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BLACKSHEAR TIMES, VOL. VI. An invention whieh may revolutionise discharging firearms consists in tiring the cartridge by electricity. It pays to have a pedigree. Horseflesh sold in three counties of Kentucky the past year yielded $3,000,000 to the farm ers. The Russian Emperor as he grows older becomes in appearance more and more a typical Cossack; colossal in fig ure, entirely bald, flat-nosed, and enor mously mustached and bearded. It has been calculated that if the United States cruiser Texas should be constructed according to the present de sign, she would be sixteen inches further under water than the plans contemplate, thus rendering a great part of her armor a useless burden. Ex-Lord-Mayor Whitehead, of London, is a clever man. He is the only English man who was benefited by the Shah of Persia's recent visit. "Whitehead, who was then Lord-Mayor, refused to give the Shah a banquet unless he was prom ised a baronetcy. He gave the entertain ment and is now Baron Whitehead. When the youthful ruler of the Chinese Empire was compelled to marry a cer tain daughter of a high caste nobleman recently, he kicked most vigorously, but his royal mamma persisted and was suc cessful. Now the little fellow has as serted his prerogative and he vehemently refuses to see either 'Lis mother or his wife. Advices from South Africa report a sad state of affairs in the Transvaal. The people are suffering from drought and famine. A critical juncture has been reached in Johannesburg where bread stuffs are commanding famine prices. The neighboring countries are doing nobly to alleviate the sufferings, and have despatched many provision wagons to the scene. A German scientist proposes to deter mine by means of photography if the moon is inhabited, and it is said that the King of Wurtemburg has decided, in order if possible to solve this interesting problem, to photograph the moon, then enlarge the negative 100,000 times. This proposition has been mooted for many years. Perhaps the improvement in terrestrial telescopes will yet solve this Great enterprises are crowding one upon another so rapidly in the South that, according to the Manufacturers' Record, no one ran take a general view of the whole situation without being •amazed at the magnitude of the revolu tion that is in progress. One of the most striking features is the heavy in vestments of Eastern and especially New Englund capital, which is pouring into the South as it formerly did into the AYest. According to a French newspaper the Germans in Berlin, under the direction of the editor, Paul liennig, are about to install a museum devoted to Bismarck, and which is to contain only articles which have been associated with the Prince, such as books, biographies, newspaper extracts relating to him, photographs, busts, statues, autographs, caricatures, utensils and articles of toilet which have been used by the great man. A metal that can hardly be distin guished from gold has been invented. It is like the precious metal in all its points, can be hammered and drawn equally well, and presents a good wearing surface, It is not a compound, and gains its gold color from the action of a chemical. The inventor has placed samples of his dis covery on the market, and expects to be gin its manufacture soon. It can be made for sixty cents a pound, and may be used extensively in the manufacture of cheap jewelry. t The missionaries in the Central Afri can lake district are now in a state of open war with the Arab slavers. The Rev. Mr. White writes that they have' been compelled to fortify themselves at iFwambo, on Lake Tanganyika, i hey faave built a strong fort, surrounded it with an abatis of thorny trees and a wire entanglement, and spread broken bottles over the approaches. They are daily in expectation of attack, On Lake Nya ai a the missionaries have Ir an constantly fighting slave-raiding parties of late. They always go out 1 attarK the party svhich has committed a raid and compel to release their GA. DECEMBER 26, 1889. CURRENT NEWS. COE DENS ED FROM THE TE1.E GRAPH AM) CABLE. THINGS THAT HAPPEN K150M DAY TO DAY THROUGHOUT THE WORLD. CULLED FROM VARIOUS SOURCES. In consequence of riotous conduct of students at Odessa, the university of that •ity has been closed. Fram e. Acting in accordance with Eng land. is about to recognize Hypolite as President of Hayti. The latest figures show that there are 250.000 Indians in the United States, living upon 116.630,108 acres—or 460 acres apiece. E. Shelhmburg A Co., retail dry goods, Baljimore. Mil., assigned Tuesday. Moses Greenbaum and Leopold Strauss, trustees, bonded in $60,000. The well-known Joanna furnace, al Jo anna. Pa., and the Jones Iron Ore Com pany, near bv. have closed down for the winter. Too much pig iron on hand is the cause. During the past ten months the imports of woolen goods amounted iu value to $47,1(57,423^against $44,010,890 during .the same mouths of 1889, On the 29th of this month Gladstone will be eighty years old. lie is still more youthful than the majority of the tired young men of the present generation. A prominent physician of Boston, Mass., reported on Wednesday that there were a dozen cases of influenza iu Boston, and that there is good reason to believe the affliction will become general in that city. The BVw'/' Zeitung, of Bremen, says that another plot against the czar has been discovered, and that a number of military officers in St. Petersburg have been arrested on the charge of being con cerned iu it. A committee sent from Sioux City to inquire into the reported destitution iu Dakota, returned a few days ago and re ported that in Milner, Jerauld, Kingsbury, McCook, Hand and Hyde counties there are at least 5,500 families who need relief. A company has been formed at Middle town, N. Y., to transport milk from that place to New Ah irk City by the pipe line, as oil is carried in Pennsylvania. It be is estimated that milk can in this way transported 100 miles at a cost of one cent per gallon. The .Morning Post of London, England, commenting on the Crouiu verdict, says: ‘ If the case shall result in a thorough the awakening of public opinion iu of the United States to the real character Clan-na-Gncl, then Cronin's life was not sacrificed wholly in vain." The G. A. It. of the State of New York is moving in the matter of erecting the Grant monument. The esti mates have been on a descending scale, first $ 1 000 .Out), then $500,000. and now . $400,000. ’Tin* amount on hand is only $130,000, The work of removing the poles and wires of various electric light companies in New York city, erected in violation of the rules and regulations of the board of ■lectrical control, was continued Wed/ies day. Xearly 65,000 feet of wire and ■ighty-five poles were taken down. Liverpool's weekly cotton statement is ns follows: Total sales for week, 52,000 half's: American 41.000; trade takings, including that forwarded from ship's side, 79,000: actual export 9,000; total im noi'ts, 131.000: American 113.000: total stock, 798.000) American. 606,000: total iflont, 281.000: American, 258,000. Charles Seiner, proprietor of indicted the .Sun- bv day Herald and Times, was the Lucas county gniyd jury at 'Toledo, Ohio, Tuesday, for forgery, and arrested. The indictment contains several counts for forgery of notes and orders, the prin cipal one of which is said to have been of a bill of exchange on Bates, the New York advertising agent. City Marshal Solomon, County Recor der Cannon, Selectmen Wciler, Brig and Hampton, all Mormon officials, wef-e ar rested at Salt Lake, Tuesday afternoon. There arc six indictments against Solo mon. charging misappropriation against of public funds, and one indictment each of the others charging them with con spiracy. U nder a resolution passed at a s <pecial meeting Philadelphia, of 'Typographical Wednesday night.officers union No. 2, at of the union sent notices to the proprie tors of morning and .Sunday newspapers affected tlmt a demand for an advance in price of setting type from 40 to 45 cents per thousand ems. would take effect on and after Christinas eve. Pape week-day s con corned include all the English union and Sunday papers now paying the rate of 40 cent- per thousand, except the Public Ledger, which has been paying 45 cents per thousand for many years, and several papers not recognized as union papers. BANK ROBBERS GET IN THEIR WORK ON A RHODE ISLAND BANK. Wednesday noon, when only the teller and !x»ok keeper were present in the Sla ter National bank, at Powtucket, R. I., three men entered aDd while two of them engrossed the attention of the bank offi cials at the wickets, the third jumped over the gate amt grabbed another a package containing con taining $1,900 and $1,400. Teller Gardner heard the man and turned in time to see wiiat lie w as doiug. 1si liis haste the thief dropped the $1.‘jij0 package, but carried off I he other. All three men escaped. It will pay you to advertise with us. SOUTHERN GROWTH. ESTIMATES SlICVi 1X<; INCREASE OK POPULA TION OK THE SOL Til HUN STATES. The Tradesman, of Chattanooga, Tenn., has reports and estimates from the Gov ernors and State Comptrollers of the Southern states, giving their estimate ol the population of each stale. These es timates are based largely on careful in quiry instituted by the State Comptroller esti on behalf of the Tradesman. The mates are as follows: Alabama, 1,658.453, increase per cent in last ten years, :l I ; Ar kansas. 1.‘247,771. increase-56: Florida, 424,896,increase 58: Georgia.2,165,511.in crease 47; Kentucky 2,200,000, im rea.- v 311; Louisiana 1,251,840, iuerease 83: Mississippi 1,240.753, increase 304; North Carolina 1,713,024, increase 204; South Carolina 1,200,000, increase 224; Tennessee 1,800,000, increase 23; Texas 2,314,812, increase 45; Virginia 1,800. 560, increase 239. Total, 19,489,150, Against 14,088,930 in 1880, being an in crease in file South of over 38 per cent The Governors estimate the white and blacks as follows: Whites 12,128,430, blacks 7,270,720. It is estimated that there are to-dav in the Southern States 394,930 whites from Northern States, against 244,885 in 1880. The foreign born whites in the South to-day are estimated by the gover nors, in their reports to the Tradesman, at 648,043, against 4^0,871 in 1880. The white population of the South, according to these estimates, has increased a little over 3,200,000, while the colored popula tion shows an increase in ten years of about 1,000,000. SOUTHERN NOTES. INTERESTING NEWS FROM ALL POINTS IN THE SOUTH. GENERAL PROGRESS AND OCCURRENCES WHICH ARE HAPPENING REl.OW MA SON’S AND DIXON'S LINE. In the Birmingham iron market a fur ther advance of twenty-five cents a ton is announced. Citizens of Anniston, Ala., have sub scribed $82,450 for the establishment of a rolling mill in that city. A tire in Billing, Texas, on Sundays night, destroyed a cotton mill and ad joining property. Loss, $60,600. The effect of the Government work in Galveston, Texas, harbor will be to in yrease the depth fifteen to inches. Great excitement prevails around Mid way, Ala., on the question of rabies. A large number of fine dogs have been killed. The Times-Democrat pronounces fhe gravel roads of New Orleans a success, which Did far preferable to the shell roads were first tried. * headed A syndicate of eastern capitalist has s, by General Clinton 11. Fisk, bought 15,000 acres of coal land on Wal deni Ridge, East Tennessee, for $10 an acre. About five hundred New England expected cap itulists and business men are at Anniston, Ala., about the middle of Jan uary, They have been invited by the Anniston City Lund company. The supreme court of Alabama lias decided that the local prohibition law <3 Calhoun county, in that state, is null and void, because il was not published in all the papers of the county a* required. The Virginia house of delegates, on Wednesday, reconsidered the action ot Tuesday directing the clerk to inform Mrs. Jefferson Davis of the desire to have the remains of l.er husband buried in Richmond, and adopted ji resolution up lu-r pointing a committee to wait upon and make the request. A dispatch from robbed San Angelo, Texas, of says: Five men the express flee at Brownwood of $7,000 Tuesday morning. They entered the office just after the west bound passenger train pulled the . agent, out. Walter Joues, sand was beaten into insensibility with a bag, ami the sate opened and. robbed. I he men were not disguised. A posse is .ifti i tin in. News comes from Nashville that there is more horse stealing going on now in Davidson county, adjoining counties and middle Tennessee than at any period since the war. No less than ten eases have been reported to detectives during the past few days. No trace of any of the animals has been found, and they have probably been Liken some distance from that section of the State. AN IMPORTANT RULING. A GEORGIA JUDGE DECLARES SUN-TIME THE STANDARD OR THE COURTS. Monday, w*--a.,™ decided two important questions whieh arose in a ease brought up from Cobb county, Ga. The jury on the case were charged shortly before 12 Saturday night by railroad time, and though they had an hour to deliberate unleS by sun time, the Judge told them that they brought in a verdict before midnight, by railroad time, they would be placed in the of the sheriff until the following Monday, and would be obliged to furnish refresh ments at their own expense. The supreme court judge reversed the decision of the lower court, and decided that railroad time is not recognized by law as a stand ard guide to the courts, and in the ad ministration of the law or to the under public, the in the performance of duties law. sun time must be considered only, He also decided that the verdict of a jniyr can be received on Sunday when a case is concluded and the jury charged before midnight, and hold that it is with law, morals and common sente to receive the verdict whenever it mreai hed AT Till- CAPITAL WHAT THE FIFTY FIRST CO.\ , a REFS is 1)01 XG. APPOINTMENTS BY PRESIDENT Il.VKUISON * M HAHl’ltKS OK NATION Al. 1 M POUT ANTE AND ITEMS OK OKNKHAI. IN I'KKI.s'l’. The Comptroller of Currency has an thorized the Earley National Bank ol Montgomery, Ala., to begin business with it capital of $100,000. The Senate, on Wednesday, continued the nomination of -bulge David -I. Brew er, of Kansas, lo lie Associate Justice ot the Supreme Court, There was eleven negati\e votes. Senators Colquitt, YoorliePs and Kustis have been selected liv the Democratic caucus as members of (lie Senate commit tee on the world’s fair, to In- held some where and sometime in 1892. The Secretary of State has sent the following cable message to Explorer directed Stan ley, now at Zanzibar:- "1 am by the President of the United Stales to lender his congratulations to you upon the success whieh has attended your long tour of discovery through Africa, and upon the advantages which may accrue therefrom t> the civilized world. The President sent the following Wednesday: nom inations to the Senate on Postmasters Samuel Gilbert, Decatur, Ala.; Mrs. Jennie It. Tyler, Ihookhaven, Point, Miss.; Edward L. Kagan, High N. C.; William Miller, Tuscaloosa, Ala.; Benjamin F. Briinbmy, Albany, (la.; Walter Aekermau, Cartcrsville, Ga.; A. J. Frazer, Greenville, Tenn. : Joseph T. B. Wilson, .Murfreesboro, Tenn. The House was in session but half an hour Tuesday. A lew bills were intro duced and referred, and at 12.30 p. in. the House adjourned. reported In the committees, Senate sev era! bills were front and placed on the ealemlar. Mr. Bale, front the committee on appropriations, passed the re ported back, and the senate small delieieney hill ($150,000 for puhlie printing and binding, and $250,000 for preliminary printing of the eleventh ecu sits.) One thousand and sixty-four puhlie bills were introduced in the House on Wednesday, and fully four times that many private bills anil petitions. the In holes fact, there were so many would that pigeon them, in the bill room not hold and they were dumped on the floor by the basket ill. More public building hills were introduced than there are public buintings m this country,tmd if all should become laws, there would be no surplus left in the treasury. President Harrison on Tuesday trans mitted to the Semite the extradition treaty with England referred to in his an mud message, negotiated by Secretary British Blaine and Sir Julian l’mineefore, minister. By its terms the number ol extraditable olfenses is largely increased, the most important addition being that ol embezzlement, so that if the ireaty In ratified Canada and the United States will cease to exchange the class of undesirable residents who have hitherto secured im lnimity from punishment. MORE INFLUENZA rIf i: HESSIAN PLAGUE 1IAH Al’PK AIIEI) IN DETROIT AND KANSAS CITY. The influenza has reached Detroit, arid curiously enough so far only bank rill ployes arc afflicted. this i> attributed. Dowever, to the report that microbes "j^' 1 1,1 l’ : *F r money and when ennta K'°. us !“»!**»«“ Dc’ n fnely circulated ... “ c ‘\i 1 ”' ««» Feoine epidemic, A ‘ the Fenmsulur bank, nine of the e,n !* N '/ M * .' ,l one I tine. 5,1 th « Fn ' s,,,,, 1Satlonil1 ar( ' four cases. The entire staff of the First National has it, and then- are two cases in the .Merchants’A Manufacturers’ bank. The symptoms are different in nearly every ease. In some it produces “an all gone, tired feeling," lining as one ex pressed it. while in others to nose, i„ 0 uth and throat is affected; still Jiav( . ,. 0( , ,, LnI1; ,. n , us is OI)( . t . ral in(s whj ,. h it ljp stron ^ The Kansas City Star says: A liurnbei () f cases of influenza, distinct enough in type to lie readily recognizable, physicians have at traded the observation of local j„ ti,j s f .jtv. Interviews with several physicians are presented, and the number 0 f <. ftSfcs arr . placed «t about one hundred, A BOYS CRIME. A YOUNG TRAIN-WRECKER CAUGHT AND (O.NEESSES. A disriiiteh from Wabash Tnd savs iHsrnrs; frightful bv one was caused mitiluecd ] switch. The bov f Jf( , j iw | started from Wabash on foot that j,, tried ^ silk handkerchief, *»’ ” lo< . k ’ ,hrew 4 . w ”‘ e hW 1 c *** * ' l ’’ a PP < lir 1 ■ __ STORM IN CALIFORNIA. - GREAT LOSS OF I’ROI'RKTY - MANY BRIDGES SWEPT AWAY. A pi*patch t of Tuesday ~ J" , from San c Diego, . . Cal., says: The loss of property hen-a bouts, caused by the recent storm, will be between $100,000 and $200,000. 8ix bridges on the California Southern rail road were washed out near the Sclidad Canyon, and the road suffered heavily otherwise from the storm. Washout* also occurred in many plv '-s on the Pacific fceaf h r „a<l, 1.000 feet of the road bed at , Rose canyon having been destroyed. No run for a week. Letter farriers on bicycles. Tl .'" I”*,'” 1 "J. ,nlii:l j s fullv :is com! as that ol the l mlctl States ami the natives u>e the mails more ami tore every year. The number of letters and newspapeis carried Iasi year were twice as many as ten years ago. There are now over fifty thousand miles of rail routes in India. A fast mail train carries letters al the rate of forty miles an hour, across the country from Calcutta to Bombay, and the Queen mi manages her Indian postollices that they almost pay for them selves. The native letter carriers use bicycles lo n great extent, ll is the same with the use ami the growth of (he telhgraph. The English Government owns all the lines, amt it has covered t h *• count tv with a network P-,1 V j|^P|P|||2 I V m m “j? ?S m m wJ A. ■j oA AX INDIAN MAIL CAltlllK.l!. of wires. India has now over a hundred thousand miles of telegraph wire, and a curious thing about the construction of the telegraph lines is that tile posts are made of iron. One of the great pests of India Is the white ant, which eats anything wooden. A telegraph post, such as is used hi the United States would disappear in a night, and even the ties on the railroads are in many eases of metal The ordinary Indian telegraph post is made of three galvanized iron tubes which tit into one another and wfiieh are sunken into the ground. The post extends above the, soil about hull us high us do our posts, and the wire is fastened to it with insu lators. In some parts of the country the wires art’ hung upon iron rails, the same as those upon which the cars move.— ('oMitopa/tlau Magazine. w Tat. HAT PU2ZLE s: Look at the cut, and without measur ing say which is the greater distance across the top of the hat, or from top to bottom—the lower line of the hat band being tin. bottom. Then put your own hat, on die table about a yard in front of you,and carefully reconsider the problem. When you have absolutely made up your mind, take a foot-rule and measure your hut both ways. You will he very clever indeed if you guess correctly; nineteen out of twenty persons yo wrong! SHUT DOWN, PAPER MILL* AT NAUGF.KTTKH, N. V. CLOSED KORAN INDEFINITE TIME. The paper mill of J. IL Sheffield & Son, the bindery of the Saugerties Blank Book company, and the envelope factory of J. Q. Preble A Go., constituting the most important inaiiufaeturing interests of Saugerties, N. 5., have been shut down, and, it is said, for mi indefiniti time. The three concerns are owned and operated by the same individuals, and tin pay rolls contain the names of nearly one thousand persons, re reiving from $20,000 to $25,000 monthly. 'The permanent closing ot the mills would eauke great distress. 'There is scarcely a family in tin- village that is not, either directly or indirectly, interested in their maintenance, SWIFT JUSTICE, A VIGILANCE COMMITTEE SWING FOUR .MURDERERS. Saturday evening. Henry Wright, was unarmed, but made a desperate light, He was knocked out of the rear of Ids falling t; the ground inseumble Sunday morning V right was found by n-ghbors who had gone in sea h of him, ana, Efficiently although fatally injured, rallied to dearribe'his assailants. ^ vigilance committee was at once organ izttl. and the murderers were caught and lynched. HF. WAS THOUGHTFUL. “Can yon furnish bail in the sum of amo,’* was asked of a prisoner in the j»7 l.y, Court the other dav. but_” , J huodosc I could, “Who will go vour liond?” “I was going to ha v that the President 0 f the United States would probably bt; only too glad to, but 1 hate to bother with such a trifle. I’ll-” “Get Borne one else t” «, j/n go j aI [. This is Mr. Hal - rison’s 'busy ‘lay, and I Free don’t Press. want to OUT TO OLD AUNT MARY S’ Wasn’t it pleasant, cTbrother mine! i u those oUl days of the lost sunshine Uf youth—when the Maturday’s chores were through, Ami the ".Sunday wood” in the kitchen, too, And we went visiting, I and you. Out to old Aunt Mary’s? It all comes back so clear to-day— Though I am ns bald ns you are gray— Out by the barn lot and down the lane We patter along in the dust again, As light ns the tips of the drips of rain, Out to old Aunt Mary’s. Wo-cross the pasture, and through the wood Where the old gray snag of the poplar stood, Where the hammering red heads hopped nwuy,’ And the buzzard raised in the open sky. And lolled and circled as lie went by, Out to old Aunt Mary’s. Aiu^then in the dust of the road again, And the trams we mot and the countrymen. And the long highways with the sunshine spread As thick us butter on country bread, And our cares behind, our hearts ahead, Out to old Aunt Mary's. i see her now in the open door. Where the little gourds grow up the sides and o’er The clapboard roof—and her face, O met Wasn’t it good for u hoy to see'.' And wasn’t it good for a boy to U» Out to old Aunt Mary's? Aiul, O my brother, so far uivay, This is to tell you she waits to-day To welcome us. Aunt Mary fell Asleep this morning, whispering, "Tell The boys to come.” And nil is well Out. to old Aunt Mary’s. ■ laws Whitcomb Mbs y. PITH AND POINT. A broken window hath no pane. A great blowliard The late hurricane. The thirsty circus clown is a dry joker. It is hard to get at the naked truth of a 11,11 M " l > ‘ - People who live iu glass houses are liable, to have shattered health. Everything about, a rattlesnake keeps cool in time of danger except its tail. That gets rattled. When the office seeks the man, you can see its coat,-tails stick right out to vvaid him. Part. Fish nature is something like luuuan nature. The whale blows too much to be a fighter .—New York News. “What struck you most in the equa torial regions?” naked a gentleman of a traveler. “The sun,” was the reply.— Life. Authors of flesh-producing systems find it a paying business, for it. enables them to live on the fat of the land. -Baltimore Amerir.au. Little Freddie (to sister's caller)—“It must be awful nice to be a man. Don’t you wish you were a man, Mr. Nobrane"?” — Yankee Made. He wooed her and sued her and cold, sought her Till he melted her heart wt Then ho married the iceman’s daughter And now ho la rolling in gold. lloslon Courier. There may be as big fish in the sea an ( caught, doubt ever were but we veiy much if there are any as big as tine*? claimed to liuve been caught.— States man. My Lucy’s eyes Are summer skies Whene’er her heart is 1 ig 1 1 1, and cheery, But when she’s sari The weather's bad Amt all my skies me dark and dreary. Chicago Herald. A paper in Memphis relates a ease of a beautiful young lady, the daughter of wealthy parents, marrying an editor. That is as it should be. We thought all along that American young ladies would eventually recover from the mania of marrying Princes and aspire to tho nobility again. A Case of Cotv and Rope. “These Western peiqrle have a delicately humorous way of telling unpleasant facts, haven’t they?” said Captain Robert Lay ton, a well known Westchester County business man, to. me a few days ago.” { * How is that?” I asked, “Why, I just received a letter, which is an illustration. I used to know a fel low, whom I will call (,’liarlie Latnon, when I was a boy up iu the State. We were together during the war, in the zza 3£&s&ils few he as butcher. A .years ago w*nt vVest and, while we hadn’t been very intim;it( . t h „ commenced writing to me, and M hls lctters we re very interesting I kept up the correspondence. The last letter I had was from Butte City, Mont. That was about two years ago, and he wrote that he was in great trouble and was going to Southern Cali forn ia, and said not to write to him ogam until I heard from him. I never heard. A few weeks ago I decided to write again, and I sent a letter to the Marshal of „ Butte . City ... asking . . where , he , could .. . be f° un< f- 'The letter I got read in this way- ‘Your friend found a cow. Then he found a rope. That was two years ago, and I don’t think you’ll ever find him.’ “That was all, but it would ha.-e sounded a good harsher if he hail writ t ,. a that Charlie was lynched for cattle stealing, wouldn’t it .”—Nee York Star.