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GLA T/STONE>S DEFEAT BY THE
TOBIES AND UNIONISTS.
flews of a Prominent Irish Home Ruler
Upon the Result.
5Er. Gladstone telegraphed upon the 9th in
reference to the Irish question: “Wales and
Scotland have seen their diity quickly. Eng
land will have to learn hers, but slowly and
painfully.”
A London>dispatch of the 9th says: The
Conservatives are still carrying the Eng
lish counties by sweeping majorities::
' The Unionists succeeded to-day in retaining
Inverness Burghs, Forfarshire, Falkirk
Burghs and Hartlepool, where they re-elected
Thomas Richardson. -The Unionist gains in
Liberal seats is 33. ’ The total Unionist-
Conservative poll up to 6 P. M. was 1,016,2-51
and'the total Gladsfonian poll 949,593. At
midnight the total number of Conservatives
and Unionists returned was 319 and of Glad-
stonians 310. The Conservatives'arb confi-
' dent of electing 220 candidates without Union
ist assistance: The count at present is as fol
lows:
Conservatives........;..............-.... 365
Unionists... 54
Gladstoniausi ,.......
u Parnellites. 72
: Total ...7................. 539
This leaves: 141 seats to be co:
is no longer any
Gladstonians of domg Better uf“herW
to come than they have dohet . past.
Mr. Herbert Gii&dstoab, spea? e BfiSRt the
Liberal Club thisffvenin g. said tifir
probable .that tile. .vcowtll tUorQ-
t wely-sw Befeqdr
Ssjp^s»w^wam''lTament approaches so near us
isww""' that, like the British files at Bunker
—Hill, we cau see the whites of their eyes.
The Tories will not have a majority.
Toinight they :have a total of 364
members, with . 146 more elections to take
place. Of these the Tories carried last
autumn 30 English, 5 Scotch, and 7 Irish
constituencies. If they db so now it will give
them a total of 396 members,which is 39 short
of half the House. ’ If the tide, continues to
run as-it has hitherto they Will be likely to
gain 15 seats, but this will leave them 34
short of half. But of the remaining Vacan
cies 10, are in Yorkshire, 4 in Cornwall, 5 in
Cheshire, 4 in Dorset, 4 in Derby and 4 in
Cumberland—all Gladstone strongholds, and
so are most of the others.. The
Tory gains are more likely to num
ber 10 or under. Nothing but a miracle can
giv/e then! a clear- majority. Thus Mr. .
Chamberlain will^occupy in the next House
of Commons the position of arbiter Of Min
istries, which Mr. Parnel hell in the last
Parliament, a situation which will sujt his
malignant genius perfectly.”
Mr. Thomas Power O’Connor, a leading
Irish Home Rule member of Parliament,
said in an Interview:
“Wo are not.at all disheartened and can
afford to wait for what must certainly come.
This is not a defeat, but only a check, and
home rule will come sooner than some people
expect
“The Tories are-capable of anything while
in office, but this time their pledges are too
recent and -altogether too, distinct to permit
their dabbling in home rule legislation. If
they did they would be unable to propose a
measure that would satisfy us, and>.we won’t
accept anything less than Mr. Gladstone
offered.
“Another six months will complete the
work which needs to be done, and we shall
try again,. The Liberals are not yet suffi
ciently educated, hencq their fatal absten
tion from the polls; but we will educate
them, and then we will have home rule.
The Irish electors in Great Britain, have
voted loyally fop the Liberal can-
didptci cud the g i 4ft chow thg.5 Si per
cent, of them exercised their right of suf
frage. Some of the successful Liberals
would have been in a pretty predicament
had it not been for the Irish votes cast for
them.
The organizational of the (Conservatives is
superior to that of the Liberals, and their
discipline is exellent. Speaking of the Con
servative organization, 1 may fell you that
I intend to introduce in the next House a
blil to suppress the Primrose League, which,
with all its patriotic pretentions, is really a
league formed for purposes of the most dis
graceful intimidation of electors, and whose
objects are faithfully carried-out:”
An Example Qf Evolution. 't
First burglar (just arrived at new mih-
mg town')-—“Say, Jim, there ain’t no bank
in this hull danged place.”
Seeopd burglar—“There ain’t?”
“Naw: beenoverit.”
“Got any boodle left?”
■“Some.”
“Enough to hire a room?” -
“Plenty.'’
“Well, let's start one.”— Chicago News.
Any Port in a Storm.
Lightning Rod Agent—“It’s danger
ous to be under This tree in a thunder
Storru. On : of us might get killed.”
Victim—“Weil, if yea are killed, you
won't be able to talk any mbre; and if I
am killed, I can't hear you. So I guess
we’d better sUy,=**£>/#.'
I EASTERN AND MIDDLE STATES.
Secretary Manning arrived in New
+L OT TrV e ,i y since on his way home from
ine Hot Springs, Va., where he has been
I slowl Y Siting over the effects of his recent
j sever© illness.
The total assessed valuation of real and
■ €S * iate in ^ ew York city, is $1,420,-
aD mcrease of $49,851,2^3 over that
For the first time in America inoculation
sis a preventive; of hydrophobia was per-
iormed a few days since in New York, ac-
ccuding to the Pasteur method, by Dr. Valen
tine Mott. Harold Newell, seven years old,
was the subject of the operation. He was
Ditten by a pet dog ten days previous to the
operation.
_. Barrett, of New York, on the
ita ordered the prosecution of the Volks
Aeitung, a German newspaper, on the charge
oi publishing articles designed to intimidate
jurors, thereby interfering with the admin
istration of justice. The articles were written
in connection with the trial of' seventeen
Jtsonemian bakers, indicted for boycotting
Mrs. Landgraf’s bakery..
Six of the seventeen Bohemians indicted j
m New York for boycqtting the bakery of
tneir countrywoman, Mrs. Landgraf, thereby
destroying her business, were found guilty
and sentenced to short terms of imprison
ment. 1
.Three boilers exploded at the colliery of
52 ,®l a ,V are an< i Hudson Canal Company, '
near Wiikesbarre, Penn. , wrecking the build-
fireman injuring the engineer and
Rev. Sam Jones, the Southem,revivalist,
nas been preaching at Chautauqua, N. Y.
SOUTH AND WEST.
Sixty persons were poisoned at a celebra-
non at Anthony, Kansas, by drinking lem
onade made with tartar emetic. All were
made dangerously sick.
Seventy persons were poisoned at Coul-
terville, 1 11 li eating ice cream at a picnic.
. °ur died and several, at last aocounts, were
in a precarious condition.
Afire at Deliver, Col., destroyed the
Academy of Musie, a newspaper office and
several stores. One man was burned to
death. The losses aggregate $175,060.
Colored Anights -of Labor have' struck
lor higher wages on Arkansas plantations
near Little Rock.
Colonel Georg® B. Corkhill, the
United States District Attorney who prose
cuted Guiteau, the assassin of Garfield, .died
the other day at Mount Pleasant, la.
A prospective shortage in the wheat crop
has sent the price up wifcha jump at Chicago.
TqE Minnfssota Prohibitionists have put a
full State ticket in the ffield.
The Ohio Republican editorsin convention
at h omnibus passed resolutions repeating the
charges of bribery in theelection of Henry
L. Payne to the United St-ates Senate.
St* ven salmon fishermen were drowned by
the upsetting of thpir boats during a gale off
the entrance of the Columbia River, Oregon.
• Deming.,' New Mexico, has lost its princi
pal business .houses by fire.
The Kansas Republicanshave renominated
Governor Martin.
-. Theresa Turpin, wife-of a funner
living at Princeton, Ind., in a. moment of in
anity killed her two young children. and
herself.
WASHINGTON.
The Senate Committee on Pensions' 1 in its
report recommending the passage of the .bill
granting a Jjeusion to Mary J. Nottage.
charges thelelesident with an unwarranted
use of the vUP power, declares his vetj&iS
were sometini ,“rudely expressed,” andwis-
serts that the motives of Congress in.passing
the private pension bills .have been misrepre
sented.
H. A. Whitney, cashier of tho United
States Treashry, dropped dead of apoplexy,
the other .day, .at his residence in Washing
ton. He had been a Treasury employe for
about twenty-one y ears. ,
The Senate .has confirmed -the following
nominations: J. W. Romeyn, of Detroit,
Consul at Valparaiso; J. L. Camp, Register
Land Office at Prescott, Arizona..
, The President hais signed the Pension Ap
propriation bip.
At a meeting-of the House Ways and Means
Committee it was ordered that the'Randall
Tariff bill be reported adversely. All the
Democrats Voted in the .affirmative.
The President on the 6th vetoed twenty-
nine private pension -bills and the bill pro
viding for the erection of a public building
at Duluth, Minn. The last-named bill is ve
toed because in the President’s opinion the
building is unnecessary. The private pension
bills were vetoed mainly because, the Presi
dent says, the claimants are not entitled to a
pension. A statement of the result of the
President's .examination into each case ac
companies the vetoes.
The Senate on the 6th confirmed’the nomi
nations of Governor Hugh Thompson, of
South Carolina, to be Assistant .Secretary of
the Treasury, and H. J. Wyn'to :be Post
master at Birmingham, Ala.
Drunken desperadoes took possession of a
train at Somerset, Ky,, intimidated the pas
sengers and killed the conductor and a col
ored porter.
Foi&st fires in Northern Wisconsin .have
done great damage. The village of Romeo
has been entirely wiped out.
A recent hurricane at Apalachieola, Fla.,
resulted in.the loss’ of six lives and heavy
damage to shipping and other property.
The Senate has rejected the nomination of
Harry Hall to be Postmaster at Catskill, N. Y.
FOREIGN.
' Rev. Henry Ward Beecher preached to
an enormous congregation in Dr. Parker’s
church—the City Temple—in London.
Thirty-five persons were injured , by a
collision between two express trains near
Glasgow, Scotland.'
The Conservative Club house in Dublin
was attacked with stones by a crowd during
the elections. Tha members replied with
bottles and firearms, injuring twenty of the
rioters and killing one. As the crowd was
about to set fire to the building the police ar
rived and prevented its destruction. The
initiates were arrested-
Late election returns indicated a defeat
for Gladstone and Irish Home Rule. Heavy
gains for the Conservatives and Unionists,
who were opposed to the Gladstonians and
Parnellites, were reported.
The heat has been so overwhelming in
Madrid that the Spanish Cortes—the national
legislature—was obliged to adjourn.
Asiatic ehplera is on the increase through
out Italy.
News has been received of a destructive
tornado on the Island of Jamaica.’ Low
lands were inundated, great fields of bananas
destroyed, arid many vessels torn from their
moorings. The estimated loss is $509,000.
An immense congregation heard Henry
Ward Beecher firSh.h his second sermon in
the City Temple, London.
A political riot at Cardiff, Wale3, was
broken up by the pol ce, who charged the
crowd and wounded over 100 persons, twenty
so badly that they had tobe taken to tha
hospital.
A young Massachusetts girl died the
other day of corset compression. She
confessed the crime, but alleged that she
had to be pressed by something and
the young .men neglected their duty.
A HOT WAVE SWEEPS OVEB THE
NOBTHWESTEBN PLAINS.
Vegetation Destroyed in Dakota and the
People In a Panic#
Particulars of an unprecedented hot wave
{hat has been visiting sections of the North
west are given in the following dispatch from
St. Paul, Minn.:
People in Dakota thought the world was
coming to an end yesterday. The intensely
hot weather of the past week culminated in
a regular old fashioned Indian simoon. 1 he
air was as hot as from a baker’s oven. Birds
flew about wildly and beat their hvess out
against the trees in their frantic ©Sorts to
sscape unseen danger. Horses and cattle
broke frond their fastenings and plunged
into streams and would not be moved. At
many places in Dakota and Iowa the mer
cury has bean up to 100 degrees. Tuesday
was the hottest day ever known in Minne
sota, the mercury tanging from 84 to 9o de
grees, with an average of 85 degrees during
the day. At midnight the thermometer
stoed at 83 degrees. m
The simoon in Dakota was se verest at Ash
ton. At 4 o'clock in the morning the people
were awakened by a roaring noise and oppres
sive heat, which almost stifled breathing. On
going to the door your correspondent .was
di iven back into the house by hot air from
without, which felt like that from a furhare
or an oven. There were at the time heavy
dar* clouds in the southwest, from which di
rection the wind came.
Fear seized upon the people that a bad
cyclone was forming, and they began to
congregate in tha neighborhood of cyclone
celiacs. Many fathers and mothers on
awakening and feeling the heated air
seized their children, from the beds and
rushed into the street, believing : that their
houses were on fire. One citizen describes
his fear that the earth was be
ing precipitate! into the sun. A farmer
who was on his way to t:iwn, states that it
was comparatively cool when he started out,
but was soon struck' by a hot wind which he
could not face. The perspiration oozed from
himin largedrops. The-hot wind lasted about
half an hour, and the temperature was. 120
degrees. Your correspondent has lived here
nearly five years, and been ‘ out when the
mercury stood 100 degrees in the shade', but
never before experienced such heated atmos
phere as that of this morning. Had this wind
continued for two or three hours there would
not have been left a vestige of living veg
etation, and it is; doubtful whether animal
life could have withstood it. As a gen
eral rule the nights are Very cool,
and this freak of nature is a mystery to every
one. The hot wind was immediately fol
lowed by a cool breeze, but now, at 9 p. m. ,
the mercury stands at 100 degrees in the
shade. Farmers and merchants generally
are feeling very blue over the gloomy pros
pects of crops, as this makes the sixth day of
excessive heat.
A special from Pierre, Dak., says: Pierre
citizens have just passed through one of the
most remarkable and thrilling freaks of the
elements ever experienced in this section.
For the last three days the mercury has
averaged about' 103 degrees, but . last
night capped the climax. About
nine o’clock the Western heavens
were suddenly illuminated, and in a few
moments wind swept down the streets, blow
ing down several houses and doing other
damage. The wind was red hot and people
were compelled to seek shelter in cellars to
avoid the intense and suffoc ating heat, The
wind continued until 4 o’clock this'morn-
ing, and at 3 o’elobk the thermometer
registered 105 degrees Passengers who
came in from Montana on the Northern Pa
cific say the air was almost unbearable. If a
hand was thrust Out of a car lyindow the
rushing air felt like a blast from a furnace:
The trainmen had their faces blistered andy,
swollen by the hot air. .
The letter from A rMprrrmlliit.
Signal Office Observ^*Ij^bJ8ittia.^&^ij(ml^
and tor a moment botitejjtere .hinazhti, ^irj ht
first neither could
thermometer had re ae wBE ,-any^Pi'STOtucle"’ I
asl30at4A.M. Withanjpgernessoftwoscien-
tists they began to seek ro account for it. Mr.
McGinnis was inclined to believe that it was
similar to the terrible Sahaia Desert simoon
which, like this hot air storm, is accompanied
by a dark cloud, and seems. not only to be
hot but deoxygenized so that it i acts
on the lungs almost like carbonic
acid or devitalized air. Sergeant Lyons as
sented to this partially, but; suggested that
it might have been the heat from a huge
meteorite. Both agreed that it Was one of
the mysterious weather dispensation!; of
Divine Providence which could not be
predicted.
frightfuiTaccident.
IMPROVEMENTS IN GEORGIA, jf STRIKES AND STRIKERS.
the AMOUNT OL 1 government
money EXPENDED.
WHAT THEY HAVE DONE AND
ARE DOING—THE EFFECTS.
Altamaha river $
.38,000
0G
Brunswick harbor
83,000
Ofl:
Chattahoochee and Flint
rivers
250,000
00
Coosa river A
410,000
oo
Cumberland sound
255,000
Ofl
Darien harbor
8,000
00
Etowa river ,
10,000
06
Flint river. '
97,000
Ofl:
Ocmulgee river........
57,000
Ofl
Oconee river...
23,500
OC
Oostonaula and Coosawattie
rivers ............;
26,000
06
St. Augustine creek
5,000
00,
Savannah harbor
982,000
OC
Savannah river.
661,096
64
Survey of rivers
10,000
OO
Romley marsh
10,000
OC
8 Total $3,919,596 64
, There has been quite a large sum oi
money used in the light house service in
the state. The following are the allow
ances for light stations:
Cumberland Island. $55,000 00
St. Simons 80,050 00
Sapelo. 1 63,278 87
Savannah river lights. 99,150 00
Tybee 112,443 00
Beacons and buoys 64,814 41
Light vessels. 20,000 00
Total.. $494,728 36
The only appropriation for a, branch
mint in Georgia is for Dahlonega, the
amount being $87,870.
The next and last item of expenditure is
for ports and arsenals, which' are as
follows:
Augusta Arsenal $239,750
Fort Jackson. ; j... 285,000
Fort Pulaski.... y.,..... -988,808
Total .,. ....$1,463,558
The following are the total amounts al
lowed : ■■■ . w
$ ' 639,556 00
.B|ffefSyil|i|[®4i'bors 2,919,596 64
5,000 00
494,736 28
87,870- 00
To«!i and Arsenals. -1,463,558 00
Total for Georgia... ..$5,600,316 92
KILLING JUSTIFIED.
Death and Destruction the Outcome of
. Carelessness*
At Buehtell, Ohio, Johnson Bros. &
Patterson, of the New Pittsburg mine,
Were preparing to start, up on Monday.
Goal in this mine has to be gotten out by
.machinery,
Sunday afternoon a leak was discover
ed'in the compressed air receiver which
furnishes the motive power, and Charles
II. Johnson and Tom Williams went into
the mine about 250 yards to repair it.
They neglected to turn ofl the pressure,,
and, upon attempting to stop, the talk,
the end of the receiver burst, in fragments,
knocking the Machinery about and tear
ing up things generally.
The following is a list of the .killed and
wounded: j
Thomas ( Williams, intantly killed:
Charles H..Johnson, fatally injured: John
Hallam, fatally injured; L.' White!: seri
ously injured.
Johnson died before morning. Thom
as was 'reparing the leak, and John
son, one .of the owners of the mine, was
holding a light, and the others were look
ing on when the explosion occurred.
Every hone in Williams’ body was
broken. Johnson was thrown against a
wall with a large scantling across his
breast. Every shred of clothing on Wil
liams’ body was torn oH, and his shoes
were blown over twenty yarjds. It was a
ease resulting from carelessness. The
coroner, rendered a decision in accordance
with the above facts.
The Total Sam Appropriated Since 1789,
for Public Buildings, Rivers, etc.
The following is a complete statement
oi the expenditures of the government
for public improvements in the State oi
Georgia since 1789. First as to the pub
lic buildings:
- The first public building authorized in
.Georgia was in 1819, when congress made
an appropriation of $29,100 for “erect
ing a customhouse and warehouse in Sa
vannah.” Since that time the. following
allowances have been made:
Atlanta courthouse and P. O...$275,000
Macon postoilice.. ...... 125,000
Marietta courthouse 5,000
Savannah customhouse, old..... 29,100
Savannah customhouse, new.... 195,556
. The total allowances for public build
ings Amounts; th $629,556.
River and harbor improvements in the
State commenced in 1826, when an ap
propriation of $50,000 was granted by
congress 1 ‘to remove obstructions in the
Savannah river, below the city of Savan
nah. ” The qllpwanc.es are as follows:
A. Girl iShoots a Man in Church and i9
Tried and Acquitted#
On Monday, afternoon, Miss Emma
Connelly walked into Hunter’s Chapel
church Barnwell county, S. while
Sunday school was in session, with a
cocked revolver in her hand, and passing
into 'toe pew behind John ,A. Steedley,
she fired her pistol into Steedley’s back:
He arose, looked around, tried to get out
his pistol and at the same; time made fof
the doxy. Miss Connelly ..snapped hei
pistol at him again, but it failed to go off.
Steedley fed at the door of the church
just'outside and died in about three,min
utes. Miss Connelly surrendered |herself
to the authorities, her . only excuse for
murdering Steedley, who was her second
cousin, was. certain defamatory reports
circulated by him about her, and' several
'obscene letters addressed to her and her
btether by him. The grand jury of Barn
wellbounty found an indictment against
her for murder on Monday. The trial
came off Wednesday and resulted in her
acquittal. Since the commission of the
murder, Miss Connelly has expressed no
regrets whatever. • This is the first cascf
of this kind ever tried in South Carolina j
courts.
A DESPERATE FIGHT.
Terrible Suffering Unnjiejl In the Strike
at Grape Greek, Illinois.
A dispatch from Grape Creek, Ill-,
says: There us prospect of a ^ QV ® r ^®
importation of negroes by . the urap
Creek Coal company to take the places o
the striking miners. The strikers d cc
that the new men cannot work ‘
any circumstances, and that they J?
resist force with force: The sheriff of
Vermillion county has forty fP e< ? al ft P"
uties; on the ground; and will do ail
his power to maintain order if' the pe
groea conclude,to go to work.
There were over a thousand strikers
when the present, strike began, but_ tne
number is now reduced to seven ot eig
hundred. All are destitute, and the. con
dition of many of them is absolute y
appalling, women and children having
barely sufficient clothing to cover them
and hardly sufficient food to exist on.
The men insist that they never will sur
render. Most of them are foreigners, tne
Germans predominating. ,
The strikers have been out most of tne
time for sixteen months. Late test tan
they accepted the company’s. rates, ana
even underbid, each other for the wor ,
there not being employment for fill,on
account of the company’s business having
greatly fallen ofl in consequence of tne
long continued strike. As soon as tne
spring opened they renewed their de
mand for the Pittsburg rate of seventy-
five cents a ton, and went out May4st.
They have since been evicted from the
bbippany’s houses arid" are,subsisting in
the; woods on per cfehtages -from -the
union and the charity of the surrounding
Country. A few of them have put up
slate shanties, some have tents and . others
Keek any shelter they- can find, most or
the time having only the protection of
the forest-trees. _
It was asserted in Chicago, on Monday
that an extensive strike is threatened m
the packing houses of that city. The
trouble is caused by the floor men or side
trimmers. For some time . past they have
been handling 125 head of cattle each
day.. This they claim is too much for
the pay, and a committee has been ap
pointed to inform the foreman of the fact.;
The men demand hereafter they shall be:
required to handle but 100 head per day,;
and that they shall receive the same wa
ges that they are now getting, $24 per,
week. They also fiemand pay whethei'
they work or not. What action they will
take is not yet known.
Three men belonging to the steamfitters’
union were arrested in Chicago Monday
while interfering with workmen at the
Mason building, corner of Fifth avenue,
and Washington streets. The firm ofi
Kroeschall Bros., steamfitters, employed'
three men who had been out' on strike
since May 15, and one named Burkhardt
was a member of the union, who returned
to work on the old terms. A delegation
from the union visited him and, making
threats of violence, was arrested.'
The employes in the Rock Island yards
and car shops resumed the ten-hour sched
ule. They nearly all work by the piece,
and there was no difficulty in restoring
the old time table.
: On Monday morning a switch on the
Lake Shore road was turned at 45th
street, while a local freight train was
passing over. Several cars were derailed.
At noon an engine with fbrty cars, many
of theni loaded with bridge piling for tlie
Northwestern Bridge company, was going
north. At 41st street, just as part of the
train had passed, a man ran out from an
alley way and turned the switch. Fifteen
or twenty of the cars ran on to the Rock
Island main track and several of them
ere derailed, , and the main tracks of the
ock Island and Lake Shore roads were
blocked. The safety switch was broken
apd considerable other damage was done.
A BLOODY FIGHT.
THREE BROTHERS KILLED BY
THREE FENCE BUILDERS.
1 Dispute Over Land in Texas Leads to
Bloodshed.
Three brothers—Lewis, Elmer and Jamer
Smith—were killed five miles from Henriet
ta, Texas, in a fight resembling a pitched
battle, in which shotguns loaded with buck-
shot and six-shooters were the weapons. Neal
Butcher, manager for the Clay County
Lard and Cattle Company, one of the-
biggest , live-stpek concerns of the
West, had employed Sterling Dawson,.
Doc. Thompson and Jack Doutbitt to fence a
tract of land with wire. The ownership of
the land was a matter of dispute between
; the Smith brothers a;id the company; and
the brothers had warned Butcher not to pro
ceed with the, work of feU’ing it. Batcher
obeyed orders and put Thompson, Dout-
bitt and Dawson to work, but when the-
latter received, threat! of violence from the
Smiths,they stopped and reports 1 to Butcher.
Under instructions from him the men re
sumed the work of fencing, and .Doutbitt
seat word to Lewis Smith that if he came-
within 300 feet of the fencing gang there
would be trouble. The Smiths resumed their
threats and the Doutbitt crowd went on with,
their work, and'beside their tools had trusty-
six-shooters, They seemed to have made a
safe estimate of the determination of their
enemies. The. latter rode in a wagon to
within 101 feet of where the Doutbitt crowd
were at work. *
The signal for the battle was the raising of
, a shotgun from the wagon-bed by one of the
I Smiths. The Doutbitt crowd drew their
I weapons and fired. Shots passed in quick suc
cession, uutil the Smiths were stretched oat
on the ground, two dead and Oue dying,
while their team bolted off in a run to the-
Smith farmhouse near by*.
Mrs. Smith, the mother of the young men,
when she heard the shooting ran toward tha
place, which was about a quarter of 'a mile
from the house. Half way she met the team
running home. She stopped them and
drove back rapidly to the spot where-
the boys were lying. James and Elmer
were both dead, but Lewis was still alive.
He told her that Doutbitt had shot both of
his brothers, and that Sterling Dawson had.
shot him. The Doutbitt crowd surrendered*-
to the Sheriff and are now in custody. -
THE SUNDRY CIVIL BILL.
Wi
HEISY GLEAMNGS.
Taking Big Chances.
Coach (to College Athlete)—“Your
muscles seem soft, and your whole sys
tem needs toning up. Are you drinking
anything?”
College Athlete— “Not a drop. ”
Coach—“Smoking to excess?”
College Athlete—“No.”
-Coach—“Studying?” a.
College Athlete— “Er—yes, a little.”
Coach (indignantly)^-“Great heavens,
Man, do you want to lose the race?”—
New York Sun.
A man living near Tampa, Fla., wai-
bitten oa the leg by a rattlesnake. A
doctor was at once sent for, and the leg
wax bandaged tightly above the wound
although it was thought that the man
would surely die before medical assist
-'nee could be procured. The leg having
been bared for the application of tin
bandage, was attacked by a swarm of
musquitoes. When the physician fi
naily arrived, he found the man in good
condition, but the ground around wax
strewn with musquitoes.
A JPrcacher and His Son Carved With a
Unite by a Farmer#
News,has reached hete of a knife-to-
the-hilt fight between' Rev. John Lockey, j
aided by his son, Ephraim, and a man
by the name of McClelland, near West
Fork, Ark. Lockey and McClelland dis
agreed’ as to thq locations of the line be
tween their farms, and ended in a furi-1
ous quarrel. Lockey seized his gun and
attempted to shoot his antagonist,-but
the cap snapped. The father and son i
again* assaulted McClelland, when the lat
ter drew his knife and commenced the
■work of destruction. The old man and
the boy were literally cut to pieces, and
there is no hope for the recovery of
either. Mr. Clelland, at his preliminary
trial, was acquitted.
KllxUBD BY B1GHTNING.
During a storm which passed over the
Clovis ranch, twenty miles south of Pana,
Texas, a house in which four women
were sleeping, was struck by lightning,
on Wednesday, and all were instantly
killed.
Important Information.
A professor in the medical department
of the University of Texas asked one of
the more advanced students': {
“What is the name of the teeth that a
human being ge s last ?”
“False teeth, of course.”—Siftings.
It is an imposition upon charity tc
j waste tim.3 and patience on a man oi
j woman who will not assist you in thf(o
work.
The average cost of a Parliamentary can
vass is about $2,00!.
In Montana alone there are 8,000 different
regisflSred cattle brands.
This-year’s wheat cro i is the heaviest
ever harvested in California.
A total of 19,040,003 gallons of milk was
sold iu Chicago lastyear, for about $3,500,-
00.1. ,
There are sixty tfiou ant volumes in the
Boston/.State Library, and not one novel
among tham..
The Question of using, bloodhounds to pur
sue the Apaches ife being disoussed by the
Arizona press.
Variops countries of .South America are
to unit s in an 'exhibition of their products
at Berlin iu September,
For the last ten-years the increase of tho
Mormon population iu.the United States has
been about 85 per centum.
Colorado offers a premium of $3 por 100
for every hne of. .trees maintained along
ditches, fences and highways.
A proposition meeting with favor in the
Republic of Mexico calls for the establish
ment of a savings bank for soldiers.
The total number of dwelling houses in
is 49,998, of which 30,30 > are of wood,
15,059 brick, 391 stone and the balance of
mixed materials- >
Senator Mitchell, of Oregon, says that
Portland is ona of the wealthiest cities in the
Umtel States. It ha? at least .twelve mil
lionaires and a large nu ruber of meri who are
worth over hilf a million.
Of the 8O0 prisoners in the. penitentiary on
Blackwells Island, New York City, only
three refuse to go to church. These are Herr
Most, the Socialist, an'! his companions,
Braunschweig and Schenek.
Canning-clams at Islip, Long Island, N.
an established industry. Between 800
ana oUO bushels of clams are used daily at a
nrst cost ofse v e aty-flve cents a bu shel. Glaoi
juiceus bottled and sold by druggists as a
cure for dyspepsia.
tv ^ C- olle 7 belonging to Christian
Tornlmg, or Louisville' Ky., has adopted a
brood ot little chickens wliich have lost their
mother. At night the dog guards them in
his kenup 1 , and by day he s.Tatclies up food
iortnenj. lie also Siiares his meals Avith his
adopted family. J
^^tJxejsxake Jnr, of Wopster, Ohio, says
. ? n] y reliable cure for the bite of a
rafc#eSna*eYis turpynt ne. . He says that a
D ' . fhrpehtitie held over the bitten'
spot, tne uncorked mouth down, will draw
out the poison, which can be seen as it enters.
m v p ? ntl ? e a sort of blue flame. Al-
IIii ^ never been bitten, he has
o!?™ tbls cure his dogs, always with
success.
Changes Made That Affect the Southern-
States#
The following are the principal changes
and. those locally affecting the south,
made by the senate committee on appro
priations in the'sundry civil bill:
For public buildings—Charleston, South:
Carolina, striken but. Galveston, Texas,
striken out. Pensacola increased from
$5,000 to $10,000. ' Mosquito inlet light.
I station, Florida, increased from $30,000-
to $50,000. ,
H The provision in the house bill that no-
’portion of the appropriation for -engrav
ing and printing United States notes
“shall be expended for printing United
States notes, of large denomination in
lieu of notes of small denomination, can
celled or retired;” was stricken out by the
j .committee, but was subseqfiently restored
and remains as it was in the house bill.
The provision in the house . bill relating
! to silver certificates; is amended to read
as follows:
U That the secretary, qf ’ tfie .treasury is
! hereby authorized and required to issue
; silver certificates in denominations of $l r
i $3 and $5, and Silver 'certificates, hereia
authorized shall-foe receivable, redeemable
j and pay able, in like mafiner and foT like
purposes as is provided for silver certifi-
| cates by the act of February 28, ■ 1878..
| entitled an act to authorize the coinage"*'
of the standard silver dollar and to re
store its legal tender character, provided!
that said denominations of $1, $2 and $5-
may be issued in lieu of silver certificates-
of larger denomination in the-treasury
and to that extent said certificates of
: larger denominations , Shall be cancelled*
1 and destroyed.
| To the provision for lighting rivers,
, the committee has added the St. John’s
j river, Fte., and the Columbia and Willa
mette rivers of Oregon, and increasadthe-
appropriation from $170,000 to $200,000.
Ten thousand dollars is appropriated for
Salaries and expenses Of .the national board *
of health. Tb defray the expenses inci
dent to landing, housing, protecting and;
inaugurating upon Bedloe’s Island of
Barthold’is statue of Liberty Enlighten
ing the World and for the. construction
of platforms, repair’s of wharf, clearing,
the grounds of unsightly structures and
other incidental expenses, and for inci--
,dental expenses of the ceremony of inau
guration, the senate committee provided
$56,500. Eighty thousand dollars is ap
propriated'for a wharf at Fortress Mon
roe. An appropriation of $107,000 is-
made for construction and repairs at the-
southern branch of the national home for-
disabled volunteer soldiers,, increasing;
the total appropriation for this institution-
to $1,681,000.
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.
Rubinstein, the piahist, made $3o,003dur
ing* his recent visit in Loudon. He gave only"
eight concerts.
Audran has composed a new' operetta en
titled “Indiana,” which will shortly be pro
duced in Loudon.
The Kiralfy brothers are the owners of
several new comic .operas, which they may
produce next season.
The leading men for Mr. Booth and Mr.
Barrett next season are Charles Barron and.
Newton Gotthold respectively.
Miss Mabel Jordan, an American ac- /
tress; js.creating some stir iu London, where
she appeared m Dage-iet’s play, “The Mem
ber for Slocum.”
Miss Fanny Davenport opens her next-
tour, October 11th, at the Union Square-
Theatre, New York, where she will be seen in
a varied repert fire.
M. Coquelin, the great French comedian,
who is to visit this country next season, has ■
tendered his resignation to the manager of
toe Comelie Francaise, Paris.
The American Opera Company, which'
has just returned to New York after a suc
cessful tour, is already making elaborate
pieparations. for next season.
A report that George:'Gould, the eldest
son of Jay Gould, has gone to London to
marry Miss Edith Kingdbn, of Daly’s Com- 1
pany, excite? much interest in New York. :
Saf.as'ATE, the Sna '.i h violinist, refused
, $50 ), [V U h was bil'ere! hi n' to accompany
Patti in a single song at her last concert be- ■
' fore her marriage. He demanded $1,000. j
TaE new opera, libretto by Charlos H.
Ho t, music by Edward Solomon, entitled .
“The Maid and Moonshiners,” will bo pro
duced in New York early in the autumn.