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VOLUME VII,
DOUGLASVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1885-
NUMBER 39.
Church Directory.
Methodist—Dougiasville, first and sjcond
Sundays. Rev, C. S. Owen, pastor.
Batost—Douglaavilla, first and fourth Sun
days. Rev. A. B. Vaughn, pastor.
Masonic,
Dotigla&ville Lodge, No. 289, F. .4. M.,meets
on Saturday night .before the lhst and third
Sundays in each month. J. R. Carter, W. M.,
W„ J. Canip, Secy> .
County Directory,
Ordinary—H. T Cooper.
Clerk—8. N. Dorsert.
Sheri ft'—Hen r v Wa rd.
Deputy Sheriff -if. M. Souter.
-Tax Receiver—E. H Camp.
Tax Collector—-W. A. Sayer,
Treasurer—Samuel Shannon,
Surveyor—John M. Huey.
Coroner—F. M. Mitohel'.
SUPERIOR COURT,
Meets on third Mondays in January and Julj
«,nd holds two weeks.
Judge—Hon. Samson W. Harris.
8ol. Genl.—Hon. Harry M. Beid,
Clerk—S. N. Dorse tt.
Sheriff—Henry Ward.
COUNTY COURT.
Meets in quarterly session on fourth Mon
days in February, May, August and November
and holds until all the cases on the dock-1 are
called. In monthly session it meets on fourth
Mondays in each month,
Judge—Hon. B. A. Massey.
Sol. Genl.—Hon. W. T. Roberts.
Bailiff—D. W. Johns.
ORDINARY’S COURT
Meets for ordinary purposes on first Monday,
nd for county purposes on first Tuesday in
each month.
Judge—Hon. H. T. Cooper.
JUSTICES COURTS.
730th Dist. G. M. meets first Thursday in each
month. J. I. Feely, J. P., W. II. Cash, N. P„
D. W. Johns and W. K. Hunt, L. C.
736th Dist. G. M., meets second Saturday,
A. B, Bomar, J. P., B. A. Arnold, N, P., 8. C.
Yeager, L. 0.
784th Dist. G. M. meets fourth Saturday.
Franklin Carver, J. P.. C. B. Baggett, N. P.,
J. C. Jam88 and M. S. Gore, L. Cs.
1259th Disi. G. M. meets third Saturday. T.
M. Hamilton, J.P., M. L. Yates, N. F., S. W.
Biggers, L.C., S. J. Jourdan, L. C.
1260th Dist., G. M. meets third Saturday. N.
W. Camp, J. P., W. S. iiudsou, N. P., j. A
Hill, L. C. ’
1271st Dist. G. M. meets first Saturday. C.
O. Clinton, J. P. Alberrv Hembree. N. P
, L. C. ’
1272nd Dist, G. M. meets fourth Friday.
Geo. W, Smith, J. P., C. J. Bobinson, N. P.,
, L. (J.
1273rd Dist. G. M. meets third Friday. Thos.
White, J. P., A. J. Bowen, N. P. W. J. Harbin,
L, C. ’
Professional Cards
ROBERT 1 IKftSStr,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
DOUGLASVILLE, GA.
.(Office in front room, Dorsett’s Building./
Will practice anywhere except in the County
Court of Douglass county.
iTl JAME^
attorney at law.
Will practice in all the courts, Slate an
Federal. Office on Court House Square,
DOUGLASVILLE, GA.
m. T. ROBERTS,
ATTORNEY AT . AW.
DOUGLASVILLE, GA.
Will practice in all the Courts. All legi
business will receive prompt attention. Office
in Court House.
C. D. GIMP,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Civil Engineer and Surveyor,
DOUGLASVILLE, - - GEOEGIA.
B, G. GRIGGS,
ATTORNEY AT' LAW,
DOUGLASVILLE, GA.
Will practice in all the courts, State and
Federal.
JOHN fft, EDGE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
DOUGLASVILLE, GA.
Will practice in all the courts, and promptly
attend to all business entrusted to his care.
J. S. JAMES,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
DOUGLASVILLE, GA.
Will practice iu the courts of Douglass
Campbell, Carroll, Paulding. Cobb, Fulton ami
adjoining counties. Prompt attention given
to all business.
JOHN V. EDGE.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
DOUGLASVILLE, GA.
I) octois.
DR. T. R. WHITLEY,
Physician and Surgeon
DOUGLASYJUS, GA.
Speoial attention to Surgery and Chronic Din-
Gases in either sex.
Office Upstairs in Dorsett’s Brick Building.
“pTsTyerdery,
Physician and Surgeon
Office at HUD80N A EDGE'S Drug Store,
where h© oan be found at all hours, except
when professionally engaged. Speoial atten
tion given to Chronic cases, and especially
all cases that have been treated and are still
unoured. ianl3 ’85-ly
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MUM BLOWN UP,
THE SHAFT TO MAJOR AX It HE BE-
SIKOYEB BY DYNAMITE.
flic Force of the Explosion Shakes the
Ground for Miles Around,
A third attempt, and this tilde a sffccess-
ful one, has been made to destroy the monu
ment erecteil a few years ago to Major
Andre, the British spy of 1 Revolutionary
times, by Cyrus W. Field, at Tappan, N. Y.
The report of the explosion, which occurred
at abofft 10: bi) p. m. , was terrific. The earth
for miles around * trembled as though an
earthquake had shaken it. Several buildings
in Cluster, five miles to the south,
had every pane of glass broken, dwell
ing houses on the sloping sides
of Hook mountain, two miles to
the north, shook until the crockery in them
rattled like castanets, and there was not a
building in Sparkill or Cluster but suffered
to a greater or less extent. A peaceable far
mer who was quietly driving a stolid horse
l n Blauveltvide was startled so that he fell
out of his carriage and broke his arm, while
his horse ran like mad for home. The 400
inhabitants of Tappan Were all soiind asleep
when the shock came, and they awoke
in trembiiffg houses amid the crash
of smashing glass. Two hundred
feet south of the monument is a large frame
house, occupied by Mr. K. Simons and his
family. Mr. Simons was asleep when the
shock awoke him. The house trembled like
an aspen, forty panes of glass fell out of the
windows, and Mr. Simons saw his wife sit
ting up in bed, staring about in a dazed,
helpless way. Before he fairly re
covered his senses his wife fainted,
and the entire household was in a turmoil Of
excitement. Leaving bis wife to the care of
the women servants, Mr. Simons roused Up
his man-servant and ran with him out of the
house. His three dogs were barking and
howling in an agony of terror, and the
twink ling lights o: a number of lanterns were
seen coming through the field toward the
monument.
The first man who reached the scene of the
explosion was George Vanzilan, the brawny
village blacksmith. Silenus Conldin, Isaac
and Thomas Parselle, and twenty other vil
lagers came trooping along behind him.
Huge pieces of granite were scattered all
over the field, and the rusty' circular iron
failing which encloses the monument was
broken here and there where the pieces of
granite had been dasned through it.
There was not a person within a radius of
three miles of the place hut knew that the
explosion meant the destruction,’ or the at
tempted destruction, of the monument. Ex
plosions and the monument have somehow
become inseparably connected in the minds
of the people. None of the men who arrived
on the scene were surprised, therefore,
to see the obnoxious shaft top
pled over, 1 the* ou.se mis.-,fug,
and a large portion of rhe brick foundation
replaced by a big hole several feet in diame
ter, and about fifteen inches deep. The moni>-
ment had been lifted off its foundation and
toppled over in a southwesterly direction.
The double foundation that had been shat
tered at the last attempt at destruction had
been removed a month ago, and a single base
a foot thick had been put under the monu
ment in its place. The work was finished
only a few days ago. This new base was
forced by the explosion from underneath the
monument, and was distributed about the
village in fragments.
The monument was erected on the spot
where Andre was hanged. It is on the top of
a little hill in an uncultivated field of four
teen acres, owned by Cyrus W. Field. The
field is unprotected by fences, and the only
buildings near it are Mr. Simons’ house and
barn. The place lias been much frequented
by strangers, and a well-worn wagon road
runs up from the public highway to the mon
ument.
The first thing Mr. Simons saw when he
reached the railing that surrounded the
monument was a rope ladder that hung from
the peak of . one of the iron bars on the
east side of the railing. It was about
four feet long and was made of two pieces
of small rope held together by
steps of • thick twine. Mr. Simons
put the 1—:’;r jij bis pocket, and is guarding
it carefully in the hope that it may lead to
discoveries. The explosive used was appar
ently dynamite, as the force 1 ad a downward
tendency. The explosive was placed on the
east side of the monument, opposite the spot
where the rope ladder was found.
The monument was a shaft of gray granite
standing on a base of the same stone. The
four faces of the stone are rectangular, and
are polished to within one and a half inches
of the edges. From the ground to the apex
the height is seven feet, and the stone was
nearly four feet thick. ; It weighed about
four tons. The western side of the stone
bears this inscription:
“ Here died, Oct, 2, 1780, Major John An
dre of the British army, who entered the
American lines on a secret mission to Bene
dict Arnold, was taken prisoner, tried, and
condemned as a spy. His death, though ac
cording to the stern code of the law, moved
even his enemies to pity, and both armies
mourned the fate of one so young and so brave.
Iii 1821 his remains were removed to West
minister abbey. A hundred years after his
execution this stone was placed above the
spot where he lay by a citizen of the States
against which he fought, not to perpetuate
the record of strife, out in token of those bet
ter feelings which have since united two na
tions, one in race, in language, and in re
ligion, with the earnest hope that this friend
ly union will never be broken.
“Arthur Penrhyn Stanley,
. -“Dean of Westminster.”
On the southern face was this line from
Virgil’s ASneid:
“Sunt lacrymse rerum et mentum mor-
talia tangunt. ”
On the north side of the stone were these
words of Washington’s:
“He was more unfortunate than criminal;
an accomplished man and a gallant soldier. ”
On February 22, 1882, the monument was
hacked by George Hendrix, who died two
years ago. Several verses, written on fools
cap paper and breathing hate against the
British, were left on the stone by Hendrix.
On April 1 of the same year an attempt; was
made to blow up the monument with nitro
glycerine.
Fatal Accident to a Train.
The heavy rains which fell on Monday un
dermined- a culvert on the Brattleboro and
Whitehall railroad, about half a mile north of
Tounsend station, Vt. The mixed tram which
haves South Londonderry at 12:30 o’clock
reached the point above mentioned about 3 p.
in., and the engine fell into the gap caused by
the destruction of the culvert. George Mann,
the engineer, was probably fatally injured,
and several others were severely bruised. The
passenger ear was placed next to the engine,
but did not fall with it
THE NEWS.
Interesting 1 Happenings from all Points.
EASTERN AND IV!' DOLE STATES.
Moody, the revivalist, has been holding
largely attended meetings in Reading, Penn.
The fishing schooner, Daisy Spraiker,
which sailed from New London, Conn., Sep
tember 4, and was expected to return within
a month, is believed to have gone down With
the six men on board.
. The Andre monument, neat Tappan, N.
Y:, was blown up by the explosion of a dy
namite cartridge at 10:29 p, m. Both base#
were blown into atoms, and the iron fencing
that enclosed the monument was completely
demolished. The shock was so great that it
broke the glass iti houses a mile away. . This
is the monument erected to the British spy
by Cyrus W. Field some years ago, and it is
the third attempt made at its destruction.
A plank on which a safe was being low
ered in a building at Cohoes, N. Y., broke,
precipitating the safe on two men, killing one
and seriously injuring the other.
Samuel Chase, an office boy sixteen years
of age, was accidentally killed by falling
against an ink eraser in the hands of Jeremi
ah Cunningham, a fellow employe in a New
York business house. The two boys were
skylarking.
More than 400 horses of every description
Were exhibited at the third annual show of
the National Horse Show association, hold
in the Madison Square Garden, New York.
TRe boiler of a dredging boat exploded at
the entrance to Long Island sound, and the
vessel immediately sank, carrying down six
men.
Up to recent date the Grant National Mon
ument fund had reached $96,000.
The official returns of the vote for Con
gressman in the Nineteenth district of Penn
sylvania, to fill the vacancy caused by the
death of William A. Duncan, show a plural
ity of 3,630 for Swope (Democrat) over Bair
(Republican).
During the past few weeks there has been
a strong and steady advance in the price of
stocks in Wall street, New York’s great finan
cial centre, and the question is asked, “Does
this mean a general improvement in the busi
ness of the country ?”
SOUTH AND WEST,
Mrs. Margaret Gallagher, the wife of
a St. Louis policeman, has given birth to
quadruplets, all girls. This is the fourth case
of quadruplets born in the same block within
ten years.
The municipal election in Detroit resulted
in a Democratic victory, Mayor Grummond
being defeated for re election by M. H.
Chamberlain.
Seven members of the St. Louis Knights
of Labor have been arrested on the charge of
attempting to blow up street cars with dyna
mite. The arrested men are street car
strikers.
Thirteen persons were more or less dan
gerously injured by. a toiler explosion in the
E ork packing house and proprietary medicine
iboratory of W. M. Akin & Co., Evans
ville, Iud.
. : 'j.R!>'(■ further trouble growing out of
the aiiti-Chinese sent'inint in’ ■ Washington
Territory, Governor Squire has tissued a proc
lamation calling upon all citizens to assist in
the preservation- of order.
WASHINGTON.
The President has appointed Alfred P.
Edgerton, of Fort Wayne, Iud., civil service
commissioner, in place of Dorman B. Eaton,
resigned, and William L. Trenholm, of
Charleston, S. C., in the place of
John M. Gregory, resigned. Both ap
pointees were Democrats, Mr. Ed
gerton being an ex-member of Con
gress. and Mr. Trenholm a con:mmer
chant.
Professor Powell, director of the
United States geological survey, in his sixth
annual report, just issued, says: “During the
fisca! year fair progress was made in the
topographic survey of the United States. An
area of 57,508 square miles was surveyed and
■ the maps thereof made read}' for theengra ver.
The average cost of the work was about $3
per square mile. The amount appropriated
for the survey for the fiscal year was $489,049
of which $484,996 was expended.”
The total expenditures of the navy de
partment last year were $17,154,999.
In his annual report the commissioner-
general. advocates the enlistment of cooks
and bakers for the regular army.
A proclamation designating Thursday,
November 26, as a day of national thanks
giving was issued by the President.
According to the report of the register of
the treasury, of the $1,071,460,262 United
btates registered bonds only $11,927,900 is
held abroad.
Dorman B. Eaton has been re-appointed
a member of fche civil service commission by
the President. This makes the political com
plexion of the newly-formed commission two
Democrats and one Republican.
The President has appointed William
Faxen, of Michigan, to be register of the land
office'at Detroit; E. L. Carson, of Texas, In
dian agent at Ouray, Utah; Leigh O. Knapp,
of New Mexico, receiver of public moneys at
Santa Fe. Postmasters—Otto R. Miller, at
Brighton, N. X. ; W. S. Hammaker, at Find
lay, Ohio, cad G. M. Shelley.at Kansas City,
Mo. '
FOREIGN.
. Manila, a prominent seaport of the Philip
pine islands, has been swept by a great fire-
The judges on music at the International
Inventions exhibition, London, have
awarded several gold, silver and bronze
medals to American houses.
Fifty-six Indian prisoners have been tried
at Winnipeg, Manitoba, for participating in
the Frog Lake massacre during Riel’s rebel
lion. Sixteen of the prisoners were dis
charged, twenty-nine were sent to the peni
tentiary for periods ranging between twenty
and two years, and eleven were sentenced to
be hanged.
The Norwegian bark Aquila has foundered
off Gp then burg, Swoien. * Twenty-two- per
sons ware drowned.
BASE BALL FACTS.
The National Finances.
MONTHLY STATEMENT OF THE CON
DITION OE FEDERAL REVENUE..
The following is a recapitulation of the na
tional debt statement issued for last month:
Interest-bearing Debt.
Bonds at per cent $250,000,000 00
Bonds at 4 per cent 737,740,350 00
Bonds at 3 per cent 194,190,500 0J
Refunding certificates at 4 per
cent 233,800 03
Navy pension fund at 5 pur cent. 14,000,901 00
Pacific Railroad bonds at 6 per
cent. 64,633,512 0)
Principal. $I;260,7iS, 162 0 >
Interest...., 9.595,948 10
■« , Total $1,370,374,110 10
Debt on wntch -iiiciest has -
cease i since ira.untv:
Principal $3,734,305 28
Interest ,.. ..., 219,384 59
Total.. $3,953,689 76
Debt Bearing no Interest
’ Old demand and legal
tender notes.. $346,738,841 00
Certificates of deposit, 18,145,000 00
Gold certificates ;. 109,020,760 00
Silver certificates 93,146,772.00
Fractions 1 currency, less
£§,375.934 estimated as lost
, or destroyed 6,961,162 80
*, —
Principal, $574,013,535,88
Debt Bearing no Interest
om cmsnd and legal tender
_ Total Debt.
H . Principal $1,838,525,003 14
Interest 9,815,332 60
Preaching for Ninety Years.
Rev. Mr. Tannant died at Evansville, Ark,
Monday, aged 115 years. The deceased was
the oldest gospel minister in the United States,
and had preached fox Dinety years.
Morrill has been a member of the Boston
club for ten consecutive seasons.
Pitcher Corcoran is the only player not
reserved by the New York club.
Baltimore wants to desert the American
association and go into the league.
( The directors of the Canadian league have
resolved to further the international league
scheme.
Probably one or two of the New York
players will go to New Orleans to play this
winter.
The St. Louis League club has signed Ca
hill and Bauer, the strongest men of the At
lanta club.
The best batting club in the Eestern league
was the National team; the Waterburys were
the best fielders.
McCormick, the pitcher, who did such good
work for the Chicago club, refuses to sign,
and says he will not play next season.
The big fish are after the little fish as
usual. The mikados of the League and Ameri
can association are busily- engaged helping
the players of the minor organizations break
their contracts and reservations.
’ jffotal $1,848,340,335 74
cash items avail
able for reduction of
1 the debt $233,864,475 27
Less reserve held for
redemption of United
States notes $100,000,000.00
$333,864,475 27
*Total debt, less available
A cash items $1,514,475,860 47
Net cash in the Treasury.... 66,818,292 38
Debt less cash , in the
Treasury, Nov. 1,1885. $1,447,657,568 09
Debt less cash in the Treasury
Oct. 1,1885 1,469,934,343 27
Decrease of debt during the
month 13,276,774 18
Cash in the Treasury.
Available for reduction of the
public debt,
Gold held for gold certifi
cates actually outstanding, $109,020,760 09
Silver held for silver certifi
cates actually outstanding, 93,146,773 00
United States notes held for
certificates of deposit actual
ly outstanding... 1 18,145,000 00
Cash held for matured debt and
interest unpaid 13,549,637 86
Fractional currency, 2,805 41
Total available for reduc
tion of the debt $233,864,475 37
Deserve Fund.
Kb, £5si*redemption of Uryted
States notes, acts of Jan. 14,
1875, and July 12, 1882
Unavaila b 1 e
for reduc
tion of the
debt: Frac
tional silver
coin, $22,965,535 70
Minor coin 719,831 24—
Certificates held as cash
Net cash balance on hand....
Total cash in the treasury as
shown by the treasurer’s
general account 487,800,498 59
Net increase in cash 3,884,341 54
Income and Outgo.
GOVERNMENTAL RECEIPTS AND EX.
PENDI 1 - FOR A MONTH.
Tee following is a comp^rau, - e s.itement
of the receipts and expenditures of the United.
States during October:
Receipts.
Source. October. Since July 1.,
Customs $16,142,960 67,172,806’
Int. revn’e 11,370,855 39,389,304
Misc’lan’s 1,359,089 7,113,375
. Total 28,872,905 113,675,485
Expenditures.
Ordinary $13,331,490 49,242,829
Pensions 1,340,419 25,477,111
Interest 6,861,762 20,302,544
.$100,000,000 00
23,685,366 94
.63.432,364 00
.66,818,292 38
Total .21,533,672
95,022,486
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.
LATEST MEWS.
WELL
If OUT UF1
A HORRIBLE AC’CinEKI I>h|S.M A.
PRKJU'Il’HK BLAST.
Two Men Are Thrown Forty Feet Into (lie
Air nut! Entaliy injured.
William Kicnebrew and Philip Phillips were
blown out of a w. 11 thirty feet peep in Atlanta,
Ga,, on Wednesday, by the premature dis
charge of a b! a 4,
Kin Hebrew will die, and Phillips, if he lives,
will’be blind for the rest of his days.
For some time past the two men iiave been
digging a well for the Rev. Mr. B orden, 39
Church street, near Clone. The well is now a
little over thirty feet deep, and for the past
three or four days the men have been working
in a solid bed of rock. Every day blast after
blast has been set off, and the rocks torn and
scattered by the gunpowder have been thrown
our, but still the diggers could find no water.
Wednesdiy they began drilling again, and
about two o’clock completed two deep holes.
Then they began the loading process. The fuse
was inseited and then the giant powder
emptied into- the hole. Then ike e.ay was
pushed down and more powder poured in.
Again the clay was forced into the hole, and
the “tamping rod” was inserted, and while
one man held the rod steady the other pounded
upon it with a hammer. This is called .aniping
a blast. With layers of powder and clay toreei
tight upon each other, the holes are n led up
u-.tii the charge is wedged in so tightly that it
will break the rock to fragments rather than
shoot out the top.’
In tamping the blast Kinnebrew sat upon the
stone holding tlie tamping iron, while rhillips
stood above him with a heavy sledge hammer.
The two men had about completed charging
the hole when the tamping iron cut the fuse
in two. As the open fuse exposed, the powder
and iron fired it. In an instant the burning
grain impa’rted fire to the fuse, and while the
men were still working above, unmindful ot
their great danger, the fire was creeping down
to the powder at the bottom of the hole. In a
few seconds the fire leached the powder, and
then iu an instant there was a great discharge.
The blastwas a powerful one. It was heavily
loaded, and when it went off both men were
hurled high into air. They went above the
mouth of the well and Phillips landed upon the
ground. But Kinnebrew, less fortunate, drop
ped back into the well.
They found Phillips lying upon the ground
covered with dirt and powder burned. He was
in an insensible condition, The well was yet
full of powder smoke, and it was not until after
this smoke cleared away that Kinnebrew was
seen Several persons went down and helped
in lifting him out. The physicians found that
both men were in an extremely critical condi
tion. Every rib on Kinnebrew’s left side was
broken. His right hand was torn half off. His
face was cut and bruised while his right eye
was gone and the left closed. His breathing
was extremely difficult and accompanied with
great pain on account of the brok,en ribs.
The physicians amputated part of the hand,
Phillips hud both i ands so badly mangled that
every finger except one on the left hand, and
three on the right were amputated. The pow
der burned his face and eyes terribly. Both
eyes n, ciomu and the physioistps say hoi will
be blind. 1
The drill was blown out with shell force that
it went flying into the air and dropped into
a lot adjoining the one in which _the well is
located.
SIX PERSONS KILLED.
The Southwest is being overdone by min
strel troupes, good, bad and indifferent.
There are only two ladies in the cast of
“Saints and Sinners,” and two only in “In
His Power.”
Adam Forepaugh, the circus manager,
has had six railroad smashups during the
past season.
Johann Strauss has produced his new
opera, “The Gypsy Baron,” at Vienna. It is
the best he has written, and has achieved a
great success.
John McCullough’s costumes, properties,
prompt books and plays have been sold at
auction in New York. The entire outfit re
alized about $3,500.
A “high novelty” in Milan is a whistling
performance of Bellini’s “Norma.” The
whole opera is whistled through, the chorus
being executed by sixteen whistlers.
The French papers state that in Memphis
there have recently been discovered a num
ber of harps three thousand years old, beside
ancient flutes, drums, trumpets and bells.
Miss Minnie Hauk, who is to be Colonel
Mapleson’s strongest operatic attraction in
America this season, now wears a decoration.
The emperor of Russia has conferred upon
her the cross of the order of St. Anne.
A beautiful commemorative building has
just been completed on the site of the Ring
theatre, Vienna, burnt in 1881. The num
ber of spectators who lost their lives in that
terrible fire has never been accurately ascer
tained, but 300 is the lowest estimate.
Mrs. Sara Althea Hill, who has been
made notorious by her litigation with the
California millionaire, Sharon, will follow
the course which has become popular of late
years with the female participants in public
scandals. She is going to become an actress
—a star.
Cotogni, the famous baritone, has been
highly complimented in Spain. The people
to whom he had sung in the Badia Theatre
visited his hotel to serenade him; the police
tried to disperse the crowd; the crowd re
sisted; the soldiers were called out; and for
an hour the singer witnessed a free fight in
his honor.
According to the United Service Gazette,
a new use has been discovered for the bag
pipes. Last year, it seems, a Spanish sol
dier was brought to the military hospital at
Havana in a state of catalepsy, and for fif
teen months he showed no signs of improving
health. At last the doctors ordered the bag
pipes to be played near his bed, whereupon
the man promptly recovered consciousness,
and is now able to articulate.
A Terrible Steamboat Disaster on Provi.
deuce River,
A dispatch from New London, Conn., says:
A terrible calamity by which six lives were lost,
occurred in the race on Sunday night, caused
by the explosion of the boiler of the steam
dredge No. 4, of the Atlantic dredging compa
ny, of Brooklyn, N. Y. The dredge has been
employed on Providence river for four years,
ana in company with the water tank, left*
Providence'i'or'New York at 9:15 Sunday morn
ing, in tow of the.tug C. C. Waite, Captain
Tweedy,. In ordqr^o keep the bilge clear,'the
steam’pttmp on the, dredge , was kept at work.
Just before midnight, when - near Race Rock
light, Captain Tweedy, who was at the stern of
the tug, noticed a moving light on : the dredge,
and heard a voice, but could not distinguish
the words. A moment later he heard an ex
plosion on the dredge, and saw fire, smoke and
steam. The dredge sank immediately,, and
the stern of the tug was drawn under water
before the hawsers could be cleared. The
Waite was immediately put about, hut no trace
of the dredge, her crew or water tank could be
found. After searching in the vicinity for half
an hour, the tug headed for this harbor, arriv
ing in tee teeth of the easterly gale that was
prevailing. As soon as the storm subsided,
the Waite again went out to the race in the
tope of finding even the dead bodies of the
unfortunate men, who went down with the
dredge, but nothing could be found, not even
a floating piece of the dredge. The tug re
turned to port Monday evening. The names
of the men on the ill-fated vessel are not fully
known. As far as can be learned they are:
Captain, Robert Kent ; mate, Strabg and his
brother ; the steward, of Providence ; a deck
hand known as “bandy:” a fireman whose
name could not be learned, and a Providence
man who was working his passage to Brooklyn.
When the dredge left PtovirUnce a large New
Found and dog was on board. Monday night
two young inert at B.ack Point, seven miles
from tills place, saw the dog swim to shore and
drop exhausted. They took the dog to a house
rear by, and he is now gaining strength. It
is piobab.y the only living, thing that survived
the explosion. The distance from the place
where the dredge went down to where the dog
landed is twelve miles.
A FATAL ACCIDENT.
ifiaii-ieen Cars on the East Tennessee Rail
road Piled in a Mass.
A bad wreck occurred Tuesday night at eight
o’clock, on .he East Tennessee, Virginia and
Georgia railroad at Childersbnrg, caused by
the collision of two freight trains. The regu
lar freight going north was already due at
Alpine, where it lays over night, but for some
reason wa3 several hours behind time. A
special freight coming south pulled up at Al
pine and registered its arrival. Not noticing
that the regular freight had not arrived and
receiving no train orders, the conductor or
dered the engineer to go ahead. A short time
after the two trains met in the hollow, each
going down grade, and whipping its best for
the grade ahead. The engineers sudd enly saw
the danger, reversed the levers and blew down
brakes, but too late, the two trains colliding.
It was a most horrible crash. One fireman was
instantly killed. One engineer, Robert Hill,
was horribly scalded and hurt, and the other,
Chas. Davis, and several other train men, are
seriously if not fatally injured. The two en
gines crashed together, recoiled and jumped
the track. Five or six car loads of coal and
charcoal, which caught fire, rolling on top and
completely burying them. Both trains were
demolish© d. The wreck is said to be the worst
that ever occurred on that division; Bales of
cotton, coal, merchandise and general debris
are scattered all over the road-bed and the
woods. The loss is probably $75,000 or more.
fhe president proclaims a day
FOR THARItS AND PRAYER.
-The’ President .Issued the following procla
mation setting apart Thursday, November
26, as a day of.thanksgiving and prayer:
By the President of the United States of
America.
• A Proclamation.
The American people have always abun
dant cause to be thankful to iUmighty God,
whose watchful care and guiding hand have
been manifested in every stage of their na
tional life—guarding and protecting them in
time of peril, and safely leading them in the
hour of darkness and of danger. It is fitting
and proper that a nation thus favored should
on one day, in every year, for that purpose
especially appointed, ’publicly acknowledge
the goodness of Gqd, and return thanks to
Him for all His gracious gifts.
Therefore L Grover Cleveland, Presi
dent of the United States of America, do
hereby designate and set apart Thursday, the
26th day of November,’ inst., as a day of
public thanksgiving and prayer, and do in
voke the observance of tne same by all the
people of the land.
On that day let all secular business be sus
pended, and let the people assemble in their
usual places of worship, and with prayer and.
songs of praise devoutly testify their grati
tude to the Giver of every good and perfect
gift for all that He has done for us in the year
that has passed; for our preservation as a
united nation and for our deliverance from
the shock and danger of political con
vulsion: for the blessings of peace
and for our safety and quiet white
wars and rumors of wars have agitated and
afflicted other nations of the earth; for our
security against the scourge of iDestilence*
which in other lands has claimed its dead by
thousands and’ filled the streets with mourn
ers; for plenteous crops which reward the
labor of the husbandman and increase our
nation’s wealth, and for the contentment
throughout our borders which follows in the
train of prosperity find abundance.
And let there also be oh the day thus set
' apart a reunion of families, sanctified and
chastened by tender memories and associa
tions, and let the social intercourse of friends
with pleasant reminiscense renew the ties of
affection and strengthen the bonds of kindly
feeling.
And let us by no means forget, while we
give thanks and enjoy the comforts which
have crowned our lives, that truly grateful
hearts are inclined to deeds of charity, and
that a kind and thoughtful remembrance of
the poor will double the pleasures of our con
dition and render our praise and thanksgiv
ing more acceptable in the sight of the Lord..
Done at the city of Washington, this second
day of November, one thousand eight hun
dred and eighty-five, and of the indepen
dence of the United States the one hun
dred and tenth.
Grover Cleveland.
By the President—T. F. Bayard, Sec. of
State.
NEWSY GLEANINGS.
Fr**rees of the South.
The only illustrated newspaper in the south
commenced publication last Sunday at Jack
sonville, Fla. It is called “The Democrat,”
and is published by W. D. Hughes.
Turkey is the only state in Europe that is
not Christian.
In finishing Cologne cathedral $5,000,000
has been spent. ,,,, ■JSM'Ki
Freight trains in England run at * wen
five miles an hour.
Drummers’ licenses in North Carolq
amount Jft $.5,000 a year.
'apple tree at Java, N. Y., produced
fifty bushels of good fruit this year.
An engineer running a train near Ra,uo|
killed forty sheep out of a flock of seven hun-^
fired.
Florida hotel keepers expert to aetommoj S
date two hundred thousand Northerners this
winter.
Forest culture in Dakota has led to the
appearance of birds that were never before
seen there. 1 •
The Chilian miners .are- said to be the
strongest men in the world. ,They live princi
pally on lentils.
Sixty‘million people speak the German
language, 45,000,000 the French and 100,000,-
'000 the English. , . ■
A colony of wine-producers will leave.,
France about the 1st of January to settle in ^
Greenville county, S. 0- • •
: The.first Michigan sawnjiH was built fifty
years ago, and the cut sine,e .then has aver-
aged 2,300,000,000 feet a year.’
Nine million acres of land in Germany are \
devoted to the cultivation o^.the potato. The 4
product last year amounted to 23,000,000
tons.
A scheme is afoot in France to convert
P$ris into a seaport town. It is proposed to
uild a ship canal from ttL® ^seacoast to the
apital. \
The number of Christians - murdered last
.summer in Ton quirt, An$m and Cochin
China, is 'estimated at 2-1,000. . Seven or eight
thousand escaped.
The lumber operators of Maine, with one
or two exceptions, .have agreed to employ no
man in the woods' during the winter unless
he has recently token vaccinated.
There are now more than- 300,000 persons
in England who use the bicycle and tricycle,
and the capital invested in the manufacture
of these machines is $15,000,000, employing
10,000 men. "
PERSONAL MENTION.
Secretary Bayard’s inherited deafness
is said to be increasing.
William Black, the English novelist,
makes.about $40,000 a year-from his novels.
Dr. Noah Porter, who has just resigned
the presidency of Yale'college, is in his 74th
year. ' , .
President Eliot, of Harvard university,
and the chef in the Parker house restaurant,
Boston, receive each a salary of-$f,000.
The Earl of Fife,' a young Scotch noble
man, is the coming literary . orator of his
order. He is very rich and munificent.
Beaconsfield talked in a-soft, low voice.
Gladstone talks distinctly in medium tones,
and Lord Salisbury loudly, .often boister
ously.
Ex-President Arthur told a correspond-
©nt in New York that he had not saved a
dollar of the $200,000 that he received for
President,
Mons. A. Bartholdi, the sculptor who
made the statue of liberty given by I ranee
to America, arrived in New Y.prk a few c.ays
ago from France.
The most remunerative professorship in
the world is that of Professor r l urner, the
distinguished anatomist of Edinburgh, which
yields him $20,000 a year.
United States Senator ..Sawyer has
given $15,000 to the Young Men’s Christian
association of that Michigan town with the
mellifluous name, Oshkosh.
Dr. -Oliver Wendell Holmes, having I
attained the age of threescore and sixteen,
facetiously remarks that he is “a Revolution
ary patriot—one of the men of ’76.”
Adirondack Murray said, at the close of
a recent lecture, the six years that have
passed since he left the ministry had been
spent in graduating for another life.
Unlike his predecessor, Mr. Arthur, Mr.
Cleveland cares little for the relaxation to bo
found at the theatre. A good walk in the
open air or a drive behind mettle&~liprses
pleases him better.