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Twe steamers on the Nile are driving the Crocodiles from that river. Massachusetts boasts of having 60 art schools and 11,000 art students. One haul of a seine near Bridgeport, Ct, yielded 5,000 pounds of bluefish. A new form of iron street paving has been tried in Chicago on Madison street. Philadelphia claims that one-fifth of its population is enrolled in its Sunday schools. A baby was seized as security for rent in a little Pennsylvania town the other day. Shorthand has been introduced in the Reading (Pa) high-schools as an optional study. Forty-two new chemical elements are reported as discovered in the past ten years. The unveiling of the Statue of Liberty Enlightening the World is fixed for Octo ber 28. The present popularity of the chestnut belle ought to give the red-headed girl a chance. The house in which General Hancock was horn, near Lonsdale, Pa., was burned a few days ago. The production of quicksilver in Ca.i* fornia has dropped to the lowest point for many years. A Philadelphia child, on seeing a negro baby for the first asked, “Is that a spoiled child?” Jerky Rusk, who has just been renomi nated for Governor of Wisconsin, used to be a stage driver. It is said that watercress destroys the toxic principle of tobacco without injuring its other properties. A Montague, Mich., boy fell head fore most in a barrel containing eight inches of water and was drowned. In Charleston, S. C., the scene of the re cent earthquake, there live 32,350 colored persons and 27,605 whites. The conscience fund in the Treasury at Washington is approaching the round sum of a quarter of a million of dollars. El Coyote appears to have been the Jesse James of Mexico, and met very much the same fate as his Missouri prototype. An Egyptian mummy on exhibition at the lowa State Fair was seized by a land lord in payment of the ow ner’s hoard bill. A New York policeman has been robbed of a S4OO diamond pin. Preserving the peace must be a paying business in Gotham. Three Fall River, Mass., policemen have been suspended for blowing beans across the street into the Salvation Army bar racks. The new issue of two-dollar silver certifi cates bears a portrait of the late Major- General W. S. Hancock in full dress uni form. Senator Dawes says there are to-day 300,000 Indians who, to all intents and pur poses, are as uncivilized as they were 250 years ago. The Czar of Russia adds an abnormal fear of hydrophobia to all the dangers, real and imaginary, which surround his royal path. The Chinese notion of England is said to he that of “a tribute-bearing nation of men without pigtails, governed by a lady with large feet.” A force of ditchers in Council Bluffs, la., recently exhumed a well-preserved wagon that had been buried since the old Mormon days. Preachers have much to be thankful for. No man will be allowed to ring a chestnut gong in a church, no matter how old the sermon may be. It cost a fashionable lady who was so journing at Saratoga this summer S3OO for doctor’s bills for attendance on a pet dog which was taken sick. The Boston Advertiser thinks that voices in Boston are running too much to tenor and ascribes the fact to the use of the telephone and high collars. A single block in the vicinity of Castle Garden, and which is about 125 by 600 feet, contaius no less than thirty-five saloons, or houses where liquors can be obtained. The greatest balloon in the world has been constructed at San Francisco by a Mr. Van Tassel. It will hold 150,000 cubic feet of gas, and has been made for the purpose of traversing the American continent from ocean to ocean. Harry Wright, the veteran base-ball player, is said to have invented the chest nut gong, and his firm in Philadelphia to ha’emade $25,000 out of the little nuisance in less than two months. Indian belles of Alaska wear a thick coating of oil and soot on their faces when not in full toilet. This is said to preserve the complexion, which, after a thorough scrubbing, looks as fair and smooth as a good article of soft-soap. Sir John Sloan, of England, died in 1837. In accordance with his will, twenty-two rooms in Lincoln Inn Fields have been sealed and unopened since death. They will be examined on November 22, as the will provides. Their contents are a mys tery. The King of Portugal's marriage has finally been settlecfcwith the Princess Hen rietta. younger daughter of the Comte de Flandres. Princess Henrietta will receive an immense dowry. She is the favorite of her father,,'who is among the richest princes in Europe. Geo. L. Perkins, of Norwich, Co*ia-, is undoubtedly the oldest railroad man in active service in the country. He began his ninety-ninth year in August aud is the active financial head of the Norwich ari) Worcester railroad, working as regularly now as be did twenty-five years ago. TRENTON, DADE COUNTY GA., FRIDAY, OCTOBER I. 1886. HERE II IS. New Treaty Between the United States and Canada. The Fisheries Dispute ltetween the Two Countries Settled. CrttUAfiO, Sept. 24.— The Daily Keros this morning prints a special dispatch from Boston, giving what purports to be a sy nopsis of the much-talked-of treaty, said to have been arranged between Canada and the United States. The first clause of the treaty gives American fishermen the liberty to take every kind of fish except shell fish on the coast, as well as ih the bays, harbors and creeks of Canada and to the adjacent islands, without restriction as to distance, It also gives thelh the right to land for the purpose of drying their nets and curing their fish, providing they ar range With the owners of the property they may use aud do not interfere with the British fishermen. The shad and salmon fisheries and all rivers are reserved for British fishermen. Article 2 gives British fishermen the same rights und privileges on the western shores and coasts north of the thirty-sixth parallel. Article 2 admits free of duty into each country the follow ing articles: Grain, flour and breadstuff* of all kinds, fresh cured and smoked meats, fish of all kinds, fresh or salted, Undriea fruits, cotton, wool, seeds and vegetables oil of all kinds, products of fish ana poul try, eggs, hides, tanned skins, furs, skins or tails undressed, stone or marble in crude or finished stale, butter, cheese, tallow, lard, horns, manure, salt, ore of metals of all kinds, coal, pitch, turpentine,ashes, tim b r and lumber of every kind, manufac tured in whole or in part, boots and shoes, agricultural implements or farming tools, firewoods, plants, shrubs or trees, cotton or wooden goods of all kinds, when manufac tured in clothing, fish-oil, broom corn and hark, unmanufactured tobacco, rags, flax, hemp and tow, unmanufactured, dye stuffs of all kinds, gypsum, ground or unground, hewn or unwrought burrs or grindstones, wooden, china or earthernware, books, music, compositions, prints and sCUhiture. rice and raw cotton. Article 5 gives United States citizens the right to navigate and use the river St. Lawrence and canals in Canada the same as British subjects, and allow’s British subjects the same right on Lake Michigan. Article 6extends the scope of the other articles to Newfoundland, so far as applicable to that colony, if the Provincial Parliament and the United States Government pass the necessary laws to carry it into effect. The treaty is to take effect as soon as the laws requiring it shall have been passed by the Imperial Parliament of Great Britain, of the Pro vincial Parliament of Colonies and the Congress of the United States. Such as sent having been given, the treaty is to re main in force twenty years, after which it may be terminated by giving one year’s notice by either party. Wizzard Wigglne. Washington, Kept. 24.—The Washington scientists have combined against Wiggins. They all agree in pronouncing him a crank —a person of no scientific attainments, without a knowledge of the first element ary principles of physics, without standing among scientists and without credit among sensible men. “If ho is entitled to any name besides that of crank, it is astrologer His ways are the ways of the astrologer* of the dark ages. But he has not wit or learning enough to be classed even as an astrologer. Scientist he is not.” Chicago Packing Interests. Chicago, Sept. 24.—'The Illinois Livs Stock Commission to-day decided to kill all the diseased cattle now in the Phoenix and Shufeldt distilleries at Chicago and sell all healthy cattle to the highest bidder. President Sherman, of the Stock Yards, protested in vain that millions would be lost to the packing interests if the report went out that beef from the in infected distilleries was beingsbipped from Chicago. Indian Outrage Ameliorated. Washington, Sept. 24. —The Acting Sec retary of War has received a dispatch from the Indian Agent at the Carlos Agency, stating that the removal of the Warm Spring and Chiricahua Indians is a cause of rejoicing to the Indians left there, who are relieved of their fears of attacks and are afforded a better opportunity for acquiring habits of industry. Oil trains Wrecked and Burned. PiTTKBi'RGH, Sept. 24.—The first section of an oil train on the Allegheny Valley railroad ran into the second section near Logansport, Pa., at six o’clock this morn ing, and both trains were demolished. After the accident the cars took fire, and were entirely consumed. The loss will reach $20,000." No one was injured. —■ Heavy Losses from Hog Cholera. Springfield, 111., Sept. 24.—Late infor mation received at the Agricultural De partment regarding the condition of hogs, is that in Illinois and Indiana cholera pre vails generally. In the former State heavy losses are reported in several counties. In Ohio and Michigan the condition of the animals is fair. Two Men Killed by Cars. Buffalo, N. Y., Sept. 24.—Geo. Webster, aged twenty-five, and Clarence Wyman, aged seventeen, were killed by a train on the Buffalo and Southwestern railroad yesterday, near Eden Center. They were sitting on the ties, and did not see the train coming. —♦ Earthquake Shocks in lowa. Pf.okia, Sept. 24.—A special dispatch from Winfield, la., states that five distinct earthquake shocks were felt at that place last night, at about eleven o'clock. No special damage was done, hut considerable alarm was felt. Whirled to Death. Detroit, Mich., Sept. 24.— Jacob Mar quette, aged twenty-nine, employe of the Peninsular Car Company in this city, was to-day caught in the machinery in the wood-working department and hurled around several times aud then thrown across a beam, dead. His skull was frac tured, limbs broken and his body horribly mutilated. He leaves a family. ThP New Trial for the Anarchists. Chicago, Sept. 24. —Judge Gray decided this morning to hear the argument tor s new trial in the case of the condemned 4a arebists next Friday. STRUCK AT A CROSSING. Two Women Killed hiul a Man Fatally In jured on Their Way Home From Church. Providence, R. 1., Sept. 26.—Alxrat eleven o’clock this morning a shocking ac cident occurred on the New York, Provi dence and Boston railroad, at the village of Poquonhocy, Gonn- Benj. Gardener, a fanner, his wife and the wife of their son Janies, while on their return from meeting in a wagon, were struck by a west-bound express train go ing at the rate of fifty miles an hour. The horse was killed and the wagon broken into kindling-wood. Mr. Gardener was hurled forty feet from the crossing, receiv ing fatal injuries. His wife was killed out right, and Mrs. James Gardener died be fore she could bo removed. The accident happened at a crossing just west of a cul vert, a short distance from Moauok, and as the railroad is hanked up at that place the engineer, Charles Colburn, did not see the party Until Within twenty yards of the crossing. Prehistoric Discovery in Wisconsin. Kaukauna, Wis., Sept. 26.— Workmen engaged in excavating a sewer came upon the ruins of a stone building at a depth of eight feet. The stone first found bore traces of fine workmanship and polish. Further digging developed a quantity of ashes, about twenty-five bushels of which were removed, when another wall was struck. The stones were finely faced, some being blackened as if by fire and smoke. Others must have been sub subjected to great artificial heat, as they had crumbled into lime. The work was found but a foot or two above bed rock, and shows evidences of workmanship that could have been performed only by a highly civilized race. It must have been done centuries ago, as a large elm tree bad grown over the ruins. The discovery has led to the advancement of many theories. Killed While Playing at Being Dead. Boston, Sept. 26. —Willie Lowden, aged eight years, whose parents live in the Hotel Baldwin, on Northampton street, died to day ih great agony from injuries inflicted by older boys w'hile at play. Willie was playing at being dead, and an excavation in tne sidewalk served as a. grave. His companions lowered him into this and placed a heavy block of paving granite upon his stomach. While he was in this situation and unable to help himself they jumped upon the block until Willie’s body was covered with bruises. During the sickness which followed the hoy was etherized and his stomach opened, w hen it was ascertained that recovery was impossible, Child Killed and Partly Devoured by Rats. Shelbtville, 111., Bept. 26.—Wm. Rey nolds, a farmer living five miles north of this place, has just lost his child, six months of age, in a most terrible manner. The infant was placed in its crib in a room occupied by its parents. A lady in an ad joining room heard the chila cry near morning, but supposing the parents were awake said nothing. In the morning Mrs. Reynolds discovered that her babe was dead. Rats, which are very numerous about the premises, had killed the child and literally denuded the bones of the face, and otherwise terribly mutilated the body. j* Women Play Ball for Bradford, Pa., Sept. 26—One of the most novel and interesting ball games of the season was played at Gilmore yesterday afternoon between teams of married and single ladies. The w men took this method to raise money for the church. Six hun dred persons saw the game. The ladies all wore long dresses, and gave a good exhibi tion. Seveu innings were played, the mar ried defeating the single women by a score of to seventeen. The decisions of the lady umpire w 7 ere not seriously dis- Pfijpd- _ Roasted to Death on a Cook-Stove. Shf.lbyville, 111., Bept. 26.—Mrs. An drew Chrisenburg, a resident of Okaw Tow nship, last Wednesday while alone was seized with an epileptic attack, and, falling upon a cook-stove, was literally roasted to death. In extricating herself, when con sciousness returned, large pieces of flesh still adhered to the stove. She died in ter rible agony this morning. A Curious Display of Electricity. Waufaua, Wis., Sept. 26.—An interest ing electrical display was witnessed here during a severe thunderstorm. The elec tric light wires which run along Main street wore so heavily charged with elec tricity that large halls of fire were seen hanging or suspended in the air just below them. Occasionally one would explode, and a number of persons in the vicinity received severe shocks. - - - - A Locomotive B Her Explodes. Baltimore, Bept. 26. The engtne at tached to the Baltimore & Ohio train from New York hurst her boiler about a mile outside the city. The engine was com pletely wrecked and the baggage and smoking-cars telescoped. Fireman Charles Lizer was scalded fatally and Engineer Jeremiah Morningstar was badly injured — Fataly Beaten By Drunken Brutes. Pittsburgh, Bept. 26.— Four drunken men assaulted Jacob Pesch, an inoffensive German, this morning about two o’clock, and heat him so badly that no hopes are entertained of his recovery. Pesctj was sitt ng on the front steps of his residence, when the men came up and attacked him without any cause. The assailants were arrested. ■ The Treaty a Ho x. Washington, Sept. 36,— The fishery treaty telegraphed from Ott iva turns out to be a joke. It is a rebash of the treaty of 1854. The fourth section of tho treaty of that year seems to have be-n taken by the inventor of the tre aty' of „o-day T . - —— Revenge of a Colored Servant. Mexico, Mo., Bept. 26. — Mr. and Mrs. 8. l, Miller and Mr. and Mrs. F. L. G hbs, who live t«n miles southwest of here, be came violently ill yesterday morning from the effects of' poisoned victuals eaten at breakfast. An antidote was administered aud all are now out of danger. The geneial supposition is that a fourteen-year-old col ored girl, wno is employed in the capacity of a nurse to Mrs. Miller, administered the poison. She was punished a few days ago, and has been in bad humor about it. Deady Cholera. Pesth. Bept. 26 —A London merchant died of cholera tferee hours after his arrivaj here. A LAKE OF LAGEIL Tho Amount of Beer Drank in Germany Last Year. A Consul Solves the Problem of Temper ance in Germany and Drunkenness in America. Washington, Sept. 27,—Consul Tanner, of Chemnitz, reports to the Secretary of State that the beer production of Germany in 1885 was 1,000,000,000 gallons, enough “to form a lake more than one mile square and six and a half feet deep, or it would make a running stream as large as some of our rivers.” He says the consumption of in toxicants in Germany per head is four times as great as in the United States, yet there are 1,000 hopeless drunkards in the United States to 10 in Germany. The dif ference arises largely, he says, if not en tirely, front the manner of drinking in vogue in the countries. “This science of drinking,” he writes, “consists simply in the tardiness of drinking. All drinks are taken sip by sip, a half or three-quarters of an hour being consumed for a glass of beer. This is so simple that one is liable to ridicule for laying stress upon it, and yet on this one point hinges, in my opin ion, a question of vast importance to Americans. By this manner of drinking the blood is aroused to greater activity in so gradual a manner that there is no vio lent derangement of the animal economy. By slow drinking the German accomplishes the object of drinking, and gives his animal economy a chance to say ‘hold, enough,’ which only slow drinking will do.” Mr. Tanner says that since his arrival in Ger many he has his “first glass of water to see drunk.” TWO POLLEYS KILLED. How John Got His Gun Out and Defended His Home. Bratnerd, Minn., Sept. 27.—A cabin on a Government claim near this city, was yesterday the scene of a double murder, committed by the claim owner, named John Davenport, whose story, however, is all that is yet known, as he hastened here and surrendered himself to the au thorities. He says lhat two men named Polley, father and son, came to his cabin after church yesterday to drive him from his claim, that a fight ensued, and in it his wife was struck *hy on' 1 of the Pol leys, whereupon he mounted cabin ioft, go'J his rifle, and shot both Polleys dead. Dav enport is in jail here awaiting the officers of the adjoining county, in which the crime was committed. Stamping Out Pleuro-pneumonia. Washington, Sept. 27. —Commissioner Colman, of the Government Bureau of Agriculture, writes his efforts to stamp out pleuro-pneumonia among cattle; “We did not get through Congress the bill we expected to pass on this subject, so we can only second the efforts of the State authorities, and assist in carrying out the State laws. Under existing law we can only stamp out the disease in a State with the permission of the local authorities. Sometimes the Governor of the State will not consent- to Federal interference, so we can only second their efforts.” Another Shock at Charleston. Charleston, S. C., Sept. 27—A slight earthquake shock was felt here at 5:02 this afternoon,accompanied by a loud rumbling sound. The wave moved from north to south. The shock lasted about tw-o seconds. Houses were shaken perceptibly and a num ber of persons rushed into the streets. No damage was done beyond the falling of loose plastering. The same shock was felt at Savannah,, Ga., Summerville, Orange burg, Camden, Graniteville, Hopkins, Kingville and Ten-mile Hill. S gned the Pledge and Fell Dead- New York, Sept. 27.— Matthew Dowd, a well-known citizen of Elizabeth, N. J.. and a member of the Red Ribbon Club, signed the temperance pledge at the rooms of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, at the corner of Third and Fulton streets yes terday afternoon,and immediately dropped dead. Dowd had been drinking rather heavily for some time, and went to the meeting of the Union for the special pur pose of signing the pledge. Smart Alecks to be Prosecuted. Ottawa, Ont., Sspt. 27.— Initiatory steps have been taken looking to the prosecu tion of the parties who sent bogus reports concerning the alleged new fishery treaty. Their offenso is indictable and in conse quence of the popular indignation over the numerous impositions practiced lately it seems that the industry is to be put an end to, for a time at least. Aether Bond Call. Sept. 27.—The acting Sec retary of the Treasury this afternoon issued the 143 d call for the redemption of bonds. This call is for $15,000,000 of the three per cent, loan of 1882, payable on the first day of November, 1886. and interest on said bonds will cease on that day. Brakeman Killed. Detroit, Mich., Sept. 27.— Louis Crowe, a brakeman on the Detroit, Grand Haven and Milwaukee railroad, was knocked from the top of a car by the Congress street bridge. The cars passed over his body, hor ribly mutilating it. Mrs. Parnell to live in Ireland. Liverpool, Sept. 27. —Mrs. Delia Par nell, in an interview to-day, said: “I am not certain that 1 shall ever return to the United States. In view of my advanced years and the state of my health I prefer remaining in Ireland.” She Left the Gao Turned On. Jersey City, N. J., Sept. 27.— At Naeglis’ Hotel, Mrs. Adler, of Denver, Col., was found unconscious in her r<K>m, this morn ing. from the effects of escaping gas, which was left turned on. She died this evening. Two Children Burned to Death. Pittsbvrgh, Pa., Sept. 27.—A lamp ex ploded in the home of Mrs. Flannigan, on Pennsylvania avenue to-night, fatally burning her daughter Sadie, aged eight years, and her eigi-teen-months’-old babe. Dangerous to Europe’s Peace. Constantinople, Sept. 27. Turkov’s agents abroad report that the peace of Eu rope is endangered bv the present temper of the British aud Austrian Cabinet; against Russia- VOL. III.—NO. 32. SOUTHERN NEWS GLEANINGS. Cotton Markets. Galveston. —Cotton firm on the 21st; middling, 9 l-Bc.; low middling, 8 9-16 c.; good ordinary, 7 15-16 c.; net and gross re ceipts, 5,931 bales; sales, 985 bales; stock, 44,811 hales. New Orleans. —Cotton firm; middling, 9};)c.; low middling, 8%c.; good ordinary, Bc.; net receipts, 6,358 bales; gross receipts, 7,642 hales; exports to Great Britain, 1,725 hales; sales, 900 hales; stock, 31,937 bales. Memphis. Cotton steady; middling, 91.4 c .; receipts, 418 bales; shipments, 17 bales; stock, 4,593 bales; sales, 400 bales. Backiligous parties at Knoxville, Tenn., early the other morning tore away the cor ner-stone of the new $30,000 Methodist church, and escaped with the copper boxes containing valuable documents. A vein of gold has been discovered in. paying quantities on the farm of Major Smith, near Newport, Cocee County, Tenn. Scores of people are flocking to the place. John Yeager, aged twenty-six years, a farmer of Braxton County, W.Va., blew in his gun just before going out to hunt, when it was accidentally discharged, the load passing directly through his head, killing him instantly. Frank S. Humphries was banged at Mil ledgeville, Ga., for murder and rape of two ladies—Carrie Raines and Ella Humphries, his kingwomen, on March 4. He confessed his guilt to the sheriff, but made no state ment on the scaffold. Wright Heldon, colored, to be hanged at Edgefield, B. C., on the 24th, for the rob bery aud murder of a wealthy planter named Logrone, in November, 1884, was re prieved till October 8. Advices from parishes in which Louisiana oranges are principally grown report that the crop is a complete failure this year. It usually averages from thirty to fifty mil lion a year, but will nou be one million this year, in consequence of the severe freeze last winter. A terrific boiler explosion occurred at) the Top mill, Wheeling, W. Va,, the other evening, by which the engineer, John Em ery, lost his life, and Foreman Hornbrook and others were injured. Emery was standing directly in front of the boilers when one of the flues burst, knocking him several rods. The escaping steam literally cooked his body. He lived until next night, when he died in intense agony. He was an officer of the First West Virginia Volunteer Infantry, and was just about to take part in the reunion at Wheeling. Mrs. C. A. Rudolph, twenty-three years old, a bride of six weeks, shot herself four times in the breast, dying shortly after, at her home in Baltimore, Md. No cause as signed. George M. Eabler, city marshal of Longview, at Marshall, Tex., was killed in a difficulty with L. L. and L. W. Teague, father and son, of Gregg County. Early the other evening A. D. Owen, a merchant of Cresswell, N. C., while sleep sng up-stairs in his store, heard some one breaking in. He came down and saw two men. He was fired upon, and forty buck shot took effect in his stomach. He died In about an hour. Two printers, with Kansas City cards in their pockets, were struck by a bridge over a creek eight miles from Memphis, Tenn., on the L. and N. road, the other morning, and knocked from the roof of the pssenger car. where they were stealing a ride. Both were killed instantly. Tbeir names were B. F. Owen and Cohen. A 'Special to the New Orleans Times * Democrat from Lula, Miss, says: George Hartley, express agent and postmaster ak Lyons, Miss., who absconded several days ago, turns out to be a defaulter to the Post office Department. All the stamps and cash are missing, and nine registered let ters have been rifled of their contents. New' York’s Chamber of Commerce has sent SBO,OOO to Charleston. 8. C. A few' days ago a dog belonging to John Campbell, of Argenta, Ark., showed symp toms of hydrophobia. Before it was slain it bit another dog and a calf. The latter died within twenty-four hours, showing every sign of madness. White men were chasing the dog, and the animal ran into the yard of Colonel W. J. Duval, and bit his ten-year-old boy on both hands. It also bit a three-year-old girl of Campbell's. The boy was sent to Beebe and a madstone applied to bis wounds. This stone adhered repeatedly, and he was brought home, be lieved to be cured; hut on the 24th he was very low, and it is feared that a genuine case of hydrophobia will develop. Mississippi is justly proud of her female industrial college at Columbus. General “Rooney” Lee was nominated for Congress in the Eighth Virginia district- He is the youngest son of the late General Robert E. Lee. As interesting event took place at the Confederate Soldiers’ Home, Richmond, Va., a few days ago. The Home is just be yond the city limits, in a beautiful grove. Four or five hundred of the leading society people were gathered there under the oaks to see Miss Minnie Davis, daughter of the Ex-President of the Confederacy, invested with the badge of the membership of R. E. Lee Camp, of which she has recently been made an honorary member. Miss Davis wa* born in Richmond in sound of the guns that thundered against the Capitol of the Confederate States, and on this account she has been called the “Daughter of the Confederacy.” The exercises were simple and informal. General Charles J. Ander son, of the Volunteer State Infantry, and Major Thomas H. brandeu, of Confederate artillery fame, escorted Miss Davis to the Home. Captain John Maxweli, on behalf of the R. E Lee Camp, presented her the badge. She accepted it gracefully, making a response of a few wordsein an almost in audible tone of voice. After visiting the various cottages and shanking hands with the old veterans Miss Davis returned to the city. Robert Edaxson, of Smyrna, Tenn., drove to c’.ureh and hitched his horse out side When ha came out the horse had disappeared. The land uyder bad c-ftved lq ten feet deep.
