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T. A. HAVROM. Publ'sher. 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*. ,