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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
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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
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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