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CURRENT TOPICS,
Hannibal Hamlin, at eighty, has never
worn flannels.
Electricity is now employed to tame
wild animals.
Nebraska's wheat, crop averages a yield
of seventeen bushels per acre.
Wf»*\ has become of Weather Prophet
Wiggins? Is he under the weather?
Female telegraph operators in Germany
receive $240 a year, with no vacation.
I. pwa HD of 12,000 men and boys are en
gaged ati the year round in the North Sea
fisheries.
The inmates of the Norristown, Pennsyl
vania, Insane Asylum have organized a
brass band.
During the drouth water sold at fifty
cents a barrel in the mining districts of
Pennsylvania.
Gov brnor John P. St. John has issued
his letter accepting the Prohibition noraina*
tion to the Presidency.
You may wash, you may boil sauerkraut
as you will, the smell of old cabbage will
hang around still.
In Virginia a captive wild cat has whip
ped tea champion bull-dogs and is waiting
for the eleventh.
' Advices from Paris state that thousands
of workmen are out of employment, and
great suffering is feared.
A gentleman from Wisconsin has lately
bought a stock farm in Lexington, Mass,
Has the tide of emigration turned?
Exquisitely shaded autumn leaves and
flowers in velvet or chenille trim the latest
bonnets and hats from Paris designs.
A young lad of about sixteen summers
married a girl recently in Lumkin, Ga.,
and applied for a divorce in less than thirty
days.
A man in San Francisco is being sued for
three separate arid distinct breaches of
promise. He finds a pair and a half of
breaches a misfit.
Near every fashionable girls’ school in
Philadelphia there is a candy and taffy
store usually kept by a little old woman
with a big bank account.
The operatives in the cotton mills in
Massachusetts are paid thirty-eight per
cent, more on an average than those work
ing in English cotton mills.
The new comet is not to be an attraction;
it is already hurrying away from the earth
—discouraged, perhaps, on learning that
this vs a Presidential year.
The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Animals is in a flourishing condition.
There are now 3,411 Bands of Mercy, with
upwards of 234,000 members.
It is astonishing how long it takes the
bakers to find out that the price of wheat
kiiMmt ikiwn. Tireir loaves of bretfd do
not increase in size accordingly.
The youngest immigrant that evei
crossed the ocean alone arrived on a Ger
man steamer at Castle Garden, the othei
day, and was only two years old.
How a homely girl may suddenly become
beautiful: Run away with a coachman or
become a great burglar. Newspaper re
porters will do the rest of the painting.
A fall in ostrich eggs is reported from
Anaheim, Cal. Formerly they were worth
$1,200 a dozen. Now they are only worth
SI,OOO. Grocery men do not keep them.
In England a man charged with stealing
mushrooms has been acquitted on the
ground that they do not come within the
catalogue of cultivated roots, which aloiu
are protected by law.
England braces up her system with ovei
eighteen million bottles of patent medicines
yearly, and maintains her fighting dispo
sition with enormous and rapidly increas
ing quantities of gin and beer.
Cabbages, onions, tomatoes, squash and
other vegetables are si lling at extremely
low prices. Farmers complain that it
scarcely pays the expense of loading up
and time consumed in going to market.
Of the late John W. Garrett the Balti
more Sun says: “It there was one trail
above all others that marked the charactet
of the late John \Y*. Garrett, it was his
passion for earnest, thorough, exhaustive
work.”
Turkish armorers no longer make a se
cret of their manufacture of fradulent an
tiques. Visitors to Constantinople can see
the ancient weapons of the Turks, Persians
and Mongols in course of fresh construc
tion.
A new device for evading the Maine
liquor law is to open the eyeholes of young
cocqanuts, scald out the interior and refill
with whisky. The meat of the nut is said
to be pleasantly flavored and improves the
new contents.
The quality of Western mercy is not
strained. A justice in an lowa town let off
a man charged with bigamy on the ground
that be was a twin, and might have been
mistaken for the other fellow by the women
who married him.
It came out in a Tennessee lawsuit the
other day that the ardent letters sent by a
girl to her lover had been composed for an
other fellow, but that, on transferring her
affections suddenly', she had erased the
original name and inserted a new one.
An unusually large quantity of hemlock
bark has been pealed in Tioga County', Pa.,
owing to the forest fires of last spring, and
as a c onsequence many million feet of hem
lock timber are forced upon the market,
which is already glutted.
Sitting Bull lost his pocket-book con
taining S3O in a New York cab, also a knife
which Paul Boynton, the swimmer, gave
him. The cab driver at first denied having
seen anything of it, but subsequently bis
-conscience forced him to return it.
The International Baby Show, shortly to
be held in the beautiful City Pavilion in the
Champs Elysees, Paris, has already upon
its books more than eight hundred infants
of ali nationalities, and the outpouring of
ladies to see this collection is likely to be
enormous. It is remarked that the comm it
tee which has charge of tipis exhibition is
recruiting its Jury «ntire/y froip
dootops and pa Inter*
TRENTON, DADE COUNTY, GA.. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8. 1884.
THE WAR RESUMED.
Courbet Fires on the Chinese From the
Heights, the Latter Miring.
Two Engagement* in Tonqnlx, in ffhleh
the French Arc Victorious.
London, October 4. Advises from Bathi
to-day state that the gunboats Monstjd -ton,
Mnssue and Haehe, While Cruising in ad
vance of a party Which was reconnoitering
in the Valley of Lechndit, Wr-bc Stacked by
irtcse i egulars; tine French cffi *er wns
killed and thirty m»n w mn led. Reinforce
ment have already arrived at the scene of
*^R_r n< ' ou,1 f ei^ ’) and oih-rs under command
of General Negrier, have left H.uisi.
Hong Kong, October 4.—A serious riot
among coolies occurred here vesterduv.
home boatmen refused to convey tiie cargo
to French ships, and u general strike fol
lowed, resulting in disorder. The populace
maltreated the police, who endep vored to
preserve order. The military fin illy quiet
ed the disturbance. Several natives were
killed and a number wounded. The excit
ment has now subsided.
Parts, October 4.— The Iclr/mphr states
that it lias received informal ion that the
Government intends shortly to rec-aii Ad
miral Couri>et from China, and ha* there*
fore instructed him to destroy the Chinese
fleet, in the event of the capture of Keliing
failing to cense China to submit to the
French demands. General Delisle sends ft
dispatch stating that hearing that Chinese
troops, between Ibicle and Lftrtgsfm Were
moving forward lie took the measures
necessary to drive them back to
their gunboats. A brilliant engage
ment ensued, tour thousand Chinese troops
being pitted against him. Commanded
Charlie, of the Massue, was kilted in the
fight. When the dispatch was sent the
Chinese weVe being steadily driven back,-
and had lost heavily. Admiral Courbet
telegraphed from Kelting, under date of
yesterday, as follows: “I commenced
operations against Kelung Wednesday
by occupying the height of St. Clement.
Ihe Chinese forces, after a fa.rly
warm engagement, Wednesday night evac
uated two of their works west of the
height, which we afterward occupied. I
am now fortifying ihem, and shall operate
on Saturday against their works eastward
of the height. Our loss was four killed,
one missing and thirteen wounded. The
Chinese loss is estimated at from eighty to
one hundred killed and from two hundred
to three hundred wounded. Admiral
Lespes commenced an attack on Taiusui on
Thursday, and will occupy that port if
possible.”
The Wealthiest Unmarried Lady.
WASHINGTON, October 4.—lf any of the
estimates, even the lowest, placed upon the
value of the estate of the late John W-
Garrett, the great railroad President, prove
to be correct, his only daughter. Miss Mary
Elizabeth Garrett, will be the richest un
married lady in this country. The esti
mates run all the way from $15,000,000 to
$50,000,000, and the latter is quite as likely
to be correct as the former. With the Gar
rett’s n doli n’ always means at least one
hundred cents. Mjss Wolff, of New York,
has until now been considered the wealthi
est unmarried lady'in America, but Miss
Garreti’sfortune will be even greater than
her’s. Miss Wolff is a maiden over fifty
3'ears of age, who has devoted her years to
deeds of charity. Miss Garrett is only
twenty-eight, but has had more experience
than pobably any lady of her
years in the country. As
her father’s confidential secretary, she
had ample opportunity to study his affairs,
and during the latter (lavs of his life she
transacted much of bis business. It is re
lated of her ttiat on several occasions she
noted the expressions made by' great rail
road magnates while conversing with her
father, and afterward committed them to
paper for future reference. Miss Garrett
is an expert stenographer, and her knowl
edge of this art has proven very useful to
both her father and herself.
Explosion in a Paper-Cap Factory.
Cincinnati, October 4.—This morning at
the paper-cap factory of Ehler JJohnson &
Bass, on Mt. Adams, James Goodwin was
engaged in' mixing powder and other in
gredients used in the manufacture of paper
caps for toy pistols, when suddenly the
stuff exploded, while he was pounding it
with a small iron tool. The shed in which
Goodwin was working was blown almost
to atoms, while the unfortunate man lay
buried in the debris. As quickly as possi
ble lie was extricated, and it was found
that his bodv was fearfully mangled,
his eyes being burned out, the toes
of his feet torn off, and the flesh hanging
in threads from other parts of his body.
Goodwin died in great agony' a few hours
later. The compound which exploded is
a very' dangerous one, and the men working
in it have to use extraordinary care while
handling it. Before pounding the stuff it
is necessary to moisten it, as in a dry state
it will easily explode. Goodwin failed to
follow the instructions for using the com
pound. and the result was an accident
which caused bis death.
The Burned Palace.
Copenhagen, October 4. —Fire to-day de
stroyed the celebrated Christiansborger
Royal Palace in this city, which contained
the great national gallery of over
one thousand paintings, many of them by
the first masters, and the museum of val
uable Northern antiquities. Most of these
were saved. The Houses of Parliament
connected with the Palace were also de
stroyed.
London, October 4. —A dispatch from
Copenhagen states that ten soldiers were
burned to death while attempting to save
some effects in the Royal Palace at Chris
tianborg, which was destroyed by fire last
night. At the time the dispatch was sent
it was feared that Thorwaldsen’s museum
would also be consumed. The Library'
archieves were saved through tne exertions
of the salvage corns, who were personally
incited to heroic efforts to save property bv
the King, who remained on the ground un
til the fire was extinguished.
Another Elopement.
Trot. N. Y., October 4.—John Vallen
euve, son of the Mayor of St. Baptiste.
Canada, desiring to marry and settle down,
divided the funds in bis father’s safe with
the old gentleman, and started for the
United States with a handsome young girl.
Miss Emma Lemaire. of Quebec, without
unnecessary tu--. Detectives made a call
an the voupg married couple in tins city,
and they were compelled to give up what
tqo«ey remained.
BAD COTTON WEATHER.
Prcmatnrf Ripening and Whorl I-'User
•►•■ought Ha* l.nrgel.r Cot Off the To|
Crap,
New York, October 3. —The September
cotton report to “Bradstreets,” summarized
below, la based on 1,225 replies from corre
spondents in 60!) out of the 050 counties
growing over 500 bales of cotton each, and
reflects the condition of the crop on Septem
ber 22 in 08 per centiof the whole cotton area
of the United States. At the date of the Au
gust report, just ofle month previous, the
condition and prospects of the crop were
not above fair, and the timely advent di
ii»tter weather was needed to improve ot
even maintain that status. The reports show
that instead of favoring weather a drought
of much severity developed and has ex
tended over every section of the cotton belt
an 1 wrought a considerable deterioration
in the crop. The middle crop is reported
much decreased, and the top crop largely
and in many places entirely cut. off by the
prolonged dry and and hot weather. There
has been considerable failing of
the s plant and heavy shedding
bolls. Tne steady heat h«s forced
the bolls open quicklv, and the premature
ripening makes the fiber shorter. While
the weather for the period under review
has been bad for “growing” cotton, it has
been most favorable for harvesting, aud,
except in a few districts where the heat was
too intense for active work, the crop is being
speedily gathered and sent to the gins,
Clean and white and' in
UntisUally good condition. , Labor
is abundant, and itt the absence of
political excitement is working well. In
some parts of the South the staple is mov
ing to market slowly because for the time
the planters are Utilizing the favorable
weather for picking by giving entire atten
tion to saving the crop. In other localities
the slow marketing is attributed to holding
back for better prices and to the difficulty
of traders to get the money needed
tO the crop. These instances
ate few, however, and corre
spondents generally assert that the sudden
opening of the fruit and fine picking season
are attributed to a more liberal delivery
than the smallness of the crop would indi
cate. The effects of the drought in shorten
ing the yield have been important in the
Atlantic States, and become more emphatic
as the South-west, is reached, Texas gener
ally sending estimates-of serious damage.
Florida alone sends a reasonably favorable
report, and Tennessee notes occasional good
fields.
The Plague.
Rome, October 4. —Many complaints o£
distress have been received from Spezia be
cause of the cholera cordon, which has
caused the town to fill with paupers. The
town will require relief from the Nation
al Government. Forty-seven fresh
cases of cholera were reported
during the past twenty-four hours in
the city of Naples, and twenty-eight deaths.
In Genoa there were twenty-two fresh
cases and twenty-eight deaths.
Marseilles, October 4.—Three deaths
from cholera were reported to-day- in the
Eastern Pyrenees, and one in Toulon.
Two deaths from cholera occurred here to
day.
Diamond Smuggler Detected.
New York, October 4. Among the pas
sengers of the steamship America yester
day- were Mr. James Graves and wife. Mr.
Graves is a member of the firm of Fox
Brothers, jewelers, 12 Maiden lane. He
made declaration of only a few dutiable
articles of small value, and was about
to leave, when the Cusrom-bouse In
spector insisted upon making a more
thorough search of his baggage. He indig
nantly- protested that he had no other duti
able articles, and when the Inspector still
persisted, fell to the floor in a faint.
Graves and wife were carefully searched,
and $20,003 worth of unset diamonds dis
covered. Both were held for exaininatior
Duty on Certain Steel R°moved.
Ottawa. October 4. —An order in Coun
cil has been passed allowing steel for
shovels and spades, of not less than eleven
nor more than eighteen wire gauge, and
costing not less than $75 per ton of 2.240
pounds, to he imported free of duty by
manufacturers of shovels and spades for
the purposes of manufacture, until the
next session of Parliament.
Hendricks in Another Collision.
Wheeling, W. Va., October 4.—A spec
ial train on the Pan-Handle Road carrying
Hendricks collided with a li«nd-car this
morning at daylight, killing John Foutz, a
boy of twelve years, and Thomas Waldron,
a brakeman. The Plumed Knights, of this
city, were also on the train, but none were
injured. The collision was caused by a
heavy tog prevailing at the time.
An Accident at a Fair.
Almonte, Ontario, October 3.—The bal
cony of the North Lanark Agricultural
Society ’s building fell to-day-, owing to the
large crowds standing on it. In the stam
pede following many persons were badly
crushed. Among those injured are Miss
Elm-h-y', ribs broken; Mis- Robertson, leg
broken; Miss Barr and Mr. Robinson, badly
crushed.
Chicago Fire Marshal Fatally Injured.
Chicago, October 3. —Captain Dave Ken*
yon, acting Fire Marshal of this city, was
fatally injured by being thrown out of his
buggy while on his way to a fire. An en
gine and the Marshal’s buggy ran into
each other, and Kenyon was thrown over
the dash-board and run over by the heavy
engine.
Failures of the Week,
New York, October 3 —The failures of
the last seven days as reported to R.G.Dun
& Co., for the United States, were 194; for
Canada. 23; total, 217, as against 213 last
week. Failures were more numerous than
usual in the Southern States, and lighter
in New York City.
Buried in Grain.
Buffalo, N. Y., October 4.—By the giv*
ing away of a temporary bulkhead at the
Niagara Elevator this morning Thomas
Daly was buried in the grain, which also
suffocated Wm. Ryan. John Ward and
Michael Ryan were cut, bruised and inter
nally injured,
Accidentally Shot.
Newport, Ky., October 4 Officer James
Edgar, in resisting the assault of a number
of ruffians at the Fourth Ward polls in
this city, accidentally shot and seriously
wounded Mr, Christ.' Weber, a by-stagder,
THE WAR IN EGYPT.
Perplexity Over the Egyptian State of
Affairs.
nnrdnn ||«a« .tlfdulii fctri»«*l* Oil* to fimi
nifmorntf (lie Aiiejre of KliHitouni.
London, October s.—Affairs in Egypt
seem td i>e getting more hopelessly mixed
everyday. The reports about Gordon*re
so perpl -xing and his movements so con
trary to all reasonable anticipations that
nobody knows what can be done or what is
going to hanpen. It was due to the general
disorgar.ig lUcgj that the Times was taken
in by the esmard that Lord Wolselev was
about to be withdrawn, and made itself su
premely ridiculous by solemn commenta
ries on the supnosed change of policy.J
Cairo. October s.— Major Kitcnner re
p >rts Colonel .Stewart with troops from
Khartoum s’l-anded on the rocks in the
cataract at Wady Garua, and asks that
the Mudir of Dongola’s troops be sent to
his assistance.
Wady Halfa, October 5. —A remount
of camels and horses is being formed
here. Sir Charles Wilson has started
for Dangelo by camel. A messenger reports
Gordon returned to Khartoum. Wolselev,
Is at Wady Haifa, and expectsto remain
for some time.
London, October 5. —German and Aus
trian newspapers speak with enthusiasm of
Gordon's recapture of Berber. The Vienna
Tayblatt says: The story of the defenso of
Khartoum will live in history. It proves
tnat British energy and genius are not
dead.
Cairo, October s.—Gordon has had med
als struck off co commemorate the seige of
Khartoum. They have been bestowed upon
the troops and also upon the women and
children who shared in the hardships of
the sieve, upon the latter because they
merited it by their sufferings. Northbr-j *k
will visit Assouan for the purpose of in
specting the towns and provinces along the
river Nile.
London, October s.—The expenses of the
expelitfon to relieve Gordonfare increasing,
The Postmaster General at Cairo notified
the Government that he will require £150,-
000 weekly to meet the demands.
Terrible Work of Train Wrecker?.
Topeka, Kan., Octobers.—As the pas
senger train which left Kansas City at 10
p. m. Saturday night, on the Sante Fe Rail
road, reached a point one mile east of Em
poria Junction, the engine struck an ob
strnction in the shape of a cross-tie, which
had been placed on the track. It pushed it
lengthwise between the guard rail and the
outside rail on a bridge crossing a small
stream and passed on safely, but a freight
train following was thrown from the track,
wrecking the engine and nine cars. The
firema-j, named Scott, was crushed and
killed L.rler the engine and the engineei
slightly wounded. It is supposed the cross
tie was put on the track for the purpose of
wrecking the passenger train. The Atchi
son, Topeka and Santo Fe road will to
morrow offer a reward of SI,OOO for the ap
prehension and conviction of the guilty
parties. The Governor will also be asked
to-offer a reward of SSOO in addition.
Mob at a Paris Race-Course.
Paris, October s.—At Longchamps races
to-day n mob, dissatisfied with the riding
of an English jockey named Sharpe,pullet)
him off the horse and brutally kicked and
beat him. The horse was also injured by
blows from sticks, stones and umbrellas.
Sharpe was carried into the
house in a critical condition. A violent
riot followed, the mob breaking into th»in <
closure. The soldiers on duty were compel
led to guard the place from the infuriated
crowd, one of whom was seized by three
jockeys, and only escaped lynching by the
intervention of the police. The jockey-*
had already stripped the fellow’s clothes
off, and were about to hang him. The
weighing-room was beseiged by the rioters
for half an hour. Another English jockey
was maltreated. .
tSmill Pox in lliinoios-
Nashvim.k, 111. October 5. —The dreaded
small-poxmas invaded this County, there
being two cases at Darwin, ten miles south.
All sorts of rumors are rife concerning the
prevalence of the disease, lout two cases is
the i xent in the Countv. The plagur vis
ited family are properly- quarantined, ami
great exertions are made to prevent the
spread of the disease. I' was introduced
there front Prairieton, Ind., by- a young
girl, who had returned home from nursing
her brother, wuo died there with the dis
ease.
Iron Trade Improving.
St. Louis, O -tobet 5.—A dispatch front
Chattanooga, Tenn., says the iron interest
is reviving in the South. The Woodstock
(Ala.) Iron Company have just closed a
contract for thirteen thousand tons of eai
wheel iron at twenty dollars and flftv
cents per ton. This is the largest single
order placed in the South since the depies
sion began. Reports from other furnaces
indicate increased inquiry- for iron.
No Honor for Howgate.
Washington. October 3.—General Hazen
has ordered all the names bestowed by the
Arctic explorers of the Greely party upon
places discovered by them in honor of Cap*
tain Howgate to he erased from the charts,
on account of the embezzlements since dis
covered against that officer of the Signal
Corps.
Scarcity of Water.
Petersburg, Va., October s.—The clos
ing of all cotton factories in this city and
vicinity, in consequence of scarcity of
water, throws out of employment over
seven hundred men, wom-n and children,
nearly all of whom are actually suffering
for want of the necessities of life.
Schooner Sunk.
Wiarton, Ont.. October 5. The
Schooner Arabia, from Chicago for Mid
land, with twenty thousand bushels of corn,
sank at the entrance of Georgians Bay this
morning during a heavy gale. The crew
were all nicked up from a small boat and
brought here.
Arrested for Emb nOm nt.
Ban Fp. ax Cisco, Octobers —D. M. Burns,
Secretary of State during Pei Kins’ a.imin*
isti etion, was arrested this evening charged
wire embezzling State funds.
SOUTHERN NEWS ULE.UNNttS,
South Carolina tea, cqred in a fruit
evaporator, has been pronounced by ex
perts to be equal to imported teas.
An evening daily is to be started in
Knoxville »oon. t
The telegraph company is building a
handsome structure in Chattanooge,.
Large lumber shipments are being made
from Chattanooga to Eastern poinrs.
W riters of fiction are increasing in the
South.
The Southern cotton millers can no
agree upon a union of action.
A. C. Luokie and W.J. Melton are ernct
ing a steam mill and giu, near Pine Apple,
Ala.
Grant Bros & Dunn have about, com
pleted their cotton eomp-esg at Columbu-
S. C. The cost, was $40,000.
The Hawkinsville, Ga., Cotton Comoros
will soon be finished, the machinery now
being put in position.
James Coleman, of Carrolton, Ga., will
immediately build a large flour [mill and
barrel factory at Villa Rica, Ga.
Cows are not permitted to run at large
in Montgomery, and a pound has beei
established.
The fiscal year in Alarnma has closco
with $140,000 in tiie Treasury to begin the
new year with, and $103,000 interest falling
due in January.
Near Jacksonville, Ala., is an inexhaus
tible bed of fine white flint gravel, which
cements itself when exposed to the atmos
phere, and which makes n nery firm and
durable pavement.
The Georgia rice crop will not be appre
ciably greater or less than last, year.
The statement that there is more money
invested in fire-arms in Alabama, than
in hogs sheep und farm implements, i>
being indignantly denied in reliable quar
ters.
Joab Mauldin, Pickens, S. C., has just
put up a sorghum mill.
James B. Hall, Rome, Ga., has estab
lished a furniture factory.
Joseph P. Rawlky, Mt. Airy, N. C.,will
build a large tobacco factory.
Five new tobacco factories are being
built at present in Reidsville, N. C.
Vincent & Son, Palatka, Fla., have
nearly- completed their snsh, door and blinc
factory.
The Southern Machine Co.,
Tenn., are erecting a foundry and machine
shops.
The survey for the extension of the East
Alabama Railroad, from Gadsden to Gun
tersville, will commence soon. It is said
that sufficient money has alreadv been
raised to carry- out the work.
The Macon (Ga.) Trlrffroph, noting the
fact that forty packages of cigarettes can
ho bought in Mexico for one dollar, advise*
the dudes to immigrate, and thinks that a
land in which cigarettes are cheap and
senoritas easily mashed ought to create a
perfect hegira.
The Mobile Jlfiijiatei’ says the prohibition
laws continue to act finely up in the rivet
counties for Mobile, and the shipment ol
jugs of whisky from that city into those
counties is quite lively at present.
A freight train ran over and killed a
two-year-old child of Mrs. Birthlow the
other morning, at Fairmount, W. Vu. The
little one was playing on the railroad track
near its home, and was not seen by the
engineer in time to stop the train.
At Terra Alta, W. Va.,a photographic
artist named B. S. Sayre, recently located
there, was struck by a locomotive and se
riously injured. He had crossed the rail
road for a bucket of water, and on his re
turn stood on the track watching a passing
freight, when the fast express came along
unnoticed and struck him, breaking his leg
and bruising an arm and shoulder.
The unusually large shipment of 40C
tons of pig iron is mentioned at Chattanooga
Via Savannah.
There is much complaint at Tullahome
that cows are maimed wantonly when
invading premises defective in fencing.
Vinnie Ream has joined her husband,
Lieut. Hoxie, at Montgomery.
Isaac Johnson, who murdered Belle
Booker in April last, was convicted at
Canton, Miss., and has been sentenced to
lie banged November 10,1884.
The owners of New Orleans boats recent
ly requested the pilots to work this season
on a reduced scale of wages, and the othei
day the association met to discuss the mat
ter. Twenty-eight New Orleans pilots
were present, and the sentim-nt was un
animously against any reduction, the
speakers pointing out the fact that nearly
all of them had been idle for live months
owing to the boats being laid up.
McMinn County, Tex., has a colored
Deputy Sheriff.
The Superior Court of Newton County
Ga., has sentei#-ed Bud Ferry, a sixteen
year-old colored boy to be hanged on
November Hor Rape. Nancy Morris, also
colored, who poisoned her husband wbh
‘Rough on Rats,” has been sentenced to
the penitentiary for life.
Isaac Stafford, a negro boy, lias been
before the Mayor of Savannah for throwing
rocks in the street. He was given the al
ternative of $5 fine, ten day-s in tiie jail, or
twenty lashes. The last was accepted and
the thrashing administered in the rear of
the barracks.
Alfred Billi.ygslea, an old colored bar
ber in Montgomery, Ala., has b»en shaving
for thirty-five years in the same shop under
rhe Exchange Hotel. He has shaved some
if the most famous men in the South He
aad William L. Yancey and Henry W. Hil
lard among his patrons, and the appear
ince and demeanor of the two rival states--
men impressed him very powerfully. BU
ingslea shaved nearly all the members of
the Confederate Congress in IS6I. Jeff
Davis, Alec Stephens, Ben Hill, Leroy
Pope, Walker and Wigfall all went to his
shop.
Next to the Walnut Street Theater, of
Philadelphia, the Savannah, Ga., Theater
It the oldest in the ooqntry,
VOlr. I.- SO.
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.
—A machine fur shocking grain has
i'cen patented.
Professor A. 11. Sayre has de
ciphered an As yrian tablet which
gives an account o a transit of Venus
l,fi(Jo years 11. C.
—According to the latest results of
tiie finest iustrumen al tests, as to the
propagation of electricity, an electric
signal travels at the me of I ,U K)
miles per second. < hic i o Herat I.
—A single shoe manufactory in
Massachusetts turns out by patent ma
chinery in twelve months as many
pairs of bools amt shoes as 0 0
shoemakers in Paris made by hand ; in
the same period of time. (Great are the
uses ot machinery. —Boston Bo /.
—'The Medical T rues, referring to
the 5,0 hi incandescent lamps in use a
tiie English hygienic e bio tion, says
that they are tiie domestic light of the
future, adding that the well-founded
objection formerly raised by oculists
that the light was a series of Hashes is
not now true e cept in theory.
—Bricks made of cork now consti
tute one qf the new German industries.
The usualVize is ten by four and thiee
fo rtlis and two and a half inches.
They are prepa ed from small corks,
refuse and cement, and have not only
been used for certain building[ imposes
on account o' their lightness and iso
lating properties, but are also em
ployed as a eoVcring for boilers in pre
ventin; tiie radiation of heat.
—Boiled gold is made by casting no
ingot of brass, and wh !e this is st 11
hot pouring upon it a thin layer of
gold alloy. The ingot when cold is
forced between steel rollers until a long
thin ribbon is produced, of which the
proportion of gold and brass is the
same as of the ingot. The percentage
of gold is reduced as low a- two and
three per cent. This rolle l gold is used
in making cheap bracelets and watch
chains, and costs but little more than
brass. It wears from one to ten years.
—A curious experiment has lately
been made at Ac jui, Italy, by the pro
prie or of oine balhs there. This gen
tleman lias at his d sposal an inex
haustible supply of hot water from a
natural spring, tiie temperature being
Uii degrees i ahrenheit. The surplus
not re ,uired for the baths has Icon di~
verte l so as to flow through pipes to a
garden on the outs irts of the town.
He r e the warm liquid flows beneath a
number of toreing frames containing
melons, tomatoes, asparagus and other
garden produce. The result is that a
supply of these deli a ties is ready foi
market at a very early period of the
year, when, therefore, tjiey fetch high
prices.
PITH AND POINT.
—A Minnesota drugg'st advertises
that the way a porous plaster acts is to
rota'n the back lirmly in place while
he pain crawls out between the holes.
Few doctors take the troubXi to explain
jo minutely how their prescriptions
operate.
“If I were in California,” said a
young fop, in company the other even
ine, ‘1 would waylay some miner with
a bajr of gold, knock out his brains,
gather up the gold and run.” “Ilhink
you would do better to gather up his
brains,” quietly resj otnied a young
lady.— EjcUuh e.
“Your fare, young lady,” said th
stag ■ driver, as a pretty miss steppe*
from his vehicle, and was about trip
ping away. “ h, thank you ” re
sponded the absent-minded little
beauty “I think your moustache be
comes yon real well, too.” Bite got her
ride free. — B- rlint/ on / r e /’/vs .
“You were loaded,” said -Justice
Duffy, of New York, to Charles and
Phi lip Gunn as they were led to the
bar by 1 olieeman t unis, whohadfohml
them drunk. “Were ever you ] ointed
ir my direction before!*” “No, sir.”
the Gunns responded in chorus. “Both
b rre's discharged,’ >a'd the Court.—
N. 1". lime*. .
He had been at Coney Island all
daj 7 and w-.-.a -tru rgling to get his I oots
oft' “1 never (hie) <ro down to the
Island,” he said to his wife, “a id look
(hicj over the broad expanse of sea.
’thouf bein' ihie, tided with wonder.”
“rilled with what 3 ’she asked. “Bon
der.” “ B onder ” That’s a brand of
whisky 1 never heard of.— N. Y. limes.
—A youth of Hibernian extraction in
chopping wood with a ha ehet, the oth
er dav, was so unfortunate as to grae
(he thumb of his le t hand with which
he was steadying the piece of kindling
he was splitting Ruefully gazing at
tue in lire 1 member, he remarked:
“Becorr i. it was a 200 l thing I did not
have’ hold of the handle with both
hand , or I'd have cut it o l', sure.”—
E cho, qe.
“ l imes have changed,” said Old
Hvson, mournfully, “limes have
changed.” “And a< to wherefore ”
asked his son. “In orme times,” said
the old one, “man ;t ■ the cream
• And now.” “They cremate the man.”
There was an awful pause. Young
Hvson walked out of the counting
room on his tip to s. aud told one of
his salesman he was afraid the old
man was break.ng up last, bob Bur
dette.
“Say, at, ’ said a gentleman to
his hired' man, who had many domestic
quarrels. -Wiih whom would you
sooner light, the Euglish or your wife
l.iddy?” • eh. bed ad," was the reply,
••whin the 1 ng ish declare war, a mon
fo ndsit out in advance, an’ he git- a
chance ter run. but whin biddy de
clares w :r a divll a bit do 1 found it out
until I have recovered. 1> ver under
stand ” i'he gentleman compr h*ode 1
the pe uliar position of his douin»tic.—-
The Bcissnrs.