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VOL. X. DYNAMITE'S REIGN. WILD PLOTTINGS OF THE SOCIALISTS AND ANARCHISTS. The Secret of the Cleveland Fire Buga-- PittKburg’ft Scare—Kossa Recovering— Cunningham Identified—Dyna mlten* In I’nri*. New York, Feb. s.—Mrs. Dudley has been remanded to the Tombs without bail until Rot*a may be able to appear a ainnt her. She is indifferent, and has expressed her willing ness tn take the c< nse ■;notices. She says that the fl ret shot took effe«<.and Die fired the other flvatnto the aii On account of the crowd of Ro.>sa l & friends which continually hovers around the Uham liers street hospital, where hr lx*in< cared for, Ca]>t. Phelan has been ren *ved from that to the New York hospital for safety. The physicians post frequent bulletins of Rosa's condition. The ball r.ab not been found, but he is freliiqr very well, and is able to walk about some. He will be dis 1 uirged from the hospital as soon as the ball is found. Patrick Joyce, assistant editor of the United Irishn.an. is in constant receipt of thereat en ing letters Sympathy for Mrs. Budlrv. T.oimojf. Feb. s.—Much sympathy for M re. Dudley is expressed, atid snlwTiptions have been started for her defense. Irish national ists are circulating a report that she was sent to America by the London police, and is in the pay of the English government. Cleveland's Fire Bugs. Ctfveland, 0., Feb. s.—At the time of the great hu her fires some w-x-hs ag« '■■■.. was penerallj behoved that an o*yanized ntt nipt b -lng i; .ule by someb lx < • bum the b w’.i. but no chie could be .-I to uuruvel th* mystery. The Cleveland police being w eak w inetfident, the board *’f trade took steps on ita own account, and w hat it dis covered is not yet even known to the (Cleve land police or public. The board sot aside |3,(XM) for the purjMjfe of finding the . guilty j'arties. A Pinkerton captain was brought from Chicago at $25 jx?r day and brought six detectives, who worked here for some weeks without being discovered by the Cleveland police. One of them was at one time under arrest on charge of suspicion, find soma trouble was had in getting him ch ai -it hunt confes sion us to who he was The similarity of all the fires suggested certain things, and a man who '.as d:c overed to be in to. n, rti, ’ who was L . .n to Ik- c<>nue< -1 w ith Chicago so cialists, was shadowe<l for a long tfrne. He was at. lust seen to go into a drug store and write out a prescrij ■• n which was filled. The detectivee secured it and had ft again rssde up, the result being a coloiless mi.'.c-ur* This wus applied to a door }>anel and also tn paper. It left no stain, but in half an hour began to blaze. This sug gested the methods of tl.<* man, who could easily sprinkle his liquid over a heap of rub bish or on a pile of liyjiber and be (&■<» mil« - away before the fire would break --U-. Th* man was closely watched with th*- expecta tion of seeing him in tflß at, but he in some way took alarm and lelt the city. The Pink erton men have his description, and undo;:I cdly have him under supervis ion • here ver he is. A boy who was een with him, and who was caught setting fire to a Connottqn rail road car, was placed in jail, and a detective lodg'd with him as a fellow-prisoner, but could get no confession out of him. (me of the Pinkerton force also joined a socialists lodge on the Webt Side, but nothing was dis covered that would wauant any arrests. After the suspect* d man left the town the in (•• j .l.flj y fires ceased. 'buPTiot until several million dollars’ worth of property had been destroyed. Anothri Explosion In New York. New York, Feb. s.—An explosion in De laney street square, at the foot, of Delaney Fl root, threw the people of that neighborhood Into a short lived excitement at 8:30 o’clock 1 uesday evening. Watchman Peter Wilmot who was in the vicinity, says the report was louder than any cannon he ever heard. It v.as follow'd by a rattling among the lumber piW a though caused l>i thing fragments, ff; s*i :«r». is a broad pavo.l i tace. A huge p ie of i-n’ iiu'stones bin the cent, r flanked >n one >:ide by two old boilers and on Iho other by a little unoccupied shanty. Curta and tni<'l> stand all around and there are many piles of lumber along the gutters. The fa rv buildings and storehouses and stable, a- d-.e only structures on »h, block, and the place is deserted after rhshff'll. Policemen \an Eaii-1 and Summers procured a lantern ami made a thorough search of the square. J. trace of any explosives wm foutW. Some woolen H-nns were the onlv things that seemed to le m auy way connected with the explosion. They were rcorched and smoking, though there wae no smell of powder to be detected. They resembled pieces of rag car pet in texture, and it is supposed were wrapped about the explosive materiaL I>ynunilti- Excitement In Montreal Mor rural. Feb. 5. —Some excitement has t>e> n ceuaed here by the arrest of two men having dynamite in their possession. Taken in connection with threats that have been made recently concerning public buildings here, the dynamite discovery created much consternat*>n at polio- headquarters. A full set of burglars' tools was found with one of tile men. and this set the detectives on another scent. The latter now believe the parties are members of a gang of thieves who, on Tues day night, entered a hotel at Ixmgue Point, a few n?. ; from Montreal. They carried the Iron sate a distance of three miles, apd then forced it open, taking several hundred dollars, ■with which they escaped. The safe weighed between 700 ai-d SOO pounds. The hotel keep er. his family and lioarders were asleep in the upper stories at the time the safe was taken away. Socialists Active in PI :t«>>nrg. Pittsburg, Feb. 5.-Socialists are said te have stored in this ft y arms and dynamite, and are ready for an attack < a capital. iStaub and Frick, prominent e-cialiste, refuse to talk on the subj-ct. The . rrner admitted that Carl Oberman, of New York, lias for some time beer, organizing iuternationalista here. Johann Meat, the sociaiht leader, has been in the Hocking and Mimotmg valleys and in Pittsburg in conference w ith leaders at these piints. The presen. acti .ity among socialists here i c attributable to the successful explo sions in London without detection by police. Th- -re is no need for ag, and scare, unless ar unlooked-for occasion a uses. DyiUMnfter* in Faria. PARIS Feb. s.—John Moirisey, of County Carlow, one of the a Tors in the last Londoc outrage, has arrived m Paris. He is cunsid erc'd to be a particular! .• dangerous conspin ator, long identified with the Irish revolution ary movement H* was one of the leaden whoattemp lan insurrection in 1867. The government set a price upon his head, anH the troops scoured the county £oi him. but he avoided arreet and lay hidden foi several monttß. Finally he escaped from Ire itato Bag ® land by tl*e aid of woman known as Kate. She is also In Paris. She was ronceintMi in the tower explosion. The English police have drculated her d<»scription as w ell as that < f a male companion. A species of banquet has been held here, to the outrages of the 24th of January last in Eondon. Cunningham Positively Uleutified. London, Feb. s.—('unninghain. the dyna mite sus]>e.-t. wa. confronted with h number of persons, some of whom identified him as the man seen by them acting in a suspicious mannei in the neighborhood of the under ground railway explosions. Some of the brakeman conn- • ted with the underground railroad pnsi’i elv identified him as having n-aveled on the train from one of th- tar wimtows of whi 'h the dynamite j>ackage v'as thrown on Janmun 2 lart between the stations! at Gower and Kiifgs Cross, which par; tial’v wrecked •» al railway earviagefi. and desu < »yed part of the tunnel w all. LAROR INTERESTS. luiportan' <Uo»HtioriM to be DIM-iisMcd by the Stove 'lttuufactare**. Chicago, Feb. 5.—A large number of dele gates arrived on the morning trains from various pa is of the ( T nit« d IStates to attend the meeting of the national stove mam.far turei-s convon»ion. The nutting will boos imusral inteicst, tx-cause of the questions which an- to come up for considrralion. Air-, ng [’ em ft.r: To w’hfit ext- nt are manufaetnrers 'On rr.Oil'd bv trades union mles. and the l*e»t way to obtain relief t. orfi trades unions. Ihe appro:: • sysie.i-i and what modiflea tions are iumn-’M in it TL. g« heriiig of stattscal information. Cred’T and cash quest ins. Quesiions of cost of manuiaetnring. St. i.o ma! mg is one - the industries which, like the 'star of omi-ii r,” is moving further ".e t. 1 h<*r»- are row o. ere;. lit mi’dion stoves in use, h.Ui., v 13«>,(NFA s'ove lasts five veara. Some foundries ioal.e 50c’ different k nds. The chief so-, e making centers are in Alban., r JToy, BnTah' I nihuk*'.phia, Cleve land, ( in- unati, Ijoutsville and St. Louia Stove- fie exported to sixty-eight foreign countries, and when a foreign manufacturer d<i s fttempt to ake r stove he 0opi» after Amer .ean patterns as much Its possible. The :•• -ve makers’ un ns have engaged dur ing the oust ' ' -nr or so u several prolonge! and bitter contests with employers. Thej were organized in T .’a . and substa.ittally th* sa. a* organi aHon exists to-day. A go<* mnnv of the -,trik<s ha.© fail, d, and the of gfi r.zation has lost a large pere-entage of its member h through all--; *d arbitrary con tr-'l, by wi . , unwise cont.nets were organ i; -M and inaiiitained. King ' itrnegle on Soi-iaUsm. New A’okk, Feb. s.—Andrew Carnegie, the iron kin ?. < at the V> jidsor Hotel. He .‘•aid: “I loft l'it< L'.;. j la ev-ning and every thing ’vr-- Miv eful. I can't imagine what here in th. report oi anv trouble thor'* 'frade has Rm u very dull m the iron and coal 'iues. but it is p.< , kii',. r up now. The us.-oi natural gaa thrown many coal workers • -nt of employment, it is true.” “Y( 'i ha e b'-cn . div-d ith some aocial isti-’ ideas ourself,” sa d th* reporter ‘•That is .vijjuut found-.ti- -n,” said Mr. Car negle. “Swinton started .hat from remarks I ! nde nt a mo 'ing of 1 . ■ Nile teenth ' ‘■enlury club. ! said ti - brotherho*Ml of num was i. fine ideal and the v.orkl would be better if i. mid L put in prax/tioe. That is all.” “Is there a strong i >< ialis>tk element in Pittsburgh ”?.ot hat, I know of. I never heard of anv mov«*uwnt in that direction. I gues> ■his is only an echo from >ur own trouble. •ir works ha ? B,(MX) men, and all are n a’, mg good wagi-s. I hear of no discontem there.” A Schoolboy Quarrel Ends in Murder. St. Lorrs, M<> . Feb. 5.—-News has rear!rd -'.-re of a ind?’ hootm/ a’liay that oei-urm’ .ear (’erbon'File, 111.. e. ■>e s,u’c!ock 'iuorduy Mb-mc-c re Ling L i a schoolboys’ ip r - I 'iho par ies to th a fray were Thonuu Prickett, cig htoen years old, and Alb rt FeiTy, aged nineteen years. Their families an* wealthy fanning people and nei; hbom, and the boys have been companion® marly all their lives. They attended bciio-1 together, and Tuesday evening, with .-ev - ral companions, were on their way borne when they gd t< qirn ieling. It was agreed to fl-ht it out ana the other boys stood by to M-e air play. The toys pulled of! their coats and went al it in prize ring rty le. After- half a d ?en blows hrd b**n passed young Priri ett reaiizmg that he /,a*i i>eing wh ’/red, suddenly drew a revolver shot Pen- . killing him in**a*»tly. Perry’" young bri >ther was pri seni and vhen !ie saw Prickett pull a pistol grablx'd his arm. but not in t -ue to save hia brother’s life. The youthful murderer wa** arrested and imprisomxl. f!e Bant* (I;s Frese Bark. VinceN’N T *:s, Ind.. Fel>. s—George Corpse, jr., o£ Mitchell, Ind., Lar; tor some time been engaged a w>dowr named Jennie Pope, but she re<‘ontl’’ gnt jealf-'us and broke the engage ment. Corpse then filed suit for all money? paid liar and for ail a&icles of luxury and value given her d aring th'dr long enyagfiment. On the docket the following novel statement: June, 1883, to ea-h leaned, |ls: April, 1884. t*> cash honed, $5: Mav, 1884, to cash loaned, *1.50. Than follow* a list of presents whi'di he go e 1 r. In th* trial the widow 's testimony and that of Corps* cfttiFed great amusement. tfcstifl'd that the bill did not include various small sums be. had given her with which to bu\ taffy, etc. The jury returned a verdict in favor of the defendant. Tj*wv< r Campbell in l oek. CIN( tnnatt, Feb. s.—'l'he di frirtcburt sur pris'd every*, mdy when the j »residing jtulgr announeed t jat tlx* court had derided to set aside the suspension in th° Camplx*’! disliai ment case. Th' decision to suspend for tea da vs, the judge explair -d, had tx-er mark after only a hasty consultation, and with nt ma’t:re reflection. After thoroughly disease ing the matter, the judges haul ti:'r ight bestk put aside the suspension and <«nlyfinoMr Campbell the costs, which as all that war necessarv under the statute to carry the ex pense to the account of the respondent A Centipede in the Coffee. Dallas, Feb. s.—News has just reached 1 lie city that seven wood-choppers went jjoisoned at dinner Tuesday on Bois D’Ari tfi’.and, about twelve miles from this city. William Stroud, John Ha nes, Georre Trips and Bob McCall are in a 'lying condition, anc three others, Ju.nee Smeed, Thomas Lawreuc< and William Bell, are suffering violently. The p< is- »n was in the coffee that they drank, and on fevestigntion a centipede w as found ir the dregs. Physician-; with drugs, etc., have hastened to the unfortunates. FliiHband Shot in Self-Defence. Mobile, Ala., Feb. s.—Family troubles be tween a German named W icke and his w .fe culminated Tuesday aftem'xm in thr shootfnf of AVicke by his wife. The man seized hej by the hair and tried to lurre her upon a hoi stove, when Mrs. Wicke filed two shots ai him, inflicting a serious wound. Pdblic -jin pathy is with Uie w onion, v. ho has been ar rested oud is now in the guard house. COLUMBUS. GEORGIA. FRIDAY MORNING. FEBRUARY 6. 18S5. MURDERERS LYNCHED. AN IOWA MOB WREAK VENGEANCE ON BRUTAL CRIMINALS. Hanged in the Public Square Lest Justice Miscarry Bloodhounds Tracing Mur ders in Texan—The Leader of the Punmers, the Criiuinal. Audubon, Ta., Feb. s.—On April 28 of last y-ar. Hiram Jellerson, an old. inoffensive cripple was taken fro: his bed in th ' night and lum ■ d io a tree. Hri son Cicero, his son in-law John A. Smith, and Joe J. Wilson, wore am>tod. when Cicen« made a confession admitting his guilt and implicating the other two. All throe were indicted by tlie gi and jury, but secuud a continuance. On Wednes day Judge Ln -, borrow convened cottri here, ami the case was culled for ti ial. The de feuilants lihxi a iiiotimj for a u lunge of venue on the ground of prejudice on the part of- tht ITithout ruling on the motion th- judge arijourne'l court until Mon day. on which day Judge Andurson took his tee and announced ns Judge Loofborrow’s ruling that the venue be changed to (.’ass i'ouuty. The announcement ertwited great indignation, and Judge Loofborrow wa< in conse< juence compelled to leave town. Tues tiaA night over 200 eiti 'ens hold a secret meet ing. at w hich it w tus detonnined t > lynch the prisoners. Guards wore stationed nt every street leading from the jail nt dusk, and mounted men patrolled th<» tewn in order to frustrate the intention of tlvi sheriff to re move Lhe prisoners by a special train. At 4 o'clock in the morning a hundred armed men battered down the jail w alls. Jefferson was the fu*st dragged out and he wa* hanged in the public square. Smyth and Wilson resisted and after being shot in I heir cells were then dragged out and hang(*d to a rail fence. The mob was composed of many of the lk*st. citizens. The sheriff was on the scene hut was absolutely powerless. Two houra were occupied in tlid lynching. All is now- quiet Another dispatch says that a man named Ryan confined in jail for a different murder w'as also lynched. TRACKED WITH BLOODHOUNDS. Kunning Down Two Murderers In Texas a* ith Savage Dogs. Rt. Louis, Feb. 5. —The capttire of John Price and John Knight, the ansasshis of Con ductor R. A. Frasierand his brakeman, E. C. Powers, of the International and Great North ern railroad, has placed behind the barsof the jail of Smith county, Toxas,’a brace of de - perailoCs whosfc recotd' for lawlessness rival that of Jeesb jßjff<*s. Frarier was killed at Overton, Texas, last Sunday. Powers, the brakeman, told him that two tramps were stealing a ride on the front platform of the exprev*. car, and refused to get off win a ordered. Frasier said he would make them gc4 off, and asked Brakeman Powem to hand him a revolver. Frasier then walked forward through the train into the baggage car, and waiic-d there, within ten feet of the front door, until Powers brought the revolver. Theh he pulled the bell cord, opi-ned the door, and ujX)ii tlie platform, followed by the brakeman and porter. Before there wus time to utter a word Price placed his revolver against Frasier’s breast and tired Almost at t .e same m >ment Knight shot Frasier through the right wiisU The conductor sank to the platform and rolled off into the ditch. As he fefi his ‘lying grasp discharged two ehamlxjrs of his revolver, the iialls lodging in the roof of the oar. The brakeman and porrer re treated under fire. One of the shots took ef fect in Powers’ hip, and, ranging upward, lodged in the iniest in- s, inflicting a wound from which, the physicians say, he cannot recover. By this 1 ime the train luul come to a stop and the desperadoes esoaped. Great excifr> m<un at once pi evailed among the inhabitants at O. <1 ton. Scouting parti's on hoi’sebock started out and hunted in nil directions for tramps. In these raids no man made himself more officious than John Price. He was al ways to the front. Bloodhounds were secured from Jacksonville and put on the trail, but they were young dogs and became confused and proved of no use in following a trail > er snow-covertd ground. Other hounds were se en: ‘m! from Ling View and lakon to the scene of the tra? edy. They sti u< k a trail and fol low'd it half a mile in a westerly course to a lane, and ran along iteaswardly under full cry, ma’.ing a b<-e line for I’ricu’s residence. A \ hen the dogs got writ bin one hundred yards ot Price’s home the man in charge of tin hounds got tired and called them off. Chief Furlong, of the Gould secret service, was sent for. He, upoti investigation, imme diately named Price and Knight as the miu derers and ordered their arrest. The prison ers were taken to Fort Wo; th where Powers, the uounde'l brakeman l*ad lx*' 1 removed for hospital treatment. Thirty citizens were taken in at different times liefore Price and Knight were ushered into his presence. They came in without shackles or handcuffs, unat tended, just as other citizens did. When they were all standing around Power’s bed in a sort of half circle the surgeon in charge told him to examine and see if he eould iden'.ify any of those pr< sent «s tl. i men who committed the murder. “That is one right there,” be said, pointing to Knight. Then, pointing to Price, twelve feet distant, he. said “There is the other one.” Chief Furlong stepi>ed over to fchoriff Clinkscales, standing next to Price, put his hand on the sheriff’s shoulder, and speaking to Powers said: “This is the man you mean; this is the man you identified ri “No,” remonstrated Powers: “that is not the man. I mean the man on liii right.” Thus the identification was inwk p.-rfect. Price and Knight are known as Kentucky outlaws. Price killed a storekeeper named Wheelri at Overton in June last, and then left there. After staying away quite a while he came back and gave himself up, and at the time of the late tragedy was under bond tc answer for the Wheelie murder at the next tci-m of the Husk circuit court Since then he and Knight opened a fusillade upon an edi tor at Overton and ran him out of his office, the editor returning their flr<j and hitting Price a glancing shot the cheek bone. The newsjiaper man then fled for his life, and b**- ing temporarily secreted by friends, succee ■ d finally in escaping from the town with his life. Since then he has deemed it prudent tc give that section of Toxa; a wide berth. Oregon’s War (iovernor Insane. Portland, Ore., Feb. s.—Dr. Carp'mter, superintendent of the Oreg<>n state insane asylum, says that the mental condition of ex- U m ted States Senator James AV 7 . N esi ilith continues practically’ unchanged and ttiat hit mind is rapidly breaking. Ihe general opin ion is that Oregon’s war senator will never re cover his lost and shattered reason. Mutiny and Murder in Peru. Lima, Peru, via Galveston, Feb. s.—Or Monday night the Parma battalion, stationed at (Jhorillos, mutinied, and commenced flrinp at the guard. Three hundred members of th* battalion made their escape, but twenty wen captured near Chosica. An engine with a cai attached v.as sent tc Miratlores for assist? once, and the eugmeei wa* aiiot by the umu ooera GRANT’S ARREST. Why He AV as Suspondeil Before the Battle of Shiloh. Madison, Ind., Feb. 5.- Mr. George W. Palmer ma'.< s a statement relative to the ar rest of Gi uual Grant just before the batue of Shih mentioned in the February Century, which arrest, Palmer says, was the cause of the fata *,ck of preparation at Bitt - burg Land ing. s -me time Wore this Grant had. placed W. J. KvwUl . the qua’tcrumster al Cairo in ‘ harge of simmboat transportation, under ari 4it for refusing to furnish a boat for a st-cret expedit-on. Afterward Kountz was re)' ;>sc I at d se;u to Paducah, where Palmer vmv his chk'f lerk. In that capacity be cop ied and mailed to Secretary Stanton a charge by Kountz against Grant, with 17 spcciflea tiunsof drunkenness and disorderly conduct, with names of witnesses. Kountz shortly afterward told J‘aimer that Grant had beeu placed un hr arrest, and afterward that he had been n leased, he thought, on Genera! C. F. Smith's representation that Grant could not then be spared. unrz was so chagrined al his Ailtirft against Grant that he soon alter left the service. Giant’s Threat Trouble. New York, Feb s.—Dr. Frederick Par ker says that Gen. Grant is steadily recover ing from the tonsil and tongue son*no» that was produced by his excessive smoking. The doctor hasn’t found if necos'-ary to pay the genera) a visit since lust Tuesday. Gvii.Grant spends nearly oil his leisure time preparing liis series of war n .niuescences. He bus become very fond of the literary work it involves. AN ASSASSINATION SOCIETY. The Bloody Work of n Hand of Southern Murderers. BuffatiO, Feb. 5. —Alfred Bidwell, a for mer citizen of Buffalo, in good repute, who now lives at Sarasota, Fla., is charged with x'ing a member of the notorious Saras< ta a-i'-assination &iciety. This organization is supposed to exist for the purpose of 1 he secret nurdt-r of political opponents, and is com pos'd of twenty members, Ixiund togethei >y terrible oaths to jierlorm the bloody work of the band and to keep its secrets Inviolate. Mr. Bidwell is charged with making his store the rendezvous of the ?ang, Ix'sid?s being a nuunber. lie went from Buffalo to Florida in 1878, where he has mgag(*d in orange growing and store keep ing. His relatives here are in distress over the report us his arrest, and wholly unable to tccoimt for it. Bidwell is charged with being i party to the murder of C. E. Abbe. The so ■iety jias-txl sentence of d< ath on Abbe in Amril last, but deferred its execution until iftor the ek *fion. Keveial arrests were naJe. Bidwell is now in jail awaiting the » tion of the gTftnd Jury. It i reported that when his arrest was proliable Bidwell made in unsue ‘essful attempt to Commit mil ide. The information received ma'.t's '.his assassination society one of the nr st it.recious organizations ever heard of. A Dr. Andrew was the ringleader. Many rich and influential men of Florida are said te belong te it. The murder of one Riley several months igo, an I of Charles Willard recently, are wild te be the work of the a ;sassins. The victims ire supposed to have suffered for private as well as politfeal causes. In several instance* ?;t.izcns of Muniteo county, Flu., were way laid, shot, and their throats cut. The Rev. Mr. Ixiwe, of Sarasota, was whipped by the asnasslnation society because of a mik underslanding with his stepson. Many re ports «>f the bloody work of this society are received. It is believed here, where Mr. Bid well is well known as a former prominent and upright bustnesa mau, tliat he is a victim of perjury by accusers who are themselves the guilty pai’tiok Dispatches from Braidentown, Fla , say the community is greatly arouwri over the a -rerts, and determined to aift tbe matter Lo tlie bottom. For the Agrfcultnral Bureau. Washington, Feb. 5. —If the agiicnltural bm can should l»e elevated te the position oi’ finving a cabinet repruenlntive under the new administration Gen. Ben Le Fever will probably be the man that will have charge of it. He has long been in congress, and ropre 4ent.s an almost wholly agricultural district In Ohio. No matter what the turn politics may ui'iein the Buckeye state Gen. I/v Fever is always elected by a large majority. 11 is constituency is thorougly devotzvl te him, and if he were to go in > the cabinet his district could only be consoled for h s loss by the knowledge that his services would b“ dvon to the a; ri' OlttiraJ interests of the entire country. He has long taken par ticular interest in the seed department of the agricultural bureau, and lias secured some valuable reforms there, which are greatly aj>- pruciated by the farmers of the country. Gon. Le Fevre is a thoroughly practical man, and is just in the prime of life. He could probably be persuaded now to accept the commissinnerahip of agriculture, now held by Loring. lie’s Down on Roller Skating. New' York, Feb. s.—Rev. John Parker, of the Methodist church in Jamaica, is opjiosedl te roller skating. According to Mr. Darker, roller skating has been a liinderance te revival work in his church. Mr. Parker recently wrote to Dr. N. K. Dennett, of Brooklyn, asking bis opinion of roller skating from a professional standjioint. Dr. Dennett wrote as follows: “I consider tliat the practice physically is a pernicious one. Its ef fect upon boys is bad enough, but upon girls it is much worse. It destroys muscular balance, strains un duly Hie parts chiefly exercised, locates weakness at vital points, and prepares the way for a great amount of suffering and wretchedn'iss. If the cra/z* should continue for any considerable length of tim i , the facts which I have named wnl lie verified in the experience of manv a young lady.” Rev. Mr. Parker read Dr. Dmneti’s letter to the young jF ople in his chinch, and hopes it will keep them away from the rinks. Cattle Dying by Thousands. Chicago, Feb. 5.—A correspondent at Miller’s camp, Indian territory, says: “I started from Caldwell, Kan., on the 27th ult. for Oklaho.na in a spring wagon, with a guide, two runners and four horses. The trail was snowed un and there were no land marks 1° by. Scattered all along the trail are hundred of carcasses of dead cattle. The first night we stepped at ranch 101, known as George Miller Mr. Miller is considered the richest cattleman in the Indian territory, hav ing upward of fifteen thou.-and < att.lo. Many of them are starving. He now has a large nuinlwr of extra cowboys gathering them up and shipping them to the state to feed. Ranch 101 is tw' two miles from Caldwell and ten miles from the Salt Forks river. It is stated that there are about one million head of cattle in the Cherokee strip. If the present cold w eatho 1 bold out a week longer one-half of them will jierish. Over a third of a million aie air eady dead.” Peneionlng Kx-Confederates. Raleigh. N. C., Feb. s.—The house passed a bill to pension ex-confederate soldiers who lost limbs in the service of this state or by reason of wounds are incapacitated for man ual labor, or lor loss of one eye. Efforts have been made for several years to pass a bill cd liimla.r purport, but bave heretofore failed. PITHOLE’S LAST RELIC OF THE DAYS OF HER SPLENDOR | WHEN OIL FLOWED FREELY. Destruction of the Old Duncan lloiiKe-- Keininiscenres of the Oil (!nu«*-How Wealth Mowed in on Lucky Proa pectera—A Wildcat Scheme. Bradford, Pa., Feb. s.—By the tearing down of the old Duiujan house, at Oil City, the last relic of Pithole’s palmy days has boon removed. The house was built in the spring of lhu r > b\ C. B. Duncan, and cost $40,000. Duncan was a Scotchman who became inter ested with John, George and Abraham Prather in the purchase of the Holmden farm at Pithole, from which, on an investment of $30,000, they made $1,000,000 ea<4i in u few months. The Holmden farm was the pioneer oil territory of Pitholo. 'Hie farm belonged te the father iu-law of John Prather, who, , with his two brothers, kept a small country store in the village of Plumer. A wildcat oil company, known as the United States Pe i troleum Compiuiy, and organized as hundreds i of others were formed in those days for the I sole purpt'*- 1 <>f disposing of its stock, the idea I of actually i : ’din;. 1 , oil not being entertained by any of its projectors, leased a small portion of the Holmden farm on which to base their claims and te proceed with drilling ojjerations. ‘The Prather brothers believed i they might make some money on the strength i of ibt* work being done by the oil company, i and secured the refusal of the remainder of j tlie Holmden farm for sixty days. If they , concluded te buy at th<j end of tliat time they i were to pay S2S,(XX) for the proj»erty. Dun i can was then speculating in oil in the Pitts burg market, and to have the benefit of his , services in securing a purchaser for the Holm : den farm, they admitted him into the scheme i as un equal partner. While Dunean and John Prather were in Philadelphia looking for a purchaser for the farm, the drill at the United States well t ruck the oil vein, and the well began to flow nt the rate of 300 barrels a day. The region went wild with excitement. There was no railroad or telegrapliic connection with Pittsburg at that time, and George and Abraham Prather, knowing that the H-lin den farm was now worth sl|ooo,ooo at Least, | were rendered nearly crazy at the thought that their broth< r John might sell the farm before they <;ould get word te him. George Prather hurried to Oil Citynrad ttJegrapbixl to John, but could get no answer. He then mounted his horse and rode to Pitteb’irg, without stopping to eat or sleep. From then* he took the cars te I’hiladelpliia, where he met his brother and Duncan at the Girard house. Tliey were about ready to close Iho ale of the farm to James McCreary for SIOO,OOO. The news from Pithole stopped ail negotiation! in that direction. The Pruth ei-s sold one-sixte»>nth of their farm for $125,- 000. The sale took place the day before the sixty days in w inch they had the refusal were up. When they wont to pay Holmden the S2S,(MK) for his farm Mrs. Holmden refused to sign the deed unless she was paid 85,000 in gold. Gold was then at a heavy premium and very scarce. A small army of men was started through the country to collect the gold at any price, and the amount was raised in due Sf*ason. In two months Pithole was producing 50,000 barrels of oil a day and had a popula tion of 15,000. Duncan built the splendid hotel Which became so famous througlioul the country. He ate' built a Presbyterian church in Pitliole which cost him $25,000. Eventu ally he sold his interest in the Holmden farm for $1,000,000, and, ck. ing out all his ot her enterprises, he returned te Scot and, where he died in 1808 He evidently had not heard tliat Pithole was then but a destn-ted niin, for he bequeathed $25,000 to the cbui’ch he liad ■ founded in the place. I The Prather Ixiys remained in Pithole untfl ' the collapse came, and each left the region with $3.000,(MX). The Unite<l States Oil Com pany, started as a wild'•at venture, made Hie fortunes of all who were c< mooted with it. The Duncan house was purchased by Oil City parties, taken down, and removed to Oil City, whore it was put up in iti original form, and was for years the principal hotel of the oil metropolis. It was abandoned a tew yean ago, and became a dilapidated rookery, whict luts at last been taken down and sold for lire wood. It original regi ter, I scarin g the ig natur< u men fame; m this county and riu roj>e, gnyit actors, cap; iJints, and staLesnrni, Is now in the jiossession of a citizeut of Pitts burg. | ROMANCE OF A WEALTHY WIDOW. Captured by a Journeyman Barber a lew Days After Iler Father’s Death. I Waterbury, Conn., Feb. s.—Social circles ore interested and considerably agitated over the w< dding of Mrs. Nellie G. Bloss, a y< U"g, wealthy and fascinating widow, with Chai lea H. Tedale, formerly a barber. Mrs. Bio s’s fatter, Sherman Fenn, a rich grocer, who i had refused to sanction the wedding, died on Janury 28, and yerierday the couple were united in marriage. The wedding re calls some romantic episodes in the lite o’ the bride. As a girl, Miss Nellie Fenn was one of the tetlles of this city and a prospective heiress to large wealth. Her first husband was I Valter F. Bless, who fell desperately in love with her or her money. Unfortunately, however, he was betrothed to a handsome and worthy woman, whose only draw P ick was that she had no money and' worked in a store. Mr. Bloss looked long ingly toward the Fenn inneritana, and fin ally, as he said, left the decision to prayer. Aft»*i tbe prayer he arose firmly convinced that he should marry Miss Fenn, which he straightway did. But death overtook him quickly, before it ctel the old gentleman, and left Mrs. Blows an attractive and wealthy widow. Soon she was again pierced by Cupid’s arrow, 'i bis time it was the ]>oor journeyman barber. (Iharles H. Tis dale. Tisdale was ad-anced to employment in her father’s establishment; but this m&le trouble with the business, and the head clerk resign'd on account of it. Thereupon T !s<lale j was promoted to that position. Here Mr. | Fenn found be had made a mistake, and jxjsi tively refused young Fenn the band of his, daughter' in n arnugu. Mean hiie, rumor La-i it, Tisdale übo.sted largely on Airs. Bloss’ Lderailty. Ibe old man died and Tisdale mar ried Airs. Blobs. lie Will Not Wear Shackles. Jouxt, 111., Feb. s.—The Sheriff of Ken dall county arrived at the state penitenitary, having in charge four prisoners from that | county. Among them is William Russell, i aged twenty-lour, who is to serve one year for larceny. The sheriff bad to carry Rus- • sell into the prison on his back, as the convict ! has no legs and but one arm. Both legs had Im amputated ciot>e to the trunk and the left arm at the shoulder joint. This r emnant of a man was deposited upon the stone floor of the guard room, and the sheriff produced bis mittimus showing that Russell was sentenced by J udgu Charles Kellum, of Yorkville, to be confined m tlie penitentiary for the term of one year at bard labor. llu~Aill lost his limbs in a railroad ac cident. He was convicted of stealing a row boat of a man in Plano and selling it at Peola. Russell’s condition is such that he will need the ser vices of an able bodied convict to take auru qL him while he is ta £riauo» ( THE CONDENSER. Fresh, Fitliy News Items Boiled Down for the Hurried Bender. The Swaim court martial has concluded its work. T'hos. Shipley, Greenfield, Ind., suicided by hanging. Dr. Christopher C. Graham died in L’lns rille, aged 101. Wytheville, Va., felt an earthquake shock ’ Puivday moiipng. i The injunction suit against the Cincinnati cable road has been dismissed. Liabilities >f Abe! 1). Breed, of Now York, are $*17,000: actual assets, SBO,OOO. Mexican Ulegraph conqiany has declared a four-]x*r-ccnt w*m annual dividend. The Japam w minister and wife gave their first reception in AVashiiigton Tuesday night. It is stated that lai’ge shipments of Ameri can weapons of war are being made to China. Sieve Wiggins, brakeman, tell from a movr ing train on the C., H. and D., and was in stantly killed. A seventy-foiir-yoar-old rich widow of St. Roach’s. Quebec, married her nineteen-} ear old coachman. E. A. Bai nt'.s, principal of a Chicago public school is under arrest, charged witli brutally beating a pupil. In the T. C. Campbell disbarment case, the court suspended him fur ten days and lined him the costs. Michael Horrigan, who murdered James Cuthone in a saloon at Detroit Bunday, has surrendered to the police. I John 8. Jack and Carter B. Page had a street duel in Portamouth, Va. The latter was dangerously wounded, I Thieves are busy in the vicinity of Osgood, Ind. Air. A. Vine estimates his losses by re peated depredations at. S2,(MX). Gen. Slocum, of New York, will lie invited to act as chief marshal of the inauguration parade. Gen. McClellan declines to act. Archie O’Brien shot and killed Anthony Noeltker in a bar-room brawl, corner of Wal nut and Canal, Cincinnati, Tuesday night i Gen. Grant’s relics, military' and civil testi monials have bwm presented to the govern ment by Wm. H. Vanderbilt and Airs. U. 8. : Grant. i The Wood's Run mill of ()liver Bros. & Phillips, near Pittsburg, will start up, giving employment to several hundred , bands. At the annual meeting of the Nova Scotia ' Sugar Relining Company it was stated that the loss on the year’s operations was about , $200,000. I At Lucas, 0., Findlay Myers, aged twelve, accidentally shot hts brother, aged ten, with a revolver, in tbe left arm. The bullet could nut be found Wm. 11. Wood, prosecuting attorney, has ’ been arrested at Anderson, Ind., for disorderly : conduct. Wesley Harless was also taken in on i the charge of arson. i Mr. Holman has intr xluced a bill in the house requi l ing persons elected or app<jinted | to oilice to swear that they did not pay or give money to secure the office. It is reported in Pai rs that two well-known German officers and one Frenchman wore among thr killed on the Mahdi s side in the recent bailies in the Soudan. Gen. Grant explains that, in his Shiloh ar ticle, no reflection was intended on the t»er sonal courage or zeal of Gen. A. MeD. Mo- Cook, or the fighting qualities of his division. A coal mine explosion near Savanna, In dian Territory, resulted in the death outright ■ of three miners, the serious wounding of eighty-nine and slight burning of forty-two. Emilio Velasco and Genalo Raigosa have been appointed by President Diaz, of Mexico, to negotiate treaties of friendship, commerce 1 and navigation with England and France re spued vely. In the New Jersey state senate a petition ! was offei’ed asking the legislature to induce Jersey republicans in congress to have a bill passed making corruption of the bahot-box a ; crime similar to that of treason. While the Congo conference is discussing in ! long and weary debates tbe proposition to ! grant the southern bank of the Congo to the International .African association, Portugal suddenly knock s the association into “pi” by appropriating both banks of the river. The inquest in London in the case of Capt Armstrong, of the bark Wellington, who was killed by bis crew, has developed that widle he was a sober man be took a dose of laud anum (forty drops), feeling ill, and shortly af terward began shooting wildly at his crew. Id the attempt to disarm him fatal injuries were inflicted. FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. Latent Quotations oi the Stock, Pre. -noe uiid ( attic Markets. Niw York, Feb. 4.—Money, 1H P« r <*nt> Ex change quiet; governments firm. Alt. ATeireHaute. h» Morris A Essex..'. 118*4 Bur. & Quincy Missouri Pacific... 95- H Canada raciuc.... 3\ N. Y. A. Erie 12 . Canada Southern. N. Y Central H-y.-g Central Pacific Northwestern Chicago & Alton... 131 Pacific Mail C., C., C. & 1 32 j Kock Island. 100 4 Del. <S Hudson ... 7(r>i St. Paul 78 4 Del, Lack. AVV .. 92 St. P. AZ. 8. C 2»Jy t Illinois central 124 do preferred .... Jersey < < -.tral.. Texas Pacific.... 12 4 Kansas & Texas.. U. Pacific 49 a Hiicre 02/ B West. Union. . . Louisville&. Nash.. 24 Nash. & Cnatt .... 3d GeneraL Cincinnati, Feb. 4 FLOUR—-Fancy, >4.150 4.50; family, $3.50 ->3.90 WIIICAT-No. 2 red, Me; No. 3, CORN—-No. 2 mixed, 42c: No. 3,41 o; ear, 13c. OA'lß—No. 2 mixed, 82 q.3Bc; No. 2 white, 34c. RYE- No. 2,71 c. BARLEY—Spring, 55®65c: fall, PORK faniiiy, $12.25<3i12.37y a ; regular, $12.02 j. BACON—Shoulders, 2 : short clear sides, 7/4^<'Ltrd—Keitie— 7 * CHEESE—Prime to choice Ohio, l(Mllc; New York, . .'a 18c; Northwestern, . - POULTRY -Fair chickens, prime, S3.(XXgiB.2S; ducks, s.Lto; geese, s3.otoU>.uo per doz.; live turkeys. 7' dresse<k Hi :911c. HAY—No. 1 timothy, sl2. No. 2, 11.50 (£12.00; mixed. slo.UK<sll.Uo; wheat and rye straw, $6.U0((i)7.0i; oais straw, s7.Ou(#B.d& Naw Yoke, . ch, 4.—WHEAT—No. 1 white, 90c; No. 8 red, Feb., M^^«9;, b c. CORN —Mi vud western, 4 c ; futures, 48,‘i &Id 4 c. Oai-s -Western, BOqHvc Nicw Orleans, Feb. 4.—SUGAR-—Refining, com mon, 4 inferior, 3yi 2 c; choice white, te; off white choice yellow, u>.>,’ 4 c. MOLASSE-*- Good fair, 2 ».<£32c: prime, 31 gDdo; dioice, 44c; <• ntrtfugal prime, 25033 c; fair, 20c. Detroit, Feb. 4.—WHEAT—No. 1 white, ott>jc; No. 3 red, 74 a c; Michigan soft red, Tuj.u><>. Feb. 4.—WHEAT—No. 2,78 c; No. 1 soft, BikUr<>> 4 e. Live Stock* Cincinnati, Feb. 4.—CATTLE—Good to choice butchers'. $4.00 1.H5; fair, s4.teK<o.2‘>; common, $2 Stockers and feeders, $3 uU; yearlings , and calves, $- Aa3.50. HOGS—Selec t d butchers, fair to good packing, S4.KXSLM); fair to gcx»d light s4.l} (014.ti5; common, culls, 3£63.i». SHEEP—Common to fair, $2.50*03.25; good to choice, $3. ’tt 25; weathers, $k >oiss. Lambs, » Common, good $4u54.75 Chicago, Feb. 4.—HOGS—Fair to good, $1 251$ 4.60; mixed Hacking, s4.3uq>l.W; choice heavy. CATfLE- -rtc, $f1.00@5.25; good to choice ■hipring, < (JO; oominoa to fair, $4 o>qpXils| •tockeib u —• I NO. 244 jSTETTEift •* CUEBWTEO Si ■ V* 4■ JNA- '" ai> b. STOMACH (rfSC Fitters By ib- u** cf Ho«to t> t’b stem* eh Biff era the h’ggared >ipe#'«jce 01 (he ronmenanoe and H*lio»u»-aoi djgpiptca a e Rupp'aries by a h a thl-r look, arm '» the food ■ aaalmi'ated, the b< d i acqu re# fubattree. App't to 18 re stored, tnd the nerv un pypt* m re re» hed DDDe* neece 0 ember, thmutf »h* of th<« u ri'ir'n'*, which 1* * h h’D'flo'a) t pfr«*-r« of a rheum* i« ten<* nny, and an u*b imable pre« \ai tative o' f ver and »g ». F>r aaie by all Uib.gtara and Dea'eil FlKhl PILBBII FILHBHI Sure cure for Blind, Bieedlug and Itch ln»j Plb'H. One box bae cured tbe worst CHPee of 20 years’ stsndinff. No one nr-etl snfff'i five minutes after ualnw William’s Indian Plb’Ointment. It absorbs tumors, allays Itoblna. acts ns poultice, Rtros In stant relief. P:spared only for Illes. Itclilnw' ot 'lie private parts, nofblna ' lee. Hon. J. M.Coffenbury, of C|< vslund, says; "I have u-ed secret* ol Pile cures, and It affords me pleasure to say that I have never foiind anything which irlvee cuch Immediate and perm anent relief as Dr. william’s Indian Pile Ointment." held by diupalsts ai d mailed on receipt of price, sl. Foi eale by Brannan A. Oare< n, B. Oerter, John P. Furrier and Geo. A. Brad ford, Columbus, Ga. Dr. FrMler’a Itaot Bitter Frazier’s Boot Bitters are not a dram shop be .eraae, hut are strictly medicinal in every sense. They sot etronaly upon th> Llv rend Kidneve. ke,p the bowels open and regular, make the weak strong, beal the lungs, build up the nerves, and cleanse I he blood and eystt m of every Im purity. Sold bv druggists, f 1.00. For sale by Brannon A Oarson and Jno, I’. Turner, Columbus, Ga. Dr. Frailer** Magic OlDtmeat A sure cine for Little Grue? in tbeSfrln, Hough Skin, etc. It will remove that rotuhrees from the ba, de end lace and make you beautiful. Price 60e. Sent by mall. For sale bv Brannon A Carson and John P. Turner, Columbus, Gn. Chip. E Glover. Hermorselfo, V'xtco, ■lnly 16 1883. -ay; “I take p'earure In -ddietsli gy<u < t <-e mote, or you have been of great ber.efle to me. I wrote to VI u rboti' ore Hid Ore-half V. are no, turn Arli< n», tor Dr. Wtnb m’s Jrdlan PI Omtnert. I received it ai d it , ur,d me ■•nin ly. I B’lll he.d e< me O'ntliient p map ing, with w Ich I have cmed s, ven or eight mine. It le wonderiiil. Saratoga High Bock Spring Water for aelr hr al* drupgiaee. mtUVenUAw Male AhD FEMaLE AGADIMY. CUSSETA, UEOKCIIA. The wo h nt thio Sci oed will begin again JANUAHV 6 1885lflrpr Monday) 1 union $1 so S 3 SO and S 3 SO, According to grad . Board never more Thmi 88. Per IHontli. MUSK! SSU. PER IHONTIJ. LO'A.IoN IIIAt.TH 111. W.E. AIUKPHEY, Inniwv-enPwS Principal. DR.JOHN NOft WOOD. OFFICE AT BREEDLOVE & JOHNSON’S Drug Store, Bandolph Street. Besldence with H. L. WOODKUFF, Pnwford, tin ween Troop ■nd Foreittm<et It. E. ( BIGGS, Ptiyiician ond Surgecn. OFfICK: T. H. EVANN <fc CO. 8 Drujr Store. Befeideuce, Jackson St., fcast Court House, jsuß-Jy w7A.TIdNEfEji7 Attorney At Law. OBFICB IN GABBARD ItItBING COrtJMBU% - - - GEOBGIA Great iiergalu. At Phillips'New bhce Store, 46 Broad et, Columbus, Ga. Buck all mw, tine and heap. dcleAwtf important” TO Farmers, Trucksttrs and Gardeners. ——-u— - I will furnish on board the Cars at Ucra, Alabama, a vety Rich Marl IT sIX »OL.ft4 PBJil AO.V O2MHIX I And a Very JLow Kate of Freight is oflend by tbe 11, bile A Girard 8.8 By analysis of the State Geologist this MABL contains from 5 to 8 per cent, ot Phospnate with otb r lei tinging qualities. For c< mnostli g and broadcasiu g for grain Oelde, orcuatds and lawn, it will be toundl A Valuable Stimulator. This is not a Guano, but a UIUH Al ABL u Any c rders forwarded to K. J. OUR, Agent, Flora, Ala,, : Mobile A Girard Baiiroad. will men with I r , n , r ,. decll-tf NOTICE I ZIXOHOIV MCSC OXf COtJiTY I J.rob VI UroC, bn>band ot Hot, Brod,, <4 rail lountj and Bute, barety give nctir. to lb* inline of my oc' ent tt at tny end wit,. > 0 „ Brod,, ens>l t’b li d b.ooree from and titer tbl, due • public or tree trader with all e| the rgbtcutd privllegea undar thetnat te In ,uch oust rnadond provided. JACOB BHObA. , S, 1886. gudglm