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- BLACISHEA 4 R TIMES.
YOL. VI.
The Government of Russia is building
a railroad across Siberia to the Pacific
Ocean. There will be 4000 miles of track
and 2500 miles of river transportation.
According to a recent telegram from
Ottawa, Canada, it is stated that 125,
000 French Canadians crossed the bor
der into the United States during the
year 18S9.
Capital punishaient does not seem tc
be much of a preventive against the rise
of revolutionists in Central America.
They spring up and are shot down with
remarkable regularity.
A Chicago man is being denounced it
cold type as “a hog” because lie won’t
sell to the city of Sacramento, Cal., tin
site of the blockhouse built by Captain
John _ A. , before „ tin
Butter seven years
discovery of gold there. The Sacra
mento folks want it lor a memorial park,
A romantic story comes from Kaloska,
in Hungary. A young pupil entered a
seminary to prepare for the priesthood
and lived exactly the same life as the
young men on the premises. The Cardi
nal’s suspicions were aroused, and it
transpired that the pupil was a lady,
who said that she desired to become s
priest.
A new substitute for tobacco is being
introduced, It is a mixture of British
herbs—the particular plants are kept se
cret—and smokers xvho have tried the
compound declare it to be deliciously
flagrant, slightly exhilarating, and withal
soothing to the nerves. Combined with
ordinary tobacco it is said to make a blend
as satisfactory as that of chicory with cof
fee, but such a blend is illegal and
punishable by very heavy fines. At pres
ent it is prepared in Scotland, under the
name of “herb tobacco,” and it lias
rapidly grown in favor.
A small boy at Marshall, 111., has
voiced a seutiment which would be a
good thing for general adoption, He
was a very tough urchin, and together
with his little brother got so had that
the townspeople decided to send him to a
reform school, so he was arrested on an
old charge of theft and advised to plead
guilty. The little fellow stoutly main
tained his innocence of this particular
crime, and, while acknowledging that he
ought to go totlc reform school, declined
to plead guilty to something he had not
done. 11c won the sympathy of both
the spectators and the court, and xx'as
finally discharged.
Saccharin is beginning to be felt by
the beet sugar manufacturer as a dangcr
ous enemy, It is stated that iu Ger
many already so much saccharin ha
been made as to render 5000 tons of beet
sugar superfluous. It is principally em
ployed in the preparation of fruits and
the production of sweet liquors. It is
not a food stuff. Indeed, declares a con
temporary, it has been condemned by
•minent medical authorities as directly
prejudical to health. The sugar manu
facturers are of the opiniou that sac
•harin should only be sold by chemists.
France, Italy and Portugal are already
contemplating imposing a tax upon it.
In _ a recent t number of r the . bulletin . 1W . ol ,
the Horticultural Department of the
Agricultural Experiment Station of the
Coileoe Goitege of ot A^ncumir Agriculture of Cornell orn Uni- Lni
versity, a tomato is put through a sort of
civil service examination. The scale of
points for a perfect tomato, says the
bulletin, will probably ... run about . thus: .
Vigor of plant........................... S
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shape of frut...........................20 10
Sue of fruit ............................
Flavor ............................. 5
•-'ooktorqualities....................... •»
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An impressive lesson for the United
States comes from South Africa, where
no rain has fallen fora year, and there is
much suffering for want of water, p ro _
fessor Seeley, the American geologist,
who has just made a tour of the coun
try, says the same cause that rained
Egypt. Mesojsjtamia and India, once the
most fertile countries in the world, is at
work in South Africa. It is the dest rue
lion of the timber, and the same cause
that turned those countries into deserts
is producing the same effect in South
Africa. It is at work in the United
-date®, and we shall see the same de
structive effects from it More many
years.
BLACKSHEAR, GA. THURSDAY, JANUARY 9. 1890.
CURRENT NEWS.
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CONDENSED FJiOM THE TELE•
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THINGS THAT HAPPEN FROM DAY TO DAY
THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, CULLED
FROM VARIOUS SOURCES.
France, acting in accordance with Eng
land. k about to recognize Hypolite as
President of Hayti.
Another nihilist plot against the czai
has been discovered in St. Petersburg.
Several arrests have been made.
The iron firm of Curtin & Co., near
Beliefonte, Pa., made an assignment
Thursday. Liabilities about #200,000.
The French government intends to en
force the legal penalty against 300 priests
convicted of meddling with elections.
The international maritime conference,
? Mch has been “ sessio “ iu Washington
for tunc, , adjourned die lues
some sine
dav
About fifty men attacked the temple oi
the faith healers, in Tuscola, Ill., Thurs
day, and smashed its windows with
stones.
During the goods past ten months the imports
of woolen amounted in value to
#47,167,423, against #44,010,890 during
the same months of 1889,
The conductors’ and switchmen’s strike
on the Evansville and Terre Haute, and
Evansville and Indianapolis roads, of the
Mackey system, still continue.
Twenty-two Russian officers have been
arrested charged xvitli being members of
a secret society, the object of which is to
establish a constitutional monarchy.
A disastrous fire occurred on Tuesday
at the industrial school in West ham, Eon
don. Twenty-four lives were lost, The
buildings were almost totally destroyed.
The Berlin Ttigblatt says it has infor
mation that Dr. Peters and the members
of liis party arc certainly alive and that
tho expedition is marching between Kenia
and Baringo.
A dispatch received from Oporto, Por
tugal, .Saturday, says that the ex-Em
press of Brazil, who has been visiting
that city with Dorn Pedro, died Saturday.
Her death is supposed to have resulted
from heart disease.
The Academy of Music, in the course
of erection at St. Louis, morning. fell in a heap at
10.30 o’clock Monday Fifty
workmen werel.i the building A mini
hero! them are missing, and firemen are
at work searching the rums.
The Sioux chiefs, uow in Washington,
appeared before the commissioner of In
dian affairs on Wednesday, and stated
their dissatisfaction with the schools at
Hampton and Carlisle, and asked that
schools be established on the reservation,
It is stated that the steel trade of this
country is to be revolutionized by a
new process lor making open
hearth steel as cheap or cheaper Ilian
Bessemer steel. A test was made a few
days ago at Pittsburg, Pa., interested. which was
fairly satisfactory to those
It'is estimated at the treasury depart
ment that there has been a decrease of
nearly $4,000,000 in the public debt dur
ing the month of December. Reduction
for the calendar year, ending $01,536,148 Tuesday,
is $81,481,258, against for
the calendar year of 1888.
At Rochester, N. Y., on Tuesday, the
general term of the fifth department
handed down a decision in the case of
Kemmler, the murderer condemned to
death under the new Jaw providing for
exeeuti.m of eriminala bv constitutional’, eleetrieltv
which, the court holds to he
Intelligence has been received at Paris, Tai
from Oboe, the French settlement on
jurat. Bav, on the east coast of Africa,
that two French missionaries who were
traveling from Zeilah to Ilarrar, under es
cort of eight Greeks, were attacked murdered. bv
natives and all the party ' were
Alderman M T, II. Porter and w Constables , . . ,
. hephar.l, Parker and Carney, were con
victed at I ittsburg, l a., This on :i«--.Jny of
conspiracy to defraud makes five
aldermen convicted of receiving money to
settle illegal liquor s< lling cases. 1 he
;;r< * now 8ervin K terms in the
w< ^khou.se. Th " fonr ^ bous f f
Bergernan r .National hale and Exchange
stables, at Baltimore, caught fire Tuesday.
Jhere were seventy-five horses in the
place were rescued when the save fire tenon wt« discover^ the third *oor. AU
The property destroyed was valued
at #30,000, and was fully insured.
la•Xnu-.ii"
miuion dollari “ompanv ti „ !:ir ,„. “ffS kt basin.-s writ
df assurance/of in The out-
8tan ng the society now
exceeds #625,000.000, the assets are
.'«■»« «• if •**»**#»,*».
A test was made Tuesrlay of the elec
trieal machine putting purchased murderers by the state death. of
New York for to
A horse was killed in l.rss than half a min
ute, and without the animal struggling,
The doctors w ho witnessed the experi
ment are entirely satisfied that the ma
chine will produce instantaneous death,
Employes of Carnegie’s Homestead steel
wr , r k;j a t Pittsburg. Pa., have been noti
fied bv the firm that the new scale of wa
ges will go into effect immediately. The
advance in wages will average about 1J
cents per ton. These figures were given
by one of the workmen. A scale has not
been arranged, but will lie be lore the
mom.i e.spires.
Dr. Barboza. the Brazilian minister, e*
timates that the total expenditure for
1890 will be 68,(XKl.000 milrel*; that the
treasury baiante will lie 82,000,000, and
that the balance from the' interior loan
will cover the deficit and allow the com
pletion of interior contracts. The uublic
debt is 1,03 2,000,000 milrels. The par
value of a milrel is about 50 cents.
A Chicago dispatch, of Saturday, says:
States Attorney Lougnecker makes public
the information that ho has secured, eon
siderable evidence against four or live
other men who were suspected of com
plicity in the Cronin murder, and that he
might, indicted before long, take steps trial. to have lie
them and brought to
declines to mention their names.
The exports of specie from the port of
New York last week amounted to #770,
9G8, of which $04,349 was in gold and
? n s ‘. lver - °J ** *? tal CX ^
#,04,002 m ^Iver went to Europe, and
all the gold and #2 227 ... stiver went to
South America. 1 ho imports ot spi c te
for the week amounted to $170,4.>8, oi
which #123,850 was in gold and #40,008
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in silver '
A dispatch Irom lopeka, , Ivan. ,, says.
The banners’ Alliance, Mate Grange and
Knights ot Labor there have formed an
offensive ami defensive alliance according
to the recommendation ot thurecent farm
ers’ convention and Knights of Labor con
vention. The object of the combination
is co-operation in Kansas business and
politics. The combined alliances iiun.bei
In their ranks over 125,000 members.
A dispatch of Tuesday, from Loving
ton, 111., says: Great excitement prevail.
here over an attempt ol .mile members of
the Pentecost band to deny two highly There
respected girls from their homes.
was almost a riot af the depot when the
faith healers tried to take the girls with
them against the wishes of their friends,
and knives and revolvers were shown.
The feeling against the faith healers runs
very high.
The western inssen-vr ^ rate war is now
/ fairly • i begin). , Keduced i> i i rates , I ft rom st Sr.
Paul to Chicago went into effect Thins
day, and to make the light more andBt. interest- Paul
ing the Chicago, Milwaukee
road has ordered a cut of #2.50 in the
first-class rate from Kansas City to Chicu
go. The evident object of the cut is te
punisli the Burlington and Quincy for flit
action of the Burlington and Northern.
T four i l hundred -I-, vout-hM, rom posing t lie ,
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r C ,i hicim-o . press r ,, coders’ , , union, . struck , tor , ,
an advance 7 of pay oif r Monday. i rn I fiev
were receiving from #7 to #1, a week, ami
gave two hours’ notice of a demand for
#10.50. Except in one instance, the de
maud was refused. The strike affects
only local and job printing offices. The
employers decided to Unitedly light the
strikers’ demands.
A dispatch from Nebraska City, Neb.,
, has nTS . ftimpson, ex-county with treasurer,
been arrested, charged en.be/.
zling the funds of the county. Simpson
had completed a four years’ sentence on a
similar eliarge,Ids term expiring Tuesday,
when lie was arrested on two other
counts. The total amount of {simpson s
embezzlement will never be known, but a
shortage of #88,000 was found.
Pay Clerk .Tones, of the Government
marine Christmas corps, disappeared from examination Washing
ton night, and on been
of ]u’s accounts shows them to have
falsified and a default of $2,500 has been
discovered The matter has been placed
in the hands of the police. The Iosh fall/
on Major Goodloe, paymaster of the ina
rine corps, and his bondsmen. .Join*
tried to create the impression tliat he had
committed suicide, but tliat is nov
doubted.
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SOUTHERN HISTORY.
I * APEI!S llKAD krvohk the aveiucan
histohicai. association.
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The American Ilistorieal association, .
wliich lias been holding its annual meet- the
j n f at Wtrfiui.Kton devoted Tuesday,
,!ist .° f lts “ wnon - ° h,;an '^ l ,a I"' rs oli
( ? . ^Mory. Among these was one
“ titled > “-^tenals for the btudy of the
Government of the houthen. Lonfcder
\ iy John (>sb f ! nle
H ar V a rd umv, ' rs, . t -'\ I "Wedthat ( much
of , this , , . material , of value laid been de
stroved during the closing scenes of the
war Loc umenls accessible. were also preservwl
which are not yet There wer.
many e jecutive messages and <l< -
p ar t me n tal reports obtainable, and
journals of the confederate congress
;ire p ( . ; p existence. After mhih
reference to tl . histories written by Jef
fenon Davis and Alexander 11. Stepb.. s
as well as to other recent works, the paper
closed with a plea for information as to
the existence and whereabouts of do. u
meats bearing upon '^ntederate history
that are as yet imprinted. 1 he final paper
of the session was delivered by Professor
William E. Trent of the University of tin
I »s"Trr,!.i;'
A V? J-J 1 < ullcetio r. of r mat. I rials for a south
^ ^ ' W V ' rk)
t ‘ h ,. i af .j: 0 f nublie enthu- j.,™ in h.'work*
receive more attention in the future, and
expressing the hope that southern history
may be studiiil by the peojde of all sec
tions.
FEEDING THE HUNGRY
WICHITA, KANSAS, REMEMBERING BUF
FERING FARMER*.
A train of eighteen ears left Wichita.
Kansu*, Thursday night for the suffering
districts in Stevens, Morton, and Hodg
mar counties. The cars were loaded with
clothing and food. Report* recently re
ceived were to the effect that several
hundred jx-rvins are suffering at present,
Peopie at the end of the railroad at Lib
eral and vicinity were ready with wage,ns
to make an attempt to transjs/rt relief
from forty tej seventy miles to where it is
needed. It is believed the weather may
get extremely cold and thus increase the
suffering.
SOUTHERN NOTES.
INTERESTING- NEWS FROM ML
POINTS IN TIIE SOUTH.
GENERAL PROGRESS AND OCCURRENCES
WHICH ARK HAPPENING BELOW MA
SON'S and dixon’s link.
, r 1 ,, lie / tmo-Democrat pronounces the
gravel i ,i roads of New Orleans a success, which
n f ar preferable to the shell roads
were tiret tried
There were 1.140 negro vVihnim.to exodusters on a
• ;| , f N <>.,
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J hur ^ lHV llight< all K1V0 lif t y going to
bobbin Mississippi. Thousands more will leave
' ro at once '
while . four boys, , between the ol
ages
six and eight years, were playing under
t jj,. (.jgj. 0 f a wm( i bank in Jackson,
Ten on Tu , S(l . lv _ tb( . I)llnk caV c<l in.
hsirving ^ ' them under about ten feet of
T Th (U . ad wlu , u ,. rt ricate«l.
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Richmond, . A a on Monday, __ , 1 Ik os! -
luspcdor Wilde arrested
J nucs P. \\ right a letter earner in the
lunond postothce. charge,1 with rob
A £'■
was louml on his person. \\ right was
f„ rluerlv a Methodist minister,
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A , “wm of . 1 i,„-sch drawing . a party
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returning Teun Tuesday Horn n wedding in ( hattanoogu,
n.glit, ran into a broken
telephone wire that had been crossed with
M .'Kdr.c light wire. Hoth horses we,e
*'\ d t '»' driver was knocked sense
•>' the shock. 1 lie incident created
^' !lt '‘ x< ' lte,n, '" t -
The store of \V. T. Massey & Co., at
Iii" <l,lnto "’ N ' ( ''> " ils lmr u'ed Saturday.
Tile stock, ’ valued at #15,000 to #20,000, I
™ » totaMoss. . , Heventy hales , of col on
1,1 ll “’ were burned, but
loss is . covered by insurance, Tho
build mg valued at #8,000 was a
0 ,1 UI,< '• ° msiu.im <.
Sales of new leaf tobacco in the Dan
viile, \n., market lor I he past three
months was 8. 1:1, ,413 pounds, an increase
over tho riuih* period 1 of thoprevious 1 ve«r
ot . 4,o,)<,.>•>£ , ~. K1 pounds. . Output ,. , . iniinuiue- \
1 1
lured , tobacco . , lor tin 4 year 1881) was
r ‘-H’’ 8 ** 4 , ovcr the 4l
l- ' .ous year of 2,251,771 pounds. .
The Kentucky legislature organi/.ed at
Louisville, Monday. Governor Buckner's
message shows the defalcation ol Treas
urer late to lie #17-1,001. Alter all
credits bv sale of bis properly are deduet
jf’ and n ‘ du, accounts "‘ tlns t0 yet ftl unsettled ""f. ^'50^100,. will fur- mid
,lls j m,ou,,t i ,s to , ,M: . collt ‘ c ‘ wl fro "' 1,18
,Kmasm ™
Austin, of Decatur, Ala.,, was
appointed receiver ol the P irst. National
of Sheffield, Ala., by the l uib d
States court on lucsday, and lileri Ids
bond in the sum ol $ 100,000. Austin
^as formerly assistant doorkeeper of tha
house of representatives was at one time
1 proprietorof 1 the Knoxville ('hronicle.
^ terrific explosion ol gas occurred in
two-story brick building, corner hlisian
Pelds and Victory streets, New Orleans,
Monday, demolishing two buildings and
burying six persons beneath the debris,
but by the heroic ' lloris of the firemen
'md police they were rescued without sc
nous injuries. Many window glasses in
-|djacent buildings were shattered by the
lorce of the explosion,
Fannie Bryant, tlie negro woman con
yicted as the accomplice of Dick Hawe«
in the murder of hn, wife and chi dren a
Birmingham, Ala., was on Mon. ay sent
to the pen.tent,ary to serve out a life sen
H p r ease was appealed to the su
preme court, but errors in the bill of ex
- . pi ions threw it out of court. The wo
....... M .ise.1 o make any statement before
‘ he J 81 ‘
Mrs. Maria Louise . Longstreet, , consort
r ,f Gen. .lames Longstreet d.ed at Gaines
v.lle Ga., on Monday. Mrs. Long-,tree several
becn confined to her room
months and bore her suffering patiently
unf ] w ,th Christian resignation. Her
maiden name was Garland, a daughter of
General John Garland, of the I nite.l
states army, and a distinguished citizen
of Virginia. She was bora on the l«tli
lay of March, 1827, at Fort Smiling,
Minn., and was married to General Long
tnf*t in LyiH-hburg, Va., on March 8th,
jtjJH.
A * . f . ia] from Rirmingham, Ala., says:
. fri K lltfll i ,. r , r ,. M1 ninir in th«
k;a( h ot - two men and the in jury of I wen
, Jj,,. . 0 t j^Vrilr-m, b ,. rs occurred Thursday morning on
B,oekto„ and Birmingham
. •. k , in)ll l(t .i, a .
i j . . lh „„ t t wo bun.lnd
\ Jong’and from’t went v-five to fifty
»<■•»* • ... ...... «*««
, Webb, two of the carpenters at work
«» the irestle, were killed, and twenty
l,then T1,,r " werc numeroui
l,n,k ' -n J ^> rite a, '‘ l ^ms, an.l several
of the injured may die.
HORSE THIEVES AT WORK.
A REGULARLY ORGANIZED BAND OPERAT
ING IN' TENNESSEE.
counties V. . middle . . rr Tennessee. A 4 splen- i ”
in
didlv organized band of hor- thieves has
h’-Tor^hindran >■<•' It hi "Vrin^teH that
within the last two weeks 200 horses
have been stolen and run into
Kentucky fastnesses, follow’them where it is next to
impossible to or tho l>«-en thieves.
Jtet one of these animals has recov
ered. Gen. W. II. Jackson, of the famous
Belle Meade furm, Colonel John Overton
and the Cockerills are preparing a farm
ers’ association, which, with an abundance
uf money to back it, will employ an ade
quote and competent force to annihilate
tjy. robbers.
BUSINESS REVIEW
ntK WEATHKIt M \Kt-’S SKVKHAt. BltAKCIIRt
; OK TRADE VERY 1HT.L.
K. G. Dunn & Company’s weekly re
view of trade, says: A pause iu business
is usual at the end of the year, hut ihh«
year the unseasonable weather and much
pressure for money at tho Fast, makes
dullness border on the depression. Whilt
the prospects for the future are generally
regarded w ith great confidence, the pres
ent state of the trade is not quite satisfae
tory, and in some sections ol
the country delay of collections causes
fear of commercial embarrassments.
The holiday business lias been large at
nearly every point reporting. Tlse move
ment of grain at Chicago continues equal
to that of last year to date, with an in
crease of lifty per cent, iu beef products,
receipts of butter nearly doubled, and a
slight increase iu lard, but some decline
in cheese, wool an.l hides. The grocery
trade reports a prosperous year, but very
light sales at present. Tim paper trade is
also light stud collections there slow. At
Boston, all the wholesale trade lias been
quiet, ahead but some retailers report holiday
sales of last year. Wool Is inaetiva
but steady, and hides, leather and hoots
and shoes moving fairly at unchanged
prices. those The weak points of the situation
are trades which are most affected
by two successive mild winters. The
anthracite coal trade is stagnant, in
the absence of demand, and tho situation
is almost without precedent. More than
half the Reading coal mines have closed,
throwing eight thousand miners out of
work, and it is stated that twenty thous
and miners are working on three-quarters
time. The bituminous coal trade is more
active but lacking ears. No delimit.' re
lief in the woolen goods business can be
expected caused until prolonged cold weather
1ms a well-sustained demand, and
the clothing business in all parts of the
country must necessarily weather. depend,to a great
extent, upon the To a greater
or less extent, many other kinds of busi
ness arc disturbed and sometimes put to
strain by the absence of demand
incident to the season, ami in all quar
ters the delay of collection is felt. On
tlm other bund, the iron business
continues to prosper. Prices are very firm
at Philadelphia, and #10.50 is quoted for
number one. Bales of 35,000 tons steel
rails are reported, and with the Chicago. price steady at
#35 cast, #36.25 ut Bar
iron is firm at 2 cents, and confidence in
tlm future is in all brunches of the iron
■yi.l 4cgl business uudituinished. In llup
qieeulalive markets there tins been little
'linage, except in corn, which has dropped
il cents, with sales of 11,000,000 bushels.
Coffee a quarter higher, with sales ol
only 160,000 bags, according and cotton steady.
November exports, to official
reports just completed, exceed imports
by the unprecedented sum of #31,403,710,
and at New York, in December, exports
show a d.'crease of 5.1 per cent., xvhlls
imports increase 22 per cent. But even
at. this rate, the excess of exports for the
whole country would lie over #10,000,000.
The treasury is so conducted ns to sustain
the money market as easy as practicable, in
and #3,200,000 has been paid out ex
cess of receipts this week. But the move
ment of #70,000,000 cash from the treas
ury and banks to the west, and south since
August 1st, makes the present stringency failures
by no menus surprising. Business
throughout, the country during last week
number, for the United States 240, Cana
da 30. Total 288 failures, against 342
last week.
A HOLOCAUST.
A LONDON SUHOOLHOUHE ItUHNED TWENTY
SIX BOVS I-ERISH IN THU FLAMES.
A London dispatch says; The boys'
section of Papers’school,in the district oi
Forest Gat.', iu connection with White
Chapel Wedneaday and Popular Unions, took lire
night, while the inmates were
asle.p, arid was burned, with terrible ro
suits, twenty-six of the boys, who were in
the upper stories, bemg suffocated before
they could be rescued. Fifty eight other
bovs were safely taken from the burning r
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building , amid ferr ),!<• exeitement. Iv.o
of the matrons ot the ms .tut,on eseap. .1
in safety l.v .sliding down the water pipe
Several rjf the hoys escaped ,n the same
way. J he supermtemlent of the s. I..a.
rushe.1 through the flames repei.t.-dlv an.l
brought out a number of inmates. There
were «W) per .on* in the institution. The
fire was started by the overheated stove,
The female department, m winch were
250 girls, was not touched. The Iwys r< -
tired in the highest spirits, having been
promised present* at the Ncw Yeari* fete
on the morrow. The scenes in the main
hall, where the bodies of the dead boys
luv. were bitrrow-infr
TAXING RAILROADS.
'""- .miu u KAROLINA LEGISLATIVE COM
MITTEE INVESTIGATING Hit MATTER.
the A joint committee was appointed North hj
last legislature of Caro
lina to examine into the matter of taxing
railways, his which claim ex. motion from
fax. an important matter, as the
two largest railways, among others, Haim
The "committee will confer
There is a
Jarire and powerful * i h iwnt hi the state ^
whkh jg cJ niorwill for a railwav J .ornmis
Bj ul .„ f „ r „ awil „ nt f , alPS hy
* ,J n ‘ ihva Y s ' The Farmers' Alliance will
»P<^k on tl.ese subjects, it wul De an is
* ue ,n « ,c ncXt <: |jf* l * ,ure
FLORIDA PHOSPHATES.
A dispatch from Jacksonville, Flu.,
says: There is considerable excitement
throughout the state; over the recent dis
covery of phosj»ate depzjsits in Marion
county and counties lying vicinity south of
it. I.and owners iu the are ad
van ring prices and prospectors are exam
iniDg the country.
NO. 14.
THE “LA GRIPPE.”
INFLUENZA RAPIDLY SPREAD
ING OYER THE COUNTRY.
MANY NORTHERN CITIES INVADED—ONE
TUIRD OK THE POPULATION OF PARIS
DOWN WITH TIIE PLAGUE.
The Russian influenza, the gen'.rine
( C LnGrippe,” lias shown itself and proba
ble head in Chicago, and already a largo
number of cases have been reported. All
of these enses have shown unmistakable
signs them of Russian influenza, and some of
have developed into very serious
ones. the 'The “Grippe” is officially ignored
at sanitary headquarters in New York
City. Unofficially, the representatives of
the health department say that probably
50,000 people in New York are suffering
from more or less severe attacks of influ
enza, but they refuse to give it official
recognition. found The disease seems to have
the a goodly number of York victims among
Saturday's employes of the New posfoftiee. office
absentees in the general
numbered sixty-live, and in many instan
ces persons on the sick list were letter
axsorters. Eighty-one members of the
suffering Brooklyn police force are reported to be
with the grippe.
The recent mortality in Paris, from the
ravages of the influenza, is as follows:
Wednesday, 318; Thursday, 3S)3; Friday,
344. The sudden drop from the figures
of Tliursduy evidence to those of Friday is taken as
an that the dreaded epidemic is
on the wane.
A prominent physician of Philadelphia
says; “There arc fully 25,000 persons now
in this city being treated for influenza in
some form or other. All classes of citi
zens are iimubere.l among its victims, and
Home of the leading business men of th(
city have been compelled to business absent them
selves front their places of on ac
count of the grippe.”
The disease has also made its appear
inee in Detroit, Boston, Baltimore, New
Brunswick, N. J„ and Kansas City. At
Detroit over live thousand are down with
the disease. Fifty policemen, more than
half the city's oflieers there and their assistants,
ire laid up, aii. 1 is hardly a store or
factory in the city whose clerical and
working force is not seriously crippled.
DIAGNOSIS OK THE INFLUENZA.
The Midiriil Neies , of Philadelphia, quick says;
Influenza conies suddenly; goes as ;
least robust at anv age and women seem
to be its first victims. It is here a ques
tion of eondition not of sex. 'The largo
numbers siinullsn.wish attacked attracts
general attention and thus those most im
pressionable facilitated are seized, depressing the onset ion, being like
illness. by any emol
tear or There is no rigor, prop
erly to he finis designated, lint heat rather a
series of chills and a feeling of there
with, sometimes malaise.>f a general kind
is experienced, but, like the attack itself,
is of short duration, lasting but a and few
hours, With the lust access of nasal
facial irritation, come a chilliness, which
is followed by some feverishness with
more headache, pronounced weakness malaise, and and in a gen- of
eral soreness
the members, and especially of the larger
joints. With the progress of the ease in
some epidemic, there is considerable gen
eral weakness, even a marked depression becomes
of the vital powers. The finis.;
small, an.l tin; min.l gloomy and rest
lessness ensues. When a fatal ternyna
I ion is to occur, ns a rule, an extension
downward into the. trachea and brcnclii
takes place.
Watches Spoiled By Electricity.
[f you are going out on the eleetrio
railway you had belter leave your #(100
chronometer at borne and carry st Wstter
bury, for there is so much electricity
around that it e. apt to mavnitize your
"atch. Scm-ihI (icopte complain that
their ii.litable atebc. have bc n reii
<l< i. .1 u < h ,, I i .liir <m the. Leking
Jou line. Him is son . fJiiiig that cun
lmr,ll y >'<' '‘leotneity will
'‘ Sr ' " ,sl * ' l,k '' |‘ wi, ! c h
I', 1,1 1 " ,‘• J< 1 ."I* T .
""l' ,l "’ " H " l k ;*“
lrom t Iif • wim > wJurli roudii<!t | 1 | it into Min
V( ., . ljr itM . lf aIld the delicately oon
w|ll „.| , „ f u w . atHl , at eh it held up.
T)ji „ ;ll)d . u .„
j f , force until the value
,, ,. atuk.sl “im a tim ekeefK-ri
js ,|,. Hll „ y ,,|. xiiere are some U on
n ( ., i( . WH , ( . il( . H li ;tl i . ,„ )W which
of ugninst Midi dangers, an.l
non-magneti ■ <•:.-<•« u.v also put out,
whirl, prove cquullv tei vieenb e. But
, w ,.li to <>l ..-rve the precaution but when not
0 ulv on. lerti i.- mill- ad , near
the dynam.m of an electric-light plant,
-IWushitieteii P"sf.
THEY WILL REJOICE.
TOE ADVENT OK THE BRAZILIAN REPUBLIC
TO BE CELEBRATED APRIL 7TO.
Letters and papers from Brazil, under
ff*te of December 12th, say tliat the gov*
, has urged all |s,liti< ul kind parties to
constitute immediately some of a
representation from the different states iu
»iew of the rapidly mererising di-orgam
za ** on prevailing di'poutj^*" ith the
military dictatorship. 7th.
republic citizens will of be Jii# < thaf Arming
Home
a society to assure Dorn I i annuity
equivalent to the interest o.. . .000 centos.
BANK STATEMENT.
The following is a statement of the as
«'■;-iated banks for the week ended Sat
urday, December 28th:
Uesere- decrease. ........ .......$ 1 , 372,050
Loans increase........... ...... 2 , 217,500
^ Ie ....... 1,238,000
Legal teml'-rr. i!e<;re»»e. ....... 60,000
l ><increase ...... ....... 344 200
Circulation de create. ....... 115,000
Banks now hold $2,021,375 in exceaof
the 25 per cent. rule.