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— >•« he Oconee 17* m ' 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. —--- -- - ----------------= 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 $121,- 1 THE BU8INES8 OUTLOOK. EKCOCKAOISO REPORTS FROM R. G. DOS * CO. FOR THE PAST WEEK. R. Q. Dun & Co.’s review of trade for the week says: Changes in the business world during the week, though but slight, have aU been in the right direc¬ tion. There is a little better movement of products, some improvement in crop prospects, with confidence particularly in cotton, and more and strength in the stock market, and less chance of a dis¬ turbing In withdrawal of specie for Europe. manufactures, aU changes are in the direction of improvement, and reports frem the interior indicate a volume of trade exceeding last year’s, and, on the whole, steadily increasing. Of all cities reporting dullness in this trade. week, The scarcely glad one notes news that the coke strike has ended, removes the apprehension in of closing many iron works the Pittsburg district. Prices of iron and manufactured iron and steel had been the advancing. With steady improvement io Teports of food products from the Northwest, wheat has declined about | on sales of only 8,000,000 bushels at New York, and eprn £c. on sales of 5,000,000 bushels. Oats are nearlv one cent lower and hogs 10c. per 100 pounds. In oil there is an advance of Jc., and in coffee prices have been lifted f of a cent. Sugar is nominal, with 6$ 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 [Somerville Jr