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T. A. J. MAJORS, Publisher. RAILROAD WRECK. \ A Misunderstanding of Orders Caused V 3 Disastrous Collision. / f Rw,n I ’*‘*‘*o!»* Injured. None Kerlnukl.v --,( * l ‘*^,* Engine* mid Several (an Hi lulled. 'i 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 1 y With Four Living Husharuls-*-A Doude Enoch Arden Case. ' Itemai-UMlilc Coiiipl'CHlion*Cunonl b.i (lie l n«“* »>**<•(>-<l K'-lurii of Two bailnri 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.”