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VOLUME V. ADVERTISING RATES. Oue inch, first insertion .*I.OO Each subsequent insertion 50 professional Cards, per year 5.00 Reading Notices, per line 10 MTLe gal advertising must be paid in advance. £§f“Special reduction made by con tracts for advertising to go in ‘larger space or longer time. bills for advertising are due after first insertion of advertisement, un less otherwise agreed. B. T. BROCK, Editor. E. C. GRIS CO \T, Local Eon or. Price $ I .OD, in Advance, 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. - ..... 111, 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. ___________. A A " ■ 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.