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FAWNING TO IVOINTE—-CHARITY TO ALL.
VOLUME VIII.
DOUGLASVILLE, GEORGIA. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 23. 1886-
NUMBER
CHURCH DIRECTORY.
METHODIST—Douglasville—First,
third and fifth Sundays..
Sam Springs—Second Sunday and
| Saturday before.
Mmwat—Fourth Sunday and Satur
day before. W. R. Foote, Pastor.
BAPTIST—Douglasvillb—First and
-'“'fourth Sundays. Rev, A. B. Vaughn,
pastor.
MASONIC.
Douglasville Lodge, No. 289, F. A.
M., meets cn Saturday night before the
first and third 1 Sundays in each month.
J. R. Carter, W. M., W. J. Camp, Sec-
j.-U. retary. j
||jl 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. Huey.
■ Coroner—F. M. Mitchell.
THE NEWS IN GENERAL.
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST
FF.OVI ALL POINTS.
THREE MEN KILLED,
and
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SUPERIOR COURT.
Meets on third Mondays in Jaiiuary
July and holds two weeks.
Judge—Hon. Samson W. Harris.
Sol. Genl.—Hon. Harry M. Reid.
Clerk—S. N. Dorsett.
Sheriff—Henry Ward.
COUSTY 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—non. R. A. Massey.
1 Sol. Genl.—Hon, W. T. Robert*. }
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. II. T, Cooper.
; JUSTICES’ COURTS.
, — ,730th Dial. G. M. meets first Thursday
in each mdnth. J. I. Feely, J. P., W.
H. Cash, N. P., D. W. Johns and W. K.
Hunt, L. G’s.
736th Dist. G. M, meets second Satur
day. A. R. Bomar, J. P., B.A. Arnold.
N. P., S.- j:. Yeager, L. C. /
784 Dist. G.pl. meets fourth Saturday
Franklin Carver, J. P., C. B. Baggett,
N. P., J. C. flames and M. S. Gore; L.
f 1259th Dist. G. M. meets third Satur
day. T. MiSHamilton, J. P., M. L,
Yates, N. M S. :W. Biggers,. L. C., S.
J. Jourdan, L. C.
'1260th Dist. G. M. meets third Satur-
W./jCamp,. J. P., W, S. Hud
son, NyTL, J- A. Hill., L. C, ||
• M. meets* first Satur-
' Qftjv-’-Xt. ■flSi -L’Knton, J. P., Alberrv
H#ibr&8, JifeH . L. C.
; ' .meets fourth Fri
da^. Geojge W. Smith, J. P., C.'J.
Robinson, w. Pi, L. C.
1273d DIsPGlf^Wheets third Friday.
Thomas White^jfrP., A. J. Bowen, N.
P. W. J. Jlarbin, L. C.
Professional Cards
ROBERT A. MASSnT
ATTORNEY AT LAW
' DOUGLASVILLE, GA.
(Office in front room, Dorsett’* Building.,/
- Will practice anywhere except in the Countv
Court of Douglass county.
W7 5. JAMES,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Will practice in all the courts, Slate an
Federal. Office oh Court House Square,
DOUGLASVILLE, GA.
m. T. ROBERTS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
DOUGLASVILLE, GA.
Will practice jh all the Courts. . Al! Sega
business will receive prompt attention. Office
in Court House.
C. I>. CAMP,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
DOUGLASVILLE, GA
Will practice in all the courts. All business
intrusted to him will receive prompfcattoniion,
B. G. GRIGGS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
DOUGLASVILLE, GA
Will practice in all the courts, State and
Federal.
EASTERN and middle states.
A bill has passed the lower house ef the
Vermont Legislature which allows women
who phy taxes to vote. It will probably pass
the Senate.
A Japanese embassy reached New York
the othhr day 6n a journey around the world,
inspecting military and naval improvements
and studying industries;
T#G Italian laborers were instantly killed
and two fatally injured by a freight train
near Port Jervis, N. Y.
The Massachusetts Legislature stands:
Renhte—35 Republicans and 15 Democrats;
House—160 Republicans, 79 Democrats, and
S Independent.
Both, parties claim the New J©rsev Leg
islature, which elects a successor to united:
States Senator Sewell (Rep.);
THE Gloucester (Mass.) fishing schooner
Alice M. Stouple lost her Captain and one
seaman by the capsizing of a dory.
Complete returns for Connecticut make
the total vote for Governor 12 !,058, divided
as follows: Cleveland (Bern.), 58,674; Louus-
bury (Rep.), 56,831;. Forbes (Pro.), 4,810;
Baker (Lab.),, 2,743. Cleveland lacks 5,710
of a majority:, and Lounstmry will be elected
by the Legislature. The Legislature, which;
will elect State officers and a United States
Senator; stands: Senate—Republicans, 14;
Democrats, 10. ; : House—Republicans, 138;
Democrats, 109; Labor, 2:
MCCabe, one of the New York Aldermen
of 1884 charged with bribery, has been ad
judged insane.
The twel ve-year-old son of Joseph DOelger,
a millionaire New York brewer, died sud
denly, as was supposed of heart disease, while
playing in the street. An autopsy showed
that he had been strangled by a collar but
ton, which he had been carrying in his mouth
and whieh had lodged in the windpipe.
The will of the late Henrietta Lenox, of
New York, which disposes of an estate worth
from $7,000,000 to, $10,000,006, is to be con
tested by some of the heirs on the ground of
undue influence.
Delaware official returns complete foot
UP: For Governor—Biggs (Dem.), 13,942;
Hoffooker (Pro,), 7,©he. For Congress—
Pennington (Dem.j, Cooper (Pro.),-
8,386. The Legislature is solidly Democratic.
Harvard University bn the 5th began
a four days’ celebration of bor 250th birth
day with a re-union of the Law School grad
uates:
The followers of Henry George, the de
feated candidate of the workingmen for the
New York Mayoralty, held an enthusiastic
meeting and organized a new party under
the name of the Progressive Democracy.
Stops have also been taken to form a new
labor party in Philadelphia.
With the exception of M. Bartholdi, all
the representatives of the French Govern
ment who took part in the unveiling
Libsrty’s Statue have sailed for France.
By the Capsizing at A Track at a Eire in
Baltimore.
Fire broke out shortly before noon
Wednesday, in the drug warehouse of
Burroughs Brothers, on Camden street,
near Sharpe, which was entirely burned
out. The dammage istestimated at $20,-
000, which is covered by insurance. The
building adjoining, occupied by Wool-
ford & Shilberg, straw goods manufac
turers, was damaged in stock and machi
nery by smoke and water to the amount
of $15,000, which is also fully insured.
While the firemen were at work the truck
of one of the ladder company’s capsized
and fell backward into the street. There
were on it at the time Captain Mars ton,
Charles L. Grund, Frank Kerr and
Henry Ryan. Captain Marston caught
on the edge of the roof of a two story
house adjoining and escaped serious in
jury. Grun;l, Ryan and Kerr, fell with
t the ladder, which broke in its fall and
all are supposed to have had their backs
broken; ’ Grund and Kerr are reported
to have died: since and no hope for
Ryan’s recovery is had.
THE SOUTHERN STATES.
AUTOMATIC LETTER BOXES.
The
of
Convenient Postal Contrivance to be
Tried In Brooklyn*
An automantie box is being put on the
lamp posts in Brooklyn, N. Y., to supply
the public with postage stamps, postal
cards, a pencil and postal letter envelopes.
At any hour iu the day or night a citizen
may go to one of these boxes and drop a
penny into it at which there- will appear a
postal card and a pencil with which to
write a letter. If he has a letter already
written and merely wants a postage
stamp to mail it he may drop two pen
nies in the box at which,, presto, a two
cent postage stamp will come out of the
box.* These convenient boxes are already
in use in London and are much liked
there. The boxes in Brooklyn are an im
provement on those in London, They
look like writing desks, and are Winches
high by 17 inches deep. Every box is
divided into several drawers—one for
stamps, one for postal cards, one for
stamped envelopes and One for: letter pa
per.” There is a slit for dropping a coin
over each drawer. When the proper
coin drops in it sets in motion a bit of
machinery \vhich pusheS out :the article
wanted.
TWO BOYS BURNED ASHES.
SOUTH AND WEST.
The Georgia/Legislature met in Atlant^^
on the.3d and elected J-J8.,.Aajada8a /Brest- *
dent, of tiiwHagiafeeJvHd -W.. A.'Litt'e Speaker.'
of thosHifflfe uio.Hro.or Mc
Daniel delivered SB 'mei&ase. Sggfj
Jam all B» TyleR, of Virginia, a'giandson
of Preadent; : !,Tj'-lBrv h£s7bee»’ : bppwfrESU a
watehidwSwHra Ytitenoi' Department.
George De. Haven, engineer, and Charles
Given, brakeman, wore killed by the explo
sion of a locomotive boiler near Davis Sta
tion, La.
Chief MAOJrcrs.bne of the captured Apache
leaders, made a desperate break" for liberty
while being taken through Colorado on his
wav to Fort Marian. Fla., and when recap-/
tured stabbed himself many; times,- inflicting
serious ■wounds-,/
The Republican State ticket in Indiana
has a plurality of about 3,000. Both sides
claim the Legislature;
Captain Henry Jordan, just- elected
Treasurer of Lasalle county, Texas, was
killed by the accidental discharge of a rifle
which a friend was handling,
A desperate fight occurred between a
gang of riotous tramps and a number of citi
zens at Annville, Penn., in which revolvers
and knives were freely Used. Four citizens
and two Of their assailants ware wounded,
and one of the latter captured by the police ./
Corrected returns from all the towns and
cities of Massachusetts give for Governor
Ames' (Rep.). 121,652; Andrew, (Dem.) 112,-
258; Lothrop (Pro.) 8,i60.
Is California the Democrats have a major
ity of about thirteen in the legislature, and
will probably re-elect Senator liearsT: to the
United States Senate. The vote for Governor
was so .Close it was thought the result could
only be decided by an official count.
The Indiana Legislature is Democratic by
about'thirteen majority on joint ballot,whioh
secures a Democratic successor to United
States Senator Harrison.
The official count in the Sixth Kentucky
Congressional District was completed on the
5tb, and shows a majority of 768 for Speaker
-Carlisle over Mr. Thoebe, the Labor nominee.
The dead body of Sheriff Forney, of Lake
county, Ind,’; was found in a clump of woods
near Plymouth, riddled with bullets. / The
assassin is/supposed to be one I’orrio, who
was wanted by the Sheriff. .
Edward Kelly, while repairing an elec
trie light wire at Cleveland, Ohio, inadver
tantly touched a portion of the uncovered
conductor and was instantly killed.
George Thoebe, candidate against
Speaker Carlisle for Congress in the Sixth
Kentucky district, announces his intention
to contest the election of Mr. Carlisle on the
ground that the returns were ‘‘doctored.” .
Henry Bane and Daniel Scott, two ne
gro boys near Orangeburg, 8. C., met a
most terrible death at the plantation of
Daniel Green, on Saturday night last.
.Tohu Green occupied a house 1 in the!
yard of his father, Daniel Green. Rane*
K Scott left Orangeburg on Saturday
H&ming with the intention of visiting
J|©hn Green,went to his house, ar
riving some 'time after dark. On Sunday
morning John Green left his house about
3 o'clock for the purpose of attending a
camp meeting at some distance, leaving
Rane and Scott asleep in a shed room of
the house. Before daylight the house
took fire, and rcott and Rane were: both
burned to death, being consumed to ashes,
except about hall' the trunk of their bod
ies. The head and arms and feet and
legs of both were totally consumed.
There-was but one window in the' room
in which they slept, and that had some
time before been securely nailed up. It
is supposed that the fire originated in the
body of the house, : and having reached
the door of the room in which the boys
were asleep completely cutting off all
means of escape. ;
NEWSY ITEMS GATHERED
UP IN PARAGRAPHS.
jJJ§ -/?,: /' | GEORGIA. Ilpl
Isaiah Armstrong, the mail carrier
from Gwens Ferry to Saltilla Bluff, Was
arrested Wednesday charged with robbing
the mails.
The Alabama fever has struck some of
the citizens of.CampbelL They will find
it difficult'to find a state in the union
that will equal old Georgia/
Wednesday night about forty negroes
passed through Augusta, bound for a
point near Charleston, to engage in the
mining of phosphate rock. They have
been working on the Atlan’jo, Greenville
and Western narrow gauge! and want to
enter a ne w business.: /
Mr. J. D. Gilmer, while fishing on the
Oconee ten mites below Gainesville, on
Wednesday last beard a wotnan scream.
On looking in the directiou from whence
the voice came he saw a woman leap into
the river where the water was about ten
feet deep,, - She rose and sank three
times. The river was dragged but the
body was not found. There is no clue
as to who she was.
On Tuesday a loving couple from
Thompson, flying before the/wrath of an
irate father, arrived iu Augusta. After
reaching: Augusta very little time was
wasted, and at Magistrate Vaughan’s of
fice the golden knot was tied with short
hut serviceable ceremony. , The groom is
Mr; Joel T. Holleyman, while the bride
is Miss Lula Belle, A daughter of Mr,
Minor Jones,/ of Wrightsboro, about,
eight miles from Thompson. This makes
the third daughter of Mr. Jones to elope.
The deaths iu Savannah for the past
week were 32. T
Rev. J. H. Dixon, of North Carolina,
has accepted the call of the Presbyterian
church of Gainesville
The election on the water works ques
tion at Dalton, was defeated by a vote of
250 against, 94 ju its favor
: 0. S. Plant, cashier of the / Southern
ExpresS@^, at Augggffe-for oYer thirty
/years, die&DU^Siatuiday^^^
There are twu/am/iill^gfet the /iudge-
ship of Macou cuujit^SgiJF, Judge id.
H. Fishj the presenFl|euaibliit, and Col.
(Y?. H- Hanniio^: i |
Cobb county has ja,rfei6|d gentleman and
s wife who are 8O ye®0ja^ieen married
JOHN M, EDGE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
DOUGLASVILLE, GA.
Will practice in all the courts, and promptly
attend to all business entrusted to his oare.
J. S. JANES, ^7
ATTORNEY AT LAW,‘
DOUGLASVILLE, GA
Will practice in the courts of Douglass,
Campbell, Carroll, Paulding, Cobh, Fulton and
adjoining counties. ‘ Prompt attention given
to all business.
J. H. McLARTY,
attorney at law.
DOUGLASVILLE, GA.
Will practice in all the courts, both State and
/ /Federal. Collections a specialty.
JOHN V. EDGE.
/ORNEY AT LAW.
^^VILLE, GA.
UtprIntIng
NEATLY DONE
ATTEMPT TO POISON A FAMILY.
Trylne to Poison Phiilip D. Arotonr'e Fami
ly in a Sample of Back wheat.
An attempt has been discovered to
poison the family of Phillip D. Armour,
by means of what appeared to he a
sample package of buckwheat flour,
heavily charged with srichnine. The
attempt failed because the family muko a
point not to sample packages left for ad
vertising purposes. Philip Armour
confirmed the correctness of the report,
but refused to talk of the matter.
A COSTLY CHILL IN
ACE
AN IKON FURN-
WASHINGTON.
The French visitors, M. Bartholdi, De Les-
seps and their-/ companions, numbering
twenty-two in all, called at the White House
and paid their respects to the President.
/ A party of diplomats the other day wit
nessed the successful use of the telephone be
tween Washington and Now York. Conver
sation was successfully carried on between
the two cities, a distance of about 180 miles.
Chief Graves, of the Bureau of Engrav
ing and Printing, in his annual report states
vaat the one dollar silver certificates are now
being printed in great numbers, while the
plates for the two dollar and five dollar is
sues are nearly completed. A large saving
in salaries hasheen effected. /
It cost the government $63,797,832 to pay
the pensions of 365,783 persons last year.
The Gem Iron Furnace in Page coun
ty, Va., on ilie Shenandoah Valley rail
road, lias chilled, and it will require
three months to remove its contents. This
furnace chilled in August last, and ope
rations had just been resumed when the
second misfortune befell it. lion. Wm.
Milnes, Jr., manager, has gone to Phila
delphia with a view to arranging for re
sumption of work. Between 500 and
600 bands will be thrown out of employ
ment by the accident.
A BIG CLOCK.
nearly sixty years,
never had a death J
lldren, and
jHbbfia if 'll/ ;- st
™jlrbe placed-iu
[png will/soon
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STAS” OFFICE
FOREIGN.
Heavy storms have prevailed throughout 1
Scotland. In Edinburgh the gable of anew i
building was overthrown, and three work
men were killed and five injured.
Twenty-seven persons who were impli
cated in the recent Madrid military revolt
have been sentenced to various terms of im
prisonment at hard labor.
The town of Minbla, in Burmah, has been
attacked and burned by 900 rebels. A police
Commissioner and twenty policemen were
surprised and killed by Jrebels on the Kyer-
Gwem river,
M. Pasteur during the first twelve months
of his hydrophobia inoculations has treated
2,490 patients, a vast proportion of whom
had been bitten by mad dogs; Of the entire:
number only ton succumbed.
' Germany’s exports to America have in
creased in value $17,000,090 in a year.
Six persons were killed and thirty injured
by the explosion of a steamerls boiler at New-
The Seth Thomas ©look Go., of Thom-
astou, Conn., have prepared drawings for
the great clock which is to be placed in
the tower of the new city hall at Phila
delphia, and which, if completed in ac
cordance with their Mans, will be the
largest in the world- The bells upon
which it will strike the hours and quar
ters will weigh fifty thousand pounds,
and the glass dials, as contemplated,
measure 25 feet in diameter.
350 MEN OUT OF EMPLOYMENT.
| The Erie breaker, opperated by the
Hillside coal and iron company, Scranton,
Pa., was totally burned Tuesday night.
' The loss will amount to over $100,000,
which is partially covered by insurance.
The fire throws 350 men and hoys out of
employment. The breaker has been in
been in operation for sixteen years, and;
had a daily capaciey of seven hundred
tons. The origin of the fire is unknown.
A,, R.BA_L^g.enttsi9)H:
little girl as to a wc'-iasl
againstconvictlabor.
An official canvass of Cook county’s
(Ill.) election returns shows the; the con
stitutional amendment against convici
contract labor received enough votes to
overcome the heavy opposition among
the rural communities of - .the state. 8c
close was the vote that the estimates
made two days ago declared the amend
ment defeated. Only 2,634 votes w^re
cast against it inihe-^mfcv.
Thfe-sceacr^fqjpjj
Dalton has arriyi
osition at onci
■e in readiness
ances. f
John Da-iiRORilS^feuSa! whose .es
tate is vaiu^l at '^pfPfMOjleft i an un
signed wiMat his Igggflproichis %f no
avail. The - bulkiof his estate goes to
relativ^^|^^ia#d.
'Mir. Pwer ■'Johnson of Eastman,
went down under the saw sit his saw
mill Friday last, and the saw struck his :
head, cutting two bad gashes and tearing
off a piece of tlie skull bone.
The ginhouse of James F. Smith, near
Irwin’s cross roads, Washington county,
was burned with two bales of cotton and'
a thousand bushels of Seed. There was
no insurance.
The remains of Mr. Andrew Low, who
died in London about six months ago,
have arrived at Savannah, and were
placed in flic family vault at Laurel
Grove cemetery. His estate was valued
at $3,000,000
Mr. Dan W. Floyd, of Eastman;- and
Mr. W, J. Defoor were engaged in cutting
down a pine tree, near the residence, of
the latter, when Mr. Defoor’s axe /.flew
off the handle, the blade of which stru. k
Mr. Floyd on the calf of. the leg, laying
it open to the bone, inflicting a very
painful and serious wound.
lousia.na. . /-■
A boiler in the sugar house of Guindry
& Bro., in St. James parish, La., explod
ed recently, killing two negroea and
fatally injuring a white man named
Nicholas Powers.
Last week Mrs. Judge J. Witherspoon
Smith of New Orleans, passed her hun-
dreth birthday, which was duly, cele
brated some days later cn the arrival of
descendants from California for that pur-
pose. She is of historic lineage. Her
maiden name was Duer. Her mother
was a daughter of Major-General Lord
Sterling, of the Revolutionary war.
Sunday about 6 o’clock over two hun-
lired feet of the river bank at Plaque
mines, including Ball street, caved into
the fiver. Several buildings were des
troyed. This is the fifth cave-in which
has taken place in the river front this
season. This last cave-in has approach
ed so near the Dew levee, which was built
by the citizens as to render its completion
useless. It is now thought that this
Latter cave in, and the one below, will
continue to widen and'extend until, the
Whole business front of the river, will be
engulfed. ,■
60UTH CAROLINA.-
Tlie official count in the Seventh Con
gressional district has been completed
and gives the election to William Elliott,
democrat^YSVer • Smalls, republican, by »
majority of; 238.
Dr. O. H. Miott, one of the oldest
druggists iij South Carolina, died at his
home jn oJ-lumhia Sunday, after a short
sickness. For nearly forty years the de
ceased wa| a leading citizen of that
place,
A grandj, nter tainment took place at
San Franj^ on Saturday, for the bene-
harleston earthquake sufferers,
as tilled with one of the
fashionable audiences
Fraaeisco theater,
■d prosoenium boxes
fhem. Thq pater-
t $5,050, 1
///i'DBR'NEll®®-/’''-I
Jefferson Diivis arrived in Clarksville
on Friday or Saturday last. He was the
guest of M. H. Clark, chief and confiden
tial clerk ih Mr. Davis’s office during
the war, and hence his warm personal
friend. Mr. Davis will attoud the dedi
cation of Bethel Baptist church, built
upon the site of his birthplace in Fair-
view, Todd county, .Ky.^v twenty-five
miles northeast. The lot on which this
house of worship is built, Mr. Davis
gave to Bethel church as a thanks -offer
ing to God. At Fairview Mr. Davis will
be the guest of Mr. Wm. Jesup. He is
nOw/ fast approaching his seventy-ninth
birthday, and this visit io his cherished
f riend and to the place of Ms birth may
be the last time that he will leave the
comforts of his southern home for so
long a journey.
-About sixty of the striking Chicago
butchers are in Chattanooga in search of
work.
A young man named Tucker was ar
rested for illegal voting at Chattanooga,
in the recent election. He confessed the
crime, and urges in extenuation 1 ignor-
ance of the law.
Arthur Dixon, a fireman on the Cin
cinnati Southern, met a horrible death
while looking but of the cab window of
his engine. He was struck by the end of
tlie bridge,/and was so badly injured that
he was attacked with lock jaw, and bit
his tongue off before death relieved him.
V - NORTH CAROLINA.'
Immense oyster beds have been dis
covered off the Forth Carolina coast, op
posite Dare county.
The cotton mills of the state are doing
the best business • they have enjoyed for
many years.
Ten days have passed without the
slightest earthquake shock, being felt in
Columbia, and the people are beginning
to feel easy. / ... - ■> ^
St. Mary’s college, iu Gaston county,
which was recently dedecated as a mon
astery, is now crowded with students,
and a contractor is at work enlarging the
main building.
Tlie corn crop is the best ever gather
ed in the state, so Says the Person county
Courier. ; In some cases the crop is four
times as large as last year, and not a few
men declare that they have made as
much corn this season as in three or four
seasons past, all counted together.
Mr. T. Y. Pomeroy, a miner from
Colorado, - who arrived at Charlotte
several weeks ago, has made, arrange
ments to establish an important mining
plant, in Charlotte. He proposes to
erect works for the treatment Of the gold
ores of the North . Carolina mines, and
his plant will consist of chlorinating and
reduction machinery.
There is a feeling of unrest and a
voving disposition taking hold of many
c ’ the colored people in and around
Charlotte. It has been but a short
while since a large number left this sec
tion for Liberia. The subject of immi
grating to California is being discussed
among them now, and a colony proposes
to start about the 20th of December for
that state. A colored man by the name
of J. D. Sheppard is working in the
interest of this movement, and he says
that manv coloeed people talk of going.
i DEADLY RIOT.
FIERCE BATTLE HETWEEJS 1IUSS
AND POLES.
Men and Women in k Hand-to-Hand Con
flict In tho Coal Regions.
* A sanguinary riot occurred • at Gilbertou,
near Shenandoah, Penn., the other night.
About twenty Huns and Poles spent Sunday
in drinking, carousing and dancing, and at
about 10 o’clock at night engaged in a free
fight, in which clubs, stones and an axe were
used. .The /house in which the fight
started was completely wrecked, and in less ■
thaR-fifteen minutes after the fight began ful
ly/forty men and women were in the street
engaged in a fierce hand-to-hand conflict.
Tlie borough police force, to the number of
six, attempted to quell the disturbance, but
their appearanoe' on the scene enraged/ the
rioters, who drew their revolvers and began
to shoot indiscriminately. Policeman Doyle,
who led the force, fell/with a bullet in his
heck, and Joseph Brown, a Pole, received a
ball in the chest and was subsequently
picked up in a dying condition. Two
other Poles were injured, one j of
them being shot through the nose and
another ssstaining a flesh wound in the shoul
der. The policemen were unarmed. After
removing Doyle from the field they returned
with reinforcements and captured six of the
rioters, one of whom was identified as the
man who shot Doyle. • /
When the riot was suppressed it was found
that, beside the four men who were shot, six
were seriously injured by being beaten with
stones or clubs, and a seventh had his skull
crushed by a blow with an axe. Of those in
jured two are/women, and oue of these was so
badly beaten that it was thought She could not
recover. Brown was in a dying condition. It is
not known who shot him, although it is cer
tain that he received-his death wound at the
hands of one of his own party, as the police
did not fire a shot, 1 The six men arrested
Were committed to jail without bail pending
an Investigation, and two others who are se
riously injured will be arrested as soon as
they can be removed from their homes.
FLAMES IM DTTBHAM. N. C.
The Whole Town Destroyed In a Short
Time.
Fire originated at 3 a. m., Tuesday,
in tlie grocery store of R. H. Atwater
and burned a large part, of the business
portion of the: town. The loss is esti
mated at $500,600. Among the indi
vidual lossers are: Jacob Levy, dry goods
$8,000; Insurance $2,500. A. M. Riggs-
by, general merchandise, loss $4,000,
fully insured. R. AV. Atwat er, groceries,
loss $4,000, insurance $2,000. Lombe,
Slater & Gorman, loss $16,000. insurance
$8,000. Shelburne’s art gallery,' loss
$2,000, uo insurance, E. A. Whitaker,
music; Goldscliieder, general merchan
dise, full insurance; S. R. Perry, general
merchandise, loss $11,000, insurred
$5,000; C. 6. Taylor, hardware, $5,500,
insured $1,000; G. E. Rawls, dry goods,
loss $8,000, insurance $4,000; M, G.
Hmndon & -Go., furniture, loss $12,000,
insurance $7,500. The postofiice is a
total loss* E, P. -Ashley, jeweler, not
insured, Ada Smith, millinery ( Wesley
& Meany, merchant tailors; Parrish’s
warehouse and-prize house," a total loss,
insurance $150,000. The bank of Dur
ham, Morehead’s prize house and J. O.
Lyon’s residence were also burned.
A STRANGE ACCIDENT,
THE SUMMER IS DBAS*
' 41 The summer Is dead,”
A soaring lark said
Singing up in the tilues afar, ,,
“ I’m chanting her dirge . 7
Where golden clouds surge
In the wake of the morning star.”
“ The summer is dead,”
A damask rose said,
V* In the light of her smiles X grew
And warm with the bliss
Of her parting kiss,
I shall glory in my dying too.”
“ The summer is dead,”
A honey bee said ,
To the red roses still aglow.
“ But her honey is mine,
I need not repine
When your beauty lies under the snow."
“The summer is. dead,”
A butterfly said
“ Let the honey bee live—I suppwa
They are prudent and wise,
But work I despise
Let me die on the heart of th« rose.”
“ The summer is dead,” -
7 A fair maiden said,
As she hied to the trysting tm, |
, - ‘f But where autumn leaves lie,
Domothone by and by
Whose love is life’s summer to me.”
“ The summer is dead,” /
A sad woman said,
“ Yet I mourn not its vanished flow,
For time cannot bring
The joy of y outh’s spring
As the summers of long ay ” I
“ The summer is dead,” '// ' . ,
An aged man said, *( 7
“ But what is one summer to mot
A shining drop cast
In the stream of the past,
While I stand by Eternity’s sea,”
—Rosa Vertner.Teffrey, in Graphic
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A. snake at Sanford recently swallowed
ii darning 'egg, thinking he had found
something rich.
A state prohibition paper is to be
started in Orlando soon by a stock / com
pany, with R. J. Morgan at the helm.
More corn has been gathered in Col
umbia county the present year than has
ever been before in a single year.
Receipts at the cotton warehouses in
Tallahassee are steadily increasing and
the staple is of unusually fine quality.
, The orange business in Alcahua coun
ty is getting brisk, the dry, warm weath
er causing the fruit to ripen very rapidly.
Hands are at work completing the F.
R. and N. spur to Lake Griffin. After
this is completed the steamer Emmie
will ply between Leesburg and Silver
Springs.
It. is stated that if took 1,700 car loads
of sand to-repair the breach in the I’ana-
solTkoc trestle. At this rate, it may re
quire A million ear loads to fill in the
whole trestle.
The leading nurserymen of the state
formed at Palatka last Wednesday a
Florida Nurserymen’s association with
the following officers: President, A. I.
Bklwcll; vice-president, F. S. Cone; sec
retary, G. L. Taller; treasurer, J. B. An-
derson. The object of the association is
for the benefit of all nurserymen, and to
so agree that there will be a .uniformity
in prices and tlie description of fruits.
The association will meet semi-annually,
and the first meeting will be in Jackson
ville at the' time of, the state fair, or at
Orlando during the south Florida fair.
ALABAMA.
Joseph Clark, a white section employe
of tlie Mobile and Montgomery niilroad,
fell between moving cars at Georgianna
and was instantly killed.
To meet the requirements of the law
by which the trustees got the property,
the “Alabama: State Land Company” is
to be organized, and the unsold Alabama
and Chattanooga railroad lauds, held by
Swann and Billups, as trustees, are to be
made over to it. A declaration has al-
i eady been filed in the probate office at
Birmingham putting down the capital
stock at $377,000. ■ The property com
prises some '600,0O0 acres. It will soon
bfl I on the market again, having been
necessarily taken off last May when the
trust expired.
A Drove of Hog* Fall Through aBridge Q»
a Train.
At half past ten o’clock Tuesday morn
ing a singular accident occurred _ in
Chicago. A drove of hogs were being
driven across a bridge leading to Aller-
ton’s packing house. At the moment a
passenger/ train was being drawn along
under the bridge. The structure broke
with the weight of the hogs, and the
whole drove was precipitated on the roof
of one of the cars. Some of the animals
broke throu^^^e roof and a number of
others fell on the tranks and were, run
over and killed. None of the passen
gers in the car suffered injuries, though
the sudden onslaught of the hogs occa
sioned a great commotion.
BRITISH ANARCHISTS.
A meeting of the British Anarchists
has been called to assemble in Cleveland
Hall, London, on the 23d inst., to pro
test against the action of the Chicago
court which tried and sentenced Spies
and his colleagues. The circular calling
the meeting' denounces the jury that con
victed the Chicago Anarchists as a brib
ed 7and packed body, and condemns
Judge Gary for refusing the prisoners a
new trial. Hon. AuberOn Herbert,
brother of the Earl of Carnarvon, will
probably preside over the meeeting.
NTH AND POINT.
Long-winded—The cyclone.
A fruitful source of debate—A dispute
over a barrel of apples.
The phrase, “in due time, ” probably
moans the first of the month, for that im
when the bills come in.—Humbler.
Thirteen is an unlucky number at a
boarding house table where there is onljS
dinner enough for twelve.—Pirayune. ^9
Judging from the tightness of the a?f :
tide, it isn’t every girl who can laugh in
her sleeve nowadays. —Rochester Host-
press.
The Passaic river twists about so much
in its course that young men sail onit |n -
order to become effective curve pitohejs.
—Puck.
j An Ohio man claims to have invented
a machine that will conti iiuctcM'miwifh^
but stopping until it ruhAJpelf«
/iie evidently an infringemeffi’ oh^BKfHRi
agent’s tongue.—^Noh , isto^k‘<9^n
’With the two biggest inwxifc^ ____
panies in the Territory ' an®“f&»tee».
churches in active operation Sioux Falls
ought to bo -able to reduce loss or dam
age by fire here or hereafter.—Sioux Falls
{Dakota) Pressv /i
' THE SPECTRAL .COMPLEXION.
They were lovers, and fain they would: wedi
On his breast she had nestled her head,
He glanced down and fainted,
Her chebks they had painted
His only clean shirt bosom red.
- , —Life.
Lord Palmerston’s good humor as a
distinct element of bis character is well
known. We find it even during his last
illness; when liis physician was forced to
mention death. “Die, my dear doctor,
that is the last thing I shall do.”— Notes
and Queries.
NOT THE CYCLONE.
And the maiden shrieked in terror, / „
’Tis tlie fierce and dread cyclone; , |
I can hear its dreadful mutter
And its weird, wild, woful.toue !” f ;
But the youth; though pale, was fearless!
And he said: “Oh bear thy pain;
. ’Tis the village band who practice
‘When the Robins Nest Again.’”
—Mustral Herald.
A NEW REPUBLIC SCHEME.
A party of gentlemen, somewhat noted
in Texas politics,, arrived in St. Louis,
Tuesday, and were laden* with a grand
scheme to form a new republic. ; They
are commissioners from the “Socialistie
Republic of the Rio Grande.” They
state their object is to take advantage of
the excitement produced on the Mexican
border by the Cutting incident, and to
invade the three northwestern provinces.
COTTON DESTROYED BY FIRE.
fit of H
The btu
largest
ever ’
Those
paid4
F' : Tuesday afternoon partially des-
j r0 } j TOO bales of compressed cotton
lyin in the street in front of the Cham
pion cotton press. The loss is about
$4,000 and is covered by insurance in
foreign companies.
107 MILES1N NINTY-FIYE MINUTES.
THE NEW YORK COUNT.
The board of eounty canvassers have
made their T.eport of tlie result of the late
election. The figures do not alter the re
sult as furnished by the press returns on
election night. - The official figures for
mayor are, Hewitt 90,552, George, 68,-
1J0, Roosevelt 60,435, and Mardweli
582. 7'*^m
ws.
On Tuesday the Michigan Central
train on the Canada Southern division,
having on board a number of dircctore
and officials, ran from St. Clair Junction
to Windsor Dock, 207 miles, in ninety-
five minutes. I
BARTHOLDI STATUE TO BE LIGHTED.
' Captain Picking, Secretary of the
lighthouse Ixiard, telegraphed to Com-
modre Benliam, inspector of the third
lighthouse district, which embraces Bed-
loe’s Island within its limits, to take
steps' for Hie lighting of the Bartholdi
Statue of Liberty as soon as possible.
Some Famous Kisses.
In the -‘ -Midsummer Night's Dream”
Shakespeare calls the lips “those kissing
treasures.” Titania “kisses the fair,
large ears of her gentle joy,” and seems
to take much pleasure in it, while further
on come the quaintekissing of Pyramus
and Thisbe through the chinks of Tinker
Snout’s fingers. There is the kiss of
fetruchio:
“He took the bride about the&Sck."
And kissed her : lips with sueh ^^8anWtoUS
smack,
That, at the parting, all the church d*d •'
epbo.”
Then, there is Romeo's kiss in the vault
so tender and sad, and Othello’s farewell
kisses that almost/ did persuade .Justice
to break her sword, and Anthony’s dying
kiss;
“Of so many thousand kisses, the poor last
I lay upon thy lips.”
And the grand kiss of Coriolanus:
“Long as my exile, sweet as my revenge.”
And Bassanio and Portia’s kiss, full of
such wealth and loyalty of love.
Byron’s wish
“That womanhood had but one rosy mouth
To kiss them all at once from north te
south,y) if
Does not particularly commend itself te
the connoisseur of kissing.
Leigh Hunt says: .
“Stolen sweets are always sweeter.
Stolon kissos much completer.”
One of the most famous kisses in his
tory is that ot Georgianna, Duchess of
Devonshire, when she was canvassing
for Fox’s election. A butcher said he
would vote for Fox if the lady would
kiss him, whieh she thereupon did,
thereby making the kiss, the butcher
and herself immortal in history. The
Duchess of •■■Gordon, in Scotland re
cruited a Highland regiment in the san;*'
way. - ■ - . ) < 1111
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