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IW.H.W,.
VOLUME VIII.
CHURCH DIRECTORY.
METHODlST—Douglasvii le —First
third and fifth Sundays.
Salt Springs—Second Sunday and
Saturday before.
Midway—Fourth Sunday and Satur
day before. W. R. Foote, Pastor.
BAPTlST—Douglasville—-First and
fourth Sundays. Rev. A. B. Vaughn,
castor.
MASONIC.
Douglasville Lodge No. 289 F. & A.
M. Meets on Saturday at 4P. M. before
the first and third Sundays in each month,
J. C. Wright, W. M., J. L. Perkins,
Secretary, Winston, Ga.
COUNTY DIRECTORY.
Ordinary—H. T. Cooper.
Clerk—B. 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.
SUPERIOR COURT.
Meets on third Mondays in January and
July and holds two weeks.
Judge—Hon Samson W. Harris.
Sol. Genl.—Hon. Harry M. Reid.
Clerk—B. N. Dorsett.
Sheriff—Henry Ward.
COUNTY COURT.
Meets in quarterly session on fourth
Mondays in February, May, August and
November and bolds until all the cases
on the docket are called. In monthly
session it meets on the fourth Mondays
in each
Judge—Hon. R. A. Massey.
Sol. Genl.—Hon. W. T. Roberts.
Bailiff —D. W. Johns.
ordinary’s COURT.
Meets for ordinary purposes on 'first
Monday, and for county purposes on first
Tuesday in each month.
Judge—Hon. H. T. Cooper.
justices’ courts.
780th Dist. G. M. meets first Thursday
In each month. J. I. Feely, J. P., W.
H. Cash, N. P., D. W. Johns and W. K.
Hunt, L. o’s.
730th Dist. G. M, meets second Satur
day. A. R. Bomar, J. I* B.A. Arnold.
N. P., 8, 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. 8. Gore, L. I
O’s.
1259th Dist. G. M. meets third Satur
day. T. M. Hamilton, J. P., M. L.
Yates, N. P., 8. W. Biggers, L. C., 8.
J. Jourdan, L. C.
1260 th Dist. G. M.
da y- Kr N. W. p w . g. j} 1 ®
, L. C. )
ISYIstDisLG. M. meets first Satur
day. C. C. Clinton, J. P Alberry
Hembree, N. P., , L. C.
1272 d Dist. G. M. meets fourth Fri
day. George W. Smith, J. p J.
Robinson, N. P., , L. C.
1273 d Dist. G. M. meets third Friday,
Thomas White, J. P., A. J. Bowen, N. i
P. W. J. Harbin, L, C.
Professional Cards
lioimTilssfL
ATTORNEY at law
DOUGLASVILLE, GA.
(Offloo In front room, Dorcctt'* lUnltling,,
Will practice anywhere txcqii in the Cunnty
Court of Douglass coiuity.
W. A J.MES,
ATTOR EY AT LAW,
Will practice in a)) the coni la, Slate «i>
Federal. Office on Court House Square,
DOUGLASVILLE, GA.
WMT ROBERTS
ATTORNEY AT I AW,
DOUGLASVILLE, GA.
Will practice in nil the Courts. Ail lega
business will receive prompt attention. Office
la Court House.
<?. D. CAMP,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
DOUGLASVILLE, GA.
Will practice in all the conrla. All business
trusted to him will receive proiupA *Atamuon.
B.G. GRIGGS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
DOUGLASVILLE, GA.
Will prsctioe in all the courts, State and
Federal
JOHN HI, EDGE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
DOUGLASVILLE, GA.
Will pnetioe in ail the courts, and promptly
attend to all bnsineee entrusted to hie <mto.
ATTORNEY AT I AW,
DOUGIASVH.I.F. GA.
WiU praeliw iu ins churls of Donglaaa,
(lampKn, ChrraU, Fuddin*. Cobh. Fulton and
couutiae, Prompt at ten two given
J. H. McLarty,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
IX)in.SI-ASVIf.LL GA.
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attorney at law,
DOUGLAS V ILLS, GA.
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THE WEEKLY STAR.
; i THE NEW SOUTH.
3 NEWS NOTES GATHERED
FROM VARIOUS SECTIONS.
I ' NORTH CAROLINA.
’ ; A horse was bought for two dollars in
Laurinburg last Saturday.
A few years ago Mr. A. A. Watson, of
: Robeson county, bought a guinea cow for
j S2O that now gives thirteen quarts of
’ milk at a milking.
In Newberne work on Hotel Albert is
• progressing. Steam pipes for heating,
I for water and for gas, have been put in,
i and the plastering will soon be com
menced.
In Durham, the large factories of R.T.
Faucett and Pogue & Cameron consoli
dated Tuesday under the name and style
, of the Faucett Durham Tobacco and
Snuff company, with a capital stock of
: SIOO,OOO.
Mr. Adolphus Hopson lives six miles
1 east of Durham. Last Saturday morning
his two little daughters were playing in
the fire with a niece of paper, when the
dress of the elder girl caught fire and she
was so badly burned that she died before
night.
Miss Parker attended divine service at
j Juniper Primitive church, in Smithfield,
last Sunday morning, and, with other
young ladies, was sitting around a fire
built in the church grove, when her
clothes caught fire, and she was fatally
burned before her clothes could he ex
tinguished.
A number of petitions are being circu
lated, one petitioning the legislature to
allow the county of Buncombe to vote on
the liquor question, including Asheville
in the county vote; another petitioning
the legislature to urge congress to pass
the Blair education bill; and still another
to establish a reform school or a school
of correction in Asheville.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
The legislature has passed a law to pro
hibit the stealing of fruit and melons.
The Winnsboro national bank has de
clared a semi-annual dividend of 5 per
cent.
About one hundred and fifty negroes
have left Strother’s and the vicinity to
: seek their fortunes in the West.
In Greenville there were 28 fires for
the year 1886, just double the number
during 1885. The fire losses were $96,-
220 and the insurance on the building
and property $89,820.
i . I
A former citizen of Winnsboro, writ- |
ing from Misrissipi, wants to exchange J
’>y^ or property near ;
his old He claims that South Car
oline is the best State in which to live.
A letter from Rossville, Chester coun J
1 ty, states that the whites aqd blacks are in
I a destitute condition. A meeting of both
I races has been called and resolutions
' passed asking the government for help
Abbeville has a postmistress who car
' ties off the palm as a practical and ener-
I getlc woman. She recently slaughtered
three hogs, whose combined weight was
eight hundred and seventy-four pounds
General M. L. Bonhatn, Jr., has sold
out his interest in the Abbeville Messen
ger to J. 8. Perrin, who will hereafter
conduct it himself. General Bonham
will hereafter devote himself to the prac
tice of law, and the discharge of his du
ties as adjutant general.
The Aiken Recorder thinks that the
refusal of the last legislature to allow an
appropriation for the Columbia oanal a
great mistake. The canal having been
begun and the sum of $200,000 having
been already expended, the Recorder be
lieves, and with justice, that the only
way in which the State can realize on the
investment is to complete the work.
Mr. J. W. Creech, of Elko, has a cane
j patch of 7,400 square feet. It costs him
I one fourth to have the syrup made, leav
in him 77 gallons net, which would make
! the value per acre throe hundred dollars
i at sixty-five cents a gallon. The cane was
manured with broadcast compost and
acid phosphate and cotton seed in the
drill, at the rate of 20 bushels of seed and
| 200 pounds of acid to the acre.
MISSISSIPPI.
I There was quite a number of private
dwellings in Gloster burglarized last
week. It seems that there is an organ
ized band of night thieves of thi> charac
ter traveling from station to station on
the raihoad.
William Boehmer, a German, aged
i about fifty years, and in the employ of
Dr. Thurber, on his place at Back Bay,
wm found dead in the yard by a lady
j neighbor, who immediately gave the
alarm. Upon investigation by a coroner's
i jury they found a verdict of death from
appoplexy. He leaves no family. From
the condition of the body he is supposed
to have been dead about thirty-six hours.
A meeting of the members of the Meri
' dan bar was held at the courthouse,
which adopted resolutions asking for the
introduction of a bill in the house of rep
resentativtw providing for the establish
ment of a United States court at Meri
dian, to be known as the eastern division
of the southern district, and Hon. John
W. Fewell was appointed as a delegate to
proceed at once to Washington to urge
aad assist in the passage of the bill.
LOUISIANA.
Captain Marston's ginhotise at East
Point, on Red River, was destroyed by
s fire. Loss, SB,OOO to $4,000; no iusur-
Through error, the Reveille, of St.
| Martinville. stated that the q»er»tions ot
the oil factor) would be sm«|>ended in a
few days. Such is not the case
The petition for the pardon of Dr.
Emanuel Drevfua, now in the penitenria
rv for smbonl'ination of perjury, is Wing
! ciivulateii in Shreveport. It has received
• but • few signausrea.
On the affidavit of James W. Knox.
• before Judge Burgees. C. W. Sumrail
• was awste-l by Deputy Sheriff T S.
Alexander and cowtiUtedto Baton Rouge
uul ou the charge ut umU w ith a KuHe
I e&d Umu&ut w kill xklm
FAWNING TO NONE CHARITY TO ALL.
DOUGLASVILLE, GEORGIA. TUESDAY. JANUARY 25. 1887.
WHITE HOUSE RECEPTION!
i The President Tenders a Reception to the
Diplomatic Corps.
At the white house on Thursday even
ing, the long corridors and large high
rooms were brilliantly lighted, while in
every niche were placed tropical plants of
! all varieties.
In the east room the decorations were
| supplemented by a great profusion of
I choice cut flowers, while gilded columns
j were wreathed with fern and palm leaves
and the large chandeliers twined with
smilax. The Marine band, stationed in
the corridor, furnished the music.
The gaily decorated rooms were crowd
ed from 9 till after 11 o’clock with con
gressmen, diplomats, judges, department
I officials, army and navy officers and other
prominent people with their wives and
lady friends.
The receiving party consisted of the
president and Mrs. Cleveland, Mrs. Man
ning and Mrs. Vilas. Marshal Wilson
! made the presentations. Behind the re
ceiving party in the blue room stood
Secretaries Bayard, Manning, Endicott
and Whitney and Postmaster Vilas; Mrs.
Charles W. Goodyear and Mrs. George J.
Sicard, of Buffalo, and Miss Hastings,
the President’s nieces, who are new guests
at the white house; the young ladies of
the cabinet, and Colonel and Mrs. La
mont.
Mrs. Cleveland wore a trained gown of
ruby plush, cut square in front with-a
moderately high and pointed back; short
lace sleeves, a single rosebud, diamond
necklace with pendant, and diamonds in
her hair and tan gloves reaching to the
shoulders.
RISING FAWN RIOT,
A Desperate Negro Shot and Killed by a
Guard.
For some weeks past Captain Conner,
who is in charge of the convict camp lo
cated at Rising Fawn, Ga., has suspected
that two convicts named Jim Holt and
William Jackson were planning an escape.
He succeeded in getting satisfactory evi
dence that Holt was the leader, and de
cided to punish him. In attempting to
do this Conner was stabbed in the left
shoulder. With a view to disabling
Holt, Captain Conner thereupon shot at
him twice, but merely grazed the skin.
The friends of Holt who were in the
building b( came very much excited, and
a mutiny was threatened, ik bad state of
affairs continued up to Sunday, when
William Jackson, figuring as leader, was
so effectual in keeping up the strife, that
it was thought advisable to punish him.
Accordingly, he was ordered out, but re
fused to come, saying he would die first.
Late in the evening guards were stationed
I at the door, and Captain Conner, accom
| panied trusties, entered to remove
Jackson resisted, using a knife, anil
several of the convicts taking sides with
him, hurled bottles and other missils at
the guards and trusties. At this stage
: the excitement became intense, and one
of the guards seeing Jackson furiously
brandishing his knife, shot at him with
the intention of disabling him, but the
ball hitting his arm, severed an artery,
from which he died. This had the effect
of subduing the others. No blame is at
tached to the act of the guard; and no
further trouble is apprehended.
THE RIDE TO DEATH.
Four Trampa Burned to Dralh in a lacked
Freight Car.
As a special freight train of nineteen
cars, loaded with cotton was pulling into
Paducah, Ky., on the line of the Chesu
! peak, Ohio and Southern railroad Mon
i day, one of the cars was discovered to be
on fire. It had been taken on and locked
at Memphis, being transferred from the
Louisville, New Orleans and Texas rail
road at that point. The engineer backed
on the side track and the crew endeav
ored to extinguish the flames with hose
. attachments. All they succeeded in doing,
however, was to prevent the fire from
I spreading to other cars. While removing
j the debris of the burned car, four dead
j bodies, charred beyond recognition, were
1 discovered. They are supposed to have
been tramps. Whether white or black it
,is impossible to say. The car was locked i
j at Memphis, but the men must have en- j
: tered to their horrible fate through a ;
i window in the end, which could have
i been opened from the outside.
A LAND GRANT DECISION.
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| Thr Alabama and Cbattnnoagn Railroad
Cannot Condemn Certain Lands.
In the case of the Alabama and Chat-
I tanooga railroad company against the
I Tennessee and Coosa railroad company,
! the secretary of the interior has affirmed
> the decision of Commissioner Spai ks, of
I July 23 .1885, which held that a tract of
I land witnin the six miles granted limits
I of the grant to the state of Alabama by
i the act of June 3, 1856,t0 aid in the con
i struction of the Tennessee and Coosa
| milroad is not subject to selection by the
i Alabama and Chattanooga railroad com
pany. as indemnity, notwithstanding the
the fact that the Tennessee and Coosa
! railroad has not been constructed. The
decision is made on the ground that the
grant in question has never been forfeit
ed by congress. The case involves sev
i eral thousand acres of land in the Hunts
ville, Ala., district
THE DROUTH SUFFERERS.
Apprwprlatlua Gmf Relief Recomniuadedl by
a Legislative Cemaaittee.
The special committee appointed to
investigate as to sufferix g from the drouth
I prevalent over a large section of Texas
i has submitted to its report to the
! legislature. The committe state that
! there w a large section of the state west
1 I and north of the Brazos river, and ex
tending far down the river edge to Ham
ilton, which has been visited by one of
the most destructive drouths ever known
r | in Texas. The reports state that in this
i region there are st least 30.000 persons
who are, or soon will be, absolutely des
titute, and who can not possibly subsist
s without immediate assistance. The com
; mittee recommends an appropriation of
, $200,000 for ths relief of the suffer
t era under such provisoas «• may be
deemed best, untU the crops can be
fNwa Ths ujtisa m the report will te
THE CRIMES OF A DAY,
CLEVELAND, OHIO, HEADS THE
LIST.
A Desperate Woman Kills Five of Her Chil
dren and Then Suicides—A Triple
Tragedy—Mexican Horse Thieves
—Other Crimes.
James Cabalcke is a well-to-do carpen
ter, of Cleveland, Ohio. His wife was
out of temper at the breakfast table
Thursday morning and refused to talk to
her husband. After he and his oldest
son went to work, the mother sent two
sons, aged fourteen and fifteen, on er
rands. When they returned they could
not get into the h<use. In the back yard
they found a younger brother bleeding
from many wounds. They speedily
called help and broke into the. house and
found their two little sisters, aged five
and three, and a brother, aged three,
dead from many stabs. A girl of eight
was seriously hurt, and she with the boy
found in the back yard will probably die.
A bloody pair of shears told the story. A
hunt was made for the mother. She was
found in the cellar hanging from a rafter,
dead. She had killed her three children,
mortally injured two others and had then
suicided. The two children who were
still alive weye removed to a neighbor's
house. No cause for the terrible deed is
given. The husband does not think that
his wife was insane.
A TRIPLE TRAGEDY.
Fwo Strange Men Assassinate a Yonng
Maa and are Afterwards Killed.
William E. Mead, aged 27, was mur
dered in cold blood Thursday evening,
being shot through the head while etand
ing on the stoop of his father's store, on
Railroad Avenue, in White Plains, N. Y.
Two men were seen running away from
the store after a pistol shot had been
heard, and Chief of Police Lee, with two
officers, at once followed them.
After the shooting the two men jumped
into a sleigh and drove away, but having
mistaken their way returned to the vil
lage and were fired at by Chief of Police
Lee and both of them killed. Great ex
citement prevails in the village over the
tragedy.
The murdered man was highly esteem
ed by all who knew him, and was not
known to have an enemy. He leaves a
wife and child. No motive for the mur
der can yet be assigned. On the bodies
of the murderers were found two new
sheath daggers with ten-inch blades, one
new mask, four heavy revolvers and time
tables of the Harlem and New York city
railway. Both men were strangers here.
MEXICANJgaK^^HTEVES..'
Loro Number of Harces Stolen—Two Men
Murdered.
The report that Jack McLane and Fred
Aberdeen had been murdered at Farmer’s
ranche near Hudson, in Grant county N.
M., has been confirmed. A neighbor
going to his ranche found McLane tying
dead on the ground near the house with
three bullet holes in his body. Just in
side the house Aberdeen’s corpse was
found on the floor. He had a bullet hole
through his head, from which blood and
brains had oozed. The bodies of both
men had been stripped of all valuables,
including clothing, boots and weapons,
and the murderers had also ransacked
the house, carrying away everything of
value. After completing their work the
thieves stole the horses owned by McLane,
and then went te. Indian Springs where
Hiey gathered in six more horses belong
ing te Mr McLane. The excitement
caused by die affair is intense nil through
Grant county. The perpetrators of the
outrage are believed'to be a part of the
same gang of Mexican thieves and rot
bers who were concerned in the killing
of Deputy Sheriff Hall some time ago,
and if they are caught they will certainlv
be lynched. “
A DOUBLE MURDER.
Particulars of a double murder near
Murfreesboro, Ark., have been received.
Arthur Miller and Miles Wallace, while
returning to their homes in the country,
I were attacked from ambush. The assas
j sins numbered three persons and were
; armed with rifles. Wallace and Miller
attempted to defend themselves, but
without effect. Miller was shot three
times and fell to the ground, dying al
most instantly. Wallace escaped, but is
believed to be mortally wounded. The
assassins were uninjured. Miller had
lived in the country many years and was
unpopular, having shot a numlier of men
■ with whom he had personal encounters
ROAD AGENTS ATTEMPT A ROBBERY.
A bold attempt at train robbery of a
j St. Louis train, on the Chicago and Alton
railroad, took place Thursday, three miles
t east of Independence, Missouri. The
train was brought to a standstill by a
: violent pulling of the bell cord. The
. Break men and conductor rushed through
the forward part of the train to ascertain
the cause of stopping, when they were
fired on by a man standing on the front
Slatform of the smoking car and ordered
ack into the cars. They barely escaped
injury by dodging back iato the ear.
Four or five shots were tired. The
would-be robbers then jumped from the
car and escaped in the darkness.
MURDERED BY HD* VICTIM’S SON.
The dead body of Nelson Borden
i was found near Point Plea>ant, West
Virginia. Three years ago Borden killed
’ John Letcher during a quarrel. Lester's
son Abner, then 12 years old, told hia
mother and others that when he was bi;
enough he would kill Borden. The sac
• that he was hunting yesterday in thq
i woods where Borden was found dear
gives color to the belief that he has ear
tied out his threat.
A YOUTHFUL MI KDEREK.
Elsie Walker, a fourteen-ycar-old girl
living on Sa pel I e Island, near Darier
Ga., was shot and killed by a playmate,
Anthony Handy, aged twelve years. The
boy confessed the crime but said he did
not intend to kill her. The scene of the
murder wm hideous to behold, blood and
brains teiag scattered about (te
door »ad ite vite.
CONSTITUTION’S CENTENNIAL.
The President Sends a Message Regarding
Its Celebration.
The President has sent the following
message to congress:
To the Senate and House of Represen
tatives : As a matter of national interest,
and one solely within the discretion and
control of congress, I transmit the ac-.
companying memorial of the executive
committee of the sub-constitutional cen
tennial commission, proposing to cele
brate, on the 17th of September, 1887, in
the city of Philadelphia, as the day upon
which and the place where the conven
tion that framed the Federal constitution
concluded their labors and submitted the
result for ratification to the thirteen
states then composing the United States.
The epoch was one of the deepest interest
and events worthy of commemoration. I
am aware that as each state acted inde
pendently in giving its adhesion to the
new constitution, the dates and anniver
saries of their several ratifications are not
coincident, so action looking to a national
expression in relation to the celebration
! of the close of the first century of popu
lar government under the written consti
tution has already been suggested, and
whilst stating the great interest I share
, in the renewed examination by the Amer
' ican people of the historical foundation
of their government, I do not feel war
ranted in discriminating in favor of or
against the propositions to select one day
or place in preference to all others ; and
therefore, content myself with convey
ing to congress these expressions of pop
ular feeling and interest upon the subject,
r hoping that in a spirit of patriotic co-op
eration, rather than of local competition,
fitting measures may be enacted by con
’ gress which will give the amplest oppor
t tunity all over these United States, for a
manifestation of the affection and the con
i fidence of a free and mighty nation in the
t institutions of the government, of which
) they are the fortunate inheritors and
under which unexampled prosperity has
I been enjoyed by all classes and condi
, tions in our social system.
Grover Cleveland.
OUR BIG BOOM.
Farther Evidences of the Inflax of Northern
Capital into the South.
The boom in Alabama continues. Bir
mingham is to have a large coal storage
house. Sheffield has its sixth furnace.
Decatur four new furnaces. East Bir
mingham, the largest foundry and ma
chine works in the South. Mobile an
anti-friction metal foundry. Florence a
hundred ton furnace. Ely ton a SIOO,OOO
dam; Gadsden two one hundred ton fur
- 'Tufces and water and gas works, and the
new town, Besemer City, a $500,000 roll
ing mill. The influx of Northern capital
continues unabated, and a majority of the
heavy capitalists now developing the re
sources of Alabama and Tennessee are
officered and conducted by well known
Northern men.
In Arkansas, the DeSha Land and
Planting Company, headquarters at Ar
kansas City, and owning 65,000 acres of
cotton and lumber land, are putting up a
SIOO,OOO saw mill and engaging over
1,000 hands in planting. An immense
brewery is to be erected in Little Rock,
and cepper and gold in paying quantities
have been found near Golden City. A
fourteen feet thick vein of fine coal has
been struck at Bartleville, Indian Terri
tory. Two fifty ton charcoal furnaces
are to be erected at once near Nashville,
Twin.
TROUBLE AT NIAGARA.
A Lora® Mmb of Rock Falla oa the Cana
dian Side.
Over 223,000 Quebec yards of lime
stone and slate rock of the bank of Nia
gara river, near Horseshoe falls, on the
Canada side, fell out Thursday. The
mass fell with a tremendous crash, which
was heard and felt for miles around. The
break has considerably changed the ap
pearance of the bank, and now a dark
chasm can be seen behind the falls from
the bank above. The mass of rock which
fell was sixty feet long and one hundred
and seventy feet deep. Its fall from the
main rock has left a perpendicular wall.
The tremendous weight of the ice
which has accumulated during the past
three weeks, with steady frosty weather
and low water was the cause of the
1 break.
i A WOMAN ON FIRE.
>
' Mrs. Butler, an old lady living with
’ her family, at Athens Ga., was standing
1 near an open fire Tuesday, when she dis
covered that her dress was ablaze. She
was by herself in the house. She rushed
out of doors to go to the river, but before
she had gotten out of the yard was
i enveloped in flames from her clothing,
i Frantic with pain and fright she began
s tearing them from her and when first
P seen was sitting on the frozen ground
, trying to pull off her stockings all that
B was left on her. Dr. Benedict was at
! once summoned, and reached there in
i about fifteen minutes. When it was
c found that she was literally blistered all
t over, and some places the burn extends
I through the skin. Her left hand is badly
1 burned.
e THE IN ATHENS, GA.
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Dr. W. H. Rose, the veterinary surgeon
of the agricultural department, Washing
ton. D. C.. finished his investigation;
at Athens, Ga., Tuesday. lie dug up !
the bodies of two horses which had died '
from the prevalent disease, and split
-1 ting open their noses found evidences ol
. glanders. He recommends the destruc
-3 tion of the stables formerly occupied by ;
' Ajthe street car stock, the burning of the :
w manure and the quarantine of the ani- j
A mals. Dr. Rose does not think there is ,
W danger of a spread of a disease, which ;
T though contagious, is not at all infect-
I sous.
LUMBER DEALERS COMING SOUTH, j
I The fourth annual convention of the •
• ’ Union of Associated Lumber dealers, as-1
< ter session just held at Cincinnati, left by j
» a special train over the Louisville and ‘
B Nashville railroad for Nashville and
1 other points where they will visit and in- |
8 cpect some mills in the lumber regions ol j
1 ike south. The visit will extend to Bii- i
6 MoUie, PeaMvoU ud Koox i
THE LABOR WORLD.
REPORT OF NEW YORK BUREAU
OF STATISTICS AND LABOR.
Investigation and Inquiries Into the Work
ingman’* Position.
New York State Commissioner Peck, in the
“Fourth Annual Report of the Bureau of
Statistics of Labor,” says:
The year 1886 has witnessed a more pro
found and far more extended agitation
among the members of organized labor than
any previous year in the history of our
country, and while such agitation in our
own State has not been characterized by the
wholly unwarranted and criminal excesses
that startled with horror the populace of sev
eral of the Western cities, it has neverthe
less been earnest and pronounced. With
but rare exceptions, organized labor has
continued in this State, with greater suc
cess and vigor than ever before, to agi
tate, to strike and to boycott during the
past year, and 1886 will be remembered as
one of the greatest importance in the battle
waged between capital and labor, the signal
failures and successes of which will not be
lost or fail to serve as lessons of value to the
student of social and economic questions.
The subject of apprenticeship is treated at
great length and in a most exhaustive man
ner. Among other things the Commissioner
ays, in discussing the question:
“As a very prominent feature of the labor
question, it has been fosnd expedient and
necessary to look into our apprenticeship
system—the means at hand of renewing and
rerpetuating our labor supply. The broad
result is that we are largely dependent upon
foreign skilled labor. Our supply of native
mechanics is daily augmented by the skilled
labor of Europe, and while this foreign ele
ment is not equal to the skilled labor which
is retained in Europe, it is in the main vastly
superior to that produced in our own country.
Whether unrestricted emigration be or
be not a national blessing may be disputed,
but a visit to the workshops of the State will
demonstrate the truthfulness of the statement
that the large majority of our tradesmen
and mechanics are foreigners. Indeed, in
many trade and industrial esiablishments
there is not a single American at. work.
Nearly all positions of trust and responsi
bility in the meehanka’ da, ailments are in
the hands of foreign-born workers, and most
of the boys and young men learning trades
are either foreign born or the sons of
foreign-born workers. And the opinion
is now very generally expressed and ac
cepted, that most of the' labor troubles of the
last few years have been precipitated, not
by whole trades, but by sections of them,
and that these sections were largely con
trolled by foreigners, or natives who had
from association imbibed foreign ideas on
the labor question.”
The Commissioner argues in favor of man
ual training as a means of keeping up the
supply of trained labor and preventing the
coming man from becoming the slave of the
machine.
The conclusion at which the Commissioner
arrives in regard to “Shorter Hours of La
bor’’ are thus summed up:—“Aspredicted in
the last report of this bureau, a very
general movement was made on the first
day of May last looking to the reduction
of the hours of labor from ten to eight per
day. The organizations of New York and
Brooklyn seemed to have acted more in con
cert than those of other cities in the States,
and were by far mor® successful,
having won a majority of the cases
where demands wore made. It is true
that while a large percentage of all engaged
in the movement asked for a reduction of two
hours a day, very many of the organizations
did it with a view of compromising on nine
hours as a day’s work.”
He next gives brief histories of the leading
strikes in the State during the year, notably
those in the Troy laundries, the sugar
refineries, and on the street rail
roads. The losses by these different
strikes, boycotts, &c., he is unable
to give in total, but fifty-eight firms alone
report an aggregate of 13,000,000. On the
other hand, the losses of wages to striking
emplovee represented by the sum of <9,
• HE HAD TWO WIVES.
Lee Ayers alias J. H. Moore, a young
white man who was formerly a brakesman
on the Louisville and Nashville railroad,
was arrested at Birmingham, Ala., Thurs
day for forgery. He had succeeded in
getting two checks, one for $375 and one
for $275, cashed at the Berney National
bank, He was identified as the man who
had presented a forged check for $250
at the First National bank Monday, and
slipped out while the cashier was exam
ining the signature. During the search
of Ayers the police found that he has two
wives living in the city, neither of them
being aware of the existence of the other.
A FATAL EXPLOSION.
The boiler at the saw mill of Mr. Bkel
ton, four miles west of Anniston, Ala.,
exploded Monday. Charles Dcmsey, en
gineer of Milton county, Ga., was in
stantly killed, his head crushed and
scalded. Perry Ford, a neighbor, was
killed, his head severed from his body by
a portion of the boiler. J. W. Skelton,
the proprietor, was slightly wounded in
the hand. John Sheron, of Atlanta, hid
his right leg broken and otherwise in
jured. Buck Shearer was slightly wound
ed in the arm. Old man Demsey was
slightly wounded in the head. Charley
Demsey was blown a distance of forty
feet.
THE MAD DANCERS.
A sad outbreak of insanity is reported
from Whiteday, W. Va. Washington
Lake has five grown daughters. Two
weeks ago Tabitha got married and the
young people of the neighborhood, in
cluding her four sisters, celebrated the
event by dancing all night and nearly all
the next day. On the evening of the
I second, Martha, one of the sisters, lost
her reason and developed into a raving
maniac and four days later the bride
went stark mad. Since then the three
other sisters exhibited evidences of in
sanity and the worst is feared.
THE STRIKE AT OXMOOR, / 1 A.
The Superintendent of the Eureka fur
' nacea at Oxmoor, Alabama, has secured
one hundred and fifty men who do not
belong to the Knights of Labor, and put
them to work in place of the strikers.
; The strikers, who are Knights of Labor,
- not ified the Superintendent that the scabs
would not be allowed to work. The
| Sheriff was notified of the impending
J trcuble, and put four deputies at the
! furnaces, and so. far the strikers have
made no effort to interfere with the new
i men.
IRON SHIPMENT FROM €HA»LE-*TON.
The steamship Seminole sailed from
Charleston for New York Saturday with
j one hundred and eight tons of iron from
, Birmingham, Ala. This is the first cargo
of pig iron ever shipped from Charleston. <
ana w the beginning of a trade which
promises to make Charleston the mu»i
important sh’ppltg port for AKteiwnbi
i ob ite SguU aumUq am
NUMBER 51.
TWO FRIENDS.
We have beside us ever two close friends,
Who walk on either hand thro’ all our lives,
One with gay laughter takes our eager hand,
And leads us through youth’s wondrous
Pleasure Land—,
Which with a tale of fabled glory vies;
i Then guides us to the shade of sylvan grove,
Where love is blushing in the twilight sweet,
And all the air is filled with song of birds—
And heavy with the weight of tender words
From lips that melt together as they speak.
But with us, in our journeying with one,
The other walketh with his head bowed low,
A guest unwelcome is he, and unsought,
And when, by chance, we turn with merry
thought,
A glance from him falls on our hearts like
snow.
Yet, silent walks he. On our shrinking
hearts
He lays no hand until his hour has coma
Then leads he even to the vale of Death,
And in the shadows there, with shuddering
breath,
We recognize his features and are dumb!
Both friends ? Ah! yes. The name of one
is Joy—
Our heart strings quiver with his notes so
gay.
But ere the wondrous symphony’s complete,
Pale Sorrow’s hand across the chords must
sweep
To tune in perfect time life’s melody.
—Grace D. Roe, in Detroit Free Preu.
PITH AND POINT.
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“This beats me,” as the egg remarked
when it saw the spoon.— Boston Bulle
tin.
It is said that the coming cow will
have no horns. In that case the coming:
man will take none.— Picayune.
There is no oleomargarine about a
goat. He is genuine butter every time, ;
and ’givestull weight.— Drake's Maga'
zine.
“Nerve Food” is advertised in differ
ent papers. We suppose it forms the
chief diet of book-agents.— Pith and
Point.
“How many women marry a good,
sensible man?” asks Kate Field. Only
one, if the man can help it.— North
American.
It is the silly man who slings aside his
paper with the comment that ‘ ‘half of it
isn’t worth reading.”—The wise man
reads the other half.— Philadelphia Cali.
“Every lassie has her laddie ”
To whisper words of love—-
But every lassie has a daddy
To knock on the floor above. ’
—Life.
A Western farmer has had his in fan*
son christened with twenty-six names.
It is seldom we hear of a man cherishing
such bitter enmity against his offspring.
Graphic. (
Whene'er the small boy makes a racket 1
Or annoys his mother with his tunes, v.l
She is sure to say sho’ll warm his jacket,
Though she always warms his pantaloon*.
—Judge. '
Why do we always talk about putting
on a coat and vest? Who puts on a coat
before the vest? Wc also say shoes and
stockings. "What’s the matter with us,
anyhow ?— Philadelphia Call.
K ate Field says she is tired of the
world, and “would like to live apart
from the fashionable bustle.” Why don’t
you take it off, then, Kate, and give it'
to the hired girl?— Minneapolis TribnM 1
That the oyster is nutritious,
Quite exquisitely delicious,
Is a statement that can never be denied,
But he suddenly grows vicious; <
Toward your stomach quite malicious
When he’s fried.
—Merchant Travelers ’
Bricks That Will Float
“Floating palaces” are often spoken
of, but mostly by a figure of speech to
describe certain splendid steamships.
But now it seems that modern improve
ment has made it possible to build a
brick house on the sea (?). Floating
bricks are now successfully produced in
France, the material of which they are
composed being a kind of earth found in
Tuscany, consisting of fifty-five parts of
sandy earth, fifteen of magnesia, fourteen
of water, twelve alumina, three 1 me, one
iron. It exhales a clay-like odor, and,
when sprinkled with water, throws out a
light, whitvh smoke. It is infusible in
the fire; and though it losei about an
eighth part of its weight, its bulk is
scarcely diminished. Bricks composed
of this substance, either baked or un
baked, float in the water, and a twen
tieth part of clay may be added to their
composition without taking away their
property of swimming. These bricks re
sist water, unite perfectly with lime, are
, subject to no alteration from the heat or
T cold, and the baked differ from the un
baked only in the sonorous quality which
they acquire from the fire. Their strength
is a little inferior to that* of common
bricks, but much greater in proportion to
their weight. Thus a floating brick,
measuring seven inches in breadth, ana
one inch eight lines in thickness, is said
to weigh only fourteen and one-fourth
ounces, whereas a common French brick
was found to weigh five pounds and
nearly seven ounces.— Sin Pranciw
CaU.
Burial Place of the Booth Family.
The burial place of th ; Booth family
is Greenmount cemetery. Baltimore, and
Edwin Booth always visits the spot when
he is in that city and lays flowers on tho
graves of his mother and sister. A plain
* monument stands'in the lot. One side
• of it has these words: “In the same
grave with Junius Brutiu Booth is buried
. the body of Mary Ann, his wife, who
survived him thirty-three years.” On
t.e opposite side is inscribed; “To the
memory of the children of Junius Brutus
and .Mary Ann Booth—-John Wilkes,
Frederick, Elizabeth, Mary Ann, Henry
1 Byron.” On the eist aide is found:
: “Junius Brutus Booth, born May 1,
1796,” and on the opposite ride, “Died j
; November 30, 1852.” Close to the
! ument, on the south side, is a grave ccgfl
ered with ivy, said to mark
! where iie the remains of
Booth Ou- small ro-o b trii
the head of ifravr- a
the foot. . dwin 80.