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TOPICS OF THE DAY.
The salary of a member of the Con
necticut Legislature is three hundred
dollars, with no allowance for traveling
expenses.
The loss by tiro in the United States
and Canada in April was $7,750,000,
and for the four months in this year,
*35,250,000.
It is believed in London that Glad
stone has made an inglorious truce with
Russia, and they are angry about it.
Still, it seems that the Londoners get
mad at anything the old man does.
The driven-well patent, which has
been the source of so much troublesome
litigation to farmers, has expired, and
any one is free hereafter to drive a well
on his own premises without fear of
prosecution.
The Russian Bear and the British
Lion appear to be exceedingly lamblike
at present. The late growl and threat
ened war over a slice of Afghan terri
tory only proved to be two old women
jawing over a back fence.
An exchange says that a pinch of
salt put in a cat’s saucer of milk and in
its meat two or three times a week will
prevent it from having fits. The un
felin (e) editor of the Evansville
Argus inquires: “What’s the matter
with the old shot gun? Is it busted?”
Secretary Lamar has given permis
sion to the Little Sisters of the Poor to
stand in the corridors and at the en
trances of the Interior Department and
solicit contributions from the employes.
Two members of the order take their
position at one of the entrances about
noon, holding a basket for money con
tributions.
An Arizona tanner has discovered a
desert plant that can be very successful
ly used in the manufacture of leather.
Its tanning properties are said to be
three times as great as the common oak
bark. But it must get up pretty early
in the morning if, as a tanning agent, it
can get ahead of the famous New Eng
land birch.
Ttie, actual value of the dollar of the
fathers is well illustrated by the arrest
of a roan and his wife in Indiana for
making counterfeits of that coin, in
which they are said to have pul as much
silver as there is in the legal dollar. The
difference between the value of the bul
lion and the face value of the coin af
forded. them a fair profit.
Cows vary much in the amount of
milk they give, according to the season,
and also the length of time they have
been in the business. Yet dairymen
manage somehow to regularly keep up
the supply, and are always ready to
take new customers. Of course it would
be useless to guess how it is done, and
an utter folly to attempt to pump the
dairymen.
The tramp season has begun, and the
farmers are being bored by these pest
iferous creatures. They are disgusted
at the offer of an honest job of work,
and resent as an insult the suggestion
of a basin of water and a piece of soap.
T is unfortunate that rural life and
property are so unprotected. Severe
laws should be enacted against these
intolerable nuisances.
The supplemental treaty between the
United States and Italy, tho ratification
of which has just been exchanged by the
two Governments, will put an end to
the vile padrone system. Kidnapping ol
minors or adults, or the detention of
•me or more persons for the purpose of
extorting money from them or their
families, or for any other unlawful
purpose, is added to the crimes for
which extradition may be granted.
A question of some importance has
been definitely settled by the verdict in
the case of General Hazen, profitless as
the trial seems to have been in other re
spects; and that is under a proper con
struction of the Articles of War, the
Secretary of War is the superior of
army officers. Heretofore this has been
disputed by one or two prominent army
officers, and not a little contlict and an
noyance has resulted therefrom.
A strong feeling is being raised in
Washington in favor of the annexation
of Cuba. It is argued by the supporters
of this scheme that “free” sugar alone,
which would be one of the results of
annexation, would be more than suffi
cient compensation for the price to be
paid for its acquisition. It is argued
that the fertile soil of Cuba, if the island
was brought under the rule of the
United States, would attract adventur
ous and energetic settlers by thousands,
who would make H a teeming v*,ine <d
wealth.
TONS OF MONEY.
Weighing the Wealth in Uncle Sam’*
Strong Box.
Twelve Tons of Gold, 543,100 Pounds of
Silver, and Enough Greenbacks to
Make a Belt Twenty Times
Around tlie Globe.
Washington, May 10.—About one hun
dred persons are engaged in counting the
cash now in the Treasury vaults. There
are $9,000,000 oi silver on hand in hags,
• each containing $l,OOO, weighing fifty-nine
pounds three ounces. So $lOO,OOO in silver
would pull down the balance at almost
three tons, and $1,000,000 would be nearly
sixty thousand pounds. The entire amount
of coined silver now in
the Treasury vaults they esti
mate will weigh 543,700 pounds. A pound
of gold coin is worth $240, and $280,000 of it
weighs a ton, and there are nearly twelve
tons of gold, fives, tens and twenties in the
country’s strong box at the Treasury. Of
paper money, too, there is an enormous
amount. One hundred and fifty millions of
dollars are in $5, $2 and $1 bills. About
seven of these bills measure a yard in
length, so a greenback belt that
w6uld reach around the world almost
twenty times could be made of the
United States notes now in vaults and in
circulation. The money, of course, is not
counted coin by coin. The gold and silver is
weighed very carefully on the finest and
most accurately fitted scales that were ever
made. Though one thousand pounds can
be weighed at a time, a pin placed on the
balance will tip it.
CAVED IN.
A Strange Occurrence at Mount Vernon, O.
Mount Vernon, 0., May 9.—During
last year a company was formed at this
point to experiment for natural gas. At a
depth of seventy-five feet a powerful arte
sian well was struck that seriously imped
ed work. After boring a depth of fifteen
hundred feet and securing but little gas,
the hole was abandoned and casing with
drawn. The water continued to flow from
the well, with an estimated out-put of five
thousand barrels per day, and has been
undiminished evei since. Some time
durig last night the ground about
the well, thirty by sixty feet in dimensions,
sunk out of sight, and the immense pit fill
up with water. A fifteen-foot stone em
bankment, protecting the spur track of the
C. A. and C. Railroad, was swallowed up,
forming a channel beneath that is now
spanned alone by rails. The timely dis
covery of the situation prevented a switch
engine and crew from being precipitated
into the huge pit. It is estimated that seven
or eight hundred tons of earth was dis
placed and disappeared at the point. Hun
dreds of people visited and inspected it to
day.
Prehistoric Man.
Toledo, o.,May9.— A remarkable dis
covery was made at South Toledo a day or
two ago by two men who were excavating
on the old battery around near the side
cut. They saw before them the opening
to a large under-ground room, which
on inspection proved to be of an
cient origin. The room or cave is
about twelve by eighteen feet,with a tunnel
leading down to the river. I When the
strange surroundings were searched the
massive skeleton of a man was found,
which in its natural worldly state must
have been fully nine' feet in height. A
copper coin of early date was also found.
The find is undoubtedly the remains of
some ancient underground works of the
Indians. The coin and skeleton are on ex
hibition here.
A Mean Revenge.
Oswego, N. Y., May 10.—Early Saturday
night two masked men entered the house of
F. S. Thrall, in this city, during the ab
sence of Mr. and Mrs. Thrall at church. A
daughter aged fourteen years had just
put a younger sister to bed, and sat
at the piano playing, when the
two men appeared in the room. One
of them with a drawn knife, seized her,
and under penalty of death commanded
silence, but said she would not be harmed
if she made no outcry. He then cut off her
hair and cut her clothing, saying he wanted
to be revenged on her father. They took
some articles of silverware, and left the
house without doing the child further
harm.
Death of a Diving Skeleton.
W tteelino, W. Va., May 10.—Abraham
Crites, of Crites’ Mountain, Braxton Coun
ty, known throughout the State as the
Braxton skeleton, died yesterday. He was
afflicted with a disease that baffled all med
ical skill, and gradually wasted away until
nothing was left but skin and hones. His
thigh could easily be spanned, while his
back bone could be distinctly felt by pass
ing one’s hand over the opposite portion of
his body. He was a little over the average
height, and weighed forty pounds at the
time of his death.
Hon. S. S. Cox’s Uncertainty.
Washington, May 10.—Hon. S. 8. Cox
has not yet announced his determination
with regard to the Turkish Mission. He
has received a telegram from a committee
of his constituents informing him that they
would come to Washington to-day or to
morrow to see him and the President upon
the subject, and he feels that courtesy to
them requires him not to announce his
occlusion in the matter until after their
arrival.
Plymouth’s Epidemic Typhpid Fever
Wilkesbarre, Pa., May 10.—A commit
tee of Philadelphia physicians to-day be
gan an investigation of the epidemic at
Plymouth. Post-mortem examinations
show that the disease is true typhoid fever.
Five deatus there to-dayv Many patients
are at the point of death.
TRENTON, DADE COUNTY, GA., THURSDAY, MAY 14. 1885.
ACRES OF FIRE.
Millions of Feet, of Lumber Destroyed, En
tailing; a Loss of Almost £1,000,000.
Chicago, May B. —At l*i:3o to-day a work
man rushed into the offices of the Chicago
Lumber Company, on the west side of the
river, and announced that there was a fire
in an alley. An alarm was at once sounded,
but ten minutes later, when the first en
gines arrived on the spot, half a million
feet of lumber were in flames. Second and
third alarms were sounded, the entire force
of the Street-cleaning Department was or
dered to the scene, but the inflammable na
ture of the material had placed the flames
beyond control. To make matters worse
a scow which had been moored in the
river took fire, broke her fastenings, was
swept across the stream, and communi
cated the flames to the extensive yards of
G. W. Hinckley & Co., Bigelow Bros. &
Adams and Hastings & Co. Twenty
steamers stationed, one behind the other,
on either bank, poured streams of water
upon the blazing lumber, but the water was
so impregnated with grease and oil from
the factories above that it fed rather than
quenched the flames. The wind was blow
ing a hurricane, the heat was terrible, and
the immense volumes of black smoke
blinded and suffocated the firemen and re
tarded their efforts. The fire con
tinued to spread in a southerly direc
tion until it had covered a district of a
half-moon shape about one-half mile from
one end to the other, and a quarter of a
mile deep at the center. All this territory
was ablaze, and as one pile after another
collapsed and those in the rear took fire,
throwing tongues of flame high in the air,
the scene resembled a vomiting volcano,
with a vast landscape of fire stretched out
beneath. The firemen, headed for a time
by Mayor Harrison, worked with might
and main, but they were driven back yard
by yard, and in many cases 90 rapidly had
the retreat to be made that engine and hose
were left behind. Huge pieces of burning
lumber were carried by the wind a dis
tance of half a mile to Halsted street and
lodged on the roofs of several frame houses)
which were gutted. Scores of families,
some a mile distant, removed their house
hold goods to the prairie, while many buried
their valuables in the ground. A heavy rain
during the most of the afternoon
was of material assistance. The en
tire area burned over |is 670 by
2,300. The aggregate of lumber de
stroyed was forty-five million feet, valued
over $700,000. At 9 to-night the fire was un
der control. Several firemen were pros
trated by heat or injury by falling lumber.
The origin of the fire is a mystery. It is
not thought, however, as first reported,
that it was incendiary. As one hundred
locomotives pass the point where the fire
broke out every day, it is more than likely
that a spark from one of these was the
cause. It is noteworthy that this is the
first occasion upon which the entire Fire
Department has been called ovttsinbe 1874.
Appointments.
Washington, May B.—The President
to-day appointed George V. N. Lothrop,
of Michigan, to be Envoy Extraordinary
and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United
States to Russia; Boyd Winchester, of
Kentucky, to be Minister Resident and
Consul General of the United States to
Switzerland; John E. W. Thompson, of New
York, to be Minister Resident and Consul
General of the United States to Hayti.
Dr. John E. W. Thompson,
who was to-day appointed Min*
Istef Resident and Consul General of the
United States to Hayti, was born in Brook
lyn, N. Y., and is at present a resident of
New York City. Dr. Thompson is a gradu
ate of the Medical Department, of Yale
College. After leaving Yale he pursued
his medical studies in Paris, where he be
came proficient in the French language,
which knowledge will serve him in his new
sphere, as the Haytiens are French-speak
ing people. Dr. Thompson is a
young colored man, and was
highly recommended for the position
by the Faculty of Yale, as well as by many
leading citizens of his native State. ftn
Thompson is said to have been a life-long
Democrat. Mr. Boyd Winchester was re
cently appointed U. S. Consul to Nice. He
declined ou account of the small salary it
being but $1,500 per year. The annual
salary of the new- position is 53,000. Wm.
B. McConnell, of Fargo, Dakota, has been
appointed to be an Associate Justice of
Dakota, vice A. A. Hudson, whose com*
mission has expired.
Winter Wheat.
Washington, D. C., May B.—The De
partment of Agriculture reports that the
injury to the winter wheat crop was great
er than appearance indicated on April l.
The roots were killed in the central belt
even worse than was supposed. In New
York the snow protection was ample ex
cept in spots, and in Michigan no material
injury occurred. But in the Ohio Valley
and in Missouri reports of the condition are
much reduced. In the South a slight im
provement in the prospect has
occurred. The average of condition in the
principal wheat-growing States is as fol
lows: New York, Michigan, 100; Ohio,
59; Kentucky, 46; Indiana, TO; Illinois, 42,
Missouri, 60; Kansas, 62. The general
average is 70, instead of 77 in April, a re
duction of about 9 per cent., reducing the
indicated production of winter wheat to
about 240,000,000 bushels. The condition of
rye is also lower than reported in April;
yet much better than wheat, the average
being 86.
Silkworm Eggs.
Washington, May B.—Prof. C. V. Riley,
the Entomologist of the Agricultural De
partment, has prepared a circular announc
ing that the department will purchase dur
ing the coming summer such quantities of
silkworm egas as may be deemed necessary
for the distribution it is proposed to make
for the season of 1886. and so far as prac
ticable will purchase them from American
producers. Eggs of improved races—pre
ferable of the French or Italian vellow
races—will be bought.
A BLIZZARD.
A Bitter Nor’eaater Swoop* Down Carrying
the Temperature Below the Ice Point.
Milwaukee, Wis., May 7.—Reports re
ceived to-night show that the cold wave of
last night and to-day extended through
out Southern and Central Wisconsin. The
temperature dropped to several degrees
below the freezing point, ice nearly an
inch in thickness forming in many places,
a high wind and frequent gusts of snow
prevailed. Early vegetables have suffered,
but small fruits and crops are not suffi
ciently advanced to be injured to any ex
tent. in Rock County considerable dam
age was done to tobacco.
■ Des. Mouses, la., May 7.—A cold wave
struck lowa last night, and some places
west of here ice formed one-half an inch
thick, and the thermometer was four de
grees below freezing point after sunrise.
Some damage has been done to small fruits,
but field crops do not appear to be hurt
much.
St. Paul, Minn., May 7. —Considerable
snow fell in this section yesterday and last
night. The thermometer fell way below
freezing, and reports have been received of
water-pipes freezing. A cold wind is blow
ing to-day, but there is no rain or snow.
Burlington, lowa, May 7.—The thermo
meter ranged to two degrees below the
freezing point here last night. Ice formed
half an inch thick. Small fruit was badly
damaged, but no field crops were injured.
Omaha, May 7.—Heavy frost here last
night, ice forming one-sixteenth to one
eighth of an inch in thickness. The weath
er is still cold to-night. Some damage to
fruit and vegetables. _
RATTLED TARS.
The Man-of. War Garnet Take* Precaution
to Keep Dynamiters Off.
New York, April 7.—The British man
of-war Garnet, which has been lying close to
the Staten Island shore, suddenly changed
her base this morning and anchored
off the Long Island shore nearly three
quarters of a mile from her origi
nal station. Fishermen who got up
early and shot out into the bay in row
boats, saw the tars yanking in an enor
mous net that was stretched out around
the prow just above the waters’ edge like
a giant triangular fan. It was supported
by the bowsprit and by forty-foOt booms
from the vessel’s ‘ sides. The net was of
tarred rope and festooned with heavy
weights. It was the regulation man-of
war net employed as a protection against
torpedo?*. The tars of the man-of-war ran
it vut a\ nightfall »nd kept it in position
all night long. Consul-General Booker
said that Captain Hand had not, men
tioned that any precautions had been taken
to prevent a repetition oithe Boy ton exploit.
“I wouldn’t like to try that trick over
again myself, though,” the Consul-General
added, Sigbificantly, “I’m afraid It will
be dangerous work. I will do nothing in
reference to the Boyton joke. It is accept
ed as a joke by Captain Hand, and no fur
ther attention paid to it.
Army of the Potomac Re-Union.
Baltimore, Md., May 7,—After some
angry debate the Robert E. Lee Camp, of
Richmond, was invited to seats in the hall
in which the Army of the Potomac was
holding itslre-union injthis Ma
ginnis, of Montana, made a
speech in behalf of the blues, and General
Cooke and Colonels Marshall and Evans, of
the R. E.Lee Camp, responded. Colonel Ma
ginnis spoke of the chivalry shown by both
sides. Hard pounding produced mutual re
spect. Whatever of malice and meanness
there was in the rear, none of it came to
the front. There brave men faced brave
men. The fighting men are to-day the
and l>«u citizens of a reunited
country* The fellows who are at fever
heat now- are the men who remained at
home the fighting was gding on.
General Cooke thanked the men of the blue
for the welcome, and said that the
blue and the gray should hence
forth unite to conquer peace. Colonel
Marshall said: “We surrendered oiir arms
at Appomattox; we now surrender our
hearts.” A hearty cheer greeted this sen
tence. The Colonel then said that there
were some among the blue who retain
their wrath, and some among the grey who
are not reconstructed, bnt they are no
nearly reconstructed that when a recon
striictionist takes snuff they sneeze. In .
conclusion he said that peace hath her vic
tories no less renowned than war.
Republicans Steal a March.
Springfield, 111., May 7. —The returns
from yesterday’s special election in the
Thirty-fourth Legislative District (Coun
ties of Mason, Menard, Cass and Schuyler)
for a successor to Mr. Shaw, Democrat,
recently deceased, shows the election of J,
W. Weaver, of Mason County, Republican.
Thi3 was a surprise to everybody, irre
spective of party. This district has been
strongly Democratic, every county in the
district giving from five hundred to six hun
dred majority for that party. It seems that
the Republicans of the district stole a march
upon their opponents by adopting a plan
of a still hunt, and caught the Democrats
asleep, the latter not being aware that the
Republicans had a candidate in the field at
all until late in the day yesterday. It ap
pears that the Republicans kept shady un
til the afternoon, and then, being too late
for the Democrats to rally their forces for
an effective struggle, the former carried
the forts in every county by storm. The
scheme was shrewdly planned and sharply
executed. The returns received to-night
show that Weaver’s majority is between
125 and 175. His election is conceded by
the Democrats.
The Marines Leaving Panama.
Panama, May B.—Last night the Second
Battalion o f U. S. Marines, numbering four
hundred officers and men, embarked on the
steamer Colon for New York. Two hun
! dred additional Government troops landed
1 at Panama this morning from Buena \><i-
I tura. and more are expected ti-morrow.
ANOTHER AGREEMENT.
Gladstone Announces a New Under
standing with Russi*.
It is to be Hoped England i* Not II ood
winked this Time.
London, May 11.—Earl Granville, For
eign Secretary, ill the House of Lords, in
regard to the boundary question,
said a conference upon the subject had
been held between himself, the Earl of
Kimberly, Secretary of India, and Baron
deStaal, Russiaff Minister at London,which
resulted in an agreement perfectly satis
factory to England, Russia and the Earl of
Dufferin. Lord Hartington continuing, said
that the Government had resolved to make
Wady Haifa the most advanced position as
a permanent defence of Egypt. The British
troops would be withdrawn as soon as
the Nile rises. It is expected that the
rising will occur about the end of May.
The withdrawal of the troops involved the
abandonment of the engagement to ad
vance to Khartoum. The statement was
received with cheers from the Government
benches. Efforts will be made, said the
War Secretary, to establish an Adminis
tration in the Province of Dongola, and to
complete the Nile Railway as a commer
cial enterprise. In the Commons Mr.
Gladstone announced that he was about
to present to ibe House some most im
portant papers in regard to the foreign
policy of England in her relations with Af
ghanistan. Mr. Gladstone then stated that
an arrangement had been effected between
Earl Granville, Foreign Secretary; the
Earl of Kimberly, Secretary for India;
Baron De Staal, the Russian Minister to
England, and M. Lessar, the special
Russian agent in London, in regard to the
Afghan frontier. The arrange
ment was satisfactory to Her
Majesty’s government and to Earl
Dufferin, Viceroy of India. He hoped
the arrangement would be made the sub
ject of a convention with Russia. The
Am per of Afghanistan has agreed to allow
a British agent to reside at Herat. In the
pending arrangement with Russia, Earl
Gran ville maintains the right of England
to hold exclusive relations with the Ameer,
who will communicate with foreign Powers
through the Indian Government.
Mormons Resisting Arrest.
Sa i,T Lake, Utah, May 11.—A letter
dateo' yesterday, received to-night, from
Oxfori 1, Idaho, says: The greatest excite
ment pi-evails at Bear Lake. On the sth
warrants Were placed in the hands ot three
Deputy/Marshals,for thearrest of eight po
lyganpists at and around Paris. Nothing was
heard from the matter here until this morn
ing, ■'tfrhen a telegram announcing the fact
Uaat im\e polygamists were all carralled in
the st Aeting-house at Paris, under the
proty /'\, a 0 f an armed guard of brethren
On tf otside, was received. The Deputy
Who attempted to make the ar
rests were marched out of Paris by an
armffcd mob, who threatened that they
would kill any one who attempted to serve
a warrant. Marshal Fred. Dubois, upon
receipt of this news immediately tele
graphed Superintendent Bylickersdofer,
at Pocetelle, and chartered a Special train
to convey himself and posse to Montpelier,
from which point they will reach Paris
about 5 p. m. to-day (Sunday.)
Americans Assisting Riel.
Sf. Paul, Minn., May 11.— In an inter
view with an Associated Press reporter
last night, John McLane, Of Bismarck,
Dakota, just returned from Winnipeg,
where he bad been delivering horses, teams
and supplies to the Canadian Government,
said: “The Government ha* advices that
men from Chicago, New York and Boston
are with Riel, and that a master mind,
not Riel’s, is directing the movements of
the half-breeds. Old-timers regard General
Middleton's success at : Batouche as abso
lutely necessary to prevent the Indians
fromliprising en masse. Supplies are short,
and about all come from this side of the
line, fforth Dakota is now being drained
of horses, bay, oats, etc. It is believed
there is about fifteen hundred half-breeds
in the field, six thousand Indians ready to
take .the war-path, and about four thousand
troops to oppose them.”
The Trunk Mystery.
Chicago, May 11.—The police to-day
found the expressman who carried the
trunk containing the body of the Italian
Caruso to the depot. He was taken to the
Central Police Station, where he identified
Gilardo, the man arrested in New York,
as one of the persons who engaged him to
carry the trunk.
Icy Seas.
Quebec, €lay 11.—The steamship Sar-
hioh reached here on Saturday,
was in the ice in the Gulf for eight days,
during six of which she was held fast. The
Lake Nipigon reports that she steamed
through one hundred and ten miles of very
thickly packed ice. The ice seems to be
! solidly packed. -
More Buzzards Brought Down.
Lancaster, Pa., May 11.— Mart and
John Buzzard, Matthias Houck, Jacob Mar
shall, Isaac VVimm, Levi and David Peters,
Henderson Marshall and Jacob Armstrong,
the last four colored, all residents of the
Welsh Mountain, were arrested to-day
charged with harboring Abe Buzzard.
Khartoum to he Abandoned.
London, May 11.—The abandonment of
Khartoum to the rebels is announced. The
English will not leave the Soudan, how
ever. This and other foreign complica
tions was the subject of strong. debate in
the Commons.
Children “Burned.
Jefferson City, Mo., May 11.— During
the absence of Henry Stevens and his wife
from their home, three miles south of thi.‘
city, the house burned, and two of theiy
children perished is the flames.
VOL II.—NO. 11.
SOUTHERN NEWS GLEANINGS.
Will Harris and Ed. Lucas, boys, were
drowned while fishing near l’oca River,
near Charleston, W. Va.
A. B. Fleming, an influential and promi
nent citizen of Fairmont, W. Va., died at
the age of eighty years. •,
Thomas Lee and Ed. Stein were cap
tured at Dennison, Tex. They are charged
with the murder of four men at Lee’s
ranch, in Indian Territory.
Nathan Hutchinson, a farmer living
near Parkersburg, W:. Va., confessed that
Ue set fire to and bilrned his barn to get
the insura«js» money, $3,000.
A TORNAiX) passed over Newmarket,
Ala., destroying or damaging many build
ings. No lives lost. j
One year ago Miss Fannie May Wttt, a
literary lady of Atlanta, passing through
Monroe, La., called at the office of. the
Bulletin. After her departure C. H.
Trousdale, the e ditor, felt himself to be
desperately in fove. A proposal of mar
riage was accepte'd by the lady, who be
came his wife at Atlanta, on the 7th, the
second time she ever saw him. — tt*
All the indications in the vicinity of
Franklin, Tenn., are that this ytar will be
produced the largest peach crop for sev
eral years past. Trees are loaded with fruit
as large as the end of a man’s little finger.
Grapes and all kinds of berries are also in
abundance, and it is believed the crops are
too far advanced to be hurt by frost. 1
Governor Bate appointed Nicholas
Williams, of Memphis, and W. A, Mitchell,
of Nashville, as representatives from the
State at large to the Commercial Conven
tion to be held in Atlanta soon.
A negro named Jordan entered the house
of a wealthy farmer named Davis, in Cal
bert County, Ala., and tried to rape his
wife. She screamed and the negro fled.
Davis saw him and fired, the ball going
through his ear. He was tracked by the
blood drops, and is in jail at Allsburgh,
Ala:
J. N. Luster, a prominent and wealthy
Justice of the Peace, committed suicide in
Knox County, Tenn., the other night, go
ing off by the laudanum route.
J. L. Mackey, of Washington, Fa., a
brakeman on the Baltimore and Ohio Road,
fell from the top of a freight train at
Romey’s Point, near Wheeling, W. Va., a
few days ago. Both legs were cut off, and
he died a few hours afterward.
The following charters' for railroads
have been recently applied for to the Sec
retary of State of Alabama: West Florida
& Alabama Railroad Company; Mobile,
Denver & Pacific Railroad; Jacksonville
A- Montgomery Railroad; Pensacola flfc
Memphis Railroad; Anniston & Chatta
nooga Railroad; Selma & Cahaba Valley
Railroad; Mobile & Jackson Railroad; Sel
ma & Tennessee River Coal & Iron Rail
road; Meridian & Brunswick Railroad;
Mobile & Ft. Gaines Railroad; Nashville &
North Alabama Railroad Company; Black
Creek Short Line Railroad Company; Ala
bama & Georgia Railroad Company; Shef
field & Nashville Railroad Company; Shef
field & Lebanon Railroad Company; St.
Louis, Alabama & Atlantic Railroad; Mo
bile, Alabama & Cincinnati Air Line Rail
road; Tuscaloosa Mineral & Great North
ern Railroad Company.
Martin W. Guy, for many years a resi
dent of Hardeman County, Tenn., died is
Memphis, a few weeksisince at the ripe age
of eighty-seven. He leaves a large estate,
the residuum of which, after paying a few
small legacies, goes to Mrs. Dr. Bostwich,
of Saulsbury, and Mrs. McLean, of Mem
phis, daughters of the testator.
At her home near Stewarts Ferry, on
Stone River, twelve miles from Nashville,
Tenn., was celebrated the ninety-third
birthday Mrs. Annie Baker. The ven
erable woman was born in North Carolina
in 179*2. Her husband died in 1866 at a very
old age. At the reunion the following list
of her decendants was made out: Children
11, grandchildren 55, great grandchildren
139, great-greatgrandchildren 12, making
a total of 217. Of these 97 were present.
The following railroads were incorpor
ated since Jast year at the Secretary of
State’s office, Montgomery, Ala.: Chatta
nooga, Cross Plains & Gulf Railroad Com
pany; Talledega & Croosa Railroad; An
niston & Northern Railroad, Anniston &
Cincinnati Railroad; Escambia Railroad;
Chicago, Pensacola & Grand Trunk Rail
road: Birmingham & Mineral Railroad.
The sentence against Dr. R. G. Penn,|who
was to be banged at Hazelhurst, Miss., May
13, for murder, has been commuted to lif«
imprisonment.
In Anson County, N. C., along the Caro
lina Central Railroad, near Wadesboro,
extensive preparations have been made to
quarry and ship to all parts of the country
a fine article of brown stone for building
purposes, which is now gaining much favor
with architects and builders in the city of
New York. The first shipment of this
stone was made from Wilmington a few
days ago. »
Three million four hundred and fifty
five thousand dollars worth of bonds were
issued the other day for the State of Geor
gia.
Nine of the cabin crew of the towboat
W. W. O’Neil were lead-poi~oned at Mem
phis, Tenn., by an improperly cleaned ice
cream freezer.
G. H. Mason suppered at the Maxwell
House, Nashville, Tenn., stole jewelry from
a guest, breakfasted in jail, and dined in
the penitentiary, with a five-year sentence.
Benj. F. Bugeh has been appointed by
the President Postmaster at Charleston,
W. Va., vice W. N.Tafel, commission ex
pired.
The people of Charlestown, W. Va., cel
ebrated the return of the State capital to
that city on the sth. The seat of govern
ment was taken from Charlestown to
Wheeling in 1875.
The Governor of Louisiana has ordered
the execution on June 5 of John Baptiste,
colored, convicted of rape; also at the same
time the execution of Foster Chase, color
ed, fol* the murder of Louise Prevotf