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THE CONYERS WEEKLY
VOL. XL
NATIONAL CAPITAL
INTERESTING DOTS ABOUT OUR
UNITED STATES' OFFICIALS.
Gossip About the VVhite IIonse-Army nnd
Nary Matters—Oar Relations With Other
Countries and Nations.
CONGRESSIONAL.
In the Senate, a number of bills were
reported from committees. Among them
were the following: House bill for the
construction of a revenue cutter in
Charleston, South Carolina, in place of
the cutter McCulloch. To authorize the
construction of a bridge across North the Carolina. Cape
Fear and other nvers in
To formation and admission into the
Union of the states of Washington and
North Dakota (with a minority report).
Further bills were reported from com¬
mittees and placed bill on the calendar, in¬
cluding House for the purchase of
the swords of General James Shields....
In the House, Mr. White, of New York,
offered a resolution requiring the Post
mas General to inform the House what
instructions, if any, by circular, letter or
otherwise, have been given to subordi¬
nate officers with regard to mail matter
received from Canada, which are intended
to prohibit American seeds from using
United States mails on the same trains
with citizens of the dominion of Canada
living in the same vicinage and compet¬
ing in the same branch of business. In a
decision, which office, took Mr. place O’Neill, about the of pub¬ Mis¬
lic printing declared that if the eight-hour law
souri, passed, good example that
was not to set a
would be followed in private business, its
passage was a piece of hyprocrisy to passed play
upon the working classes. It was
in the hope that thousands of idle men
would be absorbed in the ranks of indus¬
try. That was the spirit of the law. The
public printer violated that law, and it
was also violated in the bureau of engrav¬
ing and printing.
In the Senate, Mr. RidcTleberger, from
the committee on naval affairs, reported
a bill for the relief of the Albemarle &
Chesapeake Canal Company. Mr. Brown
called up a resolution, offered by him on
the 4th of January, declaring it the im¬
perative duty of Congress to repeal day the
internal revenue laws, at the earliest
practicable; and proceeded to address
the Senate in advocacy of it—occupying
his seat while he read his speech from
manuscript. Mr. Cullom moved that the
Senate bill, reported from the post-office carried
committee by telegraph, to regulate be referred commerce the commit¬
to
tee on interstate commerce. Agreed to in
after a few words from Mr. Reagan
vindication of the post-office committee.
duty ... .Speaker in the House, Carlisle aud resumed greeted his post.of with
was
a round of applause. The bill reducing
the fee for passports to one dollar was
passed. Several private bills were passed, of
and one measure referring to the court
claims, the claim of Hannah J. Jones, rise
executrix of Emanuel Jones, gave to
considerable discussion. The facts in the
case are, that clu ing the War, Emanuel
Jones, bile, a British subject, residing in Mo¬
purchased with Confederate In money April,
a number of bales of cotton.
18G5, the Federal army took possession of
Mobile, and a guard having been placed
around the warehouse in which the cotton
was stored. Jones was denied admission
thereto. In August following, the ware¬
house was burned down and the cotton
the destroyed. The claim is for the Hopkins value of
cotton so destroyed. Mr.
moved to lay the bill upon the table.
Pending the action on the motion, the
House adjourned.
GOSSIP.
Col. J. II. Baxter, chief medical pur¬
veyor of the army, has been ordered to
Augusta, Ga., on temporary service.
Comptroller Durham has decided that
the governors of states can get the $15,
000 lege due each state for additional agricultural legisla¬ col¬
purposes without
tion.
fore Mr. Carlton, of Georgia, appeared harbors, be¬
the committee on rivers and
asking an appropriation of $8,000 for the
improvement of the Oconee river be¬
tween the Georgia railroad bridge and
Scull Shoals.
Mr. Norwood, of Georgia, secured
unanimous consent of the House, and
passed the bill to pay the $800 claim of
before Morgan Rawls, which has been pending The
Congress for a long time.
claim is for h s house destroyed by Union __
officers immediately after the War.
Rev. Eugene Peck, pastor of the East¬
ern Presbyterian church was struck by a
locomotive while walking on the railroad
track on the outskirts of Washington and
insiantly killed. 31r. Peck served in the
Union army during the War, and after¬
wards became a-sistant of the New York
Y. M. C. A.
President Cleveland celebrated his fif¬
ty-first birthday, and notwithstanding
the published report that a life insurance
company refused to accept him as a risk,
he is enjoying perfect health. In fact, it
is said he seems a younger man than he
did three years ago, when iuagurated.
Services in honor of tlie late Emperor
of Germany were held at the old historic
German church, at goth and G streets, at
the same hour which the memorial ser¬
vices took place at ‘ Domkirche” in Ber¬
lin. The services were part German and
part officiated. English. Rev. Mr. Muller, pastor,
The Washington Saegerbund
were in charge of the musical portion of
the services.
Hon. J. Tarbell, formerly a deputy in
the Comptroller of the Treasury depart¬
ment, died at Washington. He was
colonel of tbe 91st New York volunteers
in during the War, and at its close settled
of Mississippi the Supreme and was appointed Mississippi. Justice
Court of Af-
CONYERS. GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MARCH 83, 1888.
tevwards he was appointed deputy assist¬
ant comptroller remained of the treasury, in which
position the he administration. until the incoming
of present
Mr. Clements, of Georgia, introduced
the following private bills in the House,
all of which are for property furnished
the Union army in 1864-5: To pay to
the heirs of Samuel Hunt. $1,384. To
George W. F. Lamkin, $1,650. To Maj.
Davis, $3,202. To George P. Barnett,
of Floyd county, $25,050. To Prior!'.
Toonly $12,970. To the heirs of Levi
Blackman, $2,775. To Lowry Williams,
$0,313. To Peter M. Shubby, $42,000.
Also, a resolution to refer the claims ol
Thomas Davis, Francis M. Fr eman and
the heirs of Ripley Johnson to the court
of claims.
A GENUINE SURPRISE.
A Strike of Engineers on thv A re bison, To¬
peka Santa Fe JRaiironcL
Thirty-two hundred miles of railway
were tied up in exactly ten minutes by
the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
and Firemen. The entire main fine of
the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fc com¬
pany, and all its branches, were brought
to a standstill. The stretch of territory
from St. Paul on the north, to El Paso on
the south—practically the whole breadth
of the United States—is now involved in
the strugg.e that started between the Bur¬
lington “tired” company and its employes. The
feeling that so suddenly attacked
the engiaemen in the far West seems to
have infused also their chiefs in Chicago,
Ill. Lights were out at their rooms in
the hotel at a startling early hour, and
each of the principal executive officers' of
tlie army of 80,000 men was apparently
deep in peaceful slumber. Repeated
knockiugs by newspaper men, bearing
bundles of telegrams telling of the battles
spread, were without avail. The first in¬
dication of trouble there was when the
Osage City express was scheduled to de¬
part, when Engineer Higgins quickly and
refused stepped down pull from his engineer’s The train cab
to out. was
finally sent out an hour later, with En¬
gineer Furst at the throttle. Mr. Furst
is a regular Santa Fe engineer, but he and has
a grievance against the Brotherhood,
as he mounted the engine, he remaiked;
“The Brotherhood gave me the worst of
it once, and now I am going to get even.”
A strike will begin on the Kansas and City,
Fort Scott and Gulf system, on the
Missouri Pacific. Engineers on both
roads disclaim any sudden knowledge surprising of »nv
such plan, but the and
turn of affaiis on the Santa Fe the other
evening, strengthens the belief in the re¬
ports. Advices from Pleasant Hill,
are to the effect that a Missouri
Pacific engineer was heard to say that
there would be a strike on that road.
Tnere was no notice of a strike or sus¬
pension of work, no notice of any griev¬
ance. On the contrary, there was on the
part of representatives of the Brotherhood
repeated disclaimers to any purpose to
injure the Atchison, Topeka & Santa their Fe
Company, or to refuse They to perform admitted
duties as engineers. also
repeatedly that they had no grievance
against the Santa Fe road, but that they
sympathized with their friends on the
“Q,” and wanted to aid them in the
fight.
UNCLE SAM DEFIED.
Tbe Killian «f Moroccn T.augli* at tlie Idea
of American Citizens Belas Protected.
The situation in Tangier, Morocco, has
become vesy serious for the United States.
Tbe Sultan, who is reported to be acting
under the advice of the Spanish authority envoy,
has decided to defy American
aud to refuse to release the American
“protected” citizens now in prison.
Consul General Lewis is in a very preca¬
rious position, and immediate has telegraphed and vigorous to
Washington that
measures are necessary to meet the situa¬
tion. The minister plenipotentiary of
Spain is asserted to have told the Sultan
of Morocco that American war ships
abroad bark but never bite, and that the
United States Steamer Enterprise will stay
in harbor till she rots before she dare
fire a gun, since a single shot would in¬
volve serious complications with all the
powers of Europe^ The General Sultan that told the by
United States Consul
imprisonment was the only way he could
collect debts from Moorish citizens
claiming American protection, and that
he should refuse to release the prisoners.
The Sultan has the support of nearly all
the representatives of the European
powers, who are desirous of abolishing
the “protectorate” system. The Moors
have been rowing out in boats to where
the Enterprise lies at anchor, and have
amused themselves by jeering at the
American sailors. Thus far the presence
of the American man-of-war has been
entirely ineffectual. The present diffi¬
culty arises from the arrest some four or
five "weeks ago, at Rabat, of a Hebrew
entitled, in accordance with the existing
treatv rights, to protection as a citizen
of the United States, acd who, in direct
defiance of these aforesaid rights, was
cast into prison on some frivolous pre¬
text by the native governor of the place.
The United States Consul General lost do
time in pointing out to the Moorish au¬
thorities that all citizens, proteges of the
various powers, were solely amenable to
tbe tribunals of their respective consuls,
and entitled to immunity both in the
matter of taxation and jurisdiction of
the native authorities. He, therefore, de¬
manded the unconditional release of the
American prisontrin question and due re¬
paration for the infraction of treaty rights
Because Secretary Bayard was very slow
in action, the the Moorish non-arrival authorities^ of the United em¬
boldened by seize
States man-of-war, proceeded to an¬
other narive entitled to American protec¬
tion, at Casablanca, and. after burning
his house to the ground, through proceeded the pub¬ to
flog him and his family fling them
lic streets of Die place and to
jnto prison.
SOUTHERN GOSSIP,
ROIL l.D DOWS FACTS A XT) FAX
Cl ES 1 X 2 ’ERE SINGLY STATED.
'IreiJentu on I.tttul and oil yea—New Enter
pri-.es—>iiiO!dc*s--IIeiig;ou», Temperance^
gh<I >ocial Jiuilcrs.
Col. T. C. Howard, of Atlanta, Ga., a
prominent citizen, died suddenly.
Diamonds have been found on a farm
withia a few miles of Atlanta, Ga.
Tne Columbus, Ga., c:ty council inet
and continued the $10,0 ; ‘.0 appropriation
lor the Columbus Exposition.
and Willie M ashburn, assist chemical a :t book-keeper in
clerk at Scott's works
Kirkwood, Ga., near Atlanta, road was struck
by a train on the Georgia near May
son’s mossing and died.
Scholze's Opera house, at Avondale,
Ala., and six cottages near bv were to
tally destroyed by fire. All the stage
wardrobes and scenery of the
Yaughn comedy company were destroyed.
Messis. Isaac Leisy.and X>. S. White
head, of Cleveland, Ohio, are in Augusta, Mr.
Ga., prospecting president for a big brewery.
Lcisy is the of the largest
brewery company in Cleveland, aud he
wants a Southern annex.
Policemen Buchanan, Bedford, Cason
and Reeves, who have comprised the At
lanta, Ga., detective department for promt- two
or three years past, and. who were
nent in prosecuting liquor dealers, have
been ordered to patrol duty.
The Evening News, a new afternoon
paper, made its appearance in Birming¬
ham, Ala. Rufus M. Rhodes, late editor
in-chief of the Daily Herald , is editor aud
propriefor. It is a small six-column
paper, without press dispatches.
The turnpike leading from Atlanta, Ga.,
to Decatur is infested by a gang of foot
pads, and no less than three attempts to
rob belated individuals were reported at
police headquarters in one night. The
foot-pads were heavily armed.
John Love was run over and killed by
a passenger train on the Nashville, Chat
tannoga & St. Louis Railroad in a tunnel,
twelve miles from Chattanooga, Tenn.
He was walking through the tunnel,
when he was run down bv the locomotive.
A mass meeting of citizens, iu grand Dan¬
ville, Ys., resolved to hold a
Southern Tobacco Exposition and trades
display at that place next Fall. There
will be added exhibits of agricultural
products, stock and machinery of ’ ail 1
kinds.
Engineers on the Carolina, Knoxville
& Western Road begin the survey of the
second experimental route for a line from
Gieenville, S. C., to Marietta, taking
this time a more central direction Tanner through is
the country. Contractor there
ready to shovel dirt the,moment the line
is located.
Maj. P.obert E. Blankenship, president
of the Old Dominion Iron and Nail
Works (on Bc-lle Isle), Richmond, Vu.,
was run over and instantly killed by a
freight car in the yard of the Richmond its de¬
& Danville Railway Company, at
pot in this city. In crossing the tracks
he stumbled and fell forward under the
rear car of a moving train.
John Jones, once of the New A - ork
Central Railroad, has been engaged by a
railroad company in China for the past
three years, and his mission in Atlanta,
Georgia, is to hire 500 engineers, trains firemen the
and brakemen, to run on
American system in China. It is said the
engineers will be paid $250 monthly, All fire¬
men $125 and brakemen $125. those
engaged will have to sign the an agreement
to remain five years with company.
FIRES.
A fire which started in Milwaukee,
Wis., completely destroyed occupied a large Atkins, four
story brick building by and
Ogden & Co., shoe manufacturers,
the Thomas & Wentworth Manufacturing
company, wholesale dealers and manu¬
facturers of brass goods and trimmings.
A wall fell, killing Firemen Leeher, Sum
mel, Cleary, Langton and Doll. The ag¬
gregate loss will reach $425,000, and the
insurance about $250,000. A fire broke
out in a five-story double building on
Arch street, Philadelphia, Pa., and be¬
fore the firemen could bring the flames
into subjection ,a loss.estimated at $340,
had been caused. Copeland mining & machin¬ Bacon,
dealers in hoisting and
ery, the George F. Blake Shoe Manufac¬
turing conpanV, and Wm. Ayres & Sons
manufacturers of house furnishings,
Saler, Leurn & Co. are the losers. Fire
at Marcen, 8. C., destroyed a block of
buildings in tbe business part of the
town; loss $14,500, mostly insured.
an awful deed,
A Jiissouri Doctor Throw* Vitro! Jh a
Woman’s Face.
Dr, George W. Cox, a prominent United phy¬
sician of Springfield, Mo., and
States pension examiner, has a young sot
who became infatuated with a woman
named Effie Ellis, of St. Louis. Dr.
Cox tried in vain to break up the alliance,
and after his son had become notorious
and had squandered several thousand
dollars upon the woman, the doctor en¬
ticed the latter to Springfield with his sen’s By means
of telegrams arrived, signed and entered name.
The woman a car¬
riage at the depot. Dr. Cox was in the
carriage and as soon as tbe woman en¬
tered it, he broke over her head a bottle
of vitrol. The woman’s screams brought the
tbe police, who released her from
frenzied physician, arrested him and
cared for the woman. The latter is hor¬
ribly disfigured. Both eyes are destroyed
but she will not lose her life. The doc¬
tor was arrested on the charge of may¬
hem and released on $5 ,000 bond. There
was some talk of lynching the doctor,
but the excitement has subsided.
WORLD AT LARGE.
I>EX PICTURES PAIXTED BY A
CORPS OF ABLE ARTI >TS.
What i- (loin# on North, East and West
n;id Acro-s the Water—The Coining Eu
vopenn Ktol'in.
A banquet to Gen. Bragg, uow United
States Minister t > Mexico, will be given
by the American residency.
A special service, commemorative of
^ S « Patnck, was held 1 u the cliurc Mexico, i o
mta Bngida, m the City English. of
scimon was preached m
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
has decided to expend $2,000,000 for new
rolling stock, to meet the demands for its
increasing business in the Southern trade.
Mrs. Ellen Tupper, known as the “bee
woman,” and one of the most celebrated
etomologists in the world, died suddenly
at El Paso, Texas, where she was was visiting visiting
v her daughter. ' She ” was widely ’ 1 1 kuown ------- s in -
the East and througLout Europe.
A collision occurred between two pas
senger trains on the Pennsylvania road, a
few miles east of Altoona, Pa. Two en
gineers, two firemen and a brakeman
were reported killed. Five or six passen
g< rs were injured, but none fatally. The
wreck :s simply colossal,
The long and stubborn strike of the
Reading, Pa., employes was officially de
claved off by a convention of delegates Read
representing local assemblies in the
ing employes’ convention, and men were
given the right to apply for their old po¬
sitions as individuals.
Recent parties visiting the volcano of
Popocatepetl, ing activity in Mexico, report clouds increas- ot
in the crater, with
smoke and sulphurous fumes. Reports
from Central America show that several
volcanoes are unmistakably in renewed
activity.
Coal was so short during the great
storm in New York and Brooklyn, that
$15 per ton was paid for coal. There
pMuty of it in the yards in New A ork
a»d Brooklyn, but the difficulty is to de*
bver it. Twenty funerals eu route to
Calvary cemetery, near Brooklyn, N. A.,
stuck in snow drifts. The eorp es bad
to be taken uto houses near by over
night. Some of tbe mourners, drivers
and horses had to be dug cut, nearly
fr zen to death.
THE EMPERORS BURIAL.
The official programme for the funeral
of the late Emperor William of Ger¬
many, was as follows: On the 9th, at 11
a. m., the bells of churches began functionaries tolling.
The officers started, aud all
charged with special duties took their
prescribed positions around the coffin.
In accordance with Emperor William's
last wishes, the services at the cathedral
were conducted by Dr. Koegle, who was
assisted by the cathedral clergy. While
prayers were being pronounced over the
remains, the infantry outside the cathe¬
dral fired three volleys. The coffin was
released from the dial by twelve senior
colonels who bore it to tbe funeral car¬
riage. The procession through Chamberlain, the ca¬
thedral was led by Court
Count Von tStolberg-Wernigerod. bell*, the procession Start¬
ing amid tbe tolling passed
crossed the castle bridge, through
Under den Linten to Bradenburg imperial gate.
At SLgessile, members of the
family entered carriages and proceeded There to
Chnrlottenburg mausoleum. re¬
galia was withdrawn from the procession, The
and sent back to tbe treasury. can¬
opy over the coffin was lifted off. Eight
lieutenants assumed charge of the horses,
and four captains took the places of the
Knights of the Black Eagle as pall¬
bearers.
MORE STRIKES
A consolidated meeting of the Ohio &
Mississippi Railroad engineers and fire¬
men was held in Indianapolis, Ind. It
was decided that tbe engineers at Beards*
town and East, St. Louis be ordered Dot
to handle Chicago, Burlington & demand Quincy
freight, and should the company
compliance, the Ohio & Mississippi will
be tied up. Prominent railroad men say
rhe plans first adopted, that one road a
day should be tied up, has been praeti- will
.■»■>]y abandoned, and the next which move all the
oe consolidated action, in freight will be
tines handling Burlington given signal,
tied up at one time, at one Thursday
and this will be done before
i cing. As fast as engineers reach San
Bernardino, on the (ulifornia Centra!
road, they abandon their engines. Three
cars of excursionists from Los Angeles
for San Diego were delayed there, and
many returned by the Southern Pacific.
There hr.s been no refusal to take out tbe
■nail trains. The Santa Fe strike is ended.
Pa Would Be Left.
“Suppose, Tommy,” said a Kansas
City teacher, “that your father owned
fortv lots and a man from Chicago should
bny sixteen of them and a man from St.
Louts should buy twenty, what would be
left?” asked
“Where are the men front,”
Tommy, “Chicago and St. Louis? ’
“Yes.” -
“Pa would be left; he wouldn’t get
lay money.”— Epoch.
IMMENSE PURCHASES.
Gov. E. Jackson, of Maryland, has
purchased 120,000 acres of yellow North¬ pine
lands in lower Alabama and the
ern part of Florida. Nearly lands, one-quarter
of a million acres of timber have
been bought in that region by capitalists few
from tbe North West within the past
weeks,
DEATH’S EMBRACE
fell to the lot of a large
RAILROAD PARTY.
While Journeying Happily Along. Eu Houte
to Florida, a Train Plunge* Through a
High Trestle.
Train No. 27, known as the “West In
dia Mail,” from Savannah, Ga., to Jack
}?*■ sonville, Fla., left Savannah half an hour Sec
It was running m two sections.
p ^bur, Resident of the Lehigh Val
j e y Railway, two Pullman sleepers, one
firs t-cla S s car> a second-class car and bag
g ;l g G ]^ear the eighty-six mile post
the road crosses Hurricane trestle, a small
stream. The trestle is fifty feet high and
about one hundred yards long. The train
was running at a speed of forty miles per
hour, when it struck the trestle, and the
engine had nearly crossed the end of it,
when the baggage car left tlie followed track,
caused by a broken axle, quickly
by all the other cars. They plunged
headlong into the stream below, fifty kindling feet.
All the cars were broken into
wood, and the dead and wounded pass¬
engers were buried in the debris. The en¬
gine broke loose, and crossed in safety.
The combination coach was the first one
which struck the ground. On it fell the
passenger coach, the sleepers and the
special traveling. ear, in The which lower a private coaches party was
were
smashed well nigh to pieces. Fortunate
were those passengers to whom death
came instantly. Every coach was filled
and scarcely injury. a passenger escaped without
some
Of the killed outright, ten were while
and ten were colored. Of the wounded
ten were ladies, twenty white, and six
are children. The spot is one mile east
of Blackshear, Pierce county Ga. The road
there crosses Hurricane riVer, and beyond
it is a long stretch of iresile work. !he
baggage which car left the for track the accident, on the trestle, ties
accounts
showing where this trucks that cut deep into
them. It was car careened the
rear cars, and by its strain dragged the
tender down, the engine having safely
crossed over. Had it not been for the
presence of mind of Engineer Richard
Welch, a much more horrible fate would
have been in store for the wounded.
Hurriedly dispatching an engine with
the fireman for help, ho ran down to
the wreck, and with the assistance of tire
porter of the Pullman car, “Minerva,” ex
in linguished the fire which had broken out
the baggage car. Part of the rebuilt, trestle
which was destroyed is being
and direct connection will be reopened
with Florida. The accident is tire first
of the kind that h is over occurred on the
road since it wrs built, thirty-five years
ago.
The following is a list of the killed:
Wm. A. Martin,Union News company,
Bridgeport, Ohio; W. B. Geiger, of Sa¬
vannah; C. A. Fulton, master of trans¬
portation, T. M. Brunswick Smith, the and Pullman \Y T estern conduc¬ rail¬
way;
tor; John T. Ray, Blackshear; John II.
Pate, Hawkinsville, Ga.; E. P. Thomp¬
son, New York; Mrs. G. W. Kelly, Pa¬
ly tka, Fla.; W. A. McGriff, daughter, Columbia;
Mrs. W. A. Shaw aud Jack¬
sonville, Fla.; M, A. Wilbur, son of E.
P. Wilbur, of Bethlehem, Pa.; J. H.
and.Coffeel Hurlbut, Philadelphia, Pa.; Valdosta; Charles Pciu
Williams, Lloyd
Dawson and Caesar Foster, Waycross;
JIosci Gate, Waycross, and five unknown
colored men.
5’hefollowing is a Savannah, list of the injured: slightly;
Milton Lawrence,
Wm. L. GrifliD, Savannah, conductor,
dangerously People's wounded; J. A. Thompson,
editor Journal, Jacksonville;
Charles Brown, Savannah, badly hurt; C.
D. Helmbold, traveling agent of Armour
& slightly; Co.; Miss Laura Jones, Thomasville,
George J. Gould and wife, New
delphia, York, slightly; internally; Mrs. McClench, Phila¬
Miss Alice Simpson,
New York, internally, badly; Samuel
Ames and wife, Providence, R.
I., badly; Dr. Booth, New York;
E. P. Wilbur, President Lehigh Valley
railway, Bethlehem, Pa; W. A. "Wilbur,
Bethlehem. Pa; R. A. Wilbur. Bethle¬
hem, Pa; Miss Labelle Cox, Bethlehem,
Pa., internally; A. G. Broyle, Bethlehem,
Pa; A. J. Faircloth, Waresboro, Ga; E.
Butterfield, New A r ork;L. B. Mallard,
Savannah, an arm broken and cuts on the
head; T. B. Thompson and wife, N. O.
Captain O. W. Wallace, traveling agent
of the Louisville & Nashville Railway;
McClinch dangerously injured internally; W. D.
Austin, Savannah; A. C. Hud¬
son, Macon, badly hurt; John Papy, Fer
namiina,Fla.; Gen. G. F.Ferrero and wife,
New York, badly Walter injured; J. S. Pino,
Newark, Sam N. Allen, J.; Savannah, Goodyear, badly Savan¬ in¬
nah;
jured ; Fred Maynard, of New York, re¬
ported killed, was from Utica, N. Y.,
was not killed, but is slightly injured.
RAILROAD INDICTED.
The United States grand jury at St.
Louis, Mo. returned an indictment
against the Illinois Central Railway; S.
B. McConnico, general agent, and D. B.
Morey, general freight agent, for viola¬
tion of the interstate commerce law. This
is the first prosecution in the South under
the provisions of that law. The indict¬
ment alleges substantially unjust and mi
leasonable charges for the transportation
of cotton from Canton and Holly Springs,
Miss., to New Orleans,-and also unjust
discrimination against the people awl
locality of the city of New Orleans in fa
vor of the people and locality of Lowell,
Mass., in the transportation referred of cotton
from the points above to.
Australia produced the largest nug¬
get of gold ever discovered. It. weighed
136 pounds, and was found at Ballarat,
near GeeloDg.
NO. 4.
FUN.
“Put up and shut up.”—the stoves
and doors .—Danville Breeze.
Nothing so vitally remind* us of the
brevity of life as a thirty-day note.—
Drift.
A young woman who manned a one
legged man says it doesn’t take much to
make her husband “hopping mad.”—
N/rristnm Herald.
Landlady—“Jane, pass Mr. Dumley
the salt for Ms egg.” Dumley— ‘ ‘Thanks,
not any salt. This egg is none too fresh
as it is .”'—New Ym'Js Sun.
If you will notice it, the grandest op¬
portunities for making money are always
open to the man who never had a cent
he could call hie own .—Boston Transcript.
In a school not a thousand miles away
from Augusta an urchin, in answer to the
teacher’s question: “What are the parts
of grammar?” said: “Syntax, etymology
and er-er-ar doxefiogy .”—Augusta Jour¬
nal.
Gold handled umbrellas are coming
into fashion. The handle is so arranged
that it nan be taken off. This is an im¬
provement on the old style, where the
entire umbrella was taken o 3.—States^
man.
Visitor (at insane asylum)—-“Who is
that poor fellow who jumps and yells so
whenever your door-bell rings?” Keeper
— “Oh, be used to be night clerk in a
drug store. There are lot* of those
chaps in here. Drift.
Several diamonds were found in a
meteorite which fell in the town of
Krasnoslobodsk, Russia. They will be
given to the individuals who are able to
pronounce the name oi the town. Now
is the time to get up clubs. —Pittsburg
Bos!.
A commercial traveler was bragging
about the magnitude of the firm he rep¬
resented. ‘I suppose your house is a
pretty big establishment ?” said the cus¬
tomer. “Big? You can’t have any idea
of its dimensions, Lost week we took
an inventory of the employes and found
out for the first time that three cashiers
and four bookkeepers were missing.
That will give you some idea of the
magnitude of our business.”
The Savage Stage of Childhood.
Like the savages off to-day, those fierce
progenitors of ours must have delighted
in the torture of captured enemies.
Thus, during long ages, compassion waa
unknown, and it appears to have been
lately acquired by the new dominant
races. Indeed, even among »o highly
cultivated a people as the Romans, it re¬
mained almost unknown until a compara¬
tively recent time-say 1,800 year* ago
—in proof of which may be noted their
heartless fondness for the bloody sports
of the arena.
The emotion of pity, then, appeared
late in the history of the race, and in
view of the Law of our development,
which carries us along the path our an¬
cestors trod, how can we expect our boy*
to be anything else but cruel? How far
is it judicious to go iu trying to altar
the natural course of a child’s mental
growth by imposing on him ideas whiofa
In due course be will not shave until
later? This last question is inviting, but
we will not go into its solution at pres¬
ent, contenting ourselves with observing
that because a boy shows no compunc¬
tion at giving pain to a captive bird, or
calmly lacerates the feelings of a family
or quarrels merely to give himself a few
soon-neglected pets, is no reason for ev
peeling him to grow up monster of
cruelty. And we will further venture to
suggest that much of the immorality of
boys i3 a necessary consequence of their
descent, as a corollary which follows the
aphorism of my friend: “A good boy is
diseased .”—Popular Silence.
“ He” Changed His Mind.
A pleasant-looking elderly man occu¬
pied a cress seat alone m a Third avenue
elevated train. The car was nearly full,
acd when a well-dressed girl, accom¬
panied by an equally well-dressed young
man , boarded tbe train at Twenty-third
street there were no seats left together,
and tbe young woman took possession of
the one beside tbe elderly man, and her
escort found a vacancy opposite. They
did not seem pleased at the separation,
and the elderly man, noticing this, turned
to the girl beside him and courteously
*iid: “If you wish your friend with
you I am perfectly willing to exchange
places with him.” Without a word of
lhanks the yoimg woman leaned toward
her companion and called: “Come over
here, Charley; he is willing to change.”
The kindly expression faded from the
elderly man’s face, and he said coldly:
“Your friend can keep his seat, young
woman. ‘He’ has concluded to stay
where he is.”—New York Tribune.
One hundred and twenty thousand
copies of the song, “Bock-a-Bye Baby,”
Vive been sold.