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CURRENT TOPICS.
Garcia Gutierrks, Spanish dramatic
author, is dead.
The total public debt;, September 1, tj as
51,841,714,203 57.
Paris annually consumes about 36,000,000
pounds of butter.
This season’s peanut crop promises to be
the largest on record.
The annual honey product of Vermont i*
about 1,000,000 pounds.
The cash in the public Treasury, Sep
tember 1, was $414,541,952 97.
The bean crop of Buffalo County, Dak.,
is estimated at 14,000 bushels.
Tom Ochiltree refuses to be a candi
date for re-electiorf to Congress.
Anxiety for crops is increasing in India
on account of continued drought. *
The shipment of cattle from Colorado
will be unusually large this season.
The decrease of the public debt during
the month of August was $8,542,152 26.
New England has more seaside resorts
than any equal extent of coast in the
world.
Greece has notified the Powers of her
intention to quit the Latin Monetary Union
in 1886. ,
Twenty-eight of the anti-Jewish rioters
at Dubrovitza, Western Russia, have been
arrested.
The Austrian post-offices in Bulgaria
have been suppressed, and replaced with
local offices.
A lady was elected School Trustee of
Johnstown, N. Y., under the new school
election law.
Little girls on summer resort piazzas
tre getting rich at killing mosquitos at a
sent a hundred.
A Key West turtle on sale at Washing
ton Market, New York, the other day,
weighed 450 pounds.
Six years ago steel rails sold in this
country at $172 per ton. Now they are
quoted at S2B or less.
All defaulting bank presidents and
cashiers go to Canada, and all repentant
murderers to heaven.
Though the French have destroyed Foo
Chow we shall not be inconsolable as long
as chow chow is left us.
Twenty-four postage stamps to each
person was the average sale in the United
States during the past year.
The statute of Admiral Dupont, now
being cast in New York city, will be un
veiled at Washington in October.
A Pittsburg concern makes maple sugar
of plaster of paris, rice, flour, molasses and
a little coloring matter, without any sugar
at all.
Berlin oculists assert that the dust
from the elevated railroads have added
five per cent, to the profits of their pro-.
fession.
The horsemen of France are beginning
to awaken to the fact that the best of their
breeding horses are being brought over
from America.
raising is becoming an important
industry in the Black Hills. A full train
recently left Deadwood with 35,000 pounds
of this staple commodity.
Recent advices from Liberia state that
the country is in a prosperous condition,
and that the opportunities for negroes are
superior to those in America.
• At fashionable dinner parties’where the
fish is Spanish mackerel, lemon juice in a
tiny jar is placed at each plate and is con
sidered best to use instead of any sauce.
Even oranges are now subject to adul
teration, some ingenious rascal having in.
vented a way of changing ordinary fruit
into blood oranges by the introduction of
coloring matter.
New York is the center of the cigar
making trade. She has nearly 4,000 fac
tories,’ and turns out 1,000,000,0*00 cigars a
year. Pennsylvania, Ohio and Illinois rank
qfter New' York.
Times are getting very hard out West.
A farmer’s boy of eighteen in Washington
Territory became so despondent because he
could not raise money enough to go to the
circus that he hung himself.
Fine writing on glazed paper will give
one or two fair copies without calling in
the assistance of a press or water if use is
made of a writing solution of three parts
of good, jet-black ink and one part of gela
tine.
The United States navy consists of a
total of ninetyssix vessels of every kind
Of these fifty-two are in efficient service
The British navy comprises SSJS vessels
France has 258, Germany has eighty-six and
Russia has 389.
The Rev. Dr. Henry M. Scudder, of Chi
cago, who was for many years amissionary
in India, expresses the opinion that “foi j
unmixed wickedness and utter moral de- !
pravity no city of Asia could equal i
Chicago or New York.”
England receives daily an average ot
fifty to sixty tons of eggs from North Italy.
On one day the present season, the aggre
gate of 130 tons, representing 2,000,000 eggs,
was landed at Harwich from this source,
and sent on to London by the Great Eastern
Railway.
The cranberry crop of South Jersey is
almost* a total failure. Charles S. Brad
dock, Of Haddonfield, one of the ino -t ex
tensive growers, estimates that about
tl /ee-fourths of the yield was frqzen in the
blossom. The season has been unprofitable
to all fruit and berry growers.
One of the Newfoundland dogs brought
home from the North by the crew of the
Bear, of the Greely relief party, suffered
so much from the heat at New York the
other day that it deliberately jumped over
board atrd drowned itself.
Some weeks since an English school
teacher boxed a child’s ears with some
severity. There followed a severe and
long-continued headache, and it is not un
likely that the child is injured for life. The
medical journals agree as to the very great
impropriety of punishing a child in this
way, and give the many anatomical and
tnedical'reasons against it so clearly that
the brutal practice is likely to be IsssoumL
TRENTON, DADE COUNTY, GA.. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10. 1884.
HENRY’S EXECUTION
Interesting Talk With Sergeant Fred
ericks, of the Greely Expedition.
ho Did the A hooting— l>rploral)l« Con
dition of the Nurvivor*.
Indianapolis, Ind,, September B—SergeantB—Ser
geant Julius R. Fredericks, of the Greely
polar expedition, - is here visiting his
brother. In conversation with some
friends to-day he said his normal weight
was 152 pounds, but weighed only 108 when
rescued. Referring to the reports which
charge himself and Long with selfishness,
and a determination on their part to
live, whatever became of the rest of the
party, he said: “It is a lie from the
word go,” said Fredericks, “So, too, is the
statement that there were two factions in
the Greely party. I never saw a party so
united and harmonious as was the Greely
party. The only man who ever disobeyed
an order was shot. This was Henry, as
you know.” “So far as I know,” he said,
“there is no foundation for the charge. It
might have been that there was some can
nibalism, but if there was it resulted in
instant death, for the stomachs of the men
were in no condition to take such food. To
speak definitely, I myself saw no instance
of cannibalism.” “Did you see Henry
shot?” was asked. “I did. Theft of food
supplies was proven against him in several
instances, and four or five times .he
promised to reform. We demanded
his life of Greely, but Greely was
chicken-hearted—or. rather, too big hearted
—and begged him off. All the time Henry
kept in good physical condition, coming
out in the spring as sleek as he was in the
winter. One day I saw him take food from
a man without arms or legs, and from
another who was drawing his last breath.
I upbraided him for his conduct, but he
was indifferent, and atterwards to another
boasted that he was able to take care of
himself. The party became a unit against
him and demanded that Greely should
issue a death warrant, or allow it to pro
ceed without. Greely finally consented,
and the order was secretly issued. Now,
mind you, Henry was as supple as
ever, and if he had known that an order
for his death had been issued he
would have killed us all, for we
were so weak that we could not defend
ourselves, and could barely walk with a
gun. Three guns were loaded, I can’t tell
who loaded them, two with balls, the other
with a blank cartridge. The three were
place<» on the ground, and an equal num
ber of men detailed to take them up for the
execution.” “Who were the three men?”
was further asked. “That I dislike to say,
but I can’t see, either, that any harm is
done by revealing it. Brainerd and Long
and myself were the three. We didn’t
know who loaded the gun with a blank
cartridge. Nobody knew the man who
loaded the gun. \Ve were then ordered to
proceed to the execution. We found
Henry down on the coast and alone,
about one hundred and fifty yards
away, in the very act of collecting
sealskins which were designed for the sub
sistence of the the entire party. Henry did
not know that, we were about to kill him,
but he knew that he had been warned time
and again that he would be killed if he
persisted in appropriating the food of the
party. We walked to within twenty yards
of him, and the ranking man said: ‘Henry,
we are now compelled to carry out our or
ders.’ The order to fire was given, and
the man dropped dead. There was no miss
ing him at that range, and the aim from
each of the two men, whoever they were
who carried bullets in their guns, was fatal.
Henry did not say a word before
or after we shot. W hen the
sound of the relief-boat whistle
was heard, I refused to believe my senses.
I said it was the whistling of the wind in
the muzzle of my rifle, and pointed out to
Long that the gun was lying to windward.
But he refused to be satisfied, and went to
the hilltop. I believe from the bottom of
my heart he never would have returned if
the boats liad not really been there, for lie
was tottering with weakness, and it is ab
surd to think of his having game and food
lying away in safety. We could neither
shave nor wear a long beard. To shave
would have caused our faces to chap to
pieces. Wearing a beard caused a solid
sheet of ice to form over the face. You
see the sealskin clothes were air-tight, and
all the vapors from the body escaped at the
neck and frosted upon touching anything.
They would soon catch and solidify' in
stantly on a beard. I never changed
clothes from August 7, 1883, to June 23,
1884, and all this time never washed. It
might be interesting to note that we suf
fered as much from thirst as from hunger.
There yvas no water except as we got it
from melting snow and ice, and to do this
we had the wood—six or eight arm loads—
of a whaleboat to melt water throughout
the entire winter. \\ e had no other fires.”
COAL MINE SINKS.
Two llnndred and Fifty Acre* Mink Five
Feel on the Mnr five. Uiwlns the Enter
prise Mine-Lwui Half a Million.
WILKKSBARRE, Pa., September s.—The
Enterprise Mine, at Port Bowkley, owned
and operated by Andrew Langdon, of Buf
falo,was this morning the scene of the most
extensive cave which has occurred in this
region for years. Nearly one hundred
acres of ground settled from four to six
feet. The Lehigh Valley Railroad tracks
sank five feet, and traffic was stopped
for some hours. The air in the mine was
driven with the violence of an explosion
and forced its wav out of the shaft, almost
totallv wrecking the inside workings. The
ground was covered with seams and cracks
for several hundred feet, and five houses
belonging to the miners were wrecked., The
mine is ruined, and now full of gas. Water
from the river and an abandoned working
near by is pouring through fissures in the
ground. The mules in the mine were saved.
Five hundred persons are thrown out of
employment. The owner-of the mine re
fused $-309,000 last week for his ir«cerest in the
coal left. A second fall took place this
evening, which now embraces fully 250
acres, extending from the Susquehanna
River up the hill to the fanhonse of the mine,
a distance of half a mile. The fall of rock
this evening is thought enormous. Before
all the mules could be rescued six were
killed. Even if the mine is not flooded, it
will be at least a j-ear before itcaubepnt
in working order again. The loss will
reach fully half a million.
A Huge Tomato Vine.
Mcncie, Ind., September o.—lra Turner,
of this city, has a tomato-vine wiiich is nine
feet high and still growing. It bears hatid
some tomatoes, and promises to reacu ten
feet high before frost.
ritOinULE FRirBICIDE.
A Chlrii{» VlerrliMnt Found Allot Throngb
the Drain. Auapiriun Polotloji to Ilia
Brother.
Chicago, September 5. —William H.
Downie, a member of the Board of Trade,
was found dead in the basement of his
house, in La Salle Avenue, to-night, with
a bullet-hole in the left temple.
He was alone in the house at the
time of the occurrence. From the fact
that the face was powder-burnt and the hair
scorched, it was at first supposed to be a
case of suicide, but closer examination of
the position and direction of the wound,
and the fact that no weapon could be found,
led to the conclusion that it was murder. He
had a brother, Charles J. Downie,
with whom he had frequent
altercations with regard to the
undivided estate left them by their
mother, these troubles leading to a separa
tion yesterday after an unusually stormy
scene, and an attempt by Charles to brain
his brother with an axe. This, with the
fact that Charles once shot at William, led
to the suspicion that it was a case of frat
ricide. The police arrested Charles on the
way from the city to his suburban home,
and found on his person a revolver with
one chumber empty.
Infected Rags.
M ashington, September 6.—The Treas
ury Department received a letter to-day
lrom Dr. Hill, United States Health Officer
at London, asserting that the importation
of rags into this country from England is
fraught with great danger. Smallpox, he
says, is and has been for some time preva
lent in London, where quantities of rags
are collected and shipped to America, andi
large quantities of continental rags are
forwarded to London for shipment to;
American ports. These rags undergo no
process of disinfection previous to exporta
tion and are very likely agents to conveyi
infoctionof cholera or sinall-pox if collected
in infected localities. Twenty-three bales;
of rags were recently shipped to New York
by' “Ly'dian Monarch,” upon representa
tion that they had not been collected in any'
infected district, but investigation showed
they came from Dunkirk, France, where
cholera had just broken out. Large quan-i
titles of continental rags are now being,
forwarded to America by Wall Hull, a
more dangerous port to ship from than
either Liverpool or London.
The Cholera in Italy.
Rome, September 5.—A royal decree has
been issued suspending from official duties
all prefects and syndics who instituted;
arbitrary local measures against
or permitted such measures to be instituted.
The Pope has sent $2,000 to Naples to be
distributed among sufferers from cholera.
The populace -of Naples are nowi
exciting themselves with the ab
sorb suspicion that an Arch
bishop is in complicity with physicians to
poison them. At Spezia, during the past
twenty-four hours, there were twenty
seven fresh cases and seven deaths. In the
past twent.v-four honrs there were 122 fresh
cases and 37 deaths at Naples. The official
bulletin shows the ravages of cholera in
the last twenty-four hours as follows:
New cases, 144: deaths, 125.
Cannibalism at Sea
London, September S. —The German
bark Montezuma, Captain Simonson, from
Punta Arenas, has arrived at Falmouth
with three men belonging to the yacht
Mignonette, foundered on the way from
Southampton to Sydney. They report that
when the vessel went down they and a
boy, all on board, took to- a small boat,
without provisions or water. For nineteen
days they drifted about, when the boy
died. The others fed on his body, and
were enabled to bold out five days longer,
when tlie Montezuma rescued them in a
horrible condition. The three men were
placed under arrest by order of tlie Board
of Trade. The death of the boy will be in
vestigated.
D minutive Emigrants.
New York, September s. —Two little
girls were landed in Castle Garden from
the steamer Republic this afternoon, and
attracted considerable attention because
of two large tags which were tied to their
dresses. On one of these tags was written
the following: “This gi’ l is named Mary
Slingsbv. She goes to Urbana, 0., where
her father awaits her. See that she gets
through safely.” The girls are nine and
ten years old respectively. They were for
warded to-night.
A Strange Deformity.
New Philadelphia, 0., September 5.
Mrs. McMillen, of Waynesburg, is stopping
at the Sherman House, this place, with her
little four-year-old child, which is greatly
deformed. The body of the child is the size
and form of any other child of its age, but
the head is two feet nine inches in circum
ference and weighs forty pounds. Theehild
seems healthy, and physicians say it is the
only case of the kind on record, and they
are unable to account for the strange form
ation.
Vessel Lost. With All Hands.
St. Johns, N. F., September 5.—A dis
patch this morning from Trepassey re
ports a destructive southeast gale Monday
on the west coast. Tuesday morning an
unknown vessel was lost, with all hands,
at Sr. Shotts. Seven bodies were washed
ashore.
St. John, N. F., September s.—The
schooner Lilly, of Buern, capsized in a
gale Monday, and all hands perished.
Pleuro-Pneuinonia in Ohio.
Dayton, 0., September 6. —Pleuro-pneu-
monia has broken our among Jersey cattle
in Miami County. Dr. Salmon, who has
been investiga'ing the progress of the dis
ease, also discovered it in herds at Dayton.
The State Board of Agriculture has decided
it is useless with the means at their com
mand to attempt to destroy the diseased
animals in any one herd, when there are
others left to disseminate it.
Germany in West Africa.
Cape Town, September 6. —The comman
der of the German gunboat Wolf has taken
i formal possession, in the name of the Ger
man Empire, of all the west coast of
Africa between the eighteenth and twenty
sixth degrees of south latitude, with the
single exception, of W»1 fish Bay, annexed
to the British possessions a few weeks age
by the authorities of Cape Colony,
RED RUIN.
Disastrous Conflagration at Cleveland,
Ohio.
Rn*ailiii|j: a Lou of If ore Than Two Mil
lion Dollar*-Neighboring Town* Failed
IpenloAidin Mi|>pre*.lu|c (hr Flame*.
Cleveland, 0., September 7. —The most
destructive fire in the history of Cleveland
broke out this evening at 7 o’clock in the
lumber yard of Woods, Perry & Co.,
on the flats. The flames spread with alarm
ing rapidity, devouring everything in
their course, and at this hour, 1 a. m., a
triangular spot, one-third of a mile wide at
its base, and one-third of a mile in length,
is covered with coals and ruins. The fire
is by no means under control, and before
morning as much more damage may' te
done as has already been accomplished.
There was intense excitement throughout
the city, and at one time it was feared the
fire would exceed all bounds and invade
the business center of the city, from which
it was removed by only two streets and the
river. It jumped the river, but was soon
checked in that direction. Every steamerin
the city,and additional ones from Akron and
Erie. Pa., are now throwing water on the
ruins. The intense heat drove back the fire
men,and three engines becoming surround
ed had to be thrown into the river to save
them. A whirlwind, induced by the heated
air, swept over the burnt district, throwing
large timbers two hundred feet into the
air. A sheet of flame has been driven
clear through to Scranton Avenue,
and a lumber pile in Woods, Story & Co.'s
yard is now on fire. Klint’s lumber and
planing-mills are now on fire,
and Davidson & House’s planing-miH
is enveloped in flames, without the
slightest possibility of saving it. The wind
has changed, and is now blowing from the
river. This unquestionably saves all the
business portion of the city and jeopard
ized all the great manufacturiea on the
flats. At eleven o'clock the heat had
driven the firemen from the New Y'ork,
Pennsylvania & Ohio freight depot, and
the structure is on fire in fifty places.
Nearly all the freight was removed to cars,
and most of it will be saved, as the cars
are now being pulled out. The
Variety Iron Works are in flames, and
will be a total loss. All that is left of the
extensive mills and lumber-yard of Porter
& Barrett are charred piles of lumber.
The city is as light as day. Fifty thousand
people are viewing the great conflagration.
The air is full of suarks, and a fire has just
broken out up town by reason of sparks
falling on a roof. A large force of men
are engaged in throwing lumber into
the river in order to save the Seneca
street bridge. The heat is terrible.
Two firemen on the roof of the
freight depot Were overcome and
rolled off the roof, injuring both severely.
Two engines have arrived from Youngs-*
tow n and PairresvilllT. At twelve o’clock the
bells rung the riot alarm, calling out the
Fifth Regiment, who are now on duty as
sisting the police. The fire has been stop
ped at the west, after destroying Evnon &
Sons machine shop. The heat has induced
counter currents, and the flames are now
driving furiously eastward. Rhodes
& Co.’s coal-yards are now
on fire and will be a total loss.
September B—2 a, m,—The fire is now
under control. The flames eat their way
into the yards of Hubbel and Westover,
destroying about SIO,OOO worth of property.
The burnt district covers about one hun
dred acres. The largest lumber
yards and planing mills in
West were located on these fiats. Woods,
Perry & Co., King & Clint, Davidson &
House, Variety Iron-works, sustain a total
loss. The origin of the fire is incendiary.
The loss to the lumber interest, together
with the interruption of business, it is
thought will reach nearly $2,5 f JO,OOO.Tbe lum
bermen were all heavily insured. At three
o'clock the fire is still, burning brightly, but
fully under control.
Oh! Foolish Man!
Tape Girardeau, September 7.
A man named teenson, living at Arbor,,
nineteen miles *>uth-wost of here, hearing
a noise in his orchard last night, went
to the door and Mred his gun. At daylight
he fofind he had killed a mule belong
ing to- a> neighbor named Thom
as. At nine ('(’’clock this morn
ing, after consultation with his daughter,
they concluded it was a penitentiary offense,
and, fearing the disgrace, he reloaded his
singie-barrel shot-gem, went out in the
orchard, and lying down with his head
against a tree, he piacedthe muzzle of the
gun in hrs mouth, ami touching the trigger
with a stick blew the whole top of his headi
off. _____ '
Plague-Stricken Naples.
Napt.es, September 7.—Thesituation hem
is serious. During the past tvfc#ity-fouir
hours nearly three- hundred fresh cases of
cholera were reported, but the mortality is
only thirty per cent, of those attacked. A
Swede, who withholds his name, offered
70,000 lire in aid of victims. The minister
of Agriculture and Commerce has requested
the Bank of Naples to advance tae
pality 250,000 lire for the relief of tiw
poor.
Hooked in the Mouth by the Cow.
New Phii.ami.phia, 0., September 7.
The bright little son of Edward Stinebwrgh.
living at Loekport, or.e-haif mile south of
here, had a terrible mishap yesterday
while driving home the cows. One of the
cows hooked him, the horn catching in the
lad’s mouth, tearing the flesh in a horrible
mariner. The bov is still aliv", but it was
. a narrow escape from instant death.
privateering Advocated.
Paris, September 7.—Gabriel Charmes. i
in an article in the Revue Littemire et !
Politique advocates privateering to crush
England’s naval power. He holds up
Captain Semmes as a model for the future
naval heroes of France. He says a score
of AlaLsrnas would suffice to annihilate
England’s colonial and commen-ia 1 power.
Frosts in the Northwest.
St. Paul. Minx., September 7.—Winni
peg (Manitoba) report slight frosts at vari
ous points <->n the Canadian Pacific Sunday
morning. Lowest temperature 31° above.
At daylight a light drizzling rain set in,
averting all possible damage, thougnjunder
any circumstances the injury has been
light, as harvesting is about over.
Fatal Accident to a Circus Train.
Nashville, Tenn., September 7.—The
first section of a train carrying Doris’
circus, while backing tojday ou the Glas
gow branch of the Louisville and Nashville
Road, ran off the track, end eight cars
were ditched. One man was killed outright,
and eight others badly hurt. Particulars
and names arc not ascertainable..
SOUTHERN NEWS GLEANINGS.
It costs Atlanta $54,950 to run the public
ichools.
There are 578 patients in the New Orleans
Charity Hospital.
The New Pickwick Club building, in New
Orleans, cost $95,000.
Savannah erected 591 buildings during
the last twelve months at a cost of nearly
$400,000.
Catherine Spiney, seeing a storm com
ing up, took refuge under a pine tree, near
La Grange, Ga. The tree drew a lightning
bolt, which killed her instantly. When
she was removed for burial the llesh
slougbed off her hones in great lumps.
J. Wkstcott, a sawyer at Gadsden, Ala.,
became entangled in ti*e main belt of his
saw, a few days ago, and was carried under
the wheel, where he was pounded and
turned until bis flesh flew in small bits all
over the premises, and all that remained of
his body was a pool of blood and mangled
bits of bone and flesh.
A quiet marriage which took place at the
residence of Prof. Wm. Henry Peck, the
novelist, Atlanta, Ga., th« other day, has
a romantic feature. Mr. Charles G. Math
ews, a wealthy cotton merchant of Charles
ton, and Miss Myrtis Peck were to have
been married October 20. The bride’s
grandmother was on her death-bed and
wished to witness the ceremony before her
death. Hence it was hurriedly performed,
Bishop Beckwith officiating.
A shooting affray between James L.
Metzler and J. W. Bourne, at Vicksburg,
Miss., resulted fatally to both. The trouble
grew out of the former’s intimacy with the
latter’s wife.
A warrant was issued by Justice of the
Peace, Phillips of Wheeling, W. Va., the
other day, for Mrs. Albert Dinnerstein,
wife of a painter, living on the South Side.
She is accused of conspiring to procure the
death of her husband. Frank Freds, a col
ored man, swears that Mrs. Dinnerstein
tried to hire him to murder her husband.
Dinnerstein has saved considerable money,
and his wife said she wanted to got control
of this. Freds, let the matter proceed till
she had committed herself, and then gave
it away. Failing to secure his cooperation
she attacked her husband with bricks, and
fled. She has not been arrested.
Clarence J. Woods, a well known school
teacher of Cartersville, Ga., was fined $225
or one year on public works, for cruelly
beating a little boy who was a pupil of
his.
Memphis has base ball on Sundays.
The young widow of Senator Hampton’s
son spends much of hertime with the Sena
tor. s£rs. Hampton was » Miss Kate Phe
lan, of Memphis.
HABUTUBS-of the White Sulphur Springs
say that Hampton is ageing fast. He is get
ting quite gray,, but his outdoor life has
given him a healthy color, and he moves
about briskly, with only a slight halt to
tell of the lost limb.
The interior towns of Southwest Georgia
are now receiving cotton daily, and quote
prices from9>to 9*4£ cents.
Vicksburg is jubilant over the new busi
ness being done over the new road connect
ing her with New Orleans.
The New Orleans’" World’s Industrial
and Cotton Centennial Exposition contem
plate offering from $211,1)04 to $30,000 for
infantry and artillery drills.
There isn’t a single blonde girl in Mar
gin—Term.
Montgomery has decided that she will
always be Alabama’s best city.
The largest planter of cotton in Alabama’
is Mr. B. B. Comer, of Spring Hill. Hi)
runs 225 plows and. will gather 2,000 bales
this season.
Ebi Thomas, the colored miscreant who
criminally assaulted- tine wife of a farmer
near Senatobia,. Miss.,. was pursued aui
captured near Hernando, Miss., identified*
by his intended victim,, and hung to a c»»>
venient tree by the lynchers, many of
whom were of his own race.
Alll the cotton factories in the vicinity
of Petersburg, Va,,. stopped work, throve
ingout a large number of men, women and
children, many of whom are suffering for •
the necessaries of life. Application was.
made to City Council for a special appro—
priation for the reliefof the sufferers..
Fifty-nine establishments in Richmond,,
Va.,.make cigars and cigarettes, and 1 they
have an annual tradas- of nearly SI,O*W,OtML
There are forty-three chewing and smufe
ing tobacco factories, selling sti,lßt)jkW peP
annum, and twe-n-ty stemmeries, selling;
$1480,000. There are 710 manufacturing, ea.
tablishments ilk all, with an annual,tratin
of $28,061,332; employing 15,813; hands.
The tax paid on tobacco manufactured
there last year was: Cigarettes, soG|pßs;
cigars, $47,73.'); manufactured tobacco. 84,-
284,132. Total, $1,301,937. The inspections
i of tobacco reach 40,000 hogsheads aiuii V
500,000 loose.
Joel Chandler Harris, “Uficle Remus,”
was on the-staff of t*e Savannah .V-Vv*be
fore going to the jUlanta C institution sev
eral years ago. is not over forty* siaiall
■ in stature, with a brisk, alert air..
A JUSffIWE married a couple alt, €»)ina,
Tenn., a few days ago, without any wit
nesses present, and afterwards cenclmding
that rise party were nut legally naarried,
called the couple back and perforated the
ceremony in the presence of witnesses.
Parties from Rock Island, QL, intend
purchasing 50,000 acre* of landi in a body
somewhere in Northern or Central Texas,
upon which they willi locate * burgs number
ot Swedes tois fall.
The President of the Western North Car
olina Railroad has officially notified tiia
State Commissioners that *sltoe railway was
completed to ttie mouth of Nantohalia
River, and alsc. made the last deposit of
$311,000 in North Carolina State bondxas
required intlie-artof IfSS, thus fully carry
ing out the contract with the State. The
i road will be continued into Georgia and
; Tennessee.
The Secretary of the Lynchburg Tbbacco
Association reports a million aW a quar
i ter pounds o£ leaf tobacco sold in August,
j and twenty millions since January 1. Re
-1 ports* from surrounding corjities show that
notwithstanding the late rain, the crop is
■ considered an average cue in quality aud
quantity.
VOL. I.—NO. 29.
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.
—Watermelon vinegar is the latesff
industry engaged in by the Maryland
farmer.
—About three tons of candy, mainly
in sticks, are manufactured ia Ithaca,
N. Y., every week.
—Eicycies to be propelled by elec
tricity are being perfected m England
which will drive the ordinary machine
out of the market.
—Professors Ayrton and Perry, in »
paper lately read before the Physical
Society of London, ventured the pre
diction that it will not be long before
gas engines will be employed in< the
propulsion of vessels.
—The fog signal apparatus is now
constructed in such a manner that, in
calm weather, its sound may be heard
twenty miles. The pitch of the tone
may also be made high or low, as may
be required, by a simple change ol
levers.
—A Chicago printer is said to have
Invented a contrivance by which, when
attached to any printing press, eight
different colors can be produced on
paper at one impression. When the
patent is secure*! it will be put on the
market. It will, if it realizes what is
claimed for it, work a revolution in
fancy printing.— Chicago Herald.
—A, new composition metal has re
cently been invented, to which the
name “silver-eid” has been given, It
is- a close-grained, brilliant, white al
loy,. the precise con-tituents of which
a e not known beyond the fact that
oadmium is one of them. It is de
signed to take the place of the brass,
bron o and gun-metal alloys, which it
is said, to surpass in the qualities ol
strength and capability of receiving a
h gh polish. —N. Y. Examier.
—A circular railway has been built
at Ponce de Leon Springs, Ga. 'lhe
new railway is a wooden structure,
forming a circle, being four feet high
and five hundied feet long, inside of
which is laid the track fur the cars, and
is so graded that the cars run them
selves, the highest point above the
ground being twenty-twofeet six inches
and the lowest point touching the
ground. Mr. Wood, forme ly a poor
carpenter of Toledo.. ().,. is the inventor
of the circular railroad, having con
ceived the idea from witness ng chil
dren slide down the hills on their slide
boards, he arguing that if they could
slide down hill they could also slide up
hill—a demonstration of which is wit
ntssed imtheciioular railway.
JL’ITH AND POINT.
—A loan without security is a cy
clone for a. bank.
- Hereafter divert onj English ships
will be supplied, withi the telephones.
“Avvoiee from the deep” will be an
established faottheu..— Brooklyn Times.
—“Money goes a> great way nowa
days, observed a New York bank cash
ier, as he pocketed $60,000 of the bank’s
funds and set out for Canada.— Norris•
town Herald..
—Economy is 3iwery good thing ia
its-place, but it can sometimes be ill
timed, as was discovered by the man
who tried to bring bis- horse down to
living on a straw a. day.— Pittsburgh
Oispa ch.
—'l here are ail.sorts-of clocks, but %.
new invention, is- badly needed. It is
one that instead of striking at 11 p m.
will pick up a dilatory lover and fire
ItfTn out the front door. A million of
American fathers would each buy one.
— Ch.ca ,o •Journal.
—.Most fathers. kac*w by this time
that a diamond pin. a brown stone
house, or even that highest test of re
spe tab lity, an, English dog-cart, are
lot guarante-s that a man will be a
good husband; yet a large ma ority of
marriages are iuadfe because of similar
superficialities — Freeman's Journal.
A little boy by the name of Hub
bard, who lived ini Macon, Ga., used to
tell his schoolmates that some day ha*
would bo (lovernor of Texas. It whs
an awful threat,, aud it came true, too..
Little boys should be very careful what
they say when tlkry are feeling unu
sually desperate*. —Boston Transcript.
—“MyvDaugjiter Paints' is the title>
of a new' noveL The author, instead
of parading hia daughter'* failing ha
fore the- reading public, should have
reasoned witJk her at heme, and ex
plained how tine* practice of powdering:
and panting:injures the skin and mak**
a youag latiy t<ook prematurely cdu.—-
Norristown Merabi.
—Lfithere- is anything: that will maker
a man cordially hafte himself it is- when
he takes a> walk about a mile to. the
Poshtoffiee ttw hnd that he has lett his
keys at l aa>*ne, awl thin on going back
after thorn to finc'i on opening the box
that The ®>nly thing in it is a *. n «ri noti
tying ham that his box rent is due.—
Boston. Post.
—A young Wall street business man
Hus Written a four-act melodrama
founded on incidents in the re- ent finan
cial panic. \\ e have not see-n it, but it
probably runs about th s way: First
scene. Wall street; second s ene, de
tectives’ office; third scene, railway de
pot; subsequent scenes, palatial man
sion in Canada. —Philadelphia Call. /
—A lay of summer :
Too hot to read, too hot to write.
Too hot to even be polite:
Too hoi to sew. t >o h< I to kn t,
Too ho. to be mosquito "bit;"
Too hot to sleep, too hot to wake.
Too hot io brew, too hot 'o bake;
Too hot to thii k t >o hot to ta k.
Too hot to ride, too hot to walk;
Too hot to lecture oi t > preach.
Too hot to scold, too hot to teaon:
Too lot !o mantle, veil or glove.
T. o hot to dream of n a .ing love;
Too hot to laugh, too hot tuery.
Too hot to live, too hot to die;
Too hot to whistle < r to slag.
And, ottl toe hot for anythin*. ,
