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VOLUME, IX. CHURCH DIRECTORY METHODIST—Douglasvh le —First third and fifth Sundays. Salt Springs—Second Sunday and Saturday before. Midway—Fourth -Sunday and Satur day before. Geo. E. Bonnet, Pastor. BAPTlSE—Douglasville—First and fourth Sundays. W. J. Spears, Pastor. 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—ll. T. Cooper. Clerk—S. N. Dorsett; Sheriff—Henry Ward. Deputy Sheriff—G. M. Souter. Tax Receiver—E. H. Camp. Tax Collector—W. A. Sayer. Treasurer—Samuel Shannon. Surveyor—John M. Huey. Coroner—F. M. Mitchell. 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 holds until all the cases on the docket are called. In monthly session it meets on the fourth Mondays in each month. 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. 730th Dial. G. M. meets first Thursday in each month. J. I. Feely, J. P., W. H. Cush, N. P., D. W. Johns and W. K. Hunt, L. C’s. 730th Dist. G. M, meets second Satur day. A. R. Bomar, J. P., B.A. Arnold. N. P., 8, C. Yeager, L. C. z 784 Dist. G. M. meets fjrtirtll Saturday Franklin Carver, J. P., C. B. Baggett, N. I’., J. C. Jamds and M. B. Gore, L C’s. 1259th Dist. G. M. meets third Satur day. T. M. Ihjaiilton, J. P., M. L. Yates, N. P., 8. W. Biggers, L. ( . >. J. Jourdan. L.' C. G. M. meets first Satur- 4 ■ /’ , p ’’ Albtrn ' y V.ZI. meets fourth Fri- Smith, J. P., J. Robiurtofl, N. , L. C. 1273 d .Dist. G. M. meets third Friday Thomas White, J. P., A. J. Bowen. N. P. W. J. Harbin, L. C. "a!"'!-!'. jL—- J!—!■ Prof-eno! Cards j?H. McLaRTYT ATTORNEY VI- LAW. DOUGLASVILLE GA. Uin pra-'t :.ce hi .t'; the c- u •:*. Inch 8:>u« and Fed, > ki. ( <i| t ciimt* * ‘|>< > » !y. ROBERT A. MASS attorney at l a w DOUnLASVILLE. G \. (Ofticu in from room, l>.>rsctt> !:>» >111.4.. Wilt practice nnywhvx «xc« p i.- . »i> <.. ihj Gouri of lk»u>Jiuw< eouHiy. W. A. J MF.S, ATTOR EV AT LA , Will practice ill nil the com ts. S' >l. :t. 1 Federal. Oftlcc on Cwnrl House Hiputit, DOUGLASVILLE, GA. w». I. ROBERTS ATTORNEY AT A V7, DOUGLASVILLE, GA Will practice in all the CtnuK A l i>«.-i t>UKineM will receive prompt attention. (fb - 4 in Court Bouse. V. l> CMII», attorney at law. •HOVOLASVILI.E, GA. Will pr<, tice in all the courts. Ali buainuM WiruMted U> nun will receive prompt •• Mention. B. G GRIGGS. ATTORNEY AT LAW, DOUGLABVHXE. GA. Will practice in all the courts. State and Federal. JOHN M, EDGE, ATTORNEY AT LAW, DOUGLASVILLE, GA. Will practice in all the courts, and promptly attend to ali btuiueas cniiuetnl to liia wu-e. JS. JAKES, ATTORNEY AT i AW, X. DOUGLARVILLF. CIA. * Wia MMtica m ihe u.:l» of Ikinglaaa, i CWsupVdt. Can-oil. raul.’t..K, CMd\ Fmmn and adkdotafi eoentie*. I'tun.pi attenuon given JOHN V EC GE. ATTORNEY AT LAW. BQUGLAB VILLE, GA. JOB PRINTIN6 NKA’HhY DOME “WAI" OFfla THE WEEKLY STAR. SOUTHERN ITEMS. NEWS NOTES GATHERED FROM VARIOUS SECTIONS. SOUTH CAROLINA. The parties to the robbery Elli son’s house, in Fairfield county, have been caught. The nurse and three of her friends are the guilty ones. They are all in jail now, having been incarcerated after a preliminary hearing before Trial Justice Cathcart. The money was recov ered. The jail is rapidly filling up as court approaches. , A company of twelve men from Illinois have leased for a term of years the gold mine of Frank Anderson, in the Willing ton neighborhood near Abbeville. The • lease was entered into after a personal in -1 spection sf the mine by two of the party. The company has sufficient capital to de velop the mine, and from all accounts they will get rich at the business. Mr. J. J. Goodwin, who lived near Scranton, was killed in a very singular manner. He was hauling timber With two oxen, when one of the wheels of his wagon struck a stump. He went to the tongue of his wagon to guide it so as to let of the wagon clear the stump, and while thus engaged the oxen started off, and, before he could get out, of the way, the piece of timber that he was hauling caught his leg between a log that was lying on the ground, and liter ally peeled the flesh off to the bone. Medical aid was summoned as soon as possible, but before relief could be ren dered he bled to death. An inquest was held in Greenville on the body of Echo Kilgore, an old colored man from Arkansas. He was once a tan ner in the city, but went to Arkansas several years ago in the hope of bettering his condition. It appears from the evi dence before the coroner that on his way home he was thrown or fell from a train on the Western and Atlantic road near near Lily Pond, Ga., on Friday, the 14th of January. Whe he reached Greenville he was in a semi-unconscious condition, and he never gave any explanation of his misfortune. It is thought there was foul play, and the case has been committed to Captain A. Blythe, who will investigate the matter. Robert Jones, colored, a convict from Richland county, was killed while work ing on the Columbia canal by the caving in of an embankment. Jones was digging out the earth from the foot of the embankment and had dug in until he had made a cave in the bank. Suddenly the mass of earth above gave way and descended upon the unfortunate work man, burying him alive. The other con victs immediately wont to the rescue and dug away the ear ( th as fast ns possible, but when the man was found he was dead, having been horribly crushed and mangled, besides having been under ground a sufficient length of time to have been suffocated to death. Twenty-two months ago Jones was convicted of bur glary and larceny and sentenced from Richland county to five years in the pen itentiary. This is the second fatal acci dent of the kind which has occurred on the canal in the past six mouths. FLORIDA. The main building of the hotel at Silver Springs Park is up, and commands a splendid view. The hotel will be three stories high and have sixty-flve rooms. A large corps of surveyors are at work getting ready, for the great eale of the trustee of the Florida Winter Home com pany, who is soon to sell all the lands at Orange park and Ridgewood to ths highest bidder at public auction. The shad fishermen of Palatka report the heaviest run of shad for the season on Saturday and Sunday nights and on Monday night the eight boats in Reyn olds’ camp at E. 8. Rugby’s place, in i East Palatka, caught 2,500 very tine shad. The Fruit Growers' association at Orange Park have built a large two-story packing house near the depot. This is a stock company composed of permanent residents, who have made a great success in strawberry culture and small fruits. Captain Porter says that the mocking birds of Dade county do not sing, lie has bought some Leon county songsters to learn the naughty birds of his section to sing. Another strange thing about Dade county is that there is not a road in the county. People there generally travel by water, or ride along the beach or through the woods. The forest trees are ail tropical and different from other j sections of the state. i A Tallahassee lady disehaiged her col ored servant recently and got up t he next I morning to find her choice flowers dug up and destroyed. Last week another j lady discharged her colored servant, who I was sister to the first girl discharged, | the same thing having happened to this 1 lady’s flower yard. Suspicion rested I upon the girl, and after some investiga | tion sufficient evidence was obtained to ■ convict her, and she is now serving her • country in the ehuingang. As a result of a call for a meeting of • orange growers to convene at City Point on Saturday, February 5, a good number | of representative men were present, Va- I nous questions of interest were freely I diseuseed, but the chief interest centered jon the Orlando exhibition It was re 1 solved to send an exhibit of Brevard I county products under the auspices of the | Indian River Fruit and Vegetable grow- I ere aaaodation and to invite growers to J co-operate under this head. Thomas F. Moore, one of Lake Jack i son’s farmers, cut up his lands last year | into six one-horee farms. One he culti vated himself, put on fertilisers and | worked it with system. The result was twelve belea of Un*, cottou, besides other crop*. The five eoloreil t< nsnts who I haaeed the other five farms scratched over their farms M usual without fertilisers or STstecn. and all combi m d only made ten K»tas of cotton. This is the secret of hard times am.mg the eolnnsl jx-opk'. At fit Augustine another daring t-ur x gtary been and the old MMipod fraa what might have Imns FAWNING TO ISOTVE CHARITY TO ALL. DOUGLASVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1887. | r. • 1 : a dangerous conflagration. Burglars re moved a pane of glass from a front win i dow in the store of George Myers & Co., ; on King street, and crawling through the ' aperture attempted to break open the money till, by cutting it loose, fearing the alarm attached thereto. Possibly be ing disturbed or alarmed they left it un opened, but left a lighted lamp which they had used immediately under the drawer. When the store was opened Thursday morning the till had the bot tom nearly burned and a lot of old papers were just beginning to ignite. A few minutes more and all would have been a blaze. NORTH CAROLINA. A. board of aldermen of Goldsboro held a special meeting last week and decided to take immediate steps towards giving Goldsboro an adequate system of water works. Rev. Wm. A. McDonald, who has served a pastor of Philadelphia Presby terian church, of Mecklenburg county, continuously for the past twenty-two years, died suddenly of heart disease, at the old Morris homestead. The news from the fishermen in th® Albemarle and Pamlico sounds section is that the catch of fish is large. Herrings were never so abundant thus early in the season, ana wnne snaa or large size are ! being caught in great' numbers. A bold robbery was committed on Bull creek, Madison county, on Tuesday night. ; The stores of John Bruce and Merritt White were broken into and robbed of money and goods. Bruce recovered about SIOO worth of his goods, finding them hid under a rock cliff in the moun tains about three miles distant from the | store. No clue to thegthief. Henry Artis, colored, was recently sentenced tube hanged at Goldsboro, for the murder of his He is in a dreadful conditioned mind. He is to be hanged the first Friday in March. He says he wasjilrunk at the time he beat out the girl’s brains. He cries and screams ceaselessly, and it is thought may die of grief and fright before the day of execu tion. ALABAMA. The Tuscaloosa Gazette will shortly issue a daily. The population of Auburn is beginning to increase. The citizens of Selma are raising funds to send a delegation to Washington City to make a bid for the negro world’s exposition to be held in that city. Sam Hogau, a negro brakeman, was killed Thursday at Howison, two miles below Stanton. While the train was in motion, Sam slipped, falling under the care, the trucks passing over his thigh and a portion of his body. The Tuscaloosa Times gives this as an example of the rise in real estate in that city: “L. 11. Walter sold a lot on Broad street to James Gaudin for $950. The same lot was offered a few weeks ago for S4OO, but found no purchaser. They say the dogs in Gadsden have grown so in numbers and intelligence that they will insist on going to church and other public gatherings, much to the annoyance of the people. Yet with such exhibitions of purity and sociabil ity the Gadsden papers would have them exterminated. On Monday morning when Sheriff Tidwell went into the jail at Blounts ville to feed she prisoners, one of them knocked the jailer in the head and made his escape. One other prisoner escaped, but was soon captured. Thompson, the young man who knocked down the Sher iff, is still at large. R. Ogden Watson, of Mobile, was awakened Thursday morning by a noise in his house. He arose and went out on the back gallery, where he was as saulted by a burglar. The burglar slashed Watson on the arm with a razor, cut his night clothing into ribbons, and finally kicked him in the abdomen and left him senseless on the floor. When Watson revived the burglar had escaped. Near Abbeville ■ there is a man who, for several years of his life, wore dresses and passed off as a woman, would visit young ladies and have them to visit him, stay all night with each other until he whs nearly twenty-one years of age, when .one day. to bis surprise, he found out that he was a man. and pulled off hie frock, and han since married and is now the head of a family. A CLEVER COUNTERFEIT. A Counterfeit Two Dollar aad a Half Cold ! Piece at Philadelphia, Pa. The United States mint at Philadelphia Tuesday secured a counterfeit two dollar and a half gold piece of 1859, for which it has been in quest for years, for the purpose of completing its cabinet It was presented to Superintendent Fox by L. 11. Taylor & Co., bankers, who got it in a $10,090 lot from the sub-treasury, i This amount of gold wm forwarded to New York in the afternoon and this one piece was returned as a counterfeit. By a Philadelphia bank it wm pronounced s genuine, and acid at the sub-treasury subsequently failed to show it anything but good. At the mint, however, the aaeayer de clan*d it a counterfeit—one of the moat dangerous bogus gold coins ever made. “It contains only twenty-eeven cents’ j worth of gold,” he said. “Yet its weight is that of the real article to a hair. Its | size, is exactly the same, save that the : genuine coin is slightly thinner at the middle than the counterfeit, and it has I the true ring of pure metal. We have l»een looking for an example of this f I ci»uuterfeit for ten or fifteen years to ; place in our cabinet here. I readily re ! cognized it by the head upon it. That ' I style of the head of ‘Liberty’ was not j ' printed upon the two and a half pieces of | 1853.” KII.XJED HI» PABTNER. Last Bunday at Houghton, in Bossier i pariah. Ijl. Henry Bodenheimer shot and I Killed his partner. Wm. M Mercer. ’ Mercer had been drinking all day. been I in several rows and wound up by abua . inp Bodeoheimer and threatening him : with a pistol. then fired wiA tiie above reoult. A TENNESSEE’SENSATION. A liover*a Attempted Revenue in Davidson County. The arrest of Elisha Greig at Nashville Thursday reveals a diabolical plot to commit murder and arson. On Sunday night the residence of Mr. Jesse Nolan, a farmer of Davidson county, was burned, and the inmates of‘ the house, Miss Mat tie Orment and Mrs. Hamlet, barely es caped cremation. The fire was supposed to be incendiary, and now Greig makes confession of having set fire to the house. He said he had been hired by a farmer neighbor, Jim Bullayjack. to burn the place. Bullayjack had planned, he said, to burn Miss Orment, who had refused him in marriage. The plan was to catch her if she escaped burning and murder her. They took a rope along to drag het to the river and throw the body in. After they set fire both got frightened and aroused the ladies, who were alone, Mr. Nolan being in Nashville. The men ran off before the ladies, whs had barely time to get out, could see who they were. Greig was arrested on suspicion, and con fessed as above related. Bullayjack has disappeared, but officers are after him. Miss Orment was to have married Bullay jack’s rival next week, and hence his de sire for revenge. AKE TO BE SUPPLIED. The Texas Drouth Sufferers to be Supplied with Seed. * Commissioner Colman of the agricul tural department, in speaking of the sug gestion .contained in the president’s mes sage vetoing the bill for the distribution of seed to Texas sufferers said: “The suggestions of the president that members of congress relinquish their quota of seed for the benefit of distressed districts is an excellent one. It is en tirely feasible and if adopted will enable me to do a great deal of good. There are now remaining to the credit of sen ators and representatives 228,000 pack ages of seed. On the 11th instant, I ad dressed a letter to those who have city constituents suggesting such a donation of seed, but have obtained thus far in this way only 13,000 packages. County judg es throughout the drought-stricken re gions are sending in the names of the sufferers at the rate of nearly 1,000 per day, and whatever is done should be done quickly. If this suggestion of the president is adopted. I shall give my per sonal attention to the distribution and carefully divide ;the seed atnong the regions affected.” AN UNEXPECTED TURN. The People of Wen Virginia to Vote On the Prohibition Question. An unexpected turn was taken by the senate of We£t Va., Thursday morning when the billiwhich had been passed by the lower houses to prohibit the sale of intoxicating »nd drinks within the state cameCip for its passage. Op ponents of the bill discovered the fact that they could not defeat it, audio order to do the next best thing they called for a vote on the joint resolution which pro vides for the submission of the question to the people of prohibiting the manufac ture and sale of intoxicating liquors in this state, which had nut been announced. Upon the call of the vote on submission, three members who had voted against submission changed their votes to aye, which gave the resolution a two-third majority, Submission will be voted on in November, 1888, at the next general election. The lower house passed the resolution two weeks ago. The bill pro hibiting sale of liquors and drinks was then laid on the table. The prohibition ists are very enthusiastic over their vic tory. THE COAL HANDLERS. They Kceoive to Go Back to Work nt Old Price*. A committee of coal boat captains who struck in sympathy with coal handlers, waited upon Superintendent Stockton of the Delaware and Hudson company at Weekawken, N. J., Wednesday. A sh rt consultation was held and the committee reported to the union that they had been received favorably. It was then decided by the captains to return to work at the old terms. Although large crowds of strikers gathered on the streets no breach of the peace occurred. A laborer who had vis ited Broken Rock, in Hoboken, and was returning, was mistaken for a “scab,” and but for the timely arrival of police would have been beaten. Non-union men arc escorted to and from the ferry by the police. Freight handlers who were employed at the West Shore company’s docks have returned to work. DASHED INTO A RAVIMB. Andrew Joselynn, a farmer residing on Lookout mountain, his wife and two small children, had a thrilling experience while descending the steep mountain road on a wagon. His team became unmanage able and ran away. The wagon was pitched over a precipice, carrying all its occupants, who were dashed into a ravine. All were more or less injured, and it is feared Joselynn and his son will not re cover A MI'RDERKR LYNUHEB LN TEXA*. Deputy Sheriff Upchurch, at Dedias Texas, on Monday, had a negro i ami d Jim Richard under arrest, and the htter, watching his opportunity, jerked hi* pis tol out of its scabbard and shot and killed Upchurch. About sundown Monday evening over seventy-five masked men, armed to the teeth, took Rithard from the custody of guards and swung him to a neighboring tret*. liLECTION FRA I DM. The federal grand jury, which has Lieeu invotigating frauds committed at the election in St. Louis last November, made its final report to Judge Treat in the United States district court Thurs day, and returned twenty-two indict ments in addition to those heretofore found. A special jury h- * lieea called to try these case* at the March term of the coart. DECLARED FALSE. A New Phase to the Alleged Texas Elec tion Outrage. Ex-Governor Ireland, of Texas, ac companied by twenty-eight citizens of Washington county, Texas, is on his way toWashington, wherehe andhis compan ions will appear before the senate com mitte which will investigate the charges of election outrages made against citizen of Washington county by those republi cans who fled the contry for fear of being lynched, and who claim to have been driven out by democrats. Ex-Governor Ireland says that at the close of the election in Washington county Dewes Bolton, the son of a candidate for county commissioner, rode up to the pre cinct, dismounted and demanded admit tance to the polls and was told to come in, and upon opening the door was shot down in his tracks by a negro named Hill. Eight of the occupants of the room were arrested and three of them subsequently lynched. The others fled the country for fear of being similarly treated, and brought the charge against the democrats of the county that they were driven out. The ex-governor says: The whole story of these men is a pure fabrication. Every statement they have made to show they were objects of politi cal persecution is absolutely false and that will be easy to prove by all these witnesses. They were not driven from the country, but left of their own free will and desire. SHOT THE WRONG MAN. An Innocent Man fall* a Victim to aPoMe of Pursuers. A double tragedy occurred in Pike county, Arkanas, Saturday. Alfred Mc- Clinton, a desperado, waylaid Allen Wil liams and robbed him of SSO, then stabbed him and rode away; A posse, under the command of officer Henry Wood was organized and started in pur suit of McClinton. It was decided to surprise the desperado, and the posse secreted themselves in the woods along the roadside, where McClinton was ex pected to pass on his way home. Soon after twilight two men rode down the road, one of whom was James Savage, cousin of Officer Woods, and the other was G. W. Trout, a well-known citizen. Both carried shot guns. Wood, mistaking Savage for McClin ton, told him to “halt.” Savage paused. Wood then ordered him to throw up his hands. Savage wheeled his horse and raised his gun, when Wood fired. The ball entered the breast of Savage, who fell from his horse and died shortly. When Officer Wood discovered his mis take he was overwhelmed with grief, and would have killed himself had not a ! friend interposed. TWO RAILROAD ACCIDENTS. ’ ' ■ ... ... ... SUu'ptn* Cura I’emollrted But No Losa of IJfe If eported. At Watertown, 111., on the Chicago and lowa railway, Tuesday morning, the Dubuque train, with two sleepers, had just passed the station when the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy train, which fol lows it, crushed into it, completely wrecking the sleeping cars. The en gineer of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy train broke his legs in jumping from the cab, but by almost a miracle none’of the passengers on the train were injured. Each engineer claims that the other was two minutes out of his time. At Robinson creek, five iniies west of Shelbyville, 111., Monday night the en gine of New York express, on the India- I napolis and Bt. Louis railroad, became I disabled and the train stopped for a few minutes. A brakeman was sent back to flag the freight train, but too late and the engine crashed into the sleeper de molishing the rear end. The freight en gine was also wrecked. The passengers i escaped uninjured. > THE HUNGRY FED. The Drought Cotamaaloner* of Texas Be- i gin Their Work. t The drought commissioners appointed . by Governor Ross to distribute the SIOO,- ! i 000 appropriated by • the legislature for ' j the relief of people in the drought- s . stricken district of Texas, arrived in j Fort Worth on the midnight train Sat- I j urday night and spent Sunday there, I > leaving for Eastland, the county seat, i \ Monday. The commissioners began their ' j labors at Lampasas and have visited and ♦ inspected the condition of affaire in six j . counties up to the present time. They i say they find the people in need of aegis- ' tance wherever they have been, but the i principal things they need are seed and I i fed for their stock, and these the com- ; , ; mission has not the power or authority to • j furnish them, the legislature having re- | I ■uricted them to simply furnishing flour j and meal to those in actual need of bread and who will make the required oath to : effect A SHOCKING AFFAIR. I j Charles Kloze, a Schleisingerville, ■ I Wie., saloon keeper, loaded two shot i 1 guns Sunday evening, and emptied the I j contents of one into his wife’s head, as ‘ she was kneading bread, killing her in- ' i ; stantly. He then tried to shoot himself, but merely blew away one cheek. He | I locked the door, poured kerosene over j the furniture and set it on fie. When ■ the neighbors tried to enter, he loaded I one of the guns and blew out Ids brains, j ACCIDENT AT A SAW MILL. The saw in a portable sawmill on the i j farm of L. D. Wright, a wealthy farmer ■ living eight miles from California, Mo., flew rd pieces Saturday, one part <f it | cutting open Wright’s breast, exposing | I his heart and killing him instantly, and another piece carried away part of the j head of Miss Thompson, a young lady I who had gone to the mill to call the men to dinner. She died from the wound. I A VACUA BUI INVENTION. j Mr. Charles M. Noble, mining engin eer, the present popular superintendent of the Woodstock furnace®, at Anniston, Ala., has received letters of pau nt for I an Improved arc electric lamp. \ Applica tion ha* been made for p<iten*> in Eng j land. France. Belgium and Germany. It i is the cheapest, dmplest, best and moil - ' powerful lamp ever invented. •—* INCENDIARY FIRES. Sioux City, lowa, In a State of Grant Excitement. Sioux City, la., is in a state of great excitement over the alarming number of incendiary fires and burglaries which have occurred there within a few nights. The town is infesteel by a set of despe ate criminals, who have been attract. by the spirit of lawlessness, shown by a considerable class of the community. Tuesday night -a business block on Main street was mysteriously burned. At the same time a dozen residences on the “hill,” were burglarized. There were i dozen' cases of. housebreaking, furthe down town Wednesday night. Late in the evening the town wa alarmed by fire. ’ The livery stables a tached to the lowa house were burned L?> the ground. The house is kept by Fran! Klepach one of the men interested in th saloon fight last summer. His place was enjoined and ordered abated. No specie comment was excited by this fire, bu. when a second broke out, a half hou later, there was much excitement and speculation. This was a large stable at tached to the Planters house, kept by Henry Mielki, another man whose plafce was abated. Mielki and Klepsch both belong to the rebellious German saloon element. Tn the second stable, when a man entered to rescue stock, the halters of horses were found to be cut. Both fires were plainly incendiary. A third and very dangerous fire broke out suddenly in a large clothing house, within three doors of the Hubbard house, in the centre of the city at 11 o’clock p. m ‘The-entire property waa destroyed, but a spread of the flames was prevented. Remarks are heard on the streets that this is the work of prohibitionists. Others say the liquor men have done it to excite sympathy. AGAINST STRIKES. Representatives of Prominent New York Firing Meet and Organize. Nearly 500 representatives of promi nent New York firms engaged in differ ent branches of the building trades met Wednesday afternoon at the headquarters of the Master Painters’ association. Architect Charles Bulk presided. Mr. Bulk stated the object of the meeting to be to form a building employer’s pro tective federation for the protection of employers in every branch of building trades against the unjust demands and restrictions of labor unions. He said the step had been contemplated some time by employers who were out of patience with the many strikes which have seriously hampered building operations in this city. A committee appointed for that purpose had drafted a report giving the griev ances of employers, which was accepted at a previous meeting and issued in the form of a published address with a re quest to employers to take part in the propeecd-oi-ganiaation. ■ .... He concluded by suggesting that em ployers organize in trade sections and elect representatives co a central execu tive committee to f ike charge of all mat ters pertaining to the trades. The sug gestion was not considered, but a com mittee on organization was appointed to draft a constitution and by-laws. The committee as appointed represented the following trades: Painters, carpenters, iron workers, framers, plumbers, archi tects, roofers, builders, heating, plasters, gas fixtures, elevator makers, marble workers, electricians, plumbers’ materials, and blue stone cutters, The stone setters refused to join. ■' 7 A GAMBLER SHOT. A Representative of the Law and Ordei Leanne In Trouble. At Lavenworth Kansas, the “Sara toga” saloon was closed by the sheriff • upon the complaint of two representa tives of the Law and Order League, Carl Miller and F. M. Anthony. While the two were passing the place that had just been closed by their efforts, they weie ' set upon by a gang of roughs, who ! knocked them down, tore their cloth: s ' and otherwise maltreated them. Mil’, r i regained his feet, pulled a pistol at 1 fired one shot, which took effect in tl e I leg of a gambler named Ryan. The crow 1 did not scatter, however, and were pre paring to assault the two again when the police arrived and drove them off, faking Miller and Anthony to the county jail for protection. The closing of the saloons has engendered a most bitter feeling, and there is no telling what the outcome will be. AN OLD MAN’B DIbGRACi.. The Treasurer of Texas Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows in Trouble. Judge Thomas M. Joseph, for several years treasurer of the Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows of Texas, is short in Ids accounts $23,185, being the entire fund of the Grand Lodge. Joseph was de feated for re-election last week. He says he lost the money nearly four years ago in mining. He was mayor of Galveston from 1858 to 1862, and stood high in lhe community. He is nearly 70 years old, anti has a large family of -grandchildren. He is utterly prostrated by his fall. Grand Master Gibbs declares he will prosecute the defaulting officer until the doors of the penitentiary are closed iipon him. Joseph is practically under arrest now. ROASTED ALIVE. Three Men Perish ie a Banting Jail a* Mnrfreeahore, Teno. The jail at Murfreesboro, Tenn., burn ed Bunday morning, and three men con fined in it perished in the flames. The lire broke out at 12:30 in the office, Horn an unknown cause. Jailor Jackson, who was asleep up stairs, rushed down stairs and opened the doors. Ten men in the upper cages escaped, but three men in the lower cages could not Ire reach ed. I They cried piteously for help until the flames reached them. The names of the three are Moses Maney, jack Irwin and Dilge Lyon. They are all colored. The first two were put is for wreaking a train Ufft fall, and the third for forgery. Those who escaped were captured, but were released by order of the county judge, there being no place to keep them. * NUMBER 3. JROM THE CAPITOL. The Foreign Affairs Committee of the I|pMse Reports a Substitute. The sub,-committee of the house com mittee „p,n foreign affairs, consisting of Belmbnt, Clements and Rice, Monday presented to the full committee its report 1 otr the retaliatory bills. A Bubstitwtxrsbjll-is recommended for the senate ibill- and the Belmont bill. It provides tbaj; when the president is sat isfied that American vessels are denied treaty rights l or reasonable privileges, he may., by.,.proclamation prohibit entry into. A mer ican ports owned wholly or in part by British sub jects, or arriving from Canada or New foundland; “except when in distress,” and may forbid the importation of any goods, wares* or-merchandise from Can ada or Ne,wfp.updland, or any locomo tive, car „or otqpr vehicle. A violation of this provision is made punishable by fine and imprisonment. A section of the bill authorizes the creation”of a com mission to- take.- testimony with respect to damages,inflicted upon American Citi zens and American vessels. A KENTUCKY TRAGEDY. The T«w» es AddfSvllle ta a Fever as JBx cltemeat. A special £b the "Atlanta Constitution from AdairsvilleV Ky., say«: This place was thrown into » fever of excitement by the Fayette Thoughber by Bob Gorham. who was a very nice, quiet when sober, was a perfect under the influ ence of liquor. 5 in town on Sat urday and drinteing, and it is said that he thr<!&te»edsto kill Gorham before he left town. The two met in the square, Gorham jvitii a shotgun and Thoughber with a pistol. Who fired first is not positively 5 known, but Gorham fired one shot arid Thoughber five, the shot of Gorham taking effect in the hand and breast of Thoughber, one shot pass ing through the heart. He staggered and fell against the bank of Adairville and died in four minutes; He was takenlo_ the office of the Blanchage house and dressed, and was carried to his home in Robertson county, Tennessee. No in quest was held. HEAVY SNOW STORM. Much Suffering Ameng Human Beings a* well as'Cattle. Specials front Dakota’ and Montana re port accounts heavy losses to stock from heavy snows and long continued cold. The snow.has laid upon the pround continuously since the middle of Novem ber, and it has been nebeAsary to feed dur ing the greater part of that time. Forage is consequently so scarce that straw stacks two or tnree years old. are being bought up for feeding purposes. Heretofore it has been necessary to feed cryiparativejy<| little during the Winter f *A special Butte, Mont , say’s the cattle loss $ - tana, near Fort Assini boffne, is iwßi : cd at 75 per cent.- Sixty xioJlarSiW|| ed for a ton of coal, and are selling at $lO a load. Flour and oil are also scarce. THE FEOOD SUFFERERS. A special from Muir shows little en couragement for the flood sufferers at Lyons, Mich. The water has been rising slowly and the damage to the buildings continue. The latest fear is lest the channel of the river be permanently changed, in which event the town will be compelled to go oiit of business.' The water carried away part of the Carnel! mill, and its complete destruction ft feared. At Bt. Joseph the St. Joseph river is the highest ever known, and is cutting a new channel. MEXICAN PENSIONS. The Vetrauu Aakacf to Step Up to Tho Com lalaaloeer’e Desk. The commissioner of pensions invites pensioners under the Mexican pension law to communicate directly with the pension bureau at Washington. c 'mmissioner has ’prepared structions and blank forms of and affidavits for witnesses, whisi will be furnished to each-direct applicant, and which, if properly used, will greatly hasten the adjudication of the rights of the applicants. •‘Li tl’ Hp.niigion in Difllctiliy. A French officer tells an amusing _ anecdote in a recent number of “Revue Retrospective.” It wn' at the time when the French arfny stood before Torres Vedros, separated frqm the Eng lish army by a number of vineyards, in which there were a few. eaves containing wine The soldiers qf both armies drank fraternally from these stores, without ever coming in conflict. One tlay, however, a French sergeant was captured in one of these caves by some English soldiers, who b»k him into their camp and conducted him to the Duke of Wellington. After a few questions the sergeant was ordered to leave, but would not stir “Go along,” said’the General. Na movement, but the brusque reply, “General, your soldier*-had nc right to make me their prisoner.” ‘And how is that "How is that 1 It is this way. J he cave being neutral ground they had no more right to capture me than 1 had to capture them. They took advantage of my isolation. Soldiers ought to have more manners among themselves.” ‘•Was that the way you were taken prisoner j” “Yes, General.” “Very well, you shall dine with my attendants and go where you came from.” But the Frenchman still refused to move. “Have you not heard.-what I said, ser geant <” “Oh, yes, General I have heard it all, but J do not wish to go with your attendant.” “And why not f’ “Because no French soldier ever eats eats with domestic servants,” Lord Wellington, with a bow andji-sign of : as -ent. took the hint, ordered unoifaer convert to be laid at his own table and invited the French sergeant lib dinner.— I‘all UaU (iazetU. . r kance manes atfOtii IbO,OOO quarts of champagne every yefffe One million quarts are shipped' to Evginnd and the | other 3,000,000 come M thia country. 1 hat’s what makes chainpague dear.