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Rockdale ........— , . . , Banner. , ... - r -r..—. ■ -..- -r.-.— HE 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 . sasiret.Bai.'Ssfc. ss; £Yi”“r“n P '“ " P °" d 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.” ft 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,