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THE DALTON ARGUS
Dalton. Giu
ts. A. WRENCH, Publisher
One Dollar a. Y oar
A London paper speaks of the Prince
of Wales as “the fat little bald man.”
England must be becoming American
ized.
Fifty years ago a colored woman put
(94 in a Baltimore savings bank; and
her heirs have just realized $2,300
from it. Evidently the bank officials
did not use the money in wild specula
tions.
Five Pennsylvania women kindled
their fires with coal oil and there were
five funerals within forty-eight hours,
yet there are plenty more women who
risk their lives by kindling their fires
in the same manner.
The theory of the astronomers that
in the course of a few million years the
sun will not have enough heat left to
sustain life on this planet had no per
ceptible effect on a thermometer hung
in the shade during the recent torrid
season.
And now the oatmeal millers are or
ganizing for the purpose of controlling
the trade and fixing the prices in the
United States and Canada. If they
succeed, the cost of oatmeal will, of
course, be advanced, and all at the ex
pense of the poor sick and needy.
Something new in the military lino
is an international encampment, which
it is proposed to hold in Chicago next
fall. Invitations have been extended
to the proper officials of nearly all the
European governments to be repre
sented on the occasion, and some have
already accepted.
Mrs. Cleveland receives daily’a
most voluminous mail. Strange as it
may seem, many of her letters relate
to public business. Such communica
tions are at once turned over to Colo
nel Lamont She is importuned for
money, for influence, for office, and is
even asked to obtain pensions for muti
lated heroes.
A Chinaman is stated to have discov
ered that cast-off horseshoes make a
good cutlers’ steel. * The wrought iron
on the shoes having been constantly
hammered acquires the hardness of
steel. It is also supposed that the ani
mal heat of the hoof has something to
do with it. The metal is said to be good
for the manufacture of knives and
'sword blades.
Fairmount Park of Philadelphia
contains 3,000 acres and is eleven miles
dong. Central Park of New York in
cludes 834 acres, costing $15,000,000
for the land and improvements. The
,Chicago parks cover 2,000 acres, and
those of St. Louis about the same.
Prospect Park, Brooklyn, includes
‘nearly 600 acres, and Druid Hill Park
of Baltimore 680 acres.
The Louisville Courier-Journal says
that if ever there is to be a new Ameri
can dictionary, its author should take
care to omit the word “capitol.” It is
forever getting mixed with “capital,”
and no amount of care on the part of
the graceful penmen of the press can
prevent the substitution of the building
for the town. Not only should this
word be boycotted, but its inventor
should be hunted down and exposed.
The Washington papers are printing
a will made by Kosciusko just before
he finished his visit to America in 1798,
and which is among the files in the
office of Recorder of Wills in the Dis
trict'of Columbia. According to the
testament, which was afterwards super
seded by a new document, the patriot
whose fall made freedom shriek be
queathed all he had to Thomas Jef
ferson for the purpose of freeing ne
groes.
The oldest man in the world is said
to be James James, a colored citizen
of the United States, who resides at
Santa Rosa, Mexico. He is 135 years
old. He was born near Dorchester, S.
C., in 1752. He was one of the labor
ers at Fort Moultrie during the unsuc
cessful attack by the British fleet in
1776. At present the rheumatism keeps
James from walking, but he can drag
himself a short distance, and other
wise is in fairly good health.
It is now settled that typhoid fever
germs are carried almost wholly in wa
ter, and that while freezing does not
destroy them boiling always does. It
is proved, also, that filtration is wholly
ineffective for the purification of water
bearing these germs, so that the water
in a well may be infected from sinks,
etc., at a considerable distance. With
these facts definitely determined it
ought to be easy to reduce the danger
of typhoid fever to a minimum by
care.
NEW NATIONAL LIBRARY
Slowly the Deep Foundations Are
Being Built.
An Institution Which Will Be the Glory
of the Country and a Buildinc Which
Will Glorify Beautiful Washington. w
Washington, July 26.—Librarian Spof
ford, who usually makes his home on the
New England coast about this time of tha
year, is still here. Dirt is flying,old walls
coming down, mortar mixing,stone piling
up, and other evidences of a great enter
prise are making their appearance in the
square just opposite the Capitol. It is the
site for the new public library, and Mr.
Spofford’s stay in Washington most of tha
summer will be for the purpose of giving
his personal attention to this great enter
prise, the contemplation of which has been
a part of his very existence for years. The
building is to be something enormous, as
is shown by the tremendous excavation
being now made. There are 78,000 cubic
yards to be excavated. The building is to
hold about 11,000,000 square feet of area,
and will have about 21,000 more square
feet than the area covered by the State,
War and Navy Departments. The reading
room will be four feet larger in diameter
than the rotunda of the Capitol. The con
crete foundations are to go in this fall, set
tle during the winter, and work will begin
on the building next spring. Congress will
appropriate as the work goes on. The
present designs will accommodate 2,500,-
000 volumes, but whenever the time
comes that more space is needed,
the adjoining corridors, where at pres
ent the copyright pictures, plans,
etc., will be hung, can be used for the
spread of the library proper until, if nec
essary, several centuries off, 8,000,000 vol
umes can be placed between the walls.
This building will do for generations of
our national life. J. L. Smithmeyer, the
architect, is dividing his time between
Washington and the seashore, keeping an
eye on the work as it slowly goes on. Mr.
Smithmeyer hails from Indiana, but has
long made Washington his home. For fif
teen years this great library at the Cap
ital has bteen his architectural dream.
How many plans he has submitted during
the ups and downs of the effort to get a
starter out of Congress would be difficult
to say. He has personally inspected and
studied every library structure of conse
quence in the world, and his professional
ambition will be satisfied when he sees
this finished monument of his genius.
A PECULIAR ACCIDENT,
In Which a Horse is Killed by an Electric
Wire.
New York, July —A Montgomery
(Ala.) special says: Governor Seay was
the victim of a peculiar accident yesterday
afternoon. He and his private secretary,
J. K. Jackson, weredriving down the main
thoroughfare of the city, when one of the
guy wires which support the overhead
cable of the electric*street railway broke
and fell to the ground, striking the Gov
ernor’s horse. The wire was heavily
charged with electricity, and the horse, be
coming entangled, was shocked and burned
to death in a few minutes. Had it fallen a
second later, the wire would have struck
the Governor and Mr. Jackson, instead of
the horse. The accident hasjereated great
uneasiness about the safety of the electric
car system.
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• Colored Duelists.
New Orleans, July 26.—A fatal duel was
fought yesterday evening on the banks of
Yazoo river opposite Greenwood, Miss.,
between George Evans and Bud Harris,
both ■well-known colored men. The men
were terribly in earnest, and selected
( double-barreled shotguns which were
loaded with buckshot. Only two paces
apart they stood, the muzzles of the guns
almost touching. When the word was
given to fire both responded almost at the
same moment. Evans fell dead, his breast
torn to pieces by the murderous buckshot.
Harris was dangerously, perhaps fatally,
■wounded.
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General Comly Dead.
Toledo, 0., July 26. —General J. M.
Comly, editor and proprietor of the Com
mercial, died to-night of heart and lung
trouble. He was a native of Perry Coun
ty, 0., was bred a practical printer, and
afterward adopted the law, entered the
army in President Hays’ regiment, the
Twenty-third Ohio, rose to be a Colonel,
and was brevetted Brigadier General for
gallant services in the field. After the
war for several years he was editor of
the Ohio State Journal, Columbus, was
postmaster of Columbus from 1872 to 1876,
was appointed Minister to the Sandwich
Islands in 1877, serving five years.
Colored Troops Can Attend.
Chicago, July 56.—The order issued by
General Bcntly barring out colored troops
from the International Military Encamp
ment to be field here in October was re
called to-day by’ request of the board of
managers in charge of the enterprise.
$2,500 Reward for McGarigle.
Chicago July 26.—Sheriff Matson has
caused a circular to be printed offering on
his own account a reward of $2,500 for the
capture of McGarigle. the escaped boodler.
The circular will be sent to all the princi
pal cities of the country.
Murder and Lynching.
New Orleans, July 26.—80 b Jones, an
aged colored man, of Sunflower County’,
was brutally murdered by his son-in-law,
Lloyd Martin,while trying to prevent Mar
tin whipping his wife. Martin, who was
always considered a hard case, was taken
from the officers by’ a mob of colored per
sons aud lynched at Johnsonville to-day.
The Pope Will Not Interfere.
Rome, July 26.—The Pope has decided
that there is no ground for Papal interfer
ence with the Knights of Labor question.
He has conveyed the announcement of this
decision to Cardinal Gibbons.
PECULIAR ACCIDENT.
A Hog Swallows a Dynamite Cartridge and
is Blown up by a Horse's Kick.
Louisville, Ky., July 25.—A very pecul
iar accident occurred on a farm just be
yond “the Point” yesterday morning.
Mr. Simpson bought a lot of dynamite cart
ridges and was engaged in blowing up
stumps in his yard. He had alotofhogs
roaming about the plaee. Near the noon
hour his family, who were at dinner, were
startled by a very loud report, and, hurry
ing to the window to find the cause, saw
a cloud of dust arise from the ground.
An investigation showed that two
hogs aud one horse were blown to
atoms. It is supposed that one
of the hogs had swallowed a dynamite
cartridge. A farm-hand saw the horse
kick one of the hogs in the belly, and the
very next instant the explosion followed.
There was not a trace of the hog left, and
a hole several feet in depth was left in the
ground. The other animals were left dead
on the sod. The explosion was very violent
and heard several miles from the scene. A
number of the window glasses were shat
tered and the family much alarmed.
remarkable operation.
Removing a Spoon from the Stomach of a
Alan Alter it had Lain There Four Years.
Cincinnati, July 25.—Physicians at the
Cincinnati Hospital removed a spoon from
the stomach of a patient by a surgical
operation. The patient did sword-swal
lowing feats, and about four years ago
while giving a performance in the north
ern part of this State, on a wager,
swallowed a triple-plated teaspoon. He,
after that, continued the sword act, feel
ing no ill effect from the spoon until about
six months ago, when he would be at
tacked, periodically, with severe cramps
and pains which increased in violence
until they were almost unbearable. A
few days ago he landed in the hospital,
when the spoon was removed. The pa
tient will recover.
Trouble Feared at Morehead.
Frankfort, Ky., July 25.—Hon. Z. T.
Young, jr., and his friend the Postmaster
of Morehead, were here to-day for the pur
pose of try ing to get the Governor to send
troops to Morehead during the sitting of
the Rowan County Court, which convenes
on the 2nd of August. Allie and Will
Young, sons of Z. T. Y r oung, jr.,* are to be
tried during the ensuing term for being
accessory to the murder of the two Logan
boys, a few weeks before the Tollivers
were killed, and Mr. Y’oung is afraid his
boys will be foully dealt with, should
they be sent there for trial "without pro
tection from the State.
Poisoned by Dead Cattle.
Utica, N. Y., July 25.—Giles Smith, of
Deerfield, lost three cows last Wednesday
by bloody murrain. He had them buried
near a running stream, which infected the
water. Three cows belonging to William
Budlong, jr., a neighbor, died of the dis
ease. Budteig and John Raymond, while
looking for the cause, were stung by mos
quitoes, and are now seriously ill, having
been inoculated with the murrain virus.
There is considerable excitement and in
dignation about the matter. The stream
runs through several large farms of im
ported cattle.
Canadian Quarantine.
Ottawa, Ont., July 25.—1 t will be a mat
ter of important interest to United States
exporters of horses, cattle and swine into
Manitoba, the Northwest Territories and
British Columbia to know that the Do
minion Government has imposed quaran
tine regulations which preclude absolute
ly the importation in those sections of the
country of any cattle except for breeding
purposes, and they only to be imported
subject to the most stringent quarantine
inspection. All horses and hogs will be
subject to twenty-one days’ quarantine.
A Modern Noah.
Boston, July 25.—John Hobson, living in
New Brunswick, says he was told some
time ago by a spirit that there will soon
be another deluge in which he is to play
the part of Noah. He accordingly pre
pared himself with an ark, which is
anchored to his little log cabin and which
is ready’ to start on a sail at a moment’s
notice. As eighteen inches of rain has
fallen during the past forty-eight hours,
his neighbors are treating the old man
well.
Powder Mill Explosion.
Thomaston, Me., July 25.—The Warren
Powder Mill blew up this morning at
eight o’clock. They hud started up the
kernelling mill, in which were thirty
kegs of powder, three minutes previous
to the explosion. George Shepperd, aged
thirty, workman, was killed, being liter
ally torn to pieces. The same mill was
blown up six months ago.
A $4,000 Robbery.
Bessemer, Mich., July 25.—The Colby
Mine safe was robbed of $4,000 Saturday
night. The burglars gained admission Dy
the office window. Saturday was pay-day
and over SBO,OOO was distributed. There is
generally about SIO,OOO in the safe after
pay-day, as some men don’t get their
wages until Monday. There is no clue to
the robbers.
Volcanic Eruption.
Malta, July 25.—A violent volcanic
eruption has occurred on the island of
Gaiita, off the coast of Tunis. Streams of
lava aro issuing from the crater of (tie
volcano, and the glare of the flames emit
ted is visible for fifty miles.
St. Paul to Tender an Invite.
St. Paul, Minn., July 25.—Action has
been taken toward appointing a commit
tee to invite President and Mrs. Cleveland
to visit St. Paul during their coming West
ern trip.
Chinese Quarters Burned.
Los Angeles, Cal., July 25. The Chinese
quarters in this city were destroyed by fire
to-day, and a thousand Chinese are now
homeless.
FRIGHTFUL FLOODS.
Unprecedented Rainfalls Swell New
England Streams.
Railroads, Bridges, Dams, Mills, Houses
and Crops Damaged.
Boston, July 24.—Reports continue to be
received of great floods throughout New
England, occasioned by incessant rains
during forty-eight hours. Nearly eight
inches of rain have fallen, and streams
everywhere are out of bank. Immense
damage has been sustained.
Manchester, N. H., July 24.—The heav
iest storm in this locality in many years
has been in progress since Thursday, and
rain is still falling. Streets and culverts
have been washed out. The Merrimac
river is a torrent, and it is feared that
mills will not be able to start to-morrow
unless the rain ceases.
Greenfield, Mass., July 24.—Trains are
nearly all suspended ,on the Fitchburg
road owing to wash-outs. The passen
gers by the St. Louis express from the
West, which was detained at Miller’s
Falls all day, are now here at the hotel.
It will take till Monday afternoon to build
the trestles to take the place of the em
bankment which was washed out, and it
will take two weeks to replace the em
bankment.
Lake Pleasant, Mass., July 24. —The
most severe rain known in this vicinity
prevailed last night. All the mountain
streams are swollen and their roaring can
be heard for miles. No trains have passed
here to-day. There is a washout twenty
feet deep on the Fitchburg road, near
Erving. The Connecticut river is very
high. Highways are badly damaged, and
many bridges are swept away.
Dover, N. H., July 24.—Since 8 p. m.
Thursday until the same hour to-night,
nine inches of rain have fallen. The
Cocheco river is a roaring torrent. At 1
o’clock to-night the volume of water rush
ing over the Cocheco dam was thirty
seven inches, and increasing hourly. All
low lands throughout this region are cov
ered with water. A great part of the
hay crop has been spoiled, and several
highway bridges are in danger of being
carried away.
Great Barrington, Mass., July 24.—The
cloud-burst of Friday morning caused
great damage to property along the banks
of Green river, which were overflowed for
miles around. Williams bridge, at Oxford,
a structure sixty-five feet long and ten
feet above the ordinary level of the river,
was swept away. Kellogg’s grist-mill,
below the village, was saved only by open
ing the water-gates after the dam had
been seriously damaged.
Improved Telephone.
Brussels, July 24.—Colonel Renard and
Mr. Northom have invented a portable tel
ephone wherewith telephoning is made
easy on open ground from any where to
any inhere by means of a copper wire
worked by a small but astonishingly pow
erful generator of electricity. In war
fare soldiers could carry the wire,
and would be able to communi
cate with others by simply throw
ing the wire on the soil and roll
ing it around a sword fixed in the ground
to form a circuit and then speaking
, through a small box. The said telephone
also acts as a telegraph, and can be used
as a substitute wherever telegraph wires
are cut. Experiments made oetween
Brussels and Antwerp show the trans
mission to be so perfect that sound can be
heard even at several yards from the re
reiver.
Escape of a Convicted Boodler.
Chicago, July 24.—W. J. McGarigle, the
convicted boodler, has escaped. To-day,
in the custody of Sheriff Matson, Mc-
Garigle was taken to his home to visit his
family. While there he was permitted by
the sheriff to go into the bath-room for a
bath. After waiting a reasonable time for
his prisoner to come out, Sheriff Matson
called, but receiving no answer, he opened
the bath-room and it was empty. Then it
dawned upon the mind of the sheriff that
he had been duped.
Death From a Snake-Bite.
Oakland, 111., July 24.—While cutting
oats yesterday, a farmer named Johnson
was bitten by a rattlesnake, from the ef
fects of which he died. He was binding
oats, when he ran into a large nest of rat
tlers, and succeeded in killing fourteen of
them before he was bitten. Other parties
who came to his assistance succeeded in
killing eleven more.
Bravery Rewarded
Dublin, July 24.—Michael Davitt and his
wife attended a meeting held yesterday at
Bodyke and presented medals and money
to the girls who bravely assisted in the de
fense of their houses during the recent
celebrated eviction at this place.
Obeyed Instructions.
New York, July 24.—A colored man was
arrested by a New Y T ork policeman who
found him eating a cat.. He said he was
doing it in obedience to instructions from
his relatives in Heaven,so that they might
have peace.
Gored by a Mad Bull.
Detroit, Mich., July 24.—Eli Parkes, a
prominent citizen of Charlotte, was liter
erally torn to pieces by a mad bull yester
day morning. His remains were found
scattered about the premises. The bull
was shot.
Poisoned Ice Cream.
New Haven, Ct., July 24.—Two young
children of Prof. F. R. Honey, of Yale
College, died to-day under circumstances
which make it probable that they were
poisoned by’ ice cream.
Preacher Killed by Officers.
Starkville, Miss., July 24.—Rev. W. B.
Gatlin, a colored pastor, was shot and
killed to-day by officers who were attempt
ing to arrest him. He bore a good char
acter.
IMPORTED CONTRACT"- LAbqp
A Question of the Interpretation of the Ls
Forbidding It. W
New York, July 22.-Rather an
ing case, affecting the interpretation J
the act forbidding the importation of L. *
tract labor, came before Judge Lacomh.
to-day. One of the clauses of the act e
empte domestic servants from the
prohibition. William A. Sudduth a law
yer of Flemingsburg, Ky., has started a
fancy dairy farm. He couldn’t get a man :
ager for it in this country quite to his lik
mg, so he asked a friend of his in 8co ;
land to engage acompetent man there and
ship him out here at Mr. Sudduth,,
expense. The friend selected Michael
Cummings, a young man of twenty-three,
to take charge of the dairy, and with his
wife and child he embarked for this coun
try. On his arrival here the Collector of
the Port ordered Mr. Cummings’ deten
tion on the ground that he came under tha
act relating to contract labor. Subse
quently the steamship company was
instructed to ship the family back
on the vessel which brought them
out, and which sails to-morrow. The
agents referred the matter to their coun
sel, Mr. Putnam. He promptly applied to
Judge Lacombe for a writ of habeas cor
pus on Cummings’ behalf, claiming that the >
terms of the latter’s engagement brought!
h m within the exception in favor of d<>*s
mestic servants. Argument was heard
t lis afternoon and the judge refused to
give a snap decision, as the interpretation
of this clause has never yet been adjudi
cated upon. He directed, however, that
Cummings should not be sent back for the
present, but should be kept in the custody
(f the Commissioners of Emigration. The
writ of habeas corpus was made finally
returnable on August 4, and meanwhile
the judge will study out the meaning of
the disputed clause.
ELABORATE AFFAIR.
Handsome and Elegant Invitation to the
President and Mrs. Cleveland.
Kansas City, Mo., July 22.—The Cleve
land invitation has just been completed,
The invitation is in hook form, making a
volume eleven inches long, sixteen wide
and four thick. The binding is of seal
skin. On the front cover of the book, sunk
in the binding, is a square of white satin,
bordered with blue plush. Upon the satin,
elegantly engrossed, is the following:
Kansas City,
To the President and Mrs. Cleveland,
Greeting, 1887.
Upon the back of the book, in gold let
ters, is “Kansas City—Greeting,” and be
low it, “To the President and Mrs. Cleve
land.” The water-color pictures by Mr,
Barson are bunched together, following
the title page, in the following order:
Kansas City, Kansas, Missouri, Texas, In-i\)
dian Territory and Colorado. Then comes) .
the invitation, signed by 21,000 citizens.
The book is inclosed in a case of imitation
sealskin, embossed with gold and lined
with gold plush.
A Pensioner Murdered.
Nelsonville, 0., July 22.—Mrs. Hattie
Seymour, an aged lady residing in Harri
son Township, Vinton County, just over
the Athens County line, was horribly
murdered last night. She was a Govern
ment pensioner, and had recently received
quite a sum of money, and it is supposed
that the object of the murder was to ob
tain this cash. She was found lying on
the floor in her house last night in a pool
of blood, with a bullet in her brain and a
knife stab in her stomach, dead. There is
no clew.
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Tornado Torn.
Cheboygan, Mich., July 22.—Land-look
ers in from the woods to-day report a tor
nado passing through the southern parts
of this county, in the vicinity of the Rainy
river district and the Township of Allis,
Presque Isle County, doing immense dam
age to standing pine. On one forty-acreij
tract not a tree was left standing. The
roads in all directions are completely
blocked by falling trees and timber. The
party returned leading their horses. Their
wagons could not be extricated, and were
left behind.
Train Wrecker Hanged.
Nebraska City, Neb., July 22-—David
Hoffman was hanged here to-day for
wrecking a Missouri Pacific passenge:
train on the night of the 11th of January
last at Dunbar. Engineer DeWitt was in
stantly killed and a number of passengers
were seriously injured. His confederate
is serving ten years’ sentence in the peni
tentiary, having turned State’s evidence.
Killed by a Thunderbolt.
New York. July 22. —Samuel J- Dixon, a
well-known ice-cream manufacturer o
this city, was fishing in a skiff on Primes
Bay, Staten Island, to-day, with a frien (
named John P. Ryan, when a storm eaim \ ,
up, and both men were instantly ki
by a stroke of lightning. The stro .
knocked the bodies of both men out of t
boat.
Yellow Fever at Key "West.
Key West, Fla., July 22,-Nine new
cases of yellow fever have develdpec si
yesterday, but no deaths have occurre
as in previous reports during the last i
weeks. These new cases are mostly < u
ren, of whom nearly a hundred are i
have been under treatment w’ithou
fatal results.
A Drunken Engineer to Blaine-
St. Thomas, Ont., July 22.—A M *
quest in connection with the late 1,1 ' j
disaster, witnesses swore that t e
gineer was under the influence o 1 .
and unlit to control the train; as o ‘ &
the conductor had been drinking,
not intoxicated. The inquest is 81
ceeding.
Site for Newport Barracks. i
Washington, July 22.-The
War has approved the recomine> ll “ f
for the purchase of the Bigstaff t
the site of the new barracks at - ■ '
There are 111 acres, and the pri 1
paid is $4.3,000. The site is three
from the crtjr and overlooks the O a