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CURRENT TOPICS.
Boston has thirty-seven millionaires.
Mrs. Tom Thumb is soon to become a lit
tle Rosebud.
The new Chinese dictionary comprises
forty volumes.
The Bible has jus t been translated into
the Zulu language.
Sitting Bull wants to be made a citizen
and allowed to vote.
There were nearly 1:1,000 marriages last
year in New York City.
Ernest Renan is said to-be bulky, short,
fat, rosy and very, very guy. .
In Montreal last year more fires occur
red on Friday than any other day.
Alaska is larger than all of the United
States eas‘ of the Mississippi River.
The Empress of Austria owns the finest
stable of trained horses in the world.
('apt. John Ericsson, the great inventor,
bears his eighty-one years gracefully.
Business men could stop freight discrim
ination if they would attack it in earnest.
American apples sell on Loudon street
stands at from eight to twelve cents each.
Arabi Pasha, in exile at Ceylon, has de
veloped into a school teacher and lecturer.
Mrs. Dudley’s offer to fight a duel with
O’Donovan Rossa was a perfectly safe
bluff.
Italy can get into Africa easy enough,
but tfco getting out again may make her
tired.
w In Southern California the pomegranate
flourishes as it docs in Italy or in the Holy
Land.
f The Italian Count who is to marry the
widow of Torn Thumb wants but little here
below. ~
Since 1750 the coast of Sweden has been
upheovedon an average nearly fifty-six
inches.
A newspaper recently started at Car*
bondale, Ka!n., is named the Astonishcr and
Paralyeer.
Princess Tinkie-zin-zee, of the Sand
wich Islands, it is said, eats her unsuccess
ful suitors.
A cigarette-making machine has been
invented which will perform the work ot;
thirty men.
On a wager a New Yorker drank a gal
lon of cider without removing the vessel
from his mouth. _. t ?
The aggregate trade of Canada in the
year emljnft June 30 last, declined in value
nearly .(■ 2^,000,000.
There are now twenty-three cities in
Massachusetts. The most recently incor
porated is Waltharn.
The rage just now among book collectors
is for copies of the early American editions
of standard authors.
Two daughters of the King of Sweden
were dangerously ill a few weeks ago from
wall paper poisoning.
Hon. Geo. V.'. McCrary, ex-Secretary
of War", is now president of a large cattle
company in Montana.
,The United States' Senate, after March
4. will have three gentlemen named Jones,
but not a single Smith.
The British brewers last year paid- $54,-
000,000 in taxes and exported more than
$7,500,000 worth of beer. ' • ,
In Thibet one woman may have two,
three or even four husbands, but nover
more than the last number.
{Slaving mugs of hammered brass and
brushes with handles to match are among
the pretty new toilet articles. ,
A Western zephyr that blows a train off
the track is a thing for the glorious climate
of this great country to boast about.
The famous Marshalsea Prison, in Lon
don, where Dickens laid many scenes in
“Little Dorritt,” is now a cheap lodging
house.
A bill is before the Minnesota Legisla
ture requiring a man to take out a license
before he can drink anything stronger than
water.
n A forged deed of 500 acres of land was
the present which an East Saginaw man
made to his intended bride a few days be
fore raarriaige. '
An eminent civil engineer asserts that a
pair of cast, iron shears or scissors for ordi
nary household work is just as good as one
of forged steel.
An infant at Port Norris, N. J., was re
cently bitten behind the ear by a large
black spider, from the effects of which it
died in three days.
A Dakota man boasts that in that Terri
tory on a frosty day a conversation can be
carried on with perfect ease between indi
viduals a mile apart.
Two centuries ago two cousins in the
Mayhew family, of Massachusetts, were
married, and from them can be traced a
hereditary line of deaf mutes.
The Mexican stage coach always has two
drivers, one to hold the reiDS and the other
to do the whipping. The latter carries a
bag of stone to throw at the leaders.
.The Lowell Citizen's comicfcl man thinks
the American Indian isn’t such a fool .as he
is mad? out to be, because in his language
woman is called “kew-k#w-jaw-jaw.
> Is twenty-seven pauper lunatic asylums
in England beer as an article of diet has
been discontinued, with the result that in
■no instance has the apparently important
change led to any sort of physical incon
venience.
A school MISTRESS in. Barry County,
Mich., was dismissed because she declined
to eat fat pork, the people believing that
6he uteA attempting to put on “too much
style.’’
Another evidence that the Chinamen in
this country are learning the ways of civ
ilization is furnished in the fact that two
of them in San Francisco have become
prize fighters.
. the bell of the public school at Monti
celhr,"N. V., was heard ringiug the other
day at ah unusual time, and on investiga
tion it was found the "new- teacher” was
using the end of the bell-rope tu correct a
trsfrawiorp pupii
TRENTON, DADE COUNTY, GA.. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18. 1885.
THE ALMSHOUSE HORROK.
Entire Portion Set Apart for the
Insane Destroyed.
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Twenty-*:ijjlit Now Thought to be the
Number Who Perished, hut Many More
are Missing.
Philadelphia, February 13.--The tiro of
last night at the Alms-house entirely de-’
st! '°. v sd that portion of the institution set
' .apaiTfor the insane. 01084 lunatics confined
there are many missing, but it is thought
t)lost,of them wandered ai‘ 2y. At 0 o'clock
'his morning two more charred bodies were
found in Ward No. 2. They had been
roasted beyond all recognition. Several hu
mna> forms can lx; seen in the burning
'yjyek in the cellar. It is now thought
f vveuiy-eiglit of the inmates perished.
That nijinls-r Of violent patients Herd
lock, d in cells on the third floor anil could
not he reached. Eight of them have been
takin out dead, and the others have not
1>! .-n accounted for. It seems that there
is fib doubt: but that they are lost, and that
1b- it remains are among the ruins. During
the ‘tight many iusane persons were
found I wandering in different parts of the
city, -some nearly tifvkom The prior crea
tures gen. rally seemed unable to under
fctjmd their situation, and in some cases
.begged their captors piteously not to throw
’the«r into the river. Others seemed to
take it ns tt grand joke, and laughed j
gleefully when the subject Of the fire Wn»
m.-nOoncd. Another came flying down
South street, early this morning with'a
manacle ntfrehed to his wrist, and
a few links of a chain dangling from
it. He shrieked and laughed as he struck
right and left an ong the frightened peo
f)le. It was found necessary to use vio
ence, and knock him down, before he
could be secured. Another madman caused
a panic in a street car by rushing iiuhalf
clad, aud with his face scorched and black
ened. He sank cowering in a corner. It
was soon found that he WaS tiiofe fright
ened than those who had run away. The
report that the streets were full of es
-c'ilped maniacs caused much alarm in West
Philadelphia, and strangers look upon each
other with much distrust. Eleven bodies
were found to-day. They were renfoved to
' the dead-house and placed side by side
vtith the bodies of the seVett suffocated fthd
removed from the buildiug last night. The
.burned bodies are horribly disfigured,
some of them being burned to a crisp.
A Maniac and a Preacher.
I New York, .February 14.—Regina Neh
mer has, for two years, beeli a member of
the family of Rev. Leo Koenig, pastor of
tjie Fifteenth street German Lutheran
»Church. Khe is only seventeen, and yester
day became a raving maniac. About 2 in
the morning Mr. Koenig and his wife were
awakened by a terrific banging at their
door. Suddenly the door opened and Re
gina burst into the room. Her hair hung
down her back, and her eyes
glared. She rushed to the bed,
clutched the minister by the throat
and shrieked: “I have been ordained by
God to kill you both!” Mrs. Koenig
screamed, and springing from the bed,
rushed from the room. The struggle be
tween Mr. Koenig and the girl was tiu vio
lent one, but he finally broke away from
her grasp aud dashed into the hallway,
closing aud locking the door after him. A
policeman soon arrived and the girl was
locked up. Failure to hear from her friends
in Germany has unsettled the girl’s mind.
A Mormon Complaint.
Chicago, February 13.--An elder of the
Mormon Church, iu business in Salt Lake
City, and at present iu this city, in an in
terview to-day, in speaking of the Ed
munds law, said: “The prosecution of
Mormons for unlawful cohabitation under
the Edmunds law continues, MunllOiis.ilßW
ever, complain bitterly of the partiality of
the District Attorney for not prosecuting
Cientiles for the same offense, although
it is notorious that many are guilty;
Even the anti-Mormon press declare the
raid is prostrating business. Many Mor
mons against whom District Attorney
Dickson is moving, are leaving, because
they claim they can not secure justice in
court: that juries are packed by dpeil
venires, and that bail is refused Mormons
pending appeal. Gentiles are beginning
to think they, too, will have to leave, or
starve, owing to the injurious effect upon
business, which would leuVe Utah in com
plete possession of Mormons.”
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Warming a Viper.
Kankakee, 111., February 14.—A tramp
named Nelson applied for lodging at An
drew Shreffier’s residence in Rockville
Township, Thursday nightysaviug that his
feet Were frozen. He was given a bed, and
yesterday, while Mr. Hhretfler was at work,
the tramp asked Mrs. iShreffler for some
thing to put on his feet. Mrs. Shreffler
gave him some keroseue oil, but
Nelson did not like it, and,
taking an iron skillet from the stove broke
it over her head. Then he took a flat iron
and struck her again on the head, produc
ing several terrible wounds. The woman's
skull was fractured, and she died this
morning. Nelson was brought to this city
last evening and lodged in jail. The feel
ing against the murderer is very strong,
and fears are entertained that he will be
lynched.
The Past Week's Failures.
New York, February 13.—Tht failures
throughout the country in the last seven
days, as reported to R. G. Dun & Co.,
number, in the United States, 230; Canada,
31; total, 270, as compared with a total of
34(5 last week, and 354 the week previous.
The large decrease is probably more ap
parent than real, as railroad and tele
graphic communication in the West and
Northwest has been so interrupted that
doubtless many failures in remote locali
have not yet been reported.
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Duty on Tobacco.
Washington, February 12.—The Wavs
and Means Committee to-day decided tore
port a bill, providing that the duty on leaf
tobacco of requisite size and necessary fine
ness of texture to be suitable for wrappers,
and of which moie than one hundred leaves
are required to weigh a pound, and leaf to
bacco of growth of different countries,
shall be, when inclosed together iu bale or
other package, if not stemmed, seventy
five eeuts pel’ pound, aud, if stemmed, one
dollar per pound. So much of any package
Ot tobacco as may not be suitable for wrap
pers shall pay a duty of thirty-five cents a
pound.
'■* ANOTHER HORROR.
Thousands Witness Their Fellow-Men Suf
fering; In the Burning Pile Without the
Power id Save Them From Their
* . Terrible Fattk
Philadelphia, Pa., February 12.—That
part, of the Philadelphia Alms-house sAid
Hospital set apart for the insane was
burner! to the ground to-night. From
twenty-five tofortv Insane patients, most
,of them in tiifi violent department, per
ished in the flames. There were (iB4 in l
sane persons in the building, many of
whom were rescued, almost suffocated
Iby the smoke. Only seven of the
! bodies of those who perished were brought
oilt df the burning building. At
eigt o’clock Mrs. Uuisted, the head
nurse in ths Department for the Insane,
discovered fire in the wall in Ward M.
which led from the first floor to the top of
the building. She called her women assist
auts and endeavored, with their help, to
put out the dames, as they appeared to be
of a trifling nature, by dashing upon them
buckets of water. A few minutes’ work con
vinced the women that this method of ex
tinguishing the fire would prove ineffect
ual. The watchmen fuoni the different
buildings mustered with all possible
sphed toward the burning buildjng,
find turned on the hose. But the force of
the stream was Very feeble, and the watch
men soon saw that they cofild not succeed
in the combat with the ttaines, and itif
alarm was sounded from the Twenty-first
District Police Station. The order was
then given by Superintendent Smith to
remove the 684 Unfortunates to a place of
safety. By this time the smoke filled the
long corridors and penetrated every
iron-barred cell in the building, arousing
the patients to a sense of danger they knew
not what, In n very short time the cells
were unlocked, those of the patients who
were well were tol.l to Tee for their lives,
and the attendants began to remove the
sick. Scores of these wretched beings
nearly suffocated by the smoke, which
grew’denser every moment, were placed
in blankets and stretchers and carried
to tithef buildings in the grounds.
Many of the other insane; who bad been
liberated from their dungeons ill Order to
give them a chance for their life, fled wild
ly out of the building, and a large number
escaped from the grounds and departed as
swiftly as they could in all directions. Some
Of those who ran off were clad in nothing
but their night Cloth I ng, and others had
only the additional covering df a blanket
on them. The fire burned fiercer
every moment. The entire upper
portion I of the southern end of
the insane department was a mas: of red
flames, and step by step the faithful nurses
and watchmen were driven back, forced to
ieave many heiplesS creatures In the violent
ward in the third story. An itnlhense
crowd, attracted by the fire from all parts
of West Philadelphia, watched the efforts
of the firemen, aud when the first man,
with dripping helmet and smoky garments,
appeared upon the head of the ladder
hearing in his arms a sick patient they
cheered again and again with a mighty en
thusiasm that animated the men to in
creased exertions. The roar Of the flames
sounded like the noise of Niagara as
they enveloped the doomed building;
but when tne flames at last reached
the cells of the miserable wretches
who had been left there came out
of the fire cries and wild shrieks for help
♦hat chilled the blood of all who heard
them, and rose above the foat Of the des
troying element. Wail after wail Of an
guish told the fate of some poor creature
who was being burned to death in the hear
ing of thousands of spectators.
Secretary McCulloch on Rights of Chinese.
Washington, February 12.—The (Secre
tary of tlie Treasury to-day sent to the
House a reply to the resolution of that body
asking information ns to what regulations
aud instructions have been issued by his
department relating to the right of Chi
nese to enter the United States. “Regulation
numbered five.” the Secretary says, “relates
to Chinese subjects, not laborers, desiring to
come into the United Stab s from count ries
other than Cttinhi It docs net embrace
Chinese residents in countries Other than
China.” “To hold that Chinese subjects
resident in foreign countries must obtain
permission and certificate from the govern -
ment of which they are subjects, would be
to tom pell them to go to China and there
obtain a certificate which, if they
had long been residents in another
country, could not even there be
obtained. Section 6, Act of 18S4, evidently
applies Only to Chinese persons other than
laborers about to come into the United
States for the first time. Any other con
struction would lead to the absurd conclu
sion that Chinese merchants, who resided
in San Francisco, many years ago, and who
have occasion to visit Victoria of the
Sandwich Islands, shall be compelled
to perform the impossibility of pro
curing a certificate coinformabty to
Section 0. from the Chinese Govern
ment, to which they are subjects. Congress
could not intend to take away from Chinese
merchants residing in this country the
rights granted them by treaty. There can
be no just pretense that any fraud can be
practiced by giving to such merchants a
certificate of identification by the Collector
of Customs at port of departure, and mak
ing such certificate prhna facie evidence of
a right to return.”
A Hydropathic Cure.
Haverhill, Mass., February 13.— George
T. Royal, one of the principals iu a recent
elopement, announced to-day that he had
swallowed poison. He took to his bed,
called distinctly upon “Lena,” his wife,
and proceeded to die. An empty bottle
which had contained laudanum was
found by the bedside, but the
phvsician suspecting that the dose,
had been a light one, poured ice water
down the patient's back. This brought
him to his feet as well as to his senses, and
boiling with wrath he throttled the doctor.
Another doctor arrived opportunely and
the patient subsided. The game was
doubtless intended as a first step toward a
reconciliation wijh his offended wife.
Eva Mackay's Wedtlinq.
Paris, February 12.— Miss Eva Mnokav
was married to-day to Don Ferdinand
Julien Coidhna, Prince of Galarro. Mrs.
Mackav, mother of the bride, gave a grand
bridal reception, which in every respect
must rank with the most magnificent festi
vals of French history.
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Death in the Mine
W lI.KESBARRE, Pa., February 13.—A rope
supporting the truck on a mine slope near
this city, broke while the truck was bein.,
lowered, and theresult was the death of
one man uud serious injuries tofou. others.
AN AVALANCHE.
A Utah Mining Town Nearly
Wiped Out of Existence.
Sixteen Persons Thought Dead. But Some
May he Recovered Alive.
Salt Lake, Utah, February 15.—A snow
slide swept through |the mining camp of
Alta, destroying three-fourths of the town,
and killing sixteen persons, including
five children. Following are the names
of the killed: James Watson, Andrew S.
White, Jerry Regan. Barnev G-ilvon, David
P. Van, Tim Madden, Fred Cultman,
Mrs. Ford and child, Mattie Hickev and
four children of Ed Ballow.and two China
men. Tucker’s boarding-house was swept
away and his hotel crushed. The Vallejo
works, including buildings and tramways,
were crushed. Two men at this mine hap
pened to be in the drift and escaped injury.
Strickley & Tucker’s and Wallace’s stores
were injured slightly. Power’s butcher
shop and Simpson's drug store are the
only buildings that entirely escaped. A
large portion of the lost were iu the board
ing-house and hotel. Twenty-eight in all
were buried. Twelve were dug out alive
this morning. The rest are all undoubtedly
dead. Men from the City Rocks Mine and
Evergreen formed a digging force to get
out the bodies. Three were taken
out at last accounts, amid much
difficulty, and in a heavy snow
storm and severe cold. Timothy Madden
was not dead when brought out, but died
soon after. The bodies of James Wat
son and Mrs. John Ford were also taken
out quite dead. Following is a correct
list of those not yet recovered: Andrew
S. White. Barnev Gibson. Fred. Cal
linson, Mattie Hickey. Charley Volk
(Chinaman), Big Jim (Chinaman), Jerry
Reagan, David P. Evans, a child of Mrs.
Ford and four children of Ed. Ballou. A
rescue party starts from here in the morn
ing. It is possible that some Of the above
may be alive, ns on a former oecassion
some were found alive after having been
buried three days.”
DIED TOGETHER.
Two I.overs Found Lifeless on a Railroad
Track—A Melancholy Tragedy.
Shelbyville, Ky., February 15.—Will
Adams, a young man twenty-six years
old, aud his sweetheart, Tiule Wilmouth, a
pretty girl of eighteen years, were found
dead at an early hour this morning on
the railroad one mile west of Shelby
ville. Their bodies were stiff in
death and bespattered with blood, and
lay within a teW feet of each other, Adams’
pistaV. a spiall Smith A Wesson, with two
empty cartridges, lay between his legs. He
evidently murdered the girl, and then took
his ownlife. Both were shot in the head,
she in the right car. he in the left eve. They
walked to Shelbvville early in the
night from Mr. Win. Jessie’s,
where the girl lived, and on
the return fire supposed to have sat down
on the railroad track at the scene of the
tragedy. What took place between them
no mortal knows. Two pistol shuts were
heard about 11 o’clock last night, aud tfie
dead bodies were found this morning by
Mrs. Kent, a near neighbor. A lovers’
quarrel was probably the cause of the
tragedy’i ®
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Gordon’s Fate.
London, February 15. —The Press Asso
ciation states, under reserve, that late
Saturday night the War OftMG sent a tele
gram to Miss Gordon, nt to
the effect that Khartoum hadnWfum n,
and Genera! Gordon is safe.
Korti, February 15. —The Mudir is now
convinced that Khartoum has fallen and
General Gordon is dead. A cavass of
Ibrahim Bey Reichdi states that Farag ad
mitted the rebels tu Khartoum, The cavass,
with his master, went to the Government
House and met Gordon coming out. armed,
with Mahomed Bey, Mustaphg, ami twenty
cavasses. proceeding to the Aus
triau f msiih.'Mthe\ met a party of rebels,
who *ed a volley. Gordon, Mahomed and
Mustroha fell dead.
Ex-Sheriff Blows Gut His Brains.
Somerset, Fa.-, February 15.—This
morning, at an early hour. eX-Sherift
Spangler committed suicide by blowing his
brains out, on account of financial em
barrasinent.
XLVIII. CONGRESS.
Second Session.
Washington. February 10 Senate.— The
bill to prevent unlawful occupancy of pub
lic lends passed. The question of general
legislation on appropriation bills was de
bated again, and tin issup was made on
si r king out a provision in the pension law.
and the Senate voted to consent to that much
general legislation.
House.— The House in committee of the
whole debated at length the Post-office ap
propriation bill. It was read by paragraphs
lor amendment, vhrv little work was done.
The appropriation bills that are how before
the House are the river and the harbor, the
Post-office and legislative. The bills not yet
reported to the House are the regular naval
bill, the sunury Civil, the deflei«ncy and for
tilleations.
Washington, February 11.—The two Houses
met in joint session for the formal count of
the Electoral vote, and at its conclusion the
presiding officer. Senator F.dmunds, formally
announced the result. That declaration, he
said, was made only as ft public slfitcmen* in
the presence of the two Houses at COtigresS.
and not as possessing any HUtbogHy of law to
declare any legal conclusion whdterer. This
latter statement by Mr. Pdmunds oeensioned
a long debate in the Senate The House went
into Committee of the Whole OUthe Post
office Appropriation bill.
Washington, February 12. —Senate. —The
bill repealing preemption and fitnber culture
laws was debated.
House.—A committee of the whole sat to
consider the post-office appropriation hill. A
long debate ensued on the paragraphs relat
ing io a change in the method of ( ompensnt
ing railroads for mail transportation. The
recommendations of the department were
generally sustained as to appropriations. The
army appropriation bill »»s anieuded and
passed.
Washington. February Ft.— Senate.— The
conference committee on the Electoral
count bill reported a« unable to agree. The
bill to prohibit the importation of foreign
contract labor was debated.
House—Hill was pussed amending Pacific
Railroad act so as to‘a tborlze the construc
tion of a road from S ux City. la., to Gran
ger, Wy. T. The House sat in committee of
the whole on the Por-f office appropriatiop
btll, which was debat 1.
Washington, Febroarv 14.—Senate.— The
bill to quiet title to I>. - Moines River lands
and the Indian appropriation bill were de-
Uu M.
House.—Sat in committee of the whole on
the river and harbor bill, aud ou flu* iegtsia*
Wvu appropriaucm bU).
SOUTHERN NEWS GLENAINGS.
An attempt was made to wreck a Texan
Pacific train below Marthaville, La., by
taking up a rail on a bridge at that place.
A freight train that unexpectedly crossed
the bridge in advance of the passenger
train was wrecked.
A quarrel at a dance near Fort Smith,
Ark., resulted in a general light and the
killing of a number of the company and
the wounding of many more.
U. S. Marshals have captured a mur
derous moonshiner named Prater, at Chat
tanooga.
Seven witnesses in the Ford-Mnrphy
trial at New Orleans have been indicted
for perjury.
Ex-Governor Mouton, Louisiana, old
est U. H. Senator, and noted politician, is
dead, aged eighty-two.
W. R. Harvey, a civil engineer iu Mis
sissippi. shot and instantly killed Ed.
Maney, a foreman, who was threatening
him.
A colored prisoner in Dallas, Texas,
raised a coqunotion there by demanding a
jury of her own race. Half of her request
was granted.
A rather serious accident occurred to a
young daughter of E. H. Harris, Esq., of
Lauckport, W. Va., the other night. She
was standing on the bridge and while at
play accidentally fell off, striking her
heaii against the rocks below. The fall
was a heavy one, and when she was picked
up was insensible. Her braius wore oozing
out of her head. Medical aid was sum
moned, but there is no hope of her recov
ery.
Jack Maples, of Cleveland, Tenn., was
shot by his son-in-law, who ran off with
the old man’s daughter.
The Arkansas Legislature has- passed »
bill given artificial limbs to ail Confederal©
soldiers maimed in the late war.
Mism Mary Cox, a well known young
lady of Springfield, W. Va.. died from an
overdose of morphine administered in mis
take. The night following her burinl jx*r
sistent howling of dogs at her grave at
tracted attention. The next day the grave
was opened, and to the horror of all it was
found that the girl had been buried alive.
The lining was torn from the sides of the
casket, and the pillow was in threads. The
poor girl had litterally stripped the cloth
ing from her body. Her hands aud arras
were torn and bleeding. Her lips were
bitten through and handfuls of hair were
torn from her head. She had couie to
life, and had evidently made a fearful
struggle to escape. The awful affair fills
the community with horror.
At Spring Hill, W. Va., ,t station on the
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, a fourteen
year-old son of Mr. Wm. Dangerfield, in
attempting to get on a freight train while
shifting the other day, fell and was run
over by a car, breaking a leg and causing
other injuries, from which he will die.
e The other day, at Poplarville, Miss., on
the Northeastern railroad, in a fight be
tween two citizens named Boone and San
ders, both were killed. Boone was town
marshal, and the difficulty is supposed to
have originated in an attempted arrest.
The matter of admitting colored men to
practice at the Maryland bar is receiving
much attention in Baltimore.
Dick Mulligan, while drunk, Columbia,
S. C., threw a chair at his wife, which
killed his little daughter. Mulligan, so
bered by remorse, cut his throat.
A horrible story is told of a colored
undertaker of Memphis, Tenn., who the
other day buried the child of a respectable
colored woman residing on Alabama street.
The charges for the burial in the colored
cemetery were all paid excepting $2. A
day or two after the undertaker called on
the woman and demanded the balance
due him. This deficiency she promised to
send him in a few days. The undertaker
rejected her promise, aud proceeding to
the graveyard dug up the body, took it out
of the coffin, returned it to the house, laid
it on a board and told the frantic mother
when the M balance was paid he would
again bury her child, and not before. The
neighborhood where the colored woman
resided was aroused with indignation at
the inhuman act of the undertaker, aud the
white neighbors in the locality immediate
ly subscribed sufficient to have the remains
decently interred.
Beverly Tccker, of Virginia, -expects
to have his volume of reminiscences ready
for publication iu November.
The business of canning fruits and veg
etables is being urged upon the Southern
people. i
Mr. J. H. Milliken. Traveling Lassen
gpf of the L. and N. road; H. J.
Gates, of the f>t. Louis Ail-line, and R. H.
Fowler, of the Chicago aud Alton Railroad,
arrived at Jellico, Tenn., the other morn
ing On the t.ouisville train. After procur
ing mu,! they started from that place, and
the route they took was across Pine Moun
tain, to secure a colony of people who In
tend going West over their respective lines.
When about six miles from Jellico they
were surprised to'ttieet # large bear, which
suddenly sprang in their path.. Messrs.
M’lliken and Yates’ mules became fright
ened and started flown the mountain at a
break-neck speed. The rtnile on which Mr.
Fowler was riding refused to budge.
Mr. Fowler had hardly time to dis
mount and start for the nearest tiee,
when the bear followed close upon his
heels. He then made a desperate attempt
to climb the tree, but the bear followed him
so closelv that he left the seat of his trous
ers in the bear’s claws. Messrs. Milliken
and Gates went to Jellico aud gave the
alarm, and a posse of citizens, armed w ith
rifles, started to rescue the man up a tree.
They found him safely lodged in the top
most branch of a large pine. The bear was
killed. Mr. Fowler was rescued, greatly
frightened, but not badly hurt, though he
will be unable to sit down for some time,
ow ing to the injury to the lower part of
| his anatomy caused by the harp claws o
i the bear. Mr. Fowler walked backward
from the hotel to the depot, causing 11111011
wwrlmwt to the citizens-.. X
VOL r-NO. 51.
PITH AND POINT.
—Mrs. Oscar Wilde is partial to green,
we are informed. This is a bad give
away on Oscar. — Lowell Citizen.
—The man who always finds some
thing good in the newspaper is tha
ohap who carries his lunch wrapped un
m it.
—There were 241 decrees of divorce
issued in Philadelphia courts in 1884.
That is ringing the liberty bell loud and
long,— N. O. Picayune.
—“What is economy?” asks the
Philadelphia North Amende a ?i. We’ll
tell you. It is payiug ten cents for a
cigar and compelling your wife to turn
her last season’s dress to make it do
for another winter. The country is
fairly bulging with such economy. -V.
Y. Ledger.
—Mistress—Jane, I read in the news
papers that very much of the candy
now made is decidedly bad for the
health. You must be very careful that
dear little Fido does not get hold of any
of tae children’s candy.— Philadelphia
Progress.
—lt does seem to be a little bit ex
travagant to put a three-hundred-dol
lar sealskin sacque upon a three-dollai
woman, but it is sometimes excusable
when it is the only way ot smothering
three thousand dollars worth of ill
temper.—Fall River Advance.
—A woman in town became so in
terested in a poetical calendar for tin
new year that she lots turn oil" all flic
leaves to read the sentiments ex
pressed thereon. That of December
31, 1885. has the proverb, quite appro-,
priate in her case: “Haste makes
waste. ’’ — Boston Journal.
—Yes, mv son, it is a solemn, eternal
fact that “Truth once crushed to earth
will rise again.” And in these days of
awful carelessness truth is kept so
busily engaged in performing the grand
rising act that she looks like a mail
picking up pins.— Burdette,.
“What are you taking my boots
out of here for?” iisked a gentleman 01,
his negro servant. “Whut; is dese.vei
boots, boss?” “You know they are,
you trilling rascal." “Wall, 1 ,’uiarc
for goodness, boss!” (Dropping the
boots.) “I thought da wuz de shut
tles, an’ I thought dat I’d go down
arter some coal, sah; CuiS how ei
man can be’teived.”— Arkansaw Trav
eler. _ ,
—“Sir, can you give a pdor man a
quarter?” “Why are you asking for
alms, my man?’’ “I nave just come,
from Spain, sir; I am an earthquake
sufferer.” *iiut you are not a Span
iard; you sDeak good English.” “Oh,
as to that, I speak Spanish, butsince the
earthquakes my Spanish is .so brpken
that I am ashamed to converse in it.”
Louisville'Courier-Journal. .
“l’m aware that the commentators
do not agree with me,” shid Rev. Dr.
Foosterer, in his sermop. Next day,
old Farmer Turniptops drove up to the
rectory with half a cartload of old pink
eye potatoes. “Mornin’, parson,” said
he. “Ye told us yistd’y that the com
mon taturs didn’t agree wid ye; so I
brought ye a trifle q’ the finest pink
eyes ever ye laid ver own on. Balls o’
flour—that’s what they are!”— N. 1~.
Independent.
* fci ———. ' r
CATARRH.
Symptoms of the Disease and Methods ot
Cure.
The word “catarrh,” as popularly
used, refers to an inflammation of the
mucous membrane of the nasal pas
sages, although there may be catarrh
of the bronchial tubes, stomach, bow
els, etc.
Nasal catarrh may be acute or chron
ic. The former is merely a “cold in
the head,” though generally a similar
inflammation soon shows itself in the
throat and bronchial tubes. It is
strictly a slight, brief fever, whieft or
dinarily passes off in a few days. Al
most any acute attack may be broken
up if the patient remains in a warm
room, secures a gentle moisture of the
skin, aud uses a plain, nourishing diet.
But it is the second form, the chron
ic, that most people mean when they
use the word catarrh. All chronic dis
eases are more difficult to cure, though
less painful, than the acute. The very
fact that an acute disease has become
chronic indicates that the recuperative
power of the parts affected has become
weakened, possibly exhausted.
Each attack of nasal catarrh tends to
a second, and thus to successive at
tacks. The person who suffers from
them, therefore, becomes more and
more liable to “take cold,” not alone
from exposure to cold, but from inhal
in<r dust, especially coal dust, and
whatever irritates the nasal membrane.
As an increased blood supply always
flows to every inflamed t'ssue. the tissue
tends to undue growth. For this reason,
in chronic catarrh, there is a thicken
ing of the mucous membrane; so that
the nasal passages become more or less
obstructed. This often causes the
patient to breathe through the mouth,
thusletting the cold air strike the larynx
and the dust to enter it unimpeded. A
tendency to serious throat and lung
disease Is the result.
The earlier stages are often treatec
by snuffing up a somewhat strong solu
tion of salt and water, or a twm per
cent, solution of carbolic acid two or
three times a day. if the head is throw u
back, the fluid will flow into the mouth
with very little effort.
When the nasal passages lia T e be
come permanently' obstructed, a physi
cal! should be called to remove the
superfluous growth. ,
In rare cases the inflammation estab
lishes itself within the mtbrnal cavities
of the nose, in which case the mucus
becomes fetid. The doctor alone should
manage this.-—1 oath s ( ompanioni