Georgia Historic Newspapers

    T. A. J. MAJORS, Publisher.
CRUSHED TO DEATH.
A Five-Story Tenement House in New
York
F«n« In. Bnr,Tlng Three nrihe Inmate. In
the llaiai-Kiii i'oH Knv«|i«. «f o.lier Ten
snli.
New t Ork, June 14.—The five story tene
ment building, No. 08 Grand Street, fell in
with a crash this afternoon, burying three
of the occupants in the ruins. The build-
Sng was an old, rickety affair, and had been
ipronounced unsafe by the building depart
ment several weeks ago, but further than
01 dering the tenants to vacate nothing had
been done. Most of the families fortunate-
Jy had moved out. At the time the build
tng fell, the police and fire department
w tio had been notified of ous con
dition were on hand, and formed a cordon
on each street corner, preventing all pedes
trians from going near the building. One
woiivan was taken out severely injured,
the building was swaying perceptibly this
morning, and the few remaining occupants
were ordered out. Those who were in the
house when, it fell are said to be tenants
who were engaged in moving out their
household effects.
fatal railroad accident.
Kli»e Person. Killed anil Many Wounded
Misunderstanding of Orders Causes
a Collision KSetweeu an excursion and
a Passenger Train.
I hiladelphia, June 14.—An excursion
train under the auspices of the Second
1 lesbyterian Church of Camden, bound for
Atlantic City, on the Camden & Atlantic
Railroad, collided with a passenger train
near Haddonfield this morning about 9
o’clock. Engifteers Palmer and Baxter,
Conductor Smi t-fi, Baggage Master Vaughn,
Wail Agent Wylie, Fireman Barber, Frank
Fenton, supervisor of the road, and G.
Edwards were killed. The excursion train
was crowded with women and children,
and the accommodation with passengers,
and many on both were injured, some
fatally. The accident was caused by mis
understanding of orders.
Butler and the Presidency.
New York, June 13.—Mr. J. \V. Sey.
naonr, of this city, having written to Gen
eral Butler advising him to run for
President with or without a nomination,
has received the following reply:
My Dear Sir—l have received your very
kind note. Thanking you for your expres
sions of regard, I InM leave to eav rhsi there
is one view in which J think iny possible elec
tion to the Presidency, of which
you speak, might be at least of service to
the country. Although running upon the
Democratic ticket, or in any event as a
Democrat with my views, which 1 be
lieve to be Democratic upon ninny sub
jects, I should receive, I fain would
believa, a very largo colored vote at
the South. The colored men know me. I
have commanded many, many thousands of
them as soldiers, so that my election as a
Democrat would wipe out the color lineal the
South by bringing the two races together un
•ter one political head, and that seems to me
to be a very great desideratum, and would be
the greatest service to the country, as it
might be the last which l could render.
The Democratic party of the South would be
obliged to acknowledge me as a Democrat, the
colored men would know ineas a friend, and
the relations are not ineempntiblp, so that I
can’t see why even as firm a Republican as
yourself might not feel justified, ns you say
you would Mo, in voting tor me. Renewing
my thanks, I am very truly,
Your friend and servant,
j. Benjamin F. Butler.
Illinois Wheat Prospects.
Springfield, 111., June 14.— The latest
returns to tne Illinois Department of Agri
culture give a more discouraging outlook
for the growing crop of wheat than that of
one month ago. In the central and south
ern divisions there is much complaint of
the appearance of a large amount of chess.
In the northern division, there is a pros
pect for 94 per cent, of an average crop. In
the central division, 77; in the southern, '
<l4. In average seasons over one-half of the
winter wheat crop of the State is produced
in the southern division, and a partial fail
ure of over one-third of the acreage yield
per acre will greatly reduce the crop 3 of
the State.
Gang of Counterfeiters Captured.
Detroit, June 14.—A gang of counter
feiters, who have been operating in Gene
see and Shiawassee Counties, this State,
has just been broken up by the arrest of
thi ■ee of the principal men engaged in the
business—an old man named Daniels, at
Flint, and Asa Davis and wife at Corunna.
Daniels had some S3OO of the spurious
money on his person when taken. There is
little doubt he is an old hand at the busi
ness. He hails from Pennsylvania. He
was taken into the United States Court to
day, pleaded guilty, and sentenced to the
penitentiary for ten years. The other par
ties pleadea not guilty.
The Berber Massacre.
London, June 14. —An Arab, at Korosko,
who claims to be the sole survivor of the
Berber garrison, says he was
present when the rebels attacked
Berber, May 23. The garrison defended
the town for two hours, but the rebels
foreed their way into the city, where they
immediately massacred 1,5(W men of the
garrison and 2,000 of the male population.
The women and children w-ere spared. The
gtory is believed by Major Kitchener and
the son of Hussein Pasha Khaliff, governor
of Berber.
A Mysterious Taking-Qff.
Muir, Mich., June 14.—The wife of
Andrew Delong was found dead in her
bed this morning the victim of mur
der. Her husband, who is a prosperous
farmer, declares that the crime was com
mitted by an unknown burglar, who es
caped with $l5O in money. The evidence
seems very strong, however, against De
long himself.
Found in Salt River.
St. Louis, June 13.—The dead body of &
young man named Taylor, whose widowed
mother lives at Bardstown, Ky., was found
in Salt Kiver, near Santa Fe, Monroe
County, this State, a day or two ago. His
arms were bound and bis neck broken, and
it is believed that he was brutally murder
ed and thrown into the river. The matter
is being investigated.
TILDEN’S DECLINATION.
Fonr Tears of IVr.lrt.nt In! Toll nn>«
Trenlile Too Grrat » Tm>k---TrMnqii|lli.r
Hie Only lifkiro.
Nkw York, June 11.—Samuel J. Tilden
has written a letter to Chairman Daniel
Manning of the Democratic State Commit
tee of New York positively declining a
renomination for the Presidency. In his
letter he soys:
"Havingnnw borne faithfully my full share
of labor and care in the public service, and
wearing the marks of its burdens, I desire
nothing so much ns an honorable discharge. I
wish to lay down the honors and toils of even
quasi party leadership, and to r 9ek the repose
of private life. In renouncing a re
nomination for the Presidency I
do so with no doubt In my mind as
to the vote of the State of New York, or of
the United States, but because l believe that
it is n renunciation of re-election to the Pres
idency. To thoSe who think my renomination
and re-election indjsnensihle to an effectual
vindication of the right of the people to elect
their rulers—violated in my person—l have
accorded as long a reserve of my decision as
possible, but I can not overcome my repug
nance to enter iuto a new engagement, which
involves four years of ceaseless toil. The dig
nity of the presidential office
is above a merely personal am
bition, but it creates in me no illusion.
Its value is a great power for good to the
country. * * * Tp all who have addressed
me on the subject, my intention has been
frankly communicated. Several of my most
confidential friends, under the sanction of
their own names, have publicly stated my
determination to be irreversible. That 1 have
occasion now to consider the question, is an
event for which I have no responsibility. The
appeal made to me by the Democratic masses,
with apparent unanimity, to serve them once
more is entitled to the most deferential con
sideration, and would inspire a disposition to
do anything desired of me if it were consistent
with my judgment of duty. I believe there is
no instrumentality in human society so po
tential in its influence upon mankind for good
or evil as the governmental machinery for ad
ministering justice and for making and exe
cuting laws. Not all the eleemosynary institu
tions of private benevolence to which philan
thropists may devote the.ir lives are sofruitfu 1
in benefits as the rescue and preservation oi
this machinery from the perversions that
make it the instrument of conspiracy,
fraud, and crime against the most sa
cred nghts and interests of the people.
For fifty years, as a private citizen, nevet
contemplating an official career, I have de
voted at least as much thought and effort to
the duty of influencing aright the action of
the governmental institutions of my country
as to all other objects. * * * The
canvass and admmstration, which it is desired
that 1 should undertake, would embrace a
period of nearly five years, nor can l admit
any illusion as to their burdens. Three years
of experience in the endeavor to reform the
municipal government iu the City of New
York, and two years of experience in renovat
ing the administration of the State of New
York, have made me familiar with the
requirements of such a work. At the pres
ent time the considerations which
induced my actions in 1880 have be
come imperative. I ought not assume a task
which I have not the physical strength to
carry through. To reform the administration
of the federal government, to realize my own
ideal, and to fulfill the just expectations of
the people, would indeed warrant, as they
eould alotv eompensare the sacrifleas which
the undertaking would involve. But, in mj
condition of advancing years and declinm?
strength, I feel no assurance of my ability
to accomplish those objects. I am.
therefore, constrained to say definitely
tint I can not now assume the
tat or i of an administration or of a can
vass, undervaluing in no wise that best gift of
heaven—the occasion and the power some
times bestowed upon a mere individual to
communicate an impulse for good. Gratefu'
beyond all words to my fellow' countrymen
who would assign such a beneficent, functior
to me, I am consoled by the reflec
tion that neither the Democratic
party nor the Republic for whose future
that party is the best guarantee, it.
now, or ever can be, dependent upon any one
man for their successful progress in the pari
of .a noble destiny. Having given to ther
welfare whatever of health and strength I
possessed or could borrow from the future,
and having reached the term of my capacity
for such labors as their welfare now demands
I but- submit to the will of God in deeming m>
public career forever closed.”
Samuel J, Tilden.”
THE MASSACRE AT BAKER.
Oenml liordan Reported on Ills Waj
■>o»n the Hirer. And F.l ’lalidi Vlxrcli
ln«; on Doikoli Willi a I. write A rill y.
Cairo, June 13. —The opinion of the citi
zens here, and who have had private ad
vices from friends there, favors the theory
of the terrible massacre at Berber. It is
reported that General Gordon has left
Khartoum, and is on his way down the
river Nile. El Mahdi is marching toward
Dongola with 35,000 He hopes to
capture the town before the feast of Rama
dan, June 25. In an interview at Abu
Hamid Major Kitchener expresses the be
lief that if Dongola falls it will be almost
hopeless to try to save Egypt. He regards
the situation as awful.
Michigan Crop Report.
Detroit, June 13.—For the Michigan
crop report for June the Secretary of State
has received returns from 901 correspon
dents, representing 618 townships. The
weather during May was, on the whole,
much more favorable than during May of
last year. Wheat and grass have made a
good growth during the month. Spring
seeding has done well. There are com
plaints of dry weather, which, if it con
tinues, will soon affect crops
seriously. Wheat is very gen
erally reported thin on the ground
and spotted, that on clay land being
badly injured. The average condition in
the southern four tiers of counties is nine
ty-one per cent., and in the northern coun
ties ninety-eight. The probable total
product in the State may be placed at
23,400,000 bushels. More than four-fifths of
the seed corn planted in the southern four
tiers of counties* and more than three
fourths planted in the northern counties,
was grown in Michigan. Fifteen per cent,
of the seed failed to grow. The condi
tion of other crops, in comparison
with 1883, are: Oats, 99; barley, 98; mead
ows and pastures, 97; clover sowed this
year, 97. Four per cent, of clover seed thn
year failed to grow. The first-footings of
the sheep and wool columns received from
the supervisors of 517 townships show
there were 1.417.000 sheep sheared in 1883,
yielding 7,904,000 pounds of wool, and that
the number of sheep in the same townships
the present year is 1,439,000 —one and a
half per cent, increase.
Liquor License Rate Increased.
Camden, N. J., June 13. — There was much
excitement among liquor dealers to-day
when it became known that the City Coun
cil last evening decided to raise the
license from $95 to S2OO. The measure is
known as the high license tax, and har
figured prominently in the last two spring
elections. The ordinance also require!
druggists to procure licenses in the sam*
manner and at the same fees as regular
saloons.
TRENTON, DADE COUNTY. QA.. WEDNESDAY, JUNE IS. 1884.
HEAVY FROSTS
Do Great Damage to the Crops in the
New England States.
Tbe Cranberry Crop Thnnght to hr Entire
-1 x K(llnert -In some l-ocaljflies Vegetable
Crop* aro Entirely Destroyed.
Boston, June 15.—Reports from various
parts of New England state that a heavy
frost Saturday night caused considerable
damage to growing crops. The Cape Cod
district reports that the prospect for a
cranberry crop is entirely ruined, involv
ing a loss of many thousands of dollars.
Potatoes and corn and vines of all kinds
were seriously affected. Much corn will
have to be replanted, and, owing to the
lateness of the season, a short crop will be
the result. In Norfolk County, Mass.,
entire crops of vegetables were destroyed,
and farmers who make a specialty of early
produce will suffer extensively. In nearly
all sections tbe growth of crops is re
tarded.
A Fearful Leap.
Jersey Citt, June 15.—A man who gave
his name as Henry Duncan, of Milwaukee,
was found seriously injured to-day on the
line of the New York, West Shore and
Buffalo Railroad, near Fairview, Bergen
County. He said he was a musician at
tached to a traveling show, and left Chicago
Friday with a party of friends. One of
them accused him of stealing a gold watch
and chain and several hundred dollars in
money. He at first looked upon the matter
as a joke, but became frightened when his
accuser persisted and finally drew a pistol,
and Duncan, leaping upon a seat, plunged
head foremost through an open window
while the train was running at a rapid rate.
Fatal Boiler Explosion.
Butler, Pa. June 15.—A boiler u<ved for
pumping Boldridge oil well No. 13 exploded
this morning with a terrific report, hurling
pieces of the boiler in every direction, de
molishing the boiler and engine house and
horribly mangling Engineer Richard Wal
ker, causing his death in a few hours. His
son,who was near his father, was thrown fif
teen feet, receiving fatal injuries. A small
frame building near by, occupied by Wal
ker, was demolished, and his daughter was
slightly hurt. The cause of the explosion
is not known.
Quarantine at Brownsville.
Galveston, Tex., June 15.—A Galveston
ffexes special from Brownsville, Tex., says:
Quarantine was established at noon to-day
between Brownsville and Matamoras,
Guards are stationed along the river. This
action on the part of the State and city
authorities was brought about by the fail
ure of the city of Matamoras to strictly en
force the twenty days quarantine against
Vera Cruz, as agreed. Both Brownsville
and Matamoras are at present healthy and
free from fever.
Gladstone on American Feeling.
London, June 15.—Gladstone, replying
to a recent inquiry, said he feared there
was no probability, at his age, and with his
engagements in England, of being able to
visit America. In regard to the tone of the
American press with respect to the dyna
mite question, he said he must excuse
himself from expressing an opinion which
would not serve the public interests, but
he had the fullest confidence in the friendly
sentiments of Americans generally toward
England.
An insurance Man Commits Suicide
Portland, Me., June 15.—Nicholas De
Groat, assistant secretary and cashier of
the Union Mutual Life Insurance Company,
committed suicide today at his summer
residence on Little Diamond Island. De
Groat has been suffering with mental de
pression for six weeks. He was evidently
insane.
A Drug Clerk’s Mistake.
Washington, June 15.—A child of J. R.
Ross died here yesterday from the effects
of morphine administered by mistake for
quinine. The drug clerk who put up the
prescription was held responsible by the
coroner’s jury.
Bishop Simpson Slowly Dying.
Philadelphia, June 15.—Tug condition
of Bishop Simpson at midnight was with
out materia] change. It is not possible for
him to recover, but the doctors say he shows
great vitality, which may prolong his life a
day or two.
Startling Agricultural Figures.
London, June 15.—Recent statistics
give a startling view of the decay
of farming in England and Wales.
There were 25,964, or ten per cent, fewer
farmers in 1881 than in 1871, and eighteen
per cent, more bailiffs. There were also
ten per cent, fewer farm laborers.
Sexton Seriously Injured.
New York, June 15.—Wm. Sexton, the
well-known biliiardist, was thrown from
bis wagon to-day, his left forearm being
broken in two places and received other
serious wounds.
Drowned in the Potomac.
Washington, June 15.—Captain Bostie,
of the schooner Emily J. Burton, of Phila
delphia, was accidentally drowned in the
Potomac this morning. His body was
recovered.
A Royal Marriage at St. Petersburg.
St. Petersburg, June 15.—The marriage
of the Grand Duke Sergins. of Russia, and
the Princess Elizabeth, of Hesse, took place
to-day with elaborate ceremonies.
Sudden Death of a Clergyman.
New York June 15.—Rev. Alexander J.
Baird, of Nashville, Tenn., on his way to
attend the Presbyterian Alliance at Belfast,
Ireland, died suddenly at his hotel to-day.
Fatal Fall.
New Philadelphia, 0., June 15.—Chas.
Fisher was fatally hurt yesterday by tail
ing a distance of fifty feet at the new
Court-house,
XLVIIIth CONGRESS.
First Session.
Washington, June 11.—Senate.—Mr. Sher
man reported favorably the House hill au
thorizing the National Academy of Science
to receive and hold in trust funds for the
promotion of science and other purposes.
Passed. Mr. Dawes offered a resolu
tion, which was adopted, instruct
ing the Committee on Indian
Affairs to investigate during the
recess the condition of the several tribes in
Indian Territory, the tenure by which the
lands in the several reservations are held, the
need of legislation in respect thereto, etc.
Mr. Voorhees’ resolution, offered yesterday,
directing the Secretary of the Interior to
furnish information as to the contracts for
supplying beef cattle to Indians,
was taken up, discussed and laid over for
a week. At one o’clock the Senate went into
secret session on the Consular and Diplomatic
Bill, the pending question being the ainerid
menf to appropriate $250,000 to carry out the
provisions of the Neutrality Act.
House.—fin motion of Mr. Dorsheiiner the
Senate Bill extending the terms of the act
of August 8, 1882, to encourage and promote
telegraphic communication between the
United States and Europe to August 8,
1886, was taken up and passed. Other busi
ness was pushed aside, and at 11:30 the
House went into Committee of the Whole
on the River and Harbor Appropri
ation Bill. Various amendments were
offered and rejected. Mr. Holman made a
point of order against the Hennepin Canal
clause, claiming it should have been reported
from the Committee on Railways and Canals.
Mr. Stone replied that the message of the
President and other papers in reference to it
had been referred to this committee, and its
jurisdiction was thereby established.
Washington, June Vi — Senate— Mr. Hill gave
notice that he will call up the Senate Postal
Telegraph Bill Monday. Mr. Allison suggested
that Mr. Butler’s resolution for investigation
of the New York hanks should be referred to
the Committee on Finance. “1 am afraid,”
said Butler, “ that if the committee
get hold of this resolution it will
inept the fate of tbe simular one on the same
subject.” Mr. Morrill took exception to the
remark, ami declared the Finance Committee
was proceeding with the subject diligently.
After debate, the revolution went over for
the present. The Consular ami Diplomatic
Bill was taken up and passed by forty yeas to
two nays (Vance and Van' Wyck>.
Tlousk.—The House assembled at 10 o’clock,
in continuation of yesterday’s session, and
went into Committee of the Whole on the
Hirer and Harbor Bill. Amemltm'iHs wore
adopted providing fora Missouri River Com
mission; also the substance of Cox's hill, pre
venting obstruction and offensive depos
its in New York harbor. With
out concluding the hill. the com
mittee rose a I II o'clock. The House adjourn
ed ami was immediately called to order again
for to-day’s session. Consideration of the hill
in relation to the electoral count, which lias
boil made ihe special order for to-day, was
postponed, and the House again went into
Committee on the Whole on the River and
Hartior Bill. Numerous amendments to the
section providing for surveys w'ore added.
I j Washington, June Id. Senate.— Mr.
Vance introduced a hill for the removal of the
Eastern Cherokee Indians to ihe Indian Terri-
On motion of Mr. Cameron, of Wiscon
sin, the House bill fort he allowance of a num
ber of claims known as “Fourth of July
claims,” reported by the accounting officers
under act of July 4. 188 i, was taken up.
House.— The Senate amendments to the
Consular and Diplomatic and Pension Appro
priation Bills were non-concurred iu. Mr.
Pryor then took the floor on tbe Electoral
Count Bill. Mr. Pryor’s anrument was in sup
port of the theory of the House Bill that the
Senate and House did not meet as legislative
bodies or in an official capacity as such bodies,
hut, as conveniently designated, a board for
the sok‘ and special purpose of counting the
electoral votes, and that as such the powers
of each member of this board are coequal.
Adjourned until Monday.
Washington, June 14.—Senate.-— Senate
not in session.
House. —The House resumed consideration
of the amendments in between the
two Houses upon the Post-office Appropria
tion Rill, the pending amend men ithieiiid that
incorporating $185,000 for special facilities on
trunk lines. A motion that the House recede
from its disagreement to the amendment,
and agree to the same with the amendment
increasing the appropriation to $2 , ’0,000 was
agreed to. A motion that the House concur
in the remaining amendments increasing
from $4,000,np0 to $4,300,000, the appropriation
for railway post-office clerks, was lost. The
Pacific Railroad business was taken up and
pending the House adjourned.
| An Insane Man at Large.
Skirtlesville, Pa., June 15.—Joel
a giant lunatic who escaped
from the residence of his father, in Schuyl
kill County, passed through' this place and
▼icinity yesterday and created intense ex
citement, especially among the female
population. H-» attempted to enter the
house of Mahlon Spangler by force. When
he found that he could not enter he became
frantic with rage, destroying fences and
trees, and killed a large number of chickens.
The lunatic was driven away by a pistol
fired after him. Yesterday morning ha en
tered the house of Emanuel Long. Mrs.
Long, being the only one present at the
time, became frightened and gave the
alarm to the neighbors. They collected
together and tried to capture the wild
min, hut without avail. He fought like a
tiger, but was covered with blood from an
injury received while passing through the
woods. The lunatic entered several other
houses, and tried to break anything that
came in his way. He broke into the wagon
shed of Charles Kauffman, and,
with a hatchet that was found
there, destroyed two valuable wagons, be
sides chopping up a lot of walnut lumber
at the residence of John Lutz. He entered
the kitchen and broke all the dishes. Great
efforts were made to capture the crazy roan
by the farmers through whose lots he
crossed, but to no purpose. Brensinger is
strongly built, and weighs 200 pounds. He
escaped from the resilience of his father,
who had him confined in an cutbuilding for
some years. He possesses the strength of
four men. The female portion of the
country are afraid to go to bed, from fear
that the lunatic will break into their homes.
Genera! Gonzalez’s Imprisonment.
New York, June 13.—General’ Gonzalez,
one of the most prominent leaders in the
Cuban revolution, has arrived in this city,
after three years’ imprisonment in Morocco
and one in Spain. He escaped a few weeks
ago, and undaunted by the severity of his
prison life, proposes to join Aguero in his
newly improvised movements. He speaks
of his prison life in Africa as a
period of the cruelest torture. Whole
families were condemned to exile there,
and the husbands, wives and children were
kept in separate prisons, and never permit
ted to communicate with one another.
“For the last infringement of prison disci
pline,” he added, “we were put in irons,
and often simply for speaking our minds
too freely about the Spanish Government.
The food we got was not fit for dogs; but
badly as we were treated at Morocco,it was
even worse when we were brought back to
Spain, and the confinement was closer.
We were punished and abused by our
keepers for the least expression of political
opinion.”
SOUTHERN NEWS HLEANINHS.
A negro named Joe Britt attempted to
outrage a little twelve-year-old white girl
early the other morning at Wineboro, Tex.
Britt was arrested and identified by the
child’s mother. A mob of fifteen citizens
visited the calaboose, broke open the doors
and shot the negro between the eyes with a
rifle, killing hitn instantly. No arrests.
The Peabody Education Fund will not
cut much figure in Texas educational mat
tees the next scholastic year. The Sam
Houston Normal School will get $9,000, and
that, is about all, owing to a misunderstand
ing between Superintendent of Education
Baker and Dr. Curry, agent of the Peabody
Fund. All the Texas cities and towns now
make such generous provisions for their
public schools that the withdrawal of the
Peabody aid will hardly he felt.
At Mnrion, Ala., the other day, while the
Howard Cadet Corps were practicing the
artillery drill, Cadet J. M. Mclvey had his
arm shot off between the wrist and elbow
by an accidental discharge of the cannon.
The ladies of Natchez are moving to se
cure for the World’s Exposition at New
Orleans a proper exhibition of the taste
and genius of the women of Mississippi.
The movement, so well inaugurated, doubt
less will be followed up by the ladies of
every couuty, town and city in Mississippi.
W. H. Otto, at Chattanooga, was sen
tenced to the penitentiary for three years
for forging names to juror’s orders. He
was employed at the court-house as a copy
ist and while there collected several
amounts on the forged orders. He is a’
man of liberal education and is thought to
be of respectable parentage.
Iron ore has been discovered on the
plantation of D. D. Wilkins, near Duck
Hill, Miss. The ore fields are within two
miles of the railroad at that point, and are
said to contain at least fifty per cent, of
iron. Specimens have been sent to Wash
ington to be analyzed.
The number of cattle that have been
shipped through Fort Worth Texas,
this year is very heavy. Up to the present
tbe Santa Fe has brought in over 160 trains
since the season commenced and before it
closes 200 trains will have come in on, this
road. This shows an advance of 100 per
cent, over the cattle traffic of this road dur
ing last year, as only 108 trains were re
corded for that entire season.
The Supreme Court of Georgia, on the
10th, rendered two decisions, involving
about $1,000,000 each. The first was that
of policy holders against the Southern Mu
tual Insurance Company. The Company
had accumulated a surplus of $1,200,000,
and a movement for a division was made.
The Directors held the present policy hold
ers only should participate. Past policy
holders contended, and the Supreme Court
decided that every policy holder, lapsed
or not, is entitled to his proportion of the
surplus, and orders an immediate division.
The Short will case, involving $750,000,
was held to be valid. The relatives over
looked contested.
About six years ago Peter Cook, a promi
nent citizen of Roane County, W. Va., was
killed by parties unknown. The other day
Disaway L"dson and his two sons-in-law,
Lit Hill and Josh Reynolds, were arrested
by a detective and taken to jail at Spencer,
Roane County. Reynolds confessed that
Ledson planned the murder and he and
Hill did the bloody deed. The murder was
caused on account of Cook going to the
county-seat to indict Ledson’s two daugh
ters for house-burning. Reynolds said they
met Cook on the road and murdered him
because Ledson said that was the only
way to keep him from indicting their
wives.
A horrible murder was committed in
Atlanta, Ga., a few nights ago. The
victim was the young wife of Charles Rose,
Yardinaster of the Air-line Railroad.
After eating his supper Mr. Rose went to
his work in the yard of the Air-line, leaving
his wife and child at home with a young
lady, Miss N. M. Frazier. About 12 o’clock
Miss Frazier was aroused by the sharp
report of a pistol, and running in to Mrs.
Rose’s room she saw a naked man rush out.
Mrs. Rose had been shot through the head
and died almost immediately. The man
had entered the house with robbery in
view, and when Mrs. Rose awoke and
discovered him took iier husband’s pistol,
which was on the mantle, and shot her,
making good his escape.
Warren Bishop killed his nephew by
marriage, Bui James, by striking him on
the head with a plank at Bon Air, Tenn.,
on the Northwestern Railroad. They Had
quarreled about a mule trade, and James
became enraged and pursued Bishop with
an open knife. Bishop ran to a house near
by and called, but the owner would not let
him in and protect hjm. James came upon
him with the drawn knife, when Bishop
snatched a plank from the fence and
striking*James a fearful blow, killed him
instantly. Bishop has not been arrested.
Henry Williams was engaged in clean
ing out a well, at Fine Bluff, Ark., the other
day, when bis feet became embedded in the
quicksand, and before help could be se
cured he drowned. His last words were
that he would give his life if he could see
his mother.
Bishop George W. Peterkin, of West
Virginia, was married the other night in
Henrico County, near Richmond, to Miss
Marian M. Stewart, daughter of John Stew
art, one of the wealthiest and most promi
nent citizens of Virginia.
Hon. John McCulloch, aged ninety
three, died the other night at his home near
Point Pleasant, W. Va. He was a soldier
of the war of 1812, and was for several
terms a member of the Legislature of Vir
ginia. He left a handsome estate.'
Thomas Cooke, a painter, was found
dead near Greenville, Tenn., a few days
ago, with a bullet-hole thropgh his head.
The body was decayed, and buzzards had
eaten most of it. He had been robbed and
killed.
An explosion at Loomis’ Mills, three
miles north 6f Little Rock, Ark., the other
day, destroyed most of the structure, and
killed Anderson Carpenter, the engineer,
and Eiias Lee, and badly wounding two
others.
VOL. 1.-NO. 17.
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.
—lt is estimated that four million
strawberry plants were set in West
Tennessee this spring.
—A new process in shot-making does
away with all the tall towers. A strong
current of air is forced on the lead as it
falls into the water.
—l)r. Vinke writes in the St. Louis
Courier of Mnlicine that more pers ms
are killed by the enormous amount of
whisky they take when bitten by a
snake than by the bite itself. He has
himself used large doses of quinine in
snake bite with success, and wants phy
sicians to test the remedy.
—Twenty-live years ago the ice con
sumed in Texas was carried front Bos
ton in sailing vessels, and the people of
the interior of t he State seldom saw any
of it. Now there are ice factories at
Denison. Fort Worth, Waco, Austin.
San Antonio, Houston, Dallas, and in
fact in nearly all the large towns, and
the cooling luxury is cheap and com*
mon.
—A peculiar kind of building stone
is found in some localities in Otegon,
having the property of being uninjured
by the action of cold, heat or moisture.
It is called granite sandstone, is very
rich in Silica, of a close, tine gram,
highly crystaiizi 1. unlaminated and of
a tine brown color. On being brought
to a white heat and suddenly plunged
in cold water it comes out as solid and
firm as at first.— Uticago Journal.
—There is an invention spoken of
which it is thought may abo'ish the bit.
It is called the carrago, or anti-horse
torture. It is composed of a steel band
placed over the front bone of the horse's
nose, and to this appliance the reins
are attached. The inventor claims for
this substitute for the bit that it gives
complete control to the driver over the
horse without inflicting the least dis
comfort or torture on the animal itself.
It has been tried with satisfactory re
sults. — N. Y. Sun.
l)r. Thomas Stevenson, in Guy’s
Hospital reports, asserts “that water
does, under certain conditions, act
energetically upon zinc and upon gal
vanized iron.” As zinc andgalvam ed
iron tanks are commonly used for stor
ing water, it is well to know Dr.
Stevenson’s test for the presence of
zinc in that fluid. Ihc clear water is
slightly acidulated with hydrochloric
acid, ferrocyanide of potassium is then
added; if zinc be present a whitish
cloud will immediately form.
—At a rec nt tire in Boston the In
surance Brigade used a new device for
the first time. It is called a water tun
nel, and is used to carry water from
floors to the street. It is simply a large
tunnel of conical shape, similar to that
used for pouring liquids into narrow
mouthed receptacles, and has a short
piece of hose attached, which is carried
out of a window. The device is mouthed
on a tripod, and is placed directly un
der a hole cut through tic* floor above.
The water on the lloor is then forced in
the hole anil carried through the hose
into the street, instead of being driven
down the stairway, as has before been
the case. —Boston Post.
FITH AND "VoiN'T.
—lt is fori unate, now that our forests
are rapidly becoming extinct, that we
are no longer dependent upon the maple
tree for our maple sugar. Boston Tran
script.
—A housewife wants to know how to
save dishes from being broken. It is
the simplest thing in the world. Simply
nick all the pieces \on want to save,
and they will last till the crack ol
doom. ~N. Y. Graphic.
- Marie (who is on a rug by the fire
place fondling h*r Skye). ‘‘How nice
twill be, Algernon, when Snip is old
enough and well-behaved enough to be
taken to church! ’ Algernon “‘Why,
haven’t you enough things already,
dear, to distract you from the ser
mon ?”
—Panic Avenue:
There’s a street in New York known as Wall,
Far f amous tor wind and for gall.
Where men who go in
Intending to win
Come out with just nothing at all.
—Louisville ('emner-.JournoJ.
—Man is a harvester. He begins life
at the cradle: learns to handle the fork;
often has rakish ways and sows wild
oats; threshes his way through the
world, and when he arrives al the sere
and yellow leaf, time mows him down
and his remains are planted on the hill
side.
—“lnquirer.” No, an intelligence
ollice is not a place to look for intelli
gence. The name is entirely irrelevant.
But if you want a green hous- girl
whom you will have to teach all she
will ever know, that is the place where
they have them on draught. Titles do
not signify anything in America.—
Loiccll Citizen.
—An English scientific gentleman has
discovered that gold coins are covered
with bacteria, which are liable to pro
duce all kinds of horrible diseases. We
have often wondered what was the mys
terious cause which, for many years,
has pre ented our cany ng around gold
coins. Now we know. So condition
of impecuniosity will ever induce us to
go around with a pocketful of gold
hereafter.— Texm Siftinqs.
—“How many of your parents, child
ren, say grace?” asked the bunday
school teacher, “i lease, mum, what's
them ” asked an over-grown girl in a
last year’s hat. “Why, Maggie!” ex
claimed the teacher: ‘ is it pos.-ible you
don t know what grace is Toesn’t
your lather say something before \ou
begin to eat ”‘ “Oh” iesponded the
girl, with a glow of intelligence, “yes,
mum:' he doe ; he always says. ‘Don’t
make hogs of you selves; that's all the
| butter there is* in the house.' Boston
Post.