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VOLUME VIII.
Church Direc:ory„
METHODIS I'.—Dougin Ut W th ; r<
and fifth Sumin v*. ’
BALTSfBiHGB-Second S*«*d y, B1 <1 SaHu- ’a
before.
Midway—Fourth n»d Satiinlsv 1..
fore - W. B, PIOIE, Pastob.
Bap i Ist first and fourth Sub
iUya. He A. B. Vaughn, pastor.
Masonic,
" Vmialaf-vilte No. 289, F. A. M.,meet
on Saturday befare the first and thin
Sundays iu cacti month. J. R. Carter, W. M.
W. X C-juma Skey.
County Directory,
Ordinary—ll. T. Cooper.
•Clerk—S. N. Dorsett.
Sheriff—Jlenrv Ward.
Deputy Sheriff—o. M. Sonfce.
U'a-x II .eeiver—E. 11. Catnn.
; Tax Collector—W. A. Sayvr.
I reasurer—Samuel Shannon,
Surveyor—Joint M. Huey.
Coronet—F. M. Mitchell.
SUPERIOR COURT.
Meet*on third Mondays in January and Juh
•nd h<tnls two weeks. ‘
Judge—Hon. Samson W. Harris.
t»oL Genl.-s-Hon; Harry M. Reid.
Clerk— 8. N. Dorsett.
Sheriff—Homy Ward.
COUNTY COURT.
, Meets fa quarterly session on fourth Mon
‘•ays ht February, May, August and November
• •nd holds until ail the cases on the docket are
•Miicd. In monthly session it meets on fourth
•loverlays m each month,
Judge —Hon. 11. A. Massoy.
Hol. Genl—Hon. W. T. Roberta.
Hailiff—D. W. Johns.
-ar . ORDINART’B COURT
• Meets for ordinary purposes on first Monday,
•nd for county purposes on first Tuesday h
** c “ num th.
Judge—Hon. 11. T. Cooper.
, , JUSTICES COURTS.
»JOth Tftat. 0. JI. meets first Thnrsdsv in each
t L Kftelr ’ J - P “ w * H - Ca,i b N. I*.,
•9. W, Johns ”"l w. K. Hunt, L. 0.
a w « Dl ’ L , M ’» ” ,cew «« o ”d Saturday,
(A. ti. Bomar, J. 11.,I 1 ., B. A. Arnold, N. i» 8. C
*vger, EC.
L, 784th Di»i. G, M. m‘of.s fourth Saturday
l-rankhn Ca.vr, J. I‘ u. R. Badgett, N. I-'.,
J. C. Jains* M, S. Gore, 1,, (Ju.
iZMhli !>•»!. G. JI. meets third Saturday. 'J'.
M. H..ni|it..o, J. J’;, m. R. Yaks, N. p «, \y.
Biggers, L.C., 8. J. Jonitlan, 1,. C.
12(>0ih Dist., u. M. meets third Saturday. N
Hhn' 4 'c J ’ r '’ W ’ Kud “ ou ’ N - r -/ J . A..
12715 t Diet. G, M. meets first Saturday. 0
' <l. Chutotb J. P. Aiberry Hembree, N. p.’
rt ,27 ?u <1 o H'V’ T O, r M - “<'«'» fourth Friday,
leo. W, Smith, J. I*., C. J. Uobinson. N. I’,,
L | * f La. »•
Infall Ditf. »WK thi ’ ,, l F-ldnv. Ufa.
J, l M A. J. Bowen, K I’., W. J. Haibin,
Professional Cards
ROBERTTMisSIV?
attorney at law
DOCOUSVIU.E. GA.
(Office In front room, Dorsett's Building.,,
Will practice anywhere except in the County
Court of Douglass county,
W. A. JAMES,
attormey at law.
Will practice in nil the courts, Slate «u
Federal. Office on Court House Square,
DOUGLASVILLE, GA.
ITf: robertsT
ATTORNEY AT t AW,
DOUGLASVILLE, GA.
Will practice in all the Courts. All lega
tmsltMM will receive prompt attention. Ofiict.
in Court House.
C. IX. CAMP.
attorney at law.
noUGLAsviLr.r, oa.
Kg.grTggs,
attorney at law,
DOVaLASVn.I.R, OA.
Will pnelio. In all (be eom-i., Bi.te Alli
Federal
JOHN M,EDGE, j
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
DOUGLASVILLE, GA.
Will practice in all the courts, and promptly
attend to all buaineea entrusted to his Tare.
J. S. JA»ES?~~ ~
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
DOCQLABVILU, GA.
Will practice di tna courts of Dougliwa,
CampbcU. tVuroli, Paulding. Cobb, Fnhou # nd
adjoining countiee, Prunq» attentK>«i given
Wall buaincea.
j. h. McLarty,
XTTOHNEY AT LAW,
IMH'UI.ASVH.LK, UA.
Wifi nractice fa ail the o itrt*. both State and t
Ft*l«»al, Colfa'thw a specaa ty.
JOHN V. EC GE.
ATTORNEY AT LAW.!
DOUGLASVILLE. GA.
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She Knew.
Wi<hing to t 'ach his young dausfliter
aotuc home-made grammar, an Oakland
fathar. desirous of impre-smg upsn the j
child the difference between singular and
plural number, said:
“What d > we say of a young laty w ho
I is n >t rn rried ”
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“We my of her that sh* is going to be
, married, ” aid so ended the lirst leavon. •
• —CiI»A Alto.
FAWNING TV KONE-CHARITY TO ALL.
Douglasville, Georgia, Tuesday, august 24,1886.
THE NEWS IN GENERAL,
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST
FROM ALL POINTS.
EASTERN AND MIDDLE STATES.
The strikes in the leather shops of Pea
body and Salem, Mass., have resulted in as
saults and riotous disturbances.
Rollin M. Squibb, the NeW Ydrk Coni-
WissiOnGr Os Public Works, and Maurice B.
Flynn, the contractor who was practically
tunning that office, have been indicted by
the Grand Jury for conspiracy. They both
gave bail J
Three young daughters of Henry Wymaiij
a Far Rockaway (Long Island) fisherman,
were drowned while bathing-.
The aiinuai convention of the National
Association of American Bankers opened on
the 11th in Boston. Representatives of the
banking interests in all parts of the country
wore present, and various papers of import
ance to financiers werj read and discussed.
William BoyD, ah aged millionaire, was
struck by an express train near his home at
Walker's Mills, Penn., and instantly killed;
Hon. tiEwis Beach, Congressman of the
Fifteenth NOw York District, died at his
home, Cornwall on the Hudson, a few days
Bilice, aged fifty-one years.
The New York Republican State Com
mittee decided on the 11th to hold no State
Convention this fall, but that a candidate for
Associate Judge of the Court of Appeals be
nominated by the Committee at a subse
quent meeting.
Dr. Prank H. Hamilton, a noted sur
geon and one of the doctors in attendance
upon President Garfield, died in New York
the other day, in his seventy-third year.
Michaeli Mezzi was hanged at Union
town, Penn., for the murder of a fellow Ital
ian named Cossidente, the motive being rob
bery.
SOUTH AND WEST.
Lightning struck the main stable of the
Omaha (Neb.) Fair Association, killing eight
valuable trotters.
A fire at Eggleston, Wis„ destroyed a
large grain elevator and seventeen loaded
freight cars. Four tramps asleep in a car
were burned to death ahd three others
teverely injured.
An El Paso (Texas) dispatch of the Sth
xtated that th • excitement over the imprison
ment of Cutting, the American editor, was
Intensified, and that the Mexican authorities
would behea l their prisoner in case a rescue
was attempted. Sscretary Bayard was re
ported to have made a final demand for Cut
ting’s release.
Two men returning from a picnic at
Birdseye, Ini,, were shot dead by Thomas
Hobbs and his son, James. A crowd of 100
men captured the murderers and hanged
them to a tree.
Rev. bAM Jones, the Southern revivalist,
has been preaching to great crowds at Inn
caster, Oho.
Ex-Gove nor John W. Stevenson of Ken
tucky died the other dav in Covington, aged
seventy-three years, fl© was President of
the Democratic National Convention which
nominated General Hancock for the Presi
dency.
The boiler of a threshing machine on a >
farm near Jefferson, Wis., exploded the
other day with horrifying effect. Engineer
Anthony Klein and his son, Joseph Lester
and his ten-year-old boy, and Joseph Haas
were instantly killed. Another of Lester’s
sons, aged eight years, and a inan named
Fisher were fatally s aided.
Mrs. Martin Stough, of Conneaut. Ohio,
and her three daughters, aged fifteen, thirteen
and eight years respectively, were drowned
a few days since in a creek Mr. Stough’s
grief drove him mad.
During the trial of the Chicago Anarchists,
the prisoners were daily recipients of num
•rous bouquets and other floral offerings.
The Indianapolis Democrats at their Stat®
Convention in Indianapolis nominated a
State ticket headed by John C. Nelson for
Lieutenant-Governor and adopted a platform
■which cordially approves Cleveland’s admin
istration: favors a financial policy “in which
gold and silver coin and paper money readily
convertible into coin, including the volume
of the United States notes now provided by
law, shall be the circulating me lium;” insists
upon a reduction of the Treasury surplus in
payment of the National debt, and opposes
“all sumptuary laws and prohibition legisla
tion.”
Robbers killed Bernard Martin, of
Weaver, Arizona, his wife and two children, 1
and then burned the bodies. Martin had
sold his ranch for tI.OOJ, and with this sum
had started with his family for Erie, Penn.
Thomas Bondy, the son of a Bantist min
ister at Graysville, Tenn., attempts! towhip
John Davis, ayoung farmer, for visiting his
Bister. Davis beat B jndy to death, crushing
his skull with a stone. At this juncture the
father of Bondy interferrod. He and Davis
fought wiqh knives. Bondy was killed and
Davis fatally wounded.
The now town of Lusk. Wyoming Terri
tory, built of tents and temporary wooden
structures, has been swept out of existence
by a furious wind and hail storm.
A Chicago baker killed himself to escape
a boycott
Count Saioo, the Japanese Secretary of
the Navy, is on a tour of inspection in. th is
country, and a few days since visited the
Washington Navy Yard.
FOREIGN.
During the rioting which occurred at Bel
fast, Ireland, from Saturday evening to an
early hour Monday morning eleven r ersons
were, killed and 130 seriously wounded. The
majority of the injured persons have shot
Avounds. The rioting was resumed on Mon
day, and a number of persons m-re wounded
in an eneounter with the soldiers. The city,
owing to the wre?k and ruin of houses, pre
sents a deplorable appearance, similar to that
of Paris atter the Commune. There were
5.5G0 extra military and poli -e in Belfast,
and more were expected. Fifty rioters were
sent to prison.
The Erai>eror« of Germany and Austria
have had a meeting at Gastein.
Martial law has been proclaimed in Bel
fast and Londonderry, Ireland.
Owing to the discovery of defalcations
reaching F-500,0tX>, the British Medical and
General Assurance Association has gone into
bankrupv.y.
ALL the new British Ministers have now
been re-elected to the House of Commons,
•very one unopposed.
A hurricane which swept over Nancy,
France, did immense damage. One soldier
■was killed, and many persons were injured.
Stx men were killed bv the collapse of a
railway tunnel in process' of construction at
New-Ross, Ireland.
The Hungarian town of Sdlein has been
destroyed by fire. The propertv burned in
cfadas 4<M houses, and the less is fAxJ.OA 1 .
The town of Salem, N. C., has pei
mitted do liquor to enter its limits for ;
one hundred jnran.
NEWSY TOPICS;
HA.TTERS OF INTEREST FROM
VARIOUS QUARTERS.
America’s Bi s Vessel-A Surgical Feat-The
Great Forest Fires. Etc.
The Army and Navy Register publishes
the following: Secretary Whitney has de
termined to include in the list of new cruis
ers fdr which proposals are to be irivited the
large uiiarniored cruiser authorized by the
bill passed two Weeks ago td increase the na
val establishment, and has directed that for
this vessel the plans prepared by Chief Con
structor White, of England, fdr the ship!
known as “No. 27,” be used. These plans con
template a vessel of greater power and speed
than any cruiser now afloat—in fact; the
very highest powered vessel of the kind in
the world at the time of completion. The
principal dimensions of the vessel are as fol
lows: Length over all, 335 feet; beam, ex
treme, 48 feet 8 inches; draft, mean, 19 feet
6inches; load displacement, 4,413 tons; indi
cated horse power, Lo. 5'X), forced combus
tion; twin screws; estimated speed, nineteen
knots.
The ship has two military masts, no sail
power except storm sails ; coal capacity about
900 tons. The complement of men is 3io. The
main battery consists of four 8-iuch and six
fi-inch breech-loading rifles; secondary bat
tery, eight 57-single-shot Hotchkissj guns,
two 37-revolver machine guns and one
short Gatling. The hull will be con
structed of steel throughout, with double
j bottom running the entire length of
I the machinery space, or 150 feet.
I The outer plating varies from thirty pounds
to seventeen and one-half pounds, the ordi
nary weight being twenty pounds per square
foot. The machinery, magazines, shell rooms,
torpedo rooms and steering gear are placed
i below an armored deck, which is four inches
thick on its sloping sides and two and one
half inches on the horizontal part amidships.
A Feat in Surgery.
A remarkable surgical operation has just
been performed at the Massachusetts Gen
ei al Hospital, Boston, by Dr. M. H. Richard
son of that city. About a year ago John
McCarthy swallowed a set of artificial teeth,
which passed through the oesophagus and
lodged in the cardiac orifice of tho
stomach. Some months ago an attempt was
made by a surgeon to remove the obstruction
by the introduction of an instrument into the
oesophagus through the mouth, but to no
purpose. The passage of food to the stomach
being almost wholly prevented, the patient
became very much emaciated and very weak,
and it was evident that unless relief was soon
had he must die. After having had the case
under observation at the hospital for
a short time Dr. Richardson determined
upon opening the stomach. He
mad;} a transverse cut in the left side of the
abdomen, through which the stomach was
drawn and then opened, when Dr. Richardson
wabble to reach and remove the teeth. The
internal opening was then closed with fine silk
and the stomach replaced, the external cut
being also closed with stitches. The whole
operation was completed in forty-five min
utes. The patient is doing well, and his com
plete recovery is now considered certain.
The Great Forest Fires.
A Fort Howard (Wis.) dispatch says: Re
ports from the great fires have not been at
all exaggerated. Fort Howard and Green
Bay are enveloped in dense smoke, and
all around the outskirts of the town
caa be seen the flames as they
burst from the distant woods. Every
thing is as dry as tinder, and the fences and
grass along the tracks are either burned or
are now burning. North of Little Creek is
a large cranberry swamp in which the bushes
are all on fire and burning fiercely. One of
the most peculiar effects of the fire is the ac
tion of the animals, which seem to be appre
hensive of some great danger. The
cattle and horses huddle together, forget
ting to feed, and stamp the ground restively.
Around Green Bay the damage has been
heavy, but the greatest loss has been suf
fered in tho Oconto region. Last Monday
night the fire reached Depere, and burned
fifty-one buildings, including a church and
several stores. The fires, according to the
latest reports, are rapidly dving out, and un
less a gale of wind should spring up will
cause little more damage.
in the West.
During a wind storm a large double ice
house at Mitchell, Madison County, 111., was
bl »wn down, and four tramps who had taken
refuge iu the building were killed. Ibe
building was about half full of ice, and was
razed to the ground.
At the afterncon performance of a circus
in Edina, Mo., a tremendous wind-form came
U P; tearing the immense canvas from the
poles. Tho whole fell to the ground, burving
great numbers of men, women and children
beneath th» canvas and creating a panic i
which resulted in a number of pensons being !
seriously injured. i
A hurricane passed over Keokuk. lowa, do
ing great damage to buildings and leveling
fences aud trees. Numbers of business
w ero unroofed and the spire oi the
First Baptist Church was blown down. Con
siderable loss was entailed in the lumber
district
Throughout lowa and in portions of Uli
creps.a vloJenfc storra has greatly injured
An Actor’s Sensational Suicide.
A real tragedy of the theatre has occurred
at Casale, a town of Pieimont, in Northers
Italy. An actor, who was playing a lead
ing part, failed to please the audience, who
displayed their disapproval by prolonged
hissing. The actor stopped suddenly in his
line-, and, advancing to the footlights, drew
a revolver and shot himself dead.
His wife, who was seated in a box, wit
nessed the tragedy, and in a frenzy attempted
to leap to the floor beneath, which was quite
n distance. She was restrained by several
friends who were in her company, and was
finally carried from the theatre unconscioua
A CRAZY BARBER’S AtTL
Patrick H. McCarron, a barber, of
Providence, R. L cut the throat of James
Crosby while shaving him on Wednes
day. Crosby ran into the street, but
died on the sidewalk. McCarron has been
subject to fits of dementia, and a physi
cian last month advised that he be taken
to an asylum for treatment.
FAILURE OF A DRY GOODS HOUSE
The large Dry Goods House of Samuel
R. Payson, of Boston, failed on Wednes
day. His liabilities are estimated at
>350.000. His financial difficulties were
caused by the defalcation of t reasurer
William Gray.
DEKALB'S STATUE.
GREAT (jROWUS AT THE UNVEIL*
ING in ANNAPOLIS.
Unveiling of the Bronze Statneat Annapo
lis, Aid.
The ceremonies attending the unveil
ing of the DeKalb statue on Monday,
caused the historic old city of Annapolis,
Md., to awaken from the lethargy with
which it is usually enwrapped. Fully
10,000 strangers were in attendance and
the city was gaily decorated in. honor of
the occasion. The statue is considered
the best wotk of the young sculptor,
Ephraim Keyser, to whom the work was
given by ex-Secretary Frellnghuysen. It
represents a Geimafi soldier in Conti
nental uniform with a sword upheld and
is a magnificent bronze work, measuring
nine feet in height, mounted on a granite
pedestal thirteen feet high. It is erected
on a knoll at the south end of the state
house grounds and faces due south. The
ceremonies opend with a parade, in which
a part was taken by United States naval
officers, cadets and mariners; all the
state militia, the Knights of Pythias,
German societies and other organizations.
The unveiling was according to the solemn
ritual of the Masonic order and was in
charge of the grand lodge of Maryland,
Thomas J. Shryick, grand marshal, with
Beausant commandery Knights Templar,
as a guard of honor. The veil was with
drawn at half past two o’clock, when a
national salute was fired from the naval
academy. Secretary of State Bayard,
who was accompanied by the Turkish
minister, received the statue from sculp
tor Keyser.
HIS TWO WIVES.
ACbal tanooga Man Finds Himself In a Sad
Predicament.
James Stearns, who returned to Chat
tanooga, Tenn., last week with a pretty
young wife, after an absence of thirty
years in California, believing his first
wife dead, only to find the latter alive, is
in an unfortunate predicament. He has
two wives and don’t know what to do
with one of them. Both Stearns and his
first wife believed each other dead, as he
had gone west to seek a home for his
family and was never heard from, and
neither could he learn one word concern
ing his wife, she receiving neither letters
nor SI,OOO, T<iich he sent her. Stearns
was married in 1840, and the couple were
devoted to each other. Now that he has
found her alive, and that she has re
mained-true to her troth, plighted forty
six years ago, his old love has been re
kindled, and yet he loves his young wife
whom he brought from California, and
she fairly worships her aged husband.
They are living in the same house at
present, but this state of affairs cannot
last long, as both the wives, who at first
were so affectionate toward each other,
are becoming very jealous. Tho husband
is in a dilemma and cannot decide which
wife shall have the exclusive claim to his
affection.
The two baby boys whom he left when
he went west are now grown men and
have families, while by his second wife
he has a sweet four-year-old girL
CARRIED OUT HIS THREAT.
A Nebraska Farmer Kills a Neighbor for
Serving a Writ.
Enoch Young was shot and killed by a
man named Vinson, in Rottar valley,
Neb., on Wednesday. A dispute had
arisen between Vinson and a settler about
a piece of land. The settler attempted
to serve a summons on him in legal pro
ceeding to stop him from cultivating the
land, and Vinson ran him off with a shot
gun, and said he would kill any one who
attempted to serve the summons. Young,
who was on good terms with Vinson,
then volunteered to serve it, and was ac
companied by several neighbors, who hid
in a cornfield to see the fun, as they
termed it. When Young announced to
Vinson his errand, Vinson fired at him,
killing him instantly, twenty-five buck
shot entering his body. Vinson fled to
the hills, but afterwards surrendered and
he was placed in jail at Broken Bow,
under strong guard to prevent mob
violence.
WESTERN STORMS.
Cyclones Playing Havoc in Minnesota and
Dakota.
Reports from various Minnesota and
Dakota points show that the storm of
Sunday afternoon and night was unusu
ally severe. At Fargo there is a rumor
that a cyclone visited Breckenridge,
Minnesota, with disastrous results to life
and property, but the wires are down
and the report cannot lie verified. A
cyclone was seen at Albert Lea, but it
was too high to be dangerous. At Elk
•on, Dakota, the depot was unroofed and
•he Catholic church blown from its foun
dations. At Larimer, Dakota, the Pres
byterian church was blown down; loss
$3,000. A number of smaller frame
buildings and cars were blown into the
river at Dalton, Minn.
DEFEAT OF THE KNIGHTS.
The striking cigarmakers of New York
returned to work on Monday as union
ists. The strippers, of whom there are
nearly five hundred, also returned to
their shops. The bunchers went back to
work Tuesday and the rollers on Wed
nesday. J. Brussel & Co. and Ottenberg
Bros, are the only firms now holding out
and still employing Knights of Labor in
the shops. The fight between cigar
makers and Knights of Labor had been
on for several weeks, and the knights
have been defeated.
NUMBER 29.
PERSONAL MENTIOH.
Mr Jay Ggvld spends 1216 a day on his
yacht Atsdanta.
Attorney-General Garland is on hia
farm near Little Rock, Ark.
General Sherman has been the social
, lion of the season in California.
Senator Stanford, of California, has five
mansions In different parts of the country,
all elegantly and completely furnished.
Dr. Loring, ex-Commissioner of Agricul
ture, will found a new town, to be called by
his name, about seven miles from Wash
ington.
Mrs. John W. Mackay is the American
woman referred to by London Truth as hav
ing been refused an invitation to the Queen’s
state ball.
Governor Fitzhugh Lee, of Virginia,
will attend the Steuben County Fair at Bath,
i N. Y., in September, as the guest of General
W. W. Averell.
Chauncey M. Depew, Franklin B. Goweu
and Thomas Powell Fowler are three rail
road presidents who entered .the railroad
world from law offices.
General Boulanger, the French Minis
ter of War, and the most talked-of man in
Fatih, is the son of an attorney at Rennes.
His mother was English.
| Joaquin Miller has assumed the editor-
■ ship ot the Golden Era, a magazine pub
lished at San Francisco. It is the same mag
azine upon which Bret Harte made his debut.
Mr. P. T. Barnum says that if he lives
much longer and retains his present activity
he will exhibit himself in a side tent as “one
of the greatest curiosities Barnum ever
handled.”
The secret of M. DeLesseps’s success in
raising the Panama Canal loan is his persua
sive power with the lading. He has in veigled
no less than 16,000 of the gentler sex into his
scheme, and still they come.
Although Senator Morrill, of Vermont,
is seventy-seven years old and Jias spent
nearly half his life in Congress, it isf said that
up to the time of his recent illness he was
never absent but one day from his seat.
The Prince of Wales declines to go out
to tho Adelaide (Australia) Jubilee Expo
sition next year on the ground that it would
not be proper to absent himself from Eng
land during the jubilee year o f the Queen’s 1
reign.
John T. Elkins, the brother of Stephen
8., who died suddenly of heart disease while
on a lishiug and hunting excursion among
the Roekies a few days ago, owned large
silver and cattle interests in Colorado and
had served a term in the Senate of that
State.
NEWSY GLEANINGS.
The honey ant is now sought as a delicacy
by California epicures.
•’ Eight members of Congress have died
during the present Administration.
The new Boston Directory contains 177,-
635 names or 10,20 J more than last year.
Four homing pigeons released in New
York reached New Haven,’ eighty-seven
miles distant, in sixty-seven minutes.
A Western paper makes the extraordi
nary estimate that 10,000,000 pounds of fish
are taken from the rivers ot Illinois ®ach
year. (
The pickle crop on Long Island, which
generally amounts to about 50,000,000 pickles
or cucumbers, will be nearly double this
year.
Recent general army statistics Show that
last year twenty-four out of 156 deaths that
occurred among the soldiers were due to
suicide.
Martha Washington’s portrait will
adorn the new one dollar silver certificates,
, and that of General Hancock the certificates
of two dollars.
The chamber in the White House occu
pied by President Garfield after lie was
wounded has, it is said, never been opened
since he lelt it. *
The census just taken in Paris shows that
the city contains one married woman of
fourteen, three widowers of eighteen and two
widows of sixteen.
When the Texas people get ready to build
a town they do it in a nurry. Ballinger, a
new town in Runnels county, is only a month
old, but it has 2,000 inhabitants and is still
growing.
A tramp arrested in an Illinois town for
sleeping in a box car was found to have SIOO
in gold sewed up in one of his pockets and
certificates of deposit in a St. Louis bank
amounting to $2,000.
Horace Smith, of Salisbury, Conn., who
is ninety-two years old, has lived to see sev
enty grandchildren and four great-grand
children. He was a school teacher in that
town from 1813 to 1873.
A REMARKABLE LIFE.
Career of Maurlece Flynn, the Convicted
hew York Contractor.
1 The following is an epitomized account of
the life of Maurice B. Flynn, the New York
contractor who has been jointly indicted with
Commissioner of Public Works Squire for
conspiracy. Flynn is the man with whom
Squire made a written agreement prac
tically permitting the contractor to control
the office of Commissioner of Public Works:
Born, Malden, Columbia cotrnty..Nov.3,lß4B
Came to New York 1665
Was worth then
Employed as clerk in grocery... $3 per week
Three'weeks later in Novelty
Iron Works $5 per week
One week later employed as
bookkeeper for Guy C. Hotch
kiss & Son $8 per week
Made junior partner. 1661
Mad©ejual partner. .....11871
Graduated from Cooper Institute 1870
Entered politics in Brooklyn 1876
Was then worth
Assemblyman from Brooklyn. 1875-76
Entered New York political life. 1877
Began retting contracts from Depart
ment of Public Works. 1878
Made under Thompson’s regime. ...$1,600,600
Made under Squire’s regime
Made on new aqueduct contracts. .$1,000,0J0
Number of contracts on hand.... .* 50
Will make out of these $4,000,000
Made from dredging harbor SIOO,OOO
Will make out of Subway Commis-
sion $2,000,000
Is now worth $3,000,000
Indicted for conspiracy Aug. 12
Will be tried Sent. 1
YELLOW FEVER AT QUARANTINE.
At a meeting of the board of health
on Monday, a telegram was read report
ing the arrival of the bark Scotian at the
lower quarantine station, nineteen days
from Colon. She lost two of her crew on
the passage from fever, and had four
cases on board. The sick, were remOved
to the hospital, and two of the eases were
pronounced yellow fever. The vessel
will be detained at the lower quarantine
station or seat to Ship island.