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BUCHANAN, - - GEORGIA.
A rtecent health report takes the
. znnd that consumption is not heredi
, but infectious. .
- King Leopol'd'mgt Belgium scems to
fin set his fi;rfi%’;fib@(hfi:&mtflction
i The Atlanta Constitution deelares that
she greatest men this country has pro
duced had the advantage of starting
poor. i
A company in England jnsutes against
urglary, Over there in England there
% said to be no fewer than 28 729
nown thieves over sixteen years of age.
A bill has been introduced into the
Etish,l]ouse of Commons, reqtrgctfng
the height of London buildings to 60
feet, or as much more as the width of
the strect exceeds that figuroe.
s,
The Turkish goverament, in order to
encourage manufacturers in that coun
try, has issued a proclamation, stating
t"ha.t machinery and tools will be ad
mitted free during a period of fifteen
years.
Observes the Detroit Free Press: *“The
Sepoys of India kicked up a great re
brellion about hog's grease, but their
tastes have changed in the last five years
and they now eat American ham and
bacon with as much gusto as an Euro
pean.”
" 'The Suprcx;)e Court of North Caroli
na, at arecent session rendered an im
portant decision, to the effect thata
husband can mortgage his real estate
without the consent of his wife, unless
!)3{ identical piece of property has been
&o aside as his homestead by apprais
s,
. In order to encourage the dairy in-
Austry in Victoria, the Minister of Ag-
Ficulture has decided to establish a dairy
gollege in one of the rural districts of
he colony. Already a traveling dairy
#8 at work at an expense of $25,000 a
~gear, but the instruction given in this
‘way is not sufficiently complete.
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. Thereis a larger proportion of the
/Bo.ys and girls of New Jersey than of
~gny other SBta'e of the Union who go to
v»'&day school, according to an estimate
p the New York Commercial Advertiser.
‘appears by statistics recently taken
that there are just abcut 280,000 chi:-
?&ren in the 1,997 Sunday :chools of
iNew Jerss_ 6 1
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* Home rulein India is a question that
loggs up befere the British Government
with even more of danger in it than any
other, declares the 'New York Voice.
, The education of the past half century
has wakened many thoughts in the
young minds of Calcutta, Bombay, Ma
dras, and the thoughts are taking shape
in formal demands.
Two suicides have been recorded late
in Berlin of promising young men,
he sons of rich parents, who were in.
uced to commit the fatal act from des.
gir at having failed to pass their ex.
ftnination. The mania for suicides
érvades all classes, both sexes and all
Numbers of boys at school, ser
apt maids, men who have been un
y in professional life, the moment a
1 tical time comes succumb to a sense
despair.
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™ fThe first law ever enacted to prevent
ghe mutilation of horses by docking their
"F'dls has recently passed the Massachu
_getts General Assembly., It makes the
bunishment for the offense, in the dis
gretion of the court, a year's imprison
ment and a $250 fine, and the lowest
.nalty is SIOO fine. Mr. George T.
11, President of the Massachusetts
piety for the Preveation of Cruelty to
*ximals, has offered in behalf of that
piety a reward of SIOO for evidence
gdwhich conviction can be secured of a
jerson, in Bosten or vicinity, perform
g such mutilation. What say our
aglish and French friends who have a
pdness for this practice? queries the
xu'onal Horse Breeder.
. Grant was tho youngest' President at
his Arst insuguration.
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. ! x’si;t:é Pl i o i
ment of Agriculture, reports an enor
~ mous consumption of timber throughout
the Union during the year, and esti
mates the value of the forests cut down
at $700,000,000; in other words, sum
* marizes the T'mes—Democrat, the United
- states.drew upon its natural resources in
twelve months for $1,200,000,000.
The French are endeavoring to raise
the funds for a Congo (Africa) railway,
which will pass entirely®through French
territory, in oppos'tion to' the scheme
for a railway from Vivi to Stanley Pool
to the River Kwilu. Steps, it is said,
will be taken to render the Kiwilu navi
gable, and so establish direct communi
cation betwcen the Congo and the At
lantic,
Says the Norristown Herald: ¢‘The
heathen Chinee is no longer permitted
to come to this country, but the lower
classes of Hungarians are allowed to
land in America by thousands, While
Hunguarians were robbing the dead in
Johnstown the Chinese pagans in New
York were raising a fund of several
hundred dollars for the bDenefit of the
flood sufferers.”’
The Boston Z'ranseript has discovered
that people in the habit of leaving
newspapers and packages on the top of
street letter boxes cannot expect the aid
of the United States in punishing pur
loiners. Packages so left are not depos
ited in the mails within the meaning of
the law, and stealing them is no offense
against the United States statutes. It
is, of course, an offense against the laws
of the State wherein it is committed,
and the local police must be looked to
for the arrest of the purloiners. 1
The Boston Transeript says: ¢‘There |
is one man in St. Louis who appreciates |
the law’s delays. His name is Dier
berger, and in May, 1883, he deliber
ately shot and killed a man in a horse
car. On his first trial he was promptly
convicted of murder in the first degree.
The supreme court reversed the judg
ment. There was a new trial.and he
was sentenced to twenty-five years’ im
prisonment. The sentence seemed too
severe to Dierberger. He appealed, got |
a new trial and was sentenced to ten
years in prison. But even this concas
sion did not satisfy him, One day re
cently the casc was taken up on his
renewed appeal, and was compromised
on oneyear in jail and §I,OOO fine. Let
others speak slightingly of the law’s
delays. Dierberger will always say
they saved his life.”
The Indian population of the United
States is increasing slowly. Not n
cluding Alaska, the Indian population
on reservations is 264,599, of which
21,300 are mixed bloods. It appears,
by the 1887 Government statistics, that
for that year there were 4,794 births
and 3,888 deaths, leaving an increase of
only one-third of oné Per cent. Of
cour:e this varies on different reserva
tions, as in New Mexico the increase
was over two per cent. But it is ob
gerved that, with this one exception,
where the Indian population is com
paratively large, as in the Indian Terri
tory, Dakota, Montana, Washington,
Arizona and California, there is little or
no increase. The education of Indian
children is going on; the number of
Indian schools in 1887 being 231, with
an average attendance of 1,245, ata
cost of $1,095,379 to the United Btates,
while in 1878 the number of schools
was 137, average attendance, 3,489,
and cost for their support, $195, 853.
A curious illustration of the treasures
of the scil, often overlooked for a long
time, is the discovery of mineral wax in
Utah. It was discovered three years
ago on the line of the Denver and Rie
Grande Railroad, covering .an area of
150 acres. Over 1000 tons a year are
secured. It looks like the wax that is
made by bees, and can be used for the
same purposes. Itis mixed with paraf
fine in making candles, and is used in
the insulation of electric wires. It
needs no refining for ordinary wses.
The discovery is a hint to our land
owners that their farms often contain
riches that are overlooked. The Penn
sylvania farmers worked the oil fields
for generations without a dream of the
wealth under foot.
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Bill Westmoreland, a negro deulgemdo,
was hanged at Jacksogville, Florida,
Thursday morning for the murder of his
wife last Spring. e
Dr. J. B. Wortham, a prominent citi
zen of Winchester, Va., committed sui
cide Monday, by shooting himself
through the {ead .No cause is assigned
for the depd. .« ' '
At Augusta, Ga,, Thursday night, a
negro was beaten and chascd into the
canal and drowned. His pursuers, two
white men named Davis and Bennett,
are under arrest.
Matthew Gibbs, sapposed to be the
oldest man in the state, died at his home,
'ncar Center, N. €., Monday morning.
‘Mr. Gibbs was 103 years old, and died of |
sheer old age.
The dreaded cotton caterpiller has ap
peared at Hawkinsville, Ga. A prom.
inent planter of Pulaski county reported
on Wednesday that he had seen them in
his cotion,
Revenue officers brought to Charlotte,
N. C., on Wednesday, thirty-six barrels,
containing two thousand and three hun
dred gallons of corn whiskey, which had
been seized on the premises of Jacob
‘[ Jenkins, in Gaston county. N. C. This
is the biggest haul made by officers in
“many months.
A special from Lexington, Ky., says
the Arlington hotel at Blue Lick Springs,
was burned Monday morning. A hun
dred guests were at the hotel, all of
whom escaped. Loss, $35,000; insurance
$17,000. Senator Blackburn and ex-
Chief Justice Hargie and family, were
among the guests. .
The first bale of cotton of the season
was received in Augusta, Ga., on Thurs
day, from Danielson & Palmer, of Millen.
The cotton was grown by J. D. Parker,
of Screven county, who holds up the
record for that section with as much
success as Primus_ Jones does that of
southwestern Georgia. : i
The heirs of brothers William F. and
George W. Norton, deceased millionaires
of Louisville, Ky., have decided to give
$6,000 to the building fund of the South
ern Baptist Theological Seminary,
moved there from South Carolina a few
years ago. Both brothers made princely
gifts to the seminary during their life
time.
Rozzell’s family, of Charleston, N. C.,
consisting of a wife and three children,
on Monday evening were going to see
relatives in Union county in a carrigge,
and when drivirg along a precipicqfithe
carriage capsized, throwing Mrs. Rozzell
and the three childien out. /¢ All the
children are badly T;xjured, cand it is
thought Mrs. Rozzell cannot recover.
Extensive preparations are being made
at Knoxville, Tenn., to celebrate the
108 d anniversary of Davy Crockett’s
birthday on the farm where he was born
near Limestone. Among the guests will
be R. P. Crockett, of Granberry, Texas,
the only living son of the frontiersman,
and the only living grandson of Colonel
R. H. Crockett, of New Gaseny, Ark.
A special from Live Oak to the Zimes-
Union, of Jacksonville, Fla., says: The
first bale of new crop upland cotton was
delivered here Tuesday by the Florida
Central and Peninsular railroad, for
shipment to Savannah over the Savan
nah, Florida and Western railroad. It
was from W. R. Wilson, of Tallahassee,
and was consigned to Perkins & Sons,
Savannah, Ga.
At Carbon Hill, Walker county, Ala.,
on Wednesday, Superintendent C. P.
Seymer, of the Kansas City Coal and
Coke Company mines, was shot from
ambush while riding horseback. Some
time since he brought several officers up
to stop the moonshiners from selling
mountain dew to the miners. It is sup
posed the moonshiners shot him,
A band of ca'tle thievesis getting in
work in the section of Ilorida contig
uous to the Apalachicola River. The
band has been depredating upon the
herds of cattle for some time, and many
farmers have been their victims. The
community is thoroughly aroused, and it
would not be safe for the farmers to get
in sight of the gang which is said to be
composed of two white men and two
negroes. ;
A dastardly attempt was made at Lex
ington, Ky., Tuesday, to assassinate
D. L. Baxter, a well known newspaper
correspondent, by the explosion of a
deadly machine which was left at the
Leader office directed to that gentleman,
There was sufficient dynamite in the
parcel to have blown up any building in
the city, and it only failed to accomplish
its deadly purpose because the percussion
matches failed to ignite.
On July 26, a fire broke out in one of
the shafts at the Pratt coal mines of Al
abama, and a miner and sixteen mules
were caught in the mine below the fire.
The fire was extinguished the latter part
of last week, and the miner was soon
found dead. The mules were much
farther back in the mine, and were not
reached until Tuesday, when fifteen of
them were found alive, They were in a
terrible condition, and too weak to stand
on their feet.
On Monday night, at Birmingham,
Ala., Dr. L. Lichstein, recently of New
York, experimented on himself and a
patient named L. D. May, with the
Brown-Sequard Elixir. Both are now
writhing in mortal agony, the pain hav
ing begun several hours afterward and
increased ever since. Nervousness, a
chilly feeling and symptoms of blood
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THREE NEGROES SAID TO HAVE ENTERED
A FIERY FURNACE. ’
A special from Birmingham, Ala,,
says: A most remarkable religious craze
has seized the negroes near Bessemer and
intermediate country. For some time
gast an old negro named Tobias Jackson
as been proclaiming himself as Daniel,
the prophet, and doing all kinds of sin-
Fnlar, wild and gueer things. Saturday
ast he persuaded three young negro men
that they were representatives of Shad
rack, Meshack and Abednego, three
children of faith, who entered the fiery
furnace of Nebuchadnezzar of old. - He
claimed that the furnace where iron is
melted and cast into all kinds of forms
was the furnace of Nebuchadnezzar, and
that they could enter it and pass through
without the emell of fire. =~ Three ne
groes, calling themselves the three chil
dren of Israel, under the in
fluence of their new prophet,
deliberately entered the gate of the
cupalo of the furnace and rushed head
long iuto the white heat.of the melting
iron, When they failed to come out,
Jackson, the prophet, proclaimed that
he saw them rising in the air with the
smoke of the furnace, attended by angels
and said that they would revisit the
earth next Sundav.
VALUABLE ORES. °
FINE SPECIMENS OF GOLD AND IRON ORES
FOUND IN HARRIS COUNTY, GA.
Mr. A. W. Fuller, of Shiloh, Harris
county, Ga., exhibited, on Tuecsday,
some specimens of gold and iron ore,
which experts say contains 65 per cent
of iron, the quality of which is said to
be 20 per cent. beiter than any that
bas yet been found near Birming
ham, Ala. This prece of ore was taken
from a place owned by Mr. M. Carlisle,
located about three miles from Shiloh.
Ore containing gold was found on the
Grant place, only a half mile from Shi
loh. A goed deal of excitement pre
vails among the mountains of Harris,ow
ing to recent discoveries of valuable ore,
and the report that experts have offered
$200,000 for the Warm Springs property,
owing to the discovery of minerals there
on, has but added to the excitement., It
has long been thought that the moun
tains of Harris were full of valuable ores,
and it is likely that the late discoveries
will result in a thorough investigation of
the matter.
VERY ASTHETIC.
A MAN WHO HAD TOO STRONG A PENCHANT
FOR CURIOSITIES.
William Jones, for twenty years a
trusted employee of E. H. Butler & Co.,
educational publishers of Philadelphia,
has disappeared. He is said to be short
in his accounts with the firm to the ex
tent of $40,000. Jones is a batchelor,
and lived alone in an old fashioned resi
dence in Germantown. He is said to
have had a passion for collecting rare
books, engravings, and antiques of all
sorts. His house was filled from cellar
to garret with valuable effects. Every
nook and corner was stuffed with antique
furniture. The walls were heavy with
rare plates from masters’ works. The
shelves of his book cases were weighted
with rare and uncut volumes of standard
authors. Connoisseurs have already pro
nouced his effects one of the most valua
ble private collections in the city. All
of the collection hasg, it is said, been
turned over to his late employers in par
tial restitution of the shortage.
EMPEROR WILLIAM
WELCOMES HIS FRIEND AND ALLY, EM
PEROR FRANCIS JOSEPH, OF AUSTRIA,
At a banquet given in Berlin, Germa
ny, on Tuesday evening, Emperor Wil
liam, in a toast, warmly welcomed the
Austrian emperor, and said: ‘“You have
learned from the joyful reception given
you, of the warm and lively friendship
that has existed between our people for
a century. Before all is our army, a
portion of which you have seen, proud
of appearing before your keen, soldierly
eye. My people, like the army, will
hold firmly and faithfully to the alliance
which we have concluded. The army
knows that for the maintainance of
peace, it will have to join the gallant
army of Austrie, and if providence to de
crees, they will fight together, shoulder
to shoulder.” Emperor Francis Joseph
returned thanks for the brilliant recep
tion accorded him,
THEY ORGANIZE.,
THE PEAR GROWERS BEEKING MEANS TO
PROTECT THEIR INDUSTRY.
The pear growers and shippers of
Cairo, Ga., have organized an association,
and will petition the other localities of
the pear belt to do likewise, .and then
meet at some central point and organize
n gencral association, the purpose of
which will be to devise ways ang means
to protect their industry.
DREADED CATERPILLARS.
Considerable anxiety has been caused
recently on the sea islands, and, in fact,
in the entire lower portion of South Car
olina, by the appearance of the pestifer
ous caterpillar, the bete noir of the
cotton planters, which, it is said, has at
tacked the cotton with such a force that
the crop is already damaged a great deal,
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Bl B e PRSI
AND EXOITING EVENTS.
FIRES, AND HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST.
Forest fires are raging in Oregon ifi%
Washington. A
Bodics are still being found in the
| debris at Johnstown, Pa. - Ly
| Another bag of mail has mysteriously
disappeured from the Nashville, Tenn.,
postoflice.
| The Montana convention, by s strict
| party vote, passed a proposition by
which all county officers wall have to be
| ve-clected. il
‘ King Humbert, of Italy, has npp?in(ed
Mr. Thomas A. Edison the great inven
tor, grand officer of the Order of the
Crown of Italy. A
The mayor of Cincinnati has notified
theatrical and baseball managers that
Sunday performances and baseball games
| will not hereafter be permitted.
| A terrific cloudburst occurred at Pat
erson, N. J., Wednesday morning. Cel
l Jars were flooded and choked so that the
water spurted out of manholes to the
1 height of ten feet.
The United States ordnance building
! at Sandy Hook was struck by lightning
Thursday morning and burned to the
ground. All the fine instruments in the
building were destroyed.
' In the constitutional convention held
in Helena, Mont., it was decided that
' Helena should remain the cupitol until
1892, when the question shall be voted
on. Woman suffrage was defeated by a
tie vote.
Martin Burke, the Cronin suspect, was
identified on Monday by Mr. and Mrs.
Carlson, owners of the cottage in which
Dr. Cronin was murdered, ¢s the man
who rented it from them, giving the
name ‘‘Frank Williams.”
At the Keokuk, lowa, races Thursday,
Satellite trotted six miles in sixteen min
utes, fifty-three and three-quar
ter seconds, breaking all records. ‘The
last mile was made in two minutes and
forty-three and a quarter seconds.
Governor Foraker, of Ohio, declined
to issue a warrant for the extradition of
Richard Carroll, general superintendent
of the Queen and Crescent, wanted by
Governor Lowry, of Mississippi, as an
aider in the Sullivan-Kilrain prize fight,
An investigation of the accounts of W,
E. Denny, assistant postmaster at Boone
vile, Ind., who is charged with embez
zlement in his office, shows that the
shortage amounts to §6,000, and may
reach more. Denny has not yet been ap
prehended.
‘While all advices indicate that there
has been no rioting in the Connellsville,
Pa., coke regions since Saturday, matters
are considered to be in a precarious con
dition, and an outbreak of the Hunga
rians at any time will not surprise the
operators.
The storm which passed over the Mis
souri Valley Mondayv night was the most
disastrous known to that section. Over
twenty persons, it is said, were killed by
lightning, and the damage in animals
killed, ruined crops and washouts will
run over half a million dollars,
At New York, Monday, the grand jury
presented to the court of general sessions,
two indictments against Eben 8. Allen,
as president of the Forty-second Street
and Grand Street Ferry Railroad Com
pany, charging him with forgeries. The
spurious stock issued is a trifle over
1,000 shares.
At Pittsburg, Pa., the announcement
was made Thursday, of an advance in
Bessemer pig iron from $15.50 and sl6
per ton to $16.50 and sl7 per ton. The
advance was made in view of the pros
pective advance in coke freight rates.
The trade is looking up, and is more en
couraging than for months.
The Curton building, at the corner of
Clinton and Van Buren streets, Chicago,
111., which was gutted by fire some weeks
ago, collapsed Thursday morning, bury
ing a number of workmen in the ruins.
The work of removing the debris was at
once begun, and until it is complete the
exact number of casualties will not be
known.
The general passenger agents of the
leading railroads of the United States, in
session at Cape May, N. J_., on Wedqes
day, considered the question of reducing
Summer excursion rates from Southern
cities to Eastern and Northern resorts,
and the equalization of fares from New
York to Southern territory, as asked for
by the Southern passenger association,
It was decided to reduce rates for socie
ties and conventions.
A dispatch from Truckee, Col., says:
A disastrous fire occurred here Tuesday
afternoon, burning all east of Bridge
street and north of the railroad to the
round house. The American Hotel,
Irvin’s stable, the Methodist and Catho
lic churches, two school houses, Eilen’s
lumber yard, Good Templars’ hall and
thirty dwellings were burned. Many
families are homeless. Loss $95,000.
Dispatches from Kansas City, Mo,
say: All through trains on the Burling
ton & Missouri, in Nebraska, have been
abandoned. No trains have reached the
city over thatroad since last Tuesday,
when the great storm occurred. Until
Thursday, trains have been sent out
from there regularly over that road, but
they could not get beyond the washouts.
- In some places, the tracks are reported
to be under water from two to eight
feet. :
Ho far this year over $41,000,000 haye been
ded in building operation y \4°rk
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