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CURRENT TOPICS.
Frederick Douglass is believed to be
Worth at least $150,000.
Sixty-four women engravers earn their
livelihood in England. ;
There are 7,162 women missionaries and
preachers in England.
HEREAFTERthe New York Star will show
Itsdight but once a week.
I The newest craze is to collect every kind
and shape of parlor lamps.
The highest priced pew in Grace Church
New York, is $6,000 per year.
JThbre are 600 professional beauties in
London who don’t work at all.
The number of men employed on the
Panama Canal works is 19,000.
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It is a wise woman that knows her own
■eniskin sack from dyed beaver.
There are 452 women editors in England
and 1,309 female photographers.
In New York and London musical circles
the “See-Saw” waltz is the craze.
It may become necessary to quarantine
against those foreign earthquakes.
i ; A pearl has been found on the Western
Australian coast valued at $20,000.
There are 115,995 English school teach
ers, nearly all of whom are spinsters.
The poor of Paris are now crying for
bread. They may soon be clamoring for
blood.
Windsor’s great park costs the Queen
$125,000 a year and brings in rentals of
$26,000.
A?an outcome of the hard times, no
shutdown of a brewery has yet been re
ported.
Foreign students i:i Paris complain or
discriminations and of being treated.as in
truders.
A Norwich, Conn., lady has a banana
plant on which several bananas are now
ripening.
It is said that Miss Mackey will never
permit her Italian Count to go into the pea
nut business.
In London 140 tons of chloride of lime
are daily used for the deodorizing of the
sewer outlets.
Australia has ninety-three species or
sjyikes, fifty-eight venomous and thirty
five harmless. j
John B. Jervis, the eminent civil engi
neer, of Rome, N. Y., died the o her morn
ing, in his ninetieth year.
Mrs. Relva A. Lockwood has petitioned
Congress'to see that the votes cast for her
for President be counted.
Vice President-elect Hendricks sel
dom smokes Hoosier tobacco. He won’t
Havana kind but the best.
-The close of General Grant’s career bids
fair to be as full of trouble as his meridian
was luminous with glory.
' 1 In the German army suicide is rendered
reasonably sure, by ' to djath
every soldier who attempts it.
The Emperor of Austria has an income of
$4,000,000 a year, and the Czar of Russia
receives about twice that sum.
Pennsylvania’s fame will never die. On
her soil was raised the man with the cour
age to marry his mother-in-law.
A bill was introduced in the Senate to
increase the pensions of widows and minor
children from SB-to sl2 per month.
- A widow named Watson, of Limetown,
Pa., her son and two daughters were all
married on the same day, re 'ently.
Thomas Clyde, a wealthy ship owner
and founder of the Clyde steamship line,
died in Philedelphia a few days ago.
During 1884, $22,000,000 was built into
Chicago structures and $45,003,000 invested
in real property lying within the city limits."
A runaway horse in Stockton, Cal., ran
upon a babyjc vrriage, dragged it fifty feet
and kicked it into splinters, and yet the
baby escaped.
People who dislike to have their win
dows frosted in cold weather cau prevent
it by rubbing the glass inside and outside
with glycerine.
Ferdinand Ward, the jailed partner of
General Grant, used to adorn liis.private
theater box at an expense of over SIOO a
night for flowers.
A West-Brookfield (Me.) citizen has
I been made quite ill with blood poisoning,
caused by wearing a new red mitten over a
scratch on his hand.
. Governor Hill, of New York, has the
reputation of being one of the most bashful
of men, and various anecdotes illustrating
this are current in Albany.
Prince Henry of Battenburg, has al
ready seen 10,000 of his photographs sold
in London. Buch is fame and an' engage
ment to a queen’s daughter.
A kind-hearted lady of Gilroy, Kan.,
has constituted herself the good angel of
ad tramps. She not only gives them a
square meal, but wine and cigars.
Towels are embroidered with a mono
gram. It is now considered inappropriate
to put indelible ink on any article which
has any claim to delicacy of fabric.
Wolseley isn’t having such a large
. time with El Mahdi as he thought he would
" have. The False Prophet may yet proceed
to have some fun with the Englishman.
Mr. Gladstone’s son, the rector, is to
knarry a Miss Mary Williamson, the
daughter of a Liverpool doctor of large
practice and ample means, buj a savage
/Tory. Love knows no politics.
The total amount of authorized street
railroad capital in England is $91,250,000,
and the length of line opened for traffic e>2
miles. The number of passengers carried
last year was nearly 331,000,000.
Jacob and Maria Hood, who were mar
ried June 1, 1820, celebrated Mrs. Hood’s
ninety-eighth birthday on New Year’s, at
Springfield, Mass. Her husband was
ninety-three years eld on Christmas day.
Patti loves a parrot, Modjeska adores a
black cat, Langtry wastes her superfluous
affection on a little Chinese monkey, called
Li Chin, and Mary Anderson shatters to a
pair of yellow canaries wfiile studying
Juliet’s blank verse.
TRENTON, DADE COUNTY, GA.. WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 21. 1885.
HORRIBLK DEVELOPMENT
A Terrible Crime in New York
State.
A Farmer’s Wife Shoots nim, Bolls His
Body, Feeds the FleSh to the Hogs,
and Burns the Bones.
Utica, N. Y., January 16.—Wm. Druse,
a farmer of moderate circumstances, living
in the town of Warren, Herkimer County,
has been missing a month. Suspicions of a
murder were caused by quarrels between
him and his wife. For several days it was
rumored that Druse had been murdered by
his wife, his body cut and burned, and
the bones put into the Swamp. An
axe, owned by Druse, was found in
Weatherbee’s Pond Saturday, rolled in
paper. A nephew of Mrs. Druse, named
Gates, aged eighteen, has been "squeezed”
by neighbors. He confessed that Mrs.
Druse shot her husband while he and her
son were out, and put a rope around his
neck, and compelled him to shoot also.
They burned the body and buried the
bones. The odor of burning flesh was no
ticed December 18. Mrs. Druse and Gates are
under arrest. The District Attorney and
Coroner are conducting an examination
into the death of Druse. Frank Gates,
aged fourteen, nephew of Druse, living in
the family, made an artless confession*
showing the crime was committed Decem
ber 10, and that Mrs. Druse compelled him
to shoot her husband a second time, and
aid her to dispose of the body. They boiled
it and fed the flesh to the hogs, and
turned the bones, the ashes of which were
buried in the swamp. The boy says the
woman cut her husband’s head off and put
it first in the stove. The boy acted as fire
man, and had a terrible time destroying
the evidences of the crime. Neighbors who
noticed the unusual smoke and odor were
refused admittance, and papers were kept
over the windovfs. Since then the house
has been repapered.
Telegraphers’ Paralysis.
[From the Philadelphia Times.]
'‘During the jiast three weeks I have been
unable to use my pen,” said Superintend
ent Walker, of the city’s electrical depart
ment, “and have been compelled to dictate
my correspondence. lam suffering from
telegraphers’ paralysis. My right arm is
useless, rendered so by my working in and
around batteries, testing their strength and
the repeated shocks I have received. Any
one handling the keys of an operator’s board
is subject to this ailment. It is first observ
ed in the muscles of the arm. which be
come benumbed after a hard day’s work.
A few months after the first shock the
stoutest operator will succumb. My phy
sician has had me under treatment for a
month, but as yet does not appear to have
benefitted memuch. “Any muscular work k
such as lifting heavy packages. I can read
ily accomplish, but it is only with difficulty
that I can button my coat. Last summer
our chief operator complained of a pain in
his arm, and I insisted upon him taking a
a complete rest, and since his return he
has not been attacked. On the night of
election, when the returns
came pouring in on us, one of
our best men was struck and was com
pelled to give up.” Superintendent Gill, of
the Western Union operating rooms, said
that many men after serving the company
for years were compelled to throw up their.
positions on account of this form of paral
ysis. Many mistakes have been traced to
the same source, as the slightest pressure
on the key will produce other ihan the let
ter an operator wishes to indicate. Hejjwill
often charge the mistakes to a defect in the
machinery, but in the end must admit of
his inability to work. When an operator
is first attacked he will simply attribute it
to overwork, but he soon finds that his keen
sense of touch has disappeared. In nearly
every case it is a first-class operator that is
afflicted. A good transmitter is paid a
large salary, but must keep continually
working at his board, while a second or
/third-rate man has many resting spells
which allow him to stretch his arms.
Naval Affairs.
Washington, January 16.—At the meet
ing of the House Committee on Naval Af
fairs to-day, Representatives Boutelle,
Talbott .and Ballentine were appointed a
sub-committee to consider the bill provid
ing for the distribution of the Greeley re
lief vessels. Mr. Boutelle favors putting
the Alert in complete repair and returning
her to the British Government with the
thanks of Congress. He says the vessel
was presented to the United States for a
specific purpose, and now. as that purpose
has been accomplished, it would be proper
to retuo her. The committee also consid
ered tL; proposed investigation of the
death of Cadet Strang at the Naval
Academy, and, by a tie vote, decided that,
no investigation should be made. The
members opposed to an investigation based
their opposition on the ground that no evi
dence has been presented sufficient to war
rant an investigation.
Attempted Robbery and Murder.
Everson, Pa., January 15.—A party of
men, disguised, entered Keek Bros.’store,
in which Adam Keck was sleeping. They
bound and gagged him and then beat him
over the head with a club, crushing his
skull. His brother arrived in time to scare
the burglars off, but not until a larcv
amount of goods was taken. Keck will
die. A man was arrested at D rry this
morning and taken back for identification.
Don Cameron Nominated.
Harrisburg, Pa., January 15.—The Re
publicans held an open caucus with open
doors to nominate a T T . S. Senator. The
vote was as follows: Cameron. 115; Bea
ver, 39; Galusha A. Grow, 5; W. D. Kel
ley, 5, and George Siiiras, of Pittsburgh, 1.
Cameron’s nomination was made unani
mous.
Dead Bodies of Four Infants Found.
Franklin, Pa., January 15.—The dis
covery of the bodies of four infants rang
ing in age from one to three years, buried
near Big Rock Bridge, in the lower end of
the city, has created great excitement.
The botiics were found iu rough boxes, and
ope at least was recently buried.
The Crops in 1834.
Washington, January 16.—The annual
report of the Department of Agriculture,
now in press, makes record of corn produc
tion for 18S4. 1,795,000,000bu5he15; of wheat
nearly 513,000,000, and outs 583,000,000.
These aggregates are the largest ever re
corded.
A NOVEL BEQUEST.
One Hundred Dollars for tlie Care of a Dog.
and at His Death, to be burled In
the Cemitery.
Philadelphia, January 14. Before
Judge Penrose the account of the executor
of Sarah Ellen Smith, deceased, came up
for audit. Decedent died the 17th of May
last, leaving a will, the concluding clause
of which provided that any one in the will
who should attempt To break it should get
nothing. Among the bequests was one to
her niece, with a provision that “at the age
of thirty, when she will, if ever, know the
necessity of taking care of her means,
and not having a husband who uses tobac
co or intoxicating drinks,” the property
should be given into»her absolute control
and possession “but should she have a hus
band who cau afford to indulge in the use
of rum aud tobacco, of course
he can support 'Her -without this
bequest, and the 1 house and grounds
shall be given to the Women’s Branch of
the Home Missionary Society, of the Pres
byterian Church, for the support of an in
digent preacher wKo shtfll not indulge in
or teach such practices, to enable him to
spread the gospel conscientiously and fear
lessly at some outpost of these United
States.” Among others were bequests to
the most reliable committee to be found in
this city for the suppression of intemper
ance and tobacco; to establish a small rural
church in France; to the woman’s
Christian missions; for the Chinese in Cali
fornia; to the Woman’s Mission in Persia;
to the Woman’s Mission'for Hindostan; for
the instruction of females in those coun
tries in Christianity; to aid the mission for
teaching aud preaching the Gospel to the
American Indians in our Western Terri
tories, and to the mission of the Presbyte
rian Church, for the instruction of our ne
gro freedmen. She bequeathed to “my dear
little dog, Frisky, SIOO to care for him dur
ing his life, and at his death to be buried
in Aunt Sally’s lot in Mount Moriah Cem
etery.” With reference to the bequests
relative to rum and tobacco, the Judge inti
mated that he would decide that they were
void through vagueness, and that the
property mentioned in connection therewith
would go to the next of kin.
War in Panama.
Panama January 15. —The most alarm
ing condition of affairs prevails through
out the Republic, and a general conflict is
imminent. Civil War is under way in Cun
dinamarca, Boyaca, Santander and Mag
dalena, and seems about to break
out in the important State of
Cauca. Here in Panama more trouble may
occur, but there will be little bloodshed.
Heavy fighting has already taken place in
the interior. The Radical party has joined
a faction of the Conservatives. They
are endeavoring to turn out the liberal
governments in the different States
which are the strongest supporters
of the Government of President Nu
nez; then, if successful, they will unite the
States they hold in an effort to overthrow
the General Government. Severe skir
mishes have occurred in Santander and
Boyaca, and the cable this morning says a
battle has taken place at Tunja, in Boyaca,
in which the Federal forces were defeated,
and Commander-in*-Chief General Montir
far and another General killed.
A Block of Silver.
New Orleans,La., January 16. —Directly
in the midst of the immediate exhibits near
the entrance, the biggest architectural thing
in the world stands a curiously carved
block of solid silver, weighing 5,640 pounds,
and valued at $114,000. It is from liberal
Mexico, of course, and bears the inscrip
tion, “Mexico, estado do Chihuahua, 1884,
para la Exposicion deNueva Orleans, 1885.”
A curious crowd surrounds it. and the
swarthy Mexican in charge shrugs his
picturesquely-clad shoulders as he informs
his audience; “Eh? Eet is from Mexico.
Ya’as! And much more ees in Mexico! O,
Ya’as! And that is why les Americanos
they would to fight! Ha f”
The Soudan Expedition.
Cairo, January 16.—Dispatches from the
Gakdul wells states that Stewart’s force
reached there Monday noon from the How
elvatt wells. This force consists of a
squadron of Hussors, a heavy section of the
camel corps, mounted infantry, the Sussex
regiment and a naval brigade. Egyptian
soldiers, engaged in conveying the supply
of water during the march, behaved in ah
infamous manner. They drank the rations
belonging to the others, and refused to obey
Colonel Burnaby when he ordered an ad
vance.
Dakota Capital Question.
Bismarck, Dak., January 16.—Kennedy t
of Brown County, in the Council, and
Pickier, of Faulke County, in ihe House,
gave notice to-night that on to-morrow
they would introduce a bill for relocating
the capital of Dakota. It is understood the
bill proposes locating the capital at Pierre.
Williams, of Bismarck, gave notice of a
memorial asking Congress to divide Dako
ta. It now appears that the capital remov
al to Pierre is practically agreed upon
among a majority of South Dakota mem
bers of the Legislature.
South American Strife.
Panama, January b!.—There is another
revolution in the United States of Colum
bin. Barranguilla was captured by rebels.
Cartagena, captured on the 13th, was re
taken by the National forces yesterday.
Troops have gone to recover Barranguilla.
Other troops have been sent to Buenaven
tura to assist in restoration of order there.
Affairs at Cauca and Panama are quiet,
but the National force is insufficient to
maintain order should a revolt or riot oc
cur. The situation is uneasv. There is no
foreign man-of-war in the harbor.
A Pension Bill Reported Adversely.
Washington, January 16.—The Senate
Committee on Pensions reported adversely
on the bill to grant n pension of $36
per month to Emma DeLong, widow of
the late Lieutenant Commander Delzong. of
Jeannette fame. The report of the ma
jority merely recommends indefinite post
ponement of the bill. Senator Blair sub
mitted a minority report, recommending a
pension of SSO per month.
A Wife Murderer Escapes.
BiNCHAMrToN, N. Y., January 15.—Men
ken, the Elmira murderer. las broken jail
and fled. Sheriff Brown and Detective
Black are out of town. When the escape
was discovered the city was aroused by
the clanging of the tire bells. A reward of
SI,OOO has been offered for his capture.
HORRIBLE lIOLOCAI 'oT.
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Incineration of Insane at the East
ern Illinois Asylum.
A namlful of Ashes Tells the Terrible Tale
How Seventeen Incurables Were
Cremated.
K'nkakee, 111., January 18.—The south
infirmary of the Illinois Eastern Hospital
for Insane, burned this morning at 4:50.
The fire originated in the furnace-room,
and had secured strong headway before it
was discovered. The wood-work of the
building being of Southern pine it burned
very rapidly. The building was
occupied by forty-five patients, six attend
ants, and one night watchman. Seventeen
patients are missing, aud thirteen bodies
have been recovered. They are burned
beyond recognition. All of the pa
tients were infirm and incurable. The
bedridden ones were rescued first, and
those who were aide to help themselves
did not realize the danger, and they
were the ones who perished. The at
tendants lost theii personal effects, and
many narrowly escaped with their lives,
one- of them having to tie the bed-elothes
together to escape. There were no facili
ties for putting out the fire, the State not
ha'ing made any appropriation. The
building was a new one, and cost $76,000.
It is a total wreck. Thomas Horely, a
brether of State Senator Ilerely, is among
the burned.
The Power of Steam.
Tremont, Pa., January 18. —Five men
were killed by the explosion of a saw-mill
boiler, near Good Spring Station, between
this place and Tower City. The mill was
owned by Abraham Ernst, and was locat
ed on the Schuylkill and Susquehanna
branch of the Reading Railroad. The ex
plosion is supposed to have been caused
Dy a defect in the boiler. The killed
are: Alfred Ernst, aged twenty years, son
of the mill owner’s brother; Henry Caller
aged twenty-seven, leaves a wife and four
children; Jacob) Gehres, aged thirty-five,
leaves a widow and five children.
Caller and Gehres lived in Pine Val
ley. Two others, whose names have not
yet been learned, are known to have
been killed. All the bodies were terribly
mangled, aud parts of them have been
picked up four hundred and live hundred
yards from the scene of the disaster. Gehres
was the engineer, and the nearest to the
boiler the moment of the explosion. One ot
his arms was blown a quarter of a mile
from the site of the mill, where it was
picked up late this afternoon. The explo
sion was heard over five miles from the
scene.
Destructive Avalanches.
Vienna, January 18.—An avalanche de
scended upon a portion of the town of
Klagenfurth, the capital of the Duchy of
Corinthia, Austro-Hungary, to-day, over
whelming a large number of people.
Twenty persons were killed, and many in
jured more or less seriously. The excite
ment in Klagenfurth is intense. Nearly
three thousand people are engaged in
digging for the bodies buried beneath the
snow. Prompt measures of relief were
taken for the sufferers, the injured ones be
ing removed to hospitals and th>
provided with shelter.
Geneva, January 18.—Intelligenc<*|ia9i
just been received that an avalanche has
buried a small village Jt the foot of Simplon
Mountain to the depth of ten feet.
The Congo Throne.
London, January 18.—The impecunious
Duke and Duchess of Teck are playfully
suggested for the not very promising
throne of the Cquro, and the King and
Queen of become profoundly
unpopular* The clnef reason in the King
is his craffc under what are described as
American Xnfluenees about Central Africa,
and his nfcehant lor weak wire-pulling,
while the (Joeen has made her: If detested
by the hauteur of her manners, especially
since her daughter married the £ sir to the
throne of Austria.
A Big Haul by Thieves.
Wheeling, W. Va., January 18.—The
residence of Louis Volhardt, this city, was
robbed of $15,000 in bonds and SI,OOO in
cash. The thieves were captured and S9(K
of the money recovered. They had burned
the bonds.
XLVIII. CONGRESS.
Second Session.
Washington, January 13.— Senate. —The
Sherman-Davis resolution calling for tlie
correspondence of Jefferson Davis, in pos
session of the Government, was passed by a
vote of 52 to 40. Also the bill n repeal the
pre-emption desert lands a’’ aber culture
laws and Jo emend the he ■ . ceuil laws.
HOUSE.— Bills were p:. sed to create a IT.l T .
S. Judicial District in Southern California,
and extending- the service of civil and crimi
nal processes issued by Territorial Courts
within military and Indian reservations and
Yellowstone Park. The House, be ng ad
vised of the death of Hon. Schuyler Col
fax, passed resolutions of respect and ad
journed in regard lor his memory.
Washington. January 14.— Senate.— The
bill to retire General Grant, with full rank
and pay of General, passed by a vote of 49
to 9.
Horse —Mr. Mills introduced a bill to cre
ate a Revenue Commiss on. The Senate
French Spo.lation Claim bill passed by a vote
Of 191 to 71.
Washington. January 15.—Senate.—A bill
was introduci d by Miller, of California, to in
crease the peii'ion of the widow of General
George H. Thomas from fJtiO to 51,000 per
year.
House.— A request was received from the
Comissiovors of the District of < oiumb a fur
an appropriation of flh.uoi to heTp maintain
public order during the < leve'.and inaugural
ceremonies. The MclTierson funding bill
was discussed. A vote on adjournment indi
cates virtually the deieat of the measure.
Washington, January 16.— Senate. —Day
chiotly occupied in discussion of the Inter-
State commerce bill passed by the House.
House.—A bill passed :<t the construction
of a bridge across the v is.-ifs:ppi nt Mem
phis. The Senate ante min-ents to the Oregon
Central land grant Mil n< w concon c d in. In
the evening . 'on tills were discussed.
A draft ci a bill was n eeived turn oretiiry
McCulloch, designed tote an amt ndmeui to
the law relating to the. entry of distilled
spirits in distillery and spteiul bonded ware
house. and withdrawal or same therefrom.
Washington, January 17.—Senate.—Mr.
Frye Introduced a bill for the encourage
ment of the American merchant murine, and
to promote postal and commercial relations
with forego countries The inter state
commerce bill was di»> ussi J aud amended,
but pending a vote on the measure the Sen
ate adji urned.
House —The House sat us a committee of
the whole on the consular uud diplomatic
appropriation bill.
SOUTHERN NEWS GLEANINGS.
Jerry Love, colored, of Shady, Carter
County. Tenn., went to Wallace's Switch t
Va., the other night, after his wife. A
quarrel ensued, when the woman shot her
husband dead.
Mrs. J. C. Allison, of Wytheville, Va.,
was fatally burned a few mornings ago.
She was using coal-oil to kindle the fire in
a stovo, when it caught and exploded, in
flicting injuries which caused the woman’s
death.
B The dead body of Parish McAfee was
discovered in the woods near Huntsville,
Ala. He had been missing several days,
and when found was pinned to the ground
by a limb over his neck. Parish had made
frantic efforts to escape, but evidently died
slowly of starvation and exposure.
T. D. Welldonf. and wife, a young couple
from South Carolina, were drowned while
fishing on Lake Mineola, near Altoona, Ala.
The directors of the World’s Fair at New
Orleans have set apart February 25 as the
commercial travelers’ day. A large at
tendance of drummers is expected.
The nineteenth General Assembly of
Texas have convened.
The Arkansas Legislature Las convened
and will have to elect a United States Sen
ator.
Several Southern State Legislatures
are being importuned to appropriate funds
in aid of their exhibit at New Orleans.
Mrs. Garfield says she owns land, but
no gold mines in North Carolina. She is
not going South, as reported.
The Legislature of Florida is about to
pass a bill appropriating SIO,OOO for the
purpose of making a fuller exhibit at the
World’s Exposition. Commissioner Se
lling has addressed both houses in behalf
of the measure.
The inaugural ceremonies of Arkansas
State officials elect were held in State
house Capitol a few days ago. The new
officials are as follows: Governor, Simon
R. Pughes; E. B. Moore, Secretary of State;
D. W. Jones, Attorney General; A. W.
File, Auditor; W. E. Woodruff, Treasurer.
The Governor’s address was almost en
tirely in reference to State matters.
Maj. Ben. E. Crane, President of the
Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, is dead.
C. R. Mason, the well-known Southern
railroad contractor, died at Stanton, Va.,
the other night, aged eighty-six years.
During the war he was Chief of the Pioneer
Corps under Stonewall Jackson.
TnE effort to abolish smoking-cars on the
New Orleans street car lines has failed.
A destructive fire visited the town at
Jonesboro, Ark., the other morning, de
stroying the north side of Public Square,
including seven business houses. The loss
is estimated at $70,000.
Macon claims to possess the prettiest
women in all Georgia.
In the case of Thomas J ■ Davis, at
Petersburg, Va., charged with the murder
of John Dittman last May, the jury brought
in a verdict of involuntary manslaughter,
fixing punishment atone minute in jail and
pay a fine of
Captain J. D. Burke, editor of the Ga
zette, Magnolia, Miss., committed suicide.
, No cause assigned.
Laura Shewsbury, a grand-niece
and the oldest surviving relative of General
Washington, is dead, aged seventy-five, at
Charleston, West Va.
The official count of the vote for West
Virginia State officers in Octob r last, com
pleted in the Legislature a few days ago,
gives Wilson, Democrat, for Governor,
5,289 majority over Maxwell, Republican
and Greenbacker. Large sums of money
were staked on five thousand majority for
Wilson, and all estimates heretofore print
ed gave him less than five thousand. Ran
dolph County made the change. The re
turns from that county were delayed until
Governor Jackson sent for them, aud their
effect on the general result causes some
dissatisfaction.
A writer in a Florida paper says that
January there, as elsewhere, should be the
busy month. He believes the vineyard,
the olive, fig, pecan, walnut, pear and
peach orchards can be made to rival the
orange groves of the South, and the pas
tures and meadows excel the most favored
regions of the Union.
The bonded debt of New Orleans amounts
to $16,025,937, bearing a total yearly inter
est of $496,929.
The heirs of T. O. Jennings, the con
ductor killed July, 1883, by a train going
through the Mammoth Bavou bridge, at
Jackson, Miss., sued the railroad company
for $50,000. The last term of court resulted
in a mis-trial, the jury being equally di
vided. After th®trial of the pr sent term,
lasting a week, the jury returned a verdict
in favor of for one dollar.
Mrs. Wm. Warner, who was shot by
her husband at Grafton, W. Va., died.
The other night a negro, Thomas Peody,
assaulted a white woman near Green
ville, Tex., but was frightened off.
He was captured next morning and jailed.
That night he was taken from the jail by
two hundred armed men and hanged. He
had made a full confession to the jailer.
John Scott, colored, convicted several
weeks ago, at Baltimore, of the murder of
his wife by poison, is sentenced to be
hanged.
Hartford County. Md., is greatly ex
cited over the attempted murder by a
tramp of Mrs. Richard Carr. The man cut
her throat severely.
Fears are entertained by orange grow
ers that the present winter has been almost
too mild for the good of their groves. New
are being made, and the trees are
much more likely to be injured in case of a
heavy freeze than they would have been
had the weather been more severe..
A new artesian well which has been sank
Je Montgomery, Ala., 630 feet deep, dis
charges eighty gallons of water per minute
to a height of forty feet a!>ove the ground
By the will of the late Elijah Rudolph.
Winchester. Va., Roanoke College, at
lem, Va.. will receive at the death r
widow property valued at $6,000.
Atlanta’s artesian well is no
1,026 feet down into the earth.
VOL I—NO. 47.
PITH AND POINT.
—A rainy day picnic and a broken
marriage engagement are in one re
spect alike—postponed on account of
the wedder.— Burdette.
—Can anybody tell why everybody
at a lecture manages to cough just as
the lecturer is pronouncing the one
word which of all others you want to
hear?
—The Journal of Chemistry gives
this piece o f consolation: “If you live
in a town don’t cry over spilt milk.
Examine it closely, and you may find
it is not milk after all.”
—“Aunty,” said a thoughtful boy to
his aged nurse, “what comes of all the
old moon?” “'Deed, I'm not very
sure, child,” she answered. Maybe
they be chipped up to make stars out
of the bits.”— Ooldcn Days.
—1 he wife of I)r. Tanner used to
earn §3,000 a year as a physician be
fore her marriage. Now she has lost
all that income. It is never advisable
for a self-supporting woman to marry
a “fast” ma 1. — Lowell Citizen.
—The incessant talker may be of use
in the world, but there is a strong sus
picion abroad that his principal service
to mankind is to illustrate the fact that
it doesn’t require much brains to make
a noise in the world. Oil City Derrick.
—A young man who left home in
Connecticut several years ago to seek
his fortune, recently wrote from Texas,
say ng: “I’ve settled here.” It has
since transpired that he was right. He
settled at twenty cents on the dollar.—
N. Y. fost.
—A proof-reader, out for a walk,
was met by a Typographical Error;
but the proof-reader did not speak,
nor did he even bow in recognition.
“Ha, ha,” chuckled the Typographical
Error, “I knew he wouldn’t see me!”
—Louisville Courier-Journal.
—“You were asleep last night,
weren’t you, my dear, when I came
in?” he asked. “Yes, and it was a
great blessing toyou that I was asleep.”
“1 hardly think,” he returned mildly,
“that it was a great blessing. It was
owing to the fact that you were asleep
that I escaped a great blessing.”— N.
Y. Sun.
—A family in Lewiston, Maine, re
cently received avisit from a prominent
clergyman. In the family is a girl of
three years—the pet and privileged
character of the household. At the
table she listened attentively while
grace was being said, and when the
clergyman had reached his “Amen,”
she exclaimed: “ ’Tain’t pretty to talk
so at the table; my papa don’t.”— Troy
Times.
—A London chemist, in an analysis of
the tea we drink, found that it con
tained “nut-galls, iron filings, filbert
husks, sulphate of copper, hornets’
nests, acetic acid, green paint, tar
rope, desiccated door-mats, ammonia,
stable sweepings, etc.” This would
seem to disprove the general belief that
tea is adulterated, unless something of
the kind may lurk in that suspicious,
“etc ."—Norristown Herald.
—A New York dude went to a cele
brated doctor to be examined, as his
health was on the wane. The physician
examined the young man carefully and
said: “I find your heart is affected.”
“Anything else, doctor?” “Yes, your
lungs are slightly affected.” “Any
thing else about me that is affected?”
“Yes, your manners are also affected.”
—N. Y. Sun.
A TINKER IN RUBBER.
The Peculiar Trade of an Old .Han Who
Buys Used-up Overshoes From Rag-
Pickers.
In front of a small, dingy basement
in Brooklyn is a little board sign which
reads: “Rubber repaired.” After en
tering the shop door, at the foot of a
long, steep flight of steps, one finds
himself in a dark cellar, in which are
piled up on every hand rubber goods,
patent tire escapes, models of elevators,
and a thousand and one things that
have nothing to do with rubber at all.
“Good morning,” a cheery voice ex
claimed from among this heap of goods
as a reporter entered the door. Peering
about, he saw a little old man, who
proved to be the proprietor.
“Can I mend it?” he remarked, smil
ing, as he took the torn rubber air cush
ion of a foot-ball which the visitor
handed him. “Of course I can, and
make it stronger than when it
was new. To put a patch on
the inside I use a thin rubber cloth,
on one side of which 1 put a coat
of cement, and then carefully place it
inside the cushion and smooth the torn
edges of the rubber over it. When this
is done 1 blow up the cushion, and the
air serves as an excellent b to keep
the patch it place. It is t easy
matter to put a patch o* £
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anything that is madf W
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