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The arrests for drunkenness in Great
Britain the past ten years are said to
hare reac-fied a total of near two mill
ions.
The ^dilng Chinese Emperor is break
ing Hp the gambling establishments of
Pekin, and is trying to reduce: the, ex
penses of the administration of the Gov
ernment.
The first Young Men's Christian Asso
ciation in the United States Army has
recently been established at Fortress
Monroe, Va. Although only two months
old, it now has eighty members.
By order of the Emperor official an
nouncements were published in the local
newspapers of Pomerania, Germany,
Warning the inhabitants against accept
ing the specious iriduceotflnts vaunted by
Brazilian emigration agents.
Statistics have been published in B r
iiri showing the military expenditure of
the great Powers during the past- three
years. France spent 5,082,000,000
marks, Russia 3,231,000,000 marks,
Great Britain 2,475,000,000 marks, Ger
many 2,430,0.00,000 marks, Austria
riungarv 1,352,000,000 marks and Italy
1,254,000.000 marks.
The latest and most unique electrical
invention is a machine for buttering bread.
It is used in connection with a patent
bread cutter, and is intended for use in
prisons and reformatory institutions.
There is a cylindrical-shaped brush which
is fed with butter, and lays a thin layer
on the bread as it comes from the cutter.
The machine has a capacity of cutting
and Buttering 750 loaves of bread an
hour. TSe saving of butter and of bread
and til*»dacre.tss in the quantity of
crumbs-is said to be very large.
Twenty tons of dead cats was the pre
cious cargo which arrived the other day
at Liverpool from Alexandria, The
number takei?from of cats was 180,0(10. They were
the tombs of ancient Egyp
tians about one hundred miles from
Cairo. The cat- was auciontiy a sacred
animal iu Egypt, aud at its death it was
embalmed and buried with great cere
mony—an attention which the modern
rat seldom deserve! and never receives.
Its bones have reposed in LteypU-m ceil
for ages, but modern enterprise has dis
covered that mummified cats make a good
fertiliser, and "tabby's” grave is now
being despoiled by seekers after gain.
A Kalamazoo (Mich.) lumber dealer it
said to be felicitating iiinmlf on having
beaten the railroads. He received a car
load of lumber and paid freight thereon.
Not having unloaded it within the re
quired seventy-two hours, the railroad
charged him demurrage, which he refused
to pay. He was told that lie could uot
have tho lumber until lie paid the de
murrage charge. That did not scare
him. He proceeded to break tho seal,
open the car, take out and cart away
his lumber. The rail r.ud. agents sued
him for an unlawful seizure, and tho case
went to court. The result was that the
law justified the dealer. This goes to
indicate that- when railroad? charge de
murrage under the name of car service
they are exceeding their legal right iu
the premises.
:
Every large city in this country i.
filled with respectable, genteel looking
men asking for light employment. They
are not able to stand rough outdoor
labor, and they are qualified to fill
clerks’ and bookkeepers’ places. But
they can not find work, and the question
is, remarks the Atlanta Constitution, what
shall be done with them ? How are thest
men to live, and what will finally be
come of them? The chances are that the
majority will besome tramps or drift into
a criminal career. They can not all lie
expected to commit suicide, or to nceepl
hard labor beyond their strength. They
will join the anarchists,and live by prey
ing upon society. Tlie increasing num
ber fit women engaged in tight occupa
tions makes it more difficult every yeai
for a young man to secure a clerkship.
We have reached a point where the poor
man must bo master of a trade or starve.
The brigands and outlaws arc having
a gay time just now with Cuba. Since
the strong hand of Captain General Sala
manca has been withdrawn they have in
creased in numbers and audacity. One
night an attempt was made to blow up
the An til la Cabana Cigar Factory at
Havana. A dynamite bomb was ex
ploded close to tho walls of the main
building. Hardly had the people recov
ered from their fright when a tremendous
explosion took place in the Batnvins Rail
way station at the Plaza dc Arenas. The
station was destroyed and thirty injured
persons were taken from the ruins, many
of whom afterward died. The ware
houses of Henn Zurrieta, at Cardenas,
were destroyed by fire, causing a loss of
$200,000. The brigands are fairly
swarming in the country around Puerto
Principe, and two wealthy men of the
latter city were carried off to the mount
ains and held for ransoa. .
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VOL. II.
AT THE CAPITAL
WHAT THE FIFTY-FIRST CON
GRESS is doing.
VPPOYNTMENTS BY PRESIDENT HARRISON—
MEASURES OP NATIONAL IMPORTANCE
AND ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.
In the house on Saturday morning, sev
eral hills called up by the military com
Lflniziug mittee w ere the passed, military among them one the rcor*
force of army
into seven regiments of not more than
twelve batteries each, with tho same regi
mental and battery organization, as now
exists, except that there shall be
I Ut one first lieutenant and one
second lieutenant to each battery.
At it o’clock public business was sus
pended, and the house proceeded to pay
tribute to the memoty of Newton W.
NUttiiigj df New lork. Aftet eulogistic
addresses tjy Messrs. Payne, Blanchard.
Baker, Hendersdn; GroSvenor, Illinois, Peters; Sherman and
adjbufned. of thehousb, at 4:15,
Among dh the Saturday petitions presented in the the
senate was one from
president of the Methodist Episcopal
church mission, protesting against
passage, of tlu; hill for the de
portation found .in this or counWtes inffca^onment ithout certificates. of Chinese
Baptist A Iso remonstrances mission, the xP»m Baptist the ministers American
re
cent conference at Boston, and churches
of Dorchester, Mass., against the pending
legislation in reference to board the Chinese. of
Also a resolution to the com
merce of San Francisco, against exclusion the
repeal of the Chinese
act, and for additional legislation
effectually to prevent Chinese immigra
tion, Bills were taken from tho calender
and pass d as follows: To authorize the
secretary of the treasury and proper ac
counting officers to restate, s< ttle and pay
to the owners of commissions private dies due
the balance of
them and appropriating $;?5,000.
Appropriating $500,000 for an additional
fireproof building for the national
museum; sistant for the superintendent appointment of and an chief as
general railway service, with salary
clerk of mail
of $:i,OO0 and $2,000, respectively, (house
bill). After a short executive session the
private bills on the calendar were
taken up, and 113 bills were passed in
just one hour. The senate then adjourned
till Monday. Heed
In the house, on Monday, Speaker
recognized Chairman Morrill, of the pen
Sion committee, who reported the senate
dependent pension hill with a month substitute, all
granting soldie aud a pension sailors of who per served ninct) to
s
days and are over sixty-two years of age:
to all widows of the S irue age, and to all
enlisted men of whatever age suffering
from mental or physical disability. Only
forty minutes w as allowed for discussion-—
a minute for every million, and the bill
was placed on its passage. The de
bate had no sooner opened than sized it
was evident that there was a good
opposition on the republican side of tin
house, against passing the bill, which
would render tlie passage of either tli<
straight dependent er service pension bill
impossible. On the democratic side the
same feeling was manifested. They contend
ed for a full and free discussion of the bill
units merits. When the bill was finally
placed upon its passage very few of the
republicans had tlie hardihood to risk the
wrath of the old soldiers in their districts
but h few of them did. The bill lacked only
five votes of having the requisite two
thirds. All the Ohio members present
voted for it.
In the senate, on Monday, the house
amendment to the joint resolution for
tie* removal of the naval magazine concurred from in.
Kllis island. N. Y„ was
Mr. Kvarts pj»e. ented resolutions of the
New York chamber of commerce, pro
testing against tbe pending bill for ('hi
nee enumeration in the census as absurd,
barbarous,unchristian and cowardly. then The
Montana election case was taken up,
and Mr. Vance, a member of the commit
tee on privileges and elections, made an
argument in support of the minority re
port, declaring Clark and McGinnis, the
democratic claimants, entitled to seats,
Mr. Spooner (also a member of the eom
mittee oo privileges and elections), made
an argument in favor of the majority re
port, that Saunders and Power (republi
can claimants), arc entitled, upon the
merits of the ease, to be admitted to
eats in the senate from the state of Mon
tana. Mr. Spooner, without motion finishing
iiis argument, yielded for a to
proceed to executive Business Alter an
i xeeutivc session the senate adjourned.
Ou Tuesday the house committee on
agriculture reported to the house, with
amendments, the Butterworth bill to de
fine options and futures and to impose a
special tax upon dealers therein, etc. Tin
first and second sections of the bill define
the character of transactions known as
•■futures'’and "option” contracts. The
third section mentions articles to which
the bill applies. They arc wheat, corn,
oats, cotton, pork and some other farm
staples. Section four imposes a special
tax of $1,000 upon dealers in options
and futures, as defined m the bill,
and a tax of five cents per articles pound
and twenty cents per bushel upon
which an; the subject matter of sales un
der futures and option contracts, Other
sections of the bill provide for carrying
I fie provisions of the act into effect. The
committee says the bill, in terms, docs
and is intended to. apply to that class of
transactions conducted in the "bucket
shops" and "grain pits” of the country,
and known as "puts” and "calls,” includ
ing the whole range of mere speculative
gambling in fictitious farm products. legiti- It
does not affect, injuriously, farm any staples.
mate trader, or dealer in
The biil seeks to impose an internal reve
nue tax upon these "dealer” in rule, grain, cot
ton and pork, who. as a never
see, open or handle pork or a pound of
me articles tnev deal in. 1 he mil, m
terms, affects transactions for future dc
liven- which are innocent in themselves
and do no harm to any one, but it is in
tended to reach that class of speculators
only who sell what they do not own. who
sell with no purpose or intent to deliver
what they in sell; who require little capital
or stock trade, and yet who s 11 in
-bucket shops” of the United States every
month more wheat than is grown in the
whole world in a year, thus, iu a great
measure, destroying' field and trade, forcing driving tlie price mer
chants from the
of farm products below the cost of pro
duetteu
ZEBULON, GA., TUESDAY, Al’ffit. C3/ , mo,
In the house, ntTairs ou Tuesday, called the commit
tee on naval up the lull to
prevent the enlistment of aliens in the
naval service of tlie t titled Htates. Tht
lull service further shall provides tie that permitted aliens ntnv in
the not to re
enlist at the expiration of their present
term Mr. McAdoo said that the mea
sure had the hearty approval of the sec
retary of the navy Under,its umyisions
it would lie hut three years before the
navy would be manned entirely by Amer
ican citizens. Mr. Boutclle offered an
amendment that the act shall go into ef
fect July 1, 1W0. Tlits would
operate so as not to prevent the re
enlistment of aliens on United States
vessel))—adopted. Mr. Lind, of Minne
sota, enlistment offered an and amendment providing
that service in the navy
for five years shall be construed to bo res
idence in the United (Mates for the pur
pose of securing citizenship—Adopted. adopted
An amendment was permitting
the fchllstment of aliens ib eases of emer
gency On foreign stations. The bill wits
then passtid.
The senatfc on Tuesday rfcsumed con
sideration of tlj!? Montana contested elec
tion ease; and Mr. Spooner Continued his
argument in fflvor of the right of tlie re
publican claimants—Sanders and Power.
There being no quorum present the ease
was laid aside. The senate then tofik up
the anti-trust bill as reported from the
judiciary committee. After considerable
discussion the bill was passed—yeas 52,
nays 1.
In the house, on concurred: Wednesday, (senate the
amendments were in to
house vote to admit free of duty articles
intended for the St. Louis exposition in
1890, which Mexico may be imported American from the
republic of and other
republics aud the I) amnion of Canada.
The house then went into a committee of
the whole on the naval appropriation bill.
After lengthy debate, and pending and the
Huai action, the committ< e rose
house, at 5 o’clock, adjourned. Wil
In the senate, on Wednesday, Mr.
son, of Iowa, offered a resolution, which
was agreed to, instructing the committee
on interstate commerce to inquire what
additional legislation is necessary in re
spent to commutation and excursion tick
ets so as to prevent the abuses now exist
ing in regard to individuals and locali
ties. The house bill appropriating $75,
000 to supply the deficiency occasioned
by the defalcation in the office of the late
sergeant-at-arms of the house, was re
ported from the committee on appropria passed.
tions without amendment, amt
The senate then resumed consideration of
the Montflua contested election ease, and
Mr. Pugh continued his argument in fa
vor of the democratic claimants—Clark
and Magiunis.
NOTES.
The ways and means committee is in
receipt of remonstrances against the prop
osition to tax Mexican lead ore.
The house judiciary committee made has or
dered a favorable report to be upon
Hunderson’s bill to amend the internal
revenue law's.
Mr. Lodge, of Massachusetts, England presented
a petition from the New Shoe
and Leather association against the impo
sition of a duty upon hides and skins.
The house committee on pensions, on
Monday,ordered a favorable report on the
bill granting a pension to Mrs. Delia T.
8. Parnell, daughter of the late Admiral
Charles Stewart and the mother of Charles
Stewart Parnell. The pension wjll be
$50 per month.
Pursuant to the opinion expressed at a
conference of committee republican senators repub- Satur
day night, a of thirteen
lican senators met Tuesday and entered
upon the work of preparing a silver bill,
if possible, that shall command the sup
port of the majority in the senate. ‘The
committee of thirteen ore charged with
the duty of reconciling the demand with
views of those members of the majority
who do not favor free coinage.
Representatives McClammy and Mor
gan have united in a minority report in
opposition to the compound lard bill re
ported by tlie house, committee on agri
culture. They argue that as lard is now
sold almost entirely in small tin pails, it
must be apparent that the effect and ob
ject of the law is to forever destroy the
sale of lard compounds. The severity
and variety of penalties of the bill are
unusual and out of defends proportion compound to the
offenses. The report
lard as composed of the three agricul- seed
tural products— lard, fat and cotton
oil—not at all deleterious to health, but
nutritious and wholesome. Therefore,
there is no need for legislation on that
score.
A RAILROAD COMMISSION
DEMANDF.I) BY THE FARMERS’ ALLIANCE
OF NORTH CAROLINA.
The farmers’ alliances of the vnrioui
counties of the state met at Raleigh, N.
O., on Saturday and adopted the follow
ing resolution:
Whereas, It is the opinion agriculture o'
the alliance that tlie
interests of North Carolina would be ad
vanned by the creation of a railroad com
mission for this state, and also the pas
sage of the sub-treasury bill pending in
congress. Therefore, be it
Resolved, That we hereby pledge our
selves not to give the our legislature support who to any is can- not
didate for
known to be in favor of a railroad com
mission foe- North Carolina, nor any pledge can
didate for congress who will not
himself to exert bis best efforts to secure
the early enactment of the bill before
con ess known as tlie "sub-treasury
bill.’
A HORRIBLE SIGHT.
EIGHTEEN HEADLESS BODIES FOUND
RACKED TOGETHER IN A BOX.
A special cable .... from Madrid, , . , bpam, ,. says,
A horrible story comes from Morocco,
A large box was recently rcceiwa the tom of
the interior of the country at mirt
Mav.agan, for shipment. It was addressed
to a person unknown and was rented. opened,
when a ghastly sight was bodies
Closely packed iu the box were tlie
of sixteen young women, one man and a
negress. All the victims bad been dccap
Rated nnd the heads were musing. H e
bodies were embalmed anal had evidently
been a long tune in the condition in wine.,
they were found. It is beheved the shingle
ter was the work of soma pasha who had
aken vengeance on an unfaithful liarem.
CURRENT NEWS.
CONDENSED FROM THE TELE
GRAPH AND CABLE.
1 irfNGB THAT HAPTEN FROM DAY TO DAY
’rtfibtdffdUT THE WORLD, CULLED
FROM VARIOUS ffth'W'KA
The, I , v . -etoc^holaew , t > ’uiMF' o.f, the ii>. Chiracs
Association f organized in
World’* iFair
Chicago ou Friday, f
It is said that Governor Filer, of Illin
ois, will call a special deal session with of world's the legis- fail
lature at once to
matters.
Bodies of Turkish troops insulted have Christians pillage I
Chiistian churches aud
in the province of <.'undin, Crete, All
inquiry is being made into the outrages.
The Mill Owners' Association of Bom
bay has resolved to spinning mills
eight days every ntonlh and weaving
mills four days every month for three
mduths.
The census shotvS ihHi there are 30,22!!
Gcrinutis itt Baris and 35,718 Soil in the it de- is
partment of Seine. Tile says
time the government stopped the inva
sion of Germans. St
Tlie Aianttatl.au, lnjSrling. ffansas, bank ttitd posted closed
its doors following Ttfosday noticeii; “Closed. Joint W.
the
Webb, tem|terary assignee.” No partic
ulars can bo learned®
It appears that Emperor William's re
cent order with reference to commission
ed, officers in 1 hr army does not increase
the pay, but liByeia Iliq fcale commissions. of private
incomes necessary to sceure
The Cayuga woolin plfcett^u mill, of Auburn,
N. Y.j lias been the hands of a
receiver, with liabilities nominal amounting to
|120,000, and assets to the
amount of $135,080, estimated to be
worth $80J)00. f
It is reputed that inquiry Italy, reveals into munici state
pal finam- Rome, a
of bankruptcy excojding the worst anti
cipatious. “'The government declines
further to assist in' averting tho crash.
Numerous failures at® expected.
The failure has beta announced on the
stock exchange, tlrffllit at New George York, K. of Sistare’s the old
and prominent
Sons. A member of the firm is quoted as
saying that tlie failure was caused by a
heavy defalcation in their Philadelphia
office. ill with the views
In accordance thlip®or ex
pressed by ■•of Germany re
ceiilfy, forbidding a c–binK^tjgpr dUeilt||f in the has been except issued in
army
eases where the council of honor, to
which all circumstances shall have been
referred, shall declare a duel is necessary.
Mrs. Mary Williams has recovered in a
Chicago court ^5,000 from her husband,
Aaron S. Williams, apninst whom she
brought suit for slander, claiming $20,000
damages. Such a case is a very extra
ordinary one, and must involve nice
jaunts of law, as the parties have not
been divorced.
The business section of the village of
Theresa, twenty-five miles from Water
town, N. Y., was entirely destroyed by
fire Monday morning. Forty (wo build
ings were burned, involving a loss like
$ 150,000 to |200,000. About twenty
buildings were dwellings; the remainder
8 to res and shops.
A great deal of opposition members is of mani- the
fested at New York by
produce and cotton exchanges against
the so-called “Bnttcrworth bill” now be
fore congress. On Tuesday it was de
term inert to send to Washington a com
mittee from the two exchanges agriculture. to appear
before the committee, on
TRADE REVIEW.
THE IIDSINKHH 011X1.0011, AH ItKPOHTEU IIV
DUNN – OO.
R. G. Dunn <fc Co.’s review of track
for week ended Friday, says; The first
quarter of the year has passed without
the financial disturbance which many saw
reason to fear, with fewer failures than in
the same quarter last year, and smullei
liabilities by twelve per cent.,with largei
railroad ton igt than in the same qtiartci
of any previous year, and witli largei
payments than ever through bankers and
clearing houses, outside of New York.
Foreign trade lias been heavier than cvei
for the season, and domestic consump
tion, while much smaller than usual in
coal, in woolens and heavy winter goods,
ims been at the maximum in nearly all
other lines. The money market is nc
longer the centre of steady apprehension. four Hates
have been about at pci
cent, on call, and it is calculated that
April disbursements have been $20,451,-
861 on $757,083,540 of bonds; $11,- and
122,0.89 on $683,481,740 the of stock,
about $6,000,000 by government, leathei
ltenorts of the boot and shoe and
industry are nearly all favorable. At
Philadelphia, the leather trade is un
settled, the drug trade fair, and tobacco
more active. The number of failures
during the first quarter of 1890 was 3,223,
against last year 3,311, with a decided
decrease at the east, south nnd in the
Pacific states, but the increase iu tin
middle and western states. The aggre
gate of liabilities was $37,882,968, against
$42,973,516 laat year, but in this partic
ular there was un increase at south and
in middle states—in latter nearly fifty pci
cent—with decrease in all other sections.
Business failures occurring throughout
the country for week, number for United
Htates 189, Canada 17, total 206, against
243 last week.
FIGHTING BUCKET 8HOP8.
THE CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE DETERM
INED TO DOWN THEM.
The Chicago board of trade ga ve an
other turn to tho screw which it Is apply
ing to bucket shops in the matter of quo
tations. It has been the custom of large
leaders to post fluctuations of grain and
produce in their offices for the conven
ience of customers. It was suspected ad
that these postings bucket were being taken and
vantage of by the of shops, possible quota- COR
sequently this source
tions was cut off Monday, and as a con
sequence the bucket shops are getting
quotations less frequently and less prompt
ly than they have done heretofore. The
result is that the bucket shops show signs
ol distress. The board is greatly encour
i ged, ari I sentiment is almost unanimous
, iu favor of radical measures in order
u accomplish the end sought,
THE PROGRAMME
ARRANGED VOU THE r AN-AMERICAN PEI.lt
OATHS IN THKIIl TRIP SOUTH.
A Washington, I). C., dispatch says
Members of tho International American
conference will start on their proposed
Southern tour itinerary Friday, of April 18th. Fol
lowing is the the trip!
Friday, April Pefi'iivylVania 18 ijcnve ralltofid Washington,
D. <’,, via at 11
Saturday, Api-if 1*0 At Old
Point Comfort, Va., 20—Leave !> a. m. old
Sunday, April Point
Comfort at 11 p. in. ’
Monday, April 31 -Arrive at Rich
mond, Ya., 9 a. m.; leave Richmond at
9 p. In
Tuesday, April 23 Arrive Charleston at Charles- 2
ton, S, C., at 9 a. m.; leave
a. in.
Wednesday, April 23—Arrive at Ail
gust a,' On., Da. m.; leave Augusta 11
p. Thursday, m. April 21 Arrive at Atlanta,
-
Gil, 0 a. m.; leave Atlanta 12 night
Friday, April 25—Arrive night. at Macon,
Ga., 0 a. m.; leave Macon 12
Saturday, April 2(1- Arrive at will Bruns- by
wick, Ga., fl, a. m. The party go
steamer to Fernandina, and leave For
nandino, Fla., 0 p, in.; leave Jackson
ville, Flu., 7.35 p. in., and arrive at St.
Augustine, Fla.., 27—Leave a p. in. Augustine
Sunday, April St.
at U p. nr.
Monday, April 28—Arrive nf Tampa,
Fla., 7 a. m.; leave Tampa 8 p. m.
Tuesday, April 39—Arrive at Pensa
cola, Fla.', ii p. m.; leave Pensacola, IS
flight. Wednesday, April 30—Arrive at Mo
bile, Thursday, Ala., 8 a., Afa^ iff.: leave Mobile 12night. Orleans,
1—A rrive New
La., 8 a. in., Ma'y Sc# Orleans
Friday, 2—Lealve 12
night. Saturday, May 8—Arrive Birmingham,
Ala., 12 noon; leave Birmingham 12
night. Sunday, May 4—Arrive Chattanooga,
Tenn., 8 a. in. Chattanooga 12
Monday, May 5—Leave
night. Tuesday, Alay 6—Arrive Nashville 8
a.
m.; leave Nashville (! p. m.
Wednesday, Alay 7.....Arrive Roanoke,
Va., 4! p. in.
Thursday, May 8 Leave Roanoke 7 a.
m.; arrive Natural Bridge Station 8:1?
a. m.
Friday, May 9—Leave Natural Bridge
Station 10 a. m.; arrive Luray, Va., 1
p. in.
Saturday, and May arrive 10—Leave Washington, Luray, D. Va., C.,
10 a. m.,
at 2 p. m.
A DISASTROUS STORM
SWEEPS OVER TI1E COUNT RV DOING COK*
81 DURABLE 1) AM AGE.
A Chicago wind dispatch this says: of Recent the
heavy storm* in part
country have caused an unusually deep
disturbance of the* waters of Lake Miehi
gan. On Wednesday a series of tidal
waves swept, in Upon this shore, Vessels
were carried in shore and run aground in
the mud; those attached to tho piers
were jerked that the from their influences fastenings. felt It
seems same were
at other points on seemed the lake. At be Racine, drawn
Wis the waters to
away from the shore, lowering the surface
very noticeably.
A special from Akron, Ohio, says;
Two clouds came together Tuesday even
ing about two miles northwest of Sharon,
Medina county, and then began to re
volvo in tornado fashion and bear down
upon the village. In ten minutes it had
leveled everything in its track, over six
miles of farm land, for the width of thirty
rods, demolished dozens of buildings, and
killed one man, fatally injured a man
a woman and seriously injured several
others. Forests, in which were trees
two feet in diameter, were cut down as il
they had been cornstalks, Tlie loss
amounts to tens of thousands.
News from Pittsburg, si Pa., says: West
ern Pennsylvania was v i ted by an mi us
mil rain, wind and electric storm Wo/1
m-relay morning. Great damage was done,
and two lives were lost.
At Indiana, Pa., a mill Dolt of lighting
struck the flouring of Wegley A
Wilson, and it was burned. Loss $i5,
000. In Westmoreland county, Pa.
great damage is reported. aud For two hour? tht
the rain fell in torrents, nearly all
streams overflowed their banks, washing
away bridges. At Penn station a mini
her of families and were seek compelled shelter to vacate high
their houses on
ground. The Marios Valley railroad at
Glaridgc, its northern terminus, was bad
ly damaged. special Tin
A Roanoke, Va., says:
greatest tornado for many years passed Tin
over this city Wednesday evening.
casthouse at Crozier iron furnace wot
blown down and three laborers wen
killed and one was mortally wounded.
The loss to the furnace company is $5,000.
Nearly one hundred dwellings in coursi
of ereclion were demolished. Salem
furnace was blown down, a heavy lore
being reported, and buildings in that v •
einity were reduced to runs. Low
$ 10 , 000 .
WHOLESALE DISCHARGE
OK THE CONDUCTORS ON THE QUEEN ANI
CRESCENT RAILWAY.
A special Fight Queen from Chattanooga, and Crescent Tenn.,
says: eon
ductors have been discharged notices simply within (hr
last few days, the stating
that their reports are not satisfactory.
Among the discharged Hammond, are Sam Ben
nett and Newton two of
the oldest conductors of the Queen anc
Crescent system. Rumors are rife 111 .1
the entire force of conductors on the road
will be asked to resign, as the "spotters”
and two of the Pinkerton detective agen
cy have been doing some secret manifest work, it
which is now l cginning to
self.
A FRUITFUL REVIVAL.
CONFESSIONS RY CONVERTS TO TERM IN ATI
IN SEVERAL DIVORCE <*SF,S.
a Portland Episcopal evangelist con
ducting a revival meeting required at Hamilton,
Madison county, Indiana, con
verts to publicly Confess their sins, and
several made astounding penitent confessions husbands
q-j 1( . wives of three
„-ho related their experience now declare
they will at once apply for divorce.
NUMBER 20.
TomilliHN NOTES.
INTERESTING ffUWS PUGH AT.h
POINTS JN THE SOUTH.
GENERAL rROClRKSR AND OCOUHHBKCE*
WHICH ARK HAPPENING BELOW MA
son’s and dixon’s link.
A gang of forgen of Italian and .Span
ish bonds has been captured at Trieste.
'The Texas Standard Cotton Seed Oil
nCaf Galveston, Texas, burned
T»Vcffdny night. It will prove a complete
loss.
Judge ffugliR, Richmofif’, o* <fce United Inis decided States
circuit court-, at
that the Virginia dressed beef liiw is un
constitutional.
In const',TOf ■ncc of the inundation of
the machinery ttt I he city waterworks of
Dallas, Texas, tfr«« Is* almost a water
famine prevalent. Afoscly
In the suit of George B. vs.
Charles A. Calvo, proprietor of the Co
lumbia, S. C. Register, for libel, the jury
returned n verdict for defendant.
The Tennessee state democratic execu
tive committee lias fixed Tuesday, July
15th, and Nashville as the place for hold
ing a convention to nominate a candidate
for governor.
It was reported nt Raleigh, on Monday,
that in the past fifteen months 71,000 nr
groes have left North Carolina. It is
stated that this estimate is made on relia
ble data,- and upon careful investigation.
Tlie Methodist district conference, held
at Jackson, Jliss., adopted strong rcsolu
tions condemnatory of the Louisiana State
Lottery, and instructed copies to be sent
to Governor Nichols, of Louisiana, and
Postmaster-General Wnnamakor.
It is just learned at Louisville, Ky..
that Hatpe'r's completely Ferry, destroyed Henry county, by the tor
almost
nado. the village, composed of less
than two dozen hotiscs, is a considerable
distance from oily railroad.
A dispatch, pf Monday ffom Ran Fran
cisco, Cal., says; The freight committee
of flic transcontinental association re
ceived notice of reduced rates on cargoes
of oranges of $1 to Atlantic seaboard
points by association.
At a meeting of tlie board of directors
of the New Orleans Cotton exchange on
Tuesday a series of resolutions were
adopted in which they earnestly invoke
the aid of senators and representatives toward tlie de- in
congress from Louisiana
feat of the Bnttcrworth bill practically
prohibiting tlie sale of articles for future
delivery.
Fire was discovered Wednesday morn
ing in the forging Rolling department Stock of the
United States company’s
works at Decatur, Ala The machine
shop, blacksmith shop, mmWtsg room
and engine room quickly caught and were
totally destroyed. . The loss is about
$200,000, and fully four hundred labor
<;rn arc thrown out of employment.
David Huiinicutf, a railroad contractor,
was assassinated at his home Birmingham, at, Henry
Kllcn, twelve mile- from
Ala., Tuesday night. He luid just fin
ished supper and walked into (he sitting
room when tho assassin fired through a
w indow. The. only clew to tlie assassin
is that some time ago llunniciilt had a
difficulty with a negro who was in his
cm ploy, and that negro is now missing.
UNDER WATER.
IHtBENVILI.E, MISSISSIPPI AGAIN INIIN'
DATED RY A BIIOKEN LEVEE.
A Greenville, Miss., special of Saturday
says : The levee which has so long been
on (lie great danger of breaking at. Cat
fish point, near Connally plantation, miles by in
Boliviar county, about twenty
land above Greenville, gave way Friday
morning and from the latest reports re
ceived, tlie crevasse is from 1,-700 to
1,800 feet and increasing. The water
reached Greenville about 3 o’clock Sat
urday morning. The main busiurss street,
is now one sheet of water and the watei
is making its way over the sidewalks int<
die stores. A great many seek people high had tr
vacate their residences to qmir
itrs on account of the aud*cnrise.
SEVEN DROWNED.
A RAFT CONTAINING TWENTY NEGROES IS
CAI'StZKD WITH FATAL RESULTS.
In the section of country overflowed b\
the crevasse at Catfish Point, Miss., last
week, a raft containing twenty from negroes, the
who were trying capsized to in escape the mouth of
floods, Pbalia, was the rapid current having
Bogun carried the frail craft against a tree
Only thirteen of the party reached the
shore alive. All were Alabama negroes
snd not acquainted with such vicissitudes.
WENT TO A DOG SHOW
AND CARRIED WITH HIM $48,500 OF TUB
BANK’S MONEY.
Frederick Kimball, teller of the Pco
pie’s Saving bank, in Worcester. Mass., if
missing, and with him are $43,500 of tin
bank’s funds. Tin- bank will lose bill
$33,500, ns the Fidelity and Casually
com pony, of New York, is on his bond
for $10’000. Kimball he disappeared going Bos- last
Wednesday, faying was to
ton to n dog sluiw.
AN INHUMAN ACT.
POLICE DETAIN HIM BECAUSE JIF. WAt
HURRYING FOR A DOCTOR.
James Coleman, a farmer arrested living Friday ncai
Fort Dodge, Iowa, was After ins
for fast driving by city police. that lie had been
arrest it was discovered
hastening to town to get a physician immediate'-., foi
his dying wife, aud he was
released. When he arrived home hi»
wife was dead.
LEARNED BY EXPERIENCE.
Father My son, you must not dispute
with year mother in that way.
Isoy—But she’s in the wrong.
Father—That makes no difference, and
you might as.well learn, my child, once
for all, that when a lady says a thing is so
!t is so, even if it isn’t sol
Lionkl Bbobgh isreported to be makings
small fortune out of his performances In
Africa at the diamond fields.
PRINTED EVKRY TOESDA!
—AT—
ZEBULON, - - GEORGIA*
—BY -
PARRY LEE,
A SPLENDID ADVERTI 8 JKO AGEIST.
W)WER OB' SHORT WORDS.
[The author, being asked if one* could
write as forcibly in monosyllables following as in
words of length, at once wrote the
lines :1 round ■’
Think not that strength lies In tho big,
word,
Or that the brief and plain must needs be
weak; ha*
To whom can this be true who once
beard
The cry of help—the words that all men
speak throat.
When want, or woe, or fear C at the
So that each word is gasped out like ■
shriek
Pressed from the heart, or as a strange, wild
noto
Sung by somo fay or flendl There is *
strength toe
VTHoh dies it stretched too far, or spun
And, breadth,
Which has more bight than mom
depth than length.
hot but this force of thought anil speech be
mine,
And he that will take the sleek, fat phro.se
Which glows and burns not, though it gleam
and’shine; ,
Light but not heat, a flash without a (daze.
Nor is it naught but strength the short word
boasts;
It serves far more than wind or storm can
tell, rock-bound
Or roar of waves that flash on
coasts;
The crash of tall trees when the wild wind*
swell;
Tho roar of guns; the groans of men that die
On blood-stained fields. It has a voice a*
well
For them that far oft on their sick bads He;
For them that weep, for them that mourn
the dead;
For them that dance, and laugh and clap the
hand
To Joy’s quick step, as well as Griefs sad
tread;
The sweet, plain words we learn at first keep
time,
And though the theme be sad, or gay, or
grand,
With each, with all, these may be made to
chime,
In thought, or speech, or song, or prose, or
rhyme. Dr. Addison Alexander.
—
PITH AND POINT, j
In a nut-shell—The worm. \
A watch word—-“What time is it?”
A miser’s first rule is addition. His
heirs generally begin with division.-—
St. Louis Magazine.
A man often drops his eyes without
breaking them. Not so with .
Yrax-Arro.-----r>ri,YnmfMfc. TJreeZE.
“I’ll give you a licking," said the old
oat to her kitten, hut she wasn't mad at
all. —Merchant Traveler .
The giraffes in their necks
Much wisdom with display, them V
For a little
Will go a great Philadelphia way, Press. ,
*
—
Friend (with manuscript)—"I flatter
myself with the hop; that this poem will
meet with your approval.” Editor—
"Yes, you flatter yourself .”—Texas Sift,
ings.
“Have you read Sinithers’s book?
“No.” “Why, you said in your review
that it was a great story.” “Well, that’s
all right. Smithers told me that him
self. ”— Bazar.
Sufferer—“Do you pull teeth without .
pain?” Dentist— “Well, not alwam,, £
sprained touth, and my it hurts wrist last yet, time occasionally.’ I pullfijg aj
Texas Siftings. me j
—
Applicant—-“Can you give Wheeler?* me a joW 1
in your department, Mr.
Foreman—"I thought you had a job at
the iron furnace. Why did you leave}’,
Applicant—“Well, the furnace was tod
warm for me, and finally 1 got fired.’ H
Mumey's Weekly.
His House Was Stolen. A
"I never in my life saw such a place
as Chicago,” said L. F. Thomas, of
Springfield, who recently arrived from
that city. “I am used to New York,"
he added, "and don’t ob ject to having
the socks stole off my feet, provided the
street thieves leave my feet on my ankles.
But Chicago—wliew!” and lie leaned
back in a Colonade armchair. "Let me
tell you what happened to a cousin of
mine out there,” said Mr. Thomas, feel*
ing for a match, "It was about five
years ago that I shut up his house in Chi
cago aud went abroad. lie was gone for
over two years. Just before returning he
wrote to have tho house painted. The
house painting firm to whom he wrote
replied in about a month, stating that
they would like to do the work if they
could find tlie house. My cousin hustled
home to Chicago and skipped up to tho
lot.
“The lot was there but the house was
gone. Somebody had actually moved
away the entire building and all that it
contained. The neighbors made no re
monstrance, of course, supposing that the
owner hud ordered its removal."-— Philo,•
delphia Press.
Value of Earth Worms. A
The weight of earth worms bring to
the surface yearly is enormous. Darwin
estimated that worms, by swallowing
earth for the sake of the vegetable mat
ter it contains and forming castings,
bring to the surface as much as ten ton*
of earth per annum on an acre. Worm«.
are great promoters of vegetation by
boring, perforating, and loosening the
soil, and rendering it pervious to rains
and the fibers of plants, by drawing
straws and stalks of leaves and twigs
into it, and, most of all, by throwing up
such infinite numbers of lumps of carta
called worm easts, which form a fine
manure for grain and grass. The earth
without worms would soon become cold,
hard bound, void of fermentation, and
consequently sterile; this ha? occurred in
many cases where the worms have been
either accidentally or intentionally de
stroyed, and the fertility of the soil thus
lost has only been restored wnen the
worms had again collected and resumed
theii fertilizing work,