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GEOUGIA LAWS
the Governor following Gordon, of Georgia lias signed
; hills:
! To amend section 4003 of the code re¬
lating to the sale of lands by commis
| sinners when the same are sold under pro
j j eeedings To repeal of partition. part 5, section 3854 of the
j code to make an amendment in lieu
! thereof,
To incorporate WiiB.tusW* Cal
—4c,too (N. N, c, the
necessities SWUMTaMSS road than '
of the requires more
one-half of the amount of capital stock
paid in to the amount of $3,000 per
mile.”
A bill for the protection of cemeteries 1
and to prevent and punish unauthorized
traffic in dead bodies:
Also for the promotion of medical
science by the distribution and use of
dead bodies through a board created foi
bat purpose-.
THE DUKE’S RELATIVES STARVING.
A young woman of refined and pleas¬
ing manners applied to the New York
police for lodging for herself and two
children. She gave her maiden name,
Mary Morton, but investigation reveals
that she is the wile of Arthur Wellesley,
a distant relative of the great Duke of
Wellington. Wellesley’s father owns a
large tralia, sheep ranch in Loaneeston, Aus¬
and his family is wealthy and Well
connected. Young Wellesley ffial'rii-d
the daughter of a well-to-do captain who
lived near his father’s ranch, And then
removed, with his wile, to New Zealand,
thence York-. to England add a ter\vai\ls to
New He is s dd to be acting as a
cook in Boston, Mass.
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CONFLAGRATION S.
’Hie Fire Fiend ill Ilia Glory in this SUcO
tering Weather.
A fire broke out in the extensive
(rackery bakery of James D. Mason &
Sons, on Pratt Street, near Light, Balti
more, Md., which was entirely destroyed,
with all its contents and machinery. It
extended on the fight to a double build
'SMt KtftS ^ ^
1 Si-rlLS, seriously ’of injured find his j
ment, was I
death is feared. Flames continued tb
spread house of to the tight to the stove & ware- j i
atvhieh Liebismdt, ddst^ftied, McDowell Co.,
iral warehouse was and to the agricul
t of E. Whitman & Sons,
tlfii tlpjief phft Of which wits burned out,
A tire was discovered in this upper Avid
dows of the New Era flouring mills sit
W Chestnut street, Nashville
lenn Thb heat wda *> mterise that
d welling houses on the other nab «
Chestnut street were smoking, and the
eugme at the nearest plug had to be re
to save the Nashville Canning Company's 1
works on one side, and the New Era , 1
mills warehouse on the other. Tho oil
mills seemed in danger at one time, and !
one ville hundred and Nashville and fifty Railroad cars on side the Louis- tracks j
would have been burned had the yard |
not ;
master moved them with remarkable fa-- -
pitiily. The mills fci>St abobt $60,000; but '
the property was not considered wrjrth
that amount of money. The building,
machinery small and, stock wfcrc insured for
$32,000 in amounts In a scofe of
companies. The fire is supposed box" to have
originated from a hot The York sixth
attempt to bui-n tot the New
Zeitnng was frilstiated; The fire
started on the third floor in some old files
of theDemokrat. None but employes
are allowed in that part of the building,
and the owners of the paper are at a loss
to know how the blaze came about. The
xvatchman had found everything right
only fifteen minutes before the alarm,
Tim flames were quickly extinguished
At Tampa, hia. a serious fire took
1 £chHs,‘nZ
Hicks except thrfee. Ihirty-fivebusiness
firms were burned out, with an aggregate
loss ot $75,000 and only $M0CI insu
ranee owing to high rates The fire oc
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Favette Sets oSin Monroe
Si Th cSfmefand o hefire Hedl c^r sun
known.
mine is on fire at the sixteenth level near
Calumet, Mich. Immense volumes of
smoke are issuing from No. 3 shaft,
In the Hecla branch of the mine, miners
have gone down to shut off the fire from
black holes in a portion of the mines,
A fire damaged the extensive saddlery
hardware manufactory of the Frazer &
Jones company at Syracuse, N. Y., $100,
000, which is covered by an insurance of
about $150,000: The town of Winns
boro, S: C., recently disturbed by the
frequency of fires, apparently incendiary,
is now much excited over the burning of
the residence of R. E. Ellison, a promi
nent citizen of the town. The house
and contents were entirely consumed, the
inmates escaping with their lives. The
fire was plainly incendiary.
newn from china.
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Over 1,000 telegraph poles belonging
to the Munaman-Mintzag district and the
Kweichew Lane line, in China, have been
pulled down by the people, who say the
teiegraph is a diabolical European artifice,
Eighty-eight persons were summarily belonging, ex
ecuted near Shanghai for harrowing to
secret societies. The most
accounts are given of floods at A hu Chu
Fu, up the Wenchow river. Over 1,000
persons were swept away, and the dc
struction to the g™ w,n r[ ciops is mi
mense. S. S. Popoff, Chinese secretary
to the Russian legation to Pekin, hits just
published a pamphlet on the Chinese
population, in which he states it to be
382,000,000 against 413,000 000 in the
year 1842. A plague of sudden death is
ranging at Nanking, Tho people are
dying in every quarter, and there are
many instances of very sudden deaths.
The people are apparently well in the
morning and dead in the afternoon.
THIS KLKCTiON-i
Appearances indicate that Gen. Buck¬
ner has been elected Governor of Ken¬
tucky by a reduced majority,
The exciting campaign in Texas as to
whether the state should go “wet” or
“dry,” has ended in a large majority
against prohibition. The feeling on both
sides has been quite bitter, even dividing
families.
GENERAL NEWS.
CURRENT events on this CON*
tineNt And across seas.
EBects of Hot Weather-Drowniri«s» 8te»m
Uml , aIld Railroad Aceideats-TKe;
Deadly Lightning, etc., etc.
A statuc will be erec ted at Essen to
H-Krupp, tiro great Gc,».a
Ac earthgeahe ,ho« t rs d e.rtgin
it^rScJ seconds. and lasted about eight
The Pennsylvania Railroad cannot sup
ply enough freight cars, especially the crush at
Pittsburg, Pit., tW great is ot
business.
There have been five cases of Cholera
an d one death from cholera at Malta.
'fed days’ quarantine against that place
has b&n established at Gibraltar.
At a meeting 0 f the boat'd of trustees
of the New York Soldiers’ and Mfc»’
H Uta e at Bath, N. Y, Treasurer Robie
was ousted '. H te accounts were $90,000
ghort wh ieh friends made good.
AH Swisst commanders havd been
'>rdered to pay the strictest attention t
llle eflectivOnefte of ^troops, in order
to ensure a proper wofl *JS ® f
the even o an ou e
Europe.
The Ssengerfest committee, at Colum
bus, Ohio, has developed the fact, that
the loss oil the last Siengerfest Guarmitee will be
subscribers slightly in excess will be of called 100,000._ upon to make
up' the deficit.
The bill to allow the construction of a
tunnel under the English Channel reintro- eon
uectirig England with France was Sir
dueed in the House of Commons by
Edward Watkin, was defeated- by a vote
of 153 to 107.
frown Prince Frederick opSion William iin‘
de nvent anothe* by Mr. Me
K(; nzie for the growth iff his throat, at
London England. The result of the
operation was so good that the prince health fe- is
turned to Cowes. His general **
excellent '
ng nayal manoeuver8 in the
the Nordenfeldt gun on
l)oard the Curlew bul ' st > seriou8l y in jur
S sev y re ^ ly several seamen. One of the
of , Black Pri , )cei one of the
« iron-clads, also burst, injuring
A beer kettle exploded in Ruhr’s brow
ery, S at Greenbay, died"during Wis., scalding ni/ht. 7 men, The
6 whom the
cause of the explosion is unknown. T le
kettle held 70 barrels of boiling water,
which poured over the unfortunate men,
literally cooking their flesh.
During the festivities at a picnic of the
hod carriers’union at Arsenal park, in
Pittsburg, Pa., a gasoline of the lamp dining sus
ponded from the ceiling the burning
hall exploded, scattering of
fluid over a number of injured. people, many
whom were seriously
Mrs Fannie Haine was gored and Tuscola, tram
T) i e d to death by a mad bull at
wbile attempting to drive the brute
‘ ’
ou t 0 f the front yard. She fought the
an j ma i as long as her strength held
outi but as no one came to her assistance
' of her
gbe wa3 killed before the eyes
little children.
There are now seven Canadian cruisers
on the mackerel grounds in Nova Scotia,
looking after the American fishermen,
q’he mackerel are very plentiful in-shore,
an d Americans very daring, but with the
presence of so many cruisers on the look
out,opportunity for them to get Canadian
dsli are not many.
Newg from Aitakan Millll is to the
effc , thftt a g w ,. on fi ne d in jail there
fo[ . threatening to kill a white woman
has be en released, as the authorities were
in awc 0 f the Indians, who had assembled
in large f numbers. Couriers have arrived
af Ai ak;ln from willow river> bearing
tbe intelligence that the Indians are kill
bl h , r stock belonging to the settlers.
Three children of Martin Dapp, a
German shoemaker of Harrisburg, wluch Pa
tlietr were father poisoned_by had purchased eating sausage the market,
in
The youngest child, John, died in two
hours, and the others were saved with
great difficulty. The father, who took
some of the meat to his shop for lunch,
noticed the queer taste and did not eat
it.
e,i„cc K,„. lu.„ B DevawougBi V.ro of ;
prakaw, half brother of the king
Siam, and suite have arrived m New
York. The party consists of. besides the
Prince, his cousins, Princes Kiliya Rohi,
FsLT Count G S STbSST“S
aids, three tutors, Nat Chit, a student
and an interpreter. The prince is about
31 years old, and speaks English readily.
Billy Moloney, the man who acted as
Ymk SZ*e„:lX JSfhT St y-cht
*W,* l” rt » «' "“"j* “. S'”” 1 ™ 1 -
Thdi
i boat had capsized on account of the
! strong current, and they were in great
! d,mirer. Moloney headed liis yacht, for
them and succeeded in getting them
aboard and landing them at Lachine.
While worship was progressing at St.
John’s Catholic Church, at Scranton, Pa.,
i
j v. ouKta on fire.” At the mention of “fire 1
people wore trampled upon and severely after in
hurt. Mrs. Steele died soon
| g,- ea (, agony,
convention Delegates to the seventeenth general
of the Catholic Total Absti
neuce Union of Amencu at Philadelphi i,
NO. 24.
Pa,, fccfore entering upon business which
drew them together from all parts of the
country cathedral to that city, proceeded in the in solemn a body
to the to engage
services of high mass. The delegates
numbered about tour hundred, and
among them were many pwests who ar*
active members of the Total Abstinence
societies.
SOUTHERN BRIEFS. - <
CONDENSATION OF THE BUST
HAPPENINGS OF A WEEK:
Good Crop. A.«rrd-.sociai,Reii«i~ *.*
Temperance Gatherings—Boiled nam
items-country Generally Healthy,
The Montgomery, Ala., Street Car
drivers struck for $14 a week and twelve
hours a day to constitute a day’s work,
The First Baptist church at Osyka,
Migg - was etruck b y lightning, tearing
the whokj of the uort hside of the steeple
to pieces.
Tho Board of Health of Atlanta, Ga.,
’V to dose up all the wells of the
}’ " ” k fo und the water is irapure
fo Maxwell! 0
the condemned St. Louis
m u'fd*rer,will not be executed at present,
ag hig has been appealed to the
United States Court,
A man named Ferguson was killed on
fht'East Tennessee Railroad near Bras
Ga., -while attempting to jump on
a t ra j n) w hile fn motion,
a flue of flip ammonia chamber of the
^ Ice workg bIew ou - t at Ma .
creating a great deal of conster
nation among the employes,
• • whalev 7’ a clerk for Grant „il. Mum
X . t q „ nn
- - tb raising
a cnecK nom $484 to *4,us4.
Charles R, Jones, proprietor of the
Daily Observer at Charlotte, N. C., made
an assignment for^the benefit of his cred
lt0,s - I,e P laces his liabilities at $9,500.
Reports received from Manchester, Ciay of
county, in the southeastern comer
Kentucky, state that a riot occurred dur
ing the election in which six men were
killed.
Hon. E. W. Rolmrtson died at Baton
Rouge, La., aged sixty-four. He served
three terms in Congress and was elected
in November last a member of the 50th
Congress.
The Chattanooga, looted Rome & Columbus
Railroad have its line and work
will be begun on theroad within the next
to da^ The! ine^I be '
The capital ..J. will ... He , ^furnished furnished by bv New New
A oik and London bankers.
The choking of the great sewer on
Loycl street, Atlanta, Ga., has puzzlea
the city authorities for several yeais an
it has just come to light, ttiat tne gaa
company had tapped the sewer in severe
places and run their pipes through l , a
save them from digging up the street,
All the women and children have left
Morehead City, Rowan county,Ky., and
there is no one there except those who
intend to engage in tho fight, if one take
takes place. The Tolliver gang are armed
with Winchesters, and the Loganites
would have little show of holding out
against them.
Joseph H. Rainey, once a prominent has just
colored man in South Carolina,
died at Columbia. He figured extensively
in politics, his superior intelligence and
good stock of information giving ton
prestige among his party followers. Be
fore and during the War he was the bar
ber at the Mills’ house in Charleston.
At a depth of 900 feet, a small flow of
gas has been struck at the Logan well,
six miles from Chattanooga, Tenn. The
gas was lighted and Hazed up five feet
high, and the flow is continuous There
is considerable excitement and a stock
company with a capital of $20,000 has
been organized to sink five more wells,
The son of John Player, of Kershaw
county, 8. C., aged 6 years, accidentally
>,;« JJS Httm brother serfous aired 3 ^ound. inflicting I
,,,-J perhaps loaded without the know
had
f t he father, and while the elder
bov’was J S playing with it, it went off with
me result, stntial siait .
By the breaking of a bnike beam on a
freight car on the Georgia Pacific Rail
road, near a station called Henry Ellen,
several cars were derailed while on the
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badly. Conductor Dooley and
Brakeman Tucker of Atlanta were badly
b urt.
J)r w H Saunders, the physician ap
^ ^inted f Ber to make“Hoco^- wiich
> the new law went
- abandoned his work
rccently J’ arrested
Stevel)g0 Al Hc was on
wri( . ()f man d a mus, which reiiuires him
» comploto hU lot u.w a.lor WMmia.
2",:Tt™b^4ifro«lmZM' I,.,.whoaw.k.to..i.».
Gen Samuel Jones, of the judge advo
cate general’s office, died at Bedford
Springs, Pa. Gen. Jones was born in Vtr
gjnia in 1820. and xvas consequently six
ty-seven years of age. He was appomt
' d ‘' g ' pint, b t . : ' t | at lie , ^ter^graduation^en
I A ho served with
; the Confederacy.
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