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VOL. VI 1.-NO. 6.
CURRENT TOriCS.
Dons cost Lwn $9,090,000 a year.
Tui'.RE is snow in the Oregon mountains.
Logging operations have begun in Wis
consin. r""'
AViiith, the fam" Z English swordsman
is dead.
Thki’.k are more than a million cattle in
Montana.
Swallowing raw oysters is said to cure
influ uza.
Thi’ population of the United States is
now 57,003,000.
The Astors have just paid $425,000 to the
tax collector.
The agitation for independence runs
high in Canada.
A biography of Mme. Kalomine has ap
peared in Berlin.
Ristop.i, the actress, owns up to being
sixty-five years old.
Bismarck cultivates all varieties of roses
in his garden at Varzin.
The best news from Europe is that the
cholera pest is abating.
Kay, the arithmetic man, is said to be a
pauper in a mining camp in New Mexico.
France breaths easier since her troops
have occupied Ke Lung.
One-Half of all the telegraph wires in
France are underground.
The proper thing to say now is, “Don’t
waste your vaporic force.”
Rosa Bonheur, while engaged in her
paintings wears bifurcated garments.
Oscar Wilde is worth over SIOO,OOO, and
wears his hair curling over the forehead.
The national debt is only twelve times as
large as that of the city of New York.
It is stated that Prince Hal vin, pretender
to the throne of Egypt, is about to visit
Paris.
The first female stowaway ever landed
at Castle Garden is Annie Schiller, of Ba
varia.
Chicago boasts 610,323 souls. There is*
however, no complaint of crowded city
limits.
The making of counterpanes and pillow
shams out of paper is now one of the in
dustries of New Jersey.
A Boston woman has been arrested for
stealing a crazy quilt. An effort will be
made to prove her insane.
White bonnets trimmed with white
plumage, will form the dressy bonnet pa'
excellence the coming winter.
It is said that wheat is cheaper in Eng
land now than it has been before since 1780,
a hundred and four years ago.
The rumors of the coming marriage be
tween President Arthur and Miss Tillie
Frelinghuysen are confirmed.
During a recent hail storm in a village of
uombardj’ a tiger broke out of a menagerie
cage and took refuge in the church.
A prominent poultry raiser says that
3,000 hens cared for in the proper manner
will show an annual profit of $2,000.
Ihe frequent occurrence of incendiary
fires in Edgewater, N. J., has exhausted
the members of the fire department.
Dr. Clein has so little faith in Dr.
Koch’s so-called cholera microbes that he
swallowed one without any evil effects.
Os 1,664 pictures exhibited in the Royal
Academy this year, 203 have been sold at
prices ranging from a guinea to £I,OOO.
I he salmon market is so depressed that
the Oregon newspapers are urging the
packers to reduce the output next year.
An English firm has begun the manufac
ture of casks and barrels of steel. They
are lighter than wood and moredurable.
George Chase, aged thirteen years, re
cently treed an eight-hundred-nound bear
near Chico and killed it with his father’s
gun.
Bismarck draws no salary as sa Prusian
•. mister. In his official capacity as Chan-
I , r s ) ' t ' le German Empire he receives
$13,.>00.
Mon >c engines are to be done away with
2” e Erie Railroad. Their great weight
tons—mashes the rails in a fearful
manner.
The looms used in New Jersey for the
ae ture of silk are sac similes of those
oved in China and India for the same
purpose.
Harney, the oldest officer in
e annv, is building a new dwelling
II 1 sot his own use in the suburbs of
°t. Louis.
p p M k' Valexti '>'K is suing Puck for $50,000.
j i.ip. the best thing 7’wcA: could do would
ask Mr. Valentine to come in about
the 14th of February.
Ml-, O. C. Clark, of Springfield, Mass.,
2" Has just celebrated her 99th birthday,
e( >dected hearing the bell toll for the
of Washington.
ii P STf| N nian has cured gout by walk
h(. E . " ' felt an attack coming on,”
«ines,‘‘J wou hasten to the street,
11 niy teeth bard, and go it.”
Balaam has been nominated for the
~l ' l of Sheriff of Tulare Countv,
Lal. t n xi
.Massachusetts Jack Cass was de
t®ated for „ n
mi a Democratic nomination.
oAv-V Zai .’ s w 'f e ’ a sister of the Princess
and 3 VS ’ vxtr emely fond of jewelry,
and ’’ the most ancient patterns
Rom'p t ' SC *° SetS nlo!ie y could secure at
cigar's ' ' l^ at immense numbers of paper
and t a ' e n ° W im P° rte 'i into Australia,
thev c they ■ re - so skillfully flavored
? e ottine artiX distinguisbed from th “
low kain?' FOVR Chinamen, caught in a
other dav". 8 ' 110U '’ e in New York City, the
tine ami ’" e tied with a clothes-
Poiip -headXtL inaPrOCeßßiOU t 0 ' he
se nth S J,y L .' A Stock ton, of St. Louis, re
Whit'. SnA 104 f ” ur ' iea f Ciovers at the
U,l B a ' PhUl ' SF,rings - As eacu leaf fore-
S’ockton is Iqckier
Cklton Slrgus.
AN ENGINEER
Fails to Stop to Receive Instruc
tions.
A Fearfnl Wreck and Conflagration Fol
low* With Isomi of Life.
Greensburg, Pa., October 12.—A disas
trous collision occurred this afternoon at
Hunker’s Station, a point on the South
west branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad,
about fifteen miles south of this place.
Engine No. 40, with a train, left the
junction here, with orders to m»et a
north-bound train, Engine 430, with a
train of coke, at Thompson’s Station. For
some unexplained reason the engineer of
the north-bound train failed to stop at the
telegraph office, at which place a red flag
was displayed, and orders waiting t» meet
the south-bound train there, but instead
went a distance of a quarter of a mile to
Hunker’s Station, where he collided with
Engine 430, completely wrecking about
forty, loaded cars of coke, demolish
ing both engines, killing one man, and
seriously injuring three others. The
coke cars caught fire from the engine, and
in a few minutes the mass of wreckage and
coke was a roaring furnace, as nothing
could be done toward clearing the wreck
until the fire was extinguished. A fire en
gine and two hose-carts were sent from
Pittsburg by special train to the wreck,
but up to a late hour had not succeeded in
entinguishing the flames. The
names of the killed and injured are
John Layton, brakeman, of Derry Station,
instantly killed; Charles Springer, brake
man, of Uniontown, thought to betatally
injured, and has not yet regained con
sciousness; Conductor Goodwin, of Union
town, bruised, cut and injured internally;
Engineer Thompson, of Uniontown, seri
ously injured internally and externally.
PALMER MUST HANG.
Motion for New Trial Overruled-Frnden
I-aw- Declared Constitutional.
Cincinnati, October 11. —The District
Court to-day overruled the motion for a
new trial in the case of Joe Palmer, Ber
ner’s accomplice in the murder of Wm.
Kirk. Twenty-eight errors were alleged as
grounds for the motion. Twenty-four of
these were exceptions to the overrulings of
challenges to jurors. These were based
upon the claim that the offense having been
committed prior to the passage of the Pru
den law, under which Palmer was tried, his
case should not have been affected by that
law. The real question at issue was as to
the constitutionality of the Pruden law.
This law amended the law provid
ing for the qualifying of jurors
to sit in a criminal case. The
Court held that it was constitutional. It
said that the Constitution provided that no
laws should be passed which impaired the
validity of existing contracts, or deprived
a man of his vested rights. This Pruden
law did not impair the prisoner’s vested
rights, as it did not prevent him from hav
ing an impartial trial, which was all he
was entitled to. The execution of the sen
tence of death was fixed for the 31st inst.,
two weeks from next Friday. The pris
oner’s counsel excepted, and will take the
case to the Supreme Court.
Excitementllver the Quebec Explosion.
Quebec, October 12.—The troops placed
around Parliament building last night were
withdrawn this morning and a strong guard
of police established. No person was al
lowed to approach the building or pass in
close proximity during the night, and to-day
the most vigorous watch was kept. The
excitement is unabated. Upwards of
forty thousand persons visited the
scene to-day. All sorts of rumors
were in circulation to-day, one theory be
ing that four strangers who have lately
been employed there as workmen have
been acting in a most suspicious manner,
and that one of them al ways remained be
hind in turn while the other three went to
dinner. The damage done by the second
explosion is less conspicuous, but the
cost of setting it to rights will in.-
volve much more money. It is
now felt that the entire wall will have to
be taken down on the northeastern portion
of the house, involving a cost of $25,000. It
is thought the contractor, Charlebois, will
add another SI,OOO reward to that already
offered by the Government for information
or the arrest of the parties implicated. The
building now can not be completed in time
to permit the Government to hold a session
there this year.
Noted Ghoul Arrested.
Washington, October 11.—A couple of
mounted policemen, while patrolling their
beat in the outskirts of the city last night,
discovered that grave robbers were at
work in one of the colored cemeteries.
After waiting for developments, they
found that two bodies had been disin
terred, and that the ghouls were about to
take their ghastly freight in a wagon to
one of the hiedicai colleges. When
the robbers were about to drive off the
policemen proclaimed their presence, and
at the point of their pistols captured the
party, consisting of three men, two of
whom were colored. The white man was
Vigo Jansen, a notorious resurrectionist.
Jansen is well-known as a grave-robber
here and in Baltimore. They were com
mitted to jail in default of SI,OOO bail each.
Cholera.
Naples, October 12.—Grerati, President
of the Tribunal of Commerce, died to-day
of cholera. The Cardinal of San Felice,
sent the gold cross presented to him
by the Pope to assist the sufferers inCatania.
Madrid, October 12.—The Official Gazette
announces the cholera epidemic ended.
Bulletins are stopped.
The Queen of Portugal sent $2,000 to
Naples, and Humbert $4,000 to Genoa, for
the relief at -.offerers.
Rome, October 12. —To-day, in the chol
era-infected district of Italy, there were
239 fresh cases and 137 deaths, including 115
fresh cases and 51 deaths at Naples.
Continuous Machinery Exhibition Scheme.
St. Louis, October 12. —The Directors of
the Exposition now in progress here have
a scheme on foot to turn the Machinery De
partment into a permanent exnibition and
place of sale, and have issued a circular to
exhibitors of machinery offering them
great inducements to make their exhibits
continuous. Steam will bo supplied so
that machinery can be shown in motion
any day in tha year. It is thought exhib
itor* generally will accept the proposition.
DALTON, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1884.
DTK AMITE.
A Considerable of * Hale Knocked in It—
A t onple of Workmen InJ n red.
Quebec, October 11.—About 1 o’clock
this afternoon an explosion occurred at
the new Parliament buildings, destroying
a considerable portion of the masonry and
windows of the new building which is just
being roofed in. The explosion was
at first supposed to have been the boiler ot
the engine used for hoisting material, but
this proved not to be the case, and neither
can it be attributed to the gas. The general
impression appears to be that the ex
plosion was caused by dynamite but as
none of this was used on the works, the
mystery is bow it came there. An investi
gation is now being held. The explosion
did Considerable damage to windows in the
vicinity of Parliament House. Almost all
the windows in the house itself, in the sec
tion where the explosion occurred, are
shattered. Mertel, a workman, and Charle
bois, contractor, were the only persons in
jured, and these slightly. The damage by
the first explosion was considerable. A
hole about twelve feet by five wide was
blown out of the wall on the third story,
and directly over the right hand entrance
to the Assembly chambers, and near the
place where the Speaker’s chair is situated.
The second explosion occurred in the north
east corner of the same building. The cor
ner-stone forming the supportof the build
ing was badly bulged, and it is doubtful
if it can be repaired without letting down
the whole wall. Whatever the reason may
be for wishing the destruction of the build
ing, there is no room to doubt that dyna
mite was used. Everything is quiet in the
neighborhood, and a section ot a battery
is patroling the ground about the building.
The Government was waiting the comple
tion of the building to call the House togeth
er for the dispatch of business. The
building had been so far advanced that only
part of one room remained unfinished.
The Cabinet has decided to issue a procla
mation offering a reward of SI,OOO for in
formation regarding the authors of the out
rage. Guards have been placed on all
powder magazines connected with thd cita
del, the military stores and cartridge fac
tory.
October Crop Report.
Washington, October 11.—October re
turns show the corn average higher for the
condition than in the past five years, but
not so high as in any of the remarkable
corn years from 1875 to 1879 inclusive. The
general average is ninety-three, which is
very nearly the average of any series for
ten years, and indicates about twenty-six
bushels per acre, on a breadth approximat
ing seventy million acres. The region be
tween the Mississippi and Rocky Mountain
slopes again presents the highest figures;
which in every State rise a little above the
nominal standard of full condition. No
State east of the Mississippi returns a con
dition as high as one hundred. The lowest
figures are in West Virginia, 73; Ohio, 74,
Louisiana, 74; Texas, 80; South Caro
lina, 83. A reduction was caused
by drouth. There is complaint
of drouth in the Ohio Valley
and in the Atlantic and Gulf States, but
not sufficiently severe to reduce seriously
the yields. Early-planted corn is every
where matured. Late plantings in South
ern States suffered for want of summer
rains and will be light and not well filled.
Very little injury has been done by frosts.
Damage by chinch bugs and other insects
has been slight. The wheat crop will ex
ceed that of last year by about 100,000,000
bushels. Threshing is slow and late, with
the results thus far confirming the
indications of former reports.
The yield per acre will av
erage about 13‘s bushels. The quality of
the present wheat crop is generally very
good, especially in the Eastern and Middle
States, and on the western slope of the Al
leghenies, and in Michigan, Wisconsin and
Minnesota. Some depreciation in quality
is noted in Indiana, Illinois, lowa, Mis
souri and Kansas. The average for the en
tire breadth is 96. The indicated yield of
rye is about 12 bushels per acre. The qual
ity is superior. The yield of oats is little
above the average, yielding about 27 bush
els per acre, and making the crop approxi
mating 570,000,000 bushels of good quality.
The barley crop makes a yield of
nearly 23 bushels per acre, and the
product exceeding 50,000,000 bushels of
average quality. The condition of buck
wheat, average'B7, indicating crops slight
ly under the average. The condition of the
potato crop is represented by 88, and five
points lower than in October of last year.
October returns of cotton indicate a reduc
tion of nearly eicht points in the average
condition from 82.5 to 74.7, as the result of
continued drouth in arresting development
and destroying the quality of plants. The
prospect of a top crop is reduced
to the minimum. The drought
has been general and its effect mani
fest in every State. Os ten successive
crops only two have averaged lower condi
tion in October. These were in 1881 and
1883. when the averages were 66 and 68 re
spectively. The average was 88 in the
great crop of the year 1882. Stateaverages
are as follows: Virginia, 81; North Caro
lina, 79; South Cololina. 80; Georgia, 79;
Florida, 84; Alabama, 74; Mississipi, 76;
Louisiana, 77; Texas, 62; Arkansas, 76;
Tennessee,Bs. Returns ot the local esti
mates of the yield per acre, in fractions of
bales, indicate an average rate of yield of
thirty-six hundredths of a bale per acre.
Frightful Death.
Mount Vernon, 0., October 12.—N0. 4
express on the Cleveland, Mount Vernon
& Delaware Road, when it arrived at this
station last night, had wound around the
trucks of the engine the remains of a man
so badly mangled as to bo unrecognizable.
They were turned over to Banning’s under
taking establishment, and this morning
Coroner Fulton held an inquest. It was
not known who the unfortunate being
was until the arrival this morning
of relatives of Isaac McVicker, living three
miles east of here, who, missing their
father, instituted search along the railroad
track, his usual course home from the city.
At Ryan’s Crossing they found a portion
of his skull, liver and an arm, and sufficient
clothing to identify tue remains as those
of their father. He was aged about sixty
years, and addicted to hard drinking.
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Jealousy Among Medical Men.
London. October 12.—The doctors are
vigorouslv pulverizing Dr. Koch’s claim to
the discovery of the cholera microbe.
They made a sorry exhibition of the Ger
man’s method.
Another Cyclone at Catania.
Rome. October 12.—Catania has been vis
ited bt another cyclone. Thirty persons
were killed. King Humbert sent £4OO for
the relief of sufferers.
MURDER FOR HIRE.
Liberated from Prison on Condition.
a Netrro As«»«*lnatea a Certain Phyaietan
for HI. I.lberation from Jal*, and la tben
in Turn I-ynehed by Illa employers.
New Orleans,October 13.—A double trag
edy, original in its nature, occurred at Ellis
ville, Miss., forty miles from here, to-day.
Deputy Sheriff Robert Snipes, Jacob George,
a telegrab operator, and two or three others
broke into the County Jail and offered a
negro prisoner his liberty on condition that
be would kill Dr. Schumacher, a druggist.
The negro agreed to this, and calling the
doctor out shot him, inflicting a desperate
wound. The citizens were very indignant,
and the instigators of the crime, in order
to remove the witness and work
upon the feelings of the peo
ple, organized a mob, who fired a volley
into the negro, inflicting fatal Wounds.
Before death he made a full confession.
Suspecting that this might happen the
criminals slipped from the crowd and
boarded a train for this city. The police
have been furnished descriptions of the
fugitives, and may effect their capture.
Should they be retured to Ellisville the
same mob that shot the negro is prepared
to receive them.
Terrible Elevator Accident.
Cincinnati, October 13.—This morning
Wm. F. Thomas, employed as a gardener
and general aid about the Cincinnati Hos
pital was ordered to bring a patient named
; Christian Turdoest, aged fifteen, who has
i been suffering from typhoid fever, into the
amphitheater of the institution for the ben
efit of the students attending the clinic. He
ascended to the second floor on the elevator
and left it at that story while he went ester
the patient. The boy being too weak to
walk was placed on a rolling-stretcher,
something similar to a railroad baggage
truck, and very heavy. Wheeling the boy
along the ward and out into the hall, he
reversed his position and-walked backward
toward the open elevator door, supposing
the elevator was still there. Some negli
gent attache had moved it to a higher floor,
but still left the door standing open.
Thomas walked backward and stepped
through the open door unconscious of his
danger. Before he could recover himself
he fell, and in his fall kept hold of the
handles of the stretcher. With an awful
crash they were hurled to the basement
beneath, a distance of forty feet. The gar
dener was found under the stretcher dead.
The back of his skull was crushed in and
his face was an unrecognizable mass. The
boy was carried to the examining room
and expired in terrible agony thirty min
utes afterwards. This is the second acci
dent that has resulted fatally on the same
elevator. Last winter the engineer of the
place, 8. E. Hutchinson, was crushed by
the descending cab and instantly killed.
A Youthful Lover’s Deed.
Lancaster, Pa., October 12. —Lawrence
L. Cauley, of Philadelphia, aged eighteen,
this evening shot Mamie Benson, aged
fourteen, of this city, and then himself f»
tally. The shot fired at the girl made a
painful but not fatal wound. Cauley some
months ago was an employe of the Lancas
ter watch factory, where the girl was em
ployed. He fell in love. He left Lancastei
early in June, and went to Philadelphia.
He persisted in sending the girl protesta,
tions of affection, and also letters threaten
ing to kill her if she refused to receive hil
attentions. He returned to Lancaster ter
days ago, and meeting the girl on ths
street this evening shot her, and then him
self.
Reward for the Quebec Dynamiters.
Quebec, October 13.—The Government
has increased the reward for information
leading to (the : conviction of the authors
of Saturday’s outrage to $4,000, to whicl
Charlebois, the contractor, adds SSOO. Tb<
police are vigorously at work in regard t«
the clue obtained, and an arrest may b«
looked for before long. All officers in thi
Departmental Building were open to-day
and employes at their desks. It is thought
an internal machine was placed in the
building Friday night. Four men wen
seen hanging around the vicinity that
night acting in a suspicious manner.
A French Defeat.
Amoy, October 13. —The French defeat at
Tamsui is confirmed. Their forces wen
outflanked. The troops landed at ter
o’clock on Wednesday morning and wen
obliged to retire to the ships at three o’cloci
in the afternoon, after being terribly hand'
led. The loss was seventy killed and
wounded. They also lost one gun. Th«
Chinese beheaded the dead and wounded
left on the field. The Chinese lost two|buu
dred men.
Two Killed and Several Injured.
Camden, N. J., October 13.—A collisioi
occurred here between two Pennsylvanil
trains this morning. Joseph Carman,
engineer of one of the trains, was killed
and the fireman of the other train fatally
injured, having both legs cut off. Sever*,
passengers were hurt. Both engines wen
smashed.
Hog Cholera.
Champaig.se, 111., October 13 —Hog
cholera is committing considerable ravage*
in the north part of this city. In the vicin
ity of Rantoul the losses are very serious
One farmer, John Gifford, within a few
days lost forty-eicht head, many of them
weighing 200 to 800 pounds. The disease
is on the increase.
An Old Rascal Gets His Deserts.
Philadelphia, October 13-—Thomas M.
Scroggy an old man, in the stationery busi- '
ness, convicted of dealing in obscene pic
tures, books, etc., wus sentenced to impris
onment of two years and a fine of SI,OOO,
the full penalty.
Convention of Laundrymen.
Philadelphia October 13.—The first an
nual meeting of the National Laundry- ,
men’s Association was held in the Conti
nental Hotel to-day. D-legates were pres
ent to tue lumber ol2od from ail parts of
the United States.
Brokers Assign.
Cincinnati, October 1,3 —B. 8. Davis <■
Co., bankers and brokers, of this citv. have
assigned. Liabilitie*s6o,ooo, assets $50,000-
The teller, bamuei Tuaor, is defaulter tw
SOUTHERN NEWS GLEANINGS.
The cotton crop is now figured at 6,060,000
bales. The falling off this represents is
regarded as an advantage in the present
status of trade.
It is sad, says a Southern exchange, to
see the proceeds of a cotton crop go to pay
for supplies that could have been, and ought
to have been raised at home.
The peanut crop of Virginia in conse
quence of the prolonged drouth will hardly
be one-half the average. The tobacco crop
will be short about one-third.
The mail-carriers of the Savannah post
office handled 235,801 pieces of mail matter
during the month of September.
The tobacco factory of Wilson & McGill,
one of the largest in Petersburg, Va., has
temporarily suspended operations. It em
ploys over three hundred colored opera
tives. The suspension is due to scarcity ot
tobacco for manufacturing purposis, which
retards work more or less in othei factories
in that place.
Miss Maud St. Pierre, whose secretary
disappeared in the Tennessee mountains
last spring, and who has invested so
heavily in Franklin county laiios, is an
Englishwoman.
Mississippi City crab catchers *re paid
ten cents per dozen for hauling ’em in.
Thousands are caught.
During the first nine months of the pres
ent year Alabama constructed s»xty-two
miles of new railroad.
A regular freight wagon business is
successfully competing with the railroad
between Houston and Montgomery. Tex.
Georgia has four hangings on the docket
to take place within the next sixty days.
These executions are in the nature of free
shows, and will be opened to the public.
BosslTweed’s daughter, with all het
great wealth, is very retired; she makes no
friends, but dresses magnificently. Her
busband is rich and does a prosperous and
lucrative business in New Orleans. She is
a happy wife, and the devoted mother of a
boy of fourteen years.
There is a lady in Athens, Ga., wbc
walks five miles every afternoon.
The appalling information is received
that the Southern turnip crop is a failure.
Two of the present Gubernatorial rulers
of the South began life on their own account
as second clerks on Mississippi river steam
boats. Gqy. Cameron, of Virginia, was
second clerk on the steamer Wm. M. Morri
son, in the latter part of the fifties, when
Mark Twain was a cub pilot on the a yne
boat, and Gov. Wm. B. Bate, of Tennessee,
was for several seasons second clerk on
boats running between Nashville and New
Orleans, in which the Hon. John Bell was
a large owner.
Natchitoches has secured the Louisiana
State Normal School.
Joe Webster, a colored barber, of Nash
ville, tried to commit suicide the other day
by taking “Rough on Rats” and laudanum,
but was saved because the poisons counter
acted each other, and by the prompt and
vigorous action of the doctor. Next day
he took “Rough on Rats” without lauda
num, and died, refusing to tell the cause
that led him to commit the rash act.
The destitute condition of the cotton
factory operatives, thrown out of employ
ment for the past few weeks by the shut
ting down of all cotton mills of Peters
burg, Va., enlists the sympathy of the en
tire community. Tne other night the
Academy of Music was crowded at a bene
fit performance. The closing of the mills
is due to over-production.
The discovery of a strong vein of coal
gas on land owned by, the Pratt Coal &
Iron Company, in Alabama, is the subject
of much local interest. It is said that the
company from this find will be able to sup
ply its works with light and fuel.
A scheme is brewing in Savannah for fil
tering the river water at that point for the
use of the city.
A SON of Mac Young, aged twelve years,
of East Jackson, Tenn., was drawing water
from a well, eighty-two feet deep, a few
davs ago. The curbing of the well gave
away, precipitating him to the bottom of
the well and killing him instantly. His
skull was found fractured.
W. F. Richards, postmaster at Clarks
burg. W. Va., and editor of the IFeefcZjf
Telegraph, was shot, the other evening, by
A. C. Boin. A woman in the case.
The colored people have the privilege of
reserving seats in a special portion of the
dress circle in the Memphis theaters. 1 hat
is all right, and the Memphis Ledger says ot
it that people who act right, whether white
or colored, are sure to get full credit for it.
There is again some talk of building the
Tennessee Central Railroad from Trenton
to Huntington, the road-bed of which was
made ten years ago. The distance is abou’
31 miles, and it is estimated that $188,147
will complete the road ready for the run
ning of trains.
Miss Regina Jamison, a well known
Wheeling lady, hung herself with sheets,
the other night, in the insane asylum at
Weston, W. Va. The Coroner’s jury re
turned a verdict exhonerating the officials
from blame.
Charles McNairy, colored was murder
ed at Laurel Hill, N. C., by his wife, aided
by a colored woman and man. He was an
invalid, and his wife killed him to keep
from supporting him. The murderers were
arrested.
An exciting and laughable scene, uot
down on the bills, was enacted at a thea
ter at Wheeling, W. Va., the other night.
Jarrett& Palmer’.- Uncle Toin’s Cabin Com
pany was enacting the time-worn play at
Charley Shay’s theater, among the audi
ence being all of Buffalo Bill’s D ild
West” conglomeration of Indians, squaws,
greasers, cow-boys, etc. At one of the
realistic episodes of th* play, a big brave,
mistaking the action for reality, sprang up,
rushed d.wn the aisle, and drawing a
scalping-knife leaped on the stage, an
wa* about to attack Simon L-gree when
Dr Carver and another white member of
the company, who griped the •>^atlon
seized tbored .kin and pulled him
orchestra box amid the yells of
The Indian could not catch dn, and bad if
be led out of the b»D.
TERMS—SI A YEAR.
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.
—A man by the name of Husband
was married in Hartford, Conn, the
other day. ’
- Joaquin Miller is to become alect.
H v 3 subject willbe the “Uanites
of New i ork.
-Three American poets, Thomas
EL a . 1 I 1 v y Ald ? ch - Mar y I rances Butts and
W illiam W inter, were born on the same
day, in October, 1836.
--The new eclnr-d cadet
Point, Julius Mitchell, of South Caroli
na, is said to be a good scholar, but the
blackest man they have yet had there.
—N. Y. Her dd.
-It-has been figured that in St. Louis
there is one copy of a daily paper print
ed to every four people; in New York,
one papei to a little less than two per
sons; in Chicago, one paper for every
two inhabitants.
—The lapi Oahe, which means “the
Wood-Carrier,” is the name of an In
dian newspaper published at the San
tee Agency, Neb., under the super
vision of Rev. Alfred L. Riggs. There
are two editions printed, oneln English
and one in Indian.
■ —A cordwainer aged one hundred
and four, and his son, aged eighty-five,
arrived at Liverpool, N. S., the other
day, from St. John, N*. 8., on a visit to
some friends. During the day the son.
while seeing the sights, strayed away
from his father, who rushed around for
some time asking everyone he met:
“Have you seen my boy?” The re
union which afterward took place was
very affecting.
—A London paper is responsible for
the following: As the ship which car
ried Mrs. Langtry to these shores
neared port, a group of men were dis
cussing their fellow passenger. Said
one of them: “Well, before 1 came
aboard I had heard hard things said of
Mrs. Langtry. 1 don’t know whether
they are true, but I know this, that if
she fell overboard there’s not a man on
this ship who would not jump after
her.”
—A Parisian daily paper claims a
circulation of 750,900. This is proba
bly due, chiefly, to the fact that Paris is
the very heart and center of France,
and Parisian news and opinions have
therefore special interest and impor
tance. There is no such centering of
interest in the United States, because of
the wide extent of the country and the
number of great cities of a metropoli
tan character. If New York was to the
United States what Paris is to France,
there would be more than one news
paper there with as large a circulation
us the Parisian journal. —Current.
HUMOROUS.
—Some say that a man who would
“beat an egg” would be so cruel as to
“whip cream,” “thrash wheat,” or even
“lick a postage-stamp.”
—ls an ocean view a sea-saw? Worth
making—A loan of SIO,OOO. lhe
French are ready with an ex-queues for
driving the Chinese out of Tonquin.
Tex<is Siftings.
A fa’l fashion item says: “There is
little change in coats.” It is the same
way with pantaloons. There is very
little "change” in them, especially io
the po kets. Kormlown Herald.
“Yes indeed ” remarked Rose, a
miss of liYteen years, “we lived on a
vegetable diet entirely when we were
in'the country last summer. In fact,
we had ham and eggs all the time.’
Golden Days.
—The embarrassed coachman:
“Coachman, coachman, when shall you
marry?
Coaehman, coachman, why <lo you tarry;
Why do 1 tarry?
By the old Harry,
There he so many it doth me embarrass u
Out of the swarm to select the right heiress.
--Louisville Courier-Journal.
—A British sea Captain and a Yankee
skipper were sailing side by side. In
sport, the former hoisted the union jack,
and cried out: “There’s a leg of mut
ton for you!” The Yankee unfurled
the Stars and Stripes, and shouted back:
‘•And there is the gridiron which broiled
it!”
—“ Ma, why did you whip Freddie?”
“ Because he hit Arthur and hurt him,
my son.” “Well, then, you ought to
whip papa.” “Whip papa,-
for?” “’Cause 1 saw him bite Mabel s
music teacher right in the mouth, and
1-know it hurt her, because she put her
arms around his neck and ti led o
him.”— boston Times. L , .
—As ninety-nine out of a hundred
young readers probably have leane<
an archipelago is a duster -of sma
islands at sea. But it is clear that a
certain old sailor on board a United
States man-of-war does not fullv under
stand the meaning of the word. An
officer heard the grizzled tar, who was
sp nning yarns to a knot of young -at
zr \.»-ak of “going through the
” One of the Souths after a
while, said. With a nuzzled a “d ?heej>
i«h air "The arches of whatr »o
ering contempt, responded the
Arches of Pelago, of course, you lub-
ber!”—N- K. Giaphic.
—The delicacy of English wit is
some hing that the American mind
KiLs to appreciate. An EngDsh weekly
offered a prize of £1 for the cleverest
original anecdote that should be sentit,
and the following secured the money,
evening recentlj. A ooj, •
from ‘he green-grocer s shop,
engaged to do the waiting- .
.«o di.i.»
hostess, she. probably th'X
Correct to know was
tor three hali-pw?ce.