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WEEKLY STAR.
PAWNraa TO NONE CHARITY TO AI.L.
,/ VOLUME VIII.
DOUGLASVILLE, GEORGIA. TUESDAY, JANUARY 18. 1887-
NUMBER 50.
CHURCH DIRECTORY.
METHODIST—Douglasvii le—First
third and fifth Sundays.
Sam Springs—Second Sunday and
Saturday before.
Mityay—Fourth Sunday and Satur
day before. W. R. Foote, Pastor.
BAPTIST—Douglasville—First and
fourth Sundays. Rev. A, B. Yaughn,
pastor.
THE NEW SOUTH.
MASONIC.
Douglasvii le Lodge, No. 289, F. A.
M., meets cn Saturday night before the
fct and third Sundays in each month.
-I. R. Carter, TV. M., W. J. Camp, Sec-
netarv.
COUNTY DIRECTORY.
Ordinary—H. T. Cooper.
Clerk—S. N. Dorsett. •
Sheriff—Henry Ward.
Deputy Sheriff—G. M. Sou.ter.
Tax Receiver—E. H. Camp.
Tax Collector—W. K. Sayor.
Treasurer—Samuel Shannon.
Surveyor—John M. Huey.
Coroner—F. M. Mitchell.
SUPERIOR COURT.
Meets on third Mondays in January and
July and holds t wo 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 Monday's
in each month.
Judge—Hon. R. A. Massey.
So). Genl.—Hon. W. T. Roberts.
RaiKff-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.
780th Dist. G. M. meets first Thursday
iiu each month. J. I. Feely, J. P., W.
H- Cash, N. P., D. W. Johns and W. K.
Hunt, L. C’s.
-JZ.36tli Dist. G. M, meets second Satur
day. A. R. Bomar, J. P., B.A. Arnold.
N. P., S, C. Yeager, L. C.
784 Dist. G. M. meets fourth Saturday
Franklin Carver, J. P., C. B. Baggett,
N. P., J. C. James and M. S. Gore, L.
C’s.
12o9th Dist. G. M. meets third Satur
day. T. M. Hamilton, J, P., M. L.
Yates, . N. P., S. W. Biggers, L. C., S.
J. .Tourdan, L. C.
7260th Dis ■ G Jfy meets third Satur-
'day. N. TWiiiCNL.P.. W. S. Had-
; " . Alin.. IP c,
1271st Dist.iG. M. meets fTrs*««&alur-
ay. C. 0. Clinton, J. P., A®
Hembree, N. P., , L. C.
1273d 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., „j. J. Bowen N
P. W. .J. Harbin, L. C.
Professional Cards
ROBERT k mSSih
AfTOHNEY AT LAW
DOUGLASVILLE, GA.
(Offico in front room, Dorsett’s Building.,
Will practice anywhere excep! in the Count)
Court of Douglass county.
W. klmis,
attorney at law,
Will practice ill all the courts, Slate an
Federal. Office on Court House Square,
DOUGLASVILLE, GA.
NEWS NOTES GATHERED
FROM VARIOUS SECTIONS.
Wi. I. ROBERTS,
ATTORNEY AT I, AW,
DOUGLASVILLE, QA.
Will practice in nil the Courts. All iega
business will receive prompt attention. Office
in Court House.
<C. D, CAMP,
attorney at law,
DOUGLASVILLE, GA.
Will practice in all the courts. All business
fcntrusted to him will receive prompt attention.
mRiBGs;
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
DOUGLASVILLE, GA.
Will praotioe in all the courts. State and
Federal.
johiTkTedgl
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
DOUGLASVILLE, GA.
Will practice in all the courts, and promptly
attend to all business entrusted to his oare.
j. s. jSesT
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
DOUGLASVILLE, GA.
Will practice in the courts of Douglass,
CtonpheH, Carroll, Paulding, Cobb, Fulton and
a««mng counties. Prompt attention given
t» SB 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.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
B0C8LASVXLLS. GA.
JOBFRINflNC
NEATrer dose
AT THE “STAS” &FF®
SOUTH CAROLINA.
The Sumter national bank has declared
a semi-annual dividend of four per cent.
The new town council of Darlington
has placed the liquor license at $150,
which is $25 less than it was last year.
The Green Pond, Waterboro and
Branchville railroad has been completed
to a point within a mile of Waterboro.
James E. Davis, of Barnwell, who was
so severely shot on Christmas day by W.
E. Owens, is rapidly recovering.
The directors of the Sumter cotton
mills have declared a dividend of seven
per cent on the capital stock, and also
passed ten per cent to the surplus.
One hundred and fifty negroes left
Strothers last week for Texas and Arkan
sas, seeking bread and better homes.
Wives have gone and left their husbands.
They are very poor and dissatisfied, hav
ing had four successive failures in the
crop.
An attempt was made to wreck a train
near Honea Path on the night of the 1st
instant, by placing an iron bar across the
rails. It was struck by the engine of a
special freight going w 7 est, about nine
o’clock, but fortunately no injury was
done, as the bar was knocked clear of the
track by the pilot of the engine,
FLORIDA.
Leon county is redeeming her bonds
and stopping interest,
Gainesville now boasts of a population
numbering 5,038 souls.
C. B. White of Volusia, last week
picked 1,050 oranges from a five-year-old
tree.
Mr. Tyson, of Smithville, Ga., is now
on Indian river looking out for a location
for a newspaper.
The university library at Tallahassee
has received 20 volumes of Swedenborg’s
Publishing society.
The reduction of hands in the railroad
shops in Tallahassee turns twenty-two
employes out in the cold.
Mr. Keesley, of Point Pinellas, shot an
eight-foot alligator last week, but a horse
did nearly as well last Sunday, jumping
on and disabling one, five feet and a half
long.
The Courier, Mr. S. A. Jones’s new
papei in Tampa, appeared Wednesday.
This makes three weekly newspapers for
Tampa, and it is now a question of the
‘survival of the fittest.”
A liiflh named Weaver appeared at the
court house a few days ago to transact
some business with the clerk of the court
who said he had walked all the way from
Brevard to Tallahassee to straighten out
his land matters.
A wild boar was killed in Rice-ereek
.swamp, near Palatka, a few days ago.
The hog weighed more than three hun
dred pounds and was killed by Mr. Jim
mie Grooms. The tusks were about seven
inches long, and shows just what a Flor
ida razor-back can do when given the
freedom of the swamps.
NORTH CAROLINA.
It is stated that many of the most
prominent tobacco farmers of the section
around Henderson will not put in a full
crop of tobacco this year.
It lias been definitely ascertained that
Governor Scales will not order an election
to fill the vacancy in the Fifth district,
caused by Reid’s resignation.
The Governor has offered a reward of
|100 for Thomas Brinkley, who is charged
with the murder of Pierce Hermann,
at Hickory, Christmas day. Hermann
was a merchant there. Directly after
committing the crime Brinkley fled.
While Lawrence Pritchard, son of Rev.
Jr. Thomas H. Pritchard, was hunting,
at Lake Waeinaw, his gun burst, wound
ing him painfully in the face and hands.
The gun was over-charged. The injuries
are not considered serious.
Negro brutality in some cases is horri
ble, and the latest instance occurrred at
Charlotte, where the wife of John Morri
son beat him on the head with cooking
utensils, fracturing his skull and causing
his death, Wednesday night of last week.
The murderess has flei.
The State Board of Agriculture meets
on the 17th, and has invited the farmers
of the State to meet with it for a general
discussion. There has been specially call
ed, a State Convention of farmers, on the
26th instant. This appears to be excit
ing quite a deal of interest.
Wilmington has had more trouble than
any place in the State during the past
few months in the way of strikes. The
last one of these labor troubles was
caused by railway firemen. The police
stopped the trouble. Thursday one of
the strikers, a negro named Aycock, was
before Mayor Hall at Wilmington, charg
ed with threatening to kill one Massen-
burg, a negro who had been given Aycock’s
place.
ALABAMA.
All of north Alabama seems to be on a
boom.
A movement is on foot to plant a hun
dred thousand dollar carriage and wagon
factory at Birmingham.
The residence of Mr. G. W. Abbott, of
Arkadelphia, was destroyed by fire a few
days ago. Everything in the house wa»
lost.
J. W. Dainwood, of Livingston, who
made an assignment some days ago, has
compromised with his creditors and re
sumed business.
Major Garland Goode, an old and es
teemed citizen of Mobile, formerly in the
cotton factorage business, died and was
buried Friday. He was born im Edge-
field, 8. C.
The little six-year-old daughter of Mr.
Kendrick, living near Calera, was burned
to death Friday morning. Her clothing
caught on fire, and before assistance
came she was burned almost to a ciisp.
A negro companyis the latest novelty
in the land speculatioa Use M Birmins-
nam. it is cauea tne rsortn AiaDama
Colored Land company, and is capitalized
at $50,000. Nearly all the prominent
colored people in town are interested
in it.
Prohibition virtually prevails in Blount
county, from the 31st of December, 1886,
until at least to the 22d of July, owing
to the recent act of the legislature passed,
to regulate the manner of obtaining li
cense to liquor dealers in this county.
The Lowndesboro correspondent Hayne
ville Examiner says: Planters have pret
ty generally commenced work for 1887.
AVith few exceptions most of them have
plenty of labor and we trust all parties
will be better satisfied during the coming
year.
M. Mayer Richards, a cotton buyer in
Montgomery, was arrested Saturday on a
warrant issued by Justice H. B. Screws
on affidavit of L. Seligman, paper and
stationery, the charge being larceny of
furs. Mr. Richards gave bond for ap
pearance.
Covington county is becoming noted
for the abundance of large and small game
within her boundaries. A party of gen
tlemen from Pike came down a few day*
since, were joined by friends at this place
and went on a hunting expedition to the
lower portion of the county. We learn
the results were satisfactory.
The Andalusia Times says if Andalusia
continues to make the same headway in
material progress for the next two years
that she has in the one just drawing to a
close, she will indeed be a boomer. Never
before in her history has there been such
an influx of new comers and erection of
new houses and improvement of old ones.
Montgomery Advertiser: John Saun
ders, a notorious thief, was arrested by
Officer Payne yesterday afternoon. The
charge against John is grand larceny. A
few days ago he stole some hides from L.
Seligman and sold them to Mr. Sabel.
Mr. Seligman identified his property and
took the hides back to the store. The
next day the hides w.ere missing again.
John had stolen them again and sold
them to Mr. S. Marks, on Dexter avenue,
The hides were recovered and the thief
spotted. Yesterday aiternoon the officers
got him and lodged him in prison John
Saunders is a veteran thief, and is a fa
miliar character in the police court. He
has been arrested up to date forty-eight
times by Dfficer Payne, and in almost
every instance for larceny.
At a meeting of tbe board of directors
of the Decatur Land Improvement and
Furnace company, the executive com
mittee were authorized to proceed at
once to erect four blast furnaces of at
least one hundred tons daily capacity.
A proposition, through Mr. Gunby
Jordan, of Columbus, Ha,, from New
York, and Philadelphia captalists, for the
erection of a one hundred ton blast fur
nace, was received and acted upon. The
representatives of the Pierce charcoal and
wood alcohol works, who are now erect
ing fifty ovens at this point, are expected
here with a view to erect a charcoal iron
furnace at this point. A Curry cotton
compress company was organized, to
erect extensive works at this point,
FROM TUSCALOOSA.
The excitement over Tuscaloosa’s great
boom increases hourly. Telegrams have
poured in from all quarters asking for
stock in the land company. The sub
scription books having been closed, these
telegrams are filed in the order in which
they hare been received. The talk now
is general on the streets that the original
amount of ground floor stock agreed up
on will have to be increased to meet the
pressing demands of capitalists from
other points. The prospect is that the
Tuscaloosa Coal, Iron and Improvement
company will be the largest and strongest
ever organized in the South. It is ru
mored that negotiations are pending to
secure for the company a body of over
one hundred thousand acres of coal and
iron land lying between Tuscaloosa and
and the Georgia Pacific railroad, in addi
tion to the lands heretofore secured. Ten
per cent premium was freely offered on
the streets for places on the stock list,
the holders generally refusing to sell at
that price. In the meantime real estate
of all kinds in the city that is offered is
readily taken up, advancing prices. The
proportions which the boom is assuming
is amazing even to the most sanguine be
lievers in Tuscaloosa’s future.
RAILWAY PASSENGER AGENTS. I ABOUT THE PRESIDENT. ! A JACKSON COUNTY SENSATION.
SIR STAFFORD NORTHCOTE DIES.
He Faints while ascending the Stairs of Lord
Salisbury’s Residence.
Lord Iddesleigh is dead, He is better
known to fame in British politics as Sir
Stafford Northcote, He fainted while
ascending the stairs of Lord Salisbury’s
official residence, in Downing street, as
he was about to visit his lordship. He
was taken into the prime minister’s room
and almost instantly expired. A physi
cian’s bulletin announces that Lord Id-
dlesleigh died from heart disease, from
which he had suffered slightly for sev
eral years. A few moments before he
was stricken, he seemed to be in per
fect health and spirit. His body bas
been removed to the family residence in
St. James place. There will be no in
quest, the doctors certifying that death
resulted from a failure of the heart’s ac
tion.
SNOW IN THE NORTHWEST,
stage Coaches Blocked—Two Men Burled
by an Avalanche.
Many stage coaches are blockaded ’in
western Montana, and a number of casu
alties are reported. The coach from
Benton to Helena was blockaded twenty-
eight miles out, the team becoming ex
hausted from walking through the snow.
The driver and passengers walked to the
next station and all were more or less
frozen. The o >ach from Helena to Fort
Shaw was also obliged to lay up. The
suow is terribly deep in the mountains
and the roads are impassable.
Two men Tony AVise and a Swede named
.Martin, were at work on the side of Sheep
mountain near Cook City, developing
come mining property. A huge slide
-wept down the mountain and hurled the
two unfortunate men into eternity. They
were carried a thousand feet below, and
their bodies will not be found until the
snow melts next summer.
A Reusing Meeting at Which Twenty-Two
Companies Were Represented.
A meeting of the Southern Passenger
association was held in New Y T ork on
Tuesday, twenty-two out of the twenty-
five companies of the association being
represented. Col. T. M.R. Talcott, of Mo
bile, presided. It was said that the special
business was to invoke new aids in an
effort to get those of the southern lines
not now in the association to come. Of
these four companies who are not mem
bers, all but one—the Mississippi and
Tennessee—a small line, have signified
their intention to join._ Mr. Stoughton
was re-elected commissioner of the asso
ciation.
The association completed its ^ labors
and adjourned. A committee of five was
appointed to confer with the management
of roads not members of the association
and ungoverned by its rates to . obtain
their concurrence in the schedule if pos
sible. The committee consist of E. B.
Thomas, of the Richmond and Danville;
Henry Fink, of the Virginia, Tennessee
and Georgia Air-Line; E. T. D. Myers, of
the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Poto
mac; N. II. Smith, of the Louisville and
Nashville, and John C. Galt, of the Cin
cinnati, New Orleans and Pacific.
OLUVERIUS AND RELIGION.
The Prisoner Seeking Religions Consola
tion-Petition for Further Respite.
Counsel for Cluverius, the condemned
murderer of Lillian Madison, have pre
sented a formal petition to the governor
for a further respite. The prisoner re
ceives few visitors, and spends much of
his time reading the Bible. Recently, at
his own request, he has been visited sev
eral times by Captain Frank W. Cun
ningham. who is known as ‘‘Richmond’s
silver tongued tenor,” and its sweetest
ballad and hymn singer. On each occa
sion Captain Cunningham has sung for
the condemned criminal, and in recogni
tion of his kindness, presented Captain
Cunningham with an autograph album,
with the following written on the first
page:
“Captain Frank W. Cunningham: Let
me say that no words of mine can proper
ly thank you for the cheer and comfort
you have brought me in my lonely hour
by your sweet music. Whatever others
may say or think, I can say to you I am
innocent, May we all meet in heaven
where sorrow is not. We shall sing on
that beautiful shore.
Thomas J. Cluverius.”
KILLED BY A PENCIL.
A Strange Death Reported from Florence
trsunce,
C. II. Pabrer, a mtfcEijat of Fit
died Monday from IM> result of a strange
accident. One dayifcabout two month*
ago, while standing n| front of his store,
he was approached from behind by a
friend, who playfully threw his arms
around Barber’s neck. A scuffle ensued,
in which Barber's head was drawn down
ward and his right eye brought in con
tact with the sharp point of a small lead
pencil sticking out of his friend’s vest
pocket. The pencil, which was about an
inch and a quarter, lon^penetmted the
eye, ami became so completely embedded
therein, as to baffle the efforts of the
surgeons to extract it. After remaining
in the eye. about six weeks, the pencil
worked itself out, and it was then thought
that, with the exception of the loss of the
eye, Mr. Barber would suffer no other in
convenience, hut in a few days it became
evident that the lead had poisoned the
optic nerve, and soon after the brain be
came similarly affected. Barber lingered
in great agony until death relieved him.
The autopsy showed that the brain had
literally rotted away.
A CELEBRATED CASE,
Private advices from Montgomery state
that the suit in the supreme court of D.
W. Visher versus East Alabama Railway
company to recover East Alabama Rail
road, resulted in favor of present com
pany. This is a celebrated case, having
gone the round of the state court into the
United States supreme court and again to
the state supreme court. This is a final
ity. Mr. Visher was the road contractor,
and sued for alleged unpaid contracts.
The present company offered at one time
a compromise, but Vischer’s lawyers re
fused.
BASEBALL.
HE WANTS TO SWING.
Mr. and Mr*. Cleveland May Visit San Fran
cisco and the Yellowstone Park.
It is said that the president and Mrs.
Cleveland contemplate a lot of jaunts this
summer: that they intend going to the
Pacific slope, through the south, spend
ing some time in the woods of Michigan
and New York, and that the president
hopes to take sufficient exercise to work
down his superfluous flesh and give.his
muscles some elasticity, so as to obviate
the danger he is in of a stroke of appo-
plexy or something else. Last summer
he had such a good time in the Adiron-
dacks and felt so greatly improved that
he will try it on a larger scale.
It will be remembered that last sum
mer efforts were made to get Mr. and
Mrs. Cleveland to go to San Francisco,
St. Louis, the Yellowstone Park and a
number of other pieces, contemplating
travel over a large scope of country. The
president hinted at that time that he
might pay visits to all those places in the
future. This summer will cover the long
vacation of congress, or rather the inter
im of great length when there is no ses
sion. The offices will nearly all have
been filled by new men, and they have so
completely mastered the details as to be
able to run the machinery of government
without his directing care. So the mo
ment for politics, recreation and social
visits will be opportune about June or
July.
A TRAIN IN A SNOW DRiFT.
Fatal Plunge ef a Missouri Pacific Passen"
ger Train.
A south bound passenger train on the
Missouri Pacific extension was wrecked
near Dunbar, Neb., about midnight
Wednesday. The wreck was caused by
the loosening of a rail, done by parties
unknown. Several spikes and fish plates
had been removed and the train coming
along at the rate of thirty miles an hour,
plunged fifteen feet down an embankment
and landed in a snow drift. James De
witt, of Wyandotte. Kansas, engineer,
was caught under the boiler and killed,
his body not being recovered at last ac
counts.' Frank Honewith, express mes
senger, was internally hurt and may die.
A lady, whose name was not learned, was
badly hurt, but the other passengers were
not seriously injured So far as known
here, all were shaken up, however, and
more or less bruised. The entire train
left the track and probably the loss of life
would have been greater except for a
snow-bank which broke the force of the
plunge. Missouri Pacific officials state
that the wreck is the result of a third at
tempt upon the life of Engineer DeWitt.
A Man Suspected of Robbery is Taken Out
and Maltreated.
On Thursday night of Christmas week
the storehouse of Mr. J. E. Statham,who
lives in Sentofe,Ga.,was entered and $100
stolen therefrom. For some cause sus
picion at once rested on W. O. Shelnutt,
who lived near the store, but direct proof
was lacking which would fasten the
crime on him. Threats were openly
made about Shelnutt’s complicity. On
Sunday night following, about 1 o’clock,
Shelnutt’s door was broken open, and
without giving him tjme to dress or bid
his wife adieu, a party of men wearing
mc.-ks and nine in number, hurried him
off to an old church near by. and finding
a suitable limb, procured a strong rope
and fastening one end around his neck
drew him up between heaven and earth.
After suspending him thus until life was
almost extinct, the line was slackened
and an opportunity given him for a full
confession of the crime, but this he re
fused to do, and again was the rope
tightened. When breath had about left
him a halt was called, and in an uncon
sci ms condition Shelnutt was dragged
by two men about 100 yards to a log.
While they held him down across it a
brawny fellow administered a severe flog
ging with an improvised oat-of-nine tails
made from a heavy leather strap. When
the mob had given him all he could stand
a halt was ordered and another oppor
tunity given for a confession. With his
back bleeding from a hundred wounds,
the poor wretch, to save his life, told
them that a man named Griffith robbed
the store, and he Shelnutt happened to
see him in the act. and that Griffith gave
him five dollars to keep mum. This con
fession seemed to appease the wrath of
the crowd to a certain extent, and Shel
nutt was then taken to the home of Mr.
Statham, proprietor of (he store that was
robbed, and turned over to his tender
mercies. The next day Griffith was ar
rested, but Shelnutt failed completely to
show any connection that Griffith had
with the matter, so Griffith was released.
Shelnutt says he knows nothing what
ever about the robbery and only told the
mob what he did in order to save his life.
Warrants have been issued for six men
charged with complicity in the whipping,
and lively times may be looked for before
the thing is finally ended.
THE CHINESE QUESTION.
Negotiations With the Government—Expul
sion at Van Conver.
It is understood that negotiations with
the Chinese government, to which allu
sion was made in the president’s message,
for such a modification of existing trea
ties as will entirely prevent the introduc
tion of Chinese coolfe labor into - this
country, have just been brought to a suc
cessful termination and that in a few.
days, an amended . trealty, coyefifig this
point, will be submitted to the senate for
ratification. Both the State department
and Chinese, embassy are much gratified
at the satisfactory conclusion reached.
EXPULSION OF CHINESE AT VAN COUVER.
The committee appointed at the public
meeting at Van Couver, B. C., waited on
a number of Chinamen who recently ar
rived there from Victoria B. C., and re
quested them to leave, which they did.
Their return fare to Victoria was paid by
subscriptions received from citizens. It is
reported that instructions have been re
ceived to take proceedings against Mayor
McLean, of Van Couver and other citi
zens implicated in the expulsion.
HIS BODY PULLED IN TWO.
The Southern baseball league is an es
tablished fact. John Morrows president
of the league said: “The league is
thoroughly organized now, is in harmony
and working under a guarantee of the
national association, has secured all cities
in the circuit, except Atlanta and Macon,
and these will be replaced by Mobile and
Birmingham. Memphis has remitted her
franchise deposit of $2,000. New
Orleans, Savannah, Charleston and Nash
ville have fallen into line and Chattanooga
is safe.
Cooper, the murderer sentenced to be
hanged on January 14th at Darien, Ga.,
was informed that the governor had re
prieved him until February 11th. He did
not hail the news with joy. He says he
does not like this interference by outside
parties, and would prefer to hang on the
day first appointed.
A MYSTERIOUS LYNCHING.
James Chavis, a young man about 18
years of age, met with a horrible death
in the gin house of J. T. Goodson, in
Darlington county. At the time of the
accident Mr. Goodson was in the gin
house, up stairs, and noticing that the
mules had stopped, he went down stairs,
where he found Chavis’s dead body, brok
en in two just below the chest. It is sup
posed that Chavis was standing on (he
shaft, and while going backwards he was
■ aught by the band wheel..
A BRIDGE FALLS IN.
A special from Adrian, Michigan, says:
The iron passenger bridge spanning the
Raisin river, connecting the two princi
pal portions of the village of Blissfield,
ten miles east of this place, fell yesterday,
the intense cold causing the iron to con
tract and draw upon the supports. Wil
liam Slack and Charles Quigley, with a
herd of cattle, were precipitated to the
bottom. The men are injured fatally.
THE ARMY AND PENSION BILLS.
The army appropriation bill, as report
ed to the Senate by Senator Allison, ap
propriates $23,737,718, being $951,000
in excess of the appropriation bill as it
came from the House, and $1,778,869
less than the estimates. The pension ap
propriation bill, also reported by Senator
Allison, appropriates the same amount as
the House bill, and contains but one
amendment of slight importance.
THF DEATH OF THB YSAR
A cloud came out of the golden west,
A bell rang over the silent air;
The sun-god hurried away to rest,
Flushing with kisses each cloud he presfe, .
And, oh! but the day was fair.
“How brightly the year gees out," they sald|
“The glow of the sunset lingers long,
Knowing the year will be over and dead;
Its sad hours over—its fleet hours fled—
With service of even-song."
“Raw sadly the year came in," they said,
I listened and wondered in dusk of night;
To me no year that might come instead
Of the old friend numbered among the dead
Could ever be half so bright.
The sun-kissed clouds grew pale andgray.
The bells hung silent in high mid-air,
Waiting to ring the year away
In strains that were ever too glad and gay
For me—as I listened there.
Oh, hearts! that beat in a million breasts,.
Oh, lips 1 that utter the same old phrase,
I wonder that never a sorrow rests
In words you utter to friends and guest*
In the new year’s strange new days!
Is it just the same as it used to be?
Have new years only a gladder sound!
For ever and always it seems to me
That no new face can be sweet to see
As the old ones we have found.
There is no cloud in the darkened west,
The bell is silent in misty air,
The year has gone to its last long rest.
And I, who loved and who knew it best,
Shall meet it—God knows where 1
—All the Tear Round.
A VIRGINIA RIOT.
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the striking employes of the Old Domin
ion Steamship line, at New port News,
occurred Tuesday. A telegram from Mr.
Bremond, general traffic manager of the
Chesapeak and Ohio railroad, at New
port News, to General We.ckh.am', of Rich
mond, second vice-president of the com
pany, says, the strikers have taken pos
session of pier No. 2, set fire to the bath
house of the Old Dominion land company,
and perpetrated other outrages. Mr.
Bremond asks for an armed force to pro
tect the company’s property and arrest
the offenders. Judge Be^oOfeSSjfit--
county,,has made-Srforffial call upon Gov
ernor Lej fer~military aid, and he has
taken prompt action in the matter by or-
desksg three companies, two white and
one colored, from Richmond, and one
white company and one colored from
Hampton, to proceed at once to the scene
of the disturbance.
LOTTERY TICKETS COUNTERFEITED.
It has been discovered that Louisiana
lottery tickets have been counterfeited
for a year, and sold on the Pacific coast.
A ticket bearing a one thousand dollar
prise number was sent to New Orleans
for collection, and there pronounced a
forgery. The man who made the dies
and printed the tickets is known, and he
has given the names of the men who or
dered them and sold the counterfeits.
No prosecution for counterfeiting can be
sustained because the lotteries have no
legal standing. The only prosecution
that can be made is for misdemeanor for
disposing of lottery tickets.
Ike Brumfield, colored, was hanged by
an unknown mob Saturday night at
Gsyka, Miss. The body was found on
Sunday. The negro, it is stated, resided
in Louisiana, but was taken into
Mississippi and lynched. The cause of
the hanging has not transpired.
CAPITAL COMING SOUTH.
A BATTLE AT TONQUIN.
Official dispatches from Tonquin report
that French troops made an attack on a
large rebel force entrenched at Shanhoak,
but were twice repulsed. During the
fighting four French officers were wound
ed five European and eight Tonqum sol
diers were killed, and fifteen European
and twenty-seven Tonquinese were
wounded. Reinforcements of artillery
and infantry will be sent to the French.
BURNING HOUSES IN IRELAND.
A series of evictions was begun on the
Winn estates, in Kerry. As the tenants
were evicted their houses were burned.
Intense excitement prevails in the dis
trict, and it is probable there will be
blood shed.
ENGLAND ASSISTS BULGARIA.
A party of eighteen gentlemen from In-
linois, Indiana and Michigan, represent
ing $2,000,000 capital, left St. Louis for
the south. Their intention is to purchase
a million or more acres of timber land be
longing to the Mobile and Ohio road in
Tennessee, Alabama and Mississippi, and
erect mills and open a new and extensive
lumber trade in that seciion.
LOSS OF LIFE AT A FIRE.
A rumor is current that England is
giving pecuniary assistance to the Bul
garian regents. There are rumors on
bourse that Russia ha* occupied a portion
S A f-lvanialan
A fire started Tuesday morning in the
dentist office of Dr. Genslinger and ex
tended to the adjoining buildings of F.
M. Peal and J. H. Piper, at Carlisle,
Ky. When the walls fell Dr. Genslinger
and Newton Craig were caught in the
debris. They were extricated, but are
fatally injured. The total loss is $50,000,
insurance $25,000,
ODDS AND ENDS.
An exchange has an article on “Why
Bees Make Honey.” They make it to
cell.
A father may succeed in cutting off
his son without a cent, but lie can’t cut
off the lawyers
If a man borrows money he does not
care to have it talked about. He wants
to be quietly let alone.
The rockers on a chair never stick out
half so far behind at any other time as
when a man is prowling around in the
dark barefooted
When Georgiana was three, she said
suddenly one day, after long quiet:
“Mamma, where do the to-days go
when they get to be yesterdays ?”
The sheep is a mighty useful anim 1;
his body is good for meat, his wool for
clothes, and his skin is manufactured
into doeskin, and even kid cloves.
A damsel gave this as an excuse ('or
the size of her pedal extremities: She
had rheumatism when a child, and her
suo tiler .rubbed her legs the wrong way,
and rubbed her calves into her feet.
A young woman in eastern Maine
cries by the hour because she is tall.—
Ex. This is a rather peculiar case, but
we have often heard of a man commit
ting suicide because he was “short, ”
You can always tell a man who has
once been a clerk in a hotel, says an ex
change. Our experience has been that
you can’t tell him much. He thinks he
knows it all.
“I see that one of the new rules of
the national game p: ovidos that where a
batsman is hit by a pitched ball he is
given his base. Now, what is to pre
vent a man getting hit. on purpose to
take his base ?” “Have you ever been
hit by a pitched ball?” “Never!” “J
thought not,”
PITH AND POINT
Head-work—Bonnets.
People who want the earth do not cry
to have it blown into their faces by wind
in a dry time.—Boston Globe. •
“It is the rent question that demands
better home rule,” as Bagiev remarked
when he pinned up the back of his vest.
—Judge.
A correspondent asks: “Is it wrong to
cheat a lawyer?” First cheat the law
yer and we will answer the conundrum.
—Providence Telegraph..
“What is education?” asks a writer
Well, it is something a college graduate
thinks he has until he becomes a news
paper man. — Chicago Tribune.
The doctor chuckled in wild glee,
With mirth almost exploded;
•‘The deadly mince pie comes,” said h©
“And folks don’t know Its loaded.”
—GoodaWs Sun.
We are given, by an agricultural ex
change, a picture entitled: “A Device
for Feeding Hogslri Every cheap res
taurant in New York should have one.—
Push-.
A child who was sitting in the sun was
admonished by her mother: “My dear,
come out of the sue.” “No, mother,”
said the little girl, with emphasis, “I
got here first.”
That the oyster is nutrition*,
Quite exquisitely delicious,
Is a statement that can never be denied;
>—But-he suddenly grows vicious,
When he’s fried.
—Merchant Traveler.
Perhaps, if the Yale student*-are
really tired of the old-fasioned religion
that is preached to them at the college,
the faculty might delegate a few of tht
young men to get up a new one, with
eight oars and a coxswain in it.—Chicago
Mews.
Thanksgiving in 1721.
From an old newspaper, the Boston:
Gazette, of October 9, 1721, the follow
ing quaint and curious proclamation was
copied. Boston has never known a more
doleful Thanksgiving Day than that of
1721; for during that year six thousand
persons, out of a population of about
nineteen thousand, had the smallpox,
and one thousand of them died. The
Indians had seriously threatened the
peace of the colony, and Governor Shute,,
a gentleman of high torv principles, was
in continual conflict with the Legisla
ture. The prominence given in the proc
lamation to the King, George, and the
royal family, was probably a political
stroke aimed by the Governor at his op
ponents. It did not soothe them,, and
the Governor soon after left the province.
By His Excellency
Samuel Shute, Esq.;
Captain General and Govornour-fn-
Chief, in and over His Majesty’s Proving^* - *
of the Massachusetts Bay in New Eng
land, etc. A Proclamation lor a Getieval
THANKSGIVING.
For as much as amidst the various,
awful Rebukes of Heaven, with which
we are righteously afflicted, in the Con
tagious and Mortal Sickness among us,
especially i-n the Town of Boston; The
Song and hnmocieraiA Kafr*, which have
been so hurtful to the Husbandry xa4
Fishery; And the threatening Aspect of
Affairs with Respect to our Frontiers;
we are still under the highest and most
indispensable Obligations of Gratitude
for the many Instances of the Divine
Goodness in the Favours vouchsafed to
us in the Course of the Year past; Par
ticularly, For the Life of our Gracious
Sovereign Lord the King, Their Royal
Highnesses the Prince and Princess of
Wales and their issue, and the increase
of the Royal Family; The Preservation
of His Majesty’s Kingdoms and Domin
ions from tho terrible and do-dating.
Pestilence, which hath for so long »
time been wasting the Kingdom of
France: And the happy Success of His
Majesty’s Wise Councils for Restoring
and Confirming the Peace of Europe;
For the Continuance of our valuable
Privileges, both Civil and Ecclesiastical;
and tho Divine Blessing upon this Gov
ernment in their Administrations; Par
ticularly, in succeeding the Methods
taken to prevent the i u hilts of the East
ern Indians; For ;:h ing so great Meas
ure of Health whlii i this Province, and
Moderaing the Mortality of the Small-
Pox, so that a great Number of Persons
are Recovered from that Distemper;
And for granting us so comfortable a
former Harvest, and so hopeful a Pros
pect of the latter:
I have, therefore, thought fit with the
Advice of Hi -: Majesty’s Council, to order
and Appoint Thursday, the Twenty-sixth
Instant, to be Observed as a Dav of Pub-
lick Thanksgiving throughout this Prov
ince, strictly forbidding nil Servile La
bour thereon, and exhorting both Minis
ters and Pe: pie in their respective As
semblies on the said Day, to offer up
humble and sincere Thanks to Almighty
God, for His many Favours, as afore
said, and for many other Blessings be
stowed on a sinful People.
Given at Boston, the Eighteenth Day
of September, 1731. And in. the Eighth
Year of the Reign of our Sovereign
Lord George, by the Grace of God of
Great Britain, France and Ireland,
King, Defender of the Faith, etc,:
By order of the Governour, with Ad
vice of the Council S. SHUT®.
F, Willard, Sect.
God Save the King!