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About The Conyers weekly. (Conyers, Ga.) 18??-1888 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 27, 1888)
CONYERS WEEKLY ’ 7 ': X. p. T. Barnum, the great showman, says of printer’s ink, and he ought to p-now, that there is no factor in adver¬ tising so worthy of patronage or so valu¬ able as printer’s ink. The loss of life and property on the Great Lakes has been greater the past year than in any year since 1883. Two hundred and four lives have been lost and seventy-three vessels of 20,687 registered tons went down, representing a loss of $792,000 on hulls and. $408,400 on car goes. If the minor losses be added the whole loss would exceed two and a half millions. A correspondent writing from Russia says that in the diuing room of one of the large cafes of Moscow there is a pool of fresh -water in which fish of various kinds and sizes swim about. Any pa¬ tron of the restaurant who may wish a course of fish for his dinner goes to the pool, picks out the particular fish which strikes his fancy and in a jiffy the waiter has captured it with a dij) net and sent it out to the chef. On walking, the Buffalo Commercial Advertiser remarks: “ We have had some experience, and are firmly of the opinion that as a rule the individual is the best judge—all doctors to the contrary not¬ withstanding. If walking does not over¬ fatigue—and immoderate walking is cer¬ tainly not advisable—then it is unques¬ tionably a vigorous and healthy exercise. As to how far a person can walk without fatigue, why that must be decided by judicious individual experiment.” At the Comstock silver mines in Vir¬ ginia City mining science has reached its highest point, according to a San Francisco newspaper, which says that there they carry water down a vertical shaft to the depth of 1,700 feet, and then gear it back to the surface, run ning the gigantic mills by the 1,700 foot pressure. When the plan was suggested to engineers of Europe they laughed af it; but now it’s a proved success, and furnishes a power immeasurably gre.ttci and cheaper than anything hitherto ftp applied to mining. That ship building is becoming a Pa¬ cific coast industry is proved by the work done at the Union Iron Works and the Pacific Rolling Mills in this city, writes the San Francisco correspondent of flu New Y T ork Triluns. The work of these two corporations for eleven months ol the present year amounts to $1,850,000. The largest contract is for the cruiser Charleston, on which $300,000 has already been paid, while'the work on the new cruiser, No. 5, amounts to $230, 000. The yards have turned out two ships for foreign owners—the Premier, built for the Puget Sound traffic of the Canadian Pacific Railway, and the Kaala, for the Sandwich Islands. Two thousand men are employed and work goes on day and night. The National Museum at Washington contains a set of the pharmacopoeias of all nations, furnishing a complete list of the world’s standard medicines. From these a universal pharmacopoeia is to be compiled. The department of Materia Medica in the museum illustrates the world’s past and present medical prac¬ tice, and is designed to include every kind of raw material, preparation, instru¬ ment and appliance ever used in medi¬ cine, surgery or hygiene. Several thou¬ sand specimens have thus far been col¬ lected, showing the material and pro¬ cesses of modern pharmacy, together with such curiosities as alligator oil, frogs, toads, tortoise shells, ambergris, cod-livers, pearls, snails, snakes and othei odd substances to which healing powers have been attributed. The construction of another Alpine tunneL through the Simplon, as a rival of the successful St. Gothard, has for some time been talked about in Paris. It is estimated that the Simplon tunnel would shorten the time between Paris and cen¬ tral and southern Italy by three hours, as compared with the St. Gothard line, and the gain over the Mont Cenis route would be still greater. According to the repre¬ sentations, the length of the contem¬ plated tunnel would be about twelve miles, and the whole work could be ac¬ complished in from four to six years; it would be the longest tunnel in the world, and require extraordinary provisions for hs suitable ventilation, though this object could be attained, it is believed, by means °f a horizontal air shaft above the crown "i ihe tunnel and running its entire length, .connecting by a series of verti¬ cal shafts with the atmosphefe above the mountain. Pumping engines would not only keep the air constantly renewed,, lut would draw off the water which otherwise would steadily accumulate in the tunnel. The cost of this work is esti¬ mated at about $16,000,000. CONYERS. GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 1888. WASHINGTON, D. C. FACTS AND FANCIES ABOUT MEN AND THINGS. iVhat Our IVationnl I.aw iilnhers are Doing —Departmental (Gossip—Movements ol President and Mrs* Cleveland. CONGRESSIONAL. Among the petitions and memorials presented in the Senate were the follow¬ ing: Asking that goods manufactured by convict labor shall be so marked; in favor of a postal telegraph system; for an international copyright law; for an amendment of the patent laws; for the adjustment of the tariff so as to prevent unequal burdens; to develop the material resources of the country, and at the same time accord just compensation to labor, (the latter being the action of the Chat¬ tanooga Chamber of Commerce); for liquor prohibition in the District of Co¬ lumbia: and for a constitutional amend¬ ment prohibiting the liquor traffic. In the House, Mr. Seney, of Ohio, from the bill committee ou judiciary, reported a to regulate practice in causes remov¬ ed from the State courts. Placed on the calendar. The struggle over the Wilkins banking bill was resumed. Several pro¬ positions to compromise failed, oppon¬ ents of the bill announcing their inten¬ tion to fight it with all the weapons that come to their hands. After recess, in pursuance of the previous order of the House, the ceremony of the presentation, the by the State of Massachusetts to House, of portraits of Theodore Sedgwick. Nathaniel Joseph B. Vamum and Gen. Mas¬ P. Banks, distinguished occupied citizens of sachusetts who have the Speak¬ er’s chair in the national House of Rep¬ resentatives, was proceeded with. The portraits, handsomely framed, were rang¬ ed side by side in front of the clerk’s desk, and attracted much attention. Mr. Sherman, from the committee on foreign relations, reported a $ bid 1 and to tlie fix the charge for passports at , of bill the was morning thereupon passed. the At bill the for close business re¬ funding the direct tax of 1861 was taken up, the question being on Mr. Chandler’s motion to recommit the bill. The mo¬ tion was rejected. The question was then taken on the amendment offered by Mr. Edmunds, requiring all claims to be filed within six years, and it was agreed provid¬ to Mr. Berry offered an amendment ing that no part of the money collected from individuals shall be retained by the United States as a set-off against any state indebtedness. The amendment was agreed to. Mr. Vance offered an amend¬ ment extending the provisions of the bill to the cotton tax collected under the law of 1862 and subsequent laws. He said that if the direct tax was to be refunded, this cotton tax, which was also a direct tax, ought to be refunded. If one was a hardship, the other was equally a hard¬ ship. The cotton tax the was peculiar a tax ou ex¬ ports and was levied on pro¬ duct of one section of the country, so that there could be no compensating tax stated on any other section. Mr. Hampton some facts to show that the state of South Carolina had been actually made to pay some $700,000, while her quota of the di¬ rect tax was only $363,000. The bill was passed—yeas 48, nays 10. The Blair ed¬ ucational bill was then taken up, and Mr. Brown, of Georgia, addressed the Senate in support of it, stating that its defeat would be received with great regret throughout the whole southern section of country. After the reading of the journal, the Speaker pro tem. called the House to or¬ der and said: “I desire to say in ordei to allay uneasiness and apprehension honored about the condition of our Speaker that he is in process of rapi-5 calls re¬ covery and that the occasion which the present occupant to the chair will happily, I trust rapidly, pass away.” The House then, after briefly considering it in committee of the whole, passed the agri¬ cultural experiment stations bill. It ap¬ propriates $585,000 to carry into effect last year’s bill providing for such stations in connection with state agricultural com¬ mittees. Mr. Wilkins,of Ohio,then called up the banking bill as unfinished business. An effort was made by friends and opponents of the measure to come to some agree¬ ment by which the bill might be open to free discussion and amendment, and tin offering of dilatory motions was aband¬ oned; but it was unsuccessful owing to the announcement by Mr. Weaver, ol Iowa, that he would not surrender his right to antagonize the bill at any time by anv means in his power. He raised a question of consideration, and the House determined—yeas 150, nays 55—to con¬ sider the bill. GOSSIP. The comptroller of the currency has authorized the City National bank ol Knoxville, Tenn., to begin busine-s with a capital of $ 100 , 0 ( 0 . ® Members of the 41st Kentucky regi¬ ment, which, it is said, never was muster¬ ed out of the United States service, have appointed a committee to prosecute their claims for an honorable discharge, with pay for the time they have been legally bound to the Government. Artirnr Commissioner Stock-la^er is smd an order of restoration to settlement of lands within the indemnity limits of bama 1 & ^Florida.^Mma, Rome & Dalton, Snntl, A North Alabama the Florida safe About 12,000 s ?js acies „ss,te are mvoivea. Alata The National Board of Trade, in ses delegates being _ akc sion, many of its delegates to the shipping league cvnven tion, adopted the following ■ Be8olved ’ That we favor the improvement of om navigable rivers and harbors, by appro¬ priations for the removal of obstructions therein, or surveys thereof, with a view to deline the jurisdiction of the United States over them, so that provision obstructions may be made by law to prevent therein. ” The seal of secrecy has been removed from a long list of confirmations by the Senate. Among the nominations arc the following: P. 8 . Hunter,, collector of customs, Tappahannock, Manchester, Va. Postmas¬ Ya.; H ters—H. A. Pope, Fernandina, Fla.; W. G. A. Jordan, Stone, Charleston, Miss.; J. T. Kiddo, Cuthbert, Ga.; John F. Redding, Barnes ville, Ga.; W. T. Broyles, Dayton,Tenn. To be pension agent at Knoxville,Tenn. D. A. Carpenter. President Cleveland sent to Congress the reports of the Pacific railroad com¬ mission, accompanying them with a special message on the subject. The re¬ ports, he says, exhibit such' schemes con¬ nected with the construction and man¬ agement of the subsidized roads to defeat any chance for the government’s reim¬ bursement, that any plan of settlement should be predicated upon the substantial interest of the government, rather than any forbearance or generosity deserved by the companies. Mr. O’Donnell, of Michigan, has pre¬ pared for introduction in the House, a bill providing that after July 1, delivery drop let¬ ters, where the system of free is established’, shall be fixed fraction at the thereof. rate of one cent per ounce or He states that there are 189 free delivery offices in the country, employing 5,310 carriers. Cost of this service last year was $4,618,692; the revenue derived from postage on local matter in 1887, was $0,- 691,253, the local mails paying for the service and leaving an excess of $2,072,- 561. The National Tobacco Association of the United States met in convention re¬ cently. There were about thirty members of the association present from different parts of the country. After a brief, formal discussion the following National was adopted: “Resolved, That the Tobacco Association, having met in con¬ ference, and finding that the views of Congress and the probable action on the tobacco tax question are undeveloped and uncertain, therefore, we believe it advisable that the conference at the pres¬ ent time take no action thereon.” An executive committee consisting of twenty five members was appointed; This also, sub-conr- a sub¬ committee of thirteen. mittce was instructed to give careful at¬ tention to any proposed legislation tobacco by Congress relating to the tax on and to the regulations governing the same. FOUR RAILROAD ACCIDENTS, By Which Several People Are Killed, amt Many Severely Injured. A p«™,- train on the L.kc Eric A Tta loco. turned over on their sides and were drag ged two hundred yards before the train was stopped. Allen Gilbert, a traveling man from Fostoria, Ohio, jumped and from the fr uit platform of the smoker the toppled over on him, crushing him to death. The cars took fire from the stoves after the wreck, and it was only by heroic exertion on the part of the train men that a fearful loss of life was prevented. Frank Mayo’s “Nordcck ’ company was on the frain, and several of the actors were severely hurt, filbert was tneonly >rson killed outright. A (Occurred on the Erie railroad betwee Avon and Ivanona. train JNo 11 , Rochester, N. ^., dashec mo tram 107 coming fiom the Las . . gmeer Maynard, of the train line, 118, one ot oldest engineers on \ seriously injured, though some of them were slightly bruised. The engineer and fireman of train 107 jumped in time to escape. The accident is reported to have been caused by the dispatcher at Avon civing ^between the 'wrong order. plow A collis ion two snow en fn gines took place near Hoskins, Nebraska, which Engineer Sawyer was instantly killed and several others were injured, Sawyer was working a snow plow in a cut and got stalled. He thereupon back ed his engine speed. and A started drag-out down engine grade at rapid was coming around the curve and they came together. The Eastern cannon ball train on the Texas & Pacific Rail road, was thrown from the track in Rois D’Arc bottom, near Bon ham, Texas. The train, which con sisted of a baggage car and two coaches and a sleeper, was running at the rate of about fifteen miles an hour over the tres tie that spans the bottom, when the tres tie spread and caused the engine, baggage car and one coach to leave the track. Fortunately the cars did not fall off the trestle, which was t wenty feet high there by avoiding a terrible catastrophe. No one was seriously injured. WOMAN TRIUMPHS. —— There was a “surprise” stockholders at the the annual Street meeting of the of Railway Company m Jover, and’leading advocate president of of woman’s the . talus* was elected company, branch h of the Washington Ter \o<r “on stature Q1? ^ £ j ’ conferring suffrage same-bill wo m ,. n y ote D f 14 to 9. The d thfc comjcil Jast wcek b , a ' vote of 6 to 3 . ERA OF LAWLESSNESS. DEEDS THAT MAKE PEACEFUL CITIZENS INDIGNANT. Horrible Fends and Butcheries in Wcsl Vir¬ ginia, Alnbnma and Missouri-Detect!v». Shot Down—Train Robbers Foiled* W. N. Baker and Robert Iteitt, of Ful¬ ton county, Ark., were both engaged to be married, and wedding. they had arranged the to have a double Before event took place, however* Baker sug¬ gested that they have their farms sur veyed. The idea suited Hcitt, and Baker accordingly went to Conway, a few miles distant, to secure the services of County Surveyor Dickinsou. He returned home in tlic evening, accompanied Mr. by Dickinson the. sur¬ veyor. The next morning the after completing his work found that line separating the two farms was about 200 feet from the place where it was sup¬ posed to be on Hcitt’s land. fathers A dispute of the having arose between the two young men, old man Ileitt finally declared that his son never should marry Baker’s daughter, nor Tub daughter furious, Ba¬ ker’s son. At this Baker became and drawing a knife rushed at Heitt. The latter also drew a knife, and stabbed before any one could interfere they liad each other. Heitt may live, but no hope is entertained for Baker’s recovery. Information comes from Oceana, AVyo tning county, W. Virginia, that another bloody chapter in the McCoy-ilatfield lives of feud was enacted, in which the five McCoys were sacrificed The Hat field gang made a raid on the house of Simon McCoy, brother of Randall. Ine McCoys were completely surprised raid The Hatfield gang made a on the house of Sim McCoy, brother of Randall, whose house was burned and a portion of his family killed several'days ago, and taking Mrs. Ran dall McCoy to a tree, tied her to it and then shot her to death, together with her eldest son. The house was set ou fire and McCoy and his two youngest children were burned to death. After the bloody combat in Stone county, Missouri, about six weeks ago. between the Terrys and their Missouri enemies, the former retreated to Arkan sas, and there, reinforced by their clan* nish allies, stubbornly defied the author ities, preventing any arrests being made, A vigilance committee has been organ ized in Stone county to rid the’country of the Terrys and their outlaw adherents, The committee has been Arkansas, strengthened by a similar organization of in the Terrys organ ized in the vicinity this _ new stronghold. Some time ago inter state vigilance committee ordered the Terrys and their friends to leave the county m so many days, specified in the warning. Instead of leaving, the Terrys numbering 35 fighting men, all armed with Winchester rifles and revolvers, de fied them, and the vigilante have equipped a war footing of 105, likewise well for bloodv work “il'byTlLEmfc^oLf'fto'ifiS.' Detective Hawk Scnrborcglr w„ even i ng had some words with Bud Ha j b arkeeper wll0 W as raising a dis tu H, anC e : Later on Haley, Ellis and other pin * t j es a n drunk, found Scarbor h lone ia a saloon Ha i ey demanded a retraction of something Scarborough had gaid which he rcf used to make, and knocked H a i ey down. They were sepa rat<jd an d Haley and his friends went ou t on the sidewalk. Ellis .asked Haley f or a pistol .and said he would go back an( j Scarborough. He got a pistol ftn( j en ^{ re party went back. Haley struck the detective and knocked him up a ~ a j nst a s t 0 ve. Scarborough drew a derringer and fired at Haley, missing ^ i n the meantime, Ellis had got be k j n d g car borough, and without a word 0 f warning, shot him three times in the back He then threw down the pistol “ d ■* “ ” “"‘T d Train robbers were foiled in an attempt to rob an expressutrain on the Wabash & Western road at Cooloy’s Lake, 24 miles east of Kansas City, Mo. The county officials had been warned of the intended robbery, and they sent an armed posse on a train and bad another posse concealed in the woods close to Cooley’s Lake. The robbers’programme was carried out all right up to a certain point. The train was stopped by a red light, and three men, armed with rifles, covered the engineer, and ordered him to dismount. He did so, and as he reached the ground a part 0 f the posse collected in the train and gave the robbers a volley. Others on the tram came up, and so did those in the woods. The robbers returned the fire f rom repeating rifles, but did no damage, phey ran f or cover, firing when pursuit given became too close. The plot was who a -w Ry by one of the gang named King, Missouri told Arnold, the station agent at City, what was going on. Arnold in turn informed the sheriff, and the latter officer immediately organized a posse. Arnold wag one 0 f the posse, and it was he who 8hot the leader from the cab. King re . d with the men and signaled tho train to stop . RUSSIA IS PREPARED. Russia . is , carrying . on war preparat ___ „ ^ercare “ ^450 450,000 000 troips ta' Rushan ^ Po¬ easterly portions 01 toe ivnsero q „ ?.“ 32 a. sra- £- a have new iron-clads and six corvettes been added to the Russian Black Sea fleet, The iron-clads are of the more modern type, and are superior to any possessed by Germany and Austria. THE BUSY WORLD PHOTOGRAPHED JIY THE EVER¬ PRESENT NEWSPAPER MAN. Tlic European Powers PreparhiB for n (treat Str«s*le—Irish Adairs-Siorin*, ltallroud Accidents. Suicides, etc. Father Matthew Ryan, the Limerick (Ireland) priest who was imprisoned illegal for a month for inciting the people to acts, was released. YVhilc 4,000 workmen were making floods, a breakwater to stem the Hoaugho in China) they were engulfed few by escaped. a sud¬ den rush of water and only a The Turners of Green Bay, Wis., have issued a circular letter to societies of the North America Turnerbund, asking of for the expulsion of anarchist members the organization. A mysterious box sent to Judge Woods, of the United States Court, before whom the second trial of the tally sheet forgers began at Indianapolis, Ind., proves to be a veritable infernal machine. In the will of L. J. Curtis, the million¬ aire manufacturer of Meriden, Conn., he left $750,000 to the Curtis Home for Old Women and Orphans, which he built and maintained at his own expense. An immense bob-sled, containing fifty- sled two persons, collided with another while descending a hill, Kansas City, and was overturned. Many of the occupants sustained injuries, and three of them will die. ^ M A Brown, a maiden lady re8 * d * in Norris town, Pa., and possess e( j considerable property, lias been swindlod out of *3 000 by “ladies’ a Philadelphia woman who conducted a bank.” An accident occurred the ,, „ Ai-Line , • r * on „„ Railroad between Huntmgtonburg and Jasper Ind lwo passenger coaches were thrown from the track and a num of passengers injured, two of whom J)ave ‘Rem¬ A committee, representing the Lo comotive Engineers’ Brotherhood, called on the Peoria company’s lines, on General Manager Baldwin, at Pittsburg, Pa., and presented a petition for an advance in wages. The Minneapolis, Minn., Journal's rc vised list of blizzard fatalities show 97 dead in Dakota, 12 in Minnesota, 6 in town, 17 in Nebraska and 3 in Montana —a total of 135, besides 55 reported missing. Additions are constantly being mac je to the lists. Bishop William H. Hickenlooper, of th( , Mol 4 on chu rcli, died at Salt Lake (<i utall aged 83 yearSi He was the 0 j dcst bishop in the Mormon Church. jj ( , ] wid tw0 w ives, and a t the time of his death, j ds living posterity numbered twe i ve children, great-grandchildren, thirty-six grandchildren d f[fty-two The _ Baker , , heater , a car stove , filled * with coil pipes, used on the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy passenger tram as “ “E*™tr£ P 'tadfv“lSK’ ! "J*; » £,“c“I Intelligence from Brownville, Minn., snys that the people of that valley are in dire distress. They have had no commu nication with the rest of the world for over three weeks. There is nota lumpof coal or stick of firewood on t he market, The people have confiscated all the fuel of the Manitoba company, and tom down and burned their railroad buildings, Father 8 . Wagoner, an eminent Catho lie priest, of Chicago, Ill., has renounced Catholicism and all orthodox faiths, and entered the lecture field in co-operation with Prof. O. H. Harris. lie will pro mulgate a new doctrine and will attempt to establish a new church, to be known as '“Progressive Christians.” Father Wagener is about 70 years old, and for 50 years prior to coming to this country, served in many important departments of ,h " r "“............. THE GREAT STRIKE. No Stans of no Amicable Settlement—Ice Cutters Tlin »« .VInke Trouble. The executive committee of the rail¬ road strikers held a mooting at Reading, Penn., presided over by Chairman Lee, who returned from Philadelphia. New He reported receipt of advices from 350 York Knights of Labor assemblies not only endorsing the railroad strike, but promising substantial aid. National Master Workman Lewis took his depart home, discouraged it .. not dis- .. ure for gusted with the Corbin futility of his his terms., efforts lie to bring President to now proposes to direct his efforts toward stimulating the Ohio miners to material liberal support of the striking Pennsyl vania brethren. The report that opera tions at the furnaces of the Pottsvillc Iron and Steel Company were about to be resumed, proves to have been ua founded. The fires are banked and the superintendent declares that they will re main so until mining is resumed. The Knickerbocker Ice Company, which has large storage houses at Reading, thousands Penn., of and every Winter harvests tons of ice from the Tumbling Run darns, just outside the suburbs, put a large force of men to work cutting ice. After working an hour ox two, theyascer teined that the ice was to be shipped via the Reading Railroad, whereupon they promptly dropped their tools and refused to work unless they should receive a sat isfactory assurance that the ice would be shipped by the Pennsylvania road. hi; (HIT AM.ttY. A priest in the Rouen (France) rathe dral personated God in a dialogue with the devil. The congregation became in censed and hissed and sang the “Mar seiliaise” and “Reverant De La Revue.” The police made several arrests, but failed to clear the cathedral. NO. 48. OUTHLAND DOTTiNGS. INTERESTING NEWS ITEMS TOR RUST PEOPLE. The Social, Roltaian* and Temperance World—Projected EiiteVltrWeo—Mar* rinses, Vires, Death* Etc. Dr. John Gordon, second cousin of Lord Byron, the great poet, died at Tex akana, Ark. A movement is about to take place, which will give Opelika, Ala., a cotton factory, The enterprise will be of all home capital. The Railroad Commission of Alabama has ordered and demanded of the rail¬ roads running through Opelika, Ala., to build a union depot. Mack Jones, colored, formerly an West¬ em ploye of the Savannah, Florida & ern' Railroad Company, sued the company for $5,000, for the loss of a thumb. The jury gave him $ 100 . The Tennessee Supreme Court decided the Sunday barber law to be unconstitu¬ tional. The case was a test one, brought up by WilliamRagio,of Nashville. Tenn., who had himself indicted for shaviug a customer on'Sunday. The committee of colored men ap¬ pointed to raise funds for the defense of the Pickens, S. G, lynchers, who hung a white mau, are getting along well. John M. Freeman, the colored lawyer, will as¬ sist in the defense. The Virginia House joint resolution requesting Congress to provide for the establishment of an experimental plant at Alexandria, for the manufacture of sor¬ ghum sugar, passed, and will go to the Senate. The corner stone of the new theater/ at Augusta, Ga., was laid by Miss Katie Putnam, an actress. W. II. Fleming de¬ livered the address on the occasion, and was happy and eloquent in the treatment of bis theme. Among the objects placed that in the box was the battered crown Mrs. Bowers wore the night of the fire which destroyed the Masonic theater: Mrs. Lola McGrady, who lives near Columbia, S. C., was alone in the house with her nine months’ old child, and was suffering from the cold. She knelt down on the hearth and t urned her back to the open fire, when her clothing caught fire and in an instant her body was enveloped in flames. She rushed screaming from the house, and ran about three hundred yards along the road, when she sank to burned. the ground The ex¬ hausted and horribly burned to un¬ fortunate lady’s body was a crisp. in Sand Seven persons were drowned Lake, about ten miles Cast of Ennis, Tex. Two young women, daughters of William Williams, a farmer, and a young man named Babbitt, were skating on the lake, when the ice gave way, and they sunk in four and a half feet of water. Miss Babbitt and two little girls, aged 8 and 4 years, and daughters of William Wil¬ liams, were on the shore watching the sport, were drowned in attempting to rescue their friends. A very small child of William Williams, also fell through the ice, but was saved by one of the drowning young ladies catching and throwing it out on the ice. A War Dog. Col. Emerson, of Auburn, Me., hftl been giving an account of a dog that be¬ came famous during the war. He be¬ longed to a Portsmouth man whd enlisted at the beginning of the war and took the dog with him. Both returned safely at the end of three months; bn! as tho Tenth Maine passed through Portsmouth on its way to tho front, sonic of the boys stole the dog and took _____ tel¬ him with them. His owner sent egrams to Boston, New York aud Balti more demanding his release, but the boys laughed and kept tiie dog, who served two years with them, and then went back to Maine. Tlmn the owner tried to get him, but two of tho Tenth Jsiys hid him and carried him toAuburn, where lie re-enliste l with the Twenty ninth Maine, and again went to till front, and was killed at Sabine Cross Roads. He Jove da battle and became terribly excited in action, - barking aud gnawing at the earth where the bullets struck. lilUMINimMI’S SENSATION. Two weeks ago Frank M. Trion, clerk of the City Court and president of the Birmingham, Ala., Baseball Club, left t v le c jty to go to Atlanta in the interest the s'outlierri League. He did not has go to At janta and since he left the city ’ ' heard of. Ilis ( , ot | H :en seen or his p on dsmcn began an examination of p ooks an d discovered that he was a de , probably $10,000. f au j P or to the extent of q'j ie money was taken from a special the trust {uud t W il been paid into court un accoun t of a decree in chancery, A DODD IDEA. Some ill-advised , . , persons started a proposition in Atlanta, Ga., to tais. fund for Gen. James Longstreet, but th gallant old general, though m steal - ened circumstances, declines to accept money in that shape. Now, another i>.< is to put the battle-scarred veteran at the head of a movement fora Gonfede Soldiers’ Home, to be built.in Atlanta, and when completed, make him 1 s governor. __ DYNAMITE MUNSTER. William H. Cramp’s Sons, of Philadel¬ phia. Pa., have been awarded a contract bv the Italian government for the con struetion of a Zaiinski dynamite and gun, which is to be 40 feet long to be made in three sections, filled and with designed. dynamite, to throw a projectile, pounds, distance of four weighing 200 a mi lea
