THE ORTHODOX DEMOCRAT. |>i i I v llglrope&n Powr j haco come to Blent bo extermi late tho African VJfclo. Mi not very remote future nil vc.xa- Hidian questions may disappear for ■' Indians. ■Goschen, English Chancellor of ■chequer, has decided to a' andon w posed wheat tax. ■ anches and large farms of South- Rifornia are slowly but stead,ly ■Git up into small farms. ■ Farmers' Itevuw thinks there is no ■ reason to doubt that the potato B the present season is the largest Hpwn in the United States. has been formed in Gcr- Hinder tlie Presidency of Profe eoi ■ to introauec sun'tnry improve Bin small dwellings in Gorlin. ■ordingto the judicial statistics of lpd f .just issed, fifty murders a r e Illy committed in London, the per lors of which escape and are never ted. an evidence of the fact that Irc has quieted down vc;y considerably to the operation of the crimes act len suspended in certain portions e County of Clare. l .e Olston, at Los Angeles, Cal., the day, tried to commit suic'de lie himself in the abdomen. The bul ent through and struck a bystander and Gillespie, killing him instantly. 11 will live. Rochester Union says: “Small vould ‘Esq.’be if Americans dis ■■it. It' is absolutely without in its current use, and doe, H to compensate for the time it write it.-’ Hew cantilever bridge at Mem- Han., will be immense. It will a channel span 170 feet in H There will be two other spans, ■) feet in length. The bridge thirty-two feet in width. The Hbc $7,200,000. - % a man intends to start a goat thinks will bring him Ho will stock it with and as the oidiuary Hn give three pints of milk a day wiilatcs upon ninety quarts per day Hve to fifteen cents a quart. ■ announcement of the death of ■leycr, the inventorof “Volapuk,” '•fiidicled by Mr. Scheyler himself the Vobiy’ikahled /.coodik. ■he has been dangerously ill, and the last sacraments of tlio Ijjfbut he has been cured by tho ETf Radon. ■ leading minds of France bavo Bo tlie conclusion that the national Bof educaftm is defective ou its Id side, and efforts are now being Bto acclimatize cricket, football, Bg and American baseball in French ■s. Tlie Minister of Education lias Bkpaper in favor of athletic ex Mbit-mouth (N. II.) Times recall,) tly one hundred ycirs ago, in ■ neral Washington came to that ■in and remained there four days, He of which, in coarse of a sail lie Htiire for a few minutes at Kittcry, was the only time that his BHHaciicd tlie soil of the Fine -V’ffMest of election incidents comes HgEnßsylvania, where one Charles Bbrough suit against *llO an refused his vote. He was hB a bal y in a cabbage field, K as “cabbage” till he called —and the election folk Have li's ballot because they IHHiot and could not know hit |th there are now IG,OOO Iprs, 1,000,000 pupils, 17,- |e and female high schools, ■0 worshippers in the Be sre sixty normal schools, I and universities, and Rplogical seminaries. They Hi the Southern States, Hg the Northern States, Hpropcrty valuation. ■■k!,” of “great'’ ami ■- ruled in Kurope, and Hkind.but not since the from a supposed SMs of Calvary lias one ol Hi New York h'l-a/iln'--, Hvrn Christian of Den Punctuality is the and it makes life a luggards in his king* Lshic? at the Danish ■he sovereign is not Bil to the second, else to follow his ■‘her wait for auj Hut for him. The Hvlia are rather an Hibed him, tialfin Mm in annoyance. Hi the name luid SOUTHERN NEWS. A CONDENSATION OF HAPPEN INGS STRUNG TOGETHER. MOVEMENTS OB' ALLIANCE MEN —RAIL- ROAD CASUALTIES—TUB COTTON CROP —FLOODS —ACCIDENTS —CROF RETURNS. ALABAMA. The Republicans of Birmingham, have forwarded to President-elect Harrison, an urgent invitation to visit Birmingham, before the date of liis inauguration, and “they are hopeful that he will accept, j Thomas Robinson, an old and respected citizen and merchant of Montgomery, was .shot and instantly killed by George Holmes, a negro. Holmes had a diffi culty with another negro. Robinson in- Itcrfered and tried to quell the disturb ance. Holmes drew a pistol and shot Robinson, the ball penetrating his breast and causing instant death. KENTUCKY. A cablegram from Pau, France, re ceived in Louisville, states that Rev. Dr. Boyce, chairman of tlie Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, was dying at that place. He went abroad for his health several months ago. Near Harrcidsburg, Frank Green, who killed three men in the course of his life, w hi!e escaping from officers by crossing the Kentucky river in a skiff, capsized lvs bo it and drowned. Green was bora in Ohio, where he killed a man when al youth", moved to Eastern Kentucky, where ho killed another; then into High Biidgc, where ho dangerously wounded two others. His last killing was two, months ago, when he beat a railroad baud to death near Chattanooga, Tun. LOUISIANA. At a meeting of citizens held in New Orleans, it was decided to add to the attractions of the coming carnival, by erecting in Lafayette square a mammoth cotton palace, in which the products ol Louisiana and other states will he i-v. hibited during carnival week. MISSISSIPPI. A telegram was received at Memphis, saying there was a negro not in progress st Lamar, Miss., and asking that some Winchester rilles be sent on the first train. Lamar is twelve miles south of Grand Junction, Tenn., on the line of the Illinois Central Railroad. Two whites and five negroes have been killed. The latest advices from Wahalak, the scene of the late race troubles, are to the effect that three negroes have been cap tured, but their names are withheld. From tho prisoners just taken, it is learned that George Maury, Cash Maury and George Coleman were wounded in the fight of Sunday night, December 10. Walter Crook, the most intelligent of the fugitives, is supposed to be in hiding at the residence of a white man, and a search warrant has been secured to ran sack the xiluce. MISSOURI. General Manager S. H. 11. Clark, of the Missouri Pacific at St. Louis, has de cided that the secret service of the sys tem must go. Detective Thomas Fur long is at the head of the service, and he has fifteen men under his charge. The cost of the service has been nearly $40,- 000 a year, and this, with the unsatis factory work, has caused the abolishment of the service. NORTH CAROLINA. The committee of arrangements for the state convention of cx-Confedernte pen sioners met at Raleigh on Thursday, and made arrangements to meet in that city January 22d. Speeches will be made by the governor and by several prominent ex-Confederates. The convention will memorialize tlie legislature to increase pensions to wounded soldiers so as to give each a pension of S4O, or to pay pensioners according to the character of the injury or disability. • SOUTH CAROLINA. Cant. Benjamin 11. Massey, one of tl a most prominent men in or k county, died at his residence in I< ort Mill from an affection of the heart, TEXAS. The wool groweis of Kimble, Menard, Sutton and Schleicher counties, at a meeting held on Thursday, adopted res olutions urging Congress to so amend the present tariff as to prevent the im portation of foreign wool under the names of ring waste, tliri a l waste, yarn waste, which are now used to evade tar iff dutv, declaring that it is largely due to these fraudulent importations thal they suffer. L E. Rust, editor of the Rico News, shot and instantly killed Signor Olson. Olson insulted Rust’s sister some time awo, and Rust demanded that he apolo gise. Olson’s reply was that he would whip Rust on sight. The men mel in a saloon and Olson went behind the bar, got two revolvers, laid them ou the counter, aud told Rust to .take one ol them aud go out with him and they would settle the difficulty. A quarrel ensued, and Olson finally jumped ovei the counter, gun in hand. Rust was toe quick for him. however, and drew Lis own pistol and shot Olson twice, killing him almost instantly. VIRGINIA. The Richmond Whig will discontinue publication, the good-will and subscrip tion list having been purchased by the Daily Times. The Merchants and Manufacturers Exchange, of Norfolk, has been merged into the Chamber of Commerce, and great interest is being taken in its ad vancement. On Thursday night, a house in the eastern part of Rockingham county, in which a number of colored people were bolding a party, was blown up by dyna mite, and several of tbe inmates wore fatally wounded. Robert Hull, fireman on tbe Norfolk & Western Railroad, and brother of Allen Hull, general passenger agent of tbe same road, committed suicide on Thurs day night by taking laudanum at Nor vill Hotel. At Southboaton, the large tobacco factory of J. W. Easley was burned. The factory was occupied by Norman & Evans, and contained a stock of old to bacco valued at $85,000. It was feared at one time that tbe whole town would be destroyed, and Danville was asked for assistance, but the flaffils were finally ejslingui>hed, V “Error Ceases to be Dangerous When Reason is Left Free to Combat it.’’—Thomas Jefferson. BARNESVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 1889. LATEST BY TELEGRAPH. fioveral shocks of earthquake was felt on Thursday in the eastern and southern parts of Spain. The official French journal announces au increase in the army of 13,000 foot chasseurs by tho addition of two com panies to each third battalion. Breiuigsville, Pit,, is the center of a district where diptheria is raging with fearful results. The terrible disease is spreading havoc in that locality, particu larly among children. At a meeting of tho National Republi can Committee, held in Paris, France on Thursday, it was unanimously resolved to support Gen. Boulanger’s candidacy for a seat in the Chamber of Deputies for the Seine, made vacant by the death of M. Ilude. The postoffice at Sunbury, Pa., was robbed on Thursday night. Tlie rob bers pried the doors open with a jimmy, hut they secured only 75 cents. Tho of fice at Northumberland, two miles from there, wes also entered, and all they se cured at that place was 24 cents. Governor Beaver issued a proclama tion, declaring that the state debt of Pennsylvania has beer reduced during the past year sl,ll 550. One of the governor’s pet schemes is the total ex tinguishment of the state debt, and he is bending every energy to accomplish this before his term expires. A riot occurred near Tripp, Dakota, between Russian Menuonites and Ameri cans. A public sale was held at the farm of a Russian named Sink, and an American farmer named Merchant pur chased a dozen chickens. When ready to start home, he found two of the chickens missing, and complained to Sink, who told him to take something of equal value. He caught a goose and started home, but was overtaken by a party of eight Russians, who claimed the goose as their property, and a fight en sued, in which some twenty .men were engaged, with the Russians as aggressors, When two brothers, namod Johnson, who were passing, joined in the melee with knives. A Russian named Mayer was stabbed, and ho in turn split Charles Johnson’s head with a neck yoke, inflict ing a fatal injury. The same weapon broke the arm of George Johnson, aud knives were used to slash up three other Russians badly, but not fatally. STEAMER DISASTERS. The iteamer Kate Adams, an elegant passenger packet running semi-weekly between Memphis aud Arkansas City, was burned near Commerce, Miss., about forty miles south of Memphis 6n Sunday. She was hound to Memphis, aud had about two huudred people aboard, in cluding her deck and cabin crew of eighty, twenty five cabin passengers, and twenty-five coloied cabin passengers. About twenty-five persons p risked, mostly by drowning, aud one of the clerks last his life trying to save tho colored women who were ou the lower deck. Only three women were saved. The boat was built in 1882, and cost $102,000. She was the finest and fastest steamer of her type. She was in sured for $83,750 in Sr. Louis, Cincin nati and other foreign offices. This would have been the completion of her 902d trip in the Memphis and Arkansas City trade.. The steamboat John 11. Hanna, from Ouachita river, with a large number of passengers and a cargo of 2,500 bales of cotton on board, was burned on Monday near Plaquemme, La. It is stated that of the one huudred per sons on board at the time of the disaster, only fourteen are known to have been saved. The John H. Hanna was built in Madison, Ind., in 1876, and hailed from Louisville, Ky. She was of 877 lonnage, and was owned by tho Ouachita river consolidated lines. Cnpt- J. W. Blanks, president of tlie company, says that the latest advices he has are to the effect that the steamboat left Monroe, La., Sunday morning at G o’clock with 1,1)00 bales of cotton. The captain estimated that additional cotton had been picked up on the way down to make the total number of bales 2,500 ... Late dispatches confirm the report of the loss of the steamer Leife Errickson off Alkali point, five miles west of Seattle, W. T. Five lives were lost. The Errickson was a propeller and plied be tween Seattle and Sydney, Mason county, and was en route to the latter point when the accident occurred. Fire broke out in the pilot-house, and it is believed to have been caused by a lamp explosion. There were thirty-six people aboard at the time. The fire spread instantly throughout the interior cabin. The boat w as about two miles from shore when thf fire broke out. UNCLE SAM INSULTED. The brigantine .Tosefa, which arrived at Philadelphia, Pa., from Montengo Bay, Jamaica, brings news of an outrage suffered by that vessel at the bands of tbe Spani-h government. While dis charging her cargo on her return trip from New York at Arroya, Spanish cus tom officials discovered that twenty packages of corn-starch, winch were marked on the vessel’s manifest, were missing. After a search the goods could not be found, and the vessel was seized by the authorities, who held her until a flue of $4,000 was paid, although the value of the goods in question did not exceed S2O. The master and crew were forced to suffer many indignities at the hands of the governor of the island and other official o . After the fine had been paid it was ascertained that the missing goods were delivered by mistake on board the ship Josephus, which lay next to Josefa, in New York, but were placed on the Josefa’s manifest. The owner of the Josefa has filed a complaint against the Spanish government, and it is said that the war ships, Galena and Y antic, will be ordered to continue their cruise to Porto Rico and summarily secure redress for the imposition suffered by the Josefa. RELIGIOUS CONFERENCE. A conference between the committees* of the Southern and Northern general assemblies of the Presbytery of the Pres byterian church has convened in New York City. The object of the confer ence is to" secure perfect co-operation be tween tbe assemblies in lieu of union, i whieh canned be effected at prj sent. THE WORLD OVER. INTERESTING ITEMS BOILED I)6WN IN READABLE STYLE. THE FIELD OF t.AUOR SEETHING CAUL DRON OF EUROPEAN INTRIGUE —FIRES, BUICIDF.B, ETC.—NOTED DEAD. Owing to the protest of the British representatives at Zanzibar, the Sultan has cancelled his order for the wholesale execution of criminals. Gov. Hill, of New York, has ordered an extraordinary session of the court of oyer and terminer for the trial of the sd called “boodle” ildcrmen. The Pope ’ sent to tho Bishop of Piacoi.za $4,000 ior a training college fop missionaries, to he sent to America to care-for Italian emigrants. Tlie Catholics are organizing associa tions throughout Italy which, conjointly with similar associations all over the worid, will raise a fund for a vigorous anti-slavery campaign. By au explosion of naptha a fire was started in the hojise furnishing store of D. B. H. Powcisfin Marblehead, Mass., and bdfcra the firp was controlled, prop erty to the value of nearly a million of dollars was destroyed. The police and military are making preparations for extensive evictions on the Olphort Landsmore estate at Letter kenny, Ireland. The houses of tenants have been strongly fortified and a despe rate struggle is imminent. Commander G’bnaigoy, of the lowa department of the Grand Army of the Republic, has been looking up Union veterans among the evicted settlers of Des Moines rivet lands in order to aid the needy. He there .-.re few Union soldiers among them. There is a large number of ex-Confederates however. Ex-Judge Robert Q. Johnston shot himself through the head Thursday morning at hi) residence in Atondale, near Cincinnati, Ohio. He was promi nent and popular in law and politics, and wns in good circumstances. About two months ago his wife died, and there is no cause known for his suicide, except her loss. Ex-Queen Natalie, of Sarvia, has been received with royal honors duriug her tour. Upon her arrival at the Kussian frontier the imperial chamberlain wel comed her on behalf of the czar and czarina. At the various towns at which she stopped, the burgomasters presented bread andsalt, and all expressed the hope that she would reascend the throne. The Denver (Colorado) Gas Cos., had 100 men employed on Thursday in exca vating a ditch alongside of and under neath the' track )jf the cable car line, neu sratrlnn),, ,! - - ... - block fell, crushing the life out of and imprisoning the men underneath. Foul dead and two badly wounded were found. Other men escaped with more or less bruises. Sebastian Hobbs, a farmer living three miles south of Bird’s Eye, in Dubois county, Ind., was called out at his bouse and two shots were fired at him. One shot struck him in the abdomen, producing a fatal wound. One Smith was arrested on suspicion of having done the shoot ing. Hobbs has made himself obnoxious to the White Caps by procuring evi dence against them and urging prosecu tion. Mrs. Lucy P,arsons, the anarchist, ah tempted to deliver an address in Chicago, but Chief of Police Hubbard at once squelched the affair. “Is this what you call a free country?’*cried out the an archist’s widow, as she waved aloft a big red handkerchief, which had been con ceaied in her muff. “Why they would not think of trying to stop such a meet ing as this ia London or in Scotland. Anarchists march the ctreets of London singing the Marseillaise and are not in terrupted. yet they call this country free.” A dispatch from Malta says that neither the duke nor duchess of Edinburgh was present at the theater there when the at tempt was made to blow up the build ing with a bomb. It was reported at the time that the duchess was present, and that she was the intended'vietim of a nihilist conspiracy. The bomb was discovered in the lobby in the rear of the stalls, by an attendant. Attached to jt was a burning fuse, which an attendant promptly extinguished. It is Slip posed that the perpetrator was actuated solely by a spirit of wanton mischief. Three fatalities and a number of minoi casualties resulting from accidents at Christmas festivities in the vicinity of Chicago, 111., are reported. At (Geneva, 111., and Danville, 111., men personating Santa Claus at Christmas church festi vals, each of whom used cotton batting for beards and wigs, caught fire from candles on the trees and were fatally burned; and at Milwaukee, Wis., a four year-old boy waked early, and. slipping out of bed, undertook to light tbe candles on the Christmas tree, as he hail seen it done the night before. He set his gown, the tree, and bedclothes on fire ancl was burned to death and his friends had difficulty in rescuing other children and saving the house. RAILWAY PROGRESS. Notwithstanding the widespread im pression that additions to the railway systems of the United States during 1888 would be comparatively insignificant, the railway mileage of the country was increased during the year by no less than 7,120 miles of main track. While this is much less than a phenomenal increase in the years 18S7, 188(5, 1882 and 1881, when the new mileage was respectively 13,000, 9,000, 11,560 and 9,796 miles, the record of the past year exceeds that of every other year in history, with the excep tions named, and of the year 1871, when 7,379 miles were added. Kansas still leads the list in extent of new mileage, as she lias done for several years. Cali fornia comes next end the South follows. PROTECTED. The authorities of Batoum, Russia, re fused to sanction the Rothschilds,scheme to lay pipes throiAn that town to convey petroleum from, Ua wells directly to tho ship’s side. to the plan is that it to small GEORGIA ITEMS. John Peabody, of Columbus, com mitted suicide by shooting himself with a, revolver. The Mr in behnlf of the Confederate Veterans, recently held in Atlanta, will net nearly $4,000. Ti o Atlanta Zouave squad won the first prize of SIOO at Selma, Ala., on Thursday. This is their second victory. They won first prize at Opelika last August. The letter if Col. George W. Adair, addressed to Uovernor Gordon with ref erence to the establishment of a state ine briate asylu-n, has attracted considerable attention. The subject is < neof marked importance, and is being widely dis cussed. There was a small war at Prior's. A crowd of drunken negroes employed abort tl.c mii es become unruly, and a collision occurred between them and some white men who attempted to quiet them. One negro was shot in the slum' der and arm and another was shot in ’ leg. A man named Pritchett, livir. Somerville, while working ou: m , field, hung fiis coat on the fence. The coat contained three S2O-greenbncks, which dropped out of the pocket, and a hog chewed them until they were reduced to a pulp. J. 11. Reynolds, president of the First National bank in Rome sent the pulp to the Treasury Department in Washington. Mr. Reynolds says that it was impossible for him to make anything out of the pulp, and that it looked like so much dark colored paper. Mr. Reynolds received a reply from Wash ington to his le‘ter. On two slips of paper were neatly pasted fragments of two bills. It was the work of an expert and showed his wonderful skill. The Treasury Department said that they could only make two hills out of the pulp, and would pay that on an affidavit stating how the money was mut lated. CONFLICT OF AUTHORITY, The War Department at Washington, D. 0., has received no additional parti culars concerning the arrest of Gen. Stanley, commanding the Department ol Texas, and lias issued no instructions to Inin in regard to his future action. He has, it is explained, full discretion in the matter of the taking possession of the property and can order troops to Austin for that purpose if he deems it necessary. The question of his defence before civil courts has been referred to the attorney general for such action as he may think proper. The trouble grows out of the attempt of private parties to squat upon the old arsenal property which has re cently been donated by Congress to the city of Austin for public school pur nhfi/ v 7n the Interval between the lO linquishment by the government of property and its reception by the school board, the premises were squatted upon by a man named isnydor The- school board then applied to Gen. Stanley to , put them in possession. Gen. IStaulcy and bis aide went to Austin for this pur pose; but he no sooner reached the ground in company with representatives of the school board than a constable, , armed with a warrant from Justice Stuart’s court, arrested Gen. Stanley for an alleged attempt to commit an assault on Snyder. They quietly submitted and were carried before Justice Stuart, who bound them over in SSOO to keep the peace. Stanley refused to give bond, and said he would go to jail first. The constable proceeded to take him to that institution and arrived at the door of the prison. Sheriff White asked Gen. Stan ley if he had authority from the govern ment to transfer the property in question. The general said he had and produced his orders. The sheriff then said he would not recognize the order of com mitment from Justice 3tuart and told Gen. Stanley so. Snyder still holds pos session of the property. Sheriff White, who refused to put Gcu. Stanley and his aide in jail, was arrested afterwards on a warrant issued fcy Justice Stuart for con tempt of his court, and his trial is now in pfegress. United States District At torney Kleberg is expected there to insti tute legal proceedings against Stuart. BRITISH SLAVERY. It has been discovered that an agree merit in relation to slave dealing exist; between English East Africa and th. sultan of Zauzibar, and Arab slave deal ers of Slonbaza. By this . tent the Arabs are authorized to carry on tradi in slaves and to flog or otherwise punish them. A company upon hiring slave! must make an arrangement with tlieii owners. The wages of slaves must br paid to owners. English mission sta tions are obliged, under the agreement, to return runaway slaves to their owners. After the agreement bad been signed, the agents of the company, Mr. Mackenzie and Gen. Matthews, accompanied by Mcnbaza Arabs, went to Rabat Church mission station, and demanded the sur render of certain runaways, who had taken refuge at the station. Theßiitish missionaries refused to give them up. The secretary of the English East Africa Cos., at London, England, denies the au thenticity of the story from Zanzibat about an agreement between the com pany and the sultan and Arab slave dealers. He further says that the only action of Agent Mackenzie in regard tc slaves has been to pay for the liberation of 1.400 slaves. The newspapers gen erally believe tbe first account to be true. THE HAYTIEN INCIDENT. Advices have been received from Ilayti to tbe effect that tbe dispute over the seizure of the American steamer, Ilnytien Republic, has been settled. The steamer has been delivered to the American men of-war, and the latter have honored the Ilaytien flag with a salute of twenty-one guns, Among tbe people the action of the United States government is con sidered an abuse of power against a help less nation, and this opinion is said to he shared by some of the foreign diplomatic representatives. Gen. Legitime has been unanimously elected President of the Republic and is taking cuergetic steps to repress the rebellion. A BiLt'ha been passed by the South Carolina Senate making it a misdemennor punishable by dismissal for any member of - tbe Legislature to accept a free pass from I any railroad. m WASHINGTON NEWS. WHAT THE UNITED STATES OF FICIALS ARE DOING. NOTES. The Comptroller of Currency has au thorized the First National bank of John son City, Tenn., to begin business with a capital of $50,100. The Comptroller of Currency has de clared a second dividend of 10 per cent, in favor of the creditors of tho State Na tional Bank of Raleigh, N. C., making in all 30 per cent, on claims proved. Michael Keating, messenger of the War Department, fell over the balusters on j the fourth floor of that building on • Thursday, and was instantly ki l I. Tin fall was about eighty in - toxicated at thetijgs*** ® T’ Prc 'althas granted a pardon to | P ‘0 A. A. Kimball, of the Mormon :cn, convicted at the September 'a of the first district court of Utah of uultery, and sentenced to eight months’ imprisonment. The Prpairlijnt'a notion i3 because the prisoner is in au advanced stage of consumption. The remains of Gen. John Logan were removed from the Hutchinson vault, iu Rock Creek Cemetery, where I hey were placed two years, to the new Logan Chapel in the National Soldiers’ Home Cemetery, and the guard of seven artil lerymen who have kept watch over the body since it was deposited in the Hutch inson vault, was relieved. Col. James F. Casey, who married a younger sister of Mrs. Gen. Grant, died at his residence in Georgetown. He had been ill only a week and died of pneu monia. Col. Casey came from Kentucky stock. A brother of his was in Congress from that state during the War and the family were once wealthy. He had been a ha ml soma man in his youth, but be aged rapidly after liis misfortunes be gan, and his later appearance was that of a bent and seedy old man, who moved about without spirit and apparently in different to all the world. His wife and four children are left destitute. The proposed plan for a Chickamauga Memorial Association, copied after the organization for the preservation of the field of Gettysburg, but composed of the veterans of both armies, meets with general favor among the ex-Conlederate officers, in Washington, who fought at Chickamauga. A large number of promi nent Union officers have signified their approval of the plan for a joint memorial association, and the whole subject for preserving and marking that field, w ill soon receive the formal consideration of the committee appointed by the Society of the Army of the Cumberland to report some plan for carrying the project into effect. The question of curtailing suffrage in the Southern states by the requirement of educational qualifications now being discussed in the states of South Carolina, Alabama, and elsewhere, has created pomo talk among the Southern men in Congress. Most of them are, however, of the opinion that, tL<>- -]g n 0 nccessitv of discussing litis question at present, and very few of them seem at all anxious to be quoted on it. The large majority of Southern men are, however, opposed to changing the present suffrage laws un less some means can be devised by which the negro can be excluded from the bal lot box without limiting the representa tion of the Southern states in Congress and in the electoral college. Col. I. W. Avery, of Atlanta, Ga.. whe in connection with his duties as chief ol one of the divisions of the Treasury De partment, holds the position of private secretary to Senator Brown, of Georgia, came near being killed Wednesday night while going through tlie stieets on an in valid’s tricycle, which he has for the past two or three weeks been compelled to use, he having, not long since, had a slight attack of paralysis. He was over taken by a careless cab driver, who claims not to have seen the colonel. The cab was going with some degree of rapidity when it struck the tricycle, throwing the occupant several feet into the middle of the street with great Arne. Chairman Button, of the In ngnral Committee, says, that it lias been pm tically determined to In, no carriage j in the procession, except those Jor occupancy of the retiring ud incoin _ presidents, the new vice-president and the joint congressional committee. Air. Button says that on account of the great length of the parade it will be imprac ticable to allow members of tbe com mittee to ride in tbe procession, and also that no place in line can be given to any persons until about a week befoie the 4th of March, when the marshal will make an assignment of posi tions to various organizations. Colorado reports that one hundred cow boys and a band will leave Denver tc take pait in the parade. They will bt dressed in the characteristic style of tin plains and will travel under tic name ol “The Ihrrison and Morton Club ol Marching Cowboys.” The sth Maryland regiment has also signified its intention to take part in the inaugural ceremonies. A Long Story. "I found ‘Old Hutch’ in a down-town restaurant one night last Fall,” said a board of trade man to a congenial crowd. “He was in a sociable mood and I asked him to give me the secret of his success, as he certainly must have found the true secret of money-making. He sized me up for a minute and said if I was in earn ed he would like to tell me the history of his life. Well, sir, he began from tbe time be was born and never skipped a single thing regarding his life. He ate three different times while he was regal ing me with his story. lie began about 10 o’clock and kept at iUw the next morning. Then I quijflß lie was only thirteen years old aJB| made a cent."— Chicago Mail, ifi A Western man came to selH fellow’s house which had been ™ Washington’s headquarters dlirin War of Independence; and when li* taking leave of the venerable poet j had most courteously shown hipJ the ii!ace, shook hands and said J gssfeMua-ai ; 1 am lUIJb w NO. 11 FOR FARMERS. I An epidemic is spreading ajnon horses. The disease is anew line l veterinary surgeons, and they are Mafflf in its treatment, it apparently MffeJ the glands of the thioat, and in tiBL jority of cases it causes swelling, extends from the point of the jaw tlfi breast. This makes breathing' andflj ing very difficult ind, consequently® animal rapidly grows weak and EK flesh. j Hon. C. C. Moore, of Huey, 111.® | rived in New Smyrna, Fla., to -penfß Winter there. He has valuable pro]* at Eidora, and also h fine young gr<i\(S town, from which a box of oranges 1 pi'k 1 this year. While in the Nil "St. Summer, he l ad arranged with I LuuisvVli* -jQfashvilic 1 1 for a sel of .-xcursio!.-" i7-.cn point . fa. direct to Ni Smyrna, but th ■ yclj fever icare played havoc with ta though there is a prospect that latere the season, when confidence has been| established iu the minds of the Noil erners as to 1" lorida’s advantages, that! plans may yet be consummated. ' The orange groves of Oviedo, W have the reputation of being tlie fin|| in tho state, and the growers have eariH the reputation of packing their fruit® the neatest manner. As evidence of tB latter fact, William Cleaver receive™ letter from the well-known commissi® house of L. AY. Sherman & Cos., of B|# ton, Mass., iu acknowledgement ofs shipment of fruit a few days ago, H which this senlence is found: “Hurra to X ’ ' His ;■ "king is the best and 1 •en this season. This is certain 1 in inctali- coining froriMM and experienced dealers iu Fin Ida fruits.— Jacksonville Times. Union. W An event of more than passing intoreß and one of vast importance to the people of Florida, is the forthcoming meeting ot the American Pomological Society to be held at Ocala on February 20, 21 and 22'. This is the first time that the Society has ever held a meeting in the South—that is, in that part of the country comprising the extreme southern belt of tlie semi tropical states. Tlie society was organ ized in 1848, and has since then held bi-S ennial sessions in various sections of the* Eastern, Western and Middle StatesJj with one session at Baltimore, Md., and* one at Richmond, Ya. The last meeting® was held in Boston, Mass., and at time an invitation from the Florida' Horticultural society to hold its next session in this state was unanimously ac cepted. Sanford was originally selected as the place, and February 6 a9 the time for holding this convention, but owing to a lack of time for suitable preparations it was deemed expedient to make the change as above not- i The weather edit) • be N- w. Xr.-rk Herald goes over the indications of out Winter laboratory, the great Hudson’s bay and Manitoba sections of British North America, and concludes that, “this Winter’s gales on the western and northern margins of the Gulf R trc.ro re likely to be somewhat more v tit than la an ordinary season, and pr eipititi u on t-lic seaboard in excess, m e rain than snow. The presen’ t does not indicate an excessive! -igorc ) winter in the Mississippi Valle ’ ' 3 Northwest, but on the ,,r->on more favorable for crops that ... .. J 1888. By March 1, however, it UVrel v the present Canadian high press .b;, have disappeared and a simi: have formed in the Northwest, i w b thp Wintor, tiding MtvrfVi close with milder weather than am the Atlantic states and a late Sp .ng in the Northwest.” Which would naturally give the lower Mississippi Valley and the Southwest a late Spring also. These! are the tentative probabilities dedu(j| from scientific data and long md not tlie vaporing guesses of a oR gins or other “weather prophet.” VI I/erald's weather bureau is in all | pects superior to the one that is loeatVi at Washington. YELLOW FEVER w S. Prof. H. J. Delmer, of the Unit ersity at Columbus, has c eluded tbe task f photographing the g-t os causing yellow *i'.:'\. , -that lin- lieqc si; ‘ im by Dr. James E. Reeves, of Ch ttlP nooga, Tenn. ihe prolcssoi -ays this is the first time yellow fever germs have been fouud in tho tissues, scientists heretofore searching f'-r them in vain. They have been fount in tho zoogloea masses in the capillary blood vessels, which appear .distend and ruptured, and at these ruptures L.cse zoogloea are dense and large. The bacilli present themselves in four forms: First, in a plain dark round mass; second, an oval with a dark point at each extremity ; third, an obloug disk with dark points as in the second; and fourth, dark united by film and strikingly resqH a dumb-bell. Being asked ns tbe discovery regarding the cause low fever came to be made, heH “Dr. Sternberg, of Johns HopkinSSsgßgj versity, for a number of years has | an exhaustive search for vcilow jaj germs, but without success in tho tiagH During the last epidemic he made ral post mortem examinations at Deta Ala., and the liver and kiilnjjttHß two persons, at least, to l)r. Reeves f• • r ini< i 'vend iii'c^ B i‘" masses ” w Aith tht
