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2 THE WEEKLY STAB PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY -by- CHAS. O. PEAVY. DOUGLAS COUNTY OFFICIAL ORGAN. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Per Year, in advance, 90cts. “ “ on a credit SI. 15. OUR AGENTS.. The following arc authorized to receive and receipt for subscriptions to the Stab : L. 8. Feathebston. Villa Rica, Ga., T. J. Bowes, Sa.t Springs, Ga., Taos. A*»ajb. Ans*-all. Ga Lee Domett, Chapel Hill* Ga. —— Address all communications to THE STAR, Douglasvillk, Ga. Entered at the Postoffice at Douglasville, Ga., as second-class matter. A GRSAT OFFER. FREE TO ALL OUR SUBSCRIBERS! All subscribers of the Star who make an advance payment of one year will re jaiveasa premium one year's ; ♦•.bscrip tion to THE HOUSEHOLD BEACON, A handsome, 8-page, monthly household paper that will become a welcome visit or in the home of every intelligent family. HURLED INTO ETERNITY. 4 FRIGHTFUL RAILROAD WRECK IN MASSACHUSETTS. A Train Plunge. Down an Embankment «OO Feet High. A Greenfield (Mass.) dispatch of the 7th gives the following particulars of the fright ful railroad disaster which occurred that night, midway between Bardwell’s ferry and West Deerfield station, the east bound passen ger train from North Adams, due at Green field at 0:05 P. M. going over an embankment 200 feet in height: The train was the Eastern express, and con* Misted of a baggage car, a smoker, a sleeping car, a mail car, and two ordinary passenger cars. The train was in charge of Con ductor Foster, with Herbert Littlejohn as engineer. The point where the accident oc curred is the most dangerous on the road. The track runs on the edge of an embankment 200 feet above Deerfield river. The bank is steep and is covered with huge boulders and tnasMss of shale roek with which the road-bed had been filled. When t|ie train arrrlved at this point the track began to settle under it for a distance covering its entire length. The coaches broke from their trucks and w ent rolling over and over d own the precipice. The engine broke from the tender, tearing up the track for twenty feet. Below rolled the Deerfield river, on the very edge of which the cans were thrown. As soon as they struck they caught fire from the stoves. The shrieks of the wounded and dying filled the air, and for a time the scene was terrible. The steep- | ing car, occupied by several pasneugersl was I an entire wreck. One little girl was jtmtesdl | up dead. As soon as the news reached GreeuflWd A j special train was made up and sent txOiM scene of the disaster, having on board sever- j ai physicians and section men and a few ! citlsens. On arriving at the scene of the wiasek a horrible sight was witnessed. The darkness of night had settled over the spot. Far down on the river bank could be seen the smouldering <mben of the train. It was impossible to tell who was hurt and who wqs killed. Htout hearted trackmen were lowered cautiously down the treacherous height, and the work of rescue began. Merritt Hedy, superintendent of the No tional Express company, of Boston, was found in the wreck and taken to the relief car. He had a wuuiul four inches long and half an inch wide over his left temple. His < loft thigh was broken, and also his left leg at the knee, beside which he sustained fatal internal injuries. The Fitchburg coach wan the only one that •scaped the conflagration. Deputy Kheriff i Bryant, of Greenfield, who was in this car, ®Teemed the bodies of two children from the flames, but one was dead and the other dy ing. D. C. Wells, of Andover. had hisshoul der hurt and his head cut. The ear in which he was riding was broken in two, and stood on end within a few feet of the river bank. Nicholas Dorgan, of Greenfield, had his left arm and ankle broken, and was seriously in jured internally. A little girl who was a passenger on the train died in his arms fi-om injuries received. J. E. Priest, of Littleton. N. IL, had his face ami head cut Engineer Herbert Littlejohn, of North Adams, was badly scalded, it was believed, fatally. A. K. Warner, chairman of the Greenfield board of selectmen, was ba lly hurt At midnight four more bodies were taken from the wreck, including that of Brakeman Bpencor. This made six persons found dead up to that titneiMveral were fatally injured, and many others more or less seriously hurt. Sarah Is Oat There. A Detroiter who was returning from Dakota the other day met an old chan on the train in Illinois who questioned him as to where he had been and inquired: ■‘’Maybe you run across my daughter out therct Her name is Watson." “I don’t think I did,” was the reply. ‘‘But she's in Dakota. She went out there m sopn m she was married.'’ “I didn't see her.” *’Didn t you happen to ride by any i house where a woman waa whistling f' * “No." “Sarah whistles, but you may have ! minted her. Didn’t see a man and a , Woman having a fight anywhere ?” “No.” : | “Sarah hollers when she stubs her toe. and she can he heard two miles and a half if the wind is right. Meet any j woman on the higlrway who was smok ing a clay pipeand sloshing right through the mud puddleat *» “No.” “That’s Sarah. yon know ’ Didn't stop | in any neighborhood where the school teacher had been licked and the sewing •odrty all busted to gj*h, ch?" •No” “That's’ Surah ana n I guess you didn't | travel around mm n" • Hut IMkoU is a great Territo y. you ‘ know I” “Yea, I suppose, but if you. hud.b.wn at one eud while Sarah wm holering her : husbiud to dinner at the other you must i have lift'd her. Maybe you area little dteafZ—lfct Frat I 4 THE NEWS IN GENERAL. HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM ALL POINtS. EASTERN AND MIDDLE STATES. The recent unusulHy severe and prolonged rain storm flooded about twenty colieries in the Schuylkill (Penn.) anthracite coal basin, and compelled a cessation of work, nearly 6.000 iuen and boys being temporarily thrown out of employment. Ist an interview at Scranton, Penn., Gener al Master Workman Powderly says that in view of the railroad officials’ refusal to sub mit the difficulties in the Southwest to arbi tration, the Knights of Labor were justified in continuing the strike. He was confident that this would be the last great railroad strike in this country, and thought it would teach both sides a- useful lesson. A fire in the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts at Philadelphia destroyed the northern picture gallery and some of the fin est paintings and statuary in the collection. William H. Miller, another of the New York ex-aldermen charged with bribery, has been arrested. He was found near Pa latka, Fla. by two New York detectives, and brought to the metropolis. Ten bodies had been: recovered from the railroad wreck, near Deerfield, Moss.. on the Bth, and geve al persons were then still miss ing. About thirty persons were ihjured. The Rhode Island election has resulted in the si ccess of Governor Wetmore and all the rest of the Republican ticket except Attor ney-General Colt. The latter was defeated by Edwin Metcalf. candidate of the Demo crats and Prohibitionists. The constitutional amendment prohibiting the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors was carried. SOUTH AND WEST. While plowing in his field Joe Coughmen, a Newberry (S. C.) farmer, unearthed a pot of ancient gold coin worth SI2,(MM). This lucky find lias set half the county to plowing for treasure pots. The striking Knights of Labor in tbe Southwest issued a bitter manifesto against Jay Gould on the 6th. It was addressed to the “Workingmen of the World,” and de clared that Gould must be overthrown. Mr. Arthur, chief of the Brother hood of Railway Engineers, has been in St. Louis in consultation with the Knights. Vice President Hoxie, of the Missouri Pacific, claimed to be running trains with considera ble regularity. The company has brought 1,200 suits against persons alleged to have in jured and destroyed its property. Several towns notified the company that they would pay all damages inflicted within their limits. Cincinnati’s municipal election, just held, has resulted in the success of the entire Republican ticket by majorities ranging from 4,000 to 7,000. A body of 2,000 striking railroad employes entered the yards of the various companies at East St. Louis on the 7th and compelled the men at work to step and join them. The sheriff’s deputies where hustled aside, but finally the strikers were halted by a number of deputies with leveled Winchester rifles. Armed men arrived by every train to protect the railroad companies, and were all sworn in as deputies. Crazed with drink, William Ellis, of St Francis, Ark., shot his wife and two-year-old child to death, his arrest following the mad act. Mrs. Lars Gindhal, residing near Eau Claire, Wis., has just given birth to four male babies, weighing altogether twenty pounds, and all alive and healthy. By the capsizing of tbe steamer Mountain Bay at Owensboro, Ky., three men were drowned. A pitched battle between memberao? two political factions at Laredo, Texas, resulted in the death of five men and the woundtea of several otlu-t - Nenwiy 2,'MW Ken, on I j randutiom the invitation of the I Labor toJMypott. and denouncing < as •‘detrimental to the financial, : moral, aial jpoliti*■».! fntcrests of all WASHINGTON. Thsry ar* seven Knights of Laboi i i P;m giess. In the lowa contostel election case of Campbell vs. Weaver, the House election committee has decided by a party vote in favor of Weaver, the sitting member. The Senate has confirmed Mr. Trenholm’s nomination to be comptroller of the currency. The Mexican pension bill passed by the House directs the secretary of the interior to place the names of nil the surviving offi cers, soldiers and sailors who enlisted and served in the war with Mexico for any period during the years 1845, Wi, 1847 and 1848. and were honorably discharged, and their surviving widows, on the pension roll at the rate of $8 per month from and after the pas sage of this act during their liven. Persons under political disabilities are not included. Additional nominations by the President: Job H. Lippincott, to be attorney of the united States for tbe district of New Jersey; Caleb W. West, of Kentucky, to begovernir of Utah Territory. Conmb—Louis D. Bev land. of Pennsylvania, at Kingston, Jamai 1* J- Dupre, of Alabama, at San Salva dor; J. Cecil Legare, of Louisiana, at Tam pico; Moses H. Sawyer, of Connecti cut, nt Trinidacf. Postmasters— Andrew Shanahan, at Rtx-kland, Massachusrtts; w illiam Buttriek, at Conct'nlia, Maas ;Theo dore H. Fenn, at Ma**,; Jeremiah Mur phy, at Beverly. Mass.; Ixsmuel A. Keith, at Bridgewater. Mass.; Rollin C Want, at Northfield. Mass.; Hartfor I D. Nelson, at Oneonta. X. Y.; Benjamin F. Vail, at War ’ Fnslcrick P. Newkirk, atOx- Wni - Moses, at Auburn, N >.; Aluv M. Crabtree, nt Bt lmont. N. V • Thornas Hill, at Haddonfield, N. J.; Charles F. Young, at Columbia, Penn. The Senate has confirmed the nominations of John 1). Oberly, of Illinois, and Charles Lyman, of Connecticut, to l»e civil service > wmmissicneix ami S. M. Stockslager, of In- , diaiia, to be assist ant eonunisßioner of the general tend office. A mvmbeh of nominations for internal revenue eo!le.*tor.s having Lmsmi retwrted favorably by the Senate tlnanre committee upon receiving notice from Secretarv Man ning that no charges against the officials whose places were filled bad been tiled, thev were cod firmed in executive session. This, it ! is stated, is hereafter to lie the policy of the : i Senate majority. I Thk President has nominated Obadiah ; Cutler to be wUactrnr of customs for the dut- I triet of Niagara, New York: Edward War field, to be surveyor of customs for the port ; ■ of Bkdtinmre. Md.; Thomas G. Hayes, to be United States attorney for tbe aistrict of i Maryland; Gctwge H. Cai'-u??, to be Unit*-* i States marshal for the ilissrict of NarylMMl; Cyrus P. Shepa.nl. to be register of the land office at Worthington. Minn.; Edmund James, to be i receiver of public moneys at Careou City. < Nev.; Samuel 1. Lorah, to be receiver of pub- > Me moneys at Central Citv, tX>l.; John A. I McClernaml, of lUinots, to be a member of ' the board of registration and election in the Territory of Utah. Secret AH v has revoked I-and Conuu ssaoner Sparks’ orxier of last Apr.l suspending final act on on land entriei over a large section of Nebraska, nearly ail of ’ Colorado, all of Dakota. Idaho, Utah. It adj- I ; *e»ntory, New Mexico, Montana, j M> yotning. Nwmla ami Northern Minnesota. Des det isfim to revoke tbe order waa made at a cabmet meeting. FOREIGN. Wnxiatt K Fioovtek, a member of the l ' British parliament and formerly chief -ecre tarv for Isviand. is drad in hts sixty ninte jar. The Canadian government is fitting out cruisers for the protection of the fisheries. The movement is directed mainly against American fishermen. Heavy snowstorms in Southern Michigan and Northern Ohio have greatly impeded travel and traffic. The Italian ministry, formed in June, >BBS, have resigned. Mahometan fanatics attacked and de stroyed a mission house and other buildings j in the Phillippine islands. A force was sent to chastise the fanatics, twelve of whom were killed and several wounded. The Spanish captain in charge of the force and four of his men were wounded, and one of the men was killed. Three days after the first out rage the same band burned the village of Amadeo and the naval coal depot. The losses are heavy. A DESTRUCTIVE FIRE. MANY HOUSES IN LACROSSE, WIS., SUCCUMB TO THE FLAMES. One Thousand Men Out of Work and 10$ People Rendered Homeless. One of the most disastrous conflagrations that ever visited Wisconsin broke out the other morning in John Paul’s mill at La crosse and swept southward, destroying the mill and several million feet of lumber be longing to Mr. Paul. Thence it swept to the yards and mill of C. L. Colman, destroying everything to the river and for two blocks to the southward. The flames leaped rapidly from one pile to another despite the exertions of the entire fire department. All the steamers were brought into service and .all the power that could be obtained from the mill pumps, the city water works and tbe local hydrants. The scene about the conflagration became thrilling. Thousands of people thronged tho streets, the sidewalks and the housetops to witness the confla gration. The fire originated from a sjiark from the mill sta-ks or from the furnaces. In fifteen minutes the mill was doomed, and in thirty minutes it fell in ruins with all its splendid machinery. There was no staying the progress of the flames, which jumped to the great pile of lumber and m an hour made a seething sea of flame- against the beat of which no fireman could stand. ; The wind was blowing ( fresh from toe north and the flames moved steadily southwest. All efforts to stop them at Colman's mill proved futile. The immense structure was soon a mass of fire. The plan ing mill adjoining was also caught. The workmen and the fire department then turned their attention toward street, where a force of men were set to work to tear down the lumber piles, that the flames might be stopped there. ■ All hope of saving the im mediate property was abandonexl. ’ A train of eight cars belonging to the Milwaukee and Paul road was consumed. At 2 o’clock it was evident that U>e larve factory of Segelke, Kohlurs & Co. wav doomed. Tbe blaze broke out in the store house of the sash factory in Second street, causing a flame of fire one Nock in length. The four-story house and sheds burned with lightning rapidity, and people east of Second street began moving out. The fire was completely under control fore 3 o’clock. The departments from Wi nona, Minn,, and Sparta, rendered excellent aid. A careful estimate of tho loss places it at $l,000.(MM). of which, as individual heavy losers, C. L. Colman is greatest, his loss being $400,(JOO, with no insurance. John Paul’s loss, mill and 5.000,000 feet of lumber at $150,000, insured for SOO,OOO. I fen blocks, which included j two largest Jumbßr-yartLi ju Wk< ou- WSICH «D MIUTIC. Mr. Boucic.avlt’s new play, “The is a great success. Verdi is reported to be engaged in the composition of a new opera. Camillo Urso, the distinguished violin- 1 ist. has been concerting in the South. Emma Nevada, the singer, has become the j guest of Mrs. Senator Jones, in Washington. Miss Anna Dickinson is writing ahistori | cal play to show up man's inhumanity to ! women. i Princess Christian re -ently played the i piano at a “free people's concert” at Wind i sor, England. ; P. 8. Gilmore will lead the l>and at Man ! hattan Beach, Coney Island, this summer, as he has done for years past. The roof of the theatre at Huromal. Japan, gave way not long ago, and fell upon tbe ! spectators, 150 of whom were killed or seri ously injured. Sir Arthur Sullivan is turning his at tention from light opera and is again es- I saying more serious works. He is now en gaged in composing a cantata. A musical museum has been organized at Milan, and is to have an exhibition of antique i and rare musical instruments, accompanied by a series of so called historical concerts. Adelina Patti is said to know perfectly I I forty-seven complete operas, having actually j ‘ appeared in public in forty-two, several of which she has sung in French as well as ’ Italian. Mr. Lawrence Barrett adds to his repertory next season a five-act tragedy en- I titled “Harold, the Last of the Saxons,” adapted from the German of Herr Ernst von ■ W ilderbrnch. Ma. B. B Valentine, who originated I j Puck’s “Fitxnoodle” papers, in association 1 j with Mr. John G. Wilson, the author of \ ! “Nordeck," is preparing a comedy in which | Fitxnoodle is to be the central figure. Miss May I* Tifft. the daughter of Hen j ry R. Tifft of New York, who recently made • i her debut in the opera of “Ijacia” at her I Majesty’s in Ixmdon, is spoken of by a Lon don paper as the most successful debutante of tbe season. A writer in the Rt Paul Pioneer-Press j says that Salviui, tbe Italian tragedian, can never remember bis lines, and is compelled to constantly have a prompter in attendance. He claims that he cannot do a part, justice when lie devotes his attention to remember ing tbe words, BASE BALL KOTOS. i The American association used up 1,342 base bails daring last season. The Metropolitans will bare tbe finest grounds in the world on Staten Island. The Detroit league club have the strong ( est rollwfion of batters that was exw known. » | The new rule giving credit in tbe summary t for bases stolen seems to have met with gen t oral approval It Is estimated both associations will squander the mug sum of sso,UUotor tbe ; players’ railroad fare this season. Baser all is quite as popular in Canada as | here, and has outstripped' in general favor j tbe national and beautiful game of lacrosse. | Bt. Louis has no less than seventy-six uni- formed amateur clubs Philadelphia tops I them with a total of 312 fully equipped or j ganiratkuis. Dann, tbe new eat-her of the Yale c liege » team, i; also a fin* pitcher, but sospeedvin I his delivery that no one could be found in the college who could bold him. Each league club saves nearly SSOO a year by the rule requiring players to submit tn a reductio® from sol&rv of fits v eents per day i while away abroad during th? soasgu. THE EAST ST. LOUIS WAR. MORE BLOODSHED THE BESUL'I OF THE RAILROAD STRIFES. A Collision Between Officers mid Strikers i In Which the Former Fire a Volley. The bloody collision between strikers and deputies at Fort; Worth, Texas, has been fol lowed by a still more terrible and deplorable episode in East St. Louis, 111., on the Missis sippi river, and just opposite St. Louis. The trouble, as described by dispatches, came about as follows: The various railroads ssemed to ba moving an unusually large quantity of freight, par ticularly the Loiiiiville & Nashville. When ths strike was ordered twenty-seven of this company’s employes " left its service. Their places were quiekly filled, and thirty deputy sheriffs were em- I ployed by the com pany to protect the new men and its property. The officers were arm«d witb Winchester rifles, soma of them carrying revolvers also. T. G. Hewlett was made their leader. More than half the force guarded the freight houses of the company, while the rest of them protected incoming and outgoing trains. Trains were continually pass ing t .> and fro from the freight bouses all day, and before 10 o’clock in the morning hun dreds of idle men and boys and a few women gathered on aud about the rickety wooden bridge that spans a small body of muddy wa ter known as Cahokia creek. The luouisville and Nashville road running west crosse j this creek on a trestle. At 10 o’clock 300 persons stood on th? bridge watching the trains pass. Th? rougher element cursed the trainmen, and promised them at short shrift in the near fu ture. The depuiy sheriffs who stood on th? trestlework were treated in the same way. Sheriff Roplequet appeared with a small posse and ordered the crowd to disperse. The law-abiding persons in it did so. The other; paid no attention to the demand. The sheriff left the ground at once and tele graphed to Governor Oglesby the condition of affairs and asked for military h?lp. Mean while the crowd had never moved from its ! position or changed its tactics except to grow more violent in its demonstrations against the trainmen and their guards. It suffered de sertions but gained more than it lost, and at 2 o’clock the bridge and its vicinity was oc cupied by a mob of 403 or 500 persons. Many of the younger men in it carried stones in their hands, and when opportunity offered i hurled them at the armed men on the trestle work or at the men on passing trains. Sav age curses and epithets were also hurled at ■ them. ’ Nine men stood on the trestle work. They I were between two crowds and faced about at ! short intervals. The only one who exhibited a revolver was Charles Kensler, the “cowboy fireman.” He carried two pistols in hi> belt and had the barrel of his Win chester slung over his left arm. The guards made no reply to the abuse showered on them and the mob grew bolder. It stood on a thoroughfare and felt sate. Finally one man stepped on the company’s property. Deputy Hewlett promptly arrested him. A part of the mob surged forward to the rescue. A voice cried “Kill the cowboy.” There was a pistol shot, which in a few seconds was followed by the ringing reports of Winchester rifles. The shrieks and yells that rose from the crowd could be heard on the bridge, a third of a mile away. “Crack, crack” v. cnt the deadly rifles. ' The crowd split into two unequal parts and ran like mad in opposite directions. The small and the w eak were knocked down and trampled upon. Terror was king and drove all before him. The deadly hail had been fired at short range against a solid wall of flesh and blood. The guards were seemingly appalled at the ex tent and nature of the retaliation they had inflicted -on their persecu .tW*,-.. Xln the bridge and roadway lay Mrs | John Pfeffer, shot and ! Sa j wortajly wounded. ten-ar, and turning somHiFnssaßawte flight toward the Louisville and Nashville freight house, shouts rose from it of “To arms, to arms,’’ and men who stood over the deal and wounded vowed they would have a terri ble revenge. Some of the wildest spirits rushed through the town calling on the strikers and their friends to arm them selves and kill all deputy sheriffs on sight. Faie-foi-ed men soon appeared on the streets armed with revolvers and shotguns. Here and there a man could be seen carrying a small coil of* rope. The cry of “Haug them” : kept pace with that of “Kill them all.” The fleeing guards never stopped till they reached the Lduisville aud Nashville freight house. They quickly warned their comrades to flee to St. Ixaii-s for their lives. Some of the men refused, i and l»rricaded the freight house with.the in- ; ; teution of protecting it against assault. These i i men were afterward com tellel to fly and ; narrowly escaped with their lives. Hunting parties were organized by their enemies, an I every cranny that crald possibly shelter a de nitj’ sheriff was searched. The fleeing deputies were crossing the iron bridge on their way to St. Louis when they were met by Mayor Joyre. of East St. Lou.s, ; aud some officers, anil asked to return. b<tt ; the v refused to go buck. Mavor Joyce and ■ Offlret Dowd endeavoml to drag two of tbe i guards with them. One of the guards who | wasn t in custody raised his rifle amt fired in ! ; h‘» dirreuon of thac*<>w 1. C. F. Th > n » of St. Louis, dropped in his tracks, shot in tbe s&nnaeh. At this report the two guards with | Mayor Joyce and Officer Dowd tore them selves ioose. One of them struck the mayor 1 with his clubbed rifle, knocking him down. ■ Both men at once joined their companions ; and continued their flight a -ross tbe bridge. The scene on the bridge was one of wildest 1 coufusion aud excitement. Coal trains loaded and unloaded, and vehicles of all ■ de>eri[>tions engaged in a wild race to 8t Louis. Women and men on foot were | running toward the city, and waving back all they met, while immediately behind . came the deputies pursued by the vanguard ! from East St. Louis. One of the frightened guards threw his gun into the river, while another hid his weapon in tbe J 0 * 1 * ot . R stake wa-jon that was in full re treat Th? firing had been heart! in mid-river by people on the ferry boats, who witnessed on unusual sw on th?, levee. Frightened horses dashed hither and thither, and while hundreds hurried toward the spot whence the reports seemed to come, a in sn opposite direction. Tbe huge bridge shook and swayed as the line of munens? draft homes thundered over it i i eanwters sbmitel and acted as if destruction ’’ heels, and . pedestrians were pet- rit c® 1 w - *rtonishment as the long line of. 'enlclee flashed into Washington avenne at < racing pace. A crowd gathered instantly | and choked the entrance to the bridge. ! ,more than thirty minutes after the , snooting-C. R. IMrnard. master of transpor- I UMioo for the Louisville & Nashville road. > and Jaxnes A Chesney, another official, met 1 , ni >t wir the eastern terminus of tbe bridge. They had been at dinner n*-ar the relay station and knew nothing of u» shooting Thev were mistaken for deputy sheriffs and fired upon. They ra *i Ohio (t Mississippi freight bouse, ant there, instead of guards, met anotter I detachment of the mob. which also tired on • 1 hwn. Chesney wa shot through the legs wa> jum 4 ed on ami kicked un til hi? a<sa iu-u-sanpo.-’d h -wa“ Bar narl eeca-«ed and gathered a number of irtvnas, who took Cnesnev to a place of safe ty- He wa< seriously if hot fatally injured. , B<x»u after these terrible occurrences a mad dened crowd gathered in a square at Eas: St Ix«>.us It was harangued by a man named - Dwyer, who urged the people to "bang and kiR.” A comtnitt?e of tbe Knights- of Ixibor aripcanrt from St. Louis, however, and coma- i •site! mxi'ratj .n Aft?r an exciting collo i my the efforts of the Knights prevailed, and -«' ‘ crowd forth? time being gave up it-? dk- ' tenxnnatian to retaliate by borniug and kiil- TTpoa receiving a telegraphic account of the shooting from the sheriff, Governor Oglesby immediately dispatched several com panies of militia to the s .-ene of disturbance, f Seven companies of militia arrived from Springfield and other points, at East St. Lcuis at 10:15, p. m. Three more companies came later on. During the night tin freight house of the Loutsvill > and Nashville road was set on fire, *e*3° < " a * ro Line depot was similarly A WOMAN BOYCOTTED. How Jfrt. Gray’s Bakery Business wai Increased Thereby. The New \ ork papers contain a rather amusing account of an atte npt made by a band of union bakers to boycott the bakery of Mrs. Esther A. Gray, on Hudson street, because she refused to compel her h ?lp to join the bakers’ union. An account of the bqy- I cotters aud their methods is given by a met ropolitan daity as follows: The men seemed to be in charge of a man who called himself Schmidt and said he was a "walking delegat?.” He refused to answer any questions, and no one seemed to be able or willing to restrain the men from annoying pedestrians, whether customers of the bakery or not. Outside the store of Mrs. Gray, was one lonesome-looking policeman, who simply stood still and made no dttenipt to prevent the molestation of customers by the boycot ters. In some cases customers were followed to their homes and memoranda made of their addresses. While her tormentors were engaged in their effort to wreck her business Mrs. Gray was busily engaged in her store selling her bread, cakes aud piei to her customers. “So far as I have been able to judge,” she re marked, “my trade has increased since the boycott was ordered. I have customers now that did not come before, and the loss has been from the very poorest class of trade. My men have been kept busier than ever,and I expect that business will be good right along. I asked the police to protect me, and an officer was sent here. He is standing right outside the door. My custom ers complain of being annoyed by these men, but what can I do? I don’t want to let the boyeotters run my business. Why should I? My men are satisfied as they are: they don’t want to join a union, and what these union men have to do with the matter I can’t see. They certainly take the cake, but I don’t think they’ll get my bakery away from me.” Tbe grocery stores in the neighborhood which sold Mi's. Gray’s bread have all ceased selling it, as a boycott was threatened against them if they continued to deal with the I steadfast lady. A lady who bought some ! bread and cake at the ' bakery went to a j grocery store in the vicinity and ordered some groceries. She asked the clerk to send the bread, cake and groceries to her home. “Whose bread have you?” asked the clerk. “Why, what difference does that make!” asked the astonished lady. “Nothing; only if it’s. Gray’s bread wp can’t even send it home for you. There is a boycott against it.” “Then if you can’t send the bread and cake you needn’t send any groceries,” remarked the lady. Many men living up town stopped at the bakery during the evening and bought bread or cake to take home as an evidence of their appreciation of the stand taken by Mrs. Gray. People living in Hoboken also made purchases on their way to the Christopher street ferry. It was rumored about the Ninth Ward late in the evening that the boyeotters were th nking of raising the siege as a means of preventing the further growth of Mrs. Gray’s business. NEWSY GLEANINGS. Oohtly living is gives M tbe canss of the < Vermont expects to produce 10.000,000 pounds of maple sugar this year. About $3,000,000 worth of American made locomotives are sent abroad yearly. / The next general assembly of the Knights of Labor will be held in Richmond, Va., in October. The Indian imputation of this country’ is said to be diminishing at the rate of 5,000 or 6,000 a year. Four grand hotels are to be ready by the Ist of July for the a •cominodation of visitors to the Yellowstone park. One-third of the corn crop of 1885 of lowa is still in the farmers’ hauas and unsold —that is, 80,832,000 bushels. The value of the hardware produced in the I United States each year is now about S6O,- ■ 000,000, and nearly half of it is made in i Connecticut The wife of one of the clergymen at Sar anac, Mich., supplements her husbaud’s mea gre salary by driving a wagon and peddling j milk from door to door. Washington is becoming pre-eminently i the city of palatial residences. Fifteen Sen- i ators have erected magnificent domiciles 1 within the past twelve months. Certain wine dealers of San Francisco, in ; order to bring about wine instead of whisky | drinking.have opened an establishment where ! native wine is sold for five ceut-4 a glass. During the war. Mrs. Terry, of North ! Adams, Mass., nursed back to life a stranger ■ who was prestrated with fever. The man, who wa.? a brother of ex-Gove mor Leland , ' Stanford, of California, diol recently, leav- : , ing her $15,000. It is stated that up to the present date 500 persons have been inoculated against hydro phobia at the Pasteur laboratory in the Rue d'tTna, four-fifths of whom were bitten by dogs whose rabid condition was ascertained ' by port mortem examinations. PERSONAL MENTION. General Logan will address the Grand Army posts at Grant’s tomb on Decoration Day. i Postmaster General Vilas will de- i liver the Memorial Day oration at the Acad emy of Music. Tennie Claflin, who recently married a wealthy Englishman, has a stepson who is ■ forty-two years old. p General William R. Tkpry has been chosen sunerintendent of the Confederate I ; Soldiers' Hm>e at Richmond. The wealthiest resident of Reading, Penn., i has become insane I ecause six men were killed in an accident in his mill. SKieo Kalakaua has entered the lecture field. He recently delivered a lecture on the geologic origin and history of Hawaii. H. M. H jxie, vice-president of the Mis souri Pacific railroad, and Jay Gould’s West ern lieutenant, was once a stable boy. Queen Victoria will visit Liverpool in May for the first time since 1851, when she : was accompanied by the Prince Consort. i Colonel P. P. G. Hall, paymaster • United States army, is the only living de s 'endant of William Penta in this country. Germany has eight s hoots of forestry, where five years’ traming is required of those who seek positions under the government. Mists Mary Lee. the eldest daughter of Retort E. Lee, is now in Portugal, her sister I Mildred being among friends in New Or- I leans. Hi- wife is the only nurse Mr. Gladstone has when his health is broken, an I he gives himself into her band s with tbe docility of an infant. ! Mrs Secretary Whitney will give no i more larj-e ent: rtainments this stiason in con s -q.M u?.■ of the rev-ent death of bte grand- ; , m*ther V; ! n ‘ When thf jien begins And the idorter’gins to crow. When the duck begins to cpiackW ’ And the sun to melt the snow. Then we know that spring's a dreepin?’ In upon us full of ebeers, And the snow begins a weepin’ Os itself away in tears. When we hear the martins singia’ And a flyin 1 round th’e shed, When we see the peewees wingin’ And the geese begin to v ed, Then we get the hoss and wagon And around the barn we scratch And manure commence a draggin’ Out upon the tater-jjateh. When the buttercups are bloomin And the frog is heard to creak, When the thunder is a. boomin’ And the lightin 1 hugs the oak. Then we know that Summer’s try in’ For to hustle Spring away, And the mud begins a dryin’ And the dust begins to play. When we see the snake a crawlin’ And the crow begin to caw. And the cat-bird is a squallin’ And the magpie ’gins to jaw. Then we get the scythe and srcklo And begin to whet anil grind, And the grass commence to tickla And the wheat to cut and bind. When the frost begins a nippin’ Os the sweet-pertater vine, Vl hen the rambo and the pippin Through the leaves begin to shine, Then we know that Autumn's prowlin’ Round the tail of Summer’s blouse. And the wind begins a howlin’ Round the gables of the house. hen the hickory-nuts are droppin’ And the pawpaw’s gettin’ soft, Vt hen the buzzard's wings are floppin’ For the south to sail aloft, Then we gather in the pumpkin And the fodder 'gin to shock. And the corn begin a huskin’ In the crib to feed the stock, When we hear the pigs a squealia' And the snow-birds ’gin to play, When we see the rabbit stealin’ In beneath the stack of hay, Then we know that Winter’s sqneczin In old Autumn’s shoes to take. And the ice begins a freezin’ And the snow begins to flake. When me hear the trees a sighin’ And their arms are lookin’ bars, When we feel the cold a fly in’ On the sharp and fixisty air, Then the wood we ’gin a choppin' And around the fire we meet, Then the corn begin a. poppin’ And the nuts and apples eat. —Squire Hobbs. PITH AN?) POINT. The Knights of Labor are aiming to bring about days of prosperity.— Boxtin,. Courier. | A yearning for sausage will now and I pop up in even the most poetic ' breast.— Chicago Ledger. It is seldom that a man is sufficiently CQlor-blind to be able not to tell [ b|ek when he sees it.— Puck. A woman hates to pass a pretty bon net in a store window, but she is alwavs willing to go buy it.— Pacijic Jester. In Russia a man may appear as a wit ness in a lawsuit against his wife—if he has the grit to do so.— Chicago Ledger. If a man wants to know how insignifi cant he is, just let him go with his wife to the dressmaker’s.— Neicark Register. An actor, unlike other men, can some times build up a most excellent reputa tion out of a very bad character.— Boxton Transcript. A man may refuse to be a friend to a principal in a duel because he desires to be second to no man in the country.— IxnceU Courier. A student of human nature says any thing can be sharpened. Put a lead-pen ' cil in a woman’s hand, and see.—Bing ; hamton Republican. A minister may occasionally be carried i away with the*inspiration of his tneme. but he generally gets back in time to taka ■ up the collection.— Fall Biter Advance. A Dakota editor advertises for ten • thousand girls. It seems to us that this < is a large number of girls; but perhaps he intends to keep a boarding house. - s Puck. There is an art in putting on gloves, says a fashion paper. Come to think of it, you have to get your hand in, as it were, in putting on a glove properly.— Boston Courier. She—“ What a man you are, George; always making fun of the ladies' taper waists.” He—“ And wliat should Ido noth a taper, but to make light of it?”—- Boston Transcript. Ages will come and go; but woman will not be perfectly happy until she can have eyes attached to her shoulders, s© that she may look up and criticise her ! own back hair. - -Judge. An old-fashioned corner clock stood so long in one place that its wooden feet de cayed, and it fell across the dining hsli . while a Little Rock family were at din ner, severely injuring two grown persons and a child. What, time was it? The : clock struck, three.— Hol Springs News. BEAL'TIFVL spring. There is beauty in the soundless shower of snow, There is rhythm in tbe rattle of the hail, But 1 love the merry spring, Wten the pretty blue oirds sing. And tbe early flowers begin to deck the vale, When the gloomy winter’s gone And the robin on tbe lawn Is a-singing and a-wagging of bis tail. —Boston Courier. ; “I hope, my dear,” said Mrs. Wise, who, very properly, dislikes owing money, “that you paid Mr. Friend the dollar he lent you last week.” “Os course I did,” retried her husband. “I ’ always pay my debts promptly. I bor rowed $5 of him yesterday and gave him back sl.” — Harper s Bazar. An exchange saya a woman may not be able to sharpen a pencil or throw » stone straight, “but she can pack more articles in a trunk than a man can put in a one-horse wagon." No wonder. The ladies’ trank built for summer travel holds more articles than a four-horse , wagon.-— Norristown HeraaL