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A Misunderstanding of Orders Caused
V 3 Disastrous Collision.
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Pittsburg, May 17. —This evening about,
six o’clock the Alliance Accommodation
going east and a freight train west, collided
near Euon Valley, Pa., on the Pittsburg,
Ft. Wayne and Chicago Railroad. Both
trains were badly wrecked, and seven per
sons seriously injured, two reported fa
tally. The trains were going at the rate of
fifteen miles an hour when the col
lusion occurred. Both engines, nine
■freight cars and the mail and bag
.gage-car of the accommodation train were
'demolished. Seven persons were injured,
but none seriously. Their names are as
foUows: Engineer of the freight train,
vv Pontefract, bruised and cut about the
head; Engineer p. Overlander, badly
bruised; Fireman Charles Betz, leg broken;
conductor of the passenger train, Isaac
Morrow, ankle sprained; express messen
ger, name not learned, bruised and cut
about the head; Conductor Castner, badly
r Lli • ■A- number of passengers were
f'h’htly bruised. The accident was caused
by the misunderstanding of orders. Trains
east,'and West were delayed several hours.
\f Still a Mystery.
Baltimore, Mu., May 17. —The mystery
surrounding the death and identity of the
beautiful young girl found suffocated by
gas at the Niagara House, this city, on the
9t,h inst., has not yet been solved. A few
■days ago a young man giving his name as
It. B>. Roberts called upon the authorities
and said he represented H. C. Roberts, re-’
sbfSng at Pana, Putnam County, 111., who
"was an uncle of the deceased young lady.
Her real name he refused to give, although
he said she was known as Edna Tate, the
same name under which she registered
at the hotel. Young Roberts paid ail
the funeral expenses and had her body
placed in a vault in the Eastern Cemetery.
Miss Tate’s effects, including the $25 found
in her pocket-book, were given to Roberts.
Yesterday Marshal Gray received a letter
and photograph of a young girl from Mrs.
Gundolph, of Mount Crawford, Rocking
ham County, Va., stating that her daughter
Jennie had been missing for iwn weeks.
Mrs. Gundolph had seen an account - #! the
• leat.b of Miss Tate, and she was of the
opinion from the description that the
deceased was her daughter. The.
picture was arefully examined, and
the proprietorial.f "the hotel and
'Others fully idemmed the picture with that
of the dead girl. Accordingly, the body
wns sent to Virginia last night. To-day
information was received from Virginia
that the body was not that of Mrs. Gun
dolph’s daughter, and stating that the re
mains would he sent back to Baltimore.
Hence, it is not known who the deceased
really is. She is magnificently dressed
and had costly jewelry. Colonel Joyce,
the proprietor of the Niagara Hotel, says
he has received over forty letters inquiring
about young girls missing from their homes
who it was thought might be the deceased.
Five of the letters were from Chicago,
four from New York, eight from Philadel
phia arid seven from Virginia.
Martin Luther’s Statue.
Washington, May 17.— The statue of
Martin Luther is in position, ready for un
veiling next Wednesday. The statue is a
flue piece of German workmanship. It is
an exact counterpart of the central figure
of the world-renowned group at Worms,
Germany. In it Luther appears in colos
sal bronze, about eleven feet six
inches high, and standing upon a pedes
tal of granite nearly sixteen feet
in height. He is standing erect, with face
and eyes raised, and clad in the ministerial
robes ot his time’. He bears upon the left
arm a closed Bible, upon which his closed
right hand rests. The unveiling cere
mony will take place next Wednesday,
May 21, forenoon and afternoon. The
services at 10 a. in. will be conducted in
German, wjth A. J. D. Wedemeyer pre
siding. Addresses will be delivered by Rev.
F. Fh. Hennighausen, llev. A. C. Wedekind,
D. D., and Rev. Ed. F, Moldehuke, Ph. I).
At 2 p.m. the services will be conducted in.
English, Chief Justice Waite presiding.
The full Marine Band will render music,
and the statue will be uncovered after ora
tions by Hon. O. D. Conger and Rev. J. G.
Morris, D. D., L. L. D. The event is attract
ing unusual attention among Protestants
all over the United States.
A Water-Spout.
Leavenworth, Kan., May 17.—A water
spout washed away the track on the Mis
souri Pacific and Union Pacific roads, south
and west of here, to-day. On the former
road one hundred and fifty feet were
washed away, and seven cars loaded with
cattle, and the engine and tender went into
the river, being completely wrecked.
Seventy cattle were killed, and the
track was covered in places, and in other
places the water was two to five feet deep.
On the Union Pacific hail fell to the depth
of two inches, and three-quarters of a mile
of the track was washed away. A bridge
was carried away farther west. All trains
are delayed and will be for several hours.
The rain was heavy here, but no damage
reported to the crops.
A Mormon Editor Tarred.
New Orleans, May 17. —A dispatch from
Water Valley, Miss., to the Times Demo
crat, says: “While a Mormon Elder was
waiting at the depot here to-day for sever
al other Elders, he was assaulted by un
known persons, who emptied buckets of
tar on his head. He made his escape. It
is reported from Calhoun and other coun
ties that the Mormons are making great
headway among the lower classes, and
these Elders were on their way to a great
revival meeting.”
Oil Strike in Pomerania.
London, May 17. —Great excitement has'
been caused in the northern part of Ger
many by the success of the experiment of
boring for petroleum in Pomerania. A
large flowing well has just been struck at
Swantow, which yields fifty per cent, of
pureoil. The nearness of this locality to
the Baltic Sea affords cheap and abundant
transportation, and the Pomeranians are
flattering themselves with the prospect of
becoming independentof America and Rus
sia by a home supply of e- : cral oil.
BURNING! OF A THEATER.
\ Rp;rj Mll „ ion iim President of
« -Von Itix-itii-licr,
Prussian Min I-In- nt Mlate,
!li» Siicrp.iui’.
I ienna, May 10.—The Stadt Theatei
was totally destroyed by tiro this evening,
but no lives were lost. The performanct
was to have begun at 7 o’clock, but tin
dailies were discovered two hours earliei
in the auditorium. The whole city was
filled With a burning smell, and a thick,
black smoke darkened the heavens. At "i
the roof fell in with a crash, and flames,
with a loud roar, ascended, from the audi
torium. The conflagration first broke out
in the upp'-r gallery. It seems that the
fire is the work of an incendiary. The
Ntadt Theater was opened in 1872. Its first
manager was Henry Laube. It was in tiie
same theater that Sir. Booth played a year
ago. The house was devoted to refined
comedy, drama and French comedy.
Berlin, May hi —The Emperor has ac
cepted the resignation of Bismarck from
the Presidency of the Cabinet, and ap
pointed as his successor Boetticher, Prus
sian Minister of Slate.
Railroad Official Gone Wrong.
St. Louis, Slay 10. —Frank McGinniss,
Weighmaster of the Missouri Pacific Rail
way, was arrested late this afternoon
charged with defrauding the railroad com
pany by a system of false weights. It is
said if a car weighed thirty thousand
pounds he would report it twenty thousand,
and divide the difference with the shipper,
lie had a partner named J. S White, who
was locked up. It is asserted that quite a
number of shippers are involved in the
fraud. White, who was arrested, confessed
enough to reveal the whole scheme. He
said one of the largest lumber firms here
saved $7,000 in freight during the past nine
months by getting short "weights from
McGinniss. The railroad company claims
to have lost very large sums of money by
the fraud. McGinniss was connected with
the defunct Hibernia Savings Bank, of this
city, and was indicted for embezzlement in
connection with its failure. Both were re
leased on $2,500 bonds. McGinniss denies
the charge against him.
Double Murder In Kentucky.
Louisville, Ky., May 17. —The Courier-
Journal’s Bardstown special tells of a dou
ble murder in Nelson County. The mur
dered men are Herbert Armstrong and
David Brown. They were found in a field,
where they had been plowing. One was
shot through the heart and the other
through the head. The wound* show that
the killing was done with a Spencer
rifle. In a clump of bushes were
found two empty shells. The supposition
is that the murderer concealed himself in
the bushes and deliberately shot the men
down. It is not known who the murderer
is, but a man named William A. Freeze is
suspected, and evidence goes to show that
he committed the crime. He had had busi
ness troubles with the murdered men. The
rifle shells fitted a Spencer rifle he owns.
Tracks leading from the bushes to his house
were also discovered. The men were all
well-to-do farmers. The excitement is
running very high, and it is feared that
Freeze will be mobbed.
Incline Plane Accident at Pittsburg.
Pittsburg, May 10.—A fearful accident
occured here to-day. The Mouongahela In
clined Plane Company recently put in op
eration a new freight incline, about two
thousand feet in length, and running up a
steep hill. To-day, while a team and two
men Were being drawn up the hill, the en
gineer became bewildered, and permitted
the cars to run faster than the ordinary
speed. The speed gradually increased,
and, becoming frightened, the engineer ran
away. The cars continued running, and
upon reaching its station, the cables
twisted and parted from the upper car,
containing the men and team. The horses
became excited, throwing the men upon
the track, injuring them severely, and the
car ran down the track at a terrible rate.
It turned over,.throwing both horses a dis
tance of live hundred feet, and killing
them instantly. The cars and depot were
badly wrecked.
Suicide of a Rejected Lover
Wheeling, W. Va., May 16.—A young
man named Vic. Frederick committed sui
cide near Sinithville, Ritchie County, yes
terday, in a dramatic and shocking man
ner. Young Frederick had for some time
been very attentive and lover-like toward
Lillie, daughter of G. A. Hardman,
and on the evening before had of
fered her his heart and hand, which
were refused. He at the time declared his
intention of killing himself, and as soon as
he procured a revolver placed it to his
breast and fired, the shot passing through
his heart, killing him instantly. The deed
was done in the presence of the fair one
without whom he thought he could not live.
Frederick was a prosperous young farmer,
and both were well connected.
A Terrible Fall.
Painesville, 0., May 17.—William H.
Doane, day operator at the Nickle-Plate
Depot, fell from the Grand River Bridge to
day and escaped without a broken bone.
He was fixing tho telegraph wire, when his
foot slipped, and he was hurled the fright
ful distance of more than one hundred
feet, striking in six feet of water. He re
gained consciousness and swam ashore, and
was conveyed to his home. The physician
refuses to express an opinion as to the ex
tent of his injury until he has slept. It is
believed by some that he is injured inter
nally, as he is vomiting blood.
A Road’s Liability for Fires.
Norristown, Pa., May 17. —The jury in
the civil case of Samuel Freedley, of Potts
Landing, against the Philadelphia & Read
ing Railroad Company, rendered a verdict
this evening in favor of the plaintiff for
$20,822, the full amount of damages claim
ed for the loss of a dwelling and other
buildings by a fire which originated from
sparks of a freight engine.
A Stray Bullet-
New York, May 17.—Frederick Puenfer,
a laborer, quarrelling to-night with an
emigrant runner, fired five shots at him.
One builet. struck Charles Call, a silver
smith, of Greenwich, Conn. Ho will die.
Fuenfer was arrested.
Delaware’s Whipping Post and Pilliry.
Newcastle, Del.. May 17.— Five pris
oners were publicly whipped to-day, a
burglar getting twenty lashes in addition
to an hour in the pillorv.
TRENTON. DADE COUNTY, GA.. WEDNESDAY, MAY 21. 1884.
TWO WOMEN
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It lio IVfri‘ ,Su|,|,,>•<-< Ilu be
Dead.
Philadelphia, Pa., May 18. —Over three
years ago the schooner Joseph Mayfield,
owned principally by Jonathan May, of
this city, sailed out of the Delaware upon a
voyage to the West Indies. Lemuel Wil
liams commanded her, and George Daisey
was her first mate. Each left behind a wife,
living near tho little seacoast hamlet of
Ocean View, south of Cape Henlopen, Del
aware. The vessel sailed beyond the break
water, and the two wives might have seen
her spreading canvass as the schooner
passed their seaside home out to the
treacherous ocean. It was a fatal
'voyage, and as week succeeded
Week, and month followed month Without
tidings of vessel or crew, dread succeeded
anxiety; and as the months grew into years
a gloomy cast settled down upon the homes
of those who had gone down to a watery
grave. Mrs. Daisey, the wife of the mate,
was less than twenty years of age, and Was
the daughter of Captain Williams. Mother
and daughter, thus widowed by the sea,
were the last to abandon all hopes of the
return of the unfortunate master, mate or
(crew of the ill-starred schooner. One day
bast year the wife of Isaac Whar
ton, a wealthy resident of Ocean* View,
suddenly died, and a few weeks afterward
the widower asked Mrs. Williams to marry
fhim. After a little struggle with recollec
tions of the past she consented. Soon
afterward Mrs. Geo. Daisey married young
Luther Evans, aful the memory of the two
unfortunate sailors began to fade away.
The neighbors and friends had long
since ceased to speculate upon the
fate of the Mayfield and her crew. A few
months ago Captain Eben Williams, the
son of the lost captain, sailed in the Mary
E. Fenwick for the same port to which his
itber had started upon his last voyage.
As nothing was heard from his vessel for a
long time it was supposed that he had also
been lost at sea. The good people at Ocean
View and the surrounding country have
been, therefore, thrown into almost a
tumult of excitement Upon the receipt
,of information not only the Captain
;of the Fenwick, but that Captain
Lemuel Williams and his mate,
George Daisey, have been found. The
former was reported safe at Trinidad, while
•the other two were on their way to their
homes from a far Eastern port. Mrs.
Lemuel Williams, now Mrs. Israel Whar
ton, and George Daisey’s wife received this.
wonderful news with mingled fselir •*- of,
dismay and pleasure. The gossips have
been busy every hour of the day, and the
end of the dreadful complication m the two
households has been the theme of all
tongues.
Digging for Diamonds.
Milwaukee, Wis., May 18.—S. B. Boyn
ton, of this city, who is digging for dia
monds near Waukesha, Wis., found two in
good gravel strata this week. One of tbe
stones was splendid specimen, but the
other was an imperfect crystallization,
and is what is known as a “Tort”
diamond. After the gravel had
been penetrated hardpan was struck
and he experienced trouble with
water. This week he will sink the shaft
five feet lower, and expects to strike a
diamond depository. At a depth of fifty
five feet the diggers came upon a piece of
timber, evidently tamarack, in a splendidly
preserved condition. It must i ve lain in
its present bed for thousands o: years. It
’was not in tho least petrified. I.i the upper
strata of gravel Boynton found quantities
,of topaz stones, malachites, sardonies,
chrysolites, cornelians, and pieces
of garnate. These specimens are
very fine. Such crowds have been at
tracted to the spot that he has been obliged
to build a fence around the entire claim to
keep them away, thousands coming from
ithe surrounding country in one day. He
is operating on what is known as the Ket
'tle range of hills. They are mainly'in
Wakesha County, extending semi-circu
lai ly about 100 miles, with a small spur in
'Racine County. The range incloses a
gravel float, which must have swept down
from Michigan during the glacial period.
Terrific Gas Explosion.
WELLSBURG, W. V.v.May 18. —An explo
sion of natural gas, mixed with air, oc
curred at Harvey Brothers’ paper-mill this
morning, at 7 o’clock, produced a noise like
the discharge of a cannon, and was heard
■for miles. Isaac Jones, one of the
engineers, turned the gas under the
Boilers, without igniting, for the
purpose of cooling them so they could he
.entered and cleaned, and after an absence
of some time, he returned, and was prepar
ing for cleaning, when the explosion oc
curred, blowing him against the wall and
burning him dangerously. The stack is
rent from bottom to top, the roof of the en
gine-room lifted off, the walls cracked and
windows broken to atoms.
Thugs Fatally Wounded By Policemen.
Pittsburg, May 18.—At an early hour
this morning Boxey Bray and Win. Heuder
shot, two well known characters of Law
renceville, were shot and fatally wounded
by Policeman McAleese. Bray and HenJ
dershot tried to abduot an un
sophisticated German girl, and of
ficers English and McAleese interfered.
The ruffians and their friends turned on
the officers, and in self defense McAleese
fired the fatal shots. Both men are living,
but no hopes are entertained of their re
covery. Officers McAleese and English
were badly injured, and it is feared they
are hurt internally.
Congress to Adjourn by July I.
Washington, May 18. —Speaker Carlisle
says he does not think any one ought to
make any calculation on an adjournment
of Congress before July 1. hut that he is
confident that business can be ended by that
date, unless there shall be a deadlock be
tween the two houses over some of the ap
propriation bills.
Severe Sentences.
Madrid, May 18. — A Court-martial at
Saragossa for the trial of fourteen officers
charged with desertion, sentenced one Ma
jor to imprisonment for life; a Lieutenant
was sentenced to imprisonment for twenty
years, and the others twelve years.
XLYIIIth CONGRESS.
First Session.
Washington, May IS.—Senate.—A number
of petitions were presented opposing any
action of Congress that would lead to the de
struction of healthy competion in the tele
graph business. Mr. Sherman presented a pe.
tltion, numerously signed, in favor of placing
General Freemoiit on the retired list of the
army. Mr. Blair, from the Committee on Pen
sions, and by direction of that committee,
reported unfavorably the bill to grant a pen
sion to General Ward B. Burnet, and submit
ted the dissenting views of the mino ity cal
endar. Mr. Logan, from the Committee on
Military Affairs, reported favorably the bill to
place General Grant on the retired list. Mr.
Logan asked that the bill be put at once upon
it* passage. Unanimous consent was given
and the bill was at once read the third time
and passed wit limit debut • or remark. The
bill provides that: “In recognition of the dis
tinguished service rendered the United States.
General U. S. Grant, lute General of the
Army, be placed on the retired list with rank
and full pay of General of the Army.”
House. —Mr. Post submitted views of the
minority Committee on Pacific Railroad on
the bill to amend the Thurman Sinking Fund
act. House calender. The House went into
committee of the whole, Mr. Cox, of New
York in the chair, on the bill providing
civil government for the Territory of Alaska
which was passed: also a bill for the general
government of Dakota.
Washington, May 14.— Senate.— The Utah
bill was postponed till Monday. A bill was re
ported favorably, extending to August 8, IHAtS,
the time to commence laying the ocean ca
bles. A motion, by Mr. Culloin, to make his
Inter-State commerce bill the special order
for Wednesday, May 21, was not agreed to.
Mr. Call introduced a bill, which was referred
to the Committee on the Judiciary,
authorizing the Secretary of the
Treasury to overrule and reverse the
decisions of the inferior officers of the Treas
ury Department in respect to all matters of
accounts. A bill passed, authorizing the con
struction of a pontoon wagon bridge over the
Mississippi, near Dubuque. The House bill
providing for (lie establishment of a bureau
of labor statistics was taken up. Ponding de
bate the Senate adjourned.
House. —The House went into committee of
the whole on the consul and diplomatic appro
priation bill, and Mr. Burns explained its pro
visions. Considerable debate was indulged
in, without action. Mr. Robinson (N. Y.J
moved to abolish the office of Minister to
Great Britain. The motion was lost and the
committee rose. Mr. Warmer presented a
memorial from the Women’s Silk Culture
Association in favor of the rstablishment
of a Bureau of Silk Culture. Referred.
Mr. Bland, from the Committee on Coinage,
Weights and Measures, wJfiortcd a lull to es
tablish a mint at St. Louis. Referred to the
committee of the whole. Mr. Sprague asked
unanimous consent to put on its passage the
bill authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury
to purchase about $42,0110,000 of bonds with
the greenbacks held in the Treasury for the
redemption of retired National hank circula
tion, which would relieve the money market
to the extent of adding $42,000,000 to the cir
culation. Mr. Weller objected. Adjourned.
Washington, May 15.—Senate.— The
tVw.tc agreed when it adjourned to-day it l>e
to Monday next. The Chair laid before the
Senate a message from the President recom
mending an appropriation to enable the Gov
ernment to execute the provisions of the
Convention between the United .States and
Mexico, relating to tho boundary line be
tween the two countries. . Mr.
Morgan offered a resolution in the
Senate, which under the rule went over one
day, directing the Committee on finance to
examine into the causes of failures of such of
the National Banks in the city of New York
as have suspended business in May, ISB4, and
report whether the said failures have, to any,
and what, extent, resulted from any violation
of tho laws relating to their conduct,
or from giving certificates, drafts,
or by their acceptance, draft or other com
mercial paper drawn upon them. directly or
indirectly, in evasion (Win violating of the
laws, and wh thor any National Bank in New
York City lias been engag<-#sin®‘ July 12.
lkS2, in violation or evasion of the Taws regu
lating their conduct, and that the committee
have leave to sit during the sessions of the
Senate, to visit the city of New York, to send
for persons or papers, and examine witnesses
on oath.
House.—Mr. Laird, from the Committee on
Military Affairs, reported a hill authorizing
the location of a branch Soldiers’ Home ill
Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas, lowa, Minnesota,
Missouri or Nebraska. To Committee Of
the The Senate bills passed
authoring tho construction of
Abridges across Ithe Bio Grande,
■between Eagle Pass and Piedras
BVcgras, and between Laredo and Nuevo
®.aredo. The bill pas-ed authorizing the con
struction of a bridge across the Missouri
River, between the north and south lines of
Douglass County, Nebraska. The bill
passed authorizing the extension
of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad to a point
on the military lands at Fortress Monroe.
Tho morning hour was dispensed with, and
tho House went into Committee of the Whole
on tho Diplomatic and Consular Appropria
tion Mill. Mr. Mitt moved to amend by re
storing to £12,000 tbe sahvies of Ministers to
Austria and Italy. The bill reduces them to
SIO,OOO.
Washington, May 16.—Senate. —Senate not
in session.
House.—The hill passed authorizing the con
struction of bridges across the Wisconsin,
Chippawa and .St. Croix Rivers in Wisconsin.
Mr. Willis, from the Committee on Rivers
and Harbors, reported back the
River and Harbor appropriation
bill to a Committee ot the Whole
The House went into Committee of the Whole
on the Consular and Diplomatic Appropria
tion Bill, the pending amendment being the
one offered by Mr. Cam-ron, appropriating
SIIO,OOO for eontingeib expenses of United
States Consuls, was lost After debate the
hill was finally laid aside with favorable
recommendation, and the committee pro
ceeded to the consiilerutionjof the Army Ap
propriation Bill.
Washington, May 17. —Senate.— Senate
not in session.
House.—A bill passed granting the consent
of Congress for the construction of a dam
across the Mississippi at St. Cloud. The Sen
ate amendments to the Indian appropriation
bill were no n-concurred in. A bill passed ex
tending: until December til. 18S>, the duration
of the Court of Commissioners on
the Alabama Claims. A bill passed
to change the Eustcrn and Northern
Judicial Districts of Texas, and to attach a
part of the Indian Territory to those districts.
On motion of Mr. Cassidy, the bill was passed
to relieve settlers on Duck Valley Indian Ite-s
--orvation. of Klkn County, Nov'. A bill also
passed for the appointment of two additional
Associate Justices for Supreme Court of
Dakota. The next bill called up stirred
up a family quarrel in the Missouri
delegation. It was the hillf to amend
the act dividing the state of Missouri into two
judicial districts, and to divide the Eastern
and Western districts thereof into divisions
and to prescribe the times and plaeps of hold
ing courts therein. Mr. Ilroadhead, whore
ported the bill, said there was a division of sen*
timent among the Missouri delegation with re
gard to the propriety of the bill and moved to
recommit it. The motion was lost. On the
amendment no quorum voted. Adjourned.
Tour of the Siamese Embassy.
New York, May IS.—The Siamese Em
bassy arrived t>-day from Washington,
and in two weeks will begin a toyr of the
country.
SOUTHERN NEWS GLEANINGS,
A negro man named Slater was killed
the other day by fnlling through the hatch
way at the Pratt Ginning Company, Mem
phis, Tenn.
The jury in William Spence’s ease at
Nashville, Tenn., charged with the murder
of his son-in-law, Ed. S. Wheat, brought in
a verdict of murder in the first degree. A
notion for a new trial was entered.
,Dr. J. G. Cabell, President of the Board
of Health of the city of Richmond, states
in a letter to the Dispatch that the popula
tion of that city is now 73,302, an increase
of nearly 10,000 in the past four years.
J. S. Wilkins, jeweler, Memphis, has as
signed.
Miss Sallik Peoples, a young lady
twenty-eight years of age, residing with her
widowed mother at Somerville, Tenn., sui
cided a few mornings ago by shooting her
self in the forehead with a Colt’s revolver.
11l health is said to have been the cause of
her rash act. She belonged to a highly re
spected family, and was the general favo
rite of a large circle of friends,
- In the African Episcopal Conference, at
Baltimore, recently, a motion for concilia
tion toward the rebellious churches at
Charleston, S.C., was voted down. A reso
lution was passed giving wornout itinerant
preachers S3OO per year. A resolution
condemning ritualism, the wearing of
gowns, and pAhibiting ministers from pro
claiming apostolic succession and sacerdo
talism was passed —127 to 11.
The failure of Emile Desmet, at Moss
point, Mississippi, creates excitement. He
owned two mills and cut about 80,000 feet
of lumber dailj-. The chief loss falls upon
tiie log getters and supply men, which will
bring disaster to hundreds in Jackson
County. There is no statement of liabili
ties. T. E. Spottswood, the well known
timber merchant of Mobile, is involved.
Messrs. Smith and Dixon, of Orange
County, N. C., trapped and caught 742
muskrats, minks and coons the past winter,
and killed 200 squirrels and nine wild tur
keys.
Capt. R. M. Andrews, of Sumter, S. C.
aged 03, started for Boston, Mass., on a p' *
destrian tour. He expects to make the ei -
tire journey on foot and is confident of his
ability to do so.
Albert Mills, sentenced to hang
at Natchez for wife murder, has been re
spited till July Itili.
Four illicit distilleries have been de
stroyed in Pittsylvania County, Virginia,
and three men captured.
Harry Grady, colored, was lynched in
Effingham County, Georgia, the other night.
He attempted to outrage a white lady.
Near Colfax, Grant Parish, La., a few
(lays ago, Frank 11. Page was waylaid and
murdered by Win. Bounders, colored.
There is a wood pulp factory near Au
gusta, Ga., at which the expedition with
which paper could be manufactured was
recently demonstrated. A tree was cut in
the forest at six o’clock in tiie morning,
was made into pulp and then into paper at
six o’clock in the evening, and distributed
among the people as a newspaper by six
o’clock the next morning. From a tree in
the forest to a printed newspaper, being
read by thousands, in the brief round of
twenty-four hours.
Pilot LxMßof the steamer City of Yaz jo,
reports on the 13cli, a cut off through Cole’s
Creek, a point two miles below Water
proof, La., shortening the river from nine
miles around to a quarter mile straight
through, making the river straight for sev
eral miles. This leaves Cypress Grove,
Gum Ridge, Rosedale, and Coles Creek
Point upon the lake. The steamer attempt
ed to go through the cut off, but the eddies
prevented. Pilot Lamb is certain that on
the down trip the steamer can easily
make the passage, and also thinks before
the water goes down the cut off will be the
main channel.
The Atchleys and the Tucketts fought at
at a dance, in Madison County. Ala., the
other night. One of the Tucketts was killed
and another fatally wounded, and two of
the Atchleys were perhaps mortally
wounded.
The Charlotte N. C., Observer gives the
particulars of a strange and desperate sui
cide which took place oil the railroad a
mile and a half north of Salisbury. As the
train approached that point a white man
was seen standing on the side of the road
with his head down near the rail as if
listening to the sounds of the wheels. As
the train neared him he stood erect for a
moment, then threw himself across the
track and was immediately run over and
mangled to death. He is unknown.
Benjamin W. Richardson, editor of the
Union Bridge Index, shot Robert Wright,
a young practicing dentist at Union Bridge,
Carroll County, Md., a few days since.
The ball lodged in the shoulder, and the
wound is severe, yet not necessarily fatal.
The shooting Was done in a quarrel arising
>Ut Of a dispute about a social gathering,
asked Wright to take back his
remarks. The doctor refused, and Rich
ardson deliberately shot him. He surrer.d
ered himself to the authorities, and was re
leased on bail. Richardson is widely
known as a journalist, having occupied the
editorial chair in several localities in the
South and West.
At Athens, Ha., the other day several lit
tle negroes, while playing upon the street,
discovered that one of their number, aged
about seven years, was afraid of frogs.
They liegan to throw chips at the child,
telling hint they were frogs. At last one of
the chips fell upon the child’s neck and
slipped down his back. It set up a feat'-
tul scream, when its companions ran away
laughing. The child was discovered lying
in the street with a spasm, and carried
home. For two days and nights one spasm
followed another in quick succession, and
it is doubted if it can live.
A single English syndicate owns 4,.>00,-
000 acres of land in Texas, and it is stated
that corporations and individuals in Eu
rope jointly hold a total of 20.94 ,000 acres
in this country, or more than bait as much
land as there is in the whole of England.
The fisheries about the head of Chesa
peake Bay are taking large numbers of
herrings.
YOU. I—NO. 13.
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.
Eleelrie currents arc now employed
1o hasten the process of leather tan
ning. — Chicago Intar- Ocean.
—Petroleum, as a fuel on the locomo
tives of Kus-ian railways, is said to be
fifty per cent, cheaper than coat or
wood.
—Tobacco has been found upon ana
lysis to contain sugar in quantity vary
ing from a mere trace to as much as
ten per cent. — N. Y. Sun.
—A novel method of planting an
orange-grove has been introduced into
Archer, Fla., by dropping two orange
seeds in hills thirty feet apart.
—As a result of his extensive experi
ence in building compressed-air loco
motives for European trains, < olonel
Beaumont states that one cubic foot of
air under a pressure of one thousand
pounds to the square inch will convey
a load of three tons a distance of one
mile on any of the colliery tracks.
—A disinfecting lamp can be easily
prepared for purifying any place where
a disagreeable odor is perceived, being
especially use.ul iu sick rooms and in
damp cellars where vegetables have de
cayed. Take any “lass lamp for burn
ing kerosen • or oil, fill it with chloric
ether and light. The old-fashioned
camphene or burning fluid lamps, with
a small, round wick, will burn longer
and be of more service than the
fiat wicked lamps. While the ether
burns a disinfectant escapes that will
soon purify the most offensive atmos
phere, even that of a sewer. — N. Y.
Times.
—A perpetually damp copying-paper,
always ready for use, is prepared by
dissolving one pound of chloride of
magnesium in a moderate quantity of
warm water or eold water—about me
pound. V hen dissolved, apply this so
lution with a brush to ordinary copy ng
paper (whether in book form or other
wise), or pro erablv by means of cloth
pads saturated w.th the liquid, then
place th so | ads between any suitable
number of leaves; apply pressure, at
first very moderately, until the absorp
tion by the paper i- complete; then re
move the cloth pads and apply further
pressure; it is then ready for use.—Ex
change.
—lt is sad that au oieetric hand-lamp
has been invented, the illuminating
principle of which is generate ! by some
simple chemicals that are ridiculously
cheap and eas'ly manipulated. A litt e
sliding drawer at the bottom of the
lamp holds the electric spark in solu
tion, while, by simply touching a but
ton, a magnilieeut light is developed or
extinguished, as the ease may be. This
lamp does not spec ally di crin appear
ance from the ordinary kerosene affair,
and can be used in the same way, but
with a complete absence of trouble,
odor or danger. Chi ago Times.
PITH AM) POINT.
—The man who thought lie could
live on the “m'lk of human kindn ss”
has starved to death. You can’t Ive
on any kind of milk nowadays.
—An old opera revised, Things are
seldom wl;at they seem; skim milk
masquerades as cretin; lard and soap
we eat for cheese; butter is but axle
grease. Dealer (in a whisper j—“Vety
true, so you do.” — N. Y. Uraphic.
“When washing the child,” remarks
a mother, “wash the eyes first of all,
so that no impurity from the body
can enter them.” It is also advisa
ble to fill the infant’s mouth with
soapsuds so that it can’t disturb the
neighborhood w.th its yells.
“It is now s ttled,” says an ex
change, “that a newly-married lady
ceases to be a bride and becomes
simply a wife when she has sewed a
button on her husband’s clothes.”
It is this fact that makes us such happy
people. The country is full of brides,
Chicago Times-.
—An Irish bride regards it as an ill
omen to rise before the sun on her wed
ding day. Her husband may interpose ou
objection to such a superstition on that
day, but after marriage he regards it an
ill-cfmen if she doesn’i rise before (he
sun and wrestle with tho tiro and the
breakfast.
—The reason farm hands are so
scarce can be aceou ted for in the
fact that a man can't get a moment’s
rest on the barbed wire fence now in
use. The old rail fence offered some
inducement to a man to engage on a
farm, but this barbed wire bud ness
don't give a man any show at all.
Deck's Sun.
—No, my son, pri/e fighters never go
to war. They know that a cannon
ball bent on knocking a man out in one
round doesn't stop and go back to its
own corner merely because the
man lies down. You never hear of a
prize tighter fighting anywhere unless
there is lots of gate money behind the
tight.- Bnrlin ton Hawieye.
—No, my son, when a gentleman
tells a funny story, never be so rude as to
laugh, i’o not let him finish if you eau
help it. At the first opportunity, re
mark, “Yes, that reminds me of a
story,” and then go on and tell it,
even if you have to tell the same one
he has* just told you, with different
names and localities.—,V. Y. Ma i.
—An unknown country.—
“O carry uie, then” cried tbe fair coquette.
“To the land where never I’ve journeyed
yet—
To that shore
Where love is lasting and ebanare unknown,
AM a man is faithful to one alore
Evermore.”
“Go. seek that land fer a year, and a (lav;
At the end of the time you’ll be stulfar
away. _ •
Pretty maid.
‘Tis a country unlettered In map or in chart,
’Tie a country that does not exist. e*w»-
,r ’ I’m afraid.”