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T. A. J. MAJORS, Publisher. 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- - * H. OVT 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.