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VOLUME III.
Fifty millions more are added to New
Xork city’s taxable property this year.
It is proposed now in France to sub
Btitute death by electricity for the guillo
tine.
The latest syndicate is one organized
to include all the glass works in thjr
nountry.
Canada will soon have an independent
Atlantic cable to England, the $2,000,000
required having being nearly all sub
scribed .
;
Oklahoma was an unsettled wilderness
but a few. weeks ago, yet it managed to
have the biggest Fourth of July accident
Df the year.
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Over 20,000 French people have been
induced to emigrate to the Argentine
■fcpubHc, mi ,b„„,
would be awfully glad to get back to
France again.
The daily consumption of crude and
finished iron, of cheap dry goods and ol
shop and mill products generally, is
growing with amazing rapidity in all the
Western and Southern States.
Dr. Felix L. Oswald predicts in the
North American Review that the progress
of forest destruction will before long re¬
duce a large area of our farm lands to
the necessity of artificial irrigation.
At present the exports of the United
States to Chili are not far from §3,000,
000 per year, and our imports from that
busiest and most thriving of South Ameri¬
can republics are a little less than this
sum.
London Justice says that all the people
now living in the world, or about 1,400,
000,000, could find standing room withiD
the limits of a field ten miles square,and,
by aid of a telephone, could be addre,sged
by a single speaker.
English investments in Mexico seem to
be increasing with the regularity ol
arithmetical progression. In 1886 they
reached two and a half million sterling;
in 1887, five millions, and last yeai
nearly eleven millions.
The Philadelphia Record, declares that
“rthile the sunflower and the lily have
their enthusiastic admirers and advo¬
cates, the laurel is gaining ground as the
most appropriate American national
flower. If a vote should be taken it is
probable that the laurel would have a ma¬
jority over all floral competitors. ”
The state of anarchy in Hayti is pro¬
ducing its natural results. Trade is
paralyzed and the lack of all security for
property is forcing all foreign merchants
out of the country. Provisions are as deat
as they were in the early mining days in
California, and the people are in a bad
way, for they are without food or money.
The lot of the Maine peddler is not now
as happy as it has been. A law has gone
into effect which makes it incumbent
upon persons pursuing that avocation in
the Pine Tree State to provide themselves
with a paper certifying to their good
moral character and to the fact that they
are American citizens. The peddler who
lacks such a passport is to be prohibited
from peddling.
Missouri is one of the few States in the
Union which continues to pay bounties on
wolf scalps. A St. Louis paper explains
that during the war men were so busy
hunting men that they paid no attention
to wolves, which increased so vapidly as
to make sheep-raising impracticable in
some of the southern counties. In five
years, from 1870 to 1876, the State paid
out §1,500,000 for wolf scalps at §3 per
scalp. The St. Louis editor says it will
take another million and a half to exter¬
minate the wolves of south Missouri.
The Giant Diamond, lately discovered
in Cape Colony, South Africa, and now
at the Paris Exposition, weighs 180
carats, and is valued at §3,000,000. It
is kept in a glass case by itself and guar¬
dians stand around it all day. At night
it is placed in a big safo, which is simi¬
larly guarded all night. It is said to bo
of tho first water, and as pure as the fa¬
mous Regent in the French Crown
mends. It is for sale, and obnfideat
ly expected fclfltt some American in home
spun clothes and a slouch hat will come
along one of those days and buy it as a
pocket piece.
A scientific authority has figured out
the best average time run by trains in
Europe, England and Amorien, and shows
that in F.uropo the hest average has been
attained by one of the French railroads,
which made an average of fifty-six and a
fraction miles. Thoro aro four roads
represented in the Ijjpited States, and
while tho New York Central does not
show the fastest average speed for any
distance, it leads the van with an averago
speed of 41 8-10 miles per hour for 480
miles, which is about tho distance be¬
tween New York and Buffalo, and the
longest distance represented.
GENERAL NEWS.
CONDENSATION OF CURIOUS,
AND EXCITING EVENTS.
NEWS FROM EVEItrWHEBE—ACCIDENTS, STRIKES,
FIRES, AND HAPPENINGS OP INTEREST.
The Oonnellaville, Pa., coke strike is
spreading, in few and the strike will be general
a days.
A shock of earthquake was felt in the
Adirondacks, da in New York state, Satur
y morning.
The Centralia Cotton mill, at Provi
day. dence, R. I., was gutted by fire W ednes
Damage $30,000.
land“s mightiest „
master of meS form,"
will be eighty years old.
The strike in the Connellsvillc, Pa.,
coke region was made general on
Wednesday, and 1,400 ovens are idle,
Frank Collom, the Minneapolis forger,
Mrs President Harrison was summoned
on ter, Wednesday Mrs. to tbe bedside of her sis¬
Scott Lord, who is very ill ut
Nantucket.
r J he constitutional convention of Da¬
kota fixed the capital at Bismarck, and
distributed the public institutions among
the principal towns in tbe new state.
Sheriff E. C. Swain, of Paulding
his county, O., lias been found to be short in
accounts to the amount of something
be over $2,000, and his bondsmen asked to
released.
fully According to the latest statistics care¬
Johnstown, compiled by the board of injury, at
her Pa., Wednesday, the num
of lives lost in the devastated district
was about six thousand.
The high court of the order of Forest¬
ers, areenibled at Bornemouth, England,
has granted the demand of the loyal
courts of America to establish a sub¬
sidiary high court in that country.
A collision occurred on the Bichmond
& Alleghany railroad, between Nichols
and Scottsville, Virginia, resulting in the
of wrecking of two engines, and the killing
Conductor James Duval.
There was a terrific explosion of a
natural gas main in Pittsbuig.Pa., Satur¬
day evening, which resulted in tbe killing
of two men instantly,fatally injuring two
more, and seriously injuring some fifteen
others.
It is reported that prisoners confined
in Fort San Juan de Alloa, at Vera
Cruz, N. M., revolted against the offi¬
cials. Troops on duty at tbe fort shot
twenty of the prisoners aud quelled the
uprising.
The Dublin court has refused the ap¬
plication of a writ’of habeas corpus in
the case of Charles Conybeare, member
of parliament, who was sentenced to three
mouths imprisonment for conspiring to
oppose the law.
It is reported that the wool firm of
Brown, Stees & Clark, of Boston, Mass.,
is financially embarrassed. The firm is
composed of Gideon P. Brown, who is
treasurer of the Riverside and Oswego
Mill company, Edward Stees and Amaza
Clark.
W. II. Talman, a deputy clerk iu the
chancery court, Richmond, Va., who
shot himself Monday, died from the ef¬
fects of his wound Friday. Soon after
the shooting, Talman explained to his
family that it was accidental.
E. An Denny, investigation assistant of the accounts of W.
postmaster at Boone
vile, Ind., who is charged with embez¬
zlement in his office, shows that the
shortage amounts to $0,000, and may
reach move. Denny has not yet been ap¬
prehended.
The Chicago Evening Journal reports
an estimateof 150 to 175 eases of typhoid
fever on Cottage Grove avenue between
Thirty-fifth and Forty sixth streets. The
epidemic is attributed to the pollution
ol city water caused by tbe recent heavy
rains carrying sewerage out to the source
of supply in the lake.
Fire broke out in the book store of
Benrer, Batslcy & Co., in the Trentman
block at Fort Wayne, Ind., Thursday
evening. The stock was an entire loss,
reaching $40,0C0. Stern, Mautner &
Fred lick, clothing, on stock, $15,000;
Louis Wolfe & Co., druggists, damage
to stock by water, $20,000. All losses
fully covered by insurance.
Cardinal Gibbons, who returned from
Dcerpark, Me., Saturday, will be kept
busy several weeks advising with tho
committees and formulating plans for
the great Catholic liierarchsld centennial
celebration in Baltimore next November,
and other events iu connection with it.
There will be a re-arrangement of the
cathedral to fit it for the largo number
of prelates, who will take part iu the
celebration.
A mob of strikers assaulted a number
of Hungarians who returned to work at
the Oturie Blast furnace, near Pittsburg,
Pa., Wednesday morning and drove
them away. One of the Hungarians was
Deaton so badly that I10 will probably
die. A sheriff's posse thou interfered
and in a free fight that followed, Deputy
Sheriff Swoeny whs probably fatally
shot. Tho strikers wore Dually driven
off.
A cable from London, England, says:
The memorial to tbe Government, asking
tjiat Mrs. Maybrick be reprieved on the
grounds medical evidence of tho conflicting given nature trial, of the
at her has
been signed by eight hundred brokets
and merchants of Liverpool. Judge
Stephens,011 Saturday, protested in court
against abusive letters addressed to the
jury in the Maybrick case, lie said he
thought they had conscientiously done
their duty.
The finding bis of the dead bodies of Ollie
Jones, wife and two other persons,
muill was reported Thursday from Corvallis, a
town in Bitter Ro it Valley, in
western Montana, A young girl who hud
been shot in the hip was also found on
Big dole mountain. All of tbe dead bad
been shot, in the back. No further de¬
tails could be obtained as Corvallis is
without telegraphic facilities, Jones
"its married thri c weeks ago aud was on
the road to his ranchc.
Notwithstanding rtill that fr< favorable re
ports aro sent out m the board of
health at Johnstown, Pu,, there is a
great deal of sickness there. The doc
lois are so busy that they cannot attend
WATKINSVILLE, GA., FRIDAY, AUGUST 16, 1889.
to calls upon them. Typhoid fever,
malarial fever, dysentery and a genuine
ease of seurvey were reported to the
Red Cross hospital during the past two
weeks. The ease of scurvy was caused
by salt pork diet which the contractors’
men has to subsist on.
The new iron steamship “Kansas City,”
built at Roach’s yard for the New Eng¬
land and Savannah Steamship Company,
Pa., was successfully launched at Chester,
on all, Saturday. The vessel is 350 feet
over 45 feet beam and 27 feet depth
of hold, tier engines are of the tripple
expansion, surface condensing type, ’ with
33-inch and 51-inch diameter, and 51
inch stroke, supplied with steam by
eight steel boilers. She has been con
structcd to move 10J knols per hour.
Her passenger accommoflatio's are 116
first class and 120 second-c'ass. When
finished she will ply between New Y'ork
und Savannah, Ga.
The jury iu the case of Mrs. Maybrick,
who has been on trial at Liverpool, Eng¬
land, for the murder of her husband,
brought in a verdict of guilty on Wednes¬
day. tenced Mrs. Maybrick was thereupon •SC II
to death. The trial elicited great
attention both in this country and Eng¬
land. Feeling over the result of the trial
is intense, and thousands waited ihe
judge’s departure from court, and howled
with rage when he appeared. Hooting
was incessant, and there were frequent
cries of “Shame!” The crowd thieat
eued to attack the judge’s carriage, but
the police interfered. Steps are being
taken to stay the execution, further med¬
ical evidence having been secured.
A HEAVY FORGERY.
A MINNEAPOLIS LAWYER USES HIS CLIENT’S
NAME TO THE TUNE OP $227,000.
John S. Blaisdell, one of the oldest
and wealthiest citizens of Minneapolis,
Minn., Tuesday,discovered that forgeries
to the amount of $227,000 had' been
committed in his name. The forger is
a young lawyer of that city whose father
is also wealthy and prominent. Blais¬
dell had befriended the young man in
business transactions, going bo far as tc
indorse his note for $15,000. The young
man made the indorsement the basis foi
a systematic series of forgeries, reaching
the sum above mentioned. Mr. Blaisdell
discovered the forgeries merely by acci¬
dent. He at once charged the young
lawer with the crime, the latter con
fessing in the presence of several wit¬
nesses. The forger’s friends at once
took steps to hush the matter up and an
arrangement was made whereby the en¬
tire amount of the forgeries was to be
paid tion over his to Mr. Blaisdell in considera¬
of not prosecuting the young
criminal. But on Wednesday, however,
matters assumed a different phase. The
newspapers forger’s gave is the J. case Frank publicity.' Collum, The
name of
Rockwood & Colium, attorneys at 220
Temple court. The forger Inis been Mr.
Blaisdell’s attorney and was thus enabled
to have access to his papers—an oppor¬
tunity which he used for the furtherance
of his schemes. Colium is a man of
about thirty-five years of age.
A TRAIN HELD UP
WHILE nOBBEBS COLLECT EXOBBITANT
FARE AT THE MUZZLE OF REVOLVER'S.
The Rio Grande western train No. 3,
known as Mod ere, was held up near Cre¬
vasse, Col., Tuesday night, by train
robbers. Two of them boarded the bag¬
gage ciimbed car at Thompson the Springs. Tiiey
over engine, pointed revol¬
vers at the heads of the engineer aud
fireman, train. and compelled them to stop tho
They forced the fireman to at¬
tempt to chop through the door of the
express car, and made the engineer bring
a bag to hold the plunder. Messenger
Willis was ready with a magazine shot¬
gun and two self-cocking revolvers. Tho
fireman was unable to chop through the
boiler-iron door, so the robbers fired a
dozen shots through the ear. Messenger
Willis lay on the floor and was not hurt.
They gave this up and joined two other
robbers luck iu the other car. Four
went drawn, through the train with their revol¬
vers and gathered nine hundred
dollars and twenty watches. A posse
and two deputy United States mat site Is
Lake went out with Wednesday morning from Salt
blood hounds in persuitof the
robbers.
AN EXCITING SCENE.
A BALLOON BURSTS IN MID-AIR AND
CRASHES TO TIIE EARTH.
At Mount Holly, N. C., fair ground,
Friday afternoon, Professor W. Iv. Perry,
the celebrated aeronaut of tho American
Balloon company was to have made his
marvelous leap to the earth after ascend¬
ing to decending a height of thiee-qunrters of a
mile, by aid of a parachute.
When the balloon had traveled u;>wards
shout seven hundred feet the crowd dis¬
covered that it was bursting, gas could
be seen shooting out, and s >ou tho can¬
vas cloth beg in to drop. As Professor
Perry was holding on under the par -
chute, ho was not aware of his terrible
situation. The crowd became frantic
with excitement. Yells went up and
pistols were fired to attract the man’s
attention, but all of 110 avail.
balloon Soon, however, all the gas and air in tho
was exhausted, and it began to
full downward. It was too late to
loosen the. parachute from the wrecked
balloon, but for some di-tauce it was
successfully engineered. Tho balloon
causing tho paraehute to capsize, all
came down with a terrible crash to tho
earth. Tho unfortunate man was taken
from the wreck in an insensible condi¬
tion. Many of his bones were broken,
and his recovery is very doubtful.
A NEW PROCESS
MY WHICH TOBACCO CAN BE Ct’UI'D—SIN
WEEKS NAKl.lKK THAN USUAL.
The first installment of tobacco of the
crop of 1889 was marketed at Asheville,
N. 0.. Saturday. This is remarkable,
since heretofore about the 83th of Sep¬
tember has been the date of the first
sales. This difference is duo to the in-'
(reduction of a new process of curing the
Only primings, ns yet, have been
cured. The under leaves have, in that
wsotton,heretofore been cast aside as use
h'99. This first lot sold at $33 per hun¬
dred for bright wruuaors.
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.
Reports from the Virginia tobacco crop
are encouraging.
At a meeting of capitalists in Charlotte,
N. C., Thursday night, it was decided to
build a cotton oil refinery at once. It
will be located either in Charleston or
Columbia. 8. C.
About eighty gentlemen of Boston,
Mass., left that city Saturday for Shef¬
field, Ala., by special train. It is stated
that the party intend to invest heavily in
local enterprises at Sheffield.
The beading of the great tunnel at
Cumberland Gap, which unites the states
of Kentucky and Tennessee with Vir¬
ginia, was knocked in at 6 o’clock
ceremonies. Thursday afternoon, with appropriate
The Chicago delegation which lately
visited Tampa, Fla., returned home and
reported Tampa harbor as possessing su¬
perior facilities for making it -a terminal
point for South and Central America and
West India vessels.
Macon, Sunday morning in a gambling den in
Ga., Herman Bohnefeld and Levy
Loweuthal quarreled overa game of cards.
A bloody fight ensued/ in which Bohne¬
feld -was stabbed to death by Lowenthal.
Charles Camden, of Lexington, Va.,
died Saturday night of a cancer, which,
in one year, literally eat away the lower
portion of bis body, v starting in the legs.
The case resisted the treatment of the
most eminent surgeons. §|
J. F. Shillis, who opened a music
store in Birmingham, Ala., a few weeks
ago, went in debt as deep as he could
and of tbe skipped. sheriff under His shop is in the hands
attachments sworn
out by numerous creditors.
The Tradesman, at Chattanooga,
Tenn., has received authentic informa¬
tion that the coal miners of Alabama are
organizing to fight the convict labor
system and company stores, and demand
better mining laws. A 'convention will
be held in September and the struggle
will be inaugurated.
At Charlotte, N. C., the jury in tbe
case of state against Police Sergeant
Boyle and Policeman G. J. Morris, for
clubbiDg Justice Hunter, could not agree,
and the judge ordered their discharge
Sunday, entering a mistrial for Boyle.
Morris was acquitted. The jury stood
five for conviction and seven for acquit
tal.
A commission was issued from the Sec¬
retary of State’s ofiie.p.— .l Anderson, 8.
C., on Wednesday, for the Anderson
Warehouse Manufacturing Company.
The capital of the company is to be
$2,000, with the light of increase to
-$100,000. Its purposes are the erection
and maintenance of warehouses, the man¬
ufacture and compressing of cotton, and
the sawing of lumber.
The Dispatch newspaper of Montgom¬
ery, Ala., wa=, on Saturday night, sold by
its president, Colonei D. 8. Troy, to the
Advertiser. There will be no hyphen¬
ated name, and the editorial and* office
force of the Advertiser remains un¬
changed. The Dispatch is understood to
have lost over $50,000. The Advertiser
has been in existence since 1S2S, and has
absorbed over a dozen papers.
Gen. J. R. Lewis, the newly appointed
post-master and Col. A. E. Buck, a
prominent ed in effigy republican leader, were burn¬
at Atlanta, Ga., Wednesday
night. The burning was the result of
the appoiuiment, by Postmaster Lewis,
of a colored man to a position in the
registry department of the Atlanta post
office to work in the same room with a
young intendent. lady, daughter of the super¬
A horrible butchery is reported from
McDowell county, W. Ya. The partic¬
ulars are meagre. It appears that a
widow, named Giliis, lived in a remote
district of the county with two daugh¬
ters about grown. They Friday were poor, but
respectable people. the neigh¬
bors found all three dead. They had
evidently been criminally assaulted and
murdered. There is absolutely no clue
to the perpetrators of the deed.
The A dispatch Secretary from of the Columbia, S. C.,says:
State is kept busy
issuing charters and conun'ssious to the
numerous industries which arc being or¬
ganized throughout the state. Three
charters of commissions were taken out
Factory, Saturday. One for the Dekalb Cotton
at Camden, S. C., one for the
Pitdmeut Folding Grate Co., at Green¬
ville, and another for an Alliance
warehouse, to be located at Columbia.
Information was received Sunday from
the Weissinger sheriff of Bolivar county, Miss', that
who killed the editor at
llosedale, and who had escaped, took
refuge at Concordia, where, surrounded
by friends,he defied arrest. The sheriff
was powerless the fugitive and said that an effort to
arrest would most probably
result in bloodshed. Governor Lowery
replied effort that the sheriff Weissinger should and make the
to capture if una¬
ble to do this, to call for troops.
A party of representative Georgia
farmers, under eliarge of Major Oless
ner, commissioner of immigration, will
leave Atlanta, Ga., on August 31st, and
will spend two weeks in visiting state
and district fairs, experimental farms,
agricultural farms colleges, northwest. stock, d They iry and
fruit of the will
also investigate the products, that methods
and maehiiHvy of that section, they
may compare them with theirs and adopt
such of them as are adapted to the
Southern States.
A dispatch from Tuscaloosa, Ala., re¬
ports the mysteiious death at noon Mon¬
day of Arthur Kitts, superintendent of
the Tuscaloosa cotton mills, aud son of
J. Fitts, a prominent banker. He was
seen last walking back and forth on the
grounds under of the mills, and finally disap¬
peared heard, an old and building. employe A lound pistol
shot was an
Fitts lying on the ground with an ugly
wound behind his right ear, aud the pis
ol with one chamber empty at his feet.
1’here is nothing to determine whether it
s a case of suionl* or murder.
061,000. Germany’s * army last year cost $121,-
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THE BU8INES8 OUTLOOK.
EKCOCKAOISO REPORTS FROM R. G. DOS
* CO. FOR THE PAST WEEK.
R. Q. Dun & Co.’s review of trade for
the week says: Changes in the business
world during the week, though but
slight, have aU been in the right direc¬
tion. There is a little better movement
of products, some improvement in crop
prospects, with confidence particularly in cotton, and
more and strength in the
stock market, and less chance of a dis¬
turbing In withdrawal of specie for Europe.
manufactures, aU changes are in the
direction of improvement, and reports
frem the interior indicate a volume of
trade exceeding last year’s, and, on the
whole, steadily increasing. Of all cities
reporting dullness in this trade. week, The scarcely glad one notes
news that
the coke strike has ended, removes the
apprehension in of closing many iron works
the Pittsburg district. Prices of iron
and manufactured iron and steel had been
the advancing. With steady improvement io
Teports of food products from the
Northwest, wheat has declined about
| on sales of only 8,000,000 bushels at
New York, and eprn £c. on sales of
5,000,000 bushels. Oats are nearlv one
cent lower and hogs 10c. per 100 pounds.
In oil there is an advance of Jc., and in
coffee prices have been lifted f of a cent.
Sugar is nominal, with 6$ cents, quoted
as above any bid at present attainable.
The stock, market has been strong and
advancing, and money in ample supply
for commercial use is quoted at about tbe
usual rates all over the country. During
the week the treasury took in one million
dollars mure than it paid out, but mer
chaudise exports from New Y’ork for the
week were nearly 30 per cent, above last
year, with an increase of about 20 per
cent, in imports. The average prices of
commodities have slightly advanced.
Business failures throughout the country
during the week number, for the United
States, 164; Canada, 35; total 201,
against 210 last week.
A CHILD’S BONES
FOUND UNDER THE HEARTH OF A HAN’S
HOUSE AFTER EIGHT YEARS* SEARCH.
Dave Bellew and wife were arrested
den’s Wednesday, in a secluded part of Wal¬
Chattanooga, Ridge, about twenty-five miles from
H. Desver, Tenn., by Detective W.
of Asheville, N. C., and
Officer T. J. Howard, on a charge of
having murdered their five-year-old
child near Asheville, eight years ago.
In September, 1881, Beifew and his wife
lived near Asheville, N. C., and they
announced that their five-year-old child
had mysteriously disappeared. Armed
men searched the country round about
for months with no success. In rhe
spring following Bellew leiY and' went to
Texas. Bellew had built and owned the
house in which he lived at Asheville,
and sold his place on leaving. A short
time ago, having to make some improve¬
ments, the hearth in the sitting room of
the cottage was torn up. and the bones,
together ify body with clothing enough to ident¬
the of the lost child, were dis¬
covered.
TRAINS COLLIDE.
THREE I’EOFLE KILLED AND MANY OTHERS
WOUNDED.
A collision occurred near Forest Lawn,
N. J., on the Rome, Watertown & Og
densourg Railroad on Saturday morning.
The niglit express, bound west for Niag¬
ara Fails, ran into a Rochester train,
which was backing down, telescoping
four cars of the train, killing three per¬
sons and injuring many others. The fist
of dead are as follows: John Day, en¬
gineer of the steamer Hazelton, Oswego,
X. Y*.; Miss Ella Perrin, of St. Johns.
Mich.; Lowell C. Brown, Sherman, N.
Y. The list of injured are: Andrew
Tiffany, Oswego, engineer of the express:
Mrs. Lewis Moore, of Gratwiek, N. Y'.;
Miss Sarah M. Sweet, of Walcott, N. Y\ :
Frank Bell, of Sheboygan, Mich.; Mr.
and Mrs. 11. M. Perrin, of St. John
Mich.
THE ELIXIR OF LIFE
A NEW REMEDY WHICH IS COMMANDING
GREAT ATTENTION -AMONG DOCTORS.
Drs. Wilson Y'oe and Dungan, of the
Hospital College of Medicine, at Louis¬
ville, Ky., have been experimenting
with the elixir prepared according ti¬
the Browu-Sequard formula, as given iy
I he Lancet. With a rheumatic patient
seveuty years old they have obtained
almost complete *
relict. He feels youu<;
aud re-invigorated. Dr. Robert Porter
has tried the elixir in case of an asth¬
matic paralytic, who was not informed ol
the nature of the treatment. The pa¬
tient has partially recovered from paraly¬
sis, The and experiments has new energy being and strength.
are continued.
PRISONERS ESCAPE
AFTER KNOCKING THE JAILER AND Ills
ASSISTANT SENSELESS.
Friday night, at Lumberton, N. C..
Jailer Bennett, with his assistant, wan
Into the jail to serve the prisoners with
supper. When they were in the hall¬
way of the jail, three outlaw prisoners
assaulted them, knocking both senseless
to the floor with a piece of plank. They
and then opening took the the keys doors from made their pocket's
and have good their
e ape, not since been captured.
The escaped prisoners are Steve Jacobs,
15 ib Jones, and Tom Bird, The skull
of Beunctt and his assistant were both
crushed. Neither of them, it is thought,
can recover.
PINE STRAW BAGGING.
Capitalists are at Wilmington, N. C.,
for the purpose of incorporating the
American Pine Fibre company, with
ample capital to produce pine fibre bag
gtug tor covering cotton bales on a very
large scale. Great improvements have
been made of late in this new tudustry,
mid the promoters are now shipping pine
bagging daily into various sections ot the
cotton belt tor the purpose of introduc
tug the new product, which, it is
claimed, will solve tbe bagging question
ter the cotton planters of the South, and
relieve them of the exactions of the jut*
combination.
WASHINGTON, D.
MOVEMENTS OF THE
AND HIS ADVISERS.
APPOINTMENTS, DECISIONS, AND OTHER MATTERS
OP INTEREST FROM THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
Secretary Noble received a telegram
Chairman, on Wednesday, from Charles Foster,
dated Fort Gates, announcing
the successful completion of tbe Sioux
commission.
The treasurer of the United States has
issued instructions, subject to the con¬
venience of the treasury, to the assistant
treasurer of the United States at New
York, to supply notes and silver certifi¬
cates of small denominations to banks
ordering $1,060. them in sums not less than
President Harrison, on Saturday, made
the following appointments: Samuel J.
sioner Phillips, of North Carolina, commis¬
on tbe part of the United States
under the Venezuela and United States
treaty concerning the adjustment of
claims; Charles G. Pope, of Missouri,
consul to Toronto; Richard G. Lay, of
tbe District of Columbia, consul-general
a: Ottawa.
Lieut. John C. Irvine, member of the
class under instruction at the torpedo
station, Newport, has been charged with
scandalous conduct, drunkeness on duty,
neglect of duty, and absenting himself
from bis post without leave. A court
martial has been detailed to try Lieut.
Irvine on these charges, and it will cc a
Thomas vene at Newport on Wednesday. Capt.
O. Selfridge is president, end
Lieut. J. Y. B. Biecker judge advocate.
The report of Captain Shepard, eom
manding the revenue steamer Kush, in
regard to the seizure of the British
staler, Black Diamond, which was mailed
at San Francisco, in July, has just been
received at the Treasury Department.
Acting itively Secretary Batehellor refuses pos¬
that it to give it to the press, but admits
confirms substantially 'the news
paper reports concerning tbe’sei re. He
have says further, that as the que stio to
assumed political imporl 11
preferred to do nothing whatevA wi^p? :
matter without consultation tre¬
tary Windom.
The Western Union Telegraph Com¬
pany claims that it ha- the better end Of
the present controversy with the govern¬
ment. The telegraph officials say that
under the terms of the agreement be¬
tween them, certain rates have to be
fixed annually, subject to acceptance of
ail the companies interested, and that
agreement June, and that expired on the 30th of last
no contract between tbe
government and the companies is now in
existence. They are, therefore, in no
hurry to bring about a settlement of the
charge pending controversy, for they propose to
the government full commercial
rates for all telegraphic business
transacted, by them since the first of
July. During the absence of the Presi¬
dent and the members of bis official
family from Washington, the telegraph larger
business of the Government is
than at any other time, and under the
circumstances the telegraph company
professes to be willing to prolong the
controversy with the postmaster-general.
ON THE WAR PATH.
TWO FAMILIES IN SOUTH CAROLINA PRE
PARING TO EXTERMINATE EACH OTHER.
The McDow verdict, at Charleston. S.
C., seems to be bearing its legitimate
fruits, aud the nimble pistol is ence more
at work in the Palmetto state. There
has been a dozen or more shooting and
cutting scrapes in the state within the
past week. The last occurred in Laurens
county Friday, when B. W. Laugiord, a
prominent citizen, shot and killed Ben¬
nett between Langston, both white. A vendetta
the Langfords and Langstons,
has been declared, and both families are
now on the war path. In Bamberg there
is also a vendetta on between the Prices
and Stewarts, growing out of a caning
and s noting scrape that occurred sev
era! ored days ago in Charleston. The col¬
man and brother is following closely
iu the footsteps of his white brother, and
is using both the shotgun, pistol and ra¬
zor with lively effect. There have been
no less than five or six shooting and eut
ting scrapes in the vicinity of Charles¬
ton within the past three days.
USED NAPTHA FOR FUEL.
A FLEASURK BOAT BLOWS UP. KILLING
FOUR PEOPLE AND INJURING OTHERS.
On Wednesday afrernooa, bystanders
near the boat-houses at the foot of Ferry
street. Buffalo, N. Y\, heard two explo¬
sions in quick succession from the boat¬
house ju»t being built by L. B. Crocker,
in Ridge which the pleasure "yacht, tbe fedai
ing tho was explosions store ’.. tho Immediately follow¬
boat burst iut<
flames. Three of Crocker’s children, 1
daughter and two sens, were burned tc
death in the boat, aud also a carpenter,
who was at work upon it. Another
daughter and a lady friend, named Mc¬
Lean, were badly burned, but were
biowu into the water, which extinguished
the flames iu their clothing. The boat
used naptha for fuel. It is supposed
that the accident was caused when the
engineer the lit a match for the ignition ol
fuel, by the explosion of some gas,
which had leaked out. The party wore
just starting on a pleasure trip.
A DUEL FOUGHT
BY PROMINENT RAILROAD MEN, BUT NO
BLOOD W AS SPILLED.
-Mr. Pat Calhoun, of Atlanta, Ga., and
Mr. T. D. Williamson, of the Chatta¬
nooga, Rome aud Columbus railroad.
fought hundred a duel Saturday evening, just
tv vo Alabama, yards off the Georgia line,
'n on the Rome and Decatur
railroad. Mr. Williamson fired five
shots; Mr. Calhoun one. Neither of the
men received a scratch. At this point
the controversy was satisfactorily adjust
ed. The cause of the meeting was that
Mr. Williamson had denounced certain
statements made by Mr. Calhoun before
» meeting of the railroad committee as
unqualifiedly false. Owing to the prom
iueuce of tho principals, the affair has
attracted much comment and wide'spiw.d
attention.
NUMBER 29.
AN ANGRY MOB.
FIVE HUNDRED HUNGARIANS ATTACK IN¬
NOCENT WORKMEN.
the Hungarians at Morewood, Pa., where
miners were on a strike, and which
was satisfactorily Friday settled, refused to go
to work moming,because they did
not understand that the strike was set¬
tled. Hearing that the Alice and Besse¬
mer works were running, they formed a
started howling mob of about five hundred and
for those plants. The men at
the Alice mines were warned in time,and
fled. Upon reaching Tipple, the mob
tore the boards off and started the coal
wagons down the slope, to wreck them
and block the entrance so that
no coal could be hoisted.
They next made a descent upon the
store at Bessemer, and after breaking the
windows and doors open, carried off all
the bread and bologna sausage they could
find on the premises > By this time Sec¬
retary Thorn arrived, in company with
another of the leaders. They addressed
them, and finally succeeded in making
them understand that th« strike was
over in their favor.
A BOLD ROBBER.
A MAN, SINGLE HANDED, BOBS A WISCON¬
SIN CENTRAL TRAIN.
The Wisconsin Central passenger train
from Chicago, was held up and robbed
by a single man between Chippewa Falls
and Abbottsfoid, at 3:30 o’clock Thurs¬
day morning. At the hour named, a maD
entered one of the sleeping cars, com¬
manded the conductor and porter to
throw through up their hands, and proceeded to
go them. He took from the
conductor $30 and a silver watch and
from the porter a gold watch and a small
amount of money, and from a passenger
some money and a watch. He tackled
another passenger, but the latter told
him the conductor had all his money.
As a matter of fact, however, the man
had $50 0 on his person. The robber
pulled the bell rope as soon as he had
completed train the robbery, and when the
came to a stop he jumped off and
escaped.
CAN GO TO CHICAGO.
HYDROPHOBIA UNFORTUNATES WILL NOT
Have TO LEAVE THE COUNTRY.
Residents of Chicago, or elsewhere, i
who may be unforimfSte enough to be
bitten by mid dogs, will not hereafter
have to go to Paris to be treated by Pas
teur. The county’3 public service com¬
mittee Wednesday, on the recommenda-jjj,.,, 5
tioa unused of the hospital in committee, ward set apart" c ^
two rooms thirteen to
used by Dr. AntYnis Lagorce, for t’jv-est
treatmeat Pasteur’s m&thod. of hydijbphobia^aceording D2jc~^.J!orce^ept>
Dow
five years as a student with Pasteur, l iie
hospital medical staff recommended the
utility of bacteriological work and pre¬
ventive inoculation for rabies at the hos
pital, and Dr. Lagorce will undertake it.
WANT UNIFORM RATES.
A meeting of representatives of the
leading railroad lines was held in the
office of the Trunk Line Association in
New Y'ork, Wednesday. After a long
and earnest deliberation the following
lines agreed to make a uniform rate on
their various trunk lines to Southern
points: New England Trunk Line Asso¬
ciation, Trunk Lines’ Passengers Asso¬
ciation, and the Southern Association.
The meeting was called on tbe requisi¬
tion of Southern sgeuts who had consid¬
ered themselves discriminated against in
rates. The arrangement gava universal
satisfaction.
FATAL COLLISION.
Wednesday morning, at Norfolk, Va ,
while the Old Dominion line steamer
‘‘Old Dominion'' was coming up the
river, she collided with the sloop
Ella May, of Warwick county., James
Henry Coombs, captain, and two of the
jrew, colored men, were drowned.
Odd Things on the Head.
In Norway a high hat shaped some¬
thing Cossack like a flower pot is worn, and tiiF
wears a hat like a stove-pipe,
without a brim.
similar To-day among form to tho the Swiss old a Puritan hat is V, ini
It, in hat.
however, is often ornamented with
gay-colored The ribbons about it.
marabout or black priest of Mo¬
hammed, who wanders among the Afri¬
can tribes, wears upon his sable head a
white t ap and fez, sueh as he expects to
wear in Paradise.
In Mohammedan countries the tnrban
i» found. Some of these are scarfs
Others wrapped and twisted about the head.
art' combinations of scarf and
fez, with a button and tassel.
When stove-pipe iiats were first intro¬
duced among Indians they usually
punched the top out of them tire first
thing for the sake of ventilation, as they
did not care to have their heads hot.
An African hat i - in the form of a hel¬
met, woven of rushes or straw, having a
peak on top and a mask or visor extend¬
ing down over the face. There are two
holes or goggles for the eyes.
The Chinese mandarins and men of
consequence wear 1 ttle round silk skull
•aps most of the time. These are orna¬
mented on tbe top with buttons whoso
colors denote tho order or rank of tho
wearer.
A singular Corean hat is a great
round mat of straw worn by a mourner.
This goes with a costume of coarse
cloth. The hat is bound down at the
sides so as almost to conceal tho head
and face of the wenror. Ho carries in
his hand a sereen or fan, and when in
tho road any one approaches him ho
holds the screen in front of him so that
it, together with the hat, completely
conceals him.
AN INTERESTING story.
Watson—What was the largest trout
you Fly—Let’s ever caught, Fly wlutt ?
is this, see, i' day of tho week
Watson
Watson —Monday, I txdieve. But
what in the world has that to do with
my Fly—Oh, question nottf ? i
lHitter wait till *<4* only I guess yju
like to get ft* far aj
day when I tgfl
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