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i VOL. VII.—NO. 15.
TOPICS OF THE OAT.
Arizona courts are dealing out red
hot justice upon the Mormons.
It requires 3,080,265 soldiers, main
tained at an expense of $521,506,170 :
year, to “keep the peace of Europe.”
Rates for living are enormously high
in Washington this winter, both at
hotels and boarding-houses. Office
seekers’ take notice.
A Canadian has just had his tongue
amputated at the General Hospital; in
Toronto, because of cancer alleged to
have been caused by cigar'Smoking.
Canada will join the United State
in doing everythi g possible to keep out
the cholera. There is hope that timely
precautions will prove our salvation.
An imperial decree has been issued
urging the Chinese to poison the French.
It will first be necessary to catch the
French—a task of more or less difficulty.
Frisky Mrs. Farley, of Stratford,
Conn., aged one hundred and three,
went shopping in Bridgeport the other
day with her little daughter, aged sev
enty.
The largest locomotive in the world
has just been finished at Sacramento.
Its weight is considerably more than one
hundred tons, and has ten large drive
wheels, five on a side.
The Tichborne claimant has not en
tered the lecture field, and is entitled to
some credit. But he has done the next
worse thing by exhibiting himself as a
curiosity at the museums.
There are nine hundred steps to
climb to reach the top of the W ashing
ton monument, or you can take the ele
vator, which requires eleven minutes to
reach the summit—sss feet?
A machine used for stamping letters
is proving a success. A postmark legi
ble enough to betray the office from
which a letter is mailed, would, no
doubt, scare the average postmaster out
of his wits.
There is said to be invented a new
watch, with a nickel case, that can be
put on the market for a dollar and guar
anteed to keep good time. Yet people
will continue to miss trains and be late
at church as of yore.
The election of Charles S. Voorhees,
a son of Senator Voorhees, as a dele
gate to Congress from Washington Ter
ritory will, it is believed, be the second
instance only in the history of the coun
try when a father and son sat at the
same time in Congress.
Once more the sad news comes from
India that the failure of the crops in a
densely peopled district is about to
cause a famine. Bengal, the afflicted
province, is the most densely settled
portion of the peninsular. The coun
try is over-populated, and any failure
cf the periodical rains plunges whole
provinces in ruin.
. ' etroi.eum is evidently going to be
the fuel of the future, and it is desira
le that the deposits, which appear to
exist in almost every country, and to be
practically inexhaustible, should be
tapped and made available. The indi
cations are that it will be so cheap in
t e future that it will not bear transpor
z and each section will depend on
>ts own product.
li seems that the Nile expedition is to
cos . t England besides the $1,500,000
which was voted at the first flush, $5,-
»«>O,OOO for the army and $1,720,000 for
" nav . v - Os course these expenses,
,f) ming unawares, must be met by new
1111 aDS ' In this instance it is by an in
crease °f Id. to the income tax, which
will yield $9,600,000 of increase to the
"me of the Government.
h ’'hof. Reck, of Williamsport, Pa.,
as made a series of microscopic in-
of beer. He says he found
hundred bacteria—living microbes
th' 1 S * ni Pl e beer which was magni
cight hundred diameters by a mi
''"pe. and proved to his own satis
f.|C ' , n ’ and the disgust of beer-drink
av' t iat that particular sample of beer
i] r . * a hout 8,000,000 parasites to a
9- r '''° fx, ,ooo to a teaspoonful, and
"•«»».000,«)0to, sch8ODe K r .
wa -Vi 1 -*' le ea rly contributions to
merit ‘' ng the Washington monu-
Sm? a a bloek of African marble,
March' tx P ? Pe ‘ ° DeSutlda y n ’K ht in
men brnt-A • a few disguised
where it lnto th® lapidarium
Quieted b" * placed and the watchman
k I ’ oinM " hi " M
truck carriiU as tlu:n P la ®ed on a
K ftver, loaded bank ° f the Potomao
a middle of * BCOW ’ t^ oll to the
thrown overboard
dnllou -Avtjuo.
IN FOREIGN LANDS.
The Sentence of the Cannibals Com
muted to Six Months’ Imprison
ment.
Explosion Under the London Bridge-
Baby Insurance—Toys Under Cen
sorship.
London, December 14. —A terrific explo
sion occurred yesterday morning under
the London bridge. The latest account
shows explosive material was thrown from
the bridge, and striking the water burst
into flame. The explosion was heard ten
miles outside of London. At Woolwich
arsenal the gates were shaken. The police
think a boat containing the explosive with
a burning fuse attached was al
lowed to drift beneath the bridge. A care
ful inspection of London bridge was made
to-day. It was found that no injury to the
structure whatever was done. A policeman
who at the time of the explosion was
standing on the top of the steps leading to
the steamboat pier on the Surrey side
of the river, with his back to the stream,
says he saw a blinding glare, like a sheet
of lightning, which was followed by a
terrific report. He was almost stunned,
and his helmet was blown some yards
away by concussion. The houses damaged
were on the Middlesex side, where the
windows were smashed as far as Billings
gate Market. Several panes of glass were
broken in Fishmongers’ Hall, but otherwise
the building received no damage.
London, December 14. —The sentence of
Captain Dudley and Mate Stephens, the
Mignonette cannibals, is commuted from
hanging to six months’ imprisonment
without labor.
Paris, December 14 —The Prefecture of
Police in Paris has insisted on the models
of all the Christmas toys being submitted
for censorship. All models recalling the
war in China were prohibited, Mandarins
and Black Flags were not allowed to be
caricatured, nor the storming of Sontay to
be celebrated, but a figure of the Mahdi
was passed, according to which he is a
portly Turk, and he spins around, being
touched by a spring.
London, December 14. —Attention is
drawn to the vast amount of infanticide
caused by the facilities for baby insurance,
and a London Coroner has asserted that of
the infants killed by overlying three out of
four are murdered by their mothers to ob
tain insurance money.
Masonic Conventieu.
Boston, December 14.--A Masonic Con
vention was held the past week of all
Masons of the United States of America
having taken “the ninetieth degree or
ninety-fifth degree of either the Rites of
Memphis or Mizraim or thirtieth
degree or thirty-five degree of
the ancient and primitive rites, no matter
when or from whom, or under what
jurisdiction,” for the purpose of “con
sidering the advisability of establishing a
Union Sovereign Sanctuary, embracing all
the mysteries of the above named rites
from the fourth to the ninety-sixth degree
inclusive, to be known as the Sovereign
Sanctuary of the Royal Masonic Rite for
the United States of America.” The body
organized with Judge Isaac H. Parish, of
Michigan, as Most Illustrious Past Grand
Master.
Colored Oystermen Drowned.
Baltimore, December 12.--Officers of the
steamer L. Weems, which arrived this
morning from the Rappahannock River,
Virginia, report a fearful loss of life
among colored oystermen on that river in
the storms of Tuesday las c. About twen
ty-five colored men were out in their boats
tonging for oysters when the storm
arose. The gale capsized almost all of
them, and those who escaped were unable
to reach the shore in safety. The men
were thrown into the rough water, unable
to swim ashore. Many of them clung to
the boats for a time, but were finally wash
ed away and drowned. Very few escaped.
Eleven bodies have been recovered already,
and as many more are said to be missing.
It is scarcely possible that any of the latter
have escaped death.
Destructive Conflagration.
Indianapolis, Ind., December 14.--A
special to the Times gives some details of a
disastrous conflagration at Brookville.
Early this morning a fire started in Joseph
Schmidt’s clothing store, and the principal
block on the main street of the town was
entirely destroyed. The merchants who
lose heavily are: J. A. Popper, Joseph
Schmidt, A. H. Kaiser, G. T. Hutchinson
and Mrs. Link. Odd-Fellows’ Hall was
also consumed. The total loss on buildings
and stock will aggregate SBO,OOO. .The in
surance is placed partially in the Franklin,
of Indianapolis, and the Home, of New
York.
Sunday-School Celebration.
Baltimore, December 14.—The pulpits of
all the Methodist churches in this city were
occupied to-day by delegates to the Cen- ,
tenary Conference. In the afternoon there
was a Sunday-school celebration. Twen
five thousand children participated. It was
held in twenty-one churches, fifteen white,
representing forty-three congregations,
and six colored, representing thirteen con
gregations.
Temperance Revival.
Pittsburgh, December 14. —The Murphy
temperance revival, started here two
weeks ago, is growing rapidly. Six thou
sand have already joined the blue ribbon
army. At a meeting to-night nearly 7,000
persons were present, and 1,100 signed the
pledge.
A Young Burglar.
Elkhart, Inc., December 14. Frank
Clark, a boy of thirteen broke into E. K.
Bogess’ grocery to-night, and was caught
hiding in a barrel, .with a revolver stowed
‘in his boot. Supposed to be the result of
novel-reading.
DALTON, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1884.
HEALTH CONFERENCE,
Recommendations as to the Best Method
of Preventing the Introduction of
Cholera.
Washington, December 12.—The Com
mittee on Federal Legislation, appointed
by the National Conference of State Boards
of Health, has completed a bill which em
bodies the views of the Conference as to
the best methods of preventing the intro
duction into the United States of cholera
and other diseases dangerous to the public
health. The first ofzthe ten sections com
prised in the biUprovides fora National
Board of Health, to consist of one member
from every State Health Bqfizd, now or
hereafter established, to lie appointed
by the President and confirmed by
the Senate. This differs from the ortginal
act, in that it largely increases the mem
bership of the Board and excludes from it
medical officers from the ariry, navy and
marine hospital service, and the law officer
from the Department of Justice. The sec
ond section of the new bill provides, as did
the corresponding section of the original
act, for the collection and dissemination of
sanitary information, etc., but greatly en
larges the scope of the Board’s powers by
authorizing it to frame rules and regula
tions for Government quarantine service of
the United States, and by vesting in it (the
Board) all authority which is now or may
hereafter be provided by law for control
and protection of the public health. It
directs the National Board to co-operate
with local Boards as far as it lawfully may
and aid in the. enforcement of the latter’s
rules and regulations; but it also author
izes the National Board, upon direction of
the President, to act in several States inde
pendently, and make and enforce there its
own rules, regardless of local Boards. The
third section relates to the regulation of
the marine quarantine service, and author
izes the National Board to frame rules to be
observed by all vessels sailing from foreign
ports to ports of the United States; and
provides that such rules, when approved
by the President and issued by the De
partment of State, shall be enforced by all
consular officers and agents of the United
States, as well as by medical officers
serving under this act. Section
4 provides that any vessel from any foreign
port which shall attempt to enter any port
of the United States in violation of the
above-mentioned rules and regulations
shall be liable to process in the proper Dis
trict Court of the United States, and upon
conviction shall forfeit to the United
States a sum to be awarded in the discretion
of the Court, not exceeding SI,OOO, which
shall be a lien upon the vessel. In order to
show that it has complied with these rules
and regulations, every vessel shall be pro
vided with a proper certificate from the U.
S. Consular or medical officer at the port of
departure, who must be satisfied that
the statements therein contained are
true. Section 5 provides for a similar ob
servance of these rules, and a correspond
ing certificate from the health officer at the
port of entry. Section 6 authorizes the
President of the United States in any
threatening emergency, to make known by
proclamation, measures which he may
think necessary to meet it, such as suspend
ing the introduction by land or sea of any
dangerous kind of merchandise, or pro
hibiting entirely the entry into United
States ports of vessels from infected coun
tries. He shall at the same time convene the
National Board of Health, in special ses
sion, and the measures devised by the lat
ter shall, upon approval by the President,
supersede the Executive proclamation.
The remaining four sections provide for
collection by consular officers of sanitary
statistics and information in foreign ports;
for detail by the President’s
departmental officers to serve tem
porarily under direction of the
Board without extra compensation;
for the appropriation of $50,000 to meet
expenses incurred in carrying out the pro
visions of the bill, such sums to be dis
tributed under the National Board’s direc
tion, and by its own disbursing agents;
and for the repeal of all acts inconsistent
with the terms of this one. A delegation
of physicians and members of State Boards
of Health placed the bill in the hands of
the House Committee on Public Health this
afternoon.
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Three Girls’ Horrible Fate.
Detroit, Mich., December 12.—At a
quarter past five o’clock this evening the
girls employed in the second story of Gray,
Toynton & Fox’s candy factory, on Wood
bridge street, were terrified by seeing fire
break out in the rear of the department in
which they were employed. A rush was
immediately made for the fire escape at
the front of the building. The upper sash
of one of the windows had been lowered,
and the young women had to climb over it
in order to reach the balcony. One in
descending the ladder slipped and fell to the
pavement and was seriously injured. Three
girls were then seen to advance to the
window, and immediately afterward a vol
ume of fire and smoke burst out over their
heads and they were soon hidden from
view. When the fire in the second story
had been partly subdued the bodies of the
three girls were discovered. One lay in
the middle of the floor. Her face was
badly burnt. The other two were stretched
upon benches just beneath the partly open
window. Their faces were blackened and
presented a saddening sight, but the flames
had not touched their bodies.
. ♦ I ————
Idle Workmen.
Detroit, Mich., December 14.—1 tis said
there are now fully ten thousand men out
out of employment in this city, and many
more whose time and pay have been re
duced. The only interests not affected are
tobacco manufactures, furriers and brew
ers.
New Cable.
Paris. December 12.—The submarine tel
egraph cable between Senegal and France
has been completed and the first messages
pass*! over the wire, expressing the devo
tion of the colony to the mother country
and reciprocal feeling on the part of ths
latter. /
A DESTRUCTIVE STORM.
An Island at Buffalo, N. Y., Submerged.
A Number of Bouses Swept Into the Lake—
A Church Blown Down.
Buffalo, N. Y., December 15. —A great
wind-storm commenced last evening, blow
ing at a speed of sixty-four miles an hour.
The water in the harbor and creek rose
rapidly until it was higher than it had been
for years. The tow-path was flooded, and
occupants of dwellings along that
thoroughfare beat hasty retreat. Acci
dents were numerous, many chimneys
and portions of partially-erected brick
walls falling. Branches of trees were scat
tered in all directions. The chimney of
School No. 8 was blown down and crashed
through the ..roof, but no one was hurt.
The residents' of the island awoke this
morning to find the waves beating against
the sea-wall with a violence never be
fore equalled, and a storm raging
which bid fair to render them home
less. About nine o’clock the island was no
longer an island, but a sand-bar, over
which the waves were rushing with almost
uninterrupted fury. The island consists
of a narrow strip of sand stretching away
on the right of the light-house, and on the
left the shore curves south-east for some
distance. Back from the beach is the sea
wall, a barrier of stone four feet thick
and from six to eight high, which
in ordinary weather protects the row of
little houses built under its lee. These are
occupied by fishermen, boatmen and others.
When visited this morning the whole
island was covered with water to a depth
of three or four feet and the wind blowing
sixty miles an hour. The houses were all
washed away and the beating of the sea
had broken down the sea-wall for a distance
of fifty feet.
Erie, Pa., December 15.—The storm of
last night leveled the beautiful Polish
Church recently dedicated by Bishop Mul
len. Tearing down the doors, the wind
forced out the sides and split the roof in
twain. The structure fell with a crash,
and is a complete wreck. Many thousands
of dollars of property all over the surround
ing country is destroyed.
Cheaper Postage Probable.
Washington, December 15.—1 tis quite
likely that Congress will, during the pres
ent session, take one further step in the
way of cheap postage. The result of the
reduction of letter postage to two cents has
been so gratifying that it will encourage
Congress to adopt Mr. Bingham’s bill in
creasing the weight of single postage let
ters to one ounce, instead of one-half ounce
as now. The reduction of postal rates to
two cents has really, it is understood, re
duced the revenues of the Department by
only about two million dollars, and it
seems probable that this amount will be
regained during the coming fiscal year.
This fact will encouraged Congress to make
the change in regard to the weight of let
ters, which will really be a great conven
ience to the letter-writing public and will
not materially reduce the receipts of the
Department. It may also result in the pas
sage at this session of the bill for the re
duction of local postage to one cent.
’he Dingley Bill.
Washington, December 15.—The House
of Representatives to-day decided to fix
January 15 for the consideration of the
Dingley bill, which provides that the Sec
retary of the Treasury shall in his discre
tion invest so much of the funds held in
reserve for the redemption of National
Bank circulation in trust for the National
Banks in Government bonds. The object
of the bill is to prevent to this extent an
undue contraction of the currency. If the bill
becomes a law it will put in circulation
about $25,000,000 without danger to the
trust fund. This fund is the five per cent,
reserve fund held by the Treasury to re
deem the circulating notes of the National
Banking Association.
Suicide from Despondency.
Centralia, 111., December 15.—George
Prickett, aged twenty-four years, in a fit of
despondency, cut his throat at half-past
five o’clock this evening and died in fifteen
minutes. He had just finished his supper,
walked to the front door of his mother’s
residence and committed the deed, returned
and shook hands with his mother and then
plunged out of the door again, falling in
the snow.
Oil Upon the Waters.
New York, December 15.—The steamship
Thingvalla, from Copenhagen, reports:
“After the sea had smashed the lifeboat
and injured the third officer and three
men, the engines were stopped, oil bags
hung over the side and the marine drag let
go. The ship lay in this way eighteen
hours without shipping any water, the
seas breaking in her wake.”
A Horrible Story.
Paris, December 15. Hava’s News
Agency publishes letters from private
soldiers stating that General Negrier, in
defeating ten thousand Chinese regulars,
handed over two hundred prisoners to the
best French riflemen for targets in ball
practice, and that all of them were killed.
The newspapers demand prompt and cate
goric denial of the statement.
Telegraphers’ Association Formed.
Boston, December 15.--The telegraph
operators from all companies in this city
met yesterday and formed a protective
association. It is understood that this
action is in common with other operators
throughout the country.
AJ*Shut-Down.
Pittsburgh, December 15. -The Edgar
Thomson Steel Works at Braddocks, Pa.,
'shut down indefinitely, throwing about
sixteen hundred men out of employment
and affecting, indirectly, four thousand.
The pay-roll amount to $150,000 monthly.
XL VIII. CONGRESS.
Second Session.
Washington, December 9.—Sen at®.—Mr.
Hale called up the naval appropriation bill,
which al the close of last session was in the
hands of the Conference Committee, and as
to which that committee reported it had been
unable to agree. He moved the Senate fur
ther insist on its amendments, and order a
new conference. So ordered. Mr. Sherman
introduced a bill to provide for the erection
of a statue in memory of Lafayette. Mr
Slater called up the Oregon Central land for
feiture bill, but the Senate, by a vote of 29
yeas to 30 nays, refused to consider it. It was
then decided, by a party vote of yeas 34, nays
», to take up the bill for the admission of
Dakota, the Republicans voting in the affir
mative and the Democrats in the negative.
House.—Mr. Chalmers introduced a bill to
restore a republican form of Government to
the State of Mississippi. Referred. It pro
vides that Congressional and State elections
shall be held the same day in that State.
Each candidate for Congress shall be per
mitted to appoint in writing one inspector
and one clerk at. each voting precinct, who
shall be permitted to witness all proceedings
It is made a crime punishable with tine and
imprisonment for any person to assault, in
timidate, threaten, or insult, any inspector
or clerk. In consideration of the Inter-State
commerce bill having been resumed, Mr."
Barksdale addressed the House in constitu
tional argument in support of the right of
Congress to legislate on the subject.
Washington, December 10.—Senate.—Mr.
Sherman presided over the Senate to-day.
The Chair laid before the Senate an invita
tion to that body from the Commissioners of
the New Orleans Exposition to participate in
the opening of the Exposition on the 16th
inst. The communication was laid on the
table. That being the usual formal disposi
tion of such documents in the Senate when
ao special or immediate disposition is de
manded by any Senator. The House joint
resolution for continuing the work of the
census bureau passed.
House.—The Speaker laid before the
House a communication from Representa
tive Scales, of North Carolina, announcing
his resignation, to take effect December 30.
Tabled. The House went into Committee of
the Whole (Mr. Cox, of New York, in the
Chair) on the Military Academy Appropria
tion Bill.
Washington, December 11. —Senate.—A
resolution was offered favoring an amend
ment requiring that treaties which concern
matters of revenue be considered in open ses
sion. Discussion on the Oregon Central land
forfeiture bill and the Dakota bill occupied
much of the day. A joint resolution was
passed fixing February 21 for the ceremonies
connected with the completion of the Wash
ington monument. Adjourned until Mon
day.
House.—A concurrent resolution was pre
sented providing for a committee of five
Representatives and three Senators of the
next Congress to investigate the capacity of
the canals of Maryland. The resolution was
adoped calling on the Secretary of the Inter
ior for information relative to the fees of
claim agents in the pension cases. On motion
of Mr. Weaver, the Senate bill was passed
authorizing the First National Bank of
Omaha to increase its capital stock.
Washington, December 12.—Senate.—Sen
ate not in session.
House.—On motion of Mr. Ellis the con
current resolution passed, reciting that the
exigencies of the public service prevent the
attendance of Congress at the opening of the
World’s Industrial and Cotton Exposition at
New Orleans; that the President has decided
to open the Exposition by telegraph, and
start the machinery therof by electric
ity from the Executive Mansion,
in the presence of his Cabinet and
foreign representatives, and requesting the
President of the Senate together with a com
mittee of thirteen Senators and the Speaker
of the House, with one Representative or
delegate from each State or territory to at
tend at the Executive Mansion, Tuesday, De
cember 16, at 12:31), to witness on behalf of
the Congress of the United States the open
ing of the Exposition by the President, and
to adopt ami forward therefrom such ad
dresses of congratulation as may seem ap
propriate to the occasion. Adjourned until
Monday.
Washington, December 15.—Senate.—Mr.
Sherman, of the Committee on Library, re
ported favorably a bill providing for the
erection of a statue of General Lafayette.
Mr. Logan presented u large number of peti
tions from tobacco and cigar manufacturers
and labor organizations of Illinois, New York
and other States protesting against rati
fication of the Spanish treaty. Also petitions
signed by over 7,660 ex-soldiers of the 1
Union army praying that Congress purchase
for the Capitol at Washington a portrait of I
General George H. Thomas, and recommend
ing that it be executed by Miss Ransom. Re
ferred. The Dakota bill was considered,
after which Mr. Hill addressed the body on
the silver question. A bill was passed I
authorizing the erection of a public building
at Akron, 0.. appropriating SIOO,OOO.
House.—Bills introduced and referred: To
declare forfeited to the United States all
unearned land grants, and to provide for ad
judication of controversies in relation there
to. To regulate the Hot Springs Reservation
in Arkansas. Also, to complete the Improve- I
ment of Hot. Springs Creek. Granting the
right of way through Indian Ter
ritory to the Kansas City, Arkansas and Fort
Smith Railroad Company. A resolution call
ing on the Secretary of State for information
as to the mode and manner in full detail of
the expenditure of f32s.rtK), appropriated by
Congress for the expenses of the I
French and American claims Com- I
mission: for the creation of the Red
River Commission. To encourage the hold
ing of an agricultural, horticultural, mining,
timber andl ive stock exposition at Louisville,
To provide for refunding the public
debt and secure the stability of
National bank circulaton. Mr. Ai
kins, from the Committee on Agriculture,
moved to suspend the rules and pass a bill to
establish a Department of Agriculture.
Messrs. Blount. Potter and Browne (Ind.)
spoke in opposition to the motion, which was
advocated by Messrs. Wilson (la.) Aiken,
Budd. Hardeman and Cox (N. Y.) The mo
tion to suspend the rules was agreed to:
yeas, 166; nays, 90.
A Notable Incident.
Washington, December 14. Commis
sioner Genera) Moorehead, of the World’s
Exposition, who will represent the Board
of Management at the Executive Man
sion on Tuesday, when President Ar
thur starts the machinery in the build
ing by electricity, has invited to be pres
ent on that occasion the Governors of
New York, New Jersey. Pennsylvania,
Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and the
New England States, ns well us the May
ors of the principal cities of those States
The District of Columbia will be repre
sented by a number of distinguished citi
zens, with the ladies of their households.
Reuben Springer’s Wilf.
Cincinnati, December 14.—Reuben R.
Springer, the philanthropist, in his will,
bequeaths to the Archbishop in trust fol
charities, $200,000; an additional endowment
to the College of Music of $2,500 per annum.
To the Music Hall Association he leaves an
additional income of $5,000 8
two female servants receive $25,000 jointly < 1
and his coachman SIO,OOO and his horses,
carriages ami harness. I i
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To Lobby Against the Spanish Treaty.
New Yobk, December 14.—The Execu- I
five Committoeof the Cigar-makers’ Union,
at a meeting this '|
of five to go to Washington tor ,
the purpose of opposing the ratification of j
tie Bpamsh'trwity.
TERMS-81 A YEAR.
SOUTHERN NEWS GLEANINGS.
Chai.es H. Palmer, who shot William
Adkins in Pittsylvania County, Ya.,recent
y, has surrendered to the Sheriff oncondi-
Uon that he would not let him be lynched
He expected to be hanged.
A bold attempt to rob the Citizens’ Na
tional Bank at Waco, Texas, was foiled by
the alertness of Wm. Grider, the teller.
Camphor trees are growing thriftily at
Quincy, Fla. The plants were obtained
from Washington.
Wilmington is said to be the largest city
in North Carolina. Its present population
is about 20,000.
The other evening a fatal affray occur
red at the Knoxville Iron Company’s coal
mines' at Cold Creek, Tenn., in which two
penitentiary convicts were killed and two
seriously wounded. About two months
since two convicts escaped from the guards,
and on the 12th six others tried the same
game, but failed. They rushed out past
the guards and were ordered to halt, but
did not. A general row ensued, in which
Samuel Music, of Cumberland County, and
Sol Wilson, colored, from Crockett County,
two of the convicts, were instantly killed,
their bodies being riddled with buckshot,
Hugh Stafford, of Green County, another
convict, had his left arm shot off. John
Pressnell, of Johnson County, also received
a severe flesh wound. None of the guards
I were hurt, but trouble is feared among the
I miners yet over the affair.
The Army and Navy Hospital building -
at Hot Springs, Ark., are in shape, but
there is much work required yet. The ap
propriation of SIOO,OOO will be found inade
quate for the proper completion of ths
great enterprise, and Congress will be asked
to grant an additional sum.
In 1865 Ezekial Parker died at Wells
burg, W. Va., leaving his property, valued
at $20,000, now worth several times that
I sum, to his wife during her life, after her
I death to his daughter, Mrs. Tucker, and
after her death, if she should die childless,
I to the American Baptist University and
Publication Society. Mrs. Tucker is in ad
vanced life, and has no children, but she
sought to break the will. Judge J. M.
Jackson, of Parkersburg, has rendered his
I decision, confirming the devise to the As
sociation. The property in issue is real
estate, adjoining Wellsburg, and on tin
natural gas belt.
The Legislature of Alabama has sat down
upon the circulation of obscene publications
I in the State.
There are two Jews in the lower House
I of the Georgia Legislature, and a Georgia
I paper says there are no better members on
I the floor.
I By a new city ordinance at Hot Springs,
I Ark., drummers for physicians are
assessed a tax of SSOO per annum, while
I drummers for hotels are taxed $25.
A worm which thirty years ago de-
I stroyed many of the pine trees in North
I Carolina is again making havoc this sea-
I son.
It is said that there are but two piece,
of the Hiddenite gem (the North Carolina
gem) in the South at present, and these
are in the shape of a pair of earrings owned
I by a young lady at Greenville, 8. C. The
demand for the stone in Europe is so great
that Prof. Hidden, who himself owns and
operates the only known Hiddenite mine,
I sends them abroad as fast as they are
I mined.
Clyde, the twelve-year-old son of Judge
I Gothard, of Knoxville, Tenn., fell from a
I freight train at Carey ville, and received
I serious and perhaps fatal injuries.
F. P. Jones and wife, who were assaulted
by some negroes a few weeks ago at Sul
phur Springs, Texas, recently died from
the effects of their wounds. The negroes,
Alsbrooks and Riley, who made a confes
sion and admitted the crime were summar
ily dealt with by Judge Lynch a few days
ago.
W arren Price, aged seventy-four years,
was hanged at Wrightsville, Ga., for the
murder of his son-in-law. I
Henry Walker, mate of the schoonei
Julia Baker, who pleaded guilty at Key .
West to stealing and selling, after the cap
tain’s death, the schooner’s cargo, was sen
tenced to six years’ imprisonment.
Over 12,000,000 feet of dry poplar, wal
nut, ash and oak lumber, on the banks of
the Upper Cumberland, will be rafted to
Nashville with the first rise. The river is
quite low at present, but, as it rises rapidly,
it will require only a good, steady rain to
make it suitable for the transportation of
rafts. The prospects are that that city will
do the biggest lumber business the coming
season ever known there.
South Carolina farmers say that the
drought in that State is not hurting any
thing now, for the melancholy reason that
it has destroyed about everything that
could be injured by the drying-up process.
Gen. Albert Pike is at work among the
Masonic lodges of Texas.
Eighty counties in Georgia stand in the
prohibition column.
A bill has been introduced m the Lower
House of the General Assembly of Alabama
to establish a Normal School for white fe
males.
A woman named Skelley went racing into
Franklin, Tenn., on horseback, the other
day, pursued by her husband on a mule.
She declared to the crowd she wanted a
I divorce because of his cruel and inhuman
treatment, upon which Skelley, who had
come up by that time, began to beat her.
In an attempt to arrest him, a police officer
was fatally cut. Skelley is believed to be
insane.
r The steamboat W. P- Thompson, which
! collided with the Captain Miller Mow St.
Josephs, La,, and sunk, had on boyda part
of Buffalo Bill’s “Wild West,” winch was
(lost. _k>»
CHARLES Folks, rs g»njbler
and blackleg of u.i < .
has died worth SIOO,O* p, H
i Hot Springs. JajiidelpM'*. l< ‘-
Prof. Stepien O. 801
rersity of Virginia, wb
one of the ablest lavryt
ipeakers in Virginia. H
mandant of Faerk’k
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