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THE DALTON ARGUS.
Dalton, Georgia.
11. A. WRENCH, Publisher.
cm: UOI.LAII A VEAK.
Mayou John Male, of Plainfield. N.
J., who is eighty years old, has ar mi •
brella that he has carried for thirty-! ' e
years. It has been newly covered four
times, though never lost or mislaid once.
A fiat has gone forth in English so
ciety. It is to the effect that all English
men who consider themselves “soine
oodies” must sacrifice their beards (if
they have any) rind let their mustaches
grow as long as possible.
The price of art articles fluctuates.
The late Mrs. Morgan, of New York,
paid for Millet’s “Woman Spinning,”
¥17,100. Since her death a French
picture-dealer bought the painting for
¥O,OOO, and it will go to Paris.
The Dominion government has noti
fied the Canadian sealers that if they
go into the waters of Behring sea this
season, they go on their own responsi
bility. Canada is disinclined to come
into collision with the United States
authorities.
THERE are numerous laws and court
decisions making it obligatory upon
parents to support their children; and
now the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
has just decided that children must sup
port their parents if the latter are una
ble to support themselves and the chil
dren are able to do so.
From the distant British possession of
Ceylon comes the statement that over
1,000 cultivators of the soil have died
from starvation, owing to the sale of
their fields for the taxes. The Colonial
authorities admit that distress was
caused by the tax levy, but demy that
such a number perished.
This month Kaiser Wilhelm will visit
the courts of Italy and Spain; in July,
will go into Denmark and Norway; in
August, to London and St. Petersburg;
in September, into Austria; and in Oc
tober the Emperor will probably make
a tour to Greece to see his sister, after
which he will go on to Egypt
“Mr. Carlisle wanted to be sworn in
as a Senator on Friday,” writes a Wash
ington correspondent. “He was born on
Friday, married on Friday, on Friday
first nominated for Congress, and on
Friday declared the nominee to succeed
Senator Beck. The day that so many
others consider unlucky is Mr. 'Carlisle’s
favorite.”
A Pittsburgh dealer who was indict
ed for selling quail out of season sets up
the defense that the quail were killed in
Missouri and that he was merely acting
as the agentof the Missourian who ship
ped them to him. A liberal interpreta
tion of the privileges and immunities of
Interstate commerce will cover a multi
tude of sins.
Master Gussie Easterly is said to
be the youngest of this year’s crop of
boy preachers. He is five years old, and
conducts revival exercises, tnakimg
touching prayers and preaching eloquent
sermons. He can not read, but lately
opened the Bible at upside-down Prov
erbs, and announced as his text, ‘tKuficf
little children. ”
T.tn: Popo’s resident physician follows
his Holiness about almost like his shad
ow, and is forever going to and fix» with
a thermometer in his hand, looking out
for the slightest breath of an intrusive
draught that might venture U> blow
rudely near the head of the church.
Sometimes these precautions arecartied
to an Absurd pitch.
A colored chimney sweep of Em-
Voida, Kan., while accompanying his
wife home, thought to frighten her by
laying his head on the track not far
from a moving train and jumping off as
approached. The engineer, vexed at
ach recklessness, turned a steam jetty
on him and blew him into the ditch,
Crightenifig him half to death.
A curious medical case was shown at
a meeting of the alumni at Bellevue
Hospital, New York, the other day. The
patient was a five-year-old boy, whose
lower jaw was locked in away that made
■eating in the ordinary fashion out of the
question. In tact, the youngster kept
himself alive and apparently fairly com
fortable by poking food into his mouth
through a hole caused by the loss of twe
teeth.
That was a funny fire insurance case
of the Countess Fitzjames. Iler personal
effects were insured for 68,500 francs,
aud among the jewels specified was a
pxLr of pearl car-rings, insured for 10,-
000 francs. They fell off the mantel into
a grate fire, and were burned up. The
company said that that was not the kind
of fire it was insured against, but the
courts sustained the Countess and sho
got her money.
There have been 253 Popes, including
the present one. Leo XIII. Os these fif
teen have been Frenchmen, thirteen
have been Greeks, eight have been Sy
rians, six have claimed Germany for
their birthplace, five hailed from Spain,
two from Africa, two from Savoy, which
was also tho number sent by Sweden,
Dalmatia. Holland, Portugal and Crete.
England has furnished only one. Italy
caps the climax with a total of 104, all
since 1523 having been selected from
among Italian cardinals.
frightful plunge.
A Passenger Coach Leaps the Track
Near English, Ky.
It Holl* Down an Embankment—Ten Pas.
seng-ers are .More or less Injured.
The Wagner through sleeper from
Louisville to Boston, via Cincinnati,
over the Louisville and Nashville, was
wrecked near English, Ky., on the 6th.
Eight persons were seriously wounded,
two of whom will probably die. They
are as follows: Colonel H. C. Hodges,
Superintendent of the Government
storehouses at Jeffersonville, severely
bruised and right leg broken; Mrs.
Colonel Hodges cut and crushed about
head and shoulders, can hardly re
cover; John Johnson, wealthy cotton
merchant of Memphis, cut about head
and chest; Mrs. John Johnson,
dreadfully mangled about shoulders,
and will probably die: B. C.
Epperson, superintendent Short Line
Division, Louisville and Nashville, cut
about head and arms, and greatly bruis
ed and mangled. Brent Arnold, general
agent Louisville and Nashville, Cincin
nati, cut about head and back and severe
cut on arm. C. R. Brent, contracting
freight agent L. and N., at Cincinnati,
scalp wounds. G. Beggar, brakeman,
leg crushed at knee; amputation neces
sary. Joseph Blackwell, colored porter,
of Suffolk,Va., badly bruised. The train
passed English at about fifteen miles an
hour, and was going twenty miles an
hour just beyond, when it ran upon an
embankment which had just been re
paired and had been softened by the
rains. The engine and one coach which
made all the train, except the sleeper,
passed safely, but the track spread un
der them. The sleeper was derailed
and broke into about one-fourth back.
The front part in which Epperson was
was dumped on over the ties a hundred
feet. The rear part rolled over four
times and landed a complete wreck at
the bottom of the bank.
A BIG TREE EXHIBIT.
Prr parr ng To Secure a Section of the
Biggest Redwood Tree In California
For the World’s Fair.
Preparations are being made to take
out a section of the big Redwood tree
for the purpose of exhibition at the
World’s Fair in ’93. This will be the
largest section of any tree ever taken
from California. The tree measures
ninety-nine feet in circumference and
thirty-three feet in diameter. The sec
tion to be taken will be nine feet in
height and sixty feet in circumfer
ence. This big tree will be taken
from the mammoth forest oin Tulare
county, fifty-two miles east of Tulare
City, at an altitude of 6,325 feet above
the level of the sea. Tho work of fell
ing the tree has already begun. It will
take ten men at least two months to
complete all the work to be done. Three
flat cars will be necessary for the trans
portation, as the total weight will not
be less than 65,000 pounds. Several sug
gestions have been made to the Board
of Trade for setting up the entire tree
at tho fair but no plan to that end has
yet been matured.
The Blue Man Dead.
Henry Melick, a rich old farmer of
Harmony, N. J., known all over that
section as “The Blue Man,” died sud
denly at his home, aged seventy years.
When a young man ho was practically
drowned by falling in the Delaware
river while fishing, but was resuscitated
after hours of bard work. His skin ever
afterward had a blue cast, his entire
body suddenly undergoing this trans
formation. Physicians were unable to
account for tho phenomena.
Shot His Brother for a Burglar.
Harry Bright, aged eighteen years,
shot and mortally wounded his brother
Edmund, aged fourteen years, at Jeffer
son City, Mo. Harry thought he was
•alone in the bouse, and when he heard
his brother up-stairs he thought it was
a burglar. lie secured bis father’s rifle,
and waited for the burglar tocomedown
stairs. When his brother appeared at
the landing Harry did not recognize
him, and. taking good aim with the rifle,
fired with th® effect stated.
From England in Five Seconds.
The Associated Press report of tho re
sult of the great Derby race, which ap
peared in the afternoon papers of that
day, was delivered by wire direct in the
Associated Press office. New York, by
the Western Union Cables within five
seconds from the time of filing in Eng
land- This is the best time on record.
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Died of Hydrophobia.
Lizzie Patterson, living near Gadsden,
Ala., died of hydrophobia. She had
been bitten by a pet dog. and with the
approach of warm weather developed
symptoms of hydrophobia, which in
creased in intensity until death.
Redskin Hanged.
“Pellio,” a Umatilla Indian, was
hanged in Portland, Ore., by United
States authorities for the murder of an
Indian woman on the Umatilla Indian
reservation about a year ago.
Firemen Burned.
During a fire in Philadelphia twelve
barrels of gasoline exploded and eleven
firemen were badly burned; some of
them will probably die.
Silver Discovery in Russia.
A silver lode yielding forty-fire per
cent, of pure metal has been discovered
In the bed of the river Donnetz, in
Southern Russia.
MONSTER SKELETON FOUND.
The Celebrated Newburg Mastodon Dis
counted by a Recent IHacovery In Can
ada.
The skeleton of a monster colossal an
imal has been discovered near Highgate,
Ont. The whole of the teeth, eight in
number, four in the upper and four in
the lower jaw, have been found com
plete. They are eight inches long and
rather more than three and one-half
inches in breadth. The structure
of the teeth indicates that they
have served admirably for the grind
ing and mastication of tough, bard
vegetable substances. A broken piece
of one of the tusks measures about nine
feet eight inches. In its complete state
it must have been from twelve to four
teen feet long. It is slightly curved,
and its circumference at tho thickest
part is twenty-four inches. These are
seme of the bone measurements: Hind
leg, from the thigh to the knee joint, 47
inches; circumference, 35 inches; two
fore leg bones—the humerus —from the
shoulder blade to the knee joint, 3 feet
4 inches in length, and 3 feet 4 inches
in circumference. The atlas joint, upon
which the head is set, has a breadth of
18 inches. The shoulder blade measures 3
feet 2 inches by 2 feet 1 inch in the wid
est part. The longest rib is 51 inches,
and has a circumference of 10 inches.
The lower jaw, the inferior maxilliary
bone, measures six feet. The length of
the animal, gauged by the measurement
of the bones found, is, from the point of
the nostril to the root of the tail, about
twenty-two feet. This is greater than
that of the celebrated mastodon discov
ered near Newburg, N. Y., in 1845.
INDIAN MASSACRE.
Party of Ranchmen Ambushed by Chey
ennes, Who Kill Two and Wound
Several Others.
Frank S. Carson, a settler on the bor
der of the Tongue River Reservation,
has arrived at Miles, Mont., with a de
tailed story of the attempted wholsesale
killing by a band of Northern Chey
ennes. One night a short time since
about twenty savages stole from the
ranch of James Ferguson 3,000 or 4,000
pounds of beef and were carrying it
away when the theft was discovered by
one of Ferguson’s cow-boys, who gave
the alarm. Ranchman Ferguson and
about forty of his men gave chase and
recovered the meat. Three or four days
later Ferguson and six of his men left
the ranch with a couple of teams, and did
not return. Tho Indians watched their
movements, armed themselves, hid
among the trees along the roadside
and, in the night, as the ranchmen
passed, opened fire upon them with
deadly results. Mr. Ferguson, who
came here from New Hampshire and
was the largest stock-grower in the
valley, was shot through the left lung
and heart and died almost instantly.
One of the men was hit in the groin and
died the next day, and two others re
ceived serious wounds. The Indians,
have since been thoroughly armed, and
the settlers have become so
alarmed that many of them have aban
doned their homes and run away. It is
learned from Ft. Keogh that the two
companies at the Tongue River Agency
and Rosebud are considered sufficient to
cope with the recalcitrant reds, and no
more troops will be ordered out for the
present.
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A Fatal Jump.
Dan Wilcox, moved by a foolhardy
ambition to beat the bridge-jumping
record, made a dive Sunday from the
Louisville and Nashville railroad
bridge, between Cincinnati and New
port, into the Ohio river. The height
is eighty-two feet. The concussion with
the water caused a hemorrhage, from the
effects of which he died thirty-five min
utes later.
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Played Around Moving Trains.
Three young men met with serious ac
cidents at different times on the Bth at
Danville, IM., while playing on moving
trains on the Wabash road. Ben Myers
fell under the wheels; he can not re
cover. Wm. Andrews had his limb so
badly crushed that amputation is neces
sary. Wm. Russell had his foot cut off.
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Successful With the Indians.
Information by courier is that the In
dian Commission has about concluded
with the Sac and Fox Indians. The
tribe agrees to accept 160 acres per cap
ita and 51.25 per acre for the surplus.
The courier is an Indian of good char
acter, and it is generally believed that
the report is true.
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Diphtheria Scare.
There have been several deaths in
Lima, 0., from diphtheria, and an epi
demic is feared, as the physicians in at
tendance upon two recent fatal cases
failed to report them to the board of
health, and many were exposed. There
were several cases in South Lima of a
mild character.
Caught in Her Own Trap.
At Boston, Mrs. Susan Ney, aged for
ty-five, who, with her husband Michael,
lived at 66 Nashua street, by mistake,
drank a glass of lemonade, in which she
had put strychnine, with the intention
of giving it to her husband. She linger
ed until evening, when she died.
Ball Tossers Arrested.
Several nines of the Inter-State
League of base ball clubs were attested
for playing ball on Sunday. Arrests oc
curred at Lima, Newark and Springfield,
O. The ladies’ nine defeated the local
club at Danville, 111., and were subse
quently arrested.
DISASTROUS COLLISION.
Two Freight Trains Come' Together
on the Wabash Ro,id.
Eight Persons Killed and Twenty-fiv>
Wounded—Eight Horses Killed and
a Number Hurt.
A disastrous railroad wreck occurred
near Warrenton, Mo., on the Wabash
road. Two freight trains collided just
outside of Warrenton and both engines
and sixteen cars were wrecked. There
were eight palace horse cars attached to
one of the trains, laden with race horses,
en route for Kansas City, six of which
were wrecked, and eight men in charge
of the horses were killed and twenty-six
injured. Fifteen horses were killed and
a number badly hurt. The accident was
caused by an error in train orders. The
second section of train No. 5 had orders to
run two hours and five minutes late, and
the order delivered to No. 26 by the
operator at Montgomery read two
hours and fifty minutes late. Following
is the list of casualties: Dead—Wm. 11.
Thomas, colored boy, Cynthiana, Ky.
Henry Stone, trainer, Harrodsburg,
Ky. James Keller, Cynthiana, Ky.
Frank Keller, Cynthiana, Ky. Ed
Simmons, hostler, Lexington, Ky.
Morris Green, colored, Frankfort, Ky.
Samuel Davis, rider, Lexington, Ky.
Frank Morton, tramp, New York. In
jured—Wm. Teller, colored, Covington,
Ky., trainer, severely scalded and right
arm broken. Lewis Thompson, colored,
Harrodsburg, Ky., fractured bone in
foot. George Woods, colored, New Or
leans, rider, bruised. Lee Parsons, Wa
bash locomotive fireman, collar-bone
broken and hip bruised. P. 11. Shenell,
Wabash engineer, contusion to right
side and shoulder. J. E. Norton, brake
man, side, arm and stomach braised. P.
H. Shaw, Harrodsburg, Ky., cut and
bruised. Arthur Allen, Tabia, Neb.,
cut and bruised in the leg and back.
Thomas McMullegan, Chicago, trainer,
head cut. Wm. Adams, Memphis,
bruised. Wm. Campbel], Chicago,
bruised. Lewis Augustus, colored, Har
rodsburg, Ky., left thigh fractured.
Lloyd Baxter, colored. Frankfort, Ky.,
back bruised. Frank Givenson, colored,
Covington, Ky., head and neck cut.
John H. Washington, colored, Spring Sta
tion, Ky., back bruised. M. Smith, col
ored, Cynthiana, Ky., head and back
bruised. George Hurley, Cynthiana,
Ky., arm and leg broken and head
bruised. Michael Jenkins, Harrods
burg, Ky., lace, leg and nose bruised.
R. Collison, colored, head cut and bruis
ed. L. A. Brown, Louisville, Ky., cheek,
arm and back cut. Merritt Johnson,
colored, St. Louis, employe of S. Mor
gan, left arm broken. Four others were
slightly injured.
Chance For Letter-Box Inventors.
The Postmaster-general, in order to
increase the efficiency of the free-deliv
ery service, desires to secure a device
for a letter-box for the doors of dwell
ings that will be simple in construction,
low priced and capable of adjustment to
the interior and exterior of doors with
out injuring or defacing them. A let
ter-box that will fill these requirements
will save much of the carriers’ time,
while increasing the security of the
mail to the householder.
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The Hennepin Canal.
On tho 19th Senators Allison and
Farwell and members of the House from
Illinois and lowa appeared before the
Senate Committee on Commerce in sup
port of the appropriation of 8500,000 to
begin work on the Hennepin Canal pro
ject contained in the river and harbor
bill. The item was retained in the bill,
only one vote, that of Senator Vest, be
ing cast against it in the committee.
Long Journey on a “Bike.”
Charles R. Nelson, a nineteen-year
old bicyclist, of Marseilles, 111., and of
some local fame, has started on a trip to
New York, which he proposes to make
in seventeen days. He expects to make
a daily average of seventy miles, and
will proceed by the way of Detroit, Buf
falo, Rochester, Utica, Albany, and
down the Hudson, a total distance of
I, miles.
Lower California Conspiracy.
Governor Torres, of the Peninsula,
says the Mexican Government has de
cided to demand that the United States
punish Walter G. Smith, Augustus Mer
rill, Ranford Worden, Edward Hill,
Frederick Hall and others for their part
in the filibustering conspiracy. Torres
will soon send his Government proofs
that an English corporation was guilty
of complicity.
Broker Pell’s Sentence.
Recorder Smythe, in Part II of the
General Sessions court, New York, sen
tenced Broker George 11. Pell, of Sixth
National bunk wrecking fame, to im
prisonment at hard labor for seven years
and six months in the State prison.
Confederate General Dead.
General Lindsay Walker, late Chief of
Artillery of A. P. Hill’s corps of the
Confederate army, was buried at Rich
mond, Va. He was sixty-four years old,
and surrendered at Appomattox to Gen
eral Grant.
Destruction (o Life and Property.
A tremendous hurricane, accompanied
fry thunder and lightning, swept over
Hungary. Many persons are reported
to have been killed by lightning.
Wants to Run a Race.
Sam Jones, seventy-three years old, of
Astoria, Tenn., offers to run a mile foot
race with any man of his own ago for
610,000.
DARE-DEVIL BANDITS
Wreck a Train in Arkansas and ('upturn
tlie Crew—Express Messenger Killed,
Safe Opened and Ten Thousand Dollarg JI
Taken.
Another bold and daring train rob
bery has occurred on the St. Louis, Ar
kansas and Texas railroad, this time the
Southern Express Company suffering
the loss. At an early hour in the morn
ing the express car attached to tho
north-bound passenger train was robbed
between Camden and Texarkanabj' four
masked men, and about 810,000 was taken
from the safe. Messenger A. M. Nesbitt
was in charge of the car. As soon as ho
discovered the intention of tho mon ho
fired two shots at the leader, and was in
the act of firing a third, when he re
ceived a bullet in his right breast, and
fell to the floor. The robbers boarded
the train at a watertank, where they had
been in waiting some time. Express
Agent Bunn, reports that Nesbitt
was killed, and that the robbers
secured every thing of value in the safe.
The men made their escape. After
they had gone through the express
car the robbers marched the engineer
and fireman about 100 yards from the
railroad track, seated them on a log and
told them to stay there with their eyes
shut for one hour. When the bandits
had gone a distance of about fifty yards
they turned and fired at the men. The -d
robbers then disappeared. It required ttl
but a short time to notify officers, *
who are now in pursuit of the bandits.
One party has been arrested and is
now in custody, but has not yet been
fully identified. When the train left
the track Conductor A. B. Snoyer, who
was in charge of the train, went run
ning to the front to ascertain the cause
of the trouble. He was called on to
halt, but continued to advance, not
thinking of danger. The first man he
came across was one of the rob
bers. The conductor flashed his
lantern in the bandit’s face, the
latter shoved a revolver under the
other’s nose. Again he was ordered to
retreat, and this time orders were obeyed
with alacrity. A great deal of excite
ment prevails on account of the rob
bery. Within the last few years several
robberies have been perpetrated within
a radius of one hundred miles of there.
The people there are exasperated, and if
the guilty parties are caught Judge
Lynch will have court expenses.
A Veritable Wild Man.
In the vicinity of Stracker’s Bend,
north of Jacksonville, 111., a veritable
wild man has been seen on several occa- .
sions, and has appropriated a section of 4
timber to his own use and is being left 1
severely alone, lie forages for supplies
at night and lives on the fat of the land,
and the residents are afraid to venture
out after dark. Strong measures for his
capture are being contemplated, as be is
the source of much terror to the settle
ment.
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The Roar of the Cj’clone.
Information from Chohannon, a town
of about I.GOO people, nine miles south
of Joliet, 111., is to the effect that a cy
clone struck the town on the night of
the 10th, causing great damage and kill
ing and injuring quite a number of peo
ple. The town is not on a railroad and
has no telegraph facilities, but a tele
phone message says the roaring of tho
storm could be heard four miles.
Must Go Back to China.
A telegram was received at the Treas
ury Department saying the U. S. Mar
shal for the Southern District of Cali
fornia had turned over to the Collector
of Customs at San Francisco for immedi
ate deportation to China fifteen Chinese
laborers, smuggled into this country
from Mexico. The nujnber of Chinese
laborers previously returned in this way
is twenty-seven.
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A Chinaman Baptized. J
The first Chinaman ever immersed in
this country, so far as it is possible to
learn, receives! that ordinance at Spo
kane Falls, Wash., at the hands of Rev.
M. C. Jones, pastor of the First Baptist
Church. The Chinaman’s name is John
Ah Sum, a laundryman, who expects to
study for the ministry and return to
China as a missionary.
Irish Land Bill Shelved.
The Cabinet, by a majority vote, ha
decided to shelve the Irish land pur
chase bill. The minority, headed by
Mr. Balfour, were in favor of sacrificing
some other measure, but yielded to the
inevitable. The Ministry is confident
that the cHher Government bills will bo
passed without unnecessary delay.
The Pool of Bethesda.
The State Department gives out a
communication from the U. S. Consul at
Jerusalem, in which are given the re
sults of certain recent explorations on
the site of Birket Israel, which reveal
what are believed to be ruins of an an
cient Christian church and of the pool
of Bethesda.
House Absenteeism.
Fourteen leaves of absence were
granted in the House on the 10th. The
large number of absentees makes a .
noticeably small attendance, and there I
is barely a quorum loft to attend to bus- ’
iness. The members are taking ad
vantage of this dull season to look after
their fences.
Pension Bill Compromise.
The conference on the pension bills
has agreed. The House recedes from its
service pension amendment, and tho
Senate agrees to the disability and de
pendent features of the House bill. This
report will probably be agreed to by
Congress,