T. A. HAVRON, Publisher.
CURRENT TOPICS.
Paper peach baskets are used in Mary
land.
Darwin is the name of a new street in
Paris.
Leprosy is causing excitement in San
"Francisco.
The Cross Eye is the name of a paper in
Gordon, Tex.
Frogs legs are worth eighty cents a dozen
in New York.
Twenty States and Territories hare
adopted compulsory education.
An English seamstress has reckoned that
there are 20,049 stitches in a shirt.
An unprecedented amount of real estate
seems io be in the market in England.
Mrs. Mary Osborne, aged ninety-eight,
is the oldest inhabitant of Portland, Me.
In sharpening edged tools, substitute
common bar soap and water for oil on the
hone.
Myriads of locusts have appeared in
Mexico and wrought great damage to
crops.
Luther Hodden died, a few days ago, at
Koutn Willmington, Vt., age 102 years and
seven months.
A further suspension of the window
glass factories of Pittsburg is probable
after September 1.
We trust “Figbtingtown,” Ga., was not
suggested for a name by the proclivities of
of its citizens.
A statue of George Sand was unveiled
a few days ago at La Chatre, the nearest
town to her birth place.
Fifty Roumanian paupers were sent
back to Europe the other day. This coun
try is no dumping ground for European
almshouses.
A destructive and voracious enemy to
the beet-root has appeared in Germany. It
is a black bug, immense swarms of which
soon ruin acres of beets.
About 250,000 plovers’ eggs are annually
consumed in London to gratify epicures.
The nests are robbed and robbed again till
the birds can lay no more.
THe cost of the public printing now
amounts to $3,000,000 annually. There is
said to be some extravagance in this
branch of the public service.
The population of the United States in
creases at the rate of thirty-two per cont.
every ten years. At this rate there will be
88,00(1,000 inhabitants in 1900.
Tke grand total of appropriations for
the coming fiscal year is $186,100,470. That
is, it takes over $500,000 a day to grease
the wheels of the Government.
The plant is said to kill
grasshoppers by the million; it is alse use
ful in killing flies, multitudes of which are
found dead on or under the plant.
Three thousand two hundred and twen
ty-three cattle and 425 horses have died in
the Mexican district of Jonacatepec, More
los, in two weeks, for lack of pasturage.
The two leading papers of Denver, Col.—
Republican and Tribune have consoli
dated, and will be known as the Tribune-
Republican, and ba Republican in politics.
Detectives are trying to locate the
“underground railway” by which Chinese
are brought into this country. A good
many may have come from British Colum
bia.
Potato rot has appeared in the vicinity
of Quebec, owing to the recent wet weather,
and farmers are busy digging potatoes and
hurrying them to market. Hay has also
been very much damaged.
Charges are again made that the New
York police take bribes for protecting per
sons engaged in unlawful business, and
♦ hat the detectives especially are partners
of thieves and receivers of stolen goods.
Lord Falmouth, an English nobleman,
sold fifty-six horses the other day by
auction, for an aggregate of almost $400,-
000. One mare brought $28,000, and even
the yearling colts averaged almost SB,OOO
apiece.
The bootblack is menaced with a revival
of the enameled or patent leather shoe
which enables an economical man to wear
his boots without “shining’’ for three or
four months, and to shine them himself for
the rest of their life.
At East Gainsville, N. Y., a salt vein
100 feet thick has been struck at a depth of
2,180 feet. This find is considered import
ant, as it demonstrates that the salt depos
its of weastern New York are more exten
sive than had been supposed.
Of the 4,500,000 letters which went intf
the dead-letter office last year, twelve thou
sand wpre mailed without any address, and
nearly two hundred thousand without
stamps. Half a million of them were di
rected to foreign countries.
The other day in London two men who
sold a painted sparrow for a canary were
sentenced to three month’s imprisonment
at hard labor, and just afterward two
women who had beaten and half-starved
three little children were sentenced to one
■week's imprisonment.
School Commissioner Eaton says out
scholastic population is over 16,000.000, and
of that number about 10,000,000 are enrolled
in our public schools. We now have 293,-
294 public school teachers, or about 4,000
more than in last year. Public school in
comes and expenditures have increased
about $6,000,000 in one year.
A VERY strange and painful death was
recently recorded by the English papers.
A young woman walking near a precipice
slipped and fell over the edge. The bottom
of her dress caught on a stump and was
pulled up over her head and arms, checking
her descent but rendering her helpless. Ip
this position, about ten feet from safety,
6be starved to death, her position being
unsuspected by any one, and her cries be
ing inaudible.
An analysis of butter and milk recently
made in the District of Columbia, disclosed
the fact that of the twenty-five samples of
the former examined, twenty were adul
terated. The milk was found, it was said,
to be composed of sheep’s brains, cbaik and
water.
TRENTON. DADE COUNTY, GA.. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1884.
A CONFLAGRATION.
A Minnesota Town Loses One Million
Dollars of Property.
Almost KTTr.i I3u«i ■)<<»« lloiikt nmi Fart»ry
lu Ahlifu '1 lie Mftl: bui ii Opera-El <>ii*e
anil Ilitfh .School Hull . IK'itlroyeU.
St. Paul, Minn., August 18.— The city of
Anoka, for the fourth time in its history,
has been fire-stricken. Shortly after two
o’clock this morning an.alarm was sound
ed and the fire department -responded
promptly. The cause of the alarm was
found to be a fire in the skating-rink of
Kilines & Vandervelde, situated in the
rear of the Posjfoffiee and High School
Buildings. Although the department was
quickly at work, it was soon evident that
the flames were beyond control,
and that the adjoining build
ings must go, and in a few
moments the Campbell-Foote Brick Block,
in whii b the Post-office was situated, was
in flames, followed almost simultaneously
by the appearance of fire in the High School
adjoining, and Dowdeii Bros’, restaurant.
The flames communicated to the elegant
new brick belonging to H. L. Tieknor, and
from there across Second Avenue to 11. S.
Plummer’s dry goods store, and across
Main street io a row of wooden structures
occupied by various branches of trade.
Up Second avenue, taking several resi
dences and the Merchants’ Hotel,down Main
on the south side, destroying Plum
mer’s dry goods store. Cutter’s dry
goods store, Tieknor & Co,, drugs;
Ryan, boots and shoes, and so on until the
liver barred its Course in this direction.
While devastation was being wrought in
this direction, appalling flames leaped from
the wooden buildings on the north side of
Main street and enveloped the handsome
Mid stately structure lately erected by W.
D. Wasburn, and in which were situated
the Anoka. First National Bank and the
tlegant Wasburn Opera-house. The whole
tity seemed ablaze at once. Up and down
30th sides of Main street, from Third
ivenue to the river, and along both
tides of Second avenue, from
fan Buren to Monroe street, the
jitiless flames swept irresistably. From
•Vashburn Block to the brick hardware
•tore of Putnam, Cheslea & Lindsay, and
he First National Bank to Bridge Square,
he fire speedily made its way. Tuence
dong Bridge Square on the east side,
weeping away Daniel’s boot and shoe
tore, Abear & Wicklund’s, dry goods, the
Ynoka Union Brick Block, Peters* drugs
tore, and thence across Jackson street
liagonally to the great Lincoln
louring-mill and elevator, consuming
Jso, the smaller flouring-mill near the
.ridge, two planing-mills, one shingle dry-.
;iln, lumber sued and office, all belong to
V. I). Washburn & Co., the flames being
irought to a standstill at a lane ninety feet
rom the mammoth Washburn saw and
hingle mills. From the point where the
!re communicated to the Lincoln Mills it
rent eastward to the corner of Second
Ivenue and Jackson street, there joining
orces with the section which jumped Main
treat, and tackled Jackson’s Hotel and
tables, the blacksmith shop, engine-housa
nd jail, exhausting itself at the corner
< Jackson street and Third Avenue.
r hat branch ot the great conflagration
rhieh took its way soutii on Second Ave
lue destroyed everything to Monroe street,
t here it was brought under control. No
ives were lost and no very serious acei-'
ents occurred, though it was a scene of
he wildest and most uncontrollable con
usion. Men fell exhausted by heat and
moke, while women fainted, appalled by
be terrible visitation. The losses and in
urance can not be definitely ascertained
or several days, as many losers lost every
hing, papers and documents included. At
his lime it is utterly impossible to more
ban roughly approximate the great loss,
vhich is placed by the most conservative
t $1,000,01X1 at least.
Canadian Crops.
Toronto, August 15.—According to a
upplementary report of the Bureau of In's
lustries for August, a good harvest of
;rain crops of Ontario is assured. Fall
vheat gives an average of 21 S' bushels, and
pring 18X bushels per acre. The aggre
;ate production exceeds last year’s harvest
>y ten ami a half million bushels. Bar
ey is a good crop in southern counties,
>ut in the northern and northeastern it is
iffected by summer drouth. The grain,
hough plump and heavy, was dis
•oloredgiy ram in the last week in July.
The oat crop account is much the
lame as for barley, but, being two
>r three weeks later in ripening, has been
greatly benefited by the July rains. The
irea in rye is much less than last j'ear.
The acreage yield is about the same. Peas
»re a bountiful crop. The estimated yield
)f the hay crop is one million tons less than
ast year. The appearance of the corn crop
■s unpromising, due partly to the inferior
teed and partly to low temperature in
June and July. A good crop of beans isex
pected. Reports of root crops are general
ly favorable.
Damaging Storm at Pittsburg.
Pittsburg, August 16.—Between five
»nd six o’clock this evening this section
was visited by the worst thunder-storm of
the season. Rain fell in torrents, the wind
b’ew a hurricane, and hail as large, as mar
bles fell in all parts of the two cities.
Danziger’s trimming store, on Market
street was struck by lightning and the
roof partially torn off. The rain poured
in the opening, and goods were dam
aged to the extent of SIO,OOO. Library
llall was also struck, but only slightly
damaged. In the Seventeenth Ward a new
frame house was blown down, and on the
South Side a large frame building, in course
of erection, was completely demolished. In
all parts of Pittsburg and Allegheny cellars
were flooded and in certain localities the
streets covered w ith water to the depth of
from two to three feet. The damage will
reachKmany thousands of dollars. No
fatalities are reported.
My! terious Attempt at Suicide.
Cleveland, 0., August 16.—This even
a man of about thirty, standing at the Bee
Line bridge over the river, suddenly drew
a revolver, shot himself twice in the left
side, and jumped into the river. Ho was
fished out and taken to the City Hospital.
The physicians think he will recover. Con
siderable money was found in his pockets,
and papers showing his name to be John
Griffin, of Argyle, N. J. He had a rail
way ticket purchased Thursday iu Fort
Edwards. N. J.. for Toledo.
'iIIONE CANNIBAL CHARGES.
Ri TOilliix I>l»i-lo«iii-fft made—The Rod;
Fount] to he llonihl; Jlut.Utcd.
Rochf.ster, N.Y., August 15.—The disin
terment of Lieutenant Frederick J. Kis
lingbury’s body, of Arctic fame, from its
grave in Mount Hope Cemetery, was made
here to-day with the consent in the pres
ence of Frank W. and John P. Kislingbury,
brothers of the deceased. The disclosures,
resulting from a subsequent autopsy
are of the most revolting character.
The skin and muscles of the face and
neck were intact, but from the upper por->
tion of the sternum and clavicle to the fifth
rib the skin and muscles had all been re
moved on both sides. The skin and flesh
were entirely removed from both thighs
and legs, excepting the skin upon the knee
and ankle joints. Both feet were intact,
and no bones had been broken. There were
no vestige of imrigunient or flesh upon
either arm, the interosseus membrane of
the right forearm alone remaining. The
flesh and muscles on both hands were
well preserved. The examination of the
posterior portion of the body showed that
the skin and muscles of the back had been
cut completely away down to the bones,
with the exception of a few pieces of skin.
The pelvic bones were entirely denuded,
and all the extremities were attached to
the body by ligaments only. All the or
gans of the abdominal and thoracic cavity
were present, and there were no signs of
recent inflammation in the stomach or
bowels. Hardened lumps of fecal matter
distended the large intestines composed
of hair, tnoss and woody fibre. It
is the opiuion of Drs. Buckley and Mande
ville that the flesh had been cut away
with a sharp instrument, and tiiat re
maining of the feet, hands and lace
showed no signs of decay. The remains,
were fully identified as those of Lieutonan
Kislingbury. W. H. Kislingbury, tht
other brother of the deceased officer,
outlined the condition of things, which
would lead to the belief that the Greely
expedition was divided into two parties
or factions, and one perished
the other had gained possession, by force,
of the food supply. In the ostra
cized party were Lieutenant Kislings
bury and Dr. Pavy. The condition of Lieu
tenant Kislingbury’s body shows that he
died of starvation at a time when the
others had some food supply. There was
absolutaly nothing in the stomach, and in
the intestines was a lump of indigestible
material. There were no indications of
rupture, and the story that ho injured him
self is discredited.
Bishop Simpson’s Will.
Philadelphia, August 15.—The will of
the late Bishop Matthew Simpson was
admitted to probate to-day. He bequeaths
to the Trustees of the Methodist Episcopal
Church one-seventh of his estate, in trust,
for tlie endowment of an Episcopal chair
for a Bisnop, who shall reside in Philadel
phia, provided that, including this bequest,
the sum of $50,000 he subscribed for this
purpose before the meeting of the next
General Conference. The remainder of the
estate, valued at SIOO,OOO, is bequeathed to
the Bishop’s wife ami children.
Distressing Tragedy,
Payton, 111., August 16.—A fatal hunt
ing accident occurred near this city this
morning. While Oscar Weiburg and a
companion, of Chicago, were hunting
prairie chickens on the farm of Gus Fred
erickson, accompanied by Andrew Bremer,
an old friend with whom they were stop
ping, Bremer’s gun was accidentally dis
charged, blowing the right side of Wei
burg’s head away, and causing instant
death. An inquest was held, and the ver
dict was in accordance with the above facts.
Bremer is nearly insane over the affair.
Gold Increase.
Washington, August 15.—The available
balance in the Treasury is one hundred
and forty millions, an increase of one
million since August 1. The demands
upon the Treasury during August and
September will not be unusually heavy,
and it is, therefore, likely that a call for
ten million dollars of three-per-cent,
bonds will be shortly issued. Ttte gold
fund shows a slight increase compared
with the figures of August 1.
A Heavy Judgment.
Pittsburg, August 15.—A writ of execu
tion has been issued on a judgment recov
ered by the Allegheny Valley Railroad
Company against the heirs of William
Phillips, de eased, for $475,000, and a levy
will be made on the property of the de
fendants. The famous litigation between
the railroad company and the heirs of "the
deceased President lias been in the courts
for years, and has attracted wide-spread
attention.
Furnished His Own Subject.
St. Joe, Mo., August 16. —Henry Evans,
a colored barber, was shot and killed this
evening by Dr. R. J. Kirshrier, County
Coroner. The latter surrendered to the
police. The kilting was done on account
of Evans abusing the Doctor’s father,
sixty-four years of age. The general im
pression is it was justifiable hotnicide,
Evans was an ex-convict, and a dangerous
crank.
A Composer Becomes Biind.
Berlin, August 15.—Abbe Franz Liszt
has become blind at Bayreuth. It is sug
gested that the cause of his blindness is
smoking and brandy. It is said he con
sumed daily a frightful quantity of liquor,
and often falls asleep in the theater. He
lias broken off with the Princess Wichten
stein, who has become a devotee. Abb«
Liszt will retire to Weimar and end his
days there.
A Buzz-Saw’s Horrible Work.
Muncie, Ind., August 16.—While working
yesterday evening in Routledge’s saw-mill
at Gillman, eight miles west of this city,
William Pritchett, head sawyer, was
thrown by a belt across a buzz-saw and cut
to pieces. Pieces of the body were thrown
in different parts of the building. His
death was necessarily instantaneous. He
was about twentyseight years of age, and
leaves a young wife in limited circum
stances.
Subscription for Cholera Sufferers.
New v >‘ik, August 16.—The Conner ties
Etats ( n .of this city, forwarded 20.000
francs to Jules Ferry, Minister of Foreign
Affairs, Paris, as the second subscription
opened at its office for the relief of cholera
victims in Fi ance. The total subscription!
to this paper amounted tb'Pight to $5,666.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRES
Two Southern Towr.s Lose the Greater
Portion of their Business.
Hevenl.v-elKht Rnilrilnga Foii-nmt-tl at
(Jrenatla, Jits*., and Foil; at UreeuvlUe,
Tex.
Grenada, Miss., August 17.—A fire last
night destroyed the greater portion of the
business part of the town. The fire burned
three hours, consuming seventy-eight build
bigs and contents. Loss, $300,000 insur
ance $65,000.
Galveston, Tex., August 17.—A Galves
ton Greenville ( Texas) special savs: At 2
o’clock this morning flames were discov
ered issuing from Beal’- grocery store. Un
der a strong south wind,the fire rapidly en
gulfed two entire squares of wooden build
ings on South Stonewall street, including
the Coffey Hotel. Crossing Washington
street to the west side of the square, every
building was swept away for two hundred
yards. From this point the flames commu
nicated to the new County Court-house of
Hunt Comity, reducing it to ashes in spite
of every effort. From the Coffey Hotel the
fire spread to the south side of the
square, destroying half the buildings on
that side. Altogether about forty business
houses, half of them well built brick
Structures, with all contents, were con
sumed. Over half the business portion of
(Greenville is in ruins. Among the build
ings burned were the Rainey Opera-house
and Ragsdale & Herrin’s large agricultural
hardware establishment. Total loss, in
cluding the $40,000 Court House, foots up
$300,000, distributed among seventy-three
sufferers. Total insurance estimated at over
$200,000, of which SIBI,OOO is already known.
Several insurance offi es were burned out,
with all their books. It is generally be
lieved the fire was of incendiary origin.
The citizens are greatly dejected. Green
ville has been peculiarly unfortunate, hav
ing had a previous great fire and suss
tained heavy loss through a destructive cy
clone. The city has about two thousand
inhabitants. It is situated on the Missouri
Pacific Railway, fifty-two miles southeast
from Denison and the same distance from
Dallas.
A FATAL EXPERIMENT.
An Affemikt to I'ulveiizo (limit r»wdi»i
In a ( otlee-.TI ill lU’miiH* DUaftlioiial.v.
Wheeling, W. Va., August 17.—Edward
Brown, a young man of Martin’s Ferry, was
fatally hurt last night, in an unique way.
He intended to spend Sabbath hunting, but
having no gunpowder, and the stores being
closed, he took some giant powder in his pos
session and undertook to pulverize it in a
coffee-mill. So he pulverized it, and him
self too, almost, and set the house on fire.
He put a quantity of the powder into the
mill and began grinding it,when it explod
ed, igniting the balance of the powder and
■causing a terrific report. The coffee-mill
was blown to atoms, the house was jarred,
and Brown blown several feet and
terribly burned. The hair on his head was
burned off to the scalp, and his face, eyes,
ears, hands, arms shoulders and chest
frightfully burned. His finger-nails came
off. He crawled out into the Toad with his
ciothes on fire, screaming for help. The
flames were extinguished as rapidly
possible. His sufferings were terrible.
His lips and tongue were terribly burned,
having inhaled some of the flames.
The Cholera in France.
London, August 17.—There are now forty
one places and thirteen departments iu
Franc from which deaths fi<P\ cholera have
been reported, and there are doubtless half
as many more towns and villagtAin A. icb
there have been deaths, of which no reports
have readied the world outside.
The incidents of the plague in Alpine
villages are often heartrending, and
as often wrath-provoking. The cholera
area now stretches from Toulon, in the
southwest, to Auxerre, in the nonli, ill the
Department of Yonne, and to Gap in the
southeast, in the Hautes Alpes, thus mak
ing a rriang|c whose sides are respectively
286, 245 and^Omiles long. Auxerre is only
aboftt one hundred miles from Paris in a
soufceriy direction.
• Fatal Accident.
Cincinnati, August 17.—Jos. H. Beck
herms, a grocer, in company with his wife,
went out buggy riding this afternoon, and,
after visiting the two German cemeteries,
started for home. Just after having crossed
the bridge at Cartilage the horse, which
was blind, gave a sudden turn to me rigtit,
and pitched the buggy and its occupants
over a twenty-foot embankment, Bec<-
herms struck a tree and broke his heck,
killing hjin instantly. His wife escaped
with several severe bruises on her head,
arma nd side, but her condition is not seri
ous.
Last Greek Church Closed.
New t York, August 17.—What is said to
be the last Greek Church in this country
closed to-day in this city. Rev. S. S.
Hathely, Grand Arch-priest and Patriarch
of the Greek Church at Constantinople,
assisted by Rev. A. Athos, conducted the
services, which were attended by only
eighteen persons. Rev. Dr. Djerring, who
has allied himself with the Presbyterian
Church, was at one time pastor of the con
gregation.
Counterfeit Coin in Circulation.
Americus, Ga., August 17 —Counterfeit
silver money is in great profusion through
out South-west Georgia. Tne ten cent
pieces are most numerous. They are light
er than the genuine coin, and bear the date
of 1875. Quarters and halves are also
very numerous.
Escaped Convicts Killed.
Frankfort, Ky., August 17.—Two of
the murderers who escaped from the Peni
tentiary, were overtaken by a Sheriff’s
posse near Midway. One of the posse, Geo.
Cassell, was shot through the head and
killed by one of th» convicts. Both of the
convicts were killed, one being dead when
taken, the other dying soon after.
Conspirators Shot.
City of Mexico, August 17.—General
Mejia and two others, implicated in the
Mexican conspiracy, have been shot by
order of the President. A decree has been
entered against the lives and property of
Gonzales, Diaz and all others implicated.
Drouth in Northern Indiana.
Indianapolis, August 17.—The three
weeks’ drouth is causing great damage to
growing crops in Northern Indiana.
SOUTHERN NEWS GLEANINGS.
About fifty new books have just been
added to the Public Library at Knoxville,
forty of them novels. During the month
of July there wore 3,0(10 visitors to the
library and 444 books were taken out. The
institution is in excellent condition and is
growing in popularity.
Through mail service has been put on
the Vicksburg, Shreveport & Pacific Rail
road for all points beU&isn Vicksburg and
Shreveport.
The value of property in Fultou County,
Ga., including Atlanta, is this year between
$30,000,000 and $31,000,000, against $28,000,-
000 last year. Unfortunately but $0,000,000
have been returned. The increase in the
country districts is notable. The increase
in the county since 1881 is placed at about
ten and a half millions.
The street railway has reached St.
Augustine, Fla.
A pretty white girl of eighteen has
eloped from Winchester, Va., with a coal
black negro dwarf, scarcely four feet high.
The negro has a wife and four children.
The postmaster at Barnburg, South Car
olina, was compelled to close his office and
flea to another town to escape personal
violence.
The other night a man named John But
ler, who lives in Hanover County, twelve
miles from Richmond, Va., had a difficulty
with his wife. She swore out a warrant
and had Butler arrested. He subsequently
escaped, came back home and shot bis wife
through the head with a pistol, inflicting a
fatal wound Butler was again arrested
and lodged in jail. He is a dissipated man
and is supposed to be insane. Mrs. Butler
was a highly respectable lady.
Georgia sheep-raisers, it is feared, will
have to retire before the dog-raisers.
Fifty miles of steel rails will be laid at
once over the Memphis & Charleston Rail
road.
An ordinance in Augusta prohibits the
carrying of poultry head downward througli
the city.
There are five hundred men now engaged
on the Muscle Shoals Canal, and work on
it is being pushed.
The average weekly shipment of cigars
to New York from Key West numbers
1 000,000, and to the West about 200,000.
Increased attention is being paid in
"Georgia to corn, clover and grass. The
present crop of corn is in a flattering condi
tion.
Atlanta has given up the hope of hav
ing a special building at the New Orleans
Exposition, owing to the difficulty of ob
taining funds.
The New Orleans postoffice is officially
reported as inefficient through lack of
training. Nepotism is charged.
Mormonism has many converts in the
extreme portion of North Georgia, and the
elders are busily engaged in making more.
Hon. Wm. Walton, candidate for Attor
ney General at Austin, Tex., is recovering
from the'bite of a tarantula. Physicians
say there is no authentic case on record of
the death from bite either of a tarantula or
centipede.
A municipal reform movement is in pro
cest at Atlanta.
The crusade against well water has
reached Richmond.
Augusta’s new cotton compress has a
capacity of 100 bales an hour.
A Georgian.wlio boasts of a fortuna of
$700,000 returns $48,000 for trxation.
A $250,000 hotel is to be built at Austin,
Tex.
A Louisville, Ky., gold mining com
pany have bought a tract of land at Villa
Rica, Ga., for $4,500. This is the third com'
pany that will soon be at work there.
Postmaster A. R. Johnston, of Grants
ville, W. Va., absconded with Government
funds and money borrowed from citizens
and the daughter of a prominent citizen,
leaving his wife and family and creditors
behind.
A warrant was issued recently for the
arrest of Governor Ireland, of Texas,
charged with violation of a U. S. statute in
discriminating In a case of alleged misce
genation.
J. Mack Brooks, who has passed thirteen
of his twenty-eight years in the peniten
tiarv, was arrested the other day at Nash
ville, Tenn., for starting a fire which
destroyed $50,000 worth of property belong
ing to the cooperage mill. Brooks admit
ted he had fired four houses recently and
stated that he was a monomaniac, and the
only reason for incendiarism was he liked
to see a big fire. Brooks caused the two
disastrous fires at the penitentiary last
year, in which there was several hundred
thousand dollars loss. Brooks has served
two terms in prison for arson.
Three negroes named Jackson, Phillips
and Girod were murdered at Cass Station,
Tenn., on the Western and Atlantic R. R.,
the other night. They attempted to board
a but were enjoined by the
conductor. They then fired into the train
as it Mfcved off, and two brakemen came
near being killed. A citizen of Kingston
hearing of the affair organized a posse at
midnight and went in pursuit of the
negroes. They met the negroes in a short
distance and ordered them to surrender,
One of the negroes, however, commenced
firing into the posse. The latter returned
the fire and killed all three of the negroes.
The conductor states that he did not recog
nize the man who volunteered to capture
the negroes, and as no one will acknowl
edge who composed the posse, it is a mys
tery who killed them. The affair has
caused great excitement.
The other eveuing, at Jacksonville, Tex.,
a freight train ran into a hand car oti
which were John Gray, a section hand, two
ladie\ three little children and three sec
tion men. They all jumped from the hand
car except Mrs. Gray and her two little
girls, aged five and seven. Mrs. Gray was
very badly bruised, and the entire train
passed over the children, cutting off both.
legs of the elder, and one of the other.
They will die.
An ordinary house cat In Oglethorpe
County, Ga., has killed a sualp? 6**
long.
VOL. 1.-NO. 26.
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.
—Pomegranates are being cultivated
In the South. They yield SIOO per
a re.
—A company lias been formed in
New England for the purpose of con
verting water into fuel.— Boston Post.
—The sawdust and refuse of the saw
mill is now made to yield fourteen
gallons of turpentine, three to four
gallons of resin, and a quantity of tar
per cord.— St. Louis Post.
—A Hazelhurst (Miss.) man has
started a new industry, lie -ships toads
to Louisville florists, who use them to
rid their plants of insects, which, it is
said, they do very effectually,
—Blasting paper is a recent Austrian
invention. It is described as being un
sized or ordinary blotting paper, coated
with a mixture of prussiate of potash,
of charcoal, saltpeter, potassium,
chlorate and wh te starch. On its
being dried it is cut into strips, which
Arc rolled into cartridges.
—The bog peat of Mexico is now be
ing used ou a considerable scale at fuel
for locomotives, stationary engines,
smelting purposes, smiths’ tires and
household use. The peat is mixed with
a proper proportion of bitumen, and is
said not ouly to burn freely, and with
out smoke in m cb quantity, but to
give a higher dynamic equivalent of
heat than the same amount of wood.—
Chicago Times.
—An Atlanta (Ga.) publisher has in
vented a new method of photo-liiho
graphing by which it is claimed per
fect cop es of the line-t, steel engravings
may be taken on the lithograph cstone,
ready for printing, in less than fivem n
utes time. The proc ss, it is said, is
very simple, and can be performed by a
boy as well as an expert. By means of
it, too, the inventor claims that he can
make zinc an I o her metal printing
plates. The original picture, it is said,
is not injured by the process.— Chicago
lie aid.
—The grown g vegetable world
breathes carbonic acid gas through its
leaves, using the carboii to build up its
structures, setting oxygen free for the
use of the animal world, which inter
change is constantly' going <>n. 'lhe
carbon so appropriated is found in the
ash of plants after combustion, com
bined with lime or some other mineral,
but the larger proport on is again
driven oil" during the combustion, in
which progress it is again united to
oxygen in the ‘shape of carbonic acid
gas. —jV. Y. limes.
—lf, says M. (’. Montigny in L'Elec
tric ite wc cast a rapid glance o er the
progress that lias been made in elec
tricity in less tiuiu half a century, we
shall see that after presenting itself
suddenly under an entirely new form in
the Volta pile, after manifesting its sur
prising action upon magnets amt cur
rents at a moment when the science of
the phenomena engendere t by the pi e
seemed to some to be exhau ted, elec
tric.ty is aga n presenting itself under
a new light in iiduction apparatus
wherein it is excited by the most sur
prising means.
►
riTII AM) POINT.
I ain’ pot much faith in de frown
in’ man. 111 de bla k cloud dar’s more
win’ dan ra n. — Ar .ansaw Traveler.
—She advertised:
Little Hope p the lost her sheep.
And didn't know were to find ’em;
£he a lvcrtise i, and they catno home,
Dialing gold dollars behind 'em.
—Philadelphia Call.
—“Boys, don’t leave the farm.” No,
boys, 1 ust take the farm right along
when you go anywhere. You will find
it handy if you fad to get a situation in
the city, as you probably will.
—A scientific journal d's usses “ergs
as food.” This strikes us a being a
rather sensible idea and prodn ttve of
much 11 ore good than discussing eggs
as bou ,uets. — Oil City Blizard.
—“ ood morn ng, Uncie Jim.”
“Good n orning.” “Well, you got
your daughter married off, have you?”
“Yes.” “.veally, 1 rovidence smiles
upon you.” • “ -miles: No, bless you,
she snickered right out!”— N. Y. Sun.
New G rl—Oh, Missus, there’s
something the matier with the milk.
Mistress Mer y me! What i< it? New
t.irl A yellow scum has gathered on
top it. I’m ’feared it’s spoiled. Mis
tress—Where were you brought up?
New Girl In New Yorrick. Mistress—
I thought so. — Bh la Iclphia Ca'l.
—“i am choost as full ash a bag of
flour,” re 1 arked an inebriate to a sober
friend. “There is a differen e between
you and a sack of flour, however.”
“ A hat ishdi erence?” ‘When a sack
is full it can sta d up, but when you
are full you can t even lie down on the
ground without holding on. —liras
Siftings.
—An exchange thinks “the time may
come when the thunder-storm may be
called up by artificial means.” Come?
Why, bless”yo i, it is here. The only
artificia means necessary is to get up
a Sunday-school picnic. There maybe
an occasional failure, but it is about as
reliable as anything on thisever-chang
in<> glob- -ave death and tixes.—
Horrtxtow.i Herat
sir?” a locua ious barber a ked a cus
tomer whom he had been Having alive.
• •My wife would admire it eery much,"
rather indefinitely tesponded the man
un er torture. “Ah. ’ said the barber,
with great compla eney, “ladies are
often excellent judges of their husbands
beinc well shaven. -\nd you think
mineT will sui;, sir?” doubt of it
in the w rd. It was o ly this morning
she became angrv be ause 1 told her i
could not a told to bv her a spring
bonnet and sa d 1 ought to be skinned
alive.” Ihe barber lost himself in re
tention.”-- Pittsburgh Catoaide.
