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2 THE WEEKLY STAB, gig-. -- PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY —BY— CHAS. O. PEAVY. DOUGLAS COUNTY OFFICIAL ORGAN. ♦ SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Per Year, in advance, 90ct». . “ “ on a credit, $1.15. * OUR AGENTS. The following are authorized to receive and receipt for subscriptions to the Stab : L. S. Featherston, Villa Rica, Ga., T. J. Bowes, Salt Springs, Ga., Thob. Adaib, Austell, Ga., Willie Daniell, Winston, Ga., Lee Dobsett, Chapel Hill, Ga. Address all communications to THE ST A R. . Douglasville, Ga. Entered at the Postoffice at Douglasville, Ga., as second-class matter. A GREAT OFFER. -FREE- TO ALL OUR SUBSCRIBERS! All subscribers of the Star who make an advance payment of one year will re ceive as a premium one year’s subscrip tion to THE HOUSEHOLD BEACON, A handsome, 8-page, monthly household paper that will become a welcome visit or in ths home of every intelligent > family. NEWSY GLEANINGS. The population of the British empire is 310,000,000; of Russia 100,000,000. A peculiar weed grows in Eastern Oro gon, which kills sheep that feed upon it. Four cities—New York, Buffalo, Detroit and Atlanta—are building crematories. Cranberries said to be as large as plums are being picked in great numbers in Indiana. The guard of United States soldiers at Garfield’s tomb is to be withdrawn in January next. Speculators are buying up all the vacant land in Florida and building prosperous towns. There is but one millionaire in Nebraska and only ten persons who are rated as high as 1500,000. 6 A Montana bachelor, worth 175,000, gives public notice that he will soon come East on the hunt for a wife. A State capitol that is a copy in miniature of the great I*ederal capitol at Washington is being built for Georgia, in Atlanta. PiTTSDUIiS cl'l;u3 i;;ora rich irten. in pre nortion to population, than any city in the Union. Kwventy resident aggregate $189,- 000,000, 1 Ths ‘Trtiications of the coming log crop on the several rivers of Lake Superior region, Kint to 600,000,000 foot more than was cut it winter. The Victory, the war ship on which Nel son fought and fell at, Trafalgar, is still kept, as a memento of naval prowess, at Ports mouth, England, The flat herd pin and the machinery to lom»ke it were invented sixty years ago by Dr. John Howe, who has just retired from service in Bellevue hospital, New York. The total number of parliamentary candi dates in Great Britain is 1.106, of whom 007 are in England, the rest being divided be tween Ireland, Scotland and Wales. When the new Croton dam and aqueduct are finished 320,000,600 gallons of water will find their way to New \ ork city each day. Ten thousand men are now employed on the work. Wayne County (N. Y.) peppermint grow ers predict the highest price for the uerb next season ever known m America. They are holding back thousands of pound* of it with this expectation. Near Fayetteville, Ark., two men killed fifty large hawks in a few hours One of the men says they were a* numerous as pigeons, numbering thousands, flying in a southwest ern direction. This extraordinary migration hm given local weather propitots the cue that the winter will be unusually cold. The Crop Report. NOVKMBEK KETVRNN TO TIIK AGRI* CULTURAL DEPARTMENT. The November crop report of the deper*, ment of agriculture saye: The present crop of corn is the tint full average in rate of yield since 1880, which was the last of a series of six full ci ope of twenty-six to twenty eight bushels pur acre. The preterit crop, grown on an area of fifty-three to fifty-four million acres, is slightly above an average for a period of ten years, or twenty-six and a quarter bushels per acre The highest rate w thi , rt £4 x »nd ooe-half bushels, in Nebraska and Ohio. The three corn-grow iiu' states which produce four-tenths or tho entire crop—lllinois, lowa and Missouri-, each average several bushels per aero thou in the census year. ‘ The cotion returns of November i™.i estimates of yield per acre. Th* „ ‘ whau higher than those of the ’ but materially lower than •* nnu. «*- .nose or isoo amt the yield of last year Is most ln fe xaa nnt j Georgia. Tn* potato crO p j s smaller than that of 18&4, in ap»aaauenee of injury from rot. • "«» r*Lporcai yield of hay ter acre averages cue \.td a quarter tons, and indicates a crop *T< cw <7,0 )f\OUO tons, nearly aa large as that of las- year. The buckwheat crop will lie large. The average yield will exceed fourteen bushels A Triple Tragedy. A FATHER KILLS TWO ASSAILANTS or Hlsi MON. Par rut-ire of a tragedy on Venin creek, IktftJci «. unty, Texas, are .as follows: A you » tanner tunnel Buck Bryant euspi ■■ -fee-i Ivo <• -rt Hans, August Ithelnhs., ,V, and Christian Eckert, of steal tag a i»V- Bryant wout to their house, ac vu>-e»l ■b m an<l was tins! upon Fleeing to ward home he was pursued by Rheiuhardt nn.d r, kvrt< »>wo ol w om shot ami mortally w aveted nLu. Th« father of Bryant, hear »»-.: h<t »w . all, ran out ..nd shot nnd killed .* few pursuers. X ouug Brvnnt was t oorl tlly wwmded The UtiUtv of tears to animals in geu eral, and |*atticuiarly to those which are cxpo*A«i much to the dust, such as birth which !ivssanLl the wind, ts easy to un derstand. the eve would soon be dirtied aad biocke i up bail not nature provided It endly, ever-ficain" stream to wash ae.d tvfresh 4 A hitle fluid is nee eaaaty to keep the eye always clear --nd i’lesn. But hero, again. w muat admire the woodrou* which works hurt &« ewMli W »f more water tbau twual efoanse it aariire at c®e« THE ISTEWS. ' Interesting Happenings frem all Points, f EASTERN AND RIDDLE! STATES. A sleeping car was wrecked by an acci dent to a train near Canajoharie, N. Y., and the wife of Assemblyman Charles R. Pratt, of Rochester, was killed. Mr. Pratt was ’. seriously, if not fatally, hurt, and other pas _ sengers were also more or less injured. Work has started up again at the ship yard of John Roach, Chester, Penn. . The postmaster-general of Japan and a t , party of prominent Japanese officials arrived in New York, the other day, from a tour of inspection of the postal service in Europe, I and proceeded to Washington. Charles J. Osborn, a prominent New York broker, has just died, leaving a fortune of about $4,000,000. ' Charles H. Barker, a single young man residing in Newburyport, Mass., has fallen heir to $7,500,000, left him by an aunt in London. A passenger train was thrown from the track near Connellsville. Penn.,and the sleep ing car rolled into the Youghiogheny river. Twenty-one parsons, including Hon. C. E. Boyle, member of Congress from the twenty first Pennsylvania district, were in ’ jured in different degrees of severity. SOUTH AND WEST. A receiver has been appointed for the Richmond daily Whig, the organ of Senator Mahone. The publication of the paper, I which is in its fifty-second year, wilt be con i tinued. John Foley, a theatre employee at Butte, l Montana, shot and fatally wounded Alice . Flack, wounded a male companion of the woman, and then killed himself. Two years ago much interest was aroused in the Shenandoah valley of Virginia by the announcement that Miss Lydia Rebecca Payne, a representative of a well-known fam ily, was of the masculine gender, and that she had married her employe, a Miss Hinton. And now it is reported that in the course of. a suit argued at Winchester Va., the fact' was brought out that Miss Lelia Payne, a 1 sister of the above mentioned, is also a man! Four men were killed by the breaking down of a scaffold on which they were work ing at Keithsburg, HL The New American exposition—an out-, Eowth or continuation of the recent World’s dustrial exposition—has been opened in New Orleans with imposing ceremonies. Ths exhibits are from all parts of North, Cen tral and South America. WASHINGTON . The annual report of’Third Auditor Wil liams, of the treasury department, shows at the beginning of the fiscal year there were on file in that office 37,487 unsettled accounts, amounting to $94,067,48}!, and during the year 15,775 new accounts wore received, ag gregating $99,662,069, the total number of accounts on hand and received being 53,262, amounting to $193,729,553. Os these 16,171 were disp sed of, amounting to $122,225,935, leaving ul th; close of the year 37,091;cover ing thj sum of $?1 r 503,617. During the past fiscal year the number of postoflkes established was 2,121 and the number discontinued BS6. making the total number in the United States 51,252. The whole number of appointments during the year was 11,203. The total number of money order offices was 6,992, an increase of 749. There are 2,2"? subject to appoint* ment by the Pr«-s!dent, Additional appointments by the Presi dent: Samuel J. Tilden. Jr., a nep ew of the Democratic leader, to be collector of ihU>nal roVeiluo for the fifteenth New York district; James Burls, to bo surveyor of cus u duns for the port of Kansas City, Mo.; Oscar valeton, to be assistant appraiser of merchandise in the district of New Orleans. La. Postmas ters: William Hyde, editor of the St. Louis J'epuhliean, at St^ Gjiys; J. J, Cnaey, at IVeehawkan, N. jflE at ( ■onsville, Va. ’ George Wi Bell, at Carding ton, Ohio; George Haumesser, at Wauseon, Ohio. Further appointments by the President: Leverett Saltonstall, collector of customs at Boston; Colonel Robert McKiustrey, to be gmslon ngent at Detroit, Mich.; Don Carlos uell, to be pension agent at Louisville. Ky.; John B. McClane, of Oregon, to be Indian agent; Dr. G. Lee, of Philadelphia to be secretary of legation at Constantinople, Turkey : General Joseph J. Bartlett, of New York city, to be second deputy commissioner of pensions; William H. Morgan, of Nash ville, Tenn., to be a member of the board of Indian commissioners. The annual report of the commissioners of customs snows that during the past fiscal year there was paid into the treasury from various sources, the accounts of which were settled in his office, the sum of $183,207,905. The amount paid oct was $27,125,978. During the past fiscal vear the 7,355 money order offices of tho country issued ciders am-unt ing to about $ 12* •,’>*),' 'OO. Further appointments by the President: Frederick F. Mansfield, of Texas, to be secre tary of the legation to Japan; George W. Glick to be pension agent at Topeka, Kansas; Erastus Redman to be collector of customs at Frenchman’s Bay, Me. Presidential post masters: J. C. Roney, at Americus, Ga ; R. J. Harrison, at Toledo, Iowa; I*. P. Ohliger, at Wooster, Ohio; Leonard Dozier, at Ocala, Fla THE court martial at Fort Myer, near i Washington, which tried eighteen signal ser- ' vice men on charges of insubordination found | all guilty and sentenced them to be publicly reprimanded by the chief signal officer, FOKEIGN. King Th ehaw, of Bunuah, defies the Brit- « ish, and an expedition lias been sent against ; him across the frontier from India A Winnipeg (Manitoba' dispatch reports i that the magnificent iron clad steamer Al- l goraa of the Canadian Pacific railroad, was I wrecked in Lake Superior, off Port Arthur, | and forty-five lives were lost Another steamer found twelve of the crew of the Algoma and two passengers on an 1 island, and rescued them. The Algoma cost | $450,000, and was as luxuriously furnished as an ocean steamer. Riel, the Manitoba rebel loader, sentenc ed to be hanged on the 10th, was respited to tho 16th. Many petitions for a commutation of his sentenre to life imprisonment ware sent to the Canadian government The trial of Editor Steal an I his fedow defendants in the Elisa Armstrong abduc- I tion case was resumed in London upon '.ha oki nt of another indictment, and they wore found guilty and sentenced os follows. Mr. i Stead, three mouths: Reliccca Jarrett, six I months, and Sampson Jacques one month, ’ I all without hard labor, and Mme. Mourey, i six months, with hard laboit ' i A Daily interchange of shots is going on I among the Bulgarian and Servian jxtiro’s on i the frontier. A Glasgow dispatch says that th -re is • I great depression in the Clyde shipbniiding I | t’-iidr, and tiiat the families of many men r | thrown out 3* cmp’.Lo i&mt are A M.gxTRK AL cat caught the an .J. ;>ox. ’ i Ex-Fiumc MIN istkk G UADSTO3K D makmg political sp&ehes in Scotland, and attracting great assemblages. While working st th* ceiling of a puMio ! i building in Montrwsd sit painters felladis i tenre of fifty Tbr» ? were killed and , the others seri <mly hurt [ MANcmesTKR. England, lias had a [ I fibre, two bh> »f warehoi'.si»'mg gutted. t ; A sharp »hock of earth ... «i as j felt in a purtkm of Fraore Ma PENDLKtuN. the Uatted Siatas mints- I ter at inertia, has protested to the German ’ emren.inrxi: agams® th- cvpuisiou of fire * Gvrtnan tmervais from t!w» nda id of Foehr. I : r ’ Wnat » the difference between a r btttdher and a young lady T The former t I kdh to deroa. whde toe lattor drawn to . I kill GtaTOh BIG FIRE. forty blocks destboted bv THE RAWING FLAMES. Hundreds es Families Rendered Rente less la the Course of a Few Hob**. Details of the great fire which has just rav aged Galveston, the leading city of are as follows: At 1:40 o’clock A. m. the most destructive fire in the history of Galveston broke out in a foundry and car repairing shop on the north side of Avenue A., known as the Strand, between Sixteenth and Seventeenth streets. A gale from the north was blowing, and the flames spread with rapidity to both of the adjoining buildings, one being a gro cery and the other a dwelling. Soon the lons tongues crossed the street, and two more buildings were in flames, the inmates barely escaping with their lives. At this moment the fire department got two streams going, but they were of no avail The heat became so in tense that the firemen had to abandon their places, and the wind rose and carried myriads of sparks to premises east of Avenue A. In half an hour two blocks were burning fiercely, and by 3 o’clock every one saw that a great conflagration was upon the city. People for wquares around on either side of the burning blocks soon became panic stricken, and the cries of fright ened women could be heard above the roar of the fire and the mournful wind. At 3:30 the fire had traveled three blocks distant from its starting point, but in a straight line, being confined to the blocks bounded by Sixteenth and Seventeenth streets. About 4 o’clock the fire began to spread to the east and to the west of Sixteenth and Seventeeth streets, and the wind rose to a gale. For a time it seemed as though the entire eastern half of the city was doomed The fire spread to the southward, lickl teg U P the blocks of fine residences hastily abandoned by their inmates. By 5 o’clock it had reached Broad way, which threads the center of the island, running east and west. At 7 o’clock the wind began to shift, then to decrease, until by 8 o’clock only a fair breeze was blowing. But by this time the fire had eaten its way to Avenue O, where, at 9:30 o’clock, it seemed to exhaust itself, and the fire men coming up, checked its further rav ages at this point or within two blocks of the gulf. From the housetops the smoking burned district resembles a huge black half-opened fan, lying across the island from the bay nearly to the gulf. The island at that point is nineteen blocks, or one mile and a quarter wide. The business part of the city begins at Twentieth street and runs west ten squares The burned district includes the wealthiest and most fashionable portion of the city. One hundred elegantly furnished mansions are in ruins. Many of these resi dences had beautiful gardens attached to them, and the moneyed loss does not repre sent over half their value. The scene dur ing the progress of the fire was frightful; 30 filled with misery and terror, that whoever witnessed it must bear its vivid impress for a lifetime. The wind rose to a screaming gale and swept through the burn ing belt in swirls, carrying millions of live cinders high up in the a<r and raining them down a mile distant over the wooden city and its panic-stricken inhabitants. The en tire east end of the city contains hardly a dozen brick dwellings. All is wood—Texas nine—and it burns with indescribable fury. Five minutes after a house had caught it would be wrapped in flame. The alleys and streets for ten squares on cither side of the burning belt were filled with the blanched faces of women, children and equally helpless men, who could do noth ing in such a gale but crouch down for shelter from the piercing norther and watch the flames lick up the fruits of lifetimes. Although the victims number many of the wealthiest residents of the city, whose indi vidual wealth Ttnis up near the million and half million.’yet fiie great majority of those burned out lose the better portions of their fortunes. The hotels were filled with homeless people, and a citizens’ committee at once went to work apportioning frmilies to rooms and premises vacated for their use. Every vehi cle in the city was at work carrying the strewn furniture, bedding and pictures to se cure places. Some score of sick people were hurriedly removed during the conflagration, and many women were reported prostrated by the ter rible excitement Following close on the heels of the recent great strike, which inflicted a moneyed loss on the business men of Galveston of fully $400,00!>, this calamity is the climax to the woes and sore afflictions of this city. With the exception, however, of half a dozen gro ceries and the iron and car repairing foun dry, where the fire started, no places of busi ness were destroyed. The total area of burnt district is 100 acres, and forty blocks were swept clean of every thing combustible. More than 400 houses burned, and it was estimated bv the relief committee that about 1,000 families were un housed, the great majority of whom,especially the poor ones, lost everything. A meeting of the Cotton Exchange the same aftern<%i was largely attended by business men, who set about providing relief for the home’ess and suffering. A general relief com m“*rc ot twenty <cvan cittoeus was Oi B antZed, witn Colonel W. L. Mcsly, pr- • J of tM 1 1 Cotton Exchange as chairman. A ■ finance < omr fl rttee of five, with Colonel Wil . liam H. cflnclair as chairman, was also <p- P°’ U L-<l. Beside these committees there ♦rare subcommittees for the various sec. tions of the burned district The city counci; voted $15,000 for the relief of the sufferers. Jay Gould sent $5,000 from New York by telegraph, and Captain James B. Eads SI,OOO i from St Louis Altogether during the eye | ning after the fire, $88,009 was donated. The i best informed citirens estimate the total pe ; cuniary loro at $2,000,000, while many put ; their estimate as high as $2,500JW. [Galveston is the chief city of Texas in point ■ of popu’ation and commerce, and is situated I at the northeast extremity of Galveston ' inland, at the mouth of the bay of the same I name. The city is laid out with wide I streets, bordered by many flower-gar- i ' den*. The public buildings include I the custom-hous«b .poetoffice, U mted stat s courthouse, city and county prisom. city i hall, opera house, theatresan I al> mt mtoen : hotels and many churches. Uieauder par* I contains eighty acres and City park twenty- I five acres. There are six public squares, ait i esplanade two miles long, and three public ' gardens. Nine miles o street railway were jin operation in 1884. The island of ! Galveston is about twenty-eight miles long. 1 and from 1 1-2 to 8 1-2 miles wide. It is in i tersectel by small bayous, diverserfied by I several fresh water ponds and through its whob* length by a smooth hard : beach. The harbor is the best in the State. I Its chief business is shipping cotton, beef, and hides and cattle. The shipments > ally amount to more than $40,900,000. The population ih 188.»was 22,248, 5,00 V of whom ; were negroes.—Editor.] ew Gray, although far less fashionable a I color than last season, is not discarded, ' and in many shades of granite aad steel ■ gray it is not only fastuoaable, but re ’ served for very rich toilets* owing partly ; to the superb passementeries and Deaaed j ornaments and embroideries that are so very handsome ia shades of gray. According to recent statistics, it M cerrained th it in New York, ’ t three per cent, of the inm ates « ; | House of Indirotry were sent there to.- .q --k | uor crimes, while of the 8/ 'JO n >we > sellers of ihe metro »• dis 8,438 ImycL •• confined in jail or in ponton. i Polonaises of velvet dr velveteen will r l»e worn over akirts of rough wookn j stuffs, with bourreitc, boacie, Astras I bin. irixe. anti other borders, 1 ft FRIGHTFUL WRECK. THE THROUGH IXFBIBB WRECKo AT BLUE HTONE QUARRY. 1 Railroad Cara Roll Over and Over Into the River. A frightful wreck occurred at Blue Stone ’ quairy, on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, at 7 o’clock Thursday morning. Train No. 12, t through express from Baltimoje to Pittsburg, ) consisting of sleeper, two coaches, two baggage ■ and one express car, ran into a misplaced 1 switch and was completely wrecked. The i sleeper rolled over the embankment into the Youghiouheny river. The other cars were up ’ set and the whole train detached from the en gine. Sixteen persons were injured, but none i were killed outright. >The names of injured are: Hon. C. E. Boyle, member of congress from Fayette district; Hon. John Dowlin. collector internal revenue for 23d district; J. N. McJillton, legal agent of the Baltimore and Ohio company; Hon. E. H. Big ler, collector internal revenue for the 22d dis trict, and twelve others injured. None of the wounded are believed to be dan gerously injured, unless , f it is Congressman Boyle, whose condition is Relieved to be serious. J. N. Mcjilton’s ankle was badly sprained, and Collectors Dowlin and Bigler were badly bruised. The reporfr-of-the wreck reached Pittsburg at about 9 o’clock in the morning, and caused great excitement, as it was known that many prominent men of the city were expected on the train. The accident disarranged the tele graph wires and it was some time before the particulars of the accident were received. The express was about fifteen minutes late when it reached the place the wreck occurred. At Blue ’ Stone quarry the track makes a sharp curve around the river, a short distance back from the bank. There is a switch at the commence ment of the curve. The officials of the road say the switch had been tampered with evident ly with the intent of causing a wreck. As it was, the train could go on neither tract. The result was that the engine dashed along the ties, tearing up the track and causing the coaches and sleeping cars to break loose and dash on over the embankment in the wildest confusion. THE SCENE OE THE WRECK. The sleeping car rolled over and over, and ■topped with its side lying in the bed of the river, thirty feet below. Iwo passenger coaches stopped at the water’s edge, but the baggage car went into the water. There were many on board. The scene that followed was one that beggared description. The cries of the injured and maimed were heard from every car. The frightened pvsseugers sprang from the windows and struggled over each other to escape from the rolling cars, and the cries of pain were heard from some who had been caught and held within the wreck. Those who escaped uninjured were too much startled for a render assistance. The injured were removed to the hotels at Connellsville. The track was blockaded and torn up so badly that *o trains got through until the afternoon. EDITOR STEAD IN JAIL. The Libertines Laugh While the Editor Meditate*. Mr. Stead, the convicted editor of the Pall Mali Gazette, was interviewed in Coldbathfields prison, England. His warden was present at the interview and the visitor waanot allowed to shake hands with him. Stead was in prison garb, consisting of a Glengarry cap, looee flow ing yellow coliarless jacket, stamped on the let* breast with “Circle K, 2 stroke, 8,” with a bag gy,coarse yellow pants, bearing the government brvud arrow, over the patched Loots. His haii was cropped short. Stead appeared to be suffering severely from emd, bis hands trnng tucked in his capaciou j MiKf res for w(4rm|jf. He was in fairly good •pir? iti£ however. He is allowed a bible in his cell) but the light is not sufficient to enable him td read it. His breakfast consists of thin por-r ridge and brown bread; dinner of suet pudding and supper of porridge and brown bread. He sees nobody between 6 p. m. and 6 a. m. Stead’s daily task ia to pick one pound of oakum, The ordinary prisoners have to pick three pounds. Thu sentence of all prisoners commence on the first day of the coun t, which this year was Oc tober 10th. Stead will therefore be released on January 19th. A Freight Train Derailed. Thursday morning an eastern bound freight train, on the Erie road, was derailed near Mid dletown, N. Y., by awheel coming off the car. At the time of the accident the train was pass ing over Hampton bridge, which is 100 feet long, spanning a gorge fifty feet deep. The cars were piled on each other all over the bridge, and several w< nt into the gorge, carry ing with them two brakemen, named*James Caneford and E. L. Gerst, who were fatally hurt. PERSONAL MENTION. The Marquis of Bute’s new castle will cost $15,000,090. Secret ARY Lamar is fond of taking long and lonely walks at night. BtktAMiN F. Butler recently celebrated the sixty-seventh anniversary of his birth. Div Pedro, emperor of Brazil, writes well - vi learnedly, chly 03 s k&phesentative Q’Neill of St. Ixuiis, is spoken of as the funny man of the next ses sion of Congress. THE illnecsof United States Senator Miller, of California, is due to a wound received in the war, which has never fully healed. Miss Mary Lee, daughter of General Robert E. Lee, has been over a large part of the world and contemplates further explora tion. James R Randall, the poet editor, who wrote “My Maryland ’ wnen he was twenty two, is about to publish his first collection of poems. Canon Farp.vr, the eminent English divine, is of the opinion that. Hawthorne’s ! “Scarlet Letter” is the best novel ever writ j ten by an American. ■ Elizabeth, empress of Austria-Hungary, is building a marvelous mansion in the torest of » h »enbrunn, a mere hunting lodge, on i wlfich m.llions of money will be lavished. Count Herbert Bismarck, recently ap j pointed secretary of state for the Gerimn i empire, is only thirty six years old. but he I ha> been carefully trained by his tamer as a : diplomat Launt Thompson’s equestrian statue of General Burndde will be rea ly to cast in bronz> in January. Th? statue, which will cost $35,000, is to be place 1 in front of the City Hall at Providence, R. I. ; John T. Kapkna, Minister of Finance in i the Kingdom of Hawaii, nowiu this country, 1 is about torty-five years of age. His features ' I are of the American cast He is the only native Kanuck in the cabinet Professor Bernhard Studer, the ninety-two- year-old Swiss geologist, has re : cei.ed front the council of the confederation a splendid stiver cup, presente ito him in re | cognition ot bn renowned s rvi.vs to science A Triple Tragedy. A FATHER KILLS TWO ASSAILANTS OF Kit* SON. | Particulars of a tragedy on Verde creek. 1-amiera county. Toxas, ore as follows: | A young farmer named Buck Bryant j suspected two G rmsns, August Rbeinhxrdl and lunsLan Eckert. Os steol ing & h >g. Bryant went to their house, ac cu-av* theca and was fined utxHi Fleeing to j ward homebe f.y Rheirdiardt and j Eckert, one of wr® shot and mort»Lly w mnded turn. The father ot BryanU, bear mg h s son eall, ran out and »h >t sn d killed - i both of hi* imrraen. \ oung Bryant wa» mortally wounde>i, i immnm KING THEEBAW HKCLARES WAR AGAINST GREAT BRITIAN. The Asiatic Ruler to Lead His Troops in , Femen. A dispatch from Rangoon, Burmah, states that “King Theebavv has issued a proclamar < tion declaring he will not accept the absurd proposals of the Indian government, and therefore declaring war. He promises per sonally to lead his troops, and calls upon his subjects to fight for the defense of their coun try and religion. Europeans are not to be molested until the invaders cross the frontier when all are to be slain. Many Europeans are leaving Mandalay unhindered.” Advices from Mandalay, the capital of Burmah. state that the Burmese have de tained the steamer Doowoon, which was sent to Mandalay to bring away Europeans, and threaten to burn her if she attempts to leave. The foreigners are not allowed to leave Man dalay. The British expeditionary force under General Prendergast is about to cross the frontier of Burmah. The flotilla comprises forty-five steamers, flats and floating batteries, the latter being fitted out from six of the largest barges. Each of the floating batteries carries two sixty-pounder howitzers and is attended by armed launches. Twelve twenty-five pounder siege guns are mounted on the steamers, The force numbers 10.000 men, 7,030 camp follow ers, 500 mules and two elephant batteries. It is stated that the strength of the Bur mese standing army is about 10,000 men, which, however, can be considerably in creased by irregular and temporary levies. The army is almost altogether lacking in cavalry and artillery. The con stitution of the regular force is some what similar to the linked battalion system of the British infantry, two bodies, each 500 strong, being linked into something equivalent to a regiment. The battalion is commanded by a “bogyi,” under whom are officers termed “blocxtelrinkers.” These offi cers are very deficient in military training. When in the field the Burmese army is rapid in movement, and quickly forms intrench ments, excavating holes to obtain shelter both from the enemy’s fire and the weather. Behind these rudely formed earthworks, and under the im pression that the position cannot be turned, the Burmese warrior is decidedly dangerous. He has one advantage over a more civilized foe in that he provides his own commissariat, carrying a supply of rice around his waist and for other provisions depending upon the resources of the country through which he passes. The Burmese are regarded as adepts in river fighting. There are a num ber of war-boats on the Irrawaddy, mainly supplied by towns and villages along the riv ers, which are under obligation to provide a certain number of boats, with their crews of rowing and fighting men. from fifty to sev enty of whom are carried bv each boat. In the last Burmese war’a great deal of annoyance was caused the English by fire boats, freighted with highly inflammable material. Comparatively little difficulty in dealing with river craft is now anticipated. Machine and other guns, supplemented with rockets, will probably make short work of the opposition that may be offered on the river. Commanding positions on the banks, however, are already in closed by stockades and fortified, and for use against these a nutnbeu of heavy guns are being carried. Transport was provided by the Irrawaddy Flotilla company, all of'whose available’ steamers and flats were hired by the British govern ment. The steamers are paddle-wheel, spacious craft of 500 tons burden, shallow in hull and light in draught, with high upper decks, on which guns are carried. These steamers were con structed in parts on the Clyde and put to- Rnngcsn. The steamers tow a • iZs es ll?ts, one on eicfe si le. Tbs ’?lter, with their corrugated iron awuiuge. resem ble huge floating sheds and are each capable of carrying nearly 600 men, with a large quantity of stores. • The river swarms with native craft, and is navigable only by daylight. For nine miles above Thayetmayo the river is a mile and a half broad, with villages and houses lining the banks of the winding stream. Minhla, which contains 5,000 inhabitants, completely commands the river, and until it is taken no ail vance beyond the town can be made. A fort of modern construction and scientific design occupies a dominating position overhanging the river, and its well-formed earthworks are tolerably well mounted with guns of modern calibre. Above Minhla the river gradually widens to as much as four miles, but it is very shallow, and the navigable channel is known only to experienced pilots. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. Organists in London are seldom paid more than S2OO a year. Gilbert is said to be engaged on an oper etta libretto with a Hindoo subject. It is said that there are twice as many pro fessional actors in America as five years ago. Madame Patti will not come to America this year nor go to Spain, but she will sing In Paris. Maude Banks has written a domestic play on the story of " Old Robin Gray,” which will be produced before long. The tenor Mierzwinski will head an Italian opera company which will make a tour of this country, beginning next spring. The members of the Sorosis, the well known woman's club of New York, gave a banquet in honor of Mary Anderson. Benjamin Lightfoot, a Shakespearean student of color, recently made a successful appearance in tragedy in Providence, R L Sir Arthur Sullivan has undertaken to compcna a new sacred oratorio expressly for the Leeds fc 3..’'-'it autumn. He has al ready sketched it out. Miss Van Zandt, the American singer, has repeated her last winter's triumph at the j St. Petersburg opera, house. The royal family 1 attended her first concert. There are amusement troupes now on . the road and new companies are daily form- I ing. seemingly to atone for the occasional - dropping-out of earlier organized parties. Louise Pomeroy s Hamiet recently pro . voked a Detroit critic into thankfully stating that “woman’s Hamlets are not interesting, | except >n the sense that museum ‘freaks’ at tract the curious.” Herr August Hyllesdated, a Norwe | gian pianist who Las had remarkable success ’ in England and on tho continent, is making a j tour in this country under the management j of Mr. L. M. Ruben. i In a French adaptation of “Twelfth ■ Night,” now being played at a theatre in j Pans, Sir Toby Belch and Sir Andrew Ague j cheek actually are merged into one ctoarac f ter, Quinapulus by name. The a mual returns of musical production In Germany show that there is no falling off ; ia quantity, whatever the average quality ' may be. Last year 5.473 distinct pieces of music were published, the total for 1883 hav i ing l>een 5,433. Lawrence Barrett begins his New York engagement at the. Star theatre on February I 1, probably ouening :n Victor Hugo’s “Her nam.” produce! m great style, as to scenery and costumes, by Alfred Thompson, and with , j a very strong east. : ; Women did cot appear upon the stage in , • England till tue Stuarts were restored to the * I English throne. 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