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Ay Albany man says he has be.*n tu
prison 208 times.
Secretauy Teller has gone to Colorado
to hr- absent for some time.
There were 321 patents issued at Washs
lngton in one day, recently.
About 1,000 deaths a week in New York
l ity at this time of the year.
• General Sheridan had an ovation at
Oswego, N. Y„ the other day.
In California roses bloom without cul
ture at nil seasons of the year.
There have been more than forty fail
tires in Wall street since January 1.
It is claimed that the Colorado grass
crop will bo worth $30,000,000 this year.
A ill e Die at. writer condemns lounging as
injurious to health in a variety of ways.
The prospect* of indigo in Bengal, and
the tea cron in Assam, are unfavorable.
O. O. Kaufman hasbeen elected German
Secretary of the National Republican Com
mittee.
A new word has been coined. It is
“telepheme” and means “telephone mes
sage.“
T.onn Randolph Churchill is thinking
of taking an American tour during the re
cess of Parliament.
There are 150 special pension examiners
to bo appointed under a new law at sala
ries? of $1,600 a year.
At Panama yellow fever is raging, the
"hospitals nre crowded, and deaths take
place almost hourly.
The Very R-verond Henry Cosgrove, of
"Davenport, lowa, has been made Bishop of
the See of Davenport.
The Pope lias given 20,000 francs, and
President Grevy 10,000 francs, for the relief
of the cholera sufferers.
Green-backers of the Sixth Congres
sional District of lowa have nominated J.
B. "Weaver for Congress.
Brooklyn has become prominent for its
bat factories, and most of the stylish New
York hats are made there.
Philip Chatham, the oldest Free Mason
in England, died recently, aged ninety
seven. He was initiated in 1811.
Rev. John Mann, aged ninety-six, and
Tor seventy-three years a preacher, died
at New Haven, Conn., the other day.
A girl at Phoenix, Ariz., has been handi
capped for life with the name of “Fan Rosa
Beeutv Spot Temptation Toucbmcnot.”
The City Council of Chicago passed an
ordinance the other day requiring shop
keepers to furnish seats for their female
clerks.
Tim Hon. William F. Cody,hotter known
os “Buffalo Bill,” represents the Twenty
sixth Nebraska District in the State Legis
lature.
The application of Mme. Patti vs.
Marquis De Caux for divorce, will be the
first case tried under the new French di
vorce law.
The English Court of Appeals has sus
tained the verdict of * the lower court de
creeing the separation of Lord Collin
Campbell and wife.
Brooklyn health commissioners advise
against the citizens keeping pigs, as they
would be specially liable to cholera should
it appear in this country.
The papers of Chili announce the death
of Don JoseMignel Horera, at the advanced
age of 122 year?, and say that his age is
well attested by official records.
In the English Commons the other day it
was stated that customs officers proposed
to separate butter from butterine and oleo
margarine in the customs returns.
The cadets at AVest Point, during the*
summer, are taught how to swim, how to
rescue a drowning person, and the quick
est method of restoring the apparently
drowned,
The English sparrow lias become an unen
durable nuisance in its native country,
and the farmers ore paying a bounty of six
cents a head for the birds, and six cents a
dozen for the eggs.
A Brooklyn beggar, being met with a re
fusal on fchegrouud that his patron had no
change, coolly'pulled out a lot of money
anti offored to change anything as high as
a twenty-dollar bill.
A Pennsylvanian who was looking for
liis lost cow a few days ago, fell in with
seven polecats. AVben tiie conflict was
over he realized some of the trials of a
presidential candidate.
Dynamite is such a terribly destructive
force, and could so easily be adopted in
•warfare, that it may yet Drove a powerful
agent in bringing about a custom of peaee
fnl settlement of all disagreements among
Nations.
Suit has been commenced against the
bondsmen of J. O. I’. Burnside, the default
ing Disbursing Clerk of tho Post-office De
partment, for $40,000, the amount of tiieir
liabilities. Burnside’s peculations, how
ever, amount to nearly SBO,OOO.
The French claim a protectorate over
that portion of Madagascar lying north of
the sixteenth parallel of south latitude,
and also an indemnity of 3,000,000 francs,
and an indemnity to compensate foreigners
for losses during the war. France also
proposes that tho queen be styled queen of
Hovas onljL
China will soon build its first railway.
It will connect Pekin with Tientsin. A few
(years ago a short lino was eXperim-ntally
built between Shanghai and AVoosung, but
the natives got the idea that their “joss”
was opposed to it, and the venture was
finally abandoned.
• Dr Klaczko, of Vienna, suggests a pow
erful preventative of cholera in petroleum
or paraffine. In Galicia, says he, there are
many petroleum wells, and here it has been
observed that the workpeople have always
enjoyed perfect immunity from cholera,
even when it has broken out with great
virulence in the district around them. This
fact the peasants themselves attribute to
the emanations from the petroleum laden
soil, which, the?' say, kill tho postilentlal
gem and all kinds of insects.
TRENTON, DADE COyNTY, GA.. WEDNESDAY, JULY 30.1884.
COMING HOME.
The Greely Relief Squadron Leaves St.
John's,
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tion—F'.n;;llsii ami I'ntled State* Flan* at
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Et. John’s, N. F., July 26.—At10 a. m.
the Greely relief squadron steamed out
into the hay. The flagship Thetis led,
followed by the Bear, Alert and all the
harbor steam tugs and steam launches,
with the flags of Great Britain and the
United Hta'tes at half-mast, and
crowded with leading citizens. On
all public buildings and mercantile prem
ises flags were draped. The vessels in port
displayed their National flags in mourning.
Thousands of spectators from the shore
waved adieus by banner or handkerchief,
which salutations were gracefully returned
by the receding squadron. Lieutenant
freely and the other survivors are enjoy
ing tolerable health.
RATIIt.II ROMANTIC.
A S'crui I) lo* the Ossian Terburgh Self-
Murder—Tun Loire. lte», ;| u Suirlil 1 '' 1 '
O raves.
Lekchburo, Pa., July 25.-Mario Salter,
a beautiful young lady, committed suicide
•O-day by taking a largo dose of poison.
Her death is the sequel to one of the most
sensational tragedies ever taken place
here. About three months ago Ossian
Terburgh, a brilliant young lawyer,
destroyed his existence with the deadly
drug known as prussic acid. He
left several letters, one to his
lather, Dr. Terburgh, a prominent spir
itualist, in which he gave his reasons for
self-destruction, at the same time warning
his father never to reveal them. One of
the directions given was his desire that his
remains should be cremated and his ashes
-•ast in the waters nearest the river, so that
nothing should remain to burden the
public with his memory. In case his
'ather should object to cremation, he
hoped that his funeral cortege would
consist of but a hearse and one carriage,
and that his remains be interred in
the most lonely and seldom trod spot to be
found within the inclosure of the dead.
■‘Let there be neither headstone or other
thing to mark the spot,’’ lie said “for my
fondest wish in this respect is that 1 may
he forgotten to the world as qtiicly as
possible.” These remarkable utterances
deepened the mystery, and although every
effort was made to ascertain what insti
gated them and at tho same time led to the
young man’s death, it was not
nnt.il a fow weeks »fro further light
wus thrown upon the subject. It was then
developed that it was bis love for Miss Sal
ter that led to the suicide. It is said that
he had been engaged to marry her, but was
prevented from doing so by reason of an
affliction that could only result in injury to
her love. He spent his last night on earth
pleading with Miss Salter to consent to
his committing suicide. She was un
willing, and he was determined, and
the next morning his dead body
was found in his room. His ideal
was not his equal in a social point of view,
hut he had educated her, and she bad
learned to love him, and consequently she
never recovered from the shock sustained
by his death. She returned to her little
country home at Leech burg, and, although
surrounded by loving parents and friends,
she was not happy, and finally took her
own life to join her lover in the great be
yond. Terburgh was a thorough, bright
student, and master of the dead languages.
THE LIGHTNING HARNESSED.
Ftntirr 5h00... of llte New FHeotrle Mirrl
ICallroiMl at Cleveland,
- Cleveland, 0., July 26.—The first com
mercially successful electric railroad in
America was started in operation in this
city to-day by the East Cleveland Street
Railroad Company, which has just com
pleted a mile of road and ran cars on it
to-day for the first time. The experi
ment was so successful that the
company expects to change its entire
system, comprising over twenty miles, into
electric roads. The system used was a
combination of the Brush and Knight and
Bentley systems, and the current was car
ried on underground conductors laid in
conduits, like those of the cable road. The
curs were started and stoppedand reversed
with the greatest ease, and without the
disagreeable jerking incident to the cable
and horse roads. The economy of running
is claimed to ho greater than
that of cable roads, and the cost
of construction less than one-third as
great. Any number of cars up to fifteen
can be run at one time on a single circuit,
and from one machine, which, is a result
not attained by any of the European sys
tem- now in operation. The success of the
new road has made a great sensation in
both the street-railroad and electrical cir
cles, and is expected to greatly extend the
field of Electrical development, as well as
enhance values of street-railroad proper
ties.
Elaborate and Effective Suicide.
New York, July 25.—Julius Holwegg,
fifty-five years of age, a native of Geutbin,
Prussia, came to this country about a year
and a half ago with his wife, and since
that time has been living in the reaf rooms
in the tenement, 154 Norfolk street. He
obtained a position as steward of a res
taurant at 20 Chambers street, where his
wife was also employed as cook. He was
a miller in the old country,but tailed in busi
ness. To-day he bolted his door, placed a
gun against bis breast, attached a string to
the trigger and to the arm of a chair in
which he sat, then in each hand took a
revolver. A loud report called the atten
tion of the neighbors, r.nd the apartments
were broken into. Holwegg was found
dead, with two bullet holes in his head, and
tiie gun resting against his breast and un
exploded.
Important Discovery.
Washington, July 25. —The silver dies of
the graat seal of the colonial and proprie
tary government of Maryland, known as
the third or Fendall seal, which has been
lost for nearly a hundred years, was lately
found in tiie Treasurer’s office at Annapolis.
For this time it has been impossible to ob
tain any trace of this seal. The la?t date
of its use, so far discovered was 1793.
CHOLERA HORRORS IN TRANCE.
Women tiling Alone In Tiieli Hnnst-S A
.Sellzes-tValor llnel Anx riciln Turn lit.
XTeeing F rom l*aris.
Paris, July 25. — 1 t\ m. —There were
thirty-seven deaths from cholera at Mar
seilles during the day. The increase in the
violence of the epidemic is attributed to the
cessation of the east wind, which has hith
erto prevailed. Eleven deaths occurred at
Arles. The condition of affairs at Arles
is most distressing. The deaths from
cholera are rapidly increasing. The few
joiners who remain In the plague-stricken
city have threatened to leave unless paid
higher prices for making coffins, which
is now their sole occupation. Owing to
the desertion of employes, the Water
Works have become useless, thus adding to
the terrors of the situation. The total
number of deaths from cholera at Toulon
for the past twenty-four hours is thirty.
Isolated cases of cholera continue to be re
ported in various parts of France, some
distant from the infected district. Two cases
of cholera occurred at Narbonne, and at St.
Nazaire, a village not far from Toulon, two
deaths occurred. Oiie was of an especially
pathetic character. An unknown woman
was seized while passing along the street,
fell prostrate and expired immediately. A
pitiable case is reported from Marseilles.
A woman of seventy years was missing
several days. The police at last forced an
entrance into her lodging, and found her
body upon the floor in such a condition
that she must have been dead some days.
Examination proved that she was the vic
tim of cholera. Site had lived almost ex
clusively on fruit. The Corvette Argen
tina recently at Marseilles desired to take
on coal atGibraltar. The English authorities
forbade this, and threatened to (ire unless
the vessel departed. The Argentina there
upon proceeded to a port in Portugal, and
began coaling, but the inhabitants became
panic stricken, and compelled the authori
ties to order the immediate departure of
the unfortunate vessel. Where the Argen
tina is to find fuel enough to enable her t.o
return to Laplata appears an in
soluble problem. The large num
ber of those who recover from
cholera shows that the disease is not of the
same deadly character which some pre
vious outbreaks displayed. There is a con
siderable exodus of people from Paris, who
are apprehensive the epidemic will reach
the capital, hut nothing of the nature of
a panic has yet appeared. Paris never was
so deserted as at present. English and
American tourists give Paris a wide berth.
Such a scare, is altogether unjustified, as
the capital is better cleaned and more
abundantly watered than any other city.
AtfToulon two foolish youths made a bet at
to which could drink the most seltzer wa
ter. One drank nine syphons and the other
eight. Both died shortly of cholera.
FIVE MEN KILLED.
A I.eh’sh Vntle.r Engine Flxplotles With
Terrible Results.
WtLKESBARRE, Pa., July 25.—The empty
shifting engine of the Lehigh Valley Rail
road, with five of the crew on board, run
ning from White Haven to Necopecksiding,
exploded this morning. The entire crew
are reported killed. Three were blown to'
pieces and can not. be found. Having no
flagman to warn an approaching freight
train, the latter ran into the wreck, demol
ishing several cars. All trains on the road
are several hours late. Western passen
gers for New York and other points south
ar6 being transferred here to the Philadel
phia & Reading Railroad. The officials re
fuse to give any information.
The Plague-Stricken Cities.
Marseilles, July 26. —Cholera has ap
peared at Spizzia, Italy, carried there by
Italian workmen from the arsenal at Tou
lon. Two fatal cases have occurred
already, and the inhabitants are in a panic.
Fugitives from here are begining to re
turn. The municipal authorities haye
thanked the Sisters of Charity for their
devotion and zeal in assisting the cholera
sufferers. Twenty-two death from cholera
occurred here to-day.
Toulon, July 26.— There were two deaths
from cholera to-day in the city, and two in
tiie suburbs. The total number of deaths
from cholera to date is 593. The exodus
has decreased the population two-thirds.
Sixteen deaths from cholera here during
the night.
The Lumpy Jaw Disease.
Chicago, July 26.— Surgeons at the coun
ty hospital have under treatment a Mrs.
Murphy, twenty-se-ven years old, who is
suffering from a horrible disease which
afflicts cattle, and is known as the
“lumpy jaw.” It is in form of abscess on
her jaw, and it was at first supposed to be
ordinary abscess, but microscopical exam
ination proves the contrary. The abscess
is found to contain vegetable parasites,
identical with those found in the abscesses
on cattle. It is supposed to have been
caused by eating meat from cattle having
the disease. An operation will be per
formed Tuesday, and the case excites some
interest, as it is first one reported in
the United States, though similar cases
have already been recorded in Germany.
Four Hundred and Forty-Seven Ballots.
St. Louis, July 26.—The Democratic Con
gressional Convention of the Fourteentk
District, of this State, which has been (it
at Poplar Bluff since Tuesday
morning, adjourned sine die late to-night
after taking 447 ballots without nominating
a candidate,-an event unparalleled in Mis
souri.
Disastrous Hail-Storm.
Tower City, Dak., July 25.— A disas
trous hail-storm occurred this afternoon.
Several buildings were unroofed and torn
down, and many window lights broken
A few persons were injured, hut not fatally
Hail fell about thirteen miles west of town
going southeast, ruining all the crops. It
is not known how far it extended, or the
amount of damage in the country.
Killed by Lightning.
Bemest, 111., July 26.—Hovey B. CluD
ter, aged eighteen, whose home is in Cisne
111., while at work in a tanyard here was
instantly killed by lightning at four o’clock
this afternoon.
A Monster Freight Yard.
Pittsburgh, July 25.— The Pennsylvania
Railroad Company has purchased one hun
died and ttventy-ttve acres near Freedom
Pu., and will estabii.-h there a monstei
freight yard at a cost of $1,590,000, and wRL
a caoactiv of seven thousand cars,
FROSTED FEET.
H»nry Leith’s Singular and Painful
Accident.
A OfTVMnn'n Vnpenioii* Iflethod lo Care
N®re Feel aud die I'oiiiequoiiff.
Philadelphia, July 27.—Henry Leith,
aged fifty-seven years, of 1240 Taney street,
was brought into the German Hospital last
night with frozen feet. So the doctors
pronounced after an examination
which resolved them upon the
promptest measures in .order to save am
pu" ation. Leith’s singular accident was
tho result of an effort to cure himself of a
very common hot weather malady. All
summer long he has been extremely
.footsore, the skin peeling of
"hi* pedal extremities. For
this he tried a cold water remedy, but
■with no success. He stayed at home for a
week, with his feet soused in a bucket of
water, which was renewed every half hour.
Ho went happily forth at the end of tha
(week, hut his soles came back in as raw a
state as ever. After a little practice he
’placed his feet upon a cake of ice. Gradu
ally he managed to leave them there till a
"east was taken. By this time his feet were
quite insensible to cold. He was, as he ex
pressed it, “an Esquimaux up to the
ankles,” and propounded to his wife, as he
sat over his tub, a theory for hardening
cavalry officers for Arctic service. A little
before So’clock inst night his wife, who was
down stairs, heard frightful shrieks issuing
from her husband’s room. She rushed up
stairs, to find him still sitting over his tub.
His feet, however, had entirely dis
appeared. “Cut’em out! Cut’em out!”
yeMed Mr. Leith. His wife looked
at the tub and saw two ankles
protruding from the two huge cukes of ice
upon which her husband’s feet had been
pieced. He had gone to sleepy and his feet
had melted completely through the cakes.
After a few futile attempts to liberate her
husband’s understandings with a darning
needle and the hack of a hair-brush, Mrs.
Leith hethouglit herself of the ice-pick.
This speedily accomplished the desired pur
pose, but Mr. Leith’s feet were found to be
in the condition which tho German Hos
pital doctors are trying to alter.
DETERMINED TO DIE. *
An Insane Woman, Foiling-to Hill Herself
with a Serb- Hen ti In Water.
Indianapolis, Ind., July 27.—The dead
body Of Mrs. Pauline Grimm, prep ietress
of ’ the Germania Hotel, was found on the
bulk of Poem’s Run this morning, with
tali he«(T Oft licr b—ir partial';,- under Tester.
It seems she had been in ill
health for some time, and that two
watchers were required to attend her.
One of the watchers left the room last
night and the other fell asleep. This the
patient, who was undoubtedly insane for
the moment, discovered, und quietly
slipped to the kitchen, where she tried to
kill herself by hacking her wrist with a
knife. Failing in that, she went to Pogue’s
Run, two squares distant, where her body
was found this morning. It is not. thought
that she was drowned, but that death was
caused by the loss of blood.
The Spanish Treaty.
Washington, July 27.— At the State
Department news is now ejected from
Minister Foster, at he has
concluded with Spain a new
treaty, reducing duties upon our exports to
Cuba. This was one off the subjects that
brought him here in the spring, and he has
been authorized by the department to
use his own discretion in securing the
best concession that can be had. Secre
tary Frelinghuysen has confidence that
something will come of it that will stimu
lateour trade with Cuba. Spain has begun
to feel that it iHnecessarry for her to have
our kindly feewigs if she wants to keep
the islftid in her own bands. Mr. Foster,
from As long residence in Spanish Amer
ican colutries, is fully acquainted with the
advances to be gained by such an ar
rangement. Speaking Spanish fluently, he
is considered the best equipped man for his
present task this country has.
Hungarians Murderously Assaulted.
Uniontown, Pa. July 27. —Last night
four Hungarians who were moving their
goods from one boarding-house to another,
were attacked by a party of five coke
drawers, and in the' fight which ensued
Paul Elas, one of the Hungarians, was hit
on the head with a stone, fracturing his
skull and causing death in two hours. The
others were seriously but not fatally in
jured. The five men, named King, Mc-
Koight, Ramage, Fell and Shaeffer, were
held for murder.
Disastrous Storm in Kansas.
Dodge City, K as., July 27.—A cyclone
at 10 o’clock last night visited Cimarron
Station, eighteen miles west of here, de
molishing about a dozen houses, one-fifth
of the town, including a dry goofls store
andlivery stable. The houseof Al. Barton
was swept completely away. Mrs. Barton
and child were seriously hurt. Several
other persons received painful injuries.
The wind reached a velocity of eighty
seven miles an hour.
Salvationists Arrested.
Rochester, N. Y., July 27.— Eighteen
members of the Salvation Army were ar
rested to-day for singing while parading
tiie streets—eight men and ten women,
They will remain all night in the police
station, praying and singing. A request
to pass six tainborines to the prisoners was
denied. The leaders had been notified not
to sing while marching.
China W II Pay.
Paris, July 27.—After the council of
Ministers at the Elysee, Saturday, Prime
Minister Ferry held an interview with Lf
Fong Pao, Chinese Ambassador. It was ar
ranged that China should pay France an
indemnity of twenty million francs. A pa
cific solution of the troubles is-now certain.
, Deaths from Cholera.
Marseilles, July 27 —9 p. m.—Thirty-six
deaths here from ctiolera the past twenty
four hours.
Paris, July 27. —Twelve deaths from
cholera at Arles to-day, uud six at Aix.
'I uere is a panic a; tue latter place,
SOUTHERN NED'S GLEANINGS.
Three notorious horse thieves wer* cap
tured in Triuijy River Bottom, Texas.
Their depredations have extended through
two years, and embraced Northern and
Western Texas and Indian Territory.
While Dr. C. D. Cooper, a prominent
physician of Fauquier County, Va., was
with his family at church, his house was
entered and SII,OOO stolen. Suspicion
attached to Morris Oliver, who lived near
tho premises. A box containing the money
was found in a hay-stack, and Oliver finally
confessed the theft.
One of the curiosities to be exhibited at
the New Orleans Exposition is a palmetto
stump completely petrified. It was dug ».p
recently from the sand on tho beach a.
Mount Pleasant, S. C., and weighs forty
pounds. It is solid stone, and the grain of
the palmetto wood is easily discerned. It
is said to be the only instance on record in
which pulmetto wood "lias ever become
petrified.
The boiler of a locomotive on the \Y est
ern & North Carolina Railroad exploded
neur Cowee Mountain. Engineer IJUrry
\\ arner, Fireman Ed. Barringer and one
passenger were killed. (Several others were
horribly scalded.
A. M. Suddoth, a prominent merchant at
Friar’s Point, Miss., suicided at Helena,
Ark., the other morning by taking chloral.
Several letters written just before his de
mise showed the suicide premeditated. The
deceased had his life insured for $7,000 —
$2,000 in Knights of Honor and $5,000 in a
lexas association. Cause unknown.
One of the most peculiar sections iu the
South is probably the nuneral belt of West
Alabama, which streUdJes diagonally across
the country above Ml% 31st degree of north
latitude. It extends from Garlandsville, in
East Mississippi, to some distance east of
tho Alabama River, where its mineral evi
dences sink below an extensive pine forest
and again comes to the surface in East
Alabama. This belt is probably not more
than ten miles in width, and contains sojne
of the most important minerals used in ag
riculture and the arts. That portion of
this section which has some of the strong
est evidences of the existence of petroleum
oil lies in AYest Alabama, and embraces
parts of the counties of AA'asbington,
Clarke, Choctaw and Marengo. It is about
evenly divided by the Tombigbee River, a
stream navigable at all seasons of the year
by steamboat or othor craft. In extJit it
will embrace probably 890 square miles, or
500,1X10 acres, and contains n great, diversity
of soils, mineral and forest growth.
Dr. Jas. Augustus Edwards, of Atlan
ta, Ga., has been arrested for attempting to
poison his bride of a few days, in SUqli
mond, Va. Another wife lives in Atlanta.
The worthy wife of Capt. Jett T. Mitch
ell, near .Jonr-ce-, Gn., w#s shot the other
evening, while sitting at her window. Her
husband and children lay sleeping near
her, as she sat sewing. Thirteen shot en
tered her breast, killing her instantly.
John Raiborn, an industrious farmer of
McMinn County, Tenn., became suddenly
insane the other evening, and tried to kill
his wife and children with a shot-gUn. One
child which he dragged a great distance
received injuries thought to be fatal. Rai
born is now in Athens jail a raving maniac.
Nocause is assigned for his sudden insanity.
The other morning a little daughther ot
Edward Irvine, of Chattanooga, Tenn.,
was left alone to play in the yard. Sh<
built a minature brick kiln, and in attempt
ing to light shavings under it her dress
caught fire. Her injuries will prove fatal.
Senator Vance told a \Vashingt< n re
porter the day Congress adjourned that ho
wanted to get back to North Carolina. He
said: “1 want to wake up in the morning
aud see the piue trees, and I want to smell
them when I go to bed,-, as their perfume
floats into the window and makes me
dream that I atn a child again. I want io
go out into our old fields once more and
see a nigger plowing with a one eyel mule
with a coffee sack for a plow line.”
Henry Johnson, u tinner, fell off a
three-story building in Knoxville, Tenn.,
the other morning on Jasper Lonas, plas
terer, and crushed his (Lonas’) skull in
two places, niso breaking his leg. Johnson
escaped unhurt.
Dr. AA*. H. Armstrong, while driving
into Dallas, Tex., met a run-away team,
and to prevent being run over, attempted
to jump from his buggy. His foot caught
in the wheel and he struck on his head, and
was killed. He was thirty years old, one
of the best physicians in the country, and
a member of tiie Dallas County Medical
Society. He was a native of Louisiana.
The Virginia Court of Appeals has de
cided that the act passed by the last Legis
lature, prohibiting school superintendents
from taking part in politics is unconstitu
tional.
THE'prompt action of the New Orleans
Board of Health regarding tho suspicious
case of fever, which had been reported as
yellow fevei-fhad the effect of allaying all
excitement on the subject. If other sus
picious cWes occur they will be promptly
reported by the Board.
Wm. Ames, a locomotive engineer on the
Vicksburg & Meridian Railroad, was
killed at Jackson the other day in a per
sonal difficulty with* R. R. Stratton, fire
man on the same engine. Tho deceased was
very abusive and overhearing to Stratton,
who left the engine when deceased made
an attack on him with an ax. Stratton
then drew his pistol and fired three shots,
killing Ames instantly. The act was pro
nounced justifiable homicide.
A construction train on the Vicksburg,
Shreveport and Texas Pacific Railroad fell
through the bridge over Alligator Bayou,
near Delta, a few days since, killing engi
neer Vanderberg and the fireman. The
accident was caused by the rails being
torn up for the purpose of wrecking the
train.
Robert Mosely, chief of one of the most
daring gang of horse-thieves in Texas, and
recently arrested near Trinity River, is
oniy twenty-four.
A tunnel at the Stegall State mines in
Roane County, Tenn., fell in ou John Bain,
aged sixty-five years, and crushed him so
badly that he will die.
VOL. I.—NO. 23.
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.
—Alexander 11. Stephens’ library,
which cost him $20,000, lias been sacri
ficed for SBOO.
—By the death of Bishop Simpson the
venerable Dr. Bowman, of St. Louis,
becomes the senior Methodist Bishop.
Chicago Tribune.
—-Mrs. Spurgeon, the invalid wife of
the noted preacher, has donated to a
benevolent ob:eot $250 she earned with
her own hands making photograph
frames.
—Rev. Dr. Edward Everett Hale, of
Boston, has with him an old servant,
Abel Fullom by name, who has been
with his family ever since 1810, three
years before tlio Doctor was born. —
Boston Journal. *
—Tho Evening Star, of New Bruns
wick, N. J., was published just six
weeks, and in that time one of its edi
tors, Harry G. llose, was arrested-four
times—for adultery, perjury, malicious
and criminal libel.—A. Y. Nun.
—W. 11. Trenwith, of New York City,
is absolutely certain that the world will
come to an end ou t he sth of July, 1885,
and has written a pamphlet to prove it.
He says: “Oh, how are the people to bo
warned of the day that is now at hand?’’
— N. Y. News.
—Bayard Taylor’s father and moth
er, slid living up in the nineties in
years, inhabit the beautiful country
house which Bayard built years ago at
Kennctt. Square, Pa., and which since
his death has fruitlessly been offered
for sale.— Pittsburgh Post
—Captain James B. Eads is the first
American that ever received the English
Society of Arts medal for successful
service in engineeiing science. The
society has been very infrequent in
favoring foreigners, but has given the
medal to both de Lesseps and to Napo
leon III.— N. Y. Tribune.
—William A. Beach, one of the most
distinguished members of the New York
bar, who died at Tarry town recently, of
heart disease, from which he suffered
many years, was born in Ballston. N.Y.,
in 1805, and removed to Trov in 18 5,
and finally to New York. His ability
and success quickly won for him a high
place in the legal profession. —Troy
Times
—When Bishop Simpson was preach
ing orfone occasion at a church dedica
tion in ru Ohio town lie remarked to
the local minister: “There’s a young
man in this congregation named Mc-
Cabe who is a line singer, and I’ve a
notion to osll lint out," and shortly
afterward he invited tlto young man to
come foward anil favor the audience
with an appropriate song, winch >ie did,
and this was. perhaps the first official
recognition of the now famous Chaplain
McCabe.— Chicago Herald.
HUMOROUS.
—A Philadelphia woman drank a
pint of toil oil with suicidal intent, Imt
forgot to swallow a match, and still
lives.— Philadelphia Call.
—Boston ladies call their spouses
“hubby,” not as a term endearment,
but because it seems to remind them of
the relation of Boston to the rest of tho
universe.— Chicago Timas.
—“Here’s your roast beef, sah,”
said the waiter; “I served it some timo
ago. ’ “O, indeed? roast beef? Why,
so you did. I thought all the time it
was a crack in the plate.”— Chicago
Tribune.
—At a recent marriage ceremony in
one of the Providence (11. 1.) churches,
the contracting parties were thirty min
utes behind time, and the organ pealed
out: “Oh dear, what can tne matter
be?”— The Judge.
—An exchange says : A miss in Gad
deston. Ga.. has hair that sweeps the
floor. Now if this miss had hair that
could cook, wash and iron and milk the
cows, what a bonanza she would be as a
wife.— Brooklyn Times.
“Yes,” said Fcnderson, “I've got
quite an ear for music.” “You have
quite an ear, sure enough,” said Fogg,
“but 1 wasn’t sure it was for music. 1
didn't know hut it was intended for a
windmill.”- Boston Transcript.
—Chorus of Ladies—We are sure, Mr.
Weeks, that you do not permit your wife
to slave at her household duties without
assisting her at times? Mr. Weeks—No,
1 share the labor with her. Ladies—How
nice! What work do you attend to?
Mr. Weeks—We go halves. She puts
up the preserves and 1 put them down.
—“What a wonderful woman that
Mrs. Crimsonbeak is,” said Mrs. least
to a friend. “Why wonderful?” in
quired the one addressed. “Why, I
never knew her to be out of temper.
“Nor I cither,” quickly added one not
an admirer of the lady in question.
“She seems to have plenty of it!’ 1
N. Y. Herald.
—“Look here, waiter?” cried Crim
sonbeak, wljo was stopping a few days
at’Coney Island, “this ham is not so
good as what I got here last summer.
“I don't see why,” replied the waiter,
in some surprise; “it's the same ham,
sir!” leaves without par
taking and wonderiDg why he didn’t
think°of that before. Yonkers Mates
man.
“The development at the back ol
the head, my friends, indicates parental
affection,” explained the phrenologist.
“Now, you will observe,’ he went on,
feeling of the boy’s head, “that this
bump is abnormal in size, thus indicat
ing that he loves and reveres his parents
to an unusual degree. Is this not so my
lad?” “Naw.” “What’s that? lon
do not love your parents?” “I think
well enough of ma,” the boy replied,
but I ain’t very lond of de old man-
That bump you’re feelin’ of he giv nie
last night wid a base-ball club. A. X.
Sun.