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TOPICS OF THE DAY.
The trouble down at tho Isthmus will
probably awaken public sentiment to
the necessity of an addition to our navy.
Louis Riel, whose energetic opera
tions in the Canadian Northwest have
created widespread interest, is a citizen
of the L Cited States. Ho was natural
ized in 1874.
New York’s State Capital is just
about as bad as the Hoosaic Tunnel. It
has cost .$16,000,000, and tho bill ap
propriating another million to again
“complete” it is just going through the
Legislature.
Vanderbilt’s income is reported to
be $1,250 per hour. There are plenty
of laborers in the employ of the railroads
he controls, who would be glad to ex
change incomes with him for a few
hours.
A couple in Poughkeepsie, N. Y.,
named Waltemire, who have been mar
ried and lived together for fifty years,
quarreled some time ago, separated,
and have just been divorced. They
have a family, some of whom are forty
years old.
The last census taken in 1882, give
the population in Russia in Europe as
numbering 77,879,521, of whom 38,651,-
977 were males and 39,227,544 were fe
males, making with the grand duchy
of Finland and other parts of the em
pire, a total of over 102,000,000.
Young men casting about for life
work may find a valuable hint in the
current report of the Labor Bureau of
Castle Garden, New York, in which it
is stated that “the demand for farm
hands exceeds tho supply, but we have
more teachers, professors and doctors on
hand than we know what to do with.”
The war clouds are not so dark as
they were a few days ago. A peaceful
end of the troubles in Manitoba is
possible; the Central American war has
collapsed with the death of Barrios;
Prance and China are negotiating for
peace, and the war in Egypt seems to
be subsiding. England and Russia alone
are assuming warlike attitudes.
A few days ago an ocean steamer
took out for New Zealand freight of a
rather novel kind—a consignment of
“bumble bees.” Clover does not “seed”
in that country, though it grows readi
ly, because there are no bumble bees to
fertilize the "blossoms. The importer
hopes that tlffe bees will save him £5,
000 in clover seed.
In the United States Navy besides the
Admiral, Vice-Admiral and Rear Ad
miral, there are sixteen commodores,
sixty-niue captains, eighty-five comman
ders, seventy-four lieutenant-comman
ders and about live hundred others in
the different grades of officers, includ
ing fifty paymasters. We’ve got every
thing to make a first-class navy, every
thing—but the ships.
An ancient burial ground was lately
unearthed in Paris while digging a
trench in the Rue Salande. The coffins
of stone and plaster found there have
been traced to the seventh, eighth and
ninth centuries. They were pointed to
the east, and had crosses inscribed on a
circle symbolical of eternity, and other
emblems of Christianity. The coffins
were found filled with dirt, their covens
having given way.
Some years ago several New York
capitalists tried the experiment of erect
ing model tenement houses. The apart
meuts are uniform in size—four rooms
—well lighted and ventilated. The
prices of the apartments range from
seven to fourteen dollars a month. The
houses are not only kept filled with
good tenants, but the capitalists realize
five per cent, on their investment.
The eyes of the civilized world are
now turned toward Central Asia and
Herat To England Herat is one of the
most important places on the map of
the world. That city is now the gate
way through which pours the commerce
of Great Britain into Central Asia,
amounting to millions of dollars’ worth
annually. Should Herat fall into the
hands of Russia, that event would be
the beginning of the end of British rule
in Hindostan.
After much patient research a French
statistician has discovered that up to the
present time 2,540 emperors and kings
have governed sixtv-four nations. Out
of this number 300 have been driven
from their thrones, sixty-four have abdi
cated, twenty-four have committed
6ulcidc, twelve have become insane, 100
fell in battle, 123 were captured,
twenty-tive died martyrs, 151 have been
assassinated, and 108 have been con
demned to death and executed ao«
according to law.
PRECIOUS METALS.
Special Report on the Production of
Gold and Silver in the United
States Last Year.
Gold, 930.800,000; Silver, 948,800,000;
Total, 970,600,000.
Washington, April 19.—Mr. Burchard,
the Director of the Mint, in his special an
nual report on the production of gold and
silver in the United States for the calander
year 1884, which has been ordered printed,
estimates the production of the country to
have been: Gold, $30,800,000; silver com
puted at the silver-dollar-coining rate,s4B,- j
800,000; total, $79,600,000. This shows an
increase over the yield of the previous ,
year of about SBOO,OOO gold, aud $2,400,000
silver. Tho total deposits of gold at '
mints during the amounted to
$50,518,179, of which $30,807,200
was reported as domestic. The ex
ports of gold bullion, exclusive of U. S.
bars, amounted to only $115,000. To the
amount deposited at the mints and the
small amount exported might properly be
added some $600,000 worth of gold con
tained in silver bullion exported, and also
possibly $700,000 of undeposited gold in the
form of nuggets, grains, etc., used in orna
mentation, and $200,000 worth in bars in
private refineries, used for similar pur
poses, which would make in all an
addition of about $1,500,000. But of
the gold received from British Co
lumbia aud the Northern States of Mexico
amounting to about $1,100,000, only $400,-
000 was deposited at the San Francisco
mint as foreign, and the statements fur
nished by refiners show that it was refined
by them and included in the refined bull
ion deposited at that mint under the head
of domestic. Deducting this would still
leave over $.'500,000 to add to the amount of
gold deposited at mints, so that it is safe to
assume that the gold production of the
mines of the United States for 1884
would be understated rather than
overestimated by taking the amount de
posited at mints and assay offices as do
mestic, bullion. The total deposit of silver
bullion, exclusive of redeposits, at the mint
assay offices, was $36,870,731, of which
$32,306,030 was entered as domestic., The
exports of domestic silver were $17,697,067,
of which $2,148,578 were United States bars
and $700,000 Hawaiian coin, manufactured
of domestic silver of 1884’s production,
which would leave the export of domes
tic undepositeU silver, as entered at the
Custom-house at its commercial value,
mints, leaving nearly $1,000,000 exported as
domestic. Deducting this, leaves $13,887,-
000 as the commercial value of the net
export of undeposited domestic silver,
which at its coining rate equals $16,400,-
000. It ia estimated that about SIOO,OOO
worth of domestic silver bullion was
furnished by private refiners to jewelers
and others. Adding to the amount of do
mestic silver deposited at mints the net ex
ports of undeposited and the amount of un
deposited used in the arts, would make the
silver production of the country about $49,-
000,000, or, at its commercial value, about
$42,000,000, which is about $1,500,000 less
than Mr. Valentine’s estimate.
Four Persons Burned to Death.
Reading, Pa., April 19.— About 4 o’clock
this morning a fire occurred in a frame
building several miles from this city in
which four persons—Harry Wentiel, aged
eleven, and Chas. Wentzel, aged thirteen,
sons of the proprietor, and Charles and
Fred Hetzinger,'brothers, sixteen and twen
ty-six, were burned to death. The cause of
the fire was a mystery until Danny Knoll, a
half-witted vagabond, appeared and
related that he came to the place about 11
o’clock last night, and entering the build
ing made a bed for himself and fell asleep.
About 3 o’clock this morning he awoke and
found the fire nearly out, put on some coal
and then concluded to walkover to a neigh
bor’s house, a mile and a half distant.
When ho reached there he saw the fire.
The Coroner held an inquest and placed the
responsibility for the fire on Knoll.
A Strange Pickle.
Decatur, 111., April 19.—0 n Friday
night the skeleton of an infant packed in
salt was found in a box in Mrs. Kate Duf
fy’s room. It had been secreted there
over a year. A dog smelling it, knocked
lown the box, and a Mrs. Ed. Blair made
bhe ghastly discovery. Mrs. Duffy has
been a widow ten years, and says the
box was left with her over a year ago
by a strange lady. Eight months since
Mrs. Duffy says she opened the box and
noted the contents, but failed to inform the
officers, and just put it hack in a corner.
The theory of the police is that the woman
with the intention of destroying the evi
dence of shame, packed her infant’s body
In salt.
Singular Accident to a Child.
Fostoria, 0., April 19.—A little five
year-old daugher of Edward Boyd, living
five miles in the country, met with a pecu
liar accident yesterday. Going out into a
kitchen which carpenters were building,
the little one picked up a lathing hatchet.
In trying to cross the floor she fell on the
hatchet and cut her throat, severing the
jugular vein. A physician held the sever
ed vein two hours until further aid arrived.
The child is still living, but is in a critical
condition.
From a Fourth-Story Window.
Cincinnati, April 19.—A year and a half
old child jumped from its mother’s hold
through a fourth-story window on Main
street and was killed upon the pavement
below. They were at the window watch
ing for the return of “papa.”
Rumored death of Digna.
Bttakim. April 19.—A bazaar rumor is
current here to the effect that Osman Digna
haa Itaen killed by bis own followers.
TRENTON, DADE COUNTY, GA., THURSDAY, APRIL 23. 1885.
THE AMEER MAD.
Rumored Submission of Afghan Chiefs to
the Russian Commander.
Peshawur, April 17.—The Ameer of
Afghanistan, speaking at Jamrood, de
clared that if Russia obstinately continued
her aggressions, the Afghans would rise
i to a man and repel the invaders. He vowed
; his policy to be as unchanging as the laws
' of the Medes and Persians—never to yield
an inch of Afghan territory.
Vienna, April 17. —A telegram received
here states that the Afghan chiefs have
sent a deputation to General Komaroff to
announce their submission. It also says
that a proclamation signed by the Gov-
ernor has been issued at Herat ordering
that nobody be allowed to enter
the citadel; the city gates to be closed
from 7 p. m. to 5 a. m.; that no flour,
cereal or oliv® oil be exported; that cara
vans be permitted to enter the city only on
special license; that all Russians be direct
ed to present themselves to the Governor,,
and that every household have in readi
ness for service two well-trained men.
The Tagbkitt thinks that Afghanistan is
lost to England.
World’s Exposition Appropriation.
Washington, April 17. —The Secretary
of tho Treasury to-day received an opinion
from the Attorney General in regard to the
manner of disbursing the appropriation of
$335,009 made at the last session of Con
gress for “final aid to the World’s Indus
trial and Cotton Centennial Exposition,
' now being held in the city of New Orleans.”
The Attorney general holds that under the
provisions of the act making the appro
priation it can be used only in the pay
ment of the claims of persons and corpora
tions living and doing business outside of
the State of Louisiana, and in the pay
ment of premiums heretofore awarded or
which shall hereafter be awarded by the
Exposition in accordance with the lists of
awards already published. Under
this decision none of the claims
made by residents of Louisiana, of
which there are quite a large number, can
be liquidated out of this appropriation. It
was expected that after paying the pre
ferred claims against the Exposition there
would be a balance of about SIOO,OOO which
could be used in paying the claims of resi
dents of Louisiana. Director General Burke
has used every argument he could avail
himself of to accomplish this result, but
was unable to convince the Attorney
General that such was the purpose of
Congress in making the appropriation. It
is likely that a complication will arise in
regard to the additional a Twwtrfcuient
Sl^tSfK'iSXpdsifiom''Tt'is claimed both by
the managers of the Exposition and by the
ladies having direct control of the depart
ment in question. It is likely, therefore,
that the Attorney General will be called on
to determine also who i 9 entitled to control
the appropriation
Appointments.
Washington, April 17.—The President
made the following appointments to-day:
To be Consuls General of the United States,
James M. Morgan, of South Carolina, for
the British Colonies in Australia, at Mel
bourne; Jacob Mueller, of Ohio, at Frank
fort-on-tbe-Maia, Germany. To be Con
suls of the United States—Chas. W.
Warner, of Missouri, at Toronto; Thos. R.
Welch, of Arkansas, at Hamilton, Canada;
Francis H. Wigfall, of Maryland, at Leeds,
England; Chas. Jonas, of Wis
consin, at Prague, Austria-Hungary;
Richard Stockton, of New Jersey,
at Rotterdam; Wm. Slade, of
Ohio, at Brussels, Belgium; J. Harvey Gra
ham, of Louisiana, at Pas Del Norte, Mex
ico; W T m. J. Black, of Delaware, at Krem
burg,Germany. Francis Wharton, of Penn
sylvania, Examiner|of Claims in the De
partmen of State. W. H. Brinker, War
rensburg, Mo., Associate Justice of the
Supreme Court of the Territory of New
Mexico; Henry W. Hobson, Denver, Col.,
to be U. S. District Attorney for the Dis
trict of Colorado, vice A. W. Brazee, re
moved.
Post-Office Appointment Rules.
W ashington, April 17.—Postmaster Gen
eral Vilas has issued a list of rules govern
ing the appointment of Post-office Inspec
tors. These rules, after setting forth the
routine of application, declare that candi
dates must pass examination before a
board to be appointed by ihe Postmaster
General; that appointments will be
made in the order of merit, and for
six months only, reappointment to depend
on efficiency. Other influence than that of
competency in examination will be con
sidered as unfavorably affecting the candi
date’s chances for appointment. Inspec
tors are instructed to perform their duty
fearlessly, relying on the support of the
Postmaster General against outside in
fluence. ->
How Barrios Died.
New York, .April 17.—Information
reaches here by way of Galveston and New
Orleans, in private dispatches from Guate
mala, that the death of General Barrios,
the late President of that Republic, was
brought about by the intrigues of Dr.
Zaldivar, President of San Salvador, and
that Barrios was killed by one of his own
soldiers,who was in the conspiracy to over
throw Barrios at home. It is said that
Zaldivar has been for some time furnishing
the funds to promote a revolution against
Barrios in Guatemala, and that a reward
was secretly set on Barrios’ head as soon
as war was declared. The proofs of this
conspiracy are said to be overwhelming
and to be forthcoming for publication at an
early day.
Ignominious Deaths.
New Orleans, April 17.—Aaron Jones,
a negro murderer, was banged here to
day.
Fort Smith, Ark., April 17.—William
Phillips was hanged here to-day for the
murder of William Hill. He protested his
innc-ceace to the last.
RUSSIA GAINING TIME.
The English Ministry Denies That It Pro
poses to Cede Pandjeli.
London, April 16. —The Telegraph pub
lishes a dispatch from Vienna, which states
that De Giers has telegraphed Baron Do
Staal, at London, as follows: “I am
charged by the Czar’s personal command
to request you to inform the English Gov
ernment that, in the Czar’s opinion, war
would be most deplorable to both countries;
also, that the Czar firmly hopes
that a prompt and simple ar
rangement of the present diffi
culties may bo established.” Staal tele
graphod De Giers in reply; “That the
English Government gladly accepted his
communication.” Mr. Gladstone, in the
House of Commons, denied that such a
telegram as tho above had been received.
Earl Granville, British Minister for
Foreign Affairs, being asked this
afternoon if it was true, as
reported, that the Government has
agreed to give up Panjdeh to the Russians,
said; “I must really decline to answer all
these unauthorized and always inaccu-
rate reports.” With reference to the re
port that the Government would cede
I’anjdeh to Russia, the Standard says:
e cannot bring ourselves to believe that
the Government, even to preserve peace,
will enter into any - arrangement,
leaving Russia in possession of territory
unlawfully acquired, adding fresh humili
ation to the long list that England has al
ready endured.” The Times in an edito
rial argues that it is impossible to ignore
the Panjdeh incident without throwing the
Ameer into the arms of Russia.
“The Government,” it says, “must take
account not only of the arguments of
European diplomats, but of the state of
feeling in India and engagements of the
Ameer. The responsibility of giving Rus
sia the full benefit of accomplished facts
on the frontier would be heavy indeed, and
possibly in regard to one part of the matter
we may not be entirely our own masters.” N
Illinois and Cholera. 1
Chicago, 111., April 16,-The State
Board of Health held its quarterly meet
ing in this city to-day. Information was
submitted from private sources showing
that Asiatic cholera had existed in Paris
up to January 10, and that it had since re
appeared at Toulon and broken out in
Southern Russia. In the early part of
March it had appeared tin the interior of
V alencia, Spain, and there was danger
of its introduction into the Mediterranean
by ships from Bombay. No official publi
cation of these facts, Dr. Rauch, the Secre
iag their importance to me WUUID vuuumji
The work of preparing the State against
an epidemic is meeting with encourage
ment from every quarter. The house to
house inspection throughout the State Is
progressing rapidly, and will, it is believed,
when completed, lie of great practical
value to the State Board of Health.
Silk Culture in America.
Philadelphia, April 16.— The fifth
annual meeting of the Women’s Silk
Culture Association of the United States
was held here to-day. The annual report
contained some interesting information.
As Congress has appropriro-d $15,000 for
silk culture in the United of
which will be devoted to this association, it
has received a fresh start. Last year
1,130 pounds of cocoons, for which $983 was
paid, received. Dress material, bro
cades, grosgrains, ribbons, kerchief, knit
ting silk and flng silk were made for the
association. The association has hereto
fore had one reel, but it now aims to en
courage in the growing of
silk -to estanwh a filinture, or reeling de
parAent, to open a school for silk culture
in F«rmount Park, and to circulate infor
matilp concerning the industry.
Riel in the Background.
Winnipeg, Man., April 16. —The only re
liable news from the West to-night is that
Riel is still keeping in the background, and
waiting for the commission to effect a set
tlement with his people and himself. One
of the prominent officials stated to-day
that there would be no more bloodshed,
and in four days all would be settled.
Two thousand eight hundred troops have
gone West, from here, and Eagan, Super
intendent, says 400, under Colonel Scott,
will go to-morrow.
Kingston, Ont., April 16.— The govern
ment is sending men to serve on the
mounted police for the Northwest, through
the United States. Yesterday twenty-nine
men, with forty-two horses, passed here.
One of the men was Hon. O. H. Lambert,
the youngest son of the Earl of Cavan.
Accident Insurance Swindler.
BUPittsbgurgh, Pa., April 17.—Detective
Reeves, of Cleveland, leaves for home to
night, having ir> charge the noted accident
insurance swindler, John Fisher, alias
Spencer, whom he arrested at Williams
port, Pa., yesterday. Fisher’s plan was
to take out three policies on the Accident
Insurance Company of New York for him
self and two friends, and then contrive to
get slightly injured while leaving the
train. After procuring certificates of in
jury from three physicians, under the dif
ferent names, he would claim S3O per week
on each policy, and live in sumptuous
style until his recovery, when the swindle
would be repeated.
Newspaper Building Burned.
Buffalo, N. Y., April 16.—Fire broke
out in the composing-room of the Erprea»
building this evening. Quickly the entire
building was enveloped, and in an hour en
tirely destroyed. G. H. rDunston & Co.’s
lithographing establishment was wiped
out. When the front walls fell several
firemen narrowly escaped with their lives.
The fire was started, by the carelessness of
a reporter, who was lighting a lamp in the
news-room. James Ross, a printer, in
endeavoring to put out the flames, was
badly barned, and also nearly suffocated
by the smoke. He was rescued with some
difficulty.
CEDE OR FIGHT.
Russia Makes Further Demands With
That Ultimatum.
The Czar Will Not Abate a Jot or Tittle to
Insure Peace.
A
London, April 20. —Tho situation of the
Russo-Afghan question has again become
very serious, owing to Russia' increasing
her demands to such an extent that it will
bo impossible for England to accept such
terras. M. De Giers, the Russian Premier,
who is evidently determined to profit by
his recent successes in negotiating with the
English Foreign Office, has apparently
decided not to yield a single iota
to Earl Granville. It is now
feared that Russia has overstepped the
bounds of British forbearance, as it is as
serted on high authority that England will
never succumb to these latter demands of
the Russian Premier. A large number of
important dispatches passed between the
English and Russian Foreign Offices on
Saturday and on Sunday. All the mem
bers of the Cabinet remained in London
on Sunday awaiting a reply from Russia
to the latest from Earl Granville. Dis
patches from Constadt state
that the Russian fleet there
has been ordered to prepare for war in
stantly, and that thirty-two Russian men
of war have hoisted their flags and put to
sea. There has been a continuance of the
exchange of dispatches between Earl Gran
ville and DeGiers to-day. It is apparent
that the breaeh is widening The Cabinet
met to-day to consider the contents of a
number of Important dispatches just re
ceived from Lord Dufferin. Earl Granville,
British Foreign Minister, stated this after
noon in the House of Lords that the Govern
ment have received a dispatch from Sir
Peter Lumsden. The contents of this dis
patch, Earl Granville said, the Government
was not prepared to make public any fur
ther than to state that it contained a con
tradiction of the account of the Panjdeh
incident as given by General Komaroff.
The Government was, Earl Granville said,
expecting further telegrams from Sir Peter
Lumsden, and until they were received the
Government would not be prepared to make
any further statement.
Evidence From Out the Sea.
Halifax, N. 8., April 20. —A romance
has come to light connected with the ill-
Steinmann, which
home, Peter Andrus Miehaelsen, one of the
passengers, deposited $39,570 and some
valuables for safe-keeping with one Her
schied, of Hasle, Denmark, and took a re
ceipt therefor. Probably imagining that no
legal evidence would ever be forthcoming
that he had the money, Herschiod refused
to return it to the dead man’s relatives.
Thereupon the Danish Foreign Minister
communicated with Mr. Tobin, the Danish
Consul at this port, requesting him to spare
no efforts to find the receipt. The bodies
and wreckage washed from time to time
have been carefully searched, and the di
vers who have been working on
the wreck for the past year
have kept a sharp lookout for the miss
ing document, but all without success. Re
cently a small trunk was washed ashore
contain ing a number of letters and papers.
These were turned over to the Consul. They
were water-soaked, and the writing almost
obliterated, but among them was the long
looked for receipt, which after much diffi
culty, Consul Tobin deciphered and trans
lated. He has cabled the good news to
Copenhagen.
The Edmund Law Sustained.
Washington, April 20. —Among the de
cisions of the Supreme Court to-day was
one on the Clawson case from Utah Terri
tory. Under the Edmund Anti-Polygamy
act Clawson was excluded from the jury
service on the ground that he was a biga
mist. The case was appealed, nnd in the
Supreme Court to-day the action of the
Territorial Court excluding him was sus
tained, thus maintaining tho validity of
the Edmund law.
Affairs in the Soudan.
Dongola, April 20.—Natives who have
arrived here say the Italians have ad
vanced from Massowah in the direction of
Kassala. The Arabs along the White Nile
above Khartom are also reported deserting
El Mahdi, and the latter is plundering all
villages and towns worth robbing.
Cairo, April 20.—1 t is reported that B er
ber is in open rebellion against the Mahdi,
the resultrof a quarrel about the treasure.
Louisville to Celebrate.
Louisville, Ky., April 20. —General
Grant’s sixty-third birthday, which occurs
next Monday, will be celebrated in this
city by a public meeting of representatives
of all parties. Prominent gentlemen have
the matter in charge, and owing to the
peculiar circumstances under which the
celebration is to occur, Louisville a
Southern city, will ask all the cities in the
Union to follow her example.
Foster Going to Spain.
Washington, April 20.—Hon. John W.
Foster, U. S. Minister of Spaiu, will sail
next Wednesday for Madrid, where he will
conduct further negotiations in regard to
our commercial relations with Spain and
the Spanish Colonies.
Salvador’s Representative.
Washington, April 20.—The President
of Salvador has designated Senor Peralta to
represent that Republic in Washington.
Senor Peralta is already accredited as
Minister from Costa Rica.
Coadjutor to a Bishop.
Rome, April 20. —The Rev. Richard Phe
lan has been appointed coadjutor to fhe
BisbOP of Pittsburgh.
VOL 11.-NO. 8.
SOUTHERN NEWS GLEANINGS.
A farmer named Frank Garrett, of Har
dy County, Va., is charged with
lacerating the back of his hired
nurse girl, eleven years of age, with
a whip and sending her to bed when it was
bitter cold a few nights since. ' Seven of
her toes have to be amputated. He was ar
rested. s
A severe cyclone passed over one sec
tion of North Carolina, a few days ago,
between (. harlooto and Lumberton, near
Hamlet, blowing down trees, fences and
houses, and dc 'ng great damage. No lives
lost so far as heard from. •
Postmaster General Vilas propose*
to institute a reform in the matter of post
oilice names. That of Buzzard’s Roost, Ga«,
he has changed to Westlake.
On Huuflowor River, 130 miles south of St.
Clarksdale, Miss., tho other day, Joseph
House, formerly of Petersburg, Va., was
shot dead by Steele, Marshal of the town.
House was brakeman on a gravel train,
and was on a spree, having been paid off.
Meeting the Marshal, he said: “You are
the man I’m looking for,” and |opened fire
with a revolver, firing three shots, the first
passing through Steele’s clothing; the sec
ond missed, and the third wounded Steel
in the arm. The latter then returned the
fire, emptying his pistol. He then drew
a second weapon and sent a ball Into House
the latter falling dead in his tracks. Eleven
shots were fired in all, and Steel escaped
with only a slight wound. The latter has
a family; the dead man none, as far as
heard. Both men were game throughout,
and stood up without flinching until House
was killed. The people of the town wfcre
greatly excited, but agree that Steel acted
only in self-defense.
Thomas Spencer, a colored Bap
tist minister of Norfolk, Va., was convicted
in the Hustings Court, in Petersburg, the
other day, of housebreaking. He pleaded
guilty aud was sentenced to five years’ im
prisonment in the penitentiary. Spencer
Is widely known.
Report comes from the back counties of
Southwest Virginia that a terrible famine
is raging there. The people are out of food,
as last year’s crops were almost complete
failures. The only thing people are living
on now is gruel made from beans gronnd
in Coffee mills. If the present condition of
things continues, the State or Government
must furnish aid or people will die by the
hundreds.
The Woman’s Home Missionary Society
of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Ohio,
of which Mrs. Hayes, wife of ex-Preei
dent Hayes, is President, have purchased a
large brick building on Anderson street,
vert the sam« JOw.-nmnertv o 2
colored girls, with a view of teaching them
sewing, house-keeping, etc. The school
will be in operation shortly.
Mr. J. L. Smith, of Pike County, Ga.,
while visiting Macon four years ago, went
through the Orphans’Home. There he saw
two bright little children whose ways so
impressed him that he begged the author
ities to let him have them, as ho was child
less. It has just developed that the
orphans, who have grown thoroughly at
tached to their foster father, have fallen
heirs to $25,000 apiece through the death of
a distant relative.
Dr. Braszu, charged with killing a young
man named Bowling, near Logan Court
House, W. Va., two years ago, was arrested
at Catlettsburg, Ky. . .
Andrf.w Meaders, of Nashville, Tenn..
defeated A. H. Bogardus in a shooting
match by a score of 184 to 175 out of two
hundred single clay pigeons at eighteen
yards.
Frank A. Montgomery and James Bell,
charged with the murder of Judge Taylor
Rucks, in Greenville. Miss., were acquitted.
& Gov. Perry, of Florida, announces that
the scrip of that State is at par, and she
is prepared to pay all her debts, dollar for
dollar.
The Eutaw Whig says: “Mr. Bob Bartee
caught out of the Warrior River 2,583
pounds of fish out of two nets; the first
haul he canght 103 fish which averaged
twenty pounds to the fish, the second,
thirty-five, which averaged fifteen pounds
to the fish.
Reports to the Fruit Association state
that peaches and strawberries in Tennessee
have sustained no injury from the recent
frosts. dfifctdA
In Union County, near Fredonia, Miss.,
and nine miles southwest of New Albany,
the county seat, is situated a group of
thirteen mounds, of various heights and
circumferences. The largest is twenty
seven and a half feet high, 700 around and
150 feet across the top. Many theories have
been advanced as to their formation. It is
said the Indians acknowledge their exist
ence as far back as their traditions extend,
but how far that was no one could tell.
Mr. Charles M. Smith, Assistant Ethnol
ogist for the Government, has been very
busily engaged for some weeks in examin
ing these “bumps of nature,” as they have
been called. WitL the exception of the larg
est one he has honeycombed them in every
direction. He has now packed and shipped
to Washington 150 pounds of his “finds.”
It is an interesting old curiosity shop.
Perhaps some portion of everj uhing the
Indians molded from clay or cut from
rocks is here to be found—spear heads,
hatchets, pipes, paint rocks, beads, spades,
ornaments, etc. But the most interesting
as to who built them and how long since,
are a bit of glass, the iron of a saddle tree.
a case knife, and a piece of alloy contain
ing the Spanish coat of arms. Some have
been used as dwellings, as coals and asbea
and distinct forms of fire-places are to b«
seen in the excavations. Others were used
as cemeteries. As many as thirteen skele
tons were found in one. They were buried
in a circle, their heads being the center.
The largest mound has been a dwelling
place, and also one of defense. There has
been but one approach to the top, and that
was by a narrow, winding path on the
north.
r E v John J. Dougherty, formerly
Vicar General of the Archdioceta of Balt*.
«nor», it dead.