Georgia Historic Newspapers

    THE CONYERS WEEKLY
XI.
expe cted that the United States
It is at the Cincinnati
Government exhibit
Exposition will cover 40,003 square feet
of space.
jlanv kinds of campaign badges have
sprung upon the public by New
been manufacturers,the trinkets costing
York
from 1 to 25 cents.
gince the row in the Sandwich Islands
' only in
Ki n( , Kalakaua is King name.
Helms little or no power, hissa'ary hav
ing been cut down and creditors dog him
about and sue him in open court.
Recently-compiled statistics show
that the number of National banks in
the country has increased about 1000 dur
ing the past seven years, Four-fifths of
these new banks have capitals of $100,
000 or less, and about one-half started
with $50,000.
Since the 1st of December, 1887,
twenty-three young men have shot or
stabbed young women who have trifled
with their affections, and further cases
are being recorded daily. The Detroit
Free Brest thinks “it is getting to be a
serious thing to mash a young man and
then ask him if his mother knows he’s
out."
The Bureau of Education at Washing¬
ton has in hand the preparation of a
series of histories of education in the va¬
rious States. The previous work of the
Bureau of Education in this line has been
directed toward the common schools, but
in the present series higher education
will be the topic, with only incidental
reference to the earlier stages.
The Detroit Free Frets observes that
“F.dison's claim that his phonograph will
displace the stenographer is a little vivid.
Mr. L. F. Brown, who has carefully ex¬
amined the invention, says it can never
arrive at that state of perfectioa. He
says of it: ‘It is too complicated with
its rubber hose mouthpiece, its discs and
needles (I use unteclinical names) its
hearing tube ad usters aud additional
ear pieces, sound multipliers, lathe knife,
electric attachment, wax registers,
sleeves, wires, battery and weight. And
its toue is too indistinct and metallic.
If a cornet is played into it the beauty
of the music is not preserved; its repro¬
duction is like that of a ventriloquist.
The Philadelphia Nncs says that the
Philadelphia Mint cannot keep up with
the demand that is being made on it
from the South for pennies, and that tho
increase in the use of the penny in the
South has, of late, been tremendous.
According to the Atlanta Constitution,
“the action of the Georgia, Railroad
Commiss on in requiring exact change
to be given by the railroads to persons
buying tickets has, no doubt, much to
do with the increase in the use of pen¬
nies in this State. They are used now
in merchandise in this and other States,
where a few years ago they could hardly
be pas-ed. This is a good sign, and it
will be found beneficial to the South i£
the penny comes into as general use here
»s it is in the North.”
The single span bridge wh’ch is to be
thrown across the Hudson river at New
York will be a grand piece of engineer,
ing work, says the Times-Democrat, and
will be 140 feet in the clear above high
water. Among those interested in the
scheme is Mr. Henry Flad, President of
the Board of Public Improvements of the
City of St. Louis, who was intimately
connected with Captain Eads in the con
struction of the St. Louis bridg i, and
was formerly President of the American
Society of Civil Engineers. Another of
the incorporators is Captain James An¬
drews, who built the piers of the St.
Louis bridge and the works at the Jetties
of the Mississippi river. He is the sue
lessor of Captain Eads in the ship rail¬
way project. 1'he other incorporators
are well known manufacturers and capi
talists of New York City.
• A. Forbes, a Chicago lad of six
ee o, about three months ago bought
se 'eial thousand bushels of wheat at
-eveaty six cents. The market went his
'•ay aD Q wheat climbed up to ninety
cents. Forbes closed his trade at that
price, clearing, as he told his friends.
§115,000. Had he stopped there all
' V ° Uld been right; but he didn’t.
ne taste of the excitement of the pit
was Uo ^ en °ugh. He went in again, this
.
1 ffle to make a colossal fortune. He
f°«ght bttle heavily. The market fell. Little
“J he lost what he had won. He
became panic-stricken and held back
sued margins. Attachments were is
found. against h;m, but nothing was
He owes, it is sa d, about $30.
000. ¥ 18 thought that he has trans
j Bo^d J ' S Pr pert
" ° y to hri mother. The
Trade men are very see at be
*"« by a mere boy.
CONYERS. GEORGIA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1888.
THE SOUTH.
CONDENSED FACTS, ARRANGED
IN READABLE SHAPE.
LIGHTNING PLAYS HAVOC EVERYWHERE—
COTTON STATISTICS—SUICIDES—RAIL¬
ROAD CASUALTIES, ETC.
Alabamn.
Mayor Lane, of Birmingham, has de¬
clared a quarantine against Atlanta, Ga.,
and instructed the officers to rigidly en¬
force it. No person who has been in
Atlanta within twenty days will be al¬
lowed to enter or pass through the city.
The mayor notified the officers of the
Georgia Pacific Railroad that no train
crews from Atlanta would be allowed to
enter that city, and no crew from this
city could go to Atlanta and return. The
quarantine was declared on account of
the number of Florida refugees now in
Atlanta, and the fact that they continue
to arrive there. It was a so reported on
Thursday that there were two cases ol
yellow fever in Atlanta.
< • Hvgln,
The qiiaran ine of Savannah against
Black-slit ar has been raised.
William Hall was arrested in Catoosa
county, ou a charge of stealing a church
bell Irom one of the churches in Chat¬
tanooga. He waived the iu cessary ft r
malities in secur ng requisition papers,
and was taken to Chattanooga and landed
in jail.
The digests from all the comities in
the stale have been received at the
Comptroller General’s office, at Atlanta,
and the property in the aggregate re¬
turned by the 137 counties in Georgia
sum include up $337,863,331. But this do.s not
the property returned by tho tax¬
able railroads in the state, which will
aggregate $29,000,000. This makes
Giorgia’s property return foot up the
snug from sum of $350,863,331. The digests
all of the counties show a net in¬
crease over last year of $11,358 002, and
the net gain in railroad ptoptrly returned
will amouut to $4,000,000, which runs up
the aggregate net increase for the last
fiscal year to $15,258,003. In nine years,
in Georgia has gained about $120,000,000
taxable property on the digest, and
$20,000,000 in taxable railroad property.
iAOiifalatiR.
Cotton planters from different parts of
Tie Alexandria section are discouraged at
the crop prospects. Some complain of
worms, and of rain washing off the poi¬
son. All say that in the bottom crops
bolls are rotting and the seed in open
cotton is sprouting, and that the crop
will be cut off not less than forty pel
cent.
niisstasippi.
The following older of the state board
of health was promulgated Tiiur»day: and went into
opu th n on “On account
of the increase of the yellow fever at
Jacksonville, Fla., it has in the opinion
of the executive committee of the state
btaidof health, become necessary to
adopt more siringent measures for the
protection of this state. It is therefore
oidired that ou and after this date, no
person will be permitted to enter the
si ate unless they possess a certificate from
a health officer that they have not been
exposed to yellow fever.”
North Carolina.
William Fletcher, of Durham, and J.
W. Geodson were returning from a hunt
in a buggy, and in front of the house of
the father-in-law of Fletcher, the buggy
became uncoupled, and the front wheels
pulled out, throwing the front of the
buggy to the his ground. under Fletcher his had and the the
muzzle of gun arm,
jar earned the gun to explode, and the
entire contents entered his body. Death
soon followed.
At Lumberton, Richard D. Johnson
was on Thursday convicted of bigamy,
and sentenced to five years at hard labor
in the penitentiary. Johnson had three
wives, some living at no great distance
from each other, but it turns out that he
is a regular polygamist. conviction, He that now he con- has
ftsses, since his
fifteen wives. He declares that when
ever he changes his residence, and this
was of frequent occurrence, he remarried,
and he declares that he always found it
cheaper to marry than to move a family.
Rev. Dr. Fordycc M. Hubbard was
found dead by his bedside at his home in
Raleigh. He was kneeling in a posture
of prayer. He was 80 yeats of age, and
was a native of Massachusetts, where he
married the daughter of United States
Senator Bates, of that state. Fifty years
ago he went to Newberne, N. C., and in
1849 became professor of Latin in the
state university, remaining there until
1868. He then went to New York state
as , rector of the Protestant Episcopal of his
church at Manlius. At the time
death he was preparing a school history
of North Carolina for the state.
At Carthage, M. N. Johnson, a lead ing
merchant, committed suicide. He com¬
plained of being unwell in the morning
and quit work and went to two stores, at
each of which he purchased an ounce of
laudanum. He then went to the resi¬
dence where he boarded and retired to
his room. He ate hearty at dinner and
went to bed, saying he was not well. A
pistol shot was heard, and some school
boys, who roomed with Johnson, ran to
the room and found him dead witli a
bullet wound in his breast, just above the
heart. He drank both bottles of lauda¬
num before shooting himself.
Texas
Harrison Spencer, a colored man,
prominently identified with the labor
party at Longview, was taken from his
home late at night recently by members hanged.
of the party of his own color and
The reason assigned had for the the labor crime was
that Spencer left party.
Florida.
M. A. Cawthon, a prominent citizen of
DeFuniak Spvin s, died at his residence
at 1:30 o’clock Thursdiv morning. The
deceased had been suffering from an ul¬
cer for some time, and, acting under tin
advice of the best medical experts, ha<t
it removed, and was thought to be doing
well uutil died. blood-poisoning set in, from
which he
Missouri.
John Riley, an unruly and desperate of
convict, who has infrii ged the rales
(he penitentiary at Jefferson time and
again, and who has attacked shop guards
ou several occasions, met his fate on
Thuisday evening at the hands of Joseph
Gresham, a guar I in the shop of the
Gtesecke Boot and Shoe Company, at the
penitentiary. Just after the whistle had
mounded for the men to resume work
af er the dinner hour, Ril y assaulted the
guard, knocking him down, s inking him
a number of heavy blows in the face and
kicking him several times while he was
on the fl >or. After strugg ing a ft w
minutes, Gresham regained his his feet, and
drawing a revolver, shot assailant
twice.
Sontli Carolina.
Cotton is arriving at Charleston at the
rate of 3,000 bales a day. V.ery few
bales are packed with other than jute
bagging, as shippers reject all such bales
as unmerchantable.
The produce exchange, cotton ex¬
change and chamber of commerce, in
Charleston, perfected plans for establish¬
ing a steamship line to Baltimore with
close rail connection to New York from
that point.
_
THE DEADLY FLAMES
At an early hour on Sunday morning
fire broke out in the toy warehouse of
Prior, Hiigehherg Baltimore, & Co., Md. 107 Before South
Sharp street, could work,
the firemen get to an build¬ ex¬
plosion of fireworks wrecked the
ing and caused the flames to spread house with of
alarming rapidity to the drug hat
J. H. Winkilman & Co. and the
house of M. S. Levy & Co., on the north.
Scarcely had the firemen entered the ed¬
ifice occupied by the drug house when
the inside of the building seemed to sud¬
denly drop in. A terrific explosion fol¬
lowed and the immense department building had col¬
lapsed. The entire fire
by this time reached the scene,
and as the attention of the men
w r as concentrated on the building
under which their comrades were
buried, the flames had a chance to
spread, and spread they did with fright¬
ful rapidity. Iii an incredibly short
space of time the entire block, running
from Lombard to Platt streets was a
seething ma s of flame, At the drug
house the firemen worked bravely. Holes
were cut through the pavement and every
effort made to reach the imprisoned men,
but they were buried under a great mass
of brick and iron and the fierce flames
were roaring around the spot. George
Bowers, Thomas Wagner, John A.
Combs, Perry Ryan, Harry Walker,
George Kerins and Hiram McAfee were
buried in the ruins. The Aims that were
completely burned out are: Wyiis, Bus¬
ter & Co., wholesale shoe deal¬
ers; J.H. Winkilman & Co.,
drugs; Tabb Bros. & Domenick,
hardware; Prior & Co., toys; M.
S. Levi & Sons, hats; II. S. King &
Sous, hardware; Dobler, Mucige &
Co., paper; and Hirscbberg, Hol¬
lander & Co., paint probably and glisB.
The origin of the fire w.11 never
be known. No fire is used in the Prior
establishment and it is supposed spon¬ but
taneous combu-tion was the cause,
it is known that a system of electric
light ng was introduced in the building
recently, and it was only tried that niuht
and it may be that defective insulation
started the flames and the combustible
nature of the contents of the building
served as food for the destroying ele¬
ment. The fire was discovered by an
intoxicated man who stopped opposite. to rest od
the steps of a building
INDIAN FIGHT.
hands , , of , Indians . the , Lnsa) ,
Two in
Mount ins ne ir*the XJtah Goloiudo line,
engaged in a fight. The fighting was
undoubtedly between a nomadic tube
known as Pahutes, who have not been
under the ageuev protection for over ten
years and a band of Utes, who were sent
from the southern agency where the three
Ute commissioneis now are, for the pur
pose of getting the renegades, if possible,
to go to the agency and take part in i he
treaty negotiation. Several were killed.
VENGEANCE THREATENED.
Ihe United , Ireland t j j * newspaper of i
Dublin, says, that the American Senate
in rejecting the fisheries treaty gave
England a ternblo proof of the power of
retaliation of tbe greater Ire and across
the sea, whose vengeance Balfour’s coer¬
cion policy has aroused. It says tbe ar¬
rest of the Redmond brothers will incite
fresh vengeance. The paper commends
the action of the Cork band in refusing
to play the national anthem at the Irish
exhibition in London.
MUST GO,
Gov. Gray, of Indiana, lias written
again to the judges and prosecuting at
torneys of the judicial districts which are
disturbed by the White Cap outrages,
urging that increased exertions be made
to cause to be indicted all persons who
have in any way been connected with the
recent lynching*.
A a BAHEKa o a i/r-oc HAK utavrer VfcS ■
■
A heavy rain, EnVandf accompanied by a gale,
prevailed over *As doing additional
damage to crops. a result of the ex
pected shortage m breadstuffs, bakers are
raising tbe price of bread.
RELIEF AT LAST.
JACKSONVILLE TO BE RAPIDLY
DEPOPULATED.
SURGEON-GENERAL HAMILTON ISSUES AN
IMPORTANT ORDER—A TRAIN LEAVES
DIRECT FOR ATLANTA GA.—NOTES.
At a late hour on Saturday night the
Jacksonville limes-Union received the
Haines, following telegram from General Railroad, Manager
of the S., F. & W.
giving with the first authentic infoimation
reference to the government excur¬
sion train: “Savannah, Ga.. September
1.—At 8:20 p m., I received a message
from Surgeon General H -dlton asking
me to send a special of four cars for ref¬
ugees from Jacksonville to Ailanta. Bag¬
gage must be left at the Waycross fumi
ga mg station. We will endeavor to
have the train ready to leave Jacksonville
about 1:30 p. m. Please give this pub¬ As
lic notice.—II. S. Haines, G. M.”
soon as people learned this, there was
more or less bustle, especially depot as tele¬
phone messages to Waycross that were the
answered by the announcement
train had been made up and would
leave promptly at 1:30 p. m. Nearly
two hundred intending passengers had
booked their names with the secretary of
trade and it was expected that every one
of the four cars would be crowded full.
An impression had gained ground this train in
some way that, inasmuch as
had been heralded as a “government ex¬
cursion train,” under charge of the all, sur¬ and
geon-general, it would be free to
scores of people, both white and black,
were on hand two or three hours before
the departure of the train in order to take
advantage of this, aud they wefe all dis¬
appointed. There were less than forty
passengers, by actual count. Four ordi¬
nary coaches had been provided, and the
orders from Superintendent Fleming had
been to sell tickets to Atlanta only, the
cars to be locked, and no
one allowed to leave the train
at any point between Jacksonville
and the Georgia capital. No baggage
was received. Those -who had brought
it with them, expecting that it would be
taken as fur ns Waycross and there left
behind for fumigation, were doomed to
disappointment. The train orders were:
“Receive no baggage.” Not even hand
baggage was received, or wraps, back or over¬ their
coats. All had to be sent to
homes by friends or messengers. Lunch
baskets and boxes were the only ‘ ‘extras”
allowed. Orders were, that after the
train had pas-ed the tracks of the Sa¬
vannah, Florida & Western Railroad and
gone upon those of the East Tennessee,
Virginia & Georgia, the conductor was
to securely lock the car doors, and mingle
with the passengers as little as possible.
A moderate cyclone passed over Jack¬
sonville Sunday. After the vortex went
by, a gale from the southwest, accompa¬
nied by load thunder, keen flashes of
ligiitning and a heavy rainfall continuing
several hours, clearing the atmosphere
wonderfully and lowering the tempera¬
ture, washing the surface of the streets
perfectly clean, as well as carrying sev¬ had
eral hundred barielsof lime which
been scattered abroad, into the river.
“The effects of the storm,” said a lead¬
ing Cuban physician, “will probably be
excellent on the well, tending to lessen bad
mateiially the infection, but will be
on the s.ck. Unless watched with great
care many patients may have a serious
set back in consequence of the change of
the weather.”
About thirty new cases were reported
on Sunday, and but two deaths. Up to
date seventy-two have been dischaged as
cured. Summary of situation: Total
cases to date, 258; total deaths to date,
34.
, At a meeting of the Board of Health,
the following resolution was passed:
“Resolved, That from this time no up¬
holstered furniture or bedding shall be
moved from any place in the city with¬
out, permission of this Board, obtained
through M. M. Belisario, chief of the
sanitary guards. Neal Mitchell, M. D.,
Piesident of Board of Health. ’
A comm ttee of the Florida refugees
who are at present in Atlanta, Ga., went
to Xa.llabassee, Fla., and interviewed
g overnor Perry, and the governor said
^ will agk tke government to erect bar
racks at gome ava i able p oint near Jack
sonv jq e f or use by the pooler cla ses of
j at q< g onville who are unable to get away
j rom t b a t c jty. The governor received
[]le com , n jttee very courteously and gave
every indication that he felt a deep in¬
terest in everything that would in any
way Jacksonville. relieve the dreadful state of affairs
jt He promised to for do
J thm b in his power t0 arrange
lran6 ^ porta tion for refugees from Jack
a ud frora prcgen t indications he
’ d
. ffoin£f t0 suocee
INSIST ON A REDUCTION.
A delegation of the South Georgia
Melon Gi owers called on the rate com¬
mittee of the Southern Railway & Steam¬
ship association at Atlanta, Ga., to make
a formal demand for a change in rates,
etc. 4 hey say that the existence of the
melon industry depends on fairer treat
ment at the hands of the roads. They
as t for 33 per cent, reduction, fast
freights at d better cars. The committee
took the matter under advisement.
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CONSPIRATORS ARRESTED.
The Paris Gaulois has advices from St.
Petersburg, which state that another
nihilist plot has been unearthed there,
The conspirators, who bad quarters near
b« imperial palace, were raided by theipo
" llM * also 8ecured * nvmbeT
“
WASHINGTON, D. C.
BUSY TIMES STILL, IN THE NA
TIONAL CAPITOL.
CONGRESS IN SESSION YET—MOVEMENTS
OF PRESIDENT AND MRS. CLEVELAND—
WHO ARE GETTING FAT SLICES.
CONGRESSIONAL.
The Senate, on Thursday, resumed con¬
sideration of the Pre.-ideut’s retaliation
message, and Mr. George proceeded with
his speich of the day before. The Senate
then pro< eeded to the consideration of
the fortifications bill, and with the
amendments recommended by committee
on appropriations. Amendments were
agreed to as follows: Increasing from
$200,000to $500,000, the item for torpedo
and for harbor defense; increasing the 1
appropriation for innnon and carriages
from $400,000 to $500,000; inserting an
item of $100,000, for examining, testing
and experimenting with pneumatic or
other dynamite guns; increasing the $1,- ap¬
propriation fur steel for guns Lom
500,000 to $2,500,000, and inserting the
word “American” before the word “Forg¬
ings.”. ...7he Speaker laid before the
House a letter from Representative Tra¬
cey, of New York, resigning his Pacific mem¬
bership of the committees o i
railroads, and coinage, weights and
measures. Mr. Davidson, of Florida,
introduced a bill to subdivide the inter¬
nal revetuc collection distiict of Florida.
Referred. Mr. Rogers, of Arkansas,
from the committee on judiciary,, re¬ in
ported a bill authorizing writs of error
criminal cases to the United States
supreme couit. The House then went
into a committee of the whole, Mr. Dock¬
ery, of Missouri, in the chair, on the
Oklahoma bill.
GOSSIP.
R. H. Hall, son of judge appointed Hall, of Grif¬ the
fin, Ga., has been on
United States coast survey.
Robert N. Hall, of Georgia, has been
appointed a principal examiner of land
ciaims and contest, at a $2,090 salary.
The committee on foreign affairs oi
the House, are unanimous Cleveland’s in reporting retal¬
favorably ou President
iatory measures in regard to the fisheries.
Senator Brown introduced a bill to in¬
crease the pension of Boding F. McDon¬
ald, son of ex-Governor McDonald, of
Georgia, on account of wounds’ received
in the Mexican War, and from the effects
of which he is now unable to work.
Francis Matthews has been appointed
postmaster at Cerro Gordo, Holmes resigned; county,
Fia., vice A. J. Matthews, L.
Smith, at B. Longview, Jackson resigned, county, aud
vice F. Hagcrmtm, Tomoka, Volusia
Charles T. Powers, at
county, vice T. R. Byrd, resigned.
Judge Stewart reported favorably from
the judiciary committee, the bill to make
valid the deed to certain tracts of land
in Bibb county, Georgia; made and de¬
livered by Brigadier-General David Til
son, acting assistant commissioner of the
Freedman’s Bureau, to Samuel I. Gustin,
his heirs and assigns.
The House conferees on the sundry
civil appropriation bill have agreed to $80,- the
Senate amendments appropriating F1&.
000 for compiling ttic Jftcksonvuk'j y
public building, and $32,500 for a sup¬
ply steamer to run on the Gulf and East
ern coasts, but have rejected the amend¬
ments appropriating $40,000 for con
structing a light-house at the mouth of
Crooked IliveT, Fla., and $25,000 for
another at St. Joseph’s Point, Fla.
The total collections of internal reve¬
nue during the month of July were $10,-
178,599, being $82,220 more th in collec¬
tions during July, 1887. Ti e c elections
were as follows: From spivi s $5,212,
977, an increase of $3i3,082; from to¬
bacco $2,507,845, a decrease of $195,-
798; fram fermented liquors $2,409,012,
a decrease of $64,7<>3; lrom oleomarga¬
rine $41,571, an increase of $15,752;
from banks and banking $242,000, all in¬
crease; from miscellaneous objects $6,
953, a decrease of $6,355.
Chinese Bones.
The Kong Chu Company of San Fran¬
cisco has sent its agent on a tour of the
entire country to gather up the bones of
defunct Chin imen and ship them back
to their respective places of birth in the
Flowery Kingdom for interment in tlieir
family burial ground. 1 hey began op oth¬ era
tious in New Yor and Brooklyn the
er day in tho various cemeteries where
their dead have been opened given temporary the
sepulture, and having they found into graves bags,
put the dry bones
which in turn were packed in stout
boxes. They were marked in both
Chinese and English characters for their
ultimate destination in China. The reas¬
ons given for this action are founded in
the profound reverence felt by theChin
ese for their dead. During three days,
while the preparations for the trans¬
shipment are in progress, sacrifices and
festivities in honor of the dead are held
in the houses and meeting rooms of the
living Chinamen, and then their bones
are shipped with ceremonies Buch as
would accompany the return of living
relatives.
Music in Ihc Night.
Miss Ciara (retired for the night)—
“Ethel, wake up. there is tbe sweetest
music you ever heard in front of the
bouse. I just expected that Charley and
his friends would serenade us to-night!”
Miss Ethel (excited)—“Oh, Clara, drop
isn’t it lovely? Oughtn’t window we to
some flowers from the t
•bu ^‘“ DC h h C of ‘ a f ra roses “‘‘ 0 ^ w.th i f h th ^ great a \° caution;.
Vo ce ( be3ow)-“Himmel, reno lif on
rom .”_AVw York Sun.
NO. 28.
OVER THE GLOBE.
WHAT THE ELECTRIC WIRES
POUR INTO OUR EARS.
LABOR NOTES—ACCIDENTS ON SB A AND
LAND—TERRIBLE ACCIDENTS ON THE
RAILROADS—NOTED PEOPLE DEAD.
The August report of the Alexandria, 1
Egypt, condition cotton association shown exceptionally that the
of the crop is
good.
A cable lias been laid between Cuba
and Hayti, connecting Cuba with Porto
Plata, San Domiugo, Curacoa and Vene¬
zuela.
Advices from Matamoras state that the
Texas authorities on Thursday, ra sed the
quarantine against Mexico. Mexico will
raise her quarantine against Texas.
At a meeting in London, England, of the
holders of first debenture bonds of the
Alabama, New Orleans & Texas pacific
Junction Railway Company, a resolution
was passed authorizing the receiver to
borrow $100,000, with which to pur
chase second mortgage bunds of tho
Vicksburg & Meridian Railroad Com
pany.
The reply of the French government to
the note of S gnor Crispi, Italian prime
minister, announcing the Italian seizure
of Massowah, is published. It saya
France desires to avoid entering upon
irritating polemics and does not care to
prolong debate, but it is impossiole French to
avoid recalling tin fact that the
consulate, was established at Massowah
twenty-five years before date of Italian
occupation.
John Baker, while feeding a thrashing
machine, on the farm of a man by the
name of Weeks, at Guide Rock, Kan.,
was accidently cut on the hand by tho
band cutter (a boy.) He grasped the
boy and deliberately feed him into the
machine feet first. The boy’s screams
attracted the attention of the other
hands, hut be fore they could ititerf ere the
boy’s body had halt disappeared in tho
machine. The enraged men seized Ba¬
ker and hanged him to the straw carrier.
Horace Bishop, nged 15, and Charles
Applebce, aged 16, both of Branford,
Conn., while driving through that towu
on Thursday, stopped at the drug store soda
of Robinson & Toole and called for
water, which was given them. They
drove off, hut shortly after returned in a
very sick condition. Tncy were taken to
the office of Dr. Zink, where both of
them died in nbuut half an hour. An
investigation revealed the fact that tinct- _
ure of aconite had been mixed with tho
soda water instead who of made syrup. the Ilobeit fatal eri J.j
Lotta, the clerk
ror, has been arrested.
The Lass Took Beer. j
One of tlm “sample rooms” which linfl
northern side of Alabama street, wad
tho scene yesterday of an amusing inci-<
Seated at a table was a well known
New York drummer, a prominent lawyer
a prosperous shoe merchant, .these
were engaged in a pleasant of the
when in svnlked one
female soldiers of the Salvation Army.
Him was attired in the regulation under her uni
form of blue, and carried arm
a bundle of the Buttle Cry. As she v alked
along sho distributed copies of this
sheet. evidonuy rogp-rdod , as
Seeing what Hho table,
a trio of prom is ng sinners at tbe
she walked over to where the three gen¬
tlemen were drinking their beer. She
tapped the New York diuramer on the
shoulder. He looked up in ustonnsli
ment. said, thrusting .
“Take this paper,” she
a sheet into his unwilling hand.
“Thanks,” he replied. “won’t have
“Now,” said he, you a
glass of beer?” the
“Yes, sir, thank you,” was unex¬
pected astonished answer. bartender drew a glass
The handed it to the
of foaming beer and
woman in blue. She took it and tho
drummer placed a nieklo outlie conn ter.
The soldier held nt> the amber liquid
a moment aud looked at it. The lieer
was certainly tempting. What her ra
t nt was could not ho divined. lo 8
moment she settled the question, hhe
walked to tho front door and dashed the
contents of the glass into the street.
Then she began to preacli a temperance
sermon. mad amt would ,,
But the drummer was mad,
not hear her; and the others were
too the New York
She left the place as three more
3rummer said, “give Constitution. us
beers .’’—Atlanta
He Sized Him Up.
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Cai;uy. —“I’d take you up for a ninny
and set you down for a fool!”— Texas
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