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: .1- ECHOES FROM THE STREETS AND SIDEWALKS. I V. HU C. A— Hon Mimioxaht Sociktt.—The Home missionary wtltfjr of the First Methodist church will hold « meeting immediately after prayer matting this afternoon at the church. A full attend ance of the measbm is desired. ob Steaykd.—A black, butt, w. Missed on Monday last- knowing anything of same at" Chi* otBoe, conferring a favor on the owner. . Nonna Moan.—Jones: i an accident happened to- isyl Malth: Tell me i Jones: The Not i about it i Northeastern train ar rived exactly on time. That’s all. J New to ATnmrs.—Mich- aei Bros, were yesterday engaged in putting np a system of Samson’s bundle carriers, which does away with the imi- sance of having oath boys around. Call and see it. It is worth lookiag at. Oaa’s Dituo Sroaa.—The new drai . ■ w drag store on <pay ton street will be opened in a few (hys. Dr. Orr, the proprietor has been thoroughly renovating bis stand neat door to the post-office and tbtjNItgm will be as neat aa any drug sum.—The sound of the oil is a familiar one in Athens t auction sides are daily oc~ entrances In the Classic City. At Auction —Tlie stoves and tin ware of A. O. Lyndon's most be cloeed out at oooe. Come and secure bargains at onoa. J. R. Moose, Arsignee. Ay Auction.—Auction sales of stoves and tinware at Lyndon’s, on Clayton street to-day. Come and secure the bargains of a lifetime. J. R. Hooiuc, Assignee. AT -Auction.—Don’t forget that you van get a lint-class stove at yonr own price today. J. R. Mooitit. A Handsome Ofkick.—Dr. James Bloomfield has rented the store next to Dornblstts and will have one of the handddtnmt offices ever seen in Athens. I>r. Bloomfield is a splendid physician and the people are fortunate fa baring him amon^ them. An OncitXHTiM Club.- Several lov ers of music in our city have formed an orchestra club. The club will consist of throe small violins, a flute, clarionet and cornet. Some splendid music may be exjiected. Still Quits Sick.—We regret to learn that Mrs. L. H. Cbarbonnier is still quite sick at homo on Milledge avenge. She has been ill for quite a long w hile and bas the sympathy of many warm friends who hope soon to see her fully recovered. A Shooting Club—Messrs. John D. Little. Allan F. Johnson, and E. F. Lovell of the University have organis ed a shooting elub and will make It one of the most interesting organisation in the University this year. The members of the club will give a clay pigeon shooting match at the fair grounds on the University's field day. Quite a large number of our citizens are anxious to liear the celebrated Mrs. Scott Siddons next Friday nlgbt at the ope. a house, and Maaager Haxelton has arranged to make it quite a society event. In order that evervbody can at tend the pnoe of admission bss been re duced and both the schools will be out in large numbers. Secure seats at once at ilazeltou A pozier’s music store. A Dkuohtful Evaxnro.—A most charming evening is contemplated by the friends of Mrs. E. A. Crawford at the entertainment which she gives to night. The reception Is complimenta ry to Mr. and Mrs. Booocic, Mr. aud Mrs. J. A. Benedict, and Mr. and Mrs. J. 8. Hamilton. A lecture by Dr. H. C. White will be a chief feature of the evening, after whiclr a musical pro gram will be rendered. work I > yet In up the mail robtere whom been felt III Atltoof recently. The Athens orchestra! club tad an other successful rehearsal oa ’•* 'day evening. The elub fat getting u. fine trim. The future of Athens grows brighter each day, aud the old town is gradually growing into a grout city. The fruit dealers don’t like the idea of having to keep their goods in doors, •s proscribed by the recent ordinance «’ Ungers in the And still tbn air. The contracts for building the G., C. AN. on the Georgia side will be let in a few weeks. Co-Id will score spother wedding In the high social life'll Athens quite soon. " Prof. Woodfln goes oat to his planta tion sacs day. Ws learns that Prinsstsu factory will have an office in tbs city quite soon. Mr. Howell, of New York, who superintending the Athena water works is among tbs most enterprising young men In the city. The new Baxnkx building is rapidly being finished on the inside. It will be brilliantly illuminated by eleetriolights, and will Indeed be scomplete and mod ern building in every cense. Small grain never looked greener or fresher at tills season of the year than now. Milledge avenn* presents a fine ap pearance at night, when the eleetrio lights are In full blast. The society world is gay this week. The O. B. German club will soon give another entertainment. Mr. BlUupe Phinizy will open sn in surance office over the Athens Hard ware company on his return from Flor ida. The polioe had but little disturbance yesterday. Violets are blooming with abundant fragrance in every'yard in Athens, and vegetation generally isouaboom. WITH THE BLUE COATS- What Went on at the Police Court Yes terday. The police oourt was called to order yesterday by Alderman J. H. Rucker, owing to the absence ef Mayor Brown. There waa a full docket and the court took up tbo business without delay. Theftrst case! was that of Dock Strick land charged with selling whiskey. His case was continued until the next ses sion of the ■ ourt. Cornelia Allmond, charged with dis orderly conduct, was called but owing to the absence of witnesses the case wa dismissed. W. A. Pledger, Jr., colored, mail agent on the Northeastern Railroad plead guilty to fast driving and disor derly conduct and was relieved $1.20 for tin one and $11.20 for the other. Adeline Gresham it aeeus’had worn Arian Johnson’efhat. WhenJ the irate Arian propounded her the question “Wbere’d you get that Hat,” a light ensued. Adeline was relieved of $2.60 andjeosts, while Arian paid $1.00 and coats. A number of other cases was con tinued until the next term of the court. A Meeting at the Citizens Win he Called » Consider the Matter. Mr. A. K. Stephen has been making farther investigation* about the estab lishment of n furniture factory In Ath ens. He has been np the Oconee river look ing after suitable locality for the facto ry and making every preparation (ready to start work on the factory so soon as the capital stock has been.fully subscrib ed.! Mr. Stephen bas been talking. np the factory to oar merchants and they have unquestionably been convinced of the necessity of such an enterprise in Ath ens, ana of the great investment that it would prove. The furniture factory is just what Athens wants, and surely Afloat at Hi dock an.—A private letter from Mr. Harry Norris, who left Athens sometime ago for Sooth Ameri ca, states that at that writing be was at inid-ocean en route for Buenos Ayres. The journey will require six weeks be-, fore his destination is reached Mr. Norris hat many friends in Athens, who wish him a bon voyage and success in business in the subtropical regions. DrsKRViD Promotion.—Mr. Morague Fleming, who for several weeks has served as soliciting agent for the Cen tral railroad with headquarters in Athens, has been promoted to a similar position in Augusta, at a salary uf $2,- 400 a year. His successor in Athens has not yet been appointed. Mr Fleming is a young railroad man of great prom ise, and fully deserves his recent pro motion. Whoofino Cough.—We are informed hya prominent physician that a mild type of whooping cough is prevalent in Athens. Only a fow cases arc thus far reported, however, and it is hoped that It will not spread,at least while the city is snbeaing in the dutches of la grippe. Fib* - ArPAftATUSTOit East Athens.— Yesterday’s fire in East Athens proved the need of a fire apparatus in that por tion of flii' city. The Miggestion that the city dig a lot of cisterns and buy a small stoamerfor their use meets with the hearty approval of everyone. A Great Social Event.—The re cital of Mrs Scott-Siddons at the new opera house will, be the chief event with the society people of Athens this weok<. Mrs. Siddons is one of the worlds’ greatest and most gifted elocu tionists and her recital at the little opera house deserves a full house of Athenians whose, taste for sneb aniuse- monte is highly cultured and refined. Through a special arrangement Man ager Hasolton has given popular prices of 76 cents to the Athenians. Capt. Nickerson Caned.—On Sun day last the Sunday School of Oconee Street Methodist church presented Superintendent Nickerson with a hand some gold-headed cane. It was beauti fully engraved and carved, and was a most valuable gift. The cane was pre sented by Rev. Mr. Quillain in behalf of the school and it was quite a surprise to Capt. Nickerson. A Delightful Evening.—A Urge number or our young people eqjoyeaa most delightful entertainment given lest evening et the residence of Rev. D. Cron Oliver on Oconee street. None know better how to entertain than our efficient chief of police and his excellent wife, and last night’s entertainment was in keeping with the reputation for charming hospitality that they have among our people. Joseph-Marxs.—The marriage of Miss Helen Marks to Mr. Joseph, of Chicago, on the SUth, promises to be a brilliant event. The marriage ceremo ny will take place in the synagogue held immediate- and a reception will be held immediate^ ly after in the new opera house, and not in the Clarke Rifles’ armory, as pre viously announced. Visitors' are ex pected from New York, Chicago, Phil adelphia, and otlior points, and will be so numerous that it will be impossible to give names. -jfcVV .• _• ,' r "Xja ROBBING THE MAILS. Much Complaint in Llneolnton Over Hail Robberies. Lincolnton, Ga., Jan. 22.—(Special.) —Much complaint is made here abc mail robberies which have been sho To Lkctuhe Friday Night.—Mr. C. K. Ober, of New York, one of the col lege secretaries of the Y. M. C. A. will arrive in our city in a few days, and will lecture to th- Y. M. C. A.boyson the campus on Friday night. 1 he col lege association here, which was found ed only about six months ago,is in quite a flourishing condition. Its officers are: Walker King, President; John F.. Coeper, Vice-President; Louis Rus- eell. Secretary, and Marion Hull,Treas urer. Mr. Ober will be warmly received here. He will go from Athens to Ox ford where he will address the Emory agent at boy*. ported by many parties that letters have been ruthlessly torn open iu the mails and money taken from them before they are taken from the post office here Letters that come from even as near a place as Augusta have been torn open, robbed of their money anil sealed again before reaching Lincolnton. Within the past few months more than $1,000 has been stolen In this way by unknown parties. Many of the letters have been sent from cotton factors in Augusta to poor people in this county who can ill alford to lose their money. The situa tion is a deplorable one, a'nd there seems to be no limit to the boldness of these robbers. Even registered letter* hare been robbed of their valued contents and sealed in duplicate envelopes. The matter has been reported time and again, but no relief has been granted by the government. The principal mail that comes to Lin colnton is by way of Plum Branch, S. C.. which leaves Augusta on the Au gusta aud Knoxville Railroad. Sus picion rests heavily upon the mail agent at P l utn Branch or the postal clerks on the A. & K. Railroad. What tbt.Co«aan Win X.ka if tt Faufias r« Bleeirts Light- The matter of patting lights on Bar bar and other streets teems to promise a favorable consideration fiom the council at the next meeting. The only question that will probably be discussed is, will it be gas lights or electric lights. The ccuncilajcn should con-kier this question deliberately and when they do, they will pat electric lights np instead of the gas. The eleo- trfa lights have received the meat of every snneess, and they will unquestionably be ared altogether in Athene Within a few yesreT^ Therefore, if the eeancil goes to tire srESKS&ss: la.mr - w a year perhaps, they can see the great mistake of snefa a proceeding. It ie a foregone eoncloaloa that within a fow years the. streets of Athene will be lit altogether by electricity, end it would be useless to pat gas lamps up when each is more then probeb'e. A* t matter of coarse, the residents on Barber street would he only too gladtoget even the gaeHghte on the sound basis that if they ‘ they would like to have | electric lights would beof mere sendee, and that the council would make a mis take if they do not grant theta is clear to every eye. The present council has already shown iu determination to give their growing city ell the rope she needs In Mr progressive march, and they will when their term expires be proud to look back over the prosperity of Clas tic Athens. THE FURNITURE FAATORY. Mr. Tom Burney the Atlanta Joura Ji court In Savannah. The Washington crowded. Mr. Dan his recent illness. Susie Loess red from is fine girl. Mr. Jss. C. Ut to his refetta Mr. Tota Ki lanta last night. Prof. A. L. “ in Atlanta on relatives father of a SPEAKER REED HAS A LITTLE LIST THAT HE CONSULTS VERY OFTEN. Mr. M. A. Myere sitioe with the Prie Rev. Mr. Gibson, in the city yesterday." Mies CaMe Wilson in Anniston, Ale. Mr. H. N. Carti in the city yesterday Mr. S. Slom&n, to Cincinnati. Mayor pro tem. er on offenders then Mr. Peter Bond moved to the city Rev. J. G. Gibson in the city yesterday Messrs. S. H. and Ji R. A. McMahan, Robt. er^came up from Oglethorpe yester- Mr. Stephens say* that the factory will infuse more vim into the trade and gen eral business of Athens than the' mer chants can realize, and says that the manufacture of furniture in the city in stead; of injuring the wholesale trade will benefit it. With a pay roll of more than $600 per week, one can easily im agine the profit to be derived from the factory in the indirect way, saying noth ing of tbe'greai inconvenience and need that it will supply. It is to be hoped that the citizens win interest themselves in this important move and will make every effort to secure tbo fnrnitare fac tory. A meeting of those interested will be called at an early date, and let every capitalist, clerk and laborer be ready to take stock SEES:, NEGROES ON A. STRIKE, They are Making no Contracts in Jaeksen County. It is said that the negroes around Center, the first station on the North eastern. railroad have entered upon a strike that is serious and threatening in its present aspect. They claim to have grown tired of farm work and have determined to have, “qo more of it in their’b.” The white people have secur ed no labor for the ensuing year on their farms, and the situation is begin ning to look sqnally for them, as the negroes say they have no intention of going to work for the whites, and are determined in their course. They are now working about by the day, cutting wood or doing little jobs, just to the extent of keeping the wolf from their doors. Investigation discloses the fact that negroes have formally organized a strike against the farmers in that vicin ity, and the cause seems to rest upon a rumor that Messrs. Orr A Hunter, of Athens, hare received a contract for gradituc the G., C. A N. from Athens toward the river and are offering one dollar per day to hands to work for them. This, however, is a mistake, for the contracts for grading have not been let at all on this side of the Savannah river. The negroes are laboring under a great mistake,and are doing the white people who have supported them during the past year a grievous injury. We learn of many similar situations in our adjoining counties. AFTER BRER’ BABBIT. Mr. Blanton, the prOtor of Boggs’ Chapel, who has been quite sick L slow ly recovering. Miss Jude Weaver, of Greensboro, is expected to visit Mrs. F.W. Lucas in the near future. Mr. Henry Quattebam, a prosperous Jackson county farmer, was in the city yesterday. Mr. B. D. Oliver, a prosperous resi dent of Jackson was in the city yester day. Miss Sadie Overby, of Meridian JwniiMj auu ourejjr wnuiu w«ui vj* wt iuci lumu. then are dtiaens with sufficient enter- Miss., is visiting Mrs. B, E. Overby, of prise te aid the building by it.;; ,, Watkinsvillc. Mr. John B. Cocper has returned to the Law Class after a visit u> Buford, Ga. ,v i A young man drove down |Broad street, Monday, with a flag of truce fly ing. He was enthusiastically cheered. CoL E. F. Brown has-been absent from the city for severanifers on busi ness. He will return tomorrow. Mr. Will Grady, after 4 visit to his mother, Mrs. A. E. Grady on Barber street, left yesterday for Atlanta. Mr. R.,L. Maynard has returned to Miss Carroll Mattox, of Elberton. a most accomplished young lady, will en ter the Lucy Cobb. Mr. Guy C. Hamilton, one of the ris ing business men of Athens, has return- from atrip to his plantations id Co lumbia county. Mr.Tom Hudson, a prosperous Clarice county farmer, was in the dty yester day. Mr. M. F. Conloni has recovered from his- recent illness in Augusta and is now welcomed back in t^e city by his numerous friends.. ? J v) { Mr. Mark Cooper Pope, of Washing ton, Ga., an excellent young man'from an excellent town, was welcomed by bis many friends in the city yesterday. Messrs. Max and Lesser Joseph, ac companied by Mrs. Isenberg, Mrs. Joe Joseph and Mrs. T. Joseph are expect ed in the city from Chicago. Mr. Will Hemphill is still confined to his home in Atlanta with rheumatism. He will not return to the University for some time. Misses N. Elkins, Yetta Goldberg snd Mrs. Dave Wsxelbaum, accompa nied by Messrs. M. Elkins and Ike Fla- tou. will be present at the{ Marks- Jo seph wedding next week from Macon. Mr. Harry Pbinixy, who bas been spending some time at Bewanee Springs, Fla., will join the Athens par ty on tbeir journey through the land of nnoeasing summer skies. WANTS TO FIGHT. A targe Party of Athenians raise the War Flag Against the Cunning Hare. Lee’s birthday was observed in a rou*. ing fashion by a number of Athens' huntsmen. They wared a deadly war fare again sthrer' rabbit and life said that Lee’s array would not have made more fuss or caused more terror in the land than did these festive huntsmen. The crowd from Athens were CoL Charlie Baldwin; J. T. Voss and Julius Cohen who were joined in the chase by about fifty countrymen. There were about twenty-five hounds in the field. tipi. Baldwin covered himself with undying glory by Ins excellent shots and was the envied l hunter of the entire ingupfor several months. It is nr- 'crowd, although he bad a. close rival in the person of J utius Cohen. It Is said that this gentleman has come to be re garded as a noted Nimrod since the chase. He made the crack shot of the day, by blowing the head from a rabbit that he saw snugly hidden undeir the grass by his path. He was toasted loudly by the company for such accu rate marksmanship, but liss utter con sternation can be imagined when it became known that the wild varmint was dead aud had been hidden there by one of the hunters. It was a great old hunt and about eighty of the cunning hares were brought back by the Athens party. Col. Baldwin claimed the lion’s share and has been feasting on brer’ rabbit since the hunt most triumphantly. A Rainy Day.—The rain has come at last, and winter is apt to follow. Yes- teiday morning quite a heavy shower fell in Athens, and rubber coats and umbrellas came suddenly in good de mand. It was a rainy day such as bas not been seen before this winter, and many were the predictions that cold weather will surely follow. It U to be | hoped that such will result, Portugal Has Blood In Hor Eyes Against England* Lisbon. Jan. 21.—{8pecial.]—Four thousand of the leading merchants of this city are parading the principal streets shouting for war against En gland. The whole country is incensed at the quiet and almost cowardly man ner in which Senior Gomez yielded to Lord Salisbury’s bull-dozing policy. In case of war Spain is naturally dis posed to take Portugal’s part,.ana it is not unlikely that Italy and Austria will think that Great Britain is great enough. But this will hardly be more than mere moral support. None at the other powers would care to risk a general war, iuYolving, as it would, thpsafty of every throne in Europe for the sake of Portugal. They will seek to pacify the bellig erent Portagnete and avert a war which could not bo otherwise than disastrous to Portugal, and the signal for the tumble of several shaky thrones. Washington, D. C., Jan. 21.— (Special}—It is said that Speaker Reed has a private list of tie members of the Jfooae in the drawer his public desk on which he bas marked characters in dicating the disposition of each mem ber. He does this, so that in the hasty formation of committees, he will know something of the personal charactor- " on each member, and not put (he g men in certain positions, or recognise the wrong men In debate. He knows the cranks and hobbyists; who ato for- prohibition, local option, silver and gold, bi-metal, greenbacks, and all that sort ot thing. He also SKfeg'fcSySfef'irE; as character marks for the kickers, written opposite each of th* recakritant raemherr name, a letter indicating tfce degree of Us general dissatisfaction. For instance, if the man Is an ordinary kicker, he marks after liis name on the private list tbeJetter “K.” If be, is a bard klcterhe has marked “H. K.” A friend the other day said that after a fow members’ names the Initials “H. H. K.” mark, which he ascertained meant “bell of a bard kicker ” By the aid of this'U*t Speaker Reed is enabled to form committees and recognize mem bers In hasty debates without making any errors. ' • There fire indications that Congress is about to enter upon consideration of the Important subject of the public buildings in. Washington. It is th<-cus tom of Congress , to appropriate large sums of' money for public buildings In other .cities for the necessities of the Government, while here at the Nation al .Capital a vast sum of' money is ex pended each year in paying for the rent of buildings to occupy such portions of the various bureaus of the Government as cannot tteaccommodated In the'pub-: lie buildings which now exist. Careful estimates nave been made by the Com mittee on ' Publfo Buildings and Grounds, which go to show that the interest on the fonds necessary to erect the buildings ' which the Government actually needs here would be very much less than r the amount of rest actually paid to private parties for inadequate! acoouupodations. The difficulty always, has beqn, in entering on any such plan, that the first cost' has been solely re garded; by some of the professional eoonomista, particularly those in the Housei ft is this practice of saving at the spight while losingxt the bang hole which the professional watch-dogs of the Treasury* have fore< d upon the Government for many, years. The re- ings of private parties until its rent roll reaches enormous proportions. Yet sc me of the small men who practice this piuchback economy, continue to pass as great men aud reformers in their own narrow districts, .while op- posingthe soundest < principles of pub lic econpmy in. thfe respect. The Senate Committee on patents has ordered 1 a htaoaable report On the meas ure known as the Chace international copyrightJaW. andthete la reason to expectnaipbMylpassAgB’byAheSenaie^ In the last Congress only tea Senators (all Democrats) voted against'it, and it failed in the House, not because there were uPt enough wto in~ lts-favor tcr pass it but because consideration of the bill was prevented by the pressure of other matters. The pressiire of office-seekers has be come so overwhelming at the census office that Superintendent Porter has been obliged to call ,a halt. Be said this morning: “I will not see any ap plicants for clerical positions. I am absolutely compelled to adopt tills eourse. My whole time nearly has been consumed in talking with applicants. The business of the office has been neg lected, and now I am obliged to con sider the question of appointment of supervisors. There are 176 to be ap- K luted, and everyone of them ought to selected within the next few weeks, or ait the farthest the next eight weeks. It is difficult to find the proper men for these positions, and the greatest care must be exercised, especially as the pay is small.! I am expected to know * amendment will be offered te that ef fect when the bill cornea up for eon- lid^ntion ■ Tbeiihirty-nintb degree of latitude north and sonthof which them tiariea will be located starts at applet near Cape May In New Jersey and ends in Colorado about midway the state. iColorado about midway the state. Baltimore, Washington and St. Loots are in the contemplated southern dtvis- ion .so Atlanta and Georgia will ham to hustle to get the southern division. Senator Colquitt and family have is sued invitations to a, reception to be given at their residency on New Jersey arenue on the evening of the STthi ' Representative George Baree _ safely convalescent, bat is not yet able to resume hH duties in the house. Tom Johnson’s com Amotion still tangs fire, possibly from the prow of The senate galleries are full df poo- ple who have come to hear Ur. in nils’ promised speech. Mm. Hsnle was sick all day yester day aud toward night she sent to her daughter, Mrs. Hill for a dose of calo mel. Mrs. Hill took from a package what tKensnarr. 1 . ders dose given her by her daughter, thi ing that it would make her feel this morning. In ashort whilo MrsIIanio was suddenly Ul, complaining of terrible NEWS BY WIRE- cated as missionaries,> Each of Ahe lit. tie heathens was plsd in close fitting Knickerbocker trousers, wlthAbrevP ated jackets and skull caps. Their faces were as black $s polished ebony, and their lArge white eves lolled about in their sockets,. glistening liko a now moon between thunder clouds. The largest member of the quartette carried on his back the wardrobe of the entire party, done up in a grass sack., . Over 16,000 negroes have, recently emigrated from Month Carolina, and 35,000 more are to follow. “Jack the Hugger” has appeared in Denver. He simply grabs for pretty girls, and hugs and Jdsses them. A Wilkesbarre mail superintendent has disappeared with the wife of one of his workmen. - ■ i , Tho Confederate Home. .' . A Atlanta, Jan. 21.—[Special.]—The hoard of trustees of the Confederate soldiers’ home of Georgia met in one of the committee rooms of the capitol this morning at 10 o’clock- Messrs. Calhoun, Howell, Inman, Spalding, Fox. Ellis and W. A. Wright were present. The death of President Henry W. Grady was announced and on motion the board went into an election of a president. Judge Calhoun was unanimously chosen as president of the board of trustees in place of Mr. Grady. Small Pox in Georgia. 1 £ Grantville, Ga., Jan. 21.—[Spe cial.]—Wash Ups haw, ex-Uni ted States deputy marshal, is sick with small pox, at'Lutherville, seven miles from here. The excitement Is intenso. The mu nicipal authorities here will quarantine against Lutherville. about the men selected for thi tions, so that I can give information to the President and the Secretary of the Interior, when called upon.” TH* WORLD’S FAIB. t Interviews with a number of the Georgia Congressmen reveal the fact that theyare as a whole notbadlystuck on the World’s Fair project. Dr. H. H. Carlton of Athens may be taken as a fair example. a He la inclined to vote against the whole scheme. He i$. opposed to the government embarking in the show business. He wonld vote for Washing- ton as first choice for a site. life the national capital and was the right place In his lodgment to hold it. How would aworld’a fair inGrcat Britain do at Liv erpool or Manchester, or one in France do at Lyons ir Toulon ? He expressed himself emphatically against Chicago, and told a Chicago member the other day if he would burn. Libby prison and dynamite one or two partisan Chicago newspaper offices he would agree to consider bis town as a proper place in which the fair could be held. QUAY ON TH* MOVE. Senator Mat Quay was on the floor of the house for an hour yesterday, and was in close conversation with Mr. Browne, of Indiana, chairman of the committee on elections. When Sena tor Quay eomes over to the the house wing it is presumably on political bus- iness. His business yesterday was to urge upon 3Ir. Browne the necessity of disposing of thp World’s Fair matter, so the election case3 could be brought up. As'matters stand, the members whose seats are contested have votes, and their friends have votes, to be won for this or that town, and the astute repub licans arc not doing any great amount of bull-dozing just now T1IE VERY LATEST, Washington, Jan. 21.—(Special.)— The Wood-Foraker investigation has been adjourned for one week. The Chairman of thecommittee, Mr. Mason, had to go home to Chicago and ex- Governor Foraker pleaded yesterday for time to go to see his family. Representative Stewart has prepared John Weyer, aged 84, died at York, Pennsylvania, while praying. The unemployed thousands of Loo- don gave a parade, and it waa difficult for the police to prevent ah attack on the mansions of the rich. Henry. Frcelich secured nearly * million dollars from Wisconsin farmers wbo toek risk in an ituuranoe company which never existed. A wife in New York had h arrested for failing to pay $460 which be borrowed before their marriage, across the Sahara desert. The wife of a Pern ml SStf*’"' 1 The wife of a Pennsylvania, burglar fired at the officers Of the few while they were after her husband. A pastor at Paunton is being pen* cuted because he tried to put a stop to kissing-beCs at eburoh. • Oo« hundred and'Seventy thousand ating agony, prople attended the funerffi of a chain- The strychnine which pion oarsman in Australia. ~ ' The lawyers are all opposed to the national bankrupt few. Four little negroes from Central Afri- a have arrived'Ih Nashville, to be edrt- clnims to have visited both Heaven and hell, and saw God and titoDevil' A jealous rival chloroformed Miss Lizzie Savage, of Darby, Penn., and cut off her hair; which Was the envy of the other girls of the village. Agnes, Algietva beautiful white girl of Burlington, Vt., has a strange infat uation for a negro cook, who has al ready a living wjre. She gave blrth to a child and eloped with the negro. A bOx wasfourtd in an'Alley ifi Cincin nati that r contained a human skeleton. The skull and bones had the appearance of having been rece'ntly dug' up out of the ground. A seven-years old girl% Cincinnati was enticed into a box car and brutally assaulted by an unknown man. .. For^aker is no longer a leader among the Ohio republicans. n „Otls Gilmore recently died in Bango: Maine, from a wound received in the late war. Robert Garrett, the Baltimore million aire, is insane, and is kept a close pris- one r. ( ho The trains on the Union Pacific are Bnow bound. The rotary plows are ut terly useless. Sad Date of Mre.lanU it Stouo Moan • a tain. —, January 50./—{Sj ctel.]—There was a tragic death hi last eight at half past seven o’clock, Mrs. Bessie llaiiiedicl irom the ef- tocttofadoaaofstrvcluune given her her daughter, Mrs. MarjhiML. Dr. Robinaonwas sent for In haft,-, b« by the time he arrived M rs. Hanie vfes racked with mo-t excruciating ■fipny. Vigorous remedies wore an- pBedbut they seemed to have no effect IT WAS STRYCHNINE. One of the first things the doctor did as to inquire what medicine had been iministered the lady. . .. MtaJHill, her daughter, replied that ietad given her a don.- <>f calomel, he package from whioh it was taken was procured and given to the doctor. He examined it and found that It was rchnine instead of catonnL rs. Hill was almost crazed with if at the fearful mistake that ah« made. a»d then the efforts to save Mrs. IIo ale’s life were redoubled, but tono avail, as the strychnine hhd taken <feo- If* , At 7:80 o’clook Mrs. Hanio diod, af ter thirty minutes of tho most excrucU: strychnine which caused' lira. onlqg some dogs which bad been prat* feg f great annoyance to him at niglife Mr. Hanie. who is a stone-cutter, wa* absent from Stone Mountain, being a work in Lithonia. * He waateleoranbed Sp&33 llKtB: “ Mrs.: Hanie was;about forty: years old] and leaves two daughters and two mu to mourn her tra&ie death. .flfta aad mistake has cant: • pall 1 over the little town of Stone Mountain, tnd the sympathy of every one goes out to Mrs. Hill, the daughter, wno te over come with grief at her loved one’s un timely! FELL DEAD IN COURT. John Law, of Rome, New York, shot and cut his own throat. A tumor was successfully removed from a child’s brain at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. , A Cronin witness is insane in Texas, and raves about the Ctaiwna-Gael pur suing him with bloody knives. j. Winter wheat in Kansas fe in a splen did condition; and a large crop is antie- •P»ted. ,(,j nni ,t , ■ », Near New MartinsL mailers compelled air note by threats. retteS i to petoons odder 1 dghteeh years of age.. -ad- j„gsMulw terrified ■ -* —■ ^ Ji scratched each other iuatil«« ofiloar/nr _ rested them.,' . . The Okiaiioma republican convention has adjourned. The natidnal platfonn and adiqinistiation were .■endorsed, abd {JjgMJre, 1 *!*. negroes on a basis of Senator-elect Brito will build a resi dent in Ohio. Hftprevented two rep resentatives, who backed him, a check for $10,000 each. ' ' Pittisburg.will be the seat of war in the coming contest between employers and employes on' the eight-hour move- Ada Behan’s Father a Victim to la- temperance. New York, Jan. 21.—[Special.]—A sad scene enacted in Police Justice Tfgne’s Court. this morning, where re pwBbW fTtHfetaxerewa, a man seventy ynara of age, and the father of the well known actress, Miss Ada Rohan, fell dead while awaiting a hearing on tho charge of habitual drunkenness, preferred -oy members of his own family.- After long deliberation and consulta tion with the other members of the fam ily,,Mr. William Cretan, one of thoold man’s sons, decided to place his father under restraint on account of his habits of confirmed inebriety. As a prelimi nary proceeding, the old man was tak en into custody by Couit Officer Riley, 1 and this morning wa3 brought into court. Before his case was reached, however, the old man was seeri to gasp and struggle for breath, and then to fall unconscious from his chair. Every means possible to restore him was re sorted to by the court officers, and an ambulance was summoned. Before it arrived, however, Mr. Crehan wa3 dead. , Mr. Crehan was an Irishman by birth, and came to this country with his fam ily in 1867, when his famous:daughter Ada, was only eight years old. Mr. Crehan had raised a family 0t five chil dren—two sons and three daughters. The-daughters developed personal beau ty and remarkable dramatic ability. The youngest daughter is known to the world as Mis3 Ada Rehan, the accom plished actress*' and leading lady of the Daly Company. The eldest daughter is the wife of the actor and playwright, Oliver Dond Byron. She is also an actress of reputation, second only to her younger sister. The other other sister is Miss Russell, who was formerly a member of Chestnut Street Theater Company. The eldest son, William, is the business manager for Oliver Doud Byron, and the younger son, Arthur, is the manager of the Ar thur Behan Comedy Company, whieh plays the Daly comedies throughout the country. , . The name of the distinguished ao; ^3 was changed from Crehan to thatTby which she and her brother Arthur have always been known by an acci dent at the beginning of herstage ca-* “ reer. She joined Mrs. John Drew’s Arch Street Theater Company, in this city, in 1875; The name on the manu script bill announcing her first appear ance, as sent to the printer, was her own, Ada Crehan; but the compositor blundered and pointed it Rehau, and the typographical error has been re peated, with her consent, upon every subsequent play bill in which ner name has appeared. f .t)f :u r io, black- to sign a be sale oif cfoa^ )bi BLY AND BISLAND. Mrs. J; A. Rainboldt, of Lima, Ohio, deserted, her husband and child, and eloped witlf-a hoarder. John Evans, a convict at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, committed suicide by hanging himself with a towel fastened to a bar of iron in his cell. Mrs. Julia Kehoe, of Pottsylvania, Penn., died at the age of IOC. Several years ago, she predicted the time of her death. 1 ‘ Tho Grand Lodge of Minnesota has condemned Cerneaisin. and will have nothing but straight Masonry in the future. Dick Gardner, a South Carolina con vict, was shot down while attempting to escape. Fire broke out in the State Asylum for the Insane, in Worcester, Mass. Quick work by the attendants prevent ed loss of life. Which will Win In tho Globe-Girdling Contest? • New York, Jan. 21—[Special]—In terest is at white heat here on account of the race between Nellie Bly and Mins Bis land in their round-the-world travels. It will be remembered that the former went eastward and the latter west- * ward. The snow blockade in Califor nia will considerably delay Miss Bly. There is now a good chance of Miss Bisland’s winning after all^and had she caught La Champagne at Havre Satur day, she would certainly have done so. The slowness of the Bothnia, on which she sailed, is greatly against her. As evidence of the interest here, five gentlemen have offered to pay a thou sand dollars each for a swift steamer from Halifax to intercept the Bothnia on Sunday, and take Miss Bisland to Halifax and run her down on a special train from there to this city. Betting in the clubs is five to three on Miss Bly. Later—Nelly Bly arrived in San Francisco at 7 o'clock this morning. 8h 3 received a tremendous ovation by persons interested in ihe globe travel* ing race. 1