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T. A. HAVRON, Publisher. 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. "t • 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. r 4 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* £ and the thing is dom M anything that is madf W As the rubber me M Italian ragpicker e W pairs of old ru’ m threw them do 1 m “How mucha?' r said the sto ! / Italian glad / other bran / old man. / the Ital : / into r / shoe: / of,' / £• r /