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THE BLACKSHEAH TIMES t
VOL. VI.
It is understood that the Maine, the big
6000-ton armored cruiser, and the first
iron warship ever built at the Brooklyn
Navy Yard, will be launched on July 4.
It has been decided by Judge Thayer,
of the United States district court at St.
Louis, that it is unlawful to dun a man
through the mails by means of a postal
card.
The first thing Explorer Stanley did
when he reached the coast of Africa was
to ask for files of newspapers for the past
three years.. The world's history for that
period was a blank to him, and he ivill
have to do some hard reading in order tc
understand the situation.
One method of preventing fires seems
to have been overlooked in the.discussion
which has followed the disasters in Lynn,
Boston and Minneapolis. It is the French
regulation which makes a tenant ,oi
house-owner financially responsible lot
damage by fires that spread beyond hi?
premises.
It is estimated that our American tour
ists in 1889 spent ninety million dollars
in Europe, and it is almost, certain that
scarcely a bagatelle of all this will ever
float back to our shores. This is an enor
mous amount of money. It is double the
amount Uncle Sain hits on deposit in all
the National banks of the country. It is
nearly the sum which Secretary Noble
estimates for the entire pension list in
1890. It is far more than it takes to run
two or three department of the Govern
ment for a year. It is about time, the
New York Telegram believes we had a
fair on this side of the water and pre
vented all this floiv of good cash to
Europe. _
Dr. Alfredo d i Luy, of Rio Janeiro,
believes that the climate of Brazil is de
generating to Europeans, especially to
persons from the north. lie has uoticcd
that Brazilians iu general arc. more pal
lid, and are less vigorous and ‘energetic,
than persons coming from temperate and
cold climates. The degeneration of the
Portuguese race may also be noted iu
Rio de Janeiro. An amende condition,
caused by malarious influences, is com
mon among them, and, while it does not
kill by itself,weakens the hold on life and
greatly increases the infant mortality.
The children of Portuguese and Italians
Jo not seem to fare so badly as the chil
dren of parents coming from more north
ern countries.
_
Even in conservative England tlie
times are indeed changed. The cane
has always been considered, as necessary
a part, of the schoolmaster's ’possession’s
as the spelling hook and corporal punish
ment prevails there to an extent that
would not be tolerated here. A school
master was recently sued by the father
of a pupil whom he had unmercifully
beaten by caning him on the hand, and
the magistrate gave judgment against the
pedagogue on the ground that caning on
the hand was attended by a risk of in
jury, and there were “methods of cor
poral punishment quite as available,
efficacious and not necessarily attended
by auy risk, which the defendant might
have used.”
There is a vast deal of patriotism
among the women of the Country. The
Ladies’ Hermitage Association, with
headquarters at Nashvilie, Teun., lias
undertaken to raise a fund for the pre
servation of Andrew Jackson’s grave and
homestead. The intention is to make
the Hermitage, like Mount Vernon, a
Mecca for patriots. Mrs. Nathaniel
Baxter is the President of the Associa
tioa. The Mary Washington Monument
Association, of Fredericksburg, Va., is
also in the hands of earnest and lcyal
women, who wish to see the grave of the
first President's mother marked by an
appropriate monument. Mrs. Janies
Power Smith, of Fredericksburg, Va., is
the President.
The post schools of the army may re
ceive some attention from Congress dur
ing the current session. It is not likely
that any attempt will be made to carry
out General Lew Wallace's idea of con
verting every military station into an
academy; but, according to the New York
Time*, this view is gaining adherents that
a somewhat better use could be made of a
part of the time of the enlisted men than
employing it in endless repetitions of
rudimentary drills. The recruit must of
course be made first of all a good soldier,
and have such daily training as will keep
him a good soldier; but it is not neces
sary to look at West Point to see about
what proportion of the day is really re
quired fer that and hew much is left for
mental improvement.
BLACKBHEAR, GA. THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 1890.
- CURRENT NEWS.
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('ONI)EN S h I) IRON I HE
GRAPH AND CABLE.
things that happen from day to day
throughout thk WORLD, culled
FROM VARIOUS SOURCES.
Tiie entire royal family of Greece has
the “grippe.”
,T!i<> courthouse and a block of build
ings burned at Gallatin, Mo., Monday.
Steamships arriving at New York re
port the stormiest passage for the past
sight years.
The afternoon News reports thirty-thous- suffering
and school children of Chicago
from the influenza.
Two hundred and seventy-five out of
1,000 of the Elmira, N. Y., refornniry,
arc down with the grippe.
Five hundred grain porters of the
North and South docks, Liverpool, have
struck for an advance in wages.
Dr. Tulmage has cancelled all his en
gagements iu London, and in provincial
towns, in consequence of the influenza.
The ground and other property of the
Ivy City driving park, at Washington, D.
C., sold at auction Monday for $1:13,500.
The influenza is spreading in Mexico.
Several deaths from the disease are re
ported tis having occurred at Villa Lobas.
The editor of the newspaper El Pro
gresx, published in the City of Mexico,
has been sent to jail for defaming Adelina
Patti.
Senator John W. Daniel will deliver an
address in Richmond, Ya., on January
25th. on the life and character of Jeffer
son Davis.
The German Czech conference, held in
Vienna Austria, lias succeeded in recon
ciling all differences between the Czechs
and Germans in Bohemia.
Editor Parke, of the North London
Timed, was found guilty of libel in the
case against him brought by the earl of
Euston, and sentenced to one year’s im
prisonment.
Artola Bros., foreign hankers, with
houses in London, Paris and Madrid,
have been declared bankrupts, Their
liabilities are 400,000 pounds.
In a street tight at Macon, Mo., Monday
night, between two newspaper editors,
the city marshal, his deputy, and one of
the editors were fatally shot.
During the past ten months the imports
of woolen goods amounted iu value to
$47,107,423, against $44,010,890 during
the same months of 1889,
A telegram from Victoria mines, near
Trinidad, Col., says that a eave-in oc
curred in that mine Wednesday morning,
and that five men were buried.
An organization of Sons of the Ameri
can Revolution was formed at (fliieago
Tuesday. The society gives membership
to any male descendant of a revolutionary
soldier.
The United States squadron It sailed will from visit
Gibralter Wednesday. Toulon, Triste,
■C’artliagena, and Algiers Barcelona, and then to
Malta, return
Gibralter.
Authentic news has been received at
Cairo, Egypt, of terrible mortality among
the natives in the Soudan, owing to a
famine resulting from a lack of ruin dur
ing the autumn.
A London dispateli says: The king of
‘the Belgians has received several commu
nications purporting to he from revolu
tionary societies, warning him not to re
build the palace at La Aiken.
Influenza, in a severe form, prevails the
among the officers and crews of
American qqiindron of evolution, now in
the Mediterranean. There are 130 cases
of the disease on hoard the Chicago alone.
Secretary Windom’s call for ten per
cent of the amount of expired public Wednesday. money held
by national hanks
So far, only eighty hanks, out of one
hundred and thirty called upon, have re
sponded.
Judge McConnell at Chicago, on Mon
day afternoon granted convicted the application of
Kuiize, who was in tlie Cronin
trial, for a new trial, hut denied the mo
tion to tlie other defendents—Coughlin,
Burke and O’Sullivan.
The Pair , of Paris, says that- the presi
dent of the French commission sent out
to investigate the affairs of the Panama
Canal company on the isthmus, in a
speech made at Aspinwall, said that tht
canal would be completed.
A dispatch from New York says: Thf
Argentine republic has fully recognized
the newlv established republic of Brazil,
The Argentine consul-general in New
York has just received an official circular
from his government «or.veving this no
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A dispatch M uil.iy .....
on j m i
i.. says : The P. nti^flvan a lta road
company have been compelled to refuse
freight for the seaboard dining the pa.-t
few days on account of the la.gnppe.
Of 200 conductor-. 1 ->-» oil <J,1 D 11
one time with the “gnppe.
It is stated that the steel trade of this _
country is to lie revolutionized by a
new process for making open
hearth steei as cheap or cheaper than
Bessemer steel. A test was made a few
days ago at Pittsburg, Pa., which was
fairly satisfactory to those interested.
C’laflin, Coburn A Co., boot and shoe
dealers, of Boston. Mass., were burned
out Friday morning. Loss between $150.
000 and $200,000; insurance $100,000.
The building was a four story stone. be
longing to the Boston university. Loss
100,000, fuilv insured.
At Philadelphia, on Tuesday, the re
mains of Hon. William I). Kelly, of
Pennsylvania, champion of protection,
‘•father of the house.” who was so long
and acceptably represented the fourth
district in congress, was consigned to the
silent tomb. The interment was devoid
of formality, being witnessed only by
visiting congressmen and the family and
relatives of the deceased.
It is reported from Home, Italy, that
the Pope has issued an encyclical which
^ t 'ts forth the principles which shall
g a idc Catholics in their relations toward
the state, which, the encyclical says, they
must obey when such course does not en
tail disobedience to divine laws. In
countries where the state opposes Cath
olicism, Catholics must combat the ene
my, but must not tic the church to any
political party.
'The following circular was sent out
from New York, Thursday : “To all Sub
scribers of the Commercial Telegram
Company: The Commercial Telegram
company is compelled to announce that
the property sold heretofore operated by it lias
been at sheriff's sale to satisfy judg
meats against the company, and now
finds itself unable to continue to distrib
ute, after this date, quotations which
have heretofore been supplied to its cus
tomers. is Georoe TV. Caspar, Secretary." Tele
It understood that the Postal
graph company were the purchasers.
THE NEGROS PARADISE.
OKLAHOMA BEING RAPIDLY COLONIZED IIY
THE COLORED PEOPLE.
Letters received by W. L. Eaglcsou. Immi
business manager of the Oklahoma
gration society, in Kansas, from points in
North Carolina, say that a large numbei
jf negroes in that state two going through
in wagons this winter to the new
territory. Eagleson says there are now
about 22,000 negroes in Oklahoma,
and that by spring there ivill he at
least 50,000 lie "claims they ought
to have that country, and says presi
dent Lincoln and the republican adds. party
promised to give it to them. He
“We are determined to take it any how
and ive ivill make it one of the grandest
in the union. I favor Colonel Morgans
scheme to purchase the Cherokee strip and
other lands in the Indian territory, ex
clusively for negro settlement. Give us
the Blair bill, the Indian territory, and
Senator Butler's $5,000,000, and we will
he content. Oklahoma, in my judgment, and
is the land of promise for the race,
migration the panacea for every ill now
effecting the negroes of the south.”
THE MELON GROWERS
ARE DESPONDENT OVER THE OUTLOOK—UN
FAVORABLE FREIGHT REPORTS.
The melon growers of south Georgia
feel rather blue over the prospect for the
coming year. At the last meeting of the
South Georgia Fruit and .Melon Growers’
association, a committee was Steamship appointed and to
confer with the Southern
Railway association as to correcting its
errors us to weight per car. Complaints
are made that the weights at Albany are
carelessly determined, the cars being
weighed while passing over the
scales, without being uncoupled. weight
Thousands of pounds of the excess Fur
have thus been put upon ears, each
theriuore, they are re-weighed by
connecting road and in many cases us
much as two thousand pounds are added
by each road until tlie overcharge of
weight would amount to seven or eight
thousand pounds. The committees were
met cordially, hut no concessions were
made.
AN ALLIANCE CONVENTION
HELD IN AUGUSTA, OA. RESULT OF TI1B
DELIBERATIONS.
A convention held on Tuesday, in An
gusta, Ga., of the Alliances in the terri
tory contiguous to that city, has adopted
a resolution to throw their trade with cot
ton fuctors who do not charge more thus
seventy-five cents commission per Imli
when no advance is made, or a dollai
when an advance is made. A resolution
was also adopted favoring those commis
siou merchants who do not charge full
commissions during years when a full crop
of the staple is not made. A committee
of one from each county was appointed establish
to consider the practicability iu of Augusta.
ing an Alliance warehouse
They will report August 15th. Meant inn.
the sub-Alliances will consider the ques
tion.
THE CYCLONES WORK
GREAT DESTITUTION IN’ WICKLIFFE ANL
CLINTON, KENTUCKY.
There is much suffering at Wicklifh
and Clinton, Ky., m consequence of the
recent cyclone. At the former p ace
twenty-seven house# were destroyed oi
made uninhabitable, and at tiie lattei
place upward of fifty homes are goat*,
Fifty-seven people at Wickliffe and
nearly / one hundred at Clinton, are in dcs
titut cireumlrtan ^.
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HA WE8 WILL HANG.
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the sentence of the supreme conn
will be executed February 28.
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A Montgomery, Ala., dispatch says:
The llawes case was affirmed by the su
prerne court Monday morning, and the
sentence of death imposed hv the criuii
!llt \ court of Jefferson county ordered to
be executed on Friday, February 28th.
1890.
SIX INDIANS HANGED.
Six Indians, Austin,Dillev, Willis, Jones,
Goin and Burris, were hanged for murders
committed in the Indian territory.
Austin was a Chickasaw; Dillev, Willis,
Jones, Goin and Burris were Choctaws.
The victims were all white men and rob
bery was the object in each caw Two
other Choctaws were to liave been hanged
with them, hut their sentences w ere coin
mute^bj the president.
AT THE CAPITAL.
W1IAT THE FIFTY FIRST COX
(/HESS is DOISG.
APPOINTMENTS nv PRESIDENT HARRISON
MEASURES of n ational importance
AND ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.
On Wednesday the senate took up Air.
United Morgan’s resolution reer ignizing the
States of Brazil as a free, indepen
dent and sovereign state, and Air. Tur
pie proceeded to make a speech in sup
port of it, hut the resolution went over
without further action. The senate then
took up the calendar and passed a number
of senate bills, among them one granting
the use of certain lands to the city of
St. Augustine, Fla., for a public park.
On Wednesday the house resumed eon
sideration of the report of the special
committee to investigate the SiK-ott defal
cation. A vote was taken on the Hemp
hill bill pis substitute for the majority
Dill) permitting members to sue in the
court of claims. It was defeated by a
close vote, of yeas 130, nays 138, and a
motion to reconsider was offered by Mr.
Bland, of Missouri, who had voted
in the negative, in order to enable
him to make the motion.
The motion was promptly tabled, how
ever, and the vote recurred on ordering
the majority bill (appropriating $75,000
to refund members for their lost salaries)
to he engrossed and read the third time.
This having been done, Mr. Illiiml dr
munded tile reading of the engrossed bill,
but tlie speaker held that under general
parliamentary law this was not bill, necessary.
A vote was then taken on the and it
aviis defeated yens 120. nays 142.
The senate has passed the concurrent
resolution, reported from the eommittei
on finance, requesting the secretary of tin
treasury not to take any stops towards
making a new lease of seal fisheries until
after February 20th.
The house committee on election of
Thursday president and for vice hearing president had delegation set apart
a for the
of colored men, appointed at (he enliven
tion held at Richmond, Vn., some lime
ago, who desired to speak on the subject
of an election law. The delegation did
not put in appearance, however.
Although the world's fair bills occupied
the attention of tlie house on Thursday to
Hie exclusion of other matters, still there
is yet a ehiiuee to reconsider the vote of
Wednesday bv which the house refused to
appropriate money Slieott to pay its members for
the loss by tlie defalcation.
On Thursday the judiciary euinmittec
decided upon a favorable report on the hill
recently introduced by Mr. Stewart, of
Georgia, for tlie establishment of two
national ihe penitentiaries, degree one to latitude, be located
north of 39th of and
the other south of it. The bill appro
priated $500,000 for each building, and
$100,000 additional for machinery and im
plements. Atlanta, (la., is favorably men
tinned as a good location on account of the
Georgia number and of neighboring prisoners sentenced from
states.
NOTES.
A bill was introduced in the house on
Tuesday for marking I he lines of battle and
tysburg. position of troops of both armies at Get
The President, on Wednesday, nomi
nated the following postmasters: Robert
Moorman, Newberry Courthouse, 8. ('.,
and Blanton W. Burlord, Lebanon, Tenri.
Secretary Windom, on Thursday, sent
to the speaker of the House a letter ree
oiumcnuing appropriations for t)i“ follow
ing named public buildings, for the pur
poses set forth : Charleston, S. eus
toinhouse, $21,01)0, for the general repail
of tin-building and heating apparatus:
Macon, Ga., courthouse, postollh e, i le.,
$5,000, to const met a sewer from the
building to the river, and waterproofing
the boiler pit in the basement.
The following nominations have been
confirmed by the Senate: Civil Service
Commissioners Theodore Roosevelt, of
New York, and Hugh S. Thompson, of
South Carolina; Collectors of ('iistoin
.1. II. Deveuux, Brunswick, Ga.: F. R.
Gungy, Tampa, Florida; T. If. Johnson,
Charleston, S. C.; II. W. Dungcrliold,
Tappahan.'ioek, Vn. ; T. .!. .1arret, Peters
burg, Va.; J. W. Fisher, Richmond, Va.:
E. J. Penny packer, Wilmington, N.
Robert Hancock, Jr., Pamlico, .V C.
W. G. Henderson, Pearl River, Mis . : W.
It. Sheppard, Apalachicola,Fla.: II HeB.
Clay, Newport News, Va.; Surveyor ol
Customs, (,’. C. Wimbi-h, Atlanta. Ga
THE GAME FLUSHED.
AN AMATEUR HUNTER FIRES INTO A CROWD
OF CHILDREN WITH FATAL EFFECT.
In Marion county, o S. (.. „ Saturday „
afternoon, a crowd of colored children
were returning from school, when they
overtook a negro boy named MeLaurin,
who had been out hunting. Several of
the children began “guvmg" MeLaurin
because he had failed to secure any game,
Tbi. angered the boy, who suddenly and
without warning raised his gun, shot into
the crowd of children, killing one and
icverely wounding four others, one fatally.
MeLaurin was jailed, and expresses no
regret for bis terrible deed,
TROUBLE EXPECTED.
SALOON KEEPER OF DENVER SAY THEY
WILL DISREGARD TIIE SUNDAY LAW
Sheriff Barton, of Denver, Colorado,
on Friday, created a ieu ition by mak •
ing his first order, which i a to the fleet
hereafter all -aloon must close on
Sunday. Heretofore tlie la w has practi- of
C ally been a dea letter. A number
deputies have I sworn in for
[)lir p (/S , ; „nd given their or*l< t
several saloon men declare they will pay
uo to the sheriff' orders, and
some t eusatioudl developments are anti' i
paled.
HOW DUES ARE PAID.
tub ft .an by which the national ami
STATE ALLIANCES COLLECT DUES.
Under the constitution of the National
Alliance the State Alliances t>ay live
cents dues annually for each male mem
ber. The Georgia State Alliance also
levies an additional five cents dues for
one quarter in each year to pay dues to
the National Alliance. This requires
each male member of a sub-Allianee to
be represented by ten cents dues in the
secretary’s report for the quarter ending
March 31, 1890. Secretary U. L. Burks
has been giving some important instruc
tions to tlie secretaries in regard to col
lecting and forwarding the dues, for
their convenience. Dues collected from
deceased and expelled members, when
collected before death or expulsion, must
be sent forward and accounted for in the
next quarterly fails report. before If, however, the
member to pay his death or
expulsion no account is made of the due's.
Members demittod must pay dues for the
quarter in which they receive the demit,
but do not pay again for the balance of
the quarter in the Alliance to wliicli they
carry their membership.
ENGLAND APPREHENSIVE.
THAT AN INCREASE OK DUTIES WILL STOI
1MUOKTATIONH.
A cablegram from London says: Tht
testimony before the congressional com
mittee of ivtiys and means at. Washington
is followed ivitli great interest by Euro
pean manufacturers. A slight of increase on
the tariff on many lines goods means
the cessation of exportation; and the ill
most unanimous reeoiiiiiiimdatioii of wit
nesses that the duties should be made
higher, tills continental consternation. jobbers and They mall
ufaeturers ivilh say
that owing to the strict interpretation of
the lull's by the United States consuls in
Europe, and endless squabbles about
invoices, their business has been greatly burden
damaged, and any additional
placed upon it would prove ruinous til
them.
DEATH FROM COLD.
BNOWKOUH TEEN fCIIKS DEEP IN WYOMING
HUNDREDS OF CATTLE DYING.
A Cheyenne, Wyo., dispatch of Monday
savs: Twelve to fourteen inches of snow has
fallen in the west end of (ho territory.
The snow lias crusted, and with the
fieezing of the water, cattle, sheep and
horses are received perishing word all from over his the rancho, range.
An owner
in that section, that scarcely an animal
Hint could not he fed would survive.
Horses have worn their hoofs crusted to the quick
trying to heat through helpless snow.
(tattle and sheen lire
Game has hern' riven from the
inoimt/iius, and antelope have been killed
within the eity limits of Evanston, while
stock lias drifted to the railway. Bat.nr
diiy and Sunday were intensely cold, and
two men were frozen to death.
HUMBUGGING IMMIGRANTS.
A SWINDLING SCHEME TO INDUCE IilTdl
IMMIGRATION TO FLORIDA.
The United States consul at Anmtcrdnu
recently induce reported citizens that mi effort was inndi
to of thut country to emmi
gratc to Florida, by representing that
and each emigrant pounds depositing would be given one hundred
of fifty Florida land, together with ten imple- acres
rich
ments for cultivutivution and would In
given board and lodging free for one
year. The matter was reported to the
treasury department, and Secretary Win
dom 1ms written the state department,
suggesting that while such immigrants
would not he prohibited from landing, it
would be well for the consul to advise the
people to move cautiously in the matter,
and to correspond with the governor of
Florida before taking any decisive action.
BIG STRIKE ON HAND.
TUB SAILORS AND FIREMEN OF NEW YORK
CITY DEMAND HIGHER WAGES.
Tho sailors and firemen of New York
City are preparing for a big strike on
April 1st. Secretary George W. Reid
was instructed to issue a proclamation
making union known appealing the determination the of tin
and to sailors and
firemen all over the world for assistance
in the coming struggle. Cablegram?
were sent to England, Australia and Cali
fornia announcing the action taken and
asking that assessments be levied on the
men there to su juiort tbuir fellow-laborers
in New York. Tlie union will demand
$1 per day for sailors on all shi|m, and
$1.50 for firemen.
A FATAL INITIATION.
KILLED 1SY ACCIDENT while taking a
LODGE DEGREE.
While taking the Royal Arch degree night, at
Huntington, W. Va., Tuesday Masonic
Rev. J. W. Johnson lost his life.
circles are greatlyagitatedovcr the shock
ing accident, It is the first in
stance on record where any accident of a
serious nature has occurred in the ceremo
nies of that degree, In fact, the ritual
which initiates tie- candidate into the
royal arch mysteries is considered much
less dangerous than that of any other
degree.
The newiy tested textile plant know,,
as kanaff, brought from the shores of the
Caspian, has been further experimented
with, and is found to lx- soft, elastic,
tough and silky, anil cau lx- bleached
chemically without losing these prop
erties. its resistance being also far greater
than that of hemp, while its specific
weight is liuck less.
NO 16
SOUTHi RN NOTES.
INTERESTING NEWS FROM ALL
POINTS IN THE SOUTH
GENERAL PROGRESS AND OCCURRENCES
WHICH ARK HAPPENING BELOW MA
SON’S and ihxon’s line.
The business portion of Flora, Miss.,
Aias burned on Tuesday night.
The Timm Democrat pronounces the
gravel roads of Now Oil ‘ ins a success,
and far preferable to the shell roads which
were first tried.
The Lee monument in Riohmond, Ya.,
will be unveiled on May 15th. The pro
gramme will embrace a para le of military
from various parts of the south.
A slight, but pronounce l, earthquake, Col
shock whs felt generally throughout
umbia, S. C., Wedncnhiy night. No
alarm was caused by the disturbance.
A lire occurred in Willis Price’s ware
house in Macon, (la., Tuesday, in which
nine hundred to 1,009 hairs of cotton
were entirely destroyed or greatly dam
aged. The loss is about $45,000.
George 1‘enley, bookkeeper of the
heavy Kentucky Lumber company, which has a
business, with large capital, head
quarters at Burnside, Ivy,, is u defaulter
and fugitive. The amount of defalcation
is not yet known.
Craven Urns., on Thursday, started fires
in three furnace- in their glassworks at
Salem. N C. Propositions have been
made to (lie looked out union men, hut if
they do not accept the terms offered, the
works will lie run by non union labor.
While fniir boys, between the Hges of
six and eight years, were playing under
the edge of a sand hank in Jackson,
Trim., on Tuesday, the hank caved in,
burying them v..redead under about when ten extricated. feet of
sand. They
Conductor Frank Layton, of the Ala
bama Great. Southern railroad, aviis
knocked from Ills train by a water tank
and killed Friday niglil. lie was leaning
out of the door of (lie eubooHn loO fur as
the train passed the water tank, aiM was
on the head.
While a col ton laden train was. running
from Perry and Harrison stations on the
Houston and Texas Central railroad in
Texas Monday, the cotton look tire and
the train rushed in the hitter station with
a long and furious stream of flame fol
lowing it. The depot caught lire, and it
and several cars and about 2,000 hales of
cotton were consumed.
The one hundred and third annual com
munication of the grand lodge of Masons
of North Carolina begun »! Raleigh, Wed
nesday evening. There are two hundred
and thirly-live working lodges with an
active membership of eight hundred.
The total number of Masons in the state,
including active and non-uflllhitcd, is es
timated at 15,000. Oni 1 hundred mid
fifty lodges were represented. Fourteen
new lodges were ensiled during the year.
An alliance jubilee was held at Valdos
ta, Hu., on Wednesday, mid was the
grandest success ever seen in south Geor
giu. There were from 7,000 to 10,000
in town, coining from eight to ten coun
ties in < ieorgia and several in Florida.
Among them were the Lowndes County
alliance, the Brook County alliance, the
Berrien County alliance, the Clinch Coun
ty alliance, and iilliiuieeineii from othei
p linls. The day was pent in speukiug
uml fousting.
A Birmingham, A la. .dispatch murderer, says: Dick
llawes, the condemned eats
little, talks less and says he Ims little or
no hope. Will'll asked if he hud any
hope of executive clemency, lie answered:
‘‘No; the governor would not dure inter
fere in my ease.” llawes did not touch
food Monday night, and had eaten blit
little Tuesday. The death watch lias
been set. ami lie talks only to his guiiriL
He still declines to see any of Ins friends,
ir to talk to any one beyond answering
a few brief questions.
A Japanese Juliet.
On a platform or upper veranda ol
tin- Hall of Silvery WaveH, or Fragrant
Pavilion of Vistus, stands Miss Swaying
Bamboo, who has not yet come to the
writing of her name with the figure 21.
Mi. Foot of the Mountain’s second son
beholds the vision of girlish loveliness.
He loves his pipe-case, but the vision
more. He would behold again. Now
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he cannot, that is certain. She is under
parental or guardian eye. and achat with
a man stranger or a callow youth is out
of order.
However, under her modest mien and
bashful eye their lurks encouragement.
Her sleeve waves and the swaying of u
sleeve is a sign of willingness. It is
enough, Romeo, in lieu of a rose, tosses
her his smoker's chatelaine, with ivory
netsuke, says a writer in the Century on
people in Japan. If she flings it back or
<lr< >1* it his hopes are blighted. If it
finds safe hiding iu her girdle then there
will he a meeting and perhaps love and
matnage-