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XEWS. ttonworm is reported in a nnm The co Wilkinson county, Miss., iri fearon will do the crop much jjd it is inspectors at New York siezed Tee termelous, shipped from Savan- 30,000 The w fruit was said to be rotten L' unfit for use. Oiio capitalist wishes to start a , v mill in Atlanta, Ga., and has been despondence regal'd with to Mr. the Nat. matter. Haven, d that city, in Tm; Coal burg Coal and Lake Compa of Alabama, ow n 13,000 acres coal lands. T be company has already begun v^ions, and is getting out 300 tons JjosUday, possible. and will increase the out t . as fast as Tse military telegraph lines have been at San Antonio, Seven hundred V thirty-five miles of line were sold, realizing a total amount of $71,444,50. PtfErie Telephone Company was the principal purchaser. A number of citizens of Oxford, Miss., lave engaged in the business of buying shipping cattle. The cattle are ^pp a l to Arkansas, Texas and Missou ^ xhe business seems very profitable, jnd should encourage stock raising. A gentleman living in Florida Eas patented a process for making sugar md syrup from cassava, and, after ex¬ K tent, writes t T, at he has no don b that cassava cultivation will, in a few jesrs. lie tin most profitable employ afflt of the people of that State. I Great excitement prevails in Russel l|tk. over the discovery of a gold mine a few miles west of that place, which as j says $10.23'in silver and $11.03 in gold t per ton. It is thought the ore extends all along the' divide b< tween Red and Ifhite rivers. It crops out at Saledo, Greenbrier and near Buck Horn. R. W. Harrison, of Melrose, is the loneyfarmer of Rockingham Co., Ya. This year from 150 liiveB he will Beucre a crop of over 2,000 pounds of honey, for which he will get about $400. This, besides the increase of his bees, which will be fully eighty hives, thus adding to his “working” capital. After shooting at it eight or nine times, Mr. W. H. Richardson finally I killed with the ninth shot, a few days ago, a milk-white deer in the forests near Bigliee, Ala. Tlie negroes think that white deer are akin to witches, and are probably delighted that one of them has been laid low. Two more of them have been seen recently in the forests of Washington county. Abound Gainesville, Fla., the raising and shipping of the turbine squash has become an industry. It finds a ready sale at Boston, and is used almost exclu¬ sively for making pies. In shape it re¬ sembles a turbine wheel, whence it takes its name. It has the color of a pumpkin and looks like a kershaw, but is finer and has a more delicate flavor. The vines bear heavily, and continue bearing nntil about the first of August. The Prices vary from $4.50 to $5 per barrel. The four wing dams at the “Upper Rats ’ of the Savannah river have been completed. The effect of these works npon the channel is already perceptible, and it is the opinion of tlie engineers that there will be within a short time a depth of twenty-two feet of water at this Point, an increase of six feet. The COll structien of the wing damhs at te “Cab bage Trees,” or “Lower Flats,” has been commenced, and it is expected the work ’rill bo finished in two months. Capitalian (La.) Advocate : The in¬ cessant rains are working injury to the growing crops, particularly cotton, which i j 8 Priding in some places and lusting others. It is feared the little cotton the rain leaves will be finished by the caterpillars, although this destructive “sect has not appeared in this vicinity 88 yet. Cane is not looking as well as would like to see it, the continued “iks being anything but favorable to ks growth, while the grass in pla some ces is about to take complete possession of the cane fields. A large mining enterprise of North tm Alabama is the Lady Ensley Mining ^ Manufacturing Company. Its in koiporators are chiefly Memphis gentle “sn, and it is named in honor of a Mem Pnis lady, who met a tragic death last ■'' ear 011 a Nashville street in accident. a runaway These gentlemen with the assistance of agents, have quietly been njing lands along the projected ““Ingham and Northwestern railroad I “ril they are now in possession of 75, @00 acres of the finest mineral lands in -Orth Alabama. Mining operations ' e toseadv commenced. W week in the northern part of Henry county, Tenn., while some boys er - in a mill pond belonging to Mr a ys, the} were making such a disturb ce that Hays came out and ordered e tti out of the pond. A boy named • McConnell took a pistol from his rother s pocket and shot Hays, ■ j instantly. °i the Both hills, boys started off er and about a . a the scene of the murder Rui. 1 eiJ - v st °PPed and fell dead. No H WEEKLY $ y_. Si VOLUME VI. thought that his death occurred from fright and exhaustion, the day being very warm. Georgia seems to be pre-eminently the place of unique experiences. The Sumpter Republican tells the story of a young man down near the river who was to be married on a certain night. He had seen and loved the girl and w as too uaslifnl to do the courting so it had to be done by proxy. The day had arrived the guests assembled, the license pro¬ cured, the parson on hand and tne bride ready, but the youthful groom did not turn up. The friend who had done the courting went out, and, after looking around, found him sitting or lying in a horse trough. On asking him why he did not go to the house to be married, he said: “Oh, I can’t go thar and stand before them folks.” “Oh, yes, you can; everybody in there is married but your girl. Come on.” “Get her to come out doors and we’ll marry finder the shed, but let the old folks stay in the house. ” The friend went back, got the girl and parson out without exciting suspicion, and they were married. The company waited two or three hours, and, on being invited to supper, were introduced to the bride and groom. They became so indignant that all left without partaking of the supper. Thebe is a good deal of complaint along the line of the Mobile alld Ohio railroad in Alabama about the depreda¬ tions committed on the lands belonging to the road. Mr. Danner, President of the Danner Land and Lumber Company says he found hundreds of people depre¬ dating on the lands, especially in the way of getting turpentine and rosin. The people who do the actual work of cutting the timber belong to a class of pool' and ignorant men, who al'e encouraged by men of means and respectability. “For instance, persons of means have built turpentine stills at points near the lands which were the property of the railroad company—lands which are now in our possession—and would then give out that they would buy crude turpentine when brought to them. They would at the same time furnish these laborers with provisions, tools, etc., show them tbe railroad lands, and induce them to work on them and bring the produce to them.” Those who have been engaged in these transactions are to be prosecu¬ ted, and a company has been organized for the purpose of inducing parties to move their mills there from the East and West and s aw up the timber. Tobacco. —A 1 though tlie Scotch are •router smokers than the English, yet less tobacco is smoked in Scotland tuau .a England. This is due, according to the Loi don Truth, to the canny char¬ iot! r of Scotchmen. Owing to the large quantity of water in the before ordinary tobacco tobacco sold, a pipe g >es out the in it is smoked out. The Englishman the throws away this damp tobacco; Scotchman carefully extracts it from his pipe, and then, when it has dried, re¬ places it. ^ ______ Reforming Bad Boys. —The Rev. Dr. Wayland,-of the National Baptist ,has been investigating as to the morals of persons who were inmates of the Elmira Reformatory. He claims that their ex¬ perience in that institution has a ten¬ dency to work genuine reformation in them. As a proof of this he states that ninety-three per cent, of them have shown after leaving the Reformatory that their reformation is smeera. L»r Wayland says that he suspects that not many ot our colleges could show that ninety three per cent, of the graduates had turned out well.__ The Dog Show.— The New York Dog Show was one of the most successful af¬ fairs of the kind ever given. “A fine lot of dogs with less trash than ever be¬ fore,” said the judge. The most be¬ wildering competition was in bird dogs, there being no less than 149 English set¬ ters, 56 Gordon setters, 97 Irish setters, and 112 pointers. The display of bt. Bernards and mastitis was large and tine, as was al so the pngs .__ Close Figuring. —Patti, at $5,000 a night, will get about $5 a breath in “Lucia.” She is on the stage, by the watch, just sixty-two minutes during the three acts. This gives her $80 and some odd cents every minute. The average rate of respiration is about eighteen paid a minute, so that for each breath is $4.44. In “Lucia” there are 1,200 words and 2,800 notes, so that Patti is paid $4.16 a word and $1. 75 a note. “iTis remarkable ’’says the Norris town Herald “ how rapidly wealth. some Mr. news- Jay paper men accumulate proprietor Gould has been a newspaper S onlvafew with Years, and is now about to a fortune of $100,000,000. He evidently conducted business on a ss which has au area of 5,000 square milea The contract has been put out for a wir« CON YERS, GA.. AUGUST 3. 18S3. THE HDH0MJS PAPERS. WHAT b,Lv^THfc T0 SMILE 1 ' CABVING a tub key. The best way to carve a turkey, says Burdette, is: First—Buy a turkey that died a natural death at the age of ninety six years. The bluer the meat the tougher the turkey. Second—Roast it until you can strike fire out of its breast with a whet-stone. Third—Use the carving knife all year for splitting kind¬ ling wood, opening fruit cans, joining stove pipe, potting home plants, digging fish worms and scraping knife brick. Fourth—Put the turkey on a platter two sizes smaller than the bird. Fifth—Set the gravy close to the fowl on one side and something else easily spilled on the other. Sixth—Then invite your guests and then invite a young man who has not yet learned to swear, to carve the sacrifice. He will learn in six minutes. To carve ? Oh, the gods pity you, no, no, no; not to carve. * 4U3T LIKE SOME OF THEM. At noon yesterday there were half a dozen idlers at the foot of Woodward avenue, some asleep, some looking des¬ pondent, and two who had just assured a pedestrian that they must have work at some price or starve. A gentleman suddenly stepped out of an office and approached one of these menand said: “You look like an honest man.” “Yes, sir, I do.” “And you are a hard worker.” “I am that.” “I presume you could be trusted in any capacity.” “Oh, I know I could.” “Well, I have a job for you. Our porter at the Sixth National Bank has left us and we must fill his place. The only thing—that is—you see—” * ‘Do you want a recommend ?” asked the man, as the other hesitated. “Ob, no, no, no ! You see, we have been paying the other man $4,000 per year, and—and—” “And what, sir ?” “Well, the board has decided to out it down to$3,5 00.” “Then don’t you take it!” said the man’s partner. “Then I won’t 1 If I ain’t worth as much as the other man was, the board can do its own sweeping !” The gentleman walked back into the office tbe winner of a box of cigars. He had wagered that he would *ffer tlie man $3,500 a year, and that it would be refused .—Detroit Dree Press. PECK’S SUNBEAMS. “It has cost over one hundred and fifty thousand dollars per year to main¬ tain the pleasure yachts for the queen and princes of England.” If it costs as much as that to run a pleasure yacht, Jay Gould is not going to make much by selling his newspaper and going into the pleasure yacht business. He could lose more than that with his newspaper, and besides have a good deal more fun. The suit brought by a New York man against a Pennsylvania railroad for thir¬ ty thousand dollars, for the loss of a leg 1 in an accident was decided against the man because he rode on a pass. If the railroad company think they can frighten newspaper men into paying their fares by any such means they will get left. Editors have rode on passes too many years to be frightened off by one suit c! this kind. It is reported that a vast amount ot money will now have to be spent in re¬ pairs of the Atlantic cable. The great strain npon the cable ip sending over such a large number of Russian names averaging from six inches to four feet in length, for that long and exciting period during the coronation exercises has, it is supposed, nearly ruined the entire cable system. Joke on a Commissioner. A train on the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad stopped below Spuyten Duyvil a few days ago on ac count of a hot journal, which was blaz ing up and threatened to set fire to the car. The moment the car stopped the rear brakeman ran back with a red flag to stop any coming train. The conduc tor went to the last ear to see that the brakeman was doing his duty, and then set to work to cool the journal. While he was occupied with this task a man of dignified appearance approae i x “What did that man go back with t a red thing for ?” he asked. The conduc , no attention lestion. to him and he re peated toe to q Finallv he re nnmin dful conductor -r T„e coe »’■« “as*' The conductor, nothmg dauxi , torted that toe Commissioner o g TOO MUCH COMPETITION. “Yon have always had the reputation of being an honest man—how, then, is if that yoti have been guilty of theft ? * asked an Austin Judge of a man who had been arrested with stolen property in his possession. “It is not my fault, Judge. It is the fault of the age in which we live. The upright man who strives to make an honest living now-a-days, can’t do it, unless he steals. There is too much competition ."'—Texas Siftings. CLIPPINGS. On the platform —“And to yon, kind teachers, who have watched over us with such solicitous care, and have so carefully trained us to love the beautiful, the true, and the good, we bid an affec¬ tionate, though a sorrowful farewell.” At home—“Well, I’m just glad school is over, for if any girl was tortured to death with useless lessons and merciless teachers, I was that girl. Oh what a re¬ lief to think that m‘y education is fin¬ ished .”—Oil City Derrick. An Equal Division.— An uncommon step in the division of the property was taken by the legatees of the late Amasa Stone, of Cleveland, Ohio, They found that one or two of Mr. Stone’s relatives, and ones to whom he was especially par¬ tial, had been forgotten in his will. A meeting was called, the matter talked over, and it was finally agreed that every one should set aside some portion of his or her bequest and thus make up an equal amount for those not provided for. Such was done, and as an unusual occurrence in such matters deserves ’special mention. The latest “American” story going the rounds of the European press is that of a traveler of that nationality who found it necessary to excuse his inability to join in the hilarity of other traveler,-, beeause of his poverty. “Gentlemen,’ said he, “I know I am more or less of a saturated blanket on this party; but the fact is I am a very poor man—steeped to the lips, I may say, in impecuniosity. When I tell you, in strict confidence, that this is my wedding tour, and I have been compelled to leavemy wife at home, you can form an idea of the narrowness of resources. ’’ my Merchant —“The article is first class madam; mid $1.50 a yard is very cheap. If we hadn't got four months’ time on I —if we hadn’t bought it on credit—we couldn’t sell it to you at that price. It we had paid cash, it would have cost $2 a yard, madam.” Mrs. Brown—“Yes. I know it must be cheaper to buy oi I ime. My husband tells me to purchase ,111 can get on credit. I think IT take sixteen yards, and you can just •barge it to Mr. Brown ."—Texas Sift¬ ings. A package containing 1 wo drafts, one for $1,000, another for $2,000,,and a five dollar gold piece, belonging to a lady in Beauregard, Miss., was found 110 miles from that place, having been blown there by a cyclone. It takes a cyclone to “raise the wind,” and you will always find more or less breeze where there is a draft. —Norristown Herald. Mamie having been helped twice to everything on the table, slid down, when the coffee came in, from her chair, with a sigh. “Therenow,” said her mamma, “I suppose you have eaten so much that you feel uncomfortable.” “Don’t,” re plied Mamie, quickly, with a toss of her little head, “I only just feel nice and smooth. ”— Harper'8 Bazar. “Say, Pat, what ever made you go to work for Uncle Dan ? He’s the meanest man in the country.” “Mane is it?” said Pat; “why, sure an’ he’s the foinest, aisyest-goin’ master iver I had, bedad; he gives a man fifteen hours to do a day's work in.” The Apache Indian, it is said, can march from thirty to forty miles a day Without becoming tired. It is really a pity that the Apache cannot be civilized, [or he would be just the fellow to accom¬ pany his wife on a shopping excursion. Thb Marshall (Texas) Herald, refer to the trouble the flies give the bald-headed, says: “We saw an account 0 f a man similarly situated who secured j mmun ity from the flies by painting a ]arge S pi<j er in the centre of the bold p ce. ” g a t EAC hek— “In the sentence, ‘Mary Jrhn) > w ; ia t does ‘John’ agree Bright scholar—“With Mary.” «, _“With Mary! How do you ^ ^ outr Bright scholar- - „ ’Cause Mary wouldn’t love him if h( didn > t w ith her.” Brotlier H * weI1 ret ired to his cornel »11 broken up, and , tea , . first . move waste was te offer to trade a handkerchief with a red i e T7J:z i ^ Heaben; but gib de po’ i chance an’ see how quick he’d NUMBER 19. A Mother’s Desperate Act. SHE KILLS HEB TWO CHILDBEN AND HERSELP , The details of an insane woman’s ter¬ rible crime are given in an Ohio paper: A farmer named Robert J. McMillan came to Ohio several weeks ago with his family, consisting of a wife and two small children, from Garland, Warren comity, Pa., and settled in the town of Lindenrille, in Ashtabulla county. His wife, a woman about forty years of age, has been in failing health for some time past, and within the last week has been the victim of spells of insanity, which at times has assumed violent forms. Several times she has made desperate attempts to take her own life, but was unsuccessful. She had been in better health than usual for the last few days, and Monday morning McMillan left the two children in her charge and started to work in the neighborhood. It was not long after his departure that his wife became suddenly insane, and while the in oldest child, a girl of eight years, was the front room the woman picked up her baby boy, aged two years, and going out into the yard proceeded to an old well on the premises, and after kiss¬ ing and embracing the child threw him into the and well, which is forty-live feet deep contains ten feet of water. The child sank immediately and was drowned. The woman then returned to the house and taking the little girl by the hand led lier to the well and pushed her into the opening. A neighbor, who was watching her queer action, hurried into the yard and endeavored unsuccessful. to rescue the the girl, but was McMillan In meantime Mrs. returned to house and swallowed several ounces of bedbug poison. when found She and was her in a dying condition recovery is impossible. Great Bridges of the World. The following interesting figures of tlie l ngth of notable bridges of the world are given:— Teel. Chelsea, suspended.................... 700 Cincinnati and Covington (over tlie Ohio), suspended, built 1807........ 1,967 Clifton (over Niagara suspended......... River), suspended. 1,268 Friborg, built 1832, 870 Hungerford, suspended................ 1,350 Kieff, suspended....................... 2,562 Menai, built 1819-25, suspended........ 1,050 Niagara, built 1855, suspended......... suspended........ 2.220 1,362 Pestli, built 1840-49, NOT SUSPENSION. Victoria, over St. Lawrence River, wrought iron.... 9,437 Bombay (Madras). Drogheda, wrought iron 3,730 1,760 Boyne, at Lisbon Aqueduct, stone........... 3,805 Louisville, Ky .................... 5.310 Maintenon Aqueduct, stono....... 16,367 Harlem Aqueduct, stone.......... 1,450 Montpellier Aqueduct, stone....... 3,214 P rketburg, W. Va., iron.............. 7,045 Potom-c........................ •••• . 5,300 Quincy (over Mississippi River), iron.. 3,200 Omaha (over Missouri River)........... 2,80C 1,792 •Stockport, stone......... Strssbnrg, stone........7............. 3,390 C tarles, Mo., iron.................. 6,530 Susquehanna, stone................... 3,500 Albanv, N. Y.. extreme length......... railway 4,800 Albany, N. Y., double track bridge (largest draw span in the world)............................ M00 Vistula River, Germany, iron.......... 2,750 Firth of Tav, length nearly .two miles or 10,321 Brooklyn Bridge...................... 6,389 He Was Forgiven. The Philadelphia Press tells the fol¬ lowing amusing story of the late Dean Richmond, President of the New York Central R. R., a well-known railroad and steamboat man: One of his sons was at the time a conductoron the Central, and very strict orders had been issued, ema¬ nating from the old gentleman, should it was supposed, that no passenger be “deadheaded” on any excuse whatever without showing a pass from some officer named. Mr. Eicbmoud, the elder, was one day on his son’s train, when the young man was collecting tickets, ticket and making no move to show a or a pass, was plumply asked by the boy for a ticket, “Goa way, I haven’t got any, ” said he. “But,” said the conductor, “my orders are stricc to let nobody ride without a ticket or a pass.” president “Well, no of matter,” said Dean, “I’m this road, and don’t need either.” “Can’t help it, father; you see how I’m fixed. Shall have to put you off if you don’t do one or the other.” The old man looked at him square in the eyes, but as the son didn’t quail aud looked a look that meant mischief, the president deemed it best o come down with the “spondulics,” and did, amid the merriment of those around. But, as it showed the young man’s mettle in the line of duty, he was soon forgiven. Protecting Use Troops. The Texas Indians have always had a thorough contempt for tlie blue coats. In 1875 tbe railroad boom began. Tbe builders ran their lines with an army of men in advance to drive Lack the sav ^Vxiue ^ The railroads have done more to the Indians in Texas than any other influence. Lo can’t stand steam, The State in 1874 began to prepare for from Uncle Sain, the Legislature, equipped the Frontier Battalion of Shite Rangers. This handful of scouts attacked the marauders wherever found, and ^ . Q Bix yeals wh at the United States tro0i; , 8 hud attempted for twenty years— dy— «,:,s were mu t out for frontier protection.” <«toti. “So they were, and the rangers m>ops ” t THE FIRST LOCOMOTIYE. Forty-nine Year* Old. and Still In Use ot the Baltimore and Oliio Hoad. The Baltimore and Ohio Railway Com pany will send to the Chicago Railway Exposition, among other articles of their exhibit, the first locomotive engine built for their road which proved successful. This locomotive is the celebrated “Ara¬ bian,” No. 1, which like all family prominent his¬ objects in Baltimore, has a tory, It is not, as is generally supposed, either the first engine built by the com¬ pany or the first engine road, but that pulled the a train on a curved it was first successful American locomotive. It was built at the company’s shops under the supervision of its designer. It went bite service June, 1834. It has been carefully taken care of and repaired, and with very little difference is precisely the same engine that it was forty-nine years ago. It is claimed to be the oldest effec¬ tive locomotive engine in the United States, and perhaps in the world. It is a geared engine, having a vertical cylin¬ der, with walking beam. It has four driving wheels, each thirty-six inches in diameter, or nearly one-half the size of the drivers used on modern passenger locomotives. The weight of the Arabian is thirteen tons, about one-third that of the modern locomotive. Its tractive power is 6,000 pounds. It used to have fans connected with the exhaust, but those became broken, and no attempt has been made to restore them. With this exception it is the same engine as when first made. It is in active service at the Mount Clare yards, and works as well now as when first put on the road. Tt was for many years a passenger en¬ gine, drawing trains on both the Wash¬ ing branch and the main stem. As far as could be learned it had never met with an accident, never jumped a rail, or ran off the track, with one excep¬ tion. That exception was a notable one. Before it was finished Mr. Davis promised the workmen engaged in the shops, some 300, to take them and their families on the train drawn then by the Ara¬ bian as far as it went, to go to Washington and have dinner at Brown’s (now the Metropolitan) Hotel. The Washington branch was then opened nearly to Bladensl >nrg. The trip was made, William Duff being the engineer. Just west of Jessup’s cut, thirteen and a half miles this side of Baltimore, the Arabian ran off the track. Mr. Davis was sitting with Mr. Duff when the ac cident occurred, Tbe engine rolled on its side. Neither Duff or anybody else in the train was hurt, but Mr. Davis. He was killed. There seemed to be a special fate in the matter. Nobody could ever tell why the Arabian ran off the track. There was no evideuce ever shown, although the fullebt investigation existed was made, that any cause to throw it off. As the Bullock press, which, the first time it was put to work, caught tlie inventor and printed him into its first impression, so the Arabian on its first trip killed its designer and with mak¬ er. An imaginative man. gifted think a little superstition, imbued might with intelli¬ that matter had been gence that rsaented its creation thus fiercely on its creator. will be engineered to The Arabian Chicago by Mr. Thomas Galloway. The Chicagoans will thus see the oldest effective locomotive engine in the world run by the oldest living railway engi¬ neer, an incident in railway history that deserves a more lasting record than that of a newspaper article. England’s Greatness. La France, says that England’s jeal¬ that ousy of France is caused by her fears in ease of war the Chinese tea ports will be closed and the Ohinese compelled to use their own opium, and then the jour¬ nal goes on to show wliat England gains The from her colonies and dependencies. figures are calculated indeed to inspire France to exert herself in the same di - rection. Thus La Dance tells ns that England has 7,917,000 square miles of colonies and possessions beyond all the Europe, seas, in extent twice as large ns with 218.000,000 inhabitants, of which 200,000,000 are in Lidia, 5,000,000 and in Canada, 3,000,000 ill Australia 1,000,000 at the Cape, all of which form for England a vast army of consumers, giving to her commerce and navigation prodigious activity. In 1881 England’s trade of exports and imports with the colonies and her possessions amounted to nearly 5,000,000,000f., and her total ton¬ nage of shipping leaving her colonial and foreign possessions was 50,000,000 out of the 63,000,000 tons registered. “Noth¬ ing,” adds 1m France, “shows so strangely as the above figures how much England’s commercial prosperity is due to her colonial possessions. ’ It concludes by urging France to develop herself be¬ yond her own limits, as she has com¬ menced on the Congo, in Madagascar and Tonquin. A Thieving Paymaster. Quite a sensation was created by the confession of Major Wasson, who Paymaster alleged United States Army, was to have been robbed of $24,006 on a train near Fort Worth, that the whole transac¬ tion was a fraud to cover his short ac¬ count with the government. Wasson is now at headquarters in San Antonio, Texas, under arrest. Having failed to obtain a clue to the robbers, W asson was ordered to San Antonio, Texas, to turn over the balance of funds in his hands to Chief Paymaster Terrell, and settle his accounts. An examination by Col. Terrell exhibited shortages confessed amounting defioit, to $5,500. Wasson the but claimed to have made up the amount and to have been robbed of $24,000. On being further questioned he finally made a clean breast of the whole affair, stating his that he doings. had put He up the job to cover evil was immediately placed under arrest and heavily guarded by soldiers. It is said his Iowa bondsmen are good for the in¬ debtedness to the government of $5,500. He has designated the hiding place of the remaining $18,500 and officers have gone for it. ^ Hamburg with 289,8->8, ^ h j 279,910, Mumchwith 230,000, and Dres- T I *, ** mm.