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Queen & Crescent Route.
ALABAMA GREAT SOUTHERN R. R.
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Cincinnati, Chicago, East, Lexington, North West, South East New Orleans, Vicks-,
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TIME TABLE IN EFFECT DECEMBER 31st, 1886.
Flag Stations are marked thus +
trains south bound—read down. trains north bound—read up.
Mo- 1- No- 5. STATIONS. i No. 2. No. C.f
J£j atn 810 pm Lv Cincinnati Ar 042 pm 040 am
10 —am 11 20 pm Lv Lexington Ar' 4 15pm 400 am
U Bnl pm !' v Juncliou City Ar 242 pm 240 am
6dopm 9 loam.Lv Chattanooga Ar, 750 am! 555 pm
660 pm 930 am iLv Wauhaichie Lv 7SO am 535 pm
U P»“ aralLr Morganville Lv +7 05 am +5 15 pm
11 tZ p,u J? J 4. Hra !' v Trenton Lv +6 45 am 455 pin
Vi- pm+ 03 ~ n,n Lv Itisingr Fawn Lv 631 am 437 pm
*2? pm 10 44 nm Lv Sulphur Springs... ... Lv 620 am 425 pm
t 822 pm 11 17 pup Lv Valley Head Lv +550 am 355 pm
8 o 5 pm 11 55 pm Lv Fort Payne Lv +5 14 am 3 is pm
t 939 pm 1„ 48 pm Lv Collingsvillo Lv, 425 anil 230 pm
10 31pm 215 pm Lv Attalia Lv +3 32 am 125 pm
2 35 pm Lv S.eclo Lv ,12 50 pin
2 58 pm Lv Whitney Lv 12 28 pm
11 59 pm 337 pm Lv Springville Lv 215am11 48 am
tO am 422 pm Lv Trus.sville Lv 133 am 1102 am
1 4Qam| 535 pm Lv Birmingham Lv 12 50 am 10 15 am
. +6 03 pm Lv Wheeling. Lv +9 37 ain
t 6 12 pm Lv Jonesboro Lv, i 930 am
++2 46 am 659 pm Lv Woodstock Lv+U32 pm 851 aiu
+7 06pm|Lv Bibbville Lv! +8 45 am
7 15pmLv Vance Lv ! 837 am
7 35 pm Lv Coaling Lv 8 17 am
7 54 pm Lv Cottondale Lv 1047 pm 806 am
347 am 8 15pm!Lv Tuscaloosa Lvj 10 30 pm 748 am
+8 58 pm Lv Carthage Lvl +7 12 am
■ |9 20 pm Lv Akrjn Lv +9 30 pin 645 am
+5 08 nmj 952 pm Lv ECTAW I,vj 911 pm 620 am
5 32&1U; 10 15 pm Lv Boligee Lvl 849 pm 532 am
10 25 pin Lv Miller Lvj 840 pm
547 am 10 32 pin Lv Epes Lv 835 pin 514 am
tl 05 ami 10 53 pin Lv Livingston Lv 816 pm, 453 am
625 am; 11 15 pm Lv York Lv 755 pm 430 am
■+6 40 am 11 33 pm Lv Cuba Lv +7 38 pm 4 14 ain
T 702 am 11 55 pm Lv Toomsuba Lv +7 15 pm 351 am
740 am 12 30 am Ar Meridian Lv 640 pm 315 am
643 am, 1 19am|Ar Enterprise Lv 520 pin; 218 am
300 pm 735 am Ar New Orleans Lv lO4U am 800 am
12 55 am Lv Meridian Ar 2 35 am
5 05 am Ar Jackson Lv 10 05 pm
7 30 am Ar Vicksburg Lv 7 30 pm
2 40 pm Ar Monroe Lv 12 20 pm
6 45 pm Ar Shreveport I.v 8 15 am
7 10 pin Ar Texas and Pacific Junction Lvl 7 50 am
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TRENTON, DADE COUNTY GA,, FRIDAY, APRIL 15, 1887.
CURRENT TOPICS.
New York city has 30,000 landlords, who
collect $40,000,000 rent.
Nebraska passed a law, recently, making
slander a penal offense.
Franklin’s face will illuminate the new
one cent stamped envelope.
One Lima (O.) barber advertises to
shave six men in ten minutes.
A New York woman has sent cards to
friends announcing her divorce.
Dr. McCosh, of Princeton College, is op
posed to secret college societies.
Under the new law there arc to be no
more public hangings in Missouri.
There arc ten thousand women in Cin
cinnati who earn their own living.
There are 490,000 unmarried men in
Paris against 380,000 married men.
Wales (the country) has positively re
fused to join in the Victoria jubilee.
No city in the United States has relative
ly so large a foreign population as Chi
cago.
The entire total of the Hebrew race on.
the surface of the globe is estimated at
6,300,000.
Those who formerly held free passes are
now spoken of in railroad circles as ex
dcad heads.
First the President married, then Sec
retary Lamar, and now it is said to be Sec
retary Bayard.
Herr Krupp is going to start a first-class
daily newspaper at Essen for the use of his
20,000 workmen.
A disease embracing many symptoms of
pneumonia and plurisy has become preva
lent in New Jersey.
Seventeen thousand dollars is what it
cost the city of New York to send threa
boodle aldermen to Sing Sing.
Four new postofHees have just been es
tablished with the euphonious names of
Piggs, Dump, Pulse and Malaria.
General Schenck is living quietly in
Washington with his daughters, who are
intelligent and entertaining ladies.
Robert T. Lincoln offers the Springfield
homestead to the State of Illinois on con
dition that it be preserved with care.
The New Jersey Senate has passed a bill
providing for the free transportation of
legislators on all railroads in the-State.
George M. Pullman, the millionaire
sleeping-car Knight, commenced his busi
ness career in Chicago, as a house-raiser.
The Congress of Churches and Christians
recently in session at Chicago, condemned
free-masonry and all other secret soci
eties.
Dr. Henrt D. Cogswell., the San Fran
cisco millionaire, has given $1,000,000 to
found a trade school for boys and girls in
that city.
FrvE hundred dollars was paid fora let
ter in Philadelphia the other day to pre
vent it from being read in a “fashionable”
divorce case.
The toilets of 120 ladies who formed tho
cortege at a recent carnival ball in Vienna
were valued at $255,000, and the diamonds
at $1,500,000.
No Dakota Indian will wear an eagle
feather unless entitled to it, as they be
lieve it will fly away from their heads if
worn unlawfully.
Fifteen cows huddled in a Northern Pa
cific railroad cut to keep from freezing to
death, and a freight train came through
and killed all of them.
M. L.4coMßE,an ingenious Frenchman,has
succeeded in taking long-distance photo
graphs by fixing a telescope in fromt of the
objective of the camera.
Peace between Germany and the Vati
can seems to be assured. Pope Leo has
expressed his satisfaction with the atti
tude of Prince Bismarck.
The New York Herald is urging that the
Territory of Alaska be made a penal colony
to which all the States of the Union can
send their contributions.
A work by Meissonier, 10% by 14%, illus
trating a horse soldier on outpost duty, is
the costliest water color in tho world, be
ing valued at over $8,700.
Mrs. Frederica Echarte, of East Thir
ty-second street, New- York, imagines her
self the wife of the Creator, and will not
be convinced to the contrary.
There is a rich man in the Black Hills,
says the Bismarck Timex, who dates the
beginning of his fortune from the day
when he sold his wife for $4,000.
The will of a married woman just pro
bated in Kingston, N. Y., is peculiar in
that it gives all her property to her hus
band for life, or as long as he “remains
unmarried.”
Enough crimes are being laid at the door
of Mr. Kissane alias Titus alias Hogers to
give rise to the suspicion that he is being
made a scapegoat for the sins of all tho
other California “49ers.”
A man near Greeley, Col., had thirty
acres of land which he could neither sell
nor mortgage, and in despair he went out
and struck a coal vein thirteen feet thick
and sold the land for $58,000.
The Washington Capital says “the state
ment that the four Inter-State Commerce
Commissioners who came to Washington
last week traveled on free passes is libel
ous, and, we hope, untrue.”
The crank who exploded a bomb in the
Grand Opera-house at San Francisco has
explained that he wanted to end his life
while Patti was singing, so that he could
be her page in the spirit land.
SnoßTi.r after her marriage the Sultan
of Turkey generously offered Mrs. Cleve
land the decoration of the Order of the
Caliphat, but she declined it, and the inci
dent has just been made public.
New York proposes to spend $5,000,000
in the improvement of its streets, $1,000,-
000 to be spent each year until the work of
furnishing the city with entirely new pav
ing of the best material is finished.
One of the most eccentric rich men in
New York city is the venerable Benjamin
Richardson. He is said to be worth $3,000,-
000 or more, but lives in a small tumble
down house in Harlem. He holds a mort
gage for $50,000 against, one of the most
prominent insurance companies in the
city. Mr. Richardson owns the historio
Washington coach, which he lets out when
ever there is a demand for this revoluti »u
--ary relic.
A ROBBER BAND.
Arrest of Fifty-Six Pan-Handle
Railroad Employes,
t liar)fe<l with Systematic Stealing front
Freight Trains Two Hunilrctl Train
Men in a Cmispiracy to Bob the Coin
|tany.
Pittsburgh, Pa., April 11. —The develop
ment to-day of the fact that the trainmen of
the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and St. Louis
Railroad Company had been systematically
robbing freight trains for two years, and
the subsequent arrest of fifty-six em
pfciyes, caused a great sensation in this
city and at all points along the road.
Many of the men implicated have been
known and recognized as respectable,
hard-working citizens, and it is estimated
that by the time all the disclosures
have • been made it will have
been known that other persons,
merchants of supposed good reputation
and respectability, were concerned in the
robberies, having bought and sold stolen
freight, the booty of a gang of two hun
dred train employes, and others who
were in the conspiracy to rob the com
pany's cars in transit. The nefarious
work was first brought to the notice of the
railroad authorities through investigations
made at the time of the two big freight
robberies just out side the city recently, and
since then city officers, officers of the rail
road company and Gilkinson’s Detective
Agency have been constantly employed
working up the case. All plans were per
fected a week ago, and last night was
fixed for the arrests. Shortly after two
o’clock this morning fifty officers made a
raid upon all the railroad boarding-houses,
and at the same time another squad rc
paired to the Second avenue station, where
they surrounded the trains as they ar
rived in the city, arresting the crews. .In
this way fifty-six of the robbers were se
cured and lodged in jail to await develop
-100018. The officials claim that enough
evidence has been secured to prove that
many robberies along the Pan - handle
railroad in which cars were ransacked
»t various points and valuable goods
stolen was the work of men in charge
of the trains. Out of some eighty freight
crews on the Pittsburgh Division of the
Pan-handle road, seventy-five of them
were engaged in the wholesale and syste
matic robbery. The extent of the theft is
not known at this time- Merchants as far
west as Kansas City, and cities through
out the South, are filing bills for loss of
g aids on the Pan-handle road. When these
bills have all been received an estimate of
tV> losses can .be formed. If may reach
$300,009, hut will probably not exceed $200,-
000.
CRIED TOO LATE.
Nebraska Train Wrecker Convii-teil of Mur
der in the First Degree.
Nebraska City. April 11.—On Jan
uary 11 the on tho
Missouri Paeiim was thrownTrom the
track some ten miles from this city. The
engineer, James Dewitt, was instantly
killed, a number were injured, and prop
erty was destroyed to the extent of at
le*&t SSO,(MX). James Bell and David Hoff
man were arrested for the crime, and in
dicted for murder iu the first degree.
Hoffman was plaeed on trial as the prin
cipal Wednesday last. Bell- was placed
on the sms%l, when he weakened and testi
fied that Hoffman did the job, while he sat
ntlr, too drunk to take part. The case
wl given to the jury Saturday evening.
Ti*y returned in twenty minutes with
a verdict of murder in the first degree.
When the verdict was read, the defendant
broke down, completely, and cried like a
child.
The Hyde Park Demonstration.
London, April 11.—The Hyde Park dem
onstration in this city to-day to protest
against coercion in Ireland was the great
est demonstration ever known. There
were, it is estimated, 150,000 people pres
ent. At least a tenth of London’!)
five million people were at one point
or another, witnessing the pro
cession or taking part a 3 spectators or
auditors. A great ovation was given Mrs.
Gladstone and Mr. Herbert Gladstone, who
sat on the balcony of Right Honorable Ed
ward Majoribank’s house. No. 134 Picadil
ly. corner of Park Lane. For over two
hours crowds remained in front of tho
house cheering for the Grand Old Man and
the “Grand Old Woman.”
China’s Precious Possession.
London, April 11.—It seems an extra
ordinary thing to state that at the present
moment the Chinese government possesses
the fastest torpedo boat in the world. This
little vessel, which has just been complet
ed for theui by Yarrow <&Co., has attained
tho speed of twenty-four knots an hour.
Why the English Admiralty do not pos
sess any thing that can approach this
speed, it is difficult to say. English ves
sels, whether large or small, have never
seemed to attain their estimated speed.
A Remarkable Coincidence.
Peoria, 111., April 11.—A case of re
markable coincidence has just been
brought to light. Some time ago Pat Con
uore was killed on a railroad here, and it
now transpires that his brother was killed
in Pennsylvania in the same way, day and
hour.
Church Destroyed by Lightning.
Stillwater, Minn., April 11.— Ascension
(Episcopal) Church was struck by light
ning at two o'clock this morning. Tho
building was totally destroyed, together
with a new pipe organ, which cost $2,000.
The church was built iu 1873 for llo.ouo,
and was repaired last summer at a large
expense. Insurance on the church, $0,000;
on the organ, $1,750.
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Complaints About Wheat.
Newark, 0.. April It.—Farmers from all
the surrounding townships are complain
ing of the serious injury to wheat during
the past month.
PRAIRIE FIRES.
Dreadful loss of Life and Property in
Kansas.
Atchison, Kas., April 12.—N0 less than
fifteen persons have been burned to death
by the prairie tires which, starting near
Nicodemus, Graham County, have swept
northwest, on an air line into Norton
County, destroying every thing in a path
that in places is from two and a half
to seven miles wide—a great roaring
sea of flaine rolling in tremendous
sheets under the impetus of tile high
wind, which prevailed all day Sat
urday and night. Starting on the south
fork of the Solomon river in Graham
County, the fire swept north to the north
fork, which it crossed at Edmond, a sta
tion on the Central Branch railroad in
Norton County, aud at lastaoeouuts it was
still sweeping towards the northwest, di
agonally across Norton County in the di
rection of Decatur, the adjoining- county
on the west, carrying destruction aud
death in its path. Thousands of head of
stock of ail kinds have been burned, and
thousands of tons of bay, corn and wheat,
and from 100 to 175 houses and barns have
been destroyed. The people living along
the line of the lire have been left homeless
and destitute.
LICKED UP BY JFLAMES.
Dire Disaster In the Oldest Town In
America.
St. Augustine, Fla., April 12.—A firo
started at 3;30 this morning destroyed the
St. Augustine hotel, the cathedral and two
blocks of stores and residences. At Ba. m.
the tire was extinguished. One female
employe is reported burned to death. No
other casualties are recorded. The total
loss will reach about 5200,000. The origin
of the fire is not yet known. The burned
cathedral was built in 1793, and was a
large and spleudid edifice of the Moorish
style of architecture. The town belonged
to England at the time the cathedral was
built, but was ceded to the United States
in 1819. AUof the seventy-six guests at
the St Augustine got out in safety.
Imitating Bald Knobbers.
, Fulton, Mo., April 12.—The spirit of the
Bald Knobbers that has infested South
east Missouri for some months past, para
lyzing the interests and growth of that
section of the State, has very recently
manifested itself in Calloway County. A
defenseless woman and innocent children
have been shot at and pursued by un
known men with shotguns. A man who
bears a fair reputation lias been taken
out, and, with revolvers Hashing in his
face, been compellbff to submit to a terri
ble flogging.
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Smallpox Spreading at Chicago.
Chicago, April 11.—The office of the City
Health Department was besieged to-day
by people desiring to be vaccinated. This
morning several families from the neigh
borhood in which the stricken Italian Cas
selli lodged, informed the officials of the
Health Department that the plague had
already commenced to spread, and that
several families in the district were down
with the infection.
Pinkerion's Barred Out.
Hartford. Ct., April 12.—The State Sen
ate yesterday, in concurrence with the
House, passed the bill described as the
Prohibition of Pinkerton Detectives. It
forbids tho appointment as special police
within the State of any persons not resi
dents of the State as constables, police
men, etc.
♦
Using the Old Tariff.
Washington, April 12. —The Inter-State
Commerce Commission has made the same
concession to the Mobile and Ohio railroad
as it made to the Louisville and Nashville
in respect to the long aud short haul in
connection with waterway competition,,
aud the road is now using its old tariff.
Harrison Monument Commission.
Columbus, 0., April 12.— Governor For
akcr this morning appointed Edward F.
Noyes, W. S. Grocsbeck, John Simpkin
soii, Andrew Hickenlooper, T. A. O’Con
nor, A. E. Jones and Leopold Burkhardt
as commissioners for the erection of a
monument to General Harrison.
High License in Pennsylvania.
Harrisburg, Pa., April 12. —The House
this afternoon passed the Brooks High Li
cense bill without amendment. It pro
vides that thelicense in cities of the first,
second d class shall be $509, in all
other cities S3OO, boroughs $l5O, aud in
township:, .75.
Horrible Fate of Five Children.
Montgomery, Ala., April 12.—A negro
living near Greenville, Ala., went off at
night, leaving five children, the eldest
eleven years of age, locked up in a house.
While lie was absent the house caught fire
and the children were all burned to death.
Murderer Hanged.
Memphis, Tenn., April 12.—Kelsey Wil
son, colored, was hanged to-day at noon at
Friars’ Point. Coahoma County, fer
the murder of King Wiley, anothor nogro,
committee last July.
Natural Gas at Kansas City.
Kansas Citt, Mo., April 12.—Natural
gas has been struck at a depth of 128
feet in Rosedale, a suburb of this city.
The volume is sufficient for practicable
purposes.
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Indiana State House to Be Finished.
Indianapolis, Ind., April 12.—W. H.
Howard, the contractor on the new State
House, has determined to go on with his
contract and complete the building, not
withstanding the failure of the Legisla
ture to make the necessary appropria
tions.
Green Smith Sued for Damages.
Indianapolis, Ind., April 12. Lieuten
ant Governor Robertson to-day began suit
against Greeu Smith to recover $3,000 dam
ages. When Smith began his injunction
suit against Robertson he gave bond to pay
all damages. Robertson is now suing on
that bond.
VOL. IV.—NO. 8.
ROUTING REED BIRDS.
A Plan to Stop Their Depredations in th*
Carolina Rice Fields.
Washington, April 10.—The rice plan
ters in South Carolina have been troubled
greatly for many seasons by the depreda*
tions of the rice bird, commonly known as
the reed bird to some localities, and called
bobolinks further north. They have
had to employ a large force of men
and boys to shoot the little pests,
and this expense became so great that
they finally appealed to the Agricultural
Bureau for help or a suggestion for some
way of protecting their crops. One plan
ter wrote that he had expended $4,000 a
year for.gunners, and the purchase of pow
der and shot. The Agricultural Bureau
sent a representative of the ornithological
department to investigate the subject,
and he has made a report, iu which he
suggests a novel plan for protecting the
rice fields. He discovered that the ap
pearance of a hawk was sufficient to scare
the rice birds off. and he tried the experi
ment of putting stuffed hawks, with wings
extended, on high poles, and on various
other devices which kept them in motion.
The birds paid no attention to the imita
tion hawks, but made themselves scarce
when a real one soared over them. The
plan recommended by the Bureau agent
is to secure a number of young hawks,
and train them to the business of killing or
frightening the rice birds. A German who
has had experience in training falcons has
been found, who claims he can train any
number of hawks that may be needed, and
he will be directed to go to work at onae,
so as to have his hunters ready for the 21st
of August next, which is the date on which
the rice birds nearly always make their’
appearance.
WHOLESALE ROBBERIES.
Seventy-Five Men Implicated in Stealing
From Railroad Cars Arrests Being
Made—*3oo,ooo Taken.
Pittsburgh, April 11.—There have been
numerous robberies on the (Pan-Handle)
Pittsburgh, Cincinnati aud St. Louis rail
road for several months. It is alleged the
robberies have been committed by em
ployes, conductors, brakemen and others,
about seventy-five in number. This morning
a large number of employes were brought
to this city. At midnight all of the Pitts
burgh police force were started out to
make arrests. A number of arrests have
been made. Every one is very close
mouthed, and not much can be learned.
Colonel Norman L. Smith, who has the
ease iu charge for the railroad company,
ways the value of the goods stolen
is over $300,000 and that several
hundred men are implicated. The
majority of these were ordered to the
city last night, and then the order to ar
rest them was given. The other suspects
were being arrested by special officers
wherever they happened to be. The opera
tions of the robbers, it is said, covered
three States, and in all of these arrests
were being made tlii3 morning. It is
said the robberies have been going on for
years.
The Rahway Mystery.
Rahway, N. J., April 10. —The body of the
murdered girl, found near here March 26,
and her clothing were exhibited to-day.
About two thousand persons visited tho
morgue. The girl’s face was surrounded
with cut-flowers. The appearance of
the lace has been greatly improved.
A numoer of persons claimed that
they recognized the body, but upon
investigation it was found that their state
ments did,not agree with the facts known
by the authorities. District Attorney
Wilson has officially notified Undertaker
Ryno that the body must not be buried un
til he gives an order to that effect. The
funeral will be held to-morrow, and the
body will be placed in a receiving vault.
Attempt on the Czar's Life.
London, April 11.—The Morning Post’*
Vienna correspondent telegraphs that
a report is current at the Austrian Capi
tal that on Wednesday last another un
successful attempt was made to assassi
nate the Czar, and that all the conspira
tors except two, a man and a woman,
both of whom had bombs con
cealed about them, escaped arrest. Vienna
and Berlin telegrams confirm the forego
ing, and state that the culprit stood upon
tho steps of an uninhabited house, 7%). 14,
and carried bombs under a plaid shawl.
It is supposed that the man was an accom
plice of the other two and did not know
tjiat the latter had been arrested.
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A Terrible Famity Fight.
Pittsburgh, April M>.—A Commercial
Gazette Meadville, Pa., special says: Dur
ing a family quarrel last night, Mrs. John
Buchholtz seized a lighted lamp and hurl
ed at her husband's head. The burning
missile exploded and in an instant both hus
band and wife were enveloped in flames.
Buchholtz dragged his wife from the burn
ing building, but she was so badly injured
that death relieved her sufferings at an
early hour this morr.inf. Buchholtz was
also terribly burned, and is now dying.
Lighted Up by a Meteor.
Marion, 0., April 10.—An enormous me
teor passed over Marion at twenty minutes
past eight o’clock this evening from west
to east, illuminating the streets with a
bright blue light sufficient to make print
readable. It was apparently the size of a
dessert plate, and was visible fully a min
ute.
A Remarkable Walnut Tree.
Parkersburg, W. Va., April 10.— On the
farm of J. P. Jenkins, in Lewis County,
is a large walnut tree which is four feet in
diameter. About four or five feet above
ground the tree is divided into two large
branches which annually produce loads of
walnuts, one branch producing a fine crop
of black walnuts, while the other side or
branch produces a heavy crop ot butter
nuts or white walnuts. The bark of the
tree from the root to the top has the ap
pearance of a perfect commingling of both
varieties. The tree is probably over ona
hundred years old.