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T. A. HAVROM, Publisher. 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.