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CU It RENT Tones.
Queen Victoria Las nineteen gran l
daughters.
I HEitK is said to be &9Q liquor sak ons in
Tort. Worth, Texas,
Thk hay crop promises to be snort in
Vermont and Massachusetts.
. fthah of Persia indulges in the luxury
r>t a pipe worth $409,000.
About 40,000,000 pennies were coined in
the United States last year.
New \ oiik City has forty thousand gam
blera t>utside of Wall street.
Thirteen tramps were found in a car
load of grain at Rodfield, Dak.
Washington ladies go to market instead
of leaving tho duty to servants.
Tng total membership of tho Society oi
Friends in England is now 15,219.
There is a Mr. Nobone living in Ohio.
Unfortunately he is not a butcher.
Fashionable people this year are hunt
ing resorts that are not fashionable.
It costs not less than $33,000,000 annually
to support the dogs of the United States.
Buffalo men are in luck. A deaf and
dumb man has opened a barber shop in that
city.
One hundred and eighty women are en
rolled as students in the University ol
Michigan.
There is a movement in France to make
the Bch of May a National fete day in honor
of J-oan of Arc.
4 if used to be plain “ Boston pork and
beans,” but now it is ‘‘Le pore et les hari
cots de Boston.”
Alfred Mace, son of Jem Mace, the
pugilist, has been holding evangelical ser
vices in Montreal.
San Francisco has a colored gentleman
■who is turning white—and no wonder in
übaft city of earthquake frights.
! By the collision of a freight with a pas
senger train at Bayeux, France, a few days
ago, forty persons were injured.
• Since the lowa prohibition law went into
•effect, lots on the borders of the State are
supposed to be very valuable property.
The Prince of Wales’ health is not good.
He has taken a place near Dorking, in
■which he hopes to lead a quiet life for some
time.
’ Prof. B. O. M. Deßeck, a well-known
mathematician of C tfffl nnati, can add up
eight long columns of figures simultane
ously.
The San Francisco Chroniclr. says there
• u»re over 100 women in that city who are
well known to the police as common
drunkards.
A former Caj tain irt the English Queen’s
■bodyguard has'been sent to jail for one
month for traveling pn a railroad train
without a*ticket.
( A Montreal firm is suing a commercial
agency for $'50,000 damages for statements
made by the agency. Much bitter feeling
‘ha.s been aroused. •
The wealth of the United States is $50,-
000,000,000, or S9OO to each inhabitant; that
■of Great Britain is $40,000,000,003, or SI,OOO
to each inhabitant.
A Philadelphia woman drank- a pint of
coal oil with suicidal intent, a few days
ago, but, as she forgot to swallow a lighted
match, she still lives.
A cyclone passed over Trenton the
other evening doing great damage to prop
erty. About one hundred barns in that
vicinity were blown down.
A substitute for human hair is now
Vnade Put of the inner lining of the bud of
the palmetto tree. It can be made of auy
Jength, and died any color.
Twenty-six workmen from Bohemia,
"have been arrested at Vienna for holding
secret meetings and having seditious let
ters and prints from America.
J. W. Hague, of Pittsburg, has been de
• ibarred from practice as pension attorney
before the Interior Department. His of
/ense was receiving illegal fees.
Richard A. Proctor, the astronomer,
who arrived in America recently, is to be
come a citizen of the United States and to
make his home at St. Joseph, Mo.
Although the President of Panama has
been impeached, he still holds the palace,
and maintains that an impeachment, with-,
out an army to back it, is no good,
t It is believed by some that the new kind
of fly-paper, which is covered with a gummy
substance, would make an admirable cover
ing—with the sticky side out —for a bald
headed man.
San Francisco naturalist sent, a nice
cage and a wagon for a fine specimen of
groundhog that was offered him. He re
ceived a sausage, an*l it took him three
days to see the joke.
Twenty San Francisco men recently
breakfasted on one egg. They were mod
erately hungry, yet all had enough. It
was an ostrich egg, and weighed a 3 much
as twenty-eight hens’ eggs.
Forty-one families in every 100 of the
500,000 inhabitants of Glasgow have each a
single room for a home. Many of these
families ponsist of a father, mother, several
children, and lodgers besides.
A man in Arizona is suing a local paper
because it announced that he was the
father of a thieving boy a week old. The
editor m»ant to say “thriving,” but fate
and the type setter ordered otherwise..
A recently deceased Frenchman kept a
novel record. Twenty years ago he married,
and on his wedding day resolved to note
the number of times he kissed his wife.
The first year of wedded bliss the kisses
numbered 36,500, or 100 a day on an aver*
age. After five years only two kisses a
day are recorded.
A correspondent writing to an ex
change asking the whereabouts of a poem
entitled the “Unspoken Words,” received
the reply: “We can not say. Perhaps it
may be found Record.”
Dr. Koch, the head of the German chol
era commission, says the danger of swal
lowing cholera with water, fruit and
vegetables can be partly lessened by
cooking the fond well, and boiling drinking
water.
THE CHOLERA.
Cr. Koch, Cholsra Expert, Says it Will
Spread Throughout Europe.
The B.nll.r (Ironing Worse Slnr*
»«-II!i-* in a Terrible I*nnic—t'.liinaied
That One llniKlreil ami Tnrnlf Thoti*
.un«l Fcviil. Iln.e Hod From Mnl-Seillek.
Berlin, July 12.—Many prominent news
papers in Germany are urging the Govern
ment to recall Dr. Koch, so that he may be
at hand to advise his own people in the
hour of peril. Dr. Koch remains firm in
his already expressed opinion that the
cholera scourge must spread throughout
Europe. It has taken so firm a hold in
such large centers of communication ns
Marseilles and Toulon, that he believes it
mint run its course during the summer
throughout Continental Europe. He says
that America, if great vigilance is exer
cised in quarantine precautions, will prob
ably escape, but holds out no hope for
countries isolated simply by technical
frontier lines.
Marseilles, July 12.—Thirty deaths
(from cholera here last evening, and eight
between nine o’clock and noon to-day.
’There were sixty-five deaths from the dis
ease here in the past twenty-four hours.
The panic is extreme. The railway sta
tions .were crowded early this morning
with fugitives who fought for tickets,
which the agents could not is
sue fast enough. It is estimated that
one hundred and twenty thousand people
have left Marseilles since the outbreak, and
the distress consequent upon such an ab
normal exodus from that city and Toulon,
particularly In the outlying districts,
Iwhich depended almost solely for existence
on their urban trade, is pitiful.
Toulon, July 12.—Seventeen deaths from
cholera last evening. Five deaths from
cholera since ten this morning. Isolated
cases of cholera are reported among
Toulonese refugees at Laseyne and Pig
nans.
Paris, July 12.—The newspapers declare
the cases of cholera reported yesterday to
be sporadic.
Lyons, July 12.—One death from cholera
here to-day.
FATAL RAILROAD COLLISION.
Two Trains Collide Near W n.lilnsrl on, and
mil and In.gure Several .Urn.
Washington, July 12.—About 6:80 this
evening, as train No. 7, from Martinsburg,
W. Va., due at Washington at 8:12 p. m.,
was entering the city on the “Y” switch, it
collided with train No. 12, west bound,
from Baltimore, and due at Washington at
8:30. Train No. 7 was twenty-four minutes
late, but the other train was on time. The
westbound train was shown a white light
when a red light should have been shown,
to detain it until the other train had safely
passed the switch. Michael Riley, engineer
of the Martinsburg train, was killed* and
bis fireman, Solomon Fogler, badly injured.
The engineer and fireman of the other train
escaped with slight injuries. No one else
was killed. The injured were as follows:
David Drill, Pittsburg, express agent,
badly injured in the legs; Janies Gallaher,
jPittsburg, leg broken; 11. A. Tucker,AVash
ington, slightly injured; Baggagemaster
H. E. Carter hurt internally. The wreck
of the rolling stock was complete, and it
seemed almost a miracle that so few per
sons were injured. The engines were
or. ; together, and a passenger car com-
V*. . v covered them. The loss to the com
•v * heavy.
A BAD BOY.
A 'Young H’l-cli-Ii of Till toon Willfully
mid Fatally s li.ml* a Roy of .Nix.
Pittsburg, July 12.—This afternoon
Joseph Seidenstricker, aged thirteen, shot
and mortally wounded Curly Eshenbaugh,
B little fellow only six years old. Young
Eshenbaugh, who was an inmate of the
Episcopal Home for Children, was with an
old lady and several children playing in an
orchard connected with the home when
Seidenstricker, with three other boys, en
tered the grounds. S*»idenstricker was
flourishing a revolver and the old lady or
dered him away. He retorted with an oath,
adding: “I’ll shoot some of you,” and
suiting the action to words, fired twice, the
second shot taking effect in Eshenbaugh’s
stomach. Seidenstricker and his compan
ions then fled and have not yet been cap
tured. Eshenbaugh is still living, but
death is momentarily expected.
Valuable Book on Labor.
Washington, July 12.—At the solicita
tion of some of the leading trade and in
dustrial organizations of the country, the
Secretary of State last winter directed the
preparation of a circular letter, with the
view of securing through consular officers,
the fullest obtainable information concern
ing the condition of labor throughout the
world, especially in Europe. Very full re
turns have been received from the consuls
everywhere, and are now in process of
preoaration in the bureau of statistics, and
will soon be published.
Important Oil Strike.
Pittsburg, July 12. —The Perrysville
Natural Gas Company, one of the numerous
companies engaged in boring for gas here,
struck oil at a depth of nineteen hundred
feet. Their well is located only within
twelve miles of the city limit, and the strike
has occasioned’ intense excitement. The
new gusher is supposed to be on the line of
the Bald Ridge belt. The owners of the
well, composed principally of city and
county officials here, have been endeavoring
to keep the strike quiet, and meanwhile
have been leasing considerable land in the
vicinity. Oil within twelve ipiles of the
city limit is quite a novelty.
A Very Deliberate Suicide.
McDonough, Ga., July 12.---Mr. John J.
Baily, a well-to-do farmer of Henry Coun
ty, committed suicide. No cause is as
signed for the act. He has been an active
member of the Primitive Baptist Church
for years. He left instructions how to
bury him, and the text from which be
wanted his funeral sermon preached, and
who was to preach it. He was thirty-six
years of age, aud leaves a wife and seven
childreu,
TRENTON, DADE COUNTY. GA., WEDNESDAY, JULY IG. 1884.
DREADFCL FLAMES.
Aevei-nl Other Pmnui InlnnH-Ilrrble
bill FnMtillllnif Fti.irt of a Nti-angrer to
Smv Hie Molber—Ton Itutiding- ICurned.
Bradford, Pa., July 11.—A fire started
at an early hour this morning ill the bakery
of Mrs. Charles Reibley, and in a few min
utes the building was a mass of flames*
Early arrivals found a man nanled ThomnS
Clark standing tipbri a lad del- Which Tested
agaiiist a window of the Reibley dwelling.
He was begging tor sorpe one to come to his
aid, and cried, “For God’s sake throw sonw
water up here; I’ve got a woman by the
arm.” The scene was a thrilling one.
The fire was roaring upward and hissing
Cut tiifough the windows, presenting a
perfect hell of flame, and seemingly de
fiant of the mad efforts of the heroic
Clark to save human life. At this moment
two women jumped out of a rear story
window, and for a moment the crowd of
spectators were paralysed, many turning
their heads away front the appalling Sight
in an agony of fear and trembling. Just
then the noble Clark succeeded in bring
ing to the window-sill tho form of a woman
blackened, bruised and bleeding. It was
found to be the unfortunate Mrs. Reibley,
who, with all the instincts of maternity,
held back and struggled with her noble
rescuer, as if she was determined to die
with her babes, who at that time wore
burned to a crisp. At last Clark succeeded
in getting Mrs, Reibley to the top Of tho
ladder, ahd ready hands were there to help
him in his daring and self-sacrificing deed of
heroism. The poor woman was taken
across the street, and laid upon the side
walk, breathing her last, Mrs. Reibley’s
two children, age two and six years, re
spectively, and a Sweedish servant girl,
perished in the flames. The dead are Mrs.
Reibley, Mary ami Lizzie Reibley and
Helen Podoski. John Holden, a barber,
who roomed in the house, was so terribly
burned that he died to-night. Lena Gar
witz, Mary Touhey and H. Garwick are
badly burned. Miss Touhey leaped from
a second-story window breaking four ribs
in the fall. Her injuries ore probably
fatal. Mrs. Garwifz also jumped, and re
ceived had injuries. Her recovery is
doubtful. Thos. Clark, who rescued
Mrs. Reibley, is from Denver, Col.
He was stopping at Reibley’s and
heard the first alarm. He sprang out of
the rear entrance with his coat and
vest in his hand’. He knew of the presence
of the other lodgers in the building, and at
once set about his work of rescue. Tie
placed the ladder against the window, and,
notwithstanding the seething flames which
almost surrounded him, he caught hold of
Mrs, Reibley’s arm, and, trying to pull her
out, the cuticle of the arm stripped off like
a stocking, and he was obliged to lean on
the w-indow to secure a fresh hold. All
the time he was being drenched with water,
and he thinks if the poor woman had not
pulled hack he could have saved her life.
The flames spread on both sides, consuming
ten buildings and an oil well.
MEXICAN VETERANS.
A Convenlion of T bone Who Fonslit on
Either hide to be Held. .
St. Louis, Mo., July 11.—At a meeting of
the Mexican veterans here last night It
was decided to hold'an International Chii
vention of Mexican veterans in this city
early in October next. The project
meets the hearty approval of President
elect General Diaz, of Mexico, and
other prominent Mexican Government,
officials, and they have promised to send
fifty prominent Veterans of the MeXlcati
war to the convention. The committee ap
pointed to take charge of the matter will,
issue invitations and make all "necessary
preparations for the convention. It is ex
pected that this meeting will hare a marked
effect in allaying whatever bail feeling the
Mexicuns may have for Americans and do
much toward establishing cordial goodwill
between the two republics.
Michigan Crop Report.
Detroit, Mich., July 11.—For the July
crop report the Secretary of State has re
ceived reports from 891 correspondents,
representing six hundred and sixty town*
ships. Two-thirds of the reports are from
a corresponding number of townships in
the southern four tiers of counties. The
probable total yield of wheat in Mich
igan the present year will be
21,965,391 bushels. This estimate is
based on the number of acres in wheat ill
May. From one to oiie and a half
million bushels of the 1883 wheat crop is
yet in farmers’ hands. Expressed in per
cent, of the condition one year ago, corn is
118, oats 95, barley 97, clover meadows and
pasture 88, timothy meadows and pastures
Bti, clover sowed this year 88. The condi
tion of corn compared with vitality and
growth of average years is 82. Sixteen
per cent, of the corn planted failed to
grow. Apples promise 75 per cent., and
peaches 20 per cent, of the average crop.
In Watery Graves.
St. Louis. July 11. —About 7 o’clock this
evening, as the four-oared shell of the Mo
doc Rowing Club, containing four rowers
and a cockswain, was passing up the river,
opposite the foot of Spruce street, it at
tempted to cross the bows of the ferryboat
Mulliken, going in the same direction, and
was run down, being struck amidship, and
crushed. One of the crew went down with
the shell. The other four sprang for the
bow of the ferryboat, and clung to her
guards, but before assistance could reach
them two lost their hold and fell back into
the river and were drowned. The names of
the lost are V incent Angelo, a somewhat
noted amateur sprinter; J. B. Ross, in
surance agent, and Harry Jasper, late of
Quincy, 111. None of the bodies have yet
l>een found. The two saved are W. B.
Hazelton, jr., and Cockswain J. J. Miller.
A Horrible Death.
Cynthiana, Ky., July 12.—Yesterday
afternoon, about 4 o’clock, David Donovan,
colored, was instantly killed while feeding
a twentv-horse steam-thrasher, on the
farm of L. Drane, near Shawhan Station.
The machine belonged to Hon. T. J. Megib
ben, and was the largest in the State. The
negro was carried through the machine,
and actually ground and cut into mince
meat.
American Exibitlon Not Encouraged.
London, July 12—The newspapers give
but little encouragement to Mr. Whitely
and General Norton, wiio are Lon
don in the interest of the proposed Ameri
can Exhibition, and the general opinion
seem- to be that an exhibition, confined
wholly to the products of the Uirdted Stateß
will be a failure.
MODERN MAZEPf A.
A Young Fngtekman Stripped, Tied to
a Wild Broncho and Started Over
the Pkttas.
Sfli-ll I>«t» FmoM-flaiu nml Willi on I
Foot! or Drink Wt-fure KwmU,
Omaha, Neb., July 13.—M. Boussaud, a
wealthy cattle owner, whose herds range
in the unorganized territory of Northwests
ti n Nebraska, has just fetdi’iieu from the
annual “round up” in that region, and re
lates a tale of the plains that is in some re
spects a counterpart of the orthodox Mazep
pa. When Boussaud reached his ranch,
about the middle of June, he found his
cowboys nursing a y'-otmg man whom they
had rescued from the back of a broncho.
When discovered the modern Mazeppa was
lashed to the horse, entirely naked and
unconscious. The animal was about broken
down, as if from long running, and was
easily lassoed by the cowboys, who cHttHfe
thongs and released the eMtmge captive.
This happened about two weeks before
Bouasand’s arrival, and during all that
time the stranger had lain in a sSupor. A
few days before • Boussaud left on
his return journey to Ontaha,
having a Rttle medical knowl
edge, lie succeeded in restoring the
patient to consciousness, and kis recovery
was rapid. When able to talk he said his
name was Henry Burbank. He was an Eac
lishman, and thirty-four years of jge.
About t!iree years ago, at Falmouth, Eng
land, he formed a partnership with a
friend named Thos. Wilson, some years Ills
senior, and with him tame to America to
embark in the cattle business. They cast
about for awhile, and finally settled
in Northwestern Nebraska, where the
range was unlimited and herders few
and far apart. They built a comfortable
ranch by a little stream, where Wilson's
wife reigned as housekeeper, attended by
two or three female domestics. Bui bank
being a dashingyoung gallant, the jealousy
of Wilson was soon aroused. One day in
May a cow boy,who had a grievance against
Burbank, surprised Burbank paying too
much attention to the woman, and reported
the matter to (lie husband. That night
Burbank was captured while asleep in bed
by Wilson and three of his men and bound
before he had a chance to make any re
sistance. Wilson had him stripped of every
bit of clothing and bound to the hack of a
wild broncho, which was started off by a
vigorous lashing before morning. Burbank
became unconscious, and Was, therefore,
unable to tell anything about his terrible
trip. He thinks that the outrage was
committed on the night of May 27, and he
was rescued on the morning of June 3,
which would make seven d«ys that he had
i-een traveling about, the pi as ns on the
horse’s hack, without food or drink, and
exposed to the sun ami wUmI. Wiisou’s
ranch is about two buiwirad rale* from the
spot where ISurlmnk was found, hut it is
hardly possible flint ttie brntn-ne took a
direct course, and t4i*f*for* limit have cov
ered many more miles in l*4s wild journey.
A TERRIBLE SCARE.
Women nml Cli lilren l inn; From High
Window* nl a New York Fire.
New 1701111, July 13. -The ihmates of tho
four story tenement, No. 2195 Second
avenue, were aroused this morning
by an alarm of fire. The flames broke out
in the basement, and with
the dumb waiter and air shafts as well as
the stnirwayi reached every floor, and flded
the whole house with dense clouds of
smoke. The building was without fire '
escapes. The windows in the front of
the house appeared the only means of
escape. The wife of James Morris, who
lived on the third floor, leaped from the
window to the awning and rolled into
tho str«i receiving severe inju
res. Her hu-band threw the
b»>y after her. It was caught by a
nSghbor as it dropped from the awn
in® and was uninjured. Morris himself
marie his way down in. safety. John Mc-
Mahon, who lives on the top floor, attempt
ed to lower his wife nrtd baby from the
window by mentis Of sheets tied together,
but the fabric gave way and the woman
and child came crashing down upon the
awning which broke beneath their weight.
Mrs. McMahon fell upon the sidewalk and
was picked up unconscious, her skull frac
tured and nn arm broken, besides receiving
severe internal In juries. The infant lodged
upon an awning and was tinhUrt. McMa
hon clambered down from window to Win
dow. Louis Landon and his wife, who oc
cupied the rear rooms on the second floor,
jumped from the window into the yard be
low. Mrs. Landon fell upon some stone
steps and had her left arm broken. Jacob
Bet*, a butcher, wrapped his baby Up in a
blanket and dropped it from the third
story window into the arms of a man stand
ing in the yard. The child’s head struck
the shoulder of the man and was knocked
out of shape. B"iz and bis wife escaped
by means of a ladder provided by helgli
bors. •
UNDER THE ST. CLAIR.
I*ropo»e«l Tiltmrl I > <«nnrft Ih*
t'ni.Ml Matrii W.<h Canada.
Toronto. Ont., July 13.—Tbs future
competition which the Grand Trunk has to
expect from the Canadian Pacificand Other
roads in through passenger traffic to the
East and West has induced that company
to consider the advisability of carry
ing out an extensive scheme. It is
nothing les.s than a project to construct a
tunnel under the St. Clair River about One
and a half miles below Sarnia, thus form
ing direct communication with the United
States. An expert named Mr. William
Ward has been engaged to make the pre
liminary tests. He proposes to experiment
by drillingfrom a flatboat anchored in the
river; and if the rock is practicable for
tunneling it is stated that, the work will be
commenced at an early day.
Killed Accidentally.
Wheeling, W. Va., July 13.— While a
number of young men were having their
photographs taken in tragic attitudes, the
revolver of one of them was accidentally
discharged, instantly Killing Edward Kitz
miller. •
Sadden Death of Prof Packard.
Bath, Me., July Packard,
acting President of Bowdoin College, died
suddenly to-day, aged eighty-rive.
SOUTHERN NEWS «LEANINGS.
Professor H. A. Clum, of BingbampUn,
iN. C., was instantly killed, a few days ago,
by the explosion of some oxybydrogen
which he was generating.
Stewart Hall, indicted at Charleston,
W. Va., for the killing of Martin Moles last
fall, has been found guilty of murder in the
second degree.
The Georgia Department of Agriculture
in Atlanta lias just issued a circular con
taining the statistics of commercial fertil
izers inspected and admitted to sale in
Georgia during the session of 1883--84.
During the season there were inspected
161,849 tons, all of which was admitted to
sale except twenty tons rejected as falling
below the standard required by law. This
is the largest quantity inspected for eight
years with the exception of the season of
1880--81 when it reached 152,404 tons. The
receipts arising out of the inspection of
fertilizers for the season were $75,914.92.
After deducting all expenses, there was
covered into the treasury of this amount
$62,133.92.
Miss Mary C. Colquitt, residing near
Sumner Grove, La., created some little
excitement by arranging to marry a young
tnan named W. C. Clarke, an employe of
Jthe New Orleans Pacific Railway Compa
ny, and at the last moment giving her hand
to a young man, a neighbor, named Dock
jery. A special adds: “Clarke and the
young lady were in the hotel parlor, in this
city, when dockery and his friends ap
peared, and the question was plainly put to
har, “Which do you want?” She said
“Dockery.” A license was at once pro
cured, and Rev. J. A. Hackett, of the Bap
tist Church, soon proclaimed Dockery and
Miss Colquitt husband and wife. Clarke
left for home, in his buggy, with a sad look
on his countenance. The father, it appears,
preferred Clarke, but as often happens, the
daughter preferred another.”
The other morning a heavy waterspout
fell near the bead of Drake’s Creek, Madi
son County, Ark., covering a radius of fif
teen or twenty miles of Brush Creek and
Richland Creek. Drake’s Creek and White
River soon overflowed their banks, and the
current swept everything before it, dealing
destruction everywhere, leaving ruins be
hind. Three women and three children
were drowned in Richland Creek. Several
,houses were swept away near Huntsville,
and the crops in many places ruined. The
loss to property can not yet be estimated.
Lee Camp, Confederate Veterans, of
Richmond, Va., has. elected the following
trustees for the Home for Confederate Sol
diers and Sailors: Messrs. N. V. Randolph
and J. B. McKenney, Capt. C. U. Williams,
J,. B. Furcell, Capt. H. C. Jones, Gen.
Feyton Wise, Judge E. C. Minor, Maj,
Lewis Ginter, Gen. Fitzhugh Lee, Hon. JV..
W. Corcoran, Lloyd Aspinwall, Corp.
James Tanner, J. B. Pace.*
The reports from the mellon section are
anything but encouraging. About Albany
it has been raining continuously, and the
melons are rotting in the patches. The
crop will not exceed one-liaif, and proba
bly three-eights will cover it. The same
state of affairs exists on the Savannah,
Florida & Western Railroad.
Mrs. Theo. Rowland was instantly
killed, and her two daughters were serious
ly injured, by lightning, near Springfield.
Jefferson County, Ala., a few days ago
On the approach of a storm she, with five
little children, descended into a cyclone
pit under the house. The lightning struck
a tree in the yard, the roots of which ran
into the pit. The fluid followed the roots
with fatal result. An infant in the arms
of the mother at the time of her death was
not ini^ed.
and Borges, of Guate-
in New Orleans, bring
ing wlthflnNhtfcome native curiosities, the
like of whichTin* ikkTer been seen in this
country. One of them'W>n»ists of a trio of
savage Indians of the Cachiqueles trite, of
Guatemala, with their celebrated marimba
or wooden piano, from which they produce
the strangest music ever heard. Another
is the tnost wonderful specimen of the
human species ever seen. He is a dwarf
about three feet high, having an enormous
head. He is an Indian, captured in the
Mountains of Chiquinimuna, Guatemala,
after a long and dangerous chase. This
singular being is perfectly wild and unin
telligible, uttering only such sounds as are
heard from the brute. He is ferocious and
untractable to an extreme.
William E. Edmonds, a highly respected
farmer of Dinwiddle County, Va., was
talieti from bed by masked men, the other
night, blindfolded, carried about 200 yards,
stripped, tied to a tree and horsewhipped
until his body was thick with bleeding
sore's. Edmunds’ aged father pleaded in
Vain for his sot). Several weeks ago, Ed
munds’ sister, whose mind is unsettled, left
home to pass the night alone in the woods.
Kdmun#s and his wife, in bringing her
had tO Use force, and she was badly
bruised; hence the horsewhipping*
Dr. Chas. A. Still, of Jackson, Tenn.,
was killed by lightning the other evening.
Dr. Still was born near Bowling Green,
Ky.
The Fort Smith, Ark., Oil and Compress
Company is making extensive improve
ments in the erection of laege cotton sheds
to facilitate the storage of cotton, cotton
seed, etc.
Jack DaVis, who was supposed to have
been the victim of the tragedy at Cross
Roads Church, Hempstead County, Ark.,
two or three years ago, is visiting his
father’s family at Mineral Springs in
that State.
Track is being laid on the railroad ex
tension to Nashville, Ark., at the rate of a
quarter of a mile a day. New steel rails
are being received constantly, and it is con
fidently expected that the road will be
completed to Nashville by August 1.
Near Sutton Station, Texas, the other
day, a quarrel arose between Warren Mass
and' Alex. Ward, brother-in-laws, culmi
nating in Mass shooting and instantly kill
ing Ward with a double-barreled shot-gon.
[Mass was arrested and jailed.
West Florida is no w confident <c? fob
crop# <2? yorn * nd
VOL. I.—NO. 21..
(SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.
—Paper bottles are bow made ort »
large scale iv Germany and Austria.
—A clay which can be utilized in
the manufacture of putty has been dis
covered in Attala Miss.
—A Santa Barbara (Cal.) botanist.
Inis discovered a species of gooseberry
wholly unknown to science, also a new
species of o ive tree.
—A (Herman paper says that a roof
can be nia le lire-proof by covering it
with a mixture of lime, salt anil wood
ashes, adding a little lampblack to give
a dark color. This not only guards
aga nst I re, it is claimed, but also in a
measure prevents decay.'
—A New Haven man La;invents I a
new kind of a parachute, which is
fastened ar mnd th; centre of the
balloon itself and it is expected to bring
tho whole affair, including the aero
naut, down safely if any accident hap
pens to the balloon. —Hartford Host.
There is hardly any safety railway
appliance but may be improved, and
im alo s who are seeking for profitable
fieh s of labor will do well to investi
gate the cause of railway accidents
and devise mean s of greater sa ety to
life, limb and property. —Scicn i'ic
American.
—Mr. Caeo a watchmaker of Frank
lin. I’a., has completed a locomotive
and tender six inches long all told, tnat
has every part complete that s found
in *a working engine. It is made of
gold, silver and teel, and is destined
for the New Orleans exhib tion. Pitts
burgh Pot.
Experiments by Dr. Pehl, of St.
Petersburg, go to support the theory
that the waters of rivers are purified by
the motion (mass oc molecular) im
parted lo the liquid. Bringing waters
into rapid motion by means of a centri
fugal machine the numberof develo dng
germs *of bacteria was reduced by ninety
per cent.
The brilliancy in the evc3 of c ats is
caused by a carpet of glittering libers
called the topeum, which lies leh nd
the retina, and is a powerful reflector.
In pe feet darkness no light is observed
in their eyes, a fact which has been es
tablished by careful experiments. Nev
ertheless, a very small amou :t of light
is sufficient to produce the luminous ap
pea ance. —Detroit Post
—The P,iot< graphic Journa' reports
nn ingenious way to prevent forgery of
Dank notes. This is no other than the
employment of an invisible actinic ink,
of which no trace can be seen on the
paper or upon the image upon the fo
cusing screen. As sflon. however, as
you come to develop your plate, the
word ‘fo gerv” appears in bold letters
right across the negative.
—The height and velocity of clouds
may bo determined bv means of pho
tography. Two cameras are plac 'd >OO
feet apart and provided with instantane
ous s mtters, which aie released by
electricity at lli > same moment. Tho
angle of iuclina i n of the cameras and
the position of the cloud as photo
graphed are thus obtained, and simple
trigonometrical operations give the
hei Jit and distance from those data.—
Exchange.
riTlI AND POINT.
—l.et th' light of reason shine
through your soul’s windows, but keep
warn by the lire of atection.
- 1 ight hard against a hasty temp or.
Anger will co ne, but resist it stoutly.
A t park may set a house on tire.
- “G. is very c ose,” wat observed
by 8., “he will s piabble about a cent.”
‘Well,” remarked W., “I have always
thought that the lest one squabbles
about the better. ’ A\ Y. Led /er.
—A n article in an exchange '.s head
ed “Cost y Misuse of the Mail .” About
the most cos ly mist u eof the males
that we know of a--e indigent young
men marrying heires et. — -Roslon Post.
A Nevada lady tx>k an unfn'r ad
vantao" of h r luisland’s indulgence
in a bath, to elope with ano her man,
and the bereft one e pressed a convic
tion that h ' had been waiting for an
opportunity for year s. —Detroit tree
Pres*.
- Soft soup for all so t of peopl;—
For a Lieutenant, call him a t aptain.
Fir a mi.dle-agcd lady, say you mi -
took hr for her daughter, tor a young
o-entlema i ri ing lift en, ask his opin
ion re pecting the comparative merit)
of Mi chi anil A appiu as razor-seller
For young ladies, if 3011 know their
color to be natural, them of
painting. C icago Tribu le.
Some p ople are poeti a' by nature,
but there are others to whom poet cal
or -en imental language is utterly un n
tclligible Miss Molly McDude belongs
to the latter class. George t miihcrs
has tern paying her attention, and a
few evenings ago, in a wild po tie out
burst, he exc aimed: “How fast t rue
vanishes in vour company, dearest Mol
lie’ ihe hours become brief minutes.
“How can you tell anything about it.
You haven’t even io k d at your
wat h " responded the prosaic Molly. -
Texas Sij
Man that is mairlei to a woman is of many
" anv .;.nl full of trouble.
In the mormug he draws h;s salary, and in the
evea.n?.
Behold, i-i* gone
\[ and 1 no man knows whither it
He rtJSh up clothed in the chiily garments
Vnd^eeket 1 ! the somuolent paragonc.
Wterewitn to eoathe his intant posterity.
He e >ineth as a 1 ors? or' ox. o fTsr> r i nS r.
H-ifeeSthe shekels in the pur.-ha o ot
tine linen
To eovor t bo.*om <.i u p
Ytnhn elf i sen at the gat.a 0! the city
W.tione - ' pmder
Yea. lie is alt wr .'t find.