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THE. DALTON ARGUS. Dalton, Georgia. H. A. WRENCH, Publisher. ONE DOLLAR A YEAR. George Kennan’s Siberian papershave been translated into German, Dutch, Polish, Russian and Bulgarian. There is good authority for saying that the Czar has read these papers. Tirr death plant of Java has flowers which continually give off a perfume so powerful as to overcome, if inhaled for any length of time, a full grown man, and which kills all forms of insect life «bat approaches close enough to come «nder its influence. The Milwaukee Herald, a German pa iper which has been the stanch advocate <»f the use of the German language everywhere and at all times, has been compelled to report the base-ball games <n English, as the spirit of the game is *ost when the story is told in German. It is stated on the authority of a prom 'nent Nihilist that there are 5,000 dead ly torpedoes scattered over Russia and waiting for a future favorable oppor tunity to scatter the Czar over the coun try. He say that there are 10,000 men in that country who would give up their lives in a moment to rid the country of the Czar. An onyx trust has been formed in New York City, and will control nearly all, not all, the onyx to be found on * v -s continent The name of the cor poration is the Mexican Onyx Company. The capital has been fixed at $1,500,000, but this is said to be merely a nominal figure, and that it was to be increased later to a ch larger amount. A paper read the other day before the New York Medico-Legal Society stated that not more than one homicide In a thousand was committed by an in sane person. The insane shrink from deeds of violence and the sight of blood. The paper also declared that three fourths of the people are insane,and also that insanity is not hereditary. A stone coflin in a tomb at Canter bury Cathedral, on being opened, was found to contain the body of an arch bishop; fully vested. It is thought to be Cardinal Stephen Langton, who sided with the barons in extorting Magna Charta from King John. Although buried six centuries ago the features were still perfect and the vestment quite ’ sound. J APAT • rtrrrv ' VtMT path of civilization that she may be ex pected ere long to reach the dime muse um stage. Already the subjects of the Mikado are preparing for a beauty show, for which all the ladies of the realm are eligible. Photographs are to be sent to a committee, however, and they will se lect the lucky originals to be placed on exhibition. Mrs. Herman Oelrichs received as a wedding gift from King Kalakaua a yel low wreath which was greatly admired. It was made of the feathers of the gold en-hued O-o, a bird highly prized in Hawaii. There are but two of these bright feathers plucked from each bird. The birds are taken only in a snare, a stringent law having been passed against shooting them. The Yorktown monument commemor ating the surrender of Lord Cornwallis to Washington and the valient aid given ns by our French allies, is one of the Jost beautiful structures of the kind in ’.he world. It is located near the bat tle-field. It stands on a peninsula which oas been historic ground from the .time the landing of the first English in Virginia to the conclusion of the war cd »5. The Hydrophobia Hospital in New Y ork is so crowded that the physician in charge has been compelled te give up his own bed to a patient What this country needs, says the Detroit Free Press, is larger crowds in the dog pound and smaller ones in the hydrophobia hos pital. The number of thirsty, vicious and utterly worthiest curs that is suffer ed to run at large, is something re.al.lj appalling. In the window of a fishing tackle ■store in New York, is displayed a fly rod three feet long, and tapering from the thickness of a lady’s pencil at the butt to the size of a pin at the tip. It is wade of Japanese bamboo with a tip of whalebone. There are three joints in the rod. The line of the length of the rod is of fine gut At the end of it dan dles a tiny yellow fly, concealing a barb less hook. The rod was made in Japan, and is.a specimen of those in use there in the .capture of minnows, which are regarded as a delicacy by the natives. There ls an ingenious device for keep teg oysten? good in the shell for several weeks after they have been taken from the water. Hitherto this has been done nnsatisfacUVi ly by boring boles through the edges of she shells and locking in the oysters wttffj bits of twisted wire. By the new sclr-enie the edges of the shells are dipped J nto plaster of paris, uiixed with certain chemicals that make it harden quickly. In a few minutes the is hermetically sealed, ajul so strong is the cement th.at not even the most muscular mollusk aan manage te breath of fresh air. A BLAZING MINE. There Is No Hope For the Dunbar Miners. If Ttx>y rx-'ape the Fire Kitrnom Rata Will Gnaw Them Beyond Rec ognition. There is no longer any hope. All faith tn the industrious rescuers has been abandoned. The entombed miners can not be rescued. A furious fire has sealed their fate, and if their dead bod ies escape the hungry flames, the pilfer ing rats that infest the mines will have gnawed them beyond recognition. Death •never came to men in a more revolting form, and affliction never fell heavier .on the bereaved. This has been an aw ful yet even a greater disaster threat ens. A fire, fierce as a whirlwind, is raging for 2,000 feet down into the yawning mouth of the Hill Farm mine. Deadly gas has generated back of the burning, and the ponderous hill Into which the Hill Farm, the Ferguson and the Mahoning pits are driven is a mighty magazine, fairly pregnant with death, the lightest stroke of a miner’s pick would explode it. The effect of such an explosion would be awful to contemplate. The rescuing party has been withdrawn from the face of the Mahoning pit. A strong guard has been placed at the mouth of the Ferguson mines to keep out the impatient, restless min ers who would rescue the unfortu nate on their own account. The flames at the Hill Farm Mines are hot enough to drive away invaders. Fire broke from the mouth of the Hill Farm pit shortly after nine o’clock, Friday night. It followed promptly after the drill en tered the burning mine. For two hours before the flames burst out huge bil lows of smoke, black and deadly, rolled over each other into the air and drifted upward. A rumbling, rushing sound, like a swiftly-mov ing train through a tunnel, pre ceded the flames. Secretary Watchern and Superintendent Hill were at the pit mouth awaiting the outbreak. To the experts the smoke indicated approach ing fire for half an hour before its ar rival. Its coming could be heard long before the fire reached the pit mouth. It could be seen licking up the timbers in the mine, andlthe steady stream of water which rippled down the slope seemed only to inspire and encourage to wilder efforts the angry fiend. All efforts to extinguish the flames have proved fruit less, and the buildings in the vicinity have been torn down to prevent the fire spreading. LOUISIANA LOTTERY. Thy Sprmte < innmitten Will Report Favor hmy on rnc Bill to mrftht tntr ctmvt tmrva for #1,250,000 Annually. The lottery bill came up in the Lou isiana Senate on the 27th. and was re ferred to the Committee on Health, Quarantine, Drainage and Charities. The committee met in the evening, took up the bill and amended it in ac cordance with the pledge made in the House to Representative Lawton, mak ing the amount to be paid annually 81,- 250,000, and providing that the addition al 8250,000 annually shall go to the gen eral fund of the State. z\n amendment was offered to make the annual pay ment 81,500,000, but it was voted down. The committee finally decided to report the bill favorably, as amended, by a vote of 6 to 3, and agreed to defer report ing the bill for a few days in order to give the minority time to prepare a mi nority report. Still Giving Up the Dead. Three bodies' of women were found on the 27th at Johnstown, Pa., all of them being in the river just above the stone bridge where the great mass of wreck age lay last summer. They were under the water in the sand, and all were in a fair state of preservation. Only one was identified. This was Mrs. Roberts, wife of Howard J. Roberts, cashier of the First National Bank. Mr. Roberts, his wife and son, were all drowned, but liis body has not yet been recovered. — ♦ . Going to Pieces. Signs of an early collapse of the Salis bury government are increasing on all sides. The Ministry have unquestion ably become alarmed, and are planning a new deal, which they hope will strengthen the Cabinet and restore the popularity of the Government with the many who have become disgusted with its tergiversation and indecision. Tascotl Again. Trainmen, who arrived at Paris, Tex., state that five Pinkerton detectives got aboard the north-bound train at West Jbork, situated in Washington County, Ark., with Tascott, the murderer of Banker Snell, of Chicago. He had been spotted for some time, and parties had come from Chicago and fully identified the suspect San Francisco’s Population. Mr. Davis, the Supervisor of the Cen sus, says the population of San Francis co is 300.000. The Chinese population is 24.000, an increase of 2,000 since 1880. There are probably 10,000 more Chinese in San Francisco during the winter, but who are at present employed in the country. For the Conscience Fund. Postinaster-General Wanamaker re ceived from New York a letter contain ing three SI,OOO U. S. gold certificate! for the “conscience fund.” The sendei says he sent 81,50 V for the same fund some months ago. STORM RAVAGES. Colored Worshiper* in a Tennc»«ee Church Injured. Another tornado visited Gallatin, Tenn., Sunday evening, doing great damage to property and resulting in the death of two colored women, Ann Mar tin and Mary Hoffman, who were crushed under a falling church. The Afri can Methodist Church was holding services and there came a mighty gush of wind and the church was blown down, catching the congregation under the roof and falling timbers. Rev. Granville Brown was badly injured in his pulpit Ten persons were caught under the falling walls and among the injured are: Rev. Gilbert Woodfork and child, Granville Beech, Mary Hor ton, Mary Lowery, a child of Nannie Payne. Ann Martin and Mary Hoff man were taken from the debris so hor ribly mangled that both are dying. Damage was also done the public school building, private residences, etc. Many houses were unroofed and wires are down. Fences and trees were sw-ept away. No other loss of life is re ported. In many private residences car pets were blown from the floors and fur niture smashed into kindling-wood. The tornado took a southwesterly course, and very heavy rain fell during the time. A destructive storm is re ported from Lexington, Tenn. YOUTHFUL*FI RE-BUGS. A Building Burned for the Insurance Money In It. Charles Schneider and Ike Brown, the latter colored, were arrested at Nash ville, Tenn., on the charge of arson. At 10 o’clock at night fire was discovered in Philip Schneider's furniture store; the flames were quickly extinguished with a slight loss. Evidence of incendiarism was so plain that an investigation was made, and the arrest of these two boys followed. Schneider, it is said, confess ed that he and Brown had set fire to the building at the instigation of Philip Schneider, who has a large stock of fur niture on hand, which is insured. Philip Schneider was arrested in Chattanooga by order of the chief of police, he hav ing gone to that city to tend the dedica tion of a church. Hottest of the Season. The 29th was the hottest day of the season in Cincinnati. There were five deaths from the heat and fifteen pros trations reported. Fatal cases are re ported from Chicago, St. Louis and many other places. The suffering of the in mates of crowded tenements was severe, though the thunder-storms late in the day brought much relief from the op pression of the heat. Cincinnati ther mometers ranged up to 100 degrees, though from other cities higher figures are reported. T —— 5 » Census . f Texas Citiee. Official census counts <ff leading cities in Texas discloses the following figures approximately: Dallas 39,300, San An tonia 38,900, Galveston 35.000, Fort Worth 31.000, Houston 36.000, Waco 20,- 000, Austin 16,200. The city census of San Antonio, taken as a check to the Federal census, gives a population of 55,000 —an increase of 3,500 since 1880. China to Build a Railway. Two Chinese officials and two British engineers have arrived at Vladivostock. They state that they have made a pre liminary survey for a line of railtvay through Mongolia, and that the Chinese Government is desirous of expediting the completion of a railroad to the Rus sian frontier. Found Dead in His Bed. S. L. Cumback, son of ex-Governor Cumback, of Indiana, was found dead in his bed at the St. James Hotel, lowa City. He was traveling for a Boston house, and had been in lowa City about a week, during which time he drank to excess. Cerebral congestion was the immediate cause of his death. Still in the Mines. No new developments traspired at Dunbar. Pa., the 29th. The men are still digging for an entry into the Hill Farm mini*, and are now about forty-five feet beyond the original point of en trance. At midnight there was no pos sibility of rteaching an entry before next day. ———— Priest Prostrated by Heat. Fattier Anselm Meier, of St. Meinrad Academy, near Evansville, Ind., died at Louisville Sunday from the effects of the beat. He went there Friday to spend the summer, and was overcome as he left the train. There have been many other cases of prostration. Cholera on the Increase. A dispatch from Madrid to the Lon don Daily News says that the cholera is increasing at Gandia. Enero, Sueca and other Spanish villages. The prefect of Valencia is going to Gandia to assist the doctors of that town. Three Shocks of Earthquake. Three distinct shocks of earthquake were felt at Santa Rosa, Cal. They were quite severe. People were awak ened from their slumbers. The v'bra tions were from North to South. Our Population. Superintendent of Census Portei says the returns indicate that the popu lation of the United States is 64.500,000, an increase of over fourteen millions is ten years. Pittsburgh's Population. District Supervisor Oliver approxi mates the population of Pittsburgh al 240,000, Allegheny City at 105,000, and Allegheny County at 500,000. ACRES OF FLAME, Caused By a Gasoline Explosion at Louisville. Building* of the Standard Oil Refinery . Company Completely Destroyed. Monday morning a terrific explosion was heard in the southern part of Louis ville. Ky., and the Standard Oil Compa ny's refinery, at Fifth and B streets,was seen to be on fire. The shock was felt a mile away, while all the window glass within five blocks of the works was shattered by the force. A great tank of gasoline had arrived there. It had been delayed several days and the iron or metal vessel became very hot from ex posure to the sun’s rays. This generated a great quantity of dangerous vapor which, when exposed tc the air, becomes highly explosive. Monday morning Mr. Seth Skene ordered his men to the Cleveland tank to pump the contents out. The cap was taken off and the va por burst from its confinement while the men, recognizing their danger, took immediate steps for their safety. A number of them,however, were severe ly burned. About fifty yards from the tank-car there was an open fire under one of the boilers. The vapor soon reached this, and, of course, a tremend ous explosion followed. In a jiffy burn ing oil was running all over the com pany’s yards, and the immense structure was ablaze from cellar to roof. The heat became so intense that a fireman could not get within 200 yards of the buildings, as over 75,000 gallons of crude oil, gasoline and refined oil were on fire. The buildings and stock are a total loss, and it is reckoned that fully 8450,000 worth of property is destroyed. The Standard Oil Company never insures, and hence the insurance companies escape. Steps will be immediately taken to rebuild. John McDonald and Daniel O'Neal, two of the boys, died Monday night. . ♦ . BEARDED LADY DEAD. A Luxuriant Growth Induced by Poultice* Applied to Her Face. Miss Eliza Pinson, a lady forty years of age, and well known because of her luxuriant growth of beard, died at her home about three miles from Atlanta, Ga. In make-up she possessed every feature of a man about five feet nine inches tall and weighing 175 pounds. When quite a girl she was troubled a great deal with toothache, and as a re lief used poultices pretty freely. These were bound around the lower jaw. This treatment was kept up until it was discovered that unless the poultices were discontinued she would develop a full beard. The poultices were left wit. di-.fto. stop the growth ot a short, black beard that had appeared on her well-rounded face. This wa? morti fying to the family, and shaving only increased the growth. Finally all hopes of stopping the beard were abandoned, and it was allowed to grow. For twen ty years she has worn a beard eighteen inches long. Naturally such a freak was sought after by the showmen of the country, and several times was she ap proached with offers to appear with va rious shows, but each time she plainly and positively refused the offer. Whitewash as a Disinfectant.. Very careful experiments have been made by the authorities and physicians at the Hygienic Institute of the Uni versity of Pisa, with regard to the util ity of whitewash in preventing conta gion from diseases. It has been proved that a single washing of the walls with the ordinary preparation of lime at once destroyed all germs of cholera and typhoid, but even repeated application of whitewash had no effect whatever upon the microbes of pulmonary tuber culosis, of carbuncle, and of several other contagious diseases. Their Task Nearly Ended. At Dunbar, Pa., on the new course on the 30th the rescuing party dug through about twenty-live or thirty feet of solid coal, and at about midnight struck an entry to the Hill Farm rpine. the air be ing good and pure. It will take several hours before the rescuing parties can dig away the coal so that search for the entombed men can progress. Reduction in the Public Debt. It is estimated at the Treasury De partment that there has been a decrease of about 820,000,000 in the public debt since June 1. This will make a total decrease for the fiscal year ended the Ist, 887,800,000, as against 8114,000,000 for the previous fiscal year. ■- » ♦ Shot for a Burglar. Miss .Mary Leonard, of Chicago, found the blinds of her neighbor’s house open at midnight and attempted to close them. The proprietor, Joseph Dutton, shot through the shutter, thinking her a burglar, the girl receiving a fatal wound. He Denies the Charge. Joseph C. Mackin, of Chicago, who was thought to have disappeared for fe:Jt of indictment in the bribery in vestigation for perjury, turned up on the 30th. He denies all knowledge of the affidavits bearing his name and seal. Blown to Pieces by Powder. At New York, Melville Predenberg played with a can of powder. Somehow fire got to it, and a little later the po lice carried home such fragments as they found of the thirteen-year-old victim. FATE OF THE MINERS. The I.iintr Search Ended—The A*lie« of the Thirty-One Miner* Will Repose in the Farm Hill Mine L’ntll the F.iid of Time. At 6 o'clock, p. m., Tuesday, hope and work wore abandoned at the mine, and the dust or ashes of the thirty impris oned men may rest behind the Dunoar hill till the last day shall come. The last exploring party entered the mines it 2 o’clock. They did not come out un til 7 o’clock. Three of their number en tered to within a few hundred feet of the subterranean fire and had found the dinner buckets and blouses of two of the men. The explorers suffered from the intense heat and black damp, and scarce ly escaped with their lives. It was a trip to the very gates of the most realis tic and practical hell that could be found on this earth. The explorers visited nine places where the men were known to have been at work. Their picks and shovels were found lying where they had been dropped. One mule was found dead and putrified. Otherwise no trace of the men could be found. The explorers then voted to abandon the work of recovery. Superintendent Hill, after this, told the men the company would, on Thursday, pay them the wages due, and advised them to go to work wherever they could secure it. With this the greatest res cuing attempt in Western Pennsylvania was ended. The company will, it is said, now attempt to save as much of the mine property as they can. The mine is sadly wrecked and its restora tion will be a gigantic task. A car load of coffins arrived Tuesday morn ing. The question now is: “When will they be used?” Fifteen and a half days have elapsed since that flash of gas set fire to the Hill Fann Mine. The caskets which were so care fully and secretly carried up to the mine were as quietly brought back. So were the stretchers and blankets and medi cines brought to the grounds by the physicians. Three of the party re turned to within a few hundred yards of a burning subterranean fire and satisfied themselves that the men were dead, and that further search was useless. The stench of burning human flesh sickened them, but they visited nine places where the men were known to have been at work. The picks and shovels were all lying just as a man would drop them as he started on a dead run for his life. Otherwise no trace of the men could be found. While prosecuting their search still further they ran into a dense cloud of damp, which put out their lights. A struggle for life then followed, but they succeeded in getting back to the rest of the party. After a sad consulta tion it was decided to abandon the search, and the party left the pit tofltell the friends and relatives of thrtfm tombed f.i®n that the .‘■earch-jpidulirn'Jtt be prosecuted further. APPALLING. Thousands of Children Murdered, or A1» lowed to Dio to Obtain Insurance Money. A select committee of the English House of Lords is considering the bill introduced by the Bishop of Peters borough to prevent the murder of chil dren for the sake of insurance money. The bill provides that the money, in all cases of deaths of children insured, shall be paid only to the undertaker, and no surplus to the parents or other parties Insuring. This is to prevent parents from deriving any profit from the death of a child. About 600,000 children are insured in Great Britain every year, and it is believed that many of these are permitted to die from criminal neglect, if not directly murdered, in order to gain the insurance. Population of Our Cities. The census returns from the cities given below have been announced in a semi-official way at Washington, thus fai" Brooklyn 930,670; Baltimore. 500,000; Boston 417,720; Buffalo 250,000: Cincin nati 306,000; Chicago 1.085,000; Cleveland 248,000; Columbus 114.000; Detroit 197,- 000; Grand Rapids 95,000: Indianapolis 125,000; Louisville 180,000; Milwaukee 200,000; Minneapolis 185,000; New York 1,627,227: New Orleans 246,000; Phila delphia 1,040,450; Pittsburgh 250,000; St. Louis 440,000; St. Paul 138,000; Washing ton 230,000. Work of the Pension Ofllsa. The Pension Office issued during tho flscal year just closed 151,658 pension certificates. The number issued during the preceding year was 145,292. Os the number issued during the year just closed, 66,637 were original pensions, which is an increase of nearly 15,000 as compared with the number issued dur ing the preceding year. Child Scalped by a Tree. Near Peru, Ind., while blasting a tree on the Peru and Detroit railroad under construction, a largo limb of a tree caught Mary Neiswonger, 12 years old, who was employed*to carry water, break ing one of her lower limbs and com pletely scalping her. She was removed to her home, where a physician pro nounced her injuries fatal. The Strike Nearly Ended. The carpenters of Cincinnati have de cided to return to work for those bosses who have granted their request for nine hours’ work. The men left out will bo provided for by a dollar a week assess ment on those who go to work. All Approved by the President. The President has approved the naval appropriation bill, the invalid pension, appropriation bill, the post-office appro priation bill, and the joint resolution providing temporarily for tbe expendi tures of the Government