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LABOR NOTES
Graining seems to bo going out of style.
Labor strikes are occurring throughout
Italy.
Ax eight-wheel locomotive costs about
SBSOO.
All the Pittsburg furnaces are in full
blast.
About 12,000 women belong to the Knights
of Labor.
The strike on the Montana Union road has
been settled.
Krupp is erecting a large gun foundry at
Jekaterinoslaw, Russia.
Jacksonville (F 10.,) cigarmakers make
$lB and upward a week.
Pittsburg 6teel is being used for manufac
turing in Great Britain.
Cedar loggers on the Florida gulf coast
usually command $2 a' day.
In the jowelry and glove trades the K. of
L. has advanced wages forty-five per cent.
Baltimore oyster canners pay out $1,500,-
000 every year in wages to their employes.
There are over a thousand women and
girls in Pittsburg who work in the iron
mills.
New South Wales employs nearly 1300
persons in her telegraph and 3000 in her post
offices.
The Boston Labor Leader announces the
formation of the Brotherhood of Railway
Porters. *,
Some 17,000 unemployed workingmen are
on the eve of reviving the Trafalgar square
troubles in London.
There is a wide spread discontent among
the working people in the manufacturing
districts of Belgium.
The spr ng of 1890 is the time set by car
penters anu joiners for making a combined
effort for an eight-hour day.
The third annual convention of the Silk
Workers' National Union will be held in Pat
erson, N. J., during January.
A Lowell, (Mass.,) croquet company re
cently shipped three carloads of croquet set*
from their works to California.
The Amalgamated Society of Carpenter*
confers more benefits on its members than
any other laber organization in the world.
A carpenter’s union which has been
formed in Birmingham, Ala, will shortly
build itself a hall to be used only by labor
uniona
Philadelphia leads all other cities in the
file-making industry. Thirteen firms, em
ploying over 700 persons, are engaged in the
business.
The champion city of labor organizations
is Toronto, Canada," which has eighty of
them, and all hold weekly or fortnightly
meetings.
Two of the most prominent champions of
labor in Congress failed of re-election to the
next House—Wtaver, of lowa, and O’Neil,
of Missouri.
About 25,000 employes of the Philadelphia
and Reading Railroad are affected by the
recent order for the reduction of wages and
the hours of labor.
The name of the new organization to be
started by T. B. Barry, the expelled K. of L.
Executive Officer, will be “The Brotherhood
of United Labor'”
A coachman's club has been formed in
New York, and its membership is rapidly in
creasing. It has a sick benefit fund, a burial
fund and a widows’ relief fund.
President Samuel Gompers, of the
American Federation of Labor, announces
that he will vigorously support the proposi
tion to inaugurate a new eight-hour move
ment in 1890.
The recent act of the bakers of St. Thomas,
Canada, is said to be without precedent. The
breadmakers of that town have reduced the
price of their loaves one cent on account of
the fall in the price of wheat.
The American Flint Glass Workers’ Union
came into life July 1, 1878, with eleven local
bodies. At present it embraces eighty-three
local unions and over 00. 0 members, with
barely seventy-five men in the trade outside
the Union.
PANAMA CANAL COLLAPSE.
Snfficlent Funds Not. Subscribed,
and the Company Bankrupt.
M. De Lesseps has formally announced the
failure V>f the Panama Canal loan in I aris.
Only 180,000 bonds of the 400,000 necessary
to tide the scheme over the financial crisis
were subscribed. _ ...
A Paris dispatch says: During another
exciting scene at the Panama ( anal (_ oru
pany’s office, on a call for M. de l.esseps.
Charles de lesseps. his son, appeared. He
announced that only 180,000 bonds had been
subscribed for, and that the company would
therefore commence returning the deposits
at once. . , „ ..
Referring to his father s remarks on the
previous day, he said: “My father is younger
in spirit than 1. His remarks were made on
the strength of a hopeful report that I made
him. The result is bankruptcy, or the wind
ing up of the company.” He urged them to
petition the Government to come to the
assistance of the company.
the coming bankruptcy of the company
has of late been clearly visible.even to many
of its former defenders. M. de Lesseps has
been threading spirit in the canal company
and such progress as has been made is the
result of his untiring energy. ,
It is, indeed, taking a (umvOab' ..w >0
assume that he was merely a self-de eived
enthusiast and not a monstrous swindler. In
the history of visionary undertakings and
financial bubbles there are few things com
parable to this old man s canal at I «nama.
He has issued shares and bonds amounting
to $400,000,00 I at par, and this immense smn
in obligations has neen taken by the 1- *en< “
peoplef who have probably paid him over
$”50,000,000 iu cash: and the greater P» rt ol
this has come from the peasantry and sm 11
landholders of 1 ranee. lie has resorted to the
most unwarrantable financial devices in order
to avert the fatal day of bankruptcy, such as
issuing new bonds to obtain funds to pay in
terest on former issues. The Canal scheme
will be aVianocned for lack of funds miles,
the French Government comes to its rescue
and advances necessary funds.
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NEWS SUMMARY.
Eastern and Middle States.
Edwin Goodwin was burned to death in
r erguson’s sash factory at Kennebeck, Me.
George W Quinn and Abby L. Wiggin,
°* Gficlsoa,.Mass., were killed by a tr;Ju
while walking on the track near Everett,
Mass.
John Weisel and wife, an aged German
couple residing at Burnt Hill, N. Y., at
tempted to cross a pond on thin ice and were
drowned.
The Surveyor of the Port of Philadelphia
and his assistant wero summarily removed
from office by President Cleveland.
Three brothers, named John J. Ruff,
Hlake .T. Ruff and Reuben Albert Ruff, were
struck by an east-bound train at Paterson,
N. J., and the two oldest were instantly
killed.
The dynamite gun cruiser Vesuvius, con
structed. for the United States Government
by the Messrs. Cramp, had an official trial
to determine her speed over a measured mile
near the Delaware (Penn.) Breakwater. She
showed a speed of 21.47 knots per hour. The
contract calls for a speed of twenty knots an
hour.
Thomas & Sons’ tack works, at Norris
town, Penn., has been burned. Loss, $50,000.
Rear Admiral’,W illiam Edgar Le Rot,
of the Lnited States Navy, better known as
he “Chesterfield of the navy,” has died in
New York city, of paralysis. Except Rear
Admiral Rogers, Admiral Leroy had seen
more sea service than any other admiral in
the navy, having served his country at sea
twenty-eight years and one month.
Thomas N. Hart.‘Republican, has been
elected Mayor of Boston, defeating Hngh
O’Brien, Democrat, by 2000 majority. Owing
to the school book question, about 18,000
women voted for School Board candidates.
Miss Mattie Ross, an aged woman living
near Amontown, Penn., was bound, burned
and tortured by three masked men until she
revealed the hiding placoof her money. The
thieves got but $4.
Sonth and West.
Two men lost their lives by suffocation
while cleaning out a still of the Peerless 00
liefining Company, at Findlay, Ohio.
Samuel Plulfei has been hanged at
Yorkville, S. C., for the murder of Lucy
Smith. At the same time and place Adolphus
Wheeler was hanged for the murder of
George Bechbaum. Both confessed.
The American Forestry Congress, which
has been in session at Atlanta, Ga., adjourned.
The next meeting will be held in Philadelphia,
Governor J. A. Beaver, of Pennsylvania, was
elected President.
Dr. H. M. Beildeu, one of the best known
citizens of Texarkana, Texas, was killed on
the street by Ed Spears, a fourteen-year-old
boy, whose father the doctor had caned.
Three-quarters of the large iron ship
building plant of the Globe Iron Works in
Cleveland, Ohio, has been destroyed by fire.
The loss is estimated at $300,000.
The Maryland Central Railroad, running
from Baltimore to Delta, Penn., forty miles,
has been sold under foreclosure for SOOO,OOO.
The comp.'ay will lie reorganize with -«
capital stock of $400,000 and a funded debt
Of $850,000.
John Martin, of Chicago, shot and killed
Mrs. Memie, a married woman with whom
he was infatuated, and then killed himself.
Sheriff Robert Jokes, of Wabash, Ind.,
was killed by John Fleming, an escaped con
vict, whom he attempted to capture.
A veritable volcino, ejecting fire, ashes
and lava, has burst out with activity at
Charles, Mix County, Dak., within a few
miles of Hot Springs’, which discharges into
the Missouri River near Fort Randall.
Governor Morehouse, of Missouri, has
sent State troops to Bevier on account of in
cendiary acts none by striking coal miners
there.
Order has been restored in Birmingham,
Ala. The jail is under military guard. Gov
ernor Seay approves the action of Sheriff
Smith in defending murderer Hawes against
the mob. Six more victims are dead, mak
ing fifteen in all.
Two boys named Ollie Redman and John
Wright were drowned in the river at Cin
cinnati.
United States Senator Butler, of
South Carolina,lias been re-elected.
The seventy-third birthday of Indiana
was celebrated’ in various ways by the chil
dren of that State, a State holiday having
been made therefor.
Noah Tavlor, colored, charged with the
murder of a man named Stegall at Har
risonburg. Miss., was taken from jail by
a mob and banged.
As Strohl & Hamans’s feed mill at Trow
bridge, Ohio, was about to start, Henry
Hanians stopped the steam, when the boiler
exploded, killing nim and a customer who
was standing near by. Wallace Strohl and
onebov were fatally injured and another boy
slightly. Everything is a total wreck, ex
cept tlie grinder.
By an explosion of gas in a cqal mine near
Canyon City, Col., while workmen were
engaged in extinguishing a fire that had
previously broken out, two men were killed,
two mortally injured and eight more seriously
hurt.
Joseph Lamp, eighteen years old, caused
the death of Jonathan Mason, a lad of the
same age, at Martinsburg, W. Va., by
slapping him on the jugular vein.
The Stone and Lumber Company, of
Columbus, Ind.. has assigned with liabilities
of $98,000. The assets are $136,000.
The case of ex-Messenger David B.
Fotheringhaui against the Adams Express
Company, at St Louis, Mo., for false im
prisonment in connection with the celebrated
Jim Cummings robbery, has been settled at
St. Louis, the company paying him SBOOO.
Washington.
The National Government has ordered
from Duluth (Minn.) dealers three thousand
telegraph poles for the use of military tele
graph lines in Dakota.
Army and navy men at Washington say
the bursting during the test of the Bessemer
steel gun at Annapolis was due solely to the
fact that cast steel has neither sufficient
strength, elasticity nor tensile power to be
utilized for heavy ordnance.
An award of SOO,OOO in favor of repre
sentatives of Charles Von Bokkelen. a United
States citizen, has been filed at the State De
partment an 1 Havtian Embassy. \'on Bok
kelen was imprisoned for debt at Port au
Prince, and the authorities refused to allow
him to make an assignment for his creditors
and be released.
President Cleveland has appointed
Emory H. Taunt, formerly Lieutenant in the
Navy, as Consul to the Congo River Free
State, with headquarters at Boma, Africa.
Orders have been issued by President
Cleveland for the vessels of the revenue ma
rine on the Atlantic coast to cruise along the
coast during the season of severe weather
for the purpose of affording aid to distressed
navigation.
Railway mail clerks have been placed
under civil service rules by order of Post
master-General Dickinson.
Frank H. Thomas has been appointed by
President Cleveland Disburs ng Clerk and
.Superintendent of postoffice buildings.
The President has appointed Howard Ellis,
DEVOTED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE RESOURCES OF DADE COUNTY.
TRENTON. GA„ FRIDAY DECEMBER 21, 1888.
of New Jersey, to be Consul of the United
States at Rotterdam.
The United States Treasury Department
decides that Canadian dredgers having
American machinery entered at an American
port are dutiable on both dredges and ma
chinery.
The Engineer Commissioner of the United
States reports that 1671 miles of telegraph
and telephone wires in the city of Washing
ton out of 4250 are under ground. Ho rec
ommends that each company l>e required to
place its wires under ground in its own
conduits.
Foreign.
Mr. Wake, an artist cenneeted with the
London Graphic, has been killed by the
Arabs who are besieging Suakim, Africa.
It is reported that in various districts of
Ireland, in Limerick especially, the distress
among the agricultural laborers is enormous.
Many are asking to be assisted to emigrate to
Buenos Ayres. *
A strong shock of earthquake lasting
nearly half a minute was felt ut Rimouski,
Father Point, Sainte-Flavie and Trois Pis
toles, Quebec, Canada.
General Cassola has resigned the port
folio of the Ministry or War of Spain.
William A. Bushwell, who defrauded
the New York law firm of Butler, Stillman
& Hubbard of $:!5,000, twelve years ago, lias
been arrested in Santiago, Chile.
Prime Minister Sagasta, of Spain, and
his entire Liberal Cabinet have resigned in
consequence of the strained relations with
(term any and the Conservative majority in
the newly-elected Budget Committee of the
Cortes, which controls the finances of the
kingdom.
The French Government has decided to
introduce, if necessary, a bill to insure the
completion of the Panama Canal.
Miss Preston, an American lady attached
to the missions at Canton, China, and a num
ber of Europeans have been massacred. The
residence of the missionaries was attacked at
dead of night by several hundred Chinese
armed with long spaars, knives and guns.
It has just been discovered that $240,000
has been stolen from the Spanish govern
ment's deposit bank in Madrid. The robbers
are unknown.
Thirty persons have been bitten by mad
wolves near villages in the neighborhood of
Arsova, Austria. A majority of them have
already died after suffering great agony.
A battle has taken place between the
British and Arabs at Suakim, Egypt. The
artillery began the work. The enemy’s right
redoubt was nearly destroyed by the heavy
combined fire of the ships and forts. The
Aral* replied, wounding one Egyptian.
The Pope has declared in an official docu
ment that the people of Ireland were diso
bedient, and thnt the3 r preferred “the gospel
of Dillon and O’Brien to that of Jesus
Christ.’’
In a fire at the Dorchester (Nova Scotia)
penitentiary Deputy Warden O’Keeffe and
his child wero suffocated. Many convicts
escaped in the confusion.
CONGRESSIONAL.
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The Senate
-sth Day. —The following bills were intro
duced: For the pensioning of soldiers and
Bailors of the late war who suffer disability;
providing that the salaries of the Chief Jus
tice and Associate Justices of the Supremo
Court of the United States shall be as fol
lows: To the Chief Justice, $20,500; to each
Associate Justice, $20,000; and a bill appro
priating $292,157 for the payment of the res
idue of prize money due the survivors of
Flag Officer Farragut’s fleet.... A resolution
was discussed for a thorough investigation
of the present relations of this country to
the Samoan Islands, and for an inquiry into
the extent of the obligations which the Uni
ted States incurred under existing treaties
with these islands The Tariff bill was
then discussed by Messrs. Sherman and, Mc-
Pherson.
6th Day.— A resolution was agreed to
calling on the Secretary of War for an ac
count of the expenditures made by the late
Gen. Hancock iiventertaining French officers
at Yorktown celebration.... The Senate bill
for the relief of the Erie Railway Company
was passed The Senate then resumed con
sideration of the Tariff bill, -the pending
question being Mr. Harris's amendment to
reduce the duty on beams, girders, etc., from
1 1-10 cents per pound to 6-10 of a cent. The
clause was discussed by Messrs. Vest. Aldrich
and Sherman. Mr. Harris’s amendment was
rejected by a vote of 29 to 20. The rate was
then, on mo'ion of Mr. Vest ami with the
support of Mr. Allison and the Republicans,
fixed at one cent per pound.
7tii Day.— The Union Pacific Funding bill
was called up, but the tariff bill being under
consideration it had to give way. The pend
ing question was the amendment offered by
Mr. Jones, of Arkansas, to admit hoop or
band iron (cotton ties) free of duty. A run
ning debate over this was continued through
out the session, indulged in by Messrs. Ilis
cock, Reagan. Berry and Jones. The cotton
tax amendment i was rejected by a vote of
eighteen to twenty-three. ’
The- House.
,sth Day.—The following bills and resolu
tions were reported: The Senate bill pro
viding for the celebration of tho four hun
dredth anniversary of the discovery of
America by Columbus; a resolution for the
printing of 16,000 copies of the Smithsonian
report; a-joint resolution asking for in
formation concerning the American
whaling fleet in Behring's Sea....
The Invalid Pension Appropriation bill was
reported to the Committee of the Whole in
the House In Committee of the Whole
the House considered the Senate bill for the
Incorporation of the Nicaragua Canal Com
pany The report of the Committee on
Contested Elections in the Smalls-Elliott
case, from South Carolina, was submitted,
the majority finding in favor of Elliett,
Democrat.
6th Day. —The following bills were intro
duced: Granting a pension of sl3 a month to
honorably discharged soldiers and sailors
who are sixty years of age; to punish crimes
against the electoral franchise; to repeal tho
Interstate Commerce law; for a constitu
tional convention in the Territory of North
Dakota; for the construction of two dyna
mite cruisers to cost $3,000,000 each, for
the construction of an armored cruiser,
a lightship at Sandy Hook, and the
construction of a bridge across
the Detroit River at Detroit ;
reviving the grade of Lieutenant-General in
the United States Army, and for the admis
sion of the State of Idaho... .Mr. Holmcn in
troduced a resolution of inquiry regarding
the usa of money in the recent campaign....
The District of Columbia Aupropriation bill
was passed.... The Committee on Pensions
reported favorably a bill to pension Mrs.
Sheridan at $.3500 per year A resolution
providing for fortifications at New York,
San Francisco and other ports was repre
sented ... The Hous" then proceeded to con
sider the Pension Appropriation bill. This
occasioned no debate, and it was also passed.
7th Day.— The discussion of the Direct
Tax bill was continued without action.
B'ihDay.—The completed River and Har
bor bill was reported. It appropriates sll,-
906,850 ... The Direct Tax bill was discussed
during the entire afternoon, and a vote was
reached at 4.20. The bill was passed by a
vote of 178 to 96.
LATEST N EWS
A boy named Joseph Stephenson has area
•f hydrophobia in Philadelphia. He wa* bit
la the lip four months ago by a cur.
Char lev Boahdman, the fourteen-year
old son of Edward Boardman, a farmer at
Wapi>anueket, Mass., has died from the
effects of rough treatment at the hands of
his school teacher.
AN epidemic of diphtheria is raging in
Berks and Lancaster (Ymuties, Penn.
Two men and a boy « ere burned to death
by a fire which destroyed McSweeney’s mat
trees factory at Providence, R. I.
E. L. Harper, who stole the funds of Lhs
Fidelity Bank to use in grain speculation,
and who is in the Penitentiary at Columbus,
Ohio, has become a raving maniac.
A man from Arizona shot and killed the
cashier of the National Bank at San Bernan
dino. Cal,, because he refused to cash a
check.
A boiler explosion in G. W. Turner's
cotton gin, near Montgomery, Ala., killed
three men. Seven other persons were
wounded.
The bodies of two horse thieves, who had
probably been lynched by a roving baud of
vigilantes, were found hanging to a tree near
the village of Westport, Mo.
The House Democratic caucus after a
session lasting over three bom's, adopted a
resolution for the admission into the Union
of Dakota, either as one or two States, as the
people of Dakota shall decide, and for the ad
mission of the States of Washington, Mon
tana and New Mexico also.
Tee Senate has confirmed the nomination
of Hon. Perry Belmont, of New York, to be
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Pleni
potentiary of the United States to Spain, vice
Jabez L. M. Curry, resigned.
The Department of State has been officially
informed by Mr. Baunder de Melsbroeck,'
the Belgian Minister to this country, that he
has been appointed Minister to Spain, and
that Mr. Garmer Weldewick has been chosen
to succeed him in the United States,
The Swiss Federal Council has ratified the
commercial treaties with Germany and
Austria.
James Tillycrop and Maurice Bartedo,
two boys, were drowned while skating near
Hamilton, Canada.
During target practice on board a French
Ironclad in the Gulf of Juan, Greece, a gun
exploded and killed an officer and five men.
y.. Hammer has been elected President of
Bwi zerianJ and M. Ruchonnet Vice Presi
dent. M. B. Hammer was the Minister of
Finance and Customs, and M. L. Ruchonnet
was the Minister of Justice and Police.
The French have destroyed a' band of
Chinese pirates at Bae-Ninb, Tonquin.
Eleven of the band were taken prisoners
and shot Part of the town was destroyed
by fire in the effort to break up their haunts.
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.
Rose Coghlan is thriving under her new
mauagement
Gounod, the eminent French composer, is
losing his mind.
George Wilson is the richest negro min
strel in the country.
Robert Mantell made a hit as “The
Corsican Brothers.”
George France is writing a play on the
Whitechapel murders.
Sir Donald Smith., of Montreal, Canada,
has a piano worth $37,000.
Will Carleton’s poem, “Betsy and I are
Out,” is being dramatized.
Maude Griffith is one of the rising
soubrettes in the profession.
Thf, latest American farce comedy is en
titled “A Bushel of Wheat.”
The comic opera “Dorothy” has received
its SOOth performance in London.
“Logaire” is the name of the play that
Harrigan has just produced at his New York
theatre.
Flotow’s posthumous opera, “Die Musi
kanten,” has lately been produced at Magde
burg, Germany.
Madame Oottrelly has been acting in
German at Baldwin’s theatre,San Francisco,
with signal success.
Both Booth and Barrett, great though
they are, have all the actors’ singular weak
ness for gaudy furlined overcoats.
Joseph Jefferson and Stuart Robson
will be the only corned ans in England or
Americanextseason who will play legitimate
comedy.
Gilbert & Sullivan have received from
America as royalties on “The Yeoman of
the Guard” since its first production, the
handsome sum of SIO,BOO.
“Sweet Lavender” has entered its second
month at the Lyceum, New York, with its
popularity unabated. The piece is now in the
second season of its successful run in Lon
don.
Imre Kiralfy announces that he will re
vive “The Black Crook” in New York city
next season in a gorgeous manner, and will
expend not less than $75,000 in the produc
tion.
Fanny Davenport and “La Tosca” have
made a sensation in Boston, and the big Bos
ton Theatre is not large enough to hold all
who desire to see this favorite actress in
Sardou’s play.
Mme. Jane Hading, the French actress
now touring this country, mourns the loss of
slo,o< 0 recently deposited by her with a well
known Paris broker, who has skipped with
nearly a million dollars.
An American amusement syndicate has
been incorporated at Newark, N. J., for the
exportation of native entertainments. The
capital stock is placed at $150,000 in shares of
SIOO. Its immediate purpose will be to send
Buffalo Bill's “Wild West” to the Baris Ex
position.
An interesting experiment is about to be
made at the Prince of Wales’s Theatre in
London, where an operetta is to be performed
as a first piece before “laul Jones.” Tbe re
mit of this commingling of music and drama
will he watched with some curiosity, al
though it is not altogether without preced
dent.
It is a positive fact that New York people
are now dependent for symphonic music upon
tbe liberality of a Boston millionaire# Were
’t not for Mr. Higginson and the Boston
eymphony orchestra which he supports, the
residents of the metropolis would have to
torero even the brief seasons during which
that organization, visits New York.
NEWSY GLEANINGS-
Detroit River is to be tunneled.
Boston wants a zoological garden.
Damascus, Syria, is to have street cars.
The population of India is now 200,000,-
000.
The White Caps are extending their opera
tions.
France has advised the Pope to leav<
Rome
In the South there are 16,000 colored school
teachers.
A revival of the tulip mania is threatened
in Holland.
Philadelphia ii stirred up about badly
built houses.
The Ohio cabbage trust has come to a
disastrous end.
Jacksonville, ' Fla, has been given a
clean bill of health at last.
Over 100,000,4)00 feet of pine lumber have
keen sold in St. Louis this season.
The new Texas $3,000,000 Capitol has been
accepted by the receiving board.
Prairie chickens have appeared in Kansas
in almost unprecedented numbers.
The English Derby winner, Ormonde, has
been sold to an American for $85,000.
Extensive preparations are being made
to meet the threatened famine in India.
Dakota has an acreage sufficient to make
eighteen States of the size of Massachusetts.
Kkkly, the motor man. doesnft own one
penny’s worth of stock in his alleged inven
tion.
It is said that there will be great suffering
in the southwestern counties of Kansas this
year.
The clergy of the Church of England of
all grades, f rom archbishop to curates, num
ber 28,000.
The roller skating craze is now at its
height in Washington Territory, Oregon and
Manitoba.
A N order for steel rails has been placed at
$26 a ton, the lowest price ever reached in
this country.
The United States has 6SB street railways;
Europe, 221; Germany, 47; Great Britain and
Ireland. 117.
A new iron bridge at Bridgeport, Conn.,
was tested by marching twelve largo ele
phants over it
At the recent exhibition of goats at Trurns,
Switzerland,' more than one thousand ani
mals were shown.
‘Gainesville, Fla., is the only city having
yellow fever which was not proffered aid
from outside sources.
Kaiser William has renewed his grand
father's order that none of the imperial ser
vants shall wear a mustache.
The State of New York is the second
barley-producing State in the country, and
the largest producer of hops.
The experiment of rice cultivation has
bean successfully tried in California. There
are large tract.-, of land there adapted to this
grain.
Miss Fannie Keeling, formerly a servant
in the Slawtey House at Chippewa Falls, Wis.,
has fallen heir to an estate in South America
valued at $3,000,000.
Clark Dark, a convict in the Ohio Peni
tentiary, at Columbus, who tried to escape,
was knocked off his three-story hiding place
by a stream of water, turned on at the orders
of the .warden, and killed.
Majw-General Oliver O. Howard, who
succeeds Major-General. Schofield as Com
mander of the Atlantic Division, United
States Army, has formally assumed com
mand at Governor’s Island, New York.
Prominent people.
W hittier is just3§lghty-one years old.
Jefferson Davis has become quite feeble.
Mrs. Harrison is on enthusiastic china
painter.
. Rorkrt Garrett, the erratic millionaire,
is improving in health.
Emperor William has every leading pa
per dissected for him daily.
The Ameer of Afghanistan, intends to pay
a visit to England next year.
Mrs. Don Cameron is one of the most at
tractive matrons in Wasington.
The Queen of Portugal is known among
her subjects by the title of “Angel of Pity.”
The Duke of Cambridge has completed his
fifty-first year of service m the British
army.
Dunsmuih, tho coal king of British Co
lumbia, has an income of from S3OOO to
S3OOO a day.
The Crown Prince of Greece will be mar
ried to Emperor William’s sister Sophia the
first week of May.
Chief Judge Hannan, of the Parnell
Commission and the chief defendant in the
case ary vegetarians.
Mrs. Bonanza Mackay will, under the
new French law, pay one of the largest in
come taxes in France.
General Spinner, whose autograph on
our greenbacks is famous, is threatened
with death from a cancer.
Edmund Clarence Stedman, the Amer
ican banker-poet, is small, wiry, active and
alert, with remarkably bright eves.
Miss Ethel Mackenzie, daughter of Sir
Morcll, is a journalist by profession, and tho
correspondent of two American papers.
The Prince of Monaco will endeavor to re
vive gambling at the Casino by the revival of
court festivities long fallen into disuse.
Mrs. Southworth has recently had all
the gold pens with which she wrote her stories
converted into two rings for her children.
Mrs. Hai.-ord, wife of the President
elect’s Private Secretary, is a confirmed in
valid. Most cf her winter’s are spent in
Florida.
General Harrison is now going through
big files of accumulated newspapers and
storing away the advice which editors have
been giving him.
Queen V ictoria intends to'plaee an eques
trian statue of the late Emperor Frederick
in Windsor Great Park, in close proximity
to tha slattie of the Prince Concert.
Empress Frederick is collecting all the
obituary notices of her late husband. Eng
lish pape-s have supplied 9000, German 8000
and French-7000, in round numbers.
General Russell A. Alger has taken
charge of Mrs. Logan':; estate, and has in
vested it so well, it is said, that it pays her a
very handsome income. Mrs. Logan's for
tune amounts to about $40,000.
It is said of Isaiah V. Williamson, the
Philadelphia millionaire philanthropist, that
he has carried th- same umbrella for fifteen
yea:-s, and that it is easier for* him to give
away $ 10,000 than to purchase a suit of
clothes for himself.
General Harrison’s brother, Mr. J.
Scott Harrison, is a strong Democrat, and
says that he will neither take an office nor
recommend anybody else for one. He is,
however, on the best of terms personally
with his brother, and has just been visifing
him at Indianapolis.
The Grand United Order of Odd Fellow*
In Arcerica, at their annual session in Nash
ville, Tenn., e.ected officer* and agree 1 to
Beet next at Atlanta, Ga.
NUMBER 42.
mm DIRECTORY
COUNTY OFFICERS.
Ordinary. J. A. Bennett
Superior Court Clerk.... 8. U. 'Fhimnna,
Sheriff W. A. Byrd
Tax Receiver Clayton Thtum
Tax Collector Thou. Tittle.
Treasurer B. B. Mnjora.
School Superintendent... J. P. Jseoway.
Surveyor W. F. Taylon.
TOWN COMMISSIONERS.
B. P. Majors, B. T. Brcxky J. P. Bond^
J. A. Cureton, J. B> Williams.
j; P. Bond, P*e*ld«%
B. T. Brock, Becretsij,
B. P. Majors, Treasurw,
J. T. Wool bright City Marshal,
COURTS.
Superior Court
J. C. Faio Judge.
J. W. Harris, Jr Solicitor General.
Meets third Mondays in March and
September.
Ordinary’s Court
J. A. Bennett Ordinary.
Meets first Monday in each month.
Justices’ Courl, fronton District
t
Meets second Saturday in each month.
J. A. Cureton, T. H. B. Cota, Justice*.
Rising Fawn District moots third Sat
urday in each month.
J. M. Cantsell, J. A. Moreland, Jus
tices.
MASONIC LORE.
Trenton Chapter No. <JO, B. A. ML
8. H. Thurman, H. P.
M. A. B. Tatum, Secretary.
Meets second Saturday fn each month
4»
Trenton Lodge No. 179 B. and A. M.
J. A. Bennett, W. M.
T. J. Lumpkin, Secretary.
Meetings Wednesday night on and be
fore each full moon, and two weeks
thereafter.
Rising Fawn Lodge No. 293 V. ar
A. M.
S. 11. Thurman, W. M.
J. M. Forester, Secretory.
Meetings Saturday night on and befn_
each full moon, and two weoßs therr.aL
ter, at 2 o’clock p. m.
CHURCH NOTICES.
M. E. Church South.— Trenton Cir
cuit, Chattanooga District— A. J. Fra
zier, Presiding Elder; R«rv. J. H. Har
well, Pastor in charge; B. H. Tfttmnan,
Recording Steward.
T»'nton services scoot*! and fourth
Sundays in each month, at 10.3 D o’clock
a. in. Prayer meetings every Sunday
night.
Byrd’s Chapel.— Sbrvtoes seoood and
fourth Sundays in each moatfl at 3
o’clock p. m.
Rising Fawn.—Services first and thirf
Sundays in each month, at 10.30 o’clock
a, m. Prayer meetings every Wetfnesday
and Sunday nights. *
Cavb Springs. Services first ai
third Sundays in each month ai 3o’cfo
p, m. Furnace at night.
BOARD OF EDUCATION.
B. F. Pace, President; G. A. R. Biblfc,
R. W. AcufE, W. G. Curctbu, John
Clark.
ITOTICS.
Any additions to bo niadetothe abov
changes or errors, parties interest#*
would confer a great favor by notifying
us of tbe same.