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' f r m HE CONYE k-;M * M VOL. XI. Fourteen thousand men and women their living in London with their , rn ins. A comparison of the work of English, ch and American detectives shows ret cent, ahead , e latter to be twelve per 1 around. A French doctor of note says th hysician who will advise a women to ide horseback for her health should on e kicked out of the profession. The greatest achievement in the history f life insurance has been made by Sir. oha Wanamaker. the great Philadel (hia merchant, who is now paying pre jiiums on $ 1 , 000,000 to twenty-nine [illerent companies. Only forty per cent of the quantity of line-apples sold in any year between 860 and 1865 is now disposed of. Tilt anana and early Southern fruits have one far toward driving this once fa orite fruit out ot the market. In the graduting class of the college at lillsdaie, Mich., this year, two members f the same family were rivals for class onors. One was C. II. Jackson, fifty iree years of age, and the other his son jged Enprecedented twenty-two. in So educational strange a rivalry history. is I ke It won’t be ten years hence, predicts Detroit Free Press, when all build Ls piped for heat in the winter will be tooled in summer through the same Lipes. If ice can be trick artificially send frozen down [t would be no great to Ste temperature of a ha 1, opera house r room. __ I it is human to err, moralizes the Phila lelphia Inquirer and just in so far as it , s human to err, men must be excused for heir occasional mistakes. A ( iuciunati Iruggist has killed a patient by making | m stake in putting up a prescription, he first mistake iu eight years and in 100,000 prescriptions. I Iras -Since ex-G rvernor Hubbard, of Texas, appointed Mmistei to the Court ot Japan, our trade with that co ntry has rrown I from $13,000,000 to $25,000,000, - ?,500,000 in excess of the total English Japanese trade for, the same year. It Llso exceeds the German-Japan trade by 119,000,000, and that of France by $12, [ 100 , 000 ._ A New York house which ten years igoemployed 100 traveling salesmen now loes its business entirely by illustrated :atalogues and correspondence, and its trade is ahead of what it used to be. Others are moving the same way, and in i few years hence, predicts the Detroit Free Prc-si, the drummer will drum less lumerously. Of that vast work, as projected, the ship canal between Bordeaux on the At¬ lantic seaboard and Narbonne one the Mediterrane|ii coast, it is stated that the cost will be some $131,003,000, and while its length would be about 330 mil s the use of it would be a saving of nearly 700 miles by vessels going from southern France or northern Italy to the northern Atlantic. It has generally been believed that the eduction in average height of French oldiers which followed Napoleon’s lue, of course, to the immense slaughter a those campaigns, made ail of those loldiers the shortest in Europe. But, ae :ording to a high medical and military mtherity in Russia, the minimum height >f the Russian and the French conscript sabout equal—five feet; while in most >ther European countries the minimum anges from five feet one inch to five feet hree inches. The New York Sun says: “Queen 'Victoria’s attention is to be drawn to the fact that the woman who made the lining for the superb carriage in which tier Majesty rode on Jubilee Day last year is on the verge of starvation. The poor creature is a cripple, bent almost double, and has worked and lived in the same room for thirty years. The lining was exquisite work, but the ■woman was paid only five cents per yard, and b y working from dawn till midnight she was able to make just six yards.” The importation of firecrackers this year, says the American Cultivator will amoun t to 300,000 boxes. This is 100, ooc more than last year, The increase is partially due to larger pepu'ation, 'but mostly to the fact that this year a Presi¬ dential election occurs. “ The left-over *‘Ock on the 4th of July will all come •bailable before November. Of the more costly pyrotechnics large amounts / e ma< ^ e in this conn ry by American anuf acturers, but nobody can success¬ . j^_7^ eoracker com P e te with the Ch nose in the manufacture. CONYERS. GEORGIA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 31, 1888. THE SOUTH. CONDENSED FACTS, ARRANGED IN READABLE SHAPE. LIGIITNI#G PLAYS IIAVOC EVERYWHERE— COTTON STATISTICS—SUICID ES —RAIL¬ ROAD CASUALTIES, ETC. Alabama. A passenger train on the Nashville road ran into n buggy just east of Stevenson, on Sunday iu which was a man, bis wife and child. The man was killed and the woman and child badly hurt. Mayor Les er, of Savannah, Ga., tele¬ graphed that he is informed that Mr. Memwether digd at Fernandina, Fla., of yellow fever, and asks that Fernandina be inspected. Dr. Hamilton replied, authorizing him to send a competent in¬ spector to Fernandina at the expense of the maiine hospital bureau. • The race and labor troubles at Round Mountain furnace, Cherokee county, have broken out again. A special from Gads¬ den says the white laborers, who had tried to drive away the negro, s, blew up the house of Manager Elliott, of the fur nace company, with dynamite. They threatened to blow up the furnace, and Manager Elliott and the sher ff of Cher¬ okee county appealed to the governor for help. Governor Seay ordered the ■Etowah Rifles of Gadsden to the scene of the trouble. Miss Ida Fulton committed suicide at Brewton. She loved against the judg¬ ment of her parents, not wisely, perhaps, but too well. Miss Fulton was only about seventeen years of age, accomplish¬ ed and attractive and she belonged to one of the best families of the place. In the note to her heart-chosen sweet¬ heart she gave him her ring and request¬ ed him to kiss her once in death before burial. Her engagement with the man chosen by her parents had gore so far that her wedding trosseuu had been pre¬ pared, but there was a luneral d.rge in¬ stead of a wedding march. News comes from Clay county, in the eastern part of the state, of the mysteri¬ ous disappearance and supposed Weaver, murder of two Mormon elders, Davis and who have been preaching in that section for some time. These Mormon elders were ordered to leave some ti lie since, but they refused to obey the order. The feeling against them among the better class of citizens was stiired to fever heat last Sunday by a baptizing conducted by Elders DaVis and Weaver. It is said that these elders took several converts of both sexes to a mill pond, and taking them into the water in a perfectly nude condition, immersed them in the presence of about fifty people. Florida* The authorities of Tampa officially de¬ clare there is no yellow fever there. cleorata. Isaac May, of the firm of Elsas, May & Co., of Atlanta, died on Monday^ J. J. Cummings, a railroad contractor, died suddenly in Atlanta from the effects of a continued spree. “Fantan,” one of the oldest gambling games in the world, is played openly by the Chinese laundrymen in Atlanta on Sunday nights. They tell the police it is Chinese checkers. N. J. Nash, a farmer - returning home after selling a load of watermelons, was killed at Bellwood crossing, near Atlan¬ ta, by a train of the Georgia Pacific Railroad. There will he a grand reunion early in September at LaGrange of the fo lowing regiments of Confederate veterans, viz.: 4ta, 13th, 21st, 3oth, 41st and 60th Georgia. There is a case of yellow fever at Flint Station, four miles from Camilla, and also a suspected ease at Valdosta. A res dent had been in the infected district, and on returning home was taken sick, and it is feared it may result in a case of yellow jack. HomU Carolina^ Anderson is hard at work working up a cotton-fact.-ry project. While a party of negroes were Mannir out bqar driving in Santee swamp, near r,, Buell Dukes shot and killed Berry Tayior ora bear. Dukes was on a stand and Berry was coming through a cane brake bout fifty yards from where Dukes was standing. As he emerged from the canes Dukes fired, hitting him in the head with four buckshot. The secretary of the state board of hea’th, has received additional and im portant infoimatiou concerning the alairning epidemic of black measles, wh ch is prevailing among the negroes on In the plantations along the Santee river, Georgetown county On the planta tion of Mr. Hazard, where over thirty neo-roes died from the disease, and it fs said to be spreading so rapidly that an" entire cessation of work on the grow ing crops is fea ed. The crops consist mostly of rice which is now in the milk and requires 1 careiut watching. There is . P r ®™ lse oi . a rice mills at Charleston. Tne bat.le was begun by the Chisolm mill, which. an "o°6 D ce e nts a ^r U b C Xl Up to l886 th! price was 12 cents a bushel, 8 cents for barreling and \ cent for weighing, a to¬ tal of 18.1-2 cents. In 1886 there was a Induction to 8 cents for milling and 5 cents for barreling, a total of 13 cents. The charges for weighing have been abolished. The present reduction by tbe Chisolm makes the rates 6 cents for m Uing and 5 cents for barreling, a total of U cents. There are five mills in l harleston. all of which do an active business. 9 A Tennessee. Because the colored admittance people of Cliitta nooga were denied to East Lake Park they have bought a park for their own use. An explosion to-k place in the Chatta¬ nooga ice faetory on Monday, which frightened a team of horses, causing them to run off. The driver, Adam Schearer, was killed by the wagon run¬ ning over him. Five weeks ago, Policeman W. T. Rus¬ sell, of Chattanooga, shot and killed Jesse Bishop, a negro, for resisting ar rest. Chief of Police Howard received the following “Death communication, written in red .ink: to Russell and all police that shoot a negro. Beware Po Iiceman Russell, your time is short.” In the center ot the sheet of paper was a skull and cross bones. Virginia. The captain which of passed the steamer down the Mason Rappa¬ L. Weems, hannock river during a storm, icports that when the st - rrn came up, the mem¬ bers of a colored laptist church were gathered at Carter's Wharf, witnessing an immersion. The rain drove the crowd into an empty freight shed. While they were huddled together, a bolt of lightning struck the building and seemed to leaj) right into the mid^t of 1 he crowd, killing three per.-ons and stunning the entire crowd. The candi¬ date who was being immersed was one of those killed. IMPENDING TROUBLES. The London News ridicules the argu ment that President Cleveland’s Message relative to the fisheries question is a party move. He would not have recom¬ mended retaliation unless he had regarded rejected it as the last alternative to the treaty. With reference to the Toronto Mail's demand for customs union between Canada and the United States, the News says: “It would be a strange aud ironi¬ cal stroke TH' fortune should Mr. Cham¬ berlain, who poses as an ardent imperi¬ his alist, have inuireetly contributed, by recklessness and rancor to the detaching of the Domin on from the sovereignty of t..e queen.” News from Halifax is to the effect that those who have contended that Canada made too liberal conctss ons to the Un ted States, are pleased that the fisheries treaty is rejected, but others who have desired an amicable settlement of the disputes on almost any equiiable basis, express extreme anxiety over the United States Stnate’s action. Alt par¬ ties are unanimous in dema ding that the modus vivendi shall be immediately re¬ scinded and that the whole resources of the Dominion, if necessary, shall be placed at the disposal of the marine de¬ partment for the adequate, stern and un yielding protection of Canada’s fishing grounds. Only those vessels which have taken out .licenses ior the present season will be allowed in'Canadian ports, ex¬ cept under the convention of 1818. In all circles the gloomy feeling prevails The that serious troubles are impending. restrain American fishermen will not themselves from following the fish within limit. If found tresspassing, the Cana d an cruisers are bound to make a cap¬ ture. The Canadian people feel that they are bucked by the whole resources of the British empire. They say that the British squadron stationed there “could blow up New York in four days, not taking into consideration that the United States has any navy, or that it possesses the finest torpedo system in the world. The Canadian Parliament, by its ratifica¬ tion of the treaty, has proposed liberal No concessions in the interest of peace. government could live in Canada that would make a more complete abandon¬ ment of Canadian contentions. If there is bloodshed in consequence of the Sen¬ ate’s inscrutable action the responsibility must rest with tho-e who, by their gross mi-representations of the facts, have in¬ fluenced the Senate’s action. The action of the Senate persiste 1 in, or even while affairs remain in status quo, can scarcely result otherwise than in violence, and for this the United States must take the re¬ sponsibility in the eyes of the world. A SMALL WAR. ^ Trinidad, Col., special says: What ma y prove a long aud bloody struggle opened to-day on the Maxwell Grant at Stonewall, forty miles west of Trinidad. The sheriff's pos-e sent to keep the peace was met by armed settled in numbers estimated at from 200 to 500 men. The settlers demanded the arms of the posse, which demand was reiused. The posse took up quarters in the Pooler hotel, a large frame building. The settlers cn deavored to force an entrance when the posse opened fire. R R. Russell, one ol the oldest settlers, fell dead, and two three others were wounded, and the building was soon r.ddled with bullet . The sheriff is gathering m™ 1 ® numbers to go to t e rehef of the besieged posse be It is believed that the building will burned and a dozen besieged deputies put to death. The settlers come Horn tributaries of the Pugative River, Ver mejo, New Mexico, and also from the Costillo grant in those mountain fas nesses. It seems useless to oppose them with either militia or regular troops. Public sentiment in Trinidad is entirely | tfae settlerSi Tbe 8tttler cava lry is com d o{ both Americans and Mexi cans. The Mexicans are painted as for war. SCUTTLED HER. The steamer Persian Monarch, rescued a number of sailors from the sinking bark Gyfie, and took them to New York. The captain of the Gyfie deliberately gcuttled his vessel and saturated her with [ p ara fl Qe preparatory t > firing her, requir the crew to declare that she had fif (et . u f ee t 0 f wa ter in her hold, which statement was not true. OYER THE GLOBE. WHAT THE ELECTRIC WIRES POUR INTO OUR EARS. LABOR NOTES —ACCIDENTS ON SEA AND LAND—TERRIBLE ACCIDENTS ON THE RAILROADS—NOTED PEOPLE DEAD. The death is announced of Philip Hen ry Gosse, F. it. S., English , naturalist, aged 78 years. Gen. Von Schkopphas been Knobelskorf appointed governor of Cologne. Gen. succeeds Gen. Von Schkopp as command ant; at Spandau. 1 The captain of the steamer Earnwell, bringing was arrested at Philadelphia, into Pa., that tor a case of yellow fever city from Aspinwall. Texas fever has broken out violently among the native cattle in Decatur, Ill., and many have died. Its origin is traced to cattle brought there in Juue. The Fifih National Prohibition headquarters at avenue and Fourteenth street, New day. York, were formally Prohibirionist opened bead- Mon¬ Heretofore the quarters have been in Chicago. George W. Waldron, one of the own¬ ers and manager of the Wa'dron bank, of Hillsdale, Mich., absconded, variously taking vLh him money and securities estimated at from $60,000 to $80,000, He leaves a wife and two childreu. P.'P'rswere filed and approved Washington, by Territory, Judge Alhn, appealing at Tacoma, the decision recent of the supreme court relative to woman suffrage, that it was unconstitutional, to the supreme court of the United States. T^e explosion of 20,000 pounds of powder oc< uired in the. drying house of the Giant Powder compa y, near West Burkcley, Cal. Two white men and three Chinamen were killed. The white men were Josiah Lewis and C. Bunce. The building was blown to atoms. The empiess of Russia, princess of Waloa, and all royalti.sof Denmark, met at the palace of the duke of Cumberland at Gemunaen, in Austria. It is surmised that the meeting related to the project of the czar and Emperor William to create a monarchy of Bulgaria and Roumelta, with the duke of Cumberland as king. The Berlin, Germany, newspapers are silent on the subject of the arrests of so ciulits, which are made daily. The par¬ ticular prison in wliict arrested parties are confined is crowded now with* men and women, charged with the propaga¬ tion of socialist doctrines and the utter¬ ance of s.ditious cries. The third council was held at Imaco, Col., between the Indian commissioners and the Indians. The Indians received the overdue gratuity money, and it was expected this would put them in good jmmor and facilitate the business in hand. Speeches were made on both sides, but fthe chiefs were obstinate and would not comerit to removal. The false work for building the. super¬ structure of the Chesapeake & Ohio Rail¬ way bridge over the Ohio betwecD Coving¬ ton and Cincinnati was swept away by a great raft of drift wood that had accumu¬ lated at its base. The losers are the con¬ tractors, tlio Phoenix Biidge company. They estimate their loss at nearly $200, 000. Two weeks move low water would have made them safe. An Evansville, Ind., special is to the effect that all trains have railroads, been stopped Oil the Mackey system of owing to the strike declared against' the roads therein embraced by Ciiiefs Arthur and Sargent. The system includes the Peo¬ jand ria, Decatur and Evansville; Evansville, Indianapolis, and Evansville and Terre Haute roads, having a total length of 700 miles. The trouble began some weeks ago out of discriminations said to have been made by Master Mechanic Smith against the brotherhood meu. Chiefs Arthur and Sargent came to the scene of action and temporarily settled the matt- r, but repeated snubs, it is al¬ leged, have precipitated a strike which includes all engineers, firemen and switchmen. A BAD LOT. A Chinese organization of so-called anarchists, over 100 strong, has been formed in New York. The purpose of this s. r nge Mongolian organization is ost- nstblv for “mutual protection,” but its real object is to get possess.on of the Chinese municipality by force. The principal and most remunerative of these revenues is obtained from the forty or more gambling dens that are now paying the municipal treasury at the rate of $10 per mon h per den. This is divided by two rival organizations—the Municipal Council and the Lun Gee Tong Society— each getting about $200 per month regu larly. But the-e Mongolian anarchists pri'pi se now to obtain entire control of ail these revenues, and they began a few Jays ago by invading, in a body, the corns of the.Lun Gee Tong Society, irivimr its members cut with clubs and acarly ki’li ig Gon Her, one of the prin¬ cipal members. _ IMPORTANT. A very important discovery has been made by which one of Canada the greatest will imtne- privi h g s now enjoyed order by of the Secretary di itc y cease, by that is the right of of the Treasury, and Canada to ship her products in bond through the territory of the United States for export from the ports of the United States. The statistics show that of the $270,000,000 worth sent both ways during the past six years at least $100,000,000 worth was in Canadian prod nets exported via phrts of the United States. YELLOW FEVER NOTES. • _ Governor Perry, of Florida, Georgia, tele¬ graphed to Governor Goidon, of to ascertain if there was any truth in tht report of the proposed conference with Governor Goidon, of Georgia, with a view of putting on a strict reply quarantine that he at Waycross, and received a is that had not heard of it. The fact Waycross sent back several carloads ot passengers and baggage on Sunday, hav¬ ing ordered a strict quarantine op through traffic of every kind. This hems Jacksonville in on every hand. The only way of egress is to go to Bou¬ logne quarantine camp, remain ten days, an 1 upon the certiticate of health be re¬ leased tree to go where one chooses. The Jacksonville board of health, re¬ scinded its order, and will now publish There names and addresses of the sick. is great satisfaction - and relief at this decision. The city looks more desolats than ever. Fully 15,000 people have left it. The quarantine is complete, with scores of hospitable cities in Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, and the Carolinas swinging their gates, wide open; not a person iu Jacksonville is permitted Great to set foot upon prevails, an outgoing and there car. has been ex¬ citement some talk of tearing up the Savannah, Florida and Western tracks, the argu¬ ment being that if that road refuses to take passengers out, the citizens may very properly refuse to let cars come in. Pre-ident Mitchell, of the Jacksonville Board of Health, is in favor of giving the widest publicity to all news, but it seems that newspapers are not held m much esteem by one or two others. If these concealed cases are yellow fever, then some one is criminally responsible. exact If not, the public should know the facts in the matter, for concealment and the loss of confidence would create a panic that would be very pernicious in us effects. It is suggested as an explan¬ ation of the action of the papers in sup¬ pressing the names of the victims, that, as the aristocracy were catching it, they did not like their names mingled with canaille —Tom, Dick and Harry. The Savannah, Florida & Western Railway has reduced the number of its trains in and out of Jacksonville to the minimum. The train leaving Jackson¬ ville at 5 p. m. has been discontinued till further notice. The train formetly arriving in Jacksonville at 8 a. m. has also been discontinued. As soon as yel¬ low fever broke out in Jacksonville, Mr. George W. Haines, superintendent of the Brunswick & Western Railroad, whose headquarters is in Brunswick, set out for that place to look after the em ployes there. Two days ago he started back but was stopped at Waycross by the quarantine inspectors. He appealed tel¬ to the Brunswick board of health by egraph, but that body would not waive any of the fifteen duys at have quarantine. the of¬ Mr. Haynes telegraphed to be moved fice of the system that can temporarily transferred to Waycross. The Spanish steamship Castella, the first of the cotton fleet known naocean tramps, arrived at quarantine at Charleston, 8.C., from Havana. At a meeting of the board of health a resolution was adopted prohibiting all vessels from .feverin fected points to come to that city until - * after November, and that the Castella should be quarantined for fourteen days. Two passengers from Live Oak, near Jacksonville, were captured in Charles leston, having run the blockade. They were at once sent over to the lazaretta, where they will be kept fourteen days. The board of health of Brunswick, Ga., refused to let the Mallory line steamships run in their vessels there until after they have been quarantined times in twenty the days and fumigated three meantime. GOVERNMENT RELIEF. Information has just been received at Jacksonville, Fla,, from J. H. Stevens, agent of the Savannah; Florida & Western Railway, that the United States Govern¬ ment has chartered a train from the road and will run it daily from Jacksonville to Boulogne, leaving Jacksonville at about 1:30 p. m., each day. Passage to the camp will be provided by the government free, the only requisite being certificates from the board of health as to freedom from disease. Passengers must, howev¬ er, satisfy the board that they intend go¬ ing there simply for quarantine purposes. Alter a period of ten days, during which the passenger is kept at the government’s expense, he is discharged and may go on to any part of the country at will. THE CROPS, Reports from Arkansas, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina and South Carolina indicate that the weather has been favotable to a 1 crops. High winds and heavy rains-did considerable dumage to growing crops in Louisiana and Mis sissipi. High winds also damaged corn in Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana, Penn¬ sylvania, Ohio and New Jersey. But the at.endiDg rains will improve the crops.__ STOPPED, Orders were given out on Monday tc contractors to stop work on the Duluth, South Shore and Atlantic extension tc West Superiors. That road has made an agreement to use the Northern Pacific tracks. The immediate cause of this is on account of President Cleveland’s re¬ taliatory message, as the South Shore is entirely owned by the Canadian Pa¬ cific. A JOKE. The French police have received in structions to discover the authors of an ingenious political trick, which consist defacing the coins of Napoleon IH, and sunstituting the name of Boulanger b Empereur, with the date .888. f NO. 27. WASHINGTON, D. <J. - BUSY TIMES STILE, IN THE NA¬ TIONAL CAPITOL. ' CONGRESS IN SESSION YET—MOVEMENT* OF PRESIDENT AND MRS. CLEVELAND— WHO ARE GETTING FAT SLICES. CONCJREMIONAI,. In the Senate on Monday, the resolu- 1 tion heretofore offered by Mr. Stewart, calling for copies of reports, affidavits and communications, on which the com¬ missioner of the general land office basi d his letter to Mr, Barnes on the subject of timber depredations, was taken up and discussed.....The Speaker laid before from the House a number of telegrams absent members, asking for an extension Their of leaves on account of sickness. requests were complied with. Unde* the call of states, the following resolu¬ tion etc. was introduced and referred: Requesting the President to communi¬ cate to the House copies of all communi¬ cations addressed by his direction to the government of Great Britaian remonstra¬ ting with that government against wrongs and unfair treatment of citizens by the action of the Canadian govern¬ ment in ret unding to vessels and cargoes which pass through the Welland and other Canadian canals, nearly the entire tolls if they are destined to Canadian ports, while those bound for American! ports are not allowed any such advantage i and against the breach of the treaty o( 1871, whereby Great Britain promised the t d the United States equalLv The in President matter is of land Iran sport atian. also called upon for copies of any de¬ mand made by his direction upon Great Britain for redress of such wrongs, and replies of Great Britain to such commun¬ ication and demands. Mr. Hooker, of Mississippi, introduced a joint resolution authorizing the President for a given period, to suspend the The duty on Cotton bagging. Referred. House went into committee of the whole on the defi¬ ciency appropriation bill. (iOSSIP. Senator Call introduced in the Senate a bill to subdivide the internal revenue collection district of Florida, and mak¬ ing a sub-district of Key West. Judge Stewart received a petition signed by 800 citizens of DeKalb county, - Ga., asking for the removal of the pres-< ent postmaster at Dunwoody. The President sent to the Senate the nomination of George W. Preston, of Georgia, to be Indian agent at the Mis j sion Tulc river ageuej', California. A member of the conference committee on the sundry civil bill states that Sena¬ tor Brown’s amendment well appropriating the Au¬ $10,000 for an artesian at gusta, Ga., arsenal has been agreed to. Health Officer Townsend, of Washing¬ ton, and Surgeon General Hamilton, held a conference in regard to the yellowr train fever epidemic, and decided that a inspection service should be in organized that city to inspect all tinins arriving from infected points. The House committee on invalid pen¬ sions took up the bill granting Sheridan. n pension of $5,000 to the widow of Gen. The bill had been referred to ft sub-corat mittee oi one, consisting of Morrfll, of Kansas, who recommended that the amount be fixed at $2,000 per annum. fix it Judge Yoder, of Ohio, moved to at $8,500, the amount recommended the Senate committee. This was adopt¬ ed, and the bill was ordered to be report¬ ed with the amount placed at $3,500. FATAL EXPLOSION. The paper mill owned by George Whiting, situated on the island between Neenah and Mehnsba, Win., was de¬ stroyed by fire. While the burning _ struct¬ ure was surrounded by a crowd of spec¬ tators the battery of boilers exploded. The roof and wails were thrown out, sending a shower of bricks and timbers among the spectators. Eighteen fatally injured per¬ sons were killed and seven and a number seriously hurt, several of whom will die. A Very Confiding Hostess. [From the Buffalo Courier.] A gentleman who was invited out to dine at a Dele ware-avenue residence lately observed that the chandelier over the dining room table was of peculiar light construction, so that there was a over the head of each guest. The globes were of various colors, some amber, some red and some blue. “What is the object of having the globes of his of different colors ?” the guest asked hostess, “Why, you see,” said she, “when one gives a dinner or tea one must Invite some people whom one perfectly hates. and Now last Tuesday I gave a supper, I had to invite two women whom I de¬ spise. But I had to invite them or some of the young men I wanted wouldn’t come. I bad my revenge on my fair en¬ emies, however. I placed each of these two women under one of those pale blue lights at the table. They’re but usually tinder con¬ that sidered beautiful women, light they had the most ghastly look you ever saw, They were perfect aged 20 scarecrows. the They seemed to have years minute that they sat down, The men noticed it, of course, but they did not divine what caused it. awfully They glum were at qtiite taken aback and first. But finally one of them turned with a sigh and began talking to a real homely little thing that was sitting un¬ der a ruby-colored light. Why, she was perfectly charming under it. So you see that when I want people to look jser feetly hideous I put them under the blue lights. It kills everything.” The gentleman looked up. He was under a blue light. ______