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w 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. i pa . Do: 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!