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CURRENT TOPICS,
New York State has 41,864 Odd Fellows.
A boo.has been discovered which bores
holes in lend pipe.
The corn crop of Chihuahua, Mexico, is
reported a failure.
About 40,000,000 pennies were coined i*
the United States last year.
Velvet, satin and lace costumes will bo
all the rage in the early fall.
Tiik manufacture of candy has reached a
value of $1)2,600,000 worth yearly.
Great fears are entertained for the safe*
ty of Catholic missionaries in China.
Forty dollars is the price of a twelve
word cablegram from Foo Chow, China.
John Kino, Jr., will get $30,000 a year
salary as President of the Erie Railroad.
Upwards of 300,000,000 stamped envel
opes were manufactured at Hartford last
year.
The statue to Burns’ Highland Mary, at
Greenock, Scotland, is to be put in complete
repair.
A German company with a capital of
$400,000, is about to engage in the Angora
goat business in Texas.
A warrant is out for the arrest of Albert
B. Warner, the missing president of the
First National Bank of Albion, N. Y.
Who is there that supposes the Indian is
a big enough fool to go to work so long as
the Government amply feeds and clothes
dm?
Vanderbilt admits himself worth $194,-
1)00,000, from which he receives a yearly
income of $12,009,000, or $1,000,000 per
month.
The People’s Bank of St. Paul, Minn.,
was robbed of SIO,OOO the other day, by
some one who knew the combination of
the safe.
The dwellings and farms of widows,
minors and spinsters are exempted from
taxation in several States of the Mexican
republic.
A tremendous sensation has been caused
»t Madrid by rumors of a plot designed by
px-Queen Isabella to reseat herself upon
the throne of Spain.
California papers say this will be the
most prosperous honey season ever known
in that State. Ventura County alone has q
yieid of about 1,600 tons.
Oranoe peel is now said to be collected,
dried in ovens and sold for kindling fires.
It burns rapidly and with great fierceness
and is safer than kerosene.
The postefHce at Nine Mile, Clermont
County and at Warrensville, have been
abolished, Herbert R, Sackett has been
commissioned Postmaster at Sand Run.
The Vermont marble business is much
less this season than last, a great many
workmen are discharged for the present
and several mills have stopped their night
work.
It is estimated that the farmers of Maine
have this year scattered over the potato
Bolds, in the destruction of the potato bugs*.
» hundred tons of Paris green at a cost of
$30,000.
The site of the old Mormon temple at-
Nauvoo, 111., is in a yard on the river front
of the hill or upland part of the town. No
vestige of the place of worship remains,
save a well.
There are evidences of a repetition this
autumn of the after-glow in the western
skies, so much discussed last winter. Oc
casionally this summer there has been a
fine display.
Mr. Gladstone is enjoying the Parlia
mentary recess at his home at Hawarden
He takes long walks or drives every day,
and is looking stronger and healthier than
for many a day.
It IS estimated the stoves in the United
States are worth $189,000,000. They num
ber about 8,000,000. The people of this
country use more stoves than all the rest
of the world together.
Twenty-six saloon-keepers of Newark,
have entered suit against the County
Treasurer to recover money paid in by
them under the Scott law. The result will
be anxiously watched for.
1 The black ex-Queen of Assab, Turin’s
royal guest, refused the aid of doctors dur
ing a recent indisposition, on the ground
that it was against African court etiquette
for white hands to touch her.
Fruits are now largely packed in glass
jars by a process which enables them to be
offered to consumers at a cost not exceeding
fifteen per cent, more than those canned in
tin, and every way purer and better.
The marl beds of Western Alabama are
said to be practically inexhaustible, and
valuable as fertilizers. The richest depos
its are found along the Tombigbee and
Alabama rivers and their tributaries.
Womanhood is rising to a level with
manhood, even in India. A lady is the
editor of one of the most popular vernacu
lar journals in that country, and a library
for women has been established at Calcutta.
On* of the most remarkable telegraphic
feats on record was the recent delivery
of a message from Melbourne to London in
twenty-three minutes. The message went
by land and sea over 13,398 miles of wire.
Prof. Arnold states that it costs more
to make milk from old cows than it does
from young ones having the same milk
capacity. As a rule, the best effects do not
last beyond the eighth year of the cow’s
w.ge.
An artificial arm and some decayed sol
dier clothes were found buried under the
floor of an old saloon in Dayton that is
being torn down on Market street. No
bones were found, but the matter, notwith
standing, has aroused much though .
The experiments of United States fish
commissioners and of private parties in
raising shad in Pacific waters have not
been very successful. The late appearance
of a few in the Frazier River (British
Columbia) would seem to indicate that the
submarine climate off California and
Oregon is too warm, and that the fish will
prosper only in the far north of the west
ern coast.
TRENTON, DADE COUNTY. GA., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3.1554.
STORM ECHOES.
Later..Detai!s of the Tornado at Evans
ville, Ind.
Severnl of (ho Victim* of die f A polled
Mcaiucr Belmont IlcroTvrrd,
* Evansville, Ind., August 39. —Details of
the great storm are coining in slowly.
There was no stcrm above Princeton or
Rockport, led. There was great destruc
tion near Harmony, Carmi, Grayville, Mt.
Vernon, Uniontown and Henderson.
Houses, timber and crops were destroyed
in all this section. But one life is reported
lost here as yet. Damage to shipping was
slight, except the capsizing of the Belmont.
The Opera-house at Henderson was unroofed
and many buildings were injured. Steamers
damaged at the landing are being repaired:
Six bodies have been recovered from the
steamer Belmont: Mrs. Murray,of Brook
ville, Ala., and babe; Captain John Smith,
commander of the steamer; Mrs. M. S.
Lyon and two daughters. Diver Hijl will
arrive in the morning and go to the wreck.
It is thought there are several more ladies
in the cabin. A Mrs. Hay, of Owensboro,
is missing, and is thought to be in
the wreck. Mr. Murray says his Wife’s
niece, a young lady nineteen years old,
accompanied her, and is lost. Uniontown
lost Hamilton’s warehouse, Dr. Brown’s
new residence, Commercial Hotel roof,
Oartmeli’s old warehouse, and other build
ings in the storm. There was gerat destruc
tion of crops. Corn is nearly all blown
down and broken off. The damage to the
corn for fifty miles all around is greater
than by the flood. Singularly, but no re
port of any lives lost.
THE SOUDAN EXPEDITION.
The Force will be F»m|»o«e<l ofS.OOO Itrit
l»li T» oop>. 3.500 inns :>u<l Flotil
la of 950 Stiver Iteala.
London, August 30. —The Government has
ordered 230,000 pounds more of Chicago
compressed beef for the Soudan expedi
tion. Four transports at Woolwich and
two at Liverpool are loading stores and
munitions of war for Egypt. The trans
port Poonah takes 750 troops to Egypt.
Certain particulars with reference to the
relief expedition up the Nile have been
finally arranged. The force which
will proceed south of Assouan
will be composed of 8.009 British
troops, 2,500 Egyptians, and a flotilla of
950 river boats. The boats will be manned
by 600 Canadians, 390 Kroomen and about
2.000 Egyptian and Nubian boatmen. The
cost of Abe campaign is estimated at
$8,000,090. It is reported that General Lord
Wolseley, before accepting chief command
of the expedition, insisted upon being
granted carte blanche as to strength and
equipment of forces. The total number of
British troops in Egypt at the present mo
ment is 10,128, of whom 601 are on the
sick list. When all the reinforcements
destined for Egypt reach there, the total
number will be 15,000. The exact compo
sition of the force which will take part in
the expeifition to Khartoum will not be
defined upon until General K'olselev
reaches Egypt. General orders are already
given, however, to eliminate from the
troops all men whose physique renders it
likely that they would be unable to endure
the privations to which the expedition will,
no doubt, be exposed. Several special cor
respondents leave London for Egypt to
night.
Washington Monum nt on Private Grounds.
Washington, August 39. —The discovery
of the fact that the title to the Washing
ton mominrmt site is in the private corpo
ration known as the Washington National
Monument Society, has caused surprise.
It is not thought, however, that the interest
of the association will prevent the Govern
ment from exercising the same ownership
and control over the monument and its sur
roundings that it exercises.over all inonus
ments erected at public places in the
Capital. Tfce site was given to the Monu
ment Society in 1848, by act of Congress,
before any money was Collected. That
society after that collected $222,000, which
raised the shaft to 152 feet. The comple
tion of the shaft from that point to its
piesent height, five hundred feet, has been
done by direct appropriation from Con
gress, under the direction of a government
engineer officer; This nncient Monumental
Society will take the lead in tho.ceremon
ies of celebrating the completion of the
work, as they did the laying of tho corner
stone.
Death of a Centenarian.
Mount Gilead, 0., August 28. —To-day
will be buried in Bryn Zion Cemetery, east
of this city, a lady who probably bad
served out a greater allotment of years
than any woman now living within the
State of Ohio. Mrs. Nancy Linn died yes
terday morning at the advanced age of
one hundred and four years, having been
born near Baltimore, Md., in February,
1780. She had been in comparatively good
health during the greater portion of her long
life, and only within the last few months
had her mental faculties been
and, stranger than all, for thirty-five days’
prior to her decease not a morsel of food or
a drop of water passed her lips. She
seemed to gradually sink into a deep sleep,
which at length terminated in death. She
was the mother of five children, the oldest
one now living having attained the ripe old
age of seventy-six years. “Old Aunt
Nancy,” as she was known all over Cen
tral Ohio, was in enriy years endowed with
a remarkably strong mind and intellect,
and an excellent memory for notable
events which transpired in her youth.
Franco-Chinese War.
Shanghai, August 39.—A1l the French
have left Canton. It is now asserted that
Admiral Courbet left Min River with the
intention of going to Canton. Chinese mil
itary commanders everywhere have re
ceived imperial orders to attack all French
war ships and merchant vessels which
attempt to enter the leading treaty ports.
Those in port are ordered to depart imme
diately. Telegrams for Chinese Govern
ment lines are not accepted unless written
in English.
Paris, August 30.—General Miliot asked
to be relieved of the command of the
French forces in Tonquin, on the ground of
ill health. The Government consented,
and has appointed General Brieve DeLisle
to succeed him.
TERRIBLE TORNADO.
ofMfe and Property -A Aleamfr fan*
ft’ziMl hvi<l Mix ern of Her
Ihnwiifd-Rnildiiua Wiocho4 und
I'Niiiillti ltendered Homeless.
Evansville, Ind., August 29.—About
8:30 this morning a terrific tornado, nccom
paniedjby rain and hail, struck this city,
coming from the west, and continued with
unabated fury for an hour. Water descend
ed in sheets, and in a few minutes the
streets were flooded. The most widespread
destruction took place. When the storm
ceased, and a view of the damage done
was seen, it presented a terrible sight.
The city has been raked from one end to
the other. Not a manufactory in the
entire place escaped injury. The
most seriously damaged are the
Evansville Cotton Mills, loss, $15,000;
Woolen Mills, nb'Ut $7,000; Roeiker
Plow Works, $10,000; Armstrong Furniture
Company, abom $4,000. The large school
building in course of construction, and
which needed but the roof for completion,
collapsed totally. On every street cellars
are flooded, trees and fences leveled and
telegraphic and telephonic communication
almost entirely suspended. Hundreds of
small dwellings and stables are razed to
the ground and families are without shelter.
These will be cared for by the authorities'
The scene on the river was awe-inspiring.
The waves lashed themselves into unspeak
able fury, and dashed twenty and thirty
feet high. Small steamers and tugs were
broken from their moorings and grounded
or blown up the river to the sand bar,where
they went hard aground. The J ouisville
and Nashville transfer barge, with six
cars, was 1 lowu from the railway dock
and went bard aground on the bar, two
miles from where it started. The steam
ers Josh V. Throop and Silverthorn were
caught by the wind, the chimneys blown
overboard, and the bouts otherwise badly
riddled. The James Blackman was blown
out in the river ami swamped. But the
most horrible and saddest news of all is the
sinking of the transfer steamer Belmont
and sixteen passengers who were on board.
The Belmont left here at 7:30 this morning l
with the south-bound train on a barge.
About eight miles below hero the storm
came up, and, part of the passengers, hor
row-stricked, fled from the cars to the
steamer for safety. The barge was torn from
the steamer and driven in shore hard
aground, while the storm seized the steamer
and capsized it, the boat going down bot
tom upwards. The pilot, cook and engi
neer jumped on the barge as the steamer
went down. All others were in the cabin,
and unable to escape. The only officer of
the boat lost was John H. Smith, the can
tain. Those lost are as follows: Mrs. M.
S. Lyon and two daughters Mrs.
Sallie Bryan and Miss Laura Lyon,
Mr. E. C. Roach and son, of this city; Mrs.
VVoodville, of Henderson; Mrs Addie Mur
ray and child, of Brookville, Ala.; Captain
John H. Smith, Miss Alice Bell, rerr> col
ored women and an old gentleman and
wife, names unknown. Thioe bodies have
so far been recovered. They are Mrs.
Murray and child, and Mrs. Woodville.
Those who remained on the cars on barge
were compelled to sit with idle hand and
watch the death of their compaions.
HORRIBLE HOLOCAUST.
A Fire s Fur Fontalninir Silly Mrepl«z
M* n ( alrlira Fire—.tinny of (be I'nfor
(uiiae* Ki>a*te<l Whole.
Denver, Coi.., August 29.—The burning
of a circus car nine miles north of Greeley,
was attended with indescribable horrors.
The burned car was next to the engine in a
train of seventeen cars, containing Orton’s
Anglo-American circus. The train was
nearing Windsor, a small station near
Greeley, running about twenty-five miles
an hour, when Engineer Collepriest dis
covered tf.e car on fire, reversed the engine,
threw open the whistle valve. There were
sixty men in the car arranged in three
tiers of bertiis or. either side. Tho ’forward
side-door was closed, and men in bunks
sleeping against ir. The rear side-door was
also closed, and the men who awoke dis
covered the lower unoccupied berths next
to it containing rubbish on fire, filling the
car with smoke, cutting off escape in
that direction. The only means of egress
was through a small window
bet ween the car and engine. It is impos
sible to get a complete list of the dead,
ns many were engaged hut a day or two,
whose names are unknown, but eight Head
bodies have so far been recovered. Seven
sufferers lie in the Hospital in Denver,
some of whom will die. A number of the
rescued agree that in the car were two bar
rels of gasoline, which were exploded
either by sparks from the engine or from a
naked torch with which the men are accus
tomed to light themselves to bed.
A Family of Bad Emigrants.
New York, August 30.—About the first
of July, Rosa Yost, but lately arrived in
America, sent to a friend in Switzerland
$l2O to defray the expenses of her two little
girls to this country. Instead of using the
money for that purpose, the friend, Eliza
beth Gottfrey, bought passage for herself
and husband, and Wenzel Lousmann and
wife. Lousmann is a maker of musical in
struments, and had S6OO worth of goods,
which he brought over with him, and being
unable to read or write, (iotxfrev at
tended to getting the hills of lading, which
Tie had made out in his own name. On ar
riving in New York,Gottfrey, it is claimed,
got the goods from the Custom-house and
sold them, keeping the proceeds. All of
the parties except Gottfrey appeared to
day in the Yorkville Police Court, and
asked the court to advise them how to pro
ceed to right their wrongs. Mrs. Yost
desires to recover from Mrs. Gottfrey the
$l2O which the latter misappropriated, and
Lousmann wishes to recover from Mrs.
Gottfrey’s husband his instruments or the
proceeds of their sale.
Trade-Mark Decision.
Washington, August 30.—The Acting
Commissioner of Patents has rendered an
exhaustive decision upon the subject of
trade-marks. He holds a trade-mark is
distinct from an invention, from copyright
matter and from matter for print or label,
and that a trade mark registration is dis
tinct from registration for the purposes
named. The distinction iietween copyright
matter, which goes to the Librarian of
Congress, and design matter is pointedly
set forth in the decision.
Fatal Yd ow Ftver Cass in New York
New Yotk, Aagvst 29.—An unknown
sailor was found un -ooscious in the stree’.
R’-dncs lay, and died in the hospital of
> eliow fever. It is the first case here.
MINE TROUBLES.
fi tlie J s Attacked by Striking Miners
Co- Under Cover of Night.
Cittio,
•Ir
William O'lln-n, ofl.<»z»n. Killed, and
V. several Wounded--1 lie Milllai}Ordered
Out.
Nelson ville, Ohio, August 31.—For sev
eral days it has been rumored here that a
concentrated attack of the striking miners
would bn made on the imported laborers
and guards now ou duty, cither at Straits,
'ille, Buchtel or this place. It culminated
this morning at half-past one o’clock by
an attack of armed strikers, variously
estimated at from seventy-five to one
hundred, resulting in the killing of
one guard instantly and the wounding
of two others serionsly, and it it is known
quits a number were shot on the other
side, hut impossible to ascertain names.
Until recently Snake Hollow has been
guarded by thirty-five Pinkerton guards.
A few days ago they were transferred to
other points and replaced by guards from
Logan and that neighborhood, twenty-two
in number, armed with breech-loading shot
guns and a brace of revolvers apiece. At
the time of the attack but seven guards
were on duty. They gavq the alarm and
opened fire. The rest of the guards rallied,
and for ten minutes a continuous fire was
kept up. More than 'one thousand shots
were exchanged and the strikers at last
driven back. William
Logan, an old veteran of the nite
war, was doing guard duty at the
time. The strikers no doubt knew his po
sition, as he was taken by surprise. He
was heard to say, “For God’s sake, gentle
men, have mercy,” and was instantly shot
dead, more than forty buck-shot entering
his body, literally tearing away his
shoulder. He was an industrious man,
much esteemed and well-known in Logan.
He leaves a wife. Jacob Lift, ex-police
officer, of Logan, was shot through the calf
of the leg by buck-shot, not
considered dangerous. Adam Baurer,
a German and unmarried, aged
about twenty-five, was shot in the
head by buckshot; scalp wound, not dan
gerous; Barney Donnelly, Albert Riggs
and Win. Humphrey, track-layers, were
asleep in a barn just outside of the picket
line. The barn was surrounded by the
strikers, and all three captured. Donnelly
was knocked down and badly beaten, but
the others escaped.
Columbus, Ohio, August 31. —Midnight.
—Sheriff McCarty of Hocking County, has
inst sent a telegram asking for troops.
The Governor arrived at midnight. The
Columbus Battalion of the Fourteenth Reg
nfont has been called to bead-quarters, aud
will leave on a special train for the mining
district as soon as a train can be put in
eadiness. Continued firing, is reported at
Longstretn, and communication by teles
ggraph with that point has been
cut off for the past hour. At
balf-past one o’clock Sheriff McCarty,
or Hocking County, telegrapher from
Logan that he has five points in his county
where the riot is beyond control, and is
unable to get at them so ns to give definite
information as to whai is being done. The
Governor replied that 359 troops were on
the way, and more were under inarching
orders if neede 1. Owing to lack of com
munication advices directly from points of
attack can not be obtained.
SEAMEN SAVED.
A Schooner Fap*lr.e«, Her Frew Floating
on a Halt Three Ila.v* With ut Food.
Muskegon, Mich., Au?u<t 31 •Tin* 'rew
of the wrecked schooner Brigham arrived
here on board the schooner Walter Smith,
which picked them up in mid-lake Thursday
forenoon. They are four in number, las.L’ary
Captain; Patrick Powers, Ricunnl Bird
and Edward Atkinson. The Brigham left
Muskegon Saturday, the 231 inst., with a
cargo of lumber for Chicago. Sunday eve
ning a violent squall struck her, and she
nearly swiAjped. The rn-n stood at the
pumps all i™ght, bur the storm increased.
Mo«lay forenoon the Brigham capsized,and
shoMly after can<sned bottom up. All day
the »en floated about on a temporary raft.
over them, and their suff -rings
can not be told. Tuesday passed, one
vessel only being seen, the attention of
which they failed to attract. Tne situation
was unchanged until Thursday morning,
when thev were rescued by the Waltet
Smith. Up to that time the men had been
entirely without food.
Mysteries of London.
London, August 31. —The discovery of
the naked body of a voting girl, about eight
years old, with comely face, long brown
bair, fine dark eyes, and white teeth, in the
small garden in front of a house in the
fashionable and decorous suburb of Maida
Vale, has excited a sensation, and renews
the talk about the number of unde
tected mys’eries in London. The annual
p dice rep >rt mentions that last year the
loss of 12,411 children under ten was re
ported, and though only six
were unrecovered, this, with one hun
dred and thirty adults who can not be
traced, nnd thl"ty-five dead bodies picked
up in the streets and unidentified, make a
bad yearly total of sinister mysteries.
Expens ve Funeral Customs.
London, August 31. —An action against s
mechanic has thrown a curious light on the
expensive funeral habits that still survive
among the poorest classes in England.
The action w is for one pound eighteen shil
lings for the coffin, a guinea fora hearse and
two broughams, s-veii shillings for wine,
eleven for cabs, and one-and-sixpence ioi
refreshments for the drivers. The weekly
wages of the mechanic was six shillings.
Tue Judge was very hard on the undertak
er, and commented on the burial of the son
of the D ike of Westminster, the richest
man in England, in a plain deal coffin, as
an example to poorer people.
Drunken Excursionists.
New York, August 31. —Steamboat ex
cursionists on New York Bay, this after
noon, killed the barkeeper, rifled the bar,
became drunk, engaged in general fights
among themselves, assaulted women and
trampled children under foot in their drunk
en fury and maintained a reign of terroi
throughout the trip.
Railway Accident.
Boston, August 31. —A child was struck
by a irain at Nantasket Beach. Mass., and
killed. In attempting to rescue the child
the father and grandfather were struck aq<j
probably fatally injured.
SOUTHERN NEWS GLEANINGS.
A nkoro fell from a four-story building
in Charleston on the piazza shed below,
and rolling off fell on a pile of lumber on
the ground in the yard. Ho was insensible
for a short time, but quickly recovered,
and being asked if he was seriously hurt,
answered, “Oh, no.” He had fallen on his
■head, and no bones were broken.
A dam aging drought of seven weeks, in
the neighborhood of Lynchburg, Va., was
broken by copious rains on the 29th. A
splendid corn and tobacco crop, which was
suffering rapid destruction, is now insured
Benj. Johnson, colored, wife murderer,
was hanged at Shreveport, La.
Willie Williams was hanged at Frank
lin, La., for the murder of Win. Burgess,
aud Josh Berryman, at Natchitoches, La.,
for the murder of Scott Carter.
A freight train on the Cleveland, Lor
aine and Wheeling Railroad jumped the
track near Stillwater, W. Va. Fourteen
cars were wrecked and John Exton and
James Bulger, engineer and brakeman,
killed.
The Sheriff sale of the personal property
of the Kemble Coal and Iron Company, of
Virginia, realized about $41,000. This will
leave an indebtedness of about a million
dollars, for which creditors must look to
real estate.
Base-ball is played on Sunday in New
Orleans.
Vicksburg is soon to have another mili
itary company.
In portions of Mississippi the cotton is
shedding for want of rain.
A Miss McCoy is in jail at Dardanelle,
Ark., charged with killing her infant.
Saloon-keepers who keep open Sun
days in Atlanta are fined $59 Mdnday
morning.
The taxable property of Savannah is
$19,661,314; real estate, $12,516,202; stock,
personal, etc., $7,145,112.
Mr. Sam Hing, a wealthy Chinese mer
chant of El Paso, Tex., and a respectable
Creole youug lady by the name of Miss
Veque, were married at New Orleans the
Dther day. The young lady, who is said to
be really beautiful, was neatly attired, and
the happy husband was dressed in e black
broadcloth suit. His long plat of hair was
carefully coiled and placed on the top of
his bead. Mr. Hing has been located in
business at El Paso for some time. He
furnishes supplies and labor to the work
men on the Texas & Pacific Road Rt that
end. He has amassed quite a large sum of
money.
Charleston, S. C.. has received from
Winnsboro a piece of granite twenty feet
long aud thojfeiuwt square at the bas<: v ip.
be used in making the shaft for the monu
ment ordered by tlie Charleston Light
Dragoons, and will be erected in Magnolia
Cemetery.
A Georgia farmer plowed up $220 in old
American-Spanisli coin, a few days ago.
An alligator killed in Shelby County.
Texas, recently, measured nine feet in
length, and weighed 200 pounds.
In 1800, in Georgia, it was the custom ot
lawyers to appear in court in a black silk
gown.
It is the intention of the Indies of Loui
siana to collect all the relics possible,
which are in any way connected with the
history of Louisiana, from the days of hei
earliest infancy to the present time.
A tabernacle having no respect of creed
is proposed nt Atlanta. A gentleman has
signified his willingness to head a list with
$5,000. Atlanta has twenty six Methodist
churches alone.
The other morning at Chattanooga,
Samuel Bowman attempted to beat his
wife with a broom stick la-cause breakfast
was not as early as he desired. The woman
seized a butcher knife lying near by and
plunged into her husband’s body seven
times, inflic ing wounds that will undoubt
edly prove fatal.
The belief that under the alluvial soil oi
New Orleans water could lie found ha
been verified by the successful boring of an
artesian well 380 feet deep.
The Jacksonville, Fla., court-house is tc
be built of granite from Maine.
A white woman carried her dead child,
wrapped up in a sheet, into Athens, Oa., in
prder to get its measure for a coffin.
It is stated that an organized band ot
robbers, twelve or fifteen strong, exist in
'the neighborhood of Arcadia, La., and an
depredating in that vicinity.
Sam Small, of Atlanta, has eighty odo
scrap books, running back to forty years
and which he adds to daily. He has tht
record of every public man who has ever
figured in Georgia politics, correctly in
dexed. One of his books shows that Sena
tor Colquitt's father voted for the approved
two bills that his son voted against in the
U nited States Senate.
A brakeman named Callahan was run
over by a train at Charlottesville, Va., the
vtheflßlay, and horribly mangled. Several
portions of his body were not recovered at
all. It was not until after these were
buried that the unfortunate man’s head
was found.
Miss Ida Henry, of Chattanooga, was
visiting her uncle, Judge Sinunonds, in
Gynnett. There she met for the first time
since childhood her cousin, Terrel Sim
monds. The young lady’s visit drawing to
a close, she started on her way home,
when she was overtaken in Atlanta by her
ardent lover, and the twain were married
in the parlors of the Markham House. I»
was a case of impatience and not of objec
tion.
A few mornings ago the stage between
Weatherford and Graham, Tex., was halted
by a a single highwayman, who ordered tho
passengers, four in number, to hold up their
hands, which they did with alacrity, while
he went through them, securing $95 in
money a gold watch and chain and a gun.
After securing the booty the robber made
his escape, but is being hotly pursued by •
Sheriff’s posse.
There is a terrapin farm near Mobile,
owned by a New Yorker, covering ten
acres. Thev are called to their feeding
1 place by striking a bell.
VOL, I—NO. *2B.
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.
—Acoustic canes are a Fron h inven
tion for tho bene tit of persons & dieted
with imperfect bearin '.
—'lhe electric street-cars of O’eve
land, 0., make eight milt s an hour
easily. Cleveland Herald.
—A J aterson silk manufacturer his
taken out a patent for a process by
watch cotton and silk threads may be
> ivistcd about light wires, to produce
the effect of an ostrich feather or plume,
for ladies’hats and other purposes.—
Newark Register.
—Florida appears to be the “Land of
Flowers” to some purpose. The Na
tional Druqg s' says tha the manufac
ture of perfumes irom Florida flowers
is becoming au important industry, and
that a process ha been reccntl. devised
for extracting the sweet flavor of the
cassava plant.
What is < iaimed to be a valuable
rust protector is among the recent Ger
man inventions, it consists of ordi
nary od paint mixed with ten pen cent,
of burned magnesia, baryta, or stiontia,
as well as mineral oil. i his lieutrali es
the free acid of the paint, and the al
kaline reaction protects the iron from
rust.
—A design has been submitted to the
Australian Minister for Water Supply
of a contrivance for bringing down
rain. It is in the form ot a ba loon,
with a charge tff dynamite underneath
it. The balloon is to be sent into
the clouds, and the. dynamite is to bo
fired by a wire connecting it with the
earth. The inventor, Mr. ii. S. Jlainos,
of Richmond, intends to try it in tho
dry districts of New South vVales.
—The air brush was one of the use
ful and interesting inventions exhibited
at the recent Photographers' Convene
tion in 1 hiladelphia. A little bolder is
charged wth India ink. and by a bel
lows operated with a foot pedal, after
the manner of a sewing machine, the
iiuid is blown upon a lantly outlined
portrait, the result giving a picture su
perior in many respects to the best
crayon drawing. A life-size portrait
may thus be made in a few hours,
where as formerly by tl.e use of the
stump and pencil as many weeks wero
required.— Phi'adelph a Pre* .
—A correspondent o the Scien'ijic
American has been figuring on the red
sunset question. lie says: “Jo esti
timate the possible quantity of ashes
required to give the red tint require l in
the sky, let us assume that au inch of
a<hes"are spread through ten < übiu
yards of air This gives a dilution of
iof ,000 times. Astronomers tell us the
cause of the red light reaches sixty
miles in the air. At the rate of diffu
sion of the ashes that is assumed, tills
would require a rn issof forty-two miles
of cube, or a mile of ashes one mile
high, lorty-two in les wide and 1,7190
miies long.
I’ITH AND POINT.
—Enquirer asks “What shall Ido
to keep my greyhound from howling at
night?” Did you ever try feeding nim
on paris green. — Bos'on Rost.
—< holera is not Hit worst horror that
threatens l aris. Frenchman has
written a drama calh d “i es Dudes,”
which he proposes to bring out in that
city.
—“Why am I like a Wall street finan
cier?” asked a young farmer as he re
turned from the barn. “I give it up.”
replied his father. “Be ause I have
been watering the stock.”— Lroo l,n
Time \
Lady (engaging laundress and
nervous about small pox) “I hope yo
are very particular about infection.”
Laundress “Lor, mum.” we never
use none of it. We always washes
clothes with our ’amis.”
—“My daughter,” sa d a pompons
old gentleman, “you must never listen
to Batterers.” “Bub J apa,” -aid tho
youug lady, “how can J tell that they
are flatterers unless 1 listen.”— N. T.
Tribune.
—“O, don’t prop sc to me here !”
exclaimed a young lady, whose love
was about to pour out ni; avowal as
they were riding by a corn field. “1 he
very best corn has ears. ’ — tiurlinjton
Free Pres*.
—The Telegram:
She ca ches at tha tele r in—
Conjecture racks her i rain;
She knows her hetband lias been killed
On som: 1 ou g iin;r train
He fingers diane—her bieath tomes fast—
< h dreadful ii must bet
Wi h angry s owl she ea s the line:
“I’ll br.ngr a friend to tea:”
— l*h Ha Cafl.
Mr . Temperance —Tho weather is
so warm I thought a little lemonade
would be refreshing Won t you have
some, Mr.ldler? Mr. Idler—Thanks; no.
I must coniess I do not care for plain
lemonade. I dont think it agrees with
me. Mrs. Temperance —V> on’t you
please tell me how you like it, and let
me mix you some? Mr. Idler—Well,
the fact is, I only like it with a stick in
it. ‘ A stick?” ’ “Ye ; but pray do not
trouble yourself.” “Oh, no tro ible at
all, I assure you. Jane, bring me the
mucilage.”— Philadel h:a (al.
lat wa- a fresh arrival and had
obtained a situation in a hotel as a sort
of man of all work. “New, l at,” said
the landlord, “yo i see that sign, ’Gen
tlemen must use the spittoons.' If yo i
notice any of the guests violating that
rule I want you to report the matter to
me.” “Oi wull, sor.” lat kept a
sharp eve out, -and, after watch ng ft
gentle nan for half an hour, he went up
to him and said “D’ye raoind t e sign
forninst the wall, sor” “Ye . “* hy
don’t ye obsarve it thin ” “I am no*
spitting on the carpet, said the gentle
man, rather astonished “O. kuawyer
: no t au’ yer not usin’ the s, ettune nay
thur. Spet, ye thafe, or oi’ll report
ye*."— N. Y. Sun.