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CURRENT TOPICS.
Tub Alabama corn crop is the finest
known for years.
A Chinese compositor works on the Lan
caster (Pa.) New Era.
A snow-bank still lingers on a farm
near Clockville, N. Y.
Ihe harvest moon looks down on mag
nificent crops in Dakota.
'I he number of immigrants for the year
ending June 30, was 509,834.
A Greenback State Convention will be
lield at Boston September 4.
The Governor General of Porto Rico died
of yellow fever, the other day.
Ihe Elba Iron works, of Pittsburg, has
closed down on account of prices.
Important concessions are expected from
England in behalf of Irish laborers.
A London paper has it that Mr. Cleveland
Ohio has been nominated for President.
A colored gil l at Saratoga wears SIO,OOO
worth of diamonds when she is dressed up.
Commander Schley’s brother is a prin
ter in the a Baltimore newspaper.
The Utah elections resulted in the choice
of Mormons to all the offices in every nouns
ty-
Rev. W. H. Veil, of Bucyrus, 0., said
to be the original Petroleum V. Nasby, is
dead.
There are over (1,000 miles of telegraph
wire strung above the streets of Philadel
phia.
Some of the Texas editors suspend publi
cation of their papers while taking their
vacations.
A Mr. Tallo has been nominated for
office. No doubt a hot campaign will cause
him to run well.
The corner-stone of the Bartholdi statue
was laid with appropriate ceremonies the
other afternoon.
A French almanac predicts that Emperor
William and General Moltke will die before
December 31, 1884.
The African Society refuses, from want
of funds, to assist the German expedition
to the Congo country.
Lieut. Greely had a little boy born to
him while he was übsent, and the child is
nearly three years old.
The son of the British Vice Consul at Ro
dosto, Turkey, has been captured bybiig
ands, who demand £7,000 rausom.
The electric street car in Cleveland, 0.,
makes eight miles an hour, and is even
more managable than the horse car.
John Bright marched with the great
reform procession at Birmingham. 200,000
people witnessed the demonstration.
The estimated expenditures of the Post*
office Department in the last fiscal yeai
will exceed the receipts by $3,000,000.
The Boston Post says it is not in good
taste for a physician, when writing to a
patient, to sign himself, “Yours till death.”
It is said that 0,000 boys and 2,000 girls
nnder thirteen years of age ore employed
in Chicago factories, in violation of the
law.
Cholera, yellow fever, famine, drought,
and cold have had marked success this
year throughout the temperate zone of the
globe.
Important public meetings have been
held in London, recently, for the purpose of
securing the abolishment of the House of
Lords.
The mate of the Julia Baker has been
arrested at Key West, Fla., for personating
the dead master of the vessel, and is held
for trial.
The Queen has decided to change her will
on account of the birth of a son to the
Duchess of Albany, the widow of Prince
Leopold.
Since 1800 the population of Europe has
doubled, having increased at a much more
rate indigenously than that of its sister
continents.
Western States and Territories are es
stablishing quarantine agaiiist Texas cat
tle, the fever having broken out again in
many places.
No woman without a male escort ven
sures out after dark in Naples or Rome,
such has been the increased license given
to crime of late.
A Mississippi man counted the number
of grains in a bushel, and found 72,130 oi
corn, 132.000 oi. wheat, 109,900 of peas and
164,106 of cotton seed.
“No Thoroughfare,” it would seem, would
be an excellent sigu to put up at the en
trance to Smith’s Sound, for the benefit of
future Arctic explorers.
Crown Solicitor Bolton, of Dublin,
sued Parnell and other pi oprietors of the
United Ireland for £30,000 damages. A
jury awarded him £SOO.
Nine-tenths of European counterfeiters
are from Italy. They are more skillful in
making and passing false money than crirn
inals of any othor nationality.
Mrs. Gladstone, wife of the Prime Min
ister, has written a book for the Health
Exhibition, being a series of articles on
nurseries and the care of children.
Miss Phoebe Couzins is the first woman
to be sworn in as United States Deputy
Marshal. She will work as clerk for her
father, who is Marshal at St. Louis.
St. Louis health officers are trying to
close up the wells of that city, which num
ber between eight and nine thousand, and
yield exceedingly unwholesome water.
There is complaint over a scarcity of
money in London, and yet in the august
Court of Chancery $361,000,000 lies idle
under the ban of the law, awaiting proper
heirs.
A French Admiral recently reported
that the American was the weakest navy in
existence. France has many vessels, bQt
the United States have a big batch of of
ficers.
There is one advantage in a small navy,
and tnat is, when the Secretary of the
Navy puts to sea, he can take most of it
with him. Secretary Chaudler is on a
tinilae,
TRENTON, DADE COUNTY, GA.. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 13. 1884.
A PITCHED BATTLE
Between Montana Cow-Soys end
Horse-Ti.ieves.
•
The fow-B«y« Steal a Man Ii on the Rob
ber. »< <l Niue Out of Fourteen Kite the
I)u.t- Fia ly Fifty ijj,n K <1 or Shot Within
n Hi, uili.
Helena, Mont., August 9. —There never
; was a period in the history of this or any
| oilier Territory when so much horse-thiev
iug was going on. Citizens are determined
to effectively stop it. Fully fifty thieves
have been hanged or shot in the past month.
Meager particulars are received
of another slaughter of horse-thieves
* n the Muscleshell region, 159
miles northeast of here, last week by [cow
boys. While in pursuit of stolen horses, a
log house was discovered in the timber on
the mountain side. It was secretly
watched a day or two, during which time
several small parties of men came and
went, some by day,others bv night, having
in possession horses, evidently stolen.
It becoming evident that it was a
horse thieves’ rendezvous, cowboys
congregated, and last Monday night
crawled up close to the house and attacked
fourteen horse thieves, about the premises
at the time. Nine were killed and five
escaped. The cabin was set fire and burned.
No particulars are yet received of the fight
of Granviiie Stuart’s cowboys with-a band
of thieves at the mouth of the Muscleshell,
though the fight must have occurred several
days ago. The locality is over two hundred
miles from Helena, with no telegraph
communication.
Increase in Cholera Mortality.
Paris, August B.—During the twenty,
four hours ended at nine to-night twenty,
four deaths from cholera had occurred at
Marseilles, The record of the hospitals at
Toulon to-day is as follows. Admission,
nine; discharged, eight; deaths, three;
under treatment, eighty-six. There were
two deaths from cholera to-day # La
Seyne.
Rome, August B.—Three fresh cases of
cholera are reported at Cairo and Montes
notte. There were two deaths to-day at
Massa, one at Carignanß and one at Ossasio,
There were no fresh cases at Pancalieri,
but two persons under treatment there
died.
Marseilles, August 9.—The area affected
by cholera is widening. Yesterday there
were five deaths at Arles and five at Salin,
a village of four hundred inhabitants, near
Arles. Cette there were seven deaths,
at Beziers two, at Carcassone two, and at
Bordeaux one. At txigean such a panic
prevails that parents fled, forgetting their
children, whom Sisters of Charity are car
ing for. A soldier from Avignon, where
several deaths from cholera have occurred,
died at Algiers. His comrades, who
accompanied him from Avignon, have been
isolated. At Vogue, in the Department of
Ardeche, with a population of 750, there
were five deaths yesterday, and thirty are
under treatment. Numerous cases of sick
ness, supposed cholera, are reported from
other points in Ardeche. Intense heat is
causing an increase in mortality among
cholera patients. There were six deaths
last night. The return of fugutives to Arles
has had a bad effect. There have been six
deaths at that place in twelve hours. Bp.
M > —Fourteen deaths from cholera in the
past twenty-four hours.
A Ricky Mountain Cannibal.
Winnipeg. Man., August BW. B.
Mcßride, of Chicago, who has arrived here
from a trip to the Rocky Mountains, brings
word that a man named William Owens, a
California miner, was found by some rail
way men near Kicking Horse River, a few
days ago, in a famished and partially de
mented condition. Owens said he started
June 13, with Jos. Williamson, from Kam
loops, on a prospecting trip, expecting to
strike the Columbia River, but their supply
of provisions gave out before reaching
there. They traveled for six days and a
half without food, when Williamson laid
down and died. Owens then cut strips of
flesh from his dead companion’s legs, which
he ate sparingly, and proceeded on his
tramp. He has been iiving six days on
human flesh when found and still had a
quantity of the dried flesh in an old hand
kerchief. He was very weak ami emaciated
and told his story with difficulty. He
repeated the horribly details on several
occasions and all who heard him are con
vinced that the story is true. He had a large
roll of bills with him. The police have taken
the mutter in hand and will investigate it.
Roach's Ship-Yard Damaged.
Chester, Pa., August 8.-—This morning
a fire was discovered by the watchman in
the blacksmith shop, a frame building in
Roach’s ship-yard. The flames soon spread
to the punch shed, also framp, and covering
nearly an acre of ground. All efforts to
save this immense building were given up
and attention directed to saving the
binding-shed a short distance away,
but the efforts of the firemen
were unavailing, and it was soon de
stroyed. The firemen then directed their
attention to the foundry, a large brick
building, adjoining the binding-shed, and
it was only by herculean efforts that it was
saved. Mr. Roach arrived late to-night.
He states the loss will not be above $60,000;
that the works will go on in the morning as
usual, and that the loss is confined to the
frame buildings, which will be replaced
immediately. All the men will be em
ployed, as there is much work to be done at
once.
Murderous Freak of an Insane Man.
Pittsburg, Penn., August 9.—Recently
George Metz, aged twenty-one, was taken
from Mercy Hospital, where he had been
under treatment for aberration of the
mind, by his sister, Mrs. Roche, and re
moved to her home at Sharpsburg. This
morning young Metz had a return of tbe
more violent symptoms of the trouble, and,
ru-hing into a room on tbe second floor,
seized an eighteen-montbs-old child
of Mrs. Roche, and threw it from the
window to the sidewalk, a distance of
some fifteen feet. The child was examined
critically by tbe physician, the idea being
that because it did not cry it was fatally
hurt. It appears, however, that the fail
knocked the breath out of it for a few mo
ments, without doing any other damage,
and it forgot the good occasion it had to
squall when sufficient.wind watf recovered
to have admitted o£ such infantile demon
stration. Met* was taken to Dixwont to*
U»7i ,
FRANCE AND CHINA.
Antcricnn Ninl«tcr HiMllallnc Vnder in
fttruciious ftoiii Hit* FrrKiiieal.
London, August B.—A Times dispatch
from Foo Chow says: “The American
Minister will arrive at Shanghai to-day.
The Chinese remain firm. Further con
cessions by the French will alone secure
peace.” The Pall Mall Gazette this after
noon earnestly advocates American media
tion between China and France. Both
countries, it thinks, would eagerly accept
it. A dispatch to the Times from Foo Chow
says; “President Arthur is {mediating
between France and China, and has tele
graph instructions to John Russell Young,
U. S. Minister at Pekin. France desires
settlement within a week.”
Paris, August B.—The Government will
consult the Chamber of Deputies before in
structing Admiral Courbet, at Foo Chow,
to act.
A GI ANT’S MISFORTUNE.
J(*wcU to tlian; l»,v Fiiropraii
31 <»iiar<*}»ci Dotlroye 4 in si Iliirniuir Sleep
ing -Car.
Jamestown, N. Y., August B—A sleep
ing-car belonging to Barnum’s circus
burned while standing on the side track
here this morning. The car was occupied
by the Hindoos connected with the show,
Chang, the Chinese giant, and his manager,
Mr. Cameron. These two were asleep in
the car when the fire broke out, and had a
narrow escape for their lives. Chang lost
his entire wardrobe, a valuable gold
watch, seven thousand dollars in money,
and several diamonds. The lost jewels
were presented to Chang by the Czar of
Russia, Emperor of Austria and Emperor
of Prussia. Chang also misses a gold
watch and chain presented by Queen Vic
toria. Chang had a hearty cry over his
misfortune. He did not appear at the show
this afternoon. Mr. Cameron, Chang’s
manager, lost six hundred dollars in casii
and a gold watch. A new car will re
place the burned one at Erie.
A REMARKABLE CASE.
A Da.vlon. Ely., yinn l iven Three nay*
With a Broken Meek.
Cincinnati, August 9.— Frank Henry
Holstman, aged seventy-two years, died at
his home in Dayton, Ky., to-day. Last
Wednesday he was thrown from a wagon,
and after being examined by the attending
physicians they pronounced that his neck
was broken, and that he would hardly sur
vive through the day. Contrary to the
general expectation, he rallied, and on the
following day felt better, and lingered
until this morning, when be died. It is
certainly a remarkable case, and one that
will attract considerable attention in the
medical world.
The French Capture Kelung.
London, August 9—A dispatch from
Shanghai to-day to Reuter’s Telegraph
Company states that five vessels of the
French squadron, under Admiral’ Lespes,
bombarded and captured the town of
Kelung, on the Island of Formosa. A Foo
Chow dispatch to the Times to-day says:
“France refuses to submit the settlement
of tbe Franco-Chinese difficulty to media
tion. Advices from Pekin of August 8
state that the Tsung Li Yamen has re
gained confidence, and will disregard tbe
chronic menanceof the French fleet. French
prestige can only be recovered by serious
operations.”
Paris, August 9.—The occupation of
Kelung by tue French is officially con
firmed.
The Cholera Theory of Dr. i'oeh.
London, August 9. —The researches of
Dr. Koch regarding the cause and progress
of cholera have excited great interest in
Poland, where epidemics somewhat similar
to that now existing in France are of al
most annual ocourrence. One curious
result of this general agitation is an offer
by an educated Pole, in middle age and
vigorous health, to allow himself to be in
oculated with the cholera microbes, so that
the effect of such an inoculation in a
human neing in normal health may be
scientifically scrutinized.
A Boiler Maker’s Terrible Fate.
Jackson, Mich., August B.—Edward
Lynch, a boiler maker at theM. C. Railway*
shops, at the Junction, while underneath a
locomotive to-day, for the purpose of re
pairing the boiler, was scalded so that he
will die. The locomotive was carrying
forty pounds of steam at the time, and the
plug blew out. Tiie unfortunate man re
ceived the full blast on his back and arms,
which were so terribly cooked tiiat the flesh
fell out in flakes. He leaves a wife and five
children.
Frightful Asc'dent.
Shenandoah, Pa., August B.—Mr. and
Mrs. Dixon, their two children and a man
named Cull, whiie crossing the Reading
track at Connor Station in a carriage thi,
after*oon were struck by the locomotive.
Mr. and Mrs. Dixon, one child and Cuff
were instantly killed, the horses cut to
pieces and the vehicle demolished. The
driver and infant escaped. The party
were returning from a funeral.
The Crop 3.
• Washington, August 9.—The Depart
ment of Agriculture reports the average
condition of cotton increased from 86 in
July to a little above 87. The condition of
corn averages the same as in July, a id is
higher than in any August since 1880. The
report of wheat includes only the spring
wheat region, with an average of 98, which
is higher than in any year since 1877. To
bacco promises a large crop.
A Salvation Army Row.
Schenectady, N. Y., August B.—There
was great excitement last night by the ar
rest of four j'oung men in the disturbance
with the Salvation Army. Fifteen hundred
men followed the prisoners to the station,
threatening to throw the officers into the
canal. Threats are made to burn the army
barracks. There are fears of a riot to.
night and the police are taking precautions.
|Commodore Garrison’s Finances.
New York, August 8.--. The inventory in
the Commodore Garrison assignment
shows liabilities of i1.47i.i28; actual as
lft«. £3,974,818; nominal assets, £17,0974/28,
A FALLING WALL
Makes Sad Work in a Catletts burg
Conflagration.
Three Bend end Four injured Men Taken
From the l>ei>. le-Valuable Property
Destroyed.
Catlettsburg, Ky., August 10.—This
town was visited at two o’clock this morn
ing by a destructive fire, resulting in
quite a calamity from a falling wall catch
in a number of men. Bob Miller was taken
out alive, but died immediately. John
Graham died after his rescue." David
Kinner had hie feet burned off, and was
dead when found. Janies McKenzie, Sam
Kelly, John Berger and Chas. Haler were
rescued in a precarious condition, and
others are thought to be buried under the
ruins. Loss to the property: Patton
Bros drugs, $30,000, insurance $15,000;
’j“ nan & |Pricl.ard, grocers, stock
$5,000, insurance $2,000; C. Pichard,
to'iwi building, $4,000, insurance
$2,000; N. P. Andrews, dry goods
stock, $7,000, insurance $5,000; N. P. An
drews, building, $3,500, insurance $3,000; C.
H. Carpenter, clothing stock, SIO,OOO, in
; building $7,000, insurance
$o,000; C. A. AY ellman, office, SSOO, no ins
surance; Vinson, Gable & Prichard. SSOO,
no insurance. Total loss, $76,000; insur
ance $44,000. The fire engine from Hunt
ington, VV. A T a., did excellent service.
Increase in Cholera.
London, August 10.—At midnight Friday
another dispatch was sent by Dr. Bas
sano, of Marseilles. It was as follows:
“There was a marked increase in cholera
to-day, and this is the more noteworthy be
cause of Thursday’s decrease. Fear now
prevails that Marseilles has not seen the
worst of the plague. On Friday six
patients were admitted to the
Pharo Hospital, and all were
critical cases. There are now fifty cases in
the hospital. Statistics up to date show that
021 patients have been admitted to the Pharo
from the beginning of the epidemic, of
whom 208 have recovered. The five nurses
who have been ill are rapidly getting well.
On r riday the Lyons doctors continued their
former experiments. They injected into
one of the patients 300 grammes of a solu
tion composed of five grammes of chlori
dine ot sodium and fifteen centigrammes
of carbonate of sodium, dissolved in 1,000
grammes of water. The success of this
experiment can hardly be determined, as
the patient subjected to the treatment was
already in the last stage of the disease.
Tne increased mortality is ascribed to the
hasty return of the emigrants, coupled
with the unbearable heat.”
lata! Result of a Mud Wadding;.
Flora, 111., August 10.—A sad accident
occurred at the Republican rally at Xenia
last evening. A flttle twelve-year-old son
of Frank Maudlin had the top of his head
blown off by the explosion of a cannon. It
seems the gunner in charge of the cannon
became short of paper for loading
purposes, in lieu of which he
filled the piece with mud, and, after
ramming it home, he fired. The cannon
burst, and a piece weighing about fifteen
pounds was projected through the air at a
fearful velocity, and struck the little boy
on the head who was standing about 200
feet distant, sweeping a large portion of
his skull away and killing him almost in
stantly. A bystander pick,-<#he little un
fortunate up in his arms, when most of
his brains fell out upon the groi*d. •The
gunner was blown some feet, and had one
leg quite severely hurt, The wheels were
blown off, and the carriage on which the
piece was mounted was a total wreck.
Ihe accident threw a damper over the
meeting.
Large Lease of Natural Gas Territory.
Pittsburg, August 10.—George Westing
house, the Philadelphia
Natural Gas Company, yesterday pur.
chas*the leasehold of four-fifths of all the
natur* gas territory in Western Pennsyl-
The sale includes the Butler and
Tarentum fields, and five farms in the
vicinity of Homewood and this city. * The
purchase was made from and through J.
M. Guffey, ami the aggregate area of the
tracts is seven thou-and acres. The terms
of tbe sale are withheld.
Present to Grover Cleveland.
Albany, N. Y., August 10.—The left hind
foot of a graveyard rabbit, which has a
potent influence among the Southern ne
groes, has been presented to Governor
Cleveland as a talisman in tbe campaign.
The rabbit from which the foot was taken
was shot on the grave of Jesse James.
The foot was superbly mounted and en
graved in solid silver by jewelers in
Eufaula, Ala. It was mounted to wear on
a watch chain.
All For a Glass of Beer.
St. Louis, August 10.—Henry Smith and
Win. Hardin, two negroes, got into a
quarrel this afternoon, in Clabber alley, a
notorious negro locality, about who should
treat to beer, when Harris drew a revolver
and shot Smith in the left breast, inflicting
a wound from which ho died while being
conveyed to the dispesarv. Hardin was
arrested.
Prominent Lawyer Paralyzed.
Long Branch, N. J., August 10.—H. M.
Philips, a prominent laWver of Philadel
phia, and ex-Presidertof Girard College,
was stricken with paralysis Friday. He
was taken home this afternoon in a special
train of the Pennsylvania P.ailroad. He
is a member of its Executive Committee.
Medical Congress.
Copenhagen, Angust 10.—The Medical
Congress opened to-day, in the presence of
the King and Queen of Denmark. Council
of State, and King and Queen of Graeco.
The Congress includes 350 Danes, 100
Swedes, 100 Norwegians, and 800 persons
of other nationalities.
Hurricane on the Ocean.
St. John’s, N. F., August 10.—The latest
arrival from the Grand Bank reports an
awful hurricane Sunday last. Many
causalties to the fishing fleet ars feared.
Over Niagara.
Niagara Falls, August 10.—A man, who
is supposed to be Woodke, and from Buf
falo, jumped into the rapids and was cars
4 var falls,
SOUTHERN NEWS GLEANINGS.
Bixty-one patents were issued to citizen*
of the Southern States from June 10 to
July 1.
The South, says School Commissioner
Eaton, is eager for the education of all
classes. The increase in the number of
school-houses and attendance is larger
every year and the progress is, he adds,
very gratifying.
At Silver City, Ark., J. P. McKinnon
shot and instantly killed John McKinney
for causes attributed to an . old jfeud-
The two men had attended a shooting
mutch and were returning home, when they
met and renewed their old quarrel. It is
charged that McKinnon got the drop on
McKinney and fired a bullet through his
brain. Both parties had killed their man.
Key West, with 14,000 population, is free
of beggars.
The Natchez cotton mills have resumed
operations.
Lebpedeza grass is growing well in all
parts of Mississinpi.
George D. Tillman was unanimously
nominated for Congress by the Democrats
of the Second (S. C.) District.
William H. Hayne, a son of the well
known Southern poet, Paul Hayne, contri
butes to the August St. Nicholas a poem ou
“The Grasshopper.”
It is not generally known that the Gov
erning Board of the New Orleans Exposi
tion has appropriated $5,000 to each State
and Territory, to be expended under the
direction of the United States Commission
ers of tiie exposition and the Governors of
the respective States and Territories.
Mrs. Francis Stegall, aged seventy,
who died the other day near Asheville, N.
C., confessed before her death of murder
ing her husband thirty years ago by pour
ing hot lead in his ear while he was intoxi
cated.
Mrs. John Cooper, living near Bud.,
Anderson County, Tenn., gave birth to
four girls, weighing nearly four pounds
each. All are alive and doing well.
Dr. J. HoorEß Shepherd, proprietor of
the Cambridge (Md.) Chronicle , is dead.
I.v consequence of dull trade and over
production all cotton factories in Peters
burg, Va„ and vicinity but two have
stopped, and these two expect to stop in a
day or so. The closing throws out of em
ployment several hundred operators, many
of whom have large families.
At Milledgeville, Ga., while the family
of Mr. Rockwell were seated at the supper
table they were shocked by a terifle peal
of thunder. Miss Sarah Rockwell put up
her hands to her face, and was found to be
dead.
The other evening James Davis wai shot
and instantly killed by Adolphus Ary, near
Rocky Station, Lee County, Va. About a
month since Davis, after maltreating his
wife, left suddenly and went to Missouri.
The lady finding herself deserted and
without sup ■ ort, attached certain sums
due Davis-in the neighborhood, and sought
shelter in the house of Ary, who is a rela
tive. Some.of Davis’ friends wrote to him
that his wife was living in Ary’s iou.e.
Davis returned to Virginia, swearing
vengeance on Ary. He went to Ary’s
house, and in answer to his inquiry, was
told that Ary had gone fishing. Mrs. Ary,
fearing harm, sent a messenger by the
back way to inform her husband of Davis’
presence. Davis left after uttering threats
against Ary. When the latter returned
Davis again came to tbe house, and, de
spite the efforts of Ary to quiet him, swore
that he would have Ary’s heart’s blood.
He darted toward the house trying to draw
a revolver. Ary slipped into the doorway
and picked tip a family shotgun. Davis
continued to advance and Ary shot him in
the breast, but this did not stop him, and
be continued tbe charge, when Ary drew a
pistol and shot him through the head.
Andrew Crockett, a distant relative of
the famous Davy, died at Franklin, Tenn.,
the other day, at the age of sixty years.
A tornado seriously damaged the corn
in Dyer County, Tenn., so seriously that
the stock has been turned into some of the
fields.
Over a million pounds of Sea Island
cotton was shipped from Lake City, Fla.,
last year. There was also fifty cars of cot
ton seed, each car containing 22 590 pounds
making a total of seed of 1,125,000 pounds.
Tbe biuff at Memphis continues to cove.
The United States engineers are having
willow mattresses made and thrown into
the river opposite the Fanola Oil Works as
rapidly as possible to prevent further dam
ages to the biuff below the point.
“The White Camelia,” an organization
that numbered, just after the war, in Tex
as alone, some 20,000 members, is about to
be revived, with the object, it is thought, of
keeping an eye on the island of Cuba and
Mexican oppression of citizen* of the
United States.
Madison Parish, La., has mar.y women
planters. Mrs. M. A. Gibbs lives on the
Hecla plaiuation, which she manages with I
great ®rcess. Mrs. Saiiie Frasier has a
small cotton plantation and a floe poultry i
farm. Miss Lu. Lucas manage.' a large ;
estate, and personally superinten is a large
force. Madame Ames, regarded as the
best woman in the parish, ownt « tract of
1,000 acres, and 800 acres in cultivation
this year.
General James R. Herbert, Police
Commissioner of Baltimore, is dead, aged
forty-nine.
James Hay, colored, of Carroli County,
Ga., has just died, leaving an estate of
£4.000 or £5,000.
In Chattanooga, the colored element is
growing much faster than the white. The
relative gain in the year ended June 30,
1884, was 1,349 colored, 1,084 white.
The waters of Reelfoot Lake, Tenn., in
stead of escaping through the regular chan
nel into the Obion River, find outlets or
means of escape across the valuable lands
of the county, and a company has t*»«u or
ganized to clear the obstructions in the
streams that convey this water, to spend
£10,030. It is believed that the waters of
1884 created a loss to the people •/ Lake
County of pot less than £150,000,
Senator Butler, of South Carolim, too*
two daughter* iu joqety, Ml s « Marie amf
MlniKU«t.
VOL. I. -NO. 25.
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.
—Experiments in England show
that gaslight h. s * nr tor penetrating
power in u fog than electric light of the
same intensity.
—An Australian lias devised a scheme
for bringing down rain to order. He
has a ballo n charged with dynamite
und rn< ath it, which ii lired off by wire
connecting wi ll the ear h when the
balloon reaches the clouds.
—lido ( amsdell, the editor of an
Atlanta (Ga. journal, has discovered
a process in photo-lithography, which,
according to Mr. Howell, o: the Atlan
ta Con <‘uut on, “will introduce into the
art of printing p issibililies never yet
dreamed of.”
—ln skinning calves the French
mode is to make a hole, insert the noz
zle of a bellows, and blow the skin
from the llesh. For this reason alone,
it is said, French calf-skin is superior
to that made in this country, where
knives are used in the skinning process.
—Every one has heard of condensed
milk, but condensed, or rather, solTd
ifie 1 drinks of a n ore potent nature are
a novelty. An ingenious French chem
ist has d scovere 1 a method by whi h
any wine, spirit or malt li juor can be
sol dilied into a cake, like chocolate,
and so conveniently carried about in
the pockets of the thirsty.
- An improved fishhook has been in
vented bv a Southern .-porls nan. About
midway up the shaft of the hook he
places a sma 1 crossbar, which serves
three purposes. F rst, it prevents the
lish front swallowing the hook; second,
it increases the chances of capture, for
the rea on that when a fish strikes its
nose against the p ojeotion it involun
tarily c o->Ci itsjnouth, and so is secure
ly caught; and third, it prevents the
bait from slipping up the hook.
—'l hat the small coins of all nations
may be a most potent factor in dissem
inating disease is a discovery due to
the researches of Dr. Reinch. Taking
specimens of co n which had been long
in circulation, he scraped off the thin
oigani ■ incrustations, which he then
divided into small pieces and dissolved
in distilled water. Microscopic in-pec
fion of the solution disclosed abund
ance of bacteria and vegetable fungi.
Alter this there is ample reason for
can ton in handling money made of
metal; of the danger of filthy paper
ciirienoy the public lias long been
aware.
PITH AM) POINT.
- The cheaper the cigar the more per
sistently does the cheap smoker puff it
In the faces of b s fellow travelers.—-
Lowell Courier.
•‘The Pies My Mother Made” is a
new song, it is said, but it is not. Every
young husband has sung it for the last
two centuries. — Phi'a lelphia Call.
A writ r in a health publication ad
vises people to “live in the sun.” But
how under the sun are people going to
do it. lios on Tran cri’.l.
—'lhe census proves that the number
of persons in a la niiy in this country is
a small fraction over live. In sorou
families the husband is the small frac
ton over. — boston Tran enpt.
— k ome one has discovered that the
high-heeled shoes won by women pro
duce softening of the brain. It was
not gene ally known that the brains of
women who wear such shoes was lo
cated so low: !ut it stems plausible
enough — Norrist rum Herald.
—A Dude was one day having great
sport at the expense of a Don cey, whose
Long Ears seemed to amuse th; Dandy
Fellow very m ich “.„au h on, V ain
Thing,” <iu idly rebu ed the Donkey;
“1 thank Heaven that there is one dis
tinguishing Mark between us. Make
merrv of mine Ears if thou wilt, but
that is the only protec ion I have from
I eing classed with Dudes, and thereby
insulti d ” Moral—A man’s most
ridicti ous feature is often his greatest
protect o i. —Atlanta Con dilution.
—A would-be society beau, whose
grandfather hail been a successful shoe
maker, impertinently remarked upon
Miss Aurelia H ’sfee . and said they
wre very pretty. Miss II met the
young braggart soon after at a party,
and taking occasion to be heard by the
bystanders, she said “I hear that you
have been making remarks about the
Itofmy bo >t-u If you intend open
ing a shoe shop I shall be delighted to
continue the | atronage which was
begun bv our family when your grand
father was a shoemaker.”— Harper's
Baiar.
_He was seated across the room.
•‘George,” she said, “if a fire were sud
denly To break out iu the house, avhat
w u'd be vour first impulse, do you
think ” ‘‘Well, my first thought
would be of you, of course. . I would
get you to a place of safety, and then
do wha I could to extinguish the
f am “That would be v ry nice of
you, ( eor_re, to think of mo first; but if
n fire were to break oih now for in
stance. wouldn’t you lose valuable
t'nie reaching me from way across the
room ” “I don t know but 1 would,”
said Geor e. a- he .hanged his seat.
_-1 o you s e that man walking
along there.' ’ sai 1 Jones to a New
Yorker as a n ce-looking party went
l,v on Fourth street la t Tuesday.
“Yes,” was the reply- “Adi, sir. that
man has killed men, women and chil
deu in his tim.”- "Heavens! Why
don t they hang him?” “Can’t do it.
Hin- r in (r ’s p aved out in this country
“VY’asu’t he ever arrested “Not that
I know of.” •No wonder you have
riots in Cincinnati.” ‘He doesn tlook
like he was so bloo 1-tnirsty. YY bo is
he?’ ‘A doctor.” “Ob b-h*re s
a twenty-lif s-'ept — uttl
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