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^ ' THE CONYERS WEEKLY VOL. XL The cause of the cold weather hang late last spring is laid to the tier won so down from of ice-bergs drifting tieAKto re g ions - ' shortsightedness in California is at tributed by some physicians to the ab of color in that country, the pre¬ seoce being dull brown or drab. rlkfland tint of perpetual sunshine white houses a nd white concrete sidewalks ~~ are id to be most injurious to the sight. )a The deep-sea soundings which have : recently been made in the Atlantic undei the Royal Irish , Academy, , the auspices of Dublin, proved that at a depth of over feet beneath the surface of the ocean exists animal life possessing both variety and vigor. The ocean’s bed is of the most remarkable pieces ol one furniture on the globe. ^gentlemen in South Africa has sent to London the back of the case of the i OT tch formerly belonging to the Prince Imperial, of France, who met so tragic a death in the Dark Continent. It is slightly battered aud bears the crown and his monogram. A gentleman bought ij 0 f a Zulu. The watch was made in 1818 for the Empress Eugenie as a present for her son. There is no better soil or climate in the world for raising coffee'and sugar, as¬ serts the Farm, Field and Steel-,man, than Ition that of Mexico. With a little importa of improved machinery, an exten¬ sion of the railway system and improved transportation in general and a consider¬ able infusion of Yankee enterprise and energy, Mexico might supply this conti¬ nent with both sugar and coffee. Explosives more powerful than dy¬ namite are constantly being discovered. Melanite and bellite are among the latest )f these, and now it is announced, by the New York World, that another more jotent than any heretofore perfected has >een made by a Russian chemist. Gun jowder is gradually taking its place as in old-fashioned and comparatively larmless agent of destruction. l Another ocean greyhound has beaten Ihe record. The big Etruiia arrived at ■New York, having practically sailed from fcueenstown in six days, her time from Cueenstown to Sandy Hook being six Bays, two hours and twenty-six minutes, phe Pays plunged at the through the fog for three rate of twenty miles an hour, put Iceberg fortunately no sailing vessel or stray hapeaed across her track. According to the Young Men’s Christ ian Association “Year Book for 1888,’ which has just been issued, there are lhO associations in America and 3804in Ihe world. Tho American associations have a membership of 175,000, own buildings \ valued at $5,609,265, and have total net property of $7,261,658. There ? re 752 men who, acting as Secretaries M assistants, devote their entire time pthe F associations. wor k of the different branches of New 1 ork and Chicago,” says the H’A of the former city, “can both be -M up as marvels in their growth of ’t'ulation. According to the thirteenth 1Dual Ie Port of the Chicago Board of rade ' Chicago contains now about Jll ,000 souls as against 4853 in 1-810. 8 1840 the population of New York % was 312,710; at present it is the phborhood P and Chicago of 1,600,000. Both New are admirably situ P * or a steady increase of population °ur harbor being one of the finest in "hole world, and as to Chicago, 'Ppincott’s Gazetteer puts it correctly stating that ‘one of the principal 1Se ’ prosperity and growth o) e c 'ty (of Chicago) is its position at le head of the great chain of lakes, hieh f 0 rm the grandest medium of in hiational navigation in the world. 5 >f A comparatively and very’ new pecu- 11 society, which is not recorded the ,tl0D in al list of associations, known as Rt In Society, has just been dis ?ered by the Atlanta Constitution. 18 s * n gular organization consists ol 1800 members who are scattered ° u ghout the world, never hold meet¬ ly ^ ted never oal see y by each correspondence other, but are ac [c and an |f photographs. It consists o most part of invalids who have confined to their rooms for the er P ar ^ °f their lives, hence the , L. Iar uatne The society was 10 ■August - organ . 1885, bp some charitable / ns who love to see the helpless PPJ- ^bey exchange letters of sym lt i . ’and all, confined as they are, work f ner for the ha ppin ess of the others. an or § an ization should k E0 prosper, a* ® i P e 'iseB, and adds infinitely to ie • happinew of the CONYERS. GEORGIA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 3, 1888. SOUTHLAND ITEMS. PARAGRAPHS, SAD, PLEASANT AND TERRIBLE. INDUSTRIAL PROGRESS—THE EXCURSION FEVER—RAILROAD ACCIDENTS-SUICIDES DBFALCATIONS—COTTON REPORTS ETC. Alabama. Joel J. Merritt, postal clerk from Cleveland, Jenn., to Selma, was arrested in Selma for robbing the mails. N. F. Thomson, a Birmingham real es¬ tate and insurance agent, and a candidate on the prohibition ticket for county treasurer, was arrested for false pretenses in connection with a land trade during the late boom. The grand jury returned an indictment against him. He was re leased on $2,000 bond. J. T. Sullivan, an engineer on the Louisville & Nashville Railroad, was ar¬ rested in Birmingham on Saturday charged with manslaughter in the first degree. About three weeks ago, while running a freight train, Sullivan ran into a switch engine at Warrior, killing a man named John Beasley. Florida. Twenty-four alligators were killed in one night by a boy at Spring Garden. The inland lakes in Volusia county are lower at present than at any time during ihe past ten years. The catapillars are seriously injuring ihe pea and potato vines in certain lo calities in Pasco county. The state authorities have ordered that the entire village of Plant City be burned to tbe ground, including all buildings, furniture, bedding, &c., in order to stamp out the so-called yellow or mala¬ rial fever there. The growers in and around Orlando have netted 50 cents per pound for white grapes. It is not improbable that in a tew years grape culture in Florida will become one of tbe leading industries. Alachua county has a large acreage of vineyards. There Is a man in Palatka who imag¬ ines that he is a teapot. He is perfectly sane on every other subject, but nothing can convince him that he is not a teapot, and an earthen one at that. He sticks out one arm to represent the spout, bends tbe other to represent the handle, makes a hissing noise to represent the escaping steam, and then, if any one comes near him, is very uneasy lest they hit him and break off either bis handle or his spout. The relief measures to be inaugurated by the Marine Hospital Bureau will in¬ clude a house-to-house inspection of the infected villages and tbe guarding until of them for a period of ten days, or tbe fever shall have entirely disappeared; and also the disinfection of ail premises fever. wherein the inmates have had Guards will be immediately placed other to prevent the refugees from infecting places. Persons wishing to leave the in¬ fected villages will have to pass the usual detention period and have their clothing fumigated. Georela. Speaker Carlisle declined to leave Washington, D. C., to deliver a speech in Atlanta. The 43d Georgia infantry held a re¬ union at Ponce de Leon Springs, near that Atlanta, and out of the 1,000 men composed it, in 1861,only 13 were present. S. P. Shatter & Co’s, rosin oil mill and chemical works at Savannah were burned on Sunday. The works were located on the West Ogeechee canal beyond the city limits. The origin was spontaneous combustion. The Augusta Exposition received an application for space from one of the biggest loom manufacturers in Massachu¬ setts. The exhibit alone will cost several thousand dollars to place, and the six fancy looms will be operated by six blooming Yankee girls. Texq.». The first bale of cotton of the crop of 1888 was received at Galveston on Wed¬ nesday. It weighed 569 pounds, and was classed as middling lair staple. It was sold at auction at 12 cents per pound, and will be shipped to Liverpool via New York. Lieut. Flipper, tbe colored officer in tbe United States army, who was dis¬ missed some years ago, and afterwards joined the Mexican army, has turned up at El Paso, with a story of two old gold mines which he has found in Mexico, just bursting with ore. South Carolina. The river phosphate miners around the South Carolina coast have entered into a pool to put up the price of rock. This, of course, does not include the land miners. The production of river rock amounts to nearly 20,000 tons an¬ nually. A committee was appointed books in Charles¬ sub¬ ton on Wednesday to open of scription for the purchase of a steamship to run between there and Baltimore. The steamer is to be built outright, with a capacity of 6,000 to 8,000 bales of cot¬ ton, and to have first-class accommoda¬ tions for 100 saloon passengers# Virginia. The coroner’s jury assembled at the scene of the recent collision on the Nor¬ folk & Western Railway, rendered its verdict on Wednesday as follows: “We, the jury, find the Norfolk & Western Railway Company guilty of neglect in sending complicated orders not easily understood by employes of the company, as shown by the evidence adduced befoie the jury, and for its failure to designate engine No. 3, which would have pre¬ vented this collision; and it is the opin¬ ion of this jury that the Norfolk & Western management should be held responsible for the results of this disas¬ ter. ” A special . Louisiana.. Times to the New Orleans Democrat from Monroe says: A. Demin ler, tor a number of years book-keeper for the Monroe Oil Company committed suicide by jumping from «, bridge. Gen. G. T. Beauregard, elected com¬ missioner of public works at New Or¬ leans, finding it impossible to keep the streets in good condition with the sum of money allowed by the city, has ten¬ dered his resignation. While a cargo was discharging from the Cromwell Line steamer, Knicker bocker, at New Orleans, a cylinder of compressed ammonia exploded with great force. Thomas Russell was killed. An ottier man, William Somat, and three Colored men, E. Bowers, Gabriel Bennett and E. B. Johnson, were injured. The explosion is attributed to the extreme heat of the sun. Missouri. George Taylor, a prominent St. Louis cotion factor, is authority for the state¬ ment that jute bagging manufacturers have formed a pool or trust andadvauced the price of bagging from seven to eleven cents per yard, while there has been no advance in raw material. Mr. Taylor could not purchase such stock as he wanted in St. Louis, and telegraphed orders to Eastern manufacturers and received the reply that he had better purchase from the St. Louis makers. Tennessee. The steel rail mill of the Roane Iron, company at Chattanooga, has shut down until September, on account of the depressed condition of the steel rail market. Sam Watts, a clerk, and Charles Hum¬ phreys, a married miner, fought at Coal Creek while on a drunken spree. The latter was shot through the body and will die. Policeman W. T. Russell, who a week ago killed Jesse Bishop while, it is al¬ leged, Bishop was resisting arrest, writ was taken before Judge Shepherd Chattanooga on a of habeas corpus at on Wednesday. As a result of the examin¬ ation, Russell was held to bail in the sum of $5,000, which he readily gave. Conductor Frank Cushman was ar¬ rested in Nashville and jailed there of the on Sunday. Cushman was in charge extra freight train which collided with the Louisville & Nashville fast express at Oxmoor on the morning of the 17th, killing Engineers Nichols and Austin, and Fireman Cummings. Cushman was indicted by the grand jury last week foi manslaughter in the first degree. RUSHING FOR LIBERTY. A plot for the escape of four hundred convicts at Pratt Mines, Ala., was dis¬ covered several days ago, but the prison officials kept the matter so Wednesday. quiet that the At facts only leaked out on slope No. 1, about four of the seven hun¬ dred convicts are confined, and there is only one entrance into the mine at that place. It seems that one of the veins or leads at this slope has been worked until it was within a few hundred feet of the surface on the other side of the mountain. Some of the older convicts some time ago conceived a plan to dig out of the mine. Others were let into the plot, and the convicts would work turns on their tun¬ nel after completing their day’s task of mining. The number into the plot was increased, until nearly all of the four hundred convicts working in the slope knew about it, and aided in the work. Saturday, it is said, was the day set apart to force the tunnel through the mountain and escape. After all the con¬ victs bad entered the slope that morning, the entrance was blocked'on the inside, and then they began to dig for liberty, the tunnel lacking only a few feet of completion, but tbe plot had been be¬ trayed, and the guards were on the look out. The obstruction at the mouth of the slope was removed and the convicts were driven away from their tunnel, and forced to return to work. The ring¬ leaders were punished, tmked and prevent every pre¬ caution has been to an es¬ cape by the tunnel route. Only three mouths ago five convicts escaped from Coalbnrg mines, by the same means, and only two of them were recaptured. COTTON. The New York Financial Chronicle, in its weekly review of the cotton move¬ ment, says that the total receipts since the first of September, 1887, 5,488,937 bales, against 5,204,670 bales for the same period of 1886-7, shows an increase since September 1, 1887, of 284,258 bales. The exports for the week reached a total of 27,285 bales, of which 14,819 were for Great Britain, 7,218 for France and 2,238 to tbe lest of the continent. The total sales for forward delivery for tbe week are 330,400 bales. For immediate delivery the total sales foot up 6,406 bales, including 3,430 for export, 2,976 for consumption. The imports into con¬ tinental ports have been 18,000 bales. There is a decrease in tbe cotton in sight of 315,282 bales as compared with the same date of 1887, a decrease of 239,283 bales as compared with the corresponding date of 18S6 and a decrease of 278,735 bales as compared with 1885. The old interior stocks have decreased during the week 3,286 bales, and are 5,113 bales more than at the same period have last year. been The receipts at the same towns 2,037 bales more than tbe same week last year, and since September 1 the receipts at all the towns are 111,204 bales more than for the same time in 1886-7. Objectionable Features. Brown—“How do you like your new bouse?” ob¬ Smith—“Well, there are some jectionable features about it. ” Brown- “What landlord’*. are they?” "—/.f/V. Smith—“The NATIONAL CAPITAL. WHAT THE SWELTERING PUB¬ LIC OFFICIALS ARE DOING. PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS—IMPORTANT ACTS OF PRESIDENT CLEVELAND—AP¬ POINTMENTS AND REMOVALS, ETC. Congressional. The Senate , Thursday sumed on r con sideration of the army appropriation bill, pending question being on the amendment offered by Air. Hawley sp¬ preprinting $750,000 for an armory gun factory at’Wartervleit arsenal,New York; $5,000,000 for the purchase of steel fof high power coast defence guns; $500,000 for G 16 purchase of stibmufine mines; and $500,000 for submarine controllable torpedoes. Mr, Hawley’s amendment was bill agreed passed. to—yeas 24, nays 10, and the was The Senate then pro¬ ceeded to the consideration of the fish¬ eries treaty in open executive session, and was addressed by Mr. Wilson, of Mary¬ land, in favor of its ratification. Two presidential vetoes were read and refer¬ bill red, and the Senate postoliice adjourned... .The to provide for buildings in cities where there are no other govern¬ the ment offices, occupied the attention of the bill House. The report accompanying explains its provisions. It pro¬ poses to establish a plan for the con¬ struction exclusively of public buildings for the use of of the postoffice department, which uniform character, and shall be especially adapted for the purposes of that department, where the gross receipts amount to three thousand dollars annually for two succes¬ sive years. The extreme limit of the cost to the United States for any build¬ ing shall not, in any case, exceed twenty thousand dollars. Subject to these iimi itations, it provides for three classes of buildings, varying in cost according to the amount of gross receipts. GOSSIP. Statesville, N. C., is to have a $75,000 public building. Mrs. George L. Morgan, of Georgia, was department, appointed a copyist in $900. the interior at a salary of Chief Justice Fuller has received his commission from President Cleveland, but will not be sworn in until October. Mr. Dibble will lead the forces in the House in support of the French spoilia tion claims amendment to the general deficiency bill. Should the bill pass, up¬ wards of $30,000 will go to South Caro¬ lina claimants. Senator Dawes’ bill to prevent white men from acquiring title or right to any tribal property or interest in the Indian Territory has passed the House, and with the President’s signature will now become a law. This bill had its origin with Sec¬ retary Lamar, who recommended it to Congress while in charge of the Interior Department. Senator Palmer reported favorably from the committee on education aud la borthe bill appropriating $400,000 for a Colored Exposition in Atlanta next year, will call the bill up for action next week, or earlier if possible. Both he and Sen¬ ator Brown have been talking up the bill considerably, and expect its passage. Senator Palmer says be has no doubt but that it will pass without opposition. The committee on agriculture reconsid¬ ered its action of last week in referring to the sub-committee the compound lard bill and all adulterated food bills before the committee, with instructions to report by bill, or otherwise, in December next, and decided to report to the House the Lee bill, to prevent the sale, manufacture or transportation of drugs, adulterated articles of food, drink and also a substi¬ tute for the Butterworth bill, defining lard, and imposing a lax upon compound lard, and regulating its sale, importation and expo t ition. The Smithsonian authorities are exper¬ imenting on a specific for N. snake-poison¬ ing, and a man in Buffalo, Y., writes to Prof. Yarrow: “lam willing to be inoculated as many times as you think necessary to make my system proof against tbe snake poison ; and when you think I am safe, comparatively speaking, from the effects of the virus, I will let the snake bite me, so that it can be es¬ tablished beyond doubt that you have a genuine specific; also, when it has been proved that I am could safe against blacksnake the rattle¬ snake bite, you try the or the moccasin, or any other variety of poisonous snakes that you may have. My terms are not very steep. I want $15 per week as long as the experiments last and $100 at the finish. In case the remedy should fail and a fatal result en¬ sue I would want to be buried decently after my body had been examined by physicians to see the working of the poi¬ son.” “WHITE CAPS” SHOT, “White Caps” in Crawford county, Ind., whipped two women nearly to death-—one will probably die—and then proceeded to the house of a reputable ordered citizen in the neighborhood of their and doings him to spread warning. the news The plans of the as their overheard, and “White Caps” had been the citizen had three friends with him. He accordingly refused to do the bidding of the “White Caps,” and was threat¬ ened by them. A fight ensued, in which three of the “White Gaps” were shot, two of them fatally. One of these is named Gregory, a country merchant, aged children. fitty years, with a family of grown Another is a saloon keeper named Saun¬ ders, a worthless fellow. The wounded men have been hidden away, and the country la up in arms on a hunt for them. THE WORLD OVER. CONDENSATION OE FACTS BY ’PHONE AND TELEGRAPH. SOMETHING ABOUT CONVENTIONS, HAIL ROADS, WORKING PEOPLE, CAPITALISTS, EUROPEAN CROWNED HEADS, ETC. The Pope sent a telegram congratulat¬ birth of ing Emperor William upon the. in reply, his fifth sos. The emperor, thanked the Pope. the One thousand miners employed in coal mines at St. Etienne, near Paris, France, have struck, and it is expected that the strike will spread. A fearful storm caused much destruc¬ tion in northwest France. Many fisher¬ men were drowned. The duke of Gra mont’s yacht foundered off Quetteville. A volcanic eruption at Bandesnn, fifty leagues from Yokohama, destroyed sev¬ eral villages, and killed 1,000 persons, llims including 100 visitors at the Springs. DeVatrenes, The paper mill of John at East Lee, Mass., was destroyed by fife on Sunday. The mill employed about one hundred and fifty hands, and the loss will be about $100,0(30. Chairman Iloge, arrested in connection with the Locomotive Engineers’ troubles, has sued the chief detective ol the Bur¬ lington road and the Lincoln, Neb., Daily News for libel. A gunsmith, named Rudolph Sebic, was arrested in Chicago, III., on Wednes¬ day, and is now behind prison bars, un¬ der bonds of $7,000. He is furnished charged with being the individual who dynamite to the conspirators who intend¬ ed to assassinate the three law officers most prominent in the Haymarket prose¬ cution. While prayer-meeting was ini progress in a church in Indianapolis, Bid., the people present were alarmed by groans as of a man in agony, and an investiga¬ tion being made, Eugene Zinzis was found on the floor in a pew, with an em pty bottle at hand. The bottie had _ contained carbolic acid, which Zinzis had swallowed and died before he could be removed from the church. The old armory of the 11th regiment at Elm and White street, in New York city, has been used for commercial pur¬ poses for some yeats, although still owned by the city. The Lovell Manu¬ facturing company, of book printers and binders occupied a wide gallery around the ball fifteen feet from the floor. In this gallery were five heavy folding printed ma chines and tons upon tons of matter. The gallery was supported floor by of wooden uprights resting on the heavy iron the hall. Under this hung pipes in stock. On Wednesday the dou¬ ble strain reached its breaking point and 1 the northeast part of the gallery fell. The five folding machines carried down the floor of the main hall to the ground floor. Six girls who had been working the at the machines went down with wreck to the ground floor, One was killed instantly, two were protected arch by debris which bad formed an over them and were unhurt; others were more or less injured, but none fatally. Over 200 women and girls were at work in the building at the time. RECOVERED. Gen. Boulanger drove in the Bois du Bologne on Sunday for the first time sineifhe was wounded. His carriage was followed by sixteen carriages filled with reporters and admirers, who shout ed: “A has Flouqueil” “A has Ferry!” “Vive Boulanger!” A great crowd of gamins escorted the general back to Paris. Halting a Tin Mine. Among the American schemers now in London is a Chicago man who has had a good many ups and downs in life, aud seems likely to have a good many more. He is the man who won fame some years ago by discovering a tin mine on the northern shore of Lake Superior. This is the manner in which lie dis¬ covered it: He started out one summer to go hunt¬ ing in the Lake Superior country. Besides a gun he had in his outfit a quantity ol tin and a jeweller’s blowpipe. Selecting a convenient spot on the rocky shore, secure from observation by all human eyes, he melted up his tin, pounded replaced it into the crevices of the rocks, the moss, carefully covered his tracks, gathered up a few specimens of the rocli and returned to Chicago. Shortly noised aftei his arrival in the city it became around that he had discovered a lead mine. Now, lead mines are a handy thing tc have. They beat gold mines aU tc pieces. Naturally there was much curi osity concerning this alleged discovery, and the lucky man’s friends made in¬ quiries concerning the nature of the find. “ Oh, I guess there’s a little mineral in that rock,” said he, “but probably not enough to make it worth anything.” Still, he had an assay made, and affected great surprise when they to found the shining metal from the rock be 97 and a fraction per cent, tin (it wat all tin, but, of course, it wouldn’t do for tbe assayer to find it that way), and there was a sensation among the men familial with the matter. They crowded round the discoverer and asked to be let in. A party of them went to the Superior country to investigate and found tin in every crevice of the rock. For his ingennitv in seUing and salt¬ ing this mine the Chicagoan got aboul $15,000 and a few millions of stock, which he did not stop to negotiate.—CAt'eaf# Herald, NO. 28. IN THE SWING. Here we go to the branches high! Here we come to the grasses low! For the spiders and flowers and birds and Love to saving when the breezes blow. Swing, little bird, on the topmost bough; Swing, little spider, with rope so fine; Swing, little flower, for the wind blows now; But none of you have such a swing as min6 Dear little bird, come sit on my toes; I’m just as careful as I can be; And oh, I toll you, nobody knows What fun we’d have if you’d play with me! Como and swing with me, birdie dear, Bright little flower, come swing in my hair But you, little spider, creepy and queer— You’d better stay and swing over there. The sweet little bird, ho sings and sings, But he doesn’t even look in my face; Tile bright little blossom swing aud swings, But still it swings in the self-same place. Let them stay where they like it best; Let them do what they’d rather do; My swing is nicer than all the rest, But maybe it’s rather small for two. Hera we go to the branches high! Here we come to the grasses low! For the spiders and flowers and birds and I Love to swing when the breezes blow. Swing, little bird, on the topmost bough; Swing, little spider, with rope so fine; Swing, little flower, for the wind blows now; But none Of you have such a swing as mini* ■—Eudora S. Hii/tnstead. in St. Nicholas. V PITH AND POINT. A bad fit—Epileptic. A bad spell of weather—Wether. Down in the mouth—The tongue. The book agent should wear a canvas suit. paints—Age hold¬ An old woman who ing up a flag of truce to time. Kind lady: “How old aro you, my little fellow?” Youngster: “I ain’t old at all, ma’am; I’m nearly new.” The crank appears to be a person who mows down the mental weeds in a whim sickle Wfly .—Duluth Paragrapher. A Milwaukee Judge has decided that a hen is not a domestic animal. He must be trying to make a game of her.-— Picayune. Gov It seems to be settled that the ernment cannot hold (he Mississippi river, no matter how often it levies on it.— Siftings. ad¬ An “anti-chap toilet cream” is vertised. It will never become popular. The girls are too fond of the chaps.-* Detroit Free Press. Ah, why did she make him leave her? Ah, why so cruel, the fair? When a boy he’d had scarlet fever, And it settled in his hair. —.Judge. The civilized world spent years in try ing to break into Chiua. Now it is making strenous efforts to keep the Chinese from breaking out.— Philasdeh' phia Enquirer. Hear the wailing of the ladies, See their faces worn and thin, And the cause of all their sorrow I Is—the bustle is called in! —Siftings. The peach crop is in a marketable con¬ dition. The fruit is large and luscious, but owing to frosts in March dwarfish. and April the baskets are guarled and Cincinnati Commercial. “How do you like your new place, girl’s Bridget?” asked the servant best beau. “Not at all. Sure the mis¬ tress wears such small shoes that I can t get me feet into them .—New York Journal. Taking the temperature—She (at the races)—“What’s the trouble on the judges’ stand, George!” He—“There is some dispute over the last heat. She—“Aren’t their thermometers all alike, George?”— Siftings. A sailor for sea, And a spinster for tea. A lawyer for talk and a soldier for fighting! A. baby for noise. And a circus for boys, And a typewriter man to do autograph writ¬ ing. for chink, A banker And a printer for ink, for stick A leopard for spots, and a wafer A crack baseball flinger, An opera singer, choir for kicking. A shotgun, a mule and a A Fearful Death. A young Portuguese farmer named Joseph Silva, while cutting hay in » field near Centerville. Cal., says the San Francisco Chronicle, encountered a large rattlesnake, which he struck with his scythe and stunned. Silva supposed that he had killed the reptile and picked it up by the tail to cut off the rattles. He used a knife that was somewhat dull, and, holding the snake almost at arm's leng-ii, hacked at the cartilage several connect¬ times ing the rattles with the tail without severing it. To accomplish his purpose more easily he gripped penetrated the snake by the body, and, as the knife at the last effort, the venomous creature doubled and struck him ou the little finger, burying its fangs deep in the flesh. The boy shook the snake off, and -without an instant’s hesitation cut the finger off at the middle joint, below the place where the reptile’s teeth had entered. Even then his nerve did not desert him, and be made his way home¬ ward, a considerable distance. Here he drank a large quantity of whisky and had his bleeding linger bandaged. of the He felt no ill-effects from the bite snake, and on the following Wednesday his curiosity led him to search for the piece of his finger which he hal left in the field beside the dead body of the snake, which he killed after the amputa¬ and tion. He found the finger black rotting with the poison it had absorbed, and, without consideration of tbe con¬ sequences, handled it. By some means with the virulent poison came in contact his wound, and that nigot he died in horrible agony, decomposition hie bod?. setting is before tbe breath left