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About Dade County weekly times. (Rising Fawn, Dade County, Ga.) 1884-1888 | View Entire Issue (May 14, 1884)
T. A. J. MAJORS, Publisher. HEAVY ROBBERY. A Priest Relieved of Thirteen Thous and Dollars. Weld up by Tin™ Men in ike Fort Worth. Texas. Depot. Fort Worth, May 10.—A heavy robbery Occurred on a west bound Texas Pacific, train just as it pulled into the Union De pot here to-night, at 9 o’clock, in which an Italian or Spanish priest named J. Casima, from Chicago, his way to California, was robbed of fid,ooo. While the priest was paying for lunch in Dallas, earl}' in the evening, he made a display of his money. After the train left Dallas he was approached by three men, who tried to make his acquaintance, but were unsuc cessful. As the train was slacking up in the depot at Fort Worth the three strangers crowded on the car platform. One seized his arms, and another rapidly searched him, finding a large pocket book containing all his money in his hip pocket. The priest recognized one of the robbers as one of the men who at tempted to make his acquaintance, but could not seize either before they disap peared in the crowd. After the train had left Ft. Worth a short distance, the priest, who continued aboard and was again on the platform, saw and recognized the robbers. This fact has been telegraphed ahead to the authorities, and it is believed at least one of the robbers will be captured yet to-night. Vanderbilt and Grant. New York, May 10.—It is pretty* gener ally "known that on Sunday last General Grant went to William H. Vanderbilt and asked him to loan him $150,000, which he said was to help the firm of Grant & Ward tide over the affairs of the Marine Bank, which he said needed a little aid. Mr. Vanderbilt loaned the money to General Grant, and on the Tuesday following both the Marine Bank and Grant & Ward failed. On Wednesday Mr. Vanderbilt hail an interview with Gen eral Grant, and asked him to explain the affajr. The General had little to say. He had been asked to borrow the money for the firm, and did it in good faith. The failure was as much a surprise to him as toany one, and lie felt his position keenly. He said he would make all the reparation possible, and he assigned ail his property to Mr. Vanderbilt, Airs. Grant including hej; Newport property. Two hours before Mr. Vanderbilt sailed for Europe to-day he sent for General Grant, handed him all the deeds that had been assigned him, and told the General he had no use for them. He also told him to pay him the $150,000 when he got good and ready; hoped the General would come out of his difliculties O K, and bade him a cordial good-by. Washington’s Monument. Washington, May . 10. —Arrangements are being made, under Colonel Casey’s di rection, for the difficult task of construct ing a pyramidal top to the Washington Monument. The construction of this mar ble pyramid would be far from an easy task on the ground, and at this giddy height will become one of the great est of engineering feats. A model has just been prepared, illustrating the methods of supporting the works during the progress of raising the stone setting, the courses, and shifting the wooden scaf foldings that must support the ninety tons of masonry. Numbers of visitors are making interesting and impressive trips to the summit of the monument. The pas sage is like going through a tunnel toward heaven, and nine minu es are passed in utter darkness before the top is reached. Killed by a Train. La Valle, Wis., May 10.—La?*- n.ght a man about sixty-five years old, supposed to be John McDougall, of Brussels, Out., either fell or was thrown from a St. Paul train two miles west of this place. Two hours later the engineer of a St. Paul train bound cast, on rounding a curve, saw the man in his shirt sleeves waving his vest and standing on the track. Before the train could be stopped it struck and killed him. The train brought the body to this place, and an inquest was held t o-day. On his person was found a first-class ticket from Brussels, Ontario, to Portage, Mani toba, and some letters. Telegrams received from Brussels identify the man, and state thut his wife and daughter were on the train with him. Illinois Wheat Prospect. Springfield, 111., May 10.—The condi tion of winter wheat throughout Illinois, May 1, as reported by correspondents of the Illinois Department of Agriculture, has just been published. The exhibit is not encouraging. The reports represent over five hundred points in the State, and indi cate not to exceed over eighty-four per cent,, of an average yield. In the ceuiral division of the State, which embraces one half of the wheat area, the .outlook is eigbty-six per cent., as against eighty-seven in April. In the southern division the out look is for only seventy-three per cent, of the average«crop. Amending the Fifteenth Amendment. Washington, Ma; 10.—Representative Collins was directed by the judiciary com mittee to favorably report a joint resolu tion proposing an amendment to article 15 of the constitution. The amendment con sists of the insertion of the word “nativ ity” and makes the first section reaif as follows: “The right of a citizen of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of nativity, race, color, or previous condition of servitude.” Riotous Vags and Plucky Policemen. Chicago, 111.. May 10.—A special to the Daily News from Mcttoon, 111., says: Three policemen attempted to quell a disturbance this morning which had arisen between ten tramps, when the entire gang turned upon the officers. The latter finally used their revolvers, shooting two of their assailants and capturing seven others. Crazed by Love. Marshall, 111., May 10.—Perrouuette Kilie, one of the most prominent and popu lar young men in Casey, was adjudged in sane to-day. The cause was an unfortu nate love aflair. RISING FAWN. DADE COUNTY. GA.. WEDNESDAY, MAY 14. 1884. LOCOMOTIVE EXPLOSION. Two Men liill.-d and (lie Building Badly l’*ed I p. Parsons, Kan., May 9. —This afternoon a terrific explosion occurred at the Mis souri Pacific Railroad shops at this place. No. 4.3 engine had just been brought from the back shop, where it had been thoroughly overhauled, to the round-house, where it was tilled with water and fired up prepar atory to being sent out on the road. Two men, MichaelfSlattery and Lafayette La monte, were regulating the safety-valves, when, without warning, the boiler exploded with terrific force, completely riddling the engine that exploded and also one stand ing next to it, and tearing away and scat tering for forty rods around fully one third of the large round-house. Siattery and Lamonte were torn and mangled be yond recognition. Mike Mickenney, a round-house machinist, had one leg broken, and was otherwise hurt. A. Know, an engineer on the engine stand ing next to the one which exploded, was cut about the head and other wise bruised. George Tiff, a sewing machine agent from Geneva, Ohio, was severely cut about the head and considera bly bruised. James Bly, a farmer, near "Waterloo, who was viewing the shops, was badly bruised. The damage will amount to about $4,000 to the round-house, and the probable damage to the engines will aggre gate upward of $20,000, making a total of about $25,000. Slattery was a young man about nineteen years of age. There are some of the employes who are yet missing but hopes are entertained that they are not injured. The Wreck of Gen. Grant’s Fortune. New York, May 9. —“ General Grant has lost every dollar he has in the world,” Mr, George Jones, of the New York Times , said to-day, “except the $250,000 trust fund, which is in the Park Bank Safe Deposit Company, in the shape of Railroad securi ties. The interest is payable quarterly, and amounts to $15,100 annually. It has been paid regularly to May 1. The secu rities were endorsed by Governor Morgan, and the endorsement has since been con firmed by his executors. General .Grant can only draw the interest without being" able to touch the principal. At his death, he may will away the whole.” “ How is the fund invested?” “In securities that are perfectly safe: but in case they should not pay the interest the money will un doubtedly be reinvested.” “ Has Mrs. Grant a private fortune of her own?” “I don’t know anything about that of my own personal knowledge, but I do not believe that either General Grant or his wife have a shilling more than the interest from the Trust Fund. General Grant is left in debt. He was too trusting, and he is not a good business man. We all thought that he was comfortable for life. It is- really sad. Something should be done for him. He should beplaced on the retired list.’* Murdered With a Hammer. Pittsburg, May 9.— Oliver’s wire Aiill, on the south side, was the scene thinijßrn ing of a brutal and Unprovoked aSfult, which will resuit in murder. A German wire puller named Fred. Hogan, and assist ant Simon Rice, a Hungarian, were work ing at a wire machine, when, through carelessness of the latter the wire got tangled. This angered Hogan, who be gan tbe most abusiyp tirade, and when Rice told him to stop; be picked up a heavy hammer lying near bSjdkjd struck him over the head, felling him ulna log. The Work men ran to Rice’s &s9Knce, but before they could reach hint, f -nogan struck him three more blows, pounding his face to a jelly and crushing his skull. <The injured man is still living, but death is expected momentarily. Hogan was arrested. Shocking Murder for Robbery Nebraska City, Neb., May 9.— The body of Thomas Leonard, an Englishman, thirty years old, was found shockingly mutilated in a deep cut iu the east part of the city, near tbe river, yesterday. His head was crushed and face beaten and dis figured almost beyond recognition. His assailants bad evidently made an attempt to drag the body to the river bank, but fail ed to do so. Robbery is the supposed cause. Among the effects of tVie dead man was found a certificate from his company com mander of the Eighth Regiment "of the British Army. Five hundred dollars re ward has been offered for the arrest of the murderers. A Female MiserQKflHMte^ v M 1.1-111 f. aged forty a little room almost bare (TTfurniture, dropped dead last night at the corner of Fourth and Arch streets of heart disease. The general im pression was that she was a miser, although she plendea poverty. On her person was found a bank book in whidii $5,300 was marked to her credit. Between the leaves were two SIOO bills, drawn yesterday. Th/s --is supposed to be only a portion of her wealth. It is said she had large amounts deposited with a private banker. A Murderer Elects to be Shot. Salt Lake, Utah, May 9.—Fr.*i- flfont. alias Welcome, three times victed of murder, is sentenced to Be execu ted June 13. The Utah statute permits persons sentenced to be executed to choose hanging or shooting. Hopt chose shooting. His attorney gave no tice of an appeal. Should a stay of exe cution be ordered there will be danger of lynching. The murder was committed four years ago. The case has cost the Territory $15,000. Settlement Ordered of Old State Claims. Washington, May 10.— The House Com mittee on Judiciary to-day directed a fa vorable report on the bill providing that the government shall settle the accounts of the States of Maryland and Virginia for money advanced under the acts passed by the General Assemblies of these two States in 1791, to aid in the erection of public buildings at Washington. The amount be tween the two States is $120,000, with in terest from 1843 for Maryland, and from 1850 for Virginia. Female Shoemakers Strike. Lynn, Mass , May 10.—Over one hun dred girls in the shoe shop of S. F. Cross man & Co., shoe manufacturers, left work to-dav, the female button-hole maker, be ing affected by a reduction in prices for that class of work Saturday last. Fresh Salmon from Oregon. Portland, Ore., May 10.— A car-load of twenty thousand pounds of fresh salmon was shipped last night from Dallas to N* w York, the first ever shipped from Oregon. The company guarantee the through time to be nine days. DRIVEN CRAZY. t A Young Moiher’s Devotion to Her Dying Children, Fames Her to Become Intane—The Nad Effects. Baltimore, Md., May 11.—A sad case ol insanity, caused by a mother’s devotion to her sick children, has just been brought to light by the removal of the victim to the asylum for the insane. About seven years ago Miss Ella Sherwood, a pretty young girl residing in Frederick County, Md., married a young farmer named James Douglas, of Hartford Coun ty. Mr. and Mrs. Douglas located near Pleasantville, and two pretty children were the fruit of the union. About three weeks ago the children, aged three and five years, were taken sick with whooping cough. Mrs. Douglas nursed them, and for days never left their bedside. On Sunday last she was herself taken ill, from over exer tion and fatigue, and was compelled to take to her bed. On Monday she became deliri ous, and it was thought she would die be fore her children. On Monday night, about midnight, the youngest child breathed its last, and the next night the eldest child died. The corpses were prepared for burial and placed in tbe par lor adjoining the bed-room occupied by Mrs. Douglas. The husband of the latter sat up with the corpses on Tuesday, and about midnight Wednesday, becoming exhausted himself from loss of sleep, he went into a side room and napped for a few hours. He awakened about three o’clock the next morning and discovered that during his abscence from tbe par lor the dead body of * the youngest child had been taken from the coffin and carried away. The occupants of the house were aroused, and a search developed that Mrs. Douglas, mother of the children, had, during her delirious moments, arisen from her sickbed, gone to the parlor, and taken the corpse to an outbuilding, where she was found later with the dead babe clasped tightly to her bosom. Physicians were summoned and she was declared in sane. A Murderous Madman. Decatur, 111., May 11. —The city was greatly excited today by the sanguinary actions of a lunatic named Lamar, who has" escaped from some as yet unknown asy lum. He reached the city during the night, and took possession of the temporarily va cant house of Martin BJinz. Blinz drove him out, when the madman produced a re volver and shot several times at Blinz, driv-, ing him away,when heagain took possession of the house. A posse of nearly 300 accom panied Blinz and the'olficers to the house,, when the lunatic fired again and again, one* bitting Blinz on the arm, inflicting a seri ous fMjund. He then began an attack on the crowd with knives and a cleaver he found in the house, Blinz being a butcher. Lamar was finally felled with a club by an’ officer, who climbed to the second story window on a ladder. He was then over powered and pinioned, and taken to jail, A Fatal Dose of Laughing Gas. Philadelphia, R*,, May 11.—Kate Em mer, a young at Riverside. N. J., died yestenwP- front th*reffects of “laughing gas,” a Phila delphia dentist. Two weeks ago she had sixteen teeth extraAiii, and after the ope ration showed signs of insanity. She made an attempt at suicide'by throwing herself in the river and From a buxom girl of 160 wasted away to a mere skeleton Tlnatphvsicians state that her death was proaSrcetl by the shock attendant upon the three doses of the gas given by the dentist. .- • u Another Sinking Town. Zanesville, 0., May 11. — 'The town has been in an excited state to-day over a sup. posed earthquake near Blandy avenue, in the Fourth Ward. At 10 o’clock this morn ing a terrible crack was ‘heard, and about three acres of ground sank several feet, carrying a number of houses, which was badly damaged. The inhabitants of that vicinity were panic stricken. A fissure opened about 150 feet deep. The only plausible theory is that several deserted coal mines have caved. No loss of life is reported. Revolt Against the British Protectorate. Cairo, May 11.—Outbreaks between sol diers and natives are of daily occurrence. On Friday a fight took place outside of Alexandria between a party of English sol diers and a number of Be4°uii? s from Lake. Mareotis, in which were killed. TkM Arabs around Assouan hay# receivedtfflj message from El Mahdi, and threaten volt. The Mahdi Growing Bold, -m Cairo, May 11.—Advices are reqiSflV HMfiiwing that El Mahdi has sent pa , Osman Digna directing him to capture -Dongola and then march into Upper Egypt, It is stated that Zenahr Pasha has declared he will not rest until he has killed General Gordon. Trying to Reach Gordon. Cairo, May 11. —Attempts are now being made to send messengers to General Gor don by all routes, including that of Masso wah, with Earl Granville’s message of April 24, asking Gordon how many troops he requires. A Fetal Collision at Sea. London, May 11. —The bark George Ben ley, from Liverpool for Chili, came into collision with the ship Tuskar, and the lat ter was sunk and three of her crew drowned. Man and Wife Killed. Dubuque, la., May 11.—By the running away of their team last night, Mr. and Mrs. Mathias Fritz were thrown out. The ! woman was killed and the man fatally ! hurt. American|Tract Society Statement. New York, May 11.—The fifty-ninth an nual report of the American Tract Society shows that during the past year 279.250 volumes were issued. Receipts, $357,470; disbursements, $354,082. Baltimore Method.at Anniversary. Baltimore, May 11.—'The German Meth odists celebrated to-day the fiftieth anni versary of the founding of the first Ger man Methodist Church iu this city. XLVIIIth CONGRESS. First Session. Washington, May 7.-Senate. —Mr. Sewell, from the Committee on Military Affairs, re ported favorably the bill to authorize the sale of a portion of the -Fort Hayes Military Reservation, in Kansas, to the Ellis County AKriciiltuni! Society, in Kansas. Calendar. The following bills were introduced and re ferred: Mw Mr. Edmonds—A bill to place' .Ulysses S. (want, late General of the Array of the United ?Aates, noon the retired list of the Army. Ini ovmg tnc reference of the bill to the Comm tee on Military Affairs, Mr. Edmunds e< nmended it to the early consider ation of tin Committee for reasons which he said everyb By understood. House.—: r. Broadhead, from the Commit tee on Judi ary, reported the French Spoli ation Claim Bill in Committee of the Whole. Mr. Stewarl from the Committee on Foreign Affairs, ri rorted a bill authorizing tho appoi tment ot three commission ers to v sit the principal countries of South an i Central America and Mexico for the purpost of collecting information leading to the oxte sion of American trade and com merce and strengthening friendly and mu tually adv Btagoous relations between the United Sta es and all other American na tionalities. Committee of Jt.he Whole. Mr. Uosecrans, ! from the Committee on Military Affairs reported a resolution direct ing that th<| committee investigate the present management of the Soldiers’ Home. House calendar. >lr. Verkins, from the Committee on Indian , Affairs, reported a bill granting the right of way through the Indian Territory to the Southern Kansas Railroad Company. House Calendar. Mr. Woodward, from the Committee on Library, reported a joint resolution for the completion of the monument to Mary, the mother of Washington. Committee of the Whole. Mr. Cutcheon, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported a bill for the establishment of a branch Soldiers’ Home in Michigan. Committee of the Whole. Mr. Dibble, from the Committee on Pub lic Buildings and Grounds, reported a bill for the sale of the real estate and riparian right owned by the United States at Harpers’ Ferry. Committee of the Whole. Mr. Willis, from the Committee on Rivers uni Harbors, reported the River and Harbor Appro priation Bill. Ordered printed and recommitted. Tho House then proceeded to consideration of the business on the Speak er’s table. The Senate amendment to the House bill repealing tho iron clad oath was concurred in. The next bill on the table was that for the relief of Fitz John Porter, with Senate amendments. Mr. Keifer moved to refer the bill to the Military Committee. After debate the House refused to refer the bill to the Committee on Military Affairs and then refused to concur in the Senate amendments. Washington, May B.—Senate.— The Chair laid before the Senate the House Message announcing noneoncurrencc in the Senate amendments to the pleuro-pneumoniu bill. The Senate insisted on its amendment, and the Chair appointed a Committee of Confer ence on the part of the Senate. Messers. Mil ler, of New York, Plumb and Williams. Tho Chair also laid before the Senate the House messag* announcing non-concurrence in the Senate amendment to the Fitz John Porter bill. The Senate insisted on its amendments, and thi w Chair appointed as a Committe_“ of Conference on the part of the Senate Messrs. Sewell, Hoar and Cockrell, The Senate then took up the shipping Gill discussed it further, and finally passed the House bill. House.— The Senate joint resolution passed in regard to the ceremonies to be authorized on the completion of the Washington Monu ment. Mr. Buckner, from the Ccffninittce on Banking and Currency, reported a bill to enable the National Banking Association to increase their capital stock and change their location and name. House calender. Mr. (’lardy, from tho Committee on Commerce, reported a bill au thorizing the appointment of a Missouri River Commission. Committee of the Whole. Mr. Dorgan, from the Committee on Pat ents, reported a bill providing for the revision, improvement and amendments of the laws re lating to patents. Committee of the Whole. The Senate then went into Committee of the Whole on the Appropriation Bill. The Cotton Exposition Bill, appropriating $1,000,000, passed, and the House adjourneijgp Washington, May 9. — Senate.— Mr. Dolph introduced a bill to provide for the eoHun#- tioii ot'ia harbor of refuge at Port Oxford, Pacific Coast. Referred. The chair laid be fore the Senate'the resolution offered yester day by Mr. Van Wyck, directing the Secretary of the Treasury to withhold patents for lands on the Uuyalling branch of the Northern Pacific Railroad until Congress decides the n, vstion of the forfeiture of euch lands. The Senate then took up the Indiana appropriation bill, which was considered by semions and considerable pro gress made withmli debate, except upon the appropiLtion for education in Alaska. The Senate »< unmil tee had reduced the amount from s®oo9, allowed by the House to $10,900. Mr. moved to make the amount $25,000. Penning deflate on the amendment, the Senate went llito executive session, and when the door**oopened, adjourned until 12 o’clock to morrjflv. About 1 o’clock the Senators will proctKi in a body to attend the unveiling of the MBrshall memorial statue. HoaK-Mr. Willis presented a remonstrance fronne Louisville Board of Trade against the 1-enacMentof the bankruptcy law. Referred. ■Tin- « granting an additional pension to the wi<lo®of General Francis P. Blair passed. (It y ra. m tier $5,900 for her husband’s service in oepijßzing troops, and increases her pensiou tp-AjM dollars a month. Mr. Follett, from on Appropriations, reported tap&Sfte District of Columbia appropriation the Committee of the Whole. It was that a Ill'll till' House adjourned to-day Monday, and the Speaker requested to assemble in the House to in order to attend in a body the ur.- IHD ot tlie statue of Chief Justice Mar- The Speaker laid before the House from the Secretary of War, I an additional appropriation of for the relief of sufferers by floods in Mississippi Valley. Referred. The House then took a recess until 8 o’clock, tlie evening session, for the consideration of pen sion bills. Washington, May 10.— Senate.— The Chair appointed as visitors to the next annual ex amination of the Naval Academy, Senators Miller, of California, and Pendleton. Mr. Farley presented a concurrent resolution of the Legislature of California, relative to the appropriation already made by Congress for the Improvement of Sacramento River, but which. according to the resolution, the Secre tary of War refuses to permit to be expended, on the ground that tno amount or debris constantly floating in the river makes the ex penditure of money’ll seless. (The resolution urges the expenditure of the money.! Refer red to Committee on Commerce. The Senate proceeded to the Consideration of the pension nills. At a few minutes before 1 o'cloek pro ceedings were suspended to permit the at tendance ot Senators at the unveiling of the statue of Chief Justice Marshall. On the re turn of the Senators to the Chamber the Senate adjourned. House.— House not in session. The Soudan. Cairo, May 9.—Advices from Khartoum report that General Gordon has caused four men to be shot for treachery. The stock of provisions is running lower. Offers of funds-to bribe natives to secure Gordon’s safety are refused, as Gordon re fuses to escape on such terms. Want'd Te Die Together. Francisco. May d. —Dr. F. Gardiner, a young man lately married, living at Man Fabln, Cal., took thirty grains of morphine Jast (light. Hi- wife" swallowed a dozen grains of digitallis. The wife was saved, but the husband died. Domestic infelicity. SOUTHERN NEWS ULEANINHS. Joseph Kirby, a well-known farmer re siding near Elkton, Md., killed George Jackson.(colored), one of his farm-hands, a few mornings since. Deceased threat ened Kirby one night, and swore he would kill him before daylight. Fearing he would carry out his threat, Kirby became uneasy and took his wife over to his father’s on the adjoining farm and got his to come over and stay over night. Jackson came about daylight and brought a pistol. He said lie meant business and immediately opened fire on the Kirbys. The latter had n gun, and over a dozen shots were ex changed without effect. Jackson then rushed at Joseph Kirby with a heavy club. Lambert Kirby, the brother, knocked the club out of the negro’s hands. Joseph then got the bludgeon and dealt Jackson several terrific blows on the head, fracturing the skull and causing instant death. The Cor oner’s jury rendered a verdict that the kill ing was in self-deseuse. Deceased was a desperate fellow and he was a terror to the neighborhood. The horticultural hall will be one of the most attractive features at the New Orleans exhibition. It will be the largest conserva tory ever erected. Mexico will adoru the center with royal palms and choice plants from that country. At the close of the war F’ort Worth, Tex., had a population of 350. Now the popula tion is over 22,000, and it boasts of half a dozen railroads in operation and several more projected. The Louisiana rice crop has proved larger than last year and aggregated about 250,000 barrels. Sugar shows a falling off: the total yield is generally conceded to be 200,000 hogsheads. Car wheels are to be manufactured at the Rusk, Tex., penitentiary. Selma, Ala., has seventy-four artesian wells. Some of them flow excellent miner al water, and every stream is pure and healthful. An old Virginian recently showed a newspaper correspondent a letter from George Washington to Janies Madison. The letter was written about the year 1792, and requested Mr. Madison to prepare for Washington a farewell address to the peo ple of the United States from their Presi dent, who had decided not to remain longer in his office. The letter contained all the necessary points, and while requesting the writing of the address, betrayed tiie fear that such a document might be considered u bid for re-election. Reports from the growing crops in tho South continue to be good. The early rains have not tailed; the later rains will come. Men have simply to do their partand await the coming ob*ie harvest. Colonel Thomas 11. Hunt, Treasurer of the World’s Exposition, died on the 6th, at tbe age of seventy. Henry Swain is in jail at Winston, N. C., for the murder of Mrs. Harrison Reed. During a violent hail and rain storm at Little Rock, Ark., a few days ago, a shed at the old' fair grounds fell on a large num ber of convicts, employed at brickmaking. One guard was killed, another seriously wounded, and several convicts injured by falling timbers. In Newton County, Ark., revenue officers raided an illicit distillery, which was dis mantled and the mash tubs destroyed. A tight occurred, and one distiller was killed. During a largely attended meeting at the Methodist Church (colored) at McKinney, Tex., the other night, the foundations gave away, and the church was thrown violently to the ground. The lights were extin guished. Two lamps exploded, scattering burning oil over the congregation. One colored woman was burned to death, and another had all her clothing burned off and will die. Several other« were badly burned. A panic prevailed; the entire town turned out thinking a negro uprising had taken place. Recent rains had under mined the foundations. A Rome, Ga., merchant wrote the names of two of his debtors on a bulletin board in front of his store, giving the amount they owed him, referring to them as dead beats. The matter will possibly go into the courts for settlement. The Virginia Supreme Court -of Appeals has rendered a decision declaring uncon stitutional the law passed by the last Legis lature providing for election of registrars and judges of election by boards of three members chosen by that body for each city, town and county in the State, because it required tlie members of said board to be freeholders. This decision makes the elections of registrars and judges by these boards illegal anil of no effect, consequently it takes the whole election machinery of the State out of the hands of the Democrats, and replaces it wh%re it was before the passage of the law, into the hands of the Coalitionists. Jim Coleman, colored, was hanged in Columbia, f#C., on the 9th, for the murder of his His neck was broken, and he died instantly without a struggle. He was calm and self-possessed to the last. While the Sheriff was adjusting the noose Coleman laughed and said, “Don’t draw it quite so tight—it will be tight enough in a few minutes.” Before ascending the scaf fold he selected Romans, xiv., 9, as the text from which he desired the iutieral sermon preached. A case in which it is doubtful whether the husband or his wife died first, is puz zling Orange City, Fla., lawyers. It is necessary to prove which died first in order to know whose heirs receive their property. They both died within a few minutes of each other. The recent convention of Southern Bap tists at Baltimore re-elected George W. Norton and Nimrod Long, of Kentucky, Treasurer and Auditor, respectively. A resolution was offered to raise SIOO,OOO to relieve religious destitution among whites in the South, and referred to the Home Mission Board. Pineapple cutting began on the Florida Keys about the Ist of May. The season lasts for six months. They all go to the Northern markets. The Schooner Arietas is to run in the trade between Key West m.nA N«w York. VOL. I.—NO. 12. m il AM) POINT. —A man in Texas raises goats tot their flesh, but when the festive crea tures grow up they raise him just for tilt! fun of the thing. -New York Jour nal. Wing Fun fell a victim last, week to a San Francisco car-driver’s careless ness, it was a piece of mi-taken kind ness, however, for a local editor to al lude to the event as “Folly on the Hy.” —“How in the world did they cotue to name you Susannah?” asked Mrs. In terrogation point. “Really, I don't know how precisely,” replied the young lady, very demurely ; “bu 1 suspect it was because I happened to be a girl.” “lt is a ground-hog day again, I see,” remarked the red-headed boarder, casting It is eye over tne breakfast-table. “Why, no it isn’t,” contradicted a fly telegraph operator. * Then what is that sausage doing there?” rejoined the red-headed boarder.— Boston Post. —The lovers’ lamp, an English nov elty, is capable of burning eighteen hours without replenishing. What this country wants is a lamp that will stop burning a few hours and then Hare up bright and clear when the step of the old gentleman is heard on the top stair Philadelphia Call. —Never be indicted with cold, white wads in the parlor or nursery. It should be the effort of the housewife to give color and brightness toe ery room, thirteen cents’ worth of colored chalk, in the hands of the children, will trans form the bleakest panel into a maze of bewildering designs, in one morning.— Chicago Herald. —“There, Frances, you've caught another cold, and I’ll warrant you caught it when you were out walking with Joe last night.” “Oh, no mother! I couldn’t Jtave caught it then, ’cause we didn’t go fa-t enough to catch any thing, in fact; we just sat down on the stile and studied astronomy.” “And did you have anything around you, my dear?” “Oh, yes, indeed I dirt! Joe s always particular about that; he won’t allow me to sit down anywhere in the evening air without putting something around me.”— Yonkers Gazette. —They were in the grocery store. Said Broom (seeing a blind man about to enter), “Were you aware how deli cate the touch of a blind person is? When Nature deprives us of one sense, she makes amends by bringing tlie other senses to extraordinary acuteness, let me illustrate by this gentleman. I’ll take a scoop of sugar and let him feel of it, and you see how quickly he’ll toll you what it is.” The blind man having entered, he was put to. the test, lie put his thumb and linger into the scoop, and without hesitation said. “That is sand.” Everybody laughed but the grocer. He made three several attempts at blushing, and then went into the back shop and kieketl his dog. —Bo don Transcript. SCIENCE AM) INDUSTRY. —The United States, it is, said, is now the second copper producing country in the world. —Mr. Dru rmcr J. Adams, a me chanic of Kittery, Me., cla ms to have d scovered a process by which he welds copper as perfectly and securely as iron. —A boat ng man has invented a row ing car in which he can row rayes around a room upon tracks. It is said that the contest can be made vc.y excit ing.— N. Y. Herald. —The latest us ■ devised for paper is the making of carpets. A Connecticut man is reported to have taken out pat ents for processes by whi h beautiful and substantial carpets can be made of paper at very low prices.— Hartford Post. —At a meeting of the Academy of Science in St. I ouis a few days ago, there was exhibited a specimen of nat ural coke taken from a mine of lignitic coal in Utah The coke hail b on made, it is stated, bv volcanic action two \ ol umes of volcanic rock having parsed di- I’ectly through the mine. Base-ball making is becoming a very large and remunerative industry. Last year o ver 5,001) JO ) balls were manu factured in this country, and as the makers have a larger number of orders than ever before, it is estimated that 7J,00,000 base balls will be in use the c roittg season. Oh ca'jo II raid. —lt is related that a professor of Bot any in a Boston s hool was recently taken into a conservatory where the most of the tlowe s and shrubs were artificial, and asked if he thought there were any bogus flowers theic. Af er making a hasty examination, without touching them, he pronounced them all genuine except one. The facts were that this one was natural, and those that he pronounced such perfect spe i niens were all made of paper and wire, so perfect were some of the paper specimens that when they were placed be-ide the natural one the latter could not be distinguished from the other.-- Boston Herald. —Mr. C. Menelas, a cotton exporter at Savannah and a large planterin Mi*- si-sippi, who has experimented tor sev eral tears in the cultivation of tea, ex j resses the opinion that this industry u ili in time become so extensive as to do away almost entirely with the im * portation of teas. He says the great st trouble in tea c ilture in this country is not its growth but its inarm fa Jure. The various processes of steaming, firing, assorting and fanning employed in t'e tea-growing countries wi 1 have to be learned by exper enoe, and.• when this is accomplished there will be noth ino* to prevent the pie, aration of a tea as”fin ■ as the finest from Chum or Ja uau. — N. Y. Times.
