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VOL. XI.
gathering of buffalo bones has
m, e at Manitooa.
iecome a business
are projected it the Southern
v railroad, and
J* .7000 miles of sur
hare been made on over 6000 miles
sf it.
The English Volapuk dictionary which
be issued this year will be the first
‘fits kiml either in this country or in
p-pUnd. —
China recently received its first impor
tation of foreign soap. The Chinese
is of alkaline earth, and the mate¬
50ap washing the hands is the
rial used for
pod of a tree.
Theoldest woman’s club in the United
States is the Women's Physiological
Institute of Boston. Forty-one years
Bg o it was organized with the purpose
of promoting the more perfect hea'th of
Nouien. There is one surviving charter
member, a Mrs. Hobbs, and she is
eighty years old.
According to the Conner Journal,
Kentucky has six counties—Harlan,
Knott, Terry, Letcher, Bell, and Leslie
—that have ne' er had a church within
their borders during the sixty or seventy
years of their existence as counties,
Th s fact has been referred to the Hom<
Missionary Society.
A shipment of 150 pounds of metallic
chemically pure aluminum, the first ex
port of this metal from the United
States, has been made from Newport,
Ey., to London, England. The precious
metal, which sold at fifty cents peg
pound, was smelted from Kentucky ore
and clay by a process which is as yet te¬
dious and is kept a secret.
Recently there arrived in New York
three large steamers laden with rice
from Japan. We have always received,
says the America* Cultivator our lanjcsi
importations of rice from Patna in India,
urn! Rangoon, Burmah. Japanese rice
is the sweetest and richest in the world,
but its chief exportation heretofore has
been to Great Britain.
Th3 Interior Department at Washing¬
ton has just decided that applicants foi
patents cannot legally “part their name*
in the middle.” The case in point wai
(hat of a Miss Green, who signed her
name as N. Kate Green. The decision
is that the first name should have been
spelled out to make the claim valid.
Lawyer • who part their name3 in the
middle have been somewhat startled by
this ruling, facetious'v observes the
Timex-Democrat, and have concluded tc
be on the safe side by signing then
names he leaf ter to all legal documents in
full.
There is considerable interest taken ir
New York over the reported formation
of a new European steamship line, its
object to be tbe more rapid transporta¬
tion of tropical fruits to both the Lon¬
don and New York markets. Six new
•teamers will be specially constructed
for the service of the company, special
Mention being given to refrigerator ac-
5ommodation3, which are expected to
tdd twenty-five percent, to the value of
imported fruit3. The capacity of the
steamers will range from 1700 to 3300
tons, while their speed will be developed
beyond eighteen knots.
• The American Cultivator says: “One
of the thoughts most encouraging
to the farm-r in the heat and labor of
die field is that what he does is the es¬
sential thing for human progress. No
people can be civilized unless they are
welt fed. In improving his farming, in
making his land, flocks and herds more
produ tive, the farmer is laying deep
the foundation oa which everything
*lse is built. The prosperity of the
aation depends upon the farmer, and in
ho country in the world is this more true
than in the United States. The bulletins
of the Agricultural Department Tealiy
tells us more about the condition of the
country in all branches of trade than do
(host Presidents’ messages.”
A movement is being set on foot by
the Philanthropic Society in Paris for
providing better dwellings for Working
Men. On the occasion of the laying of
the foundation stone of the new block of
buildings for this purpose, M. Pilot, a
toember of the Institute, stated that fifty
four thousand families, comprising one
hundred and ninety thousand indi¬
viduals, are now receiving relief
from the Bureaux de Bienfaisance, the
condition of the Parisian poor hav¬
ing become much worse, owing to the
richer classes having gone to live outside
the city. Whole families in Paris, it is
•kid, live in one room. Between such a
condition of affairs and French Com
®unism we think, declares the New
York Obe*ner y it would be easy to trace
» connecting liak
CONYERS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1888,
WRECK OH TRE RAIL
MO E E LIVES SACklVICED TO
sWn CUES AXD S1GXALS.
Many I’asseagorg Maimed la ( oliisisns
East aad West.
The “cannon ball" express train, bound
Bast on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, as
it rushed at full speed into Washington,
Penn., at eight o’clock, plunged headlong
into an open switch and was wrecked. Two
men were killed and a score of persons in¬
jured. The train was In made up of four
coaches and was charge of Con¬
ductor Francis, of Cincinnati. The switch
where the accident occurred leads to what is
known as the Washington “Y.” This is built
out from the bank to the level of the road¬
bed on a trestle and the train broke through
with a terrible crash, amid the screams of
passengers and spectators. The engine, ten¬
der and baggage car went over the trestle t6
the groun I, ten feet below. The sleeping-car
half turned over on us side, and the day-coach fell
The way over the sleeping-car.
engine was demolished and the cars a
mass of broken timber. The engine tender,
baggage car and sleeper went over the trestle
ahd the day coach was hanging partly over.
The peopie of the town broke the windows
and possible. extricated Inside the passengers as of speedily the wild¬ as
the cars a scene
est The confusion fireman,William prevailed. McAufiffe, found
was
beneath the engine, breathing heavily and
almost dead. He suffered from a concussion
of the lungs, a fracture of the skull, had sus¬
tained several broken ribs and was injured
internally. 'James Noonan, the engineer,
was not so easi y found. He was buried be¬
neath his engine and frightfully the mangle Pittsburg l.
Superintendent Collins, of wreck, stated
Post Office, who was in the
that three of the injured—Fireman colored Brown,
Baggagemaster Henry and a Ohio, man
named fatally Mayes, Three of Columbus, seriously Wero
hurt. more weve
injured, while the others sustained slight
bruises and cuts.
The road surg ons and several physicians
from Washington Were summoned, and all
possible assistance was given to the wounded.
As soon as word was received in Pittsburg
Superintendent Patton and several other
leading officers started on a special train for
the scene of the accident.
Wreck in the West.
A heavily loaded train on the Chicago, St.
Paul and Kansas City Road broke in two
jienr Freeport, 111. An extra which was fol¬
lowing close behind, 'struck the caboose of the
regular,causing a wreck. Six men were in the
caboose,three of whom were killed. They were
John Brown, a stockman of Ht. Paul, Hickey, James
Orr.of Larrimer, Minn..ana Edward
of Fairbanks, Minn. The injured Were K.
H. Smith, a merchant at Stockton, whose
ankle was badly crushed, and Frank Martin,
of St. Charles, who sustained internal in¬
juries and was badly bruised. The train
uilii afi escaped
CONGRESSIONAL. 1
. :••••
Senate Proceedings.
104th Day.— Thbfirst Tuesday in Decem¬
ber next was fixed for the' consideration of
the Pacific Railroad Funding bill... .Three
pension vetoes were received from the Presi¬
dent. ... The debate upon the tariff bill con¬
tinued: Mr. Vest spoke, and was answered
by Mr. Allison. Cockerell , spoke for four
1S)5th Day.— Mr.
hours oil the Senate substitute for the Mills
bill. Messrs. Allison and Aldrich offered replied. by
196th Day.— A resolution was
Mr. Allison for a recess, to extend to Novem¬
ber 19. It was opposed by Messrs. Cockrell,
Reagan and Saulsbnry, all of Whom advo¬
cated an adjournment sine die.. .. Mr. Teller
delivered ah argument in opposition to the
financial policy of the Administration, espe¬
cially that feature of it which limits the pur¬
chase of interest beariug bonds and deposits
in banks.... Mr. George asked for an indefi¬
nite leave of absence, which resumed was granted. consid¬
197th Day. —The Senate
eration of. the tariff bilk Mr. Aldrich spoke
in reply to Mr. Vest's statements, taking Statis¬ up
the tables prepared by the Bureau of
tics. Ha was followed by Mr. Hale, who
spoke briefly in favor of the Senate bill. A
running debate between Mr. Eustis and Mr.
Teller ensued, after Which Mr. Cockrell took
the floor. Soon after the reassembling of the
Senate after the noon hour, Mr. Allison of¬
fered his resolution for a recess of Congress
to November 19, but Mr. Brown moved an
amendment to the effect that Congress ad¬
journ sine die at 1 o’clock the following Sat
urdav, which was immediately carried.
Teller brought bis _
198th Day.— Mr. up
resolution in regard to convict contracts in
the Indian Bureau, but owing to the objec¬
tion of Mr. Cockrell its consideration was
deferred..Mr. Cockrell presented a mass of
documents as additions to his tariff speech
Tbe resolution authorizing the Finance
Committee to continue its bearings on the
tariff hill Was adopted.
Honse Proceedings.
2S3d Day.— Mr. Sowden introduced a bill
pensioning all soldiers and sailors who were
disabled in the Government service, also pen¬
sioning. all soldiers and sailors of the late
■war after reaching the age of sixty-eight....
The bill providing for the electoral count was
passed without amendment.... A bill author¬
izing Rufus Hatch, H. K. Viele, Charles In
gersoll and others to construct a York bridge City across to
the Hudson River from New
New Jersey was introduced.... A bill was re¬
ferred providing for the assembling of the
fifty-first and subsequent Congresses on the
4th of March at 1 f. m., when an adjourn¬
ment shall be immediately taken until the
first Monday in December following, unless
the President ixpressas a wish to the contrary.
234th Da Y. — 1 he House refused to consider
the Eight-Hour bill....Mr. Oates called up
bis resolution for final adjournment, but no
action was taken on the subject because of a
lack of a quorum. adjournment
235th Day.— Another reso¬
lution was offered and after a sharp struggle
to obtain immediate action it was referred
to tbe Ways and Means Committee... -Mr.
Cox took the floor unfrankable on a question matter of privilege, which
and declared that
had teen sent out under h:3 signature frank was
not sent by him and declared the was
* announcement that the
233th Day. —Tbe solu¬
Senate had passed an House adjournment 1 o’clock, r and
tion was made to the at
was greeted with applause by the handful of
members present. The House remained in
session until 4:30 o’clock, but transacted no
business of importance resolution- beyond adopting the
Senate adiournment
RAILWAY MAIL SERVICE.
The Superintendent of that Depart¬
ment Submits His Report.
The annual report of the United States
Superintendent of Railway Mail Service
shows that the service is in operation on 143,-
713 miire of railroad and 5192 miles of wa|pr.
It has increased ten per cent, during the
year. There are 5094 railway mail clerks
employed. There was one error committed
to each 3701 pieces handled. During the
year there were accidents to£48 railway mad
trams, in which four clerks were killed and
113 injured.
TEE HEWS EPITOMIZED
Eastern and Middle States.
John Waters was stoned to death at
Pittsfield, whose Mass., by a party his* of drunkeu men
orgies he aud wife had inter¬
rupted.
While Mrs. William Morgan, of Donald¬
son, Penu., Was sitting in six-Ye her dining-room ir-o'.d
nursing picked her shotgun infant and her discharged it. The son
ent'r© Up a the head, face, brosst
charge entered
and shoulders of the unfortunate woman and
the back and bead of the infant, fatuity
wounding thep.n
Flit j resulting from an exp'os'ton of gas
destroyed kiu, Penn., the Cameron Co'liery at SUatuo
entailing a loss of $75,000.
A freshet in the Penobscot River has
caused great damage to pu p mi ls and paper
actories. Bingo:-, He., has been par tin. Iy
under water, and the damage to machinery
and buildings is enormous.
Charles Matthews, sixty years old. in¬
flicted thirty dift'ererii; Wbuuda in bis breast
with a knife, at 'Springiiel!, Maas., killing
himself. Besides these wounds he severed
his windpipe. He had been on a protr:; led
spree, and stabbed himself while suffering
from delirium tremens.
A murderous assault was made at, Eliza¬
beth, N. J., upon Colonel Rufus King, Jr.,
a member of Governor Green’s staff, by un¬
known thugs.
Thomas It Barnes, a, Philadelphia
butcher, ligious who has been a monomaniac on re¬
child subjects, sacrificed his only grand¬
by dropping it out of a third story
window; dishing the in ant's brains pith
In a quarrel in the Valley Iron Mill at
Pittsburg, fata ly Penn., John Matt Burns attacked and hot
iron injured Walter with a red
puddle.
Dennis Scanlon has committed su’eide at
New burg, N. Vh He tied an iron coupling pin
to his tie hand jumped off the dock into the
Hudson River.
A railroad collision near Shippenburg,
Penn., resulted in one man being killed aud a
number of persons being injured.
South anti West..
Chang Yang Huen, the Chinese Minister
to the United States, has arrived from Peril
and proceeded to Washington.
The non-fulfilment Df the full terms of his
agreement railroad by Veritas, the Chicago street
man. has led to a renewal of the
street disturbances and of the strike.
Joseph Joiner was lynched by citizens,
indignant jail Hulto, at his career of crime, on his way
to at Texas.
Lewis Edwards, a colored murderer, was
shot dead by a party of masked men who
broke into the jail at Jessup, Ga.
Hon. John Wentworth, better known as
famous “Long pioneer John,” a Chicago, wealthy citizen and Old a
of has died of
age.
The stage from Jerome was “held up”
near Sanderson Station, Arizona, by one
man. A small amount of money was se¬
cured from tbe five passengers. The mail
was untouched.
BThE low State of Mississippi has raised her yel;
fever quarantine.
A robber named Murchy, who had plun¬
dered the Manitoba House at Fargo, Dakota,
was traced to Moor Thompson he id, Minn., aud by two Poull. po¬
licemen named
Murchy was encountered in a dance house at
Moorhead. He shot Poull dead, and wounded Thomp¬
son at once got the drop on him and
him f atally in the neck
Mr. F. J. Stimpson, marine reporter of
Mackinaw City, Mich., fed out of his boat
and was drowned. He had been engaged id
his business at the straits for seventeen
years.
A gang of boy burglars broke into the
bank at Ravenswood, W. Va. , and stole
about $100. They started to drill into tbs
sate, but it was too strong for them.
Prairie fires in Oliver County, Dakota,
have destroyed an enormous amount of hay
gathered in for „ the winter. The Oliver
County Court House narrowly escaped de
struction.
Washington.
A decision has been rendered by Judg«
Sawyer in the United States Circuit Court,
San Francisco, upon two test cases under the
recent Chinese Exclusion act. The Court af¬
firms the constitutionality of the act, and
holds that all Chinese now in the San
Francisco harbor, as well as those on the way
from China, must be sent back.
President Cleveland establishment has approved of life¬ th<
act authorizing the
saving stations along the coast.
Mrs. Ada M. Bettinger, of Lincoln,
Neb., has been admitted to practice before
the United States Supreme Court, being the
third woman accorded this privilege.
The Senate has confirmed the following
nominations: Harry E. Shields, to be Re¬
ceiver of Public Moneys at Seattle. Washing¬
ton Territory; George S. Duryee, District to be oi
United States Attorney for tbe
New Jersey, and James A. Moore, to lx
United States Marshal for Nevada,
The President has returned thirteen without pri bis j
vate pension bills to Congress
approval. tht
Senor Don Pedro Perez Zelidon,
new United States Minister from Costa
Rica, has just arrived at Washington.
A resolution passed both houses of Con¬
gress providing for an immediate adjourn
ment of those bodies sine die.
The United States Treasury Department the
has dee ded that maple sugar and must be subject pay tc
same duty as other sugars
the same tests.
Foreign.
A conspiracy against the Dutch resident!
in Java has been discovered at Madion.
Forty-two of the ringleaders m the move¬
ment were arrested, and eleven others who
refused to surrender were killed. j
Forty thousand copies of Dr. Mackenzie . , i
bookonEmperorFrederiorscase have beer j
.
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asinjbledTand PremFr°Floqiiet r,f nemities haf
introduced
rnSnSmarnTdead. his bill to revise the Constitution 7
leaves^ He was seventy-;
M veny r of age and
Kinl Hum^o&and £E8S*&%
SaSaT enthusiastically re
A couBiEl 'nL'arrived from the Conge
dfaR^fM^orParfte’ot g 1
whowM killed by
a uorter in the Stan ey relief The expedition murderer is
revenre for ill-treatment been
was placed under arrest and * since
hansred.
£n r ., „ U tecS°a,- v p rT10 Peal. Consul General ol
S mmitted smeide at Que
tec bv shoot. mg. He was despondent because
of financial difficulties.
HL*vM«of Vkn-’fim Campos, hi & colored woman
are insr died at Havana
Pnha she leaves a ninety-yesr-oM son—
ter secocd one-maav craud-Aildrsn. ndchildren. great
“ gjreat-great-zr
rd'hildreu a” ve-year-old great great-great
^ twei
nri8rm .
The Afghan rising against British rule has
been crushed. Ishaks Ishaks troops troops have have sur- sur
renderedTand Ishak himself has taken refuge
In Bokhara. promoted
The Brazilian Government has
Joao Arthur de Souza Correia Minister resi¬
dent at Madrid, to be Eu oy Extrsordinary
and Minister Plenipotentiary at Washing
ton.
Emperor William of Germany, accom
panied by King Humbert of Italy, visited
the ruins of Pompeii, and collected
relics of antiquity. They then returned to
fedme, ahd the ancient their Coliseum honor* tod The F Uer
were illuminated in
man Emperor returned to Berlin.
The price of coal has advanced fifty cents
per ton in London, England, owing to the
strike of the miners.
NEWSY GLEANINGS,
Dakota and Michigan have a surplus ol
hogs.
The squeeze in wheat has resulted in three
suicides id
The export trade in apples is steadily
creas ng.
Cattle are now slaughtered by electricity
Ri Russia.
The Yale sophomores have declared
against hazing. Italy
WoMan suffrage has been defeated in
by a small majority. surveillance
Prince Bismarck has resumed
of the Empress Victoria.
Emperor William and King Humbert re¬
viewed 33;000 troops at Rofild
From Germany come reports of a poor
crop of both cereals and potatoes.
Counterfeit SI and $5 American bills are
in circulation in Montreal, Canada.
Three German sailors have been killed
and oaten by the natives of Zanzibar.
Natives have destroyed Madur.ola, a Ger¬
man station near Bagamayo, Zanzibar.
The United States Supreme Court has sus
fcained the Scott Chinese Exclusion Act
The cranberry crop of Cape Cod, Mass.,
has received serious injury from the frosts.
Sumatra tobacco of superior Middle quality Florida is
being successfully grown in
Floods in Abruzzo, Italy, have caused
BnormoUs damage an I the loss of many lives.
The estimated consumption of wheat in
Great Britain is five and a half bushels per
head.
New Yorkers annually pay out thirteen
millions for their transit by car,omnibus and
ferry. mills manufac
Denver’s four flourishing twenty-foui
tnre 1300 barrels of flour every
hours.
A syndicate has been formed by York English
capitalists to export beer from New tc
England. be
A new decree forbids foreign officers to
. colleges to in
received in military or serve
the French Army.
The Empress Victoria has promised thal
no biography of Kaiser Fritz shall be pub¬
lished tor five years.
A $10,000,000 suit in Pennsylvania parties after over
some coal lands is settled by the
fifteen years’ litigation.
The Sultan of Morocco is going to send an
embassy to this country to complain of
Consul Lewis at Tangier*.
New York bakers have reduced the size of
their loaves of bread on account of the ad¬
vance in the price of flour.
The United States Treasury Department
has purchased to date $ -4,1170,750 in bonds,
paying $101,901,731 for them.
The New York hay crop promises to b<
30,020 bales short; that of the Pacific coast
will be larger than usual; the crop in Eng¬
land is light.
The last remnant of Geronimo’s band of
renegade Apaches has been captured in
Mexico, consisting of four bucks, twosquawi
and two boys. Enfield,
As a result of exhaustive trials at
the Martini-Henry rifles converted into mag¬
azine rifles have been definitely adopted by
the War Office.
District-Attorney Riddle, of Washing
ington, has made a remarkable record this
year. His office has tried 8430 cases, with
1770 convictions.
The scheme to remove Libby Prison from
Richmond to Chicago has been revived It
is proposed to utilize the old prison building
for a dime museum.
In accordance with the of China imperial will decree, retire
the Empress Dowager next March, when the
from the Government responsibility.
Emperor will assume sole
THE Railroad Commissioners of Maine
have been asked by the Canadian Pacific
Company to inspect their track which is now
complete between Greanvil.e and the State
line.
A San Francisco jury has awarded
George L Smith, a business man, $80,000
damages against Whittier, Fuller & Co.,
wholesale paint merchants, Smith for injuries into
received in their elevator. went
the store to buy goods, and in a fall ot the
elevator be had both legs broken and his side
injured. He is still paralyzed below the
knees,
THE LAB0E WORLD.
There are 4500 female printers in Eng
land.
C arppnterS get but $2.50 a day on the
Pacific Coast.
The cigar factories in Havana, Cuba, are
running again.
The Knights of Labor have gained a big
victory in Belgium.
Fifty-four coopers’ unions in the United
States have combined.
England’s eleven-hour day was gained
in 1846; the ten-hour day in 1874.
The mills in Fall River, Mass., have paid
$1,500,000 in dividends the past year.
Girls and women in New York factories
f rom thirty to seventy cents a day.
Allentown (Penn.) Hungarians recently
«*■ *»*a™»•>*»»■*
». «, b, tb. ««».
endXl cuttprs of Kansas City, Mo., last March, has
disastrously for the mem
ffK, 4 Vffijg
HU-^ been amicably adjusted.
j£i£ W2E
«”» bined t-suries $78,000.
?»'SX«Z"ar buildings being 9
c = ativeiy few wooden
About 60,000 women earn their bread in
tailors shops, and <200.000 are saleswom en,
teachers, telegraph operators, typewriters
nurse*.
The December session of .... the American
Federation oi Labor will definitely decide
upon a date in 1M> for the ,ntrejuct.cn of
the eight hour rale.
Atefaiiion, Over ten Topeka Wonsan? and Hanta employe* .e Railway <» J**
bare bad tt».r time reduced on* hour • day
each and half a day rst-unay.
A RE.TREd jeweler sty* that the inain
spring of a watch, lor which the charge l* a
dollar and a half. costs about eight rente, and
it tekee only half au hour to set it.
LATEST NEWS'
Dennis Scanlon has committed suicide at
Newburg, N. Y. He tied an iron coupling pin
to his neck and jumped off the dock into the
Hudson River,
A RAILROAD collision near Shippenburg.
Penn., resulted in one man heing killed and a
number of persons being injured.
The State of Mississippi has raised her yel¬
low fever quarantine!.
A bobber named Murchy, hail plun¬
dered the Manitoba House at Fargo, izgkota,
was traced to Moorhead, Minn., by two po¬
licemen named Thompson and Poull.
Murchy was encountered in a dance house at
Moorhead. He shot Poull dead, and Thomp¬
son at once got the drop on him and wounded
him fatally in the neck.
Mr. F. J. Stimpson, marine reporter of
Mackinaw City, Mich., fell out of his boat
and was drowned. He had been engaged in
his business at the straits for seventeen
years.
A gang of boy burglars broke into the
bank at Ravens wood, W. Va., anil stole
about $400. They started to drill into tbe
safe, but it was too strong for them.
Prairie fires in Oliver County, Dakota,
have destroyed an enormous amount of hay
gathered in for the winter. The Oliver
County Court House narrowly escaped de¬
struction.
A resolution passed both houses of Con
gress providing for an immediate adjourn
ment of those bodies sine die.
The United States Treasury Department
has decided that maple sugar must pay the
same duty as other sugars And be subject to
tbe same testa.
The Brazilian Government has promoted
Joao Arthur de Souza Correia, Minister resi¬
dent at Madrid, to be Envoy Extraordinary
and Minister Plenipotentiary at Washing
ton.
Emperor William of Germany, accom¬
panied by King Humbert of Italy, visited
tbe ruins of Pompeii, and collected some
relics of antiquity. They then returned to
Rome, and the ancient Coliseum aud Forum
were illuminated in their honor. The Ger
man Emperor returned to Berlin.
The price of coal has advanced fifty cent*
per ton in London, England, owing to the
strike of the miners.
James Hennessey, aged eighty years, wa«
crushed under a campaign flag pole which
was being rai&ed in South Providence, R. I.
One of the guy lines broke, and the pole fell
upon Hennessey, crushing his skull.
Ferdinand Pfitzer, a New York brewer,
shot his wife in the head. He paused a mo¬
ment after seeing her fall, and then he ran to
a spot a few hundred yards distant, and plac¬
ing a pistol to his head blew out his brains.
He was thirty-fire and bi* wife forty year*
old. ‘
Two messengers of Contractor McFadden,
carrying $12,000 in a buggy on a lonely road
near Wilkesbarre, Penn., to pay workmen,
were shot dead by a party of men who ran
off with the money.
Twenty-one prisoners, including two
murderers, have, escaped from the jail at
Spokane Falls, Washington Territory.
A clergyman named Keith, of Waldo,
Ark., shot and killed Joseph Garret, a
farmer, during a quarrel.
The President has approved the General
Deficiency bill.
President Cleveland has approved the
act retiring Alfred Pleasanton as Major of
the army, and also the act to provide for
warehousing fruit brandy.
Commissary General MacFeely’s an¬
nual report shows resource* of $3,500,000 and
expenditures of nearly $3,000,000, with a
balance on hand of nearly $600,000. He op¬
poses any change in the rations system,
Colonel Rufus Sexton, the Assistant
Quartermaster General of the United States
Army, has been placed on the retired list
on account of age. His retirement will pro¬
mote Lieutenant Colonel H. C. Hodges to
be Colonel, Ma jor George Weeks to be Lieu¬
tenant Colonel, Captain L. C. Forsyth to be
Major, leaving a vacancy in the list of Cap¬
tains and Assistant Quartermaster* to be
filled by the President.
The Mexican Congress has declared that
General Porfirio Diaz has been re-elected
Pi sident of the Republic.
General Salomon, who was recently
driven from the Presidency of Hayti by an
insurrectionary movement, and who went to
Europe for tbe purpose of undergoing tbe
operation of cystotomy, lias died in Paris.
While the British gunboat Griffin wa*
chasing a slave dhow off the coast of Africa
she was fired at by the Arab slavers, and
a lieutenant was killed. The dhow wa*
captured.
A STRANGE DELUSION,
A Bell* Kills Herself Because She
Imagined She Was Homely.
Julia Beck, a good-looking and much
admired youDg lady of Kansas City, com¬
mitted suicide a few days since because she
thought she was not pretty.
The story is a pecnliar one, and has seldom
or never been equaled. When about 17 years
old Julia, wbo belonged to a prominent
family, took it into her bead that she was
not attractive. She claimed that every one
wbo saw her was disgusted because of her
horrible appearance, and refused to appear in
public. Several young men attempted nothing to
sue for her hand, but she would have
to do with them. She lived in seciusion for
nearly ten years, but recently concluded that
she would improve her appearance. Fbe had
all of her teeth pulled out and purchased time, a
set of false ones. These she wore for a
going out frequently, but soon decided that
she was not fit to appear in public even with
the new teeth, and relapsed into her old con¬
dition of melancholy. Her friends tried to
cheer her np, but sb* resented their effort*.
She became morose and sullen, and finally
nut an end to her troubles by taking poison.
She was 27 years old and was uncommonly
bright. Her parent* 8 almost distracted
over her death.
NO. 35.
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
James G. Blaine is fifty-nine years old.
The Emperor of Brazil is fond of billiard*.
Attorney-General Garland is an »u
thusiastic sportsman.
The Prince of Wales’s favorite musi*
comes from the banjo. Ha plays it himself.
“Old Hutch,” the Chicago grain operator, he
gave Ben Butler the first law case evei
Samuel Norment, one of the richest men
in Washington, was once a Government
clerk.
Theodore Thomas, the great conductor, musical
is remembered by some as an infant
fj-odigy. Wiman, boy, worked for
Erases about Toronto, as a Canada, for fifty
farmers
cents a week
Pierre Lorillaud the millioairstfobacre
manufacturer, pays premium upon * 3 . 0 ,uiw
life ; insurance. i
Edward Manning, who lives in the tows
of Keosauqua, near Keokuk, is the richest
man in all Iowa.
The Emperor of Austria, who is very fond
of chamois shootinx, uses cn old-fashioned
muzzle-loading gun. Westers
NorviN Gbeen, President of the
Union Telegraph Company, was a country
doctor in Kentucky forty years ago. is th*
Felix Campbell, of New York,
only plumber in either House ° f Congress
His check is said to be good for $o(W,0iX).
dav-school Governor man Leslie, and teaches at Montana,. a Uia Susj
In the Baptist Sunday-school m Helena.
Cardinal Gibbons is a small into, with
steel gray eyes, close cut gray bairana*
genial manner. He never re uses a vi** 1 ®*
Some one ha 9 found out that Queen Victc fTi*
has taken to gambling. She plays wmst tor
a guinea a corner and is exceedingly put out
when she loses.
Chairman Quay, of the National Repute
llcan Committee, has the honor of having
taken the largest tarpon ever caught with a
hook and line.
Jay Gould pays his physician, Dr- Wi r
the time of Mr. Gould’s death.
SENATOR Hearst, of California, is said to
have at least one mine „o every rfiih'ng State
and Territory in the country. Ha began hi*
mining venture, as a day laborer inth*
mountains. Alfonso’s young
Eulaltb, the late King
sister, who married Montpensier, sent into tbe
declared a consumptive and will
high mountains of Switzerland. She
doubtless not live long. revolutionist
The daughter of Juarez, the th.
and ex- President of Mex.oo, whocuused
execution of Emperor Max.milliani, was re¬
cently a guest of a Chicago hotel with bei
husband, Delfin Sanckez.
ASTiSK&VjfiggSgJ
manage a wicked fly with ease and grace.
can Spain driving
AH the Queen Regent of was
with her two daughters recently
SsSSSiSiSS out and walked. The crowd who slW U
were delighted. candidate of the La¬ ;
Dn. Frank Powell, of Wisconsin, wa*
bor party for Governor regions of Kern
born in the mountainous full-blooded
tucky.his mother’s father being a excitingand
Since a Indian. He has bad an i
adventurous career, much of Wallfebav We^ ng
been spent with tbe Indians in the far
among whom ho Jfl known afl
Bfiftvcr. **
General W. T. Sherman seems to haw
not the slightest fear of death, and talks or
it sometimes in an off-hand way that; is ex
tremely funeral Sherman weird. Not was long speaking nfter te Sheridan^ a
the many prominent officer* of the late war
who had died. “I shall have to hurry up,
remarked Sherman, “and die prety »oonor
there will be nobody but militia to i> ur /
me.”
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A BRITISHER’S SQUAW WIFE.
A Wealthy Englishman Marries »
Beautiful Sioux Maiden.
Henry Ashburton, the young son of R
wealthy manufacturer at Lend*, England,
is now the hiuband of a beautiful Indian
maiden at Standing Rock Agency n
Dakota. He and several gentleman tf on ‘
the East were making a tour of thi£
West, and paid a visit to that Sioux agency.
They had no sooner become settled in their
tent than au Indian, girl, the daughter the
of a chief, who hail been watching
party, rushed in, and throwing her arm*
around Ashburton’s neck, kissed mm pas¬
sionately and repeatedly. The young English¬
man was surprised, but did not protest, and
when the girl had satisfied her around longing th*
for kissing did he grasped kissing her himself. Not
waist and some by Ashburton*
much was thought of this
companions until it was learned that the o$
culatory proceeding constituted a marriag* ob¬
under the Hioux law. Ashburton didn’t
ject and is now living with tho girl, notwith¬
standing the protests of his companions, who
did everything in their power to dis¬
suade him. He appears enamoured of hi*
Indian wife, while tho latter is jealously h*
fond of him aud follows him wherever
goes like a dog. Ashburton swears that h*
will never desert his bride.
The groom is a manly, handsome young
Englishman, who says be proposes to take hi*
copper-skinned wife to the old country witli
him and present her to his people.
Trial by Jury.
First Juryman (after the cross-ex¬
amination of Bishop DeGood by how a great that
criminal lawyer)—I cion’t see
feller ever got to be a bishop. bishop.
Second Juryman—He’s tbe lawyer’s no questions!
Didu’ you hear
He’s no bishop. He’s a confidence man
an’ a dead beat.
Third Juryman—Wtissner that. Did
ye see how he flushed up when th*
lawyer asked him who it was stole th*
pennies from his dead grandmother'*
eyes ? Juryman—Didn’t he, though!
Fourth asked
An’ he.turned pale when he was
how it happened that his rich old grand¬
father died so suddenly after livin’ JH
purty good health for ninety-nine boots yea that s.
Fifth Juryman—Ye bet v’r
there Bishop had a grudge agin poor, thi*
abused Cutthroat, the pri-oner, git an
is tbe first chance Le hail to even.
He’s tryin’ to swear his life awav,bgoaa. after
Sixth Juryman—I e-ay, fellers,
we bring in Cutthroat pot gnilif let •
git together in the vrenm an 3y»JO t*f
Bishop. Omaha World,