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755 pin 10 44 am Lv Sulphur Springs Lvj 620 am 425 pm
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+8 55 pm 11 55 pm Lv Fort Payne Lv +5 14 am 318 pm
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12 40 am 422 pin; Lv .Trnssville Lv 133am11 02 am
140 am 535 pmjLv Birmingham Lv 12 50 am 10 16 am
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+0 12pm|Lv Jonesboro Lv 9 30 am
t 246 am 659 pmj Lv Woodstock ! Lv +ll 32 pm 851 am
+7 06 pm! Lv Bibbville Lv +8 45 am
7 15 pmjLv Vance Lv 837 am
7 35 pmjLv Coaling Lv 8 17 am
7 54 pm Lv Cottondale Lv 10 47 pm 806 am
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TRENTON, DADE COUNTY GA., FRIDAY, MAY 13, 1887.
CURRENT TOPICS.
Ohio has less forest acreage than Ger
many.
The first week of April was warmer
than thA last,
A Chinaman took the prize for English
composition at Yale.
Twknty States of the Union now have
arbor days. New Jersey had two of them.
Buffalo has a citizen who staggers un
der the name of “Carbolic C. Maginnis.”
Cutting to Schnaebcls—They will for
get all about you in two weeks; look at
Me.
A lady horticulturist of Sandford, Fla.,
has over 100 varieties of roses in her gar
den.
Alma Taiiema, the artist, has a staircase
of solid brass in his new residence in Lon
don.
Mr. D. L. Moody proposes to erect a
training-school in Chicago for women city
missionaries.
At Stockton, Ks., the candidates for
office being all women the men refused to
go to the polls.
King Milan, of Servia, has taken to
writing plays and having them enacted on
the public stage.
Do stove-pipe hats promote baldness? is
a question now under discussion in the
medical journals.
Bismarck received on his birthday, re
cently, a barrel of beer from nearly every
brewer in Germany.
It is officially stated that Germany has
no intention of proclaiming a state of
sioge in Alsace-Lorraine.
The season of the year the mathemati
cian likes best is sum-mer; the milkman,
spring, and the gambler, win-ter.
A new wire nail-making machine has
been perfected which is capable of turn
ing out 86,000 wire nails per hour.
The price of crude oil in the Lima
(0.) fields has been reduced to twenty
seven and a half cents per barrel.
The Jews are rapidly acquiring land in
Russia. They do not cultivate it them
selves, but sublet at a great profit.
Roswell P. Flower has made about
81,000,000 during the past year in coal and
iron lands. He has gone to Europe to rest.*
As things look now, it will be difficult
for “Buffalo Bill” to escape being knighted
at least before he comes back to this
country.
Commissioner of Agriculture Coleman
denies having said that oleomargarine was
frequently made of the carcases of dogs,
horses or swine.
A new cupola seventy inches in diame
ter is to be built at Milwaukee, and bridge
building wo-ks are to be at once erected
in the same city.
A woman living in tho vioimtftjrtft Jasper,'
Fla.ft+Tthe mother of twenty-six children,
of whom twenty-four have grown to man
hood and womanhood.
The number of slaves in Brazil has been
reduced from 1,530,000 in 1873 to 700,000,
none of whom are under sixteen years or
over sixty years of age.
The rails of the sixteen street car com
panies in New York would reach to Jack
sonville, Fla., from the former city, it is
stated, if laid in continuous line.
It is a striking fact that all of those who
have jumped from the Brooklyn Bridge
Odium,the only professional athlete among
them, was the one to lose his life.
The supreme court of Kansas has decid
ed that when a woman marries she need
not take her husband’s name unless she
chooses. She usually chooses to, how
ever.
An ivy-twined retreat of English spar
rows in the yard of Thomas Cox,of Albany,
Ga., yielded two bushels of nests and 164
eggs, when he concluded to make a raid
upon it.
It is stated that there are thirty insects
which prey on garden vegetables, fifty on
grape vines, seventy-five on apple trees,
on small grain fifty, and shade trees one
hundred.
English farmers are resorting to the
use of barbed wire fences to protect their
premises from the depredations of hunt
ers, who trample down the crops and de
stroy fences.
Just so long as the pitcher of a baseball
club gets #3,000 a year, and a preacher a
scant #6OO, just so long will there be good
pitching and poor preaching, says the
Wntem Plowman.
Tree-planting is alluded to by some of
the young writers npwadays as a modern
idea, but there was more done in this di
rection fifty years ago in New England
than there is now.
A French locomotive has just been
made with driving wheels eight and one
fourth feet in diameter. The calculation
is that a speed of seventy-eight miles an
hour can be averaged.
lodine, hitherto known in nature only in
combination with other elements, is now
found in a free state in the water of Wood
hall Spa, near Lincoln in England. The
water is colored a decided brown by the
iodine.
The consolidation of all the gas compan
ies in Chicago and those of the adjacent
towns has finally been effected and the
manufacture of gas will now be concen
trated in one corporation with a capital of
#35,000,000.
After all the reports that Osman Pigna,
the military head of the Soudanese rebel
lion, was dead, comes the report that he is
captured. Apparently the supply of Os
man Dignas, like that of El Mahdis, is in
exhaustible.
It is asserted at St. Louis that Jay
Gould is about to begin the building of a
model industrial village just outside of
that city, the nucleus of which is to be the
shops of the Missouri Pacific and Iror
Mountain roads.
It is now the rule, according to “medi
cal authority,” not to abstain from drink
ing water, but to take three and a half
pints daily ;and large people must take four
and a half pints. The next wave may be
something greater.
According to M. Lagneau. a well-known
physician, after twenty-two years of ag«
married men live longer than bachelors
Among every 1,060 bachelors there are
thirty-eizht criminals; »mong married
men, eighteen per 1,000.
THINK IT NO SIN.
Officeholders Who Pilfer from
Uncle Sam.
Their Children Loaded With School Sup
plies, Etc.
Washington, May 9.—The action of tho
Public Printer in causing an inspection of
the baskets of the employes of the printing
office before leaving, while apparently pret
ty rough on them, is undoubtedly justifi
able. The fact is—it is not a pleasant thing
to say, but it is a fact—the fact is, there is
too much petty pilfering of this kind in all
the departments. Nobody who has been
here any time and noted the way things go
on can doubt it. It is something on the
principle, probably, on which the slaves
justified their stealing in ante bellum
times, “Massa’s nigger, Massa’s bacon.”
These pilferings arc very small, so small
that probably the pilferers don’t think
them worth thinking of. But they count
up. A pad of note paper (scratch book)
to-day, a lead pencil to-morrow, a dozen
rubber bands the next day, some ink and
pens and blotters and so on. It don't seem
much, it is true, and yet if every one of the
15,000 Government employes in Washing
ton gets away with the value of a single
penny a day belonging to the Govern
ment it amounts to #l5O a day or almost a
thousand dollars a week. Not only do the
employes make free with Uncle Sam’s
good property—and it is always the best—
for their own use, but for the use of their
friends and families. You often see the
children of Government employes playing
with balls composed entirely of rubber
bands. These bands are made of the very
best rubber, and cost say fifty cents a box,
and it takes a couple of boxes to make a
ball. Pads, or scratch-books for office and
school use, go like water. The children at
school imbibe the thought that it is all right
to steal from the Government, for they find
the sons and daughters of Government em
ployes supplied with pads and other con
veniences for school use from “the office.”
An artless little miss of ten was’complain
ing the other day of the smallness of the
“spelling pad” supply at her desk. “Why,
there’s Bessie Blank,” she said; “she has
ever so many of ’em—more than she needs
—’cause, you see, her father is in office and
brings them to her.” Thus, not only did
the father deliberaroly steal from tho Gov
ernment, which pays him- a good round
salary, but he made his daughter the re
cipient of the stolen goods, and spread
among the children of her acquaintance
thq idea that stealing from Government is
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Stricken by the Sirocco.
Vienna, May 9.—A hot sirocco blew the
whole week through Hungary, parching
vegetation and rendering it inflammable.
At Toroczko 300 liousm were burned and
four lives lost. lasted
two days. At SRskberg achOTch and
thirty-seven houses were destroyed. Many
houses were burnt at the village of
Meregyo. At Eperics all the churches
and public buildings were destroyed and
the cemetery was devastated. It is esti
maftd that the total losses will exceed
#3,500,000. All the Hungarians and many
Austrian insurance houses are involved.
a Speaker.
Pittsburgh, May 9.—While Walter W.
VroNnan, a Socialist lecturer was lectur
ing K> a small audience in Allegheny City
this Zoning, he described the American
flag as “a rag tied to a pole.” The crowd
grew angry, threats of lynching flew from
mouth to mouth, and amid the uproar a
brick was thrown, which struck a man
standing behind Vrooman. The speaker’s
friends gathered around him, and just as
the angry crowd was closing ‘in on them
detectives arrived and arrested Vrooman
He Wouldn’t Trust the Banks.
Marshall, 111., May 9.—The house of
Levinad Robinson, of Parker Township,
who is reputed to be the wealthiest farm
er in Clark County, was broken into
Thursday during the absence of the family
and robbed of nearly #6,000 in cash. Mr.
Robinson has been lying at the point of
death for the past two weeks in a hotel at
Marshall. He always distrusted banks,
keeping all his ready cash secreted on the
premises. There is no clew yet to the rob
bers.
The Mormons Don’t Like It.
Salt Lake, Utah, May 9.—The Mormo n
Quarterly Conference of this State yester
day adopted resolutions denouncing the
administration of the new Tucker Ed
munds law, and objecting to the strictness
of judges in questioning applicants for
naturalization,claiming in excess of the re
quirements of law, and as trenching on
the freedom of religious opinions.
Another Record Smashed.
Chicago, May 9.— The propeller Tioga
arrived here from Buffalo, having made
the fastest trip on record between the two
ports—sixty-three hours and a half. The
fastest time previously made was by the
propeller Jewett about three years age—
sixty-five hours and forty-five minutes.
The Tioga used about eighty tons of coal
oa the trip.
Jennie Bowman Dead.
Louisville, Kt., May 9. —Jennie Bow
nan, the young woman brutally beaten by
ihe negroes Turner and Patterson in this
3ity several days ago, died to-night.
No Use for Lazy People.
Cory don, Ind., May 9.— Thomas Dooley,
five miles south of Corydon, was taken
from his bed at three o’clock Sunday morn
ing by the Knights of the Switch, tied to
a tree in his front yard and given fifty
lashes on his bare back. It is charged that
he failed to provide for his family. His
'wife and children stood by and saw the
Dunishment inflicted.
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A Miser’s Bequest.
Nf.w York, -May 9.—01 d man Hen. a
miserly character who recently died in
this city, leaves his estate, about *1,5+0,-
000, to his book-keeper’s wife.
A DEVOTED WIFE.
Being Refused Permission to Share Her
Husband's Imprisonment, She Walks
Two Hundred Miles to Visit, Him.
Munch, Ind., May 10.—About twomonths
ago Levi Thomas was sentenced from this
county to the Michigan City penitentiary
for the period of two years for burglariz
ing the safe of Mr. J. K. Miller, a promi
nent wood and coal dealer of this city. At
the time Judge O. J. Lotz pronounced
the sentence, the wife of the convict
begged hard to allow her to accom
pany her husband and remain with
him during the period he was to serve
in the prison. Her request was flatly re
fused. A few days ago she arranged her
paraphernalia and left on foot, a distance
of two hundred miles, to visit her better
half. After arriving at the end of her
journey, and going at once to the prison
and stating her object in coming, the offi
cials in plain words informed her that she
could not be accommodated. She cried
bitterly and pleaded hard, but to no pur
pose; but determined to remain in close
proximity to her husband, she engaged
herself as a domestic with a family near
the prison, and proposes to remain as such
during tho term of her husband’s confine
ment.
DID THE HEIRS DO IT?
Terrible Murder of a Woman Who Was
About to Alter Her Will.
Nf.w Haven, Ct., May 10.— Mrs. Marga
ret Ernst, a German lady, aged seventy
four years, was found early this morning
by the milkman in front of her house, No.
34 Spruce street, with her hands and feet
bound with ropes and a rope round her
neck. She had been choked to death dur
ing the night and robbed. She was sup
posed to have had on her person at least
#4OO in bills, but when the coroner arrived
this morning only a#l 37 was found. She
was the owner of two houses and there Is
about $1,500 in the bank to her credit, being
worth about SIO,OOO. She made a will
about two years ago, and had notified her
attorney that next week she desired to see
him as she had concluded to change it. The
coroner and police see in this fact the mo
tive for the crime. She was the widow of
John Ernst, a Union veteran, who died
twelve years ago.
Four Killed at One Stroke.
Wheeling, W. Va., May 10.—A letter
from Seaford Court House, Va., gives the
details of the havoc by lightning in that
vicinity. Terrific storms raged last Fri
day and Saturday,4fid many farm and
other buildings were struck by lightning.
Four persons were killed in the residence
of Andrew Pearson. The four persons
were killed by..* xyiftLe bolt.. Mr. Wright,
who stopped at Pearson's house for shel
ter in the storm, was one of the victims.
During the storm he opened the door, when
there was a terrible flash and he fell dead
across the threshold. The electric bolt
passed through the house, killing the three
children as they played on the floor and
tearing a hole through the wall.
Trade Dollar Redemption.
*V ashington, May 10. —Reports received
at the Treasury Department show that
6,500,426 trade dollars have been redeemed
to date. The principal redemption was in
Philadelphia. The law authorizing the re
demption of trade dollars has already been
in operation over two months, and has
nearly four months to run. It was origi
nally estimated that there were about
7,000,000 of these coins in this country, and
the redemptions show that the estimate is
nearly correct. Importations from China
and Japan may swell the amount to 8,000,-
000.
Deadly Fish Disease.
Milan, Ind., May 10.—The Ohio and Mis
issippi railroad reservoir at this place con
tains some very fine native fishes. Within
the last few days they have been dying by
the thousands, and the shores are literal
ly covered by their dead bodies. The dis
ease is gangrenous in its nature, begin
ning at the end of the tail and quickly ex
tending to the more vital parts of the
body, causing a slow and apparently pain
ful death. Fears are entertained that this
immense pond will be completely unstock
ed unless the infection soon ceases.
Around the Horn to the Golden Gate.
New York, May 10.—The clipper ships
Seminole and ChAner left their respective
piers in the river this afternoon on
their long rm'cof eight thousand miles
around Cape Horn to San Francisco. It is
estimated that the voyage will take from
one hundred to one hundred and twenty
five days, or until some time in Septem
ber.
A Precious Gift.
Washington. May 10.—Queen Kapiolanl
has been presented with a lock of Wash
ington’s hair by Mrs. Wilbur, of this city,
who received it from a descendent of a
person who was a member of Washing
ton’s family.
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Buffalo Bill’s Big Boom.
London, May 10.—The Queen has com
manded that a private performance of the
“Wild West” show be given at 5 o’clock
to-morrow afternoon, at which Her
Majesty and attendants will be present.
Railroad Robbers Guilty.
Pittsburgh. May 10.—The jury in the
case of W. T. Lavelle, on trial here for
robbing freight cars, brought in a verdict
of guilty. J. C. Dunlap pleaded guilty to
the same charge.
Woman Suffrage Defeated.
Harrisburg, Pa., May 10. — In the House
to-night a joint resolution proposing an
amendment to the constitution, providing
for the right of suffrage without regard
to sex. was defeated, as were bills regu
lating the rental of telephones and prohib
iting discrimination by telephone compan
ies.
An Army Officer o;ad.
Washington, May 10.—Breve? Major
General Henry F. Clarke, U. S. A., retired,
died in this city to-day, in the sixty seventh
year of his age.
VO],. IV.—NO. 12.
EARTHQUAKE ECHOES.
The Terrible Disaster at Hahlspe—ClieM'-
ful Prediction of I,o< al Scientists.
City of Mexico, Mny B.— The Govern
ment to-day received its first information
regarding the disastrous earthquake on
the 3d inst. at the town of Bahispe, in the
District of Moctezuma, Sonora, by which
one hundred and fifty persons lost their
lives. The earthquake occurred at3:so p.m.
At the same time the volcanic eruptions
began in the neighboring mountains, light
ing up the summits for a long distance.
The prediction is made here by local scien
tists that Mexico is about to undergo a
general seismic convulsion, and recent
records of earthquake shocks show that
there is widespread volcanic activity from
one end of Mexico to the other.
Laredo, May B.—Passengers arriving on
the Monterey train report that great fires
are raging on the summit of the moun
tains in many places on both sides of the
road. Whether these fires have any con
nection with the recent earthquake dis
turbances in Arizona and New Mexico is
yet to be determined, as the tops of these
mountains are almost inaccessible.
A WOMAN’S LONG JOURNEY.
Walking With Her Five I.it tie Children a
Distance of Six Hundred Miles.
Chattanooga, Tens., May B.— Mrs. Busan
Sullivan and five small children arrived
here to-day from Pierce, Mo., having
walked the entire distauce of over
six hundred miles. Her husband
died in December, leaving the family
among strangers and penniless. Mrs.
Sullivan wished to return to her former
home in Knoxville, and. having no means,
concluded to walk. She arrived here at
noon to-day, almost worn out, having car
ried two small children for the past week,
they being sick. Mrs. Sullivan said her
health has been excellent, and she was
treated well on her long journey. The
family were furnished lodgings at Central
Station to-night, and will probably be fur
nished transportation from this city to
their destination.
Departed Glory.
Harrisburg, Pa., May B.— The famous
cow Electa, for which her owner, A. J.
Cowan, of Venango County, once refused
SIO,OOO, was sold by him to an Oil City
butcher the other day for SSO, she having
been ruined by overfeeding. Although
this cow stood at the head of all milk-pro
ducers in this country a few years ago,
her pedigree was never known. She came
to Cowan's farm as an estray. She was a
famous prize-winner.
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Beaureqard’s Hint to Jeff Davis.
New Orleans, La., May B.—General
Beauregard, in a letter published this
morning, makes another reply to Jefferson
Davis’ recent charges against his military
action in the late war. He closes by warn
ing Mr. Davis to be content with the kind
ness of the Southern people in juding him
by his motives and not by his perform
ance, and to avoid bringing down unpleas
ant criticisms upon himself through his
unwarranted attacks upon others.
Valuable Express Package Missing.
Ottawa, Okt., May B.—The bunk of Ot
tawa to-day sent SIO,OOO to their branch
bank in Carleton Place. The money is
missing. It was forwarded by the Domin
ion Express. The usual manner of hand
ing the money over to the express com
pany was followed, and the bank got a re
ceipt. A thief is supposed to have taken
the money while it was being taken from
the express office to the car.
Gored by a Jersey.
Weli.sville,o., May B.—David Williams,
a young farm hand, employed by Joseph
Bowman, entered the barn of the latter to
secure a large Jersey bull. The infuri
ated animal attacked him in the stall,
threw him down and terribly gored him*
One of the animal’s horns pierced the un
fortunate man’s neck, severing one of the
leaders. Prompt assistance alone saved
him from instant death.
Boy Crushed.
Danville, Ind., May B.—This evening an
old barn loft in which was stored about
one hundred bushels of corn collapsed,
burying two boys and a span of horses.
Claud Stutsman, a lad of nine, was struck
by a joist, which fractured his skull, in
flictiug fatal injury. The other boy es
caped with but few minor bruises. The
horses were considerably injured.
No Faith in Banks.
Elkhart, Ind., May B.—Mrs. Wm. Gates,
an eccentric old lady, who died here two
or three days ago. was found to have sev
eral thousand dollars sewed up in her
skirts—#3oo in small change. #2OO in one
dollar bills and the remainder of the sum
in bills of various denominations. She had
no confidence in banks and always kept
her money with her.
A River Tragedy.
New Orleans, May B.— Fifteen people,
nearly all women and children, were
drowned in the river to-dav while watch
ing a colored baptism. The railing of the
wharf on which they were standing gave
wav, precipitating many into the water.
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Fotheringham Sues for Damages.
St. Louis, May 8. —Express Messenger
Fotheringham has sued the Adams Com
pany and the detectives who arrested him
for robbery for SIOO,OOO damages.
Poison In Candy.
New York, May 8. —John Jeck, three
years old, and Annie Jeck, aged five years,
of Hoboken. N. J., ate some highly colored
candy and are now in a critical condition,
suffering from arsenical poisoning. \
warrant has been issued for the arrest of
the man w»o sold the candy.
Mother and Children Scalded.
Gordon’s Ferry, la., May B.—A large
kettle of boiling water was upset in the
house of Ernest Grible, yesterday, ami
Mrs. Grible and her two little children
were dreadfully scalded. The youngest
child is dead- The otaers may recover.