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Letter recomending John Penn Watson for office,
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CHARITY TO ALL.
VOLUME VIII.
DOUGLASVILLE, GEORGIA. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1886-
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CHURCH DIRECTORY
METHODIST—Dougl.- svn le—First,
third and fifth Sundays.
Salt Springs—Second Sund: y and
Saturday before.
/Midway—Fourth Sunday and Satur
day before. W. R. Foote, Pastor.
BAPTIST—Douglasville—First ai d
fourth Sundays. Rev. A. B. Vaughn,
pastor.
MASONIC.
Douglasville Lodge, No. 289, F. A.
M. , meets c n Saturday night before the
first and third Sundays in each month.
J. R. Carter, W. M., W. J. Camp, Sec
retary.
COUNTY DIRECTORY.
Ordinary—H. T. Cooper.
Clerk—S. N. Dorsett.
Sheriff—Henry Ward.
Deputy Sheriff—G. M. Souter.
Tax Receiver—E. H. Camp.
Tax Collector—W. A. Sayer.
Treasurer—Samuel Shannon.
Surveyor—John M. Huev.
Coroner—F. M. Mitchell.
SUPERIOR COURT.
Meets on third Mondays in January and
July and holds two weeks.
Judge—Hon Samson W. Harris.
Sol. Genl.—Hon. Harry M. Reid.
Clerk—S. N. Dorsett.
Sheriff—Henry Ward.
COUNTY COURT,
Meets in quarterly session on fourth
Mondays in February, May, August and
November and holds until all the cases
on the docket are called. In monthly
session it meets on the fourth Mondays
in each month.
Judge—Hon. R. A. Massey.
Sol.'Genl.—Hon. W. T. Roberts.
Bailiff—D. W. Johns.
ORDINARY’S COURT.
Meets for ordinary purposes on first
Monday, and for county purposes on first
Tuesday in each month.
Judge—Hon. H. T. Cooper.
justices’ courts.
730th Dist. G. M. meets first Thursday
in each month. J. I. Feelv, J. P.. W.
H. Cash, N. P., D. W. Johns and W. K.
Hunt, L. C’s.
7BGth Dist. G. M, meets second Satur
day. A. It. Bomar, J. P., I3.A. Arnold,
N. P., S. C. Yeager, L. C.
784 Dist. G. M. meets ^
iramv I Taggctt,
J. C. James and M. S. Gore, L.
r 1209th Dist. G. M. meets third Satur-
M. Hamilton. .T, P . M. L.
THE ORIGINAL THIRTEEN,
ARRANGEMENTS FOR A
CENTENNIAL.
GREA1
MEXICAN MATTERS.
A Resolution of Sympathy Passed for the
Charleston Sufferers—Old Carpenter’s
Hall Visited—Addresses of
Welcome.
As a result of the movement on the
part of the chief magistrates of the thir
teen original states, seven governors ol
as many commonwealths met at Philadel
phia to arrange for a fitting observance
of the centennial anniversary of the pro
mulgation of the constitution cf the
United States. This centennary will oc
cur on September 17th, 1887. Ten states
were represented. New Hampshire,
Massachusetts and North Carolina were
not represented, but probably will be.
The following governors were present:
Pattison, of Pennsylvania; Lee, of Vir
ginia; Floyd, of Maryland; Stockley, of
Deleware; Wettmor, of Rhode Island;
McDaniel, of Georgia; and Sheppard, of
South Carolina. New York was repre
sented by Lieutenant Jones; New Jersey
by a committee of the state legislature;
aid Connecticut by ex-Governor Biga-
low.
At the Continental Hotel Governor
Pattison delivered a brief address of
welcome. After Governor Patterson’s
speech the party divided into pairs and
marched down Chestnut street to the old
state house. Here the party halted in
the room where the declaration of inde
pendence was signed, and standing undet
a canopy of red, white and blue, listened
to an address of welcome by Mayoi
Smith.
Carpenter’s Hall, the old hall where, in
1774, the first colonial congress met,
eleven provinces being represented, was
next visited. Here, also a meeting was
held. The governors ranged themselves
around a large table hear the centre of
the hall. Richard K. Betts, one of the
oldest members of the Carpenter’s com
pany in the city and county of Philadel
phia welcomed the visitors and .' -
reviewed the history of tbcj&Y
meeting-place. Ramp'Y", governors
delivered -J 3 pattison-
The fcffSrder by Governor^
governors of Nora*et^J&|t^ r ^tap-
shire and Massachu^PHHBijfl^i'vt
ANOTHER SHAKE.
President Diaz’s Message to Co cares*—The
Cutting Affair.
In his annual message to congress,
read on the assembling of that body Wed
nesday, President Diaz said that Mexico’s
relations to foreign governments had
continued generally on terms of friend
ship and good understanding. There
had, however, recently occurred an in
cident which threatened to destroy tho
harmony and cordiality existing between
this republic and its northern neighbor.
A case of small impoi guce in itself, it
excited, in an unexpected manner and
owing to a conjunction of circumstances,
passions on either side of the Rio
Grande.
“I refer,” continues the message, “to
the matter of the American journalist
which has already came to our knowledge
by publications made in the Diaro Offi
cial. We must congratulate ourselves
that in such an emergency the dignity of
the government and the good name of
the. country could be saved without
serious conflict, thanks to tho prudent
and strictly legal conduct of the courts
and authorities of tho state of Chihuahua
as well as to the good sense of our own
people and of the government of the
United States, which, when better in
formed, did not insist upon its demand
which gave rise to this transient diffi
culty. Texas papers have, on this ac
count, alluded to other cases of alleged
outrage on citizens of that country by
officials of our own. In their eagerness
to accumulate charges against Mexico,
they have referred, mistakenly, to _ 1h i
case of an individual named Francisces
Erresuris, author of various crimes com
mitted in our territory. It will suffice to.
of Mexican
A Sllgkt (Shock of Earthquake la Charles,
ton—The Work of Relief.
CYCLONE IN INDIANA.
observe that Erresuris was , .
nationality and was voluntarily delivered/- - su ], s i s tence committees are
by Texan authpHpes to a force of the.;,,
state of Coeh-iila Without any previous’
demand for his extradition. So that, in
th> r ;?*e, it will be seen that as regards
xpposed citizen of the United
. there is no occasion for a contro-
between the two governments.,
THE ODD FELLOWS.
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S. W. Diggers, L. 0., ,S.
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G. M. meets third Satur-
Cnmp, J. P., W. S. Hud-
A. Hill., L. C.
G. M. meets first Satur-
Alberry
Yates. N. P.,
J. Jourdan. !,-.
1260th Dist.
day. N. W.
son, N. P.. J.
lJTTst Dist.
day. C. 0. Clinton, J. P.
Hembree, N. P.. , L. C.
1272:1 Dist. G. M. meets fourth Fri
day. George W. Smith, J. P., C. J.
Robinson, N. P., ——, L. C.
1273d Dist, G. M. meets third Friday.
Thomas White, J. P., V. J. Bowen, N.
P. W. J. Harbin, L. C.
inability to be presen]
governors thfey were,
the movement.
s wer
f andaH^JPg the
in sympathy with
Colonel J. E. Pa;
the idea of the cele'
ton, who originated
'nation, and who has
Prof sslonal Cards J
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ATTORNEY AT LAW oi
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douglasvii.de, ga.
^ (Office, In front room, llorsett’s Btuhling., I]
H’d! practice anywhere except in the Cnuntj
Court of Douglass county.
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ATTOR EY AT LAW, r
Will practice in all the courts, Slate an ^
Federal. Office on Court House Square, ^
DOUGLASVILLE, GA. e
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ATTORNEY AT AW, e
DOUGLASVILLE, ga. ^
Will practice in all the Courts. All lega t
Misiness will receive prompt attention. Offict c
in Court House. ^
C. I> CAMP. ;
ATTORNEY AT LAW. n
DOUGLASVILLE, GA. 1
Will practice in all the courts. All business ®
tntrusted to him will receive prompt attention, f
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B. G. GRIGGS, j
attorney at law, ;
DOUGLASVILLE, GA. f
Will practice in all the courts, State and
Federal.
JOHN M, EDGE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
DOUGLASVILLE, GA.
Will practice in all the courts, and promptly
attend to all business entrusted to his care.
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J. S. JAW ES,
ATTORNEY AT tAW,
DOUGLASVILLE, GA.
Will, practice in the courts of Douglass,
Campbell, Carroll, Paulding, Cobb, Fulton and
adjoining oounties. Prompt attention given
to all business.
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J. H. McLaRTY,
attorney at law. |
douglasville, GA.
Will practice in a!! the courts, both Statu and
Federal. Collection* a specie ty.
JOHN V. ECGE.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
DOUGLASVILLE, GA.
JGB PRINTING
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NEATLY DONE
charge of the arranAements, was invited
to the stand to rnafti any suggestions
which might have occurred to him. He
said it would be a good thing to have
every state in the JJiiion represented at
the celebration next September by a reg
iment of soldiery. It seemed.to him
that the young men would avail them
selves of this opportunity to participate.
On motion of Governor Pattison, the
organization was made permanent. The
Governor suggested, also, that a commit
tee, consisting of the governors of the
thirteen states and representative citizens
to pre-
On motion of Governor Stockley, the
linted a committee of five
i draft a plan. The governors
lania, Deleware, Rhode Island
ind Georgia were appointed.
During the sessions at Carpenter’s
solutions were adopted that each
id territory be invited to unite
nation for a proper national cele-
of the adoption of the federal
ite to congress at their next meeting
fact that his administration closes
first century of constitutional gov-
dignity and importance; that the
people the fitness of their hearty
teration. A resolution was also
a celebration worthy of the event.
to co-operate with the permanent
thanking the Carpenter’s company
lie Greatest Excursion on Record—Tht
Sovereign Grand Lodge.
Saturday morning an extraordinarily
large excursion left Chicago for Boston,
over the Chicago and Grand Trunk Rail
way. The contract with that company
£alls foi sixty
■.slaepi ng' coach
-.coaches and
first section of ^ _ _____
Chicago* Saturday at 9 a. m. The re
maining sections of the train left every
twenty minutes thereafter until the entire
party was on the move.
This great excursion is going to the
Odd Fellows’ celebration at Boston,
where the sovereign grand lodge of the
world. holds its meeting. -
The Odd Fellows are vainly trying to
get lower rates for everybody on all lines.
They entered into a contract with the
Grand Trunk for $13 for the round trip.
Since that date other competing compa
nies have made concessions.
A MUSICAL SWINDLER.
How Carl Von Webber Lived In Jack
sonville.
Carl Yon Webber, professor of music,
of Jacksonville, Fla., was arrested,
charged with larceny in stealing a lady’s
diamond ring, a sum of money and sur
gical instruments to the value of five
hundred dollars. He came here a year
ago. He claimed to have been a pro
fessor in the Cincinnati academy of
music and a member of the Theodore
Thomas orchestra in New York. He
also said he had a vineyard in California
and was an Australian count living
incog. Yon Webber was received in the
best circles, and took leading rank as a
musical director in the Congregational
church choir, and also in the Philhar
monic society. The property mentioned
was found in his room at the hotel,
packed up. He owed a board bill at the
hotel, and it is found that of late he had
been eating at a restaurant and sleeping
in the church of the Incumbent.
SUSPENDED.
There was an earthquake shock Thurs
day morning about 4 o’clock unaccompa
nied by any great rumbling or detonation,
and was only noticed by a few persons.
There has not been a shock in several
days worth reporting.
The relief committee has issued ovei
one thousand forms of application for
assistance in rebuilding or repairing
houses. Attention has recently been di
rected to the character of mortar used,
consisting Jirgely of yellow sand, and the
city council will probably take action on
the subject to prevent any Buddensieck
disaster in the hurry of rebuilding.
Ex-Senator Simon Cameron, in a letter
covering one thousand dollars into the
relief fund says:
“I always associate your city and state
with my recollections o£ your statesman,
Mr. Calhoun, who occupied so command
ing a position in the senate and before
the country. At my first entrance upon
public life, more than forty years ago, he
received me in the senate with the great
est of kindness, and during the remain
der of his life I was permitted not only
to share, with others, the admiration of
his singular sinijalicity, elevation and dig
nity of character, but also to experience,
almost {laily, some proof of his personal
consideration and regard. It naturally
gives me pleasure therefore, to associate
my recollections of him with this contri
bution tqjferards the relief of citizens of
the state ne loved so well.”
The fund for relief now amounts to
$309,118.
Courtenay’s proclamation.
Work is going on actively, but brick
layers and plasterers are badly needed.
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, suing rations to nearly 7,000 persons. A
large majority of these are colored. No
case of distress fails to receive prompt
intention
Mayor Courtenay issued the following
proclamation.
City op Charleston, Executive
Department, September 17, 1886;—
To the Public: The city council of Char
leston, at its last regular meeting on the
the 14th inst., took the following action:
“Whereas, a terrible calamity has be
fallen Charleston—vast -and widespread
in the loss it inflicts, far greater in extent
than was at first re Axed.
“And .whereas, it it evident that the
(SM-tkssi standWiihich
a all parts of thjs
^ —-.-land, and which $*
deeply' cpprechdefrC.-nd gratefully g-t
knowledges 1ry ot& people, will've
wholly insufficient to meet our unex
pected} exigencies; be it
“Resolved, That-he mayor be request
ed to prepare an address to the public
setting forth our condition and invoking
additional aid for this stricken city.”
In making knovf&'to-she general pub
lic this declaration of thf . municipal gov
ernment as to the condition of our city at
this time, it seisms unnecessary that I
should add any words of my own. The
facts are before the country by the
statements of disinterested visitors from
different parts of the land, after personal
observation, and are known here and
deeply felt.
I a*k the press of the United States to
give this proclamation the benefit of it
far-reaching circulation.
William A. Courtenay.
There was a slight shock of earthquake
at 2:25 Friday morning.
The relief committee provided for the
appointment of two master mechanics to
visit every house of persons applying for
assistance to rebuild, and to estimate the
amount of damages. A resolution was
also passed providing first for the pay
ment of small claims, less than $200.
THE EPISCOPAL CHURCHES
Bishop Paret has issued a circular to
the Episcopal clergy and congregations
of the diocese of Maryland, recommend
ing and requesting that in all the
churches in that diocese offerings be re
ceived on Sunday, September 26, for re
building the churches of Charleston.
Such offerings may be sent to Rev. J. H.
Eccleston, D. D., 140 Paul street, Balti
more, who will acknowledge them, and
the whole amount be placed in the hands
of the bishop of South Carolina, to be
used as he shall direct.
At 11:80 o’clock on Wednesday a
cyclone struck Terre Haute, Ind., com
ing from the southwest. For fifteen
minutes the wind blew a hurricane, fill
ing the air with missiles. The storm
was confined to the central portion ol
the city. Numerous large buildings
were unroofed and the rain which fol
lowed did great damage. A careful es
timate places the loss at $45,000. The
roof on the Masonic hall was blown off
and the water ruined the fine frescoing
in the lodge rooms.
The canvas of a circus was blown down
and a large audience left in the storm.
Many of the actors were in the dressing
room, half nude, and they made a brisk
movement up the street for the nearest
hotel. Several thousand people were at
the fair grounds. An eating house was
blown down and the wreck caught fire,
severely burning a woman and boy. No
fatalities occurred,
A special from Newport, Vermillion
county, reports six or eight buildings
destroyed, but no lives were lost. The
damage reported along the Wabash val
ley is great, and will aggregate ovei
$90,000.
About 11 o’clock this morning a vio
lent wind storm struck Montezuma,
Park county, this state, but did no dam
age beyond unroofing a number of houses
and uprooting shade trees.
HARRY HILL’S RAILROAD.
The Union Point and White Plains
railroad has suspended operations for a
short time because of some disagreement
between President Harry Hill and the
stockholders. The stockholders, who
subscribed $10,000 to the road, claimed
a bond for this amount, which bond
President Hill has given. It seems that
the White Plains stockholders think the
bind for $10,000 is insufficient to cover
the rolling stock and otier equipments
at the time the road is ready to be
turned over to the company. One hun
dred and seventy-five hands are suspend
ed until the trouble is adjusted.
Four miles of the road have been
graded, and Mr. Burkhalter, the con
tractor, one of the most energetic and ef
ficient railroad men in the south, says he
will have the remaining eight mi&s
graded ana equipped, ready for running,
in forty days after the trouble is adjusted
and work is resumed.
MUSICAL AID DRAMATIC.
Mme. Bernhardt will play but fourteen
weeks in this country.
A comedy written by Lord Beaconsfield is
to be produced soon at a London theatre.
Miss Violet Cameron brings over a
chorus of forty people for her opera com
pany.
There are 150,000 persons engaged in one
capacity or another in London theatres and
music halls.
Mr. Living and Miss Ellen Terry reap
peared in the London Lyceum Theatre last
night in “Faust.”
Mme. Minnie Hauk has sung leading
parts in over forty operas and in three dif
ferent languages.
Minnie Palmer, having completed her
tour of Ireland, has sailed for Austria for a
nine months’ engagement.
Miss Mary Anderson is going to play
four nights in Dublih for the benefit of the
fund for the Charleston sufferers.
Mrs. Langtry’s costumes that she will
bring to this country were made after draw
ings "furnished by “ The Lily ” herself.
Mademoiselle Erdody, who was consid
ered the best soubrette on the Berlin stage,
has committed suicide with a revolver.
Mme. Trebelli, the contralto singer, will
come to this country soon with her daughter
Antoinette and commence a tour of sixty
concerts.
Rubinstein will personally conduct the
first performances of his new Sixth Sym
phony in Leipsic, which will take place next
November.
Three live lions and two leopards are
among the actors in Sardou’s mast -rpiece,
“Theodora,” now being performed at Niblo’s
Garden, New York.
John T. Raymond is ill. He fell in a faint
the other day when about to begin a re
hearsal for the season, and it is thought he
will not be able to act for some time to come.
A .Bert Niemann, the German tenor, will
receive 818,000, beside having his traveling
expenses and hotel bills paid, for his three
months’ engagement in this country for next
season.
In Miss Annie Pixley’s new play next
season, “The Deacon’s Daughter,” she imper
sonates the wiibul daughter of stern New
England parents, who goes on the stage
against their wishes, and shocks them very
hard.
At “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” company ap
peared at Winnamac, Ind., under canvas,
and played so badly that the large audDuce
broke up the performance, and some even
went so far as to throw brickbats at the per
formers.
Patti, who is the finest singer in the world,
is a lyric soprano, and in addition to her
wonderful voice she is an admirable actress,
which gives a captivating elect to her
inelcdiou 5 utterances. She has received
15,000 a i -lv; and is of course rich.
M M BEK 84.
AN
When in the house the day is warm,
And dogs lie stretched before the door,
Come out to my neglected farm,
And sit upon the grassy floor.
Under the apple-trees’ green roof,
Laced with the yellow light of mom,
Share nature’s joy without reproof,
Thou man who art to trouble bom l
Alas ! ’tis said for price of gold
The axe shall hew these leafy towers;'
The spade shall trample in the mould
This fragrant grass, these dewy flowers.
And when this pleasure-house is waste,
A mansion built for earthly care,.
For waiting days and tiresome haste,
Shall lift a stately front in air.
Then come, before the day declines,
And hear the bees among the boughs;
See where the early moon entwines
Her crescent in my bloomy house..
Perhaps before the spade shall wound
This turf, to plant the cares of earth,
A smaller plot of turf be found
More green to tell our noble birth.
Then hasten ere the day shall die,
And lay the heart to summer’s bliss.
And learn whatever joys may fly, —
To know the permanence of this.
Annie Fields, in Harper**.
PITH AND POUT.
ROBBERY OF THE MAILS.
Ala. One
were cut open
Two rifled United States mail bags
were discovered under the platforms of a
cotton press at Montgomery,
was Unlocked, but both
as' with a dull knife, and both were
empty. Their appearance indicated that
they had been very recently put there
No letter or sign of the contents was
found, but there is reason to think
they were rifled Saturday night after be
ing snached from the incoming train
from Nashville. Inspector Booth, at
Atlanta, has been telegraphed to send i
detective.
PERSONAL MENTION.
Every crab has its own side walk.
Religious notes.—Hymn-book music.
The Associated press—A lover’s
squeeze.
A court-ship has two mates ana no
^Themost confirmed skeptic will take
your word for it if you point a gun at his
head and tell him it is loaded.—-Philadel
phia, Gall.
In summer when we want him not
All day the Sun is shining hot.
Like all the friends whom men may boast
He’s coldest when we need him most.
—Merchant Traveler.
A pious old lady recently sent as week
ding presents a pair of flatirons, a rolling
pin and a motto worked on carciboa d,
reading: “Fight on ."—Bangor Com
mercial.
New Yorkers want elevators which
will carry them up at the rate of 500 feet
per minute. The average citizen of
Gotham always was in a great hurry to
get high.—Boston Globe.
Every evening ’a good-iooking^fr,.
Comesaroyivi for to visit y Kly8T. { ’v, ,
'ne night on fire sfcturs.
.Ie, all unawares, _
Puts his arm round her figure and Kr.
Prince Alexander,of Bul&s.ria, rj
$809,000 for giving up his throne.
Frederick Douglass has . sailed for __
Europe with his wife on a longtHp. young matfsameto us the othe; day,
The Emperor of Russia hass sent M. Pas- , wan p e d to know if we could tel!, him
teur the sum of $20,0J0 for ljiis hydrophobia , here h0 cou ld get a position with a
hospital. ! pbance to rise. We directed him to the
Walt Whitman is busa on a poem that cna _ -
he calls “Senilia,” an ag@sd man’s review of a
life nearly gone.
Senator Leland
Free
TRAIN WRECKERS.
Early Thursday morning a freight train
was thrown from the track about a half
mile from South Lyons-, Mich., by a rail
having been removed from the track,
Fireman Ed Newman was killed,
brakeman Campbell was fatally and en
gineer Thos. Davis seriously injured.
The engine and fifteen cars were com
pletely wrecked. There is no clue to
the train wreckers. The people are
greatly excited and lynching will un
doubtedly follow the capture
wreckers.
of the
THE NEW HAMPSHIRE VETERANS.
RAILROAD ACCIDENT.
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sitiuii
The Central railroad depot was the
scene of a disastrous accident between
the hours of one and two o’clock, Thurs
day morning, at Albany, Ga. It was re
ported that the cannon ball train from
Brunswick would be a quarter of an hour
behind the schedule time, and Engineer
Green, of the Brunswick and Western
railroad, attempted to take advantage of
the delay to drill his cars. The cannon
ball came in sooner than was expected at
a pretty rapid rate of speed, and at the
time when the main track was obstructed
with Brunswick and Western freight
boxes
The cab was smashed and hurled from
the track. The engine was completely
dismantled and is a perfect wreck. The
fireman made a miraculous escape from
death, being bruised considerably by
sticks of wood thrown from the tender.
The engineer, Mr. Wallace Scoville, was
more unfortunate. Upon applying the
brake he jumped from the engine, and in
so doing broke his leg just above the
ankle, so badly that the bone protruded.
The physicians think they can save his
leg, but there is a possibility of its hav
ing to be amputated.
KILLED BY A FALLING ROCK.
A large rock overhanging the mountain
side in Jackson county, West Yirginia,
yesterday became detached and rolled
down. The dwelling and barns of Les
lie (Jimmins were demolished. Cum
mins’« son Frank and a hired man, Ed-
waiff leaks, were killed outright. Two
other children of Oummjtu? were so badly
hurt they will die. Several horses were
also killed.
The Howard County Bank of Glaseow.Mo^
Closes Its Doors.
James S. Thompson, president of the
bank, makes the following statement:
The assets of the bank are ample to pay
all depositors and stockholders in lull.
Hard times and extreme difficulty in col
lecting induced the directors to turn
over the business to a trustee, who will
collect and pay off first the depositors
and then the stockholders. The assets
amount to $60,000. The liabilities do
not amount to quite that sum. One of
the largest creditors of the bank is the
Laclede bank, of St. Louis. It, how
ever, will not be seriously affected By the
failure.
REDUCED RATES.
THE TWO BROTHERS.
A move affecting passenger traffic from
New York to the south and southwest,
will be made by the commissioner of the
Trunk Line pool, who will announce a
general reduction of from four to seven
dollars to all southern and southwestern
points. This is caused by the fact
that the East Tennessee, Virginia and
Georgia Air Line has grown restive un
der the continued cuts made by the Bal
timore and Ohio via Cincinnati, and in
recognition of the rights of the East
Tennessee, Yirginia and Georgia road,
this reduction is allowed by the trunk
lines. The new rates will be: New
York to New Orleans $25, Atlanta $20,
and other points on a similar basis.
A number of citizens of Winchester,
Va., headed by the Union cornet band,
seventeen peices, left on Friday, via Har
risburg and New York, to attend the cel
ebration of the New Hampshire Veteran
Association on Monday, Tuesday and
Wednesday, at Winchester, N. H. All
are guests of the association, and left in
anticipation of a royal good time. The
Virginia militia rifle team that had also
been invited, were obliged to decline the
invitation.
murdeued for money.
ACCIDENT ON THE EAST TENNESSEE.
1 heir Novel Canvass in Nashville, Ten*
nessee.
The canvass which the Taylor brothers
are making has been one of unprecedent
ed excitement. They have averaged sev
eral hours daily speaking since starting,
and have but in two cases had as much
as five hours for sleep. In one stretch of
seventy-five hours they rested but five.
But they have stood the strain remarka
bly well, being old campaigners and
realizing the necessity for husbanding
their resources.
Neither realized the tremendous de
mands to be made upon their endurance.
The appointments cover every day and
the stations are so far apart as to necessi
tate an immediate start at the close of
the debate for the next station. The
speaking at Woodbury involved a ride
over a country road of fully forty miles,
and even rougher journeys are yet in
store. Each is bending every energy to
defeat the other on the stump. As to
the popular choice, there is no room for
doubt, and the debate is growing
stronger every day, each finding the
ability of the other, and becoming _ more
determined. Each manifests a sincere
interest in the personal welfare of _ the
other, and little brotherly acts of kind
ness which mark their intercourse are
beautiful features of their intercourse.
THE AUGUSTA STRIKE.
At Florence, S. C., Tuesday morning,
the body of James Douglass, Jr., a
prominent young man, was found on the
sidewalk with three wounds in his head,
either of which would have been fatal.
A 38-calibre pistol ball was found in the
back of his head, and there were two
other wounds, evidently inflicted by
blows. The object of the murder was
robbery. The murderers have not yet
been identified.
THE DOLPHIN AND PURITAN.
A warrant for forty-five thousand dol
lars has been issued to the assignees of
John Roach, in final payment for the
Dolphin and for the care of the monitor
Puritan. This is accepted in the settle
ment of all claims of John Roach against
the government, and the Dolphin be
comes in law what she long has been in
fact, the property of the government.
A CO-OPER ' TIVE MINE.
> .Stanford, it Is said,
makes It a matter of (pleasure to give away
the purses won by hisj horses on the turf.
German military circles are already pre
paring to_®ai§brate the Emperor’s ninetieth
birthday anniversary, on March 22 next.
Miss Harriet Goodwin, a niece of Gen-
eral S-jonewall Jackson, is a leading member
of tho Shaker Community at Alfred, Me.
Dr. J. L. Ingersoll, who had been nomi
nated for Congress by the Prohibitionists of
Wisconsin, is a brother of Colonel * Bob.
PostmasteivGeneral Vilas is quoted as
saying that President Cleveland has prom
ise! to make a visit West with him next
fall.
Miss Cleveland has finally consented to
go to Chicago to live, and is making prepara
tions to lease her house at Holland Patent,
N. Y. ‘
The picture of the late Vice-President
Thomas A. Hendricks adorns the new one-
doliar silver certificates which have just been
issued. Mrs. Hendricks doesn’t like the por
trait.
Senator John Sherman’s house at Mans
field, Ohio, is 1,300 feet above the sea level
—the highest poiDt in the State, and exactly
on the divide between Lake Erie and the
Ohio River.
“Extra Billy” Smith, twice Governor
of Virginia, reached his ninetieth birthday
last week. He is still quite active, phys
ically and mentally, and daily walks to War-
renton, Va., a distance of nearly a mile.
Bishop Whipple, of Minnesota, walks un
armed among the Indians in that vicinity; is
appealed toby them when disputes arise,
and could command the lives of hundreds of
various tribes did he need them.
The blue of fox furs presented by the Czar
to the Sultan are described as two magnifi
cent pieces, made up of the finest skins and
measuring each three metres square. Their
value is reckoned at 150,000 rounles.
nearest powder mill.—Burlington
Press.
In a Weak State.-—Landlady: “The
coffee, I am sorry to say. is exhausted,
Mr. Smith.” Boarder-Smith: 'Ah. yes,
poor thing. I was expecting that;
Iwe
noticed that for some time it hasn’t been
strong. ”—Siftings.
Down in the heart of the bottle-green wood
The shadows are shifting and long;
And over the pool in the butter-nut tree?
The chickadee rattles in song;
And then like a rasp comes a titful ki-yi
That echoes through mountain and vale.
And you know that some small boy has hurled
his dog out ,, .
In the green-coated pond by the taiL^
* ‘Here, James, take these two cakes
and give the smaller one to your little
brother.” James examined the cakes
carefully, appeared undecided, and nnai y
took a heroic bite out of one of them,
which he passed over to his brother with
the remark: “There, Tommy, I haje
made you a smaller oDe—They were both
the same size. —Philadelphia Call.
WORDS OF WISDOM.
HEISY GLEANINGS.
A terrible accident occurred a half
mile from Chattanooga at 6:10 Wednes
day evening, on the East Tennessee,
Virginia and Georgia Railway. The
northbound express train struck a cow on
a sharp curve, while going into Chat
tanooga. The engine turned over a slight
embankment, crushing the engineer Tom
Buckley, and Fireman Cal Farris, to
death. Buckley’s body was not recover
ed for several hours. The tracks of the
East Tennessee, Cincinnati Southern
and Western and Atlantic railways were
.blocked until midnight, No passengers
Were injured.
The Knights of Labor of Augusta have
received over ten thousand dollars tc
date, sufficient, it is reported, to pay off
the debts contracted by the hands of the
Augusta factory for the last ten_ weeks.
No money has as yet been received for
hands in the other mills, but Secretary
Turner, from headquarters in Phila
delphia, writes that the knights will
take care of the Augusta operatives and
they 7 will not return to work until the
mills advance wages 15 per cent. He
declines now to' submit matters to arbi
tration as offers heretofore made have
been rejected.
Mine No. 3, the largest in the vicinity
of Huntsville, Mo., after being idle mow
than five months, has just reopened on
the co-operative plan. The miners are to
have the use of the company’s machinery
and to pay the latter a royalty of one
cent per bushel, retaining for division
among themselves the remainder of th*
profits.
the terry tragedy.
P. D. Spencer, who wrote the card
which led to the Martinsville street fighl
between the Terrys and Spencers, ai
Danville, Va., was tried for the murdei
of J. K. Terry and acquitted. Four of
the participants of the fight have now
been tried and all acquitted. The feel-
in the county against the. Spencer party
is intense.
BURNED BY LIGHTNING.
Dispatches from Eau Claire, Minn.,
: ays: The Chippewa Lumber and Boom
Company’s sawmill, at Chippewa Falls,
the largest.in the country, was struck by
lightning at two o’clock Thursday
. nel completely destroyed. Loss; $250,-
000, partially insured,
Mrs. Sublett, of Chetopa, Kas., is 119
years old.
California has earthquake insurame
•sompanies.
The Denver (Col., News has a gold mine
in the cellar.
New Yoke: City received 21,943,520 quarts
of milk in August.
Over $18,000,000 has been expended on
monuments in Massachusetts since 1861.
Ten thousand public schools receive finan
cial support from the government of Mex
ico.
The snow is so deep among the mountains
in eastern Oregon that teams cannot travel
with safety.
If Daniel Pine, of Paw Paw, Ill., lives un
til December he will be 100 years old. Mean
while he amuses himself by hoeing and saw
ing wood.
Fifteen thousand dollars will be paid by
the navy department for each accepted de
sign for the proposed two-armoied 6,000-ton
war cruisers.
Nickels are so scarce in the Northwest that
merchants in Minneapolis and St. haul have
written East to have several barrels shipped
to them, offering to pay all expenses and two
per cent, premium.
A bridge two and a half miles long is to
be built over the Straits of Messina, thereby
connecting Sicily and Italy. It will cross
the water almost directly above the famous
Scylla and Charybdis.
A farmer of Moure Township, Canada,
has found in a swamp the skeleton of a
mastodon. The tusks are over four feet long,
the upper jaw is over three feet long, and
the ribs are in proportion.
A woman has arrived in Portland, Ova,
from Montana, whose entire wealth consisted
of ten children, the eldest ten years old.
There were one set of triplets, two sets of
twins, and three “singles.”
There is a baby in England waiting for
Baxnum to secure. It is a great baby, eleven
months old, weighing fifty-eight pounds,
standing three feet high, and measuring
thirty inches round the chest.
KILLED ABOUT A HORSE.
He is well paid that is well satisfied.
A young man idle, an old man needy.
The good paymaster is lord of another
man’s purse.
Hear one man before you answer; hear
several before you decide. -•
Only the lazy hope to attain prosperity
without work or self-denial.
If you would have a faithful servant,
and one that you like, serve yourself.
“Except wind stands as never it
stood, it is an ill wind turns none to
good.”
Society is a troop of thinkers, and the
best heads among them take the best
places. .
Unclaimed promises are like uncasnea
checks; they will keep us from bank
ruptcy, but not from want.
Vice incapacitates a man from all pub
lic duty; it withers the power of his
understanding, and makes his mind
paralytic.
Study rather to fill your mind than
your coffers, knowing that gold and
silver were originally mingled with dirt,
until avarice or ambition parted them.
Nothing will supply the want of sun
shine to peaches; and, to make knowl
edge valuable, you must have the cheero-^
fufness of wisdom. Goodness smiles to
the last.
It is easy to tell when others are flat
tered, but not when we ourselves are:
and every man and woman will lend firm
belief to the soft nothings of the very
man they believe to be an arrant fiatterei
when other are in the case.
Many men fail in life because, when
young, they form a false judgment touclw
ing their mental capacities' and inclina
tions, and are ever after engaged in.the
task of proving to themselves and othe”
that their verdict was a just one.
Two Memorial Trees.
In the Botaircal Gardens at Washing
ton arc a number of “memorial trees’^
arboreal tributes to prominent men.
of the trees are cypress, plaited yj,
posite sides of the south walk b\
W, Forney and Edwin Forrest., W»o v.ei-’
inseparable friends. Thesetre-ijffi grow
ing up, leaned toward each cither unto
now their branches almost | intciiarc
Sentimental people regard this as tyr’-
cal of close relations between tl\e actoj^
and the editor.—New York World.
In a difficulty in Wilkes county, Sim
Byers shot Henry Edwards twice and
killed him. Both of the parties were
from Allegheny county, N. 0. The diffi
culty was about- a horse.
Oregon pays a bounty cents
every squirrel killed, and one map
recently paid for 135,000 squirrw|
which he had collected ,
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