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• CURRENT TOPICS.
Thu crop prospects in India are im
proving.
The Susquehanna has not been so low
for many years as it is now.
A farmer in Mississippi has a field of 160
acres devoted to the raising of peppermint.
A New Jersey mustang bit his owner’s
wrist so badiy that it had to be amputated.
The Prince of Wales is reported to have
said, “Were I not to be King I would be an
editor.”
Forty years ago there was not a tele
graph office in existence. To-day the nuni
ls 51.840.
A New Jersey cashier has committed
suicide. It is supposed that he hated the
Canadians. e
While the Czar of Russia stays in Po
land he will have Ins food brought from St.
Petersburg.
At Lynn Park, Pa., a baby left alone
was terribly mutilated by rats. It barely
escaped death.
A Glencove (1,. I.) man is the owner of
a rooster which catches mice as well as any
cat in the place.
Domestic cotton rags have advanced one
half cent, per pound since the stoppage of
the importation of rags. •
4V estern railroad managers are anxious
to kiss a fid make up. They have grown
weary of the war on rates.
The Evening Bulletin, the oldest after
noon paper in Philadelphia, has reduced its
price from three to two cents.
C. S. Voorhees, a son of Senator Voor
hees, has been nominated in Washington
Territory as a Delegate to Congress.
The world’s best bicycle mile record was
broken at Hartford, the othfer day, by O.
Sellers, of England, whp made a mile
in 2:39.
The total number of hogs slaughtered an
nually in the United States is estimated at
30,000,000 the average dressed weight being
175 pounds each.
Empress Eugenie’s long black cloak and
black cane, on which she leans constantly,
attract the deepest sympathy of the gay
world at Carlsbad.
A Brooklyn woman forgot her baby and
left it ill a street-car. By running half a
block and yelling, she succeeded in stopping
the car and recovering her heir.
British scientists exploring in the Rocky
Mountains have obtained data‘by which
they expect to be able to definitely estab
lish the exact age of the mountains.
Best comb honey is selling in California
for nine to eleven cents per pound, and ex
tracted, put up in bright new cans, brings
only i'i cents, and dull of sale at that.
C. R. Berry, of Galconda, 'lll., has sent
to Mr. Cleveland a hickory cane, on the
head of which is carved the New York
State arms and a picture of the National
Capital.
Maud, S. was sold for enough money to
buy over three miles of barreled flour, laid
end to end, or enough to fill a space seven
hundred feet square and ten feet high with
loaves of bread. *
Richard Grant White says the lettei
“r” is disappearing from the American
tongue. This is truly alarming. We shall
presently have no month in which oysters
may be safely eaten.
A new line of steamers is to be estab
lished to run from German ports to New
York, for the accommodation of the in
creased number of German emigrants now
flocking to this country.
The South Carolina bank that gave a
depositor, inadvertently, a bag with SI,OOO
in gold instead of a bag with SSO in silver,
appears to be one of the few banks that are
ready to correct mistakes.
In the national treasury there is nearly
$110,000,000 in government securities which
are uncalled for.” Some of them have been
due fifty years. Why the owners do not
call for them is wholly unknown.
Canadian authorities are taking steps to
try and have the schedule of extraditable
offenses enlarged so as to include defalcation
and embezzlement. This will be unwelcome
news to a certain class of bank officials.
Some idea of the capacity of California as
si honey-producing State cart be found from
the fact that in a peak in San Bernardino,
Cal., a mass of honey estimated to contain
at least 500 barrels, has lately been discov
ered.
Last year the value of fish caught in
Scottish waters was about $16,000,00p, while
a few short of 50,000 men and boys were
employed in the 15,000 boats engaged in the
fishery. A million and a half barrels of
herring were taken.
The Archiv fur Stmographie points out
that the forty-four short-hand writers of
the French Senate and Chamber of Deputies
follow- thirteen different systems of writ
ing. Phonography is one of the arts that
needs further boiling down.
In a’ Chinese newspaper the columns be
gin at the bottom instead of at the top. It
is pleasant to notice the bland smile of a
Celestial publisher when he signs a con*
tract to put a patent medicine advertise
ment at the top of the column.
Notwithstanding he has been so hard
up of late, that extraordinary potentate,
the King of' Bavaria, has lately bought
Falkenstein’s Castle,-a ruin on a high bluff
near to the Tyrolees frontier. Hundreds of
men are at work making a fine road to it,
Everybody who knows how the sudden
cessation of a thundering band of music
causes remarks to be shouted out in a tone
like a locomotive whistle. The other night
at a hop, at West Point, the band crushed
out a few final bars and suddenly stopped,
when the voice of a lovely little thing in
pink was heard screaming at the top of her
lungs: “Don’t my bustle hang like a
daisy?”
The girl Sarah Coyle, who aided her mi
tress to elope, has eloped herself with th
coachman of a neighbor of Mr. Morosini.
If the prevailing dude expects anythiug like
oermanent success as a masher, he will
study the and style of tue average
coachman.
TRENTON, DADE COUNTY, GA.. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24. 1884.
GORDON’S VICTORY.
Two Severe Battles Fought with the
Rebels.
Tile Sietre «if H linrloi, in Itntaeil and the
Itebrln Helical to the Interior.
Cairo, September 20.—A messenger from
Gordon has arrived at Dongola with infor
mation tnat Gordon has had two severe
battles with the rebels, in both of which
the rebels sustained disastrous defeat. In
the last battle, when it 4 became apparent
tne rebels were giving way, Gordon sailed
out so vigorously that the enemy were com
pelled to raise the seige of Khartoum aud
retreat to the interior. The messenger savs
the rebels lost heavily. Gordon’s loss
was very small. The Mudir
of Dongola telegraphs the au
thorities here that messengers from General
Gordon brought eighteen dispatches. Two
of them were for the Sheik of the Kabba
bish tribe, which were delivered. Two
other dispatches were directed t.o the son
in-law- of the Sheik, who, however, bad
been previously publicly executed by order
of the Mahdi’s Ameer in order to overawe
the people and compel them to join the
Mahdi. The Ameer, with many chiefs,
was afterward killed in battle. The
messenger who brought the dis
patches reports that oil the 24th of July
General Gordon’s troops slaughtered the
rebel army which had been sent against
him from Kordofan. Another brittle was
fought on tlie 30th of August, which resulted
in General Gordon forcing the rebels to
raise the siege of Khartoum, and during
which Sheik Sidi, bis son and their follow
ers were killed. The above reports are con
firmed by Khatem Elmoos Bey,
who is holding Hal fly eh with
Egyptian soldiers. The Shaggieh and other
tribes have come in and tendered their
submission. Sennaar is now in perfect se
curity. The population of Berber lias re
covered from its fright over the anticipated
descent of General Gordon. The whole
Shaggieh country is now tranquil. The
Chiefs are imploring for mercy, and have
made a contract upon the Koran to aban
don the Mahdi. The compact has thus far
been observed.
CIRCUS MEN
Kill a Hanna* fiiiaeii mill Iforlall;
Wound a Ila.ior,
Atchison, Kan., September 20.—A seri
ous row occurred between the citizens of
Burr Oak, Jewell County, Kan., and
showmen belonging to Miles Orton’s
Circus, Friday night, in which one man
was killed outrigut and several more
men were wounded. A disturbance was
raised by a drunken citizen named Elli
ott, and a general fight occurred, Elliott
was arrested and the circus men took
their effe ts to the train. The crowd fol
lowed them, and just as Mayor Marr had
restored order a man named Evans ap
peared at the depot with a double-barreled
shot-gun, and fired into the train. At this
moment the train pulled out and the circus
men fired a volley at the crowd, killing J.
Longnecker, mortally wounding Mayor
Marr and slightly wounding a
boy. Longnecker was not taking part in
the row. He leaves a wife and six
children. A special from Washington says
sixteen circus men were arrested there this
morning by the Sheriff of Jewell County.
This afternoon ’ they were taken to Green
leaf by the Sheriff of Washington County.
At seven o’clock this evening a hundred
men arrived there from Burr Oak, and at
lust accounts five hundred men were at the
depot awaiting developments, while the
circus was performing uptown. The Burr
Oak people demanded the arrest of Orton
and his son. The crowd was orderly.
The New Party’s Platform.
Boston, September 20. —The following is
the platform adopted by the American
Political Alliance, which has nominated
Captain W. T. Ellsworth, of Pennsylvania,
and Charles H. Waterman, of New York,
President and Vice President of the United
States: “We demand the repeal of all
present naturalization laws, and
the passage of an act by
the Congress of the United States
making a residence of twenty
one years necessary to enable foreigners "to
vote, or hold official positions in this coun
try, except when such foreign horn citizens
have served in the army or the navy of the
United States; the passage of an act by
Congress prohibiting the formation of po
litical organizations composed of foreigners
exclnsively; the rights of suffrage to
American-born females, the sameas males;
opposition to the importation and attempted
colonization of foreigners and paupers from
foreign countries, and absolute suppression
of Chinese emigration; opportunity to vote
direct for President and Vice-President of
the United States through and by an amend
ment to the Constitution of the United
States; the native born citizens, white and
colored, to rule and make the laws of this
country; no appropriation of public funds
for sectarian purposes; the rights of all
American citizens, as provided by the
Constitution, to be maintained and pro
tected; a free ballot and free count.
A Child Entombed Alive.
Hinton, W. Va., September 10. —There is
considerable excitement here over the
burial of a live babe near Leesville, just
across the river. Jos. Lynn, while clearing
briers from a field, heard a feeble cry
near by, and upon investigation
of a pile of rocks he found a
white babe two months old. It had been
regularly entombed among the rocks and
its sepulcher covered with a large fist
rock. The little creature was fearfully
emaciated, and had been without food for
some days. The footprints of a man and
woman were discovered around the living
grave, and are believed to be those of its
unnatural parents.
Miraculous Escape from Death.
Indianapolis, Ind., September 20.
Silas Hail, aged sixty-seven years, was
buried alive while cleaning a well to-day,
which fell in upon him at the bottom. He
was covered by six feet of earth and brick,
but in some miraculous manner managed
to breathe for five hours, when he was res
cued. Aside from a few bruises he was
uninjured. The well was twenty-two feet
deep and was dry, as the result of the
i drought.
DISASTROUS COLLAPSE.
A Boiler Kxploden With Fearful Kneel-
The F.UKlneer Hilled.
Vincennes, Ind., September 20. —An ex
plosion occurred here this afternoon whicl
nearly demolished the flouring-mill of Emi
son & Callender, and fatally injured the
engineer, Thomas Childress. The unsafe
condition of tho boiler was the cause. Chil
dress was standing close to the boilei
drawing a bucket of water, and had
just been talking to John P. Callen
der when the boiler let go. Every
vestige of the engine-room, except a few
splinters and broken bricks, was swept
away. A part of the boiler scraped up the
end of the mill, breaking in the siding
from the first floor to the comb at th«
fourtli-storv roof, after which it. went clear
over the building and fell in the street »
square away. The main portion of thi
boiler went through a warehouse packed
with flvetiersof floor, scattering it in every
direction. head and another portion
flew in an opposite direction, one heavy
piece going over ami falling close to a little
dwelling, the other going through a stable
belonging to the milling firm, setting it on
fire and burning it down. Smith Manning,
an employe, jumped out of the third-story
window to the roof of a shed, and
escaped with silght injury. John Callen
der, who was near the engine-room door,
was knocked down by debris and blown
across the room anil considerably bruised.
Childress, the engineer, was literally
cooked. His eyes were blown out, both
legs broken, and when bis clothes were
taken off skin and pieces of flesh came with
them. He was conscious a long time, and
told the doctors that he was carrying
eighty pounds of steam, that aflnount being
required to run the mill. He died to night.
STEAMERS BURNER.
Till* llntrrnnirnl V,mrl Lip Totally
IlMlroji-d at Cincinnati—l.onm. 8 <-'>.<>oo.
Cincinnati, September 20.—At 2:30 this
morning the steamers Bonanza and Morn
ing Mail and the Government light-house
vessel Lily, were burned. They were lying
along the river front near Crane’s mill,
Fulton. The fire was discovered by officer
McDaniels on the Bonanza,that lay between
the other two. He cut loose the
Vint Shinkle and the Janies W. Gaff
(Memphis packets), and they drifted away
and were saved. No damage to other
property. Tiie Morning Mail and Bonanza
are the property of the Cincinnati and Big
Sandy Packet Company. The former is a
daily packet to Maysville and the latter to
Huntington. The Lily is a Government
light-house steamer, in command of
Captain Geo. YV. Vandergrift.
who, with his crew, were on the boat. The
Bonanza is an old boat, and was probably
worth $25,000. The Morning Mail was
worth about $30,000. Tne Lily was a small
vessel, and was probably w<n-th .<tlsonO„
Laving beun nuß’ly orefDfiUlcd and 111
thorough repair.
Resolutions of Miners’ Convention.
Pittsburg, Pa., September 20. —At the
Miners’ Convention resolutions were
adopted sympathizing with the striking
miners along the Monongahela River, des
nouncing the conspiracy laws of Pennsyl
vania, and requesting their repeal; urging
mine inspectors to make more careful ex
amination of mines, as complaints are
made that the mines are in bad condition,
and urging that a check weigbinan he
placed at each tipple. The convention then
adjourned.
Under the Lash.
Wilmington, Del., September 20. —Seven
convicts were whipped at Newcastle this
morning in the pre-ence of four hundred
people. Among them were Edwin Reddin,
wiiite, who was pilloried for an hour in
addition to his twenty lashes; Isaac Ander
son, a negro boy, who swore lustily while
being whipped; and a colored thief named
“Sugar Awful,” who took twenty heavy
lashes without a murmur.
Isaac Jacobson Executed.
Chicago, September T9.—lsaac Jacobson
was banged in the county jail here to day
at three minutes after the noon hour. The
prisoner passed a quiet night, retiring at
one o’clock, and sleeping until five, when
he arose and ate a light breakfast. He
walked composedly to the scaffold. No
hitch occurred in any of the Sheriff’s
arrangements. The condemned man’s
neck was broken in the fall.
Imperial Amenities.
Berlin, September 20.—Emperor Wil
liam has issued an order that a Uhlan regi
ment shall hear the name of Alexander 111,
of Russia, and that the title shall be en*
graved on the epaulettes of soldiers of that
regiment. Baron Deßourcel has hud repeated
conferences with Prince Bismarck since the
recent meeting of tlie three Emperors at
Skierniwice. The Emperors will issue a
Communique to the Powers affirming the
pucific caaructer of tne late meeting.
A Child Burned to Death.
Toledo, 0., September 20. —The little
four-year-old-dangliter of Joseph Bylow,
was burned to death to-day. Mrs. Bylow
and a younger child escaped. Their dwell
ing caught fire, and the mother, in saving
the baby and herself, had forgotten the lit
tle girl, who was asleep. The house was
destroyed.
A Dreadfui"Accident.
Youngstown, 0., September 20. —Henry
Martin, aged fifteen, son of John Martin,
while running with an open knife in his
band to-night, stumbled and fell, the blade
penetrating his heart, causing instant
death. Surgeons were called, and upon ex
amination it was found the heart was
nearly cut in two.
A Base-bill Pitcher’s Fate.
Boston, Mass., September 20.—Frank A.
Leonard, whose case puzzled the surgeons,
died vesterday. He was a base-ball pitcher,
and his right arm became useless. The
shoulder blade and a portion of the collar
bone were removed, and the young man
lingered in great agony for months before
his death.
Colonel Oudley Resigns
Washington, D. C., September 20.
Colonel Dudley, Commissioner of Patents,
nas resigned, and will enter the banking
firm oi Bateman & Co., of this city.
A NEW GUN.
Keely, of Motor Notoriety, Scores a
Success at Last,
Mol In Perpetual Holton, bnt In Firing n
Cannon Hull Willi Considerable Velocity
and Force.
Washington, September 21.—Inventor
Keely came from Philadelphia by art early
morning train, bringing with him the ex
perimental piece of ordnance and two iron
cylinders, resembling, in outward appear
ance, those used for storing carbonic acid
gas. The whol# of his apparatus could
have beep packed ill a good-sized “dry
goods” box. In eompany with Colonel
Hamilton, of the Fifth New York Artillery,
and William Boechel, the inventor had
come down to the ordnancej station on
board the tugboat America. Everything
was arranged for the trial. Upon a
board platform, raised above the sand,
a few inches, the experimental machinery
had been arranged. Four feet of copper
tnhing, about the diameter of an electric
light wire, connected the generator with
the gun, entering at the vent. The antique
bit of ordnance selected by the inventor to
demonstrate the adaptability of the myste
rious power which he has brought to light,
looked like an ordinary yacht cannon,
mounted upon a wheeled carriage. In the
two-inch bore was inserted a brass tube
that projected ten inches beyond the mouth.
The gun-barrel is of steel. The large
generator to which was attached the cop
per wire tubing was of chilled iron, with a
holding capacity of five gallons. Two feet
beyond the generator lay a small heavy
iron cylinder, resembling in size and ap
pearance a baker’s rolling-pin. This the
inventor styled the intensifier. It was of
chilled iron, with a capacity of half a gal
lon. The bore of the copper tube connect
ing the generator with the intensifier was
of one-sixtietli of an inch in diameter,
in appearance the -ante as
that connecting the large cylinder
with the gun. To load the gun the inventor
unscrewed the barrel and placed against
the orifice in the chamber three washers,
one of rubber and two of smooth gutta
percha. This was to prevent, as he ex
plained, any leakage of the “etheric vapor,”
with which the gun was about to be charged.
Screwing the muzzle back in place, he
rammed home against the washers a leaden
ball weighing nearly five ounces, and
of one and one-sixteenth inch diam
eter. He was assisted by Colonel
Hamilton and Superintendent Sinclair, of
the U. S. Experimental Station, and the
army officers, of whom there were many,
made preparation to obtain the velocity of
the projectile by means of electric wire net
tings, through which the ball would pass in
its flight. The gun was carefully aimed at
the five-hundred-vard target and fired with
success, the ball flattening against the iron
plating of the disc. Before turning
....n iimiom mas a*.. ... cif
tapped both the cylindrical holder and the
cannon with a wooden mallet. This, he ex
plained, was for the purpose of producing
the necessary vibration between the
holder and the rcceiver.Colonel Hamilton’s
assistants, who attended to the recording
of the initial velocity of the projectile,
announced, afrer several shots had been
fired, that a flight of 482 feet per second
had b-en attained, and at the eleventh
shot there was a gain in velocity of ten
feet, and at the twelfth, a further increase
of thirty-one feet, or an initial velocity ol
523 feet per second. The firing was con
tinued for the purpose, as Colonel Hamil
ton said, of testing tue velocity of the pro
jectile’s flight. The success of the inven
tion, as applied to ordnapee, in the opinion
of the army officers, was ti^nounced.
Grandson of Henry Clay Shot?
Louisville, September 21.—Harry Clay,
a well known lawyer and politician, was
shot and perhaps fatally wounded this
this morning by Andy Wepler, Councilman
from the Eleventh Ward. Clay was drink
ing and wanted to borrow money from
his friend Wepler, who wouldn’t let
him have _as much «s he wanted.
Clay thetm begun abusing liim, and
we*t out to get a pistol to shoot him. On
returning the two, each armed with a pis
tol,laid they were ready to fight it out.
Thel took stands and Wepler fired, the ball
striP.ng Clay in the groin, ranging down
ward in the thigh. Clay is a grandson of
the great Henry Clay. He made a voyage
to the Arctic regions in the ill-fated Pro
teus. He has been prominently mentioned
for Congress from this District. Clay’s
wound is very dangerous, though he may
recover. Wepler gaye himself up.
Another Comet.
Boston, September 21.—The discovery of
» new comet hv Dr. Wolf, of Zurich, was
cabled to the Harvard College Observatory.
Observation at Harvard Observatory tos
night shows that the comet discovered by
Dr. Wolf is circular, two minutes in dia
meter, aud well defined, with a nucleus of
the ninth magnitude. Its position is as
follows: September 21, 14 h. 36 min. 30
sec., Greenwich time; l ight ascension, 21
h. 15 min. 53.11 sec.; declination, 21 deg. 52
min. 41.7 sec. •
Yacht Party Wrecked.
New Bedford, Mass., September 21. —
The yacht Estelle, in a squall .Saturday
evening, went ashore on Black Rock,
seven miles from here. The occupants of
the yacht were Elisha 11. Fisher, jr., and
wife, S. Clifford Hathaway and Mert Hath
away, sons of Savory C. Hathaway. They
sat on the rock all night. The sea ran
high, and it was very cold. All suffered
intenselr, being wet through. They were
taken off this morning and brought to this
city. Tiie yacht is a total wreck.
Cattle Scourge.
Lexington, Ky., September 21. —Pleuro-
pneumonia js advancing fast in the herd of
Frisbie & Lake, Cynthiana; two animals
have died, six are sick and others looking
badlv. Dr. Salmon, Chief of the Bureau
of Animal Industries, is here, and he and
W, W. Estill, President of the Kentucky
Shorthorn Breeders’ Association, will go
with the committee to consult with ©over*
nor Knott to-morrow.
The Cholera.
Naples, September 21.—There were 287
new cases of cholera in Naples up to noon
to-day. This indicates a decrease in the
violence of the epidemic. A slight in
crease is noticed in the suburbs.
Paris, September 21.—Five deaths from
cholera occurred to-day at Marseilles, three
at Touiou, four at Abeam and five at Tar
ragona.
SOUTHERN NEWS GLEAMNtJS.
Selma has between seventy and eighty
artesian wells.
The minstrels are popular with the Au
gusta girls.
An aged veteran of the Mexican war is a
beggar in Charleston.
Modest Rome claims only six of the
sweetest girls in Georgia.
Seven negro policemen in Vicksburg
nave been forced by public indignation
over their arrogance and want of discre
tion to resign their posts.
Henry Cato will be executed October 31
for the murder of Jack Dukes, in Decatur,
Ga.
Robert Bell, aged sixty, was found
suspended by the neck from a mantel-piece
at his home in Baltimore, a few days ago.
Being a cripple, and goaded by poverty, is
supposed to have been the cause of the sui
cide.
Savannah has an inventor who thinks
he has solved the problem of aerial naviga
tion.
An Atlanta widow married in June,
separated from her husband in August
and sned for divorce in September.
At Savannah a skeleton has been un
earthed twenty-five feet below the sur
face, with a ball and chain and lock near
by.
G. 4V. Cromer, of Georgia, planted this
year a-n acre and a half in sorghum. On
this he made 150 gallons of fine syrup,
which Ht fifty cents per gallon would make
|75.
Milt G. Barlow, the delineator of the
Southern negro, is a Virginian, and served
■reditably throughout the war in the Con*,
federate army.
The Hon. E. J. Gay, nominated for Con
gress by the Democrats of the Third Con
gressional District of Louisiana, is one of
the leading, if not the leadingsugar planter
in Louisiana, and places his faith in the
Chicago platform.
Great excitement exists in Amherst
County, Va., over the unprovoked murder
of Samuel Mitchell, sixteen years old. The
boy, in company with two others, were in
search of cows, when they arrived at a
hunter’s camp in the woods occupied by
three men. George Fdrtune, one of the
men, ordered Mitchell to carry a beer keg
for him. The boy refused, and Fortune
shot him dead in his tracks.
J. W. Henderson, colored, has been ap
pointed by R. K. Bruce as special Commis
sioner from Chattanooga of the colored
men’s exhibit at the New Orleans Exposi
tion.
A colored girl named May Shanklin was
almost fatally scalded at Huntsville, Ala.,
l.ue uoici iii.ii, ... .• i,.
J —known person.
She was sleeping nean »
one reached through and poured a kettle of
boiling water mixed with red pepper all
over her head and body. The girl was soon
to be married and it is thought that the
deed was committed by a jealous rival, who
had previously threatened her.
JonN Heed, of Vineyard City, Jack
County, Tex., shot the top ol Bud Binkley’s
head off with a double-barreled shotgun, be
cause Binkley wrote a letter to a young,
lady derogatory to Reed. Reed was ar
resjpd.
Atlanta is said to be the poorest lighted
city in the Union. But the electric light is
under discussion.
Ike Fain, for the murder of his employer,
Tom Curran, the verdict in whose case was
affirmed by the Supreme Court, has made n
written confession and announces his readi
ness to suffer the death penalty. The mur
der was committed near Emery Gap, Tenn.i
aiid the prisoner is sentenced to be executed
at Kingston October 31.
Tin has been discovered in Mason and
Cabell Counties, West Virginia.
A train on the Alabama Central divi
sion of the East Tennessee, Virginia & Geor
gia railroad was wrecked the other night
near York Station, Tenn. It was going at
a rapid rate when it struck a cow. The en
gine 'was thrown over a steep embankment
and almost totally ruined. The engineer-
Tom Griffin, was shockingly scalded and
died; his fireman is also dangerously hurt.
Some restrictions around the pardon pre
rogative of the-Governor is asked in Geor
gia.
A bear was killed in Spartanburg
County, S. C., recently that weighed 425
pounds.
The rice birds are inflicting considerable
injury upon the crop in Georgetown County,
S. C.
At Shieldstown, Tenn., JMaegie Day,
a beautiful girl of fifteen, while in a
desponding mood took a large dose of
laudanum and died in a short time. Cause,
not known.
Four negroes were arrested at Macon,
Ga., suspected of wrecking the train b°ar
ing to suppress the threateno riot
at Dawson.
AT©Yneeling, W. Va., the vote on the or
dinance authorizing the city to issue $200,-
000 in bonds at four and a half per cent., it
resulted in the rejection of th 6 ordinance
by 608 majority. A light vote was cast.
At a conference of the Prohibition party
of Maryland, it was decided to nominate
a full State ticket and also candidates for
Congress in each district.
The cotton drays going through the Char
leston streets make one think of winter.
Mississippi spends nearly twice as
much for education as her neighbor,
Alabama.
Mr. E. L. Hatchel, aged seventeen, and
Miss M. L. Bridges, aged fifteen, were
married in Fayetteville, Tenn., a few days
ago.
A wild man was captured in the Chatta
hoochee swamp in Florida and carried to
the Tallahassee asvlum recently. He had
been swimming Ochese Lake from island to
island, and when taken was entirely desti
tute of clothing, emaciated and covered
with a phenomenal growth of hair. He
gave no account of himself, and the theory
is that be escaped from the asy .ura of some
other State and spent his time in the
woods, living on berries.
VOL. I. NO. 30.
IYJH AND POINT,
—A contemporary says that forty
years ago butter was -made from cream;
hagar from cane: cigars of tobacco:
shoes from leather; but times have
changed.
—The young woman who bites her
finger nails and kisses her pug dog on
the nose, would fall in a stony lit at
seeing her father nip a piece off the but
ter lump with his own kni e — Detroit
Post.
A seventeen-year-old boy was re
cently sent to the Penitentiary or a
year in New York for stealing’ four re
ceiving blanks of a telegraph company
of the value of one cent. The majesty
of the law is vindicated at last.— N. Y.
Graphic.
—After building philosophical and
moral ‘’ensiles in ine air,” one becomes
impatient of coming down to the level
of the work-a-day world, and setting to
work to patch up the little brick and
frame houses in which the world actu
ally lives.— Chicago Tri unc.
—When Mrs. Homespun read in the
paper that Slappandash had “ ailed for
$2J0,000” she said he was a lucky fel
low. She thought—the innocent crea
ture—that he got that mu h money for
ailing? What ridiculous ideas the
women do have about business!— Bo -
ton Post.
—A St. Louis man twenty-five years
old is the victim of queer mania He
firmly believes that he is seventy years
old. There are some equally queer
cases in Philadelphia, the victims being
women who are seventy years old, yet
(irmly believe they are twenty-five
Philadelphia Call.
--“Let’s play we was married,” said
little Annie to little Dick, “and you put
your arms around me and kiss me and
tell me you love me. Won’t that bo
nice?” “Yes, but don’t let’s be mar
ried. You be a nurse and I’ll be some
other little girl’s husband. That’s the
way papa does. ” — N. Y. Tribune.
—A writer avers that a woman's
hand is the personification of gentleness
and soothing tenderness. 'I bis state
ment will scarcely bear a close scrutiny.
It is not difficult for any o us to recall
our boyhood days when at times we
thought woman’s hand as vindictive
and enterprising as a pile driver.—De
troit Free Pre s.
—“Ain’t you almost boiled?” in
quired a kid of a gentleman calling on
her father aud mother. “No, little
one, I can’t say that 1 am. On the
contrary, I feel quite comfortable.”
“That’s funny. I should think you
would be.” “A liy so, Daisy?” “Oh,,
because I heard mamma say your wife
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Merchant Iravtyer.
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.
—A harp made entirely of wood has
been invented by two Frenchmen,
stionw stri| s of American fir being
used for strings. The tone is said to
be of remarkable purity.
—ln Northern Dakota, lately, a trac
tion engine drew eight plows, turning
a sod four inches thick as evenly and
well as could be done by horse power,
and at a rate of over twenty-live acres
a day.
—A Connecticut inventor has per
fected a machine for making barrels
out of paper or straw pulp, which will
turn out six hundred Hour barrels a
day at a cost of twenty-three cents
a pie e. They now cost fifty-five
cents. Hartford lost.
—A shoemaker in Utica, N. Y., has
spent several years making a puppet
show of about two hundred figures
working at dill’etent trades. The
whole are in two boxes, each six feet
square, and it takes a steam engine to
run them. t tica Herald.
Captain Renard, of France, the in
ventor of an allegi d navigable balloon,
claims that the problem of aerial navi
gation is completely solved, and that it
is now only a question of time and
money. He says that a balloon p >-tul
system is as easy as a railroad system.
—From a careful study of a series of
des : gns of the p anet Venus, executed
at Crignan during the present year, M.
P. Camay nfers that a perfectly circu
lar protuberance in the southern hem
isphere, presumably a volcano, has an
elevation of probably not less than sev
enty miles. He argues in a paper re id
before ihe Academy of Sciences, Pans,
that this enormous height is in no way
incompatible with the volcanic nature
of the planet.
—An analysis of the fragments of a
meteorite reported to have fallen in
February. 188tt, at Veramin, in the dis
trict of /erind, sixty miles west of
Teher n, Persia, has just been submit
ted by Pr. Tholozan to M. l'aubree.
It reveals the presence of bronzite,
peshamite, peridote, nickel and grauu
lated iron, thus showing the same con
stitution as that of the remarkable me
teorites of Legrono (1842), Estnerville
(1879), Hainholtz (1856) and Newton
County, Ark. (I 860).
—The Troy ( N. Y. ) Telegram describes
a new car combining drawing-room and
sleeping-ear features. For day use it ap
pears like the ordinary drawing-ro im
ear. “By a simnle device,” sa\s the
writer, “the cha rs are made to
fold at joints, the seats sink to the
fioor, the mirrored panels swing open,
reaching within a foot of the car cen
ter, and, presto, the drawing-room is
divided into ten sections, each a lord
ing a bed-room in which there are
two beds, a mirror, wardrobe hooks,
and other conveniences so iuu li ap
preciated hv travelers. The founda
tions of the beds are of spring steel, the
mattresses are elastic, aud there is
nothing Ike the damped quarters
which one would declare was unavo.d
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