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THE CONYERS WEEKLY
VOL. XI.
NATIONAL CAPITAL
XTIRESTING DOTS ABOUT OUR
UNITED STATES’ OFFICIALS.
About the White Houee-ArJnv and
, With Other
>ovy Blatters—Oar Relation,
Conutrie* and Notions.
CONGRESSIONAL.
lathe Senate, among the bills reported the
rom the committee and placed To on
alendar, were the following: pro
jcle for the enlargement of dimensions
f the wharf at Fortress Monroe. Ap
ropriating $35,000 for an equestrian the
lame of Gen. Zachary Taylor, of in bills
ty of Washington. A number
ere taken from the calendar and passed, relief
bonv them the House bill for the
l the agricultural and mechanical col
[ce Fopriating of Alabama, $150,000 and for the Senate public bill build- ap
a
L leckenridge, in Norfolk, Va .. In the House, Mr.
of Kentucky, from the
Immittee L on ways and means, reported of
resolution calling on the secretary
le treasury for information as to the
fcmber of persons in the United States
[gaged in manufacturing and agricultu
[fpursuits, fcn from foreign who are countries. subject to Adopted, competi
te House then went into committee of in
le whole, Mr. Springer, of Illinois,
|e I chair, on the tariff President bill. Cleveland’s
lessage The subject of
being before the- Senate, Mr.
lorhees spoke on the question. In the
itrse of his address, the eloquent “Tall
camore” referred to the unkind refer¬
ees recently made by the presiding ef
er (Mr. Ingall') in regard to Generals
incock and McClellan. The record of
ise t fleers were recited in detail, and
. Voorkees defended their actions....
the House, Mr. Latham, of Texas,
iseuted the conference report on the
1 for the relief of postmasters for loss
certain postal funds. The Senate had
leaded the bill by making its provis
qs general, and extending the provis¬
os of the act of March 17th, 1882,
porizing the postmaster geneial to
[just Is by certain fire and claims burglary, of postmasters to include for
so as
[thin claims which shall be adjusted
we arising from loss of postal funds,
le report was agreed to, and the House
int into committee of the whole (Air.
ringer, of Illinois, in the chair) on the
iff bill.
The session of the Senate opened with
fyer by Rev. Dr. H. Pereina Mendez,
fbi of the Spanish and Portuguese
gregation of New York, who, ac¬
ting I to the Hebrew custom, wore his
while engaged in prayer. This is the
lond instance, probably, in the history
[the I half government, when certainly Hebrew within has the
tied century, a
prayer in the Senate. Among the
Is reported from the committee and
[ccd [provide ou the for calendar erection was of the public following: build
I s for postoflices in towns and cities
kre postofiice receipts for three years
Feeling 1%. have exceeded $30,000 an
Mr. Vest, who reported it, said
i'ould ask its early consideration, as it
Ian important bill and was recom
Ided by the Postmaster General. On
lion of Air. Harris, the House bill ap
fcriating limbia, $200,000 for an arsenal at
Indar and Tenn., was taken from the
I passed. The Senate went
secret session. After the doors were
Bened the following bills were taken
► the calendar and passed : Appro¬
ving ph’s $25,000 Point, Fla.; for a $35,000 lighthouse at St.
for a ligbt
>e at Holland’s island bar,
sapeake Bay, and $50,000 for
gntiiouse at Newport News, Va....
he House a bill was reported and
ca upon the calendar for the erection
public building at Fayetteville, N.
Air. Wise, of Virginia, from the
toittee on naval affairs, rerorted a
to regulate the course at the naval
eiD). Placed on the calendar. A
fission took place on the tariff which
paiticipated in by several members.
gossip.
‘e President has decided to visit New
I on the 30th of Alay to participate
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jville f s’ C ' ’ lam A ' Aoore ’
Crk, 5 > v, 188 ma ^ e a favorable report
I thp .f, ommerce committee the
ore on
° Wmg the Tenn essee and
a Rail y C s°e^vJr t b ri, . ld
the TeM a
es -see river at nt Guntersville, f
Kaa.
ie KlaLh latest « t at ?7 ?P°rt e <V andwhi( *
e ] sthat 1 Justice Gray, of
ichnsettc P ?? 1 Wl11 !, be appointed Chief
Ll u ‘ be ’ Secretary ."Bp of State, .*> En and *;
r? e ^d will go back to the
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leq. L 1 , confirmed the nomina
L Mhss.; F ' B. r Alartin, postmaster Water
I W. T. WaithalJ) of Mis . is .
consul at Demerar i • Ezekiel F
r> M °f North Carolina minister resi
h* consul-general ZZ l f at Liberia
ftions Call abontJd Z rt m c Scn -^ * e
f of trade ur£rir,Jm be Jacksonv r n ll * e
of thehfll Wlth . 1 ~
6 service of the qUar i
g [ection amendment P ’“ing for the
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CONYERS. GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MAY 4. 1888.
Petty Washington, to succeed Mr. Tichenor.
has been book-keeper in the audi¬
tor's office many years. Cook is a col¬
ored man, very popular, and has held
office since 1874.
The members of the appropriation
committee give as their reason for re¬
porting $50,000 adversely the bill to appropriate
to the colored adjunct of Au¬
gusta’s, (Ga.) exposition that money
could not be given to but one colored
exposition, the and as the the majority of
colored race preferred holding their
national exposition in Atlanta, and as
that was exclusive!? a colored exposition,
they decided to grant the request of the
majority.
The President has granted pardons in
the following cases: Thomas M. Belew,
convicted in South Carolina of retailing
liquor without license. M. S. Helms,
convicted in Virginia of selling liquor
without license. Applications for par¬
dons were denied in the following cases:
Wiiliam Henry, convicted in South Car¬
olina of using the mails for fraudulent
purposes; victed in Jefferson Carolina D. Thompson, con¬
South of abstracting
the contents of a letter.
The crop bulletin issued by the signal
office says: Owing to the general defi¬
fected ciency oi the rain, growing the weather lately has af¬
Rain is e'pecially crops unfavorably.
needed in the winter
wheat sections, and in the northern por¬
tions of the Gulf states. Frost occurred
in Kentucky, East Tennessee, North
dle Carolina, South Carolina, and the mid¬
Atlantic states, which probably in¬
jured vegetables and fruits.
The letting of the star route mail con¬
tracts was completed. Among the more
prominent ones in the South are the fol¬
lowing, From Elizabeth City to Fair
field, in North Carolina, steamboat serv¬
ices twice a week each way, for four
years; contractor, Frank N. Hussey;
compensatiou $3,500. From Chattahoo¬
chee to Apalachicola, Fla., steamboat
service three times a week each way for
four years; contractor, Peter Burke;
compensation $8,149 per annum. There
were 1,102 contracts in all.
The sub-committee of the appropria¬
tion committee, appointed to consider
the Kelley bill appropriating $400,000
for Atlanta’s colored exposition, reported
favorably to the full committee, with
the suggestion that the committee make
a favorable report on the bill with an
amendment postponing the exposition
one year. Chairman Henderson, of the
sub-committee, made a statement in
which he said that his amendment was
made in order that the colored people
might have more time to get up credita¬
ble exhibits and make the exposition a
success.
IMPORTANT MOVEMENT.
Meeting in North Carolina of Prominent
Men to Induce Immigration South.
The convention for promoting immi¬
gration to the Southern states met at
Hot Springs, N. C. All the Southern
states except Florida and Texas and Ar¬
kansas were represented with full dele¬
gations. The meeting was called to or¬
der by the Hon. John D. Kelly, jr., of
New York, and Governor Fitzhugh Lee
was selected as president of the conven¬
tion. He made a neat and appropriate
speech in calling the convention to order,
and immediately proceeded to business.
A motion was made to appoint a commit¬
tee on business and another on resolu¬
tions, each to be composed of one man
from each state and one representative for
each committee from the cities represent¬
ed, after which a recess of five minutes
was taken to give each state time to se¬
lect a committee. Col. W. P. Price was
made chairman of the Georgia delegation
and Sandy Cohen, of Augusta, selected
as chairman. Governor JohnB. Gordon,
Bishop Becker, Hon. Patrick Walsh and
Capt. Evan P. Howell were selected as
the committee for Georgia. At the ex¬
piration of the five minutes the convent¬
ion was again called to order, and the
various states announced their commit¬
tees. After this work had been finished
Cardinal Gibbons, who occupied Gordon, a seat
on the platform with Governor
of Georgis, and Governor Rich
arcls « n of South - ( ' arollna t JT as
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n tefuTto a P gentiemen
“I am gra the compos
fefred^upZ'me^n^^heh'couXy here con- ex
tended. I came to encourage, so
far as j can> the obje ct S of this meeting.
1 have traveled nearly over both hemis
pheres recently, with both eyes open. As
a result of my observations, I can say
that the United States gives to immi
„ rants such advantages as cannot be ob
tained in the old countrie s / ? have fo und
prosperity . the .
everywhere found great this due to the in mdomi union.
1 have is a
Me energy of the American people I
wish every success to rD , ^’ ein n '
The climate of the South will . allow ..
out t of 366 days in .<• the r* year.” “2
After £ he finished, Right Rev. Bishop
Kane, of West Wroint. Virginia, was was called for ,
and made an admirable address on e
importance of immigration. '8 t ev.
Bishop Northrop, of South Carolina, also
responded to the call. A\hen he had
finished, Governor Gordon was loudly
called for. and made a very fine address,
as did also Governor Richardson, of
South Carolina. Governor Gordon was
highly complimented on bis speech. In
fact, he made the best speech that was
made. The committee will present an
elaborate report, outlining a plan for
bringing immigrants to the South. The
railroads have promised the most liberal
support, and there is every indication
that it will be pressed vigorously. There
were over three hundred delegates, earnestly com
posed f of prominent men who are
n favor of co-operating with the rail
roads in the Yds great undertaking. All the
important in the South were rep
resented, and did all in their power to
shape the proceedings, to make the move
ment a success.
REST IN PEACE!
THE GALLANT DEAD OF THE CON ■
PEDERACY REMEMBERED.
Appropriate and Beautiful Display In the
Principal Cities—Patriotic Orators, Fine
Music and a Generous Supply of Flowers.
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heart Alemorial Day—dear to the Southern heroic
from its associations with the
dead of every grade and rank, whose pre
cious remains lie all over the land—was
celebrated with a degree of propriety, re
fin'-ment of taste and beautiful display,
never surpassed. No Alemorial Day in
the past decade was observed more ap
propriately. Nearly every store in doors, the
large towns and cities closed its
and Dine-tenths of the factories and ma
chine shops gave their employes a half
holiday. Ail ages, both sexes, the high,
the low, the rich and the poor, vied with
each other in showing their devotion to
the day. The soldiers, bedecked in their
flaming uniforms, members of various
secret orders, attired in their uniforms,
the young cadets in their suits
of gray, were astir and showed
a zeal that was commendable,
In Atlanta, Ga., the procession was a
fine one, and formed as follows: Chief
of Police Connolly, Captain Mercer and
Captain Wright, all handsomely mounted,
were in front. Immediately following
was the Capital baud; then came Judge
Calhoun and Col. Thomas, both mounted
and wearing sashes. The Confederate
veterans, about one hundred in number,
walked two and two. They wore their
new badges. Two tribes of Red Men
came close behind the veterans. Captain
Alilledge immediately and Charles in their Wurm rode
side, and band. The rear was
the Atlanta Rifles brass rest
of the procession was made up as follows:
Atlanta Rifles, Aloreland Park Cadets,
Aleans Cadets, Atlanta Zouaves, Gate
City Guard, Patriarchs Alilitant, I. Capital O. O.
F.; Calantbe division K. P.,
City K. P., Knights Golden Eagle, At¬
lanta Artillery, Governor’s Horse Guard,
carriages containing orator of the day,
chaplain, Commander Gen. W. A.
Wright, and B. J. Davis, secretary of
Contederate Veterans’ association: s'arri -
ages of Memorial association, contain: ng
ladies of association, judges of the officers State
and United States courts, state
and county and city officers. The pro¬
cession proceeded to Oakland cemetery',
where an eloquent oration was listened
to, by Col. Thomas Jones, of Alabama.
At Washington. Ga., the day was ob¬
served more generally than at any time
since the War. Hon. B. S. Irvin ad¬
dressed the citizens at the court-house,
after which the crowd proceeded to the
cemetery to deck the graves of the Con¬
federate dead. The new monument of
Gen. Toombs was handsomely festooned
with flowers, and the graves of humble
privates alike received their share of
beautiful flowers. A monument of ever¬
green, about twenty feet high, was
erected in the center of the public square,
and on it was inscribed, in white letters:
“To the Alemory of our Confederate
Dead.” A Confederate Survivors’ As¬
sociation was formed with a goodly num¬
ber.
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people took part in the me
morial - t exercises exercises, at at Alilledo-eville jVliueageviiie, Ga
the dead heroes, me ceremonies were iap
propnate «nd enjoyable. At the Con
federate monument prayers were offered,
c( ,.. pra , „ nivror)ri ,,,„ son „ s we re ren
select choir. ' Salutes were
fired over tne monument and , the .. deco- j
ration of graves took place. delivered
John Alell, memorial orator,
a chaste and eloquent memorial address
in the university chapel, at Athens, Ga.
After the address was delivered the
students of the different colleges in
Athens, the societies and organizations
an d the citizens generally formed in line
of march and proceeded to the cemetery,
Mr. Sylvanus Morns acted as chief mar
s hal and Air. Albert Howell as assistant,
with Alessrs. Couper, Pope and Fred
Alorton as aides. The soldiers graves
were covered with a profusion of flowers,
Rn d the graves of Gen. T. R. R. Cobb
and Miss Lucy Cobb received especial
attention at the hands of jtie Lucy Cobb
pup iL ; .
in Augusta, Ga., Columbus, Savannah,
Sparta and Albany, Cuthbert, Macon,the
day was very appropriately observed.
The day received a proper recognition
all over the South, and in many places
arrangements were made to erect more
lasting memorials in memory of the valor
of the Confederate soldier. The follow¬
ing circular was sent to the different
Southern survivors’ associations in Geor¬
gia: “The ladies of the Hollywood
Memorial Association are in great need
of outside aid, and have directed me to
present the following statement of facts
to you, and through you to the people of
Georgia. In our beautiful cemetery of
Hollywood there are buried 5,300 Con¬
federate soldiers, besides a large number
brought from Gettysburg several years
after the War. We have a record show¬
ing the names, states, commands and
dates of death of 6,175. Of this number
the record shows that 1,354 were soldiers
from Georgia. Ail thegravesare marked
by wooden pegs with tin pieces nailed
across the top, on which are numbers
mentioned corresponding to names on the above
record, thus enabling friends, persons
to identify the graves of their
These wooden pegs are now fast rotting
away, and the tin pieces containing the
numbers are beginning to come off and
be lost. We most earnestly desire to re
place these unsubstantial head-pieces
with granite blocks, having the numbers
cut in the stone. By this means we will
be enabled to secure identification of the
graves for all time. The work, however,
must be done at once or not at all, as a
year or two more will see the last of the
old woodm pegs rotted to the ground. We
need three, thousand dollars to do it. c an
you suggest the any way by which we could get
help Loin people of Georgia for mark
ing of the graves in the section devoted
to their dead ? Any help, however small,
will be gratefully received, and unless
we do receive help from outside, we will
have to abandon the effort, as our own
funds will hardly suffice to keep the
giou .ds in order, Very respectfully,
Mrs. Edmund Christian AIinor,
No. 1911 W. Secretary L. H. M. A.,
Alain St., Richmond, Vaj
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Atlanta, Ga., Veteran’s Badge.
WHO SHOT HERT
Aliss Mary Young was walking along
the road not two hundred yards from a
house in the Campobello section of Spar¬
tanburg county, S. C., when she was
struck down by an assassin’s bullet. The
ball entered her back near the spine and
passed almost through the body. Who
fired the ball is not known. She had had
no difficulty with anyone, and it is not
known that she had an enemy in the
world. About the time she was shot a
boy about a quarter of a mile off fired at
a hawk, and for a time it was thought
that his bullet might have glanced and
inflicted the injury, but this could not
have occurred. The ball was too large
for the rifle, and was evidently a pistol
ball. The young lady was going toward
the place where the lad fired the rifle,
aud she was struck in the back. The
young lady slill lives, but is in a ciitical
condition.
19TH CENTURY WONDER.
One of the most delicate and notable
surgical operations ever performed in the
world occurred in Philadelphia, Pa., be¬
ing nothing less than the transplantation
of a portion of the eye of a rabbit to the
eye of a human being. relieve The object obscurity of
the operation was to the
of an eye of a patient which was caused
by inflammation, and which produced in
time an opaque surface. The patient
was a servant girl. The operation took'
place at Germantown hospital, under the
immediate direction of Dr. L. Webster
Fox, opth dmic surgeon of the institu¬
tion, who witnessed one of the only two
operations of this nature which have ever
been performed in the wo Id, in Germany
last year, it being performed by Prof.
Yon Wipple, of Giessen. Germany.
MOUNTAINEERS RAIDED.
A report has been filed in the office of
Revenue Collector E. W. Booker, giving
account of a big raid on the moonshiners
in Franklin and Colbert counties, Ala.
T he raid was made by Deputy Collectors
Sa«£S^S£S5L. Colnuitt and Mitchedl Thev T t3 caD- < 5S
^onfof The SK anDarstus aed
liquors, une ot me tuns in Frank r ran Kim in
county was the largest ever captured m
Alabama. It was located in a rock cav
ern, ^ and was known as the Big f, Elephant. J
J( . ^ q{ , he finegt ty { cop .
and the worm when uncoiled was
^ V twen f„ jeet |p nir q- be revenue of
captured one of of the t Ue moonshiners moonshiners,
o tners escaped.
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The f 0 n 0w j ng) signed by ten practic
ing physicians, bas been sent out from
jjartow, Fla., one of the places where
ye ii ow fever is alleged to exist, according
^ g ur g eon General Hamilton’s report:
“We, the undersigned, embracing every
prac ti c ing physician in this place, hereby
certify that there is not row, nor has
tbe re ever been, within our knowledge
£ or information, a town? single case of yellow
ve , within our nor within Polk
ecranty of which Bartow is the county
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SOUTHERN GOSSIP.
BOILED DOWN FACTS AND FAN¬
CIES INTERESTINGLY STATED.
Accident* on Lend and on Sea—New Enter¬
prises— Suicides—Religions. Temperance
and Social Matter*.
It is alleged that the books of J. W.
Barnes, town clerk of Port Royal, S. C.,
show a shoitage.
Policeman West beat Reporter Wat¬
ters, of the Atlanta, Qa., Constitution ,
because he did not write items to suit
him.
The horse-breeders of North Carolina
ment at Raleigh on Alay 15th to form an
association for the purpose of stimulating
the breeding of flue horses.
After a careful investigation, the au¬
thorities of Atlanta, Ga., report that the
Leyden House of that city which recently
burned down, was set on fire in several
places.
The weather is very cold for the sea¬
son at Lynchburg, Va., and there has
been heavy frost for the past few nights.
Great anxiety is felt for fruit. It is
thought lo be ruined. Ice has formed in
exposed places.
Governor Gordon, of Georgia, com
missioned Judge J. S. Pope as judge of
the county court of Pike county for four
years. Judge Pope becomes h s own
successor. He has held the position for
eight years.
Andy Posey, a colored man who h id
been arrested by the marshal of Besse¬
mer, Ala., was taken out by a mob and
lynched, by hanging him on a tree.
Posey’s friends gathered in large numbers
threaten ng vengeance, and nssisiance
was asked from Birmingham aud other
places by the authorities.
Oliver Bevine, a millionaire sugar
planter and capitalist, died at New Or
leans, La., alter a short illness recently.
He was born in Alonroe county, West
Virginia, seventy-seven years ago, and,
in his youth, emigiatedto New Orleans,
where he engaged in business with the
late John Burnside. His fortune is esti¬
mated at about $8,000,000.
Jim Fields, head waiter of the Man¬
sion House, in Greenville, 8. C., was
found violently insane on the street.
Fields created quite a sensstion on the
street by stopping H. C. Beattie, of the
National Bank, and demanding him to
open the bank. He said that the spirit
of God was in him and that he was com¬
pelled his to have money to died. go to Chicago,
where father recently
The United States district court at
Newberne, N. C. lias disposed of the im¬
portant cases of U. S. vs. Joseph W. Wat¬
son and William M. Watson, jr., for
using the mails for fraudulent purposes.
Hundreds of letters were introduced, ad¬
mitted to be in the handwriting of one
or the other of the defendants. They
were convicted. It is perhaps the first
conviction of the kind in this section
ever made under section 5480 of the re¬
vised statutes of the U. 8., and brings
within the provisions of that statute of¬
fenses that were thought to lie wholly
within the jurisdiction of the state courts.
DOVALOS AXD PANI.
Tholr Career in St. Louis Before
They Entered Yale.
The career in St, Louis of C. E.
Pani and “Count” Jose R. Dovalos,
two swell Mexican students who dis¬
appeared suddenly from Yale a few days
ago, has never been equalled in entered prodi¬
gality or extravagance. They and
the Washington University in 1885,
Prof. A Alaetre says that during the
first year the pair squandered $50,000.
If they had possessed a million they
could have reduced their surplus world. as
rapidly as any two men in the
Nothing was to rich for them, and they
paid all bills on sight, including their
own, and after-times those of chance
acquaintances when they had money
to do it with. A carriage was a block, neces¬
sity when they wauted to go a
nothing bnt oliampagne was good
enough to drink, and $10 a plate They was took a
low figure for their suppers.
especial delight and in tramps, buying champagne and then
for beggars
would laugh heartily to see them drink.
Jose Dovalos, whos- relatives reside in
Aguas Calientes, is the son of a wealthy
Mexican lady, who, as a widow, mar¬
ried a paniard in comfortable circum¬
stances, ami it was he who settled young
Dovalos’ bills with Prof. Alaetre.
Young Dovalos has three beautiful and
accomplished sisters, and his family
seems to feel the disgrace more keenly
than his companion's rela ives. The
mother 1ms a\anted him large sums of
money from her private fortune, but,
tiring of his conduct, proposes that the
remainder of his share of the estate,
which now amounts to a little more
than $8,000, shall be given him to do
with as he pleases, with the understand¬
ing that it is all he will get. He is
highly connected, Archbishop Lavasti
da Dovalos of Alexico being his uncle.
Dovalos differs from nervous and
excitable Pani. H- is cool and calcu
kti ind uothi (llfiturbs hisoqua glibly mr,
ity He talks of mi lions as as
of hundreds of dollars, and it is the
opinion of Prof. Alaetre that no scheme
is toobig for him to undertake. Pam is
25 years of age, a good athelete, and a
fine dresser. His father is an Ita l
and is a very wealthy man. A favon e
pastime with Pant was to cal ora
tie of champagne, and, to show his oon
Mmpt for the cost, pour the conte ts
of the bottle in a cuspidor if 9® n '
eat 11 not, on the carpet, sncl imm -
' the d
atel y liquidate ^ d 8 ^ - -
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were Yd paid bv by hlfmffiated^elatives humiliated reiat
NO. 10.
WORLD AT LARGE.
PEN PICTURES PAINTED BY A
CORPS OF ABLE ARTISTS.
Wlint is Goins on North, East and West
and Across tbs Water—The Coining Eu¬
ropean storm.
The Comte de Paris has issued a mani¬
festo to the royalists of France, urging a
restoration of a monarchy.
The ship Smyrna was sunk in a colli¬
sion with the steamer Motto, off the Isle
of Wright. Thirteen persons were
drowned.
As a result of the recent raids in Prov¬
idence, R. I., officers poured out upon the
ground 100 hogsheads of ale, lager beer,
wines and whisuy, valued at over $5,000.
Mile. Deaco, a slack wire performer,
had the wire to break under her at
Steubenvile, Ohio, while giving received an open
air performance, and she inju¬
ries from which she will die.
The London Chronicle announces tha
approaching marriage of Joseph Cham¬
ber ain, who ctme to the United States to
arrange a fisheries treaty, to Alisa Endi
cott, who he met in Ameiica.
Central City, Dak., was >' stroyed by
fire. Not a store or shop is leitsianding,
and 123 buildings were burned. Fifty
families were left homeles-. Deadwood
is sending food. The lo.-s is $250,000.
The Atlantic machine works, in Bos¬
ton, Alnss., were burned, causing an cs
tima e losss of $150,000. The fire started
in the pattern sh p, and the mpposi ion
is th t it caught fiom the wires of an
elec 1 ric light. Four workmen were in¬
jured; Tire me of loss them, probably Robert covered Ca sidy, by will in¬
die.
surance.
At a dejeuner given in his honor by the
Bordeaux council, Pr> sklent Carnot, of
France, in a speech, said that a policy
characterized by wisdom, prudence and
liberty was necessary to insure respect
for the laws. both abroad Such policy and would home, guaran¬ and
tee peace at
such was the policy he intended to fol¬
low.
Workmen in a basement, corner of
State aud Jackson streets, in Chicago,
Ill., were drilling a hole under the street
for a conduit, when their drill tapped
the gas main. One of the men lit a can¬
dle to see what was the matter, when an
explosion followed, which wrecked a
clothing store on the first floor, and blew
up about 70 people. No one was killed,
but were injured.
Edgar L. Hermance, late pastor of the
Presbyterian church, in the village of
White Plains, N. Y., shot himself while
in the asked pulpit. for Hermance’s months resignation
was some ago, in con¬
sequence of dissatisfaction arising be¬
tween liimself and the flock over his sal¬
ary. His wife is the daughter of ex
President WoUsey, D. D., LLD., of Yale
college. Shortly before he shot himself,
Hermance was silting within the chancel
conversing with the sexton, John Blake¬
ly, and appeared perfectly rational.
Hardly had he closed the church door
on leaving, when he was startled by the
report of a pistol found shot, and the rushing stretch¬ back
into the church, pastor
ed prone upon the floor of the pulpit. He
was bleeding profusely from a bullet
hole in his right temple. Close beside
him lay a smoking 32-calibre revolver.
DEATH’S MOWING. .1
A school exhibition was in progress in
Brookman’s hall, situated in the second
story of a brick building at Bellefontaine,
Ohio, when suddenly, without the slight¬
est warning, the floor gave way with a
frightful crash. It appeared to sink in
the center, funnel shaped, and the entire
audience went down in a surging mass feet. to
the ground, a distance of twenty
All the physicians in the town were im¬
mediately summoned. So far the dead
and injured are as follows: Mrs. J. E.
Alexander, wife of a minister, killed;
Miss Garwood, of Bellefontaine, seriously
injured; Harvey Selders, both legi broken
and one arm, with other injuries; James
Johnson, badly hurt, taken home insensi¬
ble; Mrs. Frank McCullough, badly hurt;
Mrs. Drumm, mpposed tube dying; Mrs.
Wait Wright, not expected to live;
Walker Lewis, one leg broken; Mrs. Wil¬
liam AlcCullough, badly hurt; little babe
of ADs. Coombs, badly hurt; Judge Sel¬
ders’ two children, of Rideeway, badly
hurt. Probab y filty others more or less
seriously injured, Tne trails did not
fall in or the calamity wo dd have been
much worse. A number of lad es and
children were laken out, some of them
unhurt with their clothi.igtorn complete¬
ly off of them.
GIVEN OUT.
A sensation was caused in manufactur¬
ing circles at St. Louis, Mo., by ibe ru¬
mor that the rich cady of iron ore nt Iron
Mountain and Pit* t Km b had Lem ex¬
hausted, aud that the Vu! a i Steel " orks
woujd be removed to Clev< land, On e.
The shipment'have fal < n Iroin 22,0U0
tons of ore per month to 6,000.
Caught a Tartar.
female Milvor of Argonim of'the’town this
gf , ] 1!l8 made the men
wbo oi ecte a her for a joke, J feel that they
jmd cft fe ht a Tartar she bas put a stop
^ their poker games> billiard playing nine
and 0 t be r “funny business” after
m There has not been acowboy jam
boree nor a real old time accompaniments, jollification
wjth sboot i D g i ron
sbl0e gbe t. 00 k her seat. Everybody in
bed by half-past nine, and the sports are
3k i p p in gthe town. The joke that caused
her election will not be repeated —Mount if the
inkers survive her term of office
YaUey {Kan ' ) HeraU <