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VOLUME VIII.
CHURCH DIRECTORY
fe ODIST—DougI a* v IIL E—First,
third and fifth Bundays.
Springs—Second Sunday and
before.
S’ Midway-Fourth Sunday and Satur
day before. W. R. Foote, Pastor.
|t y BAPTlST—Douglasville—First and
fourth Sundays. Rev. A. B. Vaughn.
: iwbr.
MASONIC.
Douglasville Lodge, No. 289, F. A.
g M., meets cn Saturday night before the
first and third Sundays in each month.
gi’X- R- Carter, W. M., W. J. Camp, Sec
'■"’Tetary.
COUNTY DIRECTORY,
f Ordinary—H. T. Cooper.
<Jlerk—B. N. Dorsett.
Sheriff—Henry Ward.
Deputy Sheriff—G. jf. Sputer.
Tax Receiver—E. 11. Camp.
Tax Collector—W. A. Sayer.
Treasurer—Samuel Shannon.
Purveyor—John M. Huey.
(Coroner—F. M. Mitchell.
SUPERIOR COURT.
Meets on third Mondays in January and
July and holds two weeks.
Judge—Hon Sairapn 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 nfeets on the fourth Monday i
in each month. ■-
.Judge—Hon. R. A. Massey.
801. 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. Feely, J. P., W.
H. Cash, N. P., D. W. Johns aud W. K.
Hunt, L. C’B.
786th Dist. G. M, meets second Satur
day. A. R. Bomar, J. P., B.A. Arnold.
N. P., b, C. Yeager, L. C.
784 Dist. G. M. meets fourth Saturday-
Franklin Carver, J. p., C. B. Baggett,
N. P., J. 0. James and M. 8. Gore, L.
CM.
1239th Dist, G. At. meets third Satur
day. T. M. Hamilton, J. P.. M. L.
Yates, N. P., S. W. Biggers, L. C, S.
J. Jourdan, L. C.
1260th Dist. G. At. meets third Satur
. N. W. Camp, J. P., W. S. Hud
son, N. P., LA, mil., L. c.
first Satur-
C. Clinton, J.‘ K> Alberrv
N. P.. , L. C.
4272 d Dist. G. Al. meets fourth Fri
day. George W. Smith, J. P., J,
Robinson, N. P., , L. O.
1273 d Dist. G. Al. meets third Friday,
Thomas White, J. P., A. J. Bowen, N.
P. W. J. Harbin, L. C.
Profusion a I Cards.
ATTORNEY AT LAW
DOUGLASVILLE, GA.
(Office tn front room, Domett*# Building,,;
Will practice anywhere except in the Cotint)
Court of Douglass county,
w. r James,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Will practice in all the courts, Siase an
Federal. Office on Court House Sqgaffi,
DOUGLASVILLE, GA.
“Twill Roberts,
ATTORNEY AT I AW,
DOUGLASVILLE, GA
Will practice in all the Court*. All legs
totuineM will receive prompt attention. Office
in Court House.
<?. T> CAMP,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
DOUGLASVILLE, GA
Will practice in all the court*. All bu«inea»
minuted to him will receive pram pi wbteutjon.
snsiGGs;
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
DOUGLASVILLE, GA.
Will praotioe m all the eourte, State a»J
Federal. _______
JOHN M, EDGE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
DOUGLASVILLE, GA.
Will practice in all the courts, and promptly
attend to aU burin*** entrusted to hl* oar*.
. AIJANES,
hATTORNEY AT LAW,
jßlt DOUGLASVILLE, GA
IM W.li praclio in in* court* of Dongiaw*.
blmE** B ?** U> Carroll, I'aniding, Crt-b. FvUn s: .1
oonntin*. Prompt *U*nsson gmn
Es J. h. McLarty,
■kTTOKNEY AT LAW.
W DOUGLASVIU.K, GA.
practice h» » lie <-■ tv :< Uwh c-.j
f JOHN V. EC GE.
Attorney at law,
> JCGLISVIU-S. G 4
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I bl AR" OHIO
THE WEEKLY STAR.
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FRANK REESE KILLED.
A Terrible Railroad Tragedy at Hindi
■on.
Frank Reese was killed at the Georgia
railroad depot in Madison, Ga. Train
No. 13 is the up through freight on the
Georgia railroad, and passed Madison
about 4 o’clock in the morning. No. 18
consisted of 3 sections, and Frank Reese
was the train hand on No. 2. No. 2 had
some cars to leave at Madison, and was
somewhat behind. The cars' to be left
were near the engine, besides which there
was a long line of freight boxes compris
ing the second section. Shields, in the
discharge of his duty, uncoupled the cars
near the front of the firkin, opened the
switch, left the boxes for this place, and
closed the switch and rccoupled the en
gine to the balance of the train. Being
behind, and the third section coming
right on behind, and the up night pass
enger express being also due, or nearly
so, section No. 2 started at once, when
Reese had coupled, and immediately be
gan pulling away quite rapidly. Reese's
place was back in the cab, towards which
it is presumed he started. The train was
a L.ng one, and by the time the cab came
to Reese.the train was well under head
way and moving nearly up to schedule
time. Reese, lantern, in hand, stopped
and braced himself, .and as the rear end
came to him, spiang at the rail, when
either his foot slipped pr he was too slow
or too fast. At any rate, he missed his
hold, struck himself against the car, and
was thrown full across the track, stunned
and insensible. 'Right behind, clo<e up,
not over two hundred yards following
tfie second section, came the third sec
tion thundering along With its ponderous
engine. A terrible dust was raised by
the second section, so dense and deep
that the engineer on the lookout in num
ber three could see nothing, for the lan
tern of Reese had been extinguished by
his fall, so that there lay the doomed
man spread out, and upon him rolled the
wheels, crushing, tearing and mangling.
After some of the cars had passed over
him, it was discovered that something
had been passed over by the engine, and
the train was stopped and the dying man
found and pulled out. Police Officer
Joseph Few was on duty at the time, and
was near the depot. He at once went to
the place where Reese lay, surrounded
by the train hands of No 3. Reese soon
realized his awful condition, told how it
hud happened, breathed a prayer and was
dead. Reese had not been long on the
railroad. He lived at the 53d mile post,
this aide of Augusta. The remains were .
prepared for burial by Agent R. H.
Wright, placed in a suitable coffin and
sent to Augusta on the down evening
train. Reese was about twenty-five vears
old.
LYN UH LAW’ -
The .Harderer of IheLogan FamWy Haagdd
by a Mob.
R. P. Wallace, the murderer of the
Logan family of five persons, father
mother and three children, was taken
i from jail at Steelville, Mo., Tue s^a y by
i a mob tv d lynched. A m<sked m °b
I about one hundred men quietly gathered
around the jail at midnight on Tuesday,
and demanded entrance of the j
This was refused and the mob batt®red
down the. door. A delegation was sent
to bring out the prisoner, while others
were detailed to guard the roads leading
to the scene. Wailace was wakened from
sit ep, dragged out to the infuriated
crowd, and was asked if he had anything
to say. He responded by strongly pro
testing his innocence, still adhering to
the story that it was the negro Vaughn
who was guilty. This angered the mob
i more than ever, and with a shout they
i produced a rope, one end of which they
placed around the murderer’s neck and the
other to the limb of a tree. The prisoner
stih protested his innocence and appealed
f. r mercy without avail. Strong hands
grasped the rope, and Wallace’s body
• swung into the air. Another chance was
t not given him to confess, and in a few
i minutes hia body was a corpse. The mob
j then Aspersed and the jail officers cut
down anti took possession of the body.
There is no < lew to the leader* of the
participants in the lynching.
s I , . ; *
A SHAMEFUL OUTRAGE
i An Old Man Clubbed tn Death by * Foliea*
) man.
In New York city, Max Aronson, fifty
years old, a Hester street grocer, was
brutally clubbed by Policeman Wood, of
that city, in his store on Wednesday last,
I and died Sunday. The coroner was sum-
• moned to take his ante-mortem statement,
| but found the old man unconscious and
| dyi g. According to the statement of
j his son, and the physician, the clubbing
i was one of the worst cases of police
1 | brutality reported for years. They say a
j boy tried to steal some fruit, but was or
| dered away by the old grocer. The boy’s
: mother interfered, and created a row.
; Policeman Wood took the woman’s part,
■ an I accused Aronson us striking her. fol
| to ring his word* by clubbing him. His
j • ;ull was fractured. The two sons in
t’rfvrod, and driving the officer away,
1 called a physician. While the physician
was caring for the old man, Policeman
Wood returned with another officer, and
j brutally clubbed the old man again. The
two were driven out, but returned and
| took the old man away from the
i physician and locked him up, with the
whole family, for forty-five hours. The
i old man was not allowed medical attend
i ance. After their release on bad, Mai
Aronson began to sink until he died.
A TERRIBLE CRIME.
A F*ran«r amt Hi* Da*«bter MarA«r*4 ta
Teaa*.
Die story of a fiendish double murder
tom been received from Throckmorton
county. Tei. The victims are a farm r
named Vraey and hi* grown up daughter,
l.isrie. The father, who had beau Im
soed -sud dragged «MM> distance from his
bouse* was found with his throat cut.
The daughter hail been r.i vished and then
murdered by inutilaric'B Horse-*’ track*
re discovered in the. raid, which, on
ing followed, tod to the arrest of <
in > cowboy, who said he had
Vwy'a hmm for a drink* and saw. tw
•« uses eater the yaed Mbe left. Tb<
. egjro’e lariat, wa* mining, and he
i«kre i»‘« custodv Fearing lywehing th
uffirna b*v* with tt-
FAWNING TO NONE CHARITY TO ALL.
DOUGLASVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 12. 1886-
CAKTEHSVILLE’S NEW COLLEGE.
The Town Will Boom Now—Mee tin < of
Citizen*.
A female college at Cartersville, Ga.,
is now an assured fact. Cartersville has
thought of it, spoken of it, and acted
about it. Rev. bam Jones, on Sunday,
after a strong sermon delivered at the
Methodist church before an immense
crowd, raised about SB,OOO in subscrip
tions for a female college here. The
shares were placed at SSO each. Mr.
Jones started the ball to rolling by sub
scribing SI,OOO, saying that he never
liked to push a man into a hole he would
not go into first himself.. The builiing
to be erected is to cost SIO,OOO. Messrs.
John W. Akin-, Clark Baker, R. M. Pat
tillo and John H. Wikle took upon them
selves the responsibility of procuring the
additional $2,000 in subscriptions.
Among the subscribers at the church
was Mr. H. F. De Bardeleben, president
of the De Bardeleben coal and iron com
pany of Birmingham, for SSOO.
At 11 o’clock Mondav a large number
of citizens met in the town hall and were
organized by Rev. Sam Jones nominating
Major C. H. Smith (B 11 Arp) as tempor
ary chairman, and Mr. John W. Akin
nominating Mr. Frank J. Taylor as tem
porary secretary. The subscribers all
came forward and signed i their names.
The full amount required was subscribed,
besides which were donations in small
sums amounting to about $l5O.
On motion it was determined to call
the college “The Sam Jones college.”
On motion Rev. Sam Jones was re
quested to name the temporary board of
directors, and that gentleman made the
following selection: Meseers. John W.
Akin, C. H. Smith, Jonn H. Wikle, W.
H. Howard, Clark Baker. R. M. Pattillo,
R. N. Hudson.
The building committee then met
and took steps to immediately confer
with architects, invite plans, specifications
and bids.
FLORIDA NOTE-.
The de?d bodies of F. L. Harris and a ;
man named Bucklin, were found early
one morning last week, hanging from the
limb of a tree about five miles east oi
Quincy. Harris was a farmer and owned
a grist mill. Bucklin was his miller.
One week before the new mill of J. T.
Howard, a few miles from Harris’s, was i
burned. The supposition is that these i
parties were the incendiaries. The ver- i
diet is that the parties met their death
by being hung by persons unknown.
A project is on foot in Tampa to erect
a 200-room hotel on the buirn d district.
The house will be supplied with all mod
ern improvements, including gas, water
works, steam heating apparatus, ele
vators, electric bells, etc, It will cost
between $200,000 and $300,000.
A. B. Bidwell, the last of the Sarasota
murde ers, has been sent to McAlpin,
Fla., to serve out his life sent nee.
A special census of Kissimmee, just
complete I, shows that city to have a to- |
tai population of 1,170, of which 985 are -
white and 185 colored. Number of voters I
426.
A falling tree at Jaffray, Volusia
county, last Friday killed a young man
named Sam Jordan.
THE PRESIDENT'S CONTRIBUTION.
Samuel G. Storey, treasurer of the
Gentlemen’s Auxiliary as-ociation of th e
Confederate home, has received a check
for twenty dollars from President Cleve
land, accompanied by the following
letter:
Executive Mansion, Washington.—
Sam’l G. Storey, treasurer—My Dear Sir:
A circular just received informs me of
the object and purpose of the home for
the mothers, widows and daughters of
confederate soldiers at Charleston, as well
as it* present need caused by the recent
misfortune. Though constantly applie I
to from all sides and upon all manner of
occasions for aid, I cheerfully enclose a
slight contribution to use in your good
cause. Yours sincerely,
Grover Cleveland.
HANGED BY THE NECK.
How < Husband Disposed «f Himself After
Kiitinc Hl* Wife.
Rachel White wa< shot and killed, at
Che«ter t 8. C., by her husband, Charles
White, and the body of the murderer was
found near by, hanging from a tree. Three
weeks ago the husband attempted suicide.
Several days ago the pair met upon the
streets, when White thrashed his wife
aoundly. loiter in the day he fired at her
while passing where he stood. He then
made overtures for rec'incilhation. and
induced his wife to walk out with hint.
Her dead body was found near a log riil
- with bullets, while her husband’s
sui ide placed him beyond the vengeance
of the people.
A TERRIBLE DISASTER
A *le**A**ffi Boiler Explode*— Many IJre*
Um.
The steamer La Mascot exploded h«.r
boilers, killing a large number of people, j
She was a passenger boat running be- i
tween St. Louis and Cape Giranleau. j
The disaster occured near the latter place.
Reports of the accident are ven
meagre, and a full list of the killed aud
wounded cannot be obtained. No list
of |>assengers can be obtained, as the reg
filter is lost and the excitement was h>
io lense among the survivers that no one
could tell who was on board.
KXPLOSHtx IN FHARWTTK.
At Charlotte. N. C., on Tuesday last j
the boiler of the cotton compress exploded,
demolishing a portion of the building
and wrecking much machinery Mow
White, foreman, was fatally' injur-d.
Jefferson Hogler was blown many o«t
into the street, but was unhurt. Ed
McDonald, a clerk in the office of the ;
Compress company, sprang through a |
window and w«s severely cut by gho*. |
The explosion was felt ail over th< city s
A FBHBT KILLML |
Arch-Deaeon Kavaaagh, parish priest j
®f Kildare county, Kildare. Irelwl. and J
forareriy prewdent of St. Patrick * cob**
leg*- htrtow, *m iajtaaUy kfiSei * hi;e ;
eetobratwg tsss at his ows alur. by •
portion* *4 it tailing ob him.
A WIFE’S CONSPIRACY.
She Hire* Nejrroe* to Murder Her Has- i
band. J
Thursday night the store of A*. D.
Owens, of" Creswell, Martin county, N.
C., was entered by burglars. Owens’s
dwelling joined, the store. He heard a
noise and as he stepped to the door saw
two burglars, one of whom raised a. gun
and fired.. Forty buckshot entered the
stomach of Owens, who in a few minutes
was a corpse. Since that time ■ the
authorities have been on the track of tho
murderers. Sunday night Sheriff Sprew
ell arrived at Plymouth with the w.fe of
the murdered man and two negroes.
Another negro, James Davenport, alias
Ambrose, was shot and killed.
One of the negroes made a confession the
other day, as follows: That Mrs. Owens
had hired them to kill her husband. She
wished them to drown him, and prepared
water in a barrel for that purpose. She
gave him medicine to put him in a sound
sleep, and t L e three negroes actually
stood by his bedside ready to commit the
crime. Their courage failed them.
Finally, Ambrose, some nights after, en
tered the store and when Qwens entered
shot him. Ambrose. was’pursued and,
in making a desperate attempt to kill
members of the sheriffs posse, was . shot
through the heart. Mrs. Owens and
two negroes are now in jail at Plymouth,
to await trial.
A LIFE SENTENCE.
Luther Ellison, who stabbed and killed
Bart Wall, in Atlanta, Ga., was tried and
convicted.
Just eighteen minutes- from the time
the jury went out they returned, and he
foreman announced that the jury had
made their verdict.
“Read it,” said Judge Clark
“We, the jury, find the defendant.
Luther Ellison, guijty of murder and
recommend him to the mercy of the
court.”
The judge then polled the jury and all
I answered, “It is.”
Ellison and his njother were sitting
near each other, and when the verdict
was read both gave way, and burst into
tea; s. The scene was an affecting one. .
The poor, distressed woman could scarce
; iy control herself, while the son looked
i as though the last ray of hope had de
j parted from him.
■ Judge Clarke told the prisoner to stand
up. Ebison tremblingly arose and with
tears rolling down his cheeks, faced the
judge, who sentenced him for life in the
penitentiary.
Ellison’s counsel gave notice that they
would motion for a new trial, and then
Judge Clarke suspended sentence for
twenty days, and Ellison was carried to
jail-
DEAD IN THE MARSH.
*nlcl<l* of a Ba*fnr*s Man' of Charleoton,
Booth Carolina.
The dead body of Alexander W. Mc
: Loy was found Friday afternoon in a
i marsh on Cooper river, three miles from
- Charleston, 8. 0. Mr. McLoy left home
and went to the gunpowder magazine,
near which his body was found. When
he reached there he took off his coat and
vest and cut his throat with a knife.
Aft r doing this he walked a distance oi
thirty feet and tumbled into the marsh,
where he was found, attention being at
tracted to the spot by a flock of buzzards
hovering near. Mr. McLoy was a mem
ber of the late firm of McLoy, Rice &
Co., which was compelled to cease busi
ness on account of the death pf Mr. Rice,
the New York member of the firm. He
had lost all he owned, and had been in
despair since his business closed. It is
supposed that mental aberration, brought
on by despondency, caused the suicide.
Mr. McLoy was about fifty-five years old,
and one of the most highly respected
men in the community. He left a wife
and three children.
DYING of a broken heart.
There is a queer case of broken heart
in Birmingham, Ala., now puzzling tiri
physicians. George and Mose Clements
are colored twins aged 17 rears. Mose
died a few weeks ago, since which time
his brother has refused to be comforted
and will not accept food. He is gradu
ally wasting away and fc ays he wa ts to
die to be near his brotr er. His flesh is
gradually drying up, and he will not no:
be m- uced to take medi.ine. He Will
die m a few days.
THE tobacco crop injured.
Reports from the neighboring counties
in record to the injury by frost to the to
bacco continue to come in. In Haywood
and Yancey counties, N. C., there'is re
ported great damage, but by far the
greatest losses are sustained in Madison,
the chief tobacco raising county. Manv
crops are totally ruined, and will not lie
cut, being entirely abandoned by the
planters. Ihe smallest crop ever raised
m tnis section will be that of this season, j
CI.UVKRIUS MUST HANG.
TLe supreme court of Virginia, sitting
it Staunton, Va. handed down the pa
. era in the case of T. J. Cluvenus, who *
stands convicted of the murder of Lil
liau Madison, at the Old Reservoir, in |
Richmond, Va., with the indorsement
: h t the petition for a rehearing is denied. I
This remands the ease to the bust ngs I
.wixt of Richmond, by which th * time i
a H be fixed for the death penady by I
nnging, unless executive clemency in- I
-< ;.'o-es.
EARTHQUAKE IN AUSTRALIA
Earthquake destroyed every village on
the island of Niapu. near Melburne. on
Tuesday. The inhabitants craped. '
The island is covered twenty feet deep
with volcanic dust and at one place a *
new hill two hundred feet high has been |
formed.
Two shocks of earthquake were felt i
throughout Balta, one «f the Sheds; d is- ;
land* Tuesday evening.
I A TH CAKQLIX t FOIX?iNO.
Several parrie* from the Nmetv-Swt '
| “ S. t .. * al(?d 4, t a J
. sales also* there. f
i thet rt' |
i Mur»e comes out cl it.
PERSOML HEHTIOK.
Mr. Gladstone has but three fingers on j
i the left hand. !
Sir Rehnald Hanson has just ,been ■
elected Lord Mayor of London.
Senator Sawyer, of Wisconsin, has just
celebrated his seventieth birthday.
Ex-Attorney Brewster is going to re
sume his law practice in Fhiladelphia.
Dr. Edward Avelino, the English social
ist, now in this country, is a colisra of-Henry
Irving, the actor. .
Minister Pendleton, is going to return
to t >is coudtry shortly, and will he accom
panied by his daughter.. ■
E. W. C'onctord, Mass., who orig
inated the Concord grape in 1*49, still flour
ishes in his vineyard in that town. .; .
Justin McCarthy, the Irish - ptgftjgal.
leader and man of letters, is in New York/
He will deliver 10*0 lectures in this country.
John A. Logan, Jr.,the son of the Senator,
is a slender young man of medium stature,
with a light complexion and engaging man
ners. ~
Ex-Senator Bruck, of Mississippi (coF
ored), is going to lecture, and will take for
his sublet his experiences in the United
States Senate. •
The King of Greece has purchased
mansion at Copenhagen. It is generally be
lieved that he conte nplates abdicating and
returning to Denmark.
Jerome Increase- Case, the owner of
Jay-Eye-See, is worth SS,OJO,OJQ and began
b f e as a blacksm th. He has just married
trie divorced wife of a mschanic.
Mr. Bartholomew, .• tfie Hartfo'd da
faulted, was a man- of very simple habits.
He lived modestly and economically, and was
a man who never sriaoked nor drank.
Philip D. Armour, the Chicago lard king
and railroad manipulator, weighs 250 pounds,
and ata pinch could. st a e up $20,u00,000.
He is a heavy Weight in a double sense.
The Representative of Great Britain at
Constantinople, who su ceeds Sir Edward
Thornton, is Sir William White. He is an
accomplished Oriental scholar and speaks
twenty-five languages.
Rev. John Rodney, of Philadelphia, is
the oldest living graduate of Princetou Col
legs, having graduated in 1816. Born in
1705' he is also the oldest clergyman of the
Episcopal Church in America. .
BASE BALL MOTES
The Washington Club has h-io vmrey nve
players unlor contract this season.
The baseball season of 1887 will probably
be still more interesting than the present one.
It is uu ierstqod that the New Yorks will
have a duph ata team next year from which
to draw in case of sickness or injury to the
regular men.
It is said that the Southern League next
season will be composed of Nashville, Mem,
phis, New Orleans Atlanta, Charleston, Mo
bile, or possibly Birmingham.
There is some talk of a league next sea
son that will include Hartford, Meriden,
Waterbury, Bridge.iort, Danbury, Pough
i keepsie, Newburg aud Kingston.
The St. Louis Browns have won the serie i
from every Association club except the
Louisvilles. Tho Chicagos have won the
series from every League
The salaries to ba };aid to Washington’s
“Big Five’’ next year, according totlie Hatt
ford Post, are: Mack $2,590, Kreig s2,(o',
Gilmore $1,7.50, S.-hoek $1,750 aud Henry
*1,80.1. Hayes is re eiving S4OO per month.
The Newark Fa tern League Club has this
season met aud defeated the Detroit, Boston,
Philadelphia, St. Louis and Washington
Leag.,o clues, and the St. L >uis, Cincinnati,
Pitesburg, LouisviUe nn.i Atbleti: A u.ri.ao
Association ciubs
Detroit now leads the League in batt ng,
and New York in fielding. Chi ago is sec
ond in I atting and fourth in fielding, yet is
first in the 1 e igue ra e. line base-running
and good work in tho pit her s bsx have
placed Chicago in the lead.
The married and .-ingle ladies of Gillmore
I’enu., recently played a game of ball in aid
of a chunh luud, re en innings were
played, the married defeating the single
la lies by a score of 25 to 17. The decisions
of the lady umpire were not seriously dis
puted.
In a ga i e at Da'las, Te- as; between Dal
las and Ab lene Club , Harry Reed, first
baseman of ti e Dallas Clnb. had both bo es
of his left leg broken between the knee and
ankle. He had l atto l a swift grounder to
third base, whence it was fielded to first tc
cut him oIL Berry, the first base ian of the
Ab lencs, stood on the ba e line and tripped
Real.
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.
Edwin Booth’s tour has thus far proved
unusully successful and bril iant.
The first amateur theatre in New York
was opened 133 years ago by Lewis Hal Sana.
Mr. F. Jehin-Prumr, the celebrated Bel
gian violinist, will shortly pay a visit to
America
Rubinstein, the pianist, say* he will not
undertake any concert tours during the coin
ing season.
Charles Santlev, the famous English
tiaritone. has been engage i to sing in con
i certs in Benin.
Mme. Patti-Nicolini will give a farewell
concert at Affiirt Hall, London, October 27,
just before she sail* for America.
Manager Henry E. Abbey and Miss
Florence Gerard, the actress, were married
a few days since in a Huston church.
A new tenor with a phenomenal voice has
>een discuve ed i i Austria. He is a Prague
policeman and his name is Knoekmann.
It is now announced that the new Gilbert,
and Sullivan opera will not be ready for pro
du tion tietore the Ist of January, and possi
bly not then.
Millocker has just completed a new
ope a, entitle! “The Vice- Admiral,” which i
will be the chief novelty of the coming sea- !
son at \ r nna.
Philadelphia theatres and other p'acen i
■ of amusement are said te be better pro. t ied ■
; withefficent firees-apes than t'unset any i
I oth.-r city in the Union.
W. H Chippendale, for many yeirs re- i
: garde! a- the be»t “- Id man” on th • English
‘ •‘tege. i • now, at the age of eighty-Jive y«ar<t, I
■ uu c of an insane asyium.
M. Ovide Mvsin, the celebrated French i
! vloliuist, has again turned hi* fa e toward |
; the e shores. Ameri an dollsis e -art a pow- i
, erlul magnetic influence upon European ar
i t.Fte.
The scenes in tie? new play that Mr, Bron
\ son Howar llm . f a~t wnttea for Miss Dau- !
vray are laid in tto Adirondack*. The first act
takes ! lace on a summer hotel p.a-za in the i
mountains.
Is .Vormandy, last surmn-r, Gounod, the
eminent composer, amused himself by mas
; ing for one of Lux little friend* a huge kite,
on whi h he ixweribed a brief sonata com- ■
rww«i for the nuro<MM
SLIGHT SHOCKS,
LHartMtaa aad Samicervlilr * till Qulrerln*
from Tremero.
There was a slight shock in Chariexton |
about one o’clock Friday morning but
so slight it was not felt by a major}tj of
the citizens. There were slight - hocks
at Snmmerville during the night but
none of them have been mor- p» r jdible '
than the tremors felt almost every day
since August 31st. All reports of heavy i
shocks aud tidal waves are untrue. The
waatuer is bright and pleasau’ The
city is lull of workman, m 3 everything ;
b as Qtriet confident as could be j
1 wi-w.
| BUDGET OF FUN.
} HUMOROUS SKETCHES FROM
VARIOUS SOURCES.
i A Hand for a Hand—High Feeding
—The Trials of Farming—
Recipe -for a Good Ap
petite, Etc., Etc.
-“~ • .
“I’ve heard pf ‘an eye for : an eye,’ ‘a
tooth for a tooth,Letc,,but I never he ird
of ‘a hand for’h hand’ uiitil.to-day,” said
a young man to a friend. ''
“How did it happen V -
“I was calling at the house of lily beslt’
girl and had ggustered up courage to ask
her for her hand.” :
“And you gotit7”‘ 1 *.
“Got it! No. Didn’t the. old man
come in the parlor and give me his?”—
-■ The‘Trials .of Farming.
/‘I can’t imagine what the trouble is
with that cow,” fesid a'New Yorker, who
is giving his attention iq .amateur farm- I
ing this season.
“She looks aU right,-I’’ 1 ’’ commented a
neighbor.
“fes, she looks all right,” agreed the
New Yorker, “but the doocid critter
Won’t give down her milk. When I
bought her,a month ago she gave twenty
,four quarts’’a' day; now I’m Iweky to get
five. And' it isn't because she doesn’t
get milked often enough,” added the
Suzzled amateur. “Not a day passes I
on’t milk that cow half a dozen times
at least.” York Sun. ' ' ‘‘l
High Feeding. }
“Here,” said a gentleman to a livery
liable man, “take this horse,.curry and
feed him. Don’t be afraid to feed him I
high.” . . y 1
An hour later he stepped jnto • the sta-.
ble to see how-his honse was doing, and*
found him standing before an empty
manger trying to' reach a box which was
above his head-
“I thought I told yo» to feed this
horse,” hg said.
“So you did, sor, an ' it’s plenty he
has.”
“Where is it?” :
“In that box. - •
“What is it ctoing up there?”
“Sure ye towld tne to fade him high,
an’ I did the same.”— Goodall*t Sun.
He Prepared Himself.
A large stout man, who looked as if he
might be a pretty tough customer in a
free tight, entered the operating arena of i
a New York dentist. The sufferer from
toothache had taken a large dose of j
whisky to enable him to bear up under
the pending alfliction.
The dentist examined the tooth, went
into an adyoirijug
appeared with a large pistol
his person.
“What do you mean?” asked the man
in the chair.
“O, nothing in particular, except that
I am not going to take any risks. ” i
“What risks!”
“When a man built Lke y< u, and his '
breath smelling of whisky, climbs into
that chair, I’m not going to exasperate
him unprepared. You may be John L.
Sullivan, for all I know.”— Siftings.
A Recipe for a Good Appetite.
“Your appetite is good enough. You
have no reason to complain in the mat
ter of health, Evercat.”
“No. You are correct,” replied Ever
est. “I have a recipe,” he added; “sure
thing every time.”
“Hey? Recipe? What is it?
“H—m. Might tell you. Had to pay
the doctor for it myself. Confidentially,
mind!” and Evereat leaned over to whis
per impressively in his friend’s ear:
“Two things. Make it a rule never to ;
eat them with dinner. Consequence, al- ■
ways sure of good appetite.”
Evereat hesitated, tilted back in his
chair,and cautiously scanned his friend's
features, seemingly debating with him
•elf whether or not to divulge his re
cipe.
“Well—what—what is it you don’t eat
with your dinner?” inquired the gentle- j
man, somewhat nonplussed.
Evereat leaned forward and again ’
whispered slow ly and impressively in his ’
friend’s ear: “Breakfa-t and supper, you ■
greenhorn!”— Lynn Union.
They Found the Bore.
A pretty young mamma, with a little
girl by her side nearly as pretty as her
self, was being entertained by a male
stranger, who had strucK up an acquaint
ance through the usual and always con- ;
venient mediumship of the little girl.
The stranger did all the talking. He was
one of those men who think they know
everything, but only rarely get a good
chance to toll it. The lady answered
only in monosyllables. The little girl
listened patiently and demurely for a
time, and then began to fidget about in J
her seat. I in&liy, as the stranger stopped
for a breath, she said:
“Mamma, you’ve found one, ain’t
I you?”
I “What, my dear?”
“W'hy, don't you remember what you !
I told papa when he said you’d be lone
i some on ihe cars? You said you’d find :
I some bore to talk you to sleep ’
Mamma looked out of the window,and ,
the stranger suddenly thought he had
| better go into the smoking car to find his
! friends. Chicago Herald.
VtMrlt aa Bad.
> He was making hie first call, and all j
the formalities of the season were in full
blast, bhe toyed with her fan a® she
conversed about the gayeties of the win- i
ter t.me. Leisurely strolling into the
elegant drawing room came the family j
dog, a large and intelligent type of the
Newfoundland breed. It was a warm !
- evening and the dog came in with his
mouth open and bis tonjpie protruding
I from his mouth. He made directly for
the hostess who manifested great uneas
iness at the first sight of the unexpected
animal. As he came nearer the young
woman dropped her fan, mounted first
the heavy upholstered chair and then the
| centre table.
Seeing the unusual performance, the
| young man followed suit and was soon
| on top of the marble mantelpiece, to
\ which place of safety he invited his
{ hostess. Meanwhile the dog, the cans
, of the commotion, crawled under the
eofa rreparinghimaelf to take a nap.
‘•When was he taken ’ aaktd tho
young man, as he balanced himself amid
• th- mantel ornaments.
NUMBER 36.
“Oh, he’s been that way all summer,
replied the young woman. .
“It’s strange he doesn’t try to bite us,
isn't it?” continued the young man.
“Oh. he wouldn’t bite anybody.” re
marked the young hostess.
“Why, hdsn’t he got the hydropho
bia?” .
“No,’’replied she, “he's got fleas, ana
that’s pretty near as .had.”— St. Paul,
Globe.
Rhymes for Borrowers.
Some people have a strange way of
designating their ownership of books.
Os course youtremember, when a school
boy,. what ridiculous doggerel some of
the scholars wrote in their*. - A* for ex
ample :
“This book is John Smith’*
My fist is another:
You touch me
And you’ll feel the other.”
And again:
“Steal not this book, my honest friend,
For fear the gallows’ll oe thy end.”
A great many grown-up children have
adopted the custom in a graver mood.
fThe two verses commonly used are:
i “If thou art borrowed bv & friend,
Right welcome shall he be.
To read, to study, not to lend,
But to return to me.”
And this :
“Not that imparted knowledge doth
Diminish learning’s store;
But books, I find, if often lent,
Return to me no more.”
There is one found in a book formerly
belonging to a well-known resident of
New York: “Any one ffiay borrow, but
a gentleman returns.” David W. Jayne's
i books have the following Scriptural
i quotation: “Go thou rather to them that
| sell, and buy for yourselves.” The fol
lowing rather severe lines were used by
a Massachusetts man:
i “Stern power of Justice, lift thy wand
In spite of mercy's look;.
Strike him who with presumptuous hand
Purloins this valued book.”
’Aaron Putnaip,who flouri-hed inMed
' ford, Mass., about one'hundred years
ag >, used these lines: “The wicked bor
row, but do not return again. See thou
art notone of that numb r.” Duncan
C. Pell, of New York, had this rather
churlish motto, not at all in keeping
with his character: “He does not lend
his books.’.’ W. J. Snelling, one of the
i early editors of the Boston Herald, hid
these instructions: “Do not turn down
' the leaves to mark the place, but put in
a slip of paper. Do not give the book
to children for a plaything. Handle not
with dirty hands. Return the book when
you have read it.”
Well,
where ' 1
.■gpM,fgoing, writes Kate
TluiU
RWnebGoTy else spoke of Kalamazoo and
i wondered whether it had ever been
dropped into poetry by any nonsense
rhymer. “Nobody has ever had the
courage,” replied another body; “though
• whv not try, sin e Mrs. Browning has
’ made ‘modena’ rhyme with ‘God in a’?”
I halamizool Kalama co! the wo d op
pressed me. I dreamed last night of
Kalamazoo. Imps whis| ered rhymes in -
my ear and drew illustrations on the
• foot broad of my bed. The idiotic rhymes
i still linger in my memory, but the illus
trations so necessary to their meaning
have faded away. Listen to an imp:
There was a young lady of Kalama oo
W ho never in company dared to say “bool”
But she looked so so “utter”
That she made people stutter.
Did thhun ut-tor-ablo young lady of Kator
ma 00.
Here is another:
There was once a woman of Kalamazoo
Who had so many children she didn’t know
what to do,
“But, as they’re boys,
They’ll make a great noise
In the world,” said this woman of Kalama
zoo.
' And another:
There was an old fellow of Kalamazoo
Who always to questions made answer:
“Pooh, pooh!
By the great mouth of Gosh
All talking is bosh!”
Said this laconic old fellow of Kalamazoo.
And still another:
There was anee a dudelet of Kalamazoo,
Being fully convinced that he everything
knew.
Straightway hiredhfAi a hall,
Alack! no one at 9H
Went to hear the wise dudelet of Kalama-
l zoo. _____
Famous Gold Mines,
Nevada county is the chief of all the
mining counties of the State of Califor
nia. It has a middle situation in the
I State, but is generally ranked as a north
ern county. The summit of the Sierra
‘ Nevada runs through the county, the
towns of Truckee and Boca being east of
those mountains, and within Nevada
county.
The chief industry is mining, although
i fanning is carried on with profit in the
western part of Nevada county. No
equal area in the world has produced
more gold than has Nevada county, and
no region known bos the promise of an
equal mining permanency. The gold is
found in both quartz ledges and gravel
beds.
The great gold-gravel region of the
county is in the townships of Bridgeport,
Bloomfield, Eureka, Little York and
Wa hlngton. These are of immense ex
tent and of incalculable richness. These
beds were worked by the hydraulic pro
cess for the mist part, and enormou*
vnlnes of gold were washed out of them.
I The hydraulic process of working mine*
is now under the ban of the law, but
doubtless away will be found for law
fully taking the gold from those rich
gravel beds. There are some gravel
mines in Nevada, Grass Valley acd Rough
and Ready townships, but trey are not
eitensive, excepting at Mooney Fl.it. in
Hough and Ready, where is the ex ten
mono! the famous gravel leads of Tim
buctoo, Smartsville and Sucker Flat.
VaUey Tidings.
In California they indulge in rose
hedges. The best variety for the pur
pose is said to be the hybrid perpetual.
Madam Charles Wood, a semi dwarf rose
of '■lose and compact growth, constantly
in bloom from early spring till winter.
The flowers are deep rosy crimson me
dium to large size, and very fragrant.
A traveler in the deserts of Souther*
Africa has seen watermelon* growing tn
satid wastes, and thinks they couli be
rtii-cd to grast advantage to some of
Waiter* deserts.