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VOL. XI.
NATIONAL CAPITAL.
INTERESTING dots abort ovr
united STATES’ OFFICIALS.
Gossip About tlie White HdnSe-ArinV and
Navy Matters—Our Relations YVitUOtfrer
Countries and-Nations,
. CONGRESSIONAL.
Mr. E.dmunds asked consent of the Sen¬
ate to take up and consider the bill incor¬
porating the Maritime Canal Company, of
Nicaragua, stating as a reason for. his re¬
quest that he the'Suggestion might be compelled of Mr. to Vest be
absent; but at
be let the matter go over. The bill to
provide for an international marine eoiri
ference, for securing greater safety to life
and property at.sea, was passed. The
Senate iu the morning hour United passed bills
extending the laws of the States
over the public land strip, and to amend
the land act so as to permit foreign gov¬
ernments to acquire . property in the
District of Columbia, and to author¬
( from
ize the removal of quarantine appropri¬
Ship Island, Mississippi, and
ating $450,000 for the purpose,....
The House was called to order by iMr.
Clark, its clerk, who announced the en¬
forced absence of the Speaker, and on
motion of Mr. Mills, of Texas, S. S. Cox,
of New York, was unanimously elected
speaker pro tem, amid a round of ap¬
plause. Mr. McAdoo, of New and Jersey,
offered the following preamble referred reso¬ the
lution, which were to
committee on foreign affairs. ‘ ‘Whereas,
It is stated that the British government
has made claim to a considerable portion in
of valuable territory now and hitherto
the possession of the republic of Yene
zeula, and is, through its agents at De
marara, in British Goiena, proceeding, and in
without legal or equitable right,
defiance of the protests of Venezuela.' to
exercise dominion over the same, and has
refused to arbitrate, the question of dis¬
puted boundaries; and whereas, policy the
United States has, by its settled
aud practice, defended the existence and
independence of all American countries
against European domination and
control, and is particularly inter¬
ested iu maintaining a both Republican Americas;
government and rights President in be
Resolved, That the request¬
ed to send to the House, if not incompat¬
ible with public interests, all documents
and correspondence between this govern¬
ment and the governments of Great Brit¬
ain and Venezuela, or either of them, re¬
lating to the question of disputed bound¬
aries between said British colonies and
Venezuela.”
On motion of Mr. Hoar, iu consider
ation of the fact that the day was a legal
holiday; morning business was dispensed
with, so that the order of the Senate
should be immediately carried out. The
galleries were well filled, though uot
crowded. Fifty senators were in their
seats and maintained throughout the ses¬
tion. sion attitudes of most respectful and atten¬
All officials, clerks pages
were at their posts as ou other days, but
from the beginning there was abstraction
from the pursuits of ordinary occasions.
The cloak rooms were empty. The desks
of senators were free from papers; there
was no writing of letters, no reading of
newspapers and no moving about the
chamber, without precedent or under¬
standing. The occasion was observed by
all present as one commemorating an im¬
portant historical event, and quiet and
decorum, as of a religious of ceremonial, presi¬
was observed. The voice (he
dent pro tem., though low, was distinctly
heard to the extremities of the chamber.
He read from a manuscript which lay on
behind his desk, standing with his hands released clasped
from him, except as they were of
time to time to turn the sheets
the address. The presiding officer, (Mr.
Ingalls), rising, said: “On the 17th of
being September, 1790, George Washington, his
then at nearly the close • of
i second Presidential term, delivered the
1 following farewell address.” He then
j read the address, which was listened to
[ in profound silence and with respectful
I attention.
[ In the Senate, messages from the Pre=
I ident with reports from the secretary of
I state relative to the invitation of the im
[ I perial States German government to the United
government to become a.party to
I the International. Geodetic Association,
and relative to the invitation of the Bel¬
[international gian government to participate in the
exposition of .science, ami
| j industry presented at and Brussels referred in to May the next, committee were
j on foreign relations. Mr. Hoar, from the
committee on privileges and elections, re¬
ported a resolution authorizing that com¬
mittee and any sub-committee thereof to
continue the investigation (ordered last
session) into events alleged to have taken
place in the state of Texas, and set forth
in the petition of Stephen Hackworth ajul
others. Referred to the committee on
contingent Mr. expenses.... In the House,
j Wilkins, of Ohio, from the committee
olution on hanking and currency, reported a res
Treasury calling on the Secretary . of the
for information as to the number
I of steam power presses used in plate print
I ]ng in the bureau of engravingjmd print¬
ing. bill J. D. Taylor, of Ohio, introduced
a riage to the change the common law civiliza¬ of mar¬
to customs of modern
tion by the emancipation of married
women in the District of Columbia and
territories. Referred. The House then
went into committee of the whole, for
the consideration of public building
measures. for buildings Bill were passed providing
at Charleston, West Vir¬
ginia, Allentown and Lancaster, Pa.
GOSSIP.
mittee Judge Crisp appeared before the com¬
on harbors in the interest of the
hoochee Ocmulgee, the Oconee aud bills the Chatta¬
rivers. There are now be-
CONYERS. GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MARCH % 1888.
fore the committee asking for $30,.000
each for the first two, and 3100,00b for
the latter.
The House committee on judiciary re¬
solved to report with a favorable recom¬
mendation, the bill repealing section 1218
of the Revised Statues, which renders in¬
eligible States to any position in the lias United served
army, any person who
in any capacity in the military, naval or
citif service of the Confederate States.
The Secretary of the Treasury received
through Adams Express lit Company a pack¬
age containing fl,(S00 National bank
notes, shipped bv “a freeman "t ( iu
cinnati. It was accompanied by a note
asking that the money be placed to the
credit of the conscience fund, and bear¬
ing the signature “One Who Will Be
Honest,’'
There is trouble between the United
States and the government of Morocco,
growing out of the arrest at American Rangier of a
Moorish Hebrew under pro¬
tection, and the refusal of the sultan
either to release him on the demand of
the United States consul, or to recognize
longer the treaty rights of Americans in
his dominions. Two United States men
of-war are on the way to the coast of
Morocco by order of the President.
In the United States Supreme Court
the Chief Justice gave notice that man¬
dates to enforce the decisions of the court
would issue in nil eases decided previous¬
ly to January 1, except those in which
petitions for rehearing are pending and
those docketed and dismissed under the
Otli rule. In view of the fact that the
petition for rehearing has been forwarded
(but not vet received) in the Maxwell
Pivller murder case, (Hugh M. Brooks
against the state of Missouri.) the issuance
of the mandate in that case is postponed. off for
The effect of this will be to put •
the present the execution of. the sentenci
of death pronounced by the by state the co\n1 state
upon Brooks, alias Maxwell,
court.
The interstate commerce commission¬
ers promulgated an elaborate opinion in
the case of George Rice, of Marietta, O.,
against the Louisville & Nashville and
several other Railroads, charging, favor among of
other the Standard things, discrimination^in Oil The
company. com¬
plaint was held to be well founded in all
the cases. In that against the Louisville
& Nashville railroad, an order was en¬
tered that,, defendants cease their unjust
discrimination; that they cease to make
tank rates when tanks differ in capacity,
and that they conform their charges ori
tank, car and barrel shipments to the rule
perscribed in this decision.
NORTH CAROLIM DOTS.
Governor Scales is considering death a peti¬
tion for a commutation of the sen¬
tence of James Thomas, who, if there is
no interference, will be hanged revivalist, at Hen¬
dersonville, March6th... .The
R. G. Pearson, has begun a great meet¬ the
ing at Newbern. The attendance is
largest ever known there ...A school
teacher named Walter Pearson has dis¬
appeared from the town of Winde, in
Moore county, in a very mysterious man¬
ner... .Deeds ol' trust of the Lynchburg Mercantile
& Durham Railway to the
Trust Company, of New York, in the sum
of $1.680,000,’were physicians recorded of Durham in Durham. County
Several jury
have been presented by the grand where
for prescribing whiskey in Durham,
prohibition prevails. It is charged that
they prercribed whiskey when it was not
needed bv persons who applied for it.
J. C. Morgan, general merchant of
. . . . .Treasurer
Laurinsburg, has assigned... months,
Jenkins, ol' Durham, has for re¬
fused to pay out funds for the mainte¬
nance of the graded schools in Durham
township, and much feeling and law
suits have resulted. He has, at last, re¬
ceded from his position and has begun to
make the payments.
_
MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE.
The Memphis, Oxford & Columbus
Railroad charter passed both Houses, with
the amendments desired by its friends.
The House passed the bill, which was
adopted by sections some days officers since, re- ol
ducing the salaries of all the
the state except circuit judges. The av
era o-o reduction is from twenty to twenty
five* per cent.... The the House, bill preventing by a very the
lai-o-e vote, freight passed trains Sunday
running of on ...
The charter of the Mobile, Hattiesburg
* Jackson Railroad was amended in the
Senate, requiring the road to run by
Brandon... .The vote killing the Senate
bill, repealing all exemptions of railroad
charters as to taxation, was, was fil'tv
four to fortv.....The Senate bill fixing
salaries of district attorneys at $2,000 and
taking away fees was killed in the House.
The joint special committee appoint¬ reduc¬
. expediency of
ed to consider the
ing the number of chancery court judges
in the state have agreed on^a bill reduc¬
ing the number from 11 to 7.
TREATED LIKE SERFS.
The Congressional investigation com
mittee in session at Pottsville, Pa., resum¬
ed its inquiry into the coal strikes in Hazel.
Almost the entire, day was, given up to
hearing from two representative miners,
one of whom is a member of the state leg¬
islature, accounts of the conditions of the
life which prevail among coal miners.
They are represented as being little bet¬
ter than serfs. In debt to their employ¬
ers almost all their lives, with scarcely
ever more than two-thirds of full time
time employment, subject to numberless
petty exactions, besides the one great one
practiced through the “Company Store”
system, they are described as seldom see¬
ing a dollar in money, and are even taxed
a fixed sum for doctors’ bills, which
is collected by the employers, and are
charged with a given amount of coal for
fuel, whether they burn it or not.
SOUTHERN GOSSIP.
BOILED DOWN FACTS AND FAN¬
CIES INTERESTINGLY STATED.
4cci<lents on J.aud ami on -Sea—New Knter
prises—Suicides—Religious* Temperance
and Social Matters.
Pulaski county,. Georgia, has voted iii
favor of ‘ ‘drv, ” by a majority of about
100 .
All the stamps, money and registered
packages at Floral College, N. C., were
nolen recently-. The depot was at the
same time entered and robbed.
An unknown miscreant changed the
switch of the Port Royal Railroad track
between Yemassep anti Port Royal, aud
the locomotive of an up-freight train ran
off and was badly dainaged.
Excessive and incessant rain has fallen
it, Montgomery, Ala., and streams are all
tip. A washout occurred on the Louis¬
ville.* Nashville Railroad near Gepr
giana, and delayed trains fifteen hours.
Mr. Patipert, an employe of the New
Orleans, La .,• Cotton Exchange, was dis¬
covered to have robbed it of $20,000.
Haupert, who was under the treasurer of
the Exchange, Rad access to its securities.
S. II. Cate, a prominent preacher of
Chattanooga, Tenn., committed suicide
by drinkiug whiskey into which lie had
put some poisonous drug. N° cause is
known except his melancholy feeling for
weeks previous.
Bill Givings, of Augusta. Ga., watcli
man on the South Carolina Railroad
bridge over the Savannah river, train. was
killed by ail incoming passenger of and
Givings was about forty years city. age,
leaves a wife living in that
The grand jurv of DeKalb superior against
court has found four indictments
Maj. J. W. Green, general manager of
the Georgia Railroad, for running freight
trains on the Sabbath day later than the
hour allowed by law.
Governor Seales has ordered the en¬
campment of the North Carolina state
guard to be held at Wrightsville, July 15th near and
Wilmington, beginning days. The entire force
continuing seven under
will be put canvas. ,
The switchmen and yardmen of the
Georgia Pacific railroad, at Birmingham, against
Ala., about fifty in number,struck
a reduction of wages. The compauy or¬
dered a reduction of 25 cents per refused day in
the wages of the men, and they
(o work.
P. Adams appeared at Chattanooga, and
about seven months ago
opened a law office. Tyre Williamson
arrived in'that city from Florida a day
or. two ago, and happened to recognize who
Adams on the street ns a mail was
wanted in Florida for horse stealing.
The Library Exposition opened aupici- at
Chattanooga, Tenn., under most
ous circumstances. It is estimated that
at least'5,000 people were present. The
Exposition promises to be a used great suc¬
cess. The proceeds will be to pur¬
chase a library for the use of the public.
Paris mountain, which is situated about
five miles from Greenville, whole 8. C., pre¬
sented a grand sight, the mountain
being covered by forest fires. It is re¬
, nearing the
ported that the tire is rapidly Hunt, but
residence of Colonel I. F. as
yet no damage has been done beyond the
burning of trees. , ; i ■ ■■
The Augusta, Ga., Exposition directors
elected John W. Ryckmau, who is now
there, general manager. Mr. Rvckman
has had considerable experience in that
line. He was connected with the New
Orleans, Kansas City, Louisville and At¬
lanta expositions, and is recommended as
an energetic gentleman.
A boilei* in a shingle mill at West Mil
ville, La., on the Texas and Pacific rail¬
road, exploded, instantly killing Charles
Hill, of Toledo.Ohio, ami John white, Stephen- and
son of Beaumont, Texas, both
, Plaquemine, La.,
Seymour Banks, of
colored. Thirteen others were seriously
hurt.
R. E. Looby, formerly chief train dis¬
patcher of the’ Kansas C ity Railroad, was
run over by a train and killed in the
Union depot at Birmingham, Ala. He
resigned his position recently, and was
boarding a train for New York, when lie
fell under the wheels and the top of his
head was cut off. Looby came from
Watertown, Wis., where his parents re¬
side.
Both houses of the Legislature of Mis¬
sissippi have passed a bill Confederate providing sol¬ for
the pensioning of the
diers aud sailors of the state who lost a
leg or an arm in the service, or were in¬
capacitated by wounds for manual labor,
and who need such aid. They are to'be
allowed $30 a year. The provisions of
the bill include the unmarried _ widows of
soidiers who were killed, and the disa¬
bled colored servants of soldiers.
W. L. Chambers, now in New York,
telegraphs to Montgomery, Ala,, that the
line for the proposed new railroad be¬
tween Montgomery and Maptesville is
now being located, to ascertain the cost
of building the road, and if the estimates
submitted by Mr. Chambers are verified,
the East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia
Railroad Company will indorse the bonds
of the Great Northeastern, and the road
will be pushed through.
The Alabama Supreme Court affirmed
the decision of the City Court in the case
of Yellowstone Kit against Hon. F. C.
Randolph, judge of probate. Judge
Randolph required Kit to pay a license
tax of $375 for peddling medicines with
music. Kit paid it under protest, and
entered suit iu the City Court that to recover, he
and Judge Arrington decided was
uot a peddler and entitled to recover.
The ease was appealed, and again de
cided ■ i A in ir;»-a Kit s favor.
While workmen on the railroad bridge
at Oconee, Ga., were engaged in some
difficult job, John McNish,ii young white
man, fell a distance of fifty feet into the
water below. He soon came to the top
of the water and began to swim, but as
the water was very swift, he was soouex¬
hausted, but just as lie was nearing the
bank, hopeless and drenched, he man¬
aged to grasp a limb, which he clinched
between Ms teeth, and swung to it until
assistance reached him.
The British bark Crown Jewel, from
Oran, Africa, for Philadelphia, lauded at
Delaware breakwater the master and
crew of the schooner Edward G. Taulane,
of Somer's Point, which was aban
doned water-logged on February 12th in
latitude 35.18, longitude 73.10. The
Taulane sailed from the Satilla river,
Georgia, on February 8th, for New York
with a cargo of lumber consigned to the
Hilton lumber company. She sprang a
leak and was subsequently abandoned.
F. Y. Anderson, of the Alabama State
Land Company, at Birmingham, Ala., is
the defendant in two damage suits grow
iug out of a land transaction. Some time
ago Anderson organized a company and
sold to the company a large tract of laud,
representing it to contain valuable kaolin
deposits. The company was organized
to manufacture pottery and a large sum
wits paid lor land. ,T. A. 'Stratton and J.
R, Carr sued Anderson for $70,000, claim¬
ing that the kaolin deposits in the land
had never materialized.
The following board education books have been adopted
by the of ol' Dougherty
county. Georgia: Sanford’s arithmetics,
published by Lippineott company, Phila¬
delphia; Webster’s dictionaries, and
Swinton’s word books and primer, lvi
son Taylor & Co.. New- York; Reed hind
Kellogg’s grammars, Sheldon * Co.,
New York. The readers will not he
changed, being mainly Appleton's, as
well as the geographies of D. Appleton used
& Co., New York, being mainly in
the public schools of the county.
WORLD AT LARGE
PEN PICTURES PAINTED BY a
IORPS OF ABLE ARTISTS.
What Is Going on North, East nnd Writ
. ami Across Hip Water—The t'eming Eu¬
ropean worm.
Russia continues to send troops to the
frontier.
A man has been arrested at Coleraine,
Ireland, with a quantity of dynamite iu
his possession.
Gen. Boulanger, of France, will issue
a protest against the use of his name for
election purposes.
The miners’ joint committee and Mas¬
ter Workman Lewis have agreed, and all
fear of a renewal of the Reading strike
is dispelled.
Graff, Bennett & Co., iron manufactu¬
rers, ol' Pittsburg, Pa., have • assigned
with secured liabilities amounting to
$600,000, and unsecured of about $700,
000 .
The heavy rain and melting snow have
greatly swollen the Potomac, and much
damage from the freshet is feared. The
eastern part of Hagerstown, Md., is al¬
ready four feet under water.
A bomb was found at the Philadelphia
& Reading Railroad freight house, pounds at
Shamokiu. It contained several
of powder, and was placed The closely fuse against had
the wall of the building. reach¬
been lighted, but went out before
ing the powder.
Reports from all parts of the Schuyl¬
kill, Pa., region indicate that there are
fewer men working at the mines, iu con¬
sequence of the new trouble arising lie
cause of the Reading company’s old peremp¬
tory refusal to take back all the men,
as was understood by the Corbih-Lewis
settlement.
Thompson Dickson, treasurer of Marion
county, Ohio, and Robert Beatty, his
deputy, were arrested on a charge of em¬
bezzlement. The amount of shortage as
shown by an examination, just com¬
pleted by the auditor of the state, is
$6,503. The office of treasurer will lie
declared vacant by the county commis¬
sioners, and the treasurer-elect will take
his place at once.
Articles of incorporation of the Du¬
buque (III.) Personal Liberty League have
been filed with the secretary of the state.
The objects of the association are to se
cure information regarding the operation
of prohibitory laws in other states; to
apply for and obtain, by any and all
legislation, the repeal or modification of
the prohibitory law in Iowa, and to secure
’ sustained by.
compensation for losses
reason of the existence and enforcement
of such laws in Iowa; to render to all
members of the association, who may re¬
quire the same, aid in defending their
rights of person and property, and to
obtain by legislation the enactment of a
license law in the state.
THE BOMB EXPLODED.
On James Pander’s farm’, m East Av
muchee valley, Tenn., lives Funk Gib¬
son and his wife (negroes). Some lime
ago Frank found a bombshell, which had
been used during the late War, and
Tvhieh had been lying in the ground since
that time. He carried the bomb home
as a curiosity. Day before yesterday the
oreacher called on Frank for dinner, and
Frank’s wife used the bomb as an and¬
iron. She started her fire and put on her
dinner. Soon after, as she was over the
fire looking after the cooking—Frank and
the preacher sitting in the back part of
the house—there was a great explosion injw
aud the woman will die from her
ries.
Cabbie Lkitz, a girl . , burglar , . at Bay City, ,...
Mich . t received probably fatal injuries by yes
terday in trying to escape from jail uv-ans
of a rope of bed quilts.
A ROYAL GREETINt
ACCORDED TO PRESIDENT AND
MRS. CLEVELAND.
Immense Crowds lilnc ttao Streets ami Cheer
Thcmneive* IToar*e—Delightful Visit to
lho Mtib-Troiilcal—Iucidenis.
The presidential train arrived safely at
Jacksonville, Fla., no incident of note
having taken place on the route from Sa¬
vannah-, Ga., and vyas greeted by a salute
of twenty-one guns and the acclamations
of an immense concourse of people. The
party was escorted to the St. James hotel
by the state military reception committee
in carriages, and a band playing patriotic the
airs. Mayor Burbridge rode iu car¬
riage with the President, and Mrs. Cleve¬
land, which was decorated with flowers
and evergreens. After the presidential
party had taken lunch, the marshal of the
day, Major Harkishimer, with twenty
' aides, formed the procession. EMI lowing
was the order of procession: First Di¬
vision-Police and Florida platoons;marshal battalion, with and
his aides; First
band; the presidential party in carriages,
the carriage of President and Mrs. Cleve¬
land being drawn by six black horses;
Wilson’s battery, mounted as a special
escort to the President; Second Florida
battalion; congressional party in car¬
riages; press association in carriages; in¬
vited guests iu carriages. Second Divis¬
ion—Key West band of colored men,
uniformed Knights of Pythias; Guard Inde¬
pendent order of Red Men ; Perry
of colored state militia; Duval Guard of
colored state militia; Jacksonville Typo¬
graphical Union, No. 103, and Jackson¬
ville Fire Department. Other organiza¬
tions and citizens followed. 'I he line of
march was along with the decorations principal streets, of all
which were gay
kinds, including evergreens, bunting, floaters.
festoons of oranges and orange
Masses of people in holiday attire lined
the route, aud it is estimated that. TOO,
000 citizens and visitors witnessed the
procession, including thousands of north¬
ern tourists.
On the arrival of the another procession salute at
the Exposition building, by detachment
of twenty guns was fired a
of Wilson’s battery. The President,
Mrs. Cleveland and their party and vis¬
iting congressmen were met at the north
entrance by the reception committee of
the sub-tropical exposition, with Direc¬
tor General Paine and officials of the as¬
sociation and were escorted to a platform mili¬
in front of the north gallery. The
tary then entered and slacked arms, ex¬
cept the guards on duty. Seats were re
i served on the the platform and for United representa¬ States
tives of the city, distinguished state ettizens aud
government, committees.
AYhen the President, Mrs. Cleveland
and the accompaniug guests were seated
Col. J. J. Daniel delived an address of
welcome. When quiet had been restored,
the President replied. greeted with
The President’s reply was continued
most vociferous and long ap
aplause. President Cleveland resumed liis seat,
but applause and cheering continued tc
•break out anew at short intervals, and at
lengthC. H. Jones stepped forward-to
the President desired and suggested Mrs. Cleveland. that the
people to see
He acted at once on the suggestion, and
as Mrs. Cleveland arose, he took her by
the hand and led her to the front. Then
broke forth a perfect tempest of cheering
and storm of hand-clapping. Five thous¬
and throats poured forth their greeting,
nnd hundreds of waving handkerchiefs
showed that the ladies shared the enthu¬
siasm and joined in honoring the first
lady of the land.
This ended the formal part of the cere¬
monies. The ladies and gentlemen on
the platform came forward aud were pre¬
sented to the President and Mrs. Cleve¬
land, Secretary nnd Mrs. Whitney, Col.
and Mrs. Lamont, and then the party re¬
turned to their carriages and were driven
to the hotel.
The President’s public reception hotel, last¬ was
held at night at the St. James
ing two hours. President Cleveland, es¬
corted by Judge Settle, and Mrs. Cleve¬
land, escorted by C. E. Jones, entered
ended the parlors, and eight when thousand the reception persons
over
were still in line.
The Presidential party goes to St. Au¬
gustine as the guests of Mr. Flagier. and At
night they will go over to Palatka,
then to Sanford and Indian river, re¬
turning ETiday night. A stop ol one
hour will be made in Charleston Satur¬
day morning.
President Cleveland passed but Ashley did
Junction, near Charleston, S. C.,
not stop in the city. May or Bryan had
mi interview with him. The President
will stop in Charleston on his return trip
for one hour. Arrangements have been
made for his entertainment while there.
A national salute will be fired, the city
will be decorated, aud citizens, soldiers
and civic societies will turn out to do him
honor.
ARE SATISFIED.
The London Chronicle thinks tjiat the
Canadian fisheries treaty'it dii amicable
bargain. In the nature Of things,' it Says,
Canada’s concessions may appear to be
larger than those.; of the United States,
but it would have been useless for Mr.
Chamberlain to extort such (erras as
would lead to a rejection of the treaty by
the American, Senate.
DEATH BY CARELESSNESS.
An explosion of dynamite occurred in
a rock cut oil Fourth street, Duluth,
Minn., and eighteen men were killed and
injured. The explosion was caused by
some cartridges fused that had not ex¬
ploded, and the men resumed work about
them. A few taps on the drill served to
set off the unexploded cartridges, with
results as stated.
NO. 1.
FLORIDA ITEMS.
Starke’s building boom still continues.
.... Cedar Key has a new combination—
a temperance bar and billiard . room....
The congregation of the Oviedo Method¬
ist cleared off the church debt of 3-150 in
fifteen minutes the other day... .The en¬
gineer corps of the Orange Belt railway
was busy the past week at Sau Antonio
in laying out the site of a new town....
Apopka gas completed the organization Soci¬
of the South Apopka Immigration five
ety ... .A six-ton ioe factory, two
story cottages, and about the same num¬
ber of one-story cottages are some of the
new buildings T that are now going Record up at
Kissimmee. .The Gainesville
agitates the sdea of bonding the county
$50,000 and expending solid roadways the entire through¬ amount
in making good, .The material has left
out the county...
the Oakland shops of the Orange Belt
railway for the new depot to be erected
at Tarpon Springs. It will be similar to
the ornaffieutal one at Crown Point, but
larger... .At the meeting of the Lake
county senool board on Tuesday it w as
decided that a series of school books for
the county will be adopted at the meeting
of the board in March.....W. A. Finley,
of Reddick, reports the discovery of that a
wonderful cave two miles west of
place. It has been explored for five hun¬
dred feet, aud the most wonderful
chambers are described. The vault
bristles with beautiful stalactites of great
size. It is to be further explored Board . of
The final decision of the
Trustees of the Auburndale Episcopal
College, as to when work shall bffbegun,
will be made within the next two weeks,
and the chances are that the ground The .will col¬
be broken within six weeks.
lege when completed will cost between
$40,000 and $50,000. The people, toward of
Auburndale have $20,000 raised
this amount, and'the Bishop is prepared
[i> make good the deficit... o( .Stephen United C.
Rowan, Vice-AjdmiraU .rthc
Slates Navy, and chairman of the light
house board, lias established the follow¬
ing lights in Pensacola Bay and adjacent
waters: Fort M’Rae Range; Fort Bar¬
rancas Range; Escambia Bay; Beacon De- at
Anchorage; Blackwater Bay....
Fnniak is to have a furniture
factory.....Joseph F. Bays City....Ma¬ will erect
a cigar factory at Lake
chinery has been purchased for a planing
mill at CnrrabeUe... .Bronson is making
an effort to have a cigar factory estab¬
lished there... .Fernandina’s mayor will
shortly ask for bids for building, flip
water works.. .There is talk of a can¬
.
ning anil cigar factory being-!started ere- ci¬
long at Ocala.. .. Another Key West
gar factory lias been started by Koenis
burgh, Falk & Co... .The West Florida
Land Company hotel contemplate at Bwuifay... building .Bids a
new and larger
arc being received at Bloomfield for
building ah iron draw bridge across the
Ooklawaha River.. ...Lewis and Frederick
Wiselogel will, it is stated, “factory soon begin
work on their fertilizer at Chip
ley. .Warren & Williams, and John J.
■ purchased
Philbrick, of Key West, have
a site at Arcadia to build a cigar York, factory.
....E. G. Ridout, of New will
build a 32-room hotel ten miles -from
Ocala. Plans have been Wlndden prepared and by
George McKay... .Captain Arcadia, brought
George Mansfield, of turkeys, and lqts
in fourteen deer, several
of smaller game as the result of a fort¬
night’s hunt... .Mrs. Richard Roan, of
Arcadia, who unfortunately lost her vei -
son some weeks ago, was sent to the
Chattahoochee insane asylum
The passenger department of the Penn¬
sylvania Railroad Compauy Florida announces special of
that for two weeks a mid
Pullman vestibule sleeping dining
and smoking cars will run between New
York, Philadelphia and Jacksonville
every day, except Sundays and Thurs¬
days, iu order to accommodate the large
number of people desiring to visit Flori¬
da.... A man named Watson . died at
Cedar Key from the effects of an over
dose of morphine, which he had taken to
relieve an attack of toothache.:.Live
Oak is to have a suburban addition....
MacClenny is to have a volunteer fire
company... .Gadsden county has a i e;ro
who claims to be 104 years of age . G.
W. Cline, of Lake City, will plant ten
acres in tobacco this season... .The
Methodist Conference will meet at Se¬
ville. .The ice-house of the Key West
.. damaged by lire...
lee Company three was organized clubs of the.
There are Wakulla county,
Fanners’ Alliance in
with a good membership in each N.
E Roberts, who has a fine vegetable gar¬
den on Haw Creek, is Gripping daily.. straw¬ .The
berries to Northern markets
seini-auuual meeting of the Columbia
County Sunday-School Association will
be held at E'orl White on the fourth Mon¬
day in March.... Sealed bids for the con
firuclion of the two Haw Creek bridges,
an the Seville and Daytona road, are be¬
ing received by Clerk Faulkner, at En¬
terprise.
CAUGHT!
Very recently a man aud woman, driv¬
ing a stylish double team, Mr. stopjied ail
night at the residence of Mnnnes,
who keeps a store three miles from Union,
Franklin county, Mo. When the morn¬
ing papers arrived, however, the descrip¬ the
tion given there of W. B. Tascott,
murderer of Amos B. Snell, the Chicago
millionaire, tallied exactly with that, of
the stranger. It attracted the attention
of Col. A. W. Mauphin, who called the
attention of Sheriff Ehlers to the matter.
The latter proceeded to the farm house
where the traveler had stopped overnight, of
and obtained a complete description companion.
him and also of his fellow
He then telegraphed the description, chief of police aud at it
Chicago for a further
corresponded so fully with that of Tas
eott that Sheriff Ehlers at once started in
pursuit and caught the man, who is no
doubt Tascott.