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THE CONYERS WEEKLY VOL. XI. L city of London expends more r ^15,000,0°° every year in caring the p oo? ! ausnension bridge between been New de L an d Jersey City has practicable by United States as fncers. ie President of the Imperial Academy >ekin has undertaken, by command he Emperor, to translate “Hamlet” Chinese. Le underground system length of railways of jondon, L England, nearly has three-quarters a over of miles, U are absolute tunneling. f A picture, thought to be a Rembrandt, once in possession of La Fitte, the bus Dirate of the Mexican gulf, has come ' to light in a squalid cabin out tansas City, Mo. merican orchardists must soon meet, lounces the American English Agriculturist, markets of [competition in le g r owers in Australia and Tasman a. ! imports of choice apples from these er points has already increased to li an extent as to affect British fruit ivers. is proposed to irrigate the arid re !S of Idaho. Snake River, with the of a 200 mile canal, will, they assert, rate 10,000,000 acre3 at a cost of 10 per acre, A writer, describing region, says, boastingly: “Here are grander than Niagara, grand cliffs canyons, immense caves and craters, nta'ns and lakes.” In English built collier, expected jrtly at Rochester, N. Y., competitor is looked bn [ as being a dangerous the honor ot being the biggest steam tier navigating fresh water. Her hull |f iron and she has a capacity of from |0 to 2200 tons of coal. She Chicago, will ply ween Charlotte, Detroit, [luth, and other points on the upper es in the coal-carrying business. ^ | new profession has been started in Louis, that of solicitor of marriages I the Justice of the Peace. A great [ny people procure marriage licenses P do not know exactly where to go to re the ceremony performed. Then I solicitor steps forward, arranges the [ole [tain matter satisfactorily and gets a percentage out of the Justice’s for his trouble. It is a queer busi¬ es, [y but, unfortunately, does not pay well as yet. There is in a Southern insane asylum I eight-year-old boy who has never en awake since the hour of his birth. ! was the child of a paralytic mother, d has delicate features and a high, life forehead, with long, black curls, p arm is not larger than an ordinary in’s thumb. He lies on his bed year ter year, taking no note of anything »t passes. Twice a day he is aroused 0'agh to take a little nourishment, and en relapses into sleep. [England, [unties, has especially been suffering in the midland from a severe Pgue of small green caterpillars. To hlk ia the woods means to have dozens [the [d it little is pests falling down one’s neck, ^respondent a relief, cables a London of the New York Sun, to [wthat them has certain been means of putting an end unearthed from a news [per It upon of 1312. the A gardener of that period pars means of taking the eater by kindness. In each of his Bested bushes he put warm p’eces of pollen rag at sundown. The cater¬ ers crawled for shelter to the comfort »le woollen, and in the morning were ten and shaken into the fire by thou D< b- The same plan has been success Hy adopted by persecuted British rmers. '-elwjnn Taylor, a mining engineer 1 coal expert of Pittsburgh, thinks Jural gas is giving out. He says: L P | be two years at furthest coal lands red selling for what they were con¬ F e worth before natural gas was Fought of. This will be due largely to ailtue of the gas fields to supply the Panels made upon them. Gas, like 1; will ia time exhaust itself. New s Ws may R e opened, but taking all in ~ the outlook for coal 3 was se a”i Ul “ nt large smce natural fields gas came in ,,, 3rra iUe gas are playing nrl 4 all ii ? sy has seen its best days, b the wells in the alleys Beaver and Ohio are going. The prospects for rids lar S e enough to take their ° f total failu place in L. means. re are not bright by The big natural gas com «™a ret0! ?“ ,h,s “ * .nd .re ie?? or makin S thousands g fuel. of debars on a pro iific-ant. gas This is sig eean my two years will aend to natural gas as fuel.” CONYERS. GEORGIA, FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 21, 1888. SOUTHERN STRAYS. A CONDENSATION OF HAPPEN¬ I INGS STRUNG TOGETHER. j MOVEMENTS OF ALLIANCE MEN—RAIL¬ ED AD CASUALTIES—THE COTTON CROP —FLOODS—ACCIDENTS—CROP RETURNS. Alabama. Governor Seay, has appointed W. A. Austin judge of probate of Elmore coun¬ ty, to fill the vacancy caused by the re signment of John A. Lancaster. The town of York, a town of 200 peo¬ ple, on the Alabama Great Southern Railroad, near the Mississippi line, has quarantined against the world. No pas¬ senger from any point will be allowed to get off at that point. Armed guards meet every train, and no amount, of health certificates will enable a passenger o stop there. Georain. Augusta will levy a tax of 1 per cent, in order to get the city in shape for the Exposition. Mr. Robert II. Richards, a prominent business man of Atlanta, died of heart disease while on a visit to Asheville, S. C. Henry Kennedy, a carpenter, of Au¬ gusta, Supervisor Farmer of the Port Royal Railroad, -Higgins, and Mr. Williams, a boatman, and an unknown the man and woman were drowned in recent floods. The Georgia Railroad ran eight en¬ gines and loaded cars on its bridges across the canal at Augusta to keep them from being spept away by the flood. The bridges gave way under the exces¬ sive weight and several wrecked engines is the result. A cold-blooded murder was committed in Atlanta Saturday night. A colored with man named Si Campbell, quarreled when his wife late in the afternoon, and the womau had retired for the night, and was sound asleep, Campbell deliberately placed the muzzle of a pistol close in to rapid the woman’s face and fired twice succession, killing her instantly. Louisiana. New Orleans is discussing a belt line railway scheme, intending to build a grand union depot, into which all trains can run. As it is now, the traveler who passes through New Orleans has to make a transfer, and the belt line and union depot is intended to do away with this. An awful crime was perpetrated Breaux Bridge. Friday night, when a gang, supposed to be composed of five members (so far unknown), attacked a negro cabin, and shooting through the wals, mortally wounded a colored womau, who died a few hours afterwards. From there they went to another cabin where they outraged colored women, and then whipped a colored man. The negroes have made no affidavit as yet. The white population are very much ex¬ cited over the matter, and resolutions were adopted pledging declaring protection to the colored people, and that the perpetrators of the outrage shall be pun¬ ished. North Carolina. At Charlotte, Sunday, a daring incen¬ diary set fire to the ice factory, and but for quick work the building and ma¬ chinery would have been destroyed. The factory had been idle since August 1st. The incendiary had used quantities of rosin, cotton waste and shavings to start the tire. Fire broke out at Beaufort Sunday and spread rapidly, burning the sheriff’s of¬ fice and three other and buildings on Turner street; Handlers Hou^e, on Dicken¬ son street, and a two-story house occu¬ pied by colored people. The Winfield Chadwick building was partially burned. Loss about $10,000 with very little in¬ surance. The weekly weather crop bulletin, of the North Carolina weather service, says that on account of the excessive rainfall, reports as to crops are the worst ever re¬ ceived, not one is in the the least favora¬ ble, save those as to rice. Rot and black rust are effecting cotton. Tobacco is growiug green and cannot ripen before frost in many cases in Durham, Person, Orange and Granville counties. A white man named Clauduas Parish, of White eounty, was before a justice of peace Saturday charged with com¬ mitting an assault on his twelve-year-old daughter. After hearing the evidence of the child, her mother and brother, which was conclusive, Palish was com¬ mitted to jail. The case caused a de¬ cided sensation. Parish was brought here quietly to escape lynching in hi3 own section. Virglnin. A wreck occurred two miles east of Waynesboro, on the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad, on Thursday, which delayed trains nine hours. A misapprehension of train orders led to a collision between the east bound mail and a freight train. Steps have been taken for the construc¬ tion of an electric line of cars from Rich¬ mond to the historic battlefields of Seven Pines or Fve Oaks. The distance is seven miles, thousands of old Union soldiers visit the field annually from Richmond, at a large expense. This line will minimize the cost of the little trip. The directors of the Atlantic & Danville railroad have secured the money necessa¬ ry to complete the line to Danville. Texas. State Health Officer Dr. Rutherford, who was at Galveston on Sunday, de clared a strict and absolute quarantine offi against New Orleans. Quarantine cer Blount, at that point, was notified to quarantine against all vessels coming to that port from New Orleans, and a similar railroads. embargo has been placed upon j Eolith Carolina. The breaking out of yellow fe ver at Hendersonville; has created considerable consternation at Charleston, Henderson vilie being the Summer Charlestonians, resort or a large Im number ot wealthy mediately on receipt of the news of fever at that place the mayor issued orders quarantining, it and this complicates mat¬ ters, as many women and children were on their way home, having run from the fever. No person from Hendersonville or any place in that vicinity is allowed to come to the city now without certificates. Reports from all sections of the State continue to be of the gloomiest kind as regards the crops. One of the strangest and most serious causes of the damage to the cotton is the sprouting in the bo.Is, a feature which has heretofore been com paratively unknown m the annals of cot ton planting. It seems that a good deal of cotton was open when the rams began about September first. The continuous rain prevented picking, and the open bolls had to be left in the fields. The seeds in the bolls are now beginning to sprout, rendering the cotton useless for marketer any other purposes. Sprout¬ ing is reported from almost every section of the state, and what promised in Au¬ gust to be the largest crop of cotton ever produced in this state looks now to be in a very bad condition. Tennessee. Henry Williams, a star route mail car¬ rier, was arrested at Jacksboto and brought to Knoxville on a charge of ri¬ fling registered letters. J. F, Lewis, of Nashville, has volun¬ teered to go to Jacksonville as a nurse to wait upon yellow fever patients. railroad authori¬ He was furnished a pass by the ties and left on his mission of mercy. Jim Shackleford, a farmer living on Dog Branch, whipped his twelve-year-old daughter to death. He had ordered the child, to bring a bucket of water from a spring, and because she did not come as quickly as be thought she should, he seized a piece of plank and brutally beat her so that she died after a few days. THE COTTON CROP, The report of the Department of Ag¬ riculture at Washington, D. O., makes the average condition of cotton 88.8, a decline of three and a half points since the last report. The^general average is slightly higher than in 1887 and 1886, when it stood at 82.8 and 82.1 respect¬ has ively. The decline, while slight, been general throughout the belt, except in North Carolina and Tennessee, where more seasonable weather has resulted in a slightly improved condition, Local damage has resulted in the Carolinas from both Giuuili and excess of moisture, the rainfall during the month being un evenly distributed. Rust is general drouth throughout Georgia, and with the and shedding of bolls has seriously re¬ duced the condition. Alabama has suf¬ fered from heat and drouth and in some sections the month closes with . appre¬ hensions of damage from excessive and continuous rainfall. A decline in Mis¬ sissippi and Louisiana is the result of a marked excess of moisture during the last two weeks of August, The severs storm which swept over these states on the 19th and 20th prostrated the plants, and continuous rains have beaten out the bolls and caused some rotting. The crop in Texas was beginning to suffer for moisture when tho rains of the latter part of the month came, seasonable over the greater part of the state, breaking the threatened drouth and arresting the decline in the condition which had se in. In Arkansas the average has been lowered by locally unfavorable seasons, drouth in some sections and exces.-ive moisture, especially toward the close of the month, in others, causing a reduc¬ tion. The month was favorable in Tennes¬ see; seasons good, and but little com¬ plaint of rust. State averages of condi¬ tion are: Virginia 84, North Carolina 84, South Carolina 83, Georgia 85. Flor¬ ida 90, Alabama 87, Mississippi 88, Lou¬ Ten¬ isiana 79, Texas 78, Arkansas 87, nessee 95. The crop is generally by somewhat late and picking delayed and unfavorable weather. Caterpillars mentioned, boll worms are frequently vigorously and doing damage where not fought. The first is found most fre¬ quently in Georgia, Alabama and Louisi¬ ana, while the latter is noted chiefly in Texas, It will of course, be understood that this report relates to the status on the first day of September. THE G. A. R. The 22d annual encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic was held at Columbus, Ohio, and lasted three days. Nearly 200,000 people attended, and the parade display. of 70,000 lYm. veterans was a magnificent commander Warner,of Mo., was chosen as for the ensuing year. An invitation from the state of Georgia and city of Atlanta for the next meeting, to be held in Atlanta, was re¬ ceived with great favor, but as it had been practically promised decision to Milwaukee, Wis., changed; for 1890, that could not be however, an agreement was made that the 24th encampment will be held in Atlanta. It goes wilhout saying that Ailantians will put forth some noble efforts to make it one of the grandest affairs that has ever taken place in the South. CIRCUS ACCIDENT. A Cincinnati bound freight train h- av ily laden, dashed at full Epeed into John Robinson’s circus train, which wa- stand ing at Corwin station, Ohio, The ca boose at the rear of the circus train was s lit in two and four sleepers ahead of it telescoped. No damage occurred to the animals of the circus proper, which were in long trains ahead of the sleepers-, Four men were killed and eight- e-n wounded. THE WORLD OYER. INTERESTING ITEMS BOILED DOWN IN READABLE STYLE. THE FIELD OF LABOR—SEETHING CAUL¬ DRON OF EUROPEAN INTRIGUE—FIRES, ! SUICIDES, ETC.—NOTED PEOPLE DEAD. | j It hag been discover ed that Directoi ; Putin of the secret police of St. Peters | burg, Russia, is in the pay of bandits and of thieves and has received a heavy trib j ute from tne proceeds of their robberies, j Political correspondence at Vienna, ga tbe negotiations between Russia and (j le yaticau for the establishment of diplomatic relations have Pobiedonesteff, collapsed, ow« j n „ tbe opposition of procudator of the holy synod in Russia, of the Polish clerical authorities in Aus tria and of the ultramontane cardinals in ; jj ome Bitter feeling has been engendered at Pittsburg, Pa., over the establishment of a parochal school by the Catholics in the first ward public school building. j Seven Protestant ministers denounced Catholocism from their pulpits on Sun¬ day. Arrangements were made for mass meetings in that city and also in Alle¬ gheny to protest against religious the use of public school buildings for purposes. T. J. McGuire and Samuel Remer, em¬ ployed in a South Omaha, Neb., packing¬ house, engaged in a beef-skinning con¬ and test. The match was for $50 a side the gate receipts, Two dead beeves were brought in, and when time McGuire was called, both men set to work. subject first, removed the skin from his doing tho job in four minutes and fifty two seconds. Remer’s time was five minutes. A strange malady has affected the vil¬ lagers of Franklin Park, N. J. About four weeks ago a sailor named Garrett son returned from a trip along the Southern coast, and soon after his return was stricken down with a disease which the doctors called ship fever. He died. Within a few days a number of those attending the funeral were stricken dowti with the same disease, and in 1 he past and three weeks six others have died, now there are a number sick with the fever, many of whom, the doctors say, will die. Counterfeit five and one-dollar bills are being extensively circulated in New York. The sub-treasury officials say they are so skilfully executed that they would deceive almost every one unless carefully scrutinized. The paper in the five-dollar bill is a trifle thicker than it should be, and the head of Gen. Grant, which adorned the bill, is somewhat rougher and less evenly executed than cn the genuine bill. The one-dollar coun¬ terfeits : the paper is more nearly like the genuine paper, but the same defect is in the head of Martha Washington as in the head of Gen. Grant. A Roman cablegram to the New York Catholic News announces that the decree of the holy office on the Knights of La¬ bor question, favorable forwarded to that organiza¬ Cardinal tion, has been to Gibbons. It will be remembered that in April, 1887, his holiness, concurring with ideas set forth in a letter of Cardinal Gibbons in favor of the knights, decided that there was no cause for action. The Pope also decided that in Canada, where a mandament had been issued against knights, members of the order could re¬ ceive absolution on promise of obedience to future decisions of the holy see. The matter having been placed before the holy office, th.s decree is the result. It settles for good the question as far as Rome is concerned,—provided, and aims of of course, the that the constitution or¬ der remain the same. THE CAPTAIN WEAKENED, The Norwegian hark Nor arrived in port at New York, having picked A. An¬ up and brought back Capt. William drews and his cockle-shell dory the Dark Secret, who was supposed to have been been swamped. lie und his boat were taken on board in latitude 46, 18; longi¬ tude 39, 50, about fifty miles more than half way across the ocean. Skipper An¬ drews is as brown a3 an Indian and as chipper as a cricket, He said: “I was just two months and one day alone in my little boat. In that time I spoke four to twenty-two vessels, but saw only sails. I hadu’t tasted a morsel of warm food or drunk a cup of hot coffee in all of that time, because my alcohol stove got full of water. I took one hundred bottles of Ilygeia distilled water with me, but it was all gone. August 19th I spoke the Nor, and asked her captain for pork and water. He was willing enough hut he looked me over and declared I was a fool if I didn’t come aboard and go back.to New York. So I didn’t need much coaxing to get me to abandon the trip and return, especially as I had bad some trouble with sharks.” A STRAGE BET. Two Swedish farmers named Ole Jobn son and Hans Erickson, of Nebraska City Neb., made a strange bet on the presidential election. A written agree¬ ment was drawn up and placed m the hands of a prominent business man According to its terms, in the event of Cleveland’s election, Mr. Johnson for¬ feits to Mr. Erickson his wife, Johnson to have and to hold against the lawful claims of any and all persons whatsoever. If, on the other hand, General Harrison is elected, the agreement stipulates that Mr. Johnson shall receive from Mr. Erickson one Jersey cow, valued at $50. All the parties to the wager are in earn est, including Mrs. Johnson who ex¬ presses a hope that Cleveland will be re elected. THE FEVER. One featuro of the epidemic at Jack sonville during the past week is the fre¬ quency with which it has attacked phy sicians and clergymen and other active w-orkers in the cause of the sick and suf¬ fering. Drs. C. J. Burroughs and C. II. Mallet't were both prostrated on Thurs¬ day, and Dr. Daniel gave up and went to bed on Friday. The ranks of the clergymen have been thinned, but all who are sick give signs of early recovery. The condition of Rev. J. B. Bickrell is not so hopeful as could be. wished, but has not as yet become critical. Bishop Edwin G. Weeds is still well and doing good work at all times and places, Bishop Moore and the Rev. Father Ken ny (recently recovered) are both active m tne work of nursing charity, and may be seen at almost any hour of the e.ay en gaged in the noble mission of relief to t e suffering. Just about enough new doclors have come in to fill the local va c ncics caused by sickuis?. More are n eded. The following temporary as- H. signmenls have been made by F. Caldwell, who has charge of the medical corps. Dr. A. W. Knight will lake the territory east of Market to East Jack sonville; Dr. Clay will take La villa, north of Beaver street, snd Hansomtown; Dr. Donc-hue, of Cary ville, Fla., will take Campbtll’s addi tion, Fairfield and Oakland; Dr. George C. Mathews and Dr. Eddy, of St. Louis, will take Lavilla, south of Bean street; Dr. Vahoo, of Ocala, will take charge of East Jacksonville,with headquarters at Dr. Fairlie’s drug store. I)r. Bryant, of Ilouston, and Dr Shetral,of Savannah has been assigned to the district bounded by Clny street, on West Marked street on the east, and Springfield and Hansom town on the north. There is room at St. Luke’s hospital to accommodate thir teen more patients, and the hospital is now in excellent condition. Six private desire rooms, suitable to patients who isolation, are vacant and they are neatly furnished and most comfortable apart jnents. Dr. Sollnce Alitcliell says he has thirty patients now at the Sandhills and nmpfo accommodation He for sixty to or seven- out ty more. proposes move and make his home there until the frost puts an end to his labors. Dr. Porter received the following tele¬ gram: Camp Perry, September 10.— Dr. S. Y. Porter, Jacksonville: ‘‘Suggest to the people coming here that they may and bring sheets, pillow cases and towels, get them some evening after fumigation. fresh No pillows. Will fill cases with pine straw.r—Hamilton.” Saturday’s weather was somewhat pleasanter poured scorching as no rain fell, but a hot sun rays down without mercy and exhalation arising could be s en line thin mist. “This is yellow fever weather,” said a doctor, “and you may now look for a large increase in the number of cases, but it is a great relief for the sick, and that we think good.” THE CROP BULLETIN. The weather crop bulletin, issued from by the signal office, says that reports the corn belt, including Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, and Nebraska, indicate that the weather during the past Week has been especially favorable, and that the corn crop, which is very large, is generally secure and past injury from frost. The frosts which occurred during j the week along the northern border of Iowa and in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan did some damage to the grow¬ ing crops. Over the west portion of the cotton region, including Alabama and Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas, Louis¬ iana and Texas, favorable weather dur¬ ing the week greatly improved all grow¬ ing crops, and cotton picking is in progress in all these States. In Norlh and South Carolina all growing crops and arc seriously injured by heavy rains dangerous floods. The weather during the week was especially favorable for tobacco in Kentucky and Tennessee. The weather in New England and the middle Atlantic States was generally unfavor able for ripening crops, Farm work is retarded. ROYAL MARRIAGE. The marriage of the Duke of Aosta, j a brother of the Kmg of Italy, and j Princess Letitia Bonaparte was cele brated at Turin, Italy, with great pomp. The civil ceremony took p ace in the grand hall of the palace in the presence of princesses of the houses of Savoy, Braganza and Bonaparte, Generals Men abrea and Della Rocea, Signor Crispi, Siguor Farini and other dignitaries. the At thc conclusion of the civil ceremony party proceeded to the chapel of the p?lace, where the religious service w as performed. Cardinal Alamonda, Arch bishop of Turin, delivered the address, i Afterward the newly wedded couple ; | went to the Aosta palace. They were escorted by about six hundred gentlemen on horseback. In the square of Victor Emmanuel the procession halted, and the kin" and queen and the Duke of Aosta j “4 hi *wa . mti “ j were accorded a popular ovation. I sort. i the right Subscriptions for the relief of the af- i dieted in Jacksonville, Fla., in one day Of in j | New Y'ork amounted to $14,331. of this amount $12,000 was the donation | °resentin“ V Mayor^Hevntt°a'$10 ,OAkT gohi j The Tramp’s Unhappy Lot. Old Gentleman (to tramp)—“I nomadic sup¬ life pose, my friend, that in the you lead, there are a great many draw UfLC ks?^ Tramp (bitterly)—“Yes, sir; there are some drawbacks, of course, but I suffei (more from “move ons.”— Time, NO. 30. NATIONAL CAPITAL __ THE WASHINGTON SOLONS GET' TING IN THEIR WORK, WHAT IS BEING DONE FOR THE ARMY AND NAVY—LIVELY DEBATES IN CONGRESS —NOTES. congressional. The Chinese exclusion bid was taken up by the Senate on Thursday and Mr. jj 0 nes of Nevada, proceeded to addtess jtfi e s en ate in favor of its immediate pas hage. Mr. Vest followed in oppositon to Mr. Blair’s motion to consider. The debate W(ls continued by Messrs. George, Blair, Butler, Morgan, Saulsbury and Harris, jt ]\j r . Blair’s amendment, as he proposed 0 modify it, was to the effect that the bill shall not tako effect until the first of November next, unless the pending treaty shall bo rejected by China before that time, but shall take effect immediately on suc b rejection, and that the president shall at once make known to the Chinese government the passage of the bill after tta agreement Senate to dispose adjourned of the bill the on Friday the In House on motion of Mr. Flourney, of Al abama, a joint resolution was passed existing ex tendinguntil October 1st the appropriations for the sundry civil ex penses of the government. The House resumed consideration of the Senate bill nmendatory to the interstate commerce 1 j aw . Mr. Anderson, of Iowa, offered an amendment, and Mr. Anderson, of Knn gas, also offered two amendments. Air. Grosvenor, of Ohio, submitted an atnend ment metking it unlawful for any com mon carrier, subject to the provisions other oi Hies act, to carry refined oils anil petroleum products, cotton seed oil and turpentine for any other shipper in tank or cylinder cars who sh ill own, lease or control the same in any manner, except shall upon the condition that said carrier cliurge the same rates of transportation and 0 f ga j d products in wooden packages barrels in car load lots as in tank or cyl inder cars; said tank and cylinder and Fa jd W ooden packages and barrels being carried free in each case, GOB81I*. The hoadquarteis of the American Na¬ tional Red Cross was established at the Riggs House with its president, Miss Clara Barton, in charge. Among tho dispatches received was one from Col. F. R. Soutlimayd, dated New Orleans, stat¬ ing: “Am off this evming with which eigh¬ teen nurse3 for Jacksonville,” makes a total of fifty Gained nurses ready for duty and in the employ of the Red Cross, all of whom are acclimated and have Mud the yellow fever. FOREST FIRES. A dispatch from Enst Saganaw, Michi¬ gan, says a fire has been burning in the woods of northern Michigan two weeks, and although several towns and valuable property have been threatened, no serious los-cs have lesulted up to this time. A disaster is reported on Saganaw, Tusko la and Huron railroad, resulting from forest fires. Ah express train, while running twenty miles an hour, ran on a piece of track beneath which the ties had burned, and the engine, express and baggage ear and two coaches left the rails and ran along the ground about two lengths of the train and the ongiue turned over iu a ditch. 'Jhe engineer, fireman and express messengers were thrown clear of the wreck and escaped the n ith biuises and burns. 'The fire on (.rack was immedciutely communicated to the coaches and the passengers and crew barely had time to run through the train arid escape by the rear conches be¬ fore every particle of wood work in the train was burned. Cutting Glass Cylinders. Several of the South side glass factor, ies are now using electricity for a novel purpose. Heretofore when they wanted to cut one of the large cylinders of wind ow 8 lass a f^ttie^Pittsbura ’ consisted of the pulling ? This ont fl . om ^e furnace of a thin shred of « „ luB8 -A } iea ted white. This was quickly end ed around the bottle-shaped through 0 f the cylinder and it burned or f rac tured, the glass. A pair of tongs had to be Med in the process . -g tbe n0W me thod the glass cyliud “ j i d with fine wire, the ex er i enc rc e a tremities of which are p - in eonnec- It tion with a small electric battery. is necessary that the wire adhere cloself t 0 the glass. When a current of electrio jty i s passed through the wire the latter becomes red hot and heats the glass beneath it. Then a single drop of water deposited on the heated place glass will cause clear a clean breakage of the around in the path of the wire, Contrary to what takes place with the thicker the sides of the cylinder are the better the cut. He Suited the Old Man. Beautiful Girl (at dog fancier’s) “Why, papa, there are no nice English ^Father-“I see; guess we have got What breed is that handsome animal, Mr. De Brute?” be¬ Experienced Dealer—ne is a cross dog, tween a bulldog and a tiger. That sir, if given the word, would swallow a dude at one (quickly)—“I’ll gulp.” take ,. him. ,, Father — Philadelphia Record.