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T. A. HAVRON, Publisher.
CURRENT TOPICS.
The eloping coachmen have taken a rest.
A white racedbp has been ' captured in
Michigan.
innepeg has her exciting elections in
December.
Journalists .in India are excused from
jury duty. .
“lovs that make gestures ijill be in style
this winter. ' • •' : »*#
T f " * * 0 t
Dakota brags of ' an eai* of corn holding
1,742 grains. ' . v ..
Hog cholera has appeared in the northern
part of Illinois.
Publishers say children’s books take
the lead this fall.
A fortune teller in Cincinnati claims to
make S3OO d week.
Rhode Island is now the only State
with two capitals. .
An English actor named Chimney is said
not to draw well.
The Chinese jjave a largo theater in Los
Angelos, Cal.
Clajjstqne is fond of raw eggs
beaten up in sherry.
W i scons in has fully a thousand cream
eries and cheeserics.
Chief Justice Waite has never missed
a session of his court.
A spijjjNTisT says that it is water, and not
food, jthSt makes people fat.
Tub fruit crop of the country is esti
mated to be worth $140,000,000.
\ ermont wants the treasury surplus
divided States for school pur
poses. ..
Girls of a marriageable age are worth
sixteen dollars apiece in Japan, with few
takers.
A, number of German military officers
have been engaged by China to take con
trol of the army.
American young ladies who have been
abroad assert that it is dreadfully hard to
find an honest count.
The lata Duke of Brunswick was a suitor
for the hand of Queen Victoria, but Prince
Albert “cut him out.”
I*r is estimated that sixty-five thousand
poftnds of paper were used to print the bal
lots used at the late election.
Harrison, the “boy preacher,” celebrated
his 1 forty-third birthday a few days ago.
He is now almost a young man.
A position in a farts bank, although
paying a salary of about $225 yearly, was
recently applied for by f>,ooo persons.
Miss M. E. Braddon, the prolific English
story-writer, is known in private life as
Mrs. Maxwell, and owns up to fifty-six
years.
The income of Cjeorge Alfred Townsend,
“Gath,” frp»i his aggregated newspaper
work is thought not £o fall below $50,000 a
year.
The sewing-machine trade is so dull that
one company, do in" business at Elizabeth -
port, N. J., has discharged nearly all of its
employes.
Mr. Wait, of Connecticut, will be the
oldest member of the next National House
of .Representatives. He lacks four years
of fourscore/
Sir Erasmus Wilson, an eminent Eng
lish physician who died recently,bequeath
sl,ooo,ooo to the Royal College of Sur
geons, London.
A $75,000 Rochester girl has eloped with
a 75-cents man. Presently some heiress up
that way will be going off with a man with
a trade dollar.
The telephone has been introduced in
New Zealand, Van Diemen’s Land, Borneo
and Formoso. In Borneo the natives call
it the “hell talker.”
Gen. Fremont administered an oath to
his men, when famine-stricken on the
Great American Desert, to die rather than
to commit cannibalism.
Queen Victoria has had the sacred flag
blessed by the Mnhdi and presented to her
relegated to the attic, because it was so
dirty and smelled -so badly.
Confident applicants are making their
claims known to Governor Cleveland for
positions as postmasters and postmistresses.
About a thinj are from women.
The great extra sales of newspapers in
the United States in the last few weeks is
an evidence that there are thousands of
persons who read only when they are ex
cited.
A Meadville (Pa.) girl bet fifty kisses
against a winter wrap that Blaine would
carry New York. It is needless to remark
that the other party to the bet is a gentle
man.
Toronto is now lit by electricity. The
lights are suspended from curved arrange
ments that project over the side walks and
leave the light a little higher than the gas
lamps used to be.
The National Board of Health calls at
tention of the Governors of every State in
the Union to the danger from cholera, and
asks active co-operation to prevent the
spread of the disease.
Connecticut papers relate that in two
instances at least in that State, during the
recent campaign, young men applied for
marriage licenses to town clerks, whose
heads were turned by politics, and were
given first naturalization papers, the mis
take not being discovered until bride and
groom had presented themselves to the
clergyman.
One-thirp of the newspapers published
in Italv bear the title of “Gazette,” the
name having been handed down from loiO,
when the first gossipy little sheet saw day
light at Venice, and was sold for a small
coin, gaaetta.
Miss Nancy Gould, of Portland, Me.,
who provided in her will that in case of her
death property amounting to alout $3,000
should go to the Government to assist in
canceling the? outstanding indebtedness, has
fulfilled her part of the contract by expir
ing, and the Government will attend to the
rest. , -
Dr. Stoecker, the court preacher, of
Berlin, has been elected to the Reichstag,
TRENTON, DADE COUNTY, GA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2(1. 1884.
DISASTROUS FUN.
Frightful Ending of a Peculiar
Celebration in a New
York Village.
One Man Killed and Several Dangerously
* Wounded While Firing a Salute.
Halsey Valley, N. Y., November 21.
A peculiarly sad accident occurred here last
night, by which several young men were
severely injured. One has died. It was the
outcome of an attempt to celebrate an oc
currence which has been the subject of a
great deal of gossip about here. Some
days ago a disturbance arose between two
families living close together. The
husbands. and wives of both
families separated. On Friday last
the quarrel was made up and matters went
on as before. A few young men got to
gether and choose Saturday evening to
give the parties a salute. They fired a can
non four times, anil the affair adjourned
until last night. Then they met again,
and three volleys \nere fired. They wero
reloading for the fourth shot, when
the powder in the cannon became
ignited, a terrific explosion followed, and
when the smoke had cleared away a sick
ening sight was revealed. Ellsworth Kirk,
who had been pounding the wadding in
the cannon, lay with his eyes blown out
and the blood oozing from his face. He
was alive, but insensible. Shortly after
ward he died. Others suffered
the loss of: eyes and fingers. The
sufferers were conveyed to their homes,
and medical aid summoned. The list of
the injured is as follows: Fred Kirk,
brother of Ellsworth, badly burned about
the eyes; George Hess lost both eyes;.
Henry Evlys was badly burned about' the
head and body, and his legs were burned
to a crisp; Sumner Rosebrooks lost an eye
and a finger; A 1 Winters and Elijah
Bostron were burned about the face and
neck.
ENCOUNTER WITH WOLVES.
A Whole Family Perish Ijiside of an Hour.
Vienna, November 21.—A tragic inci
dent is reported from eastern Hungary. A
clergyman, with his wife and child, were
driving in a sledge from Crasnisora
to the neighboring village of .Kis-
Lonka, when a pack of ravenous wolves
pursued them. The mother, terror
stricken, let the child fall from her arms.
The father thereupon leaped from the sledge
to save the -child. The father and child
were at once fiercely attacked by the
wolves. The father fought desperately
and killed two wolves, but was at last
overcome, and both he and his
child were devoured. Meanwhile
the horses had rushed onward
with the sledge, still bearing the agonized
mother, and in Jier agony of terror she
gave prrnUv are'birth to a child which died.
The terrible shock, with all she had suf
fered, proved too much for the poor woman,
and when the sledge reached Kis-Lonka
she, too. was dead. So the whole family
perished inside an hour.
An Awfully Fiendish Crime Expiated.
Savannah, Mio., November 21.—Oliver
Bateman, a young man of twenty years,
was executed at 1 o’clock to-day for the
murder of the two young daughters of John
McLaughlin, on the 31st of August last. The
murderer slept well last night, ate a hearty
breakfast, and appeared cool and uncon
cerned throughout the morning, laughing
and chatting with those about him.
He left a letter for publication, admitting
the crime and expressing his penitence.
Twenty thousand people witnessed the
execution, many coming in wagons a dis
tance of fifty miles. Bateman’s crime was
one of the most revolting in the annals of
the State. The family of the murdered
children occupied seats in front of the scaf
fold.
The Virginia Epidemic.
Lynchburg, Va., November 21.—Local
papers in the counties visited with the fatal
scourge make only brief mention of its rav
ages, but further information shows former
reports are not exaggerated. The Gavsville
Times, Wise County, says 150 deaths oc
curred in that county. Tho disease spreads
over a considerable section, but is worse in
Wise, Lee and Buchanan Counties. Rains
have fallen there in the last two days, and
the foul water supply, which, it issupposed,
caused the trouble, has been replenished,
and the disease is reported abating. Phy
sicians describe it as acute typhoid dysen
tery.
It is Finished.
Albany, November 21.—-The Sta’e Can
vasers met at noon all being present, Sec
retary Wood announced the footings of the
tables as follows: The highest Democratic
Elector, Priest, 563,154. Highest Republican
Elector, Carson, 562,005. Plurality, 1,140.
Lowest Democratic Elector, Ottendorfer,
563,048; lowest Republican Elector, Harris,
661,971. Plurality. 1,077. Highest Prohibi
tion Elector, Miller, 25,006; lowest. Ells
worth. 24,948. Highest Butler Elector,
O’Donnell, 17,004; lowest, Campbell, 16,751.
After the announcement the members of the
Board signed the tables and certificates.
Guardian for Garfield's Children.
Lynchburg, Va., November 21.—Con
gressman Tucker, recently elected from
the Tenth District by the Democrats, lias
been appointed guardian for the minor
children of the late President Garfield.
His trust includes all the property owned
by General Garfield in Virginia. Mrs. Gar
field in making the request, referred to the
kindly relations which existed between Mr.
TuOker and her husband.
No Longer an October State.
Wheeling, W. Va, November 21.
West Virginia now disappears as an Octo
ber State, and her importance in the po
litical arena is greatly decreased. At the
October election a constitutional amend
ment was submitted changing the time of
the general election and fixiug it on the
same day as the Presidential election, and
to-morrow Governor Jackson will issue his
proclamation declaring the amendment
ratified.
Cattle Men Make Up a Purse.
St. Louis, November 21. —In the Cattle
men’s Convention, General N. M. Curtis, of
New York, called the attention'of the con
vention to the report of the fearful scourge
sweeping through certain counties in Vir
ginia, West Virginia and Kentucky, Con
tributions were at once made, amounting
to $1,200, and transmitted by telegraph to
General Jubal Early, Lynchburg.
AS BAD AS CHOLERA.
Frightful Ravages Among the People of
Soutli-West Virginia.
Charleston, W. Va., November
Information from Perryville, McDowell
County,this State,near the Virginia border,
gives a frightful account of the so-called
cholera in the extreme south-western
counties of Virginia and adjoining terri
tory in Kentucky. Making every allow
ance for exaggeration, the loss of life has
already been appalling, while the condi
tion of the survivors is terrible in the ex
treme. No rain has fallen in the Cum
berland Mountains, in which the infected
district is situated, for four months, the
drought entailing not only an almost total
failure of crops, but cutting off the »u,.
ply of water over a wide area./Difficulty
was experienced in obtaining water for
stock, in some of these localities, as early in
the year as the middle of Am ust, but no
actual suffering among/" the in
habitants occurred lufitil toward
the end of Septgfrvbcr, when
ordinary sources of supply having for the
part failed, the mountaineers were
compelled, in order to sustain life, to ob
tain water from what were known as
“poison” or mineral springs in the moun
tains, or from the small amount remaining
in the deep holes in the beds of the
creeks. A persistent use of this water
soon developed a peculiar disease, as dead
ly as Asiatic cholera in its nature,
which has ever since raged with terrible
fatality over half a dozen counties in the
two (States of Virginia and Kentucky, the
loss of life thus far being variously esti
mated at from four hundred to eight hun
dred. Among children and adults well up
in years the mortality has been greatest,
but no class has been exempt.
In a number of instances, especially
along the forks of McLean’s Creek,
a tributary of the Big Sandy, and in the
valley of Powell’s River, emptying into the
Tennessee, entire families nave perished,
while in numerous other cases but one or
two members of a household sur
vive. Few recover from the disorder,
from sixty to eighty per cent, of those at
tacked dying. This is being accounted for
by the fact that pure water is still unob
tainable, and proper food and medical at
tendance can not be had. The drying up
the streams has necessitated the stop
page of numerous small grist mills
along the mountain valleys, and the
population for the most part appears
to be in most abject want and
misery. The locality is almost inaccessible
to the outside world, there being no rail
road within obe hundred miles, and the ob
taining of reliable news is very difficult,
but if even half of what is alleged be true
the calamity is one of the most serious
nature, and calls for prompt action by the
authorities and public.
Fourth Auditor’s Report.
Washington, November 20.—The annual
report of the Fourth Auditor of the
Treasury says that the growing evil in ex
penditure of money by the Navy Depart
ment has been increasing. The disregard
by some bureaus of the law requiring ad
vertisements and contracts for
purchases made, recently discovered fraud
ulent practices in the Naval Bureau of
Medicine and .Surgery, were greatly facili
tated by persisteut determination of the
late Surgeon General to nominally make
all purchases himself, while it was practi
cally impossible for him to personally su
pervise the transactions taking place scores
of hundreds of miles from the seat
of the Government. During the fis
cal year 1883, supplies were purchased
amounting to $2,293,853, of which only
$985,352 were bought upon advertisement
and contract. Three bureaus wholly neg
lected the law requiring advertising, and
another, vhe one making the largest
purchases of all, only advertised and
contracted for one per cent, of the goods
and materials bought. About $1 ,000,000
open and exempt purchases were made of
six individuals of firms, one dealer going
over $300,000. Under the act pertaining to
materials for boilers, hundreds of thou
sands of dollars’ worth have been bought
practically with no competition at all.
Over sl9/(00 were paid during the year as
commissions to Seligman Bros., Of London,'
and nearly $7,000 in interest, the former,
in the opinion of the Auditor, being twice
as much as it ought to be, and
the latter, wholly unnecessary. The report
says: “The recently discovered frauds in
the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery were
mostly committed upon the continuous hos
pital fund, whose large unexpended bal
ance has furnished a temptation not exist
ing in the case of the annual appropria
tions made by Congress.”
A Railroad Sold.
Pittsburg, Pa., November 20.—The
franchises of property, rights of way,
branch tracks and all attachments of the
Pittsburg Southern Railroad were sold
this morning at Sheriff’s sale to Thomas M.
King, representing the Baltimore &
Ohio Railroad, for $50,000. The line
runs from Pittsburg to Washington, Pa.,
the distance being thirty-two miles. It
has been in debt, the amount exceeding a
million dollars, for some time, and was un
able to pay the interest on its indebted
ness. The Baltimore and Ohio was the
largest creditor, and has had virtual con
trol of the road nearly a year.
Heavy Guns Recommended.
Washington. November 21. —The Arma
ment Beard recommends to Congress that
heavy guns be procured at the earliest date
practicable for harbor defense. The list
comprises 707 guns, ranging from eight
inch guns to carry projectiles weighing 285
pounds to sixteen-inch guns carrying 1,631
pound shot; also, 512 twelve-inch mortars.
These guns will penetrate at five thousand
yards (about two and three-quarter miles)
wrought iron of the thickness of 10.39 to
22.20 inches.
A Thrilling Street Car Ride.
Pittsburgh, November 21. —This morn
ing, while a street car was going down
Butler street, the brake became un
manageable, and the car started down
the heavy grade at a frightful speed.
When Thirty-sixth street was reached the
car jumped the track, and ran along the
sidewalk for a block, until the horses fell,
and the car was forced on top of them, in
juring them so badly that both were after
ward killed. Tweutv-three passengers
were aboard at the time, and all weremore
or less bruised, two of them, Thomas
Moore and Roller quite seriously.
$50,000 for Breach of Promise.
London, November 20.—Miss Fortesque,
the actress, has accepted the offer of soo,-
000, made by Lord Gurruoyle. to settle the
breach of promise suit brought by her as
Miss Finney.
DEAD-LETTER OFFICE.
Some Interesting Figures for Care
less Correspondents.
Informal ion About Deceased Missives and
Directions to Diminish the Mortality.
Washington, D. C. November 23. —The
whole number of letters received at the
Dead-Letter Office during tholast year was
4,879.11)8, or an average of 14,172 for each
working day. Of these 3,346,357 were sent
there because they were not called for at
tfre Post-otlice to which they were directed.
Seventy-eight thousand eight hundred
a&A sixty-five were returned to Post-offices
by hotel-keepers, and thence sent
to the Dead-Letter Office because
the departed guests for whom they
intended failed to leave a
new address; 175,710 wero sent there be
cause they were insufficiently prepaid for
mailing; 1,345 because they contained arti
cles forbidden to ho transported in the
mails; 280,137. because they were errone
ously or illegibly addressed, while 11,979
bore no superscription whatever. The
number of parcels of merchandise,
books, clothing, needle-work, jew
elry. etc., received during the year
was 90,808. The total number of
dead-letters which were mailed
abroad was 400,898. These were all re
turned to their respective countries of ori
gin , “unopened. Of the domestic letters
opened 15,301 contained money amounting
to $32,047.23; 18,095 contained drafts,
checks, money orders, etc., to the amount
of •'*1,381,904.47 : 06,837 contained postage
stamps; 40,215 contained! 1 receipts, paid
notes and cancelled obligations of all sorts,
and 35,100 contained photographs. Every
letter and package is delivered to the
owner if possible. Misdirected letters are
sent unopened to the persons addressed if
practicable. Of these 31,834 domestic and
9,821 Foreign were so delivered during the
past year. Letters and parcels which can
not be delivered to the persons addressed
are opened and if it is possible restored to
the senders, the former free of charge and
the latter upon receipt of the return
postage. Every opened letter containing
an iriclosure of value is carefully
recorded, and those for which no
owner can be found are filed away subject
to reclamation at any time. Letters with
out remittances of obvious value are not
recorded, but are returned to the w riters if
practicable, otherwise they are destroyed.
A large proportion of the most valuable
parcels sent to the Dead-Letter Office are
addref -ed to foreign countries and de
tained because they contain dutiable
goods or exceed -the limit of size and
weight. In all such cases, if the name of
the sender does not appear, the addressees
are not : led that the package will be for
wai/a''j*j;.'express at their vxpense or re
-turixeA To the sender if they will furnished
the proper adddivsa in this country. The
articles received ill parcels which can
neither be delivered to the person addressed
nor returned to the sender are finally sold at
auction, and the proceeds deposited in the
United States Treasury. Letters are only
read to ascertain the name and address of
the writer, or to see if anything which was
originally inclosed is missing. Information
obtained from letters in the course of their
official treatment in the Dead-Letter Office
is never divulged.
A FATED THEATER.
St. I.ouis' Graufi Opera-House Hurned for
the Third Time.
St. Louis, November 22. —At hndP-past 3
o’clock this afternoon in the midst a
piercing gale from the west, the Grand
Opera-house, located on Market street, be
tween Fifth and Sixth streets, took fire,
and three hours later nothing remained of
the beautiful place of amusement but a few
black, dismantled walls. The fire origi
nated in the box office, and must have been
burning a considerable period before dis
covered. This is the third time this theater
has been burned. Jhe loss will be in the
neighbsrhood of slaLouo.
Acadents at'a Jollification.
New Cas* ,e, I’a., November 23. —At a
Democratic jollification lost night, a sky
rocket struck a man named Douglas Mc-
Ilvenny on the chin, and when he was
picked up the rocket-stick was found pro
truding from the back of his neck. His
chin was almost entirely torn
away, and he will probably die. About
the same time Jimmy Moony was hit
on the chest by a rocket, and one of his
lungs burst. He cannot recover. Dan Gun
sley, a bay aged thirteen, was struck on the
thigh and dangerously injured. The physi
cian pulled a section of rocket stick from his
leg. Charlie Shaffer, a small boy,was knock
ed down by the crowd and had one of his legs
fractured in two places. A small l>oy
named Warren was knocked down and had
his right side crushed. His arm and
shoulder were broken and badly crushed.
A man named Black had one foot frac
tured badly.
Six Persons Drowned and One Goes Mad.
Chattanooga, November 23. —Six per
sons were drowned in the Tennessee River,
near Stevenson, Ala., yesterday, by the
capsizing of a boat, in which were Tom
Key, the ferryman, his son, two negro
women, named Lane and McCurdy, two
McCurdy children, a white man
named Short and two negroes. The river
was rough, and the boat overturned. Key
was drowned while trying to save his sou,
who was also drowned. The nogro women
and their children were also drowned.
Mrs. Key witnessed the drowning of her
husband and son from the opposite bank
and went stark mad.
Earthquake in New Hampshire.
Concord, November 28.—A slight shock
of earthquake was felt at 12:30 tbi3 morn
ing, followed sixt ‘on minutes later by a
very heavy one lasting several seconds,
during which large buildings were shaken.
The second shock was accompanied by a
heavy rumbling noise sufficient to awaken
people. Shocks were felt in various parts
of the State.
The American-Spanish Treaty.
London, November 23. —The American-
Spanish treaty is believed to insure a large
expansion of American trade, and is re
garded in Eu;dand as a triumph of Ameri
can diplomacy, England having hitherto
vainly attempted to secure similar con'
cessions.
SOUTHERN NEWS GLEANIiIGS.
In Florida the Cleveland men poured oil
on the lakes and set fire to it.
All of the principal railroads centering
at Atlanta have adopted the plan of deliv
ering freight at the store doors, and in con
sequence the tussel for business is becom
ing quite lively.
The Tennessee Prohibitionists claim a
vote of 2,000 in the State.
Thomas Hughes is taking steps to es
tablish an extensive library at Rugby.
West Virginia gives Cleveland a plu
rality of 4,203.
Isaac Johnson was hanged at Canton,
Miss., for the murder of Bella Booker.
In Cocke County, Tenn., some time since,
William Rollins was shot from ambush,
but recovered. The other day, While
Charles Gunter, w'honi Rollins suspected of
the attempt on his life, was passing a
thicket with a brother and sister, he was
shot dead from ambush. Rollins has dis
appeared.
The sugar-house on Armant plantation,
St. James Parish, La., owned by Oliver
Birne, together with T50,000' pounds of
sugar burned. No insurance; loss $150,000.
Fire the other night at Toisnot Station,
Va., on the Wilmington & Weldon Rail
road, destroyed several houses and stores.
John Howard shot and killed Henry
Peak and wife in Marshall County, Ala., in
order to settle an old feud, and in the en
counter received wounds at the hands of
Peak that resulted in his death.
Georgia has secured about 4,000 feet at
New Orleans.
Dr. S. M. Bemiss, a prominent physician
of New Orleans, is dead.
Four tramps were killed near Rayville,
Louisiana, in a freight train wreck.
The dissatisfaction over building the
Georgia Capitol out of other than Georgia
stone has invaded the sitting Legislature.
The Savannah, Ga., Cotton Exchange
does a business of $35,000,000 a year.
Ex-Senator Norwood, of Georgia, is
among the members elect to the Forty
ninth Congress.
Hon. Alex. K. Davis, colored, Lieuten
ant Governor of Mississippi during Ames’
administration, died tho other night of
heart disease. He had been pustor of the
colored Methodist Church at Canton. Miss.,
for the past four years, and was highly re
spected.
A young son of Colonel J. M. H. Beale,
residing on Mercer’s Bottom, six miles
south of Point Pleasant, W. Va., went to
the meat-house of his father the other
afternoon, and, with that adventurous
spirit characteristic of children, climbed up
on the beams, some twelve feet from the
floor, to which are attached iron hooks for
the purpose of hanging meat, and in some
manner lost his presence of mind and came
tumbling down. His descent was arrested
by his right thigh catching on one of the
iron hooks, which penetrated some distance
in his flesh and left him hanging ingmidair.
His cries for assistance were heard by some
laborers near the house, who released him
from his perilous position. His wounds are
serious, though the doctor thinks if pyaemia
does not ensue he will recover.
BA gentleman who has just located in
Chattanooga from Pennsylvania states that
large numbers from his section contem
plate moving South this wiuter, and Ten
nessee seems to be their preference.
t Bills are before the Alabama and Geor
gia Legislatures prohibiting the importa
tion, manufacture or sale of liquor in those
States.
The question of raising the salary of
Alabama’s Governor to $5,000 is before the
Legislature of the State.
Henry Vagen, a tinner, fell from a roof
at Hot Springs, Ark., the other day, and
was fatally injured. A similar fate befell
Henry Betzinger, a tinner at Little Rock.
Ex-Governor Hubbard, of Texas, had
his pocket picked while en route home on
the Texas and St. Louis Railroad.
Georgia official vote: Cleveland, 94,567;
Blaine, 47,964; Butler, 125; St. John, 184.
North Carolina official vote: Cleve
land, 142,905: Blaine, 125,068; St. John, 448.
The dead body of a young woman ap
parently about thirty years of age, with a
living emaciated babe of six months
clasped in her arms, was discovered the
other day in the woods on the property of
E. C. Cockey, about nine miles from Balti
more, in Baltimore County. The body of
the young woman was genteelly attired in
a black silk dress, trimmed with velvetf
and wore gold ear-rings and other jewelry.
Upon the left hand was a wedding ring
inscribed, “Mizpah, May 1, 1883.” Upon
the inside of a gold watch found upon the
body was engraved, “Frank to Gertrude.”
The babe was unconscious, and it is thought
the exposure it has endured for two days
at least will result in its death.
Cane begun in Georgia.
Catching ’possums for market pays well
in Alabama. •
German immigrants are said to avoid
settling in cotton States.
Louisiana promises the largest rice crop
she ever had this year.
The Gainesville, Ga., match factory
can’t keep up with orders.
A Newton, Ga., man has paid for a
farm with the melons off it.
The Governor-elpct of Florida is a native
of the State of Massachusetts. He was a
young man when he removed to Florida,
and opened an office at Pensacola for the
practice of the law.
Chattanooga is bent upon having a pub
lic library.
Memphis has the lighting of her street®
by electricity under consideration.
Good horse? are in demand in Florida.
A torpedo on the street car track in At
lanta tore a hole in the car and ruined one
of the horses.
The little child of Mr. Hayes, of Athens,
Ga., while sitting on a high stool in front
of the fire-place, fell in and was burned to
death.
The official count for President in Ala
bama showed Cleveland 92,973, Blaine 39,-
444, Butler 762 St. John 610.
VOL I.—NO. 39.
THE TWO ASTORS.
Contrast Bet weep the John of To-Day and
the John of Yesterday.
The original John Jacob Astor may
have had, at some time or another, a
carriage, but I never heard that he did.
It would have been contrary to the
habit of his life .to spend a dollar for
personal comfort or ease, while a cent
devoted to the procurement of any kind
of luxury would have been a waste so
grievous as to cause tears of bitter re
gret to flow down his brazen cheek.
Now, mind you, the present John Jacob
Astor is a very nice man. There is
nothing special about him, one way or
another, except his wealth. I don’t
mean to imply that he leads in «nv
sense a shoddy life. On the contrary,
his entire course is that of a plain,
practical, methodical man of business,
devoted to the accumulation of shekels,
and much more interested in a phase of
social prosperity which would warrant
his raising the rents of his vast estab
lishments live or ten per cent, than in
any possible improvements in the con
dition of the race, or any great prob
lem, financial or political. The con
trast, nevertheless, between the John
Jacob Astor of to-day and the John
Jacob Astor who peddled knicknaeks
about beaver, Wall, and William
streets is so tremendous that no mere
word-painting could presume to present
its picture. The one lived in a hovel,
the other in a palace. The one fed on
crusts, the other on the best the market
affords. The one was looked upon with
suspicion, as a miserly old grub; the
other is regarded as the great landlord
of the day, intent, to be sure, upon mak
ing and saving money, everywhere re
spected as one who keeps his word and
cares for the protection of his property.
The one utterly unfamiliar with the in
side of a copafortable dwelling, the other
accustomed from his earliest days to
social courtesies in what are called our
best families. The one probably never
saw a festive dance in all his life; the
other is conspicuous for his attendance
at the society balls and festive develop
ments of the season. The one walked
through the streets with a heavy pack
upon Tiis back; the other lumberly lolls
along Broadway, conscious of his posi
tion and proud of his wealth, or else
trundles down-town in a heavy family
coach, drawn by the most respectable
span of horses in the province. Oh,
yes, it is a great change, a vast distinc
tion, and very natural was the thought
suggested by the appearance of the lat
ter-day Astor. Cor. Boston Herald.
OLD-TIME SURGERY.
When It Was Thought a Wonderful Thing
to Shorten a Jaw.
A number of years ago there lived in
Wheeling a certain Dr. Hullien, who
became famous as a surgeon. Some of
his operations were very brilliant and
decidedly awe-inspiring among the
common people. One case in particu
lar was thought to be unparalleled at
that time. A young lady belonging to
one of the best families in Eastern Ohio
was terribly disfigured by a protruding
lower jaw. Hearing of Dr. Hullien’s
skill as a surgeon she prevailed upon
her father to allow her to go to Wheel
ing and see if anything could be done
to improve the shape of her face. She
went alone, and nothing was heard of
her for two weeks except that she ar
rived there safely.
One evening as the shades of night
were gathering, a really handsome huty
drove up to the gate in front of the
farm house and asked if she could get
lodging for the night. The well-to-do
farmer said they‘did not keep a hotel;
besides, they were expecting their
daughter home at any time, so they
could not keep her. She said she
guessed she would stay anyhow, and
hopped out of the buggy. The farmer
thought she was an escaped lunatic,
and was about to shut and lock the
door in her face when the house dog
came along and recognized the lady as
his young mistress.
It was impossible to satisfy her par
rents and sisters of her identity, so re
markable was the change in her ap
pearance. In her pocket she had two
sections of jawbone, each containing
three teeth, which explained how the
Change had been made The operatiou
is quite common now, but at that time
it was rare. In this case there were
three more teeth on either side of the
lower jaw than usual, and as they grew
they caused the jaw to project forward.
At birth the lower jaw was but little
longer than the upper one. The sur
geon merely resected the jaw on both
sides by cutting out a section on either
side containing the extra teeth, cutting
out one in front to make the jaw nar
rower and bringing the ends of the
bones together. It was simple enough,
but the country people laid awake of
nights thinking and talking about it.
Another young lady who, when a
mere child toddling around, had her
neck badly scalded by pulling the cof
fee-pot off the breakfast-table, and al
terward carried her head greatly to
one side, went to see the doctor. With
out so much as asking her consent he
severed the contracted muscles; snipped
a piece out of her shoulder, fitted it in,
tied up the wound, and told her if she
would hurry she would catch the next
boat for home. —Pittsburgh Dispatch.
—A Cape Vincent (N. Y.) man
learning to play the cornet has picked
up brick enough in the front yard and
on the balcony where he sits to prac
tice to lay a pavement all around his
house. He hopes to be able to build a
brick hen house this summer if the
neighbors do not all move out of the
neighborhood. —Buffalo Express,