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T. A. HAVRONj Publisher, current, Topics. . T?ex Butler denies that he is learning to play the banjo. One Brocfcon family of four persons de voured bits pies last year. i he pay roll of the Public Printer is stat ed to V>o over $,1,000 per day. r The motto of Keely, the motionless motor man should be “So mote it bed’ President Garfield’s portrait has been hung in the House library. A Connecticut, paper offers a village 101 among its premiums to subscribers. Th- Czar of Russia gets $8,216,000 a year, with an occasional dynamite boom thrown in. Over $1,000,000 has been invested in shoe manufacturing in New Hampshire in two years. Mrs. Apphia Fisher, of Salem, N. H.,. ninety,-seven years old, reads without glasses. , Castles in Spain are more shaky than ever; the everlasting hills themselves are slipping. Edmund Yates, the London /-journalist, sentenced for libeling Lord Lonsdale, is' now in jail. r* '• A young English lady has been arrested, in Holland for wearing a felt hat mid hav ing short hair. If the Grant Relief bill passes it is said President Arthur will allow it to become a law without signing it. A ninety-year-old Fair Haven woman "“shucks oysters with theresi of the girls,” and b. ats most of them. The Duke of Marlborough h-s proposed marriage again to his divorced Duchess, and she has refused him. Myra Clark Gaines probably knew more about law than any woman in the world during the last decade. A Washington girl answers the current ■conundrum, “Will the coming man work?” thus: “He will if I get him.” Chellts Sargent, of Tilton, N. H., eigbtv-six years old, has just read the Bible through in thirty-two days. Lynn and Haverhill together made near ly shoes enough in 1884 to shoe half th population of the United States. •Tohn Edwards, who began to set type on the Portland Advertiser in 1810, claims to be the oldest printer in. Maine- . The Empress Eugenie, ownes several house I ’, in New York City whSch : give her a handsome income from the rents. , p In the present Maine Legislature there are thirty-six farmers,nineteen merchants fifteen lawyers and eleven manufacturers. Bismarck is said to drink more beer than wine, and absolutely refuses to wear e blue ribbon. He still eats sausage bn the sly. The cut in ocean steamships to $lO lor the passage from Europe bids fair to swell the tide of immigration to unusual propor tions. * California has no asylum for the blind, but the State Legislature, at its coming session, will consider the project of build ing one. Two ladies were baptized in a mill-pond at Gagetown, Tuscola County, Mich., re cently, with the mercury twenty degrees below zero. Some New York ladies, who give Sunday evening receptions, have .been requested by clergymen to discontinue for the sake of socrrl morality. Mr. Philetus Sawyer, with one excep tion the richest mau in thqpiUnite I States Senate, is dis inguished for never having made a speech there. Miss Cleveland, the future mistress oi the White House, is said to possess the rare faculty of never forgetting a face or the name that goes with it. A Washington writer says that Presi dent Clevelandis regular in his sleeping and can not sit up all night. This may ex plain why Mr. Cleveland is still a single man. ’ * 1 i Floating sawmills are common on the lower Mississippi. They pick up the drifting logs, turn them into lumber,-, and. sell the product to planters ulbng the shore. By her marriage the. Princess Beatrice will become sister-in-law*, to her own niece, the daughter of the Princess Alice, who married the elder brother of Beatrice’s be trothed. vi'-! , > A chin-holder has been invented tor violin players. If it can be applied to the fellow who is always gabbing during a the atrical performance the inventor will make a fortune. A type-setter’s business is always picking up, except when he is “throwing in.” Then he exemplifies the ancient adage, “There is that scattereth and yet increaseth.” Large numbers of colored people, whe emigrated to Kansas a year or two ago. now find the climate too severe, and are re ported to be leaving for New Mexico and other points in the Southwest. To illustrate the changes in New Hamp shire weather, the Dover Republican says that M. V. Falker plowed on the Ist day of January with a pair of nine-bundred pound horses, doing the work as easily as in May, the ground being in fine condition. The next day the mercury was below zero. To get even with their doctors, two fam ilies in Atlanta recently ornamented the graves of their dead children with bottles containing what remained of the medi cines prescribed by the attending physi cians. The bottles bore the/driggists’ lai- 1 bels, the prescriptions and names of the physicians. At the surgical clinics at Florida Uni versity a few days ago. a tumor weighing over five pounds was taken from the back of a colored boy, eight years old. The re moval of the tumor reduced the boy’s weight one-fifth. Neither New Hampshire nor Rhode Island built a mile of railroad dnrine I*B4 TRENTON. DADE COUNTY, GA . WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28.1883. ACONITE. Terrible Mistake of a New Orleans Druggist'. Captain Farrell,’ the Great Detective, Dead, from an Overdose of then Deadly Drug. ■ si New Orlovs,’ La., January 21—Caph Mike I arrcll, the head ef Farrell 1 !* police and detective agency, -und one of the best known detective officers in the South, died suddenly last night of what was suppos’ed at the time to be a congestive chill. This morning, while preparations were being made for the funeral, the doctor in attend ance expressed roiub surprise at the sud denness Of the death, and the Coroner was making an examination, when. Win. Mel-' chert, a druggist who had put-up several prescriptions for Farrell, rushed in to warn him against one he had put tip the previous night, and in which he had by error put twenty fold as tnnch aconite a? the doctor .fipnl prescribed. It Was too late, however, Farrell having died almost .im mediately/, after having taken this very deadly poleorw Captain Farrell was the h f HJ of the largest detective agency in the bouth, and the'second largest pivate police force irT the country. A few years ago he organized the harbor .police here, arid hi§‘ force was found So effectual that the guarding of the entire river front and all tile vessels and Steamers was con fided to him. He had tho policing and guarding of the banks and insurance com panies of the Exposition grounds, besides h«\ing a largg force employed in policing portions of the city where thefiJ w as a scarcity' of regular officers. Hri mud > a tour of t,be country' a few months ago to secure a special police force for the Exposition, selecting a dozen men from each of the leading cities, so that they would be able to spot all the home crooks and pickpockets. His force consisted 'of' five hundred,men. Farrell generally acted as the correspondent of the Pinkertons here, and had succeeded in arresting some of the most noted criminals captured in the South. UNDER THE ICE. A Sad Affhir by 'Which a Young Man a.id Two Small Children Lose Their Lives. Baltimore, Md., January 23.—Jesse K. Robinson, aged thirty-two years, and two children of Mrs. Mattie New bold., residing -in Northumberland’County,' Virginia, V* ere drowned yesterday While sliding on ( the. ice near Rlathvifle Mr. Ifol insonSiad ithel two children, aged jive and nine,years ’re-* specti’vyly, on a large sl6d,' nulling..them', along.the ice which covered jjhe river ’for lhiles. When about a hundred Yards from shore the fee yrive way and all were precipitated into the water. The chi iff rEh disappeared at once and were carried away under the ice by the current* Robinson made every effort to rescue the children,'but,*finding it im possible to do so, endeavored to save his own life. He tried to secure a footing on the ice, but it broke repeatedly under him, and at last, becoming exhausted, he too was drowned. Mrs. Newbold, mother of > the children, was standing on the shore and witnessed the drowning ot her two child ren and affianced husband. ' RobluSoii and Mrs. Newbold were to have been married next week. Invita'ions had been issued lor the wedding, and a new house completely furnished for the .occu .pancy.of the couple. Two Gears* ago Mrs. Newbold’s husband was drowned near the scene of the tragedy of yesterday. While he was stepping from the steamboat to the wharf he lost his footing and fell under the, steamer’s wheel, and was unable to save himself. The body of Robinson was ; recovered, but those of the .two children have not been found. Mrs. Newbold is critically ill, and fears are entertained that her reason will be dethroned by the terrible ordeal. *; Eaten by Wo!Ves. ' 1 Kankakee, 111., January 23.—A. H. Butts, Secretary of the Chicago Lumber Company, has just .returned from a log ging camp near Metropolitan, Mich., a point in the pineries forty miles north of Escanaba. He says that the uigrht before he left thee camp the m^rcurv'h‘all’dropped to forty-three degrees below zero. This was the climax of four days of very extretne weather. That qight .an old trapper and -ludi.au bpnter, namedi Toip • JP/idgmg, re turning from hunting, w.-tsi killed and eaten by wolves within two miles of camp). The wolves there are more numerous and bold than usHal, on account of Uiri scarcity of, small gaffie. !’ His frieiftqs' seuiy-h'ing.forffiijji next morning found his closely gnawed bones and thirteen dead wolves lying near him, piereed by his rifle balls, and his Win chester rifle by hit sf .chamber, still loaded: The Old Liberty Bell. Philadelphia*; Jiiuhary >■ Liberty bell was taken from Independence Hall this morning at 8 o’clock. A pwocession of 500 policemen started for the West - Phila delphia depot. The truck on which the old bell was hauled through the streets was appropriately decorated with garlands, flowers and flags, and was drawn by six horses. Two bands of music were in the pirocessiou. Many houses along the route were decorated. At (lie depmt the bell was transferred to a special car, constructed by the Pennsylvania Railroad to bear it and its guard of threA officers to the Exposi tion. The. bell platform in the car is pro tected by a brass railing, with posts dec orated with gilded bells. The large frame qpon which the bell is secured is the only work upon'the platform of the car. Indians Imitate Their White Brothers. New York, January 23.—There is con siderable trouble among the Bhinnecock Indians on Long Island. A majority of the tribe opiposed the sale of Shlnnecock Hill to the Long Island Railroad, but the trustees consummated the sale and pock eted the money. One of the trustees, a ■feuding man of the tribe, got rh< money, and fled with it to Canada. The Indians intend to bring suit to test the validity of the sale, ami to regain possession of the land. „ : ’ Vaccination in Pleuro-Pneumonia. Wilmington, Del., January 23.—State Veterinarian Rowland is about to resort to inoculation to prevent the spread of pleuro pneumonia. Virus for the operation is ob tained from the lungs of affected cattle ' and applied i-.i the same way ji.> ordinary vac-iiu- virus. The rationale is the devel opment of the disease iu » mild form, which, it isjbelievecl, will leuderjcattle im pregnable to the dangerou.i Hype. MORE DESTRUCTION. Several More Villages Overwhelmed, With Great Loss of Lite, A’ . . Rome, January if2.—An avalanche buried a. hamlet of fifteen houses at Chiamounte, in Piedmont. The cries of the buried pep pie are distinctly heard. Two thousand soldiers are endeavoring to rescue them. Fifteen houses were destroyed at brass ini ere, and eleven persons are still buried be nenth ilie Snow. Most of the telegraph lines on the.ltalian frontierhave ceased working, owin'); to avalanches. The winter has been | onepf .extreme severity throughout Europe. Many more villages in Italy are reported to day devastated l»y avalanches, and the havoc and slaughter are described as ap palling, Most" of the eausaulties seem to have occurred in the province of Ceento south of Piedmont, bounded by the Mari time Alps'many spurs Of which ihtersect the province. In Northwest Ceento the num ber killed is stated at 140, and 41 corpses have been recovered frofil the ice and snow, (n which'they Were entombed. The Village of Yalgrana, on the Gram River,-, and near Ceento, was p'artly destroyed and many persons killed. Twelve houses were demolished, and forty persons killed at Deveio. The village of Rabasso is almost completely buried under the snow. Scores of people have been killed there, and over two hundred men, women and children are wounded, homeless and. in awful distress, and inure thau" three thousand men iu the province of Ceento ate engaged in addition to the soldiers, recovering the bodies of the dead and res cuing the living. Troops are also stationed at the entrance of the Ynlle della Marie and other dangerous valleys, where aval fthenesmay be expected, to prevent per sons from entering - them. It is . reported two hundred persons perished in avalan ches in the district of lorea and Aosta. General Robinson to Remain in Congress. Washington, January 22.—A very in teresting question has arisen in the case of General Robinson, the present Secretary of State, of Ohio, and Representative of the Kentohjpistrict. It involves the question of his remaining in Congress for the balance of his term, and right, to ex ercise the duties of the • State f position at the same time. The (short time in tervening until the 4th of March makes it almost impossible to order a new election for a successor, while theC ifftehests of Gen'/ era! Robinson's eonstffitepts it is main tained, wiH.be4)Vttei*served by his contin uance. Inquiries have.been received * from ’ Ohio by, the Speaker and First 'Comptroller Lawrence regarding the legality of siTeh an arrangement.' The Speaker is' the exclusive judge.in all matters relating to thetMWipehfatgm of members, and it -is' uridjersstoQd that he will offer no objection. Judge Lawrence, who ffnally ■passes -ou members’ accounts, says he has carefully looked up the law ■' on this subject, and he finds nothing to prevent General' Robinson ironi holding both offices and drawing, both salaries. There is, the' Comptroller saj's, no incompatibility in the duties of tiiese two offices. The require ments of the office of Secretary of State do not require the presence of its incumbent in Ohio. All papers cap be signed here as well as in Columbus and be perfectly legal. As to.fehe question of double salary, the ft'ends of General. Robinson say' that if this arrangement is made he will draw pay only as a member of Congress. He will of necessity transact a great amount of busi ness for his constituents by mail. Tlip Soudan War. Cairo, January 23. —A squadron of hus sars and detachment of 'royal artillery start for Suakin to-morrow. Paris, January 23.—The Repubhque Francaise considers the result of the battle between Stewart’s troops and the Arab rebels at Abu-Klea wel-ls as an irremediable check to the advance of the English'on Khartoum, and says it trembles for tho fate of General Stewart’s force. Private advices received late this afternpon from Korti as sert that the rebels surroufaled General Stewart in the desert', where he has taken up an intrenched position to await rein forcements from General Wolseley. J.le serters from the rebel lines state that the Mahdi’s officers consider the affair at the Abu-Klea wells a drawn battle. Tbe Arabs were neither touted nor pursued, and fell bac-k in an orderly manlier, not in the least demoralized by the outcome of the engageinent. They recovered them selves So quickly and effectively that Gen eral Stewart dared not move, and was compelled to intrench himself on the scene of conflict. Government officials dis i.gpedit . the? ,iivfofigation conveyed ‘in; the ’ atrovd private- dispatches. Alexandria. January 23,—Private ad vices from the front, state that the rebels ffire i strongly intrenched, at Metenmeh, which.port it will he necessary for the Eng lish to occupy before thev can proceed to Khartoum, tt is reported that rebels are collected at Abu Hamed, prepared to resist General Earle. A dispatch to Le Paris , of Paris, " from Alexandria, says the report prevails there that tne rebels have sur rounded General Stewart, " whose line of .retreat-is threatened. Fight with Mexican Bandits. Yuma, Arizqna, January 22.—TJoop M, Fourth Cavalry, arrived last night with twelve Mexican bandits as prisoners. Fqur others were left on the field dead. Troop E is after others, and expects to make themall prisoners to-day. Lieutenant Jenkins was the only American who received injury and it is slight. The dispatch does not stnTri who the bandits are, but it is pup posed they are a portion of those Mex ican soldiers who mutinied at Eneeuada, Mexico, on flu* 12th instant, and killed tbeir commanding officer. Lieutenant Jenkins returned to-day, bringing two more Mexican bandit prisoners, making fourteen captured Hnd four killed. It is believed Lopez, leader of the band, is among tire killed. Tho prisoners say they were compelled to take thelife of Commandant Rico, as he had defrauded them out of two years’ pay. They refuse to explain why they murdered the Commandant’s wife, or stive any information about the remainder pf the family. The Old Story of a Mother’s Carelessness. . Pontiac. S]*h:ii..< January 23.—Yesterday Mrs. P. A. Shepard, of Auburn, left her two children, aged two and a half and one y°ar. in the house, v ipfiri she went to a neigh bor’s. Ou Poturning Iho•-found' the room full of smoke and the youngest cfeild cry ing. while the other child am found with its clothing nearly burned off. and the upper part of its leg* and abdomen badly, burned. The little sufferer died before' medical aid arrived. It is supposed tbe child played with the tire in the stove which was open. DYNAMITE SENSATION. Three Heavy Explosions in Quick Succession Startles London. > . Interior of the House of Commoui Com pletely Wrecked. London, January 24.—An explosion oc curred close to the House of Lords imme diately followed by a second. . One wa* near the House of Commons and the other at Westminster Hall; In the interior of the House of Commons, and upon the floor, the only seat damaged by the explosion was that which Gadstone occupies, A small chip was also torn off the top of the Speak er's chair. The explosions caused a panic among the visitors. Those who were in the House of Commous fled precipitately and many ladies were bruised in the crush. The second explosion in the Parliament build ings occurred three minutes later than the first, and wa.s. far more destructive. The dynamitewhich caused the second explo sion must have been placedunder the . peers’ gallery, on the left side. The force of the explosion was such that one man was thrown to the earth three hundred yards from the point of the explosion. A clue to the perpetrators of the outrage is thought to have been discovered. Just be fore tne explosion Occurred a tnan and ■Woman, the latter carrying a hand-bag, engaged a'cab outside Parliament yard and drove rapidly away', giving no direc tions ns to destination. London, January 25. —The west end of Westminster Hall is full of wreckage, caused by yesterday’s explosion. The de struction of the magnificent stained'win-' dow at'the end of the hall is greatly - la mented. it is believed one of the conspira tors entered the crypt, passing a policeman at tffe entrance, and deposited an infernal inaehihe at the bottoirt 6f the steps/’ The policeman removed the parcel, which ex ploded, making a hole in the 'floor three feet in diameter, twisting the iron railings and smashing the iron and lead work of all the windows in“tfce hall. The policeman’s liair was singed and his face burned. His clothing was torn from his body by' the force oi the explosion. He is s|i)l alive, but no hope is entertained of his /Recovery'. The man and woman'who drove '•from the Parliament building -immediately -befoVotlie explosion,-and who’were ar rested-on suspicion, have been liberated; fhe evidence being insuffici ntto hold them. ' Tfie foundation of the hall is nnlnjitrefl-, but. j the roof is badly damaged. The bases of ! the statues of William-IV. arid George IV., j which were overturned, are greatly injured. j An inspection of Parliament buildings to day showed that, excepting the beautiful window overlooking the staircase at the , South end of Westminster Hall, scarcely a ; pane of glass escaped destruction. The foundations of the buildings were badly shaken. The roof of the. crypt, in spite of its massive strength, was greatly damaged, rifts being visible here and there. The floor 6f the House of Commons presents a strange spectacle, being covered with heaps of mas sive fragments. The elaborately carved oaken wall behind the seats be neath the gallery was completely thrown down. The flooring of the strangers’and speakers’ galleries is so torn up that it is deemed unsafe to venture across. The Peers’ gallery suffered most damage. The Side galleries and reporters’ gallery were not injured. The parcel which caused the first explosion was wrapped in brown cloth, and was two feet long by' one foot wide. A third explosion took place yes terday, nt I<pndon Tower. The famous old building was crowded with visitors at the time of the explosion. But sixteen persons so far have been officially ‘reported as in jured by' the explosion, upne mdltally. The - Tower officials Relieve a ivoimi deposited the dy'hainite in the? building; The police some time ago had reason to belief a woman was constantly passing back and • forth between America and England for the purpose of importing dynamite. She | Was frequently watched, but evidence suf- j ficient to warrant her arrest wjjs . never : obtained. .* | Mrs. Grant Consents. Nffw York. January 25. —Mrs. Grant has i giyen her eaosent to Mr. A anderbilt’s proposition to the Government i perpiMial possession of General Grant’s war rMies and the souvenirs of his famous atoun*the world's journey. ’ When he Cfiangli the oiler to a proposition to make her trustee of the relics, with the under standing that they should become the property of the Government at General Grant’s death,she readily consented, and on January 16 a deed, was executed trans ferring the relics to her, XLVIII. CONGRESS. Second session. _• Washington January 20.—Senate.—Sev eral bills of minor importance were' intro- 1 duced and the inter-State commerce bill dis- j cussed. Horst?.—A bill was intrude 1 prohibiting ; foreigners from ac«)iiirin( "< r iiolrftng: land in the United States. -The ' : -at as a com mittee of the whole i .lie Indian appropri- ; ution bill. Washington. January 21.- Sen ate.— Day • j was ehieflv spent in discussing the bill to es tablish a Uourt of Appeals. A bill was passdd authorizing the Illinois and Missourii Rail way Company to construct a bridg across the Mississippi ai, St. Louis. House. —Silt as u (’omniiltee of the Whole on the Indian Appropriation bill.- Washington, January 22.— Senate/— The resolution ol Mr. Plufnb. calling on the Presi dent for his views as to the present status of Oklahoma lands, wasrdebated and agreed to. The Senate also considered the Nicaragua treaty in Executive session. House.—The Indiau appropriation hill was debated. An amendment was adopted giving the V. S. District Court for the Western Dis trict of Arkansas civil jurisdiction over ttve civilized tribes in Indian Territory; also an amendment authorizing the President to of>en negotiations wit lv the ( reeks, Seminoles and Chctokecs, lor the purpose of opening to settlement, under the homestead laws, the Oklahoma lands ceded by those Indians to the V nitod States. Afterward the bill passed the House. ' Washington. January 23.— Senate.— A ting was received from the Womans Silk Culture Association spun of silk raised in American homes, and reeled, spun, dyed, woven and moHnlcd in Philadelphia. After some de late of the resolution to inquire upon what terms the < reek. Seminole agd Cherokee, ip, dians would surrender their interest in ths' Oklahoma binds, it was ivft’rred to the Com mittee on Indian affairs. House.— AjSkv. similar to the one present 'od to the SenrtHe.wns received from the Wo men’-s Silk. Culture Association. There was a lengthy debat e.ou' the constitutional power of the Senate fo originate appropriation bills. Pension bills were considered at an evetfing session. .; - „ Washington, ’January. 24.—Senate.—Mr. Edmunds intreduced a Dill'prohibiting, un der heavy phtunt es the manufacture and sale of any rtplosive within the United States, for the Injury or destruction of pub lic or pm ate property within the tinted States or any foreign country. House.—The agricultural appropriation bill was passed. SOUTHERN NEWS GLEANINGS. Captain Bankhead of Virginia, who wan conducting a survey of the Grafton and Greenbrier Railroad extension, died at Philippi, VV. Va.,,a few nights ago, by strangulation. He was confined to his bed by sickness, and while under the influence of'Chloroform, which had been administer ed to relieve intense pain during the per formance of a-delicate operation by physi cians, a set of false teeth which he wore be came loose in his mouth and he strangled to death. He was about sixty years of age. A Russian peddler named Farber, who was traveling in Granville County, N. C., was murdered a few' days ago. Farber had a pack laden with show'y articles, many of which he had got for the Christmas season. A party of negro men plotted to murder him and divide the booty. One of the num ber had a large and savage bull-dog. They followed the peddler into a lonely piece of wqpd, and there, releasing the animal, set him on the defenseless man. Farber was torn to pieces, the dog being urged on by •shouts from his master. The murderers buried theig victim in a shallow grave, and then divided the contents of his pack and pocket. It is thought the entire party can be apprehended. Alf Turner, a hunter, was killed near Clinton, Teun., the other day, by the acci dentally discharge of his gun. A fourteen-year-old boy named Tom Stillwell shot his mother dead with a shot gun near Benton, Polk County, Tenn., a few nights ago. Anthony Walker, a "negro and a regu larly ordained minister of the Christain Church, was hanged at Marshall, Texas, on the 2.3 d, for the murder of William Hen ry, a white man, in November, 1883. When sentenced to death on December 19, he ac knowledged his guilt, and asked that the sentence be carried out at the earliest day. He ; at the same time appealed for charity to his.wife and children, and passed a hat around the Court-room himself, collecting $6. On the third of August last, after he had beenconvicted of murder in the first degree, he had a religious service in the County jail, and preached an eloquent sermon. Lilly Landers was burned to death at her father’s residence, in Sparta, Ga. The young lady’s mother, in trying to extin guish the flames, was also severely burned, and may die. Atlanta, Ga., charges SI,OOO for retail, liquor license, Mrs. Clariday, an aged widow living rflnr.n, at Dalton, Ga,. was burned to death in the destruction of her house by nre, which took place during the night. Joaquin Miller thinks New? Orleans the musical city of America. ‘Rev. George Spencer, colored, of Nor folk, Va.,* was convicted in the Mayor’s Court of petit larceny and sentenced to thirty days in jail. Members of the General Assembly, with ladies and gentlemen on the floor, in the galleries and lobbies, packed the hall of the House of Representatives at 12 m., on the 22d, at Nashville, Tenn.', to witness the in auguration of Governor Bate. The hall was handsomely and profusely decorated wdth flags,"bunting, flowers and evergreens that swept in- graceful • and artistic gar lands around. The toilets of the ladies were strikingly elegant and. beautiful. Prompt ly at 12 o’clock Speaker Berry, of the Senate, entered the hall of the House, fol lowed by the' 1 Senators. The convention was called to order by Speaker Berry, when Sergeant-at-Arms William Brown an nounced the Supreme Court at bar and members thereof seated. As Govenor Bate came down the ailse. accompanied by the committees of either house, Speuker Berry announced that the two Speakers of the House and Senate took pleasure iu meeting and greeting the Governor-elect. While j being conducted to the stand, the Governor | was welcomed by the audience rising and loudly applauding. The Governor-elect made a neat and appropriate address. A child of Charles Milliard, of Blue Springs, Carter County, Tenn., fell in the fire the other night and was burned to death. , • Fire broke out the other night in a - tene ment-house, in Baltimore, occupied by seven families. Ten people narrowly escaped being burned to death. Mrs. George Fisher jumped from the third-story window, and sustained serious Injuries. Mrs. Levi and her two children, aged six weeks and two years respectively, were rescued by the firemen in an unconscious condition. The children are expected to die. Davis \,evi, the husband, was over come while endeavoring to rescue ,his wife and children, and lies in a critical condi tion. Several others, occupants of the house, mftrfc* narrow escapes. The police and firemen did efficient service. The fire originate in the room of Levi Kaufman, a tailor. Pierre Lorillard, the millionaire, was traveling through the Sotifh'in a beautiful boudoir car, which he leases for SIOO a day. His wife and a party of friends accompan ied. The other night oh the Alabama Great' Southern ltoad he had his ear at tached to the engine to escape the smoke. As the train neared a sharp curve in the road, going at the rate of forty miles an hour, two little boys were seen on the track . frantically waving their hats. The train stopped at the brink of ah awful chasm,' a brrdgaover whiah had been floated off by a torrent. The boys had stood there for four hours in a temperature near zero, to save the train from a certain destruction. & collection was taken up for the boys and the great millionaire, Lorillard,'reluctantly gave five dollars. A singular fatality took place at Roy s ton. Ga., in which spontaneous combustion exploded a crib of corn on the farm of. James Shiriey. He had packed the corn very close and' left the crib uncovered. Rain came when the corn swelled and hurst the crib in every direction, some of the com flying thirty feet away. One of the cot* struck a negro who was standing by f| t i he temple, him instantly. VOL I.—NO. 48. PITH AND POINT. —An exchange contains a poem en titled “The Silent Barber Dead.” It is a fairy tale. —Business men, as well ai religious men, should beware of false prophets. —Men who are the fastest asleep when they are asleep are the widest awake when they are awake. —New York wants a half-cent put in circulation. This would permit the average citizen to jingle something be sides keys in his pockets.— Detroit Free Press.. —An inquirer asks: “What has given women the reputation of being such great talkers?” We don’t know unless it is her mouth.— N. Y. Journal. —A fashion item says: “A very use ful and ornamental gift to either lady or gentleman is an umbrella-holder.” The dude may have a mission after all. — N. Y. Graphic. —Ouida says: “A girl’s love must never be begged,' but conquered.” Paradoxical as it riiay seem, the gitj can not be conquered unless she con curs.—Chicago Tribune .* —lf plumbers were the right kind of men they would never put in anything but temperance water-pipes. A tem perance water-pipe never goes on a bust.— Norristown Herald. . —Fashionable Ma —“Children! chil dren! stop that noise. Sitmlown and keep quiet.” Children —“Why, what’s the matter, Ma?” Ma—“Doggie is taking his nap.”— Philadelphia Call. —A mathematical question. A gen tleman while crossing the Brooklyn bridge met a beggar to whom he gave fifteen cents. He soon met another to whom he gave ten cents. What time 'of day was it? Answer—A quarter to two. —A photographer recently acted as master of ceremonies at a friend’s fu neral, and, as he lifted the coffin lid for the mourners to look at the re mains, whispered to the corpse: “Now, look natural.” Force of habit.—Chi cago Herald. —The unreasonable fellow! A bachelor says that .all he should ask for in a wife would be a good temper, health, good understanding, agreeable physiognomy, figure, good connection, domestic habits, of amuse-, ruent, good spirits, conversational tal ents, elegant manners—money!— N. Y. Ledger. —He (solemnly)—“You had a very mu row escape 1a,,) AX Jnlia.f’ She—“ Mercy, what do you mean?” He —“Well, you see, I had a dream about you. I thought I was just about to kiss von. when tne Chinaman rapped at the door and I woke up.” She (al ter a pause) —“The Chinese must go.” —San Francisco Post. —“I hear you are highly satisfied with your new minister, Brown?” “Satisfied is a tame word to express our opinion of him. We are delighted with him.” “He is very eloquent, I understand?” “Eloquent! \\ hy, sir, when he is preaching he affects the congregation so powerfully that there is hardly any interest taken in the flir tations of the choif. "—Boston Courier. —“The world is full of deceit,” said old Mr. Squaggs, “and women ismost ly at the bottom o'f it.” “I know it,” said old Mrs. Squaggs; “it is after a man gets a wife that he begins to prac tice deceit. If he hadn’t ia wife he wouldn’t need to lie so much about where he spends his evenings. You are perfectly right. It’s’ the women that cause the deceit.” Old Mr. Squaggs became very thoughtful. —Boston Ga zette. STILL IN A .TANGLE. A Detroit German Who Thinks It Will Take a Year to Get Straightened Out. “Vhell, I come to shpeak to you aboudt some more shwindles,” he said as he entered the Woodbridge Street Station yesterday. ‘•Have you been swindled again?” a>ked the Captain. "Vhell, it looks dot vhay. I vhas (Cleaning up mein saloon dis morning vlten in conies a young man mit a . shwell suit of cloze und a gold cane, und he says: ‘‘‘‘Sorry for you, oldt man, but you must prace oop.' "Dot make me scart. I belief my brudder-in-law in Springwells vhas kilt, nnd i shakes all oafer. I couldn’t say npttipgs to him, but he keeps on "I called a hack and took him mit der hospital, and der sharge is SI. "Took who mit der hospital?” "Your son Joe!” "What for?” "Vhy, he proke his leg mit a fay on derice.” ‘‘Vhell. Captain, I vhas so weak in my knees I almost falls down, uud my tongue got so dry as I could hardly shpeak. I gif him a one dollar bill und he ,r ocs off mit a bow und a sbmile, und I vhas sitting py der stoaf vhen in conies my old vhomans. I tells her our poy Shoe vhas in der hospital mit a proken leg-” „ ' •- - • j ‘-Poor woman!. , , “You petter say poor me! She looks at me, und den calls me a lunatic-foun dry. und an iaiot-faetory, und some old fools who sthavs oudt doors when it rains.” But why?” “Vhell, pecause we haf no poy named Shoe. His name was Shake, but I tor o-ets all aboudt-it. I vhas all mixed oop eafer gince'election. I vhas Ima* quar ters (Hoveland vhily I bets o.u.blaine, und latenlt getstraighrenei olidt fur a yea&TSLy Wroii.Fr«e f risS. y n inch annmuieemeni in a news i paper is worth two miles of letters on a board fence.- Chicago Journal,