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2 THE WEEKLY STAR PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY -by- CHAS. O. PEAVY. DOUGLAS COUNTY OFFICIAL ORGAN. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Per Year, in advance, 90cfcs. “ “ on a credit $1.15. OUR AGENTS. The following are authorized to receive and receipt for subscript ion a to the Stab : L. 8. Featherston, Villa Rica, Ga., T. J. Bowen, Salt Springs, Ga., Taos. Ao alb. Aus'.uL G» Les Domett, Chapel Hili’, Ga. Address ail communications to THE STAR, Douglasvelle, Ga. Entered at the Postoffice at Douglasville, Ga.. »« second-class matter. A GREAT OFFER. -FREE- TO ALL OUR SUBSCRIBERS! AH subscribers of the Star who make an advance payment of one year will re id ve as a premium one year’s * ••.bsctip lion to TH■. HOUSEHOLD BEACON, A handsome, 8-page, monthly household paper that will become a welcome visit or in the home of every intelligent family. XEWSY GLEANINGS. India’s national debt is $1,250,000,000. • There are 307,804 public school teachers in the United States. The dynamite attacks on buildings cost England $250,000 for repairs. Georgia has a law making death the pun ishment for burglary in the night time. Experiments in steering balloons are to be made in all the fortified places in France. Wolves have become so plentiful near Washington, 111., that th?y hunt in packs. Massachusetts has a law prohibiting tire sale of tobacco to minors under sixteen. Thirteen thousand stray dogs have been killed by the London police since the hydro phobia scare began. The exercises on Decoration Day at Gen eral Grant’s tomb will be of a very elaborate and national character. The International Congo association has for want of funds abandoned several of its stations in Central Africa. Land in Connecticut upon which pine trees were planted a few years ago is now worth SIOO an acre for its timber. Jacksonville. Fla., is paving its deeply sandy streets with wooden blocks, sawed out by steam sawmills right in town. It G cfileutated that there are 300 unions in New York* city, with au aggregate member ship of lOOjOtX) men ami women. Justice Butt, of Loudon. has rendered a decision to the effect that a divorce obtained in America is invalid in England. In Michigan there is a new factory for a now purpose—to make a substitute for whale* U»ne out of the quills of geese and turkeys. mine of rubiduuu, a rare I has Wen discov- ■ ‘ararßoekCwek, ■ , Territory. school twSJ** ducking. He has ms" agt*. A COMPANY with SIOO,OOO capital has been organised at Pittsburg to try to break the gatent controlled by the fruit jar monopo The Washington Star attributes the illness ♦hat has overcome several secretaries of the 1 treasury' ! oth ® V’‘ OBenre of «ewer gas in the building. r treAs of tiffi JitpaihMi are now growing and yielding on Ixmg Le land. They bear from seed in from three to five years. Dakota farmers are making plans to grow flax for fuel this summer. It is said that a ton of flax straw is worth more to burn than a ton of soft coal. Germany has eight schools of forestry, where five years’ training is required or those who seek positions under the govern ment, although a course of study half as long may be taken by amateurs. France supports a single school at Nancy. MUSICAL HD DRAMATIC. Mrs. Langtry has finally decided to tour this country again next season. Kissel's new*'opera “Urasai” has be n | brilliantly produced at the Court Theatre iu , Dresden. Miss Clara Louise Kellogg is singing | now away down in the region of the Rio ; Grande. Emperor William has positively refused I Nieman, the singer, permission to make a tour of America. Anna Dickinson is negotiating with an English manager to return to the stage. She I will make her second venture in London. "Tun Harbor Lights,’ the latest metalra* : matie euevem in London, will lie produced at the Boston Museum by Manager Field, next ’ fall. Cincinnati has been afflicted with more than twenty different “Mikado” companies this seeaon, and yet there has been no rioting there A NEW society drama, much after the style of “Fedor*.’’ has been completed by Ota-an jan. a Turkish journalist residing* in New Yore, for Fanny Davenport Muk. Bkm rrich, the great prima donna, ha< been singing with great success in Riga, Wilna. St tVtereburg and Moekow. Russia fata gtxxi field for enterprising singer*. The Countess Agatha Dornfleld. is to be gin a thirt r-two weeks' tour of thia country on SwtMiiher fi, next, in a reftorlorr consist ing or "She Stoops to Conquer,’ "Romeo and JidJet," stc, Patti vigorously rewnt* tbs imputation that her popularity is »<u the wane. She as- K to that her three concert* in Faris averaged two a nights and that her reception was mo»A cordial Mr. Edward E. Kidder ha* just finished what he terms a “Frivolous. Faroe.” in three act*. which mtiriare in a gtatd-uatured man ner the entire wcret wteking* of the stage and the enue of young society girls for hand •came actors- May hTh Edwta Booth and Totuasso Rd y ini will Iwgiu au engagement al th* Boston theatre. Two perrormancre of "Olh.'ho” will be given, one with the Italian in ttaHitta-rota and tit* American a* “lago,” an i one with the parts twml r«KKK were KW.AX’ j'o.'p'e who atun led the perfurtuamw of the German Opera com pany during th* saason tvewetiy m New York, taxcenlutg to Manager Stanton Aa there were fifty-two repceeentaiiom, Um average attendance was about THE HEWS IH GENERAL. HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM ALL POINTS. EASTERN AND MIDDLE STATES. James Andrews, an oldman, being reject ed by Miss Elsie Williams, at Oxford, Conn., killed her with an axe ana then finished his own career with poison. Rev. “Sam” Jones, the Southern eva/ig©. list, will hold revival meetings for 'eight weeks in Boston next fall. Z z* George Me all, the Newark (N. J.) pound keeper, died the other day in horrible torture from hydrophobia engendered by a mad I dog’s bite. I After another conference between the ' Knights of Labor representatives and Jay i Gould in New York on the 30th Master Workman Powderly telegraphed to St. Louis, ordering the strikers in the Southwest to re turn to work. Mr. Powderly returned to his home at Scranton, Penn., and three members of the Knights of Labor executive board started for St. Louis to aid in Settling the strike by arbitration. During the severe storms of a few days ago, two large steamers went ashore— the Capital City, running between New York and Hartford, striking the rocks off Rve Beach, N. Y., and the Europa, from Ham burg bound for New York, going aground near Quogue, Long Island. No lives were lost, but both vessels were badly damaged. The steamship Gulf of Akaba, from Huelva bound for New York, with thirty-flve men on board, has been given up as lost. The strike of B,OM operatives in the Cohoes (IN. x.) mills has ended, the mill-owners con ceding the twelve per cent, increase in wages. xr D n E. dv^ rd deL ; Br adin, who attended JSeall, the Newark (N. J.) poundkeeper, dur ingnis fatal attack of hydrophobia, is him self in danger and has started for Paris for treatment by M. Pasteur. While attending to his patient frothy saliva from the man’s bps came in contact with Dr. Bradin’s sore thumb. The doctor is the seventh person who has gone to Paris from Newark for inocula tion against hydrophobia. Miners in Pennsylvania are holding mass meetings to inaugurate the eight-hour sys tem in the mines after May 1. ’ Ex-Alderman William P. Kirk has been arrested in New York on the .charge of bribery in connection with the Broadway horse car company’s franchise, obtained from the city's aldermanic board in 1884. The confession of ex-Alderman Waite led to Kirk’s arrest. SOUTH AND WEST. General Delgado and Colonel Morey were held for trial at Key West, Fla as suspected filibusters. The trial will take > place m New York in May. Convicts in the Kansas State penitentiary have been detected in the manufacture of i counterfeit coin. Two negroes, charged with murder, were I taken from the jail at Alamo, Tenn., by a crowd and hanged. TMKfivil authorities proved powerless at j « t ♦ jOUI8 > m., on the 30th, and a croivd of I’s(X> men forced the sheriff to retire, as- i saulted his deputies, and destroyed and dam- I aged thousands of dollars’worth of railroad property Early in the morning Sheriff Kopiquet called for a posse. Only twelve I men responded and they were soon put to flight. The mob invaded the yards and dis- I abled a score of engines, and drove the few I workmen who refused to leave their work out i of the city, Timothy Hurijiy, her fifteen-year old daughter and her new-born infant, were burned to death in a fire at Bronson, Mi< h. Six other persons were also badly burned: | Geronimo, the captured Apache chief, | with twenty of bis followere, has escaped ! from the custody q£ Ugit<*<i States troops in Arizona, ‘ * .. ini* <l«<reecamei frorn Bt. Louis that the strike must go on. The executive board of the Knights of Lilior for the dis tricts involved claimed that Jay Gould’s rep resentatives wore acting with duplicity: that ttosy refused to re-employ men identified with i the strike, and that they would not receive I or Confer with representatives of the order For this reason the board declined to name a i time for the strikers to resfim* work, and . issued an appeal to the country in the form pL%* hOrt i O^^ lll . ,lddress - The Missouri - C <daun , e d to I* running its freight tv ?>’ kl ‘TP ■*nounced its , f y k’ al * height committed to its East , IjOuis t,IP strike was still i in full force, and all freight was blockaded except on the Wabash road. 1 WASHINGTON. The Senate has confirmed the following i nominations: William L. Alden, of New York. c'onsuTgeneral at Rome; Charles T. > Russell, of Connecticut, consul at Liverpool: Samuel E. Wheatley, to be commissioner of I the District of Columbia; Samuel T. Com, to be associate justice, Wyoming Territory. In executive session on the 31st Mr. Logan made a speech favoring open sessions. The nomination of the postmaster at Webster ! City, lowa, was rejected by a nearly uuau- ! itnous vote on the charge of “offensive par- ; tisansbip.” The nomination of William M. Merrick , for judge of the District of Columbia has been confirmed by the Senate notwithstand- I inu tile adverse rejxjrt of the judiciary com- I The collections of internal revenue for the 1 first eight months of the fiscal year ending ‘ I June 30, 1886, amount to $75,158,»X>, an in- ■ ! crease of $2,41t>,388 over the receipts for the I corresponding period of the lost fiscal year, i Additional confirmations by the Senate: - ! William C. Emmet, of New York, consul al ' I Smyrna; Allen R Bushnell, of Wisconsin, j attorney western district of Wisconsin: Al >x ander H. Shipley to be consul at Auckland: i ®*. A. Johnson, of District of Columbia, con ,«ul at Venice; William Gordon, of New > : York, consul at Medelin; H. C. Crouch, ol 'ork, consul at Milon: Galusha Pen- ♦ ichigan marshal eastern district j of Michigan; SnuiUe Braden, of Montana, to ’ beassaver, Helena; George F. Baylis, of ' surveyor of customs, Port Jeffer- •°n’ ***■ 'i Arthur D. Bissell, of New York, i customs for district of Buffalo i CrjsL N. Y.; Brigadier-General O. O. How ard. major-general, vice Pope, retired. J The reduction of the national debt last i T* a * 14 i < *' 7 - 884 » leaving the total debt 41W l^ teaßcashin treasury, at sl,- j I During March the total government re "-f 8 and expenditures, e W, W 1,6 na. NORKIGN. rMiNCK Bismarck has stated in theGermiw | 1 reichstag that if great Euretx-au trouble* i should arise they would prulialdy become in . tarnations], and that in his opinion the j French army was opposed to workingmen's . movements St. Johns, N, F.. has been the lienees' an exciting ab r riot A mob, demand ng labor and railroad extenuon, assembled i | around tlie paruament buildings with flag*, i stormtxl llw as-wunbly houm, routed the police and broke into the council chamber, planting - their banner ou the table of the he use. AN expkwion of p-troleum o-vurred the lTie' f • vessel at Baku. Russia. Bulgaria hav fa.g ref-XTtbt d mambos RuMa to sulm.il •.-.-ait, qwsticaas to the ' Eurvjxsui pouei , js thieataced nith in- I by the e.axs and the pi«<- i bildy of a war is again looming ap. M arsai Rra at Catholic nrauw in Annum •re reported, the n ami er of being The total number of arrests r . . T! , gium in connection with the . x l aae ? . 2,500. Hundreds of persons • * lofcs . lß jured, scores of buildings ,2? ln " age amounting to mill’ and dam fljeted. IXI s dollars was in- The steamship P . , , , , has been crushed • and sealer, tom off the e 4 lce sent to the bot num® of Newfoundland. Her taw lor 330 rnen - vvere to CTfA,: ‘ffe. abandoning everything. All the >• reached land, seventy miles from ae fc, L? disaste r- At the time of the ! “togaent the Resolute had captured 20,000 A duel with pistols in which one of the principals was instantly killed has been 1 fought between two French officials in a pri ' vate house at Valreas. TBE”PREffIER”ffISSED. 1 BIG DXIMONSTRA'krON IN LONDON AGAINST IRISH HOME RULE. Adopting a Resolution Condemning Mr* Gladstone and Parnell. A great mass meeting was held the other afternoon in Guildhall, London, to protest against the granting of a parliament to Ire land. The lord mayor presided. Sir John Lubbock (liberal), member of parliament for London university, moved the adop tion of a resolution condemning Mr. Gladstone for his intention of “hand ing Ireland over to Mr. Parnell, j whom he previously denounced.” A work ingman arose and offered an amendment to Sir John Lubbock’s resolution, but he was howled down, and the resolution was carried amid wild enthusiasm. Two hundred per sons in the immense audience voted in the negative. At every mention of Mr. Parnell’s name the audience hissed. The name of the premier was treated in the same way every ! time any speaker used it. There was even cries of “Glandstone is a lunatic'” All the ’ speeches were intensely patriotic and the 1 speakers were loudly cheered. Mr. Gem-ow Potter, a liberal, ventured to propose , an amendment to the Lubbock resc ! ‘“I'.Yt 1 effect that Mr. Gladstone was confidence of the audience and the British public, but his voice was drowned by groans and cries of “Go home!” “Turn him out! The meeting closed with three cheers for the queen, after which the as semblage left the hall singing in chorus, Rule Britannia!” “Mr. Gladstone is riding straieht for a fall!’’ the Pall Mall Gazette declares. “He refuses” says the Gazette, “to modify his : Irish scheme and the result will be that the country will have neither home rule in Ire land nor Mr. Gladstone.” The Gazette am I nounced in precisely the same way that Lord ! Salisbury would “ride for a tall” ’ at the very time the tory premier was arranging for his own ! defeat. The declaration at the time was gen- i erally hooteil by the other English papers, I but the Gazette was entirely accurate then. ■ It is thought that the editor has special I knowledge that Mr. Gladstone, being con- | x raced of the absolute justice and good ixfficy of his Irish proposals, and at the same time i convinced that the tory and radical politi- I mans have determined to defeat them, means i to force the issue and bring about the defeat as soon as possible, content to sacrifice P°mY er fiua , l , effort at pacification. Dublin freeman's Journal, com an? u ll ta e growing opposition among ‘ the Scotch members of parliament to gran* i v a P arlia,n ent, threatens that, if the Scotch members help to defeat Mr. Gtad- ; ston»B home rule bill, the Parnellitcs will 1 adopt a policy of relentless opposition to i erery Scotch mmsmse which niayc wne be fore parliament FOR RIVERS AO HARBORS, j The House < ous»»Htee-*« BUI Aps»r*prt** i tius Over Dt»,O0O,O0O. The River and Harbor bill. » as completed by the House committee, m I a total appropriation of $15,164,200, which will bccopie available immediately upon the ? passage of the bill. As there was no appro I priation made for river and harbor improve ’ tuents last session, the pie->ont appropriation 1 virtually cover* a period of nearly two j years. The larger items of the bill areas fol- I lows; .. ttiJcklan.l, Me., $20,000: Burlington. Vt, $15,0(X); Boston harbor, $<5,000; Newbury port, Mass., $50,000; Newport, R. 1., $12,500; rawtucket river, R. 1., $35,000: Providence ' and Narragansett bay, $35,000; New Haven ; breakwater, $100,000; Stonington, Conn,, $20,000: Connecticut river, $35,000; Thames | river, Conn., $80,000; Buffalo harbor, $l5O.- : 000; Oswego harbor, $95,000; Buttermilk channel, N. Y., $75,000: Hell Gate, l $150,000; Hudson river, $15,000; Newtown i creek and bay, N. Y, $50,000; Raritan bay, N. J., $30,000; Passaic river, N. J., $35,(W0; Raritan river, $35,000: Erie harbor, Penn.; $50,000; Allegheny river. Penn., $40,000; Schuylkill river, Penn., $25,000; Delaware river below Trenton, $240,000; Delaware : breakwater, $75,000; Wilmington, DeL, $20,000; Norfolk harbor, Va, SIOO,OOO, i James river, Vt, $150,000; Cape Fear river, N. C., $1*25,000; Great Kanawha ' river, W. Va., $150,000; Charleston harbor, 8. C., $250,000; Cumberland sound, Ga, ! $150,000; Savannah, Ga, $125,000; St John's channel, Fla, $200,000; Mobile. Ala., $120,000; Rockport ana Corpus Christi bar bors, Texa«,sl®,ooo: Galveston, $400,000; Sa bine pass and Blue Bush bar, Texas,s26s,ooo; Chicago. $100,000; Illinois river, $100,000; Humboldt harbor and bay, Cat, $100,000; Hay I>ake channel Micb.,'sloo.ooo; canal et . the Cascades, Ore., $200,000; Lower Willa mette and Columbia rivers, Ore., $100,000; Cumberland river, Tenn., $100,000: Tennes see river, below Chattanooga, $350,000; Ken tucky river, $250,000; Ohio river, $500,000; i Falls of the Ohio, S2OO 000; Missouri over, from mouth to Sioux City, $500,000; Missis- ! sippi river, $3,800,001 KEY WEST S GREAT FIRE. The Priueipal Part as the Flartaa (it> Laid in Aohes. A fire>tarted in the San Carlos theatre, Key West, Fla, on ths morning of the 30th and soon went beyond the control of the fire- 1 men. A fresh wind blowing from the south | caused the flames to spread, and soon five ' blocks in the center of the city were I destroyed. The Epweopal and Baptist churches were burned about noon, and be fore 8 P. M- when the fire subsided, over fifty houses in all were laid I in ashes. They included Masonic hall, three or four cigar factories and the bonded warehouse, obtaining S2SO,(XW worth of toba-co. Officers from the United States steamers Brooklyn and Powhattan aided in b*owing up some of the house* with powder to prevent the spread of the flames. There was no water supply, the cisterns being mostly dry. The fire subsided at 3 o clock. The principal part of the town has been burned. Six wharves an I five brick warehouses were among the structures destroyed. About ; fifteen persons were injured, of whom six were taken to the Marine h<tspital and others on ixnard the mea-of-war. The viamage to property is estimated at Individual losses cannot be I known, but terrible sufferings and privations have been entail 'd. B tween five thousand and six tbousaiKi jrewp c were thrown out of eiiiokwment by the burning of the factories, and no provittoß could at onc« be male for the large num>«er rendered homeless. The United States court and its re-A-rds are con aomad. The other government <«flices re moved their records early to the revenue steamer Dix. where a number of people took ! refuge and were oared for by tb» officers. SETTLED BY AOITRATION. ; THE RAILROAD STRIKE IN THI SOUTHWEST AT AN END. Negotfattens Between Jay Genld and The Knight* of Labor. The executive board of the Knight* ol Labor mat in New York on the 27th and pro posed to . ay Gould, president of the Missouri Pacific ranroad, that a committee of seven be appointed to arbitrate upon the matters in dispute which had led to the strike on the Gould system of railroads in the South west. This offer of the Knights was at first refused by President Gould upon the ground principally that an agreement made with the Missouri Pacific road last August by the employes not to strike without due notice had been violated by the latter. This reply of Jay Gould seemed to put au end to a chance for set tlement. But the strains 1 rela tions which seemed to exist between the officers of the Missouri Pacific railway and the general executive board of the Knights of Labor on the 27th were only strained in appearance. On the 28th General Master Workman Powderly and W. O. Mc- Dowell, a member of the Knights of Labor from Newark, N. J., a railroad ; man himself, representing the Knights I of I.abor, and Mr. Gould and Vice-President i Hopkins in behalf of the companies, met at the house of Mr. Gould. The strike was I discussed from beginning to end, I in. Mr. Powderly says, a friendly j spirit. The discussion lasted two hours and ; both sides acquired a great deal of informa ! tion which they had not before possessed. Then an adjournment was taken until even- I ing in order that each might think I the matter over in its new light ■ At seven o’clock they met a second time, and alter two solid hours of argument Mr. Pow j derly left to fulfil an engagement. Half an j hour later Mr. McDowell followed him. He bore with him the following communication from Mr. Gould: The Missouri Pacific Railway Co. I New York, March 28. J T. V. Powderly, Esq, G. M. W: Dear Sir: Replying to your letter of the 27th inst., I write to say that I will to-morrow ; morning send the following telegraphic in i structions: H. M. Ho-rie, General Manager, St. Louis: In resuming the movement of trains on the Missouri Pacific, and in the employment of labor in the several departments of this company, you will give preference to our late employes, whether they are Knights of Labor or not, ' except that you ‘ will not employ any person who has in- j jured the company’s property during the late strike, nor will wediseharxe any parsm j who has taken service with the company during the said strike. We see no objection j to arbitrating any differences, between the ' employes and the company, past or future. Hoping the above will be satisfactory I re main, yours very truly, Jay Gould, President. Mr. Powderly received the communication at the Astor House about 11 o’clock and ini- • mediately sent out the following telegram: New York, March 28, 1886. | Martin Irons, Chairman Executive Board, District Assembly No. 101, St. Louis: President Jay Goula has consented to our proposition for arbitration, and so telegraph* Vice President Hoxie. Order men to resume work at once. By order of Executive Board. • T. V. Powderly, G. M. W. i The following general order was also sent 1 out by telegraph before midnight: iirw York, March 28. 1886. i To the Knights of Labor, now on strike in the Southwest: President Jay Gould has consented to our proposition for arbitration aud so telegraphs Vice-President Hoxie. Pur- M.,, telegraphic instructions sent to the chairman of the executive board of District Assembly No. 101, you are di recteti to resume Work at once. By order of Executive Board. T. V. Powderly, G. M. W. CauMraaa John J. O’Neil, whois chair manof the tabor comnii; tee of the Hous* of ( Represontativa», reached the Astor house just in time to be the first i to congratulate Mr. Powderly ou the j successful issue of the strike. He had come from Washington to take a hand m the *ettlament himself. He brought with him the text of a Labor bill, intended for 1 immediate presentation to the House, and . submitted it to Mr. Powderly. He went back to Washington on the midnight train, after sending the following despatch to the St Louis Republican. ‘ Settlement of strike effected. Gould con- ; •entsto arbitration. Executive committee, i Knights of Labor, order men to resume wOTk. Congratulate our people on results. Jm The "course of an interview General Mas- , ter Workman Powderly was asked how many men had engaged in the strike and replied: “Well, it covered about 8,000 miles of road, j and there must have been at least 12,000 or < 14,000 direct employes. ■ Beside this, | of course, many more men aud ; women have been thrown out of work by the closing of the mills and factories, w hleh was brought about by the failure to run trains. The strike has demonstrated in a mtet forcible manner the necessity of laws to regulate the relations between employers and employed, and Mr. O’Neill’s bill will come in very pat just at this time.” The executive committee of the distri -t as sociations of the Knights of Labor in St. ; Louis issued orders on the 29th for the men to resume work. In the evening the order was re scinded. a disnatch bavine been from Master Workman Powderly stating that fresh complications had arisen as to methods of arbitration. In East St, Louis, 111, tha strikers thwarted all attempts to move freight, and the sheriff at length appealed to Governor Oglesby for assistance. After Grand Master Workman Powderly had held a second conference with Jay Gould in : New York, on the 30th, he telegraphed to St. ; Louis, ordering the striking employes on the various railroads to return to work. Mr. Powderly then went home to Scranton, Penn., and a committee of three members of J th;\exe utive board of the Knights of Labor i proceeded to St Louis, to confer with th* railroa I authorities with a view to a settle- ; meat of existing differences. At St Louis, on the 31st, Martin Lons, chairman of the executive committee of District Assembly No. 101, which embraces , all Knights of Labor employed by tha l Missouri Pacific Railway company, | telegraphed to the different local ; assemblies under his jurisdiction, notifying | them officially that the general executive i board had ordered all the men to go to work ’ pending arbitration of the existing difficul ties by a committee of the Missouri Pacific employes and Mr. Hoxie. Upon receipt of this order many of the man returned to work and freight trains began moving once more. GERONIMO S TREACHERY. Geaera] Cr*«k Hu* Narrww Escape frem Marder by the Apache*. General Forsyth, the commanding officer at 1 Fort Huachuca. Arizona, has arrived at i Tombstone, and makes known the startling ' fact that, at an interview which General Groot had with the Apaches. Chief Geronimo had his men with rifles ready to fire upon all : the white men, including General Crook, at . a given signal. Geronimo’s failure to keep > his jATomise of surrender is ascribed to the fact that having so much bloodshed to an swer for he could expect no clenwicy. and therefore preferred living in the r» mmtains to the pn>r»ect of hanging at the hind® of the authorities. The hostues had 20« J rounds of ammunition each. General Forsyth -sod it was impossible to fathom Geronimo's n teations.and it was an open question wheth er he would go south and join the Manins or remain ami harass the frontier settlersi ( Geronitno is a man of about fifty j tnsacberous and mereitaM. This is toe thi' j i tim be has proved faithtaaL THE RAGING FLOODS. WIDESPREAD DESTRUCTION /?< THE NORTH AND SOUTH. Cities and Villages and People Driven From Their Homes. Freshets in many of the country have done great damage. -Many houses bn the Tennessee river were abandoned, and the water ran through, the doors and windows. The damage in the lower part of Lynchburg, Va., was heavy. One-third of the Richmond and Alleghany railroad from Lynchburg to Buchanan, forty miles, was submerged, and all the trestling was washed away. The vil lage of Northport, Va., was almost sub merged, and the iron bridge was under water ; at both ends. In West Virginia the Kanawha and Elk rivers rose rapidly. One-half of Charleston, W. Va., was under water, and many dwell ings occupied by poor people were submerg ed. The Western Union wires were under ; water from that town to Point Pleasant, sixty miles. Floods near Pownal, Vt., raised the Hoosac river to such a height that the Troy & Boston railroad track was covered with five 1 or six feet of water and debris. No trains I could get through, and the company’s tele graph wires were all down. Land slides along the east bank of the Hudson retarded i travel between Troy and Albany. A freshet along the Midland division of j the Grand Trunk railway, Canada, stopped all trains, and travel was not resumed for several days. It was snowing hard there. In Illinois, lowa and Wisconsin there was a heavy fall of snow lasting forty-eight hours. The snowfall ranges from four to fifteen inches. A heavy rain aud melting snow back in the mountains, raised the rivers in Vermont so that great damage was done. Main street, in Berlin, across the river from Montpelier, was filled many feet high with ice for nearly one mile. The Winooski branch was higher than at any time since 1869. A house on the bank of the river, occupied by William Lind sey, was swept from the foundations by ice. The family was asleep when the shock came, but all escaped safely. A railway bridge on the Northeastern road at East Richford was carried axvay. At Lancaster, N. H., the ice from Israel’s river formed in a big jam just below Mechanic street bridge and caused the river to be par tially turned from its course, so that about one-half the stream ran down Mechanic ' street, carrying huge cakes of ice along in its course. Nearly all the 1 houses in that section of the village were ; flooded. The sash and blind works of Nich- j olas Wilson were carried away and are a ■ total loss. The Stewart house, a small hotel, ' was flooded, but the guests and occupants ! were rescued from the second story by means of ladders and boats. William E. Robertson, with six French ta- j borers, stated from Br«ulsboro,Vt, for Sears- ' burg, where they were all going log-rolling. When crossing Keith bridge, about a mile from any house,the bridge gave way and the men and horses were precipitated ' into the river. The water was very high and only two escaped. Robertson and three French men were drowned. The greatest disaster by the floods in Ala bama was along the Alabama and Coosa rivers, in Coosa, Elmore, Montgomery, An- I tauga and Dallas counties. Wetumptka, the ; county seat of Elmore county, and the coun- ' try around it were in a deplorable plight. ! Water was four feet deep in business houses ! of the town, and occupants were driven ! out of many of the residences. A con vict farm was flooded aud all hands had to I take to the rafts and then floated for niilre on these before they could land safely. <?ne ! farmer was drowned while crossing a strdjftx I There is not a bridge left in Elmore i and only one mill. Untold damage: has ! been done further down the river. Sajfami i was cut off from the outer world by de||M’- I tion of railroad bridge l and tracks, anti a j vast area of farming country was under water. The Coosa river at (lads ' den was the highest ever known. Railroad I traffieaud mail service were paralyzed nearly ; all over the State. The James river at. Richmoad. Va.. rose steadily, and nearly all that part of the city known as Rocketts, occupied mainly by poor families, wa« submerge i to a depth of from eight to ten feet. Nu norous families ware driven from their h > n-?® and bad to seek shelter elsewhere PERSONAL MEXTIOI. C. P. Huntington, the railway king, says he rests tw days every week. Representative Abram S. Hewitt will not be a candidate for re-election to Con gress. Mr. George Hearst, the new Senator from California, is said to have an income «f S2,(XX) a day. M. Pasteur is spoken of as a modest,retir ing and unaffected man in social life, and a hospitable entertainer. Fred. Douglass and his white wifeare daily visitors in the United States Senate gallery. They are going abroad this summer. General John B.Gordon will deliver the address at the unveiling of the Confederate monument at Myrtle Hill cemetery at Rome, Ga., on May 10. Miss Marian Foster, the crippled artist, has visited the White House, at the invita- ; tion of Miss Cleveland, and had an inter- ; view with the President,of whom she is paint- j ing a portrait President Holden, of the California State university, receives a salary of $5,000 as pres ident, and $3,000 as director of the Lick ob servatory. This is the largest salary paid to any college president in the country. Mr. Peter M. Arthur, chief engineer of , the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, ’ tbe best paid body of skilled artisans in the | United States, is an American of Scotch- { Irish extraction. He is a man of fifty-five, and has been chief for the THE RIOTS IN BELGIUM. T*wb» and Village. I’ilfaaed, and Many People Killed. Tbe strikes in Belgium growing out of the ; depressed condition of tie iron and steel , trades have resulted in a terrible series of j disturbances and collisions with the military in various parts of the country. According to one dispatch the damage to the property in the disturl>e.l district was estimated at $5,600,000. There were more than 15,000 I soldiers in the field. Every jewelry store and gun shop in Charleroi, ana nearly every liquor warehouse and liquor saloon was ; looted. Churches were robbea of all article* of precious metal. More than 100 collieries, foundries and residences were burned. Hun dreds of persons were killed or wounded. Many citizens were robbed in the streets in | daylight. One young woman who wore a dia- I mond ring that was tight upon the finger had her finger amputated by ruffians with a chisel and rnaßet Score* of women were brutally j assaulted. In two cases mothers had the brains j of their babies dashed out before their eyes. I Before order was restored more than 2,500 j arrests were made. Evidently Not Practising. Pompano—“So Doctor Hackemnp it ! about to retire from practice!” Bromley—“lndeed I I was not aware of it.” “I have the strongest reason for believ ing so from an act of his thia morning.” “What waa that!” “I law him kick a banana peel off the ride walk.”— Philadelphia C«M. F4CTS ABOUT GYPSIES A Vagabond People Found AU Over the World. Speculations as to their Origin, their Wanderings and Habits. The gypsies are a vagabond people found in nearly all parts of the world. They are themselves ignorant of their origin, and no historical record exists of their earlier migrations. So there are different theories about them among writers. Some consider that they came originally from Egypt—the name gypsy ; is simply a corruption of Egyptian others that they came from Persia, Ara bia, or India. The weight of evidence , in the language, physiognomy, and habits [ of this vagrant people is in favor of their i Indian origin. There is to-day a wander ; ing tribe in Upper India known as the Zingarro, and the name of the gypsies in ' the first European country which they visited was the Zingari. It is impossible : that this similarity of names should be a > chance coincidence. Further, the first appe rance of the gypsies in Europe oc curred when the Mongol conqueror, Timour, was laying waste the fruitful countries of Southern Asia, and marking the trail over which his army passed with rivers of human blood. Over 90,000 men, women, and children were slaught ered iu the province of Bagdad; 100,000 between the Indus and Delhi. The Zin garro, the tramps of Oriental society, the poorer classes, who had no possessi ns to excite the curiosity of the invaders, fled in bands to the westward, while the con quering party marched toward the east. The first bands of these people came to Italy in the first decade of the fifteenth century. In 1422 there were about 14,- 000 of them in that country. They ma ie their first appearance in the province oi the Danube in 1417. August 17, 1427, a. band of them came to Paris. They had caught enough of European speech to make themse ves understood, and claimed to be Christians who had been driven from Egypt by the invasion of the Sara cens. The Parisians were disposed to re ceive them hospitably, but as they proved to be great thieves they were soon after expelled from the city. They continued, however, to wander in France, and other bands joined them. They appear ed in England about 1506, and in Swed en in 1514. Wherever they went they pretended to the arts of palmistry, and fortune-telling to get better opportunity to carry on their thieving practices. Spain banished them in 1492. and a cen tury later rraewad th& ly. In Eaghmd they were exiled by proetamatio® by VIH., and also by Elizabeth, italy, Ek’nmark, Sweden, and Holland ateo toflfc kietisurea against them. were treated kindly, and efforts were made to civilize them, though without much suc cess. Germany also made like efforts, and so did Austria, but these have only been successful since Joseph 11. of the latter country, in 1782, made and enforced severe laws against vagrants. There are about 700,000 gypsies in Europe, the^[ : most of them being in Southern Russia, the Danubian provinces, Austro-Hungary, and Spain. The severe laws against them have generally been repealed. The gypsies have intermarried but little with other races, and the proximity of civiliz ed races for four centuries and more has made but little impression on their orig inal barbarity. The language of the gypsies, though everywhere preserving forms of an unmistakable Indian origin, differs greatly in different countries, as these people are very much inclined to • incorporate words of other tongues with their own.— lnter-Ocean. The Ink Plant. There is in New Grenada a plant, Oory aria thymifola, which might be danger ous to our ink manufacturers if it could be acclimated in this country. It is known under the name of the ink plant. Its juice, called chanchi, can be used in writing without any previous prepara tion. The letters traced with it are of a reddish color at first, but turn to a deep black in a few hours. The juice also spoils steel pens less than common ink. The qualities of the plant seem to have been discovered under the Spanish ad ministration. Some writings intended for the mother country, were wet through with sea water on the voyage; while the papers written with common ink were almost illegible, those written with the juice of that plant were quite unspoiled. Orders were given in consequence that this vegetable ink was to be used for all* public documents.— Penman's Art Jour nal. _ Not “Such a Lot-” When relationships often become too complicated for mature minds to follow, what wonder that a child should refuse to believe that one man can be at ono? several men? “Mamma,” said little Mary, “is Uncle Ned Arthur’s uncle, too?” “No,” said her mother, “he is Arthur* father.” “Well, is he your uncle?” “No, he is my brother. He is Fred’s uncle, and yours, and Cousin Lizzie’s.” “Now,” said Mary, shaking her small head very positively, “I know Unde Ned isn’t such a lot as that.” •