three years that ho
has acquired this mountain of flesh. Ho
used be blacksmith, ... and , slight, .. , .
to a was a
delicate thing of two or three hundred
pounds. Then he began to gam from five
to ten pounds every week, until he had
progressed to a dime museum magnitude,
His appetite increased with his avoirdu
p 0 is. Two or three pounds of beefsteak
was the merest “snack” to him. Toward
the cnd 0 f his life he spent most of his
time eating.
jj e g 0t so f a ^ that of late he could
neither lie down nor walk., and he re*
quired COQSt ant attendance
tender the circumstances it would seem
^ {f j eat ii must have been a relief,
the hu3e man was c f the happiest,
beg( . natured disposition in the world.
He positively enjoyed showing his iin
rnense proportions to adminug beholders.
_ New York World.
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Americans Becoming Dark-haired and
Bine-eyed.
«• Topiuard has been making a.statist
tical inqtury into the colors of the eyes
»wl h«ir i» France, and from his 180,
000 observations he deduces many mter
esting results, one of the most curious
being that where the race is formed from
a mixture of blondes ami brunettes the
hereditary bloude color comes out in tho
eyes, and the brunette element reappears
in the hair. To this tendency probably
j s to lie attributed the rarity of a combi
nation of light hair with dark eyes. 6ev
era { observers have asserted that the
American people, who are pre-eminently
,, mixed race, are becoming a dark
haired and blue-eyed nation, and if this
be true such a development must he ow¬
ing to the working of the law formulated
by M. Topinard.
Seeing Under Water.
A leas for seeing when under water iit
described by its discoverer as producing
an effect which ja both astonishing and
delightful. It gives distinct vimmi of
objects twentvvor offended thirty feet off, the
eye’s loss sight when under
water being lieause V an entirely different
focus is p The spectacles which
provid
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