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NARROW ESCAPE.
A Locomotive Boiler Explodes While
the Train is at Full Speed.
Englrwr mi'.l fireman Killed. Hoing
Blotni t our lliibiki’eil Im Away.
Salem, 0., March 20.—The limited express
on the P. JFt. W. &O. Pi. R. met with a
terrible accident two miles east of here this
morning, - The train was equipped with a
combination smoking and baggage car,
dining car and two -sleepers, having
on board. twenty-pine . passengers.
While f-puhding a sharp curve
and rtmning at high speed,
the boiler exploded with terrific violence,
burling tlie engine down a flfteen-fdot em
bankment, and blowing Engineer James
Richards and Fire.man Charles Ruodesfour
hundred fe.qt from the point where the en
gine left the track, killing tiiem instantly.
The combination car followed the engine,
and landed on the boiler with such violence
as to force the drivers of the engine through
the floor, the car being demolished
completely. The dyiing-cur was thrown
over on its side, and slid down the embank
ment, and became a complete wreck. The
remaining two cars were forced from the
track, and the trucks of the forward car
thrown a distance of twenty feet. Both
cars were badly damaged. For a few mo
ments after the explosion the interior of.
the sleepers was a scene of inextricable
confusion. The screams of lady passengers
were most heart-rending, and the cries of
strong men could be heard above the din
calling for help. Some little time elapsed
before an attempt was made to
ascertain the extent of the accident,
so great was "the excitement,
and every person being either unconscious
or imprisoned. Tne first person to emerge
from the wreck was the colored porter,
who, though badly bruised, succeeded in
breaking the. windows of the sieepstrs,
which aff >rded afT St'enbe of escape, and
one by one the passengers crawled out,
and it was soon ascertained none had re
ceived serious injuries, although eleven
were more or less bruised or cut. The
employes on the train were not so for
tunate. Baggageman Beisel received a cut
on the leg,.and. it is'feiU'ed his knee is lec
tured. the sleeping-car conductor Was
badly bruised, but not seriously. One'of
the colored porters Was found uncon-cious
in the smoking car, lying ina pool of flood,
and it was at first feared he was dead, but
after being removed to the open air lie re
vived. His injuries are not considered
1 ptol ...
Mates Court, has been raised by the Key
stone Bridge Company. That company
built a bridge here for the Ohio Central
Road, and has not been paid. It refuses to
oompletedhe bridge and holds possession
until secured against loss.' The road being
in the hands of u receiver, and in
need ot a telegraph line. Judge
Jackson ordered the receiver to
string a wire across thejbridge. The Key
stone Bridge Conipun/ resisted. Judge
Jackson sent a U.H. Marshal from Charles
ton, \V. V a., who got possession and held
it until tlie wire was put . across. During
the night the Bridge Company cut. tlie wire
and barricaded both ends of the bridge
resisting the United .States Marshal’s au
thority. An appeal was made to jiube
Jackson, who ordered the Marshal to
Parkersburg to get an armed posse and
enforce at all hazards the authority of the
Court.
Wholesale Adulteration of Food.
Albany, March 21. —The Senate Com
mittee on Public Health, which has been
investigating adulterations of foorl, report
ed to-day. They say they have discovered
wholesale . and alarming adulterations,
dangerous to the consumer and depreciat
ing property in the rural districts. The
adulteration of butter by tallow oil, bone
oil, lard oil, was found in almost every
town and city in the State, and in amount
equal to half the production of natural
butter. Imitations have been so disguised
that often they were only discoverable l’iv
chemical.analysis. Out of thirty samples
of butter purchased by the committee in
Hew York only ten were genuine. No
labels to distinguish pure from bogus butter
are displayed us required by the existing
law. The bogus butter is largely purchased
by saloons, hoarding houses and second
class hotels.
The Soudan.
London, March til.—The JVV’tes has tele
grams stating that Khartoum, is entirely
surrounded by hostile tribes, except on the
side protected by the river. The Dervish
Sheikhs are said to be ready to lead three
tribes in an attempt to capture the town.
Cairo, March 21. — A newspaper published
in the Arabic language contains a report
of an interview with £1 Mahdi. It states
that El Mahdi denied ever having pretended
to be the Messiah. Such a claim, he said,
would he certain to cause the sheikhs to
desert his cause. He declared he would
kill Gordon if he caught him, and would
give the English money to the poor Mussul
mans. El Mahdi expressed confidence that
if Indian troops were brought to Egypt
they would refuse to fight against tlieir
fellow Mohammedans.
Terrible Work of an Insane Mother.
San Francisco, March 20.—Mrs. John
Schafer, of Oakland, Cal., became insane
over the loss of one of her children, and
during the absence of her husband for a
few minutes last night cut her baby’s
throat and then cut her own. The hus
band, at the terrible spectacle presented
seized a revolver and attempted to commit
suicide, hut was prevented by a policeman.
Some friends visited the scene this even
ing, among them Mrs. Letrolli, a French
lady, who was so shocked at the sight that
she became a raving maniac.
Mutilating Webster's Tomb.
Plymouth, Mass, March 20.—Herbert L.
Jackson was to-day fined $lO for mutila
ting the marble tablet on the tomb of "Dan
iel Webster at Marshfield. Mrs. Webster
wrote that satisfaction bad been made
in that Jackson hud paid for a new tablet,
and she desired to have the case put on
fike. The judge refused u> comply. He al
lowed, however, the mitigating circum
stances to govern the amount of the fine.
RISING FAWN, DADE COUNTY. GA., WEDNESDAY. MARCH 26. 18S4.
The Postal Telegraph Bill.
Washington, March 21. —The sub-com
mittee of the Senate committee ou post
office and post roads, having several postal
telegraph bills under consideration, have
formulated and caused to be printed a bill
providing that tlie postmaster general shall
establish telegraph offices at all post-offices
on telegraphic circuits, and all other post
offices on telegraphic circuits, and all other
pogtoffiees within ten miles of any such
circuit where the salary of the postmaster
is not less than SSOO per annum. The
maximum rates for telegrams of
twenty words or less shall be as follows:
When the distance of transmission is 1,000
miles or under, 20 cents; over 1,000 miles
or under 2.000 miles, forty cents; for
all greater distances, fifty cents; for tele
grams directed to be transmitted by night
under 2,000 miles, fifteen conts; for greater
distances, twenty-five cems; all words
to be counted, and for every five addi
tional words or less, one-fifth of the addi
tional rate to be charged. Government
business shall have priority in transmis
sion without prepayment, and at rates an
nually fixed by the postmastev general.
All other telegrams shall be transmitted in
tlie order received, except night messages.
The charges for the transmission of special
telegrams to newspapers and commercial
news associations for each 100 words or
less for each circnit of 1,000 miles shall
not exceed fifty cents if sent at night,
and $1 during the day. But when
copies of the same telegram are
dropped off at one or more offices, the rate
for each office shall not exceed fifty cents
at night, and seventy-five cents during the
day, and at the same pro rata rato for
each word in excess. Telegrams shall be
privileged communications in law to the
extent that sealed letters now are. The
Postmaster General is hereby authorized
and directed to Advertise for
three months for sealed propo
sals from any telegraph company or com
panies, now or hereafter to be incorpor
ated, for the transmission of correspond
ence by telegraph according to the provi
sions of this act, and shall contract with
the lowest responsible bidder or bidders to
perform, the whole or in part, this tele
graphic service; said contracts to be en
tered into for ten years, terminable at the
option of Congress.
Adulteration of Dai.’y Products.
Albany, N. Y., March 21. —The Senate
Committee on Public Health which has
been, investigating adulterations of food,
reported to-day. Accompanying the
report was a bill prohibiting, under
penalty of S2OO or six months’ imprison
ment, the sale of adulterated milk, the
keeping of cows for the productionof milk
in»an unhealthy condition, or diluting milk
with water. It provides that every
manufacturer of butter shall brand
his name and tlie weight of'
tlie butter on the package. Cans for thei
tho sa f e or* 111 arm fa ctiire of bogus Gutter‘or
is'Vim minted ytate dairymen’s Association
is appointed a commission to enforce the
W*l, and $30,000 is appro
priated for the purpose.
Spread of the Kansas Cattle Plague,
Atchison, Kan., March 21.—The Cham
pion has a special from Osborne, Kan., an
nouncing that fitty cattle in one herd in a
corral in the North-west part of Osborne
County, are affected with a disease similar
to the foot and mouth disease now preva
ient in Woodson County. The Sheriff has
established quarantine against , the herd,
and stationed a deputy in the locality to
prevent the passage of man or beast to
and from the ring. Osborne County is in
the north-western part of the State, while
W oodson is about two hundred miles
souui-east.
Frozen Fpet, Not Cattle Disease.
Kansas City, March 21.—Simon Beattie,
an expert who had been investigating tbe
cattle disease reported as foot and mouth
disease, says there i ft no foot and mouth
disease at Neosho Falls, Kan., where 'he
returned from to-day. Cattle are afflicted
" ith loot rot, caused by severe frosty
weather. He says one farmer admitted
that seventeen of his cattle had their feet
irozen in one night. Colts, sheep and hogs
feeding with cattle, said to be diseased
are healthy and do not snow any signs of
disease.
Systematic Stealing of Beer K«>qs.
New York, March 21.—James J. Rooney,
John Rooney, his son, and Andrew McNa
mara were arrested to-night on the charge
of systematically robbing brewers in this
City of ale barrels and beer kegs. The detee
tives found that Rooney and his associates
collected kegs during the night, and after
erasing marks upon them, shipped them
out of town. The brewers say the aggre
gate losses for the past year from this
cause amount to over SIOO,OOO.
An Old Murder Confessed.
Springfield, 111., March 21.—Three
years ago William Been married the
widow Dodds, living on a farm near here.
In July, 1882, he threatened to kill her and
hei family. Her son John, in defending
his mother, shot and killed Been, aim with
the assistance of a servant girl, Lid.lie
Large, hid the body in a drain. The girl
has confessed the facts, and the body was
unearthed to-day. Liddie Large has been
arrested. John Dodds is thought to be in
Kansas.
Calves Seized.
Hew York, March 24.—The Sanitary In
speetor, accompanied by a squad of police
made an unexpected raid last night on ex
press wagons that carry meat into this city
from New Jersey. One hundred and fitty
carcasses of calves unfit for food were
seized and sent to the offal docks. The
raid spread consternation among the ex- '
pressmen.
A Young Fiend Arrested.
Mount Carmel, Pa., March 21.—Michael
Toney, a lad sixteen years of age, was ar
rested Wednesday, while in the act of
changing a switch for the purpose of
wrecking an approaching train. On one
occasion he asked one of his associates to
assist him to wreck a train and then plun
der the wounded passengers.
Fatal Fire in Paris.
Paris, March 20.—An explosion of ben
zine set fiie to the third floor of a feather
shop in Rue Grande iruanderie yesterday,
preventing tbe escape of the occupants of
the upper floors except by the windows.
Filteen girls jump.-d to the ground, all of
whom were seriously and some fatally in
jured. J |
HORRIBLE MURDER.
The Terrible Butchery of a Wife.
And (lie Murderer'* Attempt to Sever lit.
Own jru*ul»r-'il»eo.»e» of ilte Cause.
Petersburg, 111., March 23.—Charles-
Houlden, a farmer living near here, butch
ered his wife in almost brutal manner last
night. He and'his family, consisting of
five persons, were sitting at the supper
table when a few unpleasant words passed
between him and his wife. Suddenly the
former arose from the table and began
smashing up the chairs and breaking other
things within his reach. Mrs. Houlden
arose from the table, and saying that she
had stood bis abuse as long as she intended
to, and, calling to the children, she began
to make preparations to quit the house. See
ing this, Houlden stepped into a hall
way, seized an ax; returned to the room
'and struck Mrs. Houlden on the side of the
lielirl, knocking her down. Then drawing
bis kniie from his pocket he drew it across
her throat from ear to ear, and thinking
she was dead started to leave tlie house.
As he got to the door Mrs. Houlden raised
upon her elbows and begged that her life
might be spared until she could say a lew
words. Her husband again returned and cut
another mortal wound in the side of her
neck and stabbed her in several places
about tlie breast and shoulders. At tills
point, the boy, twelve years old, the
only one in tlie room save the man and
woman —the three girls having run out of
the house at the first of the proceedings—
made an effort to interfere in liis mother’s
behalf. The frantic father dealt him
a blow with the knife, which struck
him in the palm of tlie band, nearly sev
ering bis four fingers. Not satisfied with
his hellish work, he returned once more
to the dying woman and threw his weight
on her, mortally injuring her inter
nally, and then left the mangled form ofth*
woman with her head lying ou the door
step. The alarm was immediately given.
A posse of men under the direction of Dep
uty Sheriff Stevens and Constable Clary
started in pursuit of the murderer and suc
ceeded in tracking the man to a hay-stack,
about a quarter of a mile from the scene of
the murier. There he was found
about nine o’clock this morning, lying
on his face, with an ugly gash
cut in his throat and the knife still grasped
in his hand. When ordered to surrender
be willingly did so. Medical aid was sum
moned, anil the wound, which was nothing
more than a flesh cut, was dressed. The
murderer was brought here and jailed.
He is aged fifty, has resided in this county
a number of years, is pretty well fixed
awaiting the action of the jury in the
Carpenter case. He probably thought if
muft’T V '° Uld r <lu,t Carpenter’ he
might be acquitted also if he should
commit tire murder. This theory is
oorne out by tlie fact that about half an
uour before the crime was committed
Hou den met Mr. button near his residence
and mqmred particularly how the Carpen
ivL! m hßd t e ™»nated. He seemed some
m f d f whea fco d 01 tbe acquittal,
n se t , qneS - tlons strode iutothe
nouse. Just as the prisoner arrived at the
jail the wagon containing his wife’s coffin
passed the place.
A Remarkable Occurrence.
Rock Island, 111., March 23. —A party of
one male , and three female passengers
were coming down to town this morning
in a low wagon. Two of the ladies
sat on the backseat, bearing a raised
umbrella to keep off the rain. When with
in about one mile of town a runaway
horse overtook the party. Tbe runaway
animal, whos'e steps were unheard by the
occupants of the wagon, made a flying leap
into tno vehicle. He jumped dear into the
wagon between the occupants of the rear
seat, and came down with a crash in the
middle of the conveyance. Mrs. D. A
Gartley, of this city, occupied tbe center
seat and was so severely
injured that she was taken into a home
neai by and a physician summoned from
tne dty. Later ill the day she recovered
sufficiently to he moved and was taken to
her home here where, at last accounts, sue
was doing well, lue passengers on the
rear seat were not only not harmed, but
weie absolutely untouched. „
Prisoners Escape.
Danville, 111., March 23—While the
turnkey at the jail was calling the prison
er-> to breakfast this morninghejwas seized
his keys taken from him, pushed into a cell
and locked there by tliree young men, Will
W cngel, Ed Crosby and Thomas Bracken
assisted by a man by the name of Carter
the quartet then quickly made their way
out and are still at large. Mengel, Crosby
ami Bracken were the leaders of a pang of
young store-robbers, and were only cap
tured a short time since, after having
robbed nearly a dozen stores in this city
Carter is a noted pickpocket.
A Mine Burning For Months.
Tacoma, W. T., March 23.—A fire is rag
ing in the Newcastle Coal Mine, the most
valuable of those belonging to the Oregon
Improvement Company. The mine has been
on fire for eighteen months. Tne fact that
it had obtained the mastery over the man
agement has been conceded. It is believed
that it is now necessary to shut down and
flood the mine.
Anniversary of the Paris Commune.
New- York, March 23.—The French com
munists, Russian nihilists, and German
socialists united in celebrating to-night the
thirteenth anniversary of the Paris com
mune. Herr Most and Victor Drury were
the Speakers.
Huge Iceberg.
London, March 23.—The steamer City of
Montreal, which arrived at Queenstown
yesterday, reports that on her passage she
passed an iceberg 200 feet high and forty
feet long. J
An Editor Paralyzed.
Providence, R. 1., March 23.—George W.
Danielson, editor of the Journal , while
driving with his family this afternoon, re
ceived a paralytic shock in the right arm
and leg. He is comfortable this evening.
Furnishing the Chinese With Guns.
Hartford Conn., March 23.— The Gat
ling Gun Company received an order for
ten more guns for the Chinese Govern
ment, to be delivered in sixty days.
XLVIIIth CONGRESS.
First Session.
Washington March 18.—Senate.— I The fol
lowing petition was presented ami referred:
Praying for the retirement of small treasury
notes. A bill was introduced authorizing the
Secretary of the Navy to offer a reward of $25,-
000 for rescuing or ascertaining the late of
the Greely Arctic expedition. The bill to aid
in the establishment and temporary support
of common schools was taken up. It appro
priates for the first year $15,000,000, second
$11,000,000, third §13,000,000,and soon for ten
years, decreasing $1,000,000 yearly, to be ex
pended in common school education, tlie ex
penditure in each State being on the basis
of illiteracy. Mr. Blair addressed the Senate
on tho bill. On conclusion of Mr. Blair’s
speech the Senate went into executive session
and soon adjourned.
House. —A number of reports were submit
ted, among them, appropriating SIBO,OOO for
the construction ol a vessel for the revenue
marine, and a steam launch for use in Alaskan
waters. Referred to the Committee on Ap
propriations. To prohibit the mailing of
lottery circulars or newspapers containing
lottery advertisements. Raid on the table. At
the expiration of the morning hour, Mr.Town
sliend moved that the House go into commit
tee on the Post-office Appropriation Bill, end
declined to yield to Mr. Curtin who wished an
opportunity to submit tlie report of tho For
eign Affairs Committee upon the Lasker reso
lutions. Carried. Mr. Reagan offered an
amendment, extending to members ot Con
gress the right to use penalty envelopes in
the transaction of official business. Lost. The
committee rose, and reported the bill to the
House. The amendments agreed to in Com
mittee of (he Whole were then adopted, with
the exception of that increasing, by $400,000.
the appropriation for letter-carrier service,
which was relected —yeas 121, nays 137. the
bill was then passed—yeas 160, nays 77 and
the House adjourned.
Washington, March 19.—Senate.—A me-
morial was presented from the Chamber of
Commerce of New York, praying for the pass
age of a bill appropriating $1,000,000 a year
for ten years for permument improvement of
the Erie Canal. A bill was reported from the
Committee on Foreign Relations, providing
for the inspection of moats and the prohibi
tion of the importation of adulterated articles
of food an I drink, and authorizing the Presi
dent to make a proclamation in certain
cuses. Messrs. Sherman and Pendleton pre
sented memorials and resolutions from the
Chamber of Commerce of Cincinnati remon
strating against tlie construction of a bridge
across th<T Kanawha River on the ground that
it would be an interference with commerce.
Referred to the Committee on Commerce. Mr.
Harrison, from the Committee on JnilDu Af
fairs, reported it inexpedient to establish a
Military Academy west of the Mississippi for
training Indian youths as soldiers.
House.— The House took up the report of
the Committee an Foreign Affairs respecting
the Lasker resolutions. Mr. Curtin, of Penn
sylvania, from the Committee on Foreign Af
fairs, submitted a report on the President’s
message accompanying the papers in relation
to the death of Dr. Lasker, in which the com
mittee approves of the resolutions of January
9 and regret they were not received. Mr. < ur
of the Committee on Foreign
hfthi. ii E ? #Sr(l Lasker, adopted
b> this House, January 9 last, were in
tended as a tribute of respect to tlie memory
aLa? lrt , for< ' i ß' n statesmen, who had
oiltn wi ; hin tle baited States and an expres
s' 00 of sympathy with the German people
S«V?°“ih a, V llononih,( ’ ropresen
ne*„lve<l.-That the House, having no
official concern with the relations between the
executive and legislative branches of theGer
ov'i» ve L' 1 ln N" 1 ’ < ? oes not deem it requisite
dtgnit v to criticize the manner of the
reception or tlie reso' ttions or circumstances
tlon Ch aFrX n °i , i ted n ? a< hin «' ,hrir destinn
tlon after they had been communicated
ihiough the proper channels'to the German
2?JE?- a,ent - considerable debate tho
resolutions were adopted.
Washington, March 20.—Senate.—A reso-
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lution was agreed to, calling on the Secretary
of the Treasury to furnish the Senate copies
of the accounts and vouchers of the disburs
ing agent of the Justico for
miscellaneous expenses rclntfff to the Star
route cases of the last three years. The
Senate resumed the consideration m hill
increasing the salaries of U. S. District Judges
to 5.),U0U. rho pending question was on
Morgan s amendment, providing
that the ticrcase shall only apply to Judges
wvL e!lf A e r.nP |30,nt< ’' 1, I>aid ov( r until to-mor
.. ','' as rrpoi-'yl very favorably pro
viding refunding excess duties on imports
9u S ar - P i; }eed on the calendar. The
consideration of the Educational Ilill was re-
S'f,' 1 1 i ln , <1 oceupied the balance of the day.
The debate win be resumed to-morrow. Mr
bogan called A the report of the committee
of conlerenc ”1 the Military Academy Ad-
Fh2m* lt “ > i 1 iS,! V anJ moved concurrent
u W’ A,frood to - Adjourned.
“PW 1 /; -1 " th( “ Virginia contested election
Jwi,,,* "trainst Mayo, Harrison was
d( dared entitled to his seat and took the o ith
of olhee. On motion of Mr. Ivciter, the con
ference report on the Military Academy Ap
£r'’[’> n n t 0n I,iU "' as taken up und agreed to
ine bill, as passed, appropriates (314,518. i The
morning hour was dispensed with and the
f.„^r o .*' lthf l ut , o <’l >Oßirion went into eomtnit
o'rTtbe Vtn Dorsheimer in the chair)
on the Bonded Extension llili. The debate
The o s,,V', r v "'| IO V! r h ° dav - with °ut action.
The speaker laid before the House a comant
nicat ion from the Secretary of War, trans
mitting the estimate of *;i(i,000 for the pedes
u‘ General Garfield to be
d f l Washington by the Army of the
Cumberland. Referred, Adjourned.
Washington, March 21.— 8 k bill
to increase IT. S. Judges’ salary was laid over
until Monday without action. Mr. Platt in
troduced a bill to provide for the admission
into the 1 nton of the State of Tacoma, to bo
erected out of Washington and part of .Idaho
Territory. The Deficiency Appropriation Hill
was passed, and the Senate adjourned until
Monday.
House—Mr. E. H. Fnnston was sworn in ns
successor to the late Mr. Haskell, from the
Second Kansas District. The House then
went into Committee of the Whole on the
private calendar. Mr. Dockery, from the
Committee on Accounts, twice tried to submit
the committee’s report, which included a crit
icism on ex-Speaker Keifer, but Mr. E. B Tuv
or, of Ohio, objected.
Washington, March 22.—Senate.—Senate
tot In session.
House.—Upder the call of committees the
following reports were submitted: To estab
nn assay office at Deadwood, Dak. Referred
to the committee of the whole. For
the return of the balance of the Chineso
Indemnity fund. Referred to the Committee
of the \\ hole; to reduce the life-time of patents
to live years; to provide one month’s extra
pay for certain employes of the House. Re
ferred to the Committee of the Whole Mr. Cox
reported a resolution calling on the Presi
dent for information ns to what action had
been taken by the 1 nited States in Venezuela
under the provisions of the joint resolution
providing for a new mixed commission, and
whether Venezuela decliued to make the
payment of any awards. Adopted. The
House then went into Committee on the
whole. Mr. Reagan in the chair, on the Bonded
Extension Bill. After debate the committee
rose, aud the House adjourned.
Six Children Poisoned.
Meadvillk, Pa., March 23. —Six children
from the village of Valonia went out it
search of “sugar water.” Not finding any
the boys tapped some kind of a tree with
their pocket knives and all of the children
sipped the juice. All were taken sick.
One ot the boys named George Custy, te
years of age, has died, and the others aro
expected to die.
BOUTHERN NEWS GLEANINGS.
Two brothers-in-law, named Henry
Lamb and Andrew McLean, of Laurens
County, Ga., recently quarreled over tlie
possession of some lumber, ending in Mc-
Lean keeping possession of it Lamb went
home and brooded over his trouble until
he worked himself into a frenzy. Arming
himself with a shot-gun, he proceeded to
the residence of McLean, and, seeing his
victim standing on the door-step, aimed his
gun and fired, McLean being peppered
with small shot. Lamb then retreated,
keeping the house covered with his gun
until he reached a small clump of trees,
where he reloaded with large shot. Run
ning quickly across the field lie again ap
proached the house from the rear. Mc-
Lean, who retired within his house, then
appeared with a pistol. The two men then
kept advancing upon each other until they
reached a distance of about thirty paces,
when McLean, carried away by great ex
citement, instead of firing simply threw
his pistol at Lamb. Tlie latter at once
pulled down on him, exclaiming: “You
coward, take that.” McLean threw up his
hands and fell dead. Lamb turned and
ran and lias not been heard from since.
Win. Rawlins, a neighbor, lias been arrest
ed as an accomplice.
A terrible cyclone passed through a por
tion of Cherokee County, Ala., near Al
bertsville, the other night. It was about
half a mile wide, and touched the
earth only for six miles. Absolute de-
struction marked its path, and every house
went down before it. Mrs. lidmore and
Mr. Hess were instantly killed, and
Mr. Tidmore and the family of
Frank Farmer were seriously in
jured. One man, name unknown, was
blown from a wagon and torn to atoms.
From thirty to forty dwellings and a store
were completely demolished and crops aie
badly injured. Trees were torn up by tlieii
roots and fences in some instances blown
hundreds of yards. A cloud-burst occurred
during the tornado and the entire country
was flooded.
The Virginia General Assembly closed on
the 19th.
H. J. Moffett, jr., has been elected Rail
road Commissioner of Virginia.
At Pocahontas. Va., the citizens’ relief
committee have taken measures to provide
relief for tho families who lost their “bread
winners” in the awful mine calamity there,
and provide labor for those able to woi k.
Two little colored children were brutally
murdered and two others mortally wounded,
outlie place of O. E. Usher, near Augusta,
Ga.. a few , ''s,3iii |Ce - The father and
s|„Jtrt f n cases containing 40,.
0(I() cans of oysters were shipped in one
order by a Newborn, N. C., firm one day
recently.
THE late cold snap killed nearly all the
Vegetables throughout Central Alabama,
and farmers are unable to replant in many
localities,'owing to excessive rains.
A COLORED laborer on Mr. John 8. Hair
ston s plantation at Goldville, Newberry
County, S. C., found three Portuguese gold
coins ill a field last week, bearing date 1670.
They were near the size of a gold eagle,
and were perfectly bright.
Gen. J. A. Smith, Superintendent of Pub
lic Instruction in Mississippi, is to
be impeached upon a charge of intem
perance. *
J. E. Gossett, lV. G. Crockett and a man
who called himself Hammerhead were
playing draw poker at Big Bottom, Tenn.,
the other day. The stakes were very
heavy. All the tnen were slightly intoxi
cated. Hammerhead was raising his op
ponents out of the game, and wnen accused
of cheating he drew a revolver and shot
Gossett and Crockett dead. Ho was ar
rested by Captain Curemach aud is now
jailed.
Two negro boys, aged sixteen and eight
een years, named John Gordon and Wil
liam Hardeman, of Americus, Ga., were
joking one another about some girls. Gor
don said: “I am tired of this,” and whip
ping out a pistol, fil ed a ball into Harde
man’s right eye, from which shot he died.
Gordon is in jail
Mii.LICAN and Clark, suspected of mur
dering old man Rodgers and wife, in Qua
chita Parish, La., resisting arrest the other
day, MiHican was killed. Clark escaped.
There is a knitting department in the
Normal School at Hampton, Va., where ne.
groes and Indians are educated and trained
to industrial pursuits. The equipment of
this department consists of twenty-five
hand machines, and the institution has pro.
duced as many as 18,000 dozen mittens and
wristlets in one year.
A man named McKinney was killed the
other day by his wife at Newcomb, sixty
miles north of Knoxville, Tenn. McKin
nev, who was drunk, had been abusing his
child. His wife interfering, he threw her
down and began choking her, when she
shot him dead with a pistol she had con
cealed in her clothing.
Mits.4frcOßGK AV. Blackwell was assault
ed a few nights ago at her residence in Bir
mingham, Ala., by a negro, who choked
her, compelling her to give up keys with
which he opened a trunk and took there
from sls and some articles of clothing.
Mrs. Blackwell’s husband happened to be
absent at the time.
The Mississippi Legislature adjourned on
the 15th, sine die.
Hon. Jas. P. Swann, a prominent citizen
Oi. Dar.dridge, Tenn., died a few mornings
since ol paralysis. He was formerly Ci -
emit Judge, and held other important posi
tions.
Ihe small-pox is spreading somewhat at
Mobile, but measures are being taken for
prompt and general vaccination. The
disease does not seem to be of a malignant
type.
Col. G. E. H aring has prepared for the
city council of Charleston, S. C., a plan for j
the establishment of a complete system of j
sewerage throughout that city. It will '
probably be adopted.
Jackson and Meridian, Miss., have just
had a test of strength, in the Legislature, '
on the State capital issue. By a majority j
of ten votes Jackson keeps the State-house
VOL. I.—NO. 5.
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.
~-*An electric arrangement for regt
lating furnaces lias bee i invented by
Westaeld (Mass.) individual. —Bosto
Post.
—The cotton-mills in and about At
gust a, Ga., will re |uire this year near
seventy thousand bales, a greater nut
ber than e\er before.
—Photographing on linen wfllnc\
wash out.” Henry Irving’s portrait w*
on each napkin used at the London lair
quet given him ere he left for Americv
the napkins be'ng intended assonveni
for the guests to take away.— Pho.ogr
fher.
—The tendons of the tail of the knn
garoo can be easily split into threadF
two feet in length, rivaling silk in
strength, softness, fineness, beauty of
color and i n sh. Such tendons for lig
atures and -utures promise to supplant
silk almost entirely in surgery.—Chica
go Journal.
—A new piano, invented by M. IV il
helm Fischer, has 1 een bro ght out at
Leipsic. In outward appearance it re
sembles a cottage piano, and it has the
or inary hammer action, but in lieu of
the fam liar st ings tuning forks are
substituted for the purpose of procuring
pure as well as sustained tone.
—High chimneys for factories are
now be oining unnecessary, by reason
of the introdu tion of a new kind of
oven. Any manufacturer, it is asserted,
can place one of these o\ens in his
works and obtain from every ton ol
sla k he uses coke worth two dollars,
tar and ammonia worth one dollar, and
14,<XJ0 feet of gas to generate steam.
The coke, tar and ammonia will thus,
it is claimed, considerably more than
pav or slack, wear and tear, etc. N.
Y.' Sun.
—With a view of avoiding exrlos’ons
M. Sthlumberger recommends that a
bottle of ammonia should be placed in
in each ba rel of petroleum On igni
tion by accident or otherwise the bottle
would break and the ammoniacal vapors
would at once ext nguish the lire. Hr.
Pietra Santa proposes to apply this
method to eolleries liable to lire damp.
Tanks till d With ammonia would, it is
said, stop the combustion, as it could
not c ntlnue in an ammoniacal atmos
phere.
—The theory as to the increase of
floods by reason of denuding the coun
try of its trees is this: W hen there is a
heavy fall of snow the trees of the for
ests and on the mountain sid-*s so shade
the snow and pro ect it from the sun’s
amt niay
ing so gradually that the st. earns can
carry away the water without overflow
ing their banks. If the forests are cut
off the snow is subjected t, > the full ef
fect of the sun of early spring, and is sc
rapidly converted into water that the
streams are full anil tliei 1 banks are
oversowed. —Chicago Tribune.
PITH AND POINT.
—The pink of politeness—the blush
that follows a kind act.
Idleness is the dead sea which swal
lows all virtues the self-made sepul
cher of a living- man.— La iy's Jou nal.
—The oniy thing that equals the
spontaneousness with wh ch this coun
try proposes a monument is the unani
mous cordiality with which it isn’t built.
—Rockland Conner.
“Be some oily on your own ac
count, my son, and don’t try to get
along on ihe reputation of your ances
tors,” is the sensib e advice Burdette
gives in his latest lecture.
- The i ther day while a Vermont wo
man was frying doughnuts, one of them
exploded. lier husband me ely ob
served that he was glad, < n the whole,
it happened before be had eaten the
thing.— Boston Rost.
—A missionary says the tallest people
on the globe are to be found on the
nort cas ern sland of Terra del Fuego.
A col e tor says th “shortest” pe <ple
o the globe may be found right here
at home when a oill is presented.—Nor
riMOwn herald.
- An influential Canadian journal is
responsib e for the statement that when
the Marquis of Lansdowne shakes
hands with a friend lie bows aud smiles.
And here we have been thinking all
along that when he shakes hands with
a friend he bends himself backward and
howls. —Exchange. ,
\ Texas postmas'er boasts of being
a veteran of three wars, but his toast
ing is no evidence of his braver . We
have a quiet little man up here who has
1 een married seven times, and he never
mentions it unless quest.oned on the
subje t. This is genuine heroism.—
Brunswick Tribune.
While an Indiana editor was home
sick with typhoid fever and his wife and
1 ttle daughter were sulleiiug at the
same time wit h diph heria an I scarliti
na, the office boy clipped and published
as a header the fo’lovv ng med cal note:
“Typhoid fever, diphtheria and searliti
na are the resul s of human ignoiance.
stupidity, la/.iness and tilth, ra her than
v.sit tions of God.”— N. Y. Commercial
Adverti. er.
—No Money for Tresses: “So you
wish to m Try my daughter. Well, I
rather ike yoiu.pers na lv, but the ques
tion is, can you support her?” “I have
an income o £l,ooh from an uncle’s
estate.” “ Good; t* at will pay the rent
of a house.” “1 get £SOO more froni
bonds which I own.” “Good again;
that wilijpay the se rant’s wages.” “1
have £I,OO » a year from a business
firm of which lam a pa. tneiv” “Yes;
that will feed vou. What else:-”’
“That is all, sir.” “All! And do you
expect my < aughter to go without
clothes? To you think we are Hotten
tots? She can never e the wife of a
poop man.” ( hic m go Triune.