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T. A. HAVRON, Publisher, FOREIGN NEWS. I -T- Dynamiters Thrpatmir.g the Life of the ~ Pope. •rwl Sfirt In Fnelnnri O,pr ihp l.ntcsi f*«n.ltin Onlnu Slor.r - l>p»ih of tli« 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 ©itv, 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. VOL. I.—NO. 18. 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?”