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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, 90cts. “ “ on a credit, $1.15. OUR AGENTS. The following are authorized to receive and receipt for subscriptions to the Stab : L. 8. Exathjcrston, Villa Rica, Ga., T. J. Bowen, Salt Springe, Ga., Thos. Anais. AjisUib. li» XdsjTDoßrrrT, Chapel Hili; Ga. Address dll communications to THE STAB, 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 pay n*-ent of cne year will re- Joive as a premium ore year’s J-cbscrip tion to THE HOUSEHOLD BEACON, A hand«ome, 8-page, monthly household | paper that will become a welcome visit- i or in the home of every intelligent ' family. JOHN BRIGHT TALKS, | HIS OPPOSITION TO THE IRISH BILL. An Overwhelming Home Rule Demon, j •tratiou in London. Mr. John Bright has issued this manifesto | to the electors of Central Birmingham: Gentlemen: Thanking you for having elected me in November last, I am now most unexpectedly foiled to again address you. Since November a single question has occu pied the attention of the House of Commons and the country. It relates to the i future government of Ireland, and consists of two bills, which were thrust , •upon Parliament and the country by the Government. One of those bills was re- I jected; the other was withdrawn. We are not told by Mr. Gladstone or his colleagues how much or how little of those unfortunate proposals will reappear in the next Parlia ment. We are asked to pledge ourselves to a principle which may be innocent or most dangerous, as may be explained in future bills. I cannot give such a pledge. The experi ence of the post three months has not in- i creased my confidence in the wisdom of the Administration or in its policy respecting the future government of Ireland. We have be fore us a principle which Mr. Gladstone and his supporters do not explain. I will not pledge myself to what I do not understand ! and cannot prove. In 1872 I wrote a leter to an Irish gentleman, from which I extract i these short sentences: “To have two legislative assemblies in the United jJIJ»uld work intolerable J <'»» "Lh tor two not wish that, the ; two or lnol ’ e nations, i- ■ ■ each other/’ is opinion—if possible, before. I do not oppose ; WWrQrrofl Government on account of ■ than on account of Ireland. HHPu Parliament can be so powerful or as the united imjierial Parliament at I Pmestminstor. 1 cannot intrust the peace end interests of Ireland, north or south, to the Irish Parliamentary party, to whom the ; Government now propose to make a general [ surrender. My six years’ experience of them and their language in the House of Commons ! and their deeds in Ireland makes it impossi ble for me to hand over to them the industry, I prosperity, and rights of S,(KM),(XX) of the Queen's subjects. Our countrymen in Ireland—leastways 2.090,000—are os loyal as the people of Birmingham. I will be no party to a measure thrusting them from the generosity and justice of the united imperial Parliament. 1 have written so that nobody may be ignorant of my views. My vote in | the recent division has given a great grief, but my judgment and conscience made the other course Impossible. ■ For forty years I have been a friend to Ire land. Long before any' Parnellite now in Parliament or any member of the present Government opened his lips to expose and coudenui the wrongs of Ireland I spoke for ; her people in the House of Commons and on public platforms. It is bemuse I am still a friend of Ireland that I refuse i to give her up to those to whom the recently I defeated bill would have subjected her. If you re elect me I shall, to the utmost of my i capacity, seek only what I conceive to bj for the permanent and true welfare of our ceuntry. Sincerely and gratefully thanking you for your past kindness, 1 remain John Bright. A London representative of the New York Tribune has hail an interview with Mi hael DavitL This popular leader had just re turned from a great Home Rule demonstra tion in the division of West Ham in the East Etui of lam lon, and was full of his subject. “1 verily believe,” he said, “that even Lou den itself would go for Home Rules. I ad dressed an hour Or two ago th' greatest meet ing ot English workingmen I ever witnessed. It was an open-air meeting composed of from 15,000 to 20,000 men, of whom there were not 500 who were not bona fide art isans cr laborers. The eatliusiasm was simply amazing. When the nieetiuk was over a procession of 10,000 men, beaded by their bands, and cheering all the way tor Gladstone. Morley. Parnell and Home Rule, accompanied Mr. Ulster, the working maxi member ot Parliament, and myself I from the pin e of the meeting to the railway station, a distance of a couple of miles. Mr. I Herbert Gladstone has just sent an enthusi astic telegram describing the meeting to the ‘Grand <>ld Mau.’ | “You mnv say from me tj our American friend* that after the vast meeting last night in bt. James* Hall, but mon* particularly after tbe tremendous demonstration this evening, 1 feel convinced that Glad ■tone will carry a majority of the London seats, an I London is almost as much ■ ajxwtion of strategy ma general de tton a< > New \wk is in a I‘remdentwl contest. There . i* no longer any question of the fact that the «“*** ’?< the people are with Gladstone in hi* fight, and when 1 add my knowledge of I Pillar feeling in Wale*. Brotland and tte 1 Engush provitb'e* to the testimony we have from Lood m itself, I feel the strongest hope that the British democracy will enrrv Home Rule to victory with * decisive majority," Tnx weak man fails and skulks to the rear; the strong man is repulsed but never defeated. He catches on again with a fresh eriro and scrambles through to the best of his ability. We'll give eleven dollars for the sight <<f the boy ten rears oki who can get out oi bed in the moraing and find his hat and above without half an hour's hunt, unless be ha* not got any One of the most remarkable lapses of [ memory on record is reported by a Paris I Journal. A man who is now enjoying the social eminence of a dock laborer is discovered to be heir to a vast fortune in England. His mother visited the conti nent when he was but an infant, and left him with a nurse while she went shop ping. The excitement of the moment caused the mother to forget all about her baby, and she never once thought of him again. _____________ “Long John” Wentworth, of Chicago, i ex-Congressman and ex-Mayor, has com pleted a model for a gigantic monument which he proposes to erect over his last earthly resting place during the coming summer. The material will be white granite from the Hallowell quarries, in Maine The monument will consist of a base 18 feet square in a single stone —the largest, it is claimed, ever quarried—■ resting upon which will be a tapering shaft 50 feet high and 6| feet square at the base. The four sides of the base will bo engraved with an epitome of Mr. Wentworth’s family history. The Mexican authorities believe in “a short shrift and a sudden rope” for 1 train-wreckers. The House of Depu ties has passed the law which provides for the immediate execution of those who hurl a train to destruction, when appre hended in the act. Wrecks, particularly of freight trains, have been of more or less frequent occurrence ever since the Mexican Central Railroad was opened for business. The lawless bands which so frequently gather upon the other side of our frontier, and which never scruple to plunder friend or foe, have on several occasions found a rich booty after caus ing a train to leave the track and go into the ditch. Escape has been compara tively easy for them, and it is represented that immunity from severe punishment has made them bolder and more reck less. For the sake of loot they have caused the death of many a passenger or railroad employe. Sir,’James Caird, whose recent state ment that there are 538,000 small tenants I in Ireland who will be unable to pay any rent, if the present low prices of produce continue, has attracted so much atten tion, write? to the London Times again on the same subject. He classifies Irish holdings under nine heads, as follows: 1. 218,(XX) holdings averaging £2 rental. S. 196,00 u holdings averaging £7 rental. 3. 78,000 holdings averaging £l2 rental, 4. 46,000 holdings averaging £lB rental. 5. 47,000 holdings averaging £25 rental. A 24,000 holdings averaging £35 rental. 7. 14,000 holdings averaging £45 rental. I 8. 24,000 holdings averaging £75 rental. 9. 12,000 holdings averaging £2OO rental This makes a total of 659,000 holdings , on which the annual rent is $53,085,000. , He says further that many tenants farm two or more holdings, and estimates tire I number of Irish bona fide agriculturalists i at 400,000. He states that ho bas learned ! that a majority of Irish landlords do not I want to sell out, but the statement has been received with increduality. According to Science, “there seems to be ground for the desire so generally expressed that the Signal Service should give some warning of the probable occur rence of tornadoes, at least in such away ■ that the inhabitants of towns in the ex posed districts may be on the lookout for the approach of the dreadful funnel cloud. The reports state that i» the open country there was little loss of life, as the storms camo by day, and persons generally saw them in time to take refuge in the tornado cellars with which nearly every farm in that region Is provided But in the towns, where persons remain more indoors, and where clouds near the horizon are not easily seen, tornadoes too commonly arrive unperceived till the roar of their winds tells that there is no time for escape, and here some early intimation of the impending danger should be given. The warnings based on the conditions shown in the morning weather map might be announced as experimental for a season, so that a public trial of their value could be made. Towns at least could be reached by telegraph and telephone in all parts of the Mississippi Valley by noon on the days of danger, and the saving of lives in some places would compensate for a • good deal of needless anxiety caused by 4 warning towns that escape destruction. There seems to be no way whatever of saving property that lies in the path of tlw) storm. Portraits on Bank Notes. The heids on the National Bank notes 1 of different denominations are not very generally known, says the Toledo Blade, and very few persons can tell what por traits are on the different notes. They : are as follows: On United States. ! S»7w Certificates. I fl, sVashington $lO, Robt Monh ; $2, Jefferson $lO, Com. Decatur $5. Jackson i SSO. K. Everett I $lO. Webster ‘ 1100, Jax Monroe S2O. Hamilton SSOO. C, Sumner $Mk Franklin I W. L. Marcy GoM Votes. SSOO. Mansfield > $ I,(KM, D. Clinton J?,- L, . SSOO, Lincoln , SI,OOO, A. Hamilton | $&,000. Jas. Madfiton . SIO,OOO, A. Jackson. Hunters in Southern Oregon are wan tonly slaughtering the deer for their ; skins Their caroaseca are thrown into 1 ths overi. THE HEWS IN GENERAL HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM ALL POINTS. EASTERN AND MIDDLE STATES. H. H. Swift & Co.. New York importers (sugar, the principal firm engaged in the 81 tra 'L e ’ have faUed for about E1,000,000. Depreciation in the value of their immense stock is the cause of the failure. Herbert Meaton, a prominent jockey. c o n g ress man Scott’s stable, teom k hS l he ° th i er • day by bein " thrc >wn Island hOrSe dunng a race at Coney , St 4 nley Matthews, of the ir.’xT Supreme Court, was married K ThZoV° rk ? ni W da y® since t(J Mrs. Mary K. Theater, of Cleveland, Ohio. It was expected on the 23d that six of 214 people poisoned at a picnic near Flemington, in. J., would die. "Wilzig, member of a New York La bor C mon which had compelled the proprietor of a concert hall topay SI,OOO as a fine for not immediately complying with its demands to discharge non-Union employes, has been found guilty by a jury of the charge of ex tortion. Wilzig is the first of several boy cctters against whom the concert hall pro prietor has brought similar charges. Providence, R. 1., is just 250 years old, and has celebrated that event by a procession and other festivities. SOUTH AND WEST. The Papal Embassy, bearing the official notification of the elevation to the nardinaL ate o f Archbishop Gibbons, of the Diocese of Baltimore, arrived in that city on the 21st from Rome. . The switchmen on the Lake Shore road m Chicago renewed their strike of two months ago the other afternoon, demanding the discharge of eight non-union men who had been in the employ of the company from eight to fourteen years. The demand was refused by the railroad officials. A mud drum in the International Cotton Press Works at NewUrlean exploded, killing the fireman and his assistant. A boiler explosion at a saw-mill near At k ns, Ark., caused the death of T. R. Adams, proprietor, and two other men. WASHINGTON. The President,on the 21st, sent to Congress fifteen veto messages, thirteen being private pension bills, ana the others provided for public buildings at Sioux City, lowa, and Zanesville, Ohio. In a long message accom panying these vetoes the President rebukes Congress for what be < alls its hasty pension legislation, and says he is thoroughly tired of disapproving gifts of public money to indi viduals who, in his view, have no right or claim to the same. The House Committee on Invalid Pensions favors a bill imposing an iucometaxin order to meet the additional heavy sum required to pay pensions. Thirty-four adverse reports upon private pension bills were presented the other day by the House Committee. Additional nominations bvthe President: Registers of the Land Office—Pierce H. Ryan, at Humboldt, CaL ; W. E. Copeland, at Carson City, Nev.; Richard McCloud, at Durange, Cal.; J. L. Camp, of Texas, at Prescott, Arizona. David N. Burke, of New York, to be Consul of the United States at Puerto Cabello; Samuel L. Gilson, of Penn sylvania, to be agent for the Indians of the Fort Peck Agency, Montana, Postmasters— Lewis C. Holmes, at Cobleskill, N. Y.; Nich olas J. Macklin, at Stapleton, N. Y.; Henry D. Linsley, at Branford, Conn.; James Mu dey, at Pottsvills, Penn.; Fannie D. Porter, at El Paso, Tex.; Thomas H. Perry, at Alton. 111.; James A. Able, at Auburn, Ill.; John J. Ankeny, at Minneapolis. Minn.: S. C’nrfis Symonds, at Hudson, VVis.; James' E.g|L'- Donald, at Ligonier, Ind.; Frederick A.« - wards, at Webster City, lowa; ijosepl J. Topliff, at Ixmgjupnt, Col. » Seven more vetoed pension bills were re turned to the Senate on the 23d by the Presi dent. I The Senate on the 23d confirmed the fol lowing nominations: C. T. M. Niles, Reg ister at Garden City, Kansas; R. L. Cropley, 1 Collector Customs at Georgetown, D. C.; H. Shepard, Collector Internal Revenue, Nixth , Virginia District; E. H. Bryan, of Califor nia, Consul at Lyons, and some thirty post ! masters. The Senate has rejected the nomination ot John Seeman to be Postmaster at Dennison, lowa. His is the second nomination for that office that has been rejected. The Senate committeee charges that Seeman is conspicu ously unfit, £i<l was the mere dummy for ' Keith, the first nominee rejected. The Democratic Congressmen held their first caucus this session the other afternoon, •nd manifested a strong desire to adjourn at an early date. : President Cleveland on the 24th sent to Congress twenty-nine more vetoes, mainly of private pension bills. Up to the foregoing date the President had vetoed sixty-eight bills. President Grant in the course of bis entire Administration, extending over eight years, signed only twenty-eight vetoes, and no other President ever reached that number I before him. Additional confirmations by the Senate: Thomas C. Jones, of Kentucky, Consul at Funchal. Madeira; William Neville, Register at North Platte. Neb. Postmasters—W. R, Joline., Long Branch Citv, N. J.; S. C Logue, Central City, Neb.; M. A. Shirley, Logan, Utah: AV. D. Lvon, Elkhorn, Wis. : H. AV. Clendenin, Springfield, Ill.; George Washington, Bay City, Mich.; 8. H. M Ken zie, Honkinsville, Ky.; Fannie D. Porter, El Paso, Texas. FORKXGN. After the recent great victor? of the Ba cessioni>ts in Nova Scotia a wealthy old sea captain of Digby nailed the American flag to the highest tiisß on his farm and shouted: “That is our next question to vote on, and you will fiml before long two-thirds of us that way of thinking.” A ferryboat containing fifty persons cap siz'd while crossing a river in Bohemia At least twenty-fire people were drowned. The Midlothian Conservatives have decided not to contest Gladstone's election. The Panama Canal Company wants the French Legislature to pass a bill to permit the directors to raise $120,000,000 by a lottery. Another of Pasteur's dog-bitten patients inoculated against hydrophobia has med. A PHENOMENON. An Oily «scem aleaa the South Carellna ( east Killin« Theu«an«h> es Fiah. The people in tbe vicinity of Raleigh. N. C, are perplexed over a phenomenon that is observed along the southeastern coast of the State. Au oily scum on the water extends for several miles out to sea •nd affects tbe rivers for a long dis tance inland, making the surface smooth and calm. Fish are dying by thousands and floating like chip* on the surface of the water. It is supposed that they are poisoned by this oily scum, but whence the distroyer comes notKxiy knows. A suggestion that a shin loaded with oil may have foundered in the vicinity isscoated. because, from Lock wood’s Folly all the way to Little River, the scum is found and the coast is strewn with the dead fish all the way. In the salt water a’x>ut Shallotte and Tubbs Inlet are immense quantities of tbe dead fish of every kind, and it is feared that there are no live fish left in ! Shallotte river or within ten miles of its mouth The water appears to have te.ome a- o 1 twi th* wuad to nitke do iin- on it I DEATH OF DAVID DAVIS. ! THE DISTINGUISHED JURIST AND EX-SENATOR IS NO MORE. Synopsis of His Career on the Bench and in the Senate. _ _ Judge David Davis died on the 26th at his home in Bloomington, HL He had suffered for some time from a malignant carbuncle; but the immediate cause of Judge Davis’s death was Bright’s disease of the kidneys, aggravated by a weakened condition of the system dating from the time when he became afflicted with the carbuncle. His last horn s were calm and peaceful. _ David Davis, formerly an A-sociate Jus , tice of the United States Supreme Court,and a Senator from Illinois, was a native of j Maryland. He was born in 1815, and at the i dfite of his death was in the seventy-second ; year of his age. His father was a wealthy larmer. Mr. Davis received an academical education, and graduated from the well known Episcopal college of Kenyon. He then i studied law, and after his admission to the bar, moved to Bloomington, 111., j where he Las ever since resided. Mr. Davis ■ entered on practi e, and early obtain d, for the times, a lucrative professional success. He devoted himself very largely to real es i tato law, in which he was always esteemed a great authority. Like most young and ca pable attorneys of the period and region, he j soon entered on public life. He identified j himself with the Whig partv, and served several terms in the State Leg islature. He was an early friend and associate of Mr. Lincoln. Mr. Davis was elected to the State Constitutional Conven tion of 1847,and there n held a leading place. ' Shortly after, he was elected District Judge and retired from active politics, though dur ing the early years of the Republican organisation he became identified there with. Judge Davis was a good busi ness man, and from his early settlement at Bloomington became a large owner of land. His real possession* have been estimated at 300,000 acres. He owned a considerable amount of property in the en terprising city where he lived and in Chi cago. He was always known as a public ••nirited citizen, as well as a man of kindly disposition. une or Mr. Lincoln’s earlier appointments was of Judge Davis, who, in 1862, was nom inated and confirmed as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. Justice Davis served fourteen years, or until 1876, when he re signed his seat on the bench to take the posi tion of Senator from Illinois in the United Spites Senate. He was elected as an Inde pendent through the votes of the Dem ocrats and a number of anti-Logan Republi cans. In 1872 Judge Davis was nominated at Columbus as the Greenback Labor Reform candidate for President. It will be remem bered tt*at though Judge Davis had expressed decided Greenback views, he never definitely accepted or declined the nomination tendered him. On March 4, 1883, Judge Davis was suc ceeded in the Senate by ex-Governor Shelby W. Cullom. Judge Davis’s appearance in the Senate has been thus deserioed: He weighs about 210 pounds. He usually walks to and from the Capitol, and moves around the Senate chamber like an over grown schoolboy. He has a Roman cast of features. His eyes are blue, and are shaded by bushy iron-grey evebrows. His cheeks are fringed with gray whiskers, and his lip is clean shaven. His head is thatched with straight gray hair. He smokes a meerschaum pipe with a long cherry stem and an amber mouthpiece? He is courteom in manner and a genial conversationalist. No man is surrounded by more attached friends. He is plainly dressed, and has the appearance of a well-to-do farmer. His favorite novel is “David Copperfield,” though he has a great fondness for Thackeray and Walter Scott. He is not a church member, but he usually attends Presbyterian services. Asa United States Senator his position was an anomaly. During a portion of his term he held the balance of jiower. He was elected President pro tem of the Senate, and served as such for about four yea:s. Mr. Davis did not take a very active part as a debater, but was vigi lant in watching legislation. He i endeavored to secure a reorganization of the I Lsleral judiciary, and his plan is still being considered. The Senator was a man of strik ing physique, being tall of stature, large frame and very corpulent. After his retirement to private life in 1881 Mr. Davis devoted himself to the care of his large estate. In 1882 he surprised the country, as well as his friends, by marrying again, be having been for a number of years a widower. After his marriage the ex-Seoator and bride traveled extensively, visiting Europe and the Orient. Judge Davis, as a jurisprudent, was well read and scholarly with a wide grasp of legal principles and a keen, logical, judicial power of statement. As a Senator he showed the same traits. Per sonally, he was a man of attractive disposi tion, an excellent conversationalist.* dr>- wit, and, like most Western law versos promi nence, an excellent story teller, Messeges of condolence were received at i Bloomington from ex-President Arthur. Se nators Sherman, Edmunds and Logan. ex- Senator Conkling, Attorney General Garland and others, all speaking in the highest terms of the ability and Uvuosry of the dead jurist FATRICIBR IN NORTH CAROLINA. On Tuesday James N. Bascmore, who i lives near Windsor, Bertie county, and his son, Stone Bascmore, quarreled". The son fired both barrels of a shotgun loaded with buckshot into his father's body. ■ He then broke open the safe, took there , from SBOO and fled. The sheriff and a jx«se are scouring the country in search of him. The father will die. There is great excitement over the awful crime. TWO UISLS BURNED TO DEATH. Two daughters of William Miller, aged 12 and 10 years, were burned to death Sunday night in a house seven miles southwest of Sherman. Texas. The house was set on fire by the careless throwing of a lighted match on the floor after j lighting a lamp. Other members of the family had a narrow escape. THE CHICAGO STRIKE. . TRAINS BEGIN TO MOVE ON THE LAKE SHORE. Bytlie Aid of Offlcrrs and Rifles the Rail roads Send Out Freight Trainsand Resume Business. The chief of police of the town of Lake appeared at the extensive switching yards of the Lake Shore railroad Monday morn ing, with a police force of one hundred men, including “specials” and Pinkerton police, and at once began to clear the yardst)f strikers and idlers. Very few of the latter had entered the yard, but re mained in large groups just beyond the railroad tracks, intently watching the movements of the railroad people. Sev eral hundred men, however, remained in close vicinity of the round-house and the cars of the Lake Shore road, and refused to obey the order of the police to move. Clubs were drawn and several rushes were made at these groups, the police using their clubs, and in one of the en counters Detective Finn, of the Lake Eolice, knocked one of the men down. [e is the only person reported to have I sustained any serious injury. The crowd . gradually withdrew from the immediate vicinity of the yards. preparing to move trains. Preparations for a determined effort to move trains on the Lake Shore xvere per ' fected by the officials of the road Sunday, j They were somewhat elated by the sut | cess attending the efforts of Capt. Hunt, I of the Hyde Park police, in protecting ' the train which was taken out late Satur ! day evening, and the fact that so many ! arrests of strikers and their sympathizers had been made. On the other hand the strikers presented a bold front. They renewed their determination to stop the movement of all freight trains at all hazards. They still profess not to be responsible for the trouble of Saturday, and a reward has been offered for the discovery of the man who “cocked” the I switch. Shortly after six o'clock Mon j day morning Billy Pinkerton, in charge of a large number of special police, were taken to the town of Lake. On their arrival there they were sworn in as spe cial officeps. Thirty switchmen, to take the places of the strikers, were also sent down. About a hundred special police j arrived in a special train of three cars at 8:30 and were also taken to Forty-third street. A dozen or more imported i switchmen were also on board. WARNrNG THE STRIKERS. j There was an under current of cxcite- I ment and suspense that boded exci i ting developments during the day. The town of Lake detectives started through the yards repeating the following formula: “All you people must move. Do not i congregate in groups on the tracks or ' crossings, or we will be obliged to take i means to disperse you, and we will do j it, too.” The crowd moved back surlily and | momentarily increased in numbers, i Some resistance was shown in moving off I Root street, and one man was severely j beaten by a policeman. The excitement rapidly increased, and by nine o’clock the crowd was ready for anything. Shortly after nine o’clock, the town of Lake police cleared the tracks, and the streets leading to them, of the crowds who were on them. Just after this, Pinker ton and 124 of his men appeared on the scene. Many of them were armed with I Winchester rifles. GUARDING THE TRACKS. There were fully 200 police and spe- I dais stationed along the Lake Shore tracks between 41st and 45th streets. About one hundred were regular police I of the town of Lake and Pinkerton po lice, and nearly 100 “specials” in the em ploy of the Lake Shore road, the latter of whom w r ere armed with Springfield breech-loading muskets. These men were guarding the round house and tracks o| the Lake Shore road at inter vals of ftfty yards, and no one was allowed I to approach the switches or property of : the railroad. A deputy sheriff appeared at 41st street shortly after 10 o’clock, accom panied by six deputies. This was the first time since the strike began that any j of the representatives of the sheriff had been on the ground. READING THE RIOT ACT. The chief deputy read the riot act at four points along the line of the Lake Shore road between 41st street and En i glewood, and the police and special dep uties began to clear the tracks. The crowd moved off quietly after the read ing of the riot act, and up to 11 o’clock everything remained quiet in the vicinity of the railroad tracks from the city limits as far south as Englewood. The Lake Shore company succeeded in making up a train of fourteen freight and caboose cars and started south at 11:55 without molestation. A few minutes before the train started five of the strikers ventured into the yards at Forty-third street and, refusing to move, were handled roughly by the police and one was 'placed under arrest. The others moved off. The strikers congregated on State street, and intimat ed that they would attempt a demonstra tion in the presence of the armed force then on the ground. The railroad company brought out eight engines and sent six down the road, each having on board a deputy sheriff and a squad of men armed with Winchesters. These locomotives were employed as sccuts to see that the tracks and switches were protected and ready fer the passstge of regular freight trains. No molestation was offered to men on these engines. Kearns, the engineer who was in idiarge of the Milwaukee and St. Paul engine cap tured by the strikers and used in pursu ing the Lake Shore train, claims that the strikers placed the muzzles of two revol vers to his head and threatened him with death if he refused to do their bidding. FREIGHT TRAINS GO OUT. The Lake Shore company succeeded in getting a freight train started from the yards at Root street. At 12.15 the switch engines which had been making up a train, steamed on the side track and a regular engine coupled to a train. Spe cial police, with their Winchesters ready, stood on the alert. Their guns were too much for the crowds and no attempt was made to interfere. When everything was in readiness for the start, a detail of Pinker ton men, armed with rifles, climbed on the engine and the tops of cars. Their ap pearance gave the scene a warlike appear ance. Just before the train was ready to i start, a switch engine to which a caboose was attatchcd, also heavily guarded, j steamed to the main track in front of an ! east bound train, but the conductor had orders to only proceed to South Chicago. The train reached Englewood at 12.20 p. m., without molestation. At 12:50 p. m., South Chicago was j reached and no serious opposition had been encountered. There was a large crowd in and about the yards, but a large squad of Hyde park police prevented even the semblance of disorder. The train was guarded to Indiana state line by armed specials on board, A second freight train of twenty-six loaded freight i cars followed the first train, having been. ■ made up at Englewood. It had about j twenty armed specials, and reached South, Chicago in safety. The railroad officials , anticipated no trouble after leaving that point unless it should be at some place beyond the state line and the squad of Pinkerton men, already mentioned, went j to that point to guard against that hap ; pening. A third tram was gotten under way, and passed south Chicago without molestation, j The officials have issued a notice to accept freight without limits. They state that they believe the strike is ended. A. bill was filed on Monday in the j United States circuit court, at Chicago, by the Lake Shore road, asking for an injunction against the striking switch men. LUITPOLD MADE REGENT. The Prince Takes the Oath in the Presence of Parliament. I A dispatch from Munich says: Prince Luitpold was to-day formally made re gent of Bavaria to administer the affairs of the kingdom during the occupation of the throne by King Otto. The path was administered by the minister of’ justice, and the ceremony was performed in the t hrone room of Residenz Schloss, in the presence of the minister and a majority j of the parliament. Prince Luitpold. ow ing to the reading of the oath, stood with his right arm uplifted, and at the conclusion of the reading, said, in a i strong, clear voice: j “I swear.” I He was cheered three times, and in re sponse thanked the assembly for their j manifestations of loyalty, feelingly re ferred to the career of King Ludwig, and j promised to do all in his power to pro mote the prosperity of Bavaria. A STRIKE ENDED. The great nail mills strike at Bellville,. HL, has finally come to an end. The set tlement, at Pittsburg, of wages question has proved satisfactory to both nailors and operators. Under the new agree ment, the men will not receive less than seventeen cents per keg, no matter what the price of nails may be. The mills employ about 350 men, and will start, again in a few’ days. A DUEL BETWEEN BROTHERS. i News has just been received here of a duel, fought with shot guns, between I two brothers, Adam and Alphonse Reed, who live five miles west of Opelousas, La. Adam received two wounds, one in the face and one in the bowels, which, it is thought, will prove fatal. uliix.ugh Adam ;shotß3t ~—m THE FIRST TRAIN. The first through train to Van Conover' on the Canadian Pacific railroad left Mon treal at eight o’clock Monday evening. Many of the most prominent men in the city, including representatives of all com mercial bodies and thousands of other I citizens, witnessed its departure and the. battery fired a salute. INJURIES BY STORM. Reports have come in from many parts of Georgia showing that much and seri ous damage has been done by the late I storms. Crops have been destroyed, houses, trees, fences, etc., blown down, as well as some buildings struck by light ning and destroyed. THE MILLS BURNED. j On last Saturday night Mr. Flemings’ of Monroe county, Ga., lost his mill, gin and variety shops by fire. Says his loss is $4,000. The origin of the fire was by an unknowm party. THE PUBLIC DEBT. It is said at the treasury department at Washington, that the public debt state ment for June will show a reduction for the month of about ten millions of dol lars. MUSICAL AMD DRAMATIC. Signor Salvini's fortune is set d.iwn no less than tUOO.OCO. Lawrbxce Barrett declares that he re gards Edwin Booth as the grandest flgur j on the stage to-day. It is said that Rubinstein is so popular in London that a premium of 100 per cent, is paid for seats at his piano recitals. Thomas W. Kekne, the American actor, ha? so far recovered Ids health that he will be able to resume the stage next season. Another English professional beauty, Mrs. Mclntosh, has gone on the stage with the intention of raking in ths American dol lars in the near future. In John 8. Clarke's new comedy of “The Alps” that eminent actor fills the congenial part of an elderly English tourist among those historic mountains. A new comic opera is announced, with the title of “A Thousand Em?. 1 ’ It will present scenes and incident? of life in a newspaper office and a printer’s composing room. Mme. Nevada-Palmer has disappeared for a time from the lyric firmammt and is living quietly with her husband in Parisi. She sang at a recent soiree before Liszt and Rubinstein. Before leaving London, Sara rate, the Spanish violinist, refused SSOO which was offered him to accompany Patti in a single song at her last concert before her marriage. He demanded SI,OUO, Miss Lulu Rathbone, the daughter of Justus H. Rathbone. »he founder of tbe Knight? of Pythias in Washington, has made asuc. e%ful debut in comic opera. She has adopted the stage as a profession. A coming American comic opera is “Bounced, ’ the libretto oi which is the work of H. C. Banner, editor of Puek, and Julran Magnus. Louis Lombard of Utica, N. Y., is composing the music. The cbararters,sceaat and ineiaents of the opera are esscnt aliy American.