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CURRENT .TOPICS*
Renewal Komaroff wears spectacles.
1 uk fruit crop of California is vers prom
ising.
) New York City has an,epidemic of
taeasles. Jl
There is said to be an alarming increase
of cancer in England.
There are more than 2,500 lady physi
cians in the United States.
There are about 200,000 commercial
travelers in the United States.
A dead-beat has been passing himself
off in Louisville, Ky., as Frank James.
Ur. Mary Walker is one of the leading
attractions at a dime museums in Chicago,
The American Congress of Churches will
hold its first session May 11, 12 and 13 at
• Hartford, Conn.
Samuel J. Tilden has made contracts
for an extensive conservatory near his
mansion at Yonkers.
Mrs. Dudley, who tried to kill O’Don
ovan Rossa, is ill in prison and would like
to leave it under bail. j’.. l '
Governor Martin, of Kansas, has im
posed a quarantine of ninety days
coming from Missouri. ,
Emperor Dom Pedro, of Brazil, has been
on his throne fifty-three years,_and was
only six years old when he began his
reign. .
The widow Barrios had ithe reputation
of being the most beautiful girl in Guate
mala when the General stole her from a
convent.
There is a controversy between the
Secretary of War and Lieutenant General
Sheridan of the army as to the extent of the
latter’s powers.
Sir Thomas Gladstone, the Premier’s
only brother, is a Tory in politics, who has
passed his ninetieth ve&rH His only son is
uow with the army in Egypt.
The title of Prince Colonna does not be
long to the husband of Miss Mackey, as it
is given only to tf> s eldest of the many
branches of that famotftold house.
It is believed by everybody, except the
stockholders, that the prices charged for
the use of the telephone are entirely too
high, and should be lowered to a reasona
ble figure.
A Chicago barber has such a small opin
ion of the silver dollar that he has imbed
ded four hundred copies of the coin in the
tiled floor of his shop, on the decorations of
which he has spent ijiß,ooo. : ,
Maurice Kingsley tlSe; son of Charles
Kingsley, the English writer, is about to
settle in New Haven for of ed
ucating his children. He 'takes with him
a large fortune accumulated, in Colorado.
1 Henry Sigourney, of the well-known
Boston family, has married one of the
coryphees in the ballet of a Boston, theater.
Mr. Sigourney'is aboiit thirty years old,
and has an income of nearly $60,000 a year.
P The Government has provided for
weather observations and danger signal
service on the California Coast.. On that
coast, however, dangerous ‘{dorms are so
rare that the signals will be of little value.
A Scotch gelatine manufacturer sends
but. with each package of his goods a leaf
from the Bible. A package recently opened
in Now York City furnishes '4he cook with
the interesting story of Abraham and his
wife Sarah. ( .
t The following cdnifndruid* apropos of the
situation on the Afghan frantierj is 'pro
pounded from St. Petersburg: If you go
up within one inch of a bear and look him
full in the face, what do you get? Paws
for a reply. ,g '
The Queen’s wreath, sent by Victoria to
€be funeral of President Garfield, has
been handsomely framed in a specially
carved oaken frame, and presented to the
Western Reserve Horticulfeirol
which it will be kept.
Hungary has found it expedient to re
form its Upper House of Parliament, and a
bill has been introduced by which ,240
counts and 300 nobles of lwwfcr rank wiW be
excluded, because they pay'in taxes less
than a specified sum every year.
A quaint fancy af dyiner pp.rfi£s~is Jjo
have |a silver bowl'in’the center of the
table filled with -As manv-rage flowers as,
there are guests. Just art st*'rising from
the table the host holds the bowl find each
guest takes a flower with his eyes shut.
Edward J. Bartlett, of Concord, Mass.,
has in his possossjgn the sign of -Lilahy /
Prison, which he book* from its place on the*
building on the morning of the first occu
pation of Richmond ‘by the>tJ|tion troops.
It is a small tin sign and bears ‘Mgiplv the
words “Libby & Co.” ■/
A number of railway managers interest
ed in several lines of western railway have
suggested that a national congress, to con- ’
eider the subject of railway interests as
connected with the gieneral busin&s.of'the,
country, shall be held about the 4th of July
next, in Philadelphia. 'I • 1 ,.J A
A lady who makes, good. rhubarb- pies,
says she always puts in*just as much sugar
as her conscience will allow and then shuts
up her eyes and puts in another handful.
There is no such thing as economy in the
making of rhubarb pies, but extravagance
is stamped all over them,
f Six months in the penitentfiirw aftd a.: fine
that may run up to $5,000 is the penalty
fixed by the Montana Territorial laws
against prize-fighting^. Sulliyan and Ryan
might- as well stay 'fh- tote* cillturWi East.
This is a cold country for law-breakers
and it isn’t getting any warmer.
The latest puzzjbi jatyA’lf a man puts
SIOO in bank the aay' he is twenty-one
ye->rs of age. what sum must he add to it
yearly to have $50,000 on the day he is fifty
years of age, receiving si-x per cept. com
pound interest on his money?” ’ This puz
zles some of the best arithmeticians.
The original stock of Indians found on
our shores by the Pilgrim Fathers were of
the Lenape, who may. be traced, in Dr.
Brinton’z opinion, from the scores of Hud
son’s Bay, where their congeners, the
Crees, still remain, retaining the language
in what it believed to be- lw-earliest torn*
FATAL FLAMES.
A Saloonist’s Carelessness Causes a
Fire in a Tenement House-
Eight Persons Known to Have Perished—
Fourteen Injured—Thrilling Kscape
of Some of the Inmates.
New York, May 3.—Eight persons are
known to have perished in a fire which oc- ‘
curred last night in the double-brick tene
ment No. 672 First avenue. Fourteen men
were more or less injured in attempting to
escape from the burning building. At the
time of the fire there were eight families
in the house, w-ith a total of thirty-six
souls. The ground, or first floor, was occu
pied by Humphrey as an oyster saloon. In
the south building, Jacob Burge used the
first floor as a saloon, and the second as
living apartments, with his wife. The third
floor was occupied by Phillip Limbacher,
his wife and child. The fourth by Max
Krithzmar, his wife and three children,
and the fourth floor by Herman Roehrich,
his wife and three children. Mr. Roehrich
was the only tenant of the building that es
caped without loss. Immediately when
the fire was discovered he closed his doors
and w-indows to keep out the smoke, took
his wife and three children to the front
w-lndow and passed them, one by one,down
the ladders erected by the firemen. In an
interview Mr. Roehrich said: “The fire
cutoff all egress by the stairs and the fire
escapes. The wood floorings of the latter
and the boxes and washtubs stored thereon,
burnt like tinder and made the iron work
of the fire escapes so hot it was impossible
to get down. If the people had only shut
their doors and gone to the top of the
building, none would have been killed. I
saw Mrs. Humphrey in the hospital this
morning, and she said that Humph
rey set the place on fire.”
Theodore Koerner stepped from the
sill of his window to that of one of Roeh
rich’s, and followed the Roehrichs down
the ladder. Mrs. Burg, finding the stair
way in a blaze, got out of her front win
dow and crossed on a sign torn from an
office next door, and put up by the firemen,
to a place of safety. Philip Limbacher was
awakened by the smoke. He roused his
wife and four children, and dropped them
from the third story window into the arms
of persons below. Mike Alien, of No. 210
East Thirty -eighth street, caught two of
them, and took them to his home, where the
frantic father found them about two hours
later. Officer Flaherty, who rescued three
of the Koerner family, caught a third child
of Lambacher. Pauline Koerner jumped
from a window on the top floor. The fire
broke out in the kitchen of Humphrey’s
restaurant. The police think it w-as due to
carelessnes on Humphrey’s part, who often
closed his saloon and left a very hot fire in
his range. The loss in property was insig
nificant.
Town Partly Destroyed.
" Kankakee, 111., May 3.—At 2 o’clock
this morning, fire was discovered in Mrs.
Hilber’s millinery shop, at Cabery, a vil
lage of eight hundred population, twenty
five miles from Kankakee, and there being
lio fire department there, the flames spread
over the entire business portion, burning to
the ground tweuty-four business houses
and fourteen residences. The total loss is
estimated at SIOO,OOO. The fire is believed
to have been of incendiary origin. Three
suspicious looking characters left on a
freight train just after the alarm was given,
and were arrested on telegraphic orders.Th©
populace is furious, and if the men can not
show clearrecords, their chancesfor lynch
ing is good.
European News.
' London, May 3.—Th« war feeling in Lon
don seems somewhat allayed by the state
ment that the Czar is desirous of peace.
It is believed that Saturday’s conference at
St. Petersburg resolved upon a more pacific
policy. The principle of arbitration, it is
believed, Russia will accept, though more
time is asked for consideration of the
agreement of March 17. London newspa
pers confirm the report of a secret treaty
between England and Turkey. Nubar
Pasha, the Egyptian Prime Minister, has
apologized to the French representative,
which virtually ends the recent trouble.
Severe Hail-Storm.
Petersburg, Va., May 3.—The hail
storm which passed over this section Fri
day afternoon extended into North Caro
lina. All the growing cotton, corn and
'(Vegetables were destroyed, and the farmers
will be compelled to plant again. Hail
fell to the depth of twelve inches, and a
’whirl-wind prevailed along the center of
the storm, blowing down barns, fences and
sheds. In some places in Surrey County,
this State, the hail fell to the depth of
eighteen inches, and in some spots was
drifted to the depth of four feet.
Inoculation With Chorera Virus.
Madrid, May 3.—A number of people of
Valencia are being inoculated with
cholera virus, which produces tremors and
prostration for tweuty-four hours. At the
end of forty eight hours the patient is well.
All the provinces of Spain have sent doc
tors to study the system, which it is be
lieved is a great success.
Mexico and the Mormons. ’
City of Mexico, May 3.—ln regard to
Mormons emigrating from the United
States to Mexico, the Government officiary
announces that none coming will have any
concessions granted them, but are at lib
erty to corneas other emigrants, subject to
the laws of the Republic, which forbid
polygamy.
Killed by a Kick.
Mount Carmel, 11i.., May 2.—Charley
Degan, aged twenty-one years, was kicked
by a horse yesterday, and received injuries
from which he died this morning. His
brother was thrown from a horse and kill
ed a few years ago.
TRENTON, DADE COUNTY, GA„ THURSDAY. MAY 7. 1885.
ANOTHER TRUNK FIND.
The Remains of a Radiy Occam posed
Body Arrive* In Pittsburgh From
Chicago - Si u One to I'lalan It.
Pittsburgh, Pa., May 1. —The baggage
men who removed a small trunk from the
Chicago express,which arrived at the Union
Depot at half-past seven this morning,
noticed a very offensive smell emanating
from it, which aroused suspicion. The
trunk was placed outside the baggage
room all day, and when opened this even
ing was found to contain the body of a
man skillfully tied together with a
rope tightly fastened around the arms
and legs, both limbs being drawn up in
! front of the body. The arms were drawn
up to the head and tied securely to the
j neck. The trunk was a cheap, flat-topped
affair, forty inches long, twenty inches
wide and twenty-one inches deep. It was
securly tied together with a stout rope pass
ed around it fully a dozen times. The trunk
was checked from Chicago to|Pittsburgh,the
number of the check being 4 171. The body
is evidently that of a well-to-do Italian,
about five feet ten inches high, and
smoothly shaven, dark hair and eyebrows,
thick lips and neck, and would probably
weigh about one hundred and fifty pounds.
It was dressed in a suit of silk under
clothing, gray plaid pants, dark vest. Iu the
pocket of the vest was found a receipt for a
money order for $25, which had been sent
from the Chicago Post-office on February
25, 1885. It contained the name of Phil
lippi Coruso. The police are mystified. In
reply to an inquiry, Chief of Police
Blackmore received an answer from
Chicago that two Italians had
dispatched a trunk on train No.
8, but that they were unknown. An
other sensation was caused here to-night
by the report that a second trunk contain
ing a dead body had passed through here
from Columbus. The baggagemen com
plained of the bad odor in the car, and re
mained on the platform during the whole
trip. The suspected trunk was checked to
Philadelphia, and the authorities there
have been notified.
Prevention of Stock-Yard Extortion.
Springfield, 111., May I.—A bill of
considerable interest to all stock-growers
in the Northwest has been passed by the
House. It is a measure to regulate the
charges of the Chicago Stock-yards for
yardage, freight, grain, hay and other
articles furnished, and to prevent extor
tion and unjust discrimination. It pro
vides, among other things, that the stock
yards shall not receive for yardage more
than fifteen cents per head for horses, cat
tle and mules, five cents for hogs, and four
cents for sheep, nor more than fifty per
cent additional to the current market
wholesale price for hay, straw, corn or
other articles supplied by them for the sus
tenance of such animals, and that sales
shall be made by actual weight. The
penalty for collecting higher rates, or un
just discrimination, is a fine of not less
than SIOO nor more than SSOO for a first of
fense, and not less than S3OO nor more than
SI,OOO for subsequent offenses. At present
the yardage charge per head on cattle is
fifty cents, and the other articles in pro
portion.
Russian Movements.
London, May 2.—A Tirpul dispatch,
dated the 29th ult., says General Komaroff
and Colonel Alikhanoff have gone from
Sarakhs to Zulficar. Advices from Tirpul
dated April 28, say: “Further Russian
movements are reported. It is stated
that the Russians have occupied Kil
amour, on the Kushk River, with a body
of Tekke horsemen, and are busy making a
military road to Meruchek.” The Standard
says: “The English proposals only reached
St. Peters! iurg Friday. The Grand Dukes
Nicholas, Michael, Vladimi and Alexis will
attend a meeting of the ministers to-day
to decide upon a reply.” An inspired ar
ticle in the Daily News confirms the Stand
ard's report that England has proposed to
submit to arbitration by any European
sovereign the. question of who violated
the agreement' of March 17. The Daily
News adds that the Czar favors arbitration
and ignores the individuality of Generals
Lumsden and Komaroff.
Still at Large.
Bloomington, Ind., May I.—To-day has
brought no new development in the terri
ble tragedy of Wednesday night. The ex
citement has subsided, and horsemen sent
out yesterday have returned from every
direction without bringing any news. At
midnight last night a hundred citizens that
had gone down to the scene of the ex
press robbery returned, having searched
the country for several miles to the west
without finding a clew. Early this morn
ing news was brought from Stanford, ten
miles west, that a man answering the de
scription of the robber passed that place
about 9 o’clock the following morning,
was recognized as an ex-convict, and was
supposed to be going to a friend’s house
several miles further west. Officers started
at once for the place, but at this w riting
have not returned.
The Run of Shad.
Washington, May I.—Congressman H.
A. Herbert, of Alabama, under date of
April 27, 1885, reports to he United States
Commission of Fisheries as follows: “Quite
a number of shad have been caught in the
Alabama River this season, and the pros
pects are that the introduction of these fish
in those waters will be highly successful*
and that, too, at an early day, if liberally
planted. Like favorable reports come from
the Ohio River, which now has an annual
and increasing run of shad each, spring.
These results are to be credited to the
shad-hatching operations of the United
States Fish Commission on the Potomac
River, the young shad for planting having
been sent out mainly from the Potomac
River stations of the Commission.
Expulsion of Princes.
Paris, Mar I.—The Figaro says the gov
ernment ttas decided upon a measure for
the expulsion of the Orleans and Bauapart
ist Princes
ROBBERY AND MURDER.
The Baggage Master and Kvpress Messen
ger Knocked Down and Shot, After
Which the Robber Goes
Through the Safe and
Makes His Kscape.
Bloomington, Ind., April 30.—The most
daring and atrocious express robbery in
the history of the West, taking intoconsid
en-tion the surroundings, was perpetarted
on the Louisville, Now Albany ami Chi
cago Railroad last night. Just after the
Chicago express due here at 11:45 p.
m., had taken water at the Harrodsburg
tank and got under headway, ten miles
below. here, a man entered the ex
press and baggage car and
struck Baggage-master VYebber, who was
lying down at the time, over the head with
a bludgeon, rendering him unconscious;
then quickly passed to American Express
messenger George Davis, and attacked him.
Davis is supposed to have been lying down
also, as he was a through messenger, with
no goods to transfer until he reached Green
castle. Davis was also clubbed, and evi
dently attempted to shield himself with his
arms, as his head and arms bear cuts
and bruises. Just what took place
between the robber and Davis
will never be known, as Webber
was insensible and Davis can never tell.
Probably Davis made a good fight, as his
pistol, with two empty chambers, was
afterward found near the place, and the
robber is known to have been wounded
in some way, but when Webber fully
recovered consciousness the robber was
standing over him with his revolver
to his head, and poor Davis had
a bullet through his brain. Webber
was compelled at the point of the pistol
to take the keys from the pocket of
Davis and unlock the express safe. The
robber then rifled the safe, and turning
put a ball into the head of Webber. The
shot rendered Webber again insensi
ble, but regaining consciousness in a short
time he saw the robber still in the car, evi
dently intending to ride to this place, the
next stopping point. Webber then manag
ed to struggle to his feet, unnoticed
by the robber, and grasped the bell-rope
and gave the alarm. The robber
was evidently taken unawares at this and
became wild in his actions, running
through the car a time or two, then sta
tioned himself at the door leading to the
passenger coaches and kept watch until
the train slowed up, when he jumped off
and disappeared. When the train men
entered the express car and took in the
situation they seem to have become great
ly alarmed, for, although the moon was
*h ining brightly, they neither made any
attempt to pursue the robber nor
even to stop and alarm the inhabitants of
the little town of Smithville, a short dis
tance this side of where the robber jumped
off, as they might have done, but ran on to
this place, where they left- the wounded
men, Davis and Webber. Word was im
mediately sent to J. O. Howe, local ex
press agent here, and getting four trusty
men to join him, he obtained an engine and
went back to the scene of the robbery.
Nothing, however, was seen of the rob
ber, but about $350 in bloody packages
was found where he jumped from the train,
and soon after daylight some sls in silver
was found some forty yards further away
with considerable blood jn the locality,
showing the robber was bleeding, but
whether from a wound the
hands of Davis in a struggle or in jumping
from the train can not be known. The
whole country was aroused, and the citi
zens are nearly all out hunting him.
He was tracked by drops of
blood some two miles in a west
erly course. At one o’clock this
afternoon a special train with two hundred
armed men%ont to the scene to get on his
track and scolr every nook in hopes that
he isftpo badly wounded he will hide in
sotnftff the rough country near, where he
can A caught. If he was uot seriously
wounded, however, and when he left the
train was only seeking to evade pursuit by
the train men, he may have
taken another course and
placed several miles between him
self and the scene of the robbery before
morning. While only one man was seen
by Webber, a traveling advertiser, who
went Out when the train stopped to water
to throw off some dodgers, says he saw
two, one of whom was concealed behind a
freight caron aside-track, and the other
with a stick in his hand, passed forward
toward the express car. Webber describes
the . robber as a man about six feet tall,
slender, sandy or light complexioned, and
thirty years old, with a small light mus
tache, which he thinks was false. Web
ber has the robber’s ball in his neck yet,
and may possibly recover, but the sur
geons think there are few
chances for him. He was taken
to his home at New Albany to
day. Davis was lying unconscious at the
Orchard House to-day with no hopes of his
recovery, and was taken to Louisville this
evening. The amount of money obtained
by the robber is variously rumored to
be from $1,500 to $7,000, but the
local agent here, basing his [estimate
on what he knows of the route, claims
it will prove not to be over $2,000. The
latest news in regard to the robber to-night
is that a man answering his description
was seen some twelve miles from the scene
of the robbery at eight o’clock this morn
ing, and he is supposed to be an ex-convict
sent from this county whose term has iust
expired.
Navy-Yard Employes Discharged.
New York, May I.—The entire force of
the construction department of the Brook
lyn Navv-Yard was discharged to-day.
It is said that other discharges w-ill follow,
and that economy in the expenditure of
the balance, which is small, is the cause of
the retrenchment.
The National Debt.
Washington, May I.—The decrease in
the public debt (new' form) for April was
$4,837,339 71. The total debt May 1, 1885,
less cash in theTr ea * u ry (new form) is sl,-
007.416.554 33.
BATTLE AT LEMONT.
The Striking Quarrymen and
Troops in Collision.
A Volley of Stones Opens the Fray—Vlie
Military Charge Bayonets, wlMi
Some Stray Shots—Two Riofors
Killed, Three Others VVoumlc 1.
Lemont, 111., May s.—The strike among
quarrymen here and at Joliet has finally
assumed proportions of magnitude. The
men who went out because they failed to
receive an advanced of wages front $1.50 to
$1.75 per day, have been in a turbulent
condition for four weeks, during which
period the quarries have been idle. A num
ber of quarry owners had repeatedly tried
to resume operations, but the strikers
invariably drove the workmen away
and for two weeks have dom
inated and, in a measure terror
ized the entire surrounding region.
It became evident on Friday that the
county authorities could not control them,
and the Governor was asked to send troops.
He responded promptly by sending five
companies from Joliet, Ottawa, Lasalle,
Streator and Bloomington. The first meet
ing between the troops and strikers occcur
red between Lemont and Joliet, Saturday
afternoon, but four hundred strikers who
were marching ou Joliet from Lemont fled
when exposed to sudden attack by the
militia. Seventy of their number, however,
were captured by the troops, disarmed, a nd
marchea to Joliet under guard. On Sunday
morning, however, the Sheriff of Will
County released the prisoners, and they
returned to Lemont, where they are cred
ited with provoking trouble which resulted
in the serious rioting of to-day. Colonel
Bennett, commanding the troops at Joliet,
received orders from the Governor to pro
ceed to Lemont. A special train was in
waiting, and at eight o’clock four com
panies of the Fourth Regiment, with a
detachment of C Battery of artillery, of
Joliet, and a Gattling gun and camp equip
ment, left for Lemont. About one mile
from town they were met by Deputy
Sheriff Fotter. The troops disembarked.
The Sheriff ordered the Colonel to deploy
his men, as there was a large crowd at the
depot waiting for the train. Company D,
of Ottawa, was extended as a skirmishing
line through the quarries, the line extend
ing from the canal to the bluffs. Deputy
Sheriff Potter then went forward and or
dered the mob to disperse. They refused,
and Companies A and B, in columns of
companies, advanced up the street and
drove the mob back at the point of the
bayonet. The mob then retired
into houses and yards, but a portion faced
the troops, making demonstrations and
throwing stones. Soon those who had gone
into the houses returned and attacked the
troops in the rear, the signal being given
by the firing of a pistol from a window.
Company A suffered severely, no less than
sixteen men being hit by stones, and one
of them, Private George Boggs, was badly
hurt. The rear rank of the company faced
about and opened fire. Company B was
attacked on the right flank further north,
and the first four files of the company were
deployed across the road. As the mob pur
sued, in attack, some ten shots were fired,
and Company A charged the mob, which
retired. It is claimed that u woman was
wounded accidentally. She advanced
toward a soldier with a rock,seized his mus
ket, aud he tripped her up. In falling she
fell against his bayonet. Following is a
full list of casualaties; Jacob Kugawa,
Pole, killed, shot iu jaw; Henry Shiller,
Pole, killed, shot in head; Mrs. Lemash,
bayonet w-ound: John Polisch, bayonet
wound; Adolph Miller, bayonet wound in
arm.
The President at Gettysburg.
Washington, May 4.—President Cleve
land and members of the Cabinet visited
Gettysburg to-day. The trip w'as marred
by two incidents. The first was the break
ing of the drive wheel of the engine on the
up trip. Shortly after dusk, on the return
trip, the train was half way between Han
over aud Baltimore, at a lonely spot, when
suddenly there were three Hashes from a
revolver and as many reports. The maD
who did the shooting was observed
during one of the flashes by a
passenger named McCabe, from Balti
more, who was armed, and he was
with difficulty restrained from answering
the fire of the assailant. The shots were
Aimed at the second car of the train, but
the President was in the third and last
car, and did not hear the reports. At least
if he did, he made no sign, and the passen
gers in the forward car agreed that it
would do no good to alarm him. None of
the shots, as far as could be learned, took
effect on the cars, or any of the passen
gers.
Firemen Crushed to Death.
Chicago, May 4.—ln the fire on South
Water street, last night, Martin Mulvey, a
single man, and \yorking with truck No. 1,
was caught by a volume of crates, cases
and barrels, which buried him six feet
deep. Charles Bird, married, was stand
ing beside Mulvey when the crash came,
and he fell just beside his companion.
When all the less injured ineu had been
extricated, it was suddenly discovered
that two were missing. Fifty men lost no
time in clambering up, the ladders aud with
picks an# hooks they dragged away the
debruymtil their two comrades were found.
Both vm-e dead. The weight that had
suddenly borne them dowu had crushed
their lives out.
Murdered Through Jealousy.
Sumner, la., May 4. About 8 o’clock
Sunday morning Fred. Bill, living foul
miles north of this city, in a fit of jealousy
shotGotfried Houserniann in the head with
a revolver, and then shot himself. Bill is
dead. Housermann is fatally injured.
Death of the Widow Vanderbilt.
New York, May 4.—Mrs. Frank A. Van
derbilt, the widow of Commodore Vander
bilt, died at 9 o’clock this morning, at her
residence, No. 10 Washington Place. She
had been ill for the last few days with
pneumonia.
Navy Yard Employes Discharged.
Portsmouth, N. H., May 4. —A large
number of employes were discharged from
the navy yard here Saturday night. Work
in all the departments is suspended.
Judge Wylie’s Successor.
Washington. May 4; —Judge Wm. M.
Merrick has taken the oath as successor of
Judge Wylie on'the Supreme Coart of ths
District of Columbia.
VOL 11.-NO. 10.
SOUTHERN NEWS GLEANINGS.
It is reported that silver has been dis
covered near Abilene, Tex.
M. C. Harris, who was expelled from
Hot Springs, Ark., by the citizen’s commit
tee during the gamblers’ troubles last year
ias brought suit in the United States court
for SIOO,OOO.
Aaron Bryant was murdered by John
Workman and .Matthew Reid, atYork
ville, S. C.
Rev. Jesse Cook, of Butler, Ga.,
knocked out his wife’s brains with an ax,
killing her. .He fled, pursued by a posse.
Two futile attempts have been made to
burn the home of Richard Howard, in
Chattanooga. He was awakened the other
night by a cracking noise and found a pile
of shavings under the house burning fierce
ly. The building was barely saved, and
there is no clue.
The University of the South, atSewanee,
has recently received a magnificent collec
tion of books from England, including in
all nearly two hundred and fifty folio vol
umes of the best Benedictine editions of
the fathers of the Christain Church. Many
of the sets are very rare and beautiful,
bound in vellum and full calf, gilt, with
exquisite engravings, portraits and num
erous plates of coin. Besides the well
known authors such as Augustine, Chrysos
tuin, Terance and some twenty-five others,
there are very fine editions of Baronius,
Saurez, Du Cauge, Calmet, Mabillon and
Gallaudius. Galladius’ Bibliotheca Patrum
and the works of S. Cyril (Alex.) are very
scasce and can hardly be procured any
where in Europe, and the edition of Baron
ius, fifty folios in fine vellum, is made com
plete by the continuations of Raynaldtis,
Laderchius, Theiner aud Toruielli together
with the criticisms of Ottius and the vindi
cate of Reding (the rare edition of 1680
from the press of the Einriedel monastery
in Switzerland.) There is also a very fine
copy of the Corpus Juris Canvuic
in three volumes, Dutch Vellum, Taurin,
1620, and a beautiful folio edition in the
original of Thomas a Kempis’ “Imitation
of Christ.” One of the foremost Greek
scholars in this country has said that an
acquaintance with the writings of the
Christian fathers is indispensable to a
proper knowledge of Greek and Latin lit
erature, and this handsome addition to the
library of one of our Southern universities
must be' justly considered as a matter of
both literary and theological interest.
The other morning while the sun was
shining brightly Dr. J. M. King and his
wife were in their sitting-room at Bristol,
Tenn., and had the bay window thrown
open, letting in a flood of sun-light. A
glass pitcher, filled with water, was sitting
in the window, and just opposite the pitch
er, at the further side of the room, was a
mirror. On looking up at the ceiling the
Doctor saw a beautiful rainbow, as clearly
defined, he says, as he ever saw, forming
an arc of from five to six feet from end to
end. Can any of our scientific men explain
the phenomenon '<
Isaac N. Goodwin, who waylaid, shot
and killed his father, a farmer of Lafayette
County, Miss., in December, 1880, and fled,
was captured on the 29th, in Spartanburg
County, S. C., where he has been living for
two years and where he recently married.
He was taken back to Mississippi.
A terrible tale of suffering comes from
Mrs. Joe Kays’, eight miles from Aufaula,
Ala. She was reported burned to death
some weeks ago, but survived, burned al
most to a crisp from her waist to her feet,
and being in a sparsely settled section, has
had little attention. A gentleman says
the terrible screams of the suffering woman
can be heard a quarter of a mile from the
house; that she has no physician, and that
the flesh is dropping from her bones from
decay and neglect. She has a two-months
old infant and two other small children, all
of whom were found with scarcely any
food. Notice of her condition being brought
to the citizens of Eufaula, they contributed
to her relief and sent a physician and other
necessaries.
A mail-carrier, named McKoskel,.was
convicted at Jackson, Tenn., of robbing
the mail of SSOO, and was sent up for three
years.
W. S. Roberts, President of the defunct
bank of Augusta, Ga., was arrested in New
York on a requisition and was taken to
Augusta for trial.
D. R. Mdllane, Division Superintendent
of the Cincinnati Southern Railroad, at
Chattanooga, was chloroformed while .
asleep and robbed of S3OO.
The two sons of B. F. Cardon, of Jones
boro, 'Ga-, while plowing, turned up a
quantity of roots that resembled parsnips,
of which they ate. It proved to be red
angelic, deadly poison. When discovered
one was dead and the other dying.
S. A. Durham & Co., cotton factors of
Charleston, S. C., made an assignment the
other day. Their estimate liabilities are
$125,000, mostly in Charleston.
At Palestine, Tex., Mary Connor obtain
ed judgement against the Missouri Pacific
Railway for $12,000 for the killing of her hus
band in an accident six years ago. Defend
ant will appeal. This is the second time
plaintiff has gained the case.
A nicely dressed young man named
Elijah Z. Pierce, on his way from John
ston’s Creek, N. Y., to Live Oak, Fla., com
mitted suicide on board a Lousville and
Nashville train the other morning when the
train was five miles above Birmingham,
Ala. He shot himself through the brain
with a 32-caliber pistol. When the train
arrived there he was still breathing, but
died shortly afterwards. It is supposed
that ill health prompted the act. One hun
dred and sixty dollars were found on bis
Tf. and John B. FordNer, brothers,
were arrested a few days ago in Jackson
County, Ala., for fraudulent use of the
mails. Their offense consisted in adver
tising to sell one hundred dollars of coun
terfeit money for five dollars. Parties send
ing money never received the counterfeit
greenbacks. Over fifteen hundred letters
!i n which had been enclosed various sums
were found, and it is estimated that tha
parties have realized several tbouiaad dol
lar! out of their swindle,