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PIK E COU IN TY,
«TB 9 crarriON, $1.00 per annum.
All the country from Cape Colony to
'the Zambesi River, ami from the Portu
guese colonies on the East to the Ger
man possessions on the West, is to be
controlcd by a British South African
Company. The territory is three times
the size of Great Britain, ft will he
called Zambesia,
Thc Cxar possesses forty-four uniforms,
-me of which he has never worn, viz.:
that of the Russian Field Marshal. Al
though he is Commander-in-Chief of the
srmy, the Russian ruler lias, tlie con
tinental story goes, vowed to never wear
the Insignia of a Field Marshal uulll this
grade shall have been conferred upon
him by his brother Field Marshals after a
victorious battle.
J. H. Brown, of Savannah, N. Y.,
claims that ho is the youugest living
Federal soldier who served in the late
war. He enlisted when he Was thirteen
years old, he »sy$, with Company E,
Eleventh Nnw York Volunteer#, :,t
Auburn. He has a letter from the Sec
retory of War stating that he is entitled
■to the fifty-dollar prize offer a year ago
for the youngest living soldier.
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In his struggle for the recovery of tlie
throne of Uganda, East Africa, tlie native
chief, Mwauga,was assisted by Europeans,
There was very severe lighting at the
(.,o. King Kalema’s force tvas anni
hilated, only Arabs escaping the subse
quent massacre. During tlie battle s
dhow an the lake, conveying twelve Araii
■chiefs and 200 fighting slaves with muni
tions, was blown up and all on board
killed.
The New York Tribune regards the
talk of a division of the State in which
Southern California editors aro now in
dulging ns being largely rubbish. In
the opinion of that paper “a two-third;
majority of the Legislature can npvet
he secured for such a project, becaust
most of the wealth and influence is in the
northern and central countries, and the
representative men of these section;
would no more consent, to split up (.'»!
ifo'rnia than New Yorkers would agret
to the division of theit State. Scetiouai
jealously exists, but it is largely due tr
Urn fact that, the northern and central
counties have shown that they can pro
duce good oranges and lemons, whersa;
the southern countries claim a monopoly
«n raising citrus fruits."
The criminal classes bear the highesi
proportion to the population in Itaiy
From statistics recently published intlia 1
country, it would appear that murder;
are committed in Italy three times often
cr than in Austria, four times oftenei
than in Prussia, five times oftener that
In Sweden, fourteen times oftener that
in Denmark, and sixteen times oftenei
khan in Great Britiin and Ireland.
Crime has also unfortunately been in
'creasing instead of decreasing in Italy ol
late years. Ol the foreign coafftiie;
which stand favorably in a comparison ol
the criminal classes with the population
may be mentioned: Russia, where thej
cumber 12 in each 10,000; Portugal, If
per 10,000; Norway, 15 per 10,000;
while Sweden appears to be a very law
abiding country, the persona convicted
in 1885 being only 4 per 10,000 of the
population.
The recent announcement that the
Federal Government printing office is en
gaged in printing 20,000,000 population
schedules lor the use of the census bu
reau gives but a faint idea of the enor
mous amount of printing required for tin.
enumeration to take piece in June. Sta
tionery Clerk Ketcham estimates that tlie
stationery already ordered would fiii a
room three blocks long, thirty feet high,
and forty feet wide. In addition to the
population schedules now being printed,
10,000,000 more have been ordered. This
will require 200 tons of paper, which
was delivered at the rate of 30,000
pounds a day. Twenty million blanks
for statements of recorded indebtedness
will be required, 7,000,000 or 8,000,000
manufacturers’ schedules, and 2,000,000
agricultural schedules. These blanks arc
all about 9x11 inches in size. Six hun
dred different kinds of circulars have al
ready been printed, the average number
of copies of each being about 20,000, or
in round numbers 12,000,000 miscella
neous forms. Besides the printed mat
ter, millions of sheets of other paper are
needed, one single order being for 100,
000,000 blank cards for the use of the
electrical tabulating machine. By the
use of this machine it is thought that a
saving of three-fourths <ff,te .nsc of
computing the returns leCeit^i from the
supervisors and enumerators will be
saved. A part of this stationery will be
sent through the mails, and for that pur
pose 75,000,000 free delivery envelopes
have been ordered. These figures give,
Mr. Ketcham says, only the amount of
preliminary printing ordered, When
the census is being taken and the returns
are being computed much additional
printed matter will be used, and the
printed census records will consume more
paper than is required, both to get ready
Ccrnifi mxml
VOL. II.
AT THE CAPITAL.
'WHAT THE FiVTr-FIRST CON
GRESS IS DOING.
APPOINTMENTS BY PRESIDENT IIAnRWflS- -
MEASURES OF NATtOSAt IMPORTANCE
AND ITEMS Ut" 'GENEHAL INTEREST.
In the House, on Monday, chairman
McKinley bill’’ delivered tlie “McKinley tarifl
into the hands of the fuUcotnntiW'o
which The minority offer will amend be allowed and ire day" in
to mfettts prepare
their views «p<m die bill, am d such
amendment# as may he made before the
hill is reported to the house. The bill,
according to Chairman MeKillltyv, will
effect a reduction of $45,000,000 ill fftvti
Hues. The republicans twe hot satisfied
with the bill, hhd assert that it is full of
inconsistencies and patchwork from be
ginning and the democrats to cud. Ex-Speaker Carlisle,
on the committee have
decided fo present a substitute bill iu or
dvr to show the people by contrast till 1
republican tlie and bill democratic Jl'isition on
tariff. The will hew close to the
line of ih" Mill's bill,
TYie senate met Monday morning (as
will he the rule until otherwise ordered)
at 11 o’clock. There were Iftenty-ftvc
senators present. Inti ft call having 'been
ordered, the upcs'oiice of a quorum was
siued And then tlie journal of Saturday
V.as read and approved, Mr. Reagan
addressed the senate on the bill for the
issue of treasury notes on the deposit of
silver bullion. At the conclusion of Mr.
Reagan’s speech, tin, dependent pension
hill was taken up. the first question be
ing ing on Mr. Plumb’s amendment reprov
the limitation as to arrears of pen
sions, making pension# on account of
from wounds, or dentil injuries or disease, commence
tiic or discharge of the soldier.
In the debate which followed-, Considera
ble opposition WAS shown On both sides
to disposing of the question involved ill
Mr. Plumb's amendment a? aft attach
amendment ment to an Was np(lrt)priaiioi| killed. Tile bill. The
bill was
finally Montana passed, Ayes 42, nays 12. The
election ease was taken up so as
to make it unfinished business, and sfter
a session for executive business, the
senate at 5:50 house, Adjourned.
in the Tuesday morning, the
chaplain feelingly referred to the death
of Representative David Wilber, of New
ily York, and protection invoked for his bereaved fam
divine and comfort. The
house passed the bill of Judge
Crisp, the construction extending the bridge time for
of a itfioss
Oconee river, Laurens coilnty, Georgia,
The committee then rose. And the fovtifi -
cation without appropriation uiVtsion. hill was passed
The amount appro
priated bill is $4,521,670. The zoological The
was appropriation passed —yeas 117, navS 08.
naval bill was reported, and
placed Upon ihe calendar.
in the senate, on Tuesday, the experi
ment of the It o’clock meeting of the
senate not the proving successful, after
prayer by chaplain, there was a call
of senators, when only twenty-nine
answered to their names. A second call
resulted in Hie attendance of thirty-six
senatoi-s. Then n motion was made by
Mr. Cockrell that tlie sergeant-at-arms lx,
absentees. required to request tlie attendance Edmunds, of
On motion of Mr,
Ihe senate proceeded .to executive busi
ness.
Not The house than met Wednesday at I! o’clock.
more fifty members were pres
ent, tlie chaplain absent, and tile journal
not ing prepared hour, motion for reading. of Mr. Iu Turner, tin: morn- of
on
Georgia, from Hie committee on com
merce, the. bill was passed authorizing
the construction of a bridge across tlie
Oconee River at Duhltn, Ga. At the in
stance of tin- committee on commerce,
several bills authorizing tlie construc
tion passed. Among them, one provid
ing for a bridge across the Hudson river,
between New York city and some point
in New Jersey. The house then took up
the bill for the admission of Idaho as a
state in the union. Mr. Dorsey, of Ne
briiskn, in charge of tin- bill, opened the
debate with u speech in ifs favor. The
only opposition to the admission of Idaho
eaiiie from the Mormon#. They protested
against the provision of the constitution
which disfranchises bigamists and polyg
amists and persons who are members of
any association which encourages bigamy.
Pending further debate the matter went
over until Thursday. On motion of Mr.
Tucker, appropriating of Virginia, the senate bill was
passed $11,000 for the con
struction of a road from tlie city of Staun
ton, Ya., to the National Cemetery, near
that point. The house Wednesday, then adjourned. Ed
In the senate, on Mr.
munds, from tlie judiciary committee,
reported back the anti-trust bill m the
form of a substitute, and said that there
was one section in the bill as reported,
which hi: thought went further than it
ought logo. He would probably not be
in town when the (flatter would betaken
up, but some other member of the
committee would take charge of it... .
The resolution offered by Mr. Hale to
change back the daily hour of meeting to
12 o’clock was taken up. Mr. Edmunds
moved to amend by making it take effect
■■i: Monday, the 14th, instead of next
Monday. The Edmuns amendment was
rejected, yeas 27, nays 20. The resolu
tion then agreed to. The conference re
port on the urgent deficiency bill was pre
sented and agreed to. The senate then
proceeded to tlie consideration of the
Montana election case, the majority Sanders report and
being in favor of Wilbur T.
Thomas C. Power, and minority report
being in favor of William A. Clark and
Martin Maginnis. Mr. Gray yielded the
floor without concluding offered resolution his argument, of
and Mr. Evarts a re
gret at tho death of Representative adopted, Wil
ber, of New York, which was
■and Messrs. Hiseoek, Squire and Kenna
were appointed to represent the senate at
his funeral. Tiie senate adjourned.
notes.
The nomination of John It. Mize!! to be
United States marshal for the northern
district of Florida, was confirmed by the
senate in secret session on Wednesday.
The senate in executive session, Mon
day discussed the Florida judicial nomi
nations for two hours, but failed to get a
vote on them, because of the lack of a
quorum.
It is understood that the attorney-gen
eral will take an appeal from the depisio i
of fhe court of claims, wh’ch makes the.
ZEHULON. GA„ TUESDAY, APRILS, 1890.
tbnglt’as for their loss of salary througl
the Siloot defalcation.
A dinner was given at the white lious
Wednesday by the president and Whitelnw Mrs
Harrison, in honor of Mr.
Reid t.‘lilted States minister to Frame
The decorations were beautiful, and tin
company was a brilliant anddistingoisUei.
one.
The senate disposed of the noiuimifions
of Judge Swayue and United Stab At
torne.v Stripling, of tlie northern district
Of Florida Tuesday, after an executive
session of five and a half hours.
cases were before tlie senate ii /
tivo sessions, and were r. ■'» | „ s
other nominations ftttalljr have cttoib’K)’ j' ;!.l*,v t "t'mt ears,
Tltejr Mere tiomiuai;.’i S* ? P
imrt.V vott>. The 5^
Mizell 1'A la mii'lad for the ' , u ' < j
is still before tlie judicial! < l
There three delegations be
the house on all'airs Fn
day. The first was from New Orleans.
The members wiitilid the eommiiD In
ui.iki provision fora navy yard at Algiers,
near New Orleans, in conformity with the
rceommendation of tlio naval commission,
sought Another delegation, have tin: from old Pensacola, yard Fla.,
to navy there
reopened and also made delegation a first-class yard.
There was a from Port
Royal, S 0., who wanted a dry dock lo
cated there.
A FLOODED CITY
GREENVILLE, MiasiSSIUn, DELUGED tlY
THE BREAK OF LEVEES.
A special of Monday to the Miss., Memphis
ArifieaU protection irom Greenville, lcVee north this says: city
'Plie of
gave wiiy at noon despite the the people, most and heroic the
efforts on the part of
water* poUveil ill Upon the city, above which,
since its existence; has beeh the
level of the Mismssipfi at its greatest
height. Volutnb The flood fvater is a tremendous that is pouring one,
And the of
!n from the three breaks above is spread
ing out in all plantation, directions, which inundating in tlie flood plan
tation after
of 1882 were above water; It. is greatly
feared that tlie heavy wind and rain now
prevailing will cause the levees to give
way in new had places. reached The Washington water at latest
accounts avenue,
one of the. principal business streets of the
city, and the people were navigating reported ii,
skiffs. No lives have been lost
and no actual suffering continues is anticipated,
unless this overflow for a eon
sidcrablc length of time. A later dis
patch Hays i It ntiw seems thfit till the
l'ow land belfiw ifeleha, Arkansas,
will tie overflowed witliih the next
two weeks. A break iu the. levee of
about fifty fhet occurred about mid
night Sunday night al Austin, Miss.
Then* is nil possible way to close the gap,
and ns tin- levee is on a sandy foundation
for a mile from that point, the break may
increase to an unlimited extent. All tlie
plantations in the vicinity of tlie break
arc being rapidly submerged, and of tenants thcii
urn leaving without saving any
effects. Rain has been failing in torrents
all night.
HOW IT IS.
RETORT OF THE I'l-IU UASE OF THE
HU.ANGER SYSTEM EXl'LAINED.
Referring to the announcement that, tlie
East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia
railroad had purchased, for $5,500,000,
11 k- Erlnugcr systetiq comprising the Cin
cinnati Southern and Alabama Great
Southern, tlie Cincinnati Commeiriul
Gazette says: “This announcement is
erroneous, in so far as it speaks of any
body buying the Cincinnati Southern
' leased the Cincinnati,
railway. it is to
New Orleans and Texas Pacific company,
which lias a capital of $3,0_ 0,00o. The
controlling shares arc heid in London by
a syndicate headed by Baron Erlanger, which is
and it is this fifty-one per cent
supposed to be scooped by the Briee
Thomas syndicate.”
FATAL, EXPLOSION.
l'HARTKEN I-BOFI.E KILLED AND INJURED
BY GIANT POWDER.
A special from Birmingham, Ala.,says:
A magazine mine at of C’oaiburg, giant powder ten exploded miles from in
a coal
this city, Monday afternoon, with terrible
results." Sixteen colored convicts were in
a room close to tlie one where the powder in
was stored, Thirteen of them were
jured, six fatally. Four are reported live. Giant dead
already, and others cannot
powder was used by the miners, and a
quantity of it wns always kept stored iii a
room down in the mine. A boy went into
the magazine to get some powder, and it
is supposed fire from his lamp caused the
explosion,__
HEAVY DEFALCATION.
MARYLAND’S STATE TREASURER SnORT IN
ms ACCOUNTS.
The joint committee of the Maryland
legislature appointed to investigate the
defalcations of Stevenson Archer, treasu
: er of tlie state, made a report Saturday
night of the result of tlie investigation
h Baltimore. They enumerated there should five
classes of bonds, of which
be in the treasurer’s hands a total ol
$500,000. The found $345,000, showing is
a deficit of $127,(00. This amount
exclusive of coupons on some of tbejie
bonds not accounted for, doll amounting
perhaps, to several thousand ars more.
ORDERED OUT.
THE CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE VS. THE
WESTERN UNION.
Officials of the board of trade at Chi
eago Tuesday notified the Western Union
Telegraph company, that commencing
Wednesday none of the company’s the floor opera- of
tors would he given This access action to is supposed
the exchange. to
be a new step in carrying out tiic board’s
policy of preventing the distribution of
market reports to bucket shops.
THE CLASS SUSPENDED
FOB REFUSING TO ATTEND TUB UOM.EGB
EXERCISES.
The faculty of Amherst, Mass., college fresh
on Saturday suspended had the refused entire to at
man class. The class
tend any college exercises whatsoever,
qtjtil three of their number, under disci;-
SOUTHERN NOTES.
INTERESTING NEWS FROM ALL
POINTS fir TIM SOUTH.
GENERAL rROJRBSS AND OCCURRENCES
WHICH ARK nAPl'B.NINO BKT.OW MA
SON’S AND DIXON’S LINE.
The Havana clgafmakei.i at Jackson
ville, Fla,, protest against the passage ol
tho dear McKinley Havana bill raising tlie tariff on
tobacco.
I Genenfbrhoiuns F. Anderson, n mem
tV ’ knows Louisiana returning
Ao 1870, died iu New Or
«•*«; ^flfcer Mif, aged seventy ftsara.
V) men of Philadelphia on
-V V’ ■nMin’T editor-in-chief ft banquet to Charles of tlie
jSHgHnity appointed minister to
,
afl^^^^^HBfciaek, ut tt. 11. Bakeraville
fromHflHHBetcen ranging in age
in^^^^^^BWedneaday, years, were play
ing near Ycr
non. TiIH^I^Ib^ caved in on them
A di *»<f \ ^ and t--I
iifucturrr-^ Tampa^BNrafcrcd WpSiiSat from Key West
and a protest he
fore Washington, tin- way^BBSJw* ^^■BJay, eoinmitlec, against the in
on inliBnew
tobacco schedule republican
tariff bill,
Sales of leaf toliaobo IMJanvitle, Ya.,
market for March were 2,8(10,918 pounds.
Sales from October 1st to March March Mist,
Were 10,808,499 pounds. Sales in
last werft half 8,016,459 of the pfcsciff. pounds. tobacco Increase ol
the first year
as computed 4,287,889 with the pounds. same period of last
J-ear was
At,Memphis; Th"h-i twctjjp dtWTuesday the
grant! jiffy brought ih four indict
ipcnts zlemgnt against of city Ben funds Pulledi to Jr., the for amount embt of z
' city registrai
ii early $8,000. I'nllen was
from February, 1887, to July, 1889, and
collected city rents in that capacity which
lie failed to account for.
A telegram from Birmingham, Ala ,
Wednesday, says: Mrs. Kate Eaton, ol
Round Rook, Texas, is lying in station, a precari be
ous condition al Woodstock
low here, on the Alabama Great South
era railroad. She was eu route to Cin
einnati, a Oil walked off the train while it
her sleep.
Aunspaugh – Cobbs, one of the in Lynch largesi
and best Vrl., known hmde dry goods assignment firms Wednes
day.’ burg, Their liabilities an foot, about
up sufli
$33,00(5. They have turned over
cii-nt property til liquidate-their indebted
ness in full.
J. lb Ihidddl, ireftsuv.-i of tlie I'uhisk
Bunk, of Pulaski City, Va., was waylaid, his
robbed and brutally murdered near
home, Wednesday afternoon. Two whiti
men, suspected of the crime have, been
urn •sted, and great excitement prevails.
is feared.
News was received at Raleigh, N. 0..
on Monday, of a terrible boiler explosion
near Elk Park, Mitchell county. Five
men, all white, were Joseph injured. Wood, Two. fa
Charles Markwood and
tally. Their hands were blown off, tlieii
heads torn,and they were internally hurt,
and were also scalded in such a horribh
manner that they could barely lie recog
nixed.
A Birmingham, Ala., dispatch sporting says:
Frank .J. lichen, a young $2,500 in man,
left, the city Monday with saloon keeper mone>
belonging had to placed Nat Stanley, the a in Hellen’;
Stanley money for him,
hands to purchase a saloon ant.
the young gambler, instead of buying tin
saloon for his friend, left the city. A re
ward has been offered for his capture, am
detectives aro on his track.
Rockingham county jail, at Wentworth,
N. C., was totally destroyed prisoners by fire- Mon
day morning. The fifteen wen
all safely rescued, after considerable dilli
culty, and just ill tlie nick of time. But
for the herculean efforts of several cjti
zens, there would have been a horrible
holocaust. tlie county Tlie jail prisoners Greensboro were for taken safe to
in
keeping until a new jail house can lie
erected.
A. deal was closed Tuesday by which
3.800 acres of land at Lenoir’s Station,
30 miles from Knoxville, Tenn., wenl
into the hands of a Philadelphia syndi
cate. A big steel plant, woolen mills and
a branch road to Harriman to conned
with tlie Cincinnati Southern are involv
ed. The land is the old Lenoir planta
tion famous throughout the invested. south. Fm
million dollars are to be
A dispatch from Merhlan, Miss., says.
Tiic commission before whom was tried
tiic condemnatory proceedings, on Wed
nesday allowed the Vicksburg and Meri
iliun railroad $40 per mile for the right
of-way over its lines to tiic Postal Tele
graph and Cable company, which is seek
ing New being Orleans pushed by way of this Vicksburg.
Work is on new tele
graph line to reach New Orleans at as
early a date as possible.
A PLOT REVEALED.
COMMITTED SUICIDE RATHER THAN ACT
THE PART OF ASSASSIN.
A dispatch from St. Petersburg to tlie
London Telegraph, says that a man, who
committed suicide there Sunday, left a
letter in which lie confessed that lie had
been engaged iri a The conspiracy said againut tiic the
life „f the czar. letter that
writer and his fellow decide conspirators shoul.d take had
drarww ballots to who
tlie czar’s life, and the lot had fallen to
the (writer, who, rather than commit the
deed, had determined to take his own
life. The letter also gave names of the
writer’s accomplices, several.of whom
have been arrest jd.
A GOOD SHOWING
ANNUAL MEETING OF THE AMERICAN TRACT
SOCIETY.
7’he Washington annual Bocietv meeting of the
American Tract, was held
Sunday presented evening. Rev. G. L. Shearer, D.
[)., the report of the operations
of the society fortheeleven months ended
March 1st, and shows total receipts $304,-
203,again of $25,120 over the correspond
i 8 g period of previous year,. than A major
ity were in other languages English,
-,nd t he grants of tracts avera^l 750.006
THE INDUSTRIOUS 9PUTH.
MANY NEW MANUFACTURING ENTERPRISES
kAtahushed—oeohgia leads.
Reports compiled by.the Trademftn of
Chattanooga, Tenn., ot tilt' ftw indus
tries ertnlmslicd during the first three
months of 189(1, in Alabama, Arkansas,
Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana.
Mississippi, North Carolina, South Caro
lina, Tennessee, TttSfW, Virginia and
West Virginia, show a total of 85:
against a total of (191 for the same period from
in 1889. The Tradesman reports
all sections of the southern states indicate
greater activity lit the planting of new
industries in thti south. ut present
than any Other previous time in
its history. Tirt most: notable
feature in the report shows that sixty-four
cotton and woolen mills were, established
during the three months against thirty
three in tlie corresponding leads with fourteen, quarter Ala- last
year. North Georgia and South Carolina each
bama, eight. During the three
niue, Texns
months twenty electric light works were
organized; Georgia leading with North ten.
Borty-three Hour Virginia and grist each leading mills, with
Carolina and
seven; the total during the same quarter
last year was fifteen, Forty-three
foundry and machine shops were organ- and
ized, Tennessee lending with eleven
Alabama next with ten. Twenty-three blast
furnace companies were organized, against
seventeen in the corresponding Georgia quarter six,
last year; Alabama seven,
Kentucky ten, Tennessee five, Texas and
Virginia one each. Twenty-seven ice fac
tories were organized, against twenty
four in (lie same period last year. Forty
nine mining companies, eleven twenty-one foiling mill oil
mills, companies; sevetx fiftystrect potteries, railway companies
against seventeen last yekf; hi fcightecii the eotresponaiug waterworks
companies; period of HIT wood Working establish
ments, against an aggregate of 1)10 in tlie
corresponding period of last year. A no
ticeable featuie is tlie fact that not a
single natural gas or oil company 1ms
been reported in the past three months as
organized in tlie South.
EMIN PASHA.
ENTEIIS THE GERMAN SERVICE—WILL RE
TURN TO THE JUNGLES.
Zanzibar dispatches say: Emin Pasha
has finally accepted the proposals made
to him by Major Wissmann, and has
entered the German service. He will re
ceive a salary of £1,000 a year. He has
given up Hie intention of returning to
Europe, and will leityc Bagomoyo about
tlie middle of April for Victoria Nyiinzn.
He will lie accompanied by a large under eara
van und 209 Soudanese troops
command of German officers. His deci
sion meets with strong disfavor in Zan
zibar.
ANOTHER FURNACE.
ALABAMA'S ALREADY J.A11 OF. 1HON INDUS
TRIES BEING SUPPLEMENTED.
Furnace No. 3, of the DeBnrdeleben
Coal and Iron company, at Bessemer,
Ala., was ceremonies, blown in Fires Wednesday with
elaborate Milton were lighted
by Vice-President II. Smith, of
tiic Louisville mid Nashville railroad, who
was present with a party of directors of
that road. Another furnace at the same
place will be blown in next week.
WOMEN CRUSADERS
ATTACK A BEAR WAGON AND SM ASH ITS
CONTENTS.
A dispatch from Fiumington, crusaders, Mo.,says: head
Wednesday Williams morning the and Mrs. Foster,
ed by Mrs.
opened their campaign. Armed with
sledge hammers, they stopped Gus
Thomas’s beer wag m and smashed six
barrels, emptying tlie beer into tho street.
Saloon men n't Kansas City are expecting
a visit from tiic crusaders.
DEATH IN A COAL MINE.
AN EXPLOSION KILLS THREE MEN AND SE
RIOUHLY INJURES FOUR OTHERS.
A dispatch from Wilkesbarrc, Pa.,says:
By an explosion of gas in No. 4 slope of
the Susquehanna coal mine, at Nantieoke.
three men were killed, four seriously in
jured and two slightly ignited injured. The gas
is supposed to have from an open
lamp.
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Increase of a Mouse Family.
Not long ago someone sent ex-Justice
Mccch’s hoy a present in the shape of
white mice. Tiic boy was highly de
lighted, and liis fond father at once pro
cured for the pots a suitable cage. By
the side of this his boy lingered all day
long. Three days after tlie mice arrived
at the house Mr. Meeoh was summoned
in haste by the boy. “The man who
sent them made a mistake, I’a,” he said.
“There arc more than two.” The ex jus
tice inspected the cage carefully, family and re
alized at once that there was a of
white mice inside instead of the original it
pair, and he told the youngster that
was but the natural increase incident to
the lives of white mice. Since then tho
ex-justice has been summoned many
times and he has been compelled to pur- is
chase two extra cages. Just now lie
vainly trying to give away white mice by
Ihe pair or gross. Mecch says that in liis
early youth he used to keep rabbits, but
iie is willing to make affidavit that white
mice can give rabbits both cards and
spades in the matter of progeny. He is
now open fo offers from people who de
sire to adopt white mice.—[Chicago Her
lld.
The strong feelings of the Australian
colonics against tlie careless management
of the penal settlement of New Calado
nia is not without cause if the figures oi
escapes from Noumon be correct. These
French criminals, itmustbc remembered,
represent punished a with class life that imprisonment is usually hanged in othet oi
countries. Of these wretches, escaped it is esti
mated that nearly 1,000 have to
tlie colonies during the last few years,
and that tlie number who have sought
shelter in New South Wales has increased
from 200 to 800 in two years. These
escapes are habitual eitniinals, whose re
form is hopeless, and tfrpy thus swell the ,
NUMBEK 19.
CURRENT NEWS.
CONDENSED FROM THE TELE
GRAPH AND CABLE.
TIHNOS THAT HAPPEN FROM DAY TO llAl
THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, CULLEO
FROif t AMOtJS, SOURCES.
The executive committee of the Nation
al Editorial association will meet at Cin
cilifisti on May 7th.
Governor Hill, of New York, sent to
the senate .Monday uigllt. his veto of tlie
Saxton ballot reform bill.
In consequence of the discovery of a
conspiracy burg (RussiaJ among university the students, has been St. Peters- closed.
A decree has been issued n* Rio Ja
neiro, ordering persons guilty of publish
ing be or tried telegraphing by court false martial. alarmist rumors
to
Tlie Maryland 1 senate, on 1 Saturday, the ac
cepted tlie hmise amendments to
Australian ballot bill, and passed it. signs- The
act now only a finite the governor's
turc.
The departure of Prince Bismarck lot
Fredefieksruhe on Saturday, ovation was the given oc
casion of the greatest public victorious
in Berlin since the rtitutn of the
troops in 1871.
The Manchester, England, Guardian
reports that there are few important goods
transactions, and inquiry for heavy
is moderate. The best prints are firm,
with a steady demand.
F. R. Townsend – Co., drygoods ami
commission merchants, at 75 Worth
street, New York, assigned Wednesday.
Tlie firm ins had a rating of $125,000 tc
$200,000 in mercantile agencies.
About one thousand quit-work journeymen Ttremlnj plumb- ot>A
- solved v- oC GWvrvgo until their demand >» foi
to stay out
$3.75 as fhe minimum day’s wages, and
a half holiday oft Saturday has been
granted.
The United States grand jury at New
York, Tuesday, handed in an indictment
against P. J. Clattson! fof cmbezzlemsnt—
abstracting and misapplying funds of the
Sixth National Bank and making fair*
entries.
The czar and czafink recently pffs«n. paid a
visit to tlie Russian military They
conversed with the prisoners and asked
them to state the causes which led to
their imprisonment. The czar ordered
the release of sixty of the prisoners, and
a reduction of sentences of sixty others.
Jules Simon, the great Frenchman, in
an interview at Paris, said he considered
Emperor YVilliam sincerely solicitous for
file welfare of the working classes. * He
said that, the dfetlslon of the labor confer
ence will be a gtknt stride for Germany,
but in only a few minor ptfihtS will they
Late information received by Mr. Val
entino, Brazilian minister at be Washington ijuiet
shows affairs in Brazil to an -
peaceful. The government, it is said, is
endeavoring to arrange matters so that
the first general election under a republi- if
can form of government can take place,
possible, earlier than next September, the
time originally fixed.
A dispatch of Tuesday from St. Peters
burg, Russia, says that tlie czar I as been
attacked by a sudden illness. The sui
cide who left a letter in which lie con
fessed that he had plotted naval officer against who tlie life lie
of the czar was a
longed to an aristocratic family. in Ilis
toother ttttd other relatives reside Mos
cow. The matter has been hushed up.
A A Philadelphia special the Acton, says: Kiiowlton Rhodes
Bro., operators of
and West Branch mills, in Acton town
ship, Deleware county, Pa., suspended
Wednesday. The failure is attributed to
the general shrinkage in tlie value of all
textile fabries and lo the lack of market
for manufactured stock, of which a large
amount is now stored up.
About twenty inches of snow fell atSt.
Louis on Monday. Tlie melting of this
great body of snow is likely to lie rapid,
and all small st earns tributary to the
Missouri and Mississippi rivers will pour
out Hoods of water in tlie next three days.
Trains on Missouri and Illinois roads have
been somewhat delayed, lint it is deten- not
thought there will lie any serious
tion to traffic.
The World’s Ma 1.
An industrious statistician has been
collecting figures relating to tiic postal
business of tlie entire world for tiic year
1880. He develops some very surprising however,
and impressive facts, in which,
it is exceedingly hard for tho ordinary
mind to follow him. It is easy lo read,
for instance, that in tlie year 1880 tlie
people of flic civilized world sent almost
6,000,000,000 of letters, more than 1,000,
000,000 of postal cards, nearly 5,000,000,
000 of newspapers, and more than 100,
000,000 merchandise packages, making
in ali nearly 12,000,000,000 of mail par
cels. But who can figures? possibly realize the
meaning We of easily such follow statistician,
can our
however, when he proceeds world to make show the us
what regions of tlie
largest use of their mail facilities in pro
portion America, to their with population. much smaller
a very
population than tlie continent of Europe,
sends more than half as many mail pack
ages as tiic whole of Europe. The figures
are little upward of 4,000,000,000 7,000,000,000 for for
Europe and almost
America.
Asia sends a comparatively much smaller small number num
ber, and Africa a
still—less than one mail package in a
year to every seven inhabitants of the
con tinent.
How great a contrast is presented by
tlie case of Australia, where twenty-four
letters, cards, papers and parcels are sent
out on an average to every inhabitant an
nually! Australia, indeed, makes the
largest use of its mail facilities of any
continent of tiic the globe. world’s mail matter
To circulate no
fewer than 500,000 distributed persons are employed,
and this matter is from more
than 150,000 post-offices, of which about
one-third are in the United Stat<is.
*Ebi8re are now five buildings and fourteen
rooms along the line of tho Now York Cen
tral devoted to the use of theempioyes of that
road as places of rest, recreation, education
and religious instruction. No intoxicants find
a place in them, and they are substitutes for
the saloon. They have been erected or leased
PRINTED EVERY TUESDAY
—AT —
ZEBTJLON, - - GEORGIA,
—BY
PAtlRY LEE,
A SPLENDID ADYEimsrao agent.
From Night (0 Light.
Friend, yon ore sod, you say?
Your grief once in the past,
All shall be clear to you;
The sorrow shall not last,
Rut then be dear to you
gome coming day.
So consolation find;
Yield not thus to despair,
Believe joy waits for you.
And, in the fhture, there
Opens her gates for you.
Be then resigned!
—George Btrdecyf,
HUMOROUS.
“It is time to rise,’’ as the baking
powdor said to (lie biscuit.
If experience is so great a teacher,
why do tvc apeak of a “green” old
agcl
First Littlo Girl—Ii your doll a
French doll7 Second Littlo Girl—I
don’t know, she can’t talk.
iffo Wonder tlie toy pistol cannot bc
exterminated, Peoplo aro always f
teaching the yeuwg idea how to shoot.
Customer—How is venison now ?
Butcher—Venison isn’t (leer, now. Cus
tomer—That’s what I thought. G vo
me some veal.
Some men will get up out of bol at
night in tho coldest of weather to go to
a fire who cannot bo induced to get up
at 7 to start one in the stove.
Mrs. Bloodgood—YVlnt! not an open
fireplaco nor a stove in tho Houses
doc3 your father warm his slipper*,
Willie? Willie (ruefully)—Warms ’em
on me, ini' am.
A delinquent walks iuto tho prison
catryiog ins head high and with a cer
tain patronizing air. Pointing to the
Constable who is iead.ng him by tho
arm, he says:— “Allow him to pass; ho
is with me.”
‘■That is not more tliau half the com
position,” she said, as she turned on
tho piano stool. “Shall I play the
rest?” “Yes,” he replied, nbstracted
ly, “play tho rest by all means; play
all the rests you can find,”
“Miss N-, how could you think
that I had ever said in company that
you were stup^jl; quite the contrary,
whenever your name was mentioned I
was always the only one who didn’t say
so.”
An agricultural journal advises:
“Grind your ow’U bones.” When a man
is in sucli a condition that lie ho lias no
fm ther use for his bonci, lie is alto
gether too exhausted to grind them,
lie sometimes “grinds his teeth, ’ but
there ho draws tlie line in thi matter of
self-bone grinding.
A Czar's Cure for Obesity.
Peter the Great was once traveling
incognito in a part of Finland, just
conquered, wlioro he was executing
some naYal works. He met aa over-fat
man who told him he was going to St.
Petersburg, “What foi?” said
tho Czar. “To consult a doctor
about my fat, which liai beeorno very
oppressive, ” “D > you know “Then* Ha a suL–~ 3
tor there?" “No.” l"
give you a word to my frioud, Priucs
Monscliikoff, and he will introduce you
loonoof tlie Emperor's physicians.”
The traveler went to tho Prince’s house
with a noee. The answer was not de
layed. The next day, tied hands and
feet, tho poor man wns dragged off on
a cart to the mines. Two years after,
Peter tho Great was visitiug tho mines;
he had forgotten the adventure of the
over-fat man, when suddenly a miner
threw down his pick, rushed Up to him,
and fell at liis feet crying: “Grace,
grace! what is it I have done?" Peter .
looked at him astonished, until he re
membered tho story, and said: ‘■Oh,
so that is you? I hope you are pleased
with me. Stand up. How thin and
slight you havo became! You are quite
delivered of your over-fat; it is a first.
rate cure. Go, and remomber that
work is the best antidote against your
complaint!”
A Child’s Plea to a King.
King Leopold of Belgium is the hero
of a pretty story. Homo six years ago
a seaman named Frank Moore deserted
from the steamer Rhynland at Phila
delphia. lie was lately arrested at
Antwerp for thii offence, and heavily
sentenced, whereupon his little niece,
Bessie Keim, wrote to tho K ny be
seeching her uncle’s reloam, This
letter relateJ that six years a;o her
aunt was dying, and that her only
prayer was that she might live to cco
her brother Frank, who, on arriving
and hearing this, entreated of his cap
tain permission to visit her, which
being denied him, hcdcscrle l. L’ttlo
Bessie giavely cpncluded: V* Your
Majesty, if you had been in his place,
would not you have done tho same? I
hope you will pardon Uac c Frank for
deserting and mo for writing.” Not
long afterward tlie child received a
letter from a high official, saying that
the offender had bean re Gated, “jut of