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T. A. HAVRON, Publisher, * 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.