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Dynamiters Thrpatmir.g the Life of the
~ Pope.
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Crown PrlHrpon>ie 9t>lhprl»ndN.
London, June 21. —1 tis now officially ad
mitted at the Vatican, that serious threats
hare been received against the Pope’s life
from dynamiters, and recently a letter was
received at the Vatican from, p. source en
titled to credence, stating that a well ar
ranged plan to attack the Papal residence
by dynamite had been matured, and would
be carried out at the first favorable oppor
tunity, the conspirators aiming at the life
of His Holiness. This startling intelligence
astounded the Cardinals, who at once held
a conference, and immediately took steps
to foil the would-be assassins. An extra
guard of picked men was posted around
tbe Vatican.
Sensational Paris dispatches, purporting
to contain a revelation of the intentions of
the Fenian leaders, has intensified the Lon
don dynamite scare. James Stephens, the
ex-Head Center of the American Fenians,
it is well known, has consented to revive
end lead Fenianism in another warfare
against England. He himself recently an
nounced this fact. He has also admitted
that he meant to call a conference in Paris
of all those Irishmen who favored his plan.
This he described to be an open warfare of
a military character.
The Hague, June 21. —The Prince of
Orange, Crown Prince of the Netherlands,
ill for some time, is dead.
•(TRI CK BY LIGHTNING.
■A Ksnkpr of Tank* llnritlng Krar Cole
grove, Pa. Other Fires.
Colgrove, Pa., June 21.—During a heavy
thunder storm this afternoon a tank con
taining 35,000 barrels of oil was struck by
lightning and is now burning. The tank is
in the midst of about 100 tanks. Cannon
balls are being fired into it to let tbe oil
escape. Another tank, located a short dis
tance away, is expected to succumb. Three
wooden tanks, containing 1,000 barrels
each, located on Indian Creek, were struck
this afternoon, and are now burning. The
fire does not endauger adjoining property.
The Legislative Bill.
Washington, June 21.— The Legislative
bill, as reported to the Senate, appropri
ates 121,647,259, an increase over the House
bill of $1,037,402, and a decrease from the
estimates of $20,042*. The principal changes
from the bill as agreed upon by the House
are an increase of SIOO,OOO for salaries and
expenses of Collectors and Deputy Col
lectors of Internal Revenue; $136,000
for the salaries of agents, Surveyors and
Storekeepers in the Internal Revenue Ser
vice; $6,000 for two additional Associate
Justices of Dakota: and an increase in the
number of employes in the different
branches of tbe Government from 8,202 to
8,759. This increase in employes includes
225 in the Pension Office and 90 in the Gen
eral Land Office. Secretaries for Senators
are also included in the increase, and the
appropriation of $24,000 is made for the pay
ment of their salaries.
Bank Conspirators Bound Over.
Pittsburg, Pa., June 20.—The hearing in
the conspiracy case of Cashier Reiber, of
the Penn Bank, and T. J. Watson, the oil
broker, was concluded before Alderman
Burke this morning. The testimony ad
ducted showed that two notes of Watson
and Riddle for SIOO,OOO each had never been
discounted by the bank, but taken out of
President Riddle’s private box by the
attorney for the hank after tbe second sus
pension. The prosecution put the notes in
evidence to show a conspiracy, but the de
fense contended that they were never ne
gotiated, and were assets of the bank. The
Alderman held defendants Watson and
Reiber for court, demanding $30,000 bail
each. Riddle had previously waived hear
ing and given bail for court.
Final Adjournment.
Washington, June 20.—There was much
canvassing at the Capitol to-day regarding
final adjournment. Inquiries of members
of the Appropriations Committees of the
two Houses disclosed the fact that they are
themselves all at sea concerning the out
look and probabilities. But the drift of
opinion is that Congress will not get away
before the Chicago Convention, and that
in that event final adjournment will not
probably come before the 20th of July.
Suicide to Avoid Arrest.
Mountainburg, A p.k., June 21.—Sheriff
C. P. Chandler, of Linn County, Kas., with
two deputies has been tracking Lewis
Wampler, who murdered the Anderson
family of six persons, near Plesanton, Kas.,
three weeks ago. Yesterday the party
came upon Wampler in the mountains near
this place. He fired two shots at the Sheriff
and then fled. His pursuers gained upon
him, and when within forty yards Wamp
ler placed a pistol at his own head and
fired, and died in a few minutes.
Blown Up With Dynamite.
Court, Pa., June 21.—Dick Bleven,while
blowing out stumps this forenoon with
dynamite, met with a terrible accident.
The cartridge had been placed under a
stump and a fuse lighted, burning nearly
to the cartridge. Bleven, thinking it had
gone out, stepped up to see, when an explo
sion took place, blowing out both of his
eyes, burning bis face badly, and crushing
one of his hands. He will probably die.
How They Deal With the Mormon.
London, June 21. —Elder Smoat, a Mor
mon missionary, has been expelled from
Bavaria bv order of the Minister of State.
Smoat had succeeded in making many con
verts whom he was preparing to send to
Utah, but this plan has been broken up for
the present.
Crushed to Death in Mactrnery.
Chicago, June 21. —Miss Alice M. Weils,
of Boston, while viewing the machinery on
the upper floor of a large grain elevator on
Twenty-second street yesterday, was
caught in the machinery and crushed to
death in an instant. She was eighteen
years of age and was visiting friends i « this
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TRENTON, DADE COUNTY, GA„ WEDNESDAY, .JUNE ‘25. 1884.
AMERICAN PROHIBITION CONVEN
TION.
*• b *V>m«*ro.v, of Kniin.,*. Nominator for
l*ro»l«letil, nnd .1 A. I'ensMil, of Coiiiirf.
tioiil. Vice President of the United
Mate*.
Chicago, June 20. —1 n the American Pro
hibition Convention, at the afternoon ses
sion, a platform was adopted. It declares
that the God of the Christian Scrip
tures is the author of civil government;
favors the use of the Bible in schools;
ssserts that God requires and man needs the
Sabbath; demands strict prohibition
laws; the withdrawal of all charters
to secret lodges, and their oaths prohibited
bylaw; opposes prison and imported con
tract labor; favors revision of the patent
laws; pledges the party to vote for woman
suffrage; asserts that the civil quality
granted by the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and
Fifteenth Amendments should be extended
to Indians and Chinamen; that interna
tional differences should he settled by ar
bitration; that land and other monopo
lies should be discouraged; that
the Government should furnish a sound
currency; that the tariff should
be reduced as fast as the necessity of reve
nue and vested business interests will al
low; that polygamy should at once be sup
pressed; that “the Republican party is
censurable for long neglect of its duty in
respect to this evil,” and demands a direct
vote for President and Vice President of
the United States. The preamble adopted
by the National Christian Association in
1875 was also adopted. S. C. Pomeroy, of
Kansas, was nominated tor President, and
J. A. Conant, of Connecticut, for Vice Pres
ident of the United States.
SOLDIER BOYS.
Mobile Rifles Annrilrd Ihe First Infnntry
I*ri*e—Grand Review end .Sham Hattie.
Dubuque, la., June 20. —This was the
last day of the regular programme of the
military encampment, and wns a success
in spite of a heavy rain in the middle of
the day. There were twelve to fifteen thou
sand people present. In the after
noon the result of the prize in
fantry drill of yesterday was an
nounced by the judges as follows:
Mobile Rifles, first prize on general excel
lency, especially of manual; Treadway
Rifh»s, of St. Louis, second, on general ex
cellency, and especially their skirmish
drill; Branch Guards, of St. Louis, third;
Company D. of St. Paul, fourth; Company
of Muscatine, fifth, and the National Rifles,
of Washington, sixth. The cavalry
prize was given to the Milwaukee
Light Cavalry, who had no compe
tition. In the afternoon there was a dress
parade of all infantry, cavalry and artil
lery, they being reviewed hy Governor
Sherman, of Iowa; General Kirby Smith,
Generul Gibbons, U. S. A., Commander
of the Department of the Platte; Ad
jutant General Waddill, of Missouri, and
Adjutant General Alexander, of lowa. Then
followed a sham battle. On the hill by
the camp-grounds were lines of earthworks
redoubts, rifle-pits, and a fort, one hundred
feet square, commanding the city. The
battle was planned by General Gibbons,
and the attack made' under his instruc
tions. Nineteen companies of infantry,
seven batteries of artillery and two
squadrons of cavalry participated in the
battle. An attack was made on the earth
works, which were finally captured, and
afterward by a flank movement, the fort.
It was very realistic.
Sundry Civil Bill.
Washington, June 21.—The sundry civil
bill as reported appropriates the following
sums for public buildings: Cincin
nati, $1,000,000; Charleston W. Ya., $4,700;
Cleveland, $15,000; Columbus, 0., $50,000;
Denver, $50,000; Des Moines, $50,000; Gal
veston, $25,000; Jackson, Miss., $15,000;
Kansas City, $15,000; Leavenworth, $55,000;
Memphis, $55,000; and for the construc
tion of a supporting wall for
the Custom-house lot at Memphis
which had been cut away from the river
front by the railroad companies, $60,000.
(The Attorney-General is directed to
bring suit for damages against the rail
road companies, if in his judgment a
recovery can be had against them. Min
neapolis. $10,000; New Orleans, $25,000; Pa
ducah, $20,000; Peoria. $50,000; Quincy, $40,-
000; St. Joseph, Mo., $40,000; Toledo, Ohio,
$50,000; Topeka, SIO,OOO. Repairs of public
buildings under contract at the Treasury
Department, $150,000. Completion of tb.e
U. S. Penitent iary at Deer Lodge, Mont.,
$15,000; for a light-house on the northwest
Beal Rock off Point St. George, Cal., $30,-
000; building steam tender for service Pa
cific Coast, $85,500; light-house at Port San
ilac, Lake Huron, $10,000; for lighting
and buoyage of the Mississippi, Ohio,
Missouri, Hudson and Cape Fear
Rivers SIOB,OOO. For shore protec
tion of the Marine Hospital, near
Chicago, SB,OOO. An appropriation is made
of $500,000 to enable the several executive
departments, Department of Agriculture
and Smithsonian Institution to participate
in the World’s Industrial and Cotton Cen
tennial Exposition at New Orleans. For
Navy Yard, Mare Island, $250,000. For tin
improvement of the creek at Hot Springs,
$75,000. For protecting timber on public
lands, and for the protection of public
lands from illegal and fraudulent entries,
$150,000. For the protection and improve
ment, of Yellowstone J’nrk, $40,000; for U.
S. Geological survey, $400,000; for survey
ing public lands and private land claims,
$336,000. For erection of a pedestai for a
s atute late President Garfield, $30,-
000. For the Mississippi River Commission
(salaries and traveling expenses), $75,000.
For the U. S. Military prison at Fort Leav
enworth, $02,726.
THE GREAT STRIKE.
The Militia Are Pretenlnl From I.nnrtln
—More Troops Rcing Sen* On.
Bat City, Mioh., June 21.—Governor
Bigole reached here to-day on his way to
Oscoda, where the great strike is in pro
gress. The air is full of rumors about the
situation there to-day, one report being
that the strikers have torn up the railroad
track to prevent the troops from reaching
the city and that the Alpena Guards, who
were ordered there to preserve order and
protect property, had been prevented from
landing by the strikers. The Peninsular
Rifles, of this city, and Company C., of the
3d Regiment, W. S. T., have left here foi
the scene of action. They marched forty
strong, duly armed and equipped.
The Week’s Failures-
New York. June 20.—Failures for the
past seven days in the United States, 182;
Canada. 23. A decrease of 23 failures com
pared with last wee,;.
STRANGE STORY,
With Corr.e Indications of Toughness,
from Texas.
Remarkable Freak* of l.lctiltilng- fharlr*
l«t>il<-* b|>nutaneon*l.T Several
Hour* After Reins btriiek bj the Field.
Sherman, Tex., June 22.—The following
is given as an instance of the many freaks
of lightning, and its truth can be vouched
for by dozens of the most reliable men of
Uvalde County, who were eye-witnesses to
the occurrence. During the fearful hail
and wind storm which passed through
Uvalde County in the early part of May, a
man named Charles Austin, a resident of
Sabinal Canon, and a carpenter well
known through this portion of the country,
was engaged in his favorite pas
time of fishing. He was standing on,
or rather leaning against, the north
side of a large cypress tree, which was
struck by lightning. Of course, he knew
nothing about it. He found himself lying
in the water, which was just rising above
his head. He knew that he had been struck
by lightning, and was very badly hurt.
Not being able to use his legs, he managed
to crawl out of the water, up the bank,
through a ravine which the rain had partly
filled, and up another bank to a blacksmith
shop near Braden’s store and the Postoffica
of Waresville. The blacksmith re
turning from supper, found what at
first appeared to be a bundle of
old rags, but on examination recognized
the unfortunate Austin with his clothes
partially burned from his body, and very
little life in him. Help was secured and
the man was carried to his bed. From the
shoulders down he was terribly burned,
the brass sleeve-holder on his shirt was
melted, and a hole was melted through his
silver watch, which had stopped at five
o’clock, it then being a little after six. He
must have been in the water an hour. His
feet were straightened from his legs like
hands from arms, and badly burned. Dr.
Donnelly was called, and linseed oil and
cotton were applied. About twelve that
night he declared that he was burning, and
on investigation it was found that the
cotton was scorching tbe sheet on his hack,
and on being removed it ignited spontan
eously. A shoe missing from one of his
feet was found a half mile down the river
with the sole torn and the iron nails
melted. Austin was confined to his bed for
three weeks, but finally got about, and has
just returned to his work, badly scratched,
with some lameness yet in one foot, but
likely to fully recover. The tree bears on
its north side a scar about eighteen inches
wide and four deep,reaching from the top to
within about six feet of the ground, where
the current entered Austin’s body.
Ingenious Infernal Machine.
London, June 22.—The tube found in the
baggage of Patrick Joyce, who was arrest
ed on the steamer Illinois yesterdaj r , is be
lieved to be an infernal machineof a novel
and ingenious pattern. It resembled a
wooden log, but was found to be hollow—
a hole having been pierced through it
leading to a chamber containing a
liquid, supposed to be an explosive. There
was an outer wooden casing sixteen inches
long and four thick, within which a brass
tube was inserted. On removing a metal
cap the liquid was found. Except by a
careful examination it was impossible to
suppose the article anything but a log of
wood. Joyce is from Bellaire, O.
Postal Telegraph Bill.
Washington, June 22.—Senator Hill
proposes to make an attempt during the
week to call up the postal telegraph bill,
for the Committee on Post-offices and Post
roads, after weeks of investigation. If be
succeeds-in getting a vote, it is not likely
that the measure will pass, and Mr. Hill
admits the qhances are doubtful, but he
says he will be satisfied to get the Senators
on record.
Unseasonable English Weather
London, June 22. —The weather in Eng
land is so abnormally chilly, and the nights
so cold, that fears are entertained that the
growth of the crops will be seriously
checked.
Haifa Peruvian Town Burned.
Lima. June 22. —El Comercio states that
the towns of Pisco and lea have been occu
pied by Caceres’forc-s. Half the town of
Pisagua, including the business portion,
was burned.
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.
Washington, June 18.—Senate.—Action
was taken on the Fit-z John Porter case that
refers it back to the House, but it is finally
passed so fur as the present Congress is con
cerned. The Utah bill, after being further
discussed, was passed and the Senate ad
journed.
llorsE.— The House refused to consider
the Ohio and Mississippi contested election
eases, and debuted the Pacific Railroad bill,
known as the Thurman Amendment bill.
The previous question was ordered aud a vote
will be taken to-morrow.
Washington, June 19.— Senate.— The bill
to prevent the importation of tea dust iuto
the United States was taken up and passed.
Pending debate on the Mexican Pension Bill
the Senate adjourned.
House— The Pacific Railroad bill was
passed without division, as also the bill to
prohibit the importation and migration of
foreigners and aliens under the contract to
perlorm labor. After l>eing t ailed up and
debate began on the Campbell-Morey con
tested election case, an adjournment was
moved aud carried.
Washington, June 20.—Senate.—The Mex
ican Pension bill was taken up, and after a
somewhat excited debate an adjournment was
agreed to before reaching a vote.
House.— The House passed a number of
local hills, and then considered the Campbell-
Morey contested election case. Campbell
(Dem.) was seated. After the decision adjourn
ment followed.
Washington, June 21—Senate.—The act
relative to the Pacific Rrilroad was called up
and referred to the Committee on the Judici
ary. The army appropriation bill was taken
up and passed without debate. The bill
granting the right of way through the lDdian
Territory was passed.
House.—The conference report upon the
Shipping hill was reported and agreed to. The
Electoral Count bill was then taken up, and
Mr Hart addressed the House in favor of the
Senate measure Mr Parker made a consti
tutional argument against the Eaton bill. Mr.
Springer favored the Eatoa bill, asserting that
it was safer to leave the decision to a disputed
Presidential election to a joint convention of
the Senate and House than to a Returning
Board, or a commission which might be pro
vided in any State,
BUTLER’S RESI’ONSE.
The Greenback Nominee for Presidenl
leknowlrtfcri ll* Annonuremenl by an
Fxpre**iou of III* View* on lira lurrea
tj line*lion.
New York, June 17.—1 n response to the
formal announcement of his nomination by
the committee of the Greenback National
Convention, General Butler says:
Lowell. Mass., June 12,1884.
Gentlemen of the Convention—l re
ceived at your hands official announcement
of the action of the convention at Indianapo
lis with deep sensibility. In the ordinary
course of political events the choice of a
convention of representative men of any
considerable portion of my fellow-citizens
according to me t his. the highest honor they
can confer, would call for grateful acknowl
edgement, even though it might be a selec
tion to represent the thought of such conven
tion upon questions which commonly divide
the political parties. Views upon such ques
tions may have been inherited, or be an out
growth of measures merely of administration.
The great questions you present are higner
and grander than any mere political measure.
Nearly a quarter of a century ago, when the
very existence of the Kepublic, and the estab
lishment of a democratic representative Gov
ernment hung trembling upon Ihe issue of the
greatest civil war the world had ever known,
or may ever know, by the wisdom born of im
perious necessity a financial system, spring
ing from a patriotic impulse to save the Na
tion’s life, and rescue the hope of free institu
tions, for all men, from going down forever in
darkness and death, was devised by the great
and good men of that day, to whose care the
Republican Government, to be administered
for the people and by the people, had been
confided.
That system of finance, for a free people, in
its infancy saved the life of the nation, per
ishing without it. and broke the chains which
enslaved lour million men. It gave this coun
try, with war raging, a prosperity it had
never known. It enabled the people to assess
upon themselves and pay taxes of an extent
before unknown in any country. It made it
possible for the Government to repay three
fold all it received in loans from any creditor,
or gave to him security more profitable and
staple than ever issued hy any power in the
world, and made the financial system of our
Government at once the envy and admiration
of all men.
This was done hy a legal-tender currency,
while questions us'toits ability were raised by
the very form of legislation by which it was
enacted, and while still graver doubts prevail
in the minds of many wise, patriotic men
whether a legal-tender currency, inexpen
sive in fact, resting not on the intrinsic value
of the material on which it was coined, was
within tiio constitutional competency and
power of the legislative branches of the Gov
ernment,
Thai question having been three times sub
mitted to the Supreme Court of the United
States, the very highest tribunal of constitu
tional construction, was at last decided in the
affirmative with such unanimity as to show
that there might have been possible a reason
-tble doubt .igainst it.
(me purpose of your organization, and of
those who thought and acted with you, al
though not of it, was to support and sustain!
this money as the currency of the people. This
people’s currency, you well say, was desig
nated by its friends by the pet, name of the
“rreenback.”
Two years ago 1 did myself the honor to say
that a currency so commended by the merit
of its great deeds, wrought for the people’s
safety and prosperity, enacted by the highest
legislative power, adjudicated by such a
court, and the decision about lobe reaffirmed,
was an accomplished fact, never again to be
disturbed or doubted; so that its friends
might well say: “See, the end of our labors
in this regard has come; let us rejoice, let
those who aided in this great work press on
to deal with equally important, unsettled and'
n. 'o-ssary measures for the welfare of the
wnnle people.
“The legal-tender having beiWne the very
foundation of, as well as a measure of value,
entertwined with all the business of%heffc‘o
ple, the engine of prosperity of the Nation, lti
seems to me almost, an act of cruelty again to
dtsturb, causelessly, a financial question!
which has been so set at rest, with the assent
of all good men, as much so as was the ques-:
tton of the right of man to hold his brother-i
Iran in slavery.”
Therefore, I said, “I am glad that this ques
tion is no longer a part in political considera
tion, and statesmanship may now turn from
it, as the country has turned from the ques
tions of slnvr% nnd war.” Ilut, alas, the'
power of the 'bWkucssof the hour. The resur-;
red insists of false ideas of the dead past dug,
up t.hAnoldering remains of contention from
the p«ceful grax’es where they slept, and
th rcuiSi, by a rehash of exploded resolutions
formulated into a platform by a party con
vention, to revivify and agitate controversies,
which will unsettle commercial values and ;
hinder and delay the business energies of our
people, with apparently but a single object, to
extend a system of purely paper currency, is
sued by corporations, established by the Gov
ernment, indeed, but for private emolument
and gain to the corporators, which currency
is made valuable only because it is made re
deemable in the very greenbacks which this
ghoul-like agitation seeks to repudiate, over
throw and destroy.
Such a currency, Andrew Jackson, with t,be
prescience and wisdom of a statesman, by the
Iron hand of the soldier, sustained by the
Democracy of more than a generation ago,
bad wholly crushed out, and in the hope of
the wise and good, had buried forever, as ox»e
of the grevious errors of administration which
had insidiously crept into the Govern
ment for the aggrandizement of a few to
the destruction of the people. As a
Democrat, taught in the Jackson
school in my early youth, with my judgment
matured by many years’ converse in public
affairs, aided by earnest and deep study, with
the intensity or purpose which a topic of such
magnitude, affecting every interest of the
people—nay, it maybe the very existence of
tree institutions—d< inands, I am constrained,
were it the last act of my life, in view ot this
attempt to undo what Jaokson had so weF
dune, coming from whatsoever quarter it may*
to say to you, gentlemen, there seems
a wisdom, indeed a necessity for the further
continuance of your organization in this re
newed exigency, and therefore upon this con
testation lam with you. And it there were
but two of us. we ought to stand together
atainst this great wrong, and call upon all
true men to stand with us, either inside or out
side, as the case may be, of the other political
organizations which may aim to perfect other
measures for the good of the country'.
I thank you for your suggestion that in
stber matters toward which your organization
turns tfc ■ interest of labor: the preservation
•f the lands of the people for the benefit of
the people; the control of the agencies created
by toe Government to be used for the good of
the peoplerto regulate and control a system
of ibter-State commeiee, which shall
control and cheapen the transportation
♦f persons, freight and intelligence, and to
protect all in their just rights, and confine all
to their true duties, to the end that there may
be in this country equality of rights, equality
of burdens, equality of privileges and equal
ity of powers to all persons under the law—has
been the political rule of my life. I have the
honor to be, with personal esteem, very re
spectfully your friend and servaut,
Benjamin F. Butler.
—The most destructive fires on record
m the history of the world occurred in
1871 at Chicago, loss .*192,000.000, and
at Paris, loss $160,000,000. The loss at
Moscow 1812 was $150,000,000. The
Boston tire in 1872 cost $75,000,000 and
what is known as the great London fire
1666 cost $53,652,500. The losses at
Babylon, Nineveh. Carthage etc., epp
only be conjectured.
SOUTHER* NEIYS GLEANINGS.
The standing of the members of the Third
Class Naval Academy has been determined;
Among those from the South, Newton J.
McCulley, jr., South Carolina, leads, stand
ing No. 8; bis associate, Victor Blue,stand
ing No. 40. Arkansas comes next, repre
sented by Samuel E. Dardy, No. 14; Henry
L. Cueydan, W. R. Mosely and Henry A.
Wiley, of Texas, are respectively No. 16,
43 and 71; William Herschel Williams, Rich
ard Jackson and William H. Seymour, of
Alabama, are respectively No. 22, 50 and
64, and Glen Waters and Ambrose R. W.
Cohen, of Georgia, are respectively No. 17
and 30. The class numbers seventy-aeven
members.
The Galveston News published crop re
ports from over two hundred points in the
State, covering twenty-six counties, em
bracing the agricultural districts of Texas.
The reports show the condition of cotton as
very materially improved within the past
three weeks; that while the recent rains
did serious damage to plants in lowlands,
the uplands were correspondingly bene
fited. The season will be late, but every
indication now points to a full average
crop. In view of recently published state
ments and general apprehension, this an
nouncement will prove important to the
commercial world.
Mr. J. W. Bridgers, of Macon, Miss.,
has a double headed calf. It only has one
neqk, the heads joining to the neck, where
the head and neck naturally join. The
heads are distinctly separate and two fullv
developed heads, with four eyes, four ears
and two mouths. It was dropped dead,
and weighed sixty-one pounds, and is a
well formed calf otherwise. He has put it
up in alcohol as a curiosity.
Judge Morton, of Texas, is noted for
having kept a pledge made in 1844, not to
shave or cut his hair until Henry Clay was
placed in the Presidential chair.
Captain Hughes, a Mississippi River
man, has discovered an important use for
the long Spanish moss that hangs in such
wonderful profusion from the trees in the
South. If placed in dams or levees it pre
vents crawfish from boring through and
serves as a mattress to hold the sand.
A war against gamblers culminated in
Dallas, Tex., the other day, in James Wil
kerson, one of the indicted gamblers, pay
ing $5,000 to Dallas County in compromise,
and agreeing to never again gamble in
Dallas County. All tbe other gamblers
left rather than pay a large compromise.
One gambler, from whom the county de
mands SIO,OOO, has sailed for Europe.
The legality of the Memphis municipal
tax on drummers was affirmed the other
day by the State Supreme Court.
Alabama’s saw mills are in excellent or
der, and constantly shipping lumber to’
Northern and Western points. The lumber
trade in Alabama is proving very lucrative
to those engaged in it, and at present at
tracts much notice. Some Western gentle
man recently obtained 57,000 acres of pine
lands in the counties of Butler, Conecuh
and Crenshaw.
An accident occurred on the Louisville,
New Orleans and Texas Railroad, at Beaver
Dam, sixty-five miles below Memphis.
David McKie, a young civil engineer, had
his left arm literally torn from the socket
and will die.
By the sinking of the tugboat William
M. Wood, below New Orleans, J. Fletcher,
pilot; J. McGilligan, engineer, and Fred.
Roberts, assistant engineer, were drowned.
A stock company is being organized at
Chattanooga, Tenn., for the purpose of pur
chasing ground, erecting buildings, etc.,
for a fair grounds in that city.
At Plaquemine, La., Wilber & Sons,
shingle factory burned. Loss, $20,000; in
surance, $12,000.
Mississippi contains 20,000,000 acres of
wooded land.
There are a number of cases of small
pox in Harris County, Ga., brought there
by a family which recently arrived from
South America. One death has taken place.
Mrs. Jacob Campbell, of Bourbon
County, W. Va., drowned herself some
days ago by throwing herself into the river.
It is said she was demented. A striking
fact in connection with the finding of her
body is thatherbrother-in-law had dreamed
three times the week before that Mrs.
Campbell’s body had been found in a deep,
secluded part of the river. As soon as she
was missed her friends went to the spot to
search and found her.
A little daughter of James Douglass, in
Marion County, W. Va., attempted to light
a fire with coal oil the other morning. The
fluid in the can ignited and an explosion
followed setting Are to the little girl’s
clothes, burning her terribly, also setting
fire to the house. She extinguished the
flames by jumping into the river, from
which she was rescued in a half-drowned
condition. *She can hardly recover.
The Florida volcano has been found
by Captain George Asher. He fol
lowed up the Aucilla river as far as the
source, and there found a large number of
pools of water which emit a thick white
smoke. The region is very rocky, he says,
and the rocks are hollow and full of water.
The pools contain large numbers of fish,
but the water is nauseating to the taste and
smell.
The North Carolina Department of Agri
cnlture has received advices from all sec
tions of the State that not the least damage
was done in North Carolina by the recent
cold snap. There was no frost anywhere,
even at Waynesville.
Eastern capitalists will put up a glass
factory at Morrilton, Ark., to be in opera
tion by September 1. From fifty to seventy
five hands will be employed, and the annnal
product will be worth $120,000.
A huge dry-land terrapin was captured
on a mountain near Ringgold, Ga., a few
days since by a boy named Lewis Henslee.
The following was cut on his shell: “Com
pany K, Ohio veteran volunteers, March
16, 1864 ’’ At one end of its shell the word
“Union” was cut in large letters.
A great pine belt stretches across South
ern Georgia and Alabama to the rivers
that flow into Mobile Bay. The pine
forests alone cover an area of U,500,000
acres.
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10l IC.S OP THE DAY.
Illinois has 255,741 farms, Ohio
247,1 and New York 241,058.
C The Massachusetts militia wear
spiked helmets and resemble German
troops.
Wisconsin is the leading dairy State,
notwithstanding Minnesota leads in the
.lumber of lakes.
The potato crop of the United States
last year was 190,000,000 bushels as
against 168,000,000 the year preyious.
There have been 2,872 hotels burned
in the United States in the past eight
years, an average of almost one a day.
“No loafers allowed here except
police’’ is the legend conspicuously
posted in the Council Bluffs (Iowa) po
lice station.
Thirty-eight million barrels of pe
troleum are stored in tanks in Pennsyl
vania, enough to make a lake a mile
square and ten feet deep.
At a sale of moths and butterflies in
London, some specimens were sold at
sls and S2O each, and a white butterfly
from the Herbrides brought $66.
Not content with 73-button gloves,
reaching from finger tips to the uape of
the neck, Paris women of fashion have
taken to wearing vests madeof kid.
Explosions of kerosene lamps, in
which bad oil is used, and allowed to
run low, are common again. Well
filled, well trimmed lamps, containing
a good quality of oil, are seldom known
to explode.
Several persons in the vicinity of
Ottawa, Canada, are applying for boun
ties and pensions from the United States
Government for services rendered dur
ing the Rebellion.
A Minnesota physician who has had
considerable experience in cases of
diphtheria, ttrfhs the disease the result
of “crowd poison,” meaning the over
crowding and bad ventilation of dwell
ing-rooms.
Dark complexions are coming info
favor. It is said there is now what is
known as sunburnt powder introduced
for the make-up of ladies’ faces, both
young and old, who would fain keep up
with the procession.
There is talk of the New York Board
of Health compelling beer-sellers to re
turn to the use of wooden faucets, ow
ing to the verdigris, a violent poison,
being formed in the brass faucets,
through the action of the acid in the
beer.
A negro farmer of Fredericksburg,
Va., set fire to his stubble field a few
days ago, and was almost frightened to
death at a number of terrific explosions
which followed. Eleven old bombshells .
which had lain there for twenty years
had exploded.
A german paper says that a roof can
be made fireproof by covering it with a
mixture of lime, salt and wood ashes,
adding a little lamp-black togive a dark
color. This not only’ guards against
fire, it is claimed, but also in a measure
prevents decay.
Miss Constance Lloyd, now Mrs.
Wilde, the wife of Oscar, wore a wed
ding gown that was merely fashionable,
not aesthetic. The saffron-hued garment
xvas discarded in favor of a creamy bro
cade and satin robe, made by one of the
best-known French dressmakers.
The largest cannon in this country
was east at the South Boston foundry’ a
few’ weeks ago. When finished it will
be a twelve-inch rifled breech-loader
and weigh about 105 tons. The twenty
inch Rodman gun at Fortress Monroe is
,fhe largest in diameter of bore.
A correspondent of the California
Rural Pres 3 says he cleared his poultry
house of mites, with which it was over
run, by sprinkling the inside with the
water in which the potatoes for the
household dinner had been boiled, Two
applications cleared them all out.
A Rochester (N. Y.) man, recently
dead, who had acquired a fortune of
$2,000,000, left his son only an insig
nificant amount unless he should sepa
rate from his wife, y - ho was formerly a
school teacher. The young man pre
fers his wife to the money, but is en
deavoring to have the will set aside.
The term *’dark horse' is not, as is
generally supposed, of American origin.
In the “Adventures of Phillip.” by
Thackeray. Phillip is taade to say, re
ferring to some mysterious candidate
fot the House of Commons: “Well,
bless my soul, he can't mean me Wh
is the dark horse jie has in his stable?”