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T. A. HAVRON, Publisher. 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. : e 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.” - » 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. - 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. ♦ .. . .... 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 ® — - 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